The Singapore Free Press, 15 March 1955
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Title Section19 1955-03-15 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya No. *****. Singapore. Tues., Mar. 15. 1955. Price 15 Cts19 words
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82 1955-03-15 1 AISTKAUA will substantially \mtTtmat its defence commitments in South. East Ilia under a plan of action at; reed to in Washington yesterday by Mr. Robert Men/its, the Australian Prime Minister, and President Kisenhower. according to informed .sources. The sources said that Mr. Menzies82 words
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Article361 1955-03-15 1 THE PRIME MINISTER, Sir Winston Churchill, told the House of Commons yesterday that now was the worst time to call for a threepower East- West conference at the highest level. He said: "I still believe that, vast and fearsome as the human sceneU.P. - 361 words
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Article36 1955-03-15 1 rpHERE was no sign in 1 Washington yesterday of any change in America's attitude towards proposals for top level talks with Russia. It was stated that Russia must first show good faith.36 words
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166 1955-03-15 1 Now, it's nuclear experiments without the bang THE Foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden, told the House of Commons last night it was possible to hold nuclear experiments without explosions. Vhat was not so two or three years ago but he was afraid it was now. An explosion was not therefore166 words
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57 1955-03-15 1 1 THIEVES entered the Tang- lin Gar-ison Church, Singapore, on Sunday night and took the safe from the chaplain's office. It was found abandoned in the church compound yesterday. A broken handle indicated that the thieves had tried to force it open but failed.57 words
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Article28 1955-03-15 1 Play was abandened for the second successive day at Dunedin today fourth day of the five -day Test match between New Zealand and England.- ReuterReuter - 28 words
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Article37 1955-03-15 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened thLs morning with first grade. March and April shipments, at 91 cents a lb., one and three-eighth cents below last night's close The tone was steady at the lower level.37 words
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Article20 1955-03-15 1 Three men attacked a woman in Klang Road, Singapore, yesterday when she refused to pay them $20.20 words
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Article23 1955-03-15 1 A Japanese boat rescued six Communist Chinese fishermen drifting in a disabled craft 60 miles south of Tachen island. A .P.A.P. - 23 words
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Article77 1955-03-15 1 SHOCK troops urgently .summoned by Premier N^o Dinh Diem, poured into Saigon yesterday as the government prepared for a showdown with the powerful Vietnamese Buddhist sects whose opposition threatens Indo-China with civil war. Companies of paratroopers, were .stationed at critical points throughout the capital. More reinforcements,77 words
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158 1955-03-15 1 Observers in Helsinki speculated yesterday whether sailors aboard the Finnish tanker Aruba will strtte and refuse to take a cargo of jet fuel to Red China. Thei recalled a .similar incident last year when the nnnJdi tanker Wnma. bound for Communist China was158 words
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Article130 1955-03-15 1 2 S'pore sisters missing 3 days TWO sisters have btrn reported mining from their home m Padan^ Terbakar. oil Bed ok Road. Singapore, since Saturday night. They are Chew Flow Boon, aged 16. and Chew All Fan-, ten-year-old pupil in Bedok Girif m hool. The girls told thrir lister, 13-year-old130 words
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Article26 1955-03-15 1 Sweden yesterday ordered three members of the Czechoslovakian legation out of the country for being involved in an espionage ring.26 words
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Article18 1955-03-15 1 The Queen Mother has influenza and her engagements for this week have been cancelled.- U.P.U.P. - 18 words
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436 1955-03-15 2 To meet Communist bid to control vital materials pRESIDKNT Eisenhower told Congress in Washington today that American foreign aid for the last half of 1954 showed "significant acceleration" in Asia "where Communism is stepping up its efforts of expansion/' The report covering the436 words
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110 1955-03-15 2 I>RIME Minister Ichiro Hato- yama said yesterday that he is anxious for Japan to establish normal relations with Red China and Russia. He told a news conference he thought Japan should reroKiiise two Chinas Chiang Kai-shek's government on Formosa and the Reds on the110 words
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62 1955-03-15 2 fOMMUNIST China will bring v the tempting lure of trade with 500,000,000 customers to Japan this week. Peking's first trade delegation to Japan— 3o government trade officials and business leaders will arrive in Tokyo on Saturday The conferences are to negotiate an overall tra<*e planU.P. - 62 words
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Article45 1955-03-15 2 The Labour Party last night made it clear it will put up an official candidate against Sir Richard Acland. the Labour MP. who resigned last week over the Hydrogen bomb and said he would contest his Gravesend seat as an independent. ReuterReuter - 45 words
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Article18 1955-03-15 2 Twelve Chinese Nationalist fishing boats are missing after strong winds swer»t. rwnr thp Pescadore islands. ReuterReuter - 18 words
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Article19 1955-03-15 2 Sir Edwin Alrey, former Lord Mayor of Leeds and former High Sheriff of Yorkshire, died yesterday. A.P.A.P. - 19 words
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103 1955-03-15 2 Russians aware of horror of A-war says priest A ROMAN Catholic priest recently expelled from Russia said in Washington yesterday that the Soviet people are very much aware of the horrors an atomic war would bring. The Rev. Georges Bissonnette said the point was stressed continually in the Russian press.103 words
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Article38 1955-03-15 2 The Right Rev. Msgr. Bela Varga, a former speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, told a rally of free Hungarians yesterday that a m resistance operating beneath the surface constantly undermines Red power in Hungary.- A. P.A.P. - 38 words
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Article22 1955-03-15 2 French perfume king and iashion designer Marcel Rochas died early yesterday in his Paris aoartment. He was 53- U.P.U.P. - 22 words
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Article33 1955-03-15 2 A TUNISIAN delegation led by the Premier, Tahar Ben Ammar. left Tunis yesterday by air for Paris to resume negotiations with the French Government on internal autonomy for Tunisia.- ReuterReuter - 33 words
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118 1955-03-15 2 TH E Foreign Operations Administrator, Mr. Harold Stassen, said in Washington yesterday that President Eisenhower will send to Congress in April a comprehensive plan for United States economic aid for the •'arc of Asia extending from Afghanistan around South Asia to JapanU.P. - 118 words
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220 1955-03-15 2 THE Japanese Foreign Minister. Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu, called today for a vigorous programme of of economic aid from Western nations to help develop Asia. Mr. Shigemitsu. speaking at the opening in Tokyo, of the seventh meeting of the United NationsU.P. - 220 words
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Article22 1955-03-15 2 An Italian trawler was ordered into the Communist Albanian port of Durazzo bv an Albanian coast euard vessel yesterday.- ReuterReuter - 22 words
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163 1955-03-15 2 JJRITISH Labour Party chiefs yesterday surveyed rank and file protests at their decision to call for disciplinary action against MAneunn Bevan. the leftwinger, but gave no sign that they intended to modify their plan. Mr. Clement Attlee. the Party leader, will tomorrow urge LabourReuter - 163 words
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71 1955-03-15 3 So Grandma goes back to the asylum PSYCHIATRISTS yesterday declared grandma Nannie Doss of Tulsa. Oklahoma, to be Insane and recommended the onfessed poisoner of four sbanda be recommitted to n asylum. The* recommendation came from psychiatrists at the rn State Hospital where much-married grandmother underwent 90 days' Ml observation.A.P. - 71 words
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Article45 1955-03-15 3 Mr. Lewis Walling, a New York lawyer, was yesterday appointed the first director of the new Foreign Operations Administration mission to the Indo-China state of Cambodia. He wiW direct the United States economic and technical aid programme to Cambodia.45 words
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Article550 1955-03-15 3 Call to Templer Return Malaya 'pIMTI.KK. tome 1 back" is the headline on a leader page report from Singapore lux Set ton Delmer of H t H > London Daily I a press. \tter recalling the old tradition in British (olo=nial Service that no man should ever revisit in offi-550 words
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98 1955-03-15 3 kept about 75,000 U.B. railroad and telephon? workers from their jobs yesterday. About 50,000 Southern Bell phone Company workers struck in nine southeastern statei after talks on a new contract failed. fttes affected arc Alabama, 'nda, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, NorthA.P. - 98 words
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Article244 1955-03-15 3 But hunger still a problem FAMINE has been virtually eliminated in Asia. However, hunger is prevalent in certain areas of that continent, stated the Population Reference Bureau in Washington yesterday. In its March bulletin, the bureau added that many, "if not most," Asians eat foodU.P. - 244 words
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74 1955-03-15 3 THE Philippine army is training a special unit to kill or capture two Japanese stragglers holding out on Luban« Island near the entrance to Manila Bay. They are the survivors of a group which numbered 21 at the end of World War 11.A.P. - 74 words
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Article26 1955-03-15 3 Two Communists killed while 'building home-made bombs a week ago were financed by Reds in Russian-occupied East Berlin, German authorities said yesterday.- U.P.U.P. - 26 words
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Article31 1955-03-15 3 The Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan have postponed their meeting due to have been held on March 28 untU after the Asian- African conference in Indonesia next month. ReuterReuter - 31 words
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Article138 1955-03-15 3 A LANCASHIRE cotton chief yesterday demanded 100 per cent, protection for the British cotton industry and >ald th*l unrestricted Japaneac and Indian import^ are "absolutely flooring Lancashire." Mr Cyril Lord, who has long been urging that the Government stop foreign imports, said he sometimes feelsA.P. - 138 words
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Article30 1955-03-15 3 Princess Beatric, 17-ycur-old heir to the Dutch throne, left hospital In The Hague yesterd.iv for Soestdijk. the Royal country home, after recovering from an operation for acute appendicitis- ReuterReuter - 30 words
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Article17 1955-03-15 3 Sir Anthony Eden will leave London tomorrow on a threeIday visit to Turkey- U.P.U.P. - 17 words
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Advertisement67 1955-03-15 3 CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN ...WE MAKE THE CLOTHES. fror 521.).- n B Mi J 1 Jl i/is^^Bßil H^ nl ViVtf»/Jfl BhVB^H B nfl Hi £y wjaw Sf hmBAsU DTBi WsBB^BI hhh i v^m Visit our Tailoring, /JB pB B $k r i r />^^ hbtJ B 1 t Jfir Dcpa67 words
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289 1955-03-15 4 IN HIS report to the A me- i rican people on his return from the South- East Asia Treaty Organ- I isation conference at Bangkok, the Secretary of State, Mr. Dulles, stressed that the alliance between the eight nations was purely defensive.289 words
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Article, Illustration1030 1955-03-15 4 RENE MacCOLL calls in at New York and finds a SMILE amid the hustle rHE more it Change* the more it's the me. When the French dreamed up that one they must have had New York well in mind. On the afternon I got into town from the1,030 words
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Article55 1955-03-15 4 WILLIAM HICKEY - WILLIAM HICKEY "/CLOVES," I read, "should vibe worn for all household tasks. Dust, and even immersion in plain warm water, will damage the hands.' Well, before women give up dusting and washing, let .me remind them that eating will damage the teeth in fact that living is almost55 words
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Advertisement29 1955-03-15 4 WE HAVE I t j a it/ y AIR-CONDITIONED ROOM FOR THE STORAGE OF FURS, CARPETS, TRUNKS, HOOKS, WINTER CLOTHES, ETC. ORCHARD ROAD BRANCH SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.29 words
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Article939 1955-03-15 5 MOTHER OF 5 SPEAKS for HAVELOCK T ooArs special ELECTION REPORT W\ FREE PRESS REPORTER IS ON lI IVELOCK THE THREE CANDIDATES Mr. Chua Bock Kwee. 34, (ProjfresRfvft) Born, educated in Singapore, lived i n and around Havelock all his life. Head of firm of ship suppliers, contractors, Patron several939 words
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265 1955-03-15 5 \IANY hospital, mental and dental patients have found solace and relief and un aid to recovery in "music medicine'' but there are others who definitely do not that "music hath charms" Mr Frank Howes, the j music critic and lecturer, recently told the265 words
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Article166 1955-03-15 5 Vatican hits out at Gina rHE Vatiran ha.s branded M "scandalous" Gina Loilobrlgida's reported demand 1 for £250,000 to make another film in the don-key-riding series. Th« verv idea of WQfth earnings is most immoral," said the Vatican newspaper Osbcrvatorc Romano in a scathing editorial. t idled the opportunity to166 words
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293 1955-03-15 5 Ft? TTMPTT RORN Mrs REN C H BORN Mrs. Lesley Fielder wrote. "My heart aches. Nobs, and I would give the world it only I could be close to you at this moment, dearest mine." She was writing, said Mr. Justice293 words
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Miscellaneous203 1955-03-15 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis i^ 1 ft C ru-c ti^^TWKSK^^i IWhmauwaanoi were teen-age] fu^ all silly, naroaishaving EPi r IJ HHnKB sKW^lf^'^ F^y^^&RMHjjJ P^fc II^HANDWPinm6-- ABOUTALEENAB I YtARS--AT 6&cD MOUNTAINJ /^S>i TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris UP II ML ASJUST-1 ["HE OWNS203 words
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Miscellaneous630 1955-03-15 6 YOUR LUCKY I STAR |>OKN tod.ix. \o,i IN bound lev« eneru\. \ou iU i vigorous, vivacious, even ln.i headed and tempestuous a t times. On the other hand. you have a keen instim t for analysis, and decisions that appear to be nude on th«spur of the moment turn out630 words
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Article211 1955-03-15 7 LONDON. Mar. 11. Previous Today K I BBER No. 1 RSS cJ.f. European 26 s buyers *-'♦>•> buyers ports March 26 sellers 26 sellers j. i BBER No. 1 RSS cLf. European 26»_ buyers 26% buyers ports April 26 sellers 267 sellers RUBBER No. 1 RSS Spot211 words
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Article103 1955-03-15 7 NEW YORK, Mar. 14. Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 91.50 nom. 91.00 nom. UN futures, March 90.50 bid 90.00 bid 91.25 asked 90.85 asked April 90.25 bid 89.90 bid 91.00 asked 90.60 asked May 90.00 bid 89.70 bid 90.75 asked 90.50 asked TONE: Steady. SALES:103 words
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Article43 1955-03-15 7 Spot quoted at 44 cents per pound. Awaiting release 43 ViAfloats 43 »j to 43. March 42 M. April 42', 2. May 42. Sarawak spot 43 and Lampong spot 44 cents sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib.43 words
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Article33 1955-03-15 7 NEW YORK, Mar. 11. Previous Today II Industrials 401.08 391.36 SI Railroads 146.79 142.52 M Domestic Bonds 5*9.83 99 75 1"> Ctilities 63.23 62.17 ol Stocks Composite Average 150.24 146.5933 words
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Article117 1955-03-15 7 Mar. 11. COPRA Philippines c.i.f. UK North European delivered weight per long ton March/April I OI'R A Philippines fob. Manila delivered weight, per long ton COPRA Straits c.i.f. UK/North European delivered weight per long ton March/ April April May < OCONtJT OIL -rude, Straits, ci.f. European117 words
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Article92 1955-03-15 7 SWEETY CAKE LEA VES THE Gls 4 GIRL who has spent the <*x past four months workins? for 2.000 "wonderful" Americans la giving up th<- job to marry an Englishman -Anno Butler- Wilson, 24, of Alavrley Edge, Cheshire, la one of the three British •'community relations officers appointed to help92 words
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Article, Illustration110 1955-03-15 7 OPERATION Brotherhood was well on the way to more than tripling its efforts to provide medical care for needy South Vietnamese refugees hr.M another special plane arrived at Saigon with 18 volunteer doctors and nurses from Manila. The original pioneer team of six Filipino doctors and three110 words
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85 1955-03-15 7 ABOUT 900 temporary workers will be engaged in Perak for July 27 when the Federal elections are held. The bulk of the $170,000 voted for election expenditure in Perak will go towards paying allowances for these? workers, said Lieut.-Col. W. Whittaker, Deputy State85 words
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Article44 1955-03-15 7 After a youth quarrelled with his mother and hither, he drank a solution of poison but recovered later, a Singapore court was told yesterdiy. Lee Leong Watt, a labourer, pVaded guilty to attenuted suicide. He was cautioned and discharged.44 words
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Article16 1955-03-15 7 Nearly 4,000 people attended 'i mock election rally at Paslr Puteh, at the weekend.16 words
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203 1955-03-15 7 Kettle that makes the tea THE Duke of Edinburgh displayed a surprisingly welli developed domestic streak when, with the Queen, he ylsited the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympla. His Navy training showed it- j self time and time again a.s he commented on203 words
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Advertisement16 1955-03-15 7 PONT FORGET OUR r J?\ oVW v S wv> OFFERS I^/ MANY SMCIAI FIATUMt r WASSIAMULL'S16 words
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Advertisement47 1955-03-15 7 AM I^l *J REFRIGERATORS ON LOW HIRE PAYMENTS CAN BE ARRANGED BY SOUTH ASIA TRADING CO., 339 VICTORIA STREET SINCAPORE. TEL: ***** SINGAPORE BAGGAGE TRANSPORT 65, The Arcadr. Singapore. Tel: ***** 3 lines IN ASSOCIATION WITH SINGAPORE PACKING COMPANY LIMITED specialists in HAULAGE, INSURANCE, STORAGE LAUNCH HIRE.47 words
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Article, Illustration377 1955-03-15 8 Man weds again and forfeits home he had for 21 days HE THOUGHT CIRCUMSTANCES WERE NOT CHANCED COUPLE have been •rdcred out of their council house after only 21 days because the husband remarried after going on the housing list. Mr. Ivor Clarke, aged 28. and his 26-year-old wife CicelyReuter - 377 words
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Article, Illustration40 1955-03-15 8 picture. BOTTOMS IP mis lit be the toast but the inverted picture on this lons-stemmed glass is I photographer's fantasy a through-the-glass view of l"_yc«ur -olf| Sylvia Mellor, who is examining exhibits at a glass show in Newcastle. England.- PopperPopper - 40 words
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Article323 1955-03-15 8 MR. CARR HAD SUCH A LONG DELAY IT'S been a lons 40 minutes. decided Walter Aitchison Carr when he woke up after a nau in the train. Hr looked at hLs watch. Time, ju.^t after midnight. He had been nine hours in an empty compartment. It was cold, very cold.323 words
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198 1955-03-15 8 She can't read the answer r<ORTY-EIGHT words will solve a family problem for 35-year-old Mrs. Gwen Duggins. But she can't read them. The problem started with the decision of husband Robert, aged 40. to buy a new car. "Right," said Mrs. Duggins.198 words
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Article65 1955-03-15 8 JTIGHTY wives have taken up to 191b. off their tubby G.I. husbands at Bentwaters airfield, near Ipswich, in a month. American authorities asked the wives to keep an official diet sheet in their kitchens and see the men did not exceed their calorie ration. Said65 words
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Article16 1955-03-15 8 A new block of flats built by Holborn Council is to be called Winston16 words
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127 1955-03-15 8 ABDULLAH CHANGES HIS MIND ON HAREM WORK has .stopped on a $2,550,000 marble paJacc and harem which the British firm of Braithwaites was building for Arabia's Emir Abdullah. Abdullah, uncle of King Saud. ordered the palace and harem near Riyadh, the Savidi Arabian capital, nearly four years ago. A year127 words
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Article39 1955-03-15 8 Builders have started work on Coventry's new .€1,000,000 cathedral. It should be finished by 1960. Peepholes have been cut in the fence surrounding the site so that people can see work »oine on39 words
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Article45 1955-03-15 8 ANEW bicycle was the surprise gift for Mary Jcfferics on her 14th birthday. But a few hours later she iM vanish in flames. She had left it near her father's garage at Vale-grove, Gosport, Hants— and the garage caught fire.45 words
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Article36 1955-03-15 8 ERRAND boy David Costella, aged 13, of Montpelier-roarl. Peckham, is due for a riae. employer, grocer Alfred Hobb said so after David .saved hia shop and house from being completely destroyed by36 words
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Article113 1955-03-15 8 IT was a big clay for the Earle Twins, Clive and ILorna where they said "hello" to the Earle triplets on their arrival home from maternity home The triplets two boys and a girl were born in, 1 the Queen Mary Hospital, Hampstead, London. And since their• Popper II 1111111111 till 111 I - 113 words
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Article324 1955-03-15 9 Colonel stays for National rrUE tall, thin LieutI colonel (weight 9st. I'lb stood on the quayside at Southampton LV ing good-bye to his wife two daughtersand the 499-strong regiment he commands. Fl Colonel William Hplman A veai-old commander oi the* 15th Medium Regiment.324 words
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Article, Illustration162 1955-03-15 9 THIS unusual sight for 1 the people of Leipzig in Germany is an outdoor exhibition of export only E dresses. Seen here is a ballroom evening dress E named "To The Music" E displayed in front of the E Town Hall. I Made by-Popper - 162 words
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132 1955-03-15 9 CALLS and whistles ught the first showing rid of the British film Lady" to an abrupt x-izing on a break i and track as an ex- display ol indignaaco Falangists stampfeet and howled until went up. ilra, starring Olivia de iell foul of132 words
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Article51 1955-03-15 9 SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI raised his baton the Halle Orchestra IftJ"** play then, a W» lrom ?he leader: ''Wron* ptece^ The conductor iooklu round, besttated and then lapsed into his native Cockni-y "Blimey Sir John had forgotten. He'd charoj.-d the order of the pieces. It happened at51 words
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227 1955-03-15 9 SIR Percy Sillitoe, former head of MIS, has set up an international force to fight diamond smugglers. Throughout the world a small volunteer army of police, security men, and Intelligence officers will track down men who organise the smuggling of uncut African diamonds. Sir Percy227 words
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Article, Illustration411 1955-03-15 10 COMFORT, THE KEYNOTE OF NEW LINER THE new 20.000-ton passenger ship Southern Cross, now abuilding in Belfast, is due to start her first voyage to Wellington, New Zealand, about March 29, Company officials said recently. Her hull was launched last Aug. 17 i*yU.P. - 411 words
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499 1955-03-15 10 DAVID BURK - Visitors queue to sleep in Farouk 's bed DA VID BURK IT COST me nearly $77 1 a night to live like Farouk In Cairo. For that money I rented the royal suite aboard the one-time Farouk river yacht, Kassed Colonel Nasser's revolutionaries confiscated the yacht after their mid-1952 coup,499 words
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187 1955-03-15 10 She phoned for help from the pole she ruined \IISS JOY FERGlsox tn ITI brain behind the tat. that tell other pik£ 52? new aircraft, told friends ]fi week how once >h,t,;p uh l from the middle of B field It happened during the uar when Miss Ferguson w ;l187 words
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Article, Illustration551 1955-03-15 11 HAROLD HEFFERNAN - Stars' East trek strengthens goodwill HAROLD HEFFERNAN says 'rHE U.S. State Departi ment is probably -.king no official heed n or is it known to have put any pressure on Hollywood, but it must hiiling broadly at the D w movie cycle that of making pictures about the Orient and551 words
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Article, Illustration170 1955-03-15 11 BARBARA HALE seems to have the faculty of making most men like her- even though they may live behind prison bars. After completing a role filmed at California's Chino Institute For Men, a prison near Los Angeles, she was presented by the prisoners with the portriat done in170 words
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Article168 1955-03-15 11 Didfctor Fritz Lang filmed what doubtless can be placed In the record hook 1 a.s the most unusual m I photographed °.v cinema Scope cameras. por a suspeiuefu] icene in "Moonfleet." Lang's camera wa i placed in >t 55 !l hi^'h anf' onlj til168 words
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168 1955-03-15 11 niIARLETON HESTON is not only playing Nun, h- has to live like him. That ffemt showman. Cecil B. DeMillr. is making the Moses epic. "The Ten Commandments," with lleston in thr tiHe role The film veteran has placed unusual restrictions on his168 words
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180 1955-03-15 11 They're dining at the old drugstore r^HEREE north, daariint k3 blonde replacement for suspended Marilyn Monroe in "How To Be Very Very Popular/' was urgently sought by her itudlo'fl wardrobe department lor some important fittings. Failing to locate her, the apartment -house landlady was finally phoned. "Oh, Sheree'll be back180 words
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137 1955-03-15 12 It took four people to roll this cigar I TNUSUAL problem for Mayfair psychiatrist Carl Lambert is what to do with an outsize Havana cigar believed to be the largest in the world- which friends of his had made specially for him. He sought advice from veteran St. James's Street137 words
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Article, Illustration24 1955-03-15 12 picture. A small pointed cap in yellow straw, trimmed with matching wool loops. It was shown in London by the Millinery Distributors Association. PopperPopper - 24 words
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Article48 1955-03-15 12 CiHRISTY, the hat people. j are aLso showing this y» ar a new design for men with a slightly Tyrolean crowr. and 2 l 4 -inch brim An observer in London has noted that it's called the Rollaway. Men's hats are evidently getting brasher and curlier.48 words
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Article610 1955-03-15 12 Cliff Hanley - MAGIC SHOES AND NYLON OVERALLS Cliff Hanley For MEN ONLY. Women, KEEP OUT by nESPITE my painstak- ing efforts to remain ignorant on the subject, I haven't been able to avoid noticing that Paris is trying to squeeze the world's women into the long look at the moment, and a610 words
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Miscellaneous284 1955-03-15 12 CLLES ACROSS: (5) 1 Permits a beginning (6) a Is this a good-hearted but su--4lt might follow an egg or a perstltious person by a watercarpet (6). f^ le? (4 .e) 8 Declared an invalid? No defl- 5 A n a n kinds of vehicles? nite article <8) (7) 9284 words
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Article, Illustration198 1955-03-15 13 Shepherding dancers is tricky work r F of the Clan Cameron, Colonel Donald Cameron of Lochiel, travelled through blizzards from Inverness a .steward at the Highand Ball at Claridge's. donjob was described as "a of sheep-dog, because people into the right ions during foursomes eightsomci Is as tricky as shepherding198 words
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414 1955-03-15 13 This Goering memorial brings smog to the Russian Zone BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT lIP AGAINST the Iron Curtain. WatenstedtSalzgitter is mushrooming into West Germany's newest industrial colossus. Smoke from WatenstedtSalzgitter's chimneys hang in thick pulls over the neighbouring Soviet «sone and the red inferno from its blast furnaces lights up414 words
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122 1955-03-15 13 Blood banks can save a dog's life >TOW it's blood ba-iks i for doßs! A group of veterinarians t>M recommended in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association that "stables" of donor animals be maintained to insure adequate supplies of blood at animal .'lospilals. Most of the donor dog?*U.P. - 122 words
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Article, Illustration33 1955-03-15 13 pirtnrr. Hungry rattle had to be fed by planes dropping bales of fodder and by tractors forcing their way through the drrp snow that recently rovrr.d thr Wich At t* of Scotland. PopperPopper - 33 words
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Miscellaneous105 1955-03-15 13 TARGET 1 1 14 ou nianv o V V w °«d»> of 1 lour letters i^ <>r "we can RB ><» ii make m p ii i in the letter^ in the square on the _.lef t 1 n V DO makini: each v word the L 1 letters in105 words
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Miscellaneous387 1955-03-15 13 escape the endplay was to put up Both Sides vulnerable the queen of spades; when he acSouth dealer tually played low. North won with (he king and after ruffing another t WRTH diamond South put West in with 4 K 10 4 the spade o 10 9 Holding all the387 words
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258 1955-03-15 14 West Indians won't miss Old Trafford OLD TRAFPORD. Manchester, the Lancashire county cricket club »round. is the tint of the regular TV match ground* to be washed out by the new rota system. Scene <>i so many raln-ruin-cd Vest>, this ground will not .st., Test in 1 '■>" when theReuter - 258 words
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Article88 1955-03-15 14 r BAY! BY oi BeteUr won the x (tarsi •■••'ii 1 <>t the Singajwre Racing Attociation'i ItfS on lit won the 25-mile time trial In l hr. 1 mln. 23 sec. on lay. Second wM C. Williams of C7h ingi in hi 9 nun. 11 tec.88 words
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Article55 1955-03-15 14 HP WO open imitation medley relays 50 m x 4 for men and 50 m x 3 for women will highlight the triangular swimming meet between Fenang Chinese Swimmi u-i Club. Singapore Chinese Swimming Club and the Chinese Athletic Chenwu) Association of Belangor ftt Kuala Lumpur on55 words
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Article24 1955-03-15 14 Boy.s" Town will hold their fir.->t open championship finals tomorrow at 4.15 p.m. at Bukit Timah Road There are ten bouts.24 words
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Article, Illustration476 1955-03-15 14 British boxing fans are asking— By VEKNON MORGAN 4 I TKR nine months away from the ring Randolph Turpin, Britain's former world middleweight champion, is campaigning as a cruiserweight in a bid to gain fresh honours. He has stopped two of i Europe's leading heavyweights inReuter - 476 words
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Article116 1955-03-15 14 TliK demur.; BMW motor cycling team claimed to have ken 45 world records during i 24-bOUT run which ended in nthlery on Sunday. The variovu record were broken Categon B for machines of jOU cc. 750 C.C. and 1.200 c.c. Nine recordi were iei up InReuter - 116 words
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Article, Illustration157 1955-03-15 14 picture*. The finish of Race Four at Bukit Timah on the first da> of the current Singapore Turf Club meeting So S<> rr M ™l\ mcr) is far from apologetic as he wins this Cl. •>. m• event by a length from MarshalFree Press - 157 words
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Article380 1955-03-15 14 MOVE TO RAISE SOCCER GATE PRICES ENGLISH leayue soccer club*, faced with many problems due to the falling oft In attendances, are pinning mo>t ot their hopes on a cut in Entertainments Tax. When they met last week to decide an agenda for the June annual meeting the 92 clubs380 words
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Article, Illustration1295 1955-03-15 15 TRESPASSER SUMS UP— Malaya's leading sprinters clash a NEW six furlongs record is almost certain to be set A up at Bukit Timah tomorrow, second day of the Singapore Turf Club's Spring Meeting, when the best of the country's sprinters are engaged in the main1,295 words
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Article44 1955-03-15 15 T>ROBABLE scratchings 1 tomorrow: Prosperity, National Trust. Two Vermouth, Punters Delight, Blue Lamp, Cinema 11. Scottish Minstrel. Father Christmas, Asia Minor, S.S. Commando. Two Dimension, Fifty Grand, King Crow, South Pacific, Tarzan. Acrobat, Windy Corner, Say Try. The going remains very good.44 words
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Article251 1955-03-15 15 Maiden win for Willy L? a 1, Div. 3-6 f Rennles 9 00. Father Christmas (1 Weald of Kent) 9.00, Asia Minor 813 River Patrol 8.13. Sweet Dream 8.12. 4 Commando 8.11. Wiilv L 8 10, Skryne Primrose 8.09, WILLY L has done everything right in his preparation for thus251 words
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Article246 1955-03-15 15 Marciano should K.O. this field VfARCIANO looks a past the i*l post proposition in the class 3. division 4 race over six furlongs. He has only to step on his Saturday form to thrash a weak Meld. Marclano created a good Impression in his first start. Smartly away, he tracked246 words
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Article41 1955-03-15 15 St. Andrew's School Just .vraped a 3-2 win over Anglo-Chinese School at eoccer at Barker Road yesterday. A goal by Eng Leon*; gave AngloChinese School second team a 1-0 win over St. Andrews second team in an earlier game.41 words
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Article, Illustration14 1955-03-15 16 NEO HOME WITH SILVER MEDALS —ana noooay to meet him of x C 5 >14 words
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