The Singapore Free Press, 19 March 1955

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore. Sat.. Mar. 19, 1955. Price 15 Cts
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    Millionaires will make the money fly in Singapore
    144 1 Millionaires will make the money fly in Singapore MALAYAN dollars by the thousand will float when the millionaire passengers of the 14,000 ton luxury ship Caronia disembark this morning for a day of sight-seeing and entertainment m Singapore. A fleet of 150 taxis will be waiting at the wharves to
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    FIVE SURVIVING FISHERMEN COME ASHORE-MUCH RICHER
    212 1 FIST CHINESE fohen_Mi rtwwi !M»reir%ap this ntbrn'uig F fmm llu* Caronia, richer by $1^0 after a 500-mile journey which dul not cost them ;i cent. The men were taken to the Immigration authorities and will be sent back to Penang. "They are lit and
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    Lock icon SWEET TOOTH
    41 1 Dr. Charles Hill. Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Food said m Loughborough yesterday that Britons last year spent £297.000.000 on sweets and ice cream £49,000.000 more than was spent on milk and £130.000.000 more than on bread. Reuter
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    Lock icon Queen at Theatre
    30 1 The Queen and Princess Margari t paid a surprise visit to the St. James theatre In London last night to see nee Rattingan's play Separate Tables" Reuter
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    Pilot rescued
    16 1 A helicopter rescue crew yesterday picked up a crashed pilot m "the English Channel.
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    Lock icon 6 nations to aid Asia
    41 1 MIX European countries-Britain. Wes .Germany. France S Italy Belgium and the Netherlands- -have said tl lej will mm the United States m increasing economic aid to free Asian countries, it was learned m Washington. A. P.
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    Lock icon Tight fisted us leaders may kill anti-Red plan
    164 1 T HE Eisenhower Administration is un^ u^ l 1 the chances of Congress accepting a piopiMcl *2 745 000 000 pwramme for the economic develop-»^<-.D.UUU.UUU_piog_ 1 mon( Qf Asia next year The Foreign Operations Administration expects Mg cuts m a Plan which
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    Lock icon U.S. MAY NOT FIGHT FOR QUEMOY
    133 1 U.S. MAY NOT FIGHT FOR QUEMOY rrilL United States would x not necessarily fight for the Chinese off-shore islands Ol Quemoy and Matsu. Mr. vr Dulles the American Secretary of State, is reported to have told Canadian Members of Parliament m Ottawa yesterday. Informed sources said ne told the dosed
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    Lock icon FOR SINGAPORE
    33 1 Vice-admiral A. K. Scott Moncrief wiled from Tilbury i London, yest. rdajf In the liner chu an for Singapore to take 'up hi, new appointment M commander-in-chiel Far East| station Reuter
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    Lock icon Avalanche kills sun-bathers
    41 1 Four people were killed JSS &ured yerterdw w SJchJ roan d down upon 13 sun-b-thlni tourlsl <w ot Haerjedalen. mid-western Sweden <_•••. tourists ran to jety but ie?enU othars were b iried under the snow. All were Swede,. A.P.
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    RUBBER DOWN
    26 1 April first grade, rob. buy opened on the Singapore Kubbei Market this morning at a: centi a lb., half a cent beThe tone ncertain.
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    Lock icon ARUBA MUTINY REPORT
    345 1 Captain defies his crew PHE captain ot the tanker Aruba \e*terda> refused to put into Ceylon m demanded by hi> rebel crew and prepared, it necessary, to tranship his jet fuel cargo at a rendezvous at sea, say latest reports from Helsinki. There is no definite news
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      107 1 Pelandok Specials s lI KRK are Pelandok's j X It Special Selections for jjj X today's Singapore races:- aracui nap Any Time Ik h DOtMJ B X Kempton. Misty J idi MU SS Kempton. Misty Jadi. s< King (row a Other selections are on tt >> the Back Page. I:
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    Lock icon Last-minute Russian bid to nullify Paris pacts
    169 2 Last-minute Russian bid to nullify Paris pacts i>ussia yesterday mmoe 1V la.st-minute move against final French ratification of the Paris agreements rearming Germany due to be debated next Wednesday— by again threatening to annul her treaty of friendship with France. A note to this effect was handed by the Soviet
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    Lock icon 'REDS LOSE GROUND IN INDIA'
    65 2 'REDS LOSE GROUND IN INDIA COMMUNISM has lost ground m India during the last three years according to Mr. Chester Bowles, the former U.S. ambassador to India, who returned to New York yesterday. He has been on a three months trip to India and the Middle East "Give the people
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    NOW, IT'S POTSDAM SECRETS
    321 2 Britain protests again The American State Department is to publish the Proc«%ings OfVU tnrnnd Word War conferences of Allied leaders at Cairo (1943) Teheran TmS^ifpotYdamZ^oyJuneSO. Renter learned from authoritative sources yesterday. I>RITAIN however, is opposing the proposal to publish the entire p.-ocesdings B of the 1945
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    THIS WEEK-END'S ELECTION DIARY FOR SINGAPORE
    168 2 rE following election meetings are to be held: TODAY: Labour Front: Mr J. M. Jumabhoy (Stamford) Princess Street SIT flats. 5 30 p.m. Mr. A. N. Mitra I Bukit Timah). 16th mile stone, Jurona. 6 p.m. Alliance: Mr. Wong Foo Nam iPa.sir Panjang>. Kampong
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    Lock icon Russia wants to call off trade deal
    105 2 RUSSIA is trying to back out of orders for millions of dollar s worth of British goods placed m Britain before Mr. Georgi Malenkov was sacked for advocating more consumer goods, official sources said m London yesterday. The already -purged Soviet trade delegation
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    REDS INJECT POLITICS INTO TALKS ON TRADE
    130 2 T^HE United States, Britain and Asian nations yesterday denounced Russia for its attempt to inject politics into a United Nations meeting on trade and for its attack against U.S. trade policies Mr. Frank Waring, chairman of the U.S delegation of the ECAFE committee
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      1221 2 HERE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE LUCKY MEMBERS OF THt PEPSI COLA CLUB, TO WHOM PWZES OF THE VALUES SHOWN, HAVE ALREADY BEEN PAID (And thousands more, too numerous to list) r ßoad Toh Leng Teck 215 Thom>on KattUkalan Moideen Punnaral, -_s___'t*_^'*_____. Swe^ Fe Poh 23 Clyde Terrace Road
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    Lock icon NEW TYRE CAN STAND 7-TON LOAD
    172 3 NEW TYRE CAN STAND 7- TON LOAD SUCCESSFUL use of nylon m heavj truck tyres is reported m Milan, by the Pirelli Corporation, larg. Italian rubber manufacturers. Production of the new type tyres has begun already. A factory spokesman said that while Pirelli has ised nylon m car tyres for
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    Lock icon Australian loan
    31 3 The International Bank m Wa tlington yesterday made a loan of U5554,500,000 to Australia to finance imports of eauipment and to develop agriculture, transportation, electric power and industry. U.P.
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    Lock icon WHO WAS KILLER IN RED CAR?
    209 3 Riddle of two found dead near children A STARVING 21-year-old girl led workmen yesterday to the bodies of her mother and a man, shot to death on the bank of the Rio (irande, m New Mexico. The dead were identified as Arthur Peterson, 60.
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    Lock icon WIDOW THROWS HERSELF ON HUSBAND'S PYRE
    87 3 WIDOW THROWS HERSELF ON HUSBAND'S PYRE A (ASF of Suttee a widow burning herself on her husband's funeral pyre was reported yesterday from a village m Vinrihya Pradesh State. The report said (»oria Dcvi, widow of Baldeo Prasad, of Kusunia village, plunged into the flames consuming her husband's body. She
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    Lock icon Transport strike
    18 3 A strike by 7.000 men m air and sea transport services gripped Iceland yesterday.- A. P.
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    Lock icon Pontecorvo: F.R.S.
    50 3 ProfefSOT Guido Pontecorvo. a brother of the Italian-born atomic scientist, Dr. Bruno Pontecorvo. who announced m MOSCOW recently that he had become a Soviet citizen, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific botly. Professor Pontecorvo Ls Reader m Genetics at Glasgow University— Reuter
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    Lock icon What it costs to house the Royal Family
    76 3 •TITHE Ministry of Works said 1 m London yesterday it plans to spend .1:10.00 less m 1955/1956 on the Queen's palaces than this year. But the bills for fuel, gU, electricity and water are expected to cost 4:4.000 more than m 1954
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    Lock icon Monkeys for research
    94 3 THE Indian Government allowed 1.600 monkeys to leave New Delhi by air last night for the United States where they will be used for research into infantile paralysis. Although the Government's licensing policy has not yet been announced after it said week it would ban their export,
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    Lock icon Bank clerk fights —with detectives
    135 3 4 BANK clerk fought two men for possession of a bag containing money m London yesterday, not knowing they were Scotland Yard detectives. Auother man, Mr. John Flood was leaving a bank m Kingsbury with about .€45 when he was pushed m the back by
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    Lock icon HER BABY WAS BORN IN MID-AIR
    148 3 HER BABY WAS BORN IN MID-AIR A VEILED, 20-year-old Iraqi woman gave birth to a blue-eyed baby boy abroad a Trans-World Airlines plane flying between Dharan, Saudi Arabia, and Basra. Iraq, last night. The hostess acted as emergency midwife. The birth took ten minutes on a back seat of the
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    Lock icon Juglge said 'Let's be kind and acquit him'
    139 3 DEREK Joseph Murtagh one of three men charged with murdering a gfßjg driving a car at him. was found not guilty m Manchese yesterday and dWuirged. The trial of the other two ie Tle D il Patrick Murtagh 3d Kenneth^ George Kennedj
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    Lock icon I never had dates with Rooney, says Pat Ward
    175 3 MIGHT HAVE WRITTEN A LEITER, HUT... VIISS PAT WARD said m court m 1 New York yesterday that she never went out with actor Mickey Rooney. It was her first public testimony about the film star. "Did you ever go out
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    Lock icon Plans agreed
    27 3 Britain and Ihe United States have agreed on dispersal plans for the United States bomber force m Britain if there Ls an atomic attack Reuter
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    Lock icon 35 RETURNED
    26 3 Vietminh Radio said yesterday that the Vietminh handed over 35 French Union troops to the French lust Tuesday, about 40 miles from Haiphong. Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Mar. 19, 1955. Opinion AID FOR MALAYA
    266 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Mar. 19, 1955. Opinion AID FOR MALAYA fTHE big question m Asia today is whether the Communists will start an attack, and if they do. the place where it will be launched. American leaders. laced with this problem, have decided on a policy of military
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    Where women boast of MURDER
    597 4 Where women boast of MURDER JOHN REDFERN goes behind the barbed wire fence of a prison camp for this beside-t he-news report on the biflsiest problem facing Mau Mau land today it is quite something to conn across Mrs. Cloriai^h Alison m the 1 000 acres of dust and wat
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    Lock icon A number tells you what to do
    282 4  -  A.I. GOLDBERG by 4 PEEP into the well- guarded U.S. mission to the United Nations reveals a code of at least 41 things that can happen to a document or letter circulated among members of the staff. They're all provided for on a
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      10 4 Fountain Pens. <ft SCRIBE JJ VAN DEN BERC (SPORE* LTD.
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      94 4 \W W__________fl_tf_fe__l_t_______t mmt «<? Jk dg&tf^ ii T^wmmr^^mmT v_u_P +Is* V 1 ___P flH^^K^- 3 sSS» Unusual Accuracy Is no mere accident that the Wuich you buy from us is such a remarkable time-keeper. Before we sell it to you it is carefully inspected, thoroughly tested and accurately regulated. Our
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    RICE TRADERS WERE 'GREEDY'
    296 5 Lost m 400-ton deal with Burma mission SINGAPORE rice traders yesterday said that Federation merchants had been foolish, greedy and over-ambitious m buying large quantities of Rangoon rice, knowing that the stock ottered by the Burmese Rice Mission came from the 1952 crop. The traders were
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    Flower show will be all-nation
    146 5 Flower show will be all-nation iMIE Singapore Flower Show.to be held m three weeks, R really international British Overseas Airways oration la flytag flowers many parts of the world ta exhibit m the show and •her airline company, KLM. bringing blooms specially the Netherlands. BOAC has already arranged r flowers
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    Paintings help to fight T.B.
    56 5 Professor X F. Wu. a Hong Kong painter, will hold an exhibition of his works on Tuesday anti Wednesday at the Chinese Assembly Hail here. Twenty per cent of the proceeds from sales of his works will go to the Selangor Branch of the Malayan
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    AFRO-ASIAN TALKS: HE SEEKS NEWS
    107 5 AFRO-ASIAN TALKS: HE SEEKS NEWS MR. Boeaman Prawlrokuaumo. information o ffi cc r at the Indonesian Consulate m Singapore, is now In Jakarta —m connection with the AfroAsian conference io be held at Bandoeng. Indonesia, next montn. The consulate has not received any official information from its Government, Mr. Saal
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    MR NAZIR MALLAL: GOOD PROGRESS
    32 5 Mr. Nazir Mallal. Progressive Party candidate for Stamford, who has boon seriously ill m the Singapore General Hospital, is now re ported to be making g'»od progress.
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    Lock icon Bank take-over
    30 5 Tiie Indian Government WUI I dee effective control of the Imperial Bank of India In July M the first step toward the establishment of a state bank Reuter
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    Lock icon Snow in New York
    13 5 Thick steady snow fell m New York yesterday. A.P.
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    Lock icon Governor at Irish dinner
    51 5 Governor at Irish dinner picture. The governor. Sir John Nlcoll. is greeted by Mrs. Bluett, wife of Brigadier D. Bluett (centre), president of the St. Patrick's Society. Singapore, when the Irish community m the Colony celebrated St. Patrick's Hay with a dinner and dance at the Sea View Hotel. Free
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      689 5 CHI7SCH Of ENGLAND METHODIST St. Andrew's Cathedral: 7 a.m. Straits Chinese Church: 9 am. v Communion. 8 a.m. Sung I Sunday School, 9.40 a.m. Service hartal and Parish Communion, I (Ing Rev. E.S. Lav. 10.30 a.m DQ Sunday School. 10.30 a.m. I Service m Malay Mr. Koh Tiong Matins, 11
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      241 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs J 'ABOL^ SUE--* JON SAP y 7 I I *AN(7-UM V THESES SOME- 1 ILE VES. JOv' *£TJ&? 7DNV THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris LSK CAU l CMECK 50ME NAMES TVNELVE AMNUTES LATER-- y" tr-~"^ B£ P A
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      668 6 YOUR I LUCKY 1 STAR I |>ORN today, you ha\e om of those natuialh (iu tgoing persona lit it- s. ur E magnetism and (harm r < two characteristic", uhnh 11 help you to get when- ltU want to go with the minimum i of exertion. Vet you art- a
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    THE BIG VOTE TREK
    440 7 Free Press election reporters visit PUNGGOL-TAMPINES and ROCHORE election candidal J arc driving themselves hard m the huge, rural Punggol-Tampines division of Singapore, Judging from the grouses of one harrased wife. "I never knew Electioneering would mean all those miles of walking for my husband." she
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    U.K. dosing prices
    211 7 London Mm-. II Previous Today 8801 No. 1 ESS cif. European Li buy< ports March 26 seller.. 26 Xl BBEK No. 1 RSS cif. European 25% buyers mHi April 26 seller> 26 seller? R1 BKKK No. 1 RSS Spot 26 i bu 26 Inr M; h sellers
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    New York prices
    98 7 Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 91.37 nom. 91.50 nom. JIN futures, March 90.50 bid 90.75 bid 91.25 asked 91.50 asked April 90.37 bid 90.50 bid 91.00 asked 91.25 asked May 90.25 bid 90.25 bid 90.75 asked 91.00 asked TONE: Quiet but steady. SALE: Nil. I.i
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    U.S. PEPPER
    47 7 Spot Malabar quoted at 43 V:! to 44 rents per pound, afloats 43 1 to 43. March shipment 43, April 43, May Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per lb. 42 V.. Sarawak spot 43 and Lampong spot 43* -j to 44 cents sellers ex-dock.
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    DOW JONES AVERAGES
    37 7 NEW YORK. Mar. 18. Previous Today fill Industrials 405.23 404.75 SI Railroads 146 58 146 44 tn Domestic Bonds 99 88 99.89 15 Utilities 63 26 63 69 til Stocks Composite Average 151.03 151.07
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    Copra, coconut oil prices Mar. 18.
    105 7 Copra, coconut oil prices Mar. 18. Previous Today (OPRA Philippines r.i.f. UK 'North Kuropean delivered weight per lon* ton March/April $182 paid $182', norn (OPRA Philippines f.o.b. Manila delivered weight per long ton unquoted unquoted OPRA Straits c.i.f. UK/North F.uropean delivered weight per long ton March April g^ tag*, g*
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    60 7 Soh Chee Soon. It Progressive (company secretary) born Singapore, educated Raffles Institution; City Councillor (West Ward); Committee member of Singapore Joint Relief Organisation; member of Olympic Sports Council and other sports groups. Ong Eng Man, 43, I>emocrat <***»£?£ born China; educated l toria School. Raffles Institution: Co m mi t
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    Smallest, but it's tough
    418 7 ROCHORE Division can be symbolised by that charcoal worker returning home from his day of toil, covered m soot.. It is a working class district. Of all the electoral divisions m Singapore, Rochore is to be the least envied from the candidates' point of view. One
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      16 7 M. FLINTER &S. GRINBERG Diamonds Jewellery 67, Stamford Rd., (Eu Court Bid*.,) Spore, 6. Telephone 7923.
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    58 8 picture. BEHIND the scenes iv a Paris theatre a few minutes before the curtain goes up brilliant young French dancer Leslie Caron is to make her debut m Jean Renoir's Orvet. But the decor manager isn't satisfied with h*r old dress. So out come the scissors and he completes the
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    Record your wedding—it may help later on
    304 8 Record your wedding— it may help later on PLAY IT OVER WHEN YOU QUARREL SAYS VICAR A TAPE-RECORDING of the wedding ceremony could prevent many marriages from breaking up In later years, suggests a London vicar, the Rev. J. W. Griffiths, of St. Augustine's, Fulham. Writing m his parish magazine
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    CHARLADY IS SUED BY THE DUCHESS
    159 8 IT took years for Mile. Deslouche, a Paris charwoman, to save the I*loo ($B5O l she ed to make her life dream c true. At last she had enough. She vent to a publisher and handed him the money and a bulky notebook. "I
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    CHASE IN TUNNEL
    30 8 All trains m and out of Lime Street. Liverpool's biggest station, were stopped last night while railway police chased a man m a mile-long I underground tunnel.
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    THIS VICAR IS ON STRIKE: HE WILL PREACH ONLY TO SINNERS IN HIS CHURCH
    366 8 A NOTHER vicar has gone on strike against preaching because his congregation refuse to be treated as sinners. He is the Rev. John Wesley Stone, of St. John the Evangelist, Seven Kings, Essex. He has told
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    56,000 a year jobs are going begging
    116 8 56,000 a year jobs are going begging FOUR HUNDRED chemical engineers from 15 countries meet m London next week. These are the men working to bring nuclear energy to industry. It is they who make the mass production ol peniCillin possible, extract vita- 1 mins, "crack petrol, produce margarine, and
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    Her cries for aid ignored
    64 8 A WOMAN fought with a thief m the street. She said later: "I was dragged along, but although I shouted to people passing by to help me they all walked by." The thief, a well-dressed \oung man who had broken into a Hackney, London, surgery,
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    BILL TO BAR CRUEL POISONS
    40 8 A Bill to prohibit the use ol cruel poisons such as strychnine for killinu animals was published yesterday. It i.'. sponsored by Lieuten-ant-Colonel John Lockwood [Fine:; ot £25 and three months 1 imprisonment are proposed.
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    SONGS AND PROTESTS WIN HER NEW HOME
    215 8 SONGS AND PROTESTS WIN HER NEW HOME PRETTY Beryl Hopley —blonde, blue-eyed and 23 rould hardly stop singing For her voice has brought her a new house. Not because someone liked it. But because the neighbours I didn't. Beryl and her 34-year-old husband Jack have lived m a council flat
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    'Goodnight' then Yank at Oxford dies
    129 8 'Goodnight' then Yank at Oxford dies CLEMENT ZIMMER. brilliant German-born American student at Oxford, escorted undergraduate Patricia Souper home to her coht^t after a party and was found dead a few hours later m the college forecourt. Zimmer appeared to have fallen 3 2 ft. from the pavement into the
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    WHAT GOES UP...
    34 8 Firemen last night rescued four young boys trapped on the upper floor of a derelict building m Liverpool Roac Holloway. They had climbed up a broken stircase ana couldn't get down.
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    THIS IS PLUMB CRAZY, HE SAYS
    184 8 THE plumber from the council eyed the mended hotwater valve with pniessional approval. "Yes," he said to amateur j Ernest Davies, "yes, you did a fine job." Then he dismantled Mr. Daviess work and did the repair again. Mr Davies, SG-year-old engine driver, was
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    BOY MISSING FOR TWO YEARS IS BACK
    357 9 He lived 'rough' to dodge school v^lIY Bobby Yeates, who ran away from home two years ago at the age of 11. is back home again, so tall and confident that his parents hardly lt cognised him. He said, smiling: M I have
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    The Colonel keeps on finding mailbags
    266 9 The Colonel keeps on finding mailbags /iQLONEL HUGHES is the I man who Is always findmailbags. They add up v the impressive total of 11. And Colonel Hughes has found every one m the West End of London. said: "It seems remarkable but there it is. •I dont know why
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    73 9 FOR SOME time the Bri-' tish him industry has bee/n trying to find a young; star to team with the entrancing y onng actress .Fanette Scott. Now it has been announced that her first leading- man will be 24- year-old Vernon Grey, a Canadian. They
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    SCIENTISTS TO PLAY 'H' SYMPHONY
    231 9 ATOMIC music will float over Harwell, Berkshire, next week— a sort of H-bomb symphony, with Britain's top nuclear scientists playing it. Sir John Cockcroft, Director cf Research at the atom station, will make soft birdiike noises with a bubblewhistle. Wing Commander Henry Arnold, security chief
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    OLIVIA GOES UNRECOGNISED
    36 9 UNRECOGNISED by the lunchtime crowds, film star Olivia de Havilland, winner of two "Oscar" strolls with her fiance, Pierre Galantr, French magazine editor, through Victoria, Embankment Gardens, London. They will marry next month.
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    PRISONERS of the BLACK ROBBER ANTS
    693 10  - PRISONERS of the BLACK ROBBER ANTS KATHLEEN HICKLEY Further adventures of Ramasamy and grasshopper Hoppit by |;\M\S\MV M«etl Hoppit, :i ltmjmm*9ftt who casts a magic spell making the boy small. He takes Ramasamy to an ant colony and they are watching the in-ect> milk their cow, when an alarm is
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    28 10 picture. Even the most expressive after-dinner speaker ha> little tp teach Paul, the White Pelican, who believes m Handing up for his rights at thr London Zoo. Reuter
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    30 10 picture. Horace, the Indian Slow at the Lll 1^ Z°° has world "twined as be visitors from his perch. heard of the Loris? Bm member of the lemur fa»" Reuter
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    Zanuck Bay is Hollywood's EIGHTH ocean
    671 11  - Zanuck Bay is Hollywood's EIGHTH ocean HAROLD HEFFERNAN IT CAN BE SWITCHED FROM THE NILE TO THE AMAZON Says i\ slipping past the 1 fourth grade, you've doubtless been led to believe that there are seven c cas on this vast territory known as the i arth. How ridiculous! Anyone
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    202 11 This sergeant's hate turned to love TH E Gentle Wolfhound,'' one of the most unsual and moving stories to come out of the Korean conflict, is now m •duct ion m and around Osaka, Japan. (The 27th Infantry Regiment has the nickname "Wolfhounds.") It Is the story of Sergeant Hugh
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    Police ready for Marilyn
    58 11 CANNES police are preparing to reinforce the riot jlHi It is announced that Marilyn Monroe is coining for th<- April Film Festival. Presiding will be poet Jean <«Kteau, once "social lion" df U»e *****, now an ailing 64, whose name set off the hard-est-worked gag m
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    Carmen not for French
    100 11 BARMEN JONES. darkskinned slicky heroine of the big hit American nekto film based on Bizet s opera "Carmen.'' il not going to get away with her wiles m France, it lectin The film has Done Jo.se as a o I Escamillio, the toreador as a boxer
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    UP to the KNEES AGAIN
    436 12  -  LOUISE PETRIE Paris calling by 4RE we being gently led back to the kneeshowing shortness of skirts? A Paris correspondent tears this. She writes: "The kneelength dance dress of the 1927's is being reintroduced by Dior. In a little-by-little process of manoeuvring the short skirt
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    48 12 picture COIN dots m black sprinkle the white nylon organ/a of this attractive evening dress, one of the lovely creations seen m a British TV programme. "What*! New m Nylon." Black slashes zig-zag across the rerj full skirt. The dress is worn by Joyce Hurford Reuter
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    How would you like your suit sprayed on?
    551 13 How would you like your suit sprayed on? HOW will the welldressed man look m thf year 2,000? ll the toys for spaceided kids of today were a portent of what the fuholds, the average person would look with less •lian joy on the prospect of n the 21st century.
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    522 13 THE problem of what to do when partner's opening bid ha s been doubled for a takeout is much easier to solve if you think about your next bid as well as about the present one If you bid af once, except to make a skip-bid which many
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    56 13 pi' tin* Big Ben and nostalgic pub si«ns decorated Ihe flout of the Association of Brit ish Immigrants m last week's Purim Carnival held m Tel Aviv. Israel. Purim. a Jewish festival, celebrates the overthrow of Hainan who wanted to exterminate the Jews m the kingdom of Ahasvcrus, mentioned m
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    285 13 NO PENNIES ititMiiiittitiiimtiiiiiiiii n ii'iiiiiniiii SPLASH ABOUT •IMHf HMHJHHIIIHHf lIIIMHMIIIHIIHIIIIHII HER NOW [{WAN YIN is coming up In the world. She's moving to California's Beverly Hills. Kwan Yin. a five-foot clay statue of the Chinese Goddess of Mercy, has stood m Los Angeles'
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    Header can make or break
    594 14 Header can make or break pBNTRE FORWARD the flashpoint position of disaster or triumph. And here to give heart to every faltering leader is the spearhead of England's attack m the compact, taut figure of Bolton's Professor Nathaniel Loft house. Hear that Loft house laugh. It Is on the same
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    Inter-schools
    66 14 Bartley Secondary School beat St. Josephs 3-1 m their inter-school .soccer match at Bra., Busah Road yesterday. Scorers for the winners were: Jamil (ptnalty), Rahman YusofT and a deflected goal l>y the goalkeeper; Loke Khun for S.J.I. Victoria School beat St. Andrew's School by the only goal of the
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    247 14 •"TODAY'S U.K. football league fixtures are as follows:— i- DIVISION 1 As ton Villa v W. Brom Blackpool v Leicester Bolton v Cardiff Charlton v Chelsea Huddersiield v Man C. Man. Ltd. v Everton Portsmouth v Burnley Shelf. Wed. v Preston Sunderland v Arsenal lottenbam v Sheff.
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    PARDON MY FIST
    38 14 As centre-half Fotheringham leaps skywards to help. Arsenal goalkeeper Kelsey punches clear from the head of Astou Villa's inside-right Dixon m the Div. 1 match at Highbury last Saturday which Arsenal won 2-0. Reuter picture.
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    YAMAMOTO BEATEN
    35 14 -ii' uo v on. oik. 1 the Japaaesa ci l«hi boxer who was not ali by Immigration authorities to «-n'er Singapore dropped six round •ntej to Bangkok Bongklt* M (not Chamroenj iv Bangkok.
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    TV OR NOT TV-THE EASY ANSWER
    486 14  - TV OR NOT TV-THE EASY ANSWER DESMOND HACKETT By TV or not TV, that is the football question that can be answered so simply take a film of the No. 1 match of the day on Saturday and present it on Sunday afternoon. Fair all round. Nobody will stay away
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    LEARN WITH THE STARS
    38 14 I.oiihouse, eyes riveted on the baU. times his leap to meet c h nh centre. Bimpson, the Lancashire lad With the build of a heavy-Might boxer, hammers a punchball daily to improve his timing.
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    31 COUNTRIES IN T-TENNIS
    78 14 31 COUNTRIES IN T- TENNIS Thirty-one countries h. the world championsh p table v. tournament to be held at Utrec from April 16—24. Japan has been seeded 101 •Corbillon Cup for womon> and the Swaythllng Cup f > teams. They are the holder |b °Some 350 competitors will I part
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    238 14 Scots fly-half the key man versus England C GOTLAND, full of confidence after fine wins over Wale land Ireland, hope to complete a remarkably .successful season by beating England m the Rugby Union international at Twickenham today. Victory would give them not only the Calcutta Cup for which the two
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    594 15 400 m. RACE 19-yr-old leads decathlon from Bob Richards LOUIS JONES, a United States army private, cut lour- tenths of a second off the world 400 metres record yesterday when he won the Pan-American Games final m a dramatic finish with team mate Jim I „i
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    99 15 rpWO Asian records were 1 bettered In the fourth Pakistan Amateur Athletic < hampionships yesterday at Dacca. I, a nee Naik Mohammad Amil) of the army made a throw of 148 feet m the discus, a "big improvement on the Asian -record of 142 ft. 3
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    63 15 CHIE Moore, world light..vy weight champion. tered hospital for tion of a .stomach dis- n-round non-title dnst Frankie Daniels, ed for tonight, has been d indefinitely Saying that he thought it enter hospital, Moore that m 1941 he was oxygen tent for four en he had
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    72 15 BERT Cohen the French bolder of the world bant title has recovered nies received m a CM January, his manager terday. Gaston Raymond said 'hen' s fractured jaw completely healed but lution the boxer would until the end of May. i n is due to defend his Inst
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    56 15 Johnny Longden, leading jockey hi the United States, brought his total number of winners to 4.500 at Albany, California. His record Ls surpassed only by England's Sir Gordon Richards, who retired last year with 4,870 winners after 34 years as a jockey. Longden, born m England,
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    21 15 I^GYPTIAN swimmers My they are ready to meet a challenge by Turkey's Mural Guler to swim the Irish Channel.
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    DANNY KID KAYOED IN MANILA
    125 15 J 7'l'imv flyweight champion Kid, world ranking -nocked out by Phiiipfntry boxer Little Caesar, 'l' ot a non title fight. 1 Kid weighed 1151 b while **M 2 pounds heavier. tb% first upset of the I benefit card promoted VplQc Sports Waters Ai- j sori.tion
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    59 15 nicture. Dalbara Singh (right). Police centre- forward, closes m for a shot at goal which was just wide after beating goalkeeper Noronha. Singapore Recreation Club "Red" beat Police 2-0 at the G.S.C. ground yesterday to enter the senior K.O. final. Rees, the holders will meet Singapore
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    261 15 WONG AND EDDIE THROUGH Ist ROUND MALAYAN and Danish play--111 en took an early lead m the international invitation badminton tournament m Manchester last night. E. B Choong, All-England champion from Penang. easily defeated the young British i international A. D Jordan m Ihe first round of the men's singles
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    553 15  -  ARCHIE QUICK By TWO "local Derbies" are features of today's I.K. soccer fixtures, but oh how different are their ramifications. Whereas Charlton v. Chelsea is a pointer to the Championship Villa v. West Bromwieh has relegation possibilities. Each match could end m a draw. Wolves
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    191 16 Best bet of the day is Straits Code Free Press Course Correspondent SHANGKILA is a con fident stable tip fo the Spring Cup at Buki Timah today. On hi: Selangor (-old Cup forn I think this smart five year-old will take sonn beating. The challenge
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    38 16 (JARFIELD Sobers, a 17-year-olrj left arm spin bowler,, is anions 13 from whom thr West Indies will choose their team to meet Australia m thr first Test of the .>eries g| Kingston. Jamaica on March 26
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