The Singapore Free Press, 22 March 1955

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press ,ruost Afternoon Sale m Malaya 1 1 .'1 Singapore. Tups Mar. >>. 1955. Price 15 Cts.
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    Lock icon INEFFICIENT RED CHIEF IS SACKED
    102 1 rr Soviet Minister of Culture, Mr. G. F. Alexandrov. been sacked for inefficienMoscow Radio said yesterThe broadcast said the Prem of the Supreme Soviet USSR "on the proposal hnirman of the CounMini.sters of the USSR. ade Bulganin" had fired \androv "because he d \9 ensure
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    Lock icon SCHOOL IS CLOSED AFTER WALK-OUT
    108 1 SCHOOL IS CLOSED AFTER WALK-OUT THE principal and teaching staff totalling about 70 of Kuching's Chung Hwa Middle School (1,300 Chinese pupils i stayed away from school yesterday. Students who turned up for lessons were told by the school Board of Management to return homo and wait for further news.
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    OK gets special leave to aid her colonies
    169 1 DHITAIN can now bypass certain world tariff rules to aid her colonies. A communique issued last night m Geneva after a fourh review of the General Agreement on Taritfs and Trade LtATTi said that the 33 other GAIT nations, by a special
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    Lock icon PAKISTAN GOVT. ACTION UPHELD
    47 1 Tlie Lahore Federal Court i yesterday upheld the Pakistan Government's appeal against the Sind Chief Court's judgment that the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly last October was illegal. It left undecided the question of the Governor General's power to dissolve the AssemEly.- Reuter
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    Lock icon DRIVER TO DIE FOR MURDER BY CAR
    89 1 DRIVER TO DIE FOR MURDER BY CAR DXIS Patrick Murtagh, 29, was .sentenced to death In hester yesterday for cier by car.' An Assize Court jury found [Ullty ol deliberately m to a sidewalk and William Joseph Jack>n. 37-year-old stock car after they had quarln a public house. Kenneth George
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    OFF TO COLOMBO
    26 1 lonel W. A. Muller, Inspec•Oeneral of Colonial Police, f 'ft Singapore by air this ng for Colombo after hU tion tour of Malaya.
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    Lock icon SEAMAN KILLED
    28 1 A 24-year-old Hong Kong n, Wong Tin Ming, was when he fell nearly 40 to the hold of the British Castle Harbour m Rotter- yesterday Reuter
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    RUBBER DOWN
    31 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened on an uncertain tone this morning with first «rade April .shipment, at 88 i cents a lb., one-quarter of a cent below yesterday's close.
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    Lock icon GENERAL ATOMIC
    32 1 A Mau Mau leader known a.s "General Atomic" has surrendered under the Kenya Government's latest amnesty offci and has also persuaded 17 oi his followers to give themselves UD- Reuter
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    Meeting postponed
    10 1 The Johore State Council ssr3 ss «s 19-20.
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    MALAYA VISIT
    28 1 Vr R X Tandon. Indian Commissioner for Malaya, left Singapore today by air or Kuantan. He will visit Kuantan Kuala Trengganu, H Bahru and Kuala Lumpur.
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    Lock icon 21 KILLED IN CLASH
    40 1 a\..a m i clash between sup-mWENTY-TIIREE V^ ()Uuclil party JJjd I djsI nnrtors of Burma s R« q JoAtral Burnu's** rlll»fe near A, .n P t°" C ction of u r Party ;n;' «gSSi^gSS«I 1-^*l A.P.
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    ARUBA MAY BE ON WAY BACK
    193 1 The mystery grows r £HK owners oi the Finnish tanker Aruba said m Helsinki last night the vessel may have been ordered to return to Constanza, Rumania, instead of continuing with its cargo of 13,000 tons of jet fuel to Communist China. Mr. Gunnar
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    STORE MAN LOSES LONDON APPEAL
    173 1 He offered 'opium money' to police T^HE judicial committee of the Privy Council yester- day refused a petition by Lien Teck Chew asking for special leave to appeal against his conviction last July m the Singapore Supreme Court on three charges alleging that he corruptly
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    Diem's No to change in govt.
    90 1 Diem's No to change in govt. PREMIER Ngo Dinh Diem yesterday rejected n ultimatum Horn Vietnam's politico- religious sects to reshuffle his government within five days and warned he would keep order, by force of arms it necessary. Mr. Diem then broadcast an appeal lor unity amoOf his people. He
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    THIEF GETS $224
    23 1 a thief broke Into a house on West Coast Road, Singapore, last night and stole cash and valuables worth $224.
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    Lock icon Buyers' boycott
    14 1 Buyer.s boycotted the Sydney wool sales yesterday. The sales were abandoned. A.P.
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      111 1 I Men m the public eye prefer M D D I D I- P K^l 1 D l\ T V# fm C C ■▼I The clean, smart look v what every man wants. Tliat's why morr men use Brylcreem S^^^^y han any other hairdresMng m the world. Sec for yourseli
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    U.S. wants Korea pact scrapped to meet Red threat
    357 2 CROWING COMMUNIST STRENGTH IN NORTH KOREA REPORTED TWE United States has asked its allies m Korea to consider repudiating part of the armistice agreement to meet a reported Communist military build-up m North Korea, informed sources said m Washington yesterday. A
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    Management new—policy the same
    123 2 Management new— policy the same IT has been announced that the Singapore Arts Theatre has a new management but an unchanged policy. The management, previously m the hands of a committee, has now been transferred to Mr. Donald Moore, and his wife. Joanna, who started the theatre m 1951. Mrs.
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    Lock icon 5-year plan for Indonesia
    55 2 A five-year industrial and economic booster programme for Indonesia, costing $3,500,--000,000, is expected to be started m 1956, the state planning bureau announced m Jakarta yesterday. Electric power projects and steel plants m South Sumatra are listed as primary projects for the first year In which
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    ELECTION DIARY
    58 2 The following election meetings will be held today: Democrats: Mr. Ltm Yong Bock (Tanglln) 8 pm 6 mj>. Holland Road. Mr. Tan Wah Meng (Bukit 'nmah) 8 pm., 13 m.s. Juroru; Hottd. labour Front: Mr. P. V. KrLshD*O (Pa-sir Panjang) 4 pm Kampong Bahru Independent: Mi. C. R.
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    Lock icon Menzies in 'Frisco
    23 2 The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies arriv«.a m San Francisco yesterday on hi.s way home from Washinglon.- A. P.
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    Lock icon GERMAN BOOKS FOR UNIVERSITY
    61 2 picture. THE GERMAN Consul- General m Singapore, Dr. E Hans V. (iranou (risht) E presenting the firsts two of 44 German books for the University of E Malaya library to the E Vice Chancellor, Sir Syd- E ney C a m c In the E centre
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    Lock icon RED CHINA ACUTE THREAT TO PEACE, SAYS DULLES
    196 2 'THE Secretary of State, Mr. Foster Dulles, said m New York yesterday that Red China is "an acute and immediate threat" to peace but the situation is not hopeless. The Chinese Communists, he added, "seem to be dizzy with success." "They have
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    1,000 RISE EARLY TO HEAR DEMOCRAT SPEAK
    65 2 1,000 RISE EARLY TO HEAR DEMOCRAT SPEAK MR. TAN WHA MENG, who is contesting the Bukit Timah division as a Democrat m the forthcoming elections to the Singapore Legislative Assembly, got up at 6 a.m. yesterday to hold his first rally. About 1,000 fishermen and farmers heard him speak, along
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    BIG ATTRACTION
    34 2 MR. ONG ENG LI AN (Democrat) held a rally m Beach Road last night and the majority of the few hundred who attended were children. The attraction was a "Mighty Mouse" cartoon.
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    Lock icon Italian visit
    25 2 Lebanon President, Mr. Camille Chamoun flew yesterday to Italy for a ten-day visit at the invitation of Italian President, Mr. Luiei Einaudi A.P.
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    Lock icon EMERGENCY IN ALGERIA
    43 2 The French Cabinet la.st night adopted a draft bill envisaging proclamation of a state of emergency m some parts of Algeria The bill will be tabled m the National Assembly today and will probably come up for debate tomorrow- Reuter
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    'HUSBAND CAME HOME DRUNK AND BEAT HER'
    126 2 STUART, a typist whn applied for a divorce, Told the Singapore High Court yesterday that her husband Gordon Kenneth Stuart lance-corporal m the RoVi] Signals, had treated her cruelly. The Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, granted her a K d c f ee
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    'After My Fashion'
    36 2 There will be a repeat performance of the Stape Club play "After My Fashion" at the REME theatre. Singapore on Thursday. Miss Inez Quitzow. the producer, will take the part of Mrs. Denine
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    India tries to break us in Goa —Minister
    168 2 India tries to break us in Goa —Minister THE Portuguese Minister of Overseas Provinces, Mr. Sarmento Rodrigues, yesterday charged India with organising new methods aimed at breaking resistance m Goa, Portuguese India. He said Portugal would not hesitate to defend its legitimate rights. Rodriorues .said m an exclusive interview m
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      66 2 The weekly issue of the STRAITS BUDGET can be S sent by Air Mail to any address m the United Kingdom at an inclusive rate of FOR SIX MONTHS ;a If you want the "BUDGET* while on leave or wish to make an Air subscription" on behalf of your Home
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    FIRE WIPES OUT HEART OF TOWN
    203 3 Morning blaze destroys homes, stores m Quebec AN EARLY-MORNING fire swept through Nicolet on the St. Lawrence, m Canada yesterday and destroyed between 25 and 30 homes and stores before it was brought under control. Mr. Jean-Marie Precourt. the police chief of nearby Drummondville,
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    Lock icon Dead woman found on rubbish heap
    76 3 Dead woman found on rubbish heap '■'HE body of a murdtTed wo- man who may have been I about six months ago und near Leicester. Engduring the weekend on a dump only 100 yards a main road. A 14 -year-old schoolboy. Sewell, stumbled across fully dressed body half hidn Among
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    Lock icon PROGRESS IN ANTI-COLOUR BAN FIGHT
    102 3 FTHi; United Nations said m I Now York yesterday that roes now may enter European bars m the Belgian Conattend non -segregated schools m French Equatorial Africa and become the Chief 1 m Trinidad. The secretariat gave these examples In the progress made m the
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    Lock icon OIL OUTPUT UP
    30 3 Saudi Arabia's crude petron production last month to an average of 923.147 barrels daily, compared with >21 m January, the Araian American Oil Company yesterday. A .P.
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    Lock icon Hi Patrick and mother quit in hurry
    170 3 Hi Patrick and mother quit in hurry QKINCESS Christiane Pahlevi of Persia, u f,o has been fueding with the Shah over the education of her son, prince Ali Patrick, left (Miad m Switzerland, suddenly with the boy late Sunday. The Princess arrived m (.si.iad two weeks ago and entered Prince
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    Lock icon Death sentence for smuggling fake money
    100 3 Death sentence for smuggling fake money Chinese was sentenced to death m Canton after being convicted of smuggling m the equivalent of $8,500 m counterfeit bank notes from Hong Kong, according to Communist press reports reaching Hong Kong. The reports said the sentence was passed on March 15. Another Chinese
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    Lock icon TRADE MISSION
    25 3 *n advance party of fi T «e n^niuen of a Bntisti trade m to Red China arrived Hong Kong yesterday by A. P.
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    Lock icon Minister attacks birth control 'nuisance9
    81 3 Minister attacks birth control 'nuisance 9 -ITED Church of Canada Minister s;.^ Uit R »nan| ft thoUc Church is m grave danger of making ltseu tiona] nuisance because of Its stand on birt n ci^ Claris Silcnx. Canadian representative «J™ told, for International Friendship through kp v^ J ft J
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    Lock icon Kashmir climbers
    23 3 Seven New Zealand mountaineers have arrived m Bombay on their way to Kashmir to climb the 25,660 foot Masherbrum Peak. A.P.
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    Lock icon MAN WITH A GRUDGE SINKS BOAT
    48 3 A mysterious Human with powerful a;r nfl»has beVn shooting up i river boat club at Northampton, England, splintering 72 windows m chalets and boats. He even sank a small dinghy by peppering It with 11 pellet holes below the water line.- Reuter
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    Lock icon THIS CHURCHILL HAS RETIRED
    31 3 "INSPECTOR C. J. hurA chill is retiring from the Bedfordshire constabulary after 35 years' service," the Star reported m London yesterday under the headline: "Churchill retires."- U.P.
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    'Narriman WONT go back to Farouk'
    101 3 'Narriman WONT go back to Farouk' 1/1 KS. ASSII.ASADEK. mother 1?1 of eg Qliecn Numrnan, said m Pans yesterday that the former first lady ol Etsypt had no intention oi seeMnf a reconciliation with ex-King Farouk. "The reports arc without foundation/ 1 Mrs. Sadek .said. "I cannot say anything else."
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    Vladivostok dock
    30 3 A Russian floating drydock, the third to pass through the Bosphorous going -southward m three days, was towed through yesterday. It was reported to be bound for Vladivostok.
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    EMPTY SPACE MAKES PILOTS NEAR-SIGHTED
    150 3 A BRITISH flight-surgeon yesterday m l\ Washington advised colleagues not to let any dreams of "rocket ships round the moon 1 make them neglect problems of protecting niers m present day aircraft. For one thing, said Air Commodore T C Mac Donald. research director m
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    The Singapore Free Press Opinion The Vietnam struggle
    293 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion The Vietnam struggle TUESDAY. Mar. 22. 1955 WEPORTS from troubled 1V South Vietnam have been very contradictory. But what is irrefutable is that the Premier, Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem, has been fighting m the last few months, not to prevent the Communists from infiltrating from
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    Lock icon EAR —Red China's biggest weapon
    837 4 EAR Red China's biggest weapon 4 PARALYSIS of Aim ricao foreign policy, h m Europe and Asia, seems to be goal of the combined planning of Soviet and Red Chinese strategists m the cold war. The timing of the Peking threat to teise Pormosi can hardly be regarded as accidental.
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    SPAIN WOOS THE MUSLIM BLOC
    435 4  - SPAIN WOOS THE MUSLIM BLOC JOHN K. COO LEY by T<ETUAN, the capital of L the small area held by Spain m Northern Morocco, with its narrow streets and HispanoMauresque buildings, is the setting for a major attempt by Spain to win the friendship of the Arab world. General Franco's
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    THE QUEENSTOWN PARADOX
    741 5 iney may nave lo quit division aft.r poll f Today's survey a Free Press election reporter i\ THE three-cornered 1 tussle for Queensii Division the spotlight falls on the squatThey make up more m 50 per cent of the I electorate of some 10 listed voters. Ihe
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    GRUMBLES BUT NO VOTE
    195 5 There are big plans for Queenstown. It is to be developed into a huge residential area with creat blocks of S.I.T. flats complete with clinics, markets and cinemas. About 70,000 people are to be housed m this development area. So Queenstown today has i fast rising
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    Indonesian unions avoid politics
    114 5 INDONESIAN trade unions now tend to leave polities alone and concentrate instead on Improving the workers' conditions, said Mr. R. A. K. Koesvemadinata. a labour controller from Sumatra, m Singapore. Mr. Koesvemadinata and Mr. T L. Tobing, deputy secretary 'at the Jakarta Ministry of Labour, are
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    HE WANTS TO SEE WHAT GOES ON IN SINGAPORE
    230 5 AN American business executive said on arrival n. Singapore, that he was interested m finding out what i> going on m this part of the world Mr. Edward L. R^^ chairman of the board ot the 1 Inland Steel Company of
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    U.S.rancher wants to see Boy Scouts, Rotarians
    161 5 U.S. rancher wants to see Boy Scouts, Rotarians MR. FRED WILLIAM WALTI, an Ajnertcan rancher, irantt to ntt\ Singapore Boy Scouts and Rotaiiaiu before he retarni to America. He is a former pnnMont of both organifatftoni In Santa Jruz, California, imd is still a nember ol the district's Rotary Clutf
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    820,000 haul of opium
    44 5 About 120,000 worth of opium was seised by the Singapore Customs m the Siamese ship Vesut Kasatrl on her arrival from Bangkok On Simday afternoon. The opium weighing 22 Ib. was hidden among bap of rico. No arrest was mail*'
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      554 6 (MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phii Davis) STAR THIS NOTF--IN MY HANDWRITING- 1 I SOMEONE AT THE DOOR/ IT MUST! I YOU ARE L~T CAME BACK? TVeI Uorv r^T "GONE TO BALO MOUNTA.N."! DON'T BEMANORAKE-y U A 2 LE 7l N n^ER«ENYOU I B U^ a_Tlh.i onio Ik" IVE TRIED
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      U.K. closing prices
      219 7 LONDON, Mar 21 Previous Today Xi HI'.KK No. 1 RSS ci.f. European buyers 25^ buyers norti Mann ..26 sellers 26 seller* KII'.IUK No. 1 RSS ci.f. European buyers 25\ buyers putts \pril 26 sellers 26 sellers R fBBU SO. 1 RSS spot. 26 buyers 26 i btyws
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      New York prices
      101 7 NEW YORK, Mar. 21 Previous Today TIN' Straits spot and nearby 91.50 nom. 91.62 nom. UN futures March 90.75 bid 90.50 bid 91.50 asked 91.50 asked April 90.50 bid 90.25 bid 91.25 asked 91.25 asked May 90.25 bid s*i.l2 bid 91.00 asked 91.12 asked TONF- Quiet. SALE:
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      U.S. PEPPER
      40 7 Spot Malabar quoted at 43 V, May 42 nominal Sarawak spot 43 cents per pound, afloat* 42} t and Lampong *,pot 43 sellers ex Mirch shipment 42H. April 42H. dock. Above price quoted m V.S. cents per Ib.
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      85 7 Mar. 21. Previous Today (OPRA Philippines ci.f. UK North £TO £s^**?* r. »l»*»» S!B5 quoted I OPE A Straits ci.f. UK /North jrevsaa w hl s as <>< ONXT OIL crude Str«ite. cJJ. European Continental port** m r q9 sellers bulk.^er ton March/ April £91 V4
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      27 7 NEW YORK. Mar. 21. Previous Today M Industrials ***** 402.40 Railroads 1J6.J4 145£8 M Domestic Bonds ™f 63 38 M Stotks Compositf Average 151.07
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    Lock icon spore 'one of best cities in S.E. Asia'
    188 7 SINGAPORE ls one of the best cities m South-East Asia and look., very prosperous, said Mr. Glenn Lloyd, an American auditor yesterday He said he was impressed at the Colony's many new houses 'They are Deautrtul and well built. Your roads, too,
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    Girl saved by mother
    48 7 A three-year-old girl. Yip Wai Pong, was .saved by her mother from drowning m a tub containing about two feet of water m her house at Bras Basah Road. Singapore, yesterday She fell into the tub while playing. Yip was later admitted to hospital.
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    PASTOR TO HOLD WEEK OF PR A YER IN STORE
    151 7 AN Australian evangelist who has charge of the training and interests of nearly 18,000 ministers and bible teachers all over the world has arrived m Singapore to conduct three separate series of lectures. He is Pastor R. Allan Anderson, secretary
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    17 NATIONS WILL BE AT BAZAAR FOR BLIND
    171 7 THE bazaar to be held at the A Victoria Memorial Hall on April 23 will be truly interUional. will be 17 national stalls, run by wives of diplomats m Singapore, ten variety stalls •tnd nine food stalls. la organised by Mrs. W.
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    Court told of threat in park
    39 7 Tan Ah Seah was charged m a Singapore court yesterday with threatening Tan Kok Leong with injury m order to extort $10 at an amusemetit park m North Bridge Road on March 2
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    FATHER BEATS UP TEACHER
    295 8 Woman screams as he is sentenced to jail A FATHER burst into a school classroom and beat n i > a teacher m front of 40 boys. He w*B sentenced to two months' imprisonment. He said he would appeal and was released on bail. As he
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    She dare not pick the bloom she loves
    223 8 KATHLEEN MARSH loves daffodils and grows hundreds. But she has to leave home when they flower. They give her a rash, i Daffodil allergy the doctors call it. Once it so affected her eyes that j she could not read for two
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    CAPITAL IDEA BY DIOR IN LONDON DISPLAY
    45 8 OPRING daffodils form E the capital letter E A In accentuate the A- E line of this outfit m E E navy blue serge. It was E shown at the London display of fashions by E Christian Dior.
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    Girl, 10, saves playmates
    66 8 Ten-year-old June Perkins saved the lives of two young playmutcs by holding them above water when they fell through the ice m a 60ft. -deep reservoir at Morley, Yorks. The keeper's son. 16-stone Kenneth Pickersgill, went to the rescue but he crashed through the ice. too
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    WIFE CHANGES MIND IN MID-AIR AND RETURNS
    164 8 EIGHT days after setting foot on British soil for the fir.st time, Mrs. Elaine DuM-nberry and her seven-year-old daughter, Kathy, boarded a New York-bound airliner at London Airport to fly home to lowa. United States. Seventeen hours later Mrs. Dusenberry was back m
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    P.C. ends gossip on 5-minute murder
    249 8 P.C. ends gossip on 5-minute murder A THIRTY FOUR YEAR OLD policeman who a] ed "five minutes'* grace' 1 to a man he was about to arrest woman was then murdered has denied rumours that the incident i s connected with his resignation from the E.v City force. "I resigned
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    Australian flies to Britain as a laird
    182 8 AUSTRALIAN .sheep- farmer Forbes Gordon is flying to Britain this week. He wants to see the Scottish village and mansion he has just inherited. The village of which he becomes laird is Lumsden, m Abcrdeenshire. It comes to him from his cousin, Captain
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    'TOO OLD' RADIO MAN OFFERS $43 A WEEK
    108 8 Actor's fluctuating fortunes ACTOR Horace Arnott Birch Pcrcival told London Bankruptcy Court that he did not know exactly how much he earned. But he thought he could pay his creditors $43 a week while he was m the 8.8.C. "Lite with the
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    Did not know exact salary
    196 8 Did not know exact salary In addition, two unsecured creditors had lodged proofs of debt for a total of $6,413. No assets had been realised, but Mr. Percival had paid $1,955 out of his earnings m "Life with the Lyons." Mr. Percival told Mr. Registrar Bowyer he did not know
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    SO JENNY CAN HUNT ONCE MORE
    106 8 JENNY, a seven year old dachshund, went rabbitiny on two front legs and four back wheels. And that gave a big kick to the customers of the Bugle Inn at Hamble. Hants. For they designed the undercarriage which is helping Jenny to recover from
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    Officer thought the big store was a dream
    463 9 KENNETH ANNABLE thought he T was m bed. Dreamily he wandered the demt mcnta of the big store and expected it all to disappear v. hen he woke up. u^uppt tv On the brightly lit counters he sa,w articles he (»Bnised— a
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    She sees shark kill friend
    64 9 CWIMMING helplessly only a few yards away,, 23-year-old Jan Faithorne saw a shark drag her boy friend to death yesterday at Wamberal, north of Sydney. He was 22-year-old Noel Langlej-, the third shark victim m New South Wales this year. Miss Faithorne struggled ashore hysterical.
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    CHILDREN DROPPED TO SAFET
    161 9 CHILDREN DROPPED TO SAFET yyHEN a family were trapped m a bedroom of a burning house at Bishops Hill. Ipswich, a young mother dropped her four children out of the window to safety In the garden below they were caught one by one by a passing cyclist and the woman's
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    Soldier injures six-month old son to
    299 9 stay home on leave JO delay his return to the Queen'i Lancers m Ger--21-year-old Trooper «< raid Gallagher picked up his Mx-month-old son, David, and oajhed him to the ground. lavjos skull was fractured J It is feared there may be lasting effects. r
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    TOUCH OF SPRING
    42 9 loni£« un s. man arrived at k t,^". Airport Irom Paris ami?* te irl frlen <* twice s£Vn en kissed the hand of W en w a"ing at the CuACL ba l rier must be ne said as he rushed
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    S.O.S. FOR CAT
    35 9 Frankfurt Zoo appealed over the radio for a cat to act as foster-mother to an African wild cat cub, WhOM mother ignored him A black cat with a mwly-born kitten was chosen.
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    50 9 DAME Edith Evans, the > actress, unveiling a bust < of the famous playwright George Bernard Shaw by Michael Werner at the Royal Court Theatre, London. The bust, believed to be the first of G. 8.5., will be prominently displayed m the theatre where so many of his great plays
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    THERE'S MONEY IN THE WIND
    71 9 A BOY at a bus stop found the first one. He told his father, who found four more. An hour passed then a young woman collected 10 of them They were ten -shilling ($4) notes, borne on the breese cUwn the street to a bus
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    102 10 CIGARETTES FOR THE BOYS. Captain Mike Harvey, who led the main break through when the "Glorious Gloucesters" were surrounded during the battle of the Imjin Riv^er during the Korean war. was at Liverpool to see the Ist Bn, Gloucestershire Regiment sail for Kenya aboard tire troopship "Empire Halladale." Captain Harvey
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    It's a hard road back to health
    732 10 JEAN MACAULEY SAMPLES A "NATURE CURE" ON AN ESTATE AT THE HIGHEST POINT IN THE CHILTERN HILLS IN BRITAIN I'M HUNGRY! It's 48 hours exactly since I tasted anything more solid than an orange. I begin to appreciate why people steal food. Everything
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    NEW SUIT WILL LAST A LIFETIME
    216 10 IT LOOKS as if we are on the way to the suit that lasts a lifetime, the carpet that won't wear out m 100 years, the babies nappies that stay new for three generations. This, anyway, is what Mr. Joseph Hadju, chemist of Paris,
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    His want-ad paid off— handsomely
    453 11 His want-ad paid off— handsomely IT BROUGHT A STAR AND A RAVE MOVIE director Robert Parrish is Hollywood's greatest believer m the value of the newspaper want-ad. In fact, the response he got from one inserted m Far Eastern newspapers w£ls so terrific, he admits he is lucky to be
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    Hollywood gets that Hong Kong touch
    191 11 Hollywood gets that Hong Kong touch CAST and crew of "Sold it t of Fortune" can feel right at home these days on stage 14 at their studio. were m Hong Kong r six weeks, living at tne d Peninsula Hotel while -hooting location scenes. Reaming, they found an accurate
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    VIC lives, eats and breathes MUSIC
    132 11 VIC lives, eats and breathes MUSIC VIC DAMONE lives, eats and breathes music at the studio, on personal appearances, and at home with his recordings. His life has always been governed by music. He began tinging as a child, sang m choirs, gained recognition on radio, then became the rage
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    OLD-TIMER GETS ONLY AWARD
    147 11 mil ERE will be no aca- E 5 I- demy awards for the E best Burmese film, nor for E the best actor for the year E which has just elapsed. E The Cinema Board m E I Rangoon making this de- E cision said none
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    Lock icon Parents MUST know where their children are at
    641 12 KAY MURRAY NIGHT YEW YORK has just woken up to the fact that it is suffering from the worst wave Of juvenile delinquency In its 300-year-old history. I received i sh< k on hearing that a British exchange teacher was warned at
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      264 12 CUES ACROSS 2 A Persian descends finally to a 1 Slangily it Isn't a first -class Scotsman dynamite mixture Jf a achest ches tO ust nothing? (6). 4 A .mail portion for the doctor 4 Wet ground fiequented by artist* to bewn (7) and doctors 6) 8 Expert a wintry
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    Commonwealth tourists are the BEST
    509 13 Commonwealth tourists are the BEST TOEY STAY LONTJP ARE NOT TOO 'DEMANDING. SPEND WELL ANn BE ,HAVE THEMSELVES^ SAY THE ""'"'"""""•IIHlll 'rOURISTS from the British Commontith are best, say the Anstrians, and they :iit to know. For an -increasing number choosing Austria for iir European holidays r more m 1954
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    They breedl 'em tough these days
    111 13 i VOl NGSTERS are lough A nowadays! How one S u^d to shudder as a fhild at the old music- g ag: where th€ ma|ri 2H sawed the lady m her r e *TO m two. UH week at the Mcd- rano circus. French
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    Bridge Hand
    320 13 Both sides vulnerable South dealer BRIDGE players, and especially Texans who are John Gerber s neighbours, would just M soon make today's holiday Gerber day^ North and South of today s deal are perfectly willing to go along with the idea, for Gerber \s four club ace-asking bid
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    36 13 The American evangelist Billy Graham. rfctttef Washington recently, preached a sermon at the church where the President and Mrs. Eisenhower are regular visitors. Picture shows President Eisenhower and Billy Graham talking tawihM after the service.- Popper
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    Their escape tunnel had lighting too!
    236 13 ]>RISON offlclals at Mexico City's Federal Penitentiary received something of a shock when they discovered that three prisoners had built themselves a tunnel some seventeen yards lonn, leading under the outside walls of the prison. At first the officials thought iney had forestalled what
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    TARGET
    63 13 low iii.ni> lour iMtCfl <»r inurr «an il lli.ikf r <> m the letter! i n Dm- 4(411. ir«* ■m m? lefi t iii MaklM '■mi mi r d 1 ii r Inter* Mia ihr tergr Mtet In v,< .vntr* irpr .i..,,,. r m nl g ""1:1 iT 1
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    RUSSIANS PLAN GIANI SPORTS MEET AS A TRIAL
    398 14 RUSSIANS PLAN GIANI SPORTS MEET AS A TRIAL A GIANT 'spartakiad" national sports meeting m Moscow m the summer of 1956, with the cream of Russia's athletes competing, will climax the Soviet's intensive search of a team to carry the Red Banner to the Melbourne Olympic Games m November next
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    MCC have all day to win
    116 14 SEVENTEEN wickets fell at Wellington yesterday m the M.C.C.'s match against Wellington and with all of today left for play, the tourists are m sight of another victory. Wellington are 37 for one m their second innings which makes them 244 behind. MCC dismissed
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    SOCCER FINAL
    38 14 Prince Edward Boys Club wilJ meet Katong B.C. m the rmal of (he Rayner Cup soccer championship on the padang today at 5.15 p.m. Prince Edward B.C. have won the trophy for the past three years.
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      295 14  -  W. J. NEWMAN By SCIENTIFIC instruments may be used In future help cricket umpires with a vexing problem. There have been many disagreements over decisions to bring play to an early close because of failing light, and umpires have come m for much criticism. Seeking to
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    Lock icon Cup semi-final may outshine the final
    200 14  -  MAESTRO By A SIGH went round the oak-panelled Council Room of the Football Association m London's West End when the draw for the semi-finals of the Cup was made. It was not a sigh of relief, but regret; regret that Manchester City and Sunderland
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    THE REVIE PLAN'
    220 14 A year ago we were talking of Port Vale's chance to get to Wembley. Of course, they never reached the X* m us stadium. and despite York's great record of beating Blackpool. Spurs and' Notts County-two of them away from home-they can hardly be expected to go
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    MILITARY SOCCER
    53 14 I^l IE military soccer teams < Egypt. Turkey. Holland and Italy, participating m finals of an international military soccer toiirnam^ n S,lin Florence yesterday by tram '°Sr eS the game feM S 1 w"ST T« 'Seat Holland, 3—o. The next round of the tour nametlt will be m
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    RUGBY LEAGUE S-FINAL DRAW
    38 14 The Rugby Leape c p scmi-flnal draw, made inMai Chester yesterday, resulted as f °^e7stone Rovers ve^us Workington at Leeds; Hunsl versus Barrow at Wigan Matches to be played on bau urday AprU 2.-Reuter.
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    SINGAPORE RE-ENTER CUP SOCCER
    191 15 SINGAPORE RE-ENTER CUP SOCCER IMIIS years Sultans' Gold Cup soccer competi- will be m two secis. North and South. Si vcn states and settlements entered. The two sections North Section: Kedah. Peng and Perak. South Section: Selangor, •ri Sembilan. Malacca and ■:apore. Singapore Malays have ;;;ude a welcome reappearance the
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    Beatty beat J.E.C. 3-2
    58 15 An own goal by a College defender r..-e Beatty Secondary School a win over Johore English Col- m an inter-school soccer match Riifflts ground yesterday. The other scorers were: Abdul Kadir and Chin Soon for Beatty and Hashim (both goals) for Coflegt a earlier game. Johore
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    ANNUAL MEETING
    28 15 rELUK ANSON Mon— The Lower Perak District Badminton "■nation will hold their annual I meeting at the Dew Re••'lon Club here on Friday at 5.M p.m.
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    Santee second in record run
    104 15 although both were U/ES SANTEE (United States) and Miranda of Argentina, ran the 1,500 metres m three minutes 53.2 seconds at the Pan-American Games yesterday m Mexico City. Miranda was placed first the same time. I his was one of three Games ecorcts broken yesterday.
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    6 WICKET WIN FOR VARSITY
    40 15 WuhL ity of Malaya defeated iriinSr^ 8 by six wickets m a cricket at sepoy Lines on Sunday. r ,^*hy 2-0. A. Dclllkan 3-19). i".i'/. y 26 for (Selvarajah 40. 2,, '4 Ternando 4-20, Perrelra
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    CHALLENGE CUP RIFLE SHOOT
    64 15 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The annual small bore rifle shoot for the Royal Johore Challenge Cup, open to all rifle clubs m Malaya, will be held at Johore Bahru on April 16 and 17 no, I Col. RAJ. Wiggins. of 221 Vehicle Battalion. RAOC, Tebrau and Col
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    UK RUGBY RESULTS
    36 15 Yesterday's U.K. Rugby Union results were: Llanelly 8 Bbbw Vale 8; Newbridge 3 Blaina 6; P< inzance and Newlyn 3 CrOilJ Keys 13 Rupby League: St. Helen.s 23 Rochdale Hornets 3. Reuter. i
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    RAUB CRICKET OFFICIALS
    48 15 RAUB. Mori Raub District 1 Cricket Association officials for 1955 are: President Mr. J R Whimster; 1 iee -presidents MtMl Sidek bin Abdul lAtifT and W P Stevenson; secretary and treasurfr S GnpalaI smgam Corrunittef* Hirban Singh, 'P. Jejarajaslnj?um Harith bin I.iki; Auditor. P KurthiKayan.
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    SEIXAS BEATEN
    52 15 FLORIDA. Ifon TOBf Trabert, yesterday defeated In Davis Cup teammate. Vk SHxa.s to win the Everglades Club terinus tournament by a score of fl-3. 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Trabert and MftXM Kaimd together to win the men's double* finals defeating: Herb Flam and Ulf Schmidt, of Stockholm. 6-2, e-0,
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    SAINTS BEAT ST. JOSEPH'S
    55 15 St. Andrew's School bent St. Joseph's 3-2 In hii inter-school soccer fixture at Wood.svllle yesterday Maurire Khoo <2j and Adams penalty) «rore<J for Bt Andrews and ChenK Pen*' n( both Koala, one oti a penalty for M Joseph's. The second teams of the two schools dreu
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    SAINTS WIN AT CRICKET
    23 15 St Andrew's School maddell CC. by three wicKets at wooasvuie i on Sunday. n «t. L-Strange 3-26 Vasu 2-26'
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    Special boat for heavy Cambridge
    493 15 QXFORD are favourites to win the' inter- Varsity boat race to be rowed j on the River Thames over the usual Putney to Mortlake course of four miles and a quarter next Saturday afternoon oki ,Tvh vu S h Cambridge have come on considerf h
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    Lock icon BUTTON IS DOUBTFUL
    48 15 ¥EN HUTTON, Eng*J land's captain, must be regarded as doubtful for the second Test against New Zealand starting at Auckland on Friday. He is suffering from a heavy cold and looked »ll while watching the M.C.C. against Wellington yesterday. He retired early to bed. Reuter
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    CHAMPIONS SHOULD CONTEST FINAL
    115 15 Free Press Correspondent \|RS. Monica Sheridan, the Malayan champion, is xTI fancied to enter the women's singles final of the Seiangor Club open invitation lawn tennis tournament. Yesterday she won through to the semi-finals by beating Mrs. S. Overton 6-0, 6-0. Mrs Sheridan will now meet
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    AUSSIES 442/8
    23 15 AustraJla were 442 for 8 at lunch on the .second day of their match In Kingston against Jamaica yesterday. Re uter
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    TENNIS MEET AT INDIAN ASSN.
    27 15 are for an Ameri can To U niaihent 'single*, to be held a tne mdian Association courts on 3 .X P^ dOM
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    RESULTS
    137 15 Men's doubles: F. E. Mack and C V. Norrls bt Lt. Gen. Sir Geoffrey Bourne and Brig Brazier Creagh 6— 1 9—7; Fong Ying Hong and J. Choo bt R F. Oreer and O. H. Stevenage I—l. 6—2; I. V. Stemsoa and H. M. dc Souza (.seeded) bt MaJ.
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    Lock icon Speed ace turns bush-pilot
    67 15 BRITAIN'S motor cycle ace Malcom Craven, 39, says he has given up motor cycle competition to become a Canadian "Bush Pilot"- a small-job airman. Craven arrived m New York aboard the liner America yesterday and told newsmen that neither cycling nor flying are dangerous that to
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    GOALS GALORE AS INDIANS FIGHT BACK
    290 16 GOALS GALORE AS INDIANS FIGHT BACK ARGOS af the Stadium Marines 8; Indian Hi \M)IC'KS lullyho. and away we go for goals, mc 1 early-season soccer spirit was m full evidence yesterday at Jalan Besar Stadium. This eleven-goal game was no classic, but tor sheer sporting entertainment^ti^essoine beating^ nunun' penalty
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    Don Cockell in training
    108 16 HEAVYWEIGHT Don Cockell began yesterday an eight, week campaign to lose weight and sharpen up for his world title fight m San Francisco with Rocky Marciano on May 16 He shadow boxed six minutes, sparred for nine, hit the light bag for 18. skipped rope for
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    Cup favourites
    44 16 >TEWCASTLE moved ahead of Sunderland to become clear favourites to win the Football Association Cup when the c'Ulover was made at the Victoria Club last night m London. Newcastle's odds shortened from 2—l at the last callover to 7 4 last night.
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    BIRTHS
    118 16 20 Words $6 < minimum) DICKENS: To Jean and Charles, third son. John Francis, at Kancang Kerbau Hospital, on 21.3.55. FEASEY: At Kerdang Kerbau Hospital, on March 19th. a Sister for Catherine and Diane, Mother and Daughter well. I.AUW: To Rosita. wife of I-»uv Yang Choon. a girl at
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    DEATHS
    156 16 20 Word* 56' (minimum) ENSOR: At Hobart, Tasmania, on 12th March. 1955. Tom Douglas Ensor, m his 67th year. CARTER: Vida, late of Gopeng Estate. Kampoi.fc Kapayang, Perak. beloved wife ol Alan and devoted mother of John, suddenly at Folkestone on 17th March. Much loved and sadly missed. OEI:
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    Tigers go all out
    349 16 Tigers 2; Police L QT ADI I'M fans were still goalfroggy when a thriller by floodlight showed that Tigers are right back m the league hunt. They played fa^t. and they played well. Police must take credit for bringing the be*i from Tigers. They were worthy
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    628 16 S.A.F.A. LEAGUE TABLES Latest positions m the Singapore Amateur Football Asso?iation's league are: H tilt "I" Marine Department inside-left Ahmad Yusofi" scored four soals against Indian R.C. yesterday, but this was one hwtance where goalkeeper Narayanan came out on top. This brilliant save was one of the many thrills of
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    Argonauts win without goalkeeper
    95 16 Argonauts win without goalkeeper A RGONAUTS, minus their goalkeeper, beat Tampenis Rovers 4-1 m their Div. 2A clash yesterday at Balestier Road. It was their third successive league victory this season. Argonauts' goalkeeper Soo Woon was hurt m the 13th minute m a clash with an opposing forward. He had
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    ALL THE SOCCER
    70 16 equalised through Donald Tan Argonauts regained the Initiative itn further through Salim. Dexter Boy and Rahim Omar (penalty Referee: Mr. G. E. Dunuid Argonauts F.C.: Soo Wpon Kee Sen?, Mohamed woor Noordin. Rashid Giman. Ynu Chye: William Tan. Salim A.) dullah. Dexter Boyd. Rahim Omar. Billy Teo.
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