The Singapore Free Press, 25 March 1955

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Fri., Mar. 25, 1955. Price 15 tts
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    Lock icon Foreign Office man defends diplomat tipplers
    224 1 Foreign Office man defends diplomat tipplers A MAN who for a long time was the head of the British Foreign Office administration came out yesterday with a book denying: that diplomats are lazy, stupid, pompous, snobs and addicted to cocktails. Any such apparent traits, Lord Strang declared, are just sly
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    Lock icon 8 FREED – THEN GOVT. ORDERS RE-ARREST
    132 1 8 FREED THEN GOVT. ORDERS RE-ARREST VIGHT men accused of plottins; to seize power by force who had been released on bail by the Lahore High Court yesterday, were rearrestecl last night on the orders of the Pakistan Government. arrests were ordered shortly after the GovernorGeneral, Mr. Ghulam Mohammed flew
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    Lock icon FORMER MALAYAN GETS TOP POST
    43 1 Major Gen. C. Richard Hardy, Royal Marines leader m Normandy and Burma m World War Two and later against terrorists m Malaya, was yesterday appointed their commanding oeneral, with the rank uf Lieutenant General, from next August.— Reuter
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    RUBBER UP
    31 1 The Singapore Rubber Market this morning opened on an uncertain tone with first grade, April shipment, at 88 > 8 cents a lb., three-eighths of a cent above yesterday's close.
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    Lock icon JAUNDICE WAS THE KILLER
    52 1 A United States atomic ex- i Pert said m Washington yesterday that the Japanese fisherman who died after last I ir f g Pacific hydrogen bomb 1 fett died from jaundice, a I liver ailment, and not rrora B «Ssi «*sUnited States doctors to ai- tend
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    STORE NANYANG MEN HOLD VITAL TALKS
    198 1 Mediator at crucial meeting THE Penang mediator m the Nanyan» University crisis Mr Lav Geok Swee, is expected to arrive m the Colony today m time to attend the meeting of the Singapore council as an observer. The meeting scheduled to start at 3
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    Lock icon One army, one commander DIEM'S NO TO REBELS
    266 1 One army, one commander DIEM'S NO TO REBELS mi Roman Catholic Premier of South Vietnam. Mr. Nn Dinh Diem, m a broadcast, told the commanders of me private armies opposing the government that he had not changed nis mind about the country's need for a national army with one commander.
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    Lock icon New Zealand plans a S'pore mission
    153 1 MR. SIDNEY HOLLAND, the New Zealand Prime Minister, said yesterday that the time had come when his country should do some of her own diplomatic work m the South-East Asia area. He had recommended to the cabinet that New Zealand should have diplomatic representation
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    Lock icon THE TEST
    26 1 New Zealand had scored 76 for three wickets at lunch on the opening day of the .second and final Te.st m Auckland today.— Reuter
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    Study period in U.K. part of vote residence
    102 1 Study period in U.K. part of vote residence R Stan Awbery, risked m v the Hou.se of Commons yesterday how far the three years spent by Malayan students m Britain were taken into account a.s residence [n Malaya when calculating the period for continuous residential qualification for both the vote
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    Reds steal rubber
    62 1 ]>UHBKR theft had increased alarmingly throughout the country, the chairman of the Johore Planters Association i told the annual meeting m Johore Bahrw this morning. Although some of the thefts were by the tappers to benefit themselves, he said there was reason to believe that the Communist
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    Mr. Thaurup shows the latest in hats
    167 2 E THHK deep head-hugging E -I- hat was the main theme E of a fashion show pre- E E sented m Singapore yes- E E terday by Mr. Aage E E Thaarup, the world fam- E E ous milliner. E Most Chinese women
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    Hindu influx is worrying says Nehru
    57 2 MR NEHRU, the Prime Minister, told the Indian Parliament yesterday that the influx of Hindus from East Pakistan was steadily increasing and that the government was taking the matter up with Pakistan. He said that deteriorating economic conditions, insecurity and the feeling of uncertainty
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    'CLIENTS BEATEN UP TO GET CONFESSIONS'
    249 2 TWO lawyers alleged m a Singapore court yesterday that police assaulted their clients to get confessions of complicity m an armed robbery case. Mr. C. F. Ess and Mr. Tann Wee Tiong were defending Koh Moh Yong and Teo Meng Seng who, with three
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    ELECTION DIARY
    106 2 The following election meet- lnus are to be held tonight:-^ Progressive: Mr. LJm Choon Mong (Serangoon* 7.30 pm. Jalan PeckM oH Y:o Kang Road. Mr. Foo Few Ting (Tioii Biihrm 6 p.m.. near Railway quarters. Kampong Bahru Road Mr. K. N. S. Hamid (Pasir PanJftAg) 7 p.m., Buk.it
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    Lock icon RATIFY PACT OR I QUIT-FAURE
    223 2 France not being forced by Brita in, U. S. THE French Prime Minister, Mr. Edgar Faure, threatened last night to resign if the Senate refused to ratify German rearmament. Mr. Faure hastily entered the historic debate on the Paris pacts to warn the House it
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    Lock icon RECORD CATCH
    25 2 The three-fleet Japanese Antartic whaling expedition set a past-war record with a catch of 2,771 whales during the whaling season Just ended. U.P.
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    Attacked while helping at centre
    180 2 Attacked while helping at centre A FLOOD relief worker m the i\ Potong Pasir centre had his right arm broken when .seven men rushed at him while he was helping an old woman to get her share of relief, a Singapore court was told yesterday, j Yee Chong, 37, was
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    RUSSIA SEEKS GUARANTEE FROM AUSTRIA
    55 2 RUSSIA SEEKS GUARANTEE FROM AUSTRIA RUSSIA yesterday, invited the Austrian Chancellor, Mr Julius Rabb to visit Moscow m the near future to discuss an Austrian state treaty. The new Soviet declarator said Russia was prepared to discuss the form of a statemon m which Austria could give guarantees that it
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    Lock icon Riots as 900,000 children strike
    195 3 about 900,00u children who attend Roman catholic schools m Bdgium went on strike yesterday. They were kept at home by their parents m prote.st against reduced Government subsidies to parochial schools. Meanwhile, the seething church schools question exploded into riots and arrests throughout the country
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    JELKE: SURPRISE MOVE BY KEY WITNESS
    427 3 JELKE: SURPRISE MOVE BY KEY WITNESS \f INK-CLAD Erica Steel testified yesterday that Mickey Jelke boasted to her that 1?1 Pat Ward was a good worker. Blonde, 34-year-old Miss Steel said Jelke told her Miss Ward was good for US$5OO to US$l,OOO. He urged Miss Steel to "keep her busy"
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    Lock icon In Stockholm
    20 3 The Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Mr. Gromyko, arrived m Stockholm by air from Lon- don last night.- Reuter
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    Lock icon Lovers elope, take refuge with Arabs
    357 3 DESERT HOLDS THEIR SECRET THK desert sands and hidden valleys of Syria hold the secret of two young lovers who defied an angry father and eloped to the nomadic life of the Bedouins In a true-life story as melodramatic as any Hollywood ever conceived
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    Lock icon MOVE TO KEEP U.S. SMELTER WORKING
    63 3 A bill proposing the continued operation of the United States Government .s Tex;us City 'Texas > tin smelter for one year past its scheduled B£ing date of June 30. 1955 has been introduced m the House of Representatives. The Bill is to allow time
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    Lock icon INDIA'S PLEDGE
    38 3 Ex-King Norodom Sihanouk who arrived home m Pnom Penh yesterday from his visit to India, said that m addition j to economic aid, India had* promised Cambodia to "help to preserve our independence and uitc^rity."— Reuter
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    Lock icon CHINA MAY HAVE STOLEN GOLD
    70 3 IX boxes of sold bullion S which vantohed from n SedStMajJon airport. -iw mSni't China, police saul In and tho robocry was me Dig R est gold theft In Canada a history. Police said thrv learned thai the gold was flown from Malton aboard a
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    MILLION AGED IN U.K. LIVE ALONE
    270 3 MILLION AGED IN U.K. LIVE ALONE 4 Big pool of luiinaii misery 9 Y EARLY a million elderly a1 people were today living alone m Britain, id Lord Beveridge, Liberal, In the House of Lords yesterday. He was opening a debate on the social and human problems of old age
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. Mar. 25. 1955. Opinion They accuse but...
    301 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. Mar. 25. 1955. Opinion They accuse but rpHERE are nine more days to Polling Day i for the new Singapore Legislative Assc mb 1 y. and the air is full of reports, rumours and charges of election scandals. There are al- legations of bribes, vie-
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    WHO is this man—Bulganin ?
    470 4  - WHO is this man Bulganin JOHN ATKINSON a portrail by A HANDSOME, well- groomed man with a gingery beard, his trim little wife by his side, called at London County Hall and asked to see Mr. Herbert Morrison. The visitors were announced as Mr. and Mrs. Nikolai Bulganin, the mayor
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    The Napoleon who waits in Moscow
    456 4  - The Napoleon who waits in Moscow PETER KIRK A NEW-OLD LIGHT ON THE WORLD'S ENIGMA -THE PIIWfAW <sCF NF by There is a pattern In trolutkmi «h1 c h should not be over-look-ed. Consider this: A popular rising Uikt 8 pla an autocn tic government A liberal leach r emerges,
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    SEMBAWANG becomes a union test doll
    451 5 'rllE choice of a legislator for Bembawang will largely depend on the pull and power of the 10,000-strong Singapore Naval Base Labour Union. More than one-third of the 10.30 C voters m the division live inside the Base. Of these about 2,500 are union
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    THE RIVAL CANDIDATED
    62 5 MR. Lee Kirn Kee (Progressive) born, educated m Singapore; lives m division; chairman of Srnihawanj; rural district committee. Runs a business m Nee Soon Milage. E E INCHE Ahmad Ibrahim (Naval Base Labour I'nion E aged JX, born, educated m Penang; lived m Singa- E poor ten
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    Returned from exile charge
    63 5 Poo Jons Link. 42, alias Fee Si L<»n;; alias Foo Jan Ting ol Pctalinp; Java was ystordiiv remanded alter being charg< i m Kuala Lumpur with returnIns to Malaya alter having been banished. It was alleged that Poo had been banished from Blngapor for life but
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    TWO POPULAR MEN FIGHT FOR S'PORE'S 'VEGETABLE BASKET'
    393 5 rrHE political fight for Bukit Panjang is fast developing into a popularity contest. Two candidates— a Progressive and a Labour Front man—are m the running. Both claim that the people of Bukit Panjang have urged them to contest the elections And both
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    WELFARE IS THEIR AIM
    85 5 GOII TOXCi LIANG, 61, < Progressive, (retired); born Singapore, educated Raffles Institution; Employed 32 years with Overseas Assurance Corpn. Member Rural Board, during occupation secretly fed officers and men Ist Hyderabad Regiment imprisoned at Bukit Panjang. IM WKE TOIL 4t;, LaL bour Front; Uearher); born Singapore;
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    Three new men in the council
    47 5 Tbr Ffdrrati<»n OoTemment xday announced the »p--pomtment ol three new un :ial memben ol wj t-'O eral Leglitotlve Council. ThfV arr* D^ t() K^y 11 U Nik HttMeln bin Nik Zainal. Incheßaba bin Ludt-k and Jnche Muhamed Kliir bin JoI hart.
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    The Free Press election reporters visit SEMBAWANG and BUKIT PANJANG
    30 5 The Free Press election reporters visit SEMBA WANG and BUKIT PANJANG sombly a first-hand knowledge of the division's problems and, with the .support of other Progressive members, tackle them .successfully.
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    SUCH QUEER MUSIC FOR A FUN FAIR
    226 5 Mlc by R Miii. Grie^' rind J >vor;ik through the Happy World Bt idium In Blngapore terday evening fot more than two hours while §taU-holden \v« preparing for the Dl| lit's business. They must have btjgg surprised to hear music (juite different from
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      503 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phii Davis STAR h^3pK=as| |s«J.&SiH3s| 'iS^gfd I ggrag I HOW STRANGE' MANDRAKE V. WIT T uat I WMV THAT 9 AND HER TO LOVE M£. CAME BACK. L N U" of order as well as Urn HADN'T THOUGHT OF ALEENA f I^wXSR TH AT?^ y^ANPWAN
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  • Round the World Marke Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      192 7 LONDON Mar "4 Previous Today Rim No. 1 RSS ci.f. European 25^ buyers L. pr po.U April 25% sellers HE Bl BBKR No. 1 BSS eLf European 25', buyers iww s*as g*3~ 26 4 sellers 26 s<»iipr« IM'BBER No. 1 ESS Settlement 25% buyers 25% buyers House
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      New York prices
      108 7 NEW YORK Mar. 24. Previous Today IN Straits spot and nearby 91.50 nom. 9125 norn JIN 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 90.45 bid 90 10 bid 91.00 asked 9LIO
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      U.S. PEPPER
      39 7 Spot Malabar quoted at 42 Mr 41. Lampong March shipment tott tenU per pound. Afloats 41 v to cost and freight New York. 42 and March and April shipment Above price quoted m U.S. cents per Ib.
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      26 7 NEW YORK Mar. 24. Prerioos Today 31 Industrials 410.87 414 49 II Domestic Bonds 99.96 99.97 ol Stocks Composite Average ***** 154' 23
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      116 7 Mar. 21. Previous Today I OPRA Philippines ci.f. UK/North luropean delivered weight per long ton March April $182 sellers $181 sellers (OPRA Philippines Lob. Manila delivered weight, per long ton unquoted unquoted OPRA Straits cXf. UK/ North European delivered weight per long ton March April £67
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    THE GOHS MAY GIVE A CONCERT AFTER ALL
    234 7 MR. Donald Moore, director of the Singapore Arts Theatre, said yesterday he would like to help Goh Soc Nee, 20, and her brother, Choo Chlat, 17, the ballet dancer* who want to give a concert In Singapore. Mr. Moore said he would
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    FAMILY PAYMENTS TO CHINA WILL BE SPEEDED UP NOW
    337 7 PHINESE m Singapore who send remittances to relatives m China can now expect their mony to be delivered much quicker than before. Foreign exchange rules on the payment of family remittances have been modified m Hong Kong to enable authorised banks
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    Melbourne gets ready for Asians
    114 7 THROUGH the Melbourne office of its News and Information Bureau, thr* Australian Government If OTgAlllftllf private accommodation for scores of Asian students arriving m Australia. Behind the Government's appeal lies the conviction that knowing Australian family life is nlmo.st M important to Asian itudent'j education
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    New clubhouse to cost $40,000
    31 7 The Selangor Pakistanis Association plans to build a $40,000 clubhouse m Princes Road, Kuala Lumpur. Mr. S. M. Shali na.s been reelected president of the association.
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    He believes it's a check for the Reds
    170 7 THE Pakistan High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand, Mr. Habibur Rahman said m Singapore that the recent SEATO conference m Bangkok would check Communist infiltration m South and South-east Asia. Mr. Rahman, who took part m the conference, told the Free
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    13½ IN. CAN BE TOO TALL FOR A TOY
    279 8 Poodle turned out to be a miniature CM IV WNi; SNOW WHITE grew to be 13Jins. lall. And lhat is too tall— fora TOY poodle. What Sally Anne m fact became was a MIMATI T RE poodle. ißl lllll \nd that
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    BUT WHEN IS A FLAT FURNISHED?
    130 8 BUT WHEN IS A FLAT FURNISHED? Judge answers I the question FURNITURE m I fur- j nished flat should j roughly equal m value a year's rent, ruled Judge Clothier a t Lambeth Z (London) County Court, j He gave judgment for j a tenant who claimed the protection of
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    PRINCESS AND THE FIREMAN
    96 8 CHARLIE STRONG, fireman at the Lyric Theatre. Hammersmith/ was standing m the dark, deserted alley beside the theatre when Princess Margaret, mink coat over evening gown, stepped through a side door. She paused, lost for a moment separated from her theatre companions. Charlie mumbled as clearly
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    Killed trying to catch his dog
    55 8 Lorry driver Joe Harbour and his terrier Rover were mmm parable. They always travelled together m the driver's cabin of Joe's lorry. When Rover jumped out on the Barnet By-pass near Hatfield, Herts, Joe of, Amies-street, Battercea got out to grab him and was
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    WEATHER ISLAND
    29 8 International weather experts are considering a $2,125,000 scheme to build an artificial island near the Dogger Bank m the North Sea as a site for gathering data.
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    60 8 photo. LI KK UlCLm, 13 walks on his hands the 80 yards from his home in Noble Street, Sunderland, to the school 80 yards away, the object of admiration of his school mates. And for 1 uke this was a special occasion. Until a little while ago he had been
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    New Vanguard this year
    34 8 A new version of their Vanguard saloon car will be introduced later this year by the Standard Motor Co.. Mr. Edward Grinham. deputy managing director of the Coventry firm, announces.
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    ROOKS CAUSE CUTS
    22 8 Nesting rooks are blamed for electricity blackouts at Framlingham, Suffolk. They drop sticks across overhead cables, causing short circuits.
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    The good earth
    22 8 Communist Bulgaria is offering cars, lorries, bicycles and radia sets to farmers who growth? biggest crops, says Sofia radio.
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    BISHOP IS ROBBER
    32 8 Thieves broke into the homo of the Bishop of Wakefield. Dr. Roger P. Wilson and took a portable radio, overcoat, watch. clock, fountain pen and about £12 m cash.
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    GOING WEST
    10 8 Britain's Philharmonla Orchestra will visit America and Canada.
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    SCHOOL'S
    34 8 SCHOOL 'S THE repertory company was only half-way through its performance* of Andre Obeys "Noah." But children m the school matinee audience stood up and pointed at the clock. It's lour o'clock."' they said.
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    St. Leger day factory check
    66 8 Employers m the North Of England and the Midlands arc to make a special check oil attendant »s at their works on September 7 to see whether a mid-week St. Leger .affects i production. This was stated after the Minister of Fuel, Mr. Geoffrey t
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    Pay goes up
    29 8 One million British building workers have been given wage increases costing the industry £.20,000,000 a year and adding £20 to the co&t of a threebedroomed house.
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    Miss Juliet's big fortune
    71 8 MISS Julift Emily Reckitt. who died at 84, a member of the family behind th: £18.000,000 Reckitt Colman combine, left .£367,526. Most of it goes to charity, it was revealed In her will. That wat how most members of the famous "Blue" firm left their money
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    Lock icon A church out of rubble
    104 8 s Helped by his parishioners at Biggin Hill. Kent, the «er. Vivian Symons is demolishing bomb-damaged All Sa Church m Peckham, London, derelict since 1940 He is wings E the materials to build a neic church. St. Marks, to the design^ of Sir Giles Gilbert
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    OVER' SO CHILDREN AT MATINEE LEAVE
    163 8 ("School's ever. We're going home." And they walked out under the eyes of flabbergasted theatre officials. It happened In Birmingham. where Wednesday rep" visits are organised for children from 40 grammar schools. The scheme la sponsored by the Foyle Trust. The theatre charges 55
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    Boy's eye saved by operation
    51 8 An operation on 11-year-old Xenophon TourUdes, a Greek boy who was flown from Athens to Oxford, England, m an attempt to save his sight, has been "completely successful." The boy is m the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He was admitted with a tumour over the optic
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    Estate for trust
    38 8 The Harewood* BfUte at Outwood Surrey some acres with eight farms, small holdings, cottages. 162 of woodland, and virws of the North Downs has given to the National Trusi by Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Lloyd.
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    The menace
    39 8 Twelve years was the tence imposed at the Bailey on Arthur Jamta Burgon, aged 41, who admitted offences against several children including his twj sons and adopted daught Mr. Justice PUcher called rum "a menace to society/
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    Call from U.S. stops 300-guest wedding
    206 9 Call from U.S. stops 300-guest wedding 4 THREE-MINUTE telephone /I call from California to Southport, Lancashire, told brunette Sybil Lister that her wedding to a wealthy American is off. Don Fisher he is 24 met Sybil four years ago, when he was with the American Air Force at Burtonwood. Why
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    CHURCHILL OFFERS LUNCH OF CHICKEN TO HIS LION
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    TELEVISION ARTIST IS LOCKED OUT...
    201 9 OEARDED Joseph McCulloch, a pub artist who en--13 deared himself to millions of viewers en "What's My Line?" last year, lay down to sleep m a stone cornrior outside his Chelsea studio. His own door had been padlocked against him. Earlier m the day two
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    CLEVER GIRL HOPED TO BE BEAUTIFUL
    94 9 CLEVER GIRL HOPED TO BE BEAUTIFUL A PRETTY 17 year old grammar school cirl. Janet Fowler is academy brilliant. Rotherham Istratea were told. She been top girl m some Mibjects. But she thought she did net look as smart as other girls. "She has gone haywire n« to the intensity
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    Cat will pay its own fare
    46 9 pIREE cats, complete uith luggage, sailed •n the Port Sydney from tilbury for Tasmania. R y the time they arrive an a Siamese, will have i birth to kittens ™«h. when sold for i fare° <$850) wUI pay thC ""'■iiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiioiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiii*
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    ... And a musician is moved on again
    239 9 And a musician is moved on again ALL told. Douula.s Williams has played hi.s double bass m four flats. And each time he lost the key, not to tne music but to the premises. For fellow tenants did not listen to his booming low notes with the same appreciation a.s
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    Worst season for whale catching since war
    263 9 ObPURTR reaching London from the Antarctic reveal that whales are dis appointing the whale hunters. Despite the introduction of electric harpoon? faster whale catchers, helicopters and every scientific device, the whaling sea son now ending is likely to prove the worst since the
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    Card games make sums much easier
    125 9 A PACK of yellow and green cards sent to Buckingham Palace by a village schoolmistress is helping Prince Charles and Princess Anne to learn their sums. The game, "Take a Card," Is just one of many invented by Miss Mary Tumor, head of Eight
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    Lock icon A SPECIAL OCCASION
    76 9 TIIK Prime Minister. Sir Winston Churchill, recently paid a visit to the London Zo<> to see his lion. Rota, which has be*n ill. The lion stretches out his foot to take the chicken prof erred by Sir Winston. The Premier, who is an honorary fellow of the
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    HOW THE RECTOR LOST HIS STUD
    222 9 HOW THE RECTOR LOST HIS STUD IT took four burly men to throw the rector out of the religious meeting m ln.s own parish Wot the 80-year-old rector of t i. i,' i ;jk }<> John Huggins, i.s Gft. taJl and an <x captain t of the Orenadl< r Guards.
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    A last word on Basic English—at $ 1,050,000
    102 10 A last word on Basic English at 1,050,000 MR. CHARLES OGDEN'S 850-word system of Basic English has cost the taxpayers of Britain $1,050,000. This was how the money came to be paid out. In 1947 the Socialist Government bought the copyright of the system for $230 a word: and By
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    16 10 "Vera thinks everybody with a suitcase is a foreign agent bringing an H-bomb into the country:
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    THE WOMEN REVOLT
    812 10 ...and their story is banned by America, mlllll.lMH l MIIIIMI.UMI.MMI 2,000 years after it was written GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON'S BOOK REVIEW Lysistrata of Aristophanes. English version by Dudley Fitts. Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d. 132 pages. IT has taken the Post-master-General of the United States 2366 years
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    50 years old but it's still modern
    99 10 50 years old but it's still modern 11/ HAT novel, written during TT the lifetime of the great Russian author Leo Tolstoy. could you still call modern and undated? There is such a book It was written by a woman who died m Paris m 1951. Any answers? It is
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    Monty is writing his war memoirs
    345 10 reports SAM WHITE SAID Field Marshal Montgomery last week: "The biggest tragedy that could happen m Europe would be for General Gruenther (the U.S. General who is Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces m Europe) to be removed." What lies behind this characteristic Montgomery
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    Those steak-loving LIONS get on the warpath again!
    522 11 Those steak-loving LIONS get on the warpath again! IN SUNBAKED KENYA IT'S OPERATION PINCUSHION' isl 'PHERE'S a new "hot A war" on m Kenya tween infuriated Afri- stockmen and steakloving lions. In the vast semi-desert tching from the Tana River to the Ethiopian border lions have a food shortthe Btasona]
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    by DUDLEY HAWKINS
    84 11 In the lush rainy season n the grass is ripe and Africans and lions live terms of peaceful co-exist-Oame and cattle fatten all stomachs are full. But now the shade temperature of to 100 degrees has hotted the cold war. and the lions already claimed many -and
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    Lock icon Mountain schools breed BETTER kids
    595 11 Mountain schools breed BETTER kids THEY ARE FAR TOO BUSY AND HAPPY TO GET INTO TROUBLE PSYCHOLOGISTS and sociologists concerned with the problems of oni 1 c delinquency should spend an hour ith Inez Henry, secre- of the Berry Schools, the Blue Ridge footlills, Qear Rome, Georgia. We don't know
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    MAMBO MAMMY
    78 11 MAMBO MAMMY > rpWO small fiirls acrom- 1 pi ni id their tnoviel star mother to an rxpcn > sive replacing salon i*i > Hollywood. They impatiently sat m I the waiting room while she took a lengthy treat ment Finally they peeped fn- to the treatment room. watched fasc
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    Lock icon For happy days ahead
    39 12 picture. For happier days ahead is this plateau m white silk, christened. "Wedding Kells." The hat is covered with tiny jonquils, forming a pir.nai!e at the centre crown, and has a chignon of veiling. Reuter
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    Doris sings Gus Kahn hit as wife and friend
    84 12 Doris sings Gus Kahn hit as wife and friend TWO women are responsible for one oj the most popusong hits of the Ws -and Doris Day is both of them. The song, written by Gus Kahn, was composed at the Instigation of his wife, Grace. and for hl« friend Ruth
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    MAE WEST still knows it all
    579 12  - MAE WEST still knows it all O.H. BRANDON SHE STRIPPED SEX OF ITS SECRECY AND REDUCED IT TO A JOKE Since I belong to a generation which learned the essence of the meaning of Mac West via those bulgingly inflated life-jackets they used to hang around our necks m the
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    FOR YOUR NOTE BOOK
    159 12 WHEN pastel coloured shoes get iret with rain they should be allowed to dry thoroughly before polishing. Stains should be washed lightly ivith soap and water and aUowed to dry before polishing. To preserve tan sports brogues, sponge then regularly before polishing- This keeps them light
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      263 12 CLUES ACROSS 10 Trains a manual worker (.7) Mb *vi f^r 11 Payments of a safe estimate c 4 7 A mere aim .sounds like this for Ir J trume ni with which to ealn miuor lega offences (13). information? (4). 8 Earthy trial finally (11). 13 A fellcltous old
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    Lock icon Bridge Hand
    435 13 rth-South vulnerable jth dealer Match point play) NORTH The bidding: lOuTM *£ST NORTm *ST 1 A Pass 2 0 Pass 2N T Pass 3 N.T. All pass s UEHOW, the most amusing bridpe hands are those m ich a player has been swindled— i of course, you aren't
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    They're still showing Garbo's 'Camille' on Moscow's TV sets
    164 13 They're still showing Garbo's 'Camille' on Moscow's TV sets THE Soviet Union's television industry gets almost a spanking a day m the press. only two plants manufacture television sets. Tens oi SoUnds of people an- the waiting U»»l to buy re factory dlrccUMrship u> bam shaken up or reprimanded. The
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    HITLER makes a comeback— on FILM
    800 13 HITLER makes a comeback— on FILM ERICA WAHA tells of a new kind I lIIMMMI lIIIIIIIIIMII f§^ of 'documentary 9 aimed against all forms of dictatorship \DOLF HITLER and his dying Third Reich are being resurrected m Vienna m a one-million-dollar film aimed against all forms o! dictatorship. The film.
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      114 13 TAHGET r j ion many Tr C word- ot V. C four letters I or more can you m ik c hl*Mc from the a C letters m the s«iii;i r e on the left In C I making each v» I mini the 1 I letters m cull ot
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    Lock icon GYMNASTS IN ACTION
    46 14 WOMEN members of the Swedish gymnastic team which recently toured the United States. They are here taking part m mass calisthenics during a performance at Pennsylvania State College. RIGHT: A group of Swede* go through their gymnastic routine on the high-box. U.S.I.S. picture.
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    S'PORE SCHOOLS TEAM TO PLAY CHINESE
    105 14 Singapore Combined Schools will play a fiiendly soccer match against Chinese Athletic at Rattles Institution ground tomorrow m preparation for their Rame against Johore Combined Schools at Jalan Besar fc:adium on Apr. 3. The players for Saturday's game v,ill be chosen from: Josbir Singh
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    Lock icon Filipinos may play here
    95 14 A FOUR-MAN Philippine Davis Cup team left Manila yesterday for Rangoon for its Davis Cup matches with Burma from March 28 to 30. The two teams tangle m the opening ties of the Asian zone elimination contests. Whichever team wins and the Filipino squad is favoured
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    Lock icon The man who'll miss the Cup UNLUCKIEST IN SOCCER
    536 14 The man who'll miss the Cup UNLUCKIEST IN SOCCER By JOHN FARROW YOHNNY HART, Manchester City's goal-scori,, J inside forward, is Britain's unliukiest footballe Hart broke his left leu: just above the ankh- fa the match against Huddersfield last Saturday That means he will miss Manchester's Cup semi-final rame against
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    Barrel jumping ice record
    95 14 THE leaping Leßels from Lake Placid have set individual world records for Leo Leßel, clearing 15 barrens lUi i 7 inches, set a men's record at the fifth annual world barreljumping championship at Grossinger. His sister, Aldrina, retained her championship and bettered her previous world record
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    Weights for amateur race
    115 14 ■FOURTEEN horses have been handicapped for the deleted > racehorses race over 7f. to be run i at the Penang Turf Club's amateur meeting tomorrow. Ambassador, winner of the one mile Deletion Derby at the Kedati Gymkhana last Sunday, has beei i allotted topweight of 13
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    Lock icon Long-distance swimmer braves crocs to set record
    237 14 Long-distance swimmer braves crocs to set record TIRED of all the better known swimming events like crossing the English Channel. the Straits of Gibraltar or the Dardanelles. Raymond Versel'es a French legionnaire, now jn leave m Africa, decided on a new trick: Crossing the Stanley Pool, the lake-like expanse of
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    J.E.C. TRIUMPH
    21 14 Johore English College beat Riiffles Institution 2-0 at soccer at Johore Bahru yesterday. Hashim and Wahab were the scorers.
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    JOE DI MAGGIO ON ITALY TOUR
    71 14 JOE Di BbffflO, former New York Yankee baseball star, hope* to head a squad of 85 Payers, all of Italian descent. on a tour of Italy next Autumn. A spokesman for the players said the H«*d would leave after the -World Series" playoff m
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    No 'sham' in this league
    195 14 No 'sham' in this league Msrsasrs dinner m Liverpoo to cr b au the diamond Jubilee tbto son of the I Zingar FWUfcu League. One ot th. P wnee organisations of amateur Soc cer m Lancashire. 7infnr i The spirit ot H* 1 League has permeated Mersey side Soccer foi
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    THRUSTFUL CHANGI NET THE ONLY GOAL
    245 15 ugfhsldkkghdskskgf kfjdlsffg sosfbfhfws R.A.O.C 0; R.A.F. Changi 1. I \SE goal decided yesterday's Div. 1 Services League U match at Friendly Hill, Alexandra. Changi's hrustful forwards scored it m the 20th minute. The Royal Army Ordnance Corps defence played firmly ■h not always finding
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    R.A.P.C. WIN WITH THE ONLY COAL
    64 15 ROYAL Army Pay Corps beat R.A.F. Seletar •henians I—o m their Div. league match yesterday at \<e Soon. The only goal of match came m the first alf when a pass to the wing Humphries take the ball down, change direction nd score with
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    SUKARAMAI, SCSA WIN IN DIV. 3B
    59 15 Sukaramai defeated Katong S.C. m a SAFA Div. 3B match at tl Union ground yesterday. lleh Karim and Dollah Said •red for the winners. In another Div. 3B match, at > MA ground, Singapore Civil Ser- Assn. beat Netaji M.S.C. 6-1. ir (3), Bakar
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    ROVERS DRAW
    25 15 vpore Harbour Board Police with Rovers S.C. 1-1 m I friendly at Keppel Road yesIsmail scored for Police and Boon Leong for Rovers
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    MRNVR SCORE HIGHEST YET
    41 15 MALAYAN Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve scored the biggest victory of the league so far this season by beatmg R.A.F. Seletar Spartans 6—o at Seletar. Wahab Abu and Rahim Omar scored the goals m this Div. 2 clash.
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    OLSON VOTED
    37 15 Carl (Bobo» Olson, world's middleweight boxing champion, is San Franctoco's '^outstanding sportsman of 1954. Olson, who meets Joey Maxim m a 10-round bout m April, was presented a plaque by the junior chamber of commerce
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    TENCAH FINISH WEAK
    167 15 K.E.M.E 0. Tengah 1; DOYAL Air Force 1V Tengah Handed i R.E.M.E. their second Div. 1 league defeat m j two outings yesterday at Ayer Rajah Road. Tengah's forwards were more forceful. The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, with Greaves back at, centre-half, were better yesterday than
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    Junior tennis final today
    156 15 KWIK Sam Leong will meet Raymond Lee m the final of the YMCA junior singles championship today. Kwik Sam Leong beat his brother Kwik Sam Chuan 6-3. 6-3. and Raymond Lee beat Chin Kwang Tong with the same score m the semifinals yesterday. The results of
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    FIRST WIN
    32 15 SINGAPORE Cricket Club scored their first win In three outings when they defeated Young Men'.s Muslim Assn. 4-0 m a SAFA Div. 2A match on the padan- yester- j day.
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    ARMY v. R.A.F.
    42 15 "<>yal Air Force beat the Army 3-2 m th r s a h Xl ,en nat Brighton. The RAF. eoalkeeper h in l ««eptin C a dangerous pass m front of goal foil a attempt by the Army centre-forward.
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    HOO CHYE ARRIVES FOR TRIALS
    111 15 HOO CHYE ARRIVES FOR TRIALS PENANCS No. 1 itafl". I<r H(k> Chye arrived m Slngar ttot fourth ii.rill Pi ..ni v for her iecond defend v "on'Tre^nt form. H In! I i :<■ he i'' 1 Hoo C! rml In l f J4B an (or thn irtthoul He l a
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    Lock icon The ret wasn't popular but he was RIGHT
    563 15 The ret wasn't popular but he was RIGHT Free Press Boxing Reporter IJI I) was leading on points, Green was knocking him into a coma, and the referee stepped m and stopped the bout as was his duty. That's all there is to the controversy that split spectators into two
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      92 15 RESULTS My weight: LAC Gras.se (8] ?ko LAC Knight <iJ> round 2. Bantamweight: Cpl Austin 3) ko I.AC Rflgtn <Mi round 1. Featherweight: LAC Johnson iH) tko Cpl. Rosn (S> round 2. lightweight: SAC Kelly (H; bt. SAC Williams (8) light- welterweight: SAC Austin 'Mi Iko SAC Monaghnn ill*. Welterweight:
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    CHOONG AND WONG FACE STIFF OPPOSITION
    512 16 All-England tournament THE two Malayan favourites Eddie Choong and Wong Peng: Soon, will both be playing m men's singles semi-final matches today m the All-England badminton championships. Eddie Choong is to meet Finn Kobbero of Denmark and Wong Peng Soon faces Bertil Glans of
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    Lock icon Malayans do well in doubles
    108 16 MEN DOUBLES First Round: L. T. Lee and B. S saw (Malays) bt P. Q Atoorn and A J Kemp ißngland) 15-7. 15-8. G. c. K. Hashman and R. J Corkwood (Sngland) bt. E S Choong and H. H. Heali Mala\a) 15-8. 10-15. 15-0. E
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    BIRTHS
    59 16 20 Words $b (minimum) WHITBY: To Elizabeth and Ralph, on 20th March, at Alor Star Hospital, a son, Mark Francis. HORUP: To Margaret (.nee Scott) and Ib. a son. David Scott, on 22nd March at Prnang Maternity Hospital, both well. BOHMAN: To Mat and Fay on 23-3-55 at Greenhill
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    ENGAGEMENT
    49 16 20 Words $6 (minimum) CHEAH KHOO. The engagement v \a announced on 23rd March, 1955. between Dr. Cheah Seng Kee. 800 of the late Mr. Mrs. Cheah Hee Nyan of Penang, and Miss Khoo Ean Suan youngest daughter Mr. and Mrs. Khoo Heng Pho of Penang and Singapore.
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    MARRIAGE
    55 16 20 Worda $6 (minimum} THE MARRIAGE of Siew Nim C'nee. nephew ol Mr. and Mrs. Siew Khai Wye and Lim Cheng Yoke. 4th daughier of Mrs. Lim Kak and the late Mr. Lim Kak will take place at the Chinwoo Auditorium, X.L.. on Sunday 27.3.55. at 11 a.m. All
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    DEATHS
    99 16 20 Words Jifii (minimum) WONG: Wong Tet Fong Passed Away Peacefully, Leaving Behind His Beloved Wife. 5 children. Mother And 7 Sisters To Mourn His Loss. Cortege Leaves 576. Geylang Rd. At 5 p.m. On March 25th. For Bidadari Cemetery. JOSEPH CHUA AH TEE. 467, Clemenceau Avenue, pa-s.sed away
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    42 16 picture. Amicables fullback Weng Kee heads away a goalmouth centre as goalkeeper Shu Hung stands in support. Kota Raja outside-left Che' Pa is on the right. Amicables won this S.A.F.A. Div. 1 league tie 4-0 yesterday at Jalan Besar Stadium. Free Press
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    G. NATIONAL CALLOVER
    198 16 riOOSANDER, a Dig public \J fancy at ten to one m the betting, has foot trouble and is a doubtful runner m the four and a half miles Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree tomorrow. THHERE were some spectacular falls m the prices of leading candidates for tomorrow's
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    LATEST
    92 16 MIXED DOUBLES Quarter Finals: E. L c i Malaya and Miss J. R White England! bt A. D. Jordan and Mrs. I. E. Nichols (England) 15-2, 15-5 H Heah (Milaya) and Miss M. Varner United States* bt. B. Glans -den i and Mrs. A. Homer (Scotland) 15-5. 15-5. J
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    Scotland soccer XI to meet England
    108 16 Scotland soccer XI to meet England TEN of the team beaten 4 o by Hungary m g. last December have been tamed m the Scottish team to meet Englan Wembley on April 2. The only change is lan McMillan of Airdrieoniai. side-left m place of v. haugh (Hearts). The match
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    Lock icon KO BY SULLIVAN
    71 16 JOHNNY SULLIVAN, British and Empire middleweight champion, knocked out Andre 1 De Kersgieter of Belgium m the 35th second of the third round m a scheduled eight-round bout last night. Sullivan rocked the Belgian with a right hook to the chin and followed up with a left
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