The Singapore Free Press, 24 April 1956

Microfilm: NL2445
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    Masthead
    20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya u 11. .0. Singapore, Tuesday, April 24. 1956. Price 15 Cts
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    Our defences: Boyd sounds warning
    60 1 JHE British Colonial Secretary, Mr. j E told the Singapore all=&p ae'ejffation in London yesterday: r.xiernal defence and internal security are inevitably intertwined and those res- warning] ponsible for external defence cannot be dissociated from an active interest in internal security or called on only
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    Colony is aware of danger but...
    323 1 Colony is aware of danger but... Leaders are divided pAKTY leaders in Singapore today agreed with the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd\s observation at the Merdeka conference in London yesterday that Singapore should not become an outpost of Communist China. They were, however, divided on his observation that internal security
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    Lock icon 'Heard the latest..
    79 1 'Heard the latest.. And Sophia Loren said to me— but I didn't believe md I told her so And so it goes on in «1P comer as Italian film producer An&elo Rizzoli flown on his knees to hear the latest gossip m lovely Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida. Part from
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    THE NEXT MEETING
    84 1 rpiiK Singapore aii- 1 party Mcrdeka mission, following a two-hour plenary meet:- Ing in London with British v f ov c rnment yesterday agreed to hold a further meeting I tomorrow. I The Colonial Secre- tary, Mr. Lennox-Boyd, recalled events which led ti> the present con- ference.
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    Rubber price
    28 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened quietly this morning with first grade, May shipment at 91 x cents a lb., half a cent below yesterday's closing price.
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    Disarm? More trade first
    70 1 It was hinted in Moscow yesterday that East-West agreement on disarmament may depend on Britain's willingness to expand trade with Russia. The hint was contained in a three-column article published in Prayda devoted to an explanation of the Soviet position on the Middle East problem and
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    Lock icon 2-HOUR ATTACK
    33 1 More than 30 French planes machine-sunned two big rebel bands for two hours on Monday in an area of western Algeria, near the Moroccan frontier, it was reported yesterday. A. P.
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    'Saucers' again
    24 1 A film entitled "Unidentified Flying Objects," which purports to show "flying saucers" in action, was given its first showing in Hollywood yesterday.
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    Lock icon KHRUSHCHEV AND MPs CLASH
    280 1 li' 1 Nikita Khrushchev Li sl it refused Bri :l milr leaden 1 de- n:M hf> ;i(t l aid '>< monuts in prisons 1 ""'m.nist ruled states. 1(1 Soviet Communist C s ef emphatically «"fh Galtskell, Labour U '\^r and other i chieff, at a dinner
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    39 2 I hcsr scouts not only got down to their task, but on top of it also. Alex that's him taking a bird's eye view of car (loaning— Rives a helping hand to colleague, R| Voou Fong. S«e »tory abuv«.
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    They searched a city for WORK
    602 2  -  Colin Leicester Pint-sized Singapore troopers with big hearts in a de y™» By SOMK people in Singapore have Ktearti <»f %<&&. Many others have extremely tijjht fists. When Job w< i k opened terday. the legion ol Singapore bcou! who icoured th< liland In
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    Flowers by radio
    134 2 MADAM Theresa Leong. manager of an Orchard Road flower shop, says more and more Asians in Singapore are beginning to make use °f the service offered by Interflora. [nterflora is the code name for the Florists" Telegraph Delivery Association which has branches in nearly all the leading
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    Kalife slain
    21 2 The Kalife of Boulhaut was shot and killed by a group of about 30 people at Rabat in Morocro.
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    Teachers are angry about unnecessary notes
    237 2 Teachers are angry about unnecessary notes Are inspectors abusing their powers? SINGAPORE English school teachers feel that some inspectors of schools are abusing their power in demanding that trained teachers write detailed notes for each lesson. Mr. I. D. Hope, editor of the Teachers Forum, told the Free Press that
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      Don't wear red: Order
      95 2 GARRISON headquarters at Quemoy has issued orders forbidding anvoneon the offshore island, or visitors from Formosa, from wearing plain white or bright red clothes. Such clothes, the command said, could be observ ed by Red artillery ano enemy air force pilots. Gustavo Zontnu rushed into a
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      Film protest
      61 2 The British Foreign today reported the film "A Town Like A c had been withdrawn irj the Cannes ftjten Film Festival aftei cial Japanese prate The Japanese A*n< Minister. Mr. Ichiro a said in Paris yest< ow n| was hopeful that n talks he was to J» th
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    Lock icon 2,800 SINGAPORE FAMILIES WILL HAVE TO MOVE
    262 3 2,800 SINGAPORE FAMILIES WILL HAVE TO MOVE JLJ hmSSfcF&& public server T iUl S t> mt>rt stho< s ''"M-itak, w M«i £g»S M-K&nl^-of resettlement could be undertaken by the SIT the Government and the 'city Council. Calling for clearance of shack areas, the report pointed out that there were several
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    Lock icon 433,000 saw fair
    28 3 The third Japan International Trade Fair at Osaka concluded its 15-day run after attracting 433,581 visitors including 3,269 prospective buyers frtrni fif foreign countries. A.P.
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    Lock icon REDS LIKE BIG TOILETS
    102 3 Russia's leading aircraft designer said yesterday that Britain's largest and most modern airliner is M a good machine but the toilets are not large enough for Russians." Lt. Gen. A. N. Tupolev made this comment i n London to Sir Miles Thomas Chairman of British Overseas
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    Lock icon 'IS BOSE ALIVE' PROBE ON
    139 3 'IS BOSE ALIVE' PROBE ON INDIAN Premier Nehru has ordered an investigation into the 1945 death of Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose to still finally all rumours that Bose is still alive. Although there is solid evidence that Bose died in a plane crash on Formosa en route to
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    Drug control
    63 3 At Geneva yesterday Egypt and the League of Arab States proposed that the United Nations set up a narcotics control bureau in Cairo, with regional offices in every country of the Mid-dle East except Israel. The Egyptian proposal said the spread of narcotic drugs in the Middle Eastern
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    Lock icon UK approves
    31 3 U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' call for new Western methods to counter the encroachment of Soviet-directed Communism has won warm approval in official Quarters in London.- Reuter
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    Long Arctic drift
    31 3 An eight-man Soviet team has been set down on a floating ice island in the central Arctic by plane to establish a new Avrttino research station the sixth
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    Lock icon Rocket travel
    28 3 The free world's first international conference on guided missiles started in Munich yesterday with a study on how to bring about safer and cheaper travel. A.P.
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    Lock icon Princess Grace is star attraction
    173 3 PRINCESS OrMC Patricia of Monaco is the star attraction of the film festival which opened at Cannes yesterday. The festival will last until May 10. She appears in "The Swan" playing the role which she now Rlifl in real life The film, which has QOf
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      88 3 LfJy WOLSEY Y^ fine and fancy I knitwear I SLIMSETS^, x/^I I The softest of all \^f J?/ in the daintiest \-}'f^' I designs. "-&—J I In white with diamond pattern design, ribbed waist. 'i\ E OPERA TOP VESTS U~X^^ $4.75 t $7.50 i I WITH ROUND NECK V U
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. April 24, 1956. Opinion THE GIFT HORSE
    251 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. April 24, 1956. Opinion THE GIFT HORSE TWO lop men of the Kremlin have called at Windsor Castle bearing gifts which arc as acceptably un ostentatious as they ar< impermanent. 'i hei c i.s nothing enduring about a fur v\ rap, horses or a bear
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    Now it's a CHURCH BOOM
    895 4  - Now it's a CHURCH BOOM CHRISTOPHER DOBSON HVo man ran tail to MM the sifjns of the new bvown in Amerltm mud despite the tew charlatans this revival I by what a Oodleia face f» New York turns to the newcomer sailing Up the Hudson. No churches, no spins, no
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    Fantastic spy trial in Paris
    493 4  -  STEPHEN COULTER COULTER reports from the French capital r pilE silly season now well and truly with us in Paris is providing a richer crop ot laughs and gasps than usual. First, of all there is the fantastic spy trial a cross between Alice in
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      14 4 r/ie Finest Portable Elegant* in the World. HARDIAL SINGH t SONS L T P
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      117 4 ..for every kind of party, large and smai', /^wedding "^^v christening /l^^i/ cocktail -1^ T- and children's parties /ZTY cold bu*M banquets Y'l&J' dub teas, or barbecues. S 7 Our service includes serving boys tables and chairs Q?Stc/ crockery. cutlery f*j^^i&£ and 9 ldss > Customers will find our "returned
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      Ain't what they used to be
      412 5 Wh> is it that that vvtirn one speaks of a landlord one implies a „t considerable proj.,it> —several houses in Xt but wht-n one says landl:id>" it seems to impl) iH> more than the ownei <>i >i«»gl*' lodging > house? > is not a
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    She wouldn't say 'Daddy'
    56 5 Thomn Campbell punched a two-year-old sir! In the face, making h<-r nose Weed she would not can him "Daddy." At Glasgow, Campbell, of Panmure street. M.iryhui, w;is fined £10 (jr Go daya jail. Hv v not the father of the ciiiifi. but he expect^ her u>
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    Children fight fire
    23 5 Hundred! >f children armed will) Itlckf and branches helped firemen put out i grass fire on Ham Common, Richmond, Surrey.
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    200 CLIPPIES ARE FURIOUS
    230 5 f OCAL leaders of the busmen's union want to sue a councillor for slander because of what he said about their town's clippies. Councillor Sidney Harris told Rotherham Council that the corporation's 200 bus conductresses should b. 1 sacked. He said: You can't have efficiency I
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    Captured on way to visit girl
    124 5 12 hours Utter police believed he would make for Oxford to see 2b year-old student nurse Martha Anderssen. She arrived from Swedent a month atio under a nurses exchange scheme. •Just before dusk Forsberg called at t'^ nurses' hostel at Warneford Mental Hospital. The
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    65 5 At last! We've sue- ceeded in putting some puzzlers off the scent. E Yesterday's dozens of phone tails weren't all from successful guess- ers. If you'd said "Itaf- fles Hotel' instead of E "Museum' you'd have E been right. E So now, encouraged, E we're ffoing; to make these tests
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    Jackie comes home
    161 5 Jackie comes home fIMIE Salvation Army and 1 .><> year-old Major (athrrine Smith, who broke lit rules t>y bringing a five-year-old Chinese to England from Gttncapon last August, have mad»' up their quarrel. Miss Smith is now on her way back to Malaya to take up a new "Army" job.
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      94 5 'i /fej/ Dnn t U.\ throw WJ^^-' away! Amazing $75/- trade-in offer! llf yoi< $7 Si- for your oUI Radio however out of date it may be and whatever condition it's in, if you buy the Philips 8X645A NOW! Ad quickly this bargain offer is open only until APRIL 30th!
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      128 5 j Your old r^fil^l jphilipsj radio player IBs Ai f i3r i^i^ However Out >l >tntn if 'run/ br, ami ivhai'-'f H J^a^^^^^^ltillif-;^ I j'v' condition, your Philips Dealer will 'jive 1 x*&& s '®^2S&Eslla you $7> 'jtnti ild i: ii.i if >)t,n hn ,'>,,■ y^ """■'g Etfer^ ml II
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      110 6 ;irV\ilir\Ki Im loe alk a.»J Pl'il l»avi% you KE GOiNo'^P^WHArf TH6n" YOU'LL "^^T^JJff SEE^AC^^ERVvfeRA^M^ TAII/A\ by Etltjar llirt k llurrt^utjhs •T^rccr^cTPAMrC HHHVP" 91 f VAKPO4 ME; iKTEKJ^urTg^ PIfcKCE kE-evOLSuY. I MATE TO INNPLV— CONTC^StEP^T)Se SHEIk. I IJy^ J'' X TV LV^ NC7ALI TUB XAI.\T bj Leslie Char ierim A I-
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      674 6 1 BONN today, fOU have coil iid( iv understanding ol others and 1 veil-beloved by all who know <■','.■>' J Kind, sympathetic and eager to he ail those who are less fortunate th yourseU you are not the usual tvt ;oi w do gooder". By deed and example you eneour-
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    OOMPH-OOMPH FOR SOUL
    314 7 OOMPH-OOMPH FOR SOUL IyUAT you may well ask, is a minuet or a figure without the oomphoomph of the bassoon? Ask yourself that and you will have plenty of company. You will ha,ve as company the young ladies of the orchestra at loughton High School, Ksscx. These young ladies considered
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    Emergency landing did not save baby
    89 7 Emergency landing did not save baby An Airliner dying from Rome to London made an emergency landing at Le Bourget, near Paris, trying to .savo the hie oi b three-month-old baby boy. The baby, Nicholas Skountzos, .seriously ill wa.l beiniC flown from Athens to London in a British European Airways
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    A CRIPPLE SAVES WOMANTOO LATE
    165 7 A CRIPPLE SAVES WOMANTOO LATE 11/IR. William Walker stood i"l lor 25 minutes chest deep in a swirling river with the body oi a woman in his arms. He was unable to move, for he is paralysed from the waist down. While he held the woman's head above water he
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    SONG BAN OFF
    47 7 The BBC lifted its ban on "Mack the Knife," the "Threepenny Opera" theme song which was inadvertently broadcast in full during "Two-way Family Favourites." The ban was directed against two verses of the lyric, one of which starts: The shark has pretty teeth, dear."
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    SKIDLIDS PLEA
    41 7 Motor-cyclists should be ](^ally compelled to wear crash helmets, says ttl€ road safety committee of Matlock. Derbyshire, In a resolution to the; Midlands Accident Prevention Federation. And. the resolution adds, the helmets should be freed from pur chase tax.
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    Protest against overtime
    113 7 Protest against overtime IT was 6 p.m. when a policeman spotted Jack, a nine-year-old carthorse plodding past Birkenhead Town Hall with a load of coal but no driver. That meant a summons for 26-year-old William Batty officially, that he was negligent in that he did not have direction or government
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    Today's laugh
    14 7 This thing is due for an overhaul. It keeps ansloering: "Who cares?"
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      191 7 LONDON, April 23. oca "vloiis Today I'BBKi: No. 1 KSS c.i.f. 26'' a buyers 26Vi buyers B portl AP'»l 26 sellers 26% sellers la Ne. 1 KSS cJ.r. 26 buyers 26' buyera recti May 26 sellers 26% seliera tBBEK No. 1 KSS Spot 27' j buyers 27
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      New York prices
      98 7 iNEW YORK, April T.<. Previous Today n\ Straits spitt and nearby 98.87 uom 99 00 nom BN futures April 98.00 bid 98!00 bid 98.75 asked 98.75 asked May 97.50 bid 97.50 bid 98.00 asked 98 00 asked June 96.25 bid 96.25 bid 97.00 asked 97.00 asked DM
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      U.S. PEPPER
      44 7 IMalabar/l^mpong spot await- Afloats 26',.. Aoril shioment <k*u K release 27%. Afloats AprU May 25. JinV e P 24- P SV ex-" shipments 27, Sarawak I dock. stneis expt and awaiting release 27. i Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per lb.
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      37 7 INEW YORK, April 23. t a i Previous Today 507.20 507 28 Railroads 174 24 175 80 Domestic Bonds 96 86 96 93 ill j?*» 65.76 65 43 Stocks composite Average 180 31 *****
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      112 7 lOPRA Philippines c.i.f. U.K./ N '.'t!i European delivered lit per long ton Apr. /May OPRA, Straits c.i.f. IK/Nortb European delivered weight pfer long ton Apr. /May May/June OCpNUT OIL crude Straits 'if > K North European in ijulk. long ton. April/May <«MONTT OIL ,rade, Ceylon long
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      141 7 The invulnerable Automatic "331" has still other claimtj j/g&^^^^^^Q^g&&& Movado precision reaches y° u can re^y on y° w FACTORIES AT H^f^l^^^^ni'H ™*W^^| IA CHAUX-DE-fONOS. -f4 Ay f|^ 1 A Ji SOLE AGENTS: KHATENA. SOLOMON CO--1B—ROBINSON8 ROBINSON ROAD SINCAPORE TEL: 7402 Mvn \s Wtwr Look us up. We have it
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      48 7 i SINCAPORE HICH TIDES I TODAY: 10.40 pm B > TOMORROW 1 1.2 5 < a.m. and 11.09 p.m. >/ > THURSDAY: 12.04 a.m. g and II Mi p.m. >) > FRIDAY: 12.40 pm. << SATURDAY: 0.06 a.m. and 1.15 p.m. << > SUNDAY: 0.36 a.m. SS I and 1.50
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    The MUNYON SWINDLE and Dr. X
    1144 8  - The MUNYON SWINDLE and Dr. X WILLIAM FREEMAN Anothvr fasi inn/inn UtU> in ih*> WOMAN'S STHAIVGEST STOHMUS svrios mm.... iniMiimiiiii iiiiiiiiiiililllllll lllltlllllll I ltllllllllllllll»lllftmilltltt Illlftlltllllui n, by 'Pin-, h. ol thi ren lived <i- unent ol i rtisin i v fantasti -.ill 1 i ou idi i ib ition <>i
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    Lock icon He hopes to beat an old record
    158 8 He hopes to beat an old record OM to brat the record of Antonio Stradivarius. who lived to be «>:', still producing Stradivarius violins, is 77-year-old Mr. George Alfred Robin s«»n oj Eastbourne, Sussex, pictured at work on a violin in his home workshop. Mr Robinson lias been mmkini the
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      149 8 Advertisement A baby knows better than you. Baby's tears may be due a lot of things a safety-pin perhaps or niori important to the lack of tne ritfht food. Many Mothers imagine that all Baby Foods are aliKe, nothing of course could De further from the truth, as many parents
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    IT CAN BE DONEBUT OH, THE HUNGER!
    542 9  -  PELHAM GROOM Last day cost me 70 cents IT is all over. I have endured a week with only a dollar a day to spend on food and drink. My last day cast me no more than 70 cents included in this was
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    Trippers survive 72-hour ordeal
    229 9 rpWO Britl fi trippers from I i y wound up safe in a Samt Malo. France. hotel alter a 72-hour ordeal at sea which nearly cost them their lives. Mr Edward Michel, 30, and ■:!:••■>■ Campion, 23, set oil lie morning from S lini Helier for
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    STUDIES UPSET STOKER
    163 9 STUDIES UPSET STOKER J^ STOKER who was worried about a correspondence course he was taking jumped to his death from a railway bridge, the Dartford coroner was told. Mrs. Eileen Hills, widow of 48 year old Christopher Hilis, of Barham Road, Dartford, was unable to attend the inquest, but a
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    'RED' TROUBLE
    30 9 Alderman S. H Jennings, Finance Committee chairman, told Canterbury Council: "Our city and county borough are in the red." He called on the people to pay their rates.
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    Laird gets four more months
    149 9 Laird gets four more months ;rpHE border laird jailed for I- shooting a salmon poacher had his sentence increased from two to six months by a Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh. Captain James Timothy Noel Price, 40-year-old Jedburgh landowner, sat expressionless as he heard his appeal fail. He alleged
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    The man who lived on small change
    268 9 ()UICK-WITTED Arth v r Frederick Eaton borrowed "Fortunes in Formulas," an encyclopaedia giving, according to the title Page, "up-to-date scientific formulas, trade secrets, processes, and moneysaving ideas." £om It he got ideas on now to make money his own Page 246 told him:
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    Why bus slopped dead
    141 9 A TRANSPORT problem faced the authorities in Oxford There were plenty of buses, plenty of drivers, but not enough conductors. Then someone had the bright idea: Why not have buses with no conductors and trust the passengers to put their fares In a box? They were
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    Lock icon A new Empress
    62 9 picture. While the new Canadian Pacific liner Emprett of Britain is sailing on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Canada, a sister *hi*>, the Empress of England, takes rhape on the stocks at the Vicfcer* Armstrong yard in Walker-on-Tyne. The 26,000-ton gross liner is t o be
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      84 9 TRAVELS \W M RH 39, ROBINSON ROAD TEL: ***** AMSTEfc^IO aw /yv cans/ y^FTlliiir for all kinds (jfe^?S^ i a i vv 1 I I jfrfl \^m\ BATTERY 1 I I 1^ ll^mmmm hano lamp I wHh iff R w«««d co«Mfructien, \v_\ J L ni^9^^Lll r»nr»p«crn#*« and 4cA^PV^L Ur^^Br/i P«»»dabl«)
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    Lock icon WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
    333 10 WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES OFF TO A NEW HOME IN THE COUNTRY ABOVE: A foal born in a London street is seen one week later jumping into a horse box ahead of his mother Mary to be taken to a new home in the country. Their owner. Mr. George Quinn
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      29 11 CREDIT FONCIERJ D'EXTREME ORIENT I MEYER CHAMBERS TEL. *****-9 j II! J High Class I RESIDENCES with lar^e gardens FOR SALE Holland Road and Adam Road. j *gr^j .J
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    New industry in hdnds of ex-TBs
    606 12  -  Adelaide Eastley TEXTILE PIUMEiT DOXEB ol materials which nrrived from England a few daya ago will be *> the meana ol sparking new Singapore Industry. Pigments, chemiL]a and tooli they contain wiu implement an careen for s.a.t.a.'.s cured tuberculai patients, now fighting their way
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    RADAR SYSTEM IN OUR BRAINS?
    256 12 a BIG BRAIN i- s &n x i\ pensive luxury, for thinking requires more blood than docs any mus- ular activity. Man uses .-.•■verui times as much {)t the body's blood supply and blood sugar for thinking as do animals Oi comparable .size. These arc
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    COLOMBIA'S STRANGE CREATURES
    676 12 COLOMBIA'S STRANGE CREATURES laiaiii worms rpHERE are Colombian earthworms three feet long and almost an inch in diameter. Allegedly, there are some 10 feet long but apparently no reputable naturalist has seen one. Existence ot the three foot long giants, however, is confirmed by Dr. Leopold Richter, Professor of Biology
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    Malayans prepare for big photo contest
    665 13  - Malayans prepare for big photo contest SUNNY GIAM by \lavs biggea t Vi and roost imporaiinual photo»hic event will bo 'be 4th Pun Malayan •hotographic Exhibiion sponsored by the photographic Society of Singapore In June. Entries for this show 1 close on May 4. Exhibition, strictly Malayans and their neighbours,
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    BRIDGE HAND
    431 13 Hoili sides vulnerable Smih dealer 1 he bidding: Souili U«>sl North East 2 Pass 4 Pa*H 3 V Pass 3 Pass ."> NF. Pass 6 Pass 7 All Puss WEST opened the queen of diamonds. Against a grand slam, this sort of deceptive lead Is usually harmless and
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    568 18  - ENGLAND FACE DEFEAT AGAINST BRAZIL MORGAN VERNON By 'ro say that English soccer i.s in the doldrums is to put. it mildly. The best the national team could do wa.s to make the 1955-56 championship a four-way tie with their rivals, Scotland. Wales and Ireland. it was the first time
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    107 18 Ashley cooper, third- 1 ranked player In Australia, says ho is "very worried" that tilfl International lawn tennis career may be threatened by a weak ankle, Cooper, 19-year-old Australian hard court champion, was unable to play in j a tennis tournament a 1 the weekend because
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    430 20  -  ALLAN LEWIS l»y TOLDKN GUB, working alone on the Number Two track at Tenant this morning, made the fastest time when he ran three in 'M\ and appeared to do it nicely on the hit. There was not a lot of fast work this morning
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    221 20 out-standing Oxford University middle di.stance runners will make a bid for three relay championshlpi in the Perm relay I carnival ;it Philadelphia's I Franklin field on Friday and Saturday. They are the Ant squad to represent oxford in the Perm Carnival in 33 years and the
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