The Singapore Free Press, 24 January 1957

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1 5 The Singapore Free Press
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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Thursday. January 24, 1957. Price 15 Vis
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    Lock icon INDIAN CLIMB DOWN LIKELY ATTHEUNG
    901 1 INDIAN CLIMB DOWN LIKELY ATTHEUNG SATURDAY is D-Day in Indo-Pakistani relations. On that day India is scheduled to incorporate Kashmir into the Indian State. Pakistanis have threatened war if that happen*. Latest indications are that, despite tough talk, India may defer such a fateful move. Feelings in both countries are
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    Lock icon Stick to my plan says Ike
    165 1 {^RESIDENT Eisenhower .said in Washington yesterday that Congress would destroy the efTectiveness of hi.s Middle East, programme if it separates the economic from the military portions of bifl proposal. ie said in response to news conference questions that to have only part of his
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    Rubber price
    30 1 February first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 90% cents a lb., down of a cent on ye.sterdoy s close. The tone was quiet.
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    Here's an amazing peep into the future
    147 1 |LLNESS soon to threaten 1 Queen Elizabeth a E turbulent 1957 for Britain s new Suez flareup. violence between Egypt, Israel and the Arab States, plus a series of world crises starting next: November which if un- checked will unleash U.S. thermonuclear intervention
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    Lock icon PENANG post mortem
    56 1 PENANG post mortem THE Scottish Secretary, Mr. John MacLay. answering for the Colonio.l Secretary, told the House of Commons yesterday that "prompt action and the arrest of known gangster.s" brought the outbreak of communal tension in Penang under control by Jan. 7. A non-party goodwill committee comprising all races assisted
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    Lock icon UK's $160m for Malaya
    129 1 UK 's $160 m for Malaya TORITAIN will provid< about >IS1(JO,000.000 foi the Federation of .Malaya tc meet the Communist Kmcr. gency, the House of Commons was told yesterday. The Colonial Secretarj informed the House thai M 57 2,000,000 would be an outright grant in three equal instalments from 1957
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      9 1 KASHMIR CRISIS MAP and background story in page 12.
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      61 1 THE CARLSBERG COLLECTIOI ///ill X. V Collyer's Quaywi ..is an excellent \n unmet. but being flightless, is confined to inland Ukger-wmys and ports of rail. fie is. for the most part, un extremely quiet f'ird. all/ton >'Ji often ahove the v ream of ships* sirens he <an be heard calling
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    'INDUSTRIAL GROWTH COULD ENSURE JOBS FOR ALL'
    217 2 CINCJAPORE'S Commissioner for Labour, Mr. D. I. Goodwin, said today that the Colony needed great industrial expansion to cope with any future v unemployment situation. He was commenting on the prospects of finding jobs for more than 7,600 people who were unemployed in
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    RED IDEALS
    21 2 The Soviet Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovirh, said in Moscow yesterday that tsie Communist Party would continue to be "monolithiV
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    Lock icon AMERICAN PRINCESS?
    100 2 T^HE VS. State Department I x in Washington says the new born daughter of Princess Grace and Prince I Rainier of Monaco may become a U.S. citizen if the parents wish. Unde r the law a child tt born abroad is considered to be an American citizen I
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    Lock icon AIR SMASH IN PYRENEES
    43 2 II A French reconnais ance aircraft yesterday found the wreckage of a Dakota which crashed in the Pyrenees on Tuesday during a flipht from Algiers to Tou- I louse with nine passengers. There was no trace of survivors Reuter
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    Lock icon Extending Hone Kong?
    116 2 rE Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. John Profumo, told the House of Commons yesterday that no proposals had been made to Peking to acquire more land on the Chinese mainland to relieve the housing shortage in Hong Kong. He was replying to a question by Mr. John
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    Earning a living through their hobbg
    318 2 Earning a living through their hobbg AUSTRALIA S fore- j most exponents of exhibition and ballroom dancing, Robert and j Shelda Wrightson will perform in a Singapore night-spot, this week. This husband and wife team have been dancing together for 15 years, and have met with "good luck and success
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    HOSPITAL THE BEST IN ASIA
    176 3 HOSPITAL THE BEST IN ASIA SINGAPORE'S Tan Tock Seng Hospital would be the finest in Asia when its new buildings were completed, two visiting American T.B. experts declared yesterday. After their tour of the hospital yesterday, the two doctors said they were •'tremendously imnressed.'' They were Dr. Floyd M. Fledmann
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    The Quiz winners
    63 3 11/INNERS of Saturday's ¥T Prize Quiz Competition* are: Quiz 1: J8.3. Ang c/C Vehicles Office, Middle Road. Sinuapore 7. Quiz 2: Michael Chan c 'c Beach Road Police Station Singapore 7. Quiz 3: Anthony Kheng 699-16 Jalan Payoh Lai Singapore 19. Special Quiz: Mrs. Trud] Neubronner 28.
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    Lock icon Refugees protest
    29 3 Four hundred Italian refugees from Egypt paraded through the streets yesterday in protest afainsi their treatment since arriving in Italv and then announced a hunger strike. A.P.
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    Lock icon Liz Taylor to wed Mike Todd
    48 3 ACTRESS Elizabeth Taylor and the rilm producer Mike Todd said yesterday they will marry. The date, they said, de- pends upon a conference with their lawyers to determine exactly when her divorce decree from the actor. I Michael Wilding, becomes final.— U.P.
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    Lock icon OATH FOR WIFE
    54 3 The first Japanese wife of an Australian serviceman to be naturalised in Australia will take the oath of allegiance at a ceremony in Melbourne today. She is Mrs. Cherry Parker of the Melbourne suburb ot Ringwood. Mrs. Parker went to Australia in July. 1952. She was born
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    Lock icon Cat weapon in bird war
    149 3 JUNGLE-HARDENED officers at an army training camp are fighting a bitter war against the yel-low-beaked mynah birds for possession of the Canungra officers' dining hall, near Brisbane, in Queensland. The birds fly into the marquee that serves M a dining hall and steal the sugar.
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    Guides to parade our fashions in Manila
    194 3 Guides to parade our fashions in Manila -KABAYAS, SAMFOOS A SUGGESTION by me Singapore Spotlight's commentator, Adelaide Eastley, that the Philippines 1 Consul in Singapore, Mr Alejandro Holigores "should introduce Malayan fashions in the Philippines" has been put into action by a group of 20 Malayan Girl Guides, now in
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    81 3 The Japanese Navy. E now known as the "Maritime Belf-Defeoc« Force," puts to sea in Tokyo Bay. The fi>rce 30 frl- gates and other vessels was reviewed oil the coast at Yokosuka last week by Ki/o Yoshida, Regional Commandant of Yokosuka He was aboard the 1,400 ton frigate KM. After
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      2 3 RARE EXQUISITE
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      94 3 Fashioned in Scotland 100% Pure Cashmere Wool The name Braemar has always been a synonym for quality, and has always upheld the finest traditions of Scottish workmanship. These beautiful Cashmere Pullovers. Slipovers and Cardigans prove no exception to the rule. Handsome j and warm and in a selection of solid,
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. Jan. 24, 1957. Opinion Communist scourge
    280 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. Jan. 24, 1957. Opinion Communist scourge scourge mHERE can be today JL scarcely a family in Russia that has not suffered persecution, even bereavement, at the hands of Soviet communism— that monstrous perversion of humanitarian ideals which has survived four decades through torture and murder
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    They claim comics can curb juvenile delinquency
    590 4  - They claim comics can curb juvenile delinquency Jennifer JOHNS One Woman's -ft America by IN view of the current storm against what the police describe as a ''dangerous" increase in juvenile delinquency in America, it takes a brave teacher to come out with a word in praise of children's comics,
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    BY THE WAY
    132 4  -  Beachcomber -Ji. ',■>■■ ■>'■ S'l~-% r rHE literary world is in an uproar (which means that Miss has written a foaming letter to a weekly paper) about the recently published anthology 'The Cream of the Cabmen," compiled from the five volumes of "The List of Huntingdonshire Cabmen."
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      107 4 AUSTIN... Still the Best! see /"or yourself these exclusive features of the C Am* A r- si famous Austin A 5 O Cambridge Deluxe and Family Saloons. Improved Front and Rear Suspension; Spacious Body Interior; 13" wheels for the lower line and greater stability; Piastic roof lining for coolness and
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    RIDDLE OF 'THING' THAT LURKS IN A LAGOON
    731 5  - RIDDLE OF 'THING' THAT LURKS IN A LAGOON FRANCIS ROZARIO Capture it and m care for it, says aqigrmm_chtef_ !By A kampong tale or a monster. c WSS!R*SfSaj£ l !Sft> Wh is s icl ties on marine Ufe --1M of Fear M claim that the octopus Zl£~%yS%X&> iSrle^feet^ ana wei
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    Lock icon JUMBO GOES 'A.W.L'
    80 5 A RAGING, trumpeting elephant lumbered down the main avenue i" Nagoya. Western Japan. yesterday headed into the mountains and resisted capture lor two hours. A police spokesman said Bamako, an eight-year-old pet elephant belonging to the Hiftashiyama Zoo, Nagoya, was in the process of being transferred from
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    Lock icon RED MACHINERY
    26 5 Czechoslovakia!! machinery worth 9.000.000 rupiahs (about US$BOO.OO0 > has arrived in East Java for the Branta.s irrigation project, news reports saM in Djakarta yesterday.- U.P.
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    Lock icon Italian Reds visit Moscow
    62 5 MOSCOW RADIO disclosed last night that IUIUn Communist party leader* have been having extenoive talks in Moscow with Mr. NiVcita Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and otlwr Russian leaders. The radio said an Italian delegation, led by Signol Lulgi Longo. the deputy
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    Taking books to the door
    272 5 WIIK Singapore Raines 1 library has a $40,000 plan to take a 'library on wheels" t o the P^P 1 hvinu in the rural and suburban areas of the Colony and popularise the readins habit. Mr L. M Harrod, Raffle^ Librarian, said yesterday that three
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    Lock icon Chou and Nehru meet
    56 5 communist Chinese prcly mier Chou En-lai arrives in New* Delhi today for a third round of talks with thr Indian Prime Minister, Jaffaharlal Nehru following his top-level conferences with Kremlin leaders and his tour 01 Iron Curtain troublt' spoil. He is expected to leave for Kathmandu.
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    Lock icon PREPARING FOR ROYAL VISIT
    39 5 British and French police Officiall are expected to meet next month, probably in London, to discuss security arrangements for the State Visit to Franco in April of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. Reuter
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      148 6 II Wim \KI by Lcc Falk an<l I'liil llavis f WHAT /NO MOPE QUE«no^4S I I THEY'RE jl TAH^AX by Kd^ar Ri««e llm rnsiytis fdf -^^j li/ «^ISSC^ *ANC^ nO^ Out lJt TL£ 9^o4^, "^jft^^ttHbaM SAIjXT b? Leslie I harieris I /i'mrfadv whenever! Kname six elements > ~T "1 Ymoom'um.
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      640 6 BORN today, you are essentially an organiser and know how to i imbue others with enthusiasm. Since you are. a worker yourself, you are I able to analyse a project in such l practical term* that it is readily understandable to tho.->e who are u<>ing i to do the manual
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      168 7 Previous Today RUBBER No. 1 RSS cii. unquoted unquoted European ports January February 25' buyers 25 7^ buyers 25 sellers 26' sellers RUBBER No. 1 RSS Spot 26 buyers 26'* buyers 26 Yt. sellers 2_\ sellers RUBBER Na. 1 RSS Settlement House Terms February 26 buyers 26
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      New York prices
      128 7 TIN Straits spot and nearby 102 62 nom. 102.62 nom TIN futures January 102 .12 traded 101.25 buyers 102.25 sellers Standard Contract February 100.87 buyers 101.00 buyers 101.87 sellers ***** sellers March 98 75 buyers W 75 buyers 99.87 sellers 99.87 sellers TONE: Steady. SALES: NU. Straits
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      U.S. PEPPER
      31 7 Malabar/Lampong spot and awaiting release 27. a floats 26, and January shipment 254. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per to. Sarawak spot and awaiting release 26 sellers exdock
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      40 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 23. Previous Today 30 Industrials 477 49 479 93 20 Railroads 149 50 150.17 40 Domestic Bonds 90 08 90.11 15 Utilities 69 61 70 29 65 Stocks Composite Averages 169 12 I<o 12
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      110 7 COPRA Philippines c.i.f. l\K./ North European delivered weight prr long ton Jan- Feb. COPRA. Straits c.i f. C.K./North European delivered weight per lons ton Jan. Feb. Feb. Mar. (OfOMT OH. crude Straits c l.f. V. K. /North European in \ong ton Jan. Feb. COCOM'T OIL crude.
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    THAT MANHUNT FOR THE MAD BOMBER
    871 7  -  ALAN BRIEN 'But he's small fry/ says chief BY JjM)R THE FIRST TIME in six weeks, a peaceful citizen of New York can deposit a cylindrical parcel in the lockers of Grand Central Station without fear of a policeman's hand suddenly tightening round his
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      52 7 s singapore high tides; 1 TODAY: 5 II p.m. I TOMORROW: 5.13a.m. and 8.10 p.m. SATURDAY; %M a.m. and IJS p.m. I SUNDAY: 7.48 a.m. and 10.22 p.m. MONDAY: 8.51 a.m. and 10.56 p.m. TUESDAY: 939 a.m. I and 11 21 p.m. I WEDNESDAY* 10.19 a a.m. and 11 49
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    OPERATION 'MOONWATCH'
    423 8 Amateurs to track the baby satellite AFTER the I'nited States launches its earth satellite in 1957, hundreds of amateur observers will help professional astronomers to track the man-made moon as it circles the globe. The amateurs have volunteered to take part in a project called "Moonwatch" sponsored by
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    TOO MANY COOKS ARE NOT SPOILING THE BROTH
    219 8 TOO MANY COOKS ARE NOT SPOILING THE BROTH ENGLISH cooking may still be a music hall joke, but more foreigners are seeking British advice on their catering problems. They realise that Britain is now one of the leaders of the hotel and catering industry says Mr. John Fuller, head of
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    WHY DO SO MANY LOF BRITAIN'S BABIES DIE
    257 8 WHY DO SO MANY LOF BRITAIN'S BABIES DIE WHAT IS WRONG WITH BRITAIN'S PRENATAL MATERNITY SERVICES 0 THIS IS THE QUERY PROMPTED BY THE REGISTRARGENERAL'S STATISTICAL REVIEW OF ENGLAND AND WALES FOR 1955, WHICH HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED BY HER MAJESTYS STATIONERY OFFICE. An enlightened country Still births in Britain
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    Chinatown goes gay in 'Frisco
    253 9 FRANCISCOS Chinese community 5 making a big thing ut of its annual Jhinese New Year a three-day elebration of carnials, parades, and fireworks. It is beginning to rank with New Orleans' famous celebration of Mardi Gras, according to Pan American World Airways, with visitors from
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    BRIDE DIED ON HONEYMOON
    199 9 A BRIDE of 21 died on he r honeymoon a victim of the same rare form of pneumonia that killed TV star Paula Nixon at the wheel of her car. Her husband of a week, 23-year-old Alan Radley, said last night: 'She was bubbling over with
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    Hope for Heather with a hole in her heart
    129 9 Hope for Heather with a hole in her heart MR. AND MRS. HALLIDAY, of Worcester Park, England, have a problem on their minds. They have been told by specialists that their eight-year-old daughtei Heather has a hole in the inner wall ol her heart. They say they can close the
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    The gambler who tried to be too smart
    914 10 The gambler who tried to be too smart Sfae examined the cards carefully bat could not find any signs of narks 00 tkm I \TIFF held his lighter to Lai Peng'*, cigarette. "It's an odd case, and I'm not at all sure that it is a matter for the Police.
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    Another Latiff story
    1191 10  -  Pelham Groom by.... "There was a celebrated case of cheating at baccarat wasn't there?" "You mean when Edward VII. then Prince of Wales was present? Yes, but that was only a question of a m~n altering hU bet after the play had been made. Say for example
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  • SPOTLIGHT ON THE SERVICES
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      Army education service...
      596 11 By a Special Correspondent EVERY Army Unit above a certain strength has its own Royal Army Education Corps staff However, to cater for those men or women who wish to carry their education further, Army Education Centres have been set up to cover such diverse subjects as
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    Lock icon RICH IRON ORE FIND CLAIMED
    56 12 Rich iron ore deposits have been discovered in the south-western part of Szechuan Province adjacent to the Tibetan plateau. Radio Peking has claimed. Th report said the latest find indicates "the ore body is six kilometres long and two kilometres wide, and suitable for the
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    LAST CHANCE NOW TO KEEP PEACE
    318 12 LAST CHANCE NOW TO KEEP PEACE Kashmir issue THIS is the land of Kashmir which Prime 1 Minister Nehru plans now to drag into IndLi whether Kashmir's 4,000,000 people like it or not, writes John Atkinson in the London Daily Express. BUT MR NEHRU'S THREAT IS BEING CHALLENGED BEFORE THE
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    Lock icon JAPAN TECHNICIANS FOR CEYLON?
    120 12 >» v w ||P ...featuring news Dill \K and views IULvL about Asia today SEVERAL Japanese firms have sent machinery, and are offering to send technicians to a South Ceylon Agricultural project. Mr. E. I. de Zoysa. of the Ceylon Development Board, said the Japanese manufacturers
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    37 12 DELEGATES FROM SIX BRITISH COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES ARE NOW MEETING IN NEW DELHI FOR TALKS ON INDUSTRIAL STANDARDISATION, COVERING INDIA'S STEEL INDUSTRY AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR COMMONWEALTH TRADING OF INDIA'S DECISION TO CHANGE TO THE METRIC SYSTEM.- A.P.
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    Lock icon Glimpses
    28 12 Cambodia has raised its legation in New Delhi to the rank of embassy and India has done the same for its legation in Pnoni Penh A. P.
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    34 12 South Kor^i exported U5522,949,077 worth of goods during 1956, an increase of 25 per cent over 1955. Imports into South Korea, excluding foreign aid goods, totalled U5535,186,157 43 per cent less than 1955. U.P.
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    27 12 The Australian Government has paroled three Japanese war criminals from Tokyo's Sugamo Prison reducing to 23 the number of Australian-sen-tenced Japanese war criminals still in. prison. U.P.
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    40 12 President Syngman Rhef has ordered his officials to push again the once suspended plans to build a 93-acre athletic centre with the ultimate aim of bringing the Olympic Games to Korea. The siteis Yongdungpo, south of the Han River U.P.
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    14 12 JAPAN WILL NOT BUY SURPLUS FARM PRODUCTS FROM THE UNITED STATES THIS YEAR- U.P.
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    Lock icon 'Fear gripping India business'
    171 12 'Fear gripping India business' /\NE of India's leading businessmen. Mr A I> |U Shroff, predicted "nothing but gloom and darkC ness to India's economy" if people interested in free enterprise "don't see India's economy is kept on an 2 even keel," Mr Shroff is president of the Forum for Free
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    Lock icon Big orders for pines go unfilled
    103 12 Big orders for pines go unfilled OIK EDMUND HILLARY'S PREFERENCE FOR CEYLUIN TINNED PINEAPPLES APPARENTLY PROMPTED RECENT LARGE ORDERS FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, BUT THE COLOMBO GOVERNMENT HAS REGRETFULLY ANNOUNCED THAT CEYLON CANNOT MEET THE DEMAND. The orders were placed after Sir Edmund, conaueror of Mt Everest, selected Ceylon
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    Fears for Ceylon tea trade
    91 12 Fears for Ceylon tea trade A FRICAN competition is A threatening Ceylon's vital tea industry and growers, alarmed at skidding revenues from the nations No. i export commodity, are attempting to meet the menace through a "quality" campaign. Ceylon's "mid-grown teas gradually are being pushed out of London and other
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    Lock icon Envoys kept away
    52 12 The Philippines parliamentary speaker, Mr. Jose P. Laurel, Jr.. has charged members of the foreign diplomatic corps in Manila with "the, worst kind of discourtesy" for their failure to attend the Rizul Day rites last December M. Only Australia, Italy and South Korea were represented at the
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    MODEL MOTHERS
    633 13  - MODEL MOTHERS EILEEN ASCROFT £■< v m. i W H M H M w w m m m m. m m m m m m m Princess Grace and Gina Lollobrigida will show the way— that having a baby is no [longer an excuse for losing ones figure by Barbara
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      35 13 wedding pieturt>s Make arrangements NOW for your photographs \o be taken by FREE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER Telephone Singapore 2800 or write to Free Press Photographic Dept. 140-146 Cecil Stieet, Singapore. if HIS KRVier ONLf »V»IL»il» il««>»»O»r
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    Olympic men help C.S.C.
    227 14 Olympic men help C.S.C. QTRENGTHENED by two |3 Olympic players, FerTiandez and Vijiaratnam, Ceylon Sports Club beat R.A.F. Seletar 4-2 when they met yesterday at Balestier Road in a replay of their S.H.A. knockout fixture. It was just as well Ceylonese were strengthened by these two experienced players, for they
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    Lock icon Willie Pep operation
    35 14 WILLIE Pep. former world featherweight boxing champion underwent an operation yesterday on his left elbow. Pep, S3, had not been able to straighten his left arm lor about two years. A. P.
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    SAINTS LEAD THE WAY IN GROWTH OF ASIAN RUGBY
    697 14  - SAINTS LEAD THE WAY IN GROWTH OF ASIAN RUGBY FRANCIS ROZARIO ASIAN RUGBY 15 FAST IMPROVING IN SINGAPORE. And as this fact becomes clearer the myth that we are too small to be really good at the p,ame is disappearing! The touring Thailand team recently Rave Malaya a lesson in
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    Athletic coach due on Saturday
    126 14 Athletic coach due on Saturday i v American athletic x\ coach is due to S visit Singapore next z week. E Mr. Samuel Fox, who S is also an expert on E basketball, will arrive E on Saturday. On a goodwill tour of E the Far East sponsored by the
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    They'd be lost without Ramli
    414 14 Police 20 The Blacks 8 igoal, 3 tries, penalty, drop goal) 'goal and try) POLICE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN IN DASHING FORM YESTERDAY. BUT NO-ONE CAN DENY THEIR FITNESS AND THEIR STAMINAAND TH£ FACT THAT THEY HAVE A MATCHWINNER IN CENTRE-THREE RAMLI. Ramli would have
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    Lock icon NEW SEEDINCS LEAVE OUT S'PORE TEAMS
    156 14 NEW SEEDINCS LEAVE OUT S'PORE TEAMS nnT I OWING Singapore's withdrawal, 76 men C women players from seven Asian -ountries and territories will compete for the aaroda Cup and the Kamala Ramanujan Cup m fhe Fourth Lian Table Tennis Championships jpening today in Manila. The final list of entries was
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    Lock icon South African. Rugby Lge game
    65 14 rpHE way now appears open for the introduction of Rugby League football in South Africa, which for more than > half a century has been regarded m Ml impregnable strong- hold of Rugby union. The game would be between the England and French World Cup
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  • RACING
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