The Singapore Free Press, 22 April 1957

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper No. IIKSS. Singapore, Monday. April 22, 1957. Price 15 Cts.
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    Lock icon MAO AND ATOMS
    201 1 RED CHINA'S boss Mao Tse-tung said today that the Chinese Communists have no intention of seeking nuclear weapons. Mr. Yuzo Tamura. Peking correspondent of the Yomiuri Shimbun. reported. Mr. Tamura said Mao made the remark during a meeting with a Japan Socialist Party delegation headed by Secretary
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    Lock icon 'RED PUSH NEXT IN ASIA'
    478 1 'RED PUSH NEXT IN ASIA' India may buy Russian arms warning A WARNING that America's greatest challenge will come from growing Soviet pressure m Asia and Africa was made by Mr. Chester Bowles, former U. S. ambassador to India, m the New York Times Sunday magazine. "In general, the form
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    Lock icon Famine threat in India
    181 1 CONDITIONS of near famine were reported yesterday In the Bihar Province ol Northern India, where crops have failed M a result of floods late last year and hail and thunderstorms early this year. Large areas of the districts of Monghyr, santhal Parganas, Bhagaipur and Purnea have
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    THESE ARE LEGAL TENDER
    311 2 THESE ARE LEGAL TENDER Deformed coins not counterfeits Hundreds of deformed coins like the ones you see here must be m circulation m Malaya and Borneo territories, can ing a lot of trouble to a lot of people. They however genuine- a minter's devil— not counterfeits. Found m various denominations
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    Lock icon Shock for car bandits
    49 2 picrure. Here is the latest answer to the car bandit »n alarm siren and blinding searchlight combined, which also throws out a cloud of pepper. In the demonstration, which took place at the Paris Inventors* Fair, dusting powder took the place of pepper Paul Popper
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    More equipment for Spore polls
    205 2 More equipment for Spore polls rpHE Singapore Govern J. ment has received additional equipment from Britain to help it organise the next general elections. The latest arrivals are 300 perforating machines which will be used to speed up the preparation of the electoral register. A Government spokesman said there were
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    Lock icon Bulganin ill
    14 2 Soviet Premier, Nikolai Bulganin, has been reportedly ill with slißht influenza.- U.P.
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    Lock icon U.K. RED LEADERS EXPOSED BY A MEMBER
    391 3 U.K. RED LEADERS EXPOSED BY A MEMBER DEFENCE CUTS SHOCK U.S. SENATORS: Latest from Washington What I saw m Soviet Russia shook me' A BRITISH philosopher and mathematician. Professor Hyman Levy, told the annual con gress of the British Communist Party m London yesterday of a visit he made to
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    Lock icon Parents die for their son
    156 3 Parents die for their son A MAN killed his sleeping wife and j himself on Saturday to end their suffering from cancer and help their son through law school, Los Angeles po- Ike reported yesterday. The son, Roger M. Vivian, 29. found the bodies of his parents m a bedroom
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    Lock icon THE POWER OF THE POUND...
    48 3 The cost of living m Britain has risen 25' < m the last six years. The Treasury reported to Parliament that the purchasing power of the pound calculated on being worth '2o shillings In 1951, had fallen to 14s lid. m March 1957. A.P.
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    Lock icon Two killed in 120 accidents
    35 3 Police said yesterday there were 120 traffic accidents m Tokyo during the past 24 hours. Two people ivere killed, 17 were seriously and 80 slightly injured m ;he accidents. Reuter
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      199 3 If you want a Good Suit I Always look for this 81, High Street SINGAPORE-6. Disiinyu is It incj Sym bat CHANRAI'S Mark is a mark of following guarantees The garments are guaranteed to fit The materials are guaranteed washable Free alteration on all garments Garments are stitched with the
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, April 22, 1957. Opinion Clean those drains
    182 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, April 22, 1957. Opinion Clean those drains ARE people losing the will to do things for themselves m Singapore? Are they relying too much on Government and minor officials doing things for them? The question is by no means hypothetical for a visit to a
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    BY THE WAY
    316 4  -  Beachcomber S THERE was a re- L ference the other i day to "the old Eng- lish proverb: One swallow does not make a summer." l I do not know where it first appears m Engi lish, but the phras c occurs m "Don Quixote," i and
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    Pelhan Groom
    1251 4 I WRITES EVERY MONDAY A CURE FOR INEBRIATES Trie* ano* !■<*■* Malay roiM'oHioii I STILL haven't received my sample of the love potion from Malacca but the other day someone offered me a bottle of liquid which he claims to be a most efficacious cure for inebriation. I
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      38 4 I i i New Goods. Many Interesting Items Have Just Arrived We 9Uggosi you pay j us a z^isit to see j j what wv have new. j S.P.H. de SUVA LTD. SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR IPOH AIRPORT SINGAPORE
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    36 5 picture. No, it's no fashion gay but merely a gadget called a pedometer, belonging to lovely New Yorker, Susan Petersen. Susan intends to measure her early morning walks to the office with the instrument- Paul Popper
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    SHERPA COMPETES WITH LOCAL JEWELLER
    135 5 SHERPA COMPETES WITH LOCAL JEWELLER Trinket pedlar m Raffles Place MANY must have raised their eyebrows and others who caught the joke chuckled at the sisht of the Sherpa who squatted with his stock all laid out before him outside a jewellers' m Raffles Place, Singapore, last Saturday. Whilst his
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    Lock icon Rex wins big 'star' award
    48 5 British actor Rex Harrison last night received the American Theatre Wing's Award for best musical star for his performance m the successful Broadway play. •'My Fair Lady". "My Fair Lady" also won the award as the best musical play of the year.— A.P.
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      How to control S'pore's spiv job agencies
      386 5 How to control S 'pore's spiv job agencies yOUR article by Miss Margaret Wee is most timely. We have heard such a great deal of Government probes into the job agency rac■kets and talk of "new legislation" to "control" these agencies. From an independent survey conducted by i myself over
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    ALL SET FOR BIG DEBATE
    108 5 ALL SET FOR BIG DEBATE EXECUTIVES of political •L* parties represented m the Legislative Assembly met their Assemblymen during the weekend to work out final strategy for the Merdeka debate on Wednesday The official motion has already been submitted to Speaker who is expected to release it either today or
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    Lock icon HE HAS 'BRIGHT' IDEA
    105 5 AJAPANFSE engineer yesterday claimed to have invented a device that will increase the luminosity of electric liqlit tenfold while consuming: only onetenth of the electric current used for conventional light- Mr. Isokichi Nagao of Tokyo was applying; for patent rights through the Patent Board for this
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      37 5 YulTiil vaTle if\ Just a dab a day 1 Keeps odor away. i i jfiEOOORANT STICK*"t| f NEW STOCK |UST UNPACKED i AVAILABLE AT ALL L LEADINC STORES So 4« Aftnts: COUSINS IMPEX 3B Raffles Pl'cc Spore
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      244 5 [bargain of j BARGAINS i FOk HARI RAYA FESTIVAL ALL ITEMS PRICES SLASHED! BUYINC NOW MEANS SAVING j BARGAINS 1011 MEN Brew,tcr Fancy Sport Shirts 9.50 J H Skipper Fancy Sport Shirty $12.50 U J Manhattan Fancy Sport Shirts $12.50 Jayson Towelling T. Shirts 6.50 J 1 \J Truval Sport
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      264 6 >| AMMI \KI by Lee Falk and Phil I^avis I TME V 4 TELL TUB T Me'LL- TUB- TWE 6IQL*S GONE ?V* *«J "N. 6IPL'S \MUKPeWS- I=o* TUER6SUVCLOUTEP/ V «=OS WOW 7 YOU6OIKJ6^\ WE'LL TRTJ US- VVE^^LPN'T^^^, 1 > _^^7»^ TAKZAX b?' Edtfa"* X"'cK c Bnrrontfha X J^^yl^^M^r^jLV I _^3L
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      500 6 BORN today, you have dramatic talent and will be inclined to i tramatise your own life, even if you I do not enter the uraniatic lite professionally. Yo-i have that flair for the unusual, but your enthusiasm are lluctuating. Unfortunately, concentration is I not one of your strong point., and
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    This is their passport to health
    1028 7  -  Adelaide Eastley By was a sharp scent of salt in the sea wind as we rounded a turnoff at Jurong, with Dr. G. H. Garlick, medical chief of S.A.T.A., at the wheel of his roadster. Sea-bitten jungle and mangrove skeletons in swamp and lagoon
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      52 7 SINGAPORE ::HICH TIDES t TODAY: 5.17 p.m. TOMORROW: 4.16 ajn. tm4 6 54 p.m. 3 I WEDNESDAY: 5.42 a.m. J and 8.02 p.m. J! THURSDAY: 7.27 a.m. < and 8.41 p-m FRIDAY: 8.34 a.m. and J 9.12 p.m.' J> SATURDAY: 9.022 a.m. J and 9.39 p.m. SUNDAY: 10.02 ajm. J
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      136 7 Today's Radio Programme for Singapore 1.15 p-m. Monday Lunch Date; 1.30 Time Signal and News. 145 Three or More; 2 00 WalU Time m Vienna; 2.30 Holiday Concert; 3. 30 Piano Playtime; 3.45 Fashions m Rhythm; 4.00 Music From The Movies; 4.30 Tea Dance; 5.00 Children's Playtime; 5.30 The Singapore
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    Variety is the spice of life for them
    232 8 Variety is the spice of life for them THE Singapore Teachers' Training College Students' Union held an international variety concert recently to celebrate their Reunion Week. More thao 100 students took part m the pageant which was both colourful and dramatic. It was organised by the Musical Society under the
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    He weaves a 'magic' spell
    135 8 k FFECTIONATELY called the Jadoo Wallah, or Mystic Man, India's best known magician has returned to Britain. But he is n<> lakir m a loin-cloth. lit is 59-year-okl Lieutenant-Colonel James Williams, who has spent 42 years i" India and has' woven magic m nearly every
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    Chekov gets full marks
    235 9 Chekov gets full marks lITTLE Miss K. Singam, J who hopes to be a teacher m 10 years, contributed a pleasing item for the concert. With her sister, she peformed an Indian Folk Dance. She is seen m the midrilr ol her dance m the picture above. On the right,
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    Union flourishes
    270 9 It now has 400 members T*HE four-year-old Singapore Teachers' Training College Students' Union A is the most active body of student teachers m the city. The President of the Union. Mr. Patrick Alowe. told this to Free Press. He said the Union was growing m strength every year.
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    A breath of Bonnie Scotland
    103 9 nRESSED snow U white dresses, eight charming girls, gave a performance seldom seen m Singapore. It was the Cumberland Reel. Later, they tripped about gaily to the music of some old Scottish folk songs. Disappointed The girls were disappointed because they wore not able to
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    Intelligence report THIS IS DYNAMITE
    1100 10  - Intelligence report THIS IS DYNAMITE SEFTON DELMER IaMMIMIttlHIHMIIIHIIUHII By Dealers' letters A RMS dealers and their secret agents and sub-agents in Geneva, Paris, Bilbao, arid Copenhagen are fighting out a furious war of intrigue over which of them is to land a contract for $3,000,000worth of machine guns, automatics, mortars,
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    The spear that missed Livingstone...
    95 10 A SPEAR which missed the famous explorer David Livingstone, who thus survived to be greeted "Livingstone. I presume" by his fellow explorer Stanley, will be one of many Livingstone relics at an exhibition at Barnet, Hertfordshire England. Dr. Livingstone lived for eight months m 1857
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    SINGAPORE SPOTLIGHT
    1304 11  -  Adelaide Eastley BY,, LAN unusual Singaporean is a young man named MR. FRANCIS TAN, a former schoolteacher who, singlehandedly, has been trying to help under-privileged children. Hut he cannot continue his efforts alone and unaided. He needs help. A couple Of year tie 1 ri. d to start
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    BRIDGE HAND
    374 12 I he bidding: Sooth West North Easl I 0 Pass N.T. Pas* $9* Pass 5N.T.* Pass 6 0* All Pass (•Bl.ckwood Convention) "TT Is obvious to me that your column Is unfair to the Blackpool Four- Five No-Trump Convention," said Lee Hazen, enunciating with remarkable clarity for one
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    When travel sickness takes the joy out of a journey
    408 12  - When travel sickness takes the joy out of a journey S. FIELD By IX the years of my childhood, many an excursion was spoiled for me by the fact that I suffered from the all-too-com-mon complaint of travel-sickness. Even now when I go on a journey, whether by land, sea
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    Lock icon RADIATION CAN CURE CANCER
    443 12  - RADIATION CAN CURE CANCER DOROTHY ROE -by "DADIATION can cure cancer of some types. Surgery can cure cancer of some types. So far nobody has found what will cure all cancers, but when such a cure is developed, it probably will be by way of biochemistry, says Dr. Edith Quimby,
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      224 12 i LIES ACROSS 11 This god is lazy, we hear 7 Tries a little market inside (4). 1 g, 12 Soft Yorkshire water (4). 8 There is art m an historic 13 Directions for the bishop's 12 P^rtTa ilntence (6). 15 Po^eJhe m SU>urbrldge 1 6 Recover YrtJS inside (6).
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      They never come out of dustbins
      743 13  - They never come out of dustbins JOHN BARBER by I JJOW loony can you get? To London last week came a I P? a y Wl^ two crazy characters who spend all their I time m dustbins. I They keep pushing up their lids, like Jacks-in-the-moox, to make quirky remarks.
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      65 13 /^S^^dlH C2fc^ growing en/ la pen lpT« p JSE^TtUjp-S 1 and how they enjoy that daily glass Hfe p u LL cream of delicious NIiSPRAY Full Cream 0^ Powdered Milk. NESPRAY is firstI s****""*"*! class, pure cow's milk, rich m cream p t y'''*^ lfi 1 JB and vitamins every
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    Lock icon FALKIRK HOLD LATE BID BY FANCIED KILMARNOCK
    486 14 SCOTTISH CUP FINAL ENDS IN A DRAW THE Scottish Cup final ended m a draw for the third time m five years at Hampden Park m Glasgow on Saturday when Kilmarnock and Falkirk could each score only one goal m an exciting: game.
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    Lock icon After 12 years America win Boston race
    154 14 YOUNG Johnny Kelley, 1 wearing the colours of the host club, yesterday became the first American winner of the Boston Athletic Association marathon m 12 years by romping to an easy victory m the 61st annual event. The 26-year-old Groton, Connecticut, teacher, covered
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    Lock icon TODAY'S QUEEN'S PRIZE PROBABLES
    156 14 TODAY'S QUEEN'S PRIZE PROBABLES rERE are 16 probables for today's Queens Prize to be run over two miles at Kempton Park. They are with jockeys: Prince Barle <M. T. Gosling). Articulate (D. Ryan). Combatant (W, Snaith), Partner (A. Breasley), All's Well (D. Smith), Predominate (R. H. Hughes), Persian Flag (W.
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    17 14 DAYBROOK (Barratt) being led m after winning the fourth race on Saturday. Daybrook upset to pay $146
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    43 14 HYING PRINCESS (Franklin) forging ahead near the finish to win the Spring Cup at Bukit Timah on Saturday On the outside is Brilliant Scholar (9) Zabiglione and Nazakat (nearest the rails) are the inside pair Following them home are Krakatoa (15) and Roulette.
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    Lock icon British boxing has no excuse left for decline
    454 14 tlOn "Bane goes our last excuse." the cynics are saying. f b o^nVf c d ec.in lJ ont L nues. pirit are w «e g o.n g to True enough, the tax took most of the blame for the drop m the
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    Lock icon SPRINGBOK HURDLER SETS WORLD RECORD
    83 14 SPRINGBOK HURDLER SETS WORLD RECORD tiERT POTGIETER. 19--f year-old South African Olympic hurdler, broke the world record for the 400 yards hurdles m Queenstown. South Africa, yesterday by clocking 50.8 sec. Potgieter's time was half a second faster than the official world mark set up by Yrui Lituyev, of the
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    Lock icon U.K. RUGGER RESULTS
    81 14 RESULTS of Saturday's Rugby League matches were: Barrow 15 Whitehaven 7; Batley 4 Wakefield Trinity 31; Bramley 33 Castleford 12; Featherstone Rovers 17 Leeds 7 Halifax 15 Bradford Northern 18. Hull Kingston Rover 16 Huddersfield 14; Hunslet 12 Oldham 21; Keighley 4 Hull 14; Leigh 18 York
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    Lock icon NEW RECORD
    39 14 Willie Atterberry, of Michigan University, ran 600 yards at Columbus, Ohio, yesterday m 1 mm. 8.5 sec. fastest time ever recorded for the distance. Previous best was 1 mm. 9.2 by Ben Eastman (U.S.) m 1933.- Reuter
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    Lock icon Crisis in English soccer
    476 15 STAR PLAYERS MAY FOLLOW CHARLES TO FOREIGN CLUB I^HK transfer of John Charles to the Italian club Juventus could be the first of a series of similar shifts capable of wrecking English soccer. Even if Charles' decision to move to Italy does not spark a chain
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    Lock icon LITTLER WINS
    32 15 Gene Littler, former United States amateur golf champion, won the $US4O,--000 Tournament of Champions at Las Vegas yesterday for the third successive year. He had an aggregrate of 285 Reuter
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    SATURDAY WINNER
    21 15 MR. A P. LIM leading m Straight Flight (Posner). winner of the fifth race at Bukit Titnah on Saturday.
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    Lock icon Two Springboks quit Charlton
    137 15 SOUTH AFRICANS Ken Chamberlain and Syd OLinn have decided to quit English soccer league football and return home. The departure of Chamberlain and OLinn will cut; Charlton Athletics South African colony to four players fullback John Hewie, inside-left Stuart Leary, centre forward Peter Firmani and leftwinger
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    Lock icon N.Z. GAIN WINNING 3-0 LEAD
    106 15 NEW ZEALAND gained a winning 3-0 lead over The Lebanon m their firstround European Zone Davis Cup tie at Beirut yesterday. They will next meet Britain at Eastbourne on May 16, 17 and 18. Britain had a by't» into the second round. The New Zealanders,
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    Lock icon OUTSIDER ROYAL CHIEF WINS ROSEBERY STAKES
    229 15 OUTSIDER ROYAL CHIEF WINS ROSEBERY STAKES ROYAL CHIEF, a 20-1 bet, held off a strong challenge by favourite Orinthia to win the mile-and-a-quarter Rosebery Stakes by a neck at Kempton Park yesterday. Queen Elizabeth was m I the Easter holiday crowd and saw her filly, Might and j Main, finish
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    Lock icon GONZALES ROUTS ROSEWALL
    87 15 GONZALES ROUTS ROSEWALL BIG Pancho Gonzales of the United States yesterday beat Australia's Ken Rosewall to enter the final of the Bermuda professional tennis championship against Pancho Segura. Gonzales' big game and steady ground strokes overcame Rosewall's failing service and unsteady game to win 6-1. 6-3. 6-4. Segura, defending cham-
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    Lock icon BRAZIL BEAT PERU ONE-NIL
    30 15 BRAZIL BEAT PERU ONE- NIL Brazil beat Ptru 1-0 In their World Soccer Cup Dreliminary round secondeg match at Rio de Janeiro yesterday. The first match vas drawn 1-1. Reuter
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    15 15 LYCOS (Mortimer) returning to scales after winning the third race at Bukit Timah on Saturday.
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    BIRTHS
    37 16 29 Words $6 (minimum). VINCENT: To Enid and Denis at KandanK Kerbau Hospital. April 20th, a boy Denis Keith Gerard VAN-ANDEL: To Dorothy, wife of Willem— Police Signals, Kota Bharu, a daughter, Jane, on 1 Atirll
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    ENGAGEMENT
    32 16 20 Words $6 (minimum). LIM WEE. Soon Kheaxn eldest son of Mr. Mrs- Lim Chuan Kirn, to Oh Neo (Margaret) only daughter of Mr. Mrs. Wee Cheng Que e on 22.4.57.
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    Presents for the Queen
    200 16 Presents for the Queen QUIET BIRTHDAY WITH FAMILY QUEEN ELIZABETH yesterday celebrated her 31st birthday quietly with her family at Windsor Castle. Early yesterday, to the cries of "happy birthday" an excited Prince Charles and Princess Anne gave their mother the presents they had bought out of their pocket money.
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    Lock icon Now for flying ice chunks
    71 16 A CHUNK of ice weighing 100 lbs. screamed out of the skies "just like a jet plane." and buried itself m a field 100 feet from where children were playing m Ontario yesterday. A meteorologist, to whom the cone-shaped chunk was described, said it could
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    Lock icon HANG THOSE HICCOUGHS!
    61 16 MAUREEN MORTON, a 17--year-old schoolgirl of Springs, near Johannesburg, has been hiccoughing for 75 days non-stop. Maureen, who is now being treated by a chiropractor, has received hundreds of letters of advice. One writer offered to consult a local witch doctor on her behalf, and another said
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    Lock icon LAYING EGGS THE RED WAY
    61 16 Soviet scientists claim that eight minutes treatment a day from a mobile ultra-violet ray unit increases a hen's laying capacity by 65 per cent, according to the Soviet news agency Tass. Alternatively after a 35--day vitamin b-3 treatment the hen puts on 300 grammes m
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    63 16 picture. Woman racing driver. Miss Joy Landymore, who drove an Upel Kapiian and com- t peted m the Malayan Mobilgas Economy Run which concluded In Singapore yes- J terday. is seen on the left chatting with Dr. F C. B. Marshall and his daughter. Linda In last year's run Joy
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    Lock icon HOTTEST EASTER PARADE EVER...
    194 16 New Yorkers sizzle m spring finery White back m fashion MORE THAN 1,200,000 New Yorkers displayed their Spring finery along 10 blocks of Fifth Avenue m the hottest Easter parade on record. The unveiling of new fashions nearly took a back seat to nature as the
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    Lock icon A BIRD 'BATH' SLAUGHTER...
    61 16 The best rain the town of Cradock m South Africa has had for many years spelled disaster for the thousands of kestrels which roost m the trees m the municipal park. The birds were soaked by the rain and could not fly. Africans, with sticks, killed
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    Lock icon Up the tower -19,000 times
    28 16 MORE than 19,000 tourists visited the Eiffel Tower on Easter Sunday the greatest number since the opening of the tower m 1889. A.P.
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    VICTORY FOR PERAK?
    213 16  - VICTORY FOR PERAK? Edin Peters By rHE Perak Motor Club is expected to be announ- ced as the clear winner of this year's Malayan Mobilgas Economy Run at the prize distribution ceremony t 0 be held at the Ocean Park Hotel, Singapore, today. Tor three successive years this club. which
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      FREE PRESS RACE DAY Special
      306 1 FREE PRESS RACE DAY Special j I wwiiirowiiii' I tmmmnmm I Jjj"* j ALLAN LEWIT" TRESPASSER ~E~PSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTEE WINDSOR LAD SCRUTINEER KWEE LOM 5" FOGHORN QUICKLY FOGHORN QUICKLY DENTUREENE QUICKLY FRESH MYSTERY FRESH MYSTKRY I Race 1- oa£kl» Sentimental Quickly Forhorn Fresh Mystery Brawn Eyes Quickly Kismet
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      4 1 Monday. April 22, 1957.
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      If track remains fast Distine can score again
      644 1  - If track remains fast Distine can score again ALLAN LEWIS PROVIDED the track remains hard and fast Distine can win again this afternoon despite his 14-Ib penalty. He won by 2£ lengths last Wednesday and with the handicaps about 2 lb higher today, it is m Distine's favour. If there
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      PROBABLE STARTERS AND RIDERS
      1067 2 RACE 1-2.15: CL. 4, ©IV. 3-7 FUKi 1. 650 SIR SUN 6y bag (K.Y. Lim K.L. Ching) Daniels 9.00 > 2. 469 PORT-OF-SPAIN 5y breg (Amazon Stable* Yong 8 1J Jones 3. 060 AJIT 7y breg (R. Jumabhoy) Daniels o.li *wi 4. 236 QUICKLY 4y birg
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      TRACK
      625 2 RACE ONE SIR SUN: 9-4-57— Covered 3P m 43; 15-4-57— Was going better than Ajit m 3F m 42; 17-4-57 Thirteenth m Div. 2-mile race. PORT OF SPAIN: 17-4-57 Scratched from Div. 3-6F engagement. AJIT: 11-4-SV-Was fully extended for 3F m 39 >i; 15-4-57— Covered 3F m 42 with
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      FORM OF TODAY'S HORSES
      1705 3 4, DIV. I—7 FURS RACE 7-530: CL. 1. 112 GALA PREMIERE 5y beg (Shaw Stable) Spencer 9.00 Posner 2. 232 DIAMOND JIBILEE 5y chirg (Double X Stable) Hobbs 8.13 Donnelly 3. 051 GOLDEN GL'S 4y cheg (Kwik Stable) Allan 8.13 Paterson 4. 641 PACK OF GOLD
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      Hobbs trio can dominate Raffles Plate finish
      564 4  - Hobbs trio can dominate Raffles Plate finish TRESPASSER By pUSTINE, Sir Francis and Hopsasa three top class sprinters from the Hobbs' Stable should dominate the finish of the Raffles Plate, the main race at Bukit Timah today, concluding day of the Singapore Turf Club's April Meeting. Distine, of course, is
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      Orchestration is day's best
      273 4 ORCHESTRATION is steadily regaining his best form and I think it is needless to look beyond him for the winner of Race Five. Orchestration ran a good third behind Windlewell and Tanah Byeh, and is up 10-lb. for going down a division. At his best last
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      780 4 57— Was going better than Stage Show II m 3P m 37 *|5; 17-4-57— Seventh m Div. I— 6P race. MALAYAN SCHOLAR; 10-4-57 —Went nicely over 3P In 40 without being extended; 17-4-57 Course scratching In Div. 1 6F race; lg-4-57— Was going easily alongside Head On m 3F In
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      LITTLE JOHN CAN BEAT THIS FIELD
      160 4 THE Cl. 1, Div. 2, 61 race looks to be the most open event m today's card. Little John, Judicial, Programme, Azarole, Shoeshine Boy, Bondi and Miralda will probably command most support (Race Four). My pick is Little John. This five-year-old appears to have
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      Promising Tanglin Hill can saddle up
      169 4 IF Tanglin Hill can saddle up, I see no reason why he shouldn't, then he makes a good bet m this Class 1, Div. 3, 6f. race. Tanglin Hill is obviously a promising sort. His threequarter length second to Azarole was full of merits.
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      STRONG AND FREE TO AMEND
      135 4 AND FREE was i •5 very unlucky on Wednesday when third to Lord Frederick and Winged Warrior over 6f He was badly checked at the half mile, rhis interference probably :ost him the race. Strong and Free should make amends today. He is setter over
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