The Singapore Free Press, 27 March 1958

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya'fi Own Family Paper \o 'A Hi >ins;a|)O! v. T!un>d;t>. March ?7, 1<»,*»S. Price i"> < Is.
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    Lock icon Townsend surprise: Tea with Margaret
    336 1 Townsend surprise: Tea with Margaret KOIT-CAPTAIN Peter Tovvnsend flew home to U England yesterday after an 18-month world trip and immediately paid a visit to Princess Margaret, who renounced her love for him in 1955. Group-Capt. Townsend drove to Clarence House in mid-afternoon and had tea with the Princess and
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    Lock icon DRAMA OF CRIPPLED PLANE OVER OCEAN: RESCUE AIRCRAFT OUT
    129 1 AN American air force C-97 transport, crippled by a runaway propeller on one of its four engines, was reported tnlS morning to be headed toward Honolulu. The piano, a military version of the Boring Stratocruiser. was roporU-a 620 miles north-east 01
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    Lock icon JAKARTA TROOPS LAUNCH BIG OFFENSIVE
    271 1 JAKARTA TROOPS LAUNCH BIG OFFENSIVE Drive starts for Padang and Bukit Tinggi INDONESIAN Central Government troops launched an all-out drive against revolutionary strongholds of Padang and Bukit Tinggi on the West coast of Sumatra last night, according to a Jakarta report. The Jakarta forces threw one offensive against the rebels
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    Japan-wide train and bus strike
    59 1 MORE THAN 100,000 railroad workers today began the largest strike in Japans post-war history when overnight talks be tween union and management broke down. The strike left more thai. 13.000,000 railway commuters stranded throughout the country. a total of io:} railway unions employed by 92
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    Lock icon Singapore student jailed in Australia
    134 1 A 20 YEAR OLD 4 Singapore student forged his passport so that he could return to Australia, Perth police court was told today. The student, Tan Ah Kwang, was found to be a prohibited immigrant and sentenced to six months' jail pending deportation. Police said
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    Dialled 999, foiled thugs
    55 1 Prompt action by a Singapore shopkeeper. Ong Boon Wan foiled an extortion bid at his home in Sims Avenue last night. He dialled 999 and within two minutes two radio patrol cars were on the scene. Men were seen running away and the police gave chase.
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    RUBBER PRICE
    28 1 April first grade rubber buyers i'.o.b. Bfiened in Singapore this morning at 77 3 8 cents a lb., unchanged on yesterday's dose. The tone was quiet.
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    Second arrest
    28 1 a second arrest was made last night in connection with an acid-throwing incident at the Gammon (Malaya) premise* in Bukit Timah Road a low days ago.
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    7 men held
    22 1 Police last night arrested seven secret, society members in connection with the rioting in Henderson Rond ovei the weekend.
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    To Medan by air again
    50 1 MALAYAN AIRWAYS resumed normal scheduli" 1 ed flights to Medan this morning from Singapore via Penang. The airline operates three flights a week on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays to Medan. They were suspended for about a week. Garuda also resumed its service lo Medan recently.
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    Lock icon UK WARNING: RECESSION WORSE
    116 2 Hunk oi fciifji tt l( itffainsi in flu g i O| IIK. C. F. COBBOLD, Governor oi the fe i?i England, declared In London last m in,, 1 patches of recession round the world "look i h more threatening than they did in Februart! \iv saui
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    62 2 This is the last year for debutantes presentation parties at Buckingham Palate at which the girls curtsy lo the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the rate of about one every siv seconds. Here are some of the girls who attended the last party. From left, Sally O'Rourke, Julia
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    Lock icon Boyd told 'pack of lies, says Mintoff
    148 2 Boyd told 'pack of lies, says Mintoff ]%|R. DOM MINTOFF, 1 Malta's Prime Minister, last night accused Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, British Colonial Secretary, of having told "a pack of lies" about Malta and claimed he had misled Parliament I and the people of Mai- 1 ta and Britain. Mr. MintofY
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    Lock icon EASIER TO REACH MARS THAN MOON -IKE'S SCIENTISTS
    234 2 pRESIDENT Eisenhower's scientific advisory committee last night reported that it would be easier to land a space ship on Mars and Venus than on the moon because both planets have atmospheres that can be used to cushion a landing. The scientists added
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    Lock icon U.K. to share Zeta secrets
    43 2 BRITISH scir<ntt.st.s will share with their colleagues from all over the world facts about the design and performance of Zeta when the second international conference on th'< peaceful uses of atomic energy meets In Geneva in September. Reuter
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    Lock icon Formosa's guest
    30 2 Nationalist Chi m eign Minister i orge Ye said yesterday that presi dent Ngo Dinh Diem c South Vietnam will make state visit to Formosa thi year. U.P.
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    Lock icon U.S. USES LESS SYNTHETIC RUBBER
    111 2 U.S. USES LESS SYNTHETIC RUBBER pONSUMPTION of !.oa v. rubber in the U.S. drop* ped to 100.068 long tons in February from 115.222 tons a month earlier and 123,687 tons In the same period of 1957. according to the Rubber Manufacturers Association. Synthetic rubber used last month amounted to 63.520
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    Lock icon REBEL GRENADE MOWS DOWN STREET CROWD
    54 2 REBEL GRENADE MOWS DOWN STREET CROWD A REBEL hand grenade rV exploded In the midst of a Mdewalk crowd in front of a store in Constantine, Algeria, yesterday, mowing down soldiers and civilians and shattering store windows. French authorities >aid at least 10 French >oldiers and 12 civilians were injured
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    Lock icon CHURCHILL NOW WORKING AGAIN
    62 2 Sir Winston Ch archill remained indoors at Roquebrune, South Prance yesterday and conducted "a t^ood deal of work," a member of his household at the villa La Pausa said yesterday. It is likely, however, that Sir Winston will spend at least two more weeks there convalescing
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    Lock icon Socialists win
    25 2 Socialists last night won control of the British West Indies first federal parliament to be opened by Princess Margaret on April 22 Reuter
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    Lock icon Queen slows car to let crowds see her
    393 3 Queen slows car to let crowds see her v, i I 11/ABKTH in- ted \esterday on k is, an open car— threatening rain to ho clearly seen by Lj, ering thousands lining U ute through The ill' i tjueen, who is on official visit to Uol. j ,Iso asked that
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    Lock icon Consternation after a kiss
    78 3 WHEN Queen Elizabeth stepped out oi her car at the fishing town of Schevinengen one of the old fisherwomen pulled out two coloured shawls from under her lons black dress and threw them round the Queen's shoulders to protect her from the rain. Then she leaned
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    Lock icon TROUBLE IN NEW WARSHIP -42 CREW INVOLVED
    164 3 TROUBLE IN NEW WARSHIP -42 CREW INVOLVED nAII NG on trials of the O I ship in the Royal Nav^ H.M. Minelayer A. iL has been delayed pending the outcome of an inquiry into cases of di irbances and large"absence from place of duty." Eigh naval ratings arc I r
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    Lock icon An Oscar: pointless without Mike
    121 3 An Oscar: pointless without Mike OSCAR Nominee Elizabeth Taylor, the tragic death of her show, man husband, Mike Todd, still uppermost in her thoughts as she rested at her Hollywood home in seclusion, said yesterday that winning an academy award would be "meaningless without Mike." Nominated for her role in
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    Lock icon Peking wires told
    72 3 MMI N IST women tlvi its" are visiting 1 f i< tnonstrate birth methods to Peking the Pel: in j News reported day paper said the .11 miy WQ\ coined since manj were anxious to obtain knowledge on limit families "But i ome v om< n i
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    Lock icon KILLED HIS GIRL FRIEND JAILED FOR LIFE
    126 3 KILLED HIS GIRL FRIEND JAILED FOR LIFE BRIAN GEORGE CANDY, 21 -year-old motor mechanic, was sentenced to life Imprisonment at Winchester, Suut h e m England, yesterday foj tiic manslaughter of nil girl friend, Lynne Diana Wilson. He was found not guilty of murder alter a prison doctor had testified
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    Lock icon PoW AT LARGE IN JAPAN 13 YEARS
    279 3 4 FORMER Chinese prisoner-of-war, who had been hiding in Japan's northern mountain chain for the past 13 years following his escape from a Japanese labour camp in 1945, last night arrived in Tokyo on his way back to his home in Shantung Province
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    CIVICS COURSE
    43 3 Tweni foui womei from Sembawang rui il district v.;ii taki p irl li a civicj urge t< daj Ihi will br jhown i und hi I m gra tion Deo< l! n B ard, the airpM ri md I P< He
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    Lock icon Art treasures go by sea
    59 3 The first .shipment of works of art created by European and Filipino artists for the rebuilt Cathedral of Manila is on its way by sea from Italy. It consists of 296 crates totalling 130 tons of statues, mosaics, stainedglass windows and oilier decorations forwarded by
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    Lock icon Windy Nook widow will not testify
    188 3 Windy Nook widow will not testify MRS. MARY ELIZABETH WILSON, the 66-year-old Widow <>t Windy Nook, Northern England, who La accused of poisoning two husbands for "paltry benefit." win not testify at her murder trial. The decision was announced at Leeds Assizes yesterday by her defence counsel Miss Pio.se Heilbron,
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      Opinion Tempting to Reds
      196 4 Opinion Tempting to Reds APOLOGISTS for Russia and Red China stress that, as they are bending their entire energies to material development, they cannot contemplate w a r and the certain destruction of their work. But, these apologists say, the Red countries fear that the capitalist nations would seek to
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    Lock icon A two- nation row over temple ruins now goes to UN
    618 4  - A two- nation row over temple ruins now goes to UN BRUCE RUSSELL by nthltMtfi front ttmmyh&h A RUINED Ninth A Century temple set high over the plains of Cambodia has become the subject of an international dispute. Cambodia, in an informal note to the United Nations, has claimed the
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    Their real aim destruction of Islam
    649 4  - Their real aim destruction of Islam GODFREY LIM MIPS- -iUIMPIOAS OF MiSLMS* big ttl6 tnd of World War ii. te 1 Muslim countries in Asia and Africa have attained freedom an average of. roughly, one every 15 months. All ten did SO without a war. and all ton with the
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      51 4 Airline J HERE are the *V. C new "Airline" **X%V pulls. All the edges and corners 'j^E^'V- u of the desks are j*~\ 1 ->^ rounded and they %^**l p are supported >*£>■ i by convenient "island bases" instead of leis. i* UNDERWOOD wmm "*o"«« D OAIMHOA STIIIT VINGA^OIt lIANCHIi
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    $500,000 SCHEME DROPPED
    219 5 iVo 4 4i sit and no skillvd nten to run abattoirs JHE Sinffa^re Rural Board has chopped its plan to build two abattoirs wan* rurai are;ls in Lim chu Kan ail(l unison: racA; of funds and experienced men to $iajf them u/m,M i spokes mun °f the
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    Lock icon Strijdom policy 'appals' Labour
    50 5 The British Labour Party's National Executive Committee in an official statement yesterday on freedom In South Africa said it was "appalled by tho continuing evidence that the South African Government is determined to destroy every democratic liberty of the majority of the South African people." Reuter
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    U.K. briefs Reds on Sputnik II
    27 5 Britain Is passing information about the last days of Sputnik II on to Russian scientists, it was announced In London yesterday.
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    Lock icon Laos envoy named
    22 5 The U.S. Senate yesterday confirmed tHe nomination of Mr. Horace H. Smith as United States Ambassador to Laos.- Reuter
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    Lock icon Protest against U.S. bases in U.K.
    48 5 Two hundred members of the National Union of Vehicle Builders last night staged a protest meeting in a House of Commons committee room against flights of American planes carrying H-bombs over Britain and against the country's American bases and rocket sites. Reuter
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    Those KPM ships will come here when released
    137 5 a 801 I 30 KPM ships A still held in Indonet\\;\ ports by order of Ibc Central Government In Jakarta are expected to sail for Singapore when they are allowed to leave. rhe Jakarta GovernI 11( ni announced last vrt U that
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    $1 MIL MORE SPENT ON AID
    213 5 THE number of people eking financial from the Singapore Social Welfare partment is graiually increasing. /erage monthly figure the first two months this year was about public assistance 2,100 tuberculosis The monthly averfor last year was out Ki.ooo and 2.000 respectively. kesman for the
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    Go-ahead for new $1 mil. shoe factory
    135 5 HEAD of the world -wide shoe company, Mr. Thoma.s Bat a. has given the green signal to so ahead with the company's 18--month-old scheme to build a now 51.000.u00 factory in Singapore. Mr. Bat a told the Free Pres.v that the reason for
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    ANCHORS AWAY FOR BIGGEST NAVY EXERCISE TOMORROW
    247 5 ANCHORS AWAY FOR BIGGEST NAVY EXERCISE TOMORROW THE departure Of two warships from the Singapore Naval Ba.^e for the South China Sea tomorrow will mark the beginning of a seven-day exercise said to be the biggest in recent times. About a dozen warships are aready in the Singapore Naval Base.
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    11 Ships at Base
    10 5 Ship, in the gSs^lu?A B VW^»i«»««»'
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    Flood aid ball tonight
    112 5 Flood aid ball tonight DINOAPORffI ell i i k fi r Ihfl i♦*l i* i t.i Ct Lon'fl flood victims v.'ill bswelled tonight U ti.* 1 Community attends the benefit nuisque ball it Ruffles Hotel Ticket! it $8 a couple will be avail* able at the duor. The organiser chairman.
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      52 6 J SMOKE OASIS j WITH SOOTHING MENTHOL MIST Vlenthol Vlisl makes the l»i l| o*3 ich tobacco /</>/<■ /r«/n r while you -moke. S \nd the freshness stays v S you [ona after smoking, i.ii ii A Hftw r«j smRJ//m> n r l J^~ i >HR|RO CHINA, LTD Int'irporpfed in
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      119 6 PI I ri^ II 1%% lil l»> Jortlan l^ 7 x\; MAMiAf GET < »</T O* Xjf\ AN/ UMKNOWN WOCLD SU(?(?EWDEC J K^l |3 THAT TAIL SECTION VV& J^T W L Ott PtSTPOV US ALL 1 >IAM>IIAKi: by Lee fialk and IMiil Davis I AXE by Hnbbard W^r'S TRUE, MISS.'
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      422 6 I C I Bohn today, you like t< plans on a large scale a the:n through. You demand I certain love and affection all th< will be happiest If you we< young so that you have j adori ig family growing up you, you are devoted to md will do
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      U.K. dosing prices
      154 7 LONDON Manh (j Previou> l udu| mo. is Mm* 23* buyen w i ruu AprU 22\ buyers 22 buyers 22% selleii 22 sellers so. l KSS Spot 23 buyers 23 buu'A so 1 RSS Settlenu-n, l ll "Xi ii i«im> Aprfl ..23 bUNTI 33 buyers 23 1
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      New York prices
      106 7 NEW YORK, March 26. Previous Today 1!\ ,iraits Spot 93-62 norn 9'.i.iA) num. 1 1\ > t u res v, Contract March 92.75 buyers 92.75 buyers 93.87 selleis 93.75 sellers May 92.62 buyer- 92.75 buyers 93.75 seller 93.75 sellers rOM Steady. SALES: Nil. in r.1.1 1; 1
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      35 7 NEW YORK. March >6. Previous today 39 Industries 450. 9G 449.70 28 Railroads 105.58 105.04 4u Domestic Bonds 88-79 88.78 15 I liliUes 73.75 73.76 65 Stocks Composite Averages. 153.40 153 00
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      U.S. PEPPER
      59 7 abar spot and awaiting release 27Va, afioats 27'j to 27. half March shipmem Lampong spot and awaiting ri [ease 27 1 j, afloats 27% second half March ship- ment 26 Ij.1 j. Sarawak unquoted. Muntok white and awaiting release 48. afloats 47, second hall March shipment 45. sellers
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      110 7 LONDON. March 26Previous Today COPR Philippines c.i.f. UK./ North European ports delivered weight per long ton Mar./ Apr s 192 sellers $192Vj sellers OPRA, Straits c.i.f. U.K./North European ports delivered t(!8", buyers £68^ buyers weight per long ton Mar./ Apr £(i9'j sellers £69^ sellers Apr./ May
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    37 7 I Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, the British Foreign Secretary who i.s accompanying Queen Elizabeth on her visit to Holland, yesterday discussed problems of importance to the two countries with his Dutch counterpart, Mr. Joseph Luns. Reuter
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    Lock icon New forces' chief
    39 7 Lt.-Oen. Sir Horatius Murray Of the British Army i.s to sneered Lt.-Gm. Bir Cecil Sugden, aa Commander In* Chief oi the Allied Fore i In northern Europe, II was announced iii London yester i day Reuter
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    MAKING SWAMPS INTO LIVING AREAS
    227 7 MAKING SWAMPS INTO LIVING AREAS MORE AND MORE acres of swampy coastal land in Singa- pore are being reclaimed for agricultural and building I purposes. A spokesman of the Singapore Rural Board told the Free Press that they were engaged on reclaiming the land in five various Places in the
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    Lock icon Singapore's new multi-purpose $2mil, Health Institute
    166 7 Official apvitiny fix€*ii far April 2.'t Singapore's imposing new $2,100,000 Institue of Health (above), a joint Government, University of Malaya and City Council project, which ha s been built in Outram Road. The official opening by the Minister for Health. Mr. A. J. Braga,
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      142 7 fMa'uJiwsant's" MOST DARING "sto"' j in FRANCE! 1 "A tour through a plush-lined sewer" —Dally Ttlcyuiph "...skating skilfully over very thin ice delirious pcrfor finances by Renec Faure, Anne Vernon Christl Mardayn as h the used discarded mistresses" Sunday Dispatch ■"Sparkling malice' —Daily Sketch g 'Wholly and unashamedly occupied with
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      238 7 iJ 1 1 f 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 rll 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Lr I SINCAPORE I HIGH TIDESI TODAY: :',.!:> p.m. TOMORROW: 2.18 a.m. E and
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    ATOM WARSHIP ON THE ST CKS
    241 8 ATOM WARSHIP ON THE ST CKS THE UNITED STATES expect b to have an atomic cruiser plying G the oceans by K">l The keel of the nuckar- powered and nuclear- airneu surface warship was laid at Qumcy. Ma^ sachusetts< Iff early December, 1957, The ship, which is being const i
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    JUMBO SADDLE IES HER OR SIZE
    80 8 JUMBO SADDLE IES HER OR SIZE A >pt'(i.ti lightweight for "Lakhsmi' 1 the Londo at six years old, will t, riding elephants for th{ "Lakhsmi" v ill carry] the larger elephants car Here. "Lakhsmi" the singly kneels so that Re Jones can lit her with lightweight model made s lias
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    Unhappy husbands Club is flourishing
    271 8 Unhappy husbands Club is flourishing the Association will be opened to them. Once inside, there is A CLUB for unhappily married Italians has beA come so popular that it is looking round for new and larger headquarters. Called the Association for Separated Couples, it began as a small-town project last
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    FOUR NEW LINERS TO DWARF 'QUEENS'
    119 8 fjvu'K giant passenger liners half as big again as I Britain's "Queens" are to be built in Rotter- I dam by the Vcrolme Company. i They will each carry 1.000 passengers across the Atlantic, will weigh 120,000 tons and cost £32,000,000 each, The Queen
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    Fred knows all the answers
    169 9 Fred knows all the answers pOCKNE* cab driver, \j M) year old Fred Borders from Brixton, London, has the mind 01 i calculating ma. chine. aih\ has ama/ed a nation. v ale audience recently with his tightening answers to mental arithmetic problems on the 1.1.V, quiz show "Double Your Money."
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    NO GOOD AT NAMES
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    KING-THE SOLID SOCCER SUPPORTER
    71 9 KING -THE SOLID SOCCER SUPPORTER tteady to add his own gruff nole to the soccer fans' cheers is King, the sturdy bulldog: mascot of the Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth, seen here with sea cadet Terence Noon an of North End Portsmouth. King was leading the supporters of HMS Victory when
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    Big orders for nylon
    99 9 BRITAIN'S nylon In flu -try. aln ady the b: !> gest in Europe, ha had on of its b< t sale-. bo<> I for yi iars [t h i, b< n holding d N i i lonal Nylon Tr ide E ilr al tin Mb- Hall,
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    VENOM IN A DIARY SPELT ARREST...
    2169 10  - VENOM IN A DIARY SPELT ARREST... Pelham Groom Another Latiff story by.... THE DIARY, WHICH LOCK HAD OBVIOUSLY SNATCHED FROM HIS POCKET THE MOMENT THE LIGHTS HAD FAILED, WAS I ALL LATIFF HAD TO WORK ON. HE OPENED IT, HOPING FOR THE BEST... ON THE AIR The fourth of the
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    MEET THE HARBOUR BOARD'S LITTLE ARMY
    967 11 MEET THE HARBOUR BOARD'S LITTLE ARMY fl A DEBONAIR FLOURISH, THE YOUTHFUL LOOKING DRUM SER ANT MAJOR, AN IMPECCABLY SMART IMPRESSIVE FIGURE, HURLED HIS N MACE INTO THE AIR AND Hf IT AGAIN WITH NONCHALs|T EASE, pipe-and-dmtti band, dressed magni.ll deep blue kilts, spotless while tunics, and glengarries, swung into
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    SMART TURN-OUT
    45 11 Lieut. Col. A. fi. Rhind inspects the Reserve at I one of their twice-weekly parades. The turn-out is noted for being of an exceptionally high stand- ard even thouah the men have only a feib hours I to spare for training between shifts.
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    WOMAN IS MADE LEGION PRESIDENT
    107 11 By elect Ing a womai i theli pr< ld< nl a i ;i oi ihe Hi i ii Logion has ide hi torj Ihe 800-Btrong Ab< id< i ibr inch rcc tly cl cMI Hai riet Duncan, <>i 39 Bi ech >v< Pen aci \bi
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    Lock icon JAPANESE SHOW OUTPUT OF RICE CAN BE DOUBLED IN PAK.
    164 12 JAPANESE SHOW OUTPUT OF RICE CAN BE DOUBLED IN PAK. JAPANESE farming technicians who had gone to his country to introduce Japanese rice farming methods have been highly successful, particularly in East Pakistan where the yield per acre has been increased twofold, according to Dr. Omar Hayat Malik, Pakistani ambassador
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    79 12 This is how the Karachi memorial to Mr. Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, will appear when it is completed. Submitted by a London firm, this design has won for it a X 1,850 prise and the v: 427.000 contract to build the memorial. It comprise* a vast i canopy of concrete.
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    Lock icon Smuggling of agents is bared
    176 12 Smuggling of agents is bared A JAPANESE Com- munist Party "peo- pie fleet which, police alleged, was used to smuggle people be- j tween Japan and Com- I munist China has been brought to light in Tokyo. In a series of co- ordinatfd raids police detained for question- inj; ten
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    Lock icon Brahmin women seek work
    38 12 In joot -short Uttar Pradesh State high caste Brahmin women, icho never before in their lives left their homes to seek work, now queue up for free government rations and for manual icork.- U.P.
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    Lock icon Poster accusations lead to many arrests
    306 12 Poster accusations lead to many arrests VUMEROUS arrests in the streets of Peking have this month coincided with th< Chinese Government's appeal to city dwellers to voice frank 1 fearless criticism oi bureaucrats and Officials. A 'rectification" campaign aimed at unmasking incompetent officials and critics of the Communist Party was
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      363 12 Famine if no rain tails in two months I'HE food-short area of East Uttar Pradesh State faces a major famine if there is no rain within the next two months. The nine eastern districts of Uttar Pradesh home state oi Prime Minister Nehru already are endangered by a food shortage.
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    85 12 MANILA Foreign Secretary Felixbcrto M. Serrano has announced that Philippine foreign policy will soon be reoriented toward closer identit> mM Asia. At the same time, Mr. Serrano said, the major shift in the direction and emphasis of PhiliPP"" foreign policy will be
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    253 12 RUSSIA TO JAPAN: AFTER YOU SIGN, PERHAPS... THE Soviet Comx munist Party organ Pravda has maden clear that the Russians intend to utilise the Russo Japanese fishery talks to force Japan to sign a peace treaty. In an editorial entitled ''who Is interfering with the signing ol a peace treaty
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    Lock icon Case of the missing gold
    101 12 'VAIPEU Premier O. K. J Yui told the Legislative Yuan i Parliament) that the government was investiyutin a the disappearance of over M 51.500.000 worth of qovcrnmentowncd gold, But the Cabinet chief said that so far no evidence has been found that any gold had
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      JEAN SIMMONS
      12 13 Sorry to be unkind—but considering she has so much else...
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      WHY BE TIMID
      525 13 WHY BE TIMID First lesson is four-dish meal HELEN BURKE gives', some special advice to the bride-to-be... DIDN'T have to think twice before -hoosing London secretary Cynthia Pegi>h as Lie first of my incompetent Cooks. She was a Top PriorI!v case. Why? Because 20 year old nthia is getting married
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      Can anything be done if Nature left much to be desired?
      511 13 The Chinese che ongsam has long plac ed an emphasis on well moulded limbs. In Paris, the fashion designers have shortened skirts this year boldly, ruthlessly. Legs are in the fashion news the world over, and no woman can
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      Try it yourself
      160 13 I Helen Burke will surest B recipe each week Her first is a sweet dish— Mont Blanc (for four prisons): Cut a slit in the rounded side of each of lib. chestnuts. Drop them Into boiling water, boil fot 10 minutes, thru shell the mils Simmer them
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      Ice-cream wonders of the world
      189 13 Ice-cream wonders of the world By JENNIFER JONES American Ice-cream ar ti.st Eric Welle produces ice-cream sundaes which he claims to bo the biggest and most lavish In the world. Most of the Weile wonders are in the form of buildings the Eiffel Tower, the Pyramid, the United Nations building
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    PEKING BUILDS A STADIUM
    40 14 China's first stadium for cycle racing will be built in Peking this year, the Peking Evening News reported. The stadium will seat 5,000 people and will have a complete circuit of 333 metres (about 364 yards).
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    19 14 Phil Mead. 71-year-old former England and Hampshire cricketer, died last night in a Bournemouth hospital.- Reuter
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    270 14 West Indies score 234 for seven in the Test 117 EST Indies, after losing Tf their first two wickets for two runs, were 234 fur seven at the close of play on the opening day of the fifth and final Test against Pakistan at Port of Spain yesterday. West Indies
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    172 14 Boxing tmmmmmm HOW CAN a boy be a genius at the age of eight? Nothing easier, so long as he was born that way. Yehudi Menuhin and Mozart were both geniuses at that age. Pascal had worked out the whole system of
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    230 14 BHKMONTIEH. Top TweiV ty and Belrobln an doubtful runners for Hu Grand National at Aintree Liverpool, Thli ty-flve probable i unnei and |i ickey i for the steeple* I to i' iun over four mile and 856 ird .al Uvei pool on 8 day are:MB id v
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    AUSSIE MILER CAN RUN IN THE STATES
    401 14 AUSSIE MILER CAN RUN IN THE STATES T»HE Australian Amateur Athletics Ininn 1 decided to let Australian mile chaL^ Herb Elliott make an overseas tour h m lun British Empire and Commonwealth Cardiff (Wales) in July. It dealt m earner?! S the invitation received by Elliott from tl rican A.A.U.
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    311 14 AI)AV of shocks featured I the English Open table tennis championships in London yesterday Half of the eight seeded players in the men's singles had been eliminated b> the end of the second round. The womene n s singles brought the shock defeat of top-seed Ann
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      195 14 9bh °JtH E CR SS 6 Straight from the rector I bin the broth (5). (5) 5 She gets a penny (4 -0 A trick to limit growth (5). Nothing to a writer (4 i Manufactures brands (5) J35 r^SSr v ZoZt g jgf Lil f v n mm J'
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      Hat-trick puts United into the Cup Final
      461 15 Hat-trick puts United into the Cup Final 18-YEAR-OID ROUTS FULHAM k[ Hl-STLK UNITED'S magnificent recovery after last month's Munich air disaster tied near completion yesterday when they tied their way gloriously into the final of the iish Football Association Cup competition rhey gained a deserved 5-3 win over second ion
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      Lock icon AUSTRALIAN TO FIGHT IN BANGKOK
      72 15 AUSTRALIAN TO FIGHT IN BANGKOK 'TRAINER Ernie McQuillan has announced that Australian middleweight boxer Clive Stewart has accepted an offer to fight Dowthong Singthan I. ok in Bangkok. No date has beer. fixed yet, he .said. Stewart has been given a guarantee of £640 st< rling for the fight, he
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      42 15 A scoring burst oi five QOixls In seven minuter early in the .second period enabled Harringay Racers, the British National Ice hockey league club. to boat the United State.s team 9-0 at Harringay last night. Reuter
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      130 15 THE Football L€ftfU€ "f England beat the Scottish League 4-1 last night in Newcastle after loading 2-1 at half-time. Groatrr thTUlt in brought the English their victory -a Win Which gave them the British inttr-Letmw champion- M Kevan MOTtd Ul thl I4ttl| 10th and 67th
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      LADY JAMBO WORKS BEST ON FAST B. TIMAH TRACK
      1335 15  - LADY JAMBO WORKS BEST ON FAST B. TIMAH TRACK ALLAN LEWIS ARTINA DOES A WINNING GALLOP By LADK lAM 11 O (Mitchell) a promising Australian marc, who had Mitrostar (J. Jones) for company, was the best worker at Bukit Timah this morning. She ran three m 36 3, 5 fairly
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      81 15 i3»ftfcW M I am not allowed I ImL to love r But J vvill :nfe. SbwhhS CAPITOL Saturday Midnight I HBHIHkBHH™™nH B B B H hi pIS BA"^!yV hoN c I O l» If V o o 9 4 i (jTia f^| TRANSPORT STORAGE LTD I ?SS inCICIISIIIftr SINL4PORF Old^r
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    293 16 iii'viunff tOO an il<*s «tlM>i'4> th*> *'#iW/i. it* IHviinu* is su a tii»r cm tin f/.v I in United states smt its third earth satellite Into orbit around the earth yesterday at tape Canaveral, Florida, but it was expected to have a life <>i
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    Lock icon Himalaya plane wreck found: No sign of life
    54 16 Himalaya plane wreck found: No sign of life A rescue party of Nepalese troops yesterday reached the wreckage of a Dakota aircraft which crashed two days ago in the Himalayas, but found no sign of lite. The plane was completely burned out. All 20 passengers and crewmen were believed burned
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    DEATH
    29 16 20 Word* $fi (minimum). MR. R. C. RASANAYAGAM. formerly of X.L.. passed awaj peacefully 2.30 a.m. today. Cortejie leaves 44 Pheng Geek Avenue. Singapore 13 5 p.m. today.
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    Lock icon SUGAR BLAZE IN CUBA
    41 16 j Nearly 200.000 bags of sugar were destroyed when a lire swept through a ware- house at a sugar mill in Camaguey Province of Cuba yesterday. The damage was estimat- eel at Ms 6 million. I Reuter
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    CAVE FIND IS CLUE TO FORGOTTEN ERA
    145 16 AN important archaeo- logical find, which i gives B duo to the relation--1 Ship between the tenth century Buddhist era in Siam and the then BoroDUrdur civilisation in Java. has been made in a cave in South Siam, near the Malayan border. The
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    Honeymoon deferred for Johnny and Cleo
    129 16 Honeymoon deferred for Johnny and Cleo The saxaphone, her I voice, and a host of i band engagements, will put off the honeymoon i for this couple for nearly a year. They are top band- i leader Johnny Dank- worth the "Shocker ;of British Jazz and his coloured singer Cleo
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    231 16 France protests to Morocco over death sentences ORANGE protested to Morocco yesterday over death sentences passed by a Moroccan 1 court on two French army officers tried in absentia for spying. At the same time the French Government opened proceedings against B Deputy said to have "menaced"' Moroccan diplomat* in
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    Lock icon SPREADING STRIKE IN MADRID
    126 16 A SPREADING general strike, branded by the Madrid government as "Communist directed." yesterday idled four major plants in Barcelona and closed down a number of j small shops. It was the second major outbreak of labour unrest in Spain in a month. In early March 12,000
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    Third council committee to bow to P.S.C. today?
    167 16 Third council committee to bow to P.S.C. today? THE Public Utilities and Staff Committees of the Singapore City Council yesterday decided to bow to the ruling of the Public Services Commission that senior officers listed in the I Local Government Ordinance should be appointed on the advice of the Commission.
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      8 1 Race Form FREE PRESS Thursday, March 27, 1958.
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      YOUR GUIDE TO WINNING BETS
      14044 1 FOLLOWING are the horses entered for The Singapore Turi Club March/April Meeting. CLASS ONE ADELAIDE STAR EM.IIT1I: (Tea started i 7-12-57 spore 8-13 St. Leger lim (Ransomet CL l; Ist. Straits Code 9-2; 2nd. On Stage 9-3; 3rd. Ottosan 7-9. I-S-f. 3-30 2 5. Track
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