The Singapore Free Press, 5 April 1958

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper m smsapoVe. Saturday. April 5, 1958. Price 15 Cts
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    3 KILLED AS PLANE CRASHES, BLOWS UP
    159 1 F.NGINED BotH'iu i i\iii piano crashed and exploded last night as it approached Naples airport from Lisbon. All aboard, were killed, he plane crashed In heavy rain on the .-lopes of a hill less than a mile below a monastery. he monks, who
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    2 wheels taken from stolen car
    46 1 hi d f/ ng t0 a doctor ofti kspital as stolen Oii th h i pita] mounds 5t night. r^uunas. nr^ (n« nd aba "doned smon Ing at Dunearn Si 'V ts two back Sri c r PerS and other
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    Lock icon Ultimatum from French miners
    14 1 I,' vernment they X i JJ claims are met— Reuter
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    Lock icon CALIFORNIA FLOOD TOLL RISING
    272 1 U im rain and B continued to hewoi?% vcsterday 1.-..:. flo 2<fc for 50 I thousands f\ ,V ;V <)[ tho state. Blown to hi 1)t>0])1 We n., !l v; (1 dfed, 6,000 Blowing B SLiSSSP* kiUed ■rhin, I,:, (1111 rain ■••Hi a «7eek or moro
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    Lock icon More bomb havoc by Cyprus terrorists
    72 1 More bomb havoc by Cyprus terrorists CYPRUS terrorists bombed and destroyed the water pumping engine at a pumping station supplying a British army camp near Laxia, five miles south of Nicosia, during the night, it was officially announced in Nicosia yesterday. Three large bombs exploded the previous day in the
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    Lock icon 200,000 Gypsies
    14 1 There are about 200,00< Gypsies in Hungary, report; MTI news agency. Reuter
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    Heavy holiday traffic across the Causeway
    112 1 Heavy holiday traffic across the Causeway of people crossed the Causeway in x either direction to spend their Easter holidays. They travelled mostly by rail and in cars. Air traffic was also heavy. About 1,000 cars crossed the Causeway yesterday to Johore with holiday makers heading mainly for Kuala Lumpur
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    Police hold 17
    17 1 Police last night raided several secret society hideouts throughout Singapore and detained 17 suspects.
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    Lock icon Egyptian rice for North Sumatra
    32 1 Indonesia bought 10,000 tons of rice from Egypt for North Sumatra, Pia news agency reported in Jakarta today. The shipment was due to arrive this month. Reuter
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    Sputnik III 'soon'
    25 1 Mr. Ivan Bajin, vice-presi-dent of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, said yesterday he expected Russia's third sputnik would be launched "quite soon."
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    Lock icon JAKARTA FORCE CROSSES VITAL RIVER
    419 1 JAKARTA FORCE CROSSES VITAL RIVER That net is closing around Bukit Tinggi INDONESIAN Cent- ral Government troops forced a vital river crossing in their drive towards the rebel mountain stronghold of Bukit Tinggi yesterday but the re- bels attacked sharply on the Northern front in an attempt to relieve the
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    Lock icon BEST EXAM PASS RATE BY SINGAPORE STUDENTS
    123 1 BEST EXAM PASS RATE BY SINGAPORE STUDENTS SOUTH-EAST ASIAN stu dents examined in Sin gapore achieved a bette percentage of passes thai most groups of Austra lian candidates in the firs stage of the two-stage sur gery examination conduct ed by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Professor E. S.
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      26 1 T^siiiiiiii MILK CHOCOLATE with Almonds and Honey *M Now available in three sizes small, medium and large. Sole Agents! SHRIRO (china) LTD (Incorporated in Hong Kong)
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    Lock icon A-ban inspection —Western offer still holds good
    482 2 THE British Foreign Oilice spokesman yesterday reaHirmed tliai me oner of the Western powers made last July —to set up an expert committee to work out methods for inspecting observance of any agreement to Busnend nuclear tests with Soviet co-operation still held good.
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    Lock icon FORMOSA CALL -PROTECT R.I. CHINESE
    79 2 FORMOSA CALL -PROTECT R.I. CHINESE THE Nationalist Chinese Government yesterday expressed deep concern over mounting anti-Chinese feeling in Indonesia. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Taipeh the Chinese there now were being subjected to insults, intimidation and indignities at the hands of pro-Commu-nist elements. He said the Indonesian Government should
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    Lock icon The big A-fallout
    107 2 HUNDREDS of weary marchers who covered 12 miles on foot from Central London In protest against nuclear weapons bedded down in church halls at Hounslow last night. Police said about 6,000 people attended the sendoff in Trafalgar Square of the 50-mile four-day march to the Aldermaston atomic
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    Lock icon A TIRED MR. K. TAKES IT EASY
    143 2 A TIRED MR. K. TAKES IT EASY MR- Nikita KhrushchJ Soviet Prime MinS attended a state recentH in his honour in the'Sj Hament building In Bud' pest last night but he S not drink many toasts an! left early becaus. he v' tired, according to offlcS present. Mr. Khrushchev, who
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    Lock icon Throngs mark Easter rites in many lands
    301 3 NDR] f <> 4 thousands of H m hi. attended solemn n i.v rites in Home's 000 ins and churches Saf tvt the bells of the Juy's 300 churches remained Sllt 1 s were baw v* crucifixes nurole memory of JSffS cl (loath.
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    Lock icon The big freeze keeps Britons at home
    194 3 The big freeze keeps Britons at home A NEAR-FREEZING wind on a Good Friday as cold as any for 41 years kept Britons at home yesterday. There were more vehicles streaming out of London last year when petrol rationing was in force during the postSuez crisis. The cold drove those
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    Lock icon $136,000 gold cargo missing front airliner
    60 3 Ii\ T BB-lb consignment of i gold worth M 5136.000 Isappeared en route from arts to Teheran this week, olice at Orly Airport i Paris said yesterday. The gold was loaded on a uper-Coostellation aircraft f Air France on Tuesday. t was destined for
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    Lock icon HOT CROSS BUNS FOR BURNED SHIP EMIGRANTS
    241 3 HOT CROSS BUNS FOR BURNED SHIP EMIGRANTS YTOUNG British servicemen served hundreds of 1 hot cross buns to 1,200 Australia-bound emigrants from the burned-out Norwegian ship Skaubryn in Aden on Thursday night, the London War Office said yesterday. As the survivors arrived from the Italian liner Roma, their first meals
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    A big chance far Easter Queen
    132 3 IN addition to a free air trip to Hong Kong, Singapore's 1958 "Easter Queen" may also be sent to the forthcoming Asian film festival in Manila. That is, if she passes a screen test in the Hon^ Kong studios of the Ca4hay Organisation. The
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      236 3 Kelantan Silver Brooches, Flower Vases, Tea Sets, Etc., Etc. r «j Kashmir Namdas In Various Colours Designs ABOUT OURSELVES 1. Ours is not a CURIO SHOP. We deal only in HANDICRAFTS specially from Malaya Si India. We have brought in goods which were not seen in Singapore before. 2 As
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      Opinion SOLDIERS LOOK ON
      229 4 Opinion SOLDIERS LOOK ON 2,000 years ago soldiers watched a procession in Jerusalem, a procession which contained a Man on His way to public execution, a Man who through His death would turn the cross of execution into the Symbol of Immortality. Yesterday, there was another procession in Jerusalem a
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    When a man goes found the world to forget...
    399 4  - When a man goes found the world to forget... ANNE EDWARDS WHEN a man goes round the world to forget It usually happens today that when a man goes round the world to forget a girl ho docs. So there's hardly a wo man in the land who doesn't envy
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    Wonderful Years Ahead
    760 4 For youth the future is brilliant with promise By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IF you are numbered among the world's millions of young folk, looking forward with bright gaze into what promises to be a wonderful half-cen-tury in spite of the pessimists, you may one day be in
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      38 4 I IT'S the Sah of tin Ytar OUR GRAND iEASTEIti I HALE Call today Shop Conveniently We close at 5 p. m. Today II A.l I Textiles, Limited. 71, High Street, I S'porr «>. Tel: ISMI A -10 I.
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      27 4 HI i Xl GUARANTEED I FAST COLOURS H J Made in England ll fcIAN SINGH CO. LTD., I 30-1 RArriES PLACE, SINGAPORI-1 j^ II TELEPIIOME: *****/6 H
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    five creches overnight once they get OK
    274 5 r ,.i five tm'hes I proposed by tJie Kinirapore City Comi- be established as soon M permission >* laill ed to usj« l)rt'mises required. 111 Senior Assistant Health Officer, for Matnnmi infant Welfare, r Maggie Urn, who is m Sfirge of the project
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    Hundreds of TB patients waiting to be 'adopted'
    226 5 Hundreds of TB patients waiting to be 'adopted' riUNDREDS of destitute and chronic TB patients now under treatment at the Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association's clinic in Shenton Way are waiting to be "adopted." They are hoping to be cured through the kindness and generosity of the people of Singa1 pore. This
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    First ten ask for bursaries
    124 5 HHHE Singapore Ministry of A Education has so far received only ten applications for bursaries to Post School Certificate classes. A spokesman of the Ministry told the Free Press that more were expected to come in within the next few days, before the closing date
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    All-night party is planned by YWCA
    96 5 HPHE Singapore Y.w.C.A. X will celebrate World Membership Day on April 30, when members will have a chance to meet one another. The association has arranged for an all-night entertainment, which will be held at the YWCA premises in Raffles Quay starting off with
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      234 5 There is no closer equivalent to the milk of -^^\1 healthy. well-nourished /j^S»- -^'f mothers. W"* l^**- SIMILAC is an infant \1 *1 \v\ formula especially de- \C\\\\V 1 signed to meet the nutri- :l1 Jt\ tional needs of babies. I tfiC^S It is completely modified ooo^^ co^'s milk n
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      151 5 FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS j IN j DIAMOND GEM JEWELLERY CULTURED PEARL JEWELLERY j SILVER E.P.N.S. WARE CRYSTAL WARE i| CUTLERY PRESENTATION ARTICLES I SPORTS TROPHIES j I COSTUME JEWELLERY HIGH CLASS WATCHES LOOSE DIAMONDS j! OF I BEST QUALITY, LATEST DESIGNS AND AT COMPETITIVE PRICES. 1 PLEASE VISIT I
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      70 6 1 MUCH J MORE FLAVOUR j LESS NICOTINE j J For the first time lilter tip i J smokers arc getting what they want liiiK'h more flavour and aroma with much less i nicotine. After the first few i I puffs from an L M, most .smokers sum it up
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      360 6 ■> m M H H B I JEFF lIAWKE by Sxlho? JoiUan vJ>-^SL-£jJ| jw L^" v VK \BiELCHIN& FLAME. THt£ MOTXDdPS^ E fnS sp^^g cv«o« "^^fg'f 7 r^IAZf?TSs* M H yT VI ly^^/'^ sSy. C "f '.'•f I RORN today, you are a deternnn, d 1 slowly n4E ta« 2%
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      U.K. closing prices
      146 7 wm LONDON, Apr 3. Previous Today no. t IiSS ilt mmmt buyers 22% buyers Sn v^ Xl 22% seller* 22T& sellers 11 22 buyers 22^ buyers >ll> 22 T sellers 22% sellers <lin( 23 buyers 23 4 buyers ,K I KN> P 13% 23 U sellers B»K
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      New York prices
      99 7 NEW YORK, Apr. 3. Previous Today »L\37 nom. 92.75 nom. Slr.ut*. v I l()l lulllMS 91.75 buyers 9200 buyers U Contract nut] 92.50 sellers 93.00 sellers lu i v 91.25 buyers 91.62 buyers 92.00 sellers 92 .50 sellers E: steady. SALES: Nil,mp iMtm.s Miv -6 62 buyers
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      30 7 NEW YORK. Apr. 3. Previous Today adustries 4 1.21 440.50 ailroads 102.19 101.43 lomcstic Bonds 88.75 88.7 a tililirs 74 04 74.06 tocks Composite Averages.. 150.57 150.22
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      U.S. PEPPER
      57 7 lilatar spot and awattlos aaravak unquoted. Munt> se 26, alloats 25^. first white spot 40, awaiting relea Apnl shipment 25 4. 39 afloats 39 first In pong .->;:)ot and awaiting April shipment 39 sellers, c se 2fi, afloats 25 '-j. first dock. April shipment 25*4Above prices quoted in
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      110 7 •HA Philippines r.i.f. IK./ ortli Furopean ports delivered fisht per lon S ton Apr .May X V straits c.i.f. I .K-. North U'opean ports delivered fight per lon* ton Apr, .May r rwTT M»>7June ;OMT OIL crude Straits U. Luropean ports in balk f o\TT l!!
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    MORE PEOPLE HELP POLICE TO WIN WAR ON GANGSTERS
    172 7 INCREASED public co-operation is helping Singapore police score more successes over secret society activities in the Colony. A police spokesman yesterday told the Free Press that, following four tip-ofTs from the public this week, seven secret society gangsters were brought to
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    9 centres to stage health exhibitions
    196 7 9 centres to stage health exhibitions SINGAPORE is to celebrate World Health Day on Monday on a big scale this year, with exhibitions beins held simultaneously in nine community centres. The celebrations have been organised by the Singapore Health Education Council. Six different organisations and institutions will take part. They
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    $10 M. PROFIT FROM TOURISTS IN A YEAR
    87 7 $10 M. PROFIT FROM TOURISTS IN A YEAR CINGAPORE profited by about $10,000,000 from the visits of 54,000 tourists in 1956. This is stated in a Government White Paper released recently. It estimated that out of the total number of tourists 26,000 were Europeans who spent an average of about
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    NEW CIVIC TOUR
    21 7 The Singapore Department of Information Services will conduct a civic course for 24 villagers from Changi next Tuesday.
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    Today's radio programme
    108 7 115 p.m. Programme Summary. Saturday Date; 1.30 Time Signal, News and Singapore Share Market Report: 1.45 Saturday Date (continued); 2.00 Weekend Sport; 2 45 The LatinAmerican Way; 3.00 Saturday Prom; 3.30 Juke Box Parade; 4.00 Lazy Afternoon: 4.30 Tea Dance; 500 Saturday Medley; 530 Bandstand; 5.50 Sports
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      42 7 SINGAPORE HIGH TIDES TODAY: 11.41 a.m. and 11.49 p.m. TOMORROW: 12.30 p.m. MONDAY: 0.24 a.m. and 1.21 p.m. TUESDAY: 1.02 a.m. and 2.12 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 1.40 a.m. and 3.03 p.m. THURSDAY: 2.22 a.m. and 4.03 p.m. FRIDAY: 3.07 a.m. and 5.20 p.m.
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      90 7 SCRUBS S CLOUDY Household AMMONIA •.v.v.-.Wwi iflVTa^^H^ A. IP vv ■m i- CAR WASHINC GARDEN DISHES Sole Agents: OVERSEAS CORPORATION (FAR EAST) LTD. (Incorporated in Singapore) ucut belonqinqA *^|§lffi P^ Why take th^g||e in building up your home «f(|§(| ye P eriod of years— only to hairfQim broken in transit
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    Debt repaid in full
    881 8  -  DIANA ROSS Snldier escapes, and later he returns By I 111 sM'KI M> lAX X HIGHLAND loliU*. <l<-.in< th, safety of he Border aft Ins had sustained a defeat m Mf tills hou I A refuge in a farm in Inland and it disced by the
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    LAST WEEK'S WINNERS
    426 8 ITIIE winners oi Last week* colour-in contest (each ut whom will receive a $5 prize in due course) are as tullows: Miss Helen Yap (12), 28 Pheng Geek Avenue, Singapore 13. Miss Lav Ling Ling (8 340 Joo Chin t Road. Singupore 15. Master Oci Soo Chi
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      122 8 A colour-in contest! j^^ v 'V J m H Wiffi prizes for you .'I POCKET MONEY prizes Free Press, Timrs Houstl are offered for colour- ""yer Valley Road Singaß P°re to reach her mil ing this scene with paints a ter than Thursday nexlß crayons or chalks. Age limit is
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      169 8 B 1 I CiX'ES ACROSS. -3. A young male horse 7 Windy month. G. Not at all We've all heard about the common. 7, The leaf of this laws 01 the and trer is Canada's national Persians." 9. It is sprinkled emblem. 8. Pen-name oi on food 11 River Of
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      274 8 The Professor sits and looks airplanes and making more and wlemnly at Rupert. I'll tell you more noise and I'm longing for a yhv 1 made that thing," he says. world of absolute silence and 'You heard that fearful noise just peace." Rupert walk* across to ipw Well. I'm getting
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    VICTORY OF CHRIST CAN ALSO BE OURS...
    498 9  - VICTORY OF CHRIST CAN ALSO BE OURS... a Christian Layman Saturday sermon by fife up your heads, ye sorrowing vnc* l Z U glad of heart, l rnivarii and Easter Day lZS?Sd™t day and gladdest day Wcie fust one day apart. LtKRDAV was Good Friday when Christians E ,hmit the
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    JAPANESE SEEK TALENT
    159 11 JAPANESE SEEK TALENT roar oi JapaneM kiiu- new talent. the last few Sc they have watched th nvk »i more than J; k school children if part Ui regional s meetings. the time the Asian e t^i in M^v. mem-; of Japan. Olympic es Committee may air be deciding who
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    56 11 6-2 FOR SPURS Brooks, Tottenham Hotspur inside-right (left) takes a shot at goal from the edge of the six-yard area as an Aston* Villa defender (centre) and goalkeeper Sims (right) go in to Intercept hi the First Division match at White Hart Lane ground, London, The final score was: Tottenham
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    Empire Games to cost $1 million
    103 11 Empire Games to cost $1 million IT is estimated* that the' Empire Games at Cardiff this summer will cost the Welsh organisers nearly $1,700,000. The conversion of Card ill Arms Park from an international rugby ground to a first class athletic stadium plus Scoreboard, will cost $425,000. At Lake Padarn
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    AUSSIES WIN FINAL GAME
    29 11 The Australian rugby union touring team beat Stanford University 12-3 in the final match of their U.S. tour. They were level threeall at half time.
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    SOCCER CHAMPS BEATEN 3-2
    26 11 Czechoslovakia beat West Germany, world football cup champions, 3-2 in Prague in an International football match. The score was 1-1 at half-time.
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    QUALIFIED REFEREE AT THE AGE OF 13
    93 11 rPHE age of the youngest qualified football referee in England keeps being reduced. At the moment the champion is Neil Cummings, of Bolton. He started officiating when he was 13, and passed his junior examination six months later. Neil, however, W now IG,
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    UNITED MUST AVENGE SHOCK CUP DEFEAT
    406 11  -  ARCHIE QUICK By fHE appearance of United at Wembley for the second year in succession will give them the opportunity of avenging* that shock defeat by Aston Villa last May when Manchester were storming favourites, but lost goalkeeper Ray Wood in a tackle with
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    CUP FINAL WITHOUT STARS...
    154 11 CUP FINAL WITHOUT STARS WHAT an ill-fated soccer competition the Fay Cities Cup has turned out to be! Inaugurated in 1955 it hd. dragged on interminabh but it should be finally settled in Barcelona on May 1 with victory for the home team. London drew 2-2 with the Spaniards in
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    CUP DONOR DIES
    31 11 M. Marcel Corbillon, donor of the Corbillon Cup for women's teams in the world table tennis championships, died suddenly at his home in Triel-Sur-Seine. He was 68.— Reuter.
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      38 11 We proudly announce that TENNIS BALLS have been selected for the DAVIS CUP TIE between Ceylon and Malaya at Kuala Lumpur on the 22nd. 23rd. 24th. of April THE DUNLOP RUBBER CO. (M) LTD. SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR PENANG
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    DISTINE EARNS $104,000
    127 12 DISTINE EARNS $104,000 By All- AN LEWIS MALAY AS t»»a in pion sprinter l>»^ line brought his s t* k winning* to 5104.651 when h»- won the main sprint at Kukit Timali on Wednesday This aM• stakes conies from t««» wins, lour seconds, MX thirds and he has been placed
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    Wolves' lead cut
    334 12 A HAT-TRICK FOR BOLTON STAR WOLVEBHAMPTON Wanderers had their lead at tlit- top of the English first division cut by two points through I'reston s 2-0 win against Blackpool at the start ot the crowded Easter soccer programme yesterday. But with 55 points,- the Wolves who did
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    78 start in car rally
    157 12 78 start in car rally OEVENTY-EIGHT cars, i P comprising 29 different makes, left the Cheras Road Municipal Stores in Kuala Lumpur at one- j minute intervals this morning on the first leg of the two-day 1958 Mobilgas Economy Run. Contestants have eight hours in which to make the straight
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    ALL THE SEMI-FINAL RESULTS
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  • THE FREE PRESS Saturday MAGAZINE
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      9 1 THE FREE PRESS Saturday MAGAZINE Singapore, April 5, 1958.
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      EASTER BEGAN AS PAGAN FESTIVAL
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      The death of Winter
      107 1 The death of Winter ■I'^THI-.t* or not thr.Mm' early peoples baked m cross buns no-one can ■ay for certain, but is a ai that the early Romans f n r m the habit of markKm! r lOaVeS With {hC Tv.j such loaves, preservW y Petriiication, were ■J'f'tl in the city
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      Extravagant ceremony
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      Children roll their eggs
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      Covered in gold leaf
      176 1 Covered in gold leaf THE most expensive Easter eggs seem to have been in circulation during the reign of King Edward I of England, who gained the allegiance of Wales but wasted so much blood and treasure in vain attempts to conquer Scotland. By his orders, 400 egg! were bought
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      She keeps house for the Pope
      349 1 She keeps house for the Pope W HO is the most imj; ff portant house- keeper in the world? You may have your own particular ideas <> regarding the person I who qualifies for such a distinction, but hund- ■>» reds of millions of peoj; Pie would answer the question
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      A film star's life is useful-to us, says Simone
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      UNKNOWN ST FOILED AMBLE
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      COLD WAR—THE REAL THING
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      SHADOWS THAT CAN MEAN HEALTH
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        ULANOVA—THERE IS MAGIC IN HER TOES
        624 4 ULANOVA— THERE IS MAGIC IN HER TOES DUVjIAN BALLET hos a legendary sound Everyone Has hea r d of it but very few have had the good fortune to at lend one of its performances. The J Arthur Rank Organisation have now made it possible for everyone the worlcj over
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        THIS COMEDY CREAKS WITH OLD AGE
        407 4 THIS COMEDY CREAKS WITH OLD AGE Huilvr and Maid MY MAN GODFREY" Is a story written in the days of the Bright Young Things who, although young, found it extremely difficult to be bright. It was the clay of the scavenger hunt, when people were given a list of things
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        306 4 Dramatic 'Face in The Crowd' Warner Brothers film a Face in The Crowd" Is a powerfully acted story of a man who rises like a rocket to fame on the T.V. screens of America -and then, because of his arrogance, likt that same rocket, bursts A radio reporter, Marcia Jeffries
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  • FREE PRESS RACE DAY Special
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      ALL THE LATEST SELECTIONS
      399 1 Saturday, April 5, 1958. ,^7,7, nin.i ■"■■■■■■■■miimiiniimimi»iin"»*i»... ========^r mmmm •UH.ni..i.«...H...,,,.,....,,. Mlmilllllll THE FREE PRESS THE STUMS TIMES m6kmi STAHDARP «jj«» I_ I ~»SOM JEEP CALL BOY __POINTER WINDSOR -AD SCRUTINEER KWEE LOH l .jHH lOBRA Z R RO THE COBRA THECOBBA THE COBRA PIZARRO 1 I
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      PRINCE CHARTER TO WIN THE BIG RACE
      601 1  - PRINCE CHARTER TO WIN THE BIG RACE ALLAN LEWIS By mnt spring c up. main B race at Bukit Timah Biis afternoon, should m to Prince Charter ■ho I think is definitely Handicapped to win. ■He has dropped a C w •unda for not starting in m* Hunter Memorial Shamrock
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      PROBABLE STARTERS AND RIDERS
      2498 2 —Finished 3F in 38 in front of Fire Risk; 29-3-58 Thirteenth in Div. 1- mile RACE 1-2.15: CL. 2, DIV. 1-6 FURS. 1 M 123 JOMV D.W (iyr K r J«.^kSt) Bag^ Uonnelly 2 oiooi PIZARRO syr. cheg. (Ch'ng OoW j ou 3 ***** YOLK HIGHNESS
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      496 2 RACE ON£ JOLLY DAY: Third to Steam On 1-mile race. PIZARRO: |g Won Div. 2 -OF raci 8-9 In 1-12 sees. lU| YOUR HIGHNESS i. 25-3-58— Went over 3F I 38 with The Cobra 29-3 S Was going better ti vil Downing Street over JP in 40 2/5; 29-3-58
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        228 2 Tlte. now spbffc tot THAT GREW OUT OF GEORGE EYSTON'S RECORD-BREAKING (rjg) SPECIAL I Jl.-i.-'s tho M G SrTi*>s M G A.-th' r'P'nts ■Bfe^^^Bfclttow foi the compotiioi and the connniss.ur. p. liili.st-built. track -tested an.l io;«>1 I W\^pHfefcfc. pi'ivcd O'-rj'c E.v»ton's record- -bn';ik in.: V V^al^i^^HflPP o'^^0 vOii.h niuny of
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        157 3 j To-day's Best Buy Victor Standard $5,880/- and Victor Super $6,200/I (including 10% tax) j Singapore and Federation Available n&iv at: SINGAPORE MALACCA SEREMBAN j KUALA LUMPUR IPOH BUTTERj WORTH PENANC KUALA BELAIT I JESSELTON KUCHINC ykJ?t*Chۤt*wi MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED a SINGAPORE AND KUALA LUMPUR REPRESENTED ELSEWHERE IN THE FEDERATION
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      STEAM ON A SAFE BET FOR CUP
      1455 4 OINGAPORE trainer., Jack Bpencei and Neal Hobbs should 1 ake top honours at Buklt Timah today, last day ol the Singapore Turf Club March-April meeting, by taking the day's two main races The Spring Cup and The Raffles Plate. The Spring Cup, a
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