The Singapore Free Press, 23 April 1958

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  • 22 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya 9 Own Famil y Pa P er v „,0 1- Wednesday. April 23, 1958. Price 15 Its.
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  • 255 1 VITAL TO CURB GANGS DAVID rrHE Sin* Legislative 1 at its resume d ion !hi N morning considered a new law designed to wipe out the secret soci< ty menace and gang warfare. The Chief Secretary, Mr. E. B. David, introducing the Criminal Justice Amendment Bill, said member w< re
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  • 23 1 $1 ,130 HAUL Vu^of. shoo terdL urse quarters, yes. pSSS th r aTO d he shop was •■.::;;-h and pods 130 were stolen.
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  • 108 1 Churchill: U.K. retort to Chicago BRITAIN'S Royal Academy is planning to stage an exhibition of the paintings by Sir Winston Churchill which the Art Institute of Chicago has rejected as not being "professional". The exhibition, if finally arranged with the former prime minister, will be his first one-man show in
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  • 90 1 A M 52,250,000 suit was filed in Los Angeles yesterday against film actress Lana Turner and her former husband Stephen Crane on behalf of the son of Johnny Stompanato, who was fatally stabbed in the Turner home earlier this month. The .suit alleged that parental
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  • 94 1 M. "^J^EVEN. a former French pre--1 ■rl i b a kf>d today by Presfrernment. 7 try t0 form a now J 7 ed a left-of-centro no^ could form a government. Inr Pr Tr vaUvcs Radicals and r P/'Po^Hjanc. and could count least for his investiture. Earlier
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  • 185 1 Afoiv only 12 miles from rebel capital JAKARTA forces have reached a point only 12 miles from the rebel capital of Bukit Tinggi, the Antara news agency said today. The Government forces, it added, were expected to launch a final attack on the rebel capital
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  • 202 1 'THE Indonesian Air Force x attacked Bukit Tinggi twice yesterday and rebel sources in Singapore said the raids were so savage the pilots "must have been Russians." A rebel reporter said "No Indonesian pilots could have done such savage attacks" in a morse-cast on
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  • 124 1 200 cholera cases a day: Hospitals full pHOLERA killed 125 people in Calcutta last week as the worst epidemic in 20 years raged unabated. Total deaths so far are 300 and, with more than 200 people daily being struck down, hospitals are finding it difficult to cope. 1 WU UIUU.MMU
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  • 40 1 A cheque lor $m>.t)U contributions by the pupils of Cedar Girls' Secondary School, Singapore, for Kampong Koo Chye Fire Relief Fund was received by the Free Press today. It will be handed over to the Fund today.
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  • 150 1 4 POLICE HURT IN VALLETTA CLASH FOUR policemen wer c reported injured in Valletta last night when mounted police charged crowds demonstrating in support of Mr. Dom Mintoff, who resigned as Prime Minister on Monday. The demonstrators had forced a police motorcyclist off his machine. Several demonstrators were also reported
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  • 30 1 May first grade rubber buyers fob. opened in Singapore thi.s morning at 77»/ a cents a lb., down half a cent on yesterday's close. The tone was quiet.
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  • 207 2 PROSPECTS oi a summit conference this year appeared in Washington yesterday to he receding. Soviet refusal to discuss jointly with the ambassadors of Britain, France and the United States preparations for a heads of government conference was interpreted as an indication that the
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  • 305 2 A war-or-peace issue still, says Sobolev RUSSIA'S chief IT.N.l T .N. delegate, Mr. Arkady Sobolev, yesterday said that on the Security Council agenda 'there still figures an item on the adoption of urgent measures for the ending of flights of U.S. bombers loaded with atomic and hydrogen bombs towards the
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  • 236 2 HAMMER KREMLIN WITH IDEAS PEARSON PANADA'S former Ex v ternal Affairs Mink! ter, Mr. Lester iv f son, called on v Western World Y es terday to "bombard the Kremlin" with a diplomatic offensiv of Its own or face the inevitable "nuclear collision which vM mean universal catastrophe." The 1957
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  • 193 2 rpHE conference of indeX pendent African states closed in Accra yesterday with a formal declaration pledging themselves to attempt to persuade the Great Powers to stop the production and testing of nuclear and thermo-nu-clear weapons and reduce conventional arms. The nations represented at
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  • 244 3 FIRST TIME SINCE 1946, SAYS PAPER MOVIE MEN DISMAYED "THE Queen is reported today to have decided not to attend any "Royal film performance" this year. According to the London Daily Mail she is also expected to cut out the Royal variety
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  • 125 3 v beat an electronic tfesn caieuiaung 1 m.v hi i speed test conducted in London, rSSSth directo? of Birbeck College disclosed t.idiv in a speech at the Instruments, Electronics Ini Automation Exhibition. n« laid that a Chinese banking house in the rwvftf London was approached
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  • 83 3 rpwo burglars broke into Walton Prison. Liverpool, and cracked a safe, the Home Office admitted last night. The burglary occurred on the night of March 26-27 and had been kept a close ly-guarded secret while po- lice unsuccessfully sought the criminals. The burglars were
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  • 86 3 Canberra sets up another speed record A CANBERRA twin jet bomber yesterday set up the second unofficial speed record of its 14-day round-the-world flight by reaching Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia in just over 10 hours flying time from Britain. The bomber, named Aries Five, had already covered the 4,189 miles from
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  • 29 3 Ex-Queen Soraya of Persia, wno arrived in the United States yesterday will visit an aunt in Chile, according to the Santiago evening paper. La Segunda. Reuter
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  • 174 3 U.K. ship orders cancelled THE Shipbuilding Conference issued figures in Lpndon yesterday which showed that the total of new orders booked by British yards in the 12 months ended March 31 was 207 ships of 1,120,000 gross tons. The total British order book then comprised 765 ships of 6,331,000 tons
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    • 70 3 m presents a yy A XI MODEI 48 »M^||\sio\ M W^\ Mr Here gathered for you sHk\ exciting foot-flat-fflflk\ tering high fashion pumps *2gL w '»h matching handbags. Slim Heels Baby WJJM^ Louis heels, tapered and V*w\ pointed toes, decoraf Hve details in the new Mor lk black and brown
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  • 907 4  -  David Divine Asks Atom men Nppri llvvll a mm M M Breathing ABE we nisliiii- ahead 100 fas( wiih (ha developmenl »f atomic energy? Tin- world has ;i((|nii((l an appetite for ;iluiiii( marvels. Sonic people Ihink Hkil il is in danger of becoming
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  • The Singapore Free Press Wednesday, Apr, 23, 1958.
    • 295 4 Opinion RUSSIAN TIMING BY an adroit manoeuvre. America has forced Russia to withdraw her resolution asking the Security Council to call on America to discontinue her reprisal air alerts But sell-congratulation by the West over this seeming victory in the war of words couid be premature. True it Is that
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  • 331 4  -  Beacheomber hi IT is not every day that a conductors baton slips from his hand and "wings its wanton way" (Keats) over the heads of the orchestra. This happened recently at the Festival Hall. The musicians ducked, "and all was well" (Shelley). Some years ;iko. when Richter
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  • 188 4  -  J STUBBS WALKER By BKITAINS sripnij^ engineers and dustrialists have sreat chance to v.de cheap ato»U power tor the \\OK| .1 Fourteen com, fL are negotiating vvil Britain to build a, power stations at million g time) f them. Tlle (hlstlial «'»ups formed to exploit British atomic
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    • 70 4 PATEK PHILIPPE 1 he ICsftter Watchmakers of Geneva. JT,7 Wi Ui Watch C.'oiu|t< -liiion at Geneva Observatory ALL FIRST PRIZES First in individual tliismf nation Firnl in niannfailmn srrirs < lussifiialinn First in udjnslrm' atriit ttiMiijiialion ALL RECORDS FOR I PRECISION Itrcoril /or indit idnai t Umni fitulutn litttml fttr
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    • 51 4 ty^mi) don't iet =/L_fc I THIS T>rfl| HAPPEN TO YOU! Furniture removing is a job for experts.... Your heavy furniture, porcelain, crystal stlverwan needs our expert care. We pack, crate, transp y store everything for you PHONE ***** fetlmiW free on FOR TRANSPORT STORAGE LIMITED 173 CECIL STREET SINGAPORE C-TS
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  • 335 5 COLONY MUST ho OUT Eo GET BUSINESS' rrHE Singapore chamI bers „i commerce and li; i businessmen rr: V welcomed the Australian suggestion that a Colony 1 trade mission be sent to th< ir country. T v a g r eed that the C
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  • 204 5 RAIL CRASH DRIVER WAS NEGLIGENT, SAYS PROSECUTION PROSECUTING counsel alleged at the trial in London yesterday of an engine-driver whose train hit another causing 90 deaths that he went through two yellow signals and one red at 30 miles an hour. Driver William Trew. 62, drove his ste-am train into
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  • 75 5 AN 85-year-old greatgrandmother and her 29-year-old fiance got a wedding licence yesterday in Bloomington, Indiana, after a week's delay because she had been unable to prove she was over 18. Documentary evidence of Miss Laura Wilson's age was required by state iaw before
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  • 111 5 TWO of the beautiful Dyak girls who will be seen in the Keris film "The Virgin of Borneo" are now in Singapore Narang (left) is the star of the film She is 17, unmarried, has no sweethearts. Consented At first she refused to have anything
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    • 40 6 il'fl FILTERS M t The Miracle Tip is so easy-drawing, superior in every way. And L M J has the mildness, the unmistakable flavour of i the best tobaccos. j ■Km MUCH MORE ffffm FtAVOURj MUCH LESS NTjTT NICOTINE! T
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 337 6 Jeff iiawki: fey Vd"*y J«»«"" I Jfcrr rccrmocs rc3c tt^ /MOrtuav^ A^i/JI l iWto^ silently as the I ENGLANO ano overhead jM tO^^OCacr^ULAJESS BUILO UP COUNTER CIRCUITS IN I /AJ THE NIGHT W^ OOUOevE, JCPF YOU wvill J HIS MJNO TO ERASE THE MEMORY >I WIMC AKI I»? I^ee Falk
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    • 497 6 BORN today, you have great natltt- i al power but it is up to jrou to I develop it to its highest degree ij I you ar c to fuliil the promise oj th< 1 stars. You have tremendous perseverance, and once you have set i goal before you, you
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 159 7 lumiu.\, April TlPrevious Today LbBM v A«rU SS 23 s buyers 23 n liyer S V.M i 1 l l 23' 4 sellers no sellers 111 xl 23 buyers 22% buyers yU} 23 's sellers 22 sellers c <tHi t 23 buyers 23! is buyers (iu;lK V(
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    • 98 7 NEW YORK, April 1%. Previous Today riN Straits Spot 93.00 nom. 93.00 norn l 'r l nnnt May V> 92.75 buyers 92.75 buyers Straits Contract May 93.25 sellers 93.25 sellers i,,lv 9262 buyers 92.50 buyers 93.00 sellers 93.00 sellers prwrc. vt.> hlv SALES! Nilffi«'««.M., 20.65 S 2645
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    • 31 7 NEW YORK, April 22. Previous Today SO Industries 450.72 449.55 lOßaiboads ***** ***** 40 Domestic Bonds 89.32 89.56 15 llilities 76.53 76.43 55 Stocks Composite Averages.. ***** 155.64
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    • 58 7 Malabar spoi and awaiting reli c 27. afloats 26 to 26, A; v shipment unquoted. Lampong spot and awaiting release 27. afloats 26 lo 26. April shipment 25 Sarawak unquoted Muntok white spot and awaiting release 41. a floats 40 > to 40, and JLpril shipment 39%. sellers
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    • 112 7 <om:\ Philippines ci.f. 0.X./ North European ports delivered weight per long ton Apr .May COPB Straits c.i.l. IK Noiih European ports delivered weight per long ton Apr .May Ma\ /June iu i OIL crude straits 11 European ports in bulk pei long ton \|>r- May C
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  • 27 7 wrorfd h: self-styled return, f"^ one" home] i d Awerlca, hla •••relay, after tad sateless citizen (l; "'i make alone. Reuter
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  • 52 7 Mrs. Sallie Souther, an 8.3--year-olci widow, may receive about U.S$lO million (Ms3o million) under the terms of a disputed Will left by a Texas oilman cousin. But she kept calm when told the news yesterday. "I'll rejoice when I see the money," she
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  • 104 7 THE Singapore Y.W.C.A. Business and Professional Women's Club will hold its second annual Artists and Models ball on Friday, June 20. The proceeds will be used to train under-privileged children for a year in any profession they wish to take up. There will
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  • 34 7 Kussia yesterday renewed its attack on Yugoslavian ideologiral stand by stating that tho Yugoslav Communist Party programme "has tendencies towards weakening the unity of the Socialist ramo." Reuter
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  • 228 7 POLICE STEP UP WAR ON THE ROAMING COWS MENACE ORIVATE dairy farmers in Singapore were warned yesterday not to allow their tattle to roam about residential areas. A police spokesman told the Free Press that action to stop cattle roaming and dirtying residential areas was being stepped up following many
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  • 260 7 Hawkers are being harassed, he says HAWKERS in certain parts of the city are being harassed on political grounds, according to Mr. S. M. Vasagar. Li-beral-Socialist City Councillor. Mr. Vasagar said that about ten days ago a hawkers inspector from the council, accompanied by a PAP councillor, visited Kampong Silat
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 37 7 SINGAPORE HIGH TIDES TOMORROW: a.m li; am and 1(l n.iu. SAT! -KIiAY: !.!7 a.m. '11 Pin. BU N ,DAY: 3.23 a.m. and ••»•> p.m ■"JJWSi Ul am a l n(l U2 pm. roWftjHr: 6.24 am and B<m pm
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    • 92 7 Today's radio programme 1.15 pm Music Makers; 1.30 Share Market Report; 700 lime Time Signal and News; 1.45 Signal and News; 7.18 Kay Music Makers- 2.00 Close Down; Ellington Quartette; 7.30 weo--5.00 District Newsletter; 5.15 nesday Conceit. 830 Hear I hem Tea Dance; 5.30 We Write No- All; 900 I"
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  • 685 8 A new look for our furniture 'TWO gifted Singa- poreans hope to pave the way for a renaissance in the local furniture-making industry when they present a display of interior decorations at the Victoria Memorial Hall from April 27 to May 4. At their Meitung atelier in Serangoon Road I
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  • 1669 8  -  adelaide eastley BY,. olden wedding vies at St. Joseph's School auditorium. Concerts are being held at the Y.W.C.A. assembly hall at Rafl"le s Quay. Local V.I.P.s announce the programmes. A well-blended programme of good music will take place there on Thursday, May 1, at 7-45 p.m. While admission
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  • 379 10 to lodge a strong protest against this unworthy desecration of the LordDay, which is the more shocking as it is being or ganised under the auspices of the Church. "We would have Imagined that an effort such as this to support the rebuilding of
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  • 60 10 Waiting for the return of the troopship "Devonshire" at Liverpool recently was 2^-year-i old Evelyn McLeod, daughter of Regimental Ser- geant Major McLeod of first battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlands. j He was returning from service in Aden and after berthing Evelyn soon
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    633 10  -  William Hic key THE Duke of Windsor is to wear the uniform of a fieldmarshal again. He has been invited to inspect the 12th Lancers in Germany, one of the regiments of which he is Colonel-in-Chief. This will be the first time I can remember the Duke wearing
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 215 10 < l.l'lis ACROSS 2. A poem in a mountaineer 1 nake in this striking Ihk WCfOg (ft), P la f« (B>- 3. Out In the road (ft) 4. Imitates horn a pestilential 5. Foul an Italian river a example <4>. first (7>. 8 Proverbially m Kood aa a g. Fix
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  • 147 11 supplied by liritain rili: plane seen on the right bears West German markings, but the pilot is Bri >h He is Squadron-Leader E. G. Franklin, howii in the cockpit of a British-built Sea awk jet fighter. He had just competed testing tiie air--sft at Bitteswcll
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  • 111 11 WITH dramatic reverence, the latest work of 11 -yew-old world famous sculptor Jacob Epstein a massive figure of a woman holding her dead son in her arms was unveiled as a war memorial at the opening of the new T. U. C. headquarters in London recently. The
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  • 185 12 'Russia will offer deal on China at summit talks' IJI SSI will propose a deal on Keel China at the proposed Kast-West summit conference, Dr. llollington K. Tons, Nationalist Chinese Ambassador, predicted in an address in Boulder, Colorado. He said it would be "an Indefensible blunder for the free nations
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  • 25 12 Ihp British registered 12,469-ton freighter West Breeze is carrying 9,800 tons of cargo ol Rod Chinese origin for Egyptian and European ports. Reuter
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  • Glimpses
    • 101 12 P.I. warns: Beware Red moves FILIPINO Foreign Sec- i etary Felixberto Serrano has warned the West "not to let down for a moment its guard and be lulled into a false sense of .security" created by Russia's recent propaganda moves. "Peace in this period of transition," Mr. Serrano declared, "cannot
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    • 49 12 Z'oimsellor M.F. Cason Bonardel of the French Embassy in Manila has been awarded by Nationalist China the Cravat of the Order of the Brilliant Star, in recognition of "the important part he played in bringing about closer cultural and economic relations between the Chinese and French peoples." U P.
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    • 21 12 The Government of Pakistan has denied knowledge of any attempt to create a new Islamic bloc in South -East Asia. Reuter
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    • 24 12 A 35 member Japanese aero-technical delegation is on a tour of Red China as guests of the Chinese Society of Agronomy in Pekinc. Reuter
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    • 26 12 Work has begun in Kweichow, formerly one of China's most backward provinces, on an integrated iron and steel plant and a laree cotton textile mill.- Reuter
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    • 20 12 Arab language lessons are being given on a sparetime basis by the SinoUnited Arab Republic Friendship Association in Peking. U.P.
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    • 23 12 Miss Kirsti Jaatila, a Finnish journalist, said in Manila that the Philippines press 'is one of the most outspoken in the world." U.P.
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    • 24 12 A Tientsin report said three Japanese trading firms had been refused permission to extend their stay in Communist China. No reason was given. Reuter
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    • 18 12 Mr. William Gopallawa, a former municipal commissioner of Colombo, has been appointed Ceylon's ambassador to Red China. Reuter
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    • 22 12 Syed Amjad Ali, Pakistani Finance Minister, disclosed in Karachi that negotiations were going on for a £10 million credit from Britain. Reuter
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    • 25 12 Agreement in the AngloJapanese trade talks, which have been in progress in London for over a month, is expected within the next few days. U.P.
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    • 31 12 Two Americans are living in freedom in Shanghai. They are Paul Mackensen, a former Lutheran missionary who is teaching in a Communist Chinese school and Catholic Bishop James Edwards Walsh. U.P.
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    • 39 12 Japan's ambassador-deslgn- ate to Britain, Mr. Katsumi Oh no. is expected to arrive in London this month. This will mark the end of a period of nearly four months during which Japan has had no ambassador in London. Reuter
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    • 29 12 Some 30.000 Chinese are engaged on building a mammoth dam and reservoir in the Tung Shan Gorge, near Peking close to the tombs of China's 13 Ming emperors. Reuter
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    • 31 12 Japan and Indonesia have established normal diplomatic relation with the exchange of ratification instruments for the Ja-pan-Indonesia peace treaty and reparations agreement signed in Jakarta on January 20 this year. Reuter
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  • 151 12 Our full support says Chou fiOMMUNIST Chinese PreV mier Chou En-lai said in an interview with visitIng Finnish pressmen that he welcomes an East- West summit conference even if Peking did not take part. "The idea of a conference at high level between East and West is a good one,'
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    75 12 Mr. Avery Brundage, director of the International Olympic Committee, has one of the most extensive collections of Asian art owned by an individual in the United States. Described by the curator of the Chicago Art Institute as "the most assiduous collector of Chinese art in America," Mr. Brundage also possesses
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  • 22 12 Touring Miss Hawaii, shapely 20-year-old Romona Tong, was received by Madam Chiang Kaishek at the presidential residence in Taipeh. U.P.
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  • 191 12 INDO-PAKISTAN MOVE TO SOLVE AN ISSUE IN- A and Pakistan have decided to make an energetic attempt to settle one of the many irritating and trivial border disputes which mar their relations— the case of the Surma River boundary. India claims that the Indian border between Assam and East Bengal
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  • 241 12 POLICY TO MARCH NORTH IS OPPOSED 'PHE South Ron I position i, Jy Party in a formal pan/^ licy statement ha o°" opposed to any ii deninriJ military action b y epe g£j Korea againsl North 5? rea to bring ab out 2 > tion. TJie statemem wasinta preted m
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  • 51 12 A Shinto pric t blessed a flock <>; pigeons at Ueno Zgoj Tokyo and then relenwj them to Inaugurau emergency carriei service. >dd A Zoo spokcsni- 1 the new service be Pigeon Express, v used by fishing yes and mountaincri ji of emergency. M 1,500 birds li
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  • 595 13 My Fair Lady lives up to expectations MY FAIR LADY, the musical adaptation of Bernard .Shaw's Pygmalion, is one of the smash-hit stage shows of the decade. Now a 12 inch recording of the original Broadway production i* available to disc Tans, and it is an excellent
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  • 384 13 Balling all catsnew JAZZ SERIES liERE's news for jazz 1 collectors: there's a implete new library the market,. designi produced and spealiy recorded tor the inrioisseur. The initial set of ten in t is io-inch LP series attiring the all-time reats" has been launch- under the general title Jazz Olympus
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  • 43 13 I HAD DREAM will catch on fast. Its i lilting nrw number by Ri^s Hamilton, from the Him r Special/ 1 iif couplet it with a melody that should challenge tin- first side for popularity: LITTLE ONE, Oriole i.v mo i
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  • 111 13 45 rpm Pick of Pops.... BING Crosby lacks his usual sparkle in Never be Afraid. Backed by I Love You Whoever You Are, London 45-HL-R 8504. SLIM Jim Tie by Terry Wayne is a good swing: number for teenagers, it is supported by Plaything. Columbia 45-DB 4035. CHARLIE Gracie sings
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  • 122 13 Startling score... ELMER BERNSTEIN, whose most famous work to date is probably the theme song from "The Man With The Golden Arm," has produced another unique and powerful score that may well surpass it. From the film "Men In War," his startling theme music has been hailed with enthusiasm by
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  • 183 14  - McTaggart bids for ABA title ARCHIE QUICK By AT last, Olymijic rluim- pion and "supreme stylist" at the Melbourne Games Cpi. Dick McTaggart, oi the RAF. is the Imperial Services Boxi n v Association's lightweight champion. He won the title at Aldei>hot, despite an attack oi Influenza, and there seems
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  • 30 14 World chess champion Vasily Sinyslov won the 19th same in his championship match against Mikhail Botvinnik in Moscow alter 35 moves. Botvinnik leads the best-of-24 series, 11-8. Reuter
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  • 335 14 WHAT WOULD THESE OLD-TIMERS SAY ABOUT THE LUXURY? WHAT would Maurice Tato or George Cox have said if they could have seen the new £2.500 dressing and recreation room which, has been erected for the young professionals of the Sussex County Cricket Club at the Hove Ground? With a hand
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    55 14 Star Army fencer, Staff Sergeant George Gelder has a really busy time ahead of him. Already the reigning Southern Counties foil champion and Army champion, he will be defending his Army title in the Army Championships at Aldershot on May 5. StarT Sergeant Gelder, is attached to the
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  • 260 14  -  GUNDAR HAEGG SUGGESTS GUNDAR Hacgg, Sweden's great miler of the early forties, has come out in favour of paying runners cash prizes "in direct proportion to their clockings." Haegg, who held the world record of 4min. I.4sec. when he was disqualified In 1945 for accepting
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  • 81 14 I AURA Tudor and But Lovely, who are engaged in the Epsom Oak.s. were beaten yesterday in the Prix Penelope at Saint cloud, Paris, a race which has frequently provided pointers to the English clastic, Tudor, owned by Mme. Maria Felix Berger, finished .second to M.
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  • 538 14 Maximum sum is fixed THE QUESTION OF OPEN TOURNAMENTS HAS l!l I ()N 1 or 111 MOST VEXED TOPICS l\ INTKRX.vfinvi wvv wvvis'pob NEARLY 30 YEARS. Ever since the late -Big Bill" THden turned professional there has been support for the Stew that the world's top
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  • 16 14 Glentoran beat Porta; down 2-1 last nighi to Irish league soccer material Belfast. Reuter
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  • 90 14 GERMAN teams won both the four-man and twoman bob-sled events at the winter Olympic Games held at Oslo, Norway. Here the U.S. tram manager Mr. f). Fox. congra- tulates the four-man team after their victory. The United States team were placed second. Thirty nations were
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  • 416 15 today 's doubles vital to Malaya Rupert Ferdinands (Ceylon) beat Lim Hee Chin (Malaya) 9-7, 6-0, 6*l. Ong Chew Bee (Malaya) beat Bernard Pinto (Ceylon) 9-7, 6-S, 6-4* SCORE: MALAYA 1; CEYLON 1. By A Special Correspondent Afekak scnooiDoy toaay snares the heavy responsibility of Malaya's Davis Cup chances against
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  • 96 15 TEAMS WILL TAKE PART IN THE INTERTATE SCHOOL SOCCER CARNIVAL BEM^G TOMORROW IN SINGAPORE. The teams are Johore, Malacca, Negri Sembilan, Kelantan, Selangor and Singapore the hosts. Yesterday officials in Kuala Lumpur named their contingent of 20. They arc as follows: Team from X.L Tai Wai Meng, Nithlnathan, Ngiau
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  • 220 15 FINAL PROMISES THRILLS SINGAPORE'S reigning junior champion, Henry Pang, will have to fight hard to retain the trophy when he meets Kwik Sam Yong in the finals of the YMCA junior tennis championships today. Kwik, an up-and-coming tennis star,, yesterday fought -a great semi-final game to beat Johnny Lim 4-6.
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  • 57 15 Hollyhock scores double E Hely-Hutchin-'i/ s Hollyhock won gfjt MetropolitSS £p run over 2«, miles I 7 at Ep.som. d Knight's Sqrn igWand thfrl. r- "I I horse both the "nd the n e »Pton Hld M( run J band T tout in v l I' 11 1 lnil c
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  • 92 15 rpWO Japane.s.- Air Dc fenef Force aircraft carrying (he Asian Games Flame arrived in Okinawa on their way to Tokyo. The Flame wns lit earlier yesterday at tho Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila Relays of Ryukyu Island runners will carry the Flame around Okinawa
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    12 15 ONG CHEW BEE in devastating form, good enough to stop Ferdinands?
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  • 32 15 Dennis Adams (South Africa). British Empire flyweight boxin^ champion, was outpointv I by Jose Ogazon (Spain) over 10 rounds in Johan: night. It was Ogazoi win over Ada two months Re
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  • 213 16 No rail subsidy but economy cuts will be reviewed MX. MAC \IIIX\N, the Prime Minister, made a personal bid last night to solve a wage crisis on Britain's nationalised railways which has aroused fears or a nation-wide transport strike. At a No. 10 Downing
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  • 66 16 Prime Minister Tengk Abdul Rahman has sent til following message of con gratulatior^ to the Gov ernor General of tho \y ei Indies Federation, Lor Hailes on the Inauguratlo of the Parliament 'of th West Indies Federation: "This Is a momenta event in the history O f
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  • 34 16 Statistics of the Interns tional Tin Council in Londo show that production of ti metal in Malaya after risil in January to 6.578 tons ft to 4.215 tons in February,
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