The Singapore Free Press, 1 May 1958

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  • 16 1 The Singapore Free Press \l:i!ava's Own Family Paper Singapore, Thursday, May 1. 1938. Price 15 Cts.
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  • 292 1 Now South Sumatra army chief is sacked HE Endt Qesian Government last night removed Colonel Barium from his post os military eom.anciiT •■>{ South Sumatra on suspicion of probe] sympathies. Major-General Abdul Haris Nasution, the rmy hiet of staff, announced Col. Barlian's repal. He said the second deputy chief of
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  • 85 1 bla< k nylon stocks and shoes of a fashII ;1>!( design today be- official wear for J'Vrens, members of the women j Royal Naval Serlu Admiralty stated 111 ondon, Bat-heeled and thicker 30--1 stockings would !l 1( 1 l(> '>•' worn on 1 monia] occasions,
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  • 106 1 f Pita] 01 Ohan;.. J and in a oi emergency H-M.it of the On Tuesday 'pal election's 1 City Council. neni damped unrl curnn 1 town sec- tor, Acera'.s waterfront, and blue-helmcted police patrolled the streets in jeeps. Minister of the Interior Krobo Edu.sei announced
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  • 49 1 This Free Press picture was taken only about an hour before today's mass May Day rally was due to start at Jalan Besar Stadium. Rain kept the early-expected thousands away but among the first arrivals were many young girl workers. Standing by watching are two policemen.
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  • 57 1 T*HE Queen who has had a bad cold has been A advised to remain indoors at Windsor Castle for the rest of this week, it was announced yesterday. Her condition continues to improve but she has cancelled all outdoor engagements until after next weekend. The Queen
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  • 90 1 THE Quern and the Duke of Edinburgh are to visit Ghana next yea* 1 it was announced from Buckingham Palace last night. The statement said the Queen had accepted "With pleasure an invitation from Dr. Nkrumah, Prime Mm ister of Ghana, to Visit Ghana late in
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  • 277 1 Rain cuts rally crowd to 6,000 A SHORT but heavy shower this morning kept many workers away from the May Day rally at Jalan Besar stadium. The organisers had expected 40,000 people from more than 60 unions to attend the rally. But there were only about 6,000 people in the
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  • 32 1 May first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 70;, 1 cent per lb.. down one and a quarter cents on yesterday's closing. The tone was uncertain.
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  • 158 2 U.S. denies alert after Russian H-accident AN American Air Force spokesman denied yesterday that bombers of the Strategic Air Command had been alerted by a reported accidental explosion in a Soviet nuclear experimental station in Siberia. The spokesman was commenting on unconfirmed reports circulating in Pra_ 'Aup that such an
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  • 620 2 BRITISH A-TEST FANS COLD WAR -MR. K. IIK. MKITA KHRUSHCHEV said In Moscow last night that Britain had "exploded the trust and hopes of millions ol people" by letting off a nuclear bomb this week, but added, 'The Soviet Union is not to be intimidated by such explosions." Mr. Khrushchev,
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  • 141 2 SOVIET DEFENCE CHIEF SOUNDS WARNING OF WAR DANGER MARSHAL Kodion Malinovsky, Soviet Minister of Defence, in his May Day order of the day, said, "The Soviet people cannot but take into account the danger of a new world war," Moscow Radio reported last night. "It is sufficient to say that
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  • 87 2 ITHE first battalion South Wales Borderers arrived at Southampton.. England by troopship last night after two-and-a-half years in Malaya. They killed 40 terrorists and caused the surrender of .several others during that period. Major-General F.R.G. Mathews, Colonel of the regiment, told them: '"We have
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  • 82 2 'TWT) young climbers have been found dead roped together on the 6,000-ioot Muehlsturzhorn mountain, near Salzburg. Otto Huber, 18, slipped and fell to his death on Sunday. Rudi Pemler, 20, who was roped to him, clung to the face of the mountain and was still alive on
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  • 25 2 The Blackburn N.A. 39, a supersonic naval strike aircraft, yesterday made its maiden flight at Bedford, England. It was described as .satisfactory.- Reuter
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  • 99 2 jyjß. Harold Macmillan. British Prime Minister, cheered hi.s political supporter* la*t night by hinting thai the government would be making an early return to an expan- Sionist policy He spoke to Conservative back-bench Members of Parliament at a private 1 unction in a London
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  • 62 2 DR. RODRIGO SARMIENTO. a Filipino surgeon wanted ior questioning In connection with the slaying of a Brooklyn nurse, gave himself up yesterday at the PhlllDpine Consulate-General. llip a spokesman ior the Consulate-General said Dr Sir mi. nio had surrendered voluntarily mid was seeing the ConsMl-Genrral. The
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  • 37 2 An all-party BritishCzechoslovak parliamentary group was formed last night at the House of Commons the first of its kind to be •associated with a Communist country, Twenty Members of Parliament have already joined Reuter
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    • 171 2 n y^~" SinMi"TfMTiriiaiii'tt*"""ltiiiii n X 1 TWICE AS GOOD WHEN YOXJ/XJSE TATE LYLE CUBE SUGAR gS jjJspHjP^\ Irn/)ortt'cJ from L/igLwd by SINC.APORt KUAIA lUMPUR FINANG lev'// always be treasured! P DIAMOND RINCS EAR RINCS I^/^^fc, BRACELETS PENDANTS NECKLACES 7/S^K^ DOUBLE-CLIP BROOCHES T ETC., ETC. 'Ij F^\ c> Child's thrill i
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  • 119 3 2 'WIVES' -BUT HE COULDN'T DECIDE •m\ w lio for i- yea** A two Vlvefi one A ion and the other ding, Berkshire. no t make up hij nnu Which one to Hve with when tie retired lfeS sed to both, it lte d in court ftt yesterday when aitted
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  • 45 3 Queen Elizabeth yesterday gave her formal assent to a bill to allow women to sit and vote In the House ot Lords for the first time. This means that the bill. which breaks a 700-year-old tradition, is law. Reuter
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  • 51 3 His sufety first step cost Li E A motorist wh 0 realised he was about i<> have a heart attack, E pulled Ins car into the E side of a road and left E it there was yesterday E fined l i <S8.:>0) for parking ;n Wimbledon, r I undiiii.-
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  • 44 3 The United States Navy announced yesterday that it will establish a task force in the South Atlantic on June 1 to carry out U.S. responsibilities in maintaining anti-submarine defence. shipping protection, and other tasks in the area. Reuter
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  • 197 3 Govt. and workers rebuff bid to avert bus strike THE leader of the union involved in the London bus strike timed to begin at midnight on Sunday was rebuffed yesterday by the Government and by most of his own rank and file. The union chief, Mr. Frank Cousins, had appealed
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  • 194 3 W. INDIES PLEA FOR COLOMBO PLAN TYPE AID THE West Indian Federal Government hopes a Colombo Plan type of economic aid embracing Commonwealth aiid other countries will be created to help the new federation, the GovernorGeneral, Lord Hailes, said at Port of Spain, Trinidad, yesterday. He was making his first
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  • 25 3 The British aircraft industry has earned more than £668.000.000 in overseas markets since world war two. it was announced in London yesterday.- Reuter
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  • 81 3 THE House of Commons last night gave a Labour M.P., Mr. Fenner Brockway, permission to introduce a private Bill to make racial discrimination in public places in Britain illegal. The Bill will now join a number of other private members' Bills awaiting debate.
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  • 118 3 ONE BEDSHEET LEADS TO COURT CASE rpHE 22-year-old son and JL heir of Lord Moynihan, Anthony Patrick Moynihan, was found not guilty in London yesterday of stealing a bedsheet worth M 58.50 from his former London flatlet. Colonel Herbert Brookhou.se who brought the charge told the court, "He left owing
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  • 35 3 BULL SAW REDHEAD -KILLED HIM A BULL charged t red-haired hurled him In the air and killed him, an inquest was told at Oateshead, Northern England, yesterday. A verdict of accidental death was recorded Reuter
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  • The Singapore Free Press Thursday May, 1. 1958.
    • 204 4 Opinion Where's the money? SINGAPORE'S P. A. P. Mayoj has announced that he had asked the Cil v Electrical Engineer to prepare a scheme for the electri- j flcation of the island. It is an idea that is calculated to bring com- 1 fort to the many thou- sands of
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    39 4 Well, the Russians gave us a vodka, so the Americansgave us two rye whiskies, so the Russians g3ve us four vodkas, so the Ame ricans gave us six rye whiskies, so the Russians gave us eight vodkas, so the
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  • 983 4  -  GODFREY WINN by and the lesson I of Big Money I TWO women "died" last week. Two women of very different reputations and very different kinds of death. The one was Margery Fry, the other was Norah Docker, who diej a social death as far as the Principality
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    • 16 4 .#ffv# %rr£n»it MARCASITE JEWELLERY i MARCASITE WATCHES U.S. de SUVA Jewellers 106, Orchard Road Telephone: *****
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    • 37 4 ■V HI VEHICLE I f 1 I m >T PAYS TO FIT PERKINS I T/if D/ese/ Engine w»f>. fhr C/e<jn lxft«W»< JmUons j MOTORS LTD. w™ UNIVMSAI CAIS l»a»< Pfnan* WIAtNI itOS K..«1« lumpuf W-»"*«« »*nlo<'« i
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  • 306 5 Assemblyman warns: 'crucial' months ahead LIM CHOON MONG, Liberulalist delegate to next month's )n constitutional conference, asked political parties in tpore to ask the question, "Am I r Singapore?" before committo any definite line i on during the next few months, i he described as "crucial." said it was distressing
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  • 69 5 FASHION THAT FLATTERS SHE SAYS Beautiful Singapore model Miss Mary Lim j poses in a sarong and kcbaya for Free Press j cameraman, Han Hal Fong. She likes the dress because it hugs the j figure so cosily! Many j people won't agree j with me, but I think it's
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  • 15 5 Group Captain Peter Townsend left Ferryfield, Kent, by air yesterday for Ostend. Reuter
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  • 42 5 Ninety journalists from 15 countries meeting in London at the fourth International Congress of the World Federation of Journalists yesterday applauded the courage of journalists who have been sentenced for refusing to divulge sources of information. Reuter
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  • 22 5 East Germany has completed the construction of the first Jet passenger plane of its own design the 152,
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  • 133 5 Hong Kong artLst, who "•hibitod her worldJ Pftlntingg and call'l|-»' ir > Singapore and *ang in 1952 and 1954 will .open a one-woman ex--2J 't th (> Kennedy lfl Ne^f York next Madam Fang Chao-Ling. a widow who brings up her eight children by
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  • 209 5 COUNCIL'S TENDER PLAN TO SPEED UP WORK A NEW system of ac- cepting tenders from contractors for public utility projects in order to reduce delay and speed up work. has been devised by the Singapore City Council. Under the new system, which has been unanimously approved in principle by the
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  • 118 5 Probe into letter protest SINGAPORE postal Inspectors are to investigate complaints that postmen do not deliver letters addressed to people living in first and second floor flats in Tiong Bahru but leave them on the ground floor. The Director of Posts, Mr. H. M. Rose, told the* Free Press: "This
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    • 55 5 SCRUBS S I CLOUDY I Household AMMONIA 1 't^^t* "£&3&!k. f' R ST AID CAR WASHING CARDEN OISHES OVERSEAS CORPORATION (FAR EAST) LTD. if (Incorporated m Singapore) wm\ r I^r J* mm M J m^*^ fc T k- #L— ''■'•'l^^^m Tho KOLOK first C-adc Special Factory RcpresentativCji T.W. MITCHELL CO.
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    • 173 6 ■•iitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiisiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiititiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitfiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiii JEFF II 11% Gil by Sydney Jordan I uP» y TME PE G W vrXj^iissT JG> J^^^HH IV SEEM TO HAVE AMY BtiOKIS l ABOUT TMiS- VOU'O Ufc. TTE« LET I] |V_ HAVL SEEM IT/ -^8a I ALTHOUGH VOUC CUDTWES MAs/G A uOOKT^A! VXJU '^^^lr| 4 I Bf
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    • 460 6 BORN today, you lum very stron loyalties. You bave a firm ai i j practically immovable will. Once y arc in a certain direction, n for life. Consequently, it q\ 'i inmost importance that Children bor j on this date be properly guided that they know where they are I
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 174 7 LONDON, April Previous Today siu May g 2l bu y er s 21 21% sellers 21 sellers j ttn e 21% buyers 20 T a buyers 21 ;i sellers 21 sellers i BBS N><>t 21% buyers, 21!* buyers BIBBEH so 21 senei^ 2 1! 4 sellers i
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    • 98 7 NEW YORK, April 30. Previous Today 94.12 nom. 93.75 nom. TIN futures Straits Contract May 93.25 buyers 93.37 buyers 94-25 sellers 94.00 sellers Julj 93.12 buyers 92.75 buyers 94.12 sellers 9375 sellers TOXI Dull- SALES: Nil RUBBER Futures ,%!.»> 25.38 paid 24.35 buyers 24.50 sellers T u
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    • 31 7 NEW YORK. April 30. Today Previous Ji) Industrials ***** 455.86 20 Railroads 110.02 111.87 iii Domestic Bonds 89.89 89.97 Utilities 77.19 77.37 65 Stocks Composite Averages.. 156.22 157.(55
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    • 49 7 spot 25%, awaiting afloats 25% to shipment 25 U, Lam--s;i. awaiting release to 25 a, April Above prices quoted .shipment, 25. Sarawak unquoted. Muntok White spot and awaitI ing release 39 ,2. afioata 39. and I April shipment. 38, sellers exI dock. in U.S. cents per Ib.
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    • 81 7 (< >l'i:\ Philippines ..if. I'.K,/ h I in* p. ports delivered weight per long ton Apr/May w*A, Straits c.i t. l X, North JgJJM Ports do.iverrd Wi«hl pei lon 8 ton Apr. May i- i.':TZ;"Vr ls in bull< '•<III.II IIN, COPRA r.i.f us LONDON. April 30
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  • 91 7 HE BOARDED PLANE FOR COLOMBO -AND ENDED JOURNEY AT PERTH A ""AJWD Pakistani 111o wedto y ß itS« e fi r was P( "IT a piano a as d expired and r> 'How him to stay. The plane carried the reluctant Mulla to Singapore— again no visa, no permission to
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  • 275 7 30,000 VOICES RAISED FOR A BETTER WATER SUPPLY rpHIRTY thousand people of Jalan Kayu are apA pealing to the Singapore Government and the Rural Board to find a permanent solution to their water supply problem. Most of the wells in the area wont, dry about a fortnight ago when there
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  • 169 7 Five may lose new citizenship status A RECOMMENDATION that five people be deprived of their newly-acquired Singapore citizenship is to be sent to the Singapore Government by the Chief Registrar of Citizens, Mr. T. P. Cromwell. Disclosing this yesterday. Mr. Cromwell said the five persons had been registered as citizens
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  • 35 7 The Royal Malayan Navy barracks ftt Woodlands and its ships will be open to the public when it celebrates its tenth anniversary on May 11. Buses will run direct to the barracks.
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  • 24 7 British European Airways made a record profit of £1 million in the past financial year, it was announced last night. Reuter
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    • 149 7 illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliu I SINGAPORE I HIGH TIDES! E TODAY: 9.27 p.m, S TOMORROW: 9.54 a.m. S E and 10.03 p.m, E SATURDAY: 10.45 a.m. s E and 10.39 p.m. S SUNDAY: 11.35 a.m. E and 11.16 p.m. MOND A V 12.26 E (noon) and 1.55 (mid. E night). E TUESDAY: 1.17
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  • 137 8 Keeps roads! 9 clear Helping to keep the 1 roads clear in Germany jl is this monorail service jl at Cologne. :l It has been running 3 for several years but fl people still regard it as il a novelty and thousands =1 flock to it
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  • 29 8 PRINCE GROWS UP Crown Prince Carl Gustav of Sweden j who celebrated his 12th birthday recently, is pictured here near his home in Sweden, beside an ancient artillery piece.
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  • 80 8 ARTIST PAINTS KNOWIN Ruskin Spear and Tom Chalk were both born and bred i n Hammersmith, and both work in that busy part of I London. They also drink in the same pub. But Ruskin is a painter an R. A. I Celebrity who gets over £500 a picture, while
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  • RAINTREE COUNTY
    • 10 1 RAINTREE COUNTY FREE PRESS FILM FEATURE Thursday, May 1, 1958.
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    • 491 1 WINDOW ON WORLD' BRINGS CIVIL WAR EPIC TO LIFE \l G. M.'s "Raintree County." adapted from the prize winning novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr., stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Eva Marie Saint. There are also 119 speaking u< w r< cord plus thousand.- of cxthe top supporting play* rs
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    • 112 1 C A galvanized tub last used by Lana Turner for E a scrubbing -up scene in "Honky Tonk," was rv--9 surrrctrd b y W.O.M. prop men for a bathtub scene featurjng Mont- gomery Cliff in "Rain- tree County." The actor did his soaktflg in preparation to
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      50 1 RAINTREE COUNTY' va s to have been Elizabeth Taylor's last film, a glorious finale to a comparatively brief but brilliant career. Six months after it was completed last year she gave birth to a daughter Elizabeth Frances Todd. at the Westport. Connecticut, home built by her showman husband. Mike Todd.
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      182 2 was she I H°V-™°, 0D >«»* tumbled with the making o f Ramtree County. 1 Among them was that tor the biggest number of costume changes in n 5 cooe oo a sta w 'n« The M.C.M costume department worked overtime to design and make them. Designers visited
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      9 2 •RAINTREE C > W.r. Five Hie i '^;J
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      • 72 2 I General Amusements Ltd. I fill \J VI I II I I t^ Metro Goldwyn Maver I on the production of jj "Raintree County" JP BE AS CURVACEOUS AS \±W W' ELIZABETH j -yyyyy/yyyyy.- vy.'Zg^^^Lf'-'-'. 4 BJ P B Kji 4 4 B IMB HI r% HH Jm^Bk. 4 4
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      • 40 2 I VICKY MICHELLE k takes pride in introducing I Mlfflgy as inspired by M.G.Ms epic Production of 4< Raintree County 11 Sk M3ft*- jHEt Get your lovely 'Raintree Cut' hair-do at MICHELLE BEAUTY PARLOUR 13, Battry Rd. S'pore-1. Tel: *****.
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      9 3 labeth Taylor— never before o breath-takingly beautiful
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    • 48 3 little -with flag flying ,W W ''■crui C fcrf d fir i ru ediatelv bef rC during and lffcr fhe American Civil ¥Cl »"Z i onn 1 W3r SCeneS Here fro °P s arc se en advancing at the one ot the most exciting sequences in the film.
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      • 113 3 I ■y^ —am \r£ mfH dm m m m~~ m m M-\>%s/ vl. Max Factor's a soft, smooth fee! 1 on your lips. VT^^^^^W I 1 Tliere o/e M(uu) wo^? to cov^om yw&tnww^. bid only Creme Puff is Beauty-blended I mrMfcn- V;, OM I V f' s VI C*,\ U
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    • 554 4 IN March, 1913, a little fir] with raven hair and unforgettable blue. violet eyes first appeared before the movie-going public. Now, IS years lateri she is recognised the world over as one o! the great beauties of our time. For Elizabeth Taylor and the film-going public,
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      • 69 4 RAXNTREX: COUNTX BHssr^gg§i|SH| M■G■ M s great Epic of the American Civil War f|j||^\ jH^^^^ I^ Jl starring Montgomery C I if t Elizabeth Taylor, gk >B A GREAT FILM FOR LADIES fl^^H^F/" \^n^^S RUT YOU'LL NEED YOUR HP^^^^F \^BHHI Ie I k!■ ml V f A^woi^Sif^^^SSßSSHlSil I Im M
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    • 203 5 1 s General Karl Albrecht Oberg, known as the I, iwt< her of Paris/ and his right-hand man I 1 000 murders, Colonel Helmuth Knochen, were told last week that by an order of President Coty their death sentences were commuted to life
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    • 102 5 ZONE generating sets are ln the galley and r oi the cargo r shaftesbury, latest •j itj to the Alexander ipping Co.'s fleet Shipowners today are meeting with each other providing top-level living commodation for their ews. Tankers have set the lC e. In the Norwegian ned
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      29 5 nust paint that nan." you Tom's port'nit will hang in the loyal Academy Exlibition. He is picured below posing 'or artist Rusk in at lis slurfio.
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    • 180 5 This is war but to m save lives, not to m sacrifice them. Yet it m calls for the tho- B roughness of military a organisation in plan- B ninff and logic. B Mexico, which has de g ciclcd to wipe out Malaria and
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    • 95 5 A panorama of toivn and country spread beS /ow f/n's climber as he clings by his toes to a ii narroio ledge on the Black Rock at Cram- ford, Derbyshire, which has been the nursery 5 slopes of many famous E mountaineers. 77ie Rocks, an unusual
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    • 3536 6  - THE COBRA THAT HAUNTED THE ARTIST Pelham Groom Another Latiff story by... them frightened me, not even when one touched me I was all right when I left the temple. Then when we fume out a man, I think he was Malay he was very old and rather dirty, 1
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    • 567 7 ARMY SCOUT PLANES ARE EYES' OF THE JUNGLE four officers and three noncommissioned officers are engaged in. For their duties cover a wide range, and although the unit is well-equipped with six Austers. it is still kept fully occupied as the pilots are subject to a 24--hour call. j jr-=Y
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      305 7 1 M 1 designed to terrorise 5? ckb £P c of the w Who still resist ace. Rod A small part gjgkWjl are pan wttsra S^PPing Harei for wily a small Army pilots must be absolutely fit and are re- E quired to have a medical check at
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    • 39 7 I Pilots of 11 Recce/Liaison Flight, Army Air Corps are left to right Capt. M. O'Connojr, Sgt. B. A. Hawsey, i Capt. D. C. Crouch. Capt. J. A. Coles, and S Sgt. J. Cr. Rowley.
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    • 220 7 GALLIPOLI AND ALL THAT... Five Chelsea Pensioners.* veterans of the Lancashire Fusiliers, are spending a few days with their old regiment at Bury, Lancashire, taking part in the Gallipoli Day celebrations and relivinp, tough days of active .service which began for one of them as far back as 1880. Their
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    • 274 8 CHINESE AND JAPANESE TO START S-EA INDUSTRIES? INTEREST o! leading Japanese businessmen In Tokyo has been aroused by a. suggestion advanced by a Formosan leader that Japanese techniques and organisation ability should be combined with Overseas Chinese capital for South-East Asian development. a spokesman for the Japanese Chamber oi Commerce
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    • 46 8 NATIONALIST China will send technicians to South Vietnam in her rural and industrial rehabilitation, says a Saigon report. This pledge was made by the visiting Nationalist Foreign Minister, Dr. George Yen. during his talks in Saigon with President Ngo Dinh Diem.— Reuter
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      • 217 8 Six ex-premiers will contest Japan polls jjiIVE former Japanese Prime Ministers and the present office holder. Mr. Nobusuke Kishi, will seek reelection to the Lower House of Representatives during the general election on Jtf ay 22. The prime ministers and their terms of office are: Mr. Tetsu Katayarna, Japan's only
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      • 35 8 The Peking People's Daily, organ of the Chinese Communist Party, reported that in the immediate vicinity of Peking the drought has prevented the sowing of 260,000 acres of 660,000 acres destined for spring seed.— Reuter
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      • 39 8 Tfte Bangkok Municipality has decided to dredge the city's picturesque canal system which has been clogging up over the past few years. A boat trip along the canals is one of the principal attractions for tourists vlsitinu Banakok. Reuter
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      • 124 8 Cambodia's new Premier. Mr. Sim Var, has announced at Pnom Penh that his government would not hesitate to appeal to international organisations if the country s sovereignty or neutrality were threatened. Reuter. Communist China will produce 5,000,000 bicycles a year by 1962, Lo Shuchang, deputy Minister for Light Industry, said
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    • 47 8 An Osaka bar owner received a brusque Russian "Nyet" (No) when he offered to buy one of the Soviet. Union's Sputnik model recently displayed at the Osaka Trade Fair for M542.f)00. The bar-owner said he thought the Russians wen "not very business-mind crt. 1 Reuter
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    • 321 8 Plight of 'white collar' refugees in H'Kooo 4 YOUNG Chines*' from Shanghai was among the dozens ot applicants for a Msloo a month job in Hong Kong. He was a first-rate shorthand typist, speaking excellent English, who m .some other parts ol the ttorld would command three or lour times
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    • 202 8 JAPAN CAN'T AID BURMA WITH MONEY JAPAN can neither increase nor move up the schedule for instalment payments of reparations to I South-East Asia, it has I been announced in Tokyo. I The Foreign Minister, I Mr. Aiichiro Fujiyama in a I statement said such a re- I quest had
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    • 51 8 Tie Japanese Socialist Party's platform tor the forthcoming general election is the abrogation of the JapanUnited States ecumy treaty and the estabusn Sent of a collective security system Including Britain the United States, the S* viet Union and Co China during the nea eral election.
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    • 110 8 rpEXTILE undertakings in all parts of Red China are experimenting in the extraction of textile fibres from hitherto untried plants, the Peking New China News Agency said. The Szeehuan Province t€Xtlle Industry has suc- ceeded In making about 20 kinds of fibre, using wild
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    • 243 9 WOMEN OF RUSSIA TURN TO FASHION WOMEN hold a position in the Soviet Union which has no parallel anywhere else in the world. They figure prominently in all sort of activities at both ends of the social scale. They are strongly represented in the labour force in occupations which to
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    • 229 9 CARAVAN CRAZE HITS U.S. ITS caravan time in Washington. Not solely because of the Spring weather Americans regard it as important to their chances of survival In an all-out nuclear war. 'The caravan", advertisers point out, "can provide you with a home on wheels that will enable you to move
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    • 135 10 I RESERVE PLAYER NETS FIVE Lincoln saved from relegation ADRIAN Thome, 20-year-old reserve in I side-light, shot Brighton and Hove Albion into the second division of the English Foot ball League when he scored live uoals in ;i 6-0 trouncing of Watford at Brighton. Brighton, who
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    • 57 10 |_JARRY GREGG, the I Manchester United goalkeeper, who was in the Munich air crash in February, is included in Northern Ireland's team for the World Cup finals in Sweden in June. lie was among 1G players named last night by the Irish Football Association. One
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    • 204 10 FjiNGLISH Leauge One A football fixtures were completed lust night. The fu^ii league table is: V I) I I A Pts Wolves 42 28 8 6 103 47 64 Preston 42 2t; 1 it 100 51 r ><» Spurs 42 21 9 12 93 77 51 West Brom
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    • 121 10 miiiiii iiniiiiiiiiii \(.i i ONI Aston 1 Noll in K. 1 II U.IK TWO I Ipf In I Cardiff 1 LEAGI E THBEE— Southern liouniemouth X P«H Vale 1 Brighton Watford 0 <.illinj;ham Coventry 1 II \«.l I 1 HKfci:— Northern hrstri "> Arlington I iiaiimiiT I
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    • 81 10 MAJ. A. C BURCHER carried out a clean sweep in the Singapore Army Golfing Society Bogey Competi--1 tion Club. He returned a card of four up, which won him the prize and both nine's Ball Sweep. His nearest opponents were Lt. Col. K. H. Stevens,
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    • 109 10 1 YVI VI V SIX >. v old Kov Pllklnfton of Bctmont RO«d, Boitnn is walking the 200 [J"cs from Bolton to Wembley for the P.A. Cup Final on Saturday, ll<- hopes to arrive in W'emhlry the day before the mutch and taking a mesaage
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    • 247 11 HI TOURISTS IN TROUBLE UrORCESTERSHIRE are in a commanding position against the New Zealand cricketer* who began their England tour with a three-da> match against the county at Wore ester yesterday. After declaring at 345 for seven wickets, the count} snatched two New Zealand wickets for only 19 run!,
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    • 621 11 Dinkum and Azarole run the fastest time at Penang ALLAN LEWIS REPORTS ON TODAY'S TRAINING GALLOPS JjINKIM and Azarole, working on the inside of the second track at Penaii£ this morning, made the fastest time, when they disposed of three in 37 1/5. 1 thought Azarole \\;is doing belief of
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    • 165 11 Don Smith does first hat-trick THE first hat-trick of x the season and a sparkling century by an England candidate Highlighted yesterday's first class cricket programme. Ted Dexter. the Cambridge captain whose all round talents make him a strong possible for this season's Tests against New Zealand, hit a sparkling
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    • 44 11 RESULTS in last night'.s Rugby Union and League matches were: Rugby Union: Cardiff 8 Pontypool 14. Neath 25 Penarth 15, Torquay Athletic 12 United Hospitals 11. Rugby League: Featherstone Rovers 38 Bradford Northern 23, Warrington. Gl Rochdale Hornets IG. Reuter
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    • 38 11 Zoltan Berczik, Hungary's European table tennis champion, wa.s beaten 21-19, 21--14 by Yung Juo-tuan in Canton yesterday when the touring Hungarians met a Cantonese team. The Hungarian* won tho contest by five matches to two.
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    • 23 11 Argentina brat Uruguay 2-0 in a soccer International yesterday in Buenoi Aires Both goals weiv scored in the second half Reuter
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    • 43 11 The Ceylon soccer team suffered their fourth lUCCessive defeat on their tour of hin.i when beaten by 0-1 by the Peking Locomotive side yesterday The Chinese led only 1-0 at half-time but Diled on the pressure after the interval.- Reuter
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      • 183 11 B 'If I |o HBbI I I I 2f jj JßßL-J Spn-V.'v iw^S 8 fi Politician i:; half in the oil WeapoS «SS^ii! }< container ,4>. Wai 'r-.r lS l4> 7 More lhan a Jewel— twins! -■"> mighi concede V 8. Monotonou.s nmfe f4). JJ 0). 12, Baseball jars? (8).
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    • 341 12 Troops brave heavy fire front rebels 4 COMPANY of fcurbaned Aden levies last night relieved Hie fort of A Assail ii wliidi has been besieged by rebel tribesmen since lust TuesThe garrison was relieved after a two-mile advance under rebel fire from the levies 1 positions
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    • 218 12 Commodity price fall putting CDC 'in the red (wpital approved fo.\ the Colontal Development Corporation for 12 projects In Malaya. Singapore and North Borneo In the past year totalled Msl 54,000,000 ot which MS 120,000,000 had been SDent by the end ol 1057. There were 70 continuing projects (66 Ul
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    • 46 12 A communique issued in Tangier, Morocco after a conference there among the ruling parties of Morocco and Tunisia and Algerian rebel chiefs said the three parties "recommended the constitution, after consultation of the Tunisian and Moroccan governments, of an Algerian Governm< nt." U.P.
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    • 158 12 18,000 CHILDREN SING WELCOME TO PRINCESS ABOUT 18.000 .singing schoolchildren waving ;i Ma (i! Union Jacks greeted Princesa Margaret at a rally on the rain .sodden crickei ground at Georgetown, British Guiana. They cheered Coninuously as the Princess drove round the track in a Land Rover behind the horses of
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    • 44 12 IRENE WINS A 'QUEEN' TITLE nature. MISS Irene de Silva, who was chosen "BODCA Queen" at the 11th anniversary celebrations of the BOD Civilian Association held at the Fraser and Neave Hall last night. Runner-up was Daisy Szeto with Wendy Locke third. Free Press
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    • 100 12 WOMAN AMONG SEVEN HURT IN BAR BOMBING THREE British servicemen and lour European civilians, one of them a woman, were injured by a bomb thrown into a bar and restaurant in Atien last night. The injured were taken to the RAF hospital. First examination showed none was seriously hurt. The
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    • 33 12 /CHOLERA took 310 lives in \%j Calcutta last week— the' heaviest toll since the epide- mic broke out in early April, the city health authorities reported last night. Reuter
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    • 51 12 A benefit concert for the Singapore Y.W.C.A. will be held at the association's Raffles Quay building tonight at 7.45 MaJay film star lvfavia Menadu will appear as commentator and will sign autographs for her fans. The concert is a presentation by the Singapore Recorded Music
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    • 45 12 A court of inquiry ha* been ordered into the Suspected food poisoning of go people who died at a Natiorial Volunteers military ramp pear Quilon, South 'India. Mr. VK, Krishna Menon. Indian Defence Minister, said in Netf Delhi yesterday. Reuter
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    • 156 12 goviET rocket launching sites have been in exis tence in a belt stretching from the north bo the south of the European Continent for at least six months now, Westi intelligence souri es said In Vienna yesterday. The bases are in: POLAND: Near the
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