The Singapore Free Press, 7 January 1959

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  • 15 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper H Mi»p«». Wiimrfiy, in—ry I. ItH. fHttUOk
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  • 155 1 300 held after Congo city riots BETWEEN 250 and 300 Africans were arrested during the riots m Leopoldville on Sunday and Monday. M. Tordeur, Burgo-master-general of the BelCongo capital, said last night. The exact number of dead and wounded had not yet been finally established. "The situation is practically normal,
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  • 29 1 mill' announced that two of the ministers m have resigned a alnst his grim amme. Minister o! Statr rotary \^n ciallst party. Thorns, MinisP and Tvle- U.P.I.
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  • 16 1 tend Id to Afghaj cording to an unmmuniq roadMoscon Radio 1
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  • 119 1 ml James Warman bomb Mr. Walter terday succ< i 12.000 lb. bomb d l dp Rpheld just be--1 Waters told report* r after the operation: "It went Just Wt thought it would go" The ten feet I<>"K bomb dropped m 1944 was found at the
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  • 314 1 Mikoyan talks to Nixon, unionists BERLIN: FREE ACCESS PLEDGE? THE Soviet Deputy Premier, Mr. Anastas Mlkoyan, yesterday continued his "private" visit to the United States with a meeting with the Vice-Pre-sident, Mr. Richard Nixon, and a policy statement to trade union leaders. On both occasions the Soviet leader referred to
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  • 359 1 THE feeling grew m Washington diplomatic quarters yesterday that a major object of the visit by Mr. Mikoyan was to seek a bilateral summit conference between the U.S. and Russia. This topic was said to have come up m Mr. Mikoyan's meeting with Mr.
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  • 63 1 Higher living standards Indian move '■WE Working; Com- mittee the executive of India's ruling Congress Part} called yesterday for birth control and the "creation of a democratic and socialist so. ciety" m an attempt to raise living standards. Tliese and other recommendations were laid down m a sevenpoint programme for
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  • 63 1 MAN KNOCKED DOWN BY TRAIN An Indian was knoc'.^d down by a train near Tanglin this morning. He has been taken to truBritish Military Hospital for treatment. A Malayan Railway spokesman m Singaor.ro said the accident occuvr-'d at 8.15 a.m. The train which was stopped immediately, picked up the injured
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  • 47 1 Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman left Manila by Malayan Airways plane today for home after a live-day state visit. The Tengku and his party will stop overnight at Kuoh before going on to i impur where they xpected to arrivmorrow afternoon* Reuter
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  • 29 1 French official* annou today that five m«>rr were killed by re m th<^ new wave of nation i li t tenor attacks sweeping U.P.I.
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  • 12 1 No new polio CMC I m Singapore up i m. tod»y.
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  • 135 1 12 die in two U.S. fires MKVKN students of Syracuse University E S in New York were burn- zed to death, and at 5 least 13 were reported E injured when wind- E fanned flames destroy- 5 ed a dormitory yester- 5 E day. The barrack-type E building houses 45
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  • 31 1 January first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened m Singapore at 85 7 /8 cents per lb., down a quarter of a cent on yesterday's close. The tone was uncertain.
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  • 273 2 Tengku defines task of the leaders of South-East Asia r riiK Federation Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, said In Manila last night there was a fMling In the world today Of the need fox internationalism. \ic was speaKing ai Araneta uniwi which conferred on him
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  • 160 2 No trial in public for 23 to please Russians YUGOSLAVIA hai doned plan* for a public trial oi b group oi alleged Soviet sympathisers but they will remain In custody, Government spokesman said m Belgrade yesterday The group Includes Dusan Brkic, a former topranking communist who was once Deputy Premier
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  • 73 2 First day In her fir*t film Judy Grtnham (centre) the former Olympic iwlmmer, makes her ucreen debut with "(iirls m Arms" at Elfttree studios. Here she meets two of her co-stars m this coined v ahout nirls m the British Army character actress Dora
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  • 201 2 2 ANTI-MISSILE CAMPAIGNERS START JAIL HUNGER STRIKE rpwo male pacifists, Jailed on Monday for refusing to sign kecp-t he-peace bonds, went on a hunger strike yesterday to back demands for an H-bomb ban. They were among 46 members of the Action Committee Against Nuclear War dealt with by magistrates for
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  • 146 2 X 'piURTEEN civic lead- I X ers from London's X local authorities went <> to the Home Office o yesterday to complain X about vice dens spring- t ing; up m the capital. X J The deputation urged X the Government tore- 4 X
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  • 41 2 Aircraft of the Royal Morrocan Air Force yesterday dropped more than 100.000 leaflets over the Rif and Middle Atlas mountains warning dissident tribesmen to return to their homes and give up "anarchy and disobedience." Reuter
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  • 51 2 The Queen's traditional Kplphany gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh were presented at a communion service today m the chapel royal of Balni James'a Palace London. Thei were formally pird by two of the Qi gentlemen ushers. I Admiral Sir Arthur Bromley and Rear-Admiral Frederick Mack.
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  • 158 2 \N explosion wrecked /V several buildings m Istanbul's Press ci yesterday killing about 20 people, injuring many mure and lilling a v. street with debris broken glass. Firemen digging: for victims recovered bodies by yesterday aft noon. and 143 injured people
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  • 58 2 Air Marshal Walter Mer- ton will be Chief of Staff. Allied Air Forces Central 1 Europe, from February 2 the Air Ministry announced yesterday. It was also announced that Air Marshal Sir Denis F. H. Barnett has been appointed Air Officer Com-manding-in-Chlef, Royal Air Force
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  • 249 2 FARMERS, UNIONS HIT OUT AT DE GAULLE THE GOVERNMENT Ol General Charles de Gaulle, who becomes vice's President tomorrow, approved more new measures yesterday to n vise French administration and economy as farm- era and trade unions threatened to act against his austerity programme. The Cabinet which hns passed 28
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  • 140 3 THOUSANDS HAIL CREW OF SMALL WORLD \SDS of Barbadans i out yesterday the crew ot the balloon Small cheering receptthey drove m a .^■mW throughout the tid. aid they were v the offer ol D free holiday at the ye St. Lawrence whose man. them the offer vie they left
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  • 417 3 S'pore death rate low while world population soars tyORLD population before the end of this century is expected to be 6,000 million, more than double the present figure, according to a report released by the United Nations yesterday. The document, prepared by the Secretary-General, Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld, estimated a population
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  • 30 3 The Iraqi Prime Minister. Brigadier Abdul Karim Al Kassom. has been promoted to major-general, it was announced m Bagdad v terday the :iath Army Day anniversary. Reuter
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  • 53 3 RAMON Navarro, 59. matinee idol of the silent films, was sent for trial m Hollywood yesterday on a charge of suspicion of drunken driving. Navarro, who pleaded not guilty, was allowed hail. Police alleged he ran through a traffic signal on Hollywood Boulevard at
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  • 169 3 MANUAL WORK IN CHINA NOT FOR ME PIANIST pu TSUN, 24-year-old Chinese concert pianist who went to Britain from Warsaw last month, said m Lonaon yesterday that he is not returning to China. He explained: "I do not intend to go back to Cl^ina because now intellectuals like everybody else
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  • 30 3 President Nasser conferred yesterday with Herr Otto Grotowohl, the East German Prime Minister, lor the MCOnd time .since he arrived m Cairo on Sunday. Reuter
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  • 51 3 ArHREE DAY FAST has bcm declared In tin.- Nablu Area <>f Jordan at the request of Muslim Ifftdtl the hope of eliding a two year drought The Nabliis ana i^ m tile Western "bulu*'" of Joi entral Israel, where prayers hav<> bten offend for rain.
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    • 189 4 Opinion PROBLEM FOR ALL Til E announcement that the Family Planning Association is forced to close down seven of its clinics Is a matter for regret If not dismay. The case for and against family planning has been argued; from every possible j view point, but how-, ever strong the
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  • 519 4 POPULATION RISE MAKES OUTLOOK 'FRIGHTENING' nnHE world is being; peopled faster than man can stock his larder for the population is "exploding" at a rate unprecedented m history, while food production increases far too slowly. That, at any rate, is what Professor J. L. Irving, head of the Department of
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  • 95 4  -  Beachcomber FASDFASFASF l|Y attention ha been culled, as they say m Japan, to the latest report of the scientist* on the Irradiation of our food. It Will be good news for gourIrradlated cod affected In appear ance, smell, nnd flavour han haddock. But who carefl nbout flavour,
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  • 510 4 The Bright New World of sally Ann Howes fiY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT LITTLE more than two years ago the world of Sally Ann Howes seemed, to her, to be collapsing In tragedy. She was a holloweyed shadow of a oncedazzling girl. .mourning the death of Baron, the photographer, who died
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    • 13 4 PATEK PHILIPPE of the Bt tb( ,f centu H. SENA, LTD. Singoporc Pcnang.
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  • 338 5 SINGAPORE motorists have been complaining of hawker obstruction along Balestier Road, especially the section bounded by Towner Road and Kirn Keat Road. They said that it 'was almost impossible to get through without much blowing of horns and braking m the 5-6 p.m.
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  • 135 5 They see welfare system at work Two Burmese ofli- cials, V Ba Scin. secre- f j tary of the Ministry of Social Welfare and Re- o ligious Affairs, and U J[ <> Ba Kin, secretary of the Social Planning J Commission of Burma. are on a visit to Sin- 4
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  • 39 5 Sir Winston Churchill loaves London on Mond pond a frw weeks 1 holl at Marrake.sti, Moroi i <dy Churchill will accompany him and he Ifl i pected to iptnd part of his holiday palntli Reuter
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  • 131 5 Details of Rhodes scholarship due soon rE Singapore Ministry of Education expects to hear shortly from the Rhodes Trustees about the newly-instituted scholarship for the Malayan region. The scholarship to Oxford University Is worth about $5,100 a year. Tht region, according to a London report, would bo allocated a scholarship
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  • 59 5 AMERICAN pianist Phi lipa Schuyler will a conceit at the Victoria itrr on Friday at X 45 p.m. It Is beim: by the l n- Mi. Socitt Miss Schuyler, who gan an award-winning er nt the age of four, has won three gold She has
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  • 44 5 The 23-year-old Duko ol Kent, cousin of the Queen, is to represent his regiment, the Royal Scot Greys, at the divisional skiing championships at Winterberg m the German Alps later this month, it was announced last night.- Reuter
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  • 27 5 A documentary film about the first Soviet moon rocket will be screened m the next few days, Moscow Radio .said yesterday, Reuter
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  • 95 5 Fair girls start training course rE 20 girls who have been chosen to be receptionists at the Singapore Constitution Fair attended their first lecture on public speaking at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Mr. Lim Kee Ming, secretary of the exposition committee, told the Free Press the training would
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  • 26 5 Dr. Julius Raab, Austrian Federal Chancellor, left Copenhagen by air last night for Tokyo, after a 20-hour unofficial visit to Denmark. Reuter
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 128 6 Jl 1 1 SilWlU by Sydney Jordan HIAMIHAKK by Lee Falk and Phil P» v JAM by llubbard [TWO HUND2ED YEACS f2EAu_Y?— WEU.I FwEttE TSY/No TO SET J MA\E YE NOVVp GONE LOKE Tt-I'sTDEW^^B I Since i've seen rrs i now you're I m/m to a mouse neacJ time was
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    • 409 6 BORN today, you have tremen i. personal magnetism and v\ make a host ol iriends wherever m go. You are one to set your sigh' hinh and you are usually able to carry out your original objectn You are not the type to be happy taking directions from a "boss."
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 170 7 LONDON. j an h I'l t lOlls I (H lay i um>!»» j P° I( buyen 25 sellers 25 v tellers »•»> buyers 25 sellers 25 i«llen UIUI No i Rss spoi 24', buyers 25 bi. 25 sellers 25 seller., Xl HUM! Va 1 K^ v< •Uh-nu-nl
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    • 100 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 6 Previous Today ri\ Strait* Spot 98.25 nom. 98.87 nom. 1 1\ future* Straits Contract Jan 96.50 buyers 97.25 buyers 98.25 sellers 98.87 sellers March 96.50 buyers 97.25 buers 98.25 sellers 98.87 sellers TONF: steady. SALES: NIL RI'BBER: Futures Jan. 30.50 paid 30.65 buyers
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    • 33 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 6 Previous Today 31 fofUutriab 590.17 591.37 l\i Railroads 161.86 ***** M Domestit Bonds 86.45 86 44 U V*Wt|« 91.33 91.38 Stoi k> ..ni|)osit«- Avrragfs 205.08 205.35
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    • 53 7 »*i w 24. 22 22 xd cif. Sarawak m !3' afloaU quoted. Muntok white spot ar pment 22 i. awmltlDf release 39. n floats 38' »ot 23 and January shipment 38' release 23 H. 37. to 38' j. sellers ex -do Januar: shipment Above prices quoted m U.S.
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    • 91 7 LONDON. Jan. 6. Com n, Previous Today lUPKA Philippines r.i.f. l*K/ N«Mli uropean jhiUs delivered. $249 to OP? i r l nz to Kf>b Mar $249 resellers $250 resellers <>lR\. BtnUt i.f. IK /North llSl?* 9** delivered „,;^.f r Jan/Frb. £89 nom. £91 quoted vi>m r
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  • 130 7 .-<! market > claimed most n the London Exchange v.. in-day with investment buyon a re firm. I W nil a >fit- i market fter Md there 1 chtap b'iyreturned to favour but closed below thf British Aluminium and Tube Investments lost ground during the initial stages
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  • 288 7 Police 'go slow so 'character' sweeps flourish (WARACTKR sweeps are flourishing m Singapore. The operators would seem to have no fear of police intervention. The Te of all sorts-four, six. 100 and 1,000. All are based on the last four dibits of winning tickets of Turf Club big sweeps or
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  • 20 7 Unemployment m Britain fell by 4,000 between November and December, the Ministry of Labour announced last night. Reuter
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  • 169 7 SINGAPORE City Council labourers who had become redundant through the handing over of the Katong and Serangoon areas to district councils have kept their jobs by being transferred to the Rural Board. Eighty nightsoll labourers including five mand have gone to work for
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  • 38 7 The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, arrived m Gilbraltar from London by air yesterday with his wife and son Christopher for a .six-day stay with the Governor of Gibraltar. Sir Charli ht ley.- Reuter
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  • 127 7 U.K. expert advising on welfare scheme A BRITISH expert on social security measures. Mr. S. Mathews from the Ministry of National Insurance and Pensions, has arrived m Singapore to help the Government draft a new welfare scheme. Mr. L. C. Goh. Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and Welfare,
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 91 7 S' pore radio 1.01 Mid-day Melodies; 130 lime Signal and New.s; Short and Sweet; 2.00 < [>mvn; 5 00 Programme Summary, 5.03 Carrtbean Crul I The Rocket Club; 6.00 Interlude tor 15 Palace ol Varleties; 6 45 Speak M.il i Douncementj and Singapore share Market, Report; 7 00 'I line
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    • 40 7 SINGAPORE HIGH TIDES TODAY: 10.31 p.m TOMORROW: 9.34 a.m. and 11.17 p.m. FRIDAY: 10.19 am. and 11.58 p.m. SATURDAY: 11.03 a.m. SUNDAY: 0.37 a.m. and 11.4H a.m. MONDAY: 1.1 l a.m. and 12.27 p.m. TUESDAY: 1.44 a.m. and 1.10 p.m.
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  • SPIES
    • 52 8 The late Lavrenti Beria, ruthless head of the Soviet Secret Police up to 1953. -tie was directly responsible for the deaths of many innocent people, as well as ordering the depor- to (he cold waitei of oul'Zr' the victim o) hi, uted ai 0 „,,,,or
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    • 96 8 THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY yHE picture on the right, below, shows Yevdokia Petrov, wife of a former official of the Soviet Embassy m Australia, beinghustled aboard a Moscow-bound plane by two bodyguards sent expressly from the USSR for the purpose. According to Russia the bodyguards were actually "Australian iscist
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    • 860 8 RUSSIA PUTS H THE KEY THE iR EAR TO ALL Soles of NEST says Ihe Soviet Political Dictionary, ■is one <>l Ihe basic means used 1)\ cap itulisi nations m their ii^lit among themselves, and m |)ariicular m Ihcir ii^ht against Ihc LSSR/ 1 Espionage, So\ v i citizens are
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    • 56 8 The notorious Lubianka prison m Moseoiv, left, is the headquarters of the Soviet Secret Police. In the cellars of this building, hundreds if not thousands .0/ innocent people have been executed. Many of the old Bolsheviks, who had. devoted their entire lives to Communism, were liquidated here
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    • 61 9 Igor Gouzenko. former code clerk of the Russian Embassy m Ottawa, wears a mask to protect his identity while a correspondent interviews him. When Gouzenko defected to the free world m 1945, he turned over to Canadian authorities documents which proved irrefutably that the Soviet Embassy
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    • ROGUE'S GALLERY
      • 95 9 Russia's iron man COVIET GENERAL, Ivan Serov, present head of Russia's secret police, is a man hated and feared not only m the Soviet Union but m all the satellite countries. He was responsible for the forced deportation to Siberia of one fourth of the total population of six million
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      • 107 9 Rudolph Ivano- vitch Abel, 55, an I illegal immigrant 1 into the United 1 States was wideeyed and tight-lip-ped as he was brought to New York City from a deportation detention camp m Texas m 1957 to face charges of spying for the Soviet Union. He was
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      • 64 9 Germany's young seducer Imgard Margarethe Schmidt, 24, a German brunette who seduced secrets from two American intelligence chiefs and passed on the information to Russia, pleaded guilty to spy charges. Imgard was jailed for five years by an American High Commission Court m Berlin. This picture was taken during the
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  • 760 10  - There's no mumbo jumbo when these priests invoke the spirits Pelham Groom Digging up the past By THE stud* of religious practices and religious beliefs one 1 the S ntereSng m the wo rid. but it has Us attendant difl.ruMtai because, m some countries religion is a personal matter and
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  • Curtain Up
    • 586 11  - Such smooth success doesn't come easily John Lambert By Two stars who are stylish per- formers answer five big ques- tions. REX HARRISON m "The Reluctant Debutante" is the ac- t knowlcdged master of the tech- nique. Frankie Vaughon m "The Lody Is A Square," though a conj frosting, individual
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    • 479 11  - Pinewood's 'Earl dials Hong Kong PETER EVANS By YOUR call to Hong Kong, sir." The secretary's voice is crisply efficient. Earl St. John, the production boss of Pinewood Studios, lifts one of his three white telephones, swings his chair backwards and studies the plain white wall behind his leather topped
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    • 205 11 |{ATHY GRANT. Bins v Crosby's young wife, i i m New York because she want! to |et a degree us a Istered nurse. She is homesick for her four-month-old son, Harry Li His Crosby. Says Kathy: "We him alternatively Little Mouse or Little Man. and Bins calls
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  • 246 12 Prp ro ject will take 20.000 men 10 years to f.n.sh ,!uh, Th wiM ,bTS "UV iS a.,., U, provide Cu-ap transport a,'"ss T t 1 1 malrd to cost MO.OOO 000 rupees (aboul $425 mil.) 20 MO' men and several hundred engineers lv
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  • 128 12 SOUTH Vietnam has filed a formal complaint to the International Trine Commission over alleged sabotage, terrorism and murders committed by Vietminh agents. It said it took the action after police m the Village of Dinh Tuon« arrested a man who was carrying Communist documents, two pistols
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  • 23 12 A Japanese trade mission is due to arrive In Bagdad In mid-January to negotiate a commercial agreement with Iraq. U.P.I.
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  • 70 12 pLANS of a British architectural firm to sur--1 round the grave of Pakistan's founder, Mohammad Ali .Jmnah, with a futuristic mausoleum have been rejected, A committee turned down the design because it was over modern and needs more Muslim appeal." The engineer In charge of' th»-
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  • 178 12 4 COURT at Nagoya, Japan, is x expected to decide soon who owns the summit Of Mount Fuji, Whose snowy peak has become an internationally-recognised symbol of Japan. The Govern men I says it owns Fuji's snow-covered summit, but the Sengen Shinto shrine sa\s the 12,425-foot
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  • 80 12 Chinese doctor's big plasma discovery A CHINESE physician has succeeded m using plasma produced from pig blood on human beings. The Taipeh United Daily News said Dr. Kuo Chiang-po. a Japanese educated surgeon, had tried the plasma on 120 patients. Only 12 of them showed temporary ill effects, the report
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  • 29 12 The Sikh holy town of Amritsar ran short of priests when 500 marriages wer" performed m one day. An astrologer had said it was an auspicious day. U.P. I.
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  • 20 12 Tibet has produced its fir.^t steam tug- boat to replace the yak-skin dugouts tha now ply the nations rivers. U.P.I.
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  • 17 12 South Vietnam has accepted a proposal by Turkey that she send an Ambassador to Saigon soon.-- U.P.I.
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  • 30 12 The managing director of the Macao waterworks has gone to China to discuss the colony's water supply problems. A Redbuilt causeway has cut off Macao's flow of fresh water.- U.P.I.
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  • 54 12 A steel plant at Hourkela. India, being built with German aid, will product--580,000 tons of nitrolimestone a year. Cars imported into India. free of duty m 1958 totalled 573. Communist China built new coal pits with a total annual production capacity of 150 million tons during 1958. the New China
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  • 43 12 Officers and men of Nationalist Chinas first Nike-Hercules ground-to-air missile battalion have Rone to America for training. An Indian mountaineering team has received permission from the Government of Nepal to reconnoitre Mount Everest next year and to climb Mount Pumori m 1959. U.P.I.
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  • 32 12 The Soviet Prime Minister Mr. Nikita Khrushchev sent a message to the Indian Premier. Mr. Nehru, hoping for further development and strengthen iner of friendship and co-operation between the two countries.- Reuter
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  • 15 12 Ceylon had record <>H! murders m 1!>58 The previous record was 617 m 1fM7.~ Reuter
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  • 34 12 Dr. Derek Prior ot Cam bridge Unlver baa identified a "my tery object" pullrd out ol the Mediterranean m IMo and stored m thi national museun i mechanical n ot th< about c Reuter
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  • 61 12 Loatian monks studying at U.S. university MAHA Chansouk Souriyachak and Maha Onsa Sinhantharath, Buddhist monks from Laos, are m the midst of a year's study at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania under an American State Department exchange scheme. Maha Chansouk (left) and Maha Ousa are seen here m the university's magazine
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  • 135 12 A FISCAL expert In tl. J\ Philippines Coi. has said that borrow I capital and wise economic planning can restore prosperity to his country whicn m terms of cash Is uncomfortably close to b broke.'* Mr. Jose Leido made thicomment m an interview i he
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  • 42 12 The Japanese ielf feiK air fon have its nrst wins fighters ready for next March, the i> Ministry ha Japan now h i time fighter unit The Uniti i to supply ,ft to C(|lllp fli( unit Reuter
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  • 224 13 THE ALL-STAR JAM SESSION THAT'S NEVER BEEN EQUALLED JANUARY 16. 1938, was and remains the bigCcst night swin^ has ever known. For it brought together the greatest jazzmen of that ulous era m a jam session that will probabnever be equalled. was the Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, organised Benny Goodman.
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  • 253 13 I) KE Ellington has never written songs for the Hit Parade, but from his musical pen 1 come many favourites that rank with the works of Cole Porter and George Gershwin. /'Part from the famous Mood Indigo, which let him i to fame way back m
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  • 522 13  - Unique concerto and a great soloist Jonathan Russell FASDFSDFASDFASD BAKTOK: Violin Concerto. The New York Philharmonic Orchestra. RAYfcl.: Tzigane. Thf PhiUdr'phiit Orchestra. Soloist: Isaac Stern. (FonUna, 12-inch 609 02t CL). JJNIQUE is the best word to describe Bartok \s Violin Concerto. Intricate-vari-ations make it so. It takes the touch of
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  • 48 13 WITCH DOT for the new leeilAfC raw I I Ricky Nrlson. son of f.i mows American TV nu^ hand :ind-wifr tram. Otslf \< Ison and ll;n I rirt Milliard. Ills "Poor Lit tit looi; m the Rri- (ish betl srllrrs. h;«s made a »;r<-at impi< sion. I
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  • 185 13 A SONG which is becoming increasingly popular m America is called "The World Outside." The title may convey nothing to you but when you hear the tune, you'll immediately recognise it as our old friend "The Warsaw Concerto." Ever since Richard Addinsell wrote this wonderful theme
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  • 895 14  - HELL-RAISING HENRY iS STILL A FIGHTER GEORGE WHITING by -BUT THE PURSE THESE DAYS IS LOST SOULS >M)HOuY would ftt»t over-excited at tne news 1 that a Baptist minister named Henry Jackson, sharecropper's son from the Deep South eottonfielda <>t Columbus, Mississippi, was flying Into London. Even the fact that
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  • 303 14 HERE AND THERE by All-Rounder rpHREE times In successive seasons League referee Jack X Clough. of Bolton. has been favourite to control the FA Cup Final at Wembley. Each time the honour has gumelsewhere because In 1955 and 1956 Manchester City reached the Final
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  • 93 14 AFRICAN VERDICT If R. All Birkett. presideni Itl of the South Africai Cricket Umpires Assoc. yesterday went on I as saying that m hi nion lan Meckiil. the Au. trmllan pace bowler, "doe: not throw." Birkclt stood m two Test between South Africa anc Australia during the 1957 58 series
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  • 56 14 Wlnga ol the Sovift. Russian ;iir fOTC« ICC h< team now m Sweden. l> a local tram 5-4 at Leksand Central Sweden, last niin In a match played Gothenburg to inau an artificial let rink In New Ullevi Stadium. S* 1 den's national team. > Kronor (Three Crown
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    • 109 14 1,1 1 I M^ I II < i i i ACKOBB 3 Dor.s such a mother produce 1 A hundred times twenty tudftiv? U0). 5 Wulkinu quietly like 4 1. lfte (he Huffing (7>. •;>. li More than eatet almost T: King ,i vet! pleases 7 A shillliiu' lightship to
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  • 90 15 HORSES WERE GIVEN BARRIER TRIALS AT IPOH THIS MORNING, writes Allan Lewis. Chenderiang, Traveller's Cheque II (Taylor), Summer Kiss (Kin^) and two unnumbered horses were m the line-up. They all jumped well, with Chenderiang outstanding. f FWO apprentice riders who have been out of action since
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  • 85 15  -  ALLAN LEWIS r.N 1)1 N \N<; trainer, W. S. 1 Bagby, who has been seriously ill during the past six months, leaves tomorrow, accompanied by his wife, a tour or five months holidaj m Kngland and Ireland, Bagby will undergo fur. 7 treatment for a
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  • 255 15 \^HLEY COOPER beaten m his tonal tennia dePancho Segura night m Sydney. Fhe night's programme raised more th;in E 10.000 for J ick Crawford, a popular Australian Davis cup tr of the *****. Cooper, who lias signed with American promoter Jack Kramrr for a
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  • 564 15 TWO SIAMESE AMONG THE LAST FOUR OMAR IBRAHIM TO MEET No. 2 SEED NANDU NATEKAR Tan Joe Hock poses the main threat TWO Siamese stars were lirst to enter the semi-finals of the International B a tl minton Championships now being held m Bangkok. TUey arc Charoen Watanasin, who holds
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  • 118 15 DNia silk. 27-year-old Somer m I bat man, hit 150 m ju.st over two hour, for tho M.c.c. amateur touring team against tin* Argentine Crlckei Assoc (ion on the opening daj I two day mutch Bt the Belgrano Clv b, B Aires, v« iterday. Silk
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  • 165 15 DAVIS CUP PAIR IN EASY WIN ALEX OLMEDO and Barry Mackay had an easy victory over the top West Australian pair Geoff Strang and Bruce Franklin yesterday m the third round of the men's doubles of the West Australian titles m Perth, yesterday. The Americans won 6-4, 6-3, 6-0. Top-
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  • 36 15 ILSA Konrads, 14-year-old holder <>i the world cord for the woraen'i 880--yard freestyle, won the 440--yard freestyle la.st night m 4 mm r>4 8 sve at the New South Wales women's .swiniminp, championahlpi, -UP.I.
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  • 322 16 Talks m Bangkok REPRESENTATIVES of 15 states and territories m Asia, including Malaya and Singapore, will explore ways to boost trade at a 10-day private conference to be held m Bangkok from tomorrow. The talks on an experimental basis will be under the
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  • 42 16 Sir David Eecles, President of the British Board of Trade, said m an interview published m Italy today that the recent measures for making European currencies convertible had greatly improved the at mosphere lor creating a free trade area. Reuter
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  • 28 16 Air Chief Marshal Sir Theodore N. McEvoy has be<n appointed Air Secretary with effect from May 1. the Air Ministry announced m London yesterday. Reuter
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  • 23 16 Mr. RenoCoty. 76-year-old President of France's outgoing Fourth Republic, yesterday presided over Ins last cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace. Reuter
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  • 32 16 Mr. John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State, was reported today to bo recovering from a virus infection which is keeping him at home for the time being.- Reuter
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  • 51 16 ORITISH troops ye terday began major "patrol exercises" m the mountainarea of outhwes[ Cyprus. About 100 trurkl- troops from the Nic« area drove westward during the night to Join other troop, already In the ar< 'IVn helicopters with more troops flew m later m the morning
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  • 181 16 A SPECIAL investigator testified m New York yesterday that the city was the cent a ul black market m the adoption of babies. Some couples paid up to $3,700 (M$ll,ioo» to adopt a baby, whose parents they knew little or nothing
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  • 36 16 King Saud of Arabia has told M. Dag Hammarskjoeld United Nations Secretary. General, that Saudi Arabia will raise her dispute with Britain over the Buraimi OasLs m the United Nations Reuter
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  • 36 16 Mr. William Rogers. United States Attorney-Gt il, rii said yesterday General Batista. deposed Cuban President, would not be granted asylum m th-> us but could apply for entry on some other basis Reuter
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