The Singapore Free Press, 3 February 1960

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    13 1 The SINGAPORE Free Press No. *****. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1960. 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon KERALA KICKS OUT REDS
    381 1 rONGRESS ALLIANCE ROMPS HOME TO AN EASY VICTORY Communist chief m... but his five aides crash m defeat Le three party anti-Communist AlliI 3 ncc today won a crushing victory I Kcrji state elections over the Lfftunists whose state Government K dismissed after prolonged rioting l|u'v
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    LERKS HURLED ON OAD IN 2-LORRY RASH: 25 INJURED
    257 1 BUKIT TIMAH, Wednesday. EXTV-FIVI a were injured four seriously when two ntllided at a sharp bend m Whitley Road at 7.15 this mornying 18 War Department clerks to work m The other was taking six labourers to K;itoii^. The collision ripped
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    councilors to get 54,800 ckpay each
    8 1 councilors to get 54,800 ckpay each I tktdfjktdf
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    Lock icon ck'n'roil ban
    5 1 ck'n' roil ban KMKLKLFKLKfk,tktkt Reuter
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    Lock icon MIGHT OF RUSSIA KEPT IN READINESS
    86 1 MIGHT OF RUSSIA KEPT IN READINESS >SLO Wed. The Soviet I nion has "at least" 30 fully equipped divisions m the regions bordering on mdinavia. the Conser\.itive paper Morgenpladet >aid yesterday. More than 4,500 modern planes are kept m readiness on at least 300 airfields from the Arctic ocean to
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    Lock icon Sukarno: I refused bribe of 20 million guilders
    110 1 JAKARTA, Wed.— President Sukarno said at Mrrtojudan. Central Java, recently that a Dutch firm had once offered him a bribe of 20 million guilders, Jakarta newspapers reported yesterday. The President, who was on a tour of Central Java, told an audience of
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    $3.5 MIL BREWERY TO BE BUILT IN FEDERATION
    142 1 $3.5 MIL BREWERY TO BE BUILT IN FEDERATION KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. jyjALAYAN BREWERIES are to start building a modern $,V)0(),000 brewery here {his year. This was announced by the technical nftfffllger, Mr. H. Wanschers, last night. Mr. Wanschers and Mr. E. H. van Leeuwen, consulting engineer of the company, are
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    Lock icon Test rioter jailed for three months
    69 1 Test rioter jailed for three months PORT OF SPAIN. (Trinidad), Wed. One man was jajled for three months and another fined W***** <Ms2l2> here yesterday for offences connected with the riot on Saturday during the cricket Test between England and the West Indies. Charges against another 10 people, including one
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    Lock icon Three saved from mine
    52 1 TOKYO, Wed. Rescuers today saved three miners who were entombed two days deep m a coal mine at Yubari by a gas explosion and fire that killed 35 others. The three reached the surface m early morning darkness and appeared to be m fairly good physical
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    Lock icon THIS MORNING'S CRASH PICTURE
    23 1 picture. VFTER THE COLLISION, first aid is civen on me suoi 10 me injured War Dqparlinent clerks.- Free Press
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    Klaus, the global hiker, is in the Big Walk, too
    145 1 Klaus, the global hiker, is in the Big Walk, too ROUND THE WORLD hitch-hiker Klaus Rabenalt. 24. has entered for the Free Press Walk. "I have walked 9.000 miles. so I think I can easily manage another Hi," he said yesterday. For him. it will be less than a normal
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    Lock icon All the facts
    23 1 BONN. Wed.— The Government will publish a White Book this month on the recent anti-Semitic incidents m West Germany. U.P.I.
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    Share mart opening
    74 1 STOP PRESS ►OKI DOWN <t HI MALAY MEDIUM ALL SCHOOLS I I Ml" nstrifc »*n! vi ln< ii< i hill iflicuh this y< bH ONE DEAD I his iPORJ j i i EEPINC FOWL R DE CA i YARD MAN FOUND SHOT IN l». i I DER
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      63 1 j FOR EASTERN CRARS <TA NG LTD, t -L* ROAO. SPORE 9 W: I IQ RECAPTURE THE GLORY OF YOUTH All the art and r olour expert* are yours ng, semi -permanent So subtle m its beauty. lagic has its own I conditions (yes, rtally ,i perm, after a perm
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      167 1 IpHHilHll r M ff JS&raSm WORLD FAMOUS W^BKKS PIANO ACCORDIONS (Complete with Carrying Case* satisfy all Accordion Players Student 12 25 Keys 12 Bass $135.00 Student 24 25 Keys 24 Bass 150.00 Student 32 25 Keys 32 Bass 175.00 Canlore 49 34 Keys 48 Bass 275.00 Cantore 83 34 Keys
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      14 1 VAX Hl* FOR l|\* lIRMTIIU 136/142. Orchard 4«*d. B'p«re— TrU: *****. t Me «t4t
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    Another active spell ahead in share mart
    564 2 I PAGE TWO GIVES YOU THE DETAILS OF THE I UPS AND DOWNS OF YOUR INVESTMENTS ■lip— —p^p^»i n^ MpMp^p^p^M By a special correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. pHE Malayan Share Market yesterday resumed m earnest with Chinese operators coining m again alter the New
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    Mound the War ill Market Prices
    343 2 NUTK: All prices below are middle prices. U.K. Closing Prices LONDON, Feb. 2. Yesterday Today RUBBbR No. t RSS c.i.f. European ports Feb Hll 1« 33J Mar 33 I 16 33J RUBBER NO. 1 RSS Spot 3.". 3.) 16 ÜBBER No. 1 RSS Settlement
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    HONG KONG PRICES
    57 2 HONG KONG, Tuesday. Closing prices here today were: Yesterday Today H. S. Banking Corporation $1,205 $1,200 .sales sates Union Ins. Canton. $94.00 $95.00 buyers sales Wheelock Marden 6.15 6.15 sales sales HKong 'phone $33.75 $33.50 &$33.50 saltes sales Dairy Farm Cold Storage $24.00 $24.60 &$24.70 &$24.40 sales
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    DIVIDENDS
    110 2 Cable and Wireless make it sixpence LONDON: Cable and Wireless (Holdings) declared a final dividend of l-l 2 pence per unit, making six pence for the year. 1959. payable on March 15. A free scrip issue of one for every five units held and a rights issue of one
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    SHIPS IN PORT
    96 2 CHIPS lying alongside the Sin- gapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Tigelberg 1 2. Neder Waal 4 5, Almeria Lykes 6A. Glenearn 6 7. Ginyo Maru 8 9. Shiranesan Maru 10,11, Songkhla 13 14, Tamesls 15/lf, Rajula 18. Braeside 19. Serudam N.Wall 2. Serdang N.Wall
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    FURTHER WIDESPREAD GILTEDGED GAINS
    179 2 LONDON. Wed.— The pattern of the London stock markets yesterday was very similar to that of Monday and generally there was no definite trend. The uncertain domestic labour situation tended to restrict business. Giltedged securities, how- ever, enjoyed a quiet investment demand and recorded further widespread
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    MALAYAN SHAKE MARKET
    892 2 NOTE: All prices below are middle prices. KEY TO MARKINGS cci pjj Cum capital issue Mil excluding evtrytbiif xi excluding iiviieu I cfei cum bonus issue V xcr eiclviitt capital rttari r ccr cum capital retort I cd cum iiviieu c call pjj cum all t cb
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      914 2 SHIPPING fie Wi E t»AoVa LINES Sailings tt ADEN. RED SEA. MEDITERRANEAN, jiD CONTINENTAL 1 SCANDINAVIAN PORTS. >C V s lir P. S'la«i Penaiii vA -\l ms. SangJilla" a) Ml. 13-14/ 4 Ftl 5 6 ft^ 6/ 7 Ftl 4 Jq) ijr ms. Jvtlacdia" I) II 21 Ftl 21 22
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      285 2 HAMBURG-AMERIcTi^ tsc NORTH GERMAN inj To (Colombo), Genoa, Marscili Bremen Horr-bur/'** Colls Southampton for p Ol|fl w S r ISAHSTEtN (LLOYO It 19 Feb 2 0 j HESSENSTEIN (LLOYD 21 73 Feb SCMWABEHSTEIN (LLOYO) n Feb Mar Passenger Accommooai o- To Manila, Hongkong, Yokohon 0 HAMBURfi (NAPAG) BAYERNSTEIN (LLOYO; WERRASTEIN
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    bid war intrigues at that UNESCO meeting—Rahim
    321 3 bid war intrigues at that UNESCO meeting— Rahim MEN FOIL^SUBTZEATTEMPTS' AND THEN GET DOWN TO BUSINESS SGAPORE, Wednesday. clammy finger m every SCO conference on m South-Easl Asia held m was no exception. I better understanding among nations On the two-week long nee, Inche Rahim that it served as a
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    MILLION DOLLAR HOSPITAL ON MOUNT ALVERNIA
    16 3 MILLION DOLLAR HOSPITAL ON MOUNT ALVERNIA I>G, NGAPORE. Wednesday. and Malacca, sterday laid the rala Hospital.
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    All-ladies band for club dance
    40 3 KATONG. Wed. The ChiSwimming Club will hold N T ew Year re-union Mid dance on SaturIrom 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Two dance bands, one an group, will be m ndance. Admission is $5 person.
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    Poly jobs—call for applicants
    33 3 Poly jobs— call for applicants N'GAPOREf. Wed.— The a pore Polytechnic today -d for applicants to fill three important posts m the I The posts vat-ant are those assistant regis- ior assitant li-
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    edah clamps a six-month freeze on 36,000 applications for land
    158 3 edah clamps a six -month freeze on 36,000 applications for land _ymkjmyt,mfd They have been accumulating over the years and we just cant cope with any more," the Mentri Besar Dato Syed Omar ihabuddin told the Applications were being temporarily frozen he explained for two reasons: Many applications were from
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  • LOVE FROM HUBBY...A $35,000 WATCH
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      Time hidden in a cocoon of diamonds
      152 3 Time hidden in a cocoon of diamonds OINGAPORE, Wed.— A watch that not merely puts time on your hands but a $35,000 diamond dollop on your wrist. That is the one you see on the right. The watch itself is encrusted m a cocoon of diamonds. At first glance, it
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      'Anaesthesia:' Talk by Sir Robert
      50 3 'Anaesthesia:' Talk by Sir Robert SINGAPORE. Wed. Sir Robert MacKintosh. Professor of Anaesthesia at Oxford University. will speak to members of the Singapore Medical Association at the University of Malaya's Allen Lecture Theatre, at 8 p.m. tonight. Sir Robert, who is here for a short visit, will talk on "Anaesthesia."
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      Australian airmen in Penang want school for their children
      200 3 Australian airmen in Penang want school for their children PENANG, Wednesday. 'THE Royal Australian Air Force wants to build a school for the children of its officers and men serving m the RAAF base at Butterworth. "We hope to build our own j school but we don't know yet whether
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      1,000 MORE GET SECURITY
      53 3 1,000 MORE GET SECURITY KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Federation Government has absorbed more than 1.000 of its temporary officers into permanent service Their appointment became effective on Monday. The Government Temporary Officers' Union said yesterday: "Their period of insecurity is over and with it the last chapter or their temporary
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      Chinese YMCA's folk-dancing
      46 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. Thej Chinese V.M.C.A. will present "New Year's Rendezvous"— association's first Folk Dance session—from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday. Guest artistes will be Miss Suriani Sani, Miss Betty Low i and Mr. Sunny Low. There are prizes to be won.
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      Asia Foundation's $13,000 gift
      48 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A $13,000 gift by the Asia Foundation has enabled the Malayan Youth Hostels Association to have its fourth hostel at Port Dickson, with accommodation for 40 young travellers at a time. The other youth hostels are m Johore (2) and Morib.
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      Johore coronation
      33 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Special 10-cent postage stamps to commemorate the coronation of Sir Ismail as Sultan of Johore will be on I Ale m Johore for three: months Irom Feb. 10.
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      Visiting professors to be guests
      53 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. Two visiting professors of Madras University. Prof. N. Sanjeevi and Prof. M. Sundaram, will be guests at a tea-party of the Tamils Representative Council on Saturday at 5 p.m. at Adelphi Roof Garden. Mr. Lee Khoon Choy. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of
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      2,000 RUSH TO JOIN SCHOOL FOR PLANTERS
      147 3 2,000 RUSH TO JOIN SCHOOL FOR PLANTERS KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— More than 2,000 young men h-ave applied for training as planters at the R.E.A. and Cumberatch Training School m Damansara, it was stated yesterday. Because of the large number of application, officials of the school are finding it difficult to
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      Coronation stamps
      34 3 CHANGI. Wed.— Lorong 105. off Changi Road, is closed to traffic from today for three weeks for the construction of a sewer. Traffic will be diverted into Lorong 105 or Everitt Road.
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      217 3 Fascinating Range of Jewellery WORLD FAMOUS CULTURED PEARLS available m Necklaces, Chokers, Bracelets, Brooches, Earrings, Pendants, Rings Tie Pins. Awaits your Early Selection, Distri b v tors: 6. C de SUVA BROS., "Jewellers" 3, Raffles Place, Singapore- 1. Phone ***** Italian Styling y/ combined with American Engineering =^S^BPI moon 120
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    I am a doctor... and I am telling you how you can have a baby at sixty
    1046 4  - I am a doctor and I am telling you how you can have a baby at sixty BARBARA MOORE A page to please the ladies spotlighting the woman who is todays big I f WMHII ••< > I il MM '1* 1 m f [I AM within sight of finishing
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    ...this is what a doctor has to say
    97 4 Women with unbalanced diets or an excess of starchy foods would certainly benefit from Dr. Moore's ideas, but there is no medical evidence that her diet can delay old age or prolong fertility. Dr. Moore is fortunate to possess a sound and
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    IF YOU POISON US, DO WE NOT DE A WOMAN'S PLEA AGAINST NAZIS AND THEIR HATRED FOR JEW
    461 4  - IF YOU POISON US, DO WE NOT DE A WOMAN'S PLEA AGAINST NAZIS AND THEIR HATRED FOR JEW DOREEN GOLD By CO the beastliness is starting again. The envious, the unbalanced, the spiteful are coming out of the shadows to scrawl their obscene symbol of hatred on British walls. I've
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      468 4 PRODENT (s"«-'~o e»*~o) TOOTHPASTE JACKPOT COMPETITION CLOSING DATE FOR COMPETITION NO.I V^^^^T A M W m a^aW PROOENT TOOTHPASTE box« \Jr \< v^SSs^^aß w v I h <> w;n th smiling face) y j/J JACKPOT" Prixes. +^^T Vf th.» Red Halt o» the PRODENT TOOTHPASTE box fl B ♦or Competition
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    No duty-free entertaining' hips soon
    35 5 No duty-free entertaining' hips soon CUSTOMS TO GET MORE^nw^o To RGHT TAX EVAS|QN N Singapore, Wed. itors on board *hips lying will soon have to be I tobacco on which SinJ\ boon paid. ]nder seat
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    TWO MALAYANS IN LONDON WHO MISS THE SUNSHINE
    143 5 TWO MALAYANS IN LONDON WHO MISS THE SUNSHINE TWO MALAYANS on a three-year course at BOAC headquarters m London are again looking forward to more spells of training m the warmer cities of Asia and Africa on the airline's routes and their return to Malayan sunshine. For the past lii
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    'Pressure' union recruiting: A warning
    69 5 SING \PORL, WYd. the Singapore (u> Council \dministrator. Mr. p. Lim. has warned the stall that disciplinary action •uld be taken against m !> who us*- "official inilurnir to recruit union mrmbrrv In a circular to heads of departments. Mr. Lim said that complaints had
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    YOUTH WHO BROKE INTO HOUSE GETS YEAR'S JAIL
    149 5 YOUTH WHO BROKE INTO HOUSE GETS YEAR'S JAIL SINGAPORE, Wed A youth was sentenced to a year's jail yesterday when he Pleaded guilty to housebreakin- and theft by night. An alternative charge hfn ain n,v? heh Abdul Shu^ar Din Othman. 22. of disv.?i\ les i Iy dis P° si "S
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    Opening of new home for Muslim girls in 'moral danger'
    238 5 Opening of new home for Muslim girls in 'moral danger' SINGAPORE. Wed. Che Norisha, wife of tinYang di-Pertuan Negara. Inche Yusof bin Ishak, will open the 5224.000 Muslim Women's Welfare Home on Feb. 13. The three-storey building on a one-and-a-half acre site m Jalan Eunos is the main project of
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    INDIA-BOUND PASSENGERS TOLD BEWARE THAT $50 DUTY LIMIT
    140 5 Cj APORE. Wed.— Pa O 3 boarding the la m Singapore were that the In'ustoms would imtll good> where duty I 78- ton X r Madras tomorr :\>> were told ttl they war.red I lUt Is would not accept the extra payment
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    200 SINGAPORE HUNTERS IN RUSH FOR JOHORE CAME PERMITS
    317 5 200 SINGAPORE HUNTERS IN RUSH FOR JOHORE CAME PERMITS SINGAPORE, Wednesday. j^JORK than 200 hunters m Singapore last month joined the big rush for permits to shoot game m Jobore the result of a more liberal policy of the State Government. Previously, game permits were issued under the old Johore
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    Didn't stop at sign—$20
    51 5 Didn't stop at sign— $20 SINGAPORE. Wed. —Ho Kok Leong of Dakota Cres- cent was fined $20 yesterday for failing to conform to a j "Stop. Children Crossing" sign displayed by a warden at the junction of ftfrartia Road and East Coast Road on the morning of June 22. last
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    AUSTRALIA OFFERS 4 STUDY GIFTS
    190 5 SINGAPORE, Wednesday. \USTRALIA is offering four Colombo Plan scholarships to study medicine for local students m Singapore, the Federation of Malaya, 1 Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo. THE AIR GIRLS NOW SAY IT IN MALAY PAYA LEBAR. Wed. Malayan Airways flight stewardesses are making their
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    Hongkong Bank to get first robot brain in Asia
    226 5 Hongkong Bank to get first robot brain in Asia SINGAPORE. Wed.— A -robot brain" will be installed m the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank m Hong Kong next week to make the colony the fast territory In Asia to use it. This was announced m Singapore yesterday by Mr. N.A.J. Smith,
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    Wanted: 'Good radio voice' Malayans
    128 5 SINGAPORE, Wed. Malayans with 'sood radio voices' are wanted by All India Radio for translatorannouncer posts m its Cantonese and Mandarin services. They must also have a good general education and be able no pronounce ac- curate Mandarin or Cantonese. Another qualification: proficiency m the
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      23 5 I haulage WM by '*P I SINGAPORE BAGGAGE TRANSPORT AGENCY LTD. T /^_^7\ m association with /\^--~S\ I SINGAPORE PACKING CO., LTD. I
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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      125 5 :.Y John Prentice <6c Fred Dickenson by Lee Falk and Phil Davis AS:TDRSAIO\/ YOU HAD A NO, I DIDNT\ "^itS^WWER II IT LOOKS GENERAL, I ■-REPAIRMAN V LUCKY ESCAPE NOTICE WHAT COMPANY MAS NO ASIFMR.XIS]/ SUGGEST YOU --3ETSCME THE REPAIR- RECORD OF THE OPERATING RESTRICT ALL REST v LOOKED "X.
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      Defences are just in case
      202 6 Defences are just in case SINGAPORE has not forgotten the influenza epidemic of early 1957. It remembers the attack not as a visitation to be mourned, but as something to be prevented m future. And all its defences are already at work on the news that the expected return of
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    Travelling at home
    135 6 OLOWLY too slowly people m Singapore are getting bitten by the travel bug. In the mass they are a stay-at-home crowd. Every day the newspapers carry stories about youngsters going abroad to study, about people taking long travel trips to Europe and the United States. That costs
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    Peter: Why I'm so bitter...
    1806 6  - Peter: Why I'm so bitter. ROBERT MELCHER ygftkytgkklflfkl By THE THIRD OF FIVE ARTICLES 6tktkktrk6tkt THAT FAMOUS LONDON VISIT: 'IT Wj NO SABOTAGE I SWEAR TO YOU THE ROYAL FAMILY KNEW ALL ABOUT THINK it was on the American stage of our film-making trip around the world that the physical
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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      43 6 PATEK PHILIPPE is the only watch manufacturer whose entire rollcction of men's watchi carries, engraved on every movement, the official stamp Df the State of Geneva, the authentic guarantee of :enturies-old 'GENEVA QUALITY". H. SENA, LTD. HIGH CLASS JEWELLERS Singapore Pcnang. ****************************************111 l
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      9 6 \o TRANSPORT STORAGE 173, Cecil Strn Fhonc: *****. Man >
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      68 6 I B B 1 r 1 I At the examination, alterna- (5> tively a witness (8). SOLUTION H|| I B^B B I B B fl B 24> I f f rs conf u s ed before the uoißg 'is :ssaD3y '81 J I 2 lls animal is even more *fr
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    Bearch for 'space rocket' boy
    39 7 SCHOOL CHECKS ROLLS- >, WANT TQ CONGRATULATE HIM/ SAYS HEAD E HA YE THE 3A RD FOR 1,5 KIND IngenuityI It, I \lio I I nrr mriginaiity' kind well. r m Secrecy m i lon.
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    YOU ARE LUCKY' WOMAN TOLD
    138 7 SINGAPORE, Wednesday. VG SIEW LIAN. 45. a businesswoman, charged m a "character* lottery case, was acquitted rerday after being told by the magistrate. Mr. Goh Heng Leong, to consider herself fortunate. of a chain of I md ap: m the Naval Ba>c. wa> ged with
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    BREMEN FIGHT AFTERNOON BLAZE IN SPORE STORE
    68 7 a afternoon damaged -Or o4 m^ f T a i'ore m Outram ate was still bein Wlce d "d the fire bri- The store, belonging to Thye Lee Co. was locked up when smoke was seen curling out of the closed doors. There
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    Lock icon Sewing...the ecclesiastical kind
    176 7 Sewing... the ecclesiastical kind A N ENGLISH housewife. A Mrs. T. G. Cotterell has introduced the art 01 "ecclesiasticaP embroidery to Sinuapore women Sinsapore-born Mrs. Cotterell, 41. is now siting tr?e tuition 10 ten housewivo .it the m Andrew's Cathedral hall m the first course Itl kind. Held every Tuesday
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    Ratepayers in arrears, so payment in advance in Klang
    255 7 Ratepayers in arrears, so payment in advance in Klang KLANG, Wed. Hundreds of property owners here, who did not pay up assessment rates m time, have been told that they must pay this year's rates m advance. A spokesman lor the Klang Town Council said today that this was to
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    ARREST WARRANT ISSUED AGAINST A LORRY DRIVER
    213 7 ARREST WARRANT ISSUED AGAINST A LORRY DRIVER SINGAPORE, Wednesday. A LORRY knocked down a woman while trying to overtake another lorry along Dunearn Road on the morning of Dec. 19 last, the Assistant Coroner, Inche Ahmad bin Hussein, was told yesterday. I The inquest was on Tan Ou, 68. who
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    NOW THE BUMBOATS KEEP OFF SHIPS
    124 7 SINGAPORE, Wednesday. •T^HE bumboat menace to shipping m the Singa- pore harbour has been removed. Marine Police patrols are j m keeping them clear of the ships, the Master Attendant. Capt. J. A. L. Pavitt, said yesterday. "Shipping companies have informed me that no
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    AUSSIES IN SINGAPORE GET NEW C.O.
    57 7 AUSSIES IN SINGAPORE GET NEW C.O. SINGAPORE, Wed. Brigadier Sidney John Bleechmore. 45. has arrived m Singapore to take assume command of Australian forces stationed here. He will formally take office on Feb. 19. The present commanding officer. Col. A.J. McNamara. has been posted to the Australian Army Headquarters m
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    SI 00 fine for taximan
    56 7 SINGAPORE, Wed. A taxi driver. Wee Keng Ann, of Foo Kirn Lin Road, was lined $100 yesterday for negligent driving. Wee was found guilty of I driving his taxi on the wrong side of the road at the junction of Buklt Timah Road and Second
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    AIRMAN AND WIFE ARE TOURIST FILM STARS
    173 7 PENANG, Wed. A leading aircraltman from the Koyal Australian Air Force, Mr. Clive Wills, and his wife, Judy Anne, a former beauty consultant, are "stars" m aMm being produced by the Malayan Film Unit to promote tourism m Malaya. The couple play the
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    ROBBER TOOK OFF MASK FOR A SMOKE, COURT TOLD
    203 7 ROBBER TOOK OFF MASK FOR A SMOKE, COURT TOLD SINGAPORE. Wednesday. A ROBBER took off his mask for a smoke during a two-hour hold-up m the quartan of a couple at Trafalgar Home, it was alleged m a magistrate's court yesterday. Tan Hock Chye, a barber at the home, and
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    Meeting is held in Malay for first time
    122 7 Meeting is held in Malay for first time BITTER WORTH, Wed. For the first time since its inception m 1954, the Butteruorth Town Council concluded its monthly meeting on Monday entirely m Malay. The .meeting approved an expenditure vole of S5OO lor a National Language Week concert to be held
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    Three accused of breaking curfew
    42 7 SINGAPORE, Wed.— Three men, charged with breaking house curfew orders, were remanded m custody till Saturday. They were Ng Tens Poi. of Erskine Road. Tay Lian Seng, of Lorono Krishnan, and Seah Eng Joo. of Beach Road.
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    A new look
    27 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. Joo Chiat Community Centre will have a new look when extentions costing about $16,000 are completed at the end of this month.
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      142 7 DIARY OF TODAY'S EVENTS SINGAPORE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: International bazaar for the Blind convenors meeting at 9.45 a.m. m the lounge of the Cricket Club. ROTARY CLUB: Talk by Mr. George Olden, director of Graphic Arts. Columbia T.V. Network, Cathay Hotel, l p.m. YWCA (Raffles Quay): International Women's Club
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    1149 8  -  BRAIN L.ONG 8kioytioyt7oytoyo (...or the art of making life pleasant with... J PARENTS WHO WONT ADMIT THAT YOU'RE NOW GROWN 11 BRINGING up her parents to live a useful, happy and non-interfering life can be a tricky problem for a girl already way past 16. Nevertheless, the
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      470 8 BORN today, you are one unexpected, as a rule you day star and read the cor- ou ,< may ne€d t0 v your of the consistently dis- come through any crisis responding naraeranh T U nd ov a maLU5r of cons i d «able lg SSt^ffi' what thTg 3t the
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    198 9 AMERICAN MOTOR NDUSTRY WILL Y EMPHASIS ON RIETY IN 1960 [industry plans to offer the cars m iK history during short of setting a record i IKIIIU v y8ly7klgl;y;glygu marketed 253 ars. Most of them re different m name only Chalmers, Hupmobiles. Pierce Arrows, Autoand Vikings of 1908 all d
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    40 9 By next year the annual -driving competition or>ed by Britain's Royal :ety for the Prevention of ach 250.000 Over 236.000 drivers have red for this year's rd>. and entries are still ring at the society's -bridge headquart
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    SHE'S PROUD OF HER MODEL MERCEDES
    49 9 THIS young German miss looks very proud at the wheel of her scale model Mercedes Benz 190SL. It took her father 5.000 hours to build the car which is driven by a oO c.c. engine. Bosch supplied the generator, ignition units and headlamps.
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    334 9 SPACE AGE TESTING SYSTEM WILL CUT CAR PRICES A REVOLUTIONARY method of speeding up the testing of prototype cars has been developed m Coventry by applying experience gained from techniques used m space research. The developers. Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, say the result will be safer, quieter, more
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    107 9 U.K. motorists most travelled in world— A.A. BKITISII motorists are becoming the most travelled people m the world, the Automobile Association says. Ten years ago one m every 20 of its 2.300.000 members went to continental Europe for their holidays. Last year the figure had risen to one m 14
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    87 9 Datsun hopes for bigger sales in U.S. MR. KOICHIRO ASAKAI, the Japanese ambassador to America, has been presented with a new 1960 model Datsun, the third small Japanese car he has received m as many years. Mr. M. Uno, of the Nissan Motor Company, making the presentation In Washington, predicted
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    Disused railway track may become road
    97 9 Disused railway track may become road SOME 23 miles of disused I railway track of the old Midland and Great Northern line may be bought by Norfolk County Council for conversion into roads to cope with heavy goods train- and holiday traffic to the Norfolk Broads and the coaat Britain's
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    Newcomers strengthen Army cricket team
    218 10 CAPTAINS AND SECRETARIES SEND IN THE NEWS ABOUT YOUR UNIT COUNTY PLAYERS AND CAMBRIDGE BLUE PLAY THIS SEASON ARMY will field a strong side In the Singapore Cricket Association senior tournament. Several new arrivals, with high reputations, will be seen m action. 1 his seems
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    Big blow for W.A. in Shield
    35 10 ADELAIDE. W W( SI '.eld Shield blow when thS turday. I, macU >• robbed to .it right win over with poll Victoria 345 dec. V S nth 218 for seven
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    GETTING SET FOR A NEW SEASON
    87 10 ARMY soccer officials are preparing tor the season March. Trials have been fully earned out m the last two wet Major J. Ramsay Is Army socci y while Major Dancio oi 200 Provost Cuy. has been appointed team manaThe Army will this year be
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    Lock icon MEET THE CHANGI HOCKEY TEAM"
    41 10 Picture by WRAF Changi hockey team. BACK ROW (from left): SACW Thomas. Cpl. Pitt. Cpl. Tipper. Cpl. Taylor, SACW Bryant, Cpl. Cash. FRONT ROW: SACW Hunter, Cpl McNally. Sgt. Cuthbert, Cpl. Bowden. SACW Gwynn.- Michael Anchant
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    Wearne s soccer
    32 10 FAR East Motor> won the ime Brothers .soccer competition for the fourth sucessive year when they beat Malayan Motors by three Is to nil at River Valley Road yesterday.
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    Signals worthy winners
    268 10 18 Signal Regiment 1 deserved their Hatchard Cup win when they beat H.Q. Nee Soon Garrison 2-1 m Singapore Zone final of the FARLLF hockey tournament. The two teams played to a 1-1 draw In their first encounter, so the return at Gillman Barracks was well supported.
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    THREE NEW CAPS IN IRELAND XV
    157 10 THREE NEW CAPS IN IRELAND XV DUBLIN. Wed.— Three new I caps are included m Ire- land's rugby union team to i meet England at Twickenham i on Saturday, Feb. 13. They are right-wing Wally Bornemann. full-back Tom Kiernan, and hooker Bart McCallan. Lions' three Tony O Reilly is unable
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    208 10 by M. Harrison-Gray Dealer: South Love aU Q5 OQJ7S 0 A 3 2 487 6 3 W. E. 4 4 A6762 0 X 10 8 4 2 96 0 X J 10 4 0Q986S 4AKS 4Q2 4KJMII VA 9 3 0 7 J 10 9 4 hand brings
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    PLAY'S NEVER DULL FOR THESE AIRMEN
    184 10 INHERE is no denying that the airmen of Seletar and Changi love their sport Never an evening passes without the fields being crowded. But no sport can thrive without responsible officials. Men like Bowen, Cadman, Herminston. Lambert and Bradbury have been responsible for all
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    240 10 THE RAIN CANT DAMPEN NAVY SPORTS rpHE Fleet championx ships are well underway. Inclement weather hit most of the matches, but who ever heard i sailor put off by water! Everything has gone with a swing, or, to be more pr< cisc, a splash. Only match postponed was m the
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    THE HEART OF HERB ELLOTT...
    807 10  - THE HEART OF HERB ELLOTT... GEOFF ALLEN By "EVEN 3.50 FOR THE MILE WILL NOT BE BEYOND HIM" WORLD RECORD miler Herb Elliott ran, ran and ran m Sydney the other day without progressing an inch. But a .spur i s physiologist watching him. and technicians filming his performancv, really
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    202 11  - ew jockey is expected in time for Bukit Timah ALLAN LEWIS r gE WILL LEAVE AFTER SINGAPORE MEETINC By GARNET BOUGOURE, who has had a successful visit to Malaya, leaves for Austra 1 i a immediately after the last day of the Singapore meeting. Bougoure intends to remain m Australia
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    10 11 pu ture. reft) congratulates W«BC -males champion. Free
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    SSET DUEL VES WONG NIOR TITLE
    161 11 d trom the start but Nam levelled the score lild 20-all when deuce A smash by Ho :ake by Chee Nam Ho the set. accurately, Chee away to 10-5 m xt set. He stretched it ~-S and allowed his rival ihree more points before
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    23 11 DRE TURF CLUB EUR MEETING EDAY,20TH UARY 1960. r w I V m M I cation M I rhc I I Ib 4
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    57 11 lim The ItoltaulW Ch n vu b r a n t^ent m Manila th, i irs Asian basketball conference urnan n alrpor t „1 a h.ms welcome home at SIM U A *A Philippine college basketball team will tour Formosa m April. will fUht Empire champion George Barnes
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    Percy on 'goal hunt'
    129 11 Police 9 S.R.C 3 T>ERCY Pennefather went i on another goal hunt terday. This time the ace I sharpshooter flammed m six goals for Police m their m nior knockout hockey match against the Singapore Reere- ation Club. Once upon a time the lanky Policeman belonged
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    KIWIS GO TO TOWN WITH 20-0
    193 11 75 Squadron 20 G.H.Q. 0 NO. 75 Sqdn. "A" chalked up highest score of the evening (20-0) m the annual seven-a-side rugby tournament at the padang yesterday. The 75's led G.H.Q. 5-0 at the end of the first half. Williams, Guc, Howard and Ranguia
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    Paulino bout
    24 11 TOKYO. Hard hitting Orient middleweight champion Fumio Kaizu will make his first defence here against rugged Filipino Young Paulino on March 12.
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    ANOTHER YOUNG WOMAN WITH THE WILL TO WALK
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    144 11 England first innings 382. West Indies first innings 112. ENGLAND 2nd. INNS. Pullar c Worrell b Ramadhin 28 Cowdrey c Alexander b Watson 5 Barrington c Alexander b Hall 49 May c and b Charran 28 Dexter b Hall 0 Smith lbw Watson 12 Illingworth not out 41 Swetman
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    34 11 CAPETOWN, Wed. Basil Desmond D'Oliviera. captain of South Africa's non-white cricket team, has accepted an offer to play professional m Britain with Middleton, the central Lancashire league club. Reuter.
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    323 11  - Businessman speedster seeks an omen FRANCIS BOEY ißy THE 1958 Macao Grand Prix winner, Chan Lye Choon hopes to start the 1960 motoring; year by chalking up his first local Grand Prix prize at the Johore Coronation race sponsored by Shell Company on Feb. £0 and 21. This Singapore business-man-cum-speedster
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    SILVER MEDAL WINNER
    48 11 MRS O. C WICKS won the silver division m the Royal Singapore Golf Club monthly stab Word at Slme Road yesterday. She scored 34 points. Bronze medal went to Mrs. N Woodall 33 points). Miss M. Guy won the nine hole match with 17 points.
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    475 11 1 Competitors will report at 15th J milestone. Woodlands, at 6.15 ajn. on Sunday February 28, 19C0. Competitors wishing transport to the starting point must assemble at the respective pick-up points between 5.30 and 6 a.m. O The Walk will begin at 7 a.m. along the specified route.
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    297 12 LORRY LOADS of I' nited Arab Republic troops rolled t through Cairo yesterday following the prolonged artillery duel m the SyrianIsraeli border on Monday. The authoritative Cairo newspaper Al Ah ram said considerable forces were now W^ltinf on the armistice lines
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    102 12 Those Eden memoirs Commons questions ONDON. Wed. Mr. Emlu manuel Shinweli. De- Minister m tin Labour Government, will questions m the Hou>e of Commons toubout the memo!-. B Anthony EciExtr I the former memoirs publi>hed re< The memoir> themselves will be publi>hed on Feb. 29,. Mr Shinweli will a ster,
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    130 12 CAPE CANAVERAL, Tuesday. TITAN inter-continental ballistic missile the United States' most powerful military rocket thundered aloft here today on its first successful test (light in nearly nine months. The Air Force announced that the second stage of the 91 -loot-long rocket
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    49 12 LIVERPOOL, Wed. More than 2,000 rubber workers on unofficial strike at one of Dunlop's biggest factories at Speke, near here, last night voted to return to work today. The stoppage began on Friday over the interpretation of a national agreement on wages and hours.- Reuter
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    39 12 DURBAN. Wed. A police guard was placed on board the British freighter Sussex Trader (6.041 tons) m Durban harbour last night after trouble between Chinese and Somali sea/nen m which a Somali received head injuries. Renter
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    34 12 LONDON, Wed. Mr. Aneurin Bevan, 62-year-old deputy leader of the British Labour Party, was understood to be maintaining progress today after a recent relapse following a major abdominal ODeratirm m December. Reuter
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    223 12 Army coup rumour mongers are held by the army JAKARTA, Wed.— The •J Indonesian army has arrested a number of people for trying to disrupt the Government, the army spokesman, Col. Sunarjo, announced early this morning. The colonel said the arrests were connected with the army's recent reafflrmation of its
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    149 12 JAKARTA, Wednesday HPHE Communists yesterday attacked the Indonesian Government's banning of newspapers Mr. Njoto. Deputy Secre-ta.ry-General of the central committee of the Indonesian Communist Party, said the banning of papers should be stopped "since it is no longer m agreement with .public freedom, particularly
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    46 12 SINGAPORE, Wed The wife of Ceylon's Assistant Commissioner m Singapore Mrs. W. P. S. R. Jayaweera! will distribute gifts to children of the Mount Emily Girls' Home at 3.30 p.m. today to mark the 12th anniversary of Ceylon's independence which falls tomorrow.
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    40 12 LONDON. Tues.-^The Court ol Criminal Appeal today cut two years off a six-year jail sentence passed last March on George Dawson, London Cockney financier who made a fortune m post-war military scrap.- Reuter
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    129 12 $440,000 damages to water-ski man for loss of a leg r ONDON, Wed. A judge yesterday awarded damages of £51,865 (about $440,--000) believed to be the highest ever given by an English court for personal injuries to a Canadian stockbroker who lost a leg during a waterskiing party at Monte
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    21 12 BANGKOK, Wed.—Thirtyone American business executives from Detroit were assured yesterday that the Thai Government would not nationalise industries.— U.P.I.
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    133 12 LONDON, Wednesday. TtfORE workers were being laid off m the British ifl car industry yesterday with 700 men on strike and about 32,000 others already idle. Main centre of dispute was the British Motor Corporation's factory m Birmingham where an official pay ttrlke by
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    52 12 LONDON, Wed. Padang Senang Rubber Co.. has accept an offer of $260,000 lor approximately 261 acres of rubber being the Moh Lee division of its Sungei Reyia Estate. A deposit of 10 per cent has been received and the completion date is scheduled for Feb.
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