The Singapore Free Press, 27 July 1955

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Wed., July 27, 1955. Price 15 Cts.
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    Union men planning Marshall-must-stay demonstration
    317 1 Union men planning Marshall-must-stay demonstration OINGAPORE trade unions are planning a demonstrakl tion to make the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, stay m office and persuade the British Government to react favourably to the crisis message delivered to the Governor, Sir Robert Black, on Monday by the Speaker of the
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    TERRORISTS BLAST GOVT. BUILDING
    62 1 TERRORISTS BLAST GOVT. BUILDING last night ex--I ploded a plastic bomb m the government information centre m the heart of Saigon. It was opened less than a week ago to commemorate Premier Nt;o Dinh Diem's first year m office. Three men were wounded m tl.e explosion. The building had been
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    Lock icon 15 REBELS KILLED IN ALGERIA
    72 1 15 REBELS KILLED IN ALGERIA FRENCH security forces killed fifteen rebels during a clash m southern Algeria yesterday, French authorities announced m Algiers. French casualties were three wounded. The death count from Monday's Nationalist rioting m Meknes rose to 19 yesterday when four more Moroccans died from bullet wounds inflicted
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    RUBBER QUIET
    24 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened quietly this morning with first grade, August shipment, at $1.32% a lb., one cent below yesterday's close.
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    MAN DEAD IN LALLANG
    66 1 mWENTY- nine-year-old Sim JL Tiang Guan was found dead yesterday m a lallang patch near a soap factory where he worked m Holland Road, Singapore. Police believe he was strangled to death. Sim's mother, Madam Chua Eng Kai, said he had been missing from home since
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    Lock icon Kashmir plebiscite
    19 1 Pakistan yesterday proposed the establishment of a joint Indian-Pakistani committee to supervise a plebiscite In Kashmir.- A.P.
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    Townsend spikes new rumours
    102 1 Townsend spikes new rumours GROUP CAPTAIN Peter Townsend yesterday spiked newly circulating rumours that bis romance with Princess Margaret has revived, saying that he will not be m England next month when she becomes of age to marry without the Queen's consent. Townsend is goinc to En»- land, but not
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    EARLY RUSH TO MALAYA POLLS
    306 1 [£ARLY risers among Malaya's 1,280,000 voters were a feature of the first-ever nation-wide elections m the Federation today. Officials were pleased with the reaction to the "vote early" appeal. Within half an hour of the polling stations opening m Kuala Lumpur there were queues causing
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    Vietnam men watch
    55 1 The Governor of South Vietnam, Mr. Tran Van Lam and his Minister of Information, Mr. Tran Chang Thanh, arrived m Kuala Lumpur this morning to study today's elections. They left for Seremban to join four other Vietnamese observers there. The South Vietnam government hopes to hold its
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    Mr. Alex Donald dies in Edinburgh
    45 1 Mr. Alex Donald, former general manager of Fraser and Neave Ltd, died m Edinburgh yesterday, following an operation. Mr. Donald came to Malaya m 1929. He was a prominent footballer m his youth. He was Interned during the Occupation.
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    Lock icon Told to leave
    33 1 Four teachers, one of them a woman, were yesterday ordered to leave Cyprus and return to Greece before August 10. All four teach at the Greek gymnasium at Famagusta.- U.P.
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    U.S. tyre prices to go higher
    70 1 THE Wall Street Journal said yesterday that American tyre-makers plan another increase m prices because of the higher cost of natural rubber. "Prices for tyres will hav e to go up," the publication quoted one maker a.s saying. Natural rubber Is now 54 cents
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    POLLS GO BY LAUNCH
    133 1 IN Trengganu eight launches containing mobile polling I booths chugged steadily up the tributaries of the Trengganu and Dungun rivers, collecting the votes of remote kampong dwellers. It is thought they are the first mobile units ever used m an election. At scattered villages the booths
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    EDEN BACKS CEYLON FOR UN
    155 2 ri'UL British Prime Mlnistei 1 Sir Anthony Bden, has assured the Ceylon Prime Minisi- that the British Government will do ;,]1 it can to hel|, Ceylon pain admission to the United Nations. Sir Anthony ffll replying tc a message of good wishes .sent by the
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    Egypt's terror rule near ing end-Farouk
    367 2 Egypt's terror rule near ing end-Farouk EX King Farouk of Egypt .>terduy claimed that he Mold haw- crushed the 1952 military coup that lorcd him into exile "Within three years, the ble&sed revo.ut^n has becanic i tyrannical dictatorship, the ir< officers, little despot Egypt police state. and the Egyptians, a
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE CRISIS HITS FRONT PAGE IN U.K.
    196 2 I^HE British Press continues to take great interest m the constitutional crisis m 1 Singapore. Both the Conservative Daily Telegraph and the Liberal Manchester Guardian yesterday frontpaged the Legislative Assembly's demand for Immediate self-rule. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard said editorially that the demands
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    Lock icon Hong Kong hits at 'violent tactics'
    217 2 MR. Lennox-Boyd, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, was asked yesterday if Hong Kong's peaceful demands for constitutional reform were not more deserving than the "violent tactics resorted to m other parts of Her Majesty '*> domains." This was one of the 10
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    Lock icon Visit to Greece
    20 2 King Faisal of Iraq, accompanied by Crown Prince Abdul Illah, will visit Greece on August 6- A.P.
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    Lock icon Dulles gives Peking a pledge on talks
    234 2 'War danger has receded 9 THE United States Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, told a press conference m Washington yesterday that the United States would be willing to discuss with China questions directly affecting the two countries with a view to
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    Lock icon INDONESIA: 'EMERGENCY GOVT. ONLY ANSWER'
    208 2 INDONESIA: 'EMERGENCY GOVT. ONLY ANSWER' INDONESIA'S present cabinet crisis is merely a facet of the nations grave cancerous anarchic crisis. Mohammed Natsir, chairman of t>ie major MasJumi Muslim Party said yesterday. Emerging from a mooting with Vice-President Mohammed Hatta, Natsir said his party felt an emergency government of presidential appointees
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    Bazaar in aid of their new hall
    263 3  - Bazaar in aid of their new hall VIVIENNE PUCKRIDGE JSy 1i H E Presbyterian Church m Orchard Road will hold a bazaar :in the Church grounds on August 6 m aid of a n<'w air-conditioned Sun- day school hall. A special are will be a toy bazaar. #V# Hffltiiitl BRILLIANT
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    Lock icon THE LADY WAS A STRANGER
    290 3 She rode to war on an elephant MOST of the worn on who sat down to lunch at the Inner Wheel k'lub yesterday had never beard of her. Her name wm I tbella Bird. She WE4 a spinster and earn from a most respectable English
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    Lock icon Bachelor leaves fortune to a star
    123 3 Bachelor leaves fortune to a star pRESS agent Steve Hannagan left nearly three-quarter of a million dollars m New York to film actress Ann Sheridan, a long-time friend. An estate tax appraisal yesterday .showed Hannagan's gross assets as 53,328.653. The net estate totalled $2,--304.294 with his public relations business appraised
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    Lock icon 70,000 U.K. POLICE SEEK MORE PAY
    120 3 70,000 U.K. POLICE SEEK MORE PAY BRITAIN'S 70,000 policemen yesterday applied for the biggest pay increase m their history another £2 to €7 a week according to rank. At the same time more than 400,000 Civil Servants submitted a claim for a seven per cent, pay increase. The two claims
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    Lock icon CREWMEN ESCAPE FROM BLAZING SUBMARINE
    148 3 FIRE made a hollow shell out of the Danish submarine Saelen yesterday. Several men trapped behind a wall of flames In the engine room escaped 1 through an emergency hatch. Three sailors Buffered burns m the fire, which destroyed most of the interior installations of
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    Lock icon Boy, 8, chained by neck for three years
    103 3 A FATHER who kept his eight-year-old son chained by the neck for a week in a filthy stable was sentenced to a year's hard labour In Drumhellor, Canada, yesterday. William Robert Ferguson, 68, a district farmer, was jailed. Constable Bruce Sutherland told
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    Lock icon NATO air cadets
    21 3 Thirty-three air cadets from five NATO countries arrived m Montreal yesterday to begin a tour across Canada.- A.P.
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    Lock icon He killed to die
    53 3 riREDRICK Crass, 33, who r told the judge that ho murdered a complete stranger because he wanted to die himself was hanged yesterday morning at Birmingham jail. Cross thumbed a lift m a car pacing through Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, and stabbed the driver. 28-year-old Donald Lainton, an
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      Opinion Federation decides
      244 4 Opinion Federation decides I>olmng is m progress today throughout the Federation to decide whether the people want to be ruled politically by the Alliance or by a coalition headed by Party Negara. Both groups are led by prominent MalaysTengku Abdul Rahman .and Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar. And one of
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    Malaya at the Crossroads
    938 4  - Malaya at the Crossroads HARRY MILLER by rDAY the Kfderat ol M;il;.. oil Oil Den phase In 111 so-far politically tranquil history. Hy tomorrow afternoon, 24 hours after ballot boxf.s have be*-n •ealed, the country will know Whether the Alliance or a coalition government headed by the Party Neffara Will
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      39 4 It means Iso much more I i to give-or get- i a i IPATEK PHILIPPEf Watch 2 The finest watck ever i 5 made. Limited antiudl z 't J>md u<t mil I H. SENA LTD. Spore. PenAiiK to. Bangkok
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      128 4 Helena Rubinstein's New j Vitamin- /j^fPlk j Lanolin JL jp j lormula i brings new //tvi'jun beauty to <//> skins >^m I)\ t\ Here's an amazing discovery for dry If/ 1 l^i sensitive skins a new beauty liquid Z'"*, f/ railed Vitamin-Lanolin Formula! Helena J oA^ /C^ Rubinstein combines »kin-rondit
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    SINGAPORE Sportlight
    853 5  -  Adelaide Eastley By IT'S a fair certainty that the Queen received a more intimate picture of Malaya when Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald the Sultans of Johore and Perak lunched with her at Buckingham Palace the other day. DIRECT LINE: It's was charming to meet these delightful Fijians Jo
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    SHE HAS A SURPRISE FOR HOLIDAY MOTORISTS
    326 5 4 SURPRISE is m store for motorists rv who drive down the Bukit Timah and East Coast Roads on August Bank holiday. It is part of the campaign by the Singapore Children's Society to raise money to build the Convalescent Home at Tanah
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      271 5 "7V>/)5 fa PO/)5" (j^ 78 r.p.m. Standard Records POPVtMI ■■•BOON; Crazy 'bout ysiß.il>.'. Tne Johnston Uiofi. 7003 IIARIII Xl NZ Piano Medley No. 114. There mv be a rea.son; Hold my hunci; If I uivt> my he;ni to you; Litt.ie thlnfl mean ti lot; Make tMK nilii' 1 M> son.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      172 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis S I CAME PROM THE [GO OFF/y .J y\f?M^Ur 2^ ITOURIST/ A 6000 YOU? hOW'D ROOF --EVIDENTLY /I 'MJBi^ T^^. M yCL^=. I Arj 0R YOU GETIN?JI THE RIGHT ROOF. r ,^1 *,V j4*.'y# JtmV L^^lL AeAO TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs TH
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      696 6 your LUCKY j STAR j 41 4 DORN today, you ha\«- powerful, tempestuous nature which by sHf-rontml you manage to keep well m check so that very few realise 4 that you have such a cnmliu*.- 4 4 tible nature beneath your cilrn and placid exterior. Very few. except lh<»s<>
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      193 7 LONDON, July 26. Previous Today Kt'BBER No. 1 RSS e.U. European Unquoted Torts July KI BBER No. 1 RSS ci.f. European 38 buyers 37 v buyers Torts August 38 H» sellers 38 1 sellers KI'BBER No. 1 RSS Spot ..39 buyers 38 buyers 39Vi sellers 39 >4
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      New York prices
      106 7 NEW YORK, July 26. Previous Today Tin Straits spot and nearby 98.87 nom. 98.87 norn Jin futures July 98.00 bid 98.25 bid 99.00 asked 99.50 asked August 96.00 bid 96.25 bid 97.00 asked 97.50 asked September 94.65 bid 94.90 bid 95.60 asked 96 10 asked TONE: Qukt.
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      U.S. PEPPER
      54 7 shipment 39*4. Lampong spot 47. Awaiting release 47. Afloats 46 to 46. July 45^. All sellers ex -dock. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib. Spot Malabar 47. Awaiting release 47. Afloats 46 to 46. July 45 U. Sarawak spot 43. Awaiting release 42. Afloats 41 to
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      32 7 NEW YORK. July 26. Previous Today SO Industrials 468.02 468.41 M Railroads 159.95 159.47 m Domestic Bonds 99.68 99.61 15 Utilities 66.59 66.63 tl Stocks Composite Average 168.80 168.77
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      122 7 COPRA Philippine^ c.i.f. UK/North European delivered weight per long ton July /Aug. OPEA Philippines f.o.b. Manila m l)ulk, per long ion < (»PRA Straits ci.f. UK/North European delivered weight per long ton July/ Aug. Aug./ Sept COCONUT OIL crude Straits e.U. LK/North Kunrpean m bulk, per
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      500 RIVER TRIPS ARE MRS. SMITH'S CURE
      144 7 MRS. Ruby Smith has just made her 500 th trip aboard Thames pleasure steamers and cured her claustrophobia. A doctor told her that the only cure was a long sea cruise. But Mrs. Smith, 50-year-old mother, of Brunswick-road, Southend on Sea, Essex, could
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    JUVENILE DELINQUENCY? COLONY NEED NOT WORRY
    253 7 T<HE problem of juvenile delinquency m Singapore A is relatively small, considering the large size of many families and the slum conditions m which they live, a spokesman for the Ministry of Labour and Welfare said yesterday. "This is a case for surprise. Small
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    Old Lady's smart girl
    52 7 rh Old I.ady sent ffti (SII'J) to clever Margaret Ward. l"-year-old sales-eirl of Leeds. For Margaret had spotted one of 3.000 forced notes, the work of Sydney Wainwrighl, master counterfeiter, jailed as a result. And the Old Lady (of Threadneedle street) is, of course, the Bank
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    Farm school soon
    32 7 A new rural farm training centre will shortly be opened m Ayer Hitam. It will replace the Tangkah Farm School, recently closed because it was m a curfew area.
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    T.V. shows children peril play
    122 7 T.V. shows children peril play A MAN spent three minutes on a London television programme showing children how to play with live matches. Several people phoned the 8.8.C. to complain. "But they were safety matches," insisted the 8.8.C. later. The programme was Children's TV. Mr. C. Newstead showed how matches
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    Five children gassed
    69 7 Five of the six children of Mr. and Mrs. James Noble were gassed recently In the family's holiday bungalow at Bangor. Co. Down. The children three girls and two boys, aged four to 13— wore found by their grandfather when he went into their bedroom to call
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    Lock icon HOTEL STRIKE
    19 7 Employees of four of Surabaya's leading hotels are on strike for' better working conditions. A.P. ff ff
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      145 7 don V f .v# #i .vA* /or COGNAC «#/t /or VVS.O.R So/c Agents JTMtf GW/l/V (Malaya) LTD. Singapore -Kuala Lumpur -Penang. Rings of matchless quality WE OFFER YOU A RANGE OF ENGAGEMENT RINGS IN DIAMONDS PLATINUM, DIAMONDS EMERALDS, DIAMONDS SAPPHIRES, DIAMONDS RUBIES RANGING FROM $125/- TO S5OOO/- OR MORE S.
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    THE HELL-FEME CLUB
    1300 8  - THE HELL- FEME CLUB IVOR HERBERT by 8 -'on l though dw rile* off the worship of Hie Devil m the c'liapcl were* the worst wi«*k«'«liM'%* was reserved fhe Inner Temple, the uuholiest of all miholie* ""^^^^^^^^Hi^^^^^^lMSi^^^Hßl I/H>ME with me, then. unless you fear the dark. Hut then- can be
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    Untitled
    24 8 And as a contrast U> the Hell-Fire Club, here is a new picture of film star Ann Blyth and her household i>et, Snow White,
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    New stamps in Cyprus
    117 8 GAY, bright medieval and historic will be the new postage stamps of trouble spot Cyprus, Britain's colony m the Eastern Mediterranean. As from Aug. 1, Britain's National Servicemen m Cyprus will be studying a completely new set of stamps of fifteen denominations a change brought about
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    THIS HUSBAND TOILED NOT
    486 9 But he did eat grass IS the fourteenth year of his marriage "a somewhat remarkable thing' happened to Mr. Henry Max Swift. He took to eating grass, his wife said. It happened while Mr. Swift was tramping the country **m search of a revelation." He did
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    Don't try teaching the wife to drive
    209 9 A WIFE and her M-P. husband talked about women agreed on this point It isn't a good idea for a man to teach his wife to drive. SHE SAID: "I believe I was a gxxxl pupil, but I must have had a poor
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    Had the shakes
    22 9 A London dentist has been given permission to discontinue a National Health case because the patient is too nervous.
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    Lock icon Holiday bod— on a car
    90 9 Holiday bod on a car Here's a new kind of tent-bed which can be fixed to the roof of a car without major adjustments or damdriving, the 'touri* camp tent stays folded on top of the roof. When ready to camp down for the night it can became serviceable within
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    A WARNING FOR EVERY MOTHER
    240 9 SIMPLE, sage advice which might save hundreds of lives was given to the House of Commons by a plain little woman with a secret. She had a moving story to tell of accidents In the home —"the greatest single cause of death." Mrs. Jean Mann,
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    GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS SAYS THE DUKE
    189 9 GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS SAYS THE DUKE The Duke of Edinburgh has t<>ld the organism of hia Commonwealth Conference on human relations In industry: "Cut out ph>us resolutions and get down to brass tacks." This was disclosed when Sir Miles Thomas, chairman of the public relations committee of the
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    LADY BLACK OPENS A FUN AND GUESSES THE WEIGH FAIR OF
    240 10  - LADY BLACK OPENS A FUN AND GUESSES THE WEIGH FAIR OF CHEW BOON CHIN Picture! by THE Singapore Boys' Brigade Band welcomed Lady Black, the wife of the Governor of Singapore, with the Grand Salute when she opened the Y.W.C.A. Food and Fun Fair at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Lady
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    A FOREST FIRE
    1226 12 This scares the life out of them m Canada Tom Stacey reports from the burning north OUT here m the Canadian bush they often impressively confide m you that there's one tiling that scares the life out of them a forest rire. Believe me, as sure as
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    Detectives (+ glamour) are Vienna's way of beating the modern criminal
    708 12  - Detectives glamour) are Vienna's way of beating the modern criminal RITCHIE McEWAN By PERSONALITY and charm make better weapons with which to fight a crime wave than truncheons and pistols or at least this is what Austria's small but elite corps of highly respected lady detectives claim. They should know
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    Lock icon Are records now getting better than the real thing?
    915 13 Are records now getting better than the real thing? asks CECIL SMITH ...AND WHEN HI-FI REALLY GETS GOING VISIT to Covent Garden drives me to publicly a thesis I tve been putting forird to myself m oecret some time. It will not popular with operaers, but I am ready to
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    TWO RECENT RECORDINGS
    325 13 ROVERS of Mozart's music will enjoy the sonatas for violin i pianoforte which the isterdan Duo have r^ded on Philips A &HR, Sonata B flat a Jor X.V.378 and the na ta i n G major K.V. 379. These two pieces were r»i Sl i 50nata s
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      72 13 MOUTRIES MEANS MUSIC RADIOS RECORD PLAYERS by His Master's Voice, Philips, Grundig, Decca, Webcor. Garrard etc. PIANOS by Danemann. Chappel, Moutrie Marshall Rose. Sauter (German) Strohmenger ORGANS Hammond, Lincoln and Reed Organs. GRAMOPHONE RECORDS Comprehensive stocks of the finest recordings also recorded tapes. MUSIC A wide selection for students, churches
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    The Man from Mecca
    1715 14  -  GEOFFREY COTTERELL by A NOTHER story by the Immaculate author of Handle m the Springtime and Westward the Sun. Younger son of the Harley Street denial surgeon, Cotterrll studied economics at London University, served as a major m the Artillery during the war. At 35 he
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    Mrs. Legge now turns to love
    547 15 ji!iA j iJN N|iVii!'E|M E i D (ijAV l AiR jl D SS OJr^yißi you have to hand it to her. The undaunted Mrs Gerald Legge has tied to love fiction. She is. of course, the tty young society itess all roses and nolinfi
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    Life's still pretty good
    52 15 JfERMIONE GINGOLD to her handsome youny lunch escorts: When I was 25 swore Yd I myselj if j ever lived to bi 35. "When I was 35 snore I'd l myself if l ever lived to 45. rm 57— and Yd just <>me more of those
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    MEET MRS. WILGRIM
    55 15 WOMAN Mrs. V. Williams ho ha.s won the British 1 'li.impjon.ship three times, lined as "the dressape a Savoy Hotel cockhnl »i London to meet the how -jumping team. My husband is so used to '•ng my name with that of mv Pilgrim;' she «aid. -that he
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      113 15 J l\ f Elizahrlh Anlcn A rl '7\ /y^Sc I>reM "IH the fiof^A Firm Lifl 1 \J/ /N Bcauly Slory Helps to Finn l| Tighten Three essentials for a younger beauty, boxed together with iiiHtruetioii f>ook Used together, they will help f<> lift, firm «n«l imootli flu; t-Vin, eombitißg >ocu>C
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      227 15 I i lII f I ill CLUES ACROSS 6 Is UjL br.iveiy m Utrecht? <5, 7) 1 Suited at a boarding DOUM? (12) 7 Comment of a clock- watching /Ol air botttw, maybe? (3, 4, s>. 8 Opportunities for apertures? (8) 9 The chase to start an English 10 Usher
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    The Admirals back in business'
    625 16 The Admirals back in business' BIG MONEY ROLLS IN CASINO PARADISE 44 ADMIRAL" Tony Cor- Dero Stralla, the onetime gambling-ship operator who launched Las Vegas on its gaming career, has sailed under the notes of Nevada's Gambling Commissioner to launch a new USS^i. OOO.OOO ($18,000,000) hotel -casino. Thf Commissioners, who
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    They lived through a blizzard WITHOUT food!
    435 16 They lived through a blizzard WITHOUT food! IJOW long would you expect to stay alive on two tins of jam. a pound of prunes and a few tablets of salt if you were LOST IN THE SNOW? Two English fliers, who were reported missing m the snowbound wilds of Newfoundland,
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    Bridge Hand
    386 16 Both aides vulnerable South dealer NORTH 4AJ 8 7 9 8 6 Oft J 1 1 49 7 2 WEST EAST +K94 +Q6532 9QIO 754 9 J 9 3 0 7 0 10 9 3 *KlO5 4 A J SOUTH 10 OAK 8 6 4 ♦QJ 8 6
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    It wasn't a PINK elephant
    120 16 It wasn't a PINK elephant FIVE thousand people turned up at a garden party at Elstree. One of them, Shirley Abicair. had to make a hurried leap when the back fell oil a large mechanical elephant. She looked down at her reed-slim dress of white Guipire lace. It was none
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    Technical advisers' are swindlers themselves
    655 17 Technical advisers' are swindlers themselves HEY, want to buy a guld bracelet? Genuine Swiss watch, 17 jewels? American fountain pen?" This isn't the Naples waterfront, and these blackmarket "bargains" •it being offered to uiirists fresh off the boat. It's a lot at the Titanus Film Studio outide Rome, where you
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    They'll bury the hatchet to shoot a film
    404 17  -  HAROLD HEFFERNAN Says THE one person who taking those over-publicised tall tales ol a u'-rmanent split m the Dean Martin- Jerry Lewis partnership with the slightest degree of seriousness is a quietspoken gentleman named Hal Wallis producer has both fudge-carrying boys under
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    43 17 FOREIGN tourists who think they're the prime targets maybe pleasantly surprised to know they're actually not the favourite game. "We prefer to do business with Italians," said one of the technical advisors m his only comment on the situation family." A.P.
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    BREAK for BOXERS
    106 17 AMERICA'S boxing fraternity, logically concerned about a serious decrease m interest among youngsters m following the so-called "manly art of self-defence" as a career, can take heart m a studio's filming of a fight film titled "World In My Corner," with Audie Murphy starred. Here, for the
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    Umpire Karloff made a wrong decision
    159 18 |>ORIS KAKIOII, the man who! made us shiver at the cinema. is about to migrate .ram. He flies soon to America to resume work on films and IV. He has been back m his native Surrey for the summer, watching cricket and umpiring. His
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    INDIANS GET A WALKOVER
    49 18 Indonesians ya\e walk-over to India us m JrAFA Community l.r;ii!iie fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium ye.'teraay. But tlie Indonesians recruited a few truest players; and played a friendly game, which Indians won 2-1. Scorers were Krishnan and P.ilaniappan for Indians; Ismail for Indonesians. 1 1
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    ONE THOUSAND BRITISH FOOTBALLERS ARE OUT OF WORK
    517 18  - ONE THOUSAND BRITISH FOOTBALLERS ARE OUT OF WORK Archie Quick HERE ARE THE REASONS: By \'OYV THAT JI'LY 1 HAS COME AND ClONh AND 'Hit TWFLVK-MOXTHLY FOOTKIIi il LEAGUE CONTRACTS HAVE EXPIRED, THE STARTLING FACT EMKKGFs I I, 1000 PLAYERS ARE OUT OF WORK MOST OF THEM ARE OX THE
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    SINGAPORE CSC TEAM vs TPCA
    79 18 Singapore's Ceylon Sports Club will play Tamilian Physical and Cultural Association at cricket on the P.W.D. ground, Kuala Lumpur. Dn Sunday and Monday for the Modr. Nagalingam Shield which C.S.C. won m the inaugural match last year. The C.S.C. team is: S. Yogorajah (capt), S.
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    WANTED: £55,000 for the Melbourne Games
    199 18 By JONATHAN ISN'T it time someone began to raise the very necessary money to get the British Olympic team to Melbourne next year? I hear that a quiet meeting tooß place m the House of Lords the other day to discuss an Olympic Appeal
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    S'pore CFA to pav in K.L
    66 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed pore Chinese, holders of the MCFA Cup, and Perak Chinese Recreation Club will visit Kuala Lumpur during the August holidays. Selangor Chinese R.C. will meet Perak Chinese R.C. at soccer on July 30. Singapore Chinese will meet Selangor Chinese on July
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    HEWSON 'PICKS' A RIVAL FOR THE 880
    256 18 By DOUCJ WILSON ]^|ILE champion Brian Hewson has declined to run both the half-mile and one mile for Britain against Germany, at the London White City on Saturday and Aug. 1. He has written to the British Amateur Athletic Board accepting for the
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    54 18 THE UNISH of the 23.430 King Geor B e VI and Queen E iiabeth Stakes at Ascot which was won by the French-trained horse Vimy, who just boal i.ady lierhy s A. mpolis at the post. Three lengths away, third was Elopement and fourth Arctic Time. The favourite Phil Drake
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    148 18 pHE president of the Negri Sembilan Cri< ket Association, Mr k H V. Rlntoul, today sent MtMMI <*able to Mr. Lim Khye >S»*iiK. president of the Malayan Cricket A.wH laiion .strongly opposite K. O Barker.*, .sHe< tlon m the ■Mill team to meet North at
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      31 18 NE STaRT_^n^e=^ TRAINING, YOU 6*N CUT OUT >fc THIS SHOUTING ICA DA CREAM K. I AND fiOTTA DA CHESTNUT <_AUS= JV V tt>NE OF M3U K 6frTT\H6\ j W^ki ITALIAN TRANSFER/
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    England collapse before Tay field and Coddatd
    463 19 England collapse before Tay field and Coddatd SPRINGBOKS WIN BY 224 RUNS ,1111 111 AFRICA GAINED A COMFORTABLE VICTORY BY S "1 KINS OVER ENGLAND IN THE FOURTH CRICKFT TFST IT LEEDS YESTERDAY TO LEVEL THE SERIES AT V<> MATCHES EACH. THE FIFTH AND FINAL TESI STARTS AT THE OVAL
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    192 19 SOI 111 AFRICA lsf Inns— l7l M.I. AND Ist Inns 191 SOI Til AFBTCA 2nd Inns Mr Mew c May h Wardle 133 Goddard c MclniTre b Wardle i hnili b Wardle 73 McLean c Lowson b Wardle ivinslow c Lock b Statham I') I ndean not oat I*6
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    Australians are coming
    167 19 S.E.A. BOXING: AUSTRALIA AND THE 1 PHILIPPINES WILL DE FINITELY TAKE PART IN THE SOUTH-EAST ASIA AMATEUR BOXIMG (lIAMPION SHIPS TO BE HELD IN SINGAPORE NEXT B I. nunsford. secretary the Singapore ABA told the 1' Presa yesterday that he had a letter from the Austrastated that
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    R.A.F. SELETAR SWAMP BOTTOM OF THE LEAGUE RASC 10-0
    340 19 R.A.F. SELETAR SWAMP BOTTOM OF THE LEAGUE RASC 10-0 RAF Sdetar. leaders m Div. 1 of the United Service* soccer league swamped bottom of the league RASC by ten goals to nil at Aver Rajah Road yesterday. It was the biggest score m the league this season. RASC were outplayed
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    43 19 STANLEY MATTHEWS, the England and Blackpool outside -right, who is to play m the Great Britain team against the Rest of Europe at Belfast on Aug. 13, works hard to keep his speed with the aid of a tennis practice board. Popper picture.
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    Lock icon Early victories for Yorks and Surrey; Subba Row 26 n.o.
    482 19 SI'KRKY. AM) YOKKSHIKF I i \I>RK> IN TIIK COUNTY CKICKFT CHAMPIONSHIP RACE, STAYKI) Will Mlh \n YKSTKRDAY BY WINNING THEIR MATCHES BFFORF LUNCH. For Surrey, yesterday selghtwicket victory over V/orcestershire wajs their 15th out of 17th matches and brought their
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    109 19 UNPRECEDENTED *-> scenes of enthusiasm I oil over South Africa o marked the victory of J J South Africa m the fourth X encket Test against Fnu- *> land. Large croiDds gathered J| outside radio stores and around portable radio sets placed on
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    Move to revive Colony Boxing Board
    336 20 Move to revive Colony Boxing Board SIAM AND PHILIPPINES WANT SINGAPORE IN FED. DINGAPOBE*S top professional boxing referee. Eric Dunsford, told the Free Press this morning that he will make an all out effort to revive the Boxing Board of Control which has been inactive for the past four years.
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    SAAA TEAM CHOSEN
    57 20 Tlie siriKupoo Amateur Athletlr AMOdation ;<t a meeting last night Itlectcd the Colony contingent to rtpNMDt fcJin«apore m the Malayan AA A. Championships at Ipoh on August 26 and ?.l. The .selected team will be released to the press after it has been sub- i mi' fed
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    3 FOR JACKS
    27 20 Jack S.C. beat Boys Town 3-0 In a friendly .soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers were Muniandy (2) and Cyril Van der Beck.
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    BIRTHS
    102 20 20 Word* $6 (minimum). M( WILLIAMS: To Winifred and Frank, on 25th July at Bungsar Hospital, a son, Michael John. POLET; Gerrit and Anneke have pleasure to announce the birth of their son Robert Bram, on 25-7-55, BuriKsar Hospital. K.L. GRANT: At Bungsar Hospital. Kuala Lumpur, on 23rd July,
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    357 20 TIIK QUEEN, THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AND A HUGE CROWD ATTENDED THE OPENING DAY OF THE FOURDAY RACE MEETING AT GOODWOOD AND SAW THE 100 TO 6 CHANCE KING BRUCE CARRY OFF THE STEWARDS CUP. THE BIG SPRINT HANDICAP. King Bruce, one of the two
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    Corinthians to tour Fed.
    113 20 SINGAPORE Corinthians, one of the leading sides m the SAP A. senior league, will tour the Federation during the August holidays. They will open their tour at Ipoh on Saturday when they will meet the Perak state side. On Sunday they meet a Talpinj? selection In
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    HOCKEY MEETING
    23 20 The annual general meeting of the Singapore Hockey Association will be held at 5.30 p.m. today at the Singapore Recreation Ciub.
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    40 20 A well-earned rest.... Y ES IT IS OUR GIANT FRIEND GORA SINGH THE URES c«^ ER HAVING A REST ON TWO CHAIRS AFTER HIS SHEEP-EATING AND BRAND Y-DRINKING ACT AT FM PRESS PLACE ON MONDAY FREE PRESS PKTIRE
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    141 20 THERE Is no question of the decisive fifth Test match between England and South Africa beginning at pie Oval on Aug. 13. being extended beyond five days although the rubber" stands at two matches each. Mr. S. Griffith, the M.C.C. Assistant Secretary,
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