The Singapore Free Press, 29 August 1955

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malava No. *****. Singapore. Monday. \u«u>t 29, 19:>:>. p r i< e |fdi
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    Lock icon Terrorists strike
    38 1 Ami 'd U nor.. urn;ibly o| the 0 Darul UUara m■ u raided vili igc neai H in* inir 1 Indonesia, looted I housea ami made oil 'Aitti 175 ouo ruplan H\e i killi .1 A.P.
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    $860 THEFT
    15 1 outboard motor worth waa reported stolen the storeroom of York Singapore during the
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    Lock icon VERONICA WEDS
    20 1 star Veronica Lake Mr. Joseph McMarthy, ind publisher were At Traverse City, yesterday. It w»i i weddin"- Reuter
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    RUBBER QUIET
    20 1 Tho Singapore Rubber Market opened quietly thiJ morning with fii September shipment a lb., hall a cent below
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    Lock icon 'Edith' drifting
    24 1 Hurricane Edith," with up to 100 milei i> hour. >wly from the I oul 270 miles south of ])i rn la A.P.
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    GUESTS KEEP STRIKE-HIT HOTELS GOING
    203 1 GUESTS KEEP STRIKE-HIT HOTELS GOING BREAKFAST as usual at the Kittles Hotel this morning and many guests helped to prepare it. Above Miss Theodore Henderson from California waits at table on quests Mr. and Mrs. F. Lefer. STRIKERS pitched tents and gossiped in Singapore's Raffles Hotel garden while guests prepared
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    French kill 24 rebels in reprisals
    109 1 French kill 24 rebels in reprisals JENCH troops on reprisal raids in the Constanie department yesterday 4 Algerian rebels who involved in the rioting n that area just over a ago. One French ildier was killed. Throughout the departlent there were hourly re:U of murders, kidnapps and incendiarism and a
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    Lock icon TWO ANTHEMS
    22 1 apic officials from t and West Germany anted in Hitenzarten yesthat Germany's new team will use two il anthems. A.P.
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    Lock icon Actress very ill after row
    100 1 "lIELINDA IRKI V tv actn model daughter ol Biw tai Bennett, was in crii r.ondltion ye terd i\ an overd< e pills sv Vorl: police I j a!; argument with i' f hu band. Tho 21-y< remained in a lose sUte a! Hospital and official
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    SINGAPORE FIRM SACKS STRIKERS
    299 1 T k s |nffapore (old Storage announced this morning the dismissal of 175 employees who went on strike on Saturday. The com pany regards their absence without leave as a breach of contract. The company also announced the suspension of the house delivery .service until new
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    New council talk tomorrow
    169 1 LAST CHANCE— UNION HOSS \tegotiations to settle the 13-day-oid strike A^ by Singapore City Council labourers will h< resumed at the Ministry of Labour tomorrow The secretary of the l;t bour unions' federation, Mr O. a Rengasamy, today blamed members ox the Fin ance and General
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    New flare-up at Gaza
    330 2 ISRAELI BIG GUNS SHELL EGYPTIAN POSTS AT DAWN IXHJR I T two were killed In clashes in troubled i bor zone y< sterdi In C liro, Western diplomat s expressed "grave concern" that situation would had to a resumption of fullscale hostilities unless Britain, the United
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    GOA MARCHES 'WILL GO ON TILL VICTORY'
    182 2 THE all-Party Goa Liberation Committee announced in Poona, yesterday that it would continue Satyagraha (non-violent resistance) in its "mass and individual forms until final victory according to the Press Trust ot India. The committee .said 95 Satyagrahis. drawn from different states of India,
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    Soviet see move away from war
    106 2 Soviet see move away from war T4IE visit of overseas 1 scientists including 16 from Russia— to Britain's atomic energy establishment j at Harwell last week wa« not "a chance or Isolate event but a logical outcome Of the spirit of co-operation and understanding e*ta'blished at the Geneva conI ference"
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    28 2 picture. The Commissioner General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, cuts tinred ribbon while opening the Singapore Supersonic Water S*J Club's new clubhouse at Pongr&ol Point vester day morning. Free Press
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    Lock icon On way to Russia
    24 2 Forty- two members of the Japanese Diet have arrived In Peking by plane from Canton en route to Russia. U.P.
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    Lock icon Truman 'jealous, frustrated'
    230 2 Truman 'jealous, frustrated REPUBLICAN national chairman Leonard Hall denounced Harry Truman yesterday in Washington as i a "bitter, frustrated i hate-monger" who la trying j to ".smear" President ELsen- hower out of disgruntled jealousy. Hall, who also defended Vice President Richard Nixon against a "vile attack" by Democratic chairman Paul
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      541 2 Singapore cold storage co. ltd. Statement to the Publjc_ BOMB of the Compan>'s employees have been on strike since the evening of Friday, 26th August. The Company has decided to regard the absence without leave from duty of tin persons concerned as a breach of their contract of service and
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    Children lead the dance at dad's festival
    296 3  - Children lead the dance at dad's festival VIVIENNE PUCKRIDGE pOURTEEN VKAK OLD I 1 sunny low and tenU old Betty low fee Nee |hc ball rolling, right, at j anC e festival in Outram I.Jst Ill^llt. Hie party was Riven by their rather. Mr. Low Poll to celebrate the l!>th.
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    Lock icon Kon Tiki leader plans new quest
    112 3 Kon Tiki leader plans new quest I.'XPLORER Thor Heyeiihl, who floated as the Pacific Ocean on Kim Tiki raft, said In o yesterday he \va.s going k to the Polynesian M d.s tor a longer samplf 1 the easy South Pacific The Norwegian scientist ro.se to world-wide fame eight years
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    Lock icon TARDY FIREMEN QUIT AFTER OTHERS DID JOB
    179 3 TARDY FIREMEN QUIT AFTER OTHERS DID JOB ALL 41 firemen of the French town of Pontleveque resigned yesterday because local citizens called in foreign firemen to put out a blaze in their territory. The Pont-Leveque firemen complained that flre-flght-•ra from Beaumont-en-Auge and Trouville imt out the flames last Tuesdav while
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    Lock icon 5,500 fight huge oil blaze
    98 3 5,500 fight huge oil blaze rnHE head of i fireflghtlng I crew "i •>-» mcn battling the multi million dollar Standard oil < >t» pany refinery blaze a] Whiting Indian. i, f| yesterday that efforts to contain it "look very good nof Whiting flre chief Ocorw Macko i (l Ml1
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    Lock icon KKK BURN 30-FOOT CROSS
    73 3 A CROSS 30 njgn A was burned by r i<" K Klux Kian ncai A Georgia, on Satui Between 50 ana 75 klansmen took part in ceremony. Imperial Wizard i Edward oi A at the burning H I the specUtow U»t luc i ective oi iii
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    ARMS HOARD FOUND IN FLAT: POLICE ROUND UP 28
    123 3 ARMS HOARD FOUND IN FLAT: POLICE ROUND UP 28 i'l LEAST 31 people In Bvenoa tires were reported to have been arrested following the ■etevre U\ Fedei il police on Saturdaj <n cache of .irnis ranging from suhrn.ii him- mms |o dwi imil<\ Author!':- I I I Many now m
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    Lock icon 'Employers unfair to working women'
    177 3 'Employers unfair to working women' rpin: head oi the National 1 Women's Party said In Washington yesterday thai women In the ÜB. suffer from job discrimination than an\ minority group. Party chairman Alice Pan! mado the statenu nl in commenting on President Eisenhowei 's approval ol b one-day conference called
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  • The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Aug. 29, 1955.
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      Opinion THIRST FOR CAPITAL
      215 4 Opinion THIRST FOR CAPITAL OINGAPORE is news these days, all over the world but it is making headlines it could well do without. The most popular now must be "The City of Strikes." What can the world be thinking about Singapore? a world Singapore can't do without. The news certainly
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    BY THE WAY
    409 4  -  Brochromber ,> l'"v*.!W>S'?/.-^-fl?.*_ .';_*>' AS women's earrings grow heavier, their necks are disappearing into their shoulders. That noted jeweller. Timothy Shy, has suggested a remedy: let women wear their earrings in their noses; one, I presume, per nostril. But what about eating? They would have to draw
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    Lock icon To CLOSE or NOT to CLOSE
    747 4  -  HENRY HARTZENBUSCH h Chinese schools in the Philippines, too, face a critical situation because of Communist infiltration VNEW controversy has erupted in Manila between Chinese Nationalist olticiuls and Philippine authorities over the issue ol possible Communist infiltration of Chinese schools in the islands. The
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      27 4 THRIFTY WEDDING GIFTS Wedding, gifts from $5/- upwards are available in new designs to please both the fiver and the receiver. S.P.H.deSILVA LTD. SINGAPORE, IPOH, K. LUMPUR
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      30 4 QUIET QUIET QUIET -^55! f or the NEW f tt^ st. <~ I ~~t^ ~r t, M frtij^if^'^ 1 ~~J Iff^n^ ri E Johnson SEA-HORSE OUTBOARD BOKJIEO T«yj«m+i SINCAPORE MALAYA BORNEO
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    SINGAPPORE SPOTLIGHT
    1000 5  -  adelaide Eastley BY.. 'pHAT calm attitude 1 displayed last week the U.S. Marines /ho live in their own house in Queen Road when their sign fronting the building vanished has ■id orT. The sign's back— intact And the funny thing .bout the whole mysis: It came in via
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    Lock icon MINISTER'S DAUGHTER ENTERS CONVENT
    237 5 TWENTY ONE YEAR i 1 OLD Miss Matilda i Leong. second daughter of the Federations Minister for Health, Mr. Leong Yew Koh, walked into Mount Valernie in Singapore at the week-end to join the Franciscan Order of the Divine MOtherhOOd. i. U.I. She wore a tight
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      16 5 1 J eau de cologne II ma griffe robe d'un soir i-"S»--i FAVU-UUBA WATCH CO. LTD.
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      62 5 IN FASHION THAT PLEASES EVERY EYE 0 HEART A HUGE BIG CONSIGNMENT OVER 2,*****- worth of LADIES MENS WEAR NOVELTIES IN A VARItO RANCI OF AU NEW STUfS Of 1955 FRISH b ATTRACTIVE DESICNS WITH ALL THE ENDURINC BEAUTY, SPECIALLY IMPORTED FOR THIS SEASON HAVE BEEN JUST UNPACKED CALL EARLY
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      583 6 YOUR FAVOURITE I YOUR I MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis I LUCKY j L h«? J V -v-!«*jA L^-aoumm^ l^^S^te^^c^tl J STAR i 6Rf*TINVENTIONtM YOU 0€Cl« J tfSH. I If— !l M JthiNH SHE'S t A WOVAN? ARE 7\--IOOK-- J ga\ h U/^^ til Wtt T\V HUMAN.' DORN
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    CALL-UP INQUIRY-URGENT
    182 7 Is a tone cut possible with more regulars? r-RESH drive is to be given to an inquiry into Britain's National 5L rv ice and the two-year call-up. The Forces' manpower is under The Government has k iw asked the standing inquiry to eat the matter as urgent. inquiry
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    Marchioness marries 'Grumpy's' son in secret
    245 7 Marchioness marries 'Grumpy's' son in secret JUDGE JOHN CYRIL MAUDE, the Old Bailey judge, and the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava were married quietly in London recently. The 54-year-old judge, son of a famous actor, the late Cyril Maude, was last month granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court
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    Dedication
    30 7 The Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. Henry W. Baines. will dedicate and bless the new vicarage of St Paul's Church, Upper Se'rangoon Road, Singapore, at 6 p.m. tomorrow.
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    CRICKET CRAZY
    100 7 A SCHOOLGIRL who is crazy about cricket slipped away from home one weekend to see her heroes. The girl is 14-year-old Susan Mary Walsh, of Wilmslow, Cheshire. But if you knew Susie you would know that Her heroes are the South African cricket team. And Susan tiptoed from
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    Flag day collection
    24 7 The R.S.P.C.A. reported yesterday that its flag day collection last month totalled $7,762. The annual appeal has so far netted $970.
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    Chute-and she did
    55 7 Chute -and she did rFHE little old lady had a J. 50-year-old bathing costume. She climbed to the chute, lay face downwards and shot head-first into the swim pool. Miss Aline Hall, of St. Anne's is 87 and her dip is daily in the warm weather. "I do it because
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    Sophisticatedbut you wait
    60 7 PEOPLE who know stage and screen star Moira Lister in private life see her as she is here, beautiful, sophisticated and well groomed. They may have a shock when thev see her in the London Films presentation of Terence Rattigan's 'Hie Deep Blue Sea. She will be
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    WIFE OF BABY BOKO DOCTOR FOUND DEAD
    106 7 Given anaesthetic after fall MRS AUDREY WOODFIELD-DAVIES, aged 51— whose husband is one of Britain's leading anaesthetists— died in her London Hat while under an anaesthetic. She had-broken her leg In a fall In the Hat -In Grove Hill Court, Maida Vale the
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    BALLERINA TO CONTEST WILL
    295 7 MRS. Violet Tester, 34--year-old British-born ballerina employed by the Communist Rumanian State Opera Company, is now back in Britain. Her father, Dr. Albert Tester, now presumed dead, has been described as a collaborator with the Germans. Mrs. Tester she resumed her maiden name after her marriage
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    The Washerwoman of Bauzelles
    1502 8  - The Washerwoman of Bauzelles FLORENCE A. KILPATRICK by with a fireproof safe and a brick* she brought ruin and misery to thousands THE WORLD'S SmiGEST STORIES IJTIOM the lesson of her father's old oak chest Ther e s e Aurignac learnt about the gullibility of human beings. It was a
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      185 8 THE END OF A NOT-SO-PERFECT HOLIDAY BY GILES fl {I B B B lilß 111 1 r^ ■vl' 1 V^. I 1 if Bb Bbl B Iu Bb fl 1 I TfcX "•■^■p k'S^ fl v^ I B B si B lii fl fl f 1 1 bB bB Bfl
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    Lock icon Channel swimmer marries again
    394 9 BRITISH GIRL 1/5 WIFE No. 1: \SHE FINDS IT VRATHER ODD' AT the same time as she disclosed that she was married two years ago to Egyptian swimmer Abdel Moiieim Abdou, 22-year-oW Channel swimmer Margaret Feather of Scarborough, Yorks, revealed that her husband had since married
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    Scare on snakes at large
    88 9 SNAKES alarmed two homes in Alfretonstreet, Southwark, one night. Neighbours fear they may be a dangerous type brought with imported wood into a nearby yard. Snake No. 1 slithered along the hall floor as 22--year-old Terence Smith opened his front door, It was more than
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    AFTER RABBITS, NOW FOXES
    226 9 AFTER RABBITS, NOW FOXES DOULTRY KEEPERS I want the war on rabbits followed by a wholesale destruction of foxes. The National Poultry Association, with 10,000 members, has made the request to the Ministry of Agriculture. The Ministry has declared "no rabbit areas/* in which intensive "mop-ping-up'' is being carried out,
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    DON'T THROW ME OUT, SAYS SOLDIER
    239 9 DON'T THROW ME OUT, SAYS SOLDIER A CORPORAL pleaded with a court-martial not to discharge him from the Army he loved. Said his solicitor. Mr. R. G. Lomer, at CheLst i "Send this man to detention. Is he not worthy of one last chance?" The corporal Alan Frederick William*, of
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    Mr. MURPHY' THE CHIMP, SMOKED TOO HEAVILY
    76 9 Mr. MURPHY' THE CHIMP, SMOKED TOO HEAVILY MR. MURPHY, nve yearold chimp at Chessington Zoo, Surrey. Is smoking too heavily. He likes a cigarette so much that his keeper allows him one a day "and he would smoke 20 a day If he could." Visitors have got to know about
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    Rescuers on the way—but he wouldn't wait
    434 9 Rescuers on the way— but he wouldn't wait COURAGE came to Dr. l Mark Gregory Baker when he heard two men were lying unconscious in petrol fumes at the foot of a 50ft. well. He insisted on climbing down though he knew firemen were on the way with breathing masks.
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    A globes girdler
    288 10 (ABOVE) EVIDENTLY strengthening the ties of busine ss relationships between two territories and two firms are Mr. E. F. Watts, director of J ardine Matheson's of Hong Kong and Mr Charles Letts, director of Henry Waugh s of Sin gapore, as they talk things over at supper
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    Mrs. FDR talked of cabbages and kings
    370 12 Mrs. FDR talked of cabbages and kings ADELAiDE EASTLEY RECALLS A CHAT AMERICA'S most beloved grande dame, A Mrs. Eleanor Roosevolt arrives in Singapore next Saturday en route to Bangkok to attend the meeting of the World Federation of the United Nations... lt will be my pleasure to try to
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    Lock icon YOU'LL SEE THEM SOON—FISH THAT KISS
    766 12  - YOU'LL SEE THEM SOON— FISH THAT KISS ADELAIDE EASTLEY By FISH that kiss, parasite fish that swim upside down, flsh that keep house" in nests and an awesome display of South American "man-eaters" will be among the specimens shown at the fish exhibition at the Happy World Stadium from Sept.
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    I see a Russian fashion show
    435 12  -  SHELLEY ROHDE MODELS WERE SO HUGE "ANGLISKI MODEL" A shrilled a highpitched female voice and on to the rostrum marched a stout woman clad in a 1940 style costume. A commentator at Moscow's great House of Fashion "Dom Modelyi"-— was telling a rapt audience
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    Beware of the uplift alcohol gives you
    888 13 Beware of the uplift alcohol gives you says the SINGAPORE DOCTOR FOR 15 years an eminent Harley Street doctor has been experimenting with radiations"'. He discovered that water diviners could detect impulses not only from water beneath the ground but from iK'ople as well in the form of a tiny
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    This gave men of 90 young ideas
    474 13  - This gave men of 90 young ideas THOMAS R. HENRY by EXPERIMENTS with a synthetic sex hormone which seems partly to offset the physical and mental regression of old ageperhaps quite temporarily have been reported by the National Heart Institute of the U.S. Public Health Service. After taking the hormone
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    FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIRS
    1749 14  - FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIRS SPENCER CHAPMAN Iby 1 He has written a story that is quite likely fiction; at the same time it COULD HAVE 1 HAPPENED 1 He leaves you to debate the question— 1 which will be answered tomorrow— DID IT HAPPEN? ONE often reads of people's hair
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    ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    99 14 OPENCEE CHAPMAN must be the most adventurous schoolmaster In history. He explored the Arctic, penetrated to the secret Tibetan city of Lhasa, was the first to climb the 24,000ft. Chomolhari in the Himalayas done with one porter. He fought behind the Japanese lines in Malaya and then
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    WHY DO PEOPLE STEAL?
    203 15 —Let's try to find out I 4 SUGGESTION that 1 there is need for »ore systematic studies of the reasons why people steal from shops is made by the British j Medical Journal. The journal says that It miuht even pay big department stores chki victims
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    There's NO law to stop such babes being sold
    205 15 AN INTENSIVE investigation Into the "black market" in babies operating in tho United States and Canada is planned Senator Estes Kefauver's Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency. At hearings scheduled for Chicago. witn< will be called to give evidence ot "homes" wber«
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    WHY NOT a dress show in the TOWER?
    448 15  - WHY NOT a dress show in the TOWER? Eileen Aseroft _3_ ded tape and itodflness an- strangling Britain's fashion industry. The London clothes are lovely, there's no doubt about that. For cut and fabric they are as good as any in the world. But how pathetic is the support they
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    THOSE LEGS ARE QUITE PRETTY TOO
    72 15 THOSE LEGS ARE QUITE PRETTY TOO AFIT.R hrr 15 T*aW around the .studios, Hollywood has J»*t auseortred Miat R»^^"< Russell owns I pair 01 Legj ihapely warn, that For its rampjil^n on her new mu-iral film a studio is featuring a series or RUliell Mead pOSW flanked by a huge
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    This 'sweetheart' still makes good
    251 15 MARY PICKFORD j IS ON HER LIFE "STORY NOW! WHAT a remarkable woman Mary Pickford is. At 62, the silent film era's "world's sweetheart" still not only has enormous fhic and charm but talks entertainingly and shows a business sense that many a high-powered executive
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    ZOG QUITS HIS HAVEN
    340 16 ZOG QUITS HIS HAVEN EGYPT, once the hospitable haven of Europe's deposed monaichi and title-shorn royal families, has bid farewell to the last ex-king of its soil. He U former King Ahmed Zog of Albania, a unv Balkan country now under Communist domination. Zob. nla beautiful Hungarian wile, Queen uiiiii
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    BY O. M. MARASHIN
    131 16 Mini Oeraldlne, his 17-jretr-old ivjt -rod-driving .son, Crown Prince Alexander, and the entire Albanian Royal household numberins several §eorw nta embarked from Alexandria, leaving Egypt rof good. Stayed behind ZOG remained behind ir. republican, and-monar-Chlst Egypt after all the other kings and ex kinKS hid packed
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    THOSE GNATS MAY STRIKE AT SEA
    228 16 T^HE lightweight faster thansound British Gnat fighter may become a carrier-borne naval airplane. Its designer, Mr. W. E. W. Petter, managing director of Folland Aircraft, has completed designs for turning it into a naval fighter. Although, so far, the British Government has said only
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    Bridge Hand
    286 16 Intercollegiate Hand No. 6 East-West vulnerable East dealer The bidding EAST SOUTW «EST NOW Pass I 9 1 2 pass 2 9 Pa*« 3 9 past 4 9 All Pass SIX'I"EEN prearranged "par" deals, recently played in more than 150 colleges to decide the 1955 Intercollegiate Bridge Championships.
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    More boys winning degrees the AB-sea way
    206 16 More boys winning degrees the AB-sea way MORE and more boys who cannot afford to go to a university are going to sea instead to win their degrees while they earn. They are studying in their spare time aboard Britain's merchant and fishing ships. They studv under a University of
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    Toast was in 'Blood'
    98 16 MR. IMRE UNGUR general secretary of the Hungarian Athletics Association, swam in the Thames wearing only his underpants before a fare- 1 well party for 58 Hungarian athletes who leave Britain. It happened during the team's visit to Windsor. Crack Hungarian athletes. Laszlo Tabori among them,
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      244 16 „,lc ACROSS hud trouble? (5). (I.IKS Al«u»» g Rovv tmKlc woman sa w I b put in an argument fill. Sir jjancelot? C8). 7 Man who k f>fte a well 10 A French husband Ls ahead brouKht up (7>. o f time at sea! (8). 9 Droop in a southern
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    JON KNOWS their measurements NOT their names
    458 17 JON KNOWS their measurements NOT their names BEAUTY QUEENS FAR TOO 'BOSOM-CONSCIOUS' SAYS THIS STAR JON HALL is one mate who personally is fed up with the overem pha s i s on the measurements of beauty queens and glamour *>irls of the screen. He savs the best way to
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    The pirls sigh for Tony!
    418 17  - The pirls sigh for Tony! HAROLD HEFFERNAN by ■THREE feminine I loopers'' from ■Arkansas threw Holly|V'"nd for a loop last and thereby Ihnngs a tale about fcomrthing new and ■dilh-rcnt in studio Kate-crashing. t Willys of Hollywood, led hosiery caterer 1 the stars, became »he unwitting and befckltred foil of
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    MARGARET HAS YET to SEE HER 18 FILMS
    150 17 MARGARET HAS YET to SEE HER 18 FILMS MARGARET OBRIEN. former child star. now a beautiful young lady of 18, ha b yet to MM a motion picture in which she has apfnand. "Of the 18 I made from 1942 through TJ4B, I didn't see on*' foot of any of
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    NOW IT'S FOR TOP BILLING
    127 17 NOW IT'S FOR TOP BILLING THOSE rnJhcaiU are at it again. Which only means that Rhonda Fleming a n d Arletlg Dahl. whoa tlamina tresses hai e decorated many a colour fUM, are OftCf MQft ra><t touvthcr and naturally arc on the warpath. Their recent tandem ar>pccran< cs In se-jcrcl
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    Dick's in great demand
    115 17 WITH Bob Hope and Ciconcr J'ssel out ot Hollywood most of the lummer, Dick Powell ls rauidlv establishing him •elf M nn.- lubrtltute an<i a muter Of quirk wit in rarkMM lie rolfi around the Him capital At a trade luncheon th» i other daf h«
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    BIG MALAYAN MOTOR RALLY IN DECEMBER
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    302 18  -  JOHN CAMKIN By CHEISF* LEAGUE CHAMPIONS. AND NEWCASTLE; INITFDTHF F CUP-HOLDERS. ARE NEXT ON j TTF^OVIFT LIST FOR INVITATIONS TO RUSSIA. THE SOMET LIM ru* probahly be ask ed to make their contributions to Anglo-Soviet sporting relationship-? in April. Football traflic between the two
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    51 18 picture. 14. E. D. Levula (centre) of Johore. who won the second semi-final of the 100 yards in 9.8 seconds, is spurting off the starting point at the Malayan AAV meet in Ipoh on Friday. His younger brother Joe Levula clocked seconds in the 100 vards heats tn4 semi-finals. Free
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    172 18 STOCKTON ON TEES Football Club may ohallenue American Airmen at Burtonwood. Lancashire, to a football match on Stockton's ground. The proposal will be discussed at the next meeting of the club's directors. It springs from the discovery of a blackened silver trophy won over 60
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    30 19 SWEDEN brat Finland by three mil to nil in a •OCeer International At Hel* .sln«bor« yesterday after leading by one koul at halftimp. Reuter
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    135 20 EfGAPORE WERE UNLUCKY TO BK BEATEN AT JALAN BESAR YESTERDAY. AN "OFF SIDE' COAL— THE ONLY SrORE IN THE MATCH DEPRIVED THEM A WORTHY DRAW AGAINST SOI TH CHINA WHO SCORED THEIR SECOND VICTORY OF THEIR CURRENT TOl R Singapore must
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    55 20 VLADIMIR KUC. the Russian world 5.000-metre record -holder, set up a new Soviet 10,000-metre record on his return to the track after an absence of four months through illness. Kuc. running at Lvov, won the 10,000-metre event in 29 min. 6.2 .sec, according to Ta.ss. the
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    53 20 picture. The Hiffh Commissioner for the Federation, Sir Donald MacGillivray, presents Mary Klass of Singapore with her trophy at the end of the Malayan AAA championships at Ipoh on Saturday. Mary set a new record in the 100 yds. (11.55ec.) and equalled the record in the 220 yds.
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    31 20 20 Word* >»» (minimum). MOHAMED HANIFFA. Age 27 Internal AuJit, City Council, son of Said Kannoo of 24-B Rosyth Road. parsed away 28.8.55 Fuiieial today 4 p.m. at Muslim Cemetery. Bidadari.
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    54 20 MISS LOUISE BROUGH, the Wimbledon singles champion, and Mrs. Margaret Osborne Du Pont defeated the title holders. Miss Shirley Fry and Miss Doris Hart at Brookline. Massachesetts yesterday in the final of the U.S. women's lawn tennis doubles championship. Miss Brough and Mrs. Du Pont won
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    95 20 a iR. C. G. AJchurst was elected 1 oresiden? of the NonBenders Cricket Club of Malaya at the annual meeting held at Kuala Lummn yesterday. Other official! are: Vice -presidents: Air. C. North-cote-Green (North) and Mr. J. T. Rea (South state reoresentatives: Mr. J. E. Miller (Pg.). Mr.
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    41 20 Dockyard C.C. beat Woodbridue Hospital by 22 runs in a friendly cricket fixture at Woodbridge yesterday. Dockyard 52 (Reader 3fi. C T. Foster 4-32. H Pereira 4-17). Woodbridge 30 <H. Pereira 18 Reader 7-6 Brickenden 3-2!).
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    254 20 T'HE Singapore Cricket 4MOA ciation's senior tournament championship is still undecided. Yesterday's shock defeats of the two top teams Singapore Cricket Club and the Army, leaves the chamDionship open. Police might clinch the title if they beat University in their postponed game which is the
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