The Singapore Free Press, 31 August 1955

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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya v ,i. Singapore, Wednesday, August 31, 1955. Price 15Cts.
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    Drugs for Rita after shock
    109 1 Drugs for Rita after shock Rli lIAYWORTH suf•red such a "severe e nio<ion;il shock'* from her >reak-up with Dick givmei that she was liven drugs by her doctor and confined to bed yesterday. The actress's attorney, Stmuel Zagon, revealed t!u> when he appeared in Hollywood federal court and gained a
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    Strike-hit hotels talk tomorrow
    226 1 Strike -hit hotels talk tomorrow NO NEW CONTA CT WITH UNION THE Singapore Hotel Association will meet tomorrow to review the situation In seven strike-hit hotels. A spokesman of the Association said his members had no further contact with the union and it had been agreed not to enter Into
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    RED AID TO ARABS
    54 1 Dulles hint rHERE were indications that Soviet military iquipment may have been jffered to Arab states, said Bittfl States Secretary of Itate. Mr. Joton Foster )nlle*. Washington yes.crdav. Mr. Dulles said there was feme reliability in the.se indications but the Sjfc^te DeDartii ent had no, official
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    Jail breaker caught
    56 1 On.- o* the two model prioners who escaped from lhangi Jail on Saturday, ill bin Hassan, was caught ast night in Moulmein Sreen. The other man. Kok Jek Choa, has already «urrndered^ r li i r d prisoner. Chia rue, who escaped from Outam Jail, on the
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    New Gaza clashes
    25 1 A;. Egyptian soldier was ißed yesterday and five iviiians wounded in three lathes with Israeli forces i the Gaza border strip. P.
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    20 1 Sir Winston Churchill will y to the South of France ext month for a few eek.s' holiday- Reuter
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    THEY CLEAN STREETS— BY MACHINE
    78 1 THEY CLEAN STREETS— BY MACHINE ANEW road -sweeping machine commissioned by the Singapore City Council to do the job of strikers went into operation today. Another machine is being tried out to clean the drain*. The machine can clear 12 cubic feet of rubbish i<i an hour. Mr. G. Kdmond.
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    Bomb blast at Peron's office
    45 1 A small explosive ehartfe was set off yesterday just beneath the window* of President Juan Peron'.s #mce in Oaaa Rosada. the Government House in Central Buenos Aire-s Police said the explosive, thrown from a speeding car went off harmle&lv UP.
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    Rubber quiet
    33 1 September first grade rubber buyers f.o.b, opened in Dir.Kapore this morning at Si.40 3 per lb.. down flveeiunths of a cefnt on last night's close. Tpe opening t< ne was quiet.*
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    THE MALAYS LEAD
    89 1 MALAYS have increased in greater numbers than Chinese, according to the report for 1954 on population by the Federation's Registrar of General of births and deaths. Since the 1947 census, Malaysians have increased In numbers by 465.816 and Chinese by 331.571. There were 2,893,650 Ma- layttani In
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    CAR ACCIDENT-AND FRANCIS SEES AGAIN
    88 1 I'n.LIAM Francis, of Iverhead. New York, is ful for the car acci^ the was in— ft brought Uht to him after 10 of darkness. I'm so happy I'm almost Francis said at the ■stand he operates. "I can see the customers light matches. I can
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    NATIONALISM IS ONLY ANSWERS
    391 1 Tvnyku** rail to iiriiain pHE British Government and the Malay Rulers must be prepared to foster nationalism in Malaya or hand the country over to the Malayan Communist Party, said Tengku Abdul Rahman, the Federation's Chief Minister, at this morning's meeting of the Federal Legislative Council.
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    T. B. IS STILL KILLER No.1
    58 1 Ti hi i:m TOSIS continued lo be Malaya's No 1 killer la*t y^ar, arrording to the annual report of the Kef Utrmr of Kirth* and Deaths, Mr, E. M McDonald. ÜbifM at today's Federal I>egislative Council meeting in Kuala Lumpur. More than ii.uu people
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    Lock icon Student plans one-man invasion of Kashmir
    122 2 o.i viant a Pakistani law student, told Karachi reporters yesterP^v thafhe 'pfam f^ne-man-Goa-style'- protest invasion of the Indian-occupied part of Kashmir on J^g M3 demonstration) he e l a d n whi,.do?ewS he Sd release at the border. Tied to its r K woufdVa
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    48 2 picture. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the Commission-er-General, being greeted by Mo- M. SaraTanamuthu, the Ceylon Commissioner In Malaya, on his arrival at the Ceylon Sports Club, Singapore, last niffht. Mr MacDonald was given a farewell cocktail party by the Club. On the left "p« Mrs Saravanamu-: thu. Free Press
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    EIGHT REBEL GOANS ARE SENT TO JAIL
    95 2 A PORTUGUESE military tribunal has sentenced eight Goan Hindus charged with subversive activities, to prison terms ranging from one to 12 years with fines and ruspension of political rights, it was announced in Panjim yesterday. One man was acquitted. The group were arrested
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    Lock icon GROUND OBSERVERS NOW URGED BY U.S.
    100 2 DRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S plan for mutual aerial inspection by the United States and the Soviet Union of each other's establishments as a means of preventing surprise attack and ffivine warning of mobilisation, has been supplemented by a proposal to we ground observers as well. This
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    Lock icon REBELS FLEE
    37 2 Most of the mutineers of ttte Sudan Defence Force fled from their headquarters at !Xtett before government troops" arrived to detain them following an uncondi--1 tional surrender, reports 'From the south said y ester- Reuter
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    Lock icon DULLES: TIME NOT RIGHT YET FOR POLL IN VIETNAM
    334 2 DULLES: TIME NOT RIGHT YET FOR POLL IN VIETNAM MR. JOHN FOSTER DULLES, the U.S. Secretary of State, said in Washington yesterday the Inited States certainly agreed with Premier Ng<> Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, that conditions in North Vietnam were not right for frte elections. In reply to a
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    Lock icon TROOPS LEAVING
    13 2 All British operational trooos will leave Austria by September 19.- A.P.
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    Lock icon Shocked Ministers -but he got his story
    112 2 Shocked Ministers -but he got his story A GREEK Jour, shocked the tish, Greek and Tin tfril Foreign Ministei London yesterday by sitting unobserved through the opening session of their secret conference on Cyprus and other East Mediterranean questions. The reporter identified as Mr. Kar.ivi.iv diplomatic correspondent of a Greek
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    54 2 The Bishop of Singapore, the Rtfht licv. H. W. Baines, yesterday dedicated and blesscvl the new vicarage of St. Paul's Church in Upper Seranftoon Koad, Singapore. The Archdeacon, the Rt. Rev. Robin Woods (centre back) a principal of St. Andrew's School. R. K. S. Adams, also took part in the
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    STAR FIGHTS $1½M. TAX CLAIM
    215 3 Not subject to US law at time says Chaplin rILM star Charles Chaplin has protested the S. government's asses- sing him U.5.5516.167.47 about M51.500.000 in income taxes and interest for 1953. US Tax Court records snowed yesterday. Chaplin, who left the United States m 5
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    Lock icon POLICEMEN NOT GUILTY OFMURDER
    148 3 POLICEMEN NOT GUILTY OF MURDER InHARGES against two H H police inspectors f Murdering an African ifSSSSSd t in court in K-nya, yesterday afU tte magistrate. Mr. A. C. r f: e 0 n said medical ev P had materially alL id 'he position." Th, 'inspectors were then .uiUed with
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    Lock icon Home-ruler out of jail
    54 3 Christopher Rees, 24--rear-old Welsh Nationalist vho unsuccessfully camwisned as a candidate durng the British general elec:ion last May while in prison, has been released from Swansea, Wales, jail after serving a six-month sentmce. He was convicted for refusing to submit to a medical examination under the
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    Lock icon Disease kills 55
    25 3 Encephalitis, a brain disease, has afflicted 202 Koreans, mostly children, in he past three weeks. The ieuth toll has reached 55. A.P
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    18 3 A- station on show Russian hosts showed Isitine Yugoslavs the Soiet atomic power station lear Moscow yesterday. A.P.
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    Lock icon Scotch now dearer in Britain
    22 3 MAXIMUM price tar **ftjl 31 will be raised on s* >t. iD tl n has unoun- Reuter
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    Lock icon NEW DEAL PLAN FOR PRISONERS
    225 3 'Cruel 9 punishment may be outlawed HPHE first U.N. congress on prevention of crime and treatment of offend- ers meeting in Geneva yesterday approved a 'prisoners charter" prohibiting "all cruel, inhuman or degrading punishments. It adopted a set of 95 standard minimum rules which would
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    34 3 piciure. MISS DIANA ST l"®*™. "g^™",,,' S n^re" with celebrate her t» en '*l" rst J%* s t a .L,?i<.k s n 1>low her parents, Mr and W. f. StrcdwitK > stred therapist- Free Press
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    Lock icon RATIONED
    48 3 BRITONS are smokinf so many cigaj rettes that some com- panics have begun rationing dealers, it was i disclosed in London yesterday. Manufacturers say supplies are low not because of a shortage of tobacco but because the factories cannot 1 keep up with the dt_ 111,111(1- U.P.
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    POLICE SMASH 'WOLF GANG: 30 ARRESTED
    68 3 rALIAN police claimed yesterday their weekend sweep through the bleak Calabrian hilta had smashed the power of bandit king Antonio Marci 1 The Wolf of Aspromonte" I —and his 200 Outlaws. Thirty member* of the gang had been arrested, and the rest were fleeing
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    Lock icon THE PLAYING FIELDS OF ETON SAFE
    132 3 rpHE British Ministry of 1 Housing yesterday refused to confirm an application by Eton Urban Council to purchase compulsorily part of the famous playing fields of Eton, England's leading public school, to build flats. The college Itself had not objected to the proposal but
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    Lock icon Alpine men find missing students
    29 3 Austrian Alpine rescue t^ams yeaU-rday came upon five students mis-sin* s nee Sunday in the Alps. Lin/ reported. They wenexhausted but otherwise unhurt. A.P.
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    Lock icon Japan concerned
    25 3 The Japanese Foreign Office Is concerned over the reported bad treatment of Japane.se fishermen held In South Korean detainment camps In Pasan A.P.
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31, 1955. Opinion CHEAPER LIVING
    208 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31, 1955. Opinion CHEAPER LIVING rpHE improving situa- tion in the Federation added to the general world trend promises to provide the Singapore Government with a heaven-sent opportunity to lower the cost of living. Any appreciable reduction, it must be agreed, would be a
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    Lock icon Jamaica tackles its biggest task
    426 4  - Jamaica tackles its biggest task PHIL MAGELSDORF by HP HE byword for A Jamaica is development. Faced with wide unemployment and a low standard of living, the present government of Chief Minister Norman W. Manley has set its sights on improving both situations. Its goals: Development of industry, development of
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    BY THE WAY
    260 4  -  UNKNOWN FDFDF TIE fining of a man for pulling the communication cord without reasonable excuse recalled the story of George Moore in a train with Dr. Gogarty. Moore was admiring a view from the window. "I'd give £5," he said, "to be able to stop and look
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    'Housecleaning' in a Red state
    667 4 'Housecleaning' in a Red state Here's what happens to "unwanted" people in the big cities of a country when Communists are in power HUNGARY has launched a new wave of deportations of 'superfluous" citizens from Budapest and other major cities to sparsely populated areas on the nation's inhospitable plains. Persistent
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      23 4 i "In Singapore i \...il'BSENA's\ I 5 always' for I HIGH CLASS JEWELLERY I I 11. SENA LTD.! SINCAPORE. PENANC b BANGKOK C
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE SPOTLIGHT
    881 5  -  adelaide Eastley BV.. BACK IN LONDON FROM JUNGLE LfERE in Singapore H one race which, In p. filiation statistics t any rate, is at the ottom of the heap in anal representation, s the Japanese. Ind now we have one lr Toshi Sugita, plainively sneaking for 300 apanese
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      153 6 YOUR JFAVOURITE CARTOONS 'MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis V x s—A *™i)\ igrP~lgg^S«U SIT DOWN ll«t y^"HUMAN?yI ff\ "p^i— V*?l /nO-'BILUONS/ j fc^Mj TARZAhT by Edgar Rice Burroughs JL '"V-^Jr^V^T y QJ<?E PO<2 SLCCPING SCIC- 1 /T/iTVkT^^^^ -1 2hJft*>>ay?/ S^Tj NESS gELPM^'S TO SaENC£- l< I \J/Um^rj\lb~~7~/ -Jh^S-Mt
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      480 6 YOUR I LUCKY STAR BORN today, you are one of u. individuals apparently destined fame and success. You may be b to rule— but, if not. you will ri.,< leadership through your own int< Lual force and vigorous power. You know how to recognise opp tunities; seize them and make
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      211 7 LONDON. Aug. 30. WW B» a Previous loday vo 1 ESS eXf. 40 7 S buyers 40 > 2 buyers BBK an Ports September 41 sellers 40 sellers jurop^n r° rw j H RS8 cXI. 40 buyers 40 buyers r BBK Ports October 41 sellers 40 sellers
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      New York prices
      105 7 NEW YORK. Aug. Previou, Today IN Straits *pot and nearby 95.75 nom. 95.75 Dot) IN futures August 96.00 nom. deleted September 94.80 bid 94.80 bid 95.80 asked 95.60 ask< October 94.05 bid 94 05 bid 95.05 ask d 94.80 asked ONF: Stead?. SALES: Nil. IBRTR futures September
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      U.S. PEPPER
      38 7 Spot and awaiting Malabar 44. n,. September 43. Saraik and afloats 39^. Afloats 39. Sept. 39. Lampong spot and awaiting ™te*f*">?llT£ <£L* Sept. shipment 43 sellers ex-dock. .pot Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per lb.
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      36 7 NEW YORK. Aug. M Previous Today I Industrials 464.37 464.67 I Railroads 156.50 156.50 I P°.™* tic B° nd 25 ii 66.06 I tilities DO i2 iR««ft I Stocks Composite Average 166.87 166.88
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      112 7 j Aug. 30. Previou* Today loFRA Philippines ci.f. UK/ I North European delivered I^Hght per long ton ***f $172 v_ sellers $170 nom loPRA Philippines f.o.b.' Maniia Unquoted in bulk per ton Unquotea ■oi'RA Straits c.Lf. UK/North I Kuropean delivered weight per I long fa. A«g./Sept
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    DEBATE ON NEW ATTAP HOUSES FOR CITY
    176 7 DEBATE ON NEW ATTAP HOUSES FOR CITY A SINGAPORE City Council committee report, recommending that a .scheme be worked out to allow attap house.s within the city, will come uy for debate at the Council's meeting today. If approved, it means that areas already occupied by attap dwellings, and the
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    CARRIER HAS FLOWN 201 SORTIES
    68 7 CARRIER HAS FLOWN 201 SORTIES THE British aircraft carrier H.M.S. Eagle has operated 201 aircraft sorties to date, the largest number ever flown by any British carrier. She has been on Intensive flying training in the Mediterranean since May. An Admiralty spokesman says that the Eagle, now on her way
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    Harvest festival at B. Panjang
    37 7 The Udayakalasmithi of Bukit Panjang, Singapore, presented a drama to a packed community centre hall in celebration of the Indian Onam festivalthanksgiving for a good harvest. The drama was in Malay alam.
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    COUNCIL WILL FETE W.H.O. DELEGATES
    154 7 Budget to be discussed in Colony SINGAPORE City Council O wll K ive a reception to delegates to the Congress of the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organisation which wiH be held in the city from September 13 to 19. The congress will
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    Wanted: Telephonists for Colombo Plan talk in S'pore
    238 7 Wanted: Telephonists for Colombo Plan talk in S'pore SINGAPORE Government Is busy looking for secretaries, stenographers, telephone girls and receptionists at the first Colombo Plan conference to be held in the Colony from Oct. 17-22. They have found a few so far. But it h£tf not yet named its delegates
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    JAP SETTLERS? 'A DELICATE QUESTION'
    201 7 JAP SETTLERS? A DELICATE QUESTION PROMINENT Singapore Chinese who suffered under the Japanese during the occupation years were chary yesterday of commenting whether the Japanese should be allowed into Malaya when the country gets her independence. "It's a difficult and deli- cate question," said Mr. T W Ong, who led
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    THE GRIM SECRET of MOAT FARM
    1413 8  - THE GRIM SECRET of MOAT FARM Florence A. Kilpatridc by FDFDF For four years, no questions were asked about the Vanished Lady, then rumours began to circulate... MISS CAMILLE HOLLAND finished the story she had composed in her neat precise handwriting. The theme was, as usual, of love, though she
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    Lock icon Traffic doesn't worry Sarita
    362 8  -  JAMES BACON by OARITA MONTIEL, beautiful Spanishborn actress, is one of the few people who ever has a good thing to say about the Hollywood traffic problem. "I love eet.' f she says. "I love eet best on the freewavs where I can zeep, zeep, zeep."
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    Clerical casanova is sent to jail
    621 9 HE ONCE FLED TO STORE AFTER ARREST AN English priest wno, after being arrested in d^ to a year's imprisonThirty seven year old Robert Parkin Peters was fonvicted of stealine a lire-purchase car and of Staining a £35 diamond engagement ring by false pretences.
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    CORPORAL, YOU CAN PUT AWAY THAT 'RED' TAPE MEASURE
    264 9 CORPORAL, YOU CAN PUT AWAY THAT 'RED' TAPE MEASURE THE corporal on duty outside Catterick Camp's Naafi club took one look at the young cavalryman's immaculate "civvy" trousers, and called for a tape measure. Then he knelt down carefully measured round the trouser-turnups with their knife-edge creases, and told the
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    DOG IN SEA STARTS SUCH A BOTHER
    104 9 A SMALL black dot decided to keep cool. She took to the i water at Seaford, Sus- sex. but the ebb tide i carried her out pwUU I I ly, and then i A man plunged in to j rescue her. The tide
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    67 9 Glynis Johns, who E plays Josephine, and Peter Finch are shown here as they appear in s 5 the Boulting Brothers new British film comedy E 'Josephine and Men.' E Glynis wtts voted top E E woman box-oHice at- traction in the 195* E popularity polls. Petjr E Finch is
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    Mayfair woman who became a maid
    157 9 a WOMAN who used to A o Wn a Mayfalr shop m sffik^murt take quite a bit of doing," Mr Henry Elam depufjr chairman of "Si »ea gumy to converting £28 to ner own use. thr This happened said the a |LT"h n op
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    Son of 16 said 'no divorce'
    164 9 Son of 16 said 'no divorce A BOY of 16, a Roman Catholic, had decided that at all costs his parents must not be divorced, a judge said in London. But Judge Rowe Harding added: "I am not here to administer the law of the Roman Catholic Church or ol
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    ROUND ABOUT S'PORE
    369 10 ROUND ABOUT S'PORE FDFD m m& mm ■MiiHAllili lloun to earth... (TOP, left): A big mouthful maybe for a little man, bat that didn't stop four-year-old Cyrus Medora from enjoying this piece of roasted suckling pig even if it meant using his fingers to hold it with. Cyms, brothers and
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    These Russian women -they're tough!
    932 12  - These Russian women -they're tough! SHELLEY ROHDE by Ytrhospent a tourist-week in Moscow TOOK over a Russian girl's Job for a day. For two hours high above the clouds somewhere between Moscow and Leningrad, I knew something of what it is like to be a girl worker in Russia. The
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    Saved by durian
    415 12 FDSFD rS a good fault to be forgiving, I suppose. Yet I don't know. Eve once lured me to the top of a Ferris wheel where we sat in the darkness, singing wildly in a crazy chair. I have no head for heights and .clung despairingly to
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    'THE WAIST' BREATHES IN...
    281 12 Miss Ma nil Weerakoon's 17 inch waist recently posed the question: Who has the smallest waist in London? Here Mrs. Matthews seems to provide the answer ...and the lape measure* only seventeen inc-lio* I UNBELIEVABLE as it may seem there is a 17-inch jui \j in
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    Family put in 106 years with army
    124 12 milE widow of ex-Resi--1 mental Sergeant-Major J. D. L. Hayley has presented his medals to the museum of the Royal West Kent Regiment at Maidstone. Hay ley's three sons are still in the Army. Together with their father they share 106 years service
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    Lock icon Hot rhythm for this cold war
    402 13  -  RICHARD HUGHES When melody invades politics the music makers feel the blast of an ill wind i by a STRANGE, "war of A songs' 1 has broken out between the Japanese communist Party and Japanese conservative interests. Each side is busily organising local community
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    Mr. Fisher is still TRUMPS
    496 13  - Mr. Fisher is still TRUMPS FRANCIS MARTIN by 4 FTER two and half years, Eddie Fisher is declared by his recording company to be top-seller and trump card still. Last Fisher lontfplay they put out was a ten-incher with six sentimental 'oldies" on each side. "My Serenade To You." Seem
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    371 13  - 'Boogie-woogie as dangerous as poison gas' RICHARD HANSER by iLTHOUGH the Soviet Union and fcr satellites keep deDunoing American 1 as a symptom of k-f'adent capitalism," fcy can't stamp it out -hind the Iron Curin. Imerican jazz in all its ftifestatlona is regarded Russian psychological ateglst* as one of the
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    PERSIAN LAMB goes green for AUTUMN
    36 15 THIS wide winter stole for lUj or evening wear in GREEN South West African Persian f lamb, is from the e autumn collection of I London designer Ron- aUi Patterson.
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    193 15 THE CHOICE. A children's menu served at London s Savoy Hotel, alongside the normal postersize menu, so that the youngsters can have something less indigestible than lobster thermidor and chicken a l» kl On the menu is minced liver, spinach, carrots semolina pudding stewed prunes and rhubarb.
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    894 16 DOLORES IS JUST WONDERFUL I T1 1 •vI i nl E 1 iTS <'Jfwn T MET Bob Hope's wife. Dolores, the other night. I shan't forget the occasion. She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met She is tall. slim, attractive of course. But possessed of
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    57 16 I HEARD about a restaurant near neet-street which, owing to structural repairs, now has to carry a notice, "This building is dangerous, enter at your own risk." And such is human nature that "if anything" says the proprietor, "we get more people than ever in
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    427 16 SIXTEEN prearranged "par" deals recently played in more than 150 U.S. colleges to decide the 1955 Intercollegiate Bridge Championships, are being presented each day in this page. To play these deals in your own game, instead of reading the par results now. save the entire series until completed.
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      197 16 CLUES ACEOSS 5 Moan for th« Isle of Man. (4). 1 Her cares are confused (8). 8 Oae mi^ ht tW o separate 7 Gin, but not to drink (5). £s in the middle of these 8 Comfort a fish moetly (7). Instruments (6). 9ls thl. an injunction to a
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    615 17  - FIG LEAVES TABOO FOR EVE JAMES BACON By So search is on for that perfect ostume LX>R the first time in Hollywood memory, a producer is conducting a world wide search for a costume designer. And what's really strange about the search is that the Job requires costumes for Adam
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    450 17 'GIVE ME THE FEAR OF GOD' cries De Mille TSCAPE has long u been the basis for great literary works and screen dramatisations—e scape from prison, from illness, from destruction, from poverty and so on. So there Is plenty of tension on the big tage at a Hollywood tudio as
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    15 17 A Th rK «U« »l A»«JJ" T "u™. «r«-.. IT- P»'"
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    98 17 THEY RE predictinr that Joan Crawford's new husband. Alfred Steel?, the aoftdrink baron, will soon branch out a bit and take an active financial Intercut In his bride's profession Back from a sixweek honeymoon trip across Europe, the Steeles hare checked In at a Hollywood studio,
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      39 17 Stir p«u mio hot water and botl far one minute only. Sweeten and fUvour to uste. J Stnn and tenre bu< or cold. just a, vmpU that. A*d r~»*T «"W* J'' ,to« Aw. allb.tm rm n~i mb <•"""<* >-"-'•' tlu moment.
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    ON TO A SINGAPORE VICTORY
    42 18 BILL CALVERT (Singapore) gets in m straight right to the head of Aye Ko (Burma) in their bantamweight bout daring the first day of the South East Asia boxing championships o n Monday. Calvert won on point.
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    235 18 Chelsea are on top —and they mean to stay there pHELSEA know its tough at the top. They found out \j the hard way. But after 50 years of glorious and inglorious soccer they captured the coveted title of football champions of England. This season they will learn its even
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    CHANGI TEAMS FOR 7's HOCKEY
    67 18 R.A.F. Changi Hockey selectors have chosen the following teams to play in the Singapore seven-a-side hockey tournament which starts today. Changi "B" v C.S.C. today: LAC Ramee; LAC. Shanmugam, Cpl. Rogers; LAC. Jesson; LAC Maniam, Pit. Off. McLelland, LAC Martin. Changi "A" v. Y.M.SA. tomorrow
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    GOLF WINNERS
    23 18 Mr. and Mrs. R. K. L. Wingate won the mixed four-, 'omes (nineholp, stableford) competition at the Royal Singapore Golf Club.
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    238 18 pOYAL Singapore Golf Club u> beat Royal Air Force by 15 matches to 12 in a golf match over the weekend. Results Ot.S.Q.C. players first): Foursomes: Stirk and Paterson beat Beamish and Forrest; Harvey and Kane lost to Brown and O'Carroll- Thomson and Thome-Thome
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    131 18 T)ETER May, England's 26-year-old cricket captain, took home to Reading with him after his team's teat-match victory at Kenninoton Oval, match-box passed to him by Jack Cheetham, captain of South African team, It was originally given to Cheetham by the Mayor of Cheltenham ivho hoped it would
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    350 18 AMERICA FACES TENNIS CRISIS A MTCRICAN TENNIS EXPERTS AGREED A UNANIMOUSLY THAT THE DAVIS CUP WILL STAY IN AUSTRALIA INDEFINITELY, WITH NO SERIOUS CHALLENGE FROM THE U.S. IN SIGHT. "The cup is "Down Under" indefinitely and everybody from the players to the U.S.L.T.A. officials realise it." wrote Jim Burchard of
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    83 18 JOHORE BAHRU RA JUBILEE SHOOT A SMALL-BORE rifle com- petition wiil be held at the Johore Bahru Rifle Association range on Sept. 24 as part of the Sultan of Johore's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The competition, open to all small-bore rifle association clubs and teams in the Federation ajid Singapore, will
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    Bristol complete first double
    243 18 A small football league pro- gramme last night saw Bristol City gain a 5-2 win over Rotherham who only missed promotion to Div. 1 last season by a fractional goal average. Bristol City, promoted from Div. 3, thus completed the season's first double as they had
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    20 18 VESTERDAY'S Rugby League results: Dowsbury 12. Warrington 8: Doncaster 13, Batleji 4; Roohdalo Hornetc 12 Olriham 4. Reuter
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    365 18 Ma played football too... LOOKING back to the days of her youth. Mrs. Mary Alice Dixon, of Preston, who has been celebrating her golden wedding anniversary, recalls how she and her workmates at the local firm of Dick, Kerrs spent their lunch hour kicking screwed-up paper along the floor of
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    316 19 DA PREEM WAS RICHLY APPRECIATED BY THE FANS... rE BIG WKESTU AT THK HAPPY WORM) ARENA LAST NIGHT ENDED OUTSIDE THE KING THK RESULT WAS A DISQUALIFICATION FOR KING KONG AND PRIMO CARNERA IN THK FOURTH ROUND. All Riza Bey, the referee, W£ls knocked cold bv a Camera punch to
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    54 19 Mtas Angela Mortimer and Miss Angela Buxton (Britain* beat Mta Hhirlcy Fry and MLis Doria Hart <V& > 4-6, 6-4. 6-2 in the double nnal of the Essex Country Clubs women's Imvn tennir tournament at Manchester, M;».^s, yesterday. MLw Fry oeat MUs Hart 7-5. 3-5. 6-2
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    119 19 rF SOUTH JOHORE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB OPENS nsfflSSoN witTi a match against the naval BASE AT SELETAR ON SEPT. 3. A welcome return to the fifteen Is Norman Robert*, one of the finest threequarters of two sea>son.s ago, who Ls back from leave In
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    13 19 T«la\\ ties in the T IICi Ehw s°»s On, M £2
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    140 20 rpFIK Norwegian runnri Audun Boyson. beat has own 1 world record for 1.000 metres with a time of Z min. II MC. at Stockholm yesterday The old record wa> I min. M »<•<* Second man in the race was Poul Smith of W (.< rmany in
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    336 20 HAMPSHIRE had the distinction of overthrowing the county cricket champion, Surrey, by 129 runs yesterday. It was their 15th win of the summer, the most rames they have ever won in a season, and put them in third place, behind Yorkshire in
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    LEVERS BEST IN 25-MILE RACE
    33 20 t>. LEVERS tChangl) won the 25-mile time trial cycle race organised by the Seletar Cycle Racing Club at Bukit Timah on Sunday. His time was lhr. 2min 51ser.
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    189 20 SINGAPORE'S swimming champion and Olympic representative, Neo Chwee Kok, won the 1,500 metres event on the final day of the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association championships at the Chinese Swimming Olub yesterday. Chwee Kok was an easy winner by two and a half pool lengths from
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    43 20 KEN Rosewall (Australia) is favoured to win the United States lawn tennis singles championship which opens in New York on Friday. He is top seeded overseas player. Vic Seixas. the holder. U second seeded behind Wimbledon chamnion Tonv Trabert.- Reuter
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    Gold Vase prospect throws his rider
    170 20 HEAVY GOING AT IPOH FREE PRESS RACING CORRESPONDENT 'TWERE was some excitement at the Ipoh racecourse this morning when Star Signal, a bright prospect for the $25,000 Sultan's Gold Vase bolted after throwing his jockey, Don Paterson. The runaway horse crashed against the rail
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    24 20 Germany defeated Sweden. 119 points to 93. in a two-day track and field meet at the Olympic Stadium In Stockholm yesterday.- A.P.
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