The Singapore Free Press, 2 September 1955

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya No. H352. Singapore. Friday, September 2, 1955. Prke 15 CU.
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    TOKYO via MOSCOW BY BOAC?
    140 1 TOKYO via MOSCOW BY BO AC? tfrOPES of a future air i route from Britain to the Far East via Moscow ind Peking, were UnPted yesterday by Sir Mile> Thomas chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, at a press i onference in London, mmenting on the, 8.0.A.C. annual reoorr
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    Lock icon BOSSES HELD
    21 1 Three economic chiefs uve been arrested in th<* urabaya district in conoction with the Indone■xn government's antiTruption drive.- A.P.
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    A SAD FAREWELL AS MacDONALD LEAVES SINGAPORE
    171 1 A SAD FAREWELL AS MacDONALD LEAVES SINGAPORE Pr was "Goodbjr* Singapore" with a smile (above) but it was a sad smile when Mr. Malcolm MacDonald left for Britain by air this morning after over nine years here as Commissioner-General. He was visibly moved as he walked to the plane after
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    Goa: 71 Hindus arrested
    61 1 Portuguese police ar--1 rested 71 Indian demonstrators one of them a at Maxem, near Ooa's southern frontier, j.-iterday. The demonstrators mostly unemployed Hindus crossed the border at Supangudi, but all were taken back across the border and released. An official announcement said 25 Indians who entered
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    'COLD' SHOULDER FOR UNION
    212 1 Pickets massing ABOUT 200 former employees of the Singapore Cold Storage massed in front of its Orchard Road shop this morning. They picketed the premises and attempted to talk to workers entering and leaving the yard. Many of them swarmed into the car park opposite. Others
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    Back to normal
    90 1 SINGAPORE city cleansing And other essential services started returning to normal today as labourers returned to work after being on strike for IS davs Work could not be found for. all the 8.000 men. They will be absorbed in the next few days Gas deoartment employee! will
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    Sport banned for them
    51 1 Non-European spectators will be banned from the sports stadium at Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State, when it opens on Sept. 14, it was learned yesterday. WOOL TALKS The Australian Federal Cabinet met suddenly last night to discuss lower wool prices, two Melbourne papers reported.—
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    Polio scare: The Queen cancels ball
    64 1 Polio scare: The Queen cancels ball rE Queen cancelled a staff ball arranged for last night at Balmoral Castle because of reports of poliomyelitis, in Scotland. She did so as a precaution on doctors' advice. The Queen is on holiday at Balmoral with her family until next M/liday. The Queen
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    RUBBER UP
    36 1 Following the better overnight London and New York markets, the price of rubber in Singapore this morning rose to $1.47»/ 2 a lb. for first grade, September shipment, 2V 2 cents above yesterday's close.
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    Lock icon EARL IN U.S.
    36 1 The Earl of Home, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, arrived in New York by air from London yesterday and left immediately for San Franciso on his way to New Zealand. Re uter
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    GIRL ROBBED
    30 1 A Chinese cyclist snatched a gold chain from an Indian girl yi front of the Ruma Uiskin police station. Singapore, yesterday afternoon as she was going to school.
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    $250 THEFT
    26 1 Three Chinese armed with a pistol and daggers stole cash and jewels worth $250 from a Chinese living in Lorong A, Geylang, Singapore yesterday.
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    LANA ISSTILL 'WOOZY'
    35 1 WHEN she reported for work at ner noiiywooa stuaio yesterday, film star Lana Turner said she was still "a little woozy' fain the conetttskftA she suffered after back«ar4»Wto her bat-*fcrtiUe%tt holiday recent-
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    SECRET TALKS ON CYPRUS
    84 2 |>RITAIN. Oreece 1J Turkey will open secivt negotiations in London today aimed at breaking their deadlock over the luture of Cyprus made complete yesterday by Turkeys rejection of self-determination for the island. The three foreign ministers Mr Harold Macmill n (Britaini. Mr Stephen Poulos (Greece* and
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    US opera for Reds
    18 2 Russia yesterday formally invited an American Opera Company to visit the Soviet Union. -UP
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    Lock icon JAPAN PLEDGES ANTI-RED LINE
    135 2 WAPANEBE Foreign MinisJ ter Mamoru shigemitsu *aid in New York yesterday that it would be fatal for Japan to fraternise with the Communist powers or follow a neutralist Dolicy. He Pledged continued firm friendship with the United States. He asked that Americans be patient while Japan
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    The big street clean-up is on
    54 2 THE strike is over. Singapore City Council road sweepers are back at work. And a few hours after dawn the streets were alread y looking cleaner. The cleanup operation above is being carried out in New Market Street. Another Free Press picture is seen
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    59 Sudan mutineers surrender
    86 2 A TOTAL of 57 men and two officers, who had mutinied in the Southern Sudan last month returned to Torit yesterday and surrendered to troops of the Sudan Defence Force. There are still two officers and 300 men at large in the eastern part of Equatoria
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    EIGHT REBELS KILLED IN NEW CLASH
    106 2 EIGHT REBELS KILLED IN NEW CLASH IN FURTHER clashes yesterday French Foreign Legionnaires kilted eight Algerian rebels near the Quelma region. The troops suffered no casualties. Two soldiers were killed and a junior French officer and a convoy captain were injured when rebels ambushed a small convoy about 60 miles
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    Death roll may be 4,000
    115 2 Military authorities continued clean-ups deep in thel country following the outbreaks of 12 days ago. Eight helicopters took part in one round-up in which 51 rebels were captured. During the clean-up a helicopter caught flre in mid-air and crashed, killing the pilot. The French have
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      194 2 THINGS GIRLS MUST NOT DO! L^^^^^Hfc* P s^~ s^W i*> afl M^ i j^V i HaMMi^M^^ i a^v < aV ar AT 1 'SCORPIO" says these warnings mus/ be observed, or you won't yef another date! The Pnmo Camera Singapore challenge Is answered by a Fighting Fijian Malcolm Modder tells
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    Lock icon THE LONELIEST ISLE CAN'T GET A PADRE
    77 3 4 chaplain is wanted for the world's loneliest island -Tristan Da Cunha In the South Atlantic— but no ne seems to want the post. The Reverend A.E.A. SuUton Secretary of the British Society for the Propagation 3 f the Gospel, wrote In yesterday's
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    79 3 Moroccan tribal leaders held responsible for the massacre of European families two weeks ago surrendered to French forces near Oued Zem. General Franchi. commander of the Casablanca military region, accepted the surrender which took the form of a ritual sacrifice of bulls. The tribesmen swore on the blood of the
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    ARMY BOYS COOK, WASH UP FOR LUXURY IN HOTEL
    246 3  - ARMY BOYS COOK, WASH UP FOR LUXURY IN HOTEL VIYIENNE PUCKRIDGE tjVDR some people, strikes F have their advantages. In at least one of Singapore's leading hotels, seryicemen are spending their leave in comfort, with free board and lodging, and being paid for it. in return they help with cooking,
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    The fish fanciers come into their turn
    175 3 The fish fancier s come into their turn TODAY is a bit day for Singapore fish fanciers. The new Aquarists' Society holds its first competition at the Happy World Stadium. The show is to run for three dayt Six hundred tanks containing thousand* of fish from many countries some from
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    Lock icon Dope ring: Three to be questioned
    122 3 M. Chandrasoma, principal collector of customs for Ceylon, said in Colombo yesterday, he had ordered three men to appear before him on Monday to answer questions which may help officials break an international dope-smuggling ring. The trio identified as L. Samarakone, Eddie* Perers and
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    Lock icon 110 ANIMALS SOAR 22 MILES UP FOR SPACE TESTS
    122 3 110 ANIMALS SOAR 22 MILES UP FOR SPACE TESTS A HUGE BALLOON carrying live aoimals was launched into the stratosphere yesterday at International Fills. Minnesota in the last of a series of U.S. Air Force tests on space -travel problems. A similar balloon was launched on Wednesday and carried the
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    A BALLERINA PUTS RELIGION FIRST
    295 3 D ALLERINA Mary Drage would rather see her children "Roman Catholics than dukes or earls." This she has decided at 23 and so marriage between her and Lord Carnegie who completed his National Service in Malaya, la not possible. "We have frequently discussed marriage," she
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    So Royal marriage off
    137 3 That was when she was 13 and at a convent school in Canada. She came home to Campden Hill. W.. to her familyCommander Charles Di?ge, mother, and five brothers and sisters and serious training began Just about the time Lord Carnegie was doing National Service as
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Sept 2. 1955. Opinion HERE AS FRIENDS
    234 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Sept 2. 1955. Opinion HERE AS FRIENDS Australian or any other Com mo n W( alth forces coming to Malaya to help in the struggle against the Communist terrorists have no cause to ant Icipate any hostility from the local population. Apart from tin- fact
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    JAPAN still WAITS for a LEADER
    760 4 JAPAN still WAITS for a LEADER There is danger for the West in the chaotic disunity of the political parties and in the pressure of the population problem, says RICHARD HUGHES APTIR ten yean oi shocked ricf fat. benevolent cxrupation. confused peace and un \i rateful recovery, the resilient Japanese
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    Psychologist advised gang leader
    268 4 Psychologist advised gang leader ANE of Germany's biggest post-war gangster groupfroperating as the "Dominik Concern" and putting theft on a scientific basis- has just been smashed by West German police. Twenty-seven Ka ng members Ir e under arrest, charges are pending against sixty other Germans accused of receiving stolen goods
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      48 4 Wedding Presents o Oo you find it difficult to select SUITABLE PRESENTS do U'T your heud l>y thinking uver it; pay a visit to HENDRY'S there you will find just what you want. P. H. HENDRY JEWELLER, 78 North BHdrr Kd.. S pore fi A K. I iiiiipin
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      95 4 AVAIL YOURSELF of 20 years of experience in estate development by CREDIT FONCIER MEYER CHAMBERS, 3rd FLOOR, (Raffles Place) BINJAI PARK A HIGH CLASS RESIDENTIAL ESTATE AT 6] M.S. DUNEARN ROAD MANY LOTS IN THIS PARKLIKE ESTATE ARE IN ELEVATED SITUATION WATER ELECTRICITY ARE LAID ON AREAS: 11,000 to 30,000
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE SPOTLIGHT
    1353 5  -  £><L&t£ty BV.. 4 HE you overtakl\ ing?"...Thii and Km.' thus other new J direct 'conscience" H-'.is are popping up I I our highways to reHind dreamy motorists \M: tin ir safety obliga■or.- 'o others. police, Public 1 tions and Singap Safety First C :1 are trying a I
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      109 5 NEW! SKIRTS SKIRT Rayon and accerate taffetta, full flair, Hocked velvery can-can design. SKIRT Rayon acetate taffeta, full flair self piping, all round. SKIRT Rayon and acetate faile full flair, flocked velvery butterfly design. SKIRT Rayon and acetate, taffeta full flair. flocked velvery flower design. SKIRT Shantong faile full flocked
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    JANITOR TURNS POET
    87 6 pROFESSORS at Vermont University in the Unit-d States are sorry that they didn't take more BOtkC of their former janitor (porter-eum-cleaner) when thej Passed him in the corridors. Today the ex-janitor, goin- by the modest name oJ Sam Baron, is listed as a best-selling poet and is
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      258 6 YOUB FAVOURITE XABTOONS I r\L l Pi-^%#ic MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and PhH_Davis •..••.TTWO^N-AoOOBVt CHECK?/ 7 I S»Se iJi° 3W04 M !SEE HER A6AIN. J /^=^J >/ <. vl TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs n r ~j^BS£j£e*\ "~^^391 I poctoz. si^p*son Lv^Gt.^ B^i I I Vg j coo.. sc.PEAVr? tM^Mrim^
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      576 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR i>ORN today your ideals your birthday star be your 1> alU your daily guide. t,n.. You SATURDAY ambition, raunting. are dtternniuHi 10 h™ 2 3' —Entertain a trw clo.s, irhal you want out of life f r jendi at your home aiw im\ are not one w
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    Round the World market prices
    5 7 Round the World market prices
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    U.K. closing prices
    194 7 .4 bore prices quoted in pence. Im k White Sarawak f j1.%--f uropean port* Sept. 3 9d. sellers 38^d. seller.j>i k Black Sarawak Special lfl c.if European ports 30d. sellers 29 '^d. seller.Above prices quoted in shillings and pence. r lirst Session spot £745! buyers £747 buyers
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    New York prices
    104 7 NEW YORK. Sept. 1 Previon s Today Straits «pot and nearby 95.75 nom 95.62 noir. future September 94 80 bid 94.80 bid 95 60 asked 95.80 asked (htober 94 25 bid 94.25 bid 94.80 asked 95.00 asked November 94 25 bid 94.15 bid 94 70 ask d
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    U.S. PEPPER
    47 7 1 ind AD littng Malabar I 4J September 41 1 »p >' and awaiting I I. a loati 37 i. sep- I temVr 37. Lam pone spot ana ruuuiine release 42H afloat* 42. Sept. shipment 41 >- sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per Jo.
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    DOW JONES AVERAGES
    36 7 NEW VORK, Sept. L Previou, Today Industrials 468 18 469 63 Railroad* 157.14 156 93 Domestic Bonds 98 41 98.39 L UUtie. 66 10 66 22 *iork> umpoeite Average 167.79 168.06 m a
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    Copra, coconut oil prices
    115 7 Previous Today PK\ Philippines c.i.t. UK/ orth European delivered eight per long ton Sept./ Oct. $170 buyers $IT4 sellers I'K Philippine* f.o.b. Manila i bulk p«-r ton Unquoted Unquoted [K\ Straits c.i.f. UK/North ■ropeaa delivered weight per ■I ton Sept. Oct. £64*-. nom £64 buyers £64
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    They grouse —but still they visit Britain
    160 7 They grouse but still they visit Brit ain A MERICAN visitors to BriA tain don't like roadside hedges. They can't see the fields beyond. They don't like the big coins either. They wear holes in their pockets. They can't get iced water, and Britons have dirty tablecloths, dirty china, the
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    PAY FOR A CLERK'S CRAMP-BUT NOT FOR LUMBAGO
    339 7 PAY FOR A CLERK'S CRAMP-BUT NOT FOR LUMBAGO I I KK> in Britain who suffer from writer's cramp can draw national insurance benefit for industrial injury. But should they also be entitled to benefit if their work brings on chronic indigestion or heart disease? No, say nine members oJ r
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    Jail for soldier who went home to help Mum
    195 7 Jail for soldier who went home to help Mum A SOLDIER who went absent to save his widowed mother's home was court-martialled at Chelsea. In this defence, a major read a letter from her. It said: "I hope your punishment is not too severe for helping your Mum." The soldier,
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    Five dancers on board
    73 7 Seventeen dance teachers, amateur dancers and representatives of Singapore Dance Association, International Society of Teachers of Dancing, and the Institute of Dance Teachers, attended a meeting at the Happy World Cabaret. Singapore, yesterday. Five delegates were nominated to represent Singapore at the All-Malayan Official Board of
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    ACID VICTIMS PRAISE NEW BILL
    189 7 TWO victims of acid throwing cases in Singapore described the Corrosive Substances Bill announced yesterday, which lays down life-time imprisonment for the thrower, as "long overdue." One a company director, who lost an eye in an attack in 1951 said, "It is good to keep
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      27 7 "NICOLINE MAERSK" j SINGAPORE SWE g££uM PENANG I Eastern Roads 9—lo Sept. 11—12 Sept. Wh 8 Sept. NEW YORK BOSTON BALTIMORE HIILADELPHIA MONTREAL (Direct) SHIP MAERSK j
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      33 7 SINGAPORE BAGGAGE TRANSPORT AGENCY LTD. 65, The Arcade. Singapore. Tel: *****/3 Lines 1, Rodger Street. Kuala Lumpur. Tel. 4347. IN ASSOCIATION WITH SINGAPORE PACKING COMPANY LIMITED specialists in CLEARING AND FORWARDING OF CARGO
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    Follow my LEADER
    2735 8  -  L. Morrissey A short story by ii f bad the till drawer open when the door click* (1 bt-hind As ghe turned round a wif tly she thought again about that b<u she always intended to tal. Being alone In h (T little Shop all day, it
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    MARTINE SEES (HERSELF) 'NANA -ON CANVAS
    81 9 MARTINE SEES (HERSELF) 'NANA -ON CANVAS Murtine Carol, one S of Fu rope's most popular actresses, has s many films to her s credit. .which means r that artist Paul Colin has plenty of work in front of him. For he is to paint all the charac- ters which Martine
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    Royal Household Coroner
    33 9 Royal Household Coroner Mr William Bentley Puriue. 64. North London kroner for 24 years, has en appointed Coroner of ?r Majesty's Household, in rcession to Ueut. -Colonel llliam HilKrove Leslie Mctthy has resigned.
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    £100 in puddle
    34 9 A boy of 14. Terence ridges, was delivering fcwspapen at Ripley. jprbyshire, when he found 1 1 00 in £5 notes lying in puddle The owner saw im i l 5.
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    SCOOTER GIRLS NOW GET AN M-LINE
    113 9 SCOOTER GIRLS NOW GET AN M-LINE GIRLS and women who ride motor scooters, Mr. John White noticed, have one recurrine problem. Their skirts tend to creep upward, so that they have to take one hand from the controls to put things right. So Mr. White, an Ipswich tailor, had a
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    Look-in phone has arrived
    184 9 Look-in phone has arrived fctOPLE who take tele- i f phone calls in their «.h will have to mend their The first telephone-. Ble\.>ion system has been! WKiniatrated. It works perA.tv the sensation of West Coast Electronic m i\v being held in New ■< -k And already it has •oil
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    SUICIDE WIFE HAD AN AFFAIR
    255 9 Man 's name kept secret nOMPANY director John Powell said at the inquest on his actress wife Kate- -I think I should bring to the court's notice that a year last April she met a lawyer named..." At this point the coroner, Mr. H. Neville
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    Dickens inn saved
    17 9 A famous Dickenslan hostelry, the Plough Inn, Blundeston, Suffolk, has been scheduled for preservation.
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    It's cheaper It's quieter It's British
    125 9 THE world's most economical jet engine has passed its major test. It is British designed and ma d e and it will go on view to the world at Farnborough this month. The engine is the RollsRoyce Conway. It will be taken up in
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    WAS NAVY FOOD TO BLAME FOR MAN'S DEATH?
    187 9 WAS NAVY FOOD TO BLAME FOR MAN'S DEATH? WHEN Ronald Wilkinson Joined the Navy he was strong and over six feet tall, and his favourite food was steak and chips. When ne came out. said his mother, •he was a skeleton of his real self. He died a few days
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    THE STANDARD BABY OF BRITAIN IS FOUND
    274 9 Ws 7} Ib. and in full cry ORITISH mothers are fast evolving a standard baby. It is the 7 -pound model, live weight and in full cry. The Registrar-General* combed through a sample of 32,915 babies born in London and the North of
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    SAVES A LIFE, GETS A JOB
    47 9 A man looking for work dived into the Thames at Barking, London, to rescue ten-year-old Hazel Kelly, who fell in off a wall. He was taken to a factory afterwards to have his clothes dried and given a Job i there.
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    Steady now,, watch that white line
    6 10 Steady now,, watch that white line
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    HAIRSTYLES ARE GIVING HER A HEADACHE
    267 10 CREATING that style "just for YOU" for the parade at the SATA Ball on Sept. 10. is giving Miss Jane Kok, hair artist, a number of headaches. Not only has she to design an individual style for each of her 28 glamorous models of
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    THE SINGAPORE SCENE
    171 10 THE SINGAPORE SCENE TION of the 3,000 people who attended the Chief Minister's recen tion for the Commissioner General on the Padang. No diet problems for four-year-old May Lien, above left youngest of the 28 models who will show hairstyles at the SATA Ball. She can tuck into a cake
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    MAKE FRIENDS WITH YOUR BUTCHER
    1278 12  - MAKE FRIENDS WITH YOUR BUTCHER iii;u;\ hi kki: *Uh Hi.... «sA „....s^ZT..»* t.su« i« H» BY THAT'S HOW I LEARNT THE SECRETS YOU NEED TO KNOW OF all the Shopping tasks housewives carry out, meat buying is the most chancy. By comparison, the buying of fish and poultry is child's
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    BABY SITTING! IT WOULD~BREAK BACK OF ANY CAMEL
    756 12  - BABY SITTING! IT WOULD~BREAK BACK OF ANY CAMEL ■'M'j^TOTrl M *M 1 T I^^B^^^J It's the last straw IF I were a camel my bark would be broken For baby sitting is the last straw. Eve has drawn me into many escapades But baby sitting! It's well, it's the last
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    THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA
    892 13  -  ROBERT BLAKE by Why did Schacht join the Nazis? M* First Sevwity-six years. B> Hjalmar Schacht, Allan Wingate. 255. DR. SCHACHT, the famous German ncial "wizard," has written his memoirs. What an extraordinary er of vicissitudes lu' recounts: President of the Reichs--r. and victor over inflation in
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    No, we won't go home unless we are welcome
    658 13  - No, we won't go home unless we are welcome Mrs. P. G. Wodehouse says REKE MocCoU. in New York recently, insited P. G. Wod chouse in his Long Island home, three hours 1 drive from New York Wodehoute, captured in 1940 by Gentian soldiers, horrified his millions of British fans
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    THE FIVE ACES...
    1547 14  -  Valentine Dyall by FACT or FICTION? A«»in a story in this series by famous writers invites you to solve the puzzle. This tale COULD have happened. Bat did it? Tomorrow the answer will be given. 'ABOUT THE AUTHOR T>EHIND the sinister voice of Valentine Dyall raff dms
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    DID IT HAPPEN
    427 14 DID IT HAPPEN three millenia, I decided that something must be done before I became permanently paralysed with boredom. So I began to cheat— not, please understand, to win— but to lose and be done with the infernal pastime. I stealthily accreted winning cards the aces and court-cards— under sofa
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    The woman I would take to dinner
    1194 15 The woman I would take to dinner SHOULD SHE BE ROMANTIC... BEAUTIFUL. ..OR WITTY? DOGNE BEAL ask* three eminent escorts: What makes the perfeet partner? I DON T put it down I t0 the surplus m the population I don't even put it down to what the peter Cheyney said
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    Cool to eat — cool to cook
    413 15 Cool to eat cool to cook WHEN the weather gets hot, cooks are after something cool to eat and something cool to cook Here then is a list of best buys infood and hot-weather meals, and (since even in a heat a solid diet of cold food is depressing) some
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    GOODBYE TO THE SUYDERSEA
    700 16  -  LEO HENDRICK By Mammoth scheme a this netv province to iXethi'Hands I r NTiL recently one of j the first things Dutctl children used to n at KhOOl «U th« orn etrl 1 knnwlod^e that Hoi land h.ut n provinces with 1 1 capital*. Now, however
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    Bridge Hand
    472 16 CIXTEEN pn arranged "par" •deals recently played jn more than 150 US colleges to decide the 1955 Intercollegiate Endue Championships ore beini? presented dully in this pane To play those deals l n your ow u game Instead of reading tli e par results now. .save the entire
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    626 19 celdine can raise a brißht gallop if in the mood. I regard him as the biggest danger to GoldeP Dolphin. CHerity will come in for mppwt. He has been putting in good work in his gallops. Selections: GOLDEN DOLPHIN Carpenter Celerity ♦♦♦♦♦♦4- Cl. 1,
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    148 19 JJOUBT has been raised by newspapers in Melbourne on the availability of Australia's Test captain, 37-year-old lan Johnson for j big cricket next season. Johnson said yesterday I he would not make a deci- sion on his future for at least a
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    341 20 BUT WHO WILL FIGHT HIM? Sportsman Enterprises. sponsors of Primo Camera > irresiling U>ur of Singapore n.d Malaya have- a problem on tlu-.r hands. rrpn-M-nt^tiv, of |k< syiidiratf told ||M »r.M- Pr.ss tins niornini: that there had been numerous rCQCItI »>> Singapore fans that
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