The Singapore Free Press, 6 September 1955

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. 14.:.m. Singapore. Tuesday. September 6, 1955. Price 15 Ctn.
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    Lock icon Townsend back in London
    154 1 GROUP Captain Peter Townsend, 40-year-old British air attache m Belgium, who has been linked romantically with Princess Margaret for the past two years arrived m London yesterday to visit the Farnborough air show. Reporters pressed him lor details of his activities during his three-day visit. but
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    Lock icon INVASION PLOT: 10 CHINESE TO DIE
    73 1 (CHINESE Peoples' courts m two provinces have senti'nced to death 10 Chinese for alleged "sinister sabotage* and attempting through Hong Kong to arrange a Nationalist coun-ter-attack on the Chinese mainland. It is learned m Hon<> Kong. The Communist newspaper. Hwang Ming Maily. said eight
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    More back at work
    67 1 SOME former employees of th c> Singapore Cold S'orage continued to picket the company's premises m Orchard Road today. Others have gone back to work. Workers mi n the Adelphi. Soa View. Gleneagles. Cockpit, and Singapore hotels md the Capitol Restaurant •■re still on strike. A
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    THE WALK
    117 1 More entries, more prizes VfORE and more entries "1 are being received for the Singmpore-Johore Bahm Walk contest being oiganised by the Free Press. And more firms want to offe* prises. The. latest offer is from the Singapore Express, Ltd. Others will be announced later. Three of the
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    Extra watch at airport
    46 1 The damaged flashing beacon and approach lights at Singapore airport have been repaired. Th? airport manager, Mr. P. W. Ford, said security precautions are being taken to prevent any further sabotage attempts. The lights had been put out of action by saboteurs.
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    Lock icon He will defy ban on Goa marches
    128 1 BRAHMAKUMAR Bhatt. general secretary of the Gujerat Praja socialist party, said m Ahmedabad. western India, last night that his party would Ignore government opposition to peaceful marches on Portuguese. Goa. He added that they would stage mass satyagraha (peaceful resistance) m Goa on
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    RUSSIA FREES 27
    25 1 Soviet authorities m Berlin have released 27 West Europeans and Americans from forced labour camps m Russia m the past few days.
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    CLUB THEFT
    27 1 A $700 gold watch was stolen from Singapore's Tanglin Club yestei'day evening. The owner said he had left it on a bench while playing tennis.
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    RUBBER STEADY
    26 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened steadily this morning with first grade, September shipment, at $1.48 3 4 a lb., one-quarter cent below yesterday's close.
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    TALKS ON CITIZENSHIP TODAY
    152 1 I r pHE Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall. 1 has invited about 25 people representing various communities to discuss his < -point plan to give Singapore citizenship rights to foreign nationals, mainly Chinese. The meeting will be held today at 5.30 Ip.m. m the Chief Minister's
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    SATELLITE TOWN SITE CHOSEN
    272 1 SATELLITE TOWN SITE CHOSEN Work starts soon on 200-home scheme THE Government has taken the first step to create satellite towns m Singapore, presumably m accordance with the Master Plan, which is still secret. Inche Hamkl bin Hiiji Jumat, Minister for Local Government* Lands and Housing, told the Five Press
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    The amnesty plan ready today
    180 1 LONDON GIVES FINAL O.K. DETAILS of the amnesty to be offered within a few days by the Federation Government will be completed today. It will set m motion a vast publicity machine which will aim not only at reaching the 3,500 communists m the jungle
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    Woman attacked
    25 1 A man trailed a woman for 70 yards to St. Gregory Plac<\ Singapore, yesterday afternoon, attacked her and stole her purse containing $8.
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    $750 HAUL
    22 1 Thieves broke into a store m Boat Quay. Singapore, on Sunday night and stole four picuU ol rubber worth $750.
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    Lock icon Valiants in 5 1/2-hr. UK to Persia hop
    55 1 Valiants in 5 1/2-hr. UK to Persia hop Two RAF Valiant jet bombers arrived at the RAF base at Habbaniya m Persia yesterday— five hours am 44 minutes after taking off from Wittering, m Northamptonshire. England. The bombers. from 138 Squadron, Bomber Command, are on a proving flight and are
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    Lock icon FIRST AID TRAINING TO TREAT A-VICTIMS
    130 2 FIRST AID TRAINING TO TREAT A-VICTIMS TMIE United Nations World 1 Health Organisation H to train first aid personnel :n treating victim* ol atomic radiation, Dr. M. O. Can au, the director general A the organisation, a;d In Vienna yesterday. Speaking at the openin? frj the fifth annual M-.vsion the
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    Lock icon India coal target
    22 2 India pI&Hf to raise its oul out{)Ut from 37 million oils to CO million tons by UCA A. P.
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    Lock icon FASHION SHOW FOR THE PRINCESS
    88 2 picture. Princess M a r k a r p I (left) uaa an intCftsi ed waU'her at i fa-h ion show helil ii ai«J «>l the ScoUifth IW l tinri <»f CJirls Chlba m (lie ballroom «»1 H«'P*' loun Ilou.sr house <•• the Marquis and
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    BRITAIN UNVEILS SECRETS AT AIR SHOW
    274 2 BRITAIN UNVEILS SECRETS AT AIR SHOW BRITAIN'S new Qfhter aircraft Which can fly aster than -sound m level linht. made their debut at \i>' Farnborouiih air show n -sterday. One. the delta- wing Falrey PDI streaked past the spectuton at a speed rarely seen v»n In this traditionally ;)i^h speed
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    Desert peace as Egypt hands back dead Israelis
    288 2 RANKS of Israeli and Egyptian troops rtood stiffly to attention racing each other m no-man's land m Ga I a yesterday as bulgera sounded the last post and Egypt handed bark the bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed m Sunday olght'S clash.
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    'ASIA NOW WANTS TO BE EQUAL PARTNERS'
    220 2 \SIANS and Africans were now raising themielv< from political lethargy centuries old. Dr. Edith Sum inersk.il 1. chairman of the British Labour Party yesterday told the Trade Union Congress meeting at Southport. r or Summewkitt, who was speaking as a fraternal delegate, said
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    4 ADMIT STARTING DEATH RIOTS
    113 2 pOUR young Moroccans have admitted planting the bomb which set oft four days of bloody rioting on Bastille Day, Casablanca police said yesterday. The four were among 24 Moroccans arrested yesterday and alleged to be' mem- bers of the terrorist cell which organised the bomb
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    Lock icon Nuns sue magazine after pin-up row
    156 2 A GROUP of Ursuline nuns have sued an Italian magazine which printed pin-up pictures of one of their students. The pictures m the magazine 4 Le Ore" (The Hours) brought a flood of protesting letters to the school and caused some parents to threaten
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    Gun scene in Chamber
    43 2 AN angry member oi the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies yesterday brandished a revolver at vicepresidential candidate Danton Coelho on the floor of the Rio de Janeiro Chamber after accusing him of Communist sympathies. Other deputies immediately pinned his arms
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    BUS-CAR CRASH
    31 2 A bus and a car collided near Oshawa, Ontario and plunged together into a deep ditch, killing the car driver and injuring 10 passengers m the bus.— A. P.
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    Lock icon PLANES RUSH AID TO ASIA FLOOD AREAS
    318 3 45 million are victims THE biggest airlift organised by the League of Ked Cross Societies got under way m Geneva yesterday to fly supplies to 45 million flood victims m India and Pakistan. Dr. Francois Daubenton, League delegate who has just returned to
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    Convicts help to save a stricken town
    151 3 Convicts help to save a stricken town FIVE hundred convicts with a police escort were rushed from Hydrabad, m West Pakistan, to try tc save town of Matiari population 15.000- from destruction m the River Indus floods. Matiari, 14 miles north of Hydrabad, is surrounded by floodwater and gravely menaced
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    600 homeless as floods strike mountain village
    38 3 600 homeless as floods strike mountain village SIX hundred people were mad-e homeless last night, two people were killed and 50 nouses collapsed m floods which struck the village of San m the Abruzzi Mountains east of Rome.
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    Red China goods
    26 3 Seven Communist Chinese trade officials are due m Tokyo today from Hong Kong to arrange for sample fairs m Tokyo and Osaka.— UP.
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    Lock icon More earn more but fewer are wealthy
    164 3 More earn more but fewer are wealthy THE British Government announced yesterday that by the time it had collected taxes last year there were only 190 people with an income above £6,000 a year. A government account of Britain's economic affairs, from the beginning of 1946 until the end of
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    Lock icon Mongolian made easy-by Reds
    30 3 Mongolian made easy -by Reds A new phonetic version of the written Mongolian language will be used throughout the Inner Mongolian region of Northwest China, Peking Radio said yesterday. A.P.
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    100,000 on strike
    20 3 More than 100,000 workers of 39 unions yesterday began a 24-hour general strike m Montevideo. Uruguay.— UP.
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    ROAD DEATH EVERY 12 MINS.
    78 3 ROAD DEATH EVERY 1 2 MINS. TRAFFIC deaths averaging one every 12 minutes yesterday promised a new grim record for the Labour Day holiday m the United States At noon 416 people had died from accidents since the holiday began at 6 p.m. on Friday. Of this figure, 310 were
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    Lock icon ASIANS ATTEND U.K. TALKS
    92 3 picture Delegates to the council meeting of the E EWorld's Y.W.C.A., Ew h Ie h was held Eat Egham, Surrey. E E included (from left): E E Miss Tan (lions Kong), Ma Sein Tin (Burma), E Ivy Khan (India), Mrs. E E Jaegge (Gold Coast), E
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    Lock icon Six British seamen defy their captain
    94 3 Six British seamen defy their captain NEW YORK police and Coast Guard officers yesterday investigated a complaint of the captain of the cargo tanker Joan lhat six seamen. British subjects, had threatened to go ashore against his orders. After considerable discussion, the six sailors agreed to remain on the ship
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    THE SEA SCOUTS HAVE NO BOATS
    78 3 THE SEA SCOUTS HAVE NO BOATS SINGAPORE'S 40 seascouts have neither boats nor money to buy any. Then rowing boats had to be sold since there was noone to look after them during the week New they are appealing to members of the Yacht Club to allow them to crew
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  • The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Sept. 6, 1955.
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      Marshall's mission
      217 4 i>rospects for a favourable outcome to our Chief Ministers mission to Jakarta this week to expand trade between indo-j uesia and Singapore are brighter today than at the time he lir: i moob d it. Trade between the two territories has been In the doldrums for several years
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    Big Business takes to the Air
    922 4  - Big Business takes to the Air Jennifer Johns by I AST June a tiny. J twin engined, 7 seater plan* with a top speed ol only 200--miles-an-hour bumbled off a grass runway m Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Twenty-two minutes later the same sleek little craft landed President (fa rmer) Eisenhower back m
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    BY THE WAY
    136 4  -  Rechdream fier ■Hi From the Lo* Temperature Station for Ro- h In Biochemistry and Biophysics come the results of experiments with eggs According to nature, the 'laid lengthways between parallel plates oj brasa A constantly Increasing load W4.s applied until the eggs, their Jtrength and patience exd.
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    A gipsy queen burns caravans
    227 5 A gipsy queen burns caravans SMOKE from the charred remains of two gipsy aravans smouldering on litdcwittt Common on the Fringe of Cardiff. South Wales, signalled the beginning of the end of the gip\S age-oW reign on the common, which the city rouncil is now seeking to convert into playing
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    Oh! that writing
    25 5 Twelve doctors m Northern Ireland have been asked by the genera] health services board to improve their handwriting when making out prescriptions
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    AIRMAN IS A FRIEND TO THE LONELY HUSKY
    138 5 r\NE of the ''exhibits" at an exhibition arranged y by the scientific members of the British North rreenland Expedition m connection with the British Association meeting: at Bristol, is a Greenland husky named Keta, which was born m a Sunderland aircraft belonging
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    RAF BALL—BUT NO FLUNKEYS
    208 5 RAF BALL— BUT NO FLUNKEYS Batmen did dress vp when on loan to another station AN OFFICERS' baH is due to take place at R.A.F. Halton on September 30. But batmen waiters will not be dressed as flunkeys, promised the station commander. Air Commodore G. N. E. Tindal-Carill-Worsley said that
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    YOUTH LEADER OFF FOR WORLD TALKS
    96 5 YOUTH LEADER OFF FOR WORLD TALKS SAYING rood-bye to f daddy is becoming a habit with the fanii- j ly of Mr. Eric S.B. Wee. an executive member H of the Singapore branch of the World Assembly of Youth i Mr. Wee left at the j week-end from Paya Lebar
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    Malayanisation talks
    31 5 The Singapore Government Administrative and Clerical Services Union will hold a meeting a t the Civil Service Association canteen, Empress Place, at 5.15 p.m. tomorrow to discuss Malayanisation policy.
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    Painting sets a poser even right way up
    301 5 A DETECTIVE carrying a large oil painting went forward as George William Harris stepped into the dock at Bow Street, London. He held it up for all to see. Mr. Bertram Recce, the magistrate, looked at it through his glasses, then at
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    Nylon teeth for jumpers?
    76 5 Because of the experience of paratroops on landing, dentures made of nylon may replace plastic ones, the British Pharmaceutical Conference at Aberdeen was told by Mr. A. F. Flshburn when describing some developments m the use of plastics m the surgical field. He said it had
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    For air girls in a hurry
    87 5 Air girls m a hurry goins.' off duty from London Airport need no longer take the ss. airport coach to the terminal they can go by helicopter for 4s. In less than half the time. They can now fly on the 10 per cent
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    Pineapple tap was first
    99 5 THREE years ago Mr. S. E. Froemantle of Park Gate planted a pineapple top m his Hampshire greenhouie. To his astonishment It took root and grew into a two-foot tall pineapple plant which aroused great Interest a| last year's local flower show and won first pri^e
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    The bitten arm of the law
    226 5 A WOMAN told the magistrates at Gosport, Hants, that to hurt her husband she kicked his motor-cycle. And Mr. E. H. Nicholson, who defended her. said: "According to her she did so because the husband preferred the machine to her." !t was alleged that
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    PATIENT LAY IN ICE WATER MATTRESS
    132 6 THE American Air Force has revealed details of a successful 9 2-hour °P c ration on a 39-year-old sergeant whose blood supply to the brain was cut off almost completely for nearly 10 minutes while surgeons repaired a faulty blood vessel at the base
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    WOOING the DANES
    74 6 BRITAIN is spending over $4,250,000 on the biggest exhibition of British goods ever held outside the United Kingdom the British Fair m Copenhagen next month Her aim is to woo the Danes who, as far as machinery, textiles and car? are concerned, last year preferred to buy
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      231 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis S MVSELP--ANO KEEPING .^Jr^lL ™g£ THIS' IT yTTiy I T tNT£R THIS A^>^ A LtT^STAKt Ao, DON'T TOUCH THE ONLY KtY. mu°t WMAIN /X/ OFFICE. 71^^"^ tmE ROBOT J /-'J**^ r^^tf^^^ SECRET UNTIL W' ~T-—f\—]/l r^^Tl OUTANDSEE/ O^ICATt.IT WE GO INTO jjT s^
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      583 6 YOUR LUCKY BORN today, you are übrA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23) something of a natur- Coun t 10 before you al philosopher and looK^ai make a hasty answer You lift through rose-coloured CQuld latej regret some glasses. thing said In anger You have a great desire SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. to help
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      204 7 LONDON, Sept r> Freviou B Today I imiK No. 1 RSS c.l.f. 42 buyers 42 a* buyer.Imopean Ports September 43 sellers 42 4 sellers I HBKR No. 1 RSS cJ.f. 42' buyers 42' i, buyerluiopean Ports October 42 v sellers 42 > 2 seller. I r.BKR No.
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      New York prices
      99 7 NEW YORK. Srnt. I Previon, Today Straits spot and nearby 95.62 nom. 95.62 nom. !N futures September 94.80 bid 94.55 bid 95.80 asked 95.55 asked October 94.25 bid 94.00 bid 95.00 asked 94.75 asked November 94.15 bid 93.90 bid 94.90 asked 94.65 asked >NE: Steady. SALES: One
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      U.S. PEPPER
      41 7 pong spot and awaiting release 42>*. afloats 41ft. Sept. shipment 4i sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib. B,*ot and awaiting Malabar afloats 41V., September 41. nwak spot, awaiting release, bail and Sept. all 37. Lam-
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      29 7 NEW YORK, Sept Previous Today Industrials ..469 63 472.53 Railroads 156.93 157.40 Domestic Bonds 98 39 98 42 Militia #> 66.22 66.30 Stocks Composite Average 168.06 168.81
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      143 7 fERICAN MARKETS WERE CLOSED YESTERDAY, LABOUR *CE P SEP ES GIVEN AB yfE REMAIN UNCHANGED Sept 5 \i>ni n u» Previous Today )PRV Philippines c.U. UK/ North European delivered XL*?' JT 1 Ion ton Sept Oct. $174 sellers $174 seller. NR A Philippines f.o.b. Manila X,
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    They refused to help dying man
    249 7 They refused to help dying man AN K.A.F. sergeant clambered from a wrecked car lying: m a cornfield and staggered to the road to get help for a flying officer who lay by the car with a fractured skull. He stopped a car and asked the occupants, an elderly man
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    148 7 picture. j lIMIIIIII **********111 l 111. JOAN DRENER. 24- year-old blonde American star of Kis- met" at the stoll Theatre. London, who was i "missing" for a week, went back to the j theatre after arriving i at London Airport m a I plane from Nice. She i f left
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    THE CHANNEL TUNNEL – NO RISK NOW
    80 7 THE CHANNEL TUNNEL NO RISK NOW rE Channel Tunnel Company has met again m London. The chairman was there, with four directors and three shareholders, whose 4s. shares were quoted at Is. 7id. No dividend was declared. Never since 1881. when the company was launched with a plan for an
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    Man of 79, saves women—93,90
    64 7 Man of 79, saves women— 93,90 A 79-year-old pensioner, Mr. Ed win Pickup, of Rochdale, scaled a 20ft. ladder to save his two next-door neighbours. Climbing through a bedroom window, he turned off gas which was escaping from a cooker, then opened all the windows. The neighbours, Miss Mary Belfleld.
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    ALAN WAS TOURING ON THE SIDE
    52 7 A LAN BUCHANAN, of Greenford, Middlesex, went for a motor-cycle tour of Lakeland. He was riding "side saddle" m Coniston when he crossed the path of the law. "They ride like that m London," he is reported to have said. At Hawkshead he was
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    SHOPLIFT 'LADIES' RIDE OUT OF LONDON
    188 7 T»O Scotland Yard even this crime seems unusual. A gang of respectably dressed women are hiring chauffeur-driven cars, from the West End to organise shoplifting expeditions m the provinces and home counties. Each woman, often m a fashionable suit or dress, tells the car-hire
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    BLOWLAMP BLAZE
    33 7 Flames from a blowlamp set fire to a roof m Sunning dale-avenue. Eastcote, Middlesex, and destroyed it. Mr. Brian Prior, a civil servant on holiday, was preparing to repaint his house.
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      25 7 "NICOLINE MAERSK" SINGAPORE SWE £S; HAM PENANG Codown 36 9-10 Sept. 11-12 Sept. SAILS 8 SEPT. NEW YORK BOSTON BALTIMORE PHILADELPHIA MONTREAL (Direct) SHIP MAERSK
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      78 7 NOTICE Cold Storage Creameries wish to assure their numerous Singapore customers that, during the strike period, their normal high standard of sterilization and hygiene is being fully maintained. All Milk products continue to be pasteurized and bottled under the closest supervision* (OLD STORAGE CREAMERIES LTD. SINGAPORE BAGGAGE TRANSPORT AGENCY LTD.
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    AN EMPIRE CRUMBLING?
    234 8 iI'ILL France »oon IT »r;lUn Off A- a major Power? For year* m«M Frenchmen ha\» beiier'd that without her empire of IHNI peopi* France's days of greatness w>wld be numbered. And Uxlaj that *mpire is tottering. Ktl'T the worid war. fraaw plonked into i lone ami bitter
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    Part Pimpernel, Pep-man and Politician
    1367 8  - Part Pimpernel, Pep-man and Politician SEFTON DELMER From a first-hand meeting comes a new analysis of a key name m the world 's headlines by rpHFTV Wttt waiting m h.-aua\., Moroccan r.ty abort Ifet tf« pI V.nvhVtu U>t n*wft of Gilbert Orandval, France'! bet! loved, POIll tialtd. Mid rnofttfirhat.w: administrator*
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    OFFICER WAS A VERY GALLANT GENTLEMAN
    271 9 OFFICER WAS A VERY GALLANT GENTLEMAN t lEUTENANT Martyn J Warren Wlnfleld, R.N., a^ed 24, gave hi* life to gave holidavmakera on a crowded beach. And a coroner said of urn "He died gallantly, m 'he best and highest tradiion of the Service to which ie belonged" Lieutenant Winfleld was
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    Trick rider falls
    34 9 Wall of Death cyclist 25--year-old Peter Catchpoole. who skidded and hurtled 25 ft. to the ground at a New Brighton. Cheshire, fairground, was sent to hospital with arm and face injuries.
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    Valerie's Moscow honeymoon plan kill awaits 'Yes'
    195 9 7ALERIE HORSLEY wants to be the first Britisl bride In recent years to go on honeymocn tc oscow. But with only a few days to go to hei edding, her hopes are wearing thin. Valeric, a 22-year-old Ox- r~ rd graduate, is to
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    Those twins are now church bell-ringers
    84 9 Those twins are now church bell-ringers i Two sets of twins, both from the same family, are now among T the regular bell-ringers of the parish church of i St. Peter and SI. Paul m Bexhill. Sussex. For 12-year-old twins Jennifer and Rodney j Gadsden (right) have i» just joined
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    ADDER STRIKES
    31 9 tA wedding ring was cut >m the finger of Mrs. adys Fry, of Marton, near ickpool. when her arm ♦lied after an adder bit m a Blackpool pet shop.
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    Sun stops play
    16 9 {well, Devon. Cricket ub cancelled its match be- sunshine had crack--1 the pitch.
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    It's so slow stalking Shakespeare
    112 9 It's so slow stalking Shakespeare rINGS move too slowly m England for Mr. Calvin Hoffman, the American drama critic who wants to open up a tomb m the hope of proving that Christopher Marlowe wrote the plays called Shakespeare's. After a two-year-wait, he was told by the church council of
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    50 FREE PINTS OF BEER FOR ALL
    115 9 rMFTY free pints of beer I r —that is what each of the 500 members of a social club will have, to clebrate the club's 50th anniversary. The celebration at the Walker Social Club, New-castle-upon-Tyne starts on September 26 and goes on for
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      290 9 Mfeai CHARITY BALL WC^ And for the first time m Singapore Pl^.^H PARADE OF HAIR STYLES i v j J| to be presented by MiSfc UnJer Jlstln 9 l<lshe< P^tr<M»9e of His MISS JANE KOK Admission: $5.00. Tickets obtainable from: Mrs. M. R. Anciano, Far East Music School, Kirk Terrace.
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    IT WAS CHILDREN AT AMUSEMENT UNKNOWN
    321 10 IT WAS CHILDREN AT AMUSEMENT UNKNOWN Rotarians play host to 5,000 IT was children's day A at the New World Amusement Park, Singapore, when the Rotary Club played host to about 5,000 poor children. The children, picked from social welfare centres, Salvation Army homes, orphanages and missions. ranged from mere
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      29 11 6£ YOttK MMNS OF Especially designed to accommodate local Kwalis are available on hire at only 50 cents per month, Consult your Electrical Contractor or Ring 2419 Ext. 352
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    A ROBOT MAY RUN YOUR HOME
    487 12 say scientists who come up with mechanical baby-sitter IF THE automatic factory comes, can electro-nically-controlled homes be far behind? Britain's Radio Industry Council do not think so, and In their comprehensive display on electronics of today and tomorrow at the National Radio Show at
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    No more dusting for housewives
    120 12 fREAT BRITAIN is the world's leading exporter of radio components more then $255 millions' worth were sold m 1954 and the latest international specifications are based on British standards, which are recognised to be the highest m the world. The industry's principal shop window is
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    THE EYES HAVE IT...
    325 12 THE EYES HAVE IT... SHAPELY film actress Cleo Moore says Hollywood's over -emphasis on busts and cheesecake is old fashioned and terribly misplaced when it comes to evaluating sex appeal. "It isn't the shape a star is m that counts." Clec confided. "The sex appeal message is m the eyes."
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    THE CLIMATE THAT'S ALWAYS WRONG
    42 13 "Snot*, snow! What a climate "Rum. rain! Some climate!" "Fog, smog* This climmte!" SL7N!. f But we've no proper clothes for it I •'Thu sun Our *ktn* or<n( used to THIS! "Sun, sun, sun. Now no *ater"*
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    The police were suspicious of this early bird
    556 13  - The police were suspicious of this early bird SUNNY GIAM reports about photographers and photography AT THE age of 50. most people would prefer to lead a quiet life or at least retire from strenuous activities. But not Mr. Yip Cheong Fun who is 53 years old, and already a
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    THIS 'SUPER' SCHOOL has NEVER BEEN USED
    515 14 THIS 'SUPER' SCHOOL has NEVER BEEN USED rpHE music festival city of Salzburg looks more like a city preparing to meet its doom than one celebrating Austrian independence. Salzburg is probably the unhappiest "liberated" city In history. Bars and cafes are getting ready to close down; merchants are reducing inventories
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    A mission for Odette
    1217 16  -  W.F. COUSINS .■IIMIMHIIIIIIIIHIIIUI I by THIS is the second story about Odette Churchill m the Did It Happen? series. The first was by her husband. This one E is told by Captain W. F. Cousins who. was an Army PR"!" Austria from 1946 to 1953, when
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    They named him— Brother Nutcracker
    959 16 They named him Brother Nutcracker \IEMBERS of the oldest literary dining club m the world -the Sette of Odd Volumes— gave a dinner at the Savoy total. London, recently m honour of 70 guests from the United Slates. The Americans members of tin Rowfant Club of Cleveland. Ohio, and their
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    Who put the bomb in the envelooe?
    639 17  - Who put the bomb in the envelooe? ARTHUR EVERETT I by i I CAR beneath a V viaduct a roll of -:ve tape flecks lood on a beach. note on a departlent store floor... ol books on a filltation desk... an idian hunting frogs flies hovering in >ring air. From
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    144 17 MR. DAG HAMMARSKJOLD, Secretary-General of the United Nations Organisation (contre) inspects a model of the Doureay. Scotland, experimental atom power station site during his visit to the British atomic exhibition m the Palais des Nations. Geneva. On his left is Dr. J. V. Dunworth. Head of the Reactor Physics at
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    These major crimes are still a mystery
    217 17 These major crimes are still a mystery rj up across the ages by |orj tellers. Each of these apparently little things gured in America's list major unsolved 1955 r mes. The latest mystery bean In Kansas City. MisCurt, on Aug. 4 when attentive Mrs. Wilma Allen |sapp< ared after a
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    Bridge Hand
    448 17 (JIXTEEN prearranged "par deals, recently played li more than 150 U.S. colleges t< decide the 1955 Intercollegiate Bridge Championships, are being presented in this page daily To play these deals In youi own game, instead of reading the par results now. save the entire series until completed Then
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      118 17 CLUES ACROSS There's love in the heart of a bird 16). ureen day- for the adolescents? (5i CU1 .short a card game (7), Choke the saint first and the Trench last (8) pot a pretty stretch of land? (5). Bounded like the heart of an prange (4) 1 hart a
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      133 17 (4). 7 Slddle away with a shilling (4). 10 My toy loges is the study or word origins (9) 12 Harbour wine (4) 13 Finished suitably and guarded (8). 14 Backward rats in the sky? (4). 18 They run out to sea U suoport (5). 20 Learns without a head
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    THIS WEEK; Willemse (Chelsea left-back)
    232 18 THIS WEEK; Willemse (Chelsea left-back) dfsf Stanley Willemsc, born m Brighton. Father. South African. Played for Sussex boys. Schoolboy international. Signed for Brighton and Hove, 1946. Transferred to Chelsea, July 1949, for £6,500. Has played for Football League. YOU All TIIK LOT BACK AM) THE MAN Y()l ABB MAKING, TIIK
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    Keep him on the touch-line
    392 18 Keep him on the touch-line WHEN THE WIWCFR BETS THE BALL Of course you may get a chance to tackle. You watch the ball never your opponent's feet, still less his body and eyes. As you watch the ball you may se c it run ever so slightly out of
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    Moscow waits for Chataway
    79 18 "TT will be a keen battle. It wUI be one of the biggest sports events of the season." That Ls what Soviet Sport, Russia's leading sports newspaper, says about the Sept 9 track meet at Dynamo stadium between British and Russian teams. Britain will try to
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    $12,000 prize for Snead
    82 18 $1 2,000 prize for Snead SAM SNEAD, competing for a place m the American Ryder Cup golf team to meet Britain, won a $60,000 open tournament at Wethersfleld (Connecticut) yesterday with a 72-hole total of 269. Snead, who had a fourth round 69. gained a first prize of $12,000. Mike
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    Pollard takes cycling trial
    55 18 J. Pollard (Seletar> won a 25--mile time trial cycle meet from six other airmen at Bukit Timah Road on Sunday. The meet was organised by the Seletar Cycle Racing Club. Pollard's time was lhr. 6min. 37sec. Second was R. Levers (Changi), lhr. 7min. 23sec., and third,
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    Lock icon ROCKY SHARPENS HIS SPEED
    136 18 emphasis was on speed m Rocky Marciano's training camp m New York yesterday. Rocky will ease off m the amount of rounds he works," said manager Al Weill, "but tho.se he boxes will be at top .speed from the opening bell. "We are getting ready for
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    It was one of the most memorable cricket seasons for many years...
    558 18  -  VERSON MORGAN BY THE THRILLING TEST MATCH SERIES. THE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP STRUGGLE AND THE FINE WEATHER HAVE COMBINED TO MAKE THE 1955 CRICKET SEASON* NOW AT ITS LAST EBB. ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE FOR CRICKET FANS FOR
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    NEIL HAS THAT OLYMPIC LOOK
    196 18  -  HARRY EDWARDS By BRITAIN can look forward to next year's Olympic Gam* with confidence while we have youngsters like fll McKechnie. the boy who shows the men how to swim. By winning the men's 440--yards final m the A.S.A. championships at Blackpool the other day,
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    BRACELET BOY TO SCORE A DOUBLE AT IPOH TOMORROW
    1334 19 BRACELET BOY TO SCORE A DOUBLE AT IPOH TOMORROW k clash of four first Jun winners Jame* Aii. Bracelet Boj Kent or and Mistji \M- m the class I, *ion 2. over 5£ fur■s will highlight toSow's races, second Jof the Perak Turf m Gold Vase meetBpse horses will go
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    If Golden Dolphin starts, he will beat the lot
    680 19 +++++4 Cl. 1, Div. 4-5! Furs. i I Gold Town C.00: Asia Minor 8 13; Sweet Dream 8 13; Two Vermouths 3.12; Mazooka 8.11; Gardenia 8 10, Golden Cloud 8.10; Muffin Man 8.09; Purple White 8.08; Canterbury Bell 8.07; Bobsworth 8.05;
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    REED UPSETS ITALIAN DAVIS CUP STAR
    122 19 pALJFORNIAN Whitney Vj Reed caused an upset, beating the Italian Davis Cup player. Nicola Pietrangeli after 66 games m the men's third round or the United States lawn tennis singles championships at Forest Hills yesterday. They battled for 3| hours before Reed wo n
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    WOMEN'S HOCKEY
    26 19 Memoers of tne S.CC women's hockey section will hold a practice at the padang at 5.15 p.m. tomorrow. All interested are «^ktU to attend.
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    Probable scratchings
    45 19 pRObA3LE scratch--1 ings tomorrow are: James Aitch. The Ringer, Rubber Exporter, Willy L, National Trust, Flushing, Bobsworth, Happy Life, Cash Cheque, Rip Kirby, Majestic, The Wizard, Waikiki, Notaverse, Rogation There was heavy rain and the going this morning was on the .soft side.
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    BREAKS HER OWN SHOT PUT RECORD
    58 19 Galina Sybina (Soviet Union), 1952 Helsinki Olympic champion, broke her own world record for the shot put m Leningrad yesterday with a distance of 16 metres 29 centimetres (53 ft 5*4 inch), according to Moscow Radio. She beat her previous mark of 16.28 metres
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    MERVYN ROSE DEFEATED
    50 19 Sven Davidson (Sweden) won the men's singles title m the East Mediterranean lawn tennis championships, beating Mervyn Rose (Australia) 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 m the final at Athens yesterday. Mme. M. Galtler (France) beat Mile. C. Mercelis (Belgium) 6-2, 6-4 m the final of the women's singles. Reuter.
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    NEW DEAL URGED FOR U.K. SOCCER PLAYERS
    353 20 NEW DEAL URGED FOR U.K. SOCCER PLAYERS ,»d tho riamp of democracy The delegates, attending the 87th annual Trades Union Congress, voted unanimously for a resolution nut forward by ti:* association Football Players and. Trainers Union. ThHr decision means that the full force of organised labour m Britain will now
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    Lock icon Blackpool down Chelsea, take lead in Div. 1
    493 20 Utl' TWO POINTS AHEAD OF PRESTON WHO HAVE PLAYED A GAME LESS. Blackpool might have won more convincingly but for weak tini.shing. Chelsea, who now played four matche.s without a win, were rarely m the name until the last 30 minutes when
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    LOCK AGAIN IN DAZZLING FORM
    340 20 Cricket round-up: riH)NY LOCK Surrey and England slow leftarm bowler. 1 returned another line performance yesterday and m finishing with six for 49 for an England eleven against the Commonwealth at Hastings brought his total wickets for the season to 198. He is almost certain
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    Markham wins golf medal
    103 20 J. Markham. three up. won the Royal Singapore Golf Club A" Division medal vboseyi. Other cards: J. G. C. Thomson 2 up; R. D I Scott all >quare; R. H. York all square; J. C. Pollock 2 down; G. McGuffin 2 down; B W. F. Goodrich
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    Gold Cup final is postponed
    89 20 I The Sultan's Goid Cup soc•er final between Singapore and Penang Malays, scheduled to be played at Kuala Lummir on Sept. l has been postponed It Ls also likely that the venue may be rhansed. Reason for the postponement is because Sin^apore are due *o
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    S.R.C. BEATEN
    39 20 Balestier United beat Singapore Recreation Club 2-0 m a SAF.A junior cup tie on the padang yesterday. Balestier Uirted led by a goal throueh David Chan m the seventh minute, and Chee San nut them further ahead.
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    HEAVY SCRATCHINGS IN ST. LEGER
    186 20 jMik icratchlni of Acropolte, the mooiml favourite, and four other <- o lt.s yesterday becau c of the eotifhlnf epidemic hl 'li is .swepumu .stables all Britain, has reduced the probable St Le K er lield to eleven This rtar*i onze for England's I turf
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    Lock icon What a batsman!
    50 20 What a batsman! photo CRICKET ENTHUSIASTS would hardly agree that th? jjanie is inspiring, but that's what the male dancers it the Embassay Theatre. London, claim. Out on the fifk they claim ihey find inspiration for new dances. Hrrr is one version of a mighty sweep to the boundary.- Popper
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