The Singapore Free Press, 15 September 1955

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya m;,.;. Singapore, Thursday, September 15, 1955. Price 15 Its.
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    Lock icon 250 G.I.s marry British girls every month
    187 1 AMERICAN airmen are marrying British (iris at the rate of 250 a month— and (he number is still going up. So Major General Roscoe C. Wilson. Commander of the U.S. 3rd Air Force, told the 'irst annual conference of American Women's Activities in
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    BULGANIN INVITES E. GERMAN PREMIER
    98 1 r |UVKLVE hours after West 1 German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer left Moscow, the Soviet Union announced that East Germany's Communist Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl will arrive in Moscow tomorrow for negotiations with the Kremlin on questions of interest to al] sides" the reunification of Germany
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    Lock icon Three die in fog
    24 1 Anree ashing trawlers Vere wrecked and three ni lost their lives in a "HCk fog oil the Moror.p.in COLUSt. U.P
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    Lock icon LISBON CARGO-SO NO WORK ON SHIP
    103 1 LISBON CARGO -SO NO WORK ON SHIP R 1 workers in Calcutta yesterday refused to the 6,969-ton British Iv.on because they its Cargo was horemen started unthe .ship on TuesDUt one worker noticed crates were marked >n." work on the vessel ped Immediately. Tyson had stopped In OTi its way
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    Union call for Malayanisation
    197 1 BY 3 YEARS AT I. EAST SINGAPORE City Council local staff unions want the Government to extend its policy of Malayanisation to public corporations as early and completely as possible so that when independence is attained the country will have a staf! without divided loyalties. Their
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    Lock icon Terror gang kill four
    56 1 Terrorists hiding by the loadside near Constantine, Algeria, yesterday ambushed a lorry and a police car and cut the throais of four Europeans riding in them. The gang later .sot fire to the lorry. An army patroi combed the area after th^ attack on the vehicles
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    ACID VICTIMS IN HOSPITAL
    51 1 A mother and daughter living in Palmer Road, Singapore 1 were taken to hospital last night, .suffering from facia] burns caused, thev told the police, when caustic soda solution WAS thrown a1 them during a quarrel with a neighbour. Police have detained i man and a
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    NOW SHOE FIRM WARNS WORKERS
    390 1 NOW SHOE FIRM WARNS WORKERS jyjH. A. J. JUG AS, managing director of the Bata Shoe Company, where a strike is threatened tomorrow, told the Free Press this morning that Bata production in Singapore would have to be stopped ii the firm accepted all the demands of its union. The
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    Wren reserves in Navy exercise
    37 1 Reservists in the Women's Royal Naval Service are to take part in Mediterranean Atlantic Treaty organisation exercises this month for the ftrst time, a British Navy spokesman said in Liverpool last night.
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    Lock icon Plane crash kills 16
    33 1 gIXTEEN people were killed when a six-engine seaplane crashed In flames in a mountainous district ot the French Cameroons. All nine passengers and .seven crew members were French, A.P
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    Lock icon NEW RESHUFFLE
    25 1 The new Syrian Prime Minister. Said Ghazzl. reshuffled hi.s cabinet yesterday less than 24 hour., after announcing the list of Its members. Reuter
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    Lock icon Tea queue falls in 'A-bomb attack'
    110 1 UMPIRES in Britain's first atom bomb te.st under war conditions marked down 500 mf»n dead and a thousand wounded when a "well .simulated" atom bomb exploded on Salisbury Plain, Wilts, yesterday. For the past two days 12,000 men hate been dicing in, often in
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    Lock icon North Pole flight will be cheaper
    86 1 'THE possibility of adopting a shorter air route from Europe to the Far East via the North Polar region will be considered by aviation experts at the traffic conference of the International Air Transport Association at Miami shortly, it Is learnt in Bombay. The
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    RUBBER UP
    39 1 Following the better overnight London and New York markets, the price of rubber opened in Singapore this morning at $1.52V 2 for September first grade, f.o.b. buyers 1V 8 cents above yesterday's price. The tone was steady.
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    West will defeat China bid to end trade ban
    126 2 West will defeat China bid to end trade ban E |>hl» CHINESE attempts to lift th< IV emharKo <»u 1 IV trade between Peking »nd the Went, and u»v tnovt to get Ked China into the United Nation* at the start of the General Assembi> next Tuesday will b«- d»E
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    Lock icon KEEP THE TRADE BARRIER -CASEY
    174 2 KEEP THE TRADE BARRIER CASEY AUSTRALIA doei n 0 t. favour drooping trade barriers against Communist china. «>r admitting China to the United Nations In th<- near future, Mr. Richard Casey, Australia's Minister i"r External Aflairs said id Washington yest< rday. Mr. Casey said after a rourid of hii/h K'Vfl
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    Lock icon German police break up mob
    84 2 Four hundred Hub swingIng police last night broke up a pro-German mob o.t 000 in the Saar stfel town ui V<j«lkliri'_;cn. Six demonstrators were injured. The fighting broke out niter Premier Jonannr.s Hoffmann addressed a rally i?i favour of the .statute for Europeanisation of the
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    Lock icon 'Dearer gold will boost world trade'
    137 2 MR. ERIC LOUW, the South African Finance Minister, urged an increase in the price of gold when he addressed the International Monetary Fund conference at Istanbul yesterday. He said that no other .single factor could contribute more to a strengthening of reserves in the
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    Lock icon HO TRYING TO WIN ME OVER'—BAO DAI
    298 2 HO TRYING TO WIN ME OVER'— BAO DAI 4 I N PEE Bmj* roi A Bao Dai ol IndoChina baa admitted that Vietnamese Communists recently made overt u r 6 I to him, Collier's maicazine said m New York yest< rday. DftVid Shoenbrunn. 00--lumbia Broadcasting System correspondent to Prance wrote
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    Lock icon Anti-Red drive is stepped up
    226 2 ALGERIAN POLICE RAID 200 HOUSES: PAPERS TAKEN POLICE renewed their clamp down on hundreds of Communist suspects throughout Algeria yesterday Inthe wake of Tuesday's banning of the Algerian Communist 1 arty. t- ■»<" Armed with search warrants they raided some 200 houses, and confiscated papers
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    Lock icon Burma: We saty out at Seato
    119 2 A resolution calling Tor Burma to itay out Of the Bouth-East Asian Treaty Organisation was unanimously approved by the Chamber of Deputies (tht Lower House of Parliament) in Rangoon yesterday. The resolution was sponsored by the Opposition Crypto-Coxnmuni t Burma Workers and Peasants Party.
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    Lock icon 'CRISIS TALKS WILL BE BROKEN OFF UNLESS...'
    64 2 XfOROCCAN nationItJI alists yesterday threatened to break off negotiations for a settlement of the Moroccan crisis if the French Government failed to apply its peace plan for the troubled protectorate immediately, reliable sources said. Fatmi Ben Slirnane is tipped as the possible leader
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    Lock icon RED REGIMES CANNOT BE WISHED AWAY
    103 2 RED REGIMES CANNOT BE WISHED AWAY OVERTHROW of Soviet Russia or any other totalitarian regime from within is virtually impossible under modern conditions. American and German experts agreed in Milan yesterday. A group of 150 international scholars attending the future of freedom conference heard Professor Merle Fainsod of Harvard University
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    Lock icon U.S. dock strike is called off
    127 3 GROUSES FORUM MAY BE SETUP Nf.w YORK'S complaining longshoremen called ok their costly eightday walkout yesterday and back-to-work notices f>r e posted for their sympathy .strikers in eastern and southern ports. More than 5,000 members of the Internationa] Longshoremen's Association ila meeting in New
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    Lock icon DEAD SHIP ANYONE'S PRIZE
    92 3 DEAD SHIP ANYONE'S PRIZE 860 ton Norwegian l-catcher ship Jope- it unmanned on night in the pack off East Greenland. A^> ship under interiaw, it could be a prize by anving to penetrate the ce. > vessel was trapped in and lost its propelA u. S. air force helilifted 15
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    Lock icon REPORT TO IKE
    29 3 Mr. Harold Stassen will om New York to Den- rado, tomorrow to progress report to lent Eisenhower on the United Nations dlsmament sub committee legotiations. Reuter
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    59 3 Captain A. Pabsi of the m.v. "Hannover" (in uniform) who entertained members of the Skal Club of Singapore aboard his ship. Pictured from left are: Mrs. TurnerLashmar, Capt. Roger MolLard. ManaffinsDirector of Malayan Airways, Mrs. and Mr. Gardner, Mrs. Rowntree, (apt. Pabst, Mrs. Mollard and Mr. Turner Lash m a
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    Lock icon Stuck 2 nights in her bath
    113 3 VIRS. ELIZABETH PRIVET 1\ 68, climbed into TI her old fashioned zinc bath tub on Monday night, got stuck and did not get out until yesterday. All night she screamed for assistance, but if anyone heard her nothing was done about it. The woman
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    Lock icon India press curb but not on news
    127 3 India press curb but not on news 'THE Indian Council of States (Upper House oi Parliament i approved in principle the setting up oi a Press Council, recommended by a commission which recently investigated the Indian Press. Dr. B. v. Keskar, Minister of information, told the House that such a
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    EARTH'S SECRETS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
    249 3 EARTH'S SECRETS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE LEADING scientists from 40 nations yesterday concluded a week-long discussion of plans to give the earth the greatest scientific check-up of its life. The 150 scientists who attended the assembly in Brussels Palace of Academies were members of a special committee planning the international Geophysical
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    Lock icon Ballet star hits at Cathoiic bun
    100 3 Ballet star hits at Cathoiic bun WORLD FAMED ballet artiste Alexandra Danilova said in Manila yesterday it was "unfortunate" that ballet dancing should be banned In a country like th« Philippines where the art, s have always been patronised. Madame Danilova was commenting on reports that a local Catholic school
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      Opinion Informal welcome
      235 4 Opinion Informal welcome ANEW DELHI newspaper has greeted the arrival of effervescent Mr. Malcolm MacDonald with a cartoon of an Indian official leaving home* dressed in formal jacket but without his trousers and saying to hi.s wife: "I have to make an official call on the new Brit ish High
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    No Check on Armistice Violations
    1052 4  - No Check on Armistice Violations WILFRID FLEISHSER RED TACTICS STALEMATE NEUTRAL TRUCE TEAM IN KOREA by npwo South Korean soldiers recently reported to the United Nations command at Panmunjom that they had fled from a "slave camp" m North Korea. Tiny could tell the location of other such camps holding
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    BY THE WAY
    91 4  -  UKNOWN A POPULAR American pocket e dltl o n of Goodbye, Mr. chip i bearn the title "Goodbye, Mr French Fried." tn e translator may have seen the French edition, which i called Adieu, m Pomme Frltti/ 1 On e ox my favourite biLs of translation la
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    37 5 \SV IDF. A what this is? You should have. It is an unusual view of one of the most photographed buildings in the world. Still don't know? All right, take a look below and then kick yourself.
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    Wife backs man who hanged dog
    232 5 Wife backs man who hanged dog y\: STEVENS, wife of an ex-farmer who eniged animal-lovers by hanging his dog from ie, echoed the words her husband used in "What's wrong in doing that?" Her husband, 48-year-old Cyril Heywood Stevens, hanged the dog— "Smart," a sheepdog ***** with wire rabbit snares.
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    The odd thing... MYSTERY OF AN OLD SOCK CHILE BOUND
    108 5 The odd thing... MYSTERY OF AN OLD SOCK CHILE BOUND <n iiiiiiiimiiii. A)ld sock, carefully wrapped and packed in irdboard case, was t by air to Santiago, while— an 8.000-mile journey. irrivert at London Airport a plane from ic, stayed nearly a day transit, and was then t on another
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    Polio stalked bride
    192 5 Polio stalked bride I AN English bride aged 22 <l\ died at .sea from polio while the ship's engineers worked frantically to build an iron lung to save her. The engineers were guided by radio messages from doctors 1,100 miles away in Wellington. And a Royal New Zealand Air Force
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    96 5 WERL YOU RIGHT? Yes, its Blackpool Tower outlined in light against the evening sky and mirrored, at the top of the page, in a calm sea. It was lit in t a^K M f nt e l um l a V <wl 4 s 4 whlcn 41 were officially switched
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    MAN FALLS 60 ft. TO DIE IN PICCADILLY
    146 5 in London's Piccadilly saw a man plunge 80ft to his death on the pavement -and hit a 23-year-old girl. It. happened as the great neon clock above Piccadilly-circus showed 7.5*3 p.m. Taxis honked their way to the doorway of the gaily lit
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    Girl on pavement sent flying
    354 5 Girl on pavement sent flying across my less. He had just hit me enough to send me flying on to the pavement. "I was helped into the Piccadilly Hotel. The shock j was terrible I was j Riven a brandy and the slight injuries I had j were attended to.
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    Valiant in Scotland
    61 5 More than 100 aircraft representing 30 different types will be seen at Scotland's greatest air show next Saturday at the Royal Air Force Station, Turnhouse, Edinburgh. Britain's star formation aerobatic team, No. 43 Squadron from Leuchars, will give displays in their Hawker Hunter jets. American aircraft, including
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    P.C. FINDS HIS BABIES DEAD
    130 5 i POLICEMAN walking his beat saw a woman pull a drowned child from a lake. He ran to i?-Er and found the -Y were nis ow n wife and c ?u stiU missin in the water was his otner child. It happened at Hollingworth Lake
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      171 6 WDEt \KI bv I-*'*' alk ami l p leil Ifavis "~T I I rLLBLry--rLLBUy.'AMAZING'J|| I TWO MILLION IN CASH t L^ N d^kl/ ANOT A KeA A WONOERFUL/ NAME CASH -FOR FIFTY WELL-- M^T^St* lOENtSII A EU^^VoffiT^O^- oUR T!^^3ti'j mfam*y\mfr f I Alt/A\ Kda{*» Burroughs Till: .SAI\T by Leslie Charteris
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      UK. closing prices
      198 7 LONDON, Sept 14 Previous Today ■IBBEB N RsS cIf 42l 2 buyers 43' H buyers pean Ports September 42", sellers 43*. sellers gIBBEB No. RSB cir 42^ buyers 43 Vt buyers European Toils October 43 sellers 43',. sellers RIBBER So. 1 RSS Spot 42 buyers 43% buvers
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      New York prices
      76 7 FXEW YORK, Sept 14. Previous Today [TIN strait, >pot and nearby 97.00 nom. 97.25 nom Jii\ futures September 95.r>0 nom. 95 75 nom October 94.00 bid 94.25 bid 95.00 asked 95.25 asked November 93.50 bid 94.60 bid fcoxi Quiet SAL^.'xff 1 9<> 6 ked pill i::w K
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      U. S. PEPPER
      21 7 Eta L I,^ all i 1 Lampong spot and awaiting 45ove ;j/7(c'6- 91/ofed in U.S. cents per ib
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      14 7 NEW YORK. Sept. 14 gar sa? <n«-k, ompasi.e Ave'rige lfl'ls iwj»
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      104 7 Sept. 14. <<^V Philippine, c.i.f. IK/ Tod N "tth Kuropean delivered wHpfiK&W&ffa $177 Bm $177 uoted y'sfflU^JX 1-kN.rth U lqUOted UnqUOted li-r. .p..,,. delivered weight per l n l Seoi Oft £64% buyers 6 5'/ 2 nom. £65 sellers <)ct N «v £6oV 4 buyers £65-14
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    40 7 picture. TINY CAPE with a high standing collar and a moulding body line are features of this white evening gown "Desires" a highlight of the Lachasse autumn collection. It is in tha finest Sudan cotton waffle pique.- Reuter
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    CENTRE TO BE OPENED SOON
    180 7 SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, will open the newly formed Kim Keat Avenue Community Centre on October 1. There will be a reception, dances and music by residents of the estate. The Singapore Improvement Trust has allotted the centre a club house. A centre
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    YWCA MEETING
    28 7 T^HE annual mooting of A tho Young Women's Christian Aatociation of Singapore will bo hold on Wednesday, September 28. at the Association build\ii\g in Raffles Quay.
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    SEAMEN DRAW UP EQUAL PAY CHARTER
    389 7 SEAMEN DRAW UP EQUAL PAY CHARTER T<HE Singapore Malay Seamen's Union and the x Chinese Seafarers' Association, who between them represent more than 4,000 seamen employed in home and local trade, have drawn up a minimum-wage-for-post charter. In some cases the charter represents an increase of over 35 per cent
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    SLAPSTICK
    97 7 STICKS of rock are rocklike in Blackpool. "1 did not know they made them so hard." said the chief constable in court. It was a stick of rock that brought 21-year-old Brian Winter, of Sunderland, before the magistrates. And it cost him a £5 flne. Brian's stick of rock
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    UP IN THE AIR RAF 'at home'to public
    131 7 UP IN THE AIR RAF 'at home' to public |JK)RTY-SIX RAF stations r in Britain will be "At Home" to the public on Battle of Britain day next Saturday. More than 1,000,000 guests are anticipated. There will be no charge for admission. Displays are to include those by jets making
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    MINISTER DIES
    19 7 George McLeay. 03, Australia's Minister of Shipping and Supply, died yesterday in his Adelaide home. A. P.
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    MAD MASANIELLO
    1377 8  - MAD MASANIELLO LESLIE AYRE by I TNE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES ITie fisherman whose nineday rule of Naples was ended by four bullets v r ou must have heard Auber's overture to "Masaniello,"' cither broadcast, played by ;i hand in the park or on the promenade. But you may nol realise
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    LEADING LADIES ALL ALONE
    359 9 Crisis in dramatic societies Starlets complain that men are such 'cowardly worms' I/lISS JOYCE JACKSON, of the Twenty-One Theatre Group of London M lid decisively: "Men? They're worms- they haven't got the courage. S really nothing to be afraid of." Miss Jackson was referring to the
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    Beach barred to litter-bug trippers
    149 9 Beach barred to litter-bug trippers rpRIPPERS who arrived at 1 Seaton Beach, Cornwall, expecting to spend the day there found the entrances plastered with red placards forbidding them enter. •'This beach has been closed." said the notices, •because of the ioul and filthy litter left on it and the road
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    Back to jail after wedding
    87 9 BAM BROWN, 24, was freed from jail for nee hours to marry in Paris. The bride was 17--year-old Joyce Midkiffe. Brown. an American lilitary police corporal, is waiting trial accused' of manslaughter of three ich women and one an through careless driving. Is the daughter
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    BEE-EATERS TEST WINGS IN SUSSEX
    230 9 BEE-EATERS TEST WINGS IN SUSSEX J.VMTAIN's bird-lovers are keeping their fingers > ted, 1 the first family of British born and bred oee-eatera yet recorded t:; testing their bright'lumed wings round a x sand-pit. lali of the Royal Society 1 the Protection of Birds, ""•k<"! by local police, ready to
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    55 9 THE Miss Italy contest is attracting quite a lot of (male) attention. Among the favourite's I at the "Miss Italy 1955 competition, being held I at Rimini, are: (pictured at right) Brunel- la Tocci (left), "Miss Calabria/' and 'Maria Giova n n i n i "Miss Rome," and (below) IMarisa
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    Train with plush seats goes 'empty'
    258 9 rjRITAIN'S crack Continental boat train, the Golden Arrow, left Victoria Station, London, with 230 of its plush seats empty. Only 40 passengers, attended by a .staff of 12, were aboard when the train was whistled out at The passengers had paid £16 16s. 4d.
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    PETER, JUST 17 MONTHS OLD, SINGS CLASSICS
    196 9 PETER, JUST 17 MONTHS OLD, SINGS CLASSICS VOTING Peter Kaufman loves humming classical music from Beethoven to "The Skater's Waltz" and he's only 17 months old. Visitors stand and stare, and exclaim, "Just listen to that!" when they hear Peter's melodious voice at his parents' pre-fab home in Kenley-road, Brentford,
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    ENTITLED TO DOWRY, SHE ASKED FOR £50
    111 9 THEY told Patricia Nimmo at her wed- j ding that she must j r ask her bridegroom for a dowry. She whisper- ed: *1 will take C50." They told Patricia f after the wedding that I by law she could have I asked
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    Former banquets
    42 9 Oyster shells, broken china, clay pipes and brer bottles recently du^ up by workmen in the Old Kent Road, London are believed to be the remains of former banquets at the Guildhall. The land once belonged to the City Corporation.
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    309 10 YOUTH CAMP WAS LARGE GAY FAMILY A NINE-DAY camp was organised recenth k» L Hall, Bras Basah Koad, Singapore. i. ls imV (amp was attended b> 75 boys and 75 iM>lsi rm ft Federation. It eost each camper $20. The ide \m* to teach young people to live together h\
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    Fish help farmers by growing up
    517 12 Fish help farmers by growing up HELPFUL little flsh Imported from the [■'■Ai Bast are helping grow rice In Egypt by growing up In paddy QelcU At hai re I I lint, accoi I Lng to rice expert Dr C L Pan, the fl in can be harvested v. 11
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    HER GREATEST HOUR IN A DAY FOR MEN
    822 12  -  ADELAIDE EASTLEY i. Little Meriam will see her mother crowned WOMAN waits.. .for Saturday, which will probably be the most exciting day oi her life. .she is the tall, bul slim Lad} Marcella, wifeof the Sultan of Johore.Bul nexl Saturday she will
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    'IS LOT IS NOT AN APPY ONE
    479 12 AS Gilbert and Sullivan might have put it an Australian farmer's lot Is not an 'appy one. As soon as he wins a battle for survival against one portion of the animal kingdom on that fantastically pro lifl c continent, another portion steps
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    Arts ball a la Chelsea
    337 12 Arts ball a la Chelsea SINGAPORE will have this year, for the first time, an Arts Hall The Singapore Child- ren's Society. i n co- i operation with the Alts I Theatre, is organising a i festive ball along the I lines of London's famed i Chelsea Arts Bali on
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    ENOUGH EMPTY BOTTLES TO SINK A HOUSE
    73 12 THE riddle of why one corner of a boarding house sank four inches was solved when the tenant of the corner room was taken to a home "or alcoholics. His landlord. In Wellington, New Zealand, found Jj .small single room empty wine bottles,
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    1028 13 Hotel work is NO T for amateurs Who will run the hotels in Britain if things go on like this? asks RENE MacCOLL who has just completed a 2,000-mile tour of .the country. 4 s THIS glamorous A mmer approaches .olden end, the e ls of Britain are ammed with
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    472 13  - I trace a master spy PERCY HOSKINS by in Istanbul SCARCELY a mile from Yildis Palace, which once housed the harem of Abdul Hamid II and where today 150 of the world's detectives are pondering the trends of modern crime, lives the world's most famous spy Cicero, whose exploits formed
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    Her Ship came HOME
    1716 14  -  ANGUS WiLSON I Wig \r happen? One more problem for you to solve in this FACT or FICTION series. Tha antwer Will b» giv»H tomorrow I'U J\ Hemlock and \(Uv (1952) Angui Wilson penetrated the mind of a veteran novelist with exquisite subtlety. Yet Wilson himself
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    Lock icon THESE BEAUTIES HAVE BRAINS AS WELL
    532 15  -  Judith Simons says- I the world's St and most models are ill the show organised nternational tariat at the rO >tel, London. Idition to modelling m 'i a wealth of in am talent. IIUWA OVA, 20--old model from an ash- blonde V iv green
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    HAIR STYLE can be YOUR signature
    321 15 HAIR STYLE can be YOUR signature LI ftnd that, wing taken into ll|!l! !h(l details of .neight and facial really smart P v:| l keep faithlOr years to a hair n Ich soes nt personality. adapt it in But the 7 s remain as their sig- difficult to Me touches
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    Autumn wear
    27 15 Autumn wear THIS grey biege tweed costume, trimmed with graphite astrakham, featuring double buttoning and three-quarter length jacket, Ls modelled by Jeanne Lanvin of Castello. Popper picture.
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    His BEST customers are MOTHERS-not kids
    648 16  - His BEST customers are MOTHERS-not kids ROBERT ALLEN htjfw r ou may rememt>er the furore resulting in America from I nit Incident one sunny morning dvi Ing the lour Power "Summit" Conference In Geneva when President Bi en hi 1 1 er stopp* d his car (and his American bodyguard's
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    It was cooler on the lawns
    118 16 AT MIDNIGHT some days ago it was too hot for dancing In the hall at Benenden Girls' School, Kent, so guests went onto the floodlit lawn to join in the Gay Gordons, Many debutantes-to-be were amon^ the dancers, Most of the older guests have
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    248 16 ]V]ISS Sarah Chester iTI Boatty, hostess to a group of young people On a Mediterranean yachting holiday, took her guests ashore on a gambling spree at Cannes a few nights ago. The guests, Including Mr. and Mrs, lan Gilmour, Miss Margaret
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      345 16 North-South vulnerable U) et l th a no-trump with North dealer &uch a dearth of tickets. Adding a few points by NORTH padding the North-Soulh cards aA7 3 2 u'^ tl:? J ac^ of hearts and n the queen ot clubs would still vIU 4 leave them short Of the
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    SIR CAROL puts LA LOLLO on a rope...
    1216 17  - SIR CAROL puts LA LOLLO on a rope... THOMAS WISEMAN by IT IS all most emburrassing. I am lunching In the open air at Fouquets in the Champs Elysees when a beautiful, dark-hair-ed girl sits down two tables away from me She has the sort of face and figure that
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    49 17 Destination MADRID! DNBR Is having C niture shipped Ki to Spain JPecta to move Ome late this has notified ompany which rurnltuw for and-a-half ack and ship Ithia the next :if1 Who hasn't lo llywood since I;ifi o "Mogam- y^ars ago, to Madrid as completes work "i Junction" in
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    She can toss you over her shoulder
    118 17 SHIRLEY YAMAGUCHI, the Japanese beauty who weighs in at 98 pounds In her role for "House of Bamboo,'" is a judo expert and can toss a grown man over her shoulder. In fact, she does exactly that in one scene of tftie film
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    8,000 AT COMB. CHINESE SCHOOLS ATHLETICS
    199 18 8,000 AT COMB. CHINESE SCHOOLS ATHLETICS rrilE Singapore Combined Chinese Schools athletic meeting at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday was continued in brilliant weather and two new records were set up both in the long jump events for middle schools. Hwang See Leow (Chung Cheng) set the first record tor boys
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    880 WINNER
    107 18 j>i(i.\siis(. the n hf|i |tjr|| ls liun oWw| H||a ol lh< I||lM M*fh School m h. vrliifl the Oroap •i' ««>u metre, nn»l BU Umt iraa I U wt. TOH SWEE K« V E (Yucni; Cheng School) r collapsed while competing I in the 200 metres hean I
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    Lock icon PIRIE BEATS ZATOPEK IN 5,000-m THRILLER
    372 19 PORDON PIRIE, 24- YEAR-OLD BRITISH DISTANCE RUNNER ATONED FOR HIS RECENT MOSCOW REVERSE AND AVENGED HIS 1942 OLYMPIC DEFEAT BY EMIL ZATOPEK WHEN HE BEAT THE CZECH OLYMPIC ACE IN A THRILLING 5,000 METRES RACE ON THE OPENING DAY OF THE TWO-DAY CZECHOSLO-VAKIA-BRITAIN ATHLETIC
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    171 19 tale UK Rugby team defeat unior Springboks E BRITISH ISLES RUGBY UNION TOURING TEAM BEAT THE JUNIOR SPRINGBOKS BY 15 POINTS RKK GOALS) TO 12 POINTS (2 TRIES, A DROPPED L AND A PENALTY) IN AN INDIFFERENT MATCH OKK 35,000 SPECTATORS AT BLOEMFONTEIN YESTERDAY. The British Isles were better side
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    Lock icon I.F.A. to make ruling on substitutes
    109 19 I.F.A. to make ruling on substitutes i RULING on the question of substitutes for injured wers is to be published r the Referees Committee the International Asso»tion of F(H>tbal| FederaM iK.I.K.A.) at Zurich. A questionnaire recently it to all members of FA showed that the t of substitutes for injurplayerg
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    Lock icon MARCIANO IS FIT
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    Tuminah first Malay girl in Singapore badminton final
    322 19 rpUMINAH blnte Karim became A the first Malay girl to enter the final of the Singapore Badminton Association's schoolgirls •singles championship when she easily beat Yang Uew Ping by 11-3. 11-4 at the Badminton Hall last night. Tuminah will now meet Jessie
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    UKSOCCER
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    Superior Kiwi fifteen in 12-6 win at Changi
    364 19 |N A GAME THAT WAS CHARACTERIZED BY HARD, RATHER THAN SKILFUL 1 FOOTBALL. A SUPERIOR R.N.Z.A.F. TEAM FROM TENGAH DEFEATED CHANGI BY 12 POINTS TO SIX AT CHANGI YESTERDAY. The game opened with a shock for Changi when the Kiwis took the
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    77 19 I Yesterday's Rugby League rej suits were: New Zealand IV: York 20, New Zealanders 16. I Yorkshire Cup (second round) Ctustleford 17, Hull Kingston Rovers 0. League: Blackpool Borough 7, Warrington 12; Brajmley 6, Featherstone Rovers 7; Hunslet 16, Bradford Northern 3; Whltehaven 13. Barrow 5. Ru&by
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    340 20 BUKIT TIMAH GOLD CUP MEETING STARTS FREE FRESS RACING d RRESPONDENI MIRANDOLA VVIIII JACKIE JONES ISTRIDE SHOWED A GRAND TURN Of SPEED TO CMK'K i«» 2 5 OK 3F. ON THE TRAINING TRACK AT Bl KIT 1 1 vi All THIS MORNING WHEN OFFICIAL TRAINING FOK
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    239 20 NTO MORE THRILLING FINISH TO THE CRICKET J SEASON COULD HAVE BLEN ENVISAGED THAN OCCURRED AT THE OVAL WHERE THE REST BEAT SURREY, THE CHAMPION COUNTY. BY TWO WICKETS. Dick Spooner. the England and Warwickshire wic-ket-keeper, needed to hit four runs off the
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    227 20 PETER KEEN AN, of Scotland, retained the British Empire bantamweight boxing championship last night when he knocked out Jake Tuli of South Africa in the 14th round of a gruelling, svectacular contest in Glasgow. Seldom can a man have fought more gamely than
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    91 20 Bill Campbell, the Unttt States Walker Cup ten captain, and another Cud piay Jimmy Jackson were boi beaten In the third round the American a&natetlr gt championship at Reunion Virginia, yesterday. Ed Meisler (Cleveland) ta Campbell four and t!i v ee. u Jake Howard (Ch irgla)
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