The Singapore Free Press, 13 October 1955

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    17 1 The Singapore Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya ,1 Singapore. Thursday. October 13, i<>:,r>. j( e n ((s
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    Lock icon Margaret back in London: 'It is no mere coincidence'
    284 1 DRINCESS MARGARET, accompanied by her cousin Princess Alexandra, arrived m London bj train from Aberdeen this morning one day after Group Captain Peter Townsend's arrival by ah from Brussels. Her early return— five days before the Queen leaves Balmoral Castle for
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    McDonald in Singapore
    56 1 MalCOlm MaeDonald, t Commissioner-Gene-tnd now British High ti loner m India, ar- '!> Singapore by plane morning, He is on priv tte vi.sit. MaeDonald will delithe Convocation Address be University of Malaya 1 c celebrations on Sat--1 staying with Mr Mrs, Loke Wa n Tho at where
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    Lock icon Prize for his wife
    89 1 SERGEANT John Bromley acquired a second watch a .Mido when he won the Free Press Sintraporc-.lohore Bahru Walk on Sunday. So he decided he would like lo swap his Mido for a ladies' watch, for his Wife had none. Their young son Christopher had tossed her
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    MID-DAY NAP PAYS $62
    72 1 Follow the Free Press race experts UKELELE, the Eree Press racing special Midday Nap won at Penang yesterday and paid SHI for a win, biggest dividend of tin- day. The Eree Press Course Correspondent, In his race morning round-up, tipped three winners— Santa Clans, Braver Creek
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    Lock icon QUAKE KILLS 4
    25 1 At least four people were killed In the i arthquake that ihook th< village ol Cotahausi, In Southern Peru, last Sunday. A.P
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    T.U.C. TO STEP UP WAR ON P.A.P.
    361 1 T.U.C. TO STEP UP WAR ON P.A.P. 150% pay demand FOR RUI\N/NG CITY IWSES I^HE Singapore Bus Workers Union m reported to be asking one and hali times extra pay for its members if they take Chinese-owned suburban buses to city areas. A .spokesman for the owners said they were
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    Two Reds killed in Johore
    93 1 Two Reds killed in Johore SIOCURITY forces killed two terrorist! La the Kluang district of Johore this morning. An area -security vi.it patrol on aCengibol Estate •iMttacted a sang of four Reds and killed one. The other.s fled but twenty minutes later were contacted by a military patrol, which .shot
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    Ike accepts
    42 1 PRESIDENT Eisenhower, m a letter to Soviet Premier Bulganin made public yesterday, has offered to accept Russia's proposal for stationing military inspection teams' at key points m the US. and the Soviet Union if it would help create better relations.
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    20,000 RUSSIANS WELCOME NAVY
    23 1 About 20,000 people saw Britain's 13,350-ton aircraft carrier Triumph dock at Leningrad yesterday. Five other British ships arrived later.
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    Rubber down 2 cents
    30 1 October first grade rubber buyers fob. opened m Singapore this morning at $1.17% per lb., two cent* below last night's closing price. The opening tone was
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    1,000 GIVE UP
    18 1 About 1,000 rebel Binh Xuyen soldiers have .surrendered to the national army south of Saigon.
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    WHAT SPORT MEANS TO RUSSIA
    88 1 rpHE FREE PRESS today starts a series of five exrliisive articles by the famous British sports journalist TERENCE O'CONNOR. Ho will tell you what goes on behind the Iron Curtain and how die Russians value sport not for sporty sake alone but for what beating
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    Lock icon Russia protests to Persia
    255 2 GRAVE VIEW TAKEN OF PACT SIGNING OI'SSIA warned Persia yesterday that she attached "grave importance" to Persia's decision to join the pro- Western Baghdad Pact. Soviet Foreign Minister v m Molotov summoned the Persian envoy In Moscow and protested to him; "Tlie accession ot Persia to
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    Now Britain plans to build atom sub
    137 2 Now Britain plans to build atom sub Britain is planning to build an atomic submarine for service m the Royal Navy, the First Sea Lord Admiral Karl Mountbatten, said m London last night. It was 'only a matter of time b c fore nuclearpowered .submarines would be m service, he
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    Lock icon Boy gets life jail
    24 2 Robert Lewis, 19-year-old Negro delivery boy, received a life sentence yesterday at Forest, Mississippi for raping a white woman. A.P
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    Lock icon WARNING BY RIOT-ISLE ARCHBISHOP
    147 2 WARNING BY RIOT-ISLE ARCHBISHOP archbishop Makarioi of Cyprus said yesterday that ta' regretted the breakdown ol talks with Governor Sir John Harding and a arm d that thi conseQuences ol failin" to reach an ag cement win be unpleasant both to the British Government and the Cyprus eople.' A. ked
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    Lock icon NEXT CHAIRMAN
    27 2 India's Dr. N. K. Panikkar was m Tokyo yesterday elected chairman of the next meeting of the IndoPacific Fisheries Council m Bandung m 1957.- U.P
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    Lock icon COMMAND OF THE AIR VITAL FOR WEST-MONTY
    327 2 COMMAND OF THE AIR VITAL FOR WEST-MONTY FIELD Marshal Viscount Montgomery said m London yesterday that the first object m our strategy m the Western alliance must be to win command of the air." I Lord Montgomery, Deputy Supreme Commander of Western European Defence also said that m his view
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    MANDI SAFAR FUN IN S'PORE PARK
    67 2 MANDI SAFAR FUN IN S'PORE PARK Thousands of Malay men, women and children m Singapore observed Mandi Safar Day yesterday b y washing away their ill luck m the sea and m streams and pools. The occasion was one of rejoicing and picnicking on the beaches and the public parks.
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    Lock icon PRO-WEST PARTY IN R.I. GAINING
    146 2 rE vote m Indonesia's first general elections rose near the 29,000,000 mark last night but Indonesians still had no cleai ideas as to who will run their government for the next four years. The Communist oriented Nationalists* Proletarian Front held a half million vote:> margin,
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    FRENCH MOVE TO CUT OFF ESCAPING REBELS
    280 2 FRENCH MOVE TO CUT OFF ESCAPING REBELS French colum..yesterday advanced towards the border ot Spanish Morocco m t:. t Rift" Mountains to keep iv^bel tribesmen from escaping into the Spanish zone. The advance was bmade "without incident" French oflicials said last night. its object was to conn-: I the encirclement
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    Sword of Damocles over Faure again
    120 2 THE power- balancing Socialist Party announced yesterday it would vote against the French Government's policy m Algeria and the life of Premier Ed- gar Faure's cabinet once again hung m the balance The opposition Socialists helped to save Faure tost Sunday when he faced
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    Lock icon Murder gangs, not Russians, rule slave camps
    397 3 Ml &DEROUS secret gangs oi prisoners hold the [nmatefi Ot Soviet slave camps m greater terror fchan the Communist secret police, a returned ex prisoner reported m Berlin yesterday. Thi se gangs are formed of "anti-social" Russians shipped to the Arctic prison camps,
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    Lock icon THIS JAP JAIL 'IS JUST LIKE APARTMENT'
    205 3 THIS JAP JAIL 'IS JUST LIKE APARTMENT' 4 PAROLED Japanese war criminal says some others, still scryS ing sentences, walk m q E and out of Sugarno Prison at will, hold I reff ular outside jobs and return "only to -The prison is hke =an apartment to 2 them," said
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    Lock icon Greek confidence
    31 3 The new cat) net of Mr. Constant me Karamanlls won a vote of confidence from the Greek Parliament m Athens last night with 200 votes out of 279. Reuter
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    Lock icon A-PLANES AND SHIPS -'TIME IS NEAR'
    199 3 THE nme Is near When Amei lea's warpl&ni and naval craft will b nuclear pow< re i, the chair man of the |oinl U S, Con gressional Commits c on Atomic Energy predicted at Las Vegas, w< vada, ye terday. Senator Clinton P. An
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    Lock icon TRAINS DEFY FLOOD PERIL TO RAIL LINE
    175 3 j^lood water* of the SutleJ River, which have devastated thousands of acres of West Pakistan's rich farm land swirled to the fringe of Bahawalpur last night and threatened the main Karachi-Lahore railway. Troops and police stood by to evacuate the remainder ot the
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    Lock icon Let Formosa decide own future, says U.K. Labour
    270 3 r%MIE British Labour Party yesterday d c m a n d c d that china be admitted to the United Nations and called for the withdrawal of Chinese Nationalist forces from Formosa to enable the people there to decide their own future.
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    Lock icon The Nizam of Hyderabad to retire
    91 3 The Nizam of Hyderabad to retire rpHE N i I a m of 1 Hyderabad, once considered the richest man m the world, Is going to retire, it was learned m Bombay yesterday He was reported planning to live as an ordinary citizen m a mansion he has bought there.
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    Lock icon Ex-governor was swindler
    39 3 Phan Van Ohm, former lovci nor »i d 'it 'l Vi< nam, was entenced m absentia to 10 years hard labour and ti ne d 45.000 piasters for misappropriation Oi public funds yesterday m Saigon A.P
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    Lock icon ROYAL VISIT
    21 3 Emperor Hirohito an d Empress Nagako viewed an exhibition of Mexican art, m Tokyo national museum yesterday. A. P
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    The Singapore Free Press TURSDAY, OCT. 13, 1955. Opinion FIGHTING FLOODS
    251 4 The Singapore Free Press TURSDAY, OCT. 13, 1955. Opinion FIGHTING FLOODS 'riiE Minister fur Communications a n (1 Works; has announced that $60 million is required to control flooding m the city area of Singapore. This does not hold oul any promise of imm< dint c or oven early protect
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    Will the next Pope be a 'foreigner'?
    877 4 Will the next Pope be a 'foreigner'? Although the Pontiff's health has been restored, Vatican circles still debate the Rim fl DOPE FITS XII, now aimo&l t w >i». has surpri ed both his doctoj and hi* closi b1 ad\ i ors inside the Vatican by his i markable flghl
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    The population problem
    321 4 11/1 RS. JOANNA lfJ MOORE aga i n shows thai the local i';imiiy Planning Association are interested m t he populat ion que.stion, tin., time on tin 1 island oi Maunt iUS, for "some oi the recommendations" m a reporl from there "will he applicable to our
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      33 4 EXCELLENT RINGS < OF DIAMOND* t> GEMS IN PLATINUM 6 GOLD r With Smuu I v .nt Workman hip )< I G. C. De SILVA BROS >> 3 RAFFLES PLACE ?< Singapore 1 :j TlI S3 115
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    'CHUTE DID NOT OPENBUT HE LIVES
    293 5 'CHUTE DID NOT OPENBUT HE LIVES i^ r wondered what it feels like to be jj er when your 'chute tails to op< n? y above the hard ground, lnst< ad of billowing comfortingly over your j- -ni yourself hopelessly entangled In F ig cinq? Not many airborne m I
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    SECRET SYSTEM FAILED
    268 5 SECRET SYSTEM FAILED f[AMI iI. ii A R NES E 0 had a secret foot- ball pools system. Un- I like most systems, it E won him a fortune In a year his turn- E over ran up to £84.000. Ami the profits were E Id .-OHIO. Jle was only
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    Dentist called up —to school job
    148 5 Mr david rcbertson. 23 year-old dentist, has been directed to school dental work at Dudley. Worcestershire, instead o! his two years' National Service His town council appointment su by v l! Ministry of Education carries a salary ol v_.)O(J a year, &r Robert. son.
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    They went 'with the wind'
    142 5 11 v usherettes have l VVest Berlin r*** •<•<•iu.se they can f«« the feature CJ ,n< With the Jlls fen r"n- n months. a< «S With the 2i, s, '<nvn for the The cine"_cr expects it to run at least until Christmas. He says thai
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    MOTOR CYCLE TRIALS
    215 5 npHE Royal A: my Service Corps Far 1 East Motor Cycle trials were laid over the week-end at Pasir Panning. Teams from Singapore, Malaya and Hong Kong covered a course which, although dried and baked, proved a keen test for men and machine, rhe results were: (1)
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    Shake-up denied
    21 5 The u.S State Department denied y< day I hai a shake-up ol Its Far East diplomats la In prospect.
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    New storms hit the 'rain test' country
    306 5 New storms hit the 'rain test' country r riiK rains i. came to S.ili .1, 1! t'.a!!! Whe, itJ I began i Inikln r it was those exp which ome people blai ed for a del ige that hit The An M 0... try poohpoohed the idea "We forecast ram
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      266 6 «a. aa.a a.. ........a. >l\MH(\hl by Le<B alk ami Phil l»avi» a NEWS STORY. IT _7 WORRY. BELL Hmm— MO ONE/ i iNVHEb >T/ THERE'LL BE HERE- THEY LErT ZJ LL V WILL T£A M i Mlli^Aa\ b> I'icls.jar llir** lliirt_^>ii^b% n 1 i f PB 1 COMM|SSIONE WALLACE WAS
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      667 6 J £ORN today. fOM llUl mo t D Qualifications for n g tn, Held "I education I J Vuu understand young p c[ e und then- problems a do r< J t £an -lv( helpful and encouragi ad; ;< you have I patienc t» and know I analyze data, digest
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    U.K. closing Prices
    181 7 Previous Today i;i KM R St> RtS cit Js^ buyers 34 buyers Euro pean l'"rt> October 85% sellers 341 u»iw BtBBER w I BSB c.i.f. 35% buyers A Egg Ettrop eaii Ports November 35 > seller 34 SeiS BIBB EB N... IBBS Settlement 36^ sellers 3 JJgJ
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    New York prices
    75 7 I NEW YORK, Oct. 12 Previous Today TIN' Snails spot and nearby 96 25 norn TTO^Tm IJ\ futures October 95.00 bid v i>6.25 asked November 94.75 bid 95.75 asked Dm-mber 94.50 traded rONE: SALES: IvIBIUU futures December 42.55 traded CLOSED March 40.00 bid 40.05 asked roM SALES:
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    U.S. PEPPER-closed DOW JONES AVERAGES
    43 7 U.S. PEPPER -closed DOW JONES AVERAGES NEW YORK, Oct. 12. f,^"" 20 R-iilrn-irf 4J8.59 445.58 I?™™ 145.63 147.85 40 Domestic Bonds 98.68 »8 69 i) I tiluies fii to d on <■! V( Vi t\ oi.oy D 1.69 bl Stocks Composite Average 156.44 158.62
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    Copra, coconut oil prices
    117 7 $153.00 offered $152.50 offered NEW YORK RUBBER AND TIN MARKETS CLOSED __g_g. OCT. 12. (COLUMBUS DAY). Oct. 12. COPRA Philippines cJ.f. U/K PreViOOS Today wSt P^Jo^n «o ce ydv d $18 qUOt€d 179 COPRA Philippines f.o.b. Manila <<>n<rsr;; lt r un voted European delivered weight per
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    Ah well, give it to the sergeants' mess
    418 7 Ah well, give it to the sergeants' mess N° NE llked tn e specially commissioned portrait of the colonel-in-chief. But no one m the officers' mess of the Northamptonshire Regimental Depot -from the Colonel to the youngest subaltern— liked to say so. For the Colonel-in-Chief is the Duchess of Gloucester,
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    PENNY FINE IS TOO MUCH
    66 7 A fine of one penny was imposed on John Lewis and Company at Marlboroughstreet for selling at their Peter Jones stores m Holiesstreet, Marylebone, an imported brush without indicating its place of origin. It was labelled "foreign." Mr. Clyde Wilson, the magistrate, commented: "I think
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    Lock icon Gls LEAVING
    14 7 United States forces will be completely withdrawn from Austria on Saturday.-- U.P
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    Bishop coming to Colony
    82 7 DISHOP l\ B. Newell, 13 iH'ft, chairman of the Methodist Com-! Rlittee Tor Overseas Relief will arrive m Singapore on Saturday from \evv York to study the administration Of fluids sent hy American Methodists to relieve suffering In other parts Of (he Bishop Newel! is on
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    Books gift to Muslim College
    154 7 Books gift to Muslim College j ARRANGEMENTS are liy be in^ made by the Muslim Congress m Cairo to send $26,000 worth of books on Mus- lim literature for the Muslim College of j Malaya. E Dato S. I. O. Alsagoft". chairman of the Muslim E College Council, who told
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    A SPANKED WIFE GETS DECREE
    288 7 T<HE conduct of a man who put his wife across his knee and spanked her as if she were a child, was inexcusable, said the Newport, Monmouthshire. Divorce Court judge. "There can hardly be anything more undignified lot any married woman," said Mr. Commissioner O.
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    WHO killed Miss Gilchrist?
    1503 8  - WHO killed Miss Gilchrist? JACK TARRANT by For her murder OSCAR SLATER went to gaol for 19 years then his innocence was established by the Appeal Court judges that tier husband had assured her that Mi.ss Gilchrist had been killed by being struck with B chair, and not by Slater's
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    Diary covers 400 years
    188 8 JAPANESE historians are m a nutter over the discovery m a remote farmhouse near Osaka of a family diary which has been scrupulously maintained each day for four The diary belong* to the humble Mori family, and was begun m the year 1556 by the sturdy
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    MODEL WAS TRICKED INTO POSING BY MAN SHE LOVED
    410 9 FITTING near the dock at the Old Bailey a West End model heard the man she had loved jailed for three years. She had told the jury that a lover's prank persuaded her to pose for obscene photographs during a fishing
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    Lock icon Whisky wife fights for pure water
    386 9 THREE MADE TO LEA YE MEETING A COMPANY director's wife and two men were escorted from a town council meeting after an uproar over a decision to add fluoride to the water supplry. Mrs. Doris Grant, whoso husband is a director of a distillery,
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    They cut water supply to steal
    216 9 j <<>X the sake of loot worth £50, thieves have I 1 destroyed an emergency pipeline carrying H iter for 22,000 drought-hit Cornish people whose main taps run only 10 hours a day. I!, thieves, working through the night, cut the line more than
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    Her credit was NOT £125,000
    202 9 npHE name of Lynda Hay wood- La ver impressed some of the people she met. So did her stories. I They did not sound so impressive when quoted by prosecuting counsel at Wiltshire Quarter Sessions. For 43-year-old Mrs. Hay-wood-Laver, a nurse. was lailed for 18
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    LEGAL SNAG STOPS COUNCIL 'WRECKERS'
    205 9 A LEGAL loophole, found at the last Ute, stopped a team council "housel 'ts" from knockdown the £4,000 brick bungalow npme 0 f Mrs. Sally irren. \v two year-old Mrs :i lay ill mi n bed.' •wmMing with apprehen- sion when the Rugby Rural Council
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    ON TAP
    36 9 A West BeiUn telephone engineer has been jailed for 18 months. He connected a cable from a Social Demo crat Party office to the Bast Berlin telephone netWork, enabling calls to be I tapped.
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    COURAGE OF A GIRL FROM THE OLD KENT ROAD
    142 9 COURAGE OF A GIRL FROM THE OLD KENT ROAD MARC-SLLA WARREN. iike all the other children m the road, went out to play. A lorry was passing, Marceila was knocked down and her leg injured. That was 20 months ago. She had 27 operations; Her leg was unsightly; She was
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    82 10 'Thi w, what hot weather,' says Mrs. 11. K. Wong as she fans herself m the •shade with baby Clifford, But Clifford was relaxed just waiting for the results of the bftfcj how. Top picture: Af_Af)gt| i,i a MfttHfant c->stum r Indian dancer K. T, Bha.skar doe fc a peacock
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    MERAMAN JOHNNY QUEK AT SANDREW'S UN FAIR AND FETE
    125 11 Imi j urn! Lovely sains!' said these two (above) as they [j themselves at the stall they were g the hundreds attended the Fair. "Ah, 1 think I'll take this lovely doll," said Lady Black, at the dress stall. And she
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    HOSPITALS IN AUSTRALIA IMPRESS MALAYAN NURSE
    503 12  -  Marjorie Thomson «.by«/ More patients m wards at Kuala Lumpur Number ten m series of articles by Free Press writer VIVIENNE PUCKRIIXJE to mark Singapore's Health Week from November 21 to 26. ALTHOUGH Australian hospital methods are similar to those of Malayan hospitals, there
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    Lock icon COUNTESS TO BE FETED ON COLONY VISIT
    728 12 COUNTESS TO BE FETED ON COLONY VISIT SINGAPORE branch of the British Red Cross Society is planning an elaborate welcome for the Countess of Limerick, vice-chair-man of the British Red Cross Society when she arrives m Singapore on October 30. There will be a cocktail party for the Countess and
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    Ever Iried keeping a flea?
    423 12 II AYE you ever thought of keeping a flea index? Or even Of trying to dissect a flea? It sounds an odd occupation, but it is part of the normal duties of the Rodent Officer, who works m the City Council Department for Communicable Diseases.
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    Lock icon THE BIRD MAN OF Alcatraz
    1156 13  - THE BIRD MAN OF Alcatraz EVELYN IRONS by IT WAS 1909 when Robert Stroud turned kilter, went to prison. There he killed again. IT IS 1955 and Robert Stroud is still m prison. For all but seven of the past 46 years he has been m solitary confinement... This is
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    THE STRANGE MAN
    2051 14  - THE STRANGE MAN JIM PHELAN by •It will do no harm lo I ell the truth 9 confesses the author of this tale have often been almost frightened to death J'? r ofessional tram P- At 13 he ran away from one place since C <iIMfOW and hC haS never
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    DID IT HAPPEN ?
    46 14 DID IT HAPPEN This story another w the series of FACT or nCTIOU tales *y famous writtrs- might have' happened. Or is it simply a tall story Tomorrow tnt answer wit! be published. mot Pre j ever fl 10-r shi eael "Rot TO I I •ttttj
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    Lock icon ONE BABY – without GRAVY...
    949 15  - ONE BABY without GRAVY ROMANY FINDLATER BAIN by IK A HOTEL THAT IS FIT FOB CHILDREN TO El YE jj¥ THIS IS THE SOIIT "oi THEM. YOE 111 [lit O.V E sieved baby, one minced baby, one baby without Accompanied hrieks and a of spoons I these horrific flashed to
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    TODAY'S QUOTE
    11 15 SESSINQ liberty, strii A>r emiaUty, men t J'ntvnuty.- Viscount
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    BUSY HOUSEWIFE
    46 15 JANE POWELL is a l»usy housewife thcs<- days, because she believes 111 "fecdinf the man --a precept that Calll for plenty of time spent m lhe kitchen Jane is nut BOW I'flfi She's an CXCell*' t ••<V-an_ uiarkelin v for groceries caj»> by phone!
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      41 15 Make arrangements Wmiiling Pictures now for your photographs to he taken hy a FREE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER Telephone Singapore 2800 or write lo FREE PRESS PHOTOGR XPFFFC DFPT. 1 10- 1 l(> Cecil Slrrrl S-BgApOfi this service im nnlv ivailahlr m Singapore
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    BRIDGE HAND
    474 16 Both sides vulnerable North deaier NORTH 4A 7 3 OAQ 8 2 *X 9 7 6 5 WEST EAST 4J 10 4 4 X 9 8 b 2 9 7 6 2 9 A 10 OJSO X 7 3 4A843 Q 10 3 SOUTH 45 9KQJ9853 0 10
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    DON'T be scared of LIGHTNING
    303 16  -  JAMES BARTLETT says It's safer than walking upstairs INHERE was a sudden flash of lightning yesterday, a roll of thunder, and the woman I was speaking to disappeared. I caught uo with her hiding m a cupboard. She sai d, somewhat shamefacedly: "Im so sorry
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    it's SCHOOL on the OCEAN WAVE for 'em
    171 16 4 CARGO ship which has become a "college of the sea" has sailed from Britain on the first of many learn-while-vou-work voyages across the world for officer cadets of the Mf reliant Navy. The ship is the 10,909--ton Durham, which has sailed
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    Lock icon THE SPOKEN WORD
    34 16 r IMIFRE arc 845 languages ml and dialects spoken m India, tun ''ding to the 1955 CrOvernrrient Year Book. Each is said to he sjyoken by more than 100,000 pernuns. A.P
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      305 16 i ill _T_VI_I _ra_V __E_ta__p^' W__S ,i g__i_— _W__^^ L^_F-I _H li_l 1 EB _E__ __E _JL___ KB _B_-__- JBi BL_ __l m is \< ltoss oomplete this figure (8). r 4 In Beau Nash':, tune i 3) l Well i this map foi a famous residence (8). j River
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    JUDY RINGS THE BELL -IN 'COLOUR'
    1177 17 JUDY RINGS THE BELL -IN 'COLOUR' MMM And brings the tears! ..it DF.RFUL you're \V Did you hke sho It was riand, speaking wood i liked the .show, •st colour teletow of her life. dar. 300 Press peocutives of the tour m Britain next Spring and perhaps a television programme."
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    Hollywood report by MICHAEL RUDDY
    96 17 Hollywood report by MICHAEL RUDDY my who sponsored I show. I'd watched Judy and her cost. David Wayne, a mod fellow, m and dance, with Goofers, an instrur. tal comedy group, satirists and a and the Es£i yen talented Ih v of songs red m Briang the bell m I
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    This won't be a 'Creepie'
    187 17 HERE come „ome new slants on the space Alms I Walter Wanger has put before the cameras a picture called "The Body Snatchers," which he term.. ■A science fact picture, not .science fiction or horror." Tie story deal w lt h the Fall out oi
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    LONG it will be
    108 17 In the olden daw if an actress w a nte I to < hange her nor •tj le, she did and no questions asked Nut so With .Li ii > r.i ige, w ho_ t he s'.ar of "Its Mu.'\s Jan.*' she oeoriv whisper* eil she
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    ARE ATHLETICS DANGEROUS?
    404 18 4 RE -THLETICS DANGEROUS? V The question has become current m Sweden, where ,i big newspaper has launched a nationwide movement aimed to get people out m the fresh air h> hike s miles m .n\ hour and a half. Prince Bertil ol Sweden, president of the
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    A REVOLUTION in sport is going on with terrifying effect...
    1060 18 A REVOLUTION in sport is going on with terrifying effect... •SPORT BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN r*re„« o||| r X adfadsfsdf CK)RGET the plea- sura b i c at titude towards sport that the peoples oi most count mc, m the Free World enjoy, it will not help 5 ou to
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    Michael (14) wins golf
    49 18 Michael (14) wins golf EKHJRTEEN yi T Michael Richai youngest playi ft pivision m i? a f Seletar n (Bisque Bogey) yesterday with eight up. Rui P O Pape (SiX The "A- Divl was WOE °j' Norton (flve-up) up wms W 0 B up). Thirty i m the cpmpetii
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    U.S. tennis stars retain trophy
    41 18 AMERICA'S top women tennis players pose irlth the Wight-nan Cup which they -A retained i>\ defeating Britain's team. Left to right: Dorothy Head Knode, shirlej i i), Umlst Breugh, w. Dnponft (team captain; and Doris Bart,
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    Lock icon KEN WINS CRICKET AWARD
    79 18 KEN HARRINGTON 22-year-old surrey batsman has been elected as "young cricketer of 1955" by the Cricket Writers' Club. He will be presented with the tropin al the Writers' annual dinner next April when t ,ie Australian louring: team will be entei tain* cd. Harrington played i'
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    DANES HONOUR MATTHEWS
    114 19 DANES HONOUR MATTHEWS By DESMOND DACKETT jTkENMAIiK, is planning to honour Stanley Matthews with an honorary degree. I was told during my Copenhagen trip to see England laze to their s—l5 1 win against Denmark. The degree is given for services to culture and physical activities. The Danes had laid
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    Kitson Leong shows his class on Sugar Bush
    475 19 Kitson Leong shows his class on Sugar Bush ,2-TERDAY- PENANG RACES REVIEWED RAINER JACK SPENCER CAME IX_C "!> OWN AT PENANG VESv\ SCORING A TREBLE IN A k. H .1 E CARD WITH SANTA CLAUS, AND FOUR CHARMERS. r Spencer got his treble when a Charmers with Franklin astride. )red
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    DAY'S SPORT
    44 19 ■"""iiiiimiiiinitiiiiHiiiiuiiiii SOCCER o-lnclonesian tourists w P^e Chinese P.A., J a ail < 8 p.m. noncEY a I'atrur. niv. Wmn'v Ceylon R.c, G.S.C. rmv l RMN v Ron. k^n ground: f)iv. 3: v pr r s.r jrroand. I HJ C.CFH IJWWI I Coronation 8.C.,
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    Lock icon In Donck wins title again
    35 19 f. JgiM champion. for ♦tfr a 5 oppn «olf the fourth time noiea aggregate of twite y '«terday v JCt J previous wins v impionship were 103. 1947 and Reuter
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    PIRIE BEATS ZATOPEK
    500 19 atom m M gSMm mmm mmm _L M M mm*M terrific burst leaves Czech 58 yds. behind m WOOO-m. GORDON PIRIE, the crack British distance runner, yesterday scored a magnificent victory m the 10,000 metres race during the London -Prague intercity track and field meeting at the
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    CURRY (100-6) WINS CESAREWITCH BY THREE LENGTHS
    286 19 CURRY (100-6) WINS CESAREWITCH BY THREE LENGTHS CURRY, a 100 to 6 chance, yesterday scored a comfortable win m the Cesarewitch Stakes over two-and-a-quarter miles at Newmarket, Suffolk. Ridden by young apprentice Paul Tulk, Curry strode out to win by three lengths from Jenny Lind (100 to 8), with Romany
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    $10,000 HORSE HERE
    93 19 A BROWN four-year-old Australian gelding Brnovena, which will race m Malaya m the colours of Mr. A. Lewis, arrived m Singapore yesterday m the 8.1. freighter Canara from Melbourne. Valued at Malayan $10, 000, Baovena is by Balbao from Lad? Veno and won two races m Melbourne
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    Uproar as Russian gets unpopular fight decision
    234 19 BRITISH BOXERS TAKE BEATING THE SOVIET UNION TROUNCED BRITAIN BY EIGHT BOUTS TO TWO AT THE EMPIRE POOL ARENA IN LONDON LAST NIGHT IN THE FIRST AMATEUR BOXING INTERNATIONAL BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES. There was uproar m the I arena when the crowd
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    Lock icon LINFIELD WINS CUP
    21 19 Undfleld beat Coleraine by five goals to one m the Ulster Football Cud final at Belfast yesterday Reuter
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    Lock icon Florence's Channel rscord
    96 20 Florence's Channel rscord S\M I S S lIOKFNCI. g _H CAM \D\VII X yes a terdaj i><it her own E 5 women's c h n n c 1 S swimming record and S came within three minutes oi the men's g a record held by Britain's a Hill Pickering by
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    HOAD UNDECIDED OH PRO OFFER
    126 20 DAVIS Cup tennis star Lew Hoad arrived by mr i In Darwin from Hong Kong yesl erday with a professional contract from I American promoter Tack Kr imer m his pocket. He said, however, he has nol been able to "gel any when near a
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    SUMMARY Of SPORT
    193 20 T>..\.F. scored a narrow six points (two triesj to five (goal) victory over Army m their rugger clash at Tanglin yesterday. Star turn for the R.A.F. was Makutu, a Maori, who got both their tries. Le Mercier scored a try for Army, Evans converted. rpHE "Fighting Fijians"
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    Track still heavy at Penang: Khandi Star works best
    269 20 Track still heavy at Penang: Khandi Star works best spin. Every Chance ran SI In 44 on the bit River Moon v (Donnelly) was hard held m a 'it workout m even time. Bit; Andy (Cracknell) cleared away from Cabaret 11 -it the imish of a _I gallop m 42
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    TELEPHONE BOARD RETAIN TROPHY
    133 20 lacks go down 3-0 THE STANVAC CHALLENGE TROPHY WAS AGAIN WON BY SINGAPORE TELEPHONE BOARD WHEN THEY DEFEATED JACKS S.C. 3-0 IN THE BUSINESS HOUSES F.A. LEAGUE <_ND CUP FINAL AT JALAN BESAR YESTERDAY. Board showed better combination and had a stronger defence but their victory
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    RUGBY RESULTS
    37 20 Yesterday's U.K. ru_hy results were: Rugby Union county championships: Dorset and Wiltshire 16, Oxfordshire Eastern Counties 13. Kent 13; Hampshire 9 Middlesex 10. Rugby League, New Zealand tour: Lancashire 15. New zea- mders 17. Renter.
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    Spurs beaten
    44 20 rpHE Vaszs Soccer Club, M. Hungarian Cup holders, gaii sd a 2-1 victory m London las! night over the Lond m team Tottenham !!'>' pin v. hose determined dis] b< lied their bottom>f Ihe I able position In the En Fir I Division
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    Seletar go down by 8-0 to R.A.S.C.
    116 20 I3ASC beat RAF Seletar second fifteen m a robust game of rugby by eight points fa goal and a try) to nothing at Seletar yesterday. Each team lost a player through h.jury Sgt. Dix (Sele- tar) being admitted to the BriI tish Military
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    R.A.F. Seletar golf results
    221 20 DESUI TS ol the RO3 il Air Iw Force Seletaj Goli Club competition during the month MEN Island! Cops lAC < t M<t I runner-up P 0 P ipe 142 neti Monthly medal: rii ion Sq L di '.'"i ton B rtl t lon f i.t
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    PENANG WEIGHTS FOR SATURDAY
    308 20 IUIK.HIS for all seven races at Penang on Saturday, are: \l ICMN (IT CL. DIV. I—6 F Individually 9 00 Ever Clorv 8.13 Clever Bu^ Argyll 8.08 Swanhaven 8.07 Lycos 8.06 Punetualitv 8.0 Cliona 8.05 Southern Cross 8.01 Live Wire K.OO Alpine Knight 7.11 Montana 7.10
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    Perak T.C. will start next year's racing
    272 20 rpHE Straits Racing Association have confirmed next year's racing schedule. The Singapore Turf Club will hold their Easter meeting over four days from March 24 to April 2 and the extra day will be foi Class Four horses. There will be ten meetings
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