The Singapore Free Press, 21 October 1955

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Pressar I pst Afternoon Sale in .Malaya B> Singapore, rridav. October l »l. m;,;,. ll(< i( (l>
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    Police dogs join island-wide hunt for gunmen
    148 1 IN .AND-WIDE man-hunt is on to catch two mm. -a who shot and wounded a Singapore lie, tective, Tan Ana: Tee, at Red Hill Close Alexandra, last night, dogs are being used in the hunt. Tan in >spitaL His condition is not serious.
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    Lock icon DIVORCE PLEA: WIFE IS TOO FAT
    195 1 DIVORCE PLEA: WIFE IS TOO FAT x '-he Korzens jm jo! married the fW hvui<\ Lilian weighed /■"I I- That was in 1937. But .HI since then Lilian stea'CN| dily kept putting' on 'K ght until .she hit the 'I in May Michael, I husband now 43, I ed for
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    Lock icon Date for talk on Kashmir
    29 1 Date for talk on Kashmir PI to Prime MinIhry Mohammnd enounced last night '11- party conforK I ihmir which he Imj wdl open in I Q November 2G.— Reuter
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    Lock icon Golf friend sees Ike
    54 1 President Eisenhower yesterday had his first hospital visit from an old golfing friend as doctors reported that his convalescence continued satisfactorily. The President chatted from his bed for about 20 minutes with Mr. Clifford Roberts, a New York investment banker who is also chairman of the
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    Lock icon Leaves on state visit to Britain
    37 1 The Portuguese President, General Francisco Craveiro Lopes, left Lisbon yesterday for England on tho Portu«^ucse sloop, Bartolomeu Dias. He is making a state visit at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth. Reuter
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    PLANES AID TROOPS IN BIG BORDER CLASH WITH REBELS
    264 1 More than 3,000 tno ps, supported by artill and aircraft ye iter lay fought a pitd wit ii l| Ms rian r< >el on thi Pu Isia J Plan boi der Military aul hortt I h< i| t last nighi thai
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    WEST TO STEP UP
    276 1 Princess meets Townsend again DRINCESS MARGARET and Croup Captain Peter Townsend were together again last night after a one -day parting. They dined at the London home of the Princess's cousin and ciose friend, Mrs. John Wills, with whom the couple spent last weekend at her
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    Lock icon Whisky bottles in death flat
    57 1 The bruised body of a brunette divorcee, Mrs. Ellen linger, 30, was found yesterday amid .sign.s of revelry in her 94th St. apartment just we.st 01 Fifth Avenue, New York. Police found empty whisky bottles and glasses throughout the $'>'"> a month apartment. she wore
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    Lock icon TRAFALGAR DAY
    26 1 Britain a Royn] Navy today celebrates the 1501 h an niversary ol Lord Nelson's defeal ol the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar. Reuter
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    Another rubber nose-dive
    104 1 Another rubber nose-dive I'ree Tress M irket < 01 1 espondtnt, r |'Hl pii< of iiihlxr him--1 bled hv ruts hni t h t Sui!;.i|it)l in ti krt (»i>«-n i*<i tins morning, November first grade VII QiioUil |IJB3, |o U h<iv <rs, lt H). on an tinrrrt.uu tout Sj)«'rui;it u
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    AID TO ASIA
    197 1 AID TO ASIA S 'pore to benefit COLOMBO PLAN sources in Singapore Indicated today that its Western members are certain to increase their assistance, mainly in technical equipment and know-how, to under-developed countries in South and Southeast Asia. The conference, which ends today, has been described as most successful. The
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    Lock icon CARMEN IS MISS WOULD
    51 1 Miss Venezuela, 10-year-old Carmen Susana Duijm Zubfllaga, won the title "Miss World", the $4,250 cash prize and a $8,500 sports car, In a beauty contest in London last night. Second wa.s Mi.^s America, 20-year-old Margaret Anne Haywood, and third was Miss Greece 19-year-old July Georgia Coumoundourou.
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    Lock icon RED YES TO A-TALKS
    337 2 .Moscow accepts Western (I rail as the basis npHE Soviet Union has offered t<> negotiate with I Ighl Western powers the drawing up oi an iiit* rnationa] Atomic Energy Agency and to accept the Western draft as "a basis for the preparation of the statute," it
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    ISRAEL GETS READY FOR THE WORST
    162 2 "IT l| our bound* n duty t< 1 prepare for the *> r winch teems imminent. 1 jsra<! Premier Moshe Bhantt. warned last night In :i speech in Jenisal* m Czechoslovak inni dtliver Its to Egypt. Addressing a 60- man tudy mission i i
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    Lock icon Ex-C-in-C IS BLAMED FOR TAIPEH SPY PLOT
    194 2 Chiang orders: 'No punishment' An official Investigating board held in Taipefi yesterday that Gen, Sun Lijen, former Commander-In-Chief oi the Chinese Nationalist Army, must Bhar< responsibility for a spy plot a ain it the government. Mnj. Kuo Ting-liang, a trusted aide of Sun,
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    Lock icon 'BIG STICK' DAYS ARE GONE
    227 2 'BIG STICK' DAYS ARE GONE NORBERT Bogaan, president of the American Overseas Finance Corporation, told the conference that he hopes some day Asia would understand foreign capital "no longer carries a big stick." He noted that the amount of foreign capital, either American or European, going to Asia was relatively
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    Asian call for big foreign investment aid
    257 2 Asian call for big foreign investment aid I EADERS from Indonesia, Siam and the Phil u pines yesterday urged a heavih cxpandS programme of private investment in their coun tries at a New York conference of the r» r j.-. n America Council of Commerce representing fields of industry in
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    Free people won't go Communist
    122 2 Free people won't go Communist THE free peoples of the Far East will not go Communist, even if their economic advance is slow. Mr. Arthur K. Watson. President of the International Business Machines World Trade Corporation, told the conference. "Some observers say that unless rapid progress Is made in raising
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    U.S. READY TO RECOGNISE THE WINNER
    72 2 U.S. READY TO RECOGNISE THE WINNER rpHE United States will re- cognise as Chief of State the winner of the referendum scheduled for South Vietnam for Oct. 23. a State Department spokesman said yesterday. He said the referendum to choose between Emperor Bao Dai and Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem
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    NAVY ARMY
    56 3 1 \m (> flooded Mfrif(ate 9 8 Mi< jii(>ro()in ><j|' i VR-OLD Bri[A sailor was seninfl i tWO years' I j sonmeni and I from the -m ivy at DevonI 'Lmd. yester.l4 maliciously ||j< the engine I the 1.700-ton Mfo >r, John Mc- m engineering U I anic,
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    Lock icon MAN WITH OBSESSION
    177 3 have done so because he had an obsession about joining the Army. He pleaded guilty to five enargei in all under the Naval Discipline Act and the Malicious Damage Act The court wa.s told that after MrAdam had returned front .shore leave to the Venus on the
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    Under the rubbish blaze—a shell
    73 3 Under the rubbish blaze— a shell Bibish was burning as usual in the centre sleepy village of Pulau Tekong Besar Singapore. Then suddenly there was an explosion. Many of the 3,500 villagers were badly shaken, but said a police spokesman. "No-orip was injured. It was a miracle." The explosion occurred
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    COCTEASU JOINS 'IMMORTALS'
    57 3 fEAN COCTEAU O man} -gifted French poet, plaj u right noveflisf and filmmaker w i> yesterday installed as one of the 40 "Iramortals" of the French Academy, once the targ( I for ln-< mockery. Tlie 86-year-old poet told the hii; audience thai his former hostilitj was due
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    Lock icon Immigrants now
    21 3 Nine Russian seamen who jumped ship at Formosa are being admitted as special immigrants to the United States.- A.P.
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    Lock icon JOSEPH, 15, DIDN'T GO TO SCHOOL... WELL, I'M MARRIED
    146 3 JOSEPH, 15, DIDN'T GO TO SCHOOL... WELL, I'M MARRIED JOSEPH FERNANDEZ, 16, has not been going to school lately for what seemed to him a very good reason. He got married in New York last January, when he was 15. Since then he has mostly been "keeping hou.se" for his
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    Japs want to supply arms for Seato
    88 3 Japs want to supply arms for Seato JAPAN is seeking active U.S. support in a plan to make it the arsenal of the non-Communist world In Asia. it proposes to do this through the arms supply pool for the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation similar to the Nato scheme. As the
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    Lock icon RICE MISSION
    29 3 Thr Ceylon Govornmont decided yesterday to send a trade delegation to Burma early in December to negotiate lower prices for rice in li». r io. A .P.
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    Lock icon DEWEY IN TOKYO
    19 3 Former Now York Governor Thomaa E, Dewey arrived in Tokyo on a World tour yesterday. U.P.
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    Lock icon Keightley in Jordan
    23 3 General Sir Charles FCeightley, Commander-in-chief, Britiath Mid/ii«' East Land Forces, flow into Jordan yesterday for a four-day visit A .P.
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    Lock icon FREE-RETURNED FOR BOOTS
    72 3 Pour policemen from Communist East Germany swam the Icy Rivrr Wcrm three times yesterday to tees a>ylum in the Wrst. West German authorities said t h*- fugitives swam Across and then realised th< v had i*'! 1 their boot in the Bast. They went bark to get
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    Jap cities hit by gale then an earthquake
    125 3 Jap cities hit by gale then an earthquake PACIFIC storn nil densely populated Cen tra] Jaj)an with winds up to h miles per hour yes terday, flooding and wrecking houses sinking k> ats and killing at least six persons 0 ika, Kobe and NagOJ i were worsi hit. Rail traiiic
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    R.A.F. REVIEW
    59 3 rpilE first full ceremonial review of R.A.F. Police Auxiliaries was held at Changi this morning. The C-in-C F.K.A.F., Air .Marshal Sir Francis Fressanges was escorted to the R. A. F. Station parade ground by R.A.F. Police motor-cycles, led hy Sfft. A. Lewis (on left). With him are Cpl.
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    Lock icon I WAS BIT TOO NICE TO PETROV
    146 3 -says Rose Oilier FRENCH mlllt tribunal j I quitted \i'i R M Oilier. former Pi n Embassy <• >de clerk in Australia, ol chargei that she failed to notify her superii »r j ol I mpr< i| >ei qu< tionfl poted by Soviet
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    Lock icon THE FIRST REE C-BOMB UNIT
    54 3 The cobalt bomb therapy unit Canada will provide Burma under the Colombo Plan win b< the first to be supplied free officials aid yesterday In Ottawa. External Aiiairs Minister Mr. Lester Pearson announced in Singapore yesterday to B Colombo Plan conference thai Canada will donate
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    Lock icon SMALL TIME
    31 3 A Swiss watch smaller than a five -cent piece with the world's smallest selfwinding mechanism was unveiled in N«'W York yesterday by the Mido Watch Co., Bienne, Switzerland. U.P.
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    Lock icon Oil for barter
    16 3 Russia has onvrcd to sell Japan crude oil on a barter basis. Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY Oct. 21, 1955. Off-course betting
    228 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY Oct. 21, 1955. Off-course betting i\FF THE COURSE betting, now con- 1 ducted more or less openly and on a scale in the Federation and in Singapore probably rivalling the volume on the courses, is likely to be legalised in the near future by the
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    The Sea of Hate
    1049 4  -  SEFTON DELMER by From one end of the Mediterranean to the other the situation is aflame DEFORE the meeting started she looked quite pretty and attractive, this slim, young French woman In a neat blue-and-white-striped frock and an elegant hair-do. But now her face is flushed
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  • SINGAPORE SPOTLIGHT
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      OVER $2,000 IN AWARDS
      111 5 |r SS close on If r 14. So 9 r 'in«- women Ii :i 4 men have I $r; or honours I I totalling o 30, including tt to Japan I a Kong. I lg entrants are I 1 mbinos. a trio I o ;ers 10
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      MOTHERS vs. DAUGHTERS
      175 5 MOTHERS vs. DAUGHTERS I HOROSCOPE: SufI I spinal ailment, I J, tble >Tr. John 1 Scandinavian AirI >ity because It's I him from circulnI I j ht s on tho I leaving for hla I appointment In BaiI k-, man -about- town I Phoenix I indisposed. 1 I why we
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      DOROTHY IN BRONZE
      73 5 Actre.s.s Dorothy Morrrli has received word from London that her daughter, Miss Penny Morrell, hn been sculptured by Mr David Wynn, the finished piece thm cast in bronze, Penny, following in her mothers footsteps, has been a London hit a.s the ingenue in trla Trie's new play
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      THEY HAVE NO CHARM
      216 5 Colombo delegates and international statesmen are oomplatntng about o u t Singapore nailers uho, say the discerning visitors, have neither personality nor charm." Never thought 0/ Q r along those lines but nou that my observation is foyged by criticism, our waiters pretty generally arrive at
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      XMAS HOUSE PARTIES
      204 5 INNOVATION: Singer and piano stylist Miss Trudy Connor is receiving many bookings for Christmas house parties. Looking pretty much like a holiday glamour gift herself, Trudy's popularity soars the moment she begins to warble or tinkle the ivories in her sultry way. CAROUSEL: Mr. Radek Rasmussen, one
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      FOR MIS FRIEND
      160 5 a gad office was performed yesterday by Mr. t\vnj;imin Robins, Singapore bu.sJnos.sman and ox-Jockey for his long-time friend, Major Reginald Victor Knight, MC of the Ilritl.sh Army WttlOM funoral services ye terday at Bidadari were arranged by Mr Robin.s. a noted horseman, roughrider, polo playef and artilleryman
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      147 6 ■•••■•••••••••■■••••>■ >I AMMC AKi: b» tee Falk and IMiil lla%-iw r\H/A.\ b> B «l»;ic Hire BurroGigliw Till] iSi%l!\T by Leslie Cliarteris JAWE by Hubbard EXCUSE ME BUTTING IN J BUT, >. NOW V£U MUSTN'T BE^^SUPPOSING A 7^Z£-/VT-\j PnOW, I MUSTN'T KEEP YOU S^rl" 1 i E^? E A R r?
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      713 6 t <4. -^T 1 J J i>orn today, you have more i I 1> ordinary insight Into the act! and motivations Ol people JTou j t difficult person to fool your wit is t 4 Often caustic and biting and. with thJ t proper training and disciplin talent for literary
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    'Quiet man' is cleared
    166 7 PARTY Til A T LED TO TRAGEDY A MAN described by Mr Christmas Humphreys, prosecuting, as ■'quiet. Inoffensive* 1 was I found not guilty at London's Old Bailey of the murder or manSlaughter of his wife's brother-in-law. The man, Charles Edward Hodges, 33, of Beresford Avenue,
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    Field gun on top of Stonehenge
    71 7 AN Italian field gun has been found on one of the stones at Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain. The gun, a war-time trophy, usually stands outside the regimental headquarters at Larkhill, two miles from Stonehenge. A Southern Command spokesman said that an investigation was being made.
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    Air dog Charlie meets Sir Francis
    135 7 Air dog Charlie meets Sir Francis THE Commander-iii-Chief, Far East Air Force, Air Marshal Sir Frauds Fressanges, took time off 1 on Wednesday to meet Royal Air Force Police I>»K I I "Charlie", who has distinguished himself on anti- terrorist operations in Malaya. "Charlie" and his handler, Corporal J. T.
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    WOMAN HAD $17,000 IN HER CLOTHES
    74 7 WOMAN HAD $1 7,000 IN HER CLOTHES A WOMAN of 66 who was found dead in her gas-lit home in Leeds had £2.000--$17,00 cash and savings certificates stitched into her underclothes. Miss Mary T^annah Howard, who lived alone in Greenmount Street, had not been seen since for some time. Worried
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    Britain's 4d a head for art is 'mean'
    264 7 TELEVISION i.s welcomed -1 afl a friendly partner in the drive to bring art to the people by Iho British Art.-; Council. In their annual report the council ask: if i)i"c?er screen tv with lull range of colour could i how the
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    Final defeat faces remnant Mau Mau
    598 8  - Final defeat faces remnant Mau Mau DONALD WISE An assessment from Nairobi by TOHI last Man Mau has his ear glued to a short-wave radio in his cloudy mountain eyrie, 3.000 feet above the golden wheat of the white fanners. He La tired. He Is COld, he i.s hungry; ne
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    THE FLEET'S IN
    18 8  -  GILES by I know someone's Chick tfho'll be going oq a charge for Un-American activities."
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    EISENHOWER'S DILEMMA
    787 8  -  Simon Maynard by IN the next few weeks 1 President Eisenhower must face one of the biggest problems of his life. I hear that during the past week he has somewhat wistfully confessed to personal friends that it is "a far bigger problem than any I faced in
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    Knuckleduster dancer given detention
    75 9 Knuckleduster dancer given detention I A trooper of the Royal Scots Greys was seen at a regimental dance to be wearing a knuckle duster— J leather strap .studded with nails, Farnborough. Hants, court-martial William Pater*; m. 20. pleaded guilty ko n; with him an often»ve eapon in a public place.
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    Long, long trail
    24 9 for two months, a 10-fout Australian python to Mr. Arthur Stevens oi Cumnor, near JJ, has been found— in LPext>dog garden
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    Slower pupils given chance
    252 9 nHE children who never get anywhere at school ne per cent, who are too slow to keep up Jith the rest, are the subject of a far-reaching social i xperiment in Northumberland. tv education committee has spent £46,000 in con vprtin° i nineteenth-century country mansion into
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    CSC STAFF MAY GO ON STRIKE
    144 9 CSC STAFF MAY GO ON STRIKE A MUMBER of workers in A the Chinese Swimming Siih in Katong, Singapore, ;.p asked for wage in?reasesoi up to 30 per cent. liie d llb committee is unj tood ers to have agreed to Negotiate with the workers union. pree Press under5 j
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    Life sentence for firing barns
    56 9 A man of 46 was Jailed for life at Lancaster Assizes because he fired five barns. He had been jailed twice previously for firms: property. The man is George Holden, of Lambert Road. Preston. Mr. Justice Donovan said the Home Secretary would decide when it
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    Indoor driver fined $125
    106 9 Driver Eric Holt parked his lorry outside the house of a friend with whom he was going to stay the night. When police inquired about the lorry Holt had drunk too much of his friend's sherry, and at London Sessions he was fined $125, with $90
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    Child's problem parents
    233 9 Wren of misfortune— the spastics •< re the subject of a conference in n Experti in the care of the Hy handicapped made it clear that 1 mother problem, besides that children themselves. 1 problem of the parents. n[ng the conference on cerebral S :i Q of
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    Circus crowd sees trainer mauled
    272 9 WIFE warned her lion-tamer husband Just before he went into a min»? n w cl ™us r ing tnat one of the beasts looked dangerous. Two ™?«i oMt^ A e hOn attacked nim Three thousand people watched the young assistant trainer rush into the cage
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    YARD MEN GET THANKS FROM POLICE CHIEF
    160 9 IT never happened at Scotland Yard before. The Flying Squad all 90 of them, led by Chief Detec-tive-Inspector Reginald Spooner assembled in the conference room. There was the Commissioner of Police. Sir John Nott-Bower to thank them for their action in recent crime
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    BULLET SMASHES TRAIN WINDOW
    44 9 Passengers wore showered with glass when a bullet smashed both windows of a compartment on a train passing through Bethnal Green in the fog. No one was hurt, but the carriage was taken out of service at Chingford, Essex, station.
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    MISTAKE THAT HOLDS UP SLEEP
    139 9 MISTAKE THAT HOLDS UP SLEEP THE roar of industrial expansion Ij keep- Ing hundreds Of lam; i lies throughout Britain awake at night Manv people are asking' "When art- we gotnK to get a good night's sleep?" Soon, perhaps, u Mr. I J H. W. Glen. Town Clerk of Btockpott,
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    SINGAPORE'S YOUTH QUEEN
    200 10 THE WINNER: 16-year-old Alice Fong; (left) photographed with her trophy, the Paglar Challenge Cup; (above) as she paraded before the judges. The runner-up was Yemima Shabado, (below) seen receiving her prize from the President of the Kiwi League. Mr. Herbert Surin, and (right) as she appeared before
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    A HEALTHY DRIVER IS A SAFER DRIVER
    500 12 Too many accidents in Singapore Seventeenth in a series of articles by Free Press writer VIVIENNE PUCK RIDGE to mark Singapore's Health Week from November 21 to 26. r VHE accident rate in A Singapore is too high. The police report for July
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    THE GREATEST EVIL IS NOT TO LOVE...
    933 12 THE GREATEST EVIL IS NOT TO LOVE... An ex-honky tonk girl with a past looks back In New Year at the moment there is a strange and moving human situation The protagonibts EVELYN NESBIT THAW, a woman of 7 1 who 50 years ago was a witness for her husband
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    'BREAK DOWN BARRIERS'
    423 12  - 'BREAK DOWN BARRIERS' James Radford-Erans »ghf» hgfh yHERE were 16 people in The Room, eight men, eight women. They sat on wooden benches. They were neatly, but not smartly dressed. Thev turned their eyes towards the low, boarded platform. There was no altar. Yet they were at church. And they
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    The Muscle-Man of Music
    413 13  -  GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON by Franz Liszt used strong-arm tatties at the piano- and had the ladies swooning in the andience N \\OMIN AND N j; v Arthur LoesN( illll/ 25,. «54 H had the Ite a book nc piano, about 0 played it, taught niuu« it-
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    16 13 This light-weight wool dre ss in red was shown by Ostergaard of Berlin— Pop per picture.
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    TOUR OF A RAKE
    156 13 BOSWELL AND THE {AND lOIK. Edited F. ady and I A, Pottle, inemann. 255. 383 brim with good rea lui Li ns and beset by fr m grace. Boswell itii into Italy his and amorous, 'Prepare mind by cipline for Scotland so 1 the post Provi--1C(
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    Deserts of Arabia were his inspiration
    329 13  -  Artie 2AXY ...bj THE UNEVEN ROAD. By Lord Belhaven. Murray. 21s. 335 pages. ENDOWED with a sharp Visual memory. BWhaven is a born de.se riptive writer. He ha.s hnd the further good fortune of passing crucial year.s of hi-s life in a region where
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    He puts new life in an old story
    398 13 THE YOUNG CHURCH IN ACTION. A new Translation of the Acts. By J.B. Phillips. Bles. 10s. 6d. 110 pages. HPHIS is the story of the early days of the Mov e me n t Among the seaboard cities of the Mediterranean a
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    ANYBODY UNDER FORTY?
    1026 14 A challenge to all executive suites 'I liA\'K no room for the man und( i 4©t tvi n lrs.s for the man under 30," said Mr Trevor Bowen, head ol a i^ioup of Kr!isin 't(>n stores, the other day. "What I want tu buy i the man
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      264 14 DAILY CROSSWORD CLUEB across 4 Russian material? (5), 1 rho motorist's dogs, maybe? 5 t r<infllsPd dust u p aftor 7> tnc newspapers appear (6-4). B A 'steeple alternative can G 5SL d er jS: by fcwo newspaperkurn Into these at the sea- V}? n (5) -.sicio (5). kSr "l
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    Bring the KITCHEN to vour LIVING-ROOM
    517 15  -  EILEEN ASCROFT r by IJOW does bachelor manage his entertaining when he lives alone? Terence Cunran, 24-year-old industrial designer, who lives m Regent'B Park, London, ha., .solved this tricky problem with ease and initiative. Here arc .st.nic of his Ideal "It y< U have
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    454 15 HAVE heard again from those two ntcrpr i s i n g fiftyjean -olds, Mrs. Gay owel- Smith and !rjc Gladys Huxham, ■no sailed away from tatain to America in anuary because they Jit they were getting lto a rut and they jnted tu see more of
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    A Grand Future
    61 15 A Grand Future It iH the ambition of parents the world over to plan a errand future for their children. When the time came for weaning, the parents of these little people wisely chow LACTOGEN, for they knew that LACTOGEN would assure a Hound and healthy start in life. Alison
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    You won't find THESE in the book
    457 17 You won't find THESE in the book SPACE FILMS BRING NEW WORDS T ol need a new m to underm in 2200 A D. ■Fw .'.bidden Planet," m yfack producK Liter space, the V ume script is packHe, th words not found in ■< lonary. I V« l travel by
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    59 17 fOTHIXG corny about this— Rita Moreno is up to her ears in corn (there's a bushel and .perk at the very latest) in this off-the-set view. Rita is busy making a picture in which he gets star billing with such names as Richard E#an, Anthony Quinn, Michael Rennie and Jeffrey
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    Opposites, but they create the SAME mood
    563 17 Opposites, but they create the SAME mood By Our Film Correspondent CERTAIN actors who are in no sense look-alikes can often be substituted for each other, as they are able to produce the same set of emotions with similar degree of Impact. When On-gory Peck was not available for the
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    He conquered illness, became a track star
    788 18 He conquered illness, became a track star 808 M ATM AS, one of the greatest athletes ever, will be coming to Singapore shortly to give exhibitions and lectures on track and field training. Here is the story of his success as a star athlete. HOB MATHIAS OF TULARE, CALIFORNIA, OLYMPIC
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    Lock icon Sugar Ray re-instated
    90 18 qjuoar Pay Robinson and his tno oi managera were re In itated yesterday by the Ma: sa.hu < 1 1 RoxIng Commli ion whicn suspended thi in 1 1 i March Robin oe th« former wlddleweighl rhampion had been booki d to ftghi George Small in )io
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    REME BEATEN 7-4
    47 18 Cun Police bout r fj.m.k. 7-4 in a Div Twn hockey league match at Farrer Park yesterday. Aihort Urn, chankar Singh, Sanfokh Singh, Bachan Singh, Babrl ami Carvalho scored for 8 if h Aii Kuan (2), Oi levea and Heppolette scored for K.L.M.Ii. j
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    Lock icon What is a 'hat trick' for a bowler?
    118 18 A ncjf )ccf i"v <>f the Imperial Cricket Con* > xt Jrrmrr. the Marylcbonc Cricket Club is to ask ffitrjMng on what exactly constitutes a hnt > iriCK Jnr a bowler. r, f n/7 n lb n r i! U}}/ h(n<] rr
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    Lock icon Espinosa wins on points
    77 18 LEO Espinosa (P hi !i p pines), font rn dor for the world flyweight title held by Paseual Porez of Argentina, latt night outi pointed the Argentinian i bantamweight c h a mpio n. Roberto Castro i n a 10 round bout in Buenos Aires. Espinosa,
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    SPORTRAIT
    17 18 Funny thing Qei I I horses always havt (J f letting you dot* I London iipiea „>•
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    K.L. racing schedule
    112 19 ■H will be eight races W n eadh day of the Sem Turf Clubs October■J T-r meet inn: f Or Class Class Four horses I -hcdulr of racing is: tir t day, Oct. 29: horses 1, 1 and Div 2—7 I; *es Cl. 4. Divs. 1, 2
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    43 19 photo. BRITAIN'S Ryder Cup foil team which was defeated by the Americans at Palm Springs, California early this month. From left: Bradshaw, Km Hrown, C. O'Connor, 11. Weetman, John Fallon. Dai Rees, S. Scott, Arthur Lees, Ken Bou.« field and John Jacobs.— Reuter
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    51 19 Jl ""iilli!,C3Milil||i|||t3i|||| MO( K| V i I>iv. KVIN. !> P ilanfi l»iv. I in roand; x hftntl 1 ln^ UtW WmiI riMi x ,n 1 11 I rrrand. lanlnr knnrkout I 1 MeUI Hov v Itlw Bern*, KM I 1 I %l "m, hlng clink Oillmftii Barracks, |al
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    Don't show the flag says the League
    508 19  -  DESMOND HACKETT By rPHE Football League, J. with its old-world courtesy has decided it does not like my idea of awarding; an official championship flag to the team which wins its splendid competition. It says it has never had a flag before, :so
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    Lock icon Ex-champ Wolgast is dead
    128 19 Ex-champ Wolgast is dead MIDGET WOLGAST. world's flyweight boxing champion from 1930 to 1935. toppled from a chair and died in a Philadelphia restaurant on Wednesday. Wolgast, 45, won the flyweight crown vacated by Fidel Labara when he beat back Black Bill of Cuba on March 21. 1930 at Madison
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    Hong Kong Army take a 7-2 beating in final match
    602 19 Hong Kong Army take a 7-2 beating in final match 4KMV (HONG KON(i) WVIKK I'OIO TK/W1 HOI NO IP THEIR TOUR OF SINGAPORE YESTERDAY vr l^,! I l^ WKKF BFVIKN 7 KV R^F SINGAPORE i ?>M.r. 1 .'\lv. The match w.ts played j n continuous rain but the standard oi
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    2 boxors hold up fights
    140 20 2 boxors hold up fights r I Ii I !>'■;»»■: |)i Ogl i I MM «t th. 1 Ni 11 Y\ hi id stadium in Pe lli U'.^ on i;l llesd I > W .1^ h« !t! Up I>l .'"> minutes n<*< ausc two S pit lumn tr> bOX6ff i«•
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    'The Master' was at his best last night..
    254 20 'The Master' was at his best last night.. lI'OSI, PI NG SOON >* tin- mastei !u ls ji. ,>t• i < r> ln> t» >t it i bi| moment \< the i(i i!> <»i vi (I »> i Uuri i,,:; hi lie pi r l«)i mi <i II it*' tin-
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    LATEST HOCKEY TABLES
    120 20 F ATEST positions in the Sin- gapore Hockey Association leagues are below. P W D L F A pts P W D L F ApUs SRC. 5 5 0 0 11 3 10 Police 5 4 1 0 16 2 9 Changi 5 3 119 6 7
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    WORLD CHAMPION HERE TO COACH
    171 20 JESSE OWENS, winner ol »ur gold medals at the to.'JG Olympics and whose world r >cords for the 100 and 200 metres and long jump stand, flew into Singapore yesterday to start a 23-day coaching tour of Singapore and the Federation. lie has brought along
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    Schools swim gala today
    118 20 VTINETEEN English Schools have entered for the Singapore Inter-school swimming championships to be held at tine Chinese Swimming Club today. Highlights ol the moot will be the 4x50 metres freestyle relays for boy., and girls, and tho invitation relays for Chinese .schools. The gala Will start
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    SCHOOL SWIM HEATS TODAY
    39 20 I^HE Singapore interschools swimming championship heats, scheduled to take place at the Chinese Swimming Club yesterday, have boon cancelled. All races will be held at the Chine.se Swimming Club i starting at 2.30 p.m. today.
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    S. JOHORE TEAM FOR TOMORROW
    86 20 Couth Johore live play the reme at rugger on Saturday at Aycr Rajah Road, at. 5 m The follow lut; will play for Johorv: p. Whayman; v\ r. Dixon, N. Roberts, C. C. R. SteVenSOn, B Emery; R. Maha flcv. vv. i) a. Admason; w.
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