The Singapore Free Press, 27 October 1955

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Urges! Afternoon Sale m Malaya Vo. I IV Pinfftpftr*j Thursday, October :n, 1955, Prke 15Cti
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    Changi busmen strike after 4-hour warning
    183 1 Changi busmen strike after 4-hour warning i HOLT 250 employees of the Changi Bus Comtt Many m Singapore went on strike this morning, four hours after they handed m their strike notice at 1.30 a.m. Talks to settle the workers' demand for more pay failed last night. The company's 71
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    MARGARET: CHURCH HEAD HITS OUT
    226 1 Bloomed to disapproval BR ITAI N' S Methodist leader commenting on the rumoured romance of Princess Margaret and Group Captain Peter Towfiseiid, said yesterday that even if the Princess renounced all claim to the throne to marry Townsend her example would not make it easier
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    SEA EXERCISES
    17 1 Naval exercises to test Singapore's defences will be held from November 4 to November 6.
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    RUBBER STEADY
    24 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened steadily this morning with first grade, November shipment, at $1.23 a lb., unchanged from yesterday's closing price.
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    Lock icon Strike wave sweeps rubber estates
    170 1 Strike wave sweeps rubber estates A 'AYE of strikes is weeping the rubber tobacco estates m tn eastern Sumatra. -is are complaining tey are not getting enough rice. shortage of rice also has I'l a more than 100 r cent increase m prices. Which sold for three rupiahs per kilogramme
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    Lock icon DIEM CABINET RESIGNS
    55 1 DIEM CABINET RESIGNS cabinet of south "•i Premier Ngo Dinh [Signed In a body to allow the Premier £«ne hi. s nr.st now "jmeni after his re n<wng election victory r fx Rmperor Bao Dal. J! 1 I' resident is expected name a slightly enlarged v ;°n<'t within the next
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    Lock icon TV from U.S. to Asia in 10 years
    79 1 rpiiE president of the us. National Broadcasting Co 1. yesterday predicted that live television programmes would be beamed from America to Europe within Bv< years and to Asia within 10 "A chain of micro-wave stations .spanning the oceans should make this possible"
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    REPEAL SECURITY ACT says KOH
    407 1 REPEAL SECURITY ACT says KOH Labour Front split on two major issues OPPOSITION to the Marshall Government's polity on two major issues—the Public Security Act and the Question of recognising the Malayan Communist Party as a political body—is threatening to split the Singapore Labour Front party. Mr. C. 11. Koh,
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    HE LEADS OPPOSITION
    10 1 MR. C. 11. KOH He tabled resolutions
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    A holiday
    73 1 Manual worker.-, who v. ilh to take a day Off tomorrow prophet Mohamed'a birthday may do .so m Ueu of one of the 11 annual paid holidays to which they are entitled, according to rt Singapore Government statement today. Though the Prophet'a birthday is not a paid holiday
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    WATCH FOR TRAITORS: PAKISTAN
    84 2 WATCH FOR TRAITORS: PAKISTAN 1 PAKISTAN'S Go vein 01 General Major- o< neraJ Iskander Mirza last night In Lahore broadcast a warning "against those who In league with foreign elements are trying to sabotage the I overnment." He declared 'We are not going to tolerate ti ai'or. and saboteur You
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    RECOGNITION
    15 2 Japan has recognised khe v South Vietn un regime oi Premier N^o Uinh Diem
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    Lock icon Geneva pledge by Molotov
    352 2 THE WEST STILL HOP is BUT IS SCEPTICAL AIR V. MOLOTOV, Soviet Foreign Minister, who arrived m Geneva yesterday for today's Big Four Foreign Ministers' talks, smilingly promised that Russia would do her part m the search for "agreed solutions" and an end to the cold
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    9 Mau Mau killed and 8 give up
    24 2 Kenya .security forces killed nine Mau Mau and captured seven yesterday. Eight more Mau Mau surrendered
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    Lock icon Soviet now offering arms to Israel
    275 2 Soviet now offering arms to Israel Tin* gjrcai tLasl r**\% NO BIG SUPPLIES BY WEST VN' AUi< d official .said m v neva liv t night that the blfi Western po w ci s have decided against big new arms suppliea for Israel to balance Communist sales to Egypt. The
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    Lock icon Jakarta leatter apologises to Australia for claim to Papua
    201 2 Jakarta leatter apologises to A ustra lia for claim to Papua DR. Mohammed Rorni, former Indonesian Foreign Minister and the leader of a goodwill mission to Australia, yesterday apologised m Canberra for statements made by a former political leader that Indonesia wished to take over the whole of the territory
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    Lock icon PARATROOPS FIRE ON MOB
    286 2 2 BACKERS OF EXILED SULTAN DIE SENEGALESE paratroops opened fire m Mnrrakesh last night on crowds demonstrating m favour of ex-Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef. According to first reports two people were killed and four injured. The crowds had gathered m the Moroccan city to welcome Si
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    Lock icon NOT JOINING
    19 2 Afghanistan ha* no plans to join the Turko-lraq pact b Fweign Ministry spokesman laid m Kabul. U.P.
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    Lock icon ACTOR DIES
    32 2 Actor Anthony Ros, 46. the college profestor m the Broadway comedy hit, "Bus Stop," was found dead m b'-el ftt his home yesterday of an apparent heart attack A .P.
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    Lock icon SAUDI UNIT OUSTED FROM OIL FROM OIL
    207 2 SAUDI UNIT OUSTED FROM OIL FROM OIL JjRITISH-BACKED forces yesterday ousted Saudi Arabians from the disDuted Buraimi Oasis area, Prime Minister Eden has announced. He told the Housf of Commons that Saudi Arabian forces suffered wounded before evacuating the region Tho Buraimi area factor of cont< tween the Britisl: Saudi
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    Lock icon Red China's first
    15 2 Rod China ye.tt' nouncod completli first rofinerv tc I beet suijar.- A.P.
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      152 2 Ao w^/f#'#* ipf?4>t'iitfjs so ome .vr*#» compare A ai Out GRAND t^ Vowti BUY TODAY DON'T DELAY —Some of the striking Items Rockfast Curtain Net 36 .50 cts per yd American Checked Tafetta 45 .60 American Ptd. |ersey 42 .60 Coloured Poplin 36 .65 Plain Cr Checked Spun Linen 36
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    Lock icon BUTLER FACES BIG BUDGET ROW
    527 3 Purchase tax proposals upset the housewives I PRICE OF £700 CAR !S INCREASED BY £40 Some examples oi' how the new Budget purchase tax squeeze will a licet the ordinary man: A television set which previously sold for E65 Including tax at the old rate
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    Shelley (I'll still use jeans) hits back at critic
    169 3 Shelley (I'll still use jeans) hits back at critic ACTE ESS Shelley Winters, ft ting bacK at a remark about her "sloppy clothes," >sterday m Washington .she will continue to wear blue jeans when she goes shopping for groceries. ;er Marguerite Piazza blasted i Winters. Marilyn Monroe and lers fur
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    Lock icon PEKING FREES U.S. WOMAN
    47 3 Red China said yesterday it had granted another American civilian Laura Louise Lav, an exit permit to leave the country "any time." She had been living In Canton and her application for an exit permit was approved on Monday the broadcast said.- U.P.
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    NO NEW TAXES
    33 3 Dr Rcinhardt Kamit/. the Austrian Finance Minis- tcr introducing the 11) budget m Parliament yos terday said it contained no new taxes and no adi ■ml burdens on the people.
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    Lock icon HARDING BANS TWO ANNIVERSARY SHOWS
    186 3 Reply to riot by children FIELD Marsha! Sir 3nhn i Harding, the Governor of Cyprus, said In b pro cast la*l night thai forces of disorder an ac is" forced him to b n processions and emblies throughout the I tomorrow and Bal Tomorrow U
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    Case for the birth control law
    280 3 Case for the birth control law lEGALISED abortion was J defended yesterday before an International birth control conference m Tokyo that has been emphasising contraceptives. Results of Sweden's controversial 17-year legal abortion law— which permits pregnancy to be stopped tor any one of lour reasons— were told to the international
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    12 years after, Hiroshima girl dies
    208 3 12 years after, Hiroshima girl dies A 12 YEAR OLD lr] vha a\ ,i. ,i bab) va v n lie from !he centre o| khi i[ 1 1 nima a to i nta last, di»-ri ye 'frd.iv i hie le I which i UJB doci i] ild maj h••. been
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      12 3 -:^_i_9__l 'y 'ft l ST* J I L'l'J Iri SSI 9 i^iyy____Bßi
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      199 3 iiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiim* &^tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiitiiiiii!UiiiiiiiiHiiiitiiuitniiiiiniiiii| ktfy BISCUITS at their best M AlJr^r qs only 1 \&s Romaiys| j /^^^k can wake them! I IS^r r;i ne.irly ,i hunrln-d /"-.l'-,, > .(>!•' m f'nt.iin hive j V^w 3^^^ > regarded Rom.iry\ biscuits as Britain's best. The j N^k" < -v^ in f^voui ol fhese
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    The Singapore Free Press Opinion Unions get warning
    124 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion Unions get warning THURSJ IVY I I 27, 195 leadeks of respon--1 Sible unions that refuse to bow to the dictates of the Middle Road clique will not fail to sec urgent need to t ighten their ranks jl hey arc 1 not t o
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    Red eyes on Macao
    117 4 |>EKING is turning the 1 heat on Portuguese Macao, the tiny enclave on the Southern Chin c s o. mainland. China, Peking Radio asserts, has the right to demand the return of that territory. This new move could he S interpreted as an indication that [ill
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    Lock icon American TV faces money problem
    984 4  - American TV faces money problem JENNIFER JOHNS by Commercial sponsorship just cannot afford to continue to provide the top-notch plays, musicals and other entertainment which viewers demand >k; quesi ot I *> i m m th< United States is wheth< r"i not pa you sei r tld "< <>■ pted
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    TENANTS MUST BUY DUSTBIN
    313 5 f !D iv fur a new dustbin? Th*-v tenant iiie owner of v house? n\ hould pay, Nottingham mag 1 1 i During tii.' case they beard referhe cheap little gauleiters of this city Thomas, a company director who owns appealing against an order by Nottine
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    MOTHER OF 8 JAILED FOR STORE FRAUD
    83 5 MOTHER OF 8 JAILED FOR STORE FRAUD 4 55 YEAR OLD mother -A of eight has been jailed, for four years to Worcester She was said to have got uoods on credit from stores amounting to £23.468 is. sd. The woman, Mrs. Charlotte Louisa Taylor, Davis Avenue, Tipton, Stall's. pleaded
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    FUELL SEARCH ON TO BEAT COAL CRISIS
    261 5 !D with a coal shortage of and mounting the gas indus>king anywhere everywhere for itive sources ol :ing. Ibilities are now I :plored, says the <-ls report for the ed March 31. tre: Natural gas; i natural gas from ii! fields; gasihi .ivy
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    WE WANT EGGS, SAY PATIENTS
    48 5 Because did not op- pear on I tie menu 'i the men's wards m a Rhondda, Glamorgan, hospital, tin j patient s complained. Now the hospital management committee are to hold a special meeting to consider a report on lood iv area hospitals-
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    Rescuer, aged 5
    43 5 Five-year-old Tony Hughes, left m charge of a youn brother and sister, got them both to safety and gave the alarm when the front room of his home m Lovat-.street, Liverpool, bla- zed. His mother was .shop- j plug. 1
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    VICKERS VANGUARD
    322 5 NEW U X AIRLINER TO BE WORLD-BEATER the Vickers Vanguard. Remember that name, it will be Britain's world-beater m the air It is a double docker prop airliner, will carry low people and will raise B.E.A. passenger capacity by hall when it comes into service m i960. An
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    Boy makes own fireworks and is now in hospital
    190 5 Boy makes own fireworks and is now in hospital ROBIN POLAINE, 12-year-old son of a manufacturing chemist, was doing a bit of experimenting on his own account. But something went wrong i and he i.s now m hospital. His chemical equation was at fault, and the fireworks he was making
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    'HK' shoes selling better
    203 5 'HK' shoes selling better m V< i4E oi th< i Ron X madi put on sale Ui Mai acti ture. Only a I I elr 30-c< nl i i Ima then I q X And they are m good d. 'i I tnck of tj trade was pori >f tl
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    DOWN, UP, DOWN
    54 5 Bridlingti n, Yorks, H ways Committee I pro m" against the action of Post Office engi] i In dig •m" up a pavement two days a I ter i 1 had been reuri aci d. The pr< I Is Ing sent to the i' 1 tma c
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      46 5 PHOENIX OVENPROOF l/tiISS TABLEWARE /l^/ f Ml\ -"^8 md, iv .i Gravy Boal with Pi:tt. r I $1.75 Wr'' 7 ..mi t- v<s $1.75 I 0 hi il C.i.v '_.i S iffl« Dishes r, ,m 52-50 i propht Vlohai RAFFLES PLACE SINGAPORE TEL 5 167-0-9 j
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      296 6 HI AMHt IKK hy «'<' mI |P|lil Pavis 1! > nMufVDWMSL F A< r M[ I |--A\: AS h.CGiNS,V KARDA, I I --THE CLAY CAMfL DlON'f j TAII/A.V l»> l>d^ar ili<*<' Hurra»tiuliM WHEN EVEeVDNiC SKATER ALAN STAeTEP MIS T^UCKI 'hOW rfW'^^DtX PAP 15 TME VILLAGE WWEKE WE&ET THE POCTgES'" Ab^tP
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      575 6 Born today you are i tfynam( j energy. You miiM always b- do I something or you are th n happy Sometimes, the rial 'i Vl 'X activity U quite unlmportam Jusi want to be on the m This U something which' it wouldt be well for you to contro]
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      New York prices
      100 7 NEW YORK. Oct. Previous Today fl raits spot and nearby 96.50 nom. 96.37 nom. BIN f ire October 94.50 bid 95.50 bid 96.40 asked 96.50 asked November 95.25 bid 95.50 bid 96.25 asked 96.50 asked December 94 90 bid 95.25 bid 95.90 asked 96.25 asked JOXI Steady.
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      U.S. PEPPER
      50 7 .spot and awaiting 41, a floats 38 1 to 38 37^. Nov. 36, Dec. 34, In equal monthly Sarawak spot and release 32^, afloats 31%. Oct. Slfcj First half Nov. 31, Lampong spot and awaiting release 41, afloats 38^ to 38. October 37 H. Nov. 36, Sellers ex-dock.
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      35 7 NEW YORK. Oct. 26. 0 Previous Today i,;,;! !ll;,ns 458.40 455.72 V l,l!nacls ***** 150.37 J o pmestic Bonds 98.69 98.70 1 tUiti es G2.70 62.79 CI Stocks Composite Average 162.63 161.84
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      U.K. closing prices
      185 7 LONDON. Oct. M Previous Today j l kss c.i.f. 35% buyers 33 buyei ium.i" >!' „,,,ts November 35% sellers 35^ M .n. t I BBEK Me. 1 RSS c.i.f. 35 buyer., j4 j buyers I ■s.rts December 35% sellers 38 sellers \u. 1 K.S.S. Spot 35 4
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      115 7 tap- .m Oct 26. I hilippmes c.i.f. UK Previous Today s European delivered !u per long ton Nov/Dec. $181 quoted $180 seller., i oi I 1 Philippines f.o.b. Manila in bulk per ton Unquoted Unquoted <<>»'< Straits c.i.f. UK/North European delivered weight per long ton Nov/Dec.
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    Make a home for baby—or it's jail
    402 7 Make a home for baby— or it's jail Judge gives warning to mother CHILD WAS PUT O VER A FEW:/] I AURA SCOONES J must fight, to win back the baby she did not want. She must find a job, make a home and try to prove herself tit to
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    THE HANSOM RIDES AGAIN-AND CRASHES
    219 7 THE HANSOM RIDES AGAIN -AND CRASHES ]yiR. PATRICK IDE, his evening dress tails ITA swishing, walked into Kensington Police Station and told an astonished inspector: "I want to report an accident between my car and a HANSOM CAB." Later Mr. Ide, a theatrical manager at the Old Vie. said: "I
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    Sound barrier tortoise
    52 7 A tortoi.se has travelled faster than sound —m a Sabre jet of 20 Fighter Squadron, R.A.F., stationed at Oldenburg, Germany. Already it has logged 35 flying hours on supersonic fights. The squadron has now adopted the tortoise as its official mascot and dubbed it "Plying Officer (Honorary)
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    Patient gets tap secret job
    167 7 Patient gets tap secret job A MAN from a mental hospital who got a job m a top-secret supply Ministry works, while attendants wero searching for him has now joined the factory officially. Neither the hospital "<>r the Blade Redevelopment Department at Aldridtje. m Staffordshire, win fhre his name or
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    CAROL (SHE LOST ONE LEG) GETS £1,475
    119 7 CAROL (SHE LOST ONE LEG) GETS £1,475 FWIK H\nU l> ,r,l Kolph, ;ti, r «il eii(ht ruji and skipp d down ;i corridor of London'i law Courts, trid no <m» noticed sh,- has m irtitn i;il fog She pi. i > h<>i)M ot( h on the Rsffitonea v\ hi i<*
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      102 7 nur CHEAP SALE commences today I with 4m<>atuiiu> ts4>«hi< tioits m Aii I Drop m $aye on your purchases here. n GIAN SINGH CO LTD. j 30- 1 Raffles Place, S'pore- 1 Tele: 52 14 5. SINGAPORE TRAVEL BUREAU 11, The Arcade (Ground Floor) j TEL; ***** SINGAPORE 1 GRAMS:
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    Lock icon WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
    331 9 pi( I lit* picture. The grape harvest m the German vine districts on the Rhine, Main and Moselle is m full swing, lins happy girl (above) probably consumed more grapes than went to the presses. Looks as though it's going to be a draughty ride, but
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      106 9 i STYLISH AND VERSATILE 10 if The new Sr.ind.ird G cwt. Diliviry V.m with its wJlprovtd 948 cc. tngiflt, its handtOmfl iims mJ it, comfort, iblr, will ippoiflttd 2 door t.tb, is t»u id 'I vihrli for th< sm ill business wwhetr t 1 quick, low COlt delivery M.rvifr is
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    TO SCHOOL IN GERMANY
    1361 10  - TO SCHOOL IN GERMANY STEVE SMITH by QTEVIE SMITH'S r»-a« Christiin n. uncs arc Florence MUi!;:.ret, ;tiid she conies from Hull. The mark Bhe made with her Novel on ITeilow Taper m 1 9 J f has been deepened by the weight of several other novels and her poems and
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    DID IT HAPPEN
    380 10 DID IT HAPPEN engaged." "I k now r not m love with you M,v oh do shut upVandi ooukln t marry y OU i Uv way. Ive nothing aeainct n m prlncipl WOUIdD t work." "Why not M So out came witli nothing more behind it than en ness for
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    Lock icon Even those Russians were IMPRESSED
    1242 11 Even those Russians were IMPRESSED gfhdbv THERE WERE LOVELY GOWNS -AND LOVELY MODELS 1 1 ,»ioii*4 to the J i show put on l London fashion rs for the Rusicxtilt 1 and fasdelegation with mixed feelings. know only too I the Russians have one reason w an- remained years b6iii
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      73 11 y//i )\V >//< >\<O/y< >^'>//i .V.' V//< j%J rNS > >^( i\v<>/^ .\v' '/^i .W t I SINGAPORE I jj|JL|| LEPROSY RELIEF 1 ™Wp™ ASSOCIATION I FLAG DAY f LARGE FLAGS I A^' Slo I SMALL FLACS §x£j 20 cts. I \T* 0cf.29fh195S THESE ARE HFALTHY CHILDREN THERE ARE MANY
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      185 11 SH l""^H^Tffi'j i m'**' BR In <' LUES ICROSS ti( n has an old i)i ol doth on t.' f igpwltti heeita- g^Jg*. ffifc, W&2g?S 2 nose ta prodigioul .Hi), 9fi 11 !11( .g>. (;1 might be a direel lane (10) 14 lll n ;1 y( Ash thai cannoi be
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    A Prince goes into hiding
    791 12 A Prince goes into hiding by a Special mi i iimiiii mi 'mini nun Correspondent 31 VN :f p r I nee 11 Ra ii< i m. 32- t; old ruling monb rch ol Mona has aii tv a hideout "soraewhen n i ri& Beset by ftn cial I rouble
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    Hospital run on mission funds
    396 12 TWEXTY-SECOM) m a series of articles I) y i re v Tress >> writer VIVIENNE < PUC X X I I) i, E to << <\ murk Singapore's )> Health Week from )i November l\ to 'Hi. in-}B, the Seventh Day Adventist Mis»n opened a
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    Englishman's gift to U.S.
    129 12 tfwe 1 eolourfi Lng a touch 01 femininity I by naming them Janet, etc.. ma\ no doubt \s I from tii. tarn's Air V m view oj I the more inti cover that th weat] i Bureau 1 founded by lishman— or rat] Smith ion an
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    Hollywod's Enigma
    35 12 (trace Keller, the fine Aim&iid stai?-e a<t; as tin KnlfßM because of her lack of nilhu- Hollywood's supposed clamour She sp< ml Ume m New York than m the VM, film 1 1
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    The Governor's wife should stay out of politics
    528 13  - The Governor's wife should stay out of politics ANNE SCOTTJAMES by PONE a lot of last week. d to LADY DING as she packt runks for to assume the of a Goverwife. forthright red-ill aded, fond ig, an experienced Lady Hard:) 1 1 i m some .sticky [ore Trieste just
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    Blame it on EMOTION!
    137 13 AfANY women overeat for emotional reasons, writes Mr. J. B. Oldham, honorary surgeon to the Queen, m the journal of the British Dietetic Association. "The simple fact is that they find solace m scones, y chocolates and cream cakes for the .same reasons that drive their
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    Lock icon Nothing to do with COLOUR
    89 13 Nothing to do with COLOUR IT'S not true that _g "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," a la W.arilyn Monroe or "(ientlemen Prefer P»runottes," a ta Jeanne Cram or Jane Russell. h Doctor f\u\ Popenoe, Ut h e noted marriage ronsellor, argues that (he colour of hair has gj nothing to do uitli
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    That extra cash comes in mighty handy
    404 13 That extra cash comes in mighty handy YIORE than 20 million w oni c n m th c United States have jobs -1,500,000 more than at this time last year. No woman who wants to work need be unemployed unless she is either absolutely incompetent or maybe aged more than
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      46 13 QUOTES I'M not answering any questions"* Rita Uay* north. "No divorce Is contemplated:' Bartley Crwn, her lawyer. "1 know Win Uml l(lc k JHcft Hayrnc*. her husband, "I am the happiest of fathet i Prince Aiy Khan (referring to hH reunion with daughter Yasmin, Rita's daughter),
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    RUDY SET THE PACE
    787 14  - RUDY SET THE PACE HAROLD HEFFERNAN by r rHE .sudden reapJ p6anu3ce ol un old fashioned 1 o v c story, m the form ol a box-office wrecking tear-jerker, with the cry of feminine fandom for a quick recall of the smouldering Bill Holdrn and Jennifer Jones team, point up
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    BRIDGE HANDI
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