The Singapore Free Press, 4 June 1953

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press Mr*e*t Aftprnoon Salp in Malaya MM ..-rr Th.r*. June 4, 1953. Price 15 Cts
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  • 616 1 MALENKOV SENDS 2 MESSAGES Ctroalth Prentivrs hath Vhurvhill WHILE Washington was speculating on the contents of a private message reported to have been sent by the Russian Prime Minister, Mr. Malenkov, to President Eisenhower, Britain's Commonwealth partners agreed in London yesterday to support Mr. Churchill's project for top-level talks with
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  • 28 1 picture. The Malayan contingent passinq the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus on the way back from the Abbey to the palace. A.P. A.P.
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  • 157 1 'Delices de soles Prince Charles' was on the menu THE Queen last night en- ei J ert ined 300 world natt,? f Coroin Buckingchanil,* I**!,1 While thousands chanted and cheered outside. DUrfui he honou "d her PMul four-year-old son by ■»"u»I the main fish course "dHi^ e UB| P t
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  • 106 1 SIX masked Chinese, two armed with pistols and four with daggers, entered a Chinese household at the 9th mile Jurong Road, Singapore, last night. The family were having dinner at the time. While the intruders were holding up tvo male members Of she family,
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  • 80 1 A BAYONET was used to rob a Singapore taxi-driver near the Dunearn Bngllsb School last night. The driver, a Malay, was told by liis Chinese woman passenger to »o to Dunearn Road. When 1 they reached there, she asked i him to go to a dark lane.
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  • 153 1 SINGAPORE GUNMEN'S $3,000 HOLD UP Free Press Staff Reporter IN broad daylight yesterday at the Bth mil e West Coast Road, three Chinese armed with pistols raided a van belonging to a firm of cigarette distributors and took $3,000 from three employees of the company. After delivering cigarettes to an
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  • 63 2 They'll decide on divorce after 4 mlhs. picture. Samia Gamal, Egyptian belly dancer, is shown here with her Texas oil heir husband, Sheppard King, in her apartment at Cairo. King flew to Cairo to patch up their marriage, but is to leave for U.S. without her. They plan to remain
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  • 165 2 ]t| PIERRE Mendes France, seeking the authority of the French National Assembly to form the country's 19th post-war Government, set out an austerity programme and called for closer links with Britain and less dependence on America. Observers believed his speech won many supporters,
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  • 42 2 For the first time in the history of Catholic Austria, a Chinese priest has been assigne'fi to an Austrian parish. He is Paul Lue Kao Tang, a native of South Shantung, who became a Catholic Priest in 1950
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  • 85 2 NEPAL will reward the heroic Nepalese guide who with a New Zealander conquered Mount Everest last week "in a manner befitting his amazing, supreme sacrifice/' An Embassy spokesman in Delhi said that reports that the government planned a life pension for the guide from
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  • 27 2 Singapore Rubber Market opened on a steady tone this morning with first grade, June shipment, at 69% cents a pound, B cent above yesterday's close.
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  • 80 2 1/ ari KIOBISZNIK was in gaol in Vienna on a minor iT i h V c 5 wh<n hU P^ttrwile Gertrude wrote to tell him »ne had fallen in love with someone else In fit of race he confessed to a doien crimes of which he
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  • 27 2 Lieutenant General Sir Francis Festirig, General Oflfcer commanding British troops in Egypt, left the Zone by air last night for two weeks leave in Britain.
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  • 70 2 Miss Enid Joyce Drayton, 47, principal of Bishop Cotton Girls European High School was found dead in a pool of blood with multiple injuries in her apartment at the school in Bangalore yesterday. Her throat was cut and face seriously injured. A verdict of death due to
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  • 120 2 BRITISH film magnate. Sir Alexander Korda announced in Ar.tibes yesterday that he was engaged to a 25-year-old Canadian beauty, Alexandra Boycun. Sir Alexander, 60, who has been married twice before added that the marriage would take place "in two or three months He was holidaying
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  • 399 2 MALAYAN CONTINGENT Rfi», From PETER HILL LONDON, Wednesday T»HE MALAYAN Contingent who were the cynosur A thousands of eyes in Tuesday's Coronation n* because of- their smart appearance and Guard h? marching, "almost froze to death" when they h it for
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  • 128 2 For 1 9 years gang stole brandy from vats FOR 19 years a gang h France had stolen thog sands of gallons of brand from a huge distillery ty using underground pipes. On Monday 11 men and women of the gang were sentenced in the Hazebrouck, Franc* to gaol terms
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  • 31 2 nvr-nVT tests vere carrif<! tests prove suec^ Mediterranean Island oi Professor Pi"a"; th deep to make his Wd for fl^. by the American explorer, liam Beebe Reuter
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    • 49 2 d 0 OHOWIIOX GALA JViCKTS (P PRESENTING <J 0p,.,-...i,' Pauls JVew M»° r Sh I HITS HIGHLIGHTS I with the irriT 3 SUN KISSED CUTIES p SPECIAL ADDITION NUMBER fj I ROYAL PARADE i d) HXTKISSIOXS: y fc j TONICHT, TOMORROW AND SATURDAT I CAPITOL mi&ulft BALLROOM 3 Manage
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  • 245 3  -  JOSEPH YEO i By Traffic eased *uf entire landscape and traffic system in the T H .«.p General Hospital grounds has now Sm JfwHh the addition of the new $2,000,000 fhan f^hostel and other building extensions. na rses nosie visited the hosplta i grounds for
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  • 154 3 New Sindhi homeland plan BHAI Partab, a prosperous Indian business man, is on a world tour with a 16 mm. film to persuade merchants from Sind to make Kandla, a new port site in Western India, their new homeland. He arrived in Singapore last week after visiting Japan, Hong Kong
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  • 81 3 reserves go up and up in area rPHE gold-dollar reserves of the British-led sterling nrea climbed by U5548.000.000 to $2,321,000 during May, the Treasury announced yesterday. The' gain continued an upwci/d trend which has gone on all this year but the rate of increase has declined. The March increase was
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  • 31 3 Singer Mario Lanza will come to Manila "within three months" on a concert tour that will also delude Honolulu and Guam promoter Ted Lewin said in' Manila yesterday.
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  • 11 3 A )ARING burglar yesterday stole: Two Philippine
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  • 139 3 EXCESS FARES: OFFER BY TAXI ASSN. taji. ns th e last two "2? Mr""? s parti•"ociation nrivi/ Si "i°". the J*r He P w^ ent Vescel(l >ration s hed ln on the h !l n'mSe? of h lon would -ir. C| «wcU''' to, o**0 in au «-W e C d
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  • 245 3 Here teachers teach what students like CHIN CHUI, young wife of a Singapore Chinese school teacher, who arrived in the Colony last Thursday, told the Free Press yesterday that teachers in Communist China today are virtually under the control of their students. She added: "If students do not like the
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  • 114 3 FIREWORKS MAN SAYS: BLAME THE WIND Free Press Staff Reporter |>I.\Ml the WIND said Mr. Johnny Ong, for Singapore's poor fireworks show on Coronation night. Mr. Ong is the man who imported the rockets from Japan. Said Mr. Ong yesterday: "The air must be fairly still to allow the rockets
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  • 464 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, June 4, 1953 Opinion QUEEN'S CHINESE LAST night the sea dragon was bobbing up and down in the waters off Katong, and there were lion dances and processions in villages. For some time yet Singapore will still be a city of light and colour. But
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  • 554 4 And Now... a Naval Review LONDON. OEVEN miles of warships from a dozen countries will be on parade at anchor at Spithead, between the Isle of Wight and the southern Englisn mainland, on June 16 for Queen Elizabeth's coronation naval review. Every country that has a navy will be represented
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  • 255 4  - TRAITORS AT LARGE JOHN M A THER HOW long do you suppose it will be before Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, the missing diplomats, are tracked down to the activities on which they are engaged —or, if it be the case, to their Joint or separate graves? May 25 was
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  • 89 4 All over the world the flags flew for the Coronation. And it is still true that the sun never sets on the flags that fly loyally and freely for the Sovereign who reigns in London. The flags of Commonwealth, the flags of the
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  • 194 4 IN view of Britain's triua^ the Russians may i abandon their attempt Everest. News of the Russian attesi had reached Nepal from Roc buk Monastery on the northe side of Everest. So sacred: Buddhists consider Everest t Russia, like any other nuo would first have to
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  • 229 5  -  G. T. BOON Bv Three floats in t-show to net gold crowns topped by rubies nin,rrntms topped by rubies are to be awarded G°, L X Chinese associations for putting up the flwVin the Coronation dragon procession. iw t floats in th Koh Clan Association,
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  • 211 5 Lone man provided the bright spot 4 royal roads were drab A YOUNG Muslim shopkeeper, Mr. K. V. Abdul Rahman, sated the honour of four ■royal roads" off Bukit Timah Road on Coronation Day by decorating his shop with Union Jacks, coloured bulbs and lanterns. That was all the decorations
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  • 71 5 96 homes ready for fire victims \JORE than 340 families wtto home, 1 {2 have lost their ir£^r ef orga rt are on| y96 new te at K B available tor ««y of th Ajrcr V^y next m a o n n d th the In" 1^ 8«.O. will be
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    38 5 The Queen on horseback is represented in this float of the Overseas Chinese Importers and Exporters Association in the Singapore Chinese dragon procession on Coronation night. It won the top prize in the "ideas" section.
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  • 29 5 For ''artistry," this model of a Chinese junk won top honours for the Siang Ling Musical Association in the Singapore Chinese dragon procession on Coronation night.
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  • 37 5 This brilliantly -lit float of a '"land dragon" topped by a crown headed winners of medals for "magnificence" in the Chinese dragon procession on Coronation night. It was the effort of the Koh Clan Associaion.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 186 6 MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs r=::^^GßJ** m^fF^KEt '^wa^a;i av. expert/ souNPeo the* prooo vo\Ce op hemu'ta?- n^^ \A N 4k I^P ZA^J 6>MiLEP.'6OOP/ ANP MANY 6TOUT «?OPE6. THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris "~~"^^sS^/ 'it uav/c qccm 7 TOO RAD' /I F
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    • 457 6 YOUR I 1 luckJ stahl B°»N TODAT, snsß'^l psychic— aa, indTT^'lSl ters, even if u U side advice ta l^al!| In other warda m backbone and u^ si spirit, even if 7 u tpe^ 1 thinks you are d.ta r Jj *1 tWng at the time E L?*l that what
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  • 113 7 They would nr sen rneir conscience VALERIU GEORGESCU, a naturalized American of Ru manian origin, and his wife flue sadly at an eight-year-old photo of their sons, Peter, now 14, and Constantin, now W, in their New York apartment. Georgescu had just re- turned from Washington where he told State
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  • 210 7 JHE Union of Post Office Workers, which fought for the removal of the marriage before the war, does not now think married women should be allowed to work. The union's conference in Blackpool Voted for reintroducing the marriage bar. The 1.300 delegates
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  • 100 7 A e l3 -JEAR-OLD high school Mtvo?^ m of the u ™erKjn u hili PP*ne« who flew h£ w^r la to Hollywood inree weeks ago to eet Plished lsSion unaccomhww S^^nted and unT ob£ K he Melecio wm is not a to beafc
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  • 101 7 HMM, 'ER, UM IS NO GOOD FOR TYPISTS W HIT EH ALL bosses who hum and haw over dictating letters are too slow for the shorthand girls, a conference was told. Mr. W. C. Thomas of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, protested at the civil servants' conference at Prestatyn
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  • 87 7 A" d "P'oslon a.x>ar d a holl In the Th C a?"' Cri Ser mOOred ***** river. sew^ the 37ft boat Pride of Race— launched only the day before— wa.s swept by flames. The boy, John Driver, of Park-View. Kettering. Northant.s, swam ashore
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  • 777 7 HOME-FRIDAYS DOCTOR IS CLEARED IT took only eight minutes for the Disciplinary Committee of the General Medical Council to clear 33-year-old Dr. Sidney Linton of all charges made against him by an unmarried mother. The woman, Miss Myra Metcalfe, of Long Lane, Bradford, had alleged that Dr. Linton hypnotised her
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    168 8 SINGAPORCANS en ...F THOUSANDS of Singapore men, women and children visited the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Unicorn and the minesweepers Lysander and Lioness as part of the Coronation celebrations. The Navy were their hosts —and both hosts and guest seemed to enjoy themselves Most of the children were escorted by
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  • 236 9 'At Home' Lndlubbers uftCßAfl^^^^ cludlng <3 dutymen; air •&&T.nd ehockman a ffvew too. was a special °L nf the ship's electrical model 0;'"' thi model, one ftW section was "1 the upper hangar the a Firefly and the other a fighter-bomber. Men. women and children clambered up to get a
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    82 9 t (i 51^*^" C bo::rd thc H.M.S. Un'corn were *e thip* s i«| 7 rt i fccls t0 man f e aiTi-arcr«ift gjns. ff o»n whirl »l V. e loff y supctructure en the starwn «ch the ship is navigated.) A A ICath th e°wi n a ft 8
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  • 430 10 A third is saved by a bolt TWO men laying phone cables in London's West End fell to their death when a cradle on which they were standing tipped up 10 ft. from the top of a 180 ft. shaft. A third man
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  • 32 10 A peeping Tom was arrested and detained by police in Taipei yesterday. LI Teh Chirp, 30. said he WOOd urH'-r n window to look at a woman taking her bath.
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  • 301 10 Last moments in crash-plane relived in court HPHE tension of the seconds in which a Dakota with A 25 people aboard lost the power of first one engine, then the other, while flying over Birmingham was relived by court, counsel, and spectators at the Dublin inquiry into the crash. It
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  • 171 10 MAN WHO ESCAPED FROM THE TOWER FU SIL IE R DONALD CROSBY, an 18-year-old National Serviceman, escaped from a cell m the Tower of London, a Chelsea court martial was told. The Tower was searched but Crosby had made good his escape and was not recaptured until two months later,
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  • 25 10 The British ship Saxon Star. 7.355 tons radioed yesterday that she had run aground ofT Tarama Island, about 175 miles east of Formosa.
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  • 24 10 A Washington bound passenger train slamrred into a Btandlng freight train near a Northern Virf?!n!n town yesterday killing U 1 trainmen.
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  • 30 10 A sea of people —AND A TIRED man THESE pictures were taken as the draron passed through St. Andrew's Road on night and after it had gone PKt%|| Free Press
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  • 165 10 CORPORAL REIS LEMINO, the 21 -year-old American airman who rescued 27 people during the flood disaster, caused the clock to be put back 40 minutes at the annual meeting of Hunstanton (Norfolk) council. At 6 p.m. Mr. R. S. Mudie, the retiring council chairman, was to have
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    • 52 10 WHIN IN SI.MiAI'OnB THE EMBASSY HOTEL (OPPOSITE KATONC pARK n^, r ,Bl IDANCK NIGHTLY: 8.30 rjj J f TONKiHT EXTENSION TO !.00 A.w. SATURDAY TEA DANCE: 4.30 PJI bJ SUNDAY CONCERT MUSIC: 1? NOON s|pfcS fS MODERATE TERMS FOR PERM ANE VI CABLE ADDRESS "EMBHOTEI." AIRPORT I MINUTES DRIVE FROM
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  • 407 11 y, the MIDDLE Ages V[Jl£ existed by plun- areas, a der I which resulted in an Li P <factory. Such exFSsr sg Supply and transport e C is that, the Royal JJJ" Service Corps will. SW* celebrate an£ST ack to IMS when Cromwell made the
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    172 11 Stage your own "Bridge Olympic." Sixteen prearranged "par" deals, originally played as the 1953 Intercollegiate Bridge Championship are being presented here. To play these deals in your own game, save series until complete: then have th^ hands stacked in duplicate boards (or uae four properly marked envelopes, etch
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  • 23 11 The Coronation arch built b y 41 Base Workshop (Vehicle) REME, spanning the entrance to 4th Avenue, Bukit Timah Road.
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  • 112 11 C-IN-C VISITS AFRICAN RIFLES GENERAL SIR Charles Keightley, Commander-in-Chief FARELF, paid an Informal visit on Monday on the 2nd Bn. King's African Rifles at Kota Tinggi, where he met the Commanding O ffl ce r, Lt.-Col. R. D. Blackie,. and officers and men of the Regiment. The Regiment, 800 strong,
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  • 408 11 SMALL BORE Shooting is fast achieving its rightful place among the Service programmes and alongside other sporting activities is playing no small part in fostering closer ties between the Serviceman and the civilian. The first major competitive shoot, that staged recently by the Nee Soon
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  • 145 11 The destiny of the Doyle Cup, presented by the CO. of 41 Ba.se Wksp (Veh) REME, remains undecided following Friday's claah at the Farrer Park ground when the match ended In a 1-1 draw, the civilians netting in the laAt few anxious moments.
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    • 348 11 Corps week programme rpHE PROGRAMME for 1 RASC Corps Week in Singapore is: Tuesday, June 23. InterUnit Athletic Meeting Sports Grnd, Glos, Bks. June 24. Inter-Unit Acquatics. (Open Invitation Relay all Units) Gillman Pool. June 26. Officers' Ball 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. HQ. RASC. June 27. Inter-Unit Athletics (Finals)
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  • 361 12  - S'pore shop now gets oversea orders P. L. KOH Weekly SCOUT corner By SCOUT troops in Hong Kong, Sarawak, Brunei and the Federation are now patronising the Scout Shop, in Singapore which is supplying all scouting materials including books badges and gadgets. These goods whirh are ordered directly from Impprial
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  • 28 12 Kenkichi Yoshizawa, Japanese ambassador to the Nationalist Chinese government on Formosa, is due in Manila on Friday on a tour of South-East Asia including Singapore.
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  • 36 12 photo. In the crowds at Singapore's dragon procession 18 children got lost. Six of them are see n waiting ouftsidr h rl4v Council Hall while the police And their parents- Free Press
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  • 55 12 VtRS. ANN DAVISON, the 39 -year-old British woman try--ITI in* to sail the Atlantic alone in her small ketch Felicity Ann has arrived at Nassau, Bahamas.. Customs men boarded the ketch and found her asleep— her first sleep for four days. After a rest she
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    • 137 12 rpHE Health Department, the J- market inspectors and the police are as concerned as the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals about the cruelty to frogs described by your correspondent Mr. Chen on May 21. As he now admits that no police or inspector witnessed the incident
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    • 118 12 ris not too late for the powers that be' to arrange some treat for children to commemorate the Coronation. The invitation of a mere 3.000 school-children to Government House and the participation of picked ones in the Youth Parade are no treats for the majority. At the Silver
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    • 95 12 HPHE Supreme Court is illuminated beautifully. Many photographers have been delighted with it as a subject, but when they went to take their pictures they found that an abominablp object tended to mar the effect. I am referrine to the oldfashioned arch erected in front of the building.
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    • 151 12 THE answer to a letter under the heading "How and when," and signed by "Ex-Attap Now Zinc," is not to be found In the columns of a newspaper but in the offices of the Attap Dwellers' Association, at 310, Joo Chiat Road, Singapore. Here "Ex-AUap Now Zinc" will,
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  • 175 12 By JOSEPH YEO A SINGAPORE school teacher, who recently set school of accountancy said yesterday that hUp prepared to give free tuition to students who wereV^ to learn but could not afford to pay the fees Mr. V. G. A. Iyer, principal of the
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  • 130 12 New books to teach boys sums THE MALAYAN Mathematical Society in the UnWersity of Malaya will soon-re-commend a list of text boob for use in schools in Singapore and the Federation. It's ideas will be contained in a Mathematical Bibliography. The Secretary of the society, m R K Guy. told
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  • 820 13  - She was the Talk of Paris PETER QUENNELL Hi viORB TROUSERS, SMOKtu <.»"»» by i ifi- et George Sand, .^rMaurois, translated by (Hanson). LSSe^S leopards can rfooe to change their snote; elderly Ethiopians STrtUl aspire to a fresh skin Andre Maurois, for example haVmglong been one of the wo f
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  • 185 13 "^dlyn UnWln) »>y Bernard f Chlnese f nur-hrr of --Saf^-^ /'LOSE ffnSF MamiMon. thm PL AY, Le«|i e Ames, uSS G s t F r P «tCADILLY. Ujrte) St Georje, (Werner made w i un. ceding study of Soviet Russia over the la>t twenty years, and has twice
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  • 472 13 IN SEARCH OF A NAZI ÜBER ALLES, George David Langdon, (Wingrate). (GEORGE Mikes's commentary on Germany explored is a plea to forgive but not forget. The good sense of his arguments is underlined not only by his naive logic and subtle wit, but also by his native commonsense and unpretentious
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  • 453 13  -  JOAN HARRISON SECOND TRIP PROVES A THEORY PRINCESS MARGARET had one request when her sightseeing tour of Oslo was being arranged recently. She wanted to meet Thor Heyerdahl, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition, and see the Kon-Tiki itself, the primitive balsa wood raft on which Heyerdahl and his
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  • 259 14 'Hope you win the Derby' rpHE Malayan Jockeys Association has decided to send a congratulatory cablegram to the world's leading jockey Gordon Richards, who received a knighthood in the Coronation Honours List. Their message will be worded as follows: "The Malayan Jockeys' Association
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  • 116 14 four probable runners and jockeys for the fillies classic, the Opks Stakes, to be run over 12 furlongs at Epsom today are: Ambiguity <J. Mercer). Brolley <E. C. Elliott*, Tudor Goddess (not fixed), Donica (W. R. Johnstonet Princess Theydon (not fixed*. Royai Diana (I. Britt).
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  • 47 14 The favourite. Canadian. ran away from the field of 19 Canadian bred three-year-old on Tuesday to win the fourth running of the Queen \s Plate at Woodbine Park before a crowd of 26,000. Its time for the nine furlongs was 1 minute 52.1 seconds. A.P.
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  • 521 14  -  ARCHIE QUICK By "DRITISH middle distance runners stride forward to 13 world supremacy. Bannister, Chataway, Pirie and Sando: what a galaxy! Records are being shattered almost daily. In the two-day British Games •meeting at the White City, London, Bannister was superior to the Continental opposition
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  • 97 14 PARDON MY FRENCH!— SAYS SUSAN rpWENTY TWO YEAR OLD A Susan Partridge, from Wolverhampton, who a month ago became Madame Philippe Chatrier, of Parts (she married a toprank French tennis player;, in alreaOy bringing a touch* of French-like temperament to her own tennis play. And just a touch of the
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  • 416 14  -  TOPSPIN By photo. SINGAPORE has been officially invited by the Table Tennis Federation of Asia to send a team to the 2nd Asian Championships in Tok™ Hofmoc sont on* n Mr. Lim Choo Ann, publicity chairman of the Singapore Table Tennis Association, told me
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  • 50 14 The St. Andrew's School aj« cross-country run over thrt*^ W half miles was won f^iW the third successive year "y Tuck Wan .Romanto Hw*^ the Blxty-flve runners comp :tp second (Hose House i and thirds i Venn House I nnma nis B°°* Winning team was Rom»« Drove. -—^T
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  • 706 15 SHAKY START BY SURREY BATSMEN Hutton out for 5 in York match MOST of yesterday's County cricket matches were affected by rain and wintery conditions. Cambridge University and Northamptonshire were unable to start their game at Cambridge because of a saturated wicket, Yorkshire were restricted to 70 minutes batting at
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  • 109 15 fTBH said only*three days ago 1 that Fausto Coppi was a beaten man. that he was washed up. But Italy honoured him yesterday as a hero, the victor of the Giro d'ltalia bicycle race in his career's most dramatic come bad pe amazing Coppi won
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  • 27 15 c aad rln Ual clash between iff*"* 1 professionals. th South aX «r" K Bnd hole »Se 2S" flnlshcd the 36 nnun A.P.
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  • 22 15 fciijt 1 called oB his "It *«Si? n w of th far 1» «u Wwld X» much Umc"
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  • 60 15 rjiHE Army will play a special Coronation soccer match against Naval Dockyard at the Naval Base on Saturday. Following will represent the Army: Fair <RASC>; Moriarty (REME>. Woodlands (R. Sigs); Miller (RE). Walton (APIU), Purcell (REME»; Parker (RKME), Morris (RASCt. Kennedy <RE>. Spanswick (REi. Mclvor
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  • 48 15 ROYAL Air Force Seletar Corinthians beat RAF TenRah by three goals to one in the only Singapore United Services League Div. 1 match played on Tuesday. The fixture was at Tengah. This evening Tengah receive RAF Seletar Athenians in a match postponed from April 7.
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  • 31 15 RAP SeleUr Spartans beat league leaders Royal Army Pay Caps by throe goals to two in a United Services League Div 2 soccer match a! Nee Soon on Tuesday.
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  • 198 15 P unters plutnp tor Aureole BAKERS opposing Ci n^ e H ViCtoria "C.ubca. Plenty 0^° n last n««ht. found Jy-lbSSSht*? Jf««* him out if >»er h e had K° od ol monc V Z L^m Z be n ta *en to "I Gordon Richards was taken to icin 20,000 at
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 140 15 l Season Extent^d TODAY DAILY! 11 a.m.-1.4.">-4.ir>-fc.45 and 9.30 p.m. Jumping NEWS FLASH!! Already on their way "FIRST CORONATION PICTURES" Expected to arrive for screening as from 6.45 p.m SHOW TODAY! SOON! A QUEEN IS CROWNED! A full Jenpth feature of the Coronation in Technicolor including the Westminster Abbey ceremony.
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    • 100 15 SHOW TLACE OF I »IK ISLAND oi*i:\s >iommv June Kth at 8.30 p.m. OPENING CEREMONY BY HE. THE COMMISSIONER GENERAL MR MALCOLM MacDONALI> IVC; PERSONAL APPEARANCE t OF 20th CENTURY FOX STARS CONSTANCE SMITH JEFFREY HUNTER Gala Opening Performance IN AID OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA ENDOWMENT FUND CIRCLE $20/-
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  • 464 16 AUSSIES ARE AFTER ALL McD hits I©6~- but... A USTRALIA ran up a total of 325 against Sussex In their match which opened at Hove yesterday and the county's opening pair knocked 27 runs off without loss in about half an hour before stumps were drawn. It was an Australian
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  • 27 16 LEAGUE DRAW BIRTH Hong Kong Bank "B" and Inperial Chemical Industries drew with one goal each in their SBHFA Div. 2 league match at Geylang Stadium yesterday.
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  • CLASSIFIED ADS.
    • 16 16 LANG: To WineWde, wife of Mr. Gordon Lang, at Bungsar Hospital, on June 2nd. a son.
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    • 46 16 THE ENGAGEMENT is announced between Joan, the only daughter o! Mr. A- Mrs. W. P. Crevald. of Barktc?. Ess-?x, and Robert, the eldest son of Mr. A tha Late Mrs. T. B. Cook of Whlekbam, Newcastle-on-Tyne. The latter is at present resident in Kunh Lumpur.
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    • 48 16 THE MARRIAGE will take place between Miss Tay Seow Lin and Emile Nicholas on 6th June, 1953, fc 4.30 p.m. at the Church of St. "I-owi.s, Taiplng. followed by a reception at the Hokkien Hoay Kuan, Taiplni?. Friends and relatives are {cordially invited. No invitation cards issued.
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    • 17 16 THE infant daughter of Dr. kiln. M. Abraham, at the K.K. Hospital, on 31 .5 53.
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  • 359 16 5 records to mark the Coronation SINGAPORE athletes yesterday celebrated th P n tion by setting up five new Singapore rernrH* equalling two others. The triangular meet on th S! was a grand show and attracted a large crowd Swissh LEFT: H. M. Taylor throws the javelin in fine style
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  • 43 16 Guthrie SC and OTEC combined to beat K.M.P. in a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday bythree goals to one. Alexandra Brickworks beat Overs»u Chinese Bank by two goals to one in SBHFA Div. 3 fixture at Farrer Park yesterday.
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  • 37 16 Ea t Asiatic Sports Club beat Se Darby "B 11 by two goals to nu b. snHFA Div. 3 tie at Fairer Pa rt^; terday Goals were scored by i» 1 swce and Ibrahim Yusoff.
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    • 303 16 ACKNOWLEDGMENT THE FAMILY of late Mrs. Voo Hian Foong, 8, Wee Nam Road, thanks friends, relatives who attended funeral and loan of cars, wreaths, etc. SITUATION WANTED EXPERIENCED and qualified Asian Accountant, Requires positi~n. Full or part time. Reply Box 5935. F.P. ACCOMMODATION VACANT 'COSMOS" 17 Scotts Rd.. available one
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    • 23 16 ffl PHEASANTS B ENGLISH WOOD jffiy Plutuliw f /o «fe*n»«« Coronal* You'll be glad you boug at Cold Storage" SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO.,
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