The Singapore Free Press, 10 May 1954

Microfilm: NL2438
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    Masthead
    16 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. sin?.l»ore. Mon., May 10, IMC Price IfCtt
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    A helping hand
    27 1 picture. IRovei Lin Bock Sim tiis bride, the former i Qnata (ieok Kirn. the cuke at their nption m SteCAt the ut'ok-cnd Free Press
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    RAIN-for 72 hours in India
    26 1 I iu airs ol torrential brought a few flood iv to Assam rapidly rising lu.^t'd the sal'ety pilled over into suruntryside.
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    HUNGER STRIKE
    26 1 Ingh. a Communist i Pokhra has baen n tho gaol at Khat'Pal after .staging a hunger .strike to pro- his detention wilh- I A.P.
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    AVALANCHE KILLS 2
    25 1 I a Mfrtj of seven w.-re killed and severely injured entire group was b y an avalanche th.« R.,saßlanSion Switzerland ye.s- Reuter
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    Rubber price
    12 1 Rubbw Market opened '>"»- this'morn- M.iy shipment pound— one-eight irday'a close
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    WHAT RUSSIA SAYS Blackmail-by Dulles
    120 1 WHAT RUSSIA SAYS Blackmail-by Dulles Moscow radio commentator, B. Leontyev, who voices official Kremlin policy, yesterday denounced American Secretary of State John Foster Dutes on charges that he was promoting a policy of blackmail." The defeat of American diplomacy m Geneva is a current defeat of the socalled policy from*
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    2,700 IN U.S. BUS STRIKE
    24 1 Itranturi was paralysed m the Steel produmiK ritUlmrc, Pennsylvania, yesterday when :i,700 bus 111 Wen went on strike. Reuter
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    FOUND HANGED
    58 1 A 55-year-old man. Boh Kwee of Pulau Bukom WU lound this morning hanging n<>m a beam supporting a goalpost m me playground of the Kong Chow Wui Kwoii School m New Bridge Road. Singapore. Police found on Hi uody a letter addressed to the BChOOI principal, an identity
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    'Peaceful progress our aim, but...'
    148 1 WHAT THE UNITED STATES SAYS MR. WALTER Bedell Smith, head of the American delegation at the Far East conference said m Geneva yesterday that but for mischievous misrepresentations' the United States would now have been supplying implements of peaceful development to Russia and China. "We
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    FRENCH MASSING TO MEET RED THREAT TO KEY DELTA
    259 1 FRENCH MASSING TO MEET RED THREAT TO KEY DELTA pOlK Communist divisions have re grouped m the rubble of the fallei French fortress of Dien Bien Phu for ai expected drive against the Ked Rive delta, key to victory for all Northen "~i Indo-China. Informed reports said the French High
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    de Gaulle men riot 'LANIEL RESIGN'
    127 1 de Gaulle men riot 'LANIEL RESIGN' ACROWH Ol about 15.000 cheered French Oenerw Charlei de Gaulle as he t( xjd m silent Mlvte v tterd iy at (he Paris m onu mt n t to Frann i \-> Unknown Boldlei and broke into a riOl .soon after he W-f t.
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    Tort hero is alive'
    100 1 CtOMMUNIST broadcasts which said the commander of Dien liien -Phu 1 had been captured, but did not reler to Bril ffadier General De Castries by name, indicated the gallant little Trench man. whose final stand electrified the world, was alive. French oiii< ials believed. French stall
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    New U.S. talks begin on S.E. Asia defence
    121 1 New U.S. talks begin on S.E. Asia defence MR. John Poster Dulles. American Secretary of State, plans a new series of talks this week with representatives of nations he has a.skcd to join m rollective action to defend South Bast Asia, State Department oilicials said m Washington. He began the
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    MAN-MADE ISLANDS BUILT FOR OIL SEARCH OFF BORNEO
    161 2 Drilling 36,000 ft. below saa I KILLING ri I hcd <;m ;irtifi? i;il "islands <•! i probing th< I f 1 1 tin bed of the i i Sea <>n i> m.<<» In i arch foi more oil. A i rvey ship
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    She's here to meet the YWCA
    86 2 She's here to meet the YWCA llliss Fii/.ibwii Palmer i*l (above) World Secretary of th<- Youni Women's hrisUan Association^ arrived m Singapore al the week-end In K.I, M airliner i'«r week's vi«-i( of Hie olonj and tfw Federation. MK S palmer, rtlmm beadqnarteri are m Geneva, is on world (our
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    Norway tells 4: Hand over Red spy pay
    110 2 LXjur Norwegian* were found I guilty of spying for the Soviet Union and sentenced to gao] terms ranging from two four yeara by a civil court m Kirkenea on Saturday. The court ordered th< m u> pay the Oovenuneni im n< y
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    MORTAR BATTLE ON BORDER: 3 KILLED
    124 2 SPORADIC FIGHTING with small amis and mortars flared up alonij the Jordan-Israel border yesterday. Two Israelis and one Jordanian were killed, and several were wounded on both sides. Two hills changed hands m the fighting. An Israeli jeep was captured. said JORDAN: The Israelis
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    Brunei's big rice schema
    57 2 BRUNEI TOWN. Mon. Kltl Ml plans to spend y:.:)(Mi()00 on capital development of rice paddy farming m the sultanate. Two potential rice areas have been selected near Brunei town. About 10.000 acres can hv turned into paddy. An extensive survey and irrigation development which will be
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    Japan to get U.S. warships
    33 2 An agreement for Japan tt) lease four U S. destroyer.be .signed this week. Japan hope.s to negotiate later for U.S. lease of 10 to 12 morr warships.— A.P.
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    Airliner dives 4,000 feet to 'prove' a crash
    161 2 Airliner dives 4,000 feet to 'prove a crash pilot put a four-engined :«irlinor Into :i 4 000-foot dive over the Thann i I nary y> terday tn demonstrate ;> discovery that may prevent many air erai hei In tin- futur* Captain Michael Davl Tnadr the dive ii, a:: Avn Tildor
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    House blows up
    59 2 COLOGNE Mon A'i' LEAST ill*« ]>('.: om were kiiiui ;ni<! h\t .•< ri- ly In ure< J( ;i piosion «hattrred three•ton v Apartment building ye«tu\Ja>. Mon- person* are believed trapped m the debris. The explosion broke windowj m ;i radius ol 200 yards and i. s beUered
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    £800,000 war-seized gold dispute
    335 2 £800,000 war-seized gold dispute OWNERSHIP .1 more than tw<» ton. oi };oid worth £800.001) win kx disputed I lore the International couri here today n, a case expect* d to last a week. The application Instituting proceedings wa* filed *>y the Italian Government against u»r governments oi France Riitaln and
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    THE QUEEN MOTHER ADMIRES OUR ART
    161 2 THE QUEEN MOTHER ADMIRES OUR ART liie Queen Mothi r greets Kaja Sir I da, the Commissioner for .Malaya, and his wife at the Malayan stand at the British Industries Fair m London The Queen admired the arts and craft* from Malaya on display. The feature of the si md
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    S'pore girl to study dressmaking in London
    117 3 S'pore girl to study dressmaking in London IlKl I IV Miss Sylvia Oon of Singapore is on her o to the famous world llh whore fashions mlk their debut. 1,, London. she will l rlll dressmaking and designing. She also hopes to visit Paris later to stuj. fashion* Miss Oon
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    QUEEN'S PLANS
    28 3 Ti. and the Duke of Edinburgh are to spend two days m Yorkshire during and travel by road through the coalfield areas from Rotherham and Shef-
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    His first visit to Singapore
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    CHINESE DINNER FOR THE CHIEF SCOUT
    196 3 ese dinner is includ--1 I among the functions for Lord Rowallan, >ut for the British and Commonwealth, Pf«J he visits Singapore at th end of October dinner will be attenddnclali of the Boy Association and scouPresentlng the three districts' the programme h as boen
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    COLONY CHINESE ARE URGED: TAKE MORE ACTIVE PART IN POLITICS
    156 3 COLONY CHINESE ARE URGED: TAKE MORE ACTIVE PART IN POLITICS THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, m its drive for members, is urging the Colony Chinese to take a more active part m politics. This was one of the Chamber's six-point programme which its new committee has pledged to carry
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    NO MORE TUNA ATOM TESTS
    44 3 Japan will .stop radioactive testing of canned and frozen tuna on Monday. All tuna for export has been tested under Government order since Japanese fishing boats began unloading iadioactive fight after the March hydrogen bomb test at Bikini A.P.
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    Untitled
    31 3 Mr. I. O. Ciilhert. Britisli Kesi dent m Brunoi, congratulates Pensiran Kernia Indra (third from loft) after the investiture of the Ml 5 b by the ll ii*h (Omniissioncr of Brunei
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    BOMB IN THE SOOT
    24 3 Chimney sweep Charles Lee found a German incendiary bomb m the soot after clearing a chimney m Carrs-road, Clacton, Essex.
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    NO SUNDAY WORK
    27 3 Cardigan Town Council In Wales rejected a .suggestion that contractors who are a month behind .schedule on building 100 houses should work on Sundays.
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    'MALAYA'S FISHERMEN MUST GET AID'
    458 3 'MALAYA'S FISHERMEN MUST GET AID' rpHE importance of re.se.arct A work on fish-farming as a means of increasing food production m the underdeveloped areas, is stressed m an official report on the Production of Fish, published m London. A research station which will tackle the fundamental principles underlying the fertility
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    CROWNING WINDOW
    27 3 The Dean of Westminster, Dr. Don. dedicated a .stained glima window to commemorate the Queen's Coronation at St. Mary's Parish Church. Hayes. Middlesex last night.
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, May 10, 1954. Opinion Subject of concern
    337 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, May 10, 1954. Opinion Subject of concern Blngapori bigge t ai m< I robbery tince the end ol the mr. foe i at tention on a subject which tiould hare |jr»ii cm. in!', official concern for a long time the incidence ol crimes vi violence
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    Queen at 'the Rock' today
    728 4 and despite Franco's objections the Cibraltarians will give her a great welcome, says DONALD MCCORMICK. vI'HAT \i v bind all this fusfl and i ;<ia\< r In Spain about the visit qI Hir Queen to Gibraltar this month? men are s< veraj reasons. Firstly, Franco
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    MOVING OUT....FOR FEAR OF H-BOMB
    226 4 MOVING OUT....FOR FEAR OF H-BOMB THI United States Army will I soon disperse its highly vulnerable, billion dollar Rhine-land complei of supply depot* and bases as a remit of the hydrogen bomb tests m the Pacific. High army officials said the final decision was t.ilten when Hie Pacific tests demonstrated
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    Problem facing the new party
    205 5 Problem facing the new party Singapore Socia isi tough decision 1 tether to demand rtv loyalty from or to allow dualnemtoersnlp. chairman. Mr fhomas. asked todaji Press whethrr would accept progressive mm said: General Council I s M u.rthy. Secre „t the Labour Party submit his application for h p
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    Children taught to send SOS
    31 5 ildren m Singapore's Home run by I Welfare Department taught telephone and to summon brigade and the ince m (\ise.> of emergency ire now 195 children
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    For the welcome...
    19 5 T,ondon drinking hours are likely to be extended on Saturday week, the day the Queen returns.
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    General sees officers
    68 5 '< Malaya. Ue«t- General K. G. Bourne fisited •urkhaa last week. Picture shows him meeting Queen's Royal Ke«iment at Tampin (left to WIN Brinson. 3rd Hussars. AIM to General 1 'I •■Cien.L.K.t.M. Perowne, Commander of the l<th »-t.-Coi. isx. Pi»t;ott. CommandlnK nn if r s vj£7» Regiment;
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    UNIVERSITY SEEKS 3 MEN FOR NEW JOBS BUT STILL CAN'T FIND THEM
    323 5 World appeal made m vain WANTED: Professors to head new departments at the University of Malaya. This call has been circulating throughout the world, including Malaya, lor the last two or three years. No one suitable to HI
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    The jungle men took cucumbers
    153 5 The jungle men took cucumbers THREE members of a Jungle Company. Pte. Majid. CpL Wahid and Pte. BaharJ were convicted m the police court. at Johore Bahru of stealing some cucumbers and using criminal force on a Chinese taxi driver. They were each fined a total of $225. Baharl pleaded
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    The Bishop lays foundation stone
    27 5 The Bishop of Singapore, the Xt Rev. Henry Woife-Baines. laying the foundation stone of the St. Mark's Tamil Parsonage building m Seremban.
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    ADVANCE AIR LISTS PLAN NOT PRACTICAL
    244 5 ADVANCE AIR LISTS PLAN NOT PRACTICAL Officials of a number <*t airlines m Singapore s:iid today, that sending passenger lists m advance would be. UM expend vt Thcv werv commenting on t suggestion that airlines .should send passenger Lists m advance to the office concerned m Singapore, and at other
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    Boring for Water
    48 5 Boring for Water The Singapore City Council will shortly carry out boring tests to find out the depth and quantity -of water available at Bedok Point. It is believed there is a vast underground n-servoir m the area, capable of supplying th<» whole colony m times of emergency.
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    Training schemes for local men stepped up
    187 5 126 OFFICERS STUDY— ABROAD OIHE Government is stepping up its scholarship and training scheme to enable more suitable local men to occupy senior posts m Singapore administration and give the public better service. There are now 126 officers studying m foreign universities. Oft
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    Plastic hoses tested
    44 5 Plastic hosea have been te I by 4. r »o Bremen at liaida pumped 10,000 of water a minute out Ol Grand Union Canal. I imc was allowed to pan over th^ hosea Senior ftre and P officers watched the effect
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    Hollywood smiles
    33 6 Tab Hunter says h< sweater girls but always ivr up with the kind that KNU them. Denise Darcel turned an offer from the Rouge m Pari.s with tm& wi*^« "Can't can-can."
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      421 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis j gTAR personnel, as a hiring tail, or r-% I m any job where you have m TAD7AM by Edgar Rice Burroughs /AKiLrAIN "-^•Z7 type and sometimes nn <i to be i I, W^UgJk^'Ugn pushed into things which w\\\ WJ .y .^W >4
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    An Oxford accent is not essential
    182 7 An Oxford accent is not essential ERS must imstandard oJ > uxiord ac am to v m, v ot rtcd SI t unii report G Nottinglicating that I some trainee to the de- tiiidren thej will I I n tv teach." vi them were Some students, re told, spoke caregained
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    THESE GIRLS HAD £20 NOW THEY ARE RICH
    200 7 MARTEU and Edith had just 1:20 m the l •♦<" them when 1 «P In business four ICO. »»"•>■ are showing the 1 the products of their *»r which they have :MI!l down a 1 5.00U *H«H m a wartime When the
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    SO THIS IS WHAT MOVES A CAR!
    41 7 picture. Phang How Weng, a senior student at Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, demonstrates to colleagues the gear mechanism of a motor vehicle at the school's science exhibition which was held last week. Free Press
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    JUDGE HITS AT SELFISH PARENTS
    215 7 JUDGE HITS AT SELFISH PARENTS ►I tid m th< I > c Court m i m mselv< to -ir children, there would be ifutun ire pul .it risk by the selfishness «>C their p md the com* m unity wou ter hope to be nov. I m n ist flim
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    'Make speedway safe' plea
    45 7 Safety measure* at crystal Palace speedway track ihould be' Unproved, a jury urged ;it the Beckenham, Kmt. lnauest on 25-year-old amateur rid»T Leonard Hall. Hall died after i collision with a riderlesi mo-tor-cycle :it the track. Verdict: Death by misadventure. 1
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    The vanishing pram...
    63 7 Mrs. Gwendoline Miles looked to if her 19-month-old baby was all right m her pram outside her home m Elginavenue. Maida Vale. The pram had vanished Mrs. Miles searched the neighbourhood, called the police...and just alter they arrived up walked Mrs Miles's father, pushing the pram. "It
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    The dry English
    34 7 Tho average Englishman today drinks 11 galloni ot beer less every year than his grandfather did 50 years ago. said Mi-si Stella Cuniffe, the brewery statistician, at a meeting m London
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    A Prayer Book held the clue to riddle of ship's cabin 166
    255 7 A Prayer Book held the clue to riddle of ship's cabin 1 66 rE mystery of the widow m Cab!n 166 was cleared up after the 25,500t0n liner Stirling Castle sailed into Southampton from South Africa. IT was m Cabin 166 that 48-year-old Mrs. Marjorie Elizabeth Gaze, of Grove-place, Nursling,
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    MYSTERY BANG
    25 7 A mystery explosion set telephone bells ringing, electric lights flashing, windows rattling, and cracked the wall of a house at Carlton, Nottin ham.
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    WEED BARRIER
    17 7 Wire barriers to keep weed off the beaches are to be tried out at Worthing.
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    THF BABOONS COME BACK
    73 7 BASSOONS are coming back into Manchester's Halle Orchestra -after a dis pute between the Halle Society and the Musicians' Union had kept them silent for some time. When the orchestra sick- ed bwwon player recently the union banned the em ptoyment of any substitute Works that
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    THEY JOHORE
    193 8 THEY JOHORE QRANGE light- the midnight sk headed west down the Ml towards the ODcn sea Fj r l lights of )^z BJhruK pinpoints rcflectc, W Half a mile to p:: H Singapore island's nrrfhe^K r e black against th. si- y|; ne^Kr starboard, the for..bod. n§',^H rose sheer from
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    GUARD THE RE STRAITS
    393 9  - GUARD THE RE STRAITS WILLIAM FISH Story by to be. And a lot hungrier. Terrorists m most parts of Malaya are by now well accustomed to hunger. But this is still a fairly novel experience for those Communists operating m South lohore. For many years they had almost unlimited access
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    Indo-China war is
    939 10 Mr. Foster Dulles ami Mr. Men musi swallow these hard facts at Geneva AFTER EIGHT YEARS FRANCE HAS NOT THE WILL NCK THE MEANS TO WIN. VIETWINH CANNOT WIN EITHER. A 'BARGAIN' IS ESSENTIAL, SAY: STEPHEN COULTER. ry thil the of H rhei no hope ol ie
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    AN ISLAND WO LONGER
    187 10 rpHERE 111 soon be one ten Island In the world Romantic Sicily island i>t sunshine, '•i ante grove And blood thirsty baud too Is to br coned to the mainland <»t itaiv by a road rail bi two mil.' v. Ide Straits of 11) Hot blooded
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    A Red Racket
    251 11 A Red Racket en us time its NOISE) MOSCOW is a poor place for light sleepers. A Soviet citizen, A. Erokhin, has finally poured out his troubles m a letter to the Editor of th? Izvestia. He alleges th.it no bedroom however high or secluded, can escape Moscow's nocturnal racket;
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    KUWAIT-TO-U.K. OIL LINE PLAN
    359 11  - KUWAIT-TO-U.K. OIL LINE PLAN rpHE world's richest oil reserves linked with Britain by a four-thou-sand-mile pipeline. This is the plan top British oil engineers are working on m air-conditioned offices along the Persian Gulf. They want Kuwait's booming Burghan Field's 1.000.000--barrels-a-day production piptd direct to a new "world's biggest" refinery
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    BEHIND THE WIRE AT SUEZ
    595 11 BEHIND THE WIRE AT SUEZ T*HE Suez Cunal zone is the only place m the world where "occupation"' troops hide m barbed-wire enclosures while armed police and soldiers of the "occupied" nation stand guard on every street corner. That is the implausible state of affairs m a strategic strip, where
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    Viking and Princess
    36 12 Robert Warner and Janet Leigh recreate to the life the young Viking hero Prince Valiant and his beautiful Aleta. Princess of the Misty Isles, m 20th-century Fox's CinemaScope spectacle "Prince Valiant" m Technicolor.
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    Vitamin C—an Elixir of Youth?
    401 12  - Vitamin C— an Elixir of Youth? Thomas R. Henry b\ VITAMIN, C, the "ascorbic acid" found m citrus fruits and many fresh vegetables, has been singled out m tests as a veritable elixir of youth. It regulates m some way the rate of formation of cholesterol m the body, according
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    PROFESSORS FLOCK TO AMERICA
    571 12  -  Fred Manor Reverse *Len<Mease* m Brainpower by writing from a liner m mid-Atlantic LITTLE is said these days about the enormous lend-lease In reverse that America is obtaining from Europe. I am referring to European brainpower, and our good ship Stockholm is carrying a highly valuable
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    Bridge Hand
    371 12 Bridge Hand Both sides vulnerable South dealer The bidding: Soutu West North Bast 2 NT. Pass 6 NT: All oaas |>OOKS by John R. Crawford seem to be tumbling over one another's jactcets of- late. His most recent. Crawford's Contract Bridge," is a big book (367 pages) but none too
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      26 12 POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER -Mrk! ft "Lrt's 'o\n- >t i cortscirurnCs don't k«« (o 'fur uf>our (his or >rr'll ntvtr j?rt (hci( pay Hr n
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      226 12 Daily Crosstw&ird CLUEB acko.nS: jl,u ;t iK room ti i, lye around bere (5> crter? if) •It Is obviously all right 7 Another way of spelling later. to start the African animal. l 5) (7. 6» 9 A little punishment, (3) i The spirit In which ;i bad Legacy 15
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    THE LONG, LONG TRAILER
    1145 13 The story so far..,, j Nick Col lin i buys his bride, Tacy Bolt on, a 35- feet trailer as a wedding present a glistening swaying aluminium monster that soon lands I the happy couple m trouble. A new trailer meant a new and stronger car,
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    WHAT A CRITIC SAID OF IT...
    99 13 IN 'THE LUNG, LONG 1 TRAILER" Lucille Ball and Dezi Arnaz, latest stars of television, give us two hours of lightly entertaining pleasure, with the adventures of a honeymoon couple m an outsize tralier. The. theme has possibilities and these are very competently handled.
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    Good story, well done
    104 13 Colorado where it always contrives to go wrong on tne steepest gradients imaginable. We are treated to all to trials of trailer life, among them the reception by horrified relatives whose flimsy garage topples at the trailers touch, and the too-kind attentions of fellow trailer travellers
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    SAWLF ralimg costs S'pore
    349 14 two medal* Stay home men better than Manila winners By KIMN PFTERS rITO S i n g a p o r eweightlifters could have won medals at the second Asian (iames m Manila had the Singapore Olympic I Sports Council allowed them to go. The Singapore
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    DAN IS FAST ON DRAW
    261 14 Toss a com and see DAN BRYCS, a modest MidWestern American, 47 years old, claim* to be the world's fasted pistol hipfhooter Gunfightera f >f the >id West seldom lived long enough to find out it age would slow them On the draw. Brycp i
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