The Singapore Free Press, 27 May 1954

Microfilm: NL2438
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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press I urges! Afternoon Sale m Malaya. I^V». Singapore. Thurs., May 27, 1931. Price 15 Cts.
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    PRINCESS AT SOCIETY PLAY REHEARSAL
    50 1 Princess Margaret arrives at London's Scala theatre to witch a rehearsal of "The Frog.* 1 the Kdjjar Wallace thriller. her arc member of the "«sl and (m rear) Mr. Billy Mace, one of the organisers •>i Ui«- production. people are producing the i>!.i>. —Reuter picture.
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    That kiss—by Ava
    103 1 That kiss— by Ava pll STAR Ava Gardner iod m New York last any romance with the bullfighter Luis Dominguin. "A fallow, but just a ••'•■•"i ihe .said. hat farewell kiss she matador? Ava disM by saying, "I kiss a rople goodbye." U going ahead with her plan to seek
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    Malaya can raise ten divisions
    149 1 Malaya can raise ten divisions MR. SARAVANAMUTTU, Ceylon's Commissioner m Malaya, said m Washington yesterday that Malaya if given time, could raise 10 divisions for defence against Communist aggression. He was commenting on an article by General James A. Van Fleet, former United States commander m Korea, that each South
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    BLAST KILLS 110, INJURES 150
    68 1 •uindred and ten sailors perished yester- We mystery explosion ;<t Ihe Inited States 1 emrriei Bennington during a routine V,' the east coast of 1 Om hundred and f v injured. M America's second biggest peacetime naval disaster. The *****-ton carrier's high octane aviation fuel.
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    Last wounded
    47 1 rVHE final group of seriously 1 wounded evacuees from the fallen fortress of Dien Bit*n phu reached Hanoi yesterday Bo -said air nur*ej aboard the United States-built Dakota ferrying the wounded men Arrival of the last batch brought the number ol ea to 858 U.P.
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    U.S. seizes arms ship
    39 1 Authorities seized (l| Line ship Wyoming W sho passed '^nama Canal, alll* carryjtiji arnio for Guatemala. In Washington the US Air Force announced that three Superbombers will make a >> Uylll| goodwill vu»it" to Nicaragua today.
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    Rubber price
    27 1 The Singapore Rubber Murket opened oo lUiidv ton? this mornHi- viUl first i'j-.i<i'\ June shipment .tii>, a pound h '.<•-< lights of ceiu above jrestetdaf'l cla^e.
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    NEXT 10 DAYS
    255 1 Geneva showdown near? pOREIGN Minister M. Cewrgca Bidault told a French Cabinet meeting yesterday war or peace m Indo-China would be decided at Geneva within the next 10 days, according to sources close to the Government. After (he meeting the Cabinet issued a communique stating it hud
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    Templer may be called to staff talks
    137 1 Templer may be called to staff talks GENERAL Sir Gerald Templer, the High Commissioner, is expected to be m Great Britain's delegation for the military conference on Indo-China m the United States, if agreement is reached on inviting the chiefs of staff of Thailand and the Philippines. Usually authoritative sources
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    Big drop in gang clashes
    104 1 BEFORE lie left by air this morning for three month*' leave m Britain, Mr. Nigel Morris, Singapore Commtssioner of Police, Issued thu .statement: "The activities of secret societies continue to present a menace to law and order." There had been a marked reduction m the
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    Intruder caught
    27 1 Residents mostly boy.s, m Dorset Road. Singapore captured one of three armed Chinese who tried to rob two people last night. Police recovered a knife.
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    ISLANDERS
    43 2 Churchmen confer picture. The Bishop of London, the U. R«v I.W.C. Wand (left) and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. (ieoflrey Fisher, listen to a talk on the menace of the H-bomb at a convocation of Canterbury called to discuss inter-church relations.- Popper
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    Peking has barter for U.S. talks
    137 2 Peking has barter for U.S. talks OKI TAIN and Chinese deJ> legation ollicials discussed the late oi United States national.s now Under arrest m China, v Chinese spokesman said at Geneva yesterday. The spokesman Rave no further details but hinted that the American delegation to the Far Bast conference could
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    U.K. gun replaced
    28 2 The Canadian Army has replaced the British r >.s inch gun with the American i. r r nniiimetre Howitzer aa its standard artillery puce Hcutcr.
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    IKE'S WISHES
    23 2 President Etienbower lait night sent congratulation! and good wishes to the Kin^ ;md people ol Afghanistan on Ux'ir Independence I A.P.
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    Mau Mau round-up successful
    122 2 Mau Mau round-up successful riiHE main phases of 1 •Operation Anvil clearing many thousands of Man Mau Africans from Nairobi has been successfully completed, East Africa Headquarters said yesterday. Most of the 5,000 troops brought into Nairobi a month ago to launch the first big sweep through the city at
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    Police car's SOS
    17 2 A police car radioed for help m London yesterday when it caucht tire— Reuter.
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    Australian Reds visit Indonesia
    134 2 'APPALLING,' SAYS UNION MAN AN AUSTRALIAN labour union official said m Sydney last night that Australian Communists are helping to establish a Red regime m Indonesia. Mr Laurence Short, the na- r tional secretary of the Iron Workers Federation, said so after returning from a fourmonth
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    Ban on pin-up
    26 2 A German magazine, "Mnen(bener Uluatrierte" which pictured a .scantily-clad Jane Ru.s.sell on the cpver, was conflsrated by West German police I ye.sterday. A.P.
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    Jets for Spain
    17 2 Spain plans to build a modern jet air force with American help. A P.
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    —and Greece
    17 2 and Greece I 1 Canada will supply Greece and Turkey With 27 Sabre Jet Aghtera each. A.P.
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    25 2 Mr. and Mrs Willie Tay Cheng Hay after their marriage at Sims Avenue, Singapore. The bride was formerly Miss Lim (ieok Eng. Free Press picture.
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    Princess wins
    28 2 Princess Margaret has won a prize of three guineas worth of books for a correct entry m a weekly magazine crossword puzzle competition m London. Reuter
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    FIERCE STRUGGLE NEAR HANOI
    161 2 NhAKI.Y ZU.UUU Vietlllinh were y« terday trying to overrun French key defences on the southern perimeter ol the Tonklng front, m fierce fighting le. than 4U mile.s south of Hanoi Tht main tarftt o! the new Communist imiaulU wiLs the French Military po.st Phil MX mile.s
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    LOSE HAIR AFTER BOMB
    219 2 Commons hear Pacific protest j. A FORMER Labour Minister, Mr. John Dugdale urged the Government yesterday to get an I assurance from the United States Government that no hydrogen bomb tests would take place near any the British possessions scattered throughout the Pacific. Mr. A. D.
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    No bases for U.K.
    29 2 The Israeli Prime Minister. Mr. Moshe Sharett yesterday denied that Israel was negotiating with Britain to grant bases m the Negeve. Israel's southern desert.— Reuter
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    Red union boss: We'II quit atom plant if...
    183 2 A LEADER oi Britain's Electrical Trade Union declared that the union would withdraw electricians from any atomic plant where it was known that "power was being used solely for the destruction of mankind But. he added it would be premature to do
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    Anglo—U.S. talks
    26 2 Anglo— U.S. talks The British Supply 1 Mr. Duncan Sandy.s will Washington next wtalks on '-mutual prob.eir.i connected with weapons re. I search and development. A.P.
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    Commissioner dead
    21 2 Sir Frederick W. Doidge, New Zealand's High C°mmis. 1 sioner m Britain, died m LM don yesterday A. P.
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    BUILD UP DEFENCES IN SOUTH EAST ASIA-WEBB
    131 3 Red threat can be removed' rv\\\] peoples of South-East Asia could escape the fear Communist domination if their govern units built up their own defences, and if the Western owers— including New Zealand— would show by firmLsn that they would help to repel
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    Chiang's men are
    139 3 Chiang's men are ADMIKAL Arthur Radford, the Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs O l stall told Congressmen m Washington yesterday that military talks were underway with a number of nations m- hiding the Chinese tsts, on the defence iuth East Asia, it was lt\(r:u l d. Admiral Radford
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    42 3 picture. A helicopter hovers over the beach as tanks come ashore from a landing craft near Southsea on England's south coast. Units of the three services were taking part m a three-day exercise m making landings on a defended enemy beach.— Reuter
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    A QUEEN'S STATUE BLOWN UP
    67 3 A QUEEN'S STATUE BLOWN UP THE head of Queen Victoria's statue m Georgetown, British Guiana, was blown off by dynamite yesterday. The left arm holding the Orb was also blown off and the chair extensively dating cd. Supporters of the Peoples Progressive Party are believed to be responsible. The fire
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    Sabotage feared in carrier blast
    200 3 Sabotage feared in carrier blast Ability of .sabotage as luse of the disaster of rait carrier Benningthe east coast of the states was suggested by Mrs. Edith N. Republican Massasetts) m the House of Representative*, yers said Communists trated the military there Ls evidence "every >1 »nipering with airfarriers and
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    BOAC MAY BORROW 'ONNIES'
    116 3 Australian Government has been asked if •ipprove the release Manias Air Lines of <>f Constellation to British Overseas Corporation, m view grounding of the "'•"•i airliners, '> Profumo. ParliaM i i ir> fcef *9 to the ltr J Civil Aviation 1 question, r this m the
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    Wife is worried about Fort Hero
    215 3 Wife is worried about Fort Hero MR*S Jacqueline Do Castne., .s:ud m Paris yesterday .she hopes Indo China Communi.sts will treat her capturod husband humanely, and free him soon because hil physical .state will not permit bin to stand rigorou.s confinement Thf attractive wite of the Dion Bien Phu commander,
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    Britain 'not stirring up strife'
    78 3 Britain 'not stirring up strife' Britain denied jrestentaf she i.s Attempting to -stir up strife m the remote desert border around Saudi Arabia, and said .she Is merely looking alter the interests of local Inhabitant*. The Saudi Arabian Government charged on Tuesday that British troops killed five Saudi Arabian tribesmen
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, May 27, 1954. Opinion Kallang crash inquiry
    371 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, May 27, 1954. Opinion Kallang crash inquiry The public inquiry into the Kalian^' airport disaster will opf'n. on Monday, considerably more than two month* since the tragic event, which cost 39 lives, shocked the Colony. Inevitably the setting-up of inquiries such as this requires time,
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    The Queen did not come
    750 4 The Queen did not come HEY! What's all this 1 read about \Jnv Quc-cn coming home? Britain is now only one Of her homes. This tour of t h e Commonwealth has sown some new ideas about the i monarch ywhich Sritons m Britain must get used > to whether
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    Big McCarthy Rift
    251 4  - Big McCarthy Rift MARTIN HAYDEN r'HAT the Republican Hmh Command has boon, and remains, a house divided on the "McCarthy issue" is becoming Increasingly evident. Combination of formal McCarthy-Army inquiry testimony, documents have brought out these I acts. 1. While Vice-President Nixon wai playing a leading role hist winter m
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    Acid drop
    90 4 MR. GOODMAN ACE. one of America's top TV comedy script -writers, does among others, the Milton Berle show for thousands of dollars per week. He. also does, free, an occasional column of TV criticism m a literary magazine And such is the labour of love that Mr. Ace's
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    IIly is airmen's pin-up
    73 5 IIly is airmen' s pin-up rflfiEY call her "Illy and the boys of No. 1 jncoln Bomber Squadron. feagak, think "she's swell- of course, is lima irisht), Singapore ight »P o t singer, lima has I" regarded as the pin Up girl" of the RAAF, •because she is always r<
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    START SOON ON BIG RESERVOIR
    130 5 START SOON ON BIG RESERVOIR ii'nKK on the Singapore GoI! vernment'j new service senroir at the General Hoswould start soon, Mr. W Houston. Superintendin; Engineer of the Public Woi Department. said today. ervolr, capable of storing a few days 1 supply, will meet the hospital's rapid expansion programme. t will
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    SMASHING PRANK
    42 5 xn.s a^ed eight and six lour packing cases full j m a Nottingham yard. throw the eggs at a wall 1.230 of them. eider boy was put on n at Nottingham. The too young to be :ht before the court.
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    COLONIAL TECHNICIANS NEEDED, NOT LAWYERS
    286 5 "'""■al scholarships are J8 "righted m favour of nniciim because the colons IB general, are produc15* S« "MUiy lawyers, said Oliver Lyttelton, Secrel*2 <»i state for the Colonies. Mtelton was speaking I mpire Night meeting "> I'Ondon. said that the theme lfl »>> all political
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    Opera aided school
    48 5 Tho Pilgrim Trust last year made grants totalling 122.042, say.s the 23rd yearly report This included £61,423 for churche.s. The opera xrhool m London gets €1.000. -Too little attention has, perhaps, been paid hitherto to the perfection of the (opera) performer.s' training," says the report.
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    Malaria can be wiped out in 10 years says U.S. expert
    203 5 Malaria can be wiped out in 10 years says U.S. expert If AL ARIA can be totally eradicated within the next decade if the world experts co-operate m antimalarial control. This is the belief of Dr. A. D. Hess, American malaria specialist who has carried out numerous major anti-malarial campaigns
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    Army coaches into cafeterias
    71 5 Railway carriages which have been on hire for about 10 years to the British Army for use on hospital trains m Europe, are coming back into j British Transport Commission service m a new role. Eighteen of the 27 carriages: brought back from Austria are having
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    REUNION DINNER
    25 5 TAIPING, Thurs. -The Kin« Edward VII Scliuol old ooy> reunion dinner will bo held ut the Hokkion Iloay Kuan hor< on July 10.
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    Wanted: 2,000 members
    52 5 CiINGAPORES new Socialist S Party has sent out 2.000 membership forms. Would-be members have been asked to return the formi before the end of the month. The part's general council will meet on June 10. to discuss policy and its constitution, said the secretary. Mr. S. Jaftna
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    NEW PIG DISEASE
    34 5 For the flr*t time, the existence of atrophic rhinitis, an animal leprosy, has been confirmed among pigs m Great Britain, said the Ministry of Agriculture The Infection came from Sweden. j
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    THE 4th MOON HERALDS MASS WEDDING
    163 5 THE 4th MOON HERALDS MASS WEDDING r FHE wedding season for Chinese is now m full swing. In Singapore there were at least 100 i hinest couples married over the weekend Now is the fourth moon according to the Chines* lunar calendar, and this is considered an auspicious period for
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      83 5 LJ B B M M B H M M m m H M M M H H H i LiHtli us up fvr m I E. P. N. S. sports cups f and >**^T^^ B a tiTBJBIEI ff*^^ jOl m m WP\ jM Your selection is made easier S y(
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    512 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR I>OK\ TODAY, v probable that >„v Hll have a hij;h icgree <.t manual de\lerit>. Whether }«v ii.\,, t( this talent to an uifh a |M lj( j or brush, to Mechanical m i engineering jobs, or to \nxtalion is largely a riuu.r j your background. You are
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    This thatched roof would not burn
    77 6 This thatched roof would not burn A DEMONSTRATION ta A South Africa has Ju* proved the efficiency c a no idea making it impossible foi thatched roofs to burn. Government officials and light a bonfire over a that* I Cd He OO kept the blaze goii. half an hour and
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      138 6 AAANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris JANE by Hubbard -1 r- y I^^^^E I r BALI £R'N A— QUEEN OP JANE IS PfffAM/NG THAT QUICKj- VOUC PQESSING Ul IU TWt RINK ALLOW SHE IS A SKAUNG STAR ROOM— OR
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    3-D NOT SO POPULAR BUT BETTER FILMS COMING
    181 7 3-D NOT SO POPULAR BUT BETTER FILMS COMING A UK 3-D films still popular with cinemagoers m Mara but the popularity of 3-D H>« nets much on the subject wen for screening through »fc medium." says Mr Jim fowler, Shaw Brothers' pubiicity manager vt 'r. 3-D, is not finished oya
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    Ban on the Creep puzzles Colony
    247 7 Ban on the Creep puzzles Colony r\ANCE enthusiasts m Singapore have been Mirprised by a Free Press report that a Socialist committee m Grimsby, England, has banned The Creep." a new dance popular among teen-agers. The committe has condemned it on the ground that it is vulgar" because couples dance
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    Learn driving— from police
    26 7 Free driving lesson.s to learn "the finer points" are being offered by Leicester City Police to motorists who have tpassed their tests
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    ATTACK ON U.S. STORY OF S'PORE
    330 7 1 hart* hvlpvd j By SIT YIN FONG American magazine story based on the Gillon murder trial m Singapore has drawn angry comments for its sensation and inaccuracy. The comments came from Crown law officers. •rs and from those who had read the story.
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    68 7 Little Marie Linda Bonniface, the daughter of a Singapore footballer, Mr. R. D. Bonniface, blows out the candles of her 4th birtlul iv cake with the rest of the family looking on and Mummy trying to help. Left to right: Mother, sisters Kerina Bain, Loretta Mendoza, Marie Lindal. Patrina, Father,
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    Mrs. Eu has plan for toddlers
    154 7 —IF GOVT. WILL PAY THE BILL THE SINGAPORE City Council is prepared to provide a health service for children from infancy to the age of six if the Government will help with funds, said Mrs. Robert Eu, the vice-chairman of the Council's health committee,
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    Boring seabed for coal
    81 7 THE National Coal Board will be looking for coal under the sea early next year. Boring will begin m the Firth of Forth; then it will be the turn of the Northumberland Durham coast. Exhaustion of the western coalfields explains these developments, foreshadowed m the Coal
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    Royal birthday
    15 7 ALOR STAR, Thurs. The Sultan of Keaan will be 62 on June 15.
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    HOME SWEET...
    28 7 Two blackbirds arc rearing a family of five m an old brandy ca-se m Mr. A. Swann'a 'garden shed m Frederick Street, Stapenhill near BurtonI on-Trent
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    WIFE EARNED BIG MONEY AS 'MISS'
    304 8 Became bored as 'Mrs' At."i,(Hio-;i-ycar husband was ordered to return to a ttifi- wild got bored With married life— M she had earned Cl.tti year whm she was single.' 1 Mr Hunh Oir. 54-year.Old business man "began very well" after marrying Mrs. Marjorle Pansy
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    It started with a little tiff at home
    359 8 It started with a little tiff at home STANLEY Vincent Dolling, who is a 58-year-old gentleman'a gentleman, and lives m Broadpark-rouci. Torquay, was driving along the seafront when he saw a woman walking. It wa.s the mast natural thing m the world as it turned out for him to stop
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    Over the wall-on principle
    166 8 line Mr. and Mrs. A Charles huh want to lake their two children for a ride m their motorcycle combination, the> have to lift the sidecar over the garden wall. Then they need 30 minutes to Im.i: it to the machine. And all because Barry ((ilatn)
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    THE CRIME HABIT
    34 8 Giving up a life of crime is like giving up drink— once it is on you it stays with you.— A man facng the Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal m Edinburgh.
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    Pony's snack came two minutes too late
    302 8 BILL, a 14-year-old brown pony, got his mid-morn-ing" snack two minutes late. What happened that day took Bill's owner, Bill Haste, Into court at Ipswich. Bill the pony has pulled Bill and the green grocer's cart round the town for nine years. I
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    Queen at the City
    96 8 Queen at the City The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Noel Bowater. offers the City of London sword to the Queen as she arrives wilh the Duke of Edinburgh m the State landau at Temple Bar. City boundary. The Royal couple were on their way to a luncheon Kiven by
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    'Jargon' in lease cost her £200
    224 8 'Jargon in lease cost her £200 HARSH PROVISION SAYS WIDOW I UNTIL 60-year-old widow Mrs. Ellen Sundercombe I tried to sell her house she knew nothing about one clause m her lease. It has cost her £200. I Mrs. Sundercombe decided to give up her semi- I detached house at
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    BUT BANNISTER COULDN'T HAVE CAUGHT HIM
    96 8 BUT BANNISTER COULDN'T HAVE CAUGHT HIM A RAILWAY blacksmith's mate glanced through the window of his workshop— and saw a 120-ton locomotive come crashing towards him. He shouted a warning to his workmate and the engine came tearing through the wall. Both men escaped as the engine wrecked the end
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    PIANO RAMMED INTO WOMAN DOCTOR'S FLAT
    295 8 A piano was damaged, and a woman doctor WAS disturbed during a hospital farewell party by three doctors. So said an official .statement. The statement, by Mr. L. Richmond, chairman of hospital management committee. No. 9. Wakefield A Groyp, Yorks, referred to newspaper rejxtits
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    FATHER TOLD: DAUGHTER CAN MARRY LORRY DRIVER
    280 9 FATHER TOLD: DAUGHTER CAN MARRY LORRY DRIVER A FATHER who did not think a lorry driver earning £7 10s. a week was good enough to marry his 18-year-old daughter was told by a magistrate that his ideas were out of date. "There was a time when lorry drivers and people
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    Ex-S'pore surgeon warns hospitals
    179 9 Ex-S 'pore surgeon warns hospitals Till lives of hospital patients undergoing operations are being endangered because anesthetists are relying too much on their machines instead of watching the patient's condition. This warning was given by Mr. Arthur Dickson Wright, a leading surgeon of St. Mary's Hospital. London, at a meeting
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    TRIPS TO THE MOON WITHIN NEXT 50 YEARS
    87 9 ALMOST anything will be possible m aviation within the next few generations, acmrding to Sir Roy Fedden, aeroplane designer. Voyages to the moon and even farther would be possible, "during the next 50 years," he has said. For the next 20 or
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    Grief over temple visit
    36 9 "Deep alarm and grief" over the visit of the Queen to a temple m Ceylon "to attend an idolatrous act of worship" was expressed by the Free Presbyterian Church of Scot- land.
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    OUTSIDE HELP
    32 9 A suggestion that prisoners should be used to help strengthen Norfolk's sea defences has been made to the Prison Commissioners by the Norfolk 1 and Suffolk Discharged Prisoners Aid Society.
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    They made the jump and now it's home
    104 9 They made the jump and now it's home Three German foreign legionnaires (left to right), (iuenter Libuda, Herbert Oestreich and Friedgehn Kochler, who jumped from the French troopship Pasteur off Port Swettenham last week, are photographed m a happy mood at the Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department. The Pasteur was on
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    Food Minister in hot water -and at 180
    88 9 HOW hot should washing-up water be? A draft regulation for the Government's "Clean Food" (Food and Drugs) Bill says that m restaurants and other eating places it must be 180 degrees Fahrenheit. "Impossible," said a ielegate to a caterers' conference at Cardiff.
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    HIGHER CLASS
    24 9 Flying geography lessons are planned by an Ipswich school. Children will save their pocket money, to pay for flights over the countryside.
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    Lucky judge
    19 9 Mr. Justice Finnemore was presented with white gloves at Worcester City Assizes because there were no cases.
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    The faith in medicine
    97 9 A BOUT seven out of every eight elderly men and women are taking some sort of medicine every day, according to a medical survey. Nearly half are taking two or more remedies, which an* usually proprietary mcdi tines. Most of the people prefer to buy their
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    GREED TRAPS A PUNTER AFTER SIX YEARS
    331 9 GREED TRAPS A PUNTER AFTER SIX YEARS Unlucky Sidney Bloom was the big-money punter bookmakers dream about. To him betting-cash came easy, but winners came hard. He lost £112,900 m six years. But the money was not Bloom's to squander. It belonged to a London metal firm, H. B Barnard
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    Cambridge votes to keep Empire
    190 9 DEBATE TILL MIDNIGHT, THEN... CAMBRIDGE undergraduates debated the motion! The British Empire is declining let it fall.' When the vote was taken just before midnight this was the count For the Empire, 51. Against thi Empire, 47. Christopher Norwood, wn o proposed the motion at
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    HE BELIEVES IN RHYTHM FOR YOUTH
    162 9 THOSE m their teem need rhythm m their mv.sic, the future chairman of the 8.8-C.&' School Broadcasting Council said. 1 He is Sir Charles Morris, ViceChancellor of Leeds Univer--5 sity, who has just accepted the chairmanship. r "They have been brought up r with
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    Tell about beer
    32 9 Mr. Geoffrey Bing. Q.C., 6oeialist MP- for Hornchurch, ll introducing a Bill which would compel brewers to say on the label how strong— or weak their bottled beer is.
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    Sterlets now
    13 9 Hungary has promised the London Zoo several Bterlett, fresh-water caviar fish.
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    Lake concert
    30 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thur.s I'aiar Baru tkroocliung -arty will give Harl Raya Fuasa performance ,it the Lake Gardens here from SSO oni to 7 1 ptn on June 3
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    This year's shade
    15 9 A gold and silver mole has been caught ;it Sporle, NorI Kilk.
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    MADE-TO-MEASURE GLASS EYES
    682 10  - MADE-TO-MEAS URE GLASS EYES RITCHIE MCEWEN IN AUSTRIA THRIVES AN EXCLUSIVE, AND UNUSUAL, PROFESSION. i^LMAR ASPRION, a J boyish 23 year old Viennese, is the youngest member of one of the world's most unusual and exclusive professions. He is Austria's only "Bespoke Glass Eye Blower." Using ii simple schoolroom Bunsen-burner
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    Famous film stars— have them
    139 10 Famous film stars have them MA N famous people wear, or have worn, artificial eyes. Sirnor M.irconi, the Italian radio genius lost an eye m a motor-car accident. His artificial eyes were all made by Paul Asprion. X I mar's father, and his affliction was kept a close hecret until
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    GERMANS LIKE U.S. TROOPS
    331 10 DESPITE THE ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.. iS the tenth anniver- sary of D-Day approaches, U.S. troops m Germany are no longer conquerors m the eyes of the population. but friends and tributes to this friendship are beginning to appear m the local newspapers. One writer refers to them
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    152 10 Pedestrians and city surveyors need no longer look on helplessly when heavy steel tracks crush expensive tidewalk curbings. Co-operation between the local authorities to minimize damage goes on all the time. Germans are not isolated from "Little America." hundreds of them work there m all sorts of jobs from gardeners
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    Those children!
    67 10 German city fathers often shake their heads when they tote up the cost of supporting unwed mothers. One little Cerman town had to appropriate about $7,000 for the support of 43 illegitimate children of American ex-servicemen. This was 60 times the budget for traffic control, education, twice as
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    Suspect doctors
    41 10 Name doctors m Hollywood are bleeding the "name" stars. Strange tales are told of wrong diagnoses, prolonged "treatment," and hospitalization of apparently simple cases. Added to these is a fastgrowing mania for consultations," with fat fees aplit all around.
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    John Wayne Talking...
    827 11 John Wayne Talking... In the article below Hollywood's famous Western* hero writes of past hopes —and present plans. MANY years ago, when 1 first got into this business I had but one ambition. I wanted to get a few bucks together and establish myself m some substantial endeavour that was
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    21 11 Vincent Winter lagedb*. Jon Whiteley uiqed 8* the hn> stars of -The Kidnappers' with their tyrannical grandfather, played by Duncan Macrae.
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    16 11 David Niven and Ann Vernon hate their ircddint/ interrupted m "The Love Lottery*' a British comedy.
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    Films to make you laugh...
    492 11  - Films to make you laugh... IAN GERANT hR7m preview* *y ...AND THEY ARE ALL BRITISH POUR superb British films are now m Singapore. None of them should be missed. They are "TROUBLE IN STORE" (due at the Odeon), "T H E KIDNAPPERS" (showing at the New Alhambra) "ALWAYS A BRIDE'
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    Technical hitch
    59 11 PETER DUNCAN, producer of ■In Tow n Tonight," f ells the story of what nappe ned when Mac West appeared on the programme. She u.si.sted on taking a lift up to the studio, it stuck between floors. Duncan's secretary turned to her and apologised: Awfully sorry, Miss West,
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    Shorts
    157 11 LANA TURNER'S "Flames and the Fesh" is well named. She burns the screen m her love scenes with CARLOS THOMPSON. SUSAN HAY WARD is busier than 10 paperhangers completely redecorating her home m the valley, to obliterate all trace of the nian she swore to love, honour and obey,
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    Skin diving new sport
    443 12  - Skin diving new sport GAYLE TALBOT by THE FASTEST growing sport m the United States, \B skin diving. At the <*nd Of World War II there wrn* no more than 500 of the wet fraternity and now there arc more than a million with the number growing daily. Skin divers,
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    30 12 photo. nir-sif. the African elephant m the London Zoo. takes it m the face with every appearance of joy as his keeper supplies a straight from the bucket shower.- Reuter
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    Bridge Hand
    486 12 \'.«irh«*r sirl* vulnerable B*M dealer NORTH 4 It 4 C? X Q 8 7 2 0Q 7 2 5 WKHT KABT ft 5 J3 ,J10» 0 X 5 4 AlO 8 +KQ9 74 3 SOUTH *X 7 3 C? A J 10 0A• I j 2 The bidding
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    She models her own models
    391 12  -  JEAN WISEMAN by BETTINA, most famous of Paris models and possibly the most famous mannequin m the world —is today wearing clothes she has designed herself. I Although her original ambition to be a fashion artist did tiot come true, she has given up modelling
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      268 12 Daily Crossword r I i^^gß I I HI I I I I *****1 B Bsssfl dm ACROSS: 4 A rascal who wont for-et? 1 A travellinti drink? It's cer- (5, 8). U.'ly shaken up! (4-3. 5. Not the fat boy, but it might 7 The saint and his epitaph are
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    -Story so far
    213 13 Averv Bullard, President and s:uuJiiii; hand of Millburgh's flourishing Tredway Furniture Corporation, dies suddenly of a heart attack, precipitating a crisis |MM| the company's five vice-presidents. Their support is solicited by ambitious I.oren Shaw. Comptroller of the company, who desperately seeks the presidency for himself. Opposing him
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    Julia decides to sell out
    1527 13 Julia decides to sell out f^EORGE Caswell stood m Loren Shaw's office and demanded to know what right Shaw had to release the company's earnings report without the consent of the Board of Directors. It was this act of Shaw's that had prevented Tredway stock from declining, as Caswell had
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      64 13 The cast Donald Walling... WILLIAM HOLDEN. Mary Walling (his wife) ..JUNE ALLYSON. Julia Tredway BARBARA STANWYCK. Lorcn Shaw ...FREDRIC MARCH Fred Alderson WALTER PIDCEON. Eva Bardcman SHELLEY WINTERS. Walter Dudley ..PAUL DOUGLAS. George Caswell .LOUIS CALHERN. |esse Grimm DEAN JACGER. Erica Martin NINA FOCH. I TRANSPORTATION I STORAGE SPECIALISTS i
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    BRITISH TENNIS IS LOOKING UP
    718 14 Hoad is still my Wimbledon choice but Says FRED I'KKRY UKITISII lawn tennis players have made tfreat years. Much greater than I expected, but lan winning at Wimbledon yet certainly not this sea However, players like Ro^er Becker. Billy Knight. I Bobby Wilson, Tony Pickard
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    JOE CARR HAS AN EASY WIN
    219 14 JOE CARR HAS AN EASY WIN British Amateur JOE Carr Oi Dublin. Joint favourite with Ajnerica'i Frank Stranahan for the Britl.sh Amateur Oolf Championship, had a comfortable victory In hi.s second round match at the Muirfidd links. Edinburgh, yesterday. Carr defeated Robert Neill of ■ail Renfrewshire. 4 and 2 In
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    Wonder Kid' fights June 19
    110 14 EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Chua Oim Chiang, Singa*J pore boxing discovery of 1952, will fight m one of the preliminary bouts on the June 19 card of the newly formed Singapore Boxing Promotions combine. Main event of this promotion at the Happy World Stadium is a fight between
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    Ist JAP WOMAN AT WIMBLEDON
    46 14 Japan's woman tennis champion Sachiko Kamo leaves on June 0 for England to compete m the Wimbledon tennis tournament, the Japan I awn Tennis Association has mnounced. She will be the first Japanese wom;i.i to nartieinate m that 1 iiirnament A.P.
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    London to Capetown and back race
    66 14 Students from Oxford and Cambridge are to stage an interwntversity road race to Capetown and back starting next month. One of the alms of the two teams Is to prove It is possible to take a car from London to Capetown m unfavourable summer
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    YMCA TENNIS
    24 14 I.imi Hee Chin won the men's Anglos Anal yesterday In the vmca Lawn Tennis tournament, i i ating v Kuala u-3, 7-.
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    28 14 And hnrs an Australian youth I tip for a brifiht future m international tennis 18-year-old Ashley ooper of Victoria, lie is the most promising junior player m Australia.
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    Sands' brother fights a draw
    79 14 ORUCE Cole and Allen Ritchie (both 9.0) fought an exciting 12-round draw at the Brisbane Stadium. Ritchie.* a brother of the former I Empire middleweight champion, the late Dave Sands, was knocked to the Hoor with a left hook m the second round, and was
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    HOGAN CONTESTS JUNE 4 SPRINT
    72 14 II EC HOGAN. Australia's fastest 11 human, will compete m the 100--yard dash at the Compton invitational track meet on June 4. Hogan. who has tied American Mcl Patton's 9.3 world mark, will face an exceptionally fist field, mii eluding defending champion Andy Stanfield. Olympic
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    TEMPERS FRAYED
    55 14 TAMPERS flared m the closing rounds of the world amateur freestyle wrestling championships i f 1 Tokyo on Tuesday. Turks complained bitterly that politics swayed the decision of some judges. It's all politics," one enraged Turkish official declared. The Hungarian or Russian always votes against our man", but
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    BRAZIL SENDS 22
    118 14 DRAZH/8 World Cup football players have returned to their homes for final farewell before flying to Switzerland for the international contests. The flight will be made m a .special plane. The team broke camp early on Tuesday morning at its Novo Fribur^o training t> > <•, still
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    22 boy boxers in tonight's club tourney
    274 14 TWENTY two boys will take part m a boxing tournament between the Singapore Harbour Board Boys' club and Katong Boys' Club at Keppel Road tonight, commencing 8.30 p.m. The programme consists of 13 bouts, two of which will be specially I given by
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    SCOTLAND WIN
    26 14 Scotland defeated Finland 2- 1 m an international soccer meet m the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on Tuesday night. Halftime score was 1 U- A.P.
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    THE TOURNEY SINGAPORE BADLY NEEDS
    247 15 THE TOURNEY SINGAPORE BADLY NEEDS Asian soccer championship Free Press Soccer Reporter SINGAPORE soccer fans this morning received with mixed feelings the news that Singapore and Malaya will compete m a "Football Championship of Asia" early next year. Most were of the view that the competition was a good idea,
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    73-YR-OLD HORSEMAN KILLED
    54 15 73-YR-OLD HORSEMAN KILLED FJiKANK A SAUNDKKS. 1 73. once a Grand Na- j tional Steeplechase jockey m I Finland died at olorado Springs on Tuesday of injuries received when he was thrown from a horse. Born m Taunton. England. Saunders was a horseman all his life and once rode m
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    Derby fancies are all in
    360 15 -BUT SIR CORDON IS A DOUBTFUL STARTER' 4 LL the leading fancies for next Wednesday's Epsom Derby are m the final acceptors announced yesterday But only 26 of the original entry of 400 have been left m the race and the field will fall well
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    Airways crash 6 past Stanvac
    678 15 Airways crash 6 past Stanvac THE LAST WORD— by AHGOS Malayan Airways 6; Stanvac 1. M ALAYAN A^ways finished their Business Houses Div. 2 league series with a convincing b'-l victory over Stanvac Sports Club at Jalan Besar Stadium yestredav. Both teams gave a grand display from the opening whlrtle.
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    NOW IT'S MIRACLE MILE FOR WOMEN
    320 15 DIANE LEATHER. 22-year-old Birmingham University micro-analyst last night came within 0.2 of a second of running a mile m live minutes. Her time Of live minutes O.'J seconds i.s claimed as Ml unofflciaJ world record, it bettered tho previous time by 2.4 sees. Wmb
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    Peter, aged 7, is keen waterski-er
    7 16 Peter, aged 7, is keen waterski -er
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    Brian Close a Yorkshire hero
    334 16 YORKSHIRE skipper Norman Yardley took a gamble yesterday m giving Gloucestershire first use of a "freen" wicket at Bristol. It paid off to the extent that Gloucestershire were all out for 171, Brian Close capturing six for 45 with his ofTspinners. But Yorkshire fared no
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    8 ACCEPTORS FOR CORONATION CUP
    48 16 Fiifht final acceptors with 'weights for the Coronation Cup to be run over 12 furlongs at Epsom on Thursday June 3 are: Cap of Gold. Norman and WestInform all 122 Ids. Aureole. Clonlea son, Chatsworth. Nearula and Sea Charger all 119 lbs Reuter
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    CRICKET SCORES
    190 16 At Belfast Inland II (Hilton hve for if) Lancashire :'97 for ■even (Washbrook I] r, Bdrtch N). At Ilford: bet! 4IIH for ei«ht (Dodds 121 Avt-rv »o HorsfaU 66. Vicar N rersui Kent. At SIK-flirld: (Hoik ♦'„t«rshirp 171 (Bmsattt 70. dose six tor 4. r )i and fui
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    CHESTNUT AND BLISSFIRE COVER 3F IN 37
    514 16 CHESTNUT AND BLISSFIRE COVER 3 F IN 37 Meet Peter Oei. the yoangesl a»alerakl-er m M tl.i v.i li ter is onl.v s -v.n 1 1 o(I imt three weeks (ti i |c up l»is mind to Nam waterski-inf ticl jji.- I .1 with his father to teach m?" is
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    SKIPPER'S FIGHTING CENTURY
    501 16 SKIPPER'S FIGHTING CENTURY lighting contury by the Sussex captain. Hubert Doggart. saved i»is team from disaster against the Pakistan cricket touring team at Hove yesterday tht first day of their three-day match. Sussex were all out for 271 and at the close Pakis- lan had made 17 for no wicket.
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    Scoreboard
    102 16 SI 'SSEX Ist. INNS: Lansridge c Imtiaz Ahmed b Zulfiqar 8 Smith c Waqar Hassan b Mahmoud Hussaine 18 Doggart b Zulfiqar Ahnutf 101 Cox c Imtiaz Ahmed b Khalid Hassan o Parks c Imtiaz Ahmed b Khalid Hassan 46 Suttle c Imtiaz Ahmed b Mahmoud Hussaine 3 Oakman
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