The Singapore Free Press, 28 May 1954

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    Masthead
    16 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. |3Mt, Fri., May 28. 1951. Price UCU.
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    THE QUEEN HAS A DERBY PROBLEM
    93 1 THE QUEEN HA S A DERBY PROBLEM rpHE Queen is going to Epsom text Wednesday to watch colt Landau run m the Derby. is awaiting a definite V or No" from jockey Sir Richards, who is luled to vide Landau. Gordon is suffering from injuries suffered m a fall during
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    Armed men rob shop
    40 1 Three masked Chinese, one nned with a dagger and an>ther with a weapon resembling i revolver, entered a coffeehop m Silat Road, Singapore, rly today and took $1,000 from a chest belonging to the li tor.
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    Playwright ill
    20 1 Mr. Maxwell Anderson, U.S. ?er Prize winning playrightj was seriously ill yesay m Hollywood following rt attack. U.P.
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    MISSION TO PEKING
    20 1 Peking radio said Mr. ban Huibert Zeaman arrived eking yesterday to negotiaIplomatic relations for the letherlanda Government.
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    25 Mau Mau killed
    21 1 becunty forces m Kenya ay killed 25 Mau Mau rrorlsts m scattered engagent.s within 24 hours. A.P.
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    Rubber pace
    27 1 Singapore Rubber Market d this morning on an tain tone with first grade •shipment at 63 8 cents a '*und 1,4 cent below yesterf'B close.
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    Ace pilot here for inquiry
    97 1 Ace pilot here for inquiry ADVICK on the technical aspects of aircraft will be given by Mr. L. Metz, (above) Chief Pilot of X.L.M. Far East Division, at the Kaliang crash inquiry, opening m Singapore on Monday. Mr. Metz. who arrived with his wife from Amsterdam yesterday, is one of
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    THIS IS BASTION AGAINST A RED ADVANCE....
    122 1 \V Oliver Lyttelton. the I T Secretary of State for I nil ..id m London night the British Govnt's policy had alway.s to make South-Ea.st bastion against the jnce of Communism. Behind the.se bastions we sought to drive forward social, economic and political
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    Money for housing
    29 1 The London County Council expects to spend £34.023,440 <M 5272 million i during the current financial year on maintenance and development oi its housing estates, Reuter
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    THE 13 HE RESENTS
    26 1 The Japanese Foreign Minister last night opposed the proposed visit of 13 members of the Japanese Diet to the So-vit-t Union. A.P.
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    Geneva to draw common plan
    175 1 Geneva to draw common plan r'O ofTiciaLs from each of the nine delegations attending the Geneva conference on Indo-China will meet today m an attempt to draw a common line on all the proposals submitted .so far. Earlier yo.sterday Mr. Anthony Eden. British Foreign Secretary, who had suggested that military
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    Shake-up in Indo-China ELY: LET JUIN TAKE OVER
    325 1 Shake-up in Indo-China ELY: LET JUIN TAKE OVER QENERAL IWIL ELY, French Chief of Staff hack from I fact-finding mission to [ndo-China, has urged the Government to appoint a personality of the highest rank to restore confidence m the expeditionary corps m Indo-China, the independent political weekly Express said yesterday.
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    Police swoop: 7 students detained
    47 1 Police swoop: 7 students detained SEVEN students of the Itiiversity of Malaya wrre this morning taken into custody by the police after execution of search warrants issued m connection with the contents of thr student publication "Fajar." Police raided the student hostels m Dunearn and Patterson Roads.
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    Baby No. 3 scalded at hospital
    84 1 Baby No. 3 scalded at hospital ANOTHER baby was Idlliti m the third mystery attack at K.in.i.i!.^ Kerbaa Hospital, SifiKipore early iliu morning. 110 l water was poured over him m his cut m a room next the nurses' oflice. Police said this morning thai the water was "not dangerously
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    Flying couple on world tour
    54 1 A South African doctor ;>nd hLs wile on 30,000-mile world tour m a .small .single engine plane landed m Darwin, Australia, yesterday, after crassim? the Timor Sea. gravyard of many .small plane.s and their crew. The couple. Dr. J. N Haldeman and his wife Winifred,
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    That visit to Peking under fire
    132 2 WIIF. British Foreign 1 Office said yesterday it had never been con suited nor even informed, before eight top Labour leaders accepted an invitation to visit Communist China. The timing of the announcement, coming during the (ieneva conference on the Far Fast, raised widespread
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    Fry's fantasy is courageous production
    96 2 Fry's fantasy is courageous production It is one task to remember the monumental passages of Christopher Fry's medieval verse-fantasy "The Lady's Not i For Burning", another to make them live. Last Qifht'f Singapore Arts Theatre production of the drama had more of the one and much less ol the other.
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    HIS WIFE'S AFFECTIONS 'FLUCTUATED'
    68 2 HIS WIFE'S AFFECTIONS 'FLUCTUATED' H< > l l VW( k>u en en director Donald Si< 1 1 1. 38, y it< nlay BOUghi B lihiil i!.\ r•' d< it. i Undforl 32*yfeat old Swedish born actn 1 1 r( c< Ived an int» r- utory d( cr< c In April
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    Shooting incident
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    THEY DIDN'T FIND THE SNOWMAN
    35 2 A i edition which i Imbli .i "abomina- word An Indian Government taxi- t who accompanied the ition i king the mystenoi half man halfa])« i.. returninn Lv Calcuttn U.P.
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    REDS TIGHTEN GRIP ON FRENCH POST
    307 2 Battle moves to climax pOMMUNIST cannons poured a steady barrage of shells into encircled Yen Phu yesterday, as the battle for the gateway to the southern Red River delta m northern Indo-China moved to a climax. Two divsions of Red troops tightened their noose
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    AMAZON ADVENTURE
    34 2 Two French explorers. Rene Marcelle.s and Makrice de Halnault, are m Argentina en route to Brazil for a new expedition to the Amazon River and the Matto Grasso Jungle region. A P.
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    DAG FLIES BACK
    26 2 United Nations SecretaryGeneral Mr. Da^' Hammar.skJold, arrived m Paris yesterday from Geneva and later left for New York after attending several receptions. UP.
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    Siam will act
    44 2 The Siamese delegate to the United Nations. Mr. Thanat Khoman, .said m New York yesterday that Siain would bring up the Inclo-China question before the UN. and would propose that a peace observation mission be .sent to SouthEn.^t Asia. -A P.
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    Beer shortage
    18 2 The Soviet Zone of Germany has boen hit Where it hurts there's a b*H*r shortage. AP.
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    TRUMAN'S FAULT SAYS NIXON
    179 2 rpm I.S. Vice President, Mr. I Richard Nixon, last nlfht blamed the Ttunan-Acheson polic > fur the Indo-Chma crisis In a sharp parly line Ipeech m Wen York, he said: "The Truman-Acheson policy was directly responsible for tinloss of China. It hina had not been lost
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    ALL-BRITAIN RAIL STRIKE THREAT
    210 2 Chaos caused by hold-up <THK threat of a national rail strike grew iff England yesterday as leaders of the unofficial stoppage m the West sought the backing of depots m other parts of the country. While drivers and firemen operating the north eastern and eastern networks
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    FAR REACHING RIOTS
    33 2 A conference of Pakistan's Middle Eastern representatives, due m Montreux, Switzerland, next month, has been postponed because of the critical situation m East Bengal, scene of recent labour riots Reuter
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    Please do me these LAST favours Churchill
    186 2 Please do me these LAST favours Churchill I>KIMK Minister Sir Winston hurt hill remarks at a Conservative rally yesterday that "I probably will not be asking you to do many more" favours seemed a hint that he may retire soon. The 79-year-old Premier popped out the remark almost as an
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      84 2 HILDAS 143 MIDDLE ROADI SINGAPORE TEL. 6401 _~_llH GRAND SALE NOW ON Heaviest reductions m materials ready made dresses, skirts, jeans, slacks, shorts blouses everything m womens wear UTily INCORPORATING RADIO MALAYA NEWS ALL 3 Hi; it LSI IX tut o, iin \sii\u M II MM Mull f'i oijrutitttu s
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    S.E. Asia: Ike gets support
    171 3 |>HESIDENT Eisenhower has won powerful Con>sional support for a new move to resist Comt aggression In South-East Asia, according to a Washington report. Top Republican and Democratic leaders of the |USe of Representatives are said to have agreed rivately to give the President more than
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    TERRORISTS KILL FIVE
    53 3 Tunis unrest grows TERRORISTS killed five 1 French fanners m Tunisia night m the Tadjerouine >n. Unrest ha.s been increasing c the French transferred i'"' Nationalist leader, Habib rguiba, from his exile on c island of Gaiite off Tunisia the Atlantic isle of Groix >n Prance on
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    Roads improved
    16 3 c Chinese Communists are •vmg the roads between Ill '<*t and China. A. P.
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    LIMPING GUNMAN CHOSE DAY OF RECKONING
    474 3 LIMPING GUNMAN CHOSE DAY OF RECKONING Court is told of the terror 4 GUNMAN who terrorised London for 12 hours 1 nine days ago, and shot three men he considered his personal enemies, believed himself to he victimised by society. The psychological troubles of Nathan Goldberg, 27-year-old ex-Irish guardsman, emerged
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    Farewell present
    58 3 Farewell present Lim Yen Lan, a 10-year-old Brownie, pins a sold brooch, to the dress of Lady Templer the wife of the High Commissioner, m Kuala Lumpur. The gold brooch, the farewell gift of 'M'Lnmor youth, bears the symbols of four organisations. tin- St. John's Ambulance Brigade, Boy Scouts, Girl
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    Overnight guest
    20 3 Emperor Halle Selassie of Ethiopia wai an overnight guest at the White House In Washington yesterday A. P.
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    42 give up their hunger strike
    76 3 42 give up their hunger strike rpilK hunger strike of 12 A Rumanian Jews living m Israel ended at Tel Aviv's great synagogue lM| nifcht, five day> ifter it started The faster.s sought to attract world attention to the plight of their bre thren m Rumania and the mass arrests
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    CIVIL DEFENCE 'STILL ESSENTIAL'
    166 3 David Maxwell Fyfe. Homo wy and head of Bricivii defence arrangen*s .said yesterday that injuries to Japanese fishrjnen after the recent; "y dr 2*en bomb explasion m jne Pacific showed the need! knowledge and civil de- if t> training. ww a s teUtof the Hou.se of
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      62 3 Four big reasons why people prefer to shop at CHANRAi S Ji M j^L I, *> j I 1 I Vr > m one piuce. I lIP,'; 1 I —^m^mll WATNEY' S £&3 RED BARREL BEER AND M^SJJSS?IS IT THE LAW MILK STOUT "MX,., m, R( vi I I M(W(O
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1954. Opinion A worthy cause
    364 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1 954 Opinion A worthy cause The magnificent oiler by Mr. Lee Konj.' Chum, to give the South Wimi.s Hotel at Jurong j to the (Singapore Anti-Tu-berculosis Association .serves to direct attention once more to the splendid .service this largely voluntary organisation ls
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    'Welcome to the U.S.'—
    660 4 -AND THEY REALLi MEAN IT, SAYS FRED MANOR HARD words have Often bei n v. Itten about American Immigration laws about the way people are said to be tn ated by U.S. Immigration Officers, and about the alleged lack < jI courtesy shown by American Customs
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    The Female Mau Mau
    423 4 I STOOD on a railway station the other morning and was hit m the face by a packet of sandwiches. I turned away and was struck on the shoulder blade by a tin of corned beefthrown from a trainload of Kikuyu women. There were 1,200 of
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      207 4 r '-a AVAIL YOURSELF ot 20 years of experience m estate j development by b CREDIT FONCIERI MEYER CHAMBERS 3rd FLOOR, (RAFFLES PLACE). I FRANKEL ESTATE OPERA ESTATE I FIRST CLASS NEWLY RECENTLY COMPLETED I DEVELOPED ESTATE AT ESTATE I 6i M.S CHANCI ROAD BETWEEN CHANCI NFAR THP SEA EAST
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      44 4 POCKBV CARTOON (»> OSBKRT LANCASTER I V -and in«> i rr»»iifi(l \ow. Srrx'Uiii nut|or, thut m cm' btlow chc NMhruntitr ruult o/ captat't is p-'TWUtttd hy re xulutu't* M |onii <i (j<t ru mml v ilhoul f>r<fiou^ not i /it «it ton lothr Ail\ utunt."
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    LOWEST lenderit was a MISTAKE
    136 5 LOWEST lenderit was a MISTAKE Singapore firm -said it made clerical error m a tender to the City Council, and ask--101 permission to withdraw. This meant the Council had to insider the next lowest tender, which wa.s about $8,000 higher. A Council committee agreed to allow the first tenderer to
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    LABOUR WANTS A S PORE CITIZENSHIP LAW
    241 5 LABOUR WANTS A S PORE CITIZENSHIP LAW Fair chance for the loyal' r |MIK Labour Party will ask the Government to intro- duct* a Singapore citizenship ordinance before elections are held under the Kendel constitution. The Party considers that a citizenship law must precede any attempt to disenfranchise those who
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    City won't spend more on the band
    88 5 THE SINGAPORE City Council has rejected a Government suggestion that it increase its annual $15,000 contribution for the upkeep of the Police Rand. Government suggested that the Council give $2f>o a time for the performances a year. This would amount to 524.000. Alternatively
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    The piano was thrown in
    48 5 A 1.160-seatr-r theatre sold for <C 3.000 the price Of a semi-detached home, at a Manchester auction. For that figure the Theatre Royal. Oldham. included bars, plush seats, spotlights, a piano and furnishings. Reason for the low figure TV has hit theatre attendances.
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    WEDDING ON THE RECORD
    45 5 A church wedding ceremony, and the .speeches and toasts at the reception, were recorded and played back to the bridegroom's father, ill m hospital. Mr. Raymond Marshall, of Patterdale-road, Woodthorpe, Nottingham, was ill but askedhis son not to postpone the wedding.
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    Out shopping as baby arrives
    65 5 A baby was born m a chemist's shop at Aylestone, near Leicester, just alter Uu- mother had called with a prescription !to be made up. The chemist, Mr. A. E. Cooper, 48, acted as midwife until a nurse arrived. Later the mother and child a
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    TIT FOR TAT
    42 5 After three weeks a blue tit has stopped trying to nest m a post box at Roydon, near Diss, Norfolk. A postman 16 times took pieil the nest and removed ten ird mutilated one letter that it was unreadable.
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    £3,500 FOR AN EYE
    28 5 The loss ol his left eye m a i i accident brought £3,500 damages to Frederick Conway, ear-old Witnoy storekeeper, >xl i] I assizes.
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    FOR the FORCES BY the FORCES
    231 5 AND THE PASSWORD IS 'TALENT' KAIMO MALAYA, Singapore, is preparing a new scrips of variety shows. "Meet The I orces," Mr. Kingsley Morrando. Broadcast\>Mst;mt, told the Free Press. The first programme goes on the air on lum 11 ut K.:!0 p.m. The series will
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    Spike through brain—he lives
    98 5 Spike through brain— he lives A NINE-INCH spike was driven through the brain of a 15-month-old baby. Now, months later, the baby is normal. Mr. B. H. DftWßOn, F.R.C.S, of Guy's Hospital, describes the case as "rare and bizarre" m the Lancet. The baby fell out of bed and struck
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    Mobile unit is big boon to fishermen
    136 5 Mobile unit is big boon to fishermen THE Singapore fisheries mobile unit i.s helping fishermen to repair their outboard motors cheaply and reduce costs of production. An official spokesman said that during the last 10 months, the unit had instructed .175 fishermen how to attend to their own engines. It
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    Zebra studs
    34 5 Tlir-t- thousand three hundred stainless steel stud.^ we to bt- bought by Southwart Council to murk the ftp proach<\s of zebra crossings. i of the studs and other I crossing changes; 1,100.
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    HIGH STRUNG
    18 5 Seen on the 80- foot spire of Oxford's Indian Institute yt terday a man's sports cycle.
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    Youth Day address by Queen
    80 5 Youth Day address by Queen ON Empire Youth Bun iiy this week, message from the Quern to the youth of Malaya will be bro;id<\ist. and read from church pulpits, mosques, t»'mpi«-.s. and synagogues. Special meeting! <>f ;«'i organlsations belonging to the Singapore Touth Council, will be held. The blggesi service
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    NOT FOR SALE
    29 5 'heme to restore the sale of medical practices, stopped by the National Health Act, has been turned down by t«ie council of the British Medical Association.
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    Rear-view sun glasses
    111 6 REAR-VIEW Wp-« la^EL*l among the latest offering to gadget-conscious Am« r cans. The glasses have their rims which enable UM wearer to look ahead an>. behind. They cast Ms 24. Also included m till on'a crop of new gada« -tv Glasses with wide-aw^ eyes printed behind the
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      190 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis I 1 IM-y-IfVA.TAM.NUn! j "1 I I'LL BET HE'S GONE BACK TO TMEJ I MANDRAKE --THE ,^4 x SLOPE.' I'D BETTER y ll^li^2^"^| THEMSELVES "AM I GOING BALMY_? XXK X ND C JLr fe, 1 JBK\ TOqH TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE
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      455 6 YOUR LUCKY STAj HORN lODW, you I. alt-rt mind and one v\|,k works with Mffctaiatfjfcc *p« when it is time toad Altbou impulsive. >ou learned eaih UfC that sell-control is the fa better policy. You are hi s hl> wlien it tonics to solving pr(i blcms and know how to
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    'E' for 'A'? -a lapse but let it stay
    86 7 (tliclaJ ol Singapore. "i -tiucation Department ad- that Wnampoe En^.lool m 1 owner Koau tlollW ot- spelt Whampoa h School. idei Mr. Ramachandra pointed out the lapse, uhool was named after I 100 Ah Kay, the first Chinese to be appointed
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    MOUNTAIN MAGIC
    25 7 visitor to Wales charged at ling said: I was <"* c( j by the scenery. Those atalna were something to He was an absolute
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    Hunt for 'mother' who wanted girl to be bad
    307 7 Hunt for 'mother who wanted girl to be bad i MALAY A- WIDE hunt is on Tor a middle-aged A Chinese woman listed on police and social ire files as a "trafficker" m prostitutes. Hotels and lodging houses have been combed this "very dangerous person/ The woman vanished after her
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    THIS DISC WAR MAY CUT PRICES
    152 7 THIS DISC WAR MAY CUT PRICES A PRICE WAR Ifi on m Sin- gaporc among the nume- 1 rous now brands of gramophone records. It may mean a drop m prices. Many long-playing types, from the Unit «-d States and Hritain. are now flooding the marke* But the sales have
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    TRAFFIC CRISIS GROWS
    334 7  -  JOSEPH YEO By THEY FIGHT IT A Kh any constructive proposals being made to solve Singapore's No. 1 traffic problem parking? One hopeful solution, the Free Press reported recently, was a plan by a newly-established firm to provide Singapore with a US-style car park service. Today the
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    HELMET PROBE SHOULD BE HELD—JURY
    101 7 HELMET PROBE SHOULD BE HELD— JURY THE safety standards of certain makes of motorcyclists' crash helmets should be investigated, said an inquest jury. The jury at Croydon had just returned a misadventure verdict on 22-year-old Derek Reginald Salt. His motor-cycle was m a crash as he drove to play the
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    Guides—at school
    90 7 Guides— at school Till Singapore BtomfoN Girls' Afternoon School will form a girl guide '<>m- m> Uu rhc principal Mn B V la, said todaj the company would encourage her pupils to take an Intere A m ox': mural activities. it will also help gii I to broadea thfir outlook,"
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    WHISKEY AND WINE FLOWED AT FUNERAL WAKE
    352 8 A "SORT of mrgy on the lines of Phil the Fluter's Kali- that was how counsel described the funeral wake of fi9 -year-old Maggie O'Neill. It was organised as such wakes are m Northern Ireland by Miss ONeills relatives at Otnagh, Co. Tyrone.
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    Is your gas meter pink and pretty?
    176 8 Is your gas meter pink and pretty? ARE yo U an average' customer tf the Gas Hoards? Or "not-so-aver-Iffe' tike, for example: The woman who painted (he meter pink and stuck picture^ of blue butterflies on it. The mm who had a irmtcr heater exclusively for washing bull terriers. The
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    He flew 4000 miles to see his first film
    93 8 rnKRENCE Standing flew 4,000 1 miles from St. Laurent, Montreal, to Worthing, Sussex, with just one thing m mindto "sec a movie." Why couldn't he go to his local cinema? Because m Quebec Province, Canada, the law forbids anyone under the
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    Police apologies to village
    193 8 P o li ce apologies to village THI Chief Constable of Dorset, Major L. Peel Yates has apologised for the action ol the village conMabl< <t Abbotsbury m stopping the children's Garland Day profession. The apology was sent to the chairman >>t the Abbotsbury Parish Council, the Hon John Fox
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    Device to brake fast plane
    121 8 Device to brake fast plane A RETRACTABLK brake parachute a clevis which dispenses with the necessity for jettisoning an aircraft-braking parachute at the end of the landing run was demonstrated at Duns fold Aerodrome, Surrey Used for the demonstration was the late John Cobbs Napier Railton racing ear (below), which
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    Nest in lorry
    34 8 A blackbird's nest built m the chassis of a lorry at Brandon. Suffolk, is carried 60 milt s each day In the nest— two eggs. The mother bird returns each evening.
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    Row over TV sole—or was it haddock?
    346 8 Row over TV sole— or was it haddock? ]y|ORE than 1,100 cookery students and teachers sent a telegram to the Director-General of the BBC. They protested that Mr. Philip Harben, the television chef, was exposing British kitchens to "scorn and derision" by clowning with classical French dishes. To which Mr.
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    Medicinal
    25 8 A customer ordered a brandy at a Benefleld, Northamptonshire, Inn and gave it to a young thrush he had just injured with his car.
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    Dearer than Eton
    44 8 It costs £370 a year to keep each child at a London County Council residential school at Wolverstone. Suffolk than at Eton <£340> or Borv tal (£352> So Miss FJorenn Horsbrugh, Minister of Educa tion, is to consider the school *> future.
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    Train hitby pellet
    27 8 A window of a Padding ton bound train was shattered &v an air-gun pellet 100 yards outside Ealing Broad* a} station. Nobody wsls hurt.
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
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      14 1 Fr ee Pr ess RAC E FO RM Sp ecial Friday. May 28, 1954.
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      WHY DO THE HEAVYWEIGHTS FAIL IN CLASSICS?
      368 1 first day of the meeting has obvious weaknesses. "Just put yourself m the position of an owner," a Malayan racing expert told me the other day. "Suppose the classic on the last day is the mission of your horse. Surely, you wouldn't want
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      Trespasser answers punters' problem
      198 1 Trespasser answers punters' problem Assessment of merits of horses on tiie running of a "trial" Ls unsound unless all are ridden right out. The obvious solution i.s to abolish the "trial"' and make the first run ol these horses the big race itself. Their second run the Last day of
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      Let's have weightfor-age races
      592 1 Let's have weight-for-age races I think the Straits Racing Association, governing body of the sport m Malaya, should reconsider the question of introducing weight-for-age races. It tiajs decided against the idea m the past on the ground that there were insufficient high class importations to make up suitable fields. On
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      Form Guide For Penang Races
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      He took the jump but horse didn't
      60 6 He took the jump but horse didn 't Ktaciiint; despairingly toward! the ground as he .sails through the air is Mr. D. Kent, watched m mild surprise by his bay mare Sugar Bush who refused the jump m the Six Bars Jumping competition at the Royal Windsor Horse Show. Mr.
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      DOPE PROBE AT STABLE
      51 8 I>OLICE and jockey club security agents are Investigating allegations that bookmakers have been trying to bribe, stable boys at big Yorkshire stables to dope race hors- es. A number of stable boys have been que.vtioned. Yorkshire has j some of the biggest training I stables m
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      50 MINISTERS BACK FAITH HEALING
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      VACCINATION DROP ALARMS THE DOCTORS
      123 9 V ACCINATION DROP ALARMS THE DOCTORS HHHE progressive decline m the 1 number of children vaccinated m Britain since it ceased to be compulsory is causing >erious concern to the Health Ministry, which is planning a nation-wide campaign to persuade mothers of its necessity. This concern is fully shared i\
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      THIS BIRD IS NO BLACKGUARD -IT HAS SAVED MUCH
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      A case of ITIS, said the doctor
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      Give us a daily pint of milk, ask postmen
      249 9 Give us a daily pint of milk, ask postmen Five hundred postmen m conference at Bournemouth claimed that some of their members should drink milk as a protection against the dust inhaled from mail bags. The Post Office will now be asked to have 2,000 bottles of milk delivered daily
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      SONS SMOKED—IT COST THEM BIG FORTUNE
      241 9 SONS SMOKED —IT COST THEM BIG FORTUNE rplK v: 40.000 will Farmer 1 Poole mad<" two days before his death, cutting: nut his sons because he si id they smoked and drank, is valid a Probate Court jury decided. So the bulk of his estate RWs to his daushter. ti3-year-old
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      Her phone calls cost too much
      201 9 HUSBAND GUILTY OF FRAUD THE lontf phone talks Mrs. Albert, Cole had With her son m London did not always appear on the accounts which the Post Ofiice sent m. For arranging this, her husband a £685-a-year telecommunications traffic superintendent was found guilty of
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      Danger on the way back home
      216 9 Danger on the way back home i Danger time /<>r children on the roads m Britain [la between four o'clock and five the hour m which they are going home from school, a report revealed. An analysis oy Police Ingpector X w. Combes, oi E.sjsex Road Safety Office, shows that
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      TEST PILOT LEAVES £16,000
      35 9 Captain Joseph Summers, C.8.E., of Weybrid^e, Surrey, for 22 years chief test pilot to Vickers-Armstrong.s and the first man to fly a Spitfire, left £16,439. He died m March, aged 50.
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      Crawley's 20,000
      35 9 The rw-w town of Crawley, Sunex, has reached ;m ertli muted population of 20,000. This moans that since 1949 over 11.000 people have moved from London to what was a small Sussex town.
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      European Reds with Vietminh
      38 9 A Foreign legionnaire *ho lOft both aimj and a leu at Dien BiPn Phu said bfl WH a down European officer* wearon their ciiva anionK the Vi» dimih who captured the fortreai A. P.
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      THE SILENT WITNESS
      33 9 After examining an Invisible Ink laundry mark under an ultra violet ray lamp thtpolice called it their Mienl witness Slouch. Buckf, magistrates loumi a man guilty of steallnf a shirt.
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      Even Cabinet laughed....
      587 10  -  STEPHEN COULTER FRENCH NEWS LETTER by DENE MA N ER, brilliani ex-Premier ol Fran had < i vj'ii worn* d Cabinet Ministers laughing whet hr diagonosed one of tin lib vi France al a Pari. lecture the other night He told tlic true story of v Fi<*n
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      Dateline, Hollywood...
      528 10  -  SHEILAH GRAHAME \IAURICE CHEVALIER wasn't looking particularly sad at the big party he threw at his house at Marines la Coquette recently. But he says he feels it because tie can't get an American entry visa. So he can't go to Hollywood this summer where producer William Goetz
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        247 10 FROM D!Eh J^k BIEN PHU... m>^ I I s\W the fall of Dim Blen I'iiu through tiie weary eyes of Marcel Cham. pougny a 21 -year-old French infantryman. He told me the story on hi* hospital bed m Hanoi. He said: "I was wou.nded" he indicated his amputated right lex
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      THE COLONEL WAS A TTGER
      888 11 THE COLONEL WAS A TTGER BOOK OF THE .MONTH A love story between Anglo Indians at the time of India's change-over from British rule to self government. BHOWANI JUNCTION. Bj John Masters. Michael Joseph. rv]\\- scene )t this novel 1 IS India. The time, 1946 Everybody knows that the British
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      British Nomads of the Desert
      420 11 British Nomads of the Desert LAWRENCE, GLUBB PASHA, THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BRITONS WHO BECAME FANATICAL ARABS'. HEBOBB <>X NIK EMPTY VIEW. By James Aidridjc, liodley Head "INHERE will always be Englishmen who become fanatical m Arab affairs"' says Mrs. Spry, one of the characters m this novel Of Arabia.
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        330 11 BOOKS i the SHOPS I ill m I i i .< 1 I UK ill Hill. |>. Ilr.. >n crupuloui ol n com m I < .i and Lunn '.i mi oi m >: I INDS4 \i I Set M (■HMD. 1.1 A Highland t-ii*- «>? i .uid 'i. it'n
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      Hi there, Grandma!
      287 12  -  DOROTHY WHEN THE CHILDREN SEE THIS CIRCUS CLOWN THEY CALL OUT by Some grandmothers knit and others aro Wall Street tycoons. But Rose Hanlon probably is the world's only grand-* mother who makes her livinti as a clown. Mrs. Hanlon IS a sweetfaced, motherly little woman who
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      DO NOT MIX YOUR PERFUMES
      457 12 Lady Boyle's BE/WTY «M B 'PHOSE two brilliant script writers. Frank Muir and Denis Norden, have their own highly individual way of looking at things- especially women. Both thought we all pay too much attention to enticing men's eyes. Denis Norden maintains that fragrance is
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      Bridge Hand
      279 12 'T'HE POINT count formula lor a no-trump game usually requires 26 points m the combined hands, but with a five-card suit the game often comes home with a point or two less. In this deal, both North and South had live-carders, but the contract hinged on nothing more
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        86 12 Elizabeth Arden creates. Make-up Foundation Q* \^h i^Sr^^A a o\\i a/ j for ihe young luminous loo l< A new flowing foundation whi< h gives your N. »kin baUntly the luminous quality, the I > dewy sheon tliat is pure enchantment. Us*e J it und.-r powder ji a drop conceals
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        267 12 111 "He said his first word this morning IMPuihi d*ossw*>w*€l < I.IKS ACROSS (i. It's woin m the last month 1 The ringer who n^tnl dusk till etcetera (5). (l.»wn storniily' (11>. 8. Start with the end for some--7 It could be a I-ent aim <7>. thing permanent (B>. 9
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      220 13 Aver> Bullard. President and guiding hand of Mill burgh's flourishing Tredway Furniture (orporation. dies suddcnl\ of a heart attack, precipitating a crisis among the company's five vie* -presidents. Their support is solicited by ambitious Loren Stew, Comptroller of the company, who desperately seeks the presidency for himself.
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      The Plotters are outwitted
      1385 13 The Plotte rs are outwitted mi press Fiu* stHiAi IN the Directors' Room he found only Caswell waiting. But shortly the door opened and Walt Dudley entered. Don started eagerly toward him but stopped short when Loren Shaw appeared directly behind Dudley, his hand on Dudley's arm. It was clear
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        45 13 i The Cast Donald Wallinff WILLIAM HOLDEN. Mary Walling (his wife). ..JUNE Julia Tred* ay B^gJ}^ CK Lonn Shaw FREDRIC MARCH! Fred AMersoii U ALTKK PIDGEON. K H^' man SH^INTERS. WalU )Udk>V ''.VoiCLAS. George mw«M... LOUIS CALHERN. Jesse Grimm DEAN JAGGER Erica Martin XIXA FOCil.
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      CEYLON INVITES MALAYAN SPEEDSTERS
      413 14 CEYLON INVITES MALAYAN SPEEDSTERS Ky EDIN PKTKRS t* E V LO N Motor Cycle Club has extended an invitation to Malaya n motoring enthusiasts to take part m their Koad Race meeting at Kurunegala, Ceylon, on July IK. Mr. J M Bruce, honorary secretary of the Singapore Motor Club, who
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      BANNISTER INVITED
      55 14 Roger Bannister. England's world record miler. has been invited to run against Wes Santee. the American champion m New Orleans on December 31. Mr. Bernie Greenreed. President of the New Orleans Mid-winter Sports Association, said the invitation had been sent to the British Amateur Athletic Board by the
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      Boat Race costs £3 a stroke
      607 14 By A Special Correspondent *T<IIIS centenary year of the Oxford and Cambridge x series of boat races is not to pass without an authoritative record which will surely rank as the most complete commentary which has been written on the subject. I It is
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      Rowston Manor still favourite
      85 14 IJOWSTON MANOR remained the [ftfOUrttC ye.u-niav at G 1 for the June 2 runnim- <>! tIM Epsom Derby At the hist f a Hover or the odds itn»-i Urn luuii forfiiti the Ux>kfn.ikers (juot^J DurtaM at 13 I and IIH Kmi< h 1 1. imed I-Vrnol
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      'Greatest athlete' dies on field
      90 14 Lionel Conacher, one-time National Hex key League star, died m Ottawa last night a few minutes after collapsing m the annual softball game between Members of Parliament and the Parliamentary Puss Clalltry. He was 52. Conacher. Liberal Member of Parliament and voted a few years
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      NON BENDERS XI
      56 14 Non Benders Cricket Club v B.C.R.C. at Hong Lim Green on Saturday starting at 2.15 p.m.: P. R Massey. P. DAlmeida. A. Baker R. S. Tufnfll. G. Westerhout A E Blades J. Ewart, R.V.S. Sun- dram. Gurdlal Singh, W. Haseldin*\ G E B(»;aars tCapt.). Umpire 8 D.
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      Arctic Wind wins Guineas
      142 14 JOHNNY LONGDON. America V Kntflish-born are jot key bftVtng hi.s first ihlp .since il living lrom Urn United States on Monday, finished well down the courst on Sound Barrier, a 25 to 1 chance m the Iri.sh Two Thousand Guinea* run over a mile yesterday. ThLs
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      SERVICES SOCCER
      314 14 Thornton hat-trick as Seletar move to top of league RAF Seletar 5; Sappers 1. IN the best match seen at Seletar this season, R.A.F Seletar beat Royal Engineers and moved to the ton of the Services Div. 1 league yesterday. RAF Changi moved up to second place with
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      DIV. 2 RESULTS
      23 14 R.A.P.C. 3. R.A.F. Ttngah 1. R.A.M.C. 5, R.A.F. Seletar Athenians 0. RN.A.S 4: R.E.M.E 2 M.R.N.V.R. 5; R.N. Kranji 0.
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      REME SINK NAVY 4-2
      294 14 REME 4; UN Base THE score looks good, but m their Services League win at Ayer Rajah Road yesterday RE.ME. could not find the form that enabled them to beat Rover.sin Monday. > SAFA Div. 1 match at tiie Stadium. Except for the absence of centre-half
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      BACK PRINCE ROSS SN MAIN RACE
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      TURPIN is 9th
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      WORLD FIGHT DATE
      29 15 Date of the world light-heavy-weight title fight between Archie Moore of United States, thf holder, and leading contender Harold Johnson of Philadelphia, is July 14, it
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      WALTON CHASES GOAL IN VAIN
      68 15 CHMfBUfED Service right J half Walton of 19 Air Formation Signals sails today m the Empire Halladaie. He decided yesterdiy, playing his last match for RAF Scletar, that he would like to More a goal before leaving. So m the second half Wilton was switched
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      Graduate should be 1st home
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      Heavyweight boxer fined
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      LANGLOIS IS AFTER OLSON
      108 15 PIERRE Lanjrlois, Frenrh middleweight contender, posted a US$2 500 forfeit rheqm- yesteruav and asked for a title shot :<t world champion Carl (Robot Olson. The certified cheque was icnl to Bob ChriMenberry. Chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission and President ol the world Boxing
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      Outboard regatta onen to all
      132 15 Outboard regatta onen to all A SPECIAL invitation Ls being extended to non-membera by the Singapore Outboad Boating Club for participation m a regatta to bo I Point on Sunday June 13. There la a special hand! for non memb tided con I: no h no hydroplaiM propeller i< to
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      MAN-SHORT PAKISTAN FIGHT TO TAKE LEAD
      389 16 MAN-SHORT PAKISTAN FIGHT TO TAKE LEAD Skipper hits unbeaten 99 IYIE fighting qualities of the Pakistani cricketers were further revealed at Hove yesterday. Batting only ten men because Khalid Hussan was suffering from a feverish cold, they gained a first innings lead of tight runs after a tremendous battle with
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      SAWLF MEETING
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      Yew Chang leaps to save a goal
      52 16 Yew Ckaag, the Chinese Athletic goalkeeper, brats Vivian Roberts to the hall m a Star Soccerites raid m yesterdays SAI A Div I match at Jaten Besar Stadium. Looking on are Kok Tong and Wee Fook (jick to cunera), C. A. iefen4en. g#cccrltci
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      BIRTHS
      39 16 20 Wurdi $6 (minimum) BOOTY: Over 9 pounds of him to Joan and Dudley, on 27th May. All three doing fine. SONJA daughter of Hella and Erik Biileveld. Singapore Nursing, Home 2«th May. Mother and child both well.
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      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
      129 16 ACK NOWLEDGEMENTS Hi Word* 56 (minimum) THE SISIERS of the late Mr. i John Richards gratefully thank all relatives and friends for their visits, attendance at the funeral, wreaths, telegrams, and assistance m various ways. MR EU CHENG SWEE SONS wish 'o thank fell relatives, friends and business ilsmk iates.
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      IN MEMORIAM
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      Trabert plays Larsen in tennis final
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      261 16 FRANK Stranahan. joint favourite with Joe Carr m he British Amateur Golf ;hampionship. was eliminated 'esterday at Muirfleld, Scotand. Stranahan. Americas top lope m the tournament he von m 1948 and 1950. was >eaten 4 and 3 by Ernest Millvard of England m the sixth
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      315 16 Cricket, close of play scores: At Belfast, Lancashire beat Ireland by an innings and 178 runs. Ireland 57 and 106 (Hilton leltarm slowspln 4 for 32 >. Lancashire 341, < Boucher rightarm ollspin 5 for j 78>. I At Portsmouth: Hiiinpt.hire-Roy.il Navy (two day match* abandoned drawn
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      Use stadium for these boy boxers
      264 16 MEMBERS of the Harbour Board Boys Club were proud last night for it was their third successive boxing victory within a month. These boys have made good progress this year on the imateur boxing road and it was no surprise when they beat Katong
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