The Singapore Free Press, 29 July 1954

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press j urresi Afternoon Sale m Malaya.; Singapore. Thurs., July 29, 1954. Prirr 11C ts. ..I if! illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllflllllll
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    SPORE CALL-UP IS A SUCCESS
    259 1 Red plot fails I JMIE success of Singapore's first National Service call-up has doomed Communist attempts to wreck the scheme, the JFree Press was told today. Four hundred National servicemen have already started military training. Another GOO are beint^ absorbed into civil defence training. Singapore
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    'I apologise' says judge
    68 1 ROBERT Rendle, chief operations officer m the Department of Civil Aviation, said at the Kallang air cra-sh inquiry today that lt was not his intention to shield or protect anyone. The president, Mr Justice Clifford Knight, said: "If that is the case. I apologise." Mr. Justice
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    'Angel' sees Dulles
    24 1 Lt. Oenevieve De Oalard Terraube, the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu." called on the U.S. j Secretary of State. Mr. Dulles
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    Tidal waves swamp town
    39 1 MEN, WOMEN and children fled from their homes tor high ground yesterday as huge tidal waves of the Teesta River swept through the Northern Bengal town of Jalpaiguri and submerged it. Mass evacuation has begun.
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    TRUCE MEETING
    25 1 The first meeting of the Indo-China truce commission will be held m New Delhi next 1 week, an Indian official .spokesman said yesterday.
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    Rubber price
    30 1 Thr Singapore rubber market opened this morning on an easier tone with first grade August shipment at 68} cents a pound, of a cent below yes- terday's close.
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    Doctors up in arms over magistrate's 'suspicion' comment
    147 1 Doctors up in arms over magistrate's 'suspicion' comment 30ME Singapore doctors yesterday said they were "angry" over a statement m court by the City Police magistrate, Mr. J. M. Devereux-Colebourn, that hr treated doctors' certificates with great suspicion". Both the Southern Branch (Singapore) of the [sh Medical Association, and the
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    HEAD GOES AS CABINET IS SHUFFLED
    135 1 HEAD GOES AS CABINET IS SHUFFLED SIR Lionel Heald, Q.C., j British Attorney j General last night placed j his resignation m the i hands of the Prime Minis- i ter, Sir Winston Churchill, i The Government last j night announced the ap- pointment of Mr. Alan j Lennox Boyd
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    IT'S TRUE, SAYS SIR CHENG-LOCK
    114 1 IT'S TRUE, SAYS SIR CHENG-LOCK D\TO Sir Cheng-Lock Tan m Singapore this morning: (inrtrmed that he had religned from the presidency Di the Malayan Chinese tssociatkm, which he has since its formation m February, 1949 V >m r.iri v this morning:, the Dato, m his home m Tong N ttt
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    SHAWCROSS MAKES GOOD PROGRESS
    36 1 Christopher Shawcross, i; wai wounded m a t ambush m Johore '>. was reported this to be making good Shawcrota told the Press that he would be '> get up for half an today.
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    $1,500 THEFT
    31 1 1,500 THEFT r A Chinese woman living m an attap house m Jurong Road, Singapore, ha^s reported the theft of $500 m cash and jewellery worth $1,050 from I terdav's close.
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    Israel claims sea
    16 1 Israel has reaffirmed Iti claims to sovereignty over the entire Sea of Gallilee.
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    WAR-THEN A HAND-SHAKE
    62 1 [HE LAST NIGHT of the I J'-C'hina war the French I Red River Delta 211 ■and 64 wounded. The h lost more than 50. w nen the engagement end- 1 ed with the ceasefire at eight m the morning on Tuesday officers of both sides walked out
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    COUNCILLORS ATTACK WALK-OUT THREAT
    159 1 PROGRESSIVE and other Singapore City Councillors this morning said six Labour councillors would b/' "slapping, their own faces they carried out their threat to walk out of tomorrow V monthly meeting of the Council m connection witr the strike by 10.000 council daily-rated workers. The six
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    THE FIRST SPEAKER
    138 1 A welcome surprise rIK choice of Mr. G. F. N. Oehlers. nominated member of the itv Council, as Speaker of the first Singapore Legislative Assembly, came as a welcome surprise to legislative councillors. Mr. John Laycock, member for Katong, said: "I would like to see him as
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    Duke starts tour
    19 1 The Duke of Edinburgh left Britain yesterday by air for a three weeks tour of Canada.
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    Teachers on show in cages -by Reds
    236 2 Teachers on show in cages -by Reds CK3MMUNIST brutality was reported yesterday by refugees reaching Hanoi from Viet-minh-oocupied IndoChina since the Geneva truce was signed. Frightened by the.se reports thousands of additional refugees poured out of Hanoi m the rush to escape the area before it If taken over by
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    Lipstick to go
    56 2 MANY young girls have been ordered by the Vietminh to stop wearing the graceful traditional Vietnamese costume and were told to dress like peasants. Further they were told to put on no more make-up m order not to "tempt the troops," and not to compete with the
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    88 2 In Hanoi the first of an estimated 100.000 who will flee the city before the Reds take over on October 11 were eva- cuutcd to Haiphong and SalMi m French aircraft Thousands more unwilling to wait for the complicated evacuation procedure streamed out along the road to i Haiphong, carrying
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    GAY NIGHT TO SAY 'HELLO'
    84 2 fiOIX)NY "HELLO" girls will! \> me<t thto evening to diseu.si plans to eomrrnmorale the first anniversary of the: foundinK ol the Singapore Hello CJirls flub on Aug 6 Mr.v Terry AbisheKunaden. the Mtretary ,f the club told the Free Prej>& yesterday that they hoped to
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    LENNOX-BOYD SUCCEEDS LYTTELTON
    364 2 LENNOX-BOYD SUCCEEDS LYTTELTON r PIIE British Government last night announced the resignation of Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of Mate for the Colonies, m a switch of office involving even posts. The official announcement issued from the office I the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, nese other changes: Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd,
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    40 2 picture. Captain b. k. W. Lammert Commanding Officer of the M.R.N.V.R. met his wife and ten year-old daughter Carolyn at Kalian*; Airport from England yesterday. Carolyn, is on holiday and will return to school m Britain m September. Free Press
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    'No need to attract Malayan graduates to teach'
    294 2 'No need to attract Malayan graduates to teach' \|R. GEORGE THOMAS, Labour M.P., yesterday m the House of Commons asked the Minister of State for the Colonies, Mr. Henry Hopkinson, what steps he proposed to take to induce more Malayan graduates to take up teaching posts m Singapore and the
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    CITY HALL HIT BY STRIKE
    115 2 SINGAPORE City Hall stairs and corridors were littered yesterday with ten days' cigarette stubs and waste paper. This was what the strike by its 10,000 daily paid men had caused m the usually spick-and-span Council building. But the visitor would have been struck by the
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    U.S. tax revision
    26 2 In the biggest U.S. tax revision m 75 years, the House o! Representatives yesterday slashed the nations tax payments by U*****3.000.000 annually. A.P.
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    Oil strike in Sicily
    21 2 The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company yesterday struck oil at a depth of 9.800 feet at RaKiisa. Sicily. AP
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    Baby dies in gunfight
    80 2 r'HREE Africans, including a child were killed m a gun fight m the Aguthi location of South Nyeri, Kenya, when police found three armed Mau Mau m a hut yesterday. The oolice covered the entrance to the hut and ordered the occupants out. The women came
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    BIG TREK INTO INDIA AS PORTUGUESE TENSION RISES
    298 3 I IRGE exodus" of people from the Portuguese A territories m India has begun as a result of "tenmd drastic measures being taken by the Portu•se administration," according to a press report. states the Portuguese had introduced night i s and were
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    EVACUATION By Services
    82 3 ABOIT two-third* of Brltains 80,1)00 garrison m i the Suez Canal zone will rej turn to Kngland to help re- form the I'nited Kingdom's I central reserve, a British I military spokesman anj nounced at Fay id last night. A "substantial" peacetime i garrison will remain m
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    42 3 picture. Miss r niverse, Miriam Stev--1 i»v>» of Winsboro, South < tnilina, with her trophy. ■eeptn and pearl-studded <rt>wii a fte r her election at Ung Keach, alifornia. Stevenson, 21, is a J««e«e student who entered the contest as Mis* ITnit^H >>t.»tes.- A.P.
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    By civilians
    104 3 BRITAIN will begin moving her troops and their i families out of the Canal zone m September, it was learned m London yesterday. A first batch of 10,000 will return to England at the end ;of that month and will be I followed by further parties i of
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    Prison riot
    24 3 Ten guards and prisoners were wounded m Rome's Regina Coeli gaol when 40 tough prisoners attempted a mass breakout on Monday. AP
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    'Avoid Hainan' order
    20 3 Scandinavian Lines aircraft flying from Bangkok to Hong Kong have been instructed to avoid Hainan Island. Reuter
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    Statement soon
    17 3 Australian Prime Mm Mr. Menzies, will make "nportant statement on South-Bait Asia" on Aug. 5.
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    Chou in Moscow
    17 3 Communist China\s Prime Minister. Mr. Chou En Lai has arrived m Moscow. A .P.
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    BISHOP GAOLED FOR 25 YEARS BY RED COURT
    106 3 lONOR Stefan Tro»U Roman Catholic 'P of Utomerice m nor'Miomia. has been ""'d for 25 years for mti-state activity" "> >viet news agency Tass yesterday. said that at shop'! trial before the '^noslovak supreme court ra BJ»e, it was stated he 2L
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    RAF jet lost in Soviet zone
    37 3 A BRITISH Meteor jet night fighter with a crew of two is missing m North Germany. An R.A.F. spokesman said tho fighter might have gone down m the Russian Zone. AP
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    SUEZ AGREEMENT DAWN OF NEW ERA-DULLES
    209 3 SUEZ AGREEMENT DAWN OF NEW ERA- DULLES I ITS. Secretary of Stair Mr. U Dulles yesterday joined President Eisenhower m hailing the new British-Egyptian Suez agreement. Mr. Dulles said m Washington: "I hope that it marks tin* beginning of a new era of closer collaboration between the states of the
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    U.S. envoy in Formosa
    25 3 Mr. William J. Donovan, tho TJ. S. Ambassador to Siam. arrived m Taipeh yesterday from Banskok for a five-day visit A.P.
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    Ambassadors now
    9 3 Israel and Canada will oxchang<' ambassadors. A.P.
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    Britain stays on in Cyprus
    90 3 BRITAIN served notice yesterday she intends holding her Mediterranean fortress island of Cyprus, i despite Greek churns to the colony. The British Government announced it woo will LntrodttCf [a n*-w constitution for the island, but will we Ifl do< nut enable the big Communist Party
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    The Singapore Free Press Thursday, July 29, 1954. Opinion Now up to public
    386 4 The Singapore Free Press Thursday, July 29, 1954. Opinion Now up to public In the opinion Of the Chic! Dental Officer, the Incidence of teeth decay m Singapore i.s the highest m the world. Mr. CJittin.s would probably concede, too, that the general standard ol oral health m the colony
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    Malayan Reds have South China H.Q.
    477 4  - Malayan Reds have South China H.Q. RALPH TEATSORTH says U.S. report /COMMUNIST h( a d J quarters foi subversive operations In Smith -Fast Asia is generally believed to be m South China. Western onservers have i.< en unable to pinpoint the Communist command DOSt with certainty. Hut they have what
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    'Gold Rush' road for Duke
    422 4 'Gold Rush' road for Duke A FIVE-MILE stretch of macadam road, the first ever m the Yukon Territory, is being laid specially for the Duke ol Edinburgh's visit to Whitehorse next month. Whitehorse is the gateway to the trail of '98 and the Klondike gold rush. The road is being
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    8 4 Sarah Shane, is th«- latest Uuii.vwood stain I.
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    NEWS FROM FRANCE
    259 4  - NEWS FROM FRANCE STEPHEN COULTER T HE "'tie Batur* morning court London near Poitler been handing out fines for public br and insults than before m the last months. Madame Marie Be the 58 year old widow officially still has a charg murdering six relative poison hanging over head is
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    MORE RUBBER ROADS FOR S'PORE
    204 5 Expansion of Govt policy begins iVERNMENT is to ex l» pand its policy of lay Ing rubberised roads ii Singapore. will be used m nev projects and m resur m work from now on. rkmen are now busy sur Bukit Timah Roac the 10th milestone
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    Plan for allparty talks
    65 5 UALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Peninsular Mulay Union uili sponsor a conference of political parties m Malaya consider constitutional reaccording to the wish- "i the raayat." 1 conference has been 1 for Au^. 15 and 16. The P Jpe will be decided later. m e Alliance and Party
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    Official visit
    17 5 ENANO, Thurs.— The Direc- Operation*. Lt-Gen. Sir Bourne has paid his uffinui visit to Penang.
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    21 5 picture. Bukit Timih Koad, near the 10th milestone, is being rubberised under the dual carriageway project now m progress. Free Press
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    This road will open up beach area
    193 5 This road will open up beach area MR. E. IV Houston. P.W.D. Superintendent Engineer yesterday outlined the progress of major roadworks m Singapore. NEW CHANGI COAST ROAD: This has been metalled out for a short distance from Tanah Merah Besar northwards as far as the Youth Council camp. Earthwork for
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    TEACHERS TO PROTEST: PAY RISES SCHEME
    140 5 M ANY teachers of English i» Singapore Chinese are up m arms the distribution of to salaries under '•yvernment bilingual ion .scheme. Education Department school .supervisors 'here the teacher of 1 receives more than 'Cher of Chinese he ?ot benefit, unless the brings the
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    In memory of Chopin—by Smeterlin
    104 5 In memory of Chopin by Smeterlin KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. JAN SMETERLIN will give a recital on Friday. Au<*. 6 at 7.30 p.m. m the Chinese Assembly Hall here. Part of the Singapore Musical Society's Chopin festival, this concert m Kuala Lumpur is sponsored by the Federation Arts Council. Smeterlin's recital,
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    Captured Malay terrorist dies
    52 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A Malay terrorist who was seriously wounded and captured by D company of the 6th Battalion. Malay Regiment m the Mentakab district of Pahang on July 23, died m hospital yesterday. He wa> Mat Rashid bin Juki and was on the police j
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    Council white collar men to put pay claim
    212 5 f FHE executive committee of the Singapore City Council Services Union will meet tomorrow to select a delegation to put the staff's Ritson pay claim to the council. The committee claims to speak for more than 2.000 white collar workers of the
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    Headmistress on study tour
    42 5 KOTA BHARU. Thurs. Miss M. Leicester, headmistress of the Zainab School here, will leave by plane today for Singapore on her way to Europe on six months' study leave She will visit Italy. Switzer- land. France and England.
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    150 cases in one day
    27 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Kuala Lumpur Second Magistrate's court yesterday dealt with 150 .summons cases. More than $800 was collected In fines.
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    Big Chia is not happy about Mary
    88 5 Big Chia is not happy about Mary 'THE Singapore .schoolboy's home-work said: "Mary is very happy. Under-line the verb". So little Chia of Standard Two, St. Andrew's School, underlined "is". But according to Mr. Andrew Chia, his elder brother, the teacher corrected little Chia, and underlined "is very happy". So
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    DOCTORS MEET IN GENEVA
    44 6 An international i on gynecology and obM< is bring held In attended by about 1,001 bers (it the medical pr» from some 40 countries. The six-day congress wli up an International I tion ol Societiei nf Ovnect and Obstetrics. Reuter
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      461 6 MAN DRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis STAR L^IMMHMfc J MM many moods andaicmoir m- i clined to be pessimistic and I mm 1 pv f^ cynical than you are lo look TARZAN by Edga* Kice ourrouoh* i «■•»»■<*■»••«■•. t^tt^m f*^ HQffl I 1 V I s°u are "low",
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    ASIAN SEAMEN'S CENTRE GETS START
    256 7 ASIAN SEAMEN 'S CENTRE GETS START Finest m the East is aim nIRST moves to revive the scheme for an Asian seamen's welfare centre m Singapore shelved for five years -have already been made. V-j application for a site behind the Royal rapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association m Shenton is being considered
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    Four accused of consorting
    50 7 SEGAMAT. Thurs. Two girls, Ng Kirn Choon, 16, and Lou Hoi, 18. were jointly accused here Tuesday with Tay Tien Hoh alias Tee Ah Seng. 19. and Tey Boon Ching, 13, of consorting with armed bandits m the Selumpor area of Buloh Kasap. Bail was opposed.
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    Six months' gaol for wrong card
    88 7 IPOH. Thurs. A 20-YEAR-OLD rubber tapper from Parit. Mat bin Nyan. was yesterday sentenced to six month** gaol by Inche Mahmud bin Hashim In the Sessions Court here for unlawful possession of another per- identity card. Inspector M. Balasundram a detective stopped Mat near
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    The P.C. who made good is now an A.S.P.
    127 7 INSPECTOR E. H. Sheares right > of the traffic branch the Singapore police, who sponsored the formation of traffic courts'' m Colony English schools, has been wade acting Assistant Super"ilrndent of Police. Mr. Sheires Is now m h *r?e of the
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    Variety concert for youth fund
    40 7 MALACCA. Thurs. The Youth Council hw will pwjf nt a variety concert at the Methodist Girls' School hall on Saturday m aid of its World Assembly of Youth Fund. Schoolchildren will see me show tomorrow.
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    Council table will be 'broken up'
    127 7 AFTER the House of Commons, Singapore adopted long straight benches for the new Legislative Assembly Chamber. But what is going to happen to that huge horse-shoe table Councillors used at the Victoria Memorial Hall? It did set a problem, for it is no ordinary
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    A BIGGER DRIVE FOR BLOOD IS URGED
    164 7 A BIGGER DRIVE FOR BLOOD IS URGED IPOH. Thurs. THE special responsibility of community leaders m educating and enlightening the public to become blood donors was stressed yesterday by Mr. J. T. Chappel m ail adjournment speech at the Perak State Council meeting. He blamed lack of adequate publicity for
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    Ten fined for food offences
    30 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Seven men and three women were fined $25 at Kuala Lumpur for possessing food m a prohibited area m Kepong i Road.
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    Now children won't miss peanuts
    71 7 Now children won't miss peanuts DINERS at the Esplanade restaurant, Singapore, will not have to look for a clandestine hawker now to buy peanuts for their children. The City Council has agreed to let out part of a stall to a peanut seller. The only condition Is that he should
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    And now for a new home
    62 7 And now for a new home HALF tho house has hern pulled down and the biiRS arr being packed. This family, with thousands of others, will soon move into three new villages m the Kuala Lumpur area when a big squatter resettlement plan gets under way. More than 20,000 families
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    RUSSIAN WOMEN ARE VIRTUOUS
    279 8 Strictly business -then it's home RUSSIAN women arc now IWtng the most HrtttOUS m the world, say foreign diplomats Mid business men who have visited Russia this year. Th€ Russians oiler their gliestl good quarters, unlimited quantities of exotic foods and drinks but that is now
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    12 STORIES TOLD OF HOSPITAL DEATH
    379 8 iiriTiiorr retiring, a V? ((inincr's jury returned a verdict of death from natural < auscs at an inquest on 48-year-old Mrs. Florence White, the hospital patient m hose cremation had been postponed after two nurses had niadr statements Mrs. White, of haphani, London, had
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    The last of the Jowetts
    126 8 The last of the Jowetts TOWETT cars, famous for tl nearly half a century, will be made no more. The company has accepted a bid of €800.000 for its factory. The buyers are the Ameri-can-controlled International Harvester Company. who want to use Jowett'j factory at Idle, near Bradford, to make
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    CHILDREN NOW PREFER STATE TO CARE FOR GRANDMA-DOCTOR SAYS
    277 8 pHILDREN m Britain are not so ready as they used to J be to look after their aged relatives. They regard the care of their old people as the duty of the State. Good neighbourliness and children's affection cannot be taken
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    Weed killer "death to wild plants'
    76 8 Weed killer "death to wild plants' OUFFOLK housewives are complaining that farmers who spray their crops with hormone weed killers are ruinin» the poppy harvest." For many years women and children have gathered poppies at the roadside and sold them to manufacturing; chemists for vac m drugs. A spokesman of
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    HOARD UNDER THE ROOF
    41 8 ITNDER the roof of the Prest byterian Church at HaltWhlstle, Northumberland, builders found 60 clothes-pegs. 80 strips of had. hundreds of loose nails, and two cartloads of sticks. How did they get Miere? Jackdaws said the builders
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    UNDERWATER CASINO IS LATEST IDEA
    197 8 AN under ea casino with plenty of duty-free* champagne ti now the latest idea. And not impossible, either, it would need only the addition oi another two miles to the mile ol the Channel Tunnel which already stretches out from Dover toward.s France to take
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    35 8 Jacare. ridden by Mr. T. M. De Almeida, Portugal, takes a jump m the preliminary competition for the King George V Cup during the International Horse Show at the White City Stadium, London Popper picture.
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    Mr. Pickles wins in film suit for damages
    218 8 Mr. Pickles wins in film suit for damages WILFRED PICKLES lit a cigarette outside the High Court m London, signed an autograph book for the court usher, and smiled. Said he: "I knew 1 was rlgnt from the very beginning He had just heard Mr. Justice Hilbery dismiss, wit h
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    CAN INTO CART
    34 8 Two hundred American vice families living at Hun> ton, Norfolk < populate 3,990) have forced the com to add trailers to refu.se Said a councillor: "They J so many cans and CtrtOW
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    Wife who stabbed husband cleared
    362 9 a FRAIL, fair-haired A wife who killed her "idle, worthless bully of a husband" after he jeered at her and boasted of his strength was cleared of a charge of murdering him. tj c husband. 32-year-old Douglas lan Brownson, was desribed at Birmingham Asas a
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    TRAINER DIDN'T BACK HIS WINNER
    315 9 TRAINER DIDN'T BACK HIS WINNER Then blames the jockey THE trainer who didn't buck his own horse a 100 to 8 winner was furious, it was said m the county court at Birmingham. He blamed the apprentice Jockey who had ridden tho horse m its exercise gallops. The story was
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    30 9 photo. An artist puts the finishing: touches leopard spots! on a close-fitted suit which later was on view at a Paris fashion show. Models by 70 designers were presented. Popper
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    A BUSKER GIVES OUT WITH A BIT OF BACH
    174 9 Keith Ramsell broke off from practising a Bach violin concerto to stick a fork m a sizzling lamb chop on his gas cooker. It's like that with Keith— practice morning, noon, and night. But at night there's a difference. He is
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    CASTLE HOTEL
    40 9 The 700-year-old Astley castle, near Nuneaton, once the moated, turreted home of Lady Jane Grey, has become a luxury hotel. It Is owned by former Sergeant-Major Charles Tunnicliffe, who has spent 18 mcnth.s and €11.000 m converting it.
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    CROOKED ANGLE
    29 9 A man posing as a surveyor called at a house m Queen's Gate garden.s, Ken.sington. London, and .stole £J 4.5. m a purse belonging to the housekeeper.
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    37 9 picture. Let me show >ou how U play the hay hawk of Paddington. London, at tin- Highpipes says 11-year-old Kimuar I orh«s of land OIMM held at Edmonton. 1 omiun. Edinburgh lolour >«ar uJU Ann bparruv\- Popper
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    One man in four retires before 60
    154 9 ONE man m every four is retiring from work tx ho is 60, Mr. Louli Moss, director of the Government's soda] survey, said m London. The average age at which mm are giving up work is only 62 three years below the minimum
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    A PATIENT COST £100 A WEEK
    45 9 The. weekly eQft during th* past year of keeping a patient at Denton hospital near Dartford. Kmt. was estimated by a management committee i member at ClOO. He .said the average number of patients staying there was l two.
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    A TIDY DISPLAY
    20 9 Twenty thousand plants In Arboretum Park. Derby form a design which say.s: Please keep the parks tidy."
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    ARCHITECT TO PAY COUNCIL £14,023
    211 9 A N architect was ordered to Pay £14,023 damages to a ural council that put him m W of a five-year plan to build 1.000 houses. A HiKh Court referee, Mr. CwiweU, Q C, said that had embarked upon a ol extravagant spending With complete
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    Richest man in America
    273 10 Richest man in A merica ....and he is a firm believer m McCarthy II L. HUNT. reXU mil 11 Uonaire, is said to i> the richest man n America. His oil well briim him 120, 000 a day He Is a tough businessman win d<».-s not like to five anyfhim
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    BY THE WAY
    476 10  -  BEACHCOMBER ry H E discovery that potatoes are beginning to taste of mothballs has made the "experts" wonder whether the craze for chemical fertilisers may not end by producing not only queer flavours but queer diseases. When a common or garden vegetable has .survived the chemicals put
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    THIS IS THE TOUR de FRANCE
    174 10 ONCE more this month France is showing that serious mutters call for stern organisation. The Tour de France, the annual cycle race, is on. In the next three weeks a screeching, howling, whistling caravan of police outriders, publicity vans, official cars will be careering:
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    Start of the 'balmy season'
    401 11 Start of the 'balmy season French newsletter by STEPHEN COULTER rrilfc curtain has gone up on the balmy season. The Authors' Commission, representing c n c h playwrights, authors, poets has just d a Paris theatre that may not put on a play by Somerset Maugham— ho. incidentally, is Known
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    The Impatient Duchess
    241 11 THE Duchess of Kent x grew impatient at the Company of Musicians' banquet at the Fish- mongers' Hall recently. Three times she asked why nothing was happening. The dinner was ahead of schedule and the Linden Singers, who were to sing a special Grace at the banquet,
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    Flash buck to my youth
    102 11 Flash bu ck to my youth discovered that v soon ai I was out of range the younger member vii fastened securely by Its reins to a gatepost, while I indulged m horseplay elsewhere, unburdened An older number of my family used to do the «anic •> i h me.
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    GILES writes on HUMOR
    359 11 GILES writes on HUMOR a THE university lecturer who has spent ten years finding out what makes people laugh jriakes me laugh. Ten years to find out that the man who pours a pot of tea over your hat is not a humourist, indeed. there are any examples of humour
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    53 11 Victims of Hitler's revenge were commemorated at a service m Berlin. Relatives of the 5,000 whom Hitler killed for suspected sympathy with the attempt on his life m July W44, were present. So was the Or- man President (Professor llruss) and Chancellor (Dr. Adenauer). Speaking is Herr Ludemann an intended
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    I go 2,000 feet underGround
    751 12  - I go 2,000 feet un de rGround BERNARD WICKSTEED Where canaries are civil servants by IHAD some Fun Finding Out In coal mine the other day. The first thing they told me was that canaries are civil servants now. There wxs one of those bureaucrat.-, m the manager's oflice singing
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    Bridge Hand
    362 12 Both side* vuinerabU South d«aler NORTH 0 A Q It ♦KQ f f Wt^T KAHT X J <» 4Q19 8S Q 1« 7 i 7KJI 0K»41 0 J 7 fc *t8 3 SOUTH 4A 7 3 <? A I 0 A J 10 4 2 The biddinc: South
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    NEW MINISTRY FOR MARRIAGE
    165 12 'Please bring my husband back'— plea SEVERAL mailbags full of problems today lie on the desk of West Germany's first Minister for Family Affairs. Ranging from lovelorn to henpecked, hundreds of citizens are sending letters to Bonn about their personal troubles since Chancellor Konrad Adenauer created
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    Blue satin & feathers
    31 12 Blue satin feathers picture- "Beauties and Butts." a small hat m pale blue satin with a poppy of ostrich feathers m the same colours. Model by Emma Pin-son of Paris. Popper
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      300 12 P W I I t n KS At KOSS: o 1 hey kept Great-great OrandI strike to do this.' Would It be ma m good shape at the dance ■afttaff (4, 5). <5). 8 Name for a short sock! (.5). 7 Is this how Marguerite feels 1 1 10 Name
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    THE EXECUTION OF MATA HART
    57 13 THE EXECUTION OF M ATA H ART Jala Han, who be rayed secrets to both rifeg m the first World War, was executed by the French as -i snv lt the Fort Mncennes m 1917. The srene was recently reconstructed at Montreuil when Mata Hari' faced the firing squad 7*
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    'Street' is now a star
    122 13 ]<]YA MARIE SAINT, who has honey coloured and blue willow-plate was listed as a street m the New York directory. For year cab drivers swore Eva Wane St. was a Brooklyn bvv aV. today she Ls a Hollywood •••tar without leaving a street called Broadway.
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    Olivia to wed soon
    42 13 Olivia to wed soon ()UVIA de Havilland and i. ,,JeT? eT fiance, Pierre J l '\te, are to marry after finishes "That Lady." i v bef ore she returns to JJ 'ywood to star for Stanley Earner m "not as a stran-
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    Deborah, Maragaret want to be 'bad'
    441 13  -  DAVID LEWIN THE light is on m the 1 de luxe battlefield of show business for the most coveted role of the year: that of the unhappy heroine m the film of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea. The actress who plays it might
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    Laurel, Hardy back?
    164 13 Laurel, Hardy back? LAUREL and Hardy comedies on television m America have attracted a new generation of Jans unborn at the time when they were m their heyday. Trtt fact that the revived films have developed a completely ne v audience is attested by the great number of inquiries about
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    Director talked in his sleep
    369 13  -  SHEILAM GRAHAM fsd dfhrfg gdfg T4IEY tell tht story ol 1 the QUick-W 11l c; moi le director who i• came Infatuated wrtth hli leading lady during a location trip. Back h; me he bt r...h--blmg m his sleep. I love you, darlini how can
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    CUT OUT THE BIFF AND BASH
    1530 14  -  WAVERLEY Footballers of yesterday were Scots Now they are a foreigners Hungary beat 9 England b—3 Says I£ltlTfSlf football, for some years, has been dominated by the hot chase after the long punt. A bark or half-bark hits the bull, not Always well, but
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      IN THE SWIM
      18 15 fcyptian swimmers a re training Ely for the Naples-Capri Ma[inon swteunlng race on August 1
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      THE 19th LAP
      29 15 Jean Dot to of the French South 'fani yesterday won the 19th P M i he Tour de France bicycle through the French Alps. A .P.
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      Depleted leaders fight way out MISSON COAL SAVES O.T.E.C.
      347 15 Depleted leaders fight way out MISSON COAL SAVES O.T.E.C. Business Houses League and Cup O.T.E.C 1; shell 0. WHERE was only one goal m the match, and I came away from Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday with the belief that O.T.E.C. were just a trifle lucky to get it. Although unbeaten
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      SINGAPORE BADMINTON TEAM PICKED
      132 15 SINGAPORE BADMINTON TEAM PICKED SINGAPORE Badminton Association last night announced the names of the Colony players *ho will compete m the Badminton Association of Malaya's open championships this year m Penang from Aug. 19 to 22. They are: Men's open singles: Ong Poh Lim, Omar bin Ibrahim, S. A. Durai
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      The winning goal
      69 15 picture. 'heir S? T the only which gave victory to OTE( hi *»Rain^ -i n 1. round SB HFA League and Cup competition *a« tL at Jalan Besar st «wiium yesterday. The scorer it nn V? y Misson (on the round) who gave young Skinfamera S* 1
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      STEAKS ROW AT EMPIRE GAMES
      111 15 ALL the noise o\er Stttta lor Canada's Empire Games swimmer.s has simmered down: the swimmers will get their steak* They'll have small ones m the morning, large ones m the evening, and eat them m the Empire Village dining rooms. The is-sue over the steaks
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      204 15 Indian Assn. tennis ties TIES for the week-end m the Indian Association tennis tournament are: SATURDAY Handicap Singles: 7.30 a.m. H. Ganesan v. Rajkapoor, Dass v. T. Sivaraj; 8.30 a.m. T. J. Charion v. D. Nahar, Dr. V. Menon v. A. I. Pereira: 9.15 a.m. Chellappan v. G. Mathews. G.
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    PULOT PUTEH & SUDAN DO 374/ssec Fast gallops by Penning horses
    481 16 PULOT PUTEH SUDAN DO 37 4 /ssec Fast gallops by Penning horses Pree rress Racing Correspondent IMII-: Ko(J«ers Stable's top (lass sprinters, Pulot Puteh and Sudan (Mc( loud) did the best gallop on the training track at Penanj; this morning when they raced stride for stride over 3f. In 37
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    Spectacular Catch
    60 16 Spectacular Catch McC'onnon snaps up a imm straight from the bat In dismiss Mohammad Wazir for five runs m Pakistan's first innings on the third day of the third Test at Old Trafford. A. V. Bedser, the bowler, is on the right. Pakistan were all out m this innings for
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    Queen's horse first in the Sussex Stakes
    124 16 Queen's horse first in the Sussex Stakes rE Queen's black colt Landau easily won the first race, the Sussex Stakes over one mile at Goodwood Park. Sussex, yesterday. Landau, favourite at 6-4, led from start to finish to beat Orthopaedic by five lengths Festoon the one thousand guineas winner was
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    JOHORE CRICKET XI
    58 16 SEGAMAT, Wed— Johore will meet Singapore m an inter-state cricket match at Nee Soon m Singapore on Aug. 14 and 15. Johore team will be: W. Via;; (capt.), A. B. Barthelot. Bailward. Teo Cheng Chuan, L. Holt, Kernml Singh, Dr. ft. F. DCosta, D Dunford, H. Callus.
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    MODELLERS MEET
    28 16 The U. S. model airplane championships opened m Chicago yesterday with nearly 2,000 entrants from the United States, Sweden. England. Australia, Japun. Argentina, Guatemala and Canada.
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    Fourth round
    29 16 J. Lemetti of France beat Mohamed All of Egypt m the fourth round of the British professional luwn tennis tournament yesterday 7-5, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. A. P.
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    HANIF HITS A BREEZY 140 RUNS
    309 16 A FINE innings of 401 by 19--year-old Hanif Mohammad brought a generous ray of Pakistani warmth to a 5,000 crowd on a cold rainy day at Taunton yesterday where Somerset, bottom team m the English County championship, opposed the tourists. It was Hanif's first
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    OSBORNE UPSETS AT 100-7
    173 16 OSBORNE UPSETS AT 100-7 IJRICiADIER W P, Wyatt.s seven- year-old Osborne won the Goodwood Stake.s run over two miles three furionfa yesterday. He beat Major Raphaels Corydalis by two leni<ths with Mr. Sydney Banks French Design another three-quarters of a length away third. Thirteen ran. Starting prices were: 100-7 O.sborne,
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    Trueman takes 6 wickets
    481 16 Trueman takes 6 wickets T^REDDIE Trueman, Yorkshire** 1 23 -year-old fast bowler, made England's cricket selectors blush yesterday. Trueman took six wickets for 109 against Derbyshire, including one devasting spell m which he dismissed three batsmen m 31 balls for only eight runs. That was his reply to the selectors
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