The Singapore Free Press, 31 July 1954

Microfilm: NL2439
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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press i ur^est Afternoon Sale in Mala>a. N„ *****. Singspore. Sat., July 31.1954. Price 15 Cts.
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    BIG CLEAN-UP IS ON
    234 1 TROOPS MOVE QtirJtt THE MEN GO BACK 4S 'Operation Refuse" swung into action in SingaA pore this morning, the city was cleared of garbage accumulated in streets during the 12-day strike by 10,000 City Council labourers, which ended last night. Essential workers streamed back to Kallang
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    PENDENGAR'S 3 SPECIALS And a new 5-unit plan
    167 1 PENDENGAR today fives his usual three special selections for Penang races with some extra advice on how his five $5-unit total outlay should be distributed. His special selections are: SPECIAL NAP Dande Say DOUBLE Don-dang Sayang, Shangrila TREBLE Cabaret, Singing Master, New
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    SET UP S'PORE ROAD BOARD
    487 1 Call by Mr. Thio Chan Bee lEGISLATIVE and Executive Councillor, Mr. Thio Chan Bee today called for the constitution of a central authority to make and maintain all roads in Singapore. This could be brought under the Ministry of iHousing in the Rendel set-up. This
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    PORTUGUESE LOSE A VILLAGE
    27 1 Volunteers of the Goan People's Party of India last night occupied the village of Lahori in the Portuguese enclave of Nagar Haveli. Reuter.
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    Pressmen protest
    16 1 Press correspondents in Saigon yesterday protested against a censorship imposed by Vietnamese officials. AP
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    Indonesians in Russia
    22 1 A group of Indonesian railway officials has arrived in Moscow for several weeks' visit to the Soviet Union UP
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    PM. plans a tour
    18 1 The Pakistan Prime MinisMr. Mohammed Ali, will the Philippines and In-uone.-,i„ in November U.P.
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    Snakes kill flood survivors
    73 1 ])KADLY cobras and Pythons driven from the u u?l e by the flooded "River the Brahmau tra are bringing death r,°_ k surv vors marooned on n f -tops in Assam. **9tfftl reaching Calcutta early this morning said hundreds of snakes carried downstream by the anrjry
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    Former POWs to get £20
    56 1 BRITONS who were war prisoners of the Japanese were told last night they would <re\. another £20 a piece as compensation. The money is being raised by the sale of Japanese assets in the United States In October. 1952 some 51,000 former war prisoners were
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    New X-ray unit
    21 1 A nuclear portable X-ray unit weighing only 10 pounds has been made by the u.k. Atomic Energy Commission.
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    U.S. leads in atom arms race
    131 1 U.S. leads in atom arms race rIE Atomic Energy Commission reported in Washington yesterday it l_ stockpiling H-bombs and A-bombs at a record rate under orders from President Eisenhower to keep ahead of Russia in the nuclear arms race. The AEC said in its 16th .semi-annual report to Congress that
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      49 1 BY PUBLIC DEMAND l Repeat performance of FASHION PARADE RAFFLES HOTEL TONIGHT 31st July, 9.00 p.m. to 1.00 a.m. L Combined DISPLAY By FASHION HOUSES Morning Frocks, Cocktail Dresses EVENING GOWNS Phone Bookings to Reception Office* Raffles Hotel Tickets $5.00 Single All in aid of ST. ANDREWS MISSION HOSPITAL
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    PEKING WARNEE BY ALEXANDER ON SHOOTING
    104 2 PEKING WARNEE BY ALEXANDER ON SHOOTING FPARL ALEXANDER. British Minister of Defence A said in Vancouver yesterday that, any repetition Of the recent Shooting down Ol a British airliner in the Far East could bring "a different and stronger protests "An isolated shooting such a.s this COUW musnroom into an
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    'Further U.S. action'
    54 2 OTATE DEPARTMENT officials in Washington yesterday, were "working very actively" OS United States plans for further action arising out ol the recent clashes with Chinese planes over the China Sea. a United States protest handed over by the British repn entatlve In Peking was summarily rejected by
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    CHIANG TO GET SABRE JET PLANES
    199 2 rnllF United States is sendJ. ing a shipment of F-86 Safere jet fighter planes to the Chinese Nationalist Air Force on Formosa, it was learned. Officials said the jets would be on their way "soon" but the> would not say howmany or suggest when
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    Rules for Trade Fair motorists
    125 2 Rules for Trade Fair motorists MR A. E. Minns, Singapore's Assistant Superintendent of Traffic Police, warns motorists goine to tonight's opening Of the Trade Exhibition at the Happy World that the parkIni position will be "very difficult.** He asked them to observe the following rules: Enter Only bv the Mounthut
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    Tunisia to be given self-rule
    118 2 A PLAN to give self-govern-ment to the rebellious North African protectorate of Tunisia was approved last night bv the Cabinet of French Premier. Mr. Mendes-France. The terms were not disclosed, as thev must first be submitted to the Bey of Tunis. the nominal ruler of
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    She was wrong
    42 2 Mi i' lc Windom, 35. a hot< i maid in La Vegas Nevada thought the little pistol wai a cigarette lighter and pulled th- trigger She is now in hospital villi a bullel Uncurb n« i ft h.md A.P.
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    Edens for Austria
    23 2 Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Eden will pay a private visit to Austria next month. Reuter
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    Indian naval visit to S'pore
    150 2 PUBLIC TO BE INVITED ON BOARD PASSES to visit eight ship* of the Indian Naval Flotilla, which will arrive ir Singapore on Monday on a six-da.v visit, can be obtained by the public. Visits will be allowed on Thursday, between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.
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    Britain calls to world on 'ban H-bomb' plan
    225 2 Britain calls to world on 'ban H-bomb' plan rpHE British Government yesterday called for a mobilisation of world opinion to persuade the Kremlin to compromise on Western disarmament proposals aimed at banning the hydrogen bomb. The Minister of State, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, told the House of Commons that the Western
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    'PERSUASIVE DAWN' OFF TO PEKING
    130 2 Lord Lindsay of Birker and his Chinese wife left Sydney last night for Peking to act as official interpreters to the British Labour Party delegation which will arrive in China next month. Lord Lindsay has been given leave by the Australian National University at Canberra
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    CZECH ASYLUM FOR U.S. PROFESSOR
    333 3 Commons criticism of British attitude i\K JOSEPH CUKT, 2bV year-old American professor who has been refused permission to stay in Britain, boarded a 'Poland bound freighter at London last night in the shadow of the Tower of London. u ,ined the Polish Government's 3.219-ton vessel
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    44 hurt in religious rioting
    54 3 44 hurt in religious rioting FORTY-FOUR people were injured— at least five seriously—in a religious riot in Beirut yesterday. The rioting, in which Moslem demonstrators exchanged shots with police, followed a two-day strike which closed most shops and bazaars. Later last night the city was reported to be quiet and
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    Work for Spaniards
    23 3 Spanish contractors will be asked on Monday to bid for the first work on an American airbase in Spain. A.P.
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    Parliament closes
    14 3 The British Parliament closed yesterday for a three months summer vacation. Reuter
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    Police report a princess
    78 3 Police report a princess nnc-ess Sibylla of Sweden. < Iff °h Cr 2 Wn Prince Carl w». ha. been reported to 7iJ« h e n Stockholm for ™*M careless driving. v ..J,.M^ n T eal d in Stockholm tf rday by the District 8 >-nntendent Goosta Hak. r..w, n that
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    57 3 THE QUEEN, Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, presented new colours to the 12th 2nd and 4th. battalions of the regiment at Wroughton airfield near Swindon. In the picture she is walking to the dais after the presentation. Accompanying her is Lt. Gen. Sir Hugh Stockwell. Colonel of the Regiment
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    EAVES-DROPPERS
    116 3 EA VES-DROPPERS Fined for tapping police radio TWO men who listened »n on police and fire service radio networks were fined -c7 each yesterday for eavesdropping. Lambeth (London) magistrate court was told that Harry Taylor and Otto Lindeman had set up in busi- ness as newspaper tipsters with a high-powered
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    Aly to be at custody case
    44 3 DRINCE Aly Khan flew to New York from Paris yesteraay to ''straighten out matters about my daughter I r^ U born during his marriage to film star Rita Hayoria A custody case will be heard on Monday. A.P.
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    HUGE REWARDS PLAN TO BEAT ATOM SMUGGLERS
    120 3 THE Attorney General Mr. Herbert Brownell yesterday proposed offering rewards of up to a half a million dollars for tips on illicit traffic in atomk materials and weapons in the United States. Mr. Brownell said information was needed on any possible smuggling or
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    Attlee for Moscow
    31 3 Mr. Clement Attlee. Mr. Anuerin Be van and a party of British Labourites bound for China are expected in Moscow on Aug. 9 for a two-day stay. A.P.
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    Ike gets green light
    32 3 The U.S. Senate agreed un animously yesterday to allow President Eisenhower to sovereignty to West Germany il France and Italy fail to ratify the European Defence Communit.v A.P.
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    The Singapore Frees Press Opinion Don't wait and see
    368 4 The Singapore Frees Press Opinion Don't wait and see Saturday, July 31, 1954. Recent questions In the House ol Commons have served to direct attention again to the acute problem of getting a .sufficient number of teachers for the Colony, and, in particular, to the disinclination of graduates to enter
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    Red China Prestige has Risen in S.E. Asia
    659 4  -  ROBERT S.ELEGANT Chou Fn-Lai's 'smooth peddling' of the Communist peace' fine has achieved results says veteran American Far East correspondent, writing from Singapore 'OMMUNIST Unina .> stock ha.s never been higher in South-east Asia than it Ifl right now and it's still
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    BY THE WAY
    327 4  -  BEACHCOMBER IS the man who plays the hind legs of an elephant an actor or a stage-hand? A recent ruling in America gives him the status of an actor, but surely it depends on whether the elephant ll taking part in a circus or ir a play.
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    FASHION PARADE WINS AN ENCORE
    220 5 FASHION PARADE WINS AN ENCORE BY popular demand the Singapore fashion parade will be held again at Raffles Hotel this evening in aid of the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital fund. Although some of the ■Towns have been sold, the buyers have agreed to have them on display. The big attraction
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    NO MORE AFTERNOON CLASSES FOR 1,000
    103 5 NO MORE AFTERNOON CLASSES FOR 1,000 0 THOUSAND boys and girls of two Singapore pri- school! will no longer have their classes in the afloon irom the beginning ext term in September. belong to the Cantonnent and Keppel Schools, :i are now temporarily h »used in Gan Eng Seng and
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    Watherston gets back to capital
    37 5 LUMPUR, Sat. Mr. Wathergton. the Officer the Governhaa returned to Kuala alter a two dav Negri Sembilan and the Yang di-Pertuan I Ncsri Sembilan and I a number of new villwd kampone.s
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    Back on duty
    19 5 duty '■< Sat. -Dr. F X. "_nde*i has resumed duties aUh Officer. East Pafjn hi* return from
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    HIS NAME WILL STILL BE THERE
    145 5 U-A LUMPUR, Sat. tgor Branch of the '•i Association for •'ion of Tuberculosis PPed the idea of namT.B. settlement at r th.* lute Mr. Khoo Ot the settlement, to be built from con- —as a memento tributions collected by his iriends, is tu be
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    New goods depot
    24 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. A „ei $50o.uiMj «ooda depot roi t| e Malayan Rallwav will be ifficiAlly opened here on Aug U.
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    School show opens
    50 5 KOTA BAHRU, Sat. The Sultan of Kelantan yesterday opened the first combined Kelantan Malay Schools exhibition of school work at Malay School padanr?. Garong. The exhibition will be open to the public today. Prizes will be distributed today by Mrs Jones, wife of Superintendent of Education. Kelantan
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      153 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis NABOAUFTK.NOBAPWST-LANfV gHOM I,py:i>y:^l^ Kt IM mTAkECARtaNIM^^ THi tADVSK 'I MY ANO (AN OFF WITHOUT WAITIN6J; J^VING m" -7^- £^_3 U^ROA. HAPPf Nf D Ifc JH y^^ _ta^^*^>^ >--f-^*^rr_3lKC_''-" TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burrouah* TAfeZA^J -oOUOMt REFUGE IM A J^ V f Y I\l
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      608 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR l DOEN TODAY, yo„ bate t I Wfhly idealistic nature and may find it Just a little bit difft- cult to adjust U the rugged competitive world. You believe i that a man's intrinsic worth is j his greatest -vset. The world is more apt to count
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    THEY'LL HUNT DOWN SWINDLERS
    174 7 But it will be confidential A SINGAPORE 'private and confidential" inquiry bureau, claiming to have agents all over South-East Asia except in Saigon, has been formed *'to help its clients and police track down commercial swindlers." It claims to have a team of investigators including women.
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    S'pore girl to wed man who wrote well
    176 7 S'pore girl to wed man who wrote well I months ago, a sny r EnglUh girl asked Singa- only marriage bureau Windsor Marriage Bu- u to help her find a husband. ■rday, the girl (who de- <\ -d to give her name) said thai she had found her •dream man"
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    Malay youth in speech contest
    88 7 Malay youth in speech contest T inter-school Malay language speech contest to be held at Raffles Institution, Singapore, at 2 p.m. today will ened by Inche Zainal bin Ahmad, senior lecand acting head of the (rsity of Malava's department of Malay Studies. Zainal Abidin will give the prizes. The contest
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    New bus line to open
    68 7 BUTTERWORTH. Sat. A °ugh bus service from rworth to Alor Star will r on Aug. 1. It will run at v intervals between 7.20 1 !l and 6.10 p.m. daily with ►Pa at Kepala Betas Sungei Patani, Guru and Guar Chem- tk. A trio will
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    WARTIME HERO DEAD
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    CAMERAMAN IS BACK AFTER 35 YRS.
    81 7 CAMERAMAN IS BACK AFTER 35 YRS. PENANG. Sat. Famed photographer John Everard is back in Malaya after 35 years to photograph beautiful women in the Far East. A specialist in nude studies he has published several books I including "Arti.sts models and my hundred best studies." Another book will be
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    Chief Guide was their hostess in Britain
    270 7 Chief Guide was their hostess in Britain KEEN interest in Malayan girl guide work was expressed by the Chief Guide. Lady Baden Powell, when two Singapore guide captains saw j her in Britain recently. Thi s was said yesterday by i Capt. Helene Chiang, (above) one of the two guiders
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    RED NOTE BOY SAYS: 'SEND ME TO CHINA'
    182 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. pHIN KON SANG, 19, who pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of terrorist documents, yesterday asked Mr. B. V. Rhodes, president of the Sessions Court, to send him to China. Mr. Rhodes replied that he had no doubt that Malaya
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    Shoplifter gets 2 years' gaol
    41 7 PENANG. Sat.— A shoplifter who slipped three sarongs under his shirt was yesterday sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Ratinam. who had three previous convictions, pleaded guilty to stealing the sarongs from a shop in Kimb-erley Street.
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    He aided internees
    127 7 A MAN who received a letter of commendation from Sir Franklin (iimson, former Governor of Singapore, for helping internees during the Japanese occupation it great personal risk, died this week after a short illness. He was Mr. Tong Ah Sing, (above), who had 31 years service in
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    Parcel rates go up
    65 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat The postal rate* for parcels to Hong Kong have been increased from Aug I, it was an nounced yesterday. The new rates are for a 3 10 parcel $1.50. 7 lb $2.10. 11 lb $3 and 22 lb $5.30. This represents a 30
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    CONSULATE'S $1M. BUILDING PLAN
    114 7 pHE Sum Government is to i a small colony of six Ln about five acres of i in Orchard Road, to its consulate offices and staff in Singapore. {Project may cost about $1 Bullion, Building plans are now being prepared by Siamese architect In o^ n
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    HELICOPTER SERVICE FOR BRITAIN
    262 8 'Bus' hops from city to city A "SEALING »»us service" is planned „r Britain. The "buses' will be helicopters the slse oi Greei Lin-j* COachea, operating over miles between ~0 main centres. Lord Douglas ol Klrtleslde, chairman of Britisl European Airways, revealed the "Bea-bus" plan In
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    MIDGES BEAT THE BAND
    95 8 MIDGES BEAT THE BAND IjiVKRY time thr band J began to play in NortheliHe Woods Park. Shipley. Yorkshire. out came clouds of mid yes. Th c y attacked the brightly- uniformed bandsmen; they attacked the spectators. Every summer's night for five years the midges attacked. Last came a mass swoop
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    Heat won't gel into their hair
    66 8 HAIRDRESSER VVuertz of Yienna has established what may be the first women's open-air hairdressing establishment in the world. As every woman knows, sitting under the dryer on hot days can be very uncomfortable. And her idea of perms in the open air has caught
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    Champion failed by Army
    156 8 Champion failed by Army JOHN LAMBERT, aged a brilliant scholar. At the prize-giving ol City of London I- r< School, Ashtead, Bui won five honours. They were: The general knowledge the prize for the best form scholar, the senior feet's prize, the prize for most original speech, and a State
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    CAT-KILLER SNAKE STRIKES-AT A DOG
    125 8 A DOG is the latest victim of a snake which is believed to have killed a number of cats at Uxbridge. The dog, belonging to the matron of Uxbridge Cottage Hospital, was found lying in a coma in the grounds of the hospital. "It had
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    HOW TO LIVE TO BE 100
    392 9 Simply foliov all the recipes yOU want to grow old I very old? Then follov the advice of the peopli who have achieved thi 100 -year mark Of them says: Eat apple for breakfast. Another: strict abstinence fron hoi. A third: A good dailv
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    Coal men came by the chute
    84 9 coalmen who delivered two bags of coal by misentered a house bv the <'*1 chute to get it back. ihev were accused of trespass 8< yenty-year-old John Robert Htrutt sued the Coal Board at Burnley, Lanes, for £10 damages for trespass. ine Coal Board
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    A new cat —'Alice in Wonderland'
    95 9 A new cat —'Alice in Wonderland' ANEW breed of Alice in Wonderland cats will be exhibited at the Kensington Kitten Club's show in London. They are called Piter Pans because the adults stay the size of five-month-old kittens. But curiouser and curiouser is the fact that the breed keeps getting
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    Boss gives his workers cars for 23$.a week
    285 9 Boss gives his workers cars for 23 a week THOUSANDS of families would like to own a new car For many the initial cost is the greatest stumbling block. But not for the craftsmen of a Leeds firm they are supplied with a new saloon at 235. a week, with
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    BOY WINS MEDAL
    38 9 Eighteen year old Hylton Carr of South Bank. Middlesbrough, has been awarded the Queen's Silver Medal for Shipyard Apprentices. He had to answer Questions about his iob put to him Dy six experts in London.
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    Electronic robots can play Beethoven
    197 9 Electronic robots can play Beethoven FjILICTBOff IC machines which will play a Beethoven symphony or siny* with the voice of Caruso are now being developed by scientists in Britain. They will do for the arts what the electronic brain or computator has done for mathematics. In the foreseeable future they
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    BRITAIN'S HOSPITALS PAY OUT
    232 9 £300,000 IN CLAIMS TN five years £328.916 lias been paid out in compensation bv Na 1 1 oD a Health Service hospital authorities The payment for the fifth year was almost 20 times bigger than n« payment for the first yenr. That was revealed bv written
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    The End of the Rainbow
    786 10  -  Ka t h leen Hick ley by IKRAHIM and Sarinah find the end of a rainbow. Wicked elves are destroying the bow by painting it out and the children offer to help the rainbow fairies. They run home to fetch a barrel of turpentine but
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      572 10 Win a prise, children! 1 OOYS and girls! Here is your nB weekend picture to colour. at V~\-^ y^O\ I You may use P aints crayons >/D/Iw 1 or chalks. The prizes are four f^LnAM/v fw \/i v>^v C 5 I ll 5 <tuo Doys and wo K ir is>*""^^l^*Tr-^\
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    .... and now it's good old Harry'
    758 11 and now it 's good old Harry' ln office Truman was insulted.... on his sick bed he is being deluged with compliments VOU can't blame Harry S. Truman for being somewhat befuddled these days. For years while he was President, he did his best for the country and got nothing
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    'Genuine pieces' racket
    168 11  - 'Genuine pieces' racket STEPHEN COULTER IN Grasse. France, las week a small Louis X\ couch was knocked down al an auction for £950 and small Louis XV table for \*9lo For anyone who has lived a little in France lt seems undeniable that during the reigns of Louis XIV, XV
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    'Weeping Madonna' pilgrims
    200 11 pILGRIMS from many Parts of the world Kneel in Syracuse state before a foot-high statue the Madonna whose enamelled eyes emitted moisture simil a r to human tears. thousands more, unable to ome, are sending money «*nd jewels to help build a Permanent shrine for "The w
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    When the heart arteries grow old
    647 12 WATCH OUT FOR SERIOUS TROUBLE says THE SINCAPORE DOCTOR <rHE HOSPITAL doctor told me over the I -lephone that the patient I had gent to the hospital an hour j rlior for an electrocardiogram was suffering from coronary thrombosis. This patent had been car-
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    It may save the lives of boxers
    167 12 ANEW instrument, the electron cephalograph or brain-flow-writer has been used during recent amateur boxing championships in Berlin. The instrument has been devised to lessen the danger of grave injury to health or even death to boxers. Dr. Pampas of Bonn, the sports doctor,
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    Bridge Quiz
    381 12 Bridge Quiz Wit you have a of bids, i ahead i the bill after the which Is en ig me imme problem. Quite often you will find thai th* most obvious bid lor the Immediate situation is one that will create a headache later on. whereas a wiser Brsi choice
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    'I Talked Myself Into Films
    767 13 'I Talked Myself Into Films says HOPALONC BILL BOYL Famous 'Western' star is in London on 'Operation Friendship |UNE 17th has been an J important day in my MeThat day, thirty five lgo I talked myinto the movies. day, nineteen years I began my first palong Cassidy pic- turc Do
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    8 13 kb'Ney aw n is a promisini Hollywood starlet.
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    Husbands 'just happen'
    139 13 Husbands 'just happen' says Joan Crawford SPEAKING out on mamage- Joan Crawford (who has three marriages behind her) admitted the other day that she had never found the right man. "I m still looking for the ideal husband and they're hard to find. Particularly when one ha_ four adopted children
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    'Debbie' moves up
    117 13 'Debbie moves up MOST-DISCUSSED SCttress in the town I preview circle* today is lively little DEBBIE kkynoi.i>s, who neatly via Ps up and runs away with what started out to be Dick Powell's pictun Susan Slept Here". No young actress ha.s grown up and developed to such a gratifying degree
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    HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
    127 13  -  SHEULAM GRAHAM £9 'Black Widow li a film with an ominous name, but it sounds might; iwect to PEGGY ANN GARNER, it Indirectly saved the life of the former child actress who is appearing in the murder mysterv along with GIWGER I'OC.UtS GENE TLERNEY and VAN lIEFLIN. "I
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    ROUND S'PORE CYCLE RACE
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    Early start for 60 contestants
    580 14  -  E. PETERS AND THESE ARE THEIR NAMES.... By OINGAPORE cyclists E will be up bright and early tomorrow morning for a 6.30 a.m. start to the second annual Tour of Singapore. This mass -start cycle race Ls organised by the Singapore Cycle Racing Association and
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    TENNIS STARS TO COMPETE MONDAY
    155 14 TENNIS STARS TO COMPETE MONDAY fIPOF intn national lawn tennis players of the United States and several overseas countries are among the <>4 men and 44 women «-ni»*-ed Io? the US. Lister n Grass Courts singles championships, beginning ka New York on Monday. The foreign seedlngs for the oifri i
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    ITALIANS PROBE HAZELL FIGHT
    233 15 rr}\V executive of the Italian Boxing Federation held an emergency meeting last night to establish whether there were any irregularities during the Rome middleweight bout on Wednesda\ between Gordon Hazell of Britain and Tiberio Mitri of Italv. Hazell retired after five rounds of the 10-roimd contest
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    Another draw for Pakistan
    331 15 rp between Somerset ar oded in a tame dra were set the ou r 296 in 135 mini j;, dual proceedings wei ;Mx enlivened by the hui htttin-g M the County captai I beret he raced to 89 i ore being caught an Ahmed. H player
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    151 15 DERBYSHIRE took an important step forward in their bid for English County cricket championship honours when they beat Yorkshire, the present leaders, by six wickets at Leeds. This victory carries them above Warwickshire into second place, only ten points behind Yorkshire and they have pla>ed two games less than th*
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    DERBY MOVE UP TABLE
    172 15 pREFECT, a four-year-old colt starting at 100-8 wor 1 the Chesterfield Cup for Mr. Jack Olding on the final day's racing at Goodwood (Sussex). Splendidly handled by Australian "Scobie" Breasley. Prefect took the lead with a furlong to go in the 10-furlong race and held off
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    GOOD START BY HONG KONG
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    EMPIRE GAMES OPEN
    169 15 EMPIRE GAMES OPEN A began to fall Lord r of Tunic officially e beginning of the l In an impressive ••Tday. dowi lengthened on Ins across Vansportsmen from countries marched jjj Watching WM a nw. bu**'e calls, the <!>d the flutter of pißeon.--. mark- ihe reieuiony h" cycling track Mils
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    Sportsman in Disguise
    20 15 A local sportsman in an uh familiar role. Who is he? (■SWOT at foot of column one)
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    NEW TOURNEY
    26 15 Singapore Business Houses Football Association will .start a new knockout competition for Junior clubs this year. The competition is for the Cheok Wah Cup.
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    6f. upset
    127 15 doodview a 12-year-old geldinjrunning his 97th race sprang a surprise in the Chichester Stakes over si\ furlongs. He wax yet another winning outsider at 100-7. His success was all the more ren.arkable as he was the last of the 10 runners lo leave the starting I ate. The
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    QUEEN'S HORSE TO RUN IN U.S.
    42 15 Queen Elisabeth ear-old colt Landau, Is a pr< bable runnt i raci Burel Park, Maryland, United States, on November 2, it was <i last night. Landau will be I race R( < flour' ran ij-t UniU Reuter
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    Filipinos Ist and 2nd to Shirai
    391 15 Filipinos Ist and 2nd to Shirai RING RATINGS *I*WO FUi| 100 I e<> BqitoOM «ik lai.n\ Campo are ranked tlu Nos. 1 and' J cha!!i liters lo llywelghl Doxing champion Yo.shio shirai ol Japan In the latest ratings by Him; Magazine. In the buntamw- Igbl class Thailand's Chamroen Songkitrat is
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    SIR GORDON OUT OF HOSPITAL
    41 15 Sir Gordon Richards left hospital yesterday for his home ln Marlborough in fine condition. The Jockey was injured on July 10 at Sandown Park when Queen Elizabeth's horse, Abergeldie, reared and fell on him A. P.
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      11 15 S^tsman in Disguise Tj ON: Una Chew Bee, l "*n tennis.
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      25 15 Spend A Clorious Evening with Miss ALICE LEE at OCEAN PARK HOTEL Every Thursday Friday Saturday _Jsr *m m kuf "J*»> NigMing/dc ot the Orient
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    CABARET GRADUATE TRYAS
    205 16 Best trio for wet track Free Press Course Correspondent THE going at Penan' today will at best be yielding after heavj rain last night. Three *jood each -way bet> are Cabaret II (Race Two) Graduate (Race Court and Tryas (Race Seven). All three can act on a
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    235 16 TRESPASSER PBNDKNGAB a#ftOMJBSr CALL BO If POINTER Xarr I. I FISH'S KI'IIA I ISH'S KIDA t'OLLBGB DON COLLEGE DON C'OLLEKE~DON 2.15 j College |>on < ollr*e Dun Canterbury Bell Fish's Kuda Barborossa Barborossa Canterbury H- II rish's Kuda Sugar Bush Fish's Kuda Race 2. ABO VI
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    Mid-day Nap
    319 16 RIVER PATROL (In Race 5) Mousa in the Perak Derby on a heavy track in April. Talkie II will be all the rage ln Race Four but on a wet track the vastly Improved Graduate will prove a tough nut to crack. This Magic Red grey won his
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    GLIDING OFF
    26 16 /CONDITIONS remained poor at v/ the international gliding site at Great Hucklow yesterday and chances of resuming flying after seven blank days seem remote
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    BERGMANN AND LEACH DUE
    61 16 OICHARD Bergmann and Johnny Leach, former world table tennis champions, are expected at Kallang airport by BOAC at 350 pm. today from Calcutta. They will be playing exhibitions at 8 p.m. tonight at the Singapore Badminton Stadium where a proprogramme of seven events has been K2JS
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    Don Cockell 301b. heavier
    140 16 Don Cockell 301b. heavier I\ON COCKELL, British heavymW weight champion had a weight advantage of 30'21b. for his third meeting with American Harry Matthews In Beattle. At the weigh-in Cockell scaled st. tfclb. and Matthews weighed 12 st. 12 lbs. The weight difference was about the same as in each
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