The Singapore Free Press, 6 August 1954

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    Masthead
    20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya. 'v.. 14O?O. Singapore, Ft 1., Aug. 6. 1951. Price 15 Cts.
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    BIG BLAZE IN OILFIELDS
    70 1 DAMAGE estimated at $500,000 (Malayan) was caused early today by a flre which destroyed three large storage buildings in the Seria oilfields in Brunei. Engineers fought their way through dense smoke to turn off two oil wells near the centre of the fire. The fire destroyed
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    INDONESIA CALLS FOR NEW PACT
    65 1 INDONESIA has asked the Philippines for support in forming a political and economic, but non-military alliance of African and Asian nations instead of an American sponsored South-East Asia Treaty Organisation, Foreign Office sources said in Manila yesterday. The Indonesian Minister to the Philippines, Dr. T.
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    SEATO talks in Philippines next month
    91 1 A UTHORITATIVE sources A said in London yesterday that the Foreign Secretary Mr Eden still hopes to persuade Pakistan and Ceylon to attend a formal conference on a South-East Asia defence pact (SEATO). The sources said the conference probably would be held in the
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    Red campaign against pact
    82 1 Chinese Communist Premier Mr. Chou En Lai sent out wooing messages of congratulations to all the Colombo powers yesterday while the Soviet propaganda machine opened strong attacks on SEATO and American "war mongers." broadcasts monitored in London added up to a concerted Red campaign to brand
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    U.S. orders jet flying tankers
    79 1 U.S. orders jet flying tankers rK U.S. AIR force has ordered America's first jet transport plane into production as a flying tanker for jet bombers, it was announced last night. The plane is the Boeing Airplane Company's 550 mile an hour sweptwing model 707 which cost the firm US$l5 million
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    THE AMERICANS NOW DO IT
    40 1 The U.S. Navy announced yesterday that the new F-9 jet fighter plane which it called "one of the world's few combat planes designed for supersonic speeds in level flight" has had its maiden flight- U.P.
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    STRONG U.S. PROTEST AT KOREA RIOTS
    121 1 IT w«j reported in Seoul today that the United States had handed South Korea a •strong Note of protest over recent demonstrations against the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission. The Note was said to have been delivered to the Foreign Ministry yesterday by a representative
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    Austria joins
    22 1 Austria will join 12 other countries In preventing the reshipment of strategic Amer* ican goods to Iron Curtain countries A.P.
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    RUBBER PRICE
    27 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on a steady tone with first grade, August shipment, at 67% cents a pound, cent above yesterday's close.
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    S'pore man killed in 4.20 a.m. crash
    180 1 MR. Harry T. Counter, 47--year-old Advertising Manager of the Singapore Standard, was killed when a car he was driving crashed into a lamp post near the junction of Hooper Road and Bukit Timah Road at 4.20 a.m. today. Mr. Tan Hock Chye, a
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    AIDED SCHOOLS ARE WARNED
    254 1 End profiteering on books (GOVERNMENT aided English schools in Singapore were again warned yesterday to stop the practice of making profits in the sale of text-books to their pupils. In a circular issued to the principals the senior inspector of schools, Mr. T. P. M. Lewis
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    The crash landing
    158 1 BY AN EXPERT CAPT. lan Stephens, BOAC investigating officer, said at the Kallang crash inquiry today that there could be no confusion or distortion of vLsiony when the Constellation landed^ on March 13. He said he based his opinion on evidence heard in court. There was no
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    Reds are short of food
    122 1 Reds are short of food rHE East German Cabinet last night announced .significant changes In the economy to overcome "serious shortcomings" in .supply and distribution. )bservers In West Berlin said that the Cabinet action was the local outcome of growing complaints from all quarters. :he poor quality of hou.vehold goods
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    TERROR FIRE RAZES HOMES OF 2,000
    226 2 Ten Mnj;apoic «.»>«*-*»•»» working with X VI. Headquarters and units were presented with testimonials for good service yesterday by the C-in-C, Air Marshal Sir Clifford Sanderson, at Changi. "These testimonials arc an official and lasting recognition of the very Hne service you have given
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    India protests to Portugal: 'acts of violence'
    192 2 India protests to Portugal: 'acts of violence' THE Indian Government yesterday protested against the "war hysteria" which it alleged Portugal had worked up against India. In a note handed to the Portuguese legation m New Delhi, India also complained about a "provocative anti-Indian demonstration held m Lourenco Marques, capital of
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    U.S. RUSHES TENTS FOR REFUGEES
    119 2 U.S. RUSHES TENTS FOR REFUGEES MR. HAROLD STASSEN, the U.S. Foreign Operations Administrator, announced last night the United States had sent 2,000 tents to shelter 40.--000 refugees m Indo-China as part of an increased aid programme. He said 500 tents had been air-lifted from Japan to the free area of
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    Japan, India talks
    26 2 Talks now «oing on between India and Japan for an air agreement are expected to be completed by middle of this month.- Reuter
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    TALK ON SOVIET NOTE BUT WEST 'NO' LIKELY
    135 2 JJRITAIN. the United States and France are likely to reject Russia's late.st proposal lor a Big-Four conference on European security, according to diplomats m linden ye.sterday. The proposal, made m a Rovtet note delivered <<n Wednesday m Washington. London and Paris wtl
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    Preacher claims round 1 in battle with nudists
    101 2 rpilK M DISTS at Sunshine 1 <«ardfiiH. Kattle Creek Michigan, said last night the preacher they ejected from their convention was still nelcome without clothes. Kut Dr. Braton R Sawyer. who calls himself a radio evangelist said: "My Hook is expecting me
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    Rumours -then panic
    159 2 TWO thousand More cans were left homeless yesterday after fire destroyed 500 buildings m an overcrowded shanty town on the outskirts of Casablanca. Police believe terrorists started the blaze. Twenty people were injured, including one fire fighter. The refugees have been housed temporarily m new apartment buildings
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    P.o.W. exchange
    25 2 The ma.s.s exchange of 15,000 prisoners of the Indo-China war will be^in on Aug. 10 at the rate of 1.000 a day. A.P.
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    U.S. planes for BOAC
    31 2 The British Overseas Airways Corporation has contracted to buy six Boeing Stratocruisers from United Air Lines of America for service on North Atlantic routes next summer.— AP
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    Girls are ousting office boys
    232 3 Girls are ousting office boys riiHE office boy Is dying out m Britain today. Finns now prefer girls for this md similar routine work. md m fact ordinary clerical work Ls rapidly becoming a woman's occupation. These facts were stated by Mr. T R Thompson, chairman oi the Office Management
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    THEY MARCHED TO WORK IN STRIKE CITY
    98 3 pRIVATELY OWNED buses were doing a great trade at one-third above normal ferw m Hamburg yesterday the city's public utilities workers continued their two-lay-old strike, with no ■settlement m sight. Some of the city's 1,700,000 people marched to work m the morning singing
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    POLES THREW HOT WATER ON LONDON POLICE
    255 3 rrHE Home Office m London said yesterday that Scotland Yard police twice Ilied force m removing stowaway Antoni Klimowicz from a Polish freighter I 'because an ugly situation threatened As the police were leaving the freighter Jaraslaw Dabrowski on Saturday night, the Home
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    IS THIS YOUR LOST PET?
    61 3 A light cream coloured female puppy (above) was found yesterday morning; m Tanglin Road, Singapore, between Tanglin Circus and Rochalie Drive. It had neither collar nor licence disc. The owner of the lost pet can get m touch with i Mrs. P. F. Grimble, the
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    Two Reds gaoled for German riot
    98 3 HERMAN OFFICIALS last night blamed Communist agitators for provoking a clash between dock--yorkers and police m Bremerhaven during an inspection of an area the U.S. Army intends to requiEition for housing. A man and a woman deribed as known Red agitators were gaoled as
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    'No' to wage rise
    24 3 Cotton industry employers m anchester yesterday rejected "right a £9,000.000 a year claim by 290,000 spin"n X and weaving workers
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    Pakistan accepts
    19 3 Pakistan ha s "conditionalaccepted World Bank pro-w-sal for sharing the waters of «*e Indus Basin with India.
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    Flag ship sails
    27 3 The 18,000-ton Olympic Challenger, flag ship of multimillionaire shipowner Aristotle Socrates Onassis' whaling fleet, i left Kiel yesterday for the South Atlantic- A. P.
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    SIX-MAN TEAM for inquiry on McCarthy
    114 3 SIX-MAN TEAM for inquiry on McCarthy I VICE President Richard Nixon m Washington yesterday appointed a six member Senate Committee to i investigate the conduct of j Senator Joseph McCarthy < Republican -Wisconsin and consider proposals that he be censured. The motion for creation of ithe committee, offered by! Republican
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    THOUSANDS FIGHT TO HOLD BACK RIVER
    127 3 THE Yangtze River, already at a record height, surged several inches near the top of sodden dykes m the Wuhan area yesterday, Peking Radio announced. The broadcast said the river was more than seven feet above the level at which it broke through the
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    Red strength
    24 3 Statistics published m Russia give the strength of the Communist Party m Italy as 2 120,000 and m France 800.000 j A.P.
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    Three Nazis freed
    28 3 The British authorities m Germany yesterday released three German war criminals, reducing to 60 the number .still held m the British prison at Werl.- A.P.
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    90 RED SUBS in Pacific
    119 3 90 RED SUBS in Pacific Says U.S. Admiral T^HE Russian Navy may have as many as 90 submarines m the Pacific area, Vice Admiral William Callaghan, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces m the Far East, estimated yesterday. "These submarines definitely would be a threat to maintaining sea lines of communication,"
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    'Screw ball' gets big reward
    171 3 'Screw ball' gets big reward THE US. House of Representative* yesterday rewarded a Philippine family that gave fortune i and a Hfe aiding American soldiers held m Japanese prison camps during World War 11. The heads of liiat family were known m the underground lingo as "Sparkplug' iikl "Screw Ball
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    The Singapore Free Press Opinion The power of youth
    423 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion The power of youth FRIDAY Auk. I, Mt One Of the most remarkable examples Of the power of youth to join together in a practical way to break down prejudice and intolerance, and to foster ttae gospel of universal amity is provided in the work
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    Suez 'HQ' moves to Cyprus
    658 4  - Suez 'HQ' moves to Cyprus J. L. HAYS A small island comes into the news THE NEW LOOK ROUND THE MED. i/YRKNIA, Cyprus a fishing village on the northern COB 8 t is favourite resort of honeyIDOOnerfl and an ideal place for pensioners, it is here that the C-in-C Middle
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    By the Way
    324 4  -  BEACHCOMBER t*he cele b r a 1 e d Dr. Locksmith, who i much in the news present, had an Amusing experience once A sailor who had lost key to his chest while on leave saw the name Lock n I on the doctor's door and i
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    VILLAGE ELDERS SET UP SCHOOL
    359 5 A porch will be first classroom ELDERS of six kampongs in Singapore's Geylanft district, bounded by Pay a Lebar, Aljunied, Mu"Pherson Roads and Sims Avenue. have lormed a welfare committee to raise the K'ial conditions of their villages. T teir first aim is to provide
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    51 5 Lt. neral O. K. Bourne, Director of Operations in the Federation, chats with 16-year-old James Yap Mil n Choy. while inspecting a parade of the Federation Military College at Port Dickson. Cieneral Bourne congratulated the boys on their smartness and added that the "little bays" were goods as th« "big
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    S'pore fish prices go up 10 to 30 cents
    124 5 THERE was a general increase in ftsh prices in Singapore as compared with last month, according to wholesale distributors. But the increase was slight ranging from 10 to 30 cents a kati for the more popular fish. Prices are expected to
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    A new school after the holiday
    73 5 A new school after the holiday PENANG, Fri. OT. George's Girls' School will move into its new $2,000,000 building on the old Penang Racecourse at MacAlister Road next month after the August vacation. There will be an opening ceremony but the programme has not been finalised, the principal. Miss B.
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    Boria parties at fun fair
    52 5 PENANG. Fri. Boria parties from 17 districts will ;ive ria and sandiwara per'ormances at the Penang JMNO Hari Raya Haji tun lair starting on Monday. The fair, in aid of the UMNO juilding fund, will be open for 10 nights at the stadium site n
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    Kedah patrol attacked
    61 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fr 1. Bandits fired a Bren gun. rifle> and carbines on an area seru rity unit patrol In the Baling district of Keriah They fled when fire was returned. The patrol round a terrorist resting placi* nearby and three sacks containing uniforms cloth and medicines
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    Sale for varsity
    44 5 IPOH. Fri. Hawkers and petty traders in the Ipoh area are to combine In a. three-day effort from Oct 9 to raLse funds for the Nanyang University at a "sale" to be held at the People's Park in Hugh Low Street.
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    Soya sauce aided drug discovery
    207 5 S > Y A bean sauce not going bad has led to the dis)Vt'ry of a drug against >*1 typhoid— neftin. In "ding out why, British dentist isolated the nitro Ul group drug which has success'lly parsed clinical trials in Britain Is to be the
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    Whirlwind victims get grant
    92 5 Whirlwind victims get grant IPOH. Fn The pre. idont l»1 the OOimcil ol Religion and Malay Cilftom, Pcrak. has a grant ol $1 .050 for distribution among the six Mai.iy victims of Bungel Bogak Krian whose bouaea were destroyed by a whirlwind m\ July 24 Raja Mu.sa bin Raja Mahdl,
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    FIRST GROUP OF HAJIS DUE ON AUG. 31
    81 5 FIRST GROUP OF HAJIS DUE ON AUG. 31 PENA.NG, Fri The first Kroup of this year's pilgrims from Mecca will return by the Anking due in Penan* on Auk. 31. Four other groups are expected back on Sept. 22 (by the Anshun). Oct. 3 (Anking). Oct. 25 (Anshun) and Nov.
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    BRITISH DOLLS IN MADRID
    86 6 IN SPITE of apparent antagonism towards Britain over the Gibraltar issue Spaniards are becoming so Britishminded that they have taken to buying their children "Lilibet and •Margarita" dolls. The dolls, an exclusive speciality of a popular Madrid toyshop, are becoming quite the fashion among the city's
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      178 6 -J I^^^^m i H Asia I MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis i j um«t« K eru M \|i*«umcJ lißm^r 0 o |M s TK.||SBiBas^ s 5 H i THE EXACT SITUATION. NO SUCH P^°***J!f T tE ™Vr^ POOMR GOIN6TO 6ET AMBASSA^-YOU 1 H^T IK^V^ Mu'sT 8"' (S*°^ cXSSSsf
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      574 6 YOUR I LUCKY! STAR I L>ORN TO»AY you are affec- tionate, loving and devoted I to members of your own family j as well as unusually under j standing and kindly toward i everyone you meet. You are j fond of children and they are loud of you. Teaching is
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    SPEED 'SAVE TEETH' PLAN GOVT. IS URGED
    194 7 SPEED 'SAVE TEETH' PLAN GOVT. IS URGED pARENTS and school authorities in Singapore yesterday ur^ed Government to speed up the plan to flouridate the city's water supply to wage "war" on caries the early stages of tooth decay. Government was holding back the two-year-old scheme because it felt that "public
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    Mine detector in search
    31 7 BUTTERWORTH. Fri. Province Wellesley police yesterday used a mine detector while searching a house in Permatang Pauh village, Butterworth, following the detention of two Chinese on Tuesday.
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    Fifty facts for sale
    60 7 ALL FOR 25CTS. MALACCA, Fri. T h e Rotary Club here has published a folder entitled: "Fifty Facts About Malacca." Copies are being sent to Rotary clubs throughout the world. The folder contains intormation about ancient Malacca, and can be bought for 25 cents. Mr. K.
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    Girls told: No more fancy hair-styles
    171 7 Girls told: No more fancy hair-styles NO more fancy hairstyles when you return from your holidays, St. Xnthony's school girls under Standard V were told in Singapore today. They were advised by their principal to keep their hair short, just below the ears. The Rev. Mother Rose Buio added: "This
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    Bandits flee leaving packs
    61 7 ALOR STAR. Fri. An area .security unit patrol operating at Simpang Ampat, in the Baling district, contacted seven terrorists yesterday. The bandits fled after a five-minu-te 41m battle. The terrorists left some packs und gunny sacks containing iood. medicine and clothing. In a follow up action,
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    36 7 picture. Elizabeth Kirby helps Quan Siew Khin. ■*Mj^ t fe*?!^^J P^ 1 with her make-up before the start of the production of Henry IV given by me Victoria Institution Drama Society at Kuala Lumpur. Free Press
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    'Miss Golden Voice'
    51 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Eighteen-year-old Miss Eileen Sta Maria, of Kuala Lumpur, was last night elected "Miss Golden Voice" of the Telecommunications Department at the Radio Malaya Studio in Young Road. Last year's winner, Miss Sylvia Barbosa, of Butterworth, was third. Miss Aisha binte Samsuddin, of Penang, was
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    Part of convent completed
    37 7 SITIAWAN. Fri. Two wines of classrooms for the new Convent School in Lekir Road have been completed. This school was opened in January this year with primary classes conducted in the church here.
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    Scout social
    28 7 IPOH. Fri. The North Ipoh District Boy Scouts Association will hold a scout social and dance at the Anderson School. Ipoh, tomorrow starting at 9 p.m.
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    Back from leave
    25 7 IPOH, Fri. Mr. C W. Rees, generation superintendent of the Perak River Hydro Electric Power Co. Ltd.. has returned from home leave.
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    Pahang strict on food laws
    55 7 KUALA LIP IS. Fri. Food regulations are being strictly enforced in Pahang. says a Government statement issued yesterday. The statement recalled that a rubber tapper, Leong Choy. was sentenced to two months gaol in the Termoloh court recently for trying to takeout half a bottle
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    Boy dies on his 18th birthday
    43 7 IPOH. Fri. P. Kanagasabapathy third son of Mr. S Ponniah, retired chief clerk of the Education Department Perak. and Mrs. Ponniah. died on his 18th birthday at Ipoh Hospital. Kanagasabapathy was a pupil of the Anderson School
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    Medical social
    21 7 SEGAMAT. Fri. The Medical Sports Club, Segamat. will hold a social at the Nurses' Hostel at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow.
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    New head of Botanical Gardens due
    77 7 New head of Botanical Gardens due MR John W. Purseglovt, Singapore's new Director of the Botanical (iarden.s. will arrive here <>n August 24 t<» take up his post. The former director. Mr M. R. Henderson, has gone on leave prior to retirement. Mr. Puiseglove. 41. was formerly senior agricultural officer
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    38 8 picture. The British cruiser Bermuda commanded by Captain G. K. Collet and with Vice-Admiral J. P. Reid aboard paid a visit to Trieste. The picture shows the band of the Sullolks at the arrival of the Burmuda.— Popper
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    Cheek can cost them a home
    158 8 Cheek can cost them a home IF THE cheeky children living on a housing estate do not stop being cheeky, their parents will get notice to quit their homes. The decision was made by the house management committee of Newcastle-on-Tyne City Council after hearing complaints about cheeky children on the
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    SHE STARVED DOGS FOR A MONTH
    91 8 SHE STA R VED DOGS FOR A MONTH AHKADMASTKH'S Wife shut up her lour doga ami starved them ty cause her husband "di:-)iked the hobby and refused to give ji, tnoney v> feed them/ 1 court wai told The headmasli r, :v.> yeai »>!(i Douglaa Donnny, principal c>i Dominy College,
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    CHILDREN WATCH FOR 'UNFAIR' DRIVERS AT ZEBRAS
    217 8 OOYS and girls, notebooks in hand, are now standing near zebra crossings in Hampstead London, watching for drivers "unfair" to pedestrians. If the same car number appears too often in the notebooks, the driver will get a letter about it. The children— l3
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    Loyalty check for Aga Khan's followers
    82 8 Loyalty check for Aga Khan's followers gAST AFRICAs Ismaill Moslem community followers of the Aga Khan will hold mass meetings soon, to declare loyaltv to their leader and denounce "subversive elements," it is reported. All the Aga Khan's followers will be asked to sign a declaration of loyalty to him.
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    BARTER PACT WITH RUSSIA
    55 8 Russia and Persia have signed a new barter agreement sharply increasing Soviet .shipments of industrial equipment. The Russians will .send 11.000 tons of iron and steel and their products. 60.01K' Ums of cement. 2000.000 electric bulbs, 10.000 tons of paprr. 150 tons oi dy stuffs and
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    Feeling ill? Swallow this atom finder
    160 8 AN ENTIRELY new method of studying: what goes on in a patient's stomach vitally important in detecting ulcers has been perfected by a Glasgow scientist. The instrument used is a Geiger counter, which is able to record atomic energy and which is so small
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    Parrot gets 10 shilling pension
    313 8 Parrot gets 10 shilling pension T AURA sat crunching toast in her fine gilt e<u>e unaware that she had Decomr Britain's only pensioned off parrot. For 20 years the red-green and-blue bird's wisecracks and cheery "Ta-tas" brought gaiety 1 into the secluded lives of three j .vpinster sisters. She became
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    HE LIKED FIREMEN AND HOAXED THEM
    54 8 Three times in two hours a 14-year-old boy phoned fake alarms to Luton. Bedfordshire, fire station. Firemen, appliances, and cars turned out Later, the boy told thr police: "I get a thrill when 1 see a fire-engine going by." He was placed on probation
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    Minister is dismissed from divorce suit
    228 8 Minister is dismissed from divorce suit A Baptist minister was dismissed from a divorce action I because, said Mr. Justice Arthian Davies at Glamorgan Assizes, there was not a shred of background evidence against him. The judge said: "I think it is impossible to believe that a Nonconformist minister in
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    HE ALWAYS READ HER MAIL
    649 9 Baronets heir divorced by peer's daughter r FHE ManiftfC of a peer*l daughter and a baronet's heir who insisted on seeing all her letters has ended m the Divorce Court m London. Attractive 32-year-old Mrs. Rosemary Myra GorrBooth, whoso father is the tenth Baron Barnard,
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      At 80, health means more
      154 9 'i'lii.Ri: was only one thing 1 wrong with the 15,000 legacy that came to Mrs. May Sullivan from her cousin. It came 50 years too late. As Mrs. Sullivan put it: "What use is K 15.000 to a woman of 80?" "Fifty years ago/' she
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      At 20, work's the thing
      157 9 r fH> -ind Lieut. Guy Wilson on i his 21st birthday will »oitif VI 100,000. But said his father, "He is not at all bothered about it. When he leaves the Army in September he will settle down to hard work studying law. The money
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    THIS BILL WILL BEAT BOGUS ESTATE AGENTS
    160 9 BOGUS "I'll-find-you-a-flat" agents who bleed yountf married couples of their hardearned savings will be out of ness if Parliament passes a Bill providing for the annual 1 < "sins of estate agents. The Bill, at present being drawn up by the Property Consultant
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    Farewell party
    38 9 SUNGEI PATANI, Fri.— The staff of the Rubber Industry (Replanting) Board recently gave a farewell tiffin here in honour of Mr. H. T. Stiven, State Replanting Officer for Kedah-Perlis-Penang, who la going to Britain on leave.
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    GERMANS LOWEST
    21 9 A German firm submitted the lowest tender for an electrically operated sluice-gate for the North-West Sussex Joint Water Board
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    65 9 SQIABBLES between four year old David Stacey and his three-year-old brother Geoffrey when they both wanted to ride their single tricycle at the same time have now been ended happily. Father did a neat engineering job and converted the machine into a tandem. Now David and Geoffrey, who live at
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    57 9 picture. Placegetters in the Miss PaftfWM beauty conteM wave him contracts they have just signed at Universal nternahona studios. Hollywood. Miriam StCVMMM, Miss I n.v.-rse and Miss United states (centre), i;ot a six months contract. The runners up Martha Kim ha (left, Miss Uraxil and \ir irini^ Ut, Miss llonj;
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    Sparks from funnel start a fire
    76 9 Sparks from funnel start a fire BUTTERWOFTH. Fri. SPARKS from the funnel of the coastal freighter Triang ignited coils of rope and 15 life-jackets on deck, while the vessel was berthed at the Straits Steamship's Sungei Nyok dockyard here at noon today. The Butterworth fire brigade was called and the
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    22 10 Mulluni Kibe, 19-year-old Kikuyu «irl. after being sentenced to death at Nairobi for murdering a native watchman following acts of "unspeakable cruelty."
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    France welcomes her Army back
    464 10  -  STEPHEN COULTER j I.' T\i i 'II j|f^^j^^^^^^^i ra IT LOOKS as it the long French hesitation about rearming Germany is finally going to be settled. The chances of France ratifying the European Army Treaty have been improved by the armistice in IndoChina. for the
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    Russian Press Derides Religion
    861 10 God must be 'liquidated' Charles Adams bases this article on extracts from Soviet publications IN the face of religious stirrings in some parts of the Soviet Union. Russian ideologists are stepping up antirelibious propaganda. During the past year, .such propaganda gradually has been increased in the
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    Britain needs scientists
    92 10 UfHITEHALL Is now consid- cring l report from senior British scientist! on the need for greater technological talrnt. "More scientist! are needed to teach in the schools." urged one report. "It is far more important for our national security that the best of our scientific students should
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    31 10 Leningrad girls arc to wear a new steel-grey uniform. The apron i for special occasion. This picture was Uken in Moscow with the Kremlin and St. Basils Cathedral in the background.
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      Scapegoat— or Coward?
      855 11  -  WAITER SCHWARZ JSew book may start a public enquiry Ihe SUrr Affair, by Joan OvcriM Fuller, (Gollan^i). ON the night of the August full moon in 1942 a British agent, code-name Emile, was parachuted into a field near Valence, in France. His job was to act as
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      GRAND OLD VILLAIN
      417 11  -  Eric Linklater Unusual novel by niK HOUSE OF GAIR, Eric linklater. Cap?. IF you like an extravagant <haracter, Hazeldon Crome, the villain of The House Of Gair is a n old devil you will love. He is something left over from the age ol Oscar Wilde and
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    Italians are so amorous
    358 11 Italians are so amorous THt: KI'RPRISE OF C RfcMONA. By I diih Trmplrton. Eyre an4 Sp«Utawoodr. I JUDITH TKMPLETON'S IS a sprightly example of a travel book with six Italian cities as its theme. She is unabashed by the churches; hears, with no excess of piety, the Christian martyrs' teeth
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    THEY CALL HIM KWAME
    930 12  - THEY CALL HIM KWAME LOUISE REID Why? Because he was born on a Saturday. But the son of the girl once known as Peggy Cripps has five more names and a neveriaiiing tendency to ignore the charts in his mother's baby books. by The lor m o r Pegzy Cripps,
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      292 12 CLUBI ACROSS 4 No. 8 across loses money and 1 .She takes a trick as a pastry- tjeU I new start (4). coafc? (ft, 2, v,) 5 Bacon put it on? (4). 6 Ait vlthoul the usual oxyi?rti 7 Fought by the bin had wolf and nltrofM mixture! (4). who
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      LOW TO ALLIED SPY WEB
      538 13  - LOW TO ALLIED SPY WEB IAN COLVIN Otto Johns flight will start a Red witch hunt iwITO JOHN, vanished W west German Intellii Q ce director, was a failure and had heen virtually deposed before he disappeared to the Soviet zone. Johns worK was inefficient incellor Adenauer had told go,
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      9 13 <»•* u^ uemcnstraf >irt.t the Mte <" > I iory in India.
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      Hitlerism again ?
      253 13  - Hitlerism again SEFTON DELMER THE growing influence of former Nazis in West Germany is one reason given to explain 0 i'to John's flight to East Germany One of the sectors of the German administration most affected by the Nazi counter-revolution is the German Foreign Service. Latest victim there if Dr.
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      Russia may 'quit' East zone
      389 13 Russia may 'quit' East zone ....but troops would .remain RUSSIA is reported preparing to sign a peace treaty with its puppet East German government, a step which would bring the most serious crisis in EastWest relations in Germany since the Berlin blockade. By signing a peace treaty with the "German
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    POINTS WIN FOR JAP
    78 14 JAPANESE flyweight Takeshi Yamaguchi last night easilv outpointed V. Yongtorakit of Thailand in an eight-round match in Tokyo. The two little battlers tore Into each other like terriers but Yongtoraklts obvious inexperience last him the bout as the swiftpunching, southpaw Japanese scored reiieatedly wi'h sharp lefts
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    Kramer's Davis Cup school
    76 14 JACK KRAMER, one of the United States' greatest lawn tennis players, Is to supervise a junior training scheme designed to win back the Davis Cup lrom Australia. Eight of the most promising rouag Americans, aged from 13 to 17, are to be enrolled into a special
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    IN SINGAPORE SOON
    53 14 Rudolph N'ystrom was the only r»00 v.v. rider to <ompl<t< the recent Swedish six days (rial without losing MIJ mirks This won for him a gold medal. Nystrom is pictured here with his powerful Royal Knfield "»00 Bullet Thr latest m.irhinrs tl this model are expected in
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    NON-BENDERS TEAM v COMBINED SCHOOLS
    62 14 Non- Benders Cricket Club team b. Combined Schools on Saturday at 2.15 p.m. at Ceylon Sports Club round: T. J. Leijssius fCaptaln». E. V. O, Day. J. T. Refc, S. T. Stewart, R. S. Tufnell, R. V. S. Sundram, A. Baker. D. C. DCotta. D.
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    SOCCER TRANSFERS
    142 14 TOM MULGKEW. Newcastle Umled'.s SrottLsh in.side-foiwaid, tr.tv»-ii..d to .^uthampton yesterday uid ls exp^< ted to sign for the club t'Kl.ty The will bf 19.000 whtok NewCastle paid for Mul«rew to Northamptoa two years ago. Johnny MorrU. Leicester City's InleraaUoaal iriside-lorward. ha.s hi.s di<lcrence« with the club and re
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    Discount that sponge alibi
    311 14 I COULDN'T FACE MiTRI' -hazell OKITISH middleweight Gordon Hazell must think again about plans for a world title bout against Bobo Olson. His retirement at the end of the fifth round against Tiberio Mitri of Italy, has delayed Hazell's prospects of a bout with the world
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    TEST YOUNGSTER IS CALLED UP
    49 14 Northants wicketkeeper Keith Andrew, due to sail with the M.C.C. Australia side on Sept. 15, has been told to report for 14 days 1 Army reserve training on Sept 25. But an application for exemption would probably receive "sympathetic consideration." says the War Office.
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    HAVANA OFFER TO MARCIANO
    40 14 An official of the General Cuban Sports Commission said yesterday he had bwn authorised to offer Rocky Marclano (USj, the world heavyweight boxing champion, M5600,000 to defend hi* title In Havana against Cuba's Nino Valdes Reuter
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    H.K. BEAT AUSSIES
    41 14 JJONG KONG had its fourth straight win in the British Empire Games bowls rink competition yesterday beating Australia 26 20 after a great battle. Alfred Coates second and Raoul lia Luz skip bowled magnificently lor the winners. Reuter
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    RACE DAY IN MOSCOW
    477 14  - RACE DAY IN MOSCOW STANLEY JOHNSON By SILENCE ON THE COURSE 1 THEY'RE oir." whispers th<* v row d, and another evening's racing is underway at the Moscow Hippodrome Why whisper Brcau.se the Russians have a theory that noises bother race-horses. Consequently all cheering, shouting and demonstrations Of any kind
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    TOUR MEN CHOSEN FOR TEST
    294 14 TOUR MEN CHOSEN FOR TEST FRANK TYSOK and Peter Loader, two of the fast bowlers chosen for England's cricket tour of Australia next winter, will make their first Test match appearances for England in the fourth and final test against Pakistan at the Oval next Thursday. To make room for
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    FLOODLIT ARSENAL
    31 14 Arsenal, England's f amour first division soccer club, announced yesterady it has provisionally arranged a floodlit game against the Israel team of Maccaoi, Tele Aviv, for October 26 A.P.
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    Three Rings can oust Josker II
    1346 15  -  TRESPASSER A GOOD BET FOR PENANG GOLD CUP Hv PROBABLE SCRATCHINGS I)IU)K\KI.f: scratching tomorrow: Ra(lal o n a. Majestas. Rridcp law 11. The Strand. Purple and White, River Patrol, Spitfire, It i on Master Touch, Bras Queen. Big Money, Foire, (iolden Sands. Unaware. Pedometer
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    COLD CUP LINE-UP
    97 15 I INK I r ai.d jockeys for lj thf Penang Gold Cup loniorutw PEDOMETU (Mulley) 9.03 II I'HKATES (Clarke) 8.13 BEST BET (Bougoure) 8.12 243 GOLDEN LOTI'S (Franklin) 8.11 I KKiOLKTTO (West) B.UB 112 JOSEEft II (Sawyer) 8.07 i~ < IMPI S BELLE 8.04 1 WHO RK(;RETS
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    Flash Elorde thrills Tokyo
    218 15 IjiLASH ELORDE of the Philippines lust night punched out a 10-round decision over burly RO3 Higa of Honolulu in a leather-filled scrap that kept 1 5.000 crowd cheering in sweltering Tokyo heat. The verdict in this featherweight indoor scrap was a close one. Fla.sh piled up
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    Warwick collapse v. Pakistan
    309 15 tCKBRIRI unexpectedly •'-e battle for first innings [aiittt Pakistan but afterwards n a turning wicket against |U n.pd. who took all six Ul\ at 1 personal cost performance completely iwttDg I* ne Ihe county 91 for 'lose waa only !'6 ahead ecood lniilnKs wickets Qar who
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    All the finals
    169 16 22« V AKI>s FINAL: Don Jowett (New Zealand) IIJ we., 2 Brian Shenton (fcngland; 21.5 nee., 3Km Joue«t (Wales) 21.9 sec. SHOT Pl'T: John Savidge (England) If ft. \ins (record). I. John Pavrllich <( anada) 49ft. in* :i. Slrvr Duplessis (S. AfrJra) IMI WOMKVS YARDS FINAL Marjoric
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    BANNISTER THIRD IN MILE HEAT
    578 16 World record by Marjorie Savidge wins shot MIKKW lI\IJU;KT of New /.eaiana oeai ix»«r. Bannister in the first heat of the British Kmpire (iumes mile race In Vancouver yesterday. Richard Ferguson of Toronto was second. Bannister third, and David Law of England fourth. Al! four
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    4 x 100 m WORLD SWIM RECORD
    71 16 A Hungarian men's swimming team has set a world record of 4 min. 18.1 sec. for the 4xloo metres medley relay, the East German news agency ADN reported from Budapest last night. The Soviet Union holds the official record with 4 min. 24.8
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    BEST BET IMPRESSES
    93 16 Free Press Course Correspondent SEVERAL ««M C«P prospects freshened up with sharp sprint up the slrafctti at Penan* this morning. Most Impressive was Best Bet (Boujroure) who came up the «trairht at a fast pa«e after eoin* a mile. The Panorama gelding is fancied for tomorrow's big
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    Cyclists will be asked to apologise
    130 16 Cyclists will be asked to apologise THV \mat»«ur ycling MM< riati«»n of Australia will Ik* asked to apologise to the British Empire and Commonwraith <.ames authorities tor 'the deplorable outburst" by Ausiialid cycling team m:»na; r er. Mr. \V. Young, in i I'lm- the Australian "walk out" on Tuesday. This
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    LAKER HITS OUT FOR SURREY WIN
    569 16 OVERLOOKED when England selectors picKea me team for Australia, Jim Laker, Surrey's popular offspin bowler, played a major role in giving Surrey an exciting one wicket win against Northamptonshire yesterday. Behind on the first innings of a low scoring game, Surrey captured full points
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    153 16 lACK DEMPSEY. Joe I.ouis. ,uui I farmer world triple champion Henry Armstrong represented the 'modern era In a list of 24 pugilistic greats named yesterday tO bMringi hall Of lame. A Iwiird of directors composed of boxing writers for the world's major news services selected I>l »x>xers
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