The Singapore Free Press, 9 August 1954

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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. nor?. Singapore, Mon.. laf. 19.4. Price 15 Cts
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    Another Special Nap UP
    228 1 Another Special Nap UP 1-HI Special Nap expert ..that's what race;oers are saying of the Free Press racing expert Pendengar Hi.. Special Nap The W _>p— romped home at Penang on Saturday. And it paid the good dividend of $31 for a win cid Sl 1 for a place. l.ut
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    Duke tours Yukon
    20 1 The Duke of Edinburgh has uone to Whithor.se, Yukon Territory, on a tour of Canada's northland A.P.
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    PORTUGUESE DRIVE OUT INDIAN 'INVADERS'
    112 1 I ISBON radio said last night that Portuguese forces had driven out of Canoel village m the southern ">n of the Portuguese India enclave of Nagar H iveii, north of Bombay, "Indian bands who had occupied the village." The Lisbon evening newspaper, Diario Popular, said
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    RHEE FLIES HOME
    34 1 President Syngman Rhee ol South Korea, left San Fran e.sco by plane for home by way of Hawaii yesterday after expressing his gratitude to the American people lor their hospitality Reuter
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    New power plant
    26 1 Ea.t Pakistan's first steam operated power plant hai been opened at Shiddirganj to .sup ply electricity to the growing Dacca-Narayanganj industrial area AP
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    Aid on way to Portuguese
    46 1 Two Portuguese steamers are ..most ready to leave Lisbon Mth reinforcements of men ">d of material tor Portuguese tlements m India, it was irned m Lisbon yesterday. yie 7,607-ton India is due to jail today and the 5.508-ton irnedes tomorrow. Reuter
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    Food poisoning
    33 1 •^xty employees of the usmabrueck city labour office JJS stricken with food poisoning and rushed to a hospital yesterday after eating a puwto salad served from a zinc luoe cup AP
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    RIOT MOB FIRE CINEMA
    288 1 RIOT MOB FIRE CINEMA Police shoot into crowd r IMI()rSA\DS of Moroccans set a cinema and villa owned by a European on fire and looted buildings m a three-hour riot at Port Lyautey yesterday m which one European was killed. The rioting started when Moroccan nationalists attacked native police as
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    Hari Raya spree ends in hospital
    66 1 IfOUR Singapore Malays celebrating Hari Raya Haji went for a morning spice, and Instead landed m the Genera! Hospital when their car overturned at the junction Of Watten Estate and Dunearn Road at 0.30 am .today. One of them is suspected to have sustained
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    Floods hit ten million
    38 1 MORE than 10.000,000 people have been affected by floods m Kast Bengal province, and Dacca, the capital, I has been paralysed by ristag waters of the Buri Ganga. j Reuter. (Yangtse flood-*— Page U)
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    Boy drowned when boat overturned
    83 1 T< WELVE-year-old Yap Thian Thor, of Church Stret t, Singapore, was drowned at Loyang yesterday afternoon when a sampan capsized 200 yards from shore. Six youngsters were m the sampan. Only one could swim j All were thrown into the j water when the boat
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    44 1 Lovely Malay film star. Mb*n l-._-.iiii turned housewife yesterday. Free Press earner man Sam Kai Pave snapped her m a kitchen preparing cake s for today's festival. To Miss Rusini and all its Muslim readers, the Free Press wishes a Selamat Hari Raya Haji.
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      171 1 Paula Corday, beautiful screen star, applies Crcme Puff Make-up and is convinced of the instant beauty that comes with just the touch of the Puff your soar.li for OH*- Hlir Ta mmmT h MAX FaCtOr Nc,rrl„fur. am.L.*.,, M O I l T W O O art I li I li.i
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    PILOT ILL: WIFE TOOK OVER
    138 2 2 CHEAT DEATH ON HOP FROM SPORE A DOCTOR and his wife have landed at Pretoria, m South Africa, after a 10,000-mile flight to Australia and back m a single- engined plane which nearly ended m disaster when he .suffered a nervous breakdown over the
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    57 2 Delegates to the World Assembly of Youth conference m Singapore were shown around the new Assembly House by Legislative Councillor. Mr. Thio Chan Bee at the weekend. Mr. Thio i s seen explaining to the delegates the seating arrangements. Sitting on the stairs (partly hidden) is the Clerk ol Legislative
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    800 man-eater sharks caught
    78 2 MORE than 800 man-eating sharks have been caught since 1952 m nets installed to protect bathers on Durban beaches. Some have been more than 16 feet long. Hundreds of other sharks not regarded as man-eaters have also been trapped In the nets, strung m the sea
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    Six killed in bus crash
    31 2 Six people were killed and 25 Injured when two West German buses carrying holidaymakers to Bavaria crashed yesterday into two armed trucks m East Germany. AP
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    Polio in Jamaica
    23 2 A polio outbreak m Jamaica a three-year-old child died and 22 people are m hospital Is now under control. AP
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    CORT IN PRAGUE
    21 2 Dr. Joseph con, American physician once sought by United States authorities for v;uoing conscription arrived y.*wrday m Prague.
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    HAMBURG 'AT CRAWL' AS STRIKE GOES ON
    166 2 ljY an overwhelming majority Hamburg's public transport and utilities workers voted yesterday to ronUnue their five-day strike which has .slowed the key port city of West Germany to s crawl ano li costing the Government US$7O 000 a day The vote was taken
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    SHIP FOR ISRAEL IS SEARCHED
    86 2 T*HE Israel Foreign Oflfa a last night Egypt had detained and searched a Sw; ss freighter for five days m the Suez Canal before allowing to go to Israel with a car^ meat. A spokesman said the freighter, the Rhin, was released"hy the Egyptians after
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    Village attends dog's funeral
    43 2 Febo. a terrier believed to be the oldest dog m Italy, died yesterday m the village of Ceres, north-east Italy .at the age of 26- Most of the 1.500 inhabitants of the village turned out for the funeral.— Reuter
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    More 'heat' in next Council debate
    410 2 Singapore Legislative Councillors have raised "little objections" about the new $950,000 Assembly House. They are however all m praise of its "magnificence" but "reluctantly admit" that a few modifications will lead to a better atmosphere. First some councillors think the present blue-and-white doors to
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    Four dead in Chicago fire
    69 3 Four people perished and 19 others were injured yesterday In a fire which raged through a four-story brick tenement building m Chicago's south side Negro district. One of the victims, Louise FVlder. 12, was fatally injured when she leaped from a fourth floor window, despite
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    YANGTZE FLOODS HIT RED RICE BOWL
    235 3 Army of dike workers fight tn PEKING radio admitted today that six per cent oi 1 Ked China 9 agricultural land had been flooded hitting the rice crop hard and creating a "seriou. menace" to production. The damage was wrought mainly by the Yangtze
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    World-wide dope ring exposed
    68 3 World-wide dope ring exposed A RING, centred ln Beirut, Lebanon, is smuggling narcotics to Europe and the Americas on a large scale, Italian customs police said m Rome yesterday. The announcement was made after four Lebanese stewards were arrested m Rome. A police spokesman described the four seamen as "an
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    Rhee at the U.S. Congress
    84 3 CtPEAKINC Irom Uie puik3 pit of the Methodist Foundry Church, Washington. Dr. Syngman Rhee. the President of South Korea. asked the United States for enough money to raise a force of 1.500.000 men to "do (iod's bidding" and drive the Communists from North Korea. At
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    Offer rejected
    25 3 British film studio workers yesterday rejected a pay Increase of three pence an hour ortVred by the British Film t roducers Association. Reuter
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    CREW TRIED TO BRIBE FLEEING STOWAWAY
    227 3 4 NTONI Klimowicz, who stowed away aboard a Polish freighter to seek political asylum m Britain, m london yesterday said the Communist crew had tried Jo bribe him into returning Poland. The 24 -year-old seaman came out of seclusion to hold i aews conference
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    No chance of Red victory in Malaya
    425 3 No chance of Red victory in Malaya Mk. alua rwißNaun, nrsi Director-General of Information Services m Malaya said m a broadcast m London last night that there was non no possibility of a Communis! victory m Malaya. Mr. Peterson, who said he was expressing only personal views, gave as the
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    QUEEN FLIES NORTH FOR HOLIDAY
    117 3 Royal Family gather at Balmoral THE Queen arrived at Balmoral on Saturday nitfht to join her two children and her mother for the Royal Family's summer holiday. The Queen flew from Driffield m Yorkshire when/ she had been the guest since Thursday of Sir Richard
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    New Fascist move
    19 3 Italy's Fascist and Monarchist parties are planning to orm a .single extreme right ving bloc AP
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    Dressing UP is problem for Russian women
    111 3 Dressing UP is problem for Russian women THE RUSSIAN male is m danger of having his pants fall down because of shortages of suspenders and hot tons And many a Russian woman complains she can t keep up her stockings because she can't buy any garters or other elastics. And
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Aug. 9, 1954. Opinion Time for action
    420 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Aug. 9, 1954. Opinion Time for action Th« appalling state of juvenile dental health m Singapore is only too plain to see. It is made distressingly apparent Whenever many thousands of the Colony's otherwise strong and beautiful children open their mouths. To a lesser, but
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    Whose finger is on the Red trigger NOW?
    970 4 Whose finger is on the Red trigger NOW? I Simon Maynard attempts to solve the Kremlin Enigma; is Malenkov, the dominant force, or the Army, or Kruschev or Zverev? ONE of the puzzles m Soviet Russia today is whose finger operates on the Kremlin trigger? I.s it Malenkov's. or the
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    Eileen is Golden Voice girl
    59 5 Eileen is Golden Voice girl EIGHTEEN year-old Eileen Sta Maria is Miss Golden Voice" of the Federation's Telecommunications Department. jj She won the contest at the Radio Malaya studio m Kuala Lumpur. Miss Aisha binte Samsuddin of Penang was second, and Miss Sylvia Karbosa of Butterworth, last year's winner, was
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    Smeterlin hits back in defence of orchestra
    722 5  - Smeterlin hits back in defence of orchestra SIT YIN FONG by IjOl ISII BORN world famous pianist, Jan Smeterlin, today struck uk m defence of the Singapore Musical Society Orchestra which a reader, M. Khodes— in a letter published m last Thursday's Free Press had said showed 'an appalling lack
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    STAMP HAS $2,000 WORD ON IT
    96 5 STAMP HAS $2,000 WORD ON IT 11HE United States printed a few Victory stamps when it liberated the Philippines In 1945 from Japanese occupation. On two centavo .stamps were printed the word 'Commonwealth," just under the chm of President Rizal.s head. The word "Com m o n wealth was of
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    'Henry IV' at town hall
    28 5 KUAI.A LUMPUR. Mon The Victoria Institution's Bo ciety of Drama presented very successful Shakespeare.* Henry IV" at the town hai. here fast night.
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    BRANCH LIBRARY POPULAR
    151 5 SINGAPORE'S second su- human branch library, recently opened at Siglap. Is proving increasingly popular with residents of the area, Mrs. Kay Hudson. Raffles Librarian, said today. "There are now some 80 senior and junior members, and we have great hopes of it growing more," Mrs. Hudson told
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    Workers live well here —SAYS SOCIALIST
    116 5 Workers live well here —SAYS SOCIALIST KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The standard Ol living ol Malayan workers was high but there was still room lor improvement, Mr. ROO Watanabe. a member of the A.sian Socialist Study Mission, said yesterday. Mr. Watanabe Is a secretary of the Japanese Bociallst Party. The other
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    Camera smuggler gets $120 fine
    45 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Abdul Mom bin Haji Abdul Karim of Singapore, was ftned $120 for trying to smuggle a camera into the Federation. He was arrested on the mail train to Kuala Lumpur. The camera valued at $176, was confiscated.
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    Welfare meeting
    46 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mori. The deferred meeting of the Johore State Welfare Committee will be held m the council ante room m Johore Bahru on Thursday at 10 30 a.m. At 2 p.m. there will be a general meeting ol the Johore Bahru Anti-Tl. Association.
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    INDIAN PASSPORTS ARE NOW PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP
    139 5 INDIAN PASSPORTS ARE NOW PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT has agreed to accept Indian passports held by former stales subljects as proof of their Indian citizenship. Mr J. D. Hicham, Under Secretary, said today. Those who hold passports cm therefore register as citizen.*, of the United Kingdom and the Colonies
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      124 6 WANT TO BUY A HEALTH RESORT? FRUSTRATED by last I r ute holiday problems? so, then here is a chainbuy your own private resort. Just such a (owned by Prince Chn- I of the hou.so of Schaumbui Lippo is lor sale at B Eileen, the present headqn. 1 tens of
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      244 6 \k\\\\\WW\ tiXiWW 1 1 SB 3 3 ftlflißl MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs I <l H mi W t /if|l||ffilß **mmW&~^ ->e«-5>76 BoT CLEVER BRu^E PC-J-OW ED THROUGH, SMASHING HS O^ .E I |MB I PASSIVE PA,V AGANST S<LuL' ft r^-'ZZZ. X HADK|T
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      558 6 I YOUR I LUCKY STAR UORN TODAY. ,ou a .c I pracUcal and ha\e a cleai head for business. This, ,cn.'z bined with your natural thusiasm and energ> mmmkl z bring early success. You are highly adaptable i„ all kinds of people and condi E tions, but you should learn
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    COLONY PRIVATE SCHOOLS GET FEES WARNING
    318 7 PRIVATE English schools m Singapore have been warned of overcrowding and overcharging and trying to run another session between the morning and afternoon classes. There are about 35 private tchoolf m Singapore excluding kindergarten and commercial institutions with ;.b<»ut 8.000 pupils X»h me scnool.s
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    THESE STORE GIRLS WERE 'CHARMING'
    104 7 THESE STORE GIRLS WERE 'CHARMING THESE six Singapore i girls have every reason I I to look pleased —they had just been paid a compli- j i ment. When Mr. Guthrie Moir, j president of the Wo. d j I Assembly of Youth, arriv- I ed from Colombo he got
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    LABOUR-SOCIALIST TALK THIS WEEK ON MERGER
    148 7 lEADERS of Singapore Labour and Socialist parties J will meet this week to discuss either a merger or an alliance to fight the coming elections under the Rendel constitution. It is felt m both circles that some sort of unity is necessary among socialist
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    Lunch at Istana for WAY
    70 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. i The Johore Youth Council I has discussed plans to welj come the World Assembly of Youth delegates who are visiting Johore Bahru The Tengku Mahkota announced he would invite the visitors to lunch at the Istana Bukit Stulang and Mr. Lee
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    Fined $10
    30 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Hugh Richard M. Stoney of Cunsa Cottage. Kuala Lumpur was fined $10 yesterday for not displaying his motor car road tax licence on the windscreen
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    YMCA party for youth delegates
    119 7 rE SINGAPORE YMCA. will give a party next week for visiting delegates attending the World Assembly of Youth. At the party to be held on Thursday night. Malayan fruits and cakes will be served. I Among the fruits will bt j rambutans. mangostc. ns. papayas
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    25 7 'mmat ponce dtwtt wmn ers of the Thomas Shie.d li^A^ffill^&l^^ tmU on the Gurne. Koa d ranee m Kuala I "mpur le to right Kee.
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    His defence was not required
    88 7 JOHORE BAHRU, MON. JALIL bin Ghani. an RAOC driver, has been acquitted without being called for his defence on a charge of inconsiderate driving. A motorist alleged m the Police Court here that Jalil bumped into his car from behind after he had signalled that
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    P.C. killed
    17 7 ALOR STAR. Mon -A Malay constable. Ayob bin Ismail, has died after a motorcycle accident.
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    ROUND ABOUT S'PORE
    243 8 ROUND ABOUT S'PORE Pivtoriul round-up of kvwvnt vronts m thy pubiiv lift* of th<> Voloumj Miss Z. Locke (top right), who was chosen "Kiwi Couple" with Mr. S. Lee, received her prize from Mrs. Soh Seng Lim, Youth Queen of 1954, at the anniversary dance of the Kiwi League at
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    18 10 "Want to make holiday headlines? Pick one up m your trunk and fling him over the lion house."
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    Americans are emigrating
    305 10 Steady stream is going 'Down Under' AUSTRALIA today is experiencing a greater inrush of European immigrants m proportion to its population than the U.S. did when the flood tide of immigration to America was at its peak 70 years ago. Since 1947, 650,000 immigrants have landed m
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    43 10 Rotterdam's list working windmill geea up m Hums Built m i:>l7 the IM fool null was tourist attraction. The mill tmtmWli destruction wh»*n the rity was him hi d during the war, the miller keeping lire ll bay hy keepins the Hails turning.
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    Return of Anna Pauker?
    536 10 Return of Anna Pauker? on j he IT IS rumoured that Anna Pauker, Roumania's former Communist Foreign Minister, may shortly make a political come-back. It is two years since Anna fell from grace and was put under arrest. The full story of her fall has not yet been told, but
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    PULPITATIONS
    93 10 A CIRCULAR letter sent out by the Venerable David B. Reed, of Sr. Albans Episcopal Church at Bogota m the South American republ.M Colombia has the following last paragraph. "If you notice a distracted look m my eye these days, perhaps it just as well that you know the
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    The 'Tirpitz' returns to Germany.... ....IN LITTLE BITS
    781 11 The 'Tirpitz' returns to Germany ....IN LITTLE BITS How the R.A.F. took advantage of a captain's blunder. r<ROM her resting place at the bottom of Tromsoe Sound, m northera Norway, "Tirpitz," the Nazis' 45,000-ton, 875-I'oot long battleship, is on her way back to the Fatherland. Once again there are Gi
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    U.S. airline pilots get jet lessons
    287 11 AIR STRIP Now that America a first |et engined transport airplane has flown. U.S. airline pilots are going to school to learn about Jets, Their teachers are jet pilots of the United States Air Force. At a USA F. base m Georgia airline men
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    BY THE WAY
    283 11  -  BEACHCOMBER A CRITIC who complained the other day that characters move about the Stage too .'lowly forgot that ilow movement may be v» ry pathetic and expressive I refer him to a BtagC directive m Cannings piny Tlie Rovers": several soldiers cross tlie tage slowly, as though
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      Are you a gardenia or a lily?
      450 12 Are you a gardenia or a lily? —It matters a lot m the world of Japanese fashion models says RICHARD HUGHES JAPAN'S beautiful fashion models, envied as much as Mm actresses by the nations less glamorous hut perhaps happier girls, are complaining that financial and romantir heartbre a k s
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      Paris brings back the real hat
      237 12 Paris brings back the real hat GONE are the tiny saucers and the star ha, caps. Paris brings back the real hai with a head-hugging crown fitting well down to the neck, with a lift to the forehead lm to show the hair. The ten top Paris hatters met a
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      42 12 Lovely blue-eyed brunette Marta Toren plays a fatally alluring lady who charms both Humphrey Boffart and Lee J. Cobb m Colum-; bia. "Sirocco." Marta was discovered for Am- erican films m her native Stockholm wher* she studied at the Royal Dramatic Academy.
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    33 12 When Gaarga UTheeler, one of the lifeguards who watch over the safety of bathers at Brighton, Sussex, goes on patrol his dot Chunky goes too. wearing his own lifeguard uni. form. Reuter picture.
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    Bridge Hand
    479 12 CIXTEEN prearranged "par" deals, recently played In more Oian 150 U.S colleges to decide the l_>r>4 Intercollegiate Bridge Championships are being presented here. To (.lay ihe.se deals it. your own -.line, instead of reading the par results now, save the series until completed Then have the deals stacked
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      311 12 i i ri I pr—i I~TBB1 ~TBB ~~88 c I \Wtt ___r l^^l^l"" I^l m^ mmwm I I I^T___ ___T^i! I^^^ I I s lo^ I^l I I l f/ II Ihi i I CLUES ACROSS: 3 This is the girl associated with 1 They may be converted into a
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    ASIAN FILMS FOR LONDON
    118 13 PICTURES of Hong Kong, North Borneo and Sara>'.ik are amongst the films. depicting aspects of life m Asia, which are to be shown m a series arranged by the Imperial Institute m London, tc present conditions m the Commonwealth. The programme extends through August and September.
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    Miss Dietrich had 36 leading men
    275 13 Miss Dietrich had 36 leading men U7HEN at 15 minutes past midnight Marlene Dietrich made her farewell London cabaret appearance. Sir Ralph Nichardson was the toth man of distinction t<» introduce the legen<**>ry lady who needs no introduction to her £3 ■K-a-head audience. In «"y all introduced her differ•ntlv. NOEI
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    16 13 British film star, Shirley laton, is one of the girls m A Doctor m the House."'
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    Dateline, Hollywood...
    411 13  -  MICHAEL RUDDY IT MAY be the visits of 1 AY A GARDNER'S bullfighters 1 n Hollywood, or the large number of proposed pictures about bullfighting. Or something new and different...But, several British players are actually stu d y ing bullfighting. They attend a school for toreros on a
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    More Gum than Glamour
    524 13 More Gum than Glamour Hollywood it's chew, chew all day long Harold Heffernan says chewing gum clogs the works on the set. /)NE of the rm st annoyy ing and persisting nuisances facing the director of any big film Ig the gum chewer. More chewing gum is sold m Hollywood
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    PENTATHLON BID BY MALAYAN ON LEAVE
    500 14 PENTATHLON BID BY MALAYAN ON LEAVE Rom lIYI.TON CLEAVER MICHAEL BOXHALL, ex-Harrow. ex-Sand-hurst, Ifl now un leave m London from the Malayan Police. His period of leisure alter lour years Ul the Jungle la beta* soent as follows: He runs round Hyde Park. Ellen h« r »<Jes Sl horse with
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    £850 PAY FOR TEST TOUR
    73 14 PROFESSIONALS on the M.C.C. tour to Australia will be paid LBf>o with £4 a week pocket money. Each man will also receive a bonus of uu to £150. This will depend, m .some measure, on good conduct Amateurs get expenses. The players are each insured
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    Put Empire Games back one year
    352 14  -  ARCHIE QUICK By THERE has always been an unfortunate clasl between the Empire and Commonwealth Game and the European Games; never so unfortunately a this year. The Empire athletes have to get back past haste from Vancouver and then go their separate ways over
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    SWANSEA TO SIGN BURGESS
    175 14  - SWANSEA TO SIGN BURGESS REG. PELLING By OONNIE BURGESS, 37-year-old Wales and Spurs wing -half, is expected to join Swansea Town as player-coach within the next few days. All that remains now is for the Spurs' directors to agree. If Burgess does join Swansea he will supply the craft and
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    375 14 Warning to international soccer stars STANLEY SEYMOUR. Newcastle 0 United Chief, comes out fighting as professional footballers begin newstyle training for the season which start* on August 21. There have been far too many stragglers ln almost every club during the past few seasons,'' he says. 'We mv?. net rid
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    580 14 Thank you for nothing. M.C.C! We both needed Trueman Says SYDNEY BARNES, the man whose antics cost him a place m Australia's Test team. MAYBE the M.C.C. expect Aussies to be grateful for the "diplomatic" omission of fiery Freddie Trueman from the team to tour Australia this winter. Thank you
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    84 14 rpHAT Joint 13 mln. 32.2 sees, three miles time set up by Fred Green (Birchfleld Harriers) and Chris Chataway at White City, London, on July 10 nas been approved as a national and all-comers' record. Also approved as British national and British all-comers' records were the
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    186 14 KUALA LUMPUR Sun The Malayan Rugby Union decided m revise the constitution at tneir annual general meeting here today Under the new constitution, tne union's affairs will be run by a'' executive committee of IV J K officials and representatives of tne Services and the
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    A SOCCER SYMPHONY
    146 15  -  ARGOS 2nd-half switch fails to save Singapore XI THE UST WORD—by Graz F.C 6; Singapore 2. gINGAPORE was flooded last night— with goals. The flood came early m the second half after a gallant fight by Singapore had held the tourists to a one-nil interval lead. The
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    209 15 New Zealand beat England 20-14 in rugby Test 4 RECORD crowd of 29.000 saw A fullback Des White, kick New -.-aland to a 20-14 victory over EngDd m the second Rugby League ootball Test at Greymouth. Eacn side scored two tries, but v white kicked seven goals to the our
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    637 15 VANCOUVER will go on talking for years to come o one of the great sports spectacles of htston which closed the fifth British Empire and Common wealth Games on Saturday. The largest sports crowd m Canadian history, 35,000, iammed the Empire* Stadium for an afternoon m
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    CYCLIST COPPI WINS SECOND LAP
    48 15 World champion Faust o Coppi won the second of the Tour de Suisse bicycle race yesterday ridin«_' the 219 kilometres from Winterlhur UDavos m 6 hours, 50 minutes and 15 seconds. Bruno Monti, who won Saturday's nm lap, was second m 6:50:51. AP
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    100 16 R'M.i k Bannister said last night he may quit competitive running. After beating Australia's John landy m the British GftflMf one mile, the Englishman, indicated that it might be his last big race. "It will be diflirult to keep running, due to my medical duties/ he s.i
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    54 16 Mr Mildred "Babe" Zaharias won the Tan O'Shanter all- American women's golf tournament, 1:1 Chicago for the fifth time. She returned a record low aggregate of 293 for Ihe 72 holes event. Bar total was 11 strokes under the women., par for the Tam-O-rfh inter
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    Japs beat swim relay record
    51 16 THE Waseda University swimming team of Tokyo bettered the world's record for the 400-mvtre medley relay with a time of 4 minutes 23 seconds at Nagoya on Saturday. The existing record of 4: 24.8 was made by the Russian national team at Moscow In IQ.__
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    127 16 JIM PETERS. England's marathon runner who collapsed In the stadium at the Empire Games on Saturday ni_.ht land was taken m delirium to i hospital, had a "good night [and is making satisfactory progress Mr. Truelove said that four doctors have the 35-year-old runner under their
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