The Singapore Free Press, 10 August 1954

Microfilm: NL2439
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    Masthead
    21 1 The Slingapore Free Press j ,n r »est Afternoon Sale m Malaya. iltSt. Singapore. Tues.. Aug. 10, 1954. Price 15 tU.
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    I WISH SHE WOULD WRITE US
    120 1 I WISH SHE WOULD WRITE US Says Wlarjorie's father TIHE family of Miss Malaya Marjorie Wee> who saw picture m this morning's Times of her wearing iwimsuit while appearing Hollywood night club |m Rouge, said she had .ill not written home. Her father, Mr. Wee Peng ild the Free Press:
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    The bells toll in Nagasaki
    69 1 Bells pealed, sirens sounded and citizens prayed m Nagasaki yesterday at 11.02 a.m.— exactly nine years after the d and last atom bomb of World War II struck Nagasaki. Some 2.000 people attended iremony m a memorial park il -lie blast site. The bomb blast
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    Lyttelton is made viscount
    65 1 Lyttelton is made viscount MR. OLIVER LYTTELTON. former Secretary. of State for the Colonies, has been made a viscount, it was announced m London yesterday. Mr. Lyttelton. aged 61. resigned from the government last month to return to his interests m the electriokl industry. His elevation to the Hous. of
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    'I was robbed and punched'
    40 1 An unemployed 35-year-old Chinese. Wong Yong Yeu. reported to police yesterday that he was punched and robbed by two Chinese while walking along Kitchner Road. Singapore. He said the men took $15 from his wallet.
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    BOAC EXPERT SAYS: NO ERROR BY PILOT
    173 1 B O.A.C. senior captain. Capt. Lan Stephens, told Kallang air crash inquiry today that he did Mink that Captain Hoyle. pilot of the crashed tnstellation, had made an error of judgment. H examined by Mr. hrUtopher Shawcross. QC. counsel for BOAC, Capt. Stevens
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    RUBBER PRICE
    28 1 The Singapore rubber market opened this morning on an uncertain tone with first grade. August shipment, at 67.1/4 cents a pound— one-quarter cent below Friday's closrv
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    Mystery at trench near dead coupte
    112 1 POLICE are now investigating the mystery of a dug-out trench following the discovery of two bodies m a lonely spot at Tanah Merah. Kechil Road, off Changi Road. Singapore yesterday The trench was five reel long, five feet deep and three feet wide. Near
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    CHIANG NAVY BLASTS REDS
    168 1 o warships sunk' RATIONALIST CHINESE warships early yesterday sank eight Communist gunboats m the Formosa Straits, the Defence Ministry at Taipeh announced. Fought m darkness, the battle was described as the biggest naval engagement ever to take place m the Straits. It lasted 75 minutes. An
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    'BREAK WITH REDS' URGE U.S. LEADERS
    133 1 'BREAK WITH REDS' URGE U.S. LEADERS THE Special House Committee on Communist aggression, which held hearings m Washington and m Europe, recommended yesterday that the United States seek agreement with all non-Communist nations to break off trade and diplomatic relations with Communist governments. The Committee recommende d that President Eisenhower
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    Jungle war training
    83 1 The chief of the Australian General Staff. Sir Sydney Rowell. said last night that the jungle warfare training centre at Canungra, Queensland, would help lo train British Commonwealth troops it reopened next January. Sir Sydney left by air last night to attend staff talks m London He
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    Foreign aid bill
    36 1 The House of Representa tives m Washington yesterday sent to the Senate a Bill authorising the expenditure of a total of $3,252.868 000 on US foreign aid m the present fiscal year- Reuter
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    40 die in riot near Saigon
    73 1 40 die in riot near Saigon fWtLmm French High Command 1 reported m Saigon last nielli that 10 people were shot to death al Cl (hi. 17 miles north west of Saigon, daring a demonstration hostile to the Vietnamese Army •ii Sunday. The I ommand said the demonstrators included women
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    Red plane to fly Attlee
    68 1 CtORIfUR Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee. and seven other leading members of the British Labour Party, including Mr Aneurin Bevan arrived m Stockholm by plane last night en route to Red China by wav of Moscow. A special aircraft of the SoI viet Airline will
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    INDIA SEALS OFF BORDER
    217 2 BRIDGES AT GOA MINED' I '.DIAN roop. li.iv« S4 al (i oil UIC holder be tween India and Portuguese Daman and yesterday "for security reasons' they prohibited newsmer from ..oing beyond theii checkpoint on the roac leading to Daman. Meanwhile, India charged yesterday thai the present
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    Retaliation feared
    39 2 India has asked Britain to protect her interests m Portuguese East and West Africa, the Foreign Office announced \esterday. The move followed violent anti-Indian demonstratioas m Lourenco Marques, capital of Portugal's East African colony of Mozambique- AP
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    Port Radium next
    33 2 Tbe Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Port Nelson. British Columbia, yesterday after a 400 mile night from Whitehone. His next trip is into tin northwest territories to Port Radium. A.P.
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    Closer liaison
    28 2 Pakistan will open a diplomatic office m Bangkok next month to maintain closer liaison with the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East- A.P.
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    29 2 picture. Wi Kdv.ard Douglas Prior and Miss Christine Charlotte fcohe ifter their wedding ri the Cathedral of tly Good Shepherd Siiy»apore, yesterday. A tefepihm was held later. Free Press
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    CAPTIVES EXCHANGE HELD UP
    101 2 rrai FRENCH Command In 1 Indo-China announced last night that the scheduled exchange of war prisoners with the Vietminh had been post poned. A spokesman gave no reason. The exchange had been planned to start today The Vietnam Government, backed by an offer of help from
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    Jap 'piracy' probe
    26 2 The Japanese Government will invite a British trade mission to Japan to investigate British charges that Japanese industrialists are pirating textile designs- U.P.
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    ARMY BEGINS PROBE ON VANISHES SOLDIER
    136 2 ITOE British Rhine Army yesterday launched a full Investigation at Bad Geynhausen, into the disappearance of a British soldier seized at pistol point by Soviet, guards on the East-West German border. His name and other detail. v. r. till being withheld, but Doketman said
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    U.K. appoints Suez mission
    59 2 A FOURTEEN man civilian survey mission tC study Ihe future maintenance of the Suez Canal Base mta named yesterday by the Federation of British Industries Sir John Duncanson. Britain's former iron and steel controller and a Director of the National Research Development Corporation. will lead the
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    Tokyo mob tries to storm into Russian mission
    113 2 Tokyo mob tries to storm into Russian mission A ROUT 50 exit cmc rightist. broke through the iron fates ol the Soviet mission m Tokyo yesterday demandlot- the teturn of Japnnese prieoaeti -of war and ol South Sakhalin peninsula The demonstrators decided to eiash the K-«_es after holding "Anti- Russian
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    U.S. bill to share a few A-secrets
    172 2 A COMPROMISE bill to permit a limited exchange of United States atomic information with other allies, and to encourage American private industry to enter the atomic power field, was passed yesterday by the House of Representatives, and sent to the Senate. I There
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    Plants shut as strike spreads
    36 2 WEST GERMANY'S spreading strike wave paralysed the country's thriving metal industry yesterday. Picket lines were thrown around hundreds of metal plants m Bavaria where a strike of 220,000 workers began yesterday.
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    ASIA PACT MEETING: U.S. HOPES GROW
    237 2 ASIA PACT MEETING U.S. HOPES GROW OFFICIALS m Washington hope to be able to announce before the end ol this week agreement to hi Id an international conference on the proposed Bouth-East Asian defence pact. Final decisions have not been made, but it i.s exp. that the Foreign Ministi or
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    AMERICANS QUIT RIOT TOWN
    74 2 LT S. NAVY headquarters m I London said last night j American sailors and their families living m the native quarter of Port Lyautey had been moved to the American naval base there because of Moroccan nationalist rioting. A spokesman said the evacuation was a precautionary
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    MYSTERY JETS STRAFE TOWN IN ENGLAND
    104 3 MYSTERY JETS STRAFE TOWN IN ENGLAND ■IDENTIFIED jel planes swooped In from the North Se.i yesterday uid set i burst ol cannon into the Yorkshire town of Bridlington. Two mouses were damaged, but no one was hurt. Tho British Air Ministry at first said t Royal .ir Force plane was
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    Floods hit Turkey 18 die, many lost
    112 3 EIGHTEEN people diod durum the weekend m J floods which hit western Turkey's Kalikesir Province. Many more are feared missing; Heavy loss of livestock wa.s reported. In tour villages ■rops were ruined by egg-size hailstones. In New Delhi yesterday the Indian Government ordered
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    HUNDREDS IN RAIN MOURN QUIN
    43 3 PMILIE MARIE JEANNE DIONNE one of the world J famous Canadian quintuplets was buiied m the small Catholic cemetery Corbeil. Ontario, yesterday. More than 500 mourners crowded into the red brick church. Hundreds waited outside m the rain.
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    'Terrible' Roger is freed
    239 3 'Terrible' Roger is freed (~gDBRAI_ Judge John P. I Barnes yesterday or- dered the release from j custody of Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy. f>s, con- victed kidnapper and j prohibition era gangster serving 199 years m Stamteville prison. Chita .0. The judue said Touhy had not been a Horded proper
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    Old shell explodes
    36 3 A shell, salved from the i Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky that went down m a j gale oiT Jutland m LB6B, ox- ploded yesterday md Injured I a Danish Navy dh A. P.
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    LAND REFORM PUNNED IN NEW KENYA BILL
    158 3 A NKW bill aimed at aboli\ ishing idle acres, absentee landlords, and soil erosion <n Kenya, was published by ihe Colony's government to- I day. I nder the bill which must approved by the Legislative Assembly, farmers and ■andowners will be ordered to
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    32 TERRORISTS KILLED
    35 3 Kenya security forces killed 32 terrorists m the previous M hours, one patrol of the Kings African Rifles alone^ ac counting for 12 of them, an official communique said yesier day. Reuter
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    CAR SMASHED BY PLANE
    42 3 CAR SMASHED BY PLANE picture. rpHIS ear was destroyed 1 when au V'M Republic Thunderjet airE craft crashed and exploded m a street m Wan- tagh, Long Island. New j York. The pilot was killi ed and six people were hurt.— A.P.
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    Vienna proposal
    30 3 France, Britain and the United States have accepted an Austrian proposal for a Vienna meeting to discuss how the occupation can be alleviated, Russia has not vet replied.
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    SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS BUILD DIKES
    61 3 SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS BUILD DIKES (MIINKSK soldiers and Cl_ri« l Uaris lighting the Yangt.>_» flood., have used more than 3.000.000 sandbags to raise the dikes around Hankow, tho New China News Agency reported m Hong Kong yesterday. Rafts have been anchored In the river to act as breakers and lessen
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    The Slingapore Free Press TUESDAY, Aug. 10, 1954. Opinion Betting problem
    401 4 The Slingapore Free Press TUESDAY, Aug. 10, 1954. Opinion Betting problem 'iii< Federation committee's recommendation for an off-the-course race betting system similar to that m New Zealand, has .scarcely received popular endorsement. Chief ground of criticism which has been levelled against the recommendation Ls that there i.s no firm ground
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    'Mr. France' has a New Deal for EUROPE
    941 4  - 'Mr. France' has a New Deal for EUROPE SIMON MAYNARD The dynamic new leader says The next two j months will be danger months.'' FRESH from ins drama lie triii m p h at Geneva. French Premier M. Pierre Mende.s-PYanee i.s in no mood to re .1 on his laurels.
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    HIS NO. 1 ENEMY
    173 4 LIOW secure is MendesFrance? He h,-»s scored success after success. But he has enemies who long tor his downfall. Th» y h..vt |tM him Re t pc.ct m Indo- China win thc good will of Mr. Foster Dull-*; and gain public support for his pl..ns to
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    HIS BACK ROOM BOYS
    299 4 HIS BACK ROOM BOYS ON a de,sk m the private office of the French Min- ister of rinanct, M. Edgar j Faure, lies a 6 m. -thick bunj die of typewritten documents. represents a month's work by "Mr. France 9 s" Backj Room Boys. At the head of the Back-
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    S'TORF LINKS WITH WORLD
    902 5 Constant 1 touch b air, sei? radio BY STEVI NEOII p. PLANE and shij and even over thi ni Singapore is linked .vith the outside world every hour of the day. The communications racili t i c 8 of the Colony are of international standards. Equipment
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    RUSSIA HAS A RACING CAR
    119 6 RUSSIA HAS A RACING CAR IN an attempt to win prw tige. publicity and racing honours, the Russians art planning to compete with Western teams m European motor races next year. The ear which the Russians hope will lead them flrsl past the finishing posts i.s the SIS 112, the
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      609 6 I YOUR I LUCKY STAR |)ok\ TODAY. j_m ban E At nunc than Ihe usual -i am c oi p*. 1 istem od j perseverance, \uu non knou when to sjoj, o*Cfl JTM get an idea into yom bead, ii is there E lor keepe. You .ne rather Mate tond
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    SPORE SCHOOL STARTS CLASSES IN COMMERCE
    209 7 SPORE SCHOOL STARTS CLASSES IN COMMERCE JMli; st. ANDREW'S School m Singapore his started a new course lor students who want to take up commercial careers alter leaving school. This i.s the first time commercial lessons have been included m the curriculum at the school. Thirty-two eighth standard boys are
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    68 7 npWB charming picture of an attractive Singapore bathing belle was taken hy Free Press cameraman Han Hai Fong it the Ayer Gumuroh holiday bungalow off Changi at the week-end. She is Miss Lena Seek. IK-year-old student of the Tanjong Rhu Boys' School »dult centre run by the Peoples F.ducation Association.
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    Socialists to tour Perak
    67 7 [POH. Tties. The three- I mber mission ot the A.ian ilist Conference. Mr J Int ham (Gold Coast Mr Winjono (Indonesia' and Mr 1 mabe (Japan i will make, > live-day tour ot Perak to economic and political renditions. On Aug. 13 and 14. they wih
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    Two pose for 60 cameramen
    41 7 Two pose for 60 cameramen PENANG Tues. Two Euro'n women on holiday at mjong Buni4a' posed as 0 l els lor the penana Piollsta st their .second out- tr Soo Khong bungalow yesterday. .Sixty cameramen snapped '"■WO pictures of the models.
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    Bandit killed
    32 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A Patrol of the 2nd King's African Rifles killed a ter*_*t m the Kuala Lipis *rea of Pahang on Saturday. niie and ammunition were i ecovered J
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    Town board to meet on rates
    44 7 TELUK ANSON. Tues. The Teluk Anson Town Board will meet m the District Office hen at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. Anions the items to be discussed are general assessment rates, water rates and educa tion rates for 19^5
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    S'PORE LIFEGUARD SERVICES FREE -BUT NO TAKERS
    261 7 S'PORE LIFEGUARD SERVICES FREE -BUT NO TAKERS BOATING tragedies m Singapore could ho avoided If people were more lifeguard-conscious, said Mr. Francis Lee, secretary of the Singapore Lifeguard Corps yesterday. He wa.s commenting on the latest Colony drowning of 12--year-old Yap Thian 'I hor I non-swimmer m boating accident off
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    'Take taxi' to assist Varsity plan
    177 7 'Take taxi' to assist Varsity plan AT least live Singapore millionaires are to be approached by the Singapore Hire Car Association to assist the drive for funds to aid the Nanyang University. Kfforts will he m.ule to peismde them to leave their limousines at home and to ride m a
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    Traders' call
    62 7 Kuala LUMPUR, TUee. More than 40 limber trade delegates from Singapore and the Federation met here to consider a letter fo be sen I to the Federation's Director of Forestry asking for a reduction of the royalty on lo< wood because of the trade depression The traders claim
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    HOPALONG CASSIDY MEETS HIS FANS
    72 8 HOPALONG CASSIDY MEETS HIS FANS RIVAL attraction to the roundabouts for children at thr Battersea Funfair m London was the cowboy actor Bill Bo>d llopalong Cassidy to hi. fans Bill, who was m Britain with 4K boys I on a goodwill visit, called at the fair to meet some of
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    5 FINE DUSTMEN FOUND GEM IN RUBBISH HEAP
    240 8 5 FINE DUSTMEN FOUND GEM IN RUBBISH HEAP I ADY BENNETT, a Chelsea member of London' J County Council, took off her diamond and ruby ring m the kitchen of her Cheyne-court flat, laid it on a shelf, and forgot all about it. Then all this happened. "It was swept
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    Bribed war office man is gaoled
    217 8 Bribed war office man is gaoled II TOOK William Gibbings 21 years ol hard work to rise Irom boy clerk to a £777-a--yeai job as a War Oflice Contracts Branch official. It took one day for his career to end abruptly at Bow-street court m London all because of "a
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    5-DEATH FIRE IN HOME-TRAP ANGERS CITY
    199 8 SOMSTOMG must be done quickly about the problem of Birmingham's 28,598 "firetrap" back-to-back houses. This demand came from city council members angered by the blaze which wiped out a father and five children m one of these homes. Later the council decided to call
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    Village borrows to pay blind boy
    268 8 CJIX men and women parish councillors of Stone. 0 Kent, have decided to raise a loan to meet their share of a £9,000 damages award made to a seven-year-old blind boy. They met m their little council office adjoining the "bottle and jug" department
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    How tips will be part of waiters' wages
    123 8 How tips will be part of waiters' wages WAITERS and waitresses m licensed hotels m Britain and restaurants have lost their tips battle. Sir Walter Monckton. Minister of Labour, is to make an order giving effect to a wages board decision under which tips count as part of wages. Pay
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    ALFRED THE GREAT SLEPT HERE
    44 8 The Marquis of Bath has given Cley Hill, an 800 ft. chalk down m south-west Wiltshire, to the National Trust. It is said that Alfred the Great camped there the night before a victory over the Danes m 878.
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    THEY ALL WANT JOEY
    30 8 Hundreds of people have phoned the R.S.P.C.A. offering a home to a budgerigar, calling himself Joey, who walked uninvited into a flat m West Kensington, London.
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    Will reveals Red slave camp story
    392 8 A FEW words m the will of a British school headmistress have revealed the drama of an Englishwoman who spent ten years m Siberia as a political prisoner. The headmistress, Miss Sibyl Frood. died m April, and m her will, she left the bulk
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    46 9 Italian actress. CJina Lollobrigida. sits surrounded by aged uomen m a scene from her latest film "Bread, Love and W a lou\v Work has just started on the film at Castel S. Pietro, Italy, and the stars are: Gina Lollobrigida. Roberto Risso and Vittoria de Sila.
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    Kindness cost him home for his old age
    365 9 Kindness cost him home for his old age I/IND-HEARTED «7- years-old Mr. Charles Richard Stubbing wasn't quite "smart" enough when it came to righting for his home. He has discovered that too late. So now, he and his wife go on living m a cold, damp, "barrack-room" type of bungalow,
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    Sick man ran to rescue and died
    243 9 TOGETHER WITH TWO IN DEATH WELL HEN two men were trapped m an open east shaft tilled with dreaded "black damp." Thomas Patrick illenger, father of five children, rushed to answer the call tor help. 11l nger, for seven years a invalid with
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    SHE WENT TO SLEEP WITH A FATAL WOUND
    293 9 Cina m her new film A MARRIED woman week-ending with a man friend m a seaside hotel begged him to dance with her m their bedroom, the man told Hastings, Sussex, coroner. "I playfully patted or struck her on the (hin with
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    COUNTESS GETS A DIVORCE
    65 9 The Countess of Lonsdale was granted a decree nisi, with costs, m the Divorce Court. London, on the grounds of the earl's misconduct with Miss Jennifer Lowther. The suit was not defended Custody of the two children of the marriage was Riven to the countess, formerly
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    SAFE FOUND BUT NOT £10,000
    45 9 A safe stolen from a tirm ot constructional engineers In Dorset-square, London, was found abandoned a few hours later at Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire. The back had been ripped off and about £10.000. mostly m 10s. and .€1 notes, was missing.
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    FEWER JOIN up
    36 9 Regular recruiting to all three Services m Britain has dropped. So far this year 40,001 men and 3,117 women have joined up compared with 44,--466 and 4,055 m the same time last year.
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    'STONE' MAN WEDS
    34 9 One of the Scottish Nationalists who took the Coronation Stone from Westminster Abbey. Mr. Lan Hamilton has married 24-year-old domestic science teacher Miss Sheila Fen wick, j of Sunderland, Durham. I
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    THE TROUBLE THAT BEARD CAUSED!
    191 9 OH the trouble that came to Aldershot ihen Lance-Corporal Michael Mynn turned out m uniform with a thick, bushy, black BEARD. Beards m the Arm>! Twenty-year-old Mike lised Redcap reporting for his 15 days Territorial training, saw his NfflMM. THE SERGEANT saw^ Mjke-took one look
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    LOVELIEST ANKLES WERE A MAN'S
    67 9 When the name ol Mla. C<_jk was called to receive lirst prize m a Lovely Ankles' com petition at a Bedhampton, Hampshire, church fete, Mr. J. Cook stepped forward. He had borrowed his wife's nylons and shoes, and with 24 women stood behind a screen
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    POISONED DISCS MISSING
    55 9 Eight discs covered with parathion, a deadly poison from a crop-spraying tanker, re mtssing from a croporaying tanker m the Mile .ross area of Norwich Police recovered another four discs, which resemble pennies, after a gang of boyi admitted taking them and throwing them away The boys
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    PEER'S DAUGHTER GETS DIVORCE
    39 9 Mrs Blanche Hanbury-Tracy. daughter of the late Lord Arundell. was given decree nisi m London because of the misconduct of her husband, Mr. Ninian Hanbury-Tracy 43--year-old h' ir to 14-ye.u old Loid Budeley, his nephew
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    Eyes are on HONDURAS
    567 10 Eyes are on HONDURAS Here are the ingredients of a Latin American revolution, says Robert S. Ball, Norlh American ILL the Ingredient* lor a first-class. oldfashioned Latin American revolution are on tap m Honduras. U this republic heads for its October 10. national election While no one here i.s brash
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    51 10 Vietnamese primus. .1 by the French to be taken to South Vietnam, cling perilously to the tail-board of an already laden coach for a lift from Hanoi to Haiphong, following the IndoChinese am Uttl. The Mayor of Hanoi claimed that two or three million people from the delta wished for
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    Airlines in the trouble spot
    97 10 (SJEWSMAP p n-po»nts the busy intersection ot r.. a ,n and local tPt\*tmj% that operate over the South China Sea. whe^e recent lif .ocd^nrs" have done nothing to help East- ret.ttons Ml the Far East. No fewer than mne of these routes con-. withm the
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    Britons split on A-bomb use
    452 10 Britons split on A-bomb use DIFFERENCES of opinion a* between Service chiefs and scientists ha v c arisen on the subject ot A and H-bomb policy m Britain. The Service chiefs are convinced that any attempt to ban these weapons would put the Western world m an inferior position to
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    POCKET CARTOON
    25 10 by OSBERT LANCASTER 44 Darling, I'm most terribly sorry, but what I thought was a star turns out to be fust a Uy."
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    NO WAR WHILE REDS LACK FOOD
    436 11 NO WAR WHILE REDS LACK FOOD BERIOUS food shortages 3 resulting from a breakdown m agricultural production m both Russia and the satellite countries greatly lessen the odds against the eruption of an all-out war between the Kremlin and the West m the opinion of the Free ope committee, privat_
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    52 11 Gioa Marconi, daughter of the radio pioneer, and Itchinse* Braga, a New York sugar merchant, pic- Rettal shooting lodge, near ortachv "aslle. Kir s <"llaml, wher e they were married Mis s Marconi r In London. Since 1947 she his been working as lsl prodaeet m New York. Her mother
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    Window on the World
    322 11 Window on the World WOWggS_WßPOOO<__?gwvwvvwMW-» _i_www_v.»» I^GTPTS military Junta a j is taking: infinite canmi n selecting what Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser calls "citizens of Impecct character" fnr its ional Advi iory Council T th e Co the ni rliamenl thai this country is likely to havi tor a long
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    By the Way
    291 11  - By the Way BFIACHCOMBER 'I .HE Btraoitfiiius anu- strepitometer is so delicately balanced that it will register the sound of a mulberry dropped on to a sheet of blottingpaper at a distance of three and a quarter I furlongs. By a trap-wire under the smunth valve the decibelcontent of any
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    Free glamour for the girts
    540 12  - Free glamour for the girts GORDON GAVIN by 1/1. ca-. v *_i< < coui ror air hoste die tt inn .ration by i! kno i. the i i• iv m [I the host woi k long houi •m i ,t iin and Mien skim react differently to the kng effects
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    Bridge Hand
    291 12 M f >i. i h hai eighteen points. and i^ some picivcr.. m.iy Ik* tempted i ma a.Hi on.' no-uump While ir b correct '<> Ignore i -<\_rd .un and bid no-trump if ill tlie other requir "inents .tie met this should not he done on maximum counting
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    DAILY CROSSWORD
    242 12 mii> aoss I Radio lein »i the a thai men 7 Hoy .m k)l md iOf i ITo oncoming Ipe noblem m 'i tout up >ii<M» maybe on the i 2 'i Pal in-i i Lbm cxi use ii i Mm to ia. one Itngei In the pie
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    What they say when they 'Fluff'
    458 13  -  i could nol is cue wh; i when thej their 1 1 1 Uy unprintal the press agents i began research, ['ye been watch- Alms m the making r a long tune and what players say when forget is not always i or profane.
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    Stars take to singing
    226 13 j rpoo many Hollywood A leading men. proj rimers complain, are at- tempting to emulate Jeff I Chandlers sudden, un- j j expected success us a j j tong recording star and they haven't the voices tv I back up their aspirations. Several top glamour j
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    HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
    344 13  -  v I A king over- ard a row between much-married movie and her latest SpUliSt Shi complained "What a li mistake I've made. You ii a swell guy but don't match any of mv attended a Coronation the othei day, The most costly coi ver filmed In Hollyroving
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    Van Heflin looks back....
    450 13  -  r PHE gilded era of Holly- wood when uoidplated plumbing adorned the bathrooms of movie stars and directors sported riding pants and puttees continues to IWe today m Vim ileum's personal collection of oldtime movie stills. The den m his home ha_ all the appearance of
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    Gary's 'double' was —Cary
    84 13 Gary's 'double' was —Cary v i r ani h i the 1 nt 1 ludli kept m. thine 't' n ,i i Ihi ttn ll wano 'i rm to play I nfy ti,. om i oin turned down He wai thi high- and mu-ht v at I ara mount then
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    Cricketers long fight is almost won
    330 14 \USTRALIAN Peter Arnold paid his own passage to England and his courage and ronfldence being re xI- led by the chance he Is getting to establish himself m the Northamptonshire county cricket team. But a .story of perhaps even greater determination belongs to Charles
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    BRITISH SOCCER CLUBS ARE TRYING NEW METHODS
    476 14 BRITISH SOCCER CLUBS ARE TRYING NEW METHODS Free Press London t orresponden. WHATEVER the forthcoming football .season holds m store m the matter of changed tactics the dubs have certainly gone Hungary-conscious m their training. There is hardly an outfit m the country that has not introduced some novel note
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    High jump record
    25 14 Thclma Hopkins, of Northern inland, dens the bar al 5 fool 6 ins for a new Empire Games record it Nan (Oliver.
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    FINANCE RULES OUT ROWERS
    52 14 The University of British Olum bias eight oar rowing team Mil prtet winners over England m the British Empire Oames last week win not be gotni to the European cham plonshlpi In Amsterdam on au M Coarh Frank Read i I yesterday Hip financial problem Is
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    HOAD IS CHAMP IN U.S. TOURNEY
    41 14 lewis Hoad beat his Australian Davis (up team mate Ken Rosewall In straight sets to win the men's singles title m the U.S. Eastern gram court* lawn tennis championships. Hoad won 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. Reuter
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    ITALIANS WIN
    38 14 Th. Italian team wen Ihe De Galea tennla cup for {union yesterday defeating Yugoslavia 3-2 In the Anal*, of i tie International tournament tt Vi<hy. Prance twk third place, defeating Belgium T>-0. hi play on*. A.P.
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    BANNISTER CALL-UP
    74 14 VtOGKR BANNISTER, first man to run a mile m four minutes, will be called up for National Service In two year* 4 time. Ilis deferment ha been caused by his Univer Ally carter, post-graduate me- dical examinations and now tiis two years qualification as a student doctor before
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    Horse wins twice within 35 mins
    264 14 Iff HEN Belmont Park won the Welter Handicap at Rosehill, one Of the main race courses m Sydney, he neat ed a record for Sydney racing. Thirty-five minutes earlier Belmont Park had won the previous race, the Auburn Stakes. The fir.st race Belmont Park
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    Patty again wins German title
    158 14 Budge Patty. USA. the 1950 Wimbledon champion, won the men S .singles ;itle for the .second successive year whan the West German lawn tennis championships ended In Hambur la the final he defeated Sweden's; Sven Davidsson 6-1. 6-1. 7-5. Patty later teamed with Gottfried Von
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    Canada a cricket danger soon
    295 14 Canada a cricket danger soon liHE Canadian cricketers v m England a., missi m tries, but they have highly imbitious schemes ror the future. When they played i strong eleven raised by the Earl Marshal of England, His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, they were opposed by
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      N.S.W. GOLF TRIUMPH
      227 14 a FORMER Western AustraA lian player. Keith Pix. won his third New South Wales amateur golf championship when he beat Maurice Bchrin ger. 4 and 3 m the 36 holes final on the Royal Sydney Course. Pix who Ifl 36. is now a member of the New
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      SWIM RECORD
      57 14 Carolyn Green of Fort Laudei Florida.' set her third re national AAU Simmin nice Sunday when she was timed J 56.6 m a trial heat for thc wv metre freestyle. r( j She bettered the American recoa of 11: 8.6 set by Ann Curtis m IW* and Miss
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      TOURISTS WIN
      24 14 Prance's all-star rugby tea'gan its tour of Argentina oei the Oelgrano Athletic Clv > 29-14. Tlie score was tieu o half time. A.P.
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      31 14 MATCH STARTS 6 a.m. So far m arrears through rain had the Mlllom (Cumberland) Lawn Tennis Club's tournament fallen that the final day's play started at six o'clock m the morning.
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    21-yr-old beats British champion
    258 15 21-yr-old beats British champion Thrills m U.K. JOO mile race j>\v BOOTY, 21-year-old bombshell ol British cycling, won the classic Bath Hoad HMI-mile time trial m 4hrs. 6m ins. 3 9 sees. That ended the three-year winning sequence of British champion Vie Gibbons (Brentwood) The lates seemed against Booty before
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    NO HEAT WORRIES IN OLYMPIC MARATHON
    101 15 NO HEAT WORRIES IN OLYMPIC MARATHON rrWB 19%4 Olympic Gamei marathon In ne will start al lock m the ufter- reduce the risk nneri being unduly d m the event of and strong sunshine, organising seoetMr. E. J. Holt said day. lie said that the Interationm* Athletics Federation had already
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    Bad lights halts Pakistan game
    180 15 PAKISTAN were 92 runs behind I Gloucestershire with all their aickete intact when bud slopped play for the day on second day of their cricket h al Cheltenham rain had delayed resumpi. n until mid-afternoon. The PakIvowlers then quickly showed they can use a wet
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    78 15 YOU 0 think j boat with two sets of sails like the one above would go twice as fast as an ordinary yacht. b_» no. Mr. Thomas Tothill's cpimmpran craft Eb fr Flo." here seen fighting out the finish, was beaten by two seconds m the Cowes Corinthian
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    VETERAN IN 3 FINALS
    253 15 VETERAN IN 3 FINALS A veteran competitor has qualified fOf three finals and one semi-final m the [Singapore Indian Association tennis tournament A. I. Pereira. achieved this when he beat DmSA m straight J sets 6-2. 6-2 m the handicap singles. In the handicap doublet: J. R. Kappooi and H
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    T.B.A. NAME MEN FOR TROPHY TIE
    94 15 i ..mil Brotherhood Association .ill meet Chinese Athletic m thean mai Independence D_y soccer match on Saturday for the Challenge Tr©. phy presented by Mi N Damodai. m Pillai The game will be played ai Farrer Park a f 1.19 pm The Tamil Brotherhood
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    DISAPPOINTMENT FOR FERRY THE CHAMF
    350 16  - DISAPPOINTMENT FOR FERRY THE CHAMF NETMAN By E*BRRY SONNE- VILLI, one ol the two indo ne 1 1 ii n badminton .fats who arrived In Slnga pore by an yestei iv, is disappointed. iin- Indonesian chain p. m together with Left hand". Eddie Yusof. ii here to compete m the
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    REG PERKS TAKES 7 FOR 34 IN ROUT OF SOMERSET XI
    267 16 REG PERKS TAKES 7 FOR 34 IN ROUT OF SOMERSET XI REG PERKS. 43-year-old Worcestershire fust medium bowler brought a little sunshine to England (Ticket yesterday-anorher day ruined by rain for most teams m the county championship. Six matches were washed out. Only eight balls were sent down m another.
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    114 16 fWHE Australian women's golf 1 team retained the Tasmarl Cup by beating New Zealand j by six matched to one on the Yerrongpllly course. Brisbane. Australia won one of the two foursomes and took all five singles matches. Australia had won the event four times previously
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    COLONY SWIMMING TOURNEY OCT 30
    57 16 La... night's committee meeting of the Singapoie Amateur Swimming Association fixed the date of this year's Colony championships for Oct 30 It was decided to elect a subcommittee ai the next committee meeting to draw up plans tor training uid .selection of an aquatic team
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    Chadwick fails $30,000 swim
    150 16 FLORENCE CHADWICK, thi' only woman to swim the English Channel both ways, yesterday failed m her attempt to swim the 18! mile s Strait ol |«an dr I uca between Victoria (I.riiis.i Columbia) and Port Angeles (Washington). She was pulled out of the water and into
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    SIKH SPORTS THIS MONTH
    69 16 SEREMBAN. Mon. The AllMulavan Sikh atheletic meet v ill be held here on Aug. _8 and 29 A committee with Mr. 1 Mahlma Bingh as chairman. Mr. Santokh Singh as via -chairman. Mr. T. S. Panshi as secret uy and Mr. Ourbachan Singh m ireasurer have
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    HER 4th SUCCESS
    42 16 DARTMOUTH. Nova Scotia. Mon. —Miss Marlene Stewart won the Canadian women's native golf championship for the fourth year when she beat Miss D. Herb.rtson |by nine strokes, with Miss Mary Gay. runner-up for the last five years. third— Reuter
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    208 16 ITALIAN BOXER BEATS EX-CHAMP GERMAINE BRUNO VISINTIN (9.llV_>. posted another win for the touring Italian troupe of boxers m Australia when he took a decisive points victory over former Empire lightweight champion, West Indian Ivor Germaine (9.U%>. to a fiercely contested 12-round bout at West Melbourne Stadium. Germaine. after being
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