The Singapore Free Press, 13 August 1954

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. Nu. 14ir!6. Singapore, Fri., Aug. 13, 1951. Price is (Is.
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    Shawcross blames ridge for crash
    150 1 Shawcross blames ridge for crash riiHE BOAC Constellation crash lon March i 3 with the loss of 33 lives woula not have occurred but for conditions on that day on the .06 runway at Kallang airport, Mr. Christopher Shawcross, Q.C.. .senior counsel for BOAC, told the court of inquiry this
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    THIS BILL WILL OUTLAW COMMUNISTS
    78 1 THIS BILL WILL OUTLAW COMMUNISTS IN A COMPLETELY unexpectl ed action, the U.S. Senate yesterday passed and sent to the House of Representatives a Bill outlawing the Communist Party. The Bill, carried unanimously by 85 votes to nil, provides hat persons who wilfully join or remain members of the Communist
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    He drove off with $1,700
    69 1 A Chinese woman drove to Singapore from Johore m a hired car yesterday. She had $1,700 m cash with her. At Collyer Quay, the driver stopped, asked the women to get out and pick up a handkerchief she had dropped out of the window. When
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    SHIP WITH 3ft CRACK SAILED 1,000 MILES
    149 1 4 9,898-ton Japanese tanker, Nashidate Maru which travelled more than 1.000 miles with a three-foot crack m her bottom, went into Singapore's King's Dock this morning for temporary repairs. Captain K. Moriyama, the skipper, said he called m Singapore on August 1 to
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    RUSSIA SAYS 'NO'
    22 1 Russia yesterday rejected AUfitria'a proposal for setting U l> a five-power committee to «m.^ider easing her occuoation burdens.- Reuter
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    GOA READY FOR ATTACK
    198 1 GOA READY FOR ATTACK We 'II meet force with force PORTUGUESE Goa went calmly ahead yesterday with plans to repel a threatened invasion from Indian soil, despite India's promise to let foreign observers investigate the dispute. Defence preparations were hastened after a Goan nationalist spokesman had served notice that his
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    RUBBER PRICE
    33 1 The Singapore rubber market opened this morning on a .slightly easier tone, with fir.st grade, August shipment, at 66. 7 8 cents a pound threeeighths of a cent below yesterday's close.
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    DUKE IN QUEBEC
    21 1 The Duke of Edinburgh arrived m Quebec City y»\stf»rday after a 1.200 miles flight from Churchill, Manitoba. Reuter
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    FILM IS PASSED
    23 1 The New York movie eemor has cleared Walt Disney's new film, with its buffalo birth scene, for exhibition. A. P.
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    Quake in Chile
    10 1 A .strong earthquake shook southern Chile yesterday
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    Turks want ships
    18 1 A Turkish Maritime Bank mission is In the United Slat*'* I to buy ships AP.
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    Eden may lead British side to Asia talks
    135 1 Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, is likely to lead the British delega tion at next month's conference on a defence pact for South—East Asia, a wellinformed source said m London yesterday. Mr. Eden is on holiday m Austria until the end
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    15.000 heard her
    47 1 Madam Yijayalakshmi Pandit. President of the United Nations, speaking at the Jalan Besar stadium, Singapore, last night. On the left s the Governor of Singapore Sir John Nicoll. who presided at the public meeting. A crowd of 15,000 heard her speak. Free Press picture.
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    Plane check holds up Madam Pandit
    136 1 T<HE departure of Madam Vijayalakshmi Pandit President of the United Nations General Assembly, from Singapore for the Federation this morning was delayed for about 20 minutes by lastminute checks to her R.A.F. plane at Kalian* Airport p a A fth am n She Sdriven
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    20 KILLED IN MUSLIM RIOTS
    57 1 RIOTING m the old quarter of Fez, Morocco, during the sacred Muslim feast of Aid-el-Kebir caused at least 20 deaths. The toll of killed and injured so far m the "month of vengeance" is now 353. Twenty bodies were said to have been buried during
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    THEATRE ROW IN S'PORE ON COWARD PLAY
    320 2 theatregoer! look like Seeing the same Noel Coward play performed by two dramatic groups within three weeks of each other because neither produc fep down" m favour of the other. Release of the performing rights of the play, 'Relative Values", wa.s received on
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    Vietminh kill 47 Anti-Reds
    107 2 Vietminh kill 47 Anti-Reds I'lll Communist Viet- in m*i assassinated 47 non Communist resistance leaders, French >ources said m Saigon >est*rday. The non Communist leaders were said to have been killed m an ambush m the Chamdoc region of South Vietnam. 100 miles west of Saigon. The group included Pham
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    Motion denied
    31 2 A U.S. federal district judge yesterday denied the motion by Australian-born Harry Bridges, U.S. labour loader, to dismiss the Governments civil suit seeking to revoke his American citizenship. A.P.
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    New UNESCO head
    26 2 Mr. Philippe de Seynes, veteran Fren<| i delegate to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, has been appointed head of that division. A.P.
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    Taimur at Malta
    21 2 The new Pakistani destroyer Taimur, formerly the British Mediterranean destroyer Chivalrous, arrived at Malta from Britain yesterday. A.P.
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    Land may serve dual purpose
    161 2 Land may serve dual purpose A COMPROMISE may be reached m thr tussle for a 15'/2-acre p i ece of land m Shenton Way, between a City Councillor, who wants it to be a public playground, and a Legislative Councillor, who wants it to be developed by the Government for
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    MALAYAN PINEAPPLE MARKET SAFE
    152 2 STEPS now being taken m London by the British Commonwealth Producers Organisation to protect Commonwealth canned fruits from the risk of unfair competition, will not immediately affect the Malayan canned oineapple industry. Mr. c. E. Courtenay. adviser to the Malayan pineapple industry, said yesterday that at
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    STORE WELFARE WORK IMPRESSES H.K. TEAM
    224 2 r |*HF standard of welfare work m Singapore has impressed a team of Hone Kong welfare workers now on a visit to the Colony. The rfaltu are officials of >»ie Kiifon X a Cantonew *«>rd meaning neighbours movement which is devoted U» voluntary welfare
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    Electoral report to Sir John
    129 2 TIE report of the Singapore Electoral Delineation Committee, which has divided the Island into 24 divisions for elections under the Rendel constitution has been submitted to the Governor. Sir John Nicoll. It is expected the report will be published soon, it is the first big
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    FUN IN MOSCOW BUT NO WORK
    273 3 Now Attlee men fly to Peking From RENE McCOLL MOSCOW, Fri. rHE British Labour delegation take off by air for Peking tonightabout 30 flying hours distant— leaving behind a Moscow memory of an astonishing demonstration of sociability and friendliness on the part of Russia's
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    'BOUNDING WALTER' HAS FATAL CRASH
    123 3 'BOUNDING WALTER' HAS FATAL CRASH WALTER the Wallaby, I who chose freedom I rather than enjoy the I comforts of Whipnsade i I Zoo, near London, fell victim yesterday to the f dangers of the motor age. Walter died m a high- f way collision with a car 1 at
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    BRITON FOUND DEAD IN ALPS RAIL TUNNEL
    137 3 4 MEMBER of the British Occupation Authority m iA Trieste was found dead yesterday m a railway tunnel m the Austrian Alps. Hu head was crushed and he had .suffered several other injuries. Austrian police identified him as Christopher Hughes Smith, 22. of
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    Hamburg strike ends but clashes go on
    250 3 Hamburg strike ends but clashes go on A STRIKE of 14,000 transport and utility workers which had crippled Hamburg for eight days, ended yesterday and more of the 100,000 idle Bavarian metal workers returned to their jobs with new prospects of a general settlement. About 60 police and 1,000 strikers
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    Tensing returns
    33 3 Bherpa Tenilnii Norkay, who scaled Mount Everest with Bit Edmund Hillary, lrft Geneva yesterday for India after a two and a half month course m Alpine training with Swiss guides Reuter
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    Aid condition
    30 3 The US House of Represen tatives yesterday passed a Bil providing that !>0 per cent Ol all Government-sponsored foreign ftW rjrKoes be transport rd m American .ships. A.P.
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    78 3 E V IN| > u:»'«^ < above > :1 1 from America for the E World Assembly of Youth z conference which opens m Singapore on Sunday, ar- rived m Singapore yester- E E day by air. The delegation is i headed by Mr. Robert z Snable, (fourth from left)
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    Raiders commended
    37 3 President Chiang Kai-shek yesterday congratulated two Chinese Nationalist Navy officers for leading a sneak raid on Monday against the Communist Chinese naval base at Tongshan harbour, southern Fukien province, and sinking eisht Red ships- Reuter
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    Locust invasion
    23 3 A wave of locusts five miles wide and three miles deep has invaded Eritrea, former Italian colony m East Africa.- A.P.
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    Liaison man
    40 3 Mr Fristoti Charle.s How hsus been named .secretary to the office of the Lord President of the Council (Atomic energy) a liaison office between the British Government and the atomic energy authority responsible for research and development. Reuter
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    Reds lose right to swear
    71 3 THE BKi Kusslan press campaign to clean up morals has taken a new ta<k tut out the swearing, the men are told. Komsomol Pravda, the ortran of the Soviet Communist Youth League, is leading the .Hurt to urlt profane and vulgar language. < A drive
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      Opinion Save this boy
      333 4 Opinion Save this boy Towards tin- end ol the war an Australian Federal Minister decreed that m the interests ol the national economy shirts should be made without sleeves and tails. The public accepted thi.s .spartan garment without demur, though it can become (reeslngly cold m Australia. Then the minister
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    Cloak-and-dagger muddle in Berlin
    595 4 [I Flight of Dr. John accelerates U.S. decision United states Intelligence Chiefs are taking steps to liquidate some of the amateur competition which has been frustrating their operations m the Berlin cold war cloak and dagger spy centre. The case of Dr. Otto John, the West
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    HYPOCRISY ON INDO-CHINA
    341 4  -  STEPHEN COULTER HPHE North Soutn hands are a shade light of the full requﾄ, POLITICAL hypocrisynot confined to France -sometimes does seem to beat everything. The Parliamentary debate on IndoChina the other day was wound up by M. Jean Letourneau. a Catholic, who. for four years was
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    Adenauer is blamed
    197 4 CK)R the first time sinn r he took office five years ago the West German Chancellor, Dr Adenauer, is fac i n g nation wide criticism. The immediate cause the disappearance m East Berlin of Dr. Otto. John, the former head of the Federal counterespionage service. Criticism
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      21 4 Fresh from the mountain stream RAINBOW TROUT will colour your menu with its delightfully fresh flavour SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
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    GRAND MALAYA TOUR FOR VISITORS
    251 5 Residents to play host m towns MOKE than 400 World Assembly of Youth delegates will be taken on a tour of the Federation as guests of the Malayan Youth Council after the 14-day conference ends m Singapore on Aug 28 They will be taken through
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    S'porp girl teaches art in New York
    155 5 APRKTTY, young Chin nese woman has been teaching art to American buys and girls during the past year while doing graduate work at Columbia University, m New York. Kvelyn Lee Seok Chee (now Mrs. Eng). the daughter of Singapore rubber magnate, Mr. Lee
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    FEDERATION SENDS 30 TO TALKS
    151 5 MRS. HELEN TAN, former generalifl secretary of the Singapore Young Women's Christian Association and now on the staff of the Kuah. Lumpur Y.W.C.A., has been chosen a Federation delegate for the World Assembly of Youth conference m Singapore Mrs. Tan, who Is among the 30
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    'Mikes' are on the way for WAY
    146 5 'Mikes' are on the way for WAY A LARGE number of microphones and earphones, being brought by ;iir from Europe for the World Assembly of Youth conference which opens m Singapore on Sunday, are expected to arrive toThey are to be fitted m the Anglo-Chinese School hall m Barker Road,
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    DOCTORS WON'T ASK FOR FEES
    93 5 FIFTEEN Singapore doctors will give free medical at- i ntion to any of the 400 de- < jatea from all park of the i 'd who may require it, I iring their stay here for the v >rld Assembly of Youth < inference. 1 M'ntative
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    35 5 R<» de Rozario of Sin R ap<,re. crooning the hit-tune '^J" "S.*^'" l^ >l the sixth heat of the 1954 "Crooner-Crooiiette .™**J?]^^'J£L 'luulilied for the semi-finals next month. The contest is sponsored by Shaw Urothers.
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    Bid to smuggle
    38 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. Chan Sui Choon. ol Ipoh. was fined $70 m the police court or attempting to smuggle gramophone records and a Dottle of shampoo from Singapore into the Federation. The articles were confiscated.
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    Off for holiday in Kelantan
    51 5 IPOH, Fri. Dr. G E. D. Lewis, principal of the Anderson School here, Is leaving for a 10-day holiday m Kelantan where he will gather material for books on Malayan geography. Dr. Lewis has already writ- j ten a series of text books on Malayan
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    U.K. mail due on Sunday
    47 5 PENANG, Fri. M:iils from the United Kingdom .shipped on the Carthage and the Laomedon are expected here on Sunday. Sea mails for Madias and Calcutta will dose R1 9 a.m. tomorrow, and for Colombo and the U.K. at 3 p.m. on Tuesday.
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    Bandits wound a soldier
    30 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Five terrorists Urea <>n Landi Rover and wounded .1 British soldier m the ankle at the eighth milestone. Kluanaj-Ayer Hituiii Road, Johore, yesterday.
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    Leaves Council
    36 5 KUALA LUMPUK. Fri. With the return of Inche Mohamed Yu.soff bin Mohamed Noor to the Federation, Inche Mohanicri Taib bin Ibraium has ceased to be a temporary unofficial member of the Federal Legislative Council.
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    Penang day
    39 5 PKNANG, Fri A Union Jack fluttered over the grave of Penang's founder, Captain Francis Light, at the oid Northam Road cemetery yesterday, marking the 168 th anniversary Of the founding Of the Settlement There wa.s no ceremony.
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    Postcard went the long way
    80 6 A POSTCARD, sent to Bri an Tarbitt of Seaton, New Seaham, County Durham, by his mother while she was on holiday m London m June has reached him via New Zealand. The address was read by thf London post office sortin staff as Seatoun, New
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      175 6 |^^JTiL- -J ~J^^Um a t A W Sill MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis j i _^^l I PiND I f/i IYOUAIU66A6I POR tKAMINAHON. J I r Jr r I I ji TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris JANE by Hubbard I YOU FELT O
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      552 6 YOUR I LUCKY I STAR j DORN TODAY, you ar f a good judge of human nature and can usually size up a E person accurately at first sight. Your perception is very keen i and you can get to the root •fa matter without too much hemming and hawing.
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    S'pore USIS man weds
    61 7 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Koh Teck Tiong of Singapore cut their wedding cake. The marriage took place at the Paya l.ebar Methodist Church. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Koh Kirn Han and the bride is the eldest daughter of Madam Ng Sze
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    S'PORE EXAM PASSES
    2057 7 The following Singapore vtndidates have been successlull m the London Chamber of Commerce (Spring) 1954 examinations:R \I I IKS INSTITUTION EVENING CLASSES Certificate Stage Typewriting: Kwek Lily, Sam O:i_:; Lim Peck Neo; Tan Choon Ten. Higher Stage Accounting: G. Ramanathan Eric Cornelius; Han Chen? i Pong; Liew
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    $5M. TEACHERS' COLLEGE GETS TOP PRIORITY
    156 7 $5M. TEACHERS' COLLEGE GETS TOP PRIORITY Training scheme expanded L^RECTION of a $5,000,000 up-to-date teachers' Ij training college m Paterson Road is to be given top priority by the Singapore Government. Teachers are now being trained at the former Anglo-Chinese school building m Cairnhill Road. The Legislative Council will be
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    New officer
    22 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. Mr. E. H. Walsworth-Bell, on his return from leave, has been appointed Deputy Commissioner for Labour, Johore.
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    Teacher gets study gift
    63 7 KLANO, Fri. Mr. P. a Nagaratnam. science master of the Anglo-Chinese School here, and his wife will leave for the United States tomorrow. Mr. Nagaratnam has been awarded a scholarship for a year's post-graduate education course at the University lof Denver by the Methodist Mission. Mrs
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    WHAT'S THIS PEEP-SHOW ?
    3 8 WHAT'S THIS PEEP-SHOW
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    Woman learner dies in yacht crash
    255 8 A WOMAN was killed m a sailing accident on Breydon Water, m the Norfolk Broads. And a coroner said that he fears there will be more accidents if the Central Council of Physical Recreation continues to give sailing courses there. The council is a
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    COUNCIL GIVES HOUSE TO THREE YOUNG ORPHANS
    365 8 COUNCIL GIVES HOUSE TO THREE YOUNG ORPHANS They're doing adults' job THREE orphan children have been told oy oilicials: "You can stay m your council house it's yours." The children, aged 13, 16 and 17, won the con■'dence of Beeston, Notts, Housing Committee by the the way they nursed their
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    HER PAY-2$8d
    40 8 A history book, compiled by village children of Great Walctingfield, Suffolk, to mark their school's centenary, reveals tnat m 1863 the salary of a teacher was 2s. Bd. a week. i The school cleaner received 4d. i week.
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    WHY! ITS A MERMAID
    49 8 WHY! ITS A MERMAID A SWIMMING pool with under-water windows C has been opened at Glog- E gnitz m Austria on the occasion of the Austrian Ej Youth Swimming and Div- g ing championships. Spectators can watch swimmers from either E under or above the waterUnr. Popper pictures. *i
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    RESPONSE BAD SO CONDUCTOR SAYS 'I QUIT'
    111 8 rM JENKINS, conductor of the 22-piece Palm Court Orchestra at Scarborough's Spa. which broadcasts once a week, has resigned. He wants to leave at the end of the season because he objects to playing to halfempty houses. The company have an option an
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    Sightseers stop their trade
    35 8 Mothers m Dorchester, Dorset taking their children tc market to see the pigs are causing such congestion— that auctioneers and vendors cannot conduct their business properly, the town council were Void.
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    At 90 one room is all she wants
    210 8 CHE is a proud, independent old lady. When her husband died— so many years ago she cannot remember when she toofc up nursing and supported herself. When she became too old to work, she lived on a little nest-egg she had saved.
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    THE BEANS WERE FOUND NOT GUILTY
    79 8 VTAR Office scientists have now cleared the second of two brands of baked beans suspected of causing a food poi soiling outbreak m May. In June the scientists found that "Gilt Edee" beans were not to blame. Now the War Office has announced that
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    COURTING DANGER
    35 8 Barbed wire and warning notices are to be erected on Hig" Tor, Matlock, Derbyshire, to -top courting couples leayH* official" paths and wandering into danger along the edge ut the 250 ft. cliff.
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    Parson's favourite is banned book
    173 9 Parson's favourite is banned book THIS is a story such as Boccaccio himself would have enjoyed. Across the county border, m Swindon, Wiltshire, the 14th-century Italian author's collection of tales, the "Decameron," is labelled obscene. The other day the local magistrates ordered a copy of the classic to be destroyed.
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    Britain has 'most advanced' fighter plane
    338 9 Britain has 'most advanced' fighter plane VEIL OFF 1,000 m.p.hr JET OKITAIN now has a supersonic fighter a twin-jet machine which exceeds the speed of sound m level flight and not with the aid of gravity m a dive. Its top speed is between 700 and 800 m.p.h., and it
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    DAVID RAMS AN ADMIRAL IN RUNAWAY SOAP BOX
    210 9 pOR one who has ambition* to become a sailor, David Applcton made the wrong sort ol lir.st impression on the Royal Navy. He rammed an admiral. The Admiral, once the scourge of the Italian Fleet, was absolutely charming about It. He even
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    MR. PARKS WILL FIGHT TO THE LAST FLOWER
    244 9 AMOM. the marigolds and pinks m the pretty front garden of his six -roomed coun cil home m Worcester, Mr John Parks proclaimed hi* independence. Deep into the soil he plunged a notice-hoard which read: "Hand* off my front garden, bureaucriti« busybodies."
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    PEACE—AFTER 42 YEARS
    66 9 PEACE— AFTER 42 YEARS piORTY-TWO years ago a boy stole a bar of chocolate from a Burton-on-Trent shop. He was caught and spanked by the shopkeeper and never forgot the lesson. Recently while Mrs. Dorothy Ellen Freer, widow of the shopkeeper, was serving m the Derbystreet shop, a 56-year-old man
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    New drug fattens cattle
    288 10 A NEW drug technique, A indicated to have far-reaching effect on the U.S beef industry has been found to fatten cattle as much as 35 per cent, more than usual, at the same time cutting feed costs sharply. The remarkable experiments which brought about a reduction
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    She was paid-for doing nothing
    262 10 >orothy is working now, *or less money, and prefers it.ljl rw*\ live m the sunshine A of Holly wood, Calidrnia. To do nothing all day long. To be paid £200 a week for doing It A lovely, languid, lotuseating life, you'd say? Just the life
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    RUSSIA EXPORTS OPIUM
    291 10 ...but it's for medicinal use... not addicts ISTANBUL. RUSSIA has entered the opium trade, claims a visitor to Istanbul who has just arrived from Bulgaria— still the most closely "sealed off" of all the satellite countries of Eastern Europe. His information was since confirmed from independent sources
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    42 10 At the Sovereign's parade of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst: (from left) Field Marshal Sir John Harding (former C. m C Far Fast), the Duchess of Kent. Mrs. X Hobbs and Princess Alexandra. The Duke of Kent took part m the parade.
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    STAGE CLUB 'DUET'
    284 10 i mmm®. wmmmsmm mam rpHE Stage Club are the A most versatile and the most active local theatrical group but "Duet for Two Hands." their latest production at the Victoria Theatre, is a tribute to their enthusiasm rather than to their accomplishment Mary Hayley Bell's play Is
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    How to pack a cinema by a director
    53 10 DIRECTOR JOE ("All about Eve") MANKIEWICZ, m London, had this solution to the problem of filling cinemas. Said he. "All you do 's let the customers m for nothing then charge them to get out. That way the best seats are those
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    By lln Way
    201 11 By lln Way MINE has long been a lonely voice pleading lor bigger and noisier ballet. The recent choice of Victor Hugo's Hunchback does not satisfy me. The Waterloo chapter m Les Miserables would be more fun, with thousands of dancers trying to avoid the horses and the guns and
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    Rhee wants war
    541 11  -  WILLIAM COURTENAY His plan: march troops over the Yalu. unite Korea by force. UTHEN S Korea's parchTf ment-f aced President Syngman Rhee landed m America recently, he startled all on arrival by a blunt but truthful declaration that there is no peaceful way by which North and
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    Did Dr. John fear disease?
    429 11 Did Dr. John fear disease? A NEW THEORY is being put forward to explain the disappearance to East Germany of Dr. Otto John. It is said that Dr. John suspected he had cancer, that his friend, Dr. Wohlgemuth, who accompanied him over the border, claimed he had a certain cure
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    13 11 Marian Carr, who is featured m "Ring of Fear," now showing m Singapore.
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    284 12  -  Michael Vital taxi' service m atom war by Aucrine THE head Hi the U.S. Civil Defence Programme foresees the helicopter taking on the triple job of municipal ambulance, command post, and "evacuation express" during any future atomic war. Mr. Val Peterson, who dire'ts the federal programme
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    Bridge Hand
    305 12 Bridge Hand HPHE North Soutn hands are a shade light of the full requirements for getting to game, but there are many deals where 2 r > points In the combined hands will be enough. On such hands, the criterion Is. bid for game if there Is little chance of
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      88 12 HPHE North Soutn hands are a shade light of the full requﾄ, I li 111 JL—^Ji ssv— l— Li JL— J— A— CLUES ACROSS: 11 Sucks to a bunch of grass (7). 12 It may be changed emotionally 1 Gives a bark from a barque? (3, (5). 3). 13 Inmate
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      190 12 20 Regretful referent e to a fl) (7). 22 Trade In wood? (4) 23 Descriptive of Mis* Vtnp\ ner? <B>. n ,r 24 Is it passed with reference t/i foreign currency? (6>. 25 Finish with a listener? CLCES DOWN: 1 Indignant at the men's n„» fitters? (6>. out 2 They
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    135 13 4 'OLETTE, the world's most famous worran novelist, has just died m Paris. She was 81. But she had spoken her epitaph years ago: "Death bores me." Arthritis had kept her In bed for years. But wit preserved her relish of life until the last. For life was the
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    17 13 Emperor Hirohito of Japan at work m hi s biology laboratory. He is a keen marine biologist.
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    Shaw's 'ABC bequest is a 'Headache'
    438 13 Shaw's 'ABC bequest is a 'Headache' rEORGE Bernard v Shaw's 10,000-word will, one of the most complicated of modern times, has turned out to be just one big headache for England's public trustee, appointed by the Irish dramatist to administer his estate. The one specal bequest which is giv i
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    A brave Empire builder
    275 13 A brave Empire builder THE Ufl OF LORD ROBERTS By David Jamn. Ho!. Its and Carter. |>EFORE you give an Empire away, you must first build it. Today the building process is abused and misunderstood. It is denounced as "aggression" and sneered at as "colonialism. The bravery and the sense
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    DEATH bored COLETTE
    558 13 The most famous living woman novelist, died recently m Paris aged 81. Her fame endured for 60 years. lette, who lived m a village of Burgundy. Until she was 20 she hardly left that village. She grew up with keen sensitivities and a great fondness for nature
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      919 14 EVENTS 100 YDS i VI>S 440 YDB *W YDS ONE MII.E ihrf: mii ks 120 YDS hurdles 440 YDS HURDI.tS HKJH JUMP I^NG JUMP POLE VAULT HOP .SIKP JUMF' HKWH JAVELIN WEKJHT HAMMER ♦xl! 0 YDS RELAY <« w i YDS RELAY J SCHOOLS 4tUO DS KELAY 4x440 XDS
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      375 14 EVENTS 100 YDS 2tO YDS 80m HURDLES HIOH JUMP LONG JUMP DISCUS JAVELIN WEIGHT 4kllo YDS RELAY 12 S MC. MARRY KLASS 283 sec. MARY KLASS 15 4 tec. Chin Kwong Kin 4 ft. *1 la ONG SOON KENG 1« ft. 4 la Huan( P«w U»n 78 fl. H
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    SHIRAI WINS
    23 14 JaiMnese champion Yoshio Blilrai won on points m hi* non-title flfcht anauuit Alberto Burenghls In Bueno« Alre* on Wednesday night U.P.
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    Trailing Moore t.k.o.'s Johnson
    215 14 r«HAMEU)N .Archi" x**tov?ir c^int ifom uenihd' on Wednesday night to floor Harold Johnson of Philadelphia once and score a technical knockout m the 14th round of their light heavyweight title fight before 8,327 m Madison Square Garden. Moore, 37, thus registered his third defence of the
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    Tour by Aussie women players
    140 14 AN organised tour of the world tefiM* ClrcUit Is to be undertaken bt an Australian women's team. Mrs. Nell Hopman, wife of the captain of Australia's Davis Cup team said: "We are going to try something new for our women players Wr will have competition
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    U.K. SOCCER STARTS
    163 14 I T'HEJScaJJULsKioatba 11 o*a3»sfl"apenH 1 tomorrow with eight first division matches and eight m the second division. Fixtures are: DIVISION A Aberdeen Queen of South Celtic v Falkirk East Fife v Hibernian Hearts v Dundee Kilmarnock v Raith Partick v Clyde St Mirren v Motherwell Sterling A
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    BEAUTIES OF THE TRACK
    945 15 Team result may depend on them at Kuala Lumput By CHARLES BRYCE HOWEVER the performances of local women athlct compare with the rest of the world I'm sure of on< thing: when it comes to good looks our girls tak< i place second to none. Their
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    MALAYAN RECORDS AS THEY STAND
    187 15 L<>K the guidance of Free J> ress readers here is a list •1 current M.A.A.A. records: MEN 1IJ yards: 10 sec yards: 21.8 sec JJJ yards: 50 sec WW yards: 1 mm 59 sec O«c Mile: 4 mm 27.2 sec rhree Miles; 15 mm 3.4
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    202 15 rHE PROGRAMME of event* at 1 the Malayan athletic champion, ships at Kuala Lumpur today and tomorrow la: TODAY 230 Opening Ceremony: 3.00 440 yards hurdles final; 3.10 Pole Vault qualifying: 3 10 100 yds heat*; 3.20 100 yds women h«*ts; 330 Discus qualifying: 3.30 Shot Putt women final;
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    COHEN IS ON WAY TO BANGKOK
    214 16 COHEN IS ON WAY TO BANGKOK INTENT on bringing back to France its first world boxing championin five years. Robert Cohen flew off to Bangkok yesterday to fight Thailand'fl Chamroen Songkit rat on Sept. 19. The match has been designated a world championship bantamweight bout by* the In ternational Boxing
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    Tyson the Terrible
    42 16 I I 5 I I rank Tyson played his first Test rt»lr for England yesterday and confirmed his claims to the title "Fastest Bowler m the World." Tyson claimed four of the Pakistan wickets for 3"» runs. Story below.
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    Fast bowlers rock Pakistan
    344 16 FRANK TYSON and Peter Loader, England's new 24-year-old fast bowlers, made dramatic entries into Test cricket at the Oval yesterday. They were chiefly responsible for the dismissal of Pakistan for 133, Tyson taking four for 35 and Loader three for 35. This was the first day
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    Taffy Hancock loses title
    48 16 rPAFFY Hancock, Australian rty--1 weight champion for the past three years, lost his title last night when outpointed m Sydney by Vlnce Blake over 15 rounds. Both were just inside the eight stone limit, Blake by four oz. and Hancock by 12 ot.- Reuter
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    Scoreboard
    101 16 PAKISTAN— IBT INNINGS Hanif Ibw Staham Xlimuddin b Tyson WMir b Loader I Maqsood b Tyson 0 Imtimi c Evans b Tyson -3 Kardar c Evans b Statham 56 I Waxir run oat I Fasml e Evans b Lanier i Shujauddin not oat 1* Zulflksr e C ompUn b
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    WOMEN'S NETBALL FINAL TODAY
    40 16 The finals for this year's netball > competition for the Clarke Challenge Shield will be played on the SRC. ground today between the Girls' Sporto Club (holder of the Shield) and Raffles Old Girls' AsI sodation. I
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    HAT-TRICK
    32 16 Singapore Chinese beat Singapore Indians 3-1 m last night's Sundram Iyer trophy soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium. Centreforward Jui Kirn scored all the Chinese goals. Stephenson scored for the Indians.
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    HOAD BEATEN
    43 16 Lewis Hoad, the top seed among t the overseas competitors, was suri prisingly beaten m the third round i of the men's singles In the New port Casino lawn tennis tournament by 17 -year-old Roy Emerson 1 6-3, 4-6. 8-6- Reuter
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    PETERS GOES HOME
    139 16 JIM PETERS, English marathonei who collapsed at the BritLsl Empire Games, left by air foi home yesterday under the care ol Dr. Roger Bannister. Peters, who has been recovering In a hospital since hU struggle v reach the finish line on Saturday looked pale and wan. but
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    YORKS, DERBY AND GLAMORGAN
    524 16 Quick wins for county leaders YORKSHIRE, Derbyshire and Glamorgan won their county championship matches inside two days yesterday. The first named two are still first and second m the championship table. Yorkshire lead Derbyshire by 18 points (170 to 152) but have played two more games.
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    SCORES
    207 16 At Cheltenham, Derbyshire beat Gloucestershire by innings and t>2 runs. Gloucestershire 43 and 121. i Emmet t. 77. Gladwin five for 24, Morgan four for 32). Derbyshire 216. At Scarborough, Yorkshire beat Essex by innings and five runs. Essex 106 and 228 (Horsfall 81, Insole 60). Yorkshire 339 for
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