The Singapore Free Press, 19 August 1954

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    Masthead
    20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. 1 1 i.;i. Singapore. Thurs., Aug. 19, 1954. Price 15 Cts.
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    Confusion on the Zebra
    168 1 V|ANY Singapore mo i'l torists have written to the Free Press complaining of the "indecision and confusion" of pedestrians at Zebra crossings. Many pedestrians. too. have written complaining of "bullying and intimidating" tactics by motorists. So. to find out what grounds there were for the complaints,
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    US. TROOPS TO LEAVE KOREA
    207 1 THE United States Defence Department announced y ester day that four United States divisions would be withdrawn from Korea within the next few months. These troops would be deployed to other areas where it was believed they "will better serve the interests of the United
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    Pakistan premier for U.S.
    22 1 IJKIMF MINISTER Mohammed Ali of Pakistan will visit President Eisenhower this autumn, the White House announced yesterday UP
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    3 homes raided and robbed
    99 1 3 homes raided and robbed ziASH totalling $467 and jewV ellery worth $143 have been stolen Tn raids on three houses m Singapore. lars broke into two houses n. xt to each other m Clyde Terrace last night while the dents were out and took X) cash from one and
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    Australia may send troops
    67 1 VUSTRALIAN troops may be enl to Malaya soon. The Commonwealth Budget »r 1954-55 presented m CanI erra yesterday by Sir Arthur Fidden. the Treasurer, includ--1 a defence expenditure of A 200 million besides another Cl 2 million already available. These amounts include the M of stationing
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    PIANIST SUED
    39 1 Hephzibah Menuhin. 34--f old pianist sister of Vehudi Menuhin, the violinist. Is being sued for divorce by her Australian sheep farmer husband, Lindsay Nicholas. Nicholas. 38. filed a petition m Melbourne yesterday on the grounds of adultery.
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    Polio epidemic
    24 1 Dr Melville McKenzie, the "riti..h polio specialist, ls go- > Jamaica to help check a epidemic which has alidy stricken 66 people. A.P.
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    Mother dies as hero 'is freed'
    75 1 Mother dies as hero 'is freed' THE aged mother of General Christian De Castries, the Communistheld hero of Dien Bien Phu, has died almost on the eye of lierson's release from Red captivity. Friends disclosed m Paris that De Castries' 82-year-old mother died a week ago. Only yesterday the Communist
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    BOY PROWLERS IN PARK 'KILLED FOR A THRILL'
    117 1 J UR youths who. authorities said, "got a kick out seeing blood flow," fcave charged with prowling York's Brooklyn parks Ight and wantonly toralmas t anyone they J ast two persons were '.orities said. n District Attorney S. Silver said the dtted
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    Ivan (Red cruiser) shells Dora (Dutch)
    189 1 A SOVIET cruiser fired on the 392-ton Dutch coaster. Dora, m the Gulf of Finland on Monday, the owners at Groningen m the Netherlands learned yesterday. Captain P. Peik, the coaster's skipper reported: "We were bound for Scotland from Lovisa, Finland, through the gulf
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    RUBBER PRICE
    17 1 ll„. Singapore l.ubber Ifarl I morning on a steady i. BepUmber .1 alxjve yt.w*iii__y A.P.
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    New Filipino consul
    19 1 Dr Policronio de Venecia, newly appointed Filipino Consul m Hamburg, has left Manila fnr West Germany
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    YOUTH SHOULD PREPARE FOR INDEPENDENCE
    98 2 WORLD Assembly of Youth delegates from several countries urged at a forum last night, that youth movements m non-self-governing territories should play their part m preparation for independence. Malaya's Samuel Abishegum. raid that political training was an indispensable part of youth's preparation for the day
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    'Ban Reds' bill
    20 2 The Colombian National Assembly yesterday began study ot a Bill to outlaw the Communist party. A. P.
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    ALL SMILES
    69 2 picture. r Mr. Malv o I m Mac- Donald, greets Miss Cyn- thia Cole, Trinidad's de- legate to the World As- J E sembly of Youth, on her j arrival yesterday at Mal- laig for the Commission- er-General's garden i party. The very informal "no coat or tie
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    Duke goes home
    21 2 The Dukr of Edinburgh sailed for home aboard the Royal yacht Britannia after visiting Canada for three weeks.
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    NOW IT'S SURPLUSES THAT WORRY THE WORLD
    180 2 THE UNITED Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation reported m Rome toda; that retail prices might have to be reduced or incomes raised m many countries planning increased production. Unless steps were taken to raise consumption "there may be little chance of absorbing such
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    SPAAK MAKES DRAMATIC BID TO SAVE E.D.C.
    127 2 BELGIUM'S Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak made a dramatic appeal to France and (.ermany last night to make up their differences and save the European army plan from disaster. A passionate supporter of a United Europe, he intervened on the eve of the
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    Mr France's demands
    169 2 CHANGES proposed by the French Premier, Mr. Men-des-France to revive the European army treaty include suspension of the provisions for six-power supervision of recruiting, standardisation of arms and officer training, until put into operation by unanimous action of the Council of Ministers. This is one ot the
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    We wish the new China well, says Attlee at banquet
    242 2 llfE SYMPATHISED with the Chinese m their long struggle against Japanese imperialifm and against the forces of reaction m China and we wish well to the New China", Mr. Attlee. leader of the British Labour mission, said m Peking last
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    TYPHOON LEAVES DEATH TRAIL
    131 3 TWO JAP ISLANDS BATTERED i TYPHOON which A hammered southern japan on Wednesday, changed course today and lost much of its punch as it veered eastward toward the Pacific Ocean. The switch relieved the Mn eat to the industrial areas i)\ Osaka, Tokyo and Yokosuka. But
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    ANOTHER TRIP TO PEKING
    34 3 A second group of British labour Party leaders will visit Red China m October at the invitation of the Chinese Foreign Office, it was announced m London last night. A.P.
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    Military train derailed—5 dead
    46 3 Five people were killed and 47 injured nine seriously when a military train was de- ruled 500 miles north of Bombay on Tuesday night. Nine wagons and three coaches left the Delhi-Bombay Hue. The track will take four days to repair.- Reuter.
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    'Pray for peace'
    30 3 A Bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives mid permit American post offices to use a special cancelling stamp bearing the legend: "Pray for Peace." A.P.
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    Commandos leave
    24 3 The last of Britain's Royal Marine Commando Brigade I avlng the Suez Canal zohe boarded the cruiser Gambia yesterday for Malta. Reuter
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    I-C recognition
    14 3 Ceylon yesterday recognised Cambodia and Laos, the smaller states of Indo-China. Reuter
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    Mrs. Wheeler is remanded again
    64 3 Blonde Mrs. Wheeler, accused of shooting at Lord Vivian. 48-year-old show producer with Intent to murder him, made a third appearance before a magistrate's court at Devizes. Wiltshire, yesterday. She was taken by road from Holloway Gaol m London for the hearing, which lasted only
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    U.S. SYNTHETIC OUTPUT NOT HIT BY STRIKES
    229 3 Strikes m United States rubber-using industries have so lar had "no serious impact on the Government's \vnthetic rubber production programme, according to an official of the Federal Facilities corporation. Goodyear and Firestone, two of the largest rubber 'nufacturers and also big- buyers of
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    'Slop smoking' is new advice to Russians
    125 3 SOVIET residents, who have been urged for months to cut down their drinking, were advised yesterday to stop smoking. They were told it is a harmful habit that causes stomach ulcers, leaves particles m the lungs, contracts the blood vessels and afreets thinking.
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    Town rocked by quake
    34 3 HOUSES shook for a minute and people ran terrified into the streets when an earthquake hit the Italian town of Cozena (population 40.000 >. No casualties or damage were reported. A.P.
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    Full accord
    13 3 Full accord has been reached at EgvDtian-Iraa talks at Baghdad. A.P.
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    Girl not execution bait, say Tito men
    103 3 SENATOR Harley M. Kilgore (Democrat-West Virginia) said m Washington yesterday the Yugoslav Government had denied using a 21 -year-old girl as execution bait for her father, a former underground leader now doing secret work for the U.S. Army. Senator Kilgore said he was
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    She crawled on knees to freedom
    54 3 She crawled on knees to freedom MRS. MARIA DOPKRT. 38--year-old Czech, was reunited with her refugee husband m West Germany yesterday after crawling on her hands and knees through Communist-strung barbed wire barriers on the EastWest frontier. She was found just inside the border on Tuesday night exhausted and m
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    70 MOSLEM LEADERS SEIZED IN MOSQUE
    195 3 70 MOSLEM LEADERS SEIZED IN MOSQUE pOLICE of French-backed Sultan Moulay Ben Arafa yesterday confined 70 Moslem scholars and religious leaders m an old school building m Rabat I Morocco i after taking them by force from the sanctuary of the Moulay Idriss Mosque m Fez. The 70 leaders had
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    Fire traps animals 200 hogs lost
    63 3 Fire traps animals 200 hogs lost FIRE ripped through the Montreal stockyards early yesterday as hundreds of fearcrazed animals vainly fought to escape from their blazing quarters. Unofficial estimates said about 200 hogs died m the blaze estimated to have caused nearly US$l,OOO,OOO (M 53,000-,-0001 damage. The fire destroyed a
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    The Singapore Free Press Opinion Penalties for crime
    378 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion Penalties for crime THURSDAY, Aug. 19. 1954. The observation by the Attorney General m the Legislative Council that attacks with acid have occurred far too often m Singapore is unfortunately true also of crimes of violence m general, as evidence amply shows. Recently three criminal
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    America cashes in on Australian oil
    671 4  -  BASIL ATKINSON British capital lags... but the dollars pour m By WHAT has happened to Britain m the search for oil m Australia? Why is she lagging behind the Americans? These are the questions Australians are asking as America pours millions of dollars into
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    ....and there ts also URANIUM
    413 4 ....and there ts also URANIUM AUSTRALIA, like the western U.S., is m the grip of an unprecedented fever of stock exchange gambling and speculation, on uranium shares as well as oil. The casino get-rich-quick atmosphere of the stock exchanges m Australian capital cities is without parallel m the lives of
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    Muslim sanctuary in S'pore
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    Know Your Singapore
    235 5 Know Your Singapore BISMILLA Walli Unanies (right) 80-year- old descendant of a Mus- lim holy man, features today m the Free Press "Know Your Singapore" series. i This venerable man E lives at the G_ mile Changi E Road where the tomb of E his great grandfather. Syed Mustapha. is
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    'Dealt in stolen goats' charge
    56 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. -V. Ramakrishnan, 20 was charged m the First Magistrate's Court here with assist ng !in the disposal of two stolen i goats valued at $64 on the night of March 24. He claimed trial and was allowed bail of $200 The case
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    Postal link off
    34 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs The Postmaster General, Malaya announced that due to I ul dislocation of mail semces between India and Portuguese India all postal services to Portuguese India are temporarily suspended.
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    Stamped 'Victory' stamps are the most prized
    103 5 NOT all the victory stamps issued by the Americans when they liberated the Philippines are rare, according to philatelists m Singapore. The rare ones are those with the word "Victory" stamped on. It was said that when the Americans occupied the island of
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    PASSENGERS ANGRY BECAUSE BUS STOP HAS BEEN REMOVED
    129 5 SINGAPORE'S bus users are angry over the removal >5 of the Traction Company request stop at Fullerton Road, opposite the General Post Office. Since its removal many passengers are now Jumping off when buses slow down or halt at the new pedestrian
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    Special gaoled
    18 5 SEGAMAT. Thurs. -A former special constable. Munlandy. 19. was sentenced to a month's gaol for desertion.
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    He promises no abuse
    63 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Party Negara's publication. Negara, will not be used as "a media for abuse of our political opponents" says the president, Dato Hamzah bin Abdullah, m a message m the first issue published yesterday "On the contrary, we will answer criticisms directed against the
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    Epidemic ends in Pahang
    33 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs The gastro-enteritis oumreak m South Pahang has almost subsided, says the Pahang Government. Since the outbreak In midJuly, 92 cases were treated. There were no deaths.
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    Trapped bear
    20 5 SEGAMAT. Thurs. -Charged with trapping a bear without authority, Ramarajah 40 and Muthusamy, 48, were fined $70 each.
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    A.S.P. ILL, TO FLY BACK FROM BRITAIN
    125 5 A.S.P. ILL, TO FLY BACK FROM BRITAIN MR W. T RODRIGUES, a Singapore Assistant Superintendent of Police, who went six weeks ago for a training course at Ryton on Dunsmore. England, is being flown back to the Colony on 'octors' advice. Mr. Rodrifue* will leave thi week. Mr. Rodriguez at
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    'Old Cliffordians' reunion
    39 5 KUALA KANGSAR. Thurs.— The Old Cllilordlans Association is holding a reunion dtnner at the school hall on Aug. 1 25 m honour of Captain B. 1 Preedy. the former principal, who |l leaving shortly for Britain.
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    8 take exam
    35 5 PENANG. Thurs. Eight Muslim students six boys from Penang and two from Province Wellesely sat for their entrance examination to the Malayan Islamic College yesterday. One Kedah candidate did not turn up.
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    A CHECK ON THE JOBLESS
    81 6 THE Israeli Government Win shortly conduct a widescale "screening" of its unemployed (now totalling around 10.000) m a bid to secure an "accurate reflect lon of the problem. Ma_.v Israelis consider that the official figures, based on registrations at labour exchanges, do not cover all
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      711 6 .i H I MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis STAR I s you at all- H I YOU h Ye rPat P° te ntialities B TARZAN by bdgar Rice Burroughs ft"JsLm_nj_s: I C_u.«m«pO BH^ irAii l/~ III M WW vt _^_^____X C^a_:g\G T-.?OjG« "m& POOR-vAY! fortunate days of the
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    THE PERILS OF CROSSING A ZEBRA
    301 7 Haxworth gives some advice The right way The wrong way ZEBBA crossings have been ia use m Singapore for u>t 40 monllis but both .„.(|e,trians and motorists re still very confused about j IOVV they should beused -This is the view of Traffic police
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      125 7 HEINZ V BABY FOODS are always yj and FlOUf^MlNGl< I I \i" /^J-mLJr foods scientifically pre- y j mum nutritive value. Their pure, fresh flavor makes them unusually appetizing, I I and they are strained to a fine, even tex* J V ture, so it's never any problem to get
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    HYMNS FROM PRISON TO GO ON THE AIR
    302 8 Link with womenfolk at home DARTMOOR pr i soners arc to broadcast hymns m a 8.8.C. programme designed to Jink men behind bars with their womenfolk at home. it uiJi be the first direct b.b.c. broadcast from a gaol, and if listeners
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    Cocked hat on 100-ft. spire
    61 8 11/ HO has lost i silk cockedff hat? asked the Rev Kenneth Williams, vicar of St Paul's Parkestone, Essex. The hat was se. n on top of the 100- foot church spire and WAI recovered by the vicar when the wind blew it down. I
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    'GHOST' PORT IS NOW REOPENED
    64 8 'GHOST' PORT IS NOW REOPENED RICHBOROUGH Port, Sandwick. which has been :losed since the end of the war, was reopened recently jy the Mayor of Sandwick, Councillor J.J. Thomas. The first- cargoes removed rom the port comprised potash dumped there m 1945 as )art of Germany's reparation oayment to the
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    COIN FIND
    18 8 Workmen excavating a road it Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, iave found a dozen silver sroats minted m 1530.
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    MUSIC CHANGES FOR GANG FIGHT
    52 8 Don Rendall's sextet hastily broke into the National Anthem at a Cheam, Surrey, jazz club when a gang fight started among the dancers and chairs and glasses were smashed. One youth was taken to hospital with a torn ear while others bathed their wounds m
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    HOUSE CHIEF CAN'T GET HOUSE
    124 8 IViR. Percy Mayes, chairman of the housing committee at Felixstowe, Suffolk, asked for a council house. The council said "No" and Mr. Maye s resigned. Mr. Mayes, a 49-year-old dairyman, has been on the council waiting list for four I years. He said: "We always
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    Model of school in the news
    132 8 ACLOtt-Uf of a model of the Kidbrooke School for Girls, Kidbrooke (Kent) the first of the London County Council's new comprehensive schools which opens m September. This huge building will provide accommodation for 2,000 girls. One special feature of this spacious, attractive school, built
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    Unhappy? Then see film of wedding
    213 8 IF a coupk married by the Rev. Albert Maber seriously disagree, he invites them to his home to see a film of their wedding. "By the time the film is halfway through the couple have forgotten their disagreement and are sitting holding hands, as
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    WHERE DO THEY WED IF NOT HERE? ASKS VICAR
    94 8 WHERE do the 30,000 parishioners of St. Anselm's Church, Belmont, Middlesex, get married? Searching through parish records the vicar, the Rev. Kenneth Toole -Mackson. has found that m its 13 years the number of marriages has never been more than 35
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    They seek 50,000 ready for new start
    290 8 They seek 50,000 ready for new start A TEAM of "immigration quiz-masters" is seeking 50,000 people prepared to start a new life m Australia. The Commonwealth wants those 50,000 m a year and has sent a team of expert.; to Britain to secure them. Six of the team have started
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    'LOWER THE BEDS'
    29 8 Lower beds for people with short legs was one of the replies when patients m Portsmouth group hospitals were asked for suggestions, the management committee revealed.
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    Reward for being cheerful
    188 8 BECAUSE she made the woman ln the next bed laugh so much, 23-year-old Lucy Moss and her fiance Peter Hunter will be married sooner. She was m St. Charles's Hospital. Ladbroke Grove. 1 North Kensington, with tuberculosis- the disease which 1 killed her parents five years
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    A sauce bottle began it
    142 9 A sauce bottle began it TT all started over a bottle of sauce on a seaside restaurant table. The sauce touched off an argument between a weight lifter 16 feet 3 inches and 15 stone) and a shoe salesman (5 feet 4 inches and 9 stone). And at Southend the
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    Vanishing round the corner
    40 9 Vanishing round the corner picture. J. Wood of Kinross, Scotland, comes of his Velocette and dives head first into the hedge while trying to round Church Corner during the "Temple 100" motor cycle race at Belfast. He was unhurt. A.P.
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    RECORDER CRITICISES POLICE CHIEF'S ORDER
    331 9 Doctor rule 'regrettable' rpHE Recorder of Hull recently asked the reason for 1 a police instruction that a man accused of being m charge of a car while under the influence of drink should not be told he could have his own doctor or solicitor
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    When are you too old to work?
    127 9 When are you too old to work? WHEN is a man too old to go on working? The directors of a Manchester firm whose average age is m the fifties say: "Never, if he is fit." Their 90-year-old chairman wants to retire, but the board will insist at its annual
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    Dog is spared to feed her two pups
    81 9 Dog is spared to feed her two pups rpwo puppies stand between -I Bess, a white bull terrier. and death. So that she can wean them tfkington, Derbyshire, magistrates have decided to postl'one the death sentence they passed on her. She was said to have bitten postman. Bess's owner 55-year-old
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    CRASH STOPS SAFETY SHOW
    50 9 SAFE driving demonstrations were cancelled at Ipswich after an accident. One of the tars taking part left the road. A nine-year- old boy was pinned against a wall, receiving a fractured leg and lacerations. A fortnight's display had been arranged. The whole programme was put off.
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    VICAR CALLS POLICE TO 'CUDDLE CORNER'
    159 9 'Hooligans m the churchyard' pOUCI have been asked to stamp out hooliganism by teen-agers m the churchyard and porch at Warniley (pop. 3,000), near Bristol. Boys and girls have been accused of kissing and cuddling and shouting there. The vicar, Prebendary Cyril Francis, said:
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    COUNCIL PUT A BAN ON FENCE MEANT FOR ROSES
    287 9 COUNCIL PUT A BAN ON FENCE MEANT FOR ROSES rpHE little rustic fence which 1 Mr. Tom Jeavons put up for his rambler roses may have to come down again on official orders. Mr. Jeavons, 42-year-old factory worker, of Willenhall, Staffs, fell m love with the brilliant red American Pillar
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    A MOTHER REMEMBERS
    58 9 Seventy-nine-old widowed pensioner Mrs. Elizabeth Brough has not used her radio for six years because she cannot afford the licence. But she decided she could afford to .send a donation of £2 10s. to a hospital at Pontefract, Yorkshire Why? Because her son was well cared for
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    Why the lorry man did not like hills
    166 9 THE driver of a lorry asked the way to Bexhill, East Sussex. "I've a 10-ton load and wish to avoid hills," he said. "I haven't any brakes." That evidence was given m court. E lorry had come down a t Hastings and
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    £7,000 FILMS TO SAVE LIVES
    62 9 To w^rn Britain about the mounting toll of road deaths 354 more last year than m 1952 the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has announced two nev. road safety films. They cost i' 7,000 and feature death* to children <786 m 1952; 797
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    WIVES 'CAN WRECK' EGG TRADE
    36 9 The hou.-ewile can wreck the poultry industry unless she buys eggs steadily through the year, an official of the East Midlands Centre of the National Agricultural Advisory Centre said at Derby.
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    15 10 tit get Marilyn Monroe tn exchange f.» old btorky it won't be a bad deal."
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    Why I fled to Red Berlin,
    1278 10  -  Dr. OTTO JOHN SEFTON DELMER by m an interview with NOT until he had crossed into Communist East Berlin and met leaders of the Soviet German Government did West Germany's M.1.5 chief, Dr. Otto John, really make up his mind to stay m the
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    An ex-Nazi blames the West
    126 10 An ex-Nazi blames the West rHE minister on wnom Dr. Otto John purportedly blamed his de** fection to the East has charged that the real fault lies m a weak security system that prevents West Germany from guarding itself against subversion. Uso behind the John case was trie West's failure
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    NEW DEAL WILL HIT VINEYARDS
    487 11 NE W DEAL WILL HIT VINEYARDS French newsletter by STEPHEN COULTER rWPERTS briefed to put J through MendesFrance's economic New Deal are preparing something like a revolution for French farmers and landsmen. They are out to swing the country trom the wasteful overproduction of some crops to others that can
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    TAN KAH KEE: No. 1 Overseas Chinese
    709 11  - TAN KAH KEE: No. 1 Overseas Chinese Robert Elegant Singapore's rag- to- riches capitalist leads the Communists m a bid f-r the allegiance of 10 million Chinese m South East Asia. by U.S. Correspondent m S.E. Asia AN 80-year-old multi- millionaire is one of the Chinese Reds' strongest weapons m
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    Hat makers open a new offensive
    496 12  - Hat makers open a new offensive DOROTH Y ROE by AMERICAN milliners, fighting the hatless trend that has appeared periodically over the last 20 years, hope they have pulled a winning number out of the hat this time. The newest hat tricks cover the head, hide the straggly end.s of
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    FOR 'SLOPPY' READ 'SMOOTH'
    439 12  -  LOUISE PETRIE Fashions for the young by YOUNG ideas m fashion get more pronounced and more precise each season. The stamp of their age has become so imprinted m the styles culled for their particular benefit, that few older folk would care to attempt wearing them.
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      318 12 Iq i i i I rp 1 I I I CLUES ACROSS: 6 If you keep yours on will you 1 Would be tissue if crab were be cool m temperament? (4). used <6 > 7 This has different meanings for 8 To fill with wonder sounds like the monk,
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    THE BAD RECORD OF A 'PEACEMAKER'
    473 13  -  Russell Spurr by FOR months Nehru, the Peacemaker, has been on the verge of war Indians threw a blockade round Portuguese India which would not be tolerated anywhere else m the world. They directed a scurrilous, State-inspired propaganda campaign against the rulers of Coa
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    GOA, 'the Rome of the East'
    337 13 HOMING from India, th( v rolling mountains, the palm- fringed, surfpounded beaches, the dense monsoon forests, and the green, mellow riceflelds of Goa seem exactly what they area peaceful island of contentment m a continent of frustration and despair. The recret lies, perhaps, m
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    Window on the World
    531 13 BY playing up stories of the dangers of German rearmament, by trotting out Dr. John to speak to a press conference m East Berlin m which he trounced the Nazis. Moscow are playing a clever but dangerous game. ll the Russian propaganda succeeded, two things can
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    32 13 (.re C ory Peck on a visit to v _i_ (ronf -arty Home for ™»tnerles.s Babies poses with babies and nurses. Peck is n "w starring m "The Mil"<>n Pound Note" (Pavilion).
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      THE SAD LESSON OF LARWOOD
      478 14  -  DONALD SEAMAN BACK IN AUSTRALIA By AS THE snowflakes settle thinly on Headingley ,this winter and scowling, black-haired Fred Trueman aches for the Yorkshire winter cricket school Uk open, he is certain to ask the question: What becomes of the England fast bowler m trouble?
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      German soccer success secret
      231 14  -  ARCHIE QUICK By FROM German Football Association becretary Lxeuig Xandry, of Frankfurt, comes a letter to me m which he expresses the view that the brand of football which won the World Cup so unexpectedly for Germany is a mixture of English and Hungarian styles He
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      WHAT DOES IT COST TO SWIM THE CHANNEL?
      652 14 WHAT DOES IT COST TO SWIM THE CHANNEL? WHAT does it cost a Channel swimmer? About £300 m all. hut most foreign competitors are sponsored. What do they get out of it apart from the prizes which range from £500 to £50? "Not so much, if you're British." says Sam
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      HOSPITAL SPORTS
      24 14 Annual sports of Woodbridge i lospital will be held on the hospital >laylng fields on August 22 between p.m. and 5 p.m.
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      PETERS IS REPLACED
      84 14 JIM PETERS, who collapsed m the Empire Games marathon, has withdrawn from the European championships at B-»rne on Aug. 25. His place m the British team is taken by Geoff Iden (Victoria Park Harriers), who was ninth m tlie Olympic marathon. The new Empire champion. Scotland's Joseph
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      A CLOSE FINISH
      47 14 The winner is on the right. Lieut. Kheifetz of Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot. took the 100 yards championship m the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps annual sports. She beat Pte. Osborne. The sports meeting: was held on the Queen Elizabeth Barracks ground Crookham, Hampshire.
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      Matthews calls for new policy
      245 14 Matthews calls for new policy ANKW football season looms, ana there is spirit of urgency abroad. The Football League .clUbs know that two vha! things must happen If the name ls to su p vlve— play must become more attractive to draw back the loet millioM-per -season customei h** standarl
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    ST. LEGER REHEARSAL
    368 15 By Thunder and Blue Sail win at York races FANCIED horses for the last of the seasons English classic races, the Saint Leger, were on view at York yesterday when By Thunder, owned by the South African Mr. Jack Gerber, and Blue Sail. Canadian-owned (by Max Bell
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    TIES CALLED OFF
    24 15 Singapore Badminton Association's Junior championship ties arranged to be played m the SBA. hall on Saturday and Sunday have been postponed.
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    3 GROUP! DECIDED
    473 15 LEAGUE AND CUP /•ROUPS C, D. and E of the Sml_;;f><>re Business Houses Lea.ne and Cup competition were dscidsd yesterday. Results and positions. Mrt ran tilt B 3 Hongkong B. 1 O.T.E.C 2 Fulo Bukom ■> ♦Shell Fraser &N, 'Postponed P W I) L F A Pts
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    WORLD MARK BY JAP SWIMMER
    49 15 Ifotosbi Kilmura. 16 -year-old high school swimmer, bettered the world's record m the 100* met re breast stroke last nijrht, covering the distance In 1 minute 10.6 sees. The existing record of 1: 11.2 was set by V Min.___i___r_ of Ri__.i_ m 1953. A.P.
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    PUZZLE OF A 5-0 VICTORY
    251 15  -  ARGOS THE LAST WORD -by UHIS 5; Sino-Indians 0. I'M STILL trying to figure it out. Were the U.M.S. tourists all that good, or was it the poor form of thp Sino-Indians that made them just look good? tilt* uaiw Whatever the reason U.M.S. were
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    51 16 fiolden (loud. a brown 5 ii*. _r_.iij.il mare, arrived m Singapore yesterday by the I "Z Nieuw Holland. By Newton z Wonder, who Is as>o the idre^ _E of Wonder (.old. (.old<*n C loud 9 will ra<«* m Malaya for Mrwi" B K. Y. lim and K. I.
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    Yorkshire all out for 113
    340 16 YORKSHIRE, hard pressed at the top of the County cricket list and anxious to gain maximum points for their last two championship games, lost all their wickets for 113 runs on a rainy day but made a heartening breach m the Hampshire ramparts by dismissing
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    GIANTS WIN 6-2
    31 16 New York Giants beat Philadelphia 6-2 m New York on Wednesday. Cleveland Indians scored their eighth straight win m the American League by beating Detroit 4-0 at Cleveland.
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      BIRTH
      19 16 HI Wordu $S (minimum). HADLEY— to Phyllis and Russell 18-8-54 a i Young berg Memorial i_._.ir.i._i r__u__hter. Lvnn.
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      20 16 20 Word* So (minimum) McDONALD -BENTLEY: B. Fran cts to Gwendoline Rosa on Saturday the 14th Aug. m Singapore.
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      DEATHS
      105 16 21 Words U (minimum). KANAGARATNAM (Jim) of Federal Dispensary passed away. Funeral 5 p.m. Today from 10-B Guan Chuan Street. Cremation at Bidadarl Crematorium. MR KHOO SOO WAN of Khoo Heng Pho Co., Ltd. on Thursday 19th August 1954. Funeral Same Day at 4 p.m. from General flos pital
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    1st DAY HORSES WIND UP TRAINING
    508 16 1st DAY HORSES WIND UP TRAINING Salvador 373/5; Grazie, Strong and Free, Caique 37 4 /5 Free Press Course Correspondent 1 VADOK, Grazie, Strong and Free and Caique all broke 38sec. for 3f. on a good galloping track at Kuala Lumpur this morning when most of Satur[l iv's probables were
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    COUNTY SCORES
    135 16 Close of play ..cores: At Chesterfield: Middlesex 32 for four v. Derbyshire. (Only two hours play possible before rain ended play for day). At Bournemouth: Yorkshire 113 (Cannings five for 43). Hampshire 23 for four. Start delayed by rain. At Manchester: Lancashire- Gloucestershire. No play, wicket flooded. At
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    Too rough for Soviet fans
    98 16 RUSSIAN League football this season has got so rough and dirty that the fans are complaining, says Soviet Sport, the country's leading sports paper. Arid not only are the players to blame, but the officials and referees too, because they fail to blow the whistle
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    Canada team totals 87
    242 16 PAKISTAN, who beat England m the fourth Test, had to struggle for first innings lead again.t Canada on a day of fluctuating fortunes at Lords yesterday. Canada, playing their most Important game of the tour, were sent ln to bat on a damp wicket and were
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    OLYMPIC CHAMP TOURS ORIENT
    56 16 America's Olympic champion diver. Sammy Lee, started a goodwill tour of India on Wednesday under the auspices of the U.S. State Department India is the first country on a tour taking him to Pakbtan. Burma, Ceylon, Indonesia and Japan before he returns home to Kore\ where
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    EAGER TO BEGIN
    39 16 Over 100 Soviet athletes, spor.s officials and journalists have arrived at Berne tor the European Athletic Championships from August 2. to 29. The Soviet delegation is the first to arrive of the 28 nations participating. A.P.
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    U.K. RUGBY LEAGUE
    19 16 Belle Vue Rangers 11 St. Helens 120 Castleford 4 Bradford Northern 8;' Widens 13 Whiteheaven 15
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