The Singapore Free Press, 20 August 1954

Microfilm: NL2439
Total Pages: 24
1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    Masthead
    20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. N l |f 32. Singapore. Fri., Aug. 20. 1954. Price 13Cts
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    He spends week up a gum tree in the jungle
    247 1 uMliimi BY UNIVERSITY ZOOLOGIST IF his plans have gone well, a young American is itidav perched on a tall tree m the wilds of Pahang. His mission observing Malaya's wild animal life. And he hopes to return to Singapore after
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    SIT-DOWN STRIKE BY 700 SCHOOLGIRLS
    253 1 1 Protest over sacked Spore teacher 4 BOUT TOO students of Singapore's Chung Hwa A Girls High School m Bartley Road began a sitdown strike this morning over the sacking of a Chinese teacher of English. When the school bell went at 8 a^m all
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    DAGGER MEN ROB FAMILY
    54 1 THREE Chinese armed with daggers last night broke into a house at the 8» /2 mile, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, ordered a Chinese, his wife and two children into a room and escaped with $50 cash. One man stood guard as the other two ransacked the
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    Secret society men held by police
    34 1 Singapore police have detained six secret society men from Gangs 13 and 24 following information tnat the gangs were to stage a clash at Syed Alwi Road, Singapore.
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    $700 STOLEN
    29 1 A thief broke into a house m Hyderabad Road, Singapore, yesterday and stole $700 from a wooden box of an Indian while he was out at work.
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    RUBBER PRICE
    31 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened on an uncertain tone thLs mornlnK with first grade, September shipment, at 67 cents a pound, three-sixteenth* of a c«it below I yesterday's clo.s*\
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    COMMONWEALTH ARMY MAY QUIT KOREA TOO
    106 1 BRITAIN and her Commonwealth partners are consultine on the possible withSSS of some of their troops from Korea, the Ministry of DeTnce said m terday. Britain. Australia, N ew Zealand, and Canada maintain a division m the South Korean Garruson Government .sources laid M
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    FUTURE S'PORE by PEPLER
    326 1 Slums will go SINGAPORE'S Master Plan, which is almost ready, offers practical solutions to remove the slums, overcrowding and traffic congestion besides outlining a land policy, said Sir George I'epler, its chief architect. today. In an exclusive Interview with the Free Press. Sir George, town planning
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    JOHORE'S WHITE AREA No. 3
    126 1 rpHE Federation's fifteenth I "White Area" was declared this morning. The area, known as the Pontian "White Area," Is a 40- square mile strip on th' 1 west coast of Johore. Its population is 15,000. The majority of the people are Malay smallholders growing coconut
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    OFFICE 'BOMB' SCARE
    99 1 OFFICE 'BOMB' SCARE 4 BEOWM paper parcel with a menacing piece 01 win- protruding from iinr end was lound on a ground floor window of Fullerton limlding m Singapore yesterday afternoon Someone said it w is a home-made bomb, starting panic among lunchtime crowds. The manager of the (iovernment Publications
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    CRISIS' IF E.D.C TALKS FAIL: FRANCE
    272 2 CRISIS' IF E.D.C TALKS FAIL: FRANCE THE French Prime Minister Mr. Mendes-France, I yesterday offered to change any of his controversial amendments to the six-nation European Army treaty, if they could be shown to discriminate against West Germany. His hour-long speech at the opening session of talks m Brussels between
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    'US forces at China coast'
    138 2 'US forces at China coast' THE NEW China news agency reported last night that American naval and air forces "m close action with the remnant Chiang KaiShek forces, have intruded into the Chinese sea coast m the eastern part of the province of Cheklang", conducting armed provocation against the Chinese
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    He flew ocean in tiny plane
    87 2 pAPTAIN Bill Judd landed Vj yesterday at Orly Airfield Paris m the tiny Cessna plane m which he and his Swiss friend. Maurice Gilbert, flew the Atlantic. Judd and Gilbert left New York last Sunday, hopped to Greenland then Iceland and Scotland. They flew
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    Cut hits bases
    34 2 U S. plans to modernise and extend their air base facilities m Greenland and Iceland next year may be revised or abandoned m view of Congress' decision to cut appropriations. Reuter
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    LABOUR PARTY MISSION OFF TO MANCHURIA
    166 2 MR. Attlee and his seven! fellow Labour Party cie- legates dined at Peking's celebrated summer palace, former home of the Chinese Emperors, last night the eve of their departure by plane for Mukden. They will be among the first Westerners to penetrate into Manchuria
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    By the . S 'pore WAY
    180 2 By the S 'pore WAY FKKTTY Rowena Dirckze, schoolgirl delegate from Ceylon has just celebrated her 17th birthday. Kowcna is m fact believed to be the youngest of the WAY delegates. This is her first time "away from the island," and she is happy to be among "so many friendly
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    New Jap legation
    13 2 Japan has decided to open a legation m Israel. A.P.
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    DULLES MAY CALL AT JAPAN
    73 2 DULLES MAY CALL AT JAPAN THE U.S. Secretary of State Mr. John Foster Dulles may make a brief call at Japan on his way back nrxt month from a conference m the Philippines to weld an eight-nation South-East Asia defence alliance. The purpose apparently would be to reassure Japanese leaders
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    VICTIMS OF 'MURDER FOR FUN' GANG TELL OF TORTURES
    367 3 VICTIMS OF 'MURDER FOR FUN' GANG TELL OF TORTURES THE body of a Ne^ro was recovered from the East River of New York yesterday and police said they believed he was a torture victim of Brooklyn's youthful "murder for fun" gari£. They said the boys had confessed beating a Negro,
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    ZEBRA WITH AN IDEA
    69 3 ZEBRA WITH AN IDEA This Zebra and the -E road safety sign with ad- E vice for children are at E Glasgow Zoo. r The sign is a good idea. It could be adopted with S success elsewhere perhaps E even m Singapore where E indecision and confusion E reign
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    Decisive win at polls for Malan's party
    120 3 DH Daniel Malan's Nationalist Party won a decisive victory m South African provincial elections m the TransJWU, Cape province, and Orange Free State, results showed yesterday. As counting entered its final *ges it was announced the Nationalists had secured a return to power
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    New deputy
    23 3 Madame Sun Vat-sen. sister-in-law of President Chiang Kai-shek, has been elected a deputy to the Red National Coneress m Peking. A.P.
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    First mission
    22 3 Japan will send nine businessmen and government officials on its first official mission to Russia since World War 11.- A.P.
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    Mao's envoy
    17 3 Red China has appointed Lo Kuei-po ambassador to the Communist Vietminh government m Indo-China. A.P.
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    $2,285 MILLION That's the U.S. aid vote for S.E.-Asia
    80 3 $2,285 MILLION That's the U.S. aid vote for S.E.-Asia MILITARY and economic aid for South-East Asia approved by the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday m Washington for the year ending m mid-1955 was U*****.--000.000 M 52.285 million the biggest single vote passed. The total bill for the U.S. global aid
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    Bunche promoted
    32 3 Mr. Ralph J. Bunche. U.S. negro winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, yesterday was appointed under secretary m the UN. Secretariat, making him the top American m the Secretariat. A.P.
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    BRITAIN PAYS UP AND £ GETS BOOST
    135 3 BRITAIN PAYS UP AND GETS BOOST 1 HE INTERNATIONAL Mone- f try Fund m Washington yuiounced last night that itain was to repay her enure remaining debt, of U.S. ?u\ U lllion this month. m s will be the biggest single "•payment m the history of L Fund, it is
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    Fabled Troy aflame—on movie set
    119 3 Fabled Troy a f lam e— on movie set FMIUII) TROY was destroyrd again yesterday —m Kome —when flames blamed on a cigarette «wept across a two aero reproduction of the city erected for the Warner Brothers film "Helen of Troy." Damage was cMtimated it USSKiO.OOO. Only smoking ruins remained
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    Pardons for 417
    15 3 Pekine: yesterday announced the pardoning of 417 former Japanese military prisoners.— AP
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    HIT-AND-RUN CAR KILLS STAR'S MOTHER
    50 3 HIT-AND-RUN CAR KILLS STAR'S MOTHER A car that did not stop, struck and killed the mother of ftctren Jean Wallace m Los Angeles, last night. Police said Mrs. Mary Ingham, 50, a pedestrian*, was hurled nearly 60 fe<*t by the impact. Mis s Wallaces husband Ls actor Cornel Wilde. AP
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      151 3 SERVICE for the owner driver For the assistance and convenience of customers and to solve that "PARKING PROBLEM" Fitzpatrick's Syce "Talib/' is now on duty at Orchard Road daily < He will assist you to park or take away your car for parking and bring it back for you. The
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Aug. 20, 1954. The rule of the zebra
    407 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Aug. 20, 1954. The rule of the zebra Thanks to good fortune certainly not to good care traffic accidents at Singapore's zebra crossings and other pedestrian ways have been few and generally of a minor nature. But the threat of major accident persists, especially during
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    Japan on the Brink of Economic collapse
    729 4  - Japan on the Brink of Economic collapse Martin S. Hayden By IN the stately Japanese Embassy m Washington, v worried and beSptCtacled little economic attache Showed a reporter wh y Ja p a n suddenly haa become tin new weak spot m the free worlds Asiatic line against Communism. It
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    Mountains on the Ocean Floor
    336 4 A CURVING string of lofty mountains and canyons dropping as far as 1,000 feet have been found beneath the North Atlantic ocean. Towering up to two miles over the ocean floor, the peaks extend southward from the coast, of Newfoundland to are two miles high,
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      201 4 AVAIL YOURSELF of 20 years of experience m estate development by CREDIT FONCIER MEYER CHAMBERS 3rd FLOOR. (RAFFLES PLACE). FRANKEL ESTATE I OPERA ESTATE' FIRST CLASS NEWLY RECENTLY COMPLETED DEVELOPED ESTATE AT ESTATE Si MS CHANCI ROAD BETWEEN CHANCI b NFAR THF «A EAST COAST ROADS NEAR THE SEA {A
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      28 4 POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER i f ******* ft****** m ?m "Now rliis momiafi children, we're xoinf to learn all about the kindly old flute-player who liberated Silesia."
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    THEY CAME LATE BECAUSE GIRL DELEGATE WAS ILL
    78 5 THEY CAME LATE BECAUSE GIRL DELEGATE WAS ILL 'THREE delegates from Burma and Pakistan arrived a day and a half late for the World Youth Assembly m Singapore. Miss Meher Daruwala of Pakistan was ill. From the left are Miss Daisy Lim, of the Singa- Pore Youth Council. Miss I>aruwala,
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    They fight to lift purdah in Pakistan
    489 5 TWO Pakistani women emphasised m Singapore yesterday: "Let there be no misconception about us. The Pakistan woman of today is unlike her predecessor m purdah." They are Mrs. Anis Akbar Mirza and Mrs. Yusuf Jamal Husain, members of the 26--strong Pakistan delegation attending
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    NO NEED TO BE UNEASY ON SHIP'S SMOKES
    127 5 NO NEED TO BE UNEASY ON SHIP'S SMOKES OASSENGERS arriving In Singapore by sea can now walk past the Harbour Board gates with the tin of cigarettes they have bought on board the .ship without feeling embarrassed about a "for export only" label on the tin. The Customs Department has
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    Police, villagers fight fire
    36 5 IPOH Fri. Police and villagers yesterday afternoon helped to put out a house on fire m the Jalapang new village near Ip<>h. The fire started m the kitchen and it wa.s destroyed
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    In remembrance
    48 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Relatives of the late Mr. Santokh Sin»h Gill, a pilot officer m the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force who died m an air crash on Aug. 7, will attend a special remembrance service on Monday at 5 p.m. at the Peel Road Sikh Tempi*'
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    EXTENDED REGISTRATION PERIOD PLEASES INDIANS
    69 5 SINGAPORE Indians yestei day welcomed the Government announcement extend-; Kingdom and the Colonies by a month The closing dat*» W now lowering India House Ngto- tration fees from $7 75 to 65 cents. About 10.000 nationals of former Indian States are affected by the.se two
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    THEY WILL UNITE FOR POLLS
    117 5 THEY WILL UNITE FOR POLLS DELEGATES of the Singapore Labour and Socialist parti**; will meet tomorrow to mx final details of their plan for a united front to ftght council elections next year. It has been suggested that a flve-man committee be formed to conduct the campaign. Members of this
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    SUBMARINE COMFORTS
    83 6 IN AN effort to make the cramped quarters of submarine more habitable (and glamorous) the U.S. Nayv is to introduce several experimental "changes" m the U.S.S. Bergall, veteran oi World War 11. A "dinette" which doubles as a lounge is being installed m the crews quarters where the
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      248 6 fl i ....J» iMfctip? |S «>^fci ft vl w* r ft Broi MANDRAKF by Lee FaH< and Phil Davis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs ji/v Biesiv\ ruswep p■o(^v^AJ^D ami? buoc<ep a desperate spear /y"^ THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris I /a LEGAL WAY TO 6ET AWAY kVITH ,MjRPER' I MUST
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      485 6 YOUR LUCKY SIT All ]>OKN TODAY, you are so MJ fond vf activity that you ea silv become mentally and ph> sicallv depressed if you artdeprived of "something t,, do In youth. >ou are prohabh fond of outdoor sports and definitely need an outlet for your energies. As you grow
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    NEW RADIO STATION READY IN YEAR
    273 7 Link with overseas airports SINGAPORE'S new radio receiving sttaion now being built at t'ae 9\ milestone. Yio Chu Kang Road, should be ready for operation m about a year's time, Mr. J. C. Dallow, Director of Telecommunications said yesterday. The single-storey station will cost
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    CAGE BIRD SOCIETY FORMED
    105 7 THE Singapore Cage Bird Society was formed this week at a meeting convened by Mr. C. B. See. From the left m the picture above are Mr. Thomas White. Mr. J. B. English, secretary, Mr. See. Mr. M. C. 80/>. Deputy Superintendent of Police, who wa
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    Five-day fast was surprise to them
    239 7 A FIVE-DAY fast by a South Indian Muslim, Mr. M. M. I.shao below > to raise money for a proposed Muslim College m Klang came as a complete surprise to the college fund committee m Singapore. "We did not know anything about it till
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    PROTECT PADI MEN, RIDA SAYS
    185 7 rpHE Federation Government A has been told of the need lor setting up a Government- organised rural credit system to fight the "padi kuncha" evil and indebtedness among producers of every main cron and fishermen. This suggestion is made m the half-yearly report of the
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    A SOBBING GIRL GOES TO MOTHER
    291 8 After 10 years-a new life A HIVING 11 -year-old girl has been taken from the couple she has known for years as father and mother on the way to start a new life with her real mother. So ended a nine-month-long legal battle over
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    Unemployedbut he had £5 for fine
    146 8 THK National Assistance A Board are to investigate hem a 24-year-old man. v.ith a wife and four children, who has been out oi work for nine months, was able to produce £5 from his pocket to pay a fine. Raymond Kennedy, of Cumberland terrace,
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    HIS LAST CASE
    31 8 Detective-Inspector Reginald Bidgood. 48, Hove C.I.D. chief who directed the inquiries which resulted m William Sanchez de Pina Hepper being sentenced to death for murder, is to retire.
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    3D: NO REAL HARM
    28 8 Wide-screen and 3-D films may cause headaches by undue dazzle but are unlikely to cau.se the eyes real harm, says the British Medical Journal.
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    FAMILY ON OUTING COME BACK TO SEIZED HOME
    234 8 MRS. MARY FRANKLIN returned home from a day's outing by coach recently to find that the National ma.l Rnarri had seized her home. Her furniture had been removed by colliery workmen and i put m a garage. The doors and windows of
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    HIS GADGET WILL SAVE PETROL
    56 8 A petrol-saving gadget costing not more than a few shillings, which is claimed to increase mileage by more than 25 per cent, has been produced by Mr. Arthur Linney m his tiny workshop m Nelsons-yard. Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire, after nine months' work. He hopes to
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    SMOKES BILL UP
    38 8 Three million pounds more was spent m Britain on tobacco m the first quarter of the year than m January-March last year. This year's figure, revealed m the Monthly Digest of Statistics, was £198 million.
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    R.S.M.'s dog bites major's daughter
    176 8 rIE sergeant-major's do* bit the major's daughter and the sergeant major ended up on a charge. R.S.M. Frederick David John Austin, of the Ist Royal Dragoons, was accused at Carlisle County Magistrates' Court of owning a dangerous dog and not controlling it properly. The major's
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    Provoked-so bite was legal!
    164 8 Provoked -so bite was legal! DANNY is not a dangerous dog. but he has a long memory, the magistrates at Steyning. Sussex, decided. The four-year-old alsatian had attacked Stephen Sherwood. 12, of Southdown road, Shoreham, whose trousers seat was torn, and whose left thigh was "wounded." Stephen told the magistrates
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    'Mildred's most embarrassing moment' is town talk
    332 8 'Mildred's most embarrassing moment' is town talk EIGHT HUNDRED men and thirty women are still talking about "Mildreds most embarrassing moment." And Leeds police force (the 830) decided that 23-year-old Policewoman Mildred Mattison had dealt with it m the best way possible. Mildred's Moment was during a case at Leeds
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    No nudes warning starts hunt for chiffon
    124 8 No nudes warning starts hunt for chiffon BEFORE the touring show "Folies Parisiennes" could open m Wigan members of the company scoured the town for yards of chiffon after being told: "No nudes m Wi«an." Said Alderman John Holland, watch committee chairman: "Wigan people object to nudes. The watch committee
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    Miss Carnival on the beach
    32 8 picture Miss Carnival of 1954, 24-year-old Hideko Sato and runners-up parade before Japanese sunbathers on the beach at Kamakura. A heat-wave brought crowds to the beach. A.P.
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    IN THE DRINK
    24 8 A motor launch broke down while advertising a brand or soft drinks off Brighton. Shoreham lifeboat took off the twoman crew.
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    Haile Selassie home again
    41 9 photo. Just back from a tour of the United States, and visits to France, Yugoslavia, and Greece, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, and the Empress arrive for prayer m Trinity itlmlnl m his capital Addis Ababa.- A.P.
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    A BUSY MAN KEPT PHONE 'PRIVATE'
    125 9 A BUSY MAN KEPT PHONE 'PRIVATE' 4 MAN admitted at Guildhall, London, that he had removed the diaphragm from the tarpiece of a public telephone which he wished to reserve for his personal use. A police witness explained that m the absence of the missing part a caller would hf-ar
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    THE GUINEA PIG
    19 9 I'urinß 1953 there were 2,195.. experiments on living anigws, says a Home Office White i Paper.
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    GIRL TAKES L-DRIVING TEST ON TELEVISION
    368 9 GIRL TAKES L-DRIVING TEST ON TELEVISION She passed-then came protests JNDIGNANT motorists telephoned the BBC. within a few minutes of the end of a TV programme called ''Driving Test," which showed a young woman ■afcing her test under what seemed to be normal onditions. Raymond Baxter, TV commentator m the
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    Surprises soon in cars
    76 9 Surprises soon in cars I BRITISH motor manufacturers are planning to surprise the public with a number of new cars at the London Motor Show m October. The design and testing staffs of firms whose names are household words have been working on the new cars for more than two
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    59 9 picture Polish, Indian and Canadian members of the Control Commission for North Vietnam have arrived m Hanoi to begin the job of supervising the armistice. Picture shows the heads of the Control Group wearing leis presented by Indian residents of Hanoi. From left: Mr. R. M. MacDonnel of Canada: Mr.
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    Girl at a mirror then lightning...
    202 9 IGHTNING struck a house and spattered 18-year-*J old Violet Jones with molten lead as she sat with her fiance. Soon afterwards she was lying m hospital at Nottingham, m danger of losing her sight. \\Tl-.^n *1~ <1 1 1 wntrii me inunaer ana i
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    CAPTAIN CLIPPED MATE'S EARS OCCASIONALLY
    146 9 r PHE captain of a barge 1 denied that he had ever punched the mate. But, he "d. he occasionally clipped "is ears. The captain. Leslie Junn Foreman, is 21; the ffl <*te, Colin Payne, is 15. Foreman, whose home is m fn!! c nborou
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    Window on the World
    361 10 Window on the World 14 BUYING STRIKE i)v the BRITISH hoti Ife has caused i crisis m one ol AUStkallvs biggest primary Industries dried Since the British Ministry of Food decontrolled dried fruit Australian growers have been left with a £2.000.000 surplus on their hands. There Is unemployment m some
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    41 10 Kin*; I l.t.ik on of Norway walks through a troopHanked Amsterdam street with iluff it Juliana and Prince Bernhard. King llaakon. at 81 the world's oldest m«»r trch. was returning a state visit paid to Norway by the Dutch Koyal Family.
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    12 10 Amber, African lioness looks harmless enough as she iiuiniMii m London Zoo.
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    Protestants unite in world 'faith' festival
    466 10 Protestants unite in world 'faith festival ...but election of a Pope' is still years ahead, says John Sampson. AN important step toward uniting Protestant churches throughout the world was taken on Sunday when 1,500 representatives of 161 denominations paraded on to floodlit Soldier Field, Chicago. It was the opening of
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    Russia builds 'bridge of peace'
    181 10 come by the brotherly co- 1 operation of the Soviet bridge construction organization. S:iprikin did nor say who controls the bridge now. T*HE Danube river has been spanned by a bridge which links Russia's transport within a stone's throw of the Aegean sea. Just opened
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      80 10 i" m >v /v i\n,< >n P%JMI i^oSi >^t >/A MAS* >^ The weekly issue of the STRAITS BUDGET < tn »ent by Air Mail to any address m the United Kinsd<>'" *t an inclusive rate of $24.00 FOR SIX MONTHS If you want the "BUDGET" while on leave or
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      To Napoleon, Love was time wasted
      898 11 To Napoleon, Love was time wasted His letters were 'like orders scribbled m battle' rtATOUMHIi L£TTKRS. Translate and edited by J. M ThoiUf i I>«*nl. y \i OLEON'S letters are *V Napoleon. They are lls of li^ht upon a fascinating and powerful personality. They are .iy the outpourings Of a
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      Bertrand Russell tilts at Man's Morals
      457 11 Bertrand Russell tilts at Man 's Morals Human Society m Ethics and Politics by Bertram! RusS «H (Allen and Unwin). pOR the best part of 60 years Bertrand Arthur William Russell, like a v< nial but pessimistic school master, has been "nmdishing his cane near the coat-tails of mankind. He
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      Undersea hunt for treasure
      66 11 who lovrfl nobi/dy OV€T the ajje Of 14. Unfortunately Nancy Cunard writes more than hall Ol her book m the form of an imaginary letter to Itfl subject. An awkward and tedkMii convention. THE SPY WEB. By Kran< Noel -Baker. Batch worth. A proup Of true
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      284 11 Tin: GOLDEN FOOL, Viavid Divine, J. Murray IN THE vast upland plain nf tho Transvaal the people Ol the Great Trek Ihl p < d themselves into a nation When the Uo\tinmeut >ent a .surveyor to look for traces of uold on the land of farrrur
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      65 11 TREASURE DIVING HOI I DAYS. By Jane and Barney Crile, Collins. More underwater adventures: mostly m the Caribbean this time. An American surgeon and his family no hunting for treasure among the reefs and wrecks of the Florida Keys. Fun Ifl plentiful gold ingots are scarce. GRAND MAN By Nancy
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    495 12  -  DAVID PIPER Duchess of Kent's modest new house m London it a h AFTER all the talk about extravagance, the new house of the Duchess of Kent m Kensington Palace is, I can now tell you, a home of very modest size and style for
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    30 12 Autumn harlequin picture Three shades of felt give m a y and striking- harlequin effect to this autumn hat from London. The "ton knot" is an amusing- glass ball.- Reuter
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    261 12  - IT'S STILL A GREAT BIG SECRET Mary Hale by OARIS fashion spies are r trying to uncover the tightest secret of Dior's "flat look"— what kind of brassiere must longsuffering woman wear 1 Madame le Faucheur, listed as one of those responsible for "flattening" out his mannequins, denies that she
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    622 13  - TRAITOR G.L.S. END CHINA TOUR ROBERT S. ELEGANT By THE 22 United Nations Prisoners of War who refused to go home are enjoying a triumphal tour of Red China, acrording to Communist documents. But the honeymoon is almost over and the Red converts are facing the necessity for going to
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    363 13 A 'Hell' camp for U.S. airmen rpHE Fifth U.S. Air Fore A m Korea maintain a prison camp int< which it mercilessl throws personnel wh have committed n The airmen are fe< Asian food, hounds day and night by ques tioners and made gener ally miserable. The camp actually is
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    1492 14  -  CHRIS SCHENKEL Hell beat all I MEN who withe Olymhave P*cs (lt Hr! worked do- ,t „i a-,,, sety wrtAtti.s #> f*n* fmG// Jin 220 *4fc* /flri^- /i/52« 'h 'inter situ Jfw f'"a lU 1953 0/ Indiana *3m w. 071 thena c shmai
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    1177 15 SAMROIG IS A SAFE BET By TRESPASSER rrHE Class 3, Div. 1 race over 5± furlongs al Kuala Lumpur tomorrow, first day of the Selangor Turf Club's August meeting, looks to be one of the strongest on record. Most of the runners are either
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    PROBABLE SCRACHINGS
    70 15 I)KOB.\KLh scratching for the first day of the Selangor Turf (lab August meeting at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow arc: Peasant (iirl, Ten Dollars. River Moon 11. The CftM*. Soldena, Agreement, High Dawn. Bright Eyes 11. Sappoh. Twinkle Toes. Another Mew, Double Dividend and PinocThe going is likely to be
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    379 15 Pakistan beat Canada by an innings PAKISTAN beat Canada by an innings and 67 runs a day to spare m the unla] Tost at Lords yesterAfhr closing their first Innings ai 236 yesterday. Pakistan dismissed Canada m the second innings for rhe Pakistanis lost four wickets Inf 117 runs m
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    330 16 PAUL CHENG BEATS RICO'S CONQUEROR Sonny Chit KOs his me and loses Free Press Correspond cn 4 m Djakarta. DAUL CHENG of Sin 1 gapore, using hi^ height and reach to advantage, outpointed the lightweight and welterweight champion of Indonesia, Strong At Jong, m their ten round fight at Sourabaya.
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    57 16 r f 1 1li < Singapore Amateur Swimming AwMM-iation announced yesterday that an invitation i*» being; sent i<» Olympii diving champion Sammy I .<••• of the I'nited States to Rive an exhibition m Singapore next month. lee, currently on a, tour of the far Fast, is
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    37 16 Mr Donald Healey of Britain, driving one of his own modified Au.sUn Hfaley 100 sporU cars, yesterday broke the world record for a flying milt with a speed of 1909 m.p.h. it Utah Flats.
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    JAKE TULI FIGHTS IN MANILA TONIGHT
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    81 16 I3KRNAKD t olliere of France yesterday claimed a new I world record for barefoot jj waterski-ing. Standing on the surface on Lake (ieneva In his bare feet, he was towed for four minu- i tes and 49.2 seconds at I speed over 37 miles per hour.
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    83 16 Mr. F. Ellison I filly Precast, a 25 to one outsider won the Gimcrack Stakes for two-year-olds run over J six furlongs at York, yesterday. She beat Mr. Arthur Amans colt Summer Solstice by three lengths with Miss R. M. Pardon's colt Le Dieu Dor
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    132 16 OLSON, the world middleweight champion, is a four to :>ne on tavourite to beat Rocky CtMellani m their 15-round title bout m San Francisco tonight iMalavan time 930 a.m. Saturday i. 'I expect to beat CaMellani". the hampion said. "I have trained tiard and I have trained
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      9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday, August 20, 1954.
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      KING OF THE STUD NOW
      1112 1  -  FRANK ROGERS By A famous racehorse m his retirement becomes the centre of a controversy that still rages. rpHE mighty Tulyar was at home m his huge, airy box when I called on him I at the Irish National Stud, at Tully, Kildare m Ireland.
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