The Singapore Free Press, 21 August 1954

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. I ♦»ISI. Singapore, S«t. t Auff. 21, 1954. Price 15 Cts.
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    EXTRA POLICE GUARD FOR THE BIG TALKS
    119 1 POLICE guards were doubled last night outside the Foreign Ministry m Brussels, scene of the EuroiM»an Army conference, and the adjacent Parliament Uliriff. Anti-EDC leaflets had Wen found m various parts ,i the city. Police also reported last night that a group of
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    Round 1 in European army struggle lost
    156 1 ill PAUL HENRI SPAAK, Belgian chairman of the I" conference of six Foreign Ministers struggling ov^r the European Defence Community treaty, emerged from the room for a moment yesterday and said "There will be no solution tonight/ We shall continue work rather late
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    FAREWELL
    82 1 By the Peplers CW GEORGE PEPLER, town k j planning consultant to the Government, and Li<i v Pepler left this morning t >r London by air. Friends and officials, includ•"<4 Mr. P. H. Komlosy. chief of f l»»' diagnostic survey team. saw them off. Sir George said: "During my
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    NAVY JETS CRASH
    26 1 Two British naval jet fighters crashed off Malta yesterday. Killing both pilots. They are bell 'v»»d tn havp rnlliripri m the air. Reuter
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    RUBBER PRICE
    26 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened on quiet tone this morning >■ 1 September shipment. 88 7 cents a pound, one-eight cent i*4, w yesterday's close.
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    Hold-up by knife-boys
    29 1 JjjiOUß Chinese youths armea r with knives, yesterday held up a Chinese coffee-shop proprietor m Pekin Street, Singapore, and escaped with $140 cash and two watches.
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    Margaret is 24
    16 1 Princess Margaret, now on holiday at Balmoral Castle m Scotland, is 24 today.A.P.
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    WHY UNION OFFICIAL WAS SUSPENDED
    167 1 THE Deputy President of the Singapore City Council. Mr. R Middleton-Smith. this morn- ing said that Mr. Nathan. General Secretary of the City Council Electrical Workers Union, was suspended because he absented himself from work without permission on Monday and again on Tuesday afternoon. The
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    'LAST CHANCE' TO STOP REDS
    330 1 SEA TO is vital creation of a South-East Asian Treaty Organisation was probably the last opportunity to prepare a warning to an aggressor that he would be met by force m the area with the Mipport of the United States, the London Economist, an influential
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    50,000 flee the Delta FORT HERO STILL NOT FREED
    112 1 50,000 flee the Delta FORT HERO STILL NOT FREED NEARLY 00,000 people have fled the Red River delta .since the cease-fire on July 27 rather than accept Communist rule, the French High Command announced la Hanoi yesterday. A total of 49.730 soldiers and civilians abandoned their homes and were evacuated
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    COOK ROBBED
    36 1 Four masked Chinese armed with daggers last night entered the hoMBt of a Chinese cook employed at the 8.0.D. near the Kranjl Depot Wireless Station, Singapore and escaped with cash and jewellery totalling $245.
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    INDONESIA HAS PACT INTEREST
    69 1 —Ob economic aid INDONESIA, who has de--1 clined to attend the collective defence conference m the Philippines next month, will take part m the purely economic phase of such an organisation, Indonesian Ambassador, Mr. Notowidigdo said m Washington yesterday. He said Indonesia and other South-East Asian
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      7 1 lOTHER RACE SELECTIONS ON THE BACK PA6EI
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      72 1 Jill 111 M«"" (Win with Pendengar E ¥>ENDENGARS three r I Special Selections 'or Kuala Lumpur races today s are: SPECIAL NAP E Marshal Foch DOUBLE E Kempton, Pearly TREBLE Samroi? The Camel, Rakahanfa PerHlenjrar. who is ahow- ing a nice profit since he started ifivin? his three Special Selections,
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    Princess begins 'coming out' tour
    248 2 Princess begins 'coming out' tour PRINCESS Alexandra, will begin a "coming out tour when she and her mother, the Duchess of Kent fly to Canada today It was only early In June that the 19-year-old Princess carried out her first social engagement without her mother when she went to the
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    3 YUGOSLAVS ON TOUR RACE TO FREEDOM
    72 2 3 YUGOSLAVS ON TOUR RACE TO FREEDOM rnHREE Yugoslav youths X evaded fellow students m Nuernberg, Germany, on Thursday, and asked U.S. military police for political asylum from their homeland's Communist Government. They were part of a group of 40 Yugoslav students louring Germany. U.S. authorities said that as the
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    Govt. pay rise
    20 2 The U.B. Senate yesterday voted a 5 per cent pay rise for 2,000,000 Federal Government workers.- AP
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    SHOT DOWN OWN PLANE
    93 2 —And be stepped out unhurt A SWEDISH jet pilot shot down his own plane, but landed safely on Thursday. Sergeant Major Ewerth Hailing, on a training flight over the archipelago east of Stockholm, fired his guns against a target on a rocky Island during a diving
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    K.L.M. buys planes
    20 2 X.L.M. Royal Dutch Airlines has ordered three Super-Con-stellations from Lockheed Aircraft Corporation of the United States.— AP
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    'MISSING' SCIENTIST TURNS UP
    85 2 DR. Virginius Brown, 50--year-old scientist reported missing while en route fiom Florida to Cairo, turned up at the Atlanta (Georgia) police station yesterday and a«ked, "What's all the fuss about?" A dozen police had been •eaxching for Brown since his sister, Miss Emily Brown of Sparta,
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    KOREA MEN WILL AID BRITAIN BUILD A-ARMY
    275 2 KOREA MEN WILL AID BRITAIN BUILD A-ARMY New US weapons deal-Harding THE British Army is hoping to get America guided missiles for "experiment and trial poses,'* Field Marshal Sir John Harding, Chief of th Imperial General Staff, said at Camberley yesterd at the end of a three-day conference of Comiw.
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    56 2 picture. MR. AND MRS. N. SEGARAJASINGAM after their wedding m Kuala Lumpur. He is a pilot of Malayan Airways, Singapore. The bride is Leela, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Vasagam. Among the 1.000 guests were Lady MacGillivray, wife of the High Commissioner, and the Mintri Besar, Selanror.
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    Police mass to stop Indians marching
    160 2 IT was reported from Bombay yesterday that Indian police had been strongly reinforced on the border of the Portuguese territory of Div, m Saurashtra, to prevent Indian nationals marching. This follows the declared intention of Jaswant Mehta, Secretary of the Saurashtra Praja Socialists, to
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    Attlee gets bouquets in Mukden
    99 2 Attlee gets bouquets in Mukden rE British Labour party delegation, headed by former Prime Minister Mr. Attlee arrived yesterday m Mukden Manchurian industrial centre' Peking Radio announced The eight-member group flew from Peking and were met at Mukden by Chang Hsuehhsuan, vice-chairman of the Provincial Peoples Government, according to a
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    BIG ROUND-UP IN MOROCCO
    163 3 POLICE GAOL 7SO AS STRIKE IS CALLED FRENCH police have F thrown 750 Moroccans into gaol m the last 24 hours as Foreign Legionnaires and troops screened thousands In a show of strength on the first nmiversary of the deposition of Sultan Mohamed Ben Youssef. In
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    Last word
    39 3 The last word on the death of Emilie Dionne, one of the w>rld -famed Canadian quintuplets, was heard yesterday when a coroner's jury ruled she died accidentally of asphyxiation during an epileptic stroke on Aug. 6.— Reuter
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    Extra aid
    28 3 The United States is considering extra military and economic aid to South Korea to compensate for withdrawal of i >ur American divisions from the theatre.— Reuter
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    'Invite Bevan'
    42 3 The Christian Science Monitor yesterday hoped an official invitation to visit the United States would be sent to Mr. Clement Attlee and Mr. Aneurin Bevan, the British Labour leaders now m China, and that they would accept the invitation. Reuter
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    Burma complaint
    37 3 Burma has requested the United Nations General Assembly to take up a report on what has been done about her complaint that Nationalist Chinese irregulars refused to quit areas alone the Burma-Thai-Chinese border.— A. P.
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    POLICE GUARD ARMS IN I.R.A. RAID SCARE
    88 3 pOLICE squads were rushed to the barracks m 1 Hollywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, last >uht to foil an attempt to steal arms. Kspicious characters had seen near the barracks, c suard was turned out and the barracks were .searched Road blocks were
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    Red judge sent his wife to gaol
    116 3 Red judge sent his wife to gaol U f ;.ST Berlin police announ- red m Berlin yesterday have arrested an East m judge who fled the ••mnunist zone and applied •r asylum. They identified the fugitive Will! Bostelman, 47, "People's and prosecutor for the I se?en years at Grifswald. He
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    117 3 picture rpvVO British M.t.s yes- A terday visited the E E Chinese High School, Bukit Timah. In this pic- E ture taken at the school E E Mr. Percy Morris is m the E E centre and the Her. R. W. 3 Sorensen on the extreme rijrht. E Others from
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    Visit to 'front'
    22 3 Abdel Khaliq Hassuna. Se-cretary-General of the Afab League yesterday visited the armistice demarcation line m the Jerusalem district. A.P.
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    This bill is not popular
    57 3 Twenty -three Opposition Members yesterday walked out of the Burmese Lower House m protest against a government bill giving the police power to investigate and institute criminal proceedings m cases of defamation of public servants. The bill was paused In spit of the Opposition's claim
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    No peace talks
    22 3 The Egyptian Embassy In Damascus yesterday denied Syrian reports Egypt Is ready to begin peace negotiations with Israel. Reuter
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    Music festival
    23 3 Nearly £100,000 worth of tickets have been .sold for this year's Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama which opens tomorrow. Reuter
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    She swallowed tooth brush
    89 3 ran TOOK a toothbrush 1 out of Mrs. Jess,e lee l}l %:\^t, of Houston. I'/S said when she JfiJjJ at hospital with a ia she was brushing her teeth when two men m« m front of 'One m*n stabbed other" she arcd me so much 1
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    Police charge mob with clubs
    259 3 pREEK police yesterday turned ftre hoses on demonstrators trying to force their way to the British Embassy m Athens, after a mass meeting m Constitution Square for union of Cyprus with Greece. An estimated 100,000 surged through the streets. The police said 52 people were
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    The palace sentry gets a break
    136 3 The palace sentry gets a break RUCKINOHAM Palace seatries have changed the beat they have marched unchanged since Queen Victoria's day becau.se of postwar "mobbing by cameraconsclous tourists The lour grey- painted sentry boxe.s outside Queen Elizabeth's home have been moved nearer the two gates controlled by London policemen. Recently
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    WAY delegates go on picnic
    36 3 DELEGATES to the World Assembly of Youth In Singapore, will go on an outing to Bedok today. It is being organised by the Singapore branch of the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
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      Opinion Kill-joys confounded
      363 4 Opinion Kill-joys confounded rE kill- joys and the tonguewaggers have been confounded. The WAY ball revellers will not carry on drinking, dancing, and generally kicking over the traces until 5 a.m. The roistering, as the criers of "shameful!" would term it. will end at 2 a.m. mcl that, will say
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    Remote Corner of the Soviet Bloc
    1047 4  -  Geoffrey Winnington JHKJLKJK;;' By Orient Expresi to BULGARIA -by who tells the story of the unique journey of the first British journalist to break through the Iron Curtain to Bulgaria. No one except a few diplomats and members of goodwill missions has been into
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    By the S'pore WAY
    449 5 By the S 'pore WAY rtOMC gaucherie bumptiousness and over-rnthusiasm these .ire kindred qualities at 1 1 1 tinted traditionally to Youth, says WAY Presi- dent Guthrie Moir. Delegates thronging I tiie Barker Road G.H.Q. do nut lack them. The other night during I the Plenary Session a deI legate
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    BRAINS PLUS BEAUTY GIRLS
    104 5 WHAT about a beauty contest as a finale for the World Assembly of Youth? This is what several have asked at the WAY G.H.Q., at Barker Road. Beautiful girls are many among the delegates. At the garden party last Wednesday given by the Commissioner General, at
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    No rain tonight is hope of 40,000
    93 5 No rain tonight is hope of 40,000 WILL it rain In Singapore f? tonight? This is the Dig question for 40.000 people expected to attend th* 1 City Council open-air international concert for WAY delegates on the steps of City Hall. Said Mr. T M. Stevens. City Council Secretary yesterday:
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    GIRLS IN WHITE WILL WAIT ON 3,000 GUESTS AT PADANG DINNER
    226 5 GIRLS IN WHITE WILL WAIT ON 3,000 GUESTS AT PADANG DINNER jytORE than 300 suckling pigs— a "must" delicacy at every big Chinese dinner— are to be slaughterer for the $25,000 Tan Lark Sye banquet for 3,000 delegates to the World Assembly of Youth and oth^r guests on the Padang
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    Auxiliary firemen to get station
    82 5 MEMBERS of the Singapore Auxiliary Fire Service can soon use their own flre station for training. The Public Works Department has completed the two- storey flre station which will be officially opened early m October. The new building m Serangoon Road was built at a
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    No new phone directory this month
    128 5 No new phone directory this month SINGAPORE subscribers of the Oriental Telephone and Electric Company were surprised yesterday at the news that they will not get the August issue of the telephone directory. The publication of about 32.000 copies has been suspended because of the change-over to Government ownership of
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    Boy stole cheque
    52 5 Boy stole cheque IPOH, Sat. A 20-year-oL boy, ChonK Tze Wah, employed m a police lieutenants i mess at Jelapang. admitted In court that he had stolen a cheque for $159 belonging to, Lieut. A. 8. Jones. The case was postponed to I Aug. 27 for sentence. Chong wa.s allowed
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    He's accused of cheating
    60 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. R Krishnsusamy. 46, claimed trial m the First Magistrate's Court here to a charge of cheating. It was alleged that he told a i woman that he could get her husband out of Pudu Prison for $20. He was granted ball of $200
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    Ex-teacher kept games fees
    60 5 -COURT IS TOLD KUALA LUMPUR, Sat S. Kumarasamy, aged 38 a former schoolteacher of Loyala Institution. Santul. was charged here with criminal breach of trust He was alleged to have collected $184 m games fees from schoolboys and kept the money. Kumarasamy pleaded not guilty and
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    FASHION FOR GERMAN MALES
    68 6 T N FUTURE the pro 1 dressed German gen man will include cur;; umbrellas m Wa according to German fashion experts Fashion expert* v man prosperity nations return to minent position J n r .flairs demand thai males begin dressing a: style befitting German f-nce. 4,
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      218 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davif TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris I VA^C^^l^6^WE'ik» WOW STUPID CAN A SMART LAWYER I KtAKE ME TO A NEWSPAPER Now HOW DOE 6 ONE ADVERTISE POR ri^VAYID SHMti BB ?HE THOu6HT CONSULTED HIM^I OFFICE. I WANT TO PLACE
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      492 6 YOUR lucky! STAR gORN TODAY. natural leader and influence over others is x x strong. Your magneli, alily draws people to you but it is important that j«,,i Uvf this gift cautiously. Be sure that your ideals are kept high and that >„n r j originality is on a practical
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    INCOME TAX-HOW TO PAY
    381 7 Mr. Holloway gives straight-from-the -pocket hint A CHANCE FOR THOSE WITH NO WILL Free Press Reporter i IKE many a. Singapore J income-tax payer m irrears I decided yesterday to throw myself at the mercy of the BIG THIEF. I had heard he seldom turned B
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    Going home
    27 7 lOHORE BAHRU. Sat. —I I^ito <Dr.) H. C B Wallace, >tate Physician, and Datin Wallace, will sail for Britain *t the end of the month.
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    Roar of bulldozers worries residents
    135 7 An irate reader has sent the following letter to the Free Press: I AM sure the S.l.T.'s Queenstown project will eventually turn out to be a very laudable one. Howler, if things go on as lt| ey are now, a large num|»er of citizens will
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    Let call-up boys off in time for parades, employers asked
    275 7 THE National Service officer, Mr. A. C. Loggin, has asked employers to give time off to Singapore call-up youths so that they will not be late for parades. Mr. Loggin said every call-up youth had been given an official letter
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    Community hall
    34 7 KUANTAN. Sat.— A commu- nitv hall was opened by Mrs. P. S. Bolshaw, wife of District Officer, Kuantan, at Panelling Panchine is about 20 miles from Kuantan along the Kuuntan-Sungei Lembine road.
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    NEGRI TO FETE VISITORS
    94 7 NEGRI TO FETE VISITORS SEREMBAN, Sat. rFHE Negri Sembilan Youth 1 Council will hold an "International night" for the overseas delegates to the World Assembly of Youth who will visit Seremban between Aug. 30 and Sept. 1. The international night will be m the form of a subscription buffet-dance. at
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    HE LED 2,000 IN GOOD CAUSE
    75 7 HE LED 2,000 IN GOOD CAUSE Sergeant T. Magee (sec- ond from left) of Rase Sick Quarters, Mainten- •nice Base K.A.F., Seletar. has found more than 2,004) donors for the Singapore Blood Transfusion Ser- vice. Sgt. Magee who was re- centty awarded a silver medal for giving his blood ten
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    Number, please? It will be Quicker soon
    75 7 Number, please? It will be Quicker soon PENANG. Sat. TetanbOM calls between Butter worth and Penang will be speeded up In three months. Mr M. P. Mathew (Province Wellesley. Unofficial) was told m the Settlement Council yesterday. He had asked the Government to try to curtail the present delay experienced
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    Row over tropical fish that won prize
    197 8 Row over tropical fish that won prize SIXTEEN tropical fish have .started a row between Blackpool and ten-mile.s-away Fleet wood. The fish are beacon fisn one and a quarter inches long also called head-and-tail-liyht fish because they have fluorescent .strip-lighting above their eyes and just m front of their tails.
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    New envoy off to Siam
    46 8 picture. Mr. P. A. Menun. who had been Indian Ambassador to Belgium, leaves by air from Brussels en route to Bangkok to take up his new post as Ambassador to Siam. With him are his son. Goyind and daughter. Kalyani. A.P.
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    'I'M SHOCKED' CORONER TELLS THE DOCTOR
    289 8 'I'M SHOCKED' CORONER TELLS THE DOCTOR A FATHER said that a doctor who examined his unconscious son told him: "He is either leading you up the garden, or he is blind drunk." Two days later 25-year-old Dennis Jones died from pneumonia. He had been sent to hospital by a second
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    THEIR BIG BANG FIZZLED OUT
    64 8 Two boys of 13 and 12, who stole 18 sticks of gelignite from a quarry store, told police: "We hoped to make big bangs." They broke one stick and tried to light it but it "just fizzed." At Paignton, Devon, Juvenile Court the older boy
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    She changed buses 17 times in 300 miles
    333 8 She changed buses 1 7 times in 300 miles A 50-YEAR-OLD housewife who "grew tired of the kitchen" has made a wexkend see-how-far-I can go trip from Twickenham to Land's End— 3oo miles on ordinary buses, changing 17 times. It cost her €1 19s 6d. and took her from Saturday
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    THE BREAKFAST THAT BROKE KITCHEN UP
    84 8 DAY after day 17-year-old Kenneth Bray had bacon, fgn, and beans- for breakfast. He got fed up with it. I got fed up with it." he told magistrates at Rotherham, Yorkshire. So one day when he saw his mother preparing bacon, epgs, and beans
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    It wasn't magic how she got a carpet
    217 8 It wasn' t magic how she got a carpet rpHERE was something A strange, if not magical, about the carpet that arrived at a Richmond housewife's door True, it came m a quite ordinary way as a parcel delivered by British Railways. And the label bore her name and address
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    THE INNOCENT MAN THEY GAOLED MUST PAY £10
    390 8 THE INNOCENT MAN THEY GAOLED MUST PAY £10 I lONEL EDNEY has just served two months m pris, m for a crime he did not commit. His innocence was declared by an appeal court after Mr. Edney had come out of prison. 1 But, although he has cleared his name,
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    BOYS FIND £1,100 HOARD IN BOXES
    156 8 BOYS FIND £1,100 HOARD IN BOXES THREE schoolboys playing m a derelict farmhouse found more than £1,100 m a secret hiding place. The money m £5, £1 and 10s notes was folded into a black and red cash box and two coffee tins. The boys Ken Stanley, ape 13. Ronnie
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    TAX-DODGE MOTORISTS ARE OUTLAWED
    240 9 Converted cars are now liable rHE Customs Commissioners have outlawed thousands ot motorists and traders who are converting motor vehicles to avoid payment of purchase tax. From now these vehicles will nave to be built to fully specified conditions if they are to be free or
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    Letter faster than telegram
    238 9 Letter faster than telegram a LETTER was deliverA ed half an hour after it was posted, says the man who sent it. Says the fart Office: "Impossible." At this speed the letter travelled faster than a telegram. Mr. William Liversage says he posted the letter on the outskirts of Derby.
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    THEY LEARNED POLICE WERE ON THE JOB
    75 9 rpHE chairman, the vlce- chairman, the clerk, and two other members of Ongar. Essex, rural council were each lined £1 at Ongar for parking ofences. The offences: Leaving a vehicle m an unlawful posi tion; or parking without lights. Mr. Edward Green, the
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    They'll wed and part
    59 9 Keith Andrew. 24-year-old Northants wicketkeeper selected for the Australian tour, will marry 21-year-old Joyce Lancaster, of Chadderton. Lanes.on September 4 11 days before the England cricketers sail. The wedding, which was originally fixed for October 16, will be at Christ Church, Chad- derton. Joyce said: "We
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    MOTHER PAID BOY TO STEAL
    65 9 Every time a boy brought home a coat from school his mother 46-year-old Mrs. Sarah Robinson gave him half a crown. Belfast magistrates were told. Mrs. RoWnson, of Oreßonstreet, Belfast, was sent to gaol for three months for receiving three coats. She asked for nine
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    MASS ON PEAKS
    47 9 Parties of Roman Catholics climbed Ben Nevis (4,406 ft. i, Snowdon < 3,560 ft and Seafell Pike < 3 210 ft. i. the highest peaks m Scotland, Wales and England, and took part m special Masses to mark the feast of "Our Lady of the Snows
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    SHE DIED FOR LACK OF AID
    82 9 A letter m the current British Medical Journal, written by a London anaesthetist who saw a girl die after a surfbathing accident, suggests "appropriate" first-aid kits should be kept on or near surf-bathing beaches. The writer is Dr. C. Langton Hewer, of St. Bartholomew's
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    PIANIST REMEMBERED BY FAMOUS MUSICIAN
    91 9 CJIR ARNOLD BAX, Master of the Queens Musick. who died last October aged 69. left £11,935 (£1.627 net) m his will just published. He left all his literary assets copyrights and royalties from his compositions m trust to be shared equally between Miss Harriet Cohen.
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    TRIPLETS-ALL BOYS
    19 9 Triplets all boys have been born m hospital at Derby to Mrs. Marjoric Newbury. of Charlotte-street. Ukestoa.
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    DEATH FALL
    24 9 Painter Clifford Ford, aged 48. of Kemp-street. Brighton I'll 115 ft. to his death from Urn root of the Hotel MetropoJe, BrjjjhtoD.
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    A JUMP AT 500 m.p.h.
    70 9 aptain Edward Sperry •f the I'nited States Army Air Force, being ejected downward from a B-47 jet bomber flvin* at 500 m.p.h. at lu.ooo feet. He was testing a new auU>matic safety jumping de vice. The pilot pulls Mm* which fires his seat out of
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    FARMERS FIND WATER
    87 9 AS if farmers have had not enough rain, their union headquarters have now struck WATER It happened at Hyde Park Corner, where their new .sevenstony building Is uoing up. Workmen boring the holes for the 400 piles the building ncedl struck OOe of Ixmdons underground river.s, 35
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    Blitz time againamong greenhouses
    280 9 IjWERY time a plane passes over the 1.800 square feet A of glasshouses owned by Mr. Leslie Green it is just like it was m the blitz. The nurserymen leave their greenhouses and tak< cover. And there they stay until Mr. Green signals "all clear." Why?
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    Congratulations by Matron
    70 9 Congra t ula tion s by Matron Lieut. -Col. IL Cocking, matron of the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, congratulating three N.C.O.'s of the hospital on passing out as State Registered Nurses. They are (left to right) Cnl. Patricia Gibson, from Ireland, S Sgt. Rose Dobbs, of Redcar, Yorkshire, and Cpl.
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    MAGIC DUEL IN THE SKY
    782 10  - MA GIC DUEL IN THE SKY Today's Junior Contest is based on our short story. Read it. then send m your answers by KATHLEEN HICKLEY rE children watched the Fairy Queen disappear feeling that their last hopes had gone, then Ibrahim remembered she had said. "You promised not to use
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    It's a 'model' garden
    63 10 Averil Palmer, 15 (left) and her skater Janice. 10, are seen with two model* of steam-drive plough of a kind used 100 years ago which their father built. Formerly a model Tillage fllled the Palmer garden. Hundreds of sightseers flocked to admire it one of them
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    THE WINNERS
    60 10 fTIHE winners of last week's Y. contest are: Choi Pek Yoke (8). 8 Waterloo Street. Singapore 7. Elizabeth Sng (13). 29, Lorong 22. Geylans Road. Singapore 14. NeelakanLiu Jayapa (9). 55 Kampong Java Road, Singapore 8. Daniel Nathaniel (12). 14 Jalan Haron. Johore Bahru. The prize of $5
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    Town for sale
    75 10 THE first town ever to be offered for sale m Australia may be soon put on the market. It is the tiny model town of Eildon, eighty miles north of Melbourne, originally built to house 2.700 workers and their families during the building of the Eildon Dam
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      106 10 Junior Contest I I -AND THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST DO; I I EXPECT YOU are wondering, boys and j girls v how many shoes Ibrahim took from the dark room. Well let's see if you can work I out the problem yourselves. Just imagine that you are Ibrahim and
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      497 10 Saturday Page for Children Rupert and Niagara— 3 ify] ri fc-M Glad of a chance to help Gregory. "rHe certainly didn't go ou. mo Rupert scampers back to the the playground. I was at the door schoolroom and across to the far I should have seen him." All it corner.
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    MINISTER CURES BY FAITH
    725 11 MINISTER CURES BY FAITH Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, leading Methodist, treats illness with the aid of prayer and psychiatrists. rpHE Methodists have a way of choosing unusual men to lead them. Last year they elected as President Dr. Donald "Soapbox" Soper, the outdoor orator who criticised the Queen for racing and
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    The Curly-haired Darling of the Court
    605 11  - The Curly-haired Darling of the Court SYLVIA SHORT By Profile of a popular Princess BALMORAL CASTLE has been deluded with letters and parcels from all over the world, for delivery to the most powerful person m the British Court .'he mail was addressed to Princess Ann Elizabeth Alice Louise, who
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    GET OUT of that armchair -and GET YOUNG.
    722 12  - GET OUT of that armchair -and GET YOUNG. Chapman Pincher WHAT ARE YOUR CHANCES OF LIVING TO BE A HUNDRED? HERE IS A HEALTHY ANSWER BY EXPERTS by (conclusive proof that determination to Stay young will keep you young was put forward at a recent congress of 600 specialists m
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    44 12 picture. LION MEN OF OLD AFRICA. The ase-old ceremonial of Africa makes a colourful spectacle for the forward-look-ing: African^ of today, as these Sukumaland tribal dancers m full regalia, including lionskin headdresses, perform at the SukumaUnd Show and Trade Exhibition at Ngudu, Tanganyika.— Reuter
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    Suicides are sick in mind
    385 12 says THE SINGAPORE DOCTOR T*HE loud bang of the A revolver shot disturbed the silence of the night. Sleepy neighbours climbed out of their beds and shuffled along the corridor of the large tenement house to the door from where had come the shot. Silence
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      723 12 Bridge Quiz vyHEN you have made a one- out of trouble. But if he bids two over-one response to partner's no-trump, you should go to three, opening bid and his rebid is one (f) Pass. You are much too no-trump, you must be careful m weak to risk getting too
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    Strangest of all Film Fans
    479 13  - Strangest of all Film Fans HUBBARD KEAVY Italian voice 'doubles' are always writing to their Hollywood "originals 9 STRANGEST fan mail addressed to big names m Hollywood comes from their voice doubles m Italy. In 1953. the Italians dubbed 280 American pictures. There are voice doubles for every big star,
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    Some Italian beauties amid the rice
    228 13  - Some Italian beauties amid the rice IAN GRANT wa/ffjM wymffTrT n rFHE sight of rows and rows of Italian beauties stooping m toe riceflelds, their very short shorts and tight blouses showing off generouslyproportioned thighs and bosoms to the best advantage, is probably the memory of "BITTER RICE" (Cathay) that
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    'Million Pound' comedy
    75 13  -  JACK BEAUMONT r pHE MILLION POUND NOTE" now showing at the Pavilion is one of the best comedies to reach Singapore lot a long time. Gregory Pecx and lovely Jane Griffiths head a cast which includes veteran A. E. Matthews. Wilfred Hyde White. Ronald Squire and Joyce
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    A Danny Kaye 'winner'
    221 13 A Danny Kaye 'winner' KNOCK ON WOOD' proves now much luckier Danny Kaye is with his scriptwriters than Bob Hope for this is something Hope has never had; the film that exploits it's hero's comic talent to the full. It is also one of the funniest ever made. Somehow a
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    37 13 Danny Kaye m a scene from "Knock on Wood", his fun- niest film of recent y«*"» which is due at the Odeon cinema. Left Gregory Peck star of "The Million Pound Note" now at the Pavilion cinema.
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    Milo (gentle as a lamb) goes home to mother
    303 14 Milo (gentle as a lamb) goes home to mother rE new < trm-r i isn't «nr and the mother of Milo Malagoii very happy. But the jovial -tml of Tuscany has disappointed thousands of Italian fUnt fans who thought he would follow Primo Camera's nlorv path and bring the world's
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    One record that wasn't broken
    141 14 One record that wasn't broken ONE record that did not go by the board at the recent British Empire and Commonwealth games was the Attendance figures. Officials revealed yesterday that only 153.605 persons watched the events at 10 venues during the seven d*ys the games lasted. The swimming events at
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    SPOT THE SPORTSMAN
    36 14 I Can you recognise this local sportsman. He is disguised as a runner m the picture above, but has made his name m another branch of sport. (Answer at foot of column 4)
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    288 14  -  HENRY ROSE By IT'S incredible. It's colossal. It's amazing. It has to be seen to be believed ...and I have seen it. I am talking raving if you like about the effect the thrashing which England's team suffered on the Continent has had on
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    Channel race today
    75 14 UMVE women and 13 men will start a swimming race across the English Channel today from the French shore. Organisers said yesterday that weather prospects were favourable. The contestants, training on the English side of the Channel, were to be taken to Cap Griz Nez on the
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    Seixas and Trabert in U.S. semi-finals
    70 14 Seixas and Trabert in U.S. semi-finals Vie Seixa.s and Tony Trabert, dinners of the Davis Cup challenge doubles lasi year. scored with v workmanlike 6 2, t>-4. 6-4 quarterhnaU victory over Eddie Moylan of New Jersey and Bernie Bartzen of lexus, m the U.S. national doubles lennis tournament. In a
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    761 14  - 'England needs the football clown JACK FAIRBROTHER This is the story of ten Shackleton of Sunderland, the footballer who irritates some, delights others He's the most mi>understood man m Blu. I says his old team -mate of Newcastle days, lack Fairbrother. By 'Manager of Coventry city F.CJ MRS. MARJORIE SHACKLETON
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      9 14 Sportsman m Disguise SOLUTION: Ismail bin Marian, badminton star
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      82 14 3>shiSh r Dance music by DOMINGO RAQUIZA AND HIS BAND IN THE COOL ATMOSPHERE OF THE AIR-CONDITIONED HS& HOTEL Hn^W RESTAURANT M. Flirter S. Grinberg Diamonds Jewellery 67, Stamford Rd., (Eu Court BUg.,) S'pore,b\ Telephone 7923. While every endeavour Is mad« to publish classified advertisements on the dates request^ it
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    TULI TAKES A HIDING
    471 15 Filipino boxer stops him m 9 LEO ESPINOSA of the Philippines beat Jake Tuli of South Africa, the Empire Flyweight champion, on a technical knockout m the ninth round of their contest m Manila last night. The 10-round bout was billed as an eliminator for the
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    ALL THE RESULTS
    152 15 At Taunton: Northamptonshire beat Somerset by five wickets. Somerset 287 for nine declared and 147 for two declared (Lawrance not out 58.) Nothamptonshire 285, (Saeed five for 79) and 152 for five. At Dover: Kent beat Nottinghamshire by two wlckete. Nottinghamshire 231 and 166. Kent 164 and
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    61 15 Non-Benders Cricket ciud learn to play Police Sports Club at 215 pm. at Thomson Road on Saturrfjiv E v G. Day, J T. Rea, D. C. D'Cotta, P. D. Almeida, J W. Ewart, RVS Sundram. A. Baker, S. T. Stewart, Choor Singh, A. P. Rajah, G E.
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    9 15 Chicago Cubs beat Milwaukee Braves 3-1 yesterday.
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    68 15 I\ENMARK. TVffMlavftft, lUily and Turkey ad\anred to the semi-finals of the Coupe def Nations" play m the openinp day of the Istanbul international tennt? tournament yesterday Italy ww auarded a bye Based on the Davis Cup system, it involves two single* (iam» and one doubles. Result*:
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    U.K. soccer clubs depend on old stars today
    136 15 U.K. soccer clubs depend on old stars today "FOOTBALL fills the English sportIng stage today when the 92 League clubs line up for the start of a new, and possibly vital season. The First Division has an "as you were" look with new faces few and far between. Most clubs,
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    162 15 CARL "Bobo" Olson the world middleweight champion, f« h>b over the division limit of 160 lbs. at the official weigh-in for his world championship fiffht afminst Eocky Castellani. Castellan! weighed exactly 11 st. ft lbs. The Californian Athletic Commission nave Olson two hours m which to shed
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    447 15 THE English County cricket championship has resolved into a triple struggle between Yorkshire, Surrey and Derbyshire. Derbyshire and Middlesex have been unlucky because of the weather which cut their game at Chesterfield m the current series to only two hours on the first day. It
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      331 15 SOIGAPOH is ATSJAV —WM inoek M\KiiM LAIrIAY OPENS TODAY >VI ■BiMjV^ I ruilrr Films Prf-vf-nis sKXY silvan mancmno y^Vff/ KICET CA QIT I TONIGHT MIDNIGHT aWk rII\J M-G-HTs Trrhnirolor I>rama 11-1.45-4-6.3t-9 3» p 1 m_ AJ'SOIII MIDNIGHT TONIGHT STARRING ELIZABETH TAYLOR with RICARDO MONTALBAN V JIU IXI. m Technkolor IWli
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    SOUTH PACIFIC IS HORSE TO BACK
    333 16 All-star' race at X.L.today Free Press Course Correspondent COUTH PACIFIC may be the Spencer Stable's "selected" m the Class 3, Div. 1. :>!f sprint (Race Six), at Kuala Lumpur today. This three-year-old is In tip top shape and I take him to beat speedy
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    297 16 HALF MOON AND KUMAR I WENT BTYLIBHLY IN THEIR WORKOUTB ON THE TRAINING TRACK AT KUALA LUMPUR THIS MORNING. Half Moot, with Jackie Jones up, beat Bicardl m a rousing 3f. tryout m 37 2/5. Kumar outpaced T helm as Kuda (Sawyei; m a full out gallop over 3f
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    22 16 Yashii> Shirat, world flyweight champion, left Buenos Aires yesterday by *lr for New York on his way home to Tokyo.
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    80 16 IJOKIK expert* acknowledge I ..mi sine kl t>n. Sunderland and lUHMIIt England footballer, a* one of the greatest inside lefU tli.- game l» »-i known. Yet something is* wrong SeI'^uis pas* him by, some fans cheer him. others can't itUnd him. Why? He's* the man who says
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