The Singapore Free Press, 24 August 1954

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press j .infest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. it.»:.'i. Singapore, Tues.. \u$. »4. lf>."»4. Mm II Is.
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    Mr. France is glum about fate of EDO
    189 1 PREMIER Pierre Mendes-France returned to Paris yesterday to patch a government that was threatening split under the strain of disagreement! on rearming West Germany against the S >viet threat. He went first to a little Normandy j i to report to President
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    YOUNG WIFE ATTACKED BY NAKED MAN
    70 1 A YOUNG Singapore Chinese wife was attacked by a 1 naked man while she was working near idiog school m Dunearn Road yesterday. while •weeping intfi on a hillock lomeone grabbed her neck. She turned and MMT Tier attarker He was naked Hearing i^r
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    KIDNAPPED COUPLE WERE RUSSIANS
    42 1 TWE Soviet authorities m Vu*tina .said yesterday an Austrian man and woman reported to hav»* kidnapped by Soviet sol*'s were m fact members of 11 RttMten Occupation Forces. I'hey were said to have been u*ent without leave. Reuter
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    LAOS TRUCE TALKS DEADLOCK ON RED DEMANDS
    143 1 J^RENCH-Vietminh negotiations on the armistice In Laos have deadlocked over Communist insistence on big slices of Laotian territory, French sources m Saigon revealed yesterday. They said Colonel Dang Van Thinh, chiof Viotminh delegate on the mixed military commission for Lao.s, hurried north following
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    Queen stays indoors
    48 1 The cold which has confined Queen Elisabeth indoors at Balmoral, Scotland, wr\.s reported yesterday to be taking its normal course. The Duke of Edinburgh, joined his wife, who is on holiday at Balmoral Castle, after returning from a three ireefci tour of Canada. A P.
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    DATO SIR ONN
    45 1 A bulletin issued m Kuala Lumpur this morning said thai Datf) Sir Onn bin J;i'afar. Member for Home Affair.s, hud a comfortable ni^ht and that his progress was satisfactory Dato Onn was admitted to the hospital after i heart attack on Saturdiy
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    Cadets executed
    45 1 Guatemalan »ureei In M"x> c civ r<'P'>rt.»-d jresterd iv th i f several cadeti from the mill tary echool In Ou il m »i city were executed f> »r i tiring iquad ifl t i court mar tial convicted them »i rebel U.P
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    Attlee meets Mao today
    63 1 MR MAO TSE TUNG, the Chinese Communist Head of State, will receive Mr. Clement AtUee and all the other members of the visiting British Labour delegation today it was learned m Peking, it will be the first meeting between the supreme Chinese .statesman and any Western
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    PEKING: 'NO ONE CAN STOP US'
    55 1 P 'king Radio averted last ;.!it "the Formosa Strait can- hold up the advance' of a •I Chinese attack upon the tn&list usland stronghold. T\\-j broadcast, quoting an nrlml m the Wang Ming '"ii/, said a Red attack on PormoM could not be stopped
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    RUBBER PRICE
    28 1 'i*» Singapore Rubber IftfkCl 1 «n6d thin morning on an uncertain iMi first gradt, September pmenl it fiS". cents pound— liree-eighttu of cent below ye.ster--1 '»'■-> CIOM
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    THE $20,0001 PILOT
    70 1 THE $20,000 1 PILOT IjjMRST Singapore pilot to qualify for a commercial licence at Air Service Train ins; Ltd.. Hamnle, Southampton, Mr. Ong Tong Bee has now returned to the Colony. Pilot Ong. 28, went on a year's course which cost him 520.000. He was the best average student m
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    THEIR FIRST PLANE TRIP
    44 1 THK Emperor i"d Em*—* of Japan took their fir>t air trip yesterday m r eciftined transport pilot« 4 by An Anirrii-an Thrv Ijnidrd in Tuky<» af^r v«-ry smiHiih flight fri»rn S*pp«»rr on Hok kaido, Japan > ivn them mat-it uland A.P.
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    FREE VIETNAM IS CRUMBLING'
    162 1 Ours m 6 months Reds is tlie chaos m Init fhlna grows. startling reports smuggled through the fierce Vietnamese censorship say that the Communists are scorning the partition line and already preparing to gobble up the whole country. A report from Paris says that the free
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    Missing trawler is back
    153 1 rpHK Singapore flfbttftei D*--1 partment'a research ->hip Dunvegan, which had been reported mining, returned to the colony early this morning and berthed m the Teluk Ayer Basin And a surprised crew a-skf<l We don't understand all the fuss. Nothing happened to us. We were not overdue."
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    CO-OPERATIVE COLLEGE TO BE BUILT SOON
    231 2 CO-OPERATIVE COLLEGE TO BE BU ILT SOON Pay-from-profits plan by societies ACOLUGE to train StafapMC and Federation society oflicials m co•permtfon is to be opened m Morib, a coastal town m Selaiißor. This year's estimated expenditure on it is about 155,000. it la beintf partly financed from a Colonial Development
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    Royal children in happy mood
    36 2 pRINCE CHARLES and Princess Anne sit together on the low wall of the little Welsh House at Royal Lodge, Windsor. This is a new picture of the Royal children. Popper picture.
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    Nehru policy under fire in parliament
    76 2 rnHE Indian Prime Minister 1 Mr. Nehru yesterday evaded a flood of parliamentary questions concerning Government policy on Portuguese India by promising to make a "fairly full" foreign affairs .statement tomorrow. With parliament opening its summer-autumn session yesterday members from the Praja, Socialist and
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    Delegate threatens to leave forum
    190 2 ttR. PABLO PANLILIO. Filipino delegate to the World Assembly of Youth m Singapore, threatened ;o walk out of a forum last night when the chairman, Mr. Merlyn Rabot, of Ceylon, ruled that the question )f Japanese war reparations was not one of the 'problems facing
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    Peak conquered
    28 2 The Austro-German expedition m the Karakoram range ci the Himalayas was reported yesterday to have conquered an unnamed 23,900 fret peak m the Batura glaciers.- A.P.
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    Official visit
    17 2 King Hussein of Jordan arrived m Istanbul yesterday on a four day official visit. A.P
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    U.S. ARMY TO SPEND MORE OVERSEAS
    98 2 U.S. ARMY TO SPEND MORE OVERSEAS THE United States armed forces spent about $U. 5.250 million abroad last year, but will spend even more this year. the Department of Commerce reported m Washington yesterday. The Increase will result from stepped up spending m Western Europe. Largest recipient last year was
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    ONLY FLOTSAM FOUND AT SKYMASTER CRASH SPOT
    147 2 A ROYAL Dutch Airline IKI.M) Rkymaster crashed into the North Sea off the Dutch coast yesterday and all 12 passengers and nine crew members were feared to have perished. Flotsam was picked up by a pilot boat. 17 miles north west ol Ijmuiden.
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    Son for Princess
    28 2 A fion was born yesterday to Princess Ragnhild. 24, daughter of Norway's Crown Prince Olav and the wife of a ship owner. Mr Erling Lorentze
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    Request to U.N.
    28 2 Australia yesterday asked the General Assembly to consider the application of Laos and Cambodia for U.N. membership at the session opening on Sept. 21. A.P.
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    HOUSE FALL BURIED BOY BUT...
    48 2 SEVEN -YEAR -OLD Kenneth Avid, of Embleton Street, Liverpool, was buried on Sunday night when part of an empty house m Upper Parliament Street fell down. But on m nit taken to hospital he was found only to be suffering from bruises. Reuter
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    A-tests to speed food output
    128 2 A-tests to speed food output THE United States and Indlj besan collaborating on the peaceful application of t. mic energy yesterday to determine the productivity of different Indian soils, an Agricu Ministry source said In N»w D< lhi yesterday. The source said the successful conclusion of the o. ment would
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    AIR DASH TO U.S. TO SAVE BABY'S LIFE
    104 2 AIR DASH TO U.S. TO SAVE BABY'S LIFE A THREE-MONTH-OLD GrrA man baby girl left Munich by air for Boston, Massachusetts, last night to undergo a delicate brain operation—believed to be her only chance of survival. She is suffering from hydrocephalus, a rare brain disease, for which no cure is
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    WEST GERMANY FACES NATION-WIDE STRIKE
    96 3 ti'ESr Germany's 700.000 »t public transport and itiltty workers yesterday Frankfurt rejected a per cent compromise ,4;' increase. A nation- Ie strike vote was ih-ned if renewed .tuitions fail. The vote on the compromise .1 >ffer from the state and government was hHd union demands
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    U.S. USES LESS NEW RUBBER
    133 3 U.S. USES LESS NEW RUBBER IfNITED STATES consumpt- ion of new rubber totalled 7H.598 long tons m July, accorling to the Rubber Manufacturers Association. This compared with 111.143 tons m June. 01 the July total 37,627 tons »re natural and 40.971 synii.'tic. against 54,262 and 56,--■wi respectively m June. GRS
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    HIS CASE
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    American tour
    37 3 Premier Nehru's personal env>v. Mr. V. K. Krishna Menon. will visit South American countries t>.>fore he returns to New V ji k to lead the Indian dele>n to the United Nations Tal Assembly session. A.P.
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    Inventions bill
    29 3 President Eisenhower signed I oit| yesterday extending for nine months the right of nationali of Germany and Japan t«» apply for US patents an tKMiwiir inventions. U.P.
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    40 3 This claw-like cocktail cap by Madge Chard is new, chic and evidently much to the liking of the wearer, Helen Cordet, French stage, film and television star. The cap called "Midnight" is m velvet and eire (waxed) velvet. Reuter picture.
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    Visit to Libya
    27 3 Admiral Earl Mountbatten. Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces m the Mediterranean, sailed from Malta for Benghazi to call on Kirn? Idrii of Libya.- A.P.
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    Too few dentists
    28 3 The British Dental Association have asked the Minister of Health Mr. Lan MacLeod, to hold an urgent inquiry into Britain's acute shortage of dentists. Reuter
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    MAY HELP MANY WIN FREEDOM
    104 3 MAY HELP MANY WIN FREEDOM Fifteen international I<tWy rs yesterday heard rom 23-year-old Polish refugee ja°roslaw Dabdrowski on July 31 The lawyers, members of the International Common of Jurists, were eonilderini his eSS as a po.ssible basis or future legal aid to "Iron UTtheUnitld State. BrlUln and Europe. The heartoi
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    THEY DON'T LIKE RED LECTURES
    66 3 Vietminh efforts to indoc- trlnate the North Vietnamese m the Communist way of life i are backfiring, a top French uttlcial said m Hanoi yesterday. The Indo-Chinese do not like hours of lectures after a hard clay's work. the ofllcial added. As a result, the
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    Ballet girls salary row hits new show
    116 3 Ballet girls salary row hits new show BAM. I I damrrs with the intcrnation.tllv known Sadl«*rs WflU ompany voted last m 4li I t.» (Inn iikl morr money. Equity, the British a< tor, union, said the 30 dun pi > had rejected unanimously compromise offer by the lnaiußemciit and complaint.
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    HUNGRY, SHABBY UNDER REDS SAYS ACTRESS
    195 3 Hungarian, actreu Uona Massey took a congressional witness chair m Washington yesterday to tell of her experiences with her homeland's Communists. A tale of a "hungry, .shabby and dirty" post-World W.ir I childhood was told by Miss Massey a.s .she appeared before the HOUM
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    Axe killing
    16 3 A Moroccan terrorist yesterday killed a minor official with an axe near Casablanca. A.P.
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    The Singapore Free Press Opinion The cheaper house
    410 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion The cheaper house TUESDAY, Aug. 24. 1954. The announcement that Johore Government employees iria\ now buy houses with deposits a s low as 250 dollars, evidences the determination with which the housing problem is being tackled m the Federation. The announcement, too, is a reminder,
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    Hans Schmidt wants a Fair Deal
    939 4 Hans Schmidt wants a Fair Deal urniunu a 'hvart 9 stops beating.. His nine years hard labour have made money for his leaders and icon British markets, says Anthony retry. WEST GERMANY S smoking factory chimneys the ones that turn out the sleek, wellmade products that are stealing Britain's export
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    VITAL WEEK FACES YOUTH
    512 5  -  STEVE NEOH Action plans to take home by lITHAT can the Worl< Assembly of Youth What will be the tcome of its second inference In Singapore? ThLs week will tell, when the ults of the deliberations ►gin to take shape. Resolutions will be consij -red lor
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    New officials of co-op
    80 5 HATU GA.JAII, 'I Officials oi the Batu Gajah Government Bervanti 1 Co-ope- rative Thrift «i"<i Lo in Society are: President, District Officer, i Kinta; vice pre .1 lent, Chiel Assistant District Officer, Kinta; chairm m, Mr h.a Ponniah; ■ecretary, Mr I*« 1 lan ri.nn; treasurer, Mi
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    THEY'LL LOOK FOR GOLD IN THE 8th MOON
    134 5 Gold ornaments are still on fair demand m Singapore despite a general slackening m business. Goldsmiths attributed this to the still popular method Of investment among Chinese women, especially amahs, factory hand:, and building workers. Hnwi'Vi-r th»'v st:irwi to los«» slightly m
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    No permit: $300
    28 5 JOHORK BAHRU. lues Kuk Hong Klang was fined $300 m the Session.; Court, Pengeranf, for movinn doth wilhout a permit m the Tanjong Surat area.
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      218 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis W^ AND TFLL THEM YOU WERE MISTAKEN ■f T L K£ S J i|^^!^^^S^| -THAT I WASN'T WANDRAKEATAU" p~\ l^' TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs 1 m^r: 1..:■. :o_--x--. a- l THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris i* n^ ti wKi Vp^t on -^u>rr
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      583 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORM on this tir«.t i!a% the incoming si^ii. \m< you are ruled l>> Nerearj the god of kiM>Hl«<k«. though highly crili«,:l usually express yourselt m 4 practical, eonsti u» ti\c fathion rather than in the m«.«ti constant taiiKlimlinYou have been ghrra a l.iLh degree of wit and
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    MAJOR ROADS A HEADACHE FORR POLL AREA CHIEF
    249 7 Poser of unnumbered home, MAJOK roads m Singapore which puss through many districts niay be the pride of the city and .»u ice of pleasure to motorists, but not to Mr. K. Dov h- Registrar of Statistics, who has the job of
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    She didn't get girl an I-card
    47 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Asian binte Ha.ji Abdul Rah man, 31. was fined $20 hen for not registering and Setting an identity card iti her daughter Jamiah binti Sahan. who was more than 12 y^ars old on July 29 She pleaded guilty.
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    Hall opened
    30 7 MUAR. Tues. The Indian Association Gandhi Memorial Hall, Muar, has been officially opened. The building, which is at Jalan Sulaiman, was built at a cost of about $12,000.
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    Students appeal to Mrs. Pandit
    110 7 SINGAPORE Chinese Middle School students have sent a petition regarding National Service and vernacular studies to Mrs. Pandit, President of the United Nations General Assembly, who recently visited the Colony. The petition was sent to Mr. Pandit on the eve of her departure for Jakarta
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    FINAL PLANS FOR CULTURE CENTRE SET
    144 7 FINAL PLANS FOR CULTURE CENTRE SET PLANS for the building of the $*****0 cultural centre for adult education In Singapore have now been finalised, the Free Press was told yesterday. However it wa»s .still not derided when the construction would begin, a spokesman of the Council for Education said The
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    Widow gets five months
    53 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. L»w Mm a gviauw with a child i^td six was sentenced to five months' gaol by the Sessions ourt, Kota Tlnggl. for unlawful possession of elßht katis of s<rap rubber. She was found with the rubber on Mawal Estate hough sh« she did
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    400 re-affirm their faith
    49 7 KLANG. Tues. This town's I limest confirmation service was held yesterday when more than 400 Catholic children rom Klang and coastal dis- tricti re-affirmed their faith The Archbishop of Malacca, Mgir. M Olcomendy. conductt the service at the Church of 1 it Lady of Lourdes
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    Aeromodellers to compete
    49 7 THE SINGAPORE Aeromodeller\> Society will hold a free flight "power duration contest on Aus. 29. Permission is being sought to hold it at Selettf airfield The contest will be JU d S l 'd on the total motor run divided by the total duration oi flignt.
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    Found hanging
    21 7 TELUK ANSON. Tut*. An unemployed labourer, Ng Thye 60 wSs found hanging m a bathroom m Dmei Road here.
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    GOVT. MEN MAY GET FORTNIGHTLY PAY
    190 7 GOVT. MEN MAY GET FORTNIGHTLY PAY U'NGAPORE Governments 20,000 employees may soon fortnightly pay instead »i mcc a month. proposal for tortnightly p»y 1 1 iketa will be brought up at the inaugural meeting on 1 Friday of the Whitley Coun--1 the official negotiating. •ody representing Govern-; tnent tMiiployees. >ke.sman
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    PUTTING ON THE RING
    24 7 PUTTING ON THE RING Mr. Lan iurnbull John.ttone of Kuala l.umpur and Miss Mary Klixabeth Kamin. wlio were marrlrd at ihr Kuala Lumpur tor-tmlty^
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    WIFE TOOK CARE OF HIS CHILDREN
    507 8 She knew what was going on— Judge A WIFE who ivaa Bald to have continued to live m the house to which her husband had brought his secretary was refused a decree by Judge Geoffrey W. Wrangham at Leicester Divorce Court Lilian Dark of
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    THE SOLDIER WHO DIDN'T LIKE ORDERS
    86 8 WHEN anyone Rives me an order I feel j small." said a 20-year-old National Service man at j a Donnington, Shrop- j shire, court-martial. "The only way I can I conquer this is to refuse. It makes me feel I have won a battle
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    Town blacked out
    24 8 The port of Famagu.sta m Cyprus, was plunged into dark- nesi when an electricity transformer was wrecked. HftbotaP* 'lg feared. Reuter.
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    Oil output down
    23 8 Crude petroleum production m Saudi Arabia declined for the second straight month m July to average 951,525 barrels daily. AP
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    L-driver's tutor not to blame for crash
    133 8 L-driver's tutor not to blame for crash IF AN L-DRIVER makes a mistake and has an accident, can the accompanying experienced driver be held responsible? "That's a horrifying thought," declared a London magistrate. "I am sure it is not the law/ 1 Miss Rachelle Webber, a learner, had taken a
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    PILLAR-BOX SCARE
    44 8 When the door of a pillarbox outside the London Clinic, Devonshire-place. London, was found open it was at first thought that the contents had been collected by a bogus "mailvan." Later it was believed that a postman had forgotten to lock it.
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    Bar fights Air Ministry's 'meddling'
    248 8 Bar fights Air Ministry's 'meddling MR. LIONEL PARISH, 35--year-old landlord of a pub-within-an-airpnrt at Galv.nk, Surrey, .said that he would call the police if Air j Ministry workmen tried to replace a partition dividing hli bar. I'm fed up with being I messed about by civil servants; who think thcv
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    Crash plane hostess let 37 out by door
    166 8 Crash plane hostess let 37 out by door \N air hostess v a Iked through a rashing airliner telling patHgtffi: Please fasten ymir safetybelts. Keep your seats." Then she relumed to the galley near (be tail, sat down herself and waited. The plane, a twin-engin-ed Viking, hit the ground at
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    HERO FEARS CALL-UP DRILL SERGEANT
    200 8 HERO FEARS CALL-UP DRILL SERGEANT IEGIONNAIRE Bob DjfT. y. <* six-foot, 23-year-old Londoner who won the Croix de Guerre m a savase skirmish with the Reds m Indo-Chiiu. Ie thinkine twice about coming home when his five-year engagement ends m October. Because if he does, the Labour Ministry says, he
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    WIVES ALONE AT HOME MUST BE PROTECTED
    249 8 HOI'SEWIVES alone m their homes must be prolected from people who have free access to the houses by virtue of their work, said Mr. F. H. Cassels, deputy chairman at London Sessions. He gaoled tor nine months F)enni s O'Loughlin, aged 40. painter,
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    HOUSEKEEPER TOLD FIBS ABOUT HER EMPLOYER
    390 9 Admissions of widow, 60 a 60-YEAR-OLD widow admitted at Chatham /I Kent, that she told the police "one or two fibs' when she made allegations about a man who emuloveri her as housekeeper. X With the consent of the magistrates, two summonses brought against
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    GIRL DROWNS
    42 9 Three-year-old Patricia Ellis vaj drowned when she frll uto the River Thames from Rtein at Chelsea Embankment. London. Her four-year-old brother Anthony also fell m. but mana- ul to climb out. Both chil'•len lived at the Kinpsmead Dovehouse-stn< t Chelsea.
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    They never had quiet weekend
    253 9 IV E never had a quiet f week end." said a woman giving evidence at Manchester about the house next door. "We have been disturbed by cars com into the hou.se with men There have been fiuhts. Men and girls have been drunk and the
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    Smugglers send jewels in oil drums
    73 9 A FIVE-GALLON oil drum with a false bottom filled with imitation jewellery has b< en washed ashore near Formby. Lancashire. It was found by two beachcombing boys. They handed it to Customs officers, who suspect a new form of MBUgglinf. One said: "Drums could
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    HUSBAND LIVED ALONE UPSTAIRS
    142 9 WIFE deserted her husA t>and although they remained m the same house. That ruling was given at Newport Monmouthshire. Divorce Court. Judge Temple Morris said the husband. Mr Norman Hector Ellis, was told by his wife Betty: "You ran l«>«»k alter yourself m future. I am
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    Alfred the cabby goes on black list
    410 9 r PHE BIG question on the is-! I land of Sark was this: «M cabby Allred Baker Urunk on Aug. 13. —or wa.s he merely feeling unwell? J i wai early m the evening that 55-year-old Alfred call-' Hi at La Seigneurie, home
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    26 9 lto'boruii Kcrr ;i n d Van Johnson, stars of the new film "The (aine Mutiny, arriving: at a London cinema for the films premiere. Popp«r picture.
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    Greens set up society
    207 9 CUCH .i happy famil) an tnt Greens it would do grei t•,'randfather Charlej (>r(*r. lmxkl to gff the wav they are stukine together the.s»- days They rarely quarrel and the? help ca n h other out of dfTirulties. And to make sure they stay -»ne big
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    THIRSTY MAN INVENTS A ROBOT BARMAID
    205 9 ALLAN TAMPLIN, 50-year-old retired farmer, has invented a .silent barmaid I mechanical beer barrel which brings him beer, pours it out, and then returns to the kitchen. The idea came to him when he was .sitting m p deckchair m the garden and was
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    She woke up to find man beside her
    208 9 Its Harry from next d«M>r that u;i.v how Hurry OfOrft H.iiH-ock «ieM-r;f*d himself to i nei^hnonr *hen he WOke UP ♦m i v <>nr morning to find him be.sidf* her Now Harry from next ow r In .sent tb^rc l°r Uhm* yean
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    28 10 Marvellous thing football All the summer we ye been getting Cant take you and the children out today-its raining l!i r football season has just befttn m Britain).
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    Window on the World
    449 10 poLLOWiNG the recent Ernest Hemiimway air-crash special "SkyRescue" squadrons are to be formed m Central AFRICA. Ul over southern and northern Rhodesia cx -paratroopers are volunteering for mercy drops into jungle and bush With up-to-date knowledge of emergency medicine (most of tlie volunteers were trained m
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    Buby for Soraya?
    107 10 QVEKN SORAYA, of Persia, 22-year-old second H 0/ the Shah, is reported to be expect m q a baby her first. According to messages > from Teheran the birth iriti take place m February It null be an event of •nth- (ii/naJ ie sig n i Jn
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    'Deceney' campaigh bans jeans
    579 10 'Deceney' campaigh bans jeans Spanish girls must not wear 'immoral garments' worried Dy a grow- inu; tendency towards free and easy behaviour especially among youn^ people— a group of influential Spaniards (backed by the Catholic Church) has just launched a nation-wide campaign against "public immorality". This anti-immorality organisation has opened
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    NUTS SCHEME FLOPPED BUT....
    370 11 NUTS SCHEME FLOPPED BUT. ....IT CAVE TANGANYIKA A PORT, BUILT UP ECONOMY. rpHE final chapter is 1 beini^ written m thr world's biggest groundnut scheme. Probably m October, the East Afriv;m assets of the Overseas Food Corporation are expected to be tnken over by the Tanganyika Government, a British-run Nations
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    ANTI-RED ROCKET
    196 11 OVER 60 million anti-Com-munist leaflets, newspapers and booklets have been distributed among Red Army troop.s in Eastern Germany by Russians during the past yt ars. This is the record, just released, of the anti-Commu-nist Soviet Refugee Organisation and how the propaganda was distributed is a story m itself.
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    Sir John trails Diamond thieves
    652 11  -  Fred Zusy By THE diamond industry is matching wits today with leaders of a worldwide smuggling racket. Millions of dollars In £ems are involved. The industry guards so closely its secrets m the battle against the illicit traffic that they admit only to a "suspicion"
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    India enters the atom age
    557 12  - India enters the atom age T. VOHRA The Advance of Science m the East by \s In other countrii a (hick veil of secrecy [ndia's atomic energy programme as v/t'ii the mineral sources on which it is based. The only fact which cannot be hidden i.s that m Travancore (und
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      314 12 a^a^a^ar a^a^a^l a^a^a^l h i j I^^** as aßpajaj i 1 *I^H 9 la^H i 4 I 3 BBSS 8b HH^^ I I i I :^S S "^■■l kaWBaBI^ iLLI..N At KOS> t unu Kiid tattered! l 6) IMM may be .-.em to tins plan j Irascible to be^m with
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    Polio-stricken Star Returns
    598 13 Polio-stricken Star Returns But d*'«U)rs tapped hei pine ;iiid discovered .she had m.lio Then followed the ;«Af r!.i\vhlch w(<ui(i determine i M non !v the di »i < i <>uld -trike i i vat cared. v«'u m t i a.i admitted. "I was really scared a hen they thought I
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    588 13 Michael Ruddy tills you dll (i bout the stars fHATTED with YVILLIAM HOLDEN who has returned from a world tour and personal appearances. "I have a greater respect for Europeans now that I have seen what they are doing: and howhard they work. Their lives are much simpler
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    WAYNE: I LIKE BRUNETTES
    135 13 JOHN WAYNE'S justdivorced wife, Esperanza Baur, had the actor m court for months when she sued him after he sued her, and when she tried additionally to tfft either $500,000 or $1,800,000 from him m property. "It'll take me two years to pay the lawyers' bills
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    'PENG SOON CAN TEACH me'=Sonneville
    192 14 'PENG SOON CAN TEACH me'=Sonneville WONG PENG SOON, the ureate.st badminton player m the world, will play against Indoogtla'i Ferry Sonneville tomorrow night at the Sinnai»oie Badminton Hall. The Singapore Badminton Association is arranging a series ot exhibition uaiiies. This Peng Soon vor.su s Sonneville match U a long awaited
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    108 14 Outsider wins £2,000 French race Mrne. Daniel wildersteins Tribord, an outsider m the betting, won the 12,000 Prix de La Cote Norviande on Sunday over one and a quarter miles, upsetting the favourite Marcel Boussacs Jilly Cordova Second. Tribord won \ry a head from Cordova, which was taken out of
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    LET THE BATSMAN SEE THE BALL!
    807 14  - LET THE BATSMAN SEE THE BALL! I SPORTS AIM'S l A IO VIEWS FRO3J O VERSE Am \I \\Y things have happened m the world of cricket since that glorious day twelve months aft when I stood proudly on the balcony at The Oval to w.tvr response to the crowd,
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    BLIND MAN PLAYS GOOD GOLF
    754 14 because the ball is stationary." He telephoned Redford and a^ked for a lesson the next day Redfords day off. I .said no." says Redford. "but when I found out Gerry VM blind, I deoidea I fould mls.s a day off." For the next 10 week.s
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    Last game rough for tour team
    71 14 Last game rough for tour team THE British Rugby UaglM side was beaten 28-22 by i Newcastle (NSWi Coalfields team m the final game of their tour of Australia. Rough tactics and alleged indiscriminate kicking and tripping brought frequent cautions from the referee to players on both sides. The teams
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    Aussies win Canada Cup
    90 14 pETER THOMSON and Ken Nagle (Australia* won the Ca- I vr V Cup 72 h()le s interxiational stroke tournament m Montreal on Sunday. Their aggregate wa.s 556. The British open champion had 66 and Nagle 69 for I combined total of 135 for the final round.
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    Tonga invites rugby team
    121 14 THE Tonga n Parliament hopes an Australian Ru^bv Union team will play m Ton** this year. Mr. Justice Hunter. Chlel Justice of Tonga, has writ to the chairman of the management committee of N.S.W. Rugby Union, Mr R O. Martin, saying that the Kan Parliament is
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    EVERYTHING POINTS TO WIDE SCREEN
    1228 15 Ten Dollars is the danger By TRESPASSER \yiDE SCREEN was withdrawn on the course last Saturday and his stabiematc. South Pacific, won the race. Wide Screen runs tomorrow, second day of the Selangor Turf Club's August meeting, and as Mullev is down to ride him
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    42 15 picture. Ji.n Peters, hero of the tragic marathon .f/ 1^ F.mpirp fames m Vancouver, is welcomed by his wife and family plus a few hundred n««Khbours «n arr v nfc home to Havering Gardens, < hadwell Heath, llfora < Essex). Paul Popper
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    58 15 I>ROinBI,K Mrati hints for thr s< i irwi d.i\ the Selancor Turf luh August me* ting toinor ro« :»re: Irish Pat. China Town 11. Rubber Parker. Ku mar. alluna Star. Klame of the Forest 11. l,vcos. AllKood. Sitldena. Feature Film and Trow hill. Heavy rain fell yesterday and
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    287 15 ESSEX had no difficulty m mastering the understrength Pakistan attack at Southend yesterday and after passing tht tourists' total o! 241 for \ht loss ol four wickets they declared at 287 for seven. Then bad light stopped play for the day. 20 minute.s before the close
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    FAST RUNS ON HEAVY K.L TRACK
    164 16 FAST RUNS ON HEAVY K.L TRACK Preview has a smart workout Free Press Course Correspondent TIIKRK were some £ood workouts on a heavy track at Kuala Lumpur this morning. Matinee II (Mitchell) and Preview (Viney) raced over 3f. m 38 1 5, Preview a neck m front at the finish.
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    160 16 Ceylon threat in Malayan tennis meet Free Press Tennis Reporter HERE to compete m the Malayan Lawn Tennis Association championships at Kuala Lumpur on Friday are two Ceylon players who are s»oini» to make their presence felt. One of them is eighteen-year-old schoolboy Rupert Ferdinands, who yesterday out.shone Singapore champion
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    103 16 U. K. SOCCER RESULTS I NGI ISM II Mil I V I Aston Villa 1 Minderland |t!arkj»»<il I Roiton 5 h<*lv»a 1 Bui nlf y 0 Mi.-rti.-UJ \V«d I Manchester I I DfUM LEAGUI DIV II ItUrkhurn R I Wrst Ham I Plymoutli A. 1 Mvrrpool Vut Valr 1 Notts
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    51 16 lien>(lnn HP. will meet (fatlonai n P m t inendly natch oi four sin»;le.>, md three doubles at the Clerical Union Hall on Friday al 7 |itu. M HadaH. Baahim Haron, Nordln bin Awang Chik. Willie lay. I. mi Kirn Peox and Tan Loh See will roiirenent Merry
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    DROBNY IN FINAL
    29 16 J-ini-slHy Drobny. Wimbledon wlnDer, defeated Tony Vincent of the dotted Btatei »j 1. 6-3 yesterday m tl«*» >-*tni tinaLs of I tennis tournarnfiit it OrMsei < Italy >.
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    70 16 2» Winds $h i minimum). TO MR. Si MRS. L B. MCCARTHY on 18th August 1954 a Daughter. DAVIS— on August 21st at Pen^n4. be HtMen wife of John Davis, a Son TO MR AND MRS. A H. G. ABBINK OB 22nd August a Son, Jui Kooa at Singapore
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    48 16 20 Wurin S«' (minimum) KINTREX Passed Away Peacefully It Clachnaharrv Inverness on llet August. Isabel Kintrea. dearly beloved Mother of Jamie Kintrea. Ipoh. ARIHUR CHARLES PRIEST age f»I years. Electrical Engineer Tronoh Mines passed away at Bungaar I! t.MHtil 22nd August 1954 alter blioti illness. Deeply mourned.
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    164 16 MAY MISS THE TEST TOUR I\ENIS COMPTON. Eng'.andV mod nurrcanfiil Test batman his summer, may have to miss the VfCC tour of Australia during tl winter because of a recurrence of knee trouble. Hp will not travel with the res r of the MCC team to
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    406 16 SURREY FAVOURITES FOR THE COUNTY TITLE SURREY beat both Middlesex and the weather at Lord.s yesterday to emerge odds on favourite^ to win the English county cricket championship for the third successive year. They won by m innings and 19 runs with a day to spare. For most of the
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    40 16 U.K. Rugby league results: Bramley 4. Keitjhley 15; Featherstone Rovers 17. Widnes 6: Hull Kingston Rovers 13. York 5; Hunsiet 15. Doncaster 9; Leigh 19. Barrow 14: Liverpool 32. Black pool Boro 7; Whitehaven 7, WorkIngtoo 2. Reuter
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    18-YEAR-OLD IS A STAR
    63 16 pictures. Rupert Ferdinands. Ceylon schoolboy here to contest the Malayan tennis championships, yesterday outshone gingaoore singles champion Ons? Chew Bee m an exhibition •^♦<h. Ferdinad is Ceylon's second ranking pluyrr. This i* Bernard Pinto Ferdinands* 2ti-year-old teamm;i»<* He lays no claims to singles prowess, but will
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