The Singapore Free Press, 26 August 1954

Microfilm: NL2439
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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. 11«! T. Singapore. Thurs., Au?. Zii, Iffl Prior 15 Cts.
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    Welcome and Farewell
    86 1 MR Attlee and his seven fellow Labour Party leaders last night ended their programme m Peking as guests of honour at an open air cocktail party given by Mr. Peng Chen, the Mayor. Mr. hou Kn-lai. the Prime Minister, was there. The mission leaves today bf air
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    VITAL US TALKS ON FORMOSA
    251 1 VITAL US TALKS ON FORMOSA f)P State and Defence Department officials In Washington are conducting high level discussions to decide whether United Uates protection of Formosa should be extended to a chain of islands lying close to the Red China mainland. Officials said yesterday the talks were prompted )y repeated
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    Sneak raid student was caught
    134 1 Sneak raid student was caught \N early-rising French dele;ate to the World Assem- i Youth conference m i pore yesterday caught a Chinese High School student pping copies of a memoranda into the rooms of the niversitv Hostel m Dunearn i The delegate demanded Ml ne md the student scribsome
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    Troopship home
    29 1 Tee days late through dell Malta with engine troutiio troopship Empire i-bed Liverpool yes--I*y from Hong Kont? and Middle East, with 1,100 men and their families Reuter
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    RUBBER PRICE
    21 1 1 Singapore Rubber Market 1 -ifidily this morning with < l«* September shipment, at »U I pound-half a cent close.
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    Hard task ahead for them
    174 1 FIELD Mar.shal Sir John Harding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, told 54 Army recruits at a passing out parade at Taunton, Somerset, yesterday: "Most of you will be going out to join the First Battalion Somerset Light Infantry m Malaya and take part m
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    PLANE TROUBLE STILL DOGS MRS. PANDIT
    128 1 OEOPLE who turned up at Singapore's Kalians, I Airport this morning to meet Madame Pandit. President or the United Nations General Assembly, on her way home from Jakarta went away disappointed. It was announced that the KLM Super Constellation m which she wo.s to
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    Bus tickets stolen
    42 1 The Green Bus CoflUpftO? ht» reported to the police the I mi Of $1,400 worth of tickets from its workshop m Bnkit Tiniuh Their numbers are known) and the company's inspectors bare been told to look out for them.
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    Mission to Burma
    14 1 A Blames* milii n v mlttkM k«. arrived ill KitU'JOa. U.P.
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    Tiger claws film star
    57 1 IpiLM actress Marilyn Maxwell was scratched about the leg by a 140-lb tiger m a swimming pool at Las Vegftl, Nevada, yesterday. The tiger appeared with her m a cabaret act at a Lm Vegai hotel After receiving first aid ihe said the tiger would no
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    Stabbed man found on roadside
    30 1 An Indian with >tab wounds m the chest wa.s found lying on the side of the Fort Canning Road last night. He is m hotpital.
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    Sir Alan off on Saturday
    42 1 SIR Alan Watt. Australian Commissioner m Malaya, will be deputy leader of the Australian delegation to the Philippines conference on September 6 on the South East Asia Treaty Organisation Sir Alan will leave Singapore on Saturday. J
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    Carrier sails
    28 2 Tlie Fin ch aircraft carrier Arromanche, i French Woreign Legionnaires home from [ndo-China, sailed foi France yesterday after a 24--hour .stop over m Manila Bay. A.P.
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    RUSSIA BECOMING A TOP SEA POWER
    443 2 Says Admiralty report |>I SSI A will probably have 500 submarines and 4.000 naval aircraft m two or three yeais time, a Hritish Admiralty appraisal of the growing strength of the Russian Navy said last night m London. By that time, it, U believed,
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    JET SABOTAGE DISCOVERED JUST IN TIME
    62 2 JET SABOTAGE DISCOVERED JUST IN TIME A BELGIAN Air Force Thunderjet was sabotaged at a military airfield near Dinant, South Belgium, yesterday by a piece of metal tube being stuck m the intake, police said. The sabotage was discovered before the plane took off. Two Belgian airmen from the base
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    New chief for the WRNS
    41 2 A NEW CHIEF of Britain's JX Worn on \s Royal N rival Service (WRNSj wu named Last night. She is Superintendent Nancy Margaret Robertson. She succeeds the present wrns director P^mp Mary Lloyd In December Reuter
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    How to beat Reds -by S'pore wife
    124 2 E. WEE, the wife of the Singapore Youth Council president, told the World Assembly of Youth last night: "The best answer to Communism is to tell the truth, because Communist propaganda is built on half-truths." She was speaking on resolutions put forward at
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    DE GAULLE JOINS IN ATTACK ON E.D.C.
    150 2 C'ENERAL De Oaulle will I Issue a solemn warning to France today against ii< nch ratification of the European Army m National Assembly debate opening on Saturday. The Right-wlnf leader's renewed attack against the European Defence Community follows the failure of Mr. Ifendea
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    Penalties for Reds
    24 2 People engaging In Communist activities m Guatemala are now subject to penalties ranging from a year m prison to death.- A.P.
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    Prisoners threaten hunger strike
    190 2 Prisoners threaten hunger strike THIRTEEN hundred French prisoners-of-war thr< ed to go on a hw In protect against ti faith of their Commui/i captors m not fn ein filter, returning Frond diers said m Hanoi y< day. Five hundred and twent] men wen turned ovei French authorities vesterdaj at Vietri,
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    TWO GIRLS 'UNDER SWAY OF EVIL'
    344 3 Diary Note OUR MAIN' IDEA FOR THE DAY IS MOIDER' rpWO New Zealand schoclI girls on trial lor ler at Christchurch, Tibed by a psychiatrist day as "helplessly the sway of evil.' 1 said to have written all the 10 commandnts and then tried
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    FOUR HELD AT QUEEN'S VISIT CHALLENGE COURT'S POWER
    68 3 1 YOUNG men y<- refused to i In Ne? i v Northern in 1 they were un.>n ol a a 1 ammunition, four, arrested on Augn i hours before the launch hip I at Belfast, were eir second :»i)i» il court. h
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    Delegates visit school
    64 3 Till Adult 1 duration enA tre at Singapore's (ian Kng Seng school m Anson Road had a surprise visit this week from a pirtv of WAY delegates Above, Miss M. Bauduin, French delegate meets thi" Centre's supervisor, Mr. David Soli. Top. Miss J. Waley of Britain (left>
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    80 million homeless in China flood
    188 3 80 million homeless in China flood A GALE punched holes m dyke defences, "critically H threatening" flood-besieged Wuhan m Central China on Sunday the Communists reported yesterday. Reports received m Taipeh yesterday said about 80, million Chinese were homeless as a result of the Yangtze, Huai and Yellow Rivers flooding
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    Beauty prize
    40 3 First prize m a beauty competition .shortly to be held on Canvey I.sland, Es.sex Is a pair of nylons every month for a year or a visit to the hairdressers every month for a similar period- Re uter
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    'COUNT ON US'
    40 3 Spanish Ambassador to U. S. Mr Jose Felix Do Dequerica, assured high state and Defence Department officials last night that the United States could count on the friendship of Spain which fully backed U.S. foreign policy. U.P.
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    Boat breaks down
    30 3 A Chine.se Nationalist navy patrol boat broke down off San Francisco's Golden uaie yesterday, but was picked up b y a U.S. naw tug without mishap. U.P.
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    Pilot baled out—but jet flew on
    89 3 Pilot baled out— but jet flew on ROYAL Air POrc< fighter, on t > of Britain'! ii h. [h priority iecrct leti roared v< i r about 50 miles E ulish country rtde terdav without :i pilot ;ib<> trd i then i! into tha i twtpt vini r developed troubU
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    THEY FLOUT DOUBLE-LINES
    331 5 It s an oltence, says traffic police chief rVKKY day m Singa ft pore motorists are breaking the traffic rule oi the Double White Line. Many don't even ;,now it is an offence to cr osg these lines; others do know and do it intentionally. The rule
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    By the S'pore WAY
    251 5 A FINE »esture! i Most grateful at G.H.Q., Barker Road, is charming Madeleine Trebou.s. WAY Forum assistant editor, who had her bracelet returned. She lost her "family heirloom" at the Esplanade Restaurant the other night. Waiters .searched the place. found it m a grass verge two
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      74 5 D€>pviulabutifi i A HvUtibiliiy are both essential factors m the case of packing; PERSONAL HOUSEHOLD i errc f TC tr Fill J for Shipment. 1 off run rnunt on us Exmmri Pmekmrm o/ munpj i/#»#ff-s* sinmlinfj. ESTIMATES GIVEN WITHOUT OBLIGATION Please Phone nr Call SINGAPORE PACKING CO.. LTD. 65, The
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    GOLD COAST 'WELCOMES FOREIGN INVESTMENTS'
    155 5 Gold Coast welcomes foreign investments to develop its natural reWAY delegate Mr. ph Amah Ayitiah, who enta the Prosbvterian People Guild of Accra, •tcrday. n incentive, the Gov- a ured foreign enthai there would be allsatlon move, he use m the constitution i them against
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    LUXURY SKYSCRAPER
    69 6 LUXURY SKYSCRAPER Madrid, already tb< I DOSB4 BSOr <' 1!'' er. is to liuvt anoth< «rr by lar than t) i in< ready m existence, th( building is being erected the Plaza dr Espana. As an innovation, foui the thirty floor! will b< wain with glass and will be us<
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      717 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis STATION 78 RFPOPT'f.G.SIR. I I THAT WASTHcJJ A/m<» --THAT'S ODD. MISTAKE? NON9ENSE/ HE N NO.SIR.IVE WERE MISTAKEN. REPORT, SIR. AND THEY WERE TRICKED THEM --OR BJ;BED THEM, i»c)RX TODAY x,,u are LCCKATITTH.sT^TSfwESURE IT WASN'T MANDRAKE .JV^/ WRONG MAN. J 5? BEPORE. 6^lol^ |15
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    THE LONG WAIT TO SEE GRANDMA ENDS IN VAIN
    297 7 B i Mr. Teo tried hard for visa yiilMi >Ir. Teo Yib Kwee of Singapore yearns to 1 see his aged grandmother for the first time m a little town m Indonesian Borneo. But yesterday it was all over. He lust
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    Welfare was topic at tea
    97 7 Welfare was topic at tea SO M E of Singapore's voluntary social welfare workers met Mrs. J. S. SiUerio, head of the School of Smial Work m the Philippine Women's I niversity at tea it the Ocean Park Hotel. They exchanged ideas on social welfare work. From left to riifht:
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    44 7 picture. Hie Sultan of Perak at a Chinese dinner last nisht at the < ipitol Ball Room, Singapore. On his left is the ronsort •f the Sultan of Pahanff, who was also nresent. Ihe nosis »tn Mr. and Mrs. D. Lam of Pahans.- Free Press
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    S'pore man tells of Vietnam crisis
    179 7 A SINGAPORE traveller who has Just returned from Indo-China said yesterday a "tense mood" still prevailed throughout South Vietnam despite the truce. The South Vietnamese were generally adopting a "come what may" attitude, he added. He said: "They are not sure what the future
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    Methodists get new church
    65 7 IPOH, Thurs The Methodist Mission's biggest Chinese church m the Federation, was dedicated by Bishop Raymond L. Archer after he had led a procession of nearly 30 Chinese, English and Tamil ministers into the $120,000 building m Jalan Yang Kalsom m Ipoh yesterday. The dedication ceremony
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    Party Negara
    28 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thur.s. Party Negara members living m Imbi Ward, Kuala Lumpur, will meet at 10 a.m. on Sunday at the party offices m Market Street.
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    New school registration
    70 7 PKNANG, Thurs. First stace of the new Kepala Batas Government English School m Province Welletlej is now completed. Registration for idmliiloni rn;iy be mmdc m person or by letter at PenftDl Education Office. Registration! will b»> accepted from children born m 1947 and IMB. but until the
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    Two bandits killed in border clash
    65 7 Two bandits killed in border clash KUALA LUMPUR, Thur.s. IN an ambush just over the Siameso-Kclantan border last week, a Federal Field Force platoon killed two terrorists, it was announced here ye.sierday. A sub-machlnegun, two magazines, a shotgun, a pistol and magazine, a grenade and 139 rounds of ammunition were
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    Goodbye makan for Haxworth
    50 7 Mr. W. R. M. Haxworth, retiring superintendent of the Singapore Traffic Police, is to be given a grand farewell Chinese "makan" by his men at the Wing Choon Yuen Restaurant, Great World, on Monday night. Mr. Haxworth is due to leave for England on September 1.
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    For Kota Bahru
    28 7 TANJONG MALIM Thurs. Messrs. A. Mahalingam, M. Palaniappan and Ben Lye Huat will leave today for Kota Bahru to join the Federal Teachers' Training College
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    S'PORE HAS 'WAR' MEDICAL PLAN
    213 7 SINGAPORE has a new Emerjency Medical Plan to cope th the eventuality of war 1 other major catastropW. E. Hutchinson, aaslst director of Medical Ser- < Civil Defence), said :^lly it was proposed to 12 casualty units with beds each together with [l J*t aid
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      110 7 si lJnp<i€*kvti FANCY LACE HANKIES and ARTIFICIAL FLOWER SETS A very big «clccfion of Fancy Lice Hmkics Combined with Arfifici.il Flowcrj m many *hadt* b ifylci They are exclusive m style and make .1 very .ifrr.ictive gift for ladies .md yet trur price i% very moderate ro suit all pockctt.
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    THE MAN WHO HAD A SECRET LOVE
    229 8 He wrote girl one letter— his last A MAN secretly m lov. with a pretty 20-year old typist wrote her on» letter— only one. It wa handed to her by th< coroner at Ipswich. James Stewart Pittendrigh 22-year-old driver, of Bedforc Street. Ipswich,
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    Queue for free ice-cream on the roadside
    62 8 /CHILDREN with handcarts V> children with buckets, anc others with basins, queued bj a roadside when an ice-crearr lorry overturned at Hockering Norfolk. The driver gave away th< best part of his seven-ton loac because it was melting m th< sun. And he
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    COUPLE MADE SUICIDE PACT
    66 8 A chemist and his girl assistant, who made a .suicide pact, were conditionally discharged by Whitby magistrates alter both promised it would not happen again. John Anthony Bayliss Dalley, 36, of Flowergate, Whitby. and Merriel Walker. 17, of Spring Vale, Whi^y, pleaded guilty to attempting suicide
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    L-man threw me over fence, woman tells court
    251 8 L-man threw me over fence, woman tells court A LEARNER motor-cyclist ran down a woman pedal cyclist, then went back to her, threw hvr over a barbed -wire fence and rained blows on her lac*, a Hampshire court was told The woman, 30-year-old Miss Gwyneth Griffiths, of Mudeford. Christchurch, said
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    Handymen's club
    34 8 One hundred old-age pensioners all retired employees of Crittall's Braintree, Essexare to have a "do-as-you-like factory" a white-walled, eight-roomed house, which is being converted into a club. I with workshops for handymen.
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    London's latest fashions
    117 8 THREE of the latest Lon don fashion house dress styles which have won much notice. LEFT: A new ball dress m rhododendron pink organza by Victor Stiebel at Jacqmar. has an immense fulness of skirt which waterfalls from the hips to give the Stream Line to the
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    NO CALL-UP FOR BIG GAME HUNTER
    124 8 NO CALL-UP FOR BIG GAME HUNTER pAIR-HAIRED Tony Parkinson, of Ladham, Norfolk. .is an apprentice big game hunter and so his call-up has been deferred, he says. At Chester Zoo looking at a rhinoceros he helped to catch m Buganda. he said he had been deferred for an unspecified time.
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    EXIT THROUGH GLASS WINDOW
    63 8 JOHN HUGHES, a 57-year-old telephone engineer, bought a sports jacket m a department store and then left through a plate-glass winj dow He is now m hospital iwith cuts. After buying the coat he turned to leave the building— m Liverpool and walked through a display
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    Drive past Red stop, said major
    130 8 THE major ordered "Keep going." So Army driver Keith Whittingham drove across a road junction, although the traffic lights were red. It was 2 a.m., but another car was crossing on the green. There was a collision. i And Major Edward Dalton Tacey, of
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    VILLAGE OF AGE
    52 8 They never die young at Gnosall (pop. 2,100 1, a village west of Stafford. And the men never give up work until they get really old. That's what the records .show, for living within a mile of the village church are 118 j people over 70 years
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    MOTHER DIDN'T TRUST DOCTORS: COURT STEPS IN TO SAVE BOY'S SIGHT
    223 8 A MOTHER refused to let her 14-year-old son have injections although warned that they were necessary to save him from blindness. She said she did not trust doctors after her husband's death. But her decision was challenged m court
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    The kitten stole this sticky lift
    108 8 A KITTEN about six weeks old was found perched on the engine of an express train when it i arrived at Perth, m Scotland, from Crewe 28b miles away. The kitten frightened and looking very, very miserable beneath a coating of thick oil had
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    SOLDIER DROVE AWAY BUS
    62 8 An 18-year-old soldier who drove a London bus away m- tended to crash it and commit I suicide, Hendon, Middlesex, magistrates were told. He did not do so because he j did not want to spoil "such wonderful machinery." The soldier, Kenneth Moody, i of the
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    WHERE IS SHE? POLICE CHIEF IS ASKED
    102 9 WHERE IS SHE? POLICE CHIEF IS ASKED Woman was m trash car 'pHERE was a woman m a car driven by 62-year-old I Colonel Horatio Rawlings, Chief Constable of Derby, when he came into collision with a lorry And counsel wanted to know: Where is she? Counsel was Mr. Brian
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    'NO EXCUSE TO LEAVE COURT'
    512 9 He added the chief const 39-> ear-old John Thomas M Derby on June 18. and told twi witnesses to go away. Furthermore the chief co piven to the police by Millingt was the prosecution's prime wi Then after giving his evid> out permission alleged Mr.
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    Birds on trial
    57 9 OYSTER catcher bird; which are ravaging cockle beds at Brancaster Norfolk, are being put "on trial" by the Ministry ol Agriculture. Brancaster fishermen complained that 3,000 oyster-cat-chers nesting on Scolt Head bird sanctuary are damaging 60 bushels of cockles a month and asked that they should be
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    Now every dog can keep slim, say vets
    246 9 Now every dog can keep slim, say vets A SLIMMING diet for overweight dogs, first tested on humans at a London hospital, is being prescribed by veterinary surgeon*. It consists of special rusks •'fortified with am mo adds] and calcium." The rusks are baked from wholemeal flour guaranteed "t re
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    WHITE WEDDINGS ARE FEWER IN BRITAIN
    198 9 WHITE weddings are breoinIm K'wer In Britain. Who says so? The man who should know the Registrar-General him.self. An analysis by his department, the first for 18 years, .shows that of every 1 .mo marriages In 1962, 3H> took placet m reftftry ollta In
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    Special royal pictures
    79 9 picture. fghg ABOVF: A special picture of Princess Alexandra, daughter of the Duchess of Kent, taken by Cecil Beaton, for her Canadian tour. Prinre\s Alexandra is wearing a white pique dress. Popper 1.1 II: This portrait of Princes^ Margaret and the Queen Mother was made m the
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    The cars are too shiny
    67 9 Police m Devon are being asked to put more patrols between Klngsbridge and Torcro.ss to check fast driving. "We don't want then m I nice shiny cars that can be 1 .spotted a long way ofT, .said Mr. R. W. Prowse, chairman of the Kingsbridge
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    Sweets no business of hers
    220 9 MRS. CHARLOTTE Johnson, a Blackpool landlady, will no longer sell sweets and chocolates to the boys and girls on holiday m her 17-bedroom private hotel. She has shut down a sweets kicxslc m her dining-room alter bosses of Blackpool^ sweet shops had objected to landladies
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    Drink is killing French
    359 10 It costs more lives than the Indo-China war. DRINK has killed more Frenchmen m the last seven years than the war m Indo- China. About 92,000 men— half of them from France died m the war. Over the same period excessive drinking wiped out more than
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    'Debs' thrown in pool
    134 10 'Debs' thrown in pool bathing costumes were Z thrown into the svHm- ming pool at a party E given by the mother of 17 -year -old CHRISTINA 2 Tfnfcer »J GILLESPIE I o< London a socialite party this week. Said rrd-haired Mrs. R D. GILLESPIE, widow of Air Commodore GilS
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    BULGARIA, LAND OF PARADOX
    767 10 BULGARIA, LAND OF PARADOX BULGARIA, the land of paradox: Bulgaria, the land of Through the Looking Glass, where right is left and the wrong way round is the right way to do it! PARADOX NO. 1 struck me with the impact of a head-on collision, bang m the middle of
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      74 10 5 The weekly issue of the STRAITS BUDGET can be sent by Air Mail to any address m the United Kingdom at an inclusive rate of C I $24.00 1 FOR SIX MONTHS 2 f If you want the "BUDGET" while on leave or wish to make an "Air subscription'
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    Germans are gluttons....
    435 11 THEIR WOMEN ARE INCREDIBLY FAT 1 ....ADMIT THE GERMANS. 11/EST GERMANS aie W eating and drinking ihemselves to an early death. This was the warning recently given at a conference of the North West German Society for internal medicine m Bremen. The conference, attended by 400 physicians
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    Is Peron plotting grab?
    260 11  - Is Peron plotting grab? JACK COMBEN Nazi-style visit to Paraguay ...crowds were too scared to cheer. DAREFOOTED Para- Kuayans watched fearfully as two dictators drove through the streets with arms raised m Nazi -style salutes, their car followed by goose -stepping troops and bands playing cheer-up marches. The watching crowds
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    Britain's new 762-m.p.h. Navy Fighter
    180 11  - Britain's new 762-m.p.h. Navy Fighter W. A. WATERTON By Air Reporter ANOTHER British fighter, the Navy's Supermarine 525, may be a supersonic plane. That is, a plane that can fly tester than sound faster than 762 milea an hour— in level flight. It will be flown at FarnborouEh Air Show
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      10 11 ARTIES HEADLINE nvkc "I never /or get my umbrella .l,
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      74 11 How did this happen? Most people km/ir hou a sailina ship got iri the bottle— but hon did N. D. Brookes of London put a uorkintj modrl of a lathe. With attendant inside thtt bottle? The neir mystery m punlinu thousands of iHsitors to the Model Engineer Kihilntion at the
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    Try this way to win new friends
    260 12  -  EILEEN ANDERSON by I DO not share the American passion for winning hordes of friends and influencing crowds of people. I believe that friends few and fond are better than acquaintances many and casual. But even so there is something to be said
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    Bridge Hand
    412 12 Bridge Hand Both sides vulnerable South dealer NORTH *7 6 3 <? Q i l« t 0 6 4 I It I I WEST BAST ♦AQB* 10 1 I VB4 4 2 0 J 10 9 6 <?93 QH? 0 X Q S T J 4 SOUTH X J $llf
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      41 12 ASK FOR KIF\A/ shoes with /YLlrlr/ DESIGN 96 A. \J /jT s ing .p«re $10.90 A.^*^ v/ 4 < my cushion Kderation $n /f VS^ SOFT of Malaya: »i-« /j OVTI if yy^ xißLf as vt* AND EXTREHELY 1 flcUc* i mi—
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      359 12 t T7~"nßßßJ«fflflfl7^~HiH Escape or an escape (3 4, J I f2 I |3 X B^ B 19 A mark f °i a marksman (6) 111 I I I L^H Not goods Us wise to receive MB ■■■■■TV (111 (6). I I A very hard stick for the old ■^^J——^^J steer
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    French 'All About Eve'
    75 13  -  Ian Grant They are so naughty —but so nice says VO ONE knows more about women than the French, and no one epitomises feminine foibles and virtues more beautifully than the French woman. So when a French director uses charming and vivacious trench screen stars to
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    6 13 Odile Versois m Paris with Guinness.
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    ALEC CUINNESS FINDS A PARIS IN LOVE
    376 13 ALEC CUINNESS FINDS A PARIS IN LOVE raincoats rpHE Rank film makers have gone to Paris with 30 million francs, their French phrase books and Alec Guinness —m search of the Englishman's private mirage Paris spelt Paree. They are looking for Gay Paree, Naughty Paree. The Paree of boulevards sparkling
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    STUDIOS DEFY 'SEX' CRITICS
    186 13 NEW 'SHOCKERS' ARE IN PROSPECT. PRESSURE by top produ■l eers to relax the morals code has been turned on again n°w stronger than ever. A few months ago, members of the Motion Picture, Producers Association (Johnston office) were forced to issue a statement that there would
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    Dateline, Hollywood...
    490 13  -  Sheilah Grahame By AVA GARDNER prefers Europe with or without Luis Dominguin. And this tfavelin' gal from North Carolina says she's off to Europe. GORDON MACRAE writes he had a hard time getting wife Sheila over the border to Mexico because she was born m Australia, and Mexico
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    Hi there, folks!
    44 14 picture Recognise the cheerful •mile? Yes. it's Freddie Mi IK I former world light-heavyweight boxing champion. Freddie I visited llarringay recently and was so enthralled by the stock car racinje that he derided to driv- a hot rod himself. Paul Popper
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    Hungary's Cup XI v. Scotland
    143 14  -  ROY PESKETT By TIUNGARY are to play Scotland's World Cup team at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on Wednesday. December 8 This was confirmed from Budapest sources yesterday. The visit to Scotland is one of a number of international matches forming the Hungarians' winter schedule. Among them
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    England's soccer comeback plan
    287 14  -  DESMOND HACKETT By THE Football Association puts itself on the penitents' bench well, almost when talking world Soccer affairs m the latest edition of the informative "Foot1 ball Association Bulletin." It Ls as frank a confession as these silent men of Soccer have made since we
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    SWIFTS SPORTS ON SEPT. 25
    91 14 tfWIFr A. A. third annual sports will be held on September 25 at Victoria School at 2.30 p.m Entries to the Hon. Secretary, 215 Dorset Road, before September 4. Events are: MEN: 100 yds. 220 yds 440 yds 880 yds 1 Mile, 3 Miles, Long
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    The transfer market doesn't pay
    161 14 The transfer market doesn't pay J^H I- footballer for £30,000 and it m equivalent to giv- i Ing him a free transfer. Such is the economic!* of present day sport Who says so? Mr. Frank (Kborne. Managing Director or I iilli.nn K.C. himself an Knglish International and one «>t the
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    HASSETT NAMES HIS TEST XI
    78 14 I INDSAY H.is.cit, funner Aas- J i Mil 11 '1*..!I i ipt.iin yesterday tie Australian team which he VOUkI like chosen to meet En •-■hind. Hi i holce: a v if mil < capt nm, c- c Mciioii ild, k. R. Miller, N. Hanrtjf, J.
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    DON COCKELL IS BEING SIDETRACKED
    511 14 DON COCKELL IS BEING SIDETRACKED They're talking of Moore v. Marciano Says GEORGE WHITING OUR American friends, I see, are once again doubling backwards from the suggestion that Britain's Don Cockell is the logical contender for the world heavyweight championship, a milliondollar bauble being defended by Rocky Marciano against Ezzard
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    HOW THEY RAN AT K.L.
    122 15 This victory of Canton sin the opening race (Cl. 4. Div. 4— abt 7f) at Kuala Lumpur yesterday paid Tote dividends of $77 for a win and $17 place, the highest of the day. Mr. C. K. Ch'ng and Mdm C. T. Goh's horse, ridden
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    4-length winner
    65 15 gfhfgh Us that man Bougoure again, all smiles as .he rides Gem Beau to the winner's enclosure. And there's ffAJm^ZhS, that smile too. Bougoure had the easiest win of the day W in <iem Beau cantered home a R thmnner 01 n Three (CI. 4, Div. 3— sJf),
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    CLOSE FIELD IN TORONTO GOLF
    48 15 Only two strokes separated the nrst seven leaders m the $26,500 Labatts open golf tournament m Toronto after a par shattering flrtt them was rorakichi I NalSa of Japan who £ot as* under p* r a^ b q iu%m I I Course.- Reuter
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    Cash Cheque can bring in the money
    354 15 Cash Cheque can bring in the money Free Press Course Correspondent. CASH Cheque (late Star Vote) may well develop into a tin too performer like his half brother Gambar Melayu. This three-year-old by Oorea'ts out of Plebicite put up a delightfully smooth performance to outsmart a useful Class 4 Dlv.
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    PROMOTED TEAM BEATS ARSENAL
    294 16 PROMOTED TEAM BEATS ARSENAL f«OALS were plentiful m a large f UK. Wem* League programme y»v,i» -relay, notably m the First and SfH-ond Divisions where a total of 13 games averaged just over lour Ro.th a f*ame. Fir.st Division crowds were partioilirlv large with more than 69.000 .seeing promoted Everton
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    RUNNER FLEES
    45 16 West German runner, Erich Kurezykel, former 10.000-metre champion has fled to East Germany. TTie East Berlin semi-official Berliner Zeitung said he had crossed the border "because of his bad economical .situation caused by lack of state support of sports In West Germany Reuter.
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    A NEW MARATHON DRAMA
    649 16  - A NEW MARATHON DRAMA VERNON MORGAN The leader took wrong turning By THE marathon race m the European athletic championships, which opened m Berne yesterday, provided one of the most astonishing finishes m an event which has frequently been packed with drama. The recent Empire Games marathon m Vancouver saw
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    SURREY HAVE THE TITLE
    396 16 SURREY, winners of the County cricket championship for the past two seasons, yesterday made certain nf at lofist sharing the title this season. Needing only four points 10 attain this position, they ran through Worcestershire and dismissed them for 25, the lowest County total of the
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    ARKINSTALL WINS IN ISTANBUL
    73 16 Italy's Carlando Girola yesterday jpset Armando Vielra of Brazil 0-6, 6-3, 6-3 m the quarter finals of the Istanbul International Tennis tournament. Paul Remy of Prance, the defending champion, also moved to the semi-finals with an easy 6-3. 6-2 victory over Nazml Barl, Turkey's number one.
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    K.L RACE WEIGHTS
    357 16 WEIGHTS for last day of the Selangor Turf Club August meeting on Saturday are: tX. 4. DIV. I— 6F. Cash Cheque 9.00 l.inkshir II 8.13 Strong And Free 8.1 1 Summer Corn 8.10 Jambatan Mas 8.09 Gem Beau 8.08 Fish's Kuda 8.06 Sharp Look 8.05 Konf Mine
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      171 16 Free Press Course Correspondent HARWOOD and Lord Garfitld galloped attractively on the training track at Kuala Lumpur this morning. Harwood (McCloud* with Mad Irs (Charles) for company strode out stylishly over 3f. m 37 45, while Lord Garfleld (McCloud) be it Adonis (Manning) m a 3f. tryjut m 37
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      Kent collapse v. Pakistan XI
      157 16 KENT were 161 for eight at close of play yesterday, opening day of their match against the Pakistan tourists. Kent began by batting with assurance on a difficult wicket and then collapsed when conditions were much easier. A saturated pitch prevented a start until alter
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