The Singapore Free Press, 4 November 1954

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya. No. *****. Singapore, Thurs., Nov. 4, 1954. Price 15 Cta.
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    NEW CAMP RIOTS BY DETAINEES
    118 1 I^UKTHER rioting broke out 1 this morning among the 500 detainees booked for a one-way ticket to Red China from the detention camp one mile from Port Swettenham. A police riot squad entered the camp at 8.45 a.m. to quell u .sudden uproar and large
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    HOW AFTER CRASH
    41 1 woman driver was hit on the head during an argument with another motorist while on the wav to a police station to r port an acoident in Victoria Street. Singapore, early today. Sh 1 received treatment in hospital,
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    No, Farouk won't see Narriman
    159 1 No, Farouk won't see Narriman EX-KING Farouk of i Egypt, just arrived in Geneva, let it be known that he was not planning to meet his former wife, I Narriman, who is under I I medical treatment in nearby Lausanne. I Farouk's private sec re- tary said yesterday, "His Majesty
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    Cheaper goods now for housewives
    215 1 TRADERS HAIL IMPORTS FREEDOM CHEAPER canned fish, rolled oats, cigarette paper v and other goods will soon be available in Singapore. I ading importers said today. Reason: A drop of seven per cent for these goods is t) recast. nils Ls made possible because business
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    McNEICE BACK
    32 1 The President of the Singapore City Council, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, and the City Treasurer, Mr. J. R. Hill, returned today from leave. They arrived in the Willem Ruys.
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    ARMS DEBATE
    21 1 The French National Assembly yesterday agreed overwhelmingly to debate the Paris agreements for German rearmament beginning on Dec. 14.
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    PEKING PAYS £367,000 FOR SHOT DOWN PLANE
    161 1 CHINA has agreed to pay £367,000 compensation for the loss of the British Cathay Pacific Airways Skymaster airliner shot down by Chinese fighters off Hainan Island on July 23, it was announced in London last night. The amount of the claim met in
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    TAXI HOLD-UP
    29 1 Malay passenger threaten 1 J Chinese taxi-driver with 1 Knife near Oeylang fire l! 'on, Singapore, early today took his $37 watch and I J in cash.
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    S'PORE SCHOOL REDS SEIZED
    211 1 Swoop by police SINGAPORE police have made a successful start in stamping out Communism among Chinese schools in the Colony, the Director of the Special Branch, Mr. A. E. G. Blades, said today. Five senior students from two large Chinese middle schools were arrested recently as
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    RULER SACKS CABINET
    28 1 The ruler of Bahawalpur State has dismissed his cabinet, dissolved the Legislative Assembly and taken over the administration himself, it is officially announced in Karachi.
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    BUSY DAY FOR TRADE MISSION
    38 1 Members of the Australian trade mission now in Singapore had a busy day yesterday. The leader, Mr. W. R. Hudspeth, will call on the Colonial Secretary. Mr. W. A. C. Goode, this afternoon.
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    RUBBER IS OVER THE 80 MARK
    53 1 RUBBER IS OVER THE 80 MARK TH E Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on a steady tone with first grade, November shipment, at 80% cents per pound. 15/16 of a cent above yesterday's close. The price has now gone above the 80 cents level far the first time since
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    SOS FOR SICK WOMAN
    55 1 (SINGAPORE blood bank needs O donors urgently. It has run out of "O group supplies. A woman had to be given eight transfusions yesterday and she might need more today. Donors should telephone ***** for transport or contact Mr. Dixon Chen, donor organiser at the transfusion
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    U.S. foreign policy won't be changed
    148 1 PRESIDENT Eisenhower, at a news conference yesterday, said he expected to continue his foreign policy programme without any fundamental changes despite opposition Democratic control of the House of Representatives. The quest for world peace was too urgent to let the political situation in the
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    Michigan elects first Negro
    65 2 Michigan elects first Negro Mr. Charles V. Diggs Jr., a 31 -year- old Detroit undertaker, yesterday became the first Negro in history to represent Michigan in Congress and his margin of victory was a resounding one. Mr. Diggs. a State Democratic Senator, defeated Republican Landon Knight, M>n of John S.
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    Spurt in U.S. stock market
    100 2 Spurt in U.S. stock market fpllF New Vork stork 1 market. In a hurst of enthusiasm over the election surged ahead > ester day in the strongest ad vam i- since the start of World War 11. Volume rolled up to an estimated three million shares, one of the heaviest
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    Roosevelt loses
    41 2 Mr. Franklin D. Roose- Tell, Jr., was the only i Democrat to lose in i yesterday's New York election. Young Roosevelt, seeking the State's attorney generalship, lost to Rep. Jacob K. Javits, Republican, bv more than 200,000 votes U.P.
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    DEMOCRATS WIN U.S. ELECTIONS
    497 2 But Senate is still Republican LMNAL re: suits Of the American electiun.s :ur the nil ,I 4 House ol Representatives and one third ol the Senate show that the Democratic Party has now gained control ol the lower house bit the Republicans are still dominant in
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    Ex-cowboy in
    37 2 Rex Bell, former movie cowboy and husband of one-time film star Clara Bow, is Nevada's new lieutenant governor. Bell, a Republican, defeated Democrat James J. Ryan, president of the Nevada State Federation of Labour A.P.
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    Migration talks
    34 2 An all-party delegation of members of Parliament Is to be set up to discuss with the British Governrmf.it the "urgent problem" created by the mass migration of West Indians to Britain. Reuter
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    ALL-PARTY GIFT
    30 2 Members of all parties of the British House of Commons ar» signing a presentation volume to Sir Winston Churchill to mark his 80th birthday on November 30. Reuter
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    CHURCHILL TO TELL OF PREMIERS' MEETING
    194 2 CIR Winston Churchill will today announce a Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference to be held in London early in 19f)f>, it was learned last ni^ht Exact dates of the conference are so far undisclosed but, consultations between the various Commonwealth Governments are understood to have
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    'Diplomats can learn from soccer'
    100 2 'Diplomats can learn from soccer' A NOTTINGHAM vicar yesterday advised Russian and British governments to "take to heart," the inter-change of football matches between their two countries. "Those who have been fortunate to see a match in which a Russian team has taken part have been astonished at the excellence
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    NEW ARCHBISHOP
    23 2 The Pope has nominated Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini, one of his two pro-secre-taries of state, to be Archbishop of Milan A.P.
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    'SAUCER' MADE HER FAINT
    83 2 A woman in the village of Saptagram in Assam fainted when she saw a luminous fly- ing object land in a field along the roadside, and again take off within a few seconds. Other eyewitnesses, including a village policeman on night duty, confirmed that they saw
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    NEHRU TO RECOGNISE CAMBODIA
    78 2 PNOMPENH (Cambodia >, sources said yesterday that Mr. Nehru, Prime Minister of India, has decided to recognise the non-Communi&t government of Cambodia. An official announcement is expected from New Delhi this week-end, the sources added. Mr. Nehru is likely to send a charge d'affaires immediately to
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    Mid-East defence
    52 2 A Foreign Office spokesman in London yesterday denied a report that talks were now in progress between Britain, the United States and Turkey on the re-organisation of Middle East defence. He was commenting on a statement made on Tuesday by the Assistant Secretary-Gene-ral of tht- Arab League. Dr.
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    POLITICS ALSO OUR CONCERN, SAYS POPE
    237 3 I>OPE PIUS XII has reminded x leaders of the Roman Catholic Church that the Church must not limit itself to strictly religious affairs but must be concerned "with the whole matter of natural law" including social and political problems. The Pontiff warned against a
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    DIED DENYING CHARGE IN U.N. DEBATE
    83 3 T)R. MAHMOUD AZMI, 65, chief of Egypt's delegation to the United Nations, collapsed in the Security Council in New York yesterday and died of a heart seizure. Or. Azmi collapsed ss he was replying to Israel's charge that Egypt had seized an Israeli ship
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    West German scientists win Nobel Prize
    117 3 West German scientists win Nobel Prize THE Royal Swedish Academy of Science awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics last night jointly to two West German scientists who helped lay the foundation of modern nuclear physics. The physics award will be .split equally between Professor Walther Bothe, 63, of the
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    Peking to buy Burmese rice
    69 3 r«OMMUNIST China will buy V^ 150,000 tons of Burmese rice, under an agreement signed in Peking yesterday, it was officially announced in Rangoon. The agreement is under protocol to the three-year trade treaty signed last April between the two countries. The protocol states that Burma
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    THEY RISKED ALL FOR LOVE
    68 3 All for love, two young Yugoslav Rirls climbed a mountain by night, hid in Woods by day, and slipped illegally across their homeland frontier into Italy. "Hie two, Stanfcs Leban, 22 and Maria Kojol, 23, told Italian military authorities at Udinc last night they fled
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    MUTINEERS TELL OF RED BOSS IN TRAWLER
    390 3 MUTINEERS TELL OF RED BOSS IN TRAWLER 7/e took notes on escape 9 POLISH fishermen who seized command of a trawler in the North Sea and sailed it to England told a London court yesterday of their fierce right with a man they said was the ship* Communist political officer.
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    17 3 picture. These four girls from Batu Pahat, were among the *21 ■"■^gffaffi. reined Singapore 8* Free Press
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    Big French swoop in Algiers
    167 3 FRENCH authorities have arrested Algerian Nationalist, Communist and trade union leaders in a big roundup following Monday's tear gas attacks throughout the territory, it was disclosed at Algiers yesterday. Among those arrested were Moulay Meabah, secretary general of the Nationalist MTLD (Movement for the Triumph
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    The Singapore Free Press Opinion THIS IS NOT FUN
    401 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion THIS IS NOT FUN HURSDAY, Nov. 4, 1954. Any responsible adult who has had occasion to peruse some Oi the horror comics freely available to children in the Colony and the Federation, will readily appreciate the agitation for an import ban which rra.s been raised
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    Enter LORD JOHN and MR. ROBIN
    485 4  -  DEREK MARKS The appointment of two new hand-picked aides to Mr. Eden has caused surprise in London. Are they the heralds, proclaiming that the Tory Old Guard is clambering back to power? by I OHD JOHN and Mr. J Robin have moved into the
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    When a gust of wind was lucky
    514 4 When a gust of wind was lucky EWER heard the "mira- cle" phantom word serendipity mentioned before? The odds are you haven't. But it is a word that has come to stay. The dyes that give so may colours to the feminine wardrobe, the X-Ray that detects a broken bone
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    Herbert has a circus in his house
    271 4 Herbert has a circus in his house WHEN shopkeeper Herbert Guth steps intu his apartment In Frankfurt after a hard day's work, he is not just coming home He is going to the circus. He does not have to go far only through his living room and into a back
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      31 4 GUARANTEED! "20 Years Plate S II EFFI E L I) CANTEENS CUTLERY BARGAIN PRICES to nduu BULK STOCKS 6. C. de SUVA BROS. 3, RAFFLES PLACE Singapore- 1. M Tel: *****
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      98 4 AVAIL YOURSELF of 20 years of experience in estate development by CREDIT FONCIER MEYER CHAMBERS 3rd FLOOR, (Raffles Place) BINJAI PARK A HIGH CLASS RESIDENTIAL ESTATE AT 6£ M.S. DUNEARN ROAD MANY LOTS IN THIS PARKLIKE ESTATE ARE IN ELEVATED SITUATION WATER ELECTRICITY ARE LAID ON AREAS: 11.000 to 30,000
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    Money banked for blind boy
    83 5 Mrs. Clara Anciano, a committee member of the Singapore Association for the Blind, said yesterday she had deposited at the Post Office Savings Bank the $100 presented to blind music-lover Teo Seng Huat by an anonymous sympathiser. A further donation of $25 for Seng Huat
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    NEW CULTURAL CENTRE FOR SINGAPORE TO COST $800,000: READY IN '56
    146 5 MODERNISED and air-conditioned Victoria Theatre— Singapore's "cultural centre"— will be ready in April 1956, at a cost of $800,000. Work on demolishing the interior of the theatre has already started, Mr. Yap Yan Hong, Superintendent of the Victoria Memorial
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    THEIR BAD LUCK ON PIN-TABLE
    104 5 THEIR BAD LUCK ON PIN-TABLE KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. 4 PIN-TABLE, Imported by a A Kuala Lumpur merchant "strictly for amusement," was used for gambling instead, the First Magistrate's Court was told yesterday. < hui Mooi Beng, a coffee stall proprietor, who had the table, was fined $250 for promoting gambling
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    Prettu giri ghost terrorises the 'suicide flats'
    262 5 Prettu giri ghost terrorises the 'suicide flats' 4 FEMALE fihost has been terrorising Singapore's I'pper ll kerin S Street 'suicide flats" for the past month. The ghost is believed to be the spirit of one of the death-fall victims. *Jt*sidents say the ghost is "definitely a young and pretty girl
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    Food offences
    21 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Forty four convictions for food and price control offences were recorded in Federation courts in September.
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    First ex-TB patients start 'new life' soon
    177 5 'WE WOULD LIKE TO SEND HUNDREDS' FVE former tuberculosis patients will move into the Jurong rehabilitation settlement next week, said Dr. G. H. Garlick, medical director of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association. "Other patients will follow one at a time," Dr. Garlick said. "We
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    $500 fine for moving sugar
    43 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Ng Teck Seng, of Sungel Quran, who was found moving V/2 tahifc of sugar without a permit, was fined $500— In default, five months' gaol by Mr. N. L. Cohen in the Session* Court, yesterday.
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    250 TO TAKE PART IN BIG PARADE
    105 5 250 TO TAKE PART IN BIG PARADE MALACCA, Thurs. More than 250 officers and men, drawn from the First Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment, the Federation of Malaya Volunteer Corps and other voluntary organisations, will take part in the Remembrance Day parade on Sunday. Hundreds of volunteers will sell popptes on
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    DEFICIT RISES AFTER BUDGET PRUNING ENDS
    286 5 THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Select Committee, set up to prune Singapore's draft budget for 1955, has completed its work. It has not been able to reduce the estimated $22.1 million deficit. The deficit has, in fact, been increased by about $110,000 due to some late
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    Big turn-out at R.A.F. wedding
    62 5 PENANO, Thurs.— There was a large turn-out of RAF. men at the E. and O. Hotel yesterday for the marriage of F/Lt. M. F. Crow and Flying Officer Eileen M. D. Hyde, of the W.R.A.F. Group Capt. G. V. Howard officiated at the ceremony. The
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    Singapore talks
    35 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacOillivray, left for Singapore today for a conference with the CommissionerGeneral. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald the Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, and Ser vice chlels.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      186 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and^ Phil' Davis gMUJL^Jg W -*JM Par snort <n w TiH MAN* '.'<"'" yr \W fI^ACxDFPThS ALlNi\ L''. r f :-'-/-y 4 v-- \nL l fit. 9*~»«™»Eh TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs J TRAGCC7/ />6. ML PREPAREP A tf^P'Wc^NN^ t^R£ALV£P TO 1* H^ r"^" J~~^^ IPlH^^it^^lS
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      762 6 YOUR LUCKY I I STAR nOBX today, you are one of E W those human "systemati- zers" who seems able to take E care of a great deal of detail, co-ordinate it, and then use it E accurately. As regular in your E personal habits as you are in business
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    Prophet's Day
    34 7 KAJANO, Thurs— The Prophet's Birthday will be celebrated here on Sunday with a procession through the town and addresses by religious leaders on the main padang. Sweets will be distributed to schoolchildren.
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      214 7 LONDON. N«»v. 3. Previous Today Nov X "f'^av 0 l EBS C l f EurO|MfJin f> buvt?r s 23 7/16 buyers RuSm****' 1 RSS cif" European 23 3IS SJS 23 7/16 ESS ports Dec. 23 5 16 sellers 23 9/16 sellers ICI BBi:K. No. 1 Ri»S spot
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      26 7 30 Industrials 353.96 361.50 20 Railroads 118.33 119.93 10 Domestic Bonds 100.82 100.82 I tiliiies 57.78 58.94 I stmk> Composite Averages 129.96 132.42
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      New York prices
      104 7 NEW YORK. Nov. 3. Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 92.37 nom. 92.25 nom. lIN futures Nov 92.00 bid 91.75 bid 92.50 asked 92.50 asked Dee 91.80 bid 91.62 bid 92.25 asked 92.25 asked Jan 91.75 bid 91.50 bid 92.00 asked 92.00 asked TONE: Dull. SALES:
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      U.S. PEPPER
      49 7 Spol Milibar was quoted at 47 tions) 41. Sarawak spot 45. Lam pong per pound. November shipment L. 'VhToEer "^SxSST^Si 4 4 December 43. January/ unquoted owing to the lack of March (in equal monthly propor- discount under spot. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per Ib.
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      122 7 Nov. 3. Previous Today i OPRA, Philippines, c.i.f. UK/North. $199 nom. $197 V4 sellers European delivered weight per I'Mitj ton Nov. Dec COPRA, Philippines, f.o.b. Manila, unquoted unquoted delivered weight, per long ton COPRA, Straits, c.i.f. UK/North European delivered weight per Nov/Dec. long ion £72 buyers
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    SHE TRAVELS 500 MILES JUST TO SING
    123 7 SHE TRAVELS 500 MILES JUST TO SING A YOUNG Penan? schoolgirl will travel 500 miles from her home town to Singapore this month to compete in a talent contest. She is Miss Regina Long (above) a student of the Penang Convent, who was voted Penang's best woman singer two years
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    CUT STAFF, SAY THE ECONOMY PROBERS
    171 7 CUT STAFF, SAY THE ECONOMY PROBERS KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. J 'l' WILL not be necessary to notify the registration office of changes of address and have them entered on identity cards 1 the Federation Government accepts a suggestion by the Federal Legislative council's Finance Committee I Committee, which has imined
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    'Nonsense to blame climate' say housewives
    420 7 STORE HITS BACK AT 'LAZINESS' ATTACK IS humidity to blame for the laziness of some Malayan housewives? Ridiculous," retorted many housewives in Singapore yesterday. They were commenting on a suggestion by a Federation housewife that it was perhaps the humidity which makes the Malayan
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    Poppy donations
    15 7 IPOH, Thurs —Donations for the Ipoh Poppy Day Fund now stand at $3,135.
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    NO DEMAND BY CHINESE FOR HORROR COMICS
    186 7 SINGAPORE Chinese book- 1 shop proprietors say they carry low stocks of horror comics in Chinese because the demand is largely by adult readers, and is poor. The proprietors' say customers prefer to read macabre stories and "thrillers" in the form of novels.
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    CURRY WAS SERVED
    60 8 >uim ui nit- .Asians studying in Melbourne, Australia, recently held a social gathering to reciprocate the hospitality of their Australian friends. From left: Miss S. Tongyonk (Thailand Mr. M Sng (Singapore), Professor, A. J. Francis (Melbourne University), Miss S. B. Supapool (Thailand) and Mr. S. Guilfoyle (Melbourne).
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    Arab prince weds his second wife -cost is £500,000
    380 8 Arab prince weds his second wife -cost is £500,000 HANDSOME Prince Talal, 28-year-old brother of the millionaire Arabian Kin^ Saud, left Beirut with his second wife after the third and final part of the traditional Arab marriage ceremony. This third part was a reception for 4,000 guests which cost close
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    Fireworks doom town's tree
    58 8 The mulberry tree which has lived in the centre of Burtonon -Trent since the days of the Gunpowder Plot (1603) has probably been killed bv premature Guv Fawkes celebrations. Firework cases were found near when a blaze in the tree was put out on Thursday. Expert
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    SOLDIER DIES AFTER BACKWARD RUN UPHILL
    193 8 SOLDIER DIES AFTER BACKWARD RUN UPHILL Routine drill was too much FMiWAKD MASON, 18 year-old National Serviceman, Sj showed no sign of distress on an endurance march until his squad was ordered to run backwards uphill. Halfway up he collapsed, groaning arid foaming at the mouth, and died soon afterwards,
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    CUSTOMS SEIZE SECRET DIOR SHAPES
    204 8 CUSTOMS SEIZE SECRET DIOR SHAPES OIX pieces o: muslin intended to help a dollar-earning knitwear firm are being held in the Customs sheds at London Airport and are likely to stay there. Customs officers want £312 to let them through and the firm refuses to pay. The pieces of muslin
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    Talk on 'brain washing'
    77 8 The Chinese Ladies Association, Singapore, is inviting Mr. Edward Hunter, journalist and author, to speak to its members o n "Brain Washing" at a tea party at the American Club. Cathay Building, at 4.30 p.m. tomorrow. Mr. Hunter, who is in the Colony on a short
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    SILENT FIRE BELLS
    42 8 When a chimney caught fire at the Hospital for Women, Soho Square, London, firemen raced to the blaze with muffled be] is— so that patients unaware of the outbreak would not be alarmed. The fire was Quickly put out.
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    Restoring cathedral
    64 8 Restoring cathedral THESE STONEMASONS are two of the many skill- E <kl craftsmen engaged in the restoration of St. Paul's Cathedral. Behind E them is the monument to E the officers who fought E and died under Lord Nel- son in the attack on Copenhagen. An appeal for £400,000 has
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    St. Trinian's is barred
    80 8 A LASTAIR Sim's film corned) A "The Belles of St. Trinian's about a scheming slaphappv collection of schoolgirls has been banned bv the censor for schoolchildren in south Africa. The film, based on the cartoons of schoolgirls by Ronald Searle. was given a U certificate suitable
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    EX-MEAT PORTER BUYS WORKS
    208 9 JOE RICHARDS started in the butchering trade as a market porter. That was 50 years ago. Today Joe Richards owns a meat factory bought for £235,000. And with it he intends to bring some of the best fresh meat in the world to the British housewife.
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    Oh, what a shock for the U.S. Marines!
    213 9 Oh, what a shock for the U.S. Marines! LIKE everyone eke, Mr. Arthur Read, a Southend Essex, newsagent, and gunnery officer to Southend Sea Cadets, knew the reputation of the U.S. Marines. So when he fixed up a shooting match by post with ''Leather necks" of the U.S. cruiser Baltimore,
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    41 9 picture PRINCESS MARGARET presents the prize for the Best Ayrshire in the show to Herdsman Alex Mitchell at the Dairy Show at Olympia, London, last week. But the cow was not interested she just mooed and took no notice. Paul Popper
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    620 READY TO MOVE
    29 9 Of 4,000 families on the waiting list for Paddington council houses, 620 are prepared to move to new towns if work can be found there
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    Bull flies
    17 9 A one-ton Hereford bull, Vernon Dermot, flew from Shannon Airport to Illinois. U S., recently.
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    72 9 BRITAIN has designed a new device for pumping water from inaccessible sources, particularly rivers and sea. It is a transportable water unit and consists of an inflatable raft carrying three lightweight pumps which can five a total output of 1,000 *allotis a minute. The "Bikini," as it in nicknamed, can
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    MAGISTRATE GOT HIS DAY OFF MIXED
    64 9 MAGISTRATE GOT HIS DA Y OFF MIXED MR. LEO GRADWELL, Thames Court magistrate, forgot he should have been sitting at Clerkenwell Court. He went to a luncheon party with his wife. Police had to fetch Mr. Frank Powell, the regular Clerkenwell magistrate, from a golf course where he was enjoying
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    Nothing like a ffluss of beer after the Brownies
    294 9 IF there's one thing pretty Margaret Millington likes it is a glass of beer. And, for choice, a slice of blue cheese with it. Which may not sound unusual, except that Margaret has been drinking beer for most of her life
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    THE ELECTRIC HARE WENT ON MIDNIGHT SPREE
    252 9 THE ELECTRIC HARE WENT ON MIDNIGHT SPREE AN UNEXPECTED hum filled the midnight air. Flashes lit the clouded sky. One by one the lights went up in the block of luxury flats overlooking the greyhound track at Cardiff Arms Park as people came out to investigate. In the park the
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    'Patient must come first'
    76 9 THE patient is the most Important person in the picture, nurses were told. Miss Pat Hornsby Smith, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, at Peterborough appealed to them to Put the patient first. Different elements in the Health Service must co-operate. Otherwise young people using
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    You must be tough to go on this train
    887 10 You must be tough to go on this train BERNARD RONALD describes his painful adventures after he took a Ist class ticket on the Izmir-Adana express a cross-Turkey train trip may be* only somethin of a slight ordeal to an iron man from Istanbul, but you M ilayans can take
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    AT SNAIL'S PACE -BUT IT'S FINE
    128 10 UOfIFRT STEIN'S business i, uoinq at a snail's pace in *V Lanmgen Germany. But it suits him just fine ainur V '"V'7 s fosvinnted by the symmetry and colour of snail shells. He filled the house with viaiN Mt r 0* n hunter and
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    DOMESTIC STRIFE IN THE ZOO
    56 10 DOMESTIC STRIFE IN THE ZOO 'That's no way to use a chair, dear." gorilla Josephine (left) seems to be saying with the reproving glance to her mate Congo, who looks suitably abashed. The couple give Bristol Zoo the claim to being the only one in Britain with a pair, male
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    There's a fortune in smokes
    181 10 There's a fortune in smokes DON'T throw your cigar bands away. They may make you rich some day. Many thousands of dollars worth of bands are being dis- played in the first International Cigar Band Exhibition just opened in San Sabastian, Spain. More than 30,000 small multi-coloured bands are also
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    UNUSUAL KAY
    88 11 I KAY KENDALL has an unusual role in her next film in that she appears only on the television screens seen in the picture and that she never actually meets her leading man. Gordon Jackson. Grand -daughter of the famous Fduardian star Marie Kendall, and daughter of the
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    France faces her greatest challenge
    389 11 IVITHOUT fanfare, France took her first step into modern economics at the same time she was moving into a unified West European defence While the nine-nation conference on German rearmament was under way in London, the date arrived for the French to begin freeing tariffs
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    Generals control the foxholes
    482 11 Electronic gadgets giv army 'new look T*HE GI in the hoxhole A picked up his handytalkie radio set. "Get me the Pentagon," he said. After a brief delay, the Pentagon came through. "General," complained the GI. "this is a helluva way to fight a war." The
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    Plastic boat for inland waterways
    172 11 Plastic boat for inland waterways rE world's largest plastic boat was recently laun- i ched by the Englander Company at Baltimore, Maryland. Loaded with five tons of cargo, the draft of the vessel is only 21 inches which will make its use possible in very .shallow inland waterways The boat
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    THE TWIN-PURPOSE HAT
    53 12 THE T WIN-PURPOSE HAT pictures. tuu nai, aptly named "Hun sel and Gretel," is really two hats and can be worn either as a cone-shaped "dunce's" hat or with cone poked in and brim turned up, in a more dashing version of its sister. This highly useful hat was shown
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    Bright cataurs to the fore
    180 12 "ITATS for day wear have **one common feature thev arc all very small." This BUtaming-up Of millinery fashions in Paris comes from a Free Press correspondent there. And she supplements the generalisation with "No wisp of hair is allowed to stray and ears are often
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    Bridge Hand
    330 12 A LTHOUGH the hand could easily have been defeated by a spade switch, Life Master Marie Gaynor likes this hand not so much because the opponents let her make it as because noticing the spot cards let her get away with overtrick for a top score West opened
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      207 12 2 Be^W 'Kti* per- 6 ?J7 may Uke a mlle to te 8 SIT iay'Vor the crlrket ball to S, 1 Ca Clther wl or losp f &c£riar for lruma.l b, tHe 12 A^^Jii^^ 1 (S lj Miunel of Jt <3 4». J X ir i. UUS Work aflc 10
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    S'pore artist lives in a 'dream' studio
    592 13  - S'pore artist lives in a 'dream' studio WILLIAM HICKEY UNDER THE ARCHES WITH A GENIUS IWENI to see Feliks Topolski, the artist. They told me he lived under Hungerford Bridge by the Festival Hall. The taxi-driver disbelieved me. He didn't think anybody lived under the arches. by** But after a
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    Post office on wheels for isolated villages
    133 13 RUSSIA has begun using specially equipped trucks to bring postal, telegraph and periodical subscription services to isolated villages and tractor stations. First of the mobile units, complete with mud and snow tyres to negotiate unpaved rural roads, is now operating on a regular
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    A SMACK IN TIME —HELPS!
    127 13 A SMACK IN TIME —HELPS! A NATIONALIST Provincial Councillor. Mr. B. S. De Kok, told members of the Free State Provincial Council in Johannesburg that he wan In favour of corporal punishment for schoolgirls if they deserved It. "It won't do the little madams any harm." he said. "They must
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    Radioisotopes—a $ saver
    60 13 Radioisotopes a saver PRESENT savings of about (M) $300,000,000 a year made by I American Industry through the use of radloisotopes will expand to (M)$3,000,000,000 In ten years, according to Joseph Campbell of the U.B. Atomic Energy Commission. Radiolsotopes are chemical elements composed of radioactive atoms. They are one of
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    His mural had a second hanging
    204 13 FELIK TOPOLSKI, the Polish war artist who sketched the principal characters in the Nurem- berg trial, came to Singa- pore four years ago to sketch and report local conditions for leading British and American journals. One of his mammoth murals "Pageant of Commonwealth," from
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    Footballers are better off than ever
    735 14  -  TOMMY LAWTON By- England uJtd AnenoX centre forward. TIIK professional footballer is better off today limn at uny time In tin* history of the same. It he is in the top grade- l>v that I mean the international f lM is paid 151 for
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    Eddy in action
    42 14 Eddy (hoong of Malaya pictured in action at Wimbledon Badminton Club where he won the men's singles title of the Wimbledon Open Championships for the fifth year in succession. Choong beat Johnny Heah in the final 15-1, 9-15, 15-9.
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    Table tennis tournament
    49 14 FINALS of the annual Singapore Table Tennis Championships will be held this month. Finals of the team events will be played on Thursday November 25, and the indiviIdual events on Friday, NovemJber 26. Arrangements are being made to hold the finals at the Happy World Stadium.
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    PARAGUAY WIN CONSOLATION
    52 14 uakauuay won tne consolation round of the world basketball championships last night with a 67 to 62 victory over Yugoslavia, rally- ing in the final four minutes to overcome a brief Yugoslav lead. The victory gave Paraguay ninth place in the overall standings in the I 12-team
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    THIRD VICTORY
    35 14 An amateur boxing team from Western Germany gained their third victory over Ireland in five days when they beat an Irish team by three bouts to two at Drogheda, Ireland, last night. Reuter
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    Bannister's effort was not year's best
    464 14 Ijuuuk rsannister nas Deen cnosen, ana ngnuy so, by the Sports Writers' Association as the "Athlete of the Year," who has done most for British sport. But he is not the best all-round athlete of the year. That honour must surely go to the
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    INTER-STATE MEET PLANNED
    245 14  - INTER-STATE MEET PLANNED ROGER YUE By 1 to stage a series of annual Inter-State billiard tournaments oe twee n Singapore and Penang. the reigning champions. 11 the plan materialises, a party from the Aston Athletic club Singapore, will make the trip to Penang next year for the first tourney. Low
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    NO DAWDLING ON THE GREENS
    521 15 P.C.A. takes action against slow play CLOW play, bugbear of golf, is to be tackled in earnest by the Professional Golfers Association. Bad as it is in some British events there cannot be a comparison with those American rounds which sometimes take anything from tour
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    5-DAY RACE IN THAILAND
    58 15 iHPHAILAND will enter big-time M cycling with a 492-mile rate Irom j Bangkok to the Northern Thai city i vi Chiengmai, the Thai governments Sports Promotion Committee announced. The race, tentatively scheduled for within the next two months, will laM five days with riders competing only
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    Wanderers scrape through with draw
    204 15 University 1; Wanderers 1. T<HE University of Malaya checked the winning run of the Wanderers by forcing them to a draw yesterday at Bukit Timah. Although scoring first, the promoted team was really in trouble as the Varsity swarmed around their goal, and looked like
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    The golfer who started a row
    50 15 This is Tommy Bolt, the United States golfer who threatened to walk off the coarse on Sunday in the Australia U.S. match at Lake Karringup. Western Australia. Bolt, after losing 3 and 2, engaged in a fierce argument with his opponent, Norman von Nida.
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    Italian sets cycle record
    88 15 LUIGI PROFETA of Italy on Tuesday bettered the world cycling track record for 100 kilometres (about 62 miles) when he clocked 2 hours 34 minutes 35 seconds at an average speed of 24.1 miles an hour in Milan. The previous record, held by Italy's Ambrosini, was
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    S.C.C. 'A' BEAT ALL BLUES
    36 15 Singapore Cricket Club "A" beat the All Blues yesterday on the padang by six points (two tries) to nil. Scorers were Gourley and Lawienee, who scored a try in each half.
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    51 15 picture. The WRAC Depot, Guild ford, team retained the Eastern Command Inter-Unit Netball Cup when they won the Tournament at Eastern Command II.Q. Hounslow. Picture a "B" Coy 2nd Team defender jumping to retrieve the ball after the net had hern missed hv a 70 Claw R.A.S.C. forward. Army News
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    'Mr.Body Builder' gets 15 entries
    112 15 MEMBERS from five weight liftxwx ing parties are taking part in Saturday's Mr. Body Builder' competition at the Happy World Stadium. They are: EWLP: Tan Tee Yap, Pang Lye Seng, Wong Kim Meng, j. Seah; S H: R. Low, Jaffar bin Jabbar Tan Choo Beng,
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    DUTCH CLUB WIN
    22 15 The Dutch Club beat Customs S.C. 5-3 in their Singapore Div. 3 A hockey match yesterday at Balestier Road
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    GHQ DRAW 1-1
    21 15 GHQ and Tampcnls Rovers drew one-all In their Div. 3B 8H A League tie at Parrer Park yestefday.
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    LOUIS REFS OLSON FIGHT
    142 15 WORLD middleweight champion TT Carl (Bobo> Olson was due to meet tough Garth Panter in a tenround non-title flght last night at the Richmond Auditorium, California. (This morning Singapore time). Olson will defend hi« championship against Joey Giardello in a 15--10under In San Francisco on Dec.
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    BUITENZORG RETURNS FASTEST TIME
    436 16 Final gallops at K.L FREE PRESS COURSE CORRESPONDENT TWO Diamonds, Happy Life, Good Manners and Buitenzo-j* galloped attractively on a rain soaked track at Kuala Lumpur this morning when most of Saturday's probables wound up their preparation Two Diamonds, with Hanley astride, cleared ;i\\;»\ from The
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    Late winner for Army
    142 16 fIiHKKK minutes ironi ume. 1 the Army scored a goal and won last Bight's SAFA Community League fixture at jalan Besar Stadium. The teams were level 2-2 until then. Eurasians made up I 3-0 deficit in the second half after Osborne and Gallagher had given the
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    Fisherman is the winner
    43 16 LMSIIKKMAN <»f the United States won the Washington International horse race over a mile and a half yesterday at Laurel Maryland. IV.4IIaH.Ht of France was second and Krushhiirn of United Slates third, Landau and Kin;,' Of Tudor* were last.
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    Tengah beat Recs
    20 16 Royal Air Force Tengah beat Singapore Recreation Club 4-0 in a hockey friendly on the padang yesterday.
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    WOMEN'S HOCKEY
    17 16 In a women's hockey friendly on UM pedang, Singapore Cricket Club be.it WRAF Selelar 3-0
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    SCOTS DRAW v. IRELAND
    307 16 IRELAND held Scotland to a draw in their football international at Hampden Park, Glasgow yesterday, each side scoring twice with Ireland in the lead by two goals to one at half-time. Scotland had gone ahead in the 22nd minute when a free kick was awarded them
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    CHINESE TEAM UPSETS
    159 16 RATIONALIST China yesterday upset Canada in the World basketball tournament, taking the measure of the North Americans 74-61 China took an early lead and after that could not be stopped. The victory was the first of the final round for the Chinese and the third defeat for
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    KEY GAME DRAWN BY CEYLOMESE
    26 16 Ceylon .sports club and Singapore Medical Service** drew one-all in Singapore Div. :m hockey match on Hip C.SC: m, round JTMttrday.
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    R.M.N. BEATEN
    24 16 DOCkjWd Bportl Club bent, Royal Malayan Navy 2-1 in a SHA Div 2 league horkcy tie at the Naval Base I yesterday,
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    14 MEN BEAT S. JOHORE
    73 16 A FOURTKKN man Rcy x Navy ru K by team beat South Johort RFC. 3-0 at tho Naval BMI yesterday, scoring I try in the elaslriß mlnutet, The Navy wore left I mnn •short after ten minutes' play wMcn Henderson was Injured nioy hold uut
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    Sports quiz
    22 16 Do you know your sport? Test your wits with the Free Press quiz which begins today on page 14. _i
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    SIGNALS BEAT R.A.S.C
    101 16 SIGNALS BEAT R.A.S.C SIGNALS 14; RASC 3 ROYAL Signals scored a goal a try and two penalty goals to beat Royal Army Service Corps in their inter-Corps rugby match yesterday. Major Fairtnan, who scored eight of Signals' 14 points, was injured in the closing minutes. Fielding a ball from his
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