The Singapore Free Press, 7 July 1955

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya so 1 IMS. Singapore, Thurs., July 7, 1955. Price 15 Cts
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    Denial by U.S. sends S'pore rubber up
    191 1 Denial by U.S. sends S'pore rubber up rrHE United States General Services Administration announced m Washington yesterday th it it did not intend to reduce the Government's crude rubber stockpile by selling 200.000 tons to the trade m the United States. And following this statement, the price of rubb'-r regained
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    Royal Assent
    16 1 Queen Elizabeth yesterday her royal assent to a Bill pr ving the Austrian treaty.
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    But it's still hot
    26 1 Heat which has scorched New :ers for the past five days abated slightly yesterday. But it was .still hot at 88 degrees.
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    BIG ROW OVER MEDICAL JOBS
    453 1 Malayanisation issue FREE PRESS REPORTER A FIRST class row is brewing m Empress Place over filling two senior appointments m the Singapore medical service. Some Ministers, it is believed, back two Chinese doctors still studying abroad m preference to two senior expatriate specialists already m
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    Lock icon MIA VISITS EMMETT-DUNNE
    296 1 Summing up and verdict today CERGEANT Frederick Em-mett-Dunne met his wife Mia for the first time m ten days m Dusseldorf, Germany last night, within a few hours of knowing whether a court martial will find him guilty of her former husband's murder. Sfle was driven to
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    BACK ON JOB, ALL SMILES
    91 1 CINGAPOU Harbour Board < lerks and other monthly Paid staff went back to ««rk today after 67 days s tnke and a feast to cele orate their higher wage < laims victory. They started arriving m jjmall groups shortly before R a.m. and soon settled
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    Girl robbed of 42 cheongsams
    47 1 A dance hostess. Miss Chan Toh of Norfolk Road, Singapore, has reported the loss of 42 cheongsams, 23 samfus, an evening dress, a wrist watch and jewel box. She said she found her wardrobe ransacked when she returned to her flat yesterday.
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    Lock icon Long hangover
    20 1 "Noisy" drunks m Communist Hungary face prison terms of one year under a new gov- ernment decree A.P.
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    Lock icon Naked woman "s bach slashed 250 times
    123 1 JAMES DEWAR. 26-year-old labourer, was sent to prison for five years m London yesterday for slashing a woman's back between 200 and 250 times with a razor as she lay naked on a bed. Referring to a photograph of the woman's back the
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    Lock icon RED PEACE DRIVE GENUINE—MENON
    218 2 RED PEACE DRIVE GENUINE— MENON 'Accept people for what they say' IfK. V. r KRISHNA i?1 MENON, indias roving pefe envoy, said m Washington yesterday that he believes thc current Soviet peace offensive to be genuine and that it should be taken at its face value. Mr Menon who addressed
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    91 2 Thirty- four members of the Moral Re-armament movement from 10 countries are now visiting Singapore. Picture shows (from left): The Tolon Na, Yakabo Tali, President of the Northern Territories' Council, Gold Coast; Mr. Daniel Lew, a representative of Nationalist China at the United Nations; Miss Mary Waruhiu, daughter of Senior
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    U NU SHOCKS WASHINGTON
    123 2 BURMESE Premier U Nu said at a press conference at United Nations headquarters yesterday that he had gathered the impression m Washington that "most of the responsible people there were not against the admission of Communist China to the U.N. He added that the United States
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    Lock icon Best 'hello girts' at 1955
    77 2 E rpHESE are the four winners m this year's Singapore 1 Golden Voice contest chosen from 22 "hello girls" I 3 at the Singapore Telephone House yesterday. They are. from left: Miss Theresa Pereira (first), I E Miss Cynthia Pereira (second), Miss Eileen Martin (third)
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    Two men went a-sailing and— Oh Boy Oh Boy
    179 2 Two men went a-sailing and Oh Boy Oh Boy U/HAT happened after two model boats collided m a London pond was more like a squabble involving two ten-year old boys over their toys, a judge said m court yesterday when the "boys" appeared before him. They were Robert Cordiner and
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    Lock icon White wonder
    14 2 Buenos Aires yesterday had its first snowfall m 37 years. diner. Reuter
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    60 CHOSEN FOR THE NAVY
    41 2 Sixty candidates of all races have been selected provisionally as recruits to the Royal Malayan Navy, provided they are medically fit. A total of 293 candidates from Singapore and the Federation were interviewed. Recruitment closed yesterday.
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    Lock icon CANADIAN FLOUR FOR CEYLON
    88 2 CANADIAN FLOUR FOR CEYLON CEYLON will receive $2,400,000 worth of Canadian flour as part of her $6,000,000 share of Canada's Colombo Plan contributions for the 1955-56 fiscal year. Canada will also supply Ceylon with three diesel locomotives, finance an aerial survey of Ceylon, pay for the construction and equipping of
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    Lock icon Convicts ene riot and free guards
    84 2 pONVICTS at Washington State penitentitary at Walla Walla ended their riot yesterday and released nine prison guards they had held hostage for 26 hours. The riot ended after the state director of institutions, Mr. Thomas Harris negotiated with five convict leaders of a hard-core
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    Lock icon Cash crops advice to Malayans
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    Lock icon POOR MARKSMEN OR POOR SIGHT?
    198 2 Labourite Emanuel Shinwell asked m the Commons yesterday whether m view of such incidents as the shelling of the British freighter Anshun it was wise to continue exporting arms to Egypt "Ought we not to take some positive action to prevent them < Egyptians) undertaking
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    Lock icon Blonde Ruth raises a storm: Should women he hanged?
    396 3 qLONDE Ruth Ellis, O the 28 year-old model who murdered her lover, calmly waits out the seven days to her execution, unaware I (hat she is the centre ni a national outcry m Britain. Incry letters protest- Inc against her hangW
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    Lock icon Barrier jet caused big bang
    100 3 THE big mystery bang which sent thousand of Londoners tling from their beds early lay morning was cleared up last night— it was caused by a British jet plane smashing through the sound barrier. The bang a few minutes after midnight rattled win- and doors
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    Lock icon Her 'dead' husband returns
    120 3 Her 'dead' husband returns TEN years ago a Korean wire. Shin Urn Soon, rel a box of ashes from the Japanese Army. Her husband, she was told, had been killed m the war. Two years later, Shin married again. But husband No. 1, Cho Pyung Ki. was not dead. He
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    Maiden voyage
    14 3 inard liner Ivernia, i r Quebec yesterday on laiden voyage from Bri-
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    Lock icon AUTHOR CHEATS DEATH AGAIN
    102 3 AUTHOR CHEATS DEATH AGAIN < PREME COURT Justice ii C. Clark yesterday ted a stay of execution let -author Carl Chesswho was scheduled to m San Quentin prison's mber on July 15. man* trial will be "rein the autumn. man wrote the bestCeil 2455, Death Row death cell at San
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    Lock icon 'SHE SLEPT AS I TALKED-SO I KILLED HER'
    291 3 'SHE SLEPT AS I TALKED -SO I KILLED HER' A FTER 14 hours of questioning, a law student con- fessed to beating, stabbing and strangling to death a wealthy young society divorcee, Los Angeles police reported yesterday. They said that John Crooker, admitted slaying Mrs. Norma McCauley m her bedroom
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    Lock icon Study grants for Asian girl students
    68 3 Study grants for Asian girl students AN experiment to aid Asian women to study m the United States and Canada was approved yesterday by the Altrusa International Convention at Toronto. The women's executive and professional club will give grants ranging from $250 to $750 to Asian women next year. If
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    Lock icon MUSLIM LEAGUE REBUFF FOR ALI
    195 3 MEMBERS ol the Muslim, League, m Pakistan's constituent assembly yesterday i chuffed Mr. Mohammed Ali. the Prime Minister by deferring until the end of the month the election of their leader. Mr. Ali, ls the only candidat for leadership of the Leagu* m the Assembly.
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      43 3 ■> HMMMi m m E^Hj Your coffee -*S~^// Lw i O O'CIOCK if 14/ mmW^^ rt m t. f^P (afjfec Percolator makes your coffee m I MALAYA S ONLY PORIM^ON^ I AIK CONDITIONED i\V/Dlll Ov/ll O DEPARTMENTAL fM n store. Rafflea Place Singopo: i
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, July 7, 1955. Opinion Thank you, Sir George
    282 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, July 7, 1955. Opinion Thank you, Sir George UIR George Thomas, the Grand Old Man of badminton, our future historians will agn c, has and is doing more than any other single person to give rise to the spirit of patriotism among the peoples of
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    BY THE WAY
    101 4  -  by A DRIVER who has found somewhere to put his motorcar becjmes, automatically, a pedestrian. When the parking- places for pedestrian.s Bi*e organised there OC a mark ol lOme sort to dlatingulah driver.s from QOil driver I a driver who Vintl to walk across a street to
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    TUNE IN ... and watch out!
    734 4  - TUNE IN and watch out! SEFTON DELMER MEMO to the diplomats on the eve of the Summit Talks by AM I right In d< U cting a certain complacency British id American diplomats on th the Big I mir "Summit" talks'/ Are they Inclined U> think a little too readily
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      27 4 A HANDSOME GIFT m the HISTORY or TIME MEASUREMENI j role?: 1 tt )> C. C.De SILVA BROS, "Jewellers'* 3. RAFFLES PLACE j Singapore- 1 Tel: *****. tt
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      111 4 mmml^mXmmMW^^mmmmmmmmmmWmf AUSTINaso Cambridge De Luxe Saloon New 1.500 c.c. (A5Ol Longer Wheel Base 99i" engine Full width luggage Improved Front O Rear compartment. 14 cv feet. Suspension IItTIM This exciting new AUSTIN Spacious Body Interior, can be seen at all Malayan Rr.ir Se<*t 152") for Branches, where full details three
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  • NEWS FROM THE DISTRICTS
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      A committee with useful achievements
      198 5 JU.EXJMDM RESIDENTS of the X Singapore Improvement Trust flats m the xandraßoad area no i on 2, r Have to make the ..-mile trip each month to the S.LT tlu s m Pickering S trc.t to pay their rmts. ■tead, they now make their navments
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      FLOWER GIFTS AT SERVICE
      307 5 SELETAR ::::^:v::^::v-:-:v: :v X:X:-:-:.< :v::->:-:L^: THF children's June Flower Service held at St. Andrews Church marked a day of colour with scores of children taking along gifts of flowers. The lessons were read to the young congregation by tillip Handley and Jeffrey n and a solo
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      CHAMPION SCHOOL OF 'C' DISTRICT
      168 5 TELOK KURAU GEYLANG English School I with a score of 57 points, won the championship m the annual InterPrimary School sports meeting for C" District held at the Teiok Kurau English School. Twenty schools English and Malay took part. Teiok Kurau English School I last
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      DIAMOND FIND HOPES BLASTED
      180 5 |^BHBBSBH)wH^^w^^^^ w HOPES of a "diamond find" m Kuala Lumpur have been dashed by Mr. M. Tweedle. Curator of the ipor-e Mus< When thc son of a European businessman brought home a cube foot of a crystalline substance and it was discovered that the crystals imbedded
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      A QUESTION FOR Mr. MARSHALL
      279 5 HMHVWWFP¥V¥fI RESIDENTS of the Beatty Road area of Serangoon wish to ask the Chief Minister a question. They wsnt to know whether a wayang now playing near a school from nightfall until midnight constitutes a public nuisance. If this ll so. thry wonder if the
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      S'pore students on way to Red China
      127 5 >) 1%/ fORE THAN 1,100 Chi- lYl nese students from l\ Singapore, the Federation << of Malaya and Indonesia >> who arrived m Hong Kong »m the Dutch liner Tji- wangi last week, crossed >, the border into China the following morning. The
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      250 6 I MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Paris YOUAREMUSH.'ANO/ ITOLOYA. Of THE PILLS I TOOK FROM VME T \f~^ W YOULOOKTWEWTY BOSS. THIS THE GUY'S POCKET. Z^f JAKE- VI S^A V m V *^bHB YEARS YOUNGER/J GUY'S PILL TRTONE. j ,X r O &t P*H TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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      734 6 MM j m I YOUR LUCKY I STAR I gORN today, you A I 4 natural businessman a 4 though your major ii.tr, 1 J are In the cultural arK in ,i J 4 professions. You are 4 and individual m your appr, 1( h T to things and are
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. dosing prices
      226 7 LONDON. July 6. Previous Today l RSS cl f. European 36% buyers 36 buyers gtBBFR>«. mmmm 3? seller 3 36' 2 sellers liti ivo l RSS elf. European 34 buyers 33% buyers -llllßEßN^l mmmm mr- 34.^ sellers 34l 4 sellers l 1 !j,. s 1 RSs'spot 37%
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      New York prices
      100 7 NEW YORK. July 6. Previous Today Tin strait., snot and nearby 95.25 nom. 95.37 nom. 1 n futures \lulv 93.00 bid 94.12 bid 1 94.50 asked 94.50 asked Auf 91.75 bid 92.25 bid 92.75 asked 93.00 asked September 91.25 bid 91.50 bid 92.25 asked 92.25 asked TOM
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      U.S. PEPPER
      57 7 Spot Malabar was quoted at 49 Va. August 43. Lampong spot 49 Awaiting release 49' i. Afloats 49 to Awaiting release 49»4. Afloats 49 to 48',. Sarawak spot 47. Awaiting re- 48 1 July shipment 48 sellers exleaoe 46. AMoats 46 to 44 tt. July 44. dock. Above
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      115 7 Previous Today COPRA Philippines c.i.f. UK/North European delivered weight per long ton Julv/Aug. $188 quoted $188 sellers Copra Philippines f.o.b. Manila m mlk, p«r long ton Unquoted Unquoted COPRA Straits c.i.f. CK/North lump, an delivered weight per lM| ton July August £674 buyers -M l buyers
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    MALAYAN ACCOUNTANCY SUCCESSES
    303 7 following Malayans have ed the April/May Exna ol the Australian \t Accountants:— I IMIN A R V EXAMINA,N> Boey Ah Sum, Lee Pook TBCk Lee, Low Beng I hothatrtnath. Harun bin O. C Nair. P. TettiraChoon Kok On, Ghaaili Majid and Foo Khoon \<MM\TIN<; AND AUDITING Kok
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    MONEY-BOX SHELL KILLS MAN
    245 7 was abandoned m a shed, then exploded IpOR eight years two gleaming cannon shells, souvenirs from the war, were attractive ornaments on the mantelpiece of a happy Birmingham home. Many times little Lorraine Werritt unscrewed the nosecaps, popped her coins inside, and used them for money-boxes.
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    GOING,GOING, GONE-AND BUYERS GET A BIG SURPRISE
    215 7 GOING, GOING, GONE-AND BUYERS GET A BIG SURPRISE PROPERTY m Singapore built before the war is not as cheap as speculators, investors and buyers think. This was indicated at the auction of a seaside bungalow m West Coast Road, off Pasir Panjang. It shocked many buyers when the property went
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    Traveller to lecture in Singapore
    84 7 Traveller to lecture in Singapore Mr. Colin Jackson, Journalist and broadcaster who has been touring South-East Asia, is due m Singapore on Monday for a week's stay m Malaya, during which he will give lecture talks to the Forces. Mr. Jackson will also speak In Singapore at the British Council
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    Inche Karim warns of rival union
    103 7 THE 3,000-strong Malay 1 Seamen's Union of Singapore yesterday described a rival, the Malaysian Mariners' Union as a "splinter union organised with no Intention other than the personal glorification of the sponsors". This union, it added, had "only one Malay rating." In a statement,
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      143 7 f W0...- I LUXURY 8 Vyou. AT A Jpfllftil 4i/ffecp u/Juflie\ wc/u Q<r. /^f^f"f% ATF jfi6^ yo«\ii*ah\at /VK/DCKATt <jw Uwl f aVJc m PRICE V-ja^jWue-Juf^tf-M. WORTH PERFUMES )e Reviens, Vets Toi. 188 I D/ins Li Nuit. Impriidrno'. 1 1 1 \^^^^>^Sk. S** ns Adieu arH^ Requete A V T^^Sl l*"!"*!
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    They'll control motor traffic by TV
    799 10 They'll control motor traffic by TV JAMES SMALLEGAN reports on a dramatic new experiment m the United States I>EFORE long: Detroit traffic policemen may saunter into police headquarters, case themselves into overstuffed chairs m front of a television set and £0 to work. And from there it will be their
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    New cars may have smaller wheels
    263 10 WARD'S Automotive Reports of Detroit says m its current issue: "Smaller wheels on passenger cars— l 4 inch and even 13 inch— loom for the 1957 model years. "Of course, some car builder could 'jump the gun' with them on the 1956 offerings; but
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    PRAISE FOR THE BACK-SEAT DRIVER
    137 10 TT just had to happen m the end. The back-seat driving pest is promoted to a place of honour m the latest Advice to Prudent Motorists by Paris traffic official Yves Herminger. iSays Mr. <Hermir*ger; "The back-seat driver has too long been considered a confounded
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    Curb on 'Going Home' taxis
    53 10 pARIS'S energetic police chief, Mr! Andre Dubois, has decided to take action against a major Paris nuisance—the taxi drivers who discover an urgent need to go home when they don't like a particular destination. From now on taxi drivers who refuse a client can be
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      69 10 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 I $24.00 i FOR SI MONTHS If you want the "BUDGET* while on leave or wish to make an "Air-subscription" on behalf of your S
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    'I WAS A CONVICT'
    1214 11  -  MICHAEL RUDDY By RORY CALHOUN CONFESSES TO THWART BLACKMAILERS 'PHIS is the real-life 1 story of a film star that puts m the shade yen the most vivid effort* of the Hollywood script writers. It's the story of swashbuckling Rory Calhoun,, handsome hero of many a
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    NOTHING worries THIS Cinderella
    199 11 lIOLLYWOODS newest 1 Cinderella has four (t And can get all !< ur o.t them inside one of Cinderella's glass dippers. The screen's newest acting discovery is a two-year-old hull terrier, known officially to tiie American Kennel Club as Glacier Cadence, but destined ior film fame
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    These Latin dishes are full of flavour
    514 12  -  ADELAIDE EASTLEY for those who wish to try their hancT^ by 1 ONG AGO, when the J Spanish and Portuguese trading vessels anchored In Singapore Harbour sailors could niton be seen camping along our shores cooking ttielr meals their style of cooking. old
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      52 12 #j^Bm^^^^mfe TttKs.: '''^i*mmmmm w i^, ii ia^riiii jinMni' ifctiojijift >«^U^S^ **^w^& v." «Sf **t^"iH»Mi < wwr -^-a^£- ****^S i^!*^ -v. XiK^fe ■:^■■■'•WiSffi-^^w^aS?*-- $g|... Need you ask? Of course, these sturdy youngsters are HK,.'' ■'IS' Jfm^^^.m^SSf^^mm^^^'^^^T^mmmmmmmmAmi I Hj Md. Razip b. Md. Yutof Singapore \mmmm7 UKIOGEIf 9^9^%W fOXX THE WORLD'S BABIES
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      286 12 ajj M*M W"*""BM""^ |g|^^ B^^^^B 1 H BBaBB ~*B*I 111- L— 888 1 I .1 l IHH MiM < LUES ACEOM 4 A irch expression at school 2 'I im i, out of liniment (5> (3.4). ft Incraaae an auction *>ale Item 5I am .surrounded by tha Frenrti to make
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    Their CANVAS is a SHOP WINDOW...
    683 13 gfd THE MAN WHO THINKS IN BED 'rllE woman behind Dkkini and Jones' window In London's West End is tall, slender and smart Just like her v indows. Her name is Mrs. Jean Ryder and she is primarily interested m selling to women. She
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    Bridge Hand
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    There's no business like show business
    53 13 THE 1955 edition of "Motion Pic- j ture and Television Almanac' reports that there were 14,053 per manent four-wall theatres regularly showing motion pictures m United States as of July. 1954. and 4 152 drive-in theatres, more than a' third of which are open
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    Lock icon Queen waves 'Godspeed'
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    He'll wear two swords for march-in
    156 13 FRENCH poet-playwright Jean Cocteau, elected only this year to membership of that citadel of literary respectability, the French Academy. is having his Academician's uniform— an elaborate 18th century a flair designed by the painter David— made for him by a well-known Parts dress designer.
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    Quicker this way
    49 13 PARTRIDGES are m danger of dying out m Czechoslovakia— and no wonder! It is well known that up to last season the Party bosses, relaxing at one of the "nationalised" shooting boxes, were m the habit of using light machine guns when they went out hunting.
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    HOPMAN HOPES RIGID SYSTEM OF TRAINING WILL WIN BACK DAVIS CUP
    445 14  - HOPMAN HOPES RIGID SYSTEM OF TRAINING WILL WIN BACK DAVIS CUP Archie Quick By NOT OFTEN DOES AN UNSEEDED PLAYER REACH WIMBLEDON LAWN TENNIS FINAL. KURT NIELSEN 24 YEAR-OLD COPENHAGEN SPORTS GOODS' DEALER HAS DONE IT TWICE IN THREE APPEARANCES AND IN THF MEN'S SINGLES OF ALL EVENTS TOO. In
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    Sunday soccer row reopens
    396 14  -  JONATHAN Bj i nun iiiiiiiiiiiiii i i i j_* I CALLING I I ALL 1 I SPORTSMEN I ANOTHKR HAI ILK IS ABOUT TO W FOUGHT ON THK SUNDAY SOCCEE FRONT. IN lUX lllllh OK IT WILL BK TIIK RFKKRKKS. The P.A.s derision «irly m June
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    158 athletes for AAA meet
    43 14 The Singapore Amateur Athletic Association's annual championships, to be held at the Jalan Besar stadium on July 15 and 16, has attracted 158 entries. The men's events will have 135 competitors while 23 are m the women's event*.
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    SAFA PREPARE
    36 14 Singapore will play a trial match against the Royal Air Force at Seletar on July 16 as part of the preparation for the Malaya Cup final. Other trial games will probably be arranged later.
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    Lock icon SOCCER 'TESTS' SUCCESSFUL
    131 14 £18,500 gamble of the New Zealand Football Association to give a boost to the game by bringing the Hong Kong Chinese team to the Dominion looks like paying off. To clear expenses on fche team's visit, a £2,750 gate— the biggest of the tour— is needed for
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    CORNERING AT TOP SPEED
    49 14 Till. VARIOrs styles of cornering by Europe's leading sidecar specialists is well illustrated m this picture taken at Nuerburgring, Germany. Leading is J Drion (52) of France closely followed by A. I au*t (53) Germany, who won the race at a speed of 72.57 mP
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    PRATT BETTERS HIS JAVELIN RECORD: CHANGI CHAMPIONS AT R.A.F. ATHLETICS
    1195 15  - PRATT BETTERS HIS JAVELIN RECORD: CHANGI CHAMPIONS AT R.A.F. ATHLETICS RALPH BLAKEMAN by rr-UO MOKE RECORDS WERE BROKEN YESTERDAY, ii\\l. DAY OF THE RAE .|\(.\POKE AND MALAYA iTIIUIIC MEETING AT HANGL r< chnician Pratt of Selc•■l3" who on Tuesday set tew record for the Javeh 159 ft. Oi m., yesterttered
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    386 15 BILLY SUTCLIFFE SON OF THE GREAT ENGLAND AND YORKSHIRE OPENER HERBERT SUTCLIFFE HELPED YORKSHIRE TO A BIG TOTAL AGAINST GLAMORGAN I HARROGATE YESTERDAY BY SCORING AN UNBEATEN 161 IN THEIR CLOSE TOTAL OF 381 FOR SIX WICKETS Surrey however, their chief rivals
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    Lock icon N.Z. cricket team for tour
    69 15 A NEW ZEALAND cricket team 1 will tour Pakistan and India summer, Mr. J. L Kerr, 'man of the Management ittee of thc New Zealand Council announced yester--2* team which will be selected ■y. will leave for Pakistan m September. ir or five matches will
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    185 15 AT the Football Association meeting at Torquay yesterday, it was announced that there is a possibility of England playing Brazil m the near future. An Invitation to tins effect had been sent by Brazil who have a team at present engaged on a short
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    NARROW VICTORY
    21 15 Boys' Town scored a 4-3 victory over Johore IRC. m a friendly soccer match at Bukit Timah yes tuday.
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    Results in full
    427 15 100 yards: 1. Sgt Hamzah (B), 2. AC Howard (Ch A), 3. Cpl Fernandez (XL). 10.8 sec. 220 yards: AC Howard (Ch A), 2. Sgt Hamzah (B), 3. F/Lt Stewart (Ch A). 23 9sec. 440 yards: 1. LAC de Villa (T), 2. Cpl Whitney (Ch Ai. 3.
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    Business Houses results
    91 15 Business Houses results YESTERDAY'S Business Houses League and Cup soccer results: i.Koi r A TH. Board 2 11. Bank 1 F. N. 0 C. Bank 0 GROUP B M. Bank 2 Ford 2 GROUP C Guthrie 0 Bata 2 Jacks received walkover from Mansfield GROUP D A. Brickworks Z Thomycroft
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    65 15 /MLINA Yermalenko, a student of the Leningrade Teachers Institute last night beat th* women world record ior 80-metie hurdl* according to Tass, the Official Sovi» d News Agency She won a race at Leningrade In If 8 ne. a tenth of a ICCOPd better than tiie
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    Fast gallops at KL: Five horses run 3f. in under 38
    510 16 I>roduceh Ifarcelle, Andrew Scot.s Grey Wh.it Happened cracked 38 foe 3f In their win-din* up gallopi on ;i faat track at Kuala Lumpur tin.--, morning. Producer, with Billy Bel! aatrida, displayed a bright turn (il .-.peed to clock 37
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    62 16 GORDON Pirie, the English middle distance runner and record holder, failed last night by three seconds to beat the world 2,000 metres record. He made the attack at Croydon but with a time of 5 mm. 10 sec, was 3 sec. outside the world record of
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    ACHILLES A.C. TO HOLD MEET JULY 31
    57 16 Entries are open for the Achilles Club's annual athletic meet to be held at the Raffles Institution ground on July 31. The meet consists of five events for women, six for youths under 17 years seven for juniors under 19 years and eleven
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    THRILLING FIRST ROUND IN BRITISH OPEN GOLF
    321 16 dfg can ex-champion and one of the favourites to wm here. PUTgol might have had a lower score but for a six at the filth •■here he was bunkered and three putts at the 17. Scott went out yesterday m 34 and like
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    Grose beats MAAA mark
    87 16 PETER GROSE bettered the Singapore and Malayan Hammer throw record when he threw 159 ft sin. m the qualifying heats of the Singapore Police A.A.A. meet at the Police Training School on Tuesday. Singapore A.A.A. officials were present and supervised the measuring and weighing of the
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    Govt. Services soccer results
    67 16 M.R.N.V.R. defeated M.A.A.F. 5-1 m a Government Services Div. 1 league soccer match at the P. T. ground yesterday. Osman Bal^ri (2), Charlie Chan 2) and Charlie Koh scored for MRNVR and Leong for M.A.A.F. Woodbridge beat P.W.D. 3-1 ln another Div. 1 match at the
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    SEMBAWANG ARE NAVY CHAMPIONS
    42 16 Royal Naval Air Station Sembawang won the Navy' s Singapore athletic championships at H.M.S. Terror yesterday. Final points. Sembawang, 119; UMS. Terror PI; H.M.S. Newfoundland 76; Royal 4 ustralian Navy 36; Royal Malayan Navy 29; Small Ships 5.
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    BIRTH
    22 16 20 Woid* $ti (minimum) PALLOT: To Gwen and Doug, at Penang. on «th July, a son Btephtn James. Both very well.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    43 16 20 Word* $h minimum) LIOK-TANG. The engagement WMM -innounred on 6 755, between Dr. Timothy Llofe Yeu- Hee. eldest son or Mr. and Mrs. Liok Tiong Sin, and Miss Janet Tang Woon Joo, eld«*sf daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Tang.
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    SEA boxing: Three nations reply
    103 16 PROSPECTS are bright for the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's proposed South East Asia Boxing tournament to be held m Singapore from Aug. 29 to Sept. 3. Mr. B. L. Dunsford, hon. secretary of 5.A.8.A., told the Straits Times yesterday that, of the nine countries invited
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    Lock icon Alec Bedser replaces Statham
    78 16 BRIAN STATHAM the Lancashire fast bowler, failed his fitness test at Old Traflford yesterday and his place m the England team for the third cricket Test against South Africa at Manchester today will be taken by Alec Bedser, the Surrey bowler Statham had a recur renee
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    CALVER HITS AN UNBEATEN 100
    42 16 An unbeaten century by Calver featured the drawn annual cricket match between Royal Engineer.., and Royal Signals at Gillman Ban .v ks yesterday. Engineers 179-6 dccl. (Calver 100 n.0., Beames 34. Evans 5-43). Signals 90-5 (Powell 39).
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    Survey Dept win
    36 16 Survey Sports Club beat No. 2 'supply Depot 4-3 m their second division soccer fixture m Taiping. Scorers were Sandanasamy f3i and Poh Chin for Survey and Brack. Tyrell and Muniandy for Depot.
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      9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Thursday, July 7, 1955.
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      FORM GUIDE FOR K.L. RACES
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