The Singapore Free Press, 13 August 1957

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1 4 The Singapore Free Press
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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper 955- Singapore, Tuesday, August 13, 1957- Price 15 Cts
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    A PREVIEW
    95 1 rpHE lack of piano accompaniment failed to hamper A the 12 members of the Philippines Cultural Mission yesterday when they gave a special preview of tlieir folk-dances to the < rippled children of the Singapore Red Cross Home ut Tanah Merah. Clappers and hand beats on the table
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    Chat with dancer
    47 1 A friendly chat between dancer. Caridad Garcia the H youngest member of the Philippines Cultural Mission, and "Quack Quack", 10, on c of the crippled children of the Red Cross Home at Tanah Merah.—Free Press picture. Hi^H' ■<' ■> X ■< ■!:>'■' U\' fli 1 Hi HI
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    Lock icon Polish troops and strikers clash: Tear gas used
    440 1 Polish troops and strikers clash: Tear gas used m?; SECOND LARGEST INDUSTRIAL CITY IS MJN GRIP OF A BIG TRANSPORT TIE-UP 'UGLY SITUATION' REPORTED A RMED troops and police are patrolling the streets of industrial Lodz, Poland's second largest city, after a series of clashes with 10,000 bus and tram
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    Moscow suicide report
    171 1 Moscow suicide report 4*l vr "*rican student who **|uas in Moscow for the ■>'!„• Youth Festival said mi niyht he had heard Bm> tirs jn the Soviet •»t lhat Mr. VyachesWf Molotov had rommitt- suicide. Gwe Abrams telephoned m Associated Press in ■ntlon from Helsinki and •d hp heard the
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    Rubber price
    26 1 El*' nrst grade ruba ,oro S /i;?- 5 Opened ln •PWJ this morning at wnti a ib., unchanged mSTSSP close The w as quiet.
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    Lock icon REBELS' ARMS FOR UK
    201 1 REBELS' ARMS FOR UK To decide if they are made in US BRITISH headquarters at Bahrein flew samples of captured rebel weapons back to London yesterday to determine if they are Ameri-can-built as frontline dispatches reported. Officers on the spot refused to comment on the origin of the weapons grenades
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    ACID GUN THREAT TO CUSTOMS MEN
    363 2 Gangster desperadoes now helping the smuggle. Patrol boats also rammed By Staf? Reporter PETER LIM gMl T («(iLKKS engaged on the contraband cigarette run between Singapore and the Khio Archipelago have found a new and deadly weapon to keep Customs officers from boarding their
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    60 2 picture E Pretty Miss Caridad Garcia. 20, is the younsf" 5 member of the Philippines Cultural Mission whir" E arrived in Singapore from Bangkok on Saturday 5 g She is a dancer in the 12 member troupe wnwa is now touring South-East Asian countrhs to J» 5 E hibit Philippines'
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    NAVAL SHIPPING
    15 2 Three ships, Crane, Teleniachus and Modest are in the Singapore Naval Ease today.
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    RED CROSS AID TO JAPAN
    47 2 The Singapore branch of the British Red Cross has sent 19 boxe.s and 29 bales of clot lung to Mood victims in KyilfihU, Japan. A spokesman of the Japanese Consulate told the Free Press that they were shipped to Japan last month.
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    AN ANTI STRIKE LAW UNWISE
    237 2 AN ANTI STRIKE LAW UNWISE Would lead to more unrest 9 gINGAPORE trade union leaders said yesterday that any anti-strike law would destroy the entire trade union movement in the Colony. They blamed certain employers for causing strikes by sacking workers and '•challenging the rights of employees." Left-wing unions in
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    Tax unfair say driving schools
    181 2 I\RIVING schools in Sinf* gaporc ar e appealing to the Government and City Council to treat Lplate cars a s private motor vehicles and not as buses Following a recent amendment to the municipal bylaws, learner cars are required to pay $72 road tax for
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    Lock icon 8 CHEERS 60,000 TIMES
    545 3 8 CHEERS 60,000 TIMES ■limax to Jamboree IE World Scout Jubilee Jamboree closed last night with a moving exhibition of loyalty and ction towards Lady Baden Powell, the widbw n founder of the world-wide scouting move t from 60,000 cheering scouts and visitors l 81 nations. When Lady Baden Powell
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    66 3 Jessie Mathews and Sonnie Hale, the famous stage stars cam c together at the Liverpool Royal Court Theatre last week— after a split that started when they were divorced 13 years ago. At the theatre, the couple were mother and P SLi Sonnie s Play "A Nest of Robins." This
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    Lock icon Concern over rice in S-EA
    124 3 TWO Philippine Government Official* said in Manila yesterday that the rice situation was getting serious in South-East Asian countries. Mr Ernesto Jlmenz, ehiei of the Agriculture Credit and Co-operation Financing Administration (ACCFA), said as a result the Philippines might find it impossible to import rice
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    Lock icon Aussie force affected?
    231 3 BAHMAJVS STAIVM* AGAMMST SEATO OF all the Asian countries that have taken the step to independent nationhood in recent years, Malaya is the nearest to Australia, the Melbourne evening newspaper, the Herald, commented yesterday in an editorial. "It is desirable that there should be an early understanding
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    Lock icon THE SEAT OF THE RIDDLE?
    154 3 A HARROWING tale with a moral appeared in the usually sedate journal of the British Dental Association this week and It had nothing to do witti teeth. The story was told in a letter by a dentist, Mr. Warren Harvey, who wrote: 'A lady recently
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    Siam courts sit at night now
    40 3 The Siam Ministry of Justice has toegun night sessions of Bangkok courts to speed up the hearing of cases. A ministry spokesman said the night courts would be open from 7 to 10 p.m.
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      3 3 RA RE EXQUISITE
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 1957. Opinion Sterner measures
    220 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 1957. Opinion Sterner measures IN" keeping with the x trend in the more advanced countries of the world, the Singapore police are discouraged from resorting to firearms except in extreme cases. And police regulations in this connection arc very strict. So strict, indeed,
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    The new 'pocket atomic power stations
    600 4  - The new 'pocket atomic power stations Tom Margerison By A YEAR: ago, when the first large atomic power station in the world, at Calder Hall, on the shores of Britain's Lake District, was nearing completion, there were rumours that something strange was happening. As indeed it was For the first
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    5 4 FIRST ARCTIC INSPECTION ZONE r
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    BY THE WAY
    171 4  - BY THE WAY Beachcomber asdfasdf [jnless z;t7 J.here W 7,, hearts in die h! s cert; ru C" >»M l'ro.nis! '»> trinkets, lef Kimeracks. „iZ Sa P f«mpens.Hi,;, lfe o s «a 'n« forbidden > »«>tball in t c c J '•o courtyard. s Bl «He inn,,,,,,, •"•"P "•■HI hand?',
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      15 4 BIRDS EYE jßl^^A QUICK- FROZEM Jk S Prepared 'mm R.irden-frcsh rSINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO. LTD.
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      CLOUDS COVER SIX DREAMS
      589 5 CLOUDS COVER SIX DREAMS yiQse budding pilots to be shelved by Govt.? 'Broken promises'* THERE ARE in Singapore today six young men, between the ages of 18 and 23, who are ,very worried and uncertain people. Less than three months ago they were excited and nappy, for before them lay
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      A matter of democracy
      187 5 'CRITI I'd yet another ***** to the the Altrincham veryone agrees wording of some I Altrincham's re- m poor taste '•>■ timed just beAmerican tour, the risk of get- ting my face slapped by some hysterical royalist champion, I must add that most of Altrincham's criticisms
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      HE'S DEPUTY PRESIDENT
      84 5 M F() <> Nam is not M ai President of the ti on Chinese AaaociayW; hit Branch as JK tj, r Free Press T President of the eh Branch is Dato Sir the k lan wh o is at time president of i^, layan Chinese AsI AN
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      Where are our writers?
      107 5 IS it not a fact worthy of comment that no writer of merit has been produced in Malaya? Best-selling books have been written with a Malayan setting, such as the short stories of W. Somerset Maugham, the highly successful "Planter's Wife," and Donald Moore's semiautobiographical books.
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      127 5 HE LIVED BY JB&*¥ THE UW OF E^lU^HHfe "Hill i hßl i 1 w^l rl_jMg^^™ 1 RRll ■bH 1 ML ill In In i\ H IJvSiflWK^K^BPr^lß^fflM \9| fll HI [|i k b 3 Ihßps[^^^s H^_ Jbl SS \wßßnmL fl WILLARD PARKER DE OPEMS I MARA CORDAY (sit) E M%, TODAY
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      183 6 |lHHiß_9l^_^_^-_H-H^B_H_H-H_HH-^^HHIHH-H_H-H_H^^^HH_BilllW^ _i_fc_i HIA t \'IIIIAKK b> l^' <k i*>'^ ami I'liil Uavis I^^TT^X^^ wivA^rr^V^lA^S hlw?^K^6?^ knows? >. RUINI U> Hi M AMD ImA ANOTHER? SHOOTING THE/ V S CRACKEP v(_M-^T 1/"^ .r^iT IB h f-iWt COULU MAVI. MOPE SOT OACKOROUNPf /^rr-i /xT^ \J*- V r^~^\V H >*" V N^\ JS^SS^
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      512 6 I I """"'u^ I Y ou are one ot those versatile 1 dividuals who is also ti:oro U p h t 1 i everything you undertake Thl J? i 1 have given you a variety oi talepr ar !3 i r you seem to know how to mikp t5 best
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      K. closing prices
      188 7 LONDON, Aug U. Previous Today -J> V 0 i RSS (if. Ba pertt Augrust 26 7 i buyers 26 7^ buyers 27 l a sellers 27 s sellers Sept. 27 buyers 27 buyers a 27 Vi sellers 27 i sellers _J|fe No 1 RSS Spot 27's buyer,
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      New York prices
      95 7 NEW YORK. Aug. 12. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per Ib. rrevious Today kits spot 94 50 nom. y4.50 nom. tares d Contract Aug. unquoted unquoted Sept. unquoted unquoted Quiet. SALES: Nil. Conduct Aug. 94.00 buyers 93 87 buyers 94.37 sellers 94.37 sellers Sept. 93.75 buyers
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      37 7 NEW YORK, Aug. 12. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per lb. Previous Today ptrials 496.78 492.32 rt^ds 146 02 144 37 lesiic Bi«*ds 86.03 85.88 Wes 69.21 68.75 ks Composite Averages 172.06 170.49
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      U.S. PEPPER
      55 7 Bbv lampong spot 26%, w release 26 1 afloats ■alrnr August shipment maiupona; August shipment Ka:,,A .ik .spot 26 l i«, await- ing release 26, afloats 25%, August shipment 25 L> Muntok white pepper spot 35, afloats 34 Vt, and August shipment 34, sellers ex-dock. Aoove prices quoted
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      95 7 I LONDON, Ail*. 12. pi.,., Previous Today lulippines ci.f. U.K./ uropean delivered on? ton Aug. Sept. $168 sellers $16aSr sellers Mru.ts ci.f. r.K,/North •an delivered weight per ton Vug. Sept. £63 buyers £62^ buyers £634 sellers £63 sellers Oct £63 i nor- £62^ nom. Dull. 'T
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    Lock icon WRECK SINKING IN SWAMP
    375 7 Rescue teams work against time at crash scene All well minutes before disaster JHL fuselage of a wrecked Canadian airliner began sinking slowly into a deep, watery swamp yesterday, complicating the' tusk of 79 killed g 8 and 6earchers looking for the bodies of the J
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    Lock icon ALPINE SEARCH FAILS
    190 7 ALPINE SEARCH FAILS Mystery of two stranded climbers RESCUERS last night abandoned their efforts to solve the mystery of the two stranded German climbers who vanished on the Eiger Peak in the Swiss Alps while guides were struggling to reach their party of four. The only certain survivor of the
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    Lock icon I am shocked -Queen —Queen
    82 7 I am shocked -Queen —Queen QUEEN Elizabeth has expressed her sympathy to the next-of-kin of those killed in Sunday night's crash. In a cable yesterday from Balmoral Castle, Scotland, to Mr. Justice Gerald Fauteux, deputy administrator of the govern- ment in the absence of Governor- General Massey, the Queen said:
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    Lock icon TEMPLER TO BE BACK AS GUEST
    47 7 Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, who headed operations against th<- Malayan Communist guerillas from 1952 to 1954, will attend independence celebrations in the Federation as an official guest of the Malayan Government. He will also vLsit Singapore and Hon^ Kong. A.P.
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      131 7 Today's Radio Programme tor Singapore 115 p.m. Lucky Dip, presented jby Sarojinl Lourdes; 1 30 Time 'Signal and News; 1.45 Lucky 1 Dip Part II; 5.00 Light Music; 5.30 Fiesta; 6.00 Time I Announcement and Programme Summary 630 Speak Malay. 10.36 Happy Anniversary, presented by Zalnal Alam; 6.66 1 Announcements
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      57 7 uillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllf fSINCAPORE I |HICH TIDES 1 E TODAY: UJf pm. TOMORROW: Ml a.m. E and lO.Oli p.m. E THURSDAY: 1.01 am. and 1.29 p m E FRIDAY: 1.36 a.m. :ind E 1.57 p.m. E SATURDAY: 2.13 a.m. 5 and 2.28 p.m. SUNDAY: 2.57 am. E and 3.0G p.m. MONDAY: 3.56
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    THEN-Heil Hitler!
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    Shades of the past
    113 8 Shades of the past TfEMEMBER the days of the goosestep When Germany was at the height of her power? Above is a picture taken as long ago as 1938 When Hitler was already planning his conquest of Europe. Believe it or not that's Ooeting standing on the left t akin
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    THEY KEEP THE FUEHRER'S FLAG FLYING
    480 8  - THEY KEEP THE FUEHRER'S FLAG FLYING John Orr By CX NAZIS, it would seem, are on the march again, though minus their jackboots at least for the time being. From many parts of Cermany, recently, reports have been filtering into the papers of "re- vivalist" meetings held often in shady
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    UNKNOWN ast to the glory the Fatherland
    189 8 UNKNOWN ast to the glory the Fatherland NOW-I TEN thot and °> "1 No.' regime -1 They red h 3 should continue to* Meyer Jj prUonen r^ par/r. WO> '*1 handlebars, j }uTt 2 3 »mM J fu PgW —A rt Wa S.S. troops the men who carried out some
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    Lock icon CHINESE ARMY IS BIGGEST IN THE WORLD
    234 10 CHINESE ARMY IS BIGGEST IN THE WORLD OPTIMISM stemming from the London disarmament talks and tacit admission that Red China must eventually be included in any general agreement has focussed attention on what is undoubtedly the biggest armed force in the world. In addition to Red China's official standing army
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    Lock icon Asia will benefit
    57 10 THE Boston Globe said in a leading article: "Asian women, long silent and in the background, took a new look at their increasing roles in the fields of education. legislation and social work at a seminar sponsored by the United Nations in Bangkok. "The Asian countries are
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    Lock icon Swoop on Chinese in Tokyo
    95 10 Swoop on Chinese in Tokyo rpoKYO police armed with M. search and arrest warrants have carried out dawn raids on more than 30 homes and offices of overseas Chinese in a campaign to shut off the illegal impart and sales of foreign cars in Japan. Police blamed a small croup
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    32 10 Ambassador U Win of Burma chats with Mr. Walter P. McConaughy at a Burmese Embassy function in Washington given in honour of Mr. McConaughy 's appointment as new U.S. envoy to Rangoon.
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  • PULSE
    • HK Chinese see Peking purge now coming
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        27 10 Dutch singer Georgette Hagendoorn is now on an extensive tour for the "Association of Dutch Art Circles" in Indonesia. Pianist Pierre Verdonck is again accompanying her. U.P.
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        18 10 Pakistan's delegation to the Malayan independence celebrations will be led by Mr. Ghulam Ali Talpur, Interior Minister. Reuter
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        19 10 Mr. Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ccyion, is likely to vi.sit Indonesia after his forthcoming trip to Malaya. Reuter
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        24 10 Delegates from Singapore and Malaya Will attend the three-day meeting in Taipeh of the Asian Peoples Ana Communist League, opening on Sept. 2G Reuter
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        15 10 Senator Qulntln win represent the i pinea at. the Mala dependence celebratl Kuala Lumpur. A.P.
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        69 10 Jordan and Pakistan Wu\ begin talks soon on i:w export of Jordanian wneat to Pakistan U-P The Peking Minis! r> <> f Food's uhe:it-puich:isiiie programme is Iftffinjl t"' s year there is <'*' r a million tons Of win 1 it 1(lyS In government uar< li'iiso than at this time
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        24 10 President Chiang Kai-shel has approved the up polntment ot General Chou Chih-jou as Governor of Formosa 10 re place Mr. K. C. Yen- Reuter
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        48 10 Dr. Fritz Loetsch, a United Nations F.A.O. officer, who has just completed an aerial survey of the teakbearing forests in Siam's northern provinces, said in Bangkok that those remote forests had been badly depleted in the last 20 years, mainly through illicit cutting and through shifting cultivation Reuter
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        68 10 Japan's Conservative Party is likely to remain in power for another 10 years. Dr. William Beaslcy. a British expert on the Far Fast, said in Vaiicouver, British Columbia. Renter, Th first batch ol 70 Austin trucks that Communist China ordered from Britain after the embargo was relaxed 111 June has
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        37 10 South Korea has asked the Philippines to open negotiations for a provisional air transport agreement between the two nations. The object is to extend the Seoul-Hong Kong international .service of the Korean National Airlines to Manila. Reuter
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        18 10 The Japanese Imperial Household has denied that Crown Prince Akihito is planning any visit to South-East Asia. Reuter
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        67 10 South Korea has made a formal request to (he United St(ifp,s not to (/rant permanent residence status to any of the 2500 Korean students graduating from colleges and universities in America as "they are needed to rebuild their homeland."—Reuter. Ten Siamese officers and 236 soldiers who have completed their service
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        6 10 South Korea haj recognised Tunisia. U.P.
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        190 10 CHINESE in Hong Kong are now convinced that Peking is planning another vast purge to stamp out the now growing anticommunist sentiment in Red China. They feel that Peking's series of "admissions'' recently of the presence of armed revolts as well as students' uprisings are strong indications that the Reds
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    26 10 The Javanese Government ha s invited Mt. T<t(r.i. secretary general of the Syrian Foreign Mi' for a ten-day visit to Japan.— A.P.
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    Lock icon A TRIBUTE TO AUSTRALIA
    68 10 rpHE Vietnam Presse. 1 South Vietnam's semiofficial news agency, saw President Ngo Dinh Diem s visit to Australia in September will "mark a further step toward the establishment of closer relations between Australia and Vietnam." Commenting on Australia's economic aid to SouthEast Asia under the Colombo
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    Lock icon 'Co-ops won merdeka'
    64 10 AT the International Cooperative Alliances Congress in Stockholm, the Malayan delegate, Mr. V. Selvanayagam, said it was largely owing to the work done in his country by cooperators that Malaya had been able to obtain her independence. The Malayan Co-opera-tive Union is to be the host at
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    Lock icon HE URGES R.I. ROUNDTABLE
    58 10 A Jakarta Christian louder, Dr. A M Tambunan. has called on President Sukarno to hold a roundtable conference with rebel leaders from the outlying provinces in an effort to restore peace in the republic. He Suggested ".somewhere In the remote jungle island of Borneo" as an
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    Lock icon New U.S. spending in Philippines
    33 10 The US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee has approved a total U5515,132,000 in U.S. Navy and Air Force construction projects in the Philippines durine the coming year.- U.P.
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    Lock icon Big rice stocks
    22 10 Hong Kong has stocks of rice sufficient to feed its nearly 3.000,000 population from three to four months. U.P.
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    137 10 JAPAN and tin- United States have announced the creation of a high-level inter-governmental committee in Tokyo to chart operations hetween the two governments in their defence of Japan. Formation of the committee, to be called the "Japanese-American Committee on Security," was agreed upon by
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    SEX-SWAP FATHER MUST LIVE AS A MAN
    280 11 SEX-SWAP FATHER MUST LIVE AS A MAN A FATHER of two children who behaves like a woman must officially stay a man a court decided last week. The strange case of X was revealed when the Registrar General's office asked the court at Perth, Scotland, for authority to change his
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    CHAT WITH A SCOUT
    61 11 CHAT WITH A SCOUT Her Majesty the Queen J-j with Prince Philip. recently visited the E World Scout Jubilee S Jamboree at Sutton Park, Warwickshire, England. In the picture on the left she is seen sharing E a joke with rather a shy Scout one of the patients in the
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    182 12  -  SUNNY GIAM Ul I "Street Market" by P. L. Chan, Asso- E date of the Royal Photographic Society iof Great Britain. If you have not been to a street market in Chinatown this pic- ture at once gives you an idea of the type I of place
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      TWO GATES TO BUILD
      132 13 TWO GATES TO BUILD I :;i: However smart four fences tfv may look, the overall appear. ancc will depend a great deal '<\'.y'. >: on your choice of gates. Here art two simple designs you P can nuke yourself. The gate above* which wilf dignify any fence is built of
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      How to be fire proof
      283 13 How to be fire proof PIILD IT WITH WOOII! By a Special Correspondent I a i lire risk which material has the best 1 endurance record steel, concrete, aluminm or wood? The answer to anyone without the chnical know-how conies as a surprise, for it is wood. The fact that
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      Handy holder
      80 13 (f N .in automatic I itfachinf has to be I 1 under a wall ca- Z °r dr.nning-board Z M»| cover cannot be I ulv pened, mount a Z '•I"«« on the bottom I onf :o of the cabinet r "ns; -board. Tfcis Z the cover ©pen I
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      THIS WELL SAVE YOUR TEMPER
      52 13 r tj a simple bit «'c which can tot o/ trouble. ■{> r e applying finishing coat or varnish spray the room with an aerosol insect killer. This ensures that the room will be free of those irritating little flies that settle on fresh paint
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      Colour can help you to KEEP COOL
      445 13  - Colour can help you to KEEP COOL HENRY BLUNDELL By j£EEPING n sense of proportion abdiit most things is important. But especially is it so with colour. I Colours in the home should be delicately balanced so that they achieve a pleasant, and at times unusual harmony with themselves. "They
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    Commotion can complete a double
    629 14 Commotion can complete a double SUPERSCOPE, Money Spinner, Special Charm, Commotion, Flaxley Green, Dollar Factory and Charlemond can all be given winning chances in the Class 3. Div. 2. 6f event. I fancy Commotion, who won the lust race on Saturday in (Mass 4, which earned him promotion to this
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    FOGHORN IS THE PICK
    289 14 "POGIIORN, won his se- cond .start on this course at the May meeting. He then won his first start at Ipoh in June and finished fourth in Div 1 behind Safe Venture, for which he is up one pound. I think he should win this Class
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    MISTY LINE II FANCIED BUT HAS A HARD TASK
    350 14 MISTY LINE II FANCIED BUT HAS A HARD TASK ALLAN LEWIS sums up tomorrow's chances 11 1 1 S TY LINE 11, who missed his first race on Saturday should be one of the hardest to beat in the Class 3, Div. 1 sprint, main race at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow.
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    THEY WILL NOT START
    53 14 |7U)LLOWING horses M, will not start tomorrow Helen Jo, Heart's Ease, Border Star, j lilac han. Vga Blondeau, Reliable. Sunflower Bridge, Sure Profit, Jara, Straight Flight, I Professor Bancot, I Dancing Water, The I Jobber, Star One, Bosun's Mate and I Fakir. Captain Marvel, is a
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    Promotion will not stop Pulot Itam here
    257 14 Promotion will not stop Pulot Itam here ORISSA, Strong and Free, Pulot Itam and Ellen's Treasure, probably assisted by newcomer Curls, should provide the finish of the Class 4, Div. 2 sprintI fancy Pulot Itam, who seems to have improved further after his last start six-length win in Class 5
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    Easy Winner does fastest gallop
    368 14 Easy Winner does fastest gallop TRACKWORK By ALLAN LEWIS FASY WINNER (Smith) and Manly, working wide out on the second track at Kuala Lumpur this morning, made the fastest time when they covered 3f in 38 4/5. Easy Winner, on the outside, was doing better than his stablemate. His race
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    PRODUCER MEETS WEAK OPPOSITION
    267 14 PRODUCER, second to Ellen's Treasure at Ipoh in his last start, is a division higher with one pound less, but still looks good enough to beat the weak field in Class 4» Div. 3, 71. Jara, second to Enterhi i nun 1 1 ii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii CLASS
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    New Grass can win this
    218 14 NEW GRASS, who found the 7f. just a little beyond him. can make amends by taking the weak Class 3, Div. 3 event over 6f. New Gras s should saddle up, and is not harshly treated with 2-lb extra. Indian Heather 11. Pleasure Park, Invincible
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    DIV. TWO CHAMPIONS IN 2ND ROUND
    341 15 DIV. TWO CHAMPIONS IN 2ND ROUND RAF Changi hit 3 past Fathul Karib without a reply HOCK results continue in the present > S.A.F.A. Senior Cup competition, and i e latest victims were Fathul Karib, who tnt down 3-0 to Div. 2B League chamloitfi K.A.F. Changi at Jalan Besar t;i(lium
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    Busy 2 months ahead for SAFA
    329 15 Busy 2 months ahead for SAFA rE next two months will be a busy period for Singapore Amateur Football Association. Starting on Aug. 21. 24 and 25, SAFA will play three matches against Eastern, of Hong Kong. On Sept. 11, after the Merdeka Games at Kuala Lumpur, S-A.F.A. will meet
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    Lock icon TOURISTS SET FOR BIG WIN v LANCS
    205 15 TOURISTS SET FOR BIG WIN v LANCS MBEST INDIES are set for a ITI big win against Lancap» At Manchester yesterpal Lancashire were still 31 behind, with only five (•r.d innings wickets in |P- n reply to the M»i>t6 total of 317 for five IBrh a hire were dismissed iw
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    THORPE WINS 40-MILE RACE
    44 15 THORPE WINS 40-MILE RACE I Thorpe -Army cycling won the 40-mile fl (1 t;| rt road race from theselctar cir- Sunday. hi.s time 1111 52min. 'RNZAF) was E? Gordon Holt t M third. Seletar Wpbba and Patrick) f^im champion<ihip 1 cnuigi and the Army.
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    John Martens in Colony XI versus Ceylon
    96 15 JOHN MARTENS, the young Singapore Recreation Club's batsman who hit 141. the first century in this year's senior tournament, on Sunday, is In the Singapore team to play the touring Ceylon team on the padang on Saturday and Sunday. The tourists arc due
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    IBBOTSON BEATEN BY A FINN
    64 15 IBBOTSON BEATEN BY A FINN DEREK IBBOTSON, of Britain, the world's fastest miler, was unexpectedly beaten at Turku, Finland, last night over a mile by Olavi Salsola, of Finland. Salsola clocked 4min. o.2secT and Ibbotson (second) in 4min. o.ssec. Finnish fourminute miler Olavi Vuorisalo was third in 4min. 03 1
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    Lock icon BRITISH COLT WINS U.S. RACE
    57 15 Grey Monarch, a Britishbred colt owned by E. P. Taylor, of Toronto, led all the way to win the Saratoga Special for two-year-olds by threequarters of a length at Saratoga race course. George B. Widener's Jester, the favourite, finished second, a length and a quarter
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    SAVITT UPSETS VIC SEIXAS
    35 15 Dick Savitt, who was unseeded, beat Vie Seixas 6-4, 6-4, 1-6, 8-6 in the men's singles final of the Eastern Grass Courts Lawn Tennis Championships at South Orange, New Jersey, yesterday.
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    Lock icon SURREY NEED 15 RUNS FOR LEAD
    225 15 /~)NLY 16 overs were bowled sit the rain-washed Oval yesterday where Sui rey lost three wickrt« cheaply and still needed 15 runa for first Innings lead over Middlesex with three wickets remaining. Surrey needed 30 for the lead with six wicket* standing when play
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    SATURDAY WINNER
    27 15 ALU ALU (Franklin) returning to scales after winning the main event, a s&f handicap for Class 3, Div. 1 horses, at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
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    Lock icon LONDON WEATHERS A LAVE RALLY TO WIN ELIMINATOR
    158 15 LONDON WEATHERS A LAVE RALLY TO WIN ELIMINATOR BRIAN LONDON, of Britain outpointed Kitione Lave, of Tonga, over 10 rounds in an eliminating contest for the British Empire heavyweight boxing title at West Hartlepool last night. The contest attracted a crowd of 20,000 the biggest to watch a boxing tournament
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    Lock icon CLOTTEY BEATEN
    30 15 George Barnes retained his British Empire welterweight boxing title when he beat Attu Clottey, West Africa, on points over 15 rounds at the Sydney stadium last night.— U.P.
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    Lock icon A SHOE WREAKS HAVOC
    106 16 A SHOE WREAKS HAVOC rwyni: leader of a group of A mx that allegedly rubbed the Hank ot Amu oi 3.000.--000 b liit. < $450,000*. took off v shoe at the bearing in a Bangkok criminal court and Hung it at thi two Judges. The .shoe hit the court clerk
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    Lock icon B. GUIANA: RED RULE THREAT
    222 16 ORITISH GUIANESE, braving light rains, turned 13 out by the thousands yesterday, voting in general elections that will determine the power 3f Communism in Britain's lone possession in the South American continent. Streams of Guianese set out to the polls. Heavy balloting was reported in
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    Lock icon FRENCH ROUT REBEL FORCE
    30 16 French army units reportedly killed 50 nationalist rebels yesterday in a fight south east of Algiers. The army also reportedly soized a large arms cache. A.P.
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    44 16 picture. Colony businessman, Mr. Augustine Foo Cneow Suan and his bride, the former Miss Rose Agnes Young Pui Lin, who were married at the Church of Sacred Heart, Tank Road, Singapore. Leading them is pageboy Lawrence Chong and page-girl Leong Wee Kee. Free Press
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    Lock icon TRAPPED IN A CRASH
    131 16 Dutch trains in 55 m.p.h. collision AT least six people were killed yesterday In a train crash near Acht, between Eindhoven and Best, South Holland. An estimated 50 people were injured, several seriously. Many passengers were reported to be trapped in the wreckage. Latest reports said
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    Lock icon A chivalrous Italian sends rose to Queen
    461 16 ALTRINCHAM STILLUNDER FIR[ -BUT FROM PARIS COMES WARNING OF DECADENCE' A RED rose was delivered at Buckingham Palace yesterday a symbol of devotion from a chivalrous Italian monarchist whoresented the recent outspoken criticism of Queen Elizabeth. He is the ex-artillery officer, Alberto Marmirolli
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    Lock icon BANG GOES A BUS
    125 16 BANG GOES A BUS packages oi ti re A works exploded inside a crowded bus yesterday about eight 5 E miles north of Kagoshima. .l.ipan, 3 and injured >~> pas* sengers. 12 *ci iously, 5 E police reported. Immediately after C C the explosion, some 60 1 passengers made a
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      339 16 Straits Times Free Press For the convenience of odvertiser» our repre««ntotive ot l*t. floor, SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE, ORCHARD ROAD, will re-c-ive smoll odvcrtiwments ond answers to box numbers. Classified advertisements moy also be bonded to: CITY BOOK STORE LTD. Winchester House, Collyer Quay, Singapore. MR M. M. ISMAIL, 3 Admiralty
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  • Eve
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      Masthead
      9 1 Eve No. 57. Tuesday, August 13, 1957. i wmmmmm
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      Lock icon Here are our real pioneers
      405 1 I [ACHING toward Singapore's new horizons for womanhood are these young members of Y.W.C.A.'s International Club. While they resent the city's three leading communities, \j also symbolise all women here who in the t have made historical contributions to Sinore's history and also those of
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        125 1 Smoother, creamier W^W/f^i CHEESE DIPS «/j!% Bj^W economical cottage [Du^^^fi w[A» cheese in just /^c^S^f^^x^ 25 seconds S^^^^sßamWsi /V V /I with the amazing lsj? 12 Nfx! time company comes, treat yrnir tlr7*TZVfiW KuesLs to a heaping Ik>wl of creamy, j^'^ifggja tangy cheese dip. .nestled In i /j>kEl^ \illUP\ wreath
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      Lock icon GOODS NEWS AND CHIC FOR S'PORE UNKNOWN
      719 2 GOODS NEWS AND CHIC FOR S'PORE UNKNOWN T*HAT most ancient of feminine instincts curi<, s itv-~--x toward goods new and strange, as 1957 moves tow!?! lutionary year in our history regarding Merchandise c with our progressive toward a new Singapore— keyed I of the great port cities of the world.
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      A tasty meal from Denmark
      348 2 A tasty meal from Denmark T ET US fly today into a trouble-free land noted for its butter, poultry products, silverware and porcelain, a church-going population and one of the Western world's worst housing shortages Denmark. While the Nazi soldiers no longer stand on guard at Copenhagen's Hotel d'Angleterre, the
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      Dyes from
      80 2 toXAMINIVG the Lj duced by India 5 humble village cott some facts eoncej these are oi natur for the vivid peflW It seems thai m E whose uses en h minine beauty art. Popular s Dyes used ';>' C are popular witl 5 hair they use the PJJ
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        292 2 The OPTICAL HOUSE Optirittns The House for VISION and Elegant Eye-Wear Opticians to H.H. The Sultan of Jotwrc 169, Middle Road, (Between B<»nooolen and Waterloo Streets). Singapore. Tel: ***** pZ^ZT %riUrmoJ DIPLOMA OF GOLD *W MEDAL €r AT O- MOP NEW INVENTION A TIME LABOUR SAVER U&\ FOR CLEANLINESS COMFORT!
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      India
      65 3 1 "'T textiles pro- I 1 Modern mills and 3 a r« f EVE learned i used. Most of I ■nich accounts colours. v^'..';' 1 1 the formulae I dyeing but fe- H s )lk v l!( /manufacturers 3 'V n-ngthon their 5 <^ washes made I their 5
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      WHERE TO BUY
      191 3 WHERE TO BUY ALL OCCASION millinery, handbags and belts, Antoinette's, 10 Coflyer Quay; S\J.S. gowns and frocks, Town tr Country, Meyer chambers. Raffles PI. and Orchard Rd. (Tanglin); Indonesian oil paintings, Malayan Javanese Arts Curios, 157 Orchard Rd.; WMF crystal decorative accessories, Robinson's, Raffles PL; Startrite children's shoes, English walking
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      Lock icon A smart salute to sunny weather
      78 3 Smart salute to summer is this enchant ing and feminine cocktail frock with I matching stole worn by the dainty Singa pore model on the left. This turquoise creation has a full skirt with clever side flaring hemline shirring, caught with cat's whisker bows,
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      Feminascope
      1329 4 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIU rIS being the Chinese Year of the Rooster, these generous-sized porcelain roosters have something to crow about especially if they are used as hand- some ornaments in your home. White cockerels both, they boast natural -colour- ed ceramic combs and feet. Hens are available too at the shop
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