The Singapore Free Press, 6 August 1955

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press r>t Afternoon Sale m iVlaiaya N( i j :"i. Ninuaimrr. Sat.. Aug. 19:»:,. Price If (ts.
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  • 227 1 Carmen Miranda, 41 sang, danced then died going to bed TRAGEDY OF TWO STARS •\KMEX MIRANDA, tiny "Brazilian bombshell" tamed for her dancing, singing, bare midrifl and -salad head-dresses, collapsed and died of a heart •k as she was goina- to bed early yesterday She .-..is 41. Shortly before, she
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  • 142 1 THE bottom dropped out ol the joyous homecoming yesterday of Airman Daniel Schmidt, one of the 11 US. airmen freed two days ago trom captivity m Red China. The Air Force, which had i hidden the truth from him since Thursday, broke the news to Schmidt
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  • 27 1 A special constable, Pairon bin Haji Pa.^hid. was K>bb< d of $47 by three Chinese m a back lane oil Tras Street, Singapore, last night
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  • 42 1 F Mowing the easier >vernight London and New markets, the price ol rubber In Singapore thi- morning <>p' ned at $1,521 a lb. tor August th a. ale. li cents below yester- b '-lose. The tone was un- f un.
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  • 23 1 Some 500.000 Briti.sh Civil Service employees yestei were granted 5 per cent pay raises totalling 1 15,000,000 a year. A.P.
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  • 23 1 Emperor Bao Dai ol Vietnam and his family have arrived In Milan to shop and go sightt seeing A.P.
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  • 153 1 Girl with groat heart alio made come-back actress Susan Ball, died of cane- of the lung yesterday m a L<; •les nursing home which she wenl r treatment after leaving hospital .'lv. She was 21. •lore than 18 months agoshe an operation for removal her right
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  • 33 1 stratocruiser irom Mm-, ills currying 68 people 1 led through a fence on landing at Midway airport. r hicago yesterday and came I m n street. No-one lajurta.- A.P.
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  • 114 1 OVER 100,000 excited men l and women shOU t ed Nehru, march troops into Goa" at i Poona <* mete •erday even! aile t bodies of two Indians killed by Portuguese Sten-gun fire* lasi Wednesday were cremated oo the bank ol the Mutha
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  • 172 1 (SCIENTISTS and Parliamentarians irom all over the orld last nitfht passed a unanimous resolution calling on all governments to "acknowledge pnbHcly" that their purpose* cannot be furthered by war. Tho resolution was passed at the end ot a conference on nuclear energy Ln London, amid
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  • 16 1 All Argentine' civilians detained followlns the June 16 rebellion have been nl* I I
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  • 147 1 Shock for Chinese in America RED china has Informed the Unit< I th it it considers all Chln< se nationals m Am« rIC t not J students are liable tor repatriation. author sources m New Delia said yesterday china Is reported to consider all people -if Chine ancestry her own
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  • 96 2 Surprise that il is mainly youths <>f the 1 ederation who man Ili C Royal Malayan Navy's Ships S/as expressed hy the Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, When he made a threeiiour Inspection visit to the it. M. N. headquarters a i oodlands j
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  • 250 2 Senator urges SEATO action SENATOR Mike M ■3 field (Democrat-Mon-tana) said yesterday m Washington, that Communist North Vi has been guilty of "outright aggreB 8 i o n" against the inch dent state of Laos. He called for action under the eight-nation South Bast Asia defence
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  • 121 2 THE United Nations International Labour Organisation announced yesterday that Mrs. Frieda Miller, former head of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labour, will visit Asia to survey conditions of work for women. She will visit Burma, Ceylon. India, Indonesia, Japan. Pakistan, the
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  • 62 2 A young cousin of Queen Elizabeth was lined €2 yesterday for speeding at Wellingborough. He was Simon Alexander Bowes-Lyon, 23. of St. Paul's Waldenbury, Hitchin. His father and the Queen Mother are first cousins. Police said the youth drove at 90 miles an hour
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  • 34 2 Cargo movement was almost back to normal m Bombay harbour yesterday as nearly 3,000 out of 4,000 striking lorry drivers returned to work after a five-day general transport strike.- Reuter
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  • 27 2 Two Guatemalans convicted of multiple murders committed during the last days of the pro-Communist regime Jacobo Arbenz Guzman died before a flrine sauad yesterday- A.P.
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  • 232 2 MARSHAL Bulganin yester-l day m Moscow invited fori "v envoys to spend S indai "at home' 1 with him an unprecedented gesture and promts d to study further j j': 1 id* nt Elsenhower's pro--1 ii a c mutual aerial, raphy of each other's. territory. Deputies
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  • 123 2 rIE price of tea is going up and the Burmese government says the rise is "unwarranted." A cup of tea formerly cost 25 pyas (about 15 cents). It's now 80 pyas. Shopkeepers said they had to boost the charge because of rising
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  • 131 2 THE outlook for peace m the Far East and current negotiation between the United Slates and Communist China at Geneva is expected to be reviewed when Japan's Foreign Minister Mr. Shigemitsu, visits Washington. Mr. Shigemitsu is due to arrive ln Washington on
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    • 94 2 It's Slill On! THE GREATEST STOCK- CAIE TAKING FURTHER RANGE OF ALL GOODS MIST BE SOLD TODAY AT DRASTICALLY REDUCED PRICESI TO CLEAR Plain fancy Talleta 36" wide $1.00 p.yd Printed Silk 45" wide $1.25 Printed Georgette 45" wide $1.25 Printed ChllTon 45" wide (exclusive designs) |_J| (Joid Printed Bilk
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  • 341 3 11l VIVIENJNE PI CKRIDGE a VRW ny evening Is 1 i Evening at jjj Hot el. invita- E have be c n sent E i/icemen Ln Smga- and a nnks will be at NAAFI Club E es. rhey will be en- E ined by Johnny on,
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  • 72 3 N.Z. Com m ission er we lcom ed picture The New Zealand Society (Malaya) yesterday gave ;i cocktail parly at the Tam;l in Club, Singapore, to welcome Mr. Toss Shaiaihan, the first New Zealand Commissioner to be appointed to South-Fust Asia. Picture shows (from left) Mr. IV (i M» •\rtne;,
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  • 209 3 Mystery bullets will not stop trip to moon WOULD-BE explorers oi the Moon were given an assurance yesterday at Copenhagen, that neither 1 their space ship nor the surface of the Moon would be I too "hot" from cosmic ray bombardment for such a I venture. It was given by
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  • 19 3 a Baptist leader, back York irom i tour ol lis, .and m diplon rut out
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  • 42 3 n-iHF pain fa mburn di rd J ph Ban I cor! licide. a W ncr ruled [fered sunstro* a a I quanl rm r wrote drVd tablet dl,(1 -J u lead when a doctoi arrived. U.P.
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  • 169 3 $200,000 LOSS BY MP's WIFE rFHIEVES broke into a MonA treal nursing home room occupied by Mrs. Lillian Pursey, wife of a British Member of Parliament, (airly yesterday and stole about $200,000 worth of jewellery which she described as "everything I had." Mrs. Pursey. a former Hungarian baroness who was
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  • 65 3 rVHE U.S. Rubber Company A announced yesterday that Mr. Vincent Madsen. of Mew York, has been named managing director of Its plantation division. He hud been deputy director. The company said Madsen will direct all operations of the division, which operates plantations totalling ***** acres of planted
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  • 24 3 Margaret Truman, daughtei of former President Truman, sailed aboard the liner United Stat- erday for a sevenweek tour of Europe. A.P.
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  • 116 3 INDIA HIT BY FLOODS, DROUGHT INDIA th flood and Incessant rail iuj Hlmala; In turn' ha m i. ir md P more thi tei But In oth In I m the Mayui Ke -njl .r and Cut tack districts i inn arc tcliiri t h. ir lands, cattle .a luU
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  • 53 3 WM I.' 11. T.. i. 111 r m mo.vt, vi'- iaij) m Wt?ather bur c a v yesterday warned ihips to keep clear ol a medium tore- typh m heading toward the Chinese I N itionall it md. The typhoon wa local d about 700 mill's ROUthPAHI nf
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  • 43 3 A DROUGHT wms officially proclaimed In parts oi Scotland yesterday. Water Is being radon fl. Taps ran dry 10 days aK<> at several villages In Dunbartonshire. An appeal went out advising bath i "only when absolutely nece i ary A. P.
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  • 265 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, August 8, 1955. Opinion TWO-WAY CONTRACT A MID the welter ol words Spoken 111 accusation and rebuttal among our comparatively you n g trade unions one mission i.s glaringly apparent. Nol a single word has be< n spoken ol cither thc employer's rights, the unionist
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  • 692 4 WILL THE GOOD TIMES LAST? Prices are rising m England and the nation is worried about inflation. While the cost of living m the United States has remained stable for some time, over-extended credit may cause trouble, reports SAM DAWSON r> R 0 B PI R I TV that pi'
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  • 297 4  -  UNKNOWN BY IMIE cost of living, which becomes more and more stable as prices rise, started the experts the other day by going up three points. This will be followed by the usual assurance that what may seem to be a rise is really onjy a long-term
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  • 34 5 Mr. Malcolm MaeDonald with Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Anciano and their family at a farewell party to the CommissionerGeneral at their home m Kirk Terrace, Singapore. Free Press picture.
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  • 298 5 Find us clerks' jobs, visitors ask Mr. Chew Fjewkr people cams to Mr. Chew Swee X Minister of Education and Member for Whani|>o:i at bil second meet-the-people mom this week Several wanted Mi Chew m addition to his ready advice and promise of h Ip to find clerical work lor
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  • 155 5 'Murder' cry in thy Commons A MIDDLE- AGED couple jumped to their feel In the Strangers' Gallery ol the Commons shouting that their 16-year-old daughter had been murdered. As attendants hurried to their place hi the front row fMr. Btanlev Ward, a 50-year-old accountant's clerk, cried: "My daughter waa murdered
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  • 226 5 Learned better use of local food SINGAPORE nurses who were at the World Health I Nursing Education Seminar at Suva. Fiji attended sessions m the training of the community nurse. Including her services to the public as health worker j and midwife, the problems ol I conducting genera] public health
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  • 30 5 The Penang Dance Association Will hold a charity ball at the E and O Hotel tonight ,In aid of the Federation school for the Deal Appeal I Week.
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    • 67 5 Another NEW I Aj Al mm awmt mm* V |V A S. SWIMSUIT K)R 1955 CATALINA satisfies SI every exacting demand: y\ FOREMOST m FASHIOfJ J mf Flattery lo all types of figures ift^ FAULTLESS U*?4 T WORKMANSHIP 1 i& I SUPERIOR FABRICS Beyond -ill doubt the FOREMOST SWIMSUIT W\\
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 726 5 (IK KCH OF ENGLAND i Mr. Ec Soon Howe (Eng.); 10.30 >t. Andrew's Cathedral: 7 a.m. a.m. Service (Malay) Rev. E. S. Communion; 8 a.m. Suns Lav <H. c.); 5.30 p.m. Servicers and Parish Communion; Rev. E. S. Lav. (Big.) am. Sunday School; 10.30 a.m. Paya Lebar: 8.45 ana Sunday
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    • 280 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis I zri i M^§gg?.y^^ 11 [u^m-r I ffli IhMe 1 t ?h PLEAS! GIVE HKWCK^I |a^> I SOLO THE PILLS AND USED THE J 'NTOTME PAS *i L fK^i.!^^ THEGAOGET. IVWGO. I WILL?] GADGET HEPE^__-— USED -"iT GETS THINGSy^G- 1 MUSI 00. „f~
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    • 703 6 v YOUR i 1 LUCKY: STAR I 1 B° RN ioda) m-jor t J search m life appears U +be for peace. harmon> and f happiness m a quiet and con tented home life. You are one Tof those who are the l M <k- X bone of the community
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  • Round the World Market -Prices
    • 213 7 LONDON. Aug. 5 Previous Today i:l BBER No. 1 RSS c.i.f. European 43 buyer s 4_' j im. p«rl| Aug^t 43';. sellers v i:i BBER No. 1 RSS r.i.f. European 43' buyers 42 i buyers Ports September 43 M sellers 43 sellers ii BBC! No. 1 RSS
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    • 97 7 NEW YORK. Aug. Previous Today Tin Straits spot and nearby 97.50 nom. 97.25 nom. Jin tulures August 96.35 bid 96.10 bid 97.25 asked 97.10 asked September 94.60 bid 94 35 bid 95.75 lusked 90.60 asked October 94.35 bid 94.10 bid 95.35 asked 95.20 a.sked rONE: Quiet. BALES:
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    • 64 7 S}v*t Malabar and awaiting release 45. Afloats 44 2 to 44. First half August 44. Sarawak spot and awaitli release 40. Afloats 38-... First hall August 38 with small amount of business reported beiru? done at 37a.. Lssapong spot and awaiting release 45. Afloats 44'- to 44. First
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    • 33 7 NEW YORK, Auc. V Previous Today M Industrials 454.18 456.40 M Railroads 154.73 155.00 10 DomesMc Bonds 99.41 99 34 15 Itilities 65.98 66.23 (it Slock* Composite Average 164.23 164.85
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    • 118 7 OPRA Philippines cJ.f. UK/North ruropean delivered Height per long ton Ail*;. /Sept. OPRA Philippines fob. Manila m hulk, per ton < OPRA Straits c.ii. UK/North Ruropean delivered weight per long ton July Aug. Aug. Sept. < OCONUT OIL orude Straits c.i.f. IK North European m bulk,
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  • 27 7 Dr H. K. Ray, Medical Officer at Raub District Hospital, has gone on four weeks' leave. Dr. Leon-' Chye Mun, irom Bentun-j, nu_> ULcu over.
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  • 43 7 MRS. EX HOON CHWEE opening a fun fair held at the Holy Innocents' English School m aid of the school's building fund. Looking on arc (from left) Mr. Kang Soon Teck. Mr. Mm Hoon Noon and Rev. Brother Director Noel.
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  • 182 7 She didn't have a school uniform A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl said that all the girl* m her school laughed at her because she was the only one without a school uniform. She wa s in tears as she told North London Juvenile Court: "They tease me because
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  • 394 7 Prisoner-m-car wife gets divorce decree her church bans A ROMAN CATHOLIC wit. asked tor a divorce decree —and got it. But ihe said hei Church would not recogia.se it as binding. Mr. Justice Wfflmer, who heard the application at Birmingham, said it wa.s an extremely diflieult ca.sr. There was a
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  • 147 7 IT was odd, but whenever Lord Lucas of Chilworth was speaking In the House of Lords the noise Of I helicopter interrupted him Other peers have been heard m .silence. Lars were strained when he rose to complain again about the Infernal noise." but
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  • 867 8  - HE WAS BLACKMAILED FOR £300,000 HUSH-MONEY STANTON HOPE by The Ordeal oi jar a a 'Mr. A* (*AY m i choed In 1 the brightly lit Albert Hall H u iid i ed a <<i COliph s danced unc' light I I < celebi tJon since lc< Day on th<
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  • Article, Illustration
    67 8 picture. The Queen chats with Lady leh m who was with her husband, the Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden an old comrade of the Regiment at the Royal inspectioen of the King's Royal Rifle Corps at St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire. With Sir Anthony m bne'--rround is the Duke e»f Kdin
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  • 479 8 (.•CO 'or.. to Charles En. These cheques cs hand of Will;. bogus solicitor, was ci other had to I His 'It'tfttl /W* mmmm MAWO But first it was nece U 11 Mr. Robinson what had been g< to sweeten him with a -a small share -of
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  • 387 9 But woman, 72, declares: Til fighl to end this 9 rpHET are scared down m Playford-road, Islington's 1 dice-throwing, pitch-and-toss gambling ground. They have been scared for years. But they have been even more scared since 52- old Police Sergeant Robert Cullen was
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  • 178 9 Lifeboat drill nonsense TRAWLERMEN SAID LIFEBOAT drills, which the law says seafaring men must do regularly, are so unpopular with trawler crews that four men quit one boat because "they were not going to put up with that sort of nonsense." Transport Ministry surveyor Mr. A. A. Mitchell told of
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  • 91 9 SENTENCE of 14 years passed on Sydney Wainwright, aged 69, for forging Bank of md notes was reduced to 12 years by Mr. Justice Hallett at Leeds because of his age. The judge said that if Wainwright gained full remission he would serve only
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  • Article, Illustration
    45 9 picture- ri,.r,* for thc NorwesUUi-NeW Ye,rk Line-, uho hop.- te» c _pture- sonic Ol AN ARTISTS impression of the new liner Ber«ensfj.)ru ie r mc u rm ftf SwAll n un t cr ua d \Yi_ha_u Jind U* Atlantic tour-t trade with her. •fJ^^^^r-X^.Srt^ Reuter
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  • 38 9 Damages of £200 were awarded by agreement to MLss Dorothy Jones Barrett, of RuLslip. Middlesex, at Brentford County Court against Mr. Reginald Logan ol Hayes End. who admitted breach of promise. No evidence was heard.
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  • 44 9 r picture. VBBONIQUI ZI B E It, "MLss France with a <ew hair style called Petit Jardin Japonais" little Japanese garden). t is one of several new tyles planned by French oiffeur Antonio, just back i'rom a visit to Japan. Popper
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  • 144 9 The rescue came 100 late IT WAS hot m the sun on the banks of tho Serpentine m London's Hyde Park, and no one was very surprised when the 16st. man wearing nothing but blue dungarees, kicked off hLs shoes and dived m. No
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  • 305 9 Hat rush makes Thaarup sigh 'THE time w.i_. nine a m The doors of a women '.s department store m Kensington High -street. London, were thrown open The Queue of fashionably dressed women poured m. They flooded the lifts* other* took the ftalra two at a time. England's most fashionable
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  • 38 9 a ifl month-* fell Mfi from the winckn r fat hi WrminHham and csl il unhurt The girl, Jean Bolrar. -jf I nkehou »ye. Westheath, concussion but "no umuus uiiuaci,'' A-aid doctors.
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  • 291 10 WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES picture. picture. picture. picture. pictures Former Corporal Lewis **ririggs, 22, of Jacksonville. Texas, is greeted by his mother (above) on arrival m San Francisco m company with two other American soldiers who elected to sta y with the Chinese after the Korean War. All three were
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  • 70 11 pictures. New Zealander George Lowe (m top left picture) a member e>f the British Ceimmonweallh expedition to the South Pole which plans to set out next ye«ar tries out his outfit and ste»rm mask he will wear. Lowe, a member of the successful Everest
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  • 1642 12 The Spine-Chillmg Kastner Case The young and vigorous nation of Israel went to the polls last week m a general election that was dominated by something which happened before the nation itself even existed. It was one of the strangest elections ever fought. And the final result was that the
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  • 67 12 KASTNER. .Rudolf Kastner, one-time head of the Jewish rescue committee m wartime Hungary, now a high official of Mapai, the Israel Socialist Party. GRUENWALD Malchiel Gruenwald, a Hungarian Jew, who started a news-letter m Jerusalem and published the accusation against Kastner. TAMIR Katsinnenson Tamir, former
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  • SATURDAY PAGE FOR CHILDREN
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      892 13  -  KATHLEEN HICKLEY OV iimmmiimiiiiiiiimiiiii Mother has a lovely surprise for Simon *IMPLE SIMON 'meets a );in but hasn't any x to buy a pie so he goes the fair and tries to earn H me. But Simon is very iple and keeps doing every WTWm g. At
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    • 226 13 CLUH ACROSS:— I. A lot of people m London go riding m 'ten 7. Devonshire town lamoui for its pillow lace. 8. Anothei name for Ireland. 10. Cry of f ow. li. -jack the killer." 12. BUI and Ben. the Flower ™tn. 13, Berkshire town famous jor its
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    • 197 13 Rupert and Morwenna 12 The little friends seem so serous tha. ih- fisherman s.ops laughing them "Oh. please do come w:th us <.o my fairy Racks." pleads Mcrwenna. "We could show you where WI sorted ihe adven.ure. and Wi could ttt if any cf the things' wt Jo;; are thereV'
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 170 13 j.:>" 7Z£*£i -w?~Iirr.~- vr- HOLIDAY time is here again, boys and girls, so get busy on this picture' of a flying boat taking off) with your paints, crayons or chalks and try to win some pocket money. The prizes are four of $5 each (two for boys and two for
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  • 1693 14  - MY FIRST SECRET AGENT ERIC AMBLER DID IT HAPPEN by— IN 19:i9, just after the war began, I wrote a thriller about German secret agents m Turkey, called Journey Into Fear. Later it was chosen as the Evening Standard Book of the Month for July 1940. In that book, there
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    • 24 14 I THE answer to yesterday's I "Did It Happen story— "THE I TABLET IN THE HILLS" I is NO. it did not happen. I
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    • 35 14 Answer on Monday eau de V :|i cologne t&M j ma griffe kbiatJ robe dun soir B?^J xJ CHninntir «J Uadwf t— S* A^» F A VaKUOAA WAIOI CO ITO It f t-tfyft— l Ww-"
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    44 15 picture. DRESSED TO KILL. Pink taffeta pants, coy imitation of a bullfighter's breeches, peep from under the shirt of this long-peeved shirt dress of gunmetal gauze. It is one of the autumn fashions shown by Robert Schultv of London. It is called "Maiiolete."- Reuter
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  • 564 15  - HONESTY is PATH to CHARM Cynthia Lowry by IT IS possible for every A woman to dress smartly but she has got to be objective and realistic. So says Miss Edith Head, head of the tailoring department at a major Hollywood film studio. "The first thing to do is get
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  • 683 15 A UTUMN fashions fit to a -r— the tunic, the tube and the torso. New York designers, preparing to unveil their autumn collections to the American fashion press, have a bag of new tricks up their collective sleeve, destined to start the customers running to
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    • 16 15 M. FLINTER S. GRINBERG Diamonds Jewellery 67, Stamford Rd., (Eu Court Bid*.,) Spore, 6. Telephone 7923.
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    • 34 15 BEWARE f. <tf Mat first f/vf 4at> and take action ktitk mm 12 LOVELY SHADES Available nt all Ltitding Dispensaries.' Agents: THE FEDERAL DISPENSARY LTD. 33 Raffles Place, Spore Cold Storage Arcade, Orchard Rd-
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  • 123 16 fTWO "guests m day clothes, A unembarrassed by invitation.-., some nights auo. jumped the fence from Hyde Park, scaled a wall and climbed through an open window of the Hyde Park Hotel m London. They appeared m the bar at the coming-out ball for Carolyne ClogK
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    30 16 picture. The TSS, "Sea Wolf, America's second atomic-powered submarine, was launched at (.roton, Connecticut. It is similar to its elder sister, •Nautilus/ but is said to have many improvements. Popper
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  • 600 16 IT'S TWIN-SET TIME IN THE RAG TRADE and those Americans IHIIiHIMIIIMIIIIIII MtIHIIM I love it •••••tllllMlMlllllllMMtllltllnilil kv. rpHIS li the time when crew-cuts fill the bar nl tllC Savoy Hotel. Ixnidon. This i.s the* time when weary American women slip their shoes off under the table at the Ritz i
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 216 16 BRIDGE QUIZ As John R Crawford point-; out m hi.s book resoundingly titled "How to Be A Winner at the Ten Mast popular Card Game.*." lots of points are thrown away because the average pi; vei doesn't properly value a pirt score, and doesn't take utmost advantage of it when
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    • 314 16 round forcing bid. But since two hearts ls enough for game, that Is the correct bid with this hand. (b) Two diamonds. Your reasoning i.s the same as m the preceding example. Partner should not deny this kind of takeout unless he has fewer than two small cards In your
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    • 304 16 J I 1 j I——— i i io~""^| I I ■jj a jpjjp#-**"~~'v ßaßa J ß *j*r~'* aB >B>B^ CLUES ACROSS penny (5). n/ for travel mi- BWStfSg tlauy (n 6 A pale-coloured ship? (I). 5 A strong man's mountains? (5) furniture for a cric--BTo pu^e us at the end
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  • 839 17  - The fallen star fights back THOMAS WISEMAN SATURDAY SHOW TALK by UE was the unofficial ll Wicked Gentleman of Shepherd's Bush when Margaret Lockwood was the official Wicked Lady. H« wm* next to Stewart iger. the leading man of Ue was Lord Byron on the n Noel Coward on TV;
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    60 17 picture. HOLLYWOOD dancing star i Ann '.Wller waves :k she jumps out of a helieoptcr at Lilian's Sonth Bank She had come from London Air- port, where she landed after flying by BFA from P?ris for the last visit of a world-wide tour. Her clothes and jewellery for the trip
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  • 817 17  -  David Lewin by 0i1 airplanes Jane Russell, but a dream is fading now... rpHE man who broke with Howard HugheS one of such a long line who did spoke m London a few nights a^o about the Howard Hushes style of running things. Peter Rathvon was the president
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  • 100 17 A PITIFUL figure on one of the major lots >n a Hollywood studio these days is a one-time glamour actress, still considered a top star, who is making k return to the lereea after three years. She holds up production for hours daily m desperate efforts to
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  • 675 18  - CUP SHOULD RETURN TO SINGAPORE TODAY LARRY ROBERTS by ...but it will be hard to break Kelantans greet fighting heart IVAN VASS WHO WILL WIN THK n M A LATA CUP FINAL AT JALAN BESAR STADIUM THIS AFTERNOON? First, let Ufl take a look at the records of the opposing
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  • 418 18 EAST COAST BOYS CONFIDENT OF ANOTHER SHOCK VICTORY says...NG YOOK YOON t YOU MAY THINK KELANI 1 TAN IS CRAZY FOR I BELIEVING THEY (AN BEAT SINGAPORE IN TOt DAY S MALAYA (IP X SOCCEI FINAL. BIT THEY REALLY DO THINK THEY I WILL SURPRISE THE COLONY .It SI AS
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  • 134 18 VOI EWE TEIK, well known IVnang schoolmaster sporstinait. who will be m charge of the Malaya (up final today, has long heen recognised as one of the I ederaf ion's hest leferees. Kor several years he has lierli an oflni.il nf the Malayan hinese E.A. Ewe Teik.
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  • 468 18 Free Press CUP FINAL SPECIAL HOW THEY REACHED THE FINAL X SINGAPORE beat MlhfCl >S 6-2: Awang; Rakar (3). Ismail j( >> Yusoff and Ilahim Omar, at Pens: Chuan (1) for Malacca. > SINGAPORE beat Johorf i U 3-1: Rahim Omar and Ab- >/ dullah Zainol scored for Sin- n
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  • 84 19 picture. picture. picture. RIVER PATROL with Kitson Leong astride beating Beecaflcoes (Hudson) and Satisfaction (Bougoure) home to win the first race on Thursday at Penang.— Free Pree TRYAS (Leong) finished ahead of Lime Dust (Bourgoure) to win Race Two for Class 2 Div I over 6f horses.
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  • 227 19 *THE touring South African '•rickets again showed their for the present fast wicket conditions when beating Warwickshire by ten wickets ar Birmingham yesterday. Warwickshire faced with the task of obtaining 194 runs to avoid an innings defeat, only just succeeded m making the tourists
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  • 525 19 CROWD BARRACK SURREY AS THEY PLOD ON TO DEFEAT LANCS YORKSHIRE and Surrey, the latter county with two matches m hand, remain level with iOB points ut the head of the English county cricket championship table as a result of victories yesterday. Hampshire, who were not engaged m the current
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  • 60 19 HAP •W-'.'ir and 'I'.«.mp« nl.s Hovers drew 2-2 m a SAFA Div. 2A iMfUt tOOOtt lixture at Farrer Part yesterday. Hla-de and Flavin scored for Seletar and Andrew Lim and Slang Mong for Rovers. Jollilads m awarded a walkover when Setla Java I, tiled to turn
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  • 109 19 One-way traffic uill be enforced thLs afternoon along Kitchener Koad from Jalan Besar to King George Avenue for n smooth flow of traffic which Ls expected to be heavy around Jalan Besar Stadium where the Malaya Cup football final is being played. All cars dropping passengers
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  • 48 19 The Shell S.C. team to meet SCC. m a cricket fixture on the padang today will be: C D. Harris. I. Goonasegaram, P W. Cotterlll. M. Hull. A. C. Stockbridge G. Clarke, L. Pencott. E. Kruseman, J. Copland. R. Plowright. J. D. Maughan.
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    • 57 19 tWRESTLIIVC I HAPPY WORLD ****^^fv lIOMICHII I0MICHI AT 9P M .4*k ,g j. Champion of Pakistan *****n ill **dP' t '-i^ mm g m m^ VS. tm. i h\h '^f^^ [Conqueror of Kirn* Kontf] CENE MURPHY vs. BOSCA BOA BUD CODY vs. LEOW KWONC SENC R- THOMPSON vs. TICER AHMAT
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  • 438 20 Services had their chances but finished poorly (3INGAFORE Combined Services had the Austrian Salzburg team fighting hard v a 4 l victory m their farewell game of the tour at Jalan Besar yesterday. gcr*flc*ai Attacked from the itart with a move by Corneliom who received Irom O'Neill and tested Krammer.
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  • 90 20 *£-*OUH n;itioii.i! champiotii will compete m the IsaJajraa lawn tennis champion htpi which .start o*3 OH At; a 11. •j bi .ii Ucp Tjteuw of todone ila, S X.l dak ol sum, X H Ip nl Hongkong and On I Chew Btt oi Moll 'iiie
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  • 222 20 DOLAND CLARK of Brunei equalled the Malayan record of lOsec. for the 100 yards when he won the event m the British Borneo Inter-territorial athletic meet held at Seria, Brunei, on July 30. But tie was not the best performer. The award went to Police constable
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  • 206 20 TODAY SOCCER MALAYA COT FINAL: Singapore v Kt-i.i iit.tii Jalan Besar, 5.15; I I'll Mill Sukuiamai v Alexandra. Jalan Besar. 3.30. SWIMMING Chinese Swimming Club championships, S pool, I.M p.m. CBICUT FRIFNDLIFS Shell v S C.C, padang; Non -Benders v S.C R.C., Hong lim (ireen; I niversilv v
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  • 119 20 •jPHE heavyweight champion of A Pakistan Syed Shall Shah will make hLs debut In Singapore tonight when he takes on the heavyweight champion of South-eust Asia. Tiger Joiander, at the Happy World arena. Shah, who will be conceding almost 50-lb. m weight to Joginder. makes
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    74 20 picture. DENIS COMPTON, is caught at the wicket by I. II B. Waite off T. L. Goddard m the fourth England vs. South Africa Test match on July 26 at Leeds. England lost by VA runs with nearly two hours to spare. Thus for the first time the two countries
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  • FREE PRESS RACE DAY Special
    • 5 1 FREE PRESS RACE DAY Special
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    • 235 1 JIMSCHEERDER says: Three Rings for Gold Cup Amateur tipsters SINGAPORE A. F.A. Hon. H secretary "Pop' Yong .selection for Thursday's I wm* Producer who was I In Race 5. Producer paid foi a place which means j Pop" is down $2, sharing •ond place m the Amateur "Tipsters' League table
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    • 246 1 I RESPASSER I'KI.AMIOK EPSOM JEEP < **M- BO¥ POINTER Race 1 DISNEY HOI.IDW FLIG-R MATRIX "ffH!_? SHOESHINE BOY 2.15 Boy Ricky Holiday Elight £>"*■■■ vrol ?K______- r_r«l Orfcsa Orisso <>riss* Technicolor < hrlstman iroJ Race 2 MRMARK KING (ROW AIRMARK KINGPORT KING ('ROW MS King Crow
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    • 497 1 MRMARK IS DAY'S DCCT OCT DUD I DC I FREE PRESS RACING CORRESPONDENT OLD CUP clay at Penang dawned bright and clear and barring any rain, the going this afternoon wiH be good. South Pacific. Zabaulione and DH-very are- the three trongest fancies for the Cup
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    • 1182 2 RACE 1-2.15: CLASS 4, DIV. 1-6 FURS. i 012 Dtaaej .;> k a a Bit ikelen 9 no T :n t rechnieolor table) Spencer Bli Beii oriss.i 6y cl Breukelen B.ICJ Boagontre,a Kiek\ bikes Mr <*v Mr. M w r Heddle 6.09 II Westoth Ij branri
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    • 2035 3 T rack form of today's acceptors at Penang .<ACE ONt Cl. 4. Div. I— 6f. iiKiNEY: 28-7-55 Created im- ionto H spin m 38; 30-7-55— into second place kactaf by length to Westoth; 4-8-55— ti< wm the straight with there was very little between 'he finish. c HMI'OI.OR 28-7-55-Raced bends
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    • 1229 4 SINGAPORE FORM POINTS TO STRAITS CODE IN GOLD CUP CL. 1. DIV. I—6 FURS. Disney: Meets Westoth 4-lb. better for half a length beatIng. Terhnicolor: Track did not rait. Orissa: Good each- way chance. Westoth: Won well; up 8-lb, good chance. Sli«>esliine Boy: Doubt if he will
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