The Singapore Free Press, 3 November 1951

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA no ***** SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    He wrote Singapore history for wife
    11 1 He wrote Singapore history for wife I 3 t tye j
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    PORT SAID DOCKS ARE IDLE
    463 1 Biggest M.E. airlift brings in 6,000 troops LONDON, Saturday. [■UK War Office said yesterday that civil shipping at Port Said was "at a complete standstill 9 as a result of "intimidation" keeping Egyptian workers away from their jobs. Ships with stores for the Egyptian Air
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    Away from if all
    86 1 LONDON >at Cl YIN HUNDRED wives and children evacuated tram the Canal zone aboard the liner Empress of Australii arrived at Liverpool w-Nierday. Mrs. Kathleen Gill more viul, "Anyone who has seen uhut we saw at Ismailia \v»ll know that women and children are best away
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    MORE BOMBERS FOR BRITAIN
    42 1 The U.S. 123 rd Fighter ocr Wing, about 1.600 men strong, will be sent to Britain soon. Though stationed m England, it will come under the command of Liuet-General Laurls Norstad, Allied Air Commander m Central Europe. Reuter
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    $6 MIL. ESTATE DEAL
    143 1 $6 MIL. ESTATE DEAL FORMER Japanese--1 owned rubber estates m the Tawau area of Borneo, have been purchased by the Colonial Development Corporation and Harrisons and Crosfield (Borneo) Ltd. at between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000, reports Brown's Malayan Economic Review. It is understood that Harrisons and Crosfield will be responsible for
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    TWO WIDE BOYS
    15 1 If possible, wed m*._ j a really good look at this afternoon."
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    Dentunny best bet
    41 1 ALLAN Lewis. Free Press racing correspondent, gives Scotch Express, Dentunny and Slickness as his best bets today. TRESPASSER recommends Sea Dragon and Good Advice. PICTURE TIP and thus morning's course tips In Page 7. THE GOING is heavy.
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    Lennox-Boyd for Colonial Office
    89 1 LONDON, Saturday. \|R. Alan Lennox-Boyd becomes Minister of State for Colonial Affairs m the Conservative Government, if v/"s officially announced last night. Miss Florence Horsbrugh becomes Minister of Education. She is the only woman among Mr. Churchill's Ministers. Other appointments were: Minister of State for Scotland:
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    FALLS OFF BUS
    29 1 A Chinese boy. who was on ..s way to school ihis morning fell off a moving S.T.C. bus and had to be removed fipqnjta hy ambulance^^
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    70 1 picture. This Army paratrooper, one of the five who landed in the water during practice drops in Japan, scuds across the water with his parachute billowing: out like a sail from the wind created by the rotors of a helicopter. The Hoverplane lowered grappling hooks and picked up four of
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    BANDITS ATTACK CONVOYS
    97 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. DANDITS m Johore on v Thursday made four attack on military convoys. In one attack In the Kota Tinggi area, a member of the security forces was wounded In the other attacks m the Mersing area, there were n.-> casualties. A hand-grenade thrown into
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    NAZI 'NESTS' TO BE WIPED OUT
    60 1 All traces of the Nazi leaders mountain retreat, Eagles Nest on the Obersalzberg, outside Berchtesgaden In the Bavarian Alps, are to be wiped out and forests planted there. The property includes the luxurious homes, all badly" damaged in an air raid in 1944, of
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    GIANT PLANE PASSES TEST
    48 1 America's giant air transport, the Douglas Globemaster, has carried out "satisfactory" tests m Japan and Korea. During a recent Korean airlift the Globemaster carried more than 200 passengers. Carrying loads up to 25 tons, it was easily able to land on short rough airstrips.
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    BRITONS' MEAT IS CUT BY MOUTHFUL
    124 1 LONDON, Sat. DRITAIN'S meat ration will be reduced to one shilling and five pence worth -a week a cut of a mouthful worth two pence from Nov. 11. The Government placed the blame on its Labour predecessor. The Minister of Food, Major Gwilym Lloyd
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    ROYALTY MET AT FUNERAL
    27 1 Four kings, two queens, princes and princesses were in Stockholm yesterday to attend the funeral of the late Prince Carl of Sweden- A.P.
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    Councillors' status sets a problem
    460 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE recent deletion of names from the Singapore electoral lists, because registered voters had lei" t their given addresses temporarily or permanently without notifying the Elections Department, h:is raised the question of whether three nominate*! Councillors are technically qualified to occupy
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    Churchill & Harriman in 6-hour talk
    317 1 Churchill Harriman in 6-hour talk LONDON, Saturd MR. Averell Harriman, President Truman's Spec ial Envoy met Mr. Churchill and three of his top ministers last night and thrashed out various problems for six hours. Mr. Harriman said later:" "I found they were m full support of our work m Paris.
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    'I smuggled for mother'
    68 1 'I smuggled for mother' CALCUTTA, Sat. ■J'HE city magistrate today fined William John Bright, a BOAC pilot, Rs. 25.000' for smuggling 45 gold bars wor'h Rs. 73.000 from Hong Kong to Calcutta. Bright did not declare iho gold to the customs authorities. Bright confessed that ho was "tempted"' with £250
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      12 1 SILVER PI ECES i mini Mi* oiyy y® kflM Crlslcm beer UAM7£O
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      44 1 M. FLIRTER &S. GRIRBERG Diamonds Jewellery 67, Stamford Rd., (Eu Court) Bidg., Spore, 6. Telephone 7923. TIV rErC r/rV WO AID'S Ft NEST DRY SHERRY Al '^fi<l A\ nil ■JtfJ- i' Iff*' "X z^^F ide Agents ItE EASTERN AGEftCiCS (1946) LTB. Singapore ar.d Branches.
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    960 2  -  WENDY How much ice cream can a boy eat? The riddle is solved "fiAPTAIN Cook dis- covered Australia m 1770" is the answer to last week's competition. Many readers sent m correct entries but 1 wonder if you know anything more of the famous Captain Cook who
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    READ and LEARN JOHN BOYES, HUNTER
    388 2 READ and LEARN JOHN BOYES, HUNTER LONG before Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, was built a white hunter and pioneer became famous for his toughness and bravery with the natives of Africa. His name was John Boyes, a Yorkshireman, who was held m such great regard by the natives that
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      672 2 j JUNIOR CONTEST t <> junour contest 4 Try and *.n a pr;/v in our picture crossword poxzlr. When >ou have discovered what the answers are fill in your name address and aqe. and post to Children's n 4 Page. Singapore Free Pres*. Cecil Street, to arrive not later than
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      149 2 with visions of armed guards at the dock side. "By sampan from here.' was the reply. "I also own the fishing flee: at Tanjong Bun^ah aaid we are allowed to fish within the three mile limit." "And where Pulau Ay am?" "Pulau Ayam U a very small island in the
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      346 2 are Just off th*> west coast of North Sumatra. The larger islands have small detachments of Jap s on them but thp smaller ones are never visited and Pulau Ayam. has very useful to us during the past three years. It has no landing beaches and the water U deep
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    CAN YOU STAND AN A-BLAST?
    66 3 CAN YOU STAND AN A-BLAST? pir skins have >ttcr chances' ssabarn c it > i It X I [OMU, baiuraay. i»r are you a blue-eyed Dr. Konrad J. K. best chance to survive i atomic explosion. Buettner, m a report lurk skinned peoples ol he doctor is a research the
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    x'RAYS SHOW '£20,000 CHAIN'
    267 3 x'RAYS SHOW '£20,000 CHAIN' LONDON, Sat. 4 PAINTING fdr which nobody would bid £200 at a London auction has turned out to be a masterpiece by Hans Holbein the younger, experts believe—and worth more than £20,000. Mr. Joseph Coghlan-BrLscoe found the painting m the auction room. Bids had not reached
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    NO RAIN FOR JAP SCIENTIST
    42 3 NO RAIN FOR JAP SCIENTIST j.i rainmaker has Itted failure of his first to produce artihowers by second Dr T>um\saburo Asada. of 0] .t-rsity. .said thai he basis of complete reJapancte weather s oioneer flight last is yielded "not a rain.**- Reuter
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    Portrait under a portrait
    14 3 MASTKKPIECE MYSTERY Face beneath a face. Found at an auction
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    More rubber for China
    185 3 Ceylon dealers busy COLOMBO, Saturday. 4 NOTHER consignment of Ceylon rubber will be sent to Red China m a few weeks time. The ship to convey this rubber is expected to arrive m Colombo by the end of this month. The first shipment of Ceylon rubber
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    And Charlie's in the trunk
    86 3 rjID you know that Charlie McCarthy even got Edgar Bergen through Lakeview High School In Chicago? > "A history teacher was going to fail me m my senior year until I introduced Charlie at a school revue. She raised my marks the next day Charlie,
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    CASHES IN
    41 3 After 21 years m the movies—mostly as a stand m for Ra y Milland and Fred MacMurray—Doug Spencer is a US$l.OOO-a-week character actor. That's the price he rated for his role of the boatkeeper m "Place m the Sun."
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    SERGEANT WAS GAOLER AND A LOVER TOO
    231 3 ngy. M |M«< WW VIENNA, Saturday. OERGEANT-Major Eric Donald Ferguson, 28, of the Intelligence Corps, led an investigation into a spy ring m Austria. One of the suspects he rounded up was 21-year-old Maria Vogrina. He fell m love with her, and, as
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      187 3 Thank t|OLYNOB for my lovely teeth I T n The specially blenJed* Asparkl;n? mile. Ingredients of Kolynos Dental is^"^L Cream produce a cool minty t> T\ tIsLLJ kt-^ which cleans /ri-bcfuvpn Your t«eth are whi' er and your teeth. That's brighter after regular where decay often starts. cleaning with Kolynos.
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      228 3 New Crossword No. 500 1 j I J I I HWB Solution To Crossword No. 499 ACROSS: 1. Handcuffed; 7. Turin; 8. Ratio; 9. Nye; 10. Retract; 11. Coupler; 13. Car; 14. Ladle; 15. Incog: 16. Fresh start. DOWN: 1. Hot and cold; 2. Nurse; 3. Controllers; 4. First-fruits; 5.
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      431 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR SATURDAY gORN today, you arc one of those calm, serene souls who goes along doing a lot of good without making any fuss about it. You are keenly sympathetic to the heartaches and troubles of those less fortunate than yourself and seem to know how to resolve
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    The Singapore Free Press
    8 4 SATURDAY. Nov. 3. 1951
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    A good start
    491 4 A good start T'HE best news on the cost-of-living front for months comes from rural Singapore. In Kampong Potong Pasir, which is located m the Upper Serangoon area, vegetable farmers have launched an experiment m co-oper-ative retailing which, eiven sufficient encouragement, 'could vcloo into a real a: tack on soaring
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    USIS in London is busy
    254 4 ONDONERS who want to know how to cook corn 6n the cob or how many times Mr. Ernest Bevin visited the United States telephone Grosvenor 9000. These two questions have been among an average of 300 inquiries a day received by the American Library of
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    37 4 ka irlist sits and watches two prospective customers admire her work part o. s m -anliUl OuWooT Art Exhibition m New York. The exh ibition uses street pavements, house sides, railings and fences, to display the paintings.
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    Talking about Singapore by Citizen.
    667 4 Talking about Singapore by Citizen. A3OUR Party City C Hincillor, Mr. M. P. D. Nair (South Ward) seemed to have unwittingly stuck his neck out m the City Council on Wednesday when he made a plea for a beautiful esplanade with no hawkers to pollute the waterfront air with their
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    No cold comfort the for Sheikh
    767 4  - No cold comfort the for Sheikh David Burk THE story is told of a Bedouin sheikh who, while holidaying m London, took a fancy tc a large and very handsome electric refrigerator. He bought it and had it sent to his home town a desert oasis m North Africa. Ever
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    Brussels 'golden hour'
    425 4 ANEW publicity Stunt has come to the Autumn Sales m RelAUlumn toaies m ±Jei gium. Every day a Brussels dress Shop asks its customers to leave their names and adSes n when the? hive bought what they want It asks them also to fill m a voting
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    MIDMGHT IS O.K FOR BREAKFAST IN ATOM TOWN
    478 4 I^M. Mac Coll Ic I the crazy waitine I latest United St I T I bomb tests WELL we've had our little bangs, and reporter Mac Coll has had Las Vegas. The baby A-bombs have gone off —and so have I, and
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      8 1 free press Saturday Magazine SATURDAY, November 3, 1951.
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      GOLD IS THE FASHION
      730 1  - GOLD IS THE FASHION V.R PONNUDURAI by unil form DP I X I W E I I f W^ I I Wt. I m~ m m 1 X a:-: pressed X fan also m ie Indian women spend jewellery and When they go to pay a visit i friend nearby,
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      A call from the gilly-gilly man
      412 1  -  RAE MARCH by lI X came to the door blowing a bamboo bugle. "Snakes!" cried the children. "King Cobras, gillygilly! Hurrah!" So our problem of how to spend Sunday morning was solved and the fun began. He ensconced himself on the pergola cross-legged, and
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      Small 'Kon Tikis' sail off Malaya's West Coast
      621 1  - Small 'Kon Tikis' sail off Malaya 's West Coast KENNY KAYE by C M A L L-SCALE "Kon Tiki's" periodically make trips down the comparatively safe Malacca Straits to supply the various towns of Malaya with bamboo a most useful timber serving a variety of purposes. These bamboo rafts are
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      INDIAN FILMS FOR BRITAIN
      151 2 INDIAN FILMS FOR BRITAIN INDIA'S "Clark Gable", 139 year old Ashok Kumar, star of 40 films. is planning to take Indian films to London. Our films are already see^. b y more than 430 million people m India, Pakistan, South America and South Africa. It is time Britain saw them,"
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      MISS HAARLEM
      426 2 Pours out her tale of stormy weather DO you remember that startling moment m tlie American colour-bar film "Pinky" when Jeanne Cram arrives m the South to visit her grandmother and Granny turns out to bo a bronze-skinned Negress? The actress who played Granny with such depths of
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      NOT DANNY'S FINEST HOUR
      226 2 m search of 90-odd minutes of pleasant 1 entertainment will nnd ON THE BIVIERA (coming to the Cathay) much to their liking. But mailer number of out-ar/1-out Danny Kj v fans may well consider it a disappointment. For i here is plot Or. The Riviera," Danny
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      The Ethel Waters story
      540 2  -  LEONARD MOSLEY by grown up and disillusioned, she had run away. What a salty story Ethel Waters tells of the rough road shp trod, from then on. to fame— jobs with freaks m travelling circuses, six shows a day m sleazy, ratridden Negro theatres m the
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      Stirring drama from Indonesia
      150 2  - Stirring drama from Indonesia Roger Yue By Tense, taut, an^ realistic is DOS.k TAX BER AMPIN (or •The Unforgivable Sin') an Indonesian film, coming to Singapore soon. It Is the piognant story ol a man who committed one of the seven deadly sins anc the misery and heartbreak which consequently
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      You'd never know it from the news...
      37 2 You'd never know it from the news but j^ still stands... ..for A KISS This is the final stage of the four pictures, a 13- seconi kiSM trom Montgomery Clift ....It could make Elizabeth Taylor a star.
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      two Eyes go star chasing
      521 2  -  David Lewin I ONDON film showmen have had a special preview at a Piccadilly Circus cinema of one of Hollywood's top three pictures of the year. The film was "Place m the Sun." The stars: Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Taylor. I can tell you
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      THE COLONEL TAKES BLOOD
      12 2 »ak, thf hi^ 1m honour of .^j hi
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      Director. Thorpe is changing his horses
      151 2 OORSES m England are different from Hollywood horses, accordingly director Richard Thorpe. He'j making Hollywood horses out of English horses. The English horses bolted during rehearsals for battle scenes m "Ivanhoe". Thorpe cabled Bollywood for sound tracks of cowboy Indian battles from western films.
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      PASSPORT to DANGER
      1366 3 A Free Press Saturday Short Story by T. S. RANGEL miX train whistled T ll .1 out irnev, ,ni hn:il:i m. i 0 the 1 rom took a r-:- r> and ■'3 II They all boarded the train all right but they passed through Bukit Mertajam as
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      HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint
      7 3 HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint c k. I I
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      You can't flee from your fate
      462 3  -  K. S. CHIA by IT is a Chinese be lief that if a man is fated to die m a certain way, lie will die m that way. Only the gods can intercede on his behalf. Take the case Of Cheuh Kirn Cheng, a
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      Mother Nature works for him
      819 3  -  MARIAN WELLS by JX a little corner of Jurong dwells ~a man who is very contented for he has discovered the wisdom of living independent ot the high market prices which are worrying other families today. Horticulturist Tan Chye Siam possesses a little more curiosity
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      SOSC Board refused to be too 'lenient'
      1249 4 says CRUSADER QUALIFYING stance dards set by the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council's Board of Control (Games) at, their meeting on Tuesday may keep out all except two, or possibly three, track and field athletes from the Hel sinki Games, but the consensus
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      THE FEMININE TOUCH
      110 4 PRIDE of Malacca motoring enthusiasts is the Kerne Knight Special, the 1098 c.c. racer pictured here with Lim Peng Han (seated) and its owner, S. R. Knight. At the recent Singapore Gap Hill Climb the Special made it<s debut when Peng Han, the holder of 12 fastesttime
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      THOUSANDS WATCHED HIM LOSE HIS SIGHT
      693 4  -  GEORGE WHITING By CPORT offers rich endowments to its favourites. Some end their careers with a super-taxed bank balance, others with a sideboard full of silver. Life stories m the newspapers, portraits m oils, even a very occasional knighthood, are other perquisites. Boxer Mac
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      ELLERTON QUITS
      179 4 ltf R. F. E. ELLERTON, ifl who founded Woodford Rugby Club 27 years ago and has since fostered it until it has become one of the bestliked and most successful m East Anglia, has resigned from the Eastern Counties Rugby Union. This is the measure of his protest
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      Services rugger, team stronger than Civilians TIN DIVIDEND
      381 4 Services rugger, team stronger than Civilians TI N D IVIDEND UP North the H.M.S. Malaya rugby competition is under way. Penang, who have m their team an ex-Sin-gapore forward, Coul-son-Gilmer, received Kedah last Saturday and got off to a good start under bad weather conditions with an eight-three victory Penang
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        449 8 BIRTH HAYMES: To Betty and Max, I >ng Bank, on 1st November. ■I K.K. Hospital, a daughter. Patricia Clare Leycester. Both well. ENGAGEMENT THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced between Patrick Henry younger son of the Hon and Mrs. Guest, of Cabalva Bouse. Whitnev-on-Wye, Herefordshire, and Juliet Marian James. daughter of the
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        134 8 DINE IN THE PALM COOfifii atRAFFLEsJ Soliano's Orchestra I with the Manasseh Siv t r Il i nd I I Jansen, Book Your Tabu I Tomorrow Night in the f>4 I JORDON HIGHLANDERS R EGT Jl Cafatet 41 ill (AIR CONPITIONED- I (Off \!av DANCING NIGHTLY -j pi h TEA
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      205 2 CAPITOL* \*J 11-1.45-4-6.30-9.30 THE FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHHAUSEN A Color Film m FRENCH with English Subtitles Plus! MF. L'nifs -MISS MALAYA I*sl (ON TEST" >\i>! ON STAGE! P rsoniil Appearance <•• I Ml p.m. only) "MISS MALAYA 195/ Mis, ol'rrn (\>akr\s dress by VANITY si;asox from MHITE TONIGHT. Louis
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      11 3 TyLEf for Qualify D «"n..nd. (M Bracelets aid «fer 1M .\!N
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      60 4 futicur; t oticura has an almost medical erticacv ip arresting itching irntaIm a*d smarting, tn drawing «>-»t ip riammatlori and soreness and cleaning up skin troubles COMFORT FOR w ACHING FEET. The Oriental Optical Co., j^wU^ f*~ %*!P^^F 1 1 Modern r.quipment) '.IX NOKTH BK1IK;K ROAD ICS. SOUTH UKIJX.F ROAI>
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      284 4 BANK OF CHINA^^ BALANCE SHEET December 3Ut. 1950 ASSETS lI4RIIITH Cash Y. 127.627.793,467.68 Due to Ban k. 'lh 2X? f £P m Banks 1.397,936,901.172.35 Demand Depo.--i Bills Discounted and Time Deposits "iSS Remittances Bought 792,902,130.447.79 Remittances &'"d- 4> 1>^ an f L anS and OutsUndmc Overdrafts 514,402,405,633.35 Sundry Accounts PayTime
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    MALAY CO-OP SOCIETIES
    108 5 MALAY CO-OP SOCIETIES lre r P™*s staff Reporter. VE Malay Co-opera-:ve and Thrift Societies pore and the surislands have formed co-Operative So- v -ordinate their actifor he economic lenl of Malay Kamera. The etretary of' the Central ire Society, Inche Hastold Uie Free Press i :>,;uon would mak r ffort
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    LOANS TO S.I.T. NOT MET FROM NEW TAXATION
    332 5 LOANS TO S.I.T. NOT MET FROM NEW TAXATION Ijjot;^. allegation bySRA member Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Financial Secretary, Mr. W. C. Taylor, yesterday denied a Ratepayers Association member's allegation that loans granted to the Singapore Improvement Trust trom the Government's income were responsible for higher taxation. Mr. Taylor told
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    4 5 Mr. W. C. Taylor
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    TEMPLE ASKED TO EXORCISE 'GHOST'
    56 5 I pen temple, approached by MCA official yesterday Df to lay the ghost at the Mess in Woodward Road, $80 for expenses that r* incurred. tt likelv exercists are being ached, but *o far no one has ten the job of ridding the \n the
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    New Traffic Bays & Lines
    148 5 New Traffic Bays Lines Free Press Staff Reporter UR. W. R. M. Haxwonh, Siri- gapore's Tragic Chief, yesterday drew the attention of the Colony's motorists to the following additional points m the attempts being made to solve traffic problems. The installation of an extra bay and lines m Connaught Drive
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    ELECTION OFFICERS
    63 5 MR. H. D. E. MacVitie has m been appointed Returning Officer for each ol the Wards m the coming City Council Elections. Assistant Reluming Officers for each of the Wards will be: Mr. Sng Thian Lye (City); Mr. John L. Byrne (RochorejMr. Tan Tee Soon (North) Mr. Chia
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    38 years in Malaya
    35 5 The Secretary and Executive Officer of the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association, Mr. R. Boyd. is retiring early next year Mr Boyd. who is 61, has spent 38 years m Malaya.
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    FARMERS SELL OWN PRODUCE
    26 5 Two farmer- x»*»-rahers the Singapore Vegetable Growers' Association selling their own produce at the Simon Road market m Upper Serangoon, on Thursday.
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    Stall-holders welcome Balestier Market plan
    150 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE decision to make $230,000, provided for m the City Council's 1952 budget, immediately available for building a new market-cum-hawkers' shelter on the site of the temporary market m Ravman Avenue, Balestier, is welcomed by stallholders. The temporary market now to-,
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    CONSTRUCTION JUSTIFIED
    9 5 '"ittJSl !£>*£ s*£ KLi^sr'ss he said. 1 m
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    BLACKOUT AREAS
    81 5 T^X? load-shedding tonivht Uddct Hokien Street, Pic?£L st /Church St.. Upper CircuTa? Rd./Cax-penter St.,. Cavanah Rd Colher Quay. Victoria Memorial SS 1& 2. Prince St./ Market St Raffles Place Ma».«"a Stt. Boat Quay. Union Building, Hume ?Se. Rheem. Ford Bin Seng, Wire Mesa. P.W.D. Quarry. NanMfg.. Bukit Panjang,
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    Malay Bank forms sawmill company
    105 5 Free Press Malay Correspondent. A MALAY sawmill company, the Semenjak Sawmills and Company, was formed recently under the sponsorship of the Raub branch of the Malay National Banking Corporation, according to Utusan Melayu. The objects of the company are to carry on the business as
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    NEWS TALKS
    74 5 Bernard Hickley. one of Rad o Malaya's News Editors, has recently returned to Singapore from a tour of Japan and Korea where he spent some time with the British Commonwealth Division. He will be giving a series of news talks on "Background to Korea" over the Blue Network
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    'STOP—CHILDREN CROSSING'
    42 5 Chief Police officer m the Federation can now sanction the carrying of a special sign by anyone shepherdnig parties of children across roads. The sign is a round red board with the words "stop, children crossing* on it m white.
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    Big Variety Concert for opening of new Radio Studios
    275 5 Big Variety Concert for opening of new Radio Studios Exclusive To The Free Press "MONSTER" variety concert, m which all the four language sections of Radio Malaya will •ollaborate m producing, is being planned to mark he formal opening of the Broadcasting Departnent's new Thomson Road studios "very early next
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    Tin production
    38 5 Tin production from July to September this year almost beat the post-war production record, according to statistics issued yesterday. Production was 19.299 tons, only 267 tons less than the record for the seccnd quarter of 1950.
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    BROADCASTS FOR TAMIL SCHOOLS
    58 5 BROADCASTS for Tamil schools, which have never before been done m this country, will be started by Radio Malaya sometime next year. Another new outlook on the air next year as soon as certain difficulties are overcome, is the launching of an early morning broadcast on
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    Longer Programmes Next Year
    179 5 Free Press Staff Reporter. DADIO Malaya, which, every year since 1946. has been lengthening its programmes, is to increase them again m Singapore next year— starting early In January. The Red Network which has been closing down at 9 p.m. every day will continue until 10
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    UNKNOWN & UNNAMED
    103 5 UNKNOWN UNNAMED Thousands of people on foot, m cars and m buses daily pass by the walls round the old Jewish cemetery, off the busiest section of Orchard Road (above), but very few probably know that there is a cemetery there. Foi many years now the main rate of this
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    FROGGATE HAS CLAIM TO SELECTION
    465 6 Selectors to see today's games From JIM CHAMBERS |<]\(JLISH football selectors are scheduled to 1 complete their selection of the team to play Ireland on Nov. 1 1 by Monday, so they will be out at today's League games to run their eyes over their
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    FULLBACK CLEARS
    54 6 picture. Cordell, Aston Villa goal keeper, watches right-back Parkes clear his line after he himself mussed the ball. Running in (left to right) and Harmer (Spurs), Moss (Villa) and Duquemin (Spurs). Tottenham Hotspur won this English Football League First Division match at Tottenham on Octobe* 9A Kv vnnk
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    Ceylonese take lead in S.H.A. league
    282 6 A FTER their victory against Singapore Chines* Recreation Club yesterday at Balestier Road, Ceylon Sports Club are sitting pretty at the top of the Singapore Hockey Association Div. I league. With one more fixture remaining —against Singapore Recreation Club— Ceylonese have collected II points
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    UK SOCCER FIXTURES FOR TODAY
    260 6 IJXITED Kingdom football U fixtures for today are is follows: ENGLISH DIV. 1. Rolton v Portsmouth Burnley v Aston Villa I hurl tun v Derby hulhara v Manchester C Manchester I v Huddersfleld Middlesbrough v Arsenal Newcastle v Liverpool Preston v Sunderland Stoke v Chelsea
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    Boxing lesson for Allen
    160 6 WORLD flyweight champion Dado Marino turned back challenger Terry Allen of England :m Thursday night with coolheaded hard-slugging and a 15round boxing lesson in their championship fight at Honolulu Staiium. It was Marino's first defence of the title he won from Allen In 1950. Marino left-hooked
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    Bridge Problem
    314 6 \yHA1 tttld South fa There .s too s?reat I discrepancy between his hearts and hi•s to venture showing the spale toll when North ha.s bid two ocher If South h only three hearts, North, who > l>een doubled at three cluli.. must read It as a rescue on
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    IRELAND LEAD ITALY 3-2
    56 6 TRELAND led Italy by three boucs to two at tho half-way stage yesterday in the amateur boxing international in Dublin. One of the biggest surprises of the matches came early when Reddy of Ireland outpointed the European flyweight champion, A. Pozzali. This was the Italian's first
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    Services XI to meet Civilians
    73 6 /COMBINED Services hockey XI v> will meet a Singapore Civilians' team on the Padang next Thursday in a Poppy Day charitv match. Teams are: Services: Jupp (RN) Shallcross (RAF), Russell (RAPt; Wood <RAF>, Reynolds (Army), Lucas Army); Casdaghi (RN), Swington (Army), Dickinson (Army), Lawes (Army),
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    35 6 photo. EffTptt Khalifa Sayed Gouda, recent winner of the featherweight title at the World Weightlifting Championships at Milan, Italy, pictured with Johan Runge (Denmark) on his right and thirdplaced Britisher Julian Creus (left). A .P.
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    UK clubs regret 'near misses'
    325 6 From ARCHIE QUICK A STON Villa manager George Martin is looking for a half-back and is actually considering making bids for a couple of players who have alreadyslipped through Aston Villa's fingers. When Moroney left hi s native Eire for London the second keenest bidder
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    Campo to fight in Singapore
    279 6 TANNY Campo (Philippinesholder of the Orient flyweight title, is comma to fight Sonny Chia, Singapore's former amateur flyweight champion who has now turned professional, it was announced from the Happy World ring last nigrr. .^onr.y Chia <116 lb.> *23 to have fought a return tout
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    England out for 203 on perfect pitch
    277 6 England out for 203 on perfect pitch ENGLAND, after losing thi-i r first runs, were all out for >o;; on th, r first Test against India at New [fell L Nigel Howard won the toss I tain, Vijay Harare, and decidet I perfect pitch in fine v England lost Frank
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    U.S. GAIN 3-1 LEAD
    55 6 U.S. GAIN 3-1 LEAD Mer^pJ I j s beat Jamr* \i» B ,J7 Pan tun htr ari( j j^ Hcjtn.t and Jack bwVM 1 aulknc and lui k^ lhnf> Ikn Htear aai l l»«-nu -I fx-ai Irnj dk, J R<;u>lit-ld fivf and l»r n Uaid .;nd \rti and R imm
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    MCFA TOURISTS NET 10 TIMES
    52 6 MC FA TOURISTS NET 10 TIMES J'HE visiting Malayan soccer team yesterc;tv their fourth successive victorManila, smashing the Cebu A tic Association XI b\ one. The visitors drove in eoals in the first half and :n the second half, while the players were able to score late m the second
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    70,000 SEATS AT OLYMPIC STADIUM
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    IRAEUS IS POPULAR FANCY
    1048 7  - IRAEUS IS POPULAR FANCY ALLAN LEWIS Latest hints from course From r KUALA L UMPl?R, Saturday. THERE was little discussion on this afterTl.rT rae n g u course m morning. Sn i *2 heavy after the Persistent last few days n n Md evenhl during -oinr r wfn S 'nt
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    PET FOR THE SPRINGBOKS
    43 7 HB Unraa ru^i>v tram p* Ihttin feM been hi. The news has caused great amnnnfnt in South Africa, »inre there were reports before 'he team left for Britain that Id not he able to get enough to eat. \T.
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    MILE FIGHT
    16 7 rhe European Boxing Unir.ominated Belgium's ra to fight Britain's veenan for hi$ Eurobantamweight title
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    Today's sport
    87 7 i at SJl.C; Khalsa v ihrrvwi To- I A. ground. RIGBY: Souiii Johore r KAM •n: :.'3 BOD. v EH \>h. \i..«!t Ko>al SiirnaK I ih at Tan*,:in Rev.'! v .nal Base: RAF hangi .d W t Naval Base "A" at i KK: (.andlii MemorLxl Cup •rrer Park
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    HK paid $50,000 to see Malayans
    51 7 UO-NG KONG badminton 11 fana paid HKS50.000 te :ne exhibition matches Malayan players who rued to Singapore last M in Hong badminton history of nearly 3,000 be games. Bisgest draw was Wong followed closely Teik Hock. Chan Kon -Jin Eong and A. -Renter, A.
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    SAFA name players for Federation tout
    162 7 SA FA name players for Federation tout CIX games are lined up for the Singapore Amateur Football Association's Fede-ration-touring team, which leaves the Colony by air on Monday, Nov. 12. returning to Singapore on Tuesday. Nov. 20. The six fixtures arnnged for the tourists are against Kedah, Penang. Perak, Negri
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    CARVALHO & McMULLEN SHARE 6 GOALS
    27 7 CARVALHO McMULLEN SHARE 6 GOALS SINGAPORE Crick I held to a draV in ye> hockey friendly Works Depart men tilned all three s. while I for P.W.D.
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    Grass track cycle race
    75 7 The Singapore Cvcie Racing Assod thoir flr&t viia^s track sprmt championship at the I pore Recreation C«ub en Sunday 11 at :0 30 am The fvrr.ts are: 1.000 metres sprint open championship) 2.500 metr< s individual pursuit 5 mttes "open championship): 3 miles tnovicesi; 2 mi.>
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    RACS WIN 6-0
    40 7 SINGAPORE Recreation Club beat Post and Tel«graphs Union by six goals to nil in a hockey match on the Padang yestercay. Hay scored fou r goals, including a hat-trick for Recs. Other scorers were Martens and Clarke.
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    CHAMPION BEATEN
    20 7 Sverre Standli, (Norway), European hammer throw champion, yesterday defeated wofld record holder Imre Nemeth, throwing 57.41 pest.— A.P.
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    KHALSA TEAM
    35 7 Khal*a Awociatioo XI to meet Sherwood Foresters m Div 1 league hockey game today will be selected from the foKowing. Bakar. Via*. Avtar. Aiit. Sotn. Harbans Beant. Inder. Harban H*rbajan Noor. Swaran Seva
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    DALCROSS DOES BEST WORKOUT
    386 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS From NO attempts were made at time-making on the heavy second grass track at the Kuala Lumpur racecourse this morning when it was opened for fast work. Dalcross (Ba*by), who finished m front of Gilded Dome (Charles) with Sunny Valley (Dunwcodie) about four lengths
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    'REDS TOOK EVERYTHING —OFFERED NOTHING'
    220 8 'REDS TOOK EVERYTHING —OFFERED NOTHING No progress at cease-fire talks in ranmuniom TOKYO, Saturday. ORIGADIER-General Nuckols, U.N. briefing officer, Allied correspondents at Panmunjom yesterday that the Communist proposal of a cease-fire line with Kaesong remaining m Communist hands "took everything but offered nothing/ The United Nations proposal, he said, made
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    U.S. NEARS 'ATOMIC PLENTY'
    117 8 WASHINGTON, Sat. AIR Secretary, Mr. Thomas K. Finletter said last night at a news conference that the United States was moving into a time of atomic plenty which would make nuclear weapons available for the battlefield. Our plans must keep up with the bigger number and
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    Weekend talks in Paris
    117 8 PARIS. Sat. WESTERN FOREIGN mm"- Isters plan a series of weekend conferences and consultations m Paris while awaiting the opening of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Mr. Lester Pearson. Canada's External Affairs Minister has called a meeting of the 5-nation Ministerial Committee set up
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    TO TEST ROCKETS
    23 8 Five British "guided missile" experts have arrived at Darwin for tests at the Wommera rocket ranee in South Australia.- AFP
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    SIAM RICE PRICE 'NOT TOO HIGH'
    214 8 BANGKOK, Saturday. \IR. Malcolm Mac Donald and Mrs. Mac Donald, 1 who have been visiting Siam as the guests of the British Ambassador, are due to return to Singapore tomorrow. I The English language newspaper Bangkok Post said that Mr. Mac Donald had done
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    'FIXED GAMES' CHARGE
    48 8 Sol Levy, 41, professional basketball referee and the first official arrested in the gambling scandal that broke out early this year, has been taken into custody on charges that he received bribes to help fix three games in the National Basketball Association in 1950.- A.P.
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    ABADAN RESTARTS
    19 8 The Persian National Oil Board said yesterday that the Abadan refinery would restart work on Sunda\ Reuter
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    JOB FOR JETS
    19 8 Jet air services are expected to span the Pacific between America and Australia npvf year. Reuter
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    CAIRO HALTS HORSE RACING
    54 8 CAIRO HALTS HORSE RACING The Stewards of Gezira Sporting Club m Cairo yesterday announced that for 'reasons beyond our control" the opening of the horse racing season at Cairo on Sunday has been cancelled. This is the nrs t such cancellation since the dark wartime days of 1942 when Rommel
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    Bringyour children: Truman to Princess
    222 8 Bringyour children: Truman to Princess WASHINGTON, Sat. PRESIDENT TRUMAN yesterday bid a fond goodbye to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh saying- Come back soon and bring your lovely children." The President also paid tribute to the "remarkable international friendship" between the two countries. He said: "We have had
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    THE BOAT BILL BUILT
    61 8 Bill Mangan is seen here putting the finishing touches to his 21ft. sloop, the Taki-O-Autahi. which he built single-handed in a backyard at Poole, Dorset. Next April, he will set off in the sloop on a 40.000mile voyage from Poole to New Zealand, via Florida and
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    US DESTROYER DIV. DUE SOON
    138 8 TAKYO, Sat. UNITED States sailors of Destroyer Division 21 will soon cash m on the Navy's promise to "Join the Navy and see the world." Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, said yesterday the destroyer division of four ships would
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    LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
    93 8 LONDON. Sat. PERSISTENT selling brought I widespread and severe losses to the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Falls m British Government funds ranged from half to seveneighths while leading industrials fell by between 6d. and 2s. 6d. An existing nervousness was accentuated by press warnings that Government action
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    TAX MAN HELD
    27 8 An internal revenue agent, Jacob Friedman, 31, of Hartsdale, New York, was arrested yesterday on a charge of falsifying his own income tax. U.P.
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    OVERSTAYED VISA
    35 8 Raja Faris Howrani, 48, a Syrian, who was discharged as chief Arab press officer for the United Nations, was yesterday arrested by American immigration officials m New York for overstaying his visa. A.P.
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    70 hurt, 500 jailed in Morocco riots
    153 8 CASABLANCA, Saturday. TROOPS and police mounted guard m Casablanca yesterday to prevent new outbreaks of rioting at the funeral of five Moroccans killed m Nationalist riots on Thursday. Rioters stoned Europeans in a second crop of incidents during the night. Several European women
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    'BOMB ON SHIP'
    36 8 The French liner Liberte sailed from Its strike-bound New York pier yesterday after police had made a futile search of the vessel for a bomb which an anonymous caller to police headquarters A.P.
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    33 8 picture. JANE RUSSELL, arrives m London from Paris, to be present with other Hollywood stars at a Royal film show. She had a pleasantly informal hairstyle and wore a luxurious fur coat. Reuter
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    Actress ordered off beach
    86 8 UOLLYWOOD actress Jean 11 Barker was sent off Sydney's Bondi beach yesterday because her swimsuit was too revealing. Beach Inspector BUI Willis told her: "Your costume is much too scanty. I am sorry you will have to leave." Later Jean said: "I have never been so
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    Unauthorised films
    28 8 The Burmese Government will take action against two American Him companies Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th Century Fox for distributing two Burmese documentary films without government permission AFP
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    'S'pore clinics understaffed'
    61 8 The Health Officer of the Singapore City Council, Dr. N. A. Canton, said this morning that the City's Infant Welfare Clinics were understaffed and it was proposed to recruit additional medical officers— but not solely to do the work of anti-diphtheria immunisation. This was only part of
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    Strikers send away ship
    65 8 NEW YORK. Sat. THE United States Government appealed m vain to striking dockers here last night to unload a cargo of nickel intended for the defence programme from a Norwegian ship. The 19-day-old strike has now become the longest m the history of the port. The
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