The Singapore Free Press, 12 July 1952

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA klgfk SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 241 1 'You'll win,' Taft tells Ike iOO Sat. /fOU'ER re- thr news of hi* v at Kir. v ll.ttel headl! eyes were he was too overcrow with emotion to talk. ic t on recovering omposure was to walk he >treet to Mr. Tift s headquarters m the
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  • 900 1 picture. CHICAGO, Saturday. (JEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, who led the Allied armies m Europe to victory m World War 11, captured the Republican nomination for the presidency with a landslide vote m the first ballot at the party's convention m Chicago yesterday. Full
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  • 23 1 CHICAGO. Sat. rpHE EXCITEMENT of r A Thursday night and yesterday put Mrs. Eisenhower to bed with a sick headache.
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  • 98 1 CENSOR BANS MANDARIN FILM THE Malayan Film Censor has banned a Mandarin film, 'Marriage Affair." A spokesman cf a Singapore firm of film distributors told the Free Press this mcrning that the film was banned under the Emergency (Public-ations-Import Control) Regulations. It will soon be sent back to Hong Kong,
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  • 84 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A 200-TON wooden cargo boat on the slipway of the United Engineers Dockyard at Tanjong Rhu. Singapore, was damaged by flre last niaht. No casualties were rcrorted. Th e stern of the ship had been smouldering for some time before the
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  • 60 1 GLASGOW. Sat. THE British Admiralty yesterday cancelled a £2,000, 000 order for a hospital ship now being built on the River Clyde. The ship whose keel has already been laid was ordered m the spring of last year. It was intended to replace the the
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  • 20 1 Miss Margaret Tru-.nan had lunch with the Oueen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace yestertcrday. A.P
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  • 46 1 BEST bets at Bukit Timah today should be Winagain. Woodcote Inn and Ocean Snare, says Allan Lewis. His double tote selection: Woodcote Inn and The Tip. Trespasser's double: Winagain and The Tip. The going will be rood provided there is no more rain.
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  • 22 1 President Truman yesterday signed a bill authorising the loan of two submarines from the American reserve fleet to Holland, Reuter
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  • 203 1 CHICAGO. Sat. GEN. EISENHOWER pledged himself last night to lead t^e party to "total victory" and said he accepted a dedication to 't'b^ shining promise of. tomorrow." I Gen Eisenhower said m a prepared speech of formal acceptance of the Republican presidential nomination that the Republican
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  • 61 1 THE American liner United States, new holder of the Blue Riband of the Atlantic, was last night making 34 knots on her return voyage from Britain and is expected to break the westward Atlantic crossing if the good weather forecast holds. The liner is expected to
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  • 15 1 The Philippines and India yesterday signed a treaty of amity ahd friendship.- A.P
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  • 162 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ALL the locally-recruited senior officers of the A Singapore City Council have resigned from the Senior Officers' Association whose membership includes European expatriate officers. The local men number more than 40. It is believed tiiey are forming an association which will cater
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  • 844 1 A secret plan to trap S'pore taximen By Felix Abi&heganaden THE ban on cruising taxis m Singapore has the firm backing of all motorists and transport authorities, according to a Free Press Purvey of public opinion yesterday. \Butf there was objection to it from several "hire-by-seat" taxi passengers and the
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 110 1 Restored ROSE VALOII silence, rich with comprehension Rf people with whom you can ■nappy hours m a mutual silence, rich J Why? Because you f/§»§l them. Others who come upon ffji J* <!<lv interrupting. So with jf *X 1 and those who smoke f n»>u •thing you can say will
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    • 46 1 M. FUHTER&S. GfiiIEESG Diamonds Jewellery 67, Stamford Rd., (En Court Bid*.,) Spore, 6. Telephone 7923. mmm wm mm *w 9 M^mWm 1 mm m nov cucobv IrH I B ram I i i V^ M» "><| I 8 Sole Agents:THE EASTERN A6ENCIES (1946) LTD. Singapore and Branches
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  • Saturday Children's page
    • 1122 2 HE WAS TRAPPED FOR TWO DAYS I WAS at the house of a friend for lunch the other day and as we sat eating our soup I heard a cat meowing. Now, you wouldn't think there could be anything strange about that. It's
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  • 92 2 PEN PALS' COLUMN A.b«»rt Loh, 329-B New Bridge Road. Singapore, is Interested in reading, collecting view-cards, swimming, running and badminton. Arthur Hu. of 2 Paterson Hill. Singapore 9, is interested in friendly correspondence, stamp collecting, badminton, photography 3e would like letters from gj-ls especially. All letters will be answered Leouj;
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  • 516 2 A BIRD'S NEST OF A PLACE CITIES OF THE WORLD 6 A BIRD'S nest of a place the most lovely spot and the most notable, without any possible dispute, of the European universe This is what the great art critic Ruskin said 01 Geneva, capital of Switzerland. Geneva nestles m
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  • Article, Illustration
    69 2 HTHIS week, I have another painting contest for you. Whe« you have painted Km picture tend it m to Children* Page, Singapore Free Press, Cecil Street, to arrive met later Hian Wednesday next. There are four prizes of $5 (one each to a boy and girl u P%
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  • 152 2 Rupert's Spring Adventure 2 xasius $trous over to look at the place where the <HU wisp A* sntoKe. very odd." says the little m °y*^< nm-jeeii np picnic parties. In fatt, fw seen -wf^rJISTV p oMJW'Piner taps Rupert »»!L£? S? d t cheer him vp and P* rh <ips he
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  • 839 2 Onward THE "Onslaught BOUND FOR MADAGASCAR TIM Manderly the hero of this tale, left his home m Plymouth, went to London and joined the "Onslaught" as a cabin boy. The "Onslaught." on a voyage of discovery to the Eastern Seas called at Sierra Leone on the West Coast of Africa
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 40 2 CROSSWORD SOLUTION ACROSS. 1. Cook. 5. Guide. 5. Petrol. 7. Liver. 9. Pip 10. Viola. 16. Athens. 14. Heath. 15. Solo. DOWN.— I. Cape. 2. Oats. 3. Tulip. 4 Adleh 5. Goliath. 8. riger. 9. Plato. 11. Nero. 12. Oslo.
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    • 113 2 JUNIOR CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS.— I, Famous explorer who discovered Aus.ralia. 5. Member of a girls' organisation. 6. The car wouldn't go without it. 7. The largest gland m the body. 9 Seed of an apple, perhaps. 10. Character m Twelfth Night. 13. "Timon of is a play by Shakespeare. 14.
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  • 483 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR I havf one decfcHt what you -j BMiaiiy go out after -beaded and strong- a a arc not one to let in your way. that can ind an in a moment jmiK of this ,u are a good dund In time I ol1 have al fields. he
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  • 45 3 try of the cenof the "Free h of East Gercalled on M tens ••ds" of members, m summer camps JjWghout the Sovie f to study map reading take an active part m ■wtary sports training parachute jumping, JUaro-shnnting and gUdlng. Reuter
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  • 24 3 c British scienrs, and soldiers London m the sealer Tottan on ?ar expedition to to test uniforms equioment un- Ar?t:c conditions.- Reuter
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  • 314 3 3 girls flee from circus Trn B^ t^v nCerS caravan at night and got only 14 dollars (£s)a week The man who hired the girls was Mr. J. Wallace 'Digger" Pugh. In New York —so the girls said— Pugh told them that deductions would whittle their
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  • 128 3 LONDON, Sat. /YPENCAST coalmining, ugly hoardings and oil pollution from the sea are among the threats to the English countryside listed m the annual report of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. The greater part of the English coast is undergoing rapid transformation, the report said.
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  • 22 3 Tne British Government has announced that it was releasing Iraq's remaining blocked sterling balances amounting: to about £23.000,--000, Reuter
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  • 121 3 MELBOURNE, Sat. pROSPECTS of becoming a millionaire m Australia are negligible, according to. the Taxpayers' Association's secretary, Mr. M. J. Pettigrove "A man might make a million but under existing tax laws he couldn't keep it," Mr. Pettigrove said. And a sure way
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  • 50 3 The United States will delay deciding whether to cut off military and economic aid to Denmark because she has supplied a tanker to Russia until the State Department checks further a report that the Scandinavians plan to build a second oil shin for the Soviets.- A. P
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  • 205 3 LONDON, Saturday. WHEN the rotund Khan of Kalat— king with lifeand death power over 200,000 Baluchistan tribesmen on the old North-West Frontier of India —left his State 20 days ago for London it was as the fattest reigning monarch m the world. He weighed
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  • 72 3 'Nothing' got three a fine NEW YORK. Sat. PHREE Englishmen were fined $5 each for nothing it Provincetown, Massachusetts. That's just what they went swimming in nothing! Philip S. Carrington ol London, spokesman for the trio, told Judge Robert A, Welsh that swimming m the lude "is not uncommon m
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  • 86 3 NEW YORK, Sat. J] JACKSON Hammons, 83, has gone to his grave at Whitesburg, Kentucky, m a casket that fits to his liking and with his beard intact. Hammons, who died after an extended illness, long ago had fashion'/! his casket of black
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  • 16 3 Mr. E?cotf Reid, 4T, Deputy Undfr Secretary of State for Extern?! Affairs has* been
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  • 49 3 NEW YORK. Sat. EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD *<* Gines Caballero Zurita will walk better after an operation. He had nine toes on each hand. The operation was to relieve him of the surplus. The young: Andalucian hair maker has never been able to wear shoes. A.P
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  • 35 3 Officials of the Philippine legation m Buenos, Aires said several windows of the legation offices were shattered when a bomb exploded recently at the library of the United States Information Service.- U.P
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  • Article, Illustration
    36 3 pic- JOE JAMES, of Los Angeles, California, brings his car safely m from the north turn after a wheel collapsed during the 85th lap of a 200 mile race at Raleigh, North Carolina.ture. A.P
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  • 146 3 NEW YORK. Sat. TV3MMY MANVILLE, 58, has married his "ninth i arid last wife" m a Uso- minute civil ceremony. ManviUe rattled off the approved marriage vows as if he had memorized the words but absent-mindedly held a i cigarette m
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  • 252 3 MOTHER FORCED INTO CRIME BY 'BIG FAMILY' LONDON, Saturday. A MOTHER of 13 who took two of her pigtailed daughters to steal from the home of Nigel Patrick, the actor, m Chelusa, was gaoled for four years at London Sessions. The woman, 38-year-old Mrs. Eileen Elizabeth Carroll, who is expecting
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  • 142 3 Tight lacing killed woman LONDON. Sat. MR. ANTHONY Hill, 23--year-old Salvation Army 1 choirmaster, who was suspended from the Army two months ago for a moral lapse," has been found by his mother dead In bed at his home at Lewisham. In the same house his 19--year-old bride Valeric was
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  • 101 3 A special Federal Court m Washington has ruled that Americans who have their passports revoked by t«he State Department are entitled to a court hearing. The court earlier rejected a Government dlaim that the issue and rejection of passports were strict'y within the province of the
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  • 93 3 CHICAGO. Sat. pRIVATE Hubert Reeves, 20, who lost both arms and both legs m the Korean war, has become a, proud father at Joliet, Illinois. A three pound six ounces girl was born prematurely m Silver Cross Hospital to Mrs. Reeves, 19, whom Reeves married
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    • 69 3 M'sf To New York jffl "constellation" \A 7 A New York only two and a half /zs JZts days from Singapore when you y /fo yp A travel by KLM Constellation. 4zr A Departures from Singapore y jMz 7 Jp Thrice Weekly. yMf W M Local OHlce W J/ JTsv
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 199 3 •^-NG&POBF 65 Fto^ The Editorials: 7.00 wnt Forces' Favourites; 7.30 Colonial m Questions; 7.45 Cricket: Yorkshire «e*s; 10.05 House- v India— A commentary by Peter Cnoice; n-1i.30 New Re- West oa first day's play at 1 pm Harry H ,,h.«». Bramall Lane. Sheffield; 8.00 Harry Hackmey r. g^^ Magazlne 8.15
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    • 191 3 Solution To Crossword No. 711 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.— Across: 1. Purchase. 7. Rou'ii number. 8. Cadence. 9. Sum. 10. Car. 11. Heaveho. 13. Mask battles. 15. Doctored. Down: 1. Plunder. 2. Riding habit. 3 House master. 4, Sub. 5, Erio. 6, Tram. 9, Shelled. 10, Camp. 12, Ouse. 14, Coo. New
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  • 474 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, July 12, 1952. Ike is chosen VOW that all the con11 vention ballyhoo is over Gen. Eisenhov seems to have obtained the Republican Party nomination for the United States Presidential election much more easily than was expected. Jt would be idC e to pretend that
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  • 123 4 rE Free Press recently published a letter from a very disgruntled reader complaining of Mr. Haxworth'i lines and barrels. We also reproduced what could serve as a very adequate reply from the magasine of the Automobile Association of Singapore. The read* r. however, may have made some
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  • 483 4 Why Pull These Down When \IR. T. P. F. McNeice, chairman of the Singapore Improvement Trust, says people have been hoaxed by an individual, or organisation, into buying attap houses illegally erected on Government ground. Was it so much of a hoax as far as the homeless are concerned? There
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  • 650 4 There Are Not Enough Of These? Homeless makes these poinfs: Imagination and f action NOW—not just plans for the future —are needed f to solve the scandal of overcrowded cv- I bides. The people j must have homes, t even if only tempor- X ary, and aitap 'huts' V now
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  • 657 4  -  POLITICO f,ft,l I HAVE for long suspected that Singapore is ruled by private car owners for private car owners. The City Council by-law prohibiting the hiring of taxis by seats is the latest piece of legislation enacted m the name of "road safety" which, m effect,
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  • 560 4 A Visit to Sun Spot Isle SOMEONE rang up Bernard Wicksteed and said.- 'How would you like d trip to Ascension "Certainly" replied Wicksteed. "Where is it?" WELL, I am now m a position (7° 54' lat, S.; 14° 25' long, W.) to tell you exactly where Ascension is. It
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  • Free Press Saturday Magazine
    • 8 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine Saturday, July 12, 1952.
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    • 320 1  -  Chan. Chin Bock by THE 'PULLER OF TEETH" IS A MUCHPATRONISED MAN AT CHINESE EATING PLACES AND WAYANGS. v \*i Ihe scores medicine venueni eatij and wayang Ihe Chim Ihe bcsl kfl ICCt- drum rowds, or more. d -I'-ars aa on vh- aimed at work the
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    • 1338 1  -  ANTHONY WISE by A strange tale of war-time Burma, of "cloak and dagger" men, and of a priest's fateful intervention m the lives of nine Japs. A Free Press Saturday short story JHE BURMA jungle Js a very definite sort of place— at le;ist it wus m
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    • 56 1 Many hands imke light work (left), especially when the tree is bursting: with limes. Patrol leader Goh Sah Nee and his troop mates bring m the harvest of coconuts and pineapples (top). No floors to scrub nor dishes to wash, but a green field
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    • 166 1  -  MARIAN WELLS fry SCOUT JOB WEEK offered pleasant land jobs to scouts living m the countryside. The 38th Singapore Troop, just as keen as brother scouts m town, raided private gardens and estates to swell the funds which will send scouts to a world
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    • 1004 2  -  Michael Ruddy chats with the stars rjESPITE the sunshine. which is usual, and the apparent prosperity evidenced m sleek, gleaming: limousines and sparkling convertibles which cost the annual salary of the average man, Hollywood isn't happy these days. Particularly so after Mr. Churchill's speech on
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    • Article, Illustration
      163 2 ECSTASY." the Czech film that first introduced Hedy Lamarr to a grateful world audience, is to be shown at the Pavilion with an American commentary and American voices dubbed as dialogue. The bathing sequence m which W2 get brief and distant glimpses of Miss Lamarr m the
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    • 574 2 SCREEN'S GREAT DECEIVER THE FILM BUSINESS— 4 lAN GRANT writes on the work of an art director. (\F the ni3,ny people who contribute to the making of a film the art director is one of the most important— in some films the most important. And he is certainly the most
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    • 276 2 A READER WANTS TO KNOW... AM a film fan with absurdly simple tastes. I do not go to the cinema to be "educated" or to receive "messages". That is why I used to like the 'who-dun-it' or mystery film. Hollywood used to excel m this. Such
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    • 218 2 It's French, it's called 'Pleasure and #V's-_ AND Sp]ofT" EVEN THAN L RONbe* ACKNOWLEDGED by Parisians, who have seen it, as spicier even than "La Ronde", a French film version of three of Guy de Maupassant's short stories will have its British premiere during the
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    • 281 2 pLMO LINCOLN the first of all the film Tarzans and a boyhood hero of the over-40s. died recently m Hollywood. He was 63. As "Elmo the Mighty" and **Elmo the Fearless" he beat his mighty chest week after week m the serials of an infant
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    • 203 2 CORONATION COLOUR FILM 'IN DEPTH' PLANS have been made by new London film company lo produce a new^reel of the Coronation m threedimensional colour. The company claims to have perfected a process for making colour films m depth, which can be shown at any cinema. It is a development of
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    • 53 2 rpraoNi pov 1 2 16 years w Asked picture d replied ley." But tht nothing to wasn't a ># As fa concerned I successful Sand Of the the l< were a lot a diih Wife.' and I 'Captain tt thin; ing: Pov sum m t never
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      • 189 2 CAPITOL FROM TOOAY 11. 1.45, 4, 630 930 Warner present* "THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON" Starring ERROL FLYNN OLIVIA De HAVILLAND Tonight M'nttt REX NOW SHOWIN6 I I 45 4 H iJO tt.3i JOEL TVONNE MtREA DeCARIO PAVILION Last 2 Days ItS 4§o 6.31 9.3t Aw Guinness m "UST
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    • 688 3 J. W. GOODWIN SENDS A REPORT FROM CAMBODIA— LAND OF MANY PARADOXES. LOB king A i least five .is people ggestion is onh man) para- < anibodia. Associated ln<lo China. ar-old Kin v pbsition ter to his I s*ate by _:overnerown person chief jurful poripswept r
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    • 773 3 utinued from Pag.. 1) here?" grow ed Scottv sus)usly. The girt looked at him for a few seconds, then, ignoring his question, turned back to me. "I must not stay,'' she said quietly. "Piease remember. Avoid the pyongichauno~ Without another word she turned and walked away m
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    • 715 3  - A haven from the city slums ROGER YUE by TIIK children from the slums off River Valley Road have a haven the King George V Park bounded by Clemenceau Avenue at the foot of Fort Canning, Singapore's famous landmark. Scores of scraggy kids can be seen emerging from their rambling
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    • 801 3  - NEW SHIP CAN BE DRIVEN BY ONE MAN Guy Bettany by J^ SHIP which can he. driven like ;i motorcar by one man will return shortly to Copenhagen from her maiden voyage to Greenland. She is the Kista Dun, a 1,200 tons (gross) vessel specially for the Polar seas. In
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    • 36 4 Si\l n-Tfur-uiJ Itlrtef >la> France of America confidently preparing for her id attempt to beat the strong Channel currents. She is one of the prettiest ints ever to have braved the treacherous crossing.
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    • 23 4 fjTKACK and Held 1 women w e first duced into the Olympic :iam m Britain has still to win a
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    • 633 4 They challenge the Channel By a SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT THE Channel swimming season has come m with the heat waves, and 24-year-old Bob Paysour of Gastonia, North Carolina, is m Folkestone, England, looking with a challenging eye- at the rugged 21 miles of heaving water between England and France. He is
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    • 514 4  -  HAROLD ABRAHAMS tf/ AXE if the most intri"guins things about 1952 Olympic Games 1 be the participfor the first time es (men and men) from the U > S.R. There re n competitors m Olympic Games of Qdon m 1908. and Stockholm m 1912. but records
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    • 185 4 Record Olympic entry 4 TOTAL of 71 CounA> tries. 12 more than the record entries for the 1943 Olympics, hi been officially accepted for the 195!) Summer Games to be held at Helsinki from July 19 —August 3rd. Competing lor \he first time since the war are: The Bahamas. Bulgaria
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    • 300 4 MADCAP MAX CLOWN PRINCE OF THE LINKS By PETER WILSON WHAT a personality this Max Faulkner is. There is never a dull moment with the man who won the Open and the Masters' Championship last year, and whom colleague Desmond Hackett christened "The Clown Prince of the Links". In New
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    • 753 4  -  N.W.D YARD LEY By FAULTS m the techr nique of batting— that's my subject. F< if any, batsmen have a perfect style because batting is an individual art, but all great players follow certain sound principles. First let us consider the grip. Don't have the hands too
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    • 206 4 EVER since the Olympic; Games were revived m 1896 American athletes have been the dominant force. Taking the 24 events which now constitute the men's athletic programme, we find that the U. 3. A. has. since the beginning, won 118 out Of 217 titles— more than the
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    • 422 4  - Chan Onn Leng is improving all the time BILL MOSS Gallery of Sportsmen Says TO the casual observei, he is just an ordinary schoolboy, like any other among the hundreds attending thi Anglo-Chinese school of Singapore. But. on casting a second glance at this shy well-man-nered youth, the observer confronted
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    • 160 5 Missile believed buried near Colony school Free Press Staff Reporter THIRTEEN men from the Singapore Engineers Regiment have been trying for the last 14 days to recover a bomb suspected to be lodged m the ground near Anthony Road Girls' School m Clemenceau Avenue. They
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    • 47 5 CYMCA: 'CITY DELAYS PLANS' Pr Kr porter l Sin V.M the lying s for 3 m m. Plans ten ..dded. the betni fre--1 contributors fund A\hei» r ject would them that but oeen nc the he said. I: We are work imare apa i c raised $1,000,000
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    • 37 5 Holiday s end for 75,100 Press Stafl Reporter Ted and eighty ese schools Iment of oe reopened a month's Department me schools ds to Mr G. P. .tor of said yesterX additional Chi■•^ere being Education DeI -aid.
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    • 84 5 Nominations may cause party split OiNGAPORE Labour Party may face another "rebellion" over nominations to the City Council elections In December. The General Council of the party meets at the end of this month to choose the candidates. A group ki the party is planning to put up their candidates
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    • 71 5 Two officials of the Singapore Teachers* Union, Mr. V. Victor and Mr. E. W. Jesudasan. will attend the twoday annual general meeting oi the Malayan Teachers. Union which will be held at Kuala Lumpur on August 24. ■I ■•-■o-t'rvers." They will -listen to the discussions and
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    • 76 5 PESANG. Sat. INTENSIFIED police patrols 1 at night resulted m a substantial reduction m the number of Penang burglaries last month, a police spokesman said yesterday m a review of June crime m the Settlement. The low rate of serious crime prevailing during the past three
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    • 141 5 OI BSTATIONS liable to load v schedding tonight are: Aljunid Ed.. Sima Aye.. Paya Lebar Pomps, D unman Rd., Joo Lhiat Place Jalin Vasin. Jalan Lurm, Rangoon Rd., Serangoon Rd.. Sennett Est.. Kolam Ayer. McPherson Rd.. Rim Chun Rd.. Boundary Rd_ Florence Rd., Upper Serangoon, Yn» Chu Kane
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    • 96 5 Consumers study aid offer FEDERATION Government's ■F proposal to help the Singapore Consumers' Association to combat the high prices of vegetables is being Studied. Mrs. Robert Eu, the president of the association, said the association has suggested that they work m close liaison with the Cameron Highlands Co-operative Society and
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    • 151 5 IPOH. Sat. THE Perak Estate Employees Union has begun to organise Chinese and Malay estate workers m the State, numbering about 25,000. They will be taken into the union which already has a membersnip of 22.000 Indian workers, "We have been requested by the Member
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      68 5 picture. M JEAN LETOIRNEAV, French Minister of State and High Commissioner for French In'ri-i-rhina inspecting the guard of honour on his arrival at the Tengah airfield, Sinranore vested from Saigon. He. is accompanied by F-Lt. B. A. Whiteside, who was fr K tVtgulr^oi honour, while the Governor of Singapore Mr
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    • 83 5 20 asked: 'Can you design the mace' SINGAPORE City Council has asked more than 20 local jewellers whether they could design a mace for the Coun- cil. The President of the Council, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, said yesterday: "These jewellers are making enquiries. They will then give esti -nates,
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    • 73 5 IPOH, Sat.— A seven-man committee has been appointed by the Perak State Government' to raise the Building bylaws adopted m 1935. Heading this committee, which has already had several meetings, is Mr. K. J. Ball, Government Architect. The other members are: The State Engineer's representative,
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    • 219 5 'Restrict loans' co-ops urged Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Co-operative Thrift and Loan Urban Union has received a suggestion that a new loan policy should be devised m view of the increase of indebtedness among mercantile and public service clerks. I The policy, the suggestioi said, should be designed t.
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    • 152 5 SULTAN WARNS PEOPLE AGAINST RED PROP A GANDA KUALA LIMPI R, Saturday. A WARNING against the "invidious propaganda' through which Communist fanatics were trying to impose their will on illiterate people, was g» by the Sultan of Kelantan at the inauguration of the State Adult Education Association m Kota Bahru
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    • 159 5 IPOH. Sat. IN preparation for the Beaver Air Service m Perak, the Raja Udang, a six-passenger plane, arrived m Ipoh yesterday from Kuala Lumpur on a proving flight with Capt. N. G Padgett and Capt. G. C. S Pearson on board. According to the proposed schedule
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    • 39 5 patrol coast Singapore Marine Police have 46 launches, most of them fitted with radio, to i patrol the coastline of the i Colcny. Patrols are carried out day and night to prevent illegal entry into the island.
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    • 47 5 Dr. C. J. Paglar, Singapore Legislative Councillor, has left for Malacca to confer i with Sir Cheng-lock Tan on j ways to help the squatters m the island who are being asked to quit their homes by the Improvement Trust and other estate promoters
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    • 69 5 MRS. LAIDLAW THOMSON, one of the models taking part m "Rendezvous with Eve/ will wear a town, created and lent for the occasion by Mrs. Doris Geddes, of "Th« Little Shop's" which will make her look like a Duchess. The show will be held at Raffles
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    • 45 5 Mr. G. Findlay Andrew, Liaison Officer of the Singapore Education Department (Chinese Section), will give a talk en "Kuoyu the Chinese national language" at the British Council Hall at 6 p.m. on July 25. The lecture is sponsored by the China Society.
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    • 59 5 FIIFTY -EIGHT LOANS, amounting to $28,895, were granted last year to Singapore. City. Council, employees by their co-opera-tive society to buy furniture. Loans for medical expenses amounted to $24,646 and settlement of prior debts, $20,801. The society earned a bigger income from interest on loans
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    • 161 5 Rice not bad-but 'can't be sold' •'THE Controller of SupA plies m Singapore, Mr. O. R. S. Bateman, denied yesterday that Government had ever issued rotten rice to shops. The only trouble was some of the shopkeepers did not Like the took of certain grades of rice issued to them
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    • 97 5 IPOH Sat NINETY-NINE Malay families and a few SaJtais living; m Kampong Chang kat Panchor. about 12 miles south of Parit, have been regrouped into another kampong. a short distance away, aiter bsndit activity. Most of the people are rubber tappers m smallholdings. They are getting
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      • 71 5 CUPS for Presentation Special interest to CLUBS WE HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF ENGLISH SPORTS CUPS COMPLETE WITH PLINTH BEST QUALITY 3 m Hi^ h each 6 50 a""* sj E p N s I \52 10 90.00 .12 95.00 .14 $125.00 SPECIAL PRICES TO CLUBS Also In stock Hall
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    • 236 6 Duties given as reason Free Press Boxing Reporter •JHE Dave Sands v. Ismeli Radrodro fight scheduled to take place at Singapore's Happy World Stadium on July 18, is definitely off. Fromoter Nene told the Free Press this morning that he had received a letter from
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      40 6 picture. A bijr smile from Little Mo: Maureen Connolly grins happily as she receives the Wimbledon women's singles championship trophy from the Duchess of Kent. Seven-teen-year-old Maureen was competing for the first time m the All-England lawn tennis championships. A.P
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    • 285 6 INDIANS DRAW RAIN toded hOgm the Indian tOWUtf may have had Of beating Derbyshire *t i <- i rteld vescerday and t :ame had to be aban- i as a draw. After threatening from th ning of p.ay yesterdiy and driving the players pay ".ion several times. ra n eventually
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    • 102 6 England XI for Moscow? By \V Cape! Kirby ENGLAND v Russia m! Moscow. Sounds fantas:ic doesn't it? Yet the F.A. wouldn't oe surprised to receive the invitation any tiflM now. I ga;her everything desends on the Russian sum- ning up of independent re- j jorts of eight observers who lave
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    • 464 6 C.A 3; 8.0.D.C.A 1. D O.D.C.A seem to have booked themselves for the Singapore Amateur F.A. Division 2. next season, following yesterday's beating from Chinese Athletic, m a Senior league tie at Jalan Besar Stadium. With only two points out of eight games, 8.0.D.C.A. are m grave
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    • 279 6 GHQ Signals fight for one-goal win G.H.Q. Signals I:S.E.R 0. ANE goal decided this United Services Senior League match played at Tanglin yesterday. Signals had to fight hard for their two points, but their forwards were always on top -of the Singapore Engineer Regiment defence. Only
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    • 190 6 Changi beat R.E.M.E. and the weather Chan-i. 3; \>\ Mv 1V gi out Electri al Engineei convin nior l Cnanei 5 Dc mastered t their forceful welcome r form. The RE M E stood up pressure f: of Chai did bel Carter from a tolee was R.E.M.E. bill ported Wingers
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    • 359 6 SURREY are setting such a hot pace m the county cricket championship that they now have a clear lead of 32 points over their nearest I rivals. Middlesf Surrey have brillian all- round side and it appears only the calls of Test and representative matches
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    • 421 6 i pARTILAGE troubCe and injVJ jured knees have gen- erally been the bugbear of 1 the footballer, but there are at least three first-class cricketers currently worried over the possibility of a premature ending to their careers. Everyone knows of Denis Compton's famous knee, and when he
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    • 89 6 CHANNEL Swimmer Florence Chachvick will have the same "team" with her when she tries again to conquer the distance between Catalina Island and the maml-nd m September. Overriding an announcement from San Diego by her mother, Mrs Mary Chadwick, that there will be a new trainer,
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    • 20 6 Praser Ner.ve SC. beat M.P.H. 4-0 m a Singapore B.H.F.A. Lfia^ue Cup fixture at Rfver ypHey Rond vest^rttoV.
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    • 282 6 R.A.O.C 4; G.H.Q. 1. FIVE goals made up for some scrappy soccer m yesterday's United Services Senior League match at the 8.0.D. ground, Alexandra. A steady downpour of rain put a damper on constructive forward movements but both sides made the best of bad condi-
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    • 133 6 H.Q. RASC NET SIX JUNIOR LEAGUE TJEADQUARTERS Ro7&] Army Service Corps bea: t n ver-say-die 443 B.A.D team Dy six goals to nil In their Services League junior fixture at Ay^r Raja Road yesterday. R.A.S.C. led two-nil at halftime and on resumption netted three more goals m four minutes. A
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      • 102 6 Exclusive to //?p Singapore Free Press m Malaya f^r-*^^^gg^^^ OH,MANORA- .OwToARUNoI I I *M GETTING OUTA HERE/ I l//et/--WHAT IS \^s^.^~~> FN i P~ ITWASA\,VFUL. BUT IT^ ALL OVER. U m TIT HUBRYInrWI I -OVE"FLCA T ED IFYDUFIGURE I FELL THROUGH NOW FOR THAT L 1 '—J >> T^/l |!N%£AiR—
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    • 128 7 fUI the latest selections MI \N !t\*l* TRESPASSES EPSOM ivcp ErSQM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER v\l.\IN WIN AGAIN UIVAr.Alv "II Bo» Ottc« Winataln S£SUm IWIGADi™ "J™™* BRIG^dTeTi Lo%esel BottSLi Brigadier 35 M3I goUlft Hono«rbrl«ht Hurry Up \n nNARE BOATER OTF4M ckapv J 1 the
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    • 1535 7 WOODCOTE INN IS A GOOD THING Going stays good Hv IAN LEWIS T^J >un>n^ x» ratching of Gambar \u the Williamson grinnr-Ml (up has made Woodcote so much easier. He should t the best bets of the day i sure he will start a hot the danger to His all
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    • 46 7 Naresh Kumar, India's leading player, and G. P. Jackson of Ireland reached the men's doubles final of the Irish lawn tennis championships at Dublin yesterday when they beat the American pair, S. D. Potts and R. C. Sorloin by 6-3 4-6 6-2— Reuter.
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    • 35 7 The Singapore B.H.F.A. League A Cup fixture between Mansfield S.C. and Handelsbank S.C. which was to have been played at Fairer Park yesterday was called off owin? to the ground being waterlogjred.
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    • 27 7 The Junior Cup tie replay between Signals Regt. and V.M.M.A. at Oeylang Stadium yesterday was not played as referee Muthusamy failed to lurn up
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    • 210 7 THIRTY POUR YEAR OLD Bobby Locke of South Africa won hU, third British open golf championship yesterday when he had rounds pX 74 -and 73 after earlier round* of (9 and 71 to give him an aggregate of 287. Thi« U eifht strokes mwe
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      • 1340 7 Race 1—2.15: Class 3, Div. 3— 6 F. 19 Yds. 1 977 Misty Line McCloud 9.00 Mr Mrs. T. T. Teo Rodgers 2 532 M. Siiigapura 0 Flannery 8.12 Mr. M. K. Chen Hobbs lit w n aln Charles 8.11 Mr C. B Cheong Lewis 5 Assiie 8.11 Mr. A.
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    • 148 8 'MAD MIKE' VERDICT TODAY HANOVER. Sat. /TIHE verdict is expected toX day m the court martial of Major James (Mad Mike) Calvert, for alleged indecency Major Calvert. 39, is on trial on one charge of indecent behaviour with young German boys and two charges of attempting to procure the commission
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    • 465 8 Pyongyang m roaring flames TOKYO, Saturday. OETWEEN 500 to 650 Allied planes last night blasted ordinance and supply targets at the North Korean capital city of Pyongyang. They also hit supply concentrations at Hamhung, Kyomipo and near Sinamk, m the greatest night air
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    • 33 8 They discuss a problem picture. THE HIGH COMMISSIONER. Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, the man* who wants to know everything, discussing the problems of Malays who have been resettled at Seminyih, Selangor.- Free Press
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    • 35 8 The United States High Commissioner m Austria Mr. j Waiter J. Donnelly has charged the Soviet authorities m Vienna with suppressing freedom of the press m the Soviet zone of Austria. i Reuter.
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    • 34 8 Sweden yesterday denied American reports that she had agreed to join the proposed neutral commission on United Nations prison camps m Korea only if Pakistan. India and Indonesia were also willing.— Reuter.
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    • 68 8 COLLINS TO DISCUSS BOMBINGS TOKYO, Sat. GEN. J. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, will arrive here today for talks which are expected to include the problem of Gen. Mark Clark's liaison with members of the United Nations represented m Korea, especially Britain. It was authoritatively
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    • 49 8 Two lovers yesterday leaped from a seven-storey building In a suicide pact m Havana. Cuba. The man, identified as Abilio Alvarez, 24. died instantly while the woman, Maria Lopez, 30. was m a critical condition. The couple climbed seven floors, kissed each other and jumped.
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    • 35 8 American movie companies have baulked at a plan to set up a beard of Japanese and foreicn film representatives to censor all foreign motion pictures entering Japan, KyjDdo News Agency said yesterday.— A.P.
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    • 36 8 A hoax brought two fire engines to the British American Tobacco godown at Kee Seng Street, off Keppel Read Sini ga'pore, yesterday. Someone smasaed the glass of a fire alarm and ran away.
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    • 277 8 LONDON, Saturday. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL will be asked m the House of Commons on Monday if he has considered prosecuting the Dean of Canterbury, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, on a charge of "treason for spreading enemy propaganda". This announcement followed mounting protests at the 78-year-old churchman's allegations on
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    • 99 8 LONDON, Sat. The House of Lords ruled yesterday that a wife cannot collect damages if a work accident makes her husband impotent. The Lords said that Mrs. Julia Best. 25. cannot receive damages from a Midland steel company m whose plant her huslvind. Rex. 30. was badly
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    • 27 8 United Kingdcvn exports dropped by 18 per cent m June, despite the British Government's "export to live" drive Board of Trade statistics showed yesterday.— A.P.
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    • 33 8 Two engines from the Singapore Central Fire Station went to a fire on the ground floor of a house at Wee Nam Roacf yesterday. Only the floorboards wer c damaged.
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