The Singapore Free Press, 28 May 1953

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Lar gest Afternoon Sale in Malaya *****716 Singapore Thurs., May 28, 1953. Price 15 Cte.
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    RED TROOPS FOR TRUCE FORCE
    458 1 tW/l eam*> after i'l ait lor HH9 THE new United Nations proposals for a truce in Korea call tor 5,200 armed foreign troops, including 100 Communists to take charge of prisoners ref using to return to Red rule. The total includes 5,000 men from India
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    Arrest in C.I.D. shooting
    45 1 Free Press Staff Reporter piNGAPORE police have arrested a Teochew in connection with the murder of a young Chinese detective, Johnson Lee, in Chin Swee Road, yesterday. He will be charged in court today. Another man is held "for further questioning."
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    Synthetic Bill -trade to bid for factories
    316 1 Synthetic Bill -trade to bid for factories A BILL to dispose of the Inited States Governmenl A synthetic rubber factories was introduced in ttM House of Representatives yesterday by Mr. Paul Shafei (Republican, Michigan), the author of the present law under which the svnthetic rubber factories are operated by the
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    Postal losses 'very small'
    61 1 SINGAPORE'S Director of Posts, Mr. W. A. Cooper, this morning assured that postal authorities were doing all they could to detect the theft and loss of letters from the postal department. Mr. Cooper said the number of letters and postal articles lost in Singapore was exceedingly
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    66 1 Yes It's sharp. And the terrorists are going to agree when Lance Corporals Moses and Lewis (L to R) of the */Jnd battalion of the King's African Rifles meet them in the Malayan jungle. Here they show the "panga" (African parang) to Lieutenants B. Hyland and A. Holmes of the
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    'The Bat' can knock out any tank
    96 1 'The Bat' can knock out any tank ■Rste anti-tar lk Un Military exi"ru m But w hlCh ut th e worw- K Say Can kno <*l tanks w s rld heav:o st known ,lrst time. BtM *«f» for tiie > h n m S SB* tho new he recoiiiV.lt h(
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    U.S. SPIES? -TOO SILLY FOR WORDS
    96 1 rrai U.S. State Department A last night hrushed aside as "too fantastic to deserve comment" Russia's charge that the U.S. parachuted four spies into the Ukraine. Moscow said the four had been tried and executed. Ties. Oflicer, Mr. Lincoln White, told a news conference
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    Rubber price
    25 1 Singapore Rubber Market opened quietly this morning with first grade, June shipment, at 10^4 cents a pound, l A cent below yesterday's close.
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    Peking aid to Reds ip Vietnam' is growing
    270 2 Peking aid to Reds ip Vietnam is growing PEN. Henri Navarre, the new French Commander in Indo-China, said yesterday that Communist potential in North Vietnam and Laos was growing because of Chinese aid which was bigger and better organised every day. The general told a French news agency the situation
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    She had 7 'thrilling' years with Churchill
    150 2 She had 7 'thrilling' years with Churchill MISS JO STURDEZ, who has been principal personal private secretary to the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, for seven "thrilling" years, has left him to set up a business of her own. She has opened her own "diplomatic bureau" in the heart of
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    TWO EGYPTIANS STAB BRITON IN SUEZ
    82 2 TWO EGYPTIANS STAB BRITON IN SUEZ rpwo British soldiers on their A way for a swim near Favid, Suez Canal Zone, yesterday were attacked from behind by two Egyptians. One of the soldiers was stabbed in the back. The soldiers, both in civilian clothes, were walking towards the Olympic Stadium
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    Red diplomat to quit U.S.
    41 2 STATE Department sources said vestcrday it was expected that Mr. Christache Zambeti, a Rumanian diplomat accused of trying to blackmail an American citizen into serving as a Communist spy. would leave the United States todav. picture.
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    Everest men told-3 days more of fair weather
    175 2 Everest men told3 days more of fair weather INDIA Radio last night warned Col. John Hunts hv expedition that cumulus clouds were exneet^ Ps; the world's tallest peak this afternoon aroun,) With a westerly wind blowing at 35 knots an hour these heaps of rounded masses of clouds resting on
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    'NO aid to U.N. if China is there'
    105 2 'NO aid to U.N. if China is there' OHHE SENATE Appropriate A- Committee yesterday vot^ to bar any United States contribution to the United Nations .n the next iinanciaj year Communist china was admt ted to the Secur.ty Council The ban was voted as a rider on a money bill
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    RECORD SALES
    45 2 The British aircraft industrv exported aviation equipment worth nearly £5.000.000 in April, the Society of British Aireraft Constructors said last night. This brings the total of exports j for the first four months of the .year to nearly €19,000,000— a i reeord figure.
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    BRITISH NEWSMAN ASKS FOR BAIL
    35 2 A United States district court in New York reserved its decision on an application by Cedric Hennin«r Belfrage, a British author and journalist. for bail pending deportation proceedings against him.
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      Opinion FROM HWANGHO TO BUKIT TIMAH
      365 3 Opinion FROM HWANGHO TO BUKIT TIMAH rpHE City President's de- fence of the Flood Committee's report is not likely to convince many people that the problem has been viewed with the urgency which it deserves. AIU of us will agree with Mr. McNeice that Bukit Timan canal at its torrential
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    'Johnny Gurkha Ihinks Little of T.V.
    1083 3 a Michael Gannon mixes with the rT Commonwealth Coronation contingents rpHE wild music of Pakistani pipes throbbed and mingled with the shimmering haze rising from the square. A petty officer in the winter serge of Ceylon's navy ran a dark finger round the inside
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    Mammy's grubby little boys
    79 4 iiTTLE BOYS the world over dont mind getting dirty but how thev hate petting dean again ali that horrible m mhm W of C cou U r?e H leant their little boys nice and clean. So two English boys, five-year-old Paul Johnson and brother Mark. 3.
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    THEY WANT TIME ON TAXI METERS
    113 4 P re Clty Co n cll yesterday postponed cons 'on that ?f a Vehicles and Traffic committee tfecila*i meters reglstered a^r Sept. Ibe iitted with E^ F *S& James Progressive back'of thPH m Ved ref "ence H^CarA^ d( l Clslon sai d the ed
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    YMCA FAIR
    33 4 The Commissioner-General, i Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, will open the Singapore YMC A. Golden Jubilee and Coronation fun-fair at the Y.M.C.A. ground In Bras Basah Road at 5.30 I p.m. on Friday.
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    Sarah loses $30,000 ring
    65 4 MRS. ANTHONY BEAIJ- CHAMP, the former Sarah Churchill, daughter of the Prime Minister, lost a 200--year-old $30,000 i Straits) diarr.ond rin« in New York yesterday before taking off bv plane for London. The ring was described as having a pear shaped diaI mond and several small
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    The boy preacher found
    188 4  - The boy preacher found HARRY FANG By THE 14-year old boy preacher, Lau Siew Kuan, who was reported missing from his home in Temple Street, Singapore, since May 12 is now a patient in the Woodbridge Mental Hospital at Yio Chu Kang. Nicknamed Ah Pai (Limping Boy), Lau was picked
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    LIGHTS FOR YIO CHU KANG ROAD
    52 4 In view of the improved electricity supply position, the Singapore City Council has agreed to a Rural Board request to light up Yio Chu Kang Road this year instead of in 1954. Forty-six lamps will be installed on this road at a cost of
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    3 HUKS KILLED
    25 4 Philippine troops claim they killed three Communistled Huk rebels in a clash 50 miles south-eas of Manila. No Army looses were reported.
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    WOMEN TEACHERS WILL CONFER ON MARRIAGE BAR
    233 4 Free Press Staff Reporter MRS. Seow Peck Leng, a mother of three boys, is leading the battle with the Government .for the entry of married women teachers into the new Education Service Scheme. Mrs. Seow was the first woman vice-president of the Singapore
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      139 4 tlhe .AnVf oeraf of Wafcwl Acheron et J^gL CONSTANTINi|M I <i.Cde SUVA 6 BROS. I! J f 3, PAEELES PLACE S'PORE. L SEOW HIAP BPOS. >V, j 102.NORTH BRIDGE bQ.S'DOQE. >^V j mm— .i ii iilil M^ MMMMM rt>aa a l M l iiiy vc; vibktom: A general tonic, is
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    489 5 YOUR LUCKY STAR JJORN TOIUY, you alert mind and a brain. You ck m, j This may appear to k. to mose who do not your intuitions are keJ w you have hunches whi^ th »< rule, prove to be the J« for you to follow. l You are considered
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    A DAY FOR INVALIDS
    87 5 LONDON. PEOPLE throughout- the world are being asked to BJJ the first Sunday in June a caj for remembering house-bounu invalids. ofi/w An international organisation —the "Shut-Ins Day" Assoc a tion— have been formed i promote the day when incm duals are Mked to remem*' two
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      242 5 I, MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Dav lAT LAST.SOMEONE WHO TALKS.' BUT HIS 1 I] WONDER IF HE CAN FEELANYTHiNGI] I I*LLB£--.' HE OION'T 1 v^ VOICE SOUNDS LIFELESS --AS IFIT WERE! Al TOSS THIS CIGARETTE LIGHTER r EVEN NOTICE IT f- J WHERE IS THI I
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    WOMAN PATIENT TELLS OF TRIPS IN CAR
    2145 6 WOMAN PATIENT TELLS OF TRIPS IN CAR ninTISM alleged in surgery... 'He talked very softly.* the lights were dimmeO*.. ■r-vTV-SEVEN-y e a rT W m Myra Metcalfe. V 1 has a five-year-old W ent before the dall^i n«v committee of tfSSS Medical CounTandnWed that she Is hvpnotised four times I
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    UNKNOWN
    231 7  -  PETER de CRUZ Story by Pictures by Pirate M J Saturday K non-stop I I battle J barred V This "Bail ai w as a hjfl d( pageant fl I ciub mm On shore, ofl tor s werefl the end prates ifl Thev chd hands a:.:H do ng afl
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    es' in S'pore Sea Battle
    188 8 ir5 rwn.HOUR FROLIC ah the fire-brigade ou6h it too was in iyoa press At rl wis helplessly hem2f& bv three ealCeons. BIShZ of fireworks Br0 w? and flour did everySt except sink the launch. a«rtipss pirates, without Be JSf of compassion, forced gwomeTU tc ."walk
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    PRINCESS SAYS: I AM NO LADY CHATTERLEY
    370 9 ITALIAN aristocrats, members of the smart set, and the international Press thronged the dingy corridor of the Verona Tribunal to watch the biggest society scandal in years come into the open. Outside a perspiring crowd waited for three hours Speculating on what was
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    He invited his wife to kill herself
    143 9 He invited his wife to kill herself HUSBAND: DRINK DISINFECTANT MRS. Joyce Caroline Stevens was invited by her husband to commit suicide by drinking disinfectant. He also: Put her, fully clothed, into a bath, and turned on the cold spray: Shut her out of the house at midnight in her
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    DIAL 999 FOR SNAKES
    45 9 POLICE were summoned by a 999 call to catch a 3 ft. grass-snake in a garden at Thomas Street, Rochester, Kent. When they got it to the police station It proved so difficult to keep in custody that It was killed.
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    Warrant out for '£26,000 sweeper'
    125 9 Warrant out for '£26,000 sweeper' A WARRANT was issued for the arrest of a knight's road-sweeper son, who failed to turn up in court for a hearing over maintenance said to be due to his wife. He was out with his broom when the police called at his home a
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    The 'Glamazons'
    103 9 TAKING A WELL-EARNED breather In their drcss»ns room are "The Glamazons" chorus line currently shaking the music hall-boards. The girls led h v soubrette Dawn Whit? (right) who at 15-stone is a lightweight compared to some of the buxom lasses— ar f tourint the halls. From right to
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    THE EMPLOYER, THE WIFE AND THE HUSBAND
    304 9 AN "extremely good-looking and ambitious" wife was acutely conscious of til contrast between her go-ahead cafe-owner employer and her stolid hustonf said Mr. Justice Davies in the Divorce Court. She began to be cool to te husband. Once, calline him 1 complete failure,"
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      'REDCAPS' FETE CORPS DAY
      249 10 mm „f the oldest and Sited Corps Day represent. SSbI? commencing S r a v?sit to all Hoy U Sary Police graves *e Colony- 0 2£» a 't omman Swimming between 200 Proves, .Comr „«j qi Section. 5.1.8.. an R V ee a nOfflc S ers
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      Bridge Hand
      154 10 Stage your own "Olympic.'' Sixteen prearranged "par"' deals. criminally played as the 1953 In tercollegiate Bridge Championship, are being presented here. To play the.ideals in your own game, save the series until complete; then have the hands stacked in duplicate boirds &JW may use four proper lv marked
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      Coronation week programme
      143 10 Coronation week programme inllE W.V.S. is presenting an 1 attractive programme at the Britannia Club in celebration of Coronation Week, the highlights of which are as follows: Monday, June 1. Coronation Evp Ball from 8 p.m. to midnight, with Novelty Dances Prizes, Cabaret and Supper. Wednesday, Jun e 3. "Band
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      24 10 photo. R.M.P. CORPS DAY: Men of 200 Provost Company, R.M.P. marching past the G.O.C. Major-General A.G. O'CarrollScott, at Tanglin on Sunday morning. Free Press
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      Good Day of Sport
      347 10 CELEBRATING Corps Day the Royal Military Police staged an athletic meeting on th*? Sports Ground. 3 8.0.D.. Alexandra, on Saturday last, in which representatives of all Units in Singapore took part. Despite the heat of the afternoon competition was keen and some stern tussles were witnessed.
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      FAREWELL DANCE
      124 10 AVERY PLEASANT evening was passed by those who attended the Singapore Embarkation Club Dance at Rallies Hotel on Friday last, when the opportunity was taken by the committee and friends to bid farewell to Col. A. E. Saunders, the Port Commandant and founder of the Club. Col. Saunders,
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      256 10 Today's Crossword ii i I i3 I F^nUH'^H^lHi mmm I HI I HHI iHi I HI Hfl I B^Ti i^^H ACKOSS. l, a happy drink 17). Blunders In hand a aimers! (5). 6, 7. Study the dirt-covered! <5». 8. The room where the seat tickets are A girl who had
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      S'pore to form Wood Badge training team
      422 11  - S'pore to form Wood Badge training team P. L. KOH By SCOUTERS in Singapore will no longer need to go to the Federation for their Wood Badge train. ng. Courses are to be started here. iY A r. John Thurman, the Camp Chiel at Uilwell, Bniain, has gauciOiMd the formation
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      NEEDS CHANGE
      80 11 AN estate at Ponggol End ll becoming very popular with picnickers and I am surprised that there are no changing rooms for bathers who pay an entrance fee of flv e cents. There are the remains oi an ancient changing house. It !l without roof and with brokendown
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      VAGUE BUSES
      182 11 I. HAVE been In Singapore for eight years and I still have only a vague idea of the route; taken by the S.T.C. buses. This is the first city that I have come across with a bus transport system which does not supply wouldbe users with a folder,
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      UNARMED WOMAN EVADES WILD BOAR'S 3 ATTACKS
      151 11 Free Press Malay Correspondent A MALAY woman has overcome slnglehanded and weaponless a big wild boar which three times tried lo gore her and beat it by defensive tactics. Che M thani. was looking for young shoots and pegaga leaves in a padi
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      SEATED GENTS
      103 11 DO the men of Singapore citizens of the Colony, consider themselves gentlemen? Ii so. why dont those who get seat.^ in a "bus, politely offer their places io some of the ladies left standing? It's shameful to sre an ohice-work-ing. educated man sitting comfortably whiie women are jcstied
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      UNFAIR SEX
      116 11 \TEVER again will I offer my seat in a bus to any member of the 'fair sex." Time and again, although tired on I have gallantly offered my seat tc iris in crowded buses. And what do you suppose happened? All that I got in return were col
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      AIR GLAMOUR THE MISTRESS KEEPS THEM IN TIME
      132 11 AIR GLAMOUR THE MISTRESS KEEPS THEM IN TIME SINGAPORE has quite a line-up of glamorous air and ground hostesses of International and local airlines. Recently in Karachi, a beauty parade was held to name Miss Airways. The title went to a pretty ground hostess from the West With all the
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      GAOL HOLIDAY
      13 11 There will be no work ln Singapore gaols on Coronation Day.
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      Piles and piles of work in new bank
      165 11 Piles and piles of work i n new bank A TOTAL of 32.789 f eet J t\ piling was used to form,? foundation of the new tELI seven -storey branch buildin.7 the Chartered Bank of K Australia and China, which 3 be erected at the corn! McCallum Street and »3t!
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      ROYAL COAT OF ARMS ON TAXIS
      40 11 Singapore's 1,400 taxis will bt decorated during the Coronate Celebrations. Mr. T. A. Simon, president I the Hire Car Association sai: that the Royal Coat of Arms I transfers will be applied I windscreens.
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    A Duchess Recalls Her Woes
    866 12 A Duchess Recalls Her Woes When Churchill was 'that upstart Winston' Tbf CUtter and the Gold" by m V»nd" bl,k B ,S n S white ball given by the Duc de Gramont to Pans That summer-it was Xshe received five fo^sals of marnase m jSte and three in Lond°; 0
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    QUICK LOOKS
    49 12 S*ewp ia EL, km. -»m 0* j n and the remote lands bordering on Sinklanj PBESI JTINQ Miss «\N» AUSTEN, May l.amlM-rtou Bicker. Hai rap). An intimate account of Jane n home, her family lit her mends, her adventure! and every"•'v and ber development w> an author.
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    A Diplomat is Accused....
    446 12 A Diplomat is Accused.... "Diplomatic Twilight." Sir Walford Selby, K. C. M. G., C. 8., C.V.O. (Murray,). WHAT was yie real cause of the grotesque, tragic failure in British foreign policy and diplomacy between the wars? Who is the prime culprit on the charge-sheet? One experienced diplomat, Sir Walford Selby,
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    35 12 JEAN CRAIN, a talented artist, at an exhibition of art in Hollywood's Greek Theatre. She is admiring an unusual sculpture, "Fire Dance" by V. C. Houser (right) made from a single piece of firekilled Eucalyptus.
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    HORNBLOWER IS 'DEAD'
    96 12 NOVELIST C. S. FORESTER has finished the last book of the Hornblower saga. Writing it, he said was "jolly and rather fun." Now that he has read three proofs of it he said, with a roar of laughter: "I've decided it's the worst kind of nonsense." Forester
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    The Real Thing
    78 12 Murder and Its Motives. By F. Tennyson Jesse. (Harrap). ANEW edition of Miss Tennyson Jesse's classic is welcome. In a way the orieinal issue of 1924 made criminological history; for the author analysed and classified the various motives for murder more scientifically than had ever been done
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    SAFA's RULES A MYSTRY TO MANY
    300 13 SAFA 's RULES A MYSTRY TO MANY Its time players digested them Free Press Soccer Reporter FORGIVE and forget— NOT likely. Today is Judgment day for ten of the 14 soccer players who went on tour to Kota Bahru without permission from the Singapore Amateur Football Association. They have already
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    Individuality may he a C-Cup hope now
    956 13  - Individuality may he a C-Cup hope now ALLAN LEWIS By INDIVIDUALITY, splen--I didly ridden by youn* Bagby. may have earned rfimself a place in the Coronation Cup field, when he won Race 6— CI. 1, Div. 2— 6F.— at Bukit Timah yesterday Individuality was practically neglected on the tote. He
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    Big Sweep
    54 13 TOTAL POOL: $354,663. First: No. *****8 $159,598 Second: No. *****8 79,799 Third: No. *****9 44,332 Starters ($4,433 each) Nos: *****6, *****5, *****9, *****5, *****3, *****4, *****3, *****3, *****4, *****0. Consolation Prizes ($2,659 each) Nos: *****1, *****8, *****7, *****7. *****1, *****4, *****6, *****8. *****5. *****4. IMM KB E TOTE
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      446 ENTRIES: 28 STARTERS
      134 13 f I ONDON bookmakers last MIJ night made Queen Elixafbeth's chestnut colt Aureole (joint 4-1 favourite with Sir Victor Sasson's Pinza to win i the Derby at Epsom Downs on June 6. At the call-over at the Victoria Club Aureole and Pinsor— which will be ridden
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      12 ACCEPTORS
      61 13 fPWELVE final acceptors for the Coronation Cup. running over a mile and a half at Epsom on Friday. June 5, were yesterday announced ln I/>ndon. They are, with weights: Wllwyn, Dynamiter, Tudor Castle and Zucchero all 8 st. 10 lbs Gay Time. Bold Buccaneer. Faubourg 11, Biuliano, Imprudent,
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    New rival far Elley Bennett
    171 13 A young Sydney boxer. Trevor Kin?, who ha* had 46 wins from 47 fights emphasised hi* claims for a match with the Australian featherweight champion, Elley Bennett, by a convincing seven rounds win over Bluey WUklns. of Victoria, at Sydney Btadlum. The fight was scheduled
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    WINNER BY A NOSE...
    24 13 WINNER BY A NOSE... In a thrilling finish Gwilym < Flannery), on rails, beats Marvel of Peru (Lansdown) by a nose to win Race 5.
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    ALLAM LEWIS SAW..
    94 13 PRINCE ROSS and Sytii Pride fight out the S3 of Race One. Both m having their first start a Malaya. They should ft in the near future. SyW. Pride icill probably impna more than Prince Ross. A promising trio of wtcomers start in Ract j Lucky Nick,
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    Constable hits 126 for champions
    295 14 Rain affects yunty matches 4feh depressing dripped on >A,N M W ,nd empty stands from Manv*r FokesX yesterday halted lfster mL /ames washed out two more e ffSSS ST Australians v. Lancashire fe2?d Ad«eS the all-important £tri3 to little more than a aree. rt should
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    Army win imperial Services boxing
    145 14 THE Army, with 24 points, won the Imperial Services Boxing Assoeiation Championship at Hullavington, Wilts., the RAF being second with 21 points and the Royal Navy and Marines third with 15. With the incentive of going forward to the ABA National Championships, the Army scored
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    THE CHAMP GOES MPOWN
    425 14 THE CHAMP GOES MPOWN LARRY GAINS was always called "The Champ." He had punched his way through the boxing rings of the world to the roar of millions of fans. But last week only 50 silent people watched Gains former Empire heavy-weight champion start a three-month jail sentence. Purses of
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    S'PORE BOXERS FOR OLYMPICS
    44 14 'rHE Singapore Amateur B( xmg Association will send a team to the 1956 Olympic Games if tiw Colony lads do well at next ye Asian games in Manila. This decided at a council meetine held ui the Singapore Recreation Club
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    STRANAHAN LOSES
    23 14 i pion h i rie W ird Pn a* nahai nm up i i four h p und amateur goir ~e.
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    Final gallops for Cup races SHAWS' HORSES (Entertainment & Cinecolor) RUN 3 IN 37
    304 15  - Final gallops for Cup races SHAWS' HORSES (Entertainment Cinecolor) RUN 3 IN 37 ALLAN LEWIS By CORONATION CUP candidates Cinecolor (Ward) and Entertainment II (Whitney) were the outstanding workers at Bukit Timah this morning. They trotted to tht three furlongs post and ran home from there in 37, the fastest
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    KINGPORT IN TIP TOP FORM
    159 15 KINGPORT IN TIP TOP FORM KINGPORT, probable Governor's Cup favourite, with Flanncry up had Sinsin:; Master (J. Donnelly) for company when doing useful pace work from about the six. Thev came home over the last thn e in even time with Kingport anxioius to go faster. Singing Master also worked
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    Tulloh and McCloud fit
    61 15 JOCKEYS Colin Tulloh and Harry McCloud. who hav P been on the injured list since last Saturday, reported Tit this morning and will resume race riding on Saturday. Jack Jones, who was slightly injured in his fall with Traducer yesterday, also expects to be quite fit
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    BIRTHS
    158 15 FREY: To Connie and Ruedy at 'Djakarta on Whitsunday, a daughter Shirley Ann, sister to Jerry. MACFARLANE: To Elisabeth, wife of John, a son at Kandang Kerbau on 26th May 1953. Both well. WILKINSON: On May 26th in Ireland, to Marjorie, wife of L.F. Wilkinson, a son, David Leslie.
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    DEATH
    32 15 COCKBURN: On 27th. May, 1953, at the General Hospital, Singapore, John Frederick Cockburn, 33 years, of the Shell Company of Singapore. Funeral at Bidadarl Cemetery at 5 p.m. today. Deeply regretted.
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    Mona's Kuda a good thing
    190 15 MonVs Kuda (Farad), who missed her engagement on the flrst day. showed a nice turn of speed to reel off three in 37 1/5. which was the best of the horses engaged in minor events on Saturday. Scarlet Admiral (Mawi) has evidently improved after his
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    Hutton finds new opening partner in Trevor Bailey
    272 15 Hutton finds new opening partner in Trevor Bailey A PLEASANT surprise in England's Test trial at Birmingham yesterday was the success of Trevor Bailey as opening partner for Len Hutton. Otherwise little was learnt in a rain-restricted day's play Freddie Brown and Len Hutton n ere all set to see
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    O.T.E.C. HA EASY WIN v. STANVAC
    243 15 pLAYING with better, I bination and havin; i advantage of an ml lorward line, OTEC hadu" win over Stanvac in this SB Division 1 league match at king Stadium yesterday The game was last Stanvac playing a defg role. They might have ra the
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      137 15 Saturday weights TJELOW are the 13 weights for all eight races on Saturday, last day of the Singapore Coronation meeting: THE CORONATION CUP HORSES. (LASS 1 7 FIRS, less 3yd. Woodeote Inn 9.07 Parmiter 9.00 Northern Circuit 8.13 Lillibullero 8.11 Elturiu* 8.10 Entertainment II 8.10 Mystic Melody 8.08 Best Bet
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      140 15 i'l i'l- n g.ll < 111 lew 8.11 Scarlet Admiral 8.10 Red Dust 8.10 Roman Galley 8.10 Bloodshot 8.09 Malekzadeh 8.09 Snapdragon 8.08 Josker II 8.08 Fair Anita 8.04 Opera 8.02 Twelfth of Aug. 8.00 CLASS I. DIV. I— S IT R. A 19 YD. Bllldaw 9.00 Sporting Gesture .11
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      128 15 Firm 8.09 Valiant Boy 8.07 Windy Corner 8.06 Trial By Jury 8.05 Scordance 8.01 Beecaflcoes 8.03 Brideford 8.01 Honolulu 7.13 Majestic Scholar 7.13 Solperion 7.12 Red Carnation 7.12 CI. 2— Div. I—6 F. 19 yd. Fairy Tale 9.00 Supremacy 8.10 Dande Bay 8.09 Pink Treasure 8.08 Stmvela 8.07 Border Scot
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