The Singapore Free Press, 6 June 1953

Microfilm: NL3676
Total Pages: 24
1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    Masthead
    22 1 The Singapore Free Press txr A tftPrnoon Sale m Malaya Nt 1« 24 Sinrapore S»t.. »une 6, 19 53. Price 15 Cts,
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    TAFT SEEKS ALLY WITH NO SAY
    408 1 TAFT SEEKS ALLY WITH NO SAY I Britain Pacific paei plan* *hut 'JHE Republican leader m the United States Senate, Senator Robert A. Taft, yesterday proposed a military alliance m the Pacific with Britain "but not one m which she possesses any final veto against our policies," This he suggested
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    The police foil tar plot by Reds
    258 1 The police foil tar plot by Reds SINGAPORE Communists attempted, but failed to Interrupt Coronation Week celebrations, the police said yesterday. At least five tarring incidents were reported up to yesterday, with today still to go before the celebrations officially. dose. A 22-year-old Chinese, caught ttth a tar-bomb m his
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    Queen Sir Winston's guest
    67 1 ff »t a ,m, Wn s on Chur- m< Htahtata them. They were followed by the Queen Mother, Prince Axel of Denmark, Princess George of Greece, Crown Prince Olaf of Norway, Princess Margaretha of Denmark and Prince George of Greece. Princess Margaret and Prince Albert, of
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    Mother and son
    51 1 IT HAS BEEN his mother's day. But little Prince Charles, proudly wearing his Coronation niedal, slips his hand in to hers to share the cheers of the multitude. This picture was taken when the Queen showed herself to her people on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. A.P.
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    CROWD JOINS PARADE TO CHEER QUEEN
    164 1  - CROWD JOINS PARADE TO CHEER QUEEN SIT YIN-FONG By THE Queen's Birthday Parade on the padang this morning was the greatest military show ifi post-war Singapore. Foot columns representing the armed Services and the Police, after marching past the Governor, Sir John Nicoll, at the Padang, marched through one section
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    Three good Ipoh bets
    41 1 rE |Otaf for today's Ipoh rarr.s .should be good. Ther^ has been no rain since Thursday morning. Best bets should be Fancy Light, Straight On and Best Tip, says Allan Lewis. Be.st outftklerf: A^holme and Rice Mill.
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    WHY THEY SAY PEACE IS NEAR
    163 1 WHY THEY SAY PEACE IS NEAR rWMiE LATEST Communist KoX rean truce proposals agree that all prlsoners-of-war, not wishing to be repatriated, be released m a neutral country at the end of four months, it was learned authoritatively m Washington yesterday. This major concession by the Communist negotiators at Panmunjom
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    BIRTH
    19 2 ECCLES SMITH: To Jurve and P*ter, a son. Philip, on 30th May, at the State Hospital, Kota Bharu.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    46 2 THE HON. HUGH L. COHEN AND MISS JANE KARMINSKI The engagement is announced between Hugh, younger son of th« Rt. Hon. Lord Cohen of 53. Porchester Place. London W. 2. and Jane, younger daughter of Sir Seymour Karminski of 33, Ladbroke Grove, London, W. 2.
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    DEATH
    21 2 EDWARD STUART ("CUPID") HOUSLEY husband of MavLs Housley. I Suddenly at the Mombasa Hospital, l on March 15th. Deeply mourned.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    28 2 MR. E. F. ROPER wishes to thank all those friends who atItended the funeral of his dear wife land who have sent floral tributes to her memory.
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    SO MR. PRIESTLEY 'WROTE FICTION'
    253 2 SO MR. PRIESTLEY 'WROTE FICTION' A husband became suspicious AM R. J. B. Priestley, author and playwright who was ordered to pay costs as corespondent m the London divorce court yesterday, was said by the judge to have indulged m "mean and contemptible conduct." Professor Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes, 47-year-old
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    Lim Lee to go on T.V.
    94 2 Lim Lee to go on T. V. LONDON, Fri. LIM LEE, former Singapore Chinese cafe sinaer who spent Coronation Eve night sleeping on the streets at Marbiearch, is to appear on television on Tuesday night for the first time. Lim Lee wiu sina "Rose, Rose. I Love You:' a Chinese
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    100 MAU MEN KILLED
    27 2 Kenya Security Forces have killed 100 Mau Mau terrorists and captured 54 m the past week, it was officially announced m Nairobi yesterday.
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    British woman slain after death threat
    154 2 British woman slain after death threat MISS ENID Joyce-Drayton, 47--year-old British schoolteacher, m Bangalore, India, received an anonymous letter threatening her life before she was brutally murdered here on Tuesday night. Police found the letter m her office. They also found a pair of men's socks, blood-stained. Miss Dray ton,
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    53 SOVIET STUDENTS ENROLLED IN U.S.
    37 2 The number of foreign students now studying at colleges and universities m the United States total 34,000— 3.000 more than last year Soviet Russian has 53 students enrolled m the U.S.
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    THEY'LL CO-OPERATE
    29 2 THEY'LL CO -OPERATE The Netherlands and Australia will sign a treaty envisaging economic and strategic cooperation m developing the island of New Guinea, an Australian Government spokesman said yesterday.
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    11 DIE IN LANDSLIDES
    33 2 Eleven people were killed and 13 seriously injured m Pusan and on Koje island on Thursday night by landslides caused by a torrential four inch rain, Pusan police reported.
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      220 2 SHOWPLACE OF THE ISLAND I— Opens Monday June Bth B.3opj»J WITH A CHARITY PERFORMANa IN AID OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA ENDOWMENT FUND OPENING CEREMONY BY H. E. THE COMMISSIONER GENERAL MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD p. c ALL PROCEEDS TO CHARITY CIRCLE $20/- TICKETS SOLD OUT Book early to avoid disappointment
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    Rural people await great things from Sir John
    278 3 Rural people await great things from Sir John Free Press Staff Reporter JOHN NICOLL, the Governor of Singapore, had a !T eat welcome from the people of the rural areas J hP went to see their Coronation celebrations on when c we rhU TnH y thev were so happy that
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    Walter Susskind conducts
    156 3 Walter Susskind conducts ]X)R the first time the Sin- gapore Musical Society Orchestra and choir at last night's Coronation concert played under a professional conductor (Walter Susskind) and there was a noticeable improvement. There was little Susskind could do about fluffed notes and the tone of the oboe was consistently
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    NEW BANK CHIEF
    22 3 Sir Oliver Franks, former British Ambassador to Washington, will succeed Lord Dalfour of Burleigh as Chairman of Lloyd's Bank.
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    RITSON REPORT MAY BE IN NEXT WEEK
    100 3 MEMbfrc n#?u cc^ Press Staff Reporter 3| jntKS of the Council of Action representing 15,000 k readv 3 01 6 ff overnn >ent employees have been told to *«*thtm aI n liTI iT Edward Ritson if he wants to Edward *hn th e
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    Now problem is: Selling electricity
    138 3 SINGAPORE consumed 50,200 kilowatts the highest yeton Coronation night. Even this figure is far below the 73,000 kilowatts produced by St. James power station and the new Pasir Pan Jang station. 80 the City Council's prcblem now is: How to sell the excess power. Said
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    AIR CHIEF KILLED
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    Radiant princess
    25 3 picture. A CLOSE-UP of Princess Margaret on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, after hir return from the Coronation ceremony m Westminster Abbey A.P.
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    Prisoners complain of 'poor treatment'
    230 3 Prisoners complain of 'poor treatment' MALAY prisoners m Changi Gaol are complaining of poor treatment. The convicts complained to a threeman delegation of the Muslim Drivers Association which recently visited the prison, to study conditions for Malay prisoners. The association has approached the Singapore branch of UMNO which m turn
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    The Singpore Free Press SATURDAY, June 6, 1953 Opinion GOVERNOR IN THE VILLAGES
    408 4 The Singpore Free Press SATURDAY, June 6, 1953 Opinion GOVERNOR IN THE VILLAGES THE joyous Coronation news from London and the celebrations have so dominated Singapore's attention during the past few days that an event of considerable local importance has been overshadowed. This was the visit of the Governor to
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    Jailed Nazis: Did Britain Blunder?
    933 4  -  PETER KIRK WHAT has happened to the seven Nazis who were arrested with such a fanfare m January? You may remember them— Werner Naumann and his associates, arrested m the British Zone by British Police at the dead of night and without the German authorities
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    Racing plane
    113 4 A BLUEPRINT of a wooden plane of less than 15 ft. wing span which, with a jet engine l-20th the power of those m the latest fighters, could reach 370 m.p.h., has won the Royal Aero Club's design competition for a new racing plane. Its preparation has been
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    POCKET CARTOON
    28 4  -  OSBERT LANCASTER by Ami -vr iirci/n't umn übout >«juiiv CuthhcU knotting the rof>is~hc' K'cn v\e pugv nt n Coronation M»i« f \(fu hi A V II
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    He Beat Everest
    203 4 \UHAT kind of a man ff is Edmund Hillary, the 34-year. old bachelor who ton just beaten Everest? His friends say: H e enormous feet' but k has put them to oood we He wa s one of the nts who originated ski mmtaineering m Sew Zealand
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    FANS MOB 'PROFESSOR'
    53 5 picture. rHAN HAI LAN. signW C tnrraph for y° un W» B "%FSS*n Kens Road »W 'Vfore the ChinSinfiP o*'0 D roces sion moved ese laflt f r okP of seven o'clock it the st° e one of the Vt^L" m the Chinese pr f^r of Malaya
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    Flat folk must live & let Hue
    201 5 Flat folk must live let Hue Free Press Staff Reporter gINGAPORE Improvement Trust is telling: its tenants to tune down their radio and rediflf usion sets and gramaphones following complaints received from other flat-dwellers that the noise is "hellish." Mr. J. C. Lee, the Trust's estates manager, told me this
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    Labour may oppose taxi meters
    123 5 Labour may oppose taxi meters *w Press Staff Reporter m new. Labour group m c Singapore City Council KLS^ y e Wdes and Traffic dSn^ 6 to rec <™sider their efiH req^ ring all new taxi S Sl ater Sept lto b e cillorand^- M u alr City Coun believe
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    Blood donations-The same old story
    64 5 Blood donations-The same old story P«od Tram head of the terday rrans^io n Service yesme appeal .w&> made. Of these, nine were Europeans, nine medical students (six Indians and three Chinese), two Eurasians and two Indians. On Wednesday, the blood bank was down to 33 bottles, the lowe.st level for
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    FIVE DIE IN FLOOD
    24 5 Fiv e Japanese were killed and six injured yesterday m a flood 'n Western Japan. The flood followed torrential rains.
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    THOSE BONY KNEES
    150 5 Not funny, say scouters SINGAPORE scouters said yesterday there was nothing: embarrassing about wearing khaki shorts. They were commenting on a report that camp-fire "veterans" of Sudbury (Suffolk), Guild of Old Boy Scouts felt the fears of having to return to bare-knee days were keeping down their
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    NEW COMET RECORD
    29 5 A Royafi Canadian Air Force Comet jet yesterday clipped 13 minutes off the London-Beirut flyine record The Comet reached Be. rut shrs. 15mins. after leaving Londun.
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      123 5 Sho p o c I II C I C 0 F M^Kut Jim s£vs y^BB«RHm 9 I a^ vmßmmi Mm t *°iaiwi. m\\ M^/r T M O"V 7" b SCOTCH WHIoaY ts l. is io AS BLENDED BY THE MACKIN LAY FAMILY FOR 4 GENERATIONS MEW BmmM I PAOLO MARTINEZ.
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      233 6 .<%' t^;--. v _k SMft 4___ )&k 0%. W A 'x MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis rf\f\ yf ~t F y ___^_kk I *»C Iww I x_^^^_^^^^B( S^__^_L' REMAIN -PACING -WALL. DQ-NQT- j /ft Z^^T^^^M WITCHrju j I_B_\ IhLll I Vs 'ill NEXTWItKi m JUNGLE WITCH
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      346 6 YOUR STAP RORN TODAY Z*^ exceptionally ytrVk^ turn your hand U>Vc£L* number of different im?* 1 efficiency and JJ You must make nr. not scatter yo 4, thinly over ."fi* you do become jnJ£z > one activity. Since tbjj^ of specialization, "i* concentrate on a rinjrofcS* for worldly success You
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    The Object drops in to mystify a family
    224 7 The Object drops in to mystify a family Play^g cricket i iOn Herts threw tlyftiselve* Tthe ground something hurtled towards them. ♦k. house outside which the ta j£en SSed. Mr. Albert Hillier SfSe? after night work. «.,f nf the sky came a 501 b v^ flat bottom nine Inches m
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    FOR THE 'FUN OF IT'
    36 7 Three men and a woman have left Connecticut m a 38--foot yawl for a 3,600-mile voyage to Bergen, Norway, for the "fun of it". They expect to take about a month.
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    GIRL, 16, TELLS OF THE DAY SHE RAN AWAY
    432 7 GIRL, 16, TELLS OF THE DAY SHE RAN AWAY A MOTHER of seven children told the magistrate ft Clerkenwell, London, that when she found one of her daughters was writing to a man, she sent him a letter telling him the girl was only 15. The mother travelled from Stoke-on-Trent,
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    50 7 picture. Miss Peggy Cripps, 32-year-old daughter of the late Sir Stafford Cripps, proudly shows her engagement ring as she is pictured with her fiance, Mr. Joseph Emmanuel Appiah, of the Gold Coast. The wedding will be m London m July. The couple plan to live on the Gold Coast U.P.
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    Wife in holiday death drama
    158 7 POLICE are inquiring into the death of Mrs. Rosalind Margaret Howard, 27, of Hampstead way, Golders Green, London, who was found with neck injuries m the River Cele, at St. Sulpice, m Southern France. Her husband, who reported her missing, told police that she vanished
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    PACT WITH RUSSIA
    23 7 Trade worth $150,000,000 (£58,570,000) will flow between Russia and Argentina under a pact to be signed m Buenos Aires soon.
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    MORE IMMIGRANTS
    22 7 Australia will take up to 100.000 Immigrant! m the next financial your an increase of 20.000 on thi.i year's target.
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    WORK-SHY FATHERS —SO EASY
    89 7 WORK-SHY FATHERS —SO EASY WORK-SHY fathers find "the way of the scrounger easier than it once was and children are suffering. So says the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children m its annual report. Lazy men not only take unfair advantage" of the Welfare State, it says, but spend
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    FOOD DEFICI
    39 7 Mr Norris E. Dodd, DirectorGeneral of FAO, told 162 representatives of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers m Rome yesterday food output is not keeping up with the world* population increase i of nearly 25.000,000 a year.
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    P.C. NEWMAN GETS HIS MAN
    63 7 POLICE-CONSTABLE Arthur Ncuman, of Beaufort Court, Ham, Surrey, caught his man after tearching for a tceek. He went to a house m Lawrence Road, Ham, and askca the man who answered the door Are you Mr. John SMlton?" Then PC Newman shook his hand. He
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    SHIPS COLLIDE
    33 7 The American freighter Exmouth and the Norwegian tanker Pericles were put under tow yesterday, with all hands reported safe, after a crash m the pre-dawn darkness of the Straits of Messina
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    Samia dances again
    52 7 Samia dances again rtjuaf a The Egyptian belly dancer, Samia Gamal, wife of the American oil heir, Sheppard (Abudllah) King, dancing for the first time tn Cairo since her return from the United States. The performance was given at the Moorish Gardens, on Gizireh island, on the bank of the
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    MALAY VARIETY SHOW
    348 8 STAR AND AUDIENCE tj^IFTEEN Thousand people saw the biggest-ever variety show staged by the Malay Community last week. It was staged on the steps of the City Council Hall, Singapore. The 40-item show lasted between four and a half hours and over 40 top-line Malay artistes, among
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    WOMAN ATTACKED ON WAY FROM DANCE
    505 10 WOMAN ATTACKED ON WAY FROM DANCE WHILE she was returning: home alone from a dance, said a youn& wife at the County Assizesjt Manchester a strange man bade her goodnight. Soon afterwards she heard footsteps following and, over her shoulder, she saw the stranger. That, on the night- of Friday,
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    He wanted wife he loved to die with him
    203 10 He wanted wife he loved to die with him IJEFORE diving out of a third- storey window, a 78-year-old man attacked his wife and I told her he wanted her to die with him. > Accompanied by a nurse and with her head heavily band- aged, the wife, Mrs. Louisa
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    Boy killed by bomb sent love to 'Mum'
    231 10 T*HE last words of a 12-year-old schoolboy blown up by i m rt^ r bomb were: Give m y love to »"um and sisters," his father, Gerald Jay, of Blaxhall, Suffolk, told the Ipswich coroner. A double inquest was being held on
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    ROAD UP—IT WAS STUCK TO CAR TYRES
    122 10 ROAD UP— IT WAS STUCK TO CAR TYRES r |MIF road surface on the 2% miles of Dauntsey Hill, the mata Bristol -S win don road became a gluey bed of soft tar after heavy rain The tar stuck to car tyres In large chunks and drivers had to stop
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    Her Vision is a Trip to the Moon
    425 11  -  ARTHUR EDSON by WASHINGTON. a X -ion" W. Srt reXe that m 25 maybe less, we'll g£ off.* the moon m a "ms John thinks she is gessss tz g*arSss s t% only one to Join an interplanetary group because an enthusiastic
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    Bridge Hand
    279 11 g ta< ,e your own ""Bridge Olympic" Kin your own game, save the ffitui complete: then have the hands stacked m duplicate boards <or Z oT: properly marked envelopes. Sch containing one player's hand, for each deal). Arrange for one or more tables to play the hands; then
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    HAYSTACK INTERLUDE
    33 11 The still cameraman caught this study of curvaceous Terry Moore between scenes m a dramatic episode m a haystack m the 20th Century-Fox film, "Man on a Tightrope" filmed m Austria.
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    Fishermen go for new slot machine bait
    146 11 FISHERMEM arc rushing to buy America's latest automatic slot machine— lt supplies thfcm with live minnows for bait. The machine was invented by Carl Sutton and James Rice, two fishermen of Nashville. Tennessee. They developed It so that they coufd continue m business
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      SWOLLEN HEADS
      244 12 €iENTLE, patient and consider- ate were the only words to describe the Singapore Police Force along the procession route on Coronation night. But why spoil the barrel with a bad apple? the Volunteer Special Constables. I was a spectator at Bstttl Road when the dragon snaked round the
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      SLANDEROUS
      157 12 THREE cheers for "Barabbas" for his unholy defence of moneylenders who, he maintains, a re- not devils to dread but saints to worship. If "Barabbas" U not a lender I would advise him to preach his sermon to the primitive peoples of Papua, or In the wilderness of "Timbuctoo."
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      KEPT WAITING
      123 12 PEOPLE compelled to go frequently to the Stamp Office m Singapore have to contend with a crowd of moneylenders, Sikhs and Chettys, which often means standing m a line for hours. And sometimes those so Inconvenienced faint. There are three queues for checking, paying and stamping. Everyone has
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      ORANG BABA
      70 12 READING Orang Baba's letter headed "Orang Chi-na" persuaded me to volunteer to answer his question. I am an Indonesian while I sojourn m Indonesia, but a Chinese by birth. "Orang Siong Hwa" signifies "a Chinese" and "Orang China" is its Malayan equivalent indicating "of China." But will* you
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      WILDERNESS
      82 12 BUKIT PURMEI— caII it Singapore's Bukit Serene if you like is a fascinating haven of attap mansions where treacherous mosquitoes infest muddy pools along a 19th century bullock cart track. Come, come our exalted representatives m the Council, treat this plea not as a voice m the wilderness, but
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      P.O. COMPLAINT
      95 12 I HAVE been In the General Post Office for many years and am still disgusted at the toilet rooms. They are all very dirty and smelly. Moreover the doors are all without locks. When closed they leave a margin of about six inches. One day a washer-woman came
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      21 12 picture. MR. KIIOO SOON HOCK with his bride. MISS LEE SIEW KBI pictured after their wedding: m Geylaug. Y. C. Lee
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      SOCCER BIAS
      71 12 IN reference to the write-up m the Free Press on the gIBM between the Combined Services and the Combined Civilians, wasn't it rather harsh to compare them to an 11 -legged tortoi.se? If the Civilians were such a brilliant team how is it they didn't More more than
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      32 12 Any grouse? IJAVE you a grouse? Have you a bright Idea? Have you seen anything itrange or unusual? Then write to the PRESSMAN and tell others about it m his POSTBAU briefly.
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    Shock For Stars
    417 13 Shock For Stars Alimony ruling will 'cool' many a romance NOW that a second Los Angeles judge has frightened the muchmarrying Hollywood film colony by ordering the husband of a screen star to dip into the earnings of his wife m order to pay off alimony on a previous marriage,
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    Americans 'talk English'
    148 13 >l SAY. OLD CHAP' IN THE MIDDLE WEST tailf ft the Britis >i c/iap- c"' say. old lh *v IZ atton *«*< »o rWj is all traced to the arudticfic of British lures r4CChinO Ameru-an theatre and television screens i?i recent months. The broad A s vow
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    927 13 ....Are You SHY? MRS. AMBER BLANCO WHITE wife of the divorce commissioner and a lecturer on the art of conversation, opens a series to help the tongue-tied and the hesitant talkers WHEN people are too shy to talk to strangers, they often make the excuse: "I can never think of
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    THRILLS GALORE FOR PADANG SPECTATOR?
    96 14 Colony sports fans flocked to the Padang yesterday evening. For the soccer fiends there was the annual duel between S.C.C. and S.R.C; hockey enthusiasts went to see the Coronation fixture between Civilians and Services, who each fielded mixed teams. Picture on the left shows S.C.C.
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    Bad luck dogged ten-man S.R.C.
    322 14  -  GERRY ISAAC S€C win Clarke Shield... By S.C.C 4; S.R.C 1. rP was an unimpressive triumph for Singapore Cricket Club on the Padang. Yesterday's victory makes them winners of the Clarke Srfield for the third year m sue- cession. Sheer bad luck foiled Singapore Recreation
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    RAF TEAMS MOVE UP
    258 14 Services League ROYAL Air Force teams now fill first and second places m the first division of the Singapore United Services F.A. League. In Division Two, RAF Seletar Spartans have shot up to second berth, two points behind Royal Army Pay Corps whom they beat three-two
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    ARGENTINE WIN GOLF
    173 14 THE Argentine team of Tony Cerda and Roberto de Vicenzo won the first annual Canada Cup golf title on Thursday. Seven countries were entered m the two-day, 36-hole event. The two favourites wound up fourth and fifth. Julius Boros, the U.S. open champion, and Jim Turnesa. the
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    MANILA SOCCER TEAM COMING
    79 14 The Phllllpplne national soccer team will leave Manila for Indonesia and Singapore on June 8. A track and field sxoup will head for Taipei. Formosa on June 9. The soccer team Is scheduled to play a series of games In Indonesia, followed by matctftti m Singapore
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    BING CROSBY ELIMINATED
    45 14 BING CROSBY ELIMINATED Major John M Anderson yesterday riHt-Hted Miirvte Ward two and on. In the rourttl round of the mnch International oolf ChampionShip* it f'liiiihlly I^oiiarcJ (:r;iwley Tendon Rold writer beat crooner Bin« Crosby In ft third round rnnw h |>y seven and five.
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    CORONATION CUP
    60 14 Mr. George Rolls" Zucchero won the Coronation Cup run over 12 furlongs at Epsom yesterday. Mr. Robert Boucher's Wilwyn was second and Mr Ralph Strasburger' Worden II was third. Ten ran. Official starting prices were: 100-7 Zucchero. 9-4 favourite Wilwyn, 8-1 Worden 11. Won by 0M length with
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    M.C.F.A. REPLAY
    31 14 Th« replay of the M.C.P.A. soccer competition tie Detween the Selangor and Nnk Chinese will take place m Ipoh on Sunday June 14 on the Chinese Assembly Hall ground.
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    FOUGHT A DRAW
    23 14 Former Australian welterweight J Tommy Barns, <i4B-lb.s> drew vttb Harry Hajm < Iftl-lbt.) over 12 r»unds «U Uxe Leichhurdt Stadium, tiydney.
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    WOMEN PLAYERS AS GOOD AS THE MEN
    275 14  -  PETER DE CRUZ J#f.v€>## h&ekvy drawn. By WHO SAID WOMEN ARE NOT AS GOOD AS MEM! GAMES? Yesterday's Coronation mixed hockey game between Combined Civilians and Combined Services, played on the S.R.C. ground, proved that they are just as good and just as
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    Pro coach for Malaya
    92 14 T*HE Lawn Tennis Associate i Malaya is to organise coacb of juniors m Malaya. The Assocta announces that details are not be finalised for the commencement i proper tennis classes. The services of a professional ac from London have been secured. !i coach will only be
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    BUXTON v. DAWSON ON TURPIN CARD
    21 14 ROBBV DAWSON, *W*"^. D dlevelght who new UM will meet Aleißaxton ol W^ A .P.
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    OXFORD LEAD
    19 14 Oxford were ***>*gffi* 7-5 at theendof theftjjg^ inter-University ta« which beiran at < p«°™ woD Cambridge, who bi«
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    GALLANT SUSSEX HOLD OUT TO DRAW
    187 15 GALLANT SUSSEX HOLD OUT TO DRAW WALIANS were robbed ""5 to? the last wicket when deemed" lost. The match was drawn. second tnn.ml A. S Oakman put on 81 runs, Sf Jmcd over when with about half hTr to play the last Sussex pair SJ?S»rtI.S still 192 runs behind ttey
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    AUSSIE CHAMP
    28 15 Ken toady. 20-year-old immigrant from England, became Australian heavyweight champion when he knocked out Reg Mack m the eighth of a scheduled 15-round bout m Melbourne
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    COUNTY RESULTS
    213 15 County cricket scores: At Bristol, Gloucestershire beat Combined Services by 32 runs. Gloucestershire 231 and 223 for 8 declared. Combined Services 116 and 306 (Shirreff 77, Mortimore 50). At Oxford, Hampshire beat Oxford University by five wickets. Oxford University 325 for 5 declared and 59 (Carty rightarm fast
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    Surrey have clear lead now
    527 15 Surrey have clear lead now Hants drop back m county table SURREY'S win m two days over Derbyshire takes them into a clear lead of eight points at the top of the County cricket championship table. Hampshire, who were level with Surrey before the matches which ended yesterday, were not
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    CLOSING PENALTY SAVES INDIANS
    209 15 Star Soccerites 2: I.R.C 2. INDIAN Recreation Club robbed Star Soccerites of i valuable Singapore Amateur F.A. Div. 1 League point w [th a lucky penalty goal seconds before the final wnistle at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. A small crowd saw Soccerites well on top for
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    POLICE HURT IN SOCCER RIOT
    65 15 POLICED gas mndflre to break up a riot when lUl Alwyn Bradley sent IJHr* tHf fteld dßrln| Dl l «>*wr match m Bneno* »n Thurtday. J^ rm ln »»e t^n player, of Mn n CI «k »W- «nd tho- f «r tTr« i Ub fmn
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    VETERAN CAPTAIN
    25 15 Veteran tennis are Baron Gottfiwd von Ciiirnm will lead the Grrm;ui train m the June 12-14 Davis Cup inopt >u?Hiii>r France m Paris
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    ROSE BEATS H.K. PLAYER
    113 15 IJV TSAI, of Hong Kong, was beaten m the semi-finals of the men's singles of the northern lawn tennis championship* m Manchester yesterday by Mervyn Rase, the Australian Davis cup player, by 6—2, G— 4. Rom will meet Australian Cllve Wilder.spin m todttjr'l final. In hLs
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    Compton (6) sets a world record
    118 15 Compton (6) sets a world record |\ennis Gompton, yesterday collected another world record. When he had sc< red six runs m the Middlesex se<<>nd Innings of their county championship match a Insl Sonvrset he completed 30,00 > ruus m first class cricket m 606 innings. The record had been held
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    MILLER FIT FOR THE FIRST TEST
    85 15 IfEITH MILLER, the Australian all-rounder, will be fit to play m the first Test against England which begin* at Nottingham next Thursday. But he may not be able bowl because of a strained side. Ritchie Bcnaud, who (hipped a bone m the .second finger
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    GOING MAY BE GOOD AT IPOH TODAY
    865 16 Best Tip for sprint rrHERE was practically no discussion on this afternoon's racing at the racecourse this morning. The general opinion m Ipoh is a hard day's racing. I agree. New Year, Shangrila and Middle Street will not start. THE GOING SHOULD BE
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    A YANKEE MAY UPSET in DERBY
    460 16 A YANKEE MAY UPSET in DERBY THEY'LL SHOUT FOR QUEEN AND SIR GORDON— BUT.... 8 r;ir<»s Oil air Radio Malaya will broadcast the first eight races frojn Ipoh today. OOBERT STERLING CLARK of Virginia makes a bid today at becoming the first American owner to win the historic Epsom Derby
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  • THE FREE PRESS Saturday Magazine
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      Masthead
      9 1 THE FREE PRESS Saturday Magazine Saturday, June 6, 1953.
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      Veteran watches parade
      49 1 photo. Reflectively smoking his pipe, bearded 81-year-old Private John Studholm, a veteran of the Cameron Highlanders, watches the Founder's Day parade at the Royal Hospital, Chel•ea, London. The inspection was by General Sir John Hardinf, Chief of the Imperial General Staff and former m-( FARELF Reuter
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      WOMAN MARKETS IN OLD PENANG
      329 1  -  K. S. Chia by VOT WOULD shrink 1 irom the thought but m Penang, even after the 2»r 1786 when Captain Jrancis Light hoisted the Union Jack, it was customary for Malays to Jfing young women from *>dah to auction them Jff m gunny sacks
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      His Lady of the Lake
      875 1  -  SYDNEY HERBERT A FREE PRESS SATURDAY SHORT STORY by TIE DID IT everyday m the manner of a person performing a ritual. He'd done this for as long as anyone could remember. Years and years x it seemed. Everyday, -as the sun began to set,
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        Seven days of excitement
        569 2  -  Auntie Wendy WELL, CHILDREN, Coro- nation Week on tors its last day today and I hope that all of you enjoyed to the utmost the sights and the experiences of the past seven days It was a glorious week. Never before has Singapore been .so happy
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        PEN PALS' COLUMN
        127 2 PEN PALS' COLUMN The following girls and boys seek pen pals: Doris Fu (16). 32-A Van Kit Road, Singapore 2. Hobbies, songs, films, reading and picnics. Henry Tan (13^. 26 Bournemouth Road. Kntong, Singapore 15. Hobbies: stamps, songs, films and correspondence. Wan Keng Chin (13), 93-F Holland Road, Singapore 10
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        There's $800 peeping out of that bag
        50 2 photo. Four hundred dollars each. That's the value of Zany and Delicious, the puppies m that roomy handbag. They are brother and sister, 11 weeks ol d, and they were caught by the camera at the Pekinese Club's show m London recently. Popper
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        MAKE YOUR OWN BOOMERANG
        278 2  -  Uncle Eric by IN MODERN TIMES, when men go out to hunt fbr food or pleasure, all the latest developments of science combine on the sde of man to outwit His quarry. He has guns, which shoot fast and rapidly, and cunningly contrived snares and traps.
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        164 2 JUNIOR CROSSWORD CLI KS ACROSS. 2 t "sticks"' of a wicket 6 fv animal with a body like mouse. 8. Mountain range o'c Europe 9. Surname of the J; who wrote "Abou Ben Adhe* 10, The national game of Bert land 13, Famous Italian r due tor born m 1867.
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      Look! Here's MY way with fish
      392 3  -  A.H. JACKSON t he penqutn by pVER SEEN penguins being fed at a Zoo? Aren't they clever the way they always catch the fish that their keeper throws to them? Well, Half-penny is a MARVELLOUS fish-catcher too. The only difference is that, owm* to
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      Penny and the Last Magician-4
      313 3 Wind* *V Of mihM u 3, In .P» »nd fetch the Mini t0 Penny. belidl J tu don 't really i S. n but fetcn Mm i hX u I"*; ne ctn Hd find m. dl tell rtlm that he'll Si S erv «wwous but
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      Adventure in Space
      928 3  - Adventure in Space KATHLEEN HICKLEY (J^jpj THE STORY SO FAR: Ah Kirn, Krishna and Ismail visit an island where they see a flying: saucer land. They step inside the machine to investigate it, when suddenly the door swings shut, trapping them inside. NOW READ ON. AH KIM LEAPT, across the
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        40 3 ONLY FEW DAYS MORE! g I NEW y R ATTRACTIONSC MADAM BUSCH KRSONALLV U Ist TIME IN SINGAPORE S HIGH WIRE ROPE ACT H For BEST CHINESE FOOD Re-decorated and Air Conditioned Tai Thong Restaurant (Happy World) is THE place
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      NO REAL LOVERS
      236 4  -  GILBERT ROLAND -says '*THERE aren't any real lovers m films any more," says Gilbert Roland, Hollywood's perennial romantic star, speaking from experience. "The women of the screen are willing to make love, but the male stars don't do anything but talk about it." Roland was making love
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      Song 'hits below belt'
      112 4 A BONO culled, "A Plea." In I new revue, has upset South Alricans m London. The sone cared. Don't malign Malan His Doini: the B Re ran produces the Applause of the whole t vi ninß. A .South Africa Honaf spokes man said: "This ;i dirty.
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      No 'Affair' for Olivia
      315 4  - No 'Affair' for Olivia ROBERT OTTAWAY jfILIVIA DE HAVILLAND more than an "Oscar" m her baggage. She has charm which doesn't appear to be put on m the morning and scraped off at night. Graham Greene is more than Carol Reed's favourite scriptwriter: his last novel, "The End of the
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      EDDIE CANTOR STORY'
      56 4 Eddie Cantor* life is to bo filmed. The Eddie Cantor Story will bo a .straight -forward musical biography, of the attempts of an orphan to win the approval and affections of hi.s fellows. Sontf hits include: "If You Knew Susie Bye, Byo Blackbird Oh, You Beautiful Doll
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      Hemingway Boy Meets Girl
      603 4 Hemingway Boy Meets Girl HOW IT BEGAN HOW IT ENDED (AND NEITHER GROWS UP) mmsss IN "THK SNOWS Of (Odeon) you never at any time see any snow and only have the most distant glimpses of the mountain so the point of the title eludes me. As a matter of
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      Hollywood is Now Honolulu
      613 5  - Hollywood is Now Honolulu DAVID LEWIN OR AHK ERR RITA HAYWORTH JEAN SIMMONS i /f///r doicn has lumbago on honeymoon No. 2 By HONOLULU. safe i find her splaslim;; I 1 m the surf of W fso very spectacular, nOt ri which can as S^d as Brighton on a c
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      AN ESCORT FOR ZSA-ZSA
      328 5 AN ESCORT FOR ZSA-ZSA PARIS. QUESTION: who is the most attractive male escort for a Hollywood film star visiting Paris? Answer: either Aly Khan or Porfirio Rubirosa. Film star. Zsa Z.sa Gabor. is now m Paris; and Rubirosa is her constant companion. He is the Minister m Pars of the
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        18 5 SEE EXOTIC BALINESE DANCERS AND THE TREACHEROUS PIRATES OF PULAU BESAR FAIR WIND TO JAVA COMING NEW ALHAHBRA
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        170 5 TODAY DAILY! 11 a.m. -1.45-4.15-6.45 and 0.30 p.m. Jumping TOGETHER W 7 ITH A FULL TWO REELER OF CORONATION SCENES 2nd BIG MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! Starring. Fred MACMURRAY Vera RALSTON CATHAY ORGANISATION ANNOUNCEMENT THE MAIN LOBBY AND CAR PARKS ARE NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! WE INVITE YOU TO PAY YOUR
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      NAT FLEISCHER PLANNED TO SEE OUR BIG FIGHT
      467 6  -  ROGER YUE By SO Nat Fleischer, editor of the American "Ring" magazine, plans to visit Singapore shortly! Colony boxers, tight fans and ail connected with the rin ff game will be interested m Mr. Fleischer's v sit, for he is one of
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      Cycle racing at night
      492 6  -  E. PETERS By A NEW chapter m Sin- Kapore cycle racing will be written tomorrow evening when the fifth annual "Phillips Classic" (30-mile massed start road race competed for the trophy presented by J. A. Phillips Co., Ltd. Birmingham, is held at 7 p.m. on the
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      Wee Alex was the greatest o them a
      344 6  - Wee Alex was the greatest o them a ROBERT FINDLEY By WEE Alex's awa\ Call him Prince of Footballers, Wembley Wizard, King James, or what you will, the lovable long-panted Scot, whose Soccer was pure genius, remains forever m the hearts of sportsmen as "Wee Alex." The Jameses of .sport
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      JUDO OUSTS BOYS' BOXING
      107 6 iUDO, Japan'j national sptr', J threatens to ot^t boxing m Britain's youth clubs. The National a-.,u LaUon cf Boys" Clubs m England laya that intere.s'. m boxintr has decreased by nearly •even per cent. Some of the busiest judo classes In London are at the RediifT
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      ONLY 3 LEFT
      46 6 INFLUENZA hit Brookhurst, Gosport Hampshire League club .so badly tha^ they had only three players available at the beginning of February, and had to call off their match with E. E. M. Department. Brockhurst had 28 players on the sick or injured list!
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      COMING STARS
      53 6 YORKSHiRE County cricket Club have 99 colts practisinsr fti the Heading ly nets now a start has been made. The Tykes, m their thoroughness. leave nothincr to rhance, and the county of broadacres has been gone over with fine rorrb to select all the promising talent Yorkshire never
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        126 6 CroSdCshirt IS j %Vlli:.\ !> .SSM.AiMMIK J THE EMBASSY HOTEL (OPPOSITE KATONG PARK) H DANCE NIGHTLYr 8.30 P M to MWNIGBT I TONIGHT EXTENSION TO 2.00 A.M. B SATURDAY TEA DANCE: 430 P M to 6.30 PM. SUNDAY CONCERT MUSIC: 1? NOON to 200 ?M MODERATE TERMS FOX PERMANENT RESIDENK
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      UNKNOWN
      374 7 will \it flayed on Ute. m<m*ly reclaimed sw&*n£ I hwl xxt fwmi o^ Iky EngU«U CharcK \n ihe, file S'ftHUwftnl HogJxeaa 4 $rv&\y .lr«wi ale. Und a jollie time has had by die ON "the recently-re-claimed swamp m front of the English Church" (the Padang) two teams from the
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      GOOD OLD DAYS!
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      US saw Coronation Coach
      869 8  - US saw Coronation Coach KAY MURRAY by NEW YORK. fUJRIOUS New Yorkers who bung over the wall of the Lower Plaza at Rockefeller Centre found something worth staring at The blue-canopied object they saw turned out to be a replica of the Stato coach complete with Life Guards, postilions, Yeomen
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      New Guide is handy & informative
      144 8 New Guide is handy informative rWAS A HAPPY thought of the publishers of the annual Guide to Singapore to issue their 1953 edition during Coronation Week This handy and informative book is now m Its seventh edition and has been completely revised and brought up to date. An excellent new
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      HIS LADY OF THE LAKE
      248 8 Continued from Page 1 old, time-worn Koran. H e picked up the Koran and began to run his finger through the pages. Suddenly a large envelope fell out. It was old and large and heavy. He placed it back m the book Then it struck
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