The Singapore Free Press, 9 June 1953

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press L. IS72C Singapore Tues.. June 9, 19:>3. Price 15 Cts. Lament Afternoon Safe m Malaya
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  • 318 1 PEACE TONIC FOR THE MARKET After the truce there may be: By SYDNEY GAMPELL Reuter's Financial Correspondent INHERE was no sign m world markets yesterday that peace m Korea would mean a slump. From London. Amsterdam and Frankfurt at one end of the world to Hong Kong at the other,
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  • 149 1 Czech Red police shoot down workers AT least six people were shot and killed and an unknown number wounded by Czech Communist security police at Pilsen las*. Monday during a mass public protest against the new Czech currency "reform." Throughout Red-ruled Czechoslovakia the people are for the first time openly
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  • 116 1 Nehru may visit Heii China soan rpHE PRIME MINISTER of X India, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, is thinking of making a goodwill trip to Red China after a Korean armistice, qualified sources said m London yesterday. Mr. Nehru's visit would be the result of a longstanding informal invitation extended to him
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  • 36 1 m Kore.\n news had little 0n he Sin gapore Rubber mm when it opened this 52. nTsi grade June ment, was quoted at 67»4 2JL* Pound. s 8 cent above g«VI close. Tope was
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  • 63 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Singapore police have arrested two more men, both Malays, m connection with yesterday's $18,000 payroll robbery m Upper Thomson Road. Three men were Involved. \An Indian was detained last night. Detectives have recovered $3,273. but there is still no sign of the
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  • 32 1 An eight-officer general court martial board at Taegu, Korea yesterday convicted U.S. Air Force Sergeant Giuseppe Cascio of conspiracy to pass secrets on the Sabre Jet fighter to the Communists.
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  • 292 1 Coronation TV: Chimp angers Britons 1 tran s-Atlantic furore SLs^s* 1 ver tnp «*d 28. u network s punctu--3* ov s e_: adl an <- telp 0 f the coroCr!tl C» »nt Particularly hot ar, ed blin« mi>anzoe that iSw_n a w;th tnp Qup( n tha t «^ffi* rs [Wed
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  • 96 1 AN Alsatian dog belonging to a Dutchman living m Braddell Road, Singapore, was shot dead yesterday. Hearing a loud report outside his house the owner ran out and found his dog limping home. It was bleeding from a wound m the chest. He took the dog to
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  • 134 1 IKE GIVES MYSTERY DINNER I I I>RESIDENT Eisenhower last night called an extraordinary White House dinner meeting of national leaders including General Douglas Mac Arthur and former President Herbert Hoover on the eve of what promisd to be an early Korean truce. Presidential press secretary, Mr. James, C. Hagerty, said
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  • 336 2 U.N. WILL SEE RHEE KEEPS TRUCE PRESIDENT Syngman Rhee of South Korea may back down on his vow to ignore a truce and continue fighting. Some Senators who attended a State Department briefing on Korean developments said Mr. John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, appeared to hold this view.
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  • 85 2 DOES COMMUNIST China cease to be an aegrossor after the signing of thc Korean truce Does she become eligible for admission to U.N. Diplomats discussed these questions informally at U.N. headquarters m New York lastnight. The U.N. may run headlong Into a debate on this question
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  • 166 2 Dr. Gasperi leads in elections OREMIER Alcide de Gasperi's four-party Democratic coalition forged steadily ahead last night as results of a smashing 93.86 per cent vote were tallied m Italy s national elections. 1 The Italian vote, believed to be a record for a free election, topped even the 92.1
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  • 123 2 GENERAL Sir George Erskine. new East African military commander, last night pledegd himself to defeat Mau Mau and do his utmost to relieve the peoples of Kenya of their anxiety and the anxiety felt for them m Britain and abroad. In a broadcast following
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  • 27 2 The temperature m Nci Delhi shot up beyond 110 degrees fahrenheit ye.sterday for the se<l guccessive day with no prompt it oi un Immediate leeieninc.
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  • 105 2 U.S. DOCTORS EXAMINE Mr. EDEN DOCTORS attendinc. the Foreign Secretary. Mr. Anthony Eden, m Boston said yesterday the preliminary findings, after examining him. had been satisfactory. They would decide soon when to operate. This will be Mr .Eden's third operation for his gall bladder trouble. He had the other two
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  • 274 2 The women blew kisses at Queen rpilE QUEEN was late yes- terday for a date with thousands of her Cockney subjects m South East London. Her car, taking her on a coronation tour of this part of the capital was 10, minutes behind schedule m leaving Buckingham Palace. Teeming crowds
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    • 120 2 SHOWPLACE OF THE ISLAND Phone: 21-116 BY SPECIAL REQUEST TWO FURTHER PERSONAL APPEARANCES OF 20th CENTURY FOX STARS CONSTANCE SMITH JEFFREY HUNTER Tonight Al 6.30 9.30 p.m. Seats At Normal Prices $3/- $2/- $1/$2/- PATRONS PLEASE NOTE ALL 750 $2/- SEATS ARE BOOKABLE IN ADVANCE FOR CASH FROM 9,30 A.M
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  • 309 3  -  SIT YIN FONG By Rights that can stop them from being turned out *_F President of the Singapore Kent Conciliation R__rS Mr. Eu Cheow Chye, said yesterday that the board's work might become more congested as became increasingly aware that they from eviction by the Control
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  • 91 3 MR. S. G. TYSON, an official of the British Ministry of Labour, who is to become Singapore's Chief Employment Officer will arrive m the Colony from England by the Oranje on June 17. He will survey employment m the Colony. Mr. Tyson, who has been selected
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  • 284 3 I SEVERAL members of the Singapore Rent Conciliation Board yesterday agreed with a Free Press suggestion that there ihould be a full-time president md a larger board. The present president's subitintire post is deputy registrar of the Supreme Court. He Mr. Eu Cheow Chye, who
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  • 22 3 y -K k llled one civilian in f Al uk rebel and three ers ln Northern rovince on Luzon
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  • 110 3 Jap pleased with his fireworks 1 ln Sin *aP°re NS-gg^-J** the dBf m„ 7*' ain »t«©n Ground work ipe r mu the H r "Perl, Was# VW thT' A Ah 0S h0 toWk in c s AkiU Maru to *^^_l Sun >mer FestiTal, came specially to Are the rockets. Mr.
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  • 53 3 MISS Enid Wong, a senior staff nurse of the Singapore General Hospital, has been awarded a Government scholarship to train m Britain for a Housekeeping Certificate. This is the first award of its kind to be made by the Medical Department since the liberation. The course will
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  • 50 3 picture. REPRESENTATIVES of colonial territories attending a ceremony at the Cenotaph m Whitehall, London, prepare to lay their wreaths. Picture shows (left to right) the Queen of Tonga, the Sultan of Johore and T%ng Teremat Mulia Tengku Mahmud, on behalf of the Sultan of Selangor Express
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  • 157 3  - Dragon's head sale could be disaster G. T. BOON By nPHE 30-foot head of the Coronation sea dragon, Gertrude, may be saved. Mr. Tang Peng Yue, secretary of the Singapore Lighter Owners* Association, said yesfcrday they had had offers for the head, including one from at amusement park, but nothing
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  • 37 3 Twelve Klkuyu bandits were sentenced to death yesterday m Nairobi for their share m the recent Larl massacre. In this, the second murder trial arising -from the massacre, 38 other persons were acquitted.
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  • 8 4 TUESDAY, June 9, 1953
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  • 411 4 Opinion KOREA AGREEMENT YESTERDAY the United Nations and Communist negotiators at Panmunjom signed an agreement on the prisoner-of-war j issue. The deadlock thus broken, truce m Korea after three years of fighting is no longer a hope. It is a virtual certainty. In the talks which have dragged on over
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  • 710 4  -  DONALD McCORMICK By WHILE m Britain most Coronation celebrations were crammed into a single day, m many parts of the Empire festivities will last for three weeks. BARBADOS, for example, opened her celebrations on May 1. and they will last to Thursday In BRITISH HONDURAS
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  • 351 4  -  Glasgow. 'PALES are gathering of a rum do on the "Whisky Galore" island of Barra m the Outer Hebrides, but, like the reports of Mark Twain's death they have been greatly exaggeratad. The S.S. Jamaica Progress was torpedoed and sank with a cargo of rum and bananas about
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  • 262 4 BY THE WAY dkfdkfjdfdf ly be heard beS. h 5 men. banged e bins so noisil, and ed as they moved Z have given me an J..' 5 J_5 y n not. ot "wfcai banging of dustbin mil the laughter of d.tnT* time when the _,!L* SS_ h re at
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    • 15 4 Finest Diamond Rings Eternity Rings I U.Sde SILVA, Jewellers, 106. Orchard Road, Fhone *****. 8
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    • 40 4 FAMILY-FAVOURITES _^^^B_k m^r l_. CORNED m&J\A I *3r \^V __4_P Ltii of km rw>^ 1 LAMB and \\vi_ J CORNED SILVERSIDEy Pf ax DCCC of Bttr "You'll be glad you bought it at Cold Storage" SINGAPORE (OLD STORAGE CO., "M
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  • 149 5 And the stakes are high Free Press Staff Reporter rMNfHPORE'S Registrar of Societies, Mr. R. N. oaid yesterday that there were two mam JSTor'th. i Sy recent secret society clashes i> S in K apore. interests m the illegal chap- ji-ki often led to
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    53 5 picture. PRINCESS Margrethe. 13-year-old eldest daughter of King Fredcrik of Denmark, became h cir< ss to the throne m place of the Kings brother. Prince Kaud, under a new constitution the King signed last Friday. Picture shows the Princess laughing at a swimming carnival m Copenhagen which she attended with
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  • 140 5 THE 18-STOREY building of Asia Insurance Company at the junction of Finlayson Green and Raffles Quay will be completed before the end of next year, the architects said yesterday. This will be a year later than scheduled. The delay. wa s due to Pco.
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    39 5 c wyine of th i l<lun eh n a Chijwse- owned Singapore passenger il CQll 9ht mplctel y burnt out yesterday mommy when her FirenZ petr()l from m lifford 1 are men on hoard after putting out thc blaze.
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  • 226 5 Don't skin em alive, she says IF you must eat frogs kill them outright. But don't skin them alive as some frog catchers do. That, said Miss L. E. Bach, general secretary of the Singapore branch of the Royal Society for the Preventiton of Cruelty to Animals, is the most
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  • 59 5 Amahs, unskilled labourers and house boys continue to be m demand m the Colony, Mr. Aw Chin Hu, Singapore Employment Exchange officer, said yesterday. Of the 1,477 men and women who registered m May, 312 men and 193 women found jobs. Amahs top the list with
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  • 14 5 Crown Prince Akihlto of Japan visited the British House of Commons yesterday.
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  • 193 5 Training school for Singapore nurses Free Press Staff Reporter A SECTION of Brebner House, the present nurses' hostel at the Singapore General Hospital, will be converted into a new permanent Nurses Training School this week. Dr. R. Calderwood, Chief Medical Officer, told the Free Press. A number of staff nurses
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  • 142 5 Stamp Office grouse is refuted Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Commissioner of Stamps, Mr. A. H. Harrison yesterday refuted a statement by a Free Press reader that people who called at the Stamp Office had often to stand for hours because of a crowd of moneyleiders, Sikhs and Chettys. The
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    • 127 5 Lucozade the sparkling^s\drink S i rf **_ucozade Is an Invaluable source of vitality y/ jS^F In cases of illness. It Is assimilated at once and t l':.,~j^T- V < j oei not t2X tne mogt delicate system. Doctor! ptr^ ssSn oursc* recommend it. In sickness and Is __F __f wBm
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 190 6 MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis H^ I BUT A LAOY SHOULDN'T If LITTLE?! I HOWDIOYOU BUILOIT ALL? AND I QUESTIONS,QUESTIONS. 1/7^71 ASK THAT. DO YOU LIKE I ift A HUGE WHO- OR WHAT- AAE jß=r^ THEY BORE ME. LET'S f\i V BE77AJMJUNGLI MTCH.W 1 f-4* MY
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    • 558 6 YOUR LUCKy I STAB of executive abili". J**"'* 4* "know-how" ti 7, V*Y aanj? efficiently do th- m at_ ce ly h p e t W 0 0rk,Q -*SE others like to nature, y ou _r. low l J'ouhav.^ c J t r .J4 foresight m k JU B »<it__j
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  • 14 7 Vera in new film picture. Vera Ralston m 'Fair Wind To Java a Republic
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  • 47 7 The Queen has accepted the gift of a water colour of Dartmoor painted by a paralysed artist who holds his brushes between his teeth. The aytist is 58-year-old Mr. Richard Hext. of Ashburton, Devon, whose arms have been paralysed from birth.
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  • 197 7 AMATEUR archaeologists have found what may be evidence of Britain's earliest mining tragedy the trapping by a roof-fall of a Stone Age miner seeking arrow-head flint. Fifteen feet under the grassy Downs at Cissbury Ring, Sussex, members of the Worthing i Archcelogical Society found
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  • 136 7 4 ESCAPE ON WAY TO GAOL P° UR men escaped from a prison van as it turned into J street leading to Leeds Pri- at Armley. forced the rear door of anL Jum P ed out and disappeared into rush-hour crowds officers. g n Uced by Kn hv g fOF
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  • 40 7 BUS INJURY— £S34 Mrs. Maud Hall-Neule, 80J »\ir-old portrait painter, of Queen's Gate. Kensington, was awarded *.534 damages against London Transport m the High Court for a dislocated .boulder which she suffered through bus being restarted as she boarded it.
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    14 7 picture. BINA RAI (left) and Prem Na tn In the Indian film, 'Aural". U.P.
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  • 53 7 4 FLed glinc 5 °t Mr X rfn arr W Share a bed with a cat m the home mre. "m, of Benwick Road, Doddington, Cambridge'he 5 tr j 9{irien every aai/'l'",' 11 f ell from its nest, pops into the ya «V to be fed
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  • 285 7 Girl 12, strangled doctor |X a shack and a castle 1 near Leicester, England, two courts were told of the Whitsuntide death drama of li-year-old Janet Mary Warner. In the shack, meeting-place of Blaby Bowls Club, Janet's lather told a coroner how he was shown hi* daughter
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  • 133 7 TT is wrong for a husband and wife to go back to each other for the sake of their children, a Swansea divorce court judge said. Nothing was worse for the children than to be brought up m an atmosphere of bickering and quarrelling. A child needed
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  • 213 7 No, says the judge —not till 1975 A DISQUALIFIED lorry driver came from gaol to ulead that he might be allowed to drive again when his sentence expires. But Mr. Justice Hilbcry, tIM judge who, m 1950, had banned him from the roads for 25 years, said: "I have not
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    • 233 7 NOW v F| y direct t0 PERTH AUSTRALIA AND TO JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA Now these two important Australian cities. places are nearer by air— gouth Africa tQO> j 9 ink< d by Tl -T_T S __feMfc b> Q antas a fast service on the new *¥sJrf\ You can fly from
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    36 8 Sub r Inspector Kaus Ben Sahab. of the Federation Police, vuts the finishing touches equipment at Hyde Pork. er Singh, a Corporal In the I Ice, enjoys a me o th The I
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  • 143 8 CAMPING-TIN TA CENTRE OLONDO NG-TIN THE E O LONDON ABOVE: The Malayan Coronation contingeimaceful surroundings m m Hyde Park the evame great day. LEFT' Cpl Victor J. Dorai of the Fedemteimteer Auxiliary Service Cheah Cheong Kheng, M.A.A.F. (fromPamilwßeng Senh, M.A. mcdi BELOW, LEFT: Queueing uyWensington Gardens. BELOW: A happy group
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  • 39 9 Two little English gtrls, Paula and Virginia Burgess, gc> autographs from Jama Ludeen, d.c.m. of the Malaya Police and P'O. Ismail Bujang, M.R.N.V.H. Below: Lv>< borrows Virginias camera to give her a photog/aph to it ho c.
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    23 9 Below: P. C. Oth man ot the Federation Polite co'e ts oil-lamps for refilling at th i Hude Park camp.
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  • 44 9 Rigfit: Putting i -m.uute poll sli on their boots for 'he parade are lejt to right— Cis. Mat till ir mgtusim of th North Borneo Pol 1 1 With AX .2 Loir Ben Senghm M .A.A.F.. an ('nl Vie Dora F.M.V.A.S.C.
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  • 493 10 FATHERHOOD PLAN OF THE HITLERITE MISSIONARY BEAMING as brightly as the Nevada sun above them are the professional and amateur winners of the Better Posture Contest at a Las Vegas hotel. The lovely lasses, dancer Delores Frazzini (left), who won m the professional class, and amateur winner Jackie Johnson, provide
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  • 285 10 Same birthday Same godmother TWO boys from two families one aged six, the other seven— were born m the same house. They were born on the same date— January 19. They had the same godmother. They grew up together, played together. And they died together
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  • 240 10 Sir Winston's ex-secretary now runs charm school A 'CHARM school for debutantes has been established m Mayfair by 30-year-old Miss Jo Sturdee, who recently resigned as private secretary to Sir Winston Churchill. She will teach debutantes courtesy, deportment, and other attributes necessary to a successful social life. With her m
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  • 82 10 AIRSCREW MAN GETS £15,000 DR. Bruno Jablonsky, who recently claimed from the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors for the use of bis "densified wood" m making airscrew blades, has been awarded £15,000, the commission announced. He Ll a naturalised Briton, living at Mill Lane, Waddon. Surrey, before the first
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  • 278 10 ANGRY PARENTS SEE DEPUTY HEAD I^lVfc. angry members of the 1 Association of Parents ol the Deaf marched into Donaldson's school for the deaf, Edinburgh, to protest against the banning of a 15-year-old girl because she had had her hair permed. Seven minutes later
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  • 119 10 WHILE passengers jammed the gangway ia s^crou^ Tube train roanne London, the automatic sliding doors suddenly °P™% Ien tAnd one man, presse a lessly towards n the weight of people saved from death Said Mr. L.C. McLean of Oi* lane, Kingswood.
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    • 48 10 m~m~M** i ll m m vr. |V Ar B THE EM3ASSY HOTfcL DANCE NKiIITEY: IM Ml f j, SATCROAY TKA OANCK: IM^'.pM SINDAY CONCERT Ml SIC: It NOO> Nl MODERATE TERMS EOR rWMWJJ H| j CARI.E ADDRESS EMBIIOTEI .MtfOatl I MINI TES DRIVE FROM XXI I »»0 I >_■■-■-■■■■■■----"
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  • 424 11  - Hollywood Worries Over Lost Glamour BOB THOMAS by HOLLYWOOD. nn_M STUDIOS are tryFng to recapture glamour by hiding the Smiiies of their stars. fa ffls the latest turn i„ Hollywood thinking, and it may cause a war between the studios and fa n magazines At least nne studio— MGM—nas answered
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    132 11 Stage your own "Bridge Olympic." Siiteen prearranged "par" deals originally played as the 1953 Interc^legiate Bridge Championship, are Wi* presented here. To play these ■JB m your own game, save the *™8 until complete; then have the knds stacked m duplicate boards lor v* lour properly marked envelopes.
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    28 11 photo. Six-year-old Floria Thompson of Perth takes the contest seriously as she competes m the Highland dancing at the London Caledonian Games, White City, London Reuter
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    • 101 11 And nothing wears so well as /JOHNSONSSWAX\ For really hard wear let Johnson's Wax take It! X m This world-famous wax protects and preserve's all B 8 floors and furniture, giving a hard, brilliant finish BB A that resists wear and tear. Specify Johnson's m */-.§j m^k\W 1 Liquid or
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 15 11 1 "WE WONT LET THOSE AY/OLfT' PIG.ONS GET AWAY THIS TIME!" %4m* '0 mMAmt ji
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    • 218 11 Today's Crossword I ACROSS.— I, Over this tttH RgCßta 7, the red (5). 4, Weapon m far mire? Sounds as it the wedding stops! (8, (7), 8. An Englishman's tempera- s>. 9, Poised rot m the bank? (9». mental sort oi drink? (4, 3, 6) 10. IS, Not disponed to
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  • 35 12 picture. This is the new Outpatient Clinic and Blood Transfusion In it which is bein«r built m the Singapore General Hospital grounds. Note the new road leading to the building. Free Press
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  • The Pressman's POSTBAG
    • 206 12 WHAT a shame Mount Everest wasn't conquered by India although it is to the north of the peninsula. Maybe Indians Just wouldn't care, less to plant an Indian flag on the top .of the world. I can only infer that they have no 1 -'.sure as they spend
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    • 68 12 I^HIS Is the caption for the "cover girl" which appeared m the latest issue of an Indian film magazine: "The dream girl of every Indian youth. Meena Kumari, m a blood-boiling pose which wil make the young and old alike to stand and gaze with bended knee." I
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    • 138 12 IN reply to Mr. Ramachar.dra's ltter complaining that, while arches hav e been erected by most of the local communinothing has been done by tl loeftl-tern Indians, I should like to .say that this does not mi n we are not loyal to thc Crows, The fact is
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    • 194 12 PROBABLY the Arab community m Singapore is richer than the Chinese comparative to their numbers. On every occasion m the past, the Arabs have never failed to provide palpable evidence of th-ir existence as a weathy, healthy community. Even during, the Japanese occupation Arabs, headed by their leaders walked
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  • 157 12  -  P. M. RAMAN Flats at $5,000 each m Singapore By Local materials help save THE SINGAPORE Improvement Trust is experimentin. with new building methods and materials to brine down costs, Mr. Lincoln Page, Acting Senior Architect said yesterday Its efforts have so far resulted m reducing
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  • 23 12 Seven hundred planes staged one of the biggest peace-time air displays over Stockholm ve^terday to mark the city's 700 th anniversary.
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  • 32 12 HAVE you a grouse? Have you a bright idea? Have you seen anything strange or unusual? Then write to the PRESSMAN and tell others about it m his POSTBAG briefly.
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  • 94 12 THE rudest, money-grabbingest people m the world are to be found m Singapore's book stores. You can't browse around for a minute without someone hovering behind you and demanding to see the colour of your money. And even if you buy a magazine or two they won't let you
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  • 75 12 THERE are four of us m th? familv all boys. I've got double jo.nted elbows, and two I of the other three have double jointed fingers and toes respeci tivelv. That only left Tommy who \vas single jointed all the way down.. Then the other day he walked into
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  • 243 12 Dance hostess finds her dream boy Free Press Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE dance hostess, who his had dozens of marriage proposals m 10 years of giving dance exhibitions and singin? m the Great World is shortly to announce her engagement to her dreamboy. She is 26 and her fiance, a
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    23 12 MR. NO HOCK CHUAN. -a of Mr. N| BJ-&5 Miss Tan Ceok ins, oaus of Madam On, were married m &ins*p
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    • 48 12 Circus Busch Berun Inriios i/»« i** The greatest Bear net m the CC C Th. Fearless bare-bach .id.». \tt .repressive Arri.onie.M 9m,mm eusch and her beau.if-i horses... LAST WEEK! So hurry and come torllYour kiddies will enioy m uniform mm* [**r gm%mml mWArtm m* y MEW ____lb^. .^pai
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  • 700 13 ■IRq D announced with Ma smile that she and hpr husband would not ___rrr*ny more because Sey had "0 children after Aye years of marriage. «we have come to the con- eh* said, "that it is S3S?to"fl e gh?aialnst fate so ST have decided
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  • 76 13 photo. --ike two-wh.el d tank without the armour this army trick motor cyclist punches a hole m a brick wall as he shows at Catterick Camp, Yorkshire, one of the stunts which will thrill audiences all over Britain this summer. He is one of the display team
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  • 306 13 A C ACID > the <™ta an7 oUnd m cit necewary t_ h 1& scum m Prevent haf r h glance to lif* supJUT*" 0 has bee B?E_52 ported to by SmK,' lemiCal S °Ciety Foup, w VS* b 'a University Serfe Under a Public
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  • 473 13  -  Steffan Andrews 'by WASHINGTON. T*HE United States, is on the threshold of a tremendously importanc medical discovery m dealing with heart disease, the nations No. 1 killer. This hopeful hint for heart patients came from Dr. C. J. Van Slyke, former Director of
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    • 142 13 1 JK? S\ Thanks to Crookcs Halibut Oil. I Its a wise family that takes this j Pf^^S^^"/ valuable form of vitamins A I L-IJ CROOKES \fprr\ HALIBUT OIL lot .1 i „«c»»'0»'»» i _r__^^_ 1 ft a^^ i i K» .h#OT I 1 1 J* DISTRIBUTORS THE CROOKCS LABORATORIES
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  • 198 14 NO MORE RACING' says DOLLY The girl who fell off J makes a promise YfISS Dolly Chew, the 18-year-old competitor involved m an accident during the Coronation cycling meet at Shenton Way on Sunday night, has decided to give up racing. "I have promised my parents not to take part
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  • 54 14 MERVYN Rose of Australia won the final of the men's singles at the northern lawn tennis tournament m Manchester beating follow countryman Clive Wilderspin 4-6, 6-3, 6-0. Miss Daris Hart (United States) won the women's singles final against Miss Helen Fletcher, the British Wightman Cup
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  • 30 14 Royal Engineers beat Royal Air Force Lodger Units by three goals to two In a Singapore United Services F.A. Div i league Ue at Changi yesterday.
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  • 42 14 Royal Air Force Changi 2nd XI beat HEME 2nd Xi by fllve goal* to one ln a Singapore united Services Div. 2 soccer match yesterday at Changi. The airmen were four goals up ln the first 20 v mlnutes.
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  • 31 14 World welterweight champion Kid Oavilan meets Italo Scortichlnl of Italy m a ten-round non-title bout at Olympic Stadium tomorrow night Scortichlnl recently beat Gerald Dreyer, top-flight British welterweight. A.P.
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  • 59 14 COMBINED Services will meet Royal Air Force Malaya m a soccer trial at Depford Road ground, Naval Base, on Saturday. Team to represent Combined Services is: Smith (RAF): A. N. Other, Raw (RAF»; Jayes <RAF>. Walton (Army), Plumridge (Navy); Hill (Navy), Hutchinson (Navy), Davenoort <RAF>,
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  • 401 14 IS a football player with an artificial leg a source of danger to other players? T/ia. is £/ie question thc Western India Football Association faces as it starts the new season m Bombay. Graham Morris, a 27-year-old Welshman who plays m goal for a local Sports
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  • 320 14 Star Soccerites 4; R.E.M.E 1. MAKING a remarkable debut at centre-forward, Rahim Af Omar gained a personal triumph by scoring all four of his side's goals m the Star Soccerites SAFA Div. I. league victory over the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers at Jalan
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  • 61 14 ltf. PAUL DUBOSCA'S filly La Sorelllna, ridden by Maurice Larraun, won the Prix De Diane (French Oaks) over one mile two furlongs UO yards at Chantilly on Saturday ln a photo-finish. La Sorelllna, a 16-1 outsider, scored by a short-head from M. J. Decrlon's Banasa. with Comtesse De
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  • 36 14 West Oerman Offenbach Kickers braved a wild typhoon In Osaka on Saturday as they defeated Kansal Oakum University 5-1 m their first soccer match m Japan Some 5,000 fans thronged to the stadium.
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  • 126 14 WATER-skilng is catching on m Singapore. Yesterday six pairs of skis arrived on order from Australia. They are the first to be bought by local enthusiasts since Mr. Ashley Cooper of Shaw Bros. Ltd. Introduced U_e sport to Singapore last year. Ashley Cooper himself ordered tvo
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  • 30 14 Italy won the roller hockey world championships m Geneva by beating Spain one-nil on the closing day of last week's .tournament. The goal came m the first hall.
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  • 56 14 photo. tk*** six tjirls. »\ii 0 lock p art j n the Singapore Table Tennis Asm. eiation's Coronation Cup tournament at the Singapore Badminton stadium on Sunday, added glamour to the game. They are fr_ Wt Mary Voon, Wu Pey Shyan, Ctarise Lim, I. Lucas, M. Panter
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  • 596 15  - PUNTER'S DELIGHT THE BEST BET ALLAN LEWIS Second day of Ipoh races B_ DELIGHT should win the Llass 6, uix :i V nvpr the straight SF. at Ipoh tomorrow, second r «f e the Perak Turf Club's June meeting. day Sfablemate Applause will not start He received a hnofiniury during
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  • 43 15 FOLLOWING horses will not start tomorrow: Golden Dolphin, Punkawalla 11, Gondolino, Applause, Linkshir 11, Lucifer, Abbotsford, scrupulous. Master Touch, Always, Pride Of Burma, Lanaturiste, Greatest Hour, Snow Blaze, Duchess, Man O'War, Equerry, Jeanette, Bay Star and Farnlcy. Aladdin is a doubtful starter.
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  • 808 15 T IBFRTV FLAG who uSiwll- sidles up well can complete a double by wlnnine the Class 4 Div. 2 race over six furlongs. He won easily enough m his first race to overcome the rise of one divtton with an extra six lb. The opno^ition is
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  • 302 16  - CHLROSS AND MOVIE GO FASTEST ALLAN LEWIS From Punter's Delighf catches eye pULROSS (Tulloh) and MOVIE 11. working on the No. 2 grass track, which is still soft, ran the fastest three this morning, when they took 39 1/5. Movie II went almost as well a Culross, on which he
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  • 215 16 He didnt agree on pardon F|LT. Kellaway, a Service representative, last night resigned from the Singapore Amatuer Football Association's Commission of Inquiry. His reason was that he disagreed with the decision at the SAFA Council to lift the suspensions imposed on the Malay footballers who went on tour to Kota
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  • 30 16 Reg Mack, Victorian boxer taken to hospital last week after receiving head injuries m a fight for .the Australian .heavyweight title, was discharged yesterday.
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  • 322 16 STORMING FORM BY TEST MEN photo. TWO bowlers and a batsman yesterday sent England hopes soaring that Coronation year may bring vie tory over Australia m the Test series starting on Thursday. Surrey's Alec Bedser and Tony Lock, named for the Eng- The scores At Lords. Middlesex 364 (Bennett 64)
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  • 63 16 ENTRIES closed yesterday for the British Open Golf championship which takes place at Carnoustie. Scotland starting on July 6. Although the total of 198 is small compared with last year's 275 it Is representative of the world. Bohby Locke. South Africa's holder, will defend his title against a
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  • 131 16 rVO British motor cyclists were killed m crashes m the junior international tourists trophy race at Douglas, Isle of Man yesterday. H. L. Stephen, 37-year-old estate valuer, crashed his Norton on the second of the seven laps; Tom Swarblck, 28-year-old farmer and father of four,
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  • 79 16 I^HE Australian tourists beat Hampshire by 158 runs yesterday. The county were all out for 148 m their second innings after the Aussies declared at 169 for five. In first kntttnga the tourists had scored 268 to Hampshire's 131. Yesterday's star bat was West Indian Roy
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  • 156 16 The winner and 'new' champ! -they say RANDOLPH TURPIN, Britkh champion, is expected SJ gam the world middlewei m boxioß title with a knockout win over Gk2 Humez, a French ex-minw the White City Stadu.^ night. hough Turpin is universally r_. cognised as the leading {2*J n, v British *2
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  • 191 16 Turpin is never at his best against i bark-pedalling opponent and 1! Humez adopts his normal aggressive tactirs Turpin, a calculating piitsecond puncher, should luve plenty of chances for a fiiuhing blow. Humez can also hit Vrd and he k capable of absorbing plenty of punishment, but there
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