The Singapore Free Press, 11 June 1953

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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Afternoon Sale in Malaya jjrtH Z mm, Singapore Thurs.. June 11,1953. Price 15 < .s.
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    SPOILT VOTES ROW IN ROME
    589 1 Bed tricks cut de GanperVs Mnajjority 'J'HE Italian Prime Minister, Signor Alcide de Gasperi, has narrowly won the general election, but a dispute over voting papers threatens one of the biggest political battles in the nation's history. The Home Minister, Signor M. Scelba, announced yesterday
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    Queens at Epsom
    33 1 picture. THE QUEEN wears dark glasses, thr» Queen Mother shades her *yeswith her hand. They are watching the Derby, in which the Wneen's horse, Aureole, ran second to Pinza.- A.P.
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    Soviet cruiser steals show
    153 1 JHE U,OOO to n cruiser Sverdlov, pride of the Russian h> e f e J- stole the show yesterday at the preat gathermjm the world's warships off Portsmouth England, for Hni 7 eek s Cor °™tion review. Holiday makers on beat &rTl d the 120 armoured
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    Escaped man caught
    69 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE police last night re-arrested a Malay wanted in connection with a $18,000 payroll robbery in the Colony this week. The man. escaped from CID custody. He was first detained on Tuesday along with another Malay. The second man has since been charged.
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    Mr. Shinwell to pay £50 fine
    96 1 Mr. Shinwell to pay £50 fine F3RMER Defence Minister. Mr. Emanuel Shinwell. was fined *:50 la Ayr, Scotland, for contravening the National Health Insurance Act. It was stated in court that Mr. Shinwell had b'vn u extremely unco-operative to the Ministry over a long time. Tlu-y lound him M extremely
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    POWER BREAK
    10 1 p toinor teoK«- Umo raing as of Singapore
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    Korea: Big Red attack
    53 1 MORE than 5,000 Chinese Communists, attacking on the Korean east front last night, penetrated the Allied main line in four places, the U.S. Eighth Army reported in Seoul today. Heavy fighting raged at midnight. In Berne the Swiss Government announced that it will participate in the
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    Rubber price
    25 1 Singapore Rubber Market opened .steadily this morning with first grade, June shipment, at 68» 4 cents a pound, > a cent above yesterday's close.
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    BIDAULT LOSES —BY A VOTE
    39 1 The French General Assembly refused yesterday to accept M. Georges Bidault as Prime Minister by just ONE vot«\ The Popular Republican leader received 313 votes on P less than the required absolute majority.- Reuter
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    S.C. FOR EVEREST TENSING
    117 1 S.C. FOR EVEREST TENSING TMMMM Nepalese Government A has "consented gladly" to the award of Britain's George Cross to "Tiger" Tensing, the Nepalese Sherpa who climbed Everest with Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, it was reported in Khatmandu yesterday. The Queen knighted Mr. Hillary and the expedition's leader, Colonel John
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    U.S. 'bad taste' spurs new attack on aided TV
    388 2 HTWO Socialist MP's yesterday tfave notice of Parliamentary questions on the use of advertisements in American TV coverage of the coronation. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which proTided the telefilms, has complained that coverage in the United States was "marred by the
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    Tornadoes kill 236: Ten at a dinner die
    221 2 THREE DAYS of tornadoes sweeping across the United States from the plains to the Atlantic coast left 236 dead, thousands Injured and millions of dollars of property damaged. All the tornadoes appear to have been spawned in a single squall line moving
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    INDIA IS ANNOYED
    29 2 India will close her Legation In Lisborl today as a gesture of annoyance over Portugal's refusal to hold talks on the future of Portuguese India possessions.
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    Widespread riots, Czechs admit
    129 2 CZECH President Antonin Zapotocky said over Prague Radio yesterday that there had been "widespread riots and protests" in Czechoslovakia against the Government's recent currency reform. Several reports of rioting in Czechoslovakia have reached Vienna lately, some in Czechoslovak newspapers received here. The riots appeared to be
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    A Briton for Pacific talks
    90 2 BRITAIN, Australia, and New Zealand have agreed that in Lisbon today as a gesture of Staff should visit Australia and New Zealand this year for military discussions, it was officially announced in London yesterday. The announcement was given in an official communique after a meeting
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    MR. TAFT IS TOO ILL TO LEAD SENATE
    225 2 MR. TAFT IS TOO ILL TO LEAD SENATE SENATOR Robert Taft announced yesterday that a serious hip ailment will keep him. from his activities arsenate Republican leader for the rest of. this Congress session. Returning "to Washington from a four-day checkup by doctors in a New York hospital, Senator Taft
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    Pontecorvo 'aids' Red a-tests
    46 2 NEWS WEEK magazine said yesterday the s r tomi c telligence had picked up a report that the Bnusn scientist, Dr. Bruno Pontecorvo, has gone with rw at om viet scientists into the Russian Arctic to expioae Toiitecorvo disappeared mysteriously inJ^O-: A.P.
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    Russians halt work on giant naval base
    241 2 rpHE Russians have halted A work on building a riant naval base on the Baltic isian ot Ruegen. Allied- quaner said yesterday. The East German Communis' government's share in the plant also has been cut by more than half. A budget 3 180,000,000
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    HONG KONG POLICE GET NEW CHIEF
    36 2 The Secretary of State for j Colonies yesterday appro ed appointment as CominiajOg of Police for Hong Kong of W- C. Maxwellto succeed Mr. W.Macintosh, who is retiring I August.
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    And Chinese want theirs free of tax
    137 3 atom, spent on Coronation ORGANISERS of SmgaOpore's Coronation celebrations yesterday said that the Government, various communal bodies Ims1 ms and the public spent about $10,000,000 during Coronation Week. They listed the on procesmmim by the Chines; community She costliest item at $3,000,000. Mr
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    HOW $ WENT
    75 3 HOW WENT The organiser* made Urn expendlKeSn *3.W0.000 Government i, »X Decorations ardips. dispays 1.000.000 Transport -land. se a and air 2.W0.000 Incidental expenses i.ouj.vou edemas MMlMmentt dances 1.000.000 Stands m 000 Sijhtsee'.nj. tours JS'SJt Visitors' entertainment I S'S« Coronation function* ™nn™ Stamps and envelopes 200.0 Scliod'-chifldren's expenses 200. »>0
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    NEW STATUS FOR AUSTRIA
    49 3 Russia has decided to appoint an ambassador to Austria and re-establish full, diplomatic relations. This new Soviet step toward ending the burdens of Russian i occupation was disclosed by I? Au tria n Government. Aus- SLSL also a PP° int a full ambassador to Moscow
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    NEN OPERATED ON
    25 3 i^ er l was o P^rated on in r Ported h° b v truCtion D <*U>rs fif hls Condition as satis- A.P.
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    DAMES STOP AID
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    He can dance with 2 girls
    39 3 dan* man! r^"v at the "a'" 8 Uh tWO ir,; «WnV it wh, lh fvrr J rk° r n0t llow'\^PUint s Seem t0 h vt I*l^ Number r,vi I han Centre) of the
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    Scouts
    36 3 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Boy Scouts Asso- ciation may take action against the Colony Jewish youth organisation the Ilabonim for calling its members "boy scouts." The Free Press was told this irrrri-- the matter
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    1,000 Mau men wiped out
    35 3 1 ,000 Mau men wiped out Government security forces in Kenya have killed just over 1.000 Mau Mau terrorists since the emergency was declared eight months ago. a Government spokesman said in Nairobi last night.
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    U.S. JETS FOR BALKAN ALLIES
    36 3 The U.S. aircraft carrier, Tripoli, arrived yesterday in Brindisi and began unloading 38 American-built F-84 jet planes which will be distributed between Italy, Turkey and Greece, under the Mutual Assistant programme.
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    OIL FOR JAPS
    45 3 The Japanese tanker Nisshomaru carrying a second load of 1P.. 000 tons of Persian oil left Abadln en its return journev n erday. "Threesome Quickstep."' Mr. Tan said that to do this dance properly, there mus" be "perfect understanding" between the Ihree.
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    object to use of name by Habonim
    108 3 would be brought up at the next meeting of the executive committee *>f the association. Scouts and scouters are accusing the Habonim of referring to its members as "scouts" in a recent programme for the Singapore Youth Council Coronation rally. They were also
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    BUILDING BAN SPEEDS SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS
    136 3 Free Press Staff Reporter T<HE two-year Singapore ban on "luxury" building has helped the Malayan Governments to carry through their programmes of essential works, said Mr. A. Wear, chairman of the Colony Building Control Advisory Committee, yesterday. The ban will be lifted on Monday.
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    They crowd to see
    31 3 Stenographers, Mrs. H. S. Lee and Miss Claire Pasqual, admiring a picture of Duchess of Kent at the Straits Times* exhibition of Coronation pictures in Robinson's, Singapore.
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    RUSSIA CLAIMS GLIDING TITLE
    63 3 The Soviet Tass news agency yesterday claimed the world's long-distance gliding title for "m eritorious sportsmaster Ilchenko." The agency said Ilchenko flew a two-seater 830 kilometres in nine hours on May 26. The glider started from Moscow and landed near Stalingrad. Ilchenko thus broke the world
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    CHAPLAIN DIES
    30 3 The Rev. Gethrin Hughes, 63, appointed by King George VI in 1943 to be first honorary Baptist chaplain to royalty, died at his home in Portcall, Wales, yesterday.
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    GRENADE KILLS 2
    24 3 A World War II grenade exploded on Cebu Island, Philippines, yesterday and killed two 12-year-old beys and seriously injured a third.
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, June 11, 1953 Opinion NORMAL CHANNELS
    443 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, June 11, 1953 Opinion NORMAL CHANNELS LETTERS to a newspaper serve a very useful purpose. They are an indication of public opinion; they air little grievances and, if notice is taken, prevent big troubles. Sometimes they reveal really serious maladies in the body politic. It
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    After Mt. Everest, the Moon?
    696 4  - After Mt. Everest, the Moon? Chapman Pincher HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS THAT REMAIN UNCONQUERED By ONE exciting achievement demanding perhaps even greater endurance than displayed bv the conquerors of Everest will soon fall within the grasp of some explorer courageous enough to attempt it. It will be the flight of the
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    RADIO T.V.
    13 4 This is the new Scottish variety Set— select yoyr am turunl
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    BALLOON TO 'SNAP' SUN
    168 4 BRITISH scientists have built a giant plastic balloon which will carry a tele-scope-camera 15 miles up to "snap" the sun. The scientists are to try out their remote control astronomy, the first ever attempted, in September. An automatic camera fitted to a big telescope will take
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    PLANE IS 6,000 FEET NEARER
    102 4 T>RISTOL aeroplane company have announced that in the course of high altitude flights to test the Bristol Olympus turbojet engines, a Canberra bomber, powered by two of these engines, attained a height of 60,000 feet. The official world altitude record is 59,446 feet, set up
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    Friendly Oueen
    248 4 Friendly Oueen IT isn't surprising that 1 the 6ft. 3in. Queeo Salote of Tonga turned out to be the most popular of the Coronation visitors. The Tongans are so goodnatured that when Captain Cook first met them 180 years ago he immediately marked the place down as the Frtendrj Islands.
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    A BEARD? READ ON...
    46 5 picture. A BEARDED GIRL? No. it's just an unusual picture. Tan Keng Choo (YWCA), who is in action during the Singapore Table Tennis Association's Coronation Cup tournament at the Badminton Stadium, has her plaited hair blown on to her chin. Free Press
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    LIEW PREFERS STAYBNG IN SALVATION ARMY HOME TO HIS OWN
    168 5 LIEW PREFERS STAYBNG IN SALVATION ARMY HOME TO HIS OWN TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Liew Kok Hai slept for three nights recently in a lorry parked off the 4| mile. Upper Serangoon Road. He bought food with money begged from children of a nearby school. People in the neighbourhood noticed his plight. They
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    They will fight the 'quacks'
    116 5 They will fight the 'quacks SINGAPORE'S qualified accountants are planning to form an association to protect their interests against quacks who pose as income tax consultants and accountants. •The questionable tactics ot niiaeiu have besmirched our ?epStation they said yesterday. -An association is neccessary to safeguard chartered, incorporated and certified
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    AID PLANS HALTED
    31 5 The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday ordered Mutual Security Director, Mr. Harold E. Stassen, not to start new aid programmes until Congress has provided specific funds for them.
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    No holiday classes, schools told
    105 5 No holiday classes, schools told THE Singapore Education Department has banned "special holiday revision I.SSSCS CrganiScu uy ScVcrai Chinese schools in the Colony. The lessons are to enable students who failed in their school examinations to sit for a reexamination when the school reopens. htra fees are charged for these
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    Farmer wins barony
    41 5 AJSHftJS* plum pe K r n d K farmer ot Good--Bir wLt« 'J? recei ved from 1932 C *hl be S? in abeyance out h ir mh baron, died withftV^SPS 1 three years new i 6 the title
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    REDS LET WIVES GO
    20 5 > fe that y Ru C^ a mS *J lt visas to ft ru tker ana Eu<iy
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    SINGING AIRMEN WIN CONTEST
    65 5 Four Airmen IrOM Warren AnForce ba e In Wyoming sang their way to victory in the first 'annual Air Force world-wide: i barbershop quartet contest at Selfridge Airforce base. The quartet, called the "Rip--1 cords." warbled "I don't mind" 1 and "Coney Lsland Baby" to de-
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    Nanyang asks Dr. Hu Shih to be Chancellor
    193 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TiHE Nanyang University has invited Dr. Hu Shih, a former Chinese Ambassador to Washington, to be Chancellor. Dr. Hu founder of "pal hua" (modern Chinese) and a scholar of international reputation, had earlier refused an offer from the
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    GOVT. TO SETTLE PMU DISPUTE
    107 5 GOVT. TO SETTLE PMU DISPUTE THE Federation Registrar of Societies is investigating which of the two "central" committees of the Peninsular Malay Union is the lawful one. One committee is headed by Inche Ahmad Abdul Rahim and the other by Inche Hashim Ghani. Both claim to speak for the PMU.
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    6 DIE IN FIRE
    30 5 Two Europeans and four Africans were killed on Saturday night in a Are which broke out in a new warehouse in the Leopoldville harbour, Belgian Congo.
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    GIANT SHARK CAUGHT
    38 6 A giant Greenland shark, 30 feet long and weighing 5,50(1 lbs., was brought into Cuxhaven, Germanv, yesterday by the German fishing boat Detmold. The fishermen said they caught it between the Shetland Island and Norway.
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    MONEY
    56 6 It costs to keep bloodhound*! WWy let your off.ee wM «H lim e ,nd energy snuffl-* |,kc bloodhounds iftff errors on the far cs of bus,ness m*h,r» .WulwIACrA-.henewSwed.^ Ui.np nuchine the work wVkly and The huarH- 0 U rwo-row >y«rm L „ve .he operators h^ ur« pr-med meed J
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      315 6 MANDRAKE, THE MACICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis STAR r s~~\ I I /?=s}v /i?^ %/^B rather complex WITCH'-- AND 1 WANT J Ug£V CifF»< fT) i /Y#3»Pl£ "^ak u,l,y sh TH£ ANSWEM-yy^ j/TT/ f ft-*,i Rf {fcfj O f A^mHe! 12/^-)^BHB f imilv then o ,y ■""■ifc i
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    Superabundance of charm
    64 7 Superabundance of charm picture. This heftv chorus-line billed as The Glamazons" is cuwent ly shaking the boards in London The ffirls are led by Dawn White (left), who at 15-stone is a lightweight compared to some of the buxom lasses. Th ey put a lot of energy into thei r
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    Wife, 51, was in love with chauffeur
    299 7 RENEE GARREAU, 51-year-old wife of a French Army major, was sentenced to five years' hard labour in Versailles for shooting her 28-year-old lover, Jean Deity, her husband's chauffeur I The prosecution said: "The Garreaus had no child. That is perhaps the tragedy beh
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    Printer's Pie served
    30 7 A restaurant at Bolney. Sussex, advertises: "Lunch ions, Tees. Sowper.s." Miss M. Hale, one of the properietors explains: "It is not a mistake, just old Su.s.se.\ spelling."
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    CHRISTIE: THE DOCTORS REPORT
    151 7 "J Datt ">»*st.s who at- ds the auth,? o ;n tho Thh, ar authorities. *°>kVZ b ;n e studied hv n Hd *liduy ChrU- t who is charted with the murder of lour other women at the same address. It was at the request <>i Christie's
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    DOCTOR FOUND BABY IN SUITCASE
    330 7 DOCTOR FOUND BABY IN SUITCASE TWO days after it was bom a baby was found in a suitcase under a bed, still alive, a doctor stated at West London. The doctor added that he took the child to hospital where it died 48 hours later. The magistrate sent Hanna O'Flaherty,
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    'SCENTED GARDEN' FOR THE BLIND
    39 7 A "scented garden" for the blind, given bv the business and professional women and the town council, was opened at Bury St Edmunds. Suffolk. Braidle labels will help the visitors to identify the flowers.
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    UP SHE GOES
    18 7 Bomb disposal experts blew up a 1914-18 war sea mine washed ashore at Bexhill, Sussex.
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    Police furl Royal Standard
    78 7 rpwo policemen, an inspector and a sergeant, climbed to a first-floor flat in Earls Court Road, London, to furl a Royal Standard which was flying from a flagpole. The occupier of the flat, Mr Douglas Robinson, was out. So the officers went next door and asked
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    UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
    380 8  - UNKNOWN UNKNOWN C. T. BOON Pictures by Story by WMTCVU THE.R ACt wv teresfed spectators who H I jointly are holding their second annuj^ The exhibition was official Malayan private collector, hnS2 SS W Two hundred and fifty D i e^ prohibitive the organised enga^d L? a collector, provided for
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    'LIFE' OF A NOBLEMAN, 76, IS AUCTIONED
    420 10 'LIFE' OF A NOBLEMAN, 76, IS AUCTIONED IN a stuffy, second-floor office in London there was auctioned the life of a nobleman. No name was given. The nobleman bluntly appeared in the catalogue as Lot 7." His age. 76, was given, for that was vital to the bidders: Of Lx>V
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    Untitled
    4 10 Cyd Charisse, M.G.M. star.
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    Two accused of attack on police
    309 10 HHWO C.I.D. officers— one of them a woman were alleged in a case at Old Street, London, to have been attacked during a struggle with two men in the street after they had followed a van. After pleading not guilty. George William Henry Stevens,
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    JOCKEY'S HURRY PUT £500 AT STAKE
    136 10 JOCKEY'S HURRY PUT £500 AT STAKE rERE'S a free drink waiting for U.S. airman. Donald Monper. just whenever he cares to drop in at Newmarket racing stables. And the man who will buy it is Australian jockey* Edwin Cracknell the imn who took the wrong overcoat and left his own
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    Woman helped 2 girls on the run
    240 10 A F 0 T f E V" H att ctlve or M admitted harh*, Ing two girls knowing th^ have escaped from a n aD L ed school, Mr h r ?ff*' chairman of "the bL2S at Camberley, Sur^ey^ She more or less
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  • NAVY ARMY Free Press Serrices Page AIR FORCE
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      'Orwell' was once a problem child
      346 11 zap THE FLEET of troop0* ips linking BtagaS» KSgSS£S that up to a few years ago to the Ministry ot Trans port. Qh is the 18.036-ton twinS Orwell." launchJr mZa*Aa iim>r "Pretoria and SSSf 55 the United kingdom as a prize in 1945. The
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      HAPPY. GROUP
      47 11 A happy group at the Coronation Night Dance at 41 Base Wksp (Veh) REME. (Left to right): Sgt. C. Harrison; Mrs. C. J. Doyle; WO. 11. Greenshields, the Army cricketer; WO. I. J. Gornall; Lt. Col. C. J. Doyle, OBE, R£ME and WO. I. Evans.
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      300 attend R.E. party
      114 11 A REPLICA of London's Coronation Arch formed the centre-piece to the decorations when the Royal Engineers held their Coronation Dance at Gillman Barracks on Saturday evening. Spanning the centre of the floor of the Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess, some 300 guests danced beneath the glittering
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      REME CORONATION NIGHT DANCE
      330 11 ONE OF THE FEW military units in Singapore to stage a Coronation night celebration, the Warrant Officers and Sergeants of 41 Base Workshop (Vehicle) REME entertained the officers and their ladies on June 2 to a Grand Social and Dance. It was a programme that did
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      Bridge Talk
      439 11 FLUFFING is an intrinsic part of the successful poker players same. The successful player knows, however, that he cannot bluff often and continue to be successful; in fact, he is prepared to have some of his bluffs go wrong for the sake of the extra contributions his opponents
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      338 11 Today's Crossword J^Weby desert ,K rd SP* 8- n l I >u^ le ,ti, ii Not ihul In pettJ' f c 'ose after SS. C(,lOMi^ion hagen (4). 6, Pricele:sly reveals an S 0u t (4, 9 ILSvI 8 Ier and Eastern product (4). 7, Tax on this is rl nn
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    Troop chariot race
    19 12 Boy Scouts of the 61n<* <" -~v~~in Trr > op slaved a chariot race on game, Mt week.
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    Weekly scout corner
    380 12  -  P. L. KOH By JAPS DIDN'T FIND ST. ANTHONY'S FUG BOY SCOUTS of the Fifth (St. Anthony's School) Group have continued to keep up the fine tradition set up by their predecessors. On Saturday, past and present scouts as well as friends I were present at a
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    Untitled
    22 12 Cornelia Suzan, daughter of the Singapore architect. Mr. Nr Ken* Slang, who has celebrated her first birthday. Picture shows parents and guests.
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    A problem with no solution
    184 12 Free Press Staff Reporter I BUKIT Purmei, off Kampong j Bahru. Singapore, Ls a pri- vatc thoroughfare and the City authorities can do nothing to repair the bad road. So said the City Engineer, Mr. O. Edmond, yesterday commenting on the complaint of a resident.
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  • The Pressman's Postbag
    • Letter
      RENT CONTROL
      212 12 IN your editorial on rent con- trol. in which it was stated that "the back-log in rent cases will become an increasingly serious problem" as the functions of the Rent Conciliation Board are more fully understood, the following also appears: "At the time that the City Council decided
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    • Letter
      VOLUNTEERS
      95 12 MR. Pressman, could you spare me a little space to say another big "Bah" to the Singapore police volunteers? Most of them speak fluent English but they don't behave like English speaking gentlemen. I suggest that they think over how small they are in the public eye. Just because
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    EXPLAINED
    190 12 CHRIS Jack Tay wants to know what "Orang Baba" means in Singapore. Well, Chris, although, I have lived here for the best M years of my pretty long life, I for one. have never heard such a term used by a Malay or a real Straits-born Chinese. "Baba" is
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    Two ways he can complain to G.P.O.
    158 12 Two ways he can complain to G.P.O. By JOSEPH YFn gINGAPORE'S confer O Posts. Mr. A S nZ* said yesterday that 'the Sea? ing of toilet rooms by \S" women at the General p£ gjgl wa arranged under oonHe was replying to a complaint by a Free Press reader "Inspector"
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    TRADE WILL PICK UP
    114 12  -  G. T. BOON By MALAYA'S trade with Indonesia will pick up within three months. Mr. R. H. Kartasasmita, chairman of the Federation of the Indonesian Rubber Manufacturers' Associations, said in Singapore. He explained that the present small volume of trade was due to Indonesia's "readjustment of
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    590 13 An 'Eccentric Writes... MONTY ON KING ON 'THE STINKERS' SOCIALISM Born to believe by Lord Pakenham "LIVENING in Downing- street. Mr. Attlee has Just offered the post of First Lord of the Admiralty to Lord Pakenham. But Lord Pakenham says, "I don't think I am the right person. I mean
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    Miller a doubtful first Test
    362 14 Craig left out O J of Aussie XI T?ROM Lands End to John O'Groats, cricket loving Britons gently put away their Wisdens last night, hung up their MCC blazers and went to bed with the fervent hope that England will belt the living daylights out
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    All Biacks to play in S'pore
    152 14 All Biacks to play in S'pore rpilE New Zealand Rugby Football Union has teplied to the Malayan Itugby Union accepting an invitation for the All Blacks to play an exihibition match in Singapore when they pass through on their way to Kugland in the coming season. The All Blacks are
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    FERRARIS TRIUMPH IN GRAND PRIX
    63 14 Alberto Ascari, Italy's world champion racing driver, led from start lo finish to win the Dutch Grand Prix in his Ferrari on Saturday. The official Ferrari team provided three of the first four finishes. Nine Farina of Italy was second and Mike Hawthorn of Britain
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    NORTH v. SOUTH TENNIS
    195 14 TIHE Ndrth South annual tennis match for the Guillemard Cup <men) and McCabe Reay Cup (women* will be played on the Lake Club courts Kuala Lumpur on Saturday and Sunday. Teams are: GUILLEMABD CUP North: Goon Kok Lem (Penang) Timothv Lee (Pk) N. Caleb (Pk), Doubles,
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    CABARET WALTZED PAST THE POST
    819 14  - CABARET WALTZED PAST THE POST ALLAN LEWIS From CABARET II completed a winning double for the Shaw stable Ward Spenser combination when he won Race 6, CI. 3, Div. 3— 6F str. at Ipoh yesterday, second day of the Perak Turf Club's J«ne meeting. Cabaret was handy to the leaders
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    64 14 BIG SW EEP TOTAL POOL: $197,778. FIRST: *****1 $54,333 SECOND: *****0 $27,166 THIRD: *****3 $13,5*3 STARTERS ($1,940 each): Nos: *****7, *****6, *****2, *****3, *****3, *****9, *****1. CONSOLATION ($l,OOO each) Nos: *****2, *****7, *****7, *****2, *****4, *****7, *****9, *****0, *****2, *****4. TREBLE TOTE There were four winning tickets on the $2
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    396 14 A Ktirrcr (fan's vie^ HE SAYS SAFI IS SELFISH' The writer of this letter, who is a Malay has an nrm* over the Singapore Amatuer Football Association* i 2ff* to bar Malay players chosen for the Malaya r Vn HS? squad from going on tour to Indonesia. His
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    The champ has lost his sting
    196 15  -  BRITISH BOXING CRITICS -SAY rm-RPLV not a blemish on Til coffee-coloured pro--1 eft town yesterday an fi w U happily homeward to s n a?d h Turp'in had lost the old sting. More than o"e talked of trouble m Jetting down to the middleweight
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    LORNIE MILE
    22 15 This years 'Lornie Mile" ■peed tria' will be held in Kuala Lumpur oi Sunday July 5 starting at 8 a.m.
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    Nath enters third round
    106 15 NARENDARA Nath (India) beat Russell Seymour (South Africa) 2-6 6-2 6-2 in the second round of the men's singles in the Kent lawn tennis championships yesterday. Nath's accurate backhand was the deciding factor. Seymour *ed 4-1 in the first set and Nath was right out or
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    Airways still Without point
    141 15 Airways still Without point MALAYAN Airways, who are at the bottom of the SBHFA Div. l league table, walked out of Geylang Stadium yesterday still pointless after being defeated ty two goals to nil against Chartered Bank. The pitch was heavy with earlier rain and the game was a scrappy
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    TURPIN AGREES TO FIGHT AMERICAN
    186 15 Aug. 25 named for New York bout RANDOLPH TURPIN, who won the British version of the world middleweight championship on Tuesday night, has decided to defend the title against either paddy Young or Carl Olson, who meet for the American title next week. New York
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    Germans do well at Isle of Man
    404 15 Germans do well at Isle of Man }j^ERGUS Anderson, who comes from Northern Ireland, won the international 250 c.c. lightweight event in the T.T. motor cycle meeting in Douglas, Isle of Man, yesterday, for the second year in succession. Riding an Italian Moto Guzzi machine, Anderson won by only 17
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    REGAINS TITLE
    41 15 Arthur King, of Toronto, re Canadian lightweight boataf title in Toronto hist nlghl by wini... dull 12-round decision o- er defending champion Armand Savoie. of Montreal. King, a 9-5 on favourite wel hed 134 paincU. Savoie 133- A. P.
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    CEYLONESE WINS
    29 15 D Srharenguivel of Ceylon beat G. Sp<: bl ot Britain. 6-2 C-2 in the thud round of the men's al th England lawn tennta in Bri-Moi yes'^'-day.
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    78 15 Bank SC. OBd di\i>ior. of the SHU J A ue as a result of their thrte-OM victory yesterday over IfaM fields. ma trh was played on the I'. I Results of other Sngapore Bu j Houses League matches played y»oL<iI day:— i>i\ ision TWO .tlUlo Xi
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    ROSALIND LOOKS A 'CERT' FOR SATURDAY
    556 16  - ROSALIND LOOKS A 'CERT' FOR S ATU RD A Y ALLAN LEWIS From Fast work at Ipoh today ROSALIND (Smith), who missed her engagement at at Ipoh yesterday, showed that there is nothing wrong with her by working on the outside jf /jffff Dolphin (Whitney) to reel off three in
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      NON-BENDERS v I.A.
      133 16 Non-Benders' Cricket Club team to meet Indian Association on Saturday at 2.15 p.m. on Balestier Plain is: T. J. Leijssius (capt.). J. T. Rea. JAP. Cameron. E.V.G. Day. N. Bradbury. V. C Westerhout, W.R.M. Haxworth, R. S. Tufnell. P. D' Almeida. R.V.S. Sundram, D B. Burton. Umpire:
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      SCORES
      119 16 At Lord's, Middlesex 300 for 9 declared (W Edrich 127); Leicestershire 9 for 2. At Brentwood, Essex 267 (Dodds 97 Hor.sfall 78, McMahon, left arm slowspin 5 for 65. Leader, rightarm fast medium 5 lor 86); Surrey 50 for l« At Oxford. Oxford University 268 (Birrell 90, Cowdrey 53,
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      DAKS GOLF RESULTS
      95 16 ANOTHER major British profe.ssional golf tournament opened vesterdav when the first qualifying round in the Daks £2.000 event was played on the West and East courses of the Wentworth Club, Surrey. Best scores were: West Course: Flory van Donck 69 Harry Bradshaw and J&hn Prlftebett each 71.
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    389 16 AIT E I G H T S for Saturday's Ipoh races are: CL. 4, DIV. I— 9F. Forget Me Not 900 Misty Una 8.11 Newmarket 8.09 Straits Code 8.08 Flame of the Forest 8.07 French Band 8.06 Captain Valiant B.OS Master Bruce 8.05 Salvador 8.0
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    168 16 British soccer tactics still the best-says Wright I^NGLAND'S soccer team flew M* home from their troubled Americtn tour yesterday and captain Billy Wright said he is still convinced British-style football is the world's best. Of England's 2-1 loss to world champions Uruguay, Wright said: "Although Uruguay certainly played fine football,
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