The Singapore Free Press, 16 June 1953

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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya ft SlPjapo" Tun- June 18. 1953, Price 15 Cls.
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    NO FAMILY PAY: RITSON REPORT
    790 1 Xesr 4*<>v4~ wage scales proposed FAMILY allowances, the cancellation of non-pensionable expatriate pay and the consolidation of most of the present allowances into basic pay are the main recommendations of the Ritson report on the Government's wajfe structure, tabled at this morning's meeting of the
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    EXPATS, TOO, WILL LOSE THE EXTRA
    18 1 EXPATS, TOO, WILL LOSE THE EXTRA Further extracts from his report are in Pii^e 16. SIR EDWARD RITSON
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    Independence, then French alliance, says King
    142 1 Independence, then French alliance, says King fE Cambodian Secretary of State. M. Sam Sary. said last night that his Government had decided to call on France to srant Cambodia "immediate and complete independence.' 1 Cambodia was willing to negotiate with France a treaty of aJiance and friendship, but only after
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    New wages as from yesterday
    65 1 New wages as from yesterday THE Colonial Secretary, Mr. VV. L. Blythe told the Singapore Legislative 1 Council this morning that the Government accepted the principles of the Ritson report. It was now preparing a new wages scheme. This would be brought into operation with effect from yesterday. The Deputy
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    MAN HELD IN TAXI CRIME
    56 1 The Hokkien sub-branch of the Singapore C.I.D. last night detained a Chinese In connection with the murder of a young Colony taxi-driver, Ng Bock Swee, on Saturday. The man will be brought before an identification parade today. The arrest was made a few hours after
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    RED DRIVE MAY BLOCK TRUCE
    123 1 T HE US Secretary of State, Mr. Foster Dulles, said in Korf a fu fton yesterday the Communist offensive in said drawi ral f e Very seriou s obstacles to a truce. He difficult* uce line was the onlv remaining major PlicateHtM new Communist drive
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    Rubber price
    29 1 Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on a quiet and uncertain tone with fir->t grade, June shipment, at 68 cents a pound, '4 ctnt below yesterday's close.
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    Under water lourney
    78 1 HKITIBII submarine reacheel Portsmouth yesterday after crossing the Atlantic underwater. An Admiralty spokesman said it was the first time thry knew of such a feat thouuh admitting some German I boats might have done it during World War 11. The submarine, II MS. Andrew. 1,620 tons, started
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    AND HOW THEY DRINK
    24 1 >cs **J fPend 300 billion S nnks or en^, u on alcoholic Md *****0 T" h to ,W0 ho^n<j uni
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    BIRTH
    18 2 NEBOUT: On the 11th June, in Batu Gajr-h. to Jacqueline, wife of Louis Nrbout. a son Alain.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    45 2 THIS is to announce the engapement on 14th June. 1953, of Boon Erm. Assistant Veterinary Officor. RIUAUg, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Seng Poh of Kuala Lumpur, (o Clarice Peng Yoke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loh Pak Seng of Kuala Lumpur.
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    DEATH
    28 2 MRS. S. MARINGA MARSHALL mother of Messrs. Alfred Marshall, P. B. Marshall and William Wilfred IfanhaU fxnired on 5.6.53 at her horn? Karumikazhicom, Mayyanad. Travan^ore deeply mourned.
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    INDIANS WIN 2-1
    20 2 Indian Brotherhood Soccerites beat Kampong Kapor Youngsters 2-1 in a ■occer friendly played yesterday at Farrer Fp.rk.
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    Asot races start today
    231 2 Asot races start today THE four-day Royal Ascot Race Me: ting— Britain s gayest show of the year— gets underway today. Queen Elizabeth 11, one of the country's most enthusiastic horsewomen, will attend. Three top-liners Landau. Choia Boy and Gay Time carry the Royal colours in key races during the
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    LEADING MELBOURUNE RIDER FOR VAN B.
    206 2 LEADING MELBOURUNE RIDER FOR VAN B. Expected in time for M. L. mh 4>€>t pARNET BOUGOURE, a leading Melbourne jockey, has accepted an offer from trainer, M. Van Breukelen, to ride in Malaya. Bougoure, who can ride at 7-12, has ridden successfully in India and England. He has been one
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    142 2 RANDOLPfI TUHIUN is now Buodlcweifht champion of the world. Ex-sailor Turpin defeated ex-miner Char]fs Humez on points over 15 rounds. In th« earlier rounds Tnrpin was bv far the more aggressive fighter, but Humez appeared to gain confidence and strength as the fight pro- s<. f Though Tin pin fr
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    HORSES AT HIGHLANDS
    116 2 rFHE following horses have conclud«d spell at Cameron Highlands and have reuirned to their respective trainers: Dendrite. Fersian Gem, Winning Rri-f. Peasant Girl. Ptrcuiston, alway Qreer, Mont Clare. Bunga, rrobye and Erlpkay. Accordiii" to rapt Rloxham the following horses were still spelling at ringlet on May l.
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    Little hope of further Test play
    38 2 Little hope of further Test play seemed little hope «f *-> the final da v today abanooned as a draw mttths England. 144 an d 42 for wicket, need 187 runs f*? Aust ra i ia who ™m Reuter
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    SOMDEZ WINS
    35 2 SIAM'S Somdez Yongtrak retained his Orient we t« wght box:ng title with t'*. e.sion over Japanese wetKrweight champion. Hachirc TntSXFI Ver 12 round w 10.000 fans last night at the Korakuen Btad<um. Tokyo
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    'BE GENEROUS S.A.F.A.'
    267 2 Sports letter 1 AGREE fully with Fed I p about S.A.F.A.'s selfishness ami breaking of their own rules. The anv.icsty was the latest. For some time after Awang B-ikar's suspension SAFA tried to get a centre-for-ward to replace him but in vain. Every player able to kick
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    Peark trin by an innings
    177 2 YVHTH the ticket taking .pin yesterday morning, Peiak bo w ler Appuni finished off PfthM MNd Innings for 91 runs, Pei.ik thus winning the two day inter y. cricket match in Raub by an innin and 34 runs. Pahanv were 73 for four overnight, but
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      305 2 CLASSIFIED ADS. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MR. AND MRS. JOHN KOH thank all relatives and friends who attended their wedding on 30.5.53 and for their valuable presents MRS. O. K. MENON, her sons and daughters. Mrs. K. Appu Nair and family beg to express their thanks to all their friends and relatives who
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    S'pore film censors may get power to classify films
    440 3  -  P. M. RAMAN Communal system is rejected Bv ncrnMMENDATIONS to abolish communal reRSenationonthe Films Appeal Committee /tn confer on the Board of Film Censors power i,«ifv pictures and censor advertisements in cwaoore have been made by a Legislative Council S of
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    Strike cost Govt. $28,500
    33 3 rE STRIKE of the uniformed postal staff rn May last year cost the Singapore Government $28,541. The Legislative Council today sanctioned the money to meet "this special emergency expenditure.'*
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    FISHERMEN PLEAD FOR NEW HOMES
    131 3 FISHERMEN PLEAD FOR NEW HOMES INCHE MOHD. Sidik bin Haji Abdul Hamid, president of the Singapore Malay Union, said yesterday that he would look into the plight of families livw? in Kampong Chang i whose notices to quit expired on May He will call a meeting this week to hear
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    Rosenbergs to seek habeas corpus writ
    151 3 E'v tl tatCS Su P reme Court yesterday refused to y «ie executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the American atom spies. The court also refused for the fourth time to review the trial of the condemned hu.sband and wife whose case has attracted
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    Christie trial on June 22
    51 3 KaUtTV I,'1 W UI appcar cK d the dSI U1 n °t be l h K e Central r? ou s No l co "rt, J^ many Old B ailev Tha^n trteS W murder^ rebuilt and l0 *Ue r on e 111 heard in a
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    Machines to cut red tape
    64 3 Machines to cut red tape THE Legislative Council this morning agreed to the purchase of mechanical equipment worth $68,162 to modernise the filing and registration systems, at the Singapore Secretariat. This expenditure was recommended by the Government's organisation consultants. The consultants had also recommended the modernisation of Fullerton Building with
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    A vote ends his wait for a boat
    95 3 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S master fisherman, who has been unable to go out to sea in search of new fishing grounds for the past many months for lack of a boat, will now get one. Of the $213,000 approved by the
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    5,000ft DEATH FALL
    34 3 French parachut'st, Roger Audouin. dropped to his death from an attitude of 5.000 feet in Mannheim. Germany, last night before a horrified crowd of 50.000 after his parachute failed to open.
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      111 3 Prestiae HOUOW eROUND rresuge CUUERY in the manufacture of the bl.ides only the htghest grade Sheffield Stainless Cutlery Steel is used which is thoroughly tempered to giv? exactly the right degree of resilience and firmness of the cutting edge H.gh-arc hollow grinding, by skilled craftsmen, then gives each blade heel-to-t.p
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, June 16, 1953 Opinion THE RUNAWAY
    441 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, June 16, 1953 Opinion THE RUNAWAY FOR a king to flee his capital to lead a popular, but pacific, revolt from a foreign state is something quite new. In the past revolts have generally been against the kings, and monarchs have usually had to be
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    C'wealth now Controls the Atomic Tap
    570 4  - C'wealth now Controls the Atomic Tap CHAPMAN PINCHEH GFHGHGH in achievement is recorded by And today a new sten T<HE wealth of the world and especially of the British Empire has been vastly increased overnight by a single scientific achievement. Scie n ti sts have found a way of getting
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    Suspicion?, Yes —Hatred?, No
    560 4 DR. MALAN'S plea for more caution in describing conditions in his country, made when he arrived in Britain for the Coronation, was fair. Part of South Africa's misfortune is that it is so temptingly easy to write about sensationally. Hatred and repression. Those two words will
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    BY THE WAY
    175 4  - BY THE WAY BEACHCOMBER m k PROPHECY that we J n soon be abl e to trawl j twice the speed of sound mM m e wonder if anything is be J done to speed up sound Mm The Central Statistical }M search Bureau has reckoi that more than 5,000,000
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    COUNCIL 'YES' TO $9,250,000 EXPENDITURE
    268 5 flew building, pay rises, new jobs Free Press Staff Reporter •*r»PORE Legislative Council today gave GovglNGAru^. 950,000 to carry out essential \Kol a"" to meet increased staff salaries public *°V\ S f sca j es an d creation of new posts. Ks?thiTmo?e thari "s2,3oo,ooo were
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    UMNO-MCA PREPARE FOR POLLS
    163 5 r£ MALAYAN Chinese Asso-ciation-United Malays Naional Organisation Alliance will Z organise a country-wide arch candidates to contest Federal elections. The AUiance. with a total membership of more than 350.000. is pressing for Federal elections by 1954. In a policy statement, the "Malayan Mirror," the M.C.A. newsletter,
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    Strong room for clues
    41 5 J str ong room is to be fnS? he mc e f the Singapore Chief Chemist for the fe custody of exhibits held for in connec"•2l with police investigations. tJy T 11 7 wa s approved by
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    £100M INDUSTRY FOR ISRAEL
    52 5 l^nt ea o r f" P i an f r the estab Md mninL a L arge chemical Chern NL lnd UStry in tne d b^fhl d r eSert Was an Mmister Mr i Isra S? 1 Fi »ance Mr. Levi Eshkol financeS 'bfj^ P la
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    Big cars can seat 3 in front
    73 5 rpHREE people, including the driver, can now travel in the front seat of a BIG car in Singapore. This has been decided by the City Council's Vehicles and Traffic committee, which had studied the problem since 1951. Mr V. K. Nair, chairman of
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    TERRORIST BOMB COSTS $1,418
    33 5 A Singapore police official i.s to get $1,418 to repair his car damaged by a hand-grenade thrown by terrorist. The money was approved by the Legislative Council this morning.
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    Law rushed for new doctors
    147 5 ICAL K^stration S WeS Ce p ft whic h empowers >in, d cl committee, which S^anshin n? 111 under the 6-i n of Mr W. C rfcc omm^S c^ Secretary, aea ll as urgent! In view of the impending graduation at the University of Malaya.
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    Govt. may pick Raffles school site in a month
    153 5 picture. THE site for a new Raffles Institution building may be chosen in about a month, a Singapore Government spokesman told the Free Press this morning. "Government is now consider- ing a number of sites," the spokesman said. He denied that
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    $50,000 more voted
    38 5 THE Legislative Council voted an additional $50,000 today to cover expenses of the Coronation celebrations in Singapore. A sum of $200,000 was approved earlier. The new vote had been recommended by the Coronation Celebrations Committee.
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    Must get schools' consent
    155 5 SCHOOLGIRL MISS SINGAPORE S— OCHOOLGIRLS of the right age CAN answer the quest for Miss Singapore" who will participate in the "Miss Universe 1954" contest in America. But they must get the consent of their principals and parents. The Director of Education, Mr. R. M. Young,
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    Husband, wife killed
    33 5 Communist Huk rebels raid* ed a town south of Manila yesterday, shot and killed the civil security officer and hU wife while they slept, and critically injured their three-year-old child.
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      138 6 MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Fa k and Phil Davs K^mfe> &s WANT TO MA^VOuf/r WOULD }tUf\&[ *J^ A j fr^ (tr ,nl<..,T',- U II 1\ II > r— -i THE SAINT b V Leslie Charteris \*&Ms3mr X V YES, MISS. THEM AMCIEMTHAWAHAMS S TIM SCWEP STIFF X JUST A
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      502 6 YOUR|| B OR N TODAY, J^l powers are f w T Si yourself forward \ii2* W ml ne to be Pushed T>| Ifarn to push yo ur jw **1 closer to your drSnT *1 lou seem to doyoirW E under pressure. Uifi to do a thin, .ta^ertl^i you are likely
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    Queen of Chicago Film festival
    85 7 Queen of Chicago Film festival picture. Officials of the Chicago Clark Film Festival of 1953 cast about the city recently for a queen. Their scouts did a pod job and reeled in K ATH E BENDER who is slated to reijn over the June 14-28 pre sentation of 30 great
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    Blood trail in lonely house
    197 7 THIRTY minutes after seeing a man at work in his garden a neighbour found him lying badly battered and apparently dead in the kitchen of his house, said a police superintendent at Grays, Essex. He added that the man's wife was discovered on her bed
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    NAVY ADDS A NEW NOUN
    85 7 NAVY ADDS A NEW NOUN ryUE Royal Navy have added a new noun to the English language. All large destroyers of the Daring class are to be known in future not as destroyers but as darings. In the same way, the first large iron-clad, HMS Dreadnought, gave her name to
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    UP AND DOWN IN BALLOON
    69 7 TV youn* balloonist* K ot c e a wind to tooVrnft!! 1 fr m Hythe Kent. t But. a?t ep i h f South Coast. he;pers grabbed the wicker gondof.a. The baKoonUts Derek Cun-ningham-Blank, t 28-year-old Ne w ZeaJander. and two Oer mans Hui^o Elmermacner
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    WOMAN TELLS OF THREATS BY HER EX-HUSBAND
    433 7 WOMAN TELLS OF THREATS BY HER EX-HUSBAND 'Any man you marry would be dead in 24 hours A 35-YEAR-OLD divorced shipowner, accused of trying to persuade a detective to murder his ex-wife's new husband, was committed for trial to the Old Bailey. He was refused bail by Sir Laurence Dunn,
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      92 7 SAM I NOW— a new Air Link between SINGAPORE and Now a new, shorter, direct route saves <\f~ \j\ you days on your flight to Soi/th Africa. gg|Bf From Sin S a P° re y° U fly Jakarta, s|NGApQRE mlowf l YEitftflL Johannesburg. 21 hours on the beautiful flj if
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    'PING PONG' LGIRLS IN ACTION
    56 8 'PING PONG' L GIRLS IN ACTION QNE of the bright young hopes in the forthcoming Singapore Womens' Table Tennis championships is Miss Wu Pey Shyan (Chung Hwa (S.A.). Here she is (right) demonstrating her forceful forehand drive. Left Miss Wee Siew Luan (Y.W.C.A.), also practising for the championships, smilingly shews
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    S'PORE TABLE TENNIS BELLES
    157 8 A. m smash€*r m from 4 hmsfji A rising star from the R.A.F. Changi who will be a leading contender for the juniors' championship is Miss L. P. Ryan (right) seen completing a powerful smash. Record entries have been received for the Singapore table tennis championships.
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    INSPECTOR M VOON SHOWS H
    61 9 INSPECTOR Mary Voon (Y.W.C.A. a keen player, has turned her attention to table t fast developing into a good player. She is sound backhand and the forehand. On the left she to do a backhand recovery shot and right, a back hand drive. Miss Voon
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    HE FOUND PASSIONATE LETTERS IN WIFE'S BED
    628 10 DIKING the first year of her marriage a wife deceived her husband by keeping in touch with a man in whose divorce she had been cited, said Mr. Justice Pearce in the Divorce Court. When the husband stopped then letters, he added, she
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    66 10 photo. SHAPEIA CHIC JAMES will be hearing many a lad shout unnecessarily for help in the pool at Palisades Park this summer, but she says she won't stand for any nonsense from the "wolves" just because she's a lifeguard. The first woman to b? assigned as a guard over th
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    SMALL ONE'S REAL
    66 10 photo. Mi IK I V BUL'fi AN AN (on ladder), shapely blonde Queen of the Home Show, takes hold of some dress material to demonstrate that although the bi; girl (left isn't real the sown is. Shirley s friend is one of the saucy 20-foot can-can girls
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    Paulette fights for £143,000
    182 10 WHY I WANT MY DIVORCE CANCELLED A FIGHT for £143,000 is behind the startling hint by Paulette Goddard (who was Charlie Chaplin's third wife) that her Mexican divorce from her third husband, actor Burgess Meredith, may not be worth a Mexican penny. Miss Goddard, who started
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    HE ENJOYS HIMSELF WARILY NOW
    110 10 HE ENJOYS HIMSELF WARILY NOW LM)R his first holiday in 22 years, Mr. Stewart Bailey came all the way to Europe from Australia. And as he stepped carefully from his plane at London Airport he said: "I wonder what's going to happen now." For so far, in the first three
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    UNION LEADER FREED
    19 10 me supreme Court in Wa*hn^ton freed West Coa.st Union eader Harry Bridget from preUafckd states dUseiuhip
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    Two smart girls end up £275 in the red
    132 10 Two smart girls end up £275 in the red I INTO the ranks of u^, ■€300; takings, £25 But afterwards Miss r. sat with her friend am onS music stands on the dS of Kingsway Hall and •This Is not the end ofu/t will put on more concert^ soon as
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    TAKE YOUR GIRL TO A CIRCUS
    358 11  - TAKE YOUR GIRL T O A CIRCUS DOROTHY ROE Before you marry her -by NEW YORK. YOU'RE thinking drcus before you pop the gvar-a •SS r who was born Patrick Fitzgerald, is general director of Ring ling Rros-Barmim and Bailey and as such has learned u i much about human
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    Bridge Hand
    235 11 North-South vulnerable South dealer (Cover the West and South haadi) a well-known player takes part in a tournament where kibitzers are permitted to wtch. he is likely to have a Wg "gallery". Theoretically, this may be an adv »atage to the star player, who is accustomed to performing
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    Yachts race on land
    181 11 sible for most of the things that go on under the big top. He works closely with John Ringling North, the designers and dance directors in plotting the course of "The Greatest Show on Earth." Valdo claims that there are only four or rive basic jokes
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    BUCKLEY
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    'Flip your lights to avoid accidents'
    282 11 'Flip your lights to avoid accidents' CHATTANOOGA. A TRAVELLING sales- man who has not dented a fender in 20 years has his own highway recipe for avoiding accidents "Flip on your lights in the daytime." C. Pinky Lay ton explains: "The primary cause of accidents is not speed or carelessness.
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      242 11 am I Today's Crossword ACROSS Note lair ta the tMI I. A«ll 1. How an angry lather talks to Mte another name g b BulWor recalntrant children (5. I, 4. I). 7, Mmm ss r y S( I^ (H J Becomes very involved with s ,k«i-p 'ellar' 12, Width Of
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    The Pressman's Postbag
    18 12 The Pressman's Postbag MISS YVONNE PETERSON taking part in the Malay holiday show at the Happy World, Singapore.
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    IN THE RING
    103 12 AS Mr. M. P. D. Nair is a member of the S.I.T. committee he could take any repair needed to Trust flats straight to the Trust and have it dealt with. It would not be a Himalayan task for him. Then why all this crowing about his
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    WHITHER DOPE?
    46 12 WE read that opium has been intercepted by the Customs who are doing a fine job. I wonder what happens to the opium confiscated. Surely If it is not locally consumed it must be re-exported? Where? W. NEO. Singapore. A drug on the market
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    CONGRATS
    149 12 AT the time I wrote my former letter the part played by j India and the Sherpa, Tensing Bhutia, in the conquest of Everest had not been revealed. Now may I extend my congratulations to the proud Indians of Singapore. But allow me to ask you a simple question:
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    ICHABOD
    56 12 PROFESSIONAL boxing in Singapore is heading for the rocks. Are we going to sit back and watch it die an unnatural death? After Yolande Pompee, what next? Come on, promoters, do something! Where are our local boxing champs of yesteryear, men like Neil Hemchit, Young Gauder, David Dharmaraj, and
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    Making up for the show
    20 12 fcome of tht performers making u~ for the Malay cntertainfueal ai the Happy World, Siti£upore~
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    Children got sunstroke at parade
    170 12 Children got sunstroke at parade MY SON has suffered severe sunstroke from being with his school on the Coronation march without a drink, or a rest, for nearly two hours. This possibility must have bren overlooked among all the complicated arrangements necessary for honouring the Queen. My Malay amah has
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    STUDY IT
    224 12 SAYS "Malayan": "We In Malaya do not wish to have communal disharmony and its attendant horrors. Letters such as Mr. Neo's tend to foster racial conflict. An editor of a newspaper should know better than to encourage racial disharmony." Now I hold no brief for Mr. Neo or
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    SELF-SEEKERS
    104 12 SOMETHING is wrong with the system of according official honours in this Colony. Since the Liberation many of us have noticed that people who hitherto were far from being public-spirited have poshed themselves forward in public life, and have as quickly got oificial recognition. It does not give spiritual
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    For UN Military Staff
    57 12 pnoio. Lt.-Gen. Ho S*»i-lai, and his w ife. photograpbed in Hong Kong with his father. Sir Robert Ho 1 1.115. Gen. Ho has left Formes? to take up his new post as Chinese member of the U.N. Military Staff Committee The Nationalist General was formerly on
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    CAN'T BE SCOUTSSOME ARE GIRLS
    282 12 AN article appeared in your paper, "Scouts object to use of name by Habonim." This attitude of the scouts is most disconcerting. It must be pointed out, firstly, that we have never called ourselves •Jewish Boy Scouts". At the Coronation parade we were called Jewish
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    Any grouse?
    17 12 HAVE you a grouse? Bi* you a bright idea? Hare you seen anything B"*n|e briefly.
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    Our Doctor Meets a Chinese Herbalist
    766 13 the— SINGAPORE DOCTOR nURING one of the Coro D nation holidays at Phanei beach, I met a nese herbalist. Our acquaintance began when mv little son and his son bTgan to play together in He h fs T middle-aged man like myself. After both
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    DENTAL DRILL ON WAY OUT?
    198 13 £i* Ka J* is planning SStat h? pr< i pare toumj L.!?., I I !P <<silent dent ai dmT nstead of a "5? wi P tif Ur inary e *Pe*Proved Droofirt^ dogs have offic 4 S ngl nafal dent al They frlnv!" an interview, that
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    The ladies study form
    32 13 ph oto. Dressed in (heir fiiurv. three Ttirly ladies study form for (he Derby Stakes at bun, All three are members of th»» Pearl? Family of Hampstead.- U.P.
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    New show of photographs
    195 13 New show of photographs NEW YORK. A COLLECTION of over 300 postwar European photographs by 78 photographers from 11 countries is on exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art until Aug. 2. Edward Steichen, the museum's director of photography, selected the work, including portraits and documentary, abstract and surrealist compositions,
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    DISEASE GAVE WOMEN FACE POWDER
    333 13  -  Garven Hudgins by NEW YORK. LfISTORY was shaped more by disease than by emperors, kings or statesmen. Disease has won wars, toppled empires and caused women to use white face powder. That's the word from Dr. Rene Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research.
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    Tennis season starts with crop of injuries
    283 14 Queen s Club tourney hit LONDON'S tennis season got a stumbling start yesterday at the Queen's Club with plenty of rain and injured players. Only 12 matches in the Queen's Club "championships of London on grass' 1 were sandwiched between the downpours. Few
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    SERVICES LEAGUE TABLES
    266 14 "pOYAL Army Service Corps are comfortably placed below league leaders Royal Air Force Seletar Corinthians in the first division of the Services soccer league. They have five games in hand and are only one point less than the airmen. Royal Army Pay Corps, leadling the second division,
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    CHAMANT WINS FRENCH DERBY
    88 14 TLf. H. LETELLIERS CHAMANT 11 won the rich Prix d« Jockey Club the French Derby which brought together France's best three-year-olds. The classic event over a 2,400--metre course carried a prize of 1 1 000 .000 francs. Serlphos. owned by G. Chancellor came in second and
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    39 14 GHQ FARELF ANNUAL ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS: Sergeant Instructor Lett receives the cup for the 100 yards sprint from Lady Keightley at Tanglin on Saturday. S I Lett took three firsts at the meeting, including the Long Jump ami Pole Vault.
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    Before the big race Gordon meets the Queen
    51 14 Before the big race Gordon meets the Queen Sir Gordon Richards achieved his life-long ambition by winning his first Derby on l*m/.i He beat the Queen's horse Aureole by four lengths. Just before the start of the Coronation Year Derby, the Queen chats with Sir Gordon with the Duke of
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    TOMMY FARR THE JOURNALIST
    177 14 »pOMMY Farr has retired from the ring— lrrevocably. Perhaps the best of all British heavywelKhts with the exception of Bob Fitzslmmons. Parr ha* been handicapped the entire coutm of hit comeback these past two year* with a cut eye. The injury was aggravated In hU final
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    DROBNY & ROSEWALL ARE FAVOURITES
    319 14 DROBNY ROSEWALL ARE FAVOURITES HPHE men's singles event in the Coronation Wimbledon A lawn tennis championships next week appears to be the most open of the postwar series. Six of the 12 players who were seeded last year are missing from the entries, and there *is every prospect of a
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    THE ROWS THAI CO ON OUTSIDE A FIGHT RING
    404 14 THE ROWS THAI CO ON OUTSIDE A FIGHT RING SOME people believe that boxing promote* in* goodwill, but if we follow* the advici^T^l managers in recent major bouts, we will I matches boforp a war starts. °P the .Philippines aner^J decision -to world flfel champ YoshioShiraiin^l "I'm sure Tanny Wm
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    JURONG NET 7
    30 14 Royal Air Force Jurong :J** seven-three wta at Farm yesterday when they mm Motors SC. in a friendly match. r2) weintwtf Erring (3), WW.J'L airW ff Ford.
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      43 14 Today's fies rpiUS evening's Singapore A United Services Association Football league fixtures are: DIVISION ONE: RNAS v. RAF Changi; HMS Terror v. RAF Tengah; RAF Seletar Athenians v. Royal Engineers. DIVISION TWO: RAF Changi v. RAPC; RAF Selelar Spartans v. Flying Boat Wing.
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    LAST-MIN. PENALTY SAVES SUPERIOR R.E.M.E.
    303 15 LAST-MI N. PENALTY SAVES SUPERIOR R.E.M.E. R EM.E 2, Fathul Karib 2. ROWING a distinct superiority in both attack and defence, the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers were unlucky not to have won their Singapore Amateur F.A. senior league tie against Fathul Karib uib at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The
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    SHE WINS 3 TITLES
    136 15 \IOST promising of this year's crop of youthful players who competed in the Pcnang Badminton Junior Championships which concluded on Sunday was undoubtedly Miss Soo-hai, Lai Siang, 20-year-old daughter of veteran player Soo Hoo Poh. Lai Shiansr won three titles— the women's singles, doubles and mixed
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    SELANGOR WIN
    34 15 Selar.Ror beat Penang by four wickets with three minutes to ■pare in their cricket match in Penong yesterday. IN-nang: 228 and 140 for nine de clartd BdUVtr: 121 and 249 for six.
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    WIN HALTS OXFORD VICTORY RUN
    231 15 fi!s V r^ well cricket match it S<* Of M %J* c urn? i p r s match?? anu other first 54?n l L t no u Fr <-t rtemcti in lot seven <B;irton not out 65 rain I Oppcd play for the <iny. M
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    RstsGn: Pay should depend on value of services
    3104 16 RstsGn: Pay should depend on value of services pXTACTS from the Ritson report follow: ANer discussing the different bi on which the Housing, cost ot Living and Si igapora allowance! have been granted. Sir Edward Ritson s:tys: Looicea at as a whole the system of allow, .i nc serins to
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