The Singapore Free Press, 20 June 1953

Microfilm: NL3676
Total Pages: 24
1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    Masthead
    25 1 The Singapore Free Press Lan?e <t Afternoon Sale in Malaya 17 w_,t I une 20. 1953, Price 15 Cts >o. 13T36. Singapore Sat., June m
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    TWO TEAMS RACE PAY PLAN
    477 1 tutsan raw in Empress Place as Hv SIT YIN FONG A ROW in Empress Place ha.- been followed by an unoffiml race between two teams to produce the first blue print of new Government pay structure as recommended b> Sir Edward The row occurred wnen
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    ATOM SPIES DIE
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    Wouldn't confess to the last
    573 1 Wouldn't confess to the last JULIUS and Ethel Rosenberg, the atom spies, died last night in the electric chair of Sing Sing prison, New York. The first to die was Julius Rosenberg. He was pronounced dead at 7 nr, p.m. (Singapore time: 7.3b a.m. today). Neither the husband nor the
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    MALAYA CUP FIASCO
    211 1  -  NG YOOK YOON From MR. Kwok Ah Keng, Hon. secretary of the Football Association of Malaya, told the Free Pres.s in Kuala Lumpur this morning that a meeting of the F.A.M. Council will be called to consider the situation which has arisen as a result of Penan}'
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    And audience walked out
    89 1 MISS Chan Hoong. the Singapore version of Empress Yang Kwei Fei, China's most famous beauty, had to pull ott her flesh-coloured nylon ntt\:c and don some thicker dresa in a hurry to go on the Evening Cafe stage at the Great World on Thursday night. The
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    IKE TELLS RHEE TO OBEY AND SIGN
    137 1 IKE TELLS RHEE TO OBEY AND SIGN PRESIDENT EISENHOWER has demanded that the South Korean President Syngman Rhee g4ve written guarantees that R.O.K. forces will obey the terms of the armistice when it "is signed. The U.S. President is holding Mr. Rhee personally responsible for the release of the supposed
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    Flames of wrath in Berlin
    71 2 F lames of wrath in Berlin WEST Berlin crowds watch a Communist propaganda booth go up in flames on the Eastern side of the sector border in the recent riots. iiii i..,_ w«.^ when building workers led a march to the Soviet Zone Headquarters protesting against an order for ten
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    Auriol hits out at the politicians
    165 2 Auriol hits out at the politicians PRESIDENT Vincent Auriol yesterdav strongCy warned French political leaders that their faiQure to agree o n a new premier is discrediting the nation. He ordered 11 former premiers, and defeated candidates for the job. to sit down and draft a programme on which majority
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    'STOP EXECUTIONS' PLEA TO RUSSIANS
    219 2 'STOP EXECUTIONS' PLEA TO RUSSIANS THE three Western Allied Commandants of Berlin yesterday appealed to the Russians not to carry out any further death sentences on Berliners who took part in Wednesday's anti-Communist revolt. An Allied spokesman said they made this appeal in a letter delivered personally at Soviet headquarters
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    500 attack Red H.Q.
    40 2 ANGRY WEST GERMANS yesterday stormed Communist Party headquarters in West Berlin in an attempt to set fire to the building. West Berlin police who restrained the anti-Red demonstrations said 500 persons attacked the Communist party offices.
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    COMET SLIGHTY DAMAGED
    51 2 A Royal Canadian Air Force Comet jet liner was slightly damaged when it missed the runway at Torbay airport, Newfoundland yesterday. The Comet missed the runway by 30 feet yesterday and bounced into the air before coming to rest on the tarmac. Flying stones slightly damaged the
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    The. crowds shower flowers on Neguib
    184 2 The. crowds shower flowers on Neguib (J H E E R I n o thousand. showered flowers. President Mo ham' 0 Neguib and members ol h, cabinet yesterday drove through Cairol celebrate the proclamation of a republic at the SSS Mosque. /Hie car on the five-mile joumev to the mosque
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    400 fishermen lost in gales
    72 2 1 Y 4uu nsnermen, tne crews of 64 fisWng boats, yesterday were reported missing in violent storms off the coast of Southern India. Their boats, believed to have been blown out to sea by a gale and monsoons sweeping the area, are now two days
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    RAIN HALTS PLANES, TRAINS
    45 2 Torrential rain— at times downpours of an inch an hourhalted plane and train service in western India yesterday. West coast trains between Bombay and New Delhi did not make scheduled runs, and several planes due hMIJ" held up at Karachi, Pakistan.
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    A CRICKETER DIES
    59 2 Mr. William Findiay. i««"« secretary and £12 Marylebone Cricket Club died a his home in the Tenterden. Kent yesterday. He would have been 73 on Monday. ri d A cricketer of ability Mr. Find lay captained Eton from 1W and led Oxford univwerMty m 1903. He also
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    BLAST KILLS TWO
    17 2 A mysterious explosion in military factory about U from Belgrade, killed two pe sons.
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    Yugoslavia reaffirms friendship
    106 2 Yugoslavia reaffirms friendship rFiHE Yugoslav Ambassador in London. Mr. Vladimir Vele^ bit. reaffirmed to Britain yesterday that his country's agreement to resume the exchange of ambassadors with Russia would not affect her friendship with the West. The Ambassador made the Statement, when he called on Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of
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    Voters' apathy—let's have compulsory registration'
    380 3 Voters' apathy— let's have compulsory registration' qF FAILURE of voluntary enrolment of voters in Singapore mav lead to a move by some politicians to have compulsory registration introduced in of compulsory registration said yes- rHnv that the present system could no longer hold nublic interest and must be supplanted P
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    THE WINNER
    63 3 MNmi CHIA, singing the ballad "Faith Can Move Mountains," won the fifth "heat of the Singapore amateur talent quest from nine other competitors at the Great World cabaret this week. Three more heats will be held before the finals on July 28. The wrnner at the finals will'
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    STRANGE BUT TRUE
    21 3 An escaped lioness ate sandwiches at a lunch-bar In Houston. Texas, tf] a frantic n:ghtclub performer claimed it
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    'Zebra' walkers anger drivers
    317 3 'Zebra' walkers anger drivers \JOTORISTS who drive along Singapore's Ullyer Quay are mad at the way pedestrians take their own "sweet time" on wbra crossings. tn T !L e y say: Tnese P e °P le see m w> think that because they are n zebra crossings they can take
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    Everest heroes in triumph pageant
    121 3 Everest heroes in triumph pageant THE MAIN party of the British expedition, which conquered Everest will today make a triumphal entry into Katmandu, capital of the mountain kingdom of Nepal. The expedition's leader, Colonel John Hunt, and four other members of the team have already reached Katmandu. Today the New
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    City acts to stop houses falling
    239 3  -  G. T. BOON By TWC buildings adjoining the new Seventh Storey Hotel in Rochore Road, Singapore, are now supported by strong timber i .-Iters to prevent them from collapsing after cracks had appeared on the walls. The hotel has sunk seven Inches on its
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      Opinion THE PEACEBREAKER
      454 4 PEKING has lost no time making the utmost propaganda capital out of Syngman Rhee's re- lease of anti-Communist North Korean prisoners of war. 4 The theme Is the old one pounded out on the conierence .table of Panmunjom— that the U_S. is insincere In its expressed desire
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    Eisenhower: It's Time to Say 'No' now
    1125 4  - Eisenhower: It's Time to Say 'No' now J. WILSON BROADBENT THE PRESIDENT IS COMING TO GRIPS WITH HIS JOB AT LAST. HE IS LEAfIMIMC THAT MORE THAN JOLLY LAUGHS AND GOOD SPEECHES ARE NEEDED TO DEAL WITH SUPPORTERS AS EMBARRASSING AS SYNGMAN RHEE, SENATOR TAFT AND SENATOR McCarthy By A
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    JAPS CLOSE TO TOP OF HIMALAYAN PEAK
    67 5 The 15 man Japanese expedition attempting to cilimb the i J S q uered Himalayan Peak. M feet, in Nepal, reported "J a message received lm Khat"^ndu yesterday that they have reached 25,000 feet. leSr 6 "l essage came with £mSL td re
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    OUAKES IN TURKEY
    35 5 •MiSuS 8 on Wednesday He l e Bulgarian borZimmi X g th d 1 ear,y ever 5 entir. he c ty and drov e streets populati <>n into the have been re-
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    U.S. FOREIGN AID
    25 5 yesterday f Represent atives for 4n aVhm'o a $4,998,730,500 tary and econ m! ltl t orisin mili abroad economic h^P to allies
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    EIGHT MORE CINEMAS TO GO UP IN SINGAPORE
    226 5  -  JOSEPH YEO Lifting of ban spurs building FASFSDA PIfHT new cinemas, costing several million w hilars are beW planned for Singapore. This follows the lifting of the two-year-old ban on "luxury" building on Monday. Mr Run Run Shaw, director of Shaw Brothers,
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    CG. AT SKYSCRAPER CEREMONY
    23 5 MR. MALCOLM MaeDONALD, the Commissioner General, laying the foundation stone of the Asia Insurance building at Finlayson, tireen yesterday.
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    King George V PARK to get a bandstand
    102 5 King George V PARK to get a bandstand KING GEORGE V Park in Clemenceau Avenue, Singapore, is to have a new bandstand It will probably be built opposite to the $470,000 Van Kleef Aquarium now trader construction. This is part of a scheme to deTdope and beautify the central area
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    CORONATION BALL
    43 5 The Royal Air Force Tengah No. 1 sergeants' Mess Coronation Ball will be held tonight at Tengah frm 8 p.m. to 1.30 a.m The Station band will be in attendance. Masters of ceremony are Sgt. W. Payne and Sgt. T. Wilson.
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    ANNUAL SOCIAL
    78 5 The Workers' Education Association, Singapore, will hold their annual social and dance on July 4 at the Victoria Memorial Hall. PETER Wilson is learning water-skiing from Ashley Cooper off Singapore's east ooast. He takes his lessons every week-end. And when he skiis he dons an "L" plate. "If
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    THEY NEED CASH FOR ADULT CLASSES
    146 5 V***UM hlanders haye for AdukEdn. fl^Pore Council aid to run atlon for financial !W5 bv thiT ee night cla sses -^S&E!^ formed th coS* ation •> affiliated to C a°re n nL ar l d affllitated we now teaching nearly 7,500 men and women
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    Survey team finds huts with no addresses
    183 5 Survey team finds huts with no addresses ANE of the main difficulties facing a University of Malaya team in its survey of attap dwellers on the fringes of the city, is the numbering of the huts. Some of the huts are without many others are not in "logical addresses. The
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    52 CASES OF BANKRUPTCY THIS YEAR
    124 5 SINGAPORE'S Official Assignee, Mi;. W. G. Alcock, told the Free Press yesterday that there had been 52 bankruptcy cases since the beginning of the year. Mr. Alcock, however, said that the total amount of assets and liabilities involved during this period were not on
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      188 6 MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis Wjf /^^M^l; Ife R iuYwli^ I HIM TOWARD THE POOL/ TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs —7 />- 1 fpiNALLV TAKZAN CALL£P I|A TEePIPIC PIN ENDUED, ANP TANTtffc, HAJ?TO. j V JWz&^i roz*iorcrmeE.H\e flep p^om hk3^ace jphw wAr^r^rrH^ /iy^ <»** v THE
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      313 6 VOUR LUCKY I st ar! B° RN TODAY I those wh. I 7 busines:^ ,0^ to m ake m 0 ney 2? WjS yourself! Yonr 7* 1 2J* You have the ca^l_> 7? up your pu n "P ttiLZ decisively. PUns e *e*ur£ Y °o are nnt m r lagging
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    'SINCE MET YOU, POEM DENIED BY EX-GIRL GUIDE CAPTAIN
    448 7 'But man next door gave me a ring' A FORMER Girl Guide captain, Mrs. Lilian Maud Batt, A denied that she sent a poem entitled "Since I met you" to a neighbour's husband. It was true though, she went on, that
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    COMMUNIST WAY TO PROPSE MARRIAGE
    166 7 COMMUNIST WAY TO PROPSE MARRIAGE ou t the sbh tr angles. at SSSh'p and marrlase "!l_fSS Tdown by the underrtiles law e communB -d Presented b,ference of free iraue Washington, ban tne use S the words. "You are beau?ifur and "I love you' in proposing marriage. vm rules say that
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    The rationed nightingale
    55 7 London Berkeley Square's nightingale ij singing for four hours every evening imstead of the scheduled- six. A "very well-known woman" resident of the square, said the chirruping kept her awake. Mr. Charles Watson, who instated Jje bird -song recording, said: I didn't want a n y arguments
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    RUSSIAN FILMS FOR BRITAIN
    126 7 H|R. KENNETH RIVE, who went to Moscow to negotiate toJl/ff. of British and Russian films, has 2BS?^^-^t* ?=_^E_f---*-Ur P Ln in com Pany their enannual output of 200 films choos P from appmS 1 Send them also on So Mm a l man y of Britain's
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    'Gross financial fraud' by London doctor
    166 7 A DOCTOR was said to have i perpetrated a "gross financial! fraud'' on tho London exe- uttve council ol the NationaJ Health Service And, said a Health Service Tribunal report on its inquiry into the complant of the council, the doctor's name must not
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    Senorita, 4' goes to the fair
    41 7 Senorita, 4' goes to the fair picture. This sophisticated child in th e pretty costume is General Franco's granddaughter, Marl a del Carmen Bordiu, aged four. With her mother, the M archioness of Villaverde, she is going to Seville Fair U.P.
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    Maniac killer may be near Thames
    173 7 T ONDON police believe now that the Teddin jton. Lock killer may live within a mile of the towpath where he struck down his two girl victims. After the attack— both girls were savagely stabbed and criminally assaulted —his clothes must have been badly
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    TWO GOODS WAGONS VANISH
    79 7 SOMEWHERE between Battersea and Edinburgh stand two railway goods wagons loaded with £1.849 worth of street cleaning equipment. No ame knows exactly where. The goods should have been on show at a n Edinburgh export exhibition. Jhe v had been on their way there for 12
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    Happy Hfeirije at Tanglin
    458 8 "^HE Children's Aid Society's Horn :*£<- ame sounds as though tL home might be a stuffy p! aC e Tuninstitutional lines by a starchy tvnp* matron. y ype It is not. It is a lovely, old private home in spacious grounds in Tomlinson Road Tan glin.
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    Smiling Faces to Greet You
    48 8 ASDASDFASFASDF Above: A happy smile for the Free Press photographer from the|matron and her charges who mett h:m-on-ih_* stairs cf the Home. Below: 'Rock a bye baby. .V^warWe little Doreen Mort.mer, aged four, and Yam Harms, aged six as they push a cradle.
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    THE RACE
    35 9 L jingle bells ung around «he piano LEFT: They're racing. A fine start: motor cars, tricycles, bicycles, a horse and a toy go-car get away from the gate in the Tomlinson Road Stakes.
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    ON THE COURT
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    A STORY
    19 9 ASOVE: The youngsters en'oy a bedtime story around matron's knee in the bi g comfortable lounge room.
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    MODELLING
    14 9 RIGHT: the younger children model plasticine during morning kindergarten on the Home's verandah.
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    FIGHT IN THE DARK TILL 2 MEN DROPPED
    433 10 FIGHT IN THE DARK TILL 2 MEN DROPPED A FIGHT at midnight between Det. Insp. Ivor Godden, head of the Special Branch of Bristol Police, and a man he tried to arrest went on until both Were in a state of complete collapse, said Mr. T. Parr, prosecuting in a
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    Grace
    13 10 GRACEFUL beauty is dis- played by Leslie Caron, M. G. M. star.
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    £400,000 bid for palace baffles town
    229 10 rIS was the Mf question at Brighton one recent night: Is a group af American business men trying ta buy a royal palace or is a telephone hoaxer at work? Officials of the corporation are trying to solve the riddle following three mysterious telephone
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    AIR ACE DIES
    50 10 Rene Fonck, World War I French air ace, died on Thursday at his home in Paris. He was 59 years old. He was credited with 75 air victories during World War I. In one of his greatest exploits, he knocked down six German planes in one hour.
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    A schooboy ran Ins own insurance
    206 10 A schooboy ran Ins own insurance POR a premium of id. a week I 4 h ve b en insuring them^lv* °°S kept in after school But 3^ they learned recently. *m The insurar.ce scheme was thn„___u operated by a fifth-former at S^ «K Newton School. Leicester. The insurance scheme
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    TEACHM IS GAOLED FOR FIVE YEARS
    88 10 TEACH M IS GAOLED FOR FIVE YEARS DESCRIBING a case as one of the most appalling ever to come before him, Mr. Justice Havers at Norfolk Assizes at Norwich sentenced a former housemaster of a private school to five years' imprisonment. He told the man, Herbert Vernhajn Cartwright, aged 38:
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    UNKNOWN
    85 10 V OUKg 1 con*!. M« new ti th tm a* be_r, sent out ti book mot* ristsforuy trivial fence «_|g to Wt prat. **ce io coot Pfo4ednit, says a Tory MJ. I n the Com mm Mr. Williu Shepherd C h eadie, Cheshire, wiU uk the Hone Secretary whether
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    Daughter, 11, was robbers look-out
    204 10 lyilKN a father embarked on a series of robberies he took his U-vear-old da us liter alone: to help him. The child, who appeared at West London Juvenile Court as being in need of care and protection, was placed under the supervision of the L.C.C.
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    OIL QUEEN DEAD
    42 10 Mrs. Sheppard W. Klnf.lL grandmother of Sheppard (Abdullah) King, has «ed mM Dallas Home. Abdullah brought his Wt ian bride, dancer Samia W; rnal. to his grandmother s m and they lived there a few tea after their marriage.
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    Mrs. Hunt was Playing Football
    510 11  -  Colin Lawson by rt/HEN the news of the Weighty Everest succe ss hit the rest of the world. Joy Hunt, soon now Jbe Lady Hunt, already ew And while Britain, J Coronation Day, found to celebrate Everest, joy Hunt was captain of I football team
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    Bridge Hand
    195 11 Both sides vulnerable North dealer f THE COURSE of fully reporting Swedm .n°5 1 Champion ma!ch wit h cent a™*,? reportins event reent American tournaments. dia^it 80 *****1157 hjl PPens Imme- the L5! t," 1 im P° rta nt victory. the J? 1 1 to et Whipped in
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    MENTAL DISEASE BY RELIGION
    237 11 LOS ANGELES. IF YOU HAVE a mental disease or are going to get one, the odds are that your religion will indicate the nature of the ailment. A massive study reported to the American Psychiatric Association shows that psychoneuroses are the principal ailments of Jews; that
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      187 11 You will bo interested to know that -DESTRINE" THE CHEMICAL USED FOR 9 CHEMICAL CLOSET (THE UNIQUE MODERN SYSTEM) U recommended bv Dr. Carr, Ph.D., B.Sc. M.R.SAN.I., A.M.I.MECHS., the toorid-renowned authority on Chemical Sanitation. His report is as joUows: "The Paradlchlorbenslne during and after doing Its work dissipates. The sine
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      265 11 Today s Crossword HB 111 _______________H II II HB(^ mm ll A<:ROSS.— 1, Wx n ho semen? oi the \:raie. (i>). 13. Ogi tt out of '4. 7i. 7, In comes to a hi-h church the t ru,; area (3». 15. Kind of acI (7 9, A broktn lamp (4).
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      This is a new bus racket
      163 12 This is a new bus racket A check at the termini would' I prove that many alight without tickets This racket has partially replaced the old practice of the conductor taking, or being offered, a punched ticket before a passenger alights for re-issue to someone else. Why have such passengers
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      THAT FLOAT
      220 12 MR. Mak Pak Shee's reply on the Attap Dwellers' Coronation float did not give a correct answe.r to my letter which appeared in your report a few days earlier. I did not ask Mr. Mak for the cost of the attap float. What I wanted to know as
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      SCUNNERT
      178 12 RATTLIN' claymores! Yon "Phoenix" laddie has a nerve richt eneuch; Jist hoo diz he expec* oor freens th' English tae get alang withoot Scotland? Hame roole he shouts fir, an* hasnae th' een tae spy that we Scots ur the backbone o' the Breetish Empire. As flr expressln' the
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      SNAKY
      9 12 RHONDA FLEMING in Columbia's -Serpent of the Nile.
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      MANNERS
      106 12 HAVING read L. B. Chew's reply to Robert Bacsafra _s letter I feel I must comment. As one of those "human beings with hands, feet and legs" as he so crudely phrases it. I have always gladly accepted a seat when offered it. May I remind Mr. Chew that
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      KEEN ON JOB
      96 12 ONE night I went to Queen Elizabeth Walk, Singapore, with some friends, to have a drink. To my surprise when we approached one of the tables, not fewer than eight waiters came to us and asked: Towkay, mee siam towkay. ang tow sng, towkay. rojak, towkay, char
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      Neverest
      39 12 rl B. Doraisamy and others: The Pressman has already said he intends to let Everest rest. Thanks for your letters, but the Indians have had a good innings. Surely there is something else they can write about now.
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    Being 'on the Mat'
    508 13 Being 'on the Mat' ONE of the most difficult and peculiar forms of conversation is known as M being on the mat." It is most trying when you know that you are thoroughly in the wrong. If you argue or try to bluster your way out of vour mistake Jou
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    Through the 'Sound Barrier'— in a Tank
    743 13  - Through the 'Sound Barrier' in a Tank JAMES STUART BY IHAVE just seen what happens when a faster-than-sound jet fighter like the Hunter or the Swift breaks through the sound barrier and makes the socalled "sonic bangs." The demonstration took place, not in the air, but in a little tank
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    NO GIANTS THIS YEAR BUT A LITTLE MISS WILL BE QUEEN AGAIN
    884 14 NO GIANTS THIS YEAR BUT A LITTLE MISS WILL BE QUEEN AGAIN Wimbledon begins Monday A NOTHER Wimbledon begins on Monday and one again the one thing certain about it is that neither a British man or woman will win one of tht singles championships the unofficial world titles. It
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    R.I. SPORTS DAY
    100 14 The annual athletic sports of Raffles Institution will be held on Saturday. June 27 at 3 p.m. Old bovs of the school are invitd •o participate in the following events:— (l) 100 yards Handicap (over 30); c2j 4 x 110 yard* Relay Race. picture. DAVIDSON, the Australian
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    SOME OF THE DRAW
    214 14 I^ELICISIMO Ampon of the 1 Philippines drew G. Pilet of France in (he pairings of prominent players competing for the singles in the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, starting next Monday. Raymundo Deyro, drew Henry Billington (Br.) Three American men were seeded for the singles. Gardener Mulloy, 40,
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    St. Anthony's School sports
    161 14 rpHE 30th annual athletic sports of 1 St. Anthony's Boys' School. Singapore, will be held at 2 p.m., on Friday. June 26 at the S^ Joseph's Institution ground. There will be two events for the I old boys— loo yards and 880 yards Heats for the
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    NEGRI TIE
    28 14 Penang will travel to Seremban on Buiulny after todays Malaya Cud fixture with Belangor at K. L. to meet Negri in a friendly Inter-state •oocer match..
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    McGregor will be home for football
    121 14 THE Australian tennis player Ken McGregor said in a radio interview with an Australian neicspaper syndicate recently that he planned to return home in October. He said he ivas keen to play Australian Rules football when he returned to Australia next season and hoped
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    182 14 Recreation remarkabie start W senior cricket tournl With the help of T innings of and a top score on» aggregate of 217 r3 four innings J average of 1^ he battin? averages {J tournament to date. The Chinese have fo r Police^ Army and SRr have three ir. the
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    CRICKET A VERAGE
    236 14 The Singapore Cricket Associa tion senior tournament iterHS^ matches ud to June 14 are: ot ou /i,mv> l-l-M--* (Aver.M.M). I o B m 89 4 24 id 1 Brloe (Navy) JJ Z 2 2 5 4 H. Perera n 1«2 J I D. r.reenshields 12 1 J.
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    8 RECORDS AT V.S. SPORTS
    337 15 ing Kah Tee -.mvn schoolboy Ang Kah Tee won the iPE CTACLED scn»o J yesterday's Victoria dividual champio co lected mi annual during the afternoon. ,„al tally ofls PJ»™ plover the mile and 83d eight school records, were brokea frday. Two were equalled. T flß
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    Allan Lewis make his final choice
    308 15 A LLAN Lewis's final selections *»> for today's amateur races at Penang are: RACE ONE: 1. CARAVAN. 2. Queen Vic, 3. L NO REGRETS, 2. Lucky Star. RACE THREE: I FOUR ACES, 2. Young Clem, 3. Golden Glory. RACE FOUR: 1 POT LUCK, 2.
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    COCKELL FOR U.S.
    49 15 British heavyweight boxing champion Don Cockell is to fight the American heavyweight Harry Matthews in Boise' Idaho, on July 24. Cockell'.s manager Mr. John Simpson announced in London yesterday. Cockell won the British title hy outpointing Johnny Williams, the holder, in London on May 12.— Reuter
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    'HE'LL BEAT THE JAPS'
    100 15 AUSTRALIAN champion swimmer Jen Benrieka vould defeat the Jap_me.se <-tars over 100 metres, the S\dney Press forecast yesterday. Hfnrtcka will compete tn the tu <• national champion? hips to held In Tokyo early in Aw MMOa ne mi Australian rurrds I'ji lii. 2 ieu>. and 2
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    Time'scatching up with Willie Pep
    523 15  - Time 's catching up with Willie Pep CONNIE RYAN By Free IF championship fights didn't last 15 rounds, Willie Pep might have some dreams of glory. But the former world featherweight champ admits he can't even go ten rounds at top speed any more, so all he wants are some
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    Derby match abandoned
    99 15 RAIN and a sodden pitch prevented play on the third day of the match between Derbyshire and the Australians at Chesterfield. The game was abandoned as a draw. Derbyshire had dismissed the Australians for 197 and 146, replying with 69 and 17 for one. Needing 258 runs
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    Alec needs only 21 for record
    370 15 Alec needs only 21 for record FACTS FIGURES ALEC BEDSER'S remarkable feat of taking 14 Australian wickets for 99 at Trent Bridge brings his aggregate to 196 (average 24.73) in 43 Tests since he first played in 1946. He now reguires 21 wickets to beat the world record (216) of
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    Middlesex take the lead in County table
    518 16 Middlesex take the lead in County table Hat-trick for A lee Bedser MIDDLESEX shot to the head of the county championship table yesterday with as daring a win as fans are likely to see this season. They beat Nottinghamshire by 20 with 10 minutes of extra time left. But that's
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    Asholme in winning form
    277 16  -  ALLAN LEWIS TRACK WORK Bv Asholme (FUnnery) revealed winning form at Kua'.a Lumpur th'e morning when he beat Sturreta <J. Donnelly* in a roiLsing 3F. try-out in 37 1 5. Asholme appears to have benefitted from h-» two races 'it ipoh ar.cj .should open winning accounts
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      75 16 LOO-ANG: The engagement takes place on 20 6/53 between Mr. Danny Loo Geok Chuan. eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Loo Cheng Lim, and Miss Vivian Ang Kim Neo. sth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ang Chin Slew. PHUAH CHEANG: Swee Lian, the eldest son of Madam Chia Kim
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      BIRTHS
      57 16 WALKER: To Suzanne and Lewis a daughter, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on 19th June, 1953. TO MOYRA. wife of Dermot Marrable, Malayan Police, at the Mount Aluena Guildford, Surrey, on 18th June, a daughter. WALKER: To Cynthia (nee Sutton). wife of Geoffery B. Walker, on Cth June, at Zachary
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      DEATH
      13 16 HARRY LIONEL VELGE at Ipoh on 17th June, 1953. Age 86 years.
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    MILLER WILL LEAD AUSSIES
    97 16 KEITH Miller icill captain the Australians for the first time against Yorkshire at Sheffield. Lindsay Hassett captain and Arthur Morris, vice-captain, are resting. The Aussie team tvill be K. R. Miller. R. Lindwall. W. A. Johnston, R. N. Harvey, I. D. Craig, C. C. McDonald. D.
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    320 16 Marines 4, Amicables... yESTERDAY'S Singapore Amateur F.A. senior tie between the Marine Department and Ann athletic Association was keen fast and gruelling Marines were good value for their four-three wm Amicables might hav P drawn had Charlie Chan converted a oenartv in the closing minutes, but they were never
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      182 16 ACKNOWLEDC. MENTS MR. MRS. X VENDARGON thank relatives and friends who •ent presents, congratulatory messages on the occasion of their wvdding. THE Sisters of the Convent of the Holv Infant Jesus, Johore Bahru. thank all friends who sent mes.sac.es of sympathy, Mass offerings or wreaths on the occasion of the
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      9 1 THE FREE PRESS Saturday Magazine Saturday, June 20, 1953.
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      Making the most of sun and land
      493 1  - Making the most of sun and land „-ir pointed hats, the Radclaths and land toouPthey are all part ol !E early morning picture t he sunshine creeps e/Ihe hill-tops and casts the land in darK rriief Shadows and mists of the night slowly van silhouetted figures JSSSt the reality of
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      HE WHO THOUGHT IN TIME
      765 1  -  TANG TSU, the headman 1 of the village of Lo San, was an old man, with lined face and wispy grey beard, and hands gnarlea and worn through a lifetime of work in the fields. For 30 years, while China *a* still a number of
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      WORK STARTS AT DAWN
      166 1 noonday breezes waft the citrus perfume to her home on the hill. Careful hands and wellstudied drainage of the slope has brought her orange marcots after five years to successful maturity. The Sunkist oranges hang large and plentiful: the Mandarin oranges fall in clusters waiting to
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      Seturday CHILDREN'S PAGE
      3 2 Seturday CHILDREN'S PAGE
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      A world-wide competition
      507 2  -  CHILDREN the world over are invited to send writings and drawings for the 1953 competition conducted by Shankar's Weekly of New Delhi in a /special annual Children's •Number. First published in 1940 to encourage juvenile talent, the Childern's Number has sin~e grown into an international success. Last
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        130 2 Junior Contest HIDDEN in our puzzle this week, boys and Zr*\ _tC^^ girls, is a wish that will be \J i vnia-A hy everyone at this 1 \-**-*-^T time. When you have solv- /'Jj wm ed it. write your answer in /'W F 'JIwMP the space provided below fsdj MJ^^^f
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        540 2 Penny and the Last Magician 6 s9 m^* _________________________^^tl'^^^T^^ Jfc.- 3^*^. ti I J rioV^_m w^^^mmmmwfwjr^*^ 4*J Th. magician tttmt au.t. Suddenly Penny Inttrruptt. M* L*j» fr f confident that the floodt will w jnovin,." t he cries. ***<* wton have suddenly subside as he and Penny and W1 wm
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      4—The Tree of Death
      855 3 4— The Tree of Death rR THE FIRST time since they had entered the fly- saucer, the three boys experienced the sensation of faUC through space. The weight mxm their bodies grew heavier eJery minute and there was an unbearable throbbing inside their heads. They clung to each other, unable
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      'LETTUCE' BE FRIENDS
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      PRETEND YOU ARE SHIPWRECKED
      430 3  -  by Hugh Stoker HAVE you ever wondered what it is like to be wrecked on a deseit island, so that you have to catch your own food and cook it over a driftwood fire? Here is a new game to play at the seaside. Pretend that
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      A new era lies before all of you
      447 3  -  MALCOLM SA VI LLL by NEVER, in all our long and gluteal history, has it been so easy for so many of Her Majesty's .subjects to take so big a part in a Coronation. Millions have actually seen the processions ancl part
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        43 3 CROSSWORD SOLUTION QOIV qi no'd pi 'dUOB *fl 'flsod fj $nq 'oi 'i >u )n -h.)}j ff 'otuomv s Mus > ul i -kk9pf z KNOfl i a'MkWDQ 'aiou_f ij -111)1 id 9T '-loopf 'c;i d_// y,\ '9dlU& II •Sujh.hq g toou i SSOUJV
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        177 3 JUNIOR CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS: 7. Small r M M open vessel. 6, Novelist who 1 J first became known as "Boz.' "MB """"^l""^!""""^! 7, English architect, born in 1)1111 1632, who designed about 50 7 "~THi WW churches. 9, First name of a JH famous Eng and and York- f
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      'Cruel Sea' Tells a Grim Tale
      582 4 WE all know the Royal Navy is the strong, silent service. But from the point of view of their films, need they be quite so strong and quite so silent. That has usually been my feeline. after seeing the Navv on t>.e screen. And
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      ANAMERICAN 'TRIO'
      269 4  - ANAMERICAN 'TRIO IN "The Story of Three Loves (Cathay) M-G-M has taken up the shortstory technique so successfully used by British studios with Somerset Maugham stories ("Trio'' and "Quartet") and, more recently, with Noel Coward playlets ("Meet me Tonight"). The stories vary widely in setting and character. The first is
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      Broadwou Sporthiy
      363 4 Broadwou Sporthiy '■'xiiLi lcuk now ana every x night is of the most remarkable hit Broadway has seen recently— the hit made by Rosalind Russell (who cannot sing or dance) in a new musical. "Wonderful Town" (in which she has to do both). Miss Russell— who in films usually plays
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      NUDES FOR ART'S SAKE
      285 5 ked truth T *oad to Rome" mat Arts Theatre will f be able to have their 7„/h for their nent m kdoth to Ruction Roaa ~nme" June 25> i Following an appeal „.u three models last week three o med to pose for the fi? W
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      Her First Part -Juliet
      307 5 Her First Part -Juliet A GIRL who has never before appeared on the stage or screen is to play Juliet in the film of the world's greatest love story. Shakespeare's ROMEO AND I JULIET. She is Susan Shentall, 18- I year-old student who was taking a secretarial course in London
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      That 'In Love' look
      119 5 The director of the film "Romeo and Juliet" is an Italian Rcn.ito Castellani who insisted on realism. He switched the lovers from the balcony Shakespeare Sad in mind too uncomfortable") to Juliets bedroom. He found Susan's English reserve hard to break down..." you are no longer
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      'No Coddling', says Miss Day
      188 5 rtORIS DAY gave a little interview at her hotel the other day. It v_as all about how she was still managing to make good after six years in Hollywood. "Lets face it", said Miss Day: "this picture business doesn't have time to coddle its stars
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      Women step into the table – tennis limelight
      611 6  - Women step into the table tennis limelight CORONATION CUP FINALS TOMORROW TAN HONO POH By THE Singapore Table Tennis Association's Coronation Cup tournament will be concluded tomorrow night at the Singapore [Badminton Stadium. After 10 nights of I keen competition the finals are being played off. The fair sex has
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      I WONDER WHAT BECAME 0F....
      381 6  -  CONNIE RYAN By SOMETIMES sports fame can Le the most instense kind of fame; on the day of a big event the papers tell what the athlete had for breakfast and they note his every move. But he can fade quickly, too, and b$ almost
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      'BIG BILL' THE POETRY OF TENNIS
      357 6  -  Archie Quick By WILLIAM T. TILDEN is dead. and so vasses yet one more name into sportinq history. ''Bin Bill died in Nolly ivood, aged sixty, and as far as I am concerned he ranks as the greatest iaivn tennis player of all time
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      Victorious quartet
      65 7 fill is the R.E.M.E. team which beat the Swifts in a thrilling tntinr, r?lav event at the R.A.F. Seletar athletic meeting ?J!fn^ nt REM E C^fZthe^ari A gallant last-lap effort by 880 runner itP Deleschery gave the Army team victory. lentoZghtfrom back: Sgt. Robbins (440 yds) Pie. Deleschery
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      Matman becomes top-line singer
      729 7  -  BOB MYERS By CANDOR SZABO'S main claim to fame is that ne Ifl D a wrestler who once held the "undisputed" championship of the world along with five or six other torso jtwisters. But now the handsome Hungarian has come up with something new and strictly
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      THE DUKES WILL PLAY THE SUSSEX XI
      705 7 THE Duke of Edinburgh and the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, are to play against a Sussex County cricket eleven in the grounds of Arundel Castle on Sunday, August 2, in aid of the funds of the National Playing Fields Association of
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      Sports beat
      392 7  -  CHARLES BRYCE I Not for the Tower WHAT d:d the Queen say to Gordon Richards in the paddock .it Epsom alter the I 5 y?-"If I 1 to be nd to anv- I would cr n were n(! wn f n tarda halfoe;iscd for treasonable victory, she added
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      So you want to write for the press?
      1261 8  - So you want to write for the press? ERIC MITCHELL ICNCE KNEW a man whose ambition was to write a book. He had a good command of the English language and a flair for descriptive writing. He sent his first effort to a literary agent, who returned the MS. expressing
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