The Singapore Free Press, 8 August 1953

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. >o WH, Singapore Sat., August 8. 195?». Prite 15 Cli
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    DULLES AND RHEE SIGN PACT
    608 1 DULLES AND RHEE SIGN PACT Safeguards for Korea: iI.S. to get bases PRESIDENT Syngman Rhee and the American Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, announced jointly today that they would break off the political conference on Korea after DO days "if it becomes clear to each of our governments
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    Britain not committed by declaration
    188 1 TO DECIDE LATER BRITAIN made it clear today that her signature to Ehe United Nations warning on Korea did not commit her mtomatically to war against :hina if the Communists broke ;he armistice. The Foreign Office spokesnan, asked to comment on the declaration issued m
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    For mutual security
    5 1 MR. RHEE.
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    EX-MINISTERS TO DIE
    68 1 L death sentences have >en imposed at th c trial of i'ir. h rth Korea Minister* o ofp^' lth spyin 8 and trying overcrow the government, e^f lct neWB agency Tass ■ped today. )lealH agenc said th e accused ?ulltv to "plotting, *on behalf O f the
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    Prince was worried about his hair oil
    124 1 1 tor y tohmd a widely m OIL newti P<iper photoc Queen Mother kr *9 thTn Princ€ Charles Wh. n n Coronation service **ht Z, be€n told i* Perth nj b J?" w Prince was wearl^Wiantine for the first *WceVw c huBh °f
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    Death gangsters miss victim
    233 1 Death gangsters miss victim By ROGER Yl'E. A CHINESE watchman on a small vessel off Beach Road. Singapore-, was held captive lor half-an-hoiir and threatened with death by a fanfl >»i three armed Chinese who boarded the ship m kfcc mall hour> »f yesterday morning. A »i\-iiu h dafgfef was
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    BEST BETS FOR PENANG
    36 1 BEST BETS FOR PENANG Despite oremlfht ihowen the folng should b« |ood thia afternoon at Penang. At the time of wiltini the i eathei i- thieatening. Allan Lewis' bf>t bets: ro Beau Fifty Grand and Kab
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    Rubber Price
    24 1 Singapore Rubber Market opened into morning on an unceri 1 !llt AiiKii.st shipment, at U1 2. cent! > Pound- 3 4 tTllt below
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    SINGAPORE SPORT NEEDS AID
    153 1 SINGAPORE SPORT NEEDS AID r Til I Singapore Amateur A Athletic Association tu-edtt 51, 200 to >end the Colony's team ot 35 athletes and ollitials to the Malayan championships at Kuala Lumpur next weekend. The S.A.A.A. appeals to all interested m athletics m the Colony to give whatever they i
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    FRANCE MAY CALL OUT HER TROOPS
    255 2 Strike by 3 mil. cripples country jyj JOSEPH LANIEL, the French Prime Minister, was understood yesterday to be ready to call out troops to keep essential services running m face of the vast wave of strikes paralysing the country. He spent all day m
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    NEW FIGHTING IN LAOS
    49 2 NEW fighting between FrancoLaotian troops and Com-munist-led Vietminh L»uerrilas has broken out m Laos. French officials said Red BOOUting and reconnaissance activity was increasing throughout Laos, heightening fears of a i.ew Red invasion. They said rebel activity was greatest around Luang Prabang and Xicng Khouang.
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    TV IN COLOUR
    32 2 I A new colour television system capable of being received m black and white on existing receivers is <:o be approved m America, the Federal Communications commission announced yesterday.
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    BIRTH
    23 2 KRAAL: To Nora, wife of Ivor, i a daughter. Christel Marie. Born 2nd August, 1953, K.K. Hospital, j a sister to Linda.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    33 2 KIRK-WILKINSON: The engagement is announced between Derek, only son of Mr. Mrs. F. Kirk of Birkdale, England, and Myra Lee. only daughter of Mr. Mrs. S. Wilkinson of Great Crosby, England. I
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    DEATH
    27 2 ZACH ARIAS: On 24th July, at Waukegan, Illinois. U.S.A. Professor H. C. E. Zacharias, aged 80. For many years Secretary of the Planters* Association of Malaya.
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    New U.K. envoy to Moscow
    50 2 BRITAIN'S': Ambassador to Russia. Sir Alvary Gasco.gne. will leave his Moscow post m ten days, the Foreign Office said last irght. Hr is bein,2 succeeded by a young career diplomat. Mr. William Hayter. who* will take up I hU post m Moscow next month. 1
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    Ike signs for synthetic sale
    209 2 PRESIDENT Eisenhower signed a Bill yesterday setting: up a three-man commission to sell to private industry the government's synthetic rubber factories built at a cost of r*****,000,000 during World War 11. The measure, containing .strict anti-monopoly .safeguards, give* the commission until Jan. 1. 1955, to
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    25 REDS KILLED
    29 2 Government troops killed 25 Communist-led dissidents and \wmr.ded 20 during the past two weeks m operations on South Ea-^t Luzon island. the Philippine Army said csterday^
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    THEY'RE OFF TO CHINA
    37 2 THEY'RE OFF TO CHINA picture. A CiKOl'P of Indonesian Chin ese students who left Singapore yesterday m the Tjiluwah for Red China, take a last look at Singapore, as the Yes sel left the wharves. Free Press
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    He ate 'germ bug' and Reds went red
    259 2 He ate 'germ bug' and Reds went red 4 N American prisoner end* Communist germ J, Propaganda at a 22 Korean prisoner camp fating a supposedly SJJ nessed and later told by v geant Edward Hewlett "hS" iett has just been releaS after three years as a prison* of war.
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    ALIENS ACCEPTED
    26 2 President Eisenhower yesterday signed a bill to admit 214.000 extra refugees orph and other aliens into ne United States m the next three years.
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    OUTLAW 'GOVT.' IN CELEBES
    94 2 OUTLAW 'GOVT.' IN CELEBES KAHAR Muzakkar. local rebel leader m South Celebes, has problaimed his "operational territory part of Darul Islam State. The fanatic outlawed Darul Islam movement thus far only existed m west and central Java where Darul Islam gangs terrorise regions .south and south-east of the mountain city
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      217 2 CLASSIFIED ADS. IN MEMORIAM IN EVER lovlnß memory of my husband F. G. Ritchie vho died Bth August. 1952. IN PROUD and everlasting memory of F. G. Ritchie who died Bth August (Jimmy and Madge Martin) 1952. ANNOVNCEMENT JUST ARRIVED Grafton AntlShrink Cottons m latest colours desitjn. Harrows Ltd., 7.
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      19 2 CAME A LISTEN TO FIFI SIMM (THE ORIENTAL NIGHTINGALE) nMIY Air-Conditioned Singapore s ONLY Air (Of? Maxwell Roai) j
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    Inquiring camera finds out
    67 3 Inquiring camera finds out •SO BUSS FOR 3 PEOPLE' MR. S. C. WONG (married i ■I'as'ree that there should be Ida law. Only one man and Bemoan can make a happy Carriage. No three persons can *b wedded bliss work. don't see why people should 0H if they do not
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    Six drowned in Karachi floods
    84 3 Sa people were drowned and M than 300 houses collapsed j Karachi when 40 hours of sntinuous rain flooded city 'reels five feet deep. The local authorities are disputing food to 3.000 people adered homeless on Thursday i?ht when their huts were tashed away. More
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    Men sharply divided on number of wives
    504 3 Men sharply divided on number of wives THE MONOGAMOUS MARRIAGE ACT BATTLE fJOW do men take the Singapore Women's Counci to ask the Government to make th Monogamous Murriu.e Ac t Wilding on all c mmv ities The resolution met Witti a .nixed reception. "A sensible move," said sow\ x
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    ON THE DANUBE
    33 3 Soviet authorities m Austria have granted free shipping right.s to French vessels on the Danube for the first time since the war. according to th 3 official Austrian press agency.
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    SPOOKS ARE TO BE PINNED DOWN
    79 3 SPOOKS ARE TO BE PINNED DOWN rj HOSTS will have a thin time m the sleepy Thamesside towns and villages of Berkshire. They're to b e pinned down for posterity. Berkshire History Committee If asking all the inhabitants with ghost stories to send along (details of the sex, age and
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    THEY FEAR TO WORK
    104 3 'dr^H Sh P assistant fear that there will be a iJ cut In Ul(1 i» salaries if the Government Intro=>aia w regulating their working- hours ::;l that this would ..could be formulated to pro- m *ith a minimum a e scheme. that C T, nmenti^ on
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    IT'S TEA-TIME FG3 THREE
    37 3 GWENDOLINE ING serves lea ..i the part] jijen »t the Bukit Zahrah School, lohore Bahru bj the mmh i S^Yohore Bih?u Voun, Malayan Club i. hcou. .1 the \> dubs patron, Mr. Malcolm MacOonald.
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    THEY'CAN'T GET THE POLICE IN TIME'
    232 3 THEY'CAN'T GET THE POLICE IN TIME' DENNETT c I angry. They want telephones but cannot (et then not Just yet. We may be robbed and even murdered without the poh<a knowing m time/ 1 a number oi them .said yesterday. "And What about otter emcrgenciea like Area and accidents?" they
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    UMBRELLA KILLS GIRL
    30 3 A three-year-old Chinese Sirl died m hospital m Taipeh on Thursday after being hit on the head with an umbrella by another «irl of the same age.
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    Moths like turn, beer
    76 3 EHWRTEEN YFAR OLD 1 Mich iH Smith is cashing m on v strange discovery even niolhs like a nightcap. The formula is a mixture of nun. beer and molasses. Re mean it M tr.es m the park at dusk and i«oes buck at midni»;ht to Bfl
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, August 8 1953 Opinion TIMELY BOOK
    423 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, August 8 1953 Opinion TIMELY BOOK WE wtk'ome the American State Department's booklet. "'Malaya— TrouIble Spot m South-East Asia." It puts the military and political position In this country clearly before the public. Much has been wr tten about Malaya m the last few years
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    It Was a Bad Year for Farouk
    710 4  - It Was a Bad Year for Farouk JOHN BUTLER By i^arouk has iosl more m his first > of exile than Just throne, a Queen and guardianship of a bi King. Lonp: before Neguib and his victorious revolutionaries last month announced the birth of an Egyptian Republic, the bitter heat
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    POCKET CARTOON
    5 4  -  OSBERT LANCASTER by
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    In Greece, a Cane Curtain
    460 4  - In Greece, a Cane Curtain MICHAEL MANNING T*HE muzzle of a BulgaA rian machine-gun aimed at me from behind the thick bushes on the left bank of the river Evros. marred my first impression of the Iron Curtain. From a hill on the Greek side of the river frontier to
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    Portugal may aid Malayan students
    113 5 Portugal may aid Malayan students police to track love calls SOME students of Portuguese descent m Malaya be given scholarships In engineering, aerculture archaeology and oSssibly medicine at Portuguese universities. The idea is being considered by the Portuguese foreign and education ministries on the recommendation of the Minister for Overseas
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    The Harvest Dance
    70 5 And a lovely appears m the clouds' The four loviies at the top art doinjj the Harvest I)am<\ ID item of the variety concert ol Keppel liducatiiM Association at th, (irrat World. Left to ri«ht are: l.u-w lee Say Tan Pow Lee, Ul I*»P ■•J and CIMM|
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    FARMERS CLASH WITH REDS IN CHINA
    35 5 Angry farmem ol th of Mench i 7 1 east ol Holh >■" m Hail an island, Communlsl cadi order to plant rubber tree on eflel i an ber lulled.
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    WOLVES PESTER GIRLS ON THE PHONE
    490 5 WOLVES PESTER GIRLS ON THE PHONE B Y p I X IPORES teleph hI jam. i. o p ress won ler living on i -m Upper Serai complained that on< these wolves bad rung her home Inquiring aboui her movements where she worked 'I what her Job question Rapidly followed
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    Penang girl left fortune by knight
    32 5 Penang girl left fortune by knight a 22-year-old Malaya born English ictress Mi- JW Bennett left certain "benesn Godfrey died i-st June, I 13,644 >m m tl She .hare lit i! 1
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    The new Chinese YMCA will aid 250,000 youths
    193 5 The new Chinese YMCA will aid 250,000 youths Free Press Stall Reporter r |MiE new million-dollar headquart i ol Singapore Chinese vmca at Telok Ayer Basin will serve about >uth The pre ident, Mr. Ei< Cheng, stressed tint the club premi ie ild ble the ition to Wen i Ivitie
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    GANGES FLOODS
    20 5 Summ<M monsoon floods have driven 200.000 villagers from their homes along the Oangea River m Uttar Pradesh State
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    UNIVERSITY MEETING COST $10,000
    138 5 UNIVERSITY MEETING COST $10,000 T*HE first pan Malayan meet--1 mi (.i the Council of the Nanyang University hold In Singapore on Wednesday cost Federation delegates m<»i than $10,000, Not a cent was I harmed i mist university fun Mr. Tan Lark Bye, Council chairman, .said that until the university wa
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      52 5 writes your cheques the safe way Sole \gtnts: UHOERWOOD GENERAL AGENCIES (M) LTD. SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR HENANG JUST RECEIVED A NEW M 1.1 (I lON Ol SINGLE STONE DIAMOND RINGS I Set, \\itl» Flawless White l>iarooodb from Thirt) S. l». Si. de SILVA 1 45, High St., Spore. Kuala Lumpur
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      325 6 LUCKY MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis STAR 1 B°«N TODAY **tra«j 7«J T«'s/f r.'.Ct:*rioc*iocLeuT,THE -At.o tries tg cecr.' k n kl travel and wort J? much too businesslikj JV» TARZAN by Edgar Rico Burroughs S^'fst"^ «riML\ »N*H 'ne TKiPE FCEPACEP .f^ fe^ THE NUX N PUU
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    Off stage fun
    51 7 Kicking and screaming:, French actress Corinne Calve t is carried off the set by rugged Roy Calhoun at the conclusion of a "take" during Miming of the 20th Century-Fox Technicolour western, "Powder River." Informality marked the offstage antics of the cast, which included Penny Edward- and Cameron
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    BLACK MARKET TRAIL LED TO 2,000,000 CIGARETTES
    342 7 BLACK MARKET TRAIL LED TO 2,000,000 CIGARETTES IT took a jury 90 minutes at Leeds Assizes to return verdicts which high-ranking police ollicers said would help to smash the black market m cigarettes. Five men were found guilty on charges concerning the theft of nearly 2,000,000 cigarettes. Sentence was postponed.
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    Mother wins right to whip son
    199 7 i|RS. Helen Selena Jeter, 32-year-old American wife of 1 a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant, defended at Docking, Norfolk, her right to whip her six-year-old son Larry if be stole. She caned the boy lor taking two packets of cigarettes and jinn? them to
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    45 OZ BABY BORN IN CINEMA
    87 7 45 OZ BABY BORN IN CINEMA A BABY girl weighing 2lb. 13oz. was born m the Rex Cinema at Camberwell, London. Her mother, 20-year-old Mrs Amy Pinnock, had been watching an Abbott and Costello film with her husband. She was taken to the staff room where the baby was born
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    FIRE KILLS 7
    32 7 Srven peoplp died yesterday m I lin* which .swept through a 12--room hotel In ihr- business dis trict at Tcxarkana, Texa.s. Four (jthff -i were Injured, two critically. Reuter
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    NINE ENVOYS MEET
    28 7 Nine P»t.sl m ;irnb;;us.saclor« to European capJ ila began talks at Tin- Hague yesterday under the leadership or the flprston foreign Mini ter Hussein fmtemi
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    MP SUPPORT
    37 7 hS m Japa nese Communist J a lengthy statement El T m /^Ported Premier 2 1 5ft n^'« Purge ol ch^fof secret Police, :>p I B T on:l and urged a >nts apanese Pro-Beira A.P.
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    CUT SEX URGE IN FILMS, SAYS PREMIER
    130 7 CUT SEX URGE IN FILMS, SAYS PREMIER MR. C. Rajagopalachari, Chief Minister of Madras, yesterday appealed to film producers m India to reduce the poison of the sex urge In Indian films. Addressing a Him federation meeting m Madras, the 74--year-old former GovernorGeneral of India, said that people must be
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    High-class streets
    26 7 HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, Hertfordshire, Borough Council last night named throe new streets m its Adeyfield new town area Everest Way, Hillary Road. and Tensing Road.
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    FATHER GIVES BELT TO SAVE SON
    84 7 FATHER GIVES BELT TO SAVE SON ,l YAc HTwitha father and a Cs?a Oa ?L capslaed m a a c The father put the oe 't around the son. fye tli, father his ;;to be passe,, on to r lf ho should not 17-year-old tllcL Ferris, retired k police sergeant,
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    UNKNOWN
    165 8 YELLS of "hurrah" and hand-clapping provided I background to the seconc sports meet held by the Scouts' S. W. District W" R iffles Institution ground m Despite the tajj«*j ,xaminations. more than Scouts and Cubs from t« attended. Honours of the day *ff the Fifth (St. Anthonys Senior noop'
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    UNKNOWN
    70 9 Above: Scouts hurtle across the field m the chariot .-ace. Left: "Come, let's make it our race" the two competitors on the left and right seem to say. But their team mate sitting perched on the 'crudely made gadget doesn't appear to share their confidence. Right: Drinking without the
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    UNKNOWN
    18 9 Off goes a whisHe and senior scouts quickly settle down to their work m the flagstaff competition.
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    'Nurse robbed rich old lady '-QC
    326 10 'Nurse robbed rich old lady '-QC A NURSE-COMPANION to, an 80-year-old bedridden woman set out to plunder and rob her, a prosecuting Q.C. told the Bournemouth Recorder, Mr. N. R. Fox-Andrews. The case remitted from I Hampshire Assizes— will continue. In th? dock was Dorothy Prince, 52. who had been
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    It's war on foxy night raids
    54 10 It's war on foxy night raids riHICKEN-KEEPERS m Dagen*J ham, Essex, are considering: joint action against night raids on their slocks made by foxes from the Thames marshes. Foxes have been spotted m riverside factories, md attacks have been made upon cats m the factories. On e farmer lost 50
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    THE SHAPE OF THINGS IN HOLLYWOOD
    33 10 THE SHAPE OF THINGS IN HOLLYWOOD I The beautiful shape is Coleen Gray, United Artists star. She is tough too, says her studio. For Coleen will let any man stand on her stomach.
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    Posed as police to girl in flat
    243 10 Posed as police to girl in flat /GIVING evidence at London Sessions a girl said she offered £50 to a man who told her he was m charge of police observations on her flat The man, James Buttery, aged 26, lorry driver, of Camberwell New Road, Camberwell, London, was gaoled
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    £50,000 GEM IS FOUND
    52 10 A DIAMOND weighing be-, tween 200 and 300 carata has been discovered at the Jagersfontein mine m the Orange Free State. Its value -timated at between £50,000 *J 60.000. Previous finds at Jagersfontcin Include the I r diamond of 971 carats In 1893 and a 634-CJ
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    NOW A SELF-CONFESSED 'RINGER' IN PIGEON RACING
    390 10 NOW A SELF-CONFESSED 'RINGER' IN PIGEON RACING A rifiK me ™g norse-racing switch, a confessed case of r i» '^pigeon-racing may lead to nation-wide moves to ».il pn| h rules m this backyard sport-in which tens of thmi^ i. Up th are won every year. ■"usmnas of pounds The self-confessed
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    Keeping cool
    17 10 WAftNEI BROS. star. Patrice Wvmore, takes a drink durinj shots for "She* Back m Broadway."
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    Hong Kong Looks Ahead With Confidence
    555 11  - Hong Kong Looks Ahead With Confidence JOSEPH FEIGA by HONG KONG. .i/HATEVER the rest of W the vvo rld may think about the possibilities of a third world war. Hong Kong appears to be proceeding on the assumption that the future will bring P^ce and plenty. Hong Kong's confidence m
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    Bridge Hand
    371 11 Both sides vulnerable North dealer NORTH a g 10 s V, A X 9 8 X 10 WEST KABT ***** X J 4 2 tf Q J 7 10 U 6 5 O< J 4 0Q"65 A 3 2 bOITH ■4 5 3 9 3 C X 10
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    Model Flying Confest
    28 11 photo. Enfebori RIMIM of Hannover, (iermany. was MM «'f tin- <n»ly two womvn competitors at the 1953 world model flyinc championships at Cranlifld, Bedfordshire.- A.P.
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    BUCKLEY
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    HE SWALLOWED HIS MATE
    83 11 ZOO AUTHORITIES at the Victoria Gardena m Bombay were puzzled DM morning when an eight-foot female python could not be found m its cage. A thorough search was mad" but thru- was nothing to .show how it disappeared, one of the attendants of the ZOO found
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    HOSPITAL MADE ME CRY SAYS GIRL
    569 12 HOSPITAL MADE ME CRY SAYS GIRL %^^f Asli<>d to tvhvn sin* hml no namou IWISH to draw attention to the manner m which 1. as a member of the public, was treated at the X-Ray department of the Singapore General llospit.il this week O:\ Tuesday evening, I accidently swallov -a
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    PARIS HAT
    31 12 1 new apric >: Jars .it from Pans is prom Straight on the lop »f the head, it \s by Mane Christian* and is ttimm with Indian cock feathers, U.P.
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    Salary saving scheme
    16 12 Salary saving scheme picture. ahdfglhglg aghlkafg ag;ja;g agj;g amglslgf agna;g]ag;a glgda sgkalg]a;gka glagang;a' g Free Press
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    The new (d) art
    103 12 YOl'R readers who have displayed such a lively interest m the activities of Singapore nudisU may be interested m the following which is an excerpt from a letter I have received from California: "After watching an incident on my favourite beach the other day (a girl
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    LOYALIST THANKS THE GOVERNOR
    223 12 I AGREE with you when you say m your footnote to the letter under the caption, "Blessed," that "on the issue of the handling of the Geylang fire we are all on the same side it was first rate But it wa.s thp following information contained
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    This will be surprise for 'Surprised'
    559 12 I WAS rather amused when reading a letter m your J columns under the caption of "Why Do Diploma Men Claim to be Graduates" by an anonymous person who writes under the name of Surprised!" photo. Well Surprised will certainly be very surprised to
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    Any grouss?
    32 12 HAVE you a frouse? Have yor a bright idea? Have you seen anylhin? itranfc Of uinisual? Then wrile to the PRESSWAN and Ml others about it m hb POSTBAG Briefly
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    Make-Believe?-Not Always
    700 13  -  HAROLD HEFFERNAN says Film 'romances' have often started a real romance HOLLYWOOD. DO the stars get a kick out of their close embraces, their lingering kisses on the screen? Is all of it make-believe, or is some of it the real thins? Usually the actors deny any deeo
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    'WONDERFUL LIPS'
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    Perak entries for Malayan championships
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    800 1  -  RAE MARCH says ■I rr is nice to lea vt» Malaya Wont it is nicer to come UTaaain This time I ?lS bark.' over drowsy ■Siipelaso seas, with the Iftuatorial sun shining ■Ifttinsly hroimh thr rJporthole of the Constollail The change is very iloiot
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