The Singapore Free Press, 3 October 1953

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    Deputies stage battle of wits,then of fists
    231 2 Deputies stage battle of wits,then of fists A STAID debate on foreign policy erupted yesterday into a fist swinging brawl betuetn Communists and pro-Fasnv s m the Italian Chamber of Deputies. While bells ran« vainly for order and shouts of "Criminal tool of the Russians!" echoed m the hall, members
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    NEUTRALS MAY SIT AT PARLEY
    353 2 NEUTRALS MA Y SIT AT PARLEY Britain puts up a new proposal CIR Winston Churchill's Cabinet yesterday agreed on new moves to break the East-West deadlock over a Korean peace parley but kept them secret. Significantly, a few hours after the Cabinet met, the Foreign Office announced that the Minister
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    A PRISONER RETURNS
    71 2 picture. Albert Schroeder, 43, of north Germany, embraces his wife and daughter as they nrteet at a West German refugee camp. He last saw his family m 1943. since then he has been under a 25-year sentence, imposed by the Russians because he stole £ome food. He
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    She rejected Japan's pocket ambassador
    229 2 The atrange world rPHE Japanese Ambassador to Formosa, Mr. Kenkichi Yoshizawa, who is 79, and five feet m his socks the world's shortest diplomat, has returned to Tokyo to marry again. So far his diplomacy of the heart has not been successful. i A 65-year-old
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    Anti-Nehru clash
    86 2 POLLICE baton charged blarkshlrted anti-Nehru demonstrators m Madras injuring 50. as the Indian Premier toured the city yesterday Seven were arrested. The demonstrators, members of Dravlda Ka/.ha^am. an orjanlsUon of Tamils, are demanding an Independent Tamil j>tate Tree from the New Delhi Oovrrnmnt. Thry waved black fla^s and
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    HEADS UNIT
    32 2 SQDN.-LDR. CHALION DIVAVEGA of the Royal Thai Air Force, who commands the unit of Bearcat fighters now visiting Malaya. Today the Siamese so to the RAF Maintenance Base. Seletar, Singapore.
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    Russia 'is spending secretly on arms'
    199 2 Russia 'is spending secretly on arms' 11 JR. Walter Bodell Smith 1U United States UnfeM^ retary of State sairi S* B*yesterday8 yesterday there wer? >>' indications that the Union, despite its p oL^ peace, was secreUv 2XS c! twice as much Sy^fe year for the develoSft atomic weapons lu lwen
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    CLASH IN KOREA
    236 2 (Continued from V2S^ D terms they would go to a "neutral country". Brig. Humblen's letter was a formal protest against rules of explanations which the commission unanimously adopted Under these rules, prisoners must listen to repeated arguments from Communist explanation teams. In Seoul, a South Korean Government
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    $634 m. aid
    34 2 rpHE United States is ready to 1 offer Japan $634,000,000 m mutual security aid and onsnore purchases m exchange for a three-year Japanese defence programme, it was reported *> day m Tokyo.
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      66 2 HAPPY^WOR^U^Rg (The hsippicst most enchanting nightspot intheCity) Come and Dance to the Strict Tempo of the ever-popular TEDDY KOON and his band who will entertain you nightly with up-to-date music and songs. REMEMBER* The Election of the Happy CabakJ Queen For 1953 to be held From 15-10-53 to 30-10-53 Election
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    City policy could clash with traffic ideas
    282 3 City policy could clash with traffic ideas HAIR ATTACKS HIGHWAY SET UP V K. NAIR, vice-cha r\l man of the City Vehicles a Traffic Committee, is Ised to Uie Singapore City riS decision on Wednesday nhand over to Government Lhway authority. He thought traffic policy as vested m the Colonial
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    The Mikado' is coming —soon
    79 3 The Mikado' is coming soon "Braid, the raven hair, Weave the supple tress." Vum-Yum (Miss Le e Hua Koon). centre, being; assisted m her bridal toilet by her friends Pitti-sing (Miss Franresca Bacsafra), right, and Peep-Bo (Miss Doris Tan) m the Teachers Training College production of "The Mikado" to be
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    NEWSMAN GAOLED
    17 3 J"i Zl n Hartman. 21-year-StaK\ n 7 sPaP«man,5 PaP«man, was '»m GermanJ P iOn goods
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    RHEE'S MEDAL FOR GEN MARK CLARK
    37 3 South Korean President, Dr. Syngman Rhee awarded the Reyublic's highest military award the Taeguk Medal to General Mark Clark, retiring Commander of United Nations and U.S. forces m the Far East.
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    Police search for missing girl (17)
    208 3 Police search for missing girl (1 7) By ROGER YUE ATTRACTIVE, ginger-haired, blue-eyed Joan Anthonisz, 17, has disappeared from her home m St. Francis Road, Singapore. Before leaving five days ago, the girl had destroyed all her photographs and a pile j of letters. Singapore police were this morning looking
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    34 3 tfSfi 1 T ''VVJI* th —^chment of it i? ar hal SI ''nifFari v sltln X Singapore with ">« om cer o j rJV < the Slam^ omcers were 1 KAI< at Temple ll ill Mess.
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    FILM PRODUCER DIES
    14 3 Hollywood film producer William Jacobs, 65, died m Beverly Hills yesterday.
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    UNKNOWN
    87 3 A -LITTLE peured nighl lor tii minh .soldiers delta In i"do mered by Fr village to vill from the Gu With flight cut by a< columns, the to have no pull back to they may try native sea-go jseize. Their chan dim with Fr hard on thei fighters and
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      166 3 i Your Last Chance 1 the wonder show of the 1 MISS ARROLL, BABY AND PR will give their farewell perform WEDNESDAY 7rh OCT. 9. at the BADMINTON HALL I "Canine Cap (Under the distinguished patronage A Excellency the Rt. Hon'ble Malcolm N See these wonder dog mahjong, poker, I
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    When The Premier Was A Prisoner
    691 4 IT was in 1943 that Lt. Moshe Rosenberg in the British Army's Palestine Regiment was summoned to Jerusalem, to appear before Lt. Col. Hanlock, G.I. chief in Palestine. Lt. Rosenberg -now 54, plain "Mr" and a shopkeeper in one of Teheran's busiest streets— was
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Oct. 3. 1953. RATES AND BUDGETS
    467 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Oct. 3. 1953. RATES AND BUDGETS SINGAPORE City Council O appears to be in a better financial position than at any other time since the end of the war, to Judge from reports published this week. It expects to finish this year with a surplus
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    19 4 Film stars Errol Flynn (right) and Bruce Cabot on a recent visit to the Italian television studios at Milan.
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    Aga Khan to name Successor
    170 4 Aga Khan to name Successor T*HE Aga Khan is planning a goodwill tour of the Ismaili sect, of which he is spiritual head, early next year. It won't be Aly This tour is important for two reasons first, because the Aga intends to nominate his successor as Head of the
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    $25½ m. SIT PROGRAMME NEXT YEAR
    188 5 $25½ m. SIT PROGRAMME NEXT YEAR «nrP imorovenieiit Trust will start 1954 with J^gSf mSion buildin« programme 3.440 flats, T m $X\#t A been'' approved by the S.I.T.'s Trustees and the next step is Government goard or if" a M Eraser, general manager of the .nnroval, said Mr. J. Tnist
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    OFF TO U.S.
    61 5 DR. P. H. DIANANDA, of the University of Malaya, has been awarded a research scholar grant for statistical research at the University of North Carolina. He was graduated from Cambridge with a Ph. D. dejree in 1949 and is now attached to the Mathematics Department as a
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    Now we have pirate trishas
    84 5 Now we have pirate trishas gINGAPORE's vehicle inspecPirate" 8 ?,i\ Out t0 smash the C beHev?V aeket which recently has grown big "Wth i!!f W0rkin^ h "nd i ee cen ce badges for a 100 ~ch for l»d|*. s wlth borrowed licence bSSST 1 n hat the rackef re beta,
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    The 'Hants' are coming
    46 5 THE Royal Hampshire Regiment, stationed in Lueneburg. Germany, since 1951. will leave at the end of this month for Malaya. Regimental officers disclosed yesterday. The reg'iment was visited by Major-Gen. C. P. Jones. Commander of the 7th British armoured division, on Thursday.
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    ROTEST ON ISRAEL
    45 5 The Egyptian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly announced last night that it was sending a protest to the president of the Security Council against the presence of Israel's forces at El Auja. in the demilitarised zone separating the two countries.
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    A STOLEN SHOW
    25 5 ftg^S^SLiyja? 1^ th ther? Jl},ol: n fair p|ay y Wanl hflong t Nairobi rerent|ythat Blryclc Sh«w Room." t« them. A police inspec-
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    HULL CELEBRATES
    33 5 Former Secretary of State Mr. Cardell Hull, "father" of the United Nations and holder of the Nobel Ueace Prize, celebrated his 82nd birthday anniversary at h'is hotel apartment in Washington yesterday.
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    New French Consul loves temples
    176 5 New French Consul loves temples OINGAPORES many temples and mosques can soon expect visits from the Colony's new French Consul-General short stout. genial-looking M. Raymond de Boyer de Falnte Suzanne. M. de Falnte Suzanne has always been interested In Eastern architecture. "Having seen Kandy and other places," he said, "I
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    Boy, 8, plays classics from memory
    170 5 The young pianist SINGAPORE has found a young promising pianist in Eugene Kwok, an eight-year-old student of Gan Eng Seng School. Eugene was one of nine candidates selected by Mr. Peter Burges, visiting examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music,
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    What's money,S
    63 5 A Bilbao artist, Antonio Otana, bought a Forge") for £4 20s., took it home, t decided it was worth more. He toas right. Experts confirmed his belief that his pair of Francisco Goya from the beginning of A New York picture dealer has now offered for the picture.
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    UNKNOWN
    61 5 DELEGATE! Indonesi conference i 12, are likely agreed poiu butter stock. This decis to have be meeting of the Federati Indonesia w Colony yeste Dr. Yusul Ministry of Indonesia, s were of a went off wel Indonesia a the bulk of ru any agreement automatically trade atmosph The four-m
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      239 6 MANDRAKE,. TiHE MACICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis I WfT Bjn~?0~7///S T'^VC l UMP OF V lln THE IKUAOAOF THf f 6000 \iGHT! A MILS OF MACHIHEkY. 1 7^ X^ V ROCK f,SO MILES ABOVE THE\ 'LUMP OF ROCK'-- ANO BUI WHAT SOBTf WHAT IS IT USE 0 FOR?
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      574 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR IJOKN TODAY. r»re i-wnWiuUw, *rti.tu and pr a X. of Ik. goe* to make a .li. h»PP.v life. You en j., about your brains! vt. k?** jood head for butln^ >*t you are not out \L 12?* fortune. j ust for lhe tumulating money vj T\ deep
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    U.S. JUDGE SIGNS AWAY BRITISH CHILD AGED 4
    317 7 father can appeal before Nov. 16 British sirl has been given i fOLR-'f- f f tncr O ver the protests ol '"TfXr Mr William Joseph Shaw, a WeWn C.arden City, Herts. litlt< r «tanlev Milledge, of Miami, signed in New J* Stanley
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    Storm in a tea kettle
    44 7 A TYPIST m a Palmer-Street Westminster, office left the room where she was making tea. The door slammed and locked. She feared the kettle might boil dry and start a fire. So she dialled 999. Firemen opened the door.
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    'BABY' WEIGHS 63 TONS
    58 7 The "baby" of the British Railways standard type of locomotives has just been built at the Crewe works. It is the first of the Class Two 2-6-2 mixed traffic tank engines, and weights 63 tons 5 cwt m working order. Twenty of these engines are to
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    Gear lever: Women choose —and car firm falls into line
    304 7 Gear lever: Women choose —and car firm falls into line JORITISH women, it seems, have had enough of the American idea m car ffear shifts the under-the-steering-wheel control. They prefer the old pre-war style, with the gear lever rising: from the gearbox close to the left hand. i At least
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    19 7 Nun Keum Suk, the North Korean air force pilot who flew a Russian M.I.G. jet fighter into Allied lines.
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    ACTORS TO EXPEL COMMUNISTS
    44 7 The govern ing body of Actors Equity of the United States has voted to expel any member proved by "due DfOMM Oi law" to belong to the Communist Party or affiliated groups or to be guilty "of any subversive act."
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    DOCTOR' MYSTIFIED BY WIFE'S DEATH
    220 7 lASfT.? 8 old at the "'quest on his 55-year-old wire that she had died after taking morphia. He lam compleelv mystified." Then the Battersea coroner, Mr. Hervey Wyatt, said: "We must do all we can to clear up what mystery there is". He adjourned the
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    Father finds girl of 14 murdered
    40 7 M S Williamson, 45--mr-ow stee i worker. re J« to his home m Scun *M fo r thl apparen tly been thtory tL. c working 1 ""'fcrwi that Lorna was sJt^rj4^^ Ye could assist
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    Navy's New No.1 nurse
    58 7 pii mm as^J COng u Until the pnd of Ukm y l ar When she re^rned to ham M matron a Chatmor« e fu as been m nursing for d£Eh# than 20 years She L the daughter of the late Major H *inSS Pman t of
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    UNKNOWN
    149 7 JOKES about are banner many. Wisecra gaol. Look what year-old Hai worker noted village of H Weimar. Hans has ju. years" hard laoc intellectual falh circulating thro side and direct* German Govern The Reds cor sabotage. But or |B| uhuspered o This one, for "Why dcn't Everyone knows "Why
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    53 8 LEFT: The face that launched a thousand nightmares. It belongs to M, teller m a sketch performed at the nurses' "hostel warming" dan« catches the fortune-teller stealing a banana during the sketch "ft Zakariah Salim (centre), and Phyllis Chew register terror when sudd, also played S. R. S. Naidu. I
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  • THE FREE PRESS Saturday Magazine
    • Title Section
      Masthead
      10 1 THE FREE PRESS Saturday Magazine Saturday f _Oct. 3, 1953.
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      THE RESCUR OF PRINCE FUEN.
      809 1  -  UNKNOWN A Free Press short story by Lai/ THE INN at the Krfthe mountain B«o horsemen could ■f Sfl approaching ■Li up the winding ■f&m the barren RSTooly be the L" and his servant,' KeKin^ Officer Xiv to his companions, Km that aH is ready
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      Try a barbecue party next time
      495 1  - Try a barbecue party next time OLIVE THOMPSON says A lll ou T I RED of the usual cocktail party J»und looking bored") if tte^r try should lanninK il V un Cc? yo g r deai lor Very littio We had some long-handled two-prong forks made from wire and sharpened
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    • CHILDREN'S PAGE
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        New contest this week
        708 2  -  Auntie Wendy THE FACT that classes have resumed was evident m my mail this week, there were fewer letters from you and a considerable drop m the number of entries for the Junior Contest. This cannot be helped but I am Klad to note that despite
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        Junior Contest
        175 2 THIS WKKK. BOYS AM) (iIKLS. we will have an essay competition. Many of you have asked for this for a long time, so here it is at last. All you S need do is to tell me within one hundred words, Why 1 I ike School." You may
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    • Girl in the Dark
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        3-IN SERIOUS TROUBLE
        503 3 1 se« I** smile but nUD flo*d hide th c f^on which -Oh, hallo- Jean. exp j orin g ut f, I old P^ce, Grey splendid oW P dfath er «t S your birthday iwi just saying "Sar^t." hat t y h ou •SS*«S5d that hls T.tT
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      TOM, TERRY AMD ESTHER
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      Hong Kong scouts to get H.Q.
      208 3 Hong Kong scouts to get H.Q. HONG KONG is going into its boy scout programme with vigour and enthusiasm. Plans are now on the drawing board for the erection of one of the most modern scout headquarters m the world m Kowloon. The building, comprising ot two storeys and a
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      79 3 The puffer or globe fish has may strange doubtedly the most astonishing of these swell itself out to an extraordinary size sure On being attacked or anticipating swallows either water or air until the be a balloon, thus becoming too large for t fish whose natural prey it is.
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      300 3  -  Uncle Eric by /CHILDREN, did you enjoy the exciting story of Beowulf which concluded last week? And how did you like the story of how we learned to tell the time published several weeks ago? I often wonder how many of you read my column and whether you find
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      TWO BIRDS ON THE WARPATH
      107 3 TWO BIRDS ON THE WARPATH A PAIR of rogue kookaburras the famous Australian bird with the FaLstafflan laugh is terrorising residents m a Sydney suburb. Tn the past three week.s the two birds have made savage strafing attacks on women and wounded two people m the head with beak stabs
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      No longer Dumb, or Blonde
      418 4 DAVID LEWIN talks to a reformed' YOLANDE DONLAN WHEN a "dumb blonde" ff decides that the future will pay her better dividends as a brunette, the change can be more dramatic than just a nc-w Wait dvUwb, rhe most professionally dumb of all the professional
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      'DIAL M FOR MURDER'
      83 4 "FUAL M for Murder', the Island Players production, which was given in extract in Radio Malaya's "Show "Business" feature last night, will be presented at the Victoria Theatre on October 15. in aid of St. Andrews Mission Has- pital. The dramatic murder-by-scissors scene will be staged
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      QUOTES
      236 4 What the stars say. about otner stars NOF.L COWARD IN the smallest part, u hen 1 he uas unknown, he would always air his VietOg. And I hair net ir seen any tmr offer a banana with. iuch arofeuional urbanity.'* (COIJRTNEIIHiE). PIANIST OS< All LKVANT "He in a thorough
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      Me And My Boy Friends
      571 4 Me And My Boy Friends -By Yvonne de Carlo who says: 7 have learned there is safety m numbers' yVONNE DE CARLO stood on the garden path, two Pekinese yelping excitedly about her feet, and looked up proudly at the house near Henley which she has taken on a year's
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      Donat: 'much better now'
      79 4 ROBERT DONAT, is feeling much better. Since his asthma forced him to give up his part m the film "Hobson's Choice." three months ago, lie has been taking it easy and moving into a new house. He and his wife. Renee Asherson, have given up their
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      She 'saved' T.S. Eliot
      98 4 ifARGARET LEIGH iw Festival Week at this ye* l Edinburgh Festival. For what Miss LeigM achieved was to *n >lfc from himself Without W intuitive sense of dra a nfiden comedy finesse The Confide tial Clerk would have a poor shadow of Tne v Party Bt
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      Too Good For Malayans?
      426 5  - Too Good For Malayans IAN GRANT bd bvb "-tiffin HWj EwttWAMS tors nave to take. Tbty art too good fTHERE is also another type 1 of film that w«? are asked to see. This is the good film whose disadvantage is that it is good It is subtle, sensitive, beautiful
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      MUSIC GALORE
      271 5 T°NIGHT WE SING Odeon) uses a nf n i^ m n by the name of Sol Hurok of whom most people have never heard, as the "pee on which to han^ such illustrious artists a* Feodor ChaJiapin, the I Russian bass, Anna Pay- I lova, the ballet dancer
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    • Malcolm Modder's sports-pourrie
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        I AM SUCH A KIND FELLOW...
        178 6 1WAS told to mind my own business by two schoolboys a fortnight ago. They told me I had no right to call upon the education authorities to bar them from clubs that had no seperate premises for them. Well, to be frank 1 am
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        MR VARGAS HAS PUT AN END TO SOSC WORRIES
        589 6 MR VARGAS HAS PUT AN END TO SOSC WORRIES COT ANYTHING TO SAY IF you have any grouse, views or anything of interest dealing with sport write and tell me. Others will like to read about it too. Address your letters to: Malcolm Modder's Sportspourrie, c/o Singapore Free Press, Cecil
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      Let there be NO tears at J.B. tomorrow
      229 6 i\ held at JaUn Besar Stadium tomorrow. To corpse 1 may be the ugly Awang Bakar— Chu Chee Seng affair and Singapore Amateur Foot- I ball Association will conduct the service. The chief mourners will be Singapore soccer fans and if all
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      Why don't these men give up!
      256 6 nPHE duties of a sports official are many. It could be a thankless job and above all he does not get paid. He takes on the appointment knowing all this too well but he does it for "the love of the game." Most of
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      The BAM should change their 'No' to 'Yes'
      349 6 The BAM should change their 'No' to 'Yes' THE Badminton Association of Malaya is again m hot water— I'm using readers' letters as a yardstick. Their latest plunge is their refusal to let a band of Malayan players go on a world tour. The general verdict is: BAM IS UNFAIR!
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      SSH! OUR PING PONG TEAM IS BROKE...
      190 6 SSH! OUR PING PONG TEAM IS BROKE... SINGAPORE S table tennis team is still m Tokyo and I am reliably informed that they haven't enough money to pay tor their passages back home. I am told that Mr Urn Choo Ann, president of the Singapore Table Tennis Association who Is
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      IS BOXING HARMFUL?
      394 6 Mo! No! No! IS boxing harmful? Does 1 it cause external and internal injuries to the body? asks Sports-pourrie reader W. Neo. He believes boxing should be scrapped. It will ruin healthy youths, he says. Then Mr. Neo goes on to quote a case of a boxer
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      ASIANS GET THAT FEEL FOR RUGGER AGAIN
      435 7 Rv tkOH ENG TATT within the next few years mt sign of this is the great InterSt shown among the ounger players-some of whan surprisingly are not connected with schools' teams. This is most unusual as practically all Asian players learn their rugge.r
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      Omar is an Ismail Marjan FIND
      327 7  - Omar is an Ismail Marjan FIND TAN HONG POH By under "he""' Playinß Cts C X s be f single, t itl ens ]unior 5S Hi S on";,r Omar tol <> *|> the tiui ,n hplpe<l mc to k t m l m my S COn<l C much must than^
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      OCT. 27-IS A BIG FOR OUR YOUTH BOXERS
      308 7  - OCT. 27-IS A BIG FOR OUR YOUTH BOXERS GERRY ISAAC By QCTOBER 27 is a big day for Singapore boy boxers for the youth boxing championships begin and the eventual winners will be given m addition to cups and medals a free trip to Australia m January next year, where
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      172 7  -  EDIN PETTERS By |xj commemorate the 11th anniversary of R.EM.E. on Thursday, R.E.M.E. Work Shops floodlit the Ayer Rajah Road ground and staged a friendly soccer match. REME, who are Singapore inter-unit cnampions, played a team chosen from RE., R.A.S.C., and R.A.O.C. and after watching the game I returned
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      Shaving Won't Aid Hair Growth
      455 8  - Shaving Won't Aid Hair Growth ALTON L. BLAKESLEE The scientists expose some fallacies about hair by NEW YORK I JOES Shaving make huii grow back coarser? Does shaving make hair tfrow tMttr? Does a oeard grow faster m hot weather than cold? Does each hair keep growing all the time?
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      99 8 photo. b^i!!iJ? n f of i he flret tthis.an s .a Prisoner has when he or she is admitted to prison. This lovely young girl i s innocent yet nas been sent to prison for one year and to complete her depredation she was forced to take a bath on
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      PART-TIME JOB
      70 8 photo. The study of animals is the sp are time hobby of schoolteacher, Miss Freda Walker, of Wo nibourn, Staffordshire. In order to learn more about the m she is taking lessons out of school by acting as a part- time assistant keeper at the Dudley (Worcestershire) Zoo.
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      THE RESCUE OF PRINCE FUEN TEI
      475 8 (Continued from Page 1) jack a much heavier rope which his men had previously prepared and made it secure m the Prince's room,. Then, when all was ready they heard to their dismay the iound of movement outside the room. Lok Sien had barely
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      Nurses Hold a 'Hostel- Warming'
      210 9  - Nurses Hold a 'Hostel- Warming Roger Yue Story by gINGAPGRE'S Girls m White— nurses of the General Hospital, held a hostel-warming dance at their new hostel on Saturday. The nurses, for once, discarded their spotless uniforms and danced and laughed with their boy friends and sweethearts. The hospital matron, Miss
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        372 16 3tid~day nap PARMITER m the 4.45 (Race 6) give Who Regrets that little advantage to beat bis itablemate. If Gam bar Melayn runs th; same race as m the Gold Cup at Singapore he is a real threat to the Van Breukelens' p dr. ■T— Galley is a strong tip.
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      43 2 Best Quality Ceffflan Fountain Pens fH Sold by a» Fo V »am Pc" lert Sole Agents: CHEE KONG CO., LTf. Importer, Exporter* Watches Fountain P«« 386, North Bridge -7t/sr" AKK' yeP BARBAIJ tfc KUMFOBI SHOES 332. NORTH Mll"^ S PORE 7 T<? J
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      429 2 I Penny and the Last Magician— 2 1 j Penny and Konl have Ulned the chairs away the removal many chairs as there are the Cness Board *< am f r men are adding extra chairs players. "Of course there are." chisInK the Knight But Penny fr van— and hurrying
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      205 2 JUNIOR I CROSSWoJ CLI/£S ACROSS 3 H pocws. 5, r/ie third L* 1 England of this name Ztl cuscd of murdering thT^l cess m the Tower 1 a ml at the bait by a fik Vfl can see him mi n a ciri/?! Hutton' is a inJ'w cricketer. 12, SheUey^
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    Big business demands more room on roads
    425 10 BRITAIN URGED TO ACT 4 LONG the stage -coach roads of Britain swarms the modern volume of traffic increased 50 per cent. since 1938 and probably mounting to six million vehicles daily m 1960. It is choking our trade, say business men. The
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    He catches man who fell 30 ft
    152 10 He catches man who fell 30 ft A 60-YEAR-OLD master builder, Albert McLean, caufht one of his employees who fell 30 feet from the roof of a house. Albert then walked across the road to his home and told his wife: "Don't worry. I've only broken my arm and a
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    ENVOY LEAVES
    25 10 Sir William Hayter, Britain's new ambassador to Russia left London by air for BerWn on his way to take up his Moscow post.
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    67 10 )hoto. ACTORS Jimmy Gaillard and Alfred Adam find it difficult to choose a tie, even with the lovelies to assist them. The actors were visiting an exhibition held by the National Federation of Tie Makers m Paris, where every visitor received a grift tie, but not the girls to help
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    The sports-kit men dodge that tax
    199 10 The sports-kit men dodge that tax SPORTS equipment makers In Britain have found a way for retailers to dodge Budget-time losses when purchase tax drops. Their scheme also oils the wheels of their own Industry. For it encourages shopkeepers to buy sports kit all the year round instead of saving
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    CROOKS SEE CROOK PLAY-THEN ROB THE THEATRE
    165 10 CROOKS SEE CROOK PLAY-THEN ROB THE THEATRE T*HREE small-time crooks sat through a play about a A crook family "The White Sheep of the Family." Upstage, right, was the portrait of a benevolent old gent. Behind the portrait was the play's "secret safe." In it burglars' kit jemmies, hammers, flies.
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    THE MAN WHO WORKS TOO HARD TELLS WHY
    301 10 JJE works too hard" k was said of a ma n a J 33 who has a wife I ttve children \J%£ WORKS TOO HARDO This is the story of »,u Hard,, whose villag? h** at Sturry, near Canted Walter was once
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    'Clippies' are best
    137 10 WOMEN bus conductors are bright, cheerful and efficient. They stay at their jobs better than men. and make passengers more considerate. This was the verdict of men at the annual conference of the Municipal Transport Association m Belfast. Councillor S. P. IlilJ. of Noti tingham. told the
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    Captain Keeps His Fingers Crossed
    539 11 The Gothic prepares for a royal voyage for the third time LIVERPOOL. ou« of workmen 5W2 hammering and W make the £jf nothing goes wrong the Gothic 'Sde of the Britain to AusJanin is due to pick up £n Elizabeth II and her jSSid, the
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    Bridge Talk
    390 11 w^HILE THE "WEAK" TWO BID i» vied with great success m duplicate bridge and m tournaments, was designed for -and is actually most effective m rubber bridge. It can be wpecially devastating m part K»e situations. In fact, one expert nitt we know uses the weak two W
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    UNKNOWN
    374 11 an old sea-going custom, important passengers are always given starboard quarters. The colour scheme throughout will be pink and green pink for the royal lounge and the Queen's night cabin, green for her day cabin which looks out on the shelter deck aft. Air conditioning will keep the Queen
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      261 11 Today's Crossword ACROSS.- 1. i 8 this t?ie kind of (4). 7. Is this the ordinary looking yiiK Nelson hr;irs these days? (6, 7) passenger on the/bus? (5. 4>. 8. PS. A Year of feminine opportuni y. and —History! (ana**.) i9>. 10. List a low to t*ke it! (4> 8.
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    A fine calling
    57 12 Header's poser fOULD you illustrate in vy pictures and explain in captions what physiotherapists do. In the Straits Times 1 saw an advertisement calling »or pupil physiotherapists. X. K H Above is the answer in a picture, it shows a nurse in Washington using progressive resistance apparatus
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    Indonesians visit Malayan camp
    305 12  -  P. L. KOH By OIK Indonesian scouters, headed by Mr. Joenoes Agiel Z Sf° Vi Cc commis ?i oocrn er for South Sumatra, are returning tomorrow after a four-week visit to Malaya to make a study of scouting activities here Tneir experience of Malayan scouting will
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    NOT LEGAL
    113 12 1SAW a European woman cycling with a child of three, or four, seated behind h fL,°" a small rattan chair, specially constructed as a nilv£?blJ he number plate was not Thin was at 5 15 pm on Mond Sept. 28, near the Junction of Orchard Road and Dhoby
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    Any grouse?
    32 12 HAVE you a grouse? Have you a bright idea? Have you seen anything strange or unusua)? «#?S en wrlt thc PRESSMAN and tell others about [t in his POSTBAG briefly.
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    TAMIL PLIGHT
    125 12 r)N the proposal for the regisvJ tration of Hindu marriages and banning of self-torture by Tamils during religious festivals Mr. V. Pakirislmy has written that we should leave these matters to the gods. Do not people like Mr. Pakirisamy see that this is the type of attitude that
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    ANOTHER RED FLEES
    36 12 The anti-Communist Information Bureau West said In Berlin yesterday that Horst Mothes a high official m the Communist East German Trade Union Federation, had fled to West Berlin and asked for political asylum.
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    'M' no mystery now
    178 12 f AM able to reply to the query a few days ago about the letters In the top corners of the Cambridge School Certificates These lefterg have no upeclal slgnlnc*nce exoept to the University of Cambridge They «erve a useful pur- I pone «s a quirk
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      S'PORE MOVE WELCOMED
      417 12 S'PORE MOVE WELCOMED MIC DEFECTION' I WAS very pleased to read the articlp Suicide— Say Singapore Indians It>s V,* One cannot help congratulat- i Ing the Singapore members of the Malayan Indian Congress on the promptness of their very laudable attempt to find out facts concerning what they called "defection"
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      THE SCOLDS
      89 12 mHE manners of the nurses of the Joo Chiat Clinic, Singapore, are altogether bad. Who taught them to shout and scold the poor mothers who go there with their babies? I hope they will learn not to behave m this disgusting way. 'They can, advise the mothers tot
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      TONIGHT'S BAIL
      35 12 A ball sponsored by toe Jewish Welfare Board will be held at the Sea View Hotel, Singapore, tonight; from 9 pm. to 1 a.m. The band of the East Yorkshire Regiment will attend.
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      85 12 111 fejl v J» If] fisg^L Your doctor |\\if^l^coul(ltellyo« r™^ JuyJß how NEUTRADONNA I iMPfflr^Ti by lts so thing ar>d A iflßP^ speedy action neutrafa\ s^sir^ iises stomach acidity and I Jr ls a co^P lete treatment for I j f everyday stomach disorders m£-A J Your nearest difpenury can
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    SHOW TALK TWO HIGH Cs
    459 13 SHOW TALK TWO HIGH Cs Crosby limelight. ■mey are "Call me tjSv" by Bing Crosby Per) and "Cicely" by Cicely Courtneidge (Hitcbinson). Bing CrosDy and Cicely fourtneidge show unexpected flair m expressing their personalities m print. But then the faviurite letter m the alphabet for any star is "I. Crosby
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    ...AND LOVE HAS BORN
    119 13 I HOW one of the London |H stages celebrated ro- mances began, as told by > Cicely Courtneidge m her I 1 autobiography: "Father (producer Robert i Cowrtneidge) said to me: 7 have a new show for you. A < (you^g undergraduate from Cambridge is going
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    Gary, Gloria Talking..
    778 13 DAVID LEWIN SPOTLIGHTS THREE FAMOUS ENTERTAINERS WHO HAVE COME OUT ON TOP AND STAYED THERE -BING CROSBY, GARY COOPER AND CICELY COURTNEIDGE AND A FOURTH WHO IS ON THE WAY UP, GLORIA GRAHAME. LONDON. rjARY COOPER wound his 6 ft. 3 ins. over a fireplace and said:
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      65 13 mmGanywned Printel 11 AS YOU CO ABOUT SINCAPORE YOU WILL SEE IN THE f HOMES OF DISCERNING PiOPLE COPIES OF CANYMED FACSIMILES ADORNINC THEIR WALLS. YOU HAVE PROBABLY WONDEREO WHERE THEY CAN BE OBTAINED. 1 t WHY NOT, THEN, CALL AND SEE OUR COLLECTION AT OLDHAM HALL TODAY? DONALD MOORE
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    Colony to test basketball side
    276 14 'THE Singapore basketball team will assess their 1 chances In the Asian Games next year by taking part in the Pan Asian basketball championships in Bangkok next month, said Mr. Goh Chye Hin, president of the Sinraoore Chinese Amateur Athletfo F*ri»ratint> yesterday. The Bangkok Games
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    Former boxer now helps convicts
    107 14 Former boxer now helps convicts HELPING convicts get back on their feet is the future occupation of ex-lightweight contender Tommy Collins, who earned the sympathy of millions of televiewers m a disastrous title fight last April against Jimmy Carter. "I had my shot at the title and that's enough for
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    H.K. CRICKETER FOR SINGAPORE
    65 14 D. McLellan. one of the mainMayn of the Hongkong Cricket Club* team, left Hon« Hong by the Dutch ship Tjlwangl for Singapore. He wm given a garewell dinner at Ihe club Uuit night. Mr McLellan a rtvti iMrvaat who hM been trannf erred U) MofApor*. came
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    INDIA WILL BE HARD TO BEAT' —DUCKWORTH
    165 14 pOMMONWEALTH cricketers will assemble in London next Tuesday and leave by air for Bombay two days later for their tour of India. They will be joined in Bombay by Sam Loxton and Ken Meuleman who will fly from Australia the same day. "All
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    MALAYS' TEAM v ALL DJAKARTA
    56 14 OINOAPORE Malays* line up against the All Djakarta side at Jalan Besar stadium tcxiay will be chosen from: Osman Angullia, Johan, All Samijan. Arshad, Rahman Jr.. Hassm. Yassin, Harlth (capt.). Osman Johan, Aman, Rashld Giman, Rahman Aziz, Omar Awang, Ibrahim Mansoor, Awang Bakar. Ismail Yusoff,
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    U.S. WOMEN BEATEN
    18 14 South Africa defeated United States 4-0, m the women's International hockey tournament at Follutone yesterday.
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    Chantry for Cesarewitch
    342 14 i^HANTRY, who won the Melvy bourne Stakes comfortably on the Cesarewltch course on Tuesday, was nominated jit 13 to 2 for the Cesarewltch at th Victoria Club callover last night. Paplllto wu» wHI backed at 10 to 1. while there wiu some 1)1^ e:irh way wager* for
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    DON! KEEP AWAY FROM ROCKY
    347 14 DON KEEP AWAY FROM ROCKY It is suicide to meet him By DESMOND HACKETT DOWN at Madison Square Garden m the re«tu ing city of New York the curbstone cowboy! the resident rodeo were chewing straws ove matters as bronco-busting, wrestling with steers other sports that turn insurance brokers Drem?*.^!
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    Turpin is in a mean mood
    241 14 Turpin is in a mean mood MIDDLE weight champioo Randolph Turpin, has left the bright lights of New York for the austere heights of the Catskill Mountains. A bleak, searching wind probes around the century-old farm-house which will be Turpin 's home until he fights Bobo Olson on October 21
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    BOSTAM-JAMIL TENNIS FINAL
    98 14 The results of the MaW Association open ««nflto matches played recently^ m A. Rahman beat n £L t H atf" 6-1,6-1; Dollah Ahmad be»J^ wO aiwi 6-1. t!i s J a sii^ tSlld 8. A. Da wood; A. »uja* Sulalman 6-1, 6-4 M m^'"' Hamld Bilal beat
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    West Brom. to win today
    263 15  - West Brom to win today GEOFFREY MILLER WOLVES HAVE HARD MATCH By < OUT OF ACTION Rmmwicn Albion, who are setting the pace in EST Bromwwn English soccer league, look s^to^h further ahead in the championship race have a home match with struggling MiddlesIh who are propping up the league
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    PLAYERS MARLY CAME TO BLOWS
    253 15 PLAYERS MARLY CAME TO BLOWS indiaM 2, Army 2. INDIAN and the Army shared 1 points m a keenly-contested Singapore Amateur F.A. Community League match at Jalan Boar Stadium yesterday. Both teams played m top gear throughout, but the game was ilightly spoil during the end when some of the
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    Shell force a replay
    21 15 Shell force a replay XT*** tSO*" but they £*«*4 ha!}* flr|t mtnutS ll »W|i r^nt the U)em refci^* win bf r^.
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    MALAYAN MEET
    32 15 Teams from Singapore and Hong Kong are competing at the Malaya Rifle Meeting to be held at the FARELP training centre, Kota Tinggi, Johore on Oct. 7. 8 and 9
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    U.S. SUPRISE TO TAKE LEAD IN RYDER CUP
    380 15 A MERICA'S supposedly weak Ryder Cup team surprisrL ed the British team and crowd at Virginia water m England yesterday by taking a 3—l lead. The Americans were prevented by making a clean sweep of foursomes by the fighting Irish pair Fred
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    FIGHT POSTPONED
    21 15 Flash Elorde's scheduled non-tltl-ten-round fight against Japanese featherweight king Nobom Tanaka has been postponed again on account of rain.
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    CINECOLOR DOES A PLEASING GALLOP
    539 15 TODAY'S TRACK WORK AT IPOH From ALLAN LEWIS j i OPENCER trained horses were the outstanding workers on the second Grass Track at Ipoh this morning. Gold Vase candidate Cinecolor, ridd en by his race jockey Len Sawyer, did a winning gallop. He went from
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    Johore College beaten
    105 15 A PENALTY goal by Kirn Chye five minutes before time his second for the match enabled Raffles Institution to beat Johore English College by six points (two penalties) to five (goal) m a rugger friendly at Johore Bahru yesterday. English College opened scoring m the first half,
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    SCRC win tame game on padang
    160 15 SCRC win tame game on padang SCRC 3; SCC t. HHHIS Singapore Hockey Assom. elation Div. 1 league game was one of the tamest seen on the padang this season. Although Singapore Chinese Recreation Club won by three goals to nil, the game was a lifeless affair. Chinese did not
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    Three hockey trials for Singapore
    144 15 rpHREE trials will be held aftei which the Singapore team foi the southern quadrangular hockej tournament between Selangor, Malacca, Johore and Singa;iire In the Colony on Oct. 23, 24 and 25 will be chosen. The first trial will be played next Saturday; the other two
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    CHAMPION GETS A THRASHING
    33 15 Louis Carrara of Franc* gave Denmark's European lightweight champion Joergen Johansen one of fhe worst beatings of his career In a ten-round non-title bout In Copenhagen last night. UP.
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    VAN B. MATCH IN MAIN 9F.
    1855 16 and Who Regrets will win CARD From ALLAN LEWIS WITH INTEREST taken out of the Class 1, Division 1 sprint by the scratching of Gold Vase prospects Forest Beau, Cypress Point, Talisman and Box Office, the most discussed race on the Ipoh course this
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