The Singapore Free Press, 6 October 1953

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press fureest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. fclJttS, Sl*f»P«re Tues., Oct., 6, 1953, Price 15 Cts.
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  • 500 1  - BIG FIRE FOLLOWS THREAT SIT YIN FONG oen demanded S 9 pvre 'donation Godown burnt out By A TWO-STOREY sodown of the Singapore Chinese import and export firm of Lien Huat on North Boat Quay, with stocks estimated to be worth $100,000, was completely destroyed by fire at 2 a.m.
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  • 445 1 REVOLT BY MINISTERS BRITISH warships and troops raced yesterday restless British Guiana, lere Britain's Governor i thinking of sacking the ft-wing government. The flagship of Britain's tat Indies squadron, the J*r Superb, and the frigate pry Bay, with troops lard, are steaming across the iribbean in
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  • 13 1 ftfuS. S ubb f r «»*'t ■W'otai CenU below y es
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  • 169 1 CLARK PROTESTS TO THIMAYYA n that it P w fl ation CommLst? c tffv Jl rison ers who rtt U»T\ tn n ydo not Want f« T ,r-» a year while the* principle of freedom of choice was argued prior to a truce *nd said the Command would not compromise
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  • 163 1 SENATOR William Knowland. the Republican leader m the U.S Senate, yesterday condemned a proposal for a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union as likely to lead to "another Munich" or "another Yalta." At a Washington press conference on returning from a world tour, Senator Knowland
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  • 50 1 picture. A godown near her home at Boat Quay is ablaze. All about her is confusion But this little girl, standing guard over her family's possessions, calmly sips her milk. In this mornings fire, many children were snatched from their sleep and taken to safety. Free Press
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  • 238 1  - RATTING PYTHONS ARE NOW LOOSE GERRY ISAAC By WHERE were two .pythons m X North Boat Quay godowns, which were on fire this morning. They were kept to destroy rats. Firemen, tipped off about their presence maintained a sharp lookout for the reptiles, but could not find them. Now the
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  • 28 1 A Singapore ClftlneiC landlord had his .skull fractumi wh««n h«' was attacked m a North Bridal Rnad hou.sp veittraAJT. A polo and an iron bar WW
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  • 96 1 rpEST pilot Mike Lithgow, who set a new world air speed record m Libya only to have it shattered by an American plane a few days later, has been ordered to fly back to Britain In his Supermarine Swift jet fighter. A spokesman for Vickers
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  • 396 2 lifRS. VIJAYA Lakshmi Pandit, the President of the United Nations (Jeneral Assembly, pounded her Ravel three times m five minuWs yesterday to Hiop Mr. Andrei Vishinsky, the Soviet delegate who was speaking out of order. Mr. Vishinsky was protesting that the nomination
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  • 247 2 THIS STRANGE WORLD GERMANY'S autumn spree th? \J Oktoberfest at Munich hai beaten all records In its 143 years history. Six million visitors have drunk 800,000 gallons of beer, eaten 16 oxen, 110,000 chickens, one million sausages. Ninetyflve people were knocked out by drink. They
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  • 33 2 The Government asked a fe- l ou yesterd ay to issue a Taft-Harttey aw injunction ordering 65,000 longshoremen to hTnti? lay old strike at AtV^ni a POrts frOm Maine »O
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  • 101 2 MOSSADEQ SAYS: I'LL DEFEND MYSELF AN Army courtmartial m Teheran yesterday gave Dr. Mossadeq five days to name his. defence lawyer. The former Prime Minister told the messenger who took the court order to him: I shall defend myself." Dr. Mossadeq studied law as a young man and took a
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  • 52 2 Daddy says goodbye BSM Mohd. Sidek bin Sulaima n, of the Royal Artillery on Blakang Mati. left yesterday m the troopship New Australia for a six-week course at the G uards Training Battalion. Woolwich. Three other colleagues also left with him Here he is seen saying goodbye to his wife
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  • 177 2 Vietnam skymen blow up Red bast \7IETNAMESE Daratmft aided by local n? 1 1 yesterday ZSfih ™«1 Communist-led Vietmiit war supply base itLato'A troying probabl «"?Jj*j thousand tons" of armTtS ammunition. Mb The Vietnamese, w Ka n» N chuted into the village of^" lieu across the Red Rive? Laokay, 140
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    • 191 2 'De Luxe' by Kangaroo Service to Civ II BRITAIN '|f AUSTRALIA o 4 and all countries en route Go as you please! Fly m only two days t<> London by QANTAS-H.O.A.C. Or take it easy anywlurc en route-^ ,^^H enjoyini,' a fiw thus stop-over at no extra nir f;ir<\ My
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  • 204 3 Fed. and Colony men want same pay for jobs Press Staff Reporter £5 newly formed Malayan Workers' Liaison remittee covering unions C« and Federal will try to establish a SZ wages policy for Slypes of employees m hoth territories. tSs according to Mr Chew cT the secretary of the He
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  • 82 3 'fJIRLS m India are more U interested m becoming doctors than nurses, an Indian -oman doctor said m Winnipeg, Canada, yesterday i an i n l erview Dr. Leela M. Me, of Poona, India, said the pc generally m India are n S more hospital-mind-w and
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  • 116 3 H,k^K chine v chools Har Hon and Hwa B more than tw destroyed during the Geylang rebuiit again Nding put U P another »n. M l 8 the organiff^Oay that Broom e. said Jft a\,,.4T h o lliai the amount •should be distributed proportionately,
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  • 353 3 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE motorists' "jigsaw puzzle" the Stamford Road-St. Andrew's Road-Beach Road junction will no longer be a traffic nightmare. Three automatic traffic lights will be installed there. Motorists who stream down Stamford Road into Connaught Drive have been protesting at the "outrageous"
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  • 102 3 6,000 dockers strike for one man ABOUT 6,000 dockers were on strike and 47 ships idle m the Liverpool and Birkenhead docks yesterday because of the dismissal of one man. The Birkenhead dockers walked out three days ago when the man was sacked for refusing to switch from his job
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  • 27 3 East Oermany and China nave agreed to appoint ampassadon m each other's capl- '■'>• and rai.se their diplomatic miaitona to the status or cmoussies.
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  • 25 3 Britain will decontrol magnesium next Jan 1 and return trade m the strategic metal W private hands, the Ministry of Materials announced yesterday.
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    64 3 picture. THIS, says Singapore Traffic Police Chief Mr. W. R. M. Haxworth, IS the correct way to pull up m front of the light at the junction of River Valley-Kirn Seng, and Irwell Bank Roads. The line is painted just m front of the car m the
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  • 27 3 Premier Mohammed Ali said yesterday that Pakistan will become a republic before the end of the year, under a new constitution to be announced soon.
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  • 144 3 MALAYA TALKS IN LONDON \|R. R. G. Casey, the Au.^tra--Itl liun External Allaire Minister yesterday gave Mr. Anthony Eden first hand account o! the recent Washington Council meeting of ANZU3. the Patvfi* defence alliance from which Britain is excluded. Mr. Eden back at his Foreign Office desk yesterday for the
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  • 381 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Oct. 6, 1953. Opinion HOT SPOT "OEHIND the report yesterday that the Queen had attended an urgent, special meeting of the Privy Council held at Balmoral Castle m Scotland where she is on holiday lies a Red plot to seize British Guiana. Guiana is regarded
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  • 48 4 The Germans, when they were be mtf htrri«d into prison camps after losing the war they started, were the m< 1 1 hated people m Eurr^pe Today as tourists they are welcomed everywhere. even m Italy where hatred of them was once fiercest.
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  • 486 4  - They All Love The Germans Now BERNARD RONALD Special Correspondent writing from Milan, describes a remarkable change m the average Italian's attitude to his one-time oppressors f\N tens of thousands of littte plaques on city walls and on rough crosses m country lanes throughout Italy one reads the words: "Martyred
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  • 444 4  - WHERE EGYPTIANS LIKE THE BRITISH Ras Gharib ITS A QUEER WORLD....! T»HIS is the town where everyone looks happy, where British and Egyptians work together m perfect harmony, where poverty doesn't exist and nobody bothers to lock his door. It's all thanks to oil. What used to be a bleak
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    • 18 4 BEST VALUES m Exquisite Diamond Gem Set JEWELLERY U. S. de SUVA, JeuH'llcrs 106, ORCHARD RD., SINGAPORE. 9.
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    • 36 4 take it Jy<J f rom vs |T|£/§?jK Everyone's singing the praises of time-saving, tasty Kird^eyeT (0) H FROSTED FOODS V FRUIT VEGETABLES lUmy to prepare with "frinkn-frcsh" fl'"* 1 FULL RANGE AVAILABLE SINGAPORE «™n <TfIPACE (O.J!^
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 217 5 110 MILLION PLAN FOR 50 ACRES Free Press Staff Reporter .no f 1 000 people are to be built soon m H^'ufiteiifUe Siglap area of Singapore. ke Sm and Company, the owners, are MeSSr 0 rMW 350 bunnalows. terrace houses and planning w t |ul
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  • 50 5 WORTH KOREA claimed yes- terday to have captured 51 egedly smuggled into 2a S tlon d SCnd Ut militar^ Radio m a broad- 3 the ''Am en Were mem Hated they i C T mand and Captured b > '^ty Kanl^ honu Kumgun fcpt 22" gwon Prince
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  • 8 5 REDS SOFTPEDAL IN ALBANIA *»»ter, rfe ounc 01
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  • 33 5 «k^ rlt «h P«, k Road ■Hana is a ventriloquist likp £i mother and grandfather. ■Mana is seen with "Tommy" a dummy larrer than hersHf. P opper picture.
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  • 140 5 GOVERNOR'S 'NO TO INDIANS ON ENTRY LAW Free Press Staff Keporter liHE Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nlcoll, has refused a request by the Indian Congress to amend the new Immigration law to ease possible hardships to newcomers. The Congress, m a memorandum, had urged Sir John to reduce the
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  • 23 5 The Countess of Harewood gave birth yesterday to a boy who became 14th m line of succession to Britain's throne.
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  • 152 5 Free Press Staff Reporter \|()RE than 1,800 people have already joined the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association scheme for insurance against tuberculosis, the medical director of S.A.T.A., Dr. G. H. Garlick, said yesterday. tie said mat most were irom big firms including insurance compainies. The firms have insured
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  • 180 5 TEACHING CHINESE WITH 'GOOD ACCENT' Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Duputy Director of Education, Mr. R. E. Ince, said yesterday facilities for learning the Chinese language m English schools were adequate. He added: "We only employ qualified teachers whose knowledge of Kuo-yu is carefully examined to make sure the language
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  • 53 5 picture. Mr. Stuart Faber Hills, Assistant Commissioner for Labour, Pahang, and Miss Dorothy Mary Knight, secretary to the Federation's Attorney- General, Mr. Michael Hogan, who were married at Kuala Lumpur St. Mary's Church last Saturday. The page boy is James Ciookenden and the 'flower girl Jane Crookender
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  • 215 5 Schools aim to teach self-rule MR. H Hopkinson, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, told a United Nations meeting at Lake Success that the fundamental aim of Britain's educational policy m the non-self-governing territories was the development of the capacity for responsibility. But, he said, the active devolution of responsibyity
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 139 6 MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis IUNDIkSTANONQW.INSTEADOf MACHINERY.WHI kill FXPLA!N. I'll WiTH 1/ASICimS ASUGHTAS SPIDEK .^g? bSJgX^ y J\^OW YOU //LBS. A WORLD WITHOUT WU,H7. --g g= wIT/ L -^lik 1 1 TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~~T~~ H^ 7 /-VAN '.''AA/^HAT f>*A, I I 6*A CiCCLEP
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    • 596 6 YOUR 1 LUCKY STAR you are •MUM for th, RO4MI W have wonderful jrfLrLH limes almost too iranir* ac -cuniplishmt nt mi n ":*J* I lime— l.ut you will a rr W >«>ui utmost t» «.l u.-uins some true. *g* J*\ 100 •liv.i|i|M.in:«- d if Wl achieve everything you mL"*
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  • 598 7 Paget Q.C. tells of 163-mile train trip and then asks: DID SILENCE MAKE EVANS BREAK DOWN? 3rd confession: a new doubt A SILENCE more subtle and effective than the third degree's glaring floodlight. A silence so effective, 1 Q.C. says that it is probably the answer to why Timothy John
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  • 237 7 mwo other murder trials. 1 apart from the Evans case, are discussed m Mr. Mr. Pact's review-written m co-operation with Socialist M.P.. Mr. Sydney Silverman. They contend there was doubt m the guilt of each man. No. 1: The case of Walter
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  • 91 7 n «»*r, SalH th A/J"ceal it i,, a bunch f art|fi 80 t^ flr Jt he told°th nt Obe 'y^ But w* *j". Has ;\7"" :>l Ili^1 li^ men One i I telescopic camera. b!a!k P Hr Un °r a hot thf> Brpne '•»<•
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  • 65 7 ABOUT 100 aristocrats from nine countries met m Naples to form a noblemen's union which will protect the traditions of ancient nobility against upstarts. Three committees have been formed to study the history of noble families, their coats of arms and chivalry orders. Dozens of new chivalry
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  • 35 7 Film star weds in Hollywood picture. I Movie star, John Payne, and the former Mrs. Alexandra Curtis, gaze into each other's eyes as they drink a toast together following their marriage m Hollywood, California. A.P.
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  • 561 8  - 'Bertandang' and 'Bersanding' Malay Ceremonies PETER de CRUZ Story by TMIK pictures m this page show the colourtni celebration! at two traditional Malay cmcmonles "Bersanding" and "Bertandang" following the marriage of thfl two sons of 'Dato and Datin Syt'd A. M. Altagof! m Singapore. The two sons are Lieut Syed
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  • 477 10 £35,000 raid— Flying Squad hold 4 men STOLEN GEMS SEIZED CWIFT raids by a fully mobilised Scotland Yard Fly- in** Squad recovered most of the £35,000 haul of money and jewels stolen by a gelingnite Iml week from Maple's store m Tottenham Court Koad, London. Much of the loot was
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  • 135 10 whkn uermany built the I pocket-battleship Tirpltz Hitler little thought its fiteel would be used to fashion a new kind of plough But a Norwegian team, which sailed from Liverpool to uiko pftri In the flrnt world champion •nip ploughing contest In Canada, know better. One of
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  • 32 10 The wet concrete roof of a i nearly completed oil storage tank m Everett, U.S. collapsed on Saturday, killed one worker and injured 19 others.
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  • 23 10 Six rallwaymon were killed near La Spezia, Italy, yesterday when one goods train crashed into the rear of another.
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  • 427 10  - LIZ AND I BURNED CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS Michael Wilding PILM star Elizabeth Taylor is a nervous wreck, said her actor husband Michael Wilding £9-a-day royal suite m Cop* He told how the strain of living up to being a star seems almost to have broken his 21--year-old wife. We
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  • 281 10 CLEARED WIFE SOBS IN THE DOCK A ™p; "^active w -obbed quietly I, tt Bmley dock after been cleared on five aJZ 04 stealing money and silying her firm's Msh The jury had heard hV». to a love aflair'Xt them through the n?& cash to keep them secret In the
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  • 1100 11  -  SYLVIA SHORT by •ISS ENID Margate Africa< LONDON. IN the first exclusive m I terview she has given since her wedding last July 18, the former Enid Margaret Cripps spoke to me of her. marriage to Joseph Appiah, an Ashanti tribesman from the
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    190 11 JJANY WHO HAVE NEVER seen a ■m V^t tournament have the mistaken idea that the hands are l specially tricky but mJ. Xm° c Case When the s m aL? °o al Cna mpion«hips of the WM Hillti .5 1 L UiS eVer >' hanci jas dealt m
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 282 11 Today's Crossword ACROSS.— 1, The law brings rich- of forensic medicine (3). 12, What 6). 4, How bandits would raise Vera may do? (4). 13, Sounds as if omething? (4-2). 8. Ten lines to .someone had been m battle! <4). 16. •someone on guard? (8). 9. The next 16. So
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    • 13 11 BUCKLEY j SJPS- it DON TBE SO ANXIOUS THE FOOD IS NEARLY READY!"
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  • The Pressman's Postbag
    • 293 12 CLERKS DIDN'T GO TO SCHOOL LIAVING read the comments by the chairman of the 11 Singapore Harbour Board m the Straits Times, I im surprised that the board employs such stall, knowng that they are so much below the educational standard required by clerks. This will give people a bad
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    • 128 12 iITH due respect to the medical profession m general Lsh to endorse all that "Long Tering Public has written •rliaps "L.SP", and other readwould be Interested to know ol experience with another doctor "agent", answering the phone at it, always suid the doc'or w.i ut on your stating
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    • 141 12 TRADE unionism m this country is still m the crawling itage. I personally belong to a inion m which there, is much iissatlsfaction because the secretary is an outsider who cnows nothing of the conditions under which we work m opportunist who got his xvsition through influence. 1 thought
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    • Article, Illustration
      44 12 picture. Holding the feeding bottle for the three-month -old Orlbi antelope was a new experience for Bersley Show, 6, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, recently at the London zoo. But the antelope has become used to the bottle since she lost her mother In Kenya Reuter
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    • 176 12 |>ADio Malaya U featuring a w\ new programme In which listeners can win ca*h prizes if iney name correctly ltema In a musical quiz. Thl* v h good new*. But unfortuS? ,l y OOnT n, condlt|on b T m r J( > n t^rr,ame» addrr***
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    • 70 12 rpHERE was some extraordinary poor play m the Soccer match between Jakarta and the S.B.H.F.A. All the goals scored by the visitors were easy ones. In the case of the last one the ball just rolled over the line. No wonder the standard of Soccer m the Colony
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      90 12 HERE'S the "flying cycle' designed by Italian sculptor, Pietro Guaitini, 60, after 30 years* work. Three years ago he created a machine which actually rose into the air and landed safely. He hopes to have his latest version ready for take-off soon, at his home-town, Perugia. The machine
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    • 263 12 I HAVE read Mr. R. Jumabhoy's statement on the new immigration rule which came into force on Aug 1 People are employed from India on low salaries under an agreement and advantage is taken of this. rhey are often not paid C.O.L.A. and other allowances
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    • 88 12 TN future I hope the Singapore traffic office will not keep "L" drivers waiting so long for their test. I had an appointment at 2 p.m. but was not called upon until 315 p.m. The testers should keep near to the appointed time for each individual, if
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    • 87 12 Any grouse? HAVE you a grouse? Hate you a bright idea? Hare you seen anything strange or unusual? Then write to the PRESSMAN and tell others about it m his POSTBAG briefly. BBB A Grouse to Enjoy! p. Try just half a peg ot it Jj this most famous of
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  • 847 13 ing m first aid because there are times, when medical men o r ambulances are just not available at the time ol an accident. by the SINGAPORE DOCTOR iN JOHORE, just before lthe war, I practised m a village with a population of
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  • 566 13 T NEW YORK, f ANCER CASTS its shay dow throughout the world. This slayer, which now ranks as America's No 2 killer, with a death toll last year of 225.000, numbers its victims, f2 g aphicall y. from the SS? Of Ceylon m the
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  • 166 13 Two in one camera A Berlin engineer has built a camera which is really a com bmation of two adjoining cam eras holding different films giving; the photo grapher the choice of black/ white ant colour films. An indicators sh ows which kind of film 01 colour is loaded. It
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  • 33 14 Reaching for the ball at Upton Park MERRICK, Birmingham shot, which he cleared safely, Ham forwards at Upton Park goalkeeper, gathers this high when hard pressed by West on Sept. 26. Fox photo.
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  • 173 14 ]t| ALAYA, according to a report, will be invited to ifl take part m the World Invitation Badminton Tournament to be held at Glasgow m Scotland on March 10 to 13 next yea*. The World Invitation Badminton Tournament Ls held annually by the* Scottish Badminton
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  • 159 14 One -way boxing plan 'tmik National Basing AMtttoUon recent ly adopted a uniform ncm id« system fitr boxing matchti but then* i.s ,i l)|>; question whether the Nrw York BUU AMilrf.tr Commission headed hv Chairman Robert k Chrtsttntwrry, win «o altng wiiii n rher«« vns no representlve Irojn the New
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  • 354 14  - S' PORE TEAM MUST IMPROVE TEOH ENG TATT If they want to beat Penang By DINGAFOEI*B chances of regaining tfcC Foong Seong (up, which they lost to Selangor last year, have Ihmii considerably dimmed alter their showing last weekend against Malacca and it is doubtful now whether they can even
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  • 377 14 US move to help tennis amateurs THE United States Lawn Tennis Association an- j nounced proposed revisions which will bring America's amateur regulations "more into line with present day trends." The proposed regulations, j which will be presented to the executive committee for Us recommendation and to the USLTA's annual
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  • 27 14 British Empire Games officials announced yesterday that 18 Commonwealth countries would send athletes to the 1954 games m Vancouver. The latest entry was Malaya U.P.
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  • 114 14 RANDY TURPIN of Eniland started boxing preparations yesterday for his middleweight title fight with Bobo Olson of Hawaii at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 21. Turpin sparred four rounds and surprised watchers by wearing a parka over his head but ne headguard during the workout.
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  • 90 14 \USTRALIAS champion racehorse Carioca won the £6,000 Metropolitan Handicap at ftendwick Racecourse m Sydney yesterday, forcing a heavy payout by bookmakers, who Dperated on Sydney's spring raclnj iouble. Punters had coupled Silver Phantom, winner of Saturday's Epsom Handicap, with Carioca for an estimated £250,000. Carioca, a
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  • 1217 15 ttkn Lewis sums up 2nd day chances r M Scratchings I^OLLOWING horses will not lv start tomorrow: Sound Wave, Percussion. Border Scot, Director, Sunearco, Sangfroid, Channel Patrol, Kara tonga, Vasco da Gama. King's Rhapsody, Silver Screen, Itu Nasib, Who Regrets, Fifty Grand, Lucky Nick,
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  • 167 15 Euphrates to do a double El F rec Ctl!» the m"c fur],,? 0 11 "Sg^- hOf S are 3 lb worse on 'starting on the first d.,v. "rh m T f nin Urll 1n tnp nHfI Cl 1 niv n rrß y rrprrsenfn lv> < f mUZE*. ove r 1
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  • 462 16  -  ALLAN LEWIS Gold Vase horses out on track From MM.D VASI candidate TALISMAN worked ultra* lively at l|M>h this morning, when he disposed ol three m 38 2 5, on the second grass track. Garnet liougoure, his rider, had him well on the bit and m
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  • 17 16 PROCKTER: To Heather, wife of Sooffrey, a daughter, Belinda Ann, hi 4th October, at Sydney, Australia.
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  • 43 16 GRIFFITHS ROBERTS. The engagement Is announced between Richard Tudor of the Malayan Civil Service, elder son of the late Councillor Richard Griffiths and of Mrs. Griffiths, Cyncoed, Cardiff, and Margaret Cicely, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Roberts, Cyncoed Cardiff.
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  • 44 16 AERIA. At 723 Mountbat ten Road on 5.10.53, Mrs Wilhelmlna Aeria, beloved wife of Dr. J. R. Aerla, age 61, survived by sorrowing husband. a son and four daughters. Funeral service at KuXong Catholic Church on 6.10.53 at 4.3D p.m., Interment at Bidadari.
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  • 36 16 MR. CHOO CHWEE ANN and sisters thank all friends and relatives for their kind assistance, messages of condolence, wreaths, night visits and presence at the funeral «f their dearly beloved mother m their sad bereavement.
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  • 53 16 Don Cockell beats Italian champion DON Cockell, British and Empire heavyweight champion, nattered his way to a points victory over Italian champion Tber Pacilieri m m ten-round non-title bout m Leicester last night. This was Don's first fight after his trip to the United States where he beat Harry Kid
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  • 491 16 By SYDNEY HULLS RANDOLPH TURPIN. now m America lor a title bout Against Bobo Olson, Is not the lust ex- world boxing Champion who prefered to travel second class." He js not the lirst lighter who thought he could have more iun down below
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  • 170 16 R.N.A.S. Sembawang 6; S.C.C 0. RN.A.S. Sembawang were m splendid form yesterday when they beat the Singapore Cricket Club m a B fifteen rugger match by six points (a try and a penalty goal) to nil at the padang. The ragged club side were no
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  • 82 16 India beat France by four to one when the women's international hockey tournanent was continued m Folkestone yesterday. Ireland, Australia and South Africa, the only unbeaten teams m the tournament, all won their matches. Ireland beat Switzerland s—o;5 0; South Africa beat Belgium 3 l; Australia
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  • 35 16 Yesterday's U.K. Rugby Union results: Dublin 14 Newport 20; Crumlin 3 Newbridge 3; Llanelly 8 Cardiff 3. Rugby League: County match played at Hull City ground (floodlit) Yorkshire 16 Cumberland 7. Re uter
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  • 39 16 Yesterday's U.K. soccer results: Friendly match: Dundee United I Blackpool 5. Floodlit friendly matches: Quew Park Rangers 1 Arsenal 3; west HUI 2 Sunderland 0; Millwall 2 Manchester U. 1 Doncaster 5 FJwort l Reuter
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