The Singapore Free Press, 15 October 1953

Microfilm: NL3679
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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. X..1J836. Singapore, Tl.urs., Oct. 15, IBM. Prh-e 15 Cts.
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    WOOMERA BANG
    480 1 Britain** new weapon aoes off A trigger for the real thing BRITISH atomic weapon was exploded on the Woomera Rocket Range m Australia early today. A London report says experiments are being made with atom and hydrogen bomb trigger devices. Reporters were told that the detonation had relatively
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    White Paper will tell about Red plot in Guiana
    267 1 THE British Government has acceded to an Opposition request and will issue a White Paper explaining its decision to suspend the constitution of British Guiana. Parliament will debate the Government's action next Thursday. The Secretary for Colonies Mr. Oliver Lyttelton. will
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    ROBBED IN SLEEP
    12 1 S" 1 StrAt Sin foot P l h m
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    Rubber price
    8 1 ')i»n **P°re p, k w' —^--^w
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    Neutral may join talks
    105 1 A N authoritative U.S. source said m New York last lUfht that the United States might agree to include a neutral nation m the Korean political conference under certain conditions. But official comment from the U.S. delegation to the United Nations said: "The U.S. has not
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    TITO SENDS TANKS
    41 1 American-built Yugoslav tanks rumbled through Posojna, a town close to the Yugoslav frontier yesterday to back up Marshal Tito's threat to march Yugoslav troops into the Allied zone of Tieste as moon as Italian troops enter it. U.P.
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    DULLES OFF TO U.K.
    34 1 The U.S. Secretary of State. Mr John Foster Dulles, flew to London last night for Big Three talks with a pledge to seek the basis for a lasting peac<\— U.P.
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    Thieves' switch
    29 1 Stolen m Singupore today were 24 electric meter time siuitches from the S.I.T. flats m Tiong Bharu and another 17 from Prince Philip Avenue —valued at $2,000.
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    PLANE CRASHES: 44 KILLED
    171 1 PLANE CRASHES: 44 KILLED A TWIN-ENGINED Belgian Sabena Airlines passenger plane plummeted to the ground moments after taking off from Rhine Main Airport m Frankfurt yesterday and all 44 aboard were killed. A Sabena otHcer said the Plane, which was on a regular run lrorn Salzburg to Brussels. carried 40
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    LORRY HOLD UP
    33 1 Two Malay* and I Chin, c urmtd with revolvers, ttopped a Chinese lorry drtftr il tin i (i mile Jurons Road Bingap.iir, l.i ,t ni-ht, and rubbed him of $20.
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    Two stabbings
    70 1 Sia Chee Cheng, 17, was knifed by three Chinese at the junction of Havelock Road and Beo Lane early Singapore this morning. He had three wounds In the chest and back. The youth is m hospital, but so far has been unable to make a statement. In the
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    A GREAT BLAST IN A GREAT WASTE
    152 1 A GREAT BLAST IN A GREAT WASTE BKITTAIN'S atom explosion took place within the 80.000 square miles security zone of the Woomera rocket range 270 miles north-east of Adelaide, a. great expanse of almost uninhabited country which stretches across central Australia, some 1,200 miles to the sea. The actual site
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    ITALY SAYS 'YES' TO TALKS BUT ADDS AN 'IF'
    238 2 ITALY SAYS 'YES' TO TALKS BUT ADDS AN 'IF' <2I(;NOK (iiuseppe Pella, the Italian Prime v Minister, said last night that Italy is ready to sit round the table with Yugoslavia and the Western allies to seek a solution of the Trieste problem. But, he added, in an interview with
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    'Sabotaged' ship in port
    101 2 rPIIK 1.335-ton Norwegian 1 ship fcika. which sent out a frantic SOS. on Sun(iiv that it was sinking due to "sabotage on board." arrived at Le Havre, France, yesterday safe and sound. Her skipper said the ship never had been m trouble. The ships radio operator
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    Butler calls for more exports
    225 2 Butler calls for more exports MR. R. A. Butler, Chancelloi of the Exchequer, said last night that Britain's first econom'lc tusk was to earn more from exports if she was to fight her way to a position of safety." Making his annual review or the nations financial .md economic condition
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    Russia wants 'free' Morocco
    54 2 Russia yesterday backed the Arab-Asian resolution calling on the United Nations to obtain independence for French-ruled Morocco within five years. Russia's delegate, Mr. T. S. Tsarapkin, told the United Nations Political Committee that the Moroccan question is an international dispute between two sovereign states and, therefore,
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    Big 3 may meet Russia, Red China
    153 2 Big 3 may meet Russia, Red Ch ina rpHE THREE Western Foreign Ministers, meeting m 1 London tomorrow and Saturday, will discuss Russia's proposal for a five-power conference, including Communist China, diplomatic sources said last night. Washington has hitherto strongly opposed the idea of such a conference, unless Peking proves
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    Top scientist 'was friend of Rosenbergs'
    128 2 Top scientist 'was friend of Rosenbergs' SENATOR Joseph McCarty said yesterday m New York that a "top scientist" for the army signal corps had Admitted taking 43 secret documents from the Fort Monmoth radar laboratory, New Jersey, to his home for ".study." The Communlst-hunttni Stnator told reporter* thai the m:in
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    Sack for silence
    52 2 PRESIDENT Eisenhower yesterday made it a ground for dismissal for U.S. Government employees to refuse to testily before Congressional committees on grounds of passible self-incrimlnation. The White House Secretary, Mr. James Hagerty, said this was an effort 'to close up all possible loopholes" m the government's security
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    Trial by ordeal kills woman
    232 2 Trial by ordeal kills woman .vWy jQOWIoNWwC .-.v.v.v. 'JwX^-jgmi^^^gj^^^^^^ i j A 23- YEAR OLD pregnant woman was forced to plunge her hand into boiling on ut Jubbulpore. India, to prove her Innocence of theft She died. Accused ol stealing temple ornaments, the woman was dragged beforv the local headman
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    Oil tanks worry parents
    25 3 picture. p.rTlßfc shows the site where two Government schools *J be built. The oil *L ,r, m the background. Free Press
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    But expert says: They won't go up in flames
    171 3 A SINGAPORE spokesman of an oil company said A yesterday that parents need not worry about sending their children to two Government schools to be built m Cantonment Road near the company's three oil tanks. "We don't store petrol, kerosene or
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    Cambodians to see Boys Town
    91 3 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Boys Town will bo one of the places to be visited by a Cambodian party who arrive today to study the education system here The delegation will also visit the following centres during their five-day stay: the TeachTrainlng College. the
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    STRIKE IS OFF
    33 3 Italy's labour federatlom last, niKht called off a 24-hour general stiike of industrial workers for next Tuesday after the labour Ministry promised to try mediation m their controversy with managements.
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    PLAN FOR NEW YMCA BUILDING
    114 3 PLAN FOR NEW YMC A BUILDING WORK on the Singapore W Chinese Y.M.CA.'S .new lon dollar building and stming poolinTelok Ayer Basin, off Anson Road, ll exited to start soon. Tenders have been received tfjS-YJUJk* buildin. committee's decision on the most suitable tender will be placed before a board meeting
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    Kotelawala pardons 2,000
    54 3 gK John Kotelawala. Ceylon's w new Prirre Minister yesterday granted a pardon to nearly im government employees *no went absent during Com-munist-inspired riots m August gainst increased rice prices "was his first move since he S wi n ver t as Prime Minister ifty/he resignation on Monday
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    HELLO GIRLS CLUB AIDS MEMBERS
    56 3 V?^«o he n ni? Out oll^ Of Hip club is also trying to U»e funds to build ;i clubnouse. a second lala toelai and Oence is to be held ;.t Riffles Hotel on Nov 4 Pictured abore \m helper tne dance Sh«> is Ol^i Leßlond,
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    Britain won't bar Japan
    94 3 MR. Reginald Maudling, leader of the British delegation to the Colombo Plan Consultative Committee meetins: told newsman m New Delhi yesterday that Britain does not oppose Japan's entry into the Colombo Plan if it is the general wish of member countries." Dato Nik Ahmed Kamil. Federation
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    HAWKERS: WHAT THE DOCTOR'S ORDERED
    147 3 Cleanliness guide Free Press StafY Reporter riiKi;i: particularly ramman bad habits of sin^ apore food liuwkcrs art* attacked by the City Council Health Officer, Dr. V A. Canton, m a cleanliness guide he has prepared for the Hawkers' Union. The union will print handbill-. v
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    She'll help in tenant control
    70 3 SINGAPORE Improvement Trust is looking for a woman to work as a housing visitor. She will have to supervise about 900 Trust tenancies, including control of tenancy regulations and advising tenants on general management matters. Her total monthly emoluments will be $387.60 if single or
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    WRITER DIES
    62 3 Arthur Harold Wimperis, the man who wrote the movie script about Mrs. Miniver, died yesterday less than three months after the woman who created Britain's No. 1 fiction heroine of World War 11. He died at his home m Maidenhead England. Jan Struther, whose novel, Mrs. Miniver, was
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    NEW EDUCATION DEPUTY CHIEF
    126 3 SINGAPORE'S Director of Education, Mr. R. M. Young, will leave for England soon on medical leave. It is not known whether he will leturn. Mr. Young was taken ill a-month-and-a-half ago and has since been m hospital. He succeeded Mr. A. W. Frisby as Director last
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Oct. 15, 1953 Opinion NOT SURPRISING
    380 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Oct. 15, 1953 Opinion NOT SURPRISING rFHERE are people who profess surprise at the refusal of the Malayan Trade Union Council to censure Messrs Narayanan and Rajagopal for resigning their non-com-munal seats m the Legislative Council on a communal issue. But a study of the
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    Hitler's No. 2 Was a Red Spy
    808 4 BERLIN. MOST years ago a stocky, broad-should-ered man. dressed m the dark blue uniform and hitfh jackboots of a high Nazi party official, crept through the blackened ruins of Berlin with a tommy-gun m his hand. His uniform was dirty and crumpled and
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    This is the French way...
    153 4 [MAGINE a .£1.000,000 racket L m Malayan currency coming to light m London. Imagine this racket has gone on for years and helped Communist bandits to kill soldiers and civilians. J V committee of enquiry is set up. What would happen? In London a scandalised
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      22 4 I SPORTS Silver E.P.N.S. CUPS, SHIELDS, I TANKARDS and MEDALS U. S. de SUVA, \l Jewellers. Y> 106, Orchard Road, Phone ******
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      78 4 n B \Tf I V H T B •H^ HEAVY LIFTS UP TO 25 TONS. I TRANSPORT STORAGE LTD. I 173, Cocil Street Singapore Telephone 6577. I GRAND REDUCTION SALE ROCK BOTTOM SEDUCED PKltfc» COLOURED clearing 7Q Rim rnvruc White Lino Shirtj BED COVERS 1§ L<jdicl pjif 54" X 8O
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    BOXER CARRIES MAGIC PINS STUCK INTO HIM
    160 5  -  GERRY ISAAC nntno tnrty decide that match E By l- toT mg nl^fith four needles stuck into his by f» him a champion, the homo had said, would m a^ h h a dl e" are In his upper arms and two Two
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    20 5 '7 m fine now thanks to the boys who helped me; says 1 eight-x,eir-old Yap Siong Ting, with a smile.
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    Boys' pocket money for Scout fund
    106 5 VOVEMBER 3 is "Sacrifice Day" 1' for more than 3.000 scouts m Singapore. They will donate their pocket money that day for the Scout Camp fund which will be used to develop a 27-acre camp site at Boon Lay Road, off 13V2 m.s. Jurong.
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    St. Andrew's boys took him to hospital
    192 5 St. Andrew's boys took him to hospital By PETER DE CRUZ I^IGHT-YEAR-OLD Yap Siong Ttaf, with his head swathed In bandages, regarded me with some trepidation. Assured, however, after a few minutes, that my indentions Mere friendly, he relaxed and gave me a broad smile. I.iUle Yap is at present
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    BUDDHISTS PLAN $150,000 SCHOOL
    89 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A $150,000 Singapore Buddhist English School is to be built behind the Buddhist temple m St. Michael s 1 Kiiikl. Building plans have been passed and a drive for funds will soon be launched by the school's ten-man committee. Mr T. A.
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    Samba time at York Hill
    14 5 picture. r,i r i „,r f 5i,,,..,,,,, Free Press
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    BOMBER CRASHES
    40 5 A B-47 four-engine jet bomber crashed and exploded shortly after its take-off from an Air Force base, m Riverside California, last niglvt, killing its three occupants. The crash of the big atom bomber scattered wreckage over five acres.
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    FIRE DESTROYS 30 HOMES
    29 5 A wincl-whippod firr on Yong I, land, off Fusan, yesterday destroyed 30 homes, thousands of dollars worth Of rIC6 warehousei and a uniform manufacturing plant.
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    FREEDOM WALK
    22 5 A SS-ytAf <>Id Yugoslav hay hitchiked across Austria and West Germany from his Communlit homeland to -seek a.sylum m CoiHMiha^eu.
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    THE COMET
    28 5 A French airline will begin flights by Comet jet plane between Paris and Johannesburg on Oct. 26. Two flights per month are planned at the outset.
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    S'pore kampongs to get co-ops
    138 5 S'pore kampongs to get co-ops I rtt- fun Staff Reporter Singapore Government 'o plan to eet up co-operative ioc etiea m the kamponga for farmers, pig rt'ar«Tii and factory workers us expected to be launched m January next year. Mr. C. M. Soosai, Senior Cooperattve Officer, said yesterday. The scheme
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      69 6 MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis /f NOA--IFJ CAN HOLD THEM OFF LONG MADE IT/ Th£RE*S" ENOUGH FuEl I Th£ STRATO-MEN HURRIEDiY BRING J SH;r^"-'" 055 BSv 1^ R^S|^H o^vrf^^s^vj TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE SAINT ~TT~Z by Leslie Charteris JANE lf 7 b y Hubbar
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      387 6 LUCKY STAR horoufhjy. v«u h Sub^ J XX »>« oftse, bv v th^ 5 dislike f., r ik y your tuZ wanl to do eSnvT^^y '""'■nilral, on it j" |lf l>wome fai.lv 'L r Jou »v I >*n*i*t m anyone 1 nOt fo >ou "o feai? hU ffKHSH Do not
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    And this time Eva did say 'David'
    126 7 A YOUTH and a marquess —m a near-collision outside a Mayfair restaurant. The grirl with the-ear-rings? Eva Bartok, 24-year-old actress. Th,» marquess? Well— the marquess Arriving at Northolt Airport, a day before, Eva did not mention the Marquess of Milford Haven by name;
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    Women join club and plan revolt against men
    192 7 THERE were no women members of the British Legion Club at Whalton, Northumberland, until the Corona- i tion. Then the news got around that the club was hiring a TV set for three months. And 26 I women joined. And that Ls
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    SCHOOLGIRLS LOCKED OUT
    139 7 I'^ENTY-Pivp i unif K1 m now th 'ir Parent* V° r JT s Wont *ith w *ct privau i? 0"rn Hull a n- to hA m s» C v ol n °'ir Ur*h^» thi»v »m »v now tww h >hool Sh thr rethey fund N *>ne nf
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    AT 75, HE GETS JOB FOR LIFE
    78 7 4N INDUSTRY depends f* *n the strong arms of J* jrcar-old Mr. Ernest Wilkinson. And because of that Mr. Wilkioson, of Rowhedge, «*r Colchester, Essex, who SL 10^ t0 retlre will t r H on. h*°L!l! U err yman, and J* tee* rowing
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    I HAD TO BORROW, SAYS LADY (MARY) FISHER
    438 7 £480 from moneylenders 'JMIK widow of Sir Warren Fisher, who was Permanent Secretary of the Treasury for 20 years and whose name appeared on all Treasury notes, described at the Old Bailey how she had to borrow from a moneylender to meet
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    GIRL HID IN A SHIP
    294 7 All for love of Tommee A VHE love story of Tommee 1 the sailor and the girl from iraq whom he stowed away m his ship began m a Basra coffee -.hop. It is being interrupted by a term In gaol. Thomas Edward Flynn, aged
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    CAMERA PICTURE N ON A OUTING
    372 8 CAMERA PICTURE N ON A OUTING nor? ci eha m n S S.rls served H models at last Sunday's SincaMimf T^ 3 f C ub r Ufin S m Jo I"'*1 Bahru. From the left, Chan, M.-m,. her s.ster Chang Hs.ao-fung. Lee Li-wah and Chang Oi-w.m vo? r Hundr»3 T
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    THE VOICE SPREADS OUT OVER ASIA
    45 10 The U.S. Information Agency announced yesterday that two powerful new radio transmitters are now blanketing China North Korea, Manchuria and Eastern 8iberia with "Voice of America news programmes. One Ls located north of Manila, the other on Okinawa island.
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    SLOPPY SUIT WAR OPENS
    381 10 Can 40,000 tailors all be wrong? A NKW fashion-call has tome from Paris— for men. Not the swish <>1 a skirt nor a word about that ladies' man D.r anywhere. France's 40,000 tailors, led by their 10,000 members of the Federation of Master Tailors, announce that
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    52 10 picture. FRENCH film director, Rene Gavean, has started shooting: his new film "Adam and Eve" In a Monmartc, France, nightclub named "Eden." And above is actress MicheHne Carvel who plays a double role m the film, that of a ravishing: pin-up and so help u^ it's true— thai of a
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    JORDAN SEEKS AID
    29 10 A Jordan delegation opened talks m London yesterday with Treasury officials on a British plan to extend a £1,250,000 credit towards Jordan's five year development plan.
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    Niece gets millions by 63-word letter
    189 10 A 25-YEAR-OLD woman was told by transatlantic cable ■M has won her right to her uncle v s fortune of several million dollars. rive Lords of Appeal m London, acting for the Privy Council, decided that a 63-word letter written by Mr. Eugene Berthiaume,
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    HELLO, STRANGER
    61 10 IT'S ALL vv.y friendly but Great Dane Viceroy of Clartay is naturally curious to know what Lala Rookh Carina, miniature Griffon small enough to fit comfortably into a handbag is doing at the Great Dane Show. Lala, owned by Mrs. D. Bridle of Weybridge, Surrey, was entered in
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    HIDDEN THUG SHOOTS AT 2 POLICEMEN
    334 10 HIDDEN THUG SHOOTS AT 2 POLICEMEN HiuufcN man with a rifle shot at a night watchman and missed. Then, from 25 yards, the gunman shot twice at two unarmed young policemen who had been sent to trap him. He missed again. The first shot was at 60-year-old Richard McNamara. watchman
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    He ate fungus to save 7 lives
    213 10 He ate fungus to save 7 lives THE during of a nI x geologist, who j strange fungi to ten for poison, kept r th a Th ey a had d^, Olate torced y iandfng al f remote Uke EmSSfu?* The aircraft carried sency rations for wo J n T
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    DUKE WILL SEE EMPIRE GAMES
    43 10 The Duke of Edinburgh, ifl visit Canada next year froa July 20 to Aug. 17, Buckingtofl Palace announced yesterday. The Duke will see the British Empire games In Vancouver and will visit Hudson Bay and the northwest territories.
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    HIS 'ADAM' MADE OTHERS RICH
    377 11  -  Nate Polowetzky Mr. Epstein is angry by LONDON. APOB EPSTEIN, the Jh««e Brooklyn-born IrVe'bad boy of modern "tf manT people are ff sculptor complained fJZn recently, then t laying them tor year m flea circuses and sj« L^ and later selling Zl off to collectors
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    Bridge Hand
    68 11 N°J d E SOUTHS opening notrump detenrent fn C ard maJor suit is no uSJSrt n t rUmp When SSSWSa AVrmni u hC f0 Ur of queen Lc played Arcing ace. South o{ Wnds ret urned the ten &*ifhe S^li? lake diamond b >' refill t npss lf
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    Souvenir from Africa
    35 11 photo. A cleverly carved wooden t^T -or 'he souvenir brought back by film star Dana Anure ,vs from Africa, where he has been making the new picture "Duel m the Sun."- Reuter
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    THEY KEEP THE OLD CLOTHES
    299 11 VyHAT HAPPENS to the film star's gorgeous, style-setting costumes when the picture is completed? This and many other questions bearing on the disposition of an actress' wearables top all other queries received from feminine fans. Today Edith Head, famous Academy Award-winning designer and custodian of
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      228 11 BUCKLEY "BUCKLEY S BEEN IN INDIA *f w«i»»>— urn Today's Crossword across. i. Hi, r )11(i ()f tinkling tound? «9). 7. H Thtn I mi»o? (s>. 4. Deadlj make'i sol Oraee" (anaf.) <R. s«. r> U f|) (7). 8. ••Go-r.s real link' for this aaleaman? (3-6). 13, Bi '»nag.) ,<;.
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  • The Pressman's Postbag
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      The Bibik's sweet revenge
      501 12 The Bibik's sweet revenge HPHE article, "Husbands' Humbug", reminded me of A that middle-aged Straits Chinese couple I wrote to you about two or three months ago. lil call them Bibik Sanggol and Inche Towchangr. They were financially pretty well off, but the Bibik had built up considerable resentment against
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      Any grouse?
      33 12 HAVE you a grouse? Have you a bright idea? Have you seen anything strange or unusual? ..T*! en write to the PRESSMAN and tell others about it In his POSTBAG briefly.
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      ALL BLUFF
      161 12 T HL^°^ ble. Mr- Dasaratha x Rajs threat to resign from the Singapore Legislative Council if the Governor does not nominate him to the Rendel Commission has fused. It's a total blackout. I learned through the Press about the top secret" letter Mr. Raj rent to the Oovernor
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    45 12 MOBS mill around the I.S. Embassy m Belgrade. Yugoslavia, demonstrating against the decision by Britain and the USA to march out of Zone "A" of Trieste handing it over to Italy. Demonstrators smashed windows at the British and American embassies atid at the Italian Legation.
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    Gift for blind man
    72 12 I ACKNOWLEDGE with thanks your letter enclosing $12.00 for onward transmission to Lee Boon Sian (the Tiong Bahru blindmant whose plight has recently been given publicity m the Free Press. I have communicated with Mr H. J C. Kani to thank him for his tfoua- tion
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    FAMILY POSERCHILD OR FLAT?
    346 12 y()lK ivporler's account o/ Mr X Ran I most touching to the sympathetic h*-! 1 I readers. (Mr Raman was offered a flat ami lil of 1* I given Mliee to leave his present accommodate! 1 eh I withdrawn because he was earning tlon rtw^ I
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    'PRIVILEGE'
    108 12 A CINEMA slide under the I A heading- <« $2 Patrons I Please Note announcing advance bookings of $2-seats daily from 9.30 a.m. onwards' prompts me to observe: Were the $2 patrons present the only people who can always afford to pay that price? Are they the perpetual patrons
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    The Maufrais Manhunt
    677 13  - The Maufrais Manhunt ROBERT HARMAN n diary, a rifle and a scar arc the clues that may lead to the discovery of a lost explorer m Brazil. By Without Kclurii." by fjilLL an odd-shaped scar Won the back of a strange young Frenchman found iving with an unknown nbe m
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    WAS CHURCHILL FAIR TO BALDWIN?
    467 13 WAS CHURCHILL FAIR TO BALDWIN Stanley Baldwin. An examination of some features of Mr. G. M. Voting's Biography" by D. C. Somervel! (Faber). MR. D. c. Somervell's slim volume criticising the recently published life of Stanley Baldwin by Mr. G. M. Young, would scarcely deserve special comment on its own
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    QUICK LOOKS
    153 13 n SI U MUTINY. William Owens (Petrr DavlM. had eajpnirtd uMI nunntd «M craft ia which they uere eon mird-rapturrd by an Amprlcti Naval miel they fr e <har R cti lf piracy and munlrr. The llatf TO was hinhly conLrovrrsial niui wj caw went nil thr way
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    DISCONTENT, DESIRE
    353 13  - DISCONTENT, DESIRE GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON THE TIME INDIFFERENCE. By Alberto Moravia. (Seeker St War burg). 11ORAVIAS novel of lfl desire and discontent m Rome has a cast of four and a half. Maria^razia, a widow with two grown-up children, is jealous of Leo, her middle-aged lover— partly because she enjoys
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    SENIOR CLUBS SHOULD HAVE DIRECT SAY IN SAFA's COUNCIL
    333 14 SENIOR CLUBS SHOULD HAVE DIRECT SAY IN SAFA's COUNCIL By Our Soccer Reporter Till; move by senior clubs of the Singapore Amateur x Football Association to have a voice m the administration of the fame m the Colony is justificable. Senior clubfl it must be admitted are the basis ol
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    88 14 TONY SHANNON (above) had all the lime ln> wanted at tfie Chinese Swimming club to win this event- the 200 metres butterfly stroke championship of the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association whereat Neo Chwee KoJt, Malayan ace swimmer, and other* have to struggle to win or break records, Tony had the
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    FINNEY GIVES A LESSON ON DETERMINATION
    178 14 FINNEY GIVES A LESSON ON DETERMINATION IN his just published hook 1 "I ootbull Round the World", Tom Tinney, PresI ton and England outside I right, began his first-class football thinking he could nev*T be anything but an inside left— like his idol. r Alex James. I One day, however,
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    Gallant show by airmen
    128 14 CINOAPORE Recreation Club beat j RAF Seletar m a Singapore Hockey Association Div. l league match on the SRC padang yesterday, but the airman were gallant losers. However, Recs could have won by a wider margin, but frittered away many scoring chance when m a.position to
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    RUGBY UNION RESULTS
    31 14 Result of yesterdays Rugby Union county championship match: Middlesex 9, Eastern counties 3. Other Rugby Union results St Mary's Hospital 21, Cambrige University. 11; Gloucestershire 0 filnmnr. A.P.
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    CHARLTON DRAWS CROWDS AGAIN
    316 15 I Shock team of I the season «,h« are flocking once again to the Valley oOCCEB c l° r^ d th c home of London's shock team of 5 ParadC n -!chariton Athletic. *Kdof 56,000 turned up last Saturday to see A £2?s Charlton boys turn
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    BAM TELL WHY THEY SAID 'NO'
    255 15 THE Badminton Association of Malaya yesterday gave their reason why they rejected the world tour application made by Messrs Lee Guan Khye. Wee Kirn Wee and Teh Gin Sooi. In a written statement the BAM started that they are answerable for all foreign tours
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    2 changes in All-Colony fifteen
    33 15 2 changes in All-Colony fifteen ■pj Singapore Rugby Union yes**rRoad y the team at Bukit n»r. y s game vtH see grand have been «!ih C re<? Prved d ROh V" c 0W
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    U.K. SOCCER RESULTS
    28 15 Foofball ASflOCtatton team 4. Rov;.l Aw force 0. Rangers 2. Penerbachr <Turkry, 2: Manchester Ci'y 6 Hr.irf.s 3; WolverhaniD'on Wanrirr rs 2. Critic o.— Reuter
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    ISLAND CLUB GOLF
    131 15 BJj» n <lC:ub .S^Peltinn of I^* y fr «>n 2i" S PUyrd on 2, 5 Pm T he dr.nv f p Cook v K. P Udf (seccnd nlne > N AWtol v n. Phinfj i nrst nlne > E W. McMullan v M »l> I.re ,rc«,,,,l nine)
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    Matthews is in —Finney is out
    324 15 He's still the tops fjVXGLAND'S selectors today recalled 38-year-old Stanley Matthews, the winger with the twinkling feet, for the soccer match against the Rest of the World at Wembley Stadium on Oct. 21. I The England team is Gilert Merrick (Birmingham) if Ramsay (Tottenham
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    Yankees buy Negro players
    79 15 THE Yankees baseball team bought its first Negro playors. Vie Power and Elston Howard, from its Kansas City farm team yesterday. Both will Join the club at the spring training m Florida next February. Many Major League clubs have engaged Negroes since tho Brooklyn Dodgers opened
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    MONEY REASON
    21 15 For flnnnrinl ItMMfj th« Hotirkong Badminton Aworint.ion decllntd an Invitation u> ptaf iirtw Jj exhibitions m Manila during the
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    BREEZE SENDS HORSES 'FLYING'
    280 16 Suwi iPrvatn m I/.T t'Mtn ALLAN LEWIS IyiTII THE ASSISTANCE of a following wind from the three-furlong T post, horses working next to the inside rail on the second grass track, which is fast, registered fast times at Penatig this morning. In the circumstances the times
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    THEY WON £100,000 ON A £36 HORSE
    282 16  -  VERNON MORGAN By nHAXTRY, a horse bought for only £36, won the Bl mile v Cesarewitch Stakes at Newmarket yesterday afternoon, to bring off one of the biggest gambles of the century. Chantry, starting tour to one favourite won an excitinu race by
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    FAIRY TALE GOES UP TO CL. 1
    139 16 POUR Class 2 horses— FAlß V n«f;Vr E SKR *'NE PRIMROSE. ALWAYS, and OLEANDER— have been promoted to Class 1 states a Stralta Racing Association release downio cia"s a T° Vian bCen Sem NEW CLASSIFICATIONS', 2: w RIBU (late < Romantic BI IF
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    Wining Brief in form
    538 16 WINNING Brief seems to be maintaining his Kualu Lumpur winning form, on which he should be hard to beat m th» el. 3. Div. I— ft^p. race on the first day. The Gift (Smi'h), who has progressed along the right lines since his first race at
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    BIRTH
    19 16 HOUGHTON: At Batu Gajah Hospital, on 12th. Oct. 1953, to Clare, wife of Jame s Houghton. a son.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    55 16 MR. MRS. Albert H. Burrows, of Magog, Quebec, Canada, announce the engagement of their only daughter, Norma Elizabeth, to Mr. Anthony (Tony), Henry Cowling, son of Mr. Mrs. H. W. Cowling, of Smoke House Inn. Cameron Highlands. The wedding will take place at St. Helens Anglican Church. Vancouver. 8.C.,
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    DEATH
    20 16 DR. THOMAS FOO HEE SENG who passed away peacefully m Malacca at 10.30 p.m. on Thursday. Oct. Bth. 1953.
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    Ref changes his decision
    123 16 S»N? Vo N^ M B A n^'<' iftjl champion., of the Business Z. v Club at Jalan Besar Stadium yes'ter wywaS 5£S changed his verdict piompnj Ma s elds appeared unlucky wher COI C K ede BOitl t0 Bank prs J Usf t before the half
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    TURPIN LAUGHS AT 'THE FIGHT IS OFF' STORIES
    280 16 I'M OUT TO WIN i m. secretary 01 me isntish Boxing r (w I Mr. Teddy Waltham is worried over ■TS. 11 <*J reports on the attitude of Randolph Tut c Sltil Carl Bobo Olson for the world title nevt t"' wh
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    VILLA BEAT ARMY
    25 16 Yesterdays U.K. soccer rewlb: I County Antrim 1 South Afttaulß (played at Belfast); The Army A-ston Villa 3 (played at Aldersbot Reuter
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      175 16 CLASSIFIED ADS. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MISS RITA CHAN and Mr. Wan Leon* Khen of 25, Mangls Road express their sincere thanks to relatives, friends, the director and the ataffs of Barlow Co. Ltd., for the monetary donations night visits wreaths rendered on their recent bereavement. MRS FOO HEE SENG and children thank
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