The Singapore Free Press, 19 October 1953

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1 12 The Singapore Free Press
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    Masthead
    15 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. v. *****. Singapore. Mon.. l»". i».
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    BIG 5 KOREA PARLEY
    275 1 BIG 5 KOREA PARLEY fair 11***^ nki*>r Ut the Kmin Yugoslavia, Italy invited to talks JMIK "Big Three" Western Foreign Ministers conference ended m London yesterday with four major decisions. They were: 1. The Ministers invited Italy ;m<l Yugoslavia to mccl them ut a conference on Trieste. 2. They will
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    ACCUSED-WIDOW AND EX-CONVICT
    77 1 ACCUSED- WIDOW AND EX-CONVICT PICTURES show the couple who were arrested after the kidnap and murder of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease. of St. Joseph, United States. Bobby's father, a car dealer, had paid I'SSGOO.OOO for the hoy's release. TOP: Mrs. Bonnie Rrown Heidy, 41-year-old childless widow, who is accused of spiriting
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    'Mr. Z' switches labels on war cargoes
    147 1 'Mr. Z' switches labels on war cargoes BRITISH secret service sleuths are today reported hot on the trail of the mysteroiLs "Mr 7/'-a master smuggler who specialises m beating the Allied ban on supplying war material to Iron Curtain countries. "Mr. Z" the police don't know his name or nationality.
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    Rubber Price
    33 1 e adii? Ul b H er M "*et flrsi grade y Mn hls u rno «iing at 58 rent oVember shi P" changed from SSt a P ound «n--irom Saturday's clase
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    4 1 TYUTYJUJ
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    MORE TROOPS ON WAY TO GUIANA
    163 1 MORE TROOPS ON WAY TO GUIANA I sS" ailfiraf t-r>, rior •iana doubled British 'Jrtacabie, Cf)mnuu Indies i," includlni bren «un carriers, lorries. jrops. trailers, and notoi Clea were transferred to another .ship bound for British Outanft, The troops will sail for Oeorm town m th»« same ship implacable win
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    2 came to breakfast with a gun
    100 1 2 came to breakfast with a gun A CHINESE householder threw aside his breakfast this morning to resist two armed Malays who entered his home m Beo Lane. Singapore, at 7.45. In the scuffle that followed, he got a blow on the head from a revolver butt. He was stunned.
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    BORROWED CAR
    44 1 Th roo Chinese aporoacneu another living at Yio Chu Kant; Road, Singapore, yesterday and said they hnd orders from the police to ItlM (;ir which he had bnowed from I friend. Real police me now on the tt;»il ol the vehu If
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    Chiang dead, Reds lied
    67 1 Chiang dead, Reds lied I^HE NEUTRAL Nations Repatriation Commission m Munsan yesterday halted Red agents' efforts to persuade antiCommunist prisoners to return home as American pfficials angrily pretested against Red methods ot intimidation and coercion. American officials had protested that Communist agents tried to trick Red hating prisoners into repatriation
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    TITO SUMMONS WEST ENVOYS
    152 1 TITO SUMMONS WEST ENVOYS \KSII U. TITO IMMMUM thi* envoy., ut Briiuin, the United States ami France ti> his White Pul.ue" yesterday and told them of his views on the. Western Foreign .Ministers' decision on Trieste. What he said was not disilov. d. The Ministers have invited Italy and Yugoslavia
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    PUNISH ISRAELIS, U.S. SAYS
    38 1 The United States called 1 yesterday for stern action to punish Israeli forces which at- tacked an Arab village m Jor- dan and urged that measures be taken to prevent any such. future incidents.
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    FRENCH MAY FORCE BATTLE IN THE DELTA
    320 2 FRENCH MAY FORCE BATTLE IN THE DELTA Reds running out of supplies r riiK French may soon force Ihc Vletminh In iheli 1 Bironghold m Thank Hoa, northern IndoChina. mil of hiding, possibly for a pitched battle m which (In French air and artillery superiority would be a majoi factor.
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    Miss Egypt peps things up with a bikini
    260 2 ABFVY of beautiful girls from 15 different countries spread over four continents reported to th<ir ebiperon yesterday that they were aIJ ready for the "Miss World of 1958" contest m London today In a small hotel In a side street off the
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    AIRMEN ADRIFT OFF ICELAND
    57 2 A United States Navy Neptune plane with nine men aboard was reported missing yesterday over the sea south of Iceland. A raft and a rubber boat from the aircraft were later sighted nine miles south of the Iceland coast with some men alive. British, American and
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    IKE GOT KISS AT LONG LAST
    203 2 IKE GOT KISS A T LONG LAST TH!S STWAKCE PRESIDENT EI 8 ENHOWER •topped his CM (lurinß a visit to Abilene, Kansas his home-town to kis.s an Old Muh school Kirl friend. •hi wa.s Mrs (;i.id v Brooks Tnry only had one date and li« dJdnt |tt ;i Urn then.
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    JAPS' GIFT FOR 'THE MIKADO'
    119 2 f pHE Teachers Training College 1 m Singapore will get costumes from Japan for the I Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera 'The Mikado.' scheduled to be Miown m the last week of November. The Toho Stage Company m I Tokyo, Us now making the costumes
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    ELECTIONS IN MALTA
    27 2 Sir Gerald Crasy, Governor c! Malta, yesterday dissolved the j island's Legislative Assembly and set m motion machinery 1 for the holding of elections.
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    SHORTER MATCHES
    31 2 Matches are to be shortened by a fifth and the boxes made smaller m China <m a new national economy drive it was reported- yestt relay in' Hong Konu.
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    Jordan clash for Security Council
    161 2 JHE UNITED Nations Secuitv Council, called at th t urgent request of Britain, France and the Inil States will meet today m New York to consider S increasing tension between Israel and her neighbours. _*_jm The Big Three Powers said 1 that prompt consideration of
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    The hot and cold of if
    66 2 SINGAPORE S head of tfat Tropical Research Unit M' P. B. S. Newling, now m Engianc completing research work, k expected back m the Colony fa January for a new appointmer. 1 Mr. Newling is being sent by the Medical Research Count. m England
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    END OF A HOLIDAY
    26 2 picture. PICTURE >>»l<,\\x thC tJlU't'M and nwmfMTs of the Royal family arriving In London at Ihc end <>f her Scottish dbi Popper
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    Punish erring walkers, they say
    264 3 Punish erring walkers, they say If ANY Singapore mml Usfi sSliii t0 pul were coiiimeiit- report that new laws m Britain to V£ lathe Colony police cannot pro--fl d pmi^insey. chairnl of the Singapore Traffic ffisory Committee: "I perJjSSrthlnk the laws should bechanged here to increase road are a menace
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    FLOODS HIT RIVIERA, KILL THREE
    49 3 Floods, caused by four dav\ h f^y rain, killed three neon' e f ;ng the Italian Riviera ye ed^anh 6 hUndred «AS£ ovince a g h ?1 m Cl *mona nd Rapalio were hard hit A iand.shde blocked the Genoa Homej^iiway for three hour^
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    GOVTS INSULTED US, CRY STENOS
    163 3 GOVTS INSULTED US, CRY STENOS tyHYioa llthewayto Britain the m S re are man y of 3 »?apore <?»„ eder tlon s kecl <T\^ ITSl TS IR2 V neSff t 2 L md a g^tuity '^irtour at the end of S«SSf ttWJS H able t0 do 1 minute ypewnte at
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    Indignation fired
    23 3 Kite' m iTT »l '"'sa In mJw?, 5 old to out on nre raiis and int SmLw s&'sssr aiarm rsiera seni
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    NEW RESORT FOR S'PORE
    37 3 I The niarble-tloored dunce hal 1 of Lam Soon Villa with a for est glad for a backdrop and the bandstand m the foregrou nd. On the right is the swimnii ng pool.
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    SOON YOU CAN DINE, DANCE AT $1½ M. HOME
    211 3 SOON YOU CAN DINE, DANCE AT $1½ M. HOME I^HE $1 Lam Soon villa at East Coast Road is to be converted into a seaside resort m a month. There will be two dance floors, a swimming pool, bar and restaurant This is the first time that the villa, built
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    Killing spurs call for guard
    161 3 Killing spurs call for guard thk Tiong Bahru community centre yesterday renewed its plea for a police post m Tiong Bahru m view of new alarm caused by the latest sex killing of a convent girl, Miss Ching Geok Tin. m Beok Wee Road. Bald Mr. ivo Ben* Bet, pretld«
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    MIG IS SLOWER
    46 3 The United States Far East Air Forces said yesterday test flights of the Russian -built MIG-15 fighter plane flown to South Korea by a desertin? North Korean pilot showed it slower than the American F-86 Sabre that outfought it throughout the Korean fighting.
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      28 3 Its Cooler at Night! a COTTON BLANKET m ESSENTIAL The Ideal Bed Covering for this Climate Single Bod Size Jj) |(j#2s oach In Cream only ROBINSON CO LTD »>«»»«
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  • The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Oct. 19, 1953. Opinion
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      KALLANG SITE
      208 4 DISCUSSION has begun on what is to be done with the Kallang site when the airport is moved m 1955. It is right that the matter should be aired. From the views published by the Free Press on Saturday, the consensus of opinion at this stage is that
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      Incognito
      293 4 HAROUN AL RASCHID, the Arabian Nights Caliph, used to like to wander around Baghdad disguised as an ordinary citizen and see for himself what went on. And we have heard of Manchu emperors who delighted to escape from the Forbidden City and sample the fun and games of their
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    GREECE MOVES INTO THIRD PLACE
    316 4  - GREECE MOVES INTO THIRD PLACE MICHAEL MANNING. ATHENS. PHE Greek Government is trying to boost Greece's merchant fleet into third place on the world's oceans. By creating an atmosphere of mutual confidence between the State and the shipowners, efforts are being made to achieve a merchant fleet of 1.060 ships
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    ....And A Dump Will Be A Desert
    634 4 ....And A Dump Will Be A Desert Britain Withdraw* from the Suez Canal valuable equipment will be looted by thieves IN 15 square milei of rocky Egyptian desert lies the key to the Suez talks \b square miles Which combine vast military storehouses with married quarters, schools and clubs one
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    BY THE WAY
    267 4  - BY THE WAY BEACHOMBER 1 id Voltaire be tattoed." m the W RAptita? 1 (io about with "i i?* 1 gjjkw out*'S hltS, t < ttifWki /f of a***, I LAUGH m a saturn- manner when i read Z «je first lesson a yo2? b t list must learn Is
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      41 4 Gifts lie surr Ilir (fifU \ON Give <l <l i ii ILIf irl Ikl.i' or Aniiix i sn\. U w orlh\ of ill*' oci'ti -ion. r offer •»>• a -rlrc- lion ai nio-l n .<-on,il<l<prirr*. S. P. H.deSILVA (SINGAPORE. IPOM K.LUMPUR i
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      70 4 1 1 there's alwaysx I 1 ROOM FOR AN 1 V ASTRAL iftV I 5 actdai UAi/rt Measures only a ASTRAL MAKES 21'" J 20 ICE CUBES MecH average family needt^ I CQCH a Completely s.k«t V UOU I i^-> Uni» Cu.vantccd I THE BABY RE f 1 1 fO(l
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    8 IN SHACK WAIT FOR A HUT
    713 5  -  SIT YIN FONG 17 months ago a Welfare promise -and still... Rainy nights are a terror SEVENTEEN months ugo the Singapore Social Welfare Department offered to build a hill tor Madam Ong Seok Puait, 36, and hor seven children from a fund of
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    Many want to buy these bungalows
    58 5 W°f^ J' a^ *«•<• <»» M>« Serangcon <;urd.Mi llousins Road s/ngajr f t<>S >"»«"•*» »t Ti» Ch, Rang p '2° a "d 511,900 each. Easy Payments are arranged Ceil en?l mment and IWW to? h y e c m S a Ve£ aYe als
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    A KING IS ILL
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    2-D buses need more trials
    80 5 IT'S a week since the Singapore Traction Company started trying doubledecker buses on the Finlay•Ofl Green -Tarn penis route. And the public reaction' Some people say they are too stow. Mr. A. A. Ewinq. thr 'h-neral manager of the company, said the com pany had
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    Moral guidance
    42 5 QTMT-TIAM, mad,- popular m Japan by t»"' \m«Ti«-an Orl > rupation. has junt received a surprise trihutr from Prof T. Kawatake director of U;isf(i.« I!nivrrsilv\ rinisrum of drama. 1 Ciiven proper guidance, it may develop intu a |iMHM *rt, be said
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    CITY PLANS TO COOL HOMES
    104 5 The Singapore City Council next year will consider buying airconditioning units for hire to Colony homes and offices. Mr. Chan Kum Chee. chairman of the Council's Public Utilities Committee, said yesterday that a .scheme will be worked out soon. The plan will be part of
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      111 5 A Time -Saver It takes an experienced operator of our TIME O-CRAF only a few seconds to determine the rate of a watch. By using this modern timing machine we can therefore regulate our watches quickly and accurately whereas it formerly used to take several days. This remarkable electronic machine
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      196 6 MANDRAKE, THE MACICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davi: HHGKHBMHNHHHHL' l S3ffliflP'!!Z£'^//' > /J l 1^ A ifvoc. -cf --the wß^UmmßmMßanßßWa^^m^m^Zj^ mi?"/"** A^-' ~^>' Akt :<; N Tm 'M But*"* '//••.'>/. ?om?-'. wE^MmfWZkwi*''?*" H vt A v 1 r• ■liM^::?^ THf/A'.^r {.fcaptuqethcib W^ vS 2tf H ■J*^ U|| MH *:::Mi5;S
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      531 6 I Y OUR I I LUCKY s STap I k «V for deUU k I P«-'f.l,on Uu J/'N t I outdoors. you m tbt «mi I A I ""••'P'*-! all thi I**" 1 I lifratme or rt ln I Cft. V However. You v I W/ landing U.e.us. s I
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    DID NOT SEE WIFE FOR 30 YEARS
    286 7 tf-YEAR-OLD chaplain, regarded by all his A f ;Lds »s a bachelor, was helping to support an M-vetr-old wife whom he had not seen for more Scret' was revealed at the Eating, London, m n n^ p ßev Edwin Ernest Wilson, former Church
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    2d. in the slot brings Willy £10 a day
    127 7 2d. in the slot brings Willy £10 a day BARBER Willy Kopshoff of Bonn. Western Germany, has a sideline: playing 2d.-in-the-slot betting machine. It brings him £10 a day. He is so successful that the firm that makes West Germany's most popular betting machine, the Rotamint, has stopped production and
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    FATHER CRUEL —THEY LOVED STEPMOTHER
    80 7 FATHER CRUEL —THEY LOVED STEPMOTHER WIFE was given a divorce because her husband was ruel to the six children of his former marriage— the children she was .said to have loved as II they had been her own Mrs. El>ie Jane Daniell was ..2 and her husband Albert was 44
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    TAX MAN BEHIND BARS GETS JOB BACK
    138 7 TA X MAN BEHIND BARS GETS JOB BACK 2"*. not P ublir ''^n^^ authorities have h"* •SuS"! I**1 l an Von0^' 1 tax MnSp 0 a m;in ln with a public house Neither would we like a moneylender or a bookmaker, particularly a man had access to confidential documents. They
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    An author's two discoveries
    112 7 The French author. Maurice Dekobra. who is making; a new film "La Rafle Est Pour Cc Soir has discovered two new young stars to play the heroines m his film. They are Monique Clarence, aged 20. who will star m "La Morte" by Guy de Maupassant,
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    Bookie tells of tips and loan
    274 7 PUR racing bets of Lady (Mary) Fisher were again mentioned at the Old Bailey, London, when a man who denied having defrauded her stated she constantly asked him for tips. H'.> said he never remembered her betting less than 10s. and she often put
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    SO MARSHAL SLIM SENDS FOR HIS CHEF
    82 7 OINCE becoming GovernorGeneral of Australia last February Field-Marshal Sir William Slim has often had nostalgic memories of his favourite dish -lemon meringue 1 pie. His former personal chef 33- i year-old Raymond Morris, used to make it. Now a series of urgent cables
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    Variety stars give gaiety to the University Ball
    279 8 Graduates, undergraduates, professors, and guests packed the Singapore Badminton Association Hall to go gay at the 1953 University Convocation Ball. For the second year the ball raised money for the University of Malaya Endowment Fund. The Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, was
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    33 10 PrRCHKD hUh on his should erS the monkeys wait to five their next performance. In the bU cltle. of India, these monkeys art taken from hou se to house to perform tricksCopper picture.
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    Woman gives secret £800 to save Briar Patch
    466 10 POSTMAN KNOCKS— AND ONE MAN CAN KEEP HOME HE BUILT NOW MR. KIRBY SA YS: I'LL NEVER SELL OOMEONK, somewhere, heard that carpenter Leslie Kirby's seven- year fight to keep Briar Patch, the home he built himself, had left him broke, and
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    MINISTERS SACKED
    15 10 Communist Rumania yester day sacked two Government ministers held responsible for y i
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    Girl in pram fights monkey over a banana
    129 10 4 CHILD fought with a monkey which jumped into her pram. She was bitten and scratched. This happened to two-year-old Vanessa Cowen. of Weir Road. Balham. when her mother was wheeling her along Bedford Hill on a shopping expedition. Vanessa was eating
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    HE DID? BUT SO DID I
    160 10 the first driver: I saw another car coming when suddenly it swerved to my side of the road I swerved to my wrong side to avoid a .serlou.l accident." Said the wrond driver: "I saw another car coming when suddenly it swerved to my
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    I'M NOT SURPRISED WIFE HIT HUSBAND, SAYS JUDGE
    249 10 I'M NOT SURPRISED WIFE HIT HUSBAND, SAYS JUDGE r PHE wife of a Brazilian trade envoy was bound over for 1 two years for hitting her husband on the head with a motor-cycle connecting-rod. I'm not surprised she hit him.' said Mr. Justice Streatfeild. at Hertfordshire Assizes. She was very
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    70 10 picture. JOHNNY Wtfi&smuller, former swimming champion and film Tarzan Number One. gave reception m his hotel on the Champs-Kly-s«fes, France. Johhny. who is soon to return to Hollywood to make a new film shows his guests that he is still strong and agile. Photo shows: Johnny does a Tarxan act
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    They hear a murder -nobody moves
    176 10 They hear a murder -nobody moves *nto the strm\t** disappeared And although the sound, f struggle and the w«J -eain^ most have been h2 by many neighbouring bIo(^. none made an v ml* investigate or help V ..^J, 11 s an unwritten lawrfL the 938 families m Quar^JK Flats, Leeds,
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    A burning question
    44 10 Children should be able light bonfires, roast jxUjft and even dig m their p*j play-rounds. Lady Alton J Hurtwood told a meetms Kensington. London. She added: Tlaygrounds»aj be made for the delight •hildren-not for the *v a tks faction of adults.
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    Brazil Needs More Rubber
    488 11 MADSHAU 810 DE JANEIKCX once the world s ;tr fn order «o meet,.. S \eep up. despite a £'fr« «S«» tons to 33.000 *TO current deficit is being i jn p«rt by use of stocks of Wlin '"""ber acquired m I scare-buying period alter ££n of
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    Decoy in the Abbey
    158 11 REPAIRS, 100 ill i;. Hi tU wall upon funds from the Coronation Year appeal, are being carried out m the seven centuries-old Cloisters of Westminster Abbey. London's soot and grim has penetrated even here, rotting away carvings and ornamental ceilings. In some parts the slightest touch
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    "DON'T TELL THE TRUTH, GIRLS"
    283 11 HOLLYWOOD. IVfEN who continually proclaim that the thing they desire most m the girl of their dreams is honesty and complete forth Tightness, make Paulette Goddard smile. The poor, crazy, mixed-up fellows may think that is what they want." says Paulette. but they don't know
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      403 11 Bridge Quiz |*HE TECHNIQUE of bidding after make it easier for partner to bid f yon hive passed is only slightly spades, he will cet an Income! picture Uund bj the fact that partner's of your distribution from a later bid Nurd-hand opening bid was one club or raise of
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      15 11 BUCKLEY "~Tj I PECOBC y SCMO E2V^ A MttiAM I A £~+Jl --AND FU*7H£RMO*£. S£«G£AN7...r
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  • The Pressman's Postbag
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      ARE GOVT. MEN PAMPERED?
      315 12 y(M X lecood editorial, •Turn It Down", is both timely ;iiul sound. I'm alraid, though, most of our local Government servants and their spokesmen will not IfTM when you saj public employees ought to be told sharply to come to their senses. their request be granted
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      RIGHT TRACK
      138 12 UNDER the heading of Who is on the Wrong Track Mr. Liong Chin Chuan said he would like to know the real purport of John Lok's letter, m which one blind man was referred to as a Cantonese and another as a Hokkian. Mr John Lok Is Cantonese
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      Any grouse?
      32 12 HAVE you a grouse? Have you a bright idea? Have you seen anything strange or unusual? Then write to the PRESSMAN and tell others about it m his POSTBAG briefly.
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      FREE FRENCH
      79 12 rpHE Malayan Chinese -hi A whom I coach m French gratis every Sunday has come out first again m the third school term test. Other Malayan-born yirLs show great promise. Are there any more girls who want tuition? Even the so-called benevolent Government, with its multiple forms of
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      RAGS YES, BUT NOT BULLIES
      373 12 AS a senior student of the University of Malaya I am A^ greatly perturbed at the letter on ragging at the University. Since I joined I have not met with anything that could really be described as going too far. Anyway I have not met
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      94 12 SUCCESSOR oj "Plumber' Durkin as the U. S. Secretary of Labour, is Mr. Mitchell, formerly U. S Assistant Secretary m the Defence Department. No one was more surprised that Mr. Mitchell When inspecting the Navy air-buM€ of Floyd Benett m Neic York recently, when fie sate a 7-year-old boy lined
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      NO BIAS AGAINST BEGGAR
      274 12 T WOULD like to Inform Mr Lion* Chtn Chuan. the writer of the letter entitled 11 Who Ls on the Right Track," that I do not mean because b«M«ar No 1 Is a Cantonese he U always f?ivlnß trouble while b»'uga r No 2 Is always
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      FRIENDLY
      33 12 I WOULD like to correspond with someone m Malaya I am 22 years of age, interested m friendly correspondence and .stamp collecting? J. FENN. (MISS) 4. Eddystone St.. Centennial Park South Australia.
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      JUDGING BY THE LOOK OF IT...
      231 12 TTHE Free Press report under the heading, "Case l Mr. Kaman is Being Studied", came as a real sum to me and many others. Mr. Fraser, the kind-hearted Singapore Improvement Trust manager, who was supposed to have said: "I am looking into the matter"
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      A stitch in time is needed
      118 12 A stitch in time is needed I T ls sood news ton, I Ooyernmenfs resolut. I I nrllv b Its lack n ta *M c mphatlc 'No" v- v l Mn of hi. h^ Ufei lo h ls a wise saying Bu^B J rent version appears to b^iS < from
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    846 13 NEW YORK *c raothballS ■fife- 1 a ea^There will be state dinners and five receptions. Including nwotion, one of wasn £on's most colourful Tthe formal receptions the red coated Marines band will Kup with a flourish of Eas the President and fflTdy followed by
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    19 13 •*«and Milly v; lallt film -r!" a srrno Irom he Columbia »un ih c Juggler. 1
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    MOST WOMEN ARE NOT GOLD-DIGGERS
    588 13  - MOST WOMEN ARE NOT GOLD-DIGGERS Dorothy Roe by NEW YORK. MOST WOMEN are not ITI gold-diggers, says Tiera Farrow, a practicing lawyer m Kansas City, Missouri, for 50 years. Miss Farrow, pinkcheeked and white-haired, has handled thousands of divorce cases m her long career m the Law. Her verdict: "Most
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    Woman President in United Nations Assembly
    38 13 photo. Ume. Ivtkshmi Pandit of India, new President of the United Nations General Assembly, listens from the rostrum as Rus sia's Andrei Y. Vishinsßy addresses the assembly meeting m New York. A.P.
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    Burnley stops Arsenal's run Ufton played great game
    796 14 Burnley stops Arsenal's run Ufton played great game EfXCOT for the London Club harlton, the top teams m the English First Division soccer league swamped their opponents on Saturday. Charlton playing away at Portsmouth were beaten 3—l and lost their third position to Huddersfleld Town, who beat Liverpool by 2-
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    S'gor XI could not click
    144 14 THE Selangor State hockey team put up a poor display against President's XI, the State's virtual second eleven at Kuala Lumpur yesterday and on their showing cannot hope for much success m their quadrangular meet at Singapore t this week end. They were lucky to
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    ZATOPEK WINS 5,000 METRES
    74 14 Emil Zatopek. Czechoslovakia's triple Gold Medal winner at the Helsinki Olympic Games, won a 5,000 metres race In an international athletics meeting m Prague's Strahov .stadium m 14 mins. 9 sees., according to a Prague Radio message received In London on Saturday. Zatopek's Olympic 6,000 metres
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    Irish Stewards to study English ban
    166 14 TRAINER Paddy Prendergast, 1 whose string of 80 mounts has been banned from EnglUh tracks, is scheduled to fly to Philadelphia to see the former star of his stable, Pie King, race at Garden state track on Oct. 27. Pie King, one of the
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    PROMOTED FARNLEY WINS AFTER GAME STRUGGLE WITH SIR FRANCIS
    1023 14 PROMOTED FARNLEY WINS AFTER GAME STRUGGLE WITH SIR FRANCIS FMRNLEY having his first start In Class three registered a splendid I C when he won the main sprint at IHtUUsf on Saturday. Pn Ori «Uiwl V When Sir Francis cleared away about two length! at the distan v I certain
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    TURPIN SAYS HE'LL WIN
    372 15  -  TED SMITS lut Olson H the favourite By She is ready and will No one else is m a position to know. Turpin meets Bobo Olson for world middleweight title ,n Wednesday nisht at Maclion Square Garden. His last known earring waa foursday. He announced firmly
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    What Solomons has to say....
    48 15 THIS is what Jack Solomons has to say about it all: "Strength is fting to play a big part m this fight. If Turpin does not knock him I out early, I think Olson is going to be too strong at the finish."
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    2ND DAY WEIGHTS
    291 15 yV"^HTS for t! r on WednesP^n? n T dd ayoft^ 281 1"! Club s Cl »Div.i-. 5 f. fi lm Studio aon '"-Pope ktobN J-IJ gar- Vf r 111 BE s '.h^ Mf n Un f 809 Slind SIS? g Yorkshire Beau 8.01 Actress II 0 0
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    Chinese were at best
    253 15 Chinese were at best Chinese 3; Malays 0. /CHINESE struck a hard blow v> to Malay's SAFA Community League championship hopes when they trounced last year's league winners at Jalan Besar Stadium, yesterday. Chinese have now moved to the top of the table with Malays second and Europeans third. Though
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      295 15 CAPSTOL today J t Jl#4^ 11. 1.45. I. fi :o 9tU jSfiyH I I I I I I on WIDE RANGE MHUMiA GIANT BCtEBN now SHOW.rG! 1100 a.m.— 1.45—4.15— ii.45 :JO p.m. AUN YOUNfi DINAH SHORE ROBERT MERRILL I A r»n mowwt fiitwf I EDMUND GRAINGER rnu,., H V NEXT
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    46 16 19 Wuidt ,*'i minimum > l.vK) I Mi ,v Mn 100 S it K> irt.ii. K.i ij iii II on !»j!h Octobel < < CHAI BR i>m i Rfl b» it. .i dhi fhter Oei line Ann, >;■ 17ih O |953 <t X d tii| Kef U i'l Hospll
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    ENGAGEMENT
    39 16 29 Word* i minimum i Ml-' En i !>'•' Keen Antl f Mi md Ifl i I r.»- oj i*u dip, Mhi i -i tei of Mr ..r.d Mrs. (5 P. Ct k oi i l. I.i Berjuntii M»la
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    96 16 20 Word* $h (minimum i MEBSRB. lOVV HOCK CIUAN anu Low Hock Ki;it vi-.li t<> Huink H oat frltndi ijul r i itlvei i h m iif > i-es ot tympathy, wreaths. cn> aii'l lonics, ;ind wlio aMci. m ;!-t visits on thi (ie.illi oi |h#l] lji-l(i\<'d mother. |frt.
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    LIANDA A GOOD THING WEDNESDAY
    329 16  -  ALLAN LEWIS Ran 3 m 37 l fc this morning From lIANDA (Sawyer) made a good impression this J morning, when she easily disposed Of three m 37 1 5 on the outside of the second grass track at Penan*;, which is still m good
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    Tulloh rides in West Australia
    146 16 Tulloh rides in West Australia MKUMUJBNC jockey (i. West has accepts I*l to rule for Ipoh trainer Tj O ;i. n West nas the leading rider m Colombo f m the early forties, when ridinu lor Cantain p Win West also rode with success m s^V*2?i. war has won his
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    A challenge to Veteran
    316 16 ?TWE sports editor received a 1 letter from a badminton enthusiast, signed "ANOTHER VETERAN:- which takes Free Press coneiponUent "Veteran" to task. He writes: The adverse criticism* levelled at the Standing Commit tee of the Badminton Association of Malaya by your correspondent "Veteran" m rasped of
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    SIAM BID FOR WORLD TITLE
    138 16 •yHAI promoter Devit Chafikavanich is flying to Sydney on Nov 10 to sign a contract for a world title fight between THalland'a Chanuoen Sondkitrut. eight h world ranking bantamweight contender, and Australian world champion Jimmy Carruthers. Tne American National Boxing Assedation has alre.idy given "ther
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    Lim Swang foils RAF
    213 16 SCRC 2, RAF Seletar 2 ROYAL Air Force Seletar yesterday could have returned to their base easy winners, but instead had to bo LTth^i tnrou Poor marksmanship, to share points with Singapore Chinese Recreation Club m a Singapore Hockey Association Div. 1 league match on Hour
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    37 16 Other nationalities Rugby League team of British Commonwealth players yesterday beat a French 13 at the Municipal Stadium In Bordeaux by 15 points to 10 after France had led at half time by 10-5 Reuter
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    U.K. SELECTORS GO FOR BIG NAMES
    346 16  -  VERNON MORGAN By IT very much looks as if the English football selectors 1 are not unduly worried about the outcome of the to match on Wednesday at Wembley when a F.I.F.A team will be England's opponents. There is every evidence they have allowed
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      481 16 CLASSIFIED ADS. SITUATION VACANT 10 M..1-/. $2 (mm.)—Box SO eta. extra. married Chinese iii'i, speaking Hokk'en Cantoneae wanted for cledcal work. Ability tjpe and simple book keeping. Apply m own handwriting .stating s.ilnry required Boy *****. FP ACCOMMODATION VACANT 20 Word» SI (mm.)—Box SO els. extra. "COSMOS1. 17. Scott.s Roid
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      48 16 Just the thing for your "MODERN KITCHEN" A. Cat. No DC. H4 ,o easy to clean with it. aMr-jtijt finish of porcelain enamel and con»F with Heated Bottom Drawer. PRICE $395/--<£&C. ELECTRIC 00, ADVI OF THE GtNERAL ELECTRIC CO., LT (V|AL aCC* SINGAPORE KUAt A I UMPUR PE^ANG
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      Masthead
      12 1 FINLAYSON HOUSE Singapore's f\|eu>est folding The Free Press. Monday, October 19, 1953.
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      It's modern and air-conditioned throughout
      1015 1  - It's modern and air-conditioned throughout JOSEPH YEO THREE OF SINGAPORE'S LEADING FIRMS I -IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES. LEWIS AND PEAT. AND AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL ASSURANCE COMPANY —WILL OCCUPY THIS $2,000,000 TENSTOREY BUILDING. i y 1 WHILE many Singapore firms are still struggling for more and better office accommodation to expand their business,
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      14 2 Actual view of Singapore Roads seen through the Pilkington Class of finlayson House wimd*Ws.
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        150 2 Office walls should be made of daylight All the evidence goes to show that natural light— and the more the better— has a beneficial effect on workers, and their work. Big windows sensibly placed to transmit the maximum amount of daylight; translucent panels of "INSULIGHT" Hollow Glass Bricks to give
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      BUILDING COSTS CAN BE CUT
      1437 3 designing structures for air-conditioning guilders have also realised that l 0 keep their structures from becoming absolute air-con-ditioning is a prime requisite. -HE TEMPERATURE f an ge m which the human beine is most Stable is that on a nfrenheit thermometei Jetween 70 and 80
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      A DREAM ACHIEVED
      395 4 The Story of "Holoplast" WHEN THE BATTLE of the Atlantic was at its height, naval losses reached formidable proportions. Britain was faced with the urgent necessity of Increasing shipbuilding at a pace hitherto unknown. At this critical pe r iod a request was made by the Admiralty
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      7 4 An example of partitioning m "Holoplasi panels.
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      SECRET OF A SUPERIOR FLOOR TILE
      225 4 SECRET OF A SUPERIOR FLOOR TILE THERE ARE SFVtB I bonded floor tiles <i K l market but the *■> I Decorative Tile VS 81 I m several «£g**| most. m I The basic secret nf I this type of tKri l^*! sin "binder.-TheDunL ce B rt l ber Company
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        49 4 AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED If /c J? THE SYMBOL -^ft^^W 0F SAFETY AN AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL POLICY PROVIDES MAXIMUM BENEFITS AT MINIMUM COST HEAD OFFICE FOR SOUTH EAST ASIA FINLAYSON HOUSE RAFFLES QUAY SINGAPORE TELEPHONE ***** (5 LINES) BRANCH OFFICES MALACCA KUALA LUMPUR KOTA BHARU IPOH PENANG KUCHING SANDAKAN
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      THE DEMAND FOR LIGHT
      1472 5 THE DEMAND F OR LIGHT GLA nr S NC T E°UPON OF !NftaE ACHITECTURAL DESIGN THE MODERN USE OF GLASS T <? IS THE Age of T?W Glass brings Glass hine mto as a structural Improvements m the (ecfiue of manufacture Md a great increase m C varieties and properZ
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        47 5 MTERPROOK UNCOWWWCV PANEL ROOFING A LOGICAL SYSTEM OF WATERPROOFING FLAT ROOFS. WHICH LASTS THE LIFE OF THE BUILDING. AND IS BACKED BY GUARANTEE DOM NOT INCUR EXPENSIVE RENEWALS AT RECURRING INTERVALS. SIMPLE AND ECONOMICAL TO MAINTAIN. A. CLOUET Co., LTD. 33 3«. WalMch 3tr««t Singapore Phone 3964
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      A pioneer among the Asians
      863 6 A pioneer among the Asians THE ROAD OF LIFE ASSURANCE IN THE FAR EAST WAS STREWED WITH MANY DIFFICULTIES »TIIE AMERICAN lnter- national Assurance Company Ltd. toeorporated under the Companies Ordinances of Hong Kong m 1931, is an Important link m a vorld-encircllnH chain of guaranteed protection through American capital
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      21 6 I Entrance to Finlayson House viewed from the inside. Work I had not been finished when this picture was taken I
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        92 6 4APf i«r stHtmiMim FLEXIBLE VENETIAN BLINDS wSSm w^R as SUfyplied to B^^^B I FINL A YSON H^^^P H HOUSE 51c7/r C /7//^ essionaires: 4lPf!l ifil^ 49 SCOTTS ROAD ITKb U JLn SINGAPORE 9. Tel. 3088 I i m/fmoofs McoHDnmvv\ J I WATERPROOFING j A DRY BASEMENT IS ENSURED j FOR
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      Leaders for 100 years
      623 7 CRAFTSMANSHIP IS BASED W ON LONG EXPERIENCE wvTHE YEAR 1815 two I N !,n B Ihen, John Douliand John Watts, act°nfj interest m a S pottery Vauxhall ssata ■sap £ktag for at least three centuries. John Doulton served an apprenticeship at Fulham Pottery, once the working
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      13 7 A view of the modern doors and glass panelling m Finlayson House. j
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        88 7 Watts Baker Ltd., MERCHANTS PUBLIC^HEALTHj^WATER. MECHANICAL Ac ELECTRICAL.ENGINEERS PLUMBERS THE SANITARY INSTALLATION OF FINLAYSON HOUSE, INCLUDING THE FIRE SERVICES AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENT, CALLED FOR THE BEST IN WORKMANSHIP AND MATERIALS. IT IS AN AXIOM THAT THE BEST IS, IN THE LONG RUN, THE MOST ECONOMICAL AND WE ARE PROUD TO
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        205 8 CARRIER KNOWS AIR CONDITIONING LU I S FINLAYSON HOUSE AIR CONDITIONED BY ~T r^^^S^' From an investment standpoint, there are many H I factors to take into consideration before one buys air H mmmm I condit.oning; but the first and most important step is II I the wise choice of
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      TALLER BUILDINGS ARE POSSIBE HERE
      564 9 N ew foundation methods have solved soil difficulties m Singapore. re NONE of the tall ig ?he fa^° r COn st °fled hmiH? a m"ltl«J, no Tock m localhard clay str atum or kreX. ormatl °n can d(pt h co'nvpn ce t y ond whlch
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      New formwork for concrete
      118 9 A BIRMINGHAM firm have developed a special type of steel formwork for us* m concrete construction. The system his already been used with great success m the construction of the Glendevon Dam m Scotland, the Ladyhill reservoir at Newport. Monmouthshire, and the Colwyn Bay sea wall,
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      PAINTS AND INDUSTRY
      367 10 THE HISTUKY or paints and of their development to cover a multitude of uses is long and interesting. From very small beginnings, constant research has enabled manufacturers to keep pace with the requirements of the rapid industrial progress of the last 100 years and today there is
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      Synonym for dependability
      172 10 ACLOUET Co. Ltd., established m 1892, are well-known for their reliability m the building trades, due to careful discrimination m the choice of manufacturers and materials. Among architects and building contractors the name Clouet is a synonym for dependability m any building product or undertaking with which
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        123 10 IRONMONGERY BUILDERS' HARDWARE GENUINE BRONZE FITTINGS AND DOOR FURNITURE —BY WALTER ROWLEY LTD BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND LOCKS BY EREBUS MANUFACTURING CO LTD AND E. TONICS SONS LTD WILLKNHALL ENGLAND SELF CLOSING DOOR GEAR BY STANMORE SPRINGS LTD LONDON ENGLAND REPRESENTED BY A. CLOUET CO. LTD. 33.36, WALLICH STREET SINGAPORE PHONE: 3964
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      World's most famous house
      805 11  -  MOLLIE S.PATTON **zr* v m OTHER WEEK a r anf mine who had I friend oi mine eeme He told me of the Ss interesting righte c had seen, but I was ther surprised when he marked that easily the lO st disappointing feaure of his
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        49 11 DULUX ami .ill |»ainls for lli< Decorative Trade Copper I 'lilting. Brass Fillings and Aluminium Sheeting Corrugated PERSPEX and ALKATHENE lube B^ Mural REXINE and VYDINE and VYDINE for Furnishings HOLOPLAST I'lastir P«ml^ Doors and Lining* CORROPLAST Corrugated Roofing Sheet imperial Vhvmieat Kiulustrifs (itntnyii) LintHvd SINGAPORE lUALA LUMPUB PE»A»g
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        119 12 JN 1 945 the PA UL Y. CONSTR UCTION CO. I was started m Shanghai. From the outset 1 the business prospered, and m 1949 the Company H acquired premises m Hong Kong. The rapid jfl development of the Company was such that m I 1952 it was decided to
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