The Singapore Free Press, 17 November 1953

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press _~..__i ,mr_Dore. Tues.. Nov. 17. 1953. Price 15 Cts Uo es Afternoon Sale m Malaya.
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    TO GUILLOTINE CRY MOB
    559 1 TO GUILLOTINE CRY MOB Bid f° r ki ted t° 3 deaths pHROUGH crowds shouting "Guillotine the old monster," Gaston Dominici, 77, was driven m a police van to Digne prison m France yesterday to await trial for the triple murder of the Drummond family. Nine gendarmes held his arms
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    Spy case: Truman says Attorney General lied
    289 1 r)RMER U.S. President, Mr. Harry S. Truman said last night m Kansas City that the late Harry Dexter White was kept m a high government office so as not to "endanger the success" of an espionage investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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    8 1 MR. HERBERT BROWNELL. Attorney-General m the U.S. Government.
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    Rubber price
    33 1 0^ aP °nuietlv RU^ Pr Mark^ wit h Hrst olli* r} lm morning fent Bft Docembe r ship 3 i 8 cent 5 L B cents a pound, dosing below yesterday's
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    Mission to Peking
    36 1 n <m.lc m?I °°vernment Pck Nbv4r,« sion arrJ vpd m acl egatlou WM W ei_ COHied at tho station by Lei Jon Mm. Vioo-Mtnlstor ol Foreign Tl md two other high CMntM official*.
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    FREE CURRENCIES CHANCES BETTER
    168 1 AN official of the United States Treasury. Mr. W. Randolph Burgess, said m New York the chances for a return to free international exchange of currenciesconvertibility—look better now than at any time since the pnH nf t.hp a^pcond World War. Addressing the National Foreign Trade Convention
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    A typhoon got in his way
    58 1 AUBREY O. Cookman Jr., abandoned his attempt to break the 99-hour round the world travel record by commercial airlines when he arrived ln Hong Kong yesterday. He came from Bangkok where he said because of a typhoon now sweeping South China Sea no plane
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    $340 JEWELS LOST
    48 1 A European couple r Wiling Singapore had font for trip to Banting m <he Iteration before the wife discovered thai ihe had lost $340 worth of jewellery. The poMee .said this morning thai the theft mIfM h«te i ikon place at a hotel m Singapore.
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    PEER FOR TRIAL
    28 1 Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, 27 -year-old bachelor baron, who m London yesterday was committed for trial on a charge of committing a serious indecent offence.
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    UNEARTHED
    23 1 Thieves cut and removed 40 feet of copper earthing wire from the Pasir Pan j ang power I station, Singapore, yesterday morning.
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    Churchill: What we'll talk about
    262 1 Churchill: What we'll talk about MIR YY.nston Churchill told the »!5 House of Commons yesterday that the aim of the forthcoming Bermuda conference would be to discuss ways of strengthening the West, but at the same time to repudiate ali Intention of aggression. He said he hoped he, President Eisenhower
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    WEST: 'PEACE TALKS BY STAGES'
    308 2 Russia told: 'We must first agree on Germany' WESTERN powers yesterday ace used Russia of demanding a "defenceless Western Europe" as her price for East-West talks, but left open their repeated invitation to a Foreign Ministers conference on (Jermany. Replying to the Kremlin's Note of
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    Door is open, says Britain
    322 2 tlement. "Wiih this m mind, the British Government proposed a meeting of the four Foreign Ministers m order to reach agreement on Germany, especially on its reunification m freedom, and on the Austrian state treaty, m the same spirit they are :ontinuing their efforts 'o
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    2 MURDERED, NEPHEW IS CHARGED
    92 2 2 MURDERED, NEPHEW IS CHARGED A 25-YEAR-OLD farmer was charged m St. clears. West Wales, with the murder of M« middle-aged uncle and aunt Their bodies were found yesterday buried m a field near the town after one of BritaTn's biggest searches. The couple, John Harries, aged 63, and his
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    THOUSANDS DON'T OWN A BATH
    116 2 CIX-TENTHS of London's 1.120,000 households do not Uons V rev a e2red d an fflClal Census on swial c nd >- The report, the first detailed check since 1931 m the County °f London, al.so revealed' Only one-third of households have the normal "domestic arrangements'-
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    Pudding with the Drake touch
    85 2 Pudding with the Drake touch SIR Francis Drake lived again to officiate at the ceremonial stirring of the Christmas pudding at H.M.S. Drake. Royal Naval Barracks. Devonport, Devonshire. The role of this great admiral of the first Queen Elizabeth's time was taken by Lt. Commander W.P. McLoughliti, seen m the
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    LANIEL FACES NEW CRISIS
    192 2 LANIEL FACES NEW CRISIS THE GAULLISTS, who have five ministers m the Laniel government, may demand their resignation if the French National Assembly votes a motion implying future ratification of the European Army Treaty. The Assembly begins today its first full dress foreign affairs debate m 21 months. The Gaullists
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  • THIS STRANCE WORLD
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      YOGI FIVE HOURS IN FIRE PIT
      193 2 J 1 flve-foot dlSn half a ton of Jr?, 1 3 him and S.r^^^aC to the onlooker^ hoi > Awed «as been living I^l^^ not want his i fcSS** rebufZ/ who? so It* "ere homekss <™t_^& Main at its own cost c) Good helping
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    CHAMBERS MAY SEEK SPECIAL SEATS IN COUNCIL
    332 3 Trade leaders to see Rendel Free Press Staff Reporter mHF CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE may urge the Rpndel Commission, which is reviewing: the Jtftution of Singapore, to give them similar -Mirtte and direct representation m the future urislature of the Colony as they now
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    Rural bus service for 2,000
    135 3  - Rural bus service for 2,000 P. L. KOH By TWO thousand people living m Tanjong Kling and Boon Lay Road, off Jurong Road, Singapore, will be provided with transport soon. This follows their recent complaint to a Legislative Councillor, Mr. H. J. C Kulasingha. At present they can only get
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    I.L.O. TURNS DOWN RUSSIA
    48 3 wmwmw mm m The International Labour Organisation. Geneva. told Mm* yesterday that its constitution makes no provision for membership on a basis of incomplete acceptance of its obligations. TTnL^ as "PWng to the Soviet nlrtmf. i rece nt letter seeking fadflms.on to the organisation
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    RADIO DEALERS HAVE BIG MEET
    233 3 RADIO DEALERS HAVE BIG MEET T^ ANNUAL Philips Radio William's 11 mST'SSmI by 'Malaya. 1 1 and Company •n Malaya p? l^' sole agents Co pS meo and Southern S Un\ne s'f SffiSS* Was Memorial Han 1, Andrew s War p hilins 7 este rday. All w er nyi U
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    Stamford Rd. plea is turned down
    261 3 Stamford Rd. plea is turned down SHOPKEEPERS m Stamford Road, Singapore, have protested against a scheme to make the road one-way m a new North-South loop. But the City Council's Venicle and Traffic Committee which made the decision, said yesterday: "It stays." Vice-chairman of the committee. Mr. V. K. Nair.
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    BIG AID FOR JORDAN
    56 3 Britain has tentatively proposed giving Jordan aid amounting to $2 350 000 for the financial year beginning next April 1. the Jordan Government announced yesterday. This sum is for civilian purposes only. Picture shows Mr. P. H. Barton, the manager of the Philips Department of William
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      171 3 1 5 spy^ Sensational News B. h. t. DOULATRAM co., I j j New Designs |[J 1 Fancy Tafetta II Brocades. I I Ideal for Cocktail Dresses I 6f Evening Wear. i I ALSO;- I COTTON CHECKED GINGHAM I BUY THEM TODAY. I 48-50, HIGH STREET, STORE. -6. PHOHE: 7846
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Nov. 17, 1953 Opinion STORM IN A CINEMA
    449 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Nov. 17, 1953 Opinion STORM IN A CINEMA A GOOD many tea-cups m Bukit Mertajam, Province Wellesley, must have been shattered by the storm which has broken over the head of an unfortunate cinema manager there. For reasons best known to himself, he allowed the
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    Queen will travel SOSH
    787 4  - Queen will travel SOSH BERNARD WICKSTEED says The Queen, by royal tradition, will sleep on the starboard side of the liner "Gothic' when the goes on her Royal tour and will remain there for the return voyage. She will therefore not be "Posh Portside /Outward Bound, Starboard side, Homeward Bound.
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    BY THE WAY
    302 4 A RUSSIAN newspaper says that a woman who died recently m the Caucasus was 180 years old. Her memory for events of the past was said to be confused towards the end. Thus she said she remembered Wellington riding into Tiflis after the battle of Austerlitz. M
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      28 4 POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER "My boy, I want you to regard thts not ai <i setback hut os a challenge go right out and mart creating shortages
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    OPPOSITION TO LAND FREEZE GROWS
    300 5  -  P. M. RAMAN By We'll fight to finish —Laycock APPOSITION is growing to the Bill which is to freeze land values m Singapore- It will ease th€ way for the Master Plan of development. The measure, known as the Land Acquisition (Amending) Bill, is expected
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    3 5 DR. IRiVIA HIGHBAUGH
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    New method at car parks
    111 5 SINGAPORE City Engineer's Department has a plan to use soil cement and asphalt for making car parks. This new method was successfully tried out at the recently completed car park off Philip Street. The park has room for 78 cars and is open to the
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    The trouble in most families
    244 5  - The trouble in most families AN EXPERT \BY A Free Press Staff Reporter IN MOST Asian families m Malaya there is a conflict between the younger and older generations. The person who said this? Dr. Irma Highbaugh, American missionary, who is here giving advice on marriage and family problems to
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    FIRE KILLS ONE
    38 5 i*L*____s Was kin >d and r .2 P ocks wer c S utt <*l m a 3 whlch through the ommercial district of Gumaoa' •^uppines. yesterday u^XSf. done w as about gOO.OOO. Faulty wiring was
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    Roundabout for 'death-trap' junction
    150 5 Roundabout for 'death-trap' junction AsySftoBr i R oporl r OTtOad nV_2f on of River c^au Avenue M *ny motor. f d 81n f%Pore. far this year. The City Council originally had planned to instal fourcorner traflk Uffhtl there. Mr. W. R. M Haxworth, Traffic Police Superintendent, told the free Press
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    Govt, Tiers killed interest in TV
    177 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TELEVISION will never come to Singapore if Government maintain* its attitude of dampening the enthusiasm of private enterprise, Mr. Pat de Souza. Legislative Councillor, said to the Free Press yesterday. Government imposed so many restrictions that none of the IbrfS
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      212 5 j Maiilyn Monroe says: JK* _T^B I I 'Gentlemen prefer Blondes' 1 Ml _______Fa f Ladies prefer gentlemen gjr- M j 1 i with well cut clothes \\\mifW 1 For Marilyn Monroe i' See her at the Odeon I Smart styles and well cut clothes, call at |jji [exclusive J
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      252 6 f -____I--H-K T_C W AmW AmmW __-_F Bftv MM mmmW ____)--_-> S ___lk ____P ________b____l_ -ftM^H MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis W m m mm M mm mmkW mmr |r LL RE- -'CARMA- -ISN'T THAT I I JHEUSED THAT ANIMATED BEAN-I I YOU MAY C^HANGE I
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      379 6 OURI I LUCKY I STAR I Personally •U I of natural uieui I not make full eaoJk* I s__!?__^ *TJt__y__?i I n -t»w slip by Vl** •nd fond of y tU l| "_H TJ 1 of "«e. you aJ i** 1 «Q I ""concerned I l""*** sf -uakLng \\jS*A your
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    M WOMAN WOULD TOLERATE THIS'
    224 7 Husband arags wue toy hair ..■ciuNll who was alleged to Have dragged his wife around the kitchen by her 1 i «as said by Mr. Commissioner Wethered at Bristol Divorce Court to have imiided views about how women should be treated. eld S?c idea appears
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    51 7 picture. AND though it doesn't look it, that's the way Budokwai (Japanese word meaning "Way of Gentleness") teaches its members the noble art of self-defence. Hire .4nne Liow (of llounslow) falls victim to a hip throw by Yvonne My res (Bayswal) at the Budokwai Headquarters m London. Budokwai world-wide organisation.-
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    RESTING FOR ROYAL TOUR
    56 7 Lady Slim, wife of Australia 'a Gorernor-General, Sir Willian Slim, has been told by her doctors that she must rest between now and next February i1 she is to be fit to undertake engagements during the Roy a: visit. Lady Slim had until recently been convalescing
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    No slacks, college girls warned
    144 7 WOMEN undergraduates at Somerville College Oxford have been warned that they cannot wear slack* with academic dress cap and gown. A notice marked important M Al the college notice board re- wear thick black stocking.* finds students that it is wnu e taking exams nylon
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    PRINCESS SAYS: I'VE SWINDLED
    40 7 JaSktota'te'' the 3hah of 9* _?W£*r„ c m d B S?*!-^ 1 of M 5257-£.«*" i""" 1 l <" sell for Mci, r «na was hard up for !>'«fe, nrt *r <l her al ft* »><• m^V"" warrant
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    MOTHER SAYS: DO NOT BE PRUDISH
    128 7 NEWSPAPERS which publish pictures of women wearing scanty bathing suits were attacked at a Women's Institute conference. But the conference at Shrewsbury was told by 48--year-old Lady Dyer, wife of industrialist Sir Leonard Dyer: "If you pass this amendment about bathing attire I am
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    A. witch hunt has started in Britain
    121 7 A. witch hunt has started in Britain A NEW kind of witch hunt is on. And it includes fairies, elves, pixies and many other legendary characters. For hundreds of years folklore has been built around them. Tales about them have been handed down from father to son m country districts.
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    The odd man was soon out
    64 7 The odd man was soon out REPORTING on the Scottish North-Eastern Fire Board's campaign for Civil Defence recruits at a meeting of the board. Firemaster W. Woods said that during the last year the campaign had been disappointing. "Out of 4,000 houses which were canvassed, we got only one recruit,"
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    S'pore Canadians Make Merry
    546 8  - S 'pore Canadians Make Merry Chew Boon Chin Roger Yue Pictures by Story by I RADIANS m Singapore made merrj fct the Roman Room, Adelphi Hotel wi the Canadian Association ol gapore held its annual fancy dres. Curlous stares followed the guests when t h< > yed m their dazzling
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    BRITISH TROOPS FIGHT AN ENEMY IN PLAIN CLOTHES
    2339 10 BRITISH TROOPS FIGHT AN ENEMY IN PLAIN CLOTHES Second World War (Vol. 6)-19 by Sir Winston Chn^u., ■MtITIBH tioop.s desisting M Communist coup m Greec< during Dei-ember. ***** wen Mill righting hard m the centr< u>f Athens, hemmed m and out iiumbered. We were engaged ir Miocue- to -ho use
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    Bridge Hand
    186 11 Tfe blddiag: Batt south Wmi iQ P»W 3tf All pass SOUTH ESTIMATED (correctly, mStsTi hand w °uw not iTSbJ! ft, at diamonds 9 MT-J! at 5 mi nt take nine Cmml U rnm 1 9'J*^ «Ce P t However l^.^Pe^t. 191 have b i? dfe ln boxing W
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    MOTHER TURNS UP-AND WEDDING IS OFF
    232 11 NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Miss Delia Payne hung up the wedding dress she cannot wear for six months at least. And Sergeant Jim Scoular, also 19, of the .Scots Guards, parked his kitbag and awaited orders for Mi return to Germany tQftttd of preparing for a honeymoon.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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      268 11 Today's Crossword B| II II I P^| I II I rf^ II II BBr^ ACROSS warfare 4 Included m a •"•COn--1 «V' 4 Coverinß.s- with a very up- nai.s.s«nre night <3» 5 Half a V( and-down existence to. 7>. I TlNf crtttotl fruit (4). 6 Tree m another sound to
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    MEN OF EASE
    295 12 WHAT is offensive about the word, 'Kling. M that some people want it changed to "Kalinga?" Actually. Hokklen Chinese never use the word. "Kling." but always "Kalinga." •Hear how mast Asian peoples are called,'' said a surgeon once to me— Chin ese. Japan ese, Indo-Chin-ese, Slam ese,
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    51 12 SYBARI de |gH|M (Centre), B leading Persian ballet dancer, and his two charming cousins, Hilda and Charlette, who have performed in fa'urope, Africa and Near East, will be seen in classical Eastern dances at the Singapore Badminton Hall on Not. 28 with the troupe of dance artistes led by Miss
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    The puzzle at the post office
    182 12 MAY I have the pleasure of adding a few lines to Mr. Denis Distant* letter. Last week 1 paid a crossed-cheque for $100 into my account at the Orchard Road Post Office Before this, my pass book showed a balance Of $500. A week
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    LANDED
    50 12 rTHE Land Acquisition (Amend- ttg) Bill will freo/e the JT'S^ land at tno lp vel of Oct 1U to prevent the public being fleeced by people who have Vn***!* 6 r hl, v ab °ut forthcoming developments purely it should be 1933, not «r«_.i LANDLESS. Tanjon* Pagar. lubber iec/s
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  • The Pressman's Postbag
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      Four-door double decker: $20,000
      214 12 TiAS Seng Kwang. of the Hock Lee Amalgamated Bus 1 Company, stated m the Free Press, that doubledecker buses were prohibitive m price and Quoted i figure of $60,000 as the cost. Our organisation can offer any transport company m Singapore, double-decker buses tested and complete
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      Any grouse?
      34 12 HAVE yon m grouse? Have you a bright idea? Have you seen anything strange or unusual? _.T£ en write to th PRESSMAN and tell others about it m his POSTRAr. 1 briefly
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      WITH COMPLIMENTS
      32 12 DISGUSTED should realise that complimentary tickets are a privilege. Places are not always available and a management has a perfect right to allot seats, or not, as they are available.
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      Letters must be short
      35 12 CHELSEA pensioner, Sergeant Edmund Bird. 74, places cross m the plot dedicated to the North Staffordshire Regiment m the Empire Field of Remembrance, m the Churchyard of St. Margaret's Westminster. London.
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      A HAPPY EXPLANATON FROM MALACCA
      119 12 A HAPPY EXPLANATON FROM MALACCA THANK you BaK m /'Tempu."' f ab»* ab w explanation?- n ,0 V, six." °Q luit^ As mo_t of ih«, lorn burnt* e JS*ft* pekajt; wer c coined^ >» lawa by Straiu.?S„L n w sot from an eld P ri! neBe ulanation or *hft^* up
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    NEW 'HIBERNATION COCKTAIL' IS AID TO SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
    563 13 NEW 'HIBERNATION COCKTAIL' IS AID TO SERIOUSLY WOUNDED Gault MacGowan tells of a great medical discovery PARIS. A OIED MEDICAL chief, k fJ of -vin* "c *£fft which has cut f /death rate m the war by an ■fiST one-third m esUm _lf six months, Laborit, French scientist and a
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    Headaches are a warning
    807 13 says the SINGAPORE DOCTOF HOW MANY TIMES has one heard a friend say, "I have a headache and have just taken a couple of aspirins." In most cases the cure works and so the connection between headache and aspirin is fairly well established m the layman's
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    BAGGED
    31 13 photo. Out of the bag pops "Balamie Estrellita," a tiny chihuahua. She was one of 6,000 dogs exhibited at the Ladies' Kennel Association Championship Dog Show at Olympia. London. Popper
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    ALL BLACKS ARE BEATABLE
    645 14 Wales will be their Ist tesf THE fourth New Zealand "All Blacks" Rugby l T nion team have convinced critics, who have seen them on their current British Isles tour, that they will take some beating But not all the rugby experts will venture to forecast
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    National prestige plays 2nd fiddle
    434 14 National prestige plays 2nd fiddle A NATIONAL newspaper critic has gone on record as saying that professional footballers are being driven to the point of physical and mental exhaustion by too much football; that the reason England does not win Internationals is that national prestige is sacrificed on the altar
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    Scote unhappy over 'invasion' of England
    145 14 IN Scotland, there Is growing opposition to the constant visits of their League sides to England to play floo.Jlight matches. The Border is invaded by at least two Scottish teams every week, and the keen Northern follower of the game says that their League
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    BOXING AT RACECOURSE
    81 14 Purse money has been depoI sited for a fight m Accra be- tween Roy Ankarah (Gold Coast), the British Empire I ieatherweight champion, and Hogan Kid Bassey (Nigeria) for Ankarahs title. I The Gold Coast Boxing Board has recieved a bank certified I stating that the promoters
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    BREAKTHROUGH ON THE WING
    4 14 BREAKTHROUGH ON THE WING
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
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      196 14 V^ Choose your Destination choose your Aircraft _P^J__KW_y WW^ r £_n9l&\_ N__*W W _>___W/^__7 Make your booking WJ* _-i CONSTELLATION at the j International Air Centre <=S^ m COMET of Singapore r j^ The Qantas Office m RalTles Hotel will arrange your booking on any Qantas or SKYMASTER BOAC service,
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    THANKS TO BARTHRECS DRAW
    312 15 Ceylonese miss many chances Free Press Hockey Reporter SINGAPORE Recreation Club have an excellent chance of retaining the Hockey Association first division title for yet another year. But anything can happen. Rees have one more game to play and they face the Police, who although out
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    Don Tallon speaks of retiring..
    133 15 ...__i t*«* wicket-keeper Don Tallon said m A^^esterday he Hould retire from first class i^Xr S current New South Wales Sheffield Shield 2K. _rainst Queensland. Tallon, Jk« played m 21 Test;, J£-nw not feel cou «D oot of big cricket imKiately after an English L
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    North 'quad' programme
    87 15 THE North Malaya quadrangular hockey championship between Perak. Selangor. Penang and Pahang —will be played off at Ipoh from Dec. 4. The North team to meet South next month will be picked at this quadrangular. The quadrangular meet programme j is Dec 4 Perak v Penang at
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    FLOODLIT SOCCER
    21 15 Leeds United beat Dundee 2—o m the only first class floodlit soccer match played m Britain last night. Reuter
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    NO REPLACEMENT FOR INJURED PLAYERS
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