The Singapore Free Press, 7 January 1954

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singpore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. No. 1391)9. Singapore, I'hurs.. Jan. 7, 1954. Price 15 Cls.
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    KEEP THE QUEEN AWAY
    192 1 KEEP THE QUEEN AWAY Buganda potiee warning ITNLESS the situation m the kingdom of ftuganda improves, the Queen's visit to Uganda, of which it forms part, m April, should be cancelled, said a high police officer at the capital, Kampala, yesterday. He thought it inadvisable to expose the Queen to
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    Queen sees shearers —again
    121 1 Queen sees shearers —again THE Dakota plane which took the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Napier, New Zealand, last night landed on an airport which was a yacht harbour m 1931. The ground was forced up by an earthquake which killed 165. The Queen received the gift of
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    MONEY FOR CHINA
    15 1 U.S. officials have intercepted $170,000 mailed to Hong Kong destined for China.
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    Patino has six men lined up tor Isabella
    227 1 Patino has six men lined up tor Isabella DON AXTENOR PATINO. the Bolivian tin magnate, who has taken out a court order holding up the marriage of his beautiful daughter to the man she loves, has got six Frenchmen of royal descent lined up for her to choose a husband
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    PRINCESS AT THE CIRCUS
    28 1 picture. PRINCESS MARGARET pictured watching the Tom Arnold Circus at Harring-iy, London, last week. With her are Lord Granville (left) and Lord Porchester. A.P.
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    JEWEL ROBBERY
    26 1 Thieves broke into a locked Iressing saloon m Outram jterday, while the protress and her family were out and stole 53.800 worth of llery.
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    GIRL MOLESTED
    26 1 Singapore police are looking an Indian, who molested a I year old Indian girl while alone m her home at Tanjong Pagar yesterday I
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    RAF bombers leave
    126 1 RA F bom bers leave pOUR Lincoln bombers of 33, 1 Iron R.A.F.. which hav^ ''ruling against the ban- m the Federation .sinc^ irrlval here m August last! ft TYngah this morning 1 r Britain. t will go on Jan. 19. idron which began ojwra■trllwt on Sept 5 has flown
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    BOGUS WORKMEN STOLE PISTOL
    136 1  - BOGUS WORKMEN STOLE PISTOL SIT YIN FONG By SINGAPORE police this morning asked all licensed holder.- of arms to take good care of their weapons. This followed the theft yesterday of a .38 pistol from an Australian businessman living m Rebecca Park. At 4.15 p.m. while he was at work
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    Rubber Price
    26 1 Singapore Rubber Market opened steadily this morning with first grade, January shipment, at 57.1 8 cents a pound, half a cent above yesterday's close.
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    Russia, U.S. to fix date for A-talks
    177 1 Russia, U.S. to fix date for A-talks Washington RUSSIA has agreed to enter into preliminary a torn ittalks with the I'nited States m Washington, it was xnnounced m .Moscow last night. A Foreign Ministry announcement, published m the Government newspaper Izvestia, said Mr. Georgi Zarubin. the Soviet Ambassador to Washington,
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    I-C.: Soviets may offer to mediate
    224 2 I-C. Soviets may offer to media te PHAVDA STRESSES NEED FOR TRUCE THE Soviel l"nioii may rais<- the question of truce m indo hina daring the forthcoming Bfc Four Foreign Ministers' conference In Berlin, diplomatic quarters said m Paris last night They noted that yesterday Pravda the Soviet Communist Party
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    The atom bomb is natural
    47 2 L IHIS SIRANOE WORLD J [EXAMINATION of the soil reVj vealed thai pre-hlstoric fiani meteorites may liavc set (jff atomic explosions m the United States, said Dr. U. Niningcr. of the American Meteorite Mu.seum, m Arizona. If not the temperature wa.s comparable.
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    Cow's quins
    36 2 A COW has given birth to fire calves four heifers and a bull- at Kroonstad, Orange Free State, South Africa. All are doing well. The mother, veru weak after birth, has fully recorcre I.
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    Rum lover
    58 2 A Swiss private soldier, employed as a rook m tIM Neutral Nations Supei isory < ommission kitchen, at I'anmunjom, sliot himself m the arm after he had written 50 letters to a girl and then received a reply that she was «oinjj to marry someone else. His colonel
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    'KEEP PROMISES'
    38 2 The Egyptian Premier. General Neguib, said m an interview, published yesterday m Le Monde of Paris, that Egypt must not be regarded as a country to which promises can be made without being kept.— A. P.
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    Russian pilgrim
    44 2 A RUSSIAN diplomat tried to join Ike Christmas pflgrtattfC of Christian At ;ihs to Bethlch* m but Jordanian authorities turned him back at the Mandelhaum Gale, I check-point betuten |vr;ieli and Jordanian Jerxalcm. Daiiag Urn day shots were fired on (he border.
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    Laniel gets the vote
    101 2 Laniel gets the vote rpHE French Premier, M. Laniel. won a vote of confidence In the National Ass< jnbly I last ni^ht, preventing a cabinet j crisis before the four-power conference m Berlin. M Laniel had been expected to ret the vote, despite the divided National Assembly, because a cabinet
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    RUGGER TEAM PLANE CRASHES
    135 2 RUGGER TEAM PLANE CRASHES A British troop carrier pli v tied Into a hillside m Al< England, m a snow:it .tiui if) of the i (i i i (i. ii eluding in' bei kaf rugby t« am i dead two .survivors wen pulled from the wreckage (»t the twin-< ngine
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    GUIANA INQUIRY MEN ARRIVE
    42 2 THREE members of a British Government Commission to enquire into the constitution of British Guiana reached Georgetown yesterday. The Commission will be touring the country before beginning its hearings, which the Communist -tinged People's Progressive Part'- will boycott.
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    Leff leader to try in Italy
    185 2 ITALY was last night headed for a period of political confusion after the collapse of Premier Pella's Government. The President of the Republic. Mr Luigi Einaudi. will bP'iin hLs search for a new Prime Minister today. His consultations with political leaders of all parties
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    THERE MAY BE ANOTHER LORD WAVELL
    136 2 THERE MAY BE ANOTHER LORD WAVELL THE earldom that became extinct when the 87-year-c second Lord Wavell was killed by Mau Mau terrorists m X on Christmas Eve may be revived by the Queen, a London newspaper reported last night. Lord Waveil WU a bachelor and had no brothers. The
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    'MISS ITALY' IS 16
    49 2 SIXTEEN VICAR OLD Marcella Mariani of Rome was elected "Miss Italy IM.VT at Cortina Dampezzo this week Marcella has chaestnut hair and blue eyes, weighs 8-stone 4-lbs. and is sft. Sins. tall. Picture shows. Marcella sporting m the snow after her election. Paul Popper picture.
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    CITY TO TAKE HAWKERS OFF STREETS
    211 3 Shelters at new housing estates Free Press Staff Reporter i/VKRY new housing estate springing up m J Singapore, whether Singapore Improvement Trust or private, will m future be required to have a market with a hawkers' centre. •In this way, the City Council hopes
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    The man all the fuss is about
    154 3 The man all the fuss is about Free Press Staff Reporter npiIIS is Deputy Commis- sioner of Police Scobie, tragic hero of London Films' "The Heart of The Matter," which has been banned i from public showing by the Malayan Film Censor. Mrs. Cynthia Koek. The role of Scobie is
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    SYNTHETIC PROFITS
    22 3 United States governthetic rubber proa profit of USSIn the year ended 1953, or nearly four l\^ 16.000.000 prjiit of ar.
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    BOYS TOLD
    171 3 A] neth Bradley. Director 1 01" t iperial Institute m m London to 2.000 h form pupils from nar .schools: "If you ople really think the mpire is a matter of ion. imperialism and n, then it i> high time ned a great deal more In your schools."'
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    LEARN MORE ABOUT EMPIRE
    59 3 LEARN MORE ABOUT EMPIRE all Governments were abused. He illustrated this by relating how he had once had to handle a railway strike which had come to a deadlock. "I sat back for a week to do I bit of quiet thinking. I hadn't a clue! And the headlines m
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    CAR GOES SEA BATHING
    41 3 CAR GOES SEA BATHING A driverle.ss car went lor a wintertime dip m Hong Kon-^ harbour ye.sterday. The car, parked on a street facing the waterfront, suddenly started rolling and plunged into the water. It was hauled out an hour later.
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    THE LONG FLIGHT
    32 3 a pigeon which alighted on a fishing boat m Imperia, Italian Riviera, had a disk tied to its If- with B Red star and \hc inscription -*****8, Murman k."
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    FIRE ENGINE ABLAZE
    33 3 A liif engine caught fire yesterday while travelling down a main .street m Oxford. Crowds watched firemen put out the blaze caused by a short circuit m the electric wiring.
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    Jap police chiefs quit
    82 3 EIICHI Tanaka, chief of Tokyo metropolitan police, yesterday submitted hLs resignation following the tragedy at the I Imperial Palace last Saturday when a crowd stampeded into the palace grounds to pay homage to the Emperot. The resignation of Tatsuol Takesue, chief of the Imperial household police,
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    75 primary schools to go up this year
    205 3 75 primary schools to go up this year Free Press Stall Reporter aiNUArUKE I'uDiic works 15 more primary schools 5260.000 each. Work on these will start as soon M sites selected for the buildings are approved, the Departments Sup erintending Engineer. Mr. E. W. Houston, said yesterday. In some cases,
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    SHIPS CRASH: SIX DROWNED
    49 3 Six people were drowned 'n Rotterdam yesterday following a collision between the German vessel Damascus 4.500 tons and the 107-ton Dutch tug Angus. The collision occurred Jus* before midnight on the Nieuwe Maas, a narrow channel through 1 which sea-going vessels travel to I Rotterdam.
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    LEANING BUILDING
    87 3 OIK attention has been drawn to the article which appeared m our issue of Tuesday under the heading "Leaning Building To Be Jacked I'p." In this article we reported Mr. N'u Keng Sianc as laying that "engineers would pack the defective piles with new wooden piles and lay
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Jan. 7, 1954.
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      Opinion A WARNING
      429 4 Opinion A WARNING PRESIDENT Eisenhower has emphasised the grave possibilities that may follow renewed aggression m Korea, or Chinese intervention m Indo-China. He told Congressional leaders In Washington that the Unite. l States WOUld take direct action against China. No secret was made ut what was ■aid, so presumably his
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    In England They Want to be Rid of Americans
    934 4 In England They Want to be Rid of Americans An American who likes Britons says BEN DUNCAN author of this article, writes: "I came on J Henry Fellowship to Christ Church, Oxford, m 1950. When I got my B.A. m 1952 I liked England too well to leave so I
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    POCKET CARTOON
    29 4  -  OSBERT LANCASTER I f»v Welt, off hund, about the only people I'm jaivly irriuin she's NOT been murried to are King Furouk and Hut^e ss und Mat/can."
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    BOWLER HATS?
    72 4 BOWLER HA TS? FASHION-CONSCIOUS men j m America will .soon be going to the office m traditional English costume bowler hat. drainpipe trousers and with a rolled umbrella saya Mr. Sydney Goldstone, British fashion house proprietor. To prove hi.s hunch he is ■tiling on a live-week tour of U.S. fashion
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    Textiles are without buyers
    254 5  - Textiles are without buyers P. M. RAMAN By Vi MILLION BALES 111 L \JS\Ej TEXTILES worth nearly $30,000,000 packed m about bales, accumulated over three years, are lying: In Singapore godowns with very little chance of realising even cost price, merchants said yesterday. Because of this, they have not yet
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    Rent rise is fair
    90 5 protest is likely against I a 34 per cent rent increase on pre-war Singapore Improvement Trust 'Hats fron next month. Mr. Teo Seng Bee, president of the Tiong- Bharu Community Centre, said yesterday that tenants received their notifications a fortnight ago. Hut there had been no
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    RADIO POLICE GROWS MORE POWERFUL
    140 5 Free Press Staff Reporter PEARL'S HILL, headquarters of the Singapore Police Force, is to be one of the 'best radio-equipped police I centres m the East" m three months. R Anderson, Assistant of Police (Detachyesterday a 200--mast Is being built aUv operate the ex- land
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    Sudan elects Premier
    50 5 ISMAIL Al Azhari, leader of the National Unionist Party, yesterday was elected first Prime Minister of the Sudan. His National Unionist Farty backed by Egypt, holds a 54 to 53 majority m the Lower House of the Sudan Parliament and also has a majority m the Senate.
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    ENVOY WAS WRONG
    37 5 THE TURKISH Foreign Office m Istanbul said yesterday it did not approve of remarks made by Turkeys Ambassador to Cairo about Egypt's confiscation of property owned by members of the former Egyptian royal family.
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    RHUMBA NIGHT
    25 5 An impromptu "Rhumba Night will be held m the Great World Garden Cabaret from 9 p.m. onwards tonight Silver cups will be given.
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    WIRELESS MAST GOES UP
    30 5 picture. This U the new 2110-foot wireless mast which is being: erected ,t Pearl's Hill to cope with the i idio police expansion scheme. Free Press
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    CUSSES IN 'SPOKEN ENGLISH'
    42 5 British Council is organls--second three-month Spoken Englbh". It >n Jan. 26. marked "Spoken should be sent to the :ation Oflieer. British, Stamford Road. will be held every >m 630 p.m. to 7.30 I from 7.30 p.m. to 8.30
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    MacD opens art show
    42 5 picture. The Commissioner-CJeiural. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. discilMM a picture with Mr. Francis Wu. famous Hong Kons photographer. Mr. Mac Donald yesterday opened the exhibition of photo»riphs by Mr. Wu at the British Council Hall, Singapore. Free Press
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    200 WILL ATTEND NEW SCHOOL
    142 5 200 WILL ATTEND NEW SCHOOL Free Press Staff Reporter Two hundred children will attend the first Government English school on Puiuu Tekong Besar, Singapore, when it opens next Monday. Five cla\sf will be started for these boys and girls who live on the island and Pulau Ttkong Kechil. both of
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    'Divorce threat to women'
    154 5 stiff Reporter >Jim women m ttuiga- m theatened by 1 i f ii divorce and they supported the U move tv in-one-man-one-wife members, said yesnot worried about ijoritt of Malay and ftusltai women are witl: iv \\V can prove this, if ne< saiy, by holding a
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    MYSTERY OF MOSCOW EVIE
    347 7 Does 5-year silence mean she's dead? REDS USED HER AS BROADCASTER five years repeated eliorts have been made to contact Mrs. Evie Manning, a Yorkshire girl who turned Communist and went to Moscow. For five years she has remained silent. Mrs. Manning- she kept her maiden
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    The duck admirals missed is in Russia
    179 7 The duck admirals missed is in Russia a BLACK and white auck A with a curly tail and flashgolden eyes which lurked behind the British Admiralty I wartime 1943 has gone behind the Iron Curtain. -appearance has been and oilicially m London. ick, a tufted one was 1 m St.
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    BUT LUCK RAN OUT IN THE END
    68 7 When their car hit a pole carrying high-voltage cables at Dunstable. England, the fivecwt. top of the pole fell, piercing the car seat between Ldrlver Arthur Cleaver and his instructor Mr M. Eacock. Both escaped without a scratch— but an Electricity Board engineer
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    Love story at 3,000 feet
    133 7 FLYING at 3,000 feet over Gloucester Pilot Stanley Watkins, of Kempsey, Gloucester, turned to his passenger, 21-year-old Maureen Brooks, of Worcester, and shouted: 'Are we over Gloucester Cathedral?" When she shouted "Yes" over the roar of the engine he pulled diamond engagement ring from his
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    'BEAT SMOG' PLAN
    29 7 Permission to ban factory chimneys .smoking for mor" than two minutes m any haKhour is being sought from the Home Office by ll ford (Essex) Council.
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    Watchman whose son is a don
    224 7 ABOILERMAN at a factory In EarLsfield, London, lound Mr. Herbert Small. 63, dead beside his two pet cats m the gas-Ailed lodge of the factory. Mr. Small was the night watchman. Few of his workmates ki.ew that one of his sons Ls Dr. Raymond
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    CAR BATTERS DOOR
    38 7 A car was used to batter down the door of a fur company m Brompton Road, London. Then thieves stole five ermine coats worth £3,500. The raiders were chased by a police car, but escaped
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    CAMERA CLOB GOES ON A PICNIC
    125 8 CAMERA CLOB GOES ON A PICNIC THE SINGAPORE Camera Club recently cn,oyed other outing; tfiis time it was a picnic at the N*l Soon Gardens. Several Chinese Malayan singers wettl invited and provided attractive targets for the kegl photographers, as can be seen from the pictures m rk.,l page. I
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    Atomic medicine was smuggled to boy
    276 10 Atomic medicine was smuggled to boy RUSSIANS STOPPW MERCY CURE RADIOACTIVE medium's produced at Britain's atomic headquarters have been smuggled by underground routes through the Iron Curtain m an attempt to save the life of a boy living under the Soviet regime. The boy died because the Russians discovered what
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    HERE, EVERYMAN IS A MILLIONAIRE —AND HATES IT
    390 10 devaluations, the sterling equalled 84.000 drachmae. Now the Government feels that as vrnie measuie Of monetary stability ii.i.s boon attained, it is time to go back to the "uood old system of currency Of .siiiiill denomination. They huve ordered new banknotes for
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    Keep a check on official cars—auditor
    66 10 Keep a check on official cars auditor A Mi'TKR check on dls- I i by cars for which council allowai ire limed \s Iby Mr J n Kendrlck, QC district auditor for Havant, Hants Council Mr. Kendrlck i.s making an extraordinary audit into aliened deflcienctas and mLsu.sc of the council's
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    Box of 'sacred eath'
    57 10 A two-foot square wooden box labelled "Sacred earth" and consigned to London was held up by the Customs on its way from the Far East. The contents were analysed and found to be just ordinary earth. But who sent it and why is unknown even by
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    DEFENCE SHOCK FOR BRITAIN
    299 10 DEFENCE SHOCK FOR BRITAIN DRITAWB Civil Defen i jr U tianisation. which fe t h.. jonsibility of the h I Office, is a failure. There is no drive behind it. no leacer^hin direction, or guidance. These criticism* were made by the House of Commons Select Committee on Estimates Their highly
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    This Gateway to the Orient has Everything
    841 11  -  DONALD STEPHENSON by A VISITOR LOOKS AT THE BAGHDAD OF THE WEST ()I NEW YORK, pea pie often say that it is an ideal place for a gay week end "but I wouldn't live there for the world." Washingin, too, is m a
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    OLD FRIEND IS BACK
    53 11 ph oto. YFS. fl~7s our i,-t] friend \H i ,r .mft,ageii Orated lor the mil he plays m his latest film, Repablic'i "Trouble m he Glen" Starring with him will be Margaret Lockwood. Orson We |"s' Forest Tucker and John MeCallum. The film is hl^H^iS by
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    Bridge Hand
    176 11 INwtber side vulnerable Norfb dealer .'KICKS are back-to-back no-trump, with a chanc M n luos aren't led Bouth*a distribution sm: •-> :«nci North couknV tii- two honours m heart Partner who had twice rebc resulting four heart conirac: 1 B cans! erable opportunity wy on skin to brim
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      243 11 Today's Crossword L^L^ga^ga^gaa Ki^L^ga^ga^B a^L^ga^ga^gfl a^B^B^B^a^B^B^B^a^ga^ga^Li Bg»^^^^^^i across J.- djj v mi off-spring'! eulogistic 1 Jeer at a kind of Bale? <4. 7). 8 opinion <! Pa or Ma.' (5-G>. 11 A \er\ 'They are not an ■ft-MWCr <8» n D ,r. India (5). i 2 Wh.tt 19 Large areas
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    The Pressman's Postbag
    180 12 The Pressman's Postbag fS A STATUTORY DECLARATION ANY PROOF AT ALL? I AM writing this letter m the hope that some reader 1 may be able to assist me. a long timf> B*° l nl d m an application for an bu lat After a v months I n a
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    FRIVOLOUS
    115 12 I WHAT victims of the Con--1 boys fear reprisals i! they write to the Press, is utter i m i nee. They can alnd on the police. Is I r "Arthur.- whit I meant by clean flight" i.s one he pays to I wish to n mind both Unitisfted
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    Malay 'ambrosia of the gods'
    213 12 Malay 'ambrosia of the gods' IjiNGLISH has been called the language of he.iven. I now style Malay as the ambrosia of the gods. A nations language la sacred. Today m Singapore, this sacredness Is being violated by a small number of narrow-minded peov hose rude remarks and unfounded accusations a^aia
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    74 12 ONi; OF THE jolliest pictures to date of the Royal tour shows th«» Duke of Edinburgh, with i butcher's apron, holding a huj;e lather brush m his hand and waiting for Father Neptune's next victim m the "Crossing the Line" ceremony held aboard the (lothic. when she sailed aerwi the
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    Rude shock for L-men
    130 12 Rude shock for L-men JAM VERY shocked at the rudeness some traffic testshow towards "L' drive: who 120 lor their tests. In SOmi cases testers shouted at the "I drivers while testing then: on the road. Traffic testers should bear m mind that shouting or barkin cut orders tends to
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    IRRITATED
    76 12 1 WONDER what authority Mrs. Fozdar ha^s to aootlt the Chinese? I am most irritated at her statement that the Chinese h are neglectful of the changes taking place In China. I do think the Chinese here an backward and behind the ti as Mrs Fozdar assumes Perhaps Mrs.
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      33 12 Any grouse? HIVC you a jjrou.se 7 H»f« you a bright idea? Have you seen anything strange or unusual? Then write to th. PRESSMAN and tell others about it m his POSTB.UI— briefly
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    Santayana Biography
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    Far East Jottings
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    Boy Brooks banned for life
    393 14 TO SAVE HIM FROM INJURY By <>ur Manila Correspondent IVE Games and Amusement Hoard. foverninf body for boxing In the Philippines, has stopped Boy Brooks from Afhting In the Philippine! tor good. Krason j;i vrn for banning Brooks m the poor show m R ol
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    SPAIN WINS WORLD CUP FOOTBALL TIE
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    46-YR-OLD IS FIGHTING FIT
    266 14 4 DUTCH MIDDLEWEIGHT- two years younger than iA Max Schmeling and seven years older than Joe Louis is preparing for his second come-back m the ring at the aue of 46. r In December Beb van Kiaveren passed a^ain an examination lor a boxmo licence. He
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      INDIA SWITCH TO EUROPE ZONE
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    138 16 C*ANB Rl Columbus lOhioi .saw something ne« In boxing jrttterd.iv. They also .s;i\\ ;i light heavy Iran Detroit named Marth Marshall whip Herble Moore <>i Cincinnati In fact thej siiu hup <io it Ivure. i-'n M. i haU tlXOi ;ed OUt Mr>oie In the third
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