The Singapore Free Press, 13 May 1954

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    Masthead
    22 1 The Sin ga pore Free Press i.;irtfe>t Afternoon Sale m Malaya. N I „,|7 Singapore, Thurs., May 13, lf).'>4. Frier lfi 't-,
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    Shopping lends to Red goal
    97 1 BEKMN Thursday. •THREE young American civilians held m X an East Berlin gaol for two weeks were released yesterday through the intervention of the Russian authorities. The three men are Henry Ciarecki and William Kosslow, students at Heidelberg University m West Germany, and John Deull.
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    STORE YOUTHS SMASH RED PLOT TO BEAT THE CALL-UP
    233 1 STORE YOUTHS SMASH RED PLOT TO BEAT THE CALL-UP THE "magnificent" success of the national registration campaign had dealt a heavy blow at disruptive forces m Singapore, a Government spokesman said today. The fact that 98 per cent of the young men had readily come forward to be trained to
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    20 Mau Mau wiped out in 2-day clash
    68 1 20 Mau Mau wiped out in 2-day clash rpHIRTY-NINE Mau Mau terA rorists have been reported killed In upcountry engagements north of Nairobi, including 20 m a two-day clash with a large gaii^ around the Fort Hall area, East Africa General Headquarters announced ye.sterday. Security forces m their running battle
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    Mass air attacks on rebels
    103 1 Mass air attacks on rebels r\ E French yesterday again 1 sent out big squadrons of -26 and Privateer bombers Communist-led Vietminh troops inside the ital Red River Delta with I.UOO-ib bombs. warplanti smashed rebel lases ta the limestone hills the southern and southeastern part of the Delta and Vietminh
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    Sanders leaves £18,452
    27 1 John Owen Sanders. Manager of the MaRailway, vvho died m has left an estate value 16,452. He left his :'v to his wife. Reuter.
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    Sir Gerald visits Jahore Bahru
    21 1 a] Sir Gerald Templer. Commissioner for trie Uft\ is paying a farewell to Johore Bahru this
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    Flight to freedom
    20 1 tgle-engined Czechoslon' crash-landed m the roop-training area of 1 yesteriiajr. The pilot 'Cl fur DOlitirnl nsvlnm A.P.
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    HUSH-HUSH
    27 1 Film star Katherine Hepburn, wearing slacks, arriving at London Airport. Why had she come from New York? But Katherine wouldn't give the reason for her visit.
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    Students' march 'postponed'
    84 1 Students march 'postponed' At 10 a.m. today there were no signs of any of the 500 .students of the Chung Cheng Chinese School, who had threatened a march to Government House m protest against the call-up re»Lstra- tion. Police, under an European officer, guarded the main entrance of the Governor's
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    Rubber price
    32 1 Ru bb er price Singapore Rubber Market opened on a steady tone this morning with fir.st grade May shipment at 61. 3 rents a pound three-eighths of a cent abovf* yesterdav'n cio^e.
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    McCarthy man 'was Schine worker'
    177 1 McCarthy man 'was Schine worker' the U.S. Army-McCarthy 'us went into their 15th ay (yesterday), Army lawyer onno Adams took the stand estifled that Roy Cohn 7 /nto rages, spouted obt and abuse, and applied c *l treatment for his budp David Sehine, after the was drafted into the J>
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    LITTLE HOPE OF PRICE PACT
    77 1 TJRITISH Labour M. P. Stan Awberv asked m the House of Commons yesterday what the Government was doing to brinu about reasonably constant prices m the rubber industry on which the welfare of Malaya depended. Mr Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary for the Colonies, replied: "Stabilisation of
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    Indo-China plan is political failure, says U.S.
    263 1 Indo-China plan is political failure, says U.S. U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spent two hours behind ctoted-doon with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday discussing the situation In South-East Asia. Afterwards, Senator Alexander Wiley, (Republican, Wisconsin), chairman oi the committee, told reporters Mr. Dulles said there had
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    U.S. 'NO' TO INDIA
    27 1 The United States has rejected an Indian Government rlemand tor a voice m determining whether Japanese war criminals should be given clemencf. A.P.
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    Murder telegram angers Molotov
    425 2 Murder telegram angers Molotov Atklegkam Introduced ai t }>r Geneva conference (OOCbCd 'f an angry Uare-up yesterday between Soviet fion i^n Minister V. M Ifolotof ami Foreign Minister Georges Bidauli ol Prance British Foreign Secretary An thony Eden, chairman ol th» session, Md< (l with M. Bidault l/i the rerbal
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    Russian arms found on Pacific coast
    82 2 Russian a rms found on Pacific coast Nicaraguai! Ambassador C.uillrmu) St- villa Saras i said yrsterd-iy his <iov< rmnmt had advis^l all the American nat»«nf» of i»,,. r «M,-Mt dis<over> of a vruhr of arms burird m a dt-solaii- ana of Nitaralua'fc Pa<iii t co«u»t. Nicaragua llias. s UliallliJ the
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    Mecca-bound say tearful farewell
    36 2 Some oi the Malayan pilgrims who left Singapore for Mecca yesterday m the \nking, take a last look at friends and relatives on the wharf, before the vessel sailed— Free Press picture.
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    EDEN PUTS KEY QUESTIONS TO PEACE CONFERENCE: ANSWERS 'URGENT'
    269 2 MR. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary put Jive key questions to the Indo-China conference m Geneva yesterday to try to bring it to grips with the problems of restoring peace. M. George Bidault. the French Foreign Minister and General W.
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    Ship rescued in Coral Sea
    68 2 AN Australian cruiser carrying the GmernorCieneral, Sir Willf.ini Slim, yesterdiy took m tow a disabled Dutch landing crait with 20 men. The cruiser, the Australia, picked up an SOS from the Lindin? craft of the Royal Netherlands Navy and raced through rough seas to her
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    Policy criticised
    47 2 Senator Claro M. Recto, Filipino NacionalLso Govern ment Party Foreiun Policy Adviser, said yesterday the Philippines should not hav 1 tent ti(»ops to Korea. The money could have been better used solving local land tenure problems and a combatting Communism at home, he .said.- Reuter
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    Dutch Minister warns Indonesia on split threat
    246 2 >THE NETHERLANDS Foreign Minister, Mr. M. A. H. Luns, said m Geneva last night: "If Indonesia wants to end the union with the Netherlands unilaterally, Holland will do nothing to stop her. "I would consider such a move a mistake,' he added. He
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    Japs want body
    29 2 Th»- Japanese mission m Manila yesterday applied for permission to recover the body ol a slain Japanese World War II straggler on Lubang Island A. P.
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    REDS REJECT CHARGES
    79 2 RUSSIA yesterday rejected charges that two Red Air Force majors tried to *py on British military secrets. The Foreign Office ..aid. however, that the Soviet Ambassador. Mr. Jacob Malik, told the British Government that the two Soviet Official*, assistant air attaches, would be withdrawn from the embassy
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    Mussolini men held in arms gang case
    180 2 Mussolini men held in arms gang case THE ITALIAN police arrested seven people, including a stylish woman, m a crackdown yesterday on a Fascist gang suspected of owning the arsenal which was found hidden m a midget car near the home of the Italian Premier. Another man is still being
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    Typhoon weakens
    27 2 The Hong Kong Observatory said yesterday that typhoon Elsie has weakened to a tropical storm. Its centre was m the middle of Hainan IsJand. A.P.
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    Berlin refugees
    28 2 The West Berlin City Government said yesterday that 41.443 refugees from Soviet-occupied Bast Berlin and East Germany have asked for political asylum since January 1. A.P.
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    POPULATION RISE SPURS COLONY
    270 3 SEARCH FOR NEW SCHOOL SITES: 1 8 A YEAR PLAN SINGAPORE Director of Education, Mr. D. McLeUan spoke today ot the need for more primary schools to cope with the Increasing number of children seeking admission each year. The Colony's population was increasing rapidly and because
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    More and cheaper fish aim of firm
    275 3 More and cheaper fish aim of firm A. i pore nshing concern p laM to adopt a new drift-net system to increase es and cut down the price of fish. I is Malayan FishIndustries Ltd. Son- Heng, the oommanager, told the today that a new lied the Lyon net, be
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    LIGHTNING CALLS
    22 3 Lightning flashed from telephone receivers during a thunderstorm at Leamington (Warwickshire). In Reading, lightning stripped the roof off a house.
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    War on squirrels
    30 3 In the 12 months 360,792 grey squirrels were destroyed m the British Forestry Commission's campaign against the pest— 102.783 more than m the year ended September. 1953.
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    THEY WON'T FOOT IT
    24 3 The British Prison Commission has refused a request for a free issue of stockings to women nurses working m prisons.
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    They keep pace with building— and 60,000 benefit
    229 3 They keep pace with building— and 60,000 benefit |V >•' «M»a of this year, IJ O(J p more people will *c been provided with facilities, the SinriZnf l v Engineer, Mr. G. jomond. told the Free Press 40il'iinn fucili tie s exist for W) people at present cent of the
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    200 TAXIMEN WANT TO LEARN ENGLISH
    136 3 And can't get place for class TAXI-DRIVERS IN SINGAPORE are to be taught English to help them serve the public better. The Hire Car Association has arranged for three classes a week, but has not got a place to seat about 200 men who
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    Driving ban on man, 90, is lifted
    82 3 Driving ban on man, 90, is lifted ATHJtEE-YEAR driving ban on ft motor-cyclist has been lifted m time for the man's 96th birthday. The ban was placed on George Dobson, of Market Lavington, Wilts, by Devizes magistrates last August. He pleaded not guilty to careless driving. The same magistrates were
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    TALKING OF SMOKE
    35 3 At delegate at a smoke abatement conference m Cardiff complained about the draught blowing through the city council chamber. The windows were closed ana the air soon became hazy with cigarette smoke
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    LOST AND FOUND DEPT.
    38 3 Picking tulips m a field at Murrow, Cambridgeshire, yesterday, a woman found a gold signet 'ring. Then she discovered it was the one lost by her .son, LanceCorporal Tn vor Spriggs, six months ago.
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    A visit to the farm
    53 3 TIIK DEPUTY High Commissioner of the Federation, Sir Donald MacCiillivray and Lady MacGillivr.iy have just completed a tour of Negri Sembilau. Here Is Lidy MacCiillivray feeding a chirping chicken at a joint poultry project at Seremban of the Rural and Industrial Development Authority and the
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    TABLETS WILL TELL HISTORY
    77 3 DESCRIPTIVE plates m gun metal and black enamel are to be affixed to a number of hLstoric buildings m Singapore. A beginning will be made with Victoria Memorial Hall and Elgin Bridge, If the City Council approves the ipropo- j sal of the committee for the
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    902 books to go
    26 3 Brighton magistrates ordered the destruction of 902 books and five postcards. They had scrutinised 1,617 book.s and postcards alleged to be obscene.
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      36 3 Lmtmsi Arrival m a complete range of (Full Open Front) MEN'S SPORT SHIRTS to cool you off Shnri l X Several Available m sizes 34 to 44" Make your early selection at (The Premier Departmental Store)
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    'EVERYTHING FINE'
    283 4 The Vlscomtesse opened a telegram m Paris and read "Everything all right. Impossible to write. Kis^s Genevieve." It was from her daughter, 29-y<-ar-t>ld Air Fore* nurse G< nevieve de Galard-'JVrraube only woman amo n R the 12,000 -strong French army when they were locked m their last outpost
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, May 13, 1954. Opinion Atom for peace
    392 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, May 13, 19 54. Opinion Atom for peace Mr Justice William O Doui ol the United States Supreme Court, as well as being a dis- Unguished jurist is huma- 1 mturian. and as Mich his observations command international notice. j Thus, his suggestion to a
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    Britons were at Dien Bien Phu
    894 4  -  STEPHEN COULTER THEY FOUGHT IN THE FOREIGN LEGION BY i rp m the fourth floor < office <; f the dim, dusty Hotel des Invalides, trio captain sat back folding the letter: ♦Another Englishman wanting to join us!" By "us" the captain meant the
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    Opens school
    61 5 Lt.-Gen. Ci. K. Bourne, G.O.C. Malaya, shakes hands with Miss F. I. Cousins when he made a tour of the 540.000 British Army secondary modern school, Headquarters, Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Miss Cousins is a teacher at the school, which Lt. Gen. Bourne declared open. Also m the picture
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    SWING 'EM, BOYS
    129 5 SWING 'EM, BOYS Si •'.•</ her high. Si ing her low. Suing the girl from Singapore. Sring her up. Siring her down, Swing her around the town. 4ND with these words, ac- companied by squareoanre nm.sic, a barn dance will legin at the Singapore V.M.C.A 1 next Friday night. It
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    Taxi men to aid university
    56 5 Singapore taxi-drivers have promised to give a day's collections to Nanyang University fund. Mr. T. A. Simon, president of the Singapore Hire Car Association, said yesterday a date would be fixed at a meeting next week. Colony trishamen recently raised more than $20,000 from a
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    $30 MIL. BARTER
    31 5 A barter agreement between Nationalist China and France, calling for an exchange of $30 million. (Malayan) worth of goals m one year, will be signed on May 12.
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    $5M. COMPANY PLANS TO BUILD CHEAP HOUSES
    112 5 NS for the formation of a multi-million dollar rapany In Singapore to build thousands of cheap (s for sale to Colony workers have now been finalised. new company, which is to be registered will be known as the Singapore Building and Limited Wll
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    Asphalt cheaper
    123 5 SINGAPORE'S new multi-niil-lion dollar service reservoir near Bukit Timah Hill will have a reinforced concrete lining for its base and sides instead of asphalt as previously proposed. Although asphalt Is cheaper. the deputy Water Engineer Mr. F. S. Wicks, said that the use of concrete would be more
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    $10,000 a day interest on power station loans
    153 5 $10,000 a day interest on power station loans USE MORE DRIVE GOES ON rili: Singapore City Council is paying $10,000 a day J- m interest on loans, granted for building the 1590 million Pasir Panjang power station. And that is why the council has got to keep up its power-selling
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    THE RE-BUILT SANGOLA TO RETURN ON RUN
    118 5 THE RE-BUILT SANGOLA TO RETURN ON RUN rr<HE 8.1.'S 8.646-ton SanJ- sola, which broke her back when she ran aground m the Hoogly River on the way from Calcutta to Singapore la.st July, is due to return to her old Calcutta Japan run m August. The Sangola was towed to
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    Chief editor dies
    31 5 Mr. Erik Reger, chief editor of the Berlin Tagesspress and a member of the Executive Board of the International Press Institute, died m Vien- na yesterday. A. P.
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    U.S. anthropologist to study Malayan people
    223 5 U.S. anthropologist to study Malayan people SINGAPORE has an untapped wealth of material tor the anthropologist, Dr. Irene Diggs, Fellow of the American Anthropology Association, told the Free Press today. When she returns to America she teachers this science m Baltimore Dr. Diggs hopes to encourage American experts to come
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    AND NOWTV TEETH
    91 6 DENTISTS warn parent: s day to beware Ol teeth." h Says a report by the Britis Dental Association: 'Wai your children while they are watching TV. '•Do they sit with heads held between the" hands, pressing either si against their jaws? Sucn seemingly harmless habit.s ma) actually
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      138 6 1 i* m t 1 i*■ Sfl I I I fe i^ MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis A Lyo^^^^H f H^gy^ |gTHiaSM?I TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs ,M FXPECT VOJD LIKE^I FwHAT T W HY CdN T I GET SHIPWRECKED 1 hj^^" T/S/S f tVL^: A DRINK. COME
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    This atomic pile is the fiercest
    122 7 This atomic pile is the fiercest AN atomic pile, more fierce m its intensity than anything yet. existing m Europe, is under construction at Harwell. Sir John Coekeroft, Director 01 Atomic Research, recently r the first sod of its foundations It will produce radioactive obalt, a man-made element powerful than
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    The expert touch
    41 7 PARTI of Ne^ro beaut> specialist! from the United States who are visiting lurope to study hairdressing and beauty treatment, visited the Stiebel Fashion Show m London. Picture shows some of the specialiNts admiring a dress displayed. Popper picture.
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    Big car exports
    35 7 Motor-vehicle exports are ting overseas exchange at rate of £1000,000 every day, said Mr. A. B. 1 president of the SocieMotor Manufacturers and m London. More than the Industry's output was >d.
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    TV menace to teeth
    99 7 DENTISTS have warned parteeth' 1 l beware of TV **gLJI r ?Port by the British y dl Association: "Watch r phi Wren while they are itchini* TV h'n h 7 !2 witn their heads 1 lr ;;'tween their hand^, n? either side against Jiw^? such seemingly
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    Jilted girl wins £1,100 from 'don't leave me' suitor
    276 7 Jilted girl wins £1,100 from 'don't leave me suitor UOITR months before he jilted his fiancee, Peter Savilie a 30-year-old chemist, of Regent's Parkroad, Finchley, N., (England) wrote her a love-letter which ended with the plea: "Don't ever go out of my life Recently a Queen's Bench jury of nine
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    SHE STOLE TO BUY FLOWERS
    51 7 Mrs. Pearl Green, aged 26, stole to buy ilowers for her baby's grave. At Torquay, Mrs. Green, of Cleveland-road, was put on probation for a year for stealing 10s. from a fellow employee. She asked for two other money thefts totalling £2 10s. to be
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    'L' DRIVERS WHO BRIBE ARE BIGGEST PROBLEM
    128 7 PEOPLE taking driving tests provide one of the biggest problems m the campaign against bribery. So said the Marquis of Carisbrooke at the Bribery Prevention League's annual meeting m London. Lord Carisbrooke. who is the league's president, said that of 50 convictions for
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    MOTHER, 2 BABIES, FALL UNDER EXPRESS
    195 7 Scream as train passes over SV-TEAB-OLO mother, her baby-in-arnis, and her four-year-old daughter, whose hand she was holding, fell under an express train recently. The train passed over them but all three survived. The scene Derby Station. England. The 12--roach Devonian special from Newton
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    Mystery jamming of taxi radios
    213 7 Mystery jamming of taxi radios I TWO of London's biggest A radio-tuxi firms have called m Post Office engineers to trace mysterious lamming of their wavelengths. One of the firms— Radiocabs (London i, Ltd., which run.s 350 cabs has also sent for experts from the Py<> radio and TV group
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    The father who forgot his duty
    110 7 The father who forgot his duty A FATHER was told by a juvenile court: "It is your I duty to defend your son when ho i.s in trouble." The boy, aged nine, was accused at Stockton of stealing 4s. Only his mother wa.s with him m court at first. The
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    SWIMMER WILL TOW HIS FOOD
    53 7 Mr Ted May the long-di.s- tjinro swimmer from Dartford. Kent, li planning to swim tcroflf the Channel without a nilot boat m AugUft towing hi.s food behind him. He will trail an Inflated car 'nner tube covered with net--1 ttlng. On it will be bottles
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    BE SOCIAL & SUCCEED
    898 8 BE SOCIAL SUCCEED Why the average secretary gets sacked: Barter brings life's luxuries to Naomi Lome: Talent scout for animal stars: TV's !sdy "fixer Flowerbed hats KAY MURRAY writes from New York about "The U.S.A. as a icojfian sees it. rpHE average w cretary Im, nred w•■ u> 709J ol
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    TENNIS WITH TRIMMINGS
    80 8 A new note for evening a splashy red rose to be worn on the wrist with a tiny concealed pocket for hanky or money: a new note for the beach a stark black onepiece taffeta swim suit, with a lon;.' -stemmed rose climbing from thiah to strapless
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    Attractive new fashions
    332 8 Attractive new fashions T ATEST fashion flashes from Paris "tell about the long-legged silhouette and explain how shoulders widened by lapels and kimono sleeve movements help to emphasise the slimness of waist from which the long flowing line develops. Prints arc fashionable m any fabric and are equally oprrect for
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    EMPLOY A BRUSH FOR YOUR LIPS
    286 8  -  MARIAM HALE by I DON'T suppose one women m 50 puts on her lipstick the right way that is. with a lip brush. Yesterday I became one of the correct few. ami though, through lack of practice, i took me fully three minut< to
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    FIRES FASCINATED MICHAEL-BUT THEY LED HIM TO GAOL
    312 9 HIRES had a fascination for cool customer Michael f \nthony Want. But he burned his fingers when ne tried to make profit out of them. At Old Bailey, England, recently Want, aged 20, s oaoled for seven years for setting fire to
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    MINISTER APPROVED FLOGGINGS
    84 9 <JIR DAVID MAXWELL FYFE, thi British Home Secretary, had personally considcase ol two Parkhurst tio were flogged retly incitement to Iny. Th- were t)00 prisoners prei.t when the two men, F. and Michael Hogar., atmpted to create the incident. ai the Governor. was a demonstration the' three-shift
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    COUNTING SHEEP
    40 9 There were 800.000 more "P in Britain last year than ear before, a total increase nee 1947 of 6.000.000. 1 the country is .still 4.000.--w the 1939 figure, the 1 Sheep Breeders' Asn was told m London. day.
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    TRAILER HITS PRAM—NOT BABY
    104 9 TRAILER HITS PRAM— NOT BABY A BABY |irl was hurled out 11 her pram and over a i foot fence into a garden uh( n a three-ton trailer swerved on to a pavement recently. And the baby 18-month-Md Catherine Rivers, was unhurt happened m Stanley JJV^- T'ddington near Lon<V>n -Catherine's
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    Firm's 'best antiques' fooled the experts
    364 9 F irm's 'best antiques fooled the experts HHHEY made the best modern A antique furniture m the business. They battered it with clinkers before polishing. They used a mixture of lamp black, size and turpentine to darken it. They opened joints with hot penknives. Gently they played a blowlamp over
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    New Lord Vestey is fag at Eton
    163 9 A 13-YEAR-OLD fag at Eton, told the he was the new Lord Vestey went back to his lessons. Samuel George Armstrong' Vestey is In his second term at the college, and is m the Upper Fourth "Just a normal boy," said his housemaster.
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    NO CHILD KILLED FOR 3 YEARS
    97 9 NO CHILD KILLED FOR 3 YEARS >TO child killed on the i< I for the third succeasta year. That is the record announced by Islington; London's most densely populated boroiißh. The last fatal accident to a child was on May 4 1951. Islington ha* 235.000 Inhabitant* to its four and
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    Jet bangs killed piglets
    171 9 rpilK jet aircraft sped JL across the clear Hampshire sky over (ireen acres farm. With a loud double him:: it penetrated the sounc! barrier and two young pi«;s dropped dead. At YZ (>'cork the two iiitle pi«> irerc enjoying the spring SUBfhinc with their moihi r
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    NUFFIELD'S GIFT TO NEW TOWN
    50 9 Three group practice centres with clinics attached are to be buiit and equipped at a co.st ol 4:6O.ooo m Harlow, Bsaex, new town by the Nuffield Prortocial Ho.spitaLs Tru.st. They will be u^ecl by ge\ medical and dental practltioners, and by the county health authority.
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    New order is: Save
    89 9 Ne w order is: Save a nkw econom? call has cone out to ail government department! from theßrttl h Treasury. Ministers have b*'en Bfked to look ftfain for wiiy.s to .save Dip taxpayers money. Resolta will have to be reported to the Cabinet. The size of Whit, hall tafli will
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    MAGNA CARTA ISLAND IS NOW LEASED TO U.S. AUTHORESS
    244 9 MAGNA CARTA ISLAND IS NOW LEASED TO U.S. AUTHORESS An American il taking over I llagtia Carta Island m the j Thamei at Runnymede, where Kin<> John is .said to have I signed the charter of English I liberties. Buckinghamshire County Council announced tiiat they have granted a 14-year lease
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    -HOWS WINSTON WEATHERING THE CARES OF STATE?
    86 10 %lv .li'.ir frll<m >«uj 4m l'H»k lirrd HaVC i f«« v\reks .iw.iv .irul I'll look .iII«t vmir Ministry f"r v<m im ambition* i te v»" leant to rnakr' a big political career for rny^'if 'No stamina Why. aftor the early ace <»f 82
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    THE TWO BERLINS
    484 10 ITNLEBS y<m spend tome time m Berlin, it's hard to realise what a kicking m the teeth Soviet propaganda Is taking m this City split by It has become trite to call Berlin a window on the West. Actually, Berlin Is more of a gate than For
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    The Queen's bouquet
    72 10 r P»«l QUEEN'S bouquet 1 Wbtn she drives from we Palace te the ntyon May 1J» will be made of: Pink roses from Bawland. Small white orchids from Itodnant. North Wiles. Heather from the Highlands. Pink carnations from Belfast and the Isle of Man. It will be
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    PRINCESS MARGARET HELPS PRODUCE A PLAY
    274 10 ORINCESS Margaret sat m the second row of stalls at the Fortune Theatre for more than four hours the other night and co-directed the first full-length rehearsal of the charity play The Frog. A row title for her W9B decided on -associate director. Previously
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    No giant liners for Germany
    305 10 No giant liners for Germany PARTING from all: zero, the Incredi Germans have— in five short years built up v merchant shipping; fleet of aver 2 million tons. And they are still building ships at a recovery rate which few, if any, of the world's shipyards can ever have equalled.
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    THE ADVENTURES OF A BOY REBEL
    320 11 THE ADVENTURES OF A BOY REBEL FRIENDS APART. By Philip Toynbec. MacCibbon and Kee. TN Rugby School, one summer day m 1934. the news circulated that, m London, a mysterious schoolboy rebel was editing a magazine. Out of Bounds, "against Reaction, Militarism and Fascism m the Public Schools." To one
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    Elusive Spanish
    164 11 THE SPANISH TEMPER. By V. S. Pritchett. Chatto and Windus. THIS is something more than a book of travel m Spain, of meetings with Spaniards. It is rather an inquiry into the meaning of the word "Spanish." There Is something "Spanish" which is not simply geographical, or racial,
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    WHO came with the Conqueror?
    398 11 THey Came With the Conqueror. B y L. C. Pine. Evans. IJEAVY as were the Norman losses at Hastthey are nothing ompared with the losses ffered since under the of modern scholarship. Asked how many of the 4500 *"J«ies m the Landed Gentry 1 Prove
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    LIBRARY LIST
    104 11 Lord Vanity. Hv Samuel Shcllabarger. Collins. A novel, taking place m Venice. Paris. Bath, Quebec; the mid-eighteenth century. Shellabarger cc that we meet all the right people, (loinj; the right things, e.g., OenenU Wolfe, about to take Quebec rememberi to recite dray'.s Elegy; John Wesley turn.s up for
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    Story of Katherine Mansfield
    744 11  - Story of Katherine Mansfield George Malcolm Thomson A beauty tilts at love and literature by THE NEW BOOKS Katherine Mansfield. By Antony Alpers. Cape. VUITH a small allowance Tf from her father, a New Zealand banker, an untried talent for writ- ing, and a vast, uncritical appetite for life, pretty
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    This is a dream hospital
    656 12 LEE UNDER, Associated Press correspondent, claims that the push-but-ton hospital is no longer a medical dream. Writing from Philadelphia, m the United States, he says:rpiiK ik-w Lankenau Hospital, iHiilt on v golf course m suburban Philadelphia of steel, concrete and glass at a cost of
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    Bridge Hand
    327 12 Ruth hM<>h WlMnMf and on Boore BoVtft (Ihhl.t /vnk oi Ihi kttosjmcradai ot ■Odtn hiddin,; is tliat Ls certain sltwatlom .1 ivtaJi bid is virtuallfa force. m today's hand, with a part soon that needed only two notrump to oonvtrl to .1 came, Youth's 1 one no-trump bid
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    Summer fashions
    75 12 These three models by Pierre Clarence of Paris are (trom Jhe left) "Manucaude. a beach ensemble with red linen skirt buttoned over a blouse and jeans m black and white linen: "Spinal." an ensemble m black honeycomb silk, the bolero buttons over a bodice of printed silk with
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    ATOMIC RADIATION FOR FOOD
    239 12 A MAJOR programme to take the "bugs" out of food sterilization by atomic radiation is being launched by the U.S. National Research Council and the Army's Quartermaster Corps. After surveying the field, a Research Council committee is recommending a five-year, $6,000,000 programme to be carried out
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      241 12 Daily Crosswwil I mfl^ mma mmmmmma mmmmmmmmmmw^^mmflmmr^m CUJU \(uo.s>. A Hatal rivet no prtvUtget to an antique tharactrr .sendj greetings? (I y buyoi ,7. 7 Contradictory h rhe whole of a tiny trot <h. 9 condition or a sleepy place (4 3 f; !l lvlii "V" r l4 1! i"
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    Eve Perrick
    463 13 MEETS Mr. FUNNY MAN Tragedy is that he longs to be serious I HAD a very serious x talk with Mr. Garson Kanin this work, and I hope I got to him m time to avert what seems to mo a slight calamity. Mr. Kanin haus my nomination
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    Jack (aged 61) to dance again
    365 13 rpHAT apeing adolescent of the theatre. Jack Buchanan, will be seen dancing and singing m a British film again. Raymond Stross to to make for the Rank Organisation a film ol As Long As They're Happy, the play m which Buchanan is now appearing
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    'Killer' Sinatra
    170 13 IpVEN though "From Here To Eternity" has made him a fullyf lodged (and Oscarwinning) dramatic .star.. Frank Sinatra has no intention of slowing down the production of his records. In fact he is recording every spare moment he can get oil from his work on "Suddenly" the thriller
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    Errol and Anna
    257 13 VyHEN youve been to one Press reception for a film .star, you've been to them all. But I had a hunch that the party In aid of the Anna Neagle-Errol Flynn partnership might be a little different. It was. When I arrived it was well under way.
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    REFEREE FACED MAN WITH GUN
    145 14 JIJ \KIN(. speeches as a candidate m the Ilkeston ITI municipal elections holds no terrors for Mr. Cyril Smith. He's been a referee! no is on me same list as his 17-year-old son. Stewart, who gained experience by acting as linesman when Dad was refereeing.
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    Pretty lines for the new Cooper 500c.c.
    234 14 Pretty lines for the new Cooper 500c.c. pORMULA 111 racing cars with' lull-width .striM m lined bodies may i ■ompetc kftaintl Men other for the Unt Mine m t lie meeting at Silver•tone on Saturday. Several drivers think the fast »t nights will Hive these 500 re's bi« advantage over
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    FALSE BATSMAN
    56 14 IrYad Barlow, of IHiaiiilwi (Lanes) li commencing hla fortieth t**vm as v cricket umpire and he Is 72 years old. Hu Im*| Mory m 41, y ars iIIK)U ttM mateti m which ■rlekaia feU to quirkly that ont man eaOH to the wickets iteond time am. m order
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    135 GAOLS
    42 14 I Shepshed Albion by defeating Ibstone Penlstone Rovers completed a remarkable season's record. They went through to the championship of the Leicestershire Senior League without losing a game. They drew two, won 28 and had a goal average of 135-26.
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    'DREAM RACE' COMING TRUE
    116 14 THE "dream race" matching the world's four fastest milcrs was out of the dream stage today. George Duthie. sports director of the Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto, said efforts have been started to arrange the race there m late summer. An invitation has been cabled to
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    AUSTRALIAN FOIL CHAMP
    51 14 Ivan Lund retained his Australiar. men's foils championship m straight bouts m Sydney on May l. He Deal Swiss-born Hans Steinacher m th« deciding bout, after each had had seven victories. Lund won by five points to nil Margaret Kimber, of Sydmy, won the Australian womens foils
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    HOW'S THIS FOR A FREAK GOAL?
    83 14 r£HE freak goal of the season, perhaps of all time, was scored by Aberdeen against Hangers m a "C" League Cup tie. An Aberdeen forward char- ged Rangers' goalkeeper George Niven, but he icas able to resist the charge and hold on to the
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    100 GAMES IN ONE SEASON
    91 14 Jimmy Meadows of Manchester City has played over one hundred games this season. In Army representative matches he has played 18 times at outside right, left half, centre forward, right back and inside left and scored 14 goals. He has played for his unit every
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    VICTORIAN EIGHT WINS KING'S CUP
    354 14 VICTORIA won the KtHf*i Cup rowing eights race on the Derwent River m Hobart from New South Wales and Queensland teams. NSW.lmished a length and a half behind Victoria with Queensland a quarter ol a length away third Tasmania irai fourth, followed by Western Australia
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    16-yr-old Hassan can be youngest Test player
    207 14 16-yr-old Hassan can be youngest Test player THE youngest player ever to undertake a cricket tour is I member of the Pakistan team now m England He is Khalid Hassan, a leg-break bowler who Las also been turning In some good batting displays. Born on July 14. 1937 HaslAII hai
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    QUIXALL HAS TOOTHACHEARMY LOSE 1-0
    462 14 IN a gale of wind so strong that it almost caused the match to be postponed Northern Ireland beat the Army at Windsor Park, Belfast by one gaol to nil. Just before the match Albeit Quixall, Sheffield Wednesday and England inside forward was taken ill
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    LOST EVERY GAME
    44 14 Greenfield F.C. have lost every game they hav^ played m Darwen (Lanes) League this -past season, some of them by doubn fIfUNS, but the opposing clubs have voted them "Tlu Sportsmen of t" e Season" and they will receive an award.
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      135 14 &ciN^GWiTt 7) J| JL^- Pf/ IH£Youn4KT(^/-^[_J J|^^/ UM9RELLA' TJT Itf I VIST US —WE Fea A SfOT OF ADVKE ON ENGLISH CRtKET/ -E, A M^M A WILL NOT BE AMISS. IKAJNIN& C-l iwfif ffiL WT ©PRACTISE OU^J^?!!^ 'nKff mm 'Cr' |MD SPRINTS i?s«^' (ZJSIORM OOAT, SOU'WKTBfi NEVER KWX £HS AND
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    9-GOAL O.T.E.C. HEADING FOR LEAGUE TITLE
    69 15 9-GOAL O.T.E.C. HEADING FOR LEAGUE TITLE Business Houses soccer Their rivals clash today O.T.E.C 9; Chartered Bank 0 yesterday's one-way-traffic victory at Geylang, OTEC are sitting back to watch the result of this evening's tie between Mercantile Bank and Hong Kong Bank. For their chances of the Div. 1 championship
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    ALL THE LATEST POSITIONS
    330 15 ALL THE LATEST POSITIONS I)i SITIONS In the Singapore Business Houses FA. I*. true after yesterday's game* n DIVISION ONE P W D L F A Pts OTEC 8 7 1 0 36 8 15 Kong Bank 8 7 0 1 21 9 14 Mule Bk. 7 6 0 1
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    Mercantile Bank net 8
    130 15 MERCANTILE Bank trounced Sime Derby 8-1 m a Rervt League match at Farrer Pi yesterday. Outside-right T< ng Ying Chye notched four these goals and did a hatk Fhere wai do score until the 20tli -a hen Edward de Silva accounts for Bankers. D< < :ed
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    CORPS
    115 15 TH the R.A.O.C. FARELF championships heduled to be held at Nee on June 23. keen interest ■unded 443 B.A.D's sports t held at Kranji as to the ihood of the Unit bettering Fetn ".share"' of the 9-C. Shield with 221 Bn. "Petition within the Unit baaed on Platoons, four
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    THE LAST WORD
    548 15  -  ARGOS —by with 17 points from games. They look like inking the title but arc not yet definite champions. Today's match at the P N ground will determine who OTEC's greatest rivals will be, for Mercantile Bank and Hong Kong Bank are both running them close. OTEC's
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    TIMES BETTERED AT 443 BAD MEET
    296 15 Results: Javelin: Cpl. Jones 4 PI. 2 Pte Perry 2 PI, 3. Cpl Simmons 3 PI. Discus: SQMS. Gardner 3PI. 2 Pte Buttle 4 PI. 3. L/c Miles 2 PI. Hammer: Cpl. Page 4 PI. 2 Cpl. Mum.v 3 PI. 3. But Mohd. Rous
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    Cables finish unbeaten
    204 15 Cables finish unbeaten Cable Wireless 4, rhornyrroft, 2. CABLE and Wlrelen are undefeated m the Div. 3 League alter their final match on the padang yesterday. BUT THEY ARE NOT YET LEAGUE CHAMPIONS. X.P.M. can beat them on goal average of they win their last tie Yesterday's match on (In
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    FINISHING SPOILS BRICKWORKS
    129 15 FINISHING SPOILS BRICKWORKS CiENTRE-FORWARD Laz i m j scored three goals for East Asiatic when they drew 3-3 with Alexandra Brickworks m a Div. 3 match yesterday on the padang. But better finishing by the Alexandra team would have seen Lazim's side beaten. Leading 2-1 at the interval. Brickworks had
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    BATA win takes them up to 4th
    190 15 BATA 2; BATA Sports Club moved their well earned Div. 2 FORD 0. up to fourth berth with victory at Keppel Harbour yesterday. In teamwork and intelligent >occer. Bata were superior Dnly hard defending kept the •icore down as Bata swept to [he
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    BIG SCORES IN U.K. CRICKET
    419 16 3WIT men an tne vent urn list 4 i>\Y o! heavy scoring featured the English County championship cricket matches yesterday. Neville Rogers, M year-old Hampshire opening bat. led the field. One of the most consistent County batsmen ever to hive played for England, Rogers carried
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    BIRTH
    29 16 ni r/s \i, i mini mil m El n- NNI i i Betl Ife of I m, :i nirl C ertne nl Singapore i 1 n 12th May
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    ENGAGEMENT
    32 16 M m,l, >», minimum) THOMAs ANDERSON Ilic ••m<ri t r, announced between officer <; a* Thorns <<" R.A.F Selel ir md Misi J E A- m B.R.N O.N.C "I the Genera] Hospital a rapore
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    CAMBRIDGE 265 FOR 7 v. PAKISTAN
    358 16 r PHh touring Pakistan cricketers found probably the One I batting wicket at Ptsiners, Cambridge .they will encounter on their tour when they began i threeday fixture against Cambridge University yesterday At tin close Cambridge had •cored 269 for wren wickets acaln.«l a team
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    Davis Cup men in action today
    87 16 l r ruiNY Mottram, Britain s no. i tennis player, will meet Bob I formef American s 1 >: tn ihe highlight match of v< European /one second round Davli Cup match botwcvn Brit j in &Dd In the other singles match, Britain'i Georl
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    Bannister is banned front U.S. television
    295 16 Ban nist er is banned front U.S. television rplK Uriti-sh Information I Oflice announced m New York last night that uli commercial television appearance by Koger Han nister hid been cancelled m order to safegVkv4 his ainateui status. Baankter, first man lo run the mile m under Jour minutes, had
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    Red Hat and Tollana in sound trial
    491 16 Red Hat and Tollana in sound trial F.P. Course Correspondent |>Kl> Hat and Tollana II ran a sound trial on the training track at Bukit Timah this morning. Breaking: from the half mile post, they steadily increased pace to cover the last 3f. m 37 3 5. Tolltna II iDonnellv
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    Victoria Cup acceptors
    78 16 I^IHST and final acceptors for th« Victoria Cup. running ov< i ■even furkMlfl at Hurst Park on Saturday, May 22. were announced m London yesterday. They are. with weights: Chamfer < 1 33 lbs>. King of the dldon 1131), Hilltop and Set Fair (125), lip the Bottle
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    SCOTS WIN 2-0
    29 16 SCOTS WIN 2- 0 Scotland beat Eire 2-0 m M amateur international footbHl match at Ctttk Park, Glasgow, lasi night Both ntk were scored m the first half. Reuter
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