The Singapore Free Press, 4 June 1954

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press Large?* Afternoon Sale m Malaya. No *****. Singapore, FYi., June 4, 1954. Price 15 Cts
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  • 294 1 Malaya owes debt to Templer BRITISH MINISTER'S TRIBUTE MR HENRY HOPKINSON, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, said m London last night that attempts m some quarters m Britain to depict Gen. Sir Gerald Tempter's political administration m [alaya as "a reactionary military dictatorship" were •an odd distortion of the
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  • 126 1 ELY TO TAKE OVER FROM NAVARRE /GENERAL Paul Ely. Chief of lj Stall of French Armed Forces, was named m Paris last night to replace General Henri Navarre as Commander -m Chief of the French Union forces m Indo-China. Gen. Ely. 56 recently headed a fact finding mission of three
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  • 27 1 The Singapore rubber market opened steady this morning with first grade. June .shipment, at 63. 1 2 cents a pound, one-quarter cent above yesterday's close.
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  • 280 1 Q.C.: WAS THERE A RUSH TO LAND CRASHED PLANE? 4 Malayan Airways Dakota *V was coming m to land as the ill-fated BOAC Constellation arrived from Sydney to »nd at Kallang on March 13, it was disclosed at the resumed hearing of the Kal•ang crash enquiry m Singapore tiii.s morning.
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  • 394 1 CTEKN measures are expected to be taken to dislodge students from the Singapore Chinese High School m Kukit Timah, which they have "illegally* occupied since Wednesday as a protest against National Service call-up. The Acting Director of Education, Mr. D. McLellan has bluntly told the
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  • 30 1 A Chinese courting couple were held up at dagger point m King George V rark early today, robbed ol $110 and a watch worth $40.
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  • 28 1 Singapore poli this morning reported the theft oi 24 bottles of beer from the v^ rgeants' mes,s of the Foyal Army Medical Corps ai Aiexancira. Singapore.
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  • 159 1 TWO hundred Tokyo policemen had to stop a riot m Japans House of Representatives laft night that flun^ the nation into a new political and constitutional crisis. The bowling, screaming Legislators suffered about 50 minor casualties m the worst brawl m Japan's .-.tunny parliamentary
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  • 96 2 All the girls love Scrap fl^HlS is Serap —special 1 guest of the Y. W.C. A. at the Fort Canning Hostel. She lost her way last week-end and found n-fuge m the hostel. Miss I). Dudley. Hostel Matron, (above), wants lo find out who the owner is. "Well, if nobody
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  • 81 2 GENEVIEVE IS INVITED TO VISIT AMERICA rpilE U.S. HOUM of Represen 1 tative.s passed unanimously, and sent to the Senate yesterday, a resolution inviting Cienevieve do Galard-Terraube. heroic nur.se of Dun Bicn Phu, to visit the United Btatei as an honoured miest. The resolution congratulated the French nurse for her
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  • 22 2 Th«- Yuuoslav Pirsidrnt. Mur.shal Tito, yesterday laid a wreath on th<- tomb of Greece*! unknown soldier m Athens. A.P.
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  • 27 2 Mrs Lueto Rommel, tho widow of Germany's late Field Marshal Brwin Rommel returned to Frank r nit rrom a nbJt to Egypt. A.P.
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  • 157 2 lIIGH-RANKING military officers of the United States, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand met secretly at the Pentagon yesterday to discuss joint strategy for checking Communist aggression m South -East Asia. While the possibility of joint action m the IndoChina war was certain to
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  • 102 2 Templer job: Now Americans say it UNITED States officials said yesterday there is much interest m Washington military circles why General Sir Gerald Templer. former High Commissioner m Malaya, is not taking up command of the Northern NATO area, but has been put on long leave pending an "important appointment"
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  • 58 2 4 Bl IK WIIITK diamond WtlgMag 426' 2 carats i and valued at about M 100,000 has been found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria, the Am«i«j Vii.mk.ui Corporation of South Africa announced last night. A Corporation executive said the diamond was found during normal mining operation
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  • 119 2 Terrified parents escort children YEW YORK police are today searching for a sex maniac who beat, stabbed and raped Dorothy Westwater, aged 14, m the hallway of her home as she was leaving for school. The girl, pretty, blonde and quiet is critically ill after undergoing
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  • 100 2 T ROOFS of Britain's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders m British Guiana mounted barbed wire barricades around Government House yesterday, as Georgetown waited tensely for an expected week-end curfew. Police Commissioner C. H. Ward has paid flying visits m the last few days to several parts of the
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  • 185 2 Glamour party was so sedate Two newly-wed millionaires gave a I'SS3o,OUO party m Hollywood last night. Mr. and Mrs. Kay Gilliland gave the party to celebrate the beginning of their second month of marriage. They bought out the Mocambo, one of Hollywood's fattiest night clubs, for 300 guests at I
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  • 18 2 Gilts made to St. Andrew's Mission Hospital, Singapore during March, April and May totalled $9,953.15.
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  • 23 2 A .son ha,s been born m New York to John Barrymore Jr.. and his wife, the former Cura Williams. A .P.
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  • 34 2 Two-thousand people are reported homeless m Galle, 70 miles south of Colombo, as a result of floods which followed .severe monsoon rains. Houses and rubber trees have been 1 swept away.- A.P.
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  • 45 2 Continuing strong demand for zinc m the London and New York markets sent the price of that metal up half a cent (US) a pound m New York yesterday, to 11 cents (US i a pound, East St. Louis. Illinois, basis.- A.P.
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  • 48 2 Fierce fighting has broken out near the Central Annam coast midway between the threatened Red Fiver delta and the southern region around Saigon, where the Vietminh struck two days ago. A marauding Vietminh regiment submerged Vietnamese units guarding the approaches to Tuyhoa port.
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  • 115 3 THE POPE BLESSES THE CROWD Pope Pius X, who died aged 80 on the day the Germans marched into Brussels m 1914, was canonised by the Roman Catholic Church m ceremonies m St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, attended by more than half a million people. "Papa Sarto", who once used
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  • 21 3 World farm leaders meeting m Nairobi predict a new record m world milk production this year. A.P.
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  • 102 3 Extortion ring is uncovered 'piIE U.S. Army disclosed I yesterday it has uncovered an American-led xtortion ring m the Philippines, involving millions of dollars as claims for damage from World War II operations In the islands. The investigations have >hown, the Army said m Washington, that at least one und
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  • 82 3 Viscounts break into US aviation I>RITISH planes, for the first > time will be used by a U.S. liinc it was officially announced m New York on Thursday. Capita] Airlines purchased three Viscount airliners from •re-Armstrong Ltd. and has taken option on 37 additional Vis They are powered < ir
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  • 34 3 India will soon start turning •ut the Fiat 1100, her first home-produced car. The manufacture will be lied by Premier Automoan Indian-owned company, under supervision of two m engineers.
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  • 13 3 The Indonesian Government dismissed the Governors of entral Java and Borneo.
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  • 202 3 Warning by Foreign Aid boss I'M III) States Foreign Aid Director Harold Stassen iid m Washington yesterday that he would fire any cmptoyee who Rave unauthorised information to Senator Itsepfa McCarthy (Republican, Wisconsin). \»v employee of the Foreign Operations Administration who violated the laws
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  • 40 3 Bolivia signed the Enter,l Tin A ment t the Briti iF In London. that t!l I nrodu t- Ed .shortly. Thailand a sift tui o till outstanding, bn' 'lily l'»r <, 2 I per v. i produ( Reuter
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  • 373 3 4 Allies must be told more' •IMIK United States Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, yesterday asked Congress to amend the Atomic Secrets Act so that the U.S. could give its allies a limited amount of atomic military information. Mr. Dulles was testifying
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  • 87 3 GIVE BRITAINS SACKED U.S. ATOM MAN—MP A labour member of Parliament announced yesterday he would ask the Churchill Government to invite Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, American atomic scientist, "to place his knowledge at the disposal of this country." Henry Hynd, a middle-of-the-road labourite, .said he would put his question m
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  • 24 3 Lebanon's delegate. Mr. Charles Malik yesterday proposed that the Security Council adjourn the debate on IndoChina pending developments at Geneva. U.P.
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  • 63 3 Discovery of the oldest untouched tomb of one of Egypt's ancient pharoahs was disclosed m < airo last night. The golden coffin of a pliaroah of the third Dynasty who reigned long before King Tutankhamen, is expected to be found inside the sarcophagus m a rock
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  • The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, June 4, 1954.
    • 385 4 Opinion Climax may be near president Elsenhower's .statement that he ha.- not reached any decision <>n whether to ask Congress to authorise direct United stab action jji South-East Asm draws attention once more to the called US-Britam cleavage on this question. It would seem that misunderstanding of Britain's policy ai
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  • 1081 4 Russia is a Woman 's Country Rene McColl inside the 'Curtain In MOSCOW they^ are grim, efficient, drab-looking but.... NEXT RULER COULD BE ONE rE 20-year-old swimmer m Moscow University's large indoor pool was doing his best with a crawl stroke, but the coach m the track suit trotting along
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  • 93 4 ACTRESS Anne I>ecuaux, one of the stars of the Comedie-Francaise, gives the following; report of the perfume situation m Russia: "Since Stalin died everything has changed. I p to last year perfumes had io conform to the party Une and even now you stfll find some called Staklrtnovite
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  • 140 5 New council men not to fly out I EXPATRIATE officers newly IV appointed to the Singapore City Council will not be required to fly out from Europe, unless the need is urgent. This is the latest amendment to Council rules, confirmed only m January. The original rule made it compulsory
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  • 163 5 WEEKEND COURSE FOR BOYS A CHANCE AWAITS youthful Singapore V.M.C.A. members wishing to lead or assist m the association's activities. The V.M.C.A. programme secretary, Mr. Andrew is holding a leadership training course for them from tomorrow to Monday The course is open to those
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  • 86 5 New crooning contest is planned A SECOND attempt to find Singapore's top crooner or croonette will start next month, a Shaw !»ri>ther s executive told the Free Press yesterday. The first "Crooner-croo-nette" contest, held last year, was won by Leslie Kozario of Singapore. The 1954 competition will begin with its
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  • 28 5 TAIPING, Fri. A UNESCO olur.->hip to study community development m Mysore, India, been awarded to Inche Abdullah bin Sultan. Secretary I the Pahang Adult Education iation.
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  • 47 5 TAIPING, Fri. In common with MYFs throughout Malaya, the Taiping Methodist Youth Fellow.shii) is now holding a Youth Week. There will be chapel talks, home visits, a Bible quiz and a campfire during The Week. A Youth Service will be held on Sunday.
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  • 263 5 In India 'on holiday' A SINGAPORE firm has asked the oflice of the Representative of the Government of India for help m tracing a man alleged to have left Singapore for India with another man. The two men, who traded m textiles here, are
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    24 5 Mr. and Mrs. Sim Kwang Yak, of Singapore, after their marriage at the United Chinese Library. The bride was formerly Miss Lim Yuet Fang.
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  • 110 5 They'll go to Borneo to paint FOUR WELL KNOWN Singapore Chinese artists will leave lor Borneo later this year to do gketchef of life and landscape there. This will be the second oversea triD together for the four artists, Professor Liv Kang, Chen Wen Hsi. Cheonß Soo Pieng ;ind Chen
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  • 22 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Frl. Thieves broke into a house n.t Pantai. four miles from Kuala Lumpur, and stole $150 m cash
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  • 52 5 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Fri. —Red Cross units of Bukit Mertajam High School will hold an enrolment ceremony on Tuesday. Mr.s. R. P. Bingham, president of the local British Rod Cross Society, will inspect a guard of honour. Red Cross cadets will give I iemonstration of first aid and
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  • 45 5 PARIT BUNTAR, Fri. Mat bin Hassan, 31, unemployed, was sentenced to five months' gaol for criminal breach of trust of a lowing machine belonging to Bayah binti Mat. He was acquitted of cheating Bayah by inducing her to deliver to him $50.
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  • 29 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Perman Velu, aged 36, died m Kuala Lumpur General Hospital yesterday after he had fallen from his bicycle. He had a broken .skull.
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  • 213 5 BUY QUACK CURES IF YOU WISH BUT IT'S SILLY INDIAN and Chinese medicine men may peddle native rurei without restriction, unthey dabble with poison. The Deputy Director ol Medical Services. Dr. M. Doraisingham clarified thLs to the Free Press yesterday, when asked if Government had any control over the MUe
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  • 133 5 To head the anti-graft bureau Till Singapore Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau will have a new chief this month whrn its superintendent, Mr. It B. Corridon takes over from the director. Mr. C. W. Lyle. Mr. Lf I•• director since. fie Bureau's ncep t i o n 15 months ago, is
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  • 21 5 KLUANG, Fri. Mohamed bin Omar. 48. a wireman of the Central Electricity Board, was killed when he was knocked
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  • 122 6 GERMAN scientists hav< evolved a "miracle shaving soap" that makes whiskers stand upon end -an eady for cutting. Just how the soap gives vertical lift to whiskers Is a ightly-guarded trade secret tut the inventor of the dream having soap claims that, nth the whiskers standing
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    • 233 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis PH |^c cmQUIDA LEFT HIM U^DEP I I AI/INOmE gf6^S fIWSC/eWSA/gSS j TIP HIM GOOD, ED. JACK ?A:D J> H SqwUy WASTE ™E -AND LOOKS ABOUT.&EMLDEREO. ME WAS TRICKyT; lalKIN V TO THESE r^_w f^D INSIO( THE MYCTERIOUS JZ NOSY TOURIST?? L' t
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  • 30 7 The changing face of Siglap district ROGER YUE DROPS IN TODAY AT FRANKEL ESTATE picture. MX. lIKRNON Government Secondary English school is now near completion at Frankel Estate Free Press
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  • 649 7 EAST COAST ESTATE HAS HARMONY IF there is a community m Singapore which can show others that many races and creeds of people can live as neighbours m perfect harmony it is that at the Frankel Estate m Siglap on the east coast. Recently hundreds of modern homes have opened
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  • 162 7 r |V) the Army, Navy and Air Force m Singapore, the order ''is out keep up the normal "spit and polish" routine but drill more and more .smartly. for the next week, picked men will be ordered to march, "up. down and round the field"
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  • 223 8 fJLTHV do so many married women ft out to work? "It is the call of the coin," said a trade union member. The time has come to check the tendency of married women to enter the industrial field, Mr. D.
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  • 160 8 NO INTENT TO STEAL— JUST A PEEPING TOM IT was 1 15 m the morning when P. C. Lowe, of Crewe, saw a man creeping along the garden path of a house with crepe-soled .shoes tucked under hi.s arm. When approached the man tried to hide his face with a
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  • 19 8 Alderman Mrs. A. F. Reining ton was elected Mayor of Tottenham the borough* sixth woman mayor.
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  • 80 8 I>OSA OLLAZO, of the Bronx, New York, the wife of Oscar Collazo. who is serving a life sentence for the 1950 i u cm pt to assassinate Mr. Harry S. Truman, then president of the United States. i s escorted by IS Marshal Thomas J. Lunney to
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  • 39 8 The people of Britain, eating an average of Boz. of chocolate and sugar confectionery a week, spent £242 million on sweets In the year ended April last Average consumption was higher than m any other countr >--
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  • 313 8 LORD LYLE, hetd of the "Mr Cube' 1 Mi^ar firm, left Ui32.15:i his will revealed. Duty paid: i:4f)2.073. His political secretary. Miss Marjorle Mellor, said: "I'm surprised he left so much." She added: "Everyone thought he w;i a millionaire. But I used
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  • 31 8 A film studio m a di.used Manchester church has bei n bought by the 8.8.C. for its first TV studio out' Ide London Programme* will start there boon
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  • 198 8 1 0, 000 bees buzzed in train TROUBLE came to the 2.50 flopping train from Liverpool-street. London. to Southend recently 10.000 angry bees. And m the middle of them was Guard Arthur Wright, 53-year-old Southend magistrate, and no bee-lover. It wjts at Romford at 3.14 that he first saw them.
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  • 198 8 1 0-MILE CHASE FOR RUNAWAY ENGINE A RUNAWAY railway engine with nobody on board dashed out of Reading station on the main line to Waterloo, London. After chasing it for ten miles m a car through heavy rain a stationmaster and porter leapt aboard and stopped it The stationmash r,
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  • 138 8 Fight for six inches to go on ALONE fight with the Minister of Housing and Local Government is being waged by Beckenham, Kent, Council over a matter of six inches. The council wants to introduce a by-law making the ceilings of rooms m new houses and flats not lower than
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  • 29 8 Aminah binte JatTar. 14. and Zainan binte Abdul Hameed, 15, neighbours m Lorong Engku Aman. Singapore, were n ported missing from 1 1 houses yesterday.
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  • 48 8 A doctor who refused to a tend to a man dying m street, because he was on hi way to an urgent maternity ease, acted correctly, a London Health Executive decided. They cleared the doctor of complaint brought by a friei of the dying man.
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  • 23 8 Six hundred-foot fountains )1 liquid fire spurted from r olcano m Southern Hawa) Yesterday m its worst erupt:ince I^2l Reuter.
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  • 82 8 A COUNTY court judge has decided that 21-year-old Mary Mead, a former stu-dent-teacher, must repay £4 12s. to the London County Council. The council had asked her to account for the expenditure of a £20 grant. It then qves- tioned the inclusion of a tennis dress
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  • 395 9 It was sometimes fun but../ IT was sometimes fun for 24-year-old shorthand typist Joan Goff being Lady Mayoress of Hull. But not always. She explained why when she gave up oilier and replied m the crowded mayor- making council chamber
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  • 159 9 >iIX former Luftwaffe aces invited to Britain will not be coming now— because the Battle of Britain pilots due to entertain them have changed their minds. The Germans said "Yes when Mr Clive Reffltt, 1914-18 fighter pilot who is president Of the 10,000-strong Brevet Flying
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  • 37 9 To recover the body of an engineer trapped when the tug Harrington .sink at Swansea 12 days ago, a diver, Mr. J. Mathieson. deflated his suit and squeezed through a 2ft. by 2ft. 6ins. door.
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  • 68 9 EIGHTY FOUR YEAR-OLD Mr. William Type always sits m his favourite armchair by the fire at his home m Tramroadside, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. He lives alone. The other day part of the roof collapsed and crashed on the chair. Neighbours ran m. But Mr. Type had
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  • 18 9 Lorry drivers are working 11 hours a day clearing stacks of Channel Islands' tomatoes at Weymouth.
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  • 187 9 i COMPLETE, ban on waiting—for vans as well as A private cars— is to be enforced m 10 streets m Inner London. The object is to cut out traffic jams. Shopkeeper! and business arc being told to arrange lr delivery services outside banned hours. The
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  • 27 9 A small monkey, after being hased over rooftops at Milcl">;y Grove, Dalston, E., by police and firemen, came down Quietly for a banana and erapei.
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  • 183 9 MR HILLY GRAHAM, the American evangelist, to seeking a title for a 70----minute film being made at ELstree, near London studios to trii Americana the story of his British crusade. His star la Miss Joan Winmill, 24 year old British acti who plays herself a
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  • 158 9 CHEMIST IS SEVERELY CENSURED A WOMAN pharmacist who altered J7 prescriptions has been severely censured for trying to defraud the London Executive Council of the National Executive Council of the National Health Service. The council took ;i seriotll view of the gravity of her
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  • 41 9 Walter Kopec, 40 y^ar old buildiim worker, fell 40ft. from scaffolding at Bart KilbrinV nnrl was knocked out. Then hi> went 12 miles home u> Glasgow to change lii.s < >OJlt before tome to hospital
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  • 56 9 A resolution that abortion lujuid be 1# t 1 1 wa passed at the Brighton con i rence ol the 58,000 t Kiii -4 en'i Corn i ative Guild Said lira. Amy Griffiths, of Holloway: "We want to stop back treet sun i i very
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  • 45 9 -A. P. picture. INDIA'S Minister of llea.Hh, Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur (left) arrives at Zurich-Klotcn airport, accompanied by President Puri. of the Indian Red Cross. She met the Russian Foreign Minister, Mr. Molotov, for half an hour at Geneva.- A. P.
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    67 9 picture. Israel is now exploiting the 15,000-acre Huleh swamp. It is to be drained to pro Whit fertile land. The reeds will provide papyrus (the ancient paper); the pe;il be neath the swamp will be used as fertiliser, or fuel, or m the chemi< al indu-try; and the 100 million
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  • 571 12  - Victorian— but so up-to-date CHRISTINE FLOUNCES AND FRILLS ARE THE LATEST IN LINGERIE by ITS KiuMi uui-k lv grandmamma's time 1 for all the latest m lingerie. Waist pettij coats with deep flounces, frilly-edged lawns and cottons, scallop -edged embroidery and even bclow-the-knee bloomers all the femininity and the gathers
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    • 277 12 tfaiilfj i^rossm&ril CLI7BB ACROSS: suave manner 16). 2. Sint,'in« at a football match, i. Flat or green instruments. (5). maybe? 6. Sins but not usually m a plain 8. A trifle mote than half the area, v) gathering above.' (5). 7. Is diet strange when chanted? m Marilyn Monroe. Dorti
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  • 426 13 She's blonde, bouncey, and BRITISH Ail Dora Bryan needs to match Judj Holliday is a good scriptwriter, says Robert Ottaway nRITISH actresses, I have sorrowfully concluded, are not a happy breed of women. Some are dewy, many are pathetic, most are graceful adornments to a parlour. But where are the
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    30 13 The Herald i Marguerite Horri(jan> introduces some of pageant characters m the Stage Club comedy "The •WWI that would hare a Pageant" being presented at the Victoria Theatre next ueefc.
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  • 490 13  -  Sheilah Grahame By DETTY HITTON l leaving Hollywood She has rented a New York apartment overlooking the East River and will return only U make a picture. Bettj says there isn't a ghost of a chance for a reconciliation with Charlie O'Curran. Type Casting: LANA TURNER* plays the
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  • 126 13 DIOR v GAB IN A CLOUD no bigger than a film-star's profile is darkening M. Christian Dior s horizon m Paris. The profile is that of veteran film star k-in Cabin. Cabin h.it moved into a flat immediately overlooking Dior's workroom. The flat is equipped witfi .1 sun balcony on
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  • 20 13 Barbara R v i. k\ic\t. ttmrlet, looks the peril n ificatwn nf ■'mithful brrwiy ■i thr- hrach
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  • 452 14  - 'BADMAN JACK' HAS COME BACK TAFFY By from Tengah —And he's still popular WARRANT Ollicor J. Winspear is a name mai may not strike the memories of Malaya's wrestUng I fans, but they all recall "Badman Jack Ihe Badman is back In Singapore, a serviceman at Royal Air Force Tengah.
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  • 329 14  - Who was the greatest heavyweight NOEL JOSEPH By rraiS is qiicsuuii-and--1 unswrr piece about boxiii",. Who was the greatest heavy weight of the last half-cen-tury'? Jack Johnson Ita <-"Jo« rp d from Tew» Dfl ""2ff J^ brute strength -i «odlto >et moved with the smooth stealth 01 the pint her.
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  • 110 14 DRAW for the Singapore Amateur Football Associa- i tion's Junior Cup competition is: S.C.C v Aston; Star Soccerites 'A v Tampenis Rovers; Woodbridge j Hosp. v Tiong Bahru Rangers; Radin Mas Ramblers v Rovers "A"; Customs v Cosmos; Kinta Rangers v i Seletar F.C.; Social AP.
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  • 87 14 JIMMY CARTER, former world j lightweight boxing champion, knocked out Charley Riley of St.J Louis In the second round of a ten round bout m St. Louis. Riley got up after taking a count of eight and Carter immediately delivered the knockout. Carter who lost
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  • 73 14 Jacks Sportl Clubs table tennis t«\im to play Mansfield sports club's team on Saturday ftl 2 pin. at the Mansfield spoils club's premises at o .-.in Building is: Men's sinslrs: Teo Honn Fei. Too Sin KODI I.im Choo Ann, Ho Soo Hu I >li Tw<
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  • 114 14 Parker Cup upsets in 1st round ROYAL ln«f Ordnance Corps and Koyal Engineers were eliminated from the Army's Parker (up competition by Services LeaffVC second division trams. Both R.A.O.C. and the Sappers were expected to be strong contenders m this year's competition. THEY WERE KNOCKED OUT IN THE FIRST ROUND,
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  • 285 14 HOW THEY RAN AT PENANG FREE PRESS RACING CORRESPONDENT. ONLY a head separated Barakat ana Percussion at the post but no horse could have won with greater ease than Barakat when he carried 9.0 to a stylish win m the Class 2, Div. 1 6f.
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  • 70 14 pERMAN middleweight champion Hans Stretz was knocked out m the first round of his light heavyweight bout on Wednesday night Aith Trinidad Negro boxer Claire Rfdmond. Stretz was floored three times *ithin 70 seconds. He had to he ?arried back to his corner after the
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  • 57 14 Non-Benders' Cricket Club XI to meet Singapore Recreation Club on Saturday at 2.15 p.m.: F R. Massey. W. R. M. Haxworth. P. DAlmeida/j. W. Ewart. R V. S Sundram. A. E. a Blades. R. S.Tufnell. V. C. Westerhout, D. C D'Cott.v A. Baker G. E. Boganrs (Capl Umpire:
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  • 32 14 Britain*! fastest woman sprinter, IX-vear-old Anne Pashley (rißht), m training at Cireat Yarmouth, Norfolk, for coming athletic events. Acting as starter is Anne's sister Doreen Reuter picture.
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  • 881 15 Rippling River to win again By TRESPASSER IKiHTLY weighted Siapa Tahu should win the Summer Cup for Class 2 horses over 8£ furlongs on the third day of the Penang Summer Meeting tomorrow. He ran a plucky second to Beau Matin over seven
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  • 39 15 1)KOB\BlK NTStckiMfl for tomorrow ace; Canton. Suntrace. Ore, M.it.i Hari. Summer Corn, Ten Dollars, Bloodshot, Border Scot. Cambridge Blue. Percussion. Majestic Sight, Kheng Hua. Tarzan. Blue Ribbon. High Hopes, Budgerigar. The going is likely to be good.
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  • 150 15 Matthews in World Cup team STANLEY Matthews was yesterday named among the 17 England players chosen to fly to Switzerland for the World Cup soccer competition. Goalkeepers— Ted Bui-gin (Sheffield U), and Gil Merrick (.Birmingham). Backs Roger Byrne (Manchester Ui. Ken Green, (Birmingham), Ron St;mdforth < Huddersfield > Half-backs- J
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  • 217 15 Hf.HTs for all races on the last ■M «»f the Penan* meeting tomorw are. P CIT»--fUfT '■•rakat onx '•'^shot Jo l:"l 'i" Hood 8 ofi Matin 8!00 Be* Over 713 ■«fcf Scot 712 '•"shalton 711 SUp. Tahu 7!08 arnbridre Blue 708 M 2. Ill" 1-6F
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  • 155 15 QUEEN ELIZABETH'S four-year-old Aureole was Riven a rousing reception as he raced an easy winner of the Coronation Cup, run over 12 furlongs at Epsom Downs yesterday. Hats were raised and cheerng broke out when Aureole galloped away from the pare as ;oon as the
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  • 111 15 L^INAL acceptors for the Northum- berland Plate to be run over two miles at Newcastle on Saturday June 26 with wdfhtfl ;tre: Guide 129. Cap of Gold 127 Luxury Hotel 124, Lord Fox 122. Bob norm and R;iss Castle 120. Paiadi.se treet, Victory Roll, Vidi Yici.
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  • 56 15 BtVM totl acceptors lor tn« Manchester Cup, to be run over 12 furlongi |f lUncheatet on Friday. JUM II »W> W«lfhtl Chatsworth 133. Frere Ocorgti UM Klthyra both 124; Ram Cattle 12:1 Proud Boot 121: Club Member 116; Bob Junior Itld TttdOT Sovereign both US; Torch Singer 112;
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  • 38 15 Clark Hardwicke i; (<il man. and Andre de I. Maze, a lour-tim« champion gained the final round m the French internal ional tfolf tournament ysterday. They will ptej M holeb today ioi Uic utle. A.P.
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  • 43 15 The Iftrrftdftta H;i'lmlnton Party will celebrate Itl 24th annlvei-.n\ by holding a todal partf and picnic iviok ifata lisa, Cteagt on Bundajr. Transport f<-r members and kupslk will bt itl Ball M.i Koad. Happy Woild. and ROX] llitatre from 8
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  • 270 15 SAC KENWARD won the individual championship by one point from LAC Finch at yesterday's athletic meet at Royal Air Force Seletar. Results: 100 yards: 1. LAC Geoffrey Fox, 2. LAC Peler Finch, 3. SAC Kenward. ll.lsec. 220 yards: 1. I, AC Peter Finch. 2. I.AC Fox, 3.
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  • 250 16 DEVONSHIRE HOLD PAKISTAN WITH LAST-WICKET STAND STH KIMi In their task m praise- worth y fashion, Devonshire held out with a last wicket stand to draw their match against the Pakistan cricket tourists at Torquay yesterday. Devonshire were H>o runs for nine wickets m their .second Innings In reply to
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  • 128 16 I'akistan 1>(. 1nn.—396 for 7 dccl. 1)1 VO.NSHIKK Ist INNS. 177 DSVONSUBE :nd. INNS: Humphries c sub b Mahmood Hussaln 3 Cray c -fohd. Aslam b KhftUd Wazir 1 Cooper b Mohd. Aslam 48 Pairclogh c Shakoor Ahmed b Malimood Hussaln 10 I Bloy Ibw Shujauddin 1 Kinnentef c
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  • 57 16 XTONGKONG S Asian Game.s Football tram hild a Nationalist China team, the Asian Games champions, to a 2-2 draw yesterday In an exhibition game. Some 12,000 spectators watched the match. Hongkong scored thi equaliser m the last four minuses of play. Score at half time
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    187 16 Cricket scores At the Oval: Surrey 304 and 223 lor 5 (May not oat 107 >. Somerset ir>B (.Alec Hedscr 5 for 43). At Oxford: Hampshire Ml for 8 declared and 41 fur 1. Oxford University 37u for 4 declared (Smith 53, Allen 118. Williams not out 139). At Cambridge:
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    32 16 Chicago's Trucks and Don Johnson survived a 15-hit Boston attack. including home runs by Ted Williams and Harry Agganis. for a 9-6 victory over the Red Sox yesterday I afternoon. A.P.
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  • 47 16 Twentyone year-old Diane leather, daughter of a Birningham surgeon, breasts the ape to become the firist ico•nan m the world to run the nile m under 5 miiiutes. Miss leather was racing at Perry 3arr, Birmingham. Her time Dai 4 minutes 59.6 sees.
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  • 24 16 Chinese Athletic "A" beat a ten ian Aston AC team 4-3 m thei: ,AFA Div. 2 league tie at Geylan esterday.
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  • 207 16 ALEC BEDSER FINDS TEST FORM T^HKEE wickets fell to tnree successive balls at trie Oval yesterday and Somerset, struggling hard for runs, had eight wickets down before avoiding the risk of a follow-on against Surrey. Two went to Bedser and the third to Surridtif. Bedser's performance was the happiest note
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  • 70 16 ALAN THIRLWELL, the English amateur champion scored the vital point which gave Britain victory over New Zealand m her first match ir the Royal and Ancient Club'f Bi-Ccntenary Commonwealth Goll Tournament at St. Andrews yesterday. Britain won by four games to three with two halved games.
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  • 104 16 l cided to try then skill m he Singapore Amateur Dall Association senior rat Cup competition ti. rhey are REME, RAF civ.r RAs.c eletar Royal **2J First fixture.s uill be phved I lext month. Altogether is lave entered. The draw is Preliminary round: Polue SA
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  • 58 16 TJOYAL Naval Ba« beat Rof Signals 4-1 m their Singapore United Services F.A. Leauue Div l match at HMS Terroi yesterday. In a Div. 2 match a( Won,.. Royal Navy Kranji be.r Naval Air Station Banbawang through goals by Jacobs (2) Hill (2». OThy and a
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    • 492 16 CLASSIFIED ADS. DEATHS 2U Horrfs $h (minimum) CADDY, JONATHAN, beloved younger son of Joan and Bill c; died Srd June 1954, sgei after s long Illness braveh borne WEE BWEE TEOW-Au'ed 75— j Pi, -m i peacefully at his i residence 37, Stevens Roud, Sin-j lapore on 3.6.54. Cortege will
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    • 73 16 PIiRFHCT physical fitness, strong -g/ nerves and abundant vitality are the 'jr essentials for success m sports and S^^ athletics. That is why so many of the tjj£ y leading coaches and trainers insist on jlj 1 Ovalnne as an essential part of the j training diet for players and
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