The Singapore Free Press, 8 June 1954

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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. ,'i. Singapore, Tues., June 8, 1951. Price 15 C'ts
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    Minns to be new traffic boss
    170 1 CfUPERINTENI k 7 Police Mr Arthur E .vTimm i will take '»v«r the Traffic Polic- Branch when Mr wrm. Hax worth retlrei In August. Mr &tinnj I'ly working out future traffic plans for the city. At the moment he if looklnii into the parUnc
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    QUEEN ON T.V.
    82 1 Till. Queen and Qac— Mother appeared M French television screens yesterday m the first live broadcast of British horsr racing, to Irancc. Audiences m Britain and France viw the Queen and Queen .Mother (hatting with jockeys and race course officials m the parade rinj;. before the Queen
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    PLANE HIT BY DOWN-DRAFT
    250 1 Says Hoyle fAPTAIN T. W. Hoyle, the pilot of the 8.0.A.C. Constellation which crashed at Kalians airport on March 13, told the inquiry court this morning that there was a sudden down-current of air when landing and the speed of the aircraft was slowed faster than
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    Students claim: 'Parents back us'
    218 1 Students claim: 'Parents back us i ADERS of 1.000 Singapore students camped for the -nth day m the Chinese High School m Bukit Timah Road today claimed that had 'won over their >nU to their cause by [ic*. »ry parent, who has en:he school has been ounded by student leaders
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    BIG PINCERS MOVEMENT
    51 1 VIETMINH trOOM from Dim Bien Phu. Fallen French Fortress, drove closer to the Red River Delta yesterday m a huge scissors movement, aimed at .slicing through French Union defences m north eastern Indo-China. Other Vu'tmmh who have infiltrated the Delta earlier had struck at small French Union
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    Off for Turkey
    24 1 Prime Minister Ali of Pakistan left for Turkey today with a team of senior officials. He will also visit Greece.- A.P.
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    Police seize 16 grenades
    88 1 SINGAPORE police yesterday seized 16 hand grenades, which a man was "fishing" out from a sampan near Sun- gei Selarang, off Changi. In follow-up investigations, the Police made a further haul of hand-grenades and INN mortar shells from !,oraag. A Police ipokesnuui 1 his morning told
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    REGISTRATION MAY BE 100 PER CENT
    34 1 The Singapore Catholic Hi-^h School m Queen Street expects that the school's 900 senior students will have re-registered by today. A total of 516 got registration forms yesterday.
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    10 DIE IN CRASH
    30 1 Eight nun and two women perished m a Darning hradun car collision near Ljroni Greek Maryland, yesterday. On*- of the cars wa.-> m "full bla/u". A.P.
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    Flood kills ten
    22 1 A .sudden flood .struck the river port ol Valdivia m Colombia on Sunday iii'jht Ml-, ing ten persons. A.P.
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    Rubber Price
    29 1 The Singapore rubber market this morning opened on an uncertain tone with first grade, June shipment, at 63' cents a pound one eighth cent above Friday's closing.
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    GENEVA REDS TO USE 'PEACE' TACTICS TODAY
    440 2 Bid to exploit French crisis WESTERN delegates to the Indo-China conference at Geneva expect the Communists to make an all out effort today to convince the French National Assembly that peace In EndO-China IS available for the asking The nine-nation conference will be
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    JOB FOR PRELATE
    26 2 The Pope lias named Monsignor Oerlad Patrick Ohara, rm American prelate hitherto Papa] Nuncio to Eire, to be Apastolic Delegate In London. Reuter
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    Books the Reds could not destroy
    85 2 A COLLECTION of Chinese hooks and manuscripts which lay for 20 years m a Chicago vault unheeded were being assessed last ni^ht as rare and valuahle. The literature, dealing with Chinese culture, philosophy and history, may include some sole surviving copies of works destroyed
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    HE WILL TAKE OVER FROM SANDERSON
    119 2 APPOINTMENT of Air Vice- Marshal F. F. Fre&sanges to be Commander-in-Chief Far East Air Force m November 1954. with the acting rank of Air Marshal, m succession to Air Marshal Sir Clifford Sanderson, has been announced In London by the Air Ministry. Since 1952,
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    Defence pact talks
    31 2 Major- Grnonii Jesus Vargas, the Filipino Chiel ol Staff, will l«-;tvr [oi Washington tin week to discuss Implementation ol the r S -Philippine Mutual Deft nee Pact. A.P.
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    Dual citizenship
    23 2 Negotiation about tin* dual citistn inp ol Chine In Indonesia ;»n* to b<' held with Red China m July. A .P.
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    First instalment
    38 2 The Japane.se Government paj U! 158.000 and bill thr i nitj d States a. the ftn I In Btalroenl on claimi by Japan li luriin i) affected by th< recent 11 b«<inlj u^l. at liikini A.P.
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    'McCarthy MUST GO' CLUB FAILS
    104 2 'McCarthy MUST GO' CLUB FAILS THE "McCarthy must go" Club announced at Sauk City, Wisconsin, yesterday that it had failed to get enough signatures on petitions to recall Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican -Wisconsin) A statement signed by the club's officials said that the drive to get signatures, which ended at
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    TRADE UNIONS NAME MALENKOV
    38 2 Mr. Oeorg] Malcnkov. the Prime Minister ol the Soviet Union, and Mr. N. Khrushchev, were among the nine Soviet leaden elected yesterday to the honorary presidium of the Congress of Soviet Trade Unions Reuter
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    FRANCE AND INDIA TO CONFER AGAIN ON SETTLEMENTS
    143 2 attempt! will be made m Nen Delhi to reach an amicable solution of th« question of the Trench settlements m India, despite the failure of the recent talks m Paris, it was understood m New Delhi testerday. The meeting which the rein
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    Malayans seek varsity job
    97 2 APPLICATIONS for the registrarship of the University of Malaya have already been received, the Registrar, Mr. W. D. Craig told the Free Press today. The past was advertised last month, following the resignation of Mr. Craig, who is returning to Britain m October to join the
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    Cake was model of race course
    62 2 pic- Mr. Lim Chong Pang. Singapore race horse-owner and president of the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association blows out the candles of his 51st birthday cake at a celebration m his Amber Road home on Sunday night. The birthday cake was a model of the Bukit
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    Two killed in strike fight
    68 2 Two men were killed yesterday m fighting between striking and non striking metal workers near Buenos Aires. Most of Argentina's 160.000 striking metal workers had agreed to return to work yesterday. Unofficial reports said dissident union members who objected to the agreement got into a
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    TROOPS GUARD HARVESTERS
    43 2 npUNISIAN FARMERS have A started harvesting their wheat with armed trooos standing by. The harvest is being done by teams to speed up the work. The troops were assigned to prevent terrorists from setting fire to the ripe grain- A.P.
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    'I could have saved Dien Bien Phu' says Navarre No US aid for Syria
    394 3 'I could have saved Dien Bien Phu' says Navarre No US aid for Syria KRAL Henri Navarre, who lost his post as cor-n-in-chief becau.se of ie failure of his Indo-China •y. iiaid m Saigon last that he could certainly saved Dien Bien Phu if ance had sent him two ins—
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    STRIKE LEADER NOT TO BE DEPORTED YET
    217 3 i JUDGE yesterday sus- fended the deportation of Charles Taylor, British leader of the Rhodesian rail- *J strike who, he was told, sht otherwise be sent out the country within the n«xt half-hour. Mr. Justice Beadle said the natter was brought before m
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    Polls candidates arrested
    100 3 Polls candidates arrested EN National Front --anti- candidates were ar•^d along with 10 other emonstratort at Basra m i Iraq Parliamentary elecu >n campaign. WJW candidates two-thirds! |f them independents will returned unopposed on, June 9, it was known last! night hundred and eleven can"aates withdrew yesterday having 295 contesting
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    TRADE MISSION TO UK: CHINAS YES
    200 3 uiINA announced m Geneva officially last night that it had accepted an invitation from British traders to send a trade mission to Britain to try to expand trade between the two count ru-.s The Chinese delegation to the Asiatic Conference said that after the
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    Japan's peace bell
    38 3 Japan's peace bell gift to the United Nations will be formally accepted today m New York The bell wa.s cast, from COlni donated by GO nations and troni individual contributions of various metals. A. P.
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    Treaty cancelled
    18 3 Persia yesterday "cancelled" the 1934 non-aggression friendship pact with Turkey, Iraq 1 and Afghanistan. A. P.
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    FLOOD HAVOC
    36 3 More than 1.000 houses have been flooded at Osaka and rivers swelled toward danger levels after Central Japan's worst heavy downpour of the rain season. The storm also swept Japan's Southern island. Kyushu- A.P.
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, June 8, 1954. Opinion A worthy goal
    386 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, June 8, 1954. Opinion A worthy goal The Announcement that the Singapore Government hopes to expand its free dental .service for schoolchildren, is welcome. The aim, according to Mr. Olttins, chief dental I officer, is to provide treatment without charge for all .schoolchildren. The goal
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    France's present trouble spots are far and wide
    210 4 France's present trouble spots are far and wide I OOK .it the w< fr(/m the point of view of a Frenchman. It becorrw s a different world from ours, with a different set of problems. A worrying world Do not imagine that Indo-Chma is the only problem Li I v\(
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    Expendable?
    398 4  -  Wendell Merrick ■■'•■&s■' '-'ypiss&ssfStit- v s& v s&s■ s @$£&$93 &SBS& :^s3S?^ BRITISH MILITARY MEN CLASH WITH U.S. By IT rankles the British m Hongkong to think the colony is regarded by the West as "expendable" militarily. They argue that, to the contrary Hongkong is of military importance. Some
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    Curtain in Kowloon
    169 4 ....WHERE THE RED LINE' COMES FROM AN Iron Curtain shuts off «he rest of the world from the Hongkong Bureau of New China News Agency (NCNA), the official Red propaganda organ. This bureau is the major source of news for Hongkong's three pro-Com-munist Chinese language newspapers. The
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    Menace now—is drought
    132 4 Menace now— is drought HONGKONG has a tough water problem. Up to a few years ago, the government brought m water from mainland China. Rather than become too dependent on that source, it began building reservoirs m the Colony, but demand now far exceeds supply. This month, the government allowed
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      21 4 Itinys 00 f iPistinriioii for every occasion ENGAGEMENT& WEDDING RINGS U. S. de SUVA, Jewellers 106, Orchard Rd., S'pore-9 Phone: *****
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      37 4 J-^fc^ xy A. l l y y Ml w| \VQx J 1 1 No man m the world tan resist S.C.S. Salami Ham or Cervelet Sausage the most "more-'ish luncheon meats ever* SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
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    No communalism plea to Indians
    179 5 No communalism plea to Indians RGK that Indian Govnment officials m Singanc uraged communalim ong local Indians wa.s by Mr. R. Jumabhoy. N t of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, at its il meeting. Mr Jumabhof said he had been concerned with the fflcial recognition" of comna bodies m Singapore,
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    G.O.C. drops in at jungle camp
    50 5 G.O.C. drops in at jungle camp tNERAL K. BOURNE, the new Director of Operations G.0.C., Alaliya, visits the jungle companies of the 2nd Ualion, Kind's African Rifles, m East Pahanff. He has out of his helicopter and wnlks towards a base ">l> with Maj. M. Griffs, the B Company cAintnander.
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    The Chinese way of life is his quest
    243 5 HE Chinese way of life In Singapore beins studied by an American ersity lecturer for a comprehensive tory of "China m Modern Times." findings will be part of large-scale co-opera-t of Chinese and Amebolaa to compile thil 1 Wj 18-month /.ay m
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    Haxworth: Be patient with old pedestrians
    165 5 Haxworth: Be patient with old pedestrians ImArriC Police Chief. Mr. W. R. M Haxworth, yesterday urged Singapore motorists to be patient with old people walking along pedestrian road crossings. "Aged pedestrians should be Siven every rea.sonible chance to cro«s at these junctions, he said. Mr. Haxworth added: "Moto- rists should
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    GLASS ISLAND TEMPTS JAPS-AT A PRICE
    197 5 GLASS ISLAND TEMPTS JAPS-AT A PRICE I reading Japanese glass factories are anxious to buy large quantities of silica sand from Pulau Tckong Kecnil— the "glass island" of about 220 acres off Changi Point, Singapore. But the orders have been held up due to hii'h treighf. charges. "This is the
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    SHIPPING HOPE
    30 5 Indian owned ships ma handle the entire trade be tween India and Malaya m Oft near future, according to tin annual report of the Indiai Chamber of Commerce.
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    RUBBER SALES TO INDIA FALL
    61 5 The biggest drop In Malayan exports to India last year was m rubber. The Indian Chamber of Commerce .said it was because India was developing her own rubber industry m the .south. There wa.s a heavy drop m the import of Indian coal to Malaya,
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    LESS TEXTILES IMPORTED
    29 5 Singapore imported le.s.s cotton textiles from India la.st year. The drop amounted to 18 million .square yard.s compared to 1952. when 91.00n.nofj square yards were imported.
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    Forum meeting
    29 5 KUALA LUMPUR, M O n.— Dr R. D. Eagland will open a discussion on family planning at the Kuala Lumpur Forum at I 9 p.m. on Thursday
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    Learner fined
    22 5 KOTA TINGGI. Mon.— Tan Boon Yec was fined $10 for driving a motor car without the "L" plate being displayed.
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    Children get treat aboard U.S. carrier
    72 5 AMERICAN sailors played "uncle" on board their aircraft carrier Saipan to more than 100 of Singapore's poor boys and girls recently. The children were taken by members of the Singapore. Junior Chamber Of Commerce from Mount Krsklne Centre to Cliilord Pier m 12 cars.
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      80 6 New offices for German govt. IUEST Germany's Govei ment, seeing no end to I wrangle over what is to income of Berlin, is now ahead with plans for buildii vast blocks of Governi offices m the West Zone. A building programs ready prepared provides unices for the Fed' Chancellory, a
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      140 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis |>^.^^r a^eg^l [AND ALL THAT ,S STOLEN,' HOTj I fe^.S O^'oSdSa^-J I^EmA^TO^C «J,_' HARK T»il '-f 1810-UPHERE CjTTI "|i SHALL 1 TURN ff fx/**N. ?NO ONE'LL SW i>i A A TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs fHE SAINT by Leslie Charteris i m i
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      523 6 I YOUE I LUCKY STAR I |>()KN TODAY. >ou Mt n temperament oi a K m,, N j I and a germ of the talent nhiri goes along with it, too. Y«,u have an astute business sens. haw- ever, and your efforts niaj all 0 E toward making aataej rather
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    Tears of a cabaret girl will be THE act
    195 7 t \>r jemr'n Happy Queen,' 1; petite Mimi l- ee ls one ol the artiste ne four-hour musical and dramatic show L« be presented by the Sinmore Dame Hostesses AsM.mtiun at the Happy World IM) Sunday night. Highlight of the revue
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    Dark hand at the window
    66 7 PENANG, Tues. A "dark hand" seen going through an pen window of Mr. S. S. s home m Tanjong ToRoad stole a wristlet .md over $100. alarm was raised but the thief escaped A house m New Ferry Road. Butterworth. was broken Into during the
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    5 masked men rob shop
    43 7 ENANO, Tues.— Fire masked al] armed with knives. i i coffee shop In Green and took cash and cigattes worth $72. Mr. Leo Loke Lum, proprie--1 t ol the .shop, .said the robentered through an open n| door.
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    Austerity drive needs leader
    147 7 VITAL, SAYS ASSOCIATION lEADERSHIP of the Singapore Punctuality and J Austerity Association has been missing since the death of the president, Mr. Homer Cheng, last January. This, explained an official, was why the Association's activities have ceased. He added: "Mr. Homer Cheng was the driving force.
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    Raffles need permits
    65 7 PENANO. Tues. The ResidI ent Commissioner, Mr. R. P. Bingham, said today that permits must be obtained by organiser* of lotteries and game.s of chance such as lucky numbers, lucky dips and raffles irrespective of whether such games are lor charity or otherwise. He said power has
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    Pneumonia took 22 victims
    38 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Twenty-two people In the Federation died of pneumonia m the thud week of May Sixty-One others recovered Three of 1U persons died of enteric fever. Dy.sentery claimed 53 with one death.
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    STORE'S CARS GAVE HIM QUITE A SURPRISE
    205 7 4 SOUTH African visiting *V Singapore lor the first time I quite a surprise" to see ity terming with cars wned by people of various n tlities. Back m South Africa, Mr. H. E. Kinsley of Durban, saw few Ifricans with curs. Mr.
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    COLD COMFORT
    28 7 A 17-year-old girl remanded lin custody at Wallington. Surrey, asked the magistrates: "Can I have time out to Ret l^ome cigarettes, please?" The answer was: "No-"
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    VIENNA OPERA FOR LONDON
    65 7 The Vienna State Opera will open a two-week sea.son of Mozart operas In London on September 13. but at the Royal •Festival Hall, NOT Covent Garden, the traditional home ol opera In Britain. It will be the first time tho Festival Hall hius been used for
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    TAKE DAY OFF BISHOP IS TOLD
    48 7 A resolution that the Bishop of Norwich, Dr. P. M. Herbert, .should take on.- day a week on wus passed unanimously by Hie Norwich Diocesan Conference. The bishop, who recently huti an operation, said the Idea was excellent hut difficult to apply.
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    Health drive held up
    94 7 AFTER WAITING for niore than two months the proposed Singapore Council fes to have a constitution to get it started. The chairman of the committee, Dr. M. Doraisinßham, said yesterday the constitution was nearly ready The council is an unollitial body which will be run on
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    FREE DENTAL CARE PLAN IN SCHOOLS
    67 7 SINGAPORE (iovernment hopes to provide free dental treatment to all schoolchildren by building a number of suburban clinics, expanding the mobile clink service, and appointing more dental oflicers and nurses. The chief dental officer, Mr. N. H. Gittins, described the children's dental health as
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    MIDGETS SEEK SMALL FURNITURE
    57 7 Twelve men and women, none more than 4lt. <)in. tall, will meet to form a midgets' club. Mr. Roy Coombs, 4ft. -tall ins- trument mechanic, who Ifl organising the meeting, said at i his Claribel road, Brixto n, home: "Perhaps we can persuade manufacturers to make
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    $25 insult
    39 7 KOI'A TINOOI, Tues. chin Sal Fur ol Kota Kechil new village w;ls fined $25 for iLsin^ Insulting words to a police constable who had uked him why he hud not reported hi.s wifeVi arrival at the villa;-'-
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    GANG TOOK RING FROM HER FINGER
    39 7 Four Chinese snatched a handbag from a young Chinese woman m Kelanta Road, Singapore. They also took a gold ring from her finger. They took $109 from the handbag and threw it away.
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    Mud for fun and health.
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    Price of his married life —£7,863
    104 8 ]\IR DENIS BROWN who i.s 38. limped out' ol the Hitth Court after hearing the Lord Chief Jastir u:.^.\s at £7,163 the loss to him Of married life ami luture. fatherhood. He had heard Lord Goddard say of him: "He is impotent ius the
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    SIGNS TO PHONES
    23 8 Three hundred signs pointing to the nearest :»lt« mat iv< t< lephone ki< k, are t<> m built m London
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    Seaside orchestra is saved again
    241 8 A PLAN to continue the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra when its reprieve ends on October 4 h;is been announced by the Winter Gardens Society, which saved the orchestra when the corporation .sacked the players because of the cost. The plan, backed by the Arts Council Ls
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    ANCIENT WELLS TO BE SEALED
    51 8 Public wells m 25 Suffolk villages are to be sealed. Ai spokesman of the Cosford j Rural Council .said: "The well water is not all satisfactory, i though some of the wells have! been used for centuries. Main, > applies now reach all the vil-
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    PLEASURE PARK PLAN REJECTED
    42 8 The plan to set up pleasure gardens beside the river at Windsor has been turned clown. The Minister of Local Government, Mr. Harold Macmillan, told the town council the pardens would be out of keeping with Windsor's amenities.
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    BROTHER DIES
    18 8 Brother Anselm Maigler has died m Buckfast Abbey. Devon. aged 83. He was there 65 years.
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    THORNY PROBLEM
    33 8 A passenger from Hoi Hew into London Airport I ing a cactus. But he had permit, so the cactu.s wai ed up until forms were fill* d I for its release.
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    IS THE END NEAR?
    93 8 THE hydrogen bomb may be v .sitfn that the end of the world i.s at hand, the Bishop of Kx«-t< i. Dr. Robert Mortiimr, said. He d<-r!:trui: I; could that Ood )ia:; determined the end ol tin world should tc biuiijjht about through the bomb, by
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    Driver took girl off route- but no abduction
    449 8 Driver took girl off route- but no abduction A 15-YEAR-OLD «irl who said she was driven about m a ca whic h pi eked her up by a village church one night, agreed that she never saw the driver's face. At Suilold Assizes at Bury St. Edmunds, Mr. Justice Halfct
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    Pamela the WRAC officer regrets she kept secret
    230 8 IT became the ambition of Pamela Susan Mcßorie to serve her country not at the blackboard, bat m the Services. That is why. soon after she gained an M.A. degree and qualified as a teacher, she joined the W.R.A.F. as an aircraft
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    The case of the phantom committee
    332 8 AFTER live year.s on a committee which has never; met, village postmaster Ronald Merrfck i.s becoming Impatient. He reels it is time > someone at least sent him a 1 !< Her. Or told him what the i ommittee is for. "I don't think
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    HE HID CALL-UP SON AT A FARM
    301 9 -Now is told of death 4| \N SMITH, the Lincolnshire farmer's boy spirited away by his father when his call-up came ii» st September, is dead crushed under an overurned traction on the Irish farm where he was To the Lincolnshire police holding
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    Try to win wife back, says judge
    129 9 a YOUNG wife's move for A divorce within three years her marriage was stopped the Appeal Court m LonTlThusband told two judges that he wanted a reconciliation and they decided to allow him a chance to regain his wife. reversed a decision by
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    A book, price £7, was smuggled in
    255 9 4 HOOK called "The Amorous Exploits of a Young A Rakehell" was bought for £7 m a shop to Soho London. W., by Canon Hugh Warner m Ws capacity i education secretary of the Church of England Moral I Welfare Council. The book
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    Should city be guinea pig?—NO says council picture.
    211 9 Should city be guinea pig?— NO says council picture. SHOULD a whole city be a guinea pig m a dental health experiment? Norwich city council decided "no"- by 32 votes to 23. The Ministry ot Health had offered the city the chance to be the first m Britain to treat
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    No prison on our doorstep
    96 9 SHOULD a gaol for dangerous prisoners be built "on the doorstep" of isolated villagers? The Prison Commissioners want to erect a gaol for noncertifiable psychiatric prisoners near two Buckinghamshire villages, Grendon Underwood and Edgcott. At a public inquiry at Aylesbury it wa^ admitted that some
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    2 years for man with bitter regrets
    152 9 2 years for man with bitter regrets A man who, i! was .stated, had been m the Boy Scout novement for more than 9U rears Was .sentenced at We.st Cent Sessions at Ifaidstone to wo years' gaol, Sir Reginald Bharpe. Q.C., lejMily chairman, told Geoffrey runstall Mason, aged 40. "We
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    LETTERS THREATEN JUDGE
    163 9 LETTERS THREATEN JUDGE Abusive and threatening i letter* have been, .sent "from vii over the country" to Juitee Clothier following a possession order he made la.st week agafnst two deal sninsters. During the case at Lambeth (London; County Court Judge Clothier .said thai deaf peoplfl should not be allowed to
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    ABOUT TIME
    31 9 .1 i jt h.i. nipernn enti l lately, the hands ut town hall clock m B win don, Wilt hire are to be oiled flmt time m *>:i yearn.
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    Realy safe car
    143 9 IDEAS for a really safe car have BCCB Riven by Mr. William <;i-su;«\ chief wrKeon at Birmingham accid ent hospital Many accident- he says, coulfl be prevented or in.i !e less serious by the use ol a safety heit. And uhv alwayi metal or plastic dash boa
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    PRINCELY JOY RIDE
    23 9 ;i< tare. Prince Ali Khan *P*eaw t<> <•».»"> this rid.* m a •Intoturc fair-Kroui.d during I a viMt to Purlin A.P.
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    Germans replace Legion losses in Indo-China
    824 10 Serious gaps have been torn m the world's toughest fight ing force. While the Communists strive without much success to win converts from among the Legionnaires taken prisoner at Dien Bien Phu, the French seek new recruits beyond the Rhine. This article by Anthony
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    Russian-US birth 'race'
    361 10 POOD evidence Indical I KM the Russian birth i I today is a little \o\ I than that of the United I States I The Soviet Government I for many years has I taken costly measures I to encourage fertility. I There are baby bon;; I and
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    THERE GOES THE KILLER!
    1239 11 Tony Rowe is found! And now begins the hunt to bring a ruthless criminal to the gallows NEWMARKET. Tuesday. IWAS too tense even to be amused by the expression on the hotel Dorter's face as we came downstairs together [sabelita Thrake and I. All right," I
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    'Baby' atom pile in your home
    524 11 'Baby' atom pile in your home THE ANNOUNCEMENT the world has been waiting for— that atomic energy can be put into use m every home -will be made shortly from Harwell, the British atomic centre. Scientists of the British Atomic Energy Commission have developed a "pocket-size reactor which by iself
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    'Women have no future in aviation'
    900 12 'Women have no future in aviation' She breaks the sound barrier; They're not all crazy at the "Rehearsal Club", just ambitious; Grace Kelly, Erin's answer to Marilyn Monroe; The Fabulous m Fashion-mink capes for ratal I*l, pink for men's dinner-jackets. KAY MURRAY writes her weekly newsletter on "The U.S.A. as
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      291 12 iPfiilpj fro^girwif 1 i 1 SB QE^^^m^^B^^^^^B r I ssT iIA K;> KOSS: 1 Secretly thing more on something particular told thus In the garden? <5. 3, 4>. „s. 7». 7 Much sad bread results 8 With no official docum* nt stamp' In silent entertainment (4. 8». 10 Hi. 9
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    Coming Vistavision
    162 13 Coming Vistavision nVER since the 'large J sere c n revolution started m Hollywood, Cecil B. DeMille— as he looked at each process has asked two simple questions requiring the answer, "Yes.' Question 1 "Is it m locus?" Question 2 "Can you show I m every theatre m the world?"
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    Should boys play 'Juliet?
    150 13 Should boys play 'Juliet? POUR West End stars have failed to settle this earnest question from n Qroup of worried schoolmasters: Should a boy interpret Juliet m school Plays. DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE pointed out that hoys originally played the Pfrt, "I think that boys <>ften have more emotion than we
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    De Mille says: This is IT
    152 13 There can be little doubt that the whole industry was watching to see which way DeMille would jump m the scramble ot the new processes. Throughout the forty years of his picture making, the DeMille hallmark has given great impetus to the adoption of
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    Introducing Anita Bjork
    510 13 In troducing Anita Bjork MORE NEW SCREEN STARS 4 nita Biork. v famous Swedish tilm star. comet to the American screen for the* iirst time m "Night People," first Cinemascope, Technicoiour lilm to be made entirely m Europe. This brunette beauty is a top ranker m her homeland. In "Night
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    Dateline Hollywood...
    277 13  -  Sheilah Grahamc By Rl I) OLP II VALKNTINO'S most famous picture. "The Sheik," will be rewritten for Metro's new heart throp, KDMI'ND PIRDOM. who also Rets "Ben Hur," "King's Ransom," and every other swashbuckling role around Metro. It will be a June wedding for JUNE HAVER and FRED
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    SPORTRAIT
    17 14 wish we could hear what he's telling them Vm sure it's a tip for the races."
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    Snick past the slips
    54 14 11. W. Wood, oprtiini; l» itoinan for tin- Kurop. tns. vnids a fasl ball from Ilirban Singh past Jirst slip Cecil Worn; m tinEarsptam r. st i ric kct natch irhich ••»»<! v<l yesterday on tinr.wl.iiii; Wood s( orrd <i I runs before betef i»*k hefore
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    ROUGH PLAY BY WOMEN CAGERS
    30 14 A Russian girls' basketball team beat France, 60-48. yesterday m a I rough game, opening the finals of the fourth European women's cham- pionships- A.P.
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    FIRST 5-MIN. MILE IS ALSO HER LAST
    316 14  -  GEOFFREY SIMPSON By A GIRL who knows what she is about is Britain s latest record-breaker, Diane Leather, 21-year-old chemistry student who m her native Birmingham, became the first woman m the world to beat the nve- minute mile. Having claimed her niche
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    WRESTLER GETS HIS FARE HOME
    97 14 I DANISH wrestler Hen r lk Hansen won't have lo hitchhike home from Tokyo the Japanese have contributed enough money for a ooMfortaWt tlv trip Hiro Ya.su 1. Governor of Tokyo, yesterday handed Hansen 303.982 y«n of Yasul's and his lriends' ixx ket money and
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    Overcame misfortune to win British title
    352 14 Sports Profile-BACHLI THE UNKNOWN' DOUG Bachli's win m the British Amateur Championship at Muirfield, Scotland, crowned a uolfing career marked by injuries and ill-fortune. Bachli <32> is the only Australian who has won the British title. Two months before the Australian team of amateur
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    STRAIGHT SETS
    26 14 Mrs. Betsy Abbas, Egypt, defeated Mrs. Watkins, Britain, 6-0, 6-1, m the first round of the West of England law tennis cli:tmnimKliin yesterday, A.P.
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    7 NIGHTS OF AMATEUR BOXING THRILLS
    260 14  -  GERRY ISAAC By rpHERE'S going to b< i plenty 1 of leather Hying during the next two weeks at the Happy World Stadium and m Johore as Singapore amateur boxen i^e a busy .series ol competitions. In 13 dayi there will be seven ML
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    ANGELA MUST WAIT NOW
    100 14 EYE trouble, which caused Britain's best woman tennis player, Angela Mortimer, to withdraw from the Northern C hampionships at Manchester has upset a most commendable pre Wimbledon programme which the girl from Devon had mapped out for herself. While so many of Britain's "young hopefuls" deliberately
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    Wild scenes after bout in Melbourne
    215 14 Wild scenes after bout in Melbourne WILD scenes followed the disqualification of Victorian middleweight, Ron Toohej m the fourth round of a scheduled 12-round bout againsl i Bill Larrigo, of Newcastle, at the West Melbourne Stadium. With only 40 seconds of the fourth round left referee Terry Reilly gave the
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    Salem expected here on Monday
    514 15 Salem expected here on Monday Nene sees 'world rater' m Manila REST WENT TO PIECES pi IK Rest just went to pieces yesterday on the conclud- .,>■ of their match against f-ans for the Clarke Cup. Europeans declared at 86 for seven, The Rest were led out for 77, giving
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    BASEBALL
    39 15 Boston Rtd Sox got to Detroit's Gidinekow for two runs after i) were out m the first innings day and went on to a 3-2 Ictorj over the Tigers m the first u;.me of a doubleheader. A. P.
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    OUT OF WORLD CUP
    32 15 Ren« Vigntl, goalkeeper of the h national team, who suffered broken wrist on Sunday, will i be a Die to play again until next A ni: I is!.
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    CHARLES WILL K.O MARCIANO IN 4'
    65 15 UORMER welterweight champion Barney Ross took another look at heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano yesterday and decided to stick by his prediction "Ezzard Charles will knock Mirciano out m four rounds." The now gray-haired Ross watched from the ringside as Marciano, who defends hte title
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    HUNGARY WIN 9-0
    29 15 Hungary's national soccer (earn, favourite to win the world championship next week, defeated the Young Boys Club of Berne, 9-0. m a tune-up game yesterday.- A.P.
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    New invention for swimmers
    138 15 FOR those people who ulrcays manage to swallow mouthfulls of water when taking a dip there has been invented by a German a device Which not only gives a constant supply of air, both above and below the water, but also makes it impossible for them
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    Pakistan 119 ahead with 9 wkts left
    326 15 Pakistan 119 ahead with 9 wkts left PAKISTAN finished the second day of their match against Glamorgan m a strong position 119 runs ahead with nine wickets m hand. But il their batsmen had shown more aggression towards the clo?e they might have been m a still better position. Steady
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    BRILLIANT COMPTON SAVES MIDDLESEX FOLLOW-ON
    311 16 BRILLIANT COMPTON SAVES MIDDLESEX FOLLOW-ON Sussex surprise county giants I BRILLIANT undefeated innings of 72 by Denis Compton yesterday on a treacherous pitch at J ords saved mighty Middlesex from following on 'gainst Sussex, lowest team on the list. As Cumpton countered the bowlers' every move it wis voted one
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    County scores
    161 16 lordv: MS lor c. 12 16 for four (tthep* pard Middlesex 144. (Don;. C impton not out TZ). At LHcpster: Northampton.shire 3tjT for level) dtCMTed, Lpice»ter.-,hirp 251 (or four. (Lester 81, Palmer 74, JackBOD not out U) Rain delayen At Derby: Derbyshire 172, W irwickshire 111 for two.
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    SOCCER DRAWN
    39 16 Prince Edward Road Hoys Club eh-"* vmh .Junior Technical School ■A" teas 2-2 m a friendly •occer match it Parrcr Park yesterday. Ra ','inath;in and Sac*' Kirn •COTed lor the Club and Richard Ah Dan Xor iitliool.
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    PICKED FOR OXFORD
    42 16 N. Lo and D. Lo. brothers from the University of Hong Kong, have bean chosen lo plat lor Oxford University ag.nn.st Cambridge In fiie Intei -Varsity LftWO Tennis Match at EaM' bourne. SUMtXt on July 8 and 9. Reuter
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    Title bout for Chia in Manila
    81 16 Title bout for Chia in Manila PHILIPPINE featherweight i champion Benny Kscobar will defend his newly won Orient crown against Sonny Ih.i of Singapore on June 3 at the Kizal Stadium, .Manila. It will be Escobar's first title defence since winning it from Akiyo.shi Akanuma of Japan three \U'<'k:> ago.
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    BRITAIN Ist IN THE LAST EVENT
    110 16 BRITAIN comfortably won the one mile medley relay which concluded the British Games athletic meeting yesterday. The quartette of Johnson. Fryer, Shenton and Nankeville *on m three minutes 26.4 seconds. A British Empire team was second m three minutes 29.8 seconds and the United
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    THIS IS THE KIND OF SOCCER WE NEED
    275 16  -  ARGOS THE LAST WORD— by Chinese Athletic i IT doesn't pay to be am( lenders these days: tl Yesterday it was top-of-tumble, but how they stru Soccer like this will soon draw i\\v absent crowds back to Jalan Besar Stadium. It was
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    RIDER FALLS
    95 16 Afiss Pat Smythe, who was besl iTI of the British riders during the I i.slxm Internationa] Hor.se Show. escaped injury on Sunday night when her mount Prince Hall fell m the last event of the show. Prince Hall, who toppled at the fence m the Army Ministry competition,
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    3 smart gallops at Ipoh
    460 16 3 smart gallops at Ipoh DROWN BOOTY. Black Pulot and bg]« Hawk—all three class five sprinters did smart gallops on the training Hack at Ipoh this morning. The track was pretty fast Ipoh is m the throes of a heatwave but ♦en horses went out against the stopwatch. Brown Booty,
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