The Singapore Free Press, 15 June 1954

Microfilm: NL2439
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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Large*! Afternoon Salt- in Malaya. *****." Singapore. Wed., June 15, 19"4. Price 15 (ts
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    Was Susan (I sleep in the raw) the nude who fled?
    343 1 I rpHE Susan Hayward-Jess 1 Barker divorce trial opened yesterday at Burbank, California, with testimony that a red-haired woman presumably the actress, raced nude through the grounds shouting. •Don't kill me/' The first witness at the notl> contested divorce
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    5 MINUTES IN PLANE AFTER IT CRASHED
    263 1 MICHAEL JOHN FERNLEY. Second Class Flight Steward on the 8.0.A.C. Constellation which crashed at Kalians airport on March 13 with the loss of 33 lives, told the court of inquiry in Singapore this morning that when he was inside the cabin after the
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    Boy stabs hawker
    28 1 A Chinese boy aged 11 yesterday stabbed a Malay hawker In Chulia Street. Singapore. ifter hp was beaten by his father for annoying the hawker.
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    Rubber price
    28 1 The Singapore Kubber Market opened on an unccrUin Umm thU morning with first gr.uie July shipment at 65 cento i pound threeHghi cent brio* yesterday clow
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    FROM CHARLES TO CHARLOTTE
    44 1 Charles Erne-st McLeod. 29. alked Fe oral Court g Washington Vesterdav to change hia n^ m &ieal treatPrancea McLood becau.se. the peUUon m 1( ll nu >4 tnent in Denmark ha.s changed him from a man io woman. A. P.
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    $78 million netted by Customs
    112 1 $78 million netted by Customs r^ROSS revenue collected by il the Singapore Customs Department last year exceeded all 1 records according to trie vei partmenfs annual report tabled before the LefUUttve Council meeting this morning. The total collection was $78.--:}70.952. This was nearly $2 million more than the 1952 revenue,
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    Bangkok Reds held
    36 1 POLICE arrested M people Including mom women and seized a carload of documents in a surprise raid against itupected Communists in Bangkok yesterday. Those arrested w»>re mainly Chinese businessmen and school teachers. A.P.
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    WINSTON, IKE LIKELY TO MEET
    197 1 WINSTON, IKE LIKELY TO MEET Geneva Ca binet today SOME United States oflicials, and some diplomats m Washington, do not exclude the possibility of a meeting between President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, after the likely breakdown of the Geneva conference. The officials claimed that both Eisenhower and
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    MacG HAS NOT YET RETURNED
    38 1 Sir Donald MucGillivray. the ■Federation High Commissioner, had long talks last night on the Telephone with his advisers on the political crisis I that has developed. He is still away from Kuala Lumpur
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    Policeman killed
    17 1 A policeman was killed and four constables were wounded |m a Negri Sembilan ambush yesterday.
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    Active industry
    18 1 Hie Italian film industry started 03 tWnis in the kit live i mouth.-, oi I'Jji A.P.
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    Married in Singapore
    25 2 picture I I Inche Abdul (ihani bin Mahmood and Che Siti Kokiah binti i Itu.uu; after their marriage in Singapore. Free Press
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    Smokes go under counter
    138 2 Smokes go under counter rPHKRK ha.s been a shortage 1 in Singapore during the past fei days of a few of the more popular brands of ci^HrMte.N, reciting in some black-marketing. One brand (usual price $210 a tin* was selling yestrrdav at $2.40 Shops were still selling two popular brand*
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    Now the nurses' rooms are all lit up again
    197 2 Now the nurses' rooms are all lit up again THE BIG SCARE IS OVER AN ARRAY of windows at the new $2 million Nurses Hostel, Singapore General Hospital, swung: open last night as they should be (see picture above) to let in fresh air for the sleeping nurses. But this
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    BIG FAIR TO HELP ASSEMBLY
    149 2 TiHE Singapore Youth Council plans to hold a fun fair to help raise more funds for the second World Assembly of Youth to be held here in August. It will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday June 26, and will be opened
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    TRESPASSER FREED
    34 2 Yugoslav border guard* yesterday released an Austriar youth arrested <>n Sunday aftei li«- .strayed Into Yugoslav ter rorlty. Thr-y had firrd sovera rifle shot.s at him, but he wa: unhurt. A. P.
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    RED NURSE
    90 2 A 20-YEAR OLD Sovi< t nur.se whi> Jumped overboard from i Ru lan fishing ship In a Paeroe Island harbour u> m < im has been rushed to a ho pita) a1 Copenhagen by a I> hip. Th< Hu ...ii Nur Ava Bokolo> v ried ashore <»n a
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    SUSPEND TALKS IF STILL DEADLOCK
    294 2 SUSPEND TALKS IF STILL DEADLOCK Says Eden to Molotov I> RITA IN yesterday proposed the suspension of the Indo-China peace talks in Geneva, if at the next session tomorrow the conference was still deadlocked, conference sources said. Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, proposed at yesterday's 13th secret session
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    Workmen's Bill for committee
    63 2 rIE WORKMEN'S Compensation Bill designed to award money to injured workers or! the dependants of those killed In accidents, was referred to a select committee at the Legislative Council meeting today. Its members are Mr. C. W. Lyle. the acting Commissioner oi Labour, < chairman >,
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    LEAPS OVERBOARD TO FREEDOM
    142 2 to the ihip, authorities reported The girl, who worked in the snip's dispensary, Jumped Into the bay. She was swimming a.vin>;< when a Ratling boat picked h< r up. She told authorities .she wanted political asylum in Denmark. She Wlfl taken to Tin r.shavn hOS pital
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    New propaganda organ
    36 2 New propaganda organ Creation ot an official West Germany Committee for Press Question- was sharplv attacked yesterday by political leaders and the Press as a new att'imot to set up a Nazi-like Propaganda Ministry. A. P.
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    CASEY, CHOU TO MEET
    58 2 MR. Richard Casey, Australian External Affairs Minister, is due to meet Mr. Chou En Lai the Chinese Prime Mini>ter. within the next few days, it was learned in Geneva last night. It will be the first hi«h level contact between the Australian and Chinese Governments as
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    'Know how' of synthetic rubber vital
    121 2 THE ability to take part in the production and the "know how" involved in the extensive use of the new synthetic rubber.s \va.s of great importance to Britain, both commercially and strategically. (Lord Baillieu, chairman of the Dunlop Rubber Company, told shareholders at the
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    NEW RED ARMY IS RISING
    232 3 Secret report by Gruenther GENERAL Alfred GruenU ther, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, yesterday was reported to have told Congress in Washington of "impr o v o d and modernised". Soviet forces building up behind the Iron Curtain. Mr Robert Chiperfield (Republican. Illinois i,
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    Kidnap ransom found
    108 3 Kidnap ransom found I)ART of a om pal irn ol a worn. in kid ipped »n Pho< i An/on. 1 1 veek iii been recovered i- I ported terday Detective Earl Moor said he found a bundle of ussioo btUi wrapped m a blue .^hirt The bundle was lying m
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    Whisky-drinker of 11 quizzed on death fire
    97 3 I)SY('HIATRISTS questioned Marion Gregory, 11-year-old whisky-drinking boy, yesterday m connection with lire last Friday m which seven persona were burned death. Police said Marion told them he accident i v started the lire by flipping a match on to a pile of rubbish
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    New York stops as three A-bombs 'fall'
    79 3 >'FW YORK stood still I yesterday for 10 minutes in the city's nerond full-scale air raid drill since the second World War. As the sirens wailed pedestrians rushed to shelters, surface transport lulled discharging passengers and the streets lost all semblance of their
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    Malan defeated in vote move
    88 3 Malan defeated in vote move THE South African Prime Minister, Dr. Daniel Malan. failed by nine votes yesterday to get the necessary two-thirds majority of both Houses to amend the constitution and provide separate representation of coloured voters in Parliament. Dr. Malan. who has already failed twice to set the
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    HILLARY IS SAFE: HAD MALARIA
    145 3 HILLARY IS SAFE: HAD MALARIA I MOUNT EVEREST conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary, who suflered a malaria attack on towering Makalu peak, walked into Dhaknuta i Nepal t yesterday unaided, With a group of porters carrying an injured member of hia mountaineering expedition, to civilisation. The rangy New Zealander's successful descent
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    Nehru breaks a rule to see Danny Kaye
    146 3 PHIME Minister Jawaharlal Nehru made a rare party appearance yesterday to meet movie comedian Dtnny Kaye. Nehru reportedly had to i-^k hLs sister Mrs Pandit. for a last minute invitation to the Kaye reception. Mrs. Pandit, who is United Nations General Assembly
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    Sabotage in China
    25 3 A fresh wave of sabotage in South China, coinciding with i tightening of communist '■ntrol.s. was reported yesterday in Hong Kong.- A.P
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    BUILDING BOOM
    23 3 A US. Government report predicted la*t night that spending ljr new construction would set ;tn all-time record of US$3O,OOO million. A.P.
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  • INSIDE RUSSIA
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      The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, June 15, 1954. Opinion They deserve better
      389 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, June 15, 1954. Opinion They deserve better Yesterday we published a picture of the waiting room in the Singapore General Hospital outpatients' department and told of what we noted there on a visit. The kindliest assessment of what we .saw is that it was disturbing
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      IT'S A WORLD OF IT'S OWN
      732 4 IT'S A WORLD OF IT'S OWN Down in the Deep Red South a roving, reporter from London sees a football match in a fantastic setting. IT is still a weird and wonderful trip this. I have just been to a game of soccer in a stadium that can hold 70,000
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      Manners make a Red
      250 4 Manners make a Red AN all-out ofYicial drive to teach Communists good manners is the latest news on the "New Look" front behind the Iron Curtain. In Czechoslovakia, a government handbook on "Etiquette in a People's Democracy" is now being prepared to in- //'j the new 'etiquette' drive slogan for
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    SCHOOL CHIEF ASSURES PARENTS
    137 5 SCHOOL CHIEF ASSURES PARENTS Mr T. P M. LEWIS, Senior Inspector of Schools in Singapore, yesterday told parents with children born in 1948, not to be anxious over the chances of primary class admissions in 1956. These children will be put on the priority list when narration begins next year,
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    Renaming of road still a mystery
    163 5 MR A. P RAJAH, the vicechairman of the City council's Public Works Committee, said yesterday, he dia not know why Chong Lone Road, leading to Fort Canning, was renamed Caninns Lane. I was commenting on a letter in the Straits Times which said Chong
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    WELFARE HOME HAS LONGER LEASE OF LIFE
    83 5 f|iHE 150 children of the Social Welfare Children's ntre and Creche in Have- >■!-: Road. Singapore, can stay heir present building a longer. Demolition of their building i been delayed because of itionj in plans for the' building— $300,000 cominltv centre. new home
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    300 works in art show
    54 5 I'ENANG, Tues. About 300 rka 0] art selected Irom Feration schools will be in the pan Malayan school ildren'a art exhibition openat Penang Convent on day. The exhibition, from 9 a.m n.m daily, will end on 19. 'he show, sponsored ana Teachers' Union Art Council,
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    POLICE CAN LABEL L DRIVERS DANGER TO PUBLIC AT DISCRETION
    315 5 WHEN is an L driver considered "a danger on the public road", and when not, in the absence of any written law? The Singapore Police Secretary, Mr. Peter Clague yesterday answered this question by saying: "It is left to the
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    Untitled
    20 5 Mr. and Mrs. Yon* Wan Sun* after their wedding in Kuaf.i Lumpur. The bride was formerly Miss Ooi Chooi Hoe.
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    Offered bribe
    34 5 TANJONG MALIM, Tues. Kok Chat Voon was fined $150 for offering a bribe of $2 to a Special Constable on May 29. when he was arresteo. f or carrying restricted articles ijiiimmiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiimimij:'
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    Police clerk gets B.E.M
    50 5 Police clerk gets B.E.M MENTAKAB, Tues Mr N Chelliah, chief clerk, Police Circle Mentukab, has been awarded a B.K.M. by the Queen Mr chHliah has been workin" in the Police Department for about 34 years. In June 1950, he came to Mentakab as chief clerk in the Police Department. I
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    Medal for woman
    47 5 Medal for woman nict ure. .•■■■iiiiniiiiiiiiiii THIRTY-nine-year-old Special Constable Lei 1 Kooi Yin, woman searcher, is the first woman ever in Malaya to be awarded the Colonial Police Medal. Wllirt She figured in the Queen's birthday honours lust week. The award was for meritorious service.— Free Press
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    Fashion show, and dance to aid hospital
    190 5 Fashion show, and dance to aid hospital J .ELABORATE plans to J raise funds for St. Andrew's Mission Hospital during Hospital Week from July 1\ Ut 28 are being made by a Singapore committee. They include in islandwide flag day. a fashion hou and dance, a cinema premiere and a
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      94 5 ST. JOHN APPEAL WEEK Support the ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRICADE AND ASSOCIATION FLAG DAY SATURDAY, 3rd JULY Buy a Strieker for your car, showing the emblem of St. John. They cost $1.00 each. Please give generously and help us to help you "door" "to" door" h" BAGGAGE SERVICE TRANSPORT STORAGE
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    Joy without comparison
    105 6 A BRITISH and a Czech worker were comparing notes on the pleasures of Hie today. The Britisher remark ed that he worked iust JO many hours a week, was we paid, had a fine home, and had enough leisure to enjoy '•That's all very nice l daresay,"
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      246 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phi! Davis i^«Miffl |-,v?^r fs aii^l| [gf.g«£gs^g lHi6«O f J'J(ifk',f ■^«^'< Ni x- MA/HO D EVER SPELD r > DOWN T^ r }\^^^P^^lH THINK 0F TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs ■i«^^3W-^-. wwll^«ifc ANP NOW, AS T>€ CROUP S6RVOUSL> 7ARZ AN CONOBi Vf P A j
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      547 6 YOUR I LUCKY I STAR BOKN VOPAI, jou are fond of all the beautiful things of life. Art, literature and music are your major interest* and you will be happiest if >ou devote your life to one of the arts. You have a line speaking voice probably a good bilging
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    This sef a new era in S'pore housing
    643 7 A JIGSAW ESTATE SINGAPORE'S Tiong Bahru— which began 20 years ago as an experiment in forming a community o f flat-dwellers— has today become a modern selfcontained housing estate. Its rapid growth into a thriving, prosperous area reflects the post-war development of
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    BUT OH SO MODERN!
    443 7 BUT OH SO MODERN STEVE NEOH HAS A KIND WORD TO SAY OF TIONG BAHRU His suggestion Hawkers should be given authorised pits. Street lamps: Only one street out of ten main ones is fully lighted. In other streets are gas lamps installed before the war. It has been considered
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    THIS PADANG WILL BE CHINATOWN'S NEW LUNG
    159 7 THIS PADANG WILL BE CHINATOWN'S NEW LUNG SINGAPORE'S new 15-acre padang between Shenton Way and the sea which will provide yet another lung to crowded Chinatown will be ready in a few months. Mr. Irving Watson, city architect, said he hoped to see work started on the $125,000 padang project
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    'KILLER HUNT' AFTER EVERY ROAD DEATH
    276 8 ROAD DEATHS, it they appear to be due to negligent or drunken driving, are to be dealt with by the London police in the same wa.v as suspected murder cases. This Home Office ruling has the effect of taking all such cases out of
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    HUSBAND CAN KEEP FLAT USED FOR 'CALL' DATES
    404 8 Didn't know of wife's job A LONDON county court judge refused to evict from a flat an architect whose wife, it was stated, had been convicted of running a call-girl establishment there. The architect, Armand Wilmshurst Soden, aged 49, was sued by
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    DEADLY RIVER
    16 8 Pollution experts are invest mating the death of fish in the River Chelmer, Essex.
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    SCOUT CHAPEL
    15 8 Rotarv Club members at •'••llinuton have built a chape] lor Shropshire Boy ScuuU.
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    Young doctar was curious
    190 8 SCIENTIFIC curiosity was the reason given to the magistrate at Bow-street, London, by Dr. Andrew Reyhurii aged 27, of Troon, Ayrshire, for his actions in the West End of London. Iteyburn. who said he was staying at a hotel in London, pleaded not guilty to a
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    Dope seized for million cigarettes
    112 8 Dope seized for million cigarettes ENOUGH hashish to make a million doped cigarettes has been seized by Customs officers at Tilbury Docks, London. It was found hidden under hundreds of tons of manganese ore in the Derbyshire, a 10.623-ton passenger cargo ship owned by the Bibby Line. The ship had
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    Complimentary Oh No!
    111 8 TWO HUNDRED people with complimentary rickets were j turned away from a recital by 1 Jennie Tourel. the American mezzo-soprano, at Wigmore Hall. London. They formed a queue round the block in the hope that some of the 530 seats would be unclaimed. But "cash cus- tomers
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    Harding gets BBC offer
    79 8 rE 8.8.C. has offered Gilbert Harding a long-term contract to cover his TV and radio appearances over the next few years. This is the latest move in the underground battle for positions between the 8.8.C. and representatives of companies who plan to produce programmes for commercial
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    TRAP FOR THIEVES IS ORDERED
    53 8 Hospitals have been told by the Minister of Health, Mr. lain Macleod, to tighten up controls to stop losses of equipment, stores, and cash. He said in a circular: "Cash in hand should be kept to the minimum" and hospital authorities must conduct "surprise checks"
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    VALIANT VALERIES
    44 8 Valerie Stone and Valerie Lusted, both aged 15. went back to the Wykeham Modern Secon- dary School at Neasden, N.W., Ito receive Royal Humane So- ciety certificates for gallantry. They dragged a night watch man from his blazing hut last I November.
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    43 8 piciure. A SMALL-SCALE model of the ship "Super Whale" seen on a test run on the Havel Rive r, West Berlin. The designer Mr. Wilhelm Fechner. 55, clam s it could cross the Atlantic from Hamburg to New York m 50 hours.— A.P.
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    SAFER TEETH OR LIBERTY?
    46 8 Norwich City Council has rejected a Health Ministry p*oposal that the city's wanr supply should have fluorid. added as an experiment combat dental decay among children. It was said that many peopw were worried by the threaten- d loss of personal liberty.
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    A COUNCIL HOUSE FOR WIFE WHO W0N £42,000
    203 9 THE husband of a £42,000 pools winner has been recommended for the tenancy of a council house. And because his wife is in bad health they expect to move in ahead of their turn. "I believe it caused quite a turn-up at
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    ANYONE CAN SEE NEXT DOOR BATH
    56 9 The whole village of Kelsale. Suffolk, is talking about the transparent glass in the bathroom windows of its new council houses. Blyth rural council has asked its architect for a report. A councillor said: "From the kitchen sink, anyone can see the bath next
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    LEDSE SAVES LIFE
    29 9 Ten-year-old John Edward Smedley. of Welbeck-road, Doncaster, Yorks, was unhurt when he fell 50ft. down the 150ft. high Scarborough Castle Hill and landed on a ledge.
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    68 9 picture. SEVEN cygnets swim between their mother and father on the pond at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kappel, near North Park, Pittsburgh. I'.S. Swans rarely breed in captivity. Mr. Kappel has raised swans for 17 years and this is the first year he «<»t any eggs.
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    Alsatian he bought was a coward
    127 9 Alsatian he bought was a coward A MAN who sold a cowardly Alsatian as a guard dog was ordered at Southampton County court to repay the £15 15s. purchase price. Mr. Maurice Foreman, ot Sholing-road, Southampton, told the court that he answered an advertisement about the dog because one of
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    IN A FALSE LIGHT
    21 9 Sodium lighting for a ball at Nottingham Castle has been rejected as "unflattering to make-up and gowns."
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    TV chef is sorry about that sole
    154 9 TV chef is sorry about that sole shape of a violin.- —Popper I picture. I PHILIP HARBIN, the TV Chel. is sorry if anyone thought he Wiggested haddock as a substitute for sole bonne ferrime m a demonstration a few weeks ago. He said on TV Apparently 1 did not
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    'IT IS FANTASTIC WE CAN'T SEND YOU BACK'
    298 9 PASSING sentence on a man from Malta, the magistrate at Thames Court, London, told him 'Tt is fantastic that you can come here and live eithei on the dole or your wife and we cant send you back.' The man, Manuel Ciantar,
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    PAPERED NEST
    25 9 A chaffinch's nest in a hedge opposite Thursley, Hants, village hall is lined with confetti. Wedding reception** are often held in the hall.
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    Wife fights to clear vanished husband
    301 9 OUT into the Indian night walked Privat, Robert "Jock" Define. He was never seen alive again. Was he. as an Army Inquiry decided, a deserter? Or wa: he, as his lrxnds b< liev< murdered by Indian antlBritish thugs? That was thr question that to
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    Princess Margaret keeps Britons in suspense
    1133 10 Princess Margaret keeps Britons in suspense Many suitors but still no fiance WHO will Princess Margaret marry? Who will be the lucky man to lead Britain's gay and lovely princess to the altar 0 To Britons. whose paramount interest is the affairs of their Royal Family, the identity of Margaret's
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    'ALEX' IN BLUNDERLAND
    148 10 IT will be a long time before Lord Alexander, Minister of Defence, lives down the embarrassment of a recent after dinner blunder. As dinner guest of a group of high-ranking officers of the U.S. National Cuard he greeted them as "these Canadians and mtit have blushed as
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      75 10 HNk vR \tfffftTloT iMt iw A^^oS The weekly issue of the STRAITS BUDGET can be sent by Air Mail to any address in the United Kingdom at an inclusive rate of 3 I $24.00 2 FOR SIX MONTHS If you want the -BUDGET" while on leave or wish to make
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    A holiday nightmare by GILES
    35 11 "Remember, men, my Grandma's Rommel and the rest of em are dangerous Jerry troops". Giles celebrates the anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe with a comic fliaht of fancy.
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    On the Beaches of Normandy...
    912 11  -  LEONARD MOSLEY Pictures recall a fateful dawn WWI The invasion Troops move inland from the Normandy beaches and i below the scene wheJi, days later, the beachhead had been established. A VERY frightened little man in an oversized parachute jacket crouched behind a hedge in
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    Teachers in trouble
    156 11 T^HE old adage "spare the rod and spoil the child" is eonnng true m Denmark where teachers are on the verge of nervous breakdowns since corporal punishment In schools was abolished two years ago. The only punishment now allowed m Danish schools is detention alter school hours.
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    TALES TRAVELLERS TELL
    827 12  -  Anne Edwards Drusilla Beyfus by and Of fur coats and sharks, angels and bullfights with cartoonist (winnings joining in THEY don't know how to make tea "The men's looks aren't up to the girls'" "You have to keep an eye on the bills" "You're bound to get
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    Bridge Hand
    408 12 North-South vulnerable South dealer (Cover the Kast West cards The bidding South West North East Pass ly Db! 2<? -'4 Pas3 44 All pass had I strong takeout double. When South bid lively over Easts preemptive raise, t wai apparent that he had at mat a Jive-c:trd spade
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      251 12 Bhiihf Crosstv&nt mH BBF^ Wm 1 1.1 KS M KOHH: 1 Weight ol goii? (Hi I A real Mrs change <4 an automobile to begin with? I) 7ln a banch-like la.shiun.' (13» 4 Rum's not a quack medicine! <7i 9 How a ruler, we hear, might 8 Mom v-( onsciou.s
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    18 13 Baby chimpanzees, Bill and Ben, juM arrived in 1-jigUiul from Wcfet Africa are determ ined to Mick together.
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    20 13 Mit/i Gay- nor film star, I makes I I charming study of I youthful, out- door, exube- ranee. IIIHIIIMMIIM«m»IMIM»»»««l> Z
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    People's Hero set 'alarming example'
    240 13 People 's Hero set 'alarming example' SAD CASE OFCOMRADE DRASNIK I THERE may nor be so many medafc and Orders going begging in the People's Czechoslovakia in future. The sad case of Comrade coal-miner Alois Drasmk has been cited recently in the Communist press as an "alarming example" of what
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    SEDITION in Uganda
    382 13 SEDITION in Uganda QJ AMS O N Sekabanja, spindly, smiling boss of tne Uganda National Congress, came out of hiding the other day and said that his boycott campaign would be Intensified even if it caused bloodshed. Congress Is urging all Africans in Uganda to buy nothing but essentials as
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    ELECTION on the Gold Coast
    470 13  - ELECTION on the Gold Coast JOHN REDFERN By pYCLIST couriers chasing up Dr. Kwane Nkrumah, the Gold Coast's Prime Minister now on an election tour in the bush country, found him on a bicycle. He had decided that was the best way to reach a small hut village in the
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    FROM PRINCESS TO THE DUKF
    46 14 picture. l*i nit e.-.s Margaret snmes as she presents the Duke of Sutherland Cup to the Duke of Edinburgh after the Cowdray Park team had beaten the Greyhounds in the final of the Polo Tournament at t'owdray Park, Midhurst Reuter (Sussex).
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    Cambridge crew to race in Japan
    153 14 THE Cambridge University crew has accepted an invitation to row in Japan during September, announces the Japan Amateur Association in Tokyo. ~~i "We have been in negotiation with the University's representatives since last year," the Association President Rokuzc Furuiehi. said. "We recently received a
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    Gold Vase probables
    81 14 ■pROBABLE ■tertan and jockeys for the Ascot Gold Vase running o\ei two miles at Ascot today areTurvey (P. Hunter*, Running Water <L Plgi^ott), Royal Task (Rae Johnstone). Karall <E. Mercer, Prince Christian (S. Clayton), Minaret (T. Lowrty), Friseur (Sir Ciordon Richards). Cloon Roughan »K Gethln), Prescription (E
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    FRENCHMAN WINS WORLD FENCING
    32 14 Christian Dariole (Prance) won the men's individual foil event in the world fencing championships In Luxembourg Eduardo Mangiorotti (Italy) and Bergamini Olancarlo, (Italy) were second md third. Reuter
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    OPENING TIES TOMORROW IN WORLD CUP
    212 14 OPENING TIES TOMORROW IN WORLD CUP Programme tor the first week 'THE World Football Championships start in Swltxer- land tomorrow. Opening: tics are: Uruguay v Czechoslovakia: Austria v. Scotland; France v. Yugoslavia; and Mexico v. Brazil. The organising committee has announced that no replacements will be allowed in the tournament
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    JAP WOMAN ARRIVES
    27 14 SACHIKO KAMO. Japanese wo*J men's tennis champion, flew into London yesterday to compete in the Wimbledon championships first Japanese woman entered since the war.
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    Marciano7-2 favourite
    112 14 ROCKY Marciano, fast running out of opponents, rules a 7 2 favourite over Ezzard Charles when he defends his world heavyweight title against the 32-year-old former champion on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium Because advance sales havt been higher than for the MarcianoRoland La.starza match last September, the
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    World champs arrive
    35 14 Uruguay, the holders of the \V orld Soccer Cup, arrive at their quarters in Switzerland. The champions are engaged in one of the toughest matches tomorrow at Bern where they play Czechoslovakia.
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    21 PROBABLES FOR ASCOT
    107 14 rpWENTYONE probables with i jockeys for the Ascot Stakes, running over two and a half miles at Ascot tomorrow are: Flighty Fiances iW. H. Cam, Peperium (E. Britn, Northern Gleam (Rae Johnstons >, Milcote Manor <H. Packhamt. Dangelo (T. Lawrey). Dingo <W. Rickabyi, Channel Flight i
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    MALAYAN OUT
    26 14 A Segal of South Africa defeated E. Tsai of Malaya 6-3. 6-4 yesterday in tr.e first round of the Queen's Club Tennis tournament.— A.P.
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      161 14 MISSION ORANGE 1954 is once again a year of distinction. MISSION Orange has won the FIRST PRIZE MEDAL for the THIRD consecutive year, awarded by the world famous International Food Institute Expositions held In Paris— the two preceding years in Lisbon and Brussels. MISSION Orange was judged amongst the carbonated
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    PROBABLE SCRATCHINGS
    49 15 Probable scratching for tomorrow are: Mentinek, Beau Temps, Mainbrace. Bug Morning, Duke, Quick Profit, South Pacific, Peasant Girl, Red Carnation. Hut.in Melintans, Proctor, ltu Nasib, Kong Ming, Cabinet. Sweet William, Silverfort, Unaware, Buck Rebel, Kim's Pet, Diplomat and Zalovix. The going; is likely to be very good.
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    Bank on an Ipoh win by Banker Boy Speed will see him through
    1044 15  - Bank on an Ipoh win by Banker Boy Speed will see him through TRESPASSER By BANKER BOY, promoted after his smashing double in Class 4, on the same course in April, comes up against the Class 3 top sprinters at Ipoh tomorrow, >econd day of the Perak Turf Club's June
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    SAIGON BRAN SHOULD WIN ONCE MORE
    474 15 UAIGON BRAN, who MOred £5 over Gf. at Kuahi Lumpur with 8.11, should do it ftgftln in the Class 5. Div. 1 race over six furlongs. Owin^ to the mishap at the home bend in the last race on Saturday, he did not have
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    Open boxing tomorrow
    79 15 Open boxing tomorrow T'HE Singapore Amateur Boxing Association annual open championships will be held tomorrow, on Thursday and on Friday at the Happy World Stadium. Civilian and Services boxers will compete In full strength. Although the Royal Navy can muster only three competitors, the Army and Royal Air Force are
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    WOMEN'S TEST
    39 15 At the halfway stage of the women's Test, England aKainsi New Zealand at Leeds, the home side with a first Innings lead of ten are well placed if New Zotland lost six second Innings wickets for 93.
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    An ex—wrestler starts S'pore school
    318 15 An ex— wrestler starts S'pore school iy\NT to HASSLE? Then read this. An attempt to revive Ml -in -Wrestling is being made by olony matman Leow Kwong s <nx, ]»48-52 Middleweight nampion. To do this. Leow has opened an 1 -air wrestling gymnasium on a I ingapor« roof-garden. His aim
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    Marines storm to late win
    205 15 Marines 4; Police 0. (GALLANTLY the Police held M out for &0 minutes against Marine Department in ve.sterday'.s SAFA Div 1 leaKue tie at Jalan Br.sar BtadlUUl. Then the .strain toki and Marines stormed to the attack to score four RoaLs in the last auartcr
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    SLOW SCORING TEST GETS UNDER WAY
    383 16 SLOW SCORING TEST GETS UNDER WAY Opening batsman hits 11 runs in 2 m hours AFTER one of the longest waits for a game in Test match history there came one of the slowest periods of scoring known. In two hours 35 minutes at Lords yesterday Pakistan made 50 runs
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    Scoreboard
    44 16 PAKISTAN IST INNINGS lliinf Mohammad not out Alimuddin r Kdrich b Wardlr 1» \\.n|.i- lla«*an c < ompton b Wardlr Maqsood \hmrd st. Evans b Wardle Imti i/ Ahmed not out MM 5 I ..til (for 3) 50 Wickets fell at: 24. 42. 42.
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    Now it's Arsenal AND Hungary
    144 16 Now it's Arsenal AND Hungary Free Press Soccer Reporter SINGAPORE soccer fans may see a match between Hungary and Arsenal at Jalan Besar Stadium next February. The Asian Football Confederation yesterday decided fo consult Singapore, the Philippines and India before extending an invitation to the English first division side. The
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    FILIPINO BOXERS DUE ON FRIDAY
    51 16 I piLIPINO boxers Benny Salem i 'j and Ray Rico, who were due j to arrive from Manila yesterday i missed the plane and will not now j arrive until Friday. The fighters are scheduled to appear In Saturday night*! promotion at the Happy World
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    GERMAN WINS ISLE OF MAN T.T. RACE
    103 16 GERMAN WINS ISLE OF MAN T.T. RACE WERNER Ha.ss of Germany, the world champion, riding a German NSU machine won the lightweight International Tourist Trophy motor cycle race at Douglas, Isle of Man, yesterday in record time. NSU. swept the board, taking the first four place's and five of the
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    S'PORE NAME 15 FOR MALAYA CUP
    64 16 travel to Malacca on Saturday to play their first Malaya Cup fixture of the season. Fifteen players selected are: Chu Chee Seng. W. Skinner. Boniface. I. Vass, Sen Tt<ow Keng. Foo Hee Jona Lee Kok Seng. Ho Hin Wong, Omar Awang. Aw Boon Seong,
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    SERVICES XI v. JOHORE
    140 16 A rp\V() new Combined Services X ''caps" take the field on Saturday as the Singapore servicemen meet Johore at Jalan Besar Stadium in a Malaya < up soccer fixture. LAC Carter, who played so i well for the Royal Air Force against Singapore "A" on Sunday,
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    Outschoorn not out 99 for Worcs
    420 16 Outschoorn not out 99 for Worcs I ADDIE Outschoorn, the former Singapore cricketer, needed one run for his century at tea when Worcestershire declared against Glamorgan yes- terday at Dudley. Earlier Glamorgan's own declarjat ion had opened up the prospect for a sporting finish. Glamorgan then lost half their second
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    COUNTY SCORES
    204 16 At Chesterfield: Derbyshire 280 tAppleyard six for 71) and 30 for four. Yorkshire 166 (.Lester 70, Smith five lor 37). At Bournsmouth: Gloucestershire 178 (Dray six for 31). Hampshire six for no wicket. At Bath: Somerset 88 (Titmus i live for 27» and 15 for one. Middle- sex
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