The Singapore Free Press, 18 June 1954

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press I a rtj-ost Alternoon Sale in Malaya. |3f?t. Sinjaporr. Fri., June 18. 19."»i. Price l."»(ts
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    Talking Point
    149 1 HY isn't something being done to improve the acoustics in Singapore's Criminal Appeals Court where the Constellation crash inquiry is bring held? rodaj is the thirteenth day of the inquiry. And the hearing may last a month. t on practically every one of the thirteen days so tar
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    Talking point
    83 1 |\\II.V, long queues mothers with babies arms amoiio them Nti to get attention at Singapore General Hosoatpatients' delartment. Often they a lit hoars. let tl>is week the Free ream disclosed the conditions in story and picture. on l*ase Five, doctors intent on the position. I the Government's case
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    2 SHIPS FOR RUSSIA
    18 1 British Government has rmtasion fur the sale H-fun soinn British Shters to Russia.- Reuter
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    MARCIANO WINS
    33 1 World heavyweight boxing champion Hocky Marclano retained his title by defeating former chani'iinn Ell ird Charles in New Vork last ii»ti»it. He won on points Round by round report Back Fftf*.
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    U.S. air command
    35 1 The U.S. Air Force yestei i »v placed All Ita heavy bombej n the Fur East under the Sti I jIC Air Command, which will base tiu'in from Japan to (i'Min. A.P.
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    BULLETS IN DRAIN
    36 1 A City Council scavi i found two round- ol 'vu b illeta in a drain In Jalan An. Singapore, yesterd They believed to be last ammunition They were ui .said a police spol
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    CRASH FIRE-FIGHTER DISREGARDED OWN SAFETY
    188 1 CRASH FIRE-FIGHTER DISREGARDED OWN SAFETY V|k Michael Bain, an ama--1 -i Photographer, tias B ive hi.s Impressions lyman" of tiie crashed tellatlon blaze at airport on March 13. the Singapore court mquiry: "The fire was very nicely. It I very well Christopher Shawcross. i insej for boac. said 1 irdly
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    BABY FOUND ABANDONED
    36 1 A five-day-old Chinese boy was found abandoned behind the Jubilee Theatre, Bin ipor early this morning. He u in a healthy condition, a sp< man at the General Hospital told the Free Preas.
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    Rubber price
    28 1 The Singapore rubber market cpened this morning on an incertain tone with Brst grade Tuly shipment, at 651 cents i pound three-eighths cent below yesterday's dose
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    GENEVA HOPES ARE RISING
    240 1 New French offer pKANC'K, ready to make important concessions, tried desperately in Geneva yesterday to induce Communist China and Russia to strike a realistic bargain for ending the Indo-China war. French Foreign Minister M. Biduult met Soviet Foreign Minister Mr. Molotov. and then Chinese Communist Premier
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    45 1 Sachiko Kaniu. Japanese woman tennis champion, will be the first Japanese woman to play in the Wimbledon tennis championship in London since the war. Sachiko (her name means 'Very happy child') is 89 and has held J ipan'i top lamb title for thirteen years Reuter
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    BRITISH NO TO U.S. BID TO SEARCH SHIPS
    81 1 BRITISH NO TO U.S. BID TO SEARCH SHIPS BRITAIN yesterday refttSed an American request lor the right to search British ships suspected of carrying arms from Coinmimist porti to Guatemala. But she aKreed to blockade any arms shipn^njLs to the Central American re-* public. The American request, which has also
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    Mendes is new premier
    100 1 M. MENDES FRANCE bM been elected Prime Minister of Franco. The Communists voted lor turn. The 47-year-okl Radical Socialist (Moderate) won by i wide majority of 419- 1 >4 This nfc him an abaolute majority independent ol the 'Jj Communist voter Before the meeting M. France
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    7 S'PORE MEN JUMP SHIP IN AMERICA
    67 1 SEVKN CHINESE .sailors tinned on at Singapore jumped overboard from thr British oil tanker Bpondilui in Albany, New York on Wednesday night. A wide .search i.s on. Milton Herman of the US. Immigration Service said thfl men may head for New York City
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    Military aid for Bonn
    26 2 Wr.st Germany Is Qualified to receive i%4 and h*ss nniitiiiy aid luucLs under a revised U 8 lon uui aid bill U.P
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    RED LIE-DRIVE IN ASIA 'HAS REACHED PEAK: TIDE IS NOW TURNING'
    385 2 RED LIE-DRIVE IN ASIA 'HAS REACHED PEAK: TIDE IS NOW TURNING' lt|H. T. C. STREIBKRT, Ihe U.S. Government's Foreign Information Chief said yesterday fluf the Communists were waging ";j massive propaganda campaign to wreck I.S. inliueinr in South-East Asia, and thai il was effective with many Asian people. Mr. Stretbert,
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    Suggestion for Ike
    27 2 Look Magazine yesterday suggested that President Ei- senhower and Sir Winston Churchill discuss the siatus of Cyprus island when they meet next week- A.P
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    U.S. Chinese paper urged $ for China— $75,000 fine
    153 2 U.S. Chinese paper urged for China— $75,000 fine THE China Daily News, a New york Chinese language newspaper, was fined $25,000. ($75,000 Malayan* yesteri ly for encouraging Chinese in the United States to send money to Communist China Eugene Moy, 53. the newspaper's president, was sentenced to two years in
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    INDONESIA
    11 2 The Communist campaign \s teaching back into the remote tillages.
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    Boost for R.A.F. strength
    92 2 Mr Harold Btassen, Director oi the United States Foreign Operations Administration, announced in Washington yesterday the signing tA an agreement for Britain to manufacture $*'„> million worth ol military aircraft for the Royal Air Force under the Foreign Aid '"Jilt Royal Air Force is a very
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    U.S.-AID FISHING BOATS WERE 'SABOTAGED'
    137 2 ]MR. EDWIN H. DAHLGREN of the U.S. Foreign iTI Operations Administration told a House of Representatives Subcommittee yesterday that 70 fishing boats made in Japan and given to Indonesia under the American foreign aid programme were built i of green, inferior wood. He alao said
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    ALI RETURNS
    35 2 Pakistan's Prime Minister, Mr. Mohammed Ali returned to Karachi yesterday irom his visit to Turkcv and said he ffli "very satisfied with the Tur-kish-Pakistani plans for the defence of the Middle East. A.P
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    Raised to embassy
    19 2 The Soviet Union and Israel have agreed to raiM' their respective legations to embassy status. A.P.
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    Her first public engagement
    72 2 Her first public engagement I>RINCESB Alexandra of Kent carrying out her first public engagement as patron of the British Junior Red Cross. She was attending a reception given by the junior section of the Red Cross at St. James Palace, London. The Princess wore for the first time her trim
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    LOUT A DIDN'T MEAN TO KILL: FACES 50 YEARS
    107 2 LOLITA LEBRON, one of the Puerto Ricans arrested after the shooting in the UJB. Congress in March, waj last night found not guilty cf intent to kill. Five Congressmen w ere wounded in the shooting. The Federal jury in Washington earlier
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    'Austria will never trade her freedom'
    162 2 Chancellor Herr Julius Raab save a pledge to British Members of Parliament in London last night that his country would "carry on a peaceful policy j£ Central Europe and not accept any military obligations" Austria was determined, be said, not to buy a State
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    Woman who startled Fans
    56 3 Woman who startled Fans T'l woman who startled Paris by her campaign for the suppression of toleril'd brothels after the war his Ueeti arrested and chargfi with receiving stolen jeweller?. Mrue. Marthe Richard. 65. firmer Paris Municipal Councillor, is being detained il l.i Petite Roquette Prison In i special cell.
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    FORMOSA WINS
    31 3 Nationalist China yesterday i the right to vote in International Labour Conin Geneva in .spite <>i t more than two years in •ars with contributions tot nearly $1,000,000 Reuter
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    CANCER' SUIT OVER TOBACCO CALLED OFF
    77 3 CANCER' SUIT OVER TOBACCO CALLED OFF IRA C I.owe, of Festus, Missouri, who blamed his lung cancer on heavy cigarette smoking, has withdrawn his U*****,000 damage suit against four tobacco firms and a store No reason was given. It was stated in court J.at the tobacco Arms had made no
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    INDIAN PLANE TO PICK UP HILLARY AND PARTY
    192 3 Indian Air Force decided day to send a transplane to Biratnagar, Neto bring Sir Edmund! 'iiy and nil party of New! 'aland mountainer* to Caltta. airlift was suggested by British High Commission, plane will leave as soon -void is received that Hiliry,
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    CIVIL SERVANTS' RIGHTS' AFTER SELF-GOVT.
    468 3 JJRTTAIN yesterday announced the creation of an 'Overseas Civil Service" which will give new rights to the men who help administer Britain's colonial empire. An official paper on the reorganisation of the colonial iervice states that from October 1. 1954. a new service will be
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    HONG KONG WON'T GET THAT $48MIL.
    45 3 Hi'im Kong's Colonial Secretary, Mr. R. B. Black, told the Legislative Council yesterday Britain was unlikely to five the colony HK$4B million from her Colonial Development and Welfare Fund to build ;i new airport lor Comet Jot airliners. Reuter
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    'Cinderella' marriage is breaking up
    74 3 BAKHAHA SKARS I "BobO") Rockefeller left ber n»»w York home yesterday presumably for Reno to end h»*r Cinderella marriage. The coalmlner's daughter, who married ltito out <>r Amorica'ji greatest fortunes, wb silent. But sources close lo the domestic f said h»»r lawyers and those of
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    MORE SELF-RULE, MAY BE THE CRY
    40 3 Dr Kwamo Nkrumah, whose Convention People's Party won the electlonj for the Gold Coast's first All African Assembly. If expected to mak»* an early move for greater independence for the British 1 rolonv. Reuter
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    'WAR AND PEACE' FILM
    23 3 David Belsnick. the Droducer, Announced In Hollywood list night he v. >uld Rim ToUt >v- w.xr and Peace**.- Reuter
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    Wages raised
    33 3 Wages were railed yesterday i n Argentina j tobacco Industry hit by a .slowdown that forced imofceri to pay more than Ms'i !'»r :i ick 01 IDIUf gled American cigarette i
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    She'll follow him anywhere
    99 3 Pretty young o■' n inborn Zrika R of Tex i last nJ \h\ she would folio :1 !i band "wherever they take him, no in tt r (t LlH v tiy he's' done. "He is my lit-, m* ir my happiness." she ->^- Her liu^ij in
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    In Central Asia it's all smiles -AND HARD WORK
    822 4  - In Central Asia it's all smiles -AND HARD WORK Rene MacColl :::unHiii ttiut tmtit a tniDtminiiii ttt i,^ XVG A visit to a factory and then (farewell to BAKU with flowers and cake Next stop: TASHKENT IN A SOVIET PLANU OVER CENTRAL ASIA. T^IIE Caspian has come and gone and
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    Patchwork proposal The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, June 18, 1954. Opinion
    361 4 Patchwork proposal The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, June 18, 1954. Opinion It hot air had been the deciding lactor, Singapore would now have a sports stadium befitting its size and status. For years the pros and cons of this and that site have been discussed and for all practical purposes
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    Pity the French Premier
    199 4 Pity the French Premier WHO would be a French Prime Minister? It must be one of the most worrying, nerve-racking, exhausting jobs in the modern world. He is attacked from all sides in the N a ti o n a 1 Assembly. His coalition is openly told that "it is
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      21 4 Fresh from the mountain stream... RAINBOW TROUT will colour your menu with its delightfully treih flavour SINGAPORE COID STOWAGE CO., LTD.
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    SPEED THE NEW HOSPITALS
    417 5  -  SIT YIN FONG by Today, on Ihis page, private doctors back the Free Press call for speed in putting up new hospital buildings lo relieve Ihe conges lion and Ihe harassed doctors ;il Ihe Outpatients Department <>r ilu i Singapore General Hospital. Ihis is an urgent
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    Hospital reply to crowding
    127 5 Hospital reply to crowding nnHE out-patients have 1 themselves to blame the "over-crowding' the Outpatients Departm tit at the General H ispltal said Dr. M. Doralslngham, Deputy Director of Medical Ser- vices. 'A He said: "If people Will inly learn to stagger their sits, there will be 'ittle r no
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    Trust to build 80 houses in village
    78 5 Trust to build 80 houses in village Federal Housing Trust 1 'ti.> to build 80 houses 10-acre site in Derga Vlltwo miles north of Aloi They will be offered for the public. typej will be built ted all-in costs will be 16.000 to $11,000 a house, houses will be built
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    Traffic held up for an hour
    39 5 RWORTH, Thurs. at Mitrhell Pier here i Mown for nearly an thia morning because a trmour-troek had Itfl left wheel stuck between gangway railing. mechanic! had to use tow ropei to pull the
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    Our plans will get started next year
    310 5 This is Governments answer PLANS for the decentralisation of Colony medical services with special emphasis on out-patient clinic facilities, were mapped out by Government last The Deputy Director of Medical Services. Dr. M. Doraisinsham said this in reply to a Free Press editorial
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    SHORTER TRAINING COURSE FOR TEACHERS TO CONTINUE
    130 5 ALTHOUGH .suspended, the plan for a three-year fulltime certificate teachers' training cour.se at Singapore'* Teachers' Training College, has not been abandoned. The Deputv Director of Education, Mr. D McLellan yesterday told the Free Press: We will revive the project a.s soon ai it
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      211 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs TME POUCEMLN DSCJSSEP PJHA^.P M I |*A mAS Al*E*P, I/.X Z<V\ (^P 1 T '/^f •we also have mape a pecson .vece soj^t or** poc EVAPI^G B| >^^BW F. <7 V v i 2fe N HESA.P- z<l^ T*
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    SOS. OUT TO CHINESE CIVIC LEADERS
    271 7 SOS. OUT TO CHINESE CIVIC LEADERS Help these dead-end kids J^EADEKS of many of Singapore s 500 Chinese association and guilds are now considering the formation of children's welfare centres to help hinatown's thousands of 'dead-end kids'. This follows an appeal from Mr. s C Worm ;ecretary-organiser of the Singapore
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    New move to smash Far East dope ring
    321 7 4 CENTRAL narcotics A intelligence bureau has been established in Singapore to tighten the ring round the leaders ot the international opium smuggling gang which operates in the Far East and beyond. r S Tufnell, acting Comptroller of Customs, yesterday disclosed that
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    He flies in for holiday
    67 7 picture. I MR. LIM KEK 11ENG. 22. who has been studying banking for the pist 2 2 years at London and Monchester uni- s versities, returned to Singapore by air this week to spend his vacation. He was met by his brother, Mr. Richard M.
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    New AOC for capita!
    57 7 i KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Group Capt. H. P. Broad will succeed Wing Commander K M \I Wasse as Officer Coni- manding, R.A.F., Kuala Lumpur. Wing Commander Wasse ii 1 returning to Britain, on completion of his oferseas duty. Droop Captain Broad has been servtoß with the
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    Jelebu's O.C.P.D.
    31 7 KUM KI.AWANG. Fri. Mr T J. Bailey has assumed duty as 0.C.P.D.. Jelebu. He took over from Mr. A. A. Broci hocky, who has gone on transfer to Seremban.
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    Produce to go on show
    58 7 PENANO. Fri The Province Wellesley Young Farmers' Club will .sponsor a Tillage exhibition and produce show at Bungei Lembu on June 25. The Juni new village band will plav during the exhibition A film show and poster contest will aso be held. Entries will be
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    FOUR GIRLS RESCUED FROM LIFE OF VICE
    256 7 FOUR GIRLS RESCUED FROM LIFE OF VICE rwii 1.,-ycar-old ?irl« re--1 I fully were discovered by ill <»l Ihe OinUl Wei l><-|Mttment, locked in with men at a broTiiLs is itotlmti In uuuial report of the department, Hie report Hays that one 1 »h- i? irk. from the counlv. claimed
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    $26.7 mil. tax
    22 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Kri. Net collections from Income tax for the period April 1 to May 31 amounted to $20,785,-
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    S'pore hybrid 'one of the finest orchids'
    73 7 S'pore hybrid 'one of the finest orchids' I rpnh annual report <>t the Botani' Qardent, sm^Apore, clalmi tii.it th<- Vanda Tin Chftf Yan kj the fine.st hybrid yet r;iLs«'.| in SMtnaix>n» find could hold jt.s own with any Vanda in any part of the world. Now hybrids which flowered lu.st
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    DIVORCE DEFENDED BY SECRET CHURCH CRITIC
    331 8 Attack on Anglican attitude TIIK anonymous writer of UK preface to Crockford's Clerical Directory, the hurch »f England reference l>ook, is on the attack again. In the 1953-54 edition, the author criticises the Archbishop of Canterbury and opposes the Church's Attitude towards the marriage
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    'Dark days' for British art, poetry
    195 8 HPWO peers hive spoken A bluntly about "these dark days" oi art and poetry. In London Lord ■adcltffe, Lord of Appeal, told the National Art Collections Fund that liritoln is fast losing its art treasures through export "We cannot be too nationalistic, to regard
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    Ringer may be sold
    93 8 FRANCASAL ami Santa Aiu.uo, the French-bred racehorses winch figured In thr Bath races switch ia.st July, may be .sold to recover lor Scotland Yard the cost ol Uj« n keep. An official of the Yard Bftld Maurice Williams, in vuu\ for hifl part In the race-.switch
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    THOSE LITTLE SHIPS ARE FADING OUT
    130 8 THOSE LITTLE SHIPS ARE FADING OUT rE British tramp ship. maid-of-all-work in maritime trade, is fast disappearing from the seas. Shipping chief Mr. R. V. I Scovell told a London meeting: j"Thp present situation Of British intermediate tramp tonnage can only be viewed with anxiety, and the future faced with
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    DREAM LED HIM TO TROUBLE
    78 8 A 12-year-old boy .set fire to hi.s bed becau.se in his sleep he "saw" his mother, who died in the .same bed last year. Policewoman ELsie Green said this at Ch< ls«a Juvenile Court, Where the boy appeared ai beintf in need of care and
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    Now wives help to beat school crisis
    253 8 WOMEN who stay teachir drift back into it for r. away, are helping to beat tfc it has been revealed. Education Minister Mi her annual report, says th teachers is chiefly due to after marriage. Many who returning. And so Miss Horsbrugn Is
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    ROSE MEMORIAL
    31 8 An appeal is to be made for 10,000 rase trees to lOund a British rose garden at Lidice, the Czechoslovakia mining i village destroyed by the Nazis in 1942
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    BIGGEST EVER CAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN
    66 8 BRITAIN'S car todust enjoying Its ireatest since records were ftrst kept 5 years ago. Every week 14 new cars are coming ofl assembly linfs-an allcord. S**i*>* "P At thb rate 700.000 can be built this year, which li 100 000 more than last models
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    'Skipper' got welcome, too
    49 8 'Skipper' got welcome, too A. B. Peter Voting, Of Congleton, Yorkshire, and his pet cockatoo 'Skipper" reached Portsmouth this week alter i two >ear cruise on lI. M. Newcastle. "Skipper' escaped in Honjj KMf, and was at large for a week. Newspaper advertisements fin illy located him Popper photo
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    A WIDOW'S SUIT COST HIM £21.000
    292 8 A WIDOW'S SUIT COST HIM £21.000 MR SAMUEL WALLROCK. West End estate agent who figured in a breach of promise action three years ago. has died at hi^ home in Portman-square, W. at the ifC Of 74. In 1951 Mrs. Helen Dunhill. 47 year-old widow of a member of the
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    Man falls 70 ft.bounces on car
    285 9 Man falls 70 ft.bounces on car A CLEANER fell 70 feet from a roof near London's Piccadilly Circus, bounced off the steel roof of a parked car and rolled to the pavement. The shout went up: 'He's dead;" But the car had saved his life. Five minutes later cleaner WilJiam
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    NERO WASN'T FIDDLING...
    42 9 A h< usebreaker was tracked by an Alsatian police do?, Nero, Jt was said at Surrey Quarter s« "I hope he does not so fiddling." said Jud^e Tudor Rees, chairman. "I would like to see nmi promoted and extra
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    ANONYMOUS-£33
    26 9 A woman handed a porter at the Leeds Infirmary a brown paper parcel, said "Anonymous" and walked away. It contained £33 for the endowment fund.
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    HE TRICKED GESTAPO BUT FELL IN BIG CAR RACKET
    181 9 HE TRICKED GESTAPO BUT FELL IN BIG CAR RACKET Ex-British spy gets 3 years 4 BRILLIANT linguist who spied f«r Britain in Germany has been gaoled for three years. He was a captain at the a«e of 21, said his counsel at Surrey Quarter Sessions. In 1939 he was engaged
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    RAF gets blame for floods
    124 9 RAF gets blame for floods I FLOODS around Wyton K.A.F. station near St. lvcs, Hunts, at Whitsun, did thousands of pounds worth of damage to crops. And that, say the farmers, is the fault of the K.A.F. They have written to the Air Ministry claiming compensation. Following a rainfall of
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    PLEA FOR TEA
    37 9 From Louisville. Kentucky. US Mrs Gillian Gibson phoned her parents. Mr and Mrs. i Frank Brown, West Bndprford. Notts. Britain. and i "Please send me some tea I can't get a decent cup here.
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    MUCH ADO ABOUT
    88 9 CIQMPLAINTS were made that j girla of We.ston co-educa-tional hit-'h school in Toronto, Canada were wearing their t^ym tunics 12 inches above the kin I Trarhers were detailed a.s police to enforce the six inches above the kuee regulation, but even this failed. When the headmaster put
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    That broken home can cost a life
    378 9 Dear Dad This is (/oodbye. You haven't been much oj a Dad to vie— Johnny ITIHS farewell note quoted in a recent British "Medical Journal", is typical of one ol attempted .suicide the tragedy of a broken home in childhood. Ol 42 rases
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    16 10 "We may as tvcll be re-packing m> suits— and then back to the old Kremlin round
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    TO WN'S CA TSARE ON STRIKE
    286 10 TO WN'S CA TSARE ON STRIKE ....and the mice are everywhere 'THERE'S a Pied Piper wanted In the Appenlne town of Monteverde D'lrpinia, east of Naples. Normally the eats of Monteverde D'lrpinia take the place Of a Pied Piper and catch ruts and mice by the thousand every week. Normally
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    23 10 Like tiutnan lnj»lane Gc#TgC Miller doej a "KusMau Split ov«-r two Rirls. They are ill members tf un iceshow in ■Mam hestcr new.
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    The V.I.Ps. from Moscow
    181 10 tl'i" >■ i [real di foi Bofla Ttiree famou specialist from vld \com were arrivui U> Inspect the Bui '..man steel Industry Carpets were laid felon* the platform and n were Dying A^> the three vi p alighted from their carriage the Miiyui oi Sofia hurried
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    TWO CITIES CELEBRATE
    169 10 T^WO cities, separated by A thousands of miles and a thousand years, will celebrate their birth- days together this summer. Ulm, a cathedral city on th< Danube River, will mark Its I.looth anniversary. And faraway, in New Ulm. Minne- sota. the people will celebrate the 100th anniversary
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    Window on the World
    278 10 Window on the World IJRIGHT ne.vs on the medical front in Holland where the country's top-most Public Enemy (tuberculosis) has almost been wiped out. Before the war many hundreds of TB patients died each year. Since the war, however, the Dutch have been fighting the disease hard with all-out publicity
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    14 11 Marilyn Monroe takM bath in the rapids while making Rtor No Krluin" in Canada.
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    THE 'SOCKO' AND THE 'FLOPPEROO'
    510 11  - THE 'SOCKO' AND THE 'FLOPPEROO' GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON A stimulating record of Broadway hits and misses beticccn the wars. It tells of XCDFG by BRING ON THE GIKLS. By 1\ G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. Jenkins. 'PHE Wodehouse-Bolton A era in the musical < umedy theatre opened one day in
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    English humour
    208 11 SENSE OF HUMOUR. Stephen Potter, Reinhardt. THE English sense of humour has surely as many sides as there are Englishmen. There is the distinction between laughing "at" and laughing "with". and the vast field of humour where a real belly laugh is out cf place. The great Age
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    THE NEW BOOKS
    226 11 So Full A Glory, (i. Salisbury Junes, WHilenfrld Nkulson. The life story ol Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny who Imprisoned by the Vichy government escaped to join Genera] de Gaulle arid to lead the victorious flrst French Army from the Riviera to the Danube. Foreword by the
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    Hemingway for Spain
    54 11 I3RNEST HEMINGWAY, *h<> !i a home In Cuba, bui „imd ::.•!.< hi in Spain |< d r H. n in t}( Spain fl bullfi ii' n tl e Spain ol Fi I |j Who lists i or the Inten Bri cril booka the bltterh Civil War Hemii
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    The Evelyn Laye story
    252 11 The Evelyn Laye story (jiVELYN Laye \a back in J her rightful placeas star of a London musical success. For nine vcars this dazzling blonde with the rich soprano voice has been In the theatrical wilderness. Now at 53 she is back with a part in an Ame-rican-British piece called
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    SHOW TALK
    273 11 The war> end brought a change in British taste*, and a chang< m Mrs Laye's luck in ]i<47 Rodg< r and Hanmerstein brought "Oklahoma!" to Drurj Lane. From thai moi enl the old-style BriU l. n leal all sugar and pice, looked doomed Impo r t 1 from
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      Smart outfits
      67 12 photo. These two smart outfits designed by Alice Edwards of London for the mother-to-be are both in needle cord. The demure looking pinafore J dress, at left, can be worn separately from the toning blouse which can be used on its own as a smock The poodle suit,
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      Can you choose a swimsuit?
      574 12 Can you choose a swimsuit? THE MAJORITY of women will search endlessly to find the dress that does something for i hern" by reason of style, colour and fit: yet they will look ftt a swimsuit, decide that it looks and buy it without a second thought Todiy IWtmsilitf are
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      Bridge Hand
      425 12 Neither side vulnerable 10 4 J OAQ 7 6 4 1K T I Wttff BAST *KQ76f *Af>3 V2h Q J S *QJ92 |IM] ROt TH 4 J 10 2 VAK7 6 5 0 5 2 «T 4b A 8 6 I Tho bidding I iv»ufh vVest North Kast
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      96 12 Elizabeth Arden creates... > A C I i I *W I I j V^a^A Make-up Foumlation fy i<rt\ <-tir »_*,l far I lie yui/nii Illillll I" oh A new flowins foun.lati.m which gives your skin in«taiill> tin* liuiiinous quality, the 1 > dewy akaaa that is pure enchantincnt. Use I
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      250 12 ifuilti Crosstvord l-l KS AC ItOSS 5. Two fall Sally's 2 Start Ore to word.s of ap- 6. The Gret-k yod of Seoul (5). pioval ij 4). 7. An Iberian thre.it ;»g titi.st un--8 Iflflajn the lolea? <. r i». other BUaabetbl d. 6). 10 Often i itrawberrf nUern.itt\e n
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    Who is the PHARAOH? why, it's JACK HAWKINS
    969 13  - Who is the PHARAOH? why, it's JACK HAWKINS DAVID LEWIS goes on location in Egypt to follow the Stars in the Sun U/HEN they had scrub- bed down the west side of the 450ft. tall Cheops Pyramid with dust-pans and brushes, sandpaper and soap, and after two camels had passed
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    Why Vera-Ellen?
    96 13 WHO put the hyphen in Vcra-Ellen.s name? The answer is her mother. Three months before she was born her in dreamed Bh< had i-'iv< n birth to a baby girl, in the dr< am th< hlltl's nan;, up In 1 on a theatre margin < The v.as Vera-Ellrn
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    Studio Smiles
    102 13 Damn/ Thomus: "i went tc a wonderful agent** i, :ht other night. They ■</<♦</ <'. food i.niiiut tmt. each oihet with knives!" Overheard at the ixir nt Ore's: "Pardi I'm writing a telephone tx^ok und Vd Ulu to \nctude r numbi < emaScope I like tin* 'frnp f>n
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    Malayan to compete at Wimbledon
    389 14 Malayan to compete at Wimbledon First round draw MALAYA'S Kdwin Tsai will be competing in the All-England Lawn Tennis Championships which begin at Wimbledon on Monday. In the iiisl round of the men's singles he has been drawn to play M. Mohtadi of Iran. The draw for the championships was
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    TENNIS STARS ELIMINATED
    82 14 TPWO little known Italians, both playing on grass for the flr.st time stole the thunder of the allconquering American squad In the Queen's Club tennis tournament on Wednesday with upset victories over two ot Europe's leading players. Orl mdo Sirola. 26-year-old secretary from Milan brushed aside Belgium's
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    NON-BENDERS XI
    63 14 Non-Benders Cricket Club to play Sm&i,t|H)re Cricket Club at 2 15 p .m. UWMMTOW on the S.CC. Padang:J. T. Rea. F. R. Massey. V. C. Wester hout. P. D'Almeida. R S. Tufnell. R. V. S. Sundram. A. Baker. D. C. DCotui. D. M Murray. J. A M. Ede.
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    A rich reserve of talent
    386 14 f^PHE Combined Schools team's display against the Singapore Cricket Club on Sunday— they lost by one wicket suggests there is rich reserve of young cricketers who will, in time, brighten Colony cricket Their batting was free without 1 1 1 j foolhardy, their bowling v
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    SUGAR RAY ON TOUR
    29 14 BufMT Ray Robinson. former world middleweight boxing champion, sailed yes*,erday on the French liner Übtrtt for a suu?int>;-dancuig lour of England. France a,nd Italy. A.P.
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    ANOTHER CHAMPION MILER
    28 14 ANOTHER CHAMPION MILER picture. Record holder for the one mile walking is Beryl Handle. Beryl, a member of the Birchfield Harriers, Birmingham, is the British Ladies champion. Reuter
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    Title hope haunted' by dead father
    203 14 AN African boxer who people say could become an Empire titleholder refused to leave his hotel bed as soon as he arrived in London some months ago. He is now bark in the ring and has just gained a fourth round K.O. verdict over
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    BARTHEL IN U.S. MEET
    66 14 J Barthel of Luxembourg. 1,500--metre champion of the Olympics, and Hector Hogan of Brisbane, Australian sprint artist, will be amotitf the stars in the U.S. National Amalt-ur Athletic Union track atid lielr championships today and tomorrow. The meet will see over 400 of the best U
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    SANTEE IS BEST —says Sanfec
    339 14  - SANTEE IS BEST —says Sanfec GEORGE WHITING By yyESLEY David Santee. 22-year-old Anvr lean university student from a K&nsa ranch, Ls evidently anxious that we ihouh have no illusions about his eminence a.s a runner of the mile. Santee is a big noise— and I do mean noise. But when
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    SCHOOL SPORTS
    208 14 CjT ANTHONYS Boys' Bdmri Singapore, hold their 3 lit. annual athletic sports on Thursday June 24 at St Joseph's Institution ground, commencing at 3 p.m. Mrs. F. C. James will pre.sem the prizes. There will be two events for the old boys— loo vards and 880 yn I,
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    19 probables for Wokinaham Stakes
    92 14 probables and jockeys for the Wokingham Stakes running over six furlongs at Ascot today are: March Past (L. Plggott). Oleandrin (Sir Gordon Richards). Libator (T. Devlin), Fur Baby <E. Brim, Roman Vale (W. Nevett;, Palpitate (W.Snaith>, Military Court (E. Mercer Langton Brig (E. Smith), Stone
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    RUSSIANS WIN
    12 14 Leningrad Zenith beat a Copenhagen soccer selection last 'night 1-0.
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    SUDDEN CHOICE FOR A
    980 15  -  TRESPASSER Top rival will be The Magyar By SUDDEN CHOICE is evidently back at his best and I expect him to complete a double in the Class Three, Div. One race over a mile and a quarter at Ipoh tomorrow, last day of the Perak Turf
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    PROBABLE SCRATCHINGS
    49 15 Probable lefffttchtagl for tomorrow are: Soldena, Avilor, Flower Harvest, Kara tonga, Kyegrass, Colorado II Sir Climax, Mainbrace, Asholme, Bug Morning, Argyll, KnterUiiK-r. Bright fc.ves, Windy Corner, Duke. My Word. Beechnut. I Ciilan, Proctor, Heremai, Frog II and Sky rider The going is expected to be very good.
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    Results
    108 15 HywHKhl:-LCpl. K. Davis (Army) bt. A. Raman (Army*, disq. 2nd id. Bantam* eight: -I.AC D. McGuire i RAF) bt. P. Deathridye (Amur). VV Douner (RAF» bt. lan Townsley <hN) r.s. b. round one. Featherweight:- Jerome Tan Annyi bt. E. Perston (Army) walkover, st-'t. Byd Omar (Army) bt. Wrta Bin
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    ARMY CRICKET XI v. CHINESE
    84 15 The Army team to play MDfapon Chinese RC. in the Senior crt tournament at Nie Soon on tUßtfftj Mai B G. Dupynn fC*pt), Maj J E. Evans, Maj. G W U Capt. A Sicpto, Capt. P I) Short, Lt M. W. Ford, WO II C.
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    Newcomers steal the show
    363 15 Newcomers steal the show S.A.B.A. SEMIFINALS DISAPPOINTMENTS are not unusual in boxing; last night's Singapore Amateur Championships provided quite a few. The semi-finals were held last night at the Happy World Stadium. Finals will be held there tonight. Youthful David Saunders who had hud four knock out victories in succession
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    SWIM MARATHON
    17 15 A team oi Kjryptian km tanre swimmer will MM* IJJSatbon m the BUM m" A.P.
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    6th STRAIGHT FOR GIANTS
    173 15 THE New York Giants took advantage of two Cin/innati errors and two basts on balls to score two unearned runs in the filth I inning and del eat the Redlegs 12-1 I for their sixth straight victory in I the National baseball k-ayue yesterday. At Brooklyn.
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    KLINEY CUP TENNIS DRAWN
    81 15 YMCA and tiCHC drew 2-2 in their Kliney Cup tennis nmicn fHUtdity. i Results (YMCA players lirst i Maglfs: Tracey Jones lost to Ong Chew Bee 6-2. 3-6. 1-6; Dr. Chan Ah Kow beat F. Y. Khoo 2-6, l-l, 6-1. Doubles: M\ K. San and J
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    WOODLANDS S.C. OFFICIALS
    75 15 Woodlanda Sports club oil for i'j.a are: Mohd. Nooi bin Bam.sudin (President;; M. K. Myden ,vk -pn Abdullah h\n H.iji Budin (H( An-ii Mb k1... treaiuwr), oinar bin Abdul Jamal "Hon. Auditor). Ik. jii.ih itporU eaptatii Xahij bin Yu AMm bin Marum rial Osman bin flakar Ahmad
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    BELGIUM STRIKE BACK TO HOLD
    471 16 Fight on field as Italy lose BELGIUM sprang a surprise in the World Soccer Championships yesterday and held seeded Enftead to a I—l draw in a hard contested first round match which went into extra time England and Belgium battled for 120 minutes at Basle.
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    ONE SOCCER TIE PLAYED
    59 16 IN the only soccer match played in Singapore ye.sterday Royal Air Force Changi beat Royal Naval Base 4-1 at Changi in a United Services League Oiv. l fixture. ChAOfi led 2-0 at half-time. then the Navy scored, but Changi came back for another goal. Winning goals
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    FOONG SEONG CUP
    31 16 TPOH. Thurs— Penan* will defend their title as holders of the l\ tons' Seong Cup infer-state bad- j mint on competition which is due to begin next month.
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    BIRTH
    28 16 20 Words $t> minimum) MARTINDALE: On 16th June, Ifi"j 4 at BMH. Singapore. to Barbara inee White) wife of Major J. Martindale RASC a daughter (Lynn Barbara).
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    ENGAGEMENT
    49 16 20 Word* $ti (minimum) LAW YEO: The en«anement was announced between Mr. Law Kam Lim Eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Law Chen Ten s of Singapore and Miss U >>♦• Yeo Chai Kee Second I) iM-'!-.f<>r o: Mr. and Mrs. Yeo Kill Soon ■>! Kuching, on June 16.
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    Result
    20 16 Finland 4. Belgium 4 (after extra tune). Hungary 9 Korea 0 (iermanv 4 Turkey 1 Switzerland 2 Italy 1
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    HOW THEY STAND
    105 16 Standings after yesterday's games: A.P. P W D L Pts Germany 110 0 2 Hungary 110 0 2 Korea 10 0 10 Turkey 10 0 10 SUCTION 2 P W D L Pts Switzerland 110 0 2 England 1 o 1 o l BeUiutn 10 10 1
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    Forwards limping
    48 16 Play deteriorated if both teams tired and England finished with four men limping Matthews. Owen, Taylor and Loft house. The England team was: Merrlck; Stanlforth. Byrne; Wright. Owen. Dickinson; Matthews. Broadis. Loft house. Taylor, Finney. In another Group 4 first series gams Switzerland provided an up-
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    Going home
    36 16 The Koreans who played Hungary on the Zurich ground jreststiay were so sure they would lose and also fall against Turkey that they have already have booked air passages home lot next Monday. Reuter
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    COUNTY SCORES
    210 16 At Hath: Warwickshire beat Bomersei by nine wickets. Somerset \yj ;u:.i :»4. (Hollies, six for 47). Warwickshire Ml (Wolton 55, Holton seven tor <>hi and 27 for one At Swansea. Olamoi 'in '-'•><• Middle ex 3 J for 2. No play yesterday, rain. \t ■niienfleM: Yorkshire 351 For
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    Pakistan in trouble against Scotland
    398 16 SCOTLAND, overnight 284 for 5. declared at 353 for 7 1 on the second day of their match with Pakistan] in Edinburgh yesterday. Nichol resumed brightly and, although losing Brown with the total at 306. went on to make 93 in 160 minutes before boinaj
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    Y.M.M.A. CRICKET
    25 16 Young Men Muslim Association will hold a meeting at M.F.A. on Sunday at 10 a.m. to discuss about holding cricket and hockey matches
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    ROCKY KEEPS TITLE
    435 16 ROCKY KEEPS TITLE ROCKY Marciano retained hi, world heavyweight title by beating Ezzara Charle. s m points last night. ROUND ONE:— Rocky landed the first punch— a jab to the chest Charles was short with u i Rocky connected with a right to Charles' jaw but the eh lenger came
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