The Singapore Free Press, 19 June 1954

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya. No. *****. Singapore. Sat., June 19, 1!)~>4. Prire !."> ts
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    RED TROOPS WILL QUIT LAOS
    276 1 RED TROOPS WILL QUIT LAOS And Cambodia, too THE Communists yesterday promised to withdraw any Vietminh forces which might still be in Laos and Cambodia, the two smaller Indo-China states, Geneva conference sources said last night. Mr. Pham Van Dons. Vietminh Communist Deputy Premier, admitted at the 15th secret session
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    Star in tears as 18-year marriage ends
    122 1 Star in tears as 18-year marriage ends ACTRESS Irene Hervey has divorced singer Allan Jones after 18 years of marriage. S)ie sobbed after testi- I tying in Los Angeles yes- terday that their separa- tion last April in San Francisco "was a real shock to me. He told me he
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    Radio police in chase
    54 1 A Chinese woman .sundryshop owner In Kim Keat Koad, Singapore, yesterday saw a Chinese running from her shop soon after discovering the loss of $59 from I tin box. She shouted for help and a passing police radio patrol car chase. The money WM recovered. A
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    Anti-Reds invade Guatemala BRITAIN TO SEARCH HER OWN SHIPS
    370 1 Anti-Reds invade Guatemala SAYS PHONE CALL TO NEW YORK CONFUSION reigned over the Guatemalan situation yesterday as a report spread that the Central American republic had been invaded. The message came over a telephone call to New York from dose Central American contacts, said Reuter. It said that armed anti-Communist
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    PICTURE IS STOLEN IN S'PORE EXHIBITION
    112 1 ONE OF THE pictures at the Second Pan Malayan Photographic Exhibition, now on at the British Council Hall Singapore, was stolen yesterday. The theft was discovered bv Mr. Kwan Chee Yew, a member of the exhibition committee. The mtadng exhibit Is a portrait sent
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    Blast gas injures 60
    43 1 ADFADLY can released in a fire which destroyed a < hemi cal factory at Pomona. 'aliform* caused various in jury to ffve firemen and forced M other Peo p I e to take used in fumi B atin B orchard,.
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    Radio-active rain
    34 1 Traces of radio-activitv In liiin in the Birmingham area Increased after the hydrogen bomb explosion in the Pacific in April. Dr J. H Fremlin. DUClear physicist at Birmingham University, said yesterday Reuter
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    Rubber price
    30 1 Th«* Singapore Rubber Market oprncd on iteady tone this morning with first grade July shipment, at 6&J c»-nN .i pound one eighth Ol ;i <"»'nt (><•]. iw yesterday'i close.
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    I saw you duck so I did the same, Queen tells Duke
    213 1 QUEEN ELIZABETH gave an exhibition of expert horsemanship at the Royal Ascot Race course yesterday and probably saved her head. She ducked Just in time on a galloping horse to get under a telephone cable that had blown
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    BEST BETS TODAY
    30 1 Tresnasncr Klves as his best bets for th«* looh races today Kiislrrn Prarl (RmCC 1». Widr Screen (Race 8> and Frature Film (Rar<-2). (Full elections Back Pagr)
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    The Queen at Ascot
    48 2 picture. riiliE Queen and the Duke J of Edinburgh drive along the course at Ascot at the head of the traditional Royal carriage procession. The Queen wears a dress of pink silk with a small matching hat and a stole of stone marten. A.P.
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    MALAYAN POLITICS: HINT OF DANGER
    281 2 MALAYAN POLITICS HINT OF DANGER rpHE ECONOMIST, indepenJ. dent London weekly said yesterday that the "crumbling of the French position to the north of them is bound to make many Malayan secretly examine their allegiances." "The seeds of a new and rather head-strong Malayan nationalism are showing themselves for the
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    INDIA DETAINS FRENCH PLANES
    165 2 INDIA DETAINS FRENCH PLANES Hunt for troops, arms INDIA yesterday detained and searched two French aircraft one at Delhi and one at Calcutta. No official explanation was made but India recently emphasised that she would not allow any troops or arms for Indo-China to be taken through her territory. One
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    Big combine planning to take over Persian oil
    189 2 (CHIEFS of a proposed Inter- -> national oil combine are n ported to have agreed on a compromise plan to share control of Persia's oil industry with the Persian government A spokesman for the Anglntranian Oil Company said in London yesterday that
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    Thailand to appeal against Russian veto -ON U.N. BORDER MISSION
    328 2 Thailand to appeal against Russian veto -ON U.N. BORDER MISSION ORINCE WAN WAITHAYAKEN the Thai Foreign 1 Minister, said at Geneva that his country would take its appeal for a peace observers' mission to the United Nations General Assembly. He was commenting on the Soviet vote in the Security Council
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    To sign the tin pact
    98 2 rIE prospects of sufficient i producers and consumers signing the International Tin Agreement before the »>xpir:i tion of the time limit on June 30 have suddenly brightened aualn. according to tin ctrclefl in London. Although there are several important signatures still missing irum the agreement,
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    16 KILLED IN PIT FALL
    50 2 A PIT WALL in Yugoslavia's biggest coal mine collapsed yesterday, crushing 16 miners to death in the country's second mine disaster of the week. Ten other miners perished on Wednesday in an explosion in the Oma/ioi pit in the west Yugoslav town of Tuela. A.P.
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    Report on talks
    25 2 A seven nation drafting committee in Geneva yesterday completed a full report for the United Nations on the abortive 19-nation Korean conference.
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    RADIO MAN'S DEATH FALL AN ACCIDENT
    158 2 JI/IR. Peter Nutoombe Hume, 36-year-old BBC programme organiser, accidentally fell to his death while trying to enter his locked fourth floor flat through a window, a coroner decided in London yesterday. i Mr. Hume a former news editor of the Malayan Broadcasting System, fell
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    THEY'RE EMBASSIES NOW
    21 2 Britain and the Philippines are raising their legations in Manila and London to embassies with effect from today.
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    30 3 Crooner Frank Sinatra goes into a song and j dance routine as star in a i revival of the Ziegfeld Follies at The Sands, Las I Vegas, in Nevada. ;iimilllllllllltlHlMHllllllllllllllHllMHi|lMtlllfllllllll~
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    Anti-British party takes over-but is warned
    134 3 Anti-British party takes over- but is warned Amid traditional British pomp and ceremony, the anti-Bri-tish People's United Party assumed office yesterday as the majority party in the legislature of British Hondur is, bordering Guatemala. But along with pledges of corporation from London came a warning to avoid "disaster" such as
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    Back to Seoul
    30 3 Mr. Pyun Yung Tai, the South •mi Foreign Minister, and i members of his deletion to the Korean talks in 1 neva, are returning tn Rponl Reuter
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    Red peace meeting
    29 3 len ha s granted entry nits to 250 delegates from "nmuni.st countries to a Red»'«'d meeting for easing national ten.sion." which ;i In Stockholm today.- A.P.
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    Descendant of Shakespeare
    44 3 JifRS. Henry Birchall, believed a descendant ol William had died in Hatauton, Ontario Born at Strat ford-On- Avon, ;i ouud, 87 year* ago, Mrs. Birchaii. was a daughter of the late Joseph and Cith<Tei;e Shakespeare She m irrled to Can- A.P.
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    CEYLON GETS BIG WORLD BANK LOAN
    79 3 THE World Bank announced in Washington yesterday approval of its first loan equal to U5519,110,000 to Ceylon. The bank said the loan, being made in a number of currencies, would help develop a hydro-electric plan to supply additional power to South Ceylon, a part
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    General in party
    36 3 The Cambridge University Himalayan expedition which plans to climb the 24.550- foot Rakaposki Peak in Kashmir's Karakorum Range will be accompanied bv Major General Mohammad Hayauddin, chief of the Pakistan General Staff. Reuter
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    Wife-killer hanged
    82 3 AT 54, HE WANTED TO MARRY GIRL OF 16 PfORTUNAT Dubuc, 54-year- old farmer who poisoned his wife so he could marry a pregnant 16-year-old girl, was hanged at Bordeaux gaol in Montreal. Canada, yesterday. Mrs. Dubuc died In her bed In January last year. Her body was
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    Break-in to listen-in
    50 3 I^« H K masked gunmen F broke into an apartment in Boston, U.S., on Thursday night, bound a husband and wife, enjoy ed the Marciano Charles r fight on radio. ;ite a snack, drank liquor and then carted oIT almost MS.'SO.OOO worth of antiques and silverware. A.P.
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    U.S. HAS ENOUGH RUBBER TO SUPPORT LONG WAR
    145 3 DIRECTOR Arthur Hemming of the US. odice of Defence Mobilisation, says that America's rubber stock pile, coupled with its syn thetic rubber capacity, should be adequate to support a lone war. Flemmin| m:ide the statement in a lettef to Senator Kuchel (Republican
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    Reprisals stop desertions
    150 3 Reprisals stop desertions FREE POLISH CAPTAIN SAYS- MR Leonard Wasowski, ifl captain of the Polish Tanker Praca who was granted political asylum by the Nationalist Chinese Government said in Taipeh yesterday that 90 per cent of Polish sailors would leave their homeland but for fear of reprisals on their families.
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    Race problem
    29 3 The U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church will hold its 1955 Convention at Honolulu after cancelling plans to meet in Houston, Texas, because of racial segregation practices there. A.P.
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    Capitol protest
    33 3 A Bible-carrying man came to the capitol building in Washington yesterday to pro test the end of the McCarthy Army hearings. He was taken to hospital for mental observa A.P. tion.
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    WOMEN'S RISE IN PAKISTAN
    36 3 PAKISTAN'S women are attainini? an equal status with men through "good hard j work, and not by shouting about it." Lady Noon, wife of la Pakistan Cabinet Minister said in Montreal yesterday.
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, June 19. 1954. Opinion A mounting hazard
    369 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, June 19. 1954. Opinion A mounting hazard Latest figures relating to whecieci traffic in Singapore, are a reminder once more of the hazards of motoring in the city proper, and of the appalling toll of life the road continues to exact. Today, one in every
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    PETROV IS TO TELL ALL
    275 4 PETROV IS TO TELL ALL yLADIMIR PETROV, exbOSfl of Russia's Spy ring in Australia, is preparing to reveal secrets of Communist espionage In Australia wh e n the Royal Commission on spying res times. While they wait their turn to give evidence. Petrov and hi.s wife, Evdokiya, are living almost
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    Murder is their stock in trade
    533 4  -  NORMAN LINDHORST Stranger-than-fiction facts about the Soviet Secret Police. WHEN you meet a Soviet official abroad, be he an ambassador or playboy, there is a good reason to believe that he belongs to the MVD, the Soviet secret police. Assassination of Soviet Russia's political
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    FAN DANCER JUNE MEETS DREAM MAN
    112 5 K>RMER Singapore girl. June Merton well known for her Burmese fan dancing, has found romance In Borneo. .she is to be engaged to her dream-man soon. But she would not say who he is. They plan to marry next ypar. Miss Merton. who will
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    OF MAN IN BLACK MYSTERY
    66 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. TjOivlE Guards fired six shots r at a mysterious black-clad figure in Salak village in the Sepang district of Selangor on Wednesday night. A six-man Home Guard pat- >. spotted the midnight prowler. The oatrol opened fire but the man escaped. A
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    YMCA hostel -new plan
    52 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. A oposal to expand the pre- Kuala Lumpur YMCA tel is being considered by association's board of 'tor.s it was stated at the annual meeting. A sub-committee was formed to jt o i n t 0 the question and jet funds for the
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    Sultan opens new mess
    52 5 Sultan opens new mess KOTA BAHRU, Sat The Sultan of Kelantan planted a to mark the opening of, the 3rd Battalion, Malay Regl- Miont Officers' Mess at Peng- j i\ m Chcpa, Kota Bahru. The battalion presented the i!t.»n with a silver key, with vhteh he opened the door to
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    Airman is expert mime
    190 5 t TWENTY four vear -I old Ronald Warner, a Seletar airman, is prob- .ably the most unique enL tertainer in Singapore. Ron is an expert mime r he specialises in club- bing the record voices of singers and artistes a skill that requires split f second
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    Girls Vs. Boys debate
    56 5 TAIPING. Sat. The n«wlyfoTmed Literary and Detaunft qnrietv of the Lady ireacntr G^K School will hold its firs tater-scnool debate a-ains King Edward VII School at 7 30 D m. on Wednesday. The debate will be on "Higher Education* for Girls and will be held at
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    Office moved
    29 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The oflice of the Administrator, Petallng Java was shifted to a new building. T\w new office is In the centre of the j town.
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    100,000-LEAFLET DROP WILL TELL OF FUN FAIR
    168 5 1 00,000-LEAFLET DROP WILL TELL OF FUN FAIR -if Youth Council gets permit TIIK Singapore Youth Council plans to drop 100.000 leaflets from the air announcing its biggest fun and food fair and a king and queen for a day contest at the Victoria Memorial Hall on June 26. Police
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    Rice was for the gods —IT COSTS $75
    85 5 Rice was for the gods IT COSTS $75 IPOH. Sat. -Yu Beng, 72. B woman, charged with moving a kati of rice from a food restricted area in nemor on June 10, told the Ipoh magistrate that ihe was taking the rice to u temple as an Offering. A Pining
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    Company gives fund 31,000
    47 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Im--1 penal Chemical Industries (Malaya. Ltd., Kuala Lumpur have given $1,000 to Lady Ternpier's Anti-Tuberculo.si.-, Hospital appeal fund. The State Treasurer, Kelantan, has sent $1,130. A. fU| i d-iv in Tarnpin. Nesri Sembilan, netted $711. The fund ll 'now $1,513,252.
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    $2 million (Red) for new bicycle in China
    137 5 $2 million (Red) for new bicycle in China BICYCLES ar" fetching high prices :n Red China, according to correspondence which ha.s reached Singapore from behind the '"Bam boo Curtain." This may explain the theft of 33 bicycles in Prnanic last month. Penmnf police believe that same of the -stolen bicycles
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    Govt. boosts padi price
    75 5 ALOR BTAR. Bat The price of padi rose in North Kedah following an announcement by the state Government that it would extend its purchase price of $17 n pftcil for another two months. The market price which had been maintained [or some time at 17.80 jumped
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    YOU GET ALL THIS FOR A DOLLAR
    138 5 A Singapore Chinese tan yesterday reported "terriflc response" to its $l-a--month electric repair service scheme ior Colony housewives. Mr. chon Chiug Lih. representative of the firm said: 'About 2.000 subscribers have enrolled in two months." U how tlie scheme works: A house ha.s
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    New road to cross Europe
    49 6 WITHIN the next six yeais Austria is to spend Ms--336 million on building an autobahn between Salzburi and Vienna. When the major road is finished it will °l passible to drive right acroj* Europe from Hamburg to Vienna— and all the way by autobahn.
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      189 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis II «HK IruIXAVIIN.TVAf.HV.. ."I |MA f ,ir.AN?^HATJ M/,«M I I ?j'/ t^Tji^MOt *iih MANUKA Ui '-At-r lUI DID Ml MIANBV J (itUURC ',e(M<> TO tin 'WJi iUi H(» t -s w r^ MiM.co.jAcisAi[> 'HAr^rv r^. > rmmie u > AND r TARZAN by
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      604 6 I YOUR 1 LUCKY I I STAR I DORN TODAY, many con- tr as ting elements go to make up your personality Strong, independent, even at i times demanding, you have a kindly and affectionate nature when it comes to those in your I own family group. You may be
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    RADIO STEPS UP' WAR ON CRIME
    188 7 Priority for sea police SINGAPORE police plan to increase their radio communications network on land and sea in the fight against crime. Mr. B. J. Bleasdale. acting Deputy Superintendent of Police, who is in charge of this programme, said yesterday: 'Top priority is being
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    Bank's first customer
    53 7 Bank's first customer picture. (he Hafsah Mohamed was the first depositor with the savings bank at the PetnMng Jaya post office after it was tpened by the Sultan of Sekinsor. Che Hafsah opened her account with $5. Second to open an account was the town's first administrator, Mr. D. W.
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    Gen. Bourne in Pahang
    54 7 KUALA LIPIS, Sat. The Director of Operations, Lieut.Gen., Sir Geoffrey Bourne, has visited Kuala Lipis and had discussions with members of the State and district executive committees in Kuala Lipis and Benta. He arrived by pioneer aircraft from Benta. He visited the 2 7 Gurkha Rifles
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    Annual meeting
    56 7 PENANG, Sat. The Bishop ol Singapore, the Rt. Rov. H. W. Baines. will preside at th^ annual meeting of the Penana St. Nicholas Home and School for the Blind In Bagan Jermal n Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent A. IVries after Joseph's Church, Sentul. near Kuala Lumpur. The
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    MALACCA'S WHITE TAG No. 5
    97 7 MALACCA'S WHITE TAG No. 5 Tabok Manning free MALACCA. Sat. TABOH Naning New Village in the Alor Gajah District which is 24 miles from Malacca Town has been declared "white". This move came as a surprise to many of the village's 620 Chinese and seven Indians, who turned up in
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    Road death
    38 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. A 52-year-old coppersmith. Murugaiah Ratnam. who was seriously injured when his cycle wa.s involved in a collision with a car in Travel Road here on Wednesday, died in the Kuala Lumpur Genera! Hospital.
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    Moonshiners using dogs to guard jungle hideouts
    172 7 ILLICIT distillers of native spirits in Singapore are using dogs to guard their jungle hideouts and keep Customs men away. They also have other warning systems, including the posting of look-outs manned by youngsters and the setting-up of trip wires. In spite of
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    New officer
    18 7 SEGAMAT, Sat. Inch Badrillah bin Abdul Karin has been appointed as.si.stun Protector of Aborigines, Jo hore.
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    $2,000 for lottery man
    105 7 ipoh, Bat. /convicted of carrying on Vj "characters" lotteries at a shop in K<tnthan new Tillage, near Chemor on March 27, Honjr Geam Heoh, 35. was sentenced to throe months' gaol and fined $2,000 or a further .six months' gaoL Hon» was arrcstocr together with Tan
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    Woman fined
    42 7 TEI.UK ANSON, Sat. Khoo Ah Swan, 44, a woman found in unlawful possession of 57 leaf packets of prepared opium at Kin^ Btreet, Tcluk Anson On April 8 was fined II !>«)<» <>r nine months' gaol in the suasions court here.
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    FIVE NEW SCIENCE LABS FOR SCHOOLS
    215 7 FIVE NEW SCIENCE LABS FOR SCHOOLS THERE WILL be more facilities for secondary schools m Singapore to teach science when five new laboratories, now being equipped, .»re completed next year. The laboratories will be at Bartle), Beatty. Siglap, and Pasir Pan jane .secondary schools and the Tanjong Katong Girls' .school.
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    BRIDE, 17, IS TOLD: LIVE WITH IN-LAWS
    273 8 Spent b days in gaol after wedding MltS Mabel Olive Midgley, 17-year-oM bride of ;i Marine Commando, is now reunited with her husband after spending m\ dnvs on remand in llollow.iv Prison, London. Chared under her maiden name of Lewry, she was arrested
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    Hospital on the edge of 100 ft drop
    109 8 A LANDSLIDE caused by rain left a 600-pa-tient mental hospital perched on the edge of a 100ft. precipice at Virginia Water, near London. Hundreds of tons oi earth, concrete, and uprooted trees crashed on to a nearby road. After the big slide
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    WAY TO SAFETY
    42 8 a "high rtraet" t o be bujli at .school in Ip.swich, Buftolk, so that boys of 14 can learn u, r;d». a motorcycle •;-i'lv. It v ill havo tralßc lights lay walking pedestrians and typical lu/.a girtet" v hazards.
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    SMALLER CLASSES-IN 1960
    126 8 SMALLER CLASSES -IN 1960 OIZES of school classes C5 .show "nal praspoct" of reduction well beloro 1960, say.s the report of the British Ministry of Education lor last year. Prescribed top figure for ClMiei in primary schools is 40, in .secondary 30. But in January of last yoar 48.1 per
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    Holiday from prison
    59 8 pirlure. DOMEXICO De Liso, after 22 years in prison in the United States for robbery with violence, has been released for 15 days on the occasion of the wedding of his son. De Liso will return to prison after the 15 days for another three years of
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    Nothing left for sweep but soot
    148 8 THE 69-year-old chimney sweep stood alone with his capital— six tons of soot. William "Snowball" Foster watched workmen tear the roof off his cottage :in Norwich Road, Ipswich. The town council wants the site for a bus stop. Then he took his spaniels Scamp,
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    POLYCLINIC IS THE NEW IDEA
    136 8 POLYCLINIC IS THE NEW IDEA NOT a .single new hospital has been built in Britain since 1939; and it may be time before the Health Service has much more money for building. •Therefore, we are only scratching the surface of the need and must be ready all the time with
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    CRASH, SELLCARRY ON
    49 8 Ipswich speedway riders Junior Bainbridge and Bod Sharpe escaped injury when their car somersaulted and crashed at a bend on the Yorkshire moors as they drove north to ride in Scotland. Bainbridge then sold the wreck for scrap, bought another car. and the two went on.
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    JOLLY GOOD SHOCK
    19 8 Masters at Bolton. Lanes. School had a shock a Jom Roger was flyins from tne flaestaff
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    LANDLADY BARRED HIS TWO BABIES
    303 9 'Keep them out all day' a FATHER who pays £2 17s. 6d. a week for a two- roomed attic flat told a London: Kent tribunal. •J have to pay my landlady an extra 10s. a week for the hire of a cot and mattress. "I
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    Collectors had record -in gaol
    207 9 Collectors had record -in gaol A MAN and woman accepted as Geranium Day collectors had 25 convictions between them, a detective said in London. And having received £2 Bs. in the West End they broke their boxes open and stole the money. Later both were gaoled at Marlboroush Street for
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    'RESTRAIN THAT ART OF LOVE'
    69 9 IWE Rev. 11. J. C. Matthews, vicar of St. Michael's, Tividale, Staffordshire, has a number of worshippers who draw misshapen hearts with arrows through them in hymn liooks to record who is in luvp with whom Nov. he has a new set of hymn boots
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    HORSE LIGHTS UP
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    23 9 The r c 06DMNT htm lifted the ban on eight books, included "Th<' Painted Veil." bv !i. ret MaUKhum, banned
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    612 11 I *f 3. f> TJ Ll 111 "■(p^^ oe toward, playwright, has written a new ■^"^^^■■■B musical. The West End wonders, has he lost L Jll fm the bitter-sweet touch.? Many people fall in love to my music says Mr. Coward. CAN Noel Coward still write musicals
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    104 11 Ip FFO R T S are being J made to bring to Singapore "White Christmas," the first film made under VistaVision, Paramount studios 1 new cineprocess, in time for a Christmas screening in Singapore. "White Christmas." filmed in Technlcolnur and bused on Irving Berlin's musical
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    Daisies for the evening
    32 12 photo. i close-up of one of the new hair styles shown in London ast week. It is called the "Berkeley." For evening, daisies and leaves are added.— Popper
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    182 13 fpINO Rossi, the Corslcan 1 singer is celebrating 20 years of unbroken success as one of the singing idols M France. Rossi has some odd secret, because he's a Rudolf Valentino who has become plump, slightly bald, who has mar- ried and raised a family 'bad,
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    232 14 COUNTY cricket matches ending yesterday resulted: At Lords: Cambridge Universitj beat MCC by five wickets. MCC 15£ and 196 (Davies 53. Morgan 5 foi 58 >. Cambridge University 232 foi nine declared and 120 for five. At Northampton: Northamptonshire beat Gloucestershire by 8£ runs.
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    381 16 BEST TODAY Hints from Ipoh course Stable's pair of useful three-years-olds Wide Screen (Race Eight) and Feature Film (Race Two) -.Mould make a good double at Ipoh today, concluding dav of The Perak Turf Club meeting. The Roim la likely to be good Only four
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