The Singapore Free Press, 25 June 1954

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. No. 1-59H4. Singapore, Fri., June 25, 1934. Price 15C'ts.
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  • 324 1 France reports on talks \J. MKNDES FRANCE, the new French premier, flew into Paris yesterday from his Berne meeting with Red China's Chou En-lai to announce that the long-awaited ceasefire m Indo-China has been promised as speedily as possible. The fast moving "stop-the-war" premier made this
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  • 55 1 SMUGGLERS In Thailand are O losing by the wagonload. Customs officials at Naradivas. m southern Thailand, requested Bangkok officials to dispatch boxcars to Dickuo smuggled goods seized along the frontier with Malaya. Seizure.s in recent weeks included big quantities of car. tyres, biscuits, rubber shoes, tea, coffee,
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  • 20 1 Police raided an attap hut off Serangoon Road and arrested two men yesterday. A dagger was recovered.
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  • 67 1 A MICROPHONE is to be installed m the witness box of the Singapore High Court room, where the Kallang air crash inquiry is being held. This was announced at the inquiry this morning. The Free Press m a frontpage editorial last Friday, pointed out that the accoustics were bad,
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  • 200 1 a T the resumed hearing of a\ the Kallang air crash inquiry m Singapore this morning. KLM Flight Engineer Peter L. van Delft .^aid the airport fire tender took a long way to go to the BOAC Constellation which crashed on March 13 with
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    39 1 pmuic. Mr s. Jaftinathan. a Sinijap* re City om.c.llor. and Mh« NUayakalyani. a school teacher from M'samat wer« n r ried at the Mariamman Pair xre seen with their hands Jinked clunn K the *edciin K ceremony.- Free Press
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  • 202 1 Win with Pendengar ON every race day. starting tomorrow, the Free Press racing expert Pendengar will give special last-minute selections which will help j racegoers to show a pro- fit i And they will be m '> I addition to his 1, 2, 3 I selections m every race. I
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  • 174 1 Strike students in go-back bid again CEVENTY expelled students made another futile attempt this morning to attend the Singapore Catholic H\«h School m Queen Street, after they had been turned away yesterday for .staging a ".sit down" strike. The students, who had demanded the re-instatement of five expelled .students, tried
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  • 32 1 The Singapore rubbei market opened on ;i steady Quiet tone this morning, with Orst grade, July shipment at 86 centi ;t pound three-elghthi of a l cent below yesterday* clo.se.
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  • 112 1 No slur on honour of Admiral MR. J. P L Thomas. First Lord of the Admiralty, said m the Common.s yesterday there was absolutely no slur or any stain" on the honour of Admiral Sir Dudley North, who wius blamed lor letting six French warships .slip through the Straits of
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  • 57 1 A Chinese shopkeeper In Upper Aljunied Road woke at 5 am yesterday when .some one touched his feet. Three men with knives were standing m front of him. The shopkeeper and his family were herded into a store at the back and the robbers left, taking $475 m
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  • 96 2 'rill Royal box saw a royal 1 win at the recent Ascot -hcelini; Right (left U right), the Queen Mother the Queen, the Duke of (iloucester. Lady Patricia Kamsay and a friend were elated when the Queen's hor»<*. Landau, won the Roun Memorial Stakes. BHow
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  • 367 2 THEY ARE HELPING THE REDS Tan hits at 'petty demagogues' wyETTY demagogues who had Ibeen screaming that the country was ready for a complete transfer of governmental power, were showing a total disregard for the welfare of the people, and playing the role of handmaid to the Communists. Mr. C.
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  • 41 2 Tilt UGANDA Government yesterday cancelled the Ku.srx'n.sion of the newspaper "UKanda Speaks" which was "npo&ed. when the cmugen- cy was declared on June 1. The English language Uganda Express and Uganda Pest are .still banned. Reuter
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  • 18 2 Mr. Jacob Malik, Soviet Ambassador to Britain, left London yesterday for Moscow to report.- Reuter
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  • 21 2 The Riame.sc government U trying to conaerre foreign exchange by cutting down trips abroad by its ollicial.s. A.P.
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  • 230 2 But Arbenz fears raids nOOD progress was being made m clearing the "small amount of territory occupied by mercenaries of foreigners and traitors," a Guatemalan army communique covering operations said yesterday. "The enemy has suffered heavy losses and our forces have captured many prisoners among
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  • 38 2 The Chinese Nationalist Foreign Minister. Dr. George Yeh, said yesterday he may recali the Nationalist Ambassador, Mr. Chen Chi Pinp. from Manila to report on the recently enacted allegedly antiChinese Philippines Trade Nationalisation Bill.- Reuter
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  • 28 2 The new Raffles Library subbranch at Siglap, Singapore, will be officially opened to the public next Thursday, instead of yesterday, as stated m Wednesday's Free Press.
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  • 98 2 T*HE House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Com- mittee voted yesterday to authorise paying a oneway passage to Russia for any resident of the United States desiring to stay there. Chairman Robert B. Chiperfield (Republican-Illinois), who sponsored the amendment to the Foreign Aid Bill, said the
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  • 130 2 A BRONZE memorial statue of the late King George VI io to be erected m London b.v the King George VI National Memorial Fund, it was announced m London yesterday. The fund, which raised £1.665.000 m subscriptions from many parts of the world, was
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  • 19 2 An Indian delegation will visit Asian countries to explore the possibilities of increasing Indian tobacco exports.- Reuter
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  • 203 3 rpHK worst Hoods since 1934 are now threatening a 1 large area of Nowgaon district m Assam, according to official reports reaching Calcutta. Incessant rains have flooded the northeast Assam rivers of Dibang, Subansini and Brahmaputra. The Brahmaputra is already 20 feet above
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  • 158 3 Japs slow to meet their bills rpHE Government said yester--1 day m Hong Kong Japanese firms have rolled up an average of 1,500 unpaid bills daily this year, for goods bought from Hone Kong merchants. rhe acting Director of Commerce and Induotry. Mr. H A. Angus, said the Tokyo office
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  • 147 3 ITALY MAY LOOK AGAIN AT TIN PLAN IT i.s understood from informe 1 circles m Rome that the illan Government will rexamine its attitude towards the International Tin Agreement. These circles report that the [I ilian Government has been "nibarrassed by Germany's delarution that she will not sign he agreement.
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  • 16 3 The MinLstry of Culture m Bangkok plants to publish an tTicyclopedia and gazetteer. A.P.
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  • 28 3 Mr. Cartono president of the Indonesian Parliament will meet Mr. Achille Van Acker. Belgian Prime Minister, and Mr. Paul Henri Spaak. Foreign Minister.- Reuter
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  • 76 3 She couldn't kiss— is given £1,000 A British court ruled F yesterday that a woman's ability to enjoy a kiss and j flash a smile was worth i K. 1,000. Mrs. Lily Green com- plained that injuries received m a car crash had made it hard for her to smile
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  • 52 3 IV. KID BERGMAN won •■ulu curtain calls and ovations at the Paris j Optra for her performance j m A Joan at the Stake", I her husband's version of the P Shr played hrr role with such sincerity that even her strong accent could pass lor provincial
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  • 121 3 i iEYLON's Premier Sir John Kotelawela has directed J all ministers and pro-government MP\s to remain In Colombo for the next four weeks to help frustrate determined Communist efforts to capture power m forthcoming local elections, according to an informed source. The
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  • 44 3 What Siam needs to cure her economic troubles is a good stock exchange, says the Governor of Bangkok, Nai Udom Banyaprasop .said: "Many <n people today simply hoard their money because thi-y do not know where to invest. A.P.
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  • 83 3 SIX university students three from Cambridge and three from Oxford plan to drive m Land Rovers to the Cape Town through some of the worst motoring country m the world, including the parched Sahara desert and rain-soaked swamps of Ethiopia. Object is to prove that the
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  • 117 3 Doctor must quit Britain says Fyfe DR. JOSEPH H. CORT American lecturer on physiology at Birmingham University, must leave Britain, the Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, announced m London yesterday. "I regret that I am not prepared to grant any further extension", he told a questioner m the House
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  • 23 3 The British Drl.-ncr Mini., Ut Karl Alexander ol Tunis bj .n Pari I fOC a two-day vi lit Reuter
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  • 355 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion The time is not ripe FRIDAY, June 25. 1954. The group of British Labour Members of Parliament who have railed, m a letter to the London Times, for steps to ensure immediately selfgovernment for Malaya, supports its call with untenable propositions. After discussing the defection
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  • 678 4 Russia traditionally has had great armies, but her Navy generally has been overlooked by most military analysts. Two U.S. Navy veterans have wade an intensive study of Russian sea pour r. Their conclusions are contained m this article. say William H. Gregory and Donald
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  • 356 4 BASHIZ HATTIN, the Arabian milkman who ran a mile backwards m under nine minutes, was told by his union that he had got the wrong idea. But had he? What is so wrong about running backwards? Or sideways, for that matter? The official wno said, Obviously he
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  • 311 5 CITY COUNCIL WORKS TOWARDS THE CHANGE-OVER r PIIK Singapore City Council is preparing for a smooth take-over of municipal functions covering the Island under the Rendel constitution. No special committee has been appointed to deal with the coming changes but the various standing committees have recently been acting m anticipation
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  • 97 5 IPOH. Fri TWO Alliance members .serving on the Perak Stat<Advisory Committee of the Volunteer Forces "boycotted' the scheduled meeting held yesterday m the Council Chamber of the Secretariat. They are Dr. Kok Ho Teik secretary of the Malayan Chinese Association, Kinta branch, and Capt. Abdul
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  • 23 5 KUALA LUMPHR. Fri S Veerasamy, 44, wa.s fined $30 for possession of a dagger on June 23 at Batu Roao\
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  • 54 5 picture. CHILDREN from the Social Welfare Centre m Prinsep Street, Singapore, visited the United States aircraft carrier, the Hornet earlier this week. And here they are being treated to a snack and cold drinks after a tired day going around seeing the fascinating things
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  • 28 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Garth Soars. 27, a racing cyclist, was fined $5 here today on a charge of riding his bicycle without lights at Batu Road.
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  • 291 5 'WE WANT TO BE SURE' T HE decision of the Singapore Joint Relief OrgamsaA tion to house some of the 400 odd Kampong Bugis fire victim families m 96 vacant homes at j Kotam Ayer will be brought before the Singapore High Court
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  • 61 5 SINGAPORE Chinese Schools' Conference has $4,000 to give away to 100 poor Chinese students who are bright m their studies. The money was recently collected from the public to proride a fund. Applications are now being invited from students of registered Chinese schools. Fifty
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  • 78 5 MALACCA, Fri The nrst ■Pa.sar Malam" (bazaar) In Malacca sponsored by tne UMNO Youth organisation was held at Tudong, 10 miles from Malacca. The 2 000 villagers who attend^ bouftht eggs. v^',eUbles, coconut and kampong handi- craits which were given as contributions towards UMNO's Independence of
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  • 58 5 IF THERE WERE NO MEN? WHAT would the women do if there wrre no men left? Seven Singapore women will solve this problem m a one-act play, "World Without Men" at the Me thodist (.iris School hall tonight. They are the entire cast m the play, to be presented by
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    • 106 5 nj A i^*^B -a Imm Vnpral Wrrk TOMORROW! TOMORROW! You will have fun at the GARDEN FETE In the trmmdi of GOVERNMENT HOUSE by kind permission of Sir John Nicoll, K. C. MG. Kt. St. J. Ride the Bis Train te Treasure Island ft Visit the numerous stalls and side
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  • 81 6 A GROWING movement restore belief m the < vinity of Emperor Hirohito indicated m reports from oan More interest I* Sfown m the rehabilitation, shrines and temples and m I construction of monumj >nt; honour of Japan's World II death. At Ise Shrine, where
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    • 265 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis IN Tm-S SNOWMAK"--TMf GMOSTJ SNOWSUUH I J I ED SIOPE.' TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs TABZAN POUND A LETTER T^St I THE JftAN APPASE%T_V ESCAPED IN&D6THE RAECKmasT 4)99 ■%*%'/JSf J> Paw A BANP OF Pv««IES--r.ERC£ i4HP^^ |^^> "JJ< M^T :^~^£r£*^^ L^ *^fe^^ -v-U^X*^-^
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    • 513 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR B°« N lODAI, j, )U must learn to understand your own self. M ou are to hope that others will ewi understand you. There are two sides, of your nature struggling wllJl each other for supremacy and until you n»\e fought it out with yourself, there is
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  • 97 7 PAMPHLETS ON FAMILY PLANNING pAMPHLRS on birth control are now available to those seeking advice at the clinics run by the >itigapore Family Planning Association. The pamphlets printed m English are given away «c. An Association spokesman said birth control .mphlets would also be translated into the vernacular usages soon.
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  • 16 7 The Constellation crash inquiry will bp resumed today m the Supreme Court. Singapore
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  • 86 7 ORGANISERS of Singapore's "1954 crooner-croonette" mtest planned for next month (.-appointed. There are only 11 days left fore entries close, and so far. response has been poor. 1 a Shaw Brothers spokesm m. In last year's contest, more m 100 took part. he first
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  • 33 7 KUALA LUxMPUR. Fri. J. Fa»gotter, an Australian key riding m Malaya, was iterday fined $50 for inconlerate driving. H waa further fined $20 for ving without displaying 'L'
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  • 39 7 ULU LANGAT, Thurs. The sident of the Estate Asiatic I iff Union, Mr V. D. Nair, terday urged the establisht of a national union of ite workers to bargain with Malayan Planting Industry taplojers 1 Association.
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  • 271 7 pIVE MONTHS AGO, Mr. Tan Hong Ban (above) Singapore commercial firm ;»loyee, could not read a 11 >ie of music or play a luslcal instrument. Next ith he will be one of the accordionists m a charlv variety show. This feat
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  • 85 7 America 's latest idea PLANS are bring ronsidrrrd m the I'rnted Stairs to introduce moving pavement* m thr citirs. .it airports and railro:id terminals. to speed up p^dostnan tr.tfrtc. Thr p;ivrmrnts arc just rublirr roiivryor i» rI t which move at about onr and a half milrs an hour. Skrtch
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  • 127 7 -ON SPECIAL TRAINING COURSE ASSISTANT Superintendent of Police, Mr. W. T. Rodrigues, who is among four Singapore police officers selected for further training at the police college m Ryton-on-Dunsmore m England, leaves on Tuesday by air. Mr. Rodrigues is m charge of the Reports
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  • 132 7 The Royal contest is free NO charge is being more for entrants m the "king and queen for a day" contest which opens at the Victoria Memorial Hall today during the fun and food fair sponsored by the Singapore Youth Council. Those wishing to take part need ably submit two
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  • 53 7 [POH, Frl. Pive membei were a i cnf from jrcsterday'i monthly meeting of the Ipoh i M- mbu Town Hoard. Pour unofl I <■'' i or their a i nf i fifth, Tuan Hajl Moham id Zain, an umno member, stay ed ou! after Mi reslgnatloii
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  • 292 8 But court calls it Indecent' IXUJCKMEN and a policewoman saw a show m which Miss Phyllis Dixey, the variety artist, appeared at Scunthorpe. Lincolnshire. Next she appeared before the local magistrates who fined her £5 on a summons alleging a breach of borough by-laws
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  • 76 8 Spring gun loaded in error J^ SPRING gun which went off and injured two ramblers m a Sussex wood was thought to be loaded only with a blank cartridge. That was the explanation given at Lewes by a gamekeeper Charles Percy Bavastock. 57. of Balcomb© It was to warn him
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  • 48 8 A young French couple, 45 minutes after reaching Manchester Airport, were told: You must go back. They said they wanted to set up a home m Manchester. But they had only £7. And that, an official explained, was not enough for the purpose.
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  • 59 8 Robert Thompson, 22-year-old labourer, gassed himself m an empty house In Haling Park-road, South Croydon, where, it was stated at the inquest, children discovered his body. His brother Alfred said Robert had been depressed since his release m 1949 from Wormwood Scrubbs where he served a
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  • 21 8 Kennels for lo.st dogs are provided at a e 75,000 police station to b< opened at King's Lynn, Norfolk.
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  • 65 8 ABOVE: Before leaving t'tris tor the 1954 Miss Europe beauty contests at Vichy, France, national beauty queens were given a cocktail party at the Napoleon hotel. From left to right m the picture are: Cooky Harteveld (Miss Holland), Juanita Bilia (Miss Spain), June Peters (Miss England), Sheila
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  • 59 8 LEFT: Borrowed plumes but these are London mounted policemen who are determined to be a credit to the 16th Lancers, whose uniform they wear, at Imber Court, Surrey, for a rehearsal of the musical ride to be Riven M the Searchlight Tattoo at the White City and
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  • 48 8 'JUMP' SHOUT SAVES CLASS OF KIDDIES loose wheel of a lorry trailer rolled towards a class of seven-year-old children m Uxbridge Street Bur-ton-on-Trent. "Jump the wall," shouted their teacher, Mrs. Olive Wright, of Christ Church school. Most of the children got to safely, but five had slight bruises.
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  • 43 8 Cricket is too slow and too expensive for teen-agers ai Birkenhead, Cheshire. So tnev are playinc continental handball. fn Now they hope permission xo use all soccer pitches m tne town can be obtained and a league formed
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  • 205 8 of children who pass exams to win grammar .school places will no longer be published m local papers at Stretford, Lancashire. It breaks children's hearts and puts their parents under .stress. At Stretford there are only grammar school places for one out ol live children who
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  • 169 8 A MAN who described himself as a non-re^i practitioner was fined one guinea for contemp an inquest after persisting m talking the coror He is Mr Frederick Joseph Gurtner, of Devonshire Terrace London, who told the Bedford coroner (Dr. M G. L. Lucas' that
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  • 353 9 FOR each of the 152 nights that Mr. Godfrey Owtram, wealthy chairman of a chemicals company, was away from his home m Farnham, Surrey, the income tax authorities deducted 10s. from his expense account. Mr Owtram. 47-year-old chief of the Petrochemicals concern, told
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  • 188 9 Girl, 12, tells 500 how to succeed A LECTURE was given m London on how to get on m business m Canada. The audience were 500 prospective emigrants. The lecturer: the 12-year-old business woman, Valeric Sampson, who is m England on a three-month holiday with the £135 she saved m
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  • 36 9 An all-party group of M.P.S is pressing for greater use. of Britain's canals, thus relieving the strain on the roads. About 12.000,000 tons ol Koods were carried on me can aIS last year.
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    57 9 A HELICOPTER MAKES trial landings at the South Bank site, Waterloo, for the service to be operated by British European Airways The flight between London Airport and' the South Bank, an 18*2 mile journey lasting 20 minutes, will cost 30 shillings, slightly lees than the hire of a private car
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  • 50 9 A 16-year-old boy stated to have boasted after his arrest that he was "too young to be sent to prison," was gaoled for three years at Essex Assizes. Chelmsford. He was Michael Ernest McDowell, a machinist, of Leißh. Essex, who had admitted robbery with violence
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    26 9 picture. ™cd Q uT white flowers and with -mjUbrimmed matchinf hat, walks to the dock on Gold Cup d.iy at the Royal Ascoi race meetinjf.- Reuter
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  • 92 9 IfIEH room for all to sit at the table for meals. But the father, Mr. Kenneth Clarke, of Manor Road, Leyton said he reported the birth of leach child to the borou^n council and has applied many times for better accommoda'so although there la over-
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  • 221 9 Colonels called private 'general' AN OLD SOLDIER has died —but hLs memory will never fade away. For Private Arthur Pettifer, a Cockney Tommy Atkins m the real Kipling tradition, became a legendary figure m the Buff.s. As a 13-year-old band -boy he joined the Regiment m IM7. and served altogether
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  • 328 9 Disobeyed— and saved 15 mRAWLER mate Malcolm 1 Smith disobeyed his skipper on *he night their ship ran aground. Because he did so— and because he had courage—ls of the crew of 20 were saved. The 349-ton Grimsby trawler Hassett stranded on the rocky coast of Caithness nine months ago.
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  • 843 10  - Meet a Communist deserter Norman Lindhurst Not all of them are professional killers or ex-spies. Some are ordinary citizens like the one whose story is told below By you may have imagined that every Soviet officer who flees to the West is a cloak and dagger ti nu r e
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    12 10 loan X: British actress •eea la lr«pj ir»ss for "iiu Majesty O'Keefe."
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  • 332 10 1 PARIS NEWSLETTER ]t|R. Douglas Cooper, a iTI wealthy "absentee landlord" (Australian real estate), enjoys a popularity among Paris art dealers and the directors of various gallaries equivalent to that of a crack detective among crooks. Cooper is one of the greatest living authorities on twentieth century art,
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  • 235 10 John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson led the cast of A Day by the Sea m singing For She's a Jolly Good Fellow on the stage of the Haymarket Theatre. London. And their chanting of "Sybil, Sybil", almost drowned the National Anthem after final curtain.
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    • 128 10 y< >V<>^< i%.i>S( i^OSi i%.i>*l i^i f^< >j?i is^O/W i^OSi i%.O/Pt iv. 1 ST. JOHN APPEAL WEEK I feS GARDEN FETE. jm^m 1.30 to 6.30 p.m. f Z In the of Government Hoase, by kind 3 permission of H.E. The Governor Sir John Nieoll. J t z All the fun
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    7 11 Major -(JeneraJ Spears the author.
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  • 258 11 Return of Sherlock Holmes TIJF EXPLOITS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Adrian onan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. J Murray. IT Is reported of Mr. Adrian Conan Doyle that one of his more unorthodox pastimes i.s to don a suit of armour and Joust m the ageold manner. With equal enthusiasm for
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  • 137 11 Drama, humour, Love, travel, Case, V. White. A. Barker. Two people, introduced casually 1.l teen years before, meet on the North-East frontier of India MM vMt.ne.ss a death under sum>hious < irc-umstances. They try to avow becoailni involved but events are too mm I) lor them. Ijve In
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  • 731 11 CORRUPTION COLLAPSE Hitler and Goering (right) mount the coach m which they received France's abject surrender m 1940. Lord Hailsham reviews a book which analyses the causes of the French disaster. Prelude to Dunkirk. |uly 1939, May 1940 by Major-general Sir Edward L Spears. KBE. CB. MC Heinemann 25j. <\F
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  • 383 11 THE COMMANDO WHO KNEW FEAR AIR COMMANDO, Serge Vaculik, Jarrolds. THE proud and bitter memories of an air commando" writes Seme Vaculik "remain with him all the days of his life". What an exciting life to remember! The .son of an Immigrant Czech workman, Vaculik grew to love France, bis
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  • 400 12  -  Jean Wiseman by FABRICS shot with pre- cious metals glimmering gold or silver have been valued by people everywhere since the earliest days of the Old Testament. Today, modern metkods and scientific knowledge have made it possible for the same beauty to be interpreted m
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  • 186 12 By a mother I TOOK my small daughter, Caroline, along to the dentist* the other day. It's mast probably hereditary but Caroline hates the dentist's even more than going to bed when the sun U still shining Perhaps our dentist knew the bundle of fright which
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  • 32 12 picture. Sweeping white plumes, tinged with cafe a u lait grace this creation m muted panne shown m London last week Thp hat is called "Opulence of Paradise".- Reuter
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  • 223 12  -  Louise Petrie by BLONDES no longer reign supreme favourites m the hairdresslng world. Though having a natural bias towards them myself for I am one I find the latest ideas m flat- tering touches from gay Paris are especially effective on darker heads mousey
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    285 12 Both sides vulnerable South dealer (Cover the East-West hands) rPHIS HAND, taken from a "Rate Your Own Play" feature of The Bridge World Magazine, illustrates principle of play that comes up frequently, and will well repay your study. West opens a club and your ace m dummy wins
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    • 150 12 i ti--h iuii tBO88: 4 Mythological trays. (5). ru. rabbits, or for rarebit.s? 5. Instructions to a counterfeiter 7 Th. wno dld a ba(l J ol <2-s>. irtvTr L?rr«» aVC pr 6 J hat sir Ls >"d»catlve of periy ror sale. (6). dryness (7) 9 'aT^J." way. (6). 9. Be
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    • 570 13 'We are staying married' Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh defy the rumours of Hollywood home-breakers who prophecy divorce. WE'RE GOING to stay married a long, long time, m spite of em. The rumour mong(rs can starve to death, lor all we care, because we're not going to feed them." This
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    • 254 13 No more 'dumb blondes' JUDY HOLLIDAY WINS A BATTLE VICTORY at last comes to Judy Holliday m tier eight-year battle to get untyped. Ever since her first stage hit as the vacuous Billie Dawn character m "Born Yesterday" and her subsequent winning of an Oscar for the screen interpretation, Judy
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    • 336 13  -  IT JUST seems kind of silly to me for a studio to spend seven years m building up a name, and then toss it away m the last picture," says Richard Widmark of his last picture for 20thcentury Fox, "The Broken Lance". He expects to pet fourth
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    • 306 13 'Cry' Ray is deaf JOHNNIE (CRY) RAY has been 53 per cent deaf m both ears since he was 10. w^ars a hearing aid practically all the time. So there was some little concern at 2()th-Fox recently when he made his first dialogue scene for a movie. The hearing aid
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  • 380 14 1 ABOVfc LEFT: Members of the Upper Serangoon Boys' A 'Club practise ball control. RIGHT: Nineteen-vear-o'ld Ahmad bin Adam works out on the punch bag 2 Mr. Peter Uickon of Royal Air Force Seletar gives the boys a few soccer tips as they gather
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  • 64 14 rpEAM to represent Singapore x Indians against Combined Royal Navy at Naval Base on Sunday will be chosen from the following: A. Narayanan. G. Suppiah, G. Phillip, M. Ghani. S. Veloo, J. Mahina, Mohinder Singh. A. Rashid, T. C. Balen, K. Nadarajah, R Krishnasamy. G.
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    • 69 14 CAPITOL LAST DAY! IV***'*^ 11-1.45-4.00 fTOtoM 6.30-9.30 l Of^jf IN 3D AND jfiKL/^ WARNERCOLOR fwlvllWvf OPENS TO-MORR()\V| HVC IrKISUntKo I p^^^l TO-MORROW at mD-NIGHT! QLV TO-DAI DAILY! KCA 11 -1.45-4.00-., :;o-'« JEFF CHANDLER m WAR ARROW m Technicolor SATURDAY at MID M/^ l! Steve Cochran m IA "SHARK RIVER PAVILION
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  • 1304 15 TRESPASSER on tomorrow's X.L races -I uDEN CHOICE, a last start winner at Ipoh, is a n good bet m the main race, for Clas s 3, Div. 1 horses over a mile, on the opening day of the Selan-,-or Turf Club's June-July jneeting
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  • 50 15 PROBABLE scratching* at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow, first day of the Selangor Turf Club JuneJuly meeting are: Beau Temps, Lyon King, Feature Film, Bright Eyes 11. Flower Harvest, Heremai, Fair Sir, Ever Glory, Fair Weather, Magic Eye and General View. The going tomorrow is likely to be very good.
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    • 47 15 and the Davis Cup In the 1953 Series, the Dunlop Fort Tennis Ball was Adopted exclusively for the Challenge Round, three InterZone finals and the majority of all ties. DwJop IN MALAYA Dunlop Tenms Ball? Lave ken used DUNLOP RTHHtR CO. (MALAYA) LTD, Singapore KuaU Lumpur Tcnang
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    • 163 15 nCATHAY TOMORROW MID- NIGHT! lOpiil.li. Pictures Present 'CANADIAN MOUNTIES vs. ATOMIC INVADERS Starring Bill HENRY— Susan MORROW (A complete urtion -filled Spri.ih NOW SHOWING! lUm-1.43-4 l.'i i:» 930 pm Aradetm \u ird Winner WILLIAM HOLDEN \n 'FOREVER FEMALE* A Paramount Picture with Pat Crowley— iiiiuer R«rer^ TO-MORROW at MID-NKiHT! Li
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  • 262 16 YOUNG BOBBY WILSON MAKES TONY TRABERT SWEAT U.S. champ praises British junior after Yk hour duel BOBBY WILSON, the London schoolboy who eliminated Brazil's Armando Vieira from the Wimbledon men's singles on Wednesday, yesterday gave a third-round mauling to Tony Trabert, the American champion and favourite. Trabert eventually won 10-8,
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  • 290 16 }3ZZARD Charles took a beatj ing In Singapore jesterday on the icreen at Shaw Brothers' Preview Theatrette. Th.- film of hi.s gallant, gruelling 15-round .stand against world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano contains all the hlfhllghtj ol the Yankee Stadium bout. It is not .1 tomplete
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  • 60 16 Melbourne's- 1956 Olympic athletic track may be made to the same "KClpe" as the Turku. Finland, course on which John Landy set a new world mile record on June 21. Landy is being asked by the Victorian Amateur Athletic A.ssociation to obtain details of the composition
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  • 156 16 SHEPPARD SUCCEEDS HUTTON iNew Test! j captain j DAVID Sheppard, 25-year-old Sussex opening batsman, has accepted an invitation to captain England m the second Test match against Pakistan beginning at Nottingham next Thursday. Sheppard originally gave up the leadership of Sussex to concentrate on theological studies at Cambridge I niversity.
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  • 248 16 nPHIRD round results: 1 MEN'S SINGLES Third round:- J Brich^nt (Belgium* beat S. stockenberg (Sweden) 7-5, 6-1, 6-1. M. Rose (Australia* beat R. Krishnan (India) 6-3. 6-1, 6-3. T. Trabert. (US) beat R. Wilson. (Britain) 10-8 8-6. 6-2 V. Sexias (U.S.) beat M. Otway, (New Zealand) 6-3. 6-4. 9-7.
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  • 60 16 RESULTS of Singapore United Services F. A. League matches played yesterday: DIVISION I R.A.S.C. 3 R Engineers 1. R.N.A.S.. 2. RAF Seletar 1. R Signals v. R N Base postponed. DIVISION II RAF Tengah 4. R. N. Kranji 1. RAF Changi 'A" 4, RAF Seletar Spartans 0. Played
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  • 181 16 PAKISTAN, with eight second innings wickets standing, are 47 runs ahead of Combined Services In their cricket match at Catterick (Yorkshire). Services had declared their first innings yesterday at 319 for .six. At this point they held Qnt innings lead of 52 over Pakistan.
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  • 156 16 Pakistan Ist innings 267 Combined Services Ist innings P. Richardson b Khalid Wazir 1 J. Murray b Khalid Wazir 71 I M. Ainsworth C Khalid Wazir b Shujauddin 12 G. Tordofl not out 156 J. Horton c Initiaz Ahmed b Mahmood Hussain 47 j A. ShirrefT c Shakoor Ahmed
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  • 41 16 The Parker Cup inter-Corps soccer semi-final bttWW Royal Army Etenrict Obrpi and Royal Aimy Medical Corps v ill be played at Tanglin next Tue.^day. The other semi-final is between Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and Royal Army Pay Corps.
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  • 170 16 BOUNTY cricket close oi scores: At Lords: Leicestershire 2.. 45 for two, Middlesex 319 Edrlcli 105. Bennett 63). At (.uildford: Oxford Univer 161 and 92 for four, Surrey 4_- eight declared. (Constable 121 Barton noi out 58, Joweit sc\. 1 > At Romford: Yorkshire 38»i for 9 declared.
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  • 78 16 INTERNATIONAL Boxing Comnn-,--x sioner Robert K. Christenben v has advised world flyweight champion Yoshio Shirai of Japan to defend his title against Jake Tuli 01 South Africa "at some reasonably early date." Japan Boxing Commission said it had received a letter to that erTec from
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  • 104 16 F»ORTYFOUR professionals and four amateurs, with aggregate* 01 149 or better for a round on each of the Little Aston and sutton Coldfield courses yesterday qualified for the final 36 holes of the Daks £2.000 professional golf tournament. Best scores were: Arthur Lees 69, 68. 137:
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    • 212 16 Straits Times Free Preit For tht convenience off advertisers, our representative at Ist Moor, SINGAPORE COLO STORAGE, ORCHARD ROAD, will receive small advertisement* and onswers to box numbers. Classified advertisements may also be handed to: CITY BOOK STORE LTD. Winchester House, CoKycr Quay, Singapore. CLASSIFIED ADS. BIRTH ?0 Word* $ti
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
    • 9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday, June 25, 1954.
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    • 748 1  -  J. W. TAYLOR Success story o£ the world's greatest rider By VEVER m all its history has the quiei and exclusiveness of Sandown Park Racecourse known scenes of such unrestrained demonstration of public itlection and adulation as on the recent day when Sir Gordon Richards,
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    • Article, Illustration
      26 1 picture. Show Show (Mulley) returns to scale after winning the filth race (Class 3. Div. 1— I 1 1 miles) at Ipoh last Saturday. Free Press
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      42 1 UKlure. Ib an I the field riCCg round the bend A melee of speeding hooves, a tangle of 2 Ihl Wot mPMing fifthtint for the Ascot Stokjl on the P-n' J hu rice irat won by Corydal*. riadcn by v CA Reuter
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    • 12100 2 FORM GUIDE FOR KUALA LUMPUR RACE MEETING Class Three AROYI BOARD N<»N ..rUH. II I >t li»i c; D.v 4. 2nd s»t!i Ai ifvk bt 3rd 4tlfclr...m.t On I Hi i rif iii ..ru di :fi I It" h I'- F IJ H-4 2:i<! I 0 ..'i... li b> i<:
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