The Singapore Free Press, 28 June 1954

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. ::f)B6. Singapore. Mon., June 28, 1954. Price 15CU
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    Sleigh girls here
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    I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO FINALS, SAYS VIOLET
    139 1 IT I ALA LUMTUB sisters iv Violet and Joyce Sleigh above) arrived m Singapore iliis morning by train to ompetc m tonight's semifinals of the "Miss Malaya Quest" Said Violet: "I think they should have made contestants wear swim-suits from the start. Anyway,
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    Rubber price
    26 1 Singapore Rubber Market opened i i quiet toae this morning with 1 urade. July shipment at 6614 centi a pound, unchanged since Saturday'! close.
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    'Seawall is an obstruction'
    184 1 Captain J. Davys, BOAC senior captain, Ist Class this morning told the Kallang air crash inquiry m Singapore that mental fatigue of air crews could be caused by thorn being "away from home." He was replying to the Solicitor General. Mr. C H. Butterfield. Captain Davys
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    IKE GIVES IN ON ASIA TALK
    284 1 Geneva before pact UNITED STATES has reluctantly bowed to Britain's refusal to start immediate international negotiations for a South-East Asian defence pact, diplomatic sources m Washington said yesterday. Sir Winston Churchill and Mr. Anthony Eden, his Foreign Secretary, have maintained their opposition to early
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    7 schools open: No classes yet
    90 1 7 schools open: No classes yet SEVEN Singapore Chineve middle .schools officially re-opened this morning, but none of them ha* be~un classes yet. They were busy re-retfisteriaK The principal of the Yock En* High School m TanionK Katonß Road expressed doubt whether all the 456 students would return. The Chinese
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    SPORE GIRL WINS MUSIC AWARD
    36 1 Miss Pamela Cornelius. Singapore pianist and a university student, has won this year's French music scholarship award for Malaya. She will £0 to Fiance m September for a ten-month study course.
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    FRENCH QUIT YEN PHU FORT
    32 1 French Union force* have evacuated Yen Phu. M miles .south of Hanoi, to Implement piun.s for a reorganisation of the Tonking defences, the French High Command said.
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    SWEET THEFT
    21 1 Six hundred pounds of kt cream chocolate were .stolen irom an ice cream factory m McPherson Road Singapore. yesterday.
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    SHOP HAUL
    30 1 Thieves broke into a barb»*r'.> shop In Crawford Street. Singapore, yesterday and stole $04 worth of cigarette*, two fouo- tain p(?n.s worth $20 and $20 m 1 cash.
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    PROBE MEN OFF TODAY TO GUATEMALA
    125 1 PROBE MEN OFF TODAY TO GUATEMALA THE Inter-American Peace Committee decided at a .special meeting yesterday to fly to Guatemala tudav for an on-the-spot investigation of Guatemala'.s charges Of foreign Aggression m connection with the rebellion against the leftwing Government. The Committee ha.s Appointed it-self a.s a fact-finding commission to
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    The tennis wives were ACES at Wimbledon
    78 2 f|*'»\O atlr.nl.w wives of 1 American tennis stars uiirh'd their husbands play m the WimnYdon lawn tennis championships, (pictim at right). They are Mrs. Dolly Sfixas (left) and Mrs. Tony Trabert, who wears a ta^t.v straw hrrrv-pat-terned dress. Both players an* now m
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    PARTY LEADER IS ARRESTED: BROKE BOUNDS
    120 2 PARTY LEADER IS ARRESTED: BROKE BOUNDS RORY Westmaas, one of the leaden ol the Peoples Progressive Party, was charged m Georgetown, British Guiana, with failing to observe the Governors order restricting his movements to Georgetown. He was arrested after tailing to report his movements to the police .station as required
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    GOODWILL VISIT
    58 2 The Canadian destroyer Haida twd ui> m Tokyo Bay yesterday lor i .six-day goodwill visit marking Dominion Day on July l Members ol the ship's command and m-w will visit BriCanadian and Japanese ofnclalfl durinK their visit. '"t»rtain a party for Japanese orphans on the vessel and play
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    Row will not stop India border canal
    150 2 INDIA is to £0 ahead with opening the Bhakra Canal on the Pakistan border after Pakistan's rejection of World Bank proposals for ending the two countries' lons dispute over waters m that area, an Indian communique disclosed yesterday. The Canal is clue to
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    PLANE CRASH KILLS 14
    45 2 FOURTEEN U.S. Air Force men were lulled yesterday when a KC-97 plane crashed and burned on Box Springs Mountain, five miles northeast of March Air Force base m California. The plane wa.s carrying a crew of seven and .si'ven passent(<'r.s.— AP
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    U.S. Red arrested
    23 2 Claude Mack Lightfoot. 44, described as the leader of the U.S Communist Party m Illinois state, has been arrested. Reuter
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    Duke flies back
    54 2 TIE DUKE of Edinburgh returned to London last night from a six-day visit to France and Germany m a twln-encined Royal Air Force plan*- which he piloted him•elt He drove from the airport to Buckingham Palace. The Queen and other members of the royal family spent the
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    A-EXPERTS TELL OF 3-POINT PLAN TO BEAT RAIDS
    281 2 A-EXPERTS TELL OF 3-POINT PLAN TO BEAT RAIDS WORLD Government, international control O f atomic energy or dispersal of cities were the only permanent defences against atomic attack bulletin of the Atomic Scientists issued at Chicarn said today. The bulletin said that far-flung radar screen to warn of the approach
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    Dogs for Jamaica
    39 2 A larse crowd gathered at the pier m Kingston. Jamaica, to see three does and three policeman arrive from Eng,land. They will be used to track down criminals. particularly growers and smokers of thp marijuana drug.A.P.
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    WOUNDED FLY ROUND WORLD TO FRANCE
    134 2 rkNE HUNDRED wounded French veterans of Dien 0 w«n Ph» delayed their departure from Manila for Japan yesterday to give them more One to rest The soldiers who arrived here on Saturday from Saigon will leave this evening on board an American air force
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    Peace cause helped by India talks says Chou
    216 2 THE Chinese Premier. Mr Chou-En-lai, and Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru ended their three day talks m New Delhi with a midnight meeting to finalise a loint communique. Earlier Mr. Chou had said ho believed his talks with Mr. Nehru, had been
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      64 2 The weekly issue of the STRAITS BUDGET can be x sent by Air Mail to any address m the United Kingdom at an inclusive rate of $24.00 FOR SIX MONTHS If you want the "BUDGET" while on leave or wish to make an "Air-subscription" on behalf of your Home office
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    RED AGENT No. 2 FLEES TO WEST
    254 3 US grants asylum m Germany A MOTHER high Soviet secret police agent has fled to the West and will estify at Munich. Germany today, before a Jnited States congresionaJ committee. American authorities announced yesterday. The Russian agent wa.s identified as a lieutenant colonel
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    Jakarta signs pact
    18 3 Hungary and Indonesia have signed a goods exchange and payment agreement for one year. U.P.
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    PHAROAH'S TOMB WAS EMPTY
    44 3 PHAROAH'S TOMB WAS EMPTY THE seven-ton alabaster j tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh dis- covered recently at Sak- E kara was opened m great secrecy yesterday and found to be empty. Mustafa Sadek. Egyptian Director General of Antiquities, declined to E comment. A.P.
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    Fleet in Formosa
    27 3 General James A. Van Fleet, President Eisenhower's special envoy to the Far East, and his fact-finding mission arrived m Taioeh yesterday from Seoul Reuter
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    THOUSANDS FLOCK TO CONVENT AFTER VISION
    174 3 THOUSANDS of people from Jordan yesterday visited 1 a Coptic convent at Amman where the head said on Saturday that visions of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ had appeared Hofnrp e\r\ .students. The Coptic Church Is the name of a Christian sect originating
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    TRUMAN: SERIOUS
    15 3 Ex-President Truman's condition was listed as still "serious" m Kansas City ye*terday. Reuter
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    12 Mau Mau killed
    15 3 Kenya security forces have killed 12 terrorists m 24 hours. Reuter
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    Police surround hall
    61 3 POLICE armed with rifles and iten guns late yesterday afternoon surrounded the trades hall m Johannesburg W here 1.000 delegate! weie meeting to prole* the racial legregatiOO policy of the South African Govern mont. Police n fused to allow anyone m or out of the mcctlrtK while
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    Rumanian Princesses at play
    56 3 Rumanian Princesses at play picture. |?X-KING MICHAEL and Qimn Anne Of Rumania with their three daughters, Margaret. s, Helena. 3. and Irene. 1, are spending their summer holidays with Prince Rene and Princess Margrethe of Bourbon -P.mna, parents of the ex-queen, at (lentofte. a suburb of Copenhagen. Picture shows mother
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    Crisis deepens in Tunisia: Documents held up
    152 3 Crisis deepens in Tunisia: Documents held up TUNISIA'S Government crisis deepened yesterday when Cabinet members who resigned their posts 12 days ago, but have not yet been replaced, declared they would sign no more documents, nor study any of the administrative business at hand after yesterday. The Minister of Justice,
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    SAILORS TO BE FREED 'SOON'
    73 3 Communist China "might soon release" the nine British sailors who were aboard the 70-ton pleasure yacht Elinor detained by a Communist coastal defence unit near Hong Kong on June 1. accord Ing to a Hong Kong Chinese paper. The Sintf Tao newspaper, quoting "reliable ources".
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    Hillary has his eyes on new goal
    209 3 Hillary has his eyes on new goal Sir Edmund Hillary yesterday liked the Nepal.- Government for permission to climb the unconquered 27.790- foot Mountain Makalu m 19f>6 The peak Ls near Mount Everest. which he scaled la.st year. Ht made the request at Katmandu, Nepal, while party of 10 weary
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    Formosa denial
    24 3 Nationalist China yesterday denied that L>oooo Nationalist troops m Burma had approached Siamese authorities to ari ran^e their evacuation to Formosa. Reuter
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    Yoshida's tour
    18 3 Thf Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Sigeru Yoshidu will leave on his world tour m September A.P.
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, June 28, 1954. Opinion The school problem
    390 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, June 28, 1954. Opinion The school problem The anxiety 01 the many oar- m.s in Singapore whose children, born m 1948. will be unable to get into a school m ii*r>s because of lack "i vacancies, is understandable. They realise only too well that the
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    ABADAN 'WRITTEN OFF
    433 4 Persians are told 'too big too old' ABADAN, the world's biggest oil refinery (25,000.000 tons a year m its boom days) has been written-ofT as "too big and too old*' by Western oilmen. The Persians, however, not so hot-headed as they once were, are worried about finding
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    Germans are working too hard
    514 4  - Germans are working too hard Norman Lindhurst The Germans, so often extolled, at the expense of the British working man, as hardworking, are having second thoughts on the subject of work. 'Managerial sickness', and other complaints due to overwork, have resulted J m German press comments favouring the British 40
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    ARTIE'S HEADLINE
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      22 4 RHINESTONE JEWELLERY MOD/: R N J N DESIGN VET LOW IS PRICE S.P.H. de Silva 45 HIGH ST. SINGAPORE IPOH KUALA LUMPUR.
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      116 4 A^ 7 i vL j (||/j^^^«^ij St. John Ambulance Whenever there is a devastating fire making hundreds homeless; at every major accident; ;»t sports meetings, m offices, dockyards and factories when anyone is taken suddenly ill or has an accident St John Ambulance Brigade will be on the spot to
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    DON'T PAY MORE FOR FISH AT MARKETS
    218 5 —housewives are advised HOI'SEWIVES are warned not to pay more for their fish to Singapore retailers— there is an attempt to create an artificial shortage and put up prices. Several complaints have been received that mse wives have been asked to pay more
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    Miss Cheng to sing songs from opera here
    149 5 Miss Cheng to sing songs from opera here 11 \I l AN-trained opera singer, Mis Margherita Cheng above) of Hong Kong. is ■irriving m Singapore from Koine today to sing here. M^>, Cheng will render songs from Italian and Mandarin opera. ''I vis are to be made for her to
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    Salesman killed in runaway van
    53 5 TANJONG MAIJM. Moil. Tan Seek Ling, 40. a salesman, was killed when the motor van m which he was KoinK from Kuala Lumpur to [poll went of! thfl road at the ;4r>' /2 milestone recently. He had a fractured .skull I Khoiv Ilin, a follow
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    S'pore teachers to study overseas
    197 5 S'pore teachers to study overseas IjMGHT Singapore teachers two men and six womenhave been awarded scholarships by the Education Department. The award* went to a man and four women m Government schools and a man and two women m Governmentaided schools. Mr B Dudley. Inspector Of Schools, told the Free
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    Templers are in London now
    63 5 Templers are in London now General Sir (ieral Templer, the former High < ommissioner of the Federation, and Lady Templer arrive m London Sir (ierald will be on leave until he is given a new appointment Sir Gerald, who was to have taken over the command of the British Army
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    Taxi fleet to have SOS signals
    168 5 SECRET SWITCH WILL CALL POLICE SOS SIGNAL lamps will bo fitted on all 1.600 luxl.s m Singapore by next year, said Mr. T A. Simon, president of the Hire Car Association, yesterday. Two local firms representing manufacturers m Enplane have approached the association on
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    Labuan seeks golf clubs
    88 5 Labuan seeks golf clubs I.ABUAN. M'>n Arc there my goiters m Borneo or Malaya who have some spare or unwanted ioll clubs? These would be welcomed by the Lalman 001 l v\ub loiters amoni the RAF. and raaf detachment stationed hero are handicapped by the lack of clubs. The local
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    Alliance did for all seats
    85 5 -LONE OPPONENT KUANTAN. Mon. Only one independent candidate Is contesting one of the three Central Town Ward's seats m the Town Council elections on July 21. He will be standing against, three UMNO-MCA candidates. The six seats m the other two wards have already been
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    K.L. makes its plans
    69 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A reception committee ot 27 was formed here yesterday to greet Madame Pandit on Aug 13. According to the tentative programme, Madame Pandit will address a public meeting on Au f 4. 13 at the Selangor Indian Association padang and visit a neighbouring
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    AFTER 36 YEARS
    114 5 - He leaves a 'success formula KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. I- 1914, straw-hatted clerks travelled m builock carts to > work m The post offices Malaya. Mr. P. R. Arumuam, retiring Chief Superin- trndent of Ul« Emp-ov— Provident Fund recalled here He was speaking at a iea pirty given
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    Co-op profit
    40 5 KI'ALA LIPIS. Mon Kuala Lipia Co-operative Stores So- < ietv made a net profit of >1229 for 1953. The fifth annual general -"'King of the society will be h 'ld at the Court Flou.se, Kua- UpU, on July 14.
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    TRADE FILMS FROM BRITAIN
    94 6 FILMS about British industry may be shown on foreign TV networks to hell to boost the export drive. Th idea has the backing Of en Harry Pilkington. president <> the Federation of British Industries. He says that all over th« world new television networks are being
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      301 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis i rrri I b»^-n«« T^-ruuS 1 I. a Kn«s-J| N y E T H B A R c2 E T p? E R o I IrsitT^ 0 II rII BARTUN PERSONAUY RtOUEW M y tPhE. >^ THAT. IN THE EYCS lONIOHT-- WITH I
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      545 6 YOUR I LUCKY I STAR I UORX TODAY, you have a strong will, vaunting ambitions and a lot of encrgj whk >» 1 unless you dint t it properly' i can make \<»u rttUm and moody. You are impulsixe and tfloi I a little too much int lined to 1
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    THIS VILLAGE IS A FIRETRAP
    834 7  -  STEVE NEOH by 19f>] BLAZE WIPED OUT „..300 HOMES It can happen again VTEXT to Singapore's city gasworks at Kalians i: W Kampong Bugis, where about 100 attap am (Jen shacks cluster m a confused heap. A legacy of the Japanese occupation, thesi lacks are
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    ONLY 25 YARDS FROM HUTS
    34 7 picture. Looming grimly over Kampon^ Kugis is this £a* holder of the city gasworks at Kallang. Less than 25 yards away lie*, a heap of wooden huts.- Free Press
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    AND THESE MEN REALISE PERIL
    156 7 Gas Engineer: "Kampong Bugis must be cleared. Any outbreak of fire might endanger the gasworks. We had a terrible experience m 1951. It must not occur again." Mr. J. G. Shaw, City Fire Chief: "I have heard the place is much worse than before. It
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    WHO WILL BE MISS MALAYA?
    274 8 IWHO WILL SHE BE? The hearts of twenty* finalists are beating to the tempo of rt"sß the Capitol Theatre a four-man judging panel from the semi-finalists to compete m the Grand There will be ten additional judges torn! represent this country m the parade of
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    Famine in Rumania
    614 10  -  Stoyan Christowe A rich country stripped by Russia By RUMANIA'S sick eco- nomy is getting worse. Many families, according to Yugoslavia sources, have been put on famine rations this Spring. Yet, Rumania is one of the largest wheat and corn producers m Europe a major cattle and
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    SCIENTISTS LOOK FOR THE APE-MAN
    469 10  - SCIENTISTS LOOK FOR THE APE-MAN JOHN IVEY Africa, not Asia, may have been Man's birthplace. A TEAM of explorers, backed by the British Museum, recently left Pretoria on a ten-thousand-mile lorry trek across jungle country to search for ape-man relics on the west coast of Africa. The expedition, which is
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    3 10 Parking Problem— l96o
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    Journey's end
    89 10 REMEMBER Alian Bombard, the French doctor who drifted across the Atlantic on a raft .eighteen months ago? He wanted to show that shipwrecked sailors can live off the sea until rescue by eating plankton and drinking liquids from squashed fish. This diet doesn't seem to have done Bombard
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    11 10 )rcam girl Mary astle. red-haired Texan has been signed by Columbia.
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    Reds swoop on Chinese Saboteurs
    616 11 Reds swoop on Chinese Saboteurs Fires light up skies, says k. a wu (iHINAS peasants arc committing acts of violent sabotage m many parts of the country, apparently m resistance to the Communist Government's intense military mobilization. Official retaliation has been swift and severe, with thousands executed and unknown numbers
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    31 11 "A Uwe scene between Paris i Jacques Sernas) and Helen 'Rssuna Podestai m the film Helen of Troy" 7101 c being made m Rome. Tucutij-seien stius and 5,000 txtrat (ire appearing.
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    A Champion Problem
    114 11 MARGE and Cower Champion, who are man and wife as well as being dance partners on the screen, m.iy go into temporary retirement soon. Marge has a good feminine reason. She wants to be a mother. On the set of Betty Crable's "Three for the Show," recently
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    Greeks repel a Jap invasion -OFF AUSTRALIA!
    525 11 Greeks repel a Jap invasion -OFF AUSTRALIA! SEFTON DELMER among the pearl fishers LX)R the frigate Cun- damme it was a pretty tough assignment she was preparing to sail from Darwin to meet an "invading 1 fleet of 25 Japanese pearling luggers. Two men had arranged for Condamine to .sail—
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    Sea nymph
    31 12 BLACK straw braid outlines the collar and wide pockets of this brilliant yellow beach coat m a brushed rayon jersey, worn here by London model Jill Howard. Keuter picture.
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    Plain Jane has better chances
    347 12 Plain Jane has better chances IF YOU'RE a Plain Jane you've a far higher chance of happiness and m the long run you'll have more fun than your more attractive sisters. That's the surprising but heartening conclusion of American psychiatrists. Dr. Klizabeth B Hurlock, of Pennsylvania University, says: "Mo.st adolescent
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    The British would rather wife
    476 12  - The British would rather wife Mary Hewat w s VMM*U i by WE HAVE heard it before "The finest career for a woman is marriage and a home." But this time it comes from a career diplomat, a career diplomat who is also a woman. Dr. Grace Thornton, plump and
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    Consul be a
    95 12 Consul be a the Career v. Marriage question and gets the old answer from a new scurce she still chuckles over it. "The treatment worked." If you ask Dr. Thornton whether it has all been worth it. her eyes twinkle and she shrugs her shoulders. "A girl must live," she
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    Bridge Hand
    331 12 Bridge Hand Nortb-Soutb vulnerable Nortb dealer MTHI KABT AQo3A X 1 V 76 8 2 0762 V 3 2 A X 0 Q 9* 6 3 SOUTH 9 A Q J It t i 0 A 5 J It f I Tbe btddiDg North East South Weal INT 24 6<?
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      251 12 I P I P I F LVLW^ IHP WKR I I I I I I CLUU ACROSS 3 Bad rlngi lor them. (81. 1 What a late walker probably 4 Thls WWCfarfully, should deceive missed. <4. 3>. the eve (7 2. 4 1 7 Hazel of Endor, maybe? (5). 5
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    Belles of St. Trinians
    59 13 M-ft. Fourth lormrrs rnlhrr round to (In a little lorturin:; i»i the 'spy. I -lorrir. tnm the I it ill m the ffi Irn 'The Belli z i»| St. Trinians" based on Konaid Searle'i "awful fill" cartoons. The he.uimistievv Miss Iritton (below) talks to her bookmaker
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    Disney in the deep
    132 13 II'ALT DISNEY'B Mm "Twenty Thousand i r: der is expected to Bfttonlgt) the din worki. lie is filming h; pi -ire Actually underwater i I oil Na uj i;i Urn Bateau the past month a camera crew 0] fifty-four operating from n fleet ©1 mx boats
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    FILM BATTLE BEGINS
    358 13 V» 1 I r V The best yet' says London critic AN THE screen of the Plaza Cinema m London I saw Bins Crosby, Danny Kaye, and VeraElli n giving a startlingenjoyable demonstration of the most ffi ctive wide-screen film process Hollywood has produced so far. It
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    How to marry a film star
    93 13 ADVICE TO UNMARRIED WOMEN: Get a publicity job m Europe and you could wind up wedded to a film star. KIRK DOI'GLAS and PETER LORRE both married the press agents who worked on their European films. Kirk said "I do" with Anne Buydens, whom
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    Dateline. Hollywood...
    205 13 WHEN AIDREY Hiroiw recently celebrated hfr 25th birthday. MIX ffcßßfcK tasked her, "What do you have to work for now. sinceyouve won the two top awards this year the Oscar (for the screen' and the Tony < for the 5555?" To which Audrey replied' ''Now 1 haw Uj
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    'Gossips' blasted
    152 13  -  Mary Pickford -by MARY PICKFORD, during her long and bu.sv career, was never known to .sound off much on anything. In recent months, however, she has aired her view.-> on many Issues. She ha* declared keyhole columnists were directly responsible for wrecking many i tar marriages; it Ls
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    AMERICAN IS THE WORLD'S BEST SPRINTER
    165 14  - AMERICAN IS THE WORLD'S BEST SPRINTER ROY MOOR UK athletes well beaten By >JINE records m the American chan.- pionships at St. Louis show clearly that the United States are still the No. 1 nation m track and field athletics. Bui just how does Britain compare? Art Bragg became the
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    K.L RACE WEIGHTS
    578 14 U'lH.llh fur all seven races on Wednesday, second day of the Selangor Turf Club's JuneJuly meeting:, are: Cl 3, Oiv. 1-5 tpplause 9.00 •lasterpiere 8.12 Uinseng 8.11 l.yros 8.10 ide Screen 8.09 kity Click 8.09 irissa 8.08 'early 8.0? Mstributoi 8.0? vnosure 8.07 ho ydaris 8.06 >isney
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    HAZELL GOES RIDING
    52 14 picture. MI DDI hWKK.MI BOXER Gordon Hazell, whose present ambition is the British title vacated by Randolph Turpin. Ins a stirrup iron adjusted by 17-year-old Mary Blackwell. who runs a riding school, before going for a canter on the sands at Weston-Super-Mar* Somerset. Kordan k m. keen
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    DON COCKELL v. MARCIANO —SOLOMONS HOPEFUL
    241 14  - DON COCKELL v. MARCIANO —SOLOMONS HOPEFUL NOEL JOSEPH By ARK we coinf to see Don CockHl fight Rocky Marc Uno for the heavy-weight championship of the world, m London? Two weeks ago it seemed reasonably certain we might. Mr Jack Solomons announced that he had tentatively booked the White City
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    Yorks hit 433 runs
    145 14 "TjiRANK LOWSON displayed classic jj batsmanship m scoring 70 m ,j-and-a -quarter hours for Yorkshire against Pakistan yesterday. The Pakistan bowling, weakened by the absence of Puzal Mahmoud, who has a slight leg strain, never looked impressive and Yorkshire made 433 for nine with an undefeated
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    Mike Hawthorn wins at Monza
    95 14 MIKE HAWTHOKN or Britain teaming with Italy's Umberto Maglioli m a 3.000 c.c. Ferrari, last night won the 1, 000-kilometre "Supercortemaggiore Grand Prix' auto race m Monza. Italy. Argentine Jose Froilan Gonzales. m another Ferrari, was second. His teammate was Maurice Trintignant of France. Third
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    ASCOT RUNNER WINS IN PARIS
    64 14 M. Marcel Bonssacs three-year-old colt Estremadur, entered for the King George VI and Elizabeth's stakes at Ascot on July 17 won the 600,000 francs (£600) Prix De Some Et Marne In Paris on Saturday over nearly one and a half miles. Alec Weisaciller's six-year-old Skyrocket
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    437 14 By ARCHIE QUICK tfANCY beating a world record ana yei only finish fifth! That was the unfortunate experience which befell Miss Betty Loakes, of Kettenng. m the half-mile at the Women's Amateur Athletic Association's annual national championships at the wniu City, London. The existing
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    WEIGHTLIFTING WORLD RECORD
    78 14 NORBERT Schemansky <]*. l l L established a world recordjnt™ national weightlifting championships at Los Angles, on Saturday by hoisting 417 pounds m tne hands clean and Jerk. He held the t**H with 1952 Olympic G^ champion In the heavyweight an sion. set the record at his
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    Students in H.K.
    34 14 Thirtysix University of Malaya students arrived m Hong Kong yesterday for the fourth inter Varsity sports meeting against the University of Hongkong. The two universities will first clash m badminton tomorrow.
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    ITALY TAKE TITLE
    23 14 Italy won the first European baseball championships yesterday, beating Spain 7-4 In the final game of Lht title juries.- A.P.
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    ENGLAND REGAIN SOCCER PRESTIGE
    201 15  -  VERON MORGAN Great game v. Uruguay By riNGLAND regained much of her former J soccer prestige by the valiant fight In losing 2-4 to Uruguay, the world champions, m the world cup quarterfinal match m Basle on Saturday. That is the view of English soccer officials,
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    Apprentice wins
    41 15 Picture. Apprentice Kitson LcMlj rode Eastern Pearl to victory m a close duel with Captain Valiant m the fifth rare at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Eastern Pearl paid S2O for a win and 87 for a place. Free Press
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    PETERS DOES IT AGAIN!
    225 15 BRITISH star Jim Peters set a new world recoi^d for marathon run when he v. red the 26 miles 385 yards from Windsor to Chiswick 1 adium (London* on Saturday. 1 tiers turned m a shattering time of 2 hours 17 minutes 39.4 There is no
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    Ulster 'double' for Ray Amm
    97 15 |>AY AMM of Rhodesia, winmof the 500 c c. event on Thur.s- -<•:»>• completed a ■double" by win'in^' the 350 c.c. Ulster Grand Prix n .1 Norton motor cycle at Dunrod '<ear Belfast on Saturday. Amm covered tht 25 laps totalling ]«5 miles (297.72 kilometres)
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    Bobsworth snatches a photo victory
    528 15 Bobsworth snatches a photo victory HOW THEY RAN AT X.L JOCKEY John Hudson rode a spectacular grana-siana finish to score on Bobsworth m the Class 3, Div. 1 mile handicap at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Conventional made the pace i a cracker and half a mile out he was four
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    The goalkeeper's eye
    11 15 Johorrs ung mmm Stadium. Bto|M« w< I'rrss picture.
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    LANDY RACE
    31 15 John Limay, m* recently beat Ro«er B«uJ '♦;> I world record mile, said y«*t«-.da, that he will compete m Low metre race m UttSlft, South Fmlam on July 11.— Reuter.
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    FRISEUR WINS
    56 15 ..II > HHIIfIIU IV>«»ll. I eui won the Northumberland .\pr two vailm at Ootfortih Park, NtWCIlfUt m a three h<>^*-photo-flnlA. He beat Mr. R O. HapMMl'l Htwaj bf i "«*rk *ith Mr. Cnif Browri.s Hrumfueld, another neck twaythlrd. TMBtf ran Offirial bettinK wa.s: 7-1 Fri.seur Kin h ChMtftWftf
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    Fists fly as Hungary win
    357 16 Players fight with bottles HUNGARY, the Olympic champions, eliminated Brazil 4-2 m the quarter-finals of the* World Soccer Cup competition at Berne yesterday after one of the most fantastic football matches ever. Three players. two Brazilians and one Hungarian, were ordered off the field by
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    84 16 Ml l kim\ t'ruguay 4, England I Austria Switzerland YESTERDAY Hungary 4. Brazil 2 Germany 2 Yugoslavia 0 2-0, scoring a goal m each half to join Hungary, tlrujuay and Austria m the semi-finals. Germany were lucky to take the lead after 11 minutes when trie Yugoslavia centre half
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    SEMI-FINAL DRAW
    14 16 World Cup semi-hnai draw: Hun&iry v Uruguay, and (iermanv v. Austria. Reuter
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    Talkie II and South Pacific in sound trial
    171 16 TRACK WORK T.\i kik II (MUiiey) ana South Pacific tFaggotten wer^ associated m a splendid workout on the training track It Kuala Lumpur this morning. Racing wide out on the main rac i course, the pair clocked 38 4 5 for 3f
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    345 16 808 APPLE YAKD, me YorKsnire iasi meaium o offspin bowler, heard on his 30th birthday yesterday that he had been selected to make his firs appearance for England on Thursday In the seconc Test against Pakistan at Nottingham. The team is: D. S. Sheppard
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    TITLE FIGHT
    37 16 ARCHIE Moore, world light heavyweight boxing champion will defend his title against Harold Johnson of Philadelphia at Madison Bc.ua re Garden on August 11. Mr. Jim Norris President of the International Boxing Club, said yesterday.
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    AMATEUR GAME
    17 16 A.P. Austra beat Hungary 2-1 yesterday m an international amateui soccer game m Vienna. A.P.
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    GRAND PRIX de PARIS
    40 16 Popof. owned by R. T. De la Chaume and ridden by jockey F. i Palmer, won the 20.000.000-france Grand Prix de Paris, top of turf event of the season, yesterday at the longchamps track. MRS MAWSON
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    116 16 Rose meets Trabert in singles VIC SEIXAS, the defending champion, looked unimpressive when beating Belgium's Jackie Brichant 6 8, 7 5, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 m the fourth round of the men's hi titles a( Wimbledon on Saturday. Seixu.s HI constantly worried by the lively volleying game of the Belgian who
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    RADRODRO v THE T-BOMB
    513 16  -  CHARLES BRYCE Woman promoter plans Spore box m p 'feast' Hy [{Hi plans tor big boxing— how many have fallen through here m the past. Now keep your fingers crossed for the success of a promised fight feast within 40 days. The instigator of this bid
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