The Singapore Free Press, 29 June 1954

Microfilm: NL2439
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    Masthead
    16 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. 1X987. Singapore, Tues., Jun« 1954. Price 15Cts
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    VICAR CLIMBS STEEPLE
    139 1 I DO declare.* said the grocer's wife, "isn't that the vicar up there at the tip of the church steeple?" And sure enough it was. ■i. Rpv Albe rt (ieorge Morris was up there, wear j ing his clerical collar, and tinkering with the weatherj vane 120
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    BIG MURDER FEAR HITS WOMEN
    366 1  - BIG MURDER FEAR HITS WOMEN SIT YIN FONG Menace is The Driller by pLAR today gripped the women of Tions Bharu— a Singapore estate of 30,000 residents— as "The Driller" struck for the fifth time this month. Is he the same man who brutally murdered two Chinese girls and attacked
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    New Chou may go to Jakarta
    116 1 TIED CHINA Premier, Mr. Chou En-lai. now m Rangoon, may visit Jakarta for talks with the heads of the Indonesian Government. It he decides to go to Jakarta ho will pass through Singapore m the special Indian Constellation m which he is travelling. Mr.
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    His Jubilee
    42 1 REV. FATHER Rene lilrard, private secretary to the Archbishop of Malacca, celebrates his 25th anniversary m the Priesthood, m Singapore, today. Father Girard spent 13 years m Kuala Lumpur, and for several years he was m lpoh. Penang and Malacca.
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    S'PORE BLOWS AT REDS
    49 1 4 SINGAPORE police spokes- man this morning reveali that "considerable success" had been gained m the last iree day.s in tackling Commusts activities m the Colony. This lollowed the shooting of > Singapore Harbour Board constables. A security blanket la now bethrown on police investiga- HIS.
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    SHOCKING THAT NOTHING WAS DONE-JUDGE
    221 1 MR. Justice Knight, president of the Kalian*- air crash inqnirj m Singapore, said this morning that it was "shocking that nothing had heen done" to improve the airports fire fighting unit. He believed that m the last 3 years, some 4,000 Constellations and an equal
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    Gun and ammo found in tin under bed
    70 1 Gun and ammo found in tin under bed A police .spokesman stated this morning that six rounds of bullets and a 32 tntom were found m tin under a bed m a cubicle In Kereta Ayr Road. Singapore. lail nignt. Twenty-three other rounds were found wrapped m ft piece of
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    26 students to appeal
    65 1 Singapore lawyer, Mr Tann Wee Tiong will formally &1< 0 appeal this morning on behall ol 26 Chinese BChool students, who were found wuilty y trrday m the Firth Court Oi obstructing (j iring student demonstration agaln»t national service m Cl< m< nceau Av.-nui' on May
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    City bombed: Americans to be flown out
    185 1 I^OLONEL Carlos Enrique Din/, the new President of Guatemala, laid m a speech yesterday that liis appointment m succession to President Jacob Arbenz did not mean any change of policy. Making his first pronouncement since taking office, Colonel Diaz said he would follow
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    Rubber price
    25 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened .steadily thi.. morning with first grade, July shipment, at 67 rents h pound, unchanged .-.inr* yesterday 1 dose.
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    New snag in peace
    134 2 TIIK 'BKi THUMB" Western partners agreed m Geneva, last nicht to give further study to a Russian demand for a meeting of delegation chiefs to aijree on broad principles for armistice control m Indo-China. Earlier Britain and France were said to !•< ready to agree to
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    VICTORY ON RUINS IS WAR'S 'PRIZE'
    429 2 says Churchill m peace plea ORITAIN'S Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill made a plea m Washington yesterday for a "real good try" for peaceful co-existence with Russia to lessen the risk of war which would "leave us victorious on a heap of ruins." He
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    Quake in Turkey
    24 2 An earthquake shook Gemlik, on the Marmara sea forty mile* south ol Istanbul, yesterday. There were no casu- altie.s A. P
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    WHO IS QUEEN OF ALL?
    115 2 HERE are the I 0 finalists m the Miss Malaya Quest a$ they lined up on the stage of the Capitol Theatre last niffht ifter the judging (from left): Mrs. Dorothy de Souza (Fortune Advertising). Miss Phyll Westerhout, Miss Marjorie Wee (Malayan Airways), Miss Jeanette
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    Swedish King, Queen arrive in London
    151 2 Swedish King, Queen arrive in London KING Gustav and Queen Louise of Sweden stepped ashore at Westminster pier m the rear of London yesterday, for the .start of their four-day state visit to the city. They were welcomed on the landing stage by the Queen. They had sailed up the
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    Baring returns
    22 2 Sir Evelyn Baring, the Governor of Kenya, arrived back In Nairobi yesterday after three months sick leave m Britain.- Reuter
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    French in U.S. planes harry Reds
    145 2 French in U.S. planes harry Reds FRENCH-PILOTED American war planes yesterday hammered Vietminh rebel concentrations m the Sontay sector, some 20 miles north-west of Hanoi. A French spokesman said fighter pilots ranged m low to strafe rebel troops. Only regional skirmishing and minor patrol actions were reported from the Red
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    HEIRESS SHOT ON U.S. RACE TRACK
    206 3 HEIRESS SHOT ON U.S. RACE TRACK Estranged husband held ?:.S. STEAMSHIP heiress Mrs. Andrea Luckenbarh U Hammer, 33, was shot and wounded by her estranged husband at Delaware Park race track yesterday, police said. Delaware hospital doctors said she had boon •nick m the left hip and right chest, but
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    U.K. wants more trade with Turks
    54 3 Trade between Britain and Turkey should be increased. the Minister of State, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd told a meeting oi the Anglo-Turkish Society m the House of Commons yesterday. The level of trade between our two countries is nothing like a.s high as it could
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    Israelis attack Arab Legion
    30 3 Jordan yesterday claimed a force of Israeli soldiers crossed the armistice demarcation line near Kalkilyeh and attacked an Arab Legion base, killine four Arab Legio-naires.-—A. P.
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    Death in Korea
    29 3 A Filipino soldier was killed tnd seven were injured on Saturday when one of the group stepped on a hidden land mine m Korea.— A. P.
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    Ten killed in village polls riot
    54 3 Ten killed in village polls riot TEN villagers were killed, and many others injured, as rival supporters clashed during a local election campaign m the village of Kirpa, Rawalpindi (West Pakistan* police announced yesterday. Sticks, swords, rifles and even hand-grenade were used m rioting which started with a scuffle around
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    FOREST HUNT FOR MAU MAU KILLER GANGS
    129 3 TROOPS and police combed dense forest undergrowth In Kenya's Mem Reserve area yesterday m an all-out search for Mau Mau gangs which brutally hacked to death seven African mission teachers on Sunday. The outbreaks of violence came as authorities feared a new wave
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    THAT COLUMN DEFAMED AUTHOR SAYS JUDGE
    135 3 FEDERAL Judge Edward Weinfeld told a York r jury yesterday that columnist Westbrook regitr clearly y ha y dUbelled author Quentin Reynolds ma 1949 column published m 186 newspapers. He said Reynolds was entltledtojfamages.^ up t> jury to determine the amount The Judge made
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    Sir Winston says I'm a Zionist'
    76 3 I AM a Zionist." Sir Winston Churchill told a news conference m Washington yesterday. Reporters asked the British Prime Minister what he thought about Arab-Israeli relations He started by saying. "I am a Zionist," but added that he liked the Arabs too and saw
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    Tangier holiday
    20 3 Miss Barbara Hutton the Woolworth heiress, left Madrid yesterday for Tangier where she plans to spend a month.
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    Visiltors to Singapore
    108 3 Mr. A. W. Altken, assistant m. in. »urn.; director of American lntfrn.itum.il Assurance. Hong: Kong, who flew into Singapore yesterday to attend the company's annual convention. The convention, to be attended by t»0 insurance executives from Hong Kon«. Sarawak. North Borneo, and the Federation opens on Thursday.
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    Communist boast
    18 3 Communist China now produces 50 per cent, of the machinery it needs, Peking said yesterday.- UP
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    DENMARK SIGNS
    11 3 Denmark signed the InterNational Tin Agreement yesterday afternoon. Renter
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    It can ram now
    33 3 A permanent aluminium covering is to be provided at the Esplanade Restaurant for patrons to tak<> shelter If l' rains It will cost, the City Council an extra $20,000.
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    Train is trapped in Lily's town
    98 3 Train is trapped in Lily's town tj*)UKTKKN helicopters Jiut--1 tied back and i^rth ysterday re iculni pi ngers from a train trapped *>y flood waters m the Rfto Grande Valley The "Sunset Limited" <>f 'J" 1 SoutixMii Pacific Rallwai hi utranded In the Uttle Southvest T«-x.ii town dI Langtry, named
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    RED CHINESE TRADE MISSION IN BRITAIN
    74 3 RED CHINESE TRADE MISSION IN BRITAIN fin if. first Chinese Oommu--1 nist trade mlsaion to visit Britain arrived m London by air last ni«ht. from Geneva The group ol 11 Chinese trade experts La to dlaeuM an expanding of Anglo-Chinese trade, with rei>reaenUtt?ei or British industry. Th<» mission members were
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, June 29, 1954. Opinion A double hurdle
    401 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, June 29, 1954. Opinion A double hurdle V)w Education Department has announced that it guarantees to find places m secondary schools next year for tho.se of some 3,600 schoolboys and i'irls now m .standard fiye Who pass their standard examinations, and another examination for admi.ssion
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    An "Ordinary Day m the Delta
    1059 4 Forrest Edwards, Associated Press correspondent, conveys the terrors and discomforts of a routine operation m Indo-China IT STARTED when 200 Virtminh guerrillas ambushed a French patrol. It ended with one village m flames and another raked from end to end by tons of bombs
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    Malayan students feted
    165 5 A ussie lea then Irish folk songs FORTY Asian .students m Australia, including a few from Malaya, recently went oil a tour of the Illawarra District sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sydney. During the three-day tour, district Rotary clubs were their hosts. These pictures were taken
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    GUARANTEE OF STANDARD SIX PLACES, IF....
    323 5 rpilE Education Department today guaranteed to fine places m secondary schools next year for thosi of the 3,000 boys now m standard five who pass theii exams and another "simple" examination, for admission to standard six. They will be tested m English language, compasi-
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    Motorists to make gift to Haxworth
    139 5 Motorists to make gift to Haxworth SINGAPOMTB Traffic I'olirc Superintendent, Mr. W.K.M. llaxworth, is to Ret farewell gift from the Autoinohilr Association of Singapore hefore he retires m August. The gift has been suggested »y members "m recognition of his valuable and unstinted services to traffic control m Singapore." A
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    Survey to put up the fish catch
    50 5 BRUNEI. Tues. Mr. D. W. Le Mare. Director of Fisheries Malaya, has conducted a .survey of Brunei Bay and adjacent waters to advise the Gov- ernment on improved fishing I methods. A shortage of Ash has been experienced here for soma considerable time.
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    Villagers get a free bridge
    45 5 KOTA BAHRU I TM District Officer, Machang, Inche Hashim bin h.iji Ifahmood, opened .t 100-fool bridge Kcnniliii on Saturday. The bridge WU built with free labour from the fcftmpong'l Inhabitant! and the materials for itfl construction were givrn by RIDA.
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    TECHNICAL EDUCATION CHIEF DUE HERE SOON
    123 5 SINGAPORE'S new assistant director of technical education, Mr. R. B. Anderton, will arrive early next month to take up his post. Hh duties will include the general planning of technical education, recroitmeni ol and working In liaison with the proposed polytechnic. Mr Anderton will
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    THEY SEEK ANSWER TO BURIAL PROBLEM
    118 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tufwaj- THE Housing and Building Committee of £uaia A Lumpur Municipality will consider at .its meeUns Friday a proposal for an all-communitj crematoi ium ho re. The Municipality sent out a ilar m April to all reliheads and temples a.sk- their views
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    Negri condemns Sopiee
    40 5 BEREMBAN, Tue 'J' 1 Sembilan Labour P i condemned Mohamed Sopiee and Mr v cnoon Ron* for "beti the faith ll Inche Sopiee and Mr. yeap ia t week reslifned from me Labo >1 N! lla y*-
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      193 6 i* A v:..-;*^ %i IA I J. d ft I |fl I]K I I i-'ifig ff ft I i ■'■•>•* P 1 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davi; 1 rT~I<ETp~^ (SO 00 1 EXCEPTI I I ASKED IF YOU COULD GO.TOO, lOF ALL THE GIRLS IN THE WORLD, 1
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      686 6 l-]llllllilllllCJIIIIIIl|||||C]|||||||||||| ni||||l I YOUR LUCKY star! E JJORN TODAY, you are one 5 of those moody, te^npeia- z; mental individuals who is rarely the same from day to day. You are apt to live in a dream world where everything is wonderful, no matter how r=, drab and dreary things
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    Flood Menace
    945 7 In Orchard Road Today Sit Yin Kong of the Free Press looks into a problem not new to Singapore, but one which has brought much misery and inconvenience t o the people the floods. In this the first of a series of articles, he asks: "Will something be
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    American A man in blue for City Hall
    98 7 American A man in blue for City Hall VNY DIFFICULTY m recognising the City Hall Ste--1 ird, Mace-bearer and Toast M i>t.-r ol Singapore? Then look for a man wearIng ri.irk blue double-breasted i icket and trousers, white shirt, black tie. black .shoes, and white gloves. He will get them,
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    preacher will help run youth assembly
    121 7 rrHE Rev Joe Kennedy. 28-yeMT-OW Ain.-ncai. T „i and evangeltet, will play a pmmmenl parWn the "omhw World Assembly of Youth In Bingapore. He has been made personal assistant to the co-ordinator of the amenably. Mr Brie Wee The appointment was recently announced by
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    'Inadequate' fine raised
    78 7 iron, Tue a One ol $10 Imposed on a lroun m s w Wood by the Taipinß magistrate f >r In n i**r: 1 1 driving wi- increased to one of $00 by Mr. Justice Buh m the P< i ii'- Appeal Court today. The Deputy Public
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    BRITAIN TOO HAS PROBLEM OF OUT-PATIENTS
    255 8 Cut comforts for quick service BRITAIN like Singapore has an out-p itients problem —and this view was put out: I! out-patients at a hospital haw to wait longer than expected, tell thrm win— they need this human touch Hut don't tpend a lot of
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    Family friend goes to prison
    193 8 Family friend goes to prison THE ORGANIST of a village church who became friendly with a family was asked to give music lessons to the 14--year-old daughter of the house. At L'ssex Assi/es at Chelmsford the man. Alan Douglas Campen, aged 39. clerk, of Fox-crescent, Chelmsford, was sent ti> prison
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    The landlord made her life unbearable
    231 8 rpHE landlord's notice to quit did not frighten Mrs. Alberta Clements from her horne Grudgeworthy Cottage, Monk Okehampton. But the landlord, Farmer Frederick Goodwin, set out to make her life there impossible, said Mr. Justice Oliver at Devon Assizes. Mrs. Clements said that Goodwin
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    DRIVE-UNDER PARKS PLAN
    46 8 Mr. Allan Lennox-Boyd, the Transport Minister, has called for estimates for buildinp three or lour bi^ underground car parks m London. An official committee has recommended that top priority should be given to Grosvenorsquare, Berkeley-square, Cavendish square a n d St. James s-square.
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    TYRE BURST CRASH KILLS WIFE
    46 8 A three-wheel ear overturned after a bark tyre burst on the Great West Road at Brentford. Middlesex. Mr. Harry Walter Hills, aged 69, and his 60-yeur- old wile Lily, of Alderton-road. Wo.st Croydon, were taken to hospital, where Mrs. Hill.s died.
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    The unsinkable lady
    95 8 A GIRL m a swimsuit was tied m a sack and flung into the deep end of a swimmini: bath m London. She name to the top. ri^ht side OD, m four seconds. A brick was fattened to her waist, she was tied hand and foot and
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    GREEK GOD HAIRSTYLE
    61 8 HAIRDRESSERS In Yorkshire are to compete m creating a new hair-style for men at Halifax m August. "It will be known as the sculptured style," said Mr. Lionel Ramsden, of Bradford, who is helping to organise the competition, "and is based on that of the ancient Greek
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    He can't see child in ex-wife's home
    356 8 AN APPEAL by Mr. OeOTgC J\ Bilainkin, the author, of H» r^a Court, Harrow against an order by Mr. Justice Wilner concerning acc< sa to his fWi -y«ar -old daughter, Lynn*\ was dismissed, with costs, m tin- court Ol Appeal m London. In
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    Hecklers start Her tin riot
    56 8 WEST BERLIN police struggle to keep an angry crowd MWtf from a heckler iiist arrested during a rally at the city hall square to mark the anniversary of the anti-Com-munist uprising m East (iermany The police arrested 30 people during fist fights as hecklers interrupted
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    'SEND THEM TO DESERT ISLAND'
    99 8 'SEND THEM TO DESERT ISLAND' A RECORDER suggested t it micht be a good thing I if all habitual sexual offenders could be deported to some desert island. There. said Mr. R Somerset. Recorder at Gloucester Quarter Sessions, they couW do as they liked without offence !to decent peeple. Of
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    HE WILL BUZZ JUNGLE FOR LOST BROTHER
    146 8 HE WILL BUZZ JUNGLE FOR LOST BROTHER ANOTHER search this time by air is to be made for j Colonel Percy Fawcett, who i I vanished 28 years ago m the swamp-ridden jungle of Matto Grosso, m Central BraziIt is being organised by hjJ son. 48-year-old Carlisle commercial artist. Mr.
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    Is this realty my dad? -with a moustache!
    74 9 THIS LITTLE French b«»v i*n't quite sure that it really i* liis father brhind the larnr false rn«msta< -he. Besides. Ihc uniform looks as though it lias jn **t stepped out of lair\ story all v<t> punting. TheM soldiers from another epoch
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    Children to lose their one playfield
    284 9 Children to lose their one playfield PARENTS of children who for I years have played m a 2',2-acre garden m the heart of London, the one green spot they really know, have been told: "You can use these grounds no longer." Now the parents, living m reauisitioned houses converted into
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    OUZAT?
    25 9 Farmer D. Portman, batting for Alfrick, Worcs, cricket team was called away to attend a sick cow. He returned later and scored— -a duck.
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    REX BURIED WITH OTHER HEROES
    21 9 Rex the 11-year-old Alsatian d,« who .iron 55 Dlrkli. M-rtal hrVocs. including Biimm, the Amothyst rat
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    Courage—and mud slinging
    130 9 Courage— and mud slinging of tons of I mud from the bed of the River Thames will be dredged, loaded into barges, and dumped at Ramsgate next year to make room at Erith for the world's largest cable ship, the Monarch. The Monarch will arrive there to load for her
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    MISS R' MUMBLES PROTEST AT WEDDING
    242 9 MISS R' MUMBLES PROTEST AT WEDDING U'llO is .Miss Kos<-" the l>.il<*. lil >">'iik uoman who Interrupted ;i week-end sorirtv wedding? Guests who saw 24-year-old Miss Fiona Cos I cotton magnate's daughter, married to Mr. Hugh Campbell-Byatt, kinsman o! the Lord Lieutenant of Argyll, were asking thr question. So were
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    SEARCH FOR TORPEDOED GERMAN TREASURE SHIP
    122 9 Steel tower will be sunk to sea bed AN attempt to salvage R old worth £2,000,000 from the A wreck of a German freighter by sinking a steel shaft to the sea bed will be made next month oil the coast of Holland The
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    SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
    49 9 A woman whoae new ft teeth were ao bin she could not eat with them waa described "edentulous." what does that mean? asked Sir R N. Reid, chairman of the East Suffolk Health Executive Council" Explained the clerk. Mr. Gilbert Ranson: n mean* without teeth
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    What went up on her line was jolted down
    239 9 What went up on her line was jolted down JjiORTY FIVE YEAR old Mrs. Margaret Pratt i.s in trouble with her local council because she takes m washing to help the family Income. "Carrying on laundry" ki how the Daventry rural council describes Mrs. Pratt s extra work. And Rule
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    Christening by threes
    54 9 Three couplet took their i baby daughter* to Broadwater Parish Church, Worthiii" [or a triple-christening ioi the econd time For there was a triple christening two years ago. when they took their nr.st children all girl to the church And they VOWed then to hnve their econd
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    HOMELIER TAXES
    15 9 Demand notei foi ratrs will ued m Welsh m future at LJeyn, Caernarvonshire
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    PRAYER? NO
    23 9 Canadian Baptist* refused .t.s "too theatrical a suggw tion that thfy should pray before fixing thru budget at their j convention
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    43 9 picture. Kl\< SAID Or SAUDI ARABIA ami Kinc Hussein of Jordan s< il<«l m the Voom f Amman's airport shortly ;.ft,r the arrival of Kto| saud for sVrtial military talks. Ther. was a U| row.l at the airport to uflcomc Knit baud.- A.P.
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    12 10 "But Bertie— l m only doing like Winston and Ike-encouraging Anglo-American relationship."
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    23 10 C orporai UoKo-.t taking part m the Northern ommand lalloo, fit* Tich, a bull mastiff with a spiked collar for a Roman scene.
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    There are No 'Jay Walkers'in Spain
    719 10  - There are No 'Jay Walkers'in Spain JOHN CULMER The most traffic-conscious people m the world "YJAYBE at least a part I of the answer to the universally grave and growing traffic problem could be found m Spain, where road accidents are few and the public .strikingly trafficconscious. The basic factor
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    Film star 'not wanted'
    113 10 Film producer Stanley Kramer is getting bags of matt -;ce he announced production of Mort Thompsons "Not As a Stranger* and not all of it is flattering. Nor since "Gone With the Wind," perhaps, has a novel turned so many readers into Hollywood cast selectors. They
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    By the Way
    227 10 WHEN 1 read that Mr. Alan Ladd had broken a rib, not m a single-handed flght with 174 gunmen but by slipping m his bathroom, I recalled the girl who said. "I don't really think these filmstars are the same off the films, do you?" It Ls
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    Song and Dance at Tashkent
    956 11  - Song and Dance at Tashkent Rene MacColl jhghgvghj ::j iijnii I Back m Moscow, Rene McColl unpacks the notebooks of his journey through the heart of Soviet Russia and begins a new series on a strange and colourful Iand.. ..UZBEKISTAN. ONE of the things that sticks m my memory is
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    52 11 ]iiiiiiiiiiioimniiiiiniiiiiiimiic)iiiiimiiu= Eric Portmaii. ilis^ui^d as ,t liritish officer, discubed as a German lentry. He play> oloncl Hk 'hmoml, < l» British officer ai tin- «.idii/ p.O.W, camp who covered an escape by dtsjruisinn himself us ieiitrj whiskers ami a padded Jacket were 5 the cl r^<l ti for thr film
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    TROUBLE IN RED SCHOOLS
    565 11  - TROUBLE IN RED SCHOOLS G.E.R. GEDYE The Iron Curtain remedy is: 'liquidate the hooligans!' NEWSPAPERS m satellite countries, particularly Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, m the latter part of 1953 and m early 1954, devoted a great deal of space to the problem of controlling youth. The mere fact that the
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    CANADIAN REALITY
    55 12 CANADIAN REALITY Dianne Foster »as born m J.dmonton. < anada, and HI to Hollywood by wa\ of Kngiami where Iset pretly face and line fi^urr «ot her into the staije with Orson Welles: and Sir Lawrence Oliver and into many films. Shr last appeared with harlton lleston and Usafeetn Scott
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    A career girl says: It isn't worth it
    554 12  - A career girl says: It isn't worth it GAY PAULEY by ryiiE most ramoua and beautiful career f^irl of them all has denounced spinsterhood and says if she had it to do over. she would have married tiie lirst man who ever proposed Anita Colby, hazel-eyed blonde known us The
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    Bridge Hand
    416 12 North-South vulnerable OA9 8 2 A X <} 7 6 3 W'KST HAST *QH2 A A 7 4 <? A 7 6 (V O?KQ2 0 3 0 J 10 7 6 5 A 1 < < 4 j|k 10 5 SOUTH J 10 X 3 The bidding South
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    Stripes for the sea
    80 12 STKIPtS AHL aTARRED tor holiday playsuits. This strapless sun-bathing suit is made all m one piece with the shorts m gay striped canvas. The dashing apron panel has hi? kangaroo pouch pockets to hold sun glasses and sun cream. It zips ri?ht up the back. The
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    And now it's mouse racing
    186 12 MOUSE Racing Ls the dewest fad In Hon« Kong It got started by a Brit soldier In the Oa* f *son Sergeants Mess last month and at its second meeting drew an enthusiastic crowd. Members of the Mess built a race course of wood wiU
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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      346 12 1 J I^^J Jill CUES ACROSS: 7. a conditional pat, if it's a little 1 May be dark elevenses! (I). of tne ri^ nt commodity! (3). 5. 1s this the talkative meter m- 8?■ no S re V Lniri (<i IDtctOf -3-3;. 12 Approves it very briefly (3). 9 Twist
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    Exe Perrick
    695 13 RETURN OF A FILM STAR Meets a childhood hero— and gets a shock rHE arrival oi a certain 50-year-old film star m London has caused some interest. But it was for another one-time Hollywood personality same age, same era, same day arrival that I not all excited. For
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    Dateline, Hollywood...
    426 13  -  She ilah Grahame by I UCILLE BALL can't ij agree with MGM on a proper script for the sequel to "The Long, Long Trailer," for one thing, the new t\\m musn't emphasize anything further about trailer annoyances. After all their eager cooperation on the first film. the "hitch'"
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    Fearful Cinema Owners
    274 13 HOLLYWOOD MAY SELL IHEM DOWNRIVER' TO TV ITNDfIRLYINa !<-;ir oJ every U.S. cilH niu ownrr today is not television it-sell, but its probable partner subscription TV. While films actually are getting bigger and better than ever and the national box office is definitely on the upswing, exhibitors
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    STRONG SOVIET CHALLENGE AT HENLEY
    328 14 Record entry to; Royal Regatta HENLEY Royal ScgmiU, the world's greatc-i rowing spectacle, has tliis year attracted a record entry of llii crews and individual oarsmen. First beld In 1839 this colourful sporting social meeting rivals Royal Ascot races and Wimbledon lawn tennis for fashions.
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    'IT'S JUST LIKE MOSCOW', SAY REDS
    96 14 RUSSIAN oarsmen who will compete .if Henley Royal Regatta [ram Wednesday to Saturday are having their meals In marquee pedaily erected In the garden "i the miTftm belonging lo Henley business man Mr, a. Pearce. Membera of the party who were st.ivnu; it the
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    Sydney prepares for Davis Cup
    67 14 AUSTRALIA Is preparing to seat a record crowd at Sydney's White City courts for the Davis Cup challenge on December 27. 28 and 29. The Davis Cup organising committee announced today that seating around the centre court is being expanded to take a total ol
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    Pistol shoot world record
    107 14 JAMES CLARK, 31 -year-old gunsmith tired a 583 out of a possible 600 m rapid fire with a.22 calibre pLstol at the south western regional pistol championships In Louisiana to set a new world record. His score, which must be certified by the International Shooting Union
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    Hungary cancel Brazilian tour
    287 14 REFREE ELLIS, a Yorkshire textile worker regarded as one of Britain's top referees, came oft" the field amid a guard of 20 baton-carrying police after the disgraceful scenes at Berne on Sunday as Hungary beat Brazil 4-2 to enter the World Cup semi-finals. After the players'
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    Perfect torso to join R.A.F
    355 14 (graham price, of Wallingford I Road, Knowle, goes into the Royal Air Force next November, and does not anticipate having any J trouble m being enrolled as a physical training instructor. He's the 'beefcake, muscle-man of the West, and at 20 has a torso many
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    SCHOOL ATHLETICS
    20 14 The TtOOC Bahru Morning School will hold their first athletic meet today at the Sepoy Lines Medical ground.
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    LESTER PIGGOTT GETS A JOB
    98 14 T ESTER Plggctt. Britain's 18-year-ly old wonder jockey now suspend- I ed for the way he rode m an Ascot race, started work yesterday for five guineas a week— the amount he got for one race as a jockey. Piggott was disciplined by the stewards
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    'A BREED OF ARMCHAIR SPORTSMEN'
    173 14 'A BREED OF ARMCHAIR SPORTSMEN' pREYHOUND racing at the White City is to be televised. At the annual luncheon of the Greyhound Racing Asm m m t ion Chairman Frank Gentle did not bttltata to say that he hated the idea and thought that it would adversely affect the usual
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    Russians in action
    28 14 picture. ()ar s flash rhythmically at Henley-on-Thames as Kussian rowers practise for the Koyal Regatta They are competing this year lor the first time. Reuter
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    N.Z. SOCCER TOUR
    48 14 A New Zealand soccer team touring Australia m August and September will play 11 matches. According tc the tentative itinerary for the tour, the flnt mutch will be at Adelaide on August 4 and the last at Woolonqon^ (New South Wales) on September 5 Rettter.
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    BACK PEARLY IN MAIN 5½F. SPRINT
    1066 15 TRESPASSER on tomorrows K.L. races Early pace should bring him victory HIS early pace should enable Pearly to win the main sprint for Class 3, Div. 1, horses over 5 1 furlongs on the second day of the Selangor Turf Club's June-July meeting at
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    PROBABLE SCRATCHINGS
    79 15 |>ROBABLE scratching* I for the second day of the Sclangor Turf Club June-July meeting at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow are: Masterpiece. Wide Screen. Clickity Click. Orissa, Distributor. Graduate, Asholme, Bug Morning, South Pacific. My Word. Allgood. Samroig, Windy Corner, Siam Rice. Karatonga. Mayfair Music. Red Carnation. Remarkable, (iilan. Peasant
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    BASEBALL RIOTS IN JAPAN
    46 15 JAPANESE baseball fans, enraged over decisions by umpires threw bottles and fist.- tore up seats and broke stadium wlndowi yesterday al two professional K"'™r m Osaka. Four hundred police WWe < ailed out U) quell one riot that did MM up until midnight.
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    3 trophy races at Penang
    197 15 3 trophy races at Penang T'mk Penang Odd cup and two other tropbjf races will highllKht the Penan*; lurf Clubs fourday Auffusl Bank HoUday Meeting on July 31 and August 2. 4 and 7 There will be two runs for «-.ich division of dassM l. I .'"d I The OoM
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    LONDON FIGHT FOR OLSON
    63 15 SID Flaherty manager of world middleweight champion Carl iBobo; Olson, says he ha-s received an offer to meet the winner of the forthcoming fight m Ixmdon between Johnny Sullivan and Gordon Basell. The proposed bout m I/mdon for Olson would be held either m .September or
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    RUGBY OFFER DECLINED
    64 15 THE British Rurby I^aßue has declined a French invitation to play two major internaUonals ■gainst them thl.'. season but offered to siKn up for one test matrh before the Frrnrh touriiiK team leaves for Aastralia w Fiiiiowfleid. Bacretary of the Rugby lieaßue. said the invitation for two
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    PAKISTAN FOLLOW ON
    58 15 BHBFPIaUJ) Mf)ii Pakistan were nil out lot i' l 1» rephf to yortabire'i Saturday Mai "I «W f lne de dared WtMtl thr Kame Mi re.'umed hprf today. iteond day. Pakistan followed on 234 runs behind and had kW tWO ITtelMCl fof 00 runi an hour before
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    Soccerites even missed a penalty
    311 15  -  ARGOS THE LAST WORD— by Kota Raja 4; Star Soccerites 1 STAR Soccerites will have to play better to beat the Tigers. They did not combine like a first division side at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Even though without ace forward Rahim Omar the attack
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    SURREY BEAT HANTS IN A ROUT
    6 16 SURREY BEAT HANTS IN A ROUT
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    UPSETS IN SINGAPORE TENNIS
    271 16 UPSETS IN SINGAPORE TENNIS OKMI J [NALfi brought th< upteti terd iv m th< Singapore Lawn Tennis Association championsnipa Th< li t seeded pairs In the nn ri doubles were both 'ii minated at the Tanßlin nun ii U. I r i :i»»* m. Kee Pon md i-m Khf I
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    SINGAPORE v. MALACCA
    368 16 SINGAPORE tricket* team to play Mal.tcca on the Malacca Club parang th|| weekend isl.all Btafh (Cant), Sq Ldr. I. L. Dunn. H. W Wood. Pte. D. Dent. Cant. P. D. Short, H. F. Sheppurd. Brian Marks. .1 Kirkham. Harbans iSmi4h Pte. T. Angus, H. Perera, 12th man:
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    BOXING FINALS
    78 16 The finuis nt Hit' Federation of Singapore Boys' Clubs boxing tour* iiiimeiit will be held at the SBA stadium at h :<d pm. on Satui 1 1 |>i:TKK MAY hit an unclHVated century for Surrey against Hampshire at Guildford yestt'rdav as the county champions won by an Innings
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    U.S. JAVELIN MAN BEATEN
    84 16 I^RANKLIN Bud' Held of the A United States, who last season threw hii specially made javelin 80.41 metres, was .surprisingly defeated last night by Norway's 21 year old Egil DanieLsen at a Irak and Held meet a' Bislet Stadium. Oslo. Danielsen won the javelin event with
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    RUSSIAN GYMNAST BREAKS ARM
    34 16 Russia's pretty blonde No. 1 woman uvmna.st star. Soliia Moutatova, fell and fractured an arm yesterday as athletes from 2o nations competed In Rome lor the World OymnasI tics championship.
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    World Cup farce: FIFA takes action
    329 16 THE organising committee of FIFA (tht» International Football Federation) yesterday Censured both the, Hungarian and Brazil football federations tor the imsporting conduct of their teams during the World Soccer Cup quarter final on Sunday. Tho organising committee also ordered both federations to punish the
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    What's wrong with Hoad?
    557 16 WIMBLEDON I HE HITS TOO HARD j I -SAYS DROBNY AUSTRALIA'S only representative m the men's singles semi-finals at Wimbledon is 19-year-old Ken RosewalL He will meet Tony Trabert (U.Sj for a place m the final. Rosewall outplayed anothei hard-hitting Australian. Rex [artwig, In a fluctuating
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