The Singapore Free Press, 9 July 1954

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya. siM-uporo, Fri.. July 9, 1931. Price 15 CR
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  • 352 1 Singapore's Mr. Wu makes London GASP MK Wu, of Singapore began showtef an incredulous london today how to paint with the fingers, and forget all about brushes. At the Imperial Institute, leene of many famous exhibitions, he began a month's show, which will introduce Britain, and indeed the Western World,
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  • 101 1 I H r E Sl ngaporc. Rubber Market r 'd this morning with >e. July .shipment, at 1 a Pound f.o.b. buyers clo*. nt bclow las t night's r c n ent? Iterwards however, 71 cents' f QUOte A d for Jul y Lito ls for
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  • 192 1 rpHE 3,815-ton freighter JL Astrahan, one of five Russian ships whose stay in Singapore is a mystery, suddenly left the Colony this morning. She was ROlng to Jakarta for bunkers as she could not get them in Singapore, according to the ship's local agents. The
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  • 68 1 Ipoh drive goes on PARATROOPERS taking 1 part in Operation Termite hive not reported contact with terrorists in the jungle near Ipoh, it was announced this morning 1 Helicopters were busy today taking in more Iban trackers and aborigine field teams. RAF Hornets from Butterworth carried
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  • 33 1 A statue in Chicago of Goethe, the German poet, has a new left foot. The old foot was shattered by lightning in 1951 and cost MslB,ooo to replace.- AP
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  • 322 1 Geneva to decide? QENERAL PAUL ELY, French Commander-in-Chief in Indo-China stated emphatically last night that his troops will defend Hanoi and its port of Haiphong. He said that he had repeated orders to defend Hanoi since his return from talks in Paris with France's "peacemaker Premier",
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  • 105 1 Red pincer grip on capital VIETMINH divisions yrst* day prepared for a pincer movement against Hanoi as strong pressure on the northern French perimeter wai increased and three more Red divisions poised 25 miles north of the capital awaited the order to march south. Until now this front had been
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  • 24 1 The proprietor of a coffee.shop In Chua Chu Kanß Road, Singapore, has reported the theft of $230 from iii.s shop yesterday.
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  • 23 1 An Israeli Army .spokesman said yesterday three Israeli soldiers were wounded when fired on from Egyptian positions across the border.- A.P.
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  • 28 1 pOMMUNIST leaflets circulating in Hanoi yesterday claimed that the rebel leader Ho Chi Minh would enter the city on July 14, France's na- tional day.- U.P.
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  • 11 1 India is to decontrol rice from tomorrow. A.P.
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  • 35 1 The parents of a nine-year-old English girl yesterday reported to the Singapore police that a man assaulted her after a swim at the R.A.F. pool in beletar. a 1 _l i_l I
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  • 211 2 It's for freedom-Churchill U\U WINSTON CHURCHILL, the I Minister. yesterday refused to reject further aid from America, and said he had nev< r felt ashamed of Britain receiving it. A Labour member, Mr. Desmond Donnelly, suggested In the House of Commons that the Americans
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  • 252 2 Big Five's big men head again for Geneva Mr. FRANCE HAS 12 DAYS TO GO SOVIET Foreign Minister Mr. Molotov arrived In Geneva yesterday to attend the EastWest conference on IndoChina, which will resume probably early next week. Other Big Five delegates are expected in Geneva .shortly. The French Premier
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  • 55 2 French. Vietnam M. and Vietminh officers concluded their fifth meeting at Trung Gia, 25 miles north of Hanoi yesterday, and once again refused to make any statement on the talks. A spokesman said only that th«- military men would meet again today and that the negotiations
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  • 86 2 Train pulls up yards from child AN ENGINE driver of the Paris Liege Expns-slammt-d on the brakes and brought ins train to a hal f halt a few yards from a threeyar old child sitting "n tn*> rails waving at the orcomin« locomotive. The child. Joseph Van Der Weyen. said
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  • 19 2 George Washington University yesterday dropped all racial bans and opened its doors to negro students. AP
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  • 38 2 John Nevin, aged 58, was sent to Drison for three years yesterday for stealing 2,000 exhibits from London's Victoria and Albert Museum, where he had been a €9 4s. a week porter since 1930.- A.P.
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  • 56 2 A TYPHOON ueneratins winds up to !M) miles an h«nr churned *lowly towards I the Ryukyu Islands from the M>uth-uest Pacific yesterday The big U.S. base ol Oki- nawa is i n the Ryukyus. The Manila weather bureau said the storm was about 570 mile* east south-east
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  • 186 2 BECOMES WORLD'S SUGAR MONEY NOW STERLING yesterday made one of its longest strides towards convertibility. It became fully convertible in terms of raw sugar. Henceforth, any non-dollar, non-sterling country can buy dollar sugar through London for payment in sterling or in any local currency acceptable to the Bank of England.
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  • 22 2 Bonn's new police chief, Mr Wilhelm TiegethofT, announced his .slogan will be: "Lets ail be nice to one another."- A.P.
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  • 136 2 They're here on way to fish school li\VO HEN m »u oy the Ceylon Government to attend a fish marketing training course in Hong Kong, arrived by air in Singapore yesterday. They are Mr. C. Kandasamy, (above left) Fisheries Inspector; and Mr. T. D. L. Peiris (right) Assistant Registrar of
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  • 119 2 GUATEMALA'S military j Castillo Armas as its c unta elected Colonel Carlos president yesterday. I In Washington the Secretary lof State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, said that the United States considered that the threat to hemisphere peace *nd security arising from Comnunist penetration of
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  • 20 2 The Guam legislature yester. day lowered the voting age to 18 in that U.S. Pacific island A.P.
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  • Article, Illustration
    35 2 These laughing teachers of Nee Soon Morning School in Singapore have reason to be happy. They are the sports masters of "Mandai House", which won the Championship Cup at the school's first annual sports meet.
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  • 24 2 The Sino-British trade talks in London yesterday made further progress in clearing away hindrances to trade between the two countries.— Reuter
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  • 24 2 Miss Cornelia Sorabji, 86. the tlrst Indian woman ever to become a lawyer, died in London on Tuesday.- A. P.
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  • 82 3 Van Johnson, 37-year-old American film star, who for many years has been the idol of American bobbysoxers, now thinks that he and his fans— are growing up. His film activities will now take on a more serious note. Here he is shown with Debonh Kerr.
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  • 206 3 ANTI-RED ASEAN STATES CAN JOIN IN TALKS, SAYS DULLES ITNITED STATES Secretary of State. Mr. John Foster Dulles, said in Washington yesterday he expected non-Communist Asian countries would be brought into the current planning talks on a SouthEasrt Asian collective security alliance. Mr. Dulles was asked if any of the
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  • 26 3 The World Jewish Congress] yesterday complained to the U.N. Economic and Social Council against the persecution of Zionist leaders in Communist run Rumania. A.P.
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  • 39 3 Russia told Japan yesterday that 14 fishermen taken captive bv the Reds are in good neulth and will be repatriated The fishermen were stranded on an island in Soterritorv off northern Japan two weeks ago.— U.P.
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  • 16 3 The House of Commons will nave a debate on toreign waifs next Wednesday- Reuter
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  • 18 3 Hurma and Siam are discussne a proposal to connect the two countries by rail- A.P
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  • 98 3 Loosen purse strings -Nehru tells the Indian Princes PREMIER Nehru has India* Sted that the wealthier ndlan Ponces donate 15 per thS I JJIif thelf privy puree fw l hc welfare of the people in they formally ruled. Princes with small privy KSr The proposal is reportedly contained in a
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  • 187 3 AN official commission reviewing salaries in the East African Civil Service recommended in Kampala. Uganda, yesterday equal rates of pay for all races and women as well as men. The commission was set up by the governors of Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda, the
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  • 136 3 China Dicky resignation not accepted SIR John Kotelawala. Ceylon Prime Minister, said in Colombo last night he had refused to accept the resiKnation of his Commerce Minister. Mr. R. G. Senanayake. which he received yesterday as he listened to the budget speech. The Prime Minister told reporters that Richard Senanayake,
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  • 31 3 Mrs Van Heflin. the wife of the Hollywood film actor, Rave birth to a 6-pound. 4-ounce boy. at Santa Monica Hospital yesterday. It is their third child.- A.P.
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  • 35 3 UNITED STATES Federal .ludye Boyd Sloan yesterday ordered the City of Atlanta Georgia lo allow nefTOei to use its seven Municipal Golf Courses, but not at the same time as whites.
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  • 104 3 Plan for H-tests dropped PRESIDENT Eisenhower hid cancelled plans for another series of hydrogen weapon testa thLs autumn, accordIng to the New York Post yesterday. "He also has frozen the size of hydrogen bombs to the one detonated on March 1," the paper added. Technical and security factors were chiefly
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    • 370 4 Opinion Watch at the beach The plans of the Singapore Lifeguard Corps to post watches at beaches in the Colony deserve wholehearted public support. The corps first interested itself in the .scheme towards the end of lust year and is determined to translate its hopes into Jact in the near
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  • 360 4  - Enter the "miracle man' of Vietnam GEORGE GERARD 11/HILE the Big Powers W parcelled out its future at Geneva, battered and divided Vietnam prepared for its ••last-chance" stand against the Communists under the leadership of a new Premier dubbed by his supporters "the miracle man." NGO DINH DIEM has been
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  • 628 4  -  Gault McGowan says THE land of Indo-China now held under a feudal system of tenure, beckons the Vietminh armies in their drive to take the Red River Delta away from the French. Under a special system, each of the Communist Army soldiers is
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    • 194 4 AVAIL YOURSELF of 20 years of experience in estate development by CREDIT FONCIER MEYER CHAMBERS 3rd FLOOR, (RAFFLES PLACE). FRANKEL ESTATE OPERA ESTATE FIRST CLASS NEWLY RECENTLY COMPLETED DEVELOPED ESTATE AT ESTATE 6J M.S CHANCI ROAD BETWEEN CHANCI £r NEAR THF <i£A EAST COAST ROADS T nn!w < A NEW
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  • 177 5 Work begins this year iiREIIMINARY tests on tne site of tne P r °P° se d $8 1 million Kallang bridge are nearly over. The Director of Public Works, Mr. A. Wear, said t hmv that tenders would be called by the end of
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  • 115 5 SEREMBAN, Fri. PEOPLE ol Kampong Ulu Mampas, a remote village in the Kuala Pilah district of Vegri Sembilan. were warned that they must give information of terrorist movements. Three months ago the village was visited by terrorists. The warning was given by the Mentri Besar, Inche
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  • 182 5 THE mechanical process of preparing Singapore's new electoral rolls under the Rendel Constitution is expected to take another two months, the Acting Registrar of Malayan Statistics, Mr. R. Dow said yesterday. But that did not mean by a long way that the final
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  • 51 5 RAUB, Fri. Chung Kam Yin Di-oprietoi of a stall in the temporarv amusement "srk -it Raub and Chan Ah Ying. his assistant, were yes- 1 terday found guilty of promoting gaming and fined $300 each. They had given cash, instead of prizes, to winners at the
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  • 80 5 S'pore's leaning chimney TH I S sawmill chimney 1 fronting Rochore Canal, Singapore. ha s been leaning: away from the perpendicular for more than 60 years. The manager of the mill. which is off Syed Alwi Road, told the Free Press the chimney was tilted when its concrete base sank.
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  • 203 5 SINGAPORE will soon see some fine pictures Indonesia. Photo^ ra P her in Mr. Soh Teow Seng, secrecy of the Singapore Ump ra Club, said yesterday arrangements were now being made by the British Council to bring over the Photographs for display me club recently
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    • 61 6 THEY SPEAK 11 LANGUAGES T ANGUAGE has no barriers for Mr. and Mrs. Johannes van Woerkom, of Johan nesburg. South Airica. Between them they c» speak English, Afrikaans, German, French, Malay, Swiss and five other major tonjnie. 6 The leading linguists in the "City of Gold", they are C« rently
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 146 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs Pw y fi Bifci, j inH^ __■> OJTSPRN3OC --E Pt. -'/SE^ 1 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris M^V TW| S 7^ KJC uSc pv\ f-£ PEaCv\ WHOS vE6 Si V.QM T Hf PBl MA'r 4 \JB B^Wfc CT^l
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    • 547 6 YOUR I LUCKY STAR I |>ORN TODAY, you are a m of those really ind.| ent souls. You want things I your own way and you intend l to have it that way, no matter i what happens— good or bad! You have very strong hitui- I tions and are,
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  • 126 7 Filipinos have day of fun FOK more than 200 Singapore Filipinos last Sundav all roads led to Pasir Ris beach. They were celebrating: their country's Independence Day with a grand picnic. The Filipino national dish lechon" and pork barbecue were the main food attractions. The Philippine Consul
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  • 154 7 bandstand built on the Esplanade would be sai many citizens of *O not agree that it .v, r rO wd- the Mr S.n ir M u egested by T ln ()1 CouncU reCent Mr. s. lanaea: "I am all for a bandstand. But it
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  • 319 7 NO CONSPIRACY TO BAR 3 UNIONS —says Covt. employees man A LLEGATIONS of a "conspiracy" to bar three unions from talks held bv the Federation of Government Employees' Union last week from the proposed National Whitley Council were strongly denied by a spokesman for the Singapore Government employees vesterday. The
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  • 63 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. R. Saminathan, 35. a milkman was yesterday fined $75 bv Inche Abdul Rani, the Second Magistrate, for selling adulterated milk to a health inspector. Mr. David Ling, prosecuting, said Saminathan sold a bottle of milk to Health Inspector Othman last week at Ipoh
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  • 387 8 I EADING British cancer experts are far From satisfied thai there is any important link between smoking and lung cancer. I They believe that air poiluted with .smoke and exhaust fumes is a likelier cause of the disease. This is made clear in the annual
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  • 20 8 Mr, William John Irving, Socialist M P for Wood Green, N. will not contest the next Election.
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  • 156 8 'Unwed' couple on honeymoon plan to wed again lifß. AND MRS. ALEX ROBERTSON, now honey--ITI mooning in Paris, will be married again as soon as possible after their return to England. They went off to Paris after a Roman Catholic marriage service in Brighton, the bride with a new passport
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  • 63 8 WORD TO BAN FROM NAMES OF HOSPITALS rnHE word "mental" should X not be used in hospital names, and there was a social stigma attached to "certification," said Mr. George Banwell, secretary to the Association of Municipal Corporations. "We are trying to get mental illness treated as an illness and
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  • 45 8 A recommendation that it should spend £21,543 on building a public house on its Crembourne Estate will Ko before Chelsea council London. The public house would be let to a brewery, whose Inn was demolished to allow the estate to be developed.
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  • 105 8 Davina OF THE FROG) weds in Paris DA VINA PORTMAN, 21, niece of Viscount Portman— she wis in the title-studded cast of "The Fro*" (Mayfair production) was married in Paris to 28-year-old Peter West, son of Air Commo- dore Ferdinand West, V Davina. who was chos fn by court photographer
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  • 218 8 FIND WIFE SOON OR LOSE FARM, COURT SAYS piND a wife before November 12— or lose £2,800. That was the ruling a court gave 33-year-old John Coghlan. The £2,800 is wrapped up In the farm his uncle 82-year-old childless widower Mr. Thomas Coghlan, left him when he died on November
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  • 161 8 MEDICAL supplies were passed by a mechanical shovel to a ledge halfway down a 90ft. deep chalk quarry at Dartford, Kent. Lying on the ledge seriously injured was 32-year-old dumper-truck driver John Matthews. By his side lay hi.s small truck, in which he had
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    54 8 THE SOUND «f acreechln, brakes ,ave way to the thudding of horses' hooves in Fyis when ancient mail coaches loaded with beautiful women made the* waj along: the Avenue Foch. It was Elegance i i V uteull where thf mail coaches unleaded their beautiful carto for a presentation Of the
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  • 44 8 A letter from a London firm telling West Ashford, Kent. Council to expect delivery of granite has arrived y years after the granite. Posted on June 22, 1905, it was found when a letter-box in an old council building dismantled.
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
    • 9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday. July 9, 1954.
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    • 384 1  - JOCKEY CLUB SHOULD USE MOVIE CAMERA EVIDENCE JAMES PARK By milF time is coming when the tpwirds of the Jockey h nave to decide between C ,ii l l b and visual evidence The Major-genera Sir tpp lden the uukc wi f£B* Lord w louKhby de Broke t have sufficient
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    • 453 1 Punters beware! Warns OBSERVER THE time factor in horse racing is an informative but fickle guide. It is quite easy to be misled by what, at first glance, may seem a near record in a track trial or a race. On examining racing in retrospect we
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      43 1 picture. Winner of Race Seven at Kuala Lumpur last week on the first day of the Selanxor Turf Club meeting. Ore, ridden by Donnelly, won the Cl. 4, Dk I— sV 2 f. event from Peter Pan (Mulley) by two lengths.- Free Press
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    • 89 1 pictures. ABOVE: Apprentice jockey Kitson Leong guides Eastern Pearl to an easy three length victory in the Cl. 3, Div 2—l mile ev«nt on the opening day of the recently concluded Selangor Turf Club meeting •it Kuala Lumpur. Eastern Pearl paid |M and $7. LEFT: Ten Dollars
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    • 12040 2 JJH3LLOWING are thfhorses entered for the Singapore Turf Clubs July Meeting. CLASS ONE ALWAYS T)MH II :.i/tid n >♦ B'pWt 1 H Cl 1 L>.v 1 lit <*>r.*<"'. k Pedomel»i h7. 3rd f•ypr^•^^ to I ''0 2 hMd 1 1-Ji 'i r.H v U.MU. started) If f»4
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      • 71 4 immediate delivery of Vauxhall cars in Singapore Malaya Orchard Motors OMCNARD MOTOR COMPANY UMITKD SINGAPORE AND KUALA LUMPUR Represented el sen here in the Federation by Borneo Motors Ltd. and in Borneo by Borneo Motors Ltd. and Borneo Company Ltd. If I *A'KT' wtr Ik J|^L Manhattan! l g2 3
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    • 65 8 picture. Mr. Kok 110.ni,, lr.ul> m his hor-c hntpeior with jockey lluilitm astride, after a head victory in the (I. 4 Div 1 7f. race on the first day of the recent Sclangor Turf luh meeting. Kmperor, who hr.U Shirp Look (Mawi) in
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    • 361 9 'DAGGER' THREAT TO DOCTORS LIFTED— JUDGE Woman fails in hospital suit a HIGH COURT jury held that a hospital and A doctors should not pay damages because somethine goes wrong in an operation. For H hours they discussed the case of 30--vear-old Mrs. Celia Hatcher, former 8.8.C. broadister, who claimed
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    • 45 9 By the Archbishop, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, at the Canterbury Diocesan conference: "I have lons ceased giving to popular appeals, because I know everybody else fi'ves to them. I think it >s now my duty to give money where everybody will not"
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    • 196 9 rE son of a wing commander thought he would get a oat on the back from his employers for placing a big order. But he tried to import 2,000 tons of aluminium, worth £350.000, from France, with the object of shipping it
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    • 46 9 Houseloders in Westerfield Road, Ipswich, awakened by a "loud whirring noise" at 4 a.m. called the police. A patrol car arrived and an officer found a man mowing hLs lawn. When told of the disturbance the man apologised and went back to bed.
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    • 65 9 PART of young Tom Savage's essay ran: "If I want to see some fine horses I could go to Whitehall...." The essay won him first prize in a competition for which 80,000 children entered. What the judges did not known was that Tom could
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    • 319 9 MRS VIOLET COWARD, mother of Noel Coward, *ho ha.s died aged 91, once l "ok in lodgers cooking, washing and scrubbing floors > help launch her talented M>n on the stage. Coward has always said [hat he owed everything to his mother. Until the last
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    • 158 9 SAMMY is a Scilly Island seal who can't stay under water because he poked his nose in a floating rubber tube. Now, his flippers tangled in the tube, he can still dive but, explained boatman Len Hicks of St. Mary's: "He
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    • 48 9 A 17-year-old youth who tried to give a girl swimmer a ducking during mixed bathing in Burton Corporation Baths was fined £1 at Burton-on-Trent, for disorderly conduct. The youth John Stephen*, of Borough-road, Burton, was also fined 10s. lor smoking in the baths.
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    • 132 9 THE school-closing party of Form Six at St. David's began Joyously, but ended tearfully. The pupils at the primary in St. James Road, Glasgow, were having a grand time Three girls were dancing a Highland fling. Then IT happened. Ten-year-old Douglas Callender had a
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    • 46 9 picture. PRINCESS Margaret congratulates a prize winner before handing over a rosette after the Metropolitan Mounted Police show which took place in the pouring rain at Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey. In the centre is Sir John Nott-Bower, Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Popper
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    • 207 9 POLICE Sergeant Fred Parry 1 has called in astrology to help in his job of Road Safety Officer at Walsall. Staffordshire. He went to see an astrologer. As a result. Beacon, the town's road safety magazine, carries motoring advice for people under their birth
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    • 42 9 The tune was the walU from Gounod's "Faust," but the instrument was on an ice-cream van. A policeman said he had heard it 2Vz miles away. Tb& seller was fined £1 at Grays, Essex for using a noisy instrument.
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    • 300 10  -  WILLIAM HICKEY An English critic's view of what England will be seeing soon I SAW an hour of 1 American TV the other day. I don't know what to say about it. It was so good in some ways. So bad in others. But when I asked myself
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    • 221 10 4MERICAN screen wrtt- ers have been drawing up a list of helpful hints for anyone preparing to write scripts for U.S. commercial TV. TlMft is no "code of conduct" for British commercial television yet. But here, according to the U.S. writers, are the basic rules for the
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    • 561 10  - 'H.Q. of the new Germany NORMAN LINDHURST Dr. Adenauer works m palace-museum THE quietest place in bustling but provincial Bonn is Schaumburg Palace the German No: 10 Down in 1 Street which bouses the office and official residence of 78-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenaiier. Well off noisy Coblenzer Strasse and almost
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    • 116 10 New leaders, new names NOT so long ago, every other boy was christened Adolf. Now Adolfs are few and far between. In Austria the name has completely disappeared from record books since 1945. Now, Konr.id is the popular name in Germany. In 1953, more boys were named after the "man-ot'-the-year"
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    • 836 11 Russia is now a RICH man 's country DONALD McCORMICK SAYS "FACTS ABOUT THE SOVIET TAX PAYER" NAILS FOR EVER THE LEGEND OF A "WORKERS PARADISE." OEFORE me lie bl Ifal'1 f a l' 0 harsh statistics which I( ta effect one of the V jost damning mdictnents of the
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    • 307 11 LEAVE THE GIPSIES ALONE Pleads James Harriett, their champion the gipsies really so >ad as people think? ittle boy has been l ssinß for six days in Worcestershire, and his father says: "Gipsies mav have picked him up.'' uipsies are blamed in somerset, too. where farmers ™<vt coniDlained to the
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    • 32 11 OELINDA LEE re- laxes in the grounds of Shepperton Studios between outdoor shots of "The Belles of St. Trinians," a British comedy. Belinda plays Amanda a sixth form glamour girl.
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      • 27 12 May Wymn plays the ienumne lead in "The Caine Mutiny." the Kramer Company film based on the best-selling novel of the same name.
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      • 342 12 CLUES ACROSS 3 A verse is altered In an un--1 Result of eating a gaudy tie? airing manner. (2, 4>. (S, 5). 5 Dolly's got a word for her. (4). 4 Sometimes the result of too And done with this. (4). much smoking. (4). Spotted over the French 9 An
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    • 312 13  -  HAROLD HEFFERNAN The Harlow fans would object Says MRS. JEAN HELLO, mother of Jean Harlow, is due to arrive in Hollywood to take over a paid role as "consultant adviser" in preparing a screenplay based on the life of her glamorous daughter. Sam Bischoff, an independent
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      8 13 Suzan Ball with her husband, actor Dick Long.
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    • 357 13 Starlet, legless now, is returning to screen HEADING off this week on a rugged location trip into the Black Hills of South Dakota, Suzan Ball is writing one more amazing chapter into a story of pluck and determination unmatched in Hollywood history. The pretty. 21 year old actress, who submitted
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    • 362 13  -  Sheilah Grahame By To Mexican star VICTOR MENDOZA could go credit for the most dramatic violent death of the film season. Mendoza bites the dust in "Garden of Evil", but not before he's turned into a virtual pin cushion of Indian arrows. Mendoza gets an arrow first in
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    • 258 13  -  IAN GRANT Film previews by EXECUTIVE SIITE" (Cathay) finds drama. romance, evm humanity, in Big Business. It gets us strung up over the election ol a president to a big corporation and concludes with a boardroom scene that is excitine even though the dialogue is in
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    • 73 14 Ken Kox-uull. who upset No 1 seed Tony Trabert in the men's single., semi-final at Wimbledon, had a hard time of it before downing the American. The Australian youngster here crashes into the net on the centre court in a vain effort to retrieve a
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    • 447 14  -  By ARCHIE QUICK SUSSEX cricket owes a debt of gratitude to "Patsy" Hendren. Although the great England batsman was Middlesex born and bred, played all his cricket for that county and now scores for them, there was a period when he lived at Hove and
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    • 67 14 "POURTEEN final acceptors, with weights, for the Australian Grand National Steeplechase, to be run over three miles and one furlong at Flemingtor. tomorrow are:Japaddy 12-1, Teedum 11-4, Lowther 11-3, Don Sion 11-0, Prince Aly and Van Perri 10-1, Selsdon 9-7, Bindarra and Fearless Chief 9-5, Golden
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    • 77 14 World middleweight champion Carl Bobo" Olson knocked out Pedro Gonzales of Pennsylvania in the fourth round of a 10 round non-title bout in Oakland, California on Wednesday night. It was Olson's last fight before i he defends his title over 15 rounds against Rocky Castellanl
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    • 25 14 picture. Ruth fr'erreira. Malayan and Singapore high jump champion clear* 4ft. Tin. to win the InteVschools Anal on wVdnesday. Free Press
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    • 358 14  - SWISS WILL LOSE £165,000 ON EUROPEAN ATHLETICS HAROLD PALMER Preparations going well but— Bv SWITZERLAND expects to lose £165,000 on orgaitisinf the European Athletic Championhips in August. The loss is understandable. The general secretary ,f the organising committee, Dr. Geors Wyss. tells me ihe promotion will cost about 500.000 Swiss
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    • 35 14 Ed Furgol. American golfer, who overcome a serious childhood accident to tiis left arm and won this year's U.S. Open championship, will visit Australia next October to play in the Australian open
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    • 59 14 New York Giants beat Brooklyn 11-2 yesterday and stretched their National League lead to six games Jim Hegan and Wally Westhke hit home runs and Bob Peller gave up only seven runs hits yesterday as the front running Cleveland Indians beat Baltimore Orioles 4-1 and
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    • 60 14 Non -Benders' Cricket Club team to meet Indian Association at 2.15 p.m. on Saturday at Balestier Plain is:— A. Baker, J. W. Ewart. S. T Stewart, F. R. Massey. R. S. Tufnell. D. M. Murray. R. V S Sundram. Chocr Singh. Gudial Singh, O. P. Darke. G. E.
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    • 1414 15  -  TRESPASSER gut Roman Galley will run him close By tivim lack Spencer has his usual strong hand for f ir da vs main event (Class 1, Div. 1-1 mile) at Lit Timah tomorrow, opening day of the Singapore i mrrtiiiff and he could be
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    • 46 15 i PROBABLE scratching for tomorrow are: Millionaire, I'adalona, Oleander. Chesieres, The Bosun, Supremacy, Robin Hood, Scarlet Admiral, Wonder Lad, High Hopes, Lagopus. Muffin Man, Jetty, Appointment, Ricky, Princess Beautiful, Undecided, Great Expectations, Silver Screen, Show Show. The going is likely to be very good.
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    • 361 15 REME shoot way to 7-1 victory SERVICES SOCCER RE ME 7; SAPPERS V RE M.E. were good, but not in such shattering form as the score suggests in their Services League Diy. 1 clash with the 'sKs Engineers at Ayer Rajah Road yesterdav. Nor was it a case of the
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    • 151 15 SHeur 4; Signals 1. (CENTRE-FORWARD Thornton J scored all the RAP. Seletar in yesterday's Div. 1 game at S^letar v Bignali played the better positional soccer in the first half. i hey opened accounts in the 28th minute when Wark beat two defenI and gave goalkeeper Hay
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    • 70 15 K.A.S.C. ...1; RAOC nH dnanCe C0r PS t<>ok r W r re th n heW to a KPV^SE Ser^e Corps. 5 Ordnance went ahead ten minutes after half time when outside-left Gallagher cut through the defence following a pass from Alexander. Nine minutes from time RASC
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    • 208 16 Sussex beat Somerset YORKSHIRE appear ill set to Increase their lead In the county table a s Northamptonshire face an almost impossible struggle to avoid becoming their tenth vii tims of the season. The Northampton men need r <*> nm.s to avoid an Innl
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    • 169 16 I inty rit kei i lot c of plaj ieon At HrKtoi: OlouccftUrahlre beat Moti ingham h'. an Innin i ;»ncj 4. nuu. NotU: Iff (i W (IfcHugh five for 16 Mortlmore, four for :*t i Gloucestershire Ml MUUm in At (hrlmsford: Es.vx 188 and Jf> !o r
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    • 62 16 R.A.F Tengafa WOO the R.A K. inter-Station water-polo league yesterday by boating R.A.F. Changl 9-4 In the deriding match at Ttngsh. Chanel became runnen-up in the league. Seletar "A" third, and Seletar "B" last. Scorers for Teimah yesterday were HuntPr 4 1 Devlin <2), Marr.
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    • 51 16 {*VEN Ditvldson. avenged his 5 defeat from Tony Tarbert (United States) ;i» Wimbledon by b*\iUn« bin <i-4. 8-4, 'i-2 vesterday In Iht BMO'l singles quarterfinal of Um Bwtdlsh Internationa] Lawn Tftinla Championship. Other Kflli are Rex Hartwk (Australia), Hudne Patty (United si.itt Lcnnart Berc.»'iiii (Bw< d< 11 1.
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    • 27 16 T FO EBPIN( ';>■ Philip] lj won the Orient banfc mweighi cinir.jiii i. ht bv hammering oui i un ion over Busumu Taguchi of J ipan.
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    • 254 16 AS expected, the favourites deared their first hurdles easily when the Singapore Table Tennis Associations .senior inter-cluL league m mii :it the Happy World Table lei. ins Centre last niyht. He t i>«iioiniance was up by N. If. I Bugarhood, the RAF champion. Hi.
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    • 94 16 I>iil spence continued to lead 19 fiic Brtti h Open joU championship In ihe second round yesterciay. Fifty players survive lor the two final rounds. I fftdlng scores \t < re: BW Bpence fin. 72, Ml; Antonlo Cerda. (Argentina)— 7l, 71, 142; Dal Hi 72, 71;
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    • 287 16 DERBYSHIRE ALL OUT FOR 176 I>! Aim i miu ites late be1V < i <>! rain, Derbj ihlrt wen all OUI lor 170 run. in reply tfl Pakistan's first Innings total of 317. Dtrbf were 25 for three itL lunch I but afterwards Wiliatt and Can played Derbyshire towards safety
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    • 69 16 R.E.M.E. SCORE SEVEN iimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim:i< mi imiiiiiiiiii „,.<_ R.K.M.E. beat the Royal Engineers 7-1 at i Alexandra yesterday in a Singapore I'nited j Services League Div 1 tie. Full report on page 15. TOP: Sappers goalkeeper C'omley clutches a I hard Avis drive to his chest as Avis (left) and I
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    • 156 16 SINGAPORE Harbour Board Police created a k3 SAFA record by scoring 15 goals in yesterday's Div. 3A league match against Civil Service Association. Centre-forward Abdul Jalil scored ten of the goals. Ismail Yusoff three and Minjoot and Omar one each. Half-time score was 7-0 TALIL'S
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    • 85 16 17-yr-old extends Drobny II T IMBLEDON champion JaroTT .slav Drobny had to pull out all his tennis tricks yesterday to defeat Australia's 17--year-old Roy Emerson o-4 6-1 and enter the semi-finals ot the midland counties tournament in Birmingham. Emerson gave Drobny the tou«jhe.st match he has had so far in
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    • 25 16 The 2tith annual athletic sports of the Holy Innocents' English School will be held today at 3 p.m on St. Gabriel's School ground.
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