The Singapore Free Press, 10 July 1954

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    Masthead
    19 1 Sthe Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya "No *****. Sing»p*re. SaL, July 10. 1954. Prie« 15 Cts.
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    Villages launch fund for school
    171 1 A: l.\N(i Villages School Fund was launched today. Its aim is to raise $3,000 to erect a building for use a school for 3.000 children of poor parents in six j jey The villages are in the area bounded by Aljunied. JMacPherson. and Paya Lebar
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    SCUFFLE IN LONDON CATHEDRAL
    161 1 SCUFFLE IN LONDON CATHEDRAL A SACRISTAN got a black eve in a scuffle with a 47--year-old Maltese, Leslie Alexis Chiodetti, on the high altar of Westminster Cathedral, London, while Mass was being celebrated yesterday. The Maltese, who had installed himself on the throne of Bernard Cardinal Griffin, the Roman Catholic
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    That rubber pact-by Moscow
    114 1 That rubber pact-by Moscow MOSCOW Radio said last I? night trade talks between Communist China and Indonesia are "proceeding successfully in Jakarta despite American endeavours to impede them. Thp broadcast said accord has been reached on setting up commission in Peking and Jakarta to implement the trade agreement concluded last
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    SPANNER BLOW ENDS ROW
    50 1 Singapore police are looking for man who attacked a 36-year-old Hokkien with a spanner at the R.A.S.C. workshop in Buona Vista Road, yesterday. The victim, Ang Klan, is In hospital with a broken collar bone. Police said the assault followed an argument between the two men.
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    Rubber price
    48 1 The Singapore rubber market opened on an uncertain tone im. s rnln g with first grade, J uly shipment, at 69 7/8 cents R° und half a cent below yesterday's close. niSKfi 1 wa3 due to over "^ht decline on the London and New York markets
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    WAY MAN HERE
    37 1 Dr. George Carter, official representative from Paris headquarters of the World Assembly of Youth, arrived in Singapore from Rangoon yesterday to complete arrangements for the second assembly to be held in Singapore next month.
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    Jap bid for fish
    25 1 Japan wants to establish fishing corporation in Ceylon on a 50-50 basis and is prepared to train local technicians. U. P.
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    $1 mil. for H-bomb damage
    26 1 HRHE UNITED STATES has offered nnoftcitOly to pay Jwn million compensation for damage- which resulted irom the Bikini H-bomb test*. U.P.
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    WOMAN BEATS HUSBAND -'HE NEEDED IT'
    118 1 A 265 LB. WOMAN wit fined $52 with the alternative of 5i days in gaol in Maeom Georgia, yesterday for tying her sleeping hatband to the bed and lashing him wttH a rubber hose. The woman, Mrs. Lillian Barr 32, told the court her
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    LEAVE HANOI, CIVILIANS ARE TOLD
    313 1 LEAVE HANOI, CIVILIANS ARE TOLD /tea troops closing m -FRENCH authorities yesterday warned all civilians to I evacuate Hanoi in the face of the Vietminh drive on the Northern Indo-Chinese capital. The warning went out to French and foreign civilians in the Tonkin capital as Communist units lashed out against
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    FAROUK OWED IT
    32 1 FARO UK OWED IT A New York dealer In rare coins said yesterday Egypt's government is going to pay him US $324,559 that ex-King Farouk has owed him for 12 years A.P.
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    RUBBER STRIKE TALKS
    30 1 Leaders of the CIO United Rubber workers in Akron, Ohio, have summoned the 13,000 striking Goodyear Tyre Rubber Co. employees to a special briefing meeting tomorrow.— A.P.
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    Siege in Burma
    33 1 The Bu^nese army la still battling with Chinese Nationalist guerillas beseiging the Government outpost of Monftskak, in the Northern Kentung State, The siege is now in its 12th. day.- Reuter
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    BORDER CLASH
    23 1 A Jordan National Guardsman was wounded yesterday in a clash with an Israel patrol near the border villaKe of Rummana A.P.
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    FRENCH MPs TAKE LEAVE TILL.
    55 1 TVIE French National AsX sembly decided yesterday to go on vacation until July 2$ the date by which Premier Pierre Mendes-France is supposed to have achieved an end to the Indo-Chln* fighting or resign. With the Government occupied with the Indo-Chln* question, the Assembly hsi
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      60 1 Follow i Pendengar I pENDENGAR'S three! j I special selections for 1 today's races at Bukit Timah are:— I SPECIAL NAP j j Spider King j EACH-WAY DOIBLE r I Gardenia, Chanticleer i WIN-ONLY TREBLE Miss Winnie. S.S. Commando Super I Picture i Other selections for to- day are given
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    More to conquer -by Everest man
    288 2 J EVEREST conqueror, Sir Edmund Hillary plang to J u-.t(\ another expedition to the Himalayas again in 1956, this time to scale the unclimbed Makalu peak (27,790ff i fifth highest mountain n\ the world, he said on arrival In Singapore early this morning. Thi
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    83 2 picture. Air Malcolm MacDonald. the Commissioner-General in South East Asia, yesterday opened the exhibition of Modern French Art in the British Council Hall. The exhibition, held in conjunction with French Week, will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. until July 18. Mr. Raymond de Bover de Saint
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    SON CAN GO TO EXILED FATHER
    55 2 The ChIMM NationalLst. yf.sU'i (Jay Mave exit and reentry permits to Wu H.siubuanf, 16-year-old .son of Mr. K c Wu, former BOternor ol Formosa, who split with Oei i ralissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The permit clean the way for young Wu to join his parcnt.s
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    Towers of pennies
    47 2 More than 100 taverns an« competing to see which can build on a pint pot the biggest tower of pennies <from customers) to help provide special treatment for spastic children Such towers can with care be built ud to over three feet high. Reuter
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    Mission to Malaya 'to refute a lie'
    79 2 PRESIDENT RAMON MAGSAYSAY said in Manila last night he was planning to send two Philippines goodwill missions to South-East Asian countries, particularly Indonesia, Burma and Malaya. He did not explain why he R sending the missions but rvers thought he wanted to te
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    LITTLE WAS LEFT TO IMAGINATION
    77 2 Lifting an idea from Marlene Dictruh. Hollywood's Terry Moore made her nighUlub debut in l-.ws Vegas. Nevada. In a gown traiLsparent from the waist up, except for clusters of beads here and there. Mb* Dietrich. In her celebrated appearance in Lat Vegas some months ago,
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    NOW UNDERGROUND FIGHTS RED TERROR IN SLAVE CAMPS
    143 2 NOW UNDERGROUND FIGHTS RED TERROR IN SLAVE CAMPS AN UNDERGROUND anti-Communist movement that surged through the Ukraine and fought pitched battles with Red armed forces after the war, has spread to Soviet slave labour camps, a former British soldier released by the Russians said in Berlin yesterday. One-time circus daredevil
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    Mail for prisoners
    31 2 Communist China yesterday said that the "30 to 50" Ger man nationals in Red prisons will now be permitted to receive letters and packages from their families U.P.
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    HIS NEW JOB
    23 2 India announced yesterday the appointment of Mr. R. R. Saksena. High Commissioner in Canada, to be Ambassador to Burma Reuter
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    Lady Beatty loses son— for a week
    98 2 Lady Beatty loses son— for a week MR. WILLIAM O'Connor, former husband of Lady Beatty, has been granted temporary custody of their seven-year-old son, Timothy, pending a full custody hearing in Los Angeles next Friday. Mr. O'Connor, California's chief deputy Attorney General, flew to London last month and took the
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    Toast to new Chamber-in champagne
    170 2 rwww. Singapore branch of the X Coniiion wealth Parlianwiit;.ry AMOelaUon was host lad Dlftht at a reception marking the completion of 1 the new Legtelathrf As.sfmblv Chamber m the old Supreme Court The kiimU Included repreatntative.s of the Commonwealth Koveruiri* iit,.s, the consular corp>, ludgei
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      112 2 1 CELEBRATE 1 FRENCH NIGHT i 2 AT I The Cockpit I j JULY 14th GALA DINNER AND DANCE Music by Ck J THE COCKPIT RHYTHM MAKERS w with "CHARLES" at the piano Lovely TRUDY CONNOR ff v with her repertoire of delightful sonj^s 2 EXTENSION TO 2 A. M.
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    Now she's out to win an Oscar
    68 3 Now she 's out to win an Oscar picture ZSA ZSA GABOR arriving: in New York from Paris on her way to Hollywood to make a new film 'The Western Affair." With her is Porfirio Kubirosa. When /asked if she expected to get an Oscar for the film. 7,sa Zsa
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    The Danube floods 100 villages
    130 3 The Danube floods 100 villages \IORE than 20,000 people were evacuated yesterday from their homes in Austria tnd .southern Germany, as the racing Danube river Hooded 100 or more villages, and took toll of at least 13 lives. Hundreds of square miles of rich wheatland were destroyed, thousands were made
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    She's lovely, he's handsomebut they'll never know
    108 3 UOWARD CX)IXINS says f l I 81 kn °ws Gladys will be "beautiful" walks up to church today to become his bride. Gladys says Howard will the "most handsome" m Th rt ln u th( W(l d<llng party. Wee Howard and Gladys will
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    CONGRESSMEN LIFT THE BAR ON A BEAUTY QUEEN
    247 3 MEMBERS of the l\S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee gallantly yesterday came to the aid of a damsel in distress. In telegrams to the Secretary of State Mr. John Poster Dulles and the Attorney-General Mr. Herbert Rrownell, they protested against the barring
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    HER FIRST ENVOY
    23 3 Mr. Rajeshwar Dayal, India's permanent representative to the United Nations, has been appointed the first Indian ambassador to Yugoslavia.- A.P.
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    RECOGNITION
    10 3 Peru has recognised the new Government of Guatemala A.P.
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    £10 MIL FOR EGYPT
    16 3 Britain has released to Egypt £10 million of Egypt's sterling balances. Reuter
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    BROADWAY GIRL TURNS BULL FIGHTER
    221 3 BROADWAY GIRL TURNS BULL FIGHTER JUST plain scared "and nervous.' That's bow Bette Ford. 23-year-old former Broadway actress and model, described her feelings yesterday as she prepared for her bullfighting debut. The curvacious Miss Ford steps into Juarez Plaza de Toros tomorrow afternoon to tangle with two Mexican bulls. "I'll
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    Prayers for King
    37 3 Temple bells rang and multitudes prayed in all parts of the mountain kingdom of Nepal yesterday for thr recovery of King Tribhuvan who. on his 48th birthday, lay seriously ill with heart trouble- Reuter
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    No prior notice
    21 3 The United States has refused Japanese requests for prior notice of future hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini. A.P.
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    SWITCHED TO SIAM
    18 3 Mr. Parakat Achuta Menon. now Indian ambassador to Belgian!, will head the embx.sy Ui Siam.UP.
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    Wife carried off jewels, says Patino
    70 3 JAIME ORTIZ-PATINO, 25--ftU >ld heir to thr Bolivian tm fortune, filed a divorce action against hi:> American wifu in a Paris court vestrrtiay. He Chaffed she had abandoned him and that she took 'large doses of narcotics." The divorce papers also charged that his
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      48 3 CHABLIS H i*€ a This is a su p° rb wmc B i'j j^ t 0 accompany oysters M i^^H^aL CHABLIS-THE S IDEAL WINE S m, FOR EA FOODS STOCKED BY ALL THE LEADING HOTELS AND DEALERS THROUGHOUT MALAYA. SO/.£ AGENTS: JOHN LITTLE CO., LTD. SINGAPORE-KUALA LUMPUR -PENANG
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    Giles goes underground for his saturday smile
    25 4 "Undergrmknd c«r ;»urkj.' Mako a change 'axing a traffic jam dahn 'ere instead of up top, dont it.
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      Opinion Deeds not words
      399 4 Opinion Deeds not words Today the Free Pre« comjneml.s to leaders the Oeylang Villages School Fund H is the iir.st step in ;i campaign to erect a build- 11 to be used primarily as a KbOO] for .six villages in the di.strict. Recent lv the Free Press told the human
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    Share My Sleeper with a Ballet Dancer
    738 4  -  Rene MacColl and a Ukrainian band greets me with St. Louis Blues by /\N my way to Kharkov by train from Moscow I shared the same sleeping compartment as a rather beautiful ballet dancer. Let me hasten to add that we were chaperoned
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    MEN ONLY' CONCERT WAS ALL LAUGHS
    165 5 SOME 100 ex-servicemen of all races turned up at a "Smoking Concert,'' organised by the Ex-services Association of Singapore at the S.V.C. Officers Mess. Beach Road. Music was provided by the "Cockatoos," a five-piece band from H.M.S. Cockade. The leader of the "birdies" (pictured
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    THE LIGHTS WILL STAYBUTTONS WILL GO
    208 5 WHL' push-button signs fixed 1 to the new traffic light po.sU at Collyer Quay, Singapore, have distracted some pedestrians from crossing. So they are to be removed. The lights are automaticallycontrolled and pedestrians DO NOT have to press any button* for the green. Haxworth.
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    JOGET AT THIS FARM SHOW
    118 5 JOGET AT THIS FARM SHOW BUTTERWORTH, Sat.— TRE will be joget dancing at the Ponang Settlement ultural show at Bagan J< rmal, Butterworth. on July 17 and 18. attractions include a revue, a kronchong ompetition and a children's fun fair. In addition, the boys of Ayer Tawar Camp will stage
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    Mobile clinics for Brunei
    23 5 BRUNEI TOWN. Sat.— ireai^r. 1^! 1 in the rural ?,hh to lm P™ved by addition of two travelling a^pen.saries.
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    Annual talks
    23 5 PENANG, Sat. The PanMalayan Customs Union will hold its annual delegates conference in Telok Bahang, Penang, on Julv 17 and 18.
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    Govt. will set up builders' library
    102 5 THE Central and marine branch of the Singapore Public Works Department is assembling a library to help builders with facts and figures. The library will contain records of borings, test piles and other foundation details as well as the geology of the strata underlying
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    UNSKILLED LABOUR OUTPUT TODAY BELOW PREWAR
    162 5 UNSKILLED LABOUR OUTPUT TODAY BELOW PREWAR T*HE average output of work by an unskilled labourer today was much below pre-war standard though his wage increase had been proportionately greater than that of any other Government employee, said the annual report of the Singapore Public Works Department. The result increased mechanisation
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    Lifeguard patrols for the beaches
    232 5 SAFER SWIMMING IS CLUB'S AIM 4 GROUP of voluntary qualified life-savers in Singapore will soon start work to make swimming safe along: the coastal stretch off Katong. Plans for patrol duties will be worked out after the Katong Life Guard Club is inaugurated next Monday.
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      429 6 'imi]imoiiiiiimii..iiiiiiimii..iiimmi_ UKJLIMftM4»M# /yx^^^^mmimHmamm I Iff M^ M i^i -i rv g^-i^r^rmm*^ MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis gij^j^ E rather difficult one unless TARZAN by Edgar Rice Rurroughs 1 aSSTsssarSi E and commerce. If you can r 1 f -r-- c r> __P_ Set someone to handle the de-
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    STAY OUT STUDENTS IN DILEMMA
    216 7 They must get sponsors 4 BOl'T 300 students have failed to return since the A r e-openin& of the seven Singapore Chinese middle schools involved in the recent call-up protest. Many of these "stay out'* students are from the Federation who are unable to seek
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    Machines will wash all now
    42 7 picture*. Semen bin Sutor of the Middleton Hospital (picture at right) examines one of the three automatic washing machines installed in the new laundry building noiv nearly completion on the Hospital grounds (see victure below).- Free Press
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    Seremban airstrip: No demand
    143 7 Seremban airstrip: No demand AVIATION CHIEF KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. fPHE Federation Director of Civil Aviation, Mr. Max Oxford, yesterday said that experience had shown there was no demand for an airstrip in Seremban. He was replying to a Serembcin Councillor. Mr. G. Hines. who yesterday accused the Civil Aviation Department
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    Wu photo show opens
    45 7 Wu photo show opens KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— The nit Lumpur Municipal Present, Mr AD York, yesterday opened an exhibition of photographs by Mr. Francis Wu of Kong who recently toured Malaya. T^ show will be on until '"»duy. The pictures later be exhibited in Penang.
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    HOSPITAL'S NEW LAUNDRY IS THE LATEST
    164 7 ONE of the most modern of laundry buildings in Singapore is nearinj completion at the Middleton Hospital in Moulmein Road. Work on this $38,000 laundry house started about a year ago, and is expected to be ready in two months' time. Thousands of pieces
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    Free treatment for animals
    60 7 PENANG, Sat— A new RSPCA van is touring George Town and the outlying districts daily offering free service to animal owners. Bought mainly with monev left to the society in the will of the late Mrs. Liza Anthony, the van will "visit any corner" in Penang
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    Printer on 2 charges of defamation
    108 7 IPOH, Sat rfiWO charges of defamation 1 of character were brought against Hoong Chun Tien, alias Ang Kline Thean. 37. printer and publisher of the Perak Weekly News yesterday. The charges were the result of two articles about Khong Yoke Lin, proprietress of a
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    Insure families against TB call
    131 7 (V^LY one family has joined v %,r e R °y al Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association's family insurance sce m e J ince it was opened a month Bu i t^ any in Quirles from the Public had been made about in* scheme, an Association said yesterday
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    Thief takes $230
    24 7 A thiof broke* Into a coffee shop in chua Chu Kang Road, Singapore, on Thursday and took $230 from a drawer.
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    The young citizen
    79 7  -  MR. TAN BY MR. C C. TAN, Singapore Legislative Councillor, will speak on "The role of the Young Citizen In Singapore, which is movin? towards self-government" at the Gaa Eng Seng School on July 27. This will end i series Of "Character Training" taiits at this school.
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    STATE LAND GOING UNDER HAMMER
    48 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The Selangor Government is auctioning 11,975 square feet of State land in a busy suburb of Kuala Lumpur on July 19. 1 The land is in five Jots of 2,395 square feet each in Pudu Road near the Majestic Theatre.
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    GIRL SURVIVOR PHONES RESCUER ACROSS OCEAN
    405 8 Sea drama 12 years ago recalled The Caribbean, off Tobago, 1942 Lieutenant Raymond Venables. df the British destroyer Vimy, sees a raft with 17 survivors. As the Vimy reaches it, someone hands up to him a yiri of sir. She hai been three weeks
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    Death-watch beetle causes Abbey damage
    121 8 Death-watch beetle causes Abbey damage SERIOUS death-watch beetle damage has been discovered in the roof timbers of Westminster Abbey, Mr. s. E. Dykes Bower, Surveyor of the Fabric, said in London Tills Ls one of the first re.sults of the beginning of major repairs to the Abbey tint u "in
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    BROTHERS' MONDAY HIKE ENDED ON THURSDAY
    191 8 T*WO hungry little boys who vanished from their homes in Woking on Monday 12-year-old John Lody and his nine-year-old brother Peter were found 40 miles away at Littlehampton three days later. Then their parents, called by the police, arrived to collect them. Mrs Lody
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    DOCTOR FOUND DEAD
    34 8 Mr. Charles Colgate HoJman. 69-year-od retired surgeon, was found dead in his bedroom at Dodford. near Daventr .y> with a bullet wound in the chest, Police have ruled out foul play.
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    Girf of 16 scores 40 'bulls'
    218 8 VALERIE HILL, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, of Burnt Ash Lane, Bromley, Kent, hurried from her School Certificate examination to a small-bore rifle range at Worplesdon, Surrey. She scored 40 bulls with 40 shots in a trial for the British women's rifle team. When the score
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    Attraction at Henley
    29 8 uK'ture. Click and white striped dress worn by Miss Diana Milner at Henley Royal Re/ratta, Henley -on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Her large hat is of bl/ick lace.- Reuter
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    END 'DAY OFF' CHITS —DOCTORS
    93 8 pOCTORS who met in Glasgow demanded that certificates for one day's absence from work should be abolished. The matter arose at the British Medical Association conference when Dr. F. Lishman, of Bishop Auckland, said that the Coal Board were accepting all kinds of certificates that
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    TAXI POOL PLAN
    26 8 London taxi-drivers are fighting for approval of a scheme to link all cab ranks to a central control which the public can telephone.
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    Girl, 15, ran off with 'boy friend'
    467 8 Girl, 15, ran off with 'boy friend' THERE was a considerable rumpus when the parents of a 15-year-old girl discovered that her boy friend was married with four children, said Mr. Harold Cassel, prosecuting in a case at the Old Bailey. The girl had brought the man home at her
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    CHARMER NAPOLEON IS NOW IN EXILE
    405 9 Gaol for man who flattered women > T APOLEON RYDER, I who could charm beautiful women with beautiful phrases, has gone to a place where no Roman can come under His spell— in gaol for seven He was sentenced at the Old Bailey. It
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    ALL SO HONEST
    39 9 Mr. Thomas Herbert, of Alexandra Palace, complained to British Railways that tickets were not collected Properly at his station. An official replied: "You are all honest at Alexandra c there k no need to collect them."
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    Flood and rail disasters
    70 9 pictures. FLOOD waters moving down from Del Rio •flow through Piedras Negras (above) in Mexico, inundating a large part of the business and residential areas. The river crested in this area at 53 feet. BELOW: Thirty-five people were killed In a collision between a freight train
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    PROBE INTO RSPCA DEMANDED
    345 9 DR. W. S. Russell Thomas, a former chairman of the R.S.P.C.A demanded a Parliamentary inquiry into the running of the Society after he had walked out of the annual meetins at Caxton Hall For 20 minutes Dr. RusseJl Thomas had criticised the administration of the R.SP.C.A.
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    WRONG KICK
    31 9 Farmworker Eifion Hughes kicked a dark object lying In his path at Nevin, Caernarvon. An explosion wounded him and killed his dog. Police think it was a mortar bomb.
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    TWO BABIES ABANDONEB, THEN BAB RANG UP
    241 9 TWO BABIES ABANDONEB, THEN BAB RANG UP t rpwo little boys, one two years L old and the other only five months, wire left on the steps outside Dr. Barnardo-s in Stepney Causeway where at the turn of the century so many children were left by thnr parents. Then, nine
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    SIX CARE FOR 14
    16 9 Wltham, EXsex. day uur.serv ha.s a stall of six for 14 children.
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    Knife-throwing act hud to go on
    184 9 MR. HAROLD DENVER stood 20ft. from his Swiss- bom wife and hurled 12 butchers knives at her on the Itage of an Ipswich variety theatre. Previously the audience had been warned "There may be an accident, [f anything happens, sit tight." Someone had stolen
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    NEW PLANES COMING
    115 10 HKI [OOPTKRS l li«« as the t>i tf I airiftnei nov.ttyftni af* lonmnnt loei u expected, boyj and strl keen a tion vill be Intereated f( > know Existing helicoptei might be coniDared ta iJ«e vifii the Dnv.it.- car; the next si win be tfl <' rotor-bu
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    Rupert and the Magic Ball— 10
    464 10 The Chinese conjurer frowns tn astonishment as the little figure «vi;erv his g.irden jnd trcts up the path. By now Rupert i* vo breith|hai he does not speak as he nmfi rirrn. Kfeping 'tr.ngh, on he enters the strange house without pausing and slackens
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    For young artists!
    163 10 this picture. r children, with paints, E crayons, or chalks, and s you may win a prize. There H are four prizes of $5 (two E z boys and two girls) to be E E won. Fill in your name E E address, and age and post
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    The End of The Rainbow
    728 10  -  KATHLEEN HICKLEY BOYS AND GIRLS, HAVE YOU EV€R SEEN A RAINBOW AND WONDERED WHAT WAS AT THE END OF iT: IN THIS FINE NEW SERIAL TWO MALAYAN CHILDREN FCfID OUT WHAT IS AT by AS THE SUDDEN sharp rainstorm passed over, a faint orange light
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      59 10 i m I I It's perfectly easy with a camera i I because the lens is so good V 2 1^ S BAR RESTAURANT hs\/j t\ YOBK Situated in European Residential J/l/j 5 HOTH AII '<x>«"» with Private baHirooans ////j C V/// and phones attached-English baths. W// (S ecial ratcs
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    JAPS FIND A PRICELESS
    391 11 VOLUME THE OSAKA (Japan) library has discovered on its shelves a first edition of the rare "Dialogue,'' written in 1632 by the Italian astronomer, Galileo Galilei. The priceless volume was among 20,000 given to the library 30 years ago and never before examined. It got Galileo
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    SECRETS OF THE AIR ACE
    201 11 TIGER SQUADRON, Winf Commander Ira Jones, D.5.0., M.C.. D.F.C.. MM.. (W. H. Allen). T'HIS is the history of one 1 of the greatest fighter squadrons of all time and Ls virtually a history of aircombat in both world wars. According to comparative tables the author
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    Great voyages in small boats
    162 11 LIBRARY LIST LONELY VOYAGERS, Jean Mrrrien, (Hutchinson). An account most notable of great voyages made In small boats with a crew of two or less during the past 100 years. Illustrated. EASTERN WINDOWS, Ivor Herbert, (Methuen). The story of a member of a secret German
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    'Monty'posethrew enemy off scent
    727 11  -  Walter Schwarz Pay Corps lieutenant who became a general to deceive the Germans describes his wartime adventure. By "I was Monty's double" by Clifton James < Rider). I^ECEPTION is one of the principles of war. It is older than the Trojan Horse. When, on the eve
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    Bridge Quiz
    439 12 L\\sih.ST of all hands to L>id are tho.v* that fall within the itrtcUy limited confines of the noirump requirements 16-17-18 for one no-trump; 22-23-24 for two no'rump; 25 and 26 for three no trump. Yet there are considerations of suit distribution and distribution of honour strength which sometimes
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    Last word
    39 12 NEW defence of the plunge neckline comes from film actress Mamie Van Doren. "They help my posture." she .says wearing one of her usual extreme deep-V dresses. "In a gown like this, one slouch would be fatal."
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    Roman elegance
    39 12 photo. A diagonally striped rummerband minimises the waistline on this new pastel green Sudan cotton morning dress by Carosa of Rome. Large patch pockets and a white trimmed stand-up collar are eye-catching feature* on the bodice.- Reuter
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    When your liver gives up
    635 12 rut: saxi.\noiti: notion tt:ris 11 ttx\ t mm i\ mm »iiW^ AIRS H, a middle-a^ed Chinese woman, came into my office the other day. She asked me to see her husband in their home, because he could pass only little urine and his stomach was
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    Why babies have screaming fits
    121 12 MILLIONS of mothers who have blamed themselves when their babies had nightly screaming fits clearly caused by pain are exonerated in a medical report. For centuries mothers have wondered whether overfeeding, underfeeding, too little affection or too much, might be the cause of these disturbing
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      271 12 |«J ii |-Im|| M %m I J If aw I i CLUES ACROSS: 3 Bo* to discuss things at the 1 Send back the bishops head- table? dress this way. <5. 4 nl y I>»*rt of the daim* (3). 2 This rat ts probably railing a Measure at the end
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    WHEN DOG BITES MAN...
    76 13  -  Giles by E The Queen's Welsh corgi, Susan, has bitten a Crenadie. Guardsman in the ankle. Now while there is apparently no penalty for corgis who bite Guardsmen, the punishment for Guardsmen who say "Ouch on duty is pretty stiff. E So the Guardsman stood his
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    Queen's dogs start a row
    273 13 Andrew Hope defends the Corgis YjANY people in England are asking: "What is wrong with the Queen's pet corgis?" First, one of them bites the leg of the man who winds the royal clocks. Now, one of them nips a Guardsman's ankle as he stamps
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    Sweden feels lonesome
    498 13  -  Relph Hewins Reason behind a Royal visit says ORHIM) the pomp of the four-day visit by the Kin:4 and Que^n of Sweden. behind the banquets at Buckingham Palace and the Swedish Embassy, the addresses on vellum from the City of London and Westminster, the state drives —is
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      130 13 I Audrey Hepburn is toid to rest DETWEEN the second JJoCtOI' Ordci'S and third acts of t^'VX a mountain cure Audrey Hepburn phoned me to say goodbye Its just that I've been the other night. orr > in t0 T' °a\11\~ ting enough sleep, and teel"The doctor has ordered ing
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      44 13 When in Singapore for Hie Race*, itay at the "Gleneagle*" Hotel. GALA RACE BALL Extension to 1 a.m. GLENEAGLES HOTEL 6, Napier Road, presents MARGARET POPPY Sat. 10th My 1954. Phone: ***** 3 (3 lines) and be sure of a table. Join the crowd.
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    World Cup rugby in October
    191 14 World Cup rugby in October Tmik cost of promoting the Rugby League World Cup leries m Prance next October wa.s more tiiuii 4JA47.000, the secretary of the French Rugby League, M. Antoine Blain, .said In Sydney on nil arrival from France. Four Rugby League countries, Australia, England. New Zealand and
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    Who is this man?
    46 14 The popular sportsman on WC ><*ft lß| Mrell known t<> local fans, but 1 not for hi sg prowess o n the hockey field. I (an you re- B cognise him j iii disguise? Answer at' foot of co- 1 umn three)
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    7 PROBABLES FOR ECLIPSE STAKES
    60 14 Seven probable starters and jockeys for MM 67th renewal of the Ecllp.se States, worth £11,435 and runMM over 10 furlongs at Sundown Park today are: King of the Tudors. (K. Gethln), Romany Minstrel <W. H. Carr), Darius (E Mercer >, Landau (Sir Gordon Richards >,
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    SURFING ON CRASS
    27 14 The Display Motor-cycle team of the Royal Armoured Corps Centre give a display of surf riding on gras K at the Whitr City Tattoo.
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    Tables
    206 14 P W D L F APts RAF Chailfl 18 11 5 237 17 27 RAF Seletar 18 12 1 ***** 25 RAF I en -ah 16 8 4 4 27 21 20 RAOC 17 5 6 6 24 24 16 REME 16 8 2 6 39 27 18 RE
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    Come on Changi! You've only 2 games left
    231 14 THOSE ELUSIVE POINTS ROYAL AIK FORCE CHANGI still require two points to win the Singapore Tutted Services F.A. Div. 1 league. And thev have only two matches left. R.A.F. Seletar can win the league if Changi fail to ?et these points. If
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    REDS ARRIVE
    23 14 Eight Ru.ssian chess playor.s. all Grand Masters, have arrived In Stockholm from London to meet Sweden In a national contest. A.P.
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    MARCIANO? TOO GOOD FOR ME
    567 14 -Says JACK DEMPSEY By MURRAY ROSE IT was Jack Dempsey's 59th birthday, and boxing writers and old friends of the Manassa mauler came over to Jack s restaurant on Broadway to say happy birthday to the Champ. Still blackhaired and trim at 225 lb, some
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    Lo brothers in Oxford tennis team
    151 14 Lo brothers in Oxford tennis team I^AMBRIOGE beat Oxford Dy if matches to four in the interuniversity law:* tennis match which ended fct Eastbourne. Sussex, yesterday. It was the fifth successive win by Cambridge in the series. N. Lo and D. Lo, brothers from Hong Kong Iniversity who are studying
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      118 14 U V> HAPPY WORLD, SINGAPORE Foiii«»lil! I xl^iision Jo 1.00 a.m. -ROGER GALLET" Night. Special prizes of the famous 'Roger Gallet" Perfumes, Lotions, Eau de Colognes etc., presented for Spot Dances by kind courtesy of Messrs. Eastern Auto Co. Ltd. Ipfffot AS A CUCUMBEI L LjMJtML AT THE Xs3 AIR
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    PRIMARY SCHOOLS SPORTS ORGANISER
    37 15 picture, Mr Soh Hock Kee of Bedok toys' School the man largely innsible for the first internrimarw schools' sports to be htld at Haig Boys' School around at 3 p.m. today Free Press
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    Junior schools compete today
    120 15 SEVENTEEN junior schools will compete in the first •annual inter-primary schools' yports meeting to be held on the Haig Boys' School ground at 3 p.m. today. Today's sports programme is confined to junior schools* in the "C" district. Credit for the organisation of this interesting programme
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    ETON v. HARROW
    33 15 Scores in the Eton versus Harrow ciiiket match at Lords: Eton 16&, (C T. Pugh 76, R. B. Bloom field five for 27). Harrow 160 for four (two-day match).- Reuter
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    OLSON SIGNS
    25 15 Official signing of contracts for the Carl (Bobo) Olson-Rocky Castell.mi middleweight bout in San Pran- ksco on Aug. 20 took place yesterday A.P.
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    Hoad outsmashed by British youth
    154 15 BRITAIN'S 20-year-old Roger Becker pulled off a great upset when he beat Australia's Davis Cup star Lewis Hoad 6-4, 6-4 in the semi-final of trie Midland Counties lawn tennis championships at Birmingham yesterday. The young Surrey County player's main weapon was his terrific service with
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    FRANCE LEAD IN DAVIS CUP
    58 15 FRANCE gained a 1-0 lead over Denmark on the opening day of the Davis Cup European zone semi-final match in Copenhagen ye pauUiemy. the French No. 1 beat Torben Ulrich (Denmark) 5-7. 1-b. B "Tli o "£cond singles between Kurt Nielson (Denmark) and Robert Haillet
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    Hungarian throws hammer 194ft
    87 15 JOSISF Czermak. 22-year-old Hungarian student and Olympic Champion, broke the British all <<>mers hammer record with a tremendous throw of 194ft. llin. in 'he Amateur Athletic Association iiampionships at the White City '♦■Merday. This was 17 inches better than e previous record set in the same
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    AUSTRALIAN WINS THE BRITISH OPEN
    391 15 1 hotnson triumphs in thrilling end pETER THOMSON of Australia yesterday won the British Open Golf Championship on the Royal Birkdale links (Southport) with a score of 283. In second place were Syd Scott, Dai Rees, both of Britain, and the South African Bobby Locke,
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    DERBY DRAW v. PAKISTAN
    326 15 AFTER a bright day's cricket in which batsmen on both sides hit hard in welcome sunshine, Derbyshire were 75 runs short of victory with five wickets in hand, when their match against Pakistan was left drawn yesterday. Final scores were: Pakistan 317 and 124 for six
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    Tuli 'no' to Espinosa
    107 15 JAKE Tuli, British Empire Myueight (ham- pion. has refused an offer to fight Leo Espinosa of the Philippine;, in Manila on August 4. His manager. Mr. Jim Wicks, said yesterday: "We j were offered V: 2,000 and f expenses, but the promo- j ters wanted the
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    SERVICES MALAYA CUP XI v. S'PORE
    60 15 Combined Services soccer team to meet Singapore tomorrow in the deciding Malaya Cup southern section fixture at Jalan Btsar Stadium is: Smith (RAP 1 Chant (RN, Captaint, Bayne.s (Army); Miller <Army i Lucas iRAPi. Ash (RAP); Hill (RN), Oauntlett (RN), Blundell (RAP i, Wilkie
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    SONNY IS BACK
    40 15 Singapore boxer Sonny Chia and Manager Nene returned from Manila by Pan American Airways yesterday evening. Sonny WH knocked out by Benny Escobar in the fifth round of his unsuccessful bid to win the Philippines featherweight title.
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    20 15 with Miss ALICE LEE Spend A Glorious Evening at OCEAN PARK HOTEL Every Thursday Friday Saturday Nißht.ns^.ilc of the Orient
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    JAP BEATEN IN SEMI-FINAL
    109 15 MISS SACHIKO KAMO, the champion of Japan, was beaten in the semi-finals of the women's singles in the Nottingham lawn tennis tournament yesterday by "Miss Judy Burke, New Zealand champion. Miss Burke won 7-5, 6-2. In the final today Mlss Burke will meet Miss Jean Petchell
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    2½-HOUR BATTLE IN S'PORE TABLE TENNIS
    244 15 2½-HOUR BATTLE IN S'PORE TABLE TENNIS FAVOURITES were again to the fore in last nights Singapore Table Tennis Association championships. Highlight was provided by the match between Chinese Sports Association < R ed' and Jollilads S. A. «Blue» in the senior inter-club league. It took two and a half hours
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    S.S. COMMANDO IS TODAY'S NAP
    331 16 Sybil's Pride, Langton Lady also good bets F.I 1 Course Correspondent VI Y NAP selection at Bukit Timah today is S.S. Commando in Race Seven. Two other sound each -way bets are Sybil's Pride (Race Two) and Langton Lady (Race Five). Barring uny mm the
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    All the latest selections
    242 16 TRESrAS-MOl MENDENGAB >o »l JEEP < \M. BOY POINTER Karri VICTORIOUS I.AKIIFMA 1( TORIOI S GABOCN1A VICTORIOUS LIS Cold Train Victorious Star Sapphire Victorious Red Wolf II K.d Wolf II ro»n Link Gold Train Cold Train Jolly Sailor Race HWlKI.HIt IIWIKIHK SYBILS PRIIU I H \M
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    Gold Town 3f in 37 sec
    328 16 Gold Town 3f in 37 sec TRACKWORK VKWCOMKR Gold Town Sawyer i showed a bright turn of speed when he skipped over 3f In 37 In a testing tryout with ijpr^m Point (Manning) at Bukit limah this morning. Gold Town, bottom weight tn the Class 1. Dlv. 1 6f. sprint
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    Why we lost—by Hungary goalie
    121 16 Why we lost— by Hungary goalie UUNOARY'S 'hard fought match- es" against Brazil and Uruguay In the World Football Cup partly accounted for their defeat by Germany In the final. This was stated by Groslcs, Hungary's goalkeeper. "Owing to the unfortunate rule at present governing the World Cup. Hungary had
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    CARD
    702 16 RACE 1—2.15: CLASS 2, DIV 5—6 FI T RS. 1 Mar sapphire Jones 9.00 2 478 (.old Train Clarke 8.10 3 Crown Link Bougoure 8.09 4 Jolly Sailor Woods 808 5-7 Gardenia Fellow* 9.08 6 Red Wolf II McCloud 8.07 7 Carpenter Smith 8.06 8 Agreement Mulley 8.05 9
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    AIRLIFT OF RACEHORSES
    57 16 The Aga Khan is to airlift to the United States at the end of this month 18 valuable racehorses, biggest Individual consignment ever to cross the Atlantic from Europe. Seven are from Ireland, six from Ixmdon and five from Paris. They will travel by KIM Royal Dutch
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    WIN FOR COSMOS
    19 16 cosmos B.C. beat Setla Jaya 5-1 in a SAPA Dlv. JC game at Oej lang yesterday.
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