The Singapore Free Press, 24 July 1954

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Presspe I arirpst Afternoon Sale m Malaya. i,OOO. Singapore, Sat., July 24, 1954. Price IT, (U
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    S'pore plane was shot down by MIGs
    126 1 S'pore plane was shot down by MIGs TWO Communist MIG'S believed to have been piloted by Russians, shot down the Cathay Pacific Airways Skymaster which plunged into the sea off the Red China Hainan Island yesterday, the pilot of the plane said today. "We were attacked by two MlG's," Capt.
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    Rubber price down
    45 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on an uncertain tone with first grade, August shipment, at 68 3 i •nts a pound— seven-eighths cent below yesterday's closing. Hie drop was due to overii(^ht decline on the London j'id New York markets.
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    French official shot dead
    27 1 Terrorist shot dead French official Claude Thivent. as he walked down the stairs of his apartment building m Marrakech (French Morocco) yesterday.— A.P.
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    STRIKE-HIT SINGAPORE WINS HEALTH FIGHT
    159 1 AFTER an early morning conference with his heads of departments, the Singapore V»ty Council acting president. Mr J. T. Rea, today gave a ffea n bill of health to the city Many members of the Singapore Youth Council this jnorninK joined the increasing pand of
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    MORE ASIA AID -BY U.S.
    285 1 MORE ASIA AID -BY U.S. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S administration is drafting new plans for increasing economic help to South-East Asia nations to strengthen them against Communist subversion. The Foreign Operations Administration which handles the distribution of aid funds provided by Congress through the Mutual Security Legislation has begun a revision of
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    WOMAN HAWKER'S HUT RAIDED
    32 1 While a Chinese woman was out selling cakes yesterday, someone broke into her attap hut m Kamponß Silat, and stole $200 m cash and $165 m I jewellery.
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    Pot attack in kitchen row
    38 1 A Singapore Chinese woman had her arm broken when she was hit by another woman with a cooking pot during a quarrel m the kitchen of a house m South Bridge Road yesterday.
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    INDIA SAYS 'NO'
    38 1 An External Affairs spokesman said last night India had rejected a request from the Portuguese Government that it be allowed to move troops through Indian territory to the inland village of Dadra m Damaun.- Reuter
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    Alaska may be rich in tin
    56 1 The chairman of the board of the US Tin orporation m AtoXa s*id m Washington yesterday engineers bcieve "herTis as much tin m the Seward peninsula, probaMy, as there is m all of B olivia.' one of the worlds largest tin producing areas.- AP
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    INDO-CHINA GUNS WILL BE SILENT ON TUESDAY
    125 1 THE French High Command announced m Saigon last night that the Indo-China cease-fire will go into effect m North Vietnam at 7 a.m. next Tuesday, and m other Vietnamese areas soon afterwards. Sealed orders setting the hour for silencing of the guns m
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    50 1 MARTINI- Carol, the 'wicked lady" of the French films has married Christian Jacques, her Aimdirector boss, In secret at Grasse m Southern France. Martine said: "We shall be terribly happy together. 1 The two mothers-in-law are to lire with the couples from the first day of their honeymoon. Popper pietare.
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    U.S. WANTS ANTI-RED RING
    274 2 Call to free nations UNITED STATES Secretary of Stilt" Mr. John Foster Dulles suggested m Washington yesterday that a protective line fcould be drawn by the free nations around the no n Communist states of Indo-China, even though they were now barred from active participation m
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    32 2 picture A curst, Mrs. If. h ippell, with the skipper, taptain P. C;. Butler, at a <o<ktail party Riven aboard the American freighter i».m i,,, Lykeu m Smgapore last ni«ht.- Free Press
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    This is no Munich, says Mendes-France
    266 2 This is no Munich, says Mendes-France VRFNCH Premier Mr. Mendes-France yesterday r answered critics of the Geneva settlement m an hour-lon* speech m the National Assembly. He was listened to m almost complete silence and received a tremendous ovation when he had finished. He quoted General Bedell Smith as having
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    Sir Donald: 'No boost for bandits'
    83 2 Sir Donald: 'No boost for bandits' SIR DONALD MacGillivray, the Federation High Commissioner, said at London airport last jiight that steady improvement m the Malayan situation was being maintained. He said it was unlikely that the ceasefire m Indo-China would boost the morale of the terrorists. Sir Donald, is to
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    BRITISH MISSION OFF FOR SUEZ TALKS
    121 2 THE British War Secretary Mr. Anthony Head is to fly to Cairo today to take part m the stalemated Anglo-Egyptian talks on the future of the disputed Suez Canal Zone base, the Foreign Office announced yesterday. Mr. Head will be accompanied by Assistant Foreign
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    Five servants replaced wife
    58 2 Mr. Arthur E. Harman, a 40--year-old father of nine children, told a judge m London he had to hire five servants to replace his wife after her death m an automobile crash a year and a half ago. The Judge ordered the driver of the other
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    Peron reorganises
    21 2 President Peron of the Ar- "< ntine has reorganised his Cabinet and set up a new Government Council.- A. P.
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    Churchmen to confer
    25 2 The third plenary Congress of the International Council of Christian Churches will open on Aug. 3 m Elkins Park i Pennsylvania. A.P
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    83 2 AGROIT of happy blood donors at the General Hospital yesterday after receiving; medals from the Director of Medical Services, Dr. R. H. Bland. In the centre is Mrs. M. B. E. Wheatley, Singapore's champion blood donor who has now given blood 30 times. She was awarded a special gold bar
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    Attlee may meet top Russians
    96 2 MR. ATTLEE, Labour Party leader, and some of his principal lieutenants may meet top Soviet leaders m Moscow next month on tneir way to Communist China. An eight strong Labour delecation is due to leave London on August 9 fora visit to Pekine at the
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    Her 'ball gown' for tonight
    78 3 4 BALL (iOVVN— well, hardly! But it is a French idea of what to wear under a ball gown, copied m detail from one of the creations m the film, The French Line. Jeanette MiUrhlan will wear it at tonight's Movie Ball at the Victoria
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    STEP NEARER WAR-BEVAN
    68 3 FIERY left wing Labourite Aneurin Bevan said last night that any re-arming of Germany would be "a decisive step towards a third world war." The former cabinet minister spoke on a radio programme on current affairs. Mr. Bevan said the original argument that German divisions were needed
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    U.S. WILL TRAIN GERMAN PILOTS -SOON AS IT IS LEGAL
    177 3 THE U.S. Defence Department is Biking Congress for funds to start training German Air Force pilots "at the earliest possible moment" after West German rearmament becomes legally possible. Some indications of the plans were disclosed yesterday with the partial publication
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    Turks leave Korea
    22 3 Some 2,500 men of the Fourth Turkish Brigade left Inchon yesterday after serving a year m South Korea A.P.
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    New air agreement
    15 3 An air transport agreement was signed yesterday by Pakistan and Syria.- A.P.
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    COMMUNIST PARTY IS BANNED IN KARACHI
    108 3 THE Communist Party was banned yesterday 1 m Karachi, capital of Pakistan. The City's Chief Commissioner, labu Talib Naqvi, issued an order with immediate effect declaring: the party an "unlawful association." The party Ls still permitted to operate m the rest of West Pakistan.
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    'Choked girl after row over drinks'
    90 3 'Choked girl after row over drinks' 4 EXAN seized yesterday by Sheriff*! deputies ad*U'd under questioning that ne choked a girl to death on J uiy 15 m an Indianapolis hotel room, the BherMT'i office announced m St. Louis Victor Lively, 32, object oi I wi'i". spread search, said the
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    Quake in Chile
    28 3 f J 1 P( |)1 wore in -i ured b y walla m Coquimbo yes-t-y-U* Wl V' n an earthquake rocked central Chile- A. P.
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    Mutual aid boosts Asia development
    91 3 Mutual aid boosts Asia development TECHNICAL co-operation has made an increasing contribution to economic development projects m the past year, according to a draft report on technical assistance adopted by the Colombo Plan Technical Co-operation Council m Colombo yesterday. The report said the other main developments during the year were
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    Riot guns rule city of vice
    125 3 Riot guns rule city of vice UARDSMEN armed with I carbines and riot guns, ruled Phenix City yesterday to suppress what the Alabama Governor called lawlessness, intimidation, tumult and fear. Truck loads of National Guardsmen, who rolled into this town of 23,000 on Thursday on orders issued by Governor Gordon
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    'Girl's murder so cruel'—Judge
    96 3 'Girl's murder so cruel'— Judge A 21 -year-old Korea war veteran yesterday m Ellicott City, Maryland, was .sentenced to hang for .slaying his 17-year-old sweetheart. Circuit judge James Clark told him: "You promised to marry that girl. When .she told you .she was going to bear you a child and
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    Japs apply again
    28 3 A 15-nation committee m Geneva on Monday will consider a new application from Japan for full membership In the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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    Yugoslavia emergency: floods rise
    98 3 YUGOSLAVIA declared a itate of emergency last night along about 90 miles of the swollen Danube river, as Hood waters crossed the border from Hungary. Authorities reported the Danube already above the record Hood level all the way from the border to Novi Sad. 35 miles
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    More Jap Reds
    22 3 Japan's Communist party has doubled m .strength since it went underground two years ago and now number* 100.000- U.P.
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      Opinion Clan shows the way
      392 4 Opinion Clan shows the way According to the Rotary Club's Director of Community Services, Mr. Medora, .some 7,000 men. women, and enildren m Singapore today live m "conditions unfit for pigs. Mr Medora may have been a little over-vehement m his condemnaiion of the conditions which are the lot of
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    9 4 "A<h, Kmtll I«« ;n»: hud v hornHf nightmare I
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    'Hotheads' are Moving U.S. Away from United Nations
    702 4 'Hotheads' are Moving U.S. Away from United Nations Attempts to run the 'whole show will be resented, says Jay G. Hayden, North American News Alliance. NOT the least of President Eisrhowor's burdens is a Senate Republican floor leader— Knowland of California who devotes much more time to attempted guidance of
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    Shah Fights the Landlords
    179 4 Shah Fights the Landlords IRAN'S rich and stubborn landowners who balk at breaking up their giant estates because peasant buyers cannot put up ready cash may have their bluff called by the Shah. He plans to set up a fund of about U5550,000,000 to pay off any landowner willing to
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    SMOKING DOES AFFECT BEAUTY SAY S'PORE WOMEN
    491 5  - SMOKING DOES AFFECT BEAUTY SAY S'PORE WOMEN SIT YIN FONG By JINGAPORE women generally agreed with a Japanese university professor and a beautician t lint excessive smoking detracts from ;i woman's beauty. Only a few said "Nonsense However all were surprised to read a report quoting Mrs. Maya Kataoka, one
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    Hid stolen sarongs under shirt
    71 5 Hid stolen sarongs under shirt pENANG, Sat. SHOPLIFTER. Ratinam. who .slipped three sarongs ,ndei M« shirt, pleaded guilty Sessions Court yesterdiv t a charge of theft. Sen- »nee was deferred for a week. ASP. Mohamed Noor said that Rat mam asked the shopkeeper to show him some sarongs He hid
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    For Trengganu on transfer
    46 5 IPOH Sat. Mr. A. Halliday, Inspector of Schools. South Pt j idk. will leave next vk Mr Trengganu as Chief Education Officer replacing Mr. F. Roberts who is going on lea Mr. Hulliday was president wo years of the local Ro- Club.
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    No permit: $500
    40 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat.— AhAiaQ did ADuDaKar, oi Sungei Pa pan Kstate. Penggerang was fiwrt Sfti>o m th»» SessionCourt. Kota Tinggi. for moving without a permit restricted foodstuffs 3h katis of sugar and 10 katis of pulot rice.
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    Assumes duty
    41 5 IPOH Sat. Inche Mahmud bin Hashim, from Kuala Treng^anu, ha,s taken over duties as president of the i sessions court m Ipoh m place of Mr E. V. A. Peers who is going soon on leave to Aus- trulia
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    No 'slipping out' in school hours
    162 5 INSPECTOR'S WARNING TO TEACHERS IBOIT 2,000 teachers m Singapore Government schools have been told not to go out on private business during leisure periods. This warning was issued by Mr. T. P. M. Lewis. nior inspector of schools, following reports that eachera were slipping
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    $1,640,150 for T.B. Fund
    45 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. -Collections for the Lady Templer T.B Hospital Fund have now reached $1,640,153. This includes $3,948 collected at a recent fun fair at Kuala Larau. Perak. and the $2,658 flag day co"°ction by the North Kcdah Regional Appeal Committee.
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    'This cut will hit progress'
    81 5 BUTTERWORTH. Sat. -With I town areas enjoying far better conditions, any cuts should be made on urban expenditure and not on rural votes. Mr. M. P Mathew (Indian-Unofflciah said at the Bukit M»-rtajam Rural District Council yesterday. Criticising the Settlement Government's reduction of Its subsidy
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    HE GUARANTEES YOUR BRAKES
    77 6 DIMTTRI Samaras of Salo nika, Greece claim**' can guarantee the efficient of your car's hydrauii brate. One of the shortcoming of hydra" brakes is that they mav^ you when you need Tamaras. a motor on, invented a gadget when fixed Wore t pump, controls the biak«
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      172 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davi< HfDAPFDTHPfATPMjrBU^Wm LEAVg'AT ONCt/) T^S^ V^llL^ PMON.NGME. \O^^J TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs I THE APE-WAN WAS LEP f*ST jEER^G BVSTANPESS |O SH^Pffi P^l I^S THE SAINT by~Lesiie Chartens JANE by Hubbard r. v£S *A AND RUT, YOUR W THERE |9 NO DANGER..'- l^
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      620 6 YOUR j ILUCKY I STAR i if G HORN on this h>si davof iheE 7z incoming sign, 0< V JJ are ruled by the sun and have many imperious, regai and do- S tl mineering characteristics This, however, is tempered r» your innate wisdom, your gen- eral kindliness toward others
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    Lovelies will aid hospitals
    114 7 Grand fashion show planned f I ORMER MGlrl of the Year" and a -Miss Max Factor of Singapore" among the beautiful women who ;il he seen at the fashion show at iflfles Hotel next Wednesday m aid the St. Andrew's Mission hospitals. Miss Klske VVolters (right)
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    Girl of 4 drowned
    49 7 KLUANG. Sat. -The body of a four-year-old girl. Wong Moi Ting, was recovered from Kluang River today Wong had come with tier father from Seremban on July 22 to visit her monther's home m Jalan Yap Tau Sah She was missing an hour after arrival
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    ELECTORAL DIVISIONS REPORT READY SOON
    151 7 THE electoral delineation A committee whose Job is divide Singapore island into 24 divisions for elections under the Rendel consitution, is expected to submit report to the Governor «'irly next month. The surrounding islands. except Pulau Tekong and ulau Übin. which are beins? added to
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    DANCE GIRL WAS SAVED FROM VICE DEN
    99 7 A YOUNG GIRL, who was licensed as a dance hostess m the Federation last year, was picked up by an >tivice squad m a Singapore brothel, according to the Labour Department report for June. *fter this the department turned down many applical »»"s
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    New dispensary for islands
    169 7 THE Singapore Rural Board is to launch another floating dispensary to serve the islands. A spokesman of the Health Department said the launch was being completed. The chief health officer m his annual report said that 1 minor outbreaks of malaria occurred m two smaller islands.
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    WIFE INSISTED: 'WERE NOT MARRIED'
    317 8 A Will! who believed thai her marriage v%»s not recognised by bet church repeatedly told her husband ihej irere living m sin, clivorcr .ju(l;;«* I«»<1 Mirriman said m Manchester. And of the wife, ;t Scottish Roman Catholic, ne added: "She was «'t .shifty, evasive, and
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    Queen Mother opens school
    62 8 THE QUEEN Mother has opened the new headquarters of the Royal School of Church Music at Addinßton Palace, Croydon, Surrey. She was greeted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher. The picture shows the Queen Mother and Dr. Fisher walking past a guard of honour
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    RUNAWAY CAR IN SHOP WINDOW
    40 8 An empty car with a Spanish diplomatic corps plate ran away m Hampstead. It mafhed a fence, ran 100 yards down a hill and stopped with its bonnet through the window of a Spanish cafe.
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    'RIVER OF MILK' DOWN A HOLE
    47 8 More than 60,000 gallons of milk have been emptied down a disused coal mine at Tunley near Bath, by a dairy. Company officials say the milk was skimmed and transport difficulties made it impossible to send it to farmers for animal-fattening
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    Now they can make new start
    163 8 rnHEIR first home burned 1 down. Wrdding presents, furniture—mil gone. That, With a baby on the way. was what happened to two younK newly-weds. Then the kindness of people made them smile again. For June and Derek Oswick both 21. got a present that
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    CONSTABLE HELPS
    15 8 Police-Constable Fred Gawlor, of Folkestone helped at a birth before the midwife arrived.
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    THIS BRIBERY WAS LEGAL
    136 8 YES. it is legitimate to bribe your wife to come back, a Chancery Court judge ruled. Before him was a wife ask- ing for the enforcement of a "deed of reconciliation" be- tween herself and her husband. The husband claimed it would be against public policy
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    'The passionate' doctor is struck off
    487 8 THE name of Dr. Arthur i Wright Su.tt Webster has been ordered to be struck <>rl the medical register. He ill found Kullty of infamous c»>n duct with a woman patient, Mrs Sylvia Poeklin^ton. It took the disciplinary committee of the General Medical Council
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    'Useful' patients not freed
    171 8 'Useful' patients not freed MOME "high-grade" m defectives art not released from institutions wh< n could be. because they ar< useful as workers, said JiiiUce of the Peace. He told the royal commission on mental illness laws, sitting m London: When I told one superintendent that his gardt n wai
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    MORE DIVORCE AMONG CHILDLESS
    32 8 Forty per cent of all divorces m Britain occur m childless marriages, Mr. V. B. Green-Armytage, visiting gynaecologist to the British PostGraduate Medical School, London, said at Oxford.
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    CRIPPLED GIRLS HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY
    126 8 HAVING A WONDERFUL time. That was the mood the kindness of people gave to 45 crippled girls who went to the seaside. When fruit grower Victor Warren heard that the girls— from a school at Ely, Cambridgeshire— were going by coach for a day
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    THEY WAITED 35 YEARS TO MARRY
    158 8 IX>R 35 years a woman who ■T was due to be married m her teens waited to walk U) the altar with her childhood .sweetheart. During those years of waiting she was Miss Kathleen Marjory Powell, of Railwuyplace, Hereford, and she met Mr. Robin
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    Bedroom man is cleared
    298 9 BEFORE a Jury retired to consider their verdict at Berks Quarter Sessions at Reading, Mr. Gilbert Paull, QC deputy chairman, said iat whatever decision was ;hed the woman who the chief witness for 'hv prosecution would leave the court with as high a tcr as she
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    45 9 picture Chenille roses embroidered on grey net and an enormous sash of old rose taffeta are striking features of this dress by Angele Delanghe. worn over a satin slip with full net underskirt. The black hat b> Norman Edwin, is m black hatter's plush- Reuter
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    YOUNG GIRL 'HAUNTED' MAN WHO SAVED HER
    339 9 YOUNG GIRL 'HAUNTED' MAN WHO SAVED HER CAVKD from drowning when she got into diliiculties while swimming, a 13-year-old girl later "haunted" her rescuer, a Polish ex-cavalry-man, said Mr. J. S. Oakes, defending m a case at the County Assizes at Manchester. Pleading guilty to two serious offences against the
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    London Mayor goes Western
    69 9 rpilK liord Mayor of l.ondcn Sir Noel Yansittart BaX water, wears a ten-gallon hat as he stands with the I ul% Mayoresss m Mansion House. They were receiving a letter from the Mayor of Ne\r York, delivered by a party of 48 American boys making a
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    They march to save common
    294 9 They march to save common IN a campaign to prevent refuse being dumped on Mitcham Common London, the Common Preservation Committee are organising a protest march. From Mitcham they will march to a part of a mound of top soil raised a$ the first stage m a tipping scheme. In
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    POLICE CHIEF FAILS TO BAR DRIVER, 82
    183 9 PORTSMOUTH City Coun an 82-year-old retired Collins, of Dysart-avenue, drive his car. Mr Collins appeared before 'm. council while it considered recommendation that his licence be revoked, under the p^er Riven to councils by the fHMci Traffic Act. The interview followed a reP^rt
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    FISHED OUT
    53 9 Fourteen year old Henry James, of Stoke Ncv.ington, Kent, fell into the River Lea while, fishing at Waltham Abbey. The river is 11 feet deep. But his friend, Robert Reynolds, also 14, pushed out his fishing rod. Henry took hold and wa.s pulled out. He was treated for
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    Headmaster canes whole school
    444 9 MR. OLIVER WHITFIELD. the headmaster, raised his cane and brought it down on a boy's palm. He did that 200 times— until every boy m Usworth Secondary Modern School, Co. Durham, had received one stroke. Mr. Whitfleld explain* -d that the school had just been painted.
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    WAR AGAINST INSECTS
    382 10 HGSFJTF Insects bare troubled man ever since he lias been on earth. They have bitten and Stung him. They have destroy- <•! his food, hta clothes, hi.s home And they have i:1 c d germs that brought hi m horrible ith. Borne m hartnl and others do
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    LAST WEEK'S WINNERS
    61 10 winners of last week's J- colouring contest are: Kitty Em (11), 409 New Bridge Road, Singapore 2. Emily de Sou/a (14), 212-K Rangoon Road. Singapore. Thum Hor Hoe (12). 7 Jalan Raja. Tap-ili, Perak. Lim Sah Bah (12) Bukit Zahrah School, Johore Bahru. The prize of S5
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    THE END OF THE RAINBOW
    653 10  -  KATHLEEN HICKLEY story by i j IBRAHIM and Sarinah find the end of a rainbow. The rainbow fairies tell them that wicked elves plan to destroy the bow by painting it grey. The children go to battle with the elves but Ibrahim loses his hold
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      158 10 I A chance for young artists fiOI.OI'K this picture, boys und sirls with paints. l_/ crayons, or t halks. and ><>v may win a prize. There are four prizes of |5 (two boss and two i;irls) to h*> wm Fill i»» vo! r ««nie. address, and ftge and post to
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      385 10 Rupert and the Magic Ball— U j™ q I p To prove fhit the ball has now frcm me." Before Rupert can rofhing sirange about v. the answer there is a happy cry from Chinese ccniurer plays all sorts of Tigerlily. 'My honourable daddy clever tricks with if. Then he
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    21 11 "A/I you do is sign a form give the man your Dad's name and address —and you vet one for nothing."
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    By the Way
    382 11  - By the Way BEACHCOMBER IjWER since a prolonged J Inquiry proved that backward children learn leSi easily than clever children, I have been a noisy devotee of inquiries. I read that scientists art now conducting iaborioul i» searches to and out why people stay away from work. They will be
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    'Fantastic' prices for firearms
    498 11 'Fantastic' prices for firearms rERE is a big boom now m old firearms— and sumo rifles are literally worth their weight m gold Firearm values have gone up fantastically," said John T. Amber of Chicago, editor of "The Gun Digest." "There are over 500,000 weapon collectors m America. The number
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    NEWS FROM FRANCE
    193 11  - NEWS FROM FRANCE STEPHEN COULTER IN SPITE oi the ciis- appearance of Al Capone, the unwritten gangster law of keeping mum If one of your enemies nearly kills you apparently still holds. This week a well-set-up crook turned up at a Paris hospital with his face m ribbons from razor
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    19 11 PRINCKSS MARGARET DANCING WITH LIEUT.- COLONEL NOEL WALL. KIN(iS OWN HUSSARS. \T THE SERVICEB BAIL AT BAD EILSEN, GERMANI
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    When the sick turn to magic
    771 12 Many illnesses are caused >lrv mental disturbances IWAS called to see a woman suffering from pain m the left side of the abdomen. Her fever and temperature pointed to an infection m the kidney. I prescribed an antibiotic and a sulphadrii£ which, m most
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    84 12 Sir Aian McLean. Convener ot Aberdeenshire. unveils a plaque to Sir Patrick Manson. "The Father of Tropical Medicine/ at Oldmeldrum. Scotland. Sir Patrick was the first President of the famous Royal Society of Tropical Medicine. Speaking at the ceremony, Sir Thomas Taylor, Principal of Aberdeen University,
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    Pharmacies are a Russian headache
    233 12 RUSSIAN pharmacies **> seem to be causing more headaches than they are curing. That, at any rate, is the opinion of irate Soviet editors who are charging that it is virtually impossible to purchase a number of urgently needed medicines m the Soviet Union. The
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      419 12 Bridge Quiz T'OUAYS quiz Is a test of your 1 still m handling an opposing takeout double when your partner has opened the bidding with one club. This situation is somewhat more complicated than' the usual one because there is always a possibilitf that your partner may have opened with
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      351 12 give a double raise over an intervening takeout double. You must have excellent clubs because you must be prepared for partner to have only a three-card suit. A preemptive raise m this spot shows good clubs, but very little strength outside the trump suit. By stealing a couple of rounds
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    Eartha Kitt, new Sepia Singing Siren
    328 13  - Eartha Kitt, new Sepia Singing Siren EVE PERRICK It VERY entertainment !i era has its own favourite sepia singing siren. And, to join the copper-coloured chorus which began with Josephine Baker and Florence Mills, took m Nina Mac McKinney and recently ended with \A-ivd Home, comes the girl with a
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    21 13 Some 0/ the dusky beauties m the slate O) Ayr aria who adorn the British comedy You Know What Sailors Are."
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    Dataline, Hollywood...
    589 13  -  Sheilah Grahame By DICK POWELL will be m running for three Oscars when this year's Academy Awards arc voted on. Dick is producer and director of the '"000 epic. "The Conr"r." And his song. "Susan Here 1 -from the picture i lie stars with DEBHIK REYNOLDS is moving
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      185 14 > 20th CENTURY-FOX— EXTENDS GOOD WISHES TO THE SUCCESS OF THE IASVt/lE DAIS IORA MOVIE BALL 1Y34 TO BE HELD TONIGHT AT THE I VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL IN AID OF THE ST. ANDREWS MISSION HOSPITAL. SINGAPORE. I I -i() LORD' l fIBV H(j I I '^1 SA^ 6 I i
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    TRACK MEN ARE OUT FOR RECORDS TODAY
    894 15 TRACK MEN ARE OUT FOR RECORDS TODAY Rivalry keen, but ground is heavy Free Press Athletics Reporter T*KACK events seem likely to bring the keenest com- petition m today's finals of the Singapore Amateur j Athletic Association championships. Starting with the sprints, the surviving competitors m each race are on
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    247 15 RUGBY BRAWL INQUIRY AUBREY OXFORD, referee of the Rugby League match between New South Wales and the British touring team which ended m a brawl, told an inquiry that "Britain did not want to play football." Oxford added that some of the British team said they
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    24 15 picture I Lee Siew I ho©, (SCAAF). winning record breaker m the women's javelin final with a distance of 80ft. 5 m. Free Press
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    42 15 Yip Ngan Kiew,l7, of Yuk Choy High School, Ipoh. set a Perak and Malayan Discus record at the Perak Athletic championships yesterday. Her throw of 85 feet 4 inches improved on the Malayan mark by t> feet 11' 4 inches.
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    135 15 {>' BBY LOCKE, South Afritop |olfer, won prize of £250/- for the Play section O f the Harrotate Profes•Golf Tournament at "'urouate. fir1 throughwe 3 /-year-old burly b ;;l ha( A a score of 276 wwteH His rounds were 69 72, 66 and 69. Locke won
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      111 15 Mill l ""j What' s YOUR verdict? VI .1 I 1 /I Answer The ansioer is "No." It is not a goal, unless the first kick scores. The game is finished as soon I as the first kick has been taken. Question lime has almost expire? >»hrn an attacker is
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    184 16 World champ's Orient tour I ll r (H{IJ> fcuthervveiK^t < hampion Sandy Saddler is pi uiiiin^ a tuur of the Far Kast m October. He intends fighting In Singapore. Bad Bam I hinose Bald yesterday m Honolulu that it pre.,»'/i( p] ins work out Saddler will
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    22 16 OonMeiChun. (SCAAF). winner of the women's shot putt final yesterday at the Singapore A.A.A. championships. (Kepiirt insifl*' I
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    192 16 VLTILF WOOLLER. Glamorgan's 42-year-old cricke TT captain, inspired his team to a 22-run victory over Middlesex m a thrill-a-minute match at Lord** yesterday. Wooller held Glamorgan's batting together 4 and scored 56 runs m a second innings total of 195 foi 5 declared. Middlesex,
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    202 16 At Muidstonr. Northamptonshire beat Kent by an Innings and 10 runs. Northampton 394 for 5 dccl. Kent 225 (Cowdrey 50. Hearn 80; Broderick 4-42 > and 159 (Hearn 50. Tribe 5-54). At Birmingham: Warwickshire: Somerset match drawn. Warwick 220 and 198 for 4 dccl. (Spooner 91, Homer 13).
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    24 16 INDIA will send a nine-man athletic team to the 12th I World University Summer j Games starting on July 31 m Budapest.
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    356 16 WEIGHTS for all Josker II 8.08 Canterbury Bell 811 J T races first day Rigoletto 8.07 Remarkable 8.10 IViun- Turf Club Radalona 8.06 Fishs Kuda 809 August Bank Holiday Campus Belle 8.05 Snow Blaze B^oB Meeting on July 31. Shangrila 8.04 I Beechnut 8.07 CL 1 DIV 1
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    79 16 SUPERIORITY, one of the topflight sprinters m training, died from pneumonia m his stall at the Penang stables last night. A five-year-old by Sayani, Superiority won the $25,000 Sultan's Gold Vase over 5 l|2f. straight at Ipoh m October last year. In his last
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    338 16 FIREBIRD SETS A HOT PACE TRACKWORK VEWCOMER Firebird 11 Hunting Pmk,, a year old Pink Flov/er geld no displayed a bright tSrnol fpeed to cock 38 3/5 wide ou on the second track ai ang this morning. Firebird, running m a was stretching out with Freedom at the finish. Galloping
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    10 16 RAIN washed out play yesterday at Old Trafford
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