The Singapore Free Press, 14 August 1954

Microfilm: NL2439
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    Masthead
    21 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. .Nn. 141. 7. Sin K»po_, Sat.. Aug. 14, 1954. Price 15 Cts.
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    US. CALL: DON'T BAN REDS
    262 1 U.S. CALL: DON'T BAN REDS PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S administration will request leaders of the House of Representatives not to endorse a Senate bill outlawing the Communist Party of the United States, some Congressional quarters said m Washington yesterday. The bill passed unexpectedly by 85 votes to nil m the Senate on
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    MAN CAME IN AS GIRL WAS HAVING BATH
    149 1 TWO young Singapore girls, a European and a Chinese reported to police yesterday that they had been molested by men. The Chinese girl, who lives at the 15th mile, Woodlands Road, said a man broke down the door of her bathroom when
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    2 MORE AREAS ARE 'WHITE'
    111 1 r PWO more areas m the FedeA ration were declared White" this morning. One is m Province Wellesley, the other In South Kedah. The Province Wellesley area has a population of 103,000 and includes 42 kampongs, villages and estates. The South Kedah area takes m
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    3 French ministers resign
    45 1 The French Government last night agreed on a compromise on the European Army but three Gaullist ministers resigned, a Gaullist spokesman stated. The three were General Pierre Koenig. Minister of Defence; M. Jacques Delmas. Public Works, and M. Maurics Lemaire. Reconstruction.
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    RUBBER PRICE
    33 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened on an easier tone this morning with first grade. August shipment, at 65 x k cents a pound, one and a quarter cent below yesterday's close.
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    Dulles will be there
    112 1 MR JOHN Foster Dulles, the U S. Secretary of State and Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, are expected to attend the South East Asian defence conference due to open at Baguio m the Philippines on September 6. The Foreign Ministers of Australia, New Zealand,
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    K.L. crowds await Mrs. Pandit
    284 1 MORE than 5.000 people are expected to greet Mrs. Pandit at Kuala Lumpur today. It will be one of the three occasions during her 11 -hour visit to Kuala Lumpur m which all members of the public will be able to see her. In the
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    Her flying tour goes on
    63 1 MRS. PANDIT In- spects a guard of honour on her arrival by air at Malacca yesterday. It was a short visit there only half an hour but a busy one. Mrs. Pandit was welcomed by Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, the Malacca Resident Commissioner, Settlement
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    GOA EVICTS ALIENS
    217 2 ALERT— AS PEACEFUL MARCH IS PLANNED rpPAINS out nf Portu- guese Goa have (brought hundreds of Indians evicted under a new order for not holding residence permits. Most were labourers who complained they had not been given time to co.lect their wages and belongings before leaving. One
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    TWO HELD FOR SPYING AT GENEVA TALKS
    108 2 TWO HELD FOR SPYING AT GENEVA TALKS SWITZERLAND announced yesterday that it has cracked down on a spy ring which operated during the Far East conference at Geneva and arrested two men. I A federal police spokesman said, the spies worked for a "nearby foreign power" to carry out political
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    37 2 A delegate from Europe to the World Assembly of Youth signs an autograph for one of the receptionists who welcomed the 112 delegates from all parts of the world on their arrival at Kallang Airport, Singapore, yesterda/.
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    SOVIET YES TO BIG 4 TALK WITH AUSTRIA
    181 2 HPHE Soviet Union agreed yesterday to a Big Four meeting with Austria. But the Russians called for more disc, sion of the deadlocked Austrian Independence Treaty, rather than Austria's proposals for an easing of occupation controls. Austria, m a note on July
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    Truncheon attack beat off strikers
    224 2 OTRIKERS fought 200 police outside Siemens Electrical Works m Munich yesterday m an attempt to liberate one of their comrades who had been arrested. Police used their truncheons and detained several men while a crowd of about 1,000 strikers catcalled and milled around them. The
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    Sitdown protest
    32 2 Fifty Korean war veterans staged an hour-long sitdown demonstration against the Czech and Polish members of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission yesterday at Kangnung on South Korea's East coast. AP
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    Britain swept by storms
    128 2 Britain swept by storms A SUCCESSION of violent summer thunderstorm, swept many parts of Britain yesterday. A heavy cloudburst which hit London at dawn was followed a few hours later by another raging thunderstorm. Thousands of people queuing outside the Oval cricket ground to see the second day's play m
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    Indians' big day tomorrow
    55 2 A public meeting will be held at Farrer Park tomorrow at 4.30 pjn. under the auspices of the Malayan Indian Congress, m celebration of Indian Independence Day. Mrs. Pandit, President of United Nations General Assembly, has been approached to address the meeting. Leading delegates to the
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    ELOPED ON FATHER'S MONEY FOR BIG SPREE
    148 3 Now they face theft charge A TEEN-AGE couple who went on a honeymoon spree with US$5,BOO belonging to the brides father have been charged m New York with theft— although the father says he is willing to forgive and forget. Harvey J. Wurtzberger
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    37 3 picture. Capt. Barthe.iny (left), the master of the Laos, Mr. Anduze Faris, president of Messageries Maritime*, and Mrs. Faris, welcomed guests st a cocktail party aboard the ship, now m Singapore on her maiden voyage. Free Press
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    POLE LEAPS OVERBOARD TO FREEDOM
    63 3 POLE LEAPS OVERBOARD TO FREEDOM A 23-YEAR-OLD Pole yesterday jumped to freedom from the Polish liner Batory m Copenhagen harbour, on his first trip west of the Iron Curtain. He was swimming frantically towards the shore when he was picked up by a tug boat. "I want my freedom/ he
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    Lucky buy
    36 3 A Chicago art collector has paid US$45O for a painting which, an expert now declares, is worth more than one million dollars. The picture is a Leonardo Da Vinci "Madonna and Child."- A .P
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    AIRLINE MAY SACK 16,000
    175 3 AIRLINE MAY SACK 16,000 AMERICAN airlines, the largest UJS. domestic line, announced last night that nearly 16,000 employees would be given discharge notices by Monday unless its 1,250 pilots ended their strike. The pilots struck on July 30„ refusing to work more than eight hours at a stretch. The company's
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    AQUARIUM DAY
    27 3 Singapore City Councillor, Mi J. M. Jumabhoy, yesterday said he would propose that the new Colony Aquarium be officially opened on "City Day" September 22)
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    New army chief
    21 3 Gen. Peng Meng-chi, 47, was named acting chief of the General Staff of Nationalist China's army yesterday. A.P.
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    Pope's broadcast
    29 3 The PoDe will recite the Angelus over the Vatican radio tomorrow, on the occasion of the Feast of the Assumption, at 6.30 p.m. Malayan time- A.P. picture.
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    3 'soulless' Red doctors sacked after boy dies
    83 3 THREE doctors have been dismissed and three reprimanded, over the death of a two-year-old boy m a hospital at Dnepropetrovsk m "ie Ukraine, the Soviet newsPaper Medical Workers said yesterday. The boy died of appendici- ties, it said, after a faulty diagnosis
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    Still negotiating
    32 3 The United States and Japan still are negotiating concerning compensation for Japanese seamen made seriously ill by radio active dust from U. S. hydrogen bomb experiments m the Pacific. Reuter
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    Protests for U.S.
    34 3 Britain, Denmark and Sweden have protested to the United States against a new American law requiring foreign seamen to obtain visas before they can go ashore m the United States Reuter
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    Doctors endorse fake pills
    71 3 Doctors endorse fake pills TWO medical magazines urged the British Government yesterday to let doctors prescribe fake medicines under the free National Health Service. Fake dosages known to the medical professional as "placebos" are often given to quiet a patient who believes he needs medicine when the doctor believes he
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    Five fly to S'pore with a gift
    213 3 rnVE MEMBERS of Parliament leave London for Singapore today with a gift for the Colony's new Legislative Council— a bound an inscribed copy of Erskine May's "Parliamentary Practice". R^ iflr natures m the copy Include of the Lord Chancellor, Simonds. the Speaker 0
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    CAUGHT FOR SPEEDINGACCUSED OF BANK HOLD UP
    127 3 CAUGHT FOR SPEEDINGACCUSED OF BANK HOLD UP IMIREE gunmen stole US$l24,- 638 from the vault of a branch bank at St. Andrews Air Force base. Camp Springs. Maryland, yesterday, and the FBI announced later one of them had been caught. Donald K. Brown, special a sent In charge of the
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Aug. 14. 1954. Relative values
    362 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Aug. 14. 1954. Relative values For too long there has been a tendency among Singapore theatrical groups to seek to produce the West End success and the popular playwright" on the grounds that a good attendance is ensured. This has now arrived at the absurdity
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    'Russia could outstrip U.S.'
    560 4 Red bombs may be fewer— but better. says America's "Mr. Atom' THE ATOMIC RACE LAST year Russia was behind America m the atomic race. This year the U.S. is still ahead— in quantity but "not necessarily m quality." This is the view of '•Mr. Atom"— Mr.
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    Where Reds are preferred to Protestants
    477 4 Where Reds are preferred to Protestants American preachers have to go 'underground* m Rome, says Bernard Ronald. I HAVE listened m a sermon on a cellar, with one eye on the preacher and one eye on the door, halfexpecting the police to burst m at any moment. The cellar was
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    HOMES FOR DISPLACED FARMERS
    272 5 Govt, may build them A PLAN to build hundreds of attap homes m Singapore for the resettlement of farmer families and others who will be displaced through Government housing development schemes is now being considered. The homes will go up on a 616-acre site at the
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    Engineer 'on loan'
    51 5 MX. Donald Fowles, a construction engineer, h^ been lent by the Shell Company of Australia, Limited, to Shell m Singapore to supervise the construction of one bulk installation at Labuan and two new bulk depots m Kuching and Sibu. He will spend the next I* months m
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    Modesty charge
    27 5 SEGAMAT, Sat. Produced here on a charge of using criminal force on a woman to outrage her modesty, B. Menui 23. was offered $300 bail.
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    CONTRACTS TO SPEED UP 1954 DEVELOPMENT PLAN
    243 5 CONTRACTS TO SPEED UP 1 954 DEVELOPMENT PLAN rfiHE Singapore Oovernment hopes to let out. all conti acts on education, medical md other social services by the end of this year m a bid to complete its $26 million development programme for 1954. During the first half of this year.
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    31 5 nts and godparents seen after the christening 01 iLKry Fen on Brown m Tannin Ciarriaon Roman Denoran wr J sin_anore. From left are Captain J. R. L™fMat.l_^ Brown »Dd Captain F,nt»n.
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    S'pore, Philippines plan 'Y' exchange visits
    422 5 S'pore, Philippines plan 'Y' exchange visits AN exchange of visits between Singapore V.M.C.A. and the Philippines V.M.C.A. representatives, to promote friendship and closer understanding, may take place soon. First hint of the proposal was an informal discussion early this week between a visiting Filipino "V" official and Mr. Andrew Lee,
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    Estate man is gaoled
    54 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— Lee Cheong. 45, ol Hawthornden Estate, Setapak, was today gaoled for six months for unlawful possession of scrap rubber. He was arrested by the police at the estate on Aug 5 after he had failed to account for how he came by SO
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    III-treated child allegation
    63 5 III-treated child allegation KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. A WOMAN, Cheah Ah Hoa, was charged at Kuala Lumpur today with ill-treating a boy, Loh Kirn Huat, who was under her care at her house ln Sentul. The prosecution alleged that Cheah beat the boy ln a manner likely to cause him unnecessary
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    SOCIALISTS PLAN RALLY FOR ATTLEE IN S'PORE
    143 5 SOCIALISTS PLAN RALLY FOR ATTLEE IN S'PORE LEADERS of Singapore's Socialist Party yesterday said they wanted to meet members of the British Labour Party mission to Peking, when it stopped m the Colony on the way back to London. But they were hazy about their plans Mr Francis Thomas, the
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    Club meeting
    17 5 SITIAWAN, Sat. The annual meeting of the Sltiawan Recreation Club ha«? been postponed till Tuesday.
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      120 5 attt(S M»»l ■■■■■■(••■■(••■■■Mf The Island Players I I HAVE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THAT TOEY I HAVE SECURED THE LICENCE TO PLAY j i NOEL COWARD'S _> I RELATIVE VALUES j to be produced by DONALD DAVIES j > at the Victoria Theatre m October with BETTY A HER PETER CLAGUE
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    THEY LIVE IN THE SHADOWS Home is a damp cubicle
    723 7  - THEY LIVE IN THE SHADOWS Home is a damp cubicle STEVE NEOH By ABOUT 500.000 or half the population of Singapore live either m slums or m overcrowded conditions— a terrifying fact. Until the problems of funds, building materials and skilled labour are solved they will still go on living
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    TOBACCO GROWERS FACE SLUMP
    255 7 tobacco growO crs whose locally-grown leaves once fetched more than $300 a picul, are now lacing a slump. The price dropped from $180 a picul m January this year to $160 m March. It is now slightly below $150. And according to official sources, the price
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    WE MUST CALL MURDERERS 'Mr' SAY WARDERS
    314 8 WE MUST CALL MURDERERS 'Mr SAY WARDERS Plea for stronger discipline THE 200 warders at Hampton mental hospital m Nottinghamshire arc to petition the (Jovernment for stronger discipline there. They say that they have to call murderers "Mr." They say too that they arc not allowed to use well-tried methods
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    'SNOOPING' BONUS FOR SHOP MEN
    49 8 Fhou assistants m a group of stores m London. Liverpool. Newcastle, Nottingham, and other towns are being paid bonuses for acting as shopping spies They receive 2s. 6d. or 5s each time they discover a competitor charging less than their employers for a article
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    KEEP YOUR GUNS AWAY, VILLAGERS TELL ARMY
    206 8 TTHE villagers of Castlemorton, near Worcester, are up m arms because of the damage caused to their common by Army track-driven guns at week-ends. The parish council is to ask the Army to stop using the common for training— and it will seek
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    The 'things' from space are coming, says Rector
    247 8 The 'things' from space are coming, says Rector THE Rev. Ronald Cartinel knows that flying saucers exist, he knows that "things" from outer space are moving m on the earth. He has told his 10.000 parishioners. At 54 (I'm old enough to know better. you may think"* he believes also
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    121 8 riMIK children l>r. Peter Jar nesby chased across the Continent to find have returned to London with him l>r. Tarnesby found his daughters with their muther m an Italian village. 11. set •ut m search of them 10 days age after a Divorce Court judge had given him an interim
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    ...And now 'Annie Laurie' plays on
    81 8 ...And now 'Annie Laurie' plays on A 75-year-old retired doctor whose mother's name wa_ Annie always remembered his boyhood m Alverthorpe. near Wakefield, when "Annie Laurie" was his father's favourite tune. So now, Alverthorpe parish church is to have a new clock and three times a day a carillon will
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    The Queen goes to christening
    47 8 picture. the Queen wore a light summer frock when she attended the christening of the infant son of Brigadier and Mrs. Alexander Abel Smith m the Queen's Chapel, Marlborough House. Here the Queen is seen leaving the chapel after the ceremony. Popper
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    THE SILENCE IN HER LIFE
    122 8 LONELY Mrs. Fanny Simons was a keen radio fan. In her ground-floor flat m Water-park-road, Salford. she would switch on and there would be a host of entertainers to keep her company. Then the people m the flat above began to object. The radio was
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    The collar is borrowed from Navy
    55 9 The collar is borrowed from Navy picI lure. 'Till new saii ur collar is JL Riven an interesting interpretation by Simon Ellis m this blouse of striped dupion. The collar Ls of crisp pique cotton. The blouse priced at about 265. 6d. is available m sailor blue, burnt beige, spring
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    Blancoing will be just a memory
    124 9 npHERE is good news for the 1 Army December has been fixed as the month troops m Britain finish with blancoing and begin to use a new equipment renovator. Thia is a web cleaner which looks like a boot polish and b applied with
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    CHILDREN SMOKE IN CINEMAS
    21 9 Many children smoke at /<i. .burgh cinema matinees. councillor Mrs. A. Woodbum uutte the Citys education com
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    MOTHERS DON'T WANT TO KEEP NUISANCES
    190 9 Please adopt them' I DARENTS with large families are trying to "give away" nuisance children by having them adopted. This problem was reported by Mrs. Mary Morling. a member of the Derby Diocesan Moral In her annual report Mrs. Moiling reveals: "We are still
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    Poem causes a stir
    87 9 A PROBLEM poem which an adjudicator considered superior to any other m the contest failed to win the National Eisteddfod chair. Written by Caradog Prichard. a Fleet Street journalist, it was placed on a short list of two. Mr Prichard's rival was Mr. John Evans, schoolmaster,
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    CARAVAN HOMES ARE 'MENACE TO YOUNG'
    190 9 THE effect of caravan life on the na n fi Sn. l™rz™z™ m^z^z\rz: SS lor Sonll. oxfon. ire ennrbine. r_tt__ He said- "Satisfactory standards for caravans have never been completely laid down. You may put as many foil as you like m a caravan
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    Rubber dashboard for safety
    39 9 Rubber-mounted dashboards and sprung steering wheels to protect car passengers m road accidents are suggestions made by Dr I S. Smillie, surgeon-in-charge of the Eastern Region m the British Medical Journal ol Scotland orthopaedic servic,
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    PILOT KNEW DEATH PLANE HAD FAULT
    311 9 TIME was precious to Group Captain Mans* 11 Mayburj Qrece With two passengers he took oil m hla iprivat. plane although he knew there was an electrical fault ll crashed and all thre. died. It happened when Oreee, J». of Middle Wallop. Hants, his
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    He swam mile to save boy
    82 9 He swam mile to save boy AK-YEAE-OUD holi daymaker sw a m a mile to save an exhausted hoy clinging to a clifl ledge with the tide rising about him. The tide Mas out uhen Brian Kavliss and Krian Raker, both 17. set off to walk round the foot of
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    They eloped in yacht to win a bet
    346 9 A BET launched the yacht Girl Marion on an adventure that her owner knew nothing about It wa.s all explained m court at Brixham. Devon. In a statement read to tlie magistrates Colin Roberts, aged 17. said he became fond ot IK-vear-old
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    Saturday Page for Childen
    487 10 Saturday Page for Child en Rupert and Niagara 2 Reaching school, ar lervg. h the little pals find that they *re indeed late Oh please, sir says Rupert breathlessly "I it .n.l Gregory on h'.s way but I don r think he quite knows the rules yet We ye run
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    Magic Duel in the Sky
    772 10 Magic Duel in the Sky SCARCELY had King O Gobbo begun to mutter his magic spell when a flash of light appeared at tho edge of the cloud and Sarinah gasped with joy as a beautiful shining fairy appeared. "Gobbo." she railed m a high, clear voice. "Stop this nonsense
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    Pocket money tor the holidays!
    141 10 Colour this picture, boys and girls, and win some F pocket money for your holidays. Paints, crayons I or chalks may be used. There are four prizes of $5 (two boys and two I Rirls). Fill m your full name, address and age l and
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    'Hand-wagging' guide to motorists
    298 11 'Ha nd- wagging' guide to motorists I AM astonished at the ignorance of a reader on the value of "hand wagging," and trust that the enclosed illustration with alpha- betical index will prove tc him the importance ol i correct hand signals. Hand signalling that he is eating an orange.
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    'MOUNTIES' GIVE CHASE
    91 11 FTHE red-coated horsemen of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police rank m glamour and prestige with the Texas Rangers aa a hard hitting, time law enforcement group. But. like their counterparts »n Texas, the "Mounties" are much more progressive m their police methods than they are depicted m
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    BY THE WAY
    347 11 A NEW kind of "gla- mour" is invading cabarets and nightclubs. In Rome, a Strong Woman tears telephone directories m two "with feminine grace and coquetry." Where is Samsonetta, who slunk sinuously from table to table, fluttering her lashes and smiling saucily as she cracked eight-inch naiLs
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    22 11 Refugees from Northern Vietnam m Hanoi. They are Roman Catholics who .hose to ko south but for whom no accommodation was provided.
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    Noises 'off by order
    205 11 kJ ANDRE DUBOIS, IVI thc new Paris Prefect of Police is jubilant. Paris drivers are showing themselves unexpectedly co-opera-tive m carrying out his "no hooting" order. The roar of traffic m Pans goes on but the cacophony of klaxons is no more. A miracle is happening
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    Russian oil bid alarm
    324 11 Austrians live m fear of fire WTTH growing alarm the citizens of Vienna watch anxiously as, month by month, the tall, menacing forest of oil derricks belonging to the Soviet mineral oil company moves closer to them. Already the bore towers have reached the outskirts. At
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    THERE'S NO CURE FOR FLU BUT MEDICINES CAN HELP
    593 12 I^HHH3HHfIHHHHHBHMHH§tt9HHMB9B£IEfi^II^SHHI!HHMHMMHHHHK MISS C, a 25-year-old office worker, came sniffing into my surgery. She told mc m a husky voice sh<* thought she had flu. Flu is so common that everybody can diagnose it. This patient complained of ,sore throat, running nose
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    TRUNK CALL
    48 12 picture. Bonds ut mutual conlidence and affection unite Dumbo, the London Zoo's Indian elephant, and her keeper, Mr. W. Crompton. That is why Dumbo gently rests one of her massive feet on his knee while he anne_&r_ m whisner a private message into her trunk. Reuter
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    Bridge Quiz
    509 12 WHEN the opener has Indicated wi.it hit hand is not much more than a minimum at best, the responder takes over rontrol of tha hand. His second bid may be an attempt to get to a better spot, a mild suggestion that there Is more m the hand,
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    Drug helped growth
    199 12 THE antibiotic aureomycin has made children m Guatemala grow faster, a nutrition expert reports. Dr. Neyin S. Scrimshaw told the "Continental Meeting on Nutrition and Growth" m Mexico City that groups of poorly fed school children were given a drink made of soy bean flour and sugar.
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      255 12 Bljjj»j I 1 j j j I _^H I I I I I 1 I L— JL— I Jl CLUES ACROSS: 6 How to feel about a living snow--1 Horses for writers (5). SP» f i*. 4 Fix a defensive footballer for a 7 R?* 8 hls desc.lbe a stronghold
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    BOB HOPE great lover
    180 13  - BOB HOPE great lover LAN GRANT v. E have had ail kinds of Bob Hopes m recent films, too often unfunny Bob Hopes, In CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT" we get the only Bob Hope that matters as entertainment, the coward who likes to pretend to be brave. the timid wooer who
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    5 13 Robert Young and Mrs. Younfc
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    Robert Young has a secret...
    398 13 By CECIL WILSON. OOLLY WOOD'S junior Darby and Joan have arrived m London and tried to analyse their 21 years of happy marriage. Darby and Joan are Mr. Robert Young and his non-acting wife. Betty. With them came two of their four daughters. Said Mr.
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    Carbo is back
    110 13 -TRETA GAKBO surprised ll Hollywood with her sudden, un-heralded return and her* cordial conlerence with the reporters who met her at the airport She pOOOd tor the cameras one shot only with hoi hat off, hair windblown "I will not make any more motion -pic tureo. I
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    'That Lady'goes flat out for health
    637 13 'That La dy'go es flat out for health OAVID LF%YI\ ham v horizontal look an Wiriu tie Harilland rela-xes OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND is not killing herself on her first British film. That is official. I know, because I went the other day to Elstn c studios wnere I found Miss
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  • SPORTS NEWS AND VIEWS FROM OVERSEAS
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      DUTCH YOUTH CAPTAINS AMERICAN BOAT CREW
      475 14 A YOUTH from the Netherlands captained the Harvard University crew this spring, held a fulltime job and still managed to achieve an excellent academic record. The ambitious scholar-athlete is tall, goodnatured Bill Geertsema of Groningen. Despite the tact that he won scholarships at Harvard
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      No. 1 BEATEN
      29 14 Denmark's great diver. Jacob Gjerding, was beaten on Thursday by KaLsulcht Mori of Japan ln the three-metre springboard finals of the Japanese national swimming championships. A.P.
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      GOLF BALL HITS SPECTATOR AND HELPS WIN TITLE
      170 14 GOLF BALL HITS SPECTATOR AND HELPS WIN TITLE QTATE champion, Muss Judith Percy, became the first Queenslander to win the Australian Women's Oolf Championship when she beat New Zealander, Miss Doreen Blundell 5 and 4 In the 36 hole-final at the Yerrongpilly course. Brisbane. Miss Percy completed a remarkable season.
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      Yorkshire tongues are wagging
      297 14  -  ARCHIE QUICK By ALL Yorkshiremen, their wives and children are convinced that England's cricket Selectors have made a series of major blunders m their choice of men for the Australian tour the inclusion of Hutton, Wardle and Appleyard always excepted! ™icy argue that Frank son should
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      FAMOUS U.S. RACEHORSE FOR FRANCE
      86 14 FAMOUS U.S. RACEHORSE FOR FRANCE U.S. sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt may enter his famous race horse, Native Dancer, m the Prix de L'Arc de Trianiphe race m Paris on October 3. If he does decide to enter Native Dancer, Vanderbilt says he will take the horse to Paris soon enough
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      TURNS PRO
      42 14 Wally Hayward. 46-year-old South African holder of world long dLstunce running records for 50 and 100 miles and 24 hours, was declared a professional last night at a meeting of tho South African AiuaUur Athletic and Cycling As- hoclatton Reuter
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      ALL-STARS WIN
      29 14 The all-star team representing the Prench Rugby Federation won th* second game of its Argentine tour yesterday, outclassing the 'A" selection of Uie Argentine Itugby Union A.P.
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      13 FOR NUNTHORPE STAKES AT YORK
      57 14 Thirteen final acceptors for the Nunthorpe Stakes running over five furlongs at York next Tuesday. August 17, are with weights ln Ibs:Li ve Spirit. Victor Lee and Vilmoray—l3l. Fairy Flax and Spring Beauty— l2B Golden Lion, Repute and Four-of -Spades— l26. Crimson, Urshallm and
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      Pay scheme for players
      137 14 NEWPORT County F. C. have received official Football League approval of their novel incentive payment scheme for their Third Division players next season. Announcing lt, the club state that although they cannot afford to pay first team men more than the standard minimum rate of £13
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      Men who blazed trail in athletics
      366 14 Men who blazed trail in athletics By "OLDTIMER" fpHE success of Britain's mid- die and long distance runners with their I—2—3 victories m the Empire and Commonwealth Games at Vancouver have stirred memories of those equally great athletes who, under inferior technical and track conditions, blazed the trails immediately after
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  • FATHULS DROP DOWN TO DIV. 2
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      7 strokes uder par
      72 15 iMRL STFWART, Jr., Ij smashed seven strokes Tun O'Shanter par for C 5 (30 35) to take the ,rlv first round lead of the *****0.000 "world" (•If tournament at Chl- Meanwhile. Patty Berg took charge of the USSI2,--,,d0 "world" competition for women pros with a 69,
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      AMATEUR RACES TODAY
      204 15 AMATEUR RACES TODAY fin IK card and starting times i lor today's amateur race meeting at Ipoh:RAtE 1: 2.30: Combined Services c ap— AT: Majulah Singapura, Lucky Star Dusty, Evening Star. Scratching*: Dancing Fury. John Ham. RACE 2: 3.00 Hurdle Race Div. 2. IF: Sultan, Captain. Ureyboy. Tom Til Perak.
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      BASEBALL
      36 15 ITS baseball results of matches played on Thursday: New York Yankees 5; Philadelphia Athletics 4 <doubl_ header) Washington 9; Boston 5 (double header). Cleveland Indians 10; Detroit Tigers 1. Cincinnati Redlegs 8; Chicago Cubs 6
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      CHANNEL SWIM
      24 15 Glen Burllngame of Chicago and Murat Guler of Istanbul will try to swim the English Channel today Both failed m previous attempts.
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      Get-fit footballers scale a mountain
      233 15 THE curtain goes up today on the British soccer 1 season when a programme of Scottish League Cup matches will be played. As always, the Scots begin a week m advance of the English clubs. Great interest centres on Glasgow Celtic, who completed an outstanding
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      Spot the Sportsman
      23 15 7 "ghost' picture is of "Hkvown local footballer. '""< guess who he is? ,A '*wer at Uie foot of Col. 3)
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      I would have died to win
      134 15 -PETERS TIM PETERS, British runner who collapsed near the finishing line at the Empire Games marathon race on August 7. said yesterday: •I wouldn't have minded if I had died, if I had won that race". Tired and pale, he told a cheer In
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      GLAMORGAN LIE 4th IN COUNTY RACE
      192 15 GLAMORGAN LIE 4th IN COUNTY RACE (GLAMORGAN, who took the 1 County cricket championship out of England for the first time six years ago. have moved up to fourth place m the present table as a result of their victory inside two days m the present series of games. They
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      THE LAST WORD—by ARGOS
      254 15 THE LAST WORD— by ARGOS R.E.M.E 2; Fathul Karib 1. A GLOOM hovered under the floodlights at Jalan Besar Stadium last night; it was Fathul Karib's relegation blues. Try as they would they couldn't prevent their exit from the first division. So it's back to Division Two for Fathul Karib
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      57 maidens
      172 15 Even then one of the other leading sides should do enough to keep ahead of Middlesex. Tony Lock who had the amazing figures of 26 maidens m 36.3 overs with six wickets for 22 made Surrey's task easy yesterday. In fact among them, the four Surrey bowlers employed
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      Spot the Sportsman
      8 15 SOLUTION Awang Bakar, Smyapore centre-forward.
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      SOMDEZ STILL ORIENT CHAMP
      51 15 QRIENT welterweight champion Somdez Yongtrakit of Thailand retained his title last night m Osaka with a third-round knockout of Teruo Onuki of Japan. Somdez weighed 146 l 2 lb. The Japanese champion weighed _44 3 4 lb. The title bout ivas scheduled for 10 rounds- A.
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      H.K. student beats U.S. tennis men
      83 15 HARVARD and Yale gained a point lead over Oxford and Cambridge Universities at the end of the first day's play m the twoday lawn tennis match for the Prentice Cup at Wimbledon yesterday. N. Lo of Hong Kong won both his matches yesterday for
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    RED HAT CLOCKS 36 4/5 for 3f
    249 16 RED HAT CLOCKS 36 4 5 for 3f Fast time on the K.L. track Free Press Racing Correspondent OKI) HAT, with a riding boy astride, outpaced Fair Weather (Donnelly) m a smart tryout over 3f. m 36 4 5 on the training track at Kuala Lumpur this morning The going:
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    AUSSIE WINS BY 10th ROUND K.O.
    53 16 Australia's bantamweight rham pion Bobby Sinn last night defeated the Italian Gianni Zudda.s on a TKO m the 10th of a fight arranged for 12 rounds. Sinn's next opponent is expected to be Belgian Pierre Cossemyns, rated with France's Robert Cohen as the bewt
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    BIRTHS
    62 16 20 Word* J. (minimum) TEO: To Nancy and Andrew, a son. Mat hew. brother for Michael at Dr. Paglar'.s Maternity Home, on 12Mi August 1954. LIM To Philomena Ooi Lan Eng, wife of Beng Chuan, Michael Jr.. at K.L. General Hospital on 12th Aug. '54. JOHNSON: To Sheila and
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    ENGAGEMENT
    39 16 Word* (mimlmmm) NIELSEN -KIPLING: The engagement is announced m Singapore between Erik, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs J. T. Nielsen of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Freda, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs. W. H. Kipling of Surrey. England.
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    JAPS OUST U.S. ACES
    56 16 IfOSEI Kamo and Atsushi Miyagi. Japan's Davis Cup players advanced into the semi-finals of the i men's doubles of the Sasino mvi tation lawn tennis tournamen Rhode Island with a brilliant vie tory over American aces Vie Seixa and lefthander Art Lar sen The Japanese pair
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    Women's sprint will be highlight
    622 16 Free Press Correspondent UIGHLIGHT of todays finals of the 33rd Malayan 1 11 AAA championships should be the women's 100 yards, where Fay Seibel, Annie Choong and Mary Klass will fight out a thrilling finish and produce, almost certainly, a new record. Fay Seibel broke
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    DEATHS
    157 16 tt Words $6 (minimum) THE DEATH OCCURRED last' night of Mr. Chua Hun Kiong. aged 80. of 373-1. 3' 2 mile Ipoh Road, X.L.. Retired Accountant, Sanitary Board. Kuala Lumpur, beloved father of Chua Cheng Yang, Chua Ann Yang, Chua Hock Yang and Chua B*m.^ Yang, Dollie Chua Ong
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    Ruth sets record
    34 16 Ruth Ferrelra of Singapore improved on her Mala women's high jump record yesterday whin J.__ .t 1 1 final with a leap of 4ft. 9 .in. won the picture. Free Press
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    NON-BENDERS XI
    55 16 Non-Benders Cricket Club team v SCC. at 2.15 p.m. today on the PaPdang:— J W Ewart. D. C. DCotta. DM Murray. W. R. M. Haxworth. S. T. Stewart. RS. Tufnell. P.D. Almeida. A Baker. R. V. S. Sundram, J. A. M. Ede. G. E Bogaars (Captain). Umpires S
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      379 16 RACE WEIGHTS for the first day of the Selangor Turf Club meeting next Saturday at Kuala Lumpur: vLwl' 5 1 Ti. I wink T «.07 I Etching 806 F?ert II 900 i K°V r r B s Flyer Ore J? i tU NMib 804 Sh *n> 8.05 Tafkie II ■i
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