The Singapore Free Press, 17 August 1954

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    The Singapore Free Press
    19 1 Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. \o. IJ<>29. Singapore, T«es., Auf 17, 1954. Frke 15 Cts.
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    TYPHOON NOW MOVES ON KOREA
    74 1 THE typhoon which lashed Okinawa with 130 m.p.h. winds, headed toward South Korea yesterday and threatened the former war prisoner island of Cheju Do with blasts uo to 115 miles an hour. Weather experts In Tokyo, however, were reluctant to predict that it would hit
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    And a good time was had by all
    91 1 And a good time was had by all r|TOE Selangor Turf Club, scene of a wildly enthusiastic welcome for Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit, has totted up a list of its damaged property. The list includes 24 smashed tables, about 200 damaged chairs and 30 pieces of broken railings. Total cost is
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    STUDENTS MAY STRIKE OVER SACKED TEACHER
    244 1 wore than 600 students at Chung Hwa Girls' High i?1 School hi Bartley Road, Singapore, have threatened to strike m protest against the sacking of a teacher of English m their school. The teacher is Mr. Tann Wee Keng, Chairman of the Singapore English
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    BEES KILL WOMAN
    72 1 MORE than 1,000 beestings were removed from the lace and neck of Lady Georgina Rose Mary Butler, 78 years of age, from Clifton, Galway, Eire, who died m Kenya after being attacked by a swarm of wild bees. Lady Butler, widow of Sir George Butler, one of
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    War damage claims payout
    77 1 War damage claims paid m Singapore and the Federation m 1953 totalled $107,079,184, making total claims paid to it- $299,710,542, said a report tabled at the Colony Legislative Council meeting this morning. Groat total expenditure from the War Damage Fund up to the end of 1953
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    MPs' GIFT TO COLONY
    35 1 Tho Rev. R. W. Sorensen, l*h Labour M.P. and leader the five-man Parliamentary Bociation mission to Singathis morning presented a of Erskine Mays Parliamentary Practice to the Colony o Legislative Council.
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    $2,500 gems stolen
    21 1 Jewellery worth $2,504 was reported stolen from the hou.s<* of a Chinese woman m Hertford Road, Singapore, yesterday.
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    Dagger men
    28 1 BRANDISHING daggers and a dummy pistol, three Chinese and a Malay entered the house of a Chinese family m Ponggol Road. Singapore, yesterday, and escaped witn
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    LISBON CRUISER SHELLS FORT
    138 1 Landing m Goa PORTUGUESE FORCES yesterday shelled Terekhol Fortress, on the northern tip of Cioa, and later recaptured it from 'liberation volunteers/ said reports reaching New Delhi. A Portuguese cruiser bombarded the port for 90 minutes, then more than 120 soldiers landed m launches the report
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    That play goes on but cast a secret
    248 1 SINGAPORE'S Stage Club decided last night to carry out its intention to produce Noel Coward's comedy "Relative Values" despite the Island Players' announcement to produce the same play m the same month. But the Stage Club refused to disclose the names of
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    $1900 HAUL
    32 1 A Chinese shop-keeper n Beach Road, Singapore told the police yesterday that $1 900 m cash and four rings worth $300 had been stolen from a drawer m his office.
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    RUBBER PRICE
    24 1 The Singapore Rubber M.trket ooened quietly this morntn* with hi i;r;ide, September shipment, at fj.VS cents a pound, unchanged since yesterday's rlose.
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    rob family
    29 1 $100 In ca.sh and jewellery. An elderly woman and her grand-daughter were alone m th<> house. Before leaving, the robbers warned them not to raise ttM alam.
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    QUEEN TO LAUNCH BIG LINER
    34 1 The Queen will interrupt her summer holiday at Balmoral Castle m Scotland to fly to Northern Ireland today to launch a new 20,000-ton passenger liner, The Southern Cross.- Reuter
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    Now they are WAY 'visitors'
    127 1 rE two Talpeh representatives, who were given observer passes to the WAY conference m Singapore, will nave their passes withdrawn and will be given visitors' passes instead today. This Is the result of a "misunderstanding." It is understood. The two representatives. Miss Mary Wong and
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    POLYTECHNIC A STEP NEARER
    161 2 BILL IS PUT TO COUNCIL THE first formal step to establish the proposed $5.--200,000 polytechnic m the Colony wa s taken today when the Director of Education, Mr R. M. Young, moved the Singapore Polytechnic Ordinance m the Legislative Council The institution will have facilities for
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    48 2 picture. Jolly six-foot-plus Cynthia Cole, of Trinidad, said she felt like "a mother taking her children for a walk" when she linked arms with Asa Udki of Japan (left) and Amy Driver of India, at yesterday's Government flou.se garden party for World Assembly of Youth delegates. Free Press
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    No rice fears in Asia now
    230 2 A SIA'S rice supply position was now much improved A because of the efforts of governments and the aid provided by the Food and Agricultural T^ n 1 sation of the Inited Nations, Mr. C. W. Chang, FAO consultant to the World Assembly of
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    FIRST WOMAN TO SPEAK AT W.A.Y.
    36 2 picture Pakistan's Mrs. Anis Akbar Mirxa. an official of the AllPakistan Women's Association, who was the firs woman delegate to address the World Asaembl* of Youth m Singapore. Free Press
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    More quit Suez but others to move in
    118 2 ORITAIN started evacuating her troops from the strategic Suez Canal Zone yesterday with 1,000 men of the Marine Commando Brigade embarking on the cruisers Glasgow and Gambia. But even while working out final evacuation arrangements. a new army battalion— the First Royal
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    Aid for Red zone
    32 2 Red Cross officials from the West yesterday met East German authorities to work .out details for distributing American aid to flood damaged communities m the Soviet zone. A.P.
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    BRITAIN WON'T HAVE FORMOSA IN SEATO
    125 2 TJRITAIN came out yester- day against Including Formosa m a South-East Asia defence pact. The Foreign Office said at the same time that the Anglo American consultations would be held over the threat to Formosa from Red China. Premier Chou En-lai stressed m Peking
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    U.K. approves Red contracts
    86 2 SIXTEEN Allied nations, by agreement decided on last month after Anglo American talks m Washington yesterday eased strategic controls on their trade with Communist nations of Europe. A Board of Trade spokesman said m London that £4.700,000 worth of Russian contracts with British firms now could
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    INDIA RIOT OVER FLAG HOISTED NEAR GANDHI STATUE
    125 3 /vNE HUNDRED people were injured, some seriously, m a Hindu-Moslem clash m Nizamabad, Hyderabad State, on Sunday following the hoisting of the Pakistan flag besides Mahatma Gandhi's statue, according to reports received m Bombay yesterday. When local Congress leaders arrived m the
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    Family of 3 gassed
    40 3 Family of 3 gassed OOLICE m Wuerzburg, X Ciermany, reported yesterday that a family of three father, mother *nd seven year old daughter committed suicide on Sunday night by inhaling gas. the trio wa« foun<j dead m the kitchen.- A.P.
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    85 3 WHE five British Mem- E A bcrs of Parliament who arrived m Singapore yesterday leave for Kuala E Lumpur today to be pre- E sent at the meeting of E the Federal Legislative E Council. E E Four of them are seen E above with Mr. W. A. C. Goode,
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    Rival 'Ban Reds' Bill gets U.S. support
    137 3 Rival 'Ban Reds' Bill gets U.S. support \BILL outlawing the Communist Party and stripping all legal rights from Communist dominated unions yesterday won approval m the House of Representatives m Washington. The measure was given the administration's approval as a substitute for a measure which the Senate pushed through by
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    Tour of Britain
    20 3 Four Bagdad journalists are m Britain for a month's visit as guests of the Foreign Office. A.P.
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    Ties with Japan
    13 3 Saudi Arabia will shortly establish diplomatic relations with Japan Reuter
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    THE BIG FLIGHT BEGINS FROM RIVER OF SORROW
    168 3 WOMEN, children and old men are being evacuated t( J rush ground m the North China province of Shangtung as the waters of China's River of Sorrow" the Yellow River continue to Im, the New China news agency reported last night. Ten
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    Village swamped: 100 die
    47 3 SIXTEEN bodies have been recovered m the wake of nood.s which swamped the iinv shrine village of Farah7<aa, northwest of Teheran Persia, on Sunday. The floods wiped out most of the village after a thunderstorm. First reports said the dead may number 100.
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    STRIKEBOUND AIRLINE SACKS 1,900
    56 3 AMERICAN airlines, whose pilots have been on strike for more than two weeks, yesterday sacked about 1.900 stewardesses, flight engineers ■Ad ground workers. Another 12.000 employees' have been given two weeks' notice unless the strike is settled. Thr pilots struck because they object to flying non-slop
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    France causing concern for EDC
    256 3 France causing concern for EDC FRKNCH proposals to revise thr European Drfrncr ommunity Treaty have caused concern m tlie United States. Britain, Holland, and Belgium. The proposals, which have not been made public, have precipitated a «riMs for Went German Chancellor Dr. Adenauer, whos«* leadership Is threatened. IN LONDON last
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Aug. 17, 1954. Memorable visit
    413 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Aug. 17, 1954. Memorable visit At every public appearance during her stay here Mrs. Pandit amply showed her worthiness to rank among the moat notable women m the world sphere, of her generation. It was expected that her visit would be a memorable one. That
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    'U.S. is backing Latin American Dictators'
    608 4 r.iblir opinion im 1 <>„<,„! ln*»rir« *fim*r+m mi< .*•<•» fft ihinm nnH iLiX Vklww wmm Pr*>Mi<l+nt JFUpwiP— M mM9§tmkm imi+rri+tr uiih Hobvrt tUaIL rHE sharpest criticism of American foreign policy to come out of Central America, since the overthrow of the Red-tinted Guatemala regime
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    21 4 This is the U.S. Air Force's new turbo-prop transport plane which will carry up to 20 ton s at high speeds.
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    The end of 'Tek'
    290 4  -  J L. HAYS POR over 50 years, to r hundreds of thousands of British Servicemen, it has been just "Tek." Its full name? Tel-el-Kebir, home of No. 5 Base Ordnance Depot and No. 2 Bast Workshops the heart, the hub and the foun-tain-head o f British
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    DRIVE ON FOR COMMUNITY CENTRE
    264 5 Premises m iXoiam Ayer market are sought RESIDENTS of the Kolam Aver Housing Estate met at the week-end to form a community centre. a working committee, under th.- chairmanship of Mr. Ng Loh Soon, was elected. The meeting, neld m the estate m 11 ket.
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    45 5 picture. Mr. Ng Loh Soon (centre) RAF clerk who was elected chairman of a working committee formed to help set up a community centre for Kolam Ayer Housing Estate. Residents *re here seen listening to him tell of the plans for the centre. Free Press
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    21 5 picture. l Abu Bakar Haji Yusop and Che I.atina Binte All. who were married m Singapore at the week-end. Free Press
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    Work offer to ex-TB patients
    43 5 Discharged TB patients who are medically and physically fit are offered employment on a pineapple plantation m South Johore. The Johore Bahru Welfare Committee have arranged for this. Those engaged will be paid $4.50 a day, plus accommodation.
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    Chinese students give art show
    48 5 MORE than 400 art exhibits by Chung Cheng High School students are on display at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce premises m Hill Street. The exhibition, which is open free to the public from 9.00 a.m. to 600 p.m., will conclude tomorrow.
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    Payment approved
    27 5 The Legislative Council today approved the payment of $1,830 as pension contribution to the Government of Uganda on account of an officer seconded to Singapore.
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    MILLIONS FOR SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC WORKS
    222 5 rE Singapore Legislative Council today voted $2,734,588 supplementary grants to finance various public projects and allowed the carrying forward of nearly $3,273,000 from past grants to pay for works which are now m progress. Of the new grants. $2,194,000 goes to the Education Department
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    No road signs in Jawi
    53 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Muncipal Traffic Advisory Committee at its recent meeting decided that it was not possible to have traffic signs m Jawl or any other nonEnglish language. The suggestion that Jawi characters be inscribed on road signs was made at the last meeting
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    THERE WILL SOON BE TEACHERS IN PLENTY
    179 5 THERE WILL SOON BE TEACHERS IN PLENTY /ITHE Singapore Education M. Department expects to provide enough teachers for the 13 new primary schools to be built this year and the next, said the Director. Mr. R. M. Young, yesterday These II will mean Singapore gets 36 new schools m two)
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    Film to educate motorists
    44 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The chairman of the Municipal Traffic Advisory Committee Mr AD York will obtain films on traffic matters for public screening to teach motorists how to avoid accl- denti This decision was taken at a recent committee meeting
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    Bill deferred
    32 5 The Legislative Council today deferred the third reading of the Income Tax (amendment) Bill to another date to be proposed by the Financial 'Secretary, Mr. W. C Taylor. i -t
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      101 5 SINGAPORE ph&fcc FABRICATORS ate /bsUnut to announce their now service m INJECTION MOULDING OF PLASTICS. Injection moulding is a process by which plastics products can be mass produced most economically. We are now m a position to produce any plastic mouldings with accuracy and speed. Ours is the only firm
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    CANARIES FOR TRAFFIC COPS
    58 6 ACRIMONIOUS re at > A between Tokyo s tram police and Tokyo s ra» offenders have been s* ed and transformed by t < I stallation of three cajgf canaries and parakeets police headquarters. It is now reported that gentle, refining inj"" 10 the honourable birds
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      224 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs I jmml j y i j jo) V >H^^^^^^| I cop TljF pi iRv "amD TwE(?P /■V i I A ,^9^k THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris /IA<USTAP^n:MR t JAKCS < TMATyOU >j| fsP^AK UP YOUM^TiTAN/ 1 PONT A
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      574 6 I YOUR I I LUCKY I STAR I JJORN TODAY, you have an j abundance of good Batwt I a friendly personality a nd ti mendous potentialities. ni I are, however, inclined to han s back when opportunity eottet your way And hesitation, with you. can be a real liability.
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    COFFEE MEN PUN STUDY GIFTS FOR CHILDREN
    96 7 COFFEE MEN PUN STUDY GIFTS FOR CHILDREN THE Singapore Foochow CofShopt* Association has i a scheme to provide irshipi for the children needy member* lund is to be set up with ney derived from advertisers m coffee-shops and from coffee-shop owners. A three-man committee will b m charge of the
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    Date at park
    22 7 Singapore Police Band will play at King George V Park from 530 p m to 6.30 p.m. on Thursday.
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    Parent backs call for European school in S'pore
    576 7 Parent backs call for European school in S'pore Following last week's Free Press story on the need for a school m Singapore for European children, this letter i has been received from a reader by the Editor > WITH reference to your comments under the heading: "Europeans Ask for School"
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    INDIAN REGISTRATION HELD UP OVER FEE
    157 7 INDIA House In Singapore has postponed registration of former Indian States mtionals as Indian citizens, Pending clarification from New Delhi about the fee to be charged. Registration was to have started last Tuesday with a fee of $7.75 an appli(>int. The fee was thought
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    He hit constable
    25 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Lio Ah Kow was fined $15 m the Police Court yesterday for striking Lev Ker Slang, a special constable.
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    DELIGHTFUL BEDOKDRIVE
    125 7 DELIGHTFUL BEDOK DRIVE Know Your Singapore SINGAPORE Is not lacking m fine roads which afford some delightful drives. One of the most popular is along Bedok Poad, on th« east coast, where the long stretch of smooth road runs parallel to the sea At dawn, this spot becomes the front
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    BUILD SCHOOL FIRSTTHEN ASK AID
    244 7 rE desire of Europeans to have a separate school for their children m Singapore got a mixed reception among legislative councillors. They however agreed that there should be some educational opportunity for these children m the Colony. The opening of a separate school might mean
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    Fowls hidden under floor
    41 7 KLANG. Tues. Fifteen fowls were reported stolen from a I house at Kaba Road here v night. Police later raided a house at Meru Road and found five fowls hidden under the floor Three Chine.se were detainer
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    Car strippers at work
    56 7 PENANO, Tues. Car strippers were busy In Penan* during the week-end. A headlamp was stolen from a car parked at Presgrave Street yesterday, and two wheel caps were removed from another vehicle m a car park at Hutton Lane on Saturday night. Police recovered the wheel
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    Kirkby students
    44 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Three B O.A.C. airliners, specially chartered by the Government, will leave Kuala Lumpur on Aujr 22, 29 and Sept 5 with Federation boys and girls going to Kirlcby Teachers' Training College Take-off time will b«« at 745 a m
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    The Censor can't ban these comics
    199 8 The Censor can't ban these comics f|iHK Home Secretary, i Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, has agreed that American style horror comics sold m Britain are trash. But he cannot ban them. That is what he has told a man who sent him a parcel of the comics with a request
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    NEW HOME IS BARRED TO GERMAN
    253 8 British wife protests AFTER five and a half years on the waiting-list 22-year-old Mrs. Joyce Mueller and h^r husband, Kemhard, have been refused a council house by Warwickshire Corporation because Mr. Mueller is a German. Mrs. Mueller, a native of Warwick, who is living
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    DOCTORS TOLD: KEEP TIME
    66 8 Too many hospital clinics start late and keep out-pati-ents waiting, Bromley, Kent, group management committee were told. A quarter of the clinics m the group were found to be starting late m a threeweek check. The secretary, Mr. R. C. Millward, said that one m every
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    Snake bites boy
    37 8 Ten-year-old Robert Mouzar. of Sheldon, Birmingham, is seriously ill m hospital after being bitten on the wrist by an adder at Hayle, Cornwall He saw it on a sand dune and Dicked it up.
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    Rector rejects parents' plea for Sunday school
    328 8 Rector rejects parents' plea for Sunday school CANON Edward Berrisford, for 25 years rector of Bramshott, Hampshire, has told his 2,824 parishioners that he will not reopen the Sunday school that has been closed since 1941. He does not believe m Sunday schools "where teachers with Victorian ideas m religion
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    KICK FOR SIX STOPS CRICKET
    210 8 itiIIKRK were angry scenes A on the village cricket pitch of Little Bardfleld, Essex, when a country club party invaded the pitch playing football. It happened during a cricket match between the home team of Little Bardfield and a visiting side from (torn ford. Fur
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    Welcome to freedom'
    92 8 Welcome to freedom handshake and a courtly bow from Presid- r ent Eisenhower as she and E her parents call at the jj White House. Washington. Mr. Geza Kapus, Buda- pest businessman, fled from Hungary last year. A s he and his wife. (■isella, crawled with the j child to
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    THE THIEF HAD LUCK -BUT LOST NERVE
    289 8 I UCK was on the side of the thiet wno almost J robbed the West End hotel room of Mr and Mrs. rsrael Alexander, of Corpus Christi, Texas, of several thousand pounds' worth of clothing, jewellery and souvenirs. His trouble was he did
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    Farmer, 70, must quit family plot
    198 8 A FARM which has been m the same family for 98 years is now untenanted. In a guest house at Derby 12 miles away from the 133 acres he helped till as a boy and the home he was born m. 70-year-old Joseph Twigge
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    ROBBER RETURNED HALF THE SWAG
    65 8 ■■■am m A 34-year-old man who robbed an old-age pensioner £49 "became a reluctant r. ber," and handed half tnt money back, said the prosecu tion at Derbyshire A& s zes f The man, Roy Spn g hurst .1 miner, of Jaunty-drive Ofca« less. Derbyshire,
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    Terrorists burn 500 homes
    38 9 Xt cutis fou-»v m tile arrieres Centraler, the poor area of Casablanca, Morocco, after terrorists started a fire which burned down 500 shacks, making some 2,000 people homeless. More th-m 20 were badly burned.
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    VILLAGERS 150 STRONG MARCH TO 'No. 10'
    340 9 VILLAGERS 1 50 STRONG MARCH TO 'No. 10' THE villager.', of Harefleld, Middlesex, staged a protest march In London. Only about 150 could take oart. But the other 2,650-odd v ere there m spirit. There were men. women, and children representing 16 village organisations m all. They had paid 3s
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    Bride in boots waded to the church
    304 9 Bride in boots waded to the church DON MAYES, one day married, was nearly stranded 22 miles away from his bride on their honeymoon. And all because of the weather which upset many of their wedding plans. It was the weather— blowing a gale— which stranded the vicar, the bridesmaid,
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    He passes exam—at 72
    66 9 He passes exam— at 72 MR. William Emery, of Wricklemarsh road, Kidbrooke, Greenwich, j his passed an intermedi- ate examination m book- keeping at the age of 72. Now he is studying for I his final. Grandfather Emery was forced to quit his Post Office job as a sorter be-
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    A WARNING ON HOME-MADE MARMALADE
    65 9 A WARNING ON HOME-MADE MARMALADE A HUSBAND who did not like the taste of his wife's marmalade is responsible for a warning to housewives who are making their own Jam. The marmalade was found to contain zinc. This warning was given to housewives "Use a proper aluminium or copper preserving
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    Two miles a day-at 82
    52 9 m Eighty-two-year-old Mr. I Henry Peter Harris and i his wife Kate, also 82, of I Priests lane, Shen field, Essex, celebrated their diamond wedding with two-mile walk. "We walk two miles every day,' said Mr. Harris. who give up his daily j swim two
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    NEWLY-WEDS BUILD THEIR OWN HOUSE
    197 9 I went to see an architect," said 23 year-old Mrs. Nancy Clark. "He wanted £40 to design It. Too much. So she went to a library for a book called How to Build a House." Then, to Jo"hn s astonishment, she began to produce plans
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    DOCTOR URGES CAFE FOOD CLEAN-UP
    82 9 DOCTOR URGES CAFE FOOD CLEAN-UP THE City of Loncftn's restaurants and cafes, m which MKi.OOO business people eat each wrrk-day m the noon-to-2 p.m. r| i^h. should be compulsorily n f-'istered to enforce food 'Manliness, says the City's M<dical Officer, Dr. Charles White. The City should have "powers to withdraw
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    The dog she loved killed her
    209 9 ¥T WAS BROGGY, the dog 1 .she loved, that caused the death of 80-year-old Mrs. Ada j Hewitt And before lb€ died m has- j pita! at Bury. Hewitt kept asking: Why did he do it? Why did he She was found m the
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    Students ruined Spain's tourist season
    287 10  - Students ruined Spain 's tourist season JOHN CULMER SPAIN'S "Golden isle Majorca, lias had the worst tourist season since Spain began catering for foreign holidaymakers four years ago. Last year at this time every available room m every hotel, inn, pension, residencia and private was booked up for the whole
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    25 10 Prince Charles just had to show his pet to onlookers on the platform at Edinburgh. The Prime was on the way to Balmoral by train.
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    The hospital that Albert Schweitzer has built
    630 10  - The hospital that Albert Schweitzer has built Tom Stacey Deep m the African jungle by T^ROM one of the most moving uplifting sanctuaries of hope m the world I send this despatch. We have just reached the hospital that Albert Schweitzer built Lambarene 200 miles up the Ogooue River French
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    High prices for Hitler paintings
    173 10 High prices for Hitler paintings HITLER'S paintings— those which he painted himself and now held by the Italian Government are collecting prices n °t f ar behind those of Van Gogh and Matisse. The Italians have twenty of Hitler's water-colour sketches and these were recently offered to the West German
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    Worry is THE 'killer'
    279 10 Worry is THE 'killer' QN holiday m Major ca. Dr. Chang Sen, a refugee from Communist China, has been giving Majorcans one or two startling comments on longevity. Dr. Chang believes, for instance, that the greatest cause for early deaths is worry about the unknown. "At least seven out or
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    WINDOW ON THE WORLD
    467 11 T4IOUSANDS Of German dagKers patterned after those used by the Luftwaffe and inscribed with the words "All for Germany!" are beinfc manufactured if All) m Germany This time, however, the daggers are not for German use. Instead, a West Gf-rman cutlery manufacturer is producing the daggers
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    General in 'disgrace'
    1034 11  -  J. P. W. MALLALIEU A <>l ISI lO\ QF DHESS by GILES IWAS shown through a speckless, shining hall into an airy room walled with books, oldfashioned pistols, photographs, brassards, medals and other trophies of a great soldier. And there a little, white -haired man, shoulders slightly
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    A gold coin for courtesy
    554 12 11. .mage Frenthnai. seems to feel a surge ol tfce old robber baron spirit when be gets behind the wheel ol a motorcar. So now tbey're oHeri* Mm a bribe to be good. FRENCHMEN have a centuries old reputation for courtesy, but they never earned
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    Bridge Hand
    398 12 North-South vulnerable West dealer NORTH 4AQ J > 2 OCQIIII 0 10 5 A 3 west starr A X 8 3 4fc 7 5 8 7 <? 0 A X 2 0 9*7 4 3 4 A J 10 4 +KQ9B t Z SOUTH 4 It 4 7
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    These beach jackets make fashion headlines
    114 12 The fashion success of the beach last summer m Britain was mattress ticking! This season "Candlrwick" is the leading candidate for fashion headlines. This attractive tufted R (oiton which (•r.indma chose for her favourite bedspread is both practical and < pretty for after swim
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      338 12 ('LIES ACROSS 5. Nothing comet, between a letter follows (4). 1. Not so fast! 1 4. 4 > 6 A headle&s slow mover m tM 4. A sound circle (4». giiden <4> 9. Or a propeller (S). 7 Co i ourfu i grazing ground,' 10. Futile appeal for economy? (5
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    Bullfighter deaths on the increase this year
    679 13 MORE CASUALTIES NOW THAT THE MILLS HORNS ARE NO LONGER TRIMMED. ALL over Spain this summer th c bullfighting season has been remarkable for the number of bullfighters put out of action. Two have been killed outright, and dozens of others laid low.
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    I NEVER WANT TO SEE SUCH TORTURE AGAIN
    864 14  - I NEVER WANT TO SEE SUCH TORTURE AGAIN FRANK ROSTRON i Ry i HAVE SEEN and per- sonally experienced some sickenin?ly gory injuries m the boxing ring. I have seen piteously exhausted marathon runners go delirious on the course and qualify for a strait-jacket. But I cannot recall anything quite
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    N. ZEALAND WIN SOCCER
    144 14 VKW Zealand beat an Australian soccer XI 3-1 at Adelaide, after trailing 1-0 at half-time. Seventeen minutes after the kick-off, Australia's outside-right, tttewart, shot across the goal and the ball was deflected by a New Zealand player Into the net to give Australia the opening goal.
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    2 Australia fights for Archie Moore
    276 14 2 Australia fights for Archie Moore V O It LDLHiHT- HKAVYWEIGHT boxing champion, Archie Moore, has been engaged by the Australian loxtaf Club for two outdoor fights m Sydney. A.B.C. lirector, Mr. Art Mawson, who returned recently from a business trip to the United States, announced this last night. Moore
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    16 succeed in Channel relay
    67 14 1 6 succeed in Channel relay QUAYSIDE crowds cheered six Folkestone swimmer s as they walked up the beach after swim- i ming a relay race across i I the channel m less than 15 hours yesterday. The young swimmers, each taking a turn m the water, battled against rough
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    BOXER RUSHED TO HOSPITAL
    65 14 BOXER Paolo Melis of Italy was taken to a Montreal hospital for an emergency appredectomy on Monday some seven hours before he was to enter the ring against Armand Savoie, former Canadian welterweight champion. Melis became 111 a few hours before the weigh-in. The entire card
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    BRAZILIANS WIN
    27 14 Brazilian, Armando Vieira and Italian John Clarici won the doubles title m the Burmmana international tennis tournament yesterday, beating Denmark's Soren Hojberg and Jorgon Ulrich.
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    Fencers live the longest JOCKEYS NEXT
    163 14 Fencers live the longest JOCKEYS NEXT 'pHE Japanese have been conducting a research into athletes and athletics. They have discovered that the fencer has the longest active life m his sport; his life behind the foil averages more than fifty-two years. The average Jockey stays m the saddle 22 years,
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    Plymouth Argyle skipper is out
    201 14 ONE soccer personality who will definitely miss witopening games of the season is bearded Ja^ Chisholm, Plymouth Argyle captain and centre-nan Chisholm has knee trouble and may have to undergo an operation. Jimmy Rae, Argyle manager, says "I think he will be out of the
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    U.S. DRIVER WINS 1,000 MILE RACE
    52 14 William Griebllng of the United States won the Central Colombian auto race. He toured the one thousand miles m 21 hours, 45 minutes, 4€ seconds. Louis Garxon of Columbia was second In 22 83 39 and Partsch of Germany was third In 01 aq
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    TIGERS' FIRST HURDLE TONIGHT
    418 15  - TIGERS' FIRST HURDLE TONIGHT ARGOS One dropped point and they're out LAST WORi— by Soccerites 3; R.E.M.E 1. THREAD warily, Tigers. One slip, just one dropped 1 point, and the Star Soccerites have won the SAFA Div. 1 league championship. Fortune was with the Soccerites last nif ht when they
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    Craftier man beat Poh Lim
    251 15 Craftier man beat Poh Lim BRILLIANT Ferry Sonneville, the Indonesian champion, ut- foxed and out-smashed Singapore's Ong Poh Urn 15-11, -,-8 last night to win the men'! singles title at the Seluigor open championship m Kuala Lumpur. Sonneville was faster and he ihit harder m a match which was played
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    FRENCH SET SWIM MARK
    67 15 A French team yesterday improved 01 the *orld record for the women's 4xloo metres medley relay (freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and orthodox) with a time of 5 minutes 6.2 seconds. The quartette was Marie Helene, Andre de Romeelaere, Odette Lusien mid Joseue Arene Delmao. and their 'me
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    NO-ONE MET CHANNEL SWIMMER
    182 15 rPHE Turkish swimmer. Murat Guler, yesterday claimed to be the first Channel swimmer of the year with a time of 16 hours and 50 minutes from Cap Oris Nez to St. Margaret's Bay near Dover but no-one was there to meet him. His claim would also
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    COUNTY TABLES
    377 15 T>l£ county cricket championship table up to Saturday l»* t: I Ist inns. Pts. No Dcci m match p W L D Tied sion D L Pts. 25 12 2 7 1 3 0 4 Jg i• I fhixt 23 10 5 8 0 0 3 Surrej 23
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    Landy won't run in U.K.
    119 15 JOHN LANDY. Australian milr record liolder. arrived m London \e*terdnv from Vancouver where he had" been competing m the B»: tish Empire and Commonwealth 1 Gnme.v Landv. sunburned and lonkinK extremely fit. said that he would rot be runnine m the Highland Game* at Edinburgh
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    BARBOROSSA & EXHIBITOR BEST AT K.L
    311 16 BARBOROSSA EXHIBITOR BEST AT K.L Free Press Course Correspondent INHIBITOR (Vlney) and Barborossa (Mitchell), J 3f. m 38 2/5, and Bon Tresor (Jones), 3f. m 38 4/5. were the pick of the horses out for work on the training track at Kuala Lumpur this morning. A welcome shower fell yesterday
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    11 PROBABLES FOR NUNTHORPE STAKES
    68 16 ELEVEN probable starters and jockeys for the Nunthorpe Stakes, to be run over five furlongs at York today are: Live Spirit tW H. Cam, Victor Lee (A. Ormei, Vilmoray <W. Nevett), Fairy Flax <E. Mercer). Spring Beauty (unfixed). Golden Lion (B. Swift), Four -Of -Spade.-;
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    BRITAIN WIN RUGBY TEST
    71 16 IJRITAIN defeated New Zealand by 12 points to six m the third and final Rugby League "test" on Sunday to win the series by 2-1. Britain led 10-6 at half-tim" The British team were booed frequently during the match and again as they left the field.
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    AUSSIES CRITICISE HARRY HOPMAN
    194 16 AUSSIES CRITICISE HARRY HOPMAN SWEDEN European and United States (American), zone winners In the Davis Cup competition, meet m Melbourne on December 16 and 17 m the inter-zone final. The winners will challenge Australia I for the trophy on December 27, 28 and 29. A later meeting of the Australian
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    ROYAL NAVY v. ARMY
    24 16 Royal Navy v. Army at Lords. Gunner T. W. Cartwright tries to cut a ball from Capt. J H. Akam.
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    Middlesex beat Yorks
    167 16 lIDDLESEX beat York shire, the- English county cricket championship leaders, by 96 runs at Leeds yesterday. Spin bowlers, who dominated this low-scoring match, were responsible for Yorkshires downfall. Young (left arm slow) and Titmus (off break) the Yorkshire batsmen a harassing time. Titmus took six wickets for
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    County cricket close of play scores
    237 16 County cricket close of play scores County tables on paf IS CLOSE of play scores In yesterday's U.K. cricket fixtures: At Leeds, Middlesex beat Yorkshire by 96 run*. Middlesex 197 and 131, (Appleyard four for 41). Yorkshire 113, (Moss four for 19. Young four for 26) and 119. (Titraus six
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    ROUALLE IS PRESIDENT
    57 16 MR. J.P.M. Roualle has been elected president of the South Johore' Rugby Football Club. He succeeds Mr. Justice Storr who did not stand for election. Others elected to office were Mr. P. O. M Lee (Vice-President i, Mr. W. Fox (Hon. Secretary*, Mr. W. Mac Donald (Hon.
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    S'PORE BOXERS FIGHT TONIGHT
    90 16 A combined team of youth boxers from the Singapore Harbour Board Boys' Club, the Naval Base (Singapore) and the Army will meet Johore Buhru's Coronation Boys' Club m a boxing tournament at 8 p.m. tonight. The match will be held at the Hokkien Association. Johore Bahru,
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