The Singapore Free Press, 25 August 1954

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya. v*. 1(036. Singapore. Wed., Aug. 25, 1954. Price 15 Cts,
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    Airliner hit by barrage of seagulls
    112 1 BRITISH airliner ripped through a swarm of seagulls while coming in for a landing at Renfrew, Scotland on Monday night, and killed about 300 of them. Then it nearly spun out of control with dead birds wedged into its fuselage. The twin-engined aircraft carrying
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    Vernon Bartlett still very ill
    44 1 The condition of Mr. Vernon Bartlett, 60, the journalist broadcaster and former Member of Parliament who is ill in a London hospital was stated to be "still serious" yesterday. Mr. Bartlett had an abdominal operation during the weekend. Reuter
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    MAO'S 3 POINTS
    233 1 U.S. Seventh Arming Japs And U.S. Fleet and Germans attitude IN TALK WITH ATTLEE \|AO TSE-tung, chairman of the Chinese People's Government, raised three major points in a three-hour talk on world affairs with the British Labour Party delegation in Peking yesterday. The points, says a special
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    TAXI HOLD-UP
    37 1 'Three Chinese, one armed w »th a dagg-er, hailed a taxi at Serangoon Road. Singapore, '■^t night, ordered the driver. '"> Kim Soon, to go to a lane ,f i Clementi Road then robbed bun $10.
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    $2,000,000 for housing A CHEAPER HOMES PLAN FOR CITY STAFF
    235 1 $2,000,000 for housing A CHEAPER HOMES PLAN FOR CITY STAFF JHE Singapore City Council is considering a scheme to build and sell lowcost houses to about 500 subordinate staff employees. The 1 11 itin I cost of the scheme will In* about &(MO,OOO, bul some councillors think the expenditure worth
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    Port strike goes on
    38 1 Dockers on strike in Hull yesterday voted by a big majority to continue the stoppage, which Is crippling the port. Work on 73 ships Is being held up. About 4.000 dockers are involved Reuter
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    RUBBER PRICE
    27 1 The Singapore Rubber Mark** o|>enecl on an uncertain tone this nornlnf with first pad* Sqrtsmber ..hipment, il W^i (>en,s iK)und. *h cent below yesterday.^ /■lixie
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    Marjorie is staying on in Hollywood
    125 1 Marjorie is staying on in Hollywood ONE month after tbe "Miss Universe" contest in America. "Miss Malaya" (lfaijorie Wee) has written home to Singapore saying "she is staying on for a whil<'" in Hollywood Miss Wee. a Malayan Airwav.s hostess, has been taken off the work roster, it is understood
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    THE BRUTAL REDSBY MADAME X
    142 1 A MYSTERIOUS brunette identified only as "Madame X" testified irom behind a screen yesterday in New York that Russian soldier* raped almost every woman in in her Hungarian home town' in 1944 She said she was assaulted 10 times while her M*^ i and parents
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    Follow Pendengar
    78 1 I>I.\I)KN(.\I(S three Special MctUMH for Kuala I. umpur race s today re: SPM 'IAI. N\P Kempton doikli: Itridgnorth, < <»' ml .Manners imu Happy I. lie, Argyll. Wide Screen Pendengar. who is showing a nice profit since he started giving his three Special Selections, says the five $'i-ui|
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    VICE-PRESIDENT TAKES OVER IN BRAZIL
    125 1 lOAO Cafe Filho. Vtce-Presi- dent since 1951. assumed the nresidencv without ceremony a few hours after the death of Brazilian President Vargas. Vargas shot himself dead in the presidential palace on Monday. A 55-year-oid former editor who was active in the 1930 revolt that brought
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    MR. FRANCE TO TELL FACTS ON E.D.C. TALKS
    302 2 Assembly must decide TU FRENCH Premier. Mr. Pierre Mendes-I raiue, after nearly four hours of ditlieult discussion with his Cabinet, last ni^lit produced unity of view about how the government should act in the crucial EDC debate on Saturday. Threats to resign
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    French shoot rebel leader in Tunisia
    94 2 French shoot rebel leader in Tunisia F*RENCH gendarmes yesterm day reported shooting down Ali Ferchichi. whom they described as leader of the anti-French rebels in Northern Tunisia. The French said his band was responsible for the mach-ine-gunning of two cafes at Ferry ville last July, in which six French and
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    ROYAL CRUISE PARTY VISITS OLYMPIA
    77 2 ROYAL CRUISE PARTY VISITS OLYMPIA /^AILY dressed members of j Europe's Royal families yesterday went by bus to Olym. pia. birthplace of the Olympic Games. Kings and queens, princess and princesses some throned, some dethroned had arrived at Katakolon In the Greek luxury liner Agamenon in which they are making
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    Menon to lead U.N. delegation
    71 2 Mr V K Krishna Menon will lead India's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly this autumn. Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Prime Minister Nehru's sister, who w.t> Assembly President at the last session, will preside ovei the opening of the session IMI Sept. 21 until the
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    Jap envoys meet
    23 2 Top Japanese diplomats in Europe met in London yesterday for an exchange of views on the situation in the West
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    SENATOR HAS A GROUSE
    53 2 SENA T OR HAS A GROUSE D.S Senator Ralph Flanders (Republican-Vermont) "turned to New York by plane from Europe yesterday, Mjrlng hr had rut his vacation trip short because of "England'! atro< -ious weather and because I couldn't harn from lh» English papers a thin* of what wis Koinj. on
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    Formosa: Orders to U.S. Navy
    202 2 Mr. Dulles, United States Secretary of State, said in Washington yesterday that Pentagon < Defence UQ > sources said no serious evidence had shown up in intelligence reports that would indicate an imminent attack on Formosa OOTH State and Defence Department spokesmen yesterday made it
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    INDIA ASKS AGAIN FOR GOA TALKS
    112 2 INDIA last night again asked Portugal for immediate talks on the impartial observation of the Portuguese-India situation. The note apparently leaves Portugal and India almost where they have been since their diplomatic exchange began two week* ago. India wants immediate talks while Portugal wants
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    Churchill talk
    21 2 Sir Winston Churchill will address the annual conference of the Conservative Party at Blackpool on Oct, 9.- A .P.
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    And now for the cake
    26 2 Mr. Ernst Vernon De Jong and his bride after their wedding in Singapore. The bride was formerly Mrs. Anna M. Jolley.
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    Khan to stop over
    32 2 The Pakistan Foreign Minister. Sir Zafrullah Khan is expected to visit Burma and Siam en route to Manila to attend the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) conferences.- A.P.
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    Dulles will go to Manila
    246 2 Dulles will go to Manila PHILIPPINES Vice President and Foreign Minister M* Carlos Garcia, wil] pn as temporary chain...., the opening session on 8< tember 6 of the Manila conference on the securit*! i South East Asia. Representatives of partkipating nations yesterday approved the schedule oi activities during a conference
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    DRUNK'S SMOKE COSTS 13 LIVES
    72 3 BLAST IN FIRE WORKS FACTORY j EEN people were killed and six injured in explosion yesterday it a fireworks factory at lh eri 12 miles from nbaj The exploglon was said to curred when a drunken began smoking In tn lives shed, police said. dremen
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    Sentence reduced
    37 3 A court martial sentence that captain Owen Desmond French, adjutant of the 23rd Battalion, King's African Rifles il Nyeri. Kenya, should be cashiered for stealing petrol been reduced tn dismissal r mo the service.- Reuter
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    STRANGLED WOMAN 'PUT ON BACKYARD FIRE'
    299 3 Mother-in-law accused of murder i MOTHER IN-LAW strangled her son's wife and A then placed th*e oody on a funeral pyre in the backyard of her London suburban house, the prosecutor alleged in a London court yesterday. A neighbour who saw the paraffin-soaked body
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    Offices roll as quake hits 'Frisco
    83 3 Offices roll as quake hits 'Frisco A STRONG earthquake shook the San Fran- Cisco Bay area last night, j causing downtown office j buildings to roll "like a ship at sea." Residents used to occa--11 sional tremors said the I quake wa s the "worst felt in more than four
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    Search for lost plane continues
    43 3 Planes combed the North Sea yesterday for traces of a Dutch airliner which disappeared en route from New York with 21 people aboard So tar onlv bits of wreckage and the body of Child hav* been found- A.P.
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    Billy says Russia ripe for revival
    209 3 Billy says Russia ripe for revival Evangelist Billy Graham believes "the greatest religious revival of all time" would sweep Russia if the people could throw off their shackles. He said he heard a story of spiritual hunger behind the Iron Curtain wherever he went during his recent tour of Western
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    Jap airline
    36 3 Three officials of Jap a n Airlines are in Hong Kong to make arrangements for opening a branch oflice there when the company starts flights between Hontf Kong and Jaoan in November. A. P.
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    Indians for USSR
    20 3 A 25-member Indian cultural mission has left on a six-week goodwill tour of the Soviet Union A.P.
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    Britain won't return Polish stowaway
    136 3 BRITAIN has emphatically rejected Poland's demand for the return of Antoni Klimowicz, 24-year-old stowaway, taken by policy 'ast month from the vessel Jaroslaw Dabrowski In the River Thames, and granted poiltifii isvlum in Britain In Tl^WOword note to Poland published in London yesterday. Britain also
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    II MAI] KILLED: 2-DAY FIGHT
    35 3 British troops and Kikuyu home guard* had M r< j k, "-<i II Man Man terrorists and wounded or I Wnera, iu a two-day running battle uorth N Nairom Reuter
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    Warship laid up
    23 3 The US battleship Missouri on whose deck the Japanese formally surrendered, is [oin- "he 'mothball" (inactive) B emerton, Washington AP
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    54 3 picture. .Mrs. Ilaroun Kelnani who returned to Singapore this week after a three year Froebel training course for teachers at the Rachel Hell ill a Training College. London. Mrs. K c ln.l in formerly Miss Zubeida Ghows, and Mr. Haroun Ketnam. an engineering student from Kuala Lumpur, were married in
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    Two Indian states under water
    107 3 |IOME MINISTER K. N. KAT.JU told the indian Al Parliament yesterday that floods in Northeast fndia had drowned 56 people and pm 22,000 square iriles in Assam and Bihar under water. In Bihar alone, he added. 17.000 families wen now homeless. The Central Government had
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    SHY JAP BEAUTIES ADMIRED
    131 3 riMii:. I. sli > lap ineac 1 :r I >. with dresses that 5: bid their ankles won more m admiring Kit*'*'"*, at the n Venice Him festival yes- *s terday than all the Itiki- _5 nl-clad beauties <»t* the g Lido. I* r»• s s
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    Reds Menace G.I. 'Lifeline'
    599 4 AMERICAN PATIENCE IS RUNNING OUT... rjHE U 8. Army's Red Ball Express is rolling AUiiin smoother and faster than when it won wartime fame, but still providing the lifeline t0 the troops at the "front*' in Germany. Drivers Aork in relay, t K i Germany bound
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  • The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Aug. 25. 1964.
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      Opinion The young partners
      410 4 Opinion The young partners Japanese delegates to the World Assembly ol Youth conference have expressed surprise at the warmth ot their reception in Singapore. They came, they said, humbly, not knowing In what spirit they would be received. But any misgivings they had on that score have been dispelled. They
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    BANDITS RAID AIR BASES
    422 4 Says NORMAN LINDHURST ...and the French are again held to hlatne ARAB Nationalist terrorism in North Africa has reached a pitch where it directly threatens the use of American strategic bomber bases in Morocco. 'The U.S. Air Force, has warned the French that drastic measures must
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    By the S'pore WAY
    302 5 By the S' pore WA Y \l.l NTIOW, Singapore met-ariste! \t .11.0.. WAY delegates are profuse in their gratitude to those who have given them lifts these pasl few davs. Several African and mtinental visitors said [Inv had often been 'picked up'' at bus stops and taken hack to Dunearn
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    VOODOO IN HAITI? IT DRAWS TOURISTS
    193 5 VOODOOISM has been exploited ss B "tourist at traction' to draw visitors to Haiti says Carlo Sterlin. onlv WAY delegate trom that country. Tourists often arrive there with "fantastic conception of voodoo rites, gleaned from travel books. Carlo Is preslden ol the Youth Catholic
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    DEYIISTS WERE WILLING...
    127 5 DE YIISTS WERE WILLING i dentist has written to the Free Press following the >tum of the rase of a Filipino delegate who couia dental treatment because no dentist urns nsiea m inel of doctors available for WAY delegates. I^llS has just been a lapse hv the WAY or- "lisers
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    LONGEST BRIDGE IN MALAYA IS READY TO BE BUILT Tenders called for $8m job
    484 5 LONGEST BRIDGE IN MALAYA IS READY TO BE BUILT Tenders called for $8m job T EN DERS have been called by the Singapore Government to build the $8 million concrete bridge over Kalian- Basin to be ready for use In early i!>. >'i. the engineer-in-charge. Mr. R J. Hollis-Bee, said
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    We are all set for the polls says Ede
    118 5 We are all set for the polls says Ede I^HE Progressive Party was "ready to take on anvbody and everybody" in the elections, said its secretary. Mr. John Ede: yesterday. Asked to comment on the labour and the Socialist Party merger. Mr. Ede said: "Worried 0 Not the least. I
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    Fish survey planned
    58 5 PENANG. Wed. The Malavan Fisheries Headquarters and the Municipality plan to conduct a fish marketing .survey in Penan 1 We want to find out where I our fish come from, and where thev go to." Dr. D. VV. Le Mare Director of Fisheries, said. Results of the
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    Boy gangs worry villagers
    161 5 Boy gangs worry villagers Thai Sen vllls »fT Paya I eba Road Singapore, er the villa boys toi mln 1 nul 1 iave petitioned for a community centre to 0 inter the mens 1 The ires predomir intly Chine vt, with about i._.inio people, most] engaged in vr .et. ible
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    NEW DRILL FOR TEETH
    76 6 4 NEW uitra-sonir devi« A belli* tried out at O bia University s Dental S in an attempt to with the feelint. that ever vou have the dri at the receding pneumatic road i The new method a small Instrument like a lunior rivetins thine. The
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      585 6 YOUR I -LKCKY I STAB highdeg.ee of adapt are original, tavenUv. thoroughly the imiamuai,./ I You care little how thing? h*v, been done in the p.,vt (ll J^ E someone else would do a hk E Vou ligure out hm. f%% lu| do il and that is the »aj U
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    MORE RURAL HEALTH SERVICES
    207 7 for mothers and infants ..,\I»OKK'S medical authorities are to expand health and social services in rural areas this real (OS t of nearly $200,000. The Government will build tour now nursing and tilery centres, and a maternity and infant ire centre. They are to be completed
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    Air girl finds romance
    65 7 Air girl finds romance picture. MK. Harry lleyll. a Swi-S rubber business man in Singapore, puts the en ..i.rmnii ring on the finger of Mis-. I.lyris McIntosh. air hostess of the ((antas Kmpire Airways at their engagement party at the Swiss Club. The couple met in Sin gapore a few
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    Are you an 'unlucky' income lax payer?
    281 7 Ar e you an 'unlucky income lax payer? HOW is it that some Singapore tax-payers get their assessment notice almost as soon as their returns go in, while others do not get theirs until months after? Mr. G. T. Holloway, the V.ting Comptroller of Income Tax explains: There is no
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    Seats demand
    32 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Ampang branch of the Malayan Indian Congress, at a meeting, repeated the MIC ind for reserved seats for Indians in the Federal Legislative and State Councils.
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    Escape by prisoner was his fault
    108 7 Escape by prisoner was his fault PENANG, Wed. F)R negligence in letting a prisoner escape from lawful custody, Police Constable Mohamed Yazid, 20, was yesterday bound over for two years in the sum of $200. The prisoner, Letchimanan, i who had been sentenced to two years' gaol on April 6
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    Council clerk gaoled
    47 7 KLANG. Wed Osman bin Jali a clerk, was sentenced to nine months' gaol for criminal breach of trust of $307 He misappropriated dues which he collected for the Meru village Council in May The money should have been handed over to tbe council treasury.
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    They move padi to safer stores
    39 7 PENANG. Wed I^di planters in two Central Province kampong Junlona and Machang Buboh. have moved their stocks to safer stores behind Darbed-wir* fences to prevent them from falling into the hands of bandits
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    AQUARIUM MAN MAY MISS BIG DAY
    203 7 r rHE man who flew out to Singapore to advise and organise the $470,000 Van Kleef Aquarium at the King irge V Park may not be here [or the opening. due to return to England •'fore then. Tl»'' Aquarium is expected to >.)ened on
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    Schools will 'censor' student concerts
    151 7 SINGAPORE CHINESE middle school principals have told graduating students they can go ahead with plans for farewell concerts provided they submit them for approval. All student activities in the middle schools were temporarily suspended when the schools re-opened on June 28. after the demonstrations against
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    Fined $300
    29 7 JOHORE BAHU. Wed. Tan Chye Yarn, of Singapore. was fined $300 in the Pengeran" Sessions Court for moving medicines In the Taniong Surat area, without a permit.
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    YOUTH TAKES THE STAGE
    309 8  -  PETER de CRUZ Story by Ilspotlight in Singapore this month has been on youth. First, the British ■Council organised a Youth Exhibition showing the various types of youth kafions .ind their activities within the Commonwealth. Then the World |b!y of Youth got under way at the
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    LUXURY ALL THE WAY
    790 10 The Millionaire's Express Jmm* It's the world's costliest train, says JOHN WREN Tnr; porter bowed and tipped his hat aa I stepped aboard the Millionaire's Express. And well he might. To ride the Millionaire's Express the worlds most luxurious train which runs daily from Naples to
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    Window on the World
    172 10 Window on the World ITS. Intelligence reports •W that there is a large movement of Soviet Army wives and children to Eastern GERMANY. The influx has been steady for several months. In most cases the families are those of officers and non-commissioned officers whose families had remained behind in Russia.
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    Bad tippers
    44 10 r pill hai I -porter of a block of 1 flats in London had this !to say about tippers. Generous: Eastern people I music-hall comedians, most •'straight" actors and actresses. Had: diplomats, radio artists, most peers, and owners of I chauffeur-driven cars.
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    THE BANANA BELLE
    33 10 One of the women workers of the banana plantations of the Fonta Djalon region at the foot of Mount Kakoulina in French West Africa now the scene of anti-French disturbances.
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    MOUSTACHE CRAZE HITS DUTCH TOWN
    401 11  - MOUSTACHE CRAZE HITS DUTCH TOWN LEO HENDRICK "V-sign' is favourite style rpHE ancient little Dutch ■1 town of Alkmaar is famous for its picturesque cheese market, held every Friday morning. It also has a more historic claim to fame because in 1573 it successfully withstood a two -months' sieue by
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    THE DOG THAT LAUGHS....
    67 11 ...the dog that films Thp rioir his r_Md cause te iaui.li. Win? because resident <>f Bath said he was dangerous and t«H.k lum ia court Bui niimdldwas" nil "guilty." And the dog's master, the Rev. Ilutehinson. got his iag »>aek-an,l .....rt _„sls. Film star Frit Portman
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    'Nehru is not a hypoerite'
    344 11 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PERMIT me to say a fei words about Mr Simon Maynards article "This is imperialism in Reverse" which appearin your issue of Aug. IS. He says "Many influential PJ < H pfe take the vie* tha Nehru Is hypocritical li P«ing
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    'Oldest living city'
    319 11 'Oldest living city' ff the Apostle Paul i n--4 ti red Damascu tolay, h<" COUld walk down the same street by which he entered the cltjf after lis conversion The apostle could to I sunn hOU 6 Ol An:inias, where he v. as cin d of his blindness. And could
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    GIRL FROM ICELAND
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    112 12 4 SCIENTIST attributes to A the .sun what romanticists have long linked with the moon a variation in the human uulse rate. The sun. which governs all life on this planet, produces radiation effects which until recently have been little understood. According to Dr. Charles
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    338 12  - Radar cuts down road accidents CARL HA RIM AN hv RADAR a wartime developed detection device, has been aimed Lit the U.S. highway speedei and most of th^ 29 states using it say it is cutting down accidents. The device provides precise vidence against the driver who violates speed laws
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    Did right man get the girl?
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    Randy Turpin fight Nov. 16
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    LANDU IS OUT
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    The FLOODLIGHTS are losing power
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    116 14 I>AIN prevented any play yester- day on the third and last day of the Essex versus Pakistan cricket j I match, and so spoiled prospects of j un interesting finish. The touring side, with nine second innings wickets in hand, were 27 runs behind, Essex having
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    EUROPEAN GAMES ARE ON TODAY
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    266 15 Surrey ready to claim title Results At Dover: Kent- Yorkshire mate! abandoned drawn. No play becauM of rain Kent 7(i and 186 for hve Yorkshire 290 for nine declared At Cardiff. Glamorgan -Hampshire match drawn. Glamorgan 151 for 7 declared (Cannings 1 tot Ji) Hampshire 132 (Brldger bit Watkm--6 for
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