The Singapore Free Press, 3 September 1954

Microfilm: NL2439
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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale \n Malaya. No. *****. Singapore, Fri., Sept. 3, 1954. Price 15 Cts.
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    Casey flies in today on way to Philippines
    182 1 MR RICHARD CASEY, Australian Minister for External Affairs, is due m Singapore by plane at 3.30 p.m. today on his way to Manila to ittend the SEATO conference. With him will be Mr. Clifton Webb the New Zealand Minister ior External Affairs.
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    TWO PREMIERS TO MEET
    51 1 Prime Minister Dr. Ali Sastroamidjojo of Indonesia intends to go to New Delhi to meet the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, before Mr.. Nehru goes to Peking. It was expected the Indonesian Premier would make the visit during the present parliamentary recess which ends on September
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    HER $69 LOSS
    29 1 A Chinese woman living m Jalan Ishak. off Jalan Eunos. Singapore, reported yesterday that a $40 watch and $29 m cash were missing from her room.
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    Cruise may reunite Royal pair
    157 1 Cruise may reunite Royal pair E pREEK King Paul's tour 5 U of his country's is- E E lands may have patched E E up one royal romance on E the rocks that of ex- r E King Umberto and ex- E Queen Marie Jose of Italy. E E Congenially
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    Eber has 3-point plan to end Malaya war
    172 1 MR. JOHN EBER, former Singapore lawyer, and now the secretary of the Bri-tain-Malaya Committee m London, last night put forward a three-point Labour policy for solving unrest m Malaya. He said Labour's policy should be peaceful settlement of the war by negotiation;
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    RUNAWAY LOG TRAIN KILLS 52 FILIPINOS
    145 1 FIFTY-TWO people were killed and 47 seriously injured yesterday m what was described as the worst train accident m Philippines history. The victims included women and children. The accident occurred on Negros Island m the southern Philippines between Fabrica and Sagay on the northern
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    Knife attack by secret society men
    63 1 TXHJR members of a Chinese _T secret society yesterday beat up and stabbed a Chinese carpenter m Waterloo Street. Singapore, during a row over tontine money. Knives and sticks were used m the attack. While the men were assaulting their victim, another carpenter rushed
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    EXPLOSION IN NAVY CARRIER
    196 1 EXPLOSION IN NAVY CARRIER A MYSTERIOUS explosion occurred aboard Britain's biggest and most modern aircraft carrier, the 36,000-ton Eagle, yesterday at Plymouth. Petty sabotage which has hit this three-year-old warship three times within the last twelve months is feared. An Admiralty scientist, 28-year-old Kenneth Henry Thorn of Wilcove, Cornwall, was
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    Swoop on barricaded Reds
    77 1 Swoop on barricaded Reds ITALIAN riot police yesterday detained 25 people when a crowd protested against the eviction of Communistled Labour officials from a former Fascist Party headquarters at Ozzano near Bologna, Central Italy. The police, armed with a court order, had to break down the back door of the
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    STRIKERS ORDERED BACK
    34 1 The Bavarian Metal Workers' Union last night ordered back to work about 6.000 men at Augsburg who stayed out after the official settlement of a Bavaria-wide strike two days ago.- Reuter
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    RUBBER PRICE
    28 1 The Singapore Rubber Market Opined on an uncertain tone thi* wornm* witli first grade, September shipment, at G7'_ cent, a poUIMfI me-quacter cent below yesterday** cktott.
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    Three killed In crash
    52 1 Two British tourists and an American were killed near Viege. Switzerland yesterday when the car In which they were driving skidded and crashed into a tree. The Britons are Dr. and Mrs. Manfred Altmann of Hampstead, London. The American is Professor Franz Leopold Neumann of New
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    'WRONG PREFERENCE'
    26 1 Australia is to seek a review of empire preference which she claims favours Britain at her expense, authoritative sources said m Canberra last night.
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    'SEATO HOT MEANT TO STIR TROUBLE'
    255 2 But it will defend freedom Dodds-Parker MR A. D. Dodds-Parker, British Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign A Hairs, said yesterday at Colombo there wa.s nothing provocative or aggressive about the South-Bast Asia Treaty Organisation. It was being formed for collective security, he
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    Salem in Amman
    25 2 Major Salah Salem. Egyptian Minister of National Guidance arrived m Amman yesterday tor four-day talks on political and military a Mail.'. Reuter
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    200 dockers end strike
    67 2 ABOUT 200 London dockers who struck on Wednesday while unloading a shipment of 4,000 torus of New Zealand meat resumed work yesterday pending settlement of their dispute. The men stopped work at the Royal Albert Dock when their demand for extra hands to hnlp them with
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    'CONQUER ALL ASIA' WAS RED CHINA'S MISSION
    177 2 EMBASSADOR Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., said m Washington yesterday he has proof that the Chinese Communists five years ago were given the job of spearheading 'an organised Communis! attempt to conquer all of Asia." Mr Lodgl, US. representative to the United Nations, told
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    Britain training S-E Asians
    90 2 THERE were 237 trainees In Britain at the end of July under the £2,000 million six year Colombo Plan for tin economic development of South and South East Asia according to the British Trea nn, Seventy .lx of thexe were Indians, t>7 Pakistani*, 73 Cey- lonese,
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    France-Jebb talks on German army
    118 2 MR. MENDES FRANCE, the French Prime Minister, last night conferred with the British Ambassador, Sir Gladwyn Jebb, about Britain's proposal for an eight-power conference on bringing West Germany into Western defence. The Ambassador flew back to Paris from London late on Wednesday night. Britain's initiative
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    INDIA'S YES TO TALKS WITH PORTUGAL, BUT...
    127 2 INDIA gave a qualified assent yesterday to Portugal's call for a conference next Tuesday to discuss the principle of impartial international observation of their dispute over Portuguese colonies m India. In a note. Prime Minister Nehru's Government said it was agreeable to the
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    Shah warns officers who spy
    132 2 MX. W. K. M. Haxworth, Singapore's retired traffic chief, with two I friends Miss Pamela j j Sharp and Miss L. Y. Ho, who went on board the Glenorehy to wish him 'bon voyage' yesterday. Mr. Haxworth left on f j retirement after 25 years
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    BARTLETT BETTER
    27 2 Mr. Vernon Bartlett. 60-year-old journalist and broadcaster In hospital m London after an abdominal operation, was stated last night to be "much im- proved Reuter
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    Burns takes over
    27 2 Major-General E.L.M. Burns of Canada yesterday assumed his post as Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervisory Organisation m Pa- lestine. Reuter
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    'I'LL COME BACK SOON'
    54 3 picture. UMNO-MCA political leaders had last-minute discussions with the Sultan of Johore, Maj-Gen. Sir Ibrahim, on board the Willem Ruys just before the ship sailed for Europe. Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan, veteran leader of the MCA, says goodbye to the Sultan. The Sultan may be back
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    LOST YACHT CAUGHT AFTER HUNT
    154 3 'U.S.-bound skipper' is arrested 4 FISHING boat yesterday towed into Anstruther, East Scottish port, a missing 32-foot yacht carrying three people after an all-night search m the Firth of Forth. The man on board. James Cooper Shields. 43, believed to have taken the boat named
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    Big outlaw gangs swoop on French
    151 3 (FRENCH military forces clashed twice on Wednesday with bands of outlaws m Tunisia where violence has been virtually halted by France's promise last month of home-rule. One officer and four parachutists were killed when outlaws, members of a self-styled "Tunisian Liberation Army," attacked a
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    NEHRU WARNS -CUT OUT VIOLENCE
    139 3 NEHRU WARNS -CUT OUT VIOLENCE INDIA'S Prime Minister Nehru has criticised, m a letter, what he called a growing Indian tendency to "try to attain some object or bring about some change through methods which are either violent m themselves or inevitably lead to violence." The letter, addressed to local
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    Israel censured
    26 3 Tlie Jordan Israel Mixed Armistice Commission presently being boycotted by Israel—yesterday censured Israel for a flagrant breach of the general armistice agreement." A .P.
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    Rubber has new rival
    63 3 RUBBER plant seeds given to the United States by the Soviet Union m 1942 have been improved by American scientists until they could give high grade commercially usable latex rubber, the maga- zine Science and Mechanics reported. In an emergency the plants could produce more than
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    Himalayan venture
    41 3 Three Austrians. who are to tackle the unconquered Cho Oyu (27,750 feet) the world's seventh highest peak, left Katmandu yesterday on their march to base camp at Nangpa La. The expedition Is led by 42-year-old Dr. Herbert Tichy. Reuter
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    Queen on holiday
    16 3 Queen Frederika of Greece is going on an extended holiday m Austria- A.P.
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    Fewer now seek jobs in Britain
    87 3 BRITAIN'S booming economy is employing a record peace-time number of workers. Only about 239,000 people are registered job seekers, the Ministry of Labour announced m London. The nations labour force totalled 22,515.000 at the beginning of August out of a total population of about
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    Maiden voyage
    23 3 The new 22,000 ton Cunard liner Saxonia sailed yesterday from Liverpool for Canada on her maiden voyage with 925 A.P. passengers.
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    Prince in Turkey
    18 3 Crown Prince Abdul Illah of Iraq arrived m Istanbul yesterday on a "semi-official" visit A.P.
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    MAU LEADERS SPLIT ON BATTLE PLANS
    94 3 OIGNS of dissension among Mau Mau leaders on the 8 advisability of continuing the fight have been reported by an Intelligence spokesman at the headquarters of the East Africa Command He said m Nairobi that other subiects over which there appeared to be dissension
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    Strikes hit big Brazilian industrial city
    51 3 SAO PAULO, (Brazil i, South America's largest industrial centre, was crippled by strikes yesterday but not to the extent that had been threatened. A union attempt— reportedly backed by the Communists at a total work stoppage for 24 hours affecting some 700,000 workers failed.
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    Coconut injections kill 17
    72 3 Coconut injections kill 17 SEVENTEEN people living m a remote New i.unifi village, have died after receiving injections of stale coconut milk for yaws. The Health Director, Dr. John Hunter, said a local medical orderly, apparently used the coconut milk instead of the distilled water prescribed for dilution of the
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    Mission to Tokyo
    20 3 A five-man Ceylon trade mission headed by Commerce Minister Shirney Corea, arriv- Ed yesterday m Tokyo- A.P.
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      Opinion Stepping up the war
      231 4 Opinion Stepping up the war Malaya's new Director oi Operations arrived here witi the reputation ol a man wh. live. 1 his creed ol "action, not words." He has confirmed that reputation In the way h< lia.s stepped up the wai AgalDft the terrorists. "i know by experience m Germany
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    Bold plan
    123 4 About 14,000 people are attending night classes conducted kv lh< Singapore Council lor Adult IdOCmtion, and the number oi pupils lias doubled m the last two years. This li a striking pointer to the eae. me__ with which memben of the adult community are availing them■elvei «<1 the
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    Admit Red China to the United Nations
    861 4 Admit Red China to the United Nations ww#f;y AMERICANS In this article Mason Rossiter Smith taps the main source of American "grass roots" opinion, the weekly newspapers. His cross-section report revealed that U.S. government policy over Red China f~d U.N. has only slender majority backing. A STARTLING amount of support,
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    'Royalty only' liner
    224 4 'Royalty only' liner I/ING PAUL and Queen 1V Frederika of Greece played host today m Marseilles to a unique gathering of royalty and ex-royalty. Their guests about 80 m all- embarked m the latest Greek luxury liner, the Agamemnon.Then they sailed for a three-week cruise of the Aegean Isles, travelling
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    Visa to Burma is no troubleafter screening
    246 5 I>l K.MAS Consul In Singapore, II Ba Thaung, yester--0 day said that the main concern of his government' 'regarding visitors' visas was whether the militants were "desirable or undesirable/ He said: "We give visas to 'desirable' people m two or three days, sometimes
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    Army recruiting in Selangor
    44 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A recruiting party is visiting North Selangor this month to mterview applicants for Malayan units of the British Army. It will be m Tan ions? Malhn on Tuesday and Kuala Kubu -tahru a.io Rawang un Sept 17
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    They marry tomorrow
    3 5 They marry tomorrow
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    But she finds difficulty
    87 5 1 CONGRATULATE your paper on enlightening Bs regarding the delay m obtaining a visa to visit j Indonesia, and I wonder if you could throw some i lieht on the delay m ob- Uiaiag a visa to visit j Burma. Some people I know have waited
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    BARRACKS AT COLLEGE -STUDENTS ARE LUCKY TO GET THEM, HE SAYS
    249 5 MANY STUDENT teachers m Singapore yesterday scoffed at the Federation students' grouse about the "barracks" they have been given at the new teachers' training college m Kota Bahru. A Colony man who has Just returned from a holiday m
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    Village polling on Tuesday
    37 5 Kuala Lumpur, Fri. Kampong Sempang Batu Minangka m South Selangor will have its first election on Tuesday. Four candidates are to be elected to serve under a ketua. who has already been nominated.
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    Officer on leave
    31 5 IPOH, Fri. Mr E. X Fi^k, State Development Officer, Perak, left Ipoh on Wednesday on long leave. He has been succeeded by Mr. I. D. Irvine, from Pahang.
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    City will extend this park
    97 5 City will extend this park QINGAPORES King George V v p ark m Clemenceau Avenue will be bigger and brighter next year. And more recreational facilities are planned. The City Council intends to develop two lots of Crown land |n River Valley Road adjoining the Park. Both the sites totalling
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    Bridal gown is 'East-West'
    221 5 A SINGAPORE Chinese girl will break convention at her wedding tomorrow by wearing a bridal gown tha* is part-Eastern and part- i.'estern. Miss Margaret Yeo, who is on the staff of a leading Colony motor car firm, chose the dress because shi felt it would do
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    WHO'S FOR A LIFT?
    60 6 THE new models of American cars are being given names associated with jet aircraft. There is General Motors* Lebabre. The Pontiac StratoStreak, The Oldsmobile F-88. There might be difficulties if British car manufacturers followed suit. A girl might have second thoughts about an invitation for a
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      276 6 I MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis or 1 1 nun ihi rAU MfUrii m* HiCM^Ar l. AURT All GftOUNU p_P AW^mm lUn vouf *v, I <0u Z<. 1 riLfD Z fR /Jl)< -im\ mW _I__l1 __l Pfi TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs I TA.RZA*. .EO **S OO^'.S'.S -~s>OX^
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      588 6 YOUR i I LUCKY STAR DORN today, there is a j serious, religious side to your nature which will find ex- j E pression throughout your life. I i Even if you do not enter the church as your life career, you l will be among those whose E private
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    SPORE TO Dr. LIN: SMOKING BAN lIS LIBRARIES STAYS
    374 7 SPORE TO Dr. LIN: SMOKING BAN lIS LIBRARIES STAYS WHATEVER Dr. Lin Yu-tang, Chancellor-Designate of the Nanyang University, may say on "The Importance of Smoking m Libraries," Singapore is not likely to alter her non-smoking rules. Raffles Library and the University of Malaya Library both ban smoking. The U.S.I.S library
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    Red flags in estate
    105 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Terrorists scattered Communist paper flags on the Talisman Estate Road m the Kluang area of Johore. Another gang cut and destroyed 1,100 yards of telecoms wires m the Yong Peng area. Communist pamphlets m Malay were found nearby. THIRTY-FIVE men and women teachers
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    SHOULD MOTHERS WITH YOUNG CHILDREN WORK?
    510 7 SHOULD mothers, whose children are under seven, be allowed to go to work? A Free Press reader has suggested that a rule should be introduced in the Colony to bar such mothers from seeking employment. The suggestion had a mixed reception from husbands, wives
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    THIS 'MONK' NEATLY FIXED HIS DEATH
    427 8 I HIS LAST NOTES AT HOME WERE WARNINGS rIOSEPH KINSELLA. who told neighbours he had been a monk and European traveller to hide yean m prison, prepared for death as neatly as be once black-mailed and robbed. First he .stopj>cd hi.s daily papers. when
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    Dial B for budgerigar
    81 8 A NEIGHBOUR brought Mr. J\ Michael Ooodacre bud gerigar ihC found m her ;;arden at Leteeiter. It kept saying: 'Three double four, three double four And then it added: "O one." Mr. Ooodacre picked up the telephone. "Ls that Leicester ***** and have you lost a
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    HER FLAT NEEDS 99YDS. OF CURTAIN
    184 8 HER FLA T NEEDS 99YDS. OF CURTAIN IT was an architect's dream the secondary modern school at Hunstanton, Norfolk. There is glass everywhere. Even m the caretaker 'ft flat. The bathroom i.s normal, but the lounge, kitchen, bedrooms, and hallway have plain glass walls. So the caretaker's wife, Mrs. Violet
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    Show a leg there
    55 8 Show a leg there Sixty Irish Guardsmen stepped aboard a Canadian Super Constellation airliner bound for Toronto to begin a sixweek tour of Canada and the U.S. Band Colour-Sergt. Frank Clarke,— _>ft. 7Jin. and the tallest Guardsman m the British Army— was privileged. He travelled first-class, where more leg room
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    STAR TO WED
    28 8 Anthony Steel, 35-year-old British film star, and showgirl Miss Anne Hanson, 20, are planning to marry at Kensington Register Office. They met two years ago.
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    Gala bouquet for beauty queen vanished
    162 8 Gala bouquet for beauty queen vanished rE kind of nightmare that the organiser of every works gala day dreads ended before the Newton-le- Willows magistrates m Lancashire. The managing director's daughter had presented the prizes without so much as a hitch at a sports day. A thousand people wtr c
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    GERM RAY A FAILURE IN SCHOOLS
    210 8 I^xrEKiMENTS have proved 1 lJ that use of ultra-violet rays has no appreciable effect on the number of days children are away from school because of sickness. For three years the class- rooms and halls of three primary schools m Southall, Middlesex, have been
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    Doctor on pylon risks life to aid sick man
    194 8 A YOUNG doctor climbed 30ft. up an electricity pylon to give morphia injections to a man lying across two 10,000-volt cables. The man, Mr. Albert Broddle. 33, a colliery surface worker of Firbeck-avenue, Laughton, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, was taken to hospital
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    IT'S 'SUICIDE' TO BATHE HERE AT LOW TIDE
    83 8 PEOPLE will be forbidden to bathe at or near low tide along part of the Cornish coast if a by-law planned by Truro rural council is put into force. The council, whose area extends to North Cornwall, is acting because 10 holidaymakers
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    PENALTY KICK
    25 8 A child's ball rolled towards '86-year-old Mr. William Boul- ton m Brighton. He kicked at lit, missed, slipped and broke a I leg.
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    TOM WASN'T DRUNK RULES THE JURY
    416 9 OLD Tom Munday the peddler walked the streets of hLs city all week, and then on Friday nights he toured tlie public houses, still selling his wares. Sometimes he had a drink, but mostly not. One Friday night 67-year-old Tom was found lying unconscious
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    NO DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE
    42 9 When a woman collapsed m a Loughborough, Leicestershire, cinema an appeal was made asking if there was a doctor m the house. There was not. The woman was taken to hospital. The film "Doctor m the House.
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    LITTLE GIRL'S GIFT FOR PRINCESS
    53 9 Seven-year-old Valeric Wilcox, of Birchtree Road. Peterbo r ough, Northamptonshire, bought a doll with her carefully saved pocketmoney, and posted it to the Queen, c/o Balmoral, as a birthday present for Princess Anne. Now she has received a letter from the Queen's Lady-m-Waiting thanking her
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    RARE VISITORS CALL
    88 9 HOLIDAYMAKERS m Dorset saw 20 or 30 flamingoes common m Mediterranean countries but rare m Britain—wading at the edge of Chesil Beach. Fishermen believe storms drove them off course. Another rare v |S,l r was a sunfish, 4ft. m diameter, seen basking off tne Needles, Isle of
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    TORIES NAME ADMIRAL
    36 9 Vice-Admiral John HughesHallett has been recommended by Croydon East (London j Conservative Association executive for adoption as candidate m the pending Croydon East by-election, caused bj the death of Sir Herbert Willi m
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    OPERA 'SWAP'
    17 9 The Sadler's Wells Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet are to exchange visits this month.
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    A school master must play cricket
    265 9 A school master must play cricket A SCHOOLMASTER'S clam: that it was part of hh job to play cricket was upheld when he was told he was entitled to benefit for injuries he received while playing the pame. Mr. R R. Macrory, an assistant master at Watcombe House School, North
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    Air girl slapped corporal's face
    128 9 AN aircraftwoman slapped uorporai rnomas rnce ir the face, twice, after he ordered her to respray ar aircraft part, the corporal told a court martial. He said Aircraftwoman Geraldine Ritchie alsc snatched his hat from his head. He had to say "please" before she would
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    DRILL KILLS MAN
    23 9 A hand-drill electrocuted 36-year-old John White, of Stanley-gardens, Southall, as he worked m a coach-building factory at South Ealing. Lon-
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    VISITORS TO LOCK-UP WERE LOCKED UP
    208 9 r'O men went on a conducted tour of a town hall. The "guide" suggested a visit to the police cell m the basement. So down to the basement of I Wallington, Surrey, Town Hall they went. They pushed open the cell door and walked
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    About that pain in the neck
    152 9 About that pain in the neck WORRY can give you a pain m the neck. Guilt can bring on a splitting headache. That nagging rheumaticky pain m your leg may be due to anxiety. This is reported by Dr. Peter Sainsbury and Dr. John Gibson, who have been measuring muscle
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    GERMAN BOOM HITS THE TURF
    440 10 U/ESTERN Germany Ig i" headed for its biggest boom m international horse racing si nee the war German v for the first time is now exporting prize race-horse rivalling the Anglo-Arab strain and the Irish hunter. Auctions are held regularly at Verden and Dusseldorf, and
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    BritUh-Arabsform a club
    65 10 two or three Engl.shmcn work or play together— t_ ,fc bo d tofm c,ub A "<* design a t,e. The Br.t.th off.ccr, and warrant officer, of the Arab Leaion «*fcft _er,e, ,n /'ans.ojdan. are the late.t to form an association ri kk d "r cm h «P*
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    No 'Americanising' the Spanish
    517 10  - No 'Americanising' the Spanish JOHN CULMER One country U.S. dollars will NEVER buy ALMOST every day m Madrid I am seeing examples of the inferiority complex which Americans are developing about their presence m Spain. Despite lavish pampering by the U.S. Government, many Americans who have moved into Spain m
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      410 11 Ihe Public »s Never Wrong by Adolph Zukor. >jO film star is a hero to I his own producer. Inevitably he knows too much about him. But Adolph Zukor Grand Old Tycoon of American lilms evidently believes that a film star should be a hero to everyone else. It
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    9 11 f HRT I "Just ignore it!" I
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    'inventor' of film stars
    258 11 'inventor of film stars Hollywood's Grand Old Tycoon looks back to the days when scandal could ruin— not, as now, make —a screen career. way of opening salary negotiations." Her technique was evidently successful. At 23— to the public she was then a girl of between 12 and 18. who
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    'Jump for Joy' autobiography
    96 11 PAT SMYTHE, the horsewoman, has written her autobiography. Called "Jump For Joy." It will be published m October. Since her successes m America Miss Smythe is being boosted as one of the finest horsewomen of all time. Her father died when she was still a schoolgirl.
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    Fiction or fact?
    285 11 Monra rat s new book is a warning The &tory of Esther o*tello" by k »i .mlas .Mlur.lll.it HPHE theme of Mon- sarrat's new novel is one of a noble intention that, swerving innocently and at first almost inperceptibly from its original course, later becomes intoxicated with
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    'Ten Seconds to Live' Author Killed
    325 11 'Ten Seconds to Live' Author Killed WRITER Raymond Eastman wrote "Ten Seconds to Live" to promote traffic safety. It was a sensation. It was reprinted all over America. Millions of motorists read the article, which ended like this: Ten seconds to live. He massaged his eyes with thumb anc middle
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    THE BEAVER AT WORK
    123 11 AIR Commodore A. E. Clouston (now A.O.C. Singapore) m "The Dangerous Skies" (Cassell) describes a meeting ivith Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production. There were five senior officers and two civilians siting round a desk at Which Lord Beaverbrook sat dominating the room. "He was speaking
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    REST OF THE NEW BOOKS
    187 11 MR MOON, H. P. Wilkin*, Muller. Rfadv. rhe author, who is a leading autholity on "he moon, has produced a remarkitbly interesting and comprehensive book on the subject. Illustrated with sketches and plate*. Xt MEMORIAL. A. Babington. M< nun. nm "he story of a man's
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    A blonde's life is not all mink
    395 12 But oil considered, Id bo one Bfinc; a blonde is not all minks, orchids, diamine and chocolates Baby of the thro*- Olamoui Gabors Eva, who recently published her Orel book, declares that blonde ;t t(J w :k twice as iMurd as fl brunette
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    NEW LUNDON FASHIONS ARE ABLAZE WITH COLOUR
    269 12 NEW LUNDON FASHIONS ARE ABLAZE WITH COLOUR TVHERE is welcome outbreak of colour m ;he London Collections. Jsual sombre shades lave given way to riotous 3ird-01-paradise blues md greens and the Drightest of geranium pinks. Mattli teams green and black for suits and coats and intersperses his little black cocktail
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      302 12 I I I I 1 i I I < it v across: piete eedonn nith thta Maine? i a mesjetacht for a PJtZJB (7;. 3 Toward.. UNO mostly (4). 4 Is the author paid lor it on the 5 They must be declared to an li P.? (tii uOlcial (8).
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    Gina Keeps Him Happy ... Looking after HER
    1018 13 Gina Keeps Him Happy Looking after HER im GEO KB (9 03^ I KNOW some people sneer because my husband gave up his job as a doctor when I became a star.'' said Gina Lollobrigida. "They have not made it easy for us. Once when my husband came to see
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    Dateline, Hollywood...
    323 13 A BITTER divorce battle has ended with SUSAN HAYWARD, titian- tressed fi 1 m star, the victor, over her exhusband. JESS BARKER. Instead of half the community property, estimated at 270,000, he got an estate wagon, fees for his lawyers, and the right to see his twin sons
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    Film will feature beef-cake
    223 13 Film will feature beef -cake |>IG biceps an. big busi- ness these days- and Hollywood is whipping up a big film around the fads and fancies of the body builders. New and modern gym.s are fast springing up across the country and beaches are dotted with boys with ambitions to
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    First and last
    42 13 Ginger Rogers is vindicated. The British Press is raving over Jacques Bergerac, her "twist of fate" costar m his first acting role. "It's our first and last picture together." says Jacques, who rm now make good on his own
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      135 13 FINEST GLARE PROTECTION MONEY CAN BUY! 8 The lenses m Bausch Sl Lomb RayBan Sun Glasses are made of the finest optical glass, ground-and-polished to highest precision standards. Here's the handsome oew Ray-Ban "Wayfarer" model for men, with sturdy, stylish zylonite frames. v 'z'l>.z<\ -\a}& t* An amazing sun glass
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    Boxing in his blood...
    172 14  - Boxing in his blood... LITTLE NENE By The old saving still remains. It was proven once again when pre-war boxing promoter Mr. B. F. Jalm returned to the game m Indonesia recently. This same promolor brought over a numlM-r of Malayan, fllswess »«d Filipino fighters before I Iks war somi-
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    SANDY SHOWS NO MERCY
    97 14 SANDY SHOWS NO MERCY 111/ oft/,/) featherweight chamT pum Sandy Saddler drew hot criticism from Venezuelan sports writers for rough tactics Ui his one-round knockout victory over Jackie Blair of Texas on Monday night. "Saddler again used prohibited tactics, and was twice warned by the referee," one newspaper said. "He
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    Hungarians shine in swim meet
    207 14 Hungarians shine in swim meet THREE llnai.s m the European swimming championships at Turin nearly gave Hungary ;i •!<• .n sweep of the day's events but their dive m the women's springboard event was beaten into fourth place by two Russians and a Swede. Miss AgOStO Set>o won the women's
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    READING SIGN BOB CAMPBELL
    69 14 READING have signed Bobby Campbell, Chelsea's 20--v< ai Old foi mci Scottish Inter national inside forward. Formerly v: 1 t h Falkirk. Campbell |oined Chelsea seven yean a^o, and for i ttans wa then captain. Idward Brown, young een tn* forward from Chopping^ n Northumberland! has
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    SPORTRAIT
    11 14 only fl^/cerf. guv— if I you'd been inoculated aaamst myxomatosis
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    DARING DIVE
    38 14 picture Royal Army Service Corps goalkeeper Harrison makes a daring vivc from the feet of RE ME. outside-left Armstrong. REME won this Parker Cup final 1-0 at Tanslin on Wednesday. RASC were the holders.- Free Press
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    400 RUSSIAN ATHLETES FOR MELBOURNE
    309 14 400 RUSSIAN ATHLETES FOR MELBOURNE Moscow hopes to hold 1960 Games Russia will >ciid 40 athletes to the 195G Olympic Gam 1 1 ID Melbourne. This was announced ye terday by the coach Of Russia S European (James team. Mr. Gabriel Kozobkoff. h« iaid Russia would e0m- ta .vcry Olympic
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    BADMINTON FIXTURES
    199 14 CINGAPORE Badnunton Asoocia--5 tion Junior tournaments ties for the weekend: TOMORROW AT 7.15 Junior inter-club: Court No. Merridale B.P (Blue) vs Merrytime BP. Official Hamid Marzukl. Umpires Lim Yew Choon and Ahmad b Taib. Court No. 4: Useful B.P. vs. Swing B.P. (Blue). Official Ong Seok Kwee, Urn
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    NON-BENDERS XI
    66 14 Non-Benders* Cricket Club team to play Johore Sports Club at 11 am on Sunday at Johore:— J T. Rea. (Captain), O. H. R. Beadles, V. C. Westerhout, P. A. i D'Almeida. R. V. S. Sundram, J. W. Ewart. D. M. Murray. D. C. D'Cotta. A. E. G. Blades,
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    326 14 Corporal. Golden Planet. Panal»ey. Piince Dv Bois, Honey Fur date Pearl Buckle) Soleil Royal, Cobo, Royal Palm, Nimblefoot. Corbetto. Panaslipper. True Cavalier, Playbord. Le Dieu Dor, Ros-Nuala, Our Babu. Mirzarando, Kaspar and Mv Beau (all 1261b5.. Dollar Gap a lid Cross Currents (both 123 lbs).
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    Penang entries close Oct. 6
    151 14 npwo trophy races— Uie Autumn x Cup and the Committee Cup —will be run at the Penang Turf Clubs three-day Autumn Meeting vn Oct. 16, 20 and 23. There will be two runs for each division m Class 2 and 4. The Autumn Cup will
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    A.C.S. ANNUAL SWIM GALA
    47 14 Tne Anglo-Chinese School will be holding its 17th annual swimming Carnival at the Chinese Swimming Club on Friday, Sept. 24 at 2.30 p.m. There will be two events for old boys: 100 metres Free Style and I x 50 metres Free Styles Relay.
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      40 14 Send m ideas HOW can Singapore sports associations raise money towards the Olympic fund to send a team of 70 athletes to Melbourne m 1956*> Reader are invited to send m their suggestions to:— "Sportsview Free Press Cecil Street Singapore.
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    A FIVE-STAR WIN FOR THE TOURISTS
    316 15 THE LAST WORD— by ARCOS \f- -Because the stars just weren't there Banka Billiton 2; Sino-Malays 0. Sl NO-MALAYS were unable to reproduce their usual form. The tourists from Djakarta beat them well and truly at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. It was Sino-Malays
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    'I HAVE QUIT'
    135 15 Rahim Omar says lis definite. Rahim Omar is quitting bigtime soccer. He told me at the Stadium last night: "If I'm selected for Singapore m the Malaya Cup final then I'll play. But as far as other matches are concerned you can take it that I have
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    Baseball grip player shook Trabert
    765 15 Baseball grip player shook Trabert ijufendinCj title holder Tony Trabert moved up to the fourth round of the U.S. National Tennis Championships at Forest Hills on Wednesday, but not before he was run ragged by a pint-sized Canadian who swings a racket with a two-fisted baseball grip. Finally, after nearly
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    CROWD HOWLS IN PROTEST
    95 15 NEALE Fraser of Australia ywrterday defeated Bernard Bartes, the United States' National Caly Courts champion, 7-9, 6-2, 9-7. 14-12, as the result of a foot fault. The crowd howled m protest. The two were playing ""rO round match. The score was 10-lt m the fourth aea
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    259 16 HUNGARY'S supremacy m the European ■"J"™*"! H championships was again emphasised J"*"** when Gyonjv Tumnek won the foal of the mens 100 metres butterfly event. This gave Hungary tour wins In seven finals. Tump, k won m 2 minutes 32-2/l Otha seconds. A notable failure w:is Herbert Klein ol Germany,
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    BIRTH
    28 16 10 W»rd» $4 (minimum) TO ANNA LAKSHIMI. Wife of T. T. Raja,, of 46, Brighton Crescent, a son. Raja Kumar on Ist September at K. K. Hospital.
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    U.K. SOCCER RESULTS
    50 16 U.K. SOCCER RESULTS Matches played yesterday: KM.l.lsll UUM.C/1 2 NotU (ounty 1. Port Valr 1. Swmnsr* Town 3. Ooncast**Kovrrs 0. _N(._l> ll UUmQIM Ml. 3 (S). (»M. .1. I I, Eif ter City t. WaUall Brighton and llovf 2. ENGLISH I.E/M.UE— Dte. 3 (N.) Scunthorpe l_ 1, Grimsby Town 0.
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    18-YR-OLD FOOTBALLER DIES FROM INJURY
    28 16 Jarvis Midi?ett. 18-year-old University of Tampa football player, died yesterday of a brain injury suffered m his first football workout on Wednesday. AP.
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    U.S. lead 3-0 in Curtis Cup
    69 16 UNITED States won all three foursomes m the Curtis Cup golf match against Great Britain on the Merton course, Ardmore (Pennsylvania), yesterday. AU games were over 36 holes, as will be today's singles, when Britain need to win five, or four and halve one,
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    CLOSE FINISH
    28 16 Lajos Szentgali of Hungary (left) wins the final of the 800-metre event, during the European Games at Berne from Lucien De Muynck of Kelgium. A.P. picture
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    H.K. GIRLS IN ACTION JACK WARDROP FAILS TO QUALIFY Hungarians win 4 of 7 finals
    60 16 H.K. GIRLS IN ACTION JACK WARDROP FAILS TO QUALIFY Hungarians win 4 of 7 finals picture. Ho Lee Cheng (right with ra ised hand), a member of the Hong Kong girls basketball t earn makes a scoring attempt during Wednesday night's ma teh at Chenwu Stadium, Kuala Lumpur. The visitors
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    Peter Loader voted best
    302 16 PETER LOADER, the 24-year-old Surrey fast medium bowler who is going on the M.C.C. tour to Australia, has been voted the "best young cricketer of the year" by members of the Cricket Writers Club. Loader Is m his third year as a professional cricketer. From July
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    MAL WHITFIELD FOR PAKISTAN
    60 16 OLYMPIC track champion Mai Whitfield of Los Angeles left yesterday on a seven country tour for the U.S. State Department. Whitfield's tour a department spokesman said, is jointly sponsored by the amateur athletic union and the State Department's international education exchange service. He will visit Iceland,
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    COCKELL STARTS TRAINING
    139 16 COCKELL STARTS TRAINING DON COCKELL, British and Empire heavyweight champion, yesterday agreed to leave all arrangements with promoter Jack Solomons to get him a world title fight with the holder Rocky Marciano m England or America. This followed a two and a half hours conference with his manager, John Simpson
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    JAP OUT OF U.S. TENNIS
    56 16 vrILLIAM TALBERT (United States), former double* champion and twice runner-up for the singles title, put out Koset Kamo of Japan tn the third round of the United States lawn tennis singles championship yesterday at Forest HilLs. winning a five set tussle 0 6. 2-6. 6-4.
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    RECS WIN 4-1
    20 16 Singapore Recreation Club "Reds" beat Latlfl W tnderers 4-1 ln a hockey frieualy on the padang yesterday.
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    9 16 Philadelphia Phillies 5, St. Louis Cardinals 4.
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