The Singapore Free Press, 8 September 1954

Microfilm: NL2440
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    Masthead
    20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya. \o 1 KHS Singapore, Wed., Sept. 8. 1954. Price 15 Cts.
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    DR. EDITH
    128 1 (iii a boater) impressed by SATA D 5? E tilth Summerskill, member ol the British Labour Party delegation to China, visited the Singapore uiti-Tuberculosia Association clinic in Shenton Way tins morning r would not have missed ■"■"'"s thia for anything," she said ifterwards. •sJit i spent naif an
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    Let road toll be warning MINDS APPEAL TO DRIERS
    164 1 Let road toll be warning MINDS APPEAL TO DRIERS MR. Arthur E. Minns, Singapore Traffic Police Chief, yesterday urged motorists and road-users to visit the Safety First Council exhibition which opens tomorrow at the Victoria Memorial Hall. The Minns appeal is in view of the sharp increase in the number
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    RUBBER PRICE
    30 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened on an uncertain tone this morning with first grade. September shipment, at 63 cents a pound, 3/18 at a cent above yesterday's close
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    New envoy named
    14 1 Sir Francis Evans has been appointed British Ambassador In Argentina.— A.P.
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    Minister quits
    20 1 President Prasad of India yesterday accepted the resignation of Mr. V. V. Giri. G3. the labour Minister.— A.P.
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    Decree for wife
    60 1 A DECREE nisi was granted to Mrs. Daisy Wong Pui Chun against her husband. Lee Kwong Meng, in the Singapore High Court yesterday on the ground of adultery. They were married in March 1947 and there are three ehili dren The Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray Aynsley.
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    Typhoon hits isle
    67 1 r Y UK IWH typhoon of the MMOD Uushod Kyu.shu. Japanese major loutherii l|rKl i last night and left \n wake 12 dead and missing, "hi 99 boiMea de.stroye<l. i off Kyushu, the typhoon sank two boat, and washed i way four others from tneir anchorage, one
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    NANYANG MAY ADMIT EUROPEAN STUDENTS
    191 1 STUDENTS from European countries nnd Australia have applied for admission to the Nanyang University, Dr. 8 Y. Wang, secretary, said today. The university is expected to open in September or October next year. The chancellor, Dr. Lin Yu Tang, is expected in Singapore early next
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    CRASH PLANE GEMS IN MUD
    127 1 Balloon salvage bid [)lAMONDS worth $170,000 have been recovered from the crashed Royal Dutch Airlines (K.L.M.) Super Constellation lying submerged in the marshy River Shannon estuary in Ireland, said Reuter last night. The diamonds were found among 'he ki^s of airmail by men working in
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    'Danger! Big ship ablaze' says radio
    91 1 HPHE Dutch coastal radio reported last night that "a A big ship" was ablaze in the Bay of Biscay. A message from, a steamer said: "Danger a big ship on fire 10 miles from me The position given is about 60 miles north of
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    10 v. 1 Fisherman of 63 bound, gagged and robbed
    70 1 10 v. 1 Fisherman of 63 bound, gagged and robbed TEN men pounced on 63-year-old Singapore fisherman Lim Pak as he was leaving his 1 hut home near the mouth of the Seletar river yesterday and bound and gagged him. They then entered the hut. herded the family into a
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    Girl tecs 'dress up' in search for killer
    125 1 THE United States air force threw open its bomber bases yesterday to London's Scotland Yard detectives who are searching for a U.S. airman named 'Chunk". He was last .seen with a London girl shortly before her nearly-nude body was found. The detectives
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    GIRL ASSAULTED
    27 1 A £irl reported to police yesterday that a man assaulted her near her house at the 6V2 m s. Yio Chu Kans Road, Sin--1 gapore.
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    SEATO STIR OVER ASIA SELF-RULF GUARANTEE
    279 2 SEATO STIR OVER ASIA SELF-RULF GUARANTEE Till Philippines proposal at yesterday's Manila talks on a South-Fast Asian security pact, an amendment guaranteeing the principles of self-rule to the Asian peoples, it was learned. Lord Reading of Britain was reported to have said he understood something of this kind wai being
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    Conference began 'wrong way' he says
    215 2 Conference began 'wrong way' he says john Kotelawala, Ceylon Prime Minister, said in Colombo last nisrht the West had gone the wrong way in their proposal of a SouthEast Asia Treaty Organisation. He told the House of Representatives that the British Parliamentary Under Secretary of state for Foreign Affairs, Mr.
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    TALKS SOON ON A-POOL FOR PEACE
    137 2 rE United States and other nations aro planning to open multilateral talks "faiTly soon" to prepare for an international atomic materials pool, it was learned in Washington yesterday. The talks will at first be at the working level. Thr objective will be to prepare
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    Last stage
    26 2 Thr Ducheu of Kent and h< i n-ycar-oid daughter, Prince Alexandra, arrived in Montreal yesterday the lart xtav.r ol thfir tour rif Canada. Reuter
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    Mrs. Lindbergh dead
    21 2 Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh. 70, the mother of the famous fiyer, Brig.-Gen. Charles Lindbergh, died in Detroit yesterday.- Reuter.
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    BABY BORN ABOARD WARSHIP
    55 2 A HARY has bttfl born to Vietnamese vromi n aboard the British alrcrafl Carrier Warrior win, h l.v carrying refugee! trom HaJ pboog to Balgoa Th« unexpected panoncei Riven a foot-lone Vietnamese namr. «hr automatically becomes a British citizen as she wai born aboard .1 BrlUfli
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    Embargo lifted
    15 2 Belgium yesterday lifted its embargo on the shipments nt arms to Egypt- A.P.
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    NEW JET BROKE SOUND BARRIER 'BY MISTAKE'
    156 2 Bhitain's now jet interceptor fighter plane thr PI, slipped through \\w sound barrier by "mistaKe" recently Mr. Duncan Sandys Minister "< Supply, .said yesterday. "Their was fuch complete absence oi buffeting that the pilot, who was not Intended tO fly ;»t supersonic spred
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    All smiles for Singapore
    70 2 The seven Labour Members of Parliament who flew into Singapore yesterday from Hong Kong. left to right in this picture taken at the airport are: Mr. H. Franklin, Mr. Wilfred Burke, the chairman of the Labour Party, Mr. Morgan Phillips, the Secretary of the Labour Party,
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    'West has nothing to fear from Red China'-Attlee
    186 2 'West has nothing to fear from Red China' -Attlee FORMER British Labour Prime Minister Mr. Attlee said in Darwin yesterdav the West "has nothing to fear from Communist China." "Communist China is too busy looking after its 600 million people," he said. "That's 12 times as many as I had
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    DEATH-ASH VICTIMS GET U.S. COMPENSATION
    97 2 PAYMENT of U551,340 to 1 each of the 23 fishermen burned by an American hydrogen bomb explosion at Bikini was practically assured yesterday by the Japanese Diet, Kyodo news service said. The Japanese Government is asking US$l million in damages on behalf of the 23
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    Japs for China
    21 2 A Japanese delegation, including members of all major political parties, has been invited tO tOUr Communist China A.P.
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    The professor shows how
    132 3 i .11 l»O expert, Profes- A sor Jiro Hara, who is now in Singapore on a r busings cum pleasure tour. List night gave an exhibition of the finer points of the Japanese art z o( m" If -de fence to more than 100 members of
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    Big drive to smash Persian Red spy ring
    125 3 \MEW wave of arrests swept through the Iranian army \it Force md Federal police yesterday. The total number under irrest In the two week's drive to break up a Communist spy nn» [Kissed the 400 mark. Teimour Bakghtiar, the Military Ciovernor of
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    PARTY GIRL SCANDAL: 3 MORE HELD
    102 3 THREE new arrests were made yesterday in the investigation or the mystery death of party girl Wilma Montesi, a scandal which has shaken Italy for IT months. Police arrested two guards at the luxurious Capocotta estate, where Miss Montesi was at a party just
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    Pilot escapes in jet crash
    58 3 an Air Force jot plane crashed yesterday near Santiago, cmie. T »>c pilot, Captain Fidio Wlll <|', parachuted to safety lllf l Buffered a trokon rib. Eyewitnesses said the piano ripped into electricity lines along a road before crashing The plane was a De Havilland
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    ROYAL YACHT: NO MONEY WASTED IN BUILDING IT
    253 3 ROYAL YACHT: NO MONEY WASTED IN BUILDING IT But final cost jumps, says report PARLIAMENTARY committee declared yesterday A there was "no justification" for allegations oS wasteful expenditure in the construction of Queen Elizabeth's Royal Yacht, Britannia. The vessel, ordered in February 1952 and completed this January, was originally estimated
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    Kenyatta won't be freed after gaol term
    141 3 Kenyatta won't be freed after gaol term SIR Evelyn Baring. Governor of Kenya, announced in Wangi. Kenya, yesterday that Jomo Kenyatta and four other Africans convicted with him of directing the Mau Man terror organisation are to be confined indefinitely in the remote northern frontier province, after the expiry of
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    He trapped Red in gun fight
    122 3 He trapped Red in gun fight VN Immediate award oi the Colonial Police Medal to a 1 9-year-old Malayan police constable, Chan Tham sens, was announced In the London Gazette on Monday. The medal i.s awarded for gallantry when he captured an armed Communist terrorist in thick scrub on a
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    Ike's night in hospital
    44 3 President Eisenhower returned to the summer "White House" in Denver, Colorado, yesterday after his annual physical check up in hospital. He spent the night in Fitzsimons Army hospital. He told reporters. "I had a big sleep and feel fine."- Reuter
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    Chartwell lunch
    30 3 U S Senator Alexander Wiley, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yesterday lunched with Sir Winston Churchill at Chartwell, Sir Winston's country home outside London.- A.P.
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    THE JAGAN GAOL STORY: JANET IN, CHEDDI OUT
    120 3 VfRS. JANET JAGAN, general secretary of the leftM Wing People's Progressive Party, was arrested at her home in British Guiana yesterday rnorning and lakeno Georgetown prison to serve a J hr J ee month sentence. She had refused to pay B $250
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    TUC Reds are routed in council poll
    83 3 TUC Reds are routed in council poll ALL Communist challengers have been sound lv beaten in the elections for the general council governing body ot Britain*! 8 million member Trades Union Congress. This was disclosed in Brighton last night bv figures announced at the end of the second day of
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    Opinion
    379 4 The task ahead Tun British parliamentarians have shaped the patterns to which, in their view, the Malaya oJ the future should conform. One, Mr. Attlee, said the pattern which finally should emerge from Malaya's quick-j < ij)ii!' evolutionary process, was of a wholly unified nation with no differences of
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    Hounded Editor Backs Rio Revolt
    741 4  -  JACK COMBEN Shot President was a big-time crook He fin (In GRAFT He seeks VOTES keeps ii secret rendezvous with CARLOS LACERDA, t/w man behind the r< volt (i&ainst corruption and I dictatorship in Brazil* 4 PEEPHOLE slid open when i rang the hill two
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    Sugar-in-beer 'crime'
    137 4 Sugar-in-beer 'crime' "OAV ARIA'S State Qovem- ment has ordered a drive to Wipe out u hat, is regarded as one of the land's u orsi crime that of putting sugar in beer inv country* interior Ministry orrlrrrd the Food Control office to prosecute to thv full extent 0/ the law
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      58 4 Finer Rings SENA 'S T h». viii In n of I«H .ilw.iys to bt IMS tt Sm.i s upnwi thi hivjh di!<ri' cf skill .^nd BftMttf (.mplcyid in the crc.ition oi .ill thi ir tine |i wi lit ry. I H. SENA LIMITED HIGH CLASS JEWELLERS Z Sin^.iporc, Pin.inß, B.ingkok
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      119 4 x Bt K *> i s *0 Forever I Helena Rubinstein has given a life-time to the creation of thingt c for beauty to the fundamentals of skin care to the cherishing J of natural loveliness. Her three easy rules— made famous in her S •alons the world over- to
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    Beach Senorita
    47 5 r y\\\< shapely senorita 1 in a swim suit is Miss n ris Wire, a Singapore Doris was one of the nurses who took time off I attend the first medical services social and picnic it the Htta Yu Associalion, East (oast Road last weekend.
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    GO SLOW NEAR ZEBRAS WARNS MINNS
    179 5 GO SLOW NEAR ZEBRAS WARNS MINNS Police reply to S'pore motorist SINGAPORE Traffic Police Cha i, Mr. A. E. Minns yesterday said that the positions of Zebra rrossingS on roads were constantly under review This meant that Zebras could be taken oil if found unsuitable at certain places. The Collyer
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    4 burglaries in 24 hours
    66 5 PEN \N(r. Wed. Four jlaries, two in Butterworth reported to Penan?; i'irm" the hi.st 24 hours. were estimated at lothin j jewellery and a lal el watch valued at $350 ;■>'■»!• i n from two houses itterworth, while Lam eng Tong, ol Ayer Itam lost
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    Sir Onn leaves hospital
    38 5 JALA LUMPUR, Wed. Sir Oun bin Ja'afar, hor for Homo Affairs, loft u* H tspttal yesterday. Ho Wd i admitted on Aug 22 b heart attack will take a fortnight's i In pen mg,
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    BUFFALO KILLS A DHOBY
    71 5 BUFFALO KILLS A DHOBY ALOR STAR. Wed. A BUFFALO ran amok at Jalan Langgar this afternoon, gored a man to death then resumed grazing in an open field. Chiah Sook. 31. a dhoby, was hanging out his washing near the railway station when the animal suddenly attacked him. throwing him
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    THE ONE POST OFFICE STATE
    105 5 IRAU Wed.— Residents of tflC Royal (own of A rail have to Jnvel six miles to post a JfMer, the Perlis State w:ls tflW y os tprday. »-rlis has only one post office, »l Kinq;ar, and it serves the p|| l«re State population" Mr. J
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    New school for student teachers
    78 5 New school for student teachers A NUMBER of Normal teachers In Singapore who arc now being trained at the Beatty and Tanjong Katong schools are to be moved next week to the Oan Eng Seng school in Anson Road. An Education Department Official -said this was being done as the
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    The inaugural meeting
    52 5 PENANG, Wed. The inaugural meeting of the Australia. New Zealand Association, Penang, will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday at the Penang Sports Club. One of the first functions of the association will be to entertain the Australian Trade Mission to Malaya due in Penuvj, on
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    Milk man had water: $100
    62 5 JOHOFE BAHRU, Wed. For carrying a bottle Of water with Ills milk bottles. Allagappan. a milk vendor, was fined $100 yesterday by Inche Mahmud in the magistrate's court. Mr. M. Danker, who prosecuted, said that under a new bylaw it was an offence for any
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    Transferred
    26 5 TELUK ANSON, Wed.- Inche Aba Bakar Samad bin Mohamed Nor, Assistant District Officer, Sabak Bernam, has been transferred to the State Secretariat at Kuala Lumpur.
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    Baby contest results
    47 5 RAUB. Wed. The Bonny Baby competition in connection with the district agrihorticultural .show held la-st week-end resulted as follows: Ist prize— Yee Chuan Hock age 5 months, 2nd prize Lshak bin Abdul Rahman age 10 months, 3rd prize Sia Poh Sin ai>e 3 months.
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    FOUR EXTRA CLASSES FOR STUDENTS
    119 5 THE Singapore Education Department La planning to extend Its teachers' training scheme for Chinese senior middle school graduates. flour classes for 180 students arc being pi inned for next year. The students will be successful candidates who have passed senior middle .school examination next November,
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    Don't be late for Talentime show!
    117 5 COMPETITORS in the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club's 1954 Talentime Contest on Friday must turn up sharp at 8 p.m. at the club in Amber Road, Mr. Leong Yee Soo, the club secretary, said today. Their names would be scratched if they did not do
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    Killer must die
    38 5 KUAL A LUMPUR. Wed. The Federation Court ot Criminal Appeal has dismissed the appeal of Masa Singh, who was sentenced to death by a lower court for the murder of Shangara Singh at Jalan Trus.
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    569 6 |>OU> today. >ou aie km« sympathetic and gentli low .1 ni all. Since you seen t< inspire confidence people an Inclined -u ask •>«•» for help and E advice. AKhough letiring— even at times timid in mhu t\ yuu art* genuinel> friendly win yuu art* needed. Yu\ir
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    FILM ABOUT COAL MINES
    56 6 Belgian documentary iii>» director Luclen Deroisy c< preparing a 26-minute feature on "Security In the Coal Minos," Underground filming has already taken place in COal mines c>f the Cnanerol area. This film, which has been paid for bv the Brigbm coal Industries, will be shown to
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      300 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis Ir^^^^^J a. n v \\l ouU NtST If) jfl Hf SAHED Wh[ GRABBED 'f^r^^^^^^ Hk. X r"" jdfl |^_jr_^^3^mi^_S_9H^BMMflißl^V L- TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris CZ~^ /EH WHATS THAT? I'A4 I I^THEReS MY CWECK AND CHARLES !W< PMQMIN6
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    STUDENTS WILL 'JUDGE' THE TEASERS
    236 7 New order in adult classes TIH problem of nien students teasing their women colleagues in Singaixire, adult education classes will in future be dealt with by the students themadopted by the recent seminar of the People's Adult Education Association, calls for the letting Up Of
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    Pay first on these Singapore exports
    198 7 Pay first on these Singapore exports SINGAPORE merchants are enforcing an unofficial iun iiii exports to Ceylon unless payment is made in advance" or the »oods are covered by a bank guarantee. The only exception will be for the goods ordered by the Ceylon Government, This follows complaints that some
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    Just the man for the part
    99 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. rE president oi tin- Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court Mr. Brian V. Rhodes, will be In his element in the play "Tht Blind Goddess." which will be staged in the Town Hall here next Thursday, Friday and Saturday by the Kuala Lumpur
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    He hid cigarettes in his shirt
    43 7 Seventy-four year old Yen Yorm Cho was was fined $65 Johore Bahru yesterday for ttetnptini! to smuggle in two r torts of cigarettes from Singapore. The cartons wore found inhi> shirt when he was in a bu.s.
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    82 7 l»irr« Methodist ministers officiated at the Seremhan wed d "K <»f Vlr Ci. n. Lazarus, of the Government Engltah School it port IHckton, and Miss Violet Chrietie. of the KJn« George V School. With the bridal couple above are tn«' befttfitan, Mr. J. T. Christie, of RafMes Institution and th«-
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    Work on Fisheries centre to start soon
    183 7 Work on Fisheries centre to start soon WORK on Singapore's new Fisheries Research Station at Changi Point is to start this month, a spokesman of a firm of architects handling the project said yesterday. Estimated to cost about $200,000 it will be built near the beach and is expected to
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    Strays cost them $140
    72 7 IPOH, Wed. Ahma Singh, 50, whose seven head of cattle strayed into the Kampong Bahru police station on Aug. 15 was fined $70 by the Ipoh magistrate yesterday. An Indian woman, Rahma. who also allowed her three cows to enter the same place on Aug. 7
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    But the tyres were different, he says
    85 7 But the tyres were different, he says KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. DARSHAN SINGH got a shock when he went to the police station to collect his bicycle which had been impounded for being left unattended, he told a court here yesterday. For when he examined his bicycle, he alleged, he found
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    Secret for Nye and Co.
    58 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed, Two envoys of the Labour party of Malaya left here for Singapore carrying r "top secret memorandum to be presented to the British Labour p.irty delegation which Ls visiting Singapore. The envoys are Mr. Tan Phock Kin. the party's general secretary, and
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    The Doll Dance for charity
    73 7 The Doll Dance for charity rpffREE young pupils of 1 the Taylor Dance Studio from left, Jill Stracey, Deanna Tan and Gloria Clunies-Ross will do the "Doll Dance," a fantasy number, at the charity ball to aid the Singapore Canine Welfare Association on September 25. The ball, to be held
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    Amateur show aids charity
    57 7 Singapore's amateur variety artistes gave a splendid performance at the Capitol Theatre, Johore Bahru, this week. The performance was in aid of Johore's crippled, aged, blind, and infirm and was Singapore's contribution to Johore Welfare Week. Presented by Mr. C. B. Tan, the "Show of Shows"
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      138 7 FINEST GIARE PROTECTION MONEY CAN BUY! «F The lenses in Bausch Lomb RayHp^ I Ban Sun Glasses are made of the finest fllflF^fii^ optical glass, ground-and-polished to highest precision standards. Here's the IBS*/ handsome new Ray-Ban "Wayfarer** ***Km*-- model for men, with sturdy, stylish xylonite frames. yr A An amazing
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    ROUND ABOUT SIN GAPORE
    210 8 ROUND ABOUT SIN GAPORE Pictorial roundup of recent evl in the public life of the ColA *jH'i*y Lira and Vernon Sy^« in l dance Ain t She Sweet" presented at the ball given °3 tne Supersonic \v i-ter-Ski lub. Mai i\ firemen of the KaHang Airport service extinguished a high
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      51 8 The Sulfan <f W left, abovt i l Ild M l (second froi PW honour .1! ''Hf Mr. and Mrs ■> After a tWfl Malaya's n 1 ;:I M forty £U< -\< »»l jl l fstana I5< >v r Fifty roembrr? r •;iub pcrfoi I flood lil Jala fj occasion
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    A word from the past returns to hit Herr Brandt...
    663 10  - A word from the past returns to hit Herr Brandt... Sefton Delmer Pinpointing the first victims _of__a s^ nt new 'discrimination^ By The name Is Norbert Brandt, and today that name is news Sinister news. Why? Norbert Brandt has been forced from the chemist's shop he has built up for
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    BY THE WAY
    338 10 PROM Johannesburg, where I was chuckerout at the de Wet Institute in 1937. and chucked out in 1938, a cutting comes to me from the Rand Daily Mail. It describes a ballet called "Hydrocarbon Synthesis." The production and choreography are by a man who "trained 50 dancers
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    Window on the World
    390 10 Window on the World THIRST section Of what is hilled in TOKYO ftfi the world's longest buildin" and shortest superhighway is scheduled for completion thia week. vuc structure will run ■SP 1 than 4500 feet through the centre ol Tokyo's business and amusement district. Twofloors are being rented as offices
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    BOUNDER
    26 10 YOU have to watch thit man. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a revolving door and comes out first,' remarked overheard recently.
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    They beat them all...
    44 11 Piper Laurie, a beauty contest judge. attracted more attention than all the candidates Yet Piper never won a beauty contest. Thiess mow Mrs. Taylor) was once desas "the most beautiful in the world." But she aspired to be "Miss Europe."
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    Music worm is turning
    167 11 r rHE musical-theme- song worm is turning. Time was when most Hollywood producers would stand strict guard over their picture tunes to prevent orchestra leaders or singers from broadcasting them before the movie was released. roday it's just the other way around. About the first thing
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    HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
    146 11 M DKhV HEPBURN, Dy n way, is bo exhausted from v< rything, ihe'a even too IMI to make ;i decision ;i! MIL FERRER, '•'ur> t CAROL HANOT in 1 s lama game" in New York. N wond( r m« tn» wants her pack sMe'a the best in th<>
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    HOLLYWOOD STILL GETS THE PICK
    583 11  - HOLLYWOOD STILL GETS THE PICK Harold Heffernan FEW "MISS UNIVERSE BEAUTIES ARE GOOD ENOUGH FOR FILMS By oeauty contests, eithei 13 local or international continue to point up out unmistakable conclusion. This is that the real, established, longtime glamour ladies in the film business do not come to light through
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    Critics were not invited
    266 11 ...Perhaps they were lucky, says David Lewin I WENT to see ALAN LADD'S latest film, "The Black Knight/' which began its West End run without the benefit of critical comment. The critics were not invited. Perhaps the producers were wise. The picture Is a hotch-DOtch, with
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    HIS 'ROT' IS GOLDEN
    141 11 P^or two years, when he was an understudy In "Reluctant Heroes," 27-year-old John Chapman sf)fnt his time writ inn hi.s flrsf pli'.v, "I)r\ Rot." Hi < ;it n( (i rl2 .1 week then. Hi farce m;iv brlnn m a for He show! how three InefTec t
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    Wny Gls marry European girls
    939 12 Publication of Anglo-American marital statistics has exploded an angry storm of Setters, reports NORMAN LINDHURST. Onf. ui the matt fer- ently debated topic In Germany (ami in U s Sei \i' e camps In Britain > Just now is why are German and i jnt
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    Bridge Hand
    695 12 v *ide vulnerable VORTB «t K I <) i K h 2 8 1 K Q fl 5 WIST IVST A a q iii 1 10 9 8 fi 0KII? K R 2 <• *a HOUTH 7AQ J 4 0 A Q 10 *J8 7 S The (ti<Mm»<
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    Gentlemen, meet the barmaid
    24 12 Adrienne Corri plays a barmaid in "Devil Girl from Mars," the first major outerspace film to be made in Britain.
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    The racketeers are on the retreat
    511 13 The racketeers are on the retreat SHADOWY FIGURES CROSSED THE BORDER AT NIGHTS. VILLAGES WERE REBUILT ON THE ILLICIT PROFITS THEY EARNED. BUT NOW SMUGGLING lfi still a booming business in \v< Germany despite i< duct ions in tea. COfTee and cigarette taxes. But. tin government is slowly gaining the
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    45 13 picture* This beautiful dinner dress <n pale pink an( j KMM n satin damask is influenced by the dainty Dresden shepherdess. Jt was designed by Helena Barbirri of Nrw York. The Detailed bodice is >ced" with little rhinettonc Vs •nd lioprd at the bad Reuter
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    56 13 Popper pictures "Madame Midas" is the name given to this new ball dress by Worth, London. It is of yellow satin and entirely embroidered in gold and yellow topaz. The chiiTon scarf worn with it is rust-eoloured. The other fashion is from Paris. "Segur" is of printed blue organdie from
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    Prince takes up angling
    125 13 I>RINCE Charles, who is six in November, has taken up fishing during his holiday at Balmoral. It all started last year when he became a member of the Anglers' Co-operative Association. As he had paid his subscription it was only right that he should begin to
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    NEW LOOK AT SECRETS OF DISEASES
    387 13  -  Thomas R. Henry by rjEVELOPMENT of an *J ultraviolet microscope under which supposedly colourless specimens can be seen and even photographed in brilliant colours as if they had been stained by the old techniques Of the bacteriologist has been announced by the Biological Division
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    Beer and Bach
    56 13 MR. HAROLD TAYLOR, licensee of a Birmingham public house, has introduced classical music to his pub. An orchestra plays In the lounge on four evenings H. week. "People shouldn't just come in the pubs to drink." said Mr. Taylor. "They need something else as well. My customers
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    Sports profile- MARATHON MERMAID
    1314 14 says Chadwkk LMCUM her earliest cl:t\ s. luticun- ludwirk v, is a "water baby/' When she ira§ wily mv an untie entered her in i raee. She wasn*i iiuite food enough to win, bill she recalls thi! she riceiried "to work harder and prove somehow thai
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    For the world bantam title, claims promoter
    439 14 For the world bantam title, claims promoter for three flKhts. one of them against would have to get a much Wgget Sinn He had assumed that all share of the gate. three bouts would be over in 1(1 "He has nothing to gain and rounds, the usual distance in Eu-
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    U.S. TEAM NAMED
    46 14 The United States' two top ranking players. Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas, and two second stringers have been named to face Mexico in the American Zone Davis Cup tennis final at Mexico City on October 2-4. Bill Talbert was named captain —A P.
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    Aussies commence Olympic training
    395 14  -  JACK TALBOT By AUSTRALIA is already preparing her athletes for the Olympic Games to be held in Melbourne in 1956, and it will not be the want of fitness that keeps j the Commonwealth from winning a number of Gold i medals. Australia, as host for
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    4 REASONS WHY COHEN WILL WIN
    410 15 4 REASONS WHY COHEN WILL WIN By his manager pRENCH fighter Robert Cohen, known as Cohen the Ruthless contender Number One for the world bantamweight title vacated by Australia's Jimmy arruthers, is confident of victory in his title fight with Thailand's Chamroen Songkitrat on Sept 19. His manager Boddy Diamond
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    Pakistan miss victory by only 6 runs
    233 15 Pakistan miss victory by only 6 runs PAKISTAN and the England XI liitw yesterday at Hastings. y K r.teded eix runs for victory with six wickets in hand when stumps were drawn. The tourists were set to make 169 in two h< ura five minutes, and thanks mainly to Waqar
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    U.K. RUGBY UNION
    10 15 Penzancf and Newlyn 3 Jedforest 9. Reuter.
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    Van Lidth to miss hockey season
    145 15 Van Lidth to miss hockey season ALL-MALAYAN and Selangor in-side-right E. J. van Lidth will miss the hockey season which has just started. He has gone to Europe on long leave. Even without van Lidth, Selangor Club will be as strong as they were last year. Neal Hobbs will captain
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    COACH IS DEAD
    44 15 Glen Scobey iPopt Warner, 83, famed U.S. football coach, died yesterday. Warner originated many of the most deceptive plays in football. It was hf» who was the greatest exponent of the winpback system. For months Warner was under treatment for cancer
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    Table-tennis meet cancelled
    111 15 rrtHE de< Islon of Richard Bergmann, former world table-tennis champion, to prolong hi. May in Australia has caused tin cancellation of th^ ftrsi Internationa] match betwi < n England and Singapore. rhi match was scheduled to be held no.: Thursday Sept. 16 at the Happy wviid stadium.
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    What the wears in Australia
    95 15 What the wears in Australia rrAKK a look at th<> baggagi I of any cricket side embarking for anywhere An Infantry battalion would hardly need mon if the side hap pens to b<> an Mcc one for Australia, a brigjui,. gives a •Wer comparison, writes Bruce Harris. Anri wlien the
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    IRELAND BEAT MCC
    93 15 it.K. cricket results: At Dublin. Ireland beat M.C.C. by two runs. Ireland 189 and 117. M.C.C. 151 and 153 (Subba Row 69, Huey 8 for 48). At Torquay, South beat North by 61 runs. South 347 and 121 for 7 dec In red (Tribe 4 for 22).
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    well-dressed MCC man
    322 15 one, for ho is about to undertake hia sixth overseas tour. Here is his own estimate of the gear which he and Mrs. Kv;m s will soon be making ready for him. Cricket equipment Kifiht pairs of flannel trousers. In hot wrather you have to change at
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    BAGBY GOLD CUP HOPES IN SOUND RUN
    225 16 Rubber Exporter and Shangrila Free I'ress Course Correspondent THIIF Bag by stable's Gold Cup hopes Rubber Exporter (Hudson) and Shangrita (Bagby) were associated ill a fOOd workout on the training track at liukit riniitii this morning. Breaking from the fifth furlong, they clapped
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    U.K. SOCCER RESULTS
    42 16 U.K. SOCCER RESULTS FNCIJSH LEAGUE I>IV. 3 (Si Q. I*. Ranger* 5 Alderahot 0 Soutlieiid (I. 1 Newport 1 Watford 7 rystal I*. 1 ENGLISH LEAGUE 1)1 V. 3 (N) South|Mirt I Harrow 1 Glasgow <"u|» Semi-final Paitiok T. eltir I Reuter
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    Miracle mile in Singapore
    64 16 Free Press Athletics Reporter SINGAPORE athletes can see a film of Roger Bannister's "miracle mile" today. The film, which shows tho four-minute barrier bei n g beaten lor the first time, is being .shown at the Shell Theatrette, Shell House, Collyvr Quay ut 5 p.m. All
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    POSTPONED
    38 16 The Singapore Hockey Association Div. 1 league match between Police and Latill Wanderers was postponed yesterday owing to ground conditions on the src: padang. The Dlv. 3A game between P T and Royal Artillery was ai.so postponed,
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    Regular XI for the Cup
    59 16 SINGAPORE will field her regulaj 0 teum hi the Malawi C'U[> ftnal against Penang at Kuala Lumpui in Saturday. Names announced are:Chee seim; Boniface, Teow Keng; Hee Jong, Vass (capt.), Hm Weng; Omar Av\ mg, Boon Seong, Awang Bakar, Boon Leon-,', Rahim Omar. Reserves: Pook
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    WASHINGTON BEAT ATHLETICS 5-4
    47 16 WASHINGTON Senators overcame a four- rim Philadelphia Lead yesterday afternoon to edge the Athletics. 5-4. as Frank Shea won his second game of the season Ed Fitzgerald's eighth single drove in the winning rim before one of Washington's smallest baseball r.rowris pupi—46o. A.P.
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    GEYLONESE WIN 10-0
    40 16 The iu^i league match o! the! hockey season was played at Balestier Road yesterday when Ceylon Sports Club beat Young Men's Muslim Association l,)-0 in a Div. 3B fixture Scorers: Ponnampalam '4>. Vanderput (3), Navaretnam (2). Mariana.
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    12 RUNNERS F3R DONCASTER
    72 16 TTWELVE probable-, and jockeys for the Champagne Stakes to be run over six furlongs at Doncaster today are; Corporal <.W. H. Can). Panadley (T. Gosling i, Beethovan (Unjockey), Honey Pur <E. Britt). Soleil Royal (M. Larraun), NimblefOOt iF. Barlow», Panasllpper 7. Eddery), True Cavalier (R. Fawdonj,
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    S.R.C SPORTS
    20 16 The Singapore Recreation Chios annual athletic meet will be held on Sunday ai 2.UJ p.m. on the padang.
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    Johnny Longden to ride Blue Sail
    246 16 JOHNNY LONGDEN, the English-born (ockey from America, will ride Blue Sail in the St. Leger last of this year's English classic races at Doncaster on Saturday. in announcing this yesterday Paddv Prendergast, Blue Sail's trainer, said: "Blue Ball is really well and will bo
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    ON THE TRACK AT AINTREE
    61 16 Frank Taylor and Alan Johnson at speed on a Norton and sidecar when, with other star riders, they tried out the new motor racing circuit alongside the Grand National steeplechase course at Aintree, Liverpool.. The trials first appearance of motorcycles on the track were in
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    Rider killed in Manx Prix
    148 16 Rider killed in Manx Prix THE 19th dearth in the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races since World War II was recorded yesterday when a British racing motor cyclist was killed in ttie Junior Manx Grand Prix race at Douglas. Roger Butler, a 3C-year-oM motor fitter, crashed at a cor-
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    CHANCE FOR CYCLE NOVICES
    59 16 SINGAPORE island Ramblers will I be staging a 50-mile massed start cycle race for Novices on Sunday Sept. 19 at 7 ajn. on the Cli la Chu Kang RoadiLim Chu Kang Reid course. Entries to the Hon. Secretary, Singapore Island Ramblers, o<> n, Cufl Road, Singapore
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