The Singapore Free Press, 18 September 1954

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  • 22 1 The Singapore Free Press bargfgt Afternoon Sale in Malaya. N 1 1 i ,7. Singapore, Sat., Sept. 18, 1954. Price 13 Cts
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  • 74 1 riHINES Nationalist Air F units yesterday conD bomb Chinese Com)Ositions at Amoy. a ommunique said last :ommunique said many were dropped and t irg ts destroyed with- Earlier in the day. the Nationalists announced that their planes on Thursday destroyed 100 Communist junks at Sunwau Bay. north
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  • 134 1 rTHE Australian Navy will be 1 reorganised for possible service in South East Asia, and to gear for atomic ware tactics, the Army Minister, Mr. Josiah Francis, announced in Canberra today. Senior army officers in December will begin planning i '.v.umes in organisation,
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  • 95 1 s ATLANTIC FLEET headquarters said in Norfolk. Virginia, yesterday that 10 ships of the Atlantic Fleet amphibious force, all based in Norfolk, would be transferred foi duty with the Pacific Fleet at the beginning of 1955. This brings to 27 the number being transferred from the
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  • 282 1 Grenades thrown gTRONG forces patrolled the streets of Saigon last night and set up road blocks following an hour-long street battle in which two men were killed and four wounded. Police said that two grenades were thrown and tommy guns used in the fight which was
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  • 28 1 A clerk in the Indonesian Consulate in Singapore was attacked by seven Chinese in Sembawa Road, Singapore, yesterday, and robbed of his $400 camera Reuter
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  • 136 1 MR. R. Jumabhoy, Singapore Legislative Councillor and president of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, this morning said that the $500 a month salary qualification clause in the Colony's immigration laws should be reduced at once He said thLs clause had hit .he Indian community hard especially
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  • 95 1 NESE Communist army rces facing the Nationa- ;on on Formosa have i ived orders to "make for battle." Peking Rayi sterday. broadcast said a direcued to Red troops t China to step up prefor the "liberation" -i In face of increas- ed Nationalist aid and sea raids
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  • 31 1 A diplomati in London lay called on "every interested In peace to Israel from any further lon <»nd to give Immewonomic and military «W to the Arab states.
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  • 26 1 About 450 yards of overhead t< leph( >ne cables arc missing from the corner ol Sophia Road and U ppei Wiikir Roadi Singa pore.
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  • 32 1 a European visitor to Sings pore living in a hotel in TanJong Pagar, yesterday reported to the police thai a diamond ring worth |5,000 had been taken from Ins room.
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  • 45 1 Staff associations of the Singapore City Council have accepted the council's offer of Government scales of pay which will send up the pay bill about $4,000,000 a year. Their decision was Riven In a letter to the acting president of the council today.
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  • 26 1 Thieves broke into the home Of an Army colonel in Rochester Park. Singapore, yesterday and stole a camera, a carving knife and $290 cash.
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  • 26 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened steadily this morning with first grade, October shipment ay 7 8 .nits a pound five-sixteenth cent above yesterday's close.
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  • 256 1 Judge to see if Goldsmith flat is fit for baby V RIS Judge yesterday de- iclod to Inspect James smith's luxurious Paris End flat before ruling custody claim bv her mdmother for four months old Isabel GoldIth. The Duch( ss ol Durcal, estran'•i wife oi Bolivian tin milIre Antenor Patino,
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  • 206 2 Six-hour talk-and Dulles says yes' MR. John Foster Dulles left for the United States last night after endorsing in broad outline Britain's new plan to Salvage Western defence from the wreckage of the European army scheme. Britain has proposed that West Germany be rearmed within
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  • 68 2 Scores or teenage girls laughing and shouting gave Mr. John Foster Dulles an unexpected send on" from London airport last night. They were waiting to welcome the American singer Frankie Laine who was flying in from Paris, waving placards announcing "Frankie I Love You." Then Mr. Dulles
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  • Article, Illustration
    35 2 This four entertainers are in Singapore on their way to Korea to give shows to troops. From left are: Billy Whittaker and his wife, comedians. Jean Bayless, singer, and Lenny Felix, pianist Free Press picture.
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  • 23 2 Eighty Germans who served in the French Foreign Legion in Indo -China have sought asylum in Rnvipt-orriinirrl East Germany. A.P.
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  • 159 2 ASSESSING mid-1954 rubber statistics the Natural Rub- her Bureau in Washington says there will be no surplus of natural rubber thi.s year. Earlier the Colombo rubber study group estimated production at 1,705,000 long tons and consumption 1,681,000 lonu tons a surplus of
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  • 83 2 4 NUMBER <>f companli e Which want to buy United Btatei Qovernmenl owned synthetic robber plants are, now prepared to pay more for them than thev were b few month ago, Recording to a spokesman foi tht Rubber Producing Facilit li Dl posal Commission. The
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  • 143 2 OUSSIA apologised to Finland on Thursday night for "involuntary" flight over ±%> Finnish territory by three Soviet jet planes. A note handed to the Finnish Foreign Ministry by the Soviet ambassador to Helsinki, Mr. V. Z. Lebedev, said the planes,
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  • 118 2 PATINO BABY TO BE BORN IN BOLIVIA DAGMAR Sanchez Betancourt, 19-year-old estranged wife of Jorge Ortiz Patino, of the tin family, told friends in La Paz, Bolivia, yesterday she had come there from Cuba so that her child may be born a Bolivian. Mrs. Ortiz Patino entered a clinic to
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  • 128 2 TUNISIAN EXILE IS FREED MHABIB Bourguiba, exiled leader of the Neo Destour Nationalist Party in Tunisia was freed yesterday from forced residence at a country house near Paris. He was told that from now on he may travel freely anywhere in Fiance except in the departments of the Seine (Greater
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  • 44 2 A TYPHOON which hit Korea on Tuesday left 32 people dead and 207 missing, South Korean officials said last night. Most casualties and damage were along the mountainous east coast, where torrent i ,1 rains flooded large areas.- A .P.
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  • 69 3 EVERYBODY else is in- Ij tently watching their favourites start in the koleh race but the little ooj in the centre is obvi- ouslj much more intrigu- ed In a Free Press cam- if mini. i rhis Free Press picture h is taken on the Johore
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  • 29 3 SIX people died in a fire yesterday in Kincaid "Kansas) that quickly engulfed a nursing home. One other patient was burned seriously. Three escaped.
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  • 114 3 |)i' RONALD RICHTER. former boss of Argentina's atomic energy programme, was arrested in Buenos Aires yesterday and gaoled in the capital's station to servo a five-day term for contempt Congress. Th< Chamber of Deputies ordered the arrest after a fivehour debate. The action was
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  • 45 3 Dr. Lin Yu-tang. the Chinese philosopher and writer, accompanied by his wife and daughter, will leave Rome for Athens today. From Athens he will go to Singapore at the beginning of next month to take charge of Nanyang University. Router.
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  • 38 3 pMore than 300 British and 7 ;i Pilgrim* stood at the remSmS Arnnem yesterday '."^rmg the men who tno Rk y 10 years to die in a desperate EPS AUie a a^ h QUick Vlctory nines.
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  • 149 3 MINISTER QUITS TO DEFEND HIS SON IN SCANDAL CASE FOREIGN MINISTER Attilio Piccioni is believed to have sent in his resignation yesterday in order to defend his son against accusations linking him with Italy's Wilma Montesi scandal. The report came from several high Government .sources, who said Piccioni's action might
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  • 76 3 rpHREE convicts escaped from JL Nevada state prison yesterday with a guard a.s a hostage. Tiie three men crashed a speeding truck through the main gate of the prison in a blaze of guniire, and guard George Miller, 59, later was found dead in
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  • 271 3 S'pore artist found no 'gold mine' in London WU Tsai Yen. Singapore's brilliant finger-artist. .<aid yesterday that though he found the English had a «reat love of art, London was iio gold mine." However, he said, before leaving London for NewYork: "I am very satisfied with the financial side of
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  • 29 3 The Obernkirchen children's choir of 30 sirls and six boys from West Germany yesterday beyan a six-week eonc ,rf inttr Of 30 American cities. A. P.
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  • 91 3 I^RS. Janet Jagan. secretary of the left-wing People's Progressive Party iti British Guiana, was ordered in Georgetown yesterday to pay a fine of $150 or serve three months in prison, on a charge of being found in possession oi ".Soviet News," a publication banned
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    • 350 3 CONDUCT STANDARDS DOWN DAVID MAXWELL FYFE, British Home Secretary, told a 0 Boy Scouts conference in Filey. Yorkshire yesterday that standards of conduct in Britain were generally lower now than JO >ears ago. He told the scouts they could do "untold good" in retrieving and raising the standards. Reuter. >UIASY-HT
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  • 386 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, s ept. 18, 1954. Opinion SAFETY FIRST? In the first seven days of the load safety drive, some 350 .traffic accidents have been reported in Singapore. Two of the accidents were fatal. A dozen were officially labelled serious. In one day alone 68 accidents came
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  • 764 4 There is misunderstanding of our friends as icell as of the Reds says Simon Maynard I r li about tiiin that Washington i New Vork, Chicago Philadelphia, San .Francisco and Detroit were on the Itineraries of our wandering politicians They lu> to Paris
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    24 4 Dody Heath was playing in a Broadway show when Hollywood signed her on to plav a persistent Scottish la*| in the cinemascope musical "Brigadoon."
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  • 197 4 HAR WELL IN A HURR Y IMPORTANT work on 1 the industrial use of atomic energy is hein^ stopped up at Harwell. Britain's main centre of atomic research, on the Berkshire Downs This follows the recent add! tion to the vast amount ol equipment In Harwell's laboratories oi Dimple and
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    • 34 4 imi Bnnm TELEFUNKEN y 7774WK \S lr op. 7 V*ivt Sft^^^^i»WTßWfr'*r?lHßßsMMfc|^M BPffteUj tropicalM ac Mode] ium bandspread with u lectlvltj regulator In an elegant vaJnut cabinet, seow kuan co. •I, IMiohv (.haut. Siiiga|Hi? t».
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    • 38 4 CHANGfc OF ADDRESS E. I. PARRISH CO. ANNOUNCE the transfer of their business to ground floor show-room fir offices at No. 28, South Canal Road, (Adjoining Chulia Street) Singapore, f« Telephone Telegrams ***** TECHMED For SURGICAL TECHNICAL SUPPLIES
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  • 382 5 BIG S'PORE BACKING FOR TECHNICAL TRAINING PLAN EDUCATIONISTS and parents in Singapore yesterday strongly supported the proposed new education system to incorporate technical training from primary school up to University level. Many thought the plan was a timely move because of the Colony's rapid industrial and building expansion. Mr. R.
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  • 61 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— The Federation Government announced yesterday that the Ma-laya-America Oversea! telephone service has now been extended to Cuba. Minimum charge for a call is $48.75. The service will be open from 0.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. daily except Sundays. Canada and Mexico are the
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  • 335 5 TODAY'S V.I.P. \|K James Purdoti Lewes 111 Thomss, M.P., First lord of the Admiralty, who arrived in Singapore yesterday to start a three"ueek tour of the Far East h.is made naval matters one Of his principal parliunentary interests from the war years. In
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  • 121 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. a PATROL ol the Second A Battalion Malay Regiment killed a terrorist in a camp in the Sungkai area of South Perak yesterday morning. Another terrorist wa i wmnded but managed to escape. In Johoro. terrorLU fired on a telecom!
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  • 29 5 TAIPINO, Sat The annual Inspection of the Taiping unit of the British Red Cross Society will be held at 930 a.m. on Sunday on the Regimental Ground.
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  • 121 5 1)11*1. ft response to the 1 one month campaign started in July for books for the Singapore Harbour Board Boys' Club library has been poor. Mr. Choo Teek Pull, honorary secretary, said yesterday that only 60 books including magazines had so far been received.
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  • 121 5 ACTION taken by residents of Singapore's Kolam Ayer Housing Estate to use their market (.shown above) as a community centre instead is beginning to show results. The chairman of the estate working committee. Mr. Ng Loh Soon told the Free Press today: "Our request is being
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  • 141 5 ceiitly, and made recommendations to the City Council for better use of the market. The Assistant Secretary (Community Centres;, Mr. A. B. Weatherall said since it was found that the market was hardly being used, "it would be better for the residents to make it their
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  • 83 6 rpHE lowly p< anut will Into |tfl own m i yt ar at the national pi i t( i Liva] in .Dothan, a t.» t n next month There win b« i a recipe i < M test f«>r the br.sf dishes usinß peanut products, and
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    • 248 6 ••••••••••■•■•••••■■•••■■•■••■■■••»a..4l.4t. 444 m m *****44. V II o*^ I I O^.V MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis M WWM W^/ f EAR,<O f.OCh. I rHAT", .VAV I H'"* WINDOW- {.^■■■.iHHß.i.^^ NO/, i ARE SMCIC i CN^K.h'/ I I'LL UWEAKII V/6W/ AHSLtCOPTEQ &4mm/^l) s NAAOAB£FORI 50 Hffti 60E5 r^f>^ Q
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    • 692 6 I YOUR I I LUCKY STAR E today, you are MfggS« I tially an independent s OU I E but, while you cannot be dri\t-n E against your will, you can be easily intlueiued by someone E you admire or love. You are E E an optimist and, no matter
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  • 295 7 No opium? Then it's sleeping pillo for addicts ivKSPERATE opium addicts in Singapore have U created a black-market in drugs by taking to sleeping pills, cocaine and morphine Sale of these drugs, listed under the Poisons ordnance, is forbidden unless under doctors' prescriptions But quacks and peddlers are reported to
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  • Article, Illustration
    46 7 picture. The Governor, Sir John Nicoll, studying a visual-aids model of a road crossing when he vi.sited the Singapore Safety First exhibition in the Victoria Memorial Hall. With him is Mr. Sandy G. Pillay, chairman of the Safety First Council. The exhibition closes tomorrow. Free Press
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  • 63 7 UTTERWORTH, Sat.-Pro-vince Wellesley UMNO may [orm an alliance with the MCA contest future flections. inche Ahmad Saaid. the local JJfJNO secretary said yesteru a j TMvvT u ntatives from all JNO branches l n Province weu< sley met here to make lans ror elections. A special committee
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  • 163 7 SEREMBAN, Sat. j«g Negri Sembilan Poppy Day Appeal Committee is apnta* an all-out drive to nionev for the fund this ?fi 1 n iL Mr s Margot Massie, Zli In f he State Le al Adviser a« yesterday appointed oraniser and chairman. „,H proßramm e
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  • 150 7 WILLIAM Robert Riley, i). youngest round-the-world passenger on board the President Monroe, which is in Singapore, is having the time of his life. William is under the care of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. Riley. Missing about two months
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  • 40 7 PBNANO, Sat. Chinese Reication tMub will hold a so ial and dance at Victoria 'Jreen on Oct 16 to rals< tunds to send teams for ttv mnual Inter-CRC quadran miliar sports festival at Kuala Lumpur this Christmas
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  • 152 7 £OMPETENT but unqualified midwives will not be barred from practising in Singapore if the Legislative Council accepts a select committee recommendation. The Government had originally proposed in a bill that only those midwives who held a diploma or certificate in midwifery should be
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  • 216 7 By Peter de Cruz. SINGAPORE'S eldest pig, which recently celebrated it's 23rd birthday alternately grunting and dozing, is still aave and kicking at the Garden of Liberation off Thomson Road, Singapore. If anything, this grand old pig among the other pigs and
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  • 32 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. There were 239 registered trade unions at the end of last month, it is officially reported. The unions have a total membership of 114,136.
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  • 258 8 Year the North Pole was South OTRANGE things have *r been happening tu the North Pole, scientists have i discovered. I Over the ages it has wan- j dered b\\ over the world. At one time it was in Arizona It j moved to the islands Of the Pacific, to
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    41 8 The Canberra is refuelled for one of the final sorties of the flying trials conducted by No. 542 Squadron of the R.A.F. Waiting to take over the aircraft are Flight Lieutenant 1). .1. Carruthers (left) and Flying Officer P. A. Ilamil.
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  • 51 8 Mr. Henry Sherek. who introduced the T. S. Eliot plays "The Cocktail Party" and "The Confidential Clerk*' to London by way of the Edinburgh Festival. has acquired the stage rights of Dvlan Thomas's last work. "Und<>' Milk Wood." it may be produced at next year's Edinburgh
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  • 52 8 Terence Andre, aged two. was rescued by a passer-by when he fell down an Bft manhole outside his home in Willesden, London. Terence, who was slightly hurt, was 80 impressed when four fire engines, four police cars, and an ambulance arrived that he forgot to
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  • 282 8 S ELF-PITY has become an Occupational disease of the miners and dockers of Britain and is now affecting the railwaymen -according to Canon M T Dunlop, Director oj .Religious Education m the .Diocese f Manchester, in a paper on Voluntary service in the Welfare State."
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  • 397 8 HALF-WAY TO THE MOON TESTS FOR RAF PLANE Crews lived in non-stop daylight A KOYAL AIK FORCE Canberra jet-plane engaged A in intensive flying trials has just completed 300 hours in 25 days covering a distance of some 156,000 miles— or more than half-way to the moon. It is the
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  • 150 8 WOMAN IN WELL SAVED BY DOG WOMAN was rescued from a tfft, disused well which no one knew existed. She fell down it while looking for her dog. But it was Major, a liver and white cocker spaniel, which found her. Mrs. Candida Parmiter. 58, fell late at ni«ht. The
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  • 171 8 HEADLIGHT dazzle could be reduced by a Single l design for all vehicles and regular testing ol headlamps. But the only way to find a satisfactory solution to the dazzle danger is in some other form of lighting. These are the opinion of the
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  • 92 8 The National Health Service is not only short of nursing recruits but of sister tutors tc teach what students there are. And the position is likely to get worse. The annual report of King Edward's HOB] Ital Fund for London blamea rapidly diminishing "surplus female population.
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  • 243 8 TRIP TO OPERA ENDS IN DRAMA AN ENGLISH girl who went with her Italian husband to Si-ily hoping to see opera now finds herself in an operalike predicament that has become a matter for diplomats. The Italian is miner Mr. s.dvatore Pullara, 23 nicknamed Tony— who went on holiday with
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  • 35 8 Alan Thompson, two year- old son ed Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Thompson of Mannock-roa Wellingborough. Northai ts, wa found drowned in a washin I tub in the garden ol his home.
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  • 401 9 A RUGBY STAR GETS 5 YEARS' GAOL U.'HEN told that a ma; m the clock at Es.se Quarter Sessions was sportsman of repute wh< was given a trial for ai international Rugby team Mr. Derek Curtis-Ben nett. Q.C., the chair man. said: "Previou, good character canno be taken into account
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  • 20 9 .Coins thrown for luck into a vwxhing' won near Shrewsbury Castle have disappeared, l "f castle custodian reported.
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  • 195 9 A book of 3-D photographs OJ film star Diana Dors. 1 W Viewed through red and -^taeies, WM wW I" hre to have a "cornuVn^S 1 graving inHij' {a hee asked that they n b de *troyed, but the Yorktime'in™ 16 t hr V squired iKiwm.r
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    29 9 picture. there 3 wLT burner Abov^^heTe" IZZ f their h h hla "«> Despite the weather c «*i nuuy ne wnere these four hnnmV hccoc „44,i,.r.„„.i tu,.:. *—^i. dances. Popper
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  • 229 9 snipping battle for Far East trade JAPANESE CUT-PRICE RATES START WAR W aS bee declare d in the shipping lanes linking !J 1 Britain with the Far East. The fight-to capture freight cargoes-is between 17 established shipping companies and a newcomer to the route, the Mitsuil Line or Japan. The
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    38 9 Senora Delia Delfiim Deglionomina de Parodi, who succeeded the late Eva Peron as President of Argentina's Eemmist Peronist.i Party. This picture of the Senora was taken in London before she left on a visit to Germany. Iteuter picture.
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  • 101 9 He wasn't in nudist colony THERE were about 1.000 men and women bathers at London's Lido on the Serpentine that glorious sunny afternoon. P. C. Thorna* Hurrell was there, too. Then, he said, a woman came up to him and complained about the costume worn by John Stanhope. Stanhope w.ss
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  • 335 9 A MAN who was described as "a source of great peril to children*' by Mr. Gerald Thesiger. Q.C.. chairman of West Kent Quarter Sessions, was sentenced to 12 years' preventive detention at Maidstone, lie is Henry Pearce, aged 33, moulder, of Hammersmith. .London, who was
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  • 782 10  -  KATHLEEN HICK LEY by The mystery deepens. Mr. Down disappears and the boys help the police to look for a wanted clown. BOEY and i hong Lai see a mysterious packet tossed to a man in a green shirt at the circus. They find the packet later in
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  • 223 10 MAKE YOUR OWN GIFT CHRISTMAS CALENDAR HERE is brand new hobby for all you boys and girls. Drawing, woodwork, and painting; all in one— and yet it is so easy! A piece of scrap wood, such as the top of a cigar box or a piece of plywood, a piece
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    • 208 10 Free Tickets to the Cinema I I DOUS double free cinema seats can be won !< this week, boys and girls. Just colour this picture with paints, crayons or chalks and you may win two free tickets to a Cathay SS Organi-sation first- run theatre. Double ss tickets will go
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 305 10 Rupert and Niagara 7 Reaching the top of .he hJi Where d:d you find it M As Rupcn meets tl\c lonely, anx.ous soon as he can get a word in figure ol Mrs Guine.ipig. Is- Rupert <mil:ng!y tells her that Ben that you. Rupcr.^" she cries "Ha is commg and
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  • 22 11 Scotland Well we've seen Balmoral from the air, stalked our /Jrst deer.. nou what do we do
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  • 315 11 Window on the World Treaty. But the Manchurian railway has been transferred to the Chinese People's Republic. So far this would seem to be a diplomatic gain for China, but it is significant that China has invited Russia to stay in Port Arthur and Dairen by a secret clause. Soviet
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  • 415 11 Even anti-Americans like this American fVO 44-year-ola Douglas Dillon, U.S Ambassador to France, goes the credit for a rare piece of political prescience and courage. He was the first Ambassador to warn his Government that there was no conceivable majority for EDC in the French Parliament.
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    • 85 11 IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO A DOG! DOGO-SAN FOOD ADDITIVE containing essential vitamins and minerals in concentrated form COOD NEWS FOR EVERY DOC 1 to 3 teaspoonfuls per day mixed in your dog's usual food will keep him in tip top condition HE WILL LOVE IT, BECAUSE IT CONTAINS LIVER AND
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  • 536 12 VIUCH has been written about smoking .since the tobacco habit was introduced to Europe from America In the beginning it was believed to be morally wrong to smoke. .Later medical people studied the effects of tobacco on animals and on human beings and came to
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  • 441 12 PROBABLY the error that casts as much as any land in bridge is misinterpretation of the meaning of a double. .Sometimes the error is made by the doubler; more often it is made by his partner. Either way, it can be expensive. In the following bidding situations, what
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    287 12 left arm may result after exercise It is common knowledge that most inveterate smokers' hands tremble when they intend to execute some fine movement. This is due to the effect of tobacco on the nerves which control the delicate movements of the muscles. As soon as a person
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  • 134 12 MEN are switching from cigarettes to pipes at the rate of two to one, Kaywoodie, New York and London pipe manufacturers, report. "Women already purchase 70% of all pipes sold in the United States," they say. "The design of pipes has been radically changed
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    • 75 12 I QUALITY i Combined with fine Craftsmanship Produces most acceptable gifts I Which one could only obtain I AT S. P. de SILVA j 45 HIGH STREET SINGAPORE 6. j KUALA LUMPUR IPOH. 9 fv< >s\ rv Wa« wo t/ri >\v< w < >^« wk >^< wk r%< »>r< >^<
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 262 12 CUES ACROSS: 5. How to tell an Irish man to 1 Sounds from the gallery -or a F, the roof <3-5i lne fj o who answers a ring 7. The idle baker (6). »j™ Avenue hotel (7). 8. One CO or another CO. In you serve hard roes in florid
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  • 203 13 \CT OF LOVE" (coming to the Pavilion) is the story oi an American soldier's wartime romance with a French girl. The soldier iKlrk Douglas), is the familiar American screen nude: simple, generous to a fault, friendly to the natives, and with a healthy, if obvious appreciation of
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  • 501 13  -  Michael Ruddy By T MET LI LI DAMITA 1 recently. ERROL FLYNN'S first wife is waiting for the Gay Lover to return. "He owes me $30,000 for alimony, support and taxes and I am really pressed for cash. D'you know when he's coming back here?" Lili demanded. I admitted
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  • 466 13  - 'Romeo' is a film 'Classic' Al Wedekind By /ilu musics tongue unfold the imagined happiness that both receive in either by this dear encounter." Romeo (Lauranee Harvey) and Juliet (Susan Shentall) repeat their marriage vows across the grille of the con fessional. ROMEO AND JILIET (Cathay) can take its place
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  • 114 13 A MAN has to do what he has to do" seemed to be the f\ main reason for the U.S. fighting man's presence in the last Korean War according to the film "Men or the Fighting Lady." (coming to the Cathay). This theme is vividly sounded as U.S.
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    • 135 13 I. K. CAPITOL NOW! 10.4. r >-1.30-4-6.45-9.3fl p.m. JOHN WAYNE in Warners* "THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY" Cinemascope WarnerColor MIDNIGHT TONIGHT "NALLA KALAM" (Tamil) D E Y N OW SHOWING! It fc A 11-1.45-4-6.30-9.30 Barry Sullivan in "THE MIAMI STORY" vrith Luther Adler (Col.) MIDNIGHT TONIGHT John Payne, Mari Blan<
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  • 26 14 Recognise the hockey player above? If you cannot make him out from this "ghost"' picture see the solution at foot of this column.
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  • 144 14 ROSEWALL v. TRABERT SEMI-FINAL DEFENDING champion Ken Rosewall of Australia won his wav into the men's singles semi-finals of the Pacific Southwest Tennis tournament bv defeating Hamilton Richardson of New Orleans 6 —3, 2_6, 6—l, 6—2. Rosewall will play former National Champion Tonv Trabert today. The huskv Trabert flashed his
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  • 59 14 Nine final acceptances for the Knights Royal Stakes to be run over the old mile at Ascot Heath on .Saturday, September 25 are, together with weights: King of the Tudors Chamler both 130 lbs. Ambler II 123 lbs., Propitation, Jupiter, March Past, all 122 lbs.,
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  • 59 14 The Brooklyn Dodger.-, hit out for six runs in the .-sixth inning to defeat Cincinnati Redleg.s 10-4 on a 15 hit attack Tills triumph RIOVM the Dodgers to within three Knmes of the pacesetting New York (Hants in the National Baseball Ltagui Th« Giants' game
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  • 44 14 They've got a brand new soccer score board at Nottingbam Forest. Its one of the be.M in the country. And It packs a .suiprl.se Every time Fcrest. wore a little man appwurs and waves a rattle. Spot the Sportsman SOLUTION: Ronnie Barth
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  • 398 14  -  CHARLES BRYCE Services field strongest XV By AUAJ IS ior your sports uiary: nvvvmov* i". «i floodlight rugger featuring: the "flying' Fijians. Their opponents'' a Combined Singapore and Federation Services side. The match is scheduled for Jalan Besar Stadium as a mid-season treat. i What Incredible
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  • 158 14 By ARGOS SINGAPORE and the Federation clash at soccer today in the annual Sportsmen's Trophy match, scheduled for Jalan Besar Stadium, kick-off 8 p.m. Singapore is fielding the Malaya Cup team defeated 3-0 by Penang in last week's final. Admission prices are $2 and $1. Teams
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  • 27 14 Argentina defeated Bulgaria and Isr.iel held Russia to a draw yesterday in the final tournament of the world chess championships won by Russia. A .P.
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  • 17 14 Indonesians beat Eurasians 3-2 in last tlight'l SAFA Community League fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium.
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  • 71 14 RAF WIN U.K. SERVICES SWIMMING The R.A.F. won the British Inter Services Swimming Championship with a total of 68 points. The Army were second with 54 points and the Royal Navy third with 28. R.A.F. also won the Women's Services section with the W.R.A.C. second. Picture shows P. S. 2.
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  • 171 14 'FHANKS to a group of Royal Air Force officers .serving at Habbaniyah. In Iraq, a nineteen-year-old Iraq footballer has joined English league .Second Division club Bristol Rovers for a long trial period. He Is Youra Ashaya. a clerk employed on the permanent staff St
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  • 235 14 Sino-Malays to play Services l ice Press Soccer Reporter SINGAPORE Combined Services will meet Sino-Malays in a floodlight football fixture a week tomorrow at Jalan Besar Stadium. The match is part of the Singapore A.F.A.'s charity drive. Services team has been selected as follows: Sgt Clarke (Army); PO Hudson (RN).
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  • 107 14 Ronnie Moore. 21-year old New Zealand motor cycling speedway ace, defeated Olle Nygen, Sweden, in the last heat and captured the world's championship at Wembly Stadium before B crowd ol 90.000 fans last night. Moore rode with his left leg in a
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  • 41 14 Britain maintained her lead after the ninth round in the 15-nation European bridge championships at Montreux yesterday.. The British team had i5 points in eight matches while the French team in second place had 14 points in nine matches
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  • 80 14 Japs beat 3 world swim records JAPANESE swimmers saic they bettered three world records yesterday in a Waseda University meet. Officials listed them as: 200 -metre breaststroke 2: 35.2 by Mamor Tanaka, bettering the mark of 2: 37.4 set by Lund Gleie of Denmark in 1953. 200-metre butterfly 2: 21
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  • 421 15 iXK'KV MARCIANO, the K holder, was half a pound heavier than on Wednesday at the second weigh-in yesterday for the twice postponed world heavyweight title fight with Fzzard Charles at the Vankee Stadium in New York. Marciano scaled I3st. 51b. as linst his
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  • 21 15 IreWa School held Indian <n "A' 1 to a 2-2 draw in a hockey match at Balestier yi terday
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  • 181 15 rpHE M.C.C. team meets today in the children's A nursery of the s.s. "ORSOVA" when it is expected that the names of the four selectors for the Australia i tour will be announced. The choice is probably among Len Hutton (Captain), Peter May (vice-Captain), Major
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  • 100 15 rTVWO new world records were chalked up yesterday at the Soviet athletic championships at Kiev. A new record for the 50 kilometre walk was set by Vladimir Ukhov in a time of 4 hours 18 mins. 49-2/10 sees. Nina Otkolenko set a new record for
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  • 94 15 two probables and jockeys for the Imperial Produce Stakes running over six furlongs at Kempton Park today are: Duplication. W. Rickaby; Mabledon. Eph Smith; Roman Festival. Chnrlie Smirke: Preamble. Ken Gethin; Sierra Nevada, S. Smith; High Octane. H. Packham; Nimstar. unjockev; Grass Court. W. Elliott; Camot. E.
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  • 79 15 HPALL, 19-year-old Mickey Wright A of La Jolla, California, crushed defending champion Mary Lena Faulk, 5 and 4 yesterday to enter the rlnal round of the women's U.S. national amateur golf championship. Mi s Wright's opponent in today's 36-hole final will be another young Calif ornian.
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  • 425 15 17-YEAR-OLD CHOON LIM SETS 3 OF 11 RECORDS I? 1 EVEN records were set up sterday at the annual oria School .swimming gala, t the Chinese Swimming t- Hi 0 Oi them were claimed competitor— l7-year-old ChOOn Lim. who won his r d Micres.sive individual tonshlp, i. .in. who represented
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  • 260 15 rpODAVS fixture* in the U.K. soccer leagues are: ENGLISH LEAGIE— DIV. 1 Aston Villa v. Charlton Burnley v. West Brom. Cardiff v. Manchester C. Chelsea v. Ever ton. Leicetser v. Newcastle Manchester U. v. Huddersfield Preston v. Arsenal Sheffield 11. v. Sheffield W. Sunderland v. Blackpool
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  • 41 15 Australia's noted amateur wrestler, Dick Garrard, has been appointed to the important official post for the 1956 Olympic Games of Wrestling Technical Officer. His job will be to ensure that international rules are strictly enforced A.P.
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  • 150 16 The going in his favour Free Press Course Correspondent J NAP Forest Beau to win the most important race on the Malayan Turf the Singapore Gold Cup over miles at Bukit Timah today. A welcome shower of ruin fell last ni^ht taking the
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  • 42 16 20 Words $H (minimum). TO MR. AND MRS. DEVA RAJAN A Boy. Born September 16th, at Greenhill Nursing Home, Singapore. SPEIRS: At Batu Gajah Hospital on 17.9.54. To Netta wife Of John G. G. Spelra a son John Grant. Both well.
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  • 15 16 20 Words $6 (minimum). MARTIN EDWARD CECIL (Tini) at Sydney on Thursday 16th September.
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  • 30 16 20 Words #6' (minimum). THE FAMILY of the late Mrs. Clementine Antoine thank all relatives and friends for their kind attendance, assistance, wreaths. Messages of condolence, loan of cars.
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  • 967 16 TOD A Y'S CARD RACE 1—2.15: CLASS 1, DIV. 3—6 FIRS. 1 227 Quicksand 9y Hudson 9.00 2 278 Airmark 4v Mulley 8.11 3 677 Fifty (Jrand 7y Tait 8.10 4 344 (irecian Knight 5y Jones 8.07 5 902 Arch Side 6y McCloud 8.04 6 853 Dande Bay 5y Bagby
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  • 113 16 SHOW SHOW (In Race 8) Woods combination in Race 3. Determination is a tip from the right quarter. Campus Belle appeals as a safe each-way bet in Race 4. Kins Crow is fancied by the stable, and there is a strong i tip for Honolulu. Race 7 has
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  • 82 16 TOM CT.EARY. Australian favourite for the title, beat T. G. Ree.s, of South Africa, by 3.000 points to 1,588 points yesterday in their world amateur billiards champion, hip mat* b< Cleary has now won three matches and meet the Indian champion, Wilson Jones. Is ins final
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  • 34 16 European Middleweight champion Tlberlo mum ol Italy won 10 round non-title decision o\er Gaston Muelenbrouch of france In Italy la.st night, Mitri weighed ifii lb to 1 r>o < fot the frenchman.' A.P.
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