The Singapore Free Press, 1 October 1954

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press i argest Afternoon Sale in Malaya. 1 h»«S. Singapore, Fri., Oct. 1, 1954. Price 15 Cts.
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  • 164 1 rr'iv Prime Minister of India Mr Nehru said in New Delhi yesterday: "It is not -nets but fear of world war that keeps the peace today". Summing up in a foreign affairs debate in th? House ot the People, he said there was no
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  • 37 1 T in Sock Cheng woke with a rtle in her home in Sin Kok Lane. Singapore, early yesterday and saw a youth grabbing purse. She snatched it from him. The youth escaped.
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  • 41 1 A MaTaV woman woke in her home at Lorong Tai Seng, Singapore yesterday and discovered that iewellery worth $600 had been taken from her al•h The thief had enterthe house bv breaking the window of an adioining room.
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  • 100 1 ONE of Singapore's first October brides will be 20-year-old Miss Dorothy Oswald (above) better known 4ps Dorothy Amita, the ballet dancer. She will marry Mr. Johan Vasseur, a Colony salesman .at St. Andrew's Cathedral this afternoon. Dorothy, also has lived in Singapore for the past year-and-a-half,
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  • 28 1 A radio message received in Manila today said the vessel New Dahren was aground off Ikema Island between Okinawa and Formosa and required "immediate assistance A.P.
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  • 167 1 SJIR John Hay, chairman of the Rubber Growers' Asso- in, in London, yesterday iclsed the report on the 1 'van rubber industry. report was produced by 1 t niseion appointed by the M alayan Government and the Kubber Producers' Council. It declared that
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  • 55 1 A; horitative Washington fees .said yesterday that the American shipments of Jjtarv equipment to Pakistan (i the mutual defence as- A' agreement would 1 the United States Within 30 days. T u y said that motor lorries fome medium tanks and ;ddor aircraft would be
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  • 53 1 BRANDISHING a pistol, a man held up a Pakistani motorist and stole his briefcase containing $98 at the 11--milestone, Yio Chu Kang Road, Singapore, yesterday. The Pakistani, part-owner of a provision store in Jalan Kayu, said the robber took the Ignition key of his car and
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  • 23 1 A Royal Air Force fourengined trainer plane crashed in flames near Calne, Wiltshire, yesterday, killing the cn*w of five. Reuter
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  • 29 1 rmOM today caw ,n must carry two standardised V red rear rehYHors as well as lamps. Cycles and motor cycles must carry one.- Reuter
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  • 463 1 Calls by Russia and China JN TWO major policy statements yesterday, the Communist leaders of Russia and China called for peaceful coexistence with the West. Russia's offer was made by Mr. Vishinsky at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. But with his call came
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  • 46 1 Australian Test cricketer Arthur Morris, one of the men tipped to lead Australia in this season's Tests against England, yesterday married a former London fashion model, Miss Valerie Hudson. Morris met Miss Hudson while touring England with the Australian side last year. Reuter
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  • 79 1 OCTOBER first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened in j Singapore this morning at a Quarter cent above yesterday's j top price of 72 cents. j Later the price fell to 72% cents. I The price had appreciated on j better overnight London and New York where the
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  • 58 1 rDAY the Free Press starts a new and important service. The latest world closing commodity and metal prices are given on Page Seven. The prices given have been selected by experts on the various markets in Singapore. Don't miss this new feature. Make sure of your copy
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  • 353 2 THEY WERE TOLD: 'YOU WERE NOT INVITED' ORITAIN showed off the world's first jet vngined tank yesterday— but three curious Russians; were denied a look. The Russians arrived at the gates of the fighting vehicles research establishment at cob-1 ham. Surrey, and said they
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  • 143 2 hnHE Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies said in Canberra yesterday that the Government would await the report of the Petrov Commission before deciding how Australia's anti-spy laws should be strengthened. "It seems rather undesirable to have two bites at the cherry." he added
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  • 50 2 George Andrew, 37, who on Monday told the Truro magistrates in Cornwall: "The only thing I can do U commit suicide," was found dead in his home yesterday. He had been ordered to make up arrears in maintenance payments to his Wift and thrcp children Reuter
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  • 19 2 The Vice President of India Dr. Radhakrishnan arrived In Ottawa yesterday for a threeday state visit. U.P.
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  • 223 2 INDONESIA yesterday told the United Nations General Assembly that her claim to West New Guinea is none of Australia's affair. Dr. Sunarjo, Indonesian Foreign Minister, said his government never had made any claim to the eastern portion of New Guinea, which is administered
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    47 2 rREE hundred and fifty ratings and officers of the Royal Malayan Navy yesterday held their annual inspection in Woodlands, Singapore. They were inspected by Rear Admiral E. H. Shattock in a 20-minute parade. Rear Admiral Shattock (above) takes the Salute at the march past Free Press picture.
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  • 30 2 Mr. E. Gordon Donkln, the Australian explorer, said in Britain yesterday that Australia needed 90.000.000 people to be adequately populated. He called for 200.000 migrants a year. Reuter
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  • 78 2 The flood peril is ending rE flood danger in Lahore appears to be over for the Ravi River has begun lo drop but some 2,000 vlllai in nine Puniab districts reported submerged by the Sutlel River which is still rising. The acting Premier Mr, Qurmani, is expected to visit the
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  • 55 2 PRINCE Mohammed A! Sana 1 brother of the King of Saudi Arabia escaped injury yesterday when a burglar fired a shot in his Neuilly apartment in Paris. The Prince and a friend. named Mourtada, surprised the burglar. He fled firing as he disappeared. A bullet hit
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  • 27 2 State police authorities in Wiesbaden said yesterday they are considering a regulation to ban prostitution in all German cities of less than 20,000 population A.P.
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    • 48 2 By*W7 MaaaaaW Your SMALL ADS. to Singapore 2000 E*L 108 --19 *§S RmSx'''''''"-' '4§SI Bpsf.- <i ■"-'-■^•■sswß m mm \\m r m mw6%%mk%i WP l 'Wffi^m\ mw%g!m9>*sBmm\ BPSI PUP^^x^ BR^"BBW^**^^^^ •^SHBKi 'iivo^^^m^7^v/m^' BBBHHMBP^^^ I^^^' ji^ocm^'^:'6^W This is a STRAITS TIMES Classified Advertisement service ii in ni I i
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  • 197 3 -Labour pledge v'EXT time Britain has W a Labour government riot even a sick millionaire will be able to rent himself a bed in hospital. A pledge was given at the 1 ibour Party conference at arborough that hospital beds which can be
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  • 34 3 The Australian Prime Minister. Mr. Menzies said in the House of Representatives yesterday he would consider a request to send an Australian parliamentary delegation to South-East Asian countries. Reuter
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  • 24 3 Approximately 19,500 Japanese employed by the U.S. Army in Japan will be discharged in the course of next vear. U.P.
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  • 225 3 MR. R. A. BUTLER, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer last night chided the United States for underestimating the strength of the British Commonwealth and its purpose as a staunch ally. You mav be sure," he said at a Washington lunch, that if the
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  • 147 3 45,000 TO BE QUIZZED IN 'RED HELEN' KILLER HUNT IJNITED STATES investigators are to begin questionV ing every one of 45,000 American servicemen stationed in Britain In their hunt for the killer of "Red Helen" Carlin. strangled London street walker. A spokesman of the third U.S. Air Force said yesterday
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  • 41 3 Ray Coombs (as Lord Marsh wood) and Pamela Canavan (Miranda Frayle. Hollywood film star) in "Relative Values," Stage Club production of Noel Coward's play which opens at the Victoria Theatre tonight. There are performances nightly until Tuesday. (Sunday excepted).
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  • 37 3 The Italian Premier. Mr. Mario Scelba yesterday won a vote of confidence, 294 to 264, with seven abstentions in the Chamber of Deputies over his governments handling of the Wilma Montesi sex-and-drug scandal. U.P.
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  • 255 3 POLICE throughout France and at all frontier posts were alerted last night to look out for Andre Baranes, missing key witness in France's security scandal. Baranes, 38-year-old journalist, is said to be a Communist agent who duped Chief Inspector Jean Dides, suspended last week after
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  • 17 3 Rangoon newspapers yesterday lauded the successful conclusion of the Burmese Japanese war reparations talks.- A.P.
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  • 121 3 THE Persian Army Prosecutor, Brigadier General Hussein Azmoudch, yesterday asked tor the death penalty for 12 leaders of an alleged Communist spy ring arrested recently. An indictment issued in Teheran charged 10 army officers and two civilians with treason *nd espionage
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  • 119 3 No Reds in Jakarta Cabinet mHE INDONESIAN Embassy A in Washington yesterday denied charges by Hu.-utn Muhammad Tiro, former employee who broke with the government, that the Indonesian Ministers of Defence and Education were Communists. An Embassy spokesman said: '"Tiro doesn't know what he is talking about." The spokesman said
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    • 388 4 Opinion BIG STEP FORWARD Tangible evidence of the manner in which the problem of caring for the blind population of Singapore is being tackled will be provided soon when a $500,000 home and school for blind men. women, and children will have taken shape. The Government and the Singapore Association
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  • 865 4 This is a New Sink or Swim' Policy Alternative to U.S. 4 ham-handedness' and Russian duplicity l <^UIP which lias acA quired much popularity in the sophistic ated environment of th( Paris Left Bank these days says: "Of course France wants a Germar Army. She wants one that is smaller
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  • 278 4  -  FRED HAMPSON pEIPING said in mid- September that China's Red Army would recruit 450,000 men as "reinforcement and replacement to the Armed Forces/' They are to be recruited between November and February, and the announcement heralds a change in the Reds' system of recruiting. The
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    • 22 4 WEDDING GIFTS DISTINCTIVE CUTLERY IS ALWAYS APPRECIATED aaaak ilmmmWi' MMM mum^^M IP. H. HENDRY. JEWELLER 78 NORTH BRIOCE ROAD SINCAPORE-6 K. LUMPUR
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    • 21 4 ARTIE'S HEADLINE >? SjSjSr r '\4fm *-^^mu IKku Aw! I trust you are till keeping up your Ncver-N**er payments on this set
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    • 146 4 AVAIL YOURSELF of 20 years of experience in estate development by CREDIT FONCIER MEYER CHAMBERS 3rd FLOOR, (RAFFLES PLACE). FRANKEL ESTATE OPERA ESTATE FIRST CLASS NEWLY RECENTLY COMPLETED DEVELOPED ESTATE AT ESTATE 61 M.S. CHANCI ROAD BETWEEN CHANCI NEAR THE SEA EAST COAST ROADS AT PROXIMITY OF < A NE
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  • 418 5 1 1 now to contest seats in Assembly rpu-o re Singapore CouncilI Mr, C. R. Dasaratha R Rochore) and Mi. i flair <Seletar> ani yesterday that they re-contesting their the new Legislative ly next year. That brings the total of recounting unofficials to 11 oui Nine of those are candidates
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  • 37 5 K ANSON. Fri. A M1 M competition win be ''-many attractions the Food and Fun J2 b held at the Anglo- School in Anson Road SU ofundWofthtiCl,oor■0 fundWofthtiCl,oor- I'liTm! 30 PCn fr m
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  • 146 5 IN keeping with the City Council's plan to stock the $470,000 Van Kleef Aquarium with as much a variety of the world's fish as possible, several beautiful specimens from the waters off Ceylon have arrived in Singapore. They include the whis-ker-like Scorpion fish (Pterois
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  • 60 5 SEREMBAN. Fri.— A collection by pupils of the Seremban Convent during the past year will be presented to Rev. Mother St. John Baptist. Superior of the Convent, who will soon be celebrating her golden jubilee In the religious order. The amount, which is being kept secret,
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  • 35 5 TELUK ANSON. Fri. The Teluk Anson Town Council will meet once every six weeks it was decided at its first meeting held in the District Office conference room on Wednesday.
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  • 288 5 I hey sailed past at the Van Kleef SINGAPORE education chiefs do not know how much it costs to train a teacher at the Teachers' Training College. Their Federation counterparts have anounced that it costs $11,000 to train a teacher
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  • 42 5 KOTA BAHRU. Fri. Retired Senior Assistant Superintendent ol Police Inche Hamzah bin Mahmood died at his home here on Wednesday after a stroke. Inche Hamzah had been In the Special Branch in Kelantan and Kedah for many years
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  • 18 5 Malayan Airways Sports Club will hold its annual dance at Raffles Hotel, Singapore, on October 15.
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  • 155 5 A SINGAPORE Malay now i in Canada on a travel fellowship awarded under the Colombo Plan, has just finish ed a hunting trip for otters In Canadian waters. Syed Abu Bakar bin Syed IdrUS a junior technical assistant in the Singapore Fisheries
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    • 146 5 BIIIFwE REPAIR ANY MAKE T^M Gent's Half Soles $3.50 I Bff Gent's Full Soles Heels V I jjsf (Leather or Rubber) 6.50 ffl Ladies' A Boys' Half Soles 3.00 W SB Ladies' A Boys' Full Soles V ■f Heels (Leather or Rubber) 5.50 S V Ladies' High Heels 0.50 m
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  • 101 6 A one-man investigation o trade possibilities betv Hong Kong and Canada is being made in Vancouver Mr. N. G. Wait, an Essex born Englishman who has spent half his life In the East Mr. Wait, who has been soldier, judge, hotel mana j and
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • Round the World Hound the Prices
    • 234 7 LONDON, Sept. 30 Previous Today l; no 1 KSS c.i.l- European 20 15, 16 Duyers 21 3, 16 buyers Oct. JJH sellers 21 516 sellers Klßßttt. So 1 KS => tlf tui °P l an lD lb buyers 21 3 16 buyer, ports Nov. jj;'* f^ers 21
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    • 109 7 NEW YORK, Sept. 30. Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 93.50 nom. 93.62 nom UN futures Oct 93.00 bid 93 00 bid 94.00 asked 94.00 asked Nov 93.00 bid 93.00 bid 94.00 asked 94.00 asked Dec 93.00 bid 93.00 bid 94.00 asked 94.00 asked TOM Quiet.
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    • 66 7 Spot released Malabar 64. Await- i Awaiting release 55. Afloats 55 to e-j Afi^of* c» f« en 51 September shipment 51. October Ing release 63 Afloats 62 to 60. j49 &no^ xts 60 to 54> g^. September shipment 57 to 58. Octo- j tember shipment 52 sellers ex-dock,
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    • 33 7 NEW YORK, Sept. 30. Previous Today M Industrials 361.73 360.46 20 Railroads 115.59 115.18 JO Domestic Bonds 100.88 100.81 15 I tilities 61.38 61.04 64 Stocks Composite Averages 132.20 131.68
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    • 91 7 Sept. 29. COPBA, Philippines, cJ.f. UK/North Previous Today European, delivered weight per long ton Oct. Nov $183 sellers $183'i sellers COPRA, Philippines, f.o.b. Manila, delivered weight, per lonp ton unquoted unquoted COCONUT OIL, crude, Straits, c.i.f. European Continental ports in bulk, per ton Oct. Nov. £106
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  • 95 7 THE Pan Malayan Students' Federation is organising series of language classes i Chinese, Malay, and English for the public, and for ondary school and unisity students in Singapore. !)i first adult education flish classes will begin at long Bahru School next Those who wish to register
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  • 137 7 P !RMAL invitations will be •■>■ next week to leading and professional in Singapore to be r °na oi the forthcoming mese trade fair to be the Great World. will 1,. the first official taken by sponsors of jnibition the first of In the c.iony
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  • 82 7 PENANG, Fri. Holding that rice samples produced before him were not. fit for human consumption, the Penang j Sessions Court President, Mr. J. O. Adams, today acquitted a sundry shopkeeper, 1.00 Lian Chooi, 36, of having an excess. stock of broken rice at Th?an Tek
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  • 177 7 fFHE "go" signal will be given tomorrow to more than x 506 Chinese Y.M.C.A. members who will take part in a one-month membership drive. The Governor. Sir John Nicoll, is patron of the Association. Fifty teams each of 70 members
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  • 36 7 IPOH, Fri Mr. Leong Kin, one oi Perak'f mining pioneers, has died at his home in ipoh. aged 73. The funeral took place at the Christian cemetery in Connolly Road, Ipoh on Wednesday.
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  • 15 7 SITIAWAN, Fri. More than $16,800 was raised during the Dindinus District Welfare Week.
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  • 94 7 Speared man lucky to live, court told PENANG, Fri. A GENERAL Hospital surgeon, Dr. T. J. Graham told the Penang First Magistrate's Court yesterday that Natha Singh was lucky to live after being speared on May 25. "His condition was so poor that an operation to save him had to
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  • 46 7 IPOH. Fri. Miss Clara French, secretary of the Woi men's Division of the Christian j Service of the Methodist mis- sion, will arrive in Singapore ion Oct. 11. She will tour Malaya and Iwill be in Ipoh from Oct. 13 to 20.
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  • 30 7 SITIAWAN. Fri. The! Archbishop ol Malacca, Monslgnor M. olcomendy, will con- j duct the confirmation service at the Catholic Church in j Kampong Koh Road, Sitiawan, on Sunday.
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  • 414 8 LATER CAME ASSAULT CHARGE-& SIX MONTHS SIXTEEN YEAH OLD O Neville James wa S pitched headlong Into b lake, watched by a goodly crowd. it Included the village policeman, a schoolmaster, and his mother, nine lads of the village, and a party of
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  • 111 8 A MAN clocked off when he should have clocked on, and clocked on when he should have clocked off. He was endeavouring, said the prosecution at Birmingham "to turn his idleness into money a very simple but quite an ingenious fraud.'" A former
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  • 32 8 I Six-year-old David Bollom I fell 40ft. from a fourth-storey j window at his home at Bel mont-road, Twickenham. Middlesex. He was taken to hospital with fractured legs.
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  • 31 8 Germans, Austrians and Saarlanders need not now obtain visas if thev KO to Britain for a visit of not more thar three months, the Home Office Bfi irl
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  • 74 8 MARGOT TO WED RICH LA WYER FRIENDS of Britain's leading ballerina, Margot Fonteyn, siy she plans to marry around Christmas time. They say her bridegroom will be wealthy Panamanian lawyer, Roberto Arias, who was first pictured with Margot on holiday in the south France this year (see above). Miss Fonteyn
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  • 31 8 When the vicar of Old Radford, Nottingham, the Rev. F. G. Ralph, opened a collection box he found £1 3s. 6d., a lipsticked cigarette end. and a burned match.
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  • 32 8 A magpie has made its home in the kennel of a cocker spaniel owned by Mr. Cyril Marshall, of Derby Road, Belper, j Derbyshire. The dog doesn t mind.
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  • 121 8 Church will sell houses for £2m. IjIIFTKEN HUNDRED hOUI--T es m fche heart of Paddington, London are to be sold by the Church Commissioners ol the Church of England. They stand With Other property on the Church's 400--acre Paddington Estate. The Commissioners have announced the sale by auction of part
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  • 325 8 AN 18-year-old girl wept in the witness-box at Loudens Old Bailey as she told the jury that a man she thought was taking her to a party robbed her on a common When defi nding counsel suggested her story was "a
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  • 25 8 Patrols organised by the R.S.P.CA. have destroyed more i han 3,000 rabbits affected by! nyxomatosis in the Braintree area of Essex. i
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  • 115 8 THI tlntto-decker looked overload,,! to ZEST li The door opened out out fell four pas Se ng er J wh o had been wedged j„ rile out,'' called the police to the remaining travellers. And out thev came. And oftieers counted 10, 20, 30,
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  • 305 8 OEWARE the dangers of "pushing" a bright child too hard at school, an ex-headmaster has warned. He was shocked at a proposal that "except lonally able" children should be allowed to try for grammar school places before the average age of 11 or
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  • 177 8 WILLIAM GARNETT has not a penny left of the C 10,000 he won a football pool seven years ago. So he was advix..: Hand, your £9-a-week pay packet to your wife from now on. 'T don't think you arc to be trusted
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  • 37 8 Rodney, a squirrel v regular caller at a Nottini inn. He sat on the CO and ate nuts. He used to have bee. ho left unsteadily one daj up his tree, and fell oil.
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  • 236 9 A MOTHER of six children wrote to Scotland Yard saying that she would kill a man she believed was leading her 19-year-old son into crime. At the Old Bailey. London, Judge Aarvold told her: "I can well understand your anguish about your son William.
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  • 25 9 Eighty-seven-year-old James Grassland has been a chorister at St. John's Ripley, Derbyshire, for 80 years. Seven fel-low-choristers total 400 years" membership.
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  • 213 9 IF a private patient rings up his doctor about his health, the doctor is entitled to charge the phone call as a consultation, a London, court ruled. Mr, Ralph Rider rang his doctor three times in one day. Three times Dr. Bernard Sweetman put
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  • 172 9 SCANDAL OF ADOPTED BABIES TOLD IN GOVT. REPORT pEOPLE who induce mothers to part with their children to grossly unsuitable adept ed parents have been criticised by a British Government committee. The report —of the Hurst Committee on the adoption of children quoted a letter from a doctor, asking far
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  • 26 9 Britain's oldest coroner, Mr. Lyon Clark, aged 80, of West Bromwich, is retiring. He has been conducting inquests since he was 23.
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  • 129 9 Judge asked 'Turn out my sisters' 4 BROTHER asked a Judge to order his two slaters to leave his house. And the judge agreed. Mr. Jack Frederick Coleman claimed possession of two rooms in his hou^e at Twickenham, Middlesex. He explained that he bought the house from his mother and
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  • 51 9 rP-FORM boys and I girl s at Elmfield Mo- I i dern Secondary School, Morley, Yorkshire, are I taught how to read rail- way guides, use the tele- j phone, open a banking account, sign cheques I and fill up income tav E forms
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  • 128 9 A PAGEANT depicting the E A Royal Review of the E "Royal Horse and Foot E Artillery" after their reE turn from The Crimea in E 1856 was held at the Royal E Artillery Tatto, Woolwich, E recently. E Picture above shows E Therese Cozens, daughter
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  • 23 9 Three geese are being shipped from Ix worth. Suffolk, to a farm in Kenya to give warning of Mau Mau patrols.
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  • 21 9 More than 800 joined the British National Hospital Service Reserve in July and August. The total is now 38.423.
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  • 285 9 A WIFE who nagged her husband into going out for a drink when he wanted to stay at home and sketch heard him sentenced to gaol. SKETCHING was Ronald Alexander's hobby, it was said in court at Fleetwood. Lancashire Every evening when
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  • 171 9 STEPPING out down on the farm is a pirl who until two years ago was afraid of cows.... a girl who is now Devon's champion young farmer. Pretty 18-year < Id Dorothy Daniel earned her title by gaining more DOlntfl than any of the
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  • 119 9 PHARLM and Frederick Carol and Mary "Tliey .v ;,.K» m 1,1 r,.,u»,.,« i might seem old-fashioned but they are still the most popular names for kiddies." according to 61-year-old Mr Oeorge Fleming As registrar for Southwark South London. since 1039, •liver-haired Mr Fleming has registered the arrival
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  • 791 10  -  Trevor Evans JACK TANNER HAS WON FAME, BUT NO FORTUNE By Thirty years ago an upstanding, handsome young man was working at a London newspaper oilice as a motor mechanic. He oiled the wheels and regulated the engines. He operated the brand new lathe in the garage.
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    19 10 tjuein Juliana opens the Netherlands Parliament in the Hall of Knights, The Hague. Prince Bernhard is on the tight.
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  • 331 10 Window on the World POTENTIAL hot-spot r for a flare-up of trouble and rebellion in the Pacific not lons ago was the 100 square mile of islands known as the COOK group, which is under the control of the New Zealand Government This tropical paradise, with a population of 16,000.
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    19 10 Nelson (Robert Thomas) greets Lady Hamilton (Victoria Elliott) at Sadlers Wells Theatre during rehearsal of the new opera "Nelson.*'
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  • 201 10 Travel has last appeal FOREIGN travel has become common- place to the young men of Britain with the spirit of adventure so that few are today attracted to the work of missionaries. This reason for a neversatisfied need for more missionaries is given by the Rev. Maxwell O. Janes, general
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  • 153 11  - The Navy finds a 'bride' GILES Sfory continued The news story which fascinated this depart- incut, winding its way lome through the belting rain and suffering from the after-effects of Scot- tish hospitality, had nothing to do with Men- I des-France, E.D.C, or mortgage reductions. It told how the Admi-
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  • 585 11 In the icy wastes they man the Rescue Fleet, says James White WHERE the Arctic Ocean is at its roughest, when the fourmonth polar night is at its darkest, then you can be sure of finding Captain Eldor Winge. Pale, like so many who live in the
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    20 11 This is Mrs. Jack Hawkins, wife of the film star, with her new baby daughter. Two young Hawkins look on.
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  • 147 11  -  BEACHCOMBER I AST week Vita Brevis was !t a considerable sum of by an aunt. Among the ratulatory messages was l! "'.sual bouquef from Caps" l-'oulenoiigh. The attached bore these words: "As We now in a position to <y your own orchids, I send you these few
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    • 134 11 Something New HENNA CREAM Countless women have added beautiful glowing colours to their hair with Henna -but never before by a treatment as simple as a shampoo! Now Cam ila tone has created Henna Cream which is applied direct from the tube and reproduces exactly the effects obt. lined with
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  • 572 12  - Cologne rises again NORMAN LINDHURST IX Till. WAKE or thi: lI.AI. I by MANY peopla still iv member the awesome vengeance visited on Cologne by the Royal Air Force vengeance for the wanton destruction Of Rotterdam and Coventry by Hermann Goeringvaunted Luftwaffe. in night-aiter-night bombing, the Royal Air Force pounded
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  • 352 12 Bridge Hand loth sides vulnerable ■•forth dealer NORTH <? Q 10 2 X toS 5 4 3 IVFST CAST aKJB64 A 9 7 5 7985 3 3 )QJB7 <? 6 *20 6 3 *Q8 7 C SOUTH A Q The bidding: North East South West Pass Pass lC^ Pa3S 24*
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  • 32 12 picture. "Open wide.' said the inspectors, and soon after they gave Percy the pelican a clean bill of health on his annual check-up at the Glasgow Zoo. Reuter
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  • 166 12 TpHE West German border police intend to give up the present system of patrols and to establish small bases similar to the hedgehog positions developed in Soviet Rus sia by the Wehrmacht. The West German Government said such a step would enable the border police
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  • 9 12 "Care to /•in a pyramid party 1"
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    • 303 12 21 I Mm I I 1 I I II 111 CLUBS ACROSS 5. Governess name of Valerie Hob1. Is this bite made by the tongue? son on the stage (4). (4). 6. A suburb of Wiesbaden? (4). 4. Mine was so wonderful to me 7. Sign of the heavenly twins?
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  • 773 13  - Vagabond, Rake, Eccentric George M alcolm Thomson Amazing career of Edward Montagu Thi? wayward grandson of a duke had four wives— simultaneously—as well as a harem. But he was also a diplomat and an authority on Oriental languages by Edward Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Curling (Melrose). Mr. MONTAGU has a
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  • 190 13 QUERY: Did "planning" get out of hand by D Day? Author of "Royal Air Force 1939-1945, Volume 111, "The Fight is UorT Hii ary St. G. Saunders (he died before the hook was published) takes nearly a page in his new history just to list the
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    161 13 Xtiwnturvs of Oon 4 ant itt** a DON CAMILLO'S DILEMMA. By Giovanni Guareschi Gollancz. On the eve of Christmas 1946 Signor Guareschi, editing one Italian weekly and writing for another, found himself a page short of copy. So he put a story he had just written into bigger
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  • 62 13 Elizabeth Schiller, American columnist who has been in Tokyo for the past five years, is writing the inside story of the Japanese Royal Family. Mrs. Schiller is a personal friend of the Emperor and ha J free access to all his private papers. Her
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  • 581 13  -  William Hickey by I WENT to a dinner in honour of Mr. J. B. Priestley the other night. It was given "by his friends" to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. I was embarrassed from the start. I admire Mr. Priestley as a craftsman. I dislike him as one
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    • 86 13 GANDHI JAYANTI I << A Public Meeting will be held at the Gandhi ss Memorial, Race Course Lane, Singapore, Bat6 00 ss SS p.m., in Commemoration of the Birthday of SS MAHATMA GANDHI ON THE 2nd OCTOBER, 1954. SS The speakers of the evening: ss Sir Sydney Caine, K.C.M.C. Vice-Chancellor
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  • 169 14  - FLOODLIGHT SWIMMING IN S'PORE PUBLIC POOL mixed bathing B.v P. L. KOH VIGHT swimming will be introduced at Singapore's Yan Kit Public Pool (oflf Tanjong Pagar) tonight. From now on, members of the public can enjoy swimming by floodlights. Previously only the private club pools were open at night. This
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  • 47 14 A COMBINED Oxford and Cambridge Universitv soccer team drew 2 2 with Paris Universitv Club yesterdav in Paris after leading 1-0 at halftime John Blythe, the Cambridge blue, was outstanding, scoring both goals and twice hitting the crossbar for the visiting team. Reuter
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  • 32 14 The New York Giants defeated the Cleveland Indians 3-1 yesterday in the second game of the baseball world series to lead the series two games to nil. U.P.
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  • 294 14 Big money for young players By Special Correspondent iTHE Football League have sanctioned the payment A of maximum (£750) benefits to four Manchester United players, of whom none is over 21! The players are: Jackie Blanchflower (21), Mark Jones (21 last June), Dennis Viollet (21 yesterday), and Soccer's "youngest veteran,"
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  • 146 14 200-yr-old beats Europeangames champion OOY HENDERSON, 20 yearold apprentice shipwright from Newcastle, on Wednesday night ran the fastest race of his career when he won the 880 yards in lmin. 51.8 sec, in a floodlight athletics meeting at the White City Stadium Ix>n don. He put in a strong finish
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  • 255 14 Strong comments by Gil Merrick SOME of the strongest comments made by one footballer about another appear in "I See It All." by Gil Merrick, Birmingham City and English international goalkeeper. He begins by describing Trevor Ford, the Cardiff City centre forward, who lead the Welsh attack against Yugoslavia as
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  • 25 14 Len Graham, Doncaster right back has withdrawn from the Ireland team to meet England in the soccer International at Belfast o n Saturday.
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  • 45 14 DANISH runner Gunner Neilson in the hardest race ever seen in Copenhagen equalled world 880 yards record set by Mai Whitfield, U.S.A., in Hel sinki in 1953. Neilson running in a Copenhagen athletic meeting was timed in 1 min. 48.6 sec.
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  • 32 14 Headquarters Malaya Command beat Somersets "A" 16-9 in a ruggfriendly by two goals and two tries to a penalty and two tries on the HQ ground. Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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  • 943 15 Should make amends for Gold Cup defeat u ITH THREE RINGS, Golden Lotus and Forest Bean out of the way, Shangrila has a bright chance of making amends, for his defeat in the Singapore Gold Cup by taking the Class 1, Div. 1, 9fur. handicap at
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  • 64 15 PROBABLE scratchings for tomorrow's races: Euphrates, Pedometer, Oleander, Quicksilver, Kingport, Metrostar Geifang Star, Rippling River. Straight On, Bon Tresor, White Carnation, Sybil's Pride, Padi Field, Quick Profit, Bug Morning, Flaxley Green, Gallant Scot, Record Time, Bonz o r. Good Andrew. There was rain yesterday but it has not
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  • 146 15 MISS Frances Stephens, the I British open champion, won the English women's golf title at Woodhall Spa (Lincolnshirei yesterday when she beat Miss Elizabeth Price at the 37th hole in a thrilling final. Some brilliant golf earned Mis s Stephens a lead of six holes
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  • 277 15 Omar's farewell4 goals for the Malays Malays 6; Royal Air Force 1. TT WAS a damp and 1 dreary evening at Jalan Besar Stadium, but it didn't take young Rahim Omar long to warm up. He scored four of Malay's six goals yesterday to beat the Royal Air Force in
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  • 79 15 TWENTYONE final acceptors for the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes to be run over six furlongs at Ascot on Friday October 8 were announced yesterday. They are with weight in pounds: Scamperdale 129, Alexander, Jardiniere, Taphius, Abates, Bouflleur, Dorset Horn, Raging Storm, Chasse Royale, Post Haste, Court
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  • 72 15 \|R. James De Rothschild's ift three-year-old filly Brilliant Green won the Jockey Club Stakes worth hist ove *J6\ooo and run over 14 furlongs at Newmarket yesterday. She beat Mr. John Hrtherton's three-year-old colt Phenomenal by half a length with Lord Rosebery's three-year-old colt Prescription third another two
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  • 36 15 English League Div. 3 (S) Leyton Orient 1 Coventry City 0; Newport County 2 Aldershot 1; Northampton 0 Watford 1; Walsall 1 Bristol City 3. English League Div. 3. (N) Scunthorpe 1 Wrexham 0.
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  • 28 15 Rahim Omar, Malays' centre-forward and the star in yesterday's game, in a midfield duel with Ash, the Royal Air Force left half.- Free Press
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  • 308 16 IT WAS give AND lake for charity last sight at the Cireat World open air arena. Singapore bo\ers took punishment for the worthy cause oi the Singapore AntiTuberculosis Fund. Cut eye.-,, .split Up* and achinj; muscles that was Just fraction or their contribution to the nuble cause.
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  • 43 16 cv rr oras j>o minimum j. GULLICK: On 30th September.! to Pamela i nee Whitley i, wife of J. M. Guliick, a son. TO KAY: Wife of Ong Kirn Boon. Singapore Polic* Force, on 30.9.54, j a Brother lor Moira. both well.
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  • 49 16 2u Words $6 (minimum). THE ENGAGEMEiNT Ls announced bet ween Lim Chit Soo the youngest T son of the late Mr. Lim Loh and Madam Png Bor Tan of Singapore i end Ou Poh Lian the youngest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ou Kok i 800 of Taiping.
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  • 23 16 20 Words $6 (minimum). HOUGHTON: On Sept. 25th 1954, Nicholas James, aged 11 months, beloved younger son of James and Clare Houghton.
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  • 198 16 Free Press Sports Reporter T*HE Malayan Chinese Football Association touring team will not lack for supporters in Hong Kong— they took them along yesterday evening when their plane left Kallang Airport one-and-a-half hours! late. i A bunch of Singapore soccer enthusiasts, eager to follow the
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  • 74 16 S.-E. Asia meet in S'pore Oct 1 6 Selahgor Chinese Athletic Federation have been authorised to select the Federation of Malaya basketball team to compete ID the second annual South East Asia basketball competition to be held in Sin- gapore from Oct. 16 to 23. All states are Invited to
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  • 149 16 TRACKWORK Cinecolor in timed sprint Fref Press Course Correspondent /'OOD GOLD VASE prospect T Cinecolor (Mulley* did his first time making gallop on the training track at Ipoh this morning when he ici led off the three in 39 4 5 with Millionaire (West) for company. Cinecolor was going nicply
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  • 49 16 RUGBY LSAOUI Yorkshire (up semi-final: Hull 10 Bra rl fold Northern 5. Lancashire Cup semifinal; Workington 13 Oldham 20. Rl(;by UNION Monmouthshire B North Midlands 3; I Weston -Super-Mare 3 Lydney 3; Gloucester 11 Stroud 8; Devon 221 British Police 14; Pontvnridd 3 1 Pontypool 3. Reuter
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  • 172 16 Mosquito -weight: Harun bin LiatifT tSHBBCi bt Lim Meng Yor.g (.Johore Coronation Clubi; Ronnie Manesseh (SHBBCi bt Jackie Neo (QSBCt. Flyweight: A. Abraham (St. Andrew's School) bt Zainal bin Ali <,QSBC>; Royston Lazaroo <SHBBC> bt. Mohd. Bajari (QSBC). r.s.b round 1. Bantamweight: LAC McGuire IRAFI bt Ho
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    • 9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday, Oct. 1, 1954.
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    • 1576 1 Crack sprinters chase turf's richest prize By the Free Press Racing Correspondent rase winners Past Winners of the Gold Vase:— 1950 Miss Nathan 8.02. Harper. 7F less 22 yds. 1 min. 22 3/5. 1951 Best Bet 7.13, Mawi. 6F. 1 min. 15. 1952 ..Sporting Gesture
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      • 12752 2 FORM GUIDE FOR IPOH RACES ■FOLLOWING are the horses entered for he I'erak Turf Club October Meeting: Class One ADELAIDE STAR FIFTH: iii i. ii uin it* 9)4 B'pore v 0 6P (Hanh i ci i Dn. lat >-i.^p«ritv B-2 Ind starry 8-2 3rd Cypreas Point h-h I -j-2 1
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      • 220 6 HERE'S THE /VgfV HILLMANrange j/V tW ft m^^^aam ftt^tmmmm\\ W /^fam^m^^^^S9m^^KfammT^mj/m<m^m.i mW^^^ The New Minx Saloon, with added luggage space to match its 5-seater comfort The international elegance of the Californian The sleek grace of the weathei wise Minx Convertible The all-purpose smartness and style of the Estate Car. *-~^*M^kwmmW^.amm^^j
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