The Singapore Free Press, 15 October 1954

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malay a. \o. *****. Singapore, Fri., Oct. 15, 1951. Price 15 Cts.
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  • 334 1 |piL GOVERNMENT took action last night m the London dock strike m an effort to prevent it from spreading all over the country as the strike leaders had threatened earlier m the day. The Minister for Labour, Sir Walter Monckton, called on both employers and
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  • 59 1 Rubber still over 78 Bj Our Market Correspondent, r JIBBER opened quietly on IX the Singapore market this morning:. member first grade opened round 78 1 4 cents a lb., a quarter of a cent below its close last night, rhe October position, which ceases to be quoted this morning
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  • 32 1 General Yuan Chung-hsien, C immunist China's ambassador [ndia, who arrived m Sinpore on Wednesday, left this morning for Hong Kong acimpanled by his first secreMr. Bi Sok Wang.
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  • 126 1 EX-QUEEN Narriman of Egypt scorched all rumours yesterday of any breakup with her second husband Dr. Adham El Nakib. when she said, at Laussane, Switzerland. "We are getting along wonderfully. I am certain he thinks a lot of me." She said that as soon as
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  • 93 1 SHORTAGES and rising prices were reported from many sections of Indonesia yesterday as the nation ited Government moves to counter the worsening onomic and financial crisis. The Bakers' Association m Bandung, Indonesia's rd largest city, announced that as from tomorrow re will be no bread
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  • 176 1 THE American film. "On the Waterfront," which deals with a clash between New York dock workers and racketeers has been banned as "not suitable for Hong Kong," although it has been passed by the Malayan Film Censor, Mrs. Cynthia Koek. Mrs. Koek told
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  • 31 1 Singapore police have detain--1 three men m connection >i a temple robbery m Paya bar last evening. A $500 gold le was alleged to have 1 en stolen.
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  • 33 1 man i.s reported to have Ken nto a shop m Tanjong r area of Singapore last by smashing the showTwo pen knives are said been taken. A man has been detained.
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  • 23 1 xtrrn-year-old Thong ChW who was found stabbed m tho back m Tanjon<? Pr .Singapore last night, n w hospital seriously ili.
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  • 100 1 FILM star Susan Haywrad said m Hollywood yesterday that she would not SO to tho Far East t<> niake a film because a judge refused to tel her take her twin sons with her. i Judge Herbert Walker ruled the previous day that the reahaired
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  • 140 1 For Pritt— 1,000 farewells ABOI'T 1.000 Chinese school students went to Kallang airport this morning to bid goodbye to Mr. D. N. Pritt. Q.C., (top left above) who left for Colombo. Many policemen were on duty. Mr. Pritt had breakfast upstairs at the airport with Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and
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  • 15 1 The Syrian Premier said that Mr. Ghazzi's six-men cabinet resigned last night. A.P.
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  • 114 2 tian agreement on th Suez Canal Zone w IU t Place to-morrow. ,7 formed sources sain r f* Foreign Affairs X Anthony Nutting and th* British Ambassador Halph Stevenson met tl, Egyptian Prime \\v istir Col. Abdel Gamal N^s-e the Foreign Minister Dr Fawzi
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  • 211 2 'America is linked with JHE indian Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, denies that tie is a pro-Communist and says tie \i convinced that India i s helping to promote peace m Asia by serving as a bridge between two opposing blocs. Ho says
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  • 145 2 flies to Colony AN Australian painter who i s travelling 10,000 miles to paint the Queen m Buckingham Palace arrived m Singapore by air from Sydney last night. He is 42-year-old Mr. William Alexander Dargie seven times winner of the'£Asoo Archibald Prize Australia's most coveted art award. It
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  • 32 2 Inspector -General Gerhard Matzky of West Germany's 15,000-strong border police yesterday said his force needs Heavier firepower to carry out its dofence mis.sion on the imn I Curtain frontier.- A.P.
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  • 37 2 me lanKer Carmel will be the llrst Soviet vessel to enter an Israeli port since the Jewish state was established six years ago. when it anchors m Tel I Aviv o n Wednesday. A.P.
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  • 30 2 A graveside memorial service was held m Herrlingen yesterday on the 10th anniversary of the death of Gen. Envm Rommel. Germany's famous Atnka Korps "desert r ox A.P.
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  • 26 2 Queen Ingrid of Denmark and her eldest daughter Princess Margarethe. flew to London yesterday. The Princess will go to school m En" land.- A.P.
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  • 24 2 T wenty- four Nationalist cninese officers arrived m Seoul yesterday for an el- Thtday tour of American military installations. A. P.
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  • 169 2 THE United States turned down Japan's request to equip the new Japanese derence forces with guided missiles, a highly-informed American officer said m Tokyo yesterday. Washington is not ready to share the top secrets of its •push button" weapons with Japan, and the United States
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  • 32 2 ■me wueen Mother and the, 1 Uc^t Gorman Chancellor Dr Adenauer, win bo among 4S persons to receive honorary degrees from Columbia l'n r versity on Oct. 31.- A.P.
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  • 29 2 Fifteen Moroccans were Injured, three of them leriously, when a home made bomb exploded m the Arab district of Fes, French Morocco, on Saturday night.- A.P.
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  • 197 2 fHROUBLE looms for the big international meetings m Puns on rearming We.st Ger- i many to strengthen the Western alliance against the Soviet threat. The Allies fear most that jne French Premier, Mr Mendes-France. win press again for his West European arms pool, a
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  • 100 2 GERMAN LAUNCHED Hce raids at Kaiser- lantern, hub of a big D.B, I military defence complex, i have netted 30 "date yirls" m the last few E days, police said yester- I day. i District police chief I Martin Kiiinpa. personal-
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  • 164 3 45 KILLED AS HURRICANE HITS CANADA: HEAVY DAMAGE HURRICANE "Hazel," the worst storm in Toronto's history, claimed a toll of more than 70 dead and missing In Ontario and Quebec provinces, latest figures show. Bodies of five more flood victims were recovered yesterday In the Beeton area 45 miles north
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  • 169 3 Mayor held in $60 m. racket crackdown rpHOMAS W. FLATLEY, Mayor of Erie (Pennsylvania) A and 40 other men are under arrest on charges that they are involved m a (Malayan) $60 million a-year gambling syndicate. They were arrested on Saturday in a series of swift raids in Erie District
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  • 58 3 PC AND HIS 'STAND-IN' EXPOSED POLICE constable Tsang Choi was afraid he would lose his job when a prisoner m his charge escaped. So he paid a worker HKSIO (MSS) to appear In court m place of the missing man. Tsang was fined HK$5OO for procuring the impersonator. The labourer
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  • 127 3 DOPE Pius XII crave substan- tial credence to the miracle M Of the weeping M idonna of Syracuse last night In an address calling on Si< llian Catholics to act toge- against the •'enemies of religion." rhe 73-year-old Pope made his appeal in a Vatican
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  • 30 3 Maj c General w. BE McGree, Commander of U.S. in on the Pacific Fleet, is i.iiti' h tomorrow for a ly tour of Inspection of Nationalist marines A.P.
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  • 44 3 Gen. John E. Hull. U. S. Far East Commander, said m Tokyo yesterday that the U.S. Army will start immediately selling gasoline and oil m South Korea to a ct the Hwan currency It needs to pay Korean employees.— A.P.
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  • 26 3 The Japanese Foreign Minister Mr. Katsuo Okazaki, and the Indian Vice-President, Prof Radhakriahnan had an audience with President Peron m Buenos Aires yesterday Reuter
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  • 110 3 mffoscow Radio ann ancedl f i igie SSiffl^ne had SftSK North SJ ar a ryi, p? fabricated eR i lan i ploi nui xor wi t; Af( tic ;Mi i 'V ,'i mad* f lined with übber [1 th< t La the water, the) wriU
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  • 20 3 President Eisenhower yesterday authorized federal assistance to North and South Carolina areas hit by hurricane Hazel A.P picture.
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    59 3 THIS eye-catching sign "Toddlers crossing for tiddlers" a few yards before a zebra crossing at Clapham Junction, London, consists of an old motor car tyre, a jam jar and a fishing net A youngster has a good look at the sign which was put up because many children (toddlers) cross
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  • 108 3 MURDERS IN TRAINS BY BANDITS DARING bandits preying on India's railways are stirring government officials to new precautions for the safety of passengers and freight. A government spokesman said recently there had been three murders and 1.408 burglaries and robberies on passenger and freight trains since the start of the
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  • 140 3 THE Jakarta Attorney General's office yesterday ordered Chinese anti-Communist leader Tjiong Joen Nji to enter an immigration detention camp. He is being deported because the Government considers him dangerous to security. The original order directed that he be sent to Red China, which, Tjiong
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  • 139 3 FULL-DRESS TALK IS MUCH BETTER Even nudists agree BKITISII nudists meeting in annual conference at Manchester and with all their rlothes on yesterday defeated a resolution to hold future meetings in the nude. Mr. John Wilson, vice-pre-sident, said that while he agreed with the thought, he believed members might tind
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  • 152 3 AMMAN (Jordan) was quiet yesterday with armoured cars and steelhelmeted security forces guarding main intersections. The official toll of casualties in Saturday's six-hour street battle between mobs and security forces was eight dead and 20' injured, three seriously. Police casualties were 24 injured
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  • 36 3 Later the election of a second member of the extreme leftist National Front was announcd, but the pro-Govern-ment forces were still assured of an overwhelming majority, as Saturday's election count was almost completed.
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    • 55 3 REMARKABLE PRESS AM) SHAPE RETENTION No tougher test can he made §than this I ••DACROJW enable SUITS and SLACKS to hold their PRESS even in WET WEATHER Made to measure DACBON Trousers llS.ty prr pair. DACBON Suit $f>fl.9o a suit. BATON AC IT ITB. 115.96 pee pair BATON ACETATE Salt
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  • 376 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion The tax harvest FRIDAY, Oct. 15, 1954. Emphasis laid by the Governor and Financial Secretary on the task that lies ahead for Singapore m discharging its financial commitments has focussed strung attention on the Income Tax Department. Both Sir John Nicoll and Mr. Taylor sounded
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  • 643 4 HE IS RETIRING AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWER ...and this includes formation of a South African republic. U'ROM Johannesburg to Capetown, from Durban to Windhoek Dr. Daniel Malan's Nationalist Party is increasing its strength as the dominant influence m South Africa. In fact
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  • 174 4 Queen to receive Yoshida Premier Yoshida of Japan will be received by the Queen and have dinner with Mr. Winston Churchill during: a weeklong visit to Britain starting on Oct. 21. The Japanese Embassy ha.s announced details of Yoshida's stay, which will include talks with Foreign Secretary Mr Anthony Eden
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  • 19 4 Of ioursc he to/ri you the Anenal would heat the Dynamo's I.) M| /,<.-, a Jv WtUthft man
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    • 18 4 WEDDING GIFTS DISTINCTIVE CUTLERY IS ALWAYS APPRECIATED P. H. HENDRY. JEWELLER 78. NORTH BRIDCE ROAD. SINCAPORE-6 K. LUMPUR
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  • 343 5 -IF GOVT. CEASES TO BE ITS BANKER liHE Singapore Improvement Trust will have i adopt a new policy v the Government ceases to main its banker, said Mr. P. E. A B. So well, the rust's acting manager, relay. was commenting on a tement by
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  • 42 5 TAIPING, Fri. Mr. M. P. Monera.singhe, a senior l( her of the King Edward School, has retired after 32 IJS' .service. He .served m POn, Tapah, Periang and liping, his younger days he re- "nteci Perak m cricket and hockey
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  • 116 5 25 donate 3 gallons of blood OINGAPORE'S Blood Bank was yesterday better otf by three gallons of blood following donations from 25 airmen of the Royal Air Force, Seletar. The bank now has a total of 18 gallons a four-day supply. The blood bank's donor organiser. Mr. Dixon Chen. said:
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  • 26 5 TAIPING. Fri. The North Perak Chinese Teachers' Association will hold a dinner at the Hua Llan High School, raiping, on Oct. 20. Teachers' Day
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  • 136 5 THE Singapore Director of x Medical Services Dr. R H. Bland, said yesterday that no special campaign was being planned to increase the intake of nurses from the present 100 to 150 a year Dr. Bland explained that the question of Increasing the
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  • 175 5 These attap hut dwellers will own land C )ME 20,000 Rttap hut flwcl- ''> m the vicinity of 1 r Serangoon, Ponggof, ami ■> nia can benefit from the 1 nple «>f n familien on an oil the <U-mile Upper Rangoon Road who are pur Wing their own land. 1
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  • 107 5 BUGIS STREET, once Singapore's favourite supper spot, is now an empty yard. Recently the City Council fenced up the space. The stallholders have shifted alongside Malabar and Bugis Street, still hugging close to the enclosure. Stall owners said they had been forced to sack several
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  • 48 5 Officials elected at the third annual general meeting of the Singapore Gemini Musica Party are: President. Mr. G. Rajoo, vice-president, Mr. S. M. Idrose; general secretary. Mr. S. S. Joseph Dass; treasurer, Mr. N. Proosothaman; music directors, Mr. S. Vincent and Mr. K. Shumugam.
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  • 42 5 KUA L A LUMPUR, Fri. I Sales Of tickets for the 24th Social and Welfare Services lottery, to be drawn m Teluk An son tomorrow. are the highest recorded, says a Government statement. They I reached 1.734.000.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 216 6 MI<>»nmtm««««»«««Y« T t>t l t|||t|||l|llllt |i imi f ..,1|., i, TrltT|rrt t i, MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis 1 1 JUST YOU WOnY.I COND(TIONEO| IT'S MADDENING, If PRINCESS NO. THAT'S NOT THE JUST AS WEIJ N./ HOPE I HIM, HYPNOTICALLY, TO DELT. I KEEP TRYING NARDA?) NAME --I
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    • 714 6 II YOUR I LUCKY 5 1 STAR LL IjOKN today, >ou do UXI I natural business ability i I it must be carefully culUvated E if you are to be as successful t I your stars indicate you could t E »uu have tine judgment ami good common sense win
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 229 7 LONDON, Oct. 14. Previous Today 1:1 HBFR. No 1 RSS c.U. European 22 13/16 buyers 22 buyers ports Oct 22 15/16 sellers 23 sellers Bi ISHKK. No. 1 RSS cJJ. European 22 13/16 buyers 22 ■> buyers ports Nov 22 15/16 seller.* 23 sellers Xt BHCI No-
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    • 100 7 NEW YORK. 14. Previous Today i!N Straits spot »ad nearby 95.50 norn 93.50 norn riN futures Oct 93.00 bid 93.12 bid 94.00 asked 93.50 asked Not 92.75 bid 93.00 bid 93.50 asked 93.40 asked Dec 92.50 bid 92.50 bid 93.25 asked 93.25 asked PONE; Steady. SALES: Two
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    • 56 7 A Malabar released was quoted i Awaiting release 55. October iipment 50. November 48. Sarawak >: released 51. Awaiting; release 50. Afloats 50 to 49. October shipment 48. November 47. Lampong awaiting release 55. Afloats 52 to 50. October shipment 50. November 49 sellers I ex dock. Above
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    • 28 7 NEW YORK, 11. Previous Today Industrials 358.91 354.69 K.iilroads 118.01 117.36 Domestic Bonds 100.73 100.73 1 lilities 59.96 59.40 t Stocks Composite Averages 131.76 130.50
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    • 121 7 Oct. 11. OPRA, Philippines, c.i.f. IK/North Previous Today l uropean, delivered weight per long ton Oct. Nov $200 quoted $107 quoted 1 OPRA, Philippines, f.o.b. Manila, unquoted unquoted delivered weight, per long ton COPRA, Straits, c.i.f. UK/North l nropean delivered weight per loiu ton Oet./Xov. £74
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  • 126 7 NGAPORE'S Public Relations Secretary, Mr. o. g on, acted at once yes--liy following a press reaboul the poor window Play at Malaya House m ilgar Hquaro, London. n reader wrote from London mplatntna that mating --'pplo tin.s. faded booklets \Ot unreadable wall Paper* and
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  • 231 7 REGIONAL VERNACULAR SCHOOLS IS A DREAM STILL' fHE regional vernacular school m Singapore is still a dream of the future, says the education report lor last year. "Though the Government la taking an Increajing interest m vernacular education, the report says, "none of the Chinese, Malay and Tamil .schools can
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  • 146 7 Record rush to join Singapore schools SINGAPORE Government English schools expect to admit a record 17,500 new pupils for Primary I next year, the Director of Education, Mr. R. M. Young, said yesterday. This is 5,000 more than this year's intake, and almost double the 9,402 admitted m 1953. Tomorrow
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  • 109 7 POLYTECHNIC WILL WELCOME S'PORE GIRLS TMRLS will be encouraged to join the Singapore Polytechnic Institute when it Ls ready although there are none now m the Junior Technical School, a Government spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman said that It was not unusual the.se days for girls to become architects and
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  • 43 7 KUALA I-UMPUR. Frl. A film of the recent world Azsembly of Youth conference? In Malaya will bo shown at the Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur. with other films, on Sunday at 7.30 p.m. The .show i.s spon.sorM by the Information Department.
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  • 257 8 COUPLE BEAT GAOLED A man and ifc were gaolec for is month* it Le«dj foj h.ivnu' ill-treated their twoyi ar-oid ion, Alar, Tn t hen t'i»- city Recorder, Mr O. Ray« mond Hinchcliffe, Q C Mid "During about 20 tninutei first one ol you, and then the other, cruelly assaulted
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  • 27 8 Taxi-driver Ernst Bodding- ton aged 53. of Thornton Heath. Surrey, was crushed between his own cab and another at the East Croydon station rank.
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  • 63 8 picture. RED headed actress. Adrienne Corrie (22) ai- j rivinij at the Leicester Square Theatre. London, j for the first-night of h< r first biff British film, j "Lease of Life". Behind her is one of j three bodyguards provid- I ed by Ealing Studios fol-
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  • 250 8 J^ LONDON, charwoman put on her best brown coat and black hat to seek a London High Court ruling whether her hu.sband was right m cutting her out of his v;H,OOU will. According to 61 -year-old Mrs. Lydia Clarke the" reason Mr. William Clarke, her
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  • 187 8 JV|HR Dlami Mary Falrey. the woman who made a "mirarulou.s" recovery from bums after her evening dTCM i caught Dre at a 1952 New Year party, was awarded a I decree nisi m the Divorce Court HtT hu.sband 39-year-oid Mr Richard Pairej son of Bir Richard
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  • 259 8 Best age 'is nearer' \3O than 20 V FAMOUS <i«Htor has challenged the widely held theory that .i woman's i best yearfi l<>r havtilf baWes are between ,'U and 85. He >ays the best N»* \s probably nearer 30 than 30. Medical evidence on the
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  • 111 8 VINE boys, aged from ten to 15. ran a x^ two-mile race m place of greyhounds at Thornton. Fife. (Scotland). They ran m the eighth event track promoter Mr. Thomas Adams said he had put it on as a novelty amid the shouting of
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  • 260 8 WAKE YOU? IDEAS UP, THEY TELL PARENTS DAUNTS, be warned You are living mi n the past as far as pocketmoney for your children is concerned. This i s the finding of a survey conducted by the senior girls of St. Catherine's School. Twickenham, Middlesex. Reporting on the survej m
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  • 304 8 BATTLE TO SAVE BOY'S LIFE IS WON -AND 70 REJOICE A TEAM of 70 doctors, nurses, and students celebrated the end of a slx-weok fight to save the life of a 15-year old boy who ."suffered from lockjaw The boy. Arthur Hirst, has gone home to hi* mother and father
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
    • 9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday, Oct. 15, 1954.
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    • Article, Illustration
      141 1 A Free Press Camera Roundup SCORED A *m DOUBLE Another view of the Sultan's Gold Vase finish. SOVEREIGN (Bougoure), on the rails, wins Malaya's richest sprint race. DETERMINATION scored a double at Perak Turf Club meet. Scoring his maiden win on the second day, he followed up by
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      • 31 8 tKY'tnt power. eushioMivd coin fort chooM Hie AUSTIN A7O, a luxtirfousl) Rppoinled family cur uilh tubhiuued comfurl. see the AUSTIN ito at BORNEO MOTORS PINf.APonFMAI.A 1.1 Mniß-PINANO.BITTERWORTMIPOH MIUvntANMAI X JIHSFXTON'KIJAI.A BEUIT.
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    • 236 9 THE POST OFFICE GETS BY IN COUNCIL a m HAL COUNCIL told A one of its tenants he could not keep pigeons and refused another perssion U) tßke m washing. But it told a third he could make his hou.se a sub-post tee Phe decision* were recommended by Daventry rural
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    • 39 9 The Carnegie Trust, which nas made awards and grants totamng £2,250,000. has received r hi^ UOn dUrinff HS 5 Dunfermline Boys' Brigade have given £5 on the centenary founded f the bri ad^
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    • 68 9 |J >I skwives of stevenaye New Town. Hertfordshire "'M up a bus for 80 minutes cause they object to the 6d._ o;Stevenage fare on a new ervice. And they intend to 1 'nue Protests. fare is only 4d on an- bus which has served parea but the new Bd.
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    • 74 9 shirts are Un <Kng their way lnt «> men's fashions, Com ln n expert at h 1 t«n Board's first exhih>" displaying new «or it lPns c i ot hes Manchester On« is a knee"».th sleeping coat made s r v ama Jack€ "ne*
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    • 65 9 pictures. The French Premier, Mr. Pierre Mendes-France, and Mrs. Mendes-France attended a reception given at the Japanese Embassy m Paris AAc? c occasion °f »n honour of the Japanese Premier, Mr Shigeru Yoshida. (Above from left are the Japanese Ambassador, Mr Shimao Nichimwa, Mrs Aso, daughter
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    • 154 9 So 33-year-old Mrs. Margaret Beecheno, the founder- president of a Friends 1 and j Neighbours' Club, decided something mv.st be done. She called on her neighbours, 26 housewives with 16 children, ten of them babies, boarded the new 392A bus Mrs. Beecheno handed
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    • 127 9 He could never pass this test A 60-YEAR -OLD driver who "acted silly" during drink tests was found not guilty at Cheshire Quarter Sessions of driving under the influence of drink. Victor Frederick Spong, of Green Drive, Timperley, Cheshire, was also found not guilty of dangerous driving, and was discharged.
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    • 347 9 WHISTLE WHILE YOU SWIM: NEW ESCAPE PLAN FOR MEN IN A SUB. 'PHE latest advice to men and officers of Britain's m n SU ,n^ n c u eFVic c is: Whistl e while you escape." ]L 100 «--.hiffh water tank at Gosport, Hampshire, inhm^rf taUffl t how to esca
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    • 41 9 In the first eight month.s of this year 224.697 permanent houses were completed m Britain, compared with 197.347 m the .same period of 1953. The number finished during August was 26,843, compared with 24,837 m August last year.
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    • 147 9 Gaols are not so full now ORITAIN'S prison population fell liu>t year for the first time since VJ4U to les* than 23,000. A thousand fewer prisoners had to sleep three to a cell. And now, say the prison commissioners m their annual report, there seems ground for hoping the peak
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    • 36 9 me title of "chirf Nurie" •/or 33 y -sir-old Arthur Williams, wh recently tnnk over*! "mutror if a local old people's hOIDit is (1«chI»'(1 OH by a Leedi )itui management com n.
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    • 205 9 I'T'HE annual report Of the Arts Council report* a little Renaissance In Britain and advocatr.s the creation of Civic Arts trusts Through those trusts local an thoritios could promote ftnd balance cultural life In their areas. Points from the report The arts are attracting far
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    • 325 10 Mayhew to follow Eden? SUPPORTERS Of German rearmament m key positions of the Labour Party are increasing m numbers. In any ca.se by the time the next election comes round and lew people expert it will M before next July or Octo- We.st German rearmament is almost certain to be
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      10 10 •Mwtal ft. -Vtetotta Alll rr prior t() |)r H|ijnK up
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    • 21 10  -  UNKNOWN 1.. m "Why, remember Fony.as an up-und<oming Deputy Prim* Minister %vhtn I ivaj a Young Cansert aet%'«."
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    • 505 10 Royal yacht was top-heavy •Sail m THAT,?' said Queen Victoria— and —she never did rpHEY call her the unA lucky shin And luck has certainly not been lavish with Victoria and Albert, the (ex-) Royal yacht that turned turtle the first time she saw the water Now. after a long
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    • 155 10 By the Way VITA 3REVIS was dining with some friends. A maid announced that there was a police officer at the door. He wanted to see the owner of such and such a registration number. "Why.'' said Vita, "that's mine. What a bore I wont be a minute. I must
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      • 65 10 BOOK AT ROBINSONS FOR "LAUGHTER AT NINE' Victoria Theatre— Oct. 21st. 22nd 23rd at 9.00 p.m AN ISLAND PLAYERS PRESENTATION »i^ PACKING, SNIPPING \£&j INSURANCE.... fPfln PfHr TRANSPORT STORAGE I lallimfiXmM^ 173 cecil street Singapore I Unsurpassed /SI S f for ~'M I Reliability fp ICYMA If OBTAINABLE FROM ALL
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    • 210 13 IHe Emigrants. By George Lamming. Michael g Jo <'ph. g a i eniarkable Barbadian novelist takes for his F ,übject the West Indians j M for whom England is the g irresistible magnet. Lam- ming writes an uneven, g undisciplined but oddly 0 poetic book. And he brings
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    • 292 13 JAP SAILORS HAD A BAD WAR 'Sunk the story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet 1941-45" by Mochitsura Hashimoto. T»HE author. a Japanese submarine officer, of the few who survived World War 11, trns a gradually retning Japan- ''Never am must we go to r with only a bamboo lance." saw
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      19 13 Meander of Yugoslavia and Prinrrss Maria Pin. »"fnttt of ex-King Imbrrto of Italy, who arc to marry m January.
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    • 641 13 Lord Byron stole his Wife... G. M. Thomson reviews the new books So Lard Melbourne turned to politics c£SL£ By l)avid (v AFTER Lord Mel- bourne's neurotic wife Caroline fell m lo Ye with Lord Byron ("mad, bad and dangerous to know") politics seemed the best way of occupying his
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    • 161 13 IS THE novel dead? British authors and critics are divided on the question. I Author, critic diplomat, politician Sir Harold Nicholson fired the opening shot. Fiction is dead, he said. Truth li stranger m the turbulent modern world. The novel only grew up tome 200 yean
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    • 248 13 Ep a little less than A three weeks the 5 E long-gathering storm 5 S o/ General de Gaulle's i war memoirs will have i broken over France, i 2 #c Gauiie has devoted -himself to ?iis memoirs for* four years, to the almost /o£ai
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      • 76 13 ELIZABETH AKDEN help them to speak for you m the language of beauty AHDKNA ITI LOTION, OOOil an«l ■oothf* \un\ ryes, lulps to keep th«'m youthfully rlmr i siiAiio, the lightest touch m/ikrH eyei l<M,k MfgeTi <lrain;ili/rs lluir CoIoHT< In many gloriotM ihcdei ITIMULASBi n new tinted p<»mn<l« i t<»
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    • 571 11 I Want my Man Back... ...from the 'Dead' The story of a London wife (Mrs. Kate Field) Who waits-told to Sylvia Lamond. I'm a very ordinary woman. When I heard officially last week that my husband wa* alive m a prison near Warsaw, and that the American Government is fighting
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    • 153 11 Letters to the Editor T»HE forthright terms m which the judge missed the appeal of Chinese students rged with obstructing a police officer must give many people food for thought Many will feel as I do lat it is regrettable that a judge had to say it at all, and
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    • 90 11 What we have just witnessed has been the unhappy but world-wide, exploitation priveleges of democracy people who live for the day ien there shall be no such ng as democratic privelege. have heard appeals t the claims of the state ■up its young men for ate's defence, by
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    • 120 11 other day a taxid river was penalised for having than three passengers umably, because m the ">n of the Law the addiperson made control of Wcle more difficult and ore rendered him a podanger to traffic. must applaud the Law conscientious Imposiafeguarda for the proof life and limb
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      22 11 Nttee and his «rife an I,, 1 back to London b; d *«fhter Mrs. Richari •s and Kranddaughtei nnifef, now if> months.
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    • 117 11 IpVER since that ghastly acci- dent In England In which marching cadets were run down by a bus and several killed, it has become common practice for lamps to be carried fore and aft by marching columns, whether of troops or scouts. This is common sense as any
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    • 505 11 Russia has reply to cobalt bomb [■^Window oiriiie- U*ROM underground channels m RUSSIA ct)mes the news that Russia has found the answer to the creation of the dreaded cobalt bomb— a weapon which, offi- cially at least, has not yet been perfected by any of the Western Powers. The report
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      • 76 11 From America Comes A New Non- Spill Drinking Cup For Baby THE TODDLER TRAINER This New Sensational Baby Training Cup Keeps Baby Dry Protects Rugs O Furniture. Designed to prevent spilling even if cup is completely upside down. ■O Controlled flow eliminates choking or Ragging. Helps prevent contamination of milk
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    • 624 12  -  JOHN CULMER The strangest festival m the world by f'AV and care-free M music broke the sullen silence of the yard, Musses of lluwers splashed the .sombre walls with colour, and children's laughter echoed down the long, grim corridors. "Fiesta" m some mediaeval cast! Anniv< rsarj
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    • 186 12 11/EST GERMANY is waging TT a quite but effective propaganda battle against France m the disputed Saar territory. German tourists are being encouraged by their Government to visit the Saar as unofficial "missionaries" of the German cause m the former German possession. The West German
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      270 12 r JpHE plays most admired by experts ■re those for which there is little or no precedent. A good player is expected to make the correct play where the situation Is standard; when he 0!- iii this case, she rises to a unique occasion, even the opponents may
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    • 30 12 photo. Sabor the robot, walks unaided through the Swiss National Agricultural Fair and Exhibition m Lucerne, aeeomp ed by two farmers m national costumes. A. P.
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      • 151 12 J I I till 8 £c?r ft u£i O we tl heaiJ l) rki 7 A tf these 5«»«tl«ou. people 5: A^lac^aTwayl haT^?(#) JR,^ tf) •^Bi» 10 SSfflfS), a COitwawn f ll A^nappy son of contoiner? 13. Where the most Uluetrtoui 12. A broken rowel en) k. M „v money?
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    • 460 14 S! II ER E la what J** Arsenal players and officials had to say after the game against the Moscow Dynamos m Russia: IX)M WHIT TAKER (ma- nager): "The Russians i played more like a team than am I have ever seen, i Once,
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    • 148 14 Selectors pick injured player IVIK F. A. amateur selectors deliberately chose yesterday for their match wfth the South Western League at Plymouth on October lti a player Who they know is injured and win not be able to turn out. I The player i.s Kon Heckman, Bromley and 'Spurs amateur
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    • 467 14 Middlesbro' baffle the experts By AX( lIIK MIKK The biggest mystery In postvar Boccer \a the decline ami fall of Middlesbrough Not only aid they suffer relegation lust May, but they are bottom of the Second Division with only live points from their first 12 matches What Ls wrong? New
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    • 105 14 les ai 1 en the BrdworUi middleweigni who is L clamouring for a title flght with Johnn> Sullivan. sained a clear and unflurried points wm over Gmo Menozzi (France) In their ftght at Cardiff, He won nine of the ten rounds. His swift and precise
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    • 48 14 R. L. TOUR PROFITS PROFIT from fche recent British Rugby League tour ol Australia and New Zealand, one ol the stormiest In the history ot the game, was b record. exceeding £34,000. The 26 players who made the tour will each receive a record bonus ol nearly MOO.
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    • 56 14 a <ERMANY tnajwea her post-war national amateur boxing debut Britain at Empiie I\vl. VVemblev ri November it rhe Germans oeat '.he a r a. at 'rankioi t last year by seven bouts to two. i lie London fixture shelves the Russian visit. J'^»e Russians cau-
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    • 48 14 D< n Candy improved his chances for a place m the Australian Da\> Cup squad on Wednesday when he up>et Lewis Head Australia's cup stalwart. 5-7. 6-3. 6-3. m the semifinals of the metropolitan tennis championships. Candy will meeet George Worth ington In the final morrow.
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    • 45 14 Mario Merani, Italian swimmer. claimed a new world record yester- day when he staved under water for four minutes and 30 seconds without oxygen mask. The former record was said to have been four minutes 26 seconds, set by a Frenchman A. P.
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    • 32 14 Mr Bill Ling, of Cambridgeshire, p ill referee the Wales v. Scotland soccer match at Cardiff tomorrow with Messrs. G. Pankhurts (Warwickshire) and T. Jepson I (Nottinghamshire) as linesmen.
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    • 98 14 PRIZE money for thLs year's Ampo] Golf Tournament m Australia will total EA3.000 the genera] manager of Ampol Petroleum Ltd., Mr. W. Leonard, lias announced m Sydney Only one tournament was held last year, with prize money totalling EA2.500. Prize money will be augmented by 75
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    • 33 14 Pascual Perez, the Argentine boxer, has left San Francisco by Japan Airline.- for Tokyo, where be will meet Yoshio Shirai, world flyweight champion In a title bout or. Octo!>er 26.- Reuter
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    • 250 14 Tomorrow's U.K. soccer fixtures ENGLISH LtIGLE Uiv i \rsenal ,r rortsni Burnley v i; o j lon nelsea v &fancheste« 11 xerl v Sundniunrt leicester v Hudde.^tuH Manchester C. v Aston V.ll, Newcastle v Tottenham sSft» Chariton Mieftield I. v iWutkpool We*t Bromvuch v Sheffield W Wolves v Cardia KM.IISH
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    • 686 14 DON'T BE A BASHER SAID MY DAD JOHN CHARLES, Leeds United and Welsh international and the most talked o£ footballer m Britain, tells his story... CENTRE-HALF or centre forward which position do I prefer? Let me answer that question riffht away —CENTRE-HALF. And yet I don'.t quite know why. Perhaps
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    • BLISS FIRE GETS HIS CHANCE AT PENANG
      • 837 15 ?i ITII South Pacific scratched the way is clear for Hliss Fire to re-enter the winning bracket m the i «ass 2, Division 1 race over seven furlongs at Penane tomorrow, first day of the Penang Turf Cluh't .Autumn Meeting. Hliss Fire has been striding
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      • 42 15 pKOBABLL scratching* J l«r the first day of the Penan g Turf Club's meet tomorrow are: Canterbury, Innate Jesselton, Musical Comedy, "iRh Hopes, Rice King, Maha Ranee, Thaumaturgy, Dendrite, South Pacific, Zanzibar, Beau Matin, Pulau Bali, Rice Mill, Good Andrew.
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      • 179 15 QEM BEAU or Star Signal? It's a ticklish question. Both won first up easily—Gem Beau over s!f by four lengths and Star Signal over 6f. by two lengths. Both go up two divisions— Gem Beau getting 31b. more and Star Signal an extra 101 b Weight
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      • 203 15 Robbie Burns to make amends 'piiKKE speedsters- CarA penter, Robbie Burns and Wide Screen will dominate the finish of the mam sprint race ioi Class 2, Division 1 horses over six furlongs Fastest of all is Kobbie Burns, who looks like making amends tor hi. s expensive failure at Singapore.
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    • 249 15 P^MHADotKandlndecidrd 1 ■< like having the Class on 2 race over six fur- between themselves. 'iimmit to separate On a WCt track Trou- the slight edge, but ■;'»"4 turns KOOd then Sj^fiJ U the bet. [Pjaour won first up at JPJO home 3| lengths
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    • 79 15 THE ipoh police hoc-key team scored 12 goals In a senior division mate h yesterday i against Tronoy police on the i ipoh Padang. Their opponents failed U: score. Play was one-sided throughout. j The Ipoh police goalkeeper had a lazy time of it.
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    • 60 15 i AN estimated crowd of 40,000 fans yesterday watched a crack West German track and field team sweep to victory at Sendai over Japanese champions m the third of the Ger-man-Japan meets. The Germans won every event m which they were entered and completely outclassed the
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    • 33 15 'Die Thai Combined Sf-rvicfs rugby team arrived at Obangl yesterday. They will play Singapore civilians this evening on the padang, Tomorrow at Tanylin thi-y him t Smgapore combined Services,
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    • 313 15  - CHINESE DISPLAY WINNING FORM ARGOS fdsblgl' Chinese ft Eurasian s l f am convinced that Chinese will retain their SAFA Community Leave title. Even the Malays, their greatest rivals, would have been hard pressed to hold them on the form displayed yesterday at Jalan Besar stadium. The Chinese took things
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    • 301 16 At IVWII thinks it over Defend title for $900,000 4 MANILA boxing promoter lias offered Malayan $900,000 for world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano to defend his title there against Nino Valdes of Cuba. The champion's manager A] Weil] revealed this yesterday while discussing The Rock's future plans. Weill
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    • 63 16 QFVENTEEN-year-old Bjoen Thofelt of Sweden won the 1954 modern pentathlon world championship m Budapest yesterday. Thofelt scored 4,634.5 points for the fire events. Hungary won the team championship with 12,948 points Winner of the final event— crosi country rhnning was hey Hi Haase, Sweden,
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    • 33 16 TONY TRABERT, second seeded player, yesterday won the men's singles championship of the Pen-American Tennis Tournament with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-2. 6-2 victory over 22--year-old Mexican champion Mario Llamas. I
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    • 38 16 20 Words $H (minimum) MARTIN LIBERG: On October 14th, 1954. at Tnvnhall, Amster dam. Malcolm, eldest, son of the late Mr. Mr.s. Z M. Martin, to Jacobs Daniela. only daughter of Mr. Mrs. C. P. Libert? Schoemaker.
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    • 35 16 20 Words $6 (minimum) KHOO WEE GEOW passed away peacefully in Singapore on 13th October, leaving behind his Wife, four sons, two daughters, one sonln law, two daughters in-law, and six grandchildren. Funeral today.
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    • 263 16 Victoria School 6; Youne Malayan* n try and penalty goal >lala>an s 0. yOUNG MALAYANS were unlucky not to draw at tffSKSS* matCh Viet ria Sch^ Only real outstanding player for a below form Victoria School was Sarbo, whose kicking and fielding came out of the
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    • 98 16 -BANNISTER I ROGER Bannister, danced with delight i as Chris Chataway I plunged across the line ahead of Russia's Kuc at the London v. Moscow i athletic meeting on Wed- i nesday. Bannister exclaimed: "What a race! What a race! Chris you were I magnificent." Russian team
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    • 28 16 St. Andrew's Old Boy. Aseociatior yesterday beat a 12-man Teachers Training College side by 61 points '11 goals and two tries) to six (two tries).
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    • 68 16 members of the Singapore representative side The •All St.ttV tat»l«' tennis team uho left Singapore by car '.'.illy this morning on i goodwill lour of the Federanhi I'roin left to right: 1 oh Henc Chew. \^'<Mlt: Tom J.oon. Tan 110, ltJ p oh < »'»^P !Mon«. Soli i
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    • 223 16 THE INDIAN TEAM WAS UNSETTLED i Latiflf Wanderers 3 Indian Association 0 WITHOUT their full side utitil the 15th minute, the Indian Association were unsettled right from the start of yesterday's Div. 1 league hoc- key tie at Balestier Road. Against a team like Latiff, Wanderers it doesn't pay to
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    • 18 16 Rugby Union county champ: inship: Hertfordshire 3. Oxfordshire Warwickshire 6. Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire. Derbyshire Combined 6- Reuter
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      • 176 16 Straits Times Free Press For the convenience of advertisers our representative at Ist floor. SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE, ORCHARD ROAD, will receive small advertisements and answers to box numbers. Classified advertisements mat also be handed to: I CITY BOOK STORE LTD. Winchester House, Collyer Quay, Singapore. CLASSIFIED ADS. I ACCOMMODATION VACANT
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      • 69 16 P. 890 A the food beverage t chosen by trainers 'Ovaltine* owes its favoured position the world of sport to the undowo quality and purity of its constituoito Its outstanding nutritive prop<t( and to its delightful, satisfying flavour Trainers and coaches all over tfl6 world realise the value of 'Ovaltin*'
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