The Singapore Free Press, 21 October 1954

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1 16 The Singapore Free Press
  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. v ims;.. Singapore, raws*. Oct 11, 1954, Price 15 Cts.
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  • 164 1 The Big 3 agree »|»HE "Iyio Three" Western Foreign Ministers and Dr. Adenauer, the West (ierman Chancellor last Right reached lull agreement <>n new treaties to end the nine-year Allied occupation ol' West Germany. British and French spokesmen announced that all outstanding issues had been solved
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  • 308 1 Vili. H AHOLD WILSON, a former Labour Minister, alleged Yesterday that the United states Consular Corps m Huns Kong were warning British business men they would have their dollar assets frozen m the United States if they did not si >p nade
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  • 22 1 The first shipment of Russian lumber since the war i.s expected to arrive In Tokyo next week.- A.P.
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  • 198 1 npi Minister of State for Fo--1 n Affairs, Lord Readsaid yesterday Communist lina was trying to force Briand other foreign firms ye China and "surrender assets". Speaking m the House of Lords. Lord Reading said: "It is clear that it is the deliberate policy
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  • 104 1 UP AGAIN Brisk business on rubber market 'V Our Market Correspondent tSK business on the ipore Rubber market sent the price of first grade buyers to 783/4 cents a lb., l» 0 ye last nights closing irket was Influenced overnight London the price appreciated by New York which redo of
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  • 193 1 PLANS for a visit to the Liverpool docks today by Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh have been changed, A strike has brought work m the waterfront to a virtual standstill. The Royal pair were to I have visited the Canada dock
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  • 30 1 A European parked his car m st. Andrew's Road, Singapore yesterday evening and went into a shop. When he returned his camera was missing from the car,
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  • 37 1 Leslie Hylton. 42-year-old former Weal indies Teat eric keter M i s lentenced to death In Kingston, Jamaica yesterd ty for the murdi r ol hi wife. The added a i ecommendal lon
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  • 76 1 rpHE new $80,000,000 loan to A !u floated by thi Slngap City Council will bfi a pun 3 local one so cript lon fl l! tion investors would W v 4 I E ure aid today. I rib, 111 pay $07.50 100 'O tocfc and
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  • 69 1 1)111 MI! Minister Mohammed \li ol* P;ikis- I tan yesterday informed j the Canadian Prime I .Minister Mr St. Laurent, I that he would be unable j to visit Ottawa, as plann- cd. I Mr. \!i, who is now m Washington, said in* has i been
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  • 52 1 IpX-QUEEN NARRIMAN has J moved from her Lausanne hotel to the clinic of the? famous Swiss gynaecologist, Professor Rodolphe Rochat. She slipped quietly out of her hotel at night and was driven to tho clinic, it was disclosed yesterday. It Is believed she may undergo an
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  • 19 1 X-ray equipment valued at US$7,OOO has been .shipped to Pusan, Korea from British ,'olumbia.- U.P.
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  • 117 2 Tear gas ends Delta 'battle FRENCH armaured units and troops used tear gas to disperse a thousand Vietnamese women who tried to prevent the evacuation of bulldozers and other equipment from Haiduong m the Tonking Delta, the French Press Agency said yesterday. One woman was
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  • 31 2 Mr. Jose Laurel, Jr., president of the Philippine House of Representatives, arrived m Madrid yesterday with his wife by train from Lourdes, France, to study Spanish legislation. A. P.
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  • 138 2 THE British aircraft carrier, Glory, arrived m Singapore yesterday bringing about 40 helicopters to step up anti-bandit operations m Malaya. The helicopters were asked for by the former High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, last June. Unloading began yesterday. Five Westland Whirlinds will I
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  • 166 2 A QUIET SPOKEN woman yesterday warned members of the Singapore Y.W.C.A. International Women's Club to think deeply about the "rather frightening rate" m which the world is progressing, with special reference to the hydrogen bomb and the A-bomb. She was Miss Jean Palmer, a
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  • 117 2 M.P. for trial on 7 forgery charges PAPTAIN Peter Baker 23--year-old publisher and Conservative Member of Parliament was sent for trial at the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court, London, yesterday on seven charges of uttering forged documents said to involve £102,000. His own £2,000 bail was renewed with two other
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  • 34 2 Gen. John E. Hull. United Nations Commander m Tokyo. flew to Seoul yesterday to take personal charge of American negotiations mi n the currency dispute with the Renublir of Korea.- U.P.
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  • 216 2 HIGHER DEGREES NOW POSSIBLE LOCALLY JJURING the one hour that the Governor of Singapore. Sir John Nicoll, was at the Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital yesterday, five babies were born. Four are Chinese, all boys, and one an Indian girl. Bil John, who was on a tour to see the building
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  • Article, Illustration
    68 2 picture Mrs. Goode, wife of the Singapore Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode, yesterday opened an exhibition and saie of handicrafts by T. B. patients of Tan Tock Seng and St. Andrew's Mission Orthopaedic hospitals. Mrs. Goode is seen admiring a patient's work of the Queen at the Trooping
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  • 128 2 A YOUNG married woman, Site binte Ali. had known a mechanic, Seah Chew Bee, for a lon^ time but had never spoken to him. Then at their first "formal" conversation at a kampong. he robbed her of a $2 silver-plated necklace. i Site said
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  • 28 2 The Japanese Foreign Minister. Mr. Katauo Okazaki yesterday placed a wreath at the monument of the Chilean national hero. Gen. Bernardo O'Higgins, m Santiago, A.P.
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  • 119 2 CUT-ARMS TALKS MAKE PROGRESS \IR. selwyn uoyd making Af his last speech a s leader of the British delegation n the United Nations, vester day told the Political' Com" mittee discussln disarm' ment: "We have c'For modest satlsfactioi wha? has transpired." 'V^ re re any and difficult matter^ still to
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  • 136 2 MR. MALCOLM Mac Donald, Commissioner-General for the United Kingdom m South East Asia, flies from London today to Geneva, on his way back to Malaya. He expects to arrive m Singapore on Sunday. His term of office expires at the end of the year. His
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    • 33 2 JUST UNPACKED COTTON DRESSES FROM $2© Town V. Country RAFFLES PLACE Ist Floor, Meyer Chambers Phone: *****. i (Abort Oversens Union Bank) NOTE! Open Intil 5.30 p.m. WmtmißJ* S 4.00 p.m. On Saturday*.
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  • 239 3 JAP MPs IN NEW RIOT: 'REBELS' GAIN IN GOVT. SPLIT pRIME MINISTER Shi»er U Yoshida's arch rival for rinnhtf^ !H° f, the JaDanese Conservatives won a doubtful political victory over the absent prime minister yesterday mi n Tokyo m a brawling uproar reminiscent of last June's riot m the Diet
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  • 226 3 {^RESIDENT Eisenhower last night promised the world that American military forces would never be used to initiate war against any nation, and would be employed "only for the defence of the free world." The President speaking at a dinner marking the 300
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  • 173 3 QUEEN ELIZABETH, the Queen Mother, left London Waterloo station by train yesterday for Southampton on the first stage of her visit to Canada and the United States. Princess Margaret accompanied her mother and went aboard the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth last night to
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  • 29 3 Czechoslovakia has agreed to ccept 20, 000 toiu of American heat els its share of U.S. aid victims o! the summer floods i Eastern Europe. A.P.
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  • 82 3 HONG KONG BUYS RED RICE— VIA CEYLON LfONG KONG will buy 30,000 tons of Red Chinese 11 rice which Ceylon has surplus to her requirements, the Ceyloneso Commerce Minister, Mr. Shirley Corea, said In Colombo yesterday. Ceylon has imported large amounts this year rrom Burma ■md other sources besides Communist
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  • 130 3 Prayers for good weather in order, says Archbishop TPHI Irchbishop of York 3 said yesterday it was all 'ffht to pray for good weather lons as yon accept m w< i tint God may have other plans." Some vicars of the Church '"Rland have questioned gently whether such prayers m
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  • 110 3 REDS STOP FILMING OF U.S. SENATOR COMMUNIST police held four members of Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith's party for an hour yesterday during a tour of East Berlin. The Maine Republican Senator (above), who is on a European tour was not detained. The four were stopped and taken to police
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  • 182 3 U.S. CODE EXPERT ON 3 SPY CHARGES A CODE expert Joseph Sidney Petersen, Jr., was yesterday charged m Alexandria, Virginia, of improperly taking defence secrets "with intent and reason to believe it would be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation."
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  • 389 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion The home problem THURSDAY. Oct. 21, 1054. The .statement by the Director of Medical Services that while Singapore's birth and death rates are m the approximate proportion of four to one it will be a physical impossibility to build homes fast enough to house the
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    18 4 of Honour on his arrival iv Paris. He is a< companird hv UtDtrft] Zeelcr, military governor ol Pari**.
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  • 776 4 Nazis now 'martyrs' With supreme insolence a Hanover doctor has formed an organisation of ex-Nazis who have "sutured' r rHE most spectacular and shocking failure of the Allied ot cupation oi Germany Is being played out to a dreary finish m the shrine ol Nearly ten years alter the Third
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  • 267 4 Window on the world jn an attempt to Britain from one more export mark* I WESI GEEMAN industrial] are to go all cut m the next few monthg to the battle of trade popularity—in Italy. Already hundreds ol G man salesman are calling on importers m Milan. Romi and Genoa
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    • 26 4 GUARANTEED! 20 Years Plate SHEFFIELD CANTEENS BARGAIN PRICES to reduce HULK STOCKS G. C. tie SUVA BROS. 3, RAFFLES PLACE Singapore- 1. Tel: 83 11 3
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    • 93 4 AVAIL YOURSELF of 20 years of experience CREDIT FQNCIER MEVER CHAMBERS 3rd FLOOR, (Raffles Place) BIN JAI PARK A HIGH CLASS RESIDENTIAL ESTATE AT 61 M.S. DUNEARN ROAD MANY LOTS IN THIS PARKLIKE ESTATE ARE IN ELEVATED SITUATION VATER ELECTRICITY ARE LAID ON AREAS: 11,000 to 30,000 sq. ft. PRICE:
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  • 77 5 \|K. Raj Krishnan Tandon, who is to be the new Rei ntative of the Government of India m Malaya, will arrive m Singapore next month to ime his post. Mr Tandon, who until recently was First Secretary m the Indian Commission at Nairobi. East
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  • 88 5 PARENTS Day was celebrated m the Gan Eng Sens; School, Singapore, this tveek with a concert and an exhibition of arts and craft. The concert programme included the trial scene from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice/ and an operetta called, "Peach Blossom," adapted from Hans Anderson's
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  • 190 5 COUNCIL BANS NIGHT PARKING; IT'S ABSURD PROTEST RESIDENTS riTHE Singapore City Council I has banned all night parking along a section of Kitchener Road. ban. from 8 p.m. to midnight, along the stretch ol the road from its juncture with Verdun Road to the Jalan Besar stadium end, has raised
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  • 85 5 PENANG, Thurs.— Police are ►King for a young Chinese, has been collecting radio 1 "ire fees from housewives. I nun, between 20 and 25, scribed a s •handsome" and "hig spectacles, yesterday $12 from a Chinese woman Chettj Lane off Noordln reet, He told her
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  • 241 5 Tobacco sales hope lies m present rubber price i m a aaa.a.- Jtm MALAYANS will fci smoking more m the next feu months If the price of rubber maintains its present level, Mr. F. C. J. Moore, general manager of British American Tobacco Co. (Straits) Ltd.,
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  • 164 5 EFFICIENCY DRIVE IN INDUSTRY IS HELD UP THE Government-sponsored efficiency drive m Singapore industrial undertakings which was to have started early this month has been postponed to December. Reason: Mr. Marler, the ILO "Training Within Industry expert, v/ho should have been here now, has been delayed. The chief employment officer,
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  • 49 5 IPOH, Thurs.— The Ipoh Cooperative Housing Society, one of the pioneers m this field In the Federation, will hold a general meeting tomorrow to discuss a second housing project for its members. The first scheme, completed m 1952, involved the construction of ten bungalows.
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  • 28 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Dr. j D. O'fihaugnessy, Medical Superintendent. General Hospital. Johore Bahru. leaves at the end of the month on transfer to Cameron Highlands.
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  • 101 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thrus An Army recruiting team will visit Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 12 and 13 to Interview candidate^ for entry into the Army Boys Trade School. Singapore. The team will be at the Vie toria Institution OD NOV. 12 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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  • 114 5 A HOUSEHOLDER m Paya Lebar was shocked to receive a l\ water bill for $453.72 cents from the Singapore City Council recently. On investigation ot the complaint, it was found that "the abnormally high consumption" was due to an underground leaK m
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  • 38 5 He spoke at Royal College picture. Dr. T. Barnes, of the Johore Bahru General Hospital, who is the first Malayan doctor to lecture at the Royal College of Obstetrics, London, has returned to Singapore by air. Free Press
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  • 99 5 IPOH, Thurs.— A Perak Chinese leader, Mr. Lav Pak Khuan, has been named" president of the Chinese Cham- ber of Commerce for the twelfth I time. A special request will Ibe made to him to reconsider his recent decision not to take up any appointment
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 285 6 a .V.T. a a MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis r (MANDRAKE. YOU ARf 117 [TToTT TO SA L MANDRAKE j j A LAZY OM BUT 1 1 '-LOOK OUT TKiRI r mUmuum TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs in* AIVVA^ /.AS .-EN.etAv..CE ]L ,;\/\W: > S /.>' '-4,1 I
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    • 657 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR [>OKN TODAY, >uu Law rather comph-v Mature— not one which i> easily urtriei stood. \\ilt>. yet at ii ;>ll raustu mi \our criticism 1.,: iiif still able to b the centre ul any >oi lal i«up; i v tiirnds mid Influence peoplt You do have a truly
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  • Round the World Market prices
    • 228 7 LONDON, Oct. iO Previous Today i: no. 1 KSS c.i.f. European 22% buyers 22 13 llbuytn Oit 22 sellers 23 se'lers M K. no. 1 KSS c.U. European 22*; buyers 22 13 16 buyers ports Nfv 22Vi. sellers 23 sellers BIBBKB, No 1 RSS spot 24. buyers
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    • 99 7 Previous Today TIN Straits *pot and nearby 93.00 nom. 93 00 nom. H\ futures Oct. 92.50 bid 92.50 bid 93.25 asked 93.12 asked Not 92.25 bid 92.37 bid 93.00 asked 92.87 asked Dec 92.10 bid 92.25 bid 92.75 asked 92.75 asked TOXI Quiet. SALES: Nil. m i.r.i
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    • 35 7 Spol Malabar released was quoted I Uing release 52. Afloats 52 October shipment 50. November I 48. sellers ex-dock. Sarawak Lampong prices unchanged from yesterday. Above vrices quoted m U.S. cents per lb.
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    • 25 7 Previous Today 30 Industrials 354.75 357.42 10 Railroads 119.87 120.72 4" Domestic Bonds 100.85 100.89 58 68 58.69 Composite Averages 130.96 131.75
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    • 105 7 RA, Philippines, c.i.f. UK/North. Previous Tod.iy European, delivered weight per g ton Nov. Dec SlO5 sellers $195 sellers RA, Philippines, f.o.b. Manila, unquoted unquo'ed ii weight, per lonjf ton Nov. Dec. E72tf buyers £72-, havers £73 seller. £72 sellers Dec. Jan. £72 buyers £72 U buyers
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  • 99 7 *N*G Ihurs. The Penang Court President, Mr. idamSj yesterday adi youth, Cheah Guan that it would be ler W( ,rk far S>6o a h than <<> steal. 1K was hound over for «ns f(» r cheating Ong >.' am
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  • 37 7 kuai.a i.umpur Thurs* A man was detained and four others cautioned when tenants registration officers and trie police carried out a surprise check on about 50 houses m Klang Road at midnight IMI
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  • 232 7 Find in Borneo shows stone age link with Malaya rpHE human skeletons found m Borneo recently belong to tie same period as those discovered last April m Kelantan, Prince John Loewenstein, Curator of Anthropology, Raffles Museum, told the Free Press yesterday. They were from the neolithic (stone) age, dating back
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  • 249 7 HE'S DONE 12,000 MILES -ON FOOT ANTHONY Hansen, (above) 24-year-old Dutch accountant, who has walked more than 12,000 miles from Amsterdam to start a new life m Australia, is m Singapore. He flew m from Calcutta on a X.L.M plane on Monday the first free air-lift on his journey. Hansen
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  • 71 7 MR. CHAN IS RE-ELECTED KUANTAN, Thurs.— A police c ii hi Peng Kiiuen wai re-elected pro ident of the Bur.gsar Railway \t, reatlon Club Other officials are: Vii e-presidents: Mr. B, -J. Dural; 111(1 k. 0, Kesava Pillal; hon eecretary, B D. Jayawardena; hon treasurer. T. Kanagaratnam; committee: R. Munusamy.
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  • 62 7 I IPOH, Thurs. State and Federal elections and the proposed Increases In school fees will be the subjects which several speakers will talk on at the public open air meeting to be held m People's Park here on Sunday. The meeting is being held by
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  • 109 7 $36,000 park for picnics PFNANG, Thurs. A3 J 4-acre site at Penang's beach resort at Batu Ferringhi, bought by the Settlement Government for $36,000, is to be converted into a park for picnickers. Mr. It. F. Oldham, Collector of j Land Revenue, yesterday said that a section of the lot
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  • 123 8 A HEAD OF BOSES rpHIS lofty Louis XV- E JL style construction of E roses was one of the strik- E E ing floral headdresses on E E display m a parade held Ein connection with the E 31st annual conference of E E Interflora, the world-wide E E flower
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  • 52 8 A CUSTOMS man noticed something odd about a teddy bear so he cut its head off. Inside was a valuable camera. Harwich magistrates were told. Senior Aircraftman Arthur Lees, of Fallsworth, Manchester was fined £30 for trying to smuggle it m from Germany. The camera
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  • 128 8 TRESPASSER IS FINED FOR MERCY KILLING OF RABBIT DAVID KNIGHTS, 22-year-old fitter, went down a railway embankment to kill a rabbit which had myxomatosis. For this he has been fined £1. His offence: trespassing. David, of Ipswich, has killed 400 plague rabbits. He wrote to Woodbridge, Suffolk, magistrates that he
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  • 391 8 Court listens to plea and cuts gaol ABICAMIBT sentenced to two years' Imprisonmt nt pleaded for leniency bo that the woman he had been living with since their u marriag< In 1940, and their two daughters, should not sufTer, lie was then given his freedom
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  • 34 8 Group Captain Leonard Cheshire. V.C., triple D.5.0.. double D.F.C., who became ill with tuberculosis two years ago. expects to leave King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst. Sussex, m the New Year.
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  • 218 8 'A KICK IN THE PANTS' STARTS PLAY MIRGHANITA I.ASKI. novelist and TV star. explained how it J is thai the British Arts Council is paying i»>r her to write a play. It started when the Arts Council invited Liverpool Repertory Com- pany to commission a I pla> from a writer,
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  • 293 8 TELEVISION IS BLAMED FOR FAMILY BREAK-UP rpLEVisiON brou ht thing X but trouble to a couple wh had been married for Mr. Justice Wallingtoi i m the London Divorce Court Mr. and Mrs. Robert s could not agree on thi programmes, That was one of the tors leading fco the
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  • 29 8 Jacob Gade, the Danish composer who wrote the tango "Jealousy," is to leave his fortune to the Copenhagen Musicians' Guild. He will be 75 next month.
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  • 172 8 Back-garden prise goes to 'front' rebel TMTR. JOHN PARKS, whose front garden is to be up-rooted by order of Wor- cester City Council, has been awarded a prize by the I city council for his back garden. "Life's a funny thing," he commented. Last August the city council announced that
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  • 323 8 A PERGOLA MUST GO 'BECAUSE IT'S JUST A FENCE' •PHE rose pergola m the front garden of Mr. Tom Jeavons's council house must come down, the urban council decided. Mr. Jeavons, 42--year-old factory worker, lives on the council's Lucknow estate. He built his 3ft. perj gola to carry red-and -cream
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  • 20 8 Postmen m Frankfurt hajj been told that they ma H salute m greeting, but dw» a military one.
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  • 369 9 Income upbut it's still not sufficient TIKI PED by a panel o[ the II keenest brains m the City of London, the Church Commissioners are Increasing their annual income by vast buying of commercial and industrial hares on the London Stock i xi hange,
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  • 124 9 She 's expert on doggy talk MRS. BARBARA WOODHOUSE. of Croxley Green, Middlesex, has the uncanny gift of being able to control most animals by talking to them. The most unruly dog has been calmed and made to obey. merely by her words. In the past few years, she ha*j
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  • 60 9 A "MAGIC EYE" at the top of chimneys at the Austin Motor Company's Birmingham factory will ring a bell m the stokeholds when an excessive amount of smoke and soot pours out. The anti-smog measure is not only to help local housewives keep the washing clean,
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  • 215 9 JF you want to rock a baby to sleep or to soothe its crying, just go ahead and rock and pay no attention to the "modern*' advice that a baby should be left alone. Medical opinion is now discrediting the line which started m the
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  • 159 9 FORTUNE-IF SHE LEADS 'A CHASTE LIFE' VMAN It it i i s C 47,000 for--1 unc to hi.s widow "go >ng as she lead- a chasl e life. The 41 -year-old widow, Mrs. Winifred short, of Padstow, Cornwall, said: "It sound* a bit odd, I admit. But 1 v. as
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  • 14 9 Britain will buy Canadian apples worth £866.000 m the coming year.
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  • 151 9 The cash was short after Gypsy blessing T)OREEN HOWARD, a 24- year-old gypsy, walked into the garage of Mr. William Homabrook, 65 of Padstow, Cornwall, to buy two small pins for the wheel of her perambulator. And this, Wadebridge magistrates were told, was what happened next: Mr Hornabrook refused payment.
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  • 297 9 Nurse witness at a trial admits forgery 'SHE WAS DESPERATE AND STARVING' I^X-ARMY nurse Irene Rosser, one of the chief wit- nesses at the court martial last year of a military hospital commanding officer, was put on probation at Oxfordshire Assizes for three years. She pleaded guilty to obtaining £60
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  • 151 9 A SIX-YEAR ban on Bristol schoolchildren taking part m Christmas pantomimes has been lifted by order of the Education Ministry. This means that a dozen schoolgirls who for weeks have been practising their steps as the Sunbeams m "Cinderella." at the Bristol Hippodrome, will now
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  • 332 10 'Gearless' driving moves nearer Basil Cardevv takes a pre-view peep at the Motor Show fIMIK tune when Mi. A and Mrs. Average Motorist will be driving without having to change gear comes nearer today with the news of an exciting new British ear to he seen at the biggest evei
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  • 115 10 k NEW YORK city A policeman has proved his theory that crime, like love makes the heart beat faster. Patrolman Kenneth Ford solved a crime m 10 minutes by arresting two brothers with pounding heartbeats. He had been informed by police radio that two armed thugs
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  • 196 10 BA TTLE OF THE SWEETS AMERICAN candy mak- era are locked m a "battle of bonbons" with Russia, according to Shrewsbury Town Council, Massachusetts, The 'Candy Curtain" that La developing is not as tunny as it sounds, say the council m their monthly bulletin. "It i. i serious matter to
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  • 383 10 Where CLEOPA TRA went a-woo-ing By JOHN MONKS, who is on his way from London to Australia m a fast sports car. WHAT a place tc Lake your girl friend tor a picnic! Yet it was rigtlt here m this hot, dusty little Turkish town of Tarsus that Antony had
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  • 529 11 Women live far longer than men Their 'lead' increases every year 4 MERICAN women, who have long been known for their ability to outlive men, are steadily stretching out their lead. Medical advances have been pushing down the death rates of both sexes for many years, but the rate tor
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  • 95 11 EXIT-THE YULE LOG TIIF Yule lo£ el the 1 "XItsta Christmas card appears to have died out as a modern day Christm custoni. A pafan practic the Anglo-Saxons kindled the Yule lop J»t the winti r feast, prctining the welcome return of the sun, In hanoui ol the Cod Thoi
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  • 386 11  -  BEACHCOMBER A MAN who, at the age of 86, "can no longer lift a 1001 b. weight over his head,"' must feel a frightful fool m society. His hostess, noticing his humiliation, says, "If you hadn't brought the weight With you, you wouldn't be worrying so much.
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    • 133 11 A NOSE fg\a* 1 9 trouble <p fl QUOTE— \jS by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe. Home Secretary, tn a speecti read for him at Cardiff:— 1 he civil servant must have a nose for smelling out trouble. 1 he public servant today need/ not only high power intellect but energy,
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    • 128 11 P' \jpf It. i,f Voir V.ll#; MOM WfP GRAND eAIC r i ANNUAL g ?«i»HSW»iffl»«s^^ m* .^mmamtmmttmmt U.P. S.P. To Cleat Mysore Pore siik Sarees 155.00 H ><» Arrow Dale Shirts I 9.00 Banflore silk Sarees 038.50 I 52.00 English Poplin Bhirti <•■><• Plain Cotton s.irr«s ii m 5.00 Cottella
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    • 53 11 NO ,*fF WS FOR fATKER h Cfiies t 9 I fc l $9^mi^m^^^ 3^^9^ > I N^^"^ l *^v fill Him *^^^^B^^^VA^ mm No papers todu>, everybody— now '5 your chance to *cc what rhe waster 0/ the house looks Wee first thing m the morning." Britain ivas without newspapers
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    43 12 picture Six-year-old visitor from Sheffield. Yorkshire. Valeric Ann Jones puts a friendly arm around the neck of London Zoo's one-week-old baby llama. Jack. Despite all Valerie's efforts to get to know him. though, Jack just gazes into the distance and remains aloof.- Reuter
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    346 12 'THIS is one of Sam CJold's fa- vourite hands. The Life Master Iron* Montreal played the South cards m the National Mixed Team of Four Championship back In 1948, and you'll see m a few minutes why lie remembers it so fondly. North opened the queen of clubs.
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  • 530 12  - Deaths don 't stop mountain climbers EUGENE LEVIN by MOUNTAINEERS are x getting m their last lick.s at the Himalayas before the winter snows ring down the curtain on the most tragic climbing year since World War II started. Expeditions from r'ranee Germany. Austria and Suit serland are pursuing man's
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  • 60 12 FOR your misprint collection. (From the Paris paper Franc-Tireun "The Tunisian leader Habib Bourguiba has been suffering since this morning from a sore throat which is obliging him to keep to his room. M. Bourguiba. whose health is causing no anxiety, will probably rest for a couple of
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  • 292 12 A PROMINENT New Zealand heart specialist reports he has found m some people a peculiar type of premature heart-beat which forecast sudden death. This ominous sign, which shows up m the jagged lines of electro-cardiograph records, appears only occasionally In cases having a previous history ol heart disease.
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  • 125 13 \NEW Novello," said the critics about Julian ide. "His music m 'Salad s sets your feet a-dan-cing." they added. But it was not till five weeks alter the show began that ihe sheet music was on sale. Only a couple i weeks ago did the
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    10 13 Purdom m "The Student Prince" (above) and m The Egyptian."
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  • 516 13  - Mistinguett keeps her Secret LOGAN GOURLAY Her age (about SO) is Bier business* she says. \IISTINGUETT, the iron butterfly, the indestructible, the deathless vamp, who, they say, is roughly 20 years older than the Eiffel Tower, was lying- down to rest, Her agent, who has brought her to London to
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  • 585 13 Purdom Lunges into Fame rYES, said MRS. IMK--1 dom with a mother's pride, "my sun is a star an absolute star." The name of her 2'i -year-old son EDMUND PI'KDOM may not ring many bells m London at the moment. But m the West End this week two Hollywood films
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  • 96 13 NEW York i.s full of neurotic writers." says VIRGINIA MAYO, "who should come to California and get rid of their neuroses." HEDY LAMARR i.s Importing Massimo Serato. her leading man In "Apple of Venus." to the United States for a tour to sell the Italian-made picture. She states
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    • 1206 14 My Soccer Stars By TOMMY LAWTON UTAKT my "soccer 3 school" today with goalkeepers and defence and 1*1! introduce you to my stars, the men I know to have been the top men some are still the top men at their jobs. The goalkeeper is the last line of defence
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    • 124 14 WALLY THOM retained his British and European welterweight boxing championships at Harringay Arena on Tuesday night when he knocked out Lew Lazar of London m the sixth round of a 15 round contest. A beautiful short left hook to the jaw which travelled only about
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    • 139 14 THE M.C.C. team was "entitled to pass, but not with hon-; ours" for its %even wickets win over West Australia m the "first cricketing examination" of the Australian tour was the summing up ola cricket writer m a Melbourne newspaper. "Marks lost by the
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    • 407 14 Reply to Jim Peters DEAR JlM— Why don't you stick to your oonw n branch ot* sport, athletics, and leave the well-betas nt football to people such as myself? r To me you are not an authority on training. You are a distance runner
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  • 248 15 Mob breaks up FAS Cup s-final a SELANGOR FA A^Cup semi-final was abandoned yesterday m Kuala Lumpur as unruly spectators swarmed onto the pitch. Stones and shoes were hurled as over 500 people invaded the pitch three minutes from time. The Cup match was between Selangor Rangers and Selangor Chinese
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  • 143 15 pENANG Badminton Association will hold a State trial on Monday to select a team for the Settlement's defence of the Foong Seong Cup. The trial will be staged m the Han Chiang High School Hall at 6 p.m. Sixteen players have been invited. They are
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  • 191 15 4 QUIET campaign is being fought to correct what its supporters regard as a major wrong: The fact that one of the world's most popular sports, fishing, has no place m the Olympic Games. Clin* Netherton. a Washington high school teacher who is one of the prime
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  • 86 15 ARGENTINE flyweight cham*Y pion Pascual Perez disappointed boxing observers m Tokyo yesterday. Betting odds Immediately switched to make h m a slight underdog m his Oct. 20 title bout with world amnion Yoshio Shiral. Observers who watched the "Mvntine train for the outdoor, 15-round fight came
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  • 17 15 Belgrade's soccer team yesterday defeated Istanbul 4-3 after being held one-all at half time.- A.P.
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    51 15 First past the post to win the Newmarket Town Plate on the July course at Newmarket, goes Miss Ann Waugh, daughter of trainer Jack V/augh. riding Le Moussaillon 11. The race inaugurated by Charles 11, is the only one under Jockey Club rules that is open to women
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  • 434 15 How they ran at Penang —and the dividends are high Jilt; swij;i» TOTAL POOL: $220 1)00. Ist. No. *****1 ($66,270) 2nd. No. *****2 ($29,821) 3rd. No. *****5 ($16,567) STARTERS, ($1 172 each) Nos: *****9; *****1; *****0; *****9; *****3; *****6; *****4; *****1; *****7. CONSOLATION, (***** each) Nos: *****4;
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  • 188 15 SBA MEET SINGAPORE representative badminton player Loong Pan Yap, a member of the Foong Seong Cup team, was eliminated m the first round of the Colony championships last night by young Ng Herrg Kwang (Flower 8.P.) Pan Yap was beaten m straight sets 18—17, 1111.5 11.
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  • 65 15 MALAYA Publishing House upset Mercentile Bank 1-0 m their semi-final replay of the SBHFA Senior Knockout Cup at River Valley Road yesterday. The only goal came early m the game when Othman booted home a Dollah cross. MPH defended for the rest of the
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  • 276 15 j R.A.F 13: Royal Navy 0. /pHE Royal Navy forwards stole a large share of the limelight m yesterday's inter-Services rugger match at HMS Terror, which Royal Air Force won by two goals and a try to nil. f The airmen, with their faster and
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  • 43 15 SINGAPORE'S Chinese Athletic soccer team will play two matches m Kuala Lumpur this weekend. They meet Selangor Tamilians on Saturday and Selangor Chinese on Sunday. Both games will be played at Princes Road stadium. Admission is $1.
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  • 39 15 Outplaying their opponents m speed and tactics, the Fijians delighted a crowd of rugger fans on the Ipoh padang yesterday when they trounced Perak by 35 points (four goals, three tries, penalty, drop goal) to nil.
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  • 310 16 a^^* Bj OB JbbSj^ OW .aßVatataaafatal Good form on a yielding track tree Press Course Correspondent 4iri\i: KNIGHT, with i>«>n Patterson up, did y smart gallop on tlif training track at Penang this morning. Breaking from the half mile, he steadily increased pace to cover
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  • 112 16 rpHE English Football League beat the Irish League (Northern Ireland) 4-2 after leading 2-0 1/1 an inter-league match at Liverpool yesterday, Though beaten, the Irish League took most of the honours for a spirited display, while the England selectors could have learned little from the game.
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  • 55 16 Ar: Ramponi, of Richmond. California, knocked out Lauro Balas, of Mexico City last night m the fourth round of a scheduled 10- round bout. A right caught the former world lightweight champion on the chin. Salas fell Into the press row and was unable to
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  • 38 16 2ft Words >f> (minimum) GREGORY The death occurred! on 15th October, 1954. after a short' illness at Glengyle, Pertshire. of Lieutenant-Colonel Hamish Eain Keith Gregory. M.C.. late of 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own). Federation papers please copy.
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  • 56 16 FORMOSA brat Singapore 83-72 last night at the Happy World Stadium m the All-Asia basketball tournament. The Federation of Malaya team was eliminated from the championship when suffering their second defeat. Hong Kong beat them 67-62. Thailand beat Sarawak 70--15. Tonight the women's title win* be
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  • 65 16 JJINGAPORE All Stars scored their fifth straight victory of the Federation tour when they beat Perak Chinese Athletic Federation 4-1 at the Perak Badminton Association hall. 1 To Wong Poh Keng. 16-year-old Perak schoolboy, goes the credit for taking the only came off the visitors.
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  • 37 16 Barnsley. the British Army goalkeeper, misses a high centre but centre-half T. Smith (right) is there to clear. Aston Villa beat the Army 1-0 m thi s evenly fought match at Aldershot Stadium.
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  • 129 16 i>exis compton after weeks of intensive treatment for his injured right knee and dieting to reduce his weight left London airport yesterday to fly to Australia to join the MCC touring team. He Is clue m Singapore tomorrow afternoon. Looking extremely lit Compter; said before he
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  • 36 16 Arsenal, the English Plrsl Divisl o team, beat the Racing Club of Paris 3-1 m their annual charity soccer game played under floodlights m Paris last night. They led two nil at half-time Reuter
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  • 30 16 Cambridge University 42 St, Mary's Hospital 3; Oxford University is Leicester 0; United Services Chatham 3 United Services Ports- mouth 8; Northern Command (Army) 8 Northumberland 6.
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    • 365 16 WEIGHTS FOR THE LAST DAY IIfEIGHTS for Saturday, last day of the Penary Turf Club meeting, are:— cl 2 div l— B'F. i forget-Me-Not 8.03 CL. 4. DIV. *2— 6F. #m The Singaporean 8.02 Cabaret II 9.00 a L r '."n Ba L, r l a. i Klchin 800 Ch
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