The Singapore Free Press, 28 October 1954

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    Masthead
    21 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. N* 14UDO Singapore. Thurs.. Oct >8. 19,|. p, j ce 15 cts
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    Overseas Chinese
    95 1  -  Chiang by A CHINESE Nationalist tfelerV gate bo the United Nations >aid yesterday that the *ortiocsan Government did not laim overseas Chinese d>, citims once they become citizens of another country. Liv Chieh, Nationalist amissador to Canada, told the reneral Assembly's Special Potical and Security Committee that Chinese
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    TUG SINKS: 14 LOST
    41 1 •TIME French tug. Faidherbe. 1 was reported m Capetown esterday to have foundered m i gale eight miles otf Still Bay. Cape Province. South Africa. Fourteen crewmen were sared lost. They included ■ne British emigrants to stralia,
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    SOBBING GIRL LED HIM TO DYING MAN
    54 1 4 POLICEMAN found an -A eight-year-old Indian girl; nying at the 13^2 milestone! Sembawang Road. Singapore i last night. She led him to her home! where her father, K. Irrulappan, was found with knife; wounds. He died on the way to hospital. A
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    Nutting for U.N.
    28 1 Mr. Anthony Nutting, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, will replace Mr. Selwyn Lloyd as head of the British delega ticm to the United Nations.
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    RUBBER TIED UP BY STRIKE
    162 1  - RUBBER TIED UP BY STRIKE GEOFFREY ROLAND C*l m m m opot price jumps By |*ilh demand for immediate rubber stocks by factories m Britain is becoming daily more urgent with several thousand tons of rubber tied up m ships m strike-bound ports. The urgency is demonstrated by the spot
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    They fear rubber shortage
    89 1 They fear rubber shortage THE British Government yesterday turned down a request from the Rubber Manufacturers' Federation for the release of emergency stocks of rubber. The request was made at a meeting of the Materials Supply Committee m anticipation of a possible shortage due to the dock strike. Mr. Stuart
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    New Syrian govt.
    20 1 Premier-designate Faris El Khoury has agreed to form a new Syrian cabinet within 24 hours.- A. P.
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    FLOOD AID PAY-OUT IN BEDOK TONIGHT
    155 1 SEVERAL Bedok farmers who lost their vegetable crops and livestock during the week-end floods m Singapore will get some cash assistance tonight. A five-man committee of Government officials went to the area this morning to BM-iii the damage. They hope to complete the survey
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    Final peace bid -then troops in
    231 1 A GOVERNMENT court of m- i quirv laid down an urgent compromise formula last night as the last hope for a peaceful endinc of the crippling dock strike which is threatening Britain with food shortages and widespread unemployment. More than 43.000 workers are out
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    Safety guarantee
    28 1 Red Chlna'i Premier, Mr. Chou Bn-lal, lias .-tskrci the Japanese Government t^j \\w^rantee the safety of the ftrst official Communist Chinese delegation ever to visit JftPAO
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    Tokyo rejects ban
    29 1 Japan has decided to reject lan International Whaling Commission resolution calling for a ban OH <;ilf hing blue whales m I the North Pacific. A. P.
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    U.S. diplomat's wife accused of slapping a Russian
    346 1 U.S. diplomat's wife accused of slapping a Russian pussi\ charged yesterday that thi wife ol v n American diplomat In Moscow struck a Kussian worker In the face and hinted she v^ ,!ii(l be expelled for the "act ol hooliganism. Radio Moscow saicTthal Mrs Hetty Bomerlatte re w the u.s
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    Jet crash kills 3
    28 1 A u.s. Jet fighter last night crashed into a house In Gernlinden, Germany, fettling an elderly woman, her 10-numth-old grandchild and the pilot.— A.P.
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    Gift to the Queen by 3,000 Elisabeths
    57 1 Gift to the Queen by 3 ,000 Elisabeths rpHE Queen has accepted a bound album containing the names and addresses of 3,000 other Elizabeths m Bri- tain, the Commonwealth and I Empire collected to commemorate her coronation last June. Her acceptance has now been notified to the Women's Guild of
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    CAR SEIZURE ORDER ATTACKED IN COURT
    187 2 'Customs found brandy but not owner' A MAGISTRATE'S order confiscating a motor car to the Crown was attacked on appeal by Mr. G. J. Okell, on behalf of the owner of the vehicle. Teo Kirn Soo, m the Singapore High Court yesterday The car
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    Armed guards ring Pakistan Parliament
    275 2 Armed guards ring Pakistan Parliament MEMBERS BARRED ENTRY 4RMED police Burrounded the Pakistan Constituent A General Assembly building m Karachi yesterday to enforce the Governor-General's four-day-old proclamation that the body "has ceased to function." They turned back several members of the Moslem League Government bloc who were trying to hold
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    Royal puintor
    80 2 Royal puin tor A BRITISH artist Mr. Idu ard Halhday (left* who painted the Queen and Hie Duke oi Edinburgh m Buckingham Palace and the Indian Prime Minister. "Mr. Jau aharlal Nehru, last year, arrived m Singapore yesterday. Mr. Hallida> is going to New Zealand to paint Sir John MacKenzie,
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    NEGRO IS RAISED TO GENERAL
    86 2 NEGRO IS RAISED TO GENERAL I)KFSIDFVI Kisenhuvwr yesterday nanu-d m Washington the ft rs t Negro An Force Cener.tl He is Benjamin Oliver Davis. Jr.. aged 41. of Washington, now serving as Director of Operations and Training of the U.S Far Fast Air Forces. Davis, who is the son of
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    Ike is opposed to Big 4 conference 'at present'
    178 2 PRESIDENT EISENHOWER yesterday opposed any meeting of the Western powers with Russia at this time, but left the way open for a conference later. President Eisenhower had been asked to comment on the statement by Sir Winston Churchill, the British Prime
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    O.N. AGREE ON SECRET ARMS TALKS
    154 2 lITITH a shou ol unity ran ly t .-«.t i ni tie United Nation ti). Political c< m mit tec ol General Assembly yesterday m New York approved uith a*.elamatton a proposal jointly sponsored by ihe West and th* Soviet Union calling for a
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    SEA RESCUE
    44 2 Three rescue vessels raced from New York harbour to the 205- foot Norwegian freighter, Germa. which radioed an S.O S. j yesterday afternoon from east ol Newfoundland after her bridge had been swept away m a furious North Atlantic .storm. A. P.
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    Japs invite M.P.s
    25 2 The Japanese Diet yesterday invited the British Parliament to send six of iUs members to Tokyo for a visit next month. A.P.
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    TWO PREMIERS MEET AND HISTORY IS MADE
    119 2 TIIK first meeting between a Japanese Prime Minister and a British Prime Minister since before the v»ar took place m London last night, when Mr. Shigeru Yo-shid.i met Sir Winston Churchill. Mr. Yoshwla was the guest of honour at i dinner given by
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    MAN BLOWN UP: HAD BOX BOMB
    92 3 MAN BLOWN UP: HAD BOX BOMB a man carrying a dox was blown to pieeefe m Edinburg iTexafi), yesterday m an explosion that wrecked the .second floor of the courthouse and shook a whole district. Chief Deputy Sheriff Tom Vingert o! Hidalgo County said the man blew himself up.* The
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    Marilyn: I expected love but Joe was indifferent to me
    358 3 4 < I tt Ks s MABILYN .A MONROE yesterday won a divorce from j,>e uUEtafgio, at Santa Mom ea, California, sobbing mat he gave her only coolness und inditter enee and sometimes wouldn't talk to her lor 10 days
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    NO HERO, NO SAINT: JUST A MAN WHO LOVED A GIRL
    692 3 NO HERO, NO SAINT: JUST A MAN WHO LOVED A GIRL DEFENCE counsel said m the Old Bailey m London yesterday that a 26-year-old Hong Kong law student. Jack Sing Ip, charged with having unlawfully procured an Egyptian woman by false pretences was not *a hero or saint." Ip had
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    HUNT FOR FLOOD DEAD
    117 3 YIUD-CAKED workers stTUgl'l gled m darkness last night In a gigantic effort to restore normal life to the Salerno area, devastated by Italy's worst flood disaster. Others, chiefly soldiers and firemen exhausted* by nearly 48 hours of continuous labour, dug through the ruins of scores of
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    Single far only 4 hours
    118 3 MOVIE ;u"nr Guy Madison was married to television it Sheila Connolly under '"•> legal n line, Robert Ozell M >sley, tour hours alter hi. divorce from actress Gail lufisell on grounds of incompatibility, Madison was having too [puch fun In Miami on his honeymoon yesterday
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    'Tub' cruise washed up
    91 3 npilE Roy Bergos crui.se to 1 Alaska m a baby's bathtub was all washed up yesterday when mechanical trouble forced him back to shore at Whidbey Island, Washington State, 1,388 miles from his goal. The 50-year-old mariner told the Coast Guard he was turning to shore
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    The Singapore Freee Press Opinion PREMIER'S TASK
    367 4 The Singapore Freee Press Opinion PREMIER'S TASK THURSDAY, Oct. 28 1954. The recent major reshuffle of the British Cabinet has set political observers at home and abroad speculating once again on the always intrigu- r ing question: "When will the Prime Minister retire?"' Perennial Sir Winston Churchill, at almost 80.
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    Tragedy of the two Pakistans
    558 4  -  IAIN LAING BACKGROUND TO A CRISIS By DURING the past summer East Pakistan, the populous and juterich part of the Moslem member of the Commonwealth, has experienced two major political convulsions and widespread flooding. The first political upheaval was at the end of March when,
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    NAVY SHOWS A 'TOY' SHIP
    502 4  -  STEPHEN COULTER rv ttn yytyty TOHE French Navy has A just spent £20,000 on building a wooden ship that won't ever steam as far as a toy boat on a pond. It's an aircraft carrier, a third real size, and complete with all equipment, now
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    Cellist Pierre is never 'at horne— before 11 am
    320 5 Cellist Pierre is never 'at horne before 11 am 4i niordii famous cellist Pierre I (iiiriiier looks more like a matinee idol than a maestro, fie is an artist who il v< s liis music seriously. Sow on a brief visit to Singapore, the tidsome, brown-eyed Parisian who has zoice
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    The police keep eye on cathedral
    94 5 I)OLICE anti-vice patrols A regularly visit the St. Andrew's Cathedral compound at night, a police spokesman told the Free Press yesterday. A reader had written to say that people were going to the cathedral compound and misbehaving there. The acting Vicar of the Cathedral,
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    MALAYAN CO-OPERATIVE INSURANCE POLICIES WILL BE CHEAPER
    160 5 MALAYAN co-operators will offer chea per life policies to the public when their iTI new insurance society starts next year. The secretary of the Singapore Co-operative Society, Mr. Andrew B. Pinto, said policy holders would automatically become directors of the society, entitled to
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    Park music
    22 5 Th^ Queen' o Royal Regiment Band will play at Katong Park from G p.m. to 7.30 p.m. on November 7.
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    Penang visit of Chief Scout
    46 5 PENANG, Thurs.— Lord Rowallan. Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, will visit the Settlement on Nov. 6. Rallies of Cub.s Scouts and Rovers will be held at various centres. Capt. H.G.R. Stevenson has been appointed to organise the rallies.
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    Budget meeting
    17 5 Singapore City Council will 'Id a special meeting on Nov. to consider its 1955 budget.
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    Motorcycle is stolen
    33 5 ALOR STAR, Thurs. A motorcycle worth $1,000 has been reported lost here. The owner, who had left it at the treasury oHiee, could not find the machine an hour later.
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    Water in milk
    26 5 IF'OH, Thurs. For adding water to milk, Chanan Lai, a milk vendor, was fined $100, or three weeks' imprisonment, at I poh yesterday.
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    Malay union is not happy over link-up
    218 5 Malay union is not happy over link-up ■"HE Singapore Malay nion will meet, next w<< k to onsider its decision to Oin the L.ibour Front. Mr Mohd Sidik, president I the union. said his mem■i i were shocked at the '"it's last act m eon.stitut itself an independent •olitical body,
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    CONVERTS NEED NOT ADOPT MUSLIM NAMES
    186 5 CONVERTS NEED NOT ADOPT MUSLIM NAMES ■TIHE Chief Kathi ol Singapore, Haji Ali bin Mohamed Said Salleh, said yesterday that it was not obligatory for Islam converts to adopt Muslim names. A Chinese, after embracing Islam, may retain his ur hor name provided it is linked with a Muslim name.
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    These people need clothes
    71 5 [POH, Thur.v The tomatea ol the Old Folks" Hume m Kampong Tawaa New Village near here are badly In need ol old clothes and the Social Welfare Department will gladly accept any contributions of both tnen'fl and women's clothing preferably of Chinese type, for the Home.
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    U.N. Day plans
    26 5 TAIPING, Thur.s. The Pa-rent-Teacher Association of the Lady Treacher Girls' School, Taiping, will present a United Nations' Day programme m the school tomorrow.
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    Six months' gaol for $3 theft
    46 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Cheng Kiew, 45, was yesterday sentenced to six months' gaol by the Kuala Lumpur Second Magistrate's Court for stealing $3.40 from a woman at Foch Avenue on Oct. 19. Cheng, who had Bye previous convictions, pleaded guilty.
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      206 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis I\* hE% A riGhlfß- whatever! f a,\ SNAPPED THE LINE ANO 1 T/£D i 3 Z',-.-; HREELSIN k V HE IS HASN'T BROKEN YEI DIDN'T EVEN 6ET A LOOK AT MIM.' NA Wl END Of TUt LIM "is r^s about IA/HEaEY^T W-- \^may
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      645 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR OORN today, you uu- bONtt*J to have an exciting and eventful life. Sometimes things will go along very happily— and al others. there appeal to be barriers m your oath lhal arc insurmountable. Thi stais seem to have Indicated lital at limes jour path will be smooth
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      U.K. closing prices
      174 7 LONDON, (Xt »7 Previous lod4ty Noy. KSS E r pean g? w sgs g «s SsP o, 21 g 85 ±s jg:-; J sfueib *B% .sellers Jaa Mar I vo i KSS Settlement >i i b!jv#.rs > < i INN Terms Jan Mar 2S2E? Sti u^ V.NX
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      New York prices
      111 7 Above prices quoted m US cents per lb. NEW YORK. Oct. »T. Previous Today fIN straits spot and nearby 92 62 nom. 92 59 norn lIN futures Oct 91 87 bid 92 50 nom. expired at noon 92 75 asked Nov. 91 87 bid 91.87 bid 92.62
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      US. PEPPER
      56 7 Spot Malabar released was quotei 3r 51. Awaiting release 51. Afloats 51 October shipment 51. November 49 Sarawak spot released 48. Await[■•e'ease 48. Afloats 48. October j shipment 48. November 47. Lampons* awaiting release 51. Atioats 50. October shipment 50. November 49 sellers ex dock. I Above prices
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      36 7 NFVV YORK. Oot. 77. Previous Today tfl Industrials 55«.32 355.73 Ktilroads 119 Ad 119 AH t Damestifl Bonds HMI.S7 100 91 I I lilities 5H.:»7 58.45 1 Stocks Composite Averages IMM 130.8 3
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      128 7 Oct. 27. < r)PRA, Philippines, c.i.f. TK North. Previous Today I 'iropean. delivered weight per $198 .-tellers $197 seller.; I »n< ton Nov. Dec IK Philippines, f.o.b. Manila, delivered weight, per long ton unquoted unquoted (ni'Kv. straits, c.i.f. IK North European delivered weight per i a
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    Australian chief here
    136 7 AN Australian who played an a* Important part m the pro»m ol Lancastrian bombers Beau fighters during the tiaj arrived m Singapore. f La Sir John Storey, chairin and director of the Aus'*m Over.sea.s Corporation. irrived from Sydney m a ÜBO AC. Super Conitlon, with hi.s wife.
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    EDUCATION COUNCIL IS TOLD: HANDS OFF OUR MONEY
    425 7 EDUCATION COUNCIL IS TOLD: HANDS OFF OUR MONEY npHERE IS strong opposition to the plan of the SingaA pore Council for Adult Education to control the funds of its 18 affiliated associations and supervise the classes run by them. Heads of several member associations told the Free Press that the
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    Chusan due in S'pore with 226 passengers
    715 7 Chusan due in S'pore with 226 passengers THE following passengers from Britain are expected to disembark m Singapore from the 24,000-ton P. and O. inler Chusan, on Saturday: Mrs. A. B. M. Aird, Mr. and Mrs M. J. Ahearne and child, Mis*, J. Ainsworth, MLss M. Ackers. Mrs. R H.
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    Patrol kills a terrorist
    31 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thuis A patrol of the <>th Battailon Malay Regiment on Tuesday killed a Uhlneae terrorlat m a camp m the Mentakub area of We.^t Pahang.
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    Red papers charge
    49 7 IPOH. Thurs— Bail was opposed when 21-year-o!d Yeong Sang, of Kuala Kuang new vlilage, wa.s charged here yesterday with being m possession of terrorist documents. Yeong wa.s arrested by Home Guards at the 3rd mile Jelaoang Road outside Ipoh. The cas* was postponed io Nov 3.
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    UNKNOWN
    181 8 THE annual fire-u alking ceremony at the Sri Marianiman Temple m Singapore, was i»s crowded an event this year as last. About 30,000 people watched <>0 devotees atone for their sins by walking hire -looted across a pit of red hot coals m a centuries-old Hindu ceremony. After their
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    64 9 Beneath the shade of coloured umbrellas, Hindu sods gaze down on the crowds while awe and apprehension axe shown on the face of the little aiti (top ri«ht) looking down on the fire-walkers from her perch atop a stone cow. Devotees made the trip across the hot coals on their
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    TITO has decided to DIS-arm
    817 10  - TITO has decided to DIS-arm SIMON MAYNARD Pw-wrifyina l.u r<tpt> *po wd**r an ffffff o lff llit* ne«eie lio nlooil gift lee Si.iliii Is** 4 ne«'lle»t%e»eJ. m ONI part ol the world comet the type of news we haven't heard ror years. Namely that Marshal Tito has decided to make
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    BY THE WAY
    259 10  -  BEACHCOMBER WHEN, perhaps, 81 Socialist M.P.s visit Peking, it is hoped that they will discuss the question of the pingpong match to be played there m November, against the Yoo-Hoo Club. The Chinese are annoyed at the Insistence i)f the British team on the words "table tennis."
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      89 10 OF SINGAPORE WD MALAYA 1954 ISSUE _i_^^^V NOW READY JJR^^^^V Cjmplet-e Alphabetical Index. mmw Amm** __T^*-___'^%£____ l__^^\v*v** x ■V_Kw_wH H SF I __^_^_>^l mW*/ Ml 'AmmWW/ jm J__m fl X V'lA Uk W^fl V mmmWm/ mmWWrf t^jSt" \Z] mmmm\^tk.'^SlrmM^mr^a*^KFm\.M mm\\\ \\mmMmW m*m\\\\j*f wt/mWmWwf 1 v. '•*?^B __>^V'lL/m^M '*^L^_L. flfl^^/ ///m
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    GOA DISPUTE UNSOLVED
    422 11  - GOA DISPUTE UNSOL VED Donald McKay INDIA AND PORTUGAL CANNOT AGREE says rjtHE flght between India and Portugal over Ooa, now m uneasy deadtoek, threatens to drag on interminably. The two countries appear too far divided on the basic issue to reach agreement, observers say. New Delhi demands that the
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    36 11 To uarn tltotof <\ < list s lhat (h«'v an- running ton nrar the tramlinr> m Virnna a spr»ial trick has bcffl laid running parallel (o lh«- lines. It vvhinrs a. LtlC tftH lyttl run 01 pi it.
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    Bingo is a 'hot' U.S. issue
    447 11  - Bingo is a 'hot' U.S. issue CHARLES MERCER says i gIX nights a week a stout, aging woman carries her own card table into one of the hundreds of social clubs and Church parish hails that dot America. She buys several numbered cards, lays them out on her table, and
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    Now Reds worry about divorce
    655 12  -  STAN LEY JOHNSON by r pHE evils divorce cspcciully m families with children are n ceiving more prominent c In the Soviet press. The anti-divorce campaign follows closely the pattern taken when this year's earlier Struggle against drintcing got underway. i* 1 every way, the
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    Bridge Hand
    354 12 Bridge Hand rpHE most difficult hands to bid accurately are those where one partner ls void of the suit which the other has bid. In this situation, he must fear a duplication of value.*-; if partner j has his strength opposite the void, then there will be inevitable quick losers
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    HER JOB TAKES HER ALL OVER THE WORLD
    217 12 T\R Dorothy Roberts, presi- dent of the Women's Union, is finding that her job is taking her all over the world. She recently returned to Britain from the Anglican Congress m Minneapolis. U.S.A.. and will shortly be off to the West Indies
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    52 12 picture. A 92-year-old White Russian and Iron Curtain refugee wrai among a party of refugees who arrived m Britain recently to begin a life of peace. Here. Marta Belousow. and her 74--year-old son. Wissili. are pictured at Waterloo station London, before continuing their journey to their new home m Barton-on-Sea.
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      292 12 ____l I fl I I W$M IB __B 15"" j 19 BfltfMZM r^ i flßflff I BW fl B^B I i >r LLES At uoss V A school principal attires her--1 Mr Chips m oils? <2, 3, 8). self (,4.7/ r _,»5* ni r had ta Spain ,8 n Illp
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    Hollywood forgets Jolly Jack
    118 13 Hollywood forgets Jolly Jack T>EADERS write from time to IV time to ask: "What's become of Jack Oakie?" The question deserves an answer. No comedian gathered such a wide and loyal following as plump Jack did beginning with the turn to talkies back m 1929. He and Skeets Gallagher were
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    10 13 KAY KENDALL, the most ravishing ghost I have ever seen.
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    Jimmy gets his sea legs
    231 13 F Jimmy Cagney needed complete assurance that he is at last cured of a long-per-sisting tendency to seasickness, he's getting it these days just off the coast of midway island. Cagney is playing the role of the lusty cargo-ship captain m "Mister Roberts/ now being
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    Debbie meets every
    156 13 JfVERY day is a challenge to J Debbie Reynolds. She oluuys is looking over the Wall; aspiring to things that a short while ago she would have believed beyond her. inch day she gels greater confidence m herself, more y <lf -assurance m her ability to do
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    THE GLAMOROUS GHOST OF GOLDERS GREEN
    539 13  -  THOMAS WISKMAN Her name is Kay Kendall. She languishes m a suburban theatre because the film makers want men just men I WENT to see a A ghost m Golders Green yesterday and found her taking glucose tablets. It seemed to me an uncharacteristic
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    'Commandments' under way
    136 13 /GREATEST adventure of his \J illustrious lifetime m show business is beginning for Cecil B. De Mille. At 73 he has taken off for Egypt for six weeks of location filming on his revised version of "The Ten Commandments." The picture can't possibly be on the screens
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    challenge
    72 13 imitation of Betty Huttnn. uinninq the title of "Miss BwbaflK of 1948." Seen by talent scouts, she Wo§ (J'ren U screen contract. following her debiif m "The Daughter 0/ KosU O'Gradyr Debbie Was Signed by M-G'M for Three T, it tie Words." Her performance led to a stur build-up.
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    'Villain' returns
    253 13 'Villain' returns (GEORGE RAFT, who won I lame m films m gangster roles, .started his career m .show business eva a dancer. The Charleston wa.s the raging fad at the time, and Rait soon became known as the "World's Fastest Charleston Dancer." He appeared on Broadway and also made several
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    Round-island winner
    48 14 Round -island winner picture. Jack M^ughan, winner of the round Singapore outboard motor boat race, is congratulated by his wife. Maughan, driving 'Pommie III" with a 5 h.p. West Bend engine, completed the 55-mile course m 3 hours 2 mm. m the smallest powered craft competing.- Free Press
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    A new way to sight a putt
    664 14  -  HENRY LONGHURST By /CERTAIN of the more painful maladies of this life give rise inevitably, for reasons never explained, to mirth rather than sympathy. Amone them gout and lumbago figure high m the list, but to these I am now able to add
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    REDS MAKE CHATAWAY MASTER OF SPORT
    135 14 REDS MAKE CHATAWAY MASTER OF SPORT /IHRIS CHATAWAY. hero of v tiif world record 5.000 metres race against the Lenin- _rad ex-sailor Vladimir Kuc, has been made a Master of Sport. First Class, Of the Soviet Union at the Russian Embassy m London. In his neat City suit (h< works
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    INTER-PORT REGATTA CREWS PICKED
    215 14 INTER-PORT REGATTA CREWS PICKED SINGAPORE news for the Inter-Port Rowint Regatta being organised by the Koyal Singapore Yacht Club on NOV. S and 6 have been selected. The races will all be over one mile In lengt h In the straits between Pulau Brani and pulau Blakang Matl Ai all
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    Admirers wept
    59 14 It's an old story of the prize ring They say admirers of Jim Jeffries wept when their idol came out of retirement and was axed by Jack Johnson. Jeffries, though, had been urged to give it a try, and Louis needed money. Nobody has asked Sugar Ray to
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    FRIENDS PLEAD WITH SUGAR RAY
    284 14  - FRIENDS PLEAD WITH SUGAR RAY GAYLE TALBOT By -OLO6E frienda have been unable thus far to dissuade Sugar Ray Robinson from attempting to make B ring comeback after two years on the 'ap dancing circuit. The once great fighter, who retired as middleweight champion In December of 1952, is m
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    OTEC LEAD ALL THE WAY TO GET THE TRIPLE'
    451 15  -  ARGOS THE LAST WORD— by Cup night at the stadium O.TXC 4; M KH L II WAS a gala night at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. T w Cup finals save a large crowd plenty to cheer and screim _„t i.
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    NOVICES FIGHT FOR CUP
    158 15 NOVICES FIGHT FOR CUP Free Press Boxing Reporter \CMIN Squadron won the team trophy m la_t night's ti H Q. Signal Regiment interSquadron boxing championships Tannin gymnasium, scoring 16 points. Runners-up were Operating Squadron with nine points. The championship cup and Indivii''...! medals were presented by Mrs. R H Fallow.
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    OXFORD UPSET
    26 15 Cxlorc Greyhounds, (the Universitj B team! beat Oxford clUni v< by nine points to six jn a Rugbj Union mutch on Tuesday. half-time Reuter
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    Apprentice allowance helped win
    186 15 Apprentice allowance helped win ARMY BOXING |rpHE 66 to one outsider MinsX trel, owned by Lord Rosebeiy. won the Cambridgeshire I handicap, the second leg of the autumn doubJe run over one mile, one furlong at Newmarket yesterday m a photo finish. The three-year-old Minstrel, ridi den by young apprentice
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    Empire champion
    85 15 picture. fn order to *uace the strength of the British Army boxing t» im this year winners of recent trials were matched »fa |n *i n »o rei R ning Army champions m a tournament at the «"«rj! "On Theatre, Tidworth. Above Pte. N. (Japans It A <
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    GIRLS BARRED FROM SPORE
    53 15 The All -England Badminton Association has refused permission fur Iris Cooley and June White to play m Singapore's international exhibition* next month. Mr h. A c Scheele, secretary of the English association commented: "The association i.s not .satisfied about the organisation of the contemplated tonr of
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    POH LIM IN FORM FOR 2 WINS
    190 15 POH LIM IN FORM FOR 2 WINS ON( t Poh Lim, Bingapt i c men's singled ami double! champion, w;i% m grand form si itu Colony's annual championships taut night sl tin- badminton bs.ll m the mi n s Ingles he beat wg Heng Kwang 16*0, 18-8 ta Nnrt 16
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    A close fight by juniors
    208 15 A close fight by juniors Thorny* roll 2; Mansfield S.C. 0. 'Pill SBIIFA Junior (up 1 final, first to be held. was an even fame m which Thorny-Troll's ronstructive play won the day. Mansfield might have led at half-time had they been able to finish off their speedy -it tacks.
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    Army snatch a penalty win
    303 15 Army 3; Royal Navy 0. (penalty goal) I^IVE minutes from time Don Fairman, the Army fullback, kicked a penalty goal to give his team a slender victory over the Royal Navy m yesterday's inter-Services rugby match at the RASC ground, Ayer Rajah Road. Navy did
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    DAI DOWER MUST REST
    115 15 I)AI DOWER 21-year-old j Welsh flyweight who outpointed Jake Tuli for the Empire title at Harringay. is not likely to fight again this year. Thr British Boxing Board of Control doctor has advised i Dower to have at least six week's rest before resuming training. Dower
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    Armstrong injured in
    282 16 If I lVn; ti. XVI bangi 3 [goal and penal t) jo< (trj i\i r t.» Avenge an earl) season dn c 1 1. the Tengah team played hard rugger with a nan short to at< impiish their aim at Tengah yesterday. fengah lost their star back,
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    Army beat the Navy
    56 16 Scrum-hall duel Royal Navy scrum half Wolfe attempts to break away from a tight scrum m yesterday's inter-Services rugger at Tanglin. He is about to be tackled m pos«essi hi by Payne (right), the Army scrum- half. Army won this close fought match 3-0. Full report
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    NO LEFT WING IN SELECTORS' CHOICE
    359 16 AFTER a meeting lasting an hour and a half. England's soccer selectors did NOT pick an England team for the match against Wales at Wembley on Nov. 10. r Instead, they named 17 players who will take part m a special training on the
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    U.K. RUGBY UNION
    39 16 Resull ol yesterday, m th hee:— < onntjf Championship: D n iel and Wiltshire 8 Busses 26; Eastern c ountles 3 Surrey 6; Harnp lire 3-i K-'iit (i othrr Match: Cambrld rrniv—. Ity 28 Bedford 3.- Reuter
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    SPARTAK WIN 7-0
    34 16 1 1 1" Bpartak Mow on ioc nte im who play Arpcnal nexi month de--1 the Belgian Anderlw hi team 1 Bruasela ye terdav Hai< 1"■ 'we wtut 3 o A.P.
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    Johore concei hockey -OFFICIAL
    139 16 Johore concei hockey OFFICIAL I*lll intn-Sl.)!, hockey natch between Singapore and Johore, dm* to ln> played <»n Saturday. has been »>rt»< iaiiv cancelled Mr. s Yogarajah told the Vvcf Press this morning that tie had been 1 icially infoi mcd by word thai the match was oil. a letter from
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    AUSSIES SCORE 43
    53 16 J^lH Royal Australian Air Force rugbj team scored \L-.uiiNt Royal Navj Kranjj yesterday al Tengah Kranji scored six points with tr> bf Panton and 1 n m dtv goa] bi Irving. Scorers tor the Aussies. who between them scored ll tries, were Moore, Newman Kin- kmos Wilson
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    Manila tries to outbid Solomons
    115 16 piLPINO mai hmakei I »pc x Sorreal said yesterday he h again EFered world flyweight champion Yoshio Shirai M 575,000 to risk. hla crown m Manila against Leo Espinosa. rhe ofl er, he said, had been de--lined bj Shiral's American manage!. Alvrn Cahn Sorreal also
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    AMATEUR RACE WEIGHTS
    48 16 AMATEUR RACE WEIGHTS WEIGHTS for th< Racehorses Han Saturday s amateur rac< ing at Bukit Tiniah announced by the Singai Turf Club this morn;:'. Follows, No Regrets 13.07, Scarlet i L 3.00, Bogor 13.00. Serango Jeunesse 11.13, British Stm Stream 1 1 07 Phi] 11.04. King's Grove 11.00.
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    BASKETBALL
    26 16 Prance yesterday upset yi 19 Ld i ound pi ij cond World Basketball I after leading the South \.i ericans 23-22 at halt time.- A.P
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