The Singapore Free Press, 30 October 1954

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    Masthead
    21 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya. No J |i»<».». Sat., Oct. .Hi, 1951. p, h e IS Cts
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    S'pore is healthier than most British towns, says doctor
    162 1 SINGAPORE is an extremely Healthy place now perhaps more so than the average British town, lid Dr. G. A. Ransome, Professor of Medicine in the University of Malaya and Senior Physician at the Singapore General Hospital, in New York yesterday He
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    Mothers won't give up 'wrong' babies
    159 1 1"HVO London mothers said by their hospital to have been given the wrong babies in a mix-up, have refused I to exchange them back. I Authorities at Stratford Hospital said the mix-up I occurred during feeding time, I and the mothers since have returned
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    Lambe going to Indonesia
    41 1 Admiral Sir Charles Lambe. the Naval C-in-C, Far East it ion, will visit Indonesia and Australia .soon. In Australia, he will confer vith the Australian Commonilth Naval Board. Ur is due back in Singapore on December 2.
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    CHIEF SCOUT TO OPEN CAMP
    30 1 Lord Rowallan, the Commonwealth Chief Scout, will open a scout camp in Jurong at 5.30 p.m. today. In the morning he visited the leper camp.
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    $1,000 HAUL
    20 1 A thief broke into a house in Wee Nam Road, Singapore, yesterday morning and stole articles worth $1,000.
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    Japs to aid Ceylon
    23 1 Japan will hHp Ceylon carry out Its plan of industrial development, it was said in Tokyo yesterday. A. P
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    Colombo Plan talk
    17 1 A Colombo Plan conference will be hf'ld at Bogor, Indonesia. *n D-'c^mbrr. A. P
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    ROMANCE ON SCOOTER FILM STAR TO MARRY FISHERMAN'S DAUGHTER
    173 1 A MERICAN film star, Marlon Brando, is to marry the 20-year-old stepdaughter of a French fisherman. The girl is Josaine Mariani-Berenger, a former artist's model. She and Brando, 30, met at a party given in New York by a doctor whose
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    A FRESH START THE ONLY WAY: ALI
    171 1 pRIME Minister Mohammad ah said yesterday he approved the recent dissolution 01 Pakistan's Constituent Assembly which wai the result r >f bitter and violent conflict between political factions and the various provinces." Re said the constitutionality of Governor General Ghulam Mohammad's action in
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    PERSIA'S OIL IS BACK ON WORLD MARKET
    55 1 PERSIA'S OIL IS BACK ON WORLD MARKET PERSIAN oil moved buck into the world market yesterday as the British tanker British Advocate started loading at Abadan. six hours after the shah had signed his nation's new oil part. The tanker had gay flags from stem to stern a.s hoses started
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    Russia veto
    28 1 Russia yesterday vetoed in the four-power Allied council in Vienna a Western Allied proposal to restore to the Austrian Government complete control over its frontiers, Reuter
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    STRIKERS TOLD GO BACK
    216 1 They vote today [EADERS of 11,000 striking dock workers were reported la>t night to have igreed to recommend a conditional return to work on Monday, to end Britain* most paralysing port stoppage in a generation. The chief condition of this "bark -to- work" call was understood
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    Slapping wife to go home
    144 1 T*HE United Statea bowed yesterday, to Soviet demands that Mrs Karl B. Sommerlattt, wife ol in American diplomat in Moscow, leave Ru.s.siu beCAUSe ot the face -slapping incident state Department spokesman Mr Hem y Suydam .said WLrtL Sommerlatte's hu s b and, second secretary In
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    RUBBER PRICE
    29 1 November first grade rubber opened today at ITi cents a pound in the Singapore market. The tone was uncertain. Yesterday's closing price was 771 cents a pound.
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      451 1 A MEW HI Ufll FOOTBALL CONTEST C/ j J $3,000 PRIZE MONEY! Ist $1,000 WHICH ARE THE ~H 2nd- $500 10 MOST IMPORTANT i 3rd $250 FACTORS IN PRODUCING 50 PR.ZES OF 525 P^^*^™ GOOD Following the tuccest I our recent 'Ben footballen' t7nLLIOS he ctown°cork t WHAT TO DO.'
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    EGYPT BANS 'KILLER' SECT: 500 HELD IN SWOOP
    238 2 EGYPT BANS 'KILLER' SECT: 500 HELD IN SWOOP r riiK Egyptian Government ha dissolved th< fanatical politico-religious Moslem Brotherhood, the Ministry ol Interior announced last night In Cairo. Police >• al< d ofl tin Broth* rhood's I liro headquarti and 200 branches throughout the count ry a Qovemment official fsaid
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    'Honest John" rocket for Europe defence
    170 2 'Honest John rocket for Europe defence rpiin r.s akmy announced In Washington yesterday 1 that it is sending to Europe several batteries" of the new, lone-range rocket, "Honest John." which can earn j an atomic warhead. The new weapon "will be deployed to Europe within the next few months for
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    She starts Christmas shopping
    82 2 rrfUK Queen Mother started her I Christmas shopping early yesterday in New York at I hlgh-CIaSS hardware .-tore noted foi its household novelties. The Queen Mother went on the impromptu shopping trip after lunch because a day-long rain had spoiled her plan.s for sightseeing. "i can
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    150,000 RUSH TO JOIN NEW GERMAN ARMY
    72 2 150,000 RUSH TO JOIN NEW GERMAN ARMY More than 150.000 young Germ ins alreadj have volunteered for the Bonn Republic's new 500.000-man armed forces. Applications still are rolling in at an average rate of 350 daily, officials disclosed In Bonn yesterday. But informed observers both German and foreign, do not
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    Adenauer urges East-West pact
    216 2 FOR SECURITY OF FREE WORLD *pHE West German Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, in Washington yesterday called for an East- West non-aggression treaty to bring unity to Germany and security to the free world. The people of the West should join as a group into a relationship,
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    13 must die
    37 2 Th< Milit u Appeals Court Jm ii ran v iterday confirmed i ntenc< ol death against foi mi t Foreign Mint ter Hn sein Fatemi and 12 army officer convicted of Comitninit activity U.P
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    THAT ROMANCE—'A DEAD FISH'
    52 2 THAT ROMANCE— 'A DEAD FISH' r i v »m Dimagglo, restaurant owner, said in San Francisco ye terday that the romance ol his famous brother, Joe and Marilyn Monroe, wub, "a dead Bah.' 1 "Report about b reconciliation arc a lot of baloney," Tom said what i kno* <»[ joe,
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    A-dust over Denmark and Norway
    57 2 A-dust over Denmark and Norway 'JMTE Norwegian Defence Staff yesterday confirmed that harmless radio-active particles believed to have originated from explosions of atomic weapons, have be^n detected m the atmosphere over Norv, ay. Danish scientists yesterday reported finding unusuai quantities but harmless of radio-active dust in many Re uter I
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    Big flood toll
    22 2 Floods which ravaged villagi in Balerno province in Italy haw killed 310 people and 217 are mi& ing. U.P
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    Bomb kills six
    29 2 Sis i>* ople v• re killed and 20 wounded bj 0 bomb thi ov n in a markei quartet 01 Ca s blanca yi iterday Reuter
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    Oil pact signed
    28 2 The Shah of Persia yesterday signed the oil agreement between the Persian Government and the International Oil Consortium which is to redevelop Persian oil. Reuter
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    U.N. call to Burma guerillas
    120 2 T HL< United Nation^ a x Assembly recommended 1 New Vork yesterdaj the estimated 6.000 Chini Nationalist guerillas Burma should But) being disarmed O r Interned Filty-six of the Nations oi) nations voted In favour of the resolution which Mr. James R. ton. of Burma,
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    SECRET TALKS ON FATE OF 600
    159 2 SECRET talks on the problem of Indonesian Illegal immigration into the Philippines were opened in Manila yesterday The talks, between representatives of the two countries, were adjourned after two hours. Mr. F Tjokroadisumarto, Charge d'Affaires of the Indonesian embassy and chairman of his eight-man
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    SNAKEROOT CURES INSANE
    292 3 "Incredible result by U.S. doctors _Y RESEARCH team said In Chicago yesterday thai Ul( v lla( i achieved dramatic ana seemingly incredible results in treating hopelessly insane patients with a new form <>i an old snakerool remedy from India. They said the drug, reserpine broughi improve- lltlllt
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    Chiang air raids
    34 3 Peking Radio said yesterday that Nationalist Chinese planes made 10 single plane sorties over Pukien, Cheking, Anhwei and Kiangsu provinces on Wednesday and Thursday dropping handbills over the main cities. Reuter
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    Strong earthquake
    18 3 A strong earthquake shook El Salvador yesterday but no i damage was reported A.P A .P
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    WOMEN Doctor's plan will raise a storm
    158 3 WOMEN Doctor's plan will raise a storm I Hi French Academy el Medicine bas formally mthorised the sterilisation >i u imih'm ii h»> because of health would lose their lives ii they became pregnant< The move is tort. tin to raise a medical toi tn In target) Kom.ni i ttholic
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    WOMEN Surgeon says beware this beauty aid
    94 3 WOMEN Surgeon says beware this beauty aid i rNDER the skin "falsies" I have been frowned on bj a leading American i>i.istu surgeon Dr. \V. Milton, president >l the American Society «»t Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, said in a statement that use of a plastic sponge material to increase the
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    HIS GIRL ACCUSER HAD 3 DOUBLE BRANDIES
    135 3 \IRMAN JACK W. Jennings. 3f>. nephew of U.S. Senator Olin D. Johnston (DemocratSouth Carolina", was acquittal at Frankfurt, Germany, by R US Air Force court martial Of raping a pretty 21 -year-old Vuguslav refugee. Jennings, could have received a maximum sentence >f death
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    This plane can spot subs
    94 3 r VWK new tail of the United Btat«fl Navv P-27 Neptune aircraft has 'divining rods" for spotting submarines, the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation disclosed in Burbank (California) v^terday. The plane is called the Madhird MAD stands for Magnetic Airborne Detector. Ift doti its aerial detective work
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    FATIGUE TEST FOR NEW BIG BRITISH PLANE
    121 3 ri^Ht; new 100-seater Bristol 1 Britannia turbo prop airliner is to undergo fatigue tests similar to those applied to a Comet to discover the causes ol tin.' two Comet disasters curlier this year The tests are being arranged at the request of the
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    Scout Tok meets his Chief
    57 3 Scout Tok meets his Chief could be achieved through scouting. It was the < liief Scout's first public address since he arrived on Thursday. He was accompanied by the Colony Chief Scout Commissioner, >Ir. K. E, lnce Lord Rowallan is seen (above) shaking hands (the scout way) with St. Joseph's
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    Miss Hong Kong to marry
    53 3 Miss Virginia June Lee, 21, Miss Hong Kong in the Miss Universe contesi last July, will wed a U.S. Navy veteran In Muncie, Indiana, Universal International Studio announced. After appearing in the Mis.s Universe contest in Long Beach last July Miss Lee wotv a film
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      68 3 Good looking hair... for every head in the family 1 1 KIiCH ~~S Liquid or fio/on no matter which M^ w > I Ijl |Wr the f.imiiy prefers Pottei Moore *^Hi I mikes them both, and both contain 1^ 'li' fc^fft I^'n)lH^H^«\ choiestorol tho tonic secret thaf PcMifHoott BRILLIANTINE HAIR
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      Opinion Attracting business
      348 4 Opinion Attracting business The forthcoming visit of the Australian trade delegation lends weight to the charge which has been given by several community leaders in recent weeks that* the Colony must develop industrially on a major scale, if the living standards of an ever-increas-ing population are to be maintained and
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    THEY'RE HAPPY IN A LAND OF HATRED
    595 4  - THEY'RE HAPPY IN A LAND OF HATRED J.L HAYS reports from Cyprus C[1 T CH a pleasant change these days to come across Colonial comwunitj which freelj admits there Is stiii security, justice ;ui»i happiness to i found under the Union Jack. \mi. whit's more, w infs t«» itay under
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    It's funny world!
    216 4 (JOBBLER Michael Tomadakis is 26 and thinks he's uoa, it would not matter ■so jnuch had he been locked up in the Athens Asylum. Michael, however, was a jrec citizen and thought his mission Was to purify the world from con upturn En fenny a cleaner's shop
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      221 4 \msi roaa i b«« warned rdi rii b i meal i not led aj amount ol en t calling foi a N zw rhis out-Jeroboam i since it hold gallonji oi u q J uor! Nebuchadnezzars enouj h tiowai a; lectors' piee< LUI ceiiaj at Epern champagne, it L s
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    One week more for talentime entries
    135 5 One week more for talentime entries I RIES the "1954 UlI i rait atime Com--1 to be staged at fch I Badminton 8111(*****11 I th will elos i on NovI 7. tne organisers anI 1 yesterday. I more than 50 amateur B from Singapore, the F e d <" r
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    WORK RESUMES ON CHINESE 'Y'
    236 5 Rush is on after 6-month dispute ii,m )i:K on the hall completed tt $i,000,00Q four storey building for tl ic Jhine u YoiUi", Mm. "hn.-t lan A. BOciatlon ai Shenton Way, Singapore) 1 umed this week after construct lon had f opp^ ed i i'
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    NO INVESTMENT POLICY YET, SAYS FUND CHIEF
    157 5 'Lav/ ailows only certain ventures' qPHE chairman of the Singapore Central Provident L Fund Board. Mr. R. C. Kendall, said tut Lire investments of the Board would depend upon the opportunities available and the type of investments permitted by the Ordinance. He was
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    Chinese plan register for poll drive
    60 5 Chinese plan register for poll drive THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce will set up a committee to urge all Chine.se who are eligible to vote to resistor for the Legislative Assembly election next April. Plans for the drive are now being -drafted by the Chamber's election sub-committee. They will
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    Council meeting
    19 5 TAIPING, Sat. —The Malayan Youth Council will hold Its next general committee meeting at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow.
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    VOTES BY POST IS ANSWER, HE SAYS
    193 5 OEAMEN who have their homes in Singapore should be given every opportunity to vote, even when they are at Sea on polling day. Captain Tom Richards said yesterday. "Like other citizens, they have to pay taxes, and it is oniv right that they
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    PLAYGROUND PLAN APPROVED
    42 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. -The j Selangor Playing Fields A.ssoelation plans to build a children's playground in the Kuala I Lumpur Lake Gardens, The municipal public works committee ha.s decided that a suitable site i.s the old band stands position.
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      82 5 A wide range of all popular cameras I JACKS PHOTO CO. 60 0 I ((.upitol Building) i leading makers 157, North Bridge Road, Singapore Tel: ***** Fine Quality j; Diamond Gem set Platinum o Engagement Rings j: Eternity Rings o Gold Platinum Wedding Rings I S.P.H. de SILV A Ufl.
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      719 5 ijR 1 JrnJLii .Jin. mk m 1 .Jlit^JiißLj^--*---*-* j 1 (HI RCH OF ENGLAND I Jubilee Church: (Outram Road) St. Andrew's Cathedral: 7 8 a.m English Service: 4.30 p.m. > Communion; 9.30 a.m. Sunday METHODIST 100I; 10 30 a.m. Matins; 11.30: straits Chinese Church: 9 am. Holy Communion; 4 p.m.
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      104 6 t... MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis I'M READY.' AMO Bf CAAEFUL I £>&* Whet WONOERPUL/ j SOMETHING CCESN'T RFACH fV o* J? S~ I'M BORED WIT4 R&HiN AN! VO«/ -N A BOW, y Jli TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs I rVtT"iT^r7"rr< •r > ..i^""iiT I mis i THE
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      704 6 I LUCKT I STAB lUl<|l -I '•> Vmi maJU up and il 1 v u >" < lu, ti 1( moKl o| youi ability. ou i( e meli. ul<ui> u!, n 1 i i Is and iu j Hire tii.it u,,i have them y«Hi maki up >u Ur min j
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      187 7 LONDON iid t<) iftflMM FmU] Nov I I.' H* 1 K>S c.i t Kuro|M-.u. 3 V(IV M »U« 23 N.. I BSS o.i.f. European b fc* N- i t^s spot ..25 buyers 2G ESS 25'. sellers I „i| pr !>>l N «SS S,tUement U 23 buyer f"f
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      New York prizes
      105 7 NEW YORK, Oct. 29. Previous Today TIN Straits snot and nearby 92.50 nom. 92.37 nom. riN Sutures Nov 92.00 bid 91.75 bid 92.50 asked 92.30 a.sked Dec 92.00 bid 91. G0 bid 92.25 a»ked 92.15 asked Jan. 92.00 traded 91.50 bid 92.00 a.sked SALES: Nil. I ONE:
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      U.S. PEPPER
      89 7 Spot Sarawak was sold at 46 :.-.s per pound ex dock for embeT delivery and Malabar.' mpong a: 49. For December jlivery Malabar Lampong Sarawak j 3 sold at 45 cents per ix)und ex- 1 :<. Spo* Malabar released was' quoted at 46 cents per pound. awaiting release
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      35 7 XEW YORK. Oct. 29. Previous Today 0 Industrials 354.56 5 2ii 0 Railroads ***** 17.69 10 Domestic Bonds 100 92 100.86 15 Itilities 58.28 5..81 1 stocks Composite Averages 130 38 129.42
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      122 7 0ct.29. I OPRA, Philippines, e.i.f. IK /North. Previous Todaj I uropean, delivered weight per $194 paid |IOT paid !<mjj ton Nov. Dec OPRA. Philippines, f.o.b. Manila, delivered weight, per long ton unquoted unquoted opra. straits. c.i.f. I'K /North I uropoan delivered weight per ton £72 buyers
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    CENOTAPH SERVICE FOR WAR DEAD
    239 7 SINGAPORE will remembei io tie dead oj two w orld wara i ceremony ai I he Cenotaph Novembi i 7 w hen 1(> no Sir John Nicoil, will b a reath on behali oj the i •nm :.t Wreathi will aUo be told by pr«
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    Chinese art turns to West
    115 7 rriiiK tendency ol Chinese JL artists to iwlng towards the Western impressionist technique is evident among the pmintingi now on display at the Singapore Chinese Chamber Of Commerce. Hill Street This is the view of !Mr. Lee Siow Mont, president of the China Society. Mr.
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    CLUB PLANS CLOSER LINK-UP OF MEMBERS
    195 7 THEY DO 'SOME EARNEST THINKING' I HPHE Singapore East-West Society plans to foster a closer relationship between its members, Mr. P. S. Raman, president of the society, said yesterday. At the moment, "little difficulties" were hindering the progress of the society. "One of the
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    She reports 2 a.m. theft
    60 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Police here are investigating a report that $3,500 was stolen last night from a Chinese woman living at the first mile, Ipoh Road. The woman reported that two men forced their way into her house at 2 a.m. and took the mone\
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    Ipoh bazaar
    25 7 IPOH. Bat. The St. Johns Women's Fellowship Ls holding a bazaar at Orenier's, Station Road, Ipoh. from 8.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today.
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    No ticket-$40
    33 7 No ticket -$40 KUALA LIPIS, Sat Chew I Seng, aged 19, of Kuala Krai, who travelled by train without a ticket between Gemas and Merapoh, was fined $40, or three weeks' imprisonment, yesterday.
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    Court holiday
    21 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat- The Federation's Supreme Court will be on holiday from Dec. 20 to Jan. 8 next year.
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    TWO HAPPY COUPLES
    95 8 TWO HAPPY COUPLES MHss Joan Desforges, Britain's 25-year-old international long jumper and hurdler after her marriage m London, to her childhood sweetheart. Mr. Ronald Pickering, a school sanies master. Miss Desforges captained the English women's team at the Vancouver Empire uames and Berne European Games. BELOW: Miss Valerie Hobson, 38-year-old
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    'Valentino' doctor must pay husband
    171 8 'Valentino' doctor must pay husband ADQCT( >B, ie photograph was said u> a divorc a urt judge to have a suggestion i a likene. to llm star R d< Iph Valentino, wa i 1 d tc paj E 100 damj tn a husband. 1 Bbenezei E ancis Thorn 01 Ab<
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    Cold-room-job man awarded damages
    170 8 COMPANY ACCUSED OF NEGU6ENCE MAX of 36 who had to work in a cold and draught* H^ Jr r;ur rded £401 d *y* 5552 His_employers must pay him that amount- and the costs of the action Mr. James Albert Murray of tfetrmal Green, sued the Walnut
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    Problem: how to do the rumba
    159 8 Problem: how to do the rumba A U\K has been drawn j n. across the dance lioors I of Britain. On one sid" are I those who want the Ame- I rican rumba. On the other those who prefer the t üban rumba. The Official Board of Kali room Dancing,
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    Any old sold?
    36 8 the West Country's most j m Ponan shopping centres is called the Golden Mile Yet the city i Chamber m Comm*rc»! ir hard up they are c i uaerlng balding u jumble ialj
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    30 years after
    39 8 The death in hospital recentlv of joh n Mitchell aged G5 of Pea.shili S!rrH, Rawmarsh! wa« a direct sequel to a pit accident 30 yeara ago, it was said at a Rotherham Inquest < rdict: Accidental Death
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    KILLED FRIEND 'TO PROTECT HER'
    143 8 Aformur nurse, 46- year -old Noreen O'Connor, was sent to Broadmoor for murdering Mi.-.s Marie Bills. Aged 77 with whom .she shared a Cotuige at Loxton, Somerset Hie jury at Weils Assizes'returned a verrlirt of miilty but insane Point! from statcnunts made in court: Mr.
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    BEAUTY IN THE BOX WAS A STOOGE OF GANGSTERS
    240 8 BEAUTY IN THE BOX WAS A STOOGE OF GANGSTERS ajk- km mi in >n kiii SEAL'S beauts u, downfall a jurj ai the Old Bailee was ln!l r her, a receiver o! parl of the proceeds of th* post office robber) in the City of London las im three years'
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    Digging at a puzzle
    54 8 TONY LONSDALE, 17. of Louth pointed his camera at an aircraft in the RA F. school at Mandy, Lincolnshire R.A.F police confiscated the camera and the films were rteveloped. Among holiday soapshots was one high-angle picture that worried Intelligence o?.;--cers until it was enlarged to show—
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    Patient's ordeal by hot water
    354 8 Patient's ordeal by hot water 4 MINISTRY OF PENSIONS doctor thought an soldier with .1 paralj <ed hand was "swinging the lead" "hvn he said he had e ing In his fingers So iu> asked a nurse to brinq in a basi n of sea Id in hot water. Then
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    Runway to go through his front door
    328 9 Runway to go through his front door jj\ his farmhouse in Lowfield Heath Surres Mr 2 Wilfred Watson said bitterly: i am standing on the main runway— ll con.es right through my front door. Mr. Watson had just heard the news thai the Government Ls to go ahead with the
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    FILM STAR JANETTE IM -AT 15
    352 9 FILM STAR JANETTE IM -AT 15 JANETTE SCOTT, the 15--year-old film star has .signed a 10-year contract that will earn her the biggest accumulated .sum ever paid to an actress of her age -and .seal her growing-up with her first screen kiss. But the girl who was voted the best-dressed
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    DOGS DOPED OWNER IS FINED £20
    152 9 HPHE owner of two champion greyhounds claimed his (■logs had boon doped before a White City Stadium race. He demanded an Inquiry. He was held responsible for the doping and lined £20 Stewards of the National Greyhound Racing Club, after a three-hour hearing, al.so
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    WRONG TURNING
    32 9 An Uxbridgr-bound Tube train took a wrong turning taking 90 passengers to Baling Broadway instead of North Baling. Said London Transport: "Why it went thr wrong way Is beinji Invcstiuated."
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    THEY'RE OUT TO BEAT COLOUR BAR
    218 9 lAMBETH, the Londi n bo A rough with one Ol 'Ik largesi coloured population*, has started B campaign to destroy the colour bar. in the pad few years thou sands of coloured men. mostly from the West Indies, have flocked to the borough ami
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    NEVER TOO OLD FOR TOYSI
    71 9 Reuter picture. 1 pVEN though he is 7t;, Mr. Frank Dutton \A always has his house at Tipton, Staffordshire full of toys. lie has been mak- ing toys, (irsi for his children and now they are 100 old, lor his grandchildren, for as loiiy as
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    BOY SEEN SMOKING IS MADE BLACKMAIL VICTIM
    247 9 SCHOOL GANGSTERS IN COURT UMVE blackmailers were unmasked at Chatham recently. Each was 11 years old. The victim was aged 10. Last summer he was seen smoking a1 school. At once the blackmailers got to work. "Half-a-crown or we'll tell you were smoking,"
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    A racket proved expensive
    207 9 A racket proved expensive DARK HAIRED Miss Mary Esme Mead wiped the tears from her eyes a s she stood outside the High Court in London and said: "Well, that was the most expensive tennis racket I ever bought." She had just heard three appeal judges end the legal battle
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    She didn't know sister was hit
    87 9 Miss Wini! red Gwendoline Taylor. oJ East-street, Epsom, Surrey, said at an Epsom inquesi that she looked out. of a window of her home one: ni^ht and .saw there had been an accident She did not know it Was to her .sister, who had
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    Double-blaze riddle
    37 9 Three ril( were I■■ burned In two tnyst< ry Rr» ;,t a Treforest, Olamoi •in rut tal factory [n th( fli chemicals 1 uddenly c mght fn c. Two hours latei material bursi Into flami
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    46 9 Over 'inn people in mi itain v.« re kill' d hi Brt la I year and over 5,000 Injured, the Hi me Becretai v Bir I Id Maxwi ii Pyfe, told th< fhh i j. ii i officers' conference at Torq ii I
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    FIRE-BUG SOUGHT
    36 9 1 1< ted lvc oui'iit .1 fii* bug ho w motoi ivi i i /r oul Idfl ft cinema In j.,i vare Pftddington, i ion hour ftltei four light .it Bdg* .tie, norl h
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    Just a n empty tin -but it made a tittle boy happy
    440 10  - Just a n empty tin but it made a ti ttle boy happy KATHLEEN HICKLEY Saturday Page Eor the Children by If someone save you an empty tin for 8 present you wouldn't think much of it. WOUld you. 1 And yet I remember once when an ordinary tin Which
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    33 10 4 DUCK before two ducks, a duck behind two ducks, and a duck between two clucks. How many dinks in all? \>m <iriuis u; Strpmxnms 10 Bui -^[v.w <^onp sajijj, :i3MSHV
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    36 11 THE 'passengers/ beautiful Unes as these four Windmill (.iris try out a new model at the B*rl' a Court motor SBow In London. The show Kirts are Beryl Catlin, Susan Denny. Doris Deal and Olive Leon.
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    Munich was RIGHT
    457 11 says Lord Templewood in a new defence of the Chamberlain 'deal' with Hitler "Nine Troubled years" Bv Lord Templewood, Collins. |ORD TEMPLEWOOD, J once Sir Samuel Hoare, writes with grace and persuasiveness about the nine years which came to a blood v em\ in 1940. To his
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    George Malcom Thamson on BOOKS
    102 11 This was the underly i ason, according to Templewood, why Eden, the Foreign Si r< tary, resigned a m< r Anoth( r instance of Chamberlain's self-assurance cam( when he mobilised the British Fleet without Informing his First Lord, Dull Coop< r. ducks and pondering the
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    Execution of a C.I. LIBRARY LIST
    301 11 Execution of a C.I. LIBRARY LIST THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATI BLOVIK, William Bradford Hole, .lanolds. An act ciinl Oi U)C Ain\ I oi Edward Slovlk hi! court mai tuii and tin event! leading up U it and his < *<■• ution for cowardic< In 1954 VOYAGERfI IN ASPIC, John Gillies,
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    Prisoner of the Nazis
    338 11 Prisoner of the Nazis i i( iii > <.Ipt i i i i hur< lull Hod U til the four hundred 1.,: ;.;>■ t rained i d women i nts the War < :;<••■ nt to nc< to organise i i .1 iist the R( distance flovemeni Aghtini the German
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    Deafness may bo just wax in the ear
    589 12 Deafness may bo just wax in the ear says the SINGAPORE DOCTOR \ih i) complained that he had uariuall) lost hi> hearing. He felt us ii something was blocking h is earhole 1 pre; ed hi ir In front, in the back, pulled it upird and downwards without eliciting any
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    89 12 William Willis, 61, and his 35 loot balsa raft called The Seven Little Sisters have crossed the Atlantic from Peru to Samoa. The \merican took 114 days to drift the 11.000 miles with only a rat and a parrot for companions and a supph of wild Peruvian corn for food.
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    It's easy to pay this motor fine
    70 12 POLICE in Newport. Rhode Island, are making it easy lor motorists who violate parking rules to pay the US$l line. The parking ticket is in :i postage- free. pre-addre>^ecl envelope. All the oiTender n. ed do is remove the ticket from his windshield,
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    Bridge Quiz
    424 12 IVTHEN you have doubled an opening bid for a takeout and partner has made a response that indicate^ no great strength, you are faced with the problem of what to bid next. The determining factor is the negative inference to be drawn, from the bids partner did not
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    SATURDAY CARTOON
    27 13  -  Cummings ghfgr "As the departments went on uorkmx no matter how often he shuffled his Ministers, he realised Ministers were unnecessary except perhaps for one."
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    Why I like reading all about it....
    364 13  -  DR. CYRIL GARGETT by I SOMETIMES hear that it (the Press) no longer has the influence it once possessed. I am very doubtful about this. The written word makes a deeper impression on the mind than what is heard. The wireless is listened
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    THE PARIS SCENE
    257 13 rT\AX-QATHERERS in France L are running up against sortie rude opposition. Ihe other day they decided to collect from a farmer in the Sarthe who is JOUi years in arrears and sent the bailiffs to auction off his tiro cows. Getting wind of this, the fanner's pals
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    Church and Press
    164 13 SERMONS arc no longer as popular as once they were. We recognise today. therefore the Immense value ol the help which can be Riven by the Press. Take one Instance: Some ol the provincial paper.s lately have taken a strong line against the horrifying comics which are
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    AMAZING BABE' BEAT CANCER TOO
    987 14 'rni ever anailni Mildred "i*ai»*»" Didrikson Zaharias, acclaimed bv United Statof §parti authorities .is the greatest woman athlete >>» t' l(> nations history, tlimuvt'd an inspiring conu'b.u k thi^ year when she won her thin! is. Women's National Open Gell Tournament champlonshln at Peabody Massachusetts.
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    THAIS TROUNCED
    47 14 A Con Hong Kong Chinese soccer team defeated tiic touring Thailand Weio Yu i im 4-1 in an unc sid< d ga u yesterday. The Thai team is passing through Hong Kong on its voturn home after playing a series of matches in Japan. Reuter
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    31 14 Babe excels at track sports. Here (extreme right) she competes In the first heat of the 80-metre hurdles at the 1932 Olympic. She won in the record-breaking time of 11.8 seconds.
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    Charles still wants transfer
    157 14 JOHN CHARLES, Soccer's wonder Welshman capped 0 in three positions, will a^ain, within the next lew days, ask Leeds United for a transfer. In fact. Charles did not withdraw the request Leeds turned down on September 29. He still wants to play m the First Division.
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    TOP JOCKEY'S OFF DAY
    105 14 AMERICA'S leading jockey and a highly touted English colt bn'h hid a bad day at Tanforan nice track California, yesterday. Thi two-year-old Corporal, recently purchased from Queen Elizabeth by Plandoo at.-ibles, finished a {><><»r seventh In an eight-horse field in his American debut. Sinful, a Mllv.
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    LAST MEET FOR THE GERMANS
    83 14 W" ,i Germany'! weary tnick and field team returned yrstmlay to 1 >kv *'''<"■ completing a victorious HOI hei ii ;>nd southern I i ;m ii 1h "> iQUftd, which has < >'<•(».■.,., i n j tlea wlnfls up lfs vi- 1 *i ".i iiw..L
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    BOGOR TO UPSET
    415 15 .»i All IK race cia.\ at Hukit Tiniah today brings together many names familiar to Malayan raceoers. The üßigu Big Kate" is the seven furlong handicap for deleted racehorses (Race 5). rhis looks like developing mto a tussle between Regrets, a horse with still many followers, liogor
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    TODAY'S U.K. SOCCER FIXTURES
    265 15 TODAY'S U.K. SOCCER FIXTURES ENGLISH LEAGUE— DIV. 1 Visual v Sunderland Burnley v Portsmouth .irditf v Bolton belsea v Charlton t verton v Manchester I t icester v Blackpool M.iiu !k >t«r C. v Huddersfield Newcastle v Wolves Preston v Sheffield W. Sheffield IT.l T v Tottenham Bromwich v Aston
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    Rovers crash back to top
    386 15  -  ARGOS THE LAST WORD— fey Rovers 1$ H.A.F. Chang] o. I saw Rovers return last night to the legendary position they once held In Singapore soccer. -aw Tommy Misson lead his irds on a goal hunt, and e threi himsell And i the RO3 ftl
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    414 15 Race 1—2.15: Pole Ponj Scurry Dl\ I—2 I kiml [i dtchwei^iil lj i Ma j in- i carries I lbs stra) <-■ iudiola (ewriei libs < utra). a Dust) m. m c j 4 »'< ilh Mi .''A-X geit I "i< 1 a<!\ Dr. Cot i)' I
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    1st century of tour for Denis
    490 15 WITHIN 48 hours of arriving, Denis Compton batted tor the M.C.C. at Adelaide yesterday— and hit up a brilliant 113 against South Australia. But alter tea the tourists collapsed, and were all out for 246. South Australia scored five rim. without loss before bad
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    Dower loses chance at U.K. title
    197 15 Dower loses chance at U.K. title PROSPECTS ot b flyweight title boul between DaJ Dower, Bri■i \i EJmpli e cha •>m> 1 11 ;i:i(i champion Yo hio Bhlral ol Japan ,re cxcfMli'ii' pi otiiot.i-r .J.tfk Si < tnons aid terday, Solomons plans to tage the 1 hi at London's Earls
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    QUEENSLAND 331 FOR 6
    28 15 By thi ise of the 1 In the si Sheffield Shield ai i Brl h;ui''. Que< nsland had run up a] oi 331 i"'
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    RICHEST RACE IN THE WORLD
    27 15 Fifteei i trie i i vesti rday len Stati i Id Ichi e rac< th pick up ai ii 16 ,000 t-
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      39 15 HOCKSALCIS EXTRA 9 21 JE WE L S^^,^ SWISS MADE <INCABLOC^ ANTIMAGNETIC. SHOCK-RESISTANT. 9 OBrA/NASiI e ~fitmAu micHDiALms^^ News Flash! Miss ALICE LEE is .ig.nn with OCEAN HARK HO ITL Thursday 2Bth i Fnd.iv 2 9th S.furdiv 30th V
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    OREGON IN BRILLIANT FORM AT K.L.
    259 16 OREGON IN BRILLIANT FORM AT K.L. Horses out on a soft track Tree I'ress Course Correspondent rtREGON ii and Skyrlder provided an Interesting gallop at Kllftla Lumpur this morning when they went over >t to return 41 ."> sees. Across the lino it was Oregon by a head. Both finished
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    S.A.S.A. title to Norma
    101 16 S.A.S.A. title to Norma riOURTEEN- YEAR-OLD Norma Hatchsen was the star \fstrrd.iN in the Singapore Amateur Swimming \>^.» iMiinii championship meeting. She won the women** I'M metres freestyle final In »i min. 63 I sec. Her 13-year-old sister Janice was iecond< Third was another youn^steri IS-year «»ui Elsie Lin. Derek
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    HOAD AND TRABERT TOP SEEDS
    96 16 HOAD AND TRABERT TOP SEEDS IEWIS HOAD oi Australia j was seeded No. l yesterday In the New South "Wales tennis championships with Tony Trabert of the United States ranked first in the foreign seedings. The tournament. Australia's first major tennis event of the season, open.- on November 10. Another
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    RUGBY TIE
    30 16 Singapore Civilians and Combined Services will mee: in their HMS Malay match on Nov. 20 on the padang. Today Ea>t Yorks meet a Fijian XV at RAF Changi.
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    Strong entry for cycle racing
    346 16 ILL'S set for the sixth annual Phillips Classic, 25A mite massed-start bicycle road race to be held on the Shenton Way at 6 p.m. tomorrow, report the organisers, the Cosmopolitan Cycling Club The programme of two races, the Phillips classic and a 10--lap race for
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    AUSSIES MUST DO BETTER
    147 16 R.A.A.F 5 (goal); RAF Seletar "A" 0. ALTHOUGH the Royal AusA tralian Air Force won their Sanderson Cup rugby tie yesterday at Tengah they* will have to improve if they are to get past the third round. The Seletar team fought well, and a draw would
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    68 16 JOCKEY Kevin Mitchell has returned to Australia after a brief stay in Malaya. He made his presence felt at the last Fencing meeting when he topped the list with five winners. Another jockey in the news is At hoi M alley leading rider of the season.
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    138 16 SHIRAI v. PEREZ NOV. 25 TMIE pcMponrd world flyweight A championship fight between title holder Yoshio Shliai of .Tapun and Pascua] ppit7, nf Argentina was definitely reset for November 25, y< sterday, Prre/,' eardruoi injury, which forced delay in the bout originally scheduled lor last Tuesday, i^ Improving satisfactorily, said
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    December bout for Robinson
    43 16 PROMOTER Nick Londec ol Detroit Mid w. terday that Sugar R;iv Robinson will rmkf> hh nrst comeback fi^ht at Detroil uarlj Londei mM \\o would decide later on m opponent for t >ie rormer world wrlterwriKht. ,nd middlewtlghi champion,
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    219 16 RING GOSSIP mNN\ SALEM, d u two minutes and 20 econds by fourth ranking world wel-u-vo-ht Preddy Daw* Sydney on Thursday nl h fading h»r x ou Caledonia the Pa otic. He is accompanied bv Rlv RiCO, who was beaten rounds by Empire welterweight
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