The Singapore Free Press, 12 November 1954

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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Presse ime.st Afternoon Sale m Malaya. No. 141(1 > Singapore, Fri., Nov. 12, 1954. Price lsCts
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    Redhead Rhonda to seek divorce
    73 1 Redhead Rhonda to seek divorce K< DHAIRED Blin actress Rhonda Flemtnu is to seek a divorce m Switzerland fter stirring m a musical film m Rome, her Hollywood friends Fhe actress and her husband. Dr. Louis V Morrill. who are seen below, ure rstransed, and following their separatum she went
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    NOW MALENKOV SAYS IT—'BIG 4 TALKS WOULD BE USEFUL'
    145 1 NOW MALENKOV SAYS IT— 'BIG 4 TALKS WOULD BE USEFUL' T «LALLY reliable official sources said m Washington yesterday that Soviet Premier Mr. Malenkov told United States and British ambassadors m Moscow Sunday that a four-power conference of foreign ministers would be useful. The sources said it was signiflcent that
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    Another row starts at naval base
    160 1 Another row starts at naval base A FRESH dispute between the Singapore Naval Base authorities and its labour union has broken out oyer the discharge notices to electrical fitters and wire'»";i. which expire today. I tie union leaders are due l(l °t the dockyard super- (> nd(«nt, Commodore F. M.
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    Shot Gurkha
    37 1 The Gurkha who was shot last night during a brawl m the compound of the Tiger Swimming Pool, Pasir Panjani; Singapore, is Rifleman Tck Bahadur Rai, of the 2/10 Gurkha Rifles stationed at Slim Barracks.
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    Tree blacks road
    95 1 r|WERE was a traffic jam m Holland Road. D 0 a r OHQ, Singapore, this morning when a tree was uprooted by a storm and crashed aCTOtI the full length of the road. Motorists approaching from both sides pulled up In time For the next half an
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    SPORES REDS WORRY DULLES
    266 1 Call for talks now gINCE the conclusion of the (ieneva truce ending the IndoChina war, the Chinese Communists had stepped up their activities m Singapore m trying to win over the large Chinese population m the island, the American Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles,
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    Docks labour Bill
    88 1 Docks labour Bill UPROAR AT CANBERRA Australia's controversial Labour Bill, which has caused a strike of 26,000 dockers, passed through all stages m the Canberra Parliament early today after a stormy debate. There were Labour shouts of "Nazi Australia" and "dirty filthy tactics! when the government applied the guillotine to
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    JOCKEY OUT FOR MONTHS
    52 1 JOCKEY George West broke his right leg m three places and will be out of the saddle for some months. West was heavily thrown when ridinK Linkshir II on the track at Kuala Lumpur yes terday, Buck Rebel, who had unseated hi.s rider had CTOM4 d
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    'LESS RUBBER USED IF PRICES STAY HIGH'
    158 1 MR. J. M. Collyer, chairman i of tho B. F. Goodrich Company, one of America's largest users of rubber, y ester day predicted a sharp drop m consumption of natural rubber m the United States next year because of "present high prices." He
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    Rubber up again: Over 84
    60 1 Rubber up again: Over 84 riF Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on .steady tone with first grade, November .shipment, at 84's eenti a lb., r. centa above yesterday's close. December first grade was done at H4 cents. The price rise was due purely to local .speculative buying. New York
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    REDS BAR CATHOLIC 'DUNKIRK' FROM NORTH VIETNAM
    389 2 REDS BAR CATHOLIC 'DUNKIRK' FROM NORTH VIETNAM iivsvue ships find beaches deserted ]n gaigoj peel that Vietminh Communisi troop* are cC AT S r C at e P l 3 fhe mi Dunkirk; exodua ol 20.000 Vietnamese j thi beachei i I th< Bed River delta i •i,, trrennh lirorati
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    PENANG FIRM LOSES PRIVY COUNCIL PLEA
    118 2 PENANG FIRM LOSES PRIVY COUNCIL PLEA f i>. I Con mitte< < i j i nci] v eaJ by 1 T *< v Alisti R tad i nangi an fl j,, tin Hii h< P< th< < sued anothi i ettiai c mpany, l vk v a Seena V na
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    Japs will compensate Allied PoWs
    61 2 Japs will compensate Allied PoWs Mil SFIK.IKI VOSIIIDA the Japanese Prime Minister lias assured Britain that Japan will fulfil her peace treaty obligations to compensate Ulied v\ar prisoners who suffered undue hardship. Mr. Robert Turton, Foreign rndrr-s ecretar y, told a qurstioniT this m the House of (ommons yesterday. Mr.
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    Royal medals for scientists
    105 2 The Queen yc-terdi'y approv- < ti the awards oi menab of the Royal Society of London. Independent scientific body, to a nuclear scientist and to a biochemist. One of the two Royal medals for the curreni year will ko to Bii John Cockerel t for his
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    U.S. aid missions
    23 2 Tho Foreign Operations; Admlnistration said m Washington it is establishing separate United States aid rofcwinns m Cambodia and Laos.- U.P.
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    Confidence vote
    26 2 a ye!( oi confident m th< Churchill Government over th< ..'sin <>f Increasing old ag< pern lons wilj b< tak< n xi Tuesday. AP.
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    No undue hurry in building Comet
    227 2 DESIGNER TELLS CRASH INQUIRY: lyiß. RONALD ERIC BISHOP, designer of Britain s Comet Jet airliners denied yesterday that there had been "too much of a hurry" over building the He was giving evidence m London at the inquiry into disasters to two Comets over
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    Jordan Treaty
    34 2 Km\i HtUMein Ol Jordan and his Prime Minister, Mr Abu Tewflquel Huda, will begin talks m London next month with Sir Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary on revising the Anglo-Jordan treaty, Reuter
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    Lewis and Peat reorganises
    136 2 r help expa nof it ln« N i an Peal Limited holly o m•■ d< a] with i > n\ company haj pel to nci rubbt'i brol i i a ni v. Ib i ftno Pemt (Rubbci i Ltd m ful ure deal In rubtx i
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    LABOUR BACKS ATTLEE ON W. GERMAN ARMS
    190 2 lI IK. CLEMENT ATTI Mv the iff Labour Party lead* r, won n major triumph yrytc relay by K't.tHiji a V ol( of nearly two to one from hi.' parllamen tary supporter! In favour of ratifying th»- receni Parh tr< atiea to i<
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    U.S. denies Antarctic A-test plan
    55 2 U.S. denies Antarctic A-test plan rpilK State Department I officially denied m Washington yesterday r< ports that the forth.,, n inn I'nited States Antan tic expedition plans seek a new site for lutim nuclear vtcapon tests A Department spoi.,v man said the reportwhich appeared m a Bn tish publication u
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    Jap exports for Britain cut by half
    118 3 Bl in loduy Announced a per cent, interim cut m import quotas Of many tramal Japanese gOOdl for The Board Trade added would take the cut Into acmt tor further Japanese Un- 3 during next year. B 'cause many ot the licences ow
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    BRITISH EXPORTS UP IN OCTOBER
    37 3 The British Board of Trade said yesterday, that exports for October totalled £214,900,000, a slight increase on August and September. But they were six per cent less than for October last year.
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    FIREMEN RESCUE MARY PICKFORD
    113 3 "i JARY PICKFORD, America's sweetheart of the silent film era, was given emergency treatment by a ftre department resuscitation squad for an attack of indigestion brought on by a "case of nerves." I had an attack of indigestion i' rum eating enchiladas which I love." she
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    'Case of nerves'
    96 3 "My husband got worried about me and called the doctor." Mis s Pickford said. "He couldn't get the doctor as quickly as he wanted to. so he called the inhalator squad. "It was just a case of nerves more than anything else, and i did not digest
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    NOT DANGEROUS
    29 3 No trace of radioactivity has been found so far m canned Rsh imported into Switzerland from Japan, the Federal Veterinary QfVirn toiH In Rofna vr»c_ terday. Reuter
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    Jordan govt. wins
    35 3 Tho Jordanian government oi Premier Tewfic Abdui-Huda Won B vote of confidence m the Chamber of Deputies at Beirut yesterday by a count of 35 to three, Jerusalem Radio report- -U P.
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    Narriman love story denied
    75 3 Ezzat Mohammed Gaafar Bey. multi-millionaire chief of the royal cabinet of oil-rich Kuiwat. whose name has been linked romantically with Egypt's ex-queen Narriman. said m Cairo yesterday he has no intention of marrying her. Cairo has been buzzing with rumours that Gaafar Bey had arrived m
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    Army chief to tour
    35 3 Field Marshal Sir John Harding, chief of Britain's Imperial General Staff, will fly to the Middle East next Monday for a tour or British installations, the War Office said yesterday.- A.P.
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    man stabbed with darning needle
    154 3 man stabbed with darning needle A LOS ANGFXES 35-year-old cabinet maker died yesterday from a darning needle m the heart. How it f?ot there is a mystery the coroner's surgeon calls "one of the most unusual cftses I have seen m thousands of autopsies." Peter Pivaroff died several hours after
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    V-2 SCIENTISTS ARE NOW U.S. CITIZENS
    94 3 LVJRTY-ONE German .seien- ti.sts, who made the dreaded V-2 rocket that might gave won World War II for Germany, became American citizens yesterday m a solemn ceremony at Birmingham, I Alabama. j The scientists now interested m a trip to the moon loft after
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    F.C. SHOT DEAD IN GUN FIGHT
    220 3 Killer leaps from flat him l. l. .hum. ii i,i i iiiiii- after threats /ixe oi Finland's leading economists yesterday shot and killed B policeman, wounded another and threatened to kill the Minister of the Interior m a f?un battle m Helsinki. The economist,
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    No vush in a Kissing Room here
    122 3 No vush in a Kissing Room here I A "KISSING ROOM" I 1\ may be fine and E romantic for an airport E but Philadelphia city's I budget-makers cannot see any source of re- venue from it. E Aviation director, Louis R. Inwood, wanted to in- elude such a facility
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    Ceylon ships rubber to Red China
    67 3 HPHE B 6 JuUuj has left Colombo carrying the flrst shipnit'iit.s of Ceylonese sheet rubber for Red China tinder the rubber-for-rice trade agreement between the 'wo countries The initial consignment totalled 5 200 tons to be applied against next year's commitments. Another vessel will
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    Death gas peril in jute blaze
    84 3 Death gas peril in jute blaze DANGER from cyanide gas handicapped firemen fighting a £100,000 fire which destroyed a Stockton-on-Tels, County Durham, warehouse early yesterday. Huge quantities of pest destroyer chemicals giving off the gas when touched by water, and 250,000 jute sacks were among i the goods that went
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    HORROR COMICS FOR CHURCHILL
    48 3 DURING a House ot Commons debate on the banning of horror comics yesterday. Sir Winston Churchill admitted he had placed an order for some, weeks ago. The Prime Minister said he had wanted to "examine" them, but had not found the or>r>ortunity yet.- U.P.
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    The Singapore Free Press Opinion THE POOR FISH
    423 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion THE POOR FISH V N »V. l: 1 The recent history oJ Singapore's 470,000 dollar Van Kleel Aquarium Is a r< co] i 01 humbug and »ffl ci.ti ineptitude which would have gladdened the hearts ol (Jjlbert and .Sullivan. Aid r having accumulated the dust
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    New British base in Middle Fast is growing fast
    156 4 New British base in Middle Fast is growing fast lif> I I I ICIC \M «l< i, bast Intended to house .1 I 1 1 r t( r group i' "m i\n- < anal Zone i s mil -hi <»(»inii!K mi Brit. vii N n.u Middle Easi island Ih*;hJ«in.irit»s ol
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    They'll sail in home made boat
    129 4 They'll sail in home made boat A HOME-MADE 23-foot I wooden twin-hulled "cat- n amaran," a primitive type of S boat used by the Polynesians fit hundreds of years ago, is B waiting: at Wivenhow, Essex. m with a husband and wife crew m to make a cross-Channel bid. s
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    LAUGHTER IS NOT FOR EXPORT
    695 4 LAUGHTER IS NOT FOR EXPORT WILLIAM HICKEY writes about an American professor he met m Athens. IWANT to write about an American I met m Athens he was m a. way the symbol of modern America. He was a rather dis-tinguished-looking man with grey hair and spectacles m his early
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      20 4 WEDDING GIFTS DISTINCTIVECUTLERY IS ALWAYS APPRECIATED i P.H. HENDRY jl WELLE R IH, NORTH MIDGE f-OAO SINGAPORE C X LUMFUW
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      162 4 AVAIL YOURSELF o( 20 yean of experience m estate CREDIT FONCIER MEYER CHAMBERS 3rd FLOOR, (RAFFLES PLACE). FRANKEL ESTATE I OPERA ESTATE FIRST CLASS NEWLY RECENTLY COMPLETED DEVELOPED ESTATE AT ESTATE 6i MS. CHANCI ROAD BETWEEN CHANCI NEAR THE SEA EAST COAST ROADS AT PROXIMITY OF (A NEW IARCE ACCESS
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    ANTI-TERRORIST CURFEW IN STRAITS MAY BE EASED
    216 5 ANTI-TERRORIST CURFEW IN STRAITS MAY BE EASED r Vllt Straits Control Authority will shortly review and, if possible, relax the r 24-hour CUrtew restrictions m the Nanas Channel winch separates Tulau Übin from Johore, The CUrfew was imposed m March last year to prevent supplies and igentfl reaching terrorists m
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    'I didn't dance IN nylons' -Molly
    232 5 'I didn't dance IN nylons' -Molly lyflSfi Moll.v RLsdale, known rl to local film fan;* as a Ratina", has just re- to Singapore after a cessful dancing tour m donesia with Malay film O.sinan Gumanti icy wore away three months. Their dancing, said Miss Rlsdale, made a big with Indonesians
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    Aquarium post aim of purser
    118 5 FROM chief steward and purser of a 7,000- ton British freighter to Curator ol Singapore's Van Kleef Aquarium, may prove to be the story of Mr. John A. T. Stewart. He would still have been on board the Scottish Monarch, if illness had not caused
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    ONE UNION FOR ASIAN SEAMEN FIRST STEP
    297 5 AIR Thomas Andrew White, Seafarer's Welfare Officer tnd adviser to the Seamen's Union m Singapore, said yesterday that the formation of a local maritime board was an excellent idea Mr. White, an official of the National Union of Seamen, (treat Britain, was brought
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    No staff changes by Telephone Board
    156 5 OTEC CHIEF HERE FOR CHANGE-OVER rpHERE will be no change m A staff when the Singapore Telephone Board takes over the Colony's telephone .system next year, the chairman, Mr. Loke *Wan Tho, said yesterday. "Later when the Board expands its services more staff will
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    Site sought for airstrip in Seremban
    163 5 Site sought for airstrip in Seremban SEREMBAN, Fri. THE Town Council yesterday unanimously approved a motion by Mr. Gordon Hinds to ask the State Government to approach Messrs. Tongkah Compound, of Seremban, for the use of the tin tailings m front of the manager's house as an airstrip. Mr. Hinds
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    Watchman killed by train
    44 5 KAWANO, Fri. A ;,:>- -year-Old watchman, Afthad bin Han, was run over and killed by a gOOdfl train at the Rawang Tin Fields siding here yesterday. Arshad, who had been with the company for six years, \i survived by his wile
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      251 6 AAANDRAKE by Le© Falk and Phil Davis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs fl Inl^y/'M HIU W^HBBtl/i f R>?V»£(? AKTrAfiONIST 'njKIsEP 3^"" NOV\ APE-.WAN I_£APEP P^^ iHlflß s^^^ AMP BKAVtLY ChAJ?GEI7 ThE iNTQ ACTION AMP P^EvS PiRST THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris X YOUR FAMILY > "iM SIMPLY MERE \^l CAN
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      865 6 I TOUR I I LUCKY I I STAR J I IJOKN today, >ou ha\e one of those artistic, treutiw i tulenU that must be developed I iron! earliest yuuth to bloom I 5 to Its test ad\unlaj;e m adult lite. Vuu have a niagiu-ti« I < harming personality that at-
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      226 7 !OM)0\, Nov 11 Previous loda Nov ■it: N'» I KSS c. if European 'J4 7 1»] bUJtt 24 7lf buyer* U v»v. MH sellers 24 916 sellers i.ik No 1 KSS ci.f. European l' 4, buyeffl 24^ buyer.s U w> 24 sellers 24 sellers BBEB N« 1
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      New York prices
      78 7 NEW YORK. Nov. 11. Previous Today tits «pnt and nearby 90.25 nom. CLOSED \ov 8:>.7'5 bM (Remembrance 90.1 j asked Day) Oec. 89 i\2 bid 9i).oi) asked lan. 89.50 bid 89.75 asked IONE: (^iiiet. SALES: Nil I BBER tutures. Dec. '54 28.43 traded Mar. 55 28.3") traded
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      U.S. PEPPER
      53 7 Malabar released was quoted cents ppr pound. November ipment at 51. December 49. Janu'ebruary and March dn equal i illy proportions i 47. Sarawak' spot released 51. First half November shipment 49 and Lampong .spot released at 53 cents per pound sellers ex-dock. Above prices Quoted m U.S.
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      33 7 NEW YORK, Nov. 11. Previous Today link ***** 374.91 I Railroads 124 f> r > 127.40 [>o >U( Bonds 100.8:) 100 91 iiinit-s 60.31 80.62 I Stocks Composite Averages 13G.57 138.03
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      124 7 Nov. 11. Previous Today DPRA, Philippines, cdl, UK/North. $196 buyers $194 sellers European delivered weight per l°ng lon Nov.. 'Dec ►PR V Philippines, f.o.b. Manila, unquoted unquoted i.d weight, per long ton I>PRA, Straits < i.f UK/North European delivered weight per N^v Tier. i i; lon
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    OLD CHINA HAND SAYS: SOME TRUTH IN CHARGE
    208 7 OLD CHINA HAND SAYS: SOME TRUTH IN CHARGE 1 i China Hand thought w,i i some truth m ill' gation by Malay .--hip r^ thai their European were often in1 ited on the high seaa idded, this was known to happen aboard small earners, happens In many poi f Calcul
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    Fair nets $2,000
    28 7 RAUB, rrt, TIM fun fair organised by ttio Raub branch 01 U.M N O m i irl of then headquarters building fund I raised 12,000.
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    LOCAL MEN HOLD MOST SENIOR SOCIAL WELFARE JOBS
    175 7 MALAYANS have no reason to complain about being kept out of top jobs m Singapore's Social Welfare Department. Seven out of 10 of the Division One posts are held by local officers. According to a Federation report. Malayans m the Social Welfare
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    'Rubber at 83 is not too high'
    193 7 A LEADING Singapore rubJ\ ber exporter contended that the present price yesterday at 83 cents per pouna was not too high. Mr. c. C. P. Wichers, rubber director of Madame Watson and Co. Ltd. was commenting on the warning issuea by the Washington
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    MAN, 71, GETS £500 FOR LOSING WIFE 29,
    159 8 MAN, 71, GETS £500 FOR LOSING WIFE 29, ONJ YEAR OLD r< Devon In fai mer [ranted i decn i i ii 0 old w:■ an arded E »00 dam i again b eg i i pondent Mr. Commi Bush i a,i m M !t Dlvor i the farmer, M'
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    WIVES WANTED -AND LETTERS POURED IN
    100 8 WIVES WANTED -AND LETTERS POURED IN Hundreds of single women have been flooding Mew Zealand House, London, with Inquiries since b recent repori that, the Dominion hai ton many bach( IOTS. Extra tafl have been draft <d irito n< a Zealand Houst to cope with Ihe i normoiifl nail and
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    Actor s car rattled on test —says the dealer
    454 8 Actor s car rattled on test says the dealer SO NEW ONE COST HIM £50 MORE THE DAY that actor David Tomlin.son arrived at a motor .showroom m hi.s old Jauviiir to pick up his new Ford Zodiac, "he seemed very annoyed because we had not put B red carpet
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    BRSDE-Tn-BE STOLE CHEQUE
    362 8 i She went to court on weaamg any i\ ail Ilia bustle »»t preparing foi weddlnfi vir Harold Atkinson over looked i ust °»i«' detail Uie red h.n i h promised to buy his daughter. And his daughter, Eva u Toni< kinson, ag< d 22 forgot to
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    JANE AND JEANNE IN LONDON
    80 8 JANE AND JEANNE IN LONDON IN London now are Jane Russell and Jeanne j i Craine who are both co- starring m the ti 1 111. j Gentlemen marry Bru- i nettes," scenes of which i are to be shot m Britain. j Miss Kussell also plans to meet Mrs.
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    HE WINS £135,000, WORKS ON
    184 8 M R STANLEY WRIGHT, Z 35 year old labourer who has won a football pools fortune for the second time m three years, chucl kled and said: "Of course I I'll ro on working. I like labouring;/' lie was m shirt sleeves and braces m
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    CATHOLIC MUST PAY FOR SONS' SCHOOLING
    143 8 A FATHER'S claim that education of his twin school was rejected m the the State must pay for the sons at a Roman Catholic High Courts m London. Mr. Thomas Watt, of Em phingham Road. Stamford, Lines, sued the Kesteven County Council and asked
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    GOOD NEIGHBOURS
    38 8 Henry Smith, aged 68. and his wife Margaret, 70, of Ellerman-avenue, Twickenham, Middlesex, put out the flames with a tea-cloth when neighbour Mrs. Margaret Donaldson, 42. ran into their garden at teatime with her clothes ablaze
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    Look, no bricks
    26 8 A seven-storey brlckless block of flats, the walls consisting ol one-storey high panels weiph inp; five tons, is beins built 111 i Moscow
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    MEDAL EXPERTS DISCOVER V.C. FORGERIES
    285 8 OOMEONE h. 1.-, been forging O Victoria Crosses, Two have been examined by the London art .Hid medal expt 1 1. Bpink and Bon, and found t»> be fake, The Bret wm detteted b.v Chance An Army officer tc*>k it with several other medali winch
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    R.S.M.'S ladt parade
    108 9 R.S.M.'S ladt parade The Duke of Gloucester E E was the inspecting officer E at the passing-out parade s =of the Mons Officers' E Cadet School, Aldershot, E which marked the last E E appearance on the parade E ground of the school, of E R.S.M. Brittain who leaves j
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    PROTEST BY V.C.'s WIDOW HOLDS UP FILM ON
    404 9 |»KI\lllJ(i: oi the lilni r< ie Dam Blisters, about the epic raid on the Muhne Dam, has been held up Indefinitely because <>t a protest by the widow of Wins Commander Guy Gibson, C me flim, shot at Eistree and starring Richard
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    WASH-DAY REDS
    30 9 A drum of red dye fell off a I l< rry at Brighouse.. Yorkshire, and burst. A high wind blew the dye over lines of snowwhite Monday washing.
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    Housewives cheated by boot trick
    117 9 A HOUSEWIFE determined not to be cheated by the coalman, carefully counts the empty sacks as they go back to the lorry. But she can still be cheated. Because says Mr. T. L. E. Gregory, Chief Inspector of Weights and Measures for Nottinghamshire, it is
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    WIFE SAW TOO MUCH OF WOMAN NEXT DOOR
    159 9 WIFE'S persistent friendship with the woman next ('.oor caused her marriage to break down, said Mr Justice Barnard at Liverpool. He granted a decree nisi to Mr. Douglas Leyland Burkes, j 33-year-old planning engineer, <>n the ground of the wife's cruelty. j
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    When a wife needs help
    89 9 When a wife needs help A WOMAN told her husband she was m love with another man. It was then the husband's duty to help her, said a divorce court judge. She wanted his help. But instead of giving it. the "husband became angry and she was afraid. Mr. Justice
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    PEPPERMINTS SENT MAN TO DENTIST
    47 9 i A man Rave up smoking and took to sucking peppermints. After nine months he had six J teeth filled, after 18 months 29 more cavities needed filling. Bournemouth dentist Mr. Lan H. Prentice describes this case m the British Dental journal.
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    Train rescue bid
    35 9 A platform inspector lay under a train and held down a woman at Rom ford, Essex, while two carriages between which she had fallen were uncoupled and shunted. The woman died later
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    47 9 picture. BARON Henry von Thyssen, heir to a (ierman ronl and steel fortune, reads m New York a newspaper account of his recent tussle m a Paris night dab Kith an admirer of his bride of four months, the former liritish fashion model Nina j Dyer. Popper
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    Good friends
    24 9 Labour relations m the mines were never better than now said Sir Hubert Houldsworth, chairman of the National Coal Board, m Sheffield.
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    JOBS FOR 1,300
    15 9 There are 1.300 vacant jobs m Derby 300 of them tot women
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    RED and AMBER
    101 9 RED and AMBER Alright to go r VHE Highway Code ing red and amber means stop but be prepared to go on gr< «n. Judtfe William Clothii r, q.c, disagreed In Lambeth (London) County Court. ■There is nothing v«-ry wrong m crossing on the red*andaniber provided you keep a gOOd
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    First at the meet
    27 9 A fox's brush was presented to Mrs. Adeline Richardson, fir.-l woman to arrive at a sportsman's service at Kenley i (Surrey) Methodist Church.
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    WIFE RUNS UP BILL OF £93-FOR PHONE
    303 9 Judge: 'Reciting Shakespeare's plays?' rFELL me said a judge, just HOW can a woman run up a bill of £93 for her telephone m eight months? Even those men present m Bridlington County Court who have waited outside a phone booth for a
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    Holidays at family hotels to cost more
    120 9 HOLIDAYS at family hotels m Britain next year are likely to cost about a head more. Hotel owners want to give better service, but they decided that they would have to charge more for it. i The British Federation of Hotel and Boarding
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    TEST PASSED (WITH SONS.)
    40 9 MR John Boyd-Carpenter, Minister <>f Transport ami Civil Aviation, suggested "an honours degree" for driving an award of proficiency above the ordinary pass mark at a dinner of the Royal Bociety for the Prev<ntion of Accidents*
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    Canary on the line
    34 9 <: 'llf k r.s who reported hnaring wittering on thrir telephone* rfl told by Dorby rxrhan^c |Jftj It was Caused by a canary 1 had flown m through ah cxcfiangc window,
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    SHE OT TO HOLLYWOOD
    43 10  - SHE OT TO HOLLYWOOD Bernard Ronald Silva, who got to llollv xrood utter stripping U\ :h<* wuist to pose for picmres with Aim star iobert Mitchum on the renc-h Riviera) is now remrti'd to be making a novie for an independent American producer.
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    LOVE, WITHOUT STUMPS ROMEO
    408 10 LOVE, WITHOUT STUMPS ROMEO DCFORE i crested the French border Into :i iiy i had always Imagined the menfolk In the land ol sunshine md shapely signorinas be colourful characters aiHi romance ever m their he trts and worry never In their ■c;. i i i imagined them a fulliparl
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    Bridge Hand
    255 10 i iv 'A.st vuln«*r;il>lo two bid hi fou have three i i. illed w« iln pow< fu] i pp! lon iiiu ibe tr '>' imp II k>ul i i tht {ofs.« le In Lead ol thf n i lub In lead ol i Bin a Mil borderline handa
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    You can down those wines on olive oil
    204 10 rpHlti is a wine-festival time m Greece fclw birthpla :e o! Bacchus, th<« an ;ienl wine-god. So reverently, In fact do the Greeks d" Justice to Bacchus thai for fche equivalent of 40 cents you can drink to your heart's delight from
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    NEW COLLEGE FOR EUROPE
    79 10 T^HE comer-stone tor the tirst "College of Europe" fin Germany) has been laid at Hamburg. The college will open tn the Spring of 1955 and aims at being "a place where the genuine European spirit will One third of the college's inmate.s will be students from
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    The Duke through servant eyes
    604 11 The Duke through servant eyes pBBH JEAN MACAULAY doesn't %§flj;isij h >nk a vaiet should tell _MmBmMMKA all the secrets ,i Rii Prince Philip. By John Dean. Hale. aow fashionable it is becoming for Royal servants to augment their incomes and their r( s tige by writing about their masters
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    A GENERAL SMILES -AND REMEMBERS
    283 11 Soldiering On. By Sir Hubert G«ugh. Barker. 18s. 260 pages. U'HKN little Hubert Gough and his broher Johnnie walked to '■> irch on Sunday mornings, their father would 1 :I to a near-by hill iiml ask: "How would I dispose your troops t( attack that,
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    HE MADE IKE ANGRY
    291 11 HE MADE IKE ANGRY Commando K\Ci aoi dinar. v I'.y (Italics I uli ■>. I on- mans l.">s. I'M pages. i\ T T O SKORZENY 8 war is an improbable 1 and exciting story which, 1 it may be said, began when Hitler called six picked officers before him and
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    FIT COMES FIRST
    545 12  -  It's the most essential factor when buying clothes, says designer By_ Judith Simmons HENRIETTE Vlcto r Isn't -'i n.unc which springs t<> mind W soon i you s&y 'he 'a ord ••(■jot ties it. isn't a name you v.iii Qnd on any lit i j m j
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    FASHION news for WOMEN
    4 12 FASHION news for WOMEN
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    AUTUMN GLORY
    97 12 These contrasting fashions from both sides of the Atlanta were shown m New York. On left, an American dinner dress of "Fair pink" silk satin, designed by Hattie Carnegie, is embroidered with sprays of pink silk floss, pearls and brilliants. .The newly-shaped skirt is lined with net, shaped
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      125 12 ELIZABETH ARDEN help, them I to speak for you m the language of beauty I ATIDF.na f.ye i.otion, coolfl and soothes tired eye*! helps to keep them youthfully clear I I BYI SB ADO, the lightest touch makes eyea look I larger, dramatizea their colour. In many gloriom 1 shades
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      237 12 CLUES ACROSS: i 2 A Bubatltute .-or a boat rnastlv 7 Game young teachers? 7), behind <4). 8 »n l 'iu,;; l d l i:, l n ir i<le mat i or M eicm d,m,, rjd mi ,c. v a,.,0 wunrt. Uk. a small number 14 Adheres like wooden rods?
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    So be your own LIFEGUARD!
    463 13 So be your own LIFEGUARD! :r-v. Today the Holiday Health Club brings a new service for SW- everyone at the beach with Lesson lon how to be SAFE beside the SEA l> TO YOU whether you enjoy dips m safety or run into danger may bring disaster. Its up to
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    Take the air to get fit with ZIPP
    500 13 T OOK at the girl m the picture. She is today's MISS ZIPP, chosen to represent the Health Club m its latest get-fit session. Why was she chosen? She looks fit, she Ls fit she so obviously finds it FUN to be
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    SPORTS QUIZ
    141 14 (I How man v mm n ih»r«- m i i{nuh\ Leagyf tram i* i 'I fit- ijniis I Sullivan Tl <M»h> i- tU a i (It (I 1 1 1 iiu.i !1\ m ibe nlted Ststoc f«" 1 1 S|)oi iMiian n| the Mil 'b |>n\r r o|
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    Jockeys' waistline worries are over
    320 14 vo'J a d'w or the heavier jockeys will view with relief the approaching end of the Hat racing s.'ii.son. with its spectre 01 Increasing weight looming over them week after week. i During the close season they a ill be able to relax to some
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    STILL THE TOP STARS
    235 14 V r OI British Wit; lit man (tip pla.\rr, Angela Buxton, makes her first appearance m the ranking lists produced by the Lawn Tennis I Writers' AMOCto- I tlon. She is fourth. Though she was HI for much of the summer and d unable to play
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    HIS FIRST DEFEAT
    46 14 II*DDIB Smith, cruiser-weight champion >i Bermuda, foufihi for ix rounds t Liver pool stadium with ;i swollen Left eye. ¥e1 ha defeated Joe ByKraves, 01 Birkenhead, on point,, Over eight roundIt v, ;i.> Byßi aye fin t def( a! aftei <•!'• v«'M i,i > vi
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    Answers to Quiz
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    UK LEAGUE FOOTBALL FIXTURES
    312 14 UK LEAGUE FOOTBALL FIXTURES 1- X 1 EAGUI 1 >tball ftxtun foj I moi 1 a follows: I \..l I II II V(.l I Dl\ I \i st 11 1 1 iiiuidt-i ifield i;iu lit. iUtm > Ilia ardiU >!..ni.i(i liiNi.i v I ol It'ilniu I\» 1 loii HI. 11
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    439 14  -  ARCHIE QUICK THE OTHER POINT OF VIEW «.v what is the value of a British boxing champion- ship'? Nothing, if the move to by-pass the flyweight title by Dai Dower and his management is any criterion. Very rightly they desire to flghi the Japanese holder for
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    Whirl of gloves
    54 14 Signalman Shenton (Army) slips a right from LAC Loke (RAF) and lands a right of his own to the l«*dy m Wednesday night's Combined Services Poppy Fund boxing at the Singapore Badminton Hall. Shenton won on a technical knockout, the referee stopping the fight m the first
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    Bannister
    80 14 NO one has followed with more real personal interest the progress m athletics of Dr. Roger Bannister than Dr Harold Thompson, Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, and chairman of the famous Pegasus amateur football team. He has pood reason for this, and if you were to ask him
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    German soccer fans arriving
    80 14 r*ERMANY'S soccer followers have bought all the 10,200 Wembley tickets available to them for the match ivith E igland on December 1. Most of the 10,200 visitors will travel m 12 special trains to Osiend and cross to Dover. Pa >ties of 540 will take coaches
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    went to the doctor
    140 14 io st^e nun at uxiuia. Jtsannister explained that he was not very good at games like football, rugby or cricket, but he thought he would like to do some running. For this reason he wanted to use the running track. The snag was that the track
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    FRANCE DRAWS
    25 14 Belgiun and France drew 2-2 In a hard f ought international *'cer match m Paris yesterday. Hali-'M-' score was Belgium 1 France Renter
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    HAPPY LIFE LOOKS A WINNER DESPITE PENALTY
    1365 15 HAPPY LIFE LOOKS A WINNER DESPITE PENALTY CI. 5, Div. 6-1. LrHWiKLM was confidently backed against liicardi last Wednesday but m dl£aj ih>ha< i ins backers b> finishing out i l thf money. However, hit fourth waj a promising effort. Hi was a back marker for tftrei quailtrs o! the
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    A sad farewell to Leicester Square
    449 15 1 possessed a prtctlest gill when j stakes were hU;h GAMENESK. With unflinching courage when the o<U's were at;ui/i.st him. hi m-;»--ched heigbta the other* could iif<t equal. The professionals CftU this envi able temperament "good m the pit.' Inman showed it to an
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    PAP BOXER WANTS TO COME
    188 16 PAP BOXER WANTS TO COME Covt. may yet give the O.K. r riii; Japawttf bantamweight Mltsvo Yumamoto may yet Sfht Singapore. He is still eager to meet Thailand's Thep Viethool, and Singapore's Controller of Immigration, Air. M. C. Compton has said he would "certainly reconsider" the decision barring the Jap.
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    CHEW BEE NUMBER 1
    133 16 MLTA rankings ON(i chew BEE ol Blngajpon rated Number One player for the third successive year m the Malayan Lawn Tennis a i >cl itkm rankings. The Malayan champion i followed <»nee again by Singapore I'M! Hee Chin a Pi n an i playwr, Goon Kok
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    'JIM PETERS FUND'OPENS
    74 16 'JIM PETERS FUND' OPENS npHF spectacle «»i i»n. feters 1 collapsing m the last lap of the British Umpire (lames marathon has led Vancouver residents to open a fund to help local youngsters m trouble Known as the "Jim Peters Fund" it was created with the permission of the English
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    Due here on Tuesday
    420 16 U.K. girls partner Poh Lim and Ooi liy MI MAN MALAYAN Thomas Cup star.-. win team with the visiting women players from England on the first night of the Internationa] badminton exhibitions commencing m Singapore on November 23. On-- Poh Lim will partner Miss June White
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    CHINESE GOAL RUSH
    107 16 SCRC 6; GHQ 2 DOWN 1-2 at half-time, Singapore Chinese Recreation Club went "goal happy" m the second half of their Div. 1 league hockey tie at Tanglin yesterday. CUIQ had the better of first half exchanges and were well worth their half-time lead. Although Chinese j
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    SKINNER HAS INJURED KNEE
    92 16 13 OVERS' goalkeeper Wilfrod Skinner was injured last night and may not turn out m tonight's SAFA Senior Cup Final replay against the Royal Navy at J;ilan Besar Stadium. Skinner injured his knee during a SAFA training period at the Stadium. He is Optimistic and eager
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    Division 3A hockey League decided
    41 16 w/ITH one more league fixture to play, Singapore Harbour Board Police have clinched the Singapore Hockey Association Dlv 3A title They made sure of the championship ye terday by beating Royal N.w <\ :> ,t the Naval Base
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    WORLD RUGRY
    11 16 l; iln 18 Ncx Zealand o Prance > An hi
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    U.K. RUGBY UNION
    18 16 County championship matches: Berkshire 11 Dorset and Wiltshire 3; lieU'ostershlre 14 East Midlands 6. Reuter.
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    29 16 The Bwedlßh lOCC6T tourists, Kalmar Pootball Porenlns, are due to arrive m BingapOTfl today by fvir. They Wrill play series of matches m Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
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    FED. HOCKEY XI v. S'PORE
    64 16 r rill I <<l< ratio,, ho«k«\y {mm to in«r( MnfftfiTt m the first iiitrrn.ili<«ii.tl mate It on Novembcf ik htm been MUMd ;is fulliiMs Mohd inwftrßtf (Ptrak) t M« BhMnnfAiuiUiMi (Hctonfvr) Choi Eng < hons; (Selangor), Phlllfl Bankej (IVrak) Mikr Hhrpherdnon (Setenfor), (;<rry Toft Pfthang)
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    SELANCOR'S SHOCK PLAN
    181 16 Two singles sacrificed SELANGOR selectors took one look at Singapore's Foon£ Seong Cup line-up and said to themselves: "0.X., we'll just have to bank on the doubles/ They are giving away the two singles ties m which they are up against Wong Peng Soon and Onrr Poh
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