The Singapore Free Press, 23 November 1954

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  • 18 1 The Singapore FREE PRESS Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya Jill!. Singapore, Tues., Nov. 23, 1951. Price 15 (U
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  • 226 1 Moscow tells of Vishinsky's death five hours after npHE i'KKSIDENT of the United Nations General Assembly, Dr. Eelco van KlefTens, interrupted the debate on non-self-governing territories yesterday j told the delegates that the leader of the Soviet delegation, Mr. Andrei Vishinsky, 71, had died of a heart attack at the
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  • 80 1 HER MISSING GEMS HELD UP PLANE AN airliner flying to Bom- bay was delayed at London lirport for 20 minutes yesterday because the Maharanee of Jaipur (above) had left her jewels at a hotel The jewels were missed *hen the Maharanee arrived 1 the airport. Her son J'nnce Prithvirha, dashed
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  • 22 1 AUTHORITIES said yester- day at least 24 people died m the cold wave dropped temperatures freezing m Italy.
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  • 25 1 A 12-year-old Chinese girl was assaulted m a house m Jalan Tiga Ratus off Changi Road. Singapore, yesterday. A man has been detained.
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  • 72 1 90,000 Catholics get last warning •■TY-thfui.saivi Catholics 1! 'South Wales at id the "i England have been ned that they would be ommunicated if the v vtd their children to at--1 '-''li-ions sorviccs at non olic »chooli. -a irninu contained ho a tetter from Archbishop McOrath of Cardiff was read
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  • 143 1 rE price of natural rubber now nearly 30 cents a pound m the United States yesterday gave the govern-ment-owned synthetic rubber plants more business. The high price of the natural commodity synthetic sells for 23 cents (U.S.) a pound plus increased use, has brought
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  • 58 1 In the Singapore Rubbrr Market thLs morning fir.st Krade December .shipment, wa.s done at 83' 4 centa a ib., i' M cents above yesterday '.s ciose The prlee, which \va.s better following firmer New York overnight, where factory and commission house buying wa.s reported, later eased to 83
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  • 117 1 Ca II to A ustra Ha Royal Navy would welcome any Australian warships which could reinforce its squadrons m South-East Asian waters. Admiral Sir Charles Lambe, said m Melbourne last I night. Sir Charles, who |g C-in-C, Far East Station, arrived from Singapore for talks with
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  • 131 1 HPHE WESTERN Big Three have started urgent talks on joint action to strengthen the shaky Government of Vietnam and safeguard the effective U.S military aid, authoritative sources said mi n London yesterday. There is growing anxiety that weakness of the Vietnam Government and internal
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  • 112 1 MR. lI A KOI. I) STASSKN, Administrator of the United States foreign aid programme p r o p o st'd i n Washington yesterday that the nations of Western Europe join the United States m a broad new programme to help Asia. lie
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  • 65 1 AN armed robber last night blinded a Chinese taxidriver by throwing pepper m his eyes, stole $26 from his pocket and drove away m the car. Ho Siang Lim, the driver said the faie hailed him near Tanglin Circus and directed him to Ulu Pandan. In
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  • 41 1 Pakistan's Prime Minister Mr. Mohammed Ali announced last night his government had decided to dissolve all the existing provinces of Pakistan to make the country a federation of two units West Pakistan and East Pakistan, Reuter.
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  • 659 2 BE COULD lit: MUTHLESS OR FULL OF CHARM m MM m Man of charm Man of veto 4 NDKKI YANUARIEVICH ;V vishinsk y, the dreaded prosecutor of the Soviet blood purge trials Ol the *****, was a master of Invective
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  • 178 2 rpilK U.S. Far East Commander, Gen. John E. Hull will use "all the means at his disposal" to protect Communist Czech and Polish members of the truce supervisory commission, a spokesman of the United Nations said m Tokyo yesterday. That would include
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  • 157 2 AastTalian coconut planter has revealed his capture of a Japanese fishing vessel and crew off Anir Island. 80 miles .south-east of New Ireland m northern waters. The planter. Ray Staccy, .said he had ambushed a party of Japanese three miles from his plantation after natives
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  • 118 2 rpiiK Regent oi Johore today X opened the State's newly constituted Council of .state which has m elected members, The Regent said the Council represented :> great step m the Journey towards b full representative system oi de mocracy that they so much desired. The
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  • 66 2 Although the flood of refugees from the Communi.st area m north IndoChina is only beginning, air< adj more tha n hal I i million people have irft foi the south and escape from the Red regime. Saigon reports say that all the refugees tell Uip iam<
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  • 139 2 'NO DOUBT' ON CRASH CAUSE Hartley Shawerosi chief counsel for the mak- r^ the Comet aircraft Ide Hai lancts) submitted vest, rdaji to an inquiry probinu ti i fatal Comet crashes that tl cause was established beyond doubt as netal fatigue He said fatigue m the rtr< metal skin o!
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  • 64 2 F RANGE and Tunisia appealed yesterday to some 2,000 Tunisian outlaws to lay down their arms y.nd end six months of savage fighting m the North African protectorate. The two governments promised no prosecution of those who surrendered. The joint appeal coincided with a battle near
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  • 459 3 Farmer, on triple murder charge, accuses detective QASTON DOMINICI, 77-yeur-old farmer, yesterday accused the police of drugging his coffee to make him confess to the triple Drummond murder. Dominici. standing up mi n the dock and pointing at the Marseilles detective inspector Edmond Sebeille, said:
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  • 251 3 DOCTOR ON TRIAL FOR KILLING WIFF N old school chum testified A yesterday at Cleveland, Ohio, that Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard spoke twice within three years uf divorcing his slain wile Marilyn. The osteopath on trial tor her murder on July 4. On the second occasion, said Dr. Lester Hoversten,
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  • 33 3 The Catholic church of Mary Magdalene m Lvov, severely damaged by a direct hit during the war. has been restored, according- to Tass, the official Soviet news agency, yesterday. Reuter.
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  • 24 3 The 360-ton dome of the ruined German Reichstag building was brought crashing down at the second yesterday attempt to demolish it— Reuter.
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  • 209 3 MAN DANGLED FROM TOWER -BY A LEG Rescue reached steeplejack too late A f>o- YEAR-OLD steeplejack who hung head down from a tower atop a building In Baltimore for more than an "ir, fell 100 feet to the 'round yesterday as police firemen attempted to rescue him. The man, Peter
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  • 74 3 1 LARGE rose garden will be planned by the British 1 Idjce Will Live" committee JJ Ihf site of the mass grave the heroes of the 1942 l(l "<; tragedy, the C/echoJiovaK news agency Ceteka r Ported. Plans for the garden were recently discussed by British
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  • 96 3 LATEST official figures show a definite increase m mortality from lung cancer m towns as compared with rural areas, Mr. lain MacLeod, British Minister of Health, said yesterday. But he added that the figures did not justify any firm conclusion on whether there
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  • 122 3 MR. Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of Supply, refused to giv*« an undertaking m the Houm of Common.s yesterday that Britain would not make or buy biological weapons. A Labour pacifist, Mr. Emrys Hughes, had asked the government to give a similar undertaking to that
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  • 162 3 GINCE September 1949, 251 British ships have been stopped or otherwise molested ofT the China coast, Mr. Robert Turton, Foreign Under-Secretary, said yesterday. He said m the House of Commons that Chinese Nationalist forces or irregulars were responsible for 141 of the incidents, and Chinese Communist
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  • 378 4 The Songapore Free Press TUESDAY, Nov. 23, 1954. Opinion END THIS APATHY rlie extent to which indifference to the right to j exercise the vote existed m the Colony m other years, i.s .strikingly indicated m the new electoral roll which will be published tomorrow. Some 300,000 names have been
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  • 423 4 Egypt plots against the West 1 Terrorists get asylum, mosaey ana arms fuj exllea take a ft\ tnlnuU walk to speak to their fellowcountrymen In North Africa They go to the Cairo radi i stuaios, and over the "Voic< <j{ the Arab./ 1 broadcast to North Africa an avalanche «»i'
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  • 62 4 picture. The Prime Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark photographed at the Swedish Premier's country residence before starting off on the first ordinary "Polar Flight" by Scandinavian Airlines System from Copenhagen to Los Angeles. The Premiers were guests of the airline From the left, Mr. Oscar
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  • 458 4  -  Unknown >. I rE man who killed a fly m a caravan used as a hen-house, and was given six days to pay, has now had his half-acre of land stolen by the authorities. It was discovered that not only had he not registered the hen-hou.se but
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    • 19 4 Hi tiffs nf /ois4itn*4i**ti fot every occasion INGAGEMEHT^J RINGS i IU.S. deSILVAJ Jewellers 5106, Orchard Rd., S'porc-9^ Phone: *****
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    • 36 4 You'll really enjoy shopping at our Orchard Road Branch NOVELTIES allS>. —^f CHRISTMAS Ifflb CRACKERS IfTl o^^ $ft fVlfnvtMtAl CHRISTMAS < <!^^^^ pfM\ GLACE iy^U^^Wk^l FRUITS "^AiM NUTS, FIGS, DATES, CAKES <iml 0 SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
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  • 355 5 G.P.O. USE HAMMER ON PACKS, HE SAYS' j- K Singapore Genera) 1 post Oftice seems to nave n special staff to hit akable parcels with dm hammers, Mr. GorMurchison, managing director of British and Eastern Ltd., said yesterday. MurchlfiOn told the Free "XI a parcel can be .1. you can
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  • 99 5 f'.'l Jolinson, a lawyer' and former Municipal! wioner m Singapore, 1 went to Britain after he 'iiv Injured during the December riofs m the is expected to return month, former partner. Mr. Wr Mendlf, .said that Mr. 1 |on had agreed to return M
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  • 21 5 KAJANO, Tups. Kajang's community hall Ls nstimateu to mut $30,000 The Selarmor Oovornmnnt has given a grant of $4,000.
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  • 59 5 Miss Judy Devlin (Hrht) i the world's No. 1 woman I I badminton piuver, the winner, runner-up and third place finalist of the 5 VXA All- Malaya Tahn- time iimpctit ion held m SinetaMore. Ironi S i are Ilahim Hamid (first), S. I It. S. Naidu
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  • 205 5 Trust 'should screen all lodgers taken by flat talents' THE Singapore Improvement Trust should adopt a very strict policy of carefully screening every lodger taken m by tenants to avoid undesirable. Mr. Teo Seng Bee, chairman of the Federation of Community Centres, said this yesterday, of the Trusts decision to
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    60 5 WHAT is tins? An underground air-raid shelter? A labyrinth? This Singapore building, obscured by a mass of scaffoldings, is the Singapore Railway Station m Keppel Road, which is now being renovated to give it a "new look." These scaffoldings are INSIDE the building. The people are waiting for
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  • 160 5 Gay Italian nights in aid of S'pore charity ITALIAN music and dancing m a typical setting will be provided at Raffles Hotel on December 15 and 16 for Notte Romana (Night m Rome) m aid of the rehabilitation of Singapore lepers. The highlight of the two nights will be a
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    • 196 5 eAwCu m the field and 1&F leading m DISPLAY FITTINGS of every description can be made to s glamourise your shop windows. K| m f ni« J» M f urn f> can be any colour which will stand up to all weather conditions. COUNTER DISPLAYS >} can be made m
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 210 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis K«iw 3S=xljm«Bsb^ sßmjsAßsa^ fj i-%/ TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs (»t? *x ■V f T -Oi*' f iC-' T) AKIC? IN T[j(?M, GCX>JTEKEP I O/AAf //AS FAR P(?OAA kJ^ \dli JJI' THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris JANE by Hubbard youo. NAuG^-rr/ V^ wwy,
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    • 758 6 YOUR I LUCKY STAR IJOKN today, you an- original i inventive and a natural E leader of others. You are, bow. ever, impulsive, even reckless, i at times. You must learn to curb this characteristic, tor it E often puts you into a prediia ment from which it i«, difficult
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  • Round the world Market Prices
    • 218 7 LONDON, Nov. 11. Previous Today Nov. gl X No. 1 KSS e.U. European 24 1/16 buyers 24'; buv»s portsN#f. 24 i sellers 24 5/16 sellers „i villi No 1 RSS c.li. European 24 buyers 24 116 buyers p rti !>•-<•. 24 3/16 sellers 24' t sellers t
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    • 101 7 Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 91.25 num. 91.00 nom. TIN futures Nev 90.60 bid 90.15 bid 91.35 asked 91.10 asked Oeo. aa 90.50 bid 90.15 bid 91.25 asked 91.00 asked Jan. 90.35 bid 90.15 bid 91 m asfcpd 90.85 asked TONE: Quiet. SALES: Nil. RUBBER
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    • 53 7 Mv!i bar was quoted at 50 monthly proportions) 45. Sarawak ts per pound. November ship- spot 49. Afloats 47 to 46. Lampong at 48. December 47. January, spot 50 and Ceylon spot 49 cents February and March (m equal per pound sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted m V.S
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    • 29 7 NEW YORK. Nov. 22. Previous Today Industrial* 378.01 379.47 Railroads 129.72 129.97 Domestic Bonds 100.97 101.01 1 t-'litifs 60.57 60.60 II SUx-k Composite Averages 139.32 139.70
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    • 115 7 '"I'K-V Philippines. c.Lf. IK North. $i 9 riluoted $1 asserted European delivered weight per l<»n;' ton Nov Deo >PBA, Philippines, fob. Manila, unquote d unquoted delivered weight, per long ton OPBA, Straits, c.i.f. UK/North BfBT deliV red WeiSht Nov./ Dec. £71 buyers £71 i buyers Dec.
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  • 179 7 V I >UT 300,000 names of pot- il voters m Singapore's lative Assembly elecn< xt April have been implied. I disclosed by Mr R. acting Registrar of 31 itlstics, registration o( the I voters took three-l-half months. compiled from a duplipy of every i(ienti
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  • 63 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuo.s. Mr Tan Seng Teong, 4:i. a l>»strlct Forest Officer, who was fatally injured yesterday when n tree f fi ii on him m tho Mmri area of joiiore, was jrtsUrdayl cremated m Kuala Luxnpur, Mr. Tan was with fore.s? officers and timber
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  • 9 7 GOVT. REJECTS CLAIM BY 300 MEN FOR PAY REVISION
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  • 231 7 THIS is the first time the Singapore Government has served anything up on a platter and it will mainly benefit expatriate officers," a spokesman for the staff side of the Whitley Council said yesterday. He was referring to Government's proposal to double
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  • 80 7 RUBBER TYRE PROTEST BY MILKMEN SEREMBAN, Tues. The Ncgri Srmbilan Milk Vendors and Cattle Owners Association decided here to protest to the Government against the compulsory use of pneumatic tyres for bullock carts. The association said it was very costly and that it would be difficult for members to take
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    31 7 Photo. Mr. Ko Teck Kin, president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, speaking at the anniversary dinner of the Ko Clan Association m Havelock Road at the weekend.- Free Press
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    • 102 7 tor Quulity IQuien Cr Cie have many years' experience m shipping quality wines to the East, and we are pleased to be able to offer the following selection of Quien and Chateau bottled Wines. #/#*rW* ff#*#f tturfjuntiy Chatenuneuf dv Pape Gevrey CMmbertm Chateau Pontot Canet o Heaune Chateau Pavie, St
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  • 48 8 THREE of Indonesia's leading Jadies at the opening m Jakarta of an "asrama puteri" (girls boarding school). From left: Mrs. Suryadharma, wife of Air Marshal Suryadharma; Mrs. Sukarno, wife of the President; and Mrs. Sastroamidjojo, wife of the Prime Minister.— Camera Press picture.
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  • 238 8 The class is caned, but head cleared l TIACHXR who K tvfl each ol the Yl boy: m his class four strokes ol the cane acted m the Inter* iti ol dii Clpllne, a magistrates' court decided Gordon Kenneth Denniss, 39, married, ol Burton Street Loughborough, Leics, i<;id pleaded not
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  • 47 8 William Lear, proprietor of n. California aircraft-parts factory, has called on the U.S. Government to build their firi-t .pace-ship. He claims it i could be finished within 12 months at a cost of £370,000 and that Russia began space Ship construction m 1939.
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  • 55 8 Gordon Alan Machine, aged 24, a Huddersfield quarry worker, was killed by a piece of Btone no bi^per than his fist. He was working at the bottom ol the quarry when a gust of Lwind dislodged the .stone from the top of the face. It fell 30
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  • 312 8 Man awarded £625 for being called a Communist i UOW much damage m cash terms does a man's reputation suffer by his being called a Communist? For eight days a High Court judge heard a libel suit between members of the Yugoslav colony m London. Mr. Cheda Petrovic, 54-year-old former
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  • 152 8 SERGEANT'S BANGER COST HIM 14 DAYS mHE bigger and better JL firework promised by I an airman from Boston, Massachusetts, to the E boys of an English street went off with such a bang I that neighbours called the police Now Staff Sergeant Tom Beal is serving a i sentence
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  • 24 8 I A six-inch centipede found On the railway .station at Spaldrng, Lines, has been sent Ito the London Zoo for identii fication.
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  • 277 8 A GRANDMOTHER complaining of rowdlness at a public hOUSfI apologised to a licensing court that there were no other witnesses tO burk her up. Mr.s. Edith Bigg*, of Easthill, Wancl.sworth, told the London County Council Public Control Committee: "They are afraid that the crowd
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  • 26 8 B B £2£!L? f 4 a clerical e 1««<0ot bricks too many we re delivered to a council building site m Dorchester.
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  • 129 8 THE 560 people of Bawdeswell (Norfolk) have been divided for three years over whether their rebuilt church should have a spire or just a square-topped tower. Mr. H. U. Willlnk. Chancellor of the Bishop of Norwich, held a consistory court m the village recently.
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  • 324 8 Solicitor explains the law to teachers rpEACHERS m Britain x have been advis< a that children may legally be punished for reading, anywhere on school premises, horror comics that have been blacklisted by the Head. This opinion is given to the National Union of Teachers by its solicitor The punishment,
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  • 50 8 A man said he had called t< turn off the radiators, then stole jewellery worth 83.5N from a house m Chelsea Par Gardens, London. During n visit he shook hands with two pet poodles, Sophie and blmone. The Jewels beloim Mrs. Ruth Osborne. an Mlliques dealer.
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  • 29 8 Westminster's street trading inspectors the mm wno check London's Weft End row boys and street pnowgraphers are to wear piaj" clothes, the City Council n^ decided.
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  • 163 9 Colonel eases ban on slacks in winter pOLOSEL JOHN DILLY, U.S. rin y Commander a t furt, who earlier this hook G.I. families by his n bare mid -riffs, blue shorts, and "pin-curlers unless covered by headgear," has relented a little on the wearing oi slacks by women. "In the
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  • 98 9 SHE DID NOT KNOW WHAT XXX MEANT iVIPE who said she did not know what crosses meant m a tter heard a judge reject her petition for divorce. husband, whom she left 1949, found several letters to r irom American soldiers. jai< Mr. Justice Wallington. crosses were on one from
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  • 109 9 CYCLE MADE OF CLASS THIS sports cycle made of glass fibre is so light that Miss Veronica Walsh, of London, lifts it E easily with one hand E (above). Glass fibre is E said to be as strong; as E steel but many times lighter. The cycle was E shown
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  • 171 9 rower of London, the Albert Memorial and the f v.'orks at Kennington Oval are ugly buildings en will be preserved simply because they are dear (1 hearts of Englishmen, said Sir Alan Lascelles. -m. speaking at the annual meeting of the Nation- T' list at
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  • 176 9 'J'WO couples took a house together and shared it for six months, a Divorce Court judge said m London. A husband lived m one portion with a woman who was not his wife. His wife and another man lived m the other portion Mrs. Hilda
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  • 46 9 Free beer for life is to be tziven to fire brigade chief Fred Martin by an hotel at Nananso, 140 miles north-west of Brisbane, Australia. He caught the proprietor's two-year-old son as he fell 20 feet from a bedroom window.
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  • 32 9 A SCHOOLMASTER at Newark, Nottinghamshire, found the registration letters of his new car were RRR i«- .Kff«°r r: i The thfee Rs UBu *"y wfw to Reading', 'Rit-
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  • 57 9 The bodies of two babies wore found m two trunks m the ba.scmcfnt of a Folkestone hotel. The bodies, which are almost skeletons, are believed to have been m the suitcase from two to three years. It is understood that the description of a
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  • 8 9 Fifth former's legacy' hoax fooled even the Head
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  • 156 9 ANGELS' WINGS ONLY FOR THE YOUNG— VICAR i^wurt angeis m tne village church nativity 1 Play must not wear wings, for the Vicar oi Birch (Lancashire), the Rev Dr. Arnold bhrhardt, says: "Angels with wings give a wrong impression, Angels don't have wings. Twelve angels played by children will be
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    362 10  -  VICTOR SIMS by E*X »QUEEN Narriman J of Eg7pt looked out from the balcony of her £9 a day suite over the peaceful beauty of Lake Geneva m Lausanne, Sighed, and said: "I must, find peace, and England is the only country where I shall find it. Perhaps
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  • 336 10 SHE spilt the gravy— then fainted TRYGVE LIE, tormer Secretary General of the United Nations, m his book of memoirs published m New York. "In The Cause Of Peace", tells of Mrs. Alben W. Barkley's unfortunate experience with gravy at llVt.v #f«»f*roff« Lie was host m April, 1952, to the
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  • 130 10 Make-down for your make-up! r ;< rpiAT beuuty U luur j A than skin deep i>, tht (inn belief of John Eto--1 bert Powers, founder of the world's first model i agency. What is more Mr Powers has just been reckless enough (or truth- ful enough) to publicise his theories
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  • 333 10 They remember 'Messrs Blood, Sweat and Tears' Iwent along to CharIng Cross-road m London to see what was happening at the headquarters of Sir Winston Churchill's 80th birthday fund. The entrance is dismal. It is wedded between a snack bar and an ironmonger's. But inside it is fantastic. I felt
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    • 77 10 STARTING 'EM OFF YOUNG TECHNICIANS of the A Mendes-France Government are not merely preparing to attack adult over-drinking there's a problem of child alcoholism, too. In the north and Channel coast areas, French children are regularly given strong cider to drink by their parents. In Burgundy and Bordeeaux they are
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  • 362 11  -  MICHAEL RUDDY STUDIO INTERVIEW IllllllllllllllllllltlUllllllllllllllll Hill •IMIIIIIIIMI.IIIII *****11 l U T HEN a British actress arrives m Hollywood for an important movie, movie columnists and reporters sharpen their pens. She is interviewed, photographed, questioned and challenged. If she handles herself and the reporters well, results are
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  • 85 11 >CO«t m Honolulu, •< ri-pcrt that. John 'k'ly to marry his beauty, Peruvian P»a Pa llette, In Hawaii ,f"n.hrs "The Bel Una Turner, sailed from Loa !1 weeka ago, Wayne I r V linl .v hope to 1 "ar, but my divorce won't b^ Rnai until
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  • 166 11 Doris will dazzle' em with those SLINKY creations ITOLLYWOOD'S cham--11 pion freckle queen will show you that she can wear smart gowns like the best of them. Doris Day. who never wears make-up when away from the cameras, has golden freckles dancing on her nose, forehead and cheeks, gets a
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  • 197 11 The Redskins are an the warpath T*HE Indians, mildly A .speaking, are m revolt, on the warpath again. Hollywood, they assert, has been slighting them m the casting of its big pictures. What's more, it has been doing just that for a great many years and this m the face
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  • 327 12 WOOL KNITS ARE BACK The 1955 swimsuit lineup has many surprises all of them pleasant DOROTHY ROE rpiiK FLAPPBR of the 1920'a v.iii be back In the sv.nn i h-x t summer m h<T tank-top WOOI knit, bathing suit hut with a The h;ipii bathing girl of the jazz ;t
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  • 66 12 riMiE off-the-shoulder blouse j X of Mrs. Nat Shapiro slipped lower than the designer intended as she operated an automobile m Springfield, Vermont. Modesty, you mi^ht say, resulted m M 52,100 damage.. The woman reached to straighten the blouse, lost control of the car and it
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  • 42 12 picture. Mrs. Doria Shafek, 38, Egypt's leading feminist and leader of the Egyptian feminist movement named ''Daughters of the Nile" which strives for women's rights, visited London recently to address a conference of the International Alliance of Women A.P.
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  • 223 12 THERE'S a n. tQ look when I ailing at home an I Pat Premo of Califi thought it up. Determined to opei ftre on the velvet pants addicts, this young Cali t'ornia designer offers a more feminine out m f Or women who like
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 150 12 IHh Hh BH bIIIsHbb r i~ i i i I I I i i BHm3jBB jPQtiBP'% m^. WB I i^^B^fl 1H 1H B 111 ■p] b^m e^i m 1111 ii CLXJIS ACROSS) tf Surely not the garment of kd 1 SvuSumm the ottm sSgeM«)l 7 MScSS-'whew b nvion itoekchildren <7
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  • 661 13 GARY takes off with a bunch of BALLOONS lirHEN he was eight years old, Garrett Cashman of Albany, New York, dreamed of soaring over rooftops while tied to a flock of balloons. Now, at 27, he has realised his dream and is happy except for one thing. His wife Mildred
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  • 152 13 rpHE Civil Aeronautics A Administration (CAA) m Washington says its safety experts and lawers are puzzling over what should be done, if anything, about a new device called a gyro-glider. It is a sort of motorless. one-man helicopter, which becomes airborne when towed
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  • 301 13 They pick pockets to union hours is the noisiest, cheeriest, most Bexconscious and most life-in-the-rawKsh town m Europe. AISO, however, it has another aspect that never appears m any Neapolitan tourist publicity hand-out. This aspect is the world of the pickpocket. Naples, for example, has more pickpockets ptr square yard
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  • 176 14 I»KI!AK v. ill ni»-H Xt <i.,h m the Kr»l All Blue. nu", r ei competition match oJ the season on Friday on the Ipoh town [JiidaiiK. Tan Swec Kirn will tkippet tto» Perak ilde Perak'i fast wing three-quarter Ambrj Puten, who vna. Injured i" b motor accident
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  • 402 14 By JOHN CULMER, writing from Madrid. ALWAYS a football fan when m Britain, I find that, here In Madrid. I can still be one— and win almost as much money on the "pools" if I'm lucky. Needless to say. I'm not or I
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  • 253 14 liy ARCHIE QUICK 1 Till: first blow m Kngland's fiK lit back to the soccer height* has been resoundingly struck by the wonderful Wanderers of W olvcrhampton against Russia's Spartak. The second link m the chain to regain lost prestige will be forged, I am confident,
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  • 777 14 I cwwyc OT?il^ iAlTT^il^ FJIO»f OVERSEAS I r» Itn V is a college swimming team so fortunate as R to have three world record ho.ders. But Mike IVppe, renowned swimming figure and diving coach „f he last two I.S. Olympic teams, enjoyed that .uxury as
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  • 292 14 4 TROPHY RACES AT PENANG FOUR trophy- races will bo run at the Penang Turf Club's Christmas-New Year meeting opening on Christmas Day, Saturday D<>c. 25. The Commissioner-General's Cup is expected to be run on Jan. 1. Other racing days are Dec. 27 and 29. There will be (wo runs
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  • 92 14 FTOE Trinity Baptist Church a t Lake Charles, Louisiana, A U.S., will bo about M 53,000 richer because the Now York Giantfl defeated the Cleveland Indians m tho "World Series" of baseball, Alvin Dark, field ea plain and short .stop of the Giants, told members of
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  • 65 14 Fed. trial for S'pore match f N preparation for the g£ key "international' maten Singapore on NOT. *>' Federation team wj" f „n Selangor at, Kuala Lumpw PWday. Nlll The Bilangw side wl« QiM m rajah; Raymond, Hanlff Knj! Hen g W Singh' MahadayanKjgcny^ h Sect, feaharuddin.Manmonon Lawrence MohinderSingn. d
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  • 20 14 A H-mnnSelar^or (■!;"> R A.F. by 10 points „v points (two trios) on tW pur padang yesterday.
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  • 1163 15 I TRESPASSER reviews the latest prospects of tomorrow's runners (i Hi; Van Breukelen stables, who have five horses I engaged hi the big sprint race <Cl. 1. l>iv I— 6f.) at Bukit Timih tomorrow, may scratch the champion ihrvt -year-old Sovereign and leave the other four
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  • 64 15 'mi Keng Hor leads m Samroig (jockey Patterson), o f Race 7 (Claw 3, Dlt. I—7f)1 7f) on the first day. s »mroi X beat Star Signal and Allgood to pay tote divilf »<ls of $58 and $13 The winner was trained by Mr. A. Hcddle.
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  • 142 15 T*HE draw for the second round of the Football Association Cup made In London yesterday resulted as follows: (Matches to be played on Saturday, December il) Netherfleid or Wrexam' v Walsoll Boston United or Blyth Spartans v Hinckley Athletic; Crystal Palace v Bishop Auckland; Millwall
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  • 28 15 ASIAN GAMES weightlifters Wong Kay Poh and Tan Howe Liang have entered for the Singapore I championships at the Happy World Stadium on
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  • 317 16 M.C.C. LOSE WKT WITHOUT A RUN SCORED TODAY P Latent tCOTt ii.CC, four wickets for i)~ /V\LV complete failure by the batsmen can result m a definite result m the M.C.C.-Queensland match at Brisbane, which ends today. Queensland Claimed a wicket before any runs; were scored when play resumed this
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  • 161 16 M.C.C. LI inns |M (^ut ii l.md Ist Inns X \iclin < tßireW h Hiils.-r 81 llarvt-v c Andrew b liedscr I* X Ma<k»v I) Ituih-.v II P. liur>;i- h Wilson .Hi I*. Archer <• /undrew b liaiicy zi 3. Blwtchford c Andrew i» Statin m 21 W. Ualnisli-y
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  • 25 16 Algerian Cherif Hamia last ni«ht won the French featherweight boxing title by knocking out the holder, JacqUtt Dumesnll, m ten rounds'. -U.l'
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  • 70 16 20 Words $ti (minimum) NKUHRONNEK: TO Trudy, wife of Pat, a daughter, on 21-11-54, at, X k. Hospital. df H'IOI'PELAAR: To Mary and CW'tard, a .son, Dirk Jan, at K.K. Hospital, l! Ist. November, 1954. HALL: TO Jeanne and Dennis, on 22nd ut Kandang Kcrbau. a brother for Rodney,
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  • 38 16 Johnny Lontfflen, veteran Atnrrican Jockey, was knocked unconaciotu yesterday whrn his horse, "I'm Goitiß." shied and jumped n railing into a ditch during, the parade to the post lor Ihe second race at Oolden Gate Melds.
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  • 80 16 HPHE international badminton exhibitions beyin tonight at the SB. A. hall, Guillemard Road. Tickets are $10 and $2. Tonight's programme: Women's Singles: MLss Judy Devlin (U.S.A.) v. Mrs. Cecelia Samuel (Malaya >; MLss Margaret Varner (U.S.A.) v. Miss Helen Heng (Singapore). Men's Singles: Nandu Natekar (India) v. Ferry
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  • 51 16 1 Nell Harvey, Australian Test player, was out fir.st ball when play was resumed m the Sheffield Shield match between Victoria and South Australia m Melbourne. When stump* were drawn Victoria had carried their fir.st innings total to 311 for .seven m reply to South Australia's L
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  • 104 16 UMBERTO Maglioli of Italy lengthened his Pan American road race lead over Phil Hill to nearly 25 minutes yesterday. Boosting his speed to more than 130 miles an hour on the Northern Mexican straightways, Maglioli was 25 miles ahead of Hill who was .slowed through engine
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  • 147 16 WARM-UP FOR STORE HOCKEY XI TODAY StNOAPORE'S hockey team, selected last night, will have a trial outing on the pad ing i todaj In preparation foi Sm.day'a natch against the PedeH ration at Jalan Besar Stadium, A strong Bing ipore tot key As o--1 i itlon Ide la being tnaU
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  • 66 16 ABOVE: Kabnars inside-left Ry lander (8) and centreforward Svennson try to heat Malayan Chinese goalkeeper Chee Seng from close range. Chee Seng however brought off a fine save to foil the Swedish forwards. In the striped jersey is M.C.F.A. fullback Lee Sai Chong. The match, played
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  • 55 16 LEFT: Goalkeeper R. Johansson of the visiting Kalmar F.F. team of Sweden punches the ball clear with both hands from the head of Federation centre-forward Abdul Ghani (No. 9) at the Princes Road stadium m Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. The visitors and the Federation XI Free
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