The Singapore Free Press, 10 June 1955

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Fit, June 10, 1955. Price 15 Cts.
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    A day of talks in bid to end port strike
    278 1 A day of talks in bid to end port strike TRADE UNION leaders are hopeful of a peaceful settlement of the 43-day-old Singapore Harbour Board staff strike, which threatens to disrupt the normal life of the Colony. Unions representing more than 40,000 workers have threatened to go on a sympathy
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    ARMY MEN SEEK TALKS ON PAY RISE
    94 1 ARMY MEN SEEK TALKS ON PAY RISE A DELEGATION of five representatives from the Army Civil Service Union will see the Command Secretary today about further talks for more pay for about 16,500 employes of the War Department m Singapore. The delegation consists of Mr. S. T. .V. Lingam (president
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    RUBBER OVER $1 MARK
    51 1 RUBBER passed the dollar mark m Singapore this morning on a steady market Business was done at $100 3 4 a lb. for June first grade FOB. shipment. When the market re-opened after yesterday's holiday, the influence of better overnight London and New York prices was
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    Lock icon Reds buying rubber
    80 1 RUSSIA has resumed largescale purchases of rubber and cotton m the British Commonwealth after a long interval, expert sources yesterday said m London. The Soviet Union Is said to have ordered undisclosed but large Quantities of rubber for shipment m June and July to Russian ports. Her
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    7 YEARS' JAIL
    54 1 A 19-year-old Victoria Institution student, Khoo Teng Chwee, was sentenced m the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court today to seven years' jail for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. He had been charged with the murder by stabbing with a knife of Tan Swee Lok at the Rex
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    Lock icon U.K. RAIL, DOCK STRIKES MAY STOP AT WEEK-END
    149 1 EXECUTIVES of Britain's state-owned railways and leaders of 70,000 striking rail workers held preliminary -peace talks" yesterday which gave promise of a week-end settlement of the 12-day-old strike. The two sides met for two hours yesterday and adjourned until today— a sign
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    Arson gang attack fifth car
    83 1 Arson gang attack fifth car ANOTHER car, the fifth m two days, was fired by arsonists m a backlane behind Robinson Road, Singapore this morning. k A salesman, Mr. Tan Ah Lek. saw the fire soon after it started and raised the alarm. Murugayan, a car washer. put it out
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    NEW JOB FOR McNEICE?
    230 1 Decision today SINGAPORE City Councillors may consider, at a special meeting today, a proposal to appoint their president, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, as chairman 3f a new Government committee which is to inquire into the future of local government organisation m the Colony. If Mr.
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    Anne and Charles go by air
    71 1 Anne and Charles go by air PRINCE Charles and Princes* Anne enjoyed their first Uight yesterday when the rail strike led Queen Elizabeth to assign one of her personal airliners to take the children home to London from Scotland. Flushed with excitement, the children glued their faces against the windows
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    Lock icon ASIA ANTI-RED LEAGUE MAY MEET IN STORE
    107 1 KOREAN leaders of the Asian Peoples' AntiCommunist League are planning to call the league's second conference at Saigon or Singapore m the near future. League chairman Young Pam Lee said m Seoul yesterday that he will send letters to member nations m the
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    Lock icon Ganges ferry capsizes
    45 1 Fifty people are feared to have been drowned when a ferryboat capsized m the Ganges near Shahidganj, about 10 miles from Allahabad, yesterday. So far 35 bodies, mostly peasant women, have been recovered. The boat carried 60 people. Ten swam ashore. Reuter
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    Lock icon The holy strike
    31 1 Some 200 celibate Buddhist monks and nuns m Seoul began a new hunger strike yesterday to demand that married mnnk« b* completely deprived of all religious privileges.- U.P.
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    Lock icon VIETNAM CAPTURE TWO REBEL UNITS
    193 2 VIETNAM CAPTURE TWO REBEL UNITS T:i. Vietnam < national army.s ana commander m Vlnnlonff, Southwest Vietnam Sftld yesterday that two battalions of the rebel Hoa Hao sect had mrrcndcrcd to his force; which have surrounded the rebeli In an "annihilation zone." He also denied that Vinh long had keen recaptured
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    Lock icon Chiang gets A-bomb planes from U.S.
    83 2 Chiang gets A-bomb planes from U.S. AN undisclosed number <>i long-rang< fighter bombers, designed to carry atomic bombs, flew to Formosa on Wednesday irom Okinawa, the U.S. Far East Air Force .said yesterday. A "task force" of F-84G Thunderjet fighters landed on the Nationalist Chinese island and was ready to
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    Lock icon 'BIG 4 TALK FIRST IN SERIES'
    286 2 Russia accepts parley site, date The Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. M. Molotov, proposed m Paris yesterday that bygones should be bygones between East and West. He indicated to French leaders that Russia will accept the invitaiion to a Big four conference next month m
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    Lock icon Inter-colony trade is in Chinese hands
    171 2 Inter-colony trade is in Chinese hands AND THERE'S NO COMPETITION [tf R. HUI NGOK. chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Manufacturers Union said yesterday that the bulk of trade between Singapore and Hong Kong was m the hands of Chinese, who trade to mutual advantage, always complementing but never competing
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    New spy trial
    26 2 A new Communist trial opened yesterday m East Berlin when seven Germans were Charged before the Supreme Cpurt with spying for the West.
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    Lock icon Swiss seek reactor
    18 2 Switzerland is to buy an atomic reactor from the Unit- ea states ior $84U,uuu.- Reuter
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    28 2 TWO GUESTS, Mr. and Mrs. Lim Eng Kwang. being received by Mr. W. A. C. Goode. the Officer Administering the Government, at the Government House Garden Party yesterday
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    Lock icon Nehru toasts BLESSED ARE THE PEACE-MAKERS Red leaders
    248 2 Nehru toasts BLESSED ARE THE PEACE-MAKERS Red leaders MR. NEHRU, Prime Minister of India stood beneath a Bible painting m a Kremlin banqueting hall last night and told Russia's top leaders: "Blessed are the peace makers." Facing Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Prime Minister, and Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, the Communist
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      180 2 "I Saw Men Turned Into Raving Beasts..." says Sit Yin Fong m remarkable eye-witness account of the Singapore riots you can read m this weeks WEEK-ENDER. Sit was m the middle of the battle, and he pulls no punches when he desMmS Thursda" Wh brought ,hame fo Sin 8 a
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    Lock icon Thousands defy rain to cheer Queen
    379 3 Thousands defy rain to cheer Queen Black Prince dresses for the Queen fROWDS hiding from rain under a forest of umbrellas, cheered Queen Elizabeth yesterday as she drove with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. to the opening of Parliament which coincided with her official birthday. Before she arrived m
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    Lock icon MONKEY LUNG HELPED GIRL IN OPERATION
    97 3 A 19-YEAR-OLD girl yesterday underwent a heart operation during which her > blood passed through a lung I removed from a monkey. The operation was performed on Lucinda Rowe by Dr. W. T. Mustard, Toronto heart sur- geon. The monkey's lung wai chosen to
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    Lock icon A U.S. BRANCH
    20 3 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation yesterday applied to set up an office m San Francisco. Reuter
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    Lock icon CLIMB GIVEN UP
    28 3 Heavy snow storms sweeping bout their 25,070-foot final imp have forced the SwissGerman expedition to abandon its attempt to climb the 26,811-foot Mount Dhaulagirl. U.P.
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    Lock icon $425,000 DAMAGE AS FACTORY BLOWS UP
    179 3 $425,000 DAMAGE AS FACTORY BLOWS UP A PAINT factory blew up at Slough on Wednesday, damaged surrounding works and caused widespread blast damage m the area. The explosion, one of the biggest m Britain since the enemy attacks of World War 11. woke the sleeping town, bringing people out into
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    Lock icon 10 million blind Asians need care
    72 3 10 million blind Asians need care MISS HELEN KELLER, the deaf and blind authoress and social worker said m New York yesterday on her return from a 40,000-mile tour of the East, that ahead still lay the staggering task of securing adequate facilities for the 10,000,000 blind people m the
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    Lock icon TWO DRY DEATHS: THE BLAME
    101 3 AN official French report received m Dakar. French Senegal, yesterday on the deaths from thirst of two British motorists m the South Sahara Desert said that there would be "no useful purpose" m opening an official inquiry into the tragedy. The ,I'eport, received by the
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    Lock icon Crime down again
    131 3 CRIME decreased m London for the third year m succession m 1954, it was announced yesterday. A report by Sir John Nott Bower, chief of the London Metropolitan Police, disclosed that indictable offences known to the police last year totalled just under 94,000. This is 5,500 fewer
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    Lock icon Policemen to be charged
    40 3 The State Attorney's office said m Chicago* last nifcht that five policemen, including the only three. in Norridge suburb, had admitted stealing goods from a shop. All five are to appear before a grand jury. Reuter
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    FRIDAY, June 10, IN WAY TO CHAOS
    256 4 FRIDAY, June 10, IN WAY TO CHAOS jIfORE THAN 40,000 fac- tory, transport and other workers have threatened to e,o on a ".sympathy" strike. They have told the Government they will do this unless the Singapore Harbour Hoard Staff Association dispute is settled by Monday. The Chief Minister, Mr. David
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    The Neutral Curtain
    1129 4  - The Neutral Curtain SEFTON DELMER fey IS IT THE BEST HOPE FOR PEACE? FX)R I days now, the newly-sovereign policy makers of Bonn have been flapping m a M /y Ol alternating emotions. First consternation. Then relief and over-confidence. What is the cause 0 Report* that the Americans have been
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    BY THE WAY
    151 4  -  Beachcomber :■<.; ij^v?HS§?R^B 31 R. REPTON L. IFFETT a director of snibbo Ltd claimed that the growth of a luxuriant beard on °1? Proved the nutriti™ a or „amental, and health-diS?; carpophosphatef. we of Snibbo are never J^rtoid our I- l V ,ILs i ,in B effect*
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      17 4 TANKARDS In Stirling Mhrcff «»r ITiiifll Pectw Ftalfl (•it Mekd sii\rr P. H. HENDRY HmOM! K. lumpur.
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    NO ROOM OVERSEAS FOR BIG BILL
    263 5 The Army sends him home he 's too big rpHE War Office welcomed Cockney-born Bill Moore when he signed on 18 years ago. He was sftMoin. m his stockinged feet, and a likely lad. But now, after only four months' service overseas, Private Moore
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    S'pore monkeys help in vaccine production
    132 5 FIRST EVER FLOWN TO AUSTRALIA SINGAPORE monkeys have been used m the first production of Salk anti-polio vaccine m Australia. A hundred young Cynomolgus monkeys flown from Singapore by Qantas Empire Airways last month were the first animals ever flown into Australia. The Australian
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    Kuantan toast to the Queen
    48 5 A Quern's Birthday reception was held by the Kuantan District Officer. Mr. P. S. Bolshaw. and his wife m their residence yesterday morning. Among the 200 guests wera the Mentrl Besar. Dato Abdul Razak bin Hussain. who proposed the toast to the Queen.
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    GIRL WHO WOULD BE EARLY IS KILLED
    204 5 GIRL WHO WOULD BE EARLY IS KILLED RAIL strike or no rail strike, 19-year old Sheila Gibbs was deter- i mined not to be late for her newly-won job as a secretary to a West End E film company. She set out early to E travel the ten miles from
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    Beauty queen is married
    28 5 Miss Adeda Al-Johary. Singapore's "Miss Max Factor 1953" was married to Mr. Jaya Waras Abdullah, a Johore Bahru businessman, m the Colony last night.
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    Returns from Britain
    48 5 Inche Jamal bin Abdul LatifT has returned to Ipoh from England where he had gone for a judiciary course m 1951. He will succeed Inche Salleh bin Sslaiman as Circuit Magistrate. Ipoh. when Inche Salleh goes to Kuala Lumpur as Deputy Chief Social Welfare Officer.
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    REPEAL THIS POLL LAW, M.C.A. URGES
    100 5 REPEAL THIS POLL LAW, M.C.A. URGES TH E 8.8.C.'s up-to-the-minute commentary on the general elections m Britain, says the Malayan Chinese Association publication, the Malayan Mirror, m an editorial, mentioned, at least twice party campaign cars passing polling booths. The cars were described as attractively decorated with streamers and plastered
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    TWO WOMEN DEFEND THE MAN THEY 'WED'
    219 5 r'O women who lived together m the same house with the man who married them bigamously spoke up for him m court. Both were sorry for him, the court was told. Neither wanted to get him into trouble "Wife" No. 1, Olive Knight,
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      571 6 MAMnDAKF by Lee Falk and Phil Davis STAR WTII LETYOUJ CAME TO THIS CITY. LU US g^ggfr, C ME C?AAFT. MINO TELUN6 J^ABOUJ g tor HUSBAND? HE LOOKS TWENTY \P^^ S/_ CIND HIM» f^S T/^^ uoon others to surest a course V YEARS YOUNGEP .\-ZTI V-^/IND HIM r-==**^7M>^%lr /frJ^ M
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U. K. closing prices
      217 7 LONDON, June 9 Previous Today IH'BBEK No. 1 RSS cJ.f. European 28~ 8 buyers 29 U buyers ports Jane 29H sellers 29 seller;, Xl BBER No. 1 RSS cJJ. European 28 buyers 28 n buyers ports July 28*4 sellers 29% sellers R I BBER No. 1
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      36 7 NEW YORK, Jane 9. Previous Today 30 Industrials «J-»5 435.07 20 Railroads IJJ-" ig-JJ 40 Don^c Bonds 99-75 £76 ID I 111 l lira #»o lon QO 61 Stocks Composite Averagre 162.08 it>u.tt»
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      New York prices
      98 7 NEW YORK, June 9. Previous Today Tin Strait, spot and nearby 92.25 nom. 92.62 nom. TIN futures Jnne 91-25 Did »2.j0 Did July 91.10 bid 91.90 bid 92.10 asked 92.75 asked Aug 91.00 bid 91.60 bid 92.00 asked 92.60 asked TONE- Firm. SALES: Four lots. RUBBER futures
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      U.S. PEPPER
      62 7 Spot Malabar was quoted at 46 to 45. June shipment 44^. 50 l *> cents for pound. Awaiting Lampong spot 50 V£. Awaiting rerelease 50^. Afloats 50 to 49 lease 50 I L>. Afloats 50 to 49. June June shipment unquoted. Sarawak shipment 49, sellers ex-dock. spot 49.
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      121 7 COPRA Philippines ci.f. UK/North European delivered weight per long ton June /July COPRA Philippines f.o.b. Manila m bulk, per long ton COPRA Straits ci.f. UK/North European delivered weight per long ton June/ July J illy Aug. COCONUT OIL crude, Strait* cJi. UK/North European m bulk, per
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    43 7 EIGHT PEOPLE Were m this house at Jalan AlsagofT, Singapore, when it collapsed without warning. They escaped without injury. The house— an attap and plank buildingwas erected about 30 years ago and had been m occupation by its present tenants for 14 years.
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    YWCA all-race hostel 'falling to pieces'
    429 7 THEY HAVE A BUILDING PROBLEM T<HERE will be a building problem at the Y.W.C.A. international hostel at Fort Canning very soon, Mrs. R. K. S. Adams, the association's president, said at its annual meeting at Raffles Quay. She added that the frame annex was
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    GIRL, 19, WHO FLED WAS 'QUIET, GOOD'
    116 7 GIRL, 19, WHO FLED WAS 'QUIET, GOOD' MISS Lee Hwee Huang, 19, daughter of Singapore multi-millionaire Mr. Lee Wee Nam, who ran away to China last week, was described by her schoolmates as "an intelligent, quiet, good girl." Miss Lee, who was m the Senior Middle Class Three at the
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    292 8 PARADE OF MEN'S FASHIONS Pictures by THE Hospital Ball at the Sea View Hotel m Singapore raised $2,600 for St. Andrew Mission Hospital. More than 300 people attended. A highlight of the evening's entertainment was a remarkable display of hats past, present and future by the celebrated milliner, Mr. Aafe
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    819 10  - They fought an air war on the telephone George Malcolm Thomson by NORTH AMERHAS SUPPLY By H Duncan Hall. H.M.S.O. and Lone mans. 3js. IS! pa«<-v HERE is a dry-as-dust volume, the latest addition to the History of the Second World War Yet how big and dramatic are the issues
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    The Penitent Poet
    559 10 He christened Charles The Merry Monarch jfkjfkjfkjf ■A X E ROCHESTBE. By Charles Norman. W. 11. Alleai. His. 'ill pages. THE second Earl of Rochester died at 33. an ornament of the court ol Charles 11, if not a credit to it. He was a bad man
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    There's nothing like the Army
    74 11 FIFTEEN hundred guests croivded into 12 rooms at a Union Day reception at South Africa House, London. Among them was FieldMarshal Sir John Harding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. He talked about his retirement next autumn. He said: "Army life is a good racket.
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    She got in —and wasn't thrown out
    152 11 SOMETHING always happens when they let the women into the Honourable Artillery Company's headquarters, Armoury House, m the City Road* London. Last year a cigarette appeared m the visor of the HAC's highly burnished suit of armour. Some nights ago, at "C" Battery's
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    616 11  - They don't make any cracks about mothers-in-law on this island LAN MERCER by IN MARJORCA nobody 1 laughs at mother-in-law, for she is a more than important person. In fact, it would be no exaggeration to say that whatever changes have taken place m the most trying of relationships elsewhere
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    EVEN THE BANDSMEN SAID IT WITH MUSIC!
    235 11 "T DO hope they leave me -i- alone with my friends," said Mme. Suzy Volterra as she entered the Savoy restaurant, London, for her Derby victory party. But autograph hunters pre sented their menus m a steady trickle all evening. There were jokes
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    GOING MY WAY?
    17 12 [-THE GILES FAM.LV HOLIDAY GUIDE... Nc. 2 Mo uso, ororybody-wo'U hssvo to split up/-
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    Beautician's advice: NO face powder for over 60s
    321 12 Beautician' s advice: NO face powder for over 60s ri{(; year old T bea ity expert Rose looks about 60 and still has the nerve to di apricotcoloured hat, comes this advl on look! ng youn "No face powder after 60." she ear any herself. Ml rhmmgrn rpwo lovely London
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    She had a hat—but oh, the flu
    124 12 She had a hat but oh, the flu AUTHOR and poet Sachevcrell Sit well icent With his wife to a private cinema m Oxford Street. London, to see his first venture as a film actor. He said afterwards: "I'm very pleated with myself. Having a red face, I come up
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    Ann paints the pints
    104 13 NEARLY always m the bar during opening time at the Black Swan Hotel m Oldham, Lancashire, is pretty 21- ear-old art student Miss Ann > later. Ann isn't there to make her student days merry though, she is engaged on a job of work, painting the
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    SPORTING HOP
    24 13 DOMINICAN diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa flew into London Airport from Paris the other day. The reason for his three-day visit: "to study polo."
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    Bridge Hand
    348 13 East- test vulnerable North dealer (Tea* of Pour plaj) COUTH had a lead-directing seml- psychic third hand bid and North had a desperate preemptive leap. East's penalty double was the only proper action. South lost a diamond, a club, a heart and two spades when West, after all
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    93 13 A PREVIEW was given at South Bank. London, last week of the "Atoms for Peace" exhibition, a five-trailer travelling show setting out some of the potentialities of atomic energy* It will be on view to Londoners till tomorrow and then tour Britain. The exhibition is sponsored by the United States
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    She almost died when she saw that flag
    171 13 PINNED side by side on a wall behind the tombola stall at the British-Ameri-can Ball at the Dorchester, London, were the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes. The Union Jack, lent by Lord Colwyn. was spotless. The Stars and Stripes, lent
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    653 13  - Stars now get themselves 'incorporated' KAY MURRAY TO DODGE THOSE TAX-MEN ■•••it iiimi MMtii.aaa.ii. ii i iiiit,i«»ti.itMt.taMNiti»»Mai>'*ftitii,t(i niiinmif tniniMMHiaiiiuas reports OEING a big film star with a giant salary is no longer synonymous with owning a big fortune. Today, with tax collectors snapping at one's heels, it ls more often
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    328 14 Water polo league starts tomorrow 1 Bi imming Associatlo j n.s wat me I ib J'.-. >■■ Bundaj the Chine m a I I I r com- A :>.-. nf or the fl I time. Ti i Swimming Club i comp ti In the B and c II i.s the
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    101 14 BOXING ROW IN THE U.S. Chalrman Bernard P Olmbel and fr.f (tiu-r membei of the board ol director* ol Madlaon Square OardSn, N.'w York*, tamed boxing imi.i have offered theti re Lgnatiooi be- j eauae they are "captl ca M of boxing < promoter Jim N .< cordlnf to the
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    106 14 Boxing chiefs say no! BLACK v.WHITE THE Louisiana State Athletic Commission has voted 3-2 j against approving boxing mat- (•lies between negro and white fighters. The vote came after Louisia- j ra Boxing Enterprises iL.B.E.t signed negro middleweight Willie Troy of New York for a June 28 bout against Willie
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    EARLIER FINISH TO CUP?
    113 14 EARLIER FINISH TO CUP? By \V. CAPBL KlKliY SO the county cricket authorities are >quawkmg about tin* U|> Final encroaching on their seassfi what art your viev\<-" I BSSf an I .A <«/tJii. illor who lavours pla\ing o(T Ujj€ up competition and all international ma trim KB the lirst hall
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    50 14 picture. FORMER champion jockey Sir Gordon Richards and the owner, Miss Dorothy Paget (facing camera) watch as The Saint, Sir Gordon's first winner as a trainer, is unsaddled after his "victory m the Frogmore Plate at the Royal Windsor race meeting. Jockey is J. Wilson. Reuter
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    813 14 BASEBALL WIZARD STUMPS THE PITCHERS INHERE are many outstanding performers m major league >aseball m the United States, Hit there are only a few play»rs with all round ability who consistently excite and delight c :he fans. Orestes Minoso. a tfegro from Cuba, star outfield- 2 ?r of the Chicago
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    31 14 pAT FORD, 24-year-old 1 Australian lightweight champion, has retired from boxing according to a Melbourne newspaper. Ford held the Australia version of the British Empire lightweight title.— Reuter
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    SOUTH PACIFIC OR RENNIES?
    1247 15  -  TRESPASSER By Main race should go to Spencer Stable I PROBABLE (SCRATCHINGS Malayan Scholar, James Aitch, Robbie Burns, By- j j lantium, Dance Hall 11, Gondolino, High Hopes, Delivery, Sabrina, Maha Ranee, Ocean Pearl, Barnfteld, Fairy Tale, Fly- §*ing Princess, Star Sap- j phi re The
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    Star Signal can beaf these winners
    638 15 Star Signal can beaf these winners TAKE Star Signal to beat four last start winners Rose Marie. Lindos. Undecided and Rice Mill— in the Class 2. Division 1 race over six furlongs. Star Signal was backed as an extra good thing m his last race won by True Bell. It
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    BOYS TOWN BOXERS THRILL THE CROWD
    245 15 BOYS' Town, Singapore, held their Inter-House Boxing Finals last night. Joseph House, with 30 points, won the Challenge Shield donated by Mr. Ec Peng Liang. Gabriel House, with* 20 points, were runners-up. George .Scan and D. Alexander fought a close fight m the opening
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    CHOSEN FOR TEST BUT SAILS AWAY
    64 15 Sunny Ramadhin, West Indies spin bowler, sailed for England yesterday though he ls among 14 named for the fifth and final Test against Australia which begins at Kingston, Jamaica, tomorrow. A professional m the Lancashire league, it is believed he asked the West Indies
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    22 15 Cleveland Indians 2 Boston Red Sox 4; New York Yankees 7 Detroit Tigers 3; Pittsburgh Pirates 2 Chicago Cubs 6.
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    191 15 rVf R 'N.V.R.. leaders of the second **n division of the Singapore United Services F. A. League, beat Athenians 2-1 yesterday at RAF Seletar m a mediocre display of football. Only bright feature of the match was the occasional dazzling form displayed by MRNVR inside-right Khurasan.
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    71 16 iiitiTAiN end India eacb won one, I) n the opening day of then Devli Cup lawn tennis Kurop- hi Zone QU irtei ftnal tnU h at Manche ter ye erday Roger Beckei 21, g«ve BnUm the lead he., fir; India raptalll h Kumar »i-2. 7-», <i-2,
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    57 16 Australia's defending champions, led by a sharpshootlng Peter Thomson, jumi>ed into commanding lead yesterday m the opening round Of 'lie 450 000 International Golf Championships al the Columbia Country Club. lie had the only tsub-jxir round of the day a spectacular 67, one stroke otl the course record.
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    414 16 Sick Choong fights on glucose and guts rtMfl nAN iolowcd sensation during the first days PSfS^ftSSL. Badminton < h;,n„,ions..,ps Kuala Lumpur yesterday. First the Danian csumpton rinn Kobbero limped onto the court and mat beaten In by hitherto unrmnked Penang plajrefc Then Ong Poh Lira Annouiyc(i tnai
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    Awang Bakar is dropped
    151 16 A WANG BAKAR. Singapore's star centre forward for the past few seasons, has been dropped from the Singapore Malaya Cup team. His name is not among* the 18 players from which the team to meet Johore at Jalan Besar Stadium on j Sunday will be chosen.
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    Lock icon Barton stops Mel Brown
    103 16 i-NBEATEN British light-heavy-, U weight. Ron Barton, took another step up the ladder to a Bri- I tl.sh title fight when he beat Mcl Brown the experienced American, m B rmiiiaham Ct night. The referee stonix'd the fight m the sixth round of a .scheduled 10-round
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    ZATOPEK BEATEN IN CLOSE RACE
    120 16 Emil Zatopek. Czechoslovakia's j Olympic champion and world record holder, was beaten over 5.000 metres for the second time m less than a fortnight by Ivan UllsiJerger of Czechoslovakia last night m Prague. After a thrilling duel, with the lead changing throughout, Ullsperger put on
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    29 16 Miss Marilyn Bell, aged 17. who last September became the first person to swim Lake Ontario, leaves Canada today for London to try the jtngnsn unannei.— Reuter
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    WINTER GAMES
    21 16 The International Skating Union yesterday announced its preference for Innsbruck, Austria, as site of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games.
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    G.E.S. SPORTS
    26 16 Geylang English School (lit will hold their sixth annual sports on June 23. commencing at 2.30 p.m. Mrs. M. Ince will present the prizes.
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    107 16 THIRTYNINE professionals qualified for the final day's play m the Daks i; 2,000 professional golf tournament on the Sunnlngdale Course yesterday. They were joined by one amateur, Guy Wolstenholme. The held was headed by Max Faulkner whose 71 on the Old Course yesterday added to
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    326 16 IJAMPSHTRE raced to a two-day I victory over Essex by seven wickets at Southampton yesterday. Splendid bowling by Hampshire's young left-arm attacker Peter Sainsbury^ whose seven wickets for 25 represented the best performance of hi* career, did moat of the damage. Ken Preston, the Essex
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    277 16 Woodcock manages T-Bomb' Lave lIMMTS new on the Isimrli W Kadrodro versu. Kitione Lave Hunt m Singapore. Just tmV there won't be one. la\e the "Tonga Bomb I agreed to meet the Fijian ido Radrodro for the heavyweight I rhampionahlp of the Onent th.* month. A Singapore promoter is still
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    LATE SHOCKS FOR ENGLAND
    395 16 ENGLAND mad** a sound start to the first Test against' South Africa at Trent Bridge. Nottingham, yesterday, scoring 244 runs for the loss of four wickets Until 20 minutes from the close of play England appeared to have played themselves into an unbeatable position, being 228
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      9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday, June 10, 1955.
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      SEE HOW THEY RAN -AT THE K.L. RACES
      229 1 Kempton, ridden by Abdul Mawi, beats Big Hit (Mortimer) by threequarters of a length m the six furlongs race for Class 3, Division 4, on Saturday. Following the leaders are Rogation (third), Tawakai, etreme left (fourth) and The Cydaris, on the rails.
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      Lock icon Ascot Stakes weights
      75 1 final acceptors. A with weights, for the Ascot Stakes to be run over two and a half miles at Ascot next Tuesday are; Chantry 9.05; Harwin 9.00; Prescription 8.13; Romany Air 8.08; Coryaalis 8.03; Little Cloud 8 01; Romney Legend 8.00; Crancrower 7.10; Carteretta 7.08; Broadhemnston 7.06;
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      9846 2 FORM GUIDE FOR SINGAPORE RACES Class One FOLLOWING ;«r«- tin* horses entered for tin Singapore Turf CM June Meetinf. mkm\i:k HKMI Ml D I |.ll ci. 1 D s4KAI<IIM> 10 )M CI. 1 O *|< <»M» p4 IJM I M ■j i- H#nn J r i i I *.M *M
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      114 8 nnwEN IYI WO BOal acceptor. s. with syakfbU, for tlie Workingli.m Stakes to be run over six fur\nv.*s at Ascot on Friday, June 17 are: Dumbarnle bill. Moonlight Express 9 03; Noble Charger 9.01; Chllvary 9.00; King Bruce and Princely Gift 8 11; Cintriat 8.08;
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