The Singapore Free Press, 13 June 1955

Microfilm: NL2442
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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. MM. Singapore, Mon.. June 13. 1955. Price 15 Cts.
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    Lock icon innocent victims of the strike
    32 1 pictures. CLERKS EMPLOYED m the Maxwell Road area who normally travel by bus are taken to work m lorries. Below: Children living m Cecil school.— Free Press
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    MASS ARRESTS IN CITY TODAY
    141 1 Sixth man held: 70,000 out m strike wave DOLICE arrested another trade union man this morning as the biggest general strike m her history gripped Singapore. Cheong Pun Pin. an employee of the Green Compay, has been detained under the the Emergency Regulations, bringing the
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    SOME PETROL KIOSK MEN STOP
    535 1 THE whole of Bukit Timah. Singapore's main industrial area, was paralysed this morning. The transport paralysis has had serious repercussions on all walks of life. Thousands of Government employees and employees of commercial flms were late for work. Hundreds of others could not get to
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    DETAINEES MOVED TO JAIL AT DAWN
    116 2 DETAINEES MOVED TO JAIL AT DAWN POl i< i dawn to 1 <\ ion the det< [pon and began removing son d< I Batu 0 Th< <>l Peral I shift decided on kx i an c ol the un-co-op rat ttitude of men and theii refu. tl followii at th»
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    Rubber still going up
    75 2 Rui)))<r equalled Its highi f level for the year In Singapore this morning Due to the Colony unrest, tin 1 demand by overseas traders who tear shortages wu.s brisk and the price wnt up to $1.06% ;t )fo Immediately after Hi* 1 opening of the market
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    Lock icon One candidate -Prime Minister
    55 2 Pakistani Primf Minister Ifohamed am yesterday was named the only official candidate ol the Muslim League Party for election to tho eonstituenl a embly from East Pakistan provincial assembly i lectorab col Earlier there was strong opposition to Ali's nomination. Borne officers who hud opposed it
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    Lock icon Midnight watch at Bukit limah
    32 2 picture. THE TIME IS midnight but the polite still maintain their viffil outside the Hume factory m Bukit Timah. the Colony's No. 1 trouble spot— Free Press
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    Lock icon UK RAIL MEN TO CONTINUE STRIKE
    221 2 Union rejects Govt more pay 9 proposals M- M. ML railroad men m Britain yesterday decided to continue their crippling two-week-old walkout indefinitely unless the Government grants "adequate" wage rises. The striking: Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen Union (ASLEF) on Saturday night
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    Lock icon CUNARO LINER SAILS FROM LIVERPOOL
    79 2 Till, lirst (unard Jiner to leave Liverpool on an Atlantic crossing since the sea men s strike began 14 days ago sailed for New fork early yesterday. She was the 13,000-ton* Media carrying 150 passengers. Two other liners left on Saturday —the Furness IVithys Newfoundland
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    Lock icon Egypt warns
    39 2 Major-Gen. Mohamed Sidki Egypt's air chief said m New York that the Egyptian Air Force now is "m full swing training" and already "is big enough to defend the country and hit back if necessary." A. P.
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    Lock icon Two bomb attacks on Americans in Saigon
    140 2 Two bomb attacks on Americans in Saigon TERRORISTS hurled handgrenades at Americans m two separate attacks m Saigon yesterday. No casualties were reported. Police said one of the grenades was hurled at a villa on the Rue Barbe occupied by members of the United States economic mission. It exploded outside
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    MacGillivray flies to U.K. for talks
    75 2 MacGillivray flies to U.K. for talks rE High Commissioner. Sir Donald MacGillivray. left Kuala Lumpur by air today for a routine visit to London, during which he will have talks with the Colonial Office. He will stay m England for a month, a fortnight of which he will spend on
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    2 INJURED STILL CRITICALLY ILL
    57 2 Kassim bin Said, 36. and Shf ikh Abdul Kadir. 9. who were involved In a car accident In Singapore, yesterday, m which four others were killed, are still on the dangerously ill list. The car thry were m collided with a Royal Air Force 10--ton
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    Lock icon Conference
    16 2 A five-day conference of Jewish organisations from 19 countries opened la.st night m London, A.P.
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    'Turco's' return does not worry Jakarta
    101 2 INDONESIAN officials said yesterday m Jakarta they were not worried about reports that their old enemy Turco Westerlinß was on his way to Jakarta to stir up a revolution. Many government officials just refu.sed to believe that Westcrlins would risk a return trip to
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    Lock icon Going home
    23 2 Newly-appointed U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Maxwell Taylor arrived m Beirut yesterday on his way to Washington from Tokyo, A.P.
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    Fancy dress dance brings in $10,000
    110 2 Till*. Singapore Chinese Lal dies Association dance and dinner a fancy dress competition included- -at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Sftfig 1 ni ht »lwd about I sio.ooo for new club-house About modi nod people attend- i the function with 150 people taking part
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    Lock icon MP'S SPEECH MAY LEAD TO REUNION
    238 3 Family parted for over 30 years V MAIDEN speech m the House of Commons last week by a new member may span 30 years and reunite him with his long lost brother and sister. Mr. Ronald Ledger, M.P.. told a bushed house during a
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    Lock icon 'Little Mo' weds
    36 3 Miss Maureen Connolly, the "Little Mo" of tennis who won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon three years m succession, was married m San Diego on Saturday to Mr. Moran Eugene Brinker. Reuter
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    Lock icon 'Drought' ends
    22 3 A one-day beer drought has ended with the return to work of 1,500 key workers m breweries throughout Japan.- U.P.
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    Diana Barrymore's husband found dead
    100 3 ROBERT Wilcox, the actor husband of Diana Barrymore, was found dead m a New York central railroad pullman compartment as the train pulled into Rochester, New York, yesterday where he was to visit his mother. A porter broke into the compartment wfaen Wilcox. who was
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    Lock icon ASIAN YOUTH'S 'PLIGHT IS SHOCKING'
    73 3 ASIAN YOUTH'S 'PLIGHT IS SHOCKING' ASIA is spending so much time worrying about political problems that a "shocking state of affairs" has developed among 170 million children and teen-agers, an Indian child welfare expert is convinced. "We do not seem to have time for children any more," commented Shri V.
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    Lock icon 7-foot aborigines found in heart of Australia
    205 3 7-foot aborigines found in heart of Australia REPORTS have reached Alice Springs that an unknown tribe of aborigines has been discovered m a 40.000-square-mile area m the arid heart of Australia. Extremely tall natives were recently reported wandering into the Palatine Mission due west of Alice Springs which is almost
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    Parents rebel at school quiz
    158 3 Parents rebel at school quiz A SCHOOL quiz that asked children such personal questions as have your parent^ been divorced? has touched off a parents' revolt m the English cathedral city of Norwich. The headmistress of the local high school for girls has written to parents apologizing for the quiz.
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    Lock icon MOUNTAIN TRIBESMEN ON ELEPHANTS SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO DIEM
    237 3 MOUNTAIN tribesman rode into Ban Me Thuot, the 1 Central Vietnam hill station, on 200 elephants yesterday to swear allegiance to Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnam Prime Minister. Mr. Diem is on a two-day visit to the hill station where
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    Lock icon Not quitting
    14 3 Iranian Premier Hussein Ala has denied rumours that he will resign. AP
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    Lock icon 'GOA LIKE PRIVATE DOMAIN'
    40 3 SHRI X SHASTRI public relations officer to the High Commissioner of India m London, yesterday alleged that Ooa s ruled by the Portuguese as Lf it were the private domain of a feudal lord.— Re uter
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    Lock icon CHINESE CREW MUTINY, KILL TWELVE REDS
    85 3 SIXTEEN Chinese mutinied aboard I motorised Junk m the Gult of Tonkin on May 7. killed 12 Communist! and tailed th<* craft to Boutnern Vietnam, tiv official Central News Agency report* m Tai|>e-h. Tin- 16 were said to b«' from Hainan Inland and lUlied
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, June 13, 1955. Opinion HELD TO RANSOM
    271 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, June 13, 1955. Opinion HELD TO RANSOM Ln'KNY law-biding citizen iJ m Singapore will haiJ the decisive action of the Government jh detaining live people under the Emergency Regulations "apparently responsible tor organising this threatened (one-day general) strike for political purposes." The amount of Infiltration
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    CRISIS of the BULGE
    1063 4  - CRISIS of the BULGE MERRICK WINN i m Rritain's schools this year. Too many children There is also a crisis m Britain 5 *^J?.;^^s^^*^^ with too few teachers t by JENNIFER even, a v and silent child and cannoi under- icher 1 1 nu to notice One day v >"
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    The baby from Borneo is a demon on flying trapeze
    759 5  - The baby from Borneo is a demon on flying trapeze ADELAIDE EASTELY THEY'RE HOPING FOR A MIRACLE FOR GINGER-POO By SHE'S a living doll. Charming, and a real coquette. She has close blue eyes and burntoranse hair. Her head goes to a near-point and she's very intelligent. Her name is
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    Blinking is a clue in these tests
    211 5 SPECIAL LABORATORY SET UP A SPECIAL laboratory for testing the precise effects of pep-pills, "truth-serums," and other drugs on tlhe brain has been set up at the Maudsley Hospital. South London. People are to have their nervous reactions, brain-waves, and reflexes measured while
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    HUNDREDS DIE FOR 10s TAX SAYS A SURGEON
    341 5 HUNDREDS DIE FOR 10s TAX SAYS A SURGEON A SURGEON has blamed Customs and Excise officials for the deaths m Britain of 700 to 800 people killed on motor-cycles Alien they have not been wearing skidlids. Treatment of people injured m such accidents, he said, is costing the country e
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      148 5 FIRST IN THE FASHION FIELD EVERY WEEK BRINGS VS SOMETHING NEW THAT PLEASES THE EYE AND HEART LINEN NYLON SKIRTS In Latest Styles Faile Full Flair AH Round Flocked Velvary Border and Printed Designs, and All Komid Pleated Made Up Skirts of Genuine Nylon Acetate Taffetta and Linen In Various
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      170 6 li^JP' I B I r\ I *0» MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Pavis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris ..«....«>■'»■• {MEANING AROUND WELL HOW ABOUT THAT" "AND I HAPPENED TO wwowi^r\ THAT IZZ LIN6 THERE'S NO LAW ROBBERY AT ,MRS HEAR THAT /^fKNEvvJ^^^^Jfek rsr n^^nPMP
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      674 6 I YOUR I LUCKY I STAR I DORN today there is d. finite a touch of genius, bestowed upon you by the stars. That \ciy \ersati!itv however, may m.iUf it diilii ult for you to find your niihe m I life :ind even cause \»»u to make a series of
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    THIS PORTRAIT LEAVES SITTER'S LEGS SO HAZY
    196 7 GRAHAM SUTHERLAND, painter of the century's most controversial portraits Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham— has painted another. And, like the Churchill portrait, it does strange things to the sitter's legs. The subject this time is an old friend of Suther-land's—49-year-old
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    Gypsy girl's marriage is mockery-MP
    98 7 Gypsy girl's marriage is mockery-MP THE mockery marriage of a 13-year-oid illiterate gipgy Rirl to the man accused of" an offence against her is to be aiscussed by the Italian Parliament. A Left-wins Socialist deputy is to ask th e Minister of Justice "on what grounds the magistracy permitted this
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    15 7 Aim Miller, Metro- GoW wyn -Mayer's dancing star combines beauty and shapeliness with her art.
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    Even the experts can't agree on how to make mint sauce
    389 7 Even the experts can' t agree on how to make mint sauce HOW do you like your mint sauce? That hunt-the-shred-of-leaf way served up m the seaside boardinghouse? That luscious all-mint-and-sugar-just- moistened withvinegar way mother- used to make? Or something m between? In fact, what does the public expect when
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    RUSSIA ADMITS BRITISH TOURISTS IN AUGUST
    131 7 HOLIDAY trips to Russia— the first since 1939- are starting again m August. The first 25 tourists will fly from London on August 22, for two weeks' sightseeing m Moscow and Leningrad. Cost: £135. Russia's decision to admit British tourists, although not unexpected has
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    Alfred gets the bird
    53 7 MR. ALFRED FITTON found an injured sparrow m ihis garden at Apsley. Nottingham, and tended it until it was betNow Mr. Fitton Just can't tfet rid of Sammy the sparrow; even when he released the bird at Derby, 15 miles away. Sammy was waiting at the
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    Smile for Marshall
    56 7 Mr. David Marshall (left), j the Chief Minister, is introduced to Chinese film star Miss "Butterfly" Wu when he arrived at the Happy World to open the third Hong Kong trade exhibition. Others m this Free Press picture are Mr. Halting Wong, leader of the Hong Kong
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    ROUND ABOUT SINGAPORE
    90 8 with Oswald Henry and his camera I ON SATURDAY NIGNI Entlbb and comes from Hriiliv-onTliaims SJPTO A"* thin, s ff ood found «ut w i irn ho tried to [j^ay from this ?n V v .S O Ocrs? ers Ovpr cocktails a uell-known hotel K rill >n
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    OVER SHE GOES!
    390 9 (ABOVE): The "dream girls" who got the biggest laughs at Saturday nights gala Fancy Dress Ball organised by the Singapore Chinese Ladies Association were these male helpers who paraded before the judges and patrons m very "Frenchy" underwear. More than 1.000 people, including the Commissioner General (m
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    HOW FAR FROM IT ALL CAN YOU GET?...
    25 10  -  GILES by_ "My! The Thames has chamftd since you tied .<f» at that riverside mooring last night."
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    THOSE RUMBLINGS IN YOUR STOMACH
    655 10 The SINGAPORE DOCTOR explains the bloated feeling some of us have after meals MR. M. Ifl 28. He complained of a bloated feeling In Ma upper abdomen after meals and a tense ot heat m the pit ol his stomach. The discomfort started two months
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    13 10 picture. fare but they" £ere tS when fhe^LpUy w»' rfrTinU^X^t^Zl"^:™ Tita century. Popper
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    'Treatment is going well...
    69 10 'Treatment is going well... DIVORCEE blonde Barbara Bobo" Rockefeller, a former beauty queen who recently received a settlement from her ex-husband, banker Winthrop Rockefeller, of five and a half million U.S. dollars five million for herself and her son and 500.000 for her attorney is m Paris receiving treatment for
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    THESE TAXMEN KNOW JUST HOW MUCH
    189 11  - THESE TAXMEN KNOW JUST HOW MUCH Stephen Coulter WITH restaurants flourishing at £3 ($25.50) a meal, the sletkest American cars purring up the Champs Ely sees and new flats bring snapped up at £20,000 ($170,000) a time, think somebody wa.s hoodwinking the tax-man m France? Well. I have come across
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    39 11 picture. BARON DE WYKERSLOOTH of Belguim on "Gemse" crashes through one of the jumps m no uncertain manner during the recent international horse jumping competition held at Wc-isbaden, Germany. The contest was won by Herr Thiedemann on "Finale".- Popper
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    Lock icon BACK ON THE BEAT
    86 11 BACK ON THE BEAT piviuie. THOUGH recalled from retirement raving to the present emergency, Mr. Hubert Browett of Tottenham, still finds a policeman's lot a happy one— as he tries on the old familiar uniform at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre m Lam beth, London. Because supplies of the new
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    They MAKE diamonds in this New York BARN
    298 11  -  RICHARD KILIAN by THE INGREDIENTS? ORDINARY CARBON TWO scientists working A m a barn on an isolated farm near New York are making diamonds cheaply by chemical process. And they never move far from their gems. Rifles and shotguns are loaded and
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    Would YOU wont a GLAMOUR JOB?
    698 12  - Would YOU wont a GLAMOUR JOB? JEAN WISEMAN The WOMAN'S p«g» I s/ss/ s ft Vf7\ ssss S^S^A. IF YOU want to d« s Uliislon a Bln-ftniek daughter, don't lecture hei Instead. try U> «rranKc a visit to the nearest nim studios. Many of the t'liirnourjobs for which fflrls ])in
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    'COUNTESS' CAROL
    32 12 \MARTINE Carol, premiere 1M glamour (tar Of France. h' Seen assigned the stara vi) role of Countess Amelie ii> Lord vai ity," which w 'if i nroduced m V iioood.
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    HER SINGING MADE HITLER FURIOUS
    84 12 HER SINGING MADE HITLER FURIOUS rnKEK singer Sophia Vembo. whose satirical sonas so l U infuriated Hitler that the Gestapo arrested hefsana j hn/n!l c S °T aanat n a Greek part y m London to* week and i had the guests calling for more thantsdVesse!. tHe Mayfair Hotel with
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    Lock icon DISCREET FASHION
    69 12 picture. THE novelty of this Spring: outfit, worn here by Italian film star Yvonne Sanson, is only apparent when the coat is opened, for the lining of the yellow wool top coat matches the yellow and green pasley wool frock. This combination is the 'latest look" from the
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      185 12 1^ Qu^i $Bt&\ ws&m KfIBSE^S WHH 9 I OUJH ROSS by the public (3). 1 A prime peach <ut up! (6. s>. 6 Are these parenLs found only 8 I tott confusedly In an inn, (B>. ln cathedral places'. 1 (4, 7>. 8 Wh.»i niary Might get m the 7
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    The Syrians have a word for it-it's 'SECURITY'
    1163 13  - The Syrians have a word for it- it's 'SECURITY' CHARLES ANDERSON UJ.IIUIG A FLAT HI DAMASCUS^SEEMS EASY ENOUGH TILL THE 9.9.9P.....?AMAR1TAN COMES qjj TKZ SCENE by 4 LL I wanted was somewhere to live. Nothing luxurious just a few rooms just somewhere to eat. work and sleep and I didn't
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    He came to Britain to buy a new wardrobe
    144 13 He came to Britain to buy a new wardrobe Am Vice-Marshal Sir Robert George, Governor of South Australia, m Britain on leave, has a busy time ahead of him— buying new clothes. "It seems an awful waste of one's leave, but it must be done," he told friends at a
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    Bridge Hand
    336 13 EAST doubled not so much because he expected to kill the opponents as to warn partner to do no more bidding. Without that warning, it is quitelikely that West would ko on to five hearts at which contract he could reasonably expect to go down not more than
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    THEIR BIG DAY
    269 14 1 Next Sunday tt Pasir Ris (JfWDAY is a big day for Singapore waterskiers. The Malayan Waterski Association is holding its biggest competition yet, and it will run all day at the Pasir Ris Hotel, off Tampenis Road. A trick contest is included for the first tune.
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    Lock icon Pritchett beats Rees for Daks golf title
    143 14 Pritchett beats Rees for Daks golf title John Prilchett, British boy'l champion seven years ago, scored his Drat major professional goll tow nament success on Saturday when on the course oi the Bunnlngdale Club. Berkshire, where be li assl 'ant professional, ho won the first prize ol £600 m the
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    TITLE TO TRABERT
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    MOREA TRIUMPH
    31 14 Enrique Morea of Arjentina. deieated Sid Schwartz of the United •States 2-6. 10-8, 6-2, 6-2 on Saturday to win the men's WeM o f England lawn tennis championship.— AP
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    Lock icon OLYMPIC STADIUM TAKES SHAPE
    409 14 OLYMPIC STADIUM TAKES SHAPE dustling gangs of J workmen swarming over the rapidly-rising skeleton of a giant new stand at Melbourne Cricket Ground are a visible sign of high speed moves m the city's preparations for the 1956 Olympic Games. Strikes, over-tight control of spending and a restricted labour force
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    Hawthorn in record victory
    119 14 T ASHED by rain, a British Jaguar i driven by Mike Hawthorn and Ivor Buets roared home to victory yesterday m the most dramatic and murderous 24 hour endurance race ever .seen at Le Mans. IU average speed over 306 laps <2,094 225 miles) was 107.061
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    Lock icon JAP SKIERS
    21 14 Five skiers will represent Japan m the 7th Winter Olympics scheduled for January next year .at Cortina, Italy.- A.P.
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    Lock icon 9-LENGTH WIN
    19 14 Nashua romped to a ninelength victory m the 87th running of America's Belmont Stakes on Saturday.— UP
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    Bannister has quiet wedding
    219 14 Bannister has quiet wedding SOMETHING finally caught up with "magic miler" Dr Roger Bannister at Basle Switzerland, on Saturday. Marriage. The fair-haired Briton, first man to crack the magic fourminute mile, was wed to pretty Swedish-bom Moyra Jacobsson of the Basle Registry Office. A church ceremony at the Prediger Church
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    England and U.S. Varsities draw
    70 14 A COMBINED Oxford and Cambridge athletic team held the visiting Yale-West Point squad from America to an eight-all tie on Saturday m the 32nd running of the Anglo-American inter-univer-sities series. Tlie American 440 yard relay team ran off with the final event of the meet,
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    Lock icon FRENCH GOLF
    29 14 Henri de Lama?e of France on, Saturday won the final of tht French International Golf Championship 5 and 4 over Don Bisplintftwff of Uie United States- A.P.
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      39 14 Programme The programme for the day is as follows: f)00 a.m. Men's Novices Slalom. 10.30 Novelty. 1t.45 Ladies slalom. 11.15 Trick competition. 12.3(1 p.m Open Jumping. 1 30 Men's Open Slalom 3.30 Novelty. 4.00 Demonstration of highspeed hydroplane driving;.
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    Lock icon SONNEVILLE-A CHAMPION OF BEST GRADE
    781 15 SONNEVILLE-A CHAMPION OF BEST GRADE He beat Skaarup at his own game Free Press Badminton Correspondent T^HE 1955 Malayan badminton championships will go down m the records as one of disappointments and sensations. To Malayans, the withdrawal of Ong Poh Lim. the champion, from the singles to concentrate on the
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    Lock icon THE TESTS At Nottingham: A dreary day's play
    304 15 THE TESTS At Nottingham: A dreary day's play S.A. FOLLOW ON DOUTH AFRICA fought back hard on the third day of their first cricket Test against England at Nottingham on Saturday but, after being forced to follow on, they were still 107 runs behind at the close with all their
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    Walcott (155) to the rescue
    202 15 At Kingston: A NOTHER fine innings by A Clyde Walcott, who was out m the last over for 155, helped West Indies recover from a bad start against Australia m the fifth and final Test at Kingston on Saturday. They were 327 for six by
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    THE FINAL RESULTS
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