The Singapore Free Press, 17 June 1955

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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya 1 1 *»in?aporr. Fri.. June 17. ll>.">:>. Price 15Cls,
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    Gene Symonds: man accused
    100 1 Gene Symonds: man accused riWENTI FIVE YEAR-OLD I O«| Ah Too, of Singa- was today charged m the Singapore seventh police with being a member m unlawful assembly, one whom caused the murder ,1 (,pne I). Symonds, manager the I'nited Press m Southj S \,ia, at Delta Circus on \l»v
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    GURKHAS RUSH TO FACTORY: MAN HELD
    125 1 VFTER a platoon of Gurkha police had been sent this srning to the Thye Hong Factory m Alexandra i about 100 strikers outthe plant resumed their n .m. picketing, a Singapolice spokesman said. QurkhAj were sent when [ken tried to prevent 9 police car
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    32 leave U.S. for China
    51 1 'pHIRTY-TWO Chinese, who 1 have lived m the United I >r a number of years. i m Hong Kong yesteri m their way to Communist China. t is believed some are technial student! whom the American State Department allowed ecently to leave the United It
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    RUBBER FIRM
    28 1 Hie Singapore Rubber Mart opened on a firm note this norning with first grade, June ihipment, at %\.W 2 a lb., half -nt above yesterday's closing.
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    Lock icon Doctors to strike
    26 1 About 1.000 hospital doctors n Vienna will stage a flve-hour 'A/irning strike" tomorrow to pr itest Against a new public •lth law.- Reuter
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    Get back to work, say Progressives
    200 1 THE Progressive Party this morning asked workers now on strike to reconsider their position carefully m view of the Government's statement that the trade union leaders .had been detained because "they were planning violence under cover of the then approaching general strike The party
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    PERON CLAIMS VICTORY OVER THE REBELS
    139 1 'Many dead' m Argentine revolt PRESIDENT Peron announced m Buenos Aires yesterday that ho had crushed a revolt m the navy and air force who had bombed and strafed the centre of the city and invaded Government House. But although P^ron claimed that the
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    Lock icon RED GUNS SHELL QUEMOY
    33 1 (CHINESE Communist guns m the port of *g*gJ!*VS!l flred 58 shells at the nearby NationalUf-hejd "W iuemoj Island off the mainland, the Nationaltet Ucitnct 'Uuuuy iv Talpeh itaid. Reuter
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    Still they go back
    267 1 HPHERE is every indicaA tion that sympathy strikes are fizzling out. More than 100 workers m two establishments went back to work today and there has been no new strike during the last 24 hours. Small groups of men are also reported to be returning to
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    STC MEN WANT TO GO BACK
    424 1 MANY Singapore Traction Company drivers and conductors are understood to be ready to start work any time if the Government assures them that they will get police protection against intimidation and injury. A group of them will meet the management later today to discuss
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    Lock icon Big 3 talks on tactics
    69 2 'piK Big Three Western 1 h( :< Ign MintsU I 'reed In N' a York yesterday to mil i>> formal agenda to So vlel Viinivn Minister Mblotov Jor the ".summit meeting" of Urn h. four heads of gov at i.' to open In cu-nrvu n
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    Lock icon TV QUESTIONING FOR MOLOTOV
    35 2 ier Molotov will fact a bdiirry of newsmen on the oJumbi.i liroudcasting S> stem's "lan- th«* Nation" Ie If fill— programme on June ML The giifstioninK Mill !>•• spontaneous and unrehearsed A.P.
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    New danger in Malaya: The Red China Chinese
    246 2 New danger in Malaya: The Red China Chinese THEY LOOK TO PEKING' the Attitude of Singapore Chinese leaden towards recent events m the Colony has been the subject of letters to The Times by Englishmen who know both th c Colony and the Federation. m a letter yesterday, Mr. J.
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    Lock icon 129 Reds held in Berlin riots
    144 2 WEST BERLIN police yesterday dispersed three Communist-led demonstrations and detained 129 people on the eve of the second anniversary of the 1953 anti-Communist rising m East Germany. The demonstrators, who came from Ea>t Berlin, distributed leaflets and shouted slogans against annlv< rsary celebrations due
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    New Governor
    26 2 Sir James Robertson was eWOrc m yesterday as Governor General of the Federation of Nigeria, succeeding Sir John Macpherson, who is to retire. I
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    Lock icon Egyptian alert
    25 2 I All Egyptian armed forces m the Suez Canal area arc m a state of alert due to the tense Gaza situation. U.P.
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    Lock icon State visit
    21 2 King Hussein and Queen Dma of Jordan arrived m London by air yesterday for a btvcn-duy &utt visit. U.P.
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    Lock icon Q.E. BOYS' TO JOIN STRIKING SEAMEN
    169 2 Q.E. BOYS' TO JOIN STRIKING SEAMEN T'HE British Government m. terday began calling stri ing merchant seamen 'into military service after thur unofficial strike paralysed many British liners, includin X the i giant Queen Mary with 1,750 passengers. A Ministry of Labour sooke<man denied that it was an official attempt
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    Lock icon Peking jobs order
    24 2 The Red Chinese Government has ordered priority employment for demobilised s diers m all branches of I ness and government. U.P.
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    Lock icon BAO DAI STRIPPED OF ALL POWER
    185 2 HHHE Council of the Royal Family of Vietnam yester- day stripped Bao Dai of his functions as Chief of State and asked Premier Ngo Dinh Diem to become the first provisional President of the Vietnamese Republic. The official Government news agency, which reported the
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    21 2 Burma's Prime Minister U Nu. arrived m London y< Bterday from Belgrade on week's official visit. Reuter
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    Eden's Govt. gains it first win
    124 2 Eden's Govt. gains it first win SIR ANTHONY EDEN S Conservative government won its first victory m the newlyelected House of Commons last night by a majority of By 330 votes to 258 the Commons rejected a Labour opposition motion attacking the government's economic policies. Earlier the government announced its
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      61 2 JUNE ISSUE IS OUT TODAY V THE HOUSE 0F GREAT difficulties X ft tion, cartoons, m the June issue and— '"^3 &A 11 0 T 0 C 14/ Akl yg 1B C W W a > If I i V ffi Boa» M tf D i 1 Ifi H S
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    Lock icon All aboard for lessons as usual
    38 3 picture. TRAINEE constable directs children who live m the Seransoon area into one of the lorries which are providing a special service for schoolchildren while buses are off the roads.- Free Press
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    Lock icon Govt. bows to celibates
    72 3 MORE than 200 unmarneu Buddhist monks and nuns m Seoul have called off their nine-day protest hunger strike alter the government promised! that married monks would be ousted from the temples by the end of June. Police have stood guard at i a temple since last
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    EX-SINGAPOREAN AMONG 16 TO DIE IN CRASH
    62 3 AMERICAN Correspond- E ent John Graham Dowling and 15 other persons died m the crash E of an airliner yesterday I near Asuncion. Paraguay. There were 9 survivors. Dowlinff, 41. Time Magazine's bureau chief i i m Buenos Aires was m E Singapore
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    Lock icon THE MAJOR WHO MARRIED TWICE
    274 3 He'll pay Japanese girl US $1,500 MELVIN JACKSON, a former major m the U.S. Air Force has agreed to pay a Japanese girl. Ruth (Toshiko) Ikeda, of Philadelphia, US$l,5OO because he married her m Osaka five years ago while he was already married to an
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    Rubber beats the minefields
    69 3 riMIE British War Oflic- has 1 revealed a new "miliUry gumshoe" that permits swSiera to walk -safely over nU The U shoes are 30 inches long with soles of sponge rubber. They sprejui Uu: i wearer's weight over such a large area that even sensitive anti-personnel
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    'MURDER-IN-JAIL' CASE MAN WAS INSANE
    100 3 THE trial of a man accused of murdering a 31-year--1 old Jamaican, Sefton Ronald Kins, while both were m Brixton Prison was adjourned indefinitely at 1 the Old Bailey yesterday. The man. Josepn Perrott. 32, was alleged to have mur- dered King while m hospital
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    Lock icon No. 2 for Ann
    23 3 Actress Ann Blyth announced m Hollywood yesterday that she Is expecting her sec >nd child early next year. Reuter
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    Lock icon THEY FACED DEATH TO RESCUE COMRADES
    140 3 THEY FACED DEATH TO RESCUE COMRADES A FTER a torpedo exploded I\ m the British .submarine Siclon at Portland yesterday, sinking her and killing 13, inrn risked their lives m the lew minutes brio: .ink to save their comrade The Sidon's captain, Lt. Commander Hugh Verry, with other officers and
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    Lock icon Offers from Soviet girls
    59 3 Russian women are offering Austrian men up to $7 500 m Austrian money if the Austnans will marry them, the Vienna Newspaper Weltpres.se reported .yesterday. The Russian girls are servin«r with Soviet occupation troops, the paper said, and want to remain when the Soviet troops are
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    Lock icon Vengeance sails
    30 3 The aircraft carrier Vengeance sailed from Sydney for England yesterday to be handed bark to the Royal Navy after 30 months' service with the Royal Australian Navy.— Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, June 17, 1955. Opinion The strikers know, too
    280 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, June 17, 1955. Opinion The strikers know, too vow we know Until hist night the reason the Government had given for arresting .six unioni f a week ago was thai although they wir unionists, their detention had no connection v I <r with legitimate trade
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    Lock icon Songgram to meet many friends here
    560 4  - Songgram to meet many friends here ADELAIDE EASTLEY by I/IKLD MARSHAL PlbuJ 1 Songgrmm, Siam'i Prime Minister, wiJJ ariivc m .Singapore on Monday from Cairo via a Chattered PAA aeroplane to renew oJd friendships m the Colony. Sinn- his la.st vi.sit ben iffo, Marshal songg ram never has lost t<
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    BY THE WAY
    310 4 a^McAtttMaa 4W The soup used m the phuj vus real (News item.) rrillS proves that acting hai -I deteriorated. The food actor can act soup-eating, even If the plaU is empty. By the Wat, I have often noticed that when a man pretends to drink r<n the
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      96 4 Max Factor creates an amazing lipstick .just for you! jI V XL VV I I I 'jLAJKmT J 1w M A I >^v that actually |ft yet stays CINDY on longer! earner t 111 r rialIntr'natio^al Star j fw yourself. WLUK] AST ihadc today... and see T lhese Exciting •*-'y
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    House that Jack built—in a week
    142 5 House that Jack built —in a week MORE THAN GO.OOO people from ill parts of the world bare seen the "built-in-a-week" bungalow erected by a Scottish builder. Jack Lawrence, m a Glasgow suburb. The new style house, seen above, is made of Gypsum, li-ht easily worked material made from a
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    NEW STYLE IS THE 'OPEN LOOK'
    230 5 Smaller houses but with bigger spaces THE modern semi-detached house of the future will 1 have no dividing walls downstairs if the architects haYe in t sTead W there will be small steps to mark separate spaces with tapestries, curtains and fine wrought ironwork
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    If you could eat 170 grapefruit a day...
    205 5 If you could eat 170 grapefruit a day... mHE magazine advertisement X i>d\d: Jaffa grapefruit is r \<: h m protective Vitamin A that hards off colds, flu and other] i inter ills. One man read it with Interest. He went out and bought three grapefruit and analysed them. Chippenham
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    Appeal fails
    42 5 Mr. Justice Storr. m the Johore Bahru High Court yesterday dismissed the appeal of Lee En* against a sentence of eight months' jail and a fine of $3,000 for attempting to import 41b. of opium into the federation from Singapore.
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    DEATH TRAPS
    172 5 Tho nam<> for j rpENS of thousands of i 1 Londoners spend eight hours a day m death traps offices several floors above street level where there would be little hope of escape from fire. This fact emerged from an inquiry following three deaths m a top-floor office
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    BANK MEN WILL BE CHAINED
    88 5 BAGS of money being moved from British banks will m future always be Sained and locked to the man carrying them. This instruction has gone out to all branches of Britain's Big Five banks on the advice of Scotland Yard. The ordiT follows a recent
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    Telegraph fault
    30 5 Tho telegraph link brtweon Kuala Lumpur and Singaporo was out of action from 4.45 p.m. until shortly after 6 p.m. yesterday because of a power failure at Singapore.
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    Rabbit shortage hits U.S. hat firms
    223 5 |>KCAUSE English rabbits arc being exterminated by myxomatosis. American mea may have to go short of hats. Manufacturer* of the more expensive types of .soft felt hats say that they will .soon face a .serious famine of their principal raw material— wild rabbit pelts.
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    Prize photos on show
    85 5 The photographs which won Tom Chan of Hong Kong all the major prize.s at the 20th Kodak International Salon of Photography held m Rochester, US. at the beginning of this year will be on show m the Cathay Theatre lobby from today. Chan, who works m
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      580 6 W0 M&aK^, MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis STAR I fITMB-BUTMrtTURWIUBATKI Mf] \I"" MY W'T -f «J .UO" gg^T' L^TSi J JPUC t s AGAIfJ LIKf HEREALLYiS. £?i S 5L A Y" AT i.L vni ATTWP IMAGINE/ HE W//V*/ F ♦UU a major SterW u I 5 7MII YOUR
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      U.K. closing prices
      153 7 LONDON. June 16. Previous Today i u*S cif European 31 nom. 30 buyerj BBEI N* I K s 3P, seller |Vll "C lßSSc ,i.;fe«rop T gSSC gVibg X "no. BSS SP.» 33 nom. g^ tag. v 1 RSS Settlement 32 nom. I N 1..1 v 33 SCllerS
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      New York Prices
      80 7 NEW YORK. June IG. Previous Today T, n suit, spot n~br KiSSS"TIN futures J««« g3 g5 94.30 asked Si s. i| s- ssss- gs?ss«. TONE: Firm. S 35^0 'traded 35.30 traded Xl BRER futures July. JJ) 1U Sept. ..34.90 traded 3^.00 traded -m\F Very steady. SALES: 161
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      U.S. PEPPER
      54 7 Six* Malabar 50 4 -Awaiting relea* 50H- Afloats 50 to 4«. June shipment 49. Sarawak spot 48. ting release 48. Afloats 46Va to 45 June shipment 44. Lampong spot 50^. Awaiting release 50 V 2 Afloat* 50 to 4«»2. June shipment 48. sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted m
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      32 7 NEW YORK. June 18. Previous Tod^jr M Industrials *i!? 2 iftl'(V7 4i Domestic Bonds ZZ.2 64 16 1» I tilities JJoJ 163 05 ht siorkH romiMtsiie Afermce 162.94 IWJW
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      114 7 Jane 16. Previous Today COPRA Philippines c.i.f. UK/North European delivered weight per norn k>ng ton June/ July $n»V4 Duyers COPRA Philippine, f.o.b. Manila m Unquoted bulk, prr lon* ion Unquowsa COPRA Straits c.Uf. UK/North European delivered weight per lon* £66U norn ton June/ July £66^ n<xn
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    Airman Johnny freed, makes a phone call to Paris
    72 7 Airman Johnny freed, makes a phone call to Paris lOHNNY DAY, the 21-year-old British airman who J °2n?ed In detention barracks for B^JteMJ he fell m love, is a free man again-anc la phone call to Paris has reunited him with his French bride. Johnny had to leave Lucette only
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    HOSPITAL, SLOW TO TREAT BOY, IS 'SORRY'
    364 7 HOSPITAL, SLOW TO TREAT BOY, IS 'SORRY' A LITTLE boy's seven-hour agony m a London hospital has wrung four lines of explanation and half-apology From a group hospitals' board, ro the board, the case of "the Kitson boy" is ended. But last month, m the Commons, Mr. lain Macleod, Minister
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    21 7 .1 Rallies lloli'l. I'i> l» r|i th< »E Merry Makers Social Party, Siiiß'AP"™- I ally celebrated iU first anniversary witu v
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    Lock icon SABRINA IS TO BE GIVEN A VOICE
    124 8 SABRINA IS TO BE GIVEN A VOICE r iiKlTlsi! television per- EMJ sonalit.v Sabrina E the girl who made a mil- E E lion f.uis without uttering E a word «rt.s MBM tips E son recording from sniper E E .limmv Voune with the E E hrlp of a tapr
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    Invitation to tiger shoot for expert
    243 8 Invitation to tiger shoot for expert SHE NEEDS NEW SKIN TO REPAIR LEOPARD-SKIN COAT QILVBR-HAIRED Mrs. Nash Moore, of Bridge iTfiij, 3 Maidenhead, recently wrote to a friend m India thai she needed I new skin to repair the front of her !copard-skin coat. Back came a reply from the
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    MECHANICAL BRAIN FOR Os AND Xs MADE IN LONDON
    165 8 an electronic machine, built solely to play noughts 1X and crosses, has \v\l England to by exhibited m a science museum m Sydney. The machine was built by Mr. John Emmel, a 38-year-old Australian, m a house m Holly Road, a
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    He gave no names to his four sons
    113 8 He gave no names to his four sons RX-PRESIDENT Harry Truman, whose home i.s at Independence, near Kansas City i not the only Truman associated with that town. There \a also Jesse Truman Stennor. Mr. j. Truman Stenntr ha.^ four sons. But he ha.s not passed on his illustrious middle
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    109 8 A BATTLF <>vrr which fl T^ SS Fram<> *h«uld be at the Miss Europe contest at Helsinki was fought out j «n Paris. j Veronique Zmbtt (left), j 1 was named IMiss France << at a contest at Fontainebleu m January. << But thr audience disj agreed with the judges
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    Taxi raiders
    31 8 Bmash and uu»b thlevei raided a furrier* at Notting iiiu Date London, and escaped m taxi with a mink stole and a small fur tii-. valued at laboul I
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    Thief blinds him with paint
    53 8 Mi H;my Reginald Rogers I Inting car wh< i In hi shop .it Wesi street, Ei K> it when someoTM h i i!) ehind him and ouah'd t )»i pot Oi paint ovei Ijis head Then v.^ taken from trn til] H« i« n Wai
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    Cheer up, judge tells 'double life' wife
    174 8 A WOMAN who led i doiiolc life by day th< wii« <,f hl r 'M'.«J hu band by night n ;!l oi man she married bigamou Is waa told by "Cheer up 1 lustiec Stable spok« the* worda at Ifonmouth- JIM A«*ize; W
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    'SAMSON,' AGED 8, SHOWS COURT HIS MUSCLES
    118 8 A N eight-year-old boy > showed his muscles to Brentford Juvenile Court magistrates. He said he had carried a sack of copper and brass weighing more than a hundredweight from an ironworks 1 to his home. The boy and his 10--year-old sister were
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    BOXES FOR ASHES
    32 8 The M.C.C. presented silver cigarette boxes at a dinner In London recently to the 21 members of Len Hutton's England party who brought back j the A.shes from Australia.
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    TOP HAT FOR THE MAYOR
    41 8 When the Mayor of New York. 45-year-old Mr. Robert Wagner, and his wife arrived m London by air, he saw the top hats m the reception party and said: "I guess I'll have to ouy one."
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    MAN WHO COULD HAVE POISONED A TOWN
    316 9 MAN WHO COULD HAVE POISONED A TOWN tiR KENNETH BREAKM WELL, 30-year-old TV eineer, was clearing up bit at his home m Esmond-rowl Bedford i.v'k London, when he came across 1 lb .of poissium cyanide he had i ight years ago for some xperimenU. cyanide is the stuff Goenng to
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    Sailed to Commons
    25 9 R Cire^ham Cooke. Contive M.P. tor Twickenham ailed m a cabin cruiser frcm ngton Lock to Westminfo] the opening of Parlia- I
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    The Templers fly back to London
    52 9 Cyprus. General JVmpler w.is Inrnitrly lli^li rommissionrr m Malaya and played I BetftMc part m lh» anti- terrorist -i»npaign. General Sir Gerald Tempter, who will become Chief of the Imperial General Stall m November, arrives bark with hfc Vlfc taU daughter. Jane, at London
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    £200 a week income drops to £12
    352 9 'SENT INTO DARKNESS 9 MANDER A. B. ("When i was m Patagonia**) Campfamoui raconteur of the 8.8.C Brain« Trust, la now a otten man. And he finds Miange experience. who used to receive fan letters a week and i .'-(I a: 200 a
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    BABY SENT HOME TOO SOON
    372 9 Child died from pneumonia IT was a bitterly cold night when the mother and her two-day-old baby were discharged from hospital. The snow had turned to sleet, and the wind had got up. The baby caught pneumonia. Five days later he died. A jury decided:
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    A vicar attacks Billy Graham
    154 9 A vicar attacks Billy Graham THE way American evangelist Billy Graham set about I converting Britain was all wrong, says a vicar. His methods may even have harmed Christianity, he adds. The virar, the Rev. Eric Rolt, of A]] Saints, Battersea Park. South London, went to a Billy Graham meeting
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    £5,500 IN DRUGS BECAME BRICKS
    117 9 £5,500 IN DRUGS BECAME BRICKS HKK'KS have been snbstituttd for dings aud cloth worth .C 5.500 stolen between London and South America The drum worth C 1,000. were packed jn a carton Mid flown Iron Half to Loi d< n Airport The carton wa> snipped to Mexico. Tin m were
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    ATTENTION MOTORISTS...by GILES
    34 10 notice that matorix* "ho normally fly pu>t at e,*hc> mile* an hour W M stop and offer a lift i/ chert: v a pretty girl m the queue.' f l^urt to *<"*""
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    Sir Winston called in a gang-buster
    884 10  - Sir Winston called in a gang-buster ROBERT BLAKE —he solved the fish pond mystery reviews a new book fl.uk Without Itecccr. By Sir Percy Sillitoe. With a M.ni by Mr. Clement Attire. Cassell. 15s. IT wa.s only when he was made head of England's most secret organisation that Sir Percy
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    NEW HIGH IN LUXURY
    132 10 'I'lii y "iuxui y book 1 that lUmpedes an) number ol people In 1 i tied a i high, a Monaco pub 1 h i j'i. t brought out b »ofc o! Bacha Oult nlm Napoleon" with a lettei N 1 m gold on the .n
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    DIAMONDS are TOP secret in this 'EMPIRE'
    631 11 DIAMONDS are TOP secret in this 'EMPIRE' \GE Alsatian dogs 3 tra in at their long Si snuffling over it -hazed sands. Two armed white men m hats hold m, hard-bitten, h-looking men. a re th e i hie h hunS Of which c c vi;u i v l a
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    They're teaching workers to grow up in Darkest Africa
    635 11  - They're teaching workers to grow up in Darkest Africa GAVIN GORDON IT WAS just 44 years ago that the first Lord Leverhulme persuaded the Belgians that palm trees m their colonial territory of the Congo were going to be much more profitable than rubber. They gave him a concession: and
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    Women have a stake in Malaya s future
    728 12  -  ADELAIDE EASTLEY says iiroMfcN of Singapore and it rural communitie should find pl< of challenge In the n-nt Malayanisatjon proKramme They are learnUrn from advano d women nelght i visiting leaders m their own neighbourhoods the worth of th< I new flelda
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    The EARL wanted her to SING
    105 12 The EARL wanted her to SING THE Countess of Shrewsbury (Debrett gives the family motto as Ready to Perform) Rave her first recital as a professional singer tt the more Hall London, one 1 last week. ausband has wanted me to do it for a long time," she said. The
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    It's up to British girls now
    114 12 pULLENGI to all the vy pretty British girls behind the keyboard. Organisers of a French t y p i n g championship claim: "French typists are the fastest m the world— and the best looking." Will the British allow this? Winner Madame Marechal, of
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    SO LOVELY TO LOOK AT
    39 12 THE rare beauty of British actress Glynis Johns is perfectly set off by this plain jersey wool dress, its severity relieved by the corded gold chain round the neck and the shiny black belt.
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      256 12 Ills ACROSS 3 Ate nltw at meal dutes (3, 5). IC<l te bf chanot upon wont' 4 The -irl must have quiet, for thtnf Involous Co). cxaniple <3». 4 SM.'ular EKypllun |OJM (T). 5 Bit of th.-atre advertising (4). bUn Rloati Uki thtot (t). 6 hoasekt eper on tram (6
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      30 12 Quote of the week Rubirosa: "My experiences have taught me that marriage does not add anything to a friendship." •■tniMitii mni •iiiiimiti 1 1. 1 mi minimi 11 1 iiiii^
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    Even man's best friend' has a HEALTH service here
    561 13 Even man's best friend' has a HEALTH service here By a Special Correspondent IN enterprising veterA ujgry surgeon m iladrid has launched a ilth service for dogs which operates on a system that, with certain bvIOUS modifications might well be successful elsewhere. Modelled on the private health services for human
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    They had to double check on guests at this ball
    225 13 They had to double check on guests at this ball r [REE princesses, as well a peers and politic went to Miss Camilla Straight's comingOUt ball at the Dorchester Hotel m London, night last week. It was the dance of the season. Margaret, Princess Alexandra and her cousin, 5 Elizabeth
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    42 13 pic- REINA DEL MAR. the new passenger and cargo for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company was launched at the Harland and Wolff yards at Belfast Northern Ireland, by Mrs H. L. Bowes, wife of the manaaina director of the P.S.N.C.— Reuter radio
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    It costs you a shilling to get his autograph
    171 13 It costs you a shilling to get his autograph CONDUCTOR Sir Adrian Boult charges a shilling a time for his autograph and gives the money to the Musicians Benevolent Fund. But after he conducted a concert at the Royal Albert Hall m London recently It was violinist Yehudi Menuhin who
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    Bridge Hand
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    MATTHEWS
    19 14 r% r? jF 7/iT i? Ml^ H^^^ ata ,^^MtfaMriMM^^MAMMMHi>MlMlM^^^^^ THAT'S STANLEY ON THE KIGHT, DRIBBLING TH KOI'GH. iiiiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'iiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiii
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    121 14 Two drivers defend organisers LE MANS TRAGEDY rrwo Berman Porsche sports car drivers who finished In th- first six at Le Manx on Saturday, yesterday defended the organiser's decision not to .stop the race after a crashing Mercedes killed more than 80 spectator*. Helmuth Polenaky, and Helm QtoecUer whose cars
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    RAF TEAM TO PLAY CHINESE
    20 14 1 In a senior toun Hon« i be I. L. D Ldr H H oh
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    Lock icon SADDLER FIGHTS KANEKO JULY 8
    44 14 Vyoi'i D totherwelghi champion I iddlei 10-round Dofilitle iinsi BhlteJl Kaneko on -.uil be July tn »kyo Ball Park, the promo t *< 1 iV Urn Bfht will be held July 11. •>r v. in receive 19.0 M the A.P.
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    ..and the word is 'Matthewed'
    223 14 THEY CALL HIM IRRESISTIBLE, MAGNIFICENT MAGNIFICENT," IRRESISTIBLE" and M im CREATES! LIVING SOCCER imi s VII IMONG THE TERMS BEING rsED BY SOUTH AFRICAN SPORTS WRITERS H> STANLEY WATjHI\\ s KNCIIJSH FOOTBALL *lAK. NOW JH A ONE-MAN TOUR Of THE UNION. Such an impact has
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    Aussies want 'little Olympics' after the 1956 Games
    315 14 Aussies want 'little Olympics' after the 1956 Games f E ADERS OF AUSTRALIAN AMATEUR ATHLETICS ARE URGING THAT A "LITTLE OLYMPICS" PITTING THE UNITED STATES TEAM AGAINST THOSE OF RUSSIA AND THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH BE STAGED IN SYDNEY NEXT YEAR. The triangular games would take place after the Melbourne Olympics.
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    SIT BEAT UNITED
    25 14 Singapore Improvement Trust S C beat United S.C l-o m a soccer friendly on the YMCA ground yesterday. Walhvark vm the .scorer
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    45 14 Chris sets new record pli'tlo. <MH II font -minute milcr (In is < hatau.i} wins (lie invitation -\<MM Metm raiiiri tin- Besl itntish Performante lime «>r 5 Bin. <>.i iec. it the Oxford itid Can brldfc v. Vai,. and ffesl Point athletics at the U'liiuCity Reuter
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    Goalie's job was too rough for 'Pomp'
    197 14 Goalie's job was too rough for 'Pomp' Do you know.... YOLANDfe POMFEY, »ht has designs on the European lijjht heavyweight title, would have developed Into i first-class goalkeeper back home m Trinidad if he hadn't decided the game was tot rough. -It hurt my hands, he complained. Pompey was m
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    OVER IN FINE STYLE
    55 14 CLEARING a jump m fine style on Kilbarry. is Maj F.W-* Ueldon, winner of the Individual Championship m tnf European horse trials held recently m Windsor Gnat V*™ I inland. Maj. Weldon wa s the captain of the British team winch wou the European championship for
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      FAIR WEATHER FOR CUP; CARGO RICE FOR STAKES
      1415 15 FAIR WEATHER FOR CUP; CARGO RICE FOR STAKES i;\lK WEATHER (Singai pore Cup) and Cargo c I Williamson Memorial Ices) are two good for tomorrow's main trophy races at Bukit Timah, the concluding day of the Singapore Turf Club's June meeting. Fair Weather, at 8.00, will i obablv t0 the
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      1960 OLYMPIC GAMES WILL BE HELD IN ROME
      233 15 WE INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee has selected Rome as the venue of the 19(iO Olympic Games, it was oiiimlly announced m Paris yesterday, voting m third and final ballot, Roma 35. Lausanne 24 me was chosen m three rounds Mng The Lo.d Mayor
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      SERANGOON E.S. ATHLETIC MEET
      88 15 At the Serangocn English School's annual athletic sports, to be held on Thursday. June 23, on the school ground, there will be two events foe old boys. These are:— (1) 100 yards handicap for old boys over 33 years old; (I) 4 x 110 yards Pelay
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      PROBABLE SCRATCHINGS
      57 15 OROBABLE scratching for tomorrow's races 1 are: Who Regrets, Gra- I duate, Campus Belle, Blue I Lamp, Bobs worth, Miss j Winnie, Two Vermouths, j Festivity, Punters De- j light and 4 Commando. The going this morn- j ing at Bukit Timah was soft after yesterday's rain. faiiMiiiiiifiM
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      There's no stopping STAR SIGNAL
      518 15 There 's no stopping STAR SIGNAL Third m his last run over 7f., Cargo Rice Is a horse that needs some one to make the pace. I see a number of pacemakers among this field. They suit Cargo Rice to the ground and I exDect him to creep up on
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      Lock icon Marcias' jaw is broken in two places
      114 15 Marcias' jaw is broken in two places RATON Matias of Mcxi- j co, world bantam- weight champion accord- ing to the National Box- ing Association, had his jaw broken m two places Eon Wednesday when I knocked out by Billy Peaj cock m the third round I of a ten
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      NO STADIUM GAME
      26 15 The friendly soccer match between Singapore Business Houses Football Association and Singapore Malays to be played at Jalan Besar today has been cancelled.
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      SCHOOL ATHLETICS
      19 15 The Tanjong Katong Girh Schools annual athletic meet tcbtciuled for today hoi> been po6tponed to July "Hi.
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      S.S.C. to meet Airmen
      177 15 SINGAPORE Swimming Club,; last year's S.A.S.A. water- I polo first division champions,'! will meet the RAF. m firstround "A", "B" and "C f| Divi- ,sion league matches at Seletar on Sunday. S.S.C., on last Sunday's form < when they held the strong Cblneae Swimming Club to
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    Lock icon West Indies face innings deteat
    319 16 WALCOTT HITS 110 AND SETS A WORLD RECORD I 111, iii 111 01 nit si f: if WESI iMH y'■» M II \> MIC Nil 111 IN l>^ riA\ INTJKF I Jsl™k l\>l ll>l IGAINSI AUSTRALIA II KINGSTON fBfITB Nrorrlioaiil VM M IMDII I Ist
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    ENGAGEMENTS
    97 16 Wmi 'I ■vi minimum > •y mi JThe 1 U illUlOUl) "(i l)»'t 7f( II j i youn c .1 \ii md M Q i Hoi m 1 Mi Betty Scan n > X .s«'iih Kn; rER BURBIDOI The En- i r i .m:. .-iii' between .jiiiii 'iii! on
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    MARRIAGE
    55 16 20 Wmrm* M minimum i N BEO^V Che marrl r .1 1. mi 11 Jme 19 i latry ol Marriages \tttween \k < Ura elde il ion ol the i ite Mi iin Poh Kuan and Mr T"i "i. i [reni Wee Uia, elder ;i the late Mr Beoi
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    54 16 J« Wfmt 'minimum ii/Wiv >i» June rjMi. :> m London, alter long jreai i I p tin mo boi ne, i i.. n o! H H <' Mother ol i Haye Palmer i ite the Malay 1 r.'i fin Lett* 4 I i' ich ilie Drive Singapore 1 be
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    26 16 Win it* *i,i, minimum) THB i-'AMIf V Ol thC Mr We* iMnf Cheow thank tin 1 i i ineral, sent WreaUu uid their kind expression
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    Lock icon McAteer wins two titles
    118 16 Johnny Sullivan of Preston 1- st his British and Bri- Empire middleweight titles at I Iverpool Stadium la- s t night he ■■■us disqualified In i c ninth round of his contest Pat McAteer ot LiverI 00l it had been a noisy fight out ti continuous
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    Only rain can save Somerset
    223 16 Only rain can save Somerset 1 nnHE south African touring head ng i >r r third victory m II I rd is when ih- wi »nd pi a y in their three-day game ftffainsi Bon I nded at Taunion. rtil «>ut only 61 rum id £nlings had !ld l f
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    JOHNSON WINS MILE EVENT
    55 16 rvEREK JOHNSON, Britfen Empire ISO yards champion won lie m 4 niin. 13.8 s<*r. at th« liTie- F'\\r] track Oxford yesterday m the »thletica match between O\ford CJnlvenrtty and the Universities Athletic Union. Johnson is Oxford University A c. prestdent and his time was a personal
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    Lock icon O'CONNOR BEATEN
    72 16 (CHRISTY O'CONNOR, i candidate for Britain's Ryder Cup team waa ben ten m the sp^ond round of the Ulster profoaslona.l HoU championship at Bangor (Northern Ireland) yesterday, by nn** hole by 10-year-old George Herron. nsMstnnt nt the Dona :lndee finb. O'Connor holder for the past '<■•> yean was
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    SHELL S.C. TEAM
    57 16 Shell Sports Club cricket team to meet the r.n.a.s. Bemban mg it Paya Lebar at 2.15 p.m. tomorrow It: C. D h irrla (capl >, J. D. Maughan, L. E. Fencoti E. Krusem m. I 1 W. Cottrell, R. D Fnttiui M. Hull. J. Copland, J. G
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    Engineering Wing best at RAF Seletar meet
    348 16 pNOINBRINO^ "Wnu vuili ,i larger numi>er of contettanto, on the Buy Cup ;tl the RA P i aitiiuai athletic nesting on \V< i, w <I;iy. S»-< nut! w.ii Plying Wing an<l thud Technical Wm« Then came Suppl) Wmji and Administration Winjj. Mrs. T.
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    STATHAM TAKES 9-66 ON HIS 25th BIRTHDAY
    243 16 STATHAM TAKES 9-66 ON HIS 25th BIRTHDAY BRIAN VI A I HAM ENGLAND AND LANCASHIRE FAST BOW LBS, CKLKBKAIID HIS >.>TH BIRTHDAY YESTKRDW IN STTUL UK BELnD LANCABUBI DEFEAT LKKKsiii; SHIRE BY AN INNINGB AND 101 RUNS WITH MATCH FIGURES OF NINE 1 OR lib- Statham continued hi.s swift destruction
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    Lock icon Little Jean (15) beats Miss Hard
    125 16 MISS .lean Forbes ol South Atiiij. mliv »t 1J fcl too young to ptej at Wimbledon, d- i-«(«d i alitiMnian, Aiiss I>arJenc Hard, a imbledon seeded player, m Ike women's singles quai let final of the London graas raaurl hampionships at Q«een'l Club yesterday.
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    CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES
    190 16 At Mckaejr, Lancashire beat lei- 1 cestersrure by an Innloga and 101 runs Lancashire -'24. Leicestershire 42 iStathana 8-20, Tattenmll 4-i2 and 31, Tattersall 4-23 1. At Loid>, MCC 274 and 109 for 4 (Oowdrey not out 56 > Oxford University 271 (M. Smith 118, Fel-
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