The Singapore Free Press, 15 July 1955

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Fri., July 15. 1955. Price 15 Cls
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    7 DIE AS TERRORIST BOMB HITS CAFE
    160 1 7 DIE AS TERRORIST BOMB HITS CAFE BM Europeans died and 2b were injured by a rorist bomb explosion at a Casablanca cafe last night. Terrorist* lobbed the bomb to the cafe terrace during c traditional July 14 Bastille Day celebrations. The terrace J rammed with French holiday makers. explosion
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    RUBBER STILL GOING UP
    50 1 price of rubber m Singa- this morning shot up 29j for July first grade, buyers, and reached the t level since February 5, opening price was one-1-a-half cents above yesterclote. risi* followed good overdemand coupled with the ler overnight London and York prices. tone was steady.
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    Lock icon Now UK gas and power are dearer
    116 1 Now UK gas and power are dearer RISES m the price of electricity and gas were announced m Britain yesterday following the "recent severe increases" m the price of coal due to mine-workers' wage increases and the expense of importing foreign coal. Coal prices are going up an average of
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    Lightermen stop work 1,000 OUT
    110 1 Lightermen stop work 1,000 OUT ABOUT 1,000 lightermen employed by small firms stopped work today as a protest against their employers' refusal to increase their wages. Many of the smaller ships m the inner roads were not working. Some larger ones are seeking unloading facilities along the wharves. The strike
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    SOEKARNO GOES BACK TO DEAL WITH CRISIS
    165 1 PRESIDENT Soekarno returns to Jakarta today to dt-al personally with the army crisis which now threatens to topple Prime Minister. Sastroamidjojo's •abinet. ■kurno was scheduled to irrive this morning from lin»or Palace, scene of yesrday's crucial meeting be'wccn the President. Sas'roamidjojo and Vice
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    Eden and Ike will talk on Far East
    204 1 Eden and Ike will talk on Far East rE BRITISH Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden will meet President Eisenhower 24 hours before the "summit" meeting m Geneva od Monday to discuss the Far East, Parliamentary sources m London said yesterday. The sources, m touch with the Conservative Party's Foreign Affairs
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    Lock icon Balconies crash, 15 killed
    23 1 Fifteen people were killed and three injured m Algiers when two balconies collapsed m 2. block of flats.— Reuter
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    Raid on lighter
    32 1 A gang of five early thi& morning raided a lighter lying alongside Clark Quay, Singapore and stole two bales of rubber worth $200 each before escaping m a sampan.
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    Lock icon To Britain's cretiit
    60 1 Mr. Norman Manley. chief minister of Jamaica, said m London last night that it was ureatlv to Britain's credit that she had refused to establish an official colour bar. I "Most of the world certainly mast of the Commonwealth ha.s closed its doors to coloured people," he
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    FOREIGN FIRMS SURVEY S'PORE
    264 1 They may begin new industries \IANY overseas inquiries about the i?1 possibility of starting new industries m the Colony, involving considerable capital outlay, have been received recently by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Several organisations are at present conducting market surveys. These firms include two
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    Russia knows her might-says Russia
    124 1 Russia knows her might- says Russia THE Soviet announcement yesterday that the Premier, Marshal BulKanin, would head a powerful delegation to <ieneva was followed hy another wartime that Russia was fully conscious of her own might. The warning was contained m the authoritative international review New Times published yesterday. It
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    Lock icon REDS MOVE AIR STRENGTH TO ASIA
    294 2 'Serious threat to world peace' L r s. PAR EAST Air FOi Command estimates thai almost one-third ol the Communist world's air r has b« < n moved Into A it has also noted a gradual shift .southward to Manchuria and North Korea In
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    Lock icon RUSSIA COULD DEFEAT THE WORLD IN 60 DAYS, HE SAYS
    126 2 RUSSIA COULD DEFEAT THE WORLD IN 60 DAYS, HE SAYS MX. Clarence Cannon, chairman of tlie House Appropriations Committee told the House m Washington yesterday that Russia has more land, sea and air strength than the United States and could overrun the world m 30 to 60 days "We have
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    Lock icon 'COMMUNISM IS WEAKEST IN RUSSIA'
    190 2 'COMMUNISM IS WEAKEST IN RUSSIA' V. D. POREMSKY said yesterday, that Communism is weakest m Russia, where the people have experienced its terrorism, but In the Far East Communism is still too new for the younger generations to have proof of the falseness of Communist promises. Poremsky is president of
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    Urge self-rule for E. Europe
    64 2 riUIE United States Senate i- yesterday approved without dissent a resolution exDressing the hope that the peoples of Communist Eastern Europe would regain the sovereign rights of self-govern-ment." Senator William Knowland, a sponsor of the resolution, said m a briof speech there was only one
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    Lock icon Appeal if...
    35 2 ITie Greek Government will lodge an appeal with the United Nations on the Cyprus issue by August 20 if no satisfactory results are obtained m the tripartite conference with bruain and Turkey.— A.P.
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    Lock icon Through railway
    34 2 India and Pakistan yesterday agreed to permit through passenger railroad service from Aug. 1. This would link the two wings of Pakistan, cut apart by over 1,000 miles of inaian soil A.P.
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    Fool-proof land title system for S'pore
    355 2 Fool-proof land title system for S'pore A FOOL-PROOF, fraud system of land tenure U to be introduced m Binga shortly. The system, contained m a new Land Titles Bill, was published yesterday and will be read for the second time m the Legislative Assembly on July 26. The Bill replaces
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    Lock icon 1,000 KREMLIN GUESTS TOAST HO CHI MINH
    113 2 PRESIDENT Voroshilov yes- terday gave a sumptuous three-hour banquet for the Communist North Vietnam President. Ho Chi Minh, and 1,000 guests m the Kremlin. Ho Chi Minh sat at the head table between the Russian president and Prime Minister Bulganin, flanked by other
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      185 2 POPULARITY -PLUS! They're reading it everywhere m India, Si.im. Hong Kong and Australia and it's even reached as far as )apan and What's the secret of the Week Ender's remarkable rise The answer is that TAK£ A LOOK AT THI int. iiniwt_r ii mdi ML rri/ r it's the most
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    OVER 200 DEAD IN EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE
    235 3 OVER 200 DEAD IN EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE ii ISTEKN Europe was yesterday in the «rip of the most sizzling heat wave in 20 years. In Stockholm the temperature was well above 90 and in I ondon it reached 82 degrees at noon. Since the hot spell began a week ago
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    'Crocs' claim 22 as boat capsizes
    99 3 'Crocs' claim 22 as boat capsizes v people fought for lives among the ►ing jaws of crocodiles rday aj their launch capm Luke Victoria In East Twenty-two of them died. Those nut killed by crocowere drowned within ij shore launch was headed for Inland Kenya's Island" prison for Mai; terrorists
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    Lock icon RAF honours two S'pore men
    81 3 Mr. hewi Htkui.i Pandumnfam Nai ibove) reCeivei t h < nmman d c r hiefi tes lonial fo 10 (1 sci yin Xir Vice '">»>:il W..1 Ikerman DflHcei it irte of A4'iintotratton, at the K.A.F. 1 ttum. lutiiKi. yesterday. Mr. N;iidu has served ton"•••>usly for
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    Lock icon Driver was forced into trunk of car
    186 3 UTHER JAMES MOSS, a Negro accused of kidnapping three small boys m Anniston, Alabama, was arrested yesterday m a stolen car, with the owner locked m the car's trunk. Deputy Sheriff W. M. Nor- man halted Moss for speeding << and passing a
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    COUPLE REUNITED IN COURT
    177 3 AMAN who spent three years m the Woodbridge Hospital wa.s reunited with hil wile yesterday after she informed a Singapore court .she did not wish to prosecute him on the charge of causing hurt to her on July 16, 1952. Narayanan Rajoo was sent to the
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    Lock icon Bastille Day party
    65 3 picture. ihe dovernur, Sir Robert Black, and Lady B E Black were among the 300 E E guests at last night's E S cocktail reception given E by .Monsieur Gerard Sirot, E E French Consul in Singa- E l>ore, to commemorate E Bastille Day. Erom the left
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    £10 MILLION PIT
    41 3 A £10,000,000 all-electric colliery which will be producing about 2,000 tons of coal daily by 1962 is to be sunk at Newton Lc Willows. Lancashire, this autumn. It will be first built m Lancashire for 30 years. Renter.
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    Lock icon Two 'spies' to die
    26 3 Two Poles were sentenced to death and four others to lon** prison terms for alleged espionage, Radio War.saw .said yesterday A. P.
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    Lock icon DOCTOR MADE ME DRUG ADDICT SAYS WOMAN
    110 3 f)R. HARRY FRIEDENBKRG testified yesterday that he gave narcotics, but 'very rarely," to a woman patient who swore he save her the 6ru% habit. The woman said she turned prostitute to pay his S 120,000 to $135,000 fees. The Washington physician gave the
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    Lock icon Juke box man dies
    27 3 Karl X Schwartz, reputed Inventor of the juke box. Ills died m a ho.spital at Sheboyran, Wisconsin, at tin- ice «>f 70, U.P.
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      79 3 I SEE IT NOW > i AMERICAS GREATEST SELECTION w WASSIAMULL'S "ISST j 9 CYMA When you become rhe h.ippy jm f V/J^owner of a CYMA you w.ll II flr^ j j corn the admiration of all your 11 •Ay friends. Your watch, munificent VV "^/C^ \^W» n wvorkm.in»hip .md
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1955. Opinion MISGUIDED CHILDREN
    233 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1955. Opinion MISGUIDED CHILDREN "II any Chinese parents m Singapore and the Federation arc only too well aware Ol their mi.s guided teen-aged children's desire to return to this territory from Red China To them the disclosures by the disillusioned American, just repatriated
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    There s a new mood in the U.S.A. today
    785 4  - There s a new mood in the U.S.A. today RENE MacCOLL by THE mood of America has changed completely since I was last there m February. In one of the greatest transformations that even the mercurial U.S.A. has ever provided, America today is calmer, more moderate and more quietly self-confident
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      30 4 sii \i icwaiii; I Tcj (r Coffee »c»» S«lvcr« 0 »f.»y* \> Cigarette f.iic» Powdi r :omp.icft (< Scrvuttr rinfft Cig.ircttc 4»^»ct visit P. H. HENDR Y, Jrurllrr Sin^.iporc K. Lumpur. yj
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      192 4 lJ^^^' JL w (but soon it will be on everybody's lips) lANP POXA/PI I B^i< .--^^!> Color-fast lipstick Sby max Factor 'Ijl HOLLYWOOD I Max Factor discovers a way I to put "stay-on lustre" into a lipstick I Now m Ust ih* tret's o«f Afur year* of r»s*«>fh. M 9
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    SINGAPORE Spotlight
    822 5  -  Adelaide Eastley STYLES NEED MODERNISING NO TIME TO BE SENTIMENTAL MONKEY TRADE ATTACKED TRIBUTES TO UNIVERSITY By > MOTHS FROM MARS: There are two possibilities here for a repetition of Tokyo's recent moth-poisoning panic. Museum Director Mr. y\ F. Tweed ie says we have m Singapore a pecies
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      71 5 pSSSt PmiWffl SK.RTS BLOUSES CANCAN P! I ■COAtT ~ZT~ LOOK AT THESE BARGAINS 49 18^ OF RECORD-BREAKING REDUCTIONS 7? fu'.i slips v #i 4« S^M3 J 'XkL Afl U f¥ you BUDGET WILL LOVE BARGAINS I! ALL-LATEST NEW-ARKiy^L ffjv S^'!W OFFERED AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES ./WISL MO VI /^vjlbSgMWffVJ^Jl HALF
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      175 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis by Edgar Rice Burroughs TmuTjjmym 1 SHfcv_J l,ilill!,i \\V 1 U W^^" /fl&P*' wl 1/1 tSS JO*l BrJTBaa? r3c LLAGC TMKZAni an7 UAV6 i--S^- 7av C7 1 M\ I ''-aT LAL^Bp^ AP^EuEsS AS '0 Tm£ APE- STEEL WMP >0^ A'CC THE SAINT by
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      731 6 YOUR j jLUCKYi STAR j l|OR\ today, you an- f I the most frirmlU pertMM J imaginable. This capaciu f,, r T being able to miv vel| with .11 X kinds of people should you for some typ,- G f MOf J 4 in which you air contUnth T meeting
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U. K. closing prices
      218 7 LONDON. July 11. Previous Today. 1 T.i;i !l No. 1 KSS c.i.f. European 35 7 buyen 36 r bu\ |„,,u July 361 filers :<7> 4 waen Xl IU'.KR No. 1 RSS ci.f. European 34", buyers %i% uuyers Ports \ugust 35' t sellers I6H tUtn i;l itltKK
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      New York prices
      98 7 •>HV YOKK, July 11. Previous Today. Tin Straits spot and nearby 96.50 nom. 96.87 norn m futures July 94.50 bid 95 00 bid 94.25 asked 95.00 a.sked September 92.00 bid 92.25 bid 93.50 asked 94.25 a.sked TONE: Steady. SALES: Nil. BUBBEI futures September 40.60 traded 41.20 traded
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      U.S. PEPPER
      52 7 Spot Malabar was quoted at 49. Awaiting release 49. Afloats 49 "to 48' 2. July 48. Sarawak spot 4<J. Awaiting release U%. Afloats 45 to 44. Juiy fl^ 1 49 Awaiting release 49. Aflpats 49 to 48^. July shipment 47^ sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      33 7 NEW YORK, July 14. Previous Today. M Industrials 457.40 20 Railroads 157.53 158.03 ID Domestic Bonds 99. g 2 y».<J I.". Itilities 64.98 64.98 til Stocks Composite Average 165.29 iod.oo
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      127 7 July 14. Previous Today. COPRA Philippines cJi. UK/North Furopean delivered weight per M n-,e long ton July/ Aug $185 quoted $186 sellers COPRA Philippines f.o.b. Manila m wn bulk, per lonff ton Unquoted Unquoted COPRA Straits ci.f. UK/North European delivered weight per un,j»r« tong ton July/Aug
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    15 NEW S'PORE STAMPS BEING ISSUED SOON
    200 7 FIFTEEN colourful pictorial stamps will soon replace I Singapore's present series of King George VI, who died thiv-and-a-half years ago. The new stamps, each with a different design, will be on m Singapore on Sept. 4. Eleven of the stamps show the multitude
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    WELFARE WORKER SEES A CHALLENGE IN SINGAPORE
    182 7 WELFARE WORKER SEES A CHALLENGE IN SINGAPORE MRS. MARION HARDIE, the now general .secretary of the YWCA, is appealing to Colony women to volunteer for welfare work among children. "It is quite heart -warming to see how keen the children are to learn," she says. "Their enthusiasm would well repay
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    'Asians can help to beat prejudices'
    211 7 "ASIAN student* can contribute much to breaking down national prejudice and distrust, born of ignorance and insularity,'' .said Mr. M. W. Anthonlsz. an educational observer, when addressing the International Women's Club at the YWCA. Mr. Anthonisz returned to Singapore at the end of last
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    FIRST COLONY SHOW OF RARE FISH
    127 7 A COMPETITIVE exhibition of more than 400 tanks of rare fish will be held by -the Singapore Aquarists' Society early m September m the Happy World Stadium. This competition, the first ever held m Malaya, will feature 50 classes of fish, and will be
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    Secretarial Staff Assn. officials
    79 7 The following were elected ofAce-bearen at the second annual meeting of the Singapore Government Secretarial Staff Association: President, Mr. J. B. de 8 vice-president, Mr. S. C. Vadr. lie; hon. secretary, Mr. A. ■tlaretnain (re-elected); hon. treasurer, Mr. Tan Bong Soo. Committee:- Mrs Dori.s Lee. and
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    Never-never plea
    27 7 Furniture trade pleas that bire purchase restrictions should be eased are being considered. Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade, told the Commons.
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    DIAMOND JIM
    1483 8  - DIAMOND JIM H. F. BLYTH I THE WORLO'S STRANGEST STORIES He had the tastes of a Roman emperor But no Roman emperor ever gave his friends gold-plated f jewel-encrusted bicycles 9 by IT IS v midsummer evening m the early nineties. In the diningroom of the fashionable Manhattan Beach Hotel
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      35 8 Introducing the new V /JEt/4 I 2 Ace/ /or com/oi/ fjCtfft >■/ iMg/lS AvaiLibie also m many MARGAfrf T V other designs m kid aL*^^& I. hU.L bid AVAILABLE ONLY AT MAIN STORE BATA BUILDING, SINGAPORE
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    MAN OF MILLIONS TELLS A SECRET
    300 9 He's lived on milk and mash for 18.000 days, 1 OOK at the bearded Ij figure on the right. He Is 92. A knight of Empire. man of millions. And he is all that because, he Explained m London for th J last 50
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    Crime wave due
    42 9 Mr. J Edgar Hoover, director the Federal Bureau of Instigation, has warned Ameica to expect a "tidal wave f violence" between now and •■ptember. This is the worst eriod for crimes of violence, and the rate is increasing yearly.
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    The boy from Eton bowed and left
    207 9 Y°U can't mistake the Churchill touch even m 14-year-old Eton schoolboy. Mr. A. Fenner Brockway, Socialist M.P. for Eton and >lfnißh. told the Commons about the boy. He was listening— with 300 other Eton boys and their masters to Mr. Brockway making an
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    CARNIVAL MAGAZINE SHOCKS COUNCIL
    311 9 CARNIVAL MAGAZINE SHOCKS COUNCIL A CARNIVAL magazine pub- lLshed by the Youth Organisations Council at Smethwick, Staffs, Is "disgraceful," say local clergymen and councillors. The black-covered magazine has no title— only a white question mark. IT SHOCKED Councillor Peter Griffiths, a 25-year-old teacher. He held up the magazine at Smethwick
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    HEALTH UNION OFFICIALS
    76 9 Officials of the Federation of Malaya Health and Sanitary inspectors' Union for 1955 are: President. Mr. T. C. Ea*aw vice-president. Mr. N. X PiUay; ■ecretary, Mr. K. BalafcrUhna treasurer. Hajl Bakar M. Amln Executive Council: Mews Tan Ah Bah W. N. Moore. OOJI Men* Ctoeh, B P.
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    DUMMIES ARE BACK, THUMBS ARE OUT
    170 9 DUMMIES ARE BACK, THUMBS ARE OUT jLf OTHERS, if your child must suck something, make sure It Ls a dummy and not his thumb. This is the advice ot Dr. Charles Nord, described m Glasgow at the conference of the British Dental Association as "the best-known dentist m the world."
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    Airport drinks at any time
    109 9 to and from Britain are to be able to got a drink any time they like at the airports. A Bill introduced m the Hou.se of Lords will exempt the international airports from restrictions on the time at which alcohol can be sold. It is
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      148 9 I Come BRING YOUR FRIENDS CHILDREN TO I V lAI r A INTERNATIONAL I THE T.W.I.A. FOOD FUN FAIR I m aid of The Women Centre Building Fund. 5 5 TOMORROW* 5 (Saturday, 16th July, 1955) at the I I VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL from 10.30 a.m. to 600 p.m. 5
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    HORSE WITH AT DAINTY STEP
    5 10 HORSE WITH AT DAINTY STEP
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    WORLD NEW
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    In the wake of t
    44 10 HMS GREY GOOSE, renowned as gunboat during World War 11, j s present undergoing rigorous trials the English Channel as a float! test bed powered by two experiment Rolls Royce RM 60 marine gas turbii engines. 'IIMIIMIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIII inn I
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    I Can-Can if you Can-Can
    130 10 OF COURSE its the Can- Can. Kerf any is a French bone. Guided by his owner. =E Count Yves de la Cour. he matches steps with M >nique Mont«z and the rest of the corps-de-ballet at present appearing m Brighton, on the south coast of
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    FROM THE NORD
    65 10 LIKE a treasure from the Indie*. z lovely Swedish born S film star, Viveca Lind--1 fors, who startlin^i> changes the Nordic i« r I the exotic m her new i i film, "Moonfleet." She i plays the part of the I 2 woman that Stewart i Tiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiimiiiimiii"
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    IN PICTURES
    42 11 TWENTY-FOUR-YKAR-OIJ) Mary Parker of Australia, sister of Lieut. -Commander ."Michael Parker, the Duke of I din hunch's ADC. bag quickly established herself as a TV favourite m Britain. j Here she is seen making friends with Minnie, the office cat.
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    new Grey Goose
    109 11 The engines transmit their power nrough controllable pitch propellers I j rhich obviate the use of reverse gear- i ng They are expected to give about I Tprr cenl greater total power than hat ol the two 4,000 h.p. steam tur- lines originally used. i illinium hi
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    TO THE EXOTIC
    61 11 f Indies farck n ttther's 5 the a w '"■■lililiiiiin found, contrary to her E expectations, that it E I was a strenuous busi- ness. First came a E I press conference, then r I she was guest of honour at a new night chib. z She
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    Lock icon MR. WEATHERMAN
    1385 12 Adelaide Eastley talks to pilots friend WHO'S the man with tho biggest headarhe m Singapore 9 Who else but the weatherman Senior Meteorological Oflicer Mr. Aiistair McDonald, the canny Scot who runs the weather bureau at Kalians Airport with his stall of live efficient aides. No Nation on
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      58 12 .> Johnsons pride. J n MM' QH S H I Pride gives you tke richest, longest lasting lustre you ye ever seen on wood. Without rubbing? A 9 kard, genuine wax coating rkat rosists finder marks, spilled things, makes dusting easier? just apply Let dry. Wipe ligfctly <> Sole Agents:
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    Lock icon THE MAN in the Iron Mask
    1096 13 THE MAN in the Iron Mask 18s. 286 pages. rpHE public legend of I Bismarck is simple and severe: the "Iron Chancellor" who spoke with relish of "blood and iron;" the Junker statesman who cunningly lured Austria and France into disastrous war; the diplomat m the helmet and moustache of
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    TALENT AT WORK
    226 13 TALENT AT WORK A Train of Powder. B> Krbrcca West. Mac millan. 21s. 332 pas'-s ON a planet where the day had, .say, 72 hours, Rebecca West would be the ideal reporter for a daily newspaper. She has the feeing eye the telling phrase, tHY luck that guides her to
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    SHIPS SHARE FAME
    720 14 SHIPS SHARE FAME riiiK history of motion pictures is replete with Instances where Inanimate Objects have become f^*' silent co- ii., ol r 'i< at actors, but nowhere is this more evident than m stories ol the sea Thi N tor Instance, i the ame In submarine r the ol
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    Russian classic
    87 14 IN the days when Russia and the United States were on friendlier terms and art pictures from the Soviet found their way into American picture houses, the greatest director m Russian .screen history enjoyed a universally heralded one-man revolution m picture-making witn a film designed around a ship
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    STILL AT IT
    55 14 irriLBLR MACK, 81-year- old character actur who has been m so many lilnis he doesn't remember half of them, plays a mining official m the newest picture. Looking a dapper fifty. Mack is now m his U3rd year of show business and attributes his good health to
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    Lock icon SHE NEVER TAKES WORK HOME
    726 15  - SHE NEVER TAKES WORK HOME EILEEN ASCROFT By MISS DERBY TIPTOES ON A TIGHT-ROPE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS ONE LESSON our American sisters can teach us is how to split ourselves m two. They combine marriage and career with ease and grace. The English career woman n< v« r seems to
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