The Singapore Free Press, 30 August 1955

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Tuesday. August 30. 1955. Priee 15 CU
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    EXTRA! EXTRA!
    74 1 *8 full-size page supplement FULL-SIZE 48-page supplement on Malayan Industries will be published free with the Free Press tomorrow. It will describe the main secondary industries of Singapore and the Federation in words and pictures and will contain special messages from Singapore's Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall, and
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    Lock icon Rita and fourth husband Dick to nart
    115 1 Rita and fourth husband Dick to nart A CTRESS Rita Hayworth said in Hollywood yesterday A that she was separating from her fourth husband, crooner Dick Haymes. (They are seen together above) "I have separated from Dick because I believe that in the best interests of my children, Dick and
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    Lock icon INDIAN MARCHERS SET OFF
    74 1 A new group o£ "peaceful r invaders" left Poona yesterday on their way to nter Portuguese India. had been waiting for a "decision from the "Gou Liberation Committee" which cancelled all "in- ins" of Portuguese erritory after more than demonstrators were killed by frontier guards during
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    FILM STAR ROBBED
    43 1 Two men armed with knives held up Malay film tar Siput Sarawak in ier home in McPherson oad, Singapore, yesterday fternoon and robbed her of iluables and cash worth $170. They herded the family a room before ransackl the place.
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    MARSHALL FOR K.L. TOMORROW
    47 1 The Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, and his coUpasues i n the Singapore Council of Ministers will ave for Kuala Lumpur toJrrow morning to attend opening session of the F ;erai Legislative Council. Mr Marshall will attend meeting of the joint coordination committee.
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    OFFICE BLAZE
    38 1 A blocked acetylene 'cutter i used a .small fire in the cond .storey of the New Asia skyscraper in Collyer Quay, Singapore, this morn- >• A .small rubber pipe was burnt. The fire brigade put the /ire.
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    Lock icon NO MORE DANGER
    15 1 (leant Edith died >terday as a threat to L'nitpH stutps niflin- U.P.
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    Lock icon Diggers sail on Thursday
    54 1 The advance party of the Australian army component for the strategic reserve in Malaya will sail from Sydney on the liner Ne* Australia on Thursday. Army Minister Jasiah Francis announced in Canberra, yesterday. The main Australian force, he said, will sail from Brisbane on October 8
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    DIVORCE: STORE CALL TO AID CHINESE WOMEN
    115 1 DIVORCE: STORE CALL TO AID CHINESE WOMEN /"iHINESE women are now \j the only women in Singapore who have no regular divorce laws, Mrs. Shirin Fozdar. secretary of the Singapore Women's Council, said yesterday. '•I appeal to Mr. Lee Kuan Yew now, as a leader of the Chinese community, to
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    RUBBER DOWN
    24 1 The Singapore Rubber Market ooened J^etly thfc morning with tot September shipment, a $1.42 a lb., three-quarters of a cent below yesterday^
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    FOOD STORE MEN DEFY THREATS
    326 1 SPO <MA., rtv strike-hit Singapore Cold Storage said this morning that he Iw received reports of toyfcJ workers being intimidated during the night. Bui despite the threats nearly soo workers reported for duty this i rooming. npaii irom me nome aeiivery service ana retail shops,
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    Lock icon MARRIAGE HINT TO RUSSIANS
    94 1 INTER MARRIAGE between nations as the "easiest and most blissful form of co-exi.>tence" was advocated yesterday by British Labour M.P.. Mr F J Bellenger, in a humourous speech to the Interparliamentary Uni^i Conveu In HeWnfcl. auf-rcd Britain 900 yearn a"0 but Britain has never since had
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    Dragnet out for mystery raiders
    80 1 Dragnet out for mystery raiders POLICE spread a dragnet through the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland, yesterday for two mysterious raiders who knocked out a sentry who caught them hiding in an army barracks yesterday morning. Patrolling military police found the sentry unconscious. An army officer said nothing appeared to have
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    Lock icon 600 held in Iron Hand raid
    61 1 600 held in Iron Hand raid HEAVILY-ARMED police, carrying out government's "Iron hand' policy of dealing with a itpreadln« wave of strikes, arrested 600 striking health workers m a raid In Santiago, Chile, yesterday. The roundup Increased to 750 the number of persons arrested since Friday in a government drive
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    Lock icon POLAR FLIGHTS
    16 1 The Scandinavian Airlines System will tp.Hu^ui i'ei over Hs Polar route f>n Oct A.P.
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    BUS TICKETS STOLEN
    27 1 A Singapore Traction Company bus conductor yesterday reported the theft of 2.000 J»us tickets from his vrhHe which runs between in- and Collyer Quay.
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    Lock icon Britain ready to cut Korea neutrals
    242 2 Britain ready to cut Korea neutrals r E British FVirc-mn Office made It plain yesterday that Britain U ready to consider the reshaping and possible disbanding of the four-power neutrw tion.s .supervisory commission <NNSC» In Korea. A .spokesman welcomed "as t useful fu>t step' a decision by the Korean Military
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    THE ONLY ANSWER
    60 2 THE United Nations Command yesterday told Communists in the military armistice commission tnat dissolution of the nMJlr.il nations' inspection system in Korea was the only answer to problems which had arisen. The Command and the Communists agreed for the time being only to a reduction in the
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    Lock icon UK MINERS' 'NO' TO ITALIANS
    148 2 SCOTS miners joined English and Welsh colleaguea yesterday in opposing the suggested importing of 10.000 Italians to help in Brita i n 's undermanned coalfields. Mr Abe MofTat. leader of the Scottish area of the National Union of Mlneworker.s, said after a meeting of his
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    MacD's TRIBUTE TO CAMERAMEN
    54 2 Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the Commissioner-General, told 30 Singapore press photographers this morning, "I can't think of a moreawful job than yours." Mr. MacDonald who was speaking at a farewell breakfast at the Airview Restaurant, given by the Singapore Press Photographers Association, complimented them for their consistent
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    US ready to exchange her 'blueprints'
    197 2 US ready to exchange her 'blueprints' rrvHE United States de--1 clared yesterday it is ready to put into immediate effect President Eisenhower's plan for an exchange of military "blueprints" with Russia and an agreement to permit aerial Inspection of each other's country. U.S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.. laid before
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    Lock icon Mr. Lin talks to voluntary workers
    54 2 pictures. SOME of the women (above) who attended the formation yesterday of the Singapore Voluntary Workers' Association listen to Mr. Lam Yew Hock (below), the Minister for Labour and Welfare, who addressed them at the meeting held in the press conference room at the
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    Lock icon HURT AIRMAN NEGLECTED
    151 2 Wounds were not attended by Korea Reds, accuses U.N. T<HE United Nations Command in Korea, yester- day charged the Communists with gross neglect of Lt. Guy Bumpass white the wounded American flier was in Red hands. Maj Gen. Harland Parks, senior allied delegate to the Military Armistice
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    Village feud ends in seven murders
    101 2 Village feud ends in seven murders CEVEN people died in a 30-minute chain of murder at a village fiesta at the foot of Mt. Ida, Greece, at midnight last Saturday. The killings began when Emmanuel Viesakis, 35, plunged a cutlass between the shoulder blades of John Frangiadakis, a game-keeper who
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    Lock icon SAW LIFE IN THE RAW IN RUSSIA
    266 2 RALPH A. OLSEN. American farmer just back in the United States from a Russian farm tour, said the average Soviet farmer was "contented" even though he lived by "primitive" standards. "The common people never have known what Rood living conditions were and they
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    Lock icon SULTAN OF MOROCCO, RESIDENT BOTH OUT
    215 2 FRENCH Premier Edgar Faure yesterday persuaded his divided Cabinet to agree to the broad lines of his plan for restoring peace to blood-soaked Morocco, and informed Paris sources said a new Resident General would be named within 48 hours. But many points of detail
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    Lock icon RED SCHOLARS
    20 2 A grow of 614 Chine* students left Pekinp for Russia yesterday to stud> ai higiher educational establishments. Reuter
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    Lock icon CORPORAL WITH A CHINESE WIFE MAY BE MILLIONAIRE
    271 3 CORPORAL WITH A CHINESE WIFE MAY BE MILLIONAIRE A British regular soldier who recently discovered deposits of the nire mineral "beryl" in Hong Kong is likely to become a millionaire. I Corporal William B. Harries, married to a Chinese girl and living in Hon<r Kong has been permitted to stake
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    Lock icon Aussie Navy to recruit 1,000 Britons
    79 3 Aussie Navy to recruit 1,000 Britons rplIE Royal Au>tralian Navy I plans to recruit 1,000 men In Britain, Commodore j C. Morrow, second member of the Australian Naval Beard, announced in Bris- n yesterday. Commodore Morrow said rmer Royal N^vy ratings ...ould be preferred. The men would be allowed to
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    Lock icon MP's wife is held on drugs charge
    94 3 MP's wife is held on drugs charge MRS. Harry Pursey. wife ot I British MP yesterdav pleaded no t guilty .n sessions conn in Montreal, Canada, to a charge of Illegal pCMttasion of narcotics. She claimed trial bv jury and the preliminary hearing w■ i fixed for Sept. 1. Bail
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    Lock icon Three drown on goodwill tour
    37 3 Two women and a man. m embers of a Filipino Operation Fraternisation*" a »oodwill mission were drowned when their boat capsized on a river near Thayninhi 25 miles northeast of Saieon. U.P.
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    9 killed by lightning
    48 3 NINE people w«Te killed by lightning in North Germany over the week-end. Throe men were killed by one lightning bolt near Cuxhaven on Saturday while they were driven irom the mainland .shore to Neuwerk Island in a convoy of horsedrawn wagons at low tide
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    Lock icon Frightened witnesses in U.K. gang case
    141 3 Frightened witnesses in U.K. gang case JACK "SPOT" COMER, 42, •elf-styled "gangster No. 1" and Albert Dimes, 40 i were sent for trial at the I Old Bailey central criminal court yesterday alter a lower magistrate's court had been t o ]d of a running stiletto > fi«ht through the
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    AUSTRALIANS DANCE AS IF THEY WERE SKATING'
    279 3  - AUSTRALIANS DANCE AS IF THEY WERE SKATING' VIVIENNE PUCKRIDGE By THE most lasting impression of 1 Australia that StafT-Sgt. Tom Steele of the U.S. Air Force will take home with him is that "they dance down there like they were roller>kating." Sgt. Steele is one of a group of 22
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    GANGSTER'S MOLL JAILED
    76 3 THE red-haired H-y rold mistress of banK robber Louis E. Teller waa sentenced in Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday to a 10--year jail term prison for a U5527,000 bank robbery. Four month* pregnant Mrs. Lora Ritenour gobbed M she h<;ird the sentenro Mrs Riu-nour pleaded guilty to driving a
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    Lock icon Mamie nervous at wedding No. 2
    183 3 Mamie nervous at wedding No. 2 IN a five minute hotrl e^r* m<»riv yesterday *t Toledo Ohm. blond? him Act rev» MiiiiM- Wn l>«>ren, Im-i .inir the wife of band leader K:iy Anthony. H w.is i c <»mi marriage fur t»»th lins Van Doren nervous and spoke in a whisper
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    Lock icon Royal surgeon dies
    30 3 Sir James Walton, a Royal surgeon to the Queen and to the previous three British kings baa died at his home at Mayficlri, Sussex, aiied 73 Reuter
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  • Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Aug. 30. 1955. Opinion
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      A WORTHY GESTURE
      216 4 r PHE Chief Minister S promise that the Government will match dollar for dollar up to $250,000 in public subscriptions to the fund sparked by Mr. Malcolm MacDonald for a youth sports centre will be applauded by all. For such a centre is a down-to-earth investment in
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    Gang warfare fear in U.K.
    741 4  -  ARNOLD FIELD by The underworld needs one push to make it hell IS BRITAIN on the eve of gang warfare? Will rival factions come into the open to protect their leaders? Scotland Yard is alert to the danger since the stabbing in Soho of a
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    The Big Four should meet at Verdun
    494 4  - The Big Four should meet at Verdun OMER ANDERSON suggests IT MIGHT be a good idea to convene the October conference of the Big Four Foreign Ministers in Verdun not Geneva. For a conference designed to promote disarmament and buttress peace, there isn't a more appropriate site anywhere. For Verdun,
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      15 4 WingO TflflpY f TP PRECISION WATCHES AT MODERATE PRICES Manufactured by Amida Watch Co, SAj
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      143 4 Visit the ORCHARD ROAD ARCADE dlTj DOLCIS for shoes VM^ Something to i-en<!? .«nd shoe repairs. w^yj^^ The answer i> the T&fL S.P.C.K. BOOK The STRAITS TIMES office is f^S/^^2 handy for insert- V m ing press an- HILDA'S for all nouncements. kinds of froclts ",^P[ Buy your films Wj&:»
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    Jet boat can go sideways like crab
    439 5 CHEAPER, FASTER AND QUIETER POR 40 years Comander George Wheeler dreamed of the ship that would sail sideways. Now, aged Hi he has built his dream ship in the back garden of his home on the Isle of Wight, two miles from the
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    55 5 THE FAST GROWING Good quads— they're now seven years old think it's fun to be taller still, even if the stilts are a bit difficult to manage at first. The quads, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Good, pictured at their home at Nettleton, Wiltshire, are (from left): Jennifer, Frances,
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    Lock icon OVER SHE GOES
    15 5 picture. Brishton .Nurs.ry Stakes •< Jhr s t orts Arpna L event- Reuter
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    A TINY FIREWOMAN DROVE A 2-TOHNER
    336 5 A TINY FIREWOMAN DROVE A 2-TOHNER A 23-YEAR-OLD tiny flrewoman, with specially hitched -in trousers, was driving a two-ton scarlet fire wagon as a test. Beside her: the instructor. The instructor was Gravesend's Chief Fire Officer. He told Betty Wayland that when he said "Stop" she must stop as if
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    WARN THE CHILDREN, SAYS M.O.
    82 5 A warning to parent* to keep their cblldn I away from tHc berries pi the woody nlghtihade which abounds in hed« rowa throughout Britain. been I 1 Dr Malcolm Qrau, Medica Officer ol Health lot Hem< J Hempstead, Herti. Dr OrO had been lnfMtlgatlnp th
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      711 6 YOUR LUCKY j j STAR j| I K ORN toda y- y° u ive tne appearaiu ■< t O Of being a jolly, happy-go-lucky X person who worries not at all about anything but just plunges into life J expecting the best and usually ret- J ting it! You have
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  • Rouund the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      197 7 LONDON. Auc. 29. Prevlou, Today pi KBI'R N°. BSS cJi buyers 40 buyer luropean Port* Sept«a_iber 41 sellers 41 sellers ni itBKR No. 1 E88 cli. 404 buyers 40 S buyers luropean P«ls October 40% sellers 41 sellers RUBBER No. 1 RSS Spot 41 buyers 414 buyers
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      New York prices
      103 7 NEW YORK. \u. Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 96.00 nom. 95.75 non TIN futures August 95.00 bid 96.00 non. 97.00 asked expired in. September 95.00 bid 94.80 bid 96.00 asked 95.80 a.ske.October 94.25 bid 94 05 bid 95.25 asked 95.05 ask fJ TONE: Stead*. SALES::
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      U. S. PEPPER
      51 7 Spot and awaiting Malabar 44. loata 43I£, September 43, October, December Malabar lampong option 43. Sarawak spot awaiting release 39 afloats 38^, Sept. Sept. 38'-.. Lampong spot and awaiting "release 44. an"oat s 43' 2. Sept. shipment 43 sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      33 7 NEW YORK. Aug W Previou s Today M Industrials 463.70 464.37 Railroads 157.11 156.50 I" Domestic Bonds 98 50 98.47 15 Itilities 66.07 66.18 I Stocks Composite Average 166.87 166.87
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      113 7 Previous Today < OI'R Philippines ci.f. UK/ North European delivered weight per long ton Aug./ Sept. $174 sellers $1724 seller "i'RA Philippines f.o.b. Manila •n bulk per ton Unquoted Unquoted COPRA Straits c.i.f. UK/North Kuropean delivered weight per l<»n„ ton Aug /Sept £64*4 buyers £644 buyers
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    SMILING SOLDIER LEFT FOR GUARDROOMSTILL SMILING
    219 7 THE soldier who couldn't stop smiling was sentenced to 84 days' detention and smiled as he marched to the guardroom. Twenty-one-year-old National Serviceman John Mr Ritchie stationed at the Cavalry Barracks. York couldn't help it. Even the memory made him smile The memory of
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    Dogfight! Fun flies —then bottles
    173 7 Dogfight! Fun flies —then bottles THREE dogs out for a midnight walk started fighting and soon their owners joined In. This is how a counsel f told the story at Bowstreet: Mrs. Margaret Perez, of Apple ford road. North Kensington, was walking her small dog on one side of Kensal-road.
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    50 7 piciurc PRIMO CARNERA towers over sft. 2in. (118-lb.) Maria Metiado. the Malay film star, as they rhumba at a Singapore ni«ht spot. Said Maria: "He is so huce. I couldn't see my hand when he held it In his But, he is so and so full of fun."- Free Press
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    He was troubled
    39 7 So angry was a 20-year-old .ship's steward, Terence Dickin, after a telephone row with his girl friend that he smashed his flat through a window of the telephone kiosk. He was fined £1 at Wallasey, Cheshire.
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    Lock icon LUCKY 'FIND' IN HIDE-AND-SEEK
    44 7 Clamorous quarry is lovely blonde film star Belinda l.er. plaving hidr jindsftk among i the nand dunr* while off duty" from Kaling Ktudlos But whv. with i curves like these, does «n*pHy Belinda want to hidr at .ill Reuter nlrlure
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    Doctor says his wife had taken to drink
    276 7 DR. Hugh WoodfieldDavies, the London anaesthetist, whose wife died as he administered an anaesthetic, for an operation on her leg, told the St. Paneras coroner that she had taken to drink. Death by Misadventure was the inquest, verdict. The coroner, Mr W.
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      39 7 DON'T WORRY OVER PACKING LET US DO IT FOR YOU SINGAPORE PACKING COMPANY LTD. IN ASSOCIATION WITH SINGAPORE BAGGAGE TRANSPORT AGENCY LTD. 65, Thr Arcadr Sin K apor«- TH: OMI J Line. 1 Roderr Strrrt. KuaU l.umpur Trl: 4347.
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    THE WOLF GIRLS of Midnapore
    1368 8  - THE WOLF GIRLS of Midnapore F. Terry Newman by FDFD TK3-DAY there is an extensive literature devoted to the weird and Intriguing lives of feral children children who were abducted or who wandered oir and were reared by four-footed fostermothers. The best authenticated of all such cases Ul without doubt
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    33 8 picture. A blow lands and one of the boxing kittens sees stars, all lit up and visible to the hundreds of holiday makers enjoying the illuminations at Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, Lancashire Reuter
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    MISS H AND THE UNDERTAKER
    443 9 Woman denies she broke up home Enticement ease talk 'irrelevant 9 MISS ESTELLE HOUBIGANT denied trying to break up the home of undertaker Wallace Beale. But for causing a breach of the peace there she was bound over in £250 and ordered to pay 50
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    Britain's second Flying Bedstead ready for tests
    257 9 BRITAIN has a second "Flying Bedstead." incorporating several secret advances and improvements. The first flight may be made this week. Bedstead No 2, which has been built at the RollsRoyce experimental airfield at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, has already had engine tests on the special
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    COIN MUDLARKS MEET PCs
    202 9 THREE boys who followed the centuries old Portsmouth custom of wallowing in the black harbour mud at low tide and shouting 'Throw us a coin" found themselves In court MUDLARK NO 1 was 13 Sa^Constable Tony Kille: "He was shouting and waving to people P^nj by
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    Monstrous lobster
    17 9 A lobster 2 ft. 8 in. long weighing 91b. 20z., was caught at PortUlevan. Cornwall.
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    MAN ON WANTED LIST IS FOUND BY WIFE
    114 9 MRS JAMES LAVALLE idly glanced at a police "wanted" notice- and discovered that she was Mrs. Charles Falzone, wife of one of the ten most-wanted fugitives in the United States. She got in touch with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Then F.
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    A birching for Winston
    29 9 Winston Churchill was given eight strokes of the Birch recently He is a 17--vear-old member of a gang which has been raiding shops in Guernsey.
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    Lock icon The tanks thai killed four asleep in ramp
    87 9 The tanks thai killed four asleep in ramp Th e two runaway. Charioteer tanks after they had ploughed Into an army camp on Salisbury Plain and killed four Territorial army soldiers as they slept. Four others were Injured. The tragedy occurred on August 18 Just before 2 a.m. Investigations showed
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    'CHEW AS YOU VIEW' IS NEW TV CRAZE
    193 9 'CHEW AS YOU VIEW' IS NEW TV CRAZE YET another now habit has been added to the growing list caused by television In Britain. The latest Is the "Chew while you view" trend, reported by a firm of commercial survey analysts. The firm, the Social Service Research Group, says 45
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    4 Day of Swim Records
    183 11 4 Day of Swim Records Our photographer had an exciting day at the Nuffleld Pool when be went there for the Singapore Base District annual individual and team championships. He saw many records broken. The GOC's wife, Mrs. D DC. Tulloch presented the prizes— and a 1 of them were
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    Mouse story with a trap to it
    217 12  - Mouse story with a trap to it D. M. DAVIES A IWOULDNT have believed it. Every source of verification has been tapped though. I confess I've found no support for the story but I must report that I also found nothing to contradict it. So I have just had to
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    100 to be 'aunts, uncles'
    121 12 100 to be 'aunts, uncles WARWICKSHIRE'S Ohil■J dren's Department wanted 25 coupes to act as "aunts and uncles" to young children whose mothers have to go into hospital. They have had a hundred offers. The County Child ren\s Officer, Miss S.E. Bowkett. says, "We have been plea- I santly surprised.
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    Prof essor (of logic) hears ghost voice
    774 12  - Prof essor (of logic) hears ghost voice BERNARD LEVIN »v 'YOU'VE BROKEN YOUR GLASSES' HENRY HABBERLEY PRICE, Bachelor of Science. Master of Arts, Fellow of the British Association, author of Hume's Theory of the External World, and Wykeham Professor of Logic in the University of Oxford, sucked thoughtfully at his
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    Life in two rooms in Moscow
    802 12  -  Shelley Rohde £*****11 I*U ********************111':= A RUSSIAN woman's home is her sanctuary, the one place in which she feels secure from the outside world. And a foreign visitor in the Russian home is a rare and privileged being. The protective wall that surrounds each
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    BEER DROUGHT MEANS HARDSHIP
    410 13 BEER DROUGHT MEANS HARDSHIP [)EER is almost as traditional a drink n East Africa as in (k-rmany and Great Iritain. Indeed, so pormously popular [as it become that kt year people of [e n y a Tanganyika nd Uganda drank a cord 578,000 gallons lonthly compared to ily 20,000 gallons
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    Models are cheap in this town
    556 13  - Models are cheap in this town SUNNY GIAM says 2UNGEI GOLOK, th< Siamese border town north of Kelantan, some 200 yards from Rentau Panjang, Kelantan'g frontier town. offerg many opportunities for nude photography. Here uiiis of Siamese and Malayan ormins are available as nude models and they charge very little
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    First time together
    31 13 This official Pi< -turr AM a format:..., of four j. t air. -rail •s star^^sßKß durin,; a,roba ll( s M ui a a.r«ba t i, trams whlrh U
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    TANGIER TAKES PRECAUTIONS
    244 13  -  John K. Cooky by rrHE international city 1 of Tangier of 200.000 people on the south Bide of Gibraltar Strait a sort of Switzerland of North Africa today is battening its hatches in fear that it would soon be swept up in the spreading North Africa riots
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    540 14 It was a six-month lightmare when those atoms ran wild! BRITISH scientists are to re-examine safety precautions at nuclear power stations. This follows warnings by American, Canadian and Russian scientists at the international atomic conference at Geneva. Thoy were discussing what would happen if a nucleir power station went wild
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    FIFI and the CHILEAN TRUFFLE...
    1737 16  - FIFI and the CHILEAN TRUFFLE... ORSON WELLES hy iimiiimiiiiiiiim'imiimimmiiMiiiimiimimiiiiiiimim FACT or FICTION? Again a story in this series by famous writers invites you to solve the puzzle This tale COULD have happened. But did it? Tomorrow the answer will bo given. JV)RTY this year, George Orson Welles the child prodigy
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    53 16 Ml Tl %L admiration as llir "underworld kin*" meet* tl.r underwater quern" in expressed in this picture as artor C.^or^f mil who p.Miiuvs tuu^h kuhjcsUt roh> in hlnvs, ta-.ts an app.rtuitiv*- eye on thr unusii.il toslumr l.sthw Williams wears us *»unnun« 'naeruuid- ul n i-arly ««-nlury m a yiclure s»lic
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    Lock icon HE FELL 1,000 FEET— AND LIVED!
    1056 17 HE FELL 1,000 FEET— AND LIVED! PARATROOPER TELLS OF ■THOSE DREAD MOMENTS' WHEN BOTH HIS MUTES FAILED TO OPEN L. favourite bedtime l Hf v for young ,,,roopers is lous tale of M ,i.zak-the oaratrooper B> iv v of a soldier i« from a plane SSf pWed into a snow-
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    Bridge Hand
    381 17 CIXTEEN prearranged "par" deals, recently played in more than 150 UA colleges U> decide the 1955 Intercollegiate Bridge Championships, are being presented in this column. To play tne.se deals In your own game, instead of reading the par results now, save the entire series until completed. Then have
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      210 17 CLUES ACROSS 10 Mostly cancel something donor or a timely n JSgSttiTiflC a collar but''ci.nce u. 4, 2, 6). t ij Toper with a lariat for the v change r4». common ptople (10. x A n £*S£ riv er (3). 12 U tins the ancient story of JJivM air (3)
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    Station players did well under J.B. floodlights
    978 18  -  Ralph Blakeman FDFD i ii 'iirniiMi h ALTHOUGH LAST WEEK WAS A COMPARATIVELY QUIET ONE FOR j SOCCER FANS, WITH ONE OTTER -SECTION LEAGUE j COMPLETED AND VERY FEW GAMES REMAINING TO BE PLAYED IN THE OTHER, THE SPOTLIGHT WAS CENTRED ON THE
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    SPRINGDALE WIN
    33 18 CPRINGDALE S. C. beat Ford S.C. 3-1 in a friendly soorer match at Farrer Paric vestrrdny. Tiun Soo n (2) and Kok Mentj Morcd for Sprlnydale and AU Roluuau Cot Fjiii.
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    CASE OF THE FLYING BALL...
    176 18 E /COMPARATIVELY rare <ase of an umpire injured E occurred in cricket match at Bootle, Lancashire. It E was not the hall which struck him but a flying: bail. In a Northern Liverpool competition match at Wad- E E "am Road, Bootle a straight-driven ball
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    Compton's Test days may be over
    316 18 Compton's Test days may be over jMltllllltllMMMMlll V limiMNHHllllllll; SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT DEMS tOMPTON WAS A WORRIED MAN WHEN HE JOINED THE TWO TEST li AVIS THK OTHER DAY IN THE PLAYERS' DININGROOM AT THE OVAL TO DRINK THE CHAMPAGNE TOAST TO PETER MAY AND ENGLAND S VICTOBY. His old knee
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    BERNICE STREAKED PAST THE OTHERS
    368 18 SASA CHAMPIONSHIPS rpiIIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BERNICE LANCASTER QUALI--1 FIEI) FOR FOUR FINALS AT THE SINGAPORE AMATEUR SWIMMING ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIPS WHEN HEATS WERE HELD AT THE CHINESE SWIMMING CLUB YESTERDAY. Bernice swept past her opposition and led from start to finish in all her four heats. Her best
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    Espinosa beats Jones after a great fight
    534 19 BURMA LEADS IN S.E. ASIAN BOXING TOURNEY BURMA are in the lead with four points in the South-east Asia boxing championships which started at the Singapore Badminton Hall last night. Five of the Burmese team of six were in action last night in
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    YOUNG PROGRESSIVES ATHLETIC MEET
    132 19 Results of th e first athletic m m of the Young Progres--1;<ld;<ld on Saturday were: I yards "A": l Chee Teck N^ Edmund Kwee. 11 sec.; i m! > V B :l Anton y l° w Co "I Chowdhurie. 11.4 sec.; i<M ff? Lim 2 Miss
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    Lock icon S. China XI were well treated'
    135 19 S. China XI were well treated' AUSTRALIAN soecer officials denied yesterday the Souih Chinese football team was shabbily treated during its recent Australian tour. The Secretary of the New South Wales Association. Bill Onr, said: "The South Chinese received the same attention and courtesies extended to all visiting teams." A
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    Lock icon MIDDLESEX HAVE A BIG JOB ON HAND
    319 19 MIDDLESEX have a bm Job on hand at Lords today if they hope to fatal the South Africans who ;«re playing U* la.'t county match of their tour Aftfr saving the follow on by throe runs yesterday mornHm. they dismissed the Springboks for
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    87 19 v ESTLRDAVS IK. utrcrr tr *ult« were: DIVISION I: Anton Villa I. Sundrrland 4; Illarkpnol I Burn ky I; Chel^Ji lluddernlleld Town 0. DIVISION 2: Blackburn Bo\ tm I. Falham 0; HoU City 2. Lincoln City IJ St«kr City I. Bristol Rovern 2; We»l Ham Initrd Tort
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    S. Johore RFC officials
    57 19 AT the annual general meeting of the South Johore Rugby Football Club at the e<l president. He will atao be the Sim and nxturrr Set-retary. a* in Drevloua years. Di wider. t W Fox senary. rh«Sewurer <JuUe> will be undertaken by E L Luwley. j r
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    3-WICKET WIN
    15 19 THE English .schoolboy* XI beai Non-Bend«« by thre* fen 2iJ«r*n Westerhout 3-1 61
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    BRADDELL LOSE
    5 19 I Tbambyrajab 2-*w.
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    SPORTS DIARY
    31 20 »occn SINO-MALAYS v South C hina, .lalan l'»s.w. 8 p.m. S.A.F.A. Junior Cup (replay) Corinthians "A" v H.M. Dockyard, Jalan Besar, 7 p.m. SWIMMING S.A.S.A. championships finals, 5.15 p.m.
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    DA PREEM SAYS IT'S HOSPITAL FOR THE 'FAT BOY'
    320 20 DA PREEM SAYS IT'S HOSPITAL FOR THE 'FAT BOY' YOU START IT AND ILL END IT," GROWLED PRIMO CAKNKR A WHEN HE WAS INTRODUCED TO KING KONG AT THE HAPPY WORLD OFFICE LAST NIGHT. They were discussing the most -discussed question Of the week: Should fists be used. Kong banged
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    Solidarity, Cash Cheque work best on wet track
    614 20 FREE PRESS RACING CORRESPONDENT lEADING Gold Vase hopes J were out on the training track at Ipoh this morning but no spectacular times were recorded because of the soft track. There was heavy rain last night and it was still drizzling when
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    55 20 ATSHSHI MIYAGi and Kosei Kamo of Japan won the United States doubles lawn tennis championship at Brokeline. Massachusetts yesterday They beat Jerry Mos s and Bill Quillian of the United States, 6—2, 6—3, 3—6. I—6 6—4, to become the first Japanese pair in 75 years
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    90 20 ANSELL Adams, trained heavyweight who mainly fights in Britain, suffered a broken arm in Stockholm last night in a bout against Aldo Pellegrini, of Italy. The unusual boxing injury forced him to give up the fight at the beginning of the filth round and Pellegrini was declared
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    RAF WATER-POLO CHAMPS AGAIN
    40 20 I>AF won the inter-services wntor-jH)lo championship for the sixth year in succession when they defeated the Army by 12-1 at Seletar yesterday. Scorers for RAP were: Ha?ey (2). Taylor <3>. Uewellen <2>, WirrirH <4> and Hinks.
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