The Singapore Free Press, 9 May 1957

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper No. *****. Singapore Thursday. May 9, 1957. Price 15Cts,
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    Lock icon CHINA IRKED BUT PEACE TALKS CONTINUE
    351 1 CHINA IRKED BUT PEACE TALKS CONTINUE US says it: A-weapons m Formosa and with fleet Alarm m H'Kong DED CHINA has climbed down m the face of America\s new atomic missile challenge from Formosa—just as Russia drew back when the U.S said "hands off the Middle East." This fact has
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    CRASH! And a house collapses
    106 1 A MERCHANT, Mohamed bin Ali Bahashwan. 32, was seriously injured A when he ear he was driving crashed into this two-storey building i at the junction of North Bridge Road and |alan Pisang, S.njv re, early i tHiS ThTimpaet almost demolished the whole front portion
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    A BALL FOR FUNDS
    121 2 A BALL FOR FUNDS The Portuguese way of dancing A NOVELTY attraction Noite A Portuguesa —is to be included at the ball m aid of St. Francis Institution's building and orphanape fund < Malacca) at the Sea View Hotel, Singapore, on June 1 from 9 p.m. t o 2 a.m.
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    Lock icon KINABALU BID
    39 2 A mountaineering party, composed of six members of the Royal Air Force stationed m Hong Kong, left the Colony yesterday by air for Labuan to climb the 13,600--foot-high northern ridge of Mount Kinabalu m North Borneo Reuter
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    Lock icon S'PORE COUPLE'S DIAMOND WEDDING
    530 2  - S'PORE COUPLE'S DIAMOND WEDDING MARGARET WEE Recipe for happiness and long life By A SINGAPORE couple's uftwavering faith A m God and their firm hut kindly .upbringing of their family have produced eight much respected citizens of this island. That is the life story of Mr. and Mrs. Y. E.
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    Lock icon Duke meets schoolmates
    80 2 THE Duke or Wlndaor night presided ever union of schoolmates from the class he attended at a naval college 50 years at:o. The reunion was of m< n who were together m the spring class of 1907 Osborne, The- Royal Naval College on the Isle of Wight.
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    Lock icon CELEBRATES WAR VICTORY
    39 2 France yesterday celebrated the 12th anniversary of the Allied victory m Europe m World War II with a public holiday and a big parade along the Champs Elysees to the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. Reuter
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    44 2 picture IMMMIIIIIIIIMIIimiMMMMMMIII.t The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr II S Suhra- wardy, reloads his cine-camera after exhausting a reel of film at the S.I T. housing estate mi n QueensI town. Helping him is Singapore Chief Planner i Mr. A. B. Sewell Free Press
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    Lock icon U.S. demands formula of a new synthetic rubber
    293 3 COMPANY HAS A SECRET PROCESS THAT PRODUCES THE 'EQUIVALENT OF THE NATURAL PRODUCT 7 THE United States Justice Department today filed a suit demanding that the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company disclose full information on its formula for a synthetic rubber described
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    Lock icon A-sub for Pacific
    29 3 The atomic submarine, Nautilus, will leave the east coast about May 15 and spend two months m the Pacific, the navy announced In Washington yesterday.— Reuter
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    Lock icon Death of a Duke
    24 3 The Ninth Duke of Atholl dud m hospital m Perth. Scotland yt'sttraay after a heart attack. He was 77.— Reuter
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    COUGH IS CAUSE OF T.B. INFECTION
    102 3 milE National Tuber--1 culosis Association was told m Kansas City, America, yesterday that it had been proved for the first time under controlled hospital conditions that tuberculosis was contracted mainly by breathing infected air. The statement was made by Dr. Richard Riley, Associate Professor
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    Lock icon HITLER'S REWARD: BULLETS
    271 3 HITLER'S REWARD: BULLETS He slew henchmen A MUNICH court yesterday heard the story of Hitler's liquidation of the Krown Shirt leaders who helped him to power and how most of them cried "long live the Fuehrer* just hefore they died. The court is trying Sepp Dietrich, 64-year-old former S.S. general,
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      33 3 TO THE WEST <4 /^^^v^/^ "7ftt German Army must to foyeAtomKhbopo/ts/" GERMAN SCIENTISTS! TO POSTERITY: "You have Atomic Hkqpo/fS "SwfiixW The German to tfo German Army/" JfrmyAas got tfom/ THE ADENAUER STORY 2KBW
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. May 9, 1957. Opinion Additional protection
    179 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. May 9, 1957. Opinion Additional protection EWER since the Government's demonstration during the last riots of firm will to maintain law and order, Singapore has enjoyed calm and quiet. But there is no room for complacence we still have m our midst subversives and gangsters.
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    World celebrates birthday of poet Tagore
    710 4 World celebrates birthday of poet Tagore India's Shakespeare and World Citizen' THE world celebrates tjie birthday this week of a man who died more than 16 years ago poet Rabindranath Tagore. He was India's Shakespeare and Shelly and to the Indians a saint who commanded great reverence. It might be
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    Reporter's Notebook
    153 4  -  P.M. RAMAN by lished m the Sunday Times of August 10. 1941. entitled "Sonp Offering to Tagore" three days after the poet's death m Calcutta. Noic thou art gone, Ah! Who is it shall bid us come. With all the old delight, Of labour done, and the long,
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    Bid to get benefits restored
    133 5 AMOVE is to be made to restore the Singapore Army Civil Service Union's retirement and unemployment benefits. These were abolished at the last annual conference, because it had been considered "dangerous" for an organisation which had no control over unemployment to provide such benefits. /oii/iJ
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    136 5 THE PERFECT ENGLISH HOUSEWIFE is 35 years of age, has been married 15 years, spends about I $153 a month on groceries, and has two children (and of course, a husband). She does not smoke, rarely goes to dances, or takes a holiday. So a panel headed by Lady Barnett
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    OWNERS BACK BUS USERS BODY
    272 5 OWNERS BACK BUS USERS BODY THE secretary of the Singapore Chinese Bus Owners' Association. Mr. Quek Scan Eng. has welcomed the move to form a "Bus Travellers' Association. 1 But the general manager of the Singapore Traction Co.. Mr. A. A. Ewing, while not opposing it, said he did not
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    DANCE TO PUT GIRLS IN JOBS
    54 5 The Singapore Business and Professional Women's Club is to hold an "Artists and ModeLs" ball at Raffles Hotel on Monday May 13. Proceeds from the dance will finance a few underprivileged girls m their professional careers. Tickets at $5 are on sale at the
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    REGISTERS NOW OPEN
    127 5 AX APPROXIMATE total of 9,000 school children have been registered m the Singapore Government primary schools. Every Government primary school has been open as a centre for registration since May 4. Tht* registration of chil- (h-en has been divided into three periods those born m 1949 should
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    POLICE WATCH FOR RED ACTIVITY
    225 5 On guard against subversion Hair appeals to youth SINGAPORE police are not remaining idle during the present deceptive lull m subversive activities. Every section of the force was on the alert "ready to spring into action at any time, anywhere," the Assistant Minister to the
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    The soap war is on
    195 5 The soap war is on COLONY FEARS DEFEAT A LREADY worried over A, the Federation's 20 per cent tax on their products, Singapore soap manufacturers yesterday expressed the fear of also being "priced out" of the Colony market. A spokesman for the Colony's soap industry said that Federation manufacturers not
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    Nursing home plan
    139 5 rpHE Singapore Chamber of A Commerce and the British European Association, who plan to build a nursing home here, have completed their inquiries on similar facilities m neighbouring countries. The secretary of the chamber, Mr. L.M. Grant, said they ho oee n studying the eflorw. cial interests
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      167 6 31 WIMt AKI by Lee Falk and Phil Mavis THIS IS TME *CRAC X- P«COF' V STAY BEMINPMANPRA<eJ TMERB THEY]/ NO. W4VT FOR TME TVrS GAN6 RT/\ VDU ALL KNOW WHAT TO PO PLU6MIM IWTHE 9ACX*ji CHIEF"? >/ VmANPRAKET T/%RZAIV by Ed^ar R^e~Burrou^hs Cux.'O^ T- I:=: ~'^sr| thE CCOC CEIEIIEP;
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      439 6 b"" 1 I BORN today, you are honest, just and shrewd. You have very definite ideas of how things should b* done, and you may need to guard against fanaticism. Just remember that there may be two ways to reach the same goal and think twice before insisting upon your
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    U.K. dosing prices
    180 7 Above prices quoted m pence. Above prices quoted m pence. LONDON. May 8. Previous Today RIBBER N». 1 ESS cif- 26% buyers 26\ buyers European port* May 26% sellers 26V4 sellers Juno 26% buyers 26 buyers 26 S* sellers 26 M, sellers RUBBER No- 1 RSB Spot
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    New York prices
    107 7 Above prices quoted (n U.S. cents per 10. NEW YORK. May 8 Previous Today TIV Straits spot 98 62 norn 98 25 nom. TIN futures Standard Contrail May 97 12 buyers 96.15 buyers 98 37 sellers 98 00 sellers Jane unquoted unquoted TONE: Steady SALES: Nil. Strait.
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    DOW JONES AVERAGES
    35 7 Above prices quoted m UJS. cents per Ib. NEW YORK, May ftPrevious Today 20 Railroads IJJ-5* 'JJ-JI U Domestic Bonds 11 15 Utilities llii J4OT 65 Stocks Compo«it« AverMrw i 73.45 i'«2i
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    U.S. PEPPER
    54 7 25 V 4, June shipment 24% Muntok white spot and awaiting release 34^, afioats 33\4 to 32 sellers ex-dock. Malabar /Lampong spot 27%, afloats 27\ to 26\, Malabar May shipment 26 H. Uunpong May shlDment 26. Sarawak spot 27, afloats 26 < 4 May shipment Above prices quoted
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    Copra, coconut oil prices
    70 7 LONDON, May 8. Previous Today COPRA Philippines ci f U.K-/ North European delivered Weight per lon* ton May/June $174 sellers $174 norn COPRA, Straits ci.f. UK /North European delivered weight per mm %}*s£ fg^KSS COCONUT OIL crude Straits ci.f. I 1 X North Kuropeajn m bulk
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    Check-up on atom plants
    97 7 Check-up on atom plants HARWELL scientists are making a full study of accident hazards considered remote at the new atom power plant being built at Dounreay, near Thurso, Caithness, Scotland. The plant is being built In the form of a controlled atom bomb— a large mass of highly concentrated uranium
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    AHOY, SAILOR BOY!
    142 7 w r'S a new water-scooter designed for holidaymakers m many parts of the world. It was built by a British Arm and recently demonstrated at Ruislip near London. In the above picture, the new water-scooter, called "Amanda" is being ridden by model Jenny Meredith. It has been
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    Princess does a dance
    75 7 Princess does a dance PRINCESS ANNE did an 17 impromptu ballet dance m a window of Windsor Castle when the band of the Life Guards played "Pineapple Poll." A crowd saw her, hair bobbing, twirl around as the music swept across the lawns. Then Prince Charles appeared at another window
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      107 7 Today's Radio Programme for Singapore 1.15 p.m. Lunch Time Concert; 1.30 Time Signal and News; 1.45 Ladies Only; 500 Calling All Hospitals presented by Mai^ie ConceJcao; 6.00 Time Announcement and Programme Summary; 6.02 Children's Programme; 6.30 Radio Dan« c Club; 655 Announcements and Singapore Share Market Report; 7.00 Time Signal
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      92 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ■i■i■<i> 1 111 >■ 1 1 I SINGAPORE 1 HIGH TIDESf TODAY: 7.11 p m. E TOMORROW: 7.41 a.m. E and 8.28 p.m. E SATURDAY; 8.51 a.m.
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  • THE MAN WHO WENT BERSERK...
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      He is trapped by police
      77 8 jTfRANK KIRSCH, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, America, went berserk and hit his m wife with a club, then chased her into a bar. Kirsch returned to his appartment and the picture drama above shows how the police went about his capture. B In the first picture
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      He gasps for fresh air
      66 8 ...Kirsch, however, refused to surrender and fled upstairs to the second floor of his apartment. In the top right hand corner of the second photograph he is seen gasping for air as he is forced of the apartment by tear gas bombs lobbed into the
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      He is forced to give in
      60 9 In the third picture Kirsch is seen being grabbed by police officers after plung- ing from the second floor apartment onto an awning when tear gas forced him out. Kirsch had earlier thrown bottles at the police. Finally overcome, he was taken B to
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    It plays funes on a tape by the hundred
    296 8 IN a small office of! London's Fleet-street three* young men are sitting on a secret that could knock Britain's disc business sideways. They know how to sell 100 recorded tunes for as little as £2 10s. Their secret? a gadget that
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    TORTOISE TIME...
    41 8 WITH the advent of Spring m England, out came the giant tortoises at the London Zoo to see what was doing, and hoping that the holidaymakers would remember to feed them with crisp green lettuce leaves their favourite diet.
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    'Terrors' of St Trinian's
    128 9 BRITISH comedian Terry Thomas j makes himself very much at home m the pic- ture above with I some of the sixth formers at St. Trinian's, and re- fleets how enjoy- able his own school days could have been with company like this. 1 First day's
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    SAILORS IN PEWS
    147 9 WHAT happens when Service men are made to go to religious services? One sailor spent every service trying to see how many times he could spit Into the hat of the man m front of him. Soldiers sang the lewdest parodies of hymns sotto voce while services
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    THE CASE OF A DEAD GENERAL • • •
    2028 10  - THE CASE OF A DEAD GENERAL Pelham Groom Another Latiff story by.... Generals are not shot murdered, every day and not since the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson had there been such a big commotion. Strangely enough Latiff knew nothing about it until he was recalled from leave •pHERE were
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    SPOTLIGHT ON THE SERVICES
    67 11 Troops engaged m protective work m Malaya cover large areas of the jungle but it is not too hard for terrorists to swoop, kill, pillage and escape before security forces are alerted. So, ever so often some innocent Malayan is murdered but it is men like
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    Worker is murdered
    91 11 One of the numv reasons why the ftgh! against the Communist terrorists must continue 1 Malayan police cany away the body of a murdered rubber tapper while the European estate manager walks alongside* Such crimes must l>e punished if law and order are to predominate, and m
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    The army arrives...
    64 11 The army arrives The first vehicles of the 2nd Battalion arrive at the scene of the crime, and the troops unload prior lo the pursuit. The essential factor of speed made it possible for them to take up the chase within minutes of the alert being sounded, and the patrols
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    The search underway
    85 11 RKMHT: An Australian soldier of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, conducts a search at the scene of the crime. L/Cpl .hick Perkins is an experienced soldier of 8 years service, 17 months of which he has spent m the Malayan jungle. LEFT: The pursuit is
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    Lock icon RESPECT FOR CONGRESS LOST-NEHRU
    248 12 TNDIAN Prime Minister Nehru has warned his party followers to take timely lessons from recent election reverses if his governing Congress Party is to survive future ballot battles. Communist victory m Kerala where the Reds have formed their own government. In Orissa the rightist Gana Tantra
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    Lock icon Chiang makes denial
    88 12 Chiang makes denial THK Chinese Nationalist embassy m Paris has again denied j reports of secret negotiations between the Peking and Formosa regimes. Such reports were described as "part of an international cam i paign of subversiie manoeuvre by the r Peking communists." An embassy statement complained that certain French
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    Lock icon Security Act is extended
    78 12 PAKISTAN'S security I Act. under which a person deemed dangerous can be jailed without trial, is to be extend a year beyond its expiry date on April 30 last, an official spoken said m Karachi. The spokesman said so long as "certain countries outside Pakistan continue
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    Lock icon Stricken Bihar getting aid
    43 12 The Indian Government Is sending 60,000 tons of wheat during the next three months to the famine threatened state of Bihar, where the wheat crop was heavily damaged by rain and hail. Some four million people need help.- A.P.
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    Lock icon U.S., JAPAN TO DEVELOP INDIAN MINES
    77 12 THE United States. India and Japan have agreed on basic plans for Joint development of India's Orissa iron ore mines, according to the Tokyo newspaper Asahi Shimbun. Asahl said the agreement calls for the United States to furnish capital of USs2s.ooo\ooo India US$l7,--000,000 and
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    Lock icon RHEE'S HOMAGE TO THE POPE
    40 12 Pope Pius XII has received through Dr. Ryang Yoo Chan, South Korean diplomat, a special message from Dr. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea. It was described as 'a letter of homage and gratitude."- A.P
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    Lock icon Army move to heal breach
    98 12 HPHE Indonesian army has X renewed its efforts to bring President Sukarno and former Vice President Mohammad Hatta together again, according to Jakarta news reports. The reports said the moves were m line with the April military conference's decision to re-establish the "two-in-one" former partnership
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    Lock icon 'U.K. is still ahead of U.S..' says Jan
    234 12 'U.K. is still ahead of U.S..' says Jan M«. xasujiro UKano, Director of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, said m Tokyo that the United States could overcome Britain's lead m the development of commercial atomic power within three to five years if she reversed her present programme. Mr Okano, designer
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    52 12 »Dr Hollington X Tong (right), Nationalist Chinese Ambassador to the United States, was the sixth Asian envoy to address on "Ambassadors Speak" Forum series at Chambers- burg. Pennsylvania. The envoy is seen patting with senior girl scouts who attended the forum. He also held a press conference at a college
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    Lock icon Yangtse River is now rising
    195 12 Yangtse River is now rising SIGNALLING Red China's annual battle against floods, the water level of the Yangtse River is now rising rapidly. Peking Radio reporting this danger signal, said this was due to persistent heavy rains "m recent days." The radio said the rains were reported m the central
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    309 12 India and Siam provided surprises at the Tokyo trade fair. Brilliant red, gold, blue, yellow and varicoloured silks were draped along a wall behind an imitation wood carved front.' In compact displays, India showed materials a spokesman said it is anxious to export iron ore, manganese magnesite, leather, leather
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    Hints on looking your best
    952 13  - Hints on looking your best Eileen ANDERSON ipoitorar II li i>i\<.\ dirutfjvs /i#»n THE efficient secretary assured me that Miss Wilding wouldn't keep me a moment, but she was on the 'phone. I would have forgiven Miss Wilding many moments. I had plenty to look at. The wall on my
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    THE TUG THAT WENT TO SEA
    394 13 THE TUG THAT WENT TO SEA New serial for todtilers j UP and down the big river, from dawn until sunset, sailed Toot the Tug Boat. He was a fat little ship, with a long black funnel, and though E you wouldn't have guess- ed it. he wa s very
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      246 13 CLUES ACROSS 4. Receptacle devoured In 1. Punches this footwear (5). pairs (6). 4. Scout around for this 5. Wager a fish (8). money (3-1-3). 6 A rodent flnishw ft mvn 8. So Reg orovides giants (5). clt>ai officer (5). 9. Lifelike Russian range at 7. Beasts m Throgmorton last
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    Bobs fight to beat 16-foot mark
    595 14 GUTOWSKI IS STRONGLY FANCIED TO SUCCEED AMERICAN track and field fans are thrilled by one of the most exciting sports duels m T.S. athletic history the current rivalry between pole vaulters Bob Richards, a clergyman, and Bob Gutowski, a student at Occidental College m
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    Lock icon England and Scotland in easy Cup wins
    294 14 England and Scotland in easy Cup wins pNGLAND went a step nearer qualifying for the final stages of the World Cup, to be held m Sweden next year, by trouncing the Republic of Ireland (Eire) by 5-1 at Wembley stadium before a 50,000 crowd. They led 4-0 at half time.
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    Lock icon EASY FOR CURRY
    43 14 Mr. F. J. Honour's Curry won the Chester Cup run over two miles, two furlongs and 77 yards at Chester yesterday, beating the Queen's Atlas by six lengths, with Major L. B. Holliday's Combatant two lengths further away third. Reuter
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    42 14 ••JOCK" MURRAY, former Rovers goalkeeper and S.A.F.A. referee, receiving the "Sportsman Cup" medal, awarded last year by F.A.M to officials of the annual match between Singapore and the Federation, from Mrs. R. M. Turner, wife of the acting Governor of North Borneo.
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    Lock icon Robinson says no to a 'real hot' July title bout
    243 14 WORLD BOXING ROUND-UP SUGAR RAY Robinson, world middleweight boxing champion, m New York yesterday rejected a proposal to defend his title against the welterweight champion, Carmen Basilio. In July. Robinson, who regained the title from Gene Fullmer a week ago,
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    Lock icon IRISH SOCCER
    28 14 Results of last night's Irish football matches were: Irish League City Cup: Coleraine 4 Ballymena United 0; Distillery 6 Glenavon 2; Portadown 2 Linfleld 2. Reuter
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    Lock icon BOUSFIELD LEADS WITH 140
    77 14 KEN BOUSFIELD, former British match play and stroke play champion, leads afte r two rounds of the Dunlop £2,690 90-holes golf tournament on the Southport course with a total of 140 (70-70). In second place is Angel Miguel, 28 year old Spaniard, who scored a 71
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    Best workout by old Majula
    504 15  -  ALLAN LEWIS K.L. TRACK HEAVY-NO OUTSTANDING GALLOP HE CLOCKS 39 3 /s FOR 3F-FASTEST TIME OF MORNING By •JHERE was no track work of any value at Kuala Lumpur this morning because the tracks are heavy after plenty of rain during the past two days.
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    Lock icon PRICE OF SOCCER STAR-$M750,000
    168 15 rIE River Plate Soccer Club has put a 10.000.--000 Pesos (M 5750.000) j price tag on its coveted inside forward Enrique Omar Sivori. it was re- ported m Buenos Aires yesterday. Juventu.s and Milano of Italy and Atletieo Madrid of Spain are reported to be interested
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    23 15 ASTON VILLA'S captain and inside left. Johnny Dixon. rceeivfan the FA. Cup ffoa the Quern. It toM Villa's seventh Cup victory a record.
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    Lock icon A COSTLY COLLISION
    50 15 photo. ASTON VILLA'S outside-left MeParland (striped shirt) collides with Manchester United goalkeeper Wood soon after the start of the F A. Cup final at Wembley on May 4. It proved costly for United. Wood was unable to keep goal, and Aston Villa won the final 2-1 Reuter
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    Kent return to form with 346-8 versus Middlesex
    392 15 I/^ENT, who have been struggling at the foot of the County Cricket Championship table for a number of seasons, had one of their best days for years against Middlesex at Lord's yesterday. They rattled up 346 for eight before declaring and then
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    RAMADHIN FOXES OXFORD BATSMEN
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