The Singapore Free Press, 17 May 1957

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper No. 11XXO. Singapore. Friday, May 17, 1957. Price 15 CU,
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    Lock icon 'ROYAL BOXERS RETIRE'
    134 1 Charles and Anne were too rough pRINCE Charles has found a sparring partner for his boxing lessons m Buckingham Palace Princess Anne. Prince Philip, disclosed this yesterday when he visited "Royal Arthur," the Royal Navy's "stone frigate'" at Corsham, Wiltshire where he served after the war as
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    Rubber price
    31 1 June first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened m Singapore this morning at 91] cents a lb., down quarter of a cent on last night's close. The tone was quiet.
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    Lock icon BIGGER H-BANGS ARE COMING SOON
    757 1 BIGGER H-BANGS ARE COMING SOON Secret stockpile is built up by Britain' H -warheads for new long-range missiles? BRITAIN WILL SOON EXPLODE BIGGER AND MORE POWERFUL HYDROGEN BOMBS "WHICH WILL MAKE THE FIRST TEST ON WED NESDAY TAME BY COMPARISON/ACCORDING TO THE LONDON PRESS TODAY. The News Chronicle claimed that
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    Lock icon 'Yes' to new oil link
    92 1 THE major oil companies of the West have agreed to build a new £300 million sterling pipeline m the Middle East, it was announced m London last night. It was the outcome of the conference this week of 17 oil companies m London, which decided
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    Lock icon War threat by Israel
    194 1 HTIIE Syrian Premier, Sabri Assali. said m Damascus yesterday that Israel "would kindle the flames of a Middje East war" if she attempted to send a test ship through the Suez Canal. This was followed by a statement by Hanoch Nenner, Mayor of Elath, Israel, that
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      70 1 Siitcken C Per*onal hygiene A solution down the The safest disSink destroys all infectant for all odours and a few purposes Spray drops of leypme on lEVPINE m your a cloth removes Home the regrease, freshing scent of Pinewoods Baby needs special Add a tablespoon protection. Wash to your Bath
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    Electronics guard the golden ball
    74 2 Orders exceeding: the million pound mark for robot brains were placed at the instruments, electronics and automation exhibition at Olympia in London when it opened last week. For the layman, most of the exhibits were far too technical, but' one, while being on the technical
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    S'pore first to try TWI methods
    297 2 S'pore first to try TWI methods CHINESE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SOON within In- dustry instructions will soon be given m the Chinese language to help supervisors and employees of Chinese firms to be more efficient m their jobs. The Industrial Training Officer. Mr. F. G. Tyson, told the Free Press that
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    SELECTING THE BEST STUDENTS
    250 2 Ultra-modern Spore THE Singapore Ministry of Education is waiting for a reply from the Carnegie Corporation of America on whether they have selected an expert from the corporation to train Colony teachers m the best modern testing methods. The Deputy Director of Education, Mr. R. E
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    'MUST ASK OR....'
    146 2 'MUST ASK OR....' rjiHE Singapore Deputy i Director of Education, Mr. R. E. Ince, yesterday warned that if Singapore school teachers are found to be engaged m giving extra tuition without permission from the Ministry, "disciplinary" action would be taken against them. Mr. Ince said that several teachers found doing
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    54 3 picture. After filming m "It E Happened m Rome." E June Laverick took a E trip to Cannes, m France, to represent E Britain m the beach E E parade. She wore this E butcher boy blue strip- E ed shirt, the tail tucked E neatly into a brief hip-
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    Lock icon Under escort home from Hong Kong
    54 3 A 38-year-old Chinese, Tyau Yee Onn, from North Borneo was yesterday sent back from Hong Kong to Jesselton to stand trial m a case involving $12,562 Malayan currency. He boarded a commercial airliner under the escort of Mr. A. R. Fairlei^h, deputy superintendent of
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    ABDUL IS IN A FIX
    181 3 ABDUL IS IN A FIX Called by Queen —has no trousers T<ENGKU Abdul Rahman, J- Malaya's Chief Minister, will call on Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace today expected to be the last day of the Malayan constitutional talks m London. Malayan sources said that the Palace summons to the Tengku
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    Lock icon GOVT. WINS CANAL VOTE
    576 3 Mr. Shinwell criticises America m big debate V.S. bids for U.C. oil' THE British Government last night won a majority of 49 in the House of Commons for its Suez Canal policy, defeating a Labour opposition censure motion after a two-day debate. The voting was I
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    40 3 ANNE HEYWOOD under contract to the Rank Organisation is a keen outdoor type, and enjoys taking exercise m London's Hyde Park whenever the opportunity permits Anne Heywood will be seen shortly m the Pinewood productions Checkpoint and Doctor at Large.
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    Lock icon Russian landing at North Pole
    44 3 Moscow Radio reported last night that two Soviet aircaft had landed at the North Pole. The purpose of tholr land- iti drl radio meteorological station which would transmit daily ports to one of I 'ions on the coast. Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, May 17, 1957. Opinion New peace guarantee
    203 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, May 17, 1957. Opinion New peace guarantee piRST feelings of dis- tress that Britain has found it necessary to trigger off a HellBomb explosion cannot but give way to an overwhelming sense of relief. Relief because this terrible weapon is m the hands ot Britain.
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    MALAYA LOSES ITS ICE AGE EXPERT...
    1153 4  - MALAYA LOSES ITS ICE AGE EXPERT... Adelaide Eastley «y iy|R. Tweedie is "going home" to England soon. Mr. M. W. F. Tweedie, director of Raffles Museum, that is. The man who probably knows more about Malaya's three Ice Ages than any other man alive is leaving Singapore regretfully. He came
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    BY THE WAY
    144 4  -  Beachcomber i'H f\N the massive doors of the Narkover School Library, where boys go to read the sporting news or to consult Ruff's Guide to the Turf, a notice has been pinned. It appeals to the boys to make use of the accredited school bookies instead of
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    CHAIN OF CLINICS FOR RURAL CHILDREN
    226 5 CHAIN OF CLINICS FOR RURAL CHILDREN Taking care of young teeth THE Government is opening a chain of dental clinics to cater for children in the rural areas of Singapore. A new dental clinic was opened at Buona Vista Road on April 1. Another clinic will be ready at the
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    Small? They are as planned
    162 5 rpHE new Singapore ImX provement Trust flats at Rochore Road and Albert Street have not been reduced m size through any alteration of original plans, the Free Press understands. Though officials declined to comment yesterday, it is believed there is no truth In the allegation
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    Lock icon TORNADO DEATHS IN TEXAS
    40 5 A tornado blasted through 50 or 60 homes m Silverton, Texas, early yesterday. At least 13 people were reported dead, and the police department at the nearby town of Memphis. Texas said 28 were killed. U.P.
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    Lock icon 'Do not buy Jap ships'
    53 5 VISCOUNT LONG, vicepresident of the national Chamber of Trade, told businessmen at Blackpool. England, that the answer to Japanese-built ships was: "Don't buy them, don't sell them." t He said at the chamber there that no craftsmen anywhere m the world could compare with those
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    Lock icon Epidemic deaths
    14 5 Cholera and smallpox epidomips killed 127 persons m Calcutta last week.- U.P.
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    46 5 picture. Sporting a specially designed hairstyle incorporating a ii*h with a fishing float is Britain's first national angling queen. Pictured at an angling exhibition at Somme barracks m Sheffield last week, this attractive girl has the most unappropriate name of Mis s Joan Swift. Paul Popper
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    47 5 Original costumes and dances will be a feature of the Portuguese NiKht at the Sea View Hotel. Singapore on June I The picture shows two young Malacca dancers portraying folk dances. Th« show m bring put on to raise funds for the St. Franris Institution of Malacca
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      164 6 MHHHMH HIAMIIIAKE by Lee I aSk and I'liil Davis I yeah? i| |*V6on-- J ampmimr!^ I TAIIZAX !»> Ed»ar Hire llurroiiglis THE SAINT by Leslie Charter!* JWE b> Hubbard I OWN 7UE PlACe\| W"TU£ PEBPECT SALESGIRL' fc^r-^T" ~~~/AC?fV WMAT^J^I'M SORRY, MISSSHOWBODV MISS JANE/— PM ilf/^S 1 fCONTEST WAS A^V IDEA—
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      454 6 BORN today, you have an actl alert ana imaginative mind which could be put to fine use m any number of w. Since you are never content to follow others who have gone be: you will, no doubt, strike out m some original path oi Investigation and introduce a new
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      177 7 LONDON. May 16. Previous Today RUBBER NO. 1 RSS c.i-f- 26% buyers 26% buyers European ports May 2 6% sellers 26% sellers June 26% buyers 2G4 buyers IM-ItRFR VW« DCfi O 26 2 SellerS 26^ RUBBER No- l RSS Spot 26% buyers 26% buyers 26% sellers 27
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      New York prices
      116 7 NEW YORK. May 16Previous Today TIN Straits spot 98.50 nom. 98.25 nom. TIN futures Standard Contract May 96 75 buyers 9675 buyers 98 12 sellers 97 50 .sellers June unquoted unquoted TONE: Barely steady SALES: Nil. Straits Contract May 97.75 buyers 97.25 buyers 98 37 sellers 97.75
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      43 7 NEW YORK. May 16Previous Today St Industrial* 501.98 504.84 20 Railroads ..146-13 147 49 40 Domestic Bond, 89 88 89.68 15 rtilltles 73 87 74 09 €5 Stocks Composite Averages 175.11 I1f.11 i4bore prices quoted in U.S. cents per lo.
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      113 7 J COPRA Philippines c if. U.K-/ North European delivered weight per Ion* ton May /June COPRA, Strait, c i.f UK/ North European delivered weight per long ton May/ June June/ July COCONUT OIL crude Straits cJf- UK North European In bulk per long ton May June
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      U.S. PEPPER
      51 7 Malabar /Lam pong spot 28 Vt. alloats 28% to 174, Malabar May shipment 27%, Lampong May shipment 26%. Sarawak Above prices quoted spot 28. afloats 26 May shipment 25*;, June shipment 24 a Muntok white spot 33 Vi, afloats 32 to 32. sellers ex-dock. m US. cents per
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    Out for the count
    62 7 I ifTHILE his mates continue rowing, La Salle high y W school student Jim McNulty collapses m the bow I of the four-man shell during the Catholic League Championship Race. Philadelphia. U.S.A. McNulty who collapsed from fatigue during the f race, was taken from the shell
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    HUNGARY-'I'M STARVING,' SAID THE DUCHESS
    216 7 HUNGARY-'I'M STARVING, SAID THE DUCHESS FIFTY-ONE U.S. tourists kept the Duke and Duchess of Bedford waiting more than an tiour for lunch. The Americans on a 17-day European tour were due at table m Woburn Abbey at 1.30. But THEY had been delayed by a reception at London's Mansion House,
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      104 7 Todays Radio Programme for Singapore 1 15 p.m. Potpourri; 130 Time Signal and New*; Potpourri Part 2. 5.00 London Studio Melodies. 5.00 ___catin« Archie; 6.00 Time Announcement and Programme Summary; 6.02 Cricket. All Malaya vs Hong Kong; 6.40 Mall Bag opened by Sarojlnl Lourdes; 6 J>5 Announcements and Singapore Share
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      42 7 SINGAPORE HIGH TIDES TODAY: 1.38 n.nr TOMORROW: 0.45 a.m. and 2.18 p.m. SUNDAY: 1.25 a.m. and 2.57 p.m. MONDAY: 2.06 a.m. and 3.38 pan. TUESDAY 2.52 a.m. and 4.25 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 3.46 a.m. and 5.21 p.m. THURSDAY: 4.54 a.m. and 6.25 p.m.
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    THE 'BLUEBELL WOOD' MURDER
    1398 8 THE 'BLUEBELL WOOD' MURDER JL JUi T IV JL Alt n fin? fiVAD-^IIVIIC Body is\ moved The young d letectives x WOMAN AIDS POLICE SEARCH A HELPFUL FRIEND ..:•<:■ O THE FINDER She saw a hand This is the way we went pREEN-EYED Muriel Gwendoline Maitland, a missing 35-year-old widow,
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    Intelligence Report
    1110 10  -  SEFTON DELMER STEPHEN CONSTANT TOM STACEY [by CONTRIBUTING WRITERS WHERE PEOPLE IN THE KNOW FIND THINGS JEYJDIH KNUR HIGH TIME THAT THE SOCIALISTS OF BRITAIN AND GERMANY GOT TOGETHER TO STRAIGHTEN OUT WHAT SOCIALISM REALLY IS. GAITSKELL AND HIS BRITISH COMRADES ARE PLEDGING THEIR PARTY TO A PROGRAMME
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    A PUSH BUTTON SHIP TO BEAT ICE
    206 10 A PUSH BUTTON SHIP TO BEAT ICE A NEW ship is going to crush a way through the NorthWest passage the "push button" way. The Canadian Government has ordered a 3400-ton ice-break-er which will be completely electrically controlled, to keep important merchant shipping and defence routes in the Arctic clear
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    U.S. wants to kill GATT
    122 10 GATT (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) having: served its purpose —m weakening the British Empire's preferential system the Americans now want to scrap it. For GATT is an obstacle m the way of the increases m tariffs and narlowing of import quotas a
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    School for photographers
    18 11 Striking study by Jerry Field which you could easily take yourself on your next outing.
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    Cameras and your hobby
    446 11  - Cameras and your hobby Jerry Field IT'S fairly safe to say A that practically everybody has some kind of pet hobby whether it's collecting rare stamps and coins or just old fishing hats and string! And we've always felt that one of the nicest things about photography is the way
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      316 11 /the tug^P? f THAT Aj >Wew\ to JL. CCA fwBmig CHAPTER SIX— PIRATE ISLAND. AS quickly as they could they turned round and tried to escape, but it was too late, for the __^^fr pirate ship was almost on top of thorn. Timothy jttf could see the deck crowded, with
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      252 11 (II KS A( KOSS 5 A saint a t last m want of a 1 Pipes ran inside <B>. c rin J. V\, 4 Vigorous greeting, we hear J g. ca .J ust n ce h rny jV- A y 4> 7 Walks on the ships deck 8 A nake
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    Lock icon INDIA ACCEPTS PLANS, AID OF UK INDUSTRIES
    285 12 TIIH Indian Government basreleased details for foe development 1 of heavvmachinery manufacture durin« Iv- second l.vcyeai phui m xvhil-li British and Soviet inlm-sls arc playing a predominanl part. The announcement said: "The Government decided that heavy structural fabricating work plate and vessel, shop
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    Lock icon Peking exports dwindle
    238 12 Peking exports dwindle E IJED CHINA has m E E IV recent weeks lift- E E ed its Bamboo Curtain E to reveal a nation be- E E set by unemployment. E food shortages, con- flicts among the E masses and paralysing bureaucracy. E In a series of frank E
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    69 12 Mr. Ngo Dinh Mtiu. brother and political adviser to Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, stands at attention as Admiral Felix B Stump, Comman-der-in-Chief. Pacific and U.S. Pacific Fleet, salutes during the firing of guns at a ceremony held m honour of the visitor outside the admiral's Hawaii headquarters, at Honolulu.
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    Lock icon IS JAPAN'S TWO-YEAR BOOM ABOUT TO END?
    235 12 IS JAPAN'S TWO-YEAR BOOM ABOUT TO END? Hill AP ...featuring news Dill k and views < lULVli about Asia today THE Tokyo correspondent J of the London Financial Times said that the Japanese economy, "riding the crest of a two-year-old boom, is beginning to show definite signs of strain." In
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    Lock icon Rail expansion in Red China
    31 12 Communist China has reported the completion of .survey work for double tracking the vital PekingHankow railway from Hankow to Chinsehow, a distance of 485 kilometres. U.P.
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    Lock icon To tour Red China
    22 12 Former French Premier Edgar Faure and Mme. Faure have left ParLs for a tour of Rod China.- A.P.
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    Lock icon New P.I. airliner
    16 12 A Vickers Viscount turbo-prop airliner has delivered to the Philippines Air Lines. A.P.
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    Lock icon S. Vietnam confident
    48 12 r>RESII)FNT Nko Dinh Diem of South Vietnam said I m New York that his country's army, although one-third the size of the Communist forces m North Vietnam, could hold back any attack lons enough for aid to come from the South-East Asian Treaty nations. A.P.
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      Lock icon Devaluation of rupiah is expected
      188 12 Devaluation of rupiah is expected CONTINUED sagging of Indonesia's gold and foreign exchange reserves has led to speculation in Jakarta that devaluation of the rupiah cannot be put off much longer. The present official exchange rate is slighU} under four rupiahs for one Malayan dollar, hut on the open market,
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      40 12 Pakistan Premier H. S. Suhrawardu told a joint session of the Philippines S.cnate and House of Representatives, "J have come to you not only as a friend hut as a brother." He rcas given a minute- long standing ovation U.P.
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      36 12 The Premier of Japan, Mr. Nobiusuke KLshl plans to visit Ceylon on May 28. He Will spend three days there m a tour which will include visits to India, Pakistan, Burma, Slam and Formosa. A. P.
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      28 12 The Rockefeller Foundation of New York has announced a U*****,000 appropriation m support of the Centre of A m erican Studies to be established at Tokyo University.- Reuter
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      37 12 Indonesian Deputy Army Chief of Staff, Colonel Gatot Subroto, famed for helping to crush the Communist revolt m Indonesia nine years ago, has left Jakarta as leader of the nations first military viission to Red China. U.P.
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      27 12 India will export an additional 50.000 tons of suit to Indonesia. India has previously contracted to export 50.000 tons of salt through the State Trading Corporation. U.P.
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      33 12 Miss Yu Yen-pei became the first Chinese girl born on the mainland to take a Formosan husband when she was married to Mr. Fang Shih-yu m the southern city of Tainan- .Formosa. U.P.
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    The doctor becomes an author
    582 13 The doctor becomes an author JYJY stocky, smiling host stood on the porch of his rambling home m Chislehurst, Kent, and repeated my final question. "Will I go back to being a doctor?'' he enquired of himself, gravely. "No, thank you, I prefer being a writer." Dr. Gordon Ostlere— alias
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    Fiction Shelf
    178 13  -  Philip Oakes by SHADOW OF TIIF MOON. By M. M. Kav c. Longmans. Mammoth historical liorvel (632 pages) about the Indian Mutiny. Heroine is raven-haired Winter de Balesteros, betrothed to the corrupt Commissioner of Lunjore, but m love with dashing Captain Alex Randall, and coveted by wicked Lord
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    Book of the Week
    207 13 MOMENT OF DESTINY, edited by Wallace Brorkway (Alvin Redman. lGs). TN the life of every great man, there is a moment of crisis, and the decisive act arising from such a crisis represents the highest level of action of which he is capable. In this book,
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    Kingsferry looks best in a weak Cl. 5 field
    267 14 Kingsferry looks best in a weak Cl. 5 field KJNGSFERRY, even with a 13-lb penalty, looks the best of a weak Class 5, Div. 1 sprint field. Kingsferry has more rivals than on the first day when he won, but I doubt if they are any better. Kingsferry won by
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    DRAWN CUP TIE
    17 14 Distillery and Linfleld dr.'W 1-1 m their Irish ;ue City Cup tie played yesterday.
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    THEY WILL NOT START
    33 14 rpHE following horses will not start tomorrow: Mysterious and Trow Hill. Geifang Star is a doubtful starter. A decision, whether he 'runs or not, will be given tomorrow morning.
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    TUFTON FANCIED ON HIS EASY WIN IN DIV TWO
    222 14  - TUFTON FANCIED ON HIS EASY WIN IN DIV TWO ALLAN LEWIS __^^^_r^__rl^_i m i _____________L____-__^ mwBmmmmWJi npUFTON, an easy winner m Div. 2 over seven furlongs the first day, is my selection for the main race, a 9f handicap for Class Four, Div. One horses, at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. Tufton
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    Performer II is better over 9-furs
    258 14 Performer II is better over 9-furs BRIGHT SUN, Argentina, Performer 11, Quickly and Maha Ranee look the pick of the Class 4, Div. 2, nine furlongs race. Bright Sun, second to Tufton over seven the first day, gets an extra Argentina. fourth m that race goes up 11--lb and could
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    Cliona has won a similar race
    245 14 CLIONA, who missed her first race over If., is my selection for the Cl. 5, Div. 2 rac c over 9f. Cliona won her first start over S l 2 f. at Ipoh, then finished sixth to Siapa Tahu over 9f. for which she
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    Lock icon FIFTEEN FOR OAKS TRIAL
    55 14 Fifteen final acceptors for the Oaks Trial Stakes for three-year-old fillies over one mile and four furlongs at Lingfield Park on May 25 are: Almeria. Tarbert Bay, High Ceiling, Nagaika. Pilgrim's Cloak, Midnight Press. Crotchet. Alor Star, Sarcelle. Misbehave, Lobelia. Our Girl. Stoneborer. Sijui and Zelica.
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    JOHN SILVER CAN TAKE THIS EVENT
    206 14 JOHN SILVER CAN TAKE THIS EVENT PICKING the winner of Cl. 5. Div. 2, 6F. is a problem. John Silver's race form would not win anything, but I think he ha s improved a lot since his last race. I could be wrong. Grandeur was second to Film Studio II
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    SATELLITE SHOULD WIN APPRENTICES RACE
    177 14 APPRENTICE riders get the opportunity .to show their ability over nine furlong s in the Class 5. Div. 3 event. With thi.s m mind, I am going for Satellite, fifth behind Pepper Dealer m the first race on Wednesday, and who is a division higher
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    With 5-lb less Film Studio can complete a double
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