The Singapore Free Press, 25 May 1957

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1 4 The Singapore Free Press
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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Malayan Own Family Paper No. *****. Singapore. Saturday, May 25, 1957. Price 15 Cts.
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    Lock icon E. GERMAN REVOLT
    134 1 'It's only a matter of tinted says political leader A MA OR UPRISING" m East Germany against Russian occupation was predicted today by a West German political leader m Detroit, MichiE B an Wilhelm W. Schuctz, political adviser to the minister for all German affairs m the
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    Lock icon 30,000 TROOPS PATROLLING RIOT CITY
    626 1 30,000 TROOPS PATROLLING RIOT CITY Formosa complies with U.S. demand for an apology and compensation Feelings up AMERICA has demanded of her Nationalist Chinese ally an apology and compensation for yesterday's outbreak of anti-Ame-rican rioting: and arson m Taipeh. The Nationalist Government promptly complied. Meanwhile order has been restored m
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    Vote Bill for U.K.
    113 1 rE Singapore Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, disclosed this morning that the draft ot the pro- d citizenship bill designed U) hre voting rights to about aliens had Beni to the Colonial Office for consideration. He s^id this m an interview with the Free Press
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    A Towkay disappears
    186 1 POLICE are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a Singapore businessman from his Malacca hotel room since Hay 15. Yesterday they took custody of his personal belongings contained In two bags found m his room at the Central Hotel. The Misting MM is stated to be Be Xi
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    'NO BIG STICK RULE'
    156 1 'NO BIG STICK RULE' HTHE Liberal Socialist Party's annual delegates conference will tomorrow call upon the people to resist any form of dictatorial practice on the part of future Governments In Singapore. A resolution to this effect will be moved by the chairman of the party, Mr. C. C. Tan.
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    POLICE RAID S'PORE HOUSE
    43 1 The secret societies branch of the CID raided a house m New Market Road at 4 a.m. today and detained five suspects for Interrogation. The nolice also recovered flvr parangs, three met ii pipes and a motor cycle chum.
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    POLICE TO PULL DOWN THE P.A.P. POSTERS
    397 2 POLICE TO PULL DOWN THE P.A.P. POSTERS Party plasters its embJem^wej^mgapo^ They're illegal, says Mr. Claque HAS the People's Action Party taken over the functions of the 11 traffic police m the Tanjong Pagar Division where its candidate Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, is contesting the by-election to the Legislative Assembly?
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    Untitled
    25 2 Another insignia seen pasted on the back of E a traffic sign which E E says, "Give way to the E traffic on your right."
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    PUBLIC FORUM OF ARTS BODY
    48 2 The Indian Fine Arts Society is to hold a public forum this evening at 7 p.m. at the Shell Theatrette m Collycr Quay. The subject of the forum is "The Place of the Arts and Culture m the Development of a Malayan Nation."
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    AUSSIE FLU SERUM
    220 2 AUSSIE FLU SERUM Singapore hopes for samples SINGAPORE medical au- thorities are anxiously waiting for more details on the new vaccine Australians are working on to combat the influenza that is sweeping Malaya. Working on the cultures sent from here. Australian bacteriology experts have already reported that the virus is
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    Lock icon Soviet 'peace' talks
    46 2 The official Soviet news agency Tass last night confirmed reports that Russia had invited a West German Government delegation to Moscow lor talks "to develop and improve relations" between the two countries. The agency said the talks would start on June 15. Reuter
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    MODEL BUILDINGS AT HOBBIES' SHOW
    140 2 rFHE Singapore Rotary A Club's hobbies exhibition from Tuesday next will feature some of the mast impressive models ever to have been on show m Singapore. Stating this to the Free Press a spokesman of the organising committee of the week-long exhibition to be held
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    Lock icon Plea to U.K.: 'Be neutral'
    192 3 A WAY OUT OF THE COLD WAR Mr. C. Rajagopalachari, former Governor-General of India, last night appealed to Britain to declare herself "neutral m the cold war' 1 which he said was "worse than a hot war. He told the inaugural session of the three-day
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    Lock icon Nuclear strength
    38 3 Mr. Harold Vance, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission <AEC> .^ud m York last night that the United States had developed nuclear weapons equal m force to at least 20 million tons of T.N.T. Reuter
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    Lock icon Britain-old and senile?
    184 3 Britain -old and senile? SIR Harold Caccia, the British Ambassador, told Americans m Boston yesterday Empire Day that Britain was "just as proud of our expansion as you are of yours." Speaking at a breakfast given by the Mayor of Boston, Sir Harold said Britain was often falsely accused of
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    Lock icon HE WAS FISHING ON GOLF COURSE
    67 3 A golfer on the local course m Killarney, Ireland, finished his game yesterday with a poor score, but a good catch of fish. He muffed his shot on the 18th hole and sent the ball into a lake -straight on the nose of a
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    Lock icon SYRIAN ARMY OUT OF JORDAN
    241 3 SYRIA'S announced withdrawal of her troops from Jordan coincided yesterday with renewal of sharp unoflicial Egyptian attacks on King Hussein's Government. Khaled Mohietiin, leftist editor of the Cairo newspaper Al Messa, wrote bitterly that Syrkt was asked to pull out of Jordan because Jordan, hkv
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    Lock icon —and into Israel
    105 3 —and into Israel 1 OVRIAN forces dis »5 guised as farmers tried to take posses- sion of a hill m the Banias area just m- side Israel on Tues- day but were beaten off after a minute battle, Israeli sources claimed today. The report, by tele- phone froth the Sheaar
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    Lock icon Six eggs keep his car in the garage
    33 3 Mr. B. S. Martin has temporarily laid up his car In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, because a thrush built its nest m the steering mechanism. Reuter
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      139 3 1............ I CAPITOL 2nd M NITE TONIGHT I Outstrips H%Z lap fl Am m Ji Wy* *Jp "COLOURFUL TOKYO J*f SHAWS ffiMj* productions r*// 7^ jUrr H present JMHft M JSm^ 4k i 9 H I A\ m MANDARIN with ENGLISH SUBTITLES &m ■mf eastmancolour Y^ ■Jy THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
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      48 3 Now Mr Gromyko and Mr Dulles, how about starting our European inspection zons here 0 Q p recognise the price you're charging on a purely de fgcto basis and I'm paying under protest 1 We must maintain our regimental traditions, all missiles will be blancoed and warheads dubbined
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    SATURDAY. May 25, 1957. Asia's will for peace
    8 4 SATURDAY. May 25, 1957. Asia's will for peace
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    194 4 ]i| AJOR aim of Asia today is to preserve national freedom and thus be m a position to set about the staggering task of raising the standard of living of the people. And determination to achieve this end has found expression m two ways alliances with the West against communism,
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    I TRAVEL TOURIST TO RUSSIA
    1296 4  - I TRAVEL TOURIST TO RUSSIA ANNE SHARPLEY Begins today the fascinating story of an ordinary visitor to Russia who went off the beaten trach... FbT 1 TT WAS difficult to believe that I was really m Russia until, with a sudden stub of cold and exasperation (an exasperation I was
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      42 4 We must CLEAR EVERYTHING u> the Bare Walls, so we are Dteposinc all for the Price of a Sonf at the CLOSING DOWN of our RETAIL DEPARTMENTS at 71, Hitfh Street. Don t Miss It at BAJAJ Textiles, Limited. 71. HIGH STRFKT.
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    Lock icon IT'S NOT A THREAT TO THE COLONY HEALTH
    261 5 IT'S NOT A THREAT TO THE COLONY HEALTH Medical chiefs give the facts about polio |>OLIO is a fairly widespread virus infection In Singapore. Hui both City Council and Government medical authorities do not think it calls for priority of control over tuberculosis or diphtheria. There were 42 cases of
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    A FISH WITH BRAINS
    175 5 A FISH WITH BRAINS Final touches to Chinese painting rHE final act of a carp I (fish i transforming into a dragon after jumping through a gate will be performed today at the new Cultural Centre of the Singapore Adult Edu- cation Council m Fort Canning Rise. But the audience
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    LAST LAP
    98 5 rpilF KAMALA CXLB E E JL of Singapore hopes E to build its new club- E house in Balestier E E Road before the end of E E this year. E Mrs. K. C. George, E the newly elected pre- E sident, said yesterday E that vlans for
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    Low prices in tin, rubber hit land deals
    255 5 Low prices in tin, rubber hit land deals THE low prices of rubber and tin are affecting: I the land and property market m Singapore. 1 A leading land valuer and auctioneer in Singapore yesterday described the market as very "quiet and dull" He added: "There have been very few
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    SHOW FOR JAMBOREE FUNDS
    96 5 SHOW FOR JAMBOREE FUNDS A VARIETY show to raise funds for sending four Sea Scouts to the International Boy Scouts' Jamboree m the U.K. m August is to be held at the Badminton Hall tonight at 8.30 p.m The benefit has boon organised by Mr. Kingsley Morrando of Radio Malaya.
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    49 5 C Tempelhof Airport was. the scene for the Armed i 1- Forces Day display by the American garrison in C shows the nickel-plated I- helmets of the I'.S. Infantry flashing in the sun ■I during the display. The reflections are those of cameramen and V LPs in the grandstands.
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      227 6 3IA.\BnAKE by Lee Falk ami Phil Bavin M[ J IF-mE»:iW6OP6AWBrrA JH| TW6 MAN THERE'S SAMBITA-^\ /SO I>NPEPSrAh4P MIS R^Sfe^^n^^ 6^ M^l^M» JV^fee^A^' PWILAPOR'S KiEITT TO IT U PAR WAKJTIN6 TO ■> fiP^B X^fl B« fl t^' 0 IJ V X^^ppg^s.y TABZAN by Ed^ar Hire Burroughs THE SAl^l r Leslie Charteris
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      470 6 BORN today, you may find the battle between emotion and the ntellect a difficult one. There is a i strain of the mystic m you men, a s f well and this combination makes for r a rather complicated personality. First you must learn to under- stand yourself, and then
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      180 7 LONDON, May 24. Previous Today RUBBER No 1 RSS cJ.f. 26?» buyers 26 S, nom. European ports May 2 6'i sellers Juno 26* buyers 26 3 buyers KI-RRFR N« 1 R<5<! K™# £S T% 26 2 Sellei S RUBBER No- 1 RSS Spot 26 buyers 26 buyers
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      New York prices
      122 7 NEW YORK. May 24Previous Today TIN Straits spot 98.12 nom- 98.00 nom. TIN futures Standard Contract May 96 75 buyers 97 00 buyers 98.00 sellers 98.12 sellers June unquoted unquoted TONE. Steady. SALES: Nil Straits Contract May 97 75 buyers 98 00 buyers 98.25 sellers 98 37
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      49 7 NEW YORK, May 24Previous Today 30 Industrials 504 02 504 02 20 Railroads 146 24 145 86 40 Domestic Bonds 89 36 89 24 15 Utilities 74 38 74 36 65 Stocks Composite Averages 175 78 175 67 Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per lb.
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      U.S. PEPPER
      53 7 Malabar/Lam pong spot 29' i, afloats 29 to 2&\, Malab.or May shipment 28. Lampong May shipment 27 4, Sarawak shipment 26'^, Jurr shipment 25' i. Muntok white spot 33v 4. afloats It 4 to 32, sellers exdock- spot 28 afloats 27 4. May Above prices quoted m U.S.
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      111 7 LONDON. May 24. Previous Today COPRA Philippines elf. U.K./ North European delivered weight per long: ton May/June $168 sellers $1674 buyers COPRA. Straits c if. UK North European delivered weight per long- ton May/ June £63 4 buyers £63 nom. £64 sellers June July £63 buyers
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    Thieves make a £20,000 'stop-go' gold robbery
    192 7 A GANG snatched a hundredweight of gold last week m the time it takes a traffic light to change from red to green. They came up behind a British European Airways van halted at a cross- roaas near London Airport, ripped open the
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    Moment before death crash
    157 7 THE Marquis de Portaro, the Spanish sportsman who was killed recently when his car hur- j| tied into a crowd of spectators during the Mille <- Miglia road race m Italy, is seen m the picture on V the left at the wheel of his Ferrari
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    Police dog stolen
    104 7 T>OLICE tracker-dog i Senta was kidnapped by the man she was tracking. The dot, a three-year-old Alsatian and veteran of many arrests, went with her handler to a house m Hutton. Essex, England when thieves were reported. Senta and handler Sergeant G. Hare chased a man across
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      3 7 *s< SHIP MAERSK
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      152 7 Sensational victory of MOVADO at the 1956 Timing Competition of the Swiss Official Neuchatel Observatory iK^l^lS^l Movado heads the list m tht IKSP^A "V.\ Movado breaks all records ff y or Performance regularity of P^N Movado is awarded the "Prix J&& ;^.de Sene" for the four best Two «b«st sellers*
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      54 7 SINGAPORE I HIGH TIDES I TODAY: 8.09 p.m. E TOMORROW: 8.52 a.m. E and 8. 45 p.m. MONDAY: 9.41 a.m. and 920 p.m. E TUESDAY: 10 27 a.m. E and 9.54 p.m. E WEDNESDAY: 11.11 a.m. and 10.31 p.m. E THURSDAY: 11 56 a.m. and 1108 p.m. FRIDAY: 12.41 a.m.
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      125 7 Today's Radio Programme for Singapore 1.15 pm. Saturday Date; 1.3 C Time Signal, News and Singapore Share Market Report; 1 4£ Saturday Date Part II; 2 1J Weekend Sport; 2.45 The Latin American Way; 3.00 At Youi Request presented by Geonrej Weeks; 3. 30 Juke Box Parade; 4.0 Lazy Afternoon;
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    Steve Winters and THE GOLDEN SCORPIONS
    941 8 Steve Winters and THE GOLDEN SCORPIONS OM EKLJDLKFJEOIKSLD .THE STORY SO FAR Steve Winters, the famous private deter Uve. la engaged by j i Singapore mUHonaire. Mr. han Ling, to investigate thefts from his godowns. Mr. Chan thinks a crook called the Golden j Scorpion Is behind the theft*. Steve,
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    Last week's winners
    60 8 THE winners of last week's colour-In contest (each of whom will receive a $5 prize in due course) are as follow.*: Miss Joan Hon (14) 9 Fort Canning Road, Singapore 6. Miss Siak So Wan (UVa), 279 Telok Blangah Road, Singapore. Master Peter Ng (14), 289-A Gcylang
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      222 8 Professor Oxford invites all children to take part m this SIMPLE PAINTING COMPETITION Isi PRIZE Junior Raleigh Cycle 2illl PRIZE Children's Swiss Watch :ird PRIZE Watercolour Painting Set and 25 consolation prizes of one dollar each. f) fl >CNo\ HERE ARE THE RULES READ THEM CAREFULLY Dear Boys Girls, cr
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      100 8 Colour— in contest With prizes tor you! POCKET-MONEY prizes Free Press. Cecil Street are offered for colour- Singapore 1. to reach her ins this scene with paints not later than Thursday crayons or chalks. nest. Age limit is 15. There are four prizes offered— each of 55 (two Name (Master/Miss)
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    FRIEND TO STAND BY YOU BEFORE GOD
    553 9  - FRIEND TO STAND BY YOU BEFORE GOD Rev. F. E. Keeble The Saturday sermon by tpHIS is a very common question and generally 1 speaking a question that is not very difficult o answer, so prone are we to have preferences wonder what your answers would be to the [uestion
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      137 9 1 §f\ f rt f^ y% /t\Y M&fe k you Connoi m. i 1 #0- mm rUSL TO iw Wf DDL p A DL'H l v^oWßßt.^BJl 4£cßmoK^^'''''«»s^BJßJßJ INFANT FEEDING K^'show 'm" WJ m nttW ag SfOU? r B^ Pi LACTOGEN is a correctly-balanced Infant Ypfl^lTj-jA^ f(XX k cnricheU by the
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      1100 9 JllllllllflllllllllllllllllllllllMllllllllMlllllllllllllllllllNlllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllirillllllllllllllllllll' 1 Sunday church t> announcements J CHURCH OF ENGLAND Church of St. Joseph (Bukit I Sembawang Sunday School (95 i n arM>< r-ithedral- 7am Timah Mass, semon 6 15, 715 Nemesu Avenue): 9 am. Sunday >ly Communion; 8 am. Sung and BJO am> School, icharist Parish Communion; Bt Joseph's
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      875 10 ■I Once more I have ;"8T f» p 1 S c f el i me how it is that it *> m H IIC3l l! r 3i„„ii, m i[]iiimimiiniimiHi'iiNi^ £3 onJ b e ONE WIN- j 1 IIIIJJIJ^JJJIJIII I IMIIV FOIIM I A I NER for EACH QUIZ. g GueSS
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    RUSSIAN BOXING STARS WILL SHINE -OR ELSE
    547 11  -  GEORGE WHITING By THE RUSSIANS, having mopped up more medals than anybody else m the Melbourne Olympics —they won 98 —are now slipping into top gear for 1957. First results of the current country-wide sports drive, wherein they have had several hundred thousand
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    SAWLF meet postponed
    50 11 OINGAPORE Amateur Weightlifting Federation's Combined Junior Weightlifting Championships, Mr. Bodybuilder and Junior Mr. Singapore competitions will now take place at the New World Park on July 6 and 7. They were originally scheduled to be held tonight and tomorrow, but were postponed because of the influenza epidemic
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    Lock icon JOHN LANDY'S RECORD IS THEIR TARGET TONIGHT
    210 11 JOHN LANDY'S world record of 3 mm. 58 for the mile will be the target tonight when four international milers each of whom has beaten four minutes, will meet five Amertcan challengers m the Annual Coliseum Relays at Los Ansel.s. The four internationals
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    Yorkshire match emphasises the Ramadhin menace
    293 11 Yorkshire match emphasises the Ramadhin menace WEST INDIES failed narrowly m their bid to dismiss Yorkshire a second time m 210 minutes at Sheffield yesterday and the match was left drawn. Set to make 301 to win m 210 minutes the County found the task beyond them and were forced
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    Lock icon Worcestershire score a dramatic win at Bristol
    505 12 Worcestershire score a dramatic win at Bristol RICHARDSON AND CRAVENEY SHOW GRAND FORM WITH the team tyl the first Test against the West Indies being chosen tomorrow, England's batsmen showed splendid form In the first-class cricket programme ending yesterday. Peter Richardson. Worcestershire's lefthand opening batsman, hit a century m 103
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    MAN ABOUT TOWN CRACKS 37
    506 12  -  ALLAN LEWIS By By MAN ABOUT TOWN (Paterson) was the outstanding worker at Bukit Timah this morning when he defeated Royal Worlington II (Barratt) by about ten lengths and ran three furtongs m 36 4/5. On this gallop Man About Town, who is now trained
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    Lock icon DAVIS CUP SHOCK FOR U.S.
    85 12 VENEZUELA'S national champion, Iyo Pimentel. caused a big shock at Caracas. Venezuela, yesterday when he beat Grant Golden 6-8, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 m the opening match of the second-round tie m the American Zone Davis Cup competition. The 23-year-old Venezuelan was m command all the
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    Lock icon LINGFIELD SUCCESS FOR THE QUEEN AND SIR WINSTON
    128 12 LINGFIELD SUCCESS FOR THE QUEEN AND SIR WINSTON THE Queen's Doutelle yesterday won the DtTby Trial Stakes run over one mile and a half at Lingtield Fane after a photo finish. Mr. C. W. Bell's Alcanas second with Colonel B. Hornung's Sun Charger third. Ten ran. Doutelle won by a
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      416 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. ANNOUNCEMENT 29 Word* $6 (minimum). AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION, Singapore. Poliomyelitis Vaccine All Australian parents resident m Singapore irbo wish their children to be innoculated with Australian produced vaccine requested to contact the Australian Commission before Hth June. 191 SITUATION WANTED < 20 Words $2 Mm.)— Box SO cts. extra.
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      50 12 FURNITURE REMOVING is a job for €XP€KTS! Many hands make light work and packing by a staff of experts saves breakages. PHONE Glassware, china, heavy furniture travel m maximum safety when 3 2241 packed by Transport Storage. FURNITURE REMOVALS ESTIMATES FREE ON REQUEST. TRANSPORT STORAGE LTD 173 CECIL STREET SINGAPORE
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  • THE FREE PRESS Saturday MAGAZINE
    • Title Section
      Masthead
      10 1 THE FREE PRESS Saturday MAGAZINE Singapore, Saturday, May 25, 1957.
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      THEY START DANCING AT AGE OF FOUR
      1139 1 up and strikes an intense pose, her bare feet flat on the ground, her knees flexed, ahe begins a lively dance winding in and out of a circle, arms rigidly outstretched, fingers tense and trembling, and eyes staring into space. She stamps her
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      THE CAPTAIN FLED FROM A PHANTOM OF THE SEA
      1468 2  - THE CAPTAIN FLED FROM A PHANTOM OF THE SEA ROBERT PITMAN by THREE SHIPS AND A LEGEND... WAS THERE A ROCK LOOMING IN THE ATLANTIC? WITH every canvas taut and timbers shuddering the tfreat sailing ship swept on through the nitfht. America's Atlantic coast was more than 1,000 miles behind.
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      Speaking for myself
      417 2  -  JOHN BEHAGUE Saturday talking points by .\i\w race <>i ma niacs is being horn m Singapore. We already have our gyrating trisfaa and taximen who defy death a dozen times a day for the sake of a fare; our idiot eve! ists who long ago were given
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      Used an anaesthetics in 200 A.D.
      673 3  - Used an anaesthetics in 200 A.D. PELHAM GROOM By MANY of the origins of Malayan charms, amulets, and medicines are lost m antiquity. I have already mentioned the debased languages which are used m incantations, some of which because they have been handed down from father to son are now
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    • FILM PREVIEWS
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        It's French and saucy
        336 4 "AH, LA-LA CHERIE" is an unfortunate title for a most amusing comedy. It is a French film, and it is m French, but the English sub-titles are exceptionally good, and if you have forgotten every French word you ever learnt it won't matter at all. Penny
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        INCREDIBLE
        211 4 "CTORM Over Arabia" is a Zaracky type of film with rascally Chieftans, galloping horses, supercillious camels, French gun-runners and m Pedro Armendariz as Igricheff, who doesn't much I mind which tribe is chieftan of as long as there is a tribe to follow him into battle. This is not
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        HILARIOUS AND WILD COMEDY
        505 4 HILA RIOUS AND WILD COMEDY THIS has been one of those rare weeks when a film critic wishes that he had twice the space available. Excellent films. First class entertainment and very very little to spoil the enjoyment. M.G.M's "The Happy Road" is rollicking comedy about a little boy and
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        Lady in White
        298 4 Lady in White THE "Feminine Touch" is one of the most sincere films I have ever seen. It is the graphic and moving story of a nurse's life from the day she first arrives at her training school. Here with a g*oup of women it is possible to show the
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  • FREE PRESS RACE DAY Special
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      5 1 FREE PRESS RACE DAY Special
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      ALL THE LATEST SELECTIONS
      373 1 Saturday, May 25, 1957. SINGAPORE STANDARD WINDSOR LAD SCRUTINEER WONDER KID WONDER KID Valiant Knight Supremo Dinkum Dinkum ACROSTIC MONEYSMATE Monpysmat© Acrostic Golden Melody Golden Melody STARALA BEECHNUT Gunong Rapat Full House Beechnut Starala, PEARL CITY OPERA II Opera II Joe's Tipple First Trick Pearl City
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      Consistent Brilliant Scholar for main event
      737 1  - Consistent Brilliant Scholar for main event ALLAN LEWIS -By BUTE ICE is an unlikely starter m the main race at Bukit Tiraah this afternoon. Camer will ride BRILLIANT SCHOLAR and he now becomes my selection. In view of his consistent form and what Camer told me after the Spring Cup,
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      PROBABLE STARTERS AND RIDERS
      1313 2 RACE 1-2.15: CLASS 1 DIV. 2-6 FURS. 1. 310 POTENTATE 4y cheg (Tan, Jansen Fong Stable) Hobbs 9.00 Jtowellj 2. 326 METROSTAR II 3y bam (A. Shaik Ahamad) £>a niels Franklin 3. 125 WONDER KID 4y brirg (Wonder Stable) Hobbs 812 *™£J 4. 226 FIREBIRD «y
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      TRACK
      530 2 RACE ONE POTENTATE: 23-5-57 Drew attention with 3P m 37 with Wonder Kid. METROSTAK II: 21-5-57 Went over 3F m 39 Vi with Chanticleer. WONDER KID: 23-5-57 Was going better than Potentate In 3P m 37. FIREBIRD: 23-5-57 Went over 3P m 39 2/5 with Nicol Wings. SUPREMO: 23-5-57
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      FORM OF ALL HORSES ENGAGED TODAY
      917 3 JOE'S TIPPLE: 21-5-57 Went over IF In 42 4/5; 23-5-57 Went attractively over 3P In 40 3/5. HONEYBIRD: 21-5-57 Was kept m hand over 3F m 43 with Boy Oaryth; 23-5-57 Wai going better than Credit Balance m 3P m 39. WEEM: 21-5-57 Was
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    • BRILLIANT SCHOLAR IS THE CHOICE
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        Stablemate Blue Ice a doubtful starter
        373 4 S table mate Blue Ice a doubtful starter By TRESPASSER PIC KING the winner of the main event— the mile handicap for Class 1, Div. 1 horses— at Bukit Timah today, first clay of the Singapore Turf l "Inn's May-June meeting, is a hard task. Six horses— Flying Princess, Brilliant
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        Vote for Weem in main Class 2 mile handicap
        348 4 Vote for Weem in main Class 2 mile handicap THE mile handicap for Class 2. Div. 1 horses (Race Four) Ls another open event. I give my vote to Weem on his showing against Brilliant Scholar and Gallant Turk, both of whom are now m Class One. Weem does his
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        Pride of Phoenix is today's best
        474 4 PRIDE OF PHOENIX re- I gained his form at Bukit Timah last month when he scored a clever win m Div. Three over a mile. Though up a division, he is nicely weighted at 8.06 (3-lb less than when he won) and should score
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        ACROBAT GETS HIS IDEAL TRACK
        142 4 AOROBAT gets a track to his liking and should make a good bet m Race Five. At Penang earlier m the month he was beaten by a neck by Timberlane m a Div. 2 sprint. The danger is Coffee Exporter, who won m Div Four
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        DRAGON SEED IS FANCIED AGAINST GLORY
        208 4 DRAGON SEED IS FANCIED AGAINST GLORY DKAGON StfcD proved himself too good for Class Three when he carried 9.04 to a twolength win at Penang earlier this month. On that performance Dragon Seed can be given a winning chance m Race Seven. Though sent up to the top division m
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