The Singapore Free Press, 1 July 1957

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1 16 The Singapore Free Press
  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper No. *****. Singapore, Monday, July 1, 1957. Price 15 CU
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  • 204 1 LABOUR GETS A KNOCK 'Play straight' say Lib-Socs THE Liberal Socialists today served notice on le Labour Front Coalition overnment not to play irty politics but to go raight or face stiff oppotion." The secretary general of le party, Mr. c. K. Tan, lid his executive commitie, which met last
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  • 15 1 yThree ships. Crane. Teleiichus and Alert are in the ingapore Naval Base today.
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  • 181 1 HUNT FOR ARMED MEN AFTER ROBBERY Man is held outside Lint's house rHE Singapore police have set up road blocks and tight security check-up i in progress In Geylanjt allowing the arrest of an rmed man outside tho :hief Minister. Mr. Lim few Hock's house in Sims kvrnue at 9.30
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  • 25 1 July nrst grade rubUr lycra fob. opened In Sinpore this morning «U 7 cents a lb., unchanged Fridays close. The tone is quiet.
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  • 330 1 STRIKERS: LIM STEPS IN TO KEEP THE PEACE 7 IS? i Now senior customs men take over at the airoort Unrest is spreading «J*HE Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, who returned to the Colony during the week-end has already begun talks to end the present industrial unrest. There
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  • Article, Illustration
    47 1 I Introducing 19-year-old Miss Angela Smith, who arrived in Singapore last night by BOAC Britannia. She is Britain's first Cotton Queen, and is on a four- month tour of the Commonwealth to boost the British Cotton industry. Angela leaves on Tuesday for Sydney. Her statistics are 34-21-34.
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    20 2 Mr. Achmad General in when his w in the Cole Mr. Nat ana in Neio Yoi Mrs. Natant tariagart I
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  • 416 2 COMPOUND USED FOR ALL NEW ROADS Nicoll Drive just rubberised Old highways resurfaced I>rUBKR is being uwd In the construction of all nvw roads and the resurfacing of old ones by the Public Works Department in Singapore, A "very approximate" estimate given by a roads engineer in the Public Works
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  • Article, Illustration
    37 2 f Red- haired top AmrriJ can night dab singer, 4 Pamela Curran, who is to play a featured role in the n<<k Set, a 20th Ccnturj-Fox Cinemascope comedy which co-Mars S|)«'ti--4 c«r Tracy ami Ka- therinp Hepburn
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  • 103 2 r yUK Seng Chi Chinese School in Lorong 27-A, Oeylang, will not be cloyed after ail. Tlir,- school's management had been asked by the owner to vacate the place by today. The .school has 140 pupils and live teachers. Hut, Mr. Soh How Sian, supervisor of
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  • 32 2 Tho keel of what is claim ed will ho the world's largest whaling ship— a 45,000 tonner—haa been laid at a Russian shipyard, according to Mo.sc ow Radio Reuter
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  • 56 2 T EARN to friendship races and ci of friendship your homes, misled by 1 whose object distrust, hatr fear among i Singapore. Mr. E. M. Deputy Traffi< the Singapc Board gave th farewell dinn( honour at Restaurant, B More than staff of the Department a party. They and
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  • 141 2 Jamboree cash sne r THE Singapore rontinx Kent of 15 scouts to the world jamboree to be liold in Button Coldfield Warwickshire, from Aug 1 to 12, has goi over its fin ancial trouble, The continent will leave Singapore •n (he VVillem Ruys on ■T"lv 12 The Deputy
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  • 447 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY July 1, 1957. Opinion USE THAT BROOM HHHE Increase In the number of mosquitos in Singapore Is very noticeable. Probably their presence is ail the more noticeable because of their almost complete absence in the past. Singapore has every right to be proud of the
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  • 876 4 What every woman wants? WRITES EVERY MONDAY of anyone concerned Somfl of the other ads were, frankly, dubiow., and made me wonder whether anyone ever answ<r< d -Such rubbish A> a/i example, v.hat do yon think of this? "Dollies Dilemma" Captive Cartoon Serial. Cruel Madame Domina and her
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  • 210 4 A haven for a refugee T»HAT recent bus crash in Oxford Street, London makes me ask the question: How Bri. I tish is London? Take one chain c group of people walk- ing down Oxford -street J A runaway No 4 mounts the pavement I to make its cruel, un-
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    • 28 4 New Goods. w Many Inteiestiny Items Have just Arrived t y>u v a iit to what haw n< S.P.H. de SILVA LTD. SINC.APOnE X LUMPUR IPOH AIRPORT SINGAPORE
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    • 91 4 JHA /|f modern This sensor younp mother knows mnfhprCwrfae o/ a Feedrite Wonder lllUllkGlb" tin by herder FEEDRITE I The Feedrite Wonder Baby M^^il feeder if approved and recom- \W SaasaßS fl mended by Doctors, Health J V'sUors and Mid-Wives because I UgjM kwps baby*, milk vv.un, right r3^l """"H.
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  • Article, Illustration
    123 5 gl Darvas and Julia the r famous American dance team opened their twoI week engagement in Sin- gapore to a packed rest- aurant over the weekend. I Julia, the attractive I auburn-haired partner, I charmed representatives lof the Press with her vivacity and high spirits and her "most fabulous" dress,
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  • 123 5 Man in London to seek gas engineers T<HE Singapore City Council will shortly apx point a gas engineer as its agent in London to canvass applicants to fill vacant posts in the local gasworks. His duties will be to encourage suitable candidates, either personally or through the influence of gas
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  • 69 5 THE Information Service of India has arranged for five films to be screened during this week at its premises in Raffles Place. They are: Tree of Wealth, Rajasthan, series 1 (Jaipur), Symphony of Life, Private Life of Silkworm, and Darjecling (colour). The films will be screened
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  • 97 5 THE Standing Committee for Housing and Town Planning of the Sibu Urban District Council has accepted a million-dollar plan for the council's lowcost housing scheme and the Sarawak Government's house ownership scheme ill the Bukit Lima area. The plan, made by the Superintendent of Lands and Surveys,
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  • 338 5 American move soon? A MERICAN officials in /v the Far East believe that there is a "probability" of settling the case of the mystery vessel the "stay-put forever" Hai Hsuan out of court before hearings begin later this month. The 7,223-ton ex-Liberty freighter has
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  • 116 5 rpHE Upper Serangoon X Community Centre i 3 to start Malay language classes, sponsored by the Adult Education Council. The classes under the supervision of Mr. Daniel E. Sundram, a member of the council, and Inche Abdul Rahman, president Jt the Malay Teachers' Union will be held in
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  • 57 5 HPHE .secretary of the Singapore Council of Women, Mr.s. Shlrln FoEd&r. will give a talk on thf "Purpose of Religion" at tho American Women's Club on Scots Road on Tuesday. Next morning .she will Rive a lecture at the YWCA headquarters in Collyer Quay on "Bahai
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    • 478 6 BORN today, you are one of those highly adaptable individuals who appear calm, efficient and pa tient even under the stress of serious i crisis. Your personal ambitions will b<achieved through slow and steady perseverance and you sincerely be- lieve in the adage that "If at first I you don't
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  • 98 7 I Two feet deep; IT was not all sunshine and blue skies in Britain last week. Most of the country admittedly sizzl- Z Z ed in a heatwave, but the little village of Camelford Z Z in Cornwall was battered by a storm of hailstones Z
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  • 70 7 PRODUCTS or one of Lincoln's latest industries canoe building are being shown at the Lincolnshire County Show in England as examples of county craft. Mr. G. Burkitt, a canoe designer and racing enthusiast, who builds the craft in an old boat-house at Bray ford Pool, says:
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  • 120 7 rUR people were taken to London Hospital with dog bites recently after an angry police dog attacked a crowd of youths and girls in Whitechapel Road, London. The dog, Rin Tin Tin, turned on the crowd only after a youth kicked it in the stomach.
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  • 111 7 1.15 Keep It Bright; 1.30 Time Signal and News; 1.45 Liberace and his Piano; 3.57 For Schools; 5.00 Children's Playtime; 5.30 The Singapore Six; 5.45 At the Hammond; 6.00 Time Announcement and Programme Summary; 6.02 Women's Half Hour; 6.30 The Music of Percy Faith; 6.55
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  • 42 7 French drivers who return to France from abroad with moe than about two gallons of petrol in the tank now have to pay tax on the excess, following the end of rationing and a steep rise in French petrol prices.-
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  • 253 7 School bars rock 'n' roll boy in gaudy socks TN luminous orange socks, black jeans, purple check shirt and black jerkin with the words "Rock 'n' Roll" woven on it in yellow, blue and red, a boy of 12 turned up at school. The headmaster sent him home. That was
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  • 396 7 Angry bathers give Teddy gang ducking pOUK long-haired, drape-suit Teddy Boyi were hauled exhausted from the Serpentine last week in London, after a battle with angry bathers. The battle of the Lido began at 4.50 p.m. when the Teddy Boys took their little rcwboat into the area reserved for swimmers.
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  • 264 8 ON YOUR MARKS GET SET GO! Heat testi in space 1„ TTWO-STAGE instrument-packed rocket vehicle 1 are being sent aloft at the U.S. Pilotless Aircrat Research Station to study the effects of heat transfe in space ships research aimed at clearing the for the first tests of man-carrying missiles. These
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  • 397 8 FATHERS eager for tiicir children to do well in Britain's II plus examination have been offering school te a < hers expensive Christmas presents and other bribes. This is onr of the discoveries; of ;i tc;irn ol 14 university professors and psychologists who have
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  • 133 9 It's that plausible rogue again PLAYBOY-CROOK Dennis Stafford, who escaped from Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London over seven months ago, arrived bark at London Airport recently on board a giant stratocruiser from Port of Spain, Trinidad, escorted by Hying Squad detectives from Scotland Yard, who had flown out to Trinidad t«»
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  • 55 9 H. R. H. Prince Philip. Duke of Edinburgh took I the salute recently at a parade of 1,800 Pre-Service I Cadets on the Horse Guards Parade, London. He is seen in the picture below inspecting the Army Cadet Force Contingent accompanied by I Major R. S. Riley.
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  • 278 10 Anniversary of a nation j TODAY, July I, Canadians at home and i around the world celebrate the 90th anni- versary of the founding of their Nation. In IX<i7, three British North American provinces i united to form ;i single state Of barely 4 j million
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  • 147 10 Head who caned boy cleared A HEAD master who canod i a 12-year-old boy for truancy was .accused of assaulting him, causing bodily harm. But the ca.se was dismissed. Mr. j. MacmaniLs, defending, suid at Hove, Sussex, England, that the Director ot Public Prosecutions had decided not to prosecute the
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  • 240 10 A 'WHO WILL DRIVE THE QUEEN?' ROW ifK. CHABLES PEREE, royal coachman of Sark, has decided to sell his five victorias, his cattle. 15 acres of land, and four houses. All because he is not being allowed to drive. with his white horse, Lame, the Queen and Prince Philip when
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  • 153 10 Cpl. cut recruit's legs ASHY, frightened recruit who had been in the Army only a week and is to be discharged for nervous trouble told a court martial last week that a corporal made his legs bleed. Signalman Brian Felton. aged 18, of Ruskin-road, Staines. Middlesex, said at Catterick Camp,
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  • 260 10 TOUR RUSSIA? BY ALL MEANS IF YOUR CAR IS CLEAN ORITISH cars which 1J go to Russia for the holiday tours starting July 1 MUST BE WASHED EVERYDAY. If a ear is not spotlessly clean it may be stopped by police and the driver told to wash it. That was
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  • 68 10 M1XBI marriages have often led to avpallina I i m ga* aaspafisr tat &sac I i fc'BrWTUJW 0I and "Ste Naraine said his wife snatched the bottle frnm %&£&s!' co tnin to*?™ tS?S3 *Why should I harm her?" he said "I n-m i very fond
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  • 1313 11  -  Adelaide Eastley BY,. Vt/ILL the vast majo- rity of Singapore's children grow up to wear golden teeth? Perhaps not, for daily there continues to be a remarkable increase in juvenile attendance at the General Hospital's Dental Clinic. In the last year the gain in patients has surpassed 30
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  • 766 12 TB IS STILL KILLER No. ONE WROTE \**t week about ;t tiisiusr. poliomyelitis, J<>r whic h America's Dr. S;iik produced a vaccine for active Immunisation. Dr. Sulk is reported to have said that eventually every child in the United states can expect po'io immunisation and if the vaccine
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  • 307 12 \\K- A of Spore writes "i suffer from an excess of wax accumulation in the. cars. Could you tell me what is its junction, where is it. lor rued and how does it fjet into the ear? is syringing harmful to the functioning of the ear? •>
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    • 142 12 CLXJEB ACROSS church (5) 1 Mostly entices such lads 5 Furniture In such airy room* (It) Wt 8 Mav^scHbe ord er bed f^*^^T 9 Coin for an Arnold Bennett IJiJj. R irj (4) 11 Stage poles? (5). 10 A tree as writing equipment 2 4 g™** iT"^ 13 Scrkpe a
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  • INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS
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      136 13 KAREN STEELE above is an exceptional young lady. Samuel Goldwyn Jr. believes this so firmly that he has signed Karen to a longterm contract in addition to giving her the lead opposite Victor Mature in "The Sharkfighters." It was just about a year ago that Karen acted her first role
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    • 127 13 Malayans in U.K. film... ...they are 'extras' MALAYAN students in England have been assisting 2 in the production of the film version of the novel, "Windom's Way," at Pinewood Studios. The setting of the story is a Pacific island. At Pinewood the studio technicians constructed a replica of an i
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      206 13  -  PELHAM GROOM ANOTIIKR star is rising in the celluloid firmament and that is Shaw liros. latest discovery Jins H Samsuddtli who will soon be W6H in "PatlCha l>i > lima" a a new film direetrd by P. Ramlee. m H The film is a f.mt isy in
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  • 462 14 After a week of few closely-fought matches 4i stkuiws Lew iioiid, the defending chamf" pion, and Ashley Cooper vnter the second week of Wimbledon today ai tht only men among the eight quarter finalists who have not conceded a set 7'h, paii
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  • 327 14 rpHE Ku.:,iiuis are nothing 1 if not triers when it come., to sport. Appreciative for the tremendous worldwide j)r<;,t value of succe In sport, they un; noi conteni merely to 6ucc< ed In our or two '■■]>'■! I i They want to be
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  • 338 14 liy VERNON MORGAN TUIE .speedy terminaL tion of the second Test match between England and the West Indies at Lord's, while eminently satisfactory from a sporting point of view, was a considerable financial setback to many. It cost the West Indies
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  • 589 14 Thomson has every chance to win Open for 4th time I\l EARLY 300 of the world's leading golfers are mustering at St. Andrews, traditional home of the sport, for the British Open Championship beginning today to Friday. Players from the four home countries and 14 overseas countries will battle for
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  • 182 14 Charles Pratt wins US decathlon CHARLES PRATT, of the v^ U.S. Army, won the American Athletic Union National Decathlon Championship at Kingsbury, Carolina, yesterday with a total of 7,164 points. David Edstrom, of the University of Oregon, was 1 second with 6.981 points and Bob Lawson. University of Southern California,
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  • 95 14 r |Mll<: crowd screamed as seven horses fell and threw their riders at the first bend in the Northumberland Mate at Newcastle on Saturday. One jockey was treated for suspected fracture of the leg and concussion. At least (wo other jockeys were hurt. The
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  • 301 15 Lycos anxious to go faster than 3f in 42½ Only five horses came out for work By ALLAN LEWIS A LL outstation hor- ses arrived at Bukit Timah over the week-end. There were only five horses working fast on the number two track this morning, whilst I was there. Lycos
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  • Article, Illustration
    32 15 photo. MRS. L. M. Prior's In stow (F. Barlow) clearing away from Swallowswift (E. Mercer) and Sylphide (L. Piggott) to win the Fern Hill Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 22. Reuter
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  • 244 15 ALTIPAN OUTSTAYS 12 RIVALS A LTIPAN, owned by French textile magnate M Gerard Delloye, outstayed twelve rivals to win the £20,000 Grand Prix de Paris, Europe's richest race for three-year-olds, at Longchamp yesterday. Ridden by Roger Poincelet. he finished the one mile seven furlongs race a length ahead of his
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  • 124 15 CACHIKO KAMO, Japan's number one ranking player two years ago, yesterday won the New York State Women's Tennis championship with a 6-2. 0-8. 6-3 victory over topseeded Isabel Troccole, of New York. Miss Kamo nearly won In straight sets although she developed leg cramps
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  • 19 15 Uruguay beat Colombia 1-0 in an elimination round match of the 1958 Wofici Championship at Monte
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  • 136 15 Piggott's riding decides Classic LESTER PIGGOTT. 21 -year- old British jockey, won his fourth Classic race this year when he rode Orsini to victory in the West German Derby at Hamburg yesterday Piggott's jockeyship triumphed in a tight finish. A furlong out in the mile and a half race Orsini,
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  • 79 15 TLfRS. Jacqueline Pung, of Hawaii, "won the United States women's open golf championship in New York then was disqualified on thp grounds that her scor c was incorrect. Mrs. Pung was credited with a last round of 72 for a 72 holes aggregate of 298
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  • 55 15 The Combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities rugby team made a winning start to their tour of East Africa and Rhodesia when they beat Kenya Central Province by 28 points (two goals and six tries) to nil at Nairobi yesterday. The touring team led 11-0
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  • 46 15 At Cologne, Manfred Oermar, of West Germany yesterday clocked 20.8 sec. for the 200 metres, fastest time for the event In Europe this year. Germar competing for Middle Rhino Provinre against Antwerp Piovlnrr, also won the 100 metres In 10 sscc. Reuter
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  • 181 15 LAKER AND LOCK BACK IN ENGLAND TEAM FOR TEST OURREY spin bowlers Jan Lakui and Tony Lock were brought back into the running for England's cricket team to face West Indies in the third Test match beginning at Nottingham an Thursday. Out of the side went allrounder Brian Close and
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  • 33 15 Judith de Nijs, o; Holland, yesterday became the first holder of the women's world freestyle swimming record for 1,650 yards, a new distance, with a time of 20min. 26.3 sec. Reuter
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    54 16 picture. The one and only Marilyn Monroe arrives at the i Free Milk Fund for Babies benefit showing off her latest film 'The Prince and The' Showgirl" at Radio City Music Hall, New York. She wore a floor- j length dress in champagne beige silk satin with a circular flounce
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  • 357 16 General Taylor speaks of 'reciprocal defeat' But small war threat grows PENERAL Maxwell I). Taylor said last night that the possibility of general, atomic war is lessening. Hut, he said, local, limited ajnrresftion by Communism presents "an increasingly serious threat to world peace." The
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  • 23 16 United Nations troops are parading in Seoul today to mark the removal of U.N. Command Headquarters to Korea from Tokyo Reuter
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    13 16 picturp. MW thiir Wedding at st Andraw*. r .i»w.!i-.i Saturday. t Free Press
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  • 238 16 kpHE Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg yesterI*■ day denounced South Africa's new law authorising authorities to order racial segregation in churches, and indicated his church would defy such orders. I The Right Rev. Ambrose Reeves -said in a sermon preuared for delivery in the Cathedral Church of
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  • 220 16 i Plague danger in I flood ruins HMlllllij I LOUISIANA has turned to the sombre task or marshalling its hurrican. dead lest pestilence overtake a land already devastated by Thursdays Thus far, 172 bodies had < been recovered. Presidi nt Eisenhower's personal representative on the scene
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