The Singapore Free Press, 9 August 1957

Microfilm: NL2446
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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper (o II !»•">*■ Singapore, Friday, August 9, 1957. Price 15 Cts
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    Lock icon MUSCAT BATTLE TODAY
    397 1 ITISH-LED forces of the Sultan of Oman struck out yesterday in a determined threeged offensive to wipe out the rival Imam of ni's rebellion in the central Oman highs. Indications are that the rebels plan to fight at today when the slowly advancing clean-up mn of British
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    Rubber price
    31 1 September first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 92 7 8 cents a lb., down half a cent on yesterday's close. The tone was quiet.
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    Lock icon She's in contest
    66 1 Lovely Miss Pat Yong Thai Thai, 18, whp is one of 16 contestants for the title of "Miss Cheongsam" at a Sea View Hotel dance, organised by th e Raffles Institution, tomorrow night. Miss Yong, who works in the Singapore Social Welfare Department, was recently elected "Miss
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    Lock icon 'Insults' may tie up bases
    101 1 'Insults' may tie up bases MORE than 9,000 Moroccan workers at strategic American air and naval bases in Morocco have voted to walk out on strike because of "insults and mistreatment by American officers. The action was taken by the Union Syndicate of U.S. Air Base Workers claiming a membership
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    Lock icon ROCK CRAZY RIOTERS
    132 1 Police use batons -then charge teenage crowd IX)R the third straight day police last night had to use their batons mercilessly to cope with several thousands of Danish teenagers rioting in Copenhagen's Town Hall Square. Some youngsters even beat up a policeman before police made a Charge
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    Spore-Malaya union unlikely for years yet
    360 1 ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IS SEEN AS THE ONLY POSSIBILITY AT PRESENT TOO MANY OTHER PRESSING PROBLEMS r £*HERE is no possibility of any merger between Singapore and the Federation for any foreseeable time after merdeka, in the opinion of official circles in London. The best
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    Lock icon POLICE ALERT AT WINDSOR
    63 1 POLICE set up road blocks around the Thames side town of Windsor last night after burglar alarms sounded in Windsor Castle. All cars travelling out of Windsor were stopped and their drivers questioned. Police made a rapid search of the castle grounds. Then the word went
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    Ra'ayat aims at Socialist merger
    86 2 I\HM Singapore brunch of Party Rn'cua' [j /v follow the footstept of u> headquarter* in the Federation m initiating the formation oj a Singapore Socialist front. The ucretajry o) ths party, fnche Za han inn Mahmut, saui Hiaf thi plan uuuid be considered l>i/ /tarty
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    GOVT. REVIEWS JUKE BOX PROBLEM
    297 2  -  PETER LIM Licensing question is being re-exatnin ed By Staff Reporter Tone down or close up orders likely for coffee shops gPECIAL legislation to control the operation of juke boxes in Singapore is now under consideration by the Government The whole question of licensing them
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    Dash to help her sister
    173 2 Dash to help her sister I A talented yount pianist, Miss Lim p ee Y n who has J ust c°m- pieted her studies in London cancelled a pleasure trip to the Continent to fly back to Singapore to assist her sister. Her sister Miss Lira Pee Yaw, who is
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    Lock icon Canadian coaist -it's the Marquis
    27 2 A fiery come! seen i «g Calgary, Canada n past two nlgl Identified aa tin comer. Departmenl r is plotting course. A.P.
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    Lock icon Balafrej to come
    25 2 The Moroccan Minister. M A! rej, will repr< a country at th< Independence c( j It was officially in Rabat lail Reuter
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    POLIO KILLS FOUR
    152 2 POLIO KILLS FOUR 46 cases in six months is normal rUR people died of polio in Singapore during the past six months. So far this year, 46 cases were reported. The City Health Officer, Dili. R. Morrison, said that thi s was normal, adding: "There is no polio epidemic' He
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    9 2 picture. ttftjHSSSS A<lvisorv Board h ««»»M mmmmm Free Press
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      133 2 J grftfSE&g%&ga ll|L JGenuine IVlirzapure Ai Indian Carpets kMM at rock bottom prices! lln plain self >> Fringed ends. I v-'.'; 3 x2 NOW $10.00 I I COTTON I 3x6 N0W "*****0 I UUISUfSi Usually $45.00 I BLANKETS: 55 x 75 j CARPETS: I j Grey with multicoloured i 9'
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    Lock icon NOW PEER FLAYS PRIME MINISTER
    546 3 Menzies attitude to Queen h disgusting' oKl) Utiimham has accused Mr- M> Oleniies, Australian rime Minister, of being stuffily subservient" toft nils the Crown, acting to the Melbourne lerald v, criticised Mr. fenzies Ml interview flowing Mr. Menzics iwn criticism of the ee r s
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    41 3 picture. M irgaret Garlick, daughter of the director of j P^\ I»r ii Garllck, and Mrs. 1). Murphy Rive a hind to Mrs P. Williams, whilst preparing j P SATA'i flag day which is hrinp hold 111 Singapore tomorrow. Free Press
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    Lock icon Ordeal in the clouds
    118 3 gIX T V SEVEN people aboard a military transport plane from California landed safely yesterday at Hilo, Hawaii, alter creeping 1,000 miles for six hours with two dead engines. Skimming just above the 8- loot swell of the Pacific Ocean, the pilot, Maj. Samuel Tyson, nursed
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    Lock icon GIFT FOR CHOU
    24 3 Mr. ChOU En-lai, the Chinese Communist Premier, has been presented in Peking with a gift plane lroni the Soviet Government. Reuter
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    Strike: sack warning
    139 3 OYERB at London's major fruit and ole markets yestered their workers their 28 day-old by Monday next or ing their jobs. stoppage affects I >'tf) workers. night the men. fr of the Riant 1 ''O-strontr Transport lU General Workers' Union, overwhelmingly rejected a p-oace Offer worked out,
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Aug. 9, 1957. Opinion Merdeka or slavery?
    195 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Aug. 9, 1957. Opinion Merdeka or slavery? rpHE dictator mental- ity can no more tolerate criticism than can such a regime survive under free speech. And the fledgling Sukarno dictatorship is no exception. Having stifled free speech by abolishing Parliament, the dictatorship is now out
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    DEFENCE SHAPE OF MODEL BRITANNIA
    17 4 DEFENCE SHAPE OF MODEL BRITANNIA a.'.' countries 4 SHE MAY NOT LOOK MUCH RUT SHE'S ALL OURS"
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    NEW TOYS FOR NASSER
    661 4 NEW TOYS FOR NASSER By A Special Correspondent $0 that sawdust Caesar of the Nile, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, has bought himself some nice maritime toys apparently to take his mind off the many military toys he lost in the Sinai desert last year. That is about the only deduction
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    BY THE WAY
    164 4  - BY THE WAY Beachcomber COMEOM; ,r""^ ii., nutJ a wonuin "«J de ss. Mlnerw but the sl. a that she V when <,!, i that she iu d found her (Hm and, like a %s?*** S^ d -5S Th Apollo, and M:irs Vas^ J flayed alive. The Jj is: f
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      27 4 HENDRY'S (i rp=^ for vUflr Me Bls viC Schools P. H. HE N DR V Miinufni tin Ing Jeweller 78 North Hrid?e Road, Singapore, 6A Kuala I.umpur.
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      115 4 XEm^wK-S designed for PLEASURL WITH SO MANY WONDERFUL FEATURE 500 watt Lamp Bmm. Projector. ,/Vo'/% lral K»>t-««ne Optical Fr.»m, adiu^mM *l)Wfl Vvs em Eliminates re- COl 'I: y,Hy ted lijfht loss A L^ p «J JSSJ '^> ■PecUl rondpn«rrln- *W -rrfontrol clear picture, up to •^•ir icn a 6 fcot
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    RELIGION FOR SCHOOLS BEGINS IN '58
    224 5 RELIGION FOR SCHOOLS BEGINS IN '58 Keeping students away from Red influence Parents to choose the faith JJLLIGION and ethics are to be introduced into ALL Singapore schools next year. A spokesman for the Education Ministry told the Free Press that the Religious Committee led by the Assistant Minister, Inche
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    40 5 picture. Meet the first lady managing director in Hong Kong. She is Miss Wong Yin Yann, the managing director of Ansontong Scientific Wen-Jeou Laboratory, Who is now in Singapore to sponsor the Fourth Exhibition of Hong Kong products. Free Press
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    Lock icon THEY'VE HAD THEIR CHIPS!
    60 5 rE float of a potato chip company had to be withdrawn from a Carnival Day parade at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, when children swarmed over it and ate all the chips before the procession started. A company spokesman said today he will try again on Monday
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    Lock icon MYSTERY SUBS OFF SCOTLAND
    41 5 Two unidentified submarines were reported early today to be off the Scottish east coast. "We don't know where they are bound," was all that an Admiralty spokesman in London would say when questioned about the report. Reuter
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    THEY'LL QUEUE ONCE A YEAR
    226 5 OWNERS of goods and public lurvice vehicles in Mii^aporc will be able to pay their licence fees for 1^ months at a time from next year. According to present practice, licences are renewable at six-monthly intervals. The Registrar of Vehicles, Mr. Ong Ann Soon, told
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      221 5 I DIPLOMA Or GOLD MEDAL 4/ AT O- MOP L NEW INVENTION A TIME LABOUR SAVER FOR CLEANLINESS COMFORT! ii*> fessS To do cleaning work with SOOGER is a T&# simple and pleasant job. It requires no electricity. SOOGER also has an P^ automatic squeezer and an adjustable handle It
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      157 5 rs SHopl\\ X Ar 111 COLD STORAGE l/K EVERYTHING UNDER ONE P^OF FROZEN MEATS, POULTRY, FISH, BIRDS EYE PRODUCTS, DAIRY PRODUCE, DELICATESSEN, GROCERIES, BREAD, CAKES ...and our comprehensive shopping centre, the ARCADE, Orchard Road: Chemist, Re.iuty Salon, Flower Shop, Film <$, Service, Optician, Post Office, Fashion Showrooms, Book Store, Electrical
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      172 6 M >i.*.\»»H.^j. [,> Le« I iß lk ..«ul l*iiil Davi« ■■M^ 1 COSTUA/.t K^'/ KNCWS, J LOCK? I RSI R^ LOX^H iT'S iHE bAKIKS. M HAS V 5 TR^Cn' f ,XA'. j iV -^f \~"-i- NIGMTONTHE BUKNIMG UP MR. BANK 'mI FILM /.^> JINXT h^ v\ JA^ ,'AS >^\ CCWf
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      469 6 z •///a/ i v x Am) m JWr* i c too old! If you were as in i money-making as you l re n cul tn I ami Intellectual matte-; Vn ural i j probably could be a millionaire z You are adaptable am I how to adjust to changing
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      194 7 LONDON, Auff. 8. Previous Today J»< j n,, 1 RSS c.if. ilur. ■in pots August 27 buyers 2ti\ buyers W 21\ sellers 27 a sellers Sept. 27' s buyers 27 buyers 27% sellers 27 >.i sellers JSii n,, l KSS Spot 2/' b buyers 27's buyers X
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      New York prices
      103 7 NEW YORK, Aug. 8. Previous Today rtjßs> -i- spot 94 87 nom. 04 62 nom. ■i contract Aug. unquoted unquoted Sept. unquoted unquoted |J|. (juiet. SALES: Nil. g^Xs Contract Au? 94-50 buyers y4.00 buyers 95.00 sellers 94.62 sellers Sept. 94.25 buyers 94.00 buyers 94.75 sellers 94.50 sellers
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      37 7 JNEW YORK, Aug. 8. Previous Today fastrialfl 498.48 496.87 ilroud>, 148.21 146.51 nestle Bonds 8617 86 12 liti>s 69.44 69.41 rks composite Averages 173.11 172 30 Above prices Quoted in U.S. cents per lb.
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      128 7 LONDON, \ug- 8. -M Previous Today |€^K A Philippines c.i f. U.K./ r y l; European delivered IJW i!- > long: ton Aug. Sept. $167 'j sellers $168 sellers |<«V M raits e.i.f. I.X- North •opr.m delivered weight per ■g ton Vug. Sep- £63t0 buyers £63v;
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      U.S. PEPPER
      50 7 tßbar Lampong spot 27^, ng release 27, afloats Malabar August shipment inpons August shipment larawak spot 26%, await- Ing release 26',, afloats 26, August shipment 2536 Muntok White spot 35 1 afloats 34^, and August shipment 34%, all sellers ex-dock AD'Mc prices quoted in U.S. cents per Ib.
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    Today's Radio Programme for Singapore
    117 7 115 pm. Potpourri; 1.30 Time Signal and News; 1.40 The Road to Independence; 1 50 Potpourri Part 2; 5.00 There's Something U\ The Air; 5.30 Life With The Lyons; 6 00 Time Announcement and Programme Summary; 6.02 Mail Bag. at the mike sarojlnl Lourdes; 6.55
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    ALL IN COTTON
    68 7 THE three pretty girls above, dressed so vastly differently all have much in common. all are dressed in Sudan cotton. On the way to a display of Sudan cotton fabrics in London's West End are, left to right: Ann Gyrsting in gentian blue and black swimsuit; Zeinab
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    Mrs. Grief, with 18 babies, wants another
    210 7 Mrs. Grief, with 18 babies, wants another A WOMAN who has just had her 18th baby is already thinking about No. 19 because only 13 of the children are alive. And Mrs. Trixie Grief and her husband are superstitious. "We can't possibly stop at such an unlucky number." Mrs. Grief
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      62 7 *<■ H Hi tfl 09 2H r I SINGAPORE I ■HIGH TIDES S TODAY: 11.02 a.m. and P 1.04 p.m. TOMORROW: 11.27 a.m. and 10.43 p.m. m SUNDAY: 11.52 am and 11. IS p.m MONDAY: 12.15 p.m pj and 11.52 p.m. TUESDAY: 12.3!* pm B WEDNESDAY: 0.27 m M and
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    He beats Channel on skis ...BOTH WAYS, Too
    113 8 He beats Channel on skis ...BOTH WAYS, Too H ERF'S something for you water ski experts to try. if and when you can visit the U.K. Forty-year-old Gerard Kinters of Amsterdam, fitted on, his skis one day last week and raced across the English Channel behind a speed boat in
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    BRIDEGROOM VANISHED WITH £2,980
    160 8 BRIDEGROOM VANISHED WITH £2,980 T> \\K teller lan Kirk1J ton vanished just two days before his wedding. lie took with him £2,980 of the bank's money. He was found, dressed like a tramp, near hi.s fiancee's home a month later. All the money bad gone. He had been in London,
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    The teacher wron girls as so about wood
    420 8 The teacher wron girls as so about wood NOW SHt ;HEM £100 L^OK KChOOlfirlfi Patricia Kelly and rarmel O'Neill a year of nightmare ended last week when a British court awarded each of them £50 for slander by their teacher. Patricia, tall, fair-haired and 16 yearg old, smiled happily and
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    A V.I. A CO VISITS MINE
    74 8 A V.I. A CO VISITS MINE The imerican Aiaj Whitney, recently i Uurh.un uulfield. 'i two and .1 half hos Fishburn Colliery. It was t lie Ami mine Ho low Mr. H Ing m iilj the collifl pithead. :4h|& London Mr 11. a Ko-riuy visit to the ■mt ■uriti^ which
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    A Disney touch along the prom.
    78 9 Workmen are adding, more and more COlOttf to the brilliant ICene at England's famous seaside resort o|" Blackpool. Already they have started the long task of fixing in position thousands of gaily coloured lights for this year's annual illumination*. The pomenade will be ablaif
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    Head mistress was the 'other woman'
    228 9 Head mistress was the 'other woman' r pilK head mistress of a village school admitted to a coroner last week that she was the other woman in a "triangle" d i a m a which ended in the deaths of a man and his wife. Said lairhaired Miss Rosalie Nicholls:
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    SLICK AND SLEEK
    57 9 Cabaret and TV. dancer, Isobel Hkirl, 19, has an unusual relaxation she spends her spare time exercising racing greyhounds at Wembley, London. Her two sleek companions in the picture on the left are ''Keen Struggle" and "Garbage Bin." Exercising dogs isn't only a pastime however for it
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      117 9 NO OTHER AIRLINE OFFERS YOU SO MUCH! tor evmpU: LUXURIOUS LOWER- DECK LOUNGE lounge <»l your 1 > i j^, double-decked Super "Strato Clipper* as yn fly to Manila or the U.S.A. And you II enjoy chatting with fellow passengers while }ou sip \<>iir Favorite refreshment from the Kn Only
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    How madam measures up to it—not quite a Venus
    334 10 How madam measures up to it not quite a Venus A RECORD OF THOSE VITAL STATISTICS THE average British woman, the Government reveals today, is very nearly a Venus de Milo— but some way off being a Marilyn Monroe. For the vital statistics of Miss and Mrs. Britain average out
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    Madeleine says 'no' to legal blackmail
    310 10 DANCER Madeleine In wood, the British prisoner in Spain, said No last week to judicial blackmail. It would have meant freedom after 11 months of open arrest without trial. It would also have meant she was branded a criminal without trial. Trouble began for
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    HE THOUGHT LION'S MANE WAS A WIG
    155 10 A MAN leaned over the safety barrief at a zoo and tugged a sleeping lion's shaggy mane "to see if it was a wig." it wasn't And Charles Hannah, of Church-street, Harthill wa.s taken to Glasgow's Royal Infirmary With a Clawed hand and
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    A date with Frankenstein
    62 10 Mr.s. Edith Farrar, aged 81. loves excitement. On' 1 nUht last week, she got it. At a party I hud met at her home In Baronter* race, Burnley, Lanes. She was driven to the Empire Cinema. There, alone, .she watched 'The CUFSe Ot Frankenstein." She was
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    WHITEHALL HAS THEM TAPED!
    34 10 WHITEHALL HAS THEM TAPED Heigh, vanes accord,n g to a wor.^s^ob and .neon. JMM. other parts of Britain. Q tc nc hes age of 35 and 55. After that they tend to d.m.n.sh Lightest
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    THREE ON TOUR
    84 10 rpiIREF. students on their way from England to Australia are seen in the above picture on the hanks of the Seine in Paris, France, with their means of transport an amphibious jeep. Switzerland is their next stop. They are pictured here reading a map prior to leaving
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      116 10 NAPRO Hair Vitalizer ends split ends, brittle ness and dandruff forever! Hot sun and tropic weather 1 play havoc with a v hair! That's why you need Napro Hair Vitalizer. It completely conditions every strand without surface greasmess makes v ur hair glossy, easy to manage, quickly convertible to wonderful
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    INSIDE SHOW BUSINESS
    329 11 By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. ap in ages llllllHlllllHUtlllilllHH Illlllillllilllllll Illllllliii 41 U U 9 is getting Illlltlllllilllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll TOO much... in liiililllllllllllllllllMlllllllllllllllllllliiiimillllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiii \;\l ill in favour of real life imitating the more unantic forms of fiction, but I really am getting a bit tired of this Old Man marries
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    A non-confidential dossier on Barbara
    166 11 JfAKHAKA LAi\(; was born in Hollywood, March 2, her father (deceased) being a pharmaceutical manufacturer, her mother, Maureen Knight being a former actress. She was educated at the Eagle Rock High School in Los Angeles, where she specialised in dramatics and played small roles in
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    From model to a successful film star
    51 11 From model to a successful film star This lovely pin up is a talented actress us well. Mara Corday has successfully made the transition from model to film star and is currently playing one <»/ the top voles iti v i's "Haw Edge" with Rory Calhoun, Yvonne de Carlo and
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    Lock icon U.S. WORRIED OVER QUARREL BETWEEN 2 ALLIES
    258 12 WASHINGTON is watching with concern the developing quarrel between two of her Asian allies, Nationalist China and South Vietnam, over the question of compulsory naturalisation of Chinese in VietnamLatest development is the Taipeh Foreign Ministry's investigation of charges by repatriated Chinese alleging that
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    Lock icon Cholera kills 400
    26 12 Cholera is sweeping through the town of Bhagalpur in India's rich agricultural province ip Bihar causing 400 deaths in the past fortnight. UP
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    Lock icon Tokyo plan unfolds
    47 12 THE South Vietnamese Government has received a note from the Japanese Government suggesting the creation of a "neutral world bank' for the development of Asian countries and the creation of an "Asian economic bloc." The Japanese note is now under consideration In Saigon. Reuter
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    Lock icon Saudis move to allow in Jap oil firm
    96 12 rpHE Saudi Arabian Gov--1 ernment is reported to be pressing the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) to relinquish part of its concession in the area in favour of Japanese and other companies. Informants said the Saudis are looking into the possibility of
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    Lock icon New Formosa bank
    31 12 The Taipeh Government is considering the setting up of a bank in Formosa to attract overseas Chinese investment in industrial development at home and trade expansion abroad. Reuter
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    Lock icon Catnbadians like the plan
    140 12 Catnbadians like the plan IN contrast t o the cold shoulder given by Singapore, Hong Kong, Saigon and New Delhi to Japan's proposal for an "Asian economic bloc," Cambodia has endorsed the plan. Prime Minister Sim Var of Cambodia said in Pnom Penh, "we feel that all projects contributing to
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    Lock icon Red China preparing to buy more
    267 12 Red China preparing to buy more OO FAR, Red China's reaction to easing of the trade embargo has been "decidedly cautious," according to authoritative British trade quarters in London. But the long-term prospects are quite favourable, they added. They said the estimated total of China's foreign trade for this year
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    Lock icon Mission in Britain
    60 12 RED CHINA has been invited to send a technical mission to Britain as from Sep- tern her this year "t 0 see j what we have to offer," 2 I London trade sources said. I A three-member Chi- nese mission already has arrived in Britain, j they
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      Diplomatic offensive intensified
      147 12 Diplomatic offensive intensified SIAMESE Ambassador Pote Sarasin, who leaving Washington on Aug. 18 for Bangkok to become Secretary-General of the kouth East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) sairi that Communist subversion still renuins th No. 1 problem for SEATO. me "We are not witnessing any aggression novn but Communist subversion activity
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      12 12 up their activity In a dinlomatic offensive in Asia he said. A.P.
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      14 12 Mr. Robert E. Barbour has been appointed U.S. Consul in Hue, central Vietnam. A.P.
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      28 12 Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek will send his top aide, Preside :uial Sec r e t ary Gen. Chang Chun, on an official goodwill mission to Japan in mid-September, U.P.
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      39 12 Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia has ordered the army to prepare "a time and place" for the peaceful surrender of t.>p Filipino Communist Jesus Lava. The President had negotiated with the Huk leader through couriers for a fortnight. U.P.
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      44 12 Mr. C. Wljesinghe, a joint leader of the Ceylon rub-ber-for-rice pact mission to Red China, said in Hong Kong. "I doubt if it will be possible for China to increase rice exports to Ceylon In view of her other commitments to other countries' A.P.
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      35 12 A member of the U.S. House of Representative Mr. Carroll Kearns, claimed after a tour of Japan that only a small minority of the Japanese people wanted the Island 01 Okinawa returned to Japan. Reuter
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      30 12 The Japanese Government is expected shortly to ask the United States for the immediate release of y Japanese war criminals of World War II terms at Tokyo > Sukarno prison A.P.
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    177 13 BOOK of the WEEK PALMA, by Daniele re. (Methuen 1 55.) PEW writers of this entun have mixed fact and fancy with so graceful a touch as Daniele Vare, who completed PALMA shortly before he died last year. It is a story' told by an Italian diplomat on »s way
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      Charlemond is the choice in a weak field
      946 14 CiIIAKLKMOM), who won j his first start In Malaya, at Singapore In April, Is my selection for the Class 3, Div. 2 event over 5iF. Oharlemond finished fifth behind Dragon seed atPenang in May and, in hLs only race at the last
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      58 14 PONQMAREVA, the Rus:.i;in dISCUfI tlr, owcr who ii;i/i some difficulties m London over hat lifting, m;ty return to the .scene of t hfl Incident if she recovers from what the Rußftlam Lnalst i;> "lumbago," .she will ni:ike Ihe trip to I i:idon for the a u t<
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      LUCKY TOUCH CAN OUTPACE HIS RIVALS
      286 14 ALLAN LEWIS sums up tomorrow^ chances I ICKY TOUCH! who won first time out at the last Singapore meeting, should win again tomorrow at Kuala Lumpur, lie is engaged in the main (lass sprin t. Though promoted four divisions with 6-1 h extra, he
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      THEY WILL NOT START
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      Budgerigar should win again
      108 14 Budgerigar should win again 13UDGEBIGAB, who won and finished second in his two races at Singapore is. in my opinion, well treated with 4-lb less in the Cla^s 3. DIV. 2, It event. He meets a few horses dropped from Div. 1. but their form In that division was to
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      Consistent Singora is Rio's main rival here
      664 14 Rio, a last-start winner at Singapore, and consistent Singora appeal most in the Class 3. Div. l. 71 event. Rio has won twice In his last throe starts, his second run at th^ Singapore April meeting and again in his second race at
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      IMPROVING COMMOTION IS UP TO THIS FIELD
      218 14 looks the winncr ol the Claaa 4. Dlv, l race over 7f. At Eboh, i thought, he put up a terrif) performance to cet up and win for which'he is promoted two division- with C 1 ASS t, DIV, I— AIM 71 Bed
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    349 15 Once mighty Tigers are out of Cup Ii i a downfall this year for once-mighty Tii 3 S.A., last year's w nets of the giF A. League and Cup. Alter finishing in the bottom half of > League, they bowed out 4-2 in the first round of the Cup to
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    96 15  - Fund gets a quick response TEOH ENG TATT By YVfHEN I wrote yesterday about the "Friends of the Fijian* Fund", I was misqouted the total amount received. It should have been $192— a long way off the target. But I am happy to get a quick response cf $10 in
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    63 15 rE Medan Football Association (P.S.M.S) have asked for three matches in Singapore after the Merdeka Games in Kuala Lumpur. The Medan team will include six Indonesian Olympic representatives, four of whom will be in the Indonesian national team competing in the Kuala Lumpur Games. Should
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    56 15 «rade Kut?h«, league *«Ue will he hypnotised tonight d s part if its preparation for an Important match against South Perth at ottes loe. Oval, tomorrow. tottesloe Coach, Frank Morgan, hopei the team, which has played inconsistently in recent weeks, will be inspired to repeat its early
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