The Singapore Free Press, 4 November 1957

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    16 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Taper No. Monday, November 4. 1957. Price i"> y
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    Lock icon NEXT—THE MOON
    302 1 NEXT— THE MOON [The greatest shock reserved for iUVe i a I 1 this •st upon (i ani that she h;i> fir rocket to [he moo that she l< a ma mud i it into space? around ay is that ould be surprise the 3 holding in j Thursday, P
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    Lock icon 'Disgusting and contemptible' say the world's dog lovers
    114 1 HUMANE societies »n<i Individuals throughout the world todaj protested wains! the launching of .1 ri *>v Into ipace f »»r»i the second Boyle! satellite in Singapore the mine Welfare IsAoclation senf ;i protest dlfeci to Niklta Khrushche? in tho Kremlin. The League
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    Lock icon 'HUSKY IS WELL'
    243 1 npHE little clog whirling around fche world In •I tie m "iid Soviet satellite I* was identified by Moscow *l Radio last night as a husky, the breed used for work In COld climates. ll "It is reported to be wWI," Moscow reported In I* B home
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    Lock icon FRENCH KILL 65 REBELS
    29 2 French troops yesterday killed G5 rebels in lour separate military engagements in Algeria. Twelve civilians, two of them Europeans, were injured In terrorist attacks. A.P
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    Lock icon STANDPIPE FEUD IN KAMPONGS
    227 2 Water hosed to houses, while the neighbours wait 'It's an offence' warning COME householders in Singapore rural areas, whose homes are not connected to the pipewater supply system, have devised a novel method of collecting it. And they draw li free. it is quite Inexpensiv rtders
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    Lock icon 'Volcano-energy' power station
    33 2 Russia has started to build a "volcano-energy" power station. Moscow Radio said yesterday. It will work from the hot volcanic springs in the Kamchatka area of Eastern Siberia.- A. P.
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    'Join me on cycle trip to Siam'
    242 2 'Join me on cycle trip to Siam' A well-known British writer and traveller Mr. Harold Elvin, wants two or three Malayans to cycle with him from Singapore to Siam. He has left London and is now on his way by sea to Singapore. Mr. Elvin is the author of several
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    SIAM RICE PROBE ON
    236 2 Jumabhoy investigates the shipments HPHE Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr, 1 J. M. Jumabhoy, is looking into complaints that certain Malayan merchants had tried to corner large quantities of Siamese rice intended for Singapore, for private trade. About 15.000 tons of rice are said to
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    SOVET WARNING ON WEST'S BASES
    258 3 SOV E T WARNING ON WEST'S BASES 'Our inter-continental rockets have outdated them: We can deliver H-bombs anywhere' yiOSCOW RADIO >esterday broadcast a warning by Mr. Nikita Khrushchev that Western military bases ringing the Soviet Union had been outdated by Russia's inter-continental rockets. The Soviet Communist Parly chief SOUnded the
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    Lock icon Defeat for Scale
    107 3 Defeat for Scale '1 »bich provided -S .arfl Maxim President! Francis R. Oleary said, •Our system consists of making water bj evaporation naim-ly v delation -but with one major difference. He said Vlaxim arrived at a "praotu :il m means ellmtaatliif scale." The Maxim svst.Mn is based on the fact
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    Lock icon No parking curb goes
    101 3 MERCHANTS of Market Street, one of the ImI port ant business centres in 1 Singapore, are happy that the City Council has removed parking restrictions op. that road The rule restrie-ted park- ing on one side of the street 1 on alternate days. The merchants have
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    TINNED FOOD BAN RELAXED
    46 3 Private markets in Singapore may now sell tinned provisions and other nonperishable food. The Health Committee of the City Council has agreed to this as a result of an appeal made by the Singapore Private Market Owners' Association about two months ago.
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    Lock icon Zulu fight—4 die
    26 3 Zulu fight— 4 die Four Zulus were hacked to death last m^ht When riotIng broke out between Basutos and Zulus in B Johannesburg African township. Reuter
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    Lock icon 273 old crocks in UK race
    247 3 7903 D£ DIETRICH IS FIRST HOME 4 1903 Dv Dietrich was the first ear to reach Brighton, England, in the annual London-to-Brigh-ton "Old Crocks" race, a 50--mile test of speed and endurance for ancient cars. The De Dietrich, driven by Mr. L. A. Jackson,
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    Lock icon PREMIER'S AID IS FOUND SHOT
    106 3 It BUT. -COLONEL Nehemya Argov, aide-de-camp to the a Israeli Prime Minister, Mr. Dai id Hen Guriou, UHU found shot dead in his Tel Aviv flat yesterday. Sear his body was a teller leaving all fits DOBs€BSiotl9 to a cyclist he ran over on Saturday;
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      66 3 acknowledgment The Directors and Officers of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited sincerely thank all customers, friends and well-wishers of the Bank for their presence at the receptions held on the occasion of the Bank's Silver Jubilee and for their congratulatory messages, good-wishes, floral baskets and presents. and first class Cameras Cine-Camera
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  • The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, NOV, 4, 1957.
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      Opinion Children's crossings
      240 4 Opinion Children's crossings CHILDREN'S CrossIngs with their att f ndant b a n n c rbearers ;in» an excelleni thing and do much to lessen th< accident rate in our city. But for them to be one hundred per cent, effective, they must be observed by everybody. And this is
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    Oh, how I wish I could find a rainmaker!
    269 4 Oh, how I wish I could find a rainmaker! L^\ I'M siiu c th« \n J «"ariit'st days ill mini's existt'iuf <»n earUi thru* hay I ln< n rainmakers in 0 D who, (laiinini; Bllp6« i ior know Icd^e to thtir brothers, have capable of brinjinj rain win n the
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    WHY CHINESE AVOID ME
    306 4 HAVE sometimes thought thai it was just possible that Chinese have avoided me Since 1 do not suffer from either an inferiority or persecution complex I have wondered why It was only yesterday that I discovered a possible reason. It was nothing more nor less than
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    Pelham Groom
    329 4 WRITES EVERY MONDAY I caster In the film Tho Rainmaker because Of the .of credulity .shown by certain Sheriffs who dubbed him a con man. UNUSUAL (Incidentally, it Is a very good film, very unusual and one which certainly shows up the acceptance by most people of the
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    EIGHT WORD EPIC
    105 4 TV/lANY stories have ITI come out of HollyE wood dealing with the E peculiarities of film producers who, because of their impossible deE mands, are almost imE possible to satisfy. Here is one which registers the complete E defeat of a certain film E mogul. E He
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    What goes up NEEDN'T come down
    283 4 SPUTNIKS and Spaniels or Satellites and Samoyeds seems to be the next stage in .spatial adventure, but just as a diver Is the only man who doesn't have to .start at the bottom of his profession and work up, .so the satellite is the
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    BY THE WAY
    158 4  -  Beachcomber ...I I PEOPLE on a housing estate complained that a man played Ihc trumpet "at <ii\ houn of the night," They said lie bloc the -nme prolonged note aii the time, Obviously he iran led In net that pa) ticulat note p< i fed tif was
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    VIOUNCE THREATS BY GANGSTERS
    335 5 VI OUNCE THREATS BY GANGSTERS need for more police in Sembowang area Many clashes between rival thug groups ONE or more new police stations maybe built in the Sembawang district ot Singapore to check increasing secret society activity in the area. This is being done at the request of about
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    Lock icon Spirit haunts a prisoner
    55 5 A WARDER told the court it Potchefstroom. South he had kept an AfriW\ P n Jan Msanjwa. J ion [or five Msanjwa had g i that he was being L fi j n his cell by J fevil spirit* ho was chargf: ering another J mt
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    30,000 people worry
    149 5 30,000 people worry ABOUT 30.000 residents of Sembawang and Nee Soon have asked the Singapore Government to build a larger outdoor dispensary in their area. The area member In the Rural Board. Mr. S. S Gnanam, told the Free Press there were only two "tiny" clinics in the district which
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    Scouting to expand out of schools
    106 5 MORE boys in Singapore are to have a chance of becoming .scouts. The Boy Scouts Executive Committee has agreed to a proposal to extend scouting to organisations outside schools. The project La now being considered both by the Department of Social Welfare and the
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    Lock icon Cobwebs from sky
    112 5 COBWEB-LIKE strands up to 50 feet long are falling from the sky around the eastern New Mexico City of Portales. festooning telephone lines and becoming a nuisance in corn and cotton harvesting. Explanations of the nature of the strands have ranged from the Russian satellite to giant
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      346 5 SALE of SALES NOW OM BE SI RE OF THE BESI SHOP EABIA am> PICK HIE BEST! PRICES SLASHED K> MM BOTTOM WHITECOTTON BEDSHEET P TURKISH 54x 72 NOW $3 90 BATH TOWELS 72x 90 NOW $5 90 WHITE COLOURS 90»108 NOW $7.9Q 25x48 NOW $1 90 TOWALINC OACRON COTTON
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      240 6 y» JEFF lIAWKi; l»? *:>«lii«\> J«idaii fjr"" .I.— l I^, 1 .I, 1 .i. „i 1 1!■ 1 f *y^t y F.r L k*TT7/ ijTAUA Ait? COAAI O» BU6TES fIUCM 4 M I G&OW--S v lACCH [TAD won IW'7/ BASi wfSSFX IMECGB SMI B»nSM 4MD AMCfi/CAK StCWiv < TOYING H
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      459 6 I iiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIMii, Mill Hill BOKN today, you IULVI I renuti 5 fcion for being honi JK j forward, yet, since your emotffl nature la so strong, you are am te be tempestuous and even temSw? mentaj In your daily reactions Always try to look on t Side of things, for
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    Lock icon LITTLE BOYS PLAYED WITH DEATH
    245 7 LITTLE BOYS PLAYED WITH DEATH They fhought fizzling cord/ c w*?s \ratk^r' j^VO small boys who thought tnat a bundle of live imh sticks of cordite were Chinese lire crack< <~* have had a very lucky escape* When Mr. L. H. Wil- son of 23 Parks t oikRoad, Katun", returned
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    Lock icon U.S. told: Wake up and win prestige
    195 7 U. S. to l d: Wake up and win prestige SUPREME Court Justice, k ouglas, said n a ion interview n America yesterday. ''We must support the itrong democratic forces n the world and not the lorrupt reactionaries." Most or the world's iopulation is in Asia and io Ls the
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    Lock icon ELEPHANT HUNT TO CATCH 450
    58 7 More than 450 wild elenants are expected to be iptured in Assam during us winter's elephant-hunt-»g season. Most of them re used for timber haulage i the jungles. Elephant hunting is cared out under the sunersion of the Assam Govern•ent forest department and c season
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    Lock icon TENCKU ASKED: AID ME
    137 7 A MECHANIC in a Lemington, England, garage, Alan Campbell, wrote to the Prime Minister, of Malaya, Tengku Abdul Rahman, yesterday to seek his aid to marry an Eurasian girl in Penang. Alan promised to marry 18--year-old Dorothy Scully, a telephone operator, while he was doing his
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    Lock icon Israel earthquake
    17 7 Strong earth tremors won; felt In North Israel yesterday, but no casualties were reported. Reuter
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    Today's Radio Programme for Singapore
    129 7 Today's Radio Programme for Singapore 1.15 p.m. Keep It Bright Part I; 1-30 Time Signal and News- 1.45 Keep It Bright Part JI; 2 00 QJosc Down; 5.00 Children's Playhouse; 5.30 Interlude for Music; 5-45 At thr Hammond; 600 Time Signal and Programme Summary; 602 Women's Half Hour; 6.30 Speak
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      58 7 in■■■BfSl B X singapore i ;high tides! B TODAY: 9.18 p.m. M m TOMORROW: 9.23 a.m. B and 9.59 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 9.49 a.m. g B and 10.34 p.m. B THURSDAY: 10.15 a.m. s and 11.10 p.m. B FRIDAY; 10.43 am. and 11.46 p.m. SATURDAY: 11.13 a.m. m SUNDAY: 0.23 a.m.
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    Katie's flare for speed
    110 8 Katie's flare for speed A BRAVE young m«in at M the wheel of an Aston Martin DBRI raced around the Silvcrstone Circuit in England. _lt was raining the track was slippery and so speed was cut to a mere 139 miles .in hour on the straight. But he wasn't alone.
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    MOSS HAS A NEW CO-DRIVE
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    ...BUT FRANCOISES ENDED LIKE THIS
    123 8 Franciose Sagan, France's 22-year-old best selling E novelist, relived the car accident which nearly killed her last April. She told the examining magistrate in a field 30 E miles from Paris that at the time of the crash she was travelling at 56 miles an
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    4th set of twins for Grandma, 41
    193 8 A 41-YEAR-OLD prand- mother has given birth to twins HER FOURTH SET. She i. s Mrs. Annie Clay, of Nuneaton-lane, Higham, near Nwncaton, Mrs. Clay's husband, Albert, works m a Coventry car factof%. They already have eight children. Mrs. Jean Cork, aged 22,
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    Woman, 83, was trapped by brambles
    240 9  - Woman, 83, was trapped by brambles Amazed 83 year <>'<1 widow >^' s tra a niuht m a blackberry ish beside a railway nbankment It took three policeen and a man with re-cutters 20 minu- f r ee her last ?ek. Mis. LOUisa f Black Lion-lane mmersmith, London, <U me
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    Sex kitten goes back to work
    99 9 Well again alter an attack of flu. the French sex kitten Brijitte Bardot, Is now back ai work again on location in Spain for a new film "Les Bijoutiers De Clair De l.une." During her illness in Paris her fiance, JeanLouis Trintignant, hurried from
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    DONKEY SERENADE
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    'GEE-UP THERE' SAYS JAMES
    158 9 'GEE-UP THERE' SAYS JAMES A lover of ill types of animals actor James Robertson Justice is the film industry's highpriest of non-con-formity. He is blunt, irreverent, mischievous and argumentative. Yet he has star status, a five-figure salary and a fan following that many a younger man would envy. Among his
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    FAMOUS 'FIRSTS' OF DAYS GONE BY IN S'PORE
    701 10 Pelham Groom today discovers that Singapore's first car was a 10 h.p. runabout nicknamed by frightened Malays "The Devil Wind Carriage and first registered SI. in 1906. 'THOSE who make it their hobby to collect "Firsts,' such as the date of the
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    HIGH-FLY PILOTS SEE ONLY 6 FEET
    231 10 HIGH-FLY PILOTS SEE ONLY 6 FEET MH.OTS flying at high altitudes In clear skies cannot apparently .see more wan .six feet away, says an articio in the Association of optical Practitioners 1 magazine Vision, it says "empty field Biyopia' 1 Is the term u.vd to describe this vision difficulty and
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    36 RABBITS HAVE A DRIVING TEST
    101 10 E L ft^1 TS Car ie d out on three d^n rabbits dfiMnn m scicnflsts that intensive night Tystem. a dlsastrous efl™t on the nervous whJ h he rabhits T rc wi t* adrenalin, a drug dark rooT P reaCtions and th T>ut in
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    How mean can you get?
    220 10 How mean can you get? I red Bannister, wi, v found a ba| containing tl£Z9, mostly i n new livers, In (>ur riage of his train v, week, a reward hall a crown. The rewarder a woman name unknown this bag m a first-class compartment while train wa s standing
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    Now nightmare man is set free
    205 10 tX)R years Philip Samuel Martin suffered from nightmares. It was always the same vivid dream that tortured him as he turned in his bed night after night someone was trying to kill him. Martin had nightmare on September l, a few days after his
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    SINGAPORE SPOTLIGHT
    1408 11  -  adelaide Eastley BY.. Ing facl has been related to me l>\ Benjamin H. Sheares, veteran nstructor of doctors and nurses at M- Kerbau Maternity Hospitalas been there since 1931. N o !ii< per cent, of the women who have their babies here dti so without the aid of
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    Lock icon DOGGIE IN THE SPACE-SUIT
    73 13 jkljfgh fll ir i|s|3i£|2 Is a y g o a «*-> it «i B< n i^^e v r z > c WtS !iji;:t:ifi si it o **51 s- -t t: m ft Illfliifil I I US ij f fij 1 1 m DiQ h tie's 5
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    Lock icon U.S. experts study Sputnik's code
    45 13 U.S. experts study Sputnik's code S _s_ s iJ-efsi| e k J-i -?c3 f-i y; v-> H ni 1 1; v- j c g £-£-5-0 ~E B c f m*; iSusiKfiPl* »c* ttT3 of« o o> 503 o T z o rthjrth nty Reuter A.P.
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