The Singapore Free Press, 17 October 1958

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1 11 The Singapore Free Press
  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper N„ llagapsffh Friday, October 17, 1958. Price 15 Cts.
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  • 263 1 Talks as union tries to spread stoppage THE British Government intervened last night in the British Overseas 1 Airways Corporation engineers* strike at London Airport as union chiefs made a move to spread the strike to BOAC bases overseas. The Ministry of Labour heard a report
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  • 137 1 A-BAN: U.K., U.S. SETTLE REPLY OIR HAROLD CACCIA, O the British Ambus- sador. and Mr. John i Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State, re- viewed the planned nego- tiations with Russia on a nuclear test suspension at m meeting in Wash- ington yesterday. One purpose of the 5 meeting
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  • 61 1 j HERHAT Abbas, pre- mier of the Algerian government in-exile. warned in Cairo last night that the Algerian war will continue until Algeria wins its inde- pendenee. In an interview with the semi-official Cairo Middle Fast news l I agency, \bbaa simul- taneously addressed his appeal
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  • 25 1 ft protestSg th« u.s. ow said d trespass n of i, which the proInat iiio •viet trawler in- DFD
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  • 38 1 Brigadier S. Torrance, who was in command of British Forces at Singapore when the Japanese overran it in the Second World War. died at his winter home Nassau. Bahamas, vesterc He was 66 DFD
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  • 137 1 MAMIE NAMES THE '707' rPHE JET airliner with X which the United States hopes to open daily transAtlantic service in ten days' time was christened in Washington yesterday by Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower, the President's wife. Five thousand guests, invited to the ceremony at Washington National Airport saw Mrs. Eisenhower -break
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  • 24 1 rt-d last night tha, Bovit sk-irt,,,, „f a mammoth 1 lived 12.000 ye.M _«>. [I lnn<r ft „d has well preserv.d U.P.I.
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  • 26 1 Thirty nations, including Malaya, joined yesterday In co-sponsoring a resolution in the UN. special political committee ;it persuading to abandon its apartheid nolit.—M UPI
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  • 118 1 UIVE new polio patients have been admitted to Middleton Hospital in the past 16 hours. All are children under four. Polio cases reported so far this year now total 110, with four deaths. One of the new patients Is a Chinese boy of four from Tras
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  • 40 1 Four Singaj) trade unionists lell for Manila by air this morning to attend a UNESCO conii They are Mr. K. A. Kurup. Mr. Lee Yew Seng. Mr. John Mammen and Inch e Ismail bin Abdul Rahim.
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  • 28 1 French troops have killed 53 insurgents and captui 11 In a two-da v battle In the mountain in the Oran district oi Western 1 Alalia Reuter
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  • 245 1 'The laws of war' in Cyprus HPHE Cyprus Government last night met intreas- ing violence on the island by imposing new security measures which in certain areas amounted virtually to the laws of war. The drastic new steps tightened up thr» emergency regulations to an unprecedented peak of severity. The
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  • 31 1 November first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 89% cents per lb., down oneeighth of a cent on yesterday's closing price. The tone was uncertain.
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  • 519 2 SWEDEN PROPOSES EASE-TENSION SUMMIT TALK Let non-aligned nations help to break arms deadlock' /'FYLON yesterday urged a summit conference to ease world tension at I the samp time as talks to break the disarmament deadlock. Cevlon'a delegate on the U.N. General Assembly political committee. Mr T H SubasSighe, also called
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  • 120 2 MM V. K KRISHNA MKNON. India.-, Defence I yesterday pi I i (Torts to obtain unaniI Packing In the u.N. General Assembly for a re solution to end nuclear explosion In consultations with Other key del< he was understood to be seekii reconcile differenc tween
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  • 63 2 Austria has granted permission for United States military planes to fly over Its territory enroute home from Lebanon, the American Embassy announced in Vienna last night. Austria lies on the only direct non-Communist route between U.S. bases in Germany and the
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  • 249 2 '1958 may be Britain's turning point' (CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer, Mr. Derick Heathcoat-Amory, said in London last night that 1957 and 1958 might prove to have been a "decisive turning point" in Britain's economic affairs. He said at the annual Lord Mayor's dinner to city bankers and merchants that this
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    43 2 picture gl (Mm.) M. Calderwood, Lady Medical Officer of the <<.wrnm»nt Maternal and Child Health Scr\.< t (Rural), with the Kettering Shield handed over bv Mr. A J. Braga, Singapore Minister for HeaJth, representing the National Baby Welfare Council of Britain Free Press
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  • 54 2 CO-OP QUEEN CONTENDER Miss Lucy Tan, one E of the entrants for the 2 5 "Co-op Queen" contest E to be held at the an- E nual dance of the Sin- E gapore Public Services S E Co-operative Stores So- E cicty on Saturday, Nov. I E1 at the Sea
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  • 140 2 FALLOW SHELTER PLAN FOR U.S. A COMMISSIONER of th# U.S. Atomic Energy immission, Dr Wiii-ud Libby. yesterdav .a,- national falloai Bheltei programme ls an absolute necessity lor the detence of this country." He told a medical svrr.posium In Madison, Wisconsin: -These shelters in general can be improvised and frequently can
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    • 45 2 THE SINGAPORE DISPENSARY (Chemists) Head Office: 265, Orchard Rd S'pore Tel: ***** Opens: From 8.30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Branch Office: 69, Serangoon Carden Way ingoofl Gord. Opens: From 9.00 a.m. to I 9.00 p.m. Call on us tor iout Medical, Toilet I Cosmetic Requirements
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  • 152 3 U.K. will discuss ways of steadying prices l rrado. Bu to help nde'i •oimtnes v tionj in J e i rimary proj .•jjjp rj lom has sit round ne cornto achieve >] such flucl 1 Naid He wa ;:l S the opei l thrceday m meeting convened in Geneva by
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  • 89 3 pOUR Royal Navy men ashore at month to f^ -mile overland jourr, 0n mJS? l ate the wil fi! 'f rest of th crew lU ."y borne on foreign »ice leave. But Petty Uffiw^ Archie MacGilchrist and Able Seamen Cyril Hepburn, Bernard Bowens and Raymond Salisbury prefer
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  • 339 3 Dumping policy by Reds harms Asian economy MK. DOUGLAS C. DILLON, United States under-secretary of state for economic affairs said in Geneva yesterday that as long as Russia and China persisted In the "destructive trade practice" of dumping, the hope for a better life for millions of people in the
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  • 30 3 The Duke of Kent, a 23--year-old lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys, has joined his new station at Muenster, Westphalia. a Rhine Army spokesman said yesterday. Reuter
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  • 47 3 President Tito plans to use an Asian tour later this year to rebut Soviet bloc charges that Yugoslavia is siding with 'imperialists," diplomatic sources In Belgrade said. He will set out in late November or early Decem- Reuter ber on the trip.-
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  • 400 3 A MACHINE MAKES LANDINGS FOR PILOTS NOW A COMFI. I- 111 V automatic landing system for airliners, developed after five years of British catch, was demonstrated in London yesterday to airliner operators and service chiefs from many parts of the world. The system, produced by the Royal Aircraft Establishment at
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  • 28 3 A British Tran tl ir Viscount yesterday set up a new commercial a^er flight record from London to Malta— non-stop in four hon minute Reuter
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    • 172 4 rrWO potentially dan- gerous days of national flexing of muscles anniversaries of the Chinese Communist and Nationalist regimes have come and gone. There have been fireworks in plenty. The Reds shot off an estimated 400,000 rounds of shells. The Nationalists responded suitably. But the Two Chinas stalemate remained —with
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  • 1065 4 In all my time as a reporter I've never seen the equal of this says SEFTON DELMER I IE little village ol blackened .straw huts has a poetic nan Kamel Nomak which m< ana In Inish Your Sic i doul thinking ol K i these nights
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  • 444 4  - Beachcomber DFSDF DFSD READING an advertisement for a governess, I could not help recalling the advertisement In by a governess some years ago, which appeared In a aectable paper Governess, n cars in one place I expect the advert ment was answered by the proprietor Of B fair, who had
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    • 24 4 PLATINUM WHITE COLD GOLD WEDDING RINGS kmr v# fla P. H. HENDRY. nufscturtnt U 78 North BnnA Singapore St Kuala I. nm|> u r
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    • 100 4 Bell Howell I l^ > **M^^il'i'i. »A"' *i? I t'.se (he popular, new Bell #fc fl Howell ELECTRIC CHAN- fl M $325" <-er and enjoy automatic /SINGAPORE) I projection. Run your slides [mtwwm Horn a comfortable chair up front with your audience Wlih a remote control cord you change slides
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  • 299 5 ILLEGAL ENTRY: SEARCH GOES ON NUMBEK of illegal immigrants from liulo nesii and China are believed to be still at irf in Singapore and the Federation. 1 LII of the Singapore Immigration rj they were always on the alert to mprehend such people. Eight Illegal entrants from Indonesia wen Liled
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  • 64 5 rhe second group ol 20 Btory-tell< rs from Chilatown will take part in a 'ivies course organised by ;ne Depart:. Infornation Services on Monday. In the course of their tour, bey will have discussions S' lth to Mr A.J. pga. the Minister for
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  • 27 5 "Night and Day.' a ceramic mural by Catalan artist Joan Miro, yesterday won the $30,000 Guggenheim International Award for 1958 in New York Reuter
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  • 154 5 B INTEREST in the coming A general election undei B Singapore's new constitua tion is reflected in the large turn-out of voters to check electoral rolls. On Wednesday the g first day for inspection 1,083 persons cheeked the registers. Two hundred and eight persons who
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  • 164 5 SOME religious organisation! in Singapore have formed special subcommittees to help thi Ministry of Education se lect religion and ethics textbook^ for schools next year. A religious and ethic. s commute under the Assistant Minister for Education. Inche Mohd. Sidik ba» Haji Abdul Hamid. is con
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  • 52 5 Cha idhary Ghulam Abbas, leader of the Kashmir Liberation Movement, and several other leaders of the organisation have been rein Rawalpindi, Par tan They have been warned that it they reverted their decision to violate the C4 asetire line they would be dealt with under martial I
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  • 27 5 The 1958 all-Malayan in- tenia tional amateur ballroom dance championship will be held on Oct. 31 and November 1 in a Singapore cabaret.
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  • 171 5 gIR ROBERT SCOTT, the Commissioner-Gen eral, will open the eastern regional commit tee conference of the International Unioi Against Tuberculosis at 9.30 a.m. tomorrow The meeting, to be held at the Royal Singapore Chest Clinic in Shentoi. Way, will be attended bv 1
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    • 31 5 STRETCHABLE NYLON SOCKS COMFORT DURABILITY PL a f5 TlVt "SIGNS coioifs a^ H T E or I pr w «fc ••iron. R Cosonobly 11 SEN < MIN CO. LTD 'AIL DEPT I
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    • 36 1 t mamW wEf Firm and pleasing to the lips j mild yet deeply satisfying to the taste —Chesterfield alone is pleasure- packed by Accu-Ray. j R ,ul IJ^A §*T; |No Increase f^ ms J in Price
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    • 194 1 IkIV Vl\U KK* by Sydney Jordan aaaar AamaaaaW Aa\\<\ w9mam\\ I^BBBBv jt** IT li M DBMBbW^Jb^ B^ 2^Bw m*ama\\ \\am\W x^bbhbbW^^bD^ V v^bV V bbki fIIA bttß W .^Jmm Hr if «^yaw^^^' bbbbV mma\\\\\ uTar a 1 I \,^bbbbbb_a^b>^' A^k X jAJWA\ > bbV\ 1 BBW^EEfI a\\w99amm AmtkawX Ebw ff
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    • 465 1 iJaWtmK^^w^ r^ fi C OORN today, you have t! i s p with which to gratify your d< I You are independent and indn 5 s i^tic in your outlook on life a it s most unlikely that you will anything in a strictly i manner. S S Perhaps your
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 170 2 LONDON. 0«t 16. Previous I oday l R>S c.i.L 1 oe| 25?; buyers 25 >, buyers aW" sellers .eis S'oi 25 T t, buyers 26's sellers 25 4 sellers -pot 26 buyers 25'.. bmers lwl 2QV* sellers U% sellers i-BBFR Kt I RSS iettliWlßl l ll( u
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    • 105 2 NEW YORK. Ort. 16. Previous- <i.i» TIN Straits Spot 96.25 nom. 96.00 nom. TIN future.*[traits Contract Oct 95.00 buyers 94.25 buyers 96.87 sellers 96.25 sellers Dec 94.50 buyers 93.50 buyers 96.00 sellers 95.50 sellers rOVE. Quiet. SALES: NIL ÜBBER: Futures Nov 31.30 paid 31.20 buyers 31.25 sellers
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    • 20 2 NEW YORK, Oct. 16. 10 industrials Jjfff 10 Railroads fJ^J j^cßono.- *£g 15 St.nks Composite Avenges iSllss
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    • 58 2 alabar I, awaiting "to* 24,. ,nouts 24'October shipment 24% 24 L and k-unpon* spot 25. Vi waitS K relea^ 24%, anonts 24'. October shipment 24 1 Sara- wak unquoted. Mtintok whit* .spot 37*4, awaiting release 37. afloats 37. and October shipment 37, 36 'j cif. sellers exdock. Above
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    • 96 2 COPRA Phil,pp incs ej f rK/ wShi Uropran *>** delivered CoprJ t ff r on November TurL fa,tS Cif /North ff 4 P rts delivered CO?ONlT r^! lf ton fl! Fnr n L Str Der l«« P an P° rts in bulk rofVvJS. ton ocU>b<>r .7
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  • 52 2 QUEEN ELIZABETH and the Duke of Edinburgh yesterday ended their nineweek holiday at Balmoral in the Scottish Highlands. They drove over the mountain pass known as the Devil's Elbow to Perth where they took a train for Carlisle, for the Queen's first public engagement since
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  • 157 2 T"; RL »u a change of don wi? 1 :ie L °nZ St rl k markct yesterupward i recent stron g of he t Wing thc sh <** Wed w\ t ;'\2 lvldcnd cou•etback o» w e i, vern| gnt Th. 111 Street. a however,
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  • 343 2 THE medical profession in Singapore is convinced that the time has come to take some positive action to deal with the polio epidemic in the Colony. Sixty-one paralytic victims had been admitted to the Middieton Hospital during the past 16 days. The total
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  • 63 2 rE final of the annual inter-school debates on sociology for the Catholic Social Guild Shield—between the Katong Convent and St. Joseph's Convent will be held on Sunday at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus. Subject of the debate: "Juvenile delinquency can be overcome by the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 120 2 Todays radio programme 1.15 pjn. Sweet and Livelv; 1.30 Time Signal and Newt,; 1.45 Fun and Frolic; 2.00 Close Down; 5.00 String Serenade: 5.30 At the Piano; 5.45 Radio Ranch; 6.00 Mall Bag. Sarojini Lourdes plays your requests; 6.45 Lights On; 6.53 Announcements and Singapore Share Market Report; 7.00 Time
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    • 48 2 £***********************************111 1 SINGAPORE HIGH TIDES I TODAY: 111 pm. TOMORROW !I I am. and 1.57 p.m. SUNDAY: 3.41 a.m. and 2.44 p m. MONDAY: 4.53 a.m. and 3.43 p.m. I TUEBDAY: 6.35 a.m. and 5.07 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 7.55 a.m. 7.#7 p.m. THURSDAY: 8.43 a.m. and 929 p.m. SllHlllllininillllllllllllllllllllll
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  • 101 3 Land and water flash by, merging in a thrilling race with time, as the camera follows Britain's Donald Campbell, holder of the present 239 07 mile-an-hour world water speed record, in his jet-engined hydroplane "Bluebird" during recent trials on Coniston Water
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  • 144 3 GUINEA-PIG ARMY SICK OF THE NAVY Singing "Rolling Down The River" 75 soldier volunteers E pitched and tossed in rubber rafts recently in an Admiralty exE perimcntal tank, while their Navy hosts tried E to make them seaE s»ck. In the midst of their suffering medical obE servers asked them
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  • 22 3 lil 1 K*X WOOD, .1! Coleford, 801 Hvini hi d rCn r .i"2, W 1 child* lly the ami lx
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  • 183 3 Mr. about in his MANAGI.\ dire, city acilkr gently kicked a unci said. cion t| it." But there was' He was expla ta Man boj i \v indl ers College and elders scramblim their Latin boofc IT all began when Neate. head ol a big i Chester eli Ilrm mitted
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  • 199 4 i( Nea t Winchester nthusiast, ta] officinale v j sno uld have done t ol ;< )ICe 1 iraxacum oflicinale j h perennially yellow lowei lltl( dioii ves or f Ift. high lowers in I sii-iistni!n valftre .shrub. heavily rkii m e obtusifoliui
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  • 52 4 f Unlike most inn si^ns. in Britain anyway, > Uns Stands on the corner of the road in Great 5 Yarmouth, Norfolk. It is I twelve loot high < J Indian totem pole, hand carved in British > toiiimhia pine and e:ailv naintrd in .1
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  • 177 4 r OVE came to the "cold war" bet- ween Britain and Iceland the other S day, when a husky British trawlerman s $annou need "my i girl's an Icelandic E girl and I'm go- 5 ing to be an Ice- lander soon." He
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    • 143 4 j i For example: More overseas experience v^ Hfb-^WS •'aafeTe' /fm\ aw£a\*\ teHliiiii iflAJl I Ij^r^^WvfpSH w*****l****mwaM 'v* ja^ Kl A*XVlliL*rJ Wm^faZMbtAa^am \VkV v aV R till f lii Lii lUli'a 9 When vim st(>p aboard a Pan Am ri< Wf Clipper 0 >on immediately sense the (lil- Wfi lerence
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  • 374 5 THE man who wrote the words ol John reel," a long that is known wherever English spoken, lies buried in a weed-grown, abandoned cemet* ry in Australia's BOUthern island state. He died in Hobart, Tasmania's capital city, on August 17, 1880, at
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  • 54 5 I This is the monument unveiled in Hobart city park to John Woodcock Graves who wrote the words of "John Peel." Graves migrated to Tasmania in 1836 and died there 50 years later at the age of 100. Below is a close-up of the bronze plaque
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  • 582 5  - Read this and perhaps you will believe in fairies! A. CARNEY By- \\O you believe in fairies? It's a serious ques- tion deserving a serious answer at any rate it's a question that would be taken seriously by many people. More people than you might think. People who believe they
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  • FRIDAY PHOTOGRAPHY PAGE
    • 441 6 The Lensman says I ||llllllllllill,l, Kill lIIIMIIIIIIIHIM, l IMIII. 1 1 11 ill IMlllllllllilllllllllllltllM WHERE do you find scenery? Just go and ask your friends, and hear what they say in reply. Cham es are they will spea.-. j of the mouns ui Japan o:
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    • 498 6 IJAVE you ever tried iJ to listen to a radio programme through a lot of static? You know how it cuts into the enjoyment and sometimes, it will even drown out what you want to hear. Photographs have their own form of "static" too. It interferes with
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  • QUERIES
    • 106 6 WHY does my film always "buckle" alter I is J c h K h u to *ry.— P.L. > Most likely you yourself are the villain in tins cas( ,«V^ OW/ a!wavs be sure that film is thoroughly ,w;,?7i G/ /V r dwejoping and fixing. After
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    • 98 6 I recently shot some colour film, following (he exposure recommendations on the enclosed pam ?i tho »*"»»*r«ncles had errcnMi UMW Wli.d i in 1 do about this?— < o I Sauna })Cn had that film on hand for some time. Chech the erpfratiou date on the
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  • 29 7 x Japanese fleets with a total of 69 catcher boats will take pari In the coming International whaling «xpedit.on in the Antarctic start inn late Novembci Reuter
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  • 165 7 Japan in need of 6,000 more A-experts *APAN, coal- hart J nation which plai d< pt-nd nuclear energy In the future for H> power supply lac< ou> c ol atomli pei rTiic- I B ard of Science and technology bu.,iii< b ni m In Japan winch icl d recent- lv
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  • 91 7 THE leaders oi Chicago's Chinatown have laid plans to lick slums and juvenile delinquency with pagoda roofs and Confucian sayings They have already put up a big Chine e community centre and t heir nex* move will be to erecl a :00-unit modem oriental"
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  • Article, Illustration
    53 7 pie tu re. Some IOOOU people packed the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium to celebrate the MrthdTy ot the late Mahatma Gandhi and to greet Indian .President K.iKn- da Prasad darin. His recent visit. I>r. Prasad one of Gandhi s close dis- ciDlt-s and collaborators in the fight for in dependence, addressed
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  • 317 7 THE shell-battered Tatan Island outpost of Nationalist China is being rapidly rebuilt and restocked as supplies pour into it now that the communist batteries on the mainland four miles away are silent. Renter correspondent Lionel Tsai. who was among the first correspondents allowed
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  • 132 7 No cut now in army of S. Korea SOUTH KOREAN President Syngman Rhee said in Seoul the United States had suspended the idea of reducing the Korean armed forces in the light of the mounting threat of Communist aggression. The President said. 'Our American friends insisted In the past on
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  • Glimpses
    • 128 7 HOW TAIPEH SEES PAK. EMERGENCY THE Taipeh ne> China News said, cent events in I indicate that the Free World may soon suffei I other serious setback y J did last July In irsq. The newspaper noted l Pajjl istani President I kawgi Mirza's statement uu "political adventure' attempting to
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    • 140 7 Sugar needs of F-E now fully met rHE United Nations Food and Agricultural <> r ganisation has predicted that the Far Ea*| will produce 5,600.000 tons of sugar this r making the area practically self-sufficient in sugar. •Unless there is a great upsurge in consumpti the F.A.O. reported at a
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    • 59 7 Some Japanese agricultural experts fear that Japan may be over-increasing her rice production without sufficient regard for a true improvement in productivity. Farmers, they say, tend to overfeed the rice plants and to prefer those strains which are most responsive to fertilisers, but excessive use of commercial fertilisers is liable
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    • 36 7 France and South have elevated their diplomatic missions to the status of embassies. Reuter. South Korea's "Rhee Line is one of the subjects being discussed at the resumed over-all talk Tokyo between Japan aim Korea.- Reuter
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    • 42 7 Mr. Chubei Itoh, leader of the 19-member Japanese trade delegation visiting New Zealand, said in Wellington that "there is every likelihood that the shipping service between the two countries will be expanded, but it has to be a two-way traf- fie."— Reuter
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    • 27 7 Hong Kong has reverted to normal water hours of 10 hours daily in two periods after a week of enjoying the luxury ol a 2A-hour supply.— Reuter
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    • 30 7 A month-long can; ag a i Dttcll a r m ai has beeu launch e d in J by the Japan C cil Against Atomic ana Hydrogen Bombs iGenswkyo).— U.P.I.
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    • 22 7 THE WASHINGTON POST SAID THAT BOTH COMMUNIST CHINA AND AN INDEPENDENT FORMOSA SHOULD EVENTUA! LY BE SEATED IN IHE UNITED NATIONS. REUTER
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    • 51 7 Twenty-seven Japanese fishermen seized by Soviet patrol boats a month ago have returned to Northern Japan after being detain- ed on Soviet-he! tan Island.— U.P.l Delegates at an lional congress tourist agencies in E sels were told that s Korea, rapidly re from the rany<is now in the tourist ness.-
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    • 26 7 Peking Radio, commenting on the American space probe Pioneer, said that the great achievement which the United States had publicised so widely had gone "bankrupt." Reuter
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    • 31 7 Japanese scientists reported a successful observation of a solar eclipse on Oct. 13 from their observation post on an atoll of the S u v o rov Islands ir Polynesia.- Reuter
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  • 249 8 THE BODLEY HEAD SCOTT FITZ[LD, Introduction by J.B. Priestley. FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD was a success; then he was a failure. Now that he has been dead for IS years he is u success again. People lead his novels; they write seriously about his significance. Fitzgerald would have
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  • 224 8 the work of a young man. ;erald was 28. Catsby. its hero, is a flawed romantic who has made money by dubious means and tells lies about his past. He lives on Long Island in great and vulgar state, hoping that he may meet the girl
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  • 315 8 WHY WAS IT CENSORED? THL BATTLE FOR THE RHINELAND. By R.W. Thompson. Hutchinson. 21s rkF all the dreary patches of the war, the autumn-winter of 1944-45 in the West is hard to beat. Long drawn, comfortless. disappointing and plagued by quarrels between Allied commanders, the battles of that era the
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  • 154 8 THE CARDINAL KING. Bu Brian Father gill Faber. Mir FOTHERGILL manfully struggles with the last of the Stuarts, but even his strong partisanship and manifest enthusiasm cannot make anything interesting out of that dim cleric. Henry. Cardinal of York, brother of Prince Charles Edward, pensioner of George
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  • 515 8 COMMANDER BEN GOES I LOOKING FOR A JOB MAN OVERBOARD. By Monica Dickens. Michael Joseph, 15«s. AT the age of 36 Lieutenant-Commander r% Benjamin Francis, R.N., finds himself looking for a job. After years of service, he has been the recipient of an
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    • 926 9 THE RIGHT HORSE FOR PENANG COURSE ALLAN LEWIS sums up STABLEMATE first start winners Flos and Destinv read well in the (lass 1 Div. I race over 8»F, main race at Penang tomorrow. Flox though a division higher, gets only 3 lb more in what is not a strong field.
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    • 41 9 THESE HORSES WON'T RUN TOMORROW PltOl..\!>i.r. scraU'i.in.ris at Penanß tomorrow arc as follows: Kanchil, Balkan Arab. Alalia Kancc, Nab 11. Hit Parade, Gun Runner, Movie Fan, Pagan King, Peace Police. Priority. Parrot Fashion, Bosun's Mate, Lingficld. Jara is a doubtful starter.
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    • 172 9 BOOKIES ANXIOUS PRICES at the callover held at] the Victoria Club in Lon- Jon last night on the second eg of the "Autumn Double," the j Cambridgeshire Handicap, to bej: un on Wednesday. October 29 Jj iere 11 to 2 Apgressor, 8 to 1 Ba- »ur, 100 to 9 Mldlander,
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    • 84 9 ling Moss, the British rivals for the World Drivers Championship, arrived in Casablanca yesterday for Sunday's Moroccan Grand Prix, final event of the season. Practice for the race begins on the circuit outside the town today. Britain is sure to win the drivers championship this year
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    • 24 9 Donald Campbell, world water speed i holder, announced last night tl he would attempt to bri John record Ol our 1061.
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    • 268 9 Class 5 Div. 2 one mile Cliona 9»»«>, Bosun's Mate 8. sor II 8 12. Ifarwel Hat 8.09. 1 World 8.0«. I.inglield 8.01. Viola mas Carol 7.H, Midnight Tonij <;ood Returns 7.07, Contract 7.0 (^LIONA, winner of Di J should bo one of the
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    • 251 9 Up a division— but The Whistler gets my vote Class 4 Div. X— «i Furs Tinv lade !t 00. Vein- 8.13, Pl— ■■■< I»eam 8.1!. Shun., 8.1!. Magic Nole 8.10. Superscope 8.09, Balkan Arab 8 .09 Malay Film II 8.07. Malia Ranee 8.07, Nab II B.ob. Clew Bu* 8.06, The
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    • 386 9 Class 4 Div. 1-6 Furs On Screen 9.01, Sure Profit 9.01. Hit Parade gjg. Sayonara 8.10. Singora 8.08. L^rattr Vtihers Prt 8 04. Dollar Factory 8.02. One Two Four 8.0 Esther s JJJ 8.00 Producer 8.00. Follow Me Home 7.13. Anna <£«££. Bucentaur II
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    • 236 9 Box Office back to winning form Class 4 Wv. Zj-6*urs 9.00. .lara 8.13. Beechnut f£ gg*%£ 8.12. Ilaadyai 8.10. Box Oilier II BTO Kra 8^0 9 I. I, 8.09, Movie Fan 8.00. Forget Me No .II 8.08, Slim, I P 5 Budgerigar 8.07. Khaslm 8.07, The Friar II 8.06, UR»»
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  • 146 10 Five changes in the England XI ,v< i WI) make Ave < hangcs, one positional K V r ii..- International soccer match against A WemWey next Wednesday. he side that drew 3-3 with Northern Belfast on October 4 has been sweepanu in'zly rebuilt. Nat Lofthouse (centreforward). Bill Slater
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  • 162 10 iiOYAL AIR FORCE lIV f U ce their first I hurdle today In the I Singapore quadrangullar hockey competi|ao!i. They meet the stivng Civilians team ■at 5 p.m. on the S.C.C. Kadang. The other match today between Royal Navy and Be Army, commencing
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  • 83 10 Draw for 35 yearlings E T'li: draw for owner- l s »i i P of 33 yearlings from \us- ['alia \\;Il take place tpdaj at the Singapore i E rf 1 Club, Bukit i r I an. ili. E The rurf Club s year- "n« scheme has proved i Popular
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  • 140 10 A strong Singapore Goveminent Services Foot- ball team comprising several plavers who have played in the* Malaya Cup for Singas pore will play against the Muar District XI at Muar D on October 25. On the fol- lowing day they will play alnst the Malacca State
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  • 29 10 Results in yesterday's E British Rugby Union county E championship matches E w< Notts and Lincolnshire 14 E Leicestershire 13; Warwick- hire 17 North Midlands 14. Reuter
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  • 84 10 11 i won t! Individual in the World ilon chamit Aldcrshot, yes--0 took the 'nour when ho ''metres freestyle J 48 38€ C Breno Vigil w as second p of 3min. 51 8 and Ivan Novikov of Russia third in 3mln. 54sec. Ivan Novikov retained the
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  • 137 10 J_l 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 (1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
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  • 488 10  -  ARCHIE QUICK by THE Arsenal are in full cry again. The hunt to recapture the Highbury glories of the 'thirties is on, and there could be no better master of hounds in charge of the pack than George Swindin. The man who came from Bradford to keep
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  • 167 10 PETER KEENAN of Glasgow retained his British Empire boxing title last night when he outpointed Pat Supple, the Canadian champion, over 15 rounds in Glasgow. Defending Ida title for the tilth time. Keenan, 30, gave a brilliant performance. He came from behind to give the tough little
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  • 225 11 'Save nation confidence vote today 11 HANON'S four-man J parliament lor the "save the nation" cabinet voted yesterday to ask ritfht to rule by decree tor six months to try to restore order. Premier Karami takes his new Government before the chamber today
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  • 50 11 Efforts Acre underway at the United Nations yesterday to patch up the diplomatic rift between Tunisia and the United Arab Republic- m* It was learned that Mohammed Ya/id, Minister ot Information for the Algerian Provisional Government m*t Mahmoud Fawzl, uA H Foreign Minister. U.P.I.
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  • 26 11 Guards used tear gas late yesterday to duel! an hour long riot by about 100 prisoners in the county jail at Denver. Colorado.— Reuter
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  • 39 11 A six -power resolution yesterday called upon the United Nations General Assembly to terminate the U.N. trusteeship over Frenchadministered Togoland in 1960 so that the East Africa territory can assume full in- depentU nee U.P.I
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  • 64 11 Peking Radio reporting the arrest of two British members of the Jehovah's Witnesses Sect, Stanley Ernest Jones and Harold George King, said today that Chinese Christian* "had voiced their full support of the Governments ban" The radio gave no detail oi the ban
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  • 192 11 Aid fund pledge of $38m. FOURTEEN states pledged x more than U5530,000,000 yesterday toward next year's operation of the U.N. special fund to aid in economic development. Their pledges were announced at the annual conference to line up contributions both to the special fund, established by the general assembly two
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    144 11 h DR. R. P. JAVA WAR- E DENE, a council mem. ber of the Ceylon Na- i E tional Association for E the Prevention of Tuberculosis, flew into E Singapore by Air Cey- lon last night to attend the meeting of the Eastern Regional Com. mittee of the Inter. national
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  • 63 11 THE first of three final requiem masses for the Pope will be celebrated in St Peter's today as mourning for the late Pontiff enters its final phase. Forty-two of the 44 Cardinals now in Rome are expected to take part in today's mass. The
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  • 124 11 200.000 Polish Reds 'axed A" I on! or the members j of Poland's Communisl I'.ui.N hare keen expelled j from its ranks in tin pist reai ihe rcrctarj m, j B/ladyslan Gomalka, ins revealed. i Mr. Qomulka told the r i 12th, plenary session of I j th« part) thai
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  • 129 11 rpHE International Transport Workers Union will call a world-wide boycott of conveniencyflag shipping at a meeting in Hamburg next month, a German Transport Union official announced yesterday. Henry Hildebrand, shipping department head of the West German Public Services and Transport Union said a Hamburg meeting
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  • 128 11 RADIO Moscow reported terday that Soviet Premier. Nikita KhrushI chev, has warned the West that war with the Soviet I Union would mean "disinr tegration of the capitalist system The broadcast said that Mr. Khrushchev made his warning while speaking at Krasnodar, where he prej sented the
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  • 235 11 Crisis talks delayed another day THE United States embassy in Warsaw uu nounced fast night that the ninth meetin between the U.S. and Chinese ambassador; Mr. Jacob Beam and Mr. Wang Ping-nan t discuss the Far East crisis had been postpone, from Thursday, Oct. 23, to the following day. lhe
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