Sunday Standard, 19 August 1956

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    16 1 SUNDAY STANDARD *1 SB it 2H 4 Vol. VII. No. 48 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1956
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    272 1 [f r Tattdon's Advice -tir Ci^mlsskwier for the Government of India Mr. R. K. Tandon, on Indian Indenrndcnce Day, advised Indians in Malaya to P their full devotion, loyalty and industry f Milaya. He said that Indian contribution to the building: of modern Malaya was of no mean order,
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    Lock icon SCOTTISH ISLANDERS BOYCOTT THE QUEEN
    178 1 SCOTTISH ISLANDERS BOYCOTT THE QUEEN She Watches Polo On Sundays LONDON, Aug. 17, (UP)— Queen Elizabeth II arrived at the Scottish island of North Uist today but some of the islanders boycotted her reception. Not Even A Bouquet Of Flowers A minister stayed away because the Queen watched polo games
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    Lock icon Crisis On Nasser's Doorstep
    233 1 Crisis On Nasser's Doorstep Israelis Resume Raids IkIRO. kug. IS, (AT) offiii.il Egyptian ce said nine I^ypkillofi by 'Us in two incidents k Gaza >trip yestermorning. tits ochourt were bus ambush not far ptian gntcup aeli-Egyj> e U.N. Secretary General Hammarskjoid's peace mission last April. The Egyptian source said the
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    Lock icon Selwyn Lloyd Calls For A Unanimous Decision
    722 1 Rejects Russia's Proposal LONDON, Auk. 18 (Reuter) Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, the British Foreign Secretary, today called on the 22-aation Suez conference to make a unanimous declaration on the future of the 100-mile long Canal. i He said: "I hope that without too much
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    Lock icon Peace For Cyprus Seen
    150 1 NICOSIA, Augr. 18 (Reuter) A Cyprus government statement today said that the decision of EOKA to suspend violence was possibly "the first practical step towards a peaceful settlement" in the Island. The statement pointed out that the EOKA organization had only declared the suspension of violence
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    Lock icon UK CRICKET
    32 1 SOUTHEND, Aug. 18 (Reuter) The Australian cricketers dismissed Essex for 154 and had replied with 36 for one by tea on the first day of their three-day match here today.
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    Lock icon Ban Result: 40 Held In W. Germany
    140 1 KARLSRUHE, Germany. Aug. 18 «AP) —At least 40 Communist officials were arrested last night in the wake of the Federal constitutional court's ban of their party on the ground it was undermining the West German democracy, i Police raided Communist Party headquarters in
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    Lock icon UK SOCCER RESULTS
    72 1 LONDON, Aug. 18 (Reuter) Torrential rain, strong winds and shock results provided a stormy opening to the new English League Football season today. Newly-promoted Leeds United and Sheffield Wednesday made a fine start in their return to the premier division. Leeds won handsomely by five goals to
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    Lock icon Radio Peking On Marshall's Visit
    128 1 I HONGKONG. Aug. 18 (AP) Peking Radio said on Saturday that David Marshall's visit to Red China will add to his understanding of China and help in his efforts to promote friendship and co-operation between the Chinese and Singapore people*. i The radio said Marshall,
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    Lock icon French Kill 95 In Grim Battle
    129 2 French Kill 95 In Grim Battle ALGIERS, Aug. 18, (UP) French forces killed 95 rebels in East Algeria in a grim start of the Moslem new year today, authorities announced. Officials said that the battle took place in the Fedjmzala Region. 50 kilometres (31 miles) West of Constantine. The insurgents
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    Lock icon To Return For Trial
    80 2 HONGKONG. Aug. 18 (UP>— John Martin. British manager cf the Hongkong Factory Syndicate, and a former business executive in Singapore, was yesterday ordered to be brought back to Singapore for trial. Magistrate Hin Shing-lo ordered Martin to be handed over from Hongkong Police to J. Liddle.
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    Lock icon HOT BATH FOR A HOT NUMBER
    94 2 TWENTY YEAR. OLD model Susan Flynn is seen during a demonstration in London of the latest thing in Turkish bathing. AH the gear required Is a plastic sheet fixed to the bath by means of suction discs. There is a zip arrangement allowing the
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    Lock icon Harry Does A Quick Switch
    113 2 'Adlai Can Win/ He Says CHICAGO, Aus. 18, (UP)— Former President Truman reversed himself tonight and hailed Adlai Stevenson as a fighting presidential candidate "wtio can win." Truman, who had used every ounce of his political power to swing the Democratic presidential nomination to Governor
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    Lock icon Liners Collide
    65 2 QUEBEC. Canada, Aug. 18 (AP). The liners Homeric and Columbia collided in thick fog in Quebec harbour on Saturday and the Columbia was reported damaged heavily. No one was reported injured. The Homeric, a Home Lines vessel of 18.152 tons, was inbound from Europe when it struck the
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    Lock icon Lift Ban On China, Say Unions
    95 2 Lift Ban On China, Say Unions HASTINGS. Aug. 18 (Reuter) I Delegates representing three million British workers demanded at their annual conference here today the lifting' of all bans on trade with Communist China. They declared that this would help to check the growing unemployment in Britain and also help
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    Lock icon ESTES TURNS DEFEAT INTO VICTORY
    480 2 ESTES TURNS DEFEAT INTO VICTORY One Of The Dramas Of Political History Snatches Vice-Presidential Spot In Last-Minute Switch Of Votes CHICAGO, Aug. 18, (Reuter) After one of the closest fights in the history of porty conventions, the Democrats last night chose famed crime investigator Senator Estes Kefauver as their vice-presidential
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    Lock icon 36 Mine Victims Buried
    60 2 MARCINELLE, Belgium, Aug. 18, (AP) Thirty-?ix Italian miners, among about 270 victims of a fire Aug. 8 in the Boi> Du Cazier pit, were buried here yesterday. A funeral mass was held before an improvised altar in the town's main square Down in the mine, searchers
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    Lock icon FBI Crack Acid Blinding Of US Columnist
    241 2 FBI Crack Acid Blinding Of US Columnist NEW YORK, Aug. 18, (UP)— The FBI broke the acid blinding of labour columnist Victor Ricsel yesterday with a series of arrests and the disclosure that a young hoodlum made the attack for US$l,OOO and then was slain, apparently because tell-tale acid burns
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  • Obituary
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    99 2 O N <£ Dr> On Siow Hian. age V-/ 63. of 19 Siglap Plain. Singapore, passed away peacefully on 18.8.1956 at his residence leaving behind his beloved second wife. 4 sons: Chew Bee Tong Bee. Beng Bee Khuan Bee. 1 daughter-in-law. 3 daughters: Siong Ngo, Mrs. Seow Sian Hock.
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      342 2 NOTICES SALE OF GOVERNMENT STORES BY TENDER TENDERS will be received up to noon on the 31st August 1956 for the purchase of 1475 ammunition pouches. These pouches are made of green canvas. 10" x 10" in size, and closed with a flap with two turn buttons. These ammunition pouches
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    Lock icon And The Vote Goes To Amstutz Who Wins 'Battle Of The Ages'
    481 3 *gg*_A_FOPR.DAT tussle THE METHODISTS ELECT A BISHOP DR. Hobart B. Amstux was elected Bishop of the Methodist Church in South-East Asia yesterday. He will be in office for the next eight years. Dr. Amstutz will be proclaimed Bishop
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    Lock icon He Died At Breakfast
    61 3 RAUB, Sat. A watchman was crossing the road with a handful of cakes for his breakfast when he came into collision with a motor-cycle this morning. V. Narayanan, 45, died on the way to hospital after the accident with the motor-cycle ridden by forester Othman bin
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    Lock icon HIS HOBBY: OLD COINS AND THEY DATE BACK TO 1780
    98 3 A BUSINESSMAN whose family has lived in Kamna Kuala Trengganu, for eight generations ion of rare coins some of which date back 'a: as 1780. All the n are eavy It s to collect n ire the Spanish coins 1789,
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    Lock icon Pahang MYF Hold Annual 4-Day Rally
    96 3 BENTONG. Sat.— More than 50 delegates from Raub, and Kuala Lipis districts and Sitiawan are attending the fourth annual Pahang Methodist Youth Fellowship Rally here now and Bentong Chapter is playing hosts. The arrangements for the 4riny meet is in the hands of Miss
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    Lock icon IED WHILE ILLING HIS LIGHTER
    71 3 RUB S.it. The Pahl (oroner. Mr. J. R. himstT todav returned a rdict of death by misventure on a padi planr who was severely burnt Hl' filling a cigarette Her. The planter. 31 -year-old Jidin bin Mohamrd. was fufllin: the lighter one in June, when
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    Lock icon Policeman Is Fined $40
    82 3 RAUB. Sat. Police Lieut. G. Gallaghar of District Police Headquarters. Pagoh. today pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing an automatic pistol without a permit. He was discovered with the unlicensed firearm or Kerayong, Pahang. last September. He told the magistrate. Mr. J. R. Whimster. he
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    Lock icon Parents Can Choose Schools For Their Children
    165 3 -.:?;-r. sat. Torch* 1 the Alliance ted rampr all children ?n 194!) and 1952— attempt places for everv 'ing the age of six. Payne, the Director an. said. month-long campaign, 27. wiU also know what ■Jwols the parents for their children. e schools
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    Lock icon Colony Champions
    66 3 FL LT. A. HULL, of the Royal Air Force, Changi. and Mrs. Hull, who won the 1956 Singapore International Amateur Dance Championship, held at the Happy World Cabaret on Thursday night. The Hulls will now represent Singapore in the forthcoming 1956 Malayan International Amateur Dance Championship to be
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    Lock icon Rubber Rises 1 7/8 cents
    168 3 Rubber Rises 1 7/8 cents THE Singapore rubber market closed quiet at 98j{ cents per lb. for first grade September shipment, a rise of lj cents on Friday. The market opened uncertain at 975 per lb. and steadied to around 98$ cents. At noon the market was quietly steady at
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    Lock icon RED LOVEBIRDS TOLD: QUIT THE JUNGLE QUICK
    175 3 RED LOVEBIRDS TOLD: QUIT THE JUNGLE QUICK KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— A bandit couple's ardent pledge "never to separate, in death or life" had security forces in Selangor worried today. They have called in psychological warfare experts to devise a method to kill or capture them both or induce their surrender
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    Lock icon Spivs Reap A Harvest
    113 3 MALACCA, Sat.— Organized gangs of "spivs" are enjoying a boom at the first Malacca Settlement show which opened at the Kubu Padang last night. Their "black market" ticket sales at a profit of 50 per cent have yielded over $2,000 in one night The Standard was
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    67 3 WAR-TIME 11 it nine Dawn K.ithic.iMi 19. of Malaya is seen here in London with her husband to be. Bruce SpaldIng, 26. a London barrister. They are to marry on Sept. 1. Dawn is the daughter of the late Mrs. Sybil Kathigasu of Ipoh and Dr. Kathigasu. Mrs. Kathigasu was
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    Lock icon 3 Unions Charge Police With 'Bid To Subjugate'
    402 4 Strong Protest Over Leader's Detention By Special Branch THREE Services' Unions, representing more than 27,000 workers, yesterday charged that the Police are making an attempt to coerce their leaders into subjugation. The Army Ministry Local Staff Union, Army Civil Services Union, and
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    Lock icon THE TYING OF THE 'NUPTIAL KNOT'
    118 4 MORE than 500 guests yesterday watched a two-hour Hindu wedding: ritual in Singapore which ended with the tying of the "Thali" or Nuptial Knot and with it. Miss Baladevi and Mr. V. Ganapathy Muthu were pronounced "Man and Wife." The ceremony was held in
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    71 4 MUSLIM prisoners at Changi Jail will hear a recorded lecture on Islam this morning as part of their religious education. Mr. Ahmad All Khan Surattee. visiting secretary to the All Malaya Muslim Missionary Society, told The Standard tnat the lecture by Kiai Anwar Musadad/ a prominent Indonesian
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    Lock icon Army Truck Driver Jailed
    193 4 IPOH. Sat.— A 21-year-old Army truck driver. Private Peter Reily, described by the Court as having treated the whole matter of knocking down and killing a cyclist as a "joke" and then driving off was today sentenced by the President of the Sessions Court. Mr. E
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    Lock icon COLONY WEDDING
    75 4 MR. AND MRS. Eugene Ow en after their wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, yesterday. Mr. Owen, the third son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Owen is attached to the Junior Trade School while the bride, the former Miss Diana Abishrcan:\dcn. is the yminerst daughter of Pastor
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    Lock icon O.C. Was A Bit Careless At Railway Crossing
    225 4 Open Verdict By Coroner IPOH. Sat.— The tragedy of a collision between an armoured car and a train at Sungei Siput level crossing on June 24, could have been avoided if the Officer Commanding had ordered one of his men to get
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    Lock icon 12 Freed Murder Ro
    85 4 IPOII. Sit- Tl persons who *et« aJ connection with th^ of two \< Vew. IT. f« Anrfcr on I of .July 15 dischargoH tbt P|2 tho S< Police murder igaiatt th^ However, their arq re-arrested by *ne PqS warrant from tht I Besar, Porak. ua^ Banish"-'
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    Lock icon HG Abused Woman: $1
    35 4 HG Abused Woman: $1 NIBON'G TEB So o En*, aged the Home 'qc. was Circuit Hassan bin Hu of h a v 1 n s language to n w Wnn Chen L I July 20.
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    Lock icon New $170,000 Health Centre
    90 4 New $170,000 Health Centre SEREMBAN. Sat. The first district Health Centre in the Federation, built at a cost of 51 70.000. was officially declared open by the Undans Luak of Rembau, Negri Sembilan. today. He thanked the British Government for its financial contribution, through the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund,
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    Lock icon PROGRAMME FOR MORAL REARMAMEN
    227 4 PROGRAMME FOR MORAL REARMAMEN Lib»Socs Work Q ut THE Singapore Liberal Sociaist P ar t pledged to wipe out opium smoking, gamhii^ gling and corruption from the Colony. This was decided at a meeting of the Party, .sponsored by Messrs. Lim Choon Mong. Legislative Assemblyman for Serangoon, and Ng See
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    93 5 ruCl broke into laugh-fS-rday in- a Singapore a defence wit- K:m Toh. spelt j but did, u I ;ecl this by the Inspector an, when be Lv« rci Klss sed perre Chng i Q u Kai Kit. guili v Of I ers Of. an unlawful »urt to Teng j
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    Lock icon Colleagues Sack This Pretty Secretary
    210 5 Colleagues Sack This Pretty Secretary I r\\o collearlf to the rescue 1 Cher Miss Dons *'«r\rt with a Fanton. Lta. on ifT d fro; n Monday :e» R -\rV arainst the Ujg* to 5 r^S callrd by a f Companies' S2?uSloi they unffidr?ideil that the KJS>^ employers should take "all
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    Lock icon Knifed Chum & Went To Sleep, Court Told
    229 5 Knifed Chum Went To Sleep, Court Told YOUNG Brii Idier Ed I mad own Bd to bed. exboys in the care of the in, an Army il In\ ns Offi:'.i i 6 re Gen- yesterLIR.D. Parrot t. the I testifying Jamts Peter the King's 5 ttisln Borderers, ft stabbing Pte.
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    Lock icon It Wasn't A Cheap Peep For This Tom
    138 5 TEO Ah Seng, 20-year-old seaman, was fined $20 or a week's jail by a Singapore Magistrate yesterday. for peeping at a young- washerwoman while she was having a bath on the night of Aug. 1. The girl, Tan Ah Yong. 10, told
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    62 5 TICKETS lor the Opera Concert to be given by trie Dutch Opera Quartet at Victoria Memorial Hall on Aug. 22 will be available to students at $1 each. The musical society ha s also announced that concession rates will be given to all who book at
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    Lock icon Lim To Open A Culture Centre For Malayalees
    250 5 Lim To Open A Culture Centre For Malay alees SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr Lim Yew Hock, will today open a $35,000 cultural and philosophic centre at Seletar for 10,000 Malayalees in the Colony. The centre, first of its kind in Malaya, was built in memory of a great Indian Yogi,
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    Lock icon Returns From UK
    56 5 MR. LOOI IMM MENG, 35, who returned to Singapore last night in the German vessel, Schwabstein, after completing a six month course in radio engineering in Britain. He was sent to England by the British 'Broadcasting Corporation Far Eastern Station at Tebrau. where he has been employed
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    Lock icon POLICE APPROVE CULTURAL PLAY
    185 5 FOUR Police officers of the Special Branch watched a cultural play staged by the Singapore Kerala Samajam at the Beatty Secondary School last night and modded their approval. The officers were sent when the Malayalee Catholic s made a strong protest to the Police that the
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    Lock icon 'Liquor? Never Again!' Court Told
    108 5 'Liquor? Never Again!' Court Told A MAN, with his chest and neck In a plaster cast, was told by a Singapore Magistrate that he had suffered sufficiently lor his folly, and was discharged yesterday. Velayuthan Krishnan pleaded guilty in the Singapore Seventh Magistrate's Court yesterday to a charge of being
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    Lock icon GOVT. TO START A NEW SERVICE A 'Snub'For Staff Side
    350 5 GOVT. TO START A NEW SERVICE A 'Snub' For Staff Side By JAMES S. DAVID THE Singapore Government has decided to "snub" the staff side of the Civil Service Whitley Council in a matter vitally affectina the staff. i This is the first time since the establishment of the Council
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    Lock icon No Accounts Were Kept For Months, Court Told
    190 5 No Accounts Were Kept For Months, Court Told THE assistant manager of Chequers Hotel. Tarn Tuan Siah, claimed trial in a Singapore Court yesterday to three charges of criminal breach of trust of $1,968.69 at Thomson Road, between September and March, last year. The court recorded the evidence of Mr.
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    33 5 HULL, (England). Aug. 17 (UP) Doctors spent an hour trying to find something wrong with steeplejack Jack Casidy. 35. after he plunged 90 feet from a factory chimney today. He was unhurt.
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    Lock icon Air Marshal Returns
    55 5 THE Cornmander-in-Chief. British tar East Air Force. Air Marshal Sir Francis Fressanges returned to Singapore last night alter meeting Admiral Stump. United States Commander-in-Chief. Pacific Area, in Honolulu. The two Commanders will meet again at the forthcoming SEATO military advisers' conference which opens In Baguic. Manila, in
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    Lock icon Fire On Ship Put Out
    78 5 AN alert Singapore Harbour Board Fire Service put out a fire In the engine room of the Playarang in the dockyard area yesterday afternoon. Tne fire, which beean in the engine room, wa:* put cut In a matter of minutes. An eye-witness told The Standard
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    Lock icon Law Professor at 29!
    583 6  - Law Professor at 29! Roger Yue By— AT 29, Lee Sheridan is a young man who has been given a very remarkable job— the newly-cicated post of Professor of Law in the University of Malaya. This recent appointment makes him probably the youngest university professor in the entire South-east Asia
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    Lock icon HE MADE A HOBBY HIS CAREER
    509 6  -  A.G.S. Danaraj By AT the age of ten. a BlngaA pore boy saved every cent he got for his pocket money, to buy a camera. The boy. now one of Singapore's professional photographers. Mr. Wan Yue Kong, has recently gained International recognition on his
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    Lock icon MANY believe THERE will SOON
    857 6  -  David England MXKMMM Py<KKMMM> Be Life On The PiaJ THE planet Venus, which has been a splendid object in the western sky, has recently been as near us as it will ever get, between 26 and 27 million miles. It has been hurtling towards us
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    Lock icon Saying Of The Week
    281 6 I \L 7£ can't flip up and down with such a relatively small thing. Mr. Charles E. Wilson. U.S. Secretary of > Defence on the Sues crisis. 1 No one ha s to surrender rights without using every--2 thing he can to preserve g them. President
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    3030 7 w IfappGnekl CXXXXXXXXXXX> One fottle 0$ Cachaca Was All That Was Needed Continuing our case book of modern police detection- all over the world. By ALFONSO MARTINELLI Police Chief C.I.D. Rio de Janeiro As told to KURT SINGER fr ring of lights picks out the shcre
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      213 8 Wrong Cr° B s °l HOrSe burned. It Pnwor seems he is reI wfT*Cl cuperating from bruises he suffered when thrown from a horse an electric horse in a local gym. George said "IT WAS AN AC HORSE AND IM USED TO DCs." Not A JIM arness > m
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      731 8 Singapore Boy makes good in film bjkgnkghknm Hello, film fans... 1UST the other day I took the liberty of drawing your attention to the "stunt war" that's going on among this city's cinema publicity men. Not long ago they let loose a robot which dished out dollar bills... there was
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      427 8 FROM OUR STUDIO MAILS THE transition of the Tennessee Valley from its 1929 agricultural status to its recent semi-industrial blooming is the subject of a motion picture to be made by Elia Kazan, the wellknown director. Mr. Kazan has taken William Bradford Huie's "Mud on the Stars," published
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      267 9 CHARACTER ACTOR BY CHOICE INTRODUCING— Morrow was discovered in one of the biggest talent hunts ever conducted for a motion picture, being one of the more than 650 young actors interviewed and tested for BLACKBOARD JUNGLE. In that hard-hitting film Morrow portrayed the toughest of the young hcodlums. As a
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      99 9 New Mr. Mrs. JANET Lake and Bob Dix revealed that they were married in Las Vegas on May 31st in a civil ceremony m the resort's Little Chapel of the Golden Circle. The young M-G-M starlet and the son of the late Richard Dix, one-time movie idol, spent a two-day
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      589 10 THE Dutch Opera Quartet arrives in Singapore tomorrow. Annette de la Bije (soprano). Aafie Heynis (contralto>, Arjan Blanken (tenor) and Laurens Bogtman (bass) have been invited by the Musical Society to take part in its Mozart Bi-centenary Concert (Requiem and Coronation Mass) on Friday. August 31, with
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      344 10  - NEW RECORDS VICTOR DOGGETT Reviewed By BRAHMS. SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN C MINOR. TRAGIC OVERTURE. PHILHARMONIC PROMENADE ORCHESTRA COND. SIR ADRIAN BOULT NIXA NCL *****. rpms a wonderful tant performance, refreshingly free of over-dynamics and slushy ritardandi. The orchestra is a comparative small one (some 70 players) and the string
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    882 11 IS DOCILE —With Lots Of Style Motoring by RUB SCRIBE Comfort For Rear Passengers THE Rootes stylists do know their job. They have come up with another winner in their new Hillman Minx, two of which have arrived in Singapore. Rootes were among the first British auto makers to adopt
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    519 11 A Motoring Club For Servicemen In Malaya f'ALLING all servicemen with cars even if they are just old jalopies: You are invited to a meeting at the Raffles Hotel on Aug. 23 at 8.15 p.m. to form a Forces Motoring Club. The first such club was formed in 1953. with
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    780 12 bgh,nmbnh,ml Tough Task For The Champions THE recent increase of interest in Colony amateur boxing has inspired the hope that more intelligent programmes be arranged by the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association before the selection of Singapore's leading amateurs for the Melbourne Olympic Games. As
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    44 12 TAIWAN'S Soon Tak Girls' basketball team beat Chung Hwa Girls by 64 points to 32 in a friendly basketball match played at Singapore Badminton Stadium last night. The Taiwanese who proved too good scored their second win of a three-game series.
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    88 12 Smith Scores 69 Runs TOP scoring with 69 runs Stan Smith helped the Singapore Cricket Association to total 136 runs against the Singapore Combined Schools in their annual cricket match on the Ceylon Sports Club ground yesterday. At stumps Combined Schools were 41 for the loss of two wickets. Scores
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    304 12  -  EDIN PETERS By NEXT SUNDAY officials of the Malayan Motor Sports Club will inspect the Mount Ophir course near Seremban, and if it is suitable for conducting a hill climb meeting: there, plans will be drawn up to hold the longest hill climb yet to be
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    20 12 R A.F. Changi will hold their annual swimming gala in the Selarang pool on Wednesday at 2.15 p.m.
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    41 12 PARIT BUNTAR. Sat. Parit Buntar Malays greatly enhanced their chances of retaining the Hood 1 Cup when they trounced the Anglo-Chinese School by 8-0 in a Krian Malays soccer league fixture yesterday. Parit Buntar Malays were the champions last year.
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    162 12 THE draw for the Captain's Prize of the Royal Singapore do!f Club to be played on Saturday. Aug 25 is as follows: FIRST NINE 2.00 Abbott. Crosland. Dowling 2.05 Cunningham. Irish. Tadman. 210 Mitchell. Shaw. Peck; 2.15 Rees. Williams. Meyer: 2.20 Nicholl. Thomson. Moffett: 2.25 Hamilton.
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    375 12 LEAGUE I Arsenal 0. Cardiff 0. Aston Villa 3. Charlton A. 1. Bolton W. 4. Blackpool 1. Burnley 2, Chelsea 0. I^eds U. 5. Evert on 1. Luton 6. Sunderland 2. Manchester U. 2. Bir ham C. 2. Newcastle U. 2. Portsmouth I, Preston N. E. 1.
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    46 12 »«Ssl gaKetween "ST'XK f h" i n t«; a r d Tl a? er White Ir the US Consulate. as^oTs^ Star"ng Uneul>s Crabtrie'orSoe Kazan f D n > Standboy.: John Aurefy, P^ii Armstrong. Be,, IS Man« K°b M ya, Shi: r'-Niz Shlnourl SUO: CapUin:
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    58 12 Cycle C' ships SINGAPORE Racing Association has obtained permission from the City Council to hold their annual grass track championships at Farrer Park today. At 9 a.m. the Association will hold their grass track meeting and at 2.30 p.m. they will run their annual Civilians gramme for the trophy presented
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      20 12 Swimming Gala SINGAPORE District (Army) will hold their annual swimming championships in the Nuffield pool on Wednesday at 2.30 p.m.
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      137 12 SOCCER COMMUNITY: Malays vs. R.A.F. at Jalan Besar Stadium at 5.15 p.m. DIV. 2A: Star Soccerites "A" vs. Y.M.S.A. at Jalan Besar Stadium at 4 p.m. CRICKET S.C.A. SENIOR TOURNEY:' S.C.R.C. vs. S.R.C. at S.R.C; Army vs. R.A.F. at R.A.F. ground; University vs. Police at P.T.S.; I.A. vs. C.S.C. at
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    2537 13 Townsman Upsets To Pay $103 0^_B___l__.^______r4___94___fe__Mt^ N m^^^^^ < "'V H-r VHB .^^B _B> _K~ >.^^t WW J ______H______fl tfv ww •fc'A. ■*>*••• '*ati i -il m if 7~n tiV t^l^^^ti*--. w w M M^ M^T Bm an* '/r^v'v'.' woXM_F&n_^BaJHHHLU9EV v Aj.'_t__lQA_iV. p <
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    80 13 24 Teams In SBHFA KO Soccer SINGAPORE Business Houses Football Association has received entries from 24 clubs for their annual K.O. soccer competition which starts on Wednesday. August 22. These teams have been divided into two classes and are as follows: Senior: Hongkong Bank, Mercantile Bank, Chartered Bank, Sime Darby,
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    423 13 Baseball Club Sold For $5½ Million DETROIT, Aug. 18, (rP)-The Board of Directors of the Detroit Tigers recently announced sale of the club for a record S5-1/2 million to 11 buyers, including singing star Bing Crosby and Michigan broadcasting executives Fred Knorr and John Fetzer. But there was immediate criticism
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    92 13 KUAXTAN. Sat.-The standings of the Kuantan District football league as of August 17 is as follows. ur P W D L Pts. anderers 7 5 2 0 12 Beserah 7 4 3 0 Med. Health 7 4 3 0 11 Sg. Lembing 5 3 2 0 8 PW.D.
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    2238 14 Jiffe ry James cavers "the Mary The 'Golden' Girl Lands Double 100 Yards Women: Mary Klass IS'pore) 11 2s Previous record 11.5s held by Mary Klass 195 S*> Yards Women: Marv Klass (Spore) 26.4s Annie Choo r also broke record with 26.65) previous record 26.7s held
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      712 14 4tO Yards 1 Kok Lit Yoonj? (Scl) 51.15. 2. A. R. Ahmad (Pp) 51.95. 3. M. Parry (Sel) 525. Also Ran: Lt. W. A. Piper <Pk), Chin Kim Thons (Sel), Sgt. Glover-Wright (Spore). 880 Yards 1 K. Perera (Sel) lm 58.65. 2. M Harichandra (Sel) lm 3. Md. Abdul Rahman
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      244 14 79 ft 6 ins. Also Competed: Pang Wei Lan (S'pore). Lee Siew Choo (S'pore), Devaki Madhavan (Sel). Long Jump Men 1. P. C, Gabuh (BB) 22 ft. 95 ins 2. Ft. Lt. B. T. Oliver (Aust) 22 ft. 7i ins 3. Chan Pak Weng (BB) .21 ft. 7* ins. Also
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      1032 15  -  R. Thurston Hopkins 3 py who continues his new study of the occult with this story of a 1.600 BC mummy case of an Egyptian priestess which caused death or sudden disaster to 13 people who handled it. Finally it was put on board a British
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    420 16  - HIGH FASHION OF THE DAY LANE By writing from Kuala Lumpur Quartet i A battle-dress jacket, broadly belted at the I waist, covers a tailor- i ed dress in white shark- skin. The dress itself I I is squar e-n eck ed, j sleeveless* and in but- ton i rout
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    1041 16 NURSE Kathleen SAYS... Travelling UJT^ With I Childil Continuing the series on child care in Malaya COONER or later there comes a time when al most all parents have to d< some parkins, and then start travelling with theif children, whether it's Port Dickson for a holiday, Europe or Australia
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      170 16 if f m I-ife's grand fun for these Laotogen Babies. wBP^ w Baby: Rasol B. Put?h Ifc V S e^ Brow8 row 80 l^ e y steadily progress, building up J^mL, Malacca L^&- x%, /^f' rm rnuscle and sturdy limbs and they are contented r ZakiaH bt W'AM 11 K
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      585 17 Tetty Pillay's Shopping Guide rV 4IXEY is an extraordinary place. No P do I think l havc !t teped for one we ek r n r i rin sit back knowing with fair accuracy f Hoinff° n tne arket than it springs a r rtdi of new items, and I
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      680 17 1 Chinese |lrl sitting r:'r. B Bar vras slim, Ind her face and s quite ordinary. II in Id fact nothing ".ii tart her— except ber hair Whit hair! it was a curtain, a glorious, dark shiny curtain hanging straight down from off her forehead
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      109 17 MPHE day of namby-pamby, only-in-warm-weather nudists is over. Now all the best nudists will be winter bare too. "The real down-to-earth nudist will be interested in winter nudism," said the president of the American Sunbathing Association, discussing the nudists' first all-nudist hotel to be set up
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      95 17 pURFEW really means "put out the fire" and derives from the French "couvrir," to cover and "feu." fire. It was introduced into this country by William the Conqueror to reduce the danger of fires, since in those days all houses were built of wood, and also to restrict
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      914 17 TT*OGETHER with most of X Singapore, we spent an hour or so the other evening .strolling around the Trade Fair, looking for bargains. There didn't seem any parti' cular bargains, although many people seemed to be laden with carrier bags bulging with shirts and Chinese medicines, and,
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      113 17 HEADERS' POSTBAG Ma W**9m I lm a iatt vhtch y mt •straight from the MMN Wat to renew my m m haven't tne time. mfmett anything? JKy answered. Besides roE5P? trace of dirt and PiSSS Deep Cleansing t\ m i deep into the pores. Hf Ben. If 7 our sktn
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      159 18 swimm chucuc k-m\ IL 'I I Ar a_> Ar' aa mmr\ a m^S -_v .mMr* mur w A \m*****^^^^^^^^ m m _/i 1 tf&CUrl "She won't be long just getting baby to sleep." W^__Kr m _P'" j^P ~'4mWr** j r^\ m >^ ™^***m. VT^<**~— X 4F A _H?: ■•;•>■• _k^
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      82 21 c^^^^^^^^BlwMf/fjW^^ THE GREAT JUNGLE\ 1 77/f HflW£g >P^^/g IP^ aYZ^ CENTURIES AGO THE FfQGr PUAMTOM CAME 1 -fouRNEVWAe HELP EACH VEAR+- WE JUNGLE FOR ONE VEAR UNTIL y/\ /TO WE JUNGLE AN O FOUGHT IN THE TOURNEY TO I ,/cDnM-niienAvnu "r" H XthTkIuJnTpIJeIFbECaI^E I1 1 HATED TO LEAVE DIANA SO
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    1192 23 CHASED BY ICE-AGE GIANT v > f f >U I"" "li make in black masses, a-— lhe fld> i ttftt hat ur I MUmS the wings -right in the one of those ■toric 'US companion I r amu- vLit of the <j ni tf e £m Canada. k country -.'here
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    1186 23 We Have One Bond In Common from JVEW YORK MALAYA AND THE U.S.A. certainly have one strong bond in common: the unrelenting police effort to curb the trafficking in narcotics. And. interestingly enough, plant specimens from Malaya arc helping U. 3. law enforcement officers in their battle to stamp out
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    1334 24  -  PETER SIMMS —And See A §y whose bride is the Shan Princess SANDA THE air was as fresh as June morning in England when we set off to witness the most terrible scene the primitive jungle can offer— SACRIFICE. It was a scene from
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      429 25  -  Eddy Gilmore By (W. Foulsham Co., Ltd., London. 165.) J)ESCRIBED on the dust jacket blurb as "hilarious," this account of an American newspaperman's almost 12 years in Russia is nothing of the sort. tJ^ffiV* 111 sometime*, especially when describing the four vicissitudes of a e
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      755 25  - THOUGH THE HE AVENS FALL HAROLD NICOLSON A By Lord Russell of Liverpool. (Cassell. 18s.) I By rBEBI a'<» "re? different Ta r to approach L:ver: t 11 as lomc of the 1 1 the I am so t 1 prelinglc in--1 than to Elf inciII boul the r antece-
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      432 25  -  P. H. Goh By I (Donald Moore, S2, edit- J ed by Dr. Lim Tay Boh, senior lecturer in eco- J nomics, University of 5 Malaya. < Nine members of the academic staff of the University of Malaya, including Sir Sydney Caine, the ViceChancellor, presented
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      247 25 by Gerald Durrell (Rupert Hart-Davis, London. 18s.)' JT is not everyone who can write a book about animals, which keeps the reader nailed to his chair until the last page is turned— regretfully. Mr. Durrell has accomplished this with utter charm and excitement following a collector's trip
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      571 25 EMPIRE OF FEAR by Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov (Andre Deutsch, Limited, London. 18/) EVERY newspaper reader will remember the story of the Petrovs. which broke in 1954 when he, as Third Secretary at the Soviet Embassy in Canberra, and head of the Soviet espionage system in Australia, defected and sought
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    478 26 VIRGO readers (born 22 August to 22 September) have here their coming year In graph form. The heavy v represents general material interests and the dotted line those things of a more emotional nature It Is fairly clear that the period to early December Is likely to help
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      143 26 \m/ m m m J kW*^^ 0^^***********^^^^ WEEK MARCH 21 APRIL 20 (Aries). Most of your arrangements go ahead nicely. A certain amount of questioning arises, however, tn m private matter. This may come from correspondence received. You would do well to see to your general relationships. Any interruption of
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      422 26 routine activities a fairly i easy week. It Is important to note that there Is m strong element of change ss you < get towards the week-end. i This could give st least a j temporary settlement of some I of your current problems. But do watch all new con-
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      240 26 easily satisfy one of your i principal desires. It would be < a perfect moment for start- < Ing new arrangements and > changes. You might look Into < the question of those *ho would be associated in them. In one or two instances the amount of co-operation likely is
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      447 26 BIRTHDAYS SUNDAY. At first a situation too much for gransomewhat difficult period. ted. Rewards will be offset You need to avoid changes by very heavy spending*, xchich are proposed. But most You could help yourself things follow a fairly steady much by controlling all this course if you pay close
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      2482 27  -  AGNES BOEHM WJJMmh m'- K* hv why do kN His mother I AhLeong, no, I ..Mrf coaxing, 7?5?%«o you get JTW lt "at kind of Look at i-ncles 5 p „e cr ecD* I .v high heeU. rvci oainta sAsFVsra U---2 fhc Uirl who %-ri and
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      482 27  - e'S a Book-maker— For Fun Peter Grosvenor By (E are to]p\i s ion and J"» in Charles Wilson's L* c ne ma i s only "ound the corner Jf, ch ji°r Charles, who 52 tvvo sisters in Qpe only five e* va^ from the Van n on> has no 4J
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      43 27 rn w 'th her trophy after her election as Miss Sepia >n Windsor Ontario Canada, August 7, is nineteen•oid Joyce Kelton. a Detroit bookkeeper. Miss Felton's Ul °n is to become an interior decorator and she hopes to study soon in New York.
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    1050 28  - THREE OLD-WORLD GIRLS Norah Littlejohn By AMALIA is a poor little rich girl Ilda is a poor shopgirl Maria Alice is just poor. All three have one thing In common— they have no rights because, living in Portugal, they are considered much inferior to men. Eighteen -year- old Amalia's family
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    61 28 A COURT in Milan, Itahi, ri assessed the value of an "average cat" at Us. 6hd. and imposed a fine of this amount on the University of Milan for losing a pet entrusted to their care. The owner, who had handed the cat over for treatment, had claimed
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    759 28  - Drank BLOOD to save father's life Rosemary Timperley By TJER name was Blanche. JX Everyone thought how well U suited her. for as a child she was always so frightened, turning pale at the slightest shock, shrinkin? from the bark of a doff, the sight of a dead bird, the
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    725 28 EXCEPT for the cashier and bookkeeper the bank was deserted when the two men walked in. "I'd like to open an account," said one of them to the cashier. "Certainly." said the cashier. "Have you any He broke off and stared down the muzzle of
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