The Straits Times, 27 December 1953

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    13 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES No. 958. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1953. 15 CENTS m
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    SEA RAIDERS WORE UNIFORMS
    430 1  - SEA RAIDERS WORE UNIFORMS CHANG YEN FOOI By Pirates off Selangor coast TANJONC SEPAT, Sclangor. Saturday FOUR pirates, three of whom were armed *nd wearing the uniform of the Indonesian Police, have intercepted a fisHng fleet of 130 small vessels in waters between the Selangor Coast arxi Indonesia. Swooping down
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    OUR NEW YEAR
    253 1 What we have in store) for our readers \X/HAT has the Sunday Times in store for its readers j next year? First, there are several great new features begin- I nmc next week, the first Sunday Times of 1954. These include the first instalment of THE RAFT
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    8 COLONY M.C.A. OFFICIALS QUIT
    223 1 EIGHT COMMITTEE members of the Singapore branch of the Malayan Chinese Association were yesterday reported have resigned. Later, the association's president. Dai^ir Chrng-lock Tan, declared as "irregular a special committee meeting,. The trouble arose o tain non-commlt-L2f members to reprcsenWth* at today's ,\U^^^iv:.-i! mooting. mm
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    Nehru's 'grim spectro': U.S. view
    113 1 Nehru's 'grim spectro': U.S. view NEW YORK Sat. THE New York Tim«s said today that Pandit Nehru is raising a "trim spectre" by "hintinu at the possibility that if Pakistan gets American arms India may he forced to ask for military aid. not from the I'nitod States, but from Russia."
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    Woman, 100 dead
    37 1 BOLOGNA, Sat.— Mrs. Ichetta Minghetti, who celebrated her 100 th birthday last month, died on Christmas Day. She caught cold sitting on an open window where she liked to leed <he sparrows. A .P.
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    Bandits in a police ambush —one killed
    158 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat SECURITY Forces in the Federation killed a Communist terrorist on Christmas Day. Three terrorists walked into a police ambush in the [Kampar area of Perak last night. One was 'shot dead. The other two escaped 'The police recovered a shot--1
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    $5,000 contest —one winner
    198 1 $5,000 contest —one winner j THERE is one winner 1 in the Straits Times I Word Puxxlc contest j He is Abdul Axix bin I Bachee, of 3 Ujong j Pasir, Malacca. His answers to the j xlet were judged to receive a^L c ii i q i v^| for
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    Outlook for peace better
    67 1 NEW DELHI, Sat MADAME Vijaya Lakshml Pandit said today that as the year ended she saw greater prospects for peace "than for some time past. Addressing a news conference as President of the United Nations General Assembly. India's outstanding women leader said the prospects for peace
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    'Best wishes' from Russia
    55 1 WASHINGTON, Sat. Mr. George Zaroubin, Soviet Russia's Ambassador to the United States, yesterday asked a radio newsman to "convey to the -American people his Christmas greeting and his best wishes for the New Year." The message was passed o n by Mr Davis Wills, commentator on
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    Ceylon clears up a point
    120 1 COLOMBO, Sat. rpHE CEYLON Ministry of -I External Affairs said yesterday that considerable misunderstandings had arisen regarding a suggestion made by the P-ime Minister, Sir John Kote wala. for informal discussions between the Prime Ministers of Asian countries. It was reported on December 23 that
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    Christmas strike
    30 1 PARIS. Sat Key post office workers in Paris yesterday decided to continue the strike Which for three days has virtually paralysed distribution of Christmas mail in Franc? Reuter
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    100 STILL MISSING IN TRAIN WRECK
    251 1 WELLINGTON, Sat. WEARY bands of rescue workers searched the muddy banks of the Wangehru River north of here today for bodies of 100 people missing in New Zealand's worst train wreck Sixty-four bodies have been recovered of the 164 passengers swept to their deaths
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    Phone break-down: 95 calls to UK held up
    260 1 Phone break-down: 95 calls to UK held up NINETY-FIVE people in Singapore and the Federation had a disappointing Christmas Day. After waiting for more than eight hours they were told I that the radio telephone calls they had booked for Britain could not be made. Earlier, 21 p«>P le had
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    BOXER TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
    106 1 A right-cross to the Jaw by Dan Coates of London < 149 lbs. i knocked Paul Cheng <138> unconscious in the ninth of a ten-round bout held at the Happy World Singapore last night. Cheng was taken to the General Hospital. His breathing was affected. Results
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    The Xmas baby
    29 1 The year's first Singapore Christmas baby, bom at Kandang Kertau Hospital was a seven -pound boy thp first child of Mr. and Mrs. Yeow Mm Chin.
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    The Queen in New Zealand: Picture
    126 1 The Queen smiles as she waves to the crowd from the dias outside the Auckland Town Hall. The occasion was the official welcoming ceremony for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh after their arrival in New Zealand earlier in the day on the
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    LAOS INVADED AGAIN: TOWN ON BORDER FALLS TO REDS
    281 1 SAIGON, Saturday. FRENCH Union troops abandoned the strategy Indo-Chma town of Thakkek on the Siamese frontier today as the vanguard .f 20,000 Communist invaders entered the suburbs. Evacuated troops regrouped at Savannakhet, 50 miles south of th# assaulted river town and
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    Crisis decree in Siam
    204 1 Crisis decree in Siam BANGKOK, Sat. A STATE of emergency was declared in nine north and north-eastern provinces of Siam today The announcement of the government's decision to declare a state of emergency was made over Radio Bangkok shortly after 11 o'clock last night. The nightly broadcast which usually closes
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    Nehru seeks UN talks
    32 1 NEW DELHI. Sat.— The Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru expects the United Nations Assembly to be recalled to duscuA further r.tep.s for resolving Che Korean deadlock— UP.
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    There was something about her
    1708 2  - There was something about her LOGAN GOURLAY Two slim figures with tiny elfin faces found fame in Hollywood in 1953. This is the story of tw perfect specimens... E2 The two faces of Audrey Hepburn O^T 8 p.m. last Sunday, Audrey Hepburn could sit back happily in her Hollywood apartment
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    2 Closeup of a girl wonder...
    436 2  -  ROGER LAWRIE as jrST what is it atout Leslie Caron's face? Slanting eyes, a big mouth and prominent teeth are not usually a passport to men's hearts. Yet Leslie Caron manages to make them as disturbing as the most classical features in Hollywood. Her
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    HER LIFE DEPENDS ON A SWITCH
    159 2 EVERY half-hour over thP rhrUtmas w «nn the Christmas season —as they have done for a year —a weary machine operator and his equally weary wife in Davenport. lowa, clicked a switch to keep their 14-year-old daughter alive. Twelve monrtis ago Bernadine Pollack underwent
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    Govt. plans to beat diphtheria
    258 3 Govt. plans to beat diphtheria y^N all-Singapore anti-diphtheria vaccination campaign will begin in February. The Govern--1 ment medical authorities are worried over the rapidjy rising incidence of the disease in 'Singapore. Medical Department figures issued yesterday show that diphtheria cases have more than doubled since 1949. Radio. Malaya. Public Rela-
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    Xmas wedding
    24 3 Mr. Ronald A. Holmberg married Miss Fraadaea K. Racsafra at the Cathedral of the Ciood Shrphorri in Singapore yrstrrday. Sunday Tin-cs picture.
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    Chased by Santa
    59 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Nearly 70 children chuckled with delipht when Father Christma^began chasing them around tl^lawn of the Chil- dren's HorPajjKlang Road, at n party on Christmas morning. Mr. Cecil Harrison of Malayan Railway was Father fcttiristmas. At lunch tini^^ic[' were Riven a mea^^k| Tm^^rty was arrang«rtby
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    Opium: $3,000 fine
    44 3 PARIT BUNTAR, Sat.— Lee Suan Kirn. 37, of Kuala Kurau, evas fined $3,000, or six months' gaol, by Mr. A. P. Jack, president of the Sessions Court, when she waa convicted on a cbarfe of having 50 lb. of raw opium.
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    Gambler fined
    31 3 When Singapore police swooped on a gambling party of six, all but Por Tai Suan fcscape«r? yesterday, pleading guilty to gambling Po^ nas fined $1 in a Singapore okrt
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    This was the keenest contest so far
    962 3 By THE COMPETITION EDITOR STRAITS TIMES Word Puzzle Contest L proved to De easily tne most Keeniy cor, tested of the series thus far. Up to 'C 4' a large number of competitors gave t same answers as the committee had chosen for
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    A new emblem for Malacca
    90 3 A new emblem for Malacca KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. DETAILS of the new armorial ensigns to be adopted by Malacca were released yesterday. The ensign is in the form of a shield surmounted by a miniature of the famous Santiago Gate at Malacca. A two-masted Chinese junk symbolism* Malacca's erstwhile fame
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    KAR find empty bandit camps
    79 3 K. LUMPUR. Sat.— Patrols of the 2nd Kings African Rifles found 23 empty terrorist camps in the Kuantan area of Pahang between Dec. 3 and Dec. 19. There were 83 huts with accommodation for about 350 people. A terrorist Rang fired two shots at a
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    Radio surprise for Malacca
    56 3 MALACCA, Sat Malacca radio listeners were pleasantly surprised yesterday when they heard the Queen's Christmas message clearly and loudly, just as though she spoke from the Malacca station. Mr Ng Keng Hock, station manager, said; "It is a taste of future reception when arrangements are completed
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    $600 or 6 months
    44 3 PARIT BUNTAR, Sat.— A 56--year-old Chinese woman, Ong Hoi Pin, was fined a total of $600 or six months' Imprisonment uy Mr. A. P. Jack In the Sessions Court when she pleaded guilty to two charges under the Chandu Enactment
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    60,000 LOSE HOMES IN H.K. FIRE
    114 3 HONG KONG, Sat. rpHE BIGGEST fire disaster I in Hong Kong's history has overnight left 60,000 peoP?^ c Government said today. The fire started In a squatter village In the Mcl Kip district of Kowloon last night and burnt until dawn today, i destroying
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    The bandit tyrant of Perak is dead
    282 3 The bandit tyrant of Perak is dead KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. CHONG PENG, a Communist tyrant who dominated 400 square miles of Perak, was shot dead in a rubber estate near Kuala Kangsar today by a Corporal of the Special Constabulary, Ramll bin Ngah Abdul Rahman, commander of an area security
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    WIFE TAX IDEA 'ALL NONSENSE'
    230 3 WIFE TAX IDEA 'ALL NONSENSE' Family planning is preferred PENANG, Sat. A SPECIAL tax on husbands who have more than one wife No. no," say Penan? leaders. Let us have family planning instead." The tax (proposed by Mr. N. Ponnudurai at last Mondays Settlement Council meeting) is impracticable, according to
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    TEMPLERS VISIT SICK TROOPS
    76 3 K. LUMPUR, Sat— The High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer. and Lady Templer, visited the British Military Hospital at Kinrara. outside Kuala Lumpur, on the morning of Christmas Day. They went through the decorated wards one representing an English Inn, another the Moulin Rouge a third
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    Stole trisha for a joy ride
    49 3 Two sailors. James Joseph Cleary and Thomas Bennett Connoly, who pleaded guilty to theft of a trlsha. told Mr. Howe Yoon Chong at the Fourth Police Court on Friday that they took the tricycle for a Joy ride They were each fined $10.
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    Troopship in S'pore
    36 3 Troopship in S' pore The 30.447-ton troopship Pasteur arrived in Singapore yesterday with 3.000 French troops bound fo r Marseilles The trooper stayed in port only a few hours to take on water, provisions and bunkers.
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      186 3 CORRECT SOLUTION TO I THE WORD PUZZLE This is the solution, submitted by Abdul Aziz bin Bachee of Malacca which won the $5 000 prize in the Straits Times Word Puzzle *C Contest. His answers were considered by the judges to be the most apt. piMlAClNJE Tip ■U|M|P| I I
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    A place where India and China join hands
    816 4  -  'Salma' THE SOUL OF SINGAPORE-No. 2 By QN the side of Fort Canning Hikl lies a little place of worship, of its kind w the oldest m Singapore. It is the Orchard Road Hindu Temple which has stood for over a hundred
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    SCARING THE FISH
    416 4  -  C. K. CAMPBELL The old days By VLTHES I was in the Govern- ment service about 1900 I was stationed in the extreme north on the disputed boundary between Perak and Patani, a state then as now under the rule of Siam. There was no road to
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    Using up the Christmas turkey
    302 4 Using up the Christmas turkey rE Christmas turkey la an expensive bird and it is important to wring every ounce of nourishment and enjoyment, out of it. Here are two suggestions for doing that. TURKEY SOUP Cut the left-over carcase of your turkey Into pieces and simmer It In a
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    ALL READY FOR THAT 'BIG FLOOD'
    665 4 ALL READY FOR THAT 'BIG FLOOD' ''THIS month has been so dry that the ground shows cracks for the first time in two years at least. Defoliation of the durian and other fruit trees has been very heavy; an augury for a crop in May perhaps. Last night there was
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    Place in the sun
    20 4 This picture of a Sunflower comes from Wang Su Fah of 16D Cecil Street, Singapore 1.
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    PORTHOLE ESCAPE BY BRITISH LEGIONNAIRE IN SINGAPORE
    259 5 Now he's off home to join a different army [_AST week there were 20 Britons in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion's 100, 000- man force. Today there are only 19, because Arthur Martin, who was the 20th, is aboard the Carthage,
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    Grandpa here for Christmas
    128 5 Grandpa here for Christmas A «*p r:\K-OI. I) grandfather flew into Singapore on Christmas Day from Britain just in time to spend Christmas with his four-year-old grandson. He was Mr. W. E. Grecsor., a textile merchant, who arrived by Qantas 8.0.A.C. Constellation. He caught a plane immediately to sec his
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    Beauty show main event in club fair
    152 5 Beauty show main event in club fair rpHE Singapore Chinese SwimJ. ming Club is holding its annual fun fair at its premises today from 10.30 a.m. Games and eating stalls will be open until late afternoon. Magical shows, musical items, hula hula dances, square dancing and oth^r items will be
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    The leopard girl
    83 5 Leopards don't scare Miss Molly Ridsdalr. She had so j much practice warding oft wolves on her recent dancing tour of Sinm and Burma, that she's now got most wild animals in the palm of her hands. That's where she's got "Spot- I ty", six -week-old leopard,
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    EXTRAVAGANCE MUST STOP SAYS DATO
    183 5 MALACCA, Saturday. THE Federation Government must drastically curb every form of extravagance and consider either cutting officials' salaries or retrenching unnecessary staff, or both in order to achieve financial stability, said Dato.Sir Chenglock Tan, chairman of the Malaya Pinda Rubber Estates .Ltd., in a statement
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    CHRISTMAS TRAGEDIES
    36 5 r'O children were drowned in Singapore on Christmas Evft. A three-year-old boy was found dead in a well in BuWt Timah Road, and a six-year-cld girl was found in a pond in Jurong Road.
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    Found hanging in Singapore
    47 5 Two Chinese, a man and a woman, were found hanging in two houses in Singapore on Christmas Day. The man. aged 62. was found in a hous° in Race Course Road The woman, aged 28. was found in a house in Aljunied Road.
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    Fined for fan-tan
    43 5 Two stevedores. Teo Ah Wah and Yeo Yeorv Cheng, who admitted playing a game of fan-tan on the promenade deck of the S.S. Rajula in godown No. 43 on Thursday, were each fined $20 in a Singapore court on Friday
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    CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
    887 5 "Unto you is born this day a Saviour which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:11 CHI'RCH OF ENGLAND ST. ANDREWS CATHEDRAL:— 7 8 a.m. Holy Communion: 9.30 a.m. Sunday School 10.30 a.m. Mattlns, 11.45 a.m. Holy Communion: 6 p.m. Festival of Nine Lessons Carols. ST. PAULS CHURCH: (Upper
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    Indian heads Labour Party
    136 5 rE SINGAPORE Labour Party yesterday elected an Indian journalist, Mr V. P. Abdullah, the party's new chairman. The party has been without a leader since its former chairman Captain D T. Richards, and four other committee members resigned three months ago. Other new appointments yesterday were:
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    SKIPPER LEFT HIS POST —TO RESCUE TWO
    117 5 TELUK ANSON, Sat, T AST week while cruising up the Perak River near Kampong Selat Pulau in his passenger launch the skipper, Haji Rashid bin Haji .Mohamed Nasir saw an elderly woman and a young girl struggling for their lives in midstream. Without
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    Jinnah ceremony
    29 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Selangor Pakistanis yesterday celebrated the birthday anniversary of Mohammed All Jinnah. founder of Pakistan. A tea party was held, after which prayers were said.
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    Mr. Guan gets his inoculations
    1286 6 yWO people I know are shortly gDing to travel by air. Mr. Cuan and myself. Mr. Cuan is a business man and is going to Europe for his firm. I am going on holiday. Mr. Cuan came along to see to get his inocculations. "I
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    THE CRY IN THE NIGHT...
    651 6 Sickly moon, miasma and rpHERE were three of us one 1 night In the little halting bungalow at Batu Hampar in the Dindlngs. Jim a tin prospector, Alec a Government surveyor, and myself then a Forest officer. Whisky, cigarette and pipe smoke predominated, and our
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    Ganging agley
    562 6  -  BILLY BUDD AULD Lang Syne, the clammy Insincere handshake, the defiant tartan, some solitary hideous bagpipe, the black eye here they come again. Thank goodness we are spared, In Malaya, the mass demonstration of conviviality, though I fear the worst should we ever have a Scottish governor. I
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    Now's the time for the REAL bargains
    834 7 Now's the time for the REAL bargains AFTER the orgies of shopping, of spending and more spending of the past few weeks it would seem highly improbable that anyone would want to go near the shops for months to come. For most of us there is an eternal fascination about
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    She wants to adopt a mother!
    820 7 She wants to adopt a mother! The "Human Casebook has been dealing with readers' problems in the Sunday Times for the past seven pears. If you have any query you would like ansiccring send it to Jane Lee, Sunday Times, Singapore. Miss Lee regrets that she canriot answer 'letters by
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    That terrible first term
    1457 8  -  Kathleen Hickley The day I said goodbye to my son By I HAVE just returned to Malaya without my son. He has by now completed his first term at his first English school. This is no new circumstance. It is one that most of us who
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    Preparing to be a beautiful hostess
    453 8  -  DE LONA By THE newest "At Home" clothes, particularly for the holiday hostess, possess a gay and sophisticated air designed to delight women with the face and figure to wear and enhance them. The party season is here with a vengeance, but parties these
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    SCHOOLBOY LECTURED PROFESSORS
    358 8 IF you'd like to memorise the telephone book, Dr. Bruno Frank claims he can teach you how. At his New York School of Memory he has already taught 5,000 Americans the trick— and, of course, Dr. Bruno says he remembers all their names. How do they do
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      338 8 WHITER TEETH in 14 days with Macleans iE.- f^sS Ik' MAKE THIS 14-DAY TEST: Why not give Macleans a trial for yourself? Be quite fair about it clear your teeth thoroughly morning and night for a couple of weeks. Right from the start your mirror will show you the difference
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    57 9 From the graveside of Sir Hen r.v Gurney in Kuaia Lumpur three young people broadcast .Malaya to the world during the BBC's Christmas feature on Christmas Day. From right to left are Dr. Mohamed N<tor. Mr. G. Dyaz, a rubber researcher, Miss Chan Poh Si m. a teacher. With them
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    PENANG STARTS BABY SITTING SERVICE FOR WORSHIPPERS
    353 9 Now whole family can go to church PENANC, Saturday. gABES in arms now accompany their parents to Sunday Mass at Penang's Church of Our Lady of Sorrows in Macalister Road. But the toddlers and the infants are not carried inside the church. On
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    DOLLARS FOR DISCS' GET $4,021
    189 9 DOLLARS FOR DISCS' GET $4,021 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. TiHE "Dollars for Discs" proL gramme of Radio Malaya collected $4,021 for Lady Templer's T.B Hospital Appeal Fund. The fund now stands at $203,159. Latest gifts include $1,000 from Mr Norman Cleaveland. $200 from staff of Kent (FMS) Tin Dredging Ltd. iSentul)
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    WHERE LOVE IS LOCKED OUT
    212 9 ALOR STAR. Saturday. D ANDITS^kown on love in the jungle and if a comrade i< married? he can only live with his wife in secret. Thi< was what Mah Peng Cuan. 27, a surrendered terrorist, founc in the jungle. He had a 25-year-old wife but
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    Perak rice rations
    88 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Government rat'on rice to be Issued in Perak from Dec. 28 to Jan. 3 will be: Taiping, Kuala Kangsar and Selama, Siamese 5 per cent rice. Burma Ngatsein and Burma Milchar. Krlan: Siamese 10 per rent rice, local white and local parboiled Lower Perak
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    UNION WANTS HIGHER RETIRING AGE
    164 9 UNION WANTS HIGHER RETIRING AGE MOST labourers employed by the Singapore Government and City Council want their retiring age to be extended from 55 to 60, says the executive committee of their union. A resolution recommended by the committee to the union's annual conference on Wednesday urges the union to
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    MALAY GETS TOP POST WITH SHELL
    117 9 MALAY GETS TOP POST WITH SHELL ONE of five Asian* who have been appointed to executive posts in the Shell Company, is 29-year-old Inch 0 Manso r bin Othman, a geography honours graduate of the University of Malaya. Inche Othman will begin work next month in the company's branch office
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    Ordered to pay back
    63 9 S. Kumar's friend owed him $15 and had not paid him for some months. So when Kumar saw two ten-dollars bills in the friend's pocket in Henderson Road on Christmas Day. hn fished It out." Yesterday in a Singapore court pleading guilty to theft, he was
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    247 LEAVE QUARANTINE
    37 9 Two hundred and forty-seven Indian deck passengers who reached Singapore recently in the Rajula, were released from quarantine yesterday. Friends and relatives were, at the immigration anchorage at East Wharf to welcome them. I
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    No permission—$100
    38 9 No permission— $100 KLUANG. Sat. -For erecting a new house in the Town Board area without permission, Lai Chun, an 18-year-old Cantonese, was fined $100 or 20 days- gaol by the Magistrate, Che Ibrahim, in the Kluang Court.
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    Magic and toys for orphans
    91 9 THE CHRISTMAS PARTY for the orphan children of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, held at the Convent premises in Singapore on Friday, was enlivened by items of magic. Mr. Khoo Teng Eng. member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, performed the magical tricks
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    Funeral holds up traffic
    51 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. HUNDREDS of people attended the funeral in Kuala Lumpur yesterday of Mrs. Eu Tong Sen, widow of one of the richest men in the Far East. Traffic was interrupted as the half-mile long procession wound its way to the Chinese cemetery near the
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    He brought magic to Singapore's children
    237 9  -  JOE EZEKIEL By A43-YEAK-OLD Chinese magician entertained hundreds of children and adults over Christmas. And he will give more shows over the New Year. He is Mr. Tan Hock Chuan and he makes it his business to keep the poor ana neglected entertained. With
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    Wedding dance
    59 9 Brian Godfrey Bocaars dances with his wife, Anita, in the Singapore Badminton Hall after their wedding at the church of the Holy Family, Katong, yesterday morning. The bride was formerly Miss Anita Marguerite Klass. The groom is a police inspector. His father. Mr. G. E. Bogaars is Assistant
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      286 9 A REMARKABLE Wagnerian Hopf is Walther and Otto recording comes from Edelmann is Han s Sachs HerColumbia. On five long-playing bert von Karajan conducts records (33 CX 1021-25) "Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg, that vivid and flamboyant x n a c ttn to a pup". Moeart is' masterpiece, comes gloriously J!"
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    ANNOUNCEMENT
    37 10 ;i> Hnrdi SIO (minimum) THE FAMILY'S c rp.vesi risk to that Its Income producer may die before he ha* paid for the home Mortßace Cancellation Insurance Is a need. Write D. McLaren, P. 0.1 Box 4024.
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  • THE SUNDAY TIMES Singapore, Dec. 27, 1953.
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      The good citizen
      455 10 QN Friday we start a new year. What can we do to make it a happier one for our country and ourselves (In that order)? What should be the resolutions of a pood citizen? We offer the following suggestions in a spirit of humility and hope to
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      HIS GIFT
      169 10 I lira AT a Jolly Christmas pwVI sent Georgl Malenkov nave his 210 million subjects' He shot his former No 2. Lavronti Brria. and six' other one-time bright stars l n the Soviet heaven. The world will certainly not be the poorer for the end ol Beria. He
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    What the year's great operation means to us all
    976 10 Often up to 20 surgeons and consultants take part in these great operations. 7" HE full story of the unique operation on the Nigerian twins in London can now be pieced together from the details of expert eye-wit-nesses. And it is
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    New Year, here I come
    780 10  -  SHADBAND -by- WELL it's all over bar the indigestion but only just. Christmas in the Shadband household was as always a feast of riotous overspending in which stomachs, tiny and large, vied with each other at the festive board anr l luxury goods exchanged hands
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    SECRETS OF THE TROPICS
    436 10  -  FRANK PAGE By They can be seen in London npHOUSANDS of miles tio:\,\ 1 London, botanists w been making arduous arm adventurous journeys to wrest the secrets of a^ftire fr«H> tropical forests and fields and only 15 miles from London I have scon the fruits of
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      693 10 CLASSIFIED ADS.| 7* nerdM 119 (minimum) THE Encagement took place yesterday between Choo Lim. eldest son of Mr. Mrs. Chua Kheng Hoe and Su-Mel < Florence i, eldest daughter of Mrs. A. Huan and the late Mr. Huan Soot Kheng. SYN KOH. The encagemenl Is announced between Wai Chlng, eldest
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      1111 10 \^E were greatly moved by Bible to some of her school- "Ungodly men have said Dogs of good breed when your story about Master girls who had expressed a within themselves short kindly treated become Ahmad bin Haji Tadullah desire to know something and sorrowful is our life; and attached
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    Breakfast in bed—and the army officers served it, too
    450 11 Breakfast in bed— and the army officers served it, too KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. "fHOUSANDS of servicemen stationed all over Malaya yesterday celebrated Christmas in traditional style. Officers brought men of No. 27 Com pany RASC* stationed in Am pang Road, Kuala Lumpur, morning tea in bed at eight. During the
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    IT WAS 'PROSPERITY' XMAS IN PENANC
    132 11 PENANC. Saturday. IF there is any trade recession in Malaya, there was little ?ign of it at Penang"s Christmas celebrations this year. The usual influx of outsta- tion holiday-makers sent food prices up by at least 30 per cent. Restaurants were crowded and housewives
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    S'pore wedding
    42 11 Mr. Henry Wood ford .•younger son of the late Mr. Henry Woodford, for many years Singapore's Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, seen with his bride. Miss Alice Choo, after their wedding at St. Joseph's Church, '.'..-iigapore. Sunday Times picture.
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    Christmas Day crash charge
    71 11 In a Singapore Emergency Court yesterday. Tan Chee Teck Dleaded not guilty to rharges of drunken and negligent driving resulting in a collision on Christmas Day. Tan. it was alleged, drove a rar while«irunk and incapable along GevMng Rtiad and collided with P&axi. Tan wps allowed
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    T.B PATIENTS GET GIFTS
    67 11 TPOH. Sat Convalescing patients In the perak Anti-TB Association's Rehabilitation Brt Cement in Batu Gajah were not forgotten during Christmas. They too had their share of gifts and hampers. Yesterday, they were visited by a group of PATA nmrials wno distributed food parcels to fifty persons,
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    Evaded duty: $30
    31 11 Lee Chwop Kam, 20. who admitted having dutiable tobacco on Thursday, was fined $30 by Mr. Howe Yoon Chonß in the Singapore Fourth Police Court! on Friday. I
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    25 hurt in 32 Xmas road accidents
    146 11 TWENTY-FIVE people were injured in 32 road accidents in Singapore on Christman Day. No one was killed buf six were admitted to hospital. This compares with 41 road smashes last year, with three deaths. Two Singaporeans, however, lost their lives following separate arridents
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    32 11 MR. ONG KOK HI A and Miss Juliet Sheila Tarn were married at the St. Hilda's Church. Katrine, Singapore, recently. Mr. On( is studying a U Lincoln's Inn, London. Sunday Times picture.
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    3 MALAYANS IN BBC FEATURE
    411 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. THE STRUGGLE against disease, poverty and ignorance m Malaya lay behind the brief appearance of three Malayans yesterday in the historic 8.8 C. Christmas Auckland, New Zealand. The questing microphone of the 8.8.C. had swung from Hong Kong to North Borneo, where
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    $15 FOR A MISSING MAN
    107 11 Sixtmn-year-old Ahmad bin Hajl Fadullah. who saved a man from drowning in the sea off Elizabeth Walk. Singapore, has been away from his house in Palembang Road for several months. No one knows where he Is and how he lives All they can say Is
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    GRIM XMAS FOR 120 IN THE JUNGLE
    397 11 70 got nothing but rations KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. IT has been a grim Christmas for 120 men of the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, based at Kuala Lumpur, who are at present on patrol deep In the rain-soaked jungles of the Federation. One
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    Your picture page
    195 12 Sunday Times is offering cash prizes for readers' pictures, published in this page. First prize is $30. with $15 for the second best and $5 for the runners-up. The magnificent portrait entitled "The Man From Nepal," left, wins this week's first prize It was taken by Siow
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    They call them disaster chains
    503 12 p LANCING .admiringly at a pretty girl, Peter Larrimore failed to watch where he was walking and slipped on a fruit skin. Struggling frantically to save himself he smashed his elbow through the glass of a kerbside fire alarm, accidentally pressed the button and called
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    Interesting... but will it survive ?
    731 13  - Interesting but will it survive JOHN BEHAGUE 'mew. i ll if use: \sont:n\ mir.ui.i-: IN IJ)2S, following the showing of the lirsl sound picture, the London critics wagged jheir lingers and declared: "Interesting but if can'l last!* 1 And in the same year Anthony Asquith, director of so many recent
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    It's frank & very funny
    494 13 It's frank very funny IN A few weeks time some ol you will be seeing the controversial American picture "The Moon Is Blue," and I can't resist telling you Just a little about it. Passed without cuts by the Malayan Appeal Board, it If a frank conversation piece revolving around
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    A NEW MASTER OF SLAPSTICK
    242 13 ACCORDING to the rare notices just received from London, English pictures have found the comedian they have been seeking for so long. His name is Norman Wisdom, a tiny man with an indiarubber face who plays the part of the little man who is always
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      297 13 i Entvr \nsr Sttr thi* "MODERN MISS GRACE MOORE QUEST" Open to all ranges of Soprano Voice, including Mr//«. Dramatic. Coloratura or Lyric Thp Quest is to be conducted on the stage of the Capitol Theatre in conjunction with the presentation of Warner Bros. Technicolor Film "So This Is Love"
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      244 13 XL CATHAY ORGANISATION Jl, "TgT Srymrarvx OKM TODAY ■>* coWwffo«e KKSFago V y.3\J p.m. THEY PICK THE NAVY'S TOUGHEST... FOR THE NAVY'S ROUGHEST ACTION! THE BLAZING STORY OF A BATTLEDSCARRED SUBMARINK STALKING ITS PREY ALONG THE DEADLY CORRIDOR TO KOREA! of AOlfffSr VNVfIIU CO*»IDO* IW TMI MfOfftD? lj 0 >V
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      328 14 VACANCIES EXIST FOR STUDENT NURSES The next course in the Training School at the General Hospital, Singapore, commences on 4t'i January. 1954. Salnrv scale $102 6A 114 B $156 12A 240 B $252 12A 288 p.m. plus COL. and Sinpap Allowances. Total emoluments at present ranee from an Initial of
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      177 14 CAMAY brings your Skin a Lovelier Look At. A lovely skin wins the hearts of all beholders that's why it*l such a prize 1b gain and to hold. Yes, and you can see an improvement in your own skin with your fint cakt of Camay, i f i iv 1
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      1545 14 f^ttMt- ftgjwito Edgar Rice Burroughs l-££? y /^^SNftpK*jfaj A xiMa^Cl!Miß A V £CT^ ;<^ [W APE-MAN WA& PEetUCIS€P. 7H£ CTAT6 TIPN'T AtrAcTk, P(X rr^MP SB I -W > 1/jLl'v >; t u\ i /^.^^^^^^^Bf ■-■?^^^^-6UIP6 MiM TC A HVQZH 6LAPB --ANP NOW U^ZAH \t*e POOR CZetMeP C&Z.H ANP ANOMINOO^ Pi^-LJ^£
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    WHEN MR MENUHIN IS 87
    1011 17  - WHEN MR MENUHIN IS 87- Neville Duke jniri??j By World's most famous test pilot That will be fifty years from now £0 Yehudi Menuhin is grounding himself. He greeted the 50th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' historic flip by giving up flying. The astonishing half-century that has transformed their flimsy
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    A STRANGE LOVE STORY -& A HAPPY ENDING
    380 17 A STRANGE LOVE STORY A HAPPY ENDING From Our NEW YORK Reporter ILTHILE his friends were flirting with schoolgirls Clarence Houk could think only of a woman old enough to be his mother. For Clarence at 16, fell in love with grandmother Anne Statum, part-time worker fo r the KnoxvlUe,
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      144 17 POIMLAO IKOSSUOIIII ACROSS DOWN 1. Simulate (5) 5. Prows (5) 8. Insignia of royalty (7) 9 1. Of various kinds (13) 2. Saw (5) 12. Comprehend (5) o x,.,, IR^ A 15. Container (3) 16. Second s (6) 4> front? (5) 19. Protection (3) Head-cover (4) 5. Communi--20. Whole (6)
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    That final drink: A timely warning
    1173 18  -  Manning Black wood By |F ever I had any doubts about being right in thinking that Malayan motorists as a whole were pretty daft, I haven't any now. All the letters I have had about this "Keep to the Left" and "No passing on
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    The year's biggest achievement
    522 18 Highlights of Federation Sport by CRUSADER' AS 1953 draws a close Severf iXan* spoT-' man naturally turns to the past 12 months and surveys the field of achievement and iauure. The biggest achievement, as I see it, was the inauguration of the Federation of Malaya Olvmnir
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    Floodlit racing in Penang
    342 18 Floodlit racing in Penang Cyffling carnival in New Year THE newly formed PcnAij; Cyclists' A.s.snciatiM Jflß| Krt off to a flyinK#fai^^T^ the New Year when it nold> thr All-Malayan CvcJin; Carnival in pffitnß Qri^an I, 2 and 3. Much credit for the careful planning and organisation el this three-day prostammr
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    POPULAR CROSSWORD SOLUTION
    91 18 ArroKs: 1. Mimlr. 5, Slfm«.-H^B Rrtalia. 9, Spied. 12, (Iranp. 13^ Can 16. Apron. 19, Lee. 20, Entire. 21. Pedlar. 22. Sowed. 23. l.»mp. 24^ Oven. 25. Clear. 27. Neltle. iW\ Tirade 31, Vre. ?,]#Vspfn. 34. I>nV .15. Omml 37, SnAd. 39, Apparel. 40. Mm. 41, #nod.
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    BOXING DAY RUGGER WITH A PUNCH
    369 19 loper and Geeks park SCC win A.*.ISEL£TAR, playing without four of their best players, yesterday put up a plucky fight the Padang against a stronger and faster igapore Cricket Club side but, after holding the ib to 10-0 for most of the game, they
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    H.S. CHINESE ARE HOCKEY CHAMPIONS
    128 19 PENANG. Sat. EOfl Sembllan Chinese became uriefeated cJiampions of ihe i«vf lnter-Chlnese Recreation b quandrangular hockey tourna»t here with victories over uuiß. Selangor and Perak. feprl trounced Selangor 5-0 Yeslay and then put themselves !n :ommandinK position with a 2-0 ory over Perak this mornlne.
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    MALAYS TENNIS MEET IN FEB.
    82 19 rhe fourth All-Malayan Malays tils tournament will be held at c'j Lumpur during the Chinese •year holidays on Feb. 3 to ti. >vent.'. are open slncles and \.eltn. handicap singles rind lubles, veteran doubles and junior life* (for boys 18 years and d*r>. Entry forms
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    BOUGOURE SCORES ON BEST BET, CURLEW
    971 19  -  EPSOM JEEP Christmas Day racing By rARMvI BOUbULKL rode a good double on Best Bet and Curlew on Friday, first day of the Penang Turf Club's Christmas— New Year meeting. Best Bet won the Christmas Cup event for Class One, Div. One, horses over
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    Big Sweep
    45 19 TOTAL POOL S194.5OO FIRST: *****8 (S46.680) SECOND: *****9 ($23,340) THIRD: *****0 ($11,670) STARTERS $2917 each: *****7. 261 663. 11.2822. *****7. *****3, *****9. *****0 *****6. CONSOLATION: $1,167 each; *****7. *****0, *****5. *****', *****7. *****9. *****8, *****5, *****1. *****3. TREBLE TOTE: (four tickets) $1848 each.
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    U.K. SOCCER RESULTS
    499 19 LONDON. Sat. LEAGUE DIVISION I Aston Villa 1 Wolves 3 Blackpool 2 Arsenal 2, Bfllton 3 h.iiliin 1 helsea 2 Cardiff lluddersfirld 2 Sunderland 1 Liverpool 0 W. Bromwirh 0 Manchester 2 Sheffield I. 1 Newcastle 2 Middlesbrough 3 I'm t •.mini Hi l Tottenham 1 Preston
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    SBHFA FEES ARE DUE BY FRIDAY
    30 19 Clubs affiliated to the Singapore Business, Houses Football Association must pay their afflllaMon and entrance fees before Friday to /;m--prte In next year's competitions.
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    U.S., AUSTRALIA NAME CUP TEAMS
    50 19 MELBOURNE. Sat. Lewis Hoad and Ken Rosewall for Australia, and Tony Trabert and Vie Selxas for thr United Statrs, will battle out the challenge round of the Davis Cup, starting here on Monday. In Monday's matches Hoad wi'l play Selxas and Rospwall wll mc«t Trabert.
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    First victory for Commonwealth XI
    163 19 JORHAT. Assam. Sat. The Commonwealth cricket team scored the first win of their tour of India when they beat the Oovernor of Assam's XI by an Innings and 121 runs here. The Ocernor's XI. out for 121 In their first Innings In reply to the
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    S'GOR, PENANG TAKE FULL POINTS
    452 19 PENANG, Bat. pAIN interrupted pWy in the Inter- I Chinese Recreation Club quad- rangul.-r tennis tournament for the Yeap Hock Hoe Challenge Cup on Victoria Oreen yesterday. In the first day's play. Penpng tdged Peraic 3-2 and Seip.nsor beat i N>erl Sembllan 4-1. Results: Perang
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      317 19 Jhefi-rthf.r llio vmnko travois J^^v-^sSfeite through the cigarette the cooler Jfljtev the smoke. A Rothman 8 is a A fclßfcs^: much longer cigarette. The JQ mlmt KltV j! extra length gives Rothman 8 JH WlE^ m/M sU bUxI that smoother, cooler taste. JCj I^aVP Wmlm ROTH MAN 8 Mm I
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