The Straits Times, 23 January 1955

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  • 13 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES No. 1,013. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1955. 15 CENTS m
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  • 500 1 urn The Sunday Times wishes all its Chinese readers a Happy New Tear iiiihiiihiiim Floods again in Singapore and South Johore RAGING SEAS drove two ships ashore off Singapore yesterday as rain and high winds buffeted south and eastern Malaya, posing the most
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  • 47 1 Two share 5,000 I two wm- I I of Straits Pu::le ach will re- X). I Koh Chen? Ann S St Wilfrid Road, SINGAPORE 12. j Mr. Abdullah A.R.. 69 Bidcford Road. SINGAPORE 9. j eceive .,e> at the mes office Five for the j editor's I
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  • 78 1 lILD Singapore g< red half- i m< last night i n slabbed in armed and B) mile- s Road Hion. -one. waj w *'.king .-he was .the men. :>..id told them I did not have any i] the three men turned her round ■abbed her.
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  • 34 1 York. Sat.— I Woo I here on a ■:> police i' arrested he lire and f up a balloon. I" then said he a partially and only one result of war acquitted
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  • 22 1 Hpt Wales beat the Ruk'by in- WS Cardiff today. h scored a pe- I r nine minutes. d 5-3.
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  • 135 1 525,000 to be paid out today MR. S. T. Stewart, Chairman of the Rural Board, yesterday told the Bedok flood victims that Government will today make a payment of $20,000 to those most seriously affected by the recent floods. This payment, he added, is in addition to the Rehabilitation Scheme
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  • 48 1 THE Chinese New Ycir i* 00 hand and mother has brought her little eirl to town to get her a new pair of shors. Nrarhy junior waits a little impatiently as sister trie* on her new shoes with mother s help. Sunday Times picture.
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  • 135 1 Mr. G. is not worried A YOUNG jeweller flew into I Singapore yesterday with SlOO.OOO worth of gems and watches. But there were two pood reasons why Mr. Hans Goessele unperturbed about his I ibU trinkets. One— he travelled apart from his merchandise, which was treated as
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  • 37 1 RIO DE JANEIRO. Sat. Six hundred police surrounded a big area here yesterday and arrested 728 suspicious people in a raid seeking to round-up criminals whose favourite hiding places are in the slums.
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  • 28 1 LONDON. Sat. Mr. Mohammed Ali. the Pakistan Prime Minister, plans to leave here by air tonight for New York on his way to Ottawa Reuter.
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  • 690 1  -  HARRY MILLER KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. By INDEPENDENCE of the Federation of Malaya by 1960; the calling of a Constituent Assembly to decide constitutional problems; universal national service; a quota system for immigration; an association of South-East Asian territories as a
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  • 80 1 Boy died to save two PITTSBURGH, Sat.— A hero's medal was awarded posthumously yesterday to an Italian immigrant boy who sacrificed his life trying to save the lives of his school chums. The bronze medal to John [Minadeo, 16. of Pittsburgh was one of 14 awarded by the Carnegie Fund
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  • 54 1 LONDON. Sat.— The Inspec-tor-General of the Royal Air Force. Air Marshal Sir Charles Guest, will leave London airport on Jan. 24 on a six-week tour of Middle East and Far East Air Force Bases, includine Singapore and Hong Kong. He will also consult with the Commander-in-Chief
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  • 37 1 JOHANNESBURG, Sat. Mrs. Charlotte Robinson, who was 109 last May, died here yesterday. She outlived all her children. She had nine grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren and seven great great grandchildren. Reuter.
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  • 137 1 The Ocean Park Hotel, sin gapore. re-opened yesterday after an 11-day close-down because of a strike. An agreement ending the strike was signed by Mr. Myron Ling, the manager, and a union representative in the office of the deputy Commissioner for Labour, Mr.
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  • Article, Illustration
    35 1 EDINBURGH is using this machine to clear the roads of snow. Rotating blades scoop the snow into a trough and then fans blow it through the funnel clear of the road. A.P. picture.
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  • 153 1 M EARLY SI ,000,000 in cash cheques is believed to have been distributed to the staff of the Onentai Telephone and Electrical Co. Ltd. yesterday. This windfall is the result I of the dissolution of the company's provident fund. The general manager, Mr. A.
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  • 46 1 DURHAM, Ontario, Sat. Each Durham dog will have his own personal fir* hydrant this year. The Town Clerk, Mr. George Drew, announced lhat he will issue 200 dog tag* in the shape of tire hydrants and painted brifrnt red —A. P.
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  • 61 1 PUSAN. Sat. American military police here today nominated as "meanest thief" whoever this week broke into the Pusan chaplain's office and stole relief clothing earmarked for the poor of Pusan. Dozens of boxes of relief goods were opened during the night on Jan. 20 and the choicest
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  • 229 1 Tan backs bi-iingual Assembly system rE Deputy President of the Sinn a pore Legislative Council. Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. has told the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which ha represents, that he is opposed to a multi-lingual system in the new Legislative Assembly. In a letter to the president and vice-president
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  • 107 1 NEW YORK, American doctors have for the first time ited six viruses blamed for Iratory ailments, lever and eye inflammations, which afflict millions every year, "Parade magazine reported today. The parasites are known under the group na.ne "Virus X' a name them after a Los
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 98 1 For that Mirror-Like Finish, use RE-PO THE EASY AUTO POLISH Sole Agrnta:— HONG SEH, 177-179. Beach Road. SINGAPORE-7. Tplc HIM A ?1 7-.fi. LjICHT op one of these superb English cigarette* of pre-war excellence. Savour the rich, mellow smoothness of that pure Virginia tobacco anJ yon will have formed a
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  • 1651 2  - AT LAST! I ARRIVE AT SAMOA William Willis /4*k. «^*> #v by AN island represented danger. And yet the very sight of land, the first I had seen since leaving Peru, sent me wild with joy. It had never been my intention to be anywhere near Flint Island. And yet
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  • 668 2 A WHIFF of cheap per- fume and a squeaky little voice sayine "Good morning. Sourpussy." told me that the Fairy Wishful Thinkine was with me again. The tiny pest was sitting on the end of the typewriter carriage swinging her legs and dabine at her nose with a
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  • 752 2 Battle against leprosy— 2 Dr. Frederick A. Johansen continues his story of his years spe?it in charge of the U.S. Public Health Service hospital for lepers at Carlville, U.S THE introduction of a new experimental drug always hurried the passage of time at Carville. We were always trying something new.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • 285 3 T HE Singapore Progres- I ,vc Parry's execu- fivP committee has deeded that Mr. Sim Beng Sen? rncmber on the fv Council, should be < fr vcd with a notice to j how cause why he j s hould not be expelled horn
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  • 92 3 broki out at a 200 storekeeper Singapore :ec Union held South Asia tarted when tho turned office-bearers number of ttendance resumed only I .man <>f the Mr I>. Stevens, I] the police. olnre-bcar-n thly. Mr. S. T. V. Lingam, president of A.C.S.U. reported that lions
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  • 64 3 The Bi.shop of Willesden, an authority on Oxford boatr.u Ing, left Singapore yesterday for Britain after an extentdve tour of Malaya and the Far Ea.-t. He spent the last Christmas wih troops in Korea. The Rt. Rev. G. A. Ellison was ordained in 1935. He become
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  • 440 3 CIVILIANS GO: ARMY MAY BE NEXT TAIPEH, Saturday. THE CHINESE NATIONALISTS have already begun to evacuate noncombatants from the Tachen Islands, it was reliably learned here today. Five American military advisers left on Thursday, it was reported. A senior Nationalist official hinted that
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  • 72 3 TALL, handsome Vim Chun had a quiet welcome at Singapore^ Kallang Airport yesterday afternoon considering he is Hong Kongs No. 1 film hero, and an idol of mil- lions of Chinese in South East Asia. Only a handful of film industry people and fans greet;od the
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  • 62 3 At the Singapore General Hospital and the Kandang Kcrbau Hospital 161 patients were given blood transfusions last week. Yesterday the Blood Bank I reported that there were 190 blood donors during the week against 170 receivers. The bank has now 117 flasks of blood 35 of
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  • 98 3 A cocktail party arranged in Singapore for Mr. John Davis, managing director of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, and his actress wife. Dinah Sheridan, was held last night -without the guests of hon- our. The London plane on which the two celebrities were due to arrive
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  • 117 3 Life can be hard for a 90-year-old woman especially if she lives in tb«" Bedok resettlement village. In the past three months Ang Kin has had to be carried out of her house three times to escape rising flood waters. Shr has been sent twice to the
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  • 251 3 QNE group of 50 ratings from two British cruisers yesterw day rated Singapore as "the most hospitable port" they had ever touched. The sailors, from H.M.S. Birmingham and Newcastle, were entertained to tea at the Chinese Swimming Club and had a dip in the Club pool within
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    • 353 3 $27,460 FOR YOU AT AGE 55 Men or women, under 45 by settling aside regular monthly, half-yearly or yearly amounts under the BUN LIFE OF CANADA plan can, for example, receive at age 55 a lump sum— s27,46o for men or $30,881 for women— or a private Income, for life
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 22 3 HIGH TIDES 10.01 .i.ni (Bft. 4in.i: a iBft. 4in.> Penanc 12.17 I c in 47 Dukson 6.57 Wt 4in.': 71 4U1.1 I.JB
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    • 207 3 ■M^^HHppßMMppiHyp^ GARRICK' Char Bazar (Hindi) I Lone Hand (Tech.l— ll a.m. —3 15 630 9 15: morning show— 1 REX: Yankee Pasha— ll, 1.45. 4, Adventures' of Frank and Jessie 6.30, 9.30: morning show— Big Heat Uam —9 a.m.: midnight— Kudumbam \I.H\MBRA: Tobor the Great— (Tamil). 11 130 4 645
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  • 1666 4 Radio takes millions behind the Royal scenes AUDREY RUSSELL, BBC woman commentator, gives behind-the-mike impressions of her work as reporter of royal events: its anxieties, its excitements, its satisfactions... ()\K of Ihe most interesting developmenta in the history of broadcasting is that the outside broadcasts of royal eveati have become
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  • 625 4  -  GEORGE WILTON By Identical twins startle the doctors and their friends. Not merely do they look alike but they often think and feel alike. THOMAS STOCKIE, of Patricroft, in Lancashire. was chopping wood when he mistimed and hit himself in the eye, fortunately, wtih the
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  • 371 4 THE story of the Willow Pattern has been set to music and especially written in London for Malaya's own singing star, Lian-shin Yang. Last year she had television successes as Butterfly and Sie-Thao in "The Peach Garden." over and abov e the many
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 1239 5 PICTURE MEN FIND A PROSPECT KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. rounds of a Kuala Lumpur hotel were turned into a film studio today as 15 local European smiled, walked and turned before a battery of cameras. had been called for tests by producer jack Hanis tounng Malaya with a team of J.
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  • 131 5 He rose from the ranks I BAHRU Sat. Hi syed Abdul Kadir who retired Mrntrl Besar rose from the ol Government nly. say those him, because of indinc of the people. Kadir began I nglish-Malay Hoard 3 x years later ointed secretary promoted to the Sorvicr and Bahru district 1937.
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  • 112 5 of the R I ib are being In the 'goose-step' art of thrir life Singapore. ne strp further tonf keeping sv Immera when mes." a Club of- Sunday Times istrallan airmen in the Colony are ru They are In their home "Although thts step is new
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  • 34 5 The young Malaya-born actress |ill Bennett (nearest camera) with Wendy Hillee. in the play "The Night of the Ball," in which she is appearing with success on the London stage.
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  • 257 5 H*'s a grand film-maker F<EW people In Singapore can have become more proficient at their hobby than Mr. Annesley W. Perera, of the City Council staff. Singapore. Mr. Annesley Perera makes colour films in his spare time and his latest effort, taken during a trip
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  • 60 5 Cho Hong Lim. 30, of Singapore, an unemployed man, was sentenced to 16 months' jail, to be followed by two years' police supervision, when he pleaded guilty yesterday to theft of a wallet containing $42 in cash and an identity card belonging to Chanan Singh. Cho admitted
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  • 30 5 Mr. Ly Sing Ko will give a talk in English on "The Classical Chinese Theatre" at the Alliance Francaise Library. 304-S Orchard Road, Singapore, on Jan. 27.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 94 5 Winning answers to Ward Puozle XXX THE $5,000 prise for Straits Times Word Puxxle Contest 'XXX' will be shared by 1 KOH CHENG ANN, 8 St. Wilfrid Rd., Singapore, 12 and ABDULLAH A.R., 69 Bideford Rd., Singapore, 9. They each submitted a set of answers which corresponded completely with those
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  • Musines of a chinese Gourmet
    • 794 6 Of HCiiiXt Si NMSW WE AM ATTiiACTiOX IT is no secret that people unfamiliar with the Chinese cuisine are apt to think that Chinese people eat a lot of "odd" things, so much so that the word "chinoiserie" is applied to their food no less than to other things Chinese.
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    • 801 6  - THE WONDER OF SHARK'S FIN Dr. F.T. Cheng, LL.D. by 1 (Lond.) THESE EXCERPTS ARE TAKEN FROM HIS NEW BOOK, MUSINGS OF A CHINESE GOURMET," PUBLISHED BY HUTCHINSON bone hidden in the meat at the top of the fin can also be easily removed. If not. simmer it a little
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    • The Countryman's Journal
      • 622 6 Down the river to Kuala Sedili rIRTY days have passed since anything more than a short shower has fallen in the Dusun area. For some days intermittent !:gh wind, with a mist-like drizzle has been prevalent. Thlfj state of affairs Wai the rule during past Januaries: It might be described
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 465 6 STUFFED VEGETABLES IT IS good presentation Of or two. Then add half a pound oil. rovrr with thr lorn.it.. caps vegetables to use them as 'hopped or minced rooked and place In a well oiled or a garnish as well as a mere meat n »««"°n well with pep- greased
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    • 461 6 STOP your I ..^COUGH IpSwl OICKLY s\\~. v IP dckling cough keep* T o u u COUOH nißhta cake a doie of Veno's tt be** I LJIYTIjQE and eniov restfuJ il.rep. a|^sflM^^^Q^flH I* 1 your C| CSI is "K'lt and painru! Jjl !^^Rflc9Qßaa%H Veno'a tor immediat; ea»r ,< mlo«co««» p
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  • 374 7  - Up-to-the minute accessaries! j^j NOEL Ip vi the great m houses of i i, Pans and New :ome not only •west styles in lit also the deas and ways rig up-to-the-accessories eh can make c mar an ensemble. •ashion shows are noted and it -c catches on myth nc new
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  • 1138 7 AT school I am in a mixed class, and some of the older i boys tease me. The other day the boys in the class i n n t S hL m( «ST by T ne an d the teacher look(ld °n and did nothing, When
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  • 475 7  -  DORIS JAMES A WOMAN TALKS TO MEN: By \YHERE are the gay gaMants of yesteryear? What has happened to the code of chivalry? Are those days really gone? In Malaya it seems as if they have stolen away as in the morning the stars
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  • Article, Illustration
    35 7 Something new in swimsuits is teen here worn by Paramount star Nicole Maurcy. The conventional strapless suit is altered with the addition of a new collar-style halter. The neck strap is covered with sequins.
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  • 84 7 Apart from the few "inter- nationals" perennially to be seen in Paris and the fashion- I able resorts, the bu!k of French women have nothing on the average British house- i wife for looks or clothes, writes Harry Ballam. British women dress to suit their
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 239 7 I Rise and Shine Every Day J^\\ /f II II |l If I I NI I 11)11MILK OF MAGNESIA A PRODUCT OF PHILLIPS i^KL&Tj. take* re ALL my tummy upsets. SyJUA It is a mild, gentle, yet thorough v |rpji. o M *S< laxative which never causes me any PVhillips'
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  • 1020 8  -  MAXINE RAKICH [b» IJAYK you beard of the expression "slicking straws in your hair*.. This means you are on the border of the goofy line and this expression mighi ;is well do for the new ma <l fashions in straw thai have come from ItalyNot only
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  • 1023 8 Well. it's my own face isn't it...? j She took twe hours off work... She felt no pain... A famous novelist! pays the surgeon $280 to improve her looks, and says... "If jnly," say a thousand i I had <.he couraye. and the i smoothed; that line removed, t U
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  • 690 8  -  PEARLE HARFORD By ASK any man what he considers to be woman's greatest hobby in life, and he will answer: "Shopping." If he says this m women's company there will doubtless be cries of protest and denial, but however loud the cries, the truth remains Women
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  • 71 9 A pretty girl came all the way from Melbourne last week for her marriage in Singapore. Formerly Miss Mimi Cameron, she is now the wife of Sst O.D.|. Hughes. RAAF, who comes from Wagga. New South Wales. The wedding group, seen outside the Registry Office,
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  • 324 9 ■Hundreds of amateurs will delve into mysteries of the past A HAEOLOCICAL research in South-East Asia will now be undertaken a big way by students and staff of the University of Malaya. As a first step, they have formed the University
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  • 58 9 «r :«rmv workers to l' r '-°n b A|r haram in the nin.l fourthn rharcrs of rheatrharsa involved worth more thr property of ipore firms. C hind. 32. was lm--lMnfri for 18 months and ore (hene Koh. alias Hu- bin Hi.it. H, was s*ntfnerf to
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  • 97 9 not forget the sea. and so Lieut. -ComK C. Banks, of the Malayan Royal Naval erve. yesterday took the christening of his -->ard the H M.S. Laburnum berthed off Singapore, to give it the "sea touch. Little Carol Ann Evelyn Banks <in the arras of
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  • 51 9 Who will four-slit chongsam? PRETTY Miss Lre Swee Gek. a General Hospital nurse. It a worried young lady "I hope I needn't have to wear the four-slit chongsam.'' She and schoolteacher Ifisa Laura Koh have been "tipped to mod'- 1 it at the Chinese Swimmir; Club's Fashion Parade ne .t
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  • 15 9 CINCAPORE S Van Kleef Aqi man without him it Soon, a dtv Councillor, vestf
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  • Article, Illustration
    68 9 Until the dresses arrive from Hong Kong on Jan. 30, no one knows who is to be the star of the show. Miss Lee volunteered "to do MISS LEE SWEE CEK my bit" when asked to assist "for charity sake." And. all because of the fourslit chongsam." .«he
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  • 190 9 arium should be managed by 'ould be better to have no a ■day He said the council spent nearly $500,000 to build the aquarium. It would be false ••conomy to save money by not having an experienced expert. He was one of the councillors who favoured
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  • 25 9 The Singapore Amateur Weichtlifting Federation will hold a Chinese New Year ball at Raffles Hotel tomorrow from 8 30 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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  • 420 9 CCIENCE graduates of Nanyang University should be ab!e to tackle any engineering problem, Chancellor Lin Yutang announced yesterday. The University;; College of. Science and Technolosy, under the leadership of Prof. P. Y. Hii. will be one of the most modern of its kind in the Far
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  • 126 9 A total of 823 yean of service with United Engineers Ltd.. Singapore, is the record of these members of the staff seen here. Sitting in the centre row. is machinist Mr. Lcong Ng. who served 48 years. The length of service of the rest
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • 1690 10  -  p we7ity-four hours after his fourth landing in Occupied France, British agents Peter Churchill and his future wife, Odette were trapped by the German counter-espionage chief, Col. Henri. In Annecy Peter tried to stage a one-man escape and got badly beaten up by Italian
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  • SINGAPORE, JAN. 23, 1955.
    • 274 10 Two birthdays THIS Wednesday marks the national days of two of the most influential members of the Commonwealth India and Australia. Numerically, climatically, historically and culturally the two nations are far removed. But in many things they are very near. Both countries are ruled, and populated, by people
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  • 1512 10 YOUR leader on "Three Bad Types" has set me thinking. For me these are (1) the Complacent, i2i the Pessimistic, and (3> the Malevolent. The Complacent shut their eyes to the dangers ahead of Malaya. They remind one of the ostrich. The Pessimists wait supinely for
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  • 248 10 r WAS sorry to ters, ;i Joui I've often '"^U from BI work-worn Dnilv Mirror. I ye often adi Vith a frw tions, such a corre.sponri»n» newspapers rep parts have ideas in thi rageous and ble behavi... c tMonkev Brai stuff); 2. Unbi of stuck-up i I C
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 733 10 CLASSIFIED ADS. \\\<>l EMENTS JO Wmrdt $19 (mmimum). LIFE ASSURANCE is a Way to in Adv;inre" on »ne monthly bi: unil.v will continue to receive if someth ng happens to him. Write Doih las en, P.O. Box 4024. Slngap >re. TYRES. TYRES. ITRti gny »l»es from Ten Inc hi Pc-.
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    • 5 10 THE CREAM OF THE CROP
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    • 30 10 Wishing Our all our offices friends will be a happy and closed on prosperous Monday New Year! Cf Tuesdc Fraser Neave Ltd. Malayan Breweries Ltd. Archipelago Brewery Co. (1941) Ltd.
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  • 279 11 Home and so happy TEE GOES BACK TO HER PARENTS FOR THE NEW YEAR ER MOTHER IS GIVEN A SPECIAL 'REPRIEVE 9 PINESS in the best Chinese tradition awaits Singapore family when their five-year-old daughter leaves a Social Welfare Home today and her parents for a New Year's Eve reunion
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  • 190 11 Rain ends crowds flock to Chinatown Of C'h:i. men, jammed Chinatown yesto rrsume shopping gun peeped after nearly 40 U rain. woathrr rcln the heart the Chinese bedown; i throughout •day mornI id sign to ir of the pped at an opW that ■till make nute purchases. in make up
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  • 53 11 The People's Action Party, Singapore, is sponsoring a public meeting at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Jan. 30 to define the scope and limitations of the Rendel constitution. Many trade unions and other j organisations, which submitted their views to the Rendel Commission, have been invited
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  • 69 11 An 11-year-old girl, Chan Siew Noi. appeared in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday on a charge of as- sistlng in the management of a chap-ji-ki lottery at Java Road on Friday night. I ookine at her, the magis- > trate. Mr. J. M. DevereuxCclebourn, remarked;
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  • 185 11 The story of the first 400 Sunday Times Film Correspondent T saw two film documenx taries last week. One was made in England by a commercial firm and was all about missing persons; the other was made in this country by the Malayan Film Unit and was all about the
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  • 56 11 Although the Federation Flood Relief Fund closed a week ago. donations are still coming in. Yesterday a total of $634.76 was received bringin? the grand total to more than $282,000. Donations received in Singapore were: RASC School FE Sergeants Mess, Nee Soon SI 1.34: Members of
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  • 36 11 An old maid-servant. Tham Chov Hing, who pleaded guilty in a Singapore court yesterday to theft of a wrist watch belonging to her employer, was sentenced to a day's jail and fined $85.
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  • 27 11 A nine-foot-high mural, depicting the Crucifixion, paintrd by Corporal B. H. Charles in a church at Sclrtar RAF Station. Singapore. Story on right.
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  • 230 11 TWO richly-coloured murals now adorn the walls of a rhurch at Seletar RAF Station, Singapore all because i a 24-year-old corporal likes to paint in his spare time. The enthusiastic artist isi Corporal Bernard H. Charles, from North Waies. He has worked during weekends and days oft*
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  • 76 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat.— The Kota Tingpi floods were seen on television in England by a former Malayan, who said the picture it showed was frightful, Inche Shukor told a meeting of the Johore State Welfare Committee. A survey at Kota Tinggl showed that two square miles
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  • 33 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. Sapper George dc Cruz of the Engineer Training Camp, Kluang, has been sentenced to 15 months' jail for stealing a motor cycle belonging to Sapper T. Morgan.
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  • 268 11 LONDON. Sat. ENGLISH LEAGUE DIV. 1. Aston Villa 3 Blackpool 1 Burnlry 0 Newcastle 1 Chelsea 0 Manchester C. 2 Hudd.-.-M. 11l Cardiff Leicester Everton Manchester U. 1 Bolton 1 Preston 3 West Brom. 1 •Sheffield ltd. Arsenal Sundrrland 2 Portsmouth 2 Tottenham 7 Sheffield W. 2
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  • 99 11 NEHRU HAS CLEARED AIR— MITRA Mr. A. N. Mitra. president of the Singapore branch of the Malayan Indian Congress, said Mr. Nehru's letter to Mr. G. V. Thaver had cleared the air on his views on Malayan Indian politics and independence. Mr. Mitra said "Mr. Nehru must have discussed the
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  • 349 11 Close at WV/i By GEOFFREY BOLAND A Reuter report from New York that there was a feeling among rubber traders that synthetic rubber consumption might be reaching saturation point, and increased forward sales might be aimed at stockpiling synthetic, boosted rubber up again in
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  • 21 11 The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was $339.87^ per picul which was down $1.12' 2 compared with Friday.
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  • 23 11 The Rural Board. Singapore, will hold its monthly meeting on Jan. 27 at the Conference Room in the Colonial Secretary.-; Office.
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  • 886 12  - 'An offence of great magnitude.. Donald Davies A WELL-KNOWN name in the Far East was that of Captain William Scott A cousin of the great novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott, he is described in glowing terms in John Turnbull Thomson's book "Some Glimpses Into Life In The Far East."
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    146 12 EACH week the Sunday Timej is awarding cash prizes for readers' pictures. There is a first prize of $30 a second of S!5 I and runner -up each I receive $5. If you wish to enter I for the competition send your entries to < "Camera Contest.
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    • 372 12 (/jCIV^ PRECISION \sc many vcdu&u/e leaMeA Se much wujineiita ttouu C/ P- O. BOX 22/ SINGAPORE Write for illustrated literature and price list. COLLEGE can train your mind to SUCCESS f THROUGH I PERSONAL POSTAL TUITION A FREE book vital to your caraer Read how thu tmmm Eneh«h CoUtge can
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    • 349 12 f IT was more than 60 years ago Harshaw and Mr Tucker that an unknown young sing splendidly and I speItalian musician startled the cially liked Santuzza's "Voi musical world with his win- lo sapete, O Mamma.' and ning entry to a one-act opera Turiddu's final minutes when contest. Today
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    • 202 12 Popular Crossword 'V I I r" I I ACROSS DOWN 1. Part of chinch (5); 2. Suppose 1. Scent (5); 5. Frown (5); 9. Soft (f), 3. Obstinate person (4); 4 Ahpart (4); 11. Atmosphere (4); 12. solutely (3); 5. Prosecute (3)- 6 Rinses (6); 14 Justice (6); stuff (4);
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  • 452 13  - 'Team wor k' says Grandpa Pidge Happy 3 Hollywood Marriages No. 3 C >■■■■■■■■ a ■< ;rHE SECRET: LOVE, MUTUAL RESPECT, COMPANIONSHIP ARE BASIC "jyiY I3OY, successful marriage has to be teamwork. "Love and mutual respect, understanding and companionship are basic," said Walter Pidgeon when I talked with him after
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  • 762 13 |(~ffiAf FANS' FO*Um—)\ W HY ar e most of he M film stars not known C by their real na,mes? LEE LEONG GIM. Penang. Many real names of film stars are ugly or hard to pro- nounce. Take the case of Shel- ley Winters.
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  • 1094 13  - Mr. Todd packs his sword and bowler Thomas Wiseman by 5 —KSEKmESiH ~~i IT looks to me as though bowler-hatted squire 1 Richard Todd, who drives a 1 20-year-old Rolls and plays I with electric trains, is all i set to till the vacancy in the swashbuckling department Hollywood. It
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  • 112 17 >:TOR still young in enthusiasm at the age of 76 A showed a United States medical convention L allod the cainvibograph, designed to aid Sgnosing heart ailments. cairlvibograph" is made up of parts of the iir md vibrations, and "graph," a Greek root [raph picks
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  • 475 17 I r had trouble 13 \s defences benow legendary Faced ths wrong a decade ot the Inspec- vVorks, maLake, tk but the first the guns blew ires completely I d by tht Government f H. H. Han- to the Archition in London. Illustrated talk I
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  • 1033 17  -  HARVEY DAY By JHK will of Miss Lvdia WUberforce, Ful ford, York. under which she left len Shetland sheep do&s and six collies a house, furniture and $240,000 for their upkeep, is by no means unique. Many frustrated and eccentric women think more
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  • 606 18  - Bad driving always snowballs! BARNEY AVERY Says SINGAPORE drivers really must be less aggressive. Bad driving snowballs in a city like ours. The newly licenced driver and the newcomer begin by being courteous. They find it gets them nowhere. In the end they are forced in sheer desperation to adopt
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  • 479 18 I ESS than 70 years ago, there were no motor cars on the streets and country roads of the United States, or anywhere else, for that matter. But in The United States now, this tremendous and steadily growing mass movement of motor cars, lorries, and buses
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  • 483 18 Does Malaya need the Choongs? mmsMEBEEEm SHOULD the All-Eng-land champion, Eddie Choong, and his brother David, have been AskS CRUSADER invited to take part in the Thomas Cup trials 'yes I But a badminton with a view to helping friend has just wntten to T. i r me saying no.
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    • 73 18 PWOVELTIES O\\\ \l/ NCVELTiES Acknowledgements to Saturday Review George Lone ipothghti /955 cars. AfV'fr THI Kieft it oi\e of the tew cars fitted with o moulded body— in this I cat* it is gfoss fibre. Tht material is very light and strong, ideal for a sports cor Th* Kieft ii
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    • 15 18 30 DAYS EXCURSION 66 LBS. FREE BACCACE FROM S.NGAPORE^^ CIA j BANGKOK AND RE TURN
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  • 488 19 234 partnership withMay(lo2n.o.); )ICC score 419-6 From JACK FINGLETON ADELAIDE, Saturday. BATTING deeds were done here today the M.C.C. They ran up their highest total; I t h( t'»ur and Denis Compton, in a return to his form, hit 1S2 the highest individual ,'tal of the
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  • 148 19 Till. MAYFLOWER 1 Badminton Party has turned down the appeal of the Singapore Badminton Association's request not to press for a walkover in the senior inter-club final. The S.B.A. made this request to the Mayflower after Marigold B.P. had applied for a
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  • 372 19 KI'ALA Ll'MPl'R, Saturday. IN the first match of the Malayan Hotkey Federation's i new series. North handed out a s—l5 1 trouncing to j South in their end-of-the-season game on Malaya Headquarters ground today. North, who '.ed 3—l at half- time, got their
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  • 248 19 NS Blues beat S gor so Colony in final SEREMBAN, Sat. Sembilan scored I the biggest upset in the All Blues rugeer competition when they beat the holders and favourites, Selangor. for the first time since the j inception of the competition in 1934, by five points (goal) to three
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  • 344 19 Disputed try helps S.C.C. to victory AFTER a great mud battle, in which they shewed themsphes the better side all round. South Johore were unlucky '.o lose their rugger match to Singapore Cricket Club by a disputed try -.cored three Btnutes from time on the padan? yesterday. The Club won
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  • 54 19  -  GERMAN BY HAMBURG. Sat. Gustav Scholz. Germany s official contender for the European middleweight boxinv '■hampionship outpointed British light heavyweight champion Alex Buxton over ten rounds here last night. Scholz took count of eight in :he second round, but in later rounds he sent Buxton to the car.
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  • 116 19 Popular Crossword Solution ACROSS: 1. Aroma. 5. Scowl. '■>. Pulp. 11, Aura. 12, Swills. 14. Reason. 16. Lane. 17, Ace. 19, Mire. 20. Eye. 21. Plane. 23. Sin. 24. Remnant. 26. Satin. 27. Tacit. 28. Manager. 31. Pit. 33. Later. 34. Bag. 36. Anew. 38. Mar. 39. Toll. 40. I
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  • 309 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. 'THERE were no upsets on the ope -.ing day of the All Malaya Malays la An tennis championships, i I which began on the Sultan Suleiman Club and Selangor Chinese Recreation Club courts today. In the handicap doubles, the Raja of
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  • 222 19 SEREMBAN. Sat. PERAK beat Negri Sembllan in the P'arleitrh Robertson trophy rugby match by 20 points igoal and five tries i to three (tryi here today. 1 Negri put up a good fight In the first half but faded after the interval. Negri lacked a
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  • 453 19 FIJIANS OVERRUN SELANCOR CLUB IN SECOND HALF KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. THE FIJIANS gave another demonstration of fast. determined rugby when they beat the Selangor Club by 29 points to three. The Fijians' points came from four goals, and three tries against the Club's penalty. i The Club turned in a
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  • 44 19 Pohre an^i Khalsa Association will play their senior knockout hockey fixture on the Shell ground today." Umpires wi!l r* F. A Milne and V. Ramalingam. None of yesterday's four knockI out fixtures ovid be played owing 1 to poor ground conditions.
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  • 280 19 Sprint star Hamzah hero of RAF win RAF Tengah retained the Sanderson Cup when they beat RAAF Tengah by 11 points (goal and two tries) to mx (two tries* in the final of the RAF inter-unit rugger competition at Tengah yesterday. It was a closely-fought tussle with the scores tied
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  • 393 19 i /-OLIN STIRLING yesterday 1 broke the Royal Island Club. Singapore, course record with a score of "0. two under par. He was playing in the January Medal (stroke) in which preferred lies were permitted, as the course was i'ery wet. His score
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  • 1426 20 Wadsworth gets double tvith Pride of Burma and Beccaficoes ($7l) By EPSOM JEEP HANTESQUE, with (Iranet Bougoure astride, came out on top in another U.Mnd tussle with Graduate in the Class 2, lj-mile trophy race at Ipoh yesterday, concluding day of the Perak Turf
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  • 50 20 TOTAL POOL: 5281.836 Ist: No. *****1 (579.550) 2nd: No *****8 (SSS.ITS) 3rd: No. *****2 ($19,887) Starters (53.314 rach) Nos. *****5, *****2. *****1, *****5, *****1. *****9. Consolation (Sl.OOO each) Nos. *****0, *****7, *****9, i *****9. *****5. *****1. *****7, j *****7, *****7. *****6. TREBLE TOTE 48 tickets paying $53 each.
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  • 554 20 pOH SOO CHUAN won the best performance award when he set up a new men's 50 metres butterfly stroke record at the University of Malaya Athletic Union swimming gala at the Chinese Swimming Club pool yesttrday. Poh returned 27.65ec. which betters the previous time
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  • 673 20 WEIGHTS for Saturday, first day of the Singapore Turf Club's Jan. Feb. meeting, are: Cl. 1, Dlv. 1— 1 M. Three Rings 9.02 Golden Lotus 9.01 Broadside 8.13 Bearer Bond 8.12 Cinema II 8.10 Who Regrets 8.09 Euphrates 8.08 Elturius 8.08 Forest Beau 8.07 Adelaide Star 8.07
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  • 429 20 EPSOM JEEP tipped four winners at Ipoh yesterday. They were Pride of Burma. Dantesque. Jl'sselton and Pasamora. The Straits Times picture tip was Super Picture, which was unplaced in Race Four. Away io a good start Jesselton, on the lns'^e. Ore and Sweet Dream were the
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  • 37 20 TAIPING. Sat— An eight man Colts 'A' team surprised R.A.S.C. to hold them to a 2-2 draw in their league hockey match. Rariin scored j both goals for R.A.S.C. and Mocrthey Rot the equalising goals.
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