The Straits Times, 11 December 1955

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    13 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES in No. 1.039 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1955. 20 CENTS.
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    Lock icon MARSHALL HAS A VERY FRIENDLY' TALK
    393 1 MARSHALL HAS A VERY FRIENDLY' TALK Tho London visits begin the Colonial Office and Mr. Ititlieu LONDON, Saturday. David Marshall, Singapore's Chief Minister, made his first call at the Colonial Office this morning to consult senior officials on the agenda and time-table for his meetings with Britain's Colonial Secretary, Mr.
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    THE QUEEN TO Mr. RIDLEY
    168 1 Happy 100 th birthday' LONDON, Saturday. n today sent birthday greetings to Mr. Henry 1 nolas Ridley, who was 100 today. rtong other congratulatory messages received by s a personal letter from Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, L ii ii r Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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    Four share $5,000
    68 1 Four share $5,000 THERE are four win- ners of Straits Times I I Puzzle Contest I They will each i ;e $1,250. They I Kuala Lumpur: D. i Tavasu. Telecoms H.Q. j Singapore: Miss Lee i Kuan Chan 45, Niven I i Road: W. D. Moses I 261 -A. |oo
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    Lock icon Khrushchev lashes at Pakistan
    219 1 SRINAGAR Sat. MR. Nikita Khrushchev. First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. said today that Kasnmir was a part of India and that the people of Kashmir had themselves decided to become part of India. Mr. Khrushchev criticised Pakistan lor joining the Baghdad pact and said
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    Lock icon More mail for Colony
    39 1 LONDON. Sat. An extra air freighter service will leave London Airport next Tuesday carrying Christmas mail for Singapore. Tons of Christmas mail are being flown overseas every day, the British Overseas Airways CorDoration announced. Reuter
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    Lock icon CHAMPION 15 THREATENED
    68 1 JOHANNESBURG, fiat. Jannie van Rensbtirg, British Empire lightweight boxing champion and Dolf Dv Plessis, his trainer manager, have been threatened with a 'beatins; up" and warned they "won't be alive long" if Van Rensburg retains his title here tonight in a fight with challenger Willie Toweel. A
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    FISHY GOINGS-ON AT THE ARTS BALL
    170 1 PIRATES jostled with sea captains and bathing belles with beachcombers at the Singapore Arts Ball a "fishy festival" which told a merry tale at the Victoria Memorial Hall last night. Over 600 people attended and more than half of them were dressed as in
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    HOW TO WIN WORLD PEACE -BY NEHRU
    95 1 HOW TO WIN WORLD PEACE -BY NEHRU kurnool, South India. Sat. The Indian Promt 1 Mr. Nehru, told a ua: meeting here today "ot lunatics want war." "The vast majority of people in the world banger peace. The leaders oi e\ country want peace." h said. But it was one
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    Crackers—Japan says 'blame the heat'
    146 1 Crackers— Japan says 'blame the heat' TOKYO, SAT rE Tokyo Metropolitan Government said today that firecrackers which killed 11 Deople and injured more than 30 others in Malayan explosions were probably improperly stored. A spokesman said the Tokyo Government requires that firecrackers be stored in a cool dry plaoe. The
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    ASIA BUILDING OPENED
    155 1 SINGAPORE'S Govtrnoi Sir Robert Black, (above) opened the door of the Asia Insurance Building yesterday with a gold key. which was later presented to him by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Tan Boon Khah. The Governor arrived with Lady Black. Company offlciais met them
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    Saved at the 13th hour
    135 1 Saved at the 13th hour JOHORF, BAHRU, Sat. I rpniRTEEN hours before i X M. Supramaniam, a rubber tapper, was due to be hanged in Johore Prison, his execution was stayed. Supramaniam was tried In the Johore Assizes in October alter he was taken prisoner by Security Forces, on a
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    Plane crashes into a hospital
    73 1 SHEFFIELD. Sat.— A woman patient was killed and five others were injured when a United States Air Force F-84 Thunderstreak crashed into a hospital near here yesterday after the pilot baled out. The pilot, who abandoned the plane at a height of 3.500 feet, was
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    ULTIMATUM FOR CHIN PENG
    178 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE Federation's Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, told the Sunday Times today that Chin Peng I must give a reply about their coming meeting before Dec 30. "If I have not neard from him by then, the meeting will be called off," he
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    Poison kills three
    46 1 NFW YORK. Sat. Three cMldren aged three, five and six, died yesterday aftrr drinking a deadly insect poison while playing in a gtorage house in Stuart, Florida. A fourth child aged seven, was expected to recover. All were members of the same family.
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    Lock icon Swastika ban
    35 1 BONN, Sat— The West German Government has banned the sale of an American made construction kit for models of wartime Me.sserschmitt fighters,— because they carry the Nazi Swastika— it was announced yesterday. Router.
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    Lock icon Menzies has easy win in Australia
    256 1 Menzies has easy win in Australia MELBOURNE ,Sat. T^HE Australian Coalition Government of Mr. Robert Menzics was assured of a return to power with a landslide victory over the Labour Party in Federa l elections today. Observers said the LJberalCountry Party coalition. supporting Conservative nolicies. would at least treble Ita
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    Soldier waits to cross over
    39 1 HONG KONG. Sat. Richard Tenneson. a 22-year-old American .soldier who cbos to go to China after in the Korean war will arrive in Hong Kong on .a pokesman ol the United states Consul-Oeneral said.
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    to Space...
    820 2  -  John Newman CONCLUDING THE SUNDAY TIMES 'OUT THERE' SERIES THE SKY WELL BE FULL OF STRANGE SHAPES...LMKE GMANT WHEELS By \WITHIN 50 years the sky will be full of strange shapes Dozens of artificial satellites spacestations will orbit round the Earth They will be like giant wheels hundreds
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    THE FILLING STATION FOR THE PLANETS
    388 2 FROM the space traveller's viewpoint the most important purpose of a manned satellite will be as a "filling station' from which he would make the real start of his journeys to the planets The "filling station" will be necessary because to fire a nmlti
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    I THE WONDER I OF 'SILENT (SOUND' WAVES
    1196 2 By Harland A FEW years ago only a comedian would have proposed a drill that wouid bore a square hole but the other day in a New York laboratory I saw one. Put your finger against the tip and you feel a
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    Shop to shop search for midget 'bombs'
    485 3 YOU HAVE ANY CRACKERS SURRENDER THEM-IF YOU DON'T YOU MAY BE BLOWN UP' KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday here have started a shop to shop search for the "midget atom omb sand crackers which have killed 1 1 people and wounded more than 40. They
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    Aussies red on'
    99 3 SYDNEY, Sat. toon newspaper, today carried a .■Mm Penang say- ian troops communist fire t time in Malaya i said Commun- ambushed five Army trucks in they were British comB jungle base in Highlands. 1 the dispatch, alian wa.s slightly .iid that Austrawere "disgust■ubsequent order them to
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    AT KING NEPTUNE'S COURT
    22 3 Al last night's Singapore Arts Bill: Shirley Harris and Raymond Clarke dressed for the court of King Neptune.
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    New stockpile rubber policy
    90 3 WASHINGTON, Sat.— U. S. •übber authorities said yesteiday the United States has established a policy of accepting only fresh natural rubber as repayment for rubber borrowed from the stockpile. Manufacturers and other stockpile borrowers have been refused permission to make repayments in rubber borrowed from the
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    Woman is robbed
    27 3 Two men broke into a room in Jeddah Street, Singapore, on Friday night and robbed a Chinese woman of $500 and jewellery worth $565.
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    Servicemen put up two bridges
    206 3 ABOUT 50 National Servicemen and Volunteers of the Singapore Military Forces last night erected two Bailey bridges, each weighing 30 tons, in front of thu Bedok Resettlement area in Changi. Mr Francis Thomas, the Minister for Communications and Works, who was at the scene, said
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    CITY MEN SILENT ON SUIT THREAT
    171 3 THE CITY PRESIDENT, Mr. J. T. Rea. and h:s councillors maintained strict silence yesterday over the the threat by the Singapore Ratepayers' Association to take the Council to court for paying strike bonuses The Association maintains the Council had no right to give workers
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    Rubber short next year
    154 3 DETROIT, Sat. RECORDS toppled with startling regularity in the United States car indus- I try in 1955. New high marks were set in total production, total retail deliveries, gross product valuation. total manufacturers' profits and workers" earnings. United States rubber experts, who have made a special
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    Lock icon $15 million hotel
    80 3 HONG KONG. Sat. A 26 storey sky scraper hotel, costing 30,000.000 Hong Kong dollars, (about Msls, million) will be built in Hong Kong by an International Hotel Syndicate. A British owned newspaper. The China Mall, said the syndicate yesterday paid more than 8.000.000 Hong Kong dollars for
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    Call for pact with Vatican
    67 3 BUENOS AIRES. Sat.— The provisional government of President Pedro Aramburu said yesterday one of its principal objectives Is to negotiate a concordat with the Vatican. In a long written statement setting forth the revolutionary government's aims. Interior Minister Eduardo Busso said the government will guarantee
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    Lock icon Peso sags to lowest ebb
    50 3 BUENOS AIRES, Sat.— The value of the Argentine peso reached its lowest point yesterday since the opening ot the free market about a month ago. Exchange houses were buying dollars at more than 36 pesos each and sellIng dollars at 36.70 pesos per unit.— A.P.
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    Lock icon U.K. SOCCER RESULTS
    266 3 London, sat. DIVISION I Arsenal 2 West lin A. 111.1 3 Preston Blackpool 4 fever ton Bolton 6 Birmingham Cardiff 3 Charlton 1 Chelsea 2 Newcastle 1 Huddersfield 1 Tottenha. Man. C. 3 Luton Portsmouth 3 Man. I Sundn land 3 Sheff. I Wolves 3 Burnley DIVISION
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    FIRST COLONY CAMP FOR JEWISH BOYS
    72 3 THE first Jewish youth camp in Singapore will start at the Bedok English Boys' School today It is organised by the Jewish Welfare Board. Fifteen boys of the Hebrew School (Talmud Torah> will take part in the camp. They will spend 10 days living
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    Lock icon Petrol fumes cause cancer
    54 3 Petrol fumes cause cancer LOS ANGELES, Sat.— The increase in lung cancer in the United States is due to petrol polluted air, an American pathologist said here. Dr Paul Hotin said in a lecture sponsored by the American College of Chest Physicians that smoking was possibly an activating factor but
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      190 3 1. \KHICK: Khaiber (Hlndii— 9.30; morning show —Along the 315' 630 9 15- morrrtni? show— Great Divide; Tel. *****. ViKl'liiiites Are Coming. 11 a.m.; PAVILION: The Caddy— l.4s, 4. Tel ***** 63 <>. 93 0: morning show— PrlKING'S- Her Yearly Visit, Too sone'rs of the Casbah, 9 a.m. BorYoune for
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    My strange warning
    599 4 Mrs. Donald Campbell talks to Roger Lawrie J HAD just asked: "When Donald Campbell gets into that boat to meet the unknown perils of the water barrier, do you never think of John Cobb blown to bits doing the same thing." Mrs. Dorothy Campbell's eyes flickered across
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    BEAUTY IN AN X-RAY PICTURE?
    757 4  - BEAUTY IN AN X-RAY PICTURE? CHIN BOCK ■IllfMilHlllilllmllllll m poor figure might hide perfect bones 9 -JJIHIIIIIIIIIII "WHAT won't the Americans d o next?" said pretty Yemima Shababo, "Miss Chinese Swimming Club 1955," puckering her brow in surprised wonder. "Yes," I agreed, "what won't they do?" Then breaking into a
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    MYSTERY OF THE ORPHAN GIRL GENIUS
    235 4 NTO the life of the tiny French village of La Guerche. in Brittany, has come an orphan girl touched with the fire of genius. Her name is Minou Drouet and she is eight years old. She has livud with foster-par-ents since her Breton parents
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    Mr. MARSHALL IMPRESSES THE NEWSMEN
    309 5  - Mr. MARSHALL IMPRESSES THE NEWSMEN LESLIE HOFFMAN From LONDON. Saturday. have travelled together now for more than a week and never have I seen Mr. Marshall isive and self-confident as when he arrived in London last night. His political opponents who had hoped, perhaps, riticisms of his speeches in Ceylon
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    Evening of carols concert
    188 5 T Musical SoI boir baa preparIni rmal evening of Mutk and CarWill be given in torla Memorial Hall .1. on Sunday, Der 18 for members and ial public. includes the traditional and d carola .u> w« v h r known and beautiful I music. Her debut
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    Co-op mission in Asia
    52 5 A man with a mission left I London last week. Dr. George Keler. a Swede, has been sent by the International Cooperative Alliance to survey the possibilities of co-opera-tive development in Asia. He will visit Pakistan. India. Ceylon, Singapore, Indonesia. Siam. Burma, Hong Kong. Japan and
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    Below-average reasoning —many were in trouble
    760 5 Below-average reasoning —many were in trouble By THE COMPETITION EDITOR STRAITS TIMES Word Puzzle EE gave competitors considerable trouble and in the judges' opinion standards of reasoning were rather under average. Below are the comments of the judges on the most apt and accurate answers to some of the more
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    Woman lawyer
    45 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat— Mrs. Cyril Hong Siang Wong was today admitted by Mr. Justice Storr in the High Court, as an advocate and solicitor of the Federation on the application of Mr. John Pillay. The judge wished her every success in her practice.
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    'Malaya now faces a testing time'
    281 5 THE latest issue of the quarterly magazine of the Colonial Development Corporation says that the next decade will be a testing period for the people of the Federation and Singapore. It says that Malayans have a capacity for greatness and "are now finding in
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      116 5 18 inning answers to Word Puzzle *EE 9 yHE $5,000 prize for Srraits Times Word Puxxle Contest "EE" was shared by D. Tavasu, Telecoms HQ., Kuala Lumpur; Miss Lee Kuan Chan 45, Niven Road Singapore, 9; W. D. Moses, 261— A. Joo Chiat Road Singapore, 15; and Chew Tian Hock
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    Ten days a year for their love
    570 6  -  K.S. KONG STRANGE AS IT SEEMS, BY TEN days in a year for 1 social entertainment and to make love. I wonder how our local lads and lasses would react if there was a custom which ordered a limit and fixed the period
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    Six months' holiday became 42 years' stay!
    1108 6  -  A. GEORGE By "T came to this country on x six months' leave from Jaffna. That was 42 years ago. I am still here, with roots deep down in this soil," .said Mr S. Ponnampalam, JP., P. 1.5., S.M.J., of Muar. one of
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    Keep one eye on the party list...
    421 7  -  MAXINE RAKICH By ...And the other on the wardrobe THE Christmas frenzy begins! The invitations keep coming in with every post. And it means a close scrutiny of the wardrobe and selecting suitable clothes. First go through your wardrobe with an eagle eye
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    I hate parties
    236 7 WINIFRED MUNDAY says: T HATE parties Because of the awful people you meet The "life- of the party who swishes ice down your back; the ?ossjp- monger Injr irirl friend who knows a bit of scandal .about everyone, including you th<» party wolf oh, that sillr wolf,
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    Flair is the secret
    359 7 AfONEY.... leisure.... a model girl's measure- merits. It's surprising how many women still believe that these are the essential ingredients that go to make a smart girl. But there's one thing that is much more important than all these. For want of a better word. I'd
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    'Chocolate Box' Bows at Christmas
    228 7 CHRISTMAS time, with its gay accompaniment of parties, dances ond festivities, will soon be here again the time for goiety ond entertoinment and a new dress to celebrate the occasion. The "chocolate box bow" is the prettiest touch on the newest dresses for the festive
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    THE SARI-STOLE
    93 7 This sari-stole is the latest presentation of exclusive models featured by the Sunday Times and fashioned by Britain's top designers for J. Arthur Rank stars. Here Susan Beaumont wears the perfect evening i own for holiday wear, tis uncrushable. it is cashable and it packs asily rnto the
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    HOW TO LIVE SUCCESSFULLY with yourself
    1219 8  - HOW TO LIVE SUCCESSFULLY with yourself Dr. BRIAN WELBECK By Challenging, provocative. But if you want to get most out of life, you MUST read this new series by a distinguished psychologist. Here and in the next weeks he will help you to understand your SECRET SELF. Try his plan
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    'I am now so ugly
    472 8 r STARTED at a school about two years ago and at first I was very popular amoiv my teachers and classmates. Then something terrible tempted me and I applied make-up to my face overnight and spoilt my complexion. I am now so ugly that no
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    ALL-OUT BID TO STOP TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN
    514 9 ALL-OUT BID TO STOP TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN iris once come from China but Federation is now source of supply I out drive is now being waged against the trafficking of young women in Malaya. ntensive anti-vice measures since the war. trafficking in women prostitution has continued to exist to a
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    End of 'cold war' may hit Colony's new airport
    170 9 MALAYAN aviation circles anticipate that an end to the "Cold War" with Russia may have a serious affect on traffic through Singapore's International Airport at Paya Lebar. An end to the Russians' "iron curtain" barrier would mean that commercial aircraft could
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    Who are you? We asked
    249 9 Who are you? We asked Ii ntallsm, tin- ulti- ultra perception" as he <• 11 or down- fcei ;i i lm< in Ueves Singapore ama- has corIn advance. Eton Knight appeared Sunday Times i race at were rals- d anprehenh was writ--510 note and sealed D envelope in box, has
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    MALAYA'S 17 NEW DOCTORS
    338 9 kiALAYA has 17 more new doctors. The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Malaya yesterday ised the names of students who passed their Part II f nal professional examination. L O J ♦>->« T>ort no passed me run i Inal Professional !ur the degrees) If
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    PRAISES FOR RUBBER COM. -HE'S 100 UP
    253 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. HUNDREDS OF MESSAGES of congratulation have been sent by Malayan rubber estate owners and managers to Mr. Henry Nicholas Ridley, the famous botanist, who brought the first rubber seeds to this country. Mr. Ridley, a former director of the Singapore
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    Varsity film show
    28 9 Dr. Michael Sullivan Will introduce a series of five films on Indian art at noon on Tuesday at the Arts Lecture Theatre, University of Malaya.
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    NOW LET ME SEE!'
    50 9 Lady Robert Scott, who is president or the Singapore Y.W.C.A.. is seen here guessing the weight of a cake at the Christmas Sale held at the Y.W.C.A. headquarters yesterday. The sale, which was in aid of the Katong Cirls Club, was organised by the Y.W.C.A. members.
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    Tug saves crew in dramatic rescue
    123 9 A DUTCH tug which ar- rived in Singapore yesterday took part In the dramatic rescue of the crew of the Pakistani freighter Farika before it sank in the China Sea. The story was told by Capt. MA. Engels of the Oostzee, on > of
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    Assembly guests
    119 9 The wives and families— but not unaccompanied guests— of Singapore Legislative Assembiymen will now be allowed to enter the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Room in Assembly Hous e while the Assembly is sitting. This decision has been made by the Assembly's House Committee. Other decisions: Since six copies of
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    $110,000 CLAIM
    75 9 IPOH, Sat. A Europeanowned rubber estate is claiming $110,000 damages from the government for young rubber destroyed when an R.A.F. plane sprayed chemicals on a nearby illegal tapioca plantation The Chumor Estate, 10 miles north of Ipoh, claimthat about 60 acres 01 rubber were damaged early last month.
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    Special police course for inspectors
    261 9 Four Singapore police inspectors, two from the Special Branch, one from the Marine Division and the fourth from the Police Courts, have been selected for a special 10-months' police course in Britain. The four, Ho Kah Shoon. M. R Balakrishnan, Clement Hubert dc Souxa and
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    WAS IT A WOMAN'S VOICE FROM THE DEAD?
    1297 10  -  PETER EARLE Tt was almost frightening to listen to Bridey Murphy' By IX LONDON a week or A so ago I list( ned to the voice of Briduy Muiphy comine: (so some people believe) from the remote world of Cr.unty Cork in
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    Lock icon GUN GANG LEADER GETS 20 YEARS
    138 10 GUN GANG LEADER GETS 20 YEARS LONDON, Sat.— A 25-year-old gunman was jailed for 20 years here for his part in an "armed holdup, which developed into a gun blazing; rampage through the fash- 1 ionable Mayfair district of London. The man. John Cohen, was df scr.bed as a wild
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    'I'VE DONE IT' SAID DONALD
    44 10 Portrait of a triumphant man: Donald Campbell, 35-year-old son of the late Sir Malcolm Campbell, raises his arms in joy after beating the water speed record at Lake Mead, Nevada, U.S.A., recently. The new record 216.2 miles per hour.
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    When a Duke steps out at night
    450 10 When a Duke steps out at night SECOND LIEUTENANT the Duke of Kent, No. *****7, is today on his first weekend leave as a regimental officer. Last week he joined the Royal Scots Greys, stationed at Aldershot. And over in New York the gossip columnists are saying that the Duke
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    DISCS
    265 11 i Miusiiullvfriend, ><>v win ujnt to "buy him iphone record for naa Kut it is all"»sible that he will have the disc >«>u So it is advisable r i le.ir of Beethoven, md Tchaikovsky nits and concertos. it)out a Bruckner syni\iUoii Bruckner, Austrian and a fervent "i Wagner, wiwtc
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    15 m.p.h. man
    26 11 yam Bong, or Chua Kang Road, pleaded Singapore yesto driving a motor 45 miles an hour Timah Road, on at 7.15 p.m. He
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    Israeli ships here soon
    95 11 ISRAELI-CHARTERED ships v ill soon be seen regular- i ly in the Straits on a new shipping run from Haifa to j Burma and Japan. A visiting representative of the Zim Israel Navigation j Company, Mr. S. shaflr. said this to the Sunday Times; yesterday. But
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    Hawker jailed for a year
    68 11 A hawker. Ang Lay Chin. 42, war jailed for one year in Singapore yesterday for possession of smoking utensils. He was also fined $50 or two j weeks' jail for having opium. Ang was found in possession of the opium and the :noking utensils in
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    Guns, knives and swords for the kiddies
    315 11 Guns, knives and swords for the kiddies INC to be a horrific Christmas for Singapore children this year. I he Colony's shops are full of guns, knives and swords and all the machines of modern warfare, in miniature. some are priced as low as SI, while others more' elaborate reach
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    CRABS AND OYSTERS]
    536 11  -  Sagai \\GLMi\G I>> THE seasonal rains and wind will confor some time to ide uncomfortable ig conditions off Malayan coasts. I was not surprised to requests for her information •he methods of ng crabs and mentioned in week's notes. I am assured that it .s nt to
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    DOCTORS GET MARRIED
    98 11 Dr. and Mrs. Ycoh Kcan Hon? wno were married at Hie Wesley Methodist Church. Singapore yesterday. The bride is the formci Miss Chan Guch Kwang. Sunday Times picture. Dr. Thung Liong Hooi. Medical Officer at the Singapore Ccncral Hospital, and his bride, the former Miss Lim Syn
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    PRISON ALARMSET POLICE A POSER
    199 11 IT was "all lights on" in 28 garages at the Changi Pri- son quarters in Moon Crescent at midnight on riHau Rut how they cot lit up almost simultaneously has the owners baffled. Prison officers, their wives and families were rudely awakened as the alarm
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    Seaman brought in opium
    83 11 A seaman found with three pounds of raw opium tied to his thighs was b Singapore yesterday jailed for six months. Toon Seng Hin. a tank cleaner on board the Hoegh Silverwave, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of opium. Inspector T. S. Zain, prosecuting, said that
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    A kris for the Yorks
    130 11 KLUANG, Sat.— ln a ceremony on the town padang today, the District Officer, Kluang, Raja Haji Omar bin Chik, presented a silver kris to Lieut. Col. A. W. Edgar, commanding officer, Ist. Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of York's Own). A crowd of 2,000. including
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    Appeals day
    17 11 The Singapore Court of Civil Appeal will begin a sitting in the High Court tomorrow.
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    Stocking up for the flood
    618 11 t in v# i if i v.N ./»i it v i r TN view of the semi-official prediction of an early flood it has been necessary to stock up with firewood. After some prodding the Cook engaged a decrepitlooking Chinese who rashly quoted a price
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    IMPORTS OF RUBBER
    35 11 PENANG, Sat. Singapore and the Federation imported a total of 27.654 tons of rubber from foreign countries during the month of November. The bulk of the rubber 12,098 tons came from Sumatra.
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    19 12 to Horda $16 (minimum). CAIAIINA SWIMSUIT BAR- paM reason*' models 2! 40; Reduction. Kxcelsior Ltd., 66 High Street.
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    The Sunday Times THE PARTNERS
    216 12 The Sunday Times THE PARTNERS SINGAPORE. DEC. 11, 1955. Off to London flies the Director of Operations, General Sir Geoffrey Bourne. He is to have talks with another man to whom Malaya owes much General Templer. Together they will decide on the V course of action the security forces will
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    Women in prison: They learn a new life
    536 12  -  Esme Baptista BADMINTON, COMICS-AMD THE CINEMA. TOO By PRISON life suggests long, grey days of strict discipline and boredom at least that is what I believed till I visited the women's prison in Singapore The cheery greeting of the matron, Mrs. Mary
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      85 12 On November 24 (Thurs- day, while waiting with another friend at the I Seremban Railway Sta- tion for the rain to stop, a Red Cross sister was very kind enough to offer us a iift to the Rex Thea- tre. Unfortunately. I forI got to ask her name and j
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      84 12 This is a heart-warm- ing letter we are delight- ed to print. Little acts Z like this, from the Sister Z and Mr. Chia, will help Z make Malaya a more pleasant place in which to live. Z I was told that a girl who had her appendix j taken
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      39 12 There is no truth in this whatsoever, Cecily. We should know our Z mothers had their apZ pendices out before toe Z came along. Great Auk is a name I heard recently Where or what is it? KARfM Malacca.
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      70 12 The Great Auk is the name of a species of swimZ ming birds which became Z extinct in the ninteenth century. The last record Z of Great Auks being capZ tured alive were in BriZ tain in 1822 and 1834. The. Z female Great Auk laid only Z one egg
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      32 12 It's a gibbon, the Whtte- handed gibbon, better known among the Malays Z as a 'wak-wak.' Do you know any remedy for girl-shyness? What j makes a boy girl-shy? ARTHUR CHEW Singapore.
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      55 12 Fear of being embarrass- ed, Arthur, in their com- pany. Best way to get rid of this shyness is to re- member that the girl is I probably just as shy, if not shyer, than you aret Are there any Japanese confiscated properties still in the hands of the Gov-
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      52 12 At the beginning of this Z year the Custodian of Z Enemy Property held 13 rubber estates, 18 plots of rubber and other agricultural holdings and some shophouse and building plots. Liquid and nonliquid assets totalled $44,622,923.67. Please explain what heartburn Is and how do you suffer from it? K.
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      59 12 Heartburn is, as Tts name implies, a burning sensation either in the back of the throat or in the oesophagus, leading from the throat to the stomach. It is a form of indigestion, caused by excessive acid in the stomach. Could you be so good as to tell me the
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      40 12 Singapore. We tried it last night— the main effect in our case was acute insomnia. Otherwise it sounds a wonderful idea! But not for us!! ■m What is the difference between an ampere and a volt please dear KnowSONXY LIM.
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      109 12 Penan*. An ampere is a unit oj electric current defined as 'that current which deposits silver at the rate of 0 *****8 grams a second when passed through silver nitrate solution. 'Volt is the electric-moth* force unit defined in terms of the ohm and the ampere one volt maintains a
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      117 12 anyone is mad enough to lug a pair of scales across the Kalahari desert they deserve to lose three pounds a day. Perhaps the scales were not working awfully well? A few years back while 1 was out with a gun, I was confronted by a herd of wild boars.
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      66 12 The hide af a boar is notoriously tough you probably fired at an angle and the shot teas deflected. There is a possibility that the cartridge was a faulty one—if so the boar was lucky! Is it possible for a woman to be an engineer, an architect or a con-
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      61 12 lpoh. you became an architect or an engineer you'd be following in a long line cf successful women. As for female contractors we've never met one, but we're sure they exist. Go to it, madam, and more nou-er to your elbow. What prospects of employment exist for a woman graduate
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      69 12 Penan?. We would imagine that the prospects were pretty bright; the more trained men and women our country has, the better off we're going to be. Rubber is our lifeblood and the more we know about it the better. My friend asked me what is the meaning of the word
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      141 12 Singapore. The way some gigolos earn their money almost entitles them to be described as heroes No, a gigolo is a professional dancing partner it's a term of opprobrium some cf them extend their activities beyond the confines of the dance floor. I sometimes get choked in the middle of
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      47 12 We've never heard that one before, Albert, but we reckon it's a tri\r:te to the attractions of the female sex. We hear men shouting merdeka but there is no merdeka" for their womenfolk. In enslaving women, man enslaves himself. Do you KnowAlls agree ANG HOCK GUAN, Singapore.
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      99 12 We're sorry we couldn't Quote more of your ab- sorbing letter Mr. Ang, but on this point we defi- nitely agree. It is a com- jorting thought that many Z Malayan women have emancipated themselves from centuries of degra- dation and servitude. But hundreds and thousands still remain as mere
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      108 12 Many famous men and women in all life have been saddled with this affliction. Its usually a mental illness and not a physical one. A doctor might not be able to help you very much, a psychiatrist pro- bably would. It's a thing that many people grow out of as
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      107 12 America is a cosmopoh- tan country and the Eu- 1 ropean immigrants na- turally adapted the lan- guage to suit their own linguistic capabilities. Gonna is easier for an Italian to say than go- tng to" and the same Z with "goil"' for "girl" Many Americans wouldn't dream of saving
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      115 12 We don't get depressed, perhaps because we're too I busy and that doesn't Z give us much time to be Z slothful. We remember Z one damp foggy winter we spent in England before the war —we've never been so depressed before or Z since! Z Would you Know-Alls Z
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    Sealed lips order
    638 12 RADIO BY MIKE WATCHER T<HE radio critic's scope of comj ment in a country where radio is a Government mono--1 poly must extend I further than a mere i appraisal of proi grammes; it must i also cover policy, I structure, adminisj tration, and in the I
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    Billy Budd
    370 12 Billy Budd MR. J. M. Deverri;/ bourn, expat i magistrate, taki ours of thf speaks up, like ened man bt our ridiculous ing persecution of o| addicts. There was this man Keng Keong v. ago, took to op] or I might taki toddy. He is looks much you the eye
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    RUBBER HIGHER
    142 13 i first trade rubber f o.b. rloM-d in Singapore i) $1 iO% per ib. up a i i;days closi losing tour was steady was apathetic with •-.mover. piirm In cents per Ib. 1 R.S.S. Spot fob. inom.j sellers 131 1 R.S.S. December No. 1 1 uuary buyers 128H
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    Elephant snubs Santa Claus
    107 13 \CCA. Sat.— The Ma- i Broadcasting Recrea- 1 Club yesterday used four to publicise its oncert and dance to It the Capitol Dance i Monday in aid of a I aa treat for Malacca lophants belonged to Tier. Kew Circus now .ng here. r Christmas riding
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    Opium woman is jailed
    69 13 A woman Yeo Gek Cheng, was sent to jail for three months by the Singapore Third Criminal District Judge. Mr. Eu Cheow Chye. yesterday for having opium smoking utensils. On a second charge of having 54 packets of opium she was Aned $200 or one month's
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    Government cannot break transport dispute
    352 13 ML WE CAN DO IS TRY AND BRING THE PARTIES TOGETHER FOR FURTHER DISCUSSIONS' ICAPORE S Acting Chief Minister, Mr. A. J. Braga, yesterday told representatives of the S.T.C. Employees' Union and the Singapore Workers Union that the Government could not interfere in industrial disputes
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    I MARRIED IN SINGAPORE
    35 13 DR. WONG YIP CHONG and his bride, the former Miss Maggie Tan Kirn Yam, cutting their wedding cake at a reception held at Robinson's Cafe after their wedding at the Registry.
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    MAGISTRATE HELPS CATTLEMEN
    147 13 MAGISTRATE HELPS CATTLEMEN The Fourth Magistrate, Mr. J. M. Devereux-Colebourn, yesterday invited cattlemen in Singapore to see him if thry wanted peaceful grazing grounds for their cattle. The magistrate extended this invitation when he fined Dhaja GuaLs, 22. $50 for allowing his cows to stray near the former Kallang airport,
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    Promoted
    23 13 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat— Mr. A. F. Rajaretnam, Registrar, Sessions Court, Johore Bahru, has been promoted to be Assistant Registrar, Supreme Court, Perak.
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    Bandits cut phones
    26 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Terrorists cut telephone wires on Ellas Estate in the Kluang area of Johore last night. A follow-up Is in progress.
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    More speed at P.O.
    83 13 Singapore's General Post Office will soon have a conveyor belt for letters The Director of Posts. Mr M. L. Durrant. told the Sunday Times yesterday that the belt would sneed up the moving of letters from the posting boxes to the main sorting office. At present,
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    COURT TOLD OF ROW, STABBING
    232 13 Y^O KOOI HOCK told a Singapore court yesterday that his friend Khoo Chong Ghee, 19, was stabbed by a sold.er after an argument in a coffee shop. Yeo, who is unemployed kthe Ninth Magistrate's that at 7.30 p.m. on 6 Khoo, a hawker, came house
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    Into the dock or not— court poser
    130 13 Into the dock or not— court poser A SINGAPORE lawyer, Mr. L. Rayner, yesterday said there was no written law compelling an accused person to sit in the dock during his trial. Earlier, there had been confusion when Mr. Rayner's clients four men and a woman accused under the Poisons
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    THE SLOW DRIVER
    65 13 For sounding the horn unnecessarily while driving a car along North Bridge Road on Sept. 30 last Tay Kirn Oa was fined $20 in Singapore yesterday. On a second charge of driving the car slowly in the centre of the road in North Bridge Road on the
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    Inquest is delayed for want of interpreter
    163 13 The Singapore Assistant i Coroner, Mr. Giam Chong Hing. had to postpone an inquiry yesterday for lack of an interpreter. The inquiry was on a labourer. Raghavan Raman. 46, who was killed when a Malayan Railway engineering wagon on which he was travelling
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    MODEL EMPLOYER CANCELS THE QUIT NOTICES
    136 13 IPOH. Sat. MANAGER of Sungei Limau Estate in Taiping, Mr. T. K. Turner, who has withdrawn eviction notices to 67 strikers, was today described as a model employer by an official of the National Union of Plantation workers. An industrial relations officer of the
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    PROSTITUTE CHARGE
    51 13 An elderly woman. Lam Ah Neo, pleaded not guilty in Singapore yesterday to a charge of bringing a 14-year-old girl, Yeow Son Moi, into the Colony by false pretences for the purposes of prostitution. Bail of $5,000 was allowed and the case was fixed for hearing on Jan.
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    A request for old classmates
    47 13 A former Japanese student in Singapore, M. Umemori, wants to get in touch with his classmates who sat for the Senior Cambridge examination in December, 1941. at the V.M.C.A. School of Commerce His home address Is No. 1092. Oharamachi, Setagaya Tokyo, Japan.
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    Parked car on fire
    36 13 A car, parked outside a house in St. Thomas Walk, Singapore, was found on fire around midnight on Friday. A front tyre was badly burnt and a mudguard scorched Police suspect arson.
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    Plea to trace mother
    254 13 Plea to trace mother A MAN in Singapore hopes to find his mother who gave him away when he was a child. He Is Mr. Looi Peng Kwang, 30. who is jobless and without a home. Yesterday, Mr. Looi pleaded with Mr. J. C. Corera of the Public Advisory Bureau
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    Lost no time getting on the job
    84 13 Lost no time getting on the job JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. Samian bin Dam, 21, started work on Not. 16 on a pineapple estate in Simpang Rengam. The same night he broke into a house on the estate and stole a fountain pen, a camera, seven packets of cigarettes and $25
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    Our famous Camera Contest
    89 14 Our famous Camera Contest First prize in the Sunday Times Camera Contest this week is awarded to Yap Kirn Fatt of 316 Orchard Road, Singapore 9, who submitted the study in shadows, "The Day Is Done" (below). if Second prize to Y.C. Lee of 47b Prangin Lane, Penang, for "Homeward",
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    A disappointing view of Penang
    592 14 A disappointing view of Penang DURING the early part of the last century. I Captain Robert Smith of the Bengal Engineers, I architect of Penang's I charming St. George's I Church, painted several I scenes of the island showI ing prominent landmarks. the convalescent bungalow I on Penang Hill, Govern-
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    HOW TO ENTER
    107 14 CACH week the Sunday Times is awarding cash I prizes for readers' pictures. There is a first prize of $30. a second of $15 and runners-up each receive 55. ft It you wish to enter for j the competition send your entries to "Camera Con- test," Sunday
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      155 14 Papular Crossword ACROSS <S. Kind of table (4). 1, Employs (4) 5, An expert DOWN (3); 8, Set of three (4); 11. In- 2, Track (5); i. Obliterate (5); cltement (11); 12, Quadruped "nd!^^" 5 .M« 1 C I»»«»"" i*); o, ueta [i) 7, Barks (4); (4); 13,... his house
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    The film Mitchum kept secret!
    872 15 The film Mitchum kept secret! ould almost see Laugh ion's shadow -JOHX GA V He rants! He raves! He's one of the screen's vilest villains! 2 LONDON. I v \s signing my ssional deathmi when I picked •1 the preach- Night off the -Chat's what nen of Hollylold me,** saw
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    Great Scott!
    426 15 Jylß CORDON SCOTT swings down from the cardboard trees at Elstree, lands on his plastic covert, and isolates a muscle. The role of Tarzan," he informs mi, "calls for hur. tragedy, humility and ethics." I am happy to hear ire definitely getting him more sophisticated. realise I actually
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    FLYING IS NOT JUST A HOBBY WITH TAYLOR
    185 15 ROBERT Taylor is one of Hollywood's most enthusiastic and experienced flyers. He Hies to work, to hunt and fish, and "just for the fun oi it." "Flying long since has ceased to be only a hobby With me." he says. "It has
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    TEMPTRESS
    31 15 Lovely BELINDA LEE has her biggest role to date in "Man of the Moment," (tarring Norman Wisdom. Belinda plays the part of a vamp in o plot of international intrigue.
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    Debbie kept them guessing
    354 15 WHAT Is the background and address of Debbie Reynolds? In what films has she apyeared? KDDIK, Serptnban. Orlilni- Reynolds solved our of Hollywood's l)iKK«sl romantic puzzle* IhtM months a no wlii-ii she said "Yes' 1 and married sint-rr Kddie Fisher after an "on-again-off-ajfain" eniraKement for motv
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      1256 16 ky Edgar Rice- BurkoughsS^^C\ \i ivjT^^^^H TAKZA.N KACEP INTO THE TENT ANI7 QUICKLY C*lmvO NOW THE PUGITIVES »-OPEFULLY E/AEKGEP PKOM THE TENT X BUTAHOJ^E WKESTLEP THE MAN TO THE GKOUNP. tl-6-i2&7 ~,;?Zr^r~:£;Z3£»ruL OF A^ASS WAS ALERTEP. TAKZAN ANI7 AAAXWELL WEgE TgAPPEP I rf/ n£1 -'i ECLIPSE PORTENTS i TH IS
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    THE NEW FERGUSOM WILL NEVER SKID
    442 19 T ASKED a leading motoring artist to produce the imX prcssion of the Ferguson, seen above, based on information about the car which has X reached me. This information leads to the conclusion that- here is a ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦4 cor for the world's markets which
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    A MAN AND HIS WONDER CAR
    499 19  - A MAN AND HIS WONDER CAR LEN SMITH By- CAN tell you to-day the secret of the Ferguson car— the secret that has been puzzling everybody since Sir Miles Thomas, the 8.0.A.C. chicS joined multi-millionaire Mr. Harry Ferguson in the task of exploiting it. Under the Ferguson plan you throw
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    The tragedy of the twenty thousand
    881 20  -  Chapman Pineher ARE THE DOCTORS GOING TOO FAR?' MMTHI SECOND OP TWO AWTICLM by DEVASTATING evidence in support of the charge that some British doctors are going too far in their efforts to alleviate suffering has just been reported to doctors. It shows that
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    85 21 ROBERT FORD was sent into Tibet to operate an R.A.F. radio station during the war. After he was discharged h« returned to the country to operate a government radio station. When the Chinese Communists invaded Tibet he was captured while trying to escape. He was taken to Chungking end imprisoned.
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    MY FREEDOM FROM THE REDS!
    1011 21  - MY FREEDOM FROM THE REDS! ROBERT FORD —By |T would be ludicrous to call what happened in that long, bare room, a trial. It was, in fact, my sentencing. The trial had taken place during the years before, in those endIe s s interrogations and cross examinations, when the security
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    WOMEN
    430 21 The things that make Americans laugh -THAT'S i THEIR LINE VyHAT mokes America laugh? Is their X sense of humour differj[ ent from our own? And I if so, in what way? II Apparently the particular ingredients in the X American way of life that have kept them laughing
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      Hockey squabble mars Malaya's Olympic outlook
      352 22  -  'Crusader' r By IT SEEMS ;i pity thai En this important preOlympic season trouble should now crop up between the Federation's premier hockey-play-ini; States Selangor and Perak. I refer to the row that has resulted over SH;mgor's sudden withdrawal from the North Hockey quadrangle
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    Made-to-measure parking is the best! WORLD OF MOTORING
    873 22  - Made-to-measure parking is the best! WORLD OF MOTORING CHRISTOPHER PAGE Says IT is probably not widely realised that the ground area covered by a car can vary from about 50 to 150 square feet, with many cars near one extreme or the other. Vet nowhere in Singapore or Malaya have
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    SHE'S FEROCIOUS BUT OBEDIENT
    614 22 SHE'S FEROCIOUS BUT OBEDIENT MIKE HAWTHORN tests the cars of 1956 QON T you ever feel when you try a new car that you would like to have the maker with you... just to tell him what you think? I have been testing the Triumph T.R.3. I too wish the
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    ONE SERVICES TRY BEATS CIVILIANS
    425 23 Le Mercier proves himself again at wing forward SECOND ROW NED Services V nqapore were just beat Singapore >y three points ml on the padang and thus finish t Johore in section of the aya rugby coma poor exhibition ..iycd for the ;i slight drlz-
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    SOCCER FRIENDLY
    17 23 Woodlands SC. will meet Seletar F.C. in a friendly soccer match at Woodlands ground today
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    Hockey for next Asian Games
    80 23 Hockey for next Asian Games KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. JOCKEY has been included in the programme of events for the next Asian Carries to be held in Tokyo in 1958. It is likely that the Federation of Malaya will send a team ro compete. Mr. H. M. de Souxa, publicity officer
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    Singapore are Asian champs
    94 23 SINGAPORE won the Pan-Asian M Basketball Tournament by beating Formosa 71-69 in the final last night at the Happy World Stadium. In the women's final Vietnam beat Medan 29-24. In brilliant form. Singapore had a great tus>!e with the Formosans but led throughout after taking an
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    CHANGI WIN 14-6
    61 23 RA F. Chanel beat Royal Signals by 14 points (goal, two tries. penalty goali to six itry. penalty goah in a rugger match" at Changi ye. terd.iy. Hughes converted a penalty for Changi and tries were scored by Veigh. Bishop and Adams Hughes converted Aaams' try. For
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    Cheang Swi and Forbes each score five tries
    249 23 BEDONC, Saturday. CELANCOR qualified to meet Johore in the H.M.S. Malaya rugby final when they beat Kedah by 52 points (eight goals, fours tries) to 1 1 (goal and two tries) in their tie here today. Selangor's first try earner In the
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    NUCENTS COALS BEAT CIVILIANS
    270 23 A HAT-TRICK by the English Olympic player, Neil Nugent, enabled R.A.F. to beat Civilians 3-2 in the Singapore quadrangular hockey meet on the padang yesterday This defeat of the favourites further strengthens Royal Navy's chances for the title which they have never won before. With the
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    NAVY REMAIN UNBEATEN IN QUAD'
    139 23 ROYAL NAVY became the only unbeaten team in the Singapore quadrangular when they scored a 4-3 victory over Army on the padang yesterday. Army scored first in the 6th minute off a sudden raid when from the top of the circle Navy equalised in tne
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    COLONY POLICE WIN RUGGER
    109 23 CINGAPORE Police beat Federa- tion Police by eight points i goal, penalty goal) to nil in theii annual rugger match at the Police Training School grcund yesterday. Singapore Police showed excellent form. Their forwards combined well with their threequarters who often caught the Federation defence unawares.
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    LON iS CHAMP
    128 23 Twenty-six-year-old Lon bin Mohd Noor. Asian Games representative, won the bantamweight title for the sixth year at the Singapore weichilifting championships last night at the New World. The flywei/ru title was als 0 decided. Resiil'.s: Flyweight: 1. N's:al Fook Seng (SAWLA) 165. 170. 220 (555). 2. Hamld
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    Three changes by Civilians
    71 23 Singapore Civilians have made three changes in their team to meet Royal Nftvg In the deciding fixture of the SHA 'quad' at the Naval Base today. Schoolboy^ Kirn Foh and Jeyathurai are going upcountry with the Combined Schools team while R. Sharma left last night with
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    FED TEAM OF 50 FOR OLYMPIC GAMES
    292 23 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. THE FEDERATION of Malaya's contingent of 50 athletes and officials for the Olympic Games at Melbourne in December next year will leave Singapore on As an economic measure, the Federation of Malaya Olympic Sports Council has decided that competitors will
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    RADRODRO WILL LEAD SERVICES
    98 23 Islmeli Radrodro of'the Fiji Infantry Regiment will captain the All-Malayan Combined Services against All-Malayan Civilians in their annual ruijser clash at Seremban next Saturday. Radrodro. who boxes the American Negro Henry Dave in Singapore on Friday, will rush to Seremban immediately after the bout. Six Fijians
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    Aryans hold Malays 2-2
    157 23 MALACCA, Sat. 4 PTER being a goal down at half-time, the touring Aryan Gymkhana soccer team held Malayan Malays to a 2-2 draw Bt the Kubu stadium. The Indians had the better of exchanges throughout but their forwards finished poorly and could not make use of
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    SPORE POLICE BEAT FED.
    146 23 SINGAPORE Police retained the challenge trophy when they beat Federation Police by five bouts to two in their annual boxIng tournament last night at the Police Training Depot. Singapore. PC Hor See Chan, a game loser, featured In one of the best fights of the night
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    1-0 FOR SCHOOLS
    20 23 Foon Fone scored in Combined Schools' 1-0 hockey victory over Ceylon Sports Club at Balestier Road yesterday.
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      173 23 HI) KEY SINGAPORE H. A. quad: K.A.F. v Army, 3.45 p.m.; Civilians v Navy, 5.05 p.m.; at Naval Base; Inter -Police: Singapore 1 Federation. Thomson Road. BADMINTON INTER-POLICE: Singapore v Federation S.B.A. Hall, 9 a.m. SOCCER BREWERIES Kampong League: "B": Ki-tu-n.il m Club v Alexandra F. T.. rarrer Park; "A":
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    DEATHS
    133 24 to Word, $10 (minimum). DE SILVA Dlonyslo (Ben) passed away on 10th Dec. 1955. aged 58. Cortege lea\es residence No. 133. H.iw Road on 11th Dec. at 3 p.m. for St. Joseph's Church and thence to Biditdari for interment. Deeply retrrtttd. MR HENG MUI CHENG, 57, it. 9.10 p.m.,
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    42 24 2il l»i./rf> |M (minimum) HT-2. The First Aircraft designed and manufactured in India by Hi: It Ltd.. r, India, see it In action i at Kuala Lumpur Airport 2 p.m. today. Display of aerobatics by 6quadron Leader B. K. Ghosh, i
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    THE CAMEL BEATS SO WHAT IN TROPHY RACE
    2462 24 Welsh King, Cynosure complete doubles 3y EPSOM JEEP RAKING a sudden breakaway at the half mile The Camel, with Jackie Jones astride, just hung on to win from So What in the Class 2. 1 4-mile trophy race at Ipoh yesterday, concluding
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    Big Sweep
    51 24 TOTAL POOL: .^B6,SU:J IST: No. 1....V1 i>s»i.:iii!i) 2ND: No. *****7 ($40,484) 3RD: No. *****5 (fMJMt) Starters (82.530 each): Xos 350.424, *****4, *****2, *****4, *****8, *****9, ***** G. *****0. Consolation ($l,OOO each) Nos. *****2. *****1, *****4, *****7. 10:»065, *****5, *****5. *****1, *****4, *****7. TREBLE TOTE: 19 tickets paying $77
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    Lock icon Beaten Bobo says 'I got careless'
    454 24 Sugar Ray makes boxing history CHICAGO, Sat. rURTY FIVE-YEAR-OLD Sugar Ray Robinson sensationally regained the world middleweight boxing I title here last night when; he knocked out the holder, Carl Bobo Olson, in the! second round of the title bout. Robinson, eight years older
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    Lock icon SECOND WIN FOR HOAD
    79 24 MELBOURNE. Sat.— Lew Hoad won the men's sinnles title in the Victorian state lawn tennis championships which ended here today. In the iill-Austra'.ian final, the Davis Cud star b°at 19-year-old Ashley Cooper 1-6 6-4. 6-4. 5-7. 6-4. Cooper, one of Australia's mast promising youngsters who had
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    FEDERATION PLAN OLYMPIC LOTTERY
    199 24 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. NEARLY half of the $100,000 target needed for the Malayan contingent's expenses to the Olympic Games at Melbourne next year has already been raised. Plans for raising the rest of the money include an Olympic Flag Day and probably a public lottery. Mr.
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