The Straits Times, 17 December 1956

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    28 1 AVEBACE I>VTf^ ftHTIPfffB 9ALC EXCEEDS 75,000 The Straits Times Notion* 1 Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1956 15 CENTS ADRIFT, HELPLESS AND HUNGRY AFTER BURMESE GUNBOAT SINKS
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    12-DAYS-ON-A-RAFT DRAMA
    623 1 Two go mad after drinking sea water: 10 survivors picked up THE MAN WHO HAD FAITH Sick man begs leave to die -over he goes survivors from a Burmese Navy gunboat which sank in heavy a> about Hn) miles from Rangoon were landed in Singapore veslaj after being
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    STRIKE PUT OFF
    183 1 Customs men agree to wait after seeing Ministers KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. rpHREE Alliance Ministers were today able to avert 1 at least temporarily a threatened strike officers. by 1,300 customs revenue After meeting the Ministers, the Asian Customs Services Union put off the strike it had called
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    Lock icon Xmas tree drop
    37 1 McMURDO SOUND. Sun. A Christmas tree was dropped from a low-flying plane yesterday to the U.S. Antarctic expedition on the South Pole With it went a mail bag of Christmas cards from home. A.P.
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    Lock icon Orphans leave
    31 1 SEOUL, Sun. Seventy South Korean orphans left in a specially chartered plane for the United States today to begin a new life with Ame- rican foster parents.— Reuter. I
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    Lock icon 6 FT. BY 6 FT. ADDS UP TO SAFETY FOR 10
    59 1 THIS is the life-raft, measuring 6 ft. by 6ft.. in which 18 men of the Burmese Navy set out after their gunboat had sunk in a storm. They drifted in it for 12 days. during which seven men died.
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    MR. LIM SETTLES G.G. QUESTION
    91 1 MR. LIM SETTLES G.G. QUESTION From Ronald Baxter LONDON, Sun. Singapore's Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, has settled the question of a local Gover-nor-General for Singapore in his exploratory talks with the Colonial Office, it was learned today. British opinion no longer regards it as essential to have a
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    Girl falls to her death from flats
    98 1 Girl falls to her death from flats Poon Swee Seng, 23, a hairdresser employed in a Kirn Seng Road shop, fell off the seventh floor of the Upper Pickering Street flats last night. She died an hour later in the Singapore General Hospital. The g^l was last seen climbing up
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    Lock icon ALL BUT 3 GO HOME TO HUNGARY
    98 1 ALL BUT 3 GO HOME TO HUNGARY MILAN, Sun. All but three of 127 Hungarian Olympic Athletes who arrived here by air from Melbourne, boarded the Orient Express here today to return to Budapest. A threat against her children forced Olympic gold medallist Karolyne Gulyas to renounce her United States
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    Lock icon Petrol scandal in Britain
    168 1 NATION FACES TRANSPORT TIE-UP LONDON, Sunday. ON the eve of petrol rationing in Britain the Liberal News Chronicle said today: "The petrol muddle has developed into a first class scandal." Business firms had complained they had not been told by the Government how much petrol they
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    Lock icon Airliner talks
    32 1 NEW DELHI. Sun -Indian officials and the Fokker Aircraft Company of Holland have begun preliminary talks on the possible purchase of Fokker Friendship airliners for the nationalised Indian Airlines— A.P.
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    Lock icon Gloria to wed
    31 1 MIAMI, Sun. Film actress Gloria de Haven said today that she will marry motor agency executive Dick Fincher on Jan. 22. It will be her third marriage. U.P.
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    WIN $100,000
    133 1 ALL YOU HAVE TO BE IS A JUDGE OF CHARM VjLJOULD you say that this woman has charm, that she is more charming than 11 other film stars? You may be right. Why not try to find out and win $100,000 as well? All you have to do
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    Bumper Christmas Malayan Monthly
    112 1 rpilK MALAYAN MONTHLY ■I for December, a bumper Christmas issue containing 72 pages of thrilling fiction, fine pictures and topical articles, is on sale today. FINE CAREER in Singapore nursing pages of pictures I tell the story of Rama, a young nurae at the General Hospital.
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    Lock icon TEAR GAS USED ON LANGUAGE RIOTERS
    177 1 TEAR GAS USED ON LANGUAGE RIOTERS OOMBAY, Sun. DisD turbances over the language problem broke out in Ahmedabad again yesterday when mobs clashed with police who made seven separate tear ajas attacks to disjerse them. V>e demonstrations followed two rival public meetings within earshot of each other held to observe
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    Lock icon THE ROUND-UP IN ROME
    36 1 ROME, Sun. Rome police have been ordered to be "reasonably tolerant" with traffic offenders after a disclosure that they firm. more them 750,000 peopl" last year nearly half the city's population. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Officer's death sets off battle
    131 1 Officer's death sets off battle I>ORT SAID, Sun. 1 Several Egyptians were killed in a threehour battle launched by British troops after a Royal Scots officer had been killed in Port Said. United Nations troops later today took over control ot the whole of Port Said except the wired-off British
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    STOP PRESS
    25 1 OOVERNOR'S WORD PORT SAID, Sun. (.ovrrnor Mohamrd Raid today irave assurance that lie would protect foreigners in city after withdrawal of ,\n:;<«'-I-/"-!-forces V.f.
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    PROVIDENT FUND RIDDLE: 'OATH IS NOT ENOUGH'
    227 2 PROVIDENT FUND RIDDLE: 'OATH IS NOT ENOUGH' WILL the Singapore Central Provident Fund board accept a statutory declaration as proof of a person's intention to leave the country when he ap- plies to withdraw his savings? According to Mr. H. S. Robinson, the fund's general manager, the board does NOT
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    3-day tour
    31 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Capt. Mohamed Salleh, the Federation's Deputy Chief Welfare Officer, will arrive here on Tuesday for a three day tour of the welfare projects in the district
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    Electricity charges may be increased
    184 2 -BUT THERE IS STRONG OPPOSITION A SINGAPORE City Council proposal to increase electricity charges to domestic consumers will be strongly resisted, the chairman of the Council's public utilities committee, Mr. Chan Kum Chee, said yesterday. From January the Council will have to pay more for
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    PAKISTAN MINISTER VISITS COLONY
    55 2 PAKISTAN MINISTER VISITS COLONY PAKISTAN'S Minister for Information and Law. Sirdar Amir Azam Khan (above), flew into Singapore yesterday for a twoday visit on his way home to Karachi from the Colombo Plan conference in Wellington, New Zealand. He was met at the airport by the Pakistan Trade Commissioner, Mr.
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    Back again
    35 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Raja Sulieman bin Daud and Mr. Lee Sum Choon. Johore Welfare assistants, have returned after doing a four months course at the World Assembly of Youths training centre, in Colombo.
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    400 teachers who fear the sack
    173 2 ABOUT 400 temporary teachers in Government and mission schools in Singapore fear they will be sacked soon. Four have already received quit notices. The Singapore Alliance of Teachers, which represents them, has decided to ask the Government and mission education authorities to retain all
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    Anything to declare?— Australian way
    177 2 TWO SINGAPORE CUSTOMS MEN GET COLOMBO PLAN TRAINING TWO Singapore men have spent some six months in Australia searching ships for opium, undeclared cigarettes, liquor and other contraband. This was part of a Colombo Plan course under which they studied Australian custom* administration. They are
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    IT'S RUNNING WATER NOW
    43 2 SINGAPORE'S acting Chief Minister, Inche Abdul Ramtd bin Haji Jumat, investigated the water supply system in Malay kampongs in the Changi area, yesterday. Result: The kampongs will soon have standpipes. People living there now get their water from wells.
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    A whistle -it had them gasping
    105 2 A whistle -it had them gasping party ol ous beer a 12-year-old pore boy aid Saturday The party wi to relebr;,weries 2 Tigrr -noweti ;ik e The party too k cleared space the brew, ries v sheds. The hemmr-; ;r hjßh walls ol 'You could drink us out' Telling wery'a
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    ASSEMBLY QUERIES
    114 2 The Singapore Government will be questioned at the next Assembly meeting on Jan. 9 on rice, banishment and the Royal Malayan Navy. Mr. R. Jumabhoy (Üb-Soc. Telok Ayer) will ask for profit and loss details of the Government's rice trading and stockpiling from 1953 to October this year.
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    Lock icon Ike-Nehru talks will be secret, informal
    186 3 Ike-Nehru talks will be secret, informal WASHINGTON, Sun. M r. Jawaharlal tfehru, India's Prime Minister, arrived here today for secret, informal talks with Pret Eisenhower. :ll be alone for nmst me, without docuadvlaen, either Into House or on Ident'a Gettysburg tatlve American .id yo.sterday that reementi ur drama- changtt were
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    Huang Ho plan
    25 3 o. Sun. China is' I in rontrol soil ero--10.000 square miles upper and middle of the Huanjj Ho, according to Peking Radio.—
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    Lock icon RUSSIAN SUPPLY LINK CUT
    401 3 M«w violence: Bed Army retato»««ii.«t.*« have to go long way round Partisans derail troop trains, blow up lines on direct route to Hungary UKRAINIAN pa rtisans KteilfSHS^r. bordering Poland. The partlsan s blew up several vital railway lines last month, interrupting the supply lines to Russian
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    THE BARE FACTS OF SOPHIA THE STAR
    86 3 THE BARE FACTS OF SOPHIA THE STAR VOLIPTUOL S Sophia Loren told a judge in Rome yesterday that it was not the dresses of tailor Count Galateri that made her a star. "It was not clothes," said Sophia, "but rather the lack of them." The Count is suing: Sophia for
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    Lock icon 100 m. to vote
    28 3 NEW DELHI, Sun. More than 100 million people are expected to vote in India's secord general elections from Feb. 25 to March 12.— Router.
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    Lock icon ANTI-MAO UNREST IN SHANGHAI
    294 3 Security police told: Be vigilant PEKING, Sun. The Shanghai Public Security Bureau has warned its officers to be vigilant during the winter in the face of increased political murders and antiGovernment activities. In a directive to its subbureaus, published in the Liberation Daily, it said: "Acts
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    Lock icon Japan promises to be good
    45 3 NFW YORK Sun. The Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr Mamoru Shiitniitsu yesterday pledged that his country would work through the United Nations on all international issue to promote world peace. Japan, is expected to be elected to the L'N. on Tuesday.-Reuter.
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    Lock icon Greeks reject new Cyprus plan
    300 3 BOYD IS OFF FOR ANKARA TALKS A THENS, Sun. The A GreeK Government has rejected British proposals for limited self rule in Cyprus, newspapers here said today. Just before he left for Ankara for talks with Turkish leaders on the Radcliffe plan for Cyprus, Mr.
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    390 ships go by the Cape
    34 3 CAPE TOWN, Sun. More than 390 ships have stopped here during detours around the Suez Canal. The highest number for a 24-hour period has been 13. U. P.
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    Lock icon KOTELAWALA MAKES A COME-BACK
    116 3 KOTELAWALA MAKES A COME-BACK r|OLOMBO, Sun_Sir John v Kotelawalas United National party of Ceylon, dismissed from power at the general election last April, decisively won the election of the 31 -member Colombo Municipal Council yesterday. The party won 18 of the 28 seats it contested improving its strength of 16
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    Lock icon 55 YEARS IN THE NAVY
    58 3 PORTSMOUTH, Sun. Chief Petty Officer Emmanuel Zahra, the oldest man on the lower deck in the Royal Navy, celebrated his 70th birthday yesterday. He was born in Valetta, Malta, and Joined the navy as a pantry boy aboard H.M.S. Gladiator In 1901. Since 1945 he
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    COLONY UMNO
    220 4 Ottlrial ptodt»«« We will w*e »«to" PLANS BIG PURGE Clean up of undesirables who want to wreck the party THE Singapore branch of UMNO is planning a clean-up of "undesirable elements" to prevent the infiltration of "subversive influences." A senior UMNO official told the Straits Times yesterday that
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    Youth group plans to be more active
    155 4 mHE SINGAPORE Youth X Council is to revise its constitution making it an active rather than a coordinating body of youth organisations. Mr. O. Abisheganadan. honorary general secretary of the youth council, told the Straits Times: "Members feel that council should be something
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    New union picks officials
    52 4 Mr. Ta n Kwang Sen K has been elected president of the newly-formed Henry Waugh (Singapore) Employees' Union. Vice-president Is Mr. Tann Hock Seng, secretary Mr. Michael T. W. Ng and treasurer Mr. Hussein Gaffar. The employee* are no longer members of the Singapore Business Houses
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    Jewish youth camp
    42 4 Thirty-flve Jewish girls and boys will hold a youth camp beginning tomorrow at the Telok Paku Boys' School. Singapore. The campers will spend a week there. A varied programme has been arranged by the youth leader, Mr. Isaac Ben-Ami.
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    MALAY WEDDING IN COLONY
    58 4 INCHE ABU BAKAR bin Wan All and Che Mariamah binte Ismail, who were married at Jalan Hajijah. Singapore, yesterday. The bridegroom Is the son of Wan All, draftsman In the Public Works Department. Singapore and the bride is the eldest grand-daughter of Inche Daud bin Mohd.
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    $178,000 for merry and wet Xmas
    97 4 $178,000 for merry and wet Xmas ROYAL Air Force officers In Singapore have given themselves a $178,000 Christinas present. It is a swimming pool at the Officers' Club, Fairy Point, Chang!, which is to be opened next Sunday. The dub borrowed money t 3 build the pool. The loan is
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    Deadline for pilgrims
    43 4 Singapore Muslims who wish to go on pilgrimage to Mecca during 1957 must apply by Dec. 31. Forms can be obtained at the Chief Secretary's Office, the Jeddah Pilgrims ticket office at 724-A North Bridge Road, or from pilgrim brokers.
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    Pianist arrives for recital
    37 4 The Italian pianist Annarosa Taddei, who is on a tour of the Far East, arrived in Singapore yesterday. She will give a pianoforte recital at the Victoria Memorial Hall at 8.45 pm. tomorrow.
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    Gestapo move sets off party storm
    153 4 IMPRACTICAL, SAY MEMBERS A PROPOSAL calling for the creation of a secret sub-committee to investigate "infiltration by pro-colonial agents" into the party caused a heated debate at the first meeting of the Singapore Party Ra'ayat on Saturday night. The party's Kampong Amber representative proposed
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    Dance contest
    35 4 The Malayan centre of the Federal Association of Teacher* of Dancing (Australia and New Zealand) will hold its 1956 All-Malayan Blue Riband Amateur Ballroom Championship contest at Raffles Hotel, Singapore, on Friday night.
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    RAINFALL, RIVERS: QUEST for FACTS
    287 5 RAINFALL, RIVERS: QUEST for FACTS K. LUMPUR, Sun. THE Drainage and Irrigation Department nas embarked on a country, wide plan to Rather information needed for water utilisation and flood alleviation programmes. "We fully appreciate the present shortcomings in the analysis and collection of hydrological data," Mr. M P. Murphy, Director
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    Pistol offence
    37 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Rajoo, a 19-year-old cowherd, was convicted in the Sessions Court here of being in unlawful possession of a pistol and ordered to be sent to an approved school until he is 21.
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    Shop proprietor owes $3,180
    60 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. A receiving and adjudicating order was made In the Supreme Court today against Fong Piew, proprietor of Chop Leun Yong Piew Kee, whose liabilities amount to $3,180. Fong offered to pay $50 a month, but this was refused by Mr. A. J. HiU,
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    'Coward,' says magistrate
    50 5 BUTTERWORTH, Sun. Ex-convict Buang bin Shaari, 28, was Jailed for six months yesterday for fraudulently possessing sugar and escaping from police custody on May 18. "After daring to commit an offence, you were a coward to run away," the Province magistrate, inche Hassan bin Hussein, told Buang.
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    Poison charge
    32 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. G. K. Panlker, of Tampoi, pleaded not guilty here today to keeping a vial of poison in an unlocked drawer. The case was adjourned to Feb. 10.
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    Xmas party
    26 5 TELUK ANSON, Sun.— The Dew Recreation Club here will hold a Christmas party for the children of members on Dec. 22 at 4 p.m.
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    'Deplorable'-TUC hits at bosses of motor firm
    127 5 THHE Singapore Trade Union 1 Congress last night described the attitude of the Ford Motor Company towards its employees as "deplorable." The 10,000-strong waterfront section of the T.U.C stopped handling all Ford goods on Saturday. The T.U.C. had earlier informed the company that
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    Gurkhas shoot Home Guard who deserted to the terrorists
    238 5 Gurkhas shoot Home Guard who deserted to the terrorists i T tx KLUANG, Sunday. YOUNG Home Guard who joined the terrorists in April last year was shot dead by security forces early yesterday morning. The terrorist, Wong Kirn Pat, 21, was a Home Guard at the Sri Lallang New Village
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    PERLIS HAD A BANDIT FREE YEAR
    85 5 PERLIS HAD A BANDIT FREE YEAR ARAI Sun.— The president of the Perils Council of Regency, Raja Haji Ahmad bin Raja Endut, reviewing the Emergency situation, told the State Council today that there had not been a single bandit incident in Perils during the year. Raja Ahmad said Perils' contribution
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    THAT TAX WAIVER IS NOT TRUE, SAYS JUMAT
    139 5 THAT TAX WAIVER IS NOT TRUE, SAYS JUMAT KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Singapore's Acting Chief Minister, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Jumat, yesterday denied that the Colony had offered a yearly grant to the Federation in return for a waiver on duties on goods manufactured in Singapore. New import tariffs imposed by
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    Fun and games
    32 5 The Yi o chu Kan 8 Com munity Centre had games, a fancy dress show and a magic show at its fourth annual meeting in Parry Avenue, Singapore, yesterday.
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    H.Gs take over
    28 5 TANJONG MALIM. Sun. At a simple week end ceremony home guards took over the defence of Kalumpang, a small village near here, from the police.
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    Ex-security forces men accuse Government
    124 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Former members of the security forces today accused the Government of favouring terrorists instead of the men who fought to get them out of the jungle. The charge was made by the secretary-general of the Federation Ex-Security Forces Association, Inche Yazid bin
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      270 5 TOC H WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (Singapore branch i: Weekly meeting, Talbot House, 11. Scotts Road 2.30 p.m. Women visitors welcome. FEDERATION OF BOYS' CLUBS: Activity leaders training courses at Queen Street Boys' Hostel— Judo and motor-repairing, 7 pjn. to 8.30 p.m. Y.W.C.A,: Sewing class at Raffles Quay, 5.30 p.m.; beauty culture
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    DEATHS
    130 6 20 Word, $10 (minimum). PALMER -suddenly at King's Lynn Hospital as the result of an accident David Anthony only son of Mr <fc Mrs. D. B. Palmer Customs Dept. GOH: Joseph Goh Yong Twang aged 61 years, passed away peacefully on 16th December, 1956 at 724 Upper Serangoon Road.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    238 6 I* Wordt fit (mlmimum). ELSIE MARY LTD.. 2nd Flow. 13 Rettery Rd. Just Arrived— New Corklail Evening Frock* from the Advance Collections. SAVE $70'- per year by Joining; Reprint Society Book Club. Write today to World Books Malayan Agency P.O. Box 1742. Spore. SHORT EVENING Cocktail gowns in latest
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    43 6 20 Wordt 51ft (minimum). CHIANG WEI SAN. Shen San and Chleng Chlng thank all relatives ana friends for their attendance at the funeral of th«?ir beloved mother. Madam Lee Slat j Noi and ihose who sent wreaths, condolences and lent cirs etc.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Mon. Dec. 17, 1956. Tengku And UMNO
    601 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon. Dec. 17, 1956. Tengku And UMNO After his return from j London, the Federation's Chief Minister proposes to devote "a few months" to UMNO activities. The import lof this extraordinary intention has been cushioned 'by speculation about the j mission to London. Tengku Abdul Rahman
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    Gangster Menace
    301 6 Is the edge beginning to wear off Operation Dagger? When the Singapore police began their offensive in July against gangster elements it appeared that the hoodlum empire would crack up. There was an appreciable decrease in gangster activities. In June some 730 serious crimes, including murders, were recorded.
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    Calumny
    253 6 The campaign of calumny which the Peoples' Action Party i s waging against the Labour Front Government reached a new intensity at yesterday's P.A.P. meeting. In September Mr. Lim Yew Hock received the legislature's mandate for his mission to London, a remarkable vote of confidence which P.A.P. has since
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    Will the Russians also make their bid for freedom?
    1140 6  - Will the Russians also make their bid for freedom? ALEXANDRE METAXAS f. YUGOSLAVIA 2. POLAND -AND NOW HUNGARY by The rulers of Russia ore now confronted by 200 million Russians ill-disposed to follow blindly the dictates of the Kremlin, for th* first time a public opinion, shapeless but nevertheless real,
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      TAIPING QUERIES ON ASSESSMENT
      120 6 rpHE Taiping public are x very interested to note that a resolution was successfully moved in the Taiping Town Council on Dec. 4 to suspend implementation of the report of the Re-valuation Committee, and that the reason given by the Councillors themselves was the fantastic increase
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      'Fantastic'
      166 6 Why are notices of revision of assessment still being sent to owners after the motion of suspension has been successfully moved? What Is the lec;al position of all the notices which have been issued notifying the increase in annual value and requesting persons aggrieved to object in writing two
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      The price bandits
      203 6 Fthe war on the price bandits is t o be successful, it must have the cooperation of the public. A few days ago I asked a shopkeeper why some shops had raised the price of goods not affected by the Suez Canal trouble and new taxation. He
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      Paying for parking
      43 6 •THE Kuala Lumpur Munl- cipality is reported to have found an answer to the parking problem toy Introducing parking meters. No doubt the worries of the Municipality would be ended as a result. But for motorists like me the park-
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      Schools, not fireworks
      93 6 Schools, not fireworks WHEN the Federation proclaims its independence next August, there will be celebrations the like of which Malaya has never seen. Tengku Abdul Rah- t man has told us so. I agree that the event is a happy one, and all Mala- I yans should rejoice. But two
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      150 6 rPHE demand of the Na■L tional Union of Teachers in the Federation for the promotion of its members to Division n looks absurd and awkward if considered in the light of the qualifications of its members. Most of the teachers in Division II hold either Diplomas in Arts
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    BIG RUSH FOR JOBS AS NURSES
    108 7 BIG RUSH FOR JOBS AS NURSES T Sin gapore Oovni is recruit;rses for trainnext year. pa: matron in the Miss B M. yesterday: "The la wonderful. l |Mt few years, ap- I If* been coming Now they are coming -eds. fiord to pick and :rom more than 200 nurses Higher
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    37 7 M A Square Dance a Hobo Night es to Raffles apore, at 8 p.m. on aid of the anuual treat to the child- 1 9 Ortbo- are expected to -ed as tramps.
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    Free—a bowl of rice
    72 7 Free— a bowl of rice VMPUR. Sun. 5 500 inhabitants of day received their i bowl of rice free Government. matte ee--d by music and :.-om loudspeakers. the full-scale mtro- the central rice cooking scheme in the village tomorrow. The operational rice ration system is being abolished simultaneously. The people
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    EXPATS GET 'IN OR OUT' letters
    93 7 EXPATS GET 'IN OR OUT' letters JPJU LUMPUR. Sun. The Federation Government has begun writing to its 1.800 expatriate officers telling them whether it wants to retain their services for a guaranteed period after merdeka next year. Those asked to slay o n specialists whose uosts it would be impossible
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    Colony: 'Voice for the Tengku'
    451 7 ECONOMIST ON SFKnAvnop DEFENCE: FEDERATION MUST BEAR A HAND PROSPECT DIM OF GETTING THAT DEVELOPMENT LOAN IN LONDON THE inßuential EconS^ SsTn.M.'nT C nStitution l de™'»Psecurity of the island. Mr. Llm had suggested that a defence council be set up lor Singapore and be comJsed
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    From Ceylon to Changi
    60 7 Four officers of the Ceylon Air Force who went to the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell. England, have accepted an invitation to attend the eighth annual reunion of former Cranwell cadets at RAF. Changi today. Three are pilots Flying Officers Mendis. Seneviratne and Situnayake and
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    Centre calls for volunteers
    47 7 The Yio Chu Kane Com- munity Centre. Singapore, yesterday appealed for more i volunteers to assist in ex--1 panding its welfare work. The secretary. Mr. K. P. 1 Kurup, told the fourth annual meeting that the centre urgently needed premises of its own
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    2 women stabbed
    47 7 IPOH. Sun. A' woman. Valiamah, 28, was stabbed on the head and chest in New Paslr Puteh last night. She was admitted to the hospital. Her mother was also injured on both arms. She was treated as an outpatient. A man has been detained.
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    Court hears tribute
    48 7 IPOH, Sun. The Deputy Public Prosecutor, Perak. Inche Abdul Aziz bin Mat Zain. extolled the virtues of a "true Irish gentleman," the late Mr B A Cotgrove, 48. who died on Wednesday after a sixweek illness. The reference was made In the High Court yesterday.
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    President again
    21 7 Mr T. A Simon was reelected president of the Slnpapore Hire Car Association at the association's annual meeting yesterday.
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    BACK FROM SCHOOL FOR CHRISTMAS VACATION
    51 7 BACK FROM SCHOOL FOR CHRISTMAS VACATION SOME OF THE Singapore girls who returned from Australia yesterday in the Gorgon pictured with their mothers. From left: Mrs. J R. Hamilton. Jeanette Hamilton. Dean n a Mealin. Mrs. F. Paul and Violet Paul The girl in uniform is Andrea Hamilton. Straits Times
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    Violet comes home to dear grandpa
    275 7 —WITH A GIFT HE WILL NEVER SEE pVERY Christmas for the last fiv e years Violet Paul, a Singapore girl studying fan Australia, brought presents home for her grandfather who would be waiting for her at the wharf. Yesterday evening she arrived in the
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    Dentists say 'thank you'
    70 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Central Malaya Chinese Dentists' Association last night gave a dinner at the > Loke Yuen Restaurant here for three members. Dr. N. S. Chin, the asso- ciatlon's medical adviser. Mr. T. C. Tang, the legal adviser, and Mr. E. Chin Wah. the
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    Asst. bishop plan approved
    158 7 Asst. bishop plan approved TWE Diocesan Synod of SinX gapore has agreed that an assistant bishop should be appointed within the next two years. Members of synod, who completed their three-day meeting on Friday, stressed that the nationality should not be a deciding factor in selecting the person to undertake
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    Air contest
    20 7 The Singapore Aeromodellers Society held an open competition of free flight events at the former Kallang Airport yesterday.
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    Trapped-paws monkey eludes rescue men
    108 7 PENANG, Sun. Four Kspca members spent two hours in the Botanic Gardens yesterday in a vain bid t» catch a monkey whose front paws were trapped in a cigarette tin. At one stage it was cornered but escaped. Mr. Sun Ton;, leader of the RSPCA
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    Socialists take a stab at Rahman
    154 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The president of the Malayan Socialist Youth League, Mr. V. David, today alleged there was an "ulterior motive" in the Federation's refusal to merge with Slnga- pore. He told the league's first anuual delegates conference here that he believed the colo-
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    PAP bosses hit out at Lint
    378 7 'HE DIDN'T CONSULT THE PEOPLE* LEADERS of the People's Action Party yesterday criticised the Chief Minister. Mr. Urn Yew Hock, for coiner to London for merdeka talks without consulting other political parties and the wishes of the people of Singapore, i Mr. Lee Kuan
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    TUC WARNS OF BANK STRIKE PERIL
    103 7 TUC WARNS OF BANK STRIKE PERIL The Singapore Trades Union Congress last night warned that a strike by 1,000 employees in 10 big banks might upset the whole economy and trade of the country. Members of the Bank Employees' Union affiliated to the T.U.C. have decided to take a strike
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    Linda Chen —a denial
    70 7 Linda Chen a denial 1 a spokesman at the Chief Secretary's Office yesterday denied a report in a Singapore paper that three detainees, Linda Chen. Pang Sui Slang and Chen Meng Hui. have left Singapore The report said Linda Chen had left for England for higher studies and Pane; and
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    TEMPLE COUPLE ROBBED
    63 7 JOHORE BAHRU Sun. A gang robbed the caretaker of the Chinese temple in Jalan Tnu and his wife on Thursday. About midnight four armed Chinese entered the tem- pie. threatened the couple with daggers and took more than $4,000 in cash and Jewellery. Four men were later
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    CANADA'S $155,000 GIFT TO THE POLY
    177 7 CANADA'S $155,000 GIFT TO THE POLY CANADA will give $155,000 to the Singapore Polytechnic. Mr. Paul Martin, the Dominion's Minister for Health and Welfare, said in Singapore yesterday. Mr. Martin said the contribution was "a mark of the continued interest and friendship which Canadians have for the people of Singapore."
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      MONGOLIA: LAND OF MYSTERY
      897 8  - MONGOLIA: LAND OF MYSTERY Allington Kennard by LAND OF BLUE SKY. By Ivor Montagu. (Dennis Dobson 255). SEVEN hundred years ago the Mongols were masters of the world, or as much of it as they cared to conquer. Their khans ruled the greatest empire ever known to man. Peking that
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      The big contest: Where you went wrong
      891 8 THE results of The Malayan Monthly's Jackpot Contest 'C were announced yesterday. Here are what the adjudication committee thought were the most apt and accurate answers to some of the more difficult clues: ACROSS 4: When out walking you might ask a countryman
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      303 8 Proud of it Of course it's a Ronson When you show people your Ronson, they envy you. When you give people a Ronson, they arc flattered. Look at the handsome Ronson Viking gas lighter, for example filled with odourless Butane gas with built-in jet flame control this is the perfect
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      108 8 H flavour "'jp^ _^B __^RB _BP^^ WBj SRV^ ,-I|__R^^tM Ev V BRft i __rW%_|rT Rjm_% R\ irC-li Those natural cork tips. as cool to your lips as the fine tobacco is smooth to your throat CHANGE TODAY TO CRAVEN A KIND TOWOUR THROAT i Cuff Links Patented Snap-bar In a
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      345 8 Straits Times Crossword T~ 7" 7~" 4 "b 6 ii||| ~~""I^i SSst 3s^s V^;.* >§^ jsS§ gsss 8 |H 9 10 a ITI taTar 1 II" I 1 L l I tilt *nr i» p? jo" 21 li—Z^Z^zZZ-.llZ Z n ii ii n n n n ACROSS 10 Conceded (5).
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    STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE Walter Lindrum, world's greatest billiards genius
    1181 9 STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE Walter Lindrum, world's greatest billiards genius lAUSTRAUAN UNCANNY I WITH THE CUE Twice called to give private shows for King George V n\K summer afternoon early in the century, a bluff, hearty ranker entered a K;iljjoorlie bilirds saloon and found it almost mpty. Short of an
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      369 9 EVERY CHILD needs Vitamin C r> EVERY DAY fSI ,W _^Bhß^B\ <. 'i*^-? J^ 11 Bbk jS^Bl BBA Sftl^P^Cßr THh II y^tmm b^^v^BßWW^Sbv > iS and c/effefous Deftosa j to increase vitality and resistance to infection. S t f II The body does not store this vital vitamin II daily
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    Industrials attract Fed buyers
    500 10 By Our Market Correspondent INDUSTRIALS finished the week on the local Share Market on a very steady tone, despite the fact that the volume of business was somewhat reduced due to the approach of the Christmas holidays. Although a few issues in the industrial section were
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    199 10 COMPANIES operating in Malaya announced Hifollowing dividends last week: ROBINSON Sc CO. LTD.: Interim dividends of 3 per cent and 4 per cent rrsprrtively, less 30 per cent Inromr tax on the 6 per cent first cumulative preference shares and the 8 per cent nrrnnd cumulative preference shares,
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    BUSINESS DONE
    473 10 TWE following business done A on the Singapore Share Market last week was report- ed by one firm of brokers for the period December 8 to December 14: rNDISTRIALS: British Borneo Petroleum 495. 9d., Consolidated Tin Smelters 295. 3d. to 295.6ri.. Praser and Neave Ords. $2.23 to $2.20
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    MALAYAN SHARE LIST
    776 10 1 THE following' revised list of X share quotations was I issued by The Malayan Share I Brokers' Association after their last meeting on Friday:— INDI'STRIALS Buven Sellers Alex Bricks Pref 160 1.70 Ords 1.75 185 Atlas Ice 13.00 (buyers) B. B. Petrol 49-- 51 B. M.
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    Lock icon Devaluation scare off
    444 10 i T^HE devaluation bubble burst as far as the Singa--1 pore Rubber Market was concerned last week and prices came off, but rallied again at the end of the period. January first grade buyers was at its highest level on Monday closing at $1.13 3 s per
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      616 10 COMPANY MEETING HARRISONS CROSFIELD, LIMITED SIR ERIC MILLERS REVIEW The AnnuaJ General Meeting of Harrisons Orosfleld, Limited was held on the 10th December Oroup net profit for the year to 30th June. 1956 was £601,000 after tax. Deferred Ordinary Dividend Is 15', on a capital Increased to £1,500,000 by the
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      536 10 i affairs absolutely and to negotiate I directly with neighbouring counI tries in South East Asia and with other nations of the world. It cannot be easy for many 1 Malayans to realize that lndepend- ence by itself will not automatlcI ally bring to them immediate in- dividual pecuniary and
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      535 10 NOTICE Licences fees In respect of the undernoted vehicles not having been paid under Notice within the period prescribed In Section 8(7) of the Road Traffic Ordinance, Warrants for levy and seizure have been executed under Section 1(8) of the said Ordinance:— Car. S. M 3 DeSoto. Lorry. SO. 2935
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      569 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PAHANG. j APPLICATIONS are invited for I the post of temporary teachers, I English Schools. Pahang. Candidates must <a) have attained their 17th but not their 23rd birthI day; fb) furnish proof of Federal Citizenship: fc) haw parsed the School Certificate Examination, or 1 have
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    1016 11 P W D L P APt Man. United 21 14 4 3 51 32 3: Tottenham 21 12 5 ***** 2! Blackpool 21 11 5 5 53 37 2' Leeds 22 10 6 6 41 32 2i Birmingham 21 10 5 6 40 30 2! Wolves 21 11
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    Lock icon BURKE HITS HIS FIRST DOUBLE CENTURY
    171 11 BURKE HITS HIS FIRST DOUBLE CENTURY ADELAIDE, Sun. JIM BURKE. Australia's opening bat, hit his first double century in first-class cricket when j making 220 for New South Wales against South Australia here yesterday. Burke, 121 not out overnight, was the last man to be dismissed. His marathon innings of
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    Lock icon UPSETS FOR ALL BUT TWO OF THE LEADERS
    790 11 UK SOCCER REVIEW LONDON. Sun. PORM TOOK a tumble in yesterday's league soccer programme and the wild weather in many places, bringine: mud bound pitches, was largely responsible. Only Leicester of the four English division leaders, won and even in Scotland the
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    Lock icon Scrum-half is only problem in team
    496 11 RUGBY UNION ROUNDUP LONDON, Sun. ENGLAND'S team to meet Wales in the first rugby union international next month took clearer shape in Sunderland yesterday when the Probables beat the Possibles in the second trial by the overwhelming margin of 30 points to six. One
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    Lock icon NINTH-ROUND KNOCKOUT FOR KEENAN
    169 11 NINTH-ROUND KNOCKOUT FOR KEENAN MANILA, Sun. T EADING Filipino bantamweight Al Asuncion last night knocked out British Empire ban. tamweight champion Peter Keenan in the ninth round of a scheduled ten-round bout at the Rizal Stadium. The knockout blow, a straight right to Keenans chin, followed a left jab and
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    Lock icon Patterson is 'Boxer of Year'
    47 11 NEW YORK. Sun.— Floyd Patterson, the new heavyweight boxIng champion of the world, was today named 'Boxer of the Year" by the Chicago Boxing Writers' and Broadcasting Association. At 21, he is the youngest man ever to hold the heavyweight crown Reuter.
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      575 13 TENDERS JOHORE P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS from registered j P.W.D. Contractors will be received by the State Engineer. Johore. up to noon of the sth. January, 1957 for SUPPLY OP STORES TO P.W.D. JOHORE DURING 1957. Pull particulars may be obtained from the state Engineer. Johore, Johore Bahru. JOHORE P.W.D.
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    Wolters: Officials neglected us
    289 14 WATER POLO CAPTAIN ALLEGES MISMANAGEMENT AT MELBOURNE He will make report to sosc A- N. "SKIP" WOLTIX ERS, captain of Singapore's water polo team at the Melbourne Olympic Games who returned yesterday, charged that officials had failed in their duty of looking after the team. He
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    122 14 r«HEONG HOCK SIEW won the i Ward challenge Shield for the third straight year when he won both the open singles and doubles championships at the survey Dej partments badminton tournament. He beat Lim Chin Llam 15-3, i 15-9 In the singles final, and with R.
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    66 14 PERTH. Sun. The Australian and United States lawn tennis teams for the Davis Cup challenge round, to be played at Adelaide on Dec. 26, 27 and 28, were announced today. Australia, the holders, will be represented by Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall, Ashley Cooper and Neale
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    THEY'RE HERE TO CHALLENGE MALAYAN WOMEN AT BADMINTON
    303 14  -  SAUL JOSHUA Indian Über Cup team are modest about their chances By INDIA'S Über Cup team arrived in Singapore yesterday, modest about their chances against Malaya in their match on Friday at Kuala Lumpur. Manager of the team or five, Mr. Casmiro
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    PENANG LEAD 4-0 IN CUP DEFENCE
    218 14 PENANG, Sun. DENANG gained a 4-0 1 lead over Perak at end of the first night's play in the Challenge Round of the Foong Seong Cup badminton competition here last! night. Cup-holders Penang need only one more point from tonight's five matches to retain
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    Lock icon Richardson tops US ranking list
    124 14 NEW YORK, Son. HAMILTON Richardson was named here yesterday as the leadin* United States lawn tennis player for 1956. Richardson, ranked No. 7 in 1955, reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon singles last July. He formed a two-man team with Vie Seixas to beat Italy,
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    22 14 TOULOUSE, Sun. Prance beat Czechoslovakia 28-3 In a Rugby Union International here today, after leading 17-0 at halftime. Reuter.
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    SETH & NATEKAR IN FINAL
    53 14 SETH NATEKAR IN FINAL vt E^, D F LI Sun ™<* Nath Seth will meet Nandu Natekar in the men's singles final of the Indian national badminton championships here today i= in n the semi-finals yesterday. Seth beat Amrit Dewan 15-10. 15-7. and Natekar defeated P. S. Chawla. 15-3, 15
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    Hunters' tour
    169 14 LATE PENALTY SAVES TOURISTS FROM DEFEAT BY MALAYS XI MALACCA, Sunday. A LAST-MINUTE penalty enabled the visiting Mysore Hunter's XI to hold South Malaya Malays 2-2 in their soccer match here today The visitors seemed headed for defeat when they trailed 2-1. But a Malay defender handled in
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    93 14 RANGOON Sun. r HHE British Olympic soccer team j x beat a selected Burma side 2-0 before a crowd of 20,000 here today. The Britons were superior in all departments, and gave a grand display of passing and swift approach. But they did not take full
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    Lock icon BRITAIN REGAIN RUGBY 'ASHES'
    205 14 CLINTON (Manchester), Sun. BRITAIN regained the "Ashes" with a 19-0 win over Australia in the third and deciding Rugby League Test here yesterday, after leading 8-0 at half-time. After withstanding ten minutes of furious Australian assaults at the start, Britain, playing open football, obtained a mastery
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    ONLY GOAL WINS
    25 14 Khalsa edged Royal Air Force Seletar l-o In a postponed S.H.A. Dlv. Two match at Farre r Park yesterday. Harbhajan Singh scored.
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    A fighting 116 by Insole in MCC's 307
    160 14 A fighting 116 by Insole in MCC's 307 DURBAN, Sun. NATAL were 83 for one wicket and 224 runs behind the M.C.C.'s first innings total of 307 when bad light brought an early close to the second day's play of their match here yesterday. Jackie McOlew and Trevor Goddard, virtually
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    ON WAY HOME
    31 14 Thirteen members of the Italian Olympic contingent passed through Singapore yesterday on their way to Rome. The team Included nine women competitors. They leave for home this morning.
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    Lock icon KRISHNAN BEATS GREEN
    252 14 PERTH, Sun. ITNITED STATES, with a U winning overnight lead of 3-0, shared the remaining two singles matches with India today to make the final result 4-1 in their Davis Cup inter-zone final played here. India's only success was by their 19-year-old champion Ramanathan Krishnan. wh 0
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    He was Garner champ in 1912
    132 14 X.v 101 M|| MNI Tall and U grace. Duke p. k a magnifi Singap.iv yesterday The man who Sheriff oi Hi years smiled reporter.- c Mm as he them his Olymi merits 44 y He won the style swimm i Olympics al si 1912
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