The Straits Times, 30 December 1953

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    13 1 The Straits Times He***** Established 1845 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1953. 15 CENTS
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    U. S. WON'T SEND TROOPS
    362 1 Divisions from Korea are not switching to Indo-China NOT NEEDED— FRANCE PLASH: French pilots have pounded to a halt advancing Red columns in Indo-China with tons of bdmbs while ground forces announced 500 Communist casualties in guerilla clashes in the northern rice-bowl. SAIGON, Tuesday. JHK
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    TALL MAN WITH A TALL TASK
    54 1 Round-the-world canvassing trip BILL SPIVEY, 7 -foot member of the Boston Whirlwinds, the team brought along to play against the Harlem Globetrotters, duck* to enter the lift .it Kaffirs Hotel, Singapore. Rill is canvassing round the world for Happy Chandler, the former American basketball
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    Mrs. Koek bans film on best-seller
    458 1 POLICE CHIEF DEPICTED IN UNFAVOURABLE MANNER 9 TfiE film version of (iraham Greene's best-selling A novel "The Heart of the Matter" has been banned in Singapore and the Federation by the Official Malayan Film Censor, who has decided that it is unsuitable for Malayan
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    JUDGE'S DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT SEIZED
    173 1 While on holiday abroad WASHINGTON. Tues. THE State Department said yesterday it had withdrawn the diplomatic passport of Judge William L Clark, who was recently removed from his past as Chief Justice of American courts in West Germany. Mr. Clark had been issued with a normal
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    THEY LOOK DOWN ON US-THEY HAVE TO
    282 1 THEY LOOK DOWN ON US-THEY HAVE TO THE Harlem Globe--1 Trotters, dusky doyens of the basketball court, look down loftily on Asian players. rhfr can't help It Averaging 6 Teet 6 inches in height they find it hard to star? h -elly at anyone. ■A'*t Malayans could stand before any
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    Indonesians get note
    47 1 JAKARTA, Tues— The Indonesian Government has re- ceived a note trom the Malayan Government about the Malayan fishermen who were reported to have been looted by Indonesians dressed In police uniforms, Antara the Indonesian news agency reported today. Indonesia is awaiting further reports.— Reuter.
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    47 hurt in train smash
    38 1 BOMBAY, Tues— Forty-seven passengers were injured when the Bombay-bound train "Deccan Queen" collided with a packed suburban passenger train a mile from Bombay. A failure of the automatic signalling caused the accident. —Reuter.
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    Air challenge
    39 1 LONDON. Tues.— The challenge of Britain's new Viscount jetliners on Continental routes has made some rival operators compete for business with big aircraft intended for i longer distance work, British i airline officials claimed yesterl day.— Reuter.
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    Bevan sees Neguib
    47 1 CAIRO. Tues. Mr. Aneurin Bevan and his wife Jennie Lee today visited Egyptian President Mohammed Neguib at nis home here. They discussed Anglo-Egyp-tian problems and relations between Egypt and Israel with particular reference to the future of the Palestine Arab refugees, it was understood.--Reuter
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    Britain gets more Russian gold
    43 1 LONDON, Tues.— A special plane brought into London lar.t night another consignment of Russian gold bars, valued at LTSS4.2OO 000 Official sources disclosed last week that Russia has secreth flown U5565,000,000 in gold into Britain this winter— A.P
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    Russia's latest
    24 1 LONDON, Tues— A Soviet Arctic explorer published a boos today rlaiming the Spitzbergen Isles were discovered by Russia, not by Norway.— UP.
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    French to boost navy, air force, cut army
    150 1 PARIS Tues. I^RANf'K plans to rut hnr T. army slightly but increase hrr navy ami air farce in ItMi the Defence Minister M. Rone Pleven, told the Prfmec Committee of the National Assembly t«id;iv. tbf niKfPst increase will n< in the air
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    Packed for Malaya,went to hospital
    81 1 Packed for Malaya,went to hospital BRISTOL. Tues MISS Margaret Reed, a nurse due to sail for Malaya next Monday, was taken to hospital with .se.ere shock when her home wa^ almost totally destroyed by fire today. Miss Rred and her mother, who was also taken to hospital with shock, had
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    Back to Cairo
    20 1 CAIRO, Tues.— The Egyptian Ambassador to Moscow. Ger> Azizlel Masry. has been recalled to Cairo for consultation
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    THE WANDERING NUDE
    31 1 A CHINESE aged 24 wandered alone Fort Canning Road completely undressed at about 4.30 p.m. yesterday. A woman dialled '999.' The man was later taken away by police.
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    FLOODS DELAY NIGHT MAIL FOR SEVEN HOURS
    472 1 FLOODS DELAY NIGHT MAIL FOR SEVEN HOURS Many roads under water KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. A TWO MILE stretch of railway line in North Selangor was flooded last night and delayed the Kuala Lumpur Penan? night mail for seven hours. Heavy rain overflowed the Sungei Serendah and the water rose 34
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    Duke to fly to service
    58 1 WELLINGTON. Tues.— The Duke of Edinburgh will fly with New Zealand s Prime Minister. Mr Sidney Holland, to Wellington on Thursday tr attend a memorial service lor victims of the Christmas Eve railway disaster. The Duke wiL make the trip instead of visiting the Nuitl
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    The state of the Union—by Ike
    53 1 The state of the Union by Ike NEW YORK, Tues—President Eisenhower was busy yesterday drafting his report to the American people on his Administration's first year of office and his message to Congress on the state of the Union. Next Monday he will broadcast his report to the nation on
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    Good progress in Trieste talks
    40 1 BELGRADE. Tues.- Discussions on solving the Trieste question have made "considerable" progress and the Western powers have modified their proposal. which Yugoslavia found unacceptable, a Yugoslav foreign secretariat spokesman told a press conference here today.-U.P.
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    Red stations
    32 1 LOS ANGELES, Tues.—Russia maintained at l'-ast 60 weather observation stations in the Arctic, compared with America's one. said Dr. Norman J. Wilimov.sky, of the Stanford Natural History Museum, yesterday.— AJ.
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    Audrey (of Britain) is top actress
    106 1 NEW YORK. Tues BRITAIN'S Audrey Hepburn was yesterday named best actress of 1953 by the NewYork film critics for her performance in "Roman Holiday." The 15 critics. representing nine metropolitan newspapers selected the Frenon film "Justice Is Done" as the out-landing foreign language film.
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    British Cabinet meets
    194 1 British Cabinet meets And agrees to Soviet proposal LONDON. Tues. SIR Winston Churchill and his Cabinet today discussed the Soviet proposal that the Berlin conference of the Big Four Foreign Ministers should open on January 25. The rrply of the Woitern powors, accepting the Soviet date, will be sent to
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    STOP PRESS
    29 1 ANGLO-BURMES£ FACT DISC I RANGOON, Tues.—Brttisb proposals for new defence treaty betwern Britain and Barmi were diseased today when Brlli.u Ambassador here saw Burmese Defence Minister. /.cuter.
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    Stowaway, 12. hid in plane
    80 1 NEW YORK. Tues Lutz I Ramirez, a 12-year-old Vene- zuelan boy v/lth a yearning to travel to Nrw York, made me trip yesterd&y But he got only as far as New York's Idlewood Airport. The boy was discovered as stowaway on a Venezuelan Airlines plane
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    TWO UNIONS CHALLENGE COST OF LIVING FIGURES
    316 2 'Government method is out-of-date 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE LEADERS of two powerful rubber estate unions today challenged the Government's method of calculating cost of living indices. Mr. P. P. Narayanan, secretary-general of the Pan-Malayan Rubber Workers' Union and Mr. John Emmanuel, secretary-Reneral
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    166 DIED HERE WHEN A BRIDGE FELL
    129 2 THIS AERIAL vietr, made after flood waters had subsided, shows the vrreckage of the Well-ington-Auckland express, which hurtled into the Wangachu River, Ncir Zealand, after a suaden flood swept away tiro huge piers supporting a rail bridge near Waiouru, 190 miles north of
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    U.S. seeking bargain tin in Indonesia
    149 2 WASHINGTON. Turs. rE United States and Indonesia have agreed to negotiate for another 30 days on a price formula for the 20.000 tons of tin Indonesian companies hope to .sell to th<> US. government in the 12 months beginning March 1, 1954. The bargaining
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    Negligence kills 103
    47 2 VIENNA. Tue.v— Prague radio last night said that 103 people were killed and 83 injured in the train crash at Sakvice. Czechoslovakia on I Christmas Eve. The Ministry of the interior Mid the accident was due to serious negligence by railway I workers.— Reuter.
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    Probe demanded
    28 2 WASHINGTON, Tues. The State Department has been asked to Investigate reports that the Italian Government plans to expel eight American Protestant missionaries on January 1. A.P.
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    New air record
    48 2 LISBON, Tues— A Panair airliner, making the first nonstop crossing of the South Atlantic by a commercial plane, landed at Lisbon last night after setting up a record for the flight from Brazil to Portugal. It was in the air 13 hours 11 minutes. A.P.
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    IKE MOVES TO BAR RAIL HALT
    128 2 IKE MOVES TO BAR RAIL HALT NEW YORK. Tues. PRESIDENT Eisenhower today set up an emergency board to stave off a threatened strike of more than one million non-operating employees against the nations railroads. He signed an executive order aimed at halting or at least delaying a threatened work stoppage
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    REDS KILL MAN, PIN PAMPHLETS TO HIM
    103 2 SEREMBAN. T I s r'O uniformed terrorists. yesterday snrpkod ou* I from bushes and shot a krpala. Lee Chu. in the Jungle three rr.ilrs from Sorting Poltcr Post, in the Kual:i Pilah district of N«-gri Scmbilan. Later thry pinnrd Commu-i nist pamphlets to
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    711 are killed
    29 2 NEW YORK. Tues.—Christmas holiday accidens in the United States cost 711 lives between Thursday evening and midnight on Sunday, accotding to the final list completed yesterday.—Reuter.
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    JAP-MADE CAMERA COSTS NINE CENTS
    130 2 NEW YORK, Tuesday. A JAPAN-MADE camera that sells for nine U.S. cents is being offered as an advertising novelty. Box-shaped and made of four pieces of cardboard and some black paper, the camera, when opened out. is only about the size of two cigarette packets.
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    Royal wedding
    31 2 BOURG-EN-BRESSE. France. Tues.— The Royal families of Austria-Hungary and Italy were linked yesterday by the marriage of Archduke Robert of Hapsburg and Princess Mar. guerite of Savoy -Aosta.— A.P.
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    Strike call
    31 2 PARIS. Tues.- -The unions responsible for the strike oi key post office workers which disorganised France's Christmas mail, last night sought to bring out all post office workers. Reuter.
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    Comet four hours late in Singapore
    89 2 Comet four hours late in Singapore ASINGAPORE-bound Comet airliner had to return to Bangkok when half-way here yesterday, owing to a radio break with Kallang airport. Captain Hugh Birch. QANTAS manager in Singapore, said: "For some reason, probably sun-spots, the captain of the aircraft was able to speak tv Singapore,
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    Baghdad talks
    21 2 BAGHDAD. Tues.— Delegates of all Arab states will attrnd a regional economic conference in Baghdad next March.— A. P.
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    AFTER A YEAR —$75
    42 2 AFTER A YEAR $75 KUALA LUMPIR. Tues. Tbe Federation or Malay Students Organisation* welfare fund drive, started early this year, received no support from Malay leaders, and high officials. Only $75 was collected this year, says the annual report of the federation.
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    DRASTIC ACTION WON'T BE OUR FAULT—STC MEN
    277 2 DRASTIC ACTION WON'T BE OUR FAULT— STC MEN 'Company has ignored demands 9 "THE Singapore Traction Company Employees' Union will hold a committee meeting on Jan. 5 to consider the company's reaction to its demand for better working conditions for 1,800 drivers, conductors, inspectors and mechanics. The union's sevet>-point memorandum
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    Janet fined £50 for her illegal meeting
    262 2 SHE 'DELIBERATELY FLOUTED LAW GEORGETOWN, British Guiana, Tuesday. MRS. JANET JAGAN, wife of the deposed Prime Minister of British Guiana, was yesterday fined £50 or three months' gaol for infringing the Emergency regulations by holding a meeting without police permission earlier this month.
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    B.B.C. men return from Sydney
    83 2 B.B.C. men return from Sydney FIVE 8.8.C., men who helped in Sydney to produce. "The Queen's Journey." th* Christmas Day broadcast, pa. .yd through Singapore )>y QANTAS/BOAC yesterday or. tlmr way back to London They were; Mr. Lawrence Gillian head of the Features Department. Mr. Alan Burgess, writer. Mr. Charles
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    Clark chosen
    33 2 NEW YORK, Tues The American Heart Association has chosen Gen. Mark W. Clark to be chairman of the 1954 Heart Fund to raise money for research and aid for i-ufferers.— A.P.
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    Red leader begs for mercy
    114 2 PENANG, Tues. 4 BANDIT leader, captured by security forces in the Bukit Tambun area of Province Wellesley, went down on his knees and begged mercy of his captors. He was one of two terrorist > captured after a gun battle. His capture is regarded as
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    Russia to free two
    74 2 WASHINGTON. Tue.v The State Department yesterday said that the Soviet Government had promised to release two Americans held by them for several years, but had not yet stated where or when the men would be set free. Private Homer Cox disappeared in September 1949. while serving
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    Indian Minister passing through
    44 2 Mr. Chintaman Deshmukh, the Indian Finance Minister will arrive in Singapore on January 4 on his way to Sydney to attend the Commonwealth Finance Ministers' conference starting January 8. Mr. Deshmukh will the night here and leave the following morning.
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    U.S. steps up information '
    31 2 U.S. steps up information WASHINGTON. Tues.— Th« United States Information Agency plans to intensify its operations in South East A^ia by Increasing broadcasts, pamphlets and posters, it wr**> announced today— Reuter
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    Plane in sea
    27 2 ATHENS. Tues.— A British navy fighter plane was found yesterday off the Island of Hydra in the Aecean Sea. No bodies were recovered.— Reuter
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    Queen speaks to Empire
    35 3 THE QUEEN making her Christmas l>ay speech to the 1 mpin- from Au< kland, Ne w Zealand.' Her .Majesty expressed sympathy with relatives of the railway disaster. A. P. radio picture.
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    Mau Mau threaten to raid city on New Year's Day
    282 3 NAIROBI, Tuesday. MAU MAU terrorists have threatened a raid in the Nairobi area on New Year's Day. The threat was in typewritten letters purporting to be signed by four Mail Mau "Generals" which were found in Kijabe trading centre, 60
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    REVOLVER FOR SHERIFF IKE
    38 3 PRESIDENT EISENHOWi R rvaminrs a spnially nade .38 revolver i;iven to him by the National Sheriffs" Ah*riati.m in case he should her 4-alied on for posse service us an honorary deputy sheriff. A.P. picture
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    AIRMAIL LETTERS IN 1793
    109 3 VIENNA. Tue.-. AUSTRIA claims to have the worlds oldr.st airmail letters. The letter.', datinc back to 1793. were recently discovered In the Austrian war archive* In Vienna. According to officials. the letters bear the inscription "par un balloon." They fell lr.to the hands of Austrian! besieging
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    Rods free two
    59 3 BERLIN. Tues —Two US. nationals were released by tnr Soviet authorities at Karlshort. East Berlin, today to th>I) S army. They were Ptr Homer H. Cox. S3. who disappeared whiic serving as a military policeman in Wost Berlin, and Mr. Loland Towers. 29. last heard of in
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    Unions to meet
    27 3 M f) B C O w. Tues —The eleventh Congress of Ruuiati trarir unions will oc held in Moscow on May 25. 1954— A.P.
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    DAMAGED CARRIER: MAN HELD
    114 3 DAMAGED CARRIER: MAN HELD on two charges DEVONPORT. England. Tues. BRITISH naval police here today detained a stoker mechanic aboard the light I fleet carrier Warrior following the discovery of smashed gauges In the engine-room on I Christmas Day. Other members of the crew 1 held aboard for questioning. are
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    US aids HK fire victims
    56 3 NEW YORK. Tues. The National Council of churches is speeding relief supplies to victims of Hong Kong's Christmas Day fire. Dr Wynn C. Fairneld. head of the councils overseas relief programme, yesterday ordered distribution of approx;Tiatr'.y 65 tons of clothing and 100 tons of dried
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    Rail link planned
    43 3 LONDON. Tues.— A regular direct railway service between Moscow and Peking will begin in January, Moscow Radio said yesterday. The first train to make the 3.000-mile journey air-condi-tioned and equipped with vacuum cleaners is .standing ready in Moscow station. Reuter.
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    Royal honours
    32 3 AUCKLAND. Tues. The Quoen tonight hold an inves- Uture in the Town Hall here at which she bestowed on 60 mm and wome n the insignia of their honours. -Reuter
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    Red production
    29 3 MOSCOW. Tu.s. -A Pravda editorial entitled Year of New Victories" said yesterday that Soviet industrial production in 1953 wai 250 per cent above that of 1940. A.P.
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    New pact wanted
    41 3 LONDON. Tues,— Afghanistan has asked Britain for a revision of the 1921 Anglo-Afghanistan treaty, it was officially stated here. The treaty concerned Alshanistan's frontiers with what was then British India. These frontiers are now shared with Pakistan. Reuter.
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    New skipper for 'Queen' liner
    40 3 SOUTHAMPTON, TU c s.~ Capt. C. Ivan Thompson brought the 81,000-ton Queen Mary into port here last night for the last time. On Friday he joins the Queen Mary's 83.000-ton sistership, the Queen Elizabeth. Reuter.
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    Britain bans delegates
    42 3 LONDON. Tues— The British Government has banned the entry of all foreign delegates to a teachers' "conference for peace' 1 which opens here today. Four have already been turned back— two from West Germany and two from France.— Reuter.
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    Italian company loses oil claim
    171 3 ROME. Tuesday. ACOI'RT here yesterday rejected an Italian petrol company's demand for damages against the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company over the company claim that it had exclusive rights to Persian oil. m^.^^^^ —m The company, Italpetroli brought the suit against AngloIranian in October, 1952, asking the
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    Barbara Hutton to marry again
    169 3 CIUDAD TRUJILI-O. Dominican Republic. Turn ■THE DOMINICAN Republic's Foreign Office last night nairi that Porftrio Rubtrora would many Woolwortii heiress Barbara Hutton m the Dominican Consulate-General In Nou York. The wedding would be sponsored by a high Dominican diplomatic and military official who would go
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    London sports editor dies
    35 3 LONDON. Tue.s. Mr. Oliver Beaumont, .sports editor of The Times, died in haspital here yesterday, aged 47. He was the son of Sir John Beaumont, former Chief Justice of Bombay— Reuter.
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    34 pardoned
    37 3 ROME. Tues. The Soviet Ambassador, Mr. Mikhail Kostylov, last nipht told the Italian Oovernment that 34 Italians sentenced to prison terms in Russia since the war had been pardoned and would soon return home.— Reuter.
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    G.I. BRIDE HOME FOR HOLIDAYS
    35 3 WEARING a Kobin Hood hat. Mrs. Joyce Long, a G.I. bride from Washington, arrives in Britain to spend Christmas and the New Year with her mother in London. Reuter picture.
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    Detective with a new idea
    86 3 LONDON. Tues. A' YOUNG detective sergeant at Scotland Yard believes he has developed a new method of identification particularly for the remains of murder victims. He Is detective sergeant George Williams, a former medical student. Experts in Scotland Yard's laboratory are studying a 5,000--word thesN
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    Moscow visitors
    25 3 MOSCOW, Tues. Seven American college editors, the second group to tour Russia it: three months, flew in las; night for three weeks. Reuter.
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    Abbey services
    21 3 LONDON, Tues. —Founders' Day services were held yesterday in Westminster Abbey to mark the first dedication in 1065. Reuter.
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    The cost of putting in that ad.
    75 3 The cost of putting in that ad. NEW YORK. Tues. MAGAZINE advertising In big business in America The illustrated weekly L:facccptod 100 million dollar.' US. in advertising for thu first 11 months of this year. Another picture magazine. Look carried U551,543,000 in advertising in a recent issue. The Publishers' Information
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    Magsaysay takes over
    54 3 MANILA. Tues— Reinforced police battalions today prepared to handle the half-mil-lion persons expected to see Gen. Ramon Magsaysay sworn in tomorrow as President of the Philippines. Gen. Mag.saysay. blacksmiths son who won fame fightinc the Communist-led Huk rebels, will be escorted to the ceremony by the outgoing
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    Envoy dies in his bath
    40 3 NEW DELHI. Tue.s. -The Nepal ambassador to India. Lt.-Gcn. Bijaya Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana, 39. was accidentally electrocuted today. He touched a switch while taking a bath in wafer heated by an electric heater.— A.P.
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    GOLD SMUGGLER IS SENT TO PRISON
    110 3 GOLD SMUGGLER IS SENT TO PRISON MANILA, Tues. WILLIAM KKNKST JOLIKFE,' 37-year-old China-born Canadian businessman was found guilty of attempted gold bullion smuggling to- day and sentenced to a year's gaol and fined > rsfi.noo. The Judge confiscated the Tour pieces of gold bullion worth U5535,000 found in i JolifTe's
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    LONDON STOCKS
    220 3 LONDON. Tues. Closing prices of selected stocks were LOANS Consols 6374 Funding 4% 101 War 3V*% 84% BANKS Mercantile <£12V4) 24 Hongkong ($125) 95 Eastern (15) 7Vi Chartered ill) 41/6 INSURANCE Com. Un. (uts.) 12 i Royal 12* Prudential 37>* +V» RAILS Can. Pacific (£5) 41 —1 INDUSTRIALS
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    LONDON TIN
    28 3 LONDON. Dec. 29. Cash Buyers £657..; Sellers £660; Forward Buyers £635; Sellers C 637',.; Settlement t6sfl (up <C 5). Turnover a.m. 5 tons; p.m. 20 tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    34 3 LONDON. Dec. 29—Spot 17'td., Feb. 17',d. Mar. l"'id.. Apr-June 17 -d July-Sept. 17' d.. Oct.-Dec 17'2d.. Jan", ri f. 17 1.16 d.. Feb. r.1.1. 17 1/160.. Mar. c.i.f. 17',d. Tone: Quietly steady.
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    Sinatras in same plane
    68 3 MADRID, Tues— Crooner Frank Sinatra and his actress wife, Ava Gardner, who have been estranged, left together by plane for Rome last night after spending Christmas vuth friends in Madrid. Sinatra was reported to have come to Europe to try to patch up his marriage. Ava
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    Most at work
    40 3 PARIS, Tues. The average number of unemployed in France this year was only 270.000 or 1.5 per cent of the working population, according to a report issued hf-re today I b.v the National Institute of Statistics..— Reuter.
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      Equipment 1953 but firemen living in 1892 quarters
      323 4 Equipment 1953 but firemen living in 1892 quarters KI'ALA LUMPI'R, Tuesday. RUALA LUMPUR'S fire brigade hag the latest in equipment The municipality has in the p;isi two yean spent $2.")( to get modern. vehicles from Britain. Rut the firemen themselves are living in outmoded quarters. At tho last meeting of
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      BACHELORS' HOME-AN OLD HAY-LOFT
      107 4 IHESE TWO pictures show the conditions under which firemen are living at the Kuala Lumpur Central Fire Station. The "room" in the picture above where three bachelors live used to be a hay-loft. Note the roof which nearly touches the floor on the right. fireman Hussein
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      Phone link to Europe improves
      51 4 rjiWENTY-nine Christmas X radio-phonr calls were put through from Singapore I to Europe yesterday. With conditions improving. n further 29 will be dealt with today. All yesterday's calls mainly to Britain. Holland and Ireland were reasonably clear. Mast distant call: «.500 miles from Singapore to
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      Thief caught in the act
      60 4 While travelling in t bus along New Bridgi Road Singapore, on September 1. a police- I ir.;in saw a man stealing a pen and arrested him Yesterday Woo Ah Soo sentenced to four months' u:u>l for stealing the p< n from the pocket of Yu
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      Journalist for Hong Kong
      44 4 Mr. Ang Glm Tong. a SinsUpore journalLst, will leave for Hong Kong in a few days to attend a trade fair organised by the Chinese Manufacturers' Union. The trade fair opened on December 14. It will continue until January 12.
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      RUBBER DEALER MURDERED
      143 4 $15,000 missing from safe morning his son knocked and got no reply. He found the back door open. His father was lying in a pool of blood and the safe door was open. SEREMBAN. Tuesday. TAN JIT NAH. alias Tan Van. 65, a rubber dealer in 1
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      Promoted
      21 4 Mr M. N Oxford, Director of Civil Aviation for the Federation, has been appointed acting Director-General for the Malaya-Borneo region.
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      His new post
      33 4 Mr. Lee Slow Mong of the Colonial Administrsiive Service has been appointed Assistant Secretary. Establishment Office "B" in the Colonial Secretary's Office. Singapore in place of Mr. J. C Grimths.
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      New secretary
      24 4 Mr. H. Shaw. Singapore's acting Deputy Financial Secretjry. has been appointed actlag Financial Secretary during the absence of Mr. W C. Taylor.
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      Refused to marry girl his sister chose
      108 4 ALOR STAR. Tues AN INDIAN woman, P. Govlndama, .said in the Coroner*! Court here todsjf that her brother P. Gopal i'2O' had refused to many a girl j whom she had chosen for him. Govindama was testifying nt the inquest on Gopal who
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      Dakota had nowhere to land
      55 4 PENANG. Tues. POOR visibility over three North Malayan airports forced a Malayan Airway* Dakota to return to Kuala Lumpur yesterday eveningThe plane, carrying 10 passeneers from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, was unable to land at Ipoh. Alor Star or Penang. It made another trip to
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      First blank day
      19 4 PENANG. Tues. For the first day this year, no crime was reported in the settlement yesterday.
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      THE LONE WALKER DIES, 80
      171 4 A J.P. for 30 years KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. ALONE familiar figure who had walked along Bafu Road. Kuala Lumpur, daily for years died at his home in Batu Lane last night, aged 80. He was Mr. San Ah Wing, a prominent businessman and a former
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      His eighth conviction
      41 4 Chong Suit was gaoled for a year in Singapore yesterday, to be followed by two years' police supervision, for theft. He had seven previous convictions. Chong stole a pen from a house in Java Road on November 15.
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      Special meeting
      21 4 Linn Li Benevolent Association, Singapore, will hold special general meeting at 4. Borneo Road at 7.30 p.m. on Monday.
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      $250 fine
      14 4 Chua Kirn Cheng was flnci $250 in Singapore yesterday for dangerous driving.
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      AMY AND JOHN ARE HOME
      101 4 MR. AND MRS. JOHN EDE returned to Singapore yesterday on the Boissevain after a two-month honeymoon on a round trip to Japan. Mrs. Ede was formerly Miss Amy Laycock, Singapore City Councillor. "We had a lovely trip but we are very glad to be back
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      RENDEL HEARING IN MID-JAN
      95 4 RENDEL HEARING IN MID-JAN Unions ask for extension T<HE nrst public hearing of evidence by the Rendel Commission, arranged for today, has been postponed to midJanuary, the secretary of the commission, Mr. J. D. Higham. said yesterday. Representatives of four Government employees' unions, called to appear before the commission today,
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      Extortion bid man gaoled
      59 4 For attempting to extort $10 from a man by threatening to beat him up. Teo Ken Teck was sentenced to three months' gaol in Singapore yesterday. The Fourth District Court was told that Teo attempted to extort the money from Tan Chua at a coffee shop
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      Short holiday
      19 4 Mr. S. S. Gill. Assistant Registrar. Supreme Court. Perak, Ipoh. is spending a short holiday in Singapore.
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      272 4 SINGAPORE DIARY Police Band: Public performance. Publi<- Relations Mobile Film I Y.M.C.A.: Free educational film King George V Park. 5.30 Dm. to Unit's free show*. Kampong Sungei *ho», Orchard Road. 8 p.m. 8 30 pm Tengah, off 8'i milestone. Pongeol S'pore Council For Adult Eduraa-— h Mr e«,i.i.. Anmi.l Rond
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    CROMWELL PLANS A ROCKET SHIP TO TAKE HIM TO THE MOON
    283 5 CROMWELL PLANS A ROCKET SHIP TO TAKE HIM TO THE MOON CROMWELL IN Singapore today a 26-year-old Chinese clerk, son of a former millionaire in China, is working on his theory of de-signing a rocket ship for v flight to the Moon. Hp believi.s men will tnivci there within the
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    VISITOR THROWN INTO SEA
    125 5 VISITOR THROWN INTO SEA after robbery Port dickson. Tmm. AJS-VKAK-OI.I) hinese. who came here from Bukit Pdandok for .i ItoxiiiK I>a>' cinema show. was. thrown into the Ha liy two men after they had robbed him of $50 and an identity card. He was walking along the sea wall behind
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    Dance to usher in New Year
    34 5 TAIPING. Tues.— The Chinese Recreation Club will usher in the Nrw Year with a dance which will start at 8.30 p.m. on Thursday. Churches will hold Watchnight Services.
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    He feared furnaces after burning accident, coroner is told
    319 5 METALLURGIST'S ROOM SMELT OF CYANIDE MAN who had been badly burned at the Pulau I Brani Smelting Works had had a fear of furnaces ever since, the Singapore Coroner, Mr. R. B. I. Pates, was told at an inquest yesterday. He
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    Silver box missing
    33 5 A European, who gave a party on Christmas Day at a hotel in Pasir Ris. Singapore lost a large silver cigarette box. He reported the loss to the police yesterday
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    It's a matter of allowing women the last word
    220 5 It's a matter of allowing women the last word SINGAPORE husbands are cagey about Mrs. Robert Eu's view that women are better fitted to govern than men. Caeipst of all was Mr Robert Ku. .Mrs. I ii. a Singapore City Councillor, said that because women were more honest and conscientious
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    THEY WANT COUNCIL TO SPEAK FOR ALL
    126 5 rE Singapore Federation of Unions of Government Employees has asked the Government to set up a single staff council, repre- 1 senting all Government offlMrs, for negotiations. The present Whitley Council for negotiations is only for officers la divisions three and i four.
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    Tea imports
    19 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Federation imported $553.--702 worth of tea in November ■gainst $607,536 worth in October.
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    UNIONS ASK GOVT: SAY WHO CAN GO INTO POLITICS
    164 5 UNIONS ASK GOVT: SAY WHO CAN GO INTO POLITICS Call for three officer classes "THE Singapore Government has been asked by the representatives of its employees' unions to divide the entire corps of officers into categories and assess their freedom to take part in politics. A spokesman for the Singapore
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    Caught with opium after car chase COURT TOLD
    101 5 Caught with opium after car chase COURT TOLD PENANG. Til PENANG, Tues. SENIOR Customs Officer, Mr. A. G. Robertson, said in the Sessions Court today that he stopped a car after trailing it for about 10 miles and found about 25 katls of prepared opium in a secret compartment under
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    Acquitted
    33 5 Ong Ec Liang and Lim Enp Choo were yesterday acquitted in Singapore of stealing a wrist watch worth $130 belon >- ing to J Lewis at George Btrwt Power Station on August 8.
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    Man who brought 13 to dinner is gaoled
    198 5 •SCOUTMASTER' GETS 4 MONTHS BUTTERWORTH, Tuesday. ABDUL Rahim bin Ismail, 29. a self-styled "Scout- master" who took 13 Scouts for a dinner at Meera Restaurant and then disappeared, was today sentenced here to four months' gaol for cheating. A year's police supervision
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    LOAN TERMS ACCEPTED BY COUNCIL
    83 5 LOAN TERMS ACCEPTED BY COUNCIL PENANG. Tues.— The Municipal Council has accepted the terms of the proposed $500,000 loan from the Federal Housing Trust. But the Settlement Government is still considering the question of a guarantee as soimht by the trust. The loan Is intended to fin- ance a second
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    DEATH
    43 6 19 pa sod away peacefully <m 2« l^ .x.\ <t jnR. PnutkeJ Est»te ofl Jtlnn Nun leavtng behind her son. H. W. Wlndratri daugbtcr. Uml grandchildren and 31 rrent grandchildren to mourn her toes, Funeral I R.C (>mcter\ BMadarl al I BJB.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    100 6 IU IL.irf. </» imtnimum) MR A MRS Hoii! Oan Boon Kx. ihank .'II lelmivrs and friends their attendance, best and presents on their rernv marriage. mm A; mhs. Peter Chuan thank relatives :md friends fnr Hieii \iiii.ib;e preaents, vood wisiios and attendance ;it Uieir ttodriinc »n 28 12 S3.
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    IN MEMORIAM
    18 6 7» H.,rW« Silt i minimum i IN t OVtNO iirmi Ter r -io. bUI not 1
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    88 6 \y} cea of rntora ft Air Conditioners. Bill Manning >ibrut it. At CHKRRT BIQSSOM Time In is April. Brxik Nov let Service plan your trip p tut Phono IMS 9. THE SECOND Annual (ionerail Meeting 'he Singapore Children« will tie hold at the British < ill, Stamford Road, at
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      The Campaign In Laos
      768 6 The Campaign In Laos There is still no clear picture of events m Laos, where the Vietminh forces have cut their way across the neck of IndoChina to the Mekong river ;uid the Siamese frontier This does not mean that the thrust remains a mystery to the French command, or
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      America And Indies Tin
      304 6 America And Indies Tin The State Department ,md the R F.C. in Washington arc at loggerheads again, this time on the question of Indonesian tin. America has a three year contract for 20.000 tons a year, the price to be fixed annually. For the last two years Indonesia has been
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      Cost Of Living
      218 6 The trade union complaint 'hat the Federation Govern- ment's cost of living indices are based on an antiquated formula 1 is not new. The Government it^'lf has admitted at various times the difficulties of computing the several indices, the Member for Economic A flairs tfoing so far
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    100-TON LIMIT
    44 6 rE informal inn accompanying that splendid picture of the new vessel Soo n Bee that Malay captain s in thf local trade are restricted to f 100-ton nett limit, prompt one to ask, just why are the) handicapped so? FAIR PLAY. Singapore.
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    The 'floating voters'
    141 6 IN his memorandum to the M. Rendel Commission. Dato Sir Chenc-lock Tan suggested, among other things, that there .should be compulsory registration of eligible voters in Singapore. He also recommended llbera- Using the basis of citizenship to extend eligibility to vote. t These steps obviously aim at
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    PECULIARITIES OF PROVIDENT FUND
    411 6 MAY I draw attention to the great loss of time occasioned by the superfluous rule& of the Employers Provident Fund The initial registration la an exhaustive affair requiring the completion of three separate forms; this la desirable as it .should save confusion and repetition later. However,
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      I MET DR. LIAND HE WAS NO FAKE
      298 6 I WAS highly amused by the comments of a South Bridge doctor in connection with the story of the '"bogus doctor" appearing in your paper. This doctor was reported to have said "I know him as a fake and that was why
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      Views of majority?
      247 6 IT is always convenient 't for a headquarters to i i make statements to the Press under the party's name, but are such views really those of the majority of members? In a statement by M.C.A. headquarters, Mr. Chin was accused of not having the courage to
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    IT'S MUSIC, MUSIC. MUSIC
    175 6 I THINK it is high time for Radio Malaya to reorganise its Malay section. Out of an average of etghi hours a day programme in the week, now.; oreupie.s half-an-hour daily, with perhaps another half-an-hour on HUM talks. There are also itortai and plays hut for
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    CONGESTION AT LIGHTS
    159 6 UL7HILE no-one can deny that TT immense improvement ha3een brought about In Singapore road traffic under If] 'V R. M. Haxworth. I think that »ome of his more recent improvements require criticism Traffic lights are now st numerous In the centre of the rlty that th.y arc
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    Says OH. BRANDON
    184 6 the United States tn participate In some training courses. But now the scope of the whole idea has beon wideened. President Eisenhower spoke, somewhat symbolically, of an atom bank. This institution, which is to be set up under I'nited Nations sponsorship, would not only be the repository
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    Experts back the Ike A-bank
    641 6 Experts back the Ike A-bank ON the surface the Eisenhower A-plan seems to be very complicated, perhaps somewhat Vtopian. But the experts as- sure me that it is not; that it is practical: that in fact it could be started tomorrow if the I'nited States were to organise it outside
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    On the
    502 6 I Beadle's word A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep or touch not the Pierian spring. There ihallOW draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers :is again. How often have I thought of thosp lines by Alexander Pope when I ran up aRS^H-st orid tail
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    GAMBLING ON PIN TABLES? A SURPRISE TO US, SAY IMPORTERS
    212 7 GAMBLING ON PIN TABLES? A SURPRISE TO US, SAY IMPORTERS Court ruling prompt! million-dollar industry to warn off betting pIN tables continue to be an attraction in hundreds of coffee shops in Singapore, al- j though*! magistrate ruled last week Mat a pin table is an instrument for framing. A
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    BEDS AREN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR THE GLOBE-TROTTERS
    124 7 IT IS A PROBLEM to find j beds to suit the Harlem Globe-Trotters who arrived in Singapore yesterday. Every player is mare than six feel tall. The averagf being 6ft. tin. Tallest member of this j world famous basketball Kirn is Lea Garner,
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    Father dies after sons leave home
    121 7 A JOBLESS man was found groaning outside hi.s room with .stab wounds In the and abdomen an hour after his aons had left him. it v. .us .said nt an Inquest in Singapore yesterday. The coroner funnel that Cheong Choy, aged 4C. had committed
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    CYCLIST DIES AFTER HIT RUN CRASH
    60 7 CYCLIST DIES AFTER HIT RUN CRASH An IR-year-01l cyclist, Aykop bin Hajl Samad. who collected with a motor vehicle ;n P i! Panjang Road. Sincapore. ion Sunday nicht'. died In the hospital yesterday morning. Aykop. a mechanic, hia way home near the s'< milestone when the collision I recurred n
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    Thief cuts himself
    44 7 A Chinese family returned to their flat In Re'dhill Road. Singapore at 12 15 am yesterday to find bloodstains on the floor. A window pane wa,s broken and S3O wa.s missing. The thief had cut him.self forcing down the gla.ss pane.
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    Perlis to have 15 holidays
    73 7 Public holidays in Perlis I next year are: Jan. 2; Feb. 1. Federation Day; Feb. 3 and 4. Chinese New Year; April 18. Easter Sunday; June 2 and 3. Hari Raya Pu.->--sa; June 10. Queen's Birthday: Aug. 9 and 10. Had Raya Haii; 29. First
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    TIME FOR MASS WEDDINGS
    66 7 TIME FOR MASS WEDDINGS —gays UMNO Youth KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. THE Johore Bahru branch of the United Malays National Organisation Youth League plans to start mas s marriages among Malays. This would not only save unnecessary expense and time but also simplify ceremony, a spokesman said today. It wi'i prooably
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    Thanks for all those dollars, Malaya
    304 7 BIG HELP TO COMMONWEALTH MALAYAN-EARNED dollars which had been contributed to the Commonwealth's central reserve and Malayan economy in dollar expenditure had helped materially towards the improved Commonwealth financial position, said Sir Frank Lee. Permanent Secretary of the British Board of Trade, speaking yesterday
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    $170 stolen
    16 7 A house In Jalan KeJ _i|Hijr. \> ;i5 broken Into Monday n'.sh' and $170 stolen.
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    MORE COMPLAINTS ON EDUCATION
    164 7 Standard V boys told to leave KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. More complaints about the education "scandal" were received by Selangor Parents' Association today. The association was told that all Standard V boys ot a certain school were asked to leave. A letter from a M.r.nv grandmother said:
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    Fishermen in row with financiers
    77 7 Fishermen in row with financiers Xl \l.\ LUMPUR, Tan. h-mii FEDERATION I ilx.nr J. Department viid today that I <><11l fishermen it Panukm Pci ,ik. recently ui'iil on strike because the Im. mcicrs proposed to t-ut %2 for cver> piclil of fisll in imii; lit in. Thr Labour Department v.is
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    U.K. TRADE BOSS IN S'PORE
    63 7 Mi: KKANK IMM, Permanent Secretary of the British Board of Trade (left). Mr. \V. <;oode. the Colonial Secretary and .Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. deputy President of the* Singapore Legislative Council, (right), seen at yesterday's recep- tion for Sir Frank given by Mr. K B. Mackenzie.
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    Two fires in half hour at one house
    70 7 TWO tirt-s broke out in half an hour at a hou.se in Bukit Timah Road Singapore. last night. Neither outbreak I caused serious damage. First, at 7.15 p.m., a bed caught lire, but the occupants put it out before the arrival ot
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    TOO COSTLYTO RUN MINE THIS WAY
    162 7 'Pok-chou' system loses favour KUAI THE "pok-chou" System mines -under which o\ the profits is losing favoi The reason, according to the Federation Labour Department: owners are finding the system too costly. It ensures them a steady Income but runs down the mine too
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    General io speak on the Army
    55 7 KUAjLA LUMPUR, Tut C.— I The G.OC Malaya Lieut General Sir Hugh Stock.\ell, will speak to the public at the Town Hall here next Tuesday at V pm. on 'The Army in Malaya". General Stockwell lecttiNd on the same subject dvnng the extended civics
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    Visits Hong Kong
    24 7 Mr. A H. Simpson, Deputy Public Prosecutor. Singapore has left for Hong Kong on •horl holiday with his wife and daughter.
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    Mask maker in S'pore
    71 7 A man whose firm made I Jo million gas-masks for the Allies in World War 11. fle w into Singapore with his wife, last night <>n a holiday-cum-busi-ncs.s tour. Hi is Mr J. Redman. Man-aKing-Directo r of Messrs J E. Baxter Ltd. Mr Redman will stay
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    Slump? It was a record Christmas for spending
    201 7 Slump? It was a record Christmas for spending THERE wa* record spending over Christmas in the Federation and Singapore Food sales at most restaurants wer F up on last year There was a heavy demand lor wines, whisky. brandy and beer althtugh outdoor parties and festivities were rather reduced Bookings
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    3,315 sign on for jobs
    45 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The majority of people registered at the Kuala Lumpur and Penang employment exI changes during November we:< unskilled workers. Of 3.315 who sought joos 1,113 were unskilled workers. Craftsmen and transport workers totalled 383 and 3"!_ respectively.
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    Society admits new member
    32 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues i Mr. V. T. M. Koruth of Kua.r Lumpur has passed his fln* examination and been ad- milled to the Australian So fifty of Accountants.
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    Car abandoned in road
    53 7 PORT DICKSON. Tues. Police here are tryins to trace the owner of a new car which was abandoned with its icnition key late on Saturday night. The car was discovered near Kirn Ban Huat Sawmill, 1 2 mile mark, on the Seremban Road. It is in
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    POLICEMEN TO TRAIN IN U.K.
    97 7 MM police 1 1 Hi (tin three from Singapore. ill, others from the Federation, yesterday left lor Britain 1.. m" mx months learning how the British police wotk. Some will 1 111. 1 1 it at Ityton-on-Diiiimiioi i- i'iilui Caafegr, while others will attend a
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    Boys steal tobacco
    43 7 Three boys ran off with three tins of pipe tobacco trom a shop in Arab Street, Singapore, on Monday night. They ran while the shopkeeper went to another counter io show them a different brand. Police later detained three boys.
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    Club draw
    44 7 Results of the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club rlrKVvare: 1. No.. ***** iSkoria coupe i 2. No. ***** i refrigerator): 3, No. ***** (Cyelemaster); 4. No. ***** (hot pla'e cooker i 5. No ***** <wris'watch); 6. No ***** iwri.stwntchi; 7th. No. ***** Uablefain.
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    CITY ARCHITECT TOO VAGUE FOR THE MAGISTRATE
    291 7 He calls for expert opinion T*HE CMty Police Magistrate, Mr. .1. M. Devereux- Colebourn. yesterday withhold a closing order in respect of two houses in Prinscp Street, pending expert opinion, because ho considered the evidence 'of the Acting City Architect and Building Surveyor.
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    Tax returns late: $1,000
    56 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tie* ;Anc Sin Hwa. manacinc partner of a rubber firm, was today fined >I.oofl jy Incr.f Ismail. Kuala Lumpur Flrat Macistrate. for failinc to tubnil income tax returns within the required period. Pleadinp cuilty. he .said th.c owinc to pressure of work he had
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    Dogs will be able to travel again
    135 7 Dogs will be able to travel again ALL BANS TO GO KI'ALA LUMPUR. Tues THE Veterinary Department plans to lift all restrict ions on the movement of doe* in the F'edcratTon by the end 01 officially stated here today. Thia will follow the "knockv the department hopes to _ne to
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    The weather
    171 7 2.Mm. OF RAIN IN KOTA BAHRL .Minimum Trmprralurr (7 3(1 pm 21 "> 730? m. on Der sti ■iinsarvire 7.S dr:!ff> Ffnan; 73 :<nfr> R.i'-.pi 75. Kuala Lumpur 74 Ir^h TJ Knan'an 73. Maximwi Trmp^rntur* 1 i 7 in a m 10 n*n on iv. Jfli Singapore Rk
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    Bandits killed near K.L.
    70 7 KUALA LUMPUR T.m--Two Communist terronsu- man and a worn.in crt killed on Sunday by an Army patrol in the Sutisei Besi £:ea, less than 10 miles from lieie A night patrol of the Ist Somerset Light Infantry, killed thorn in the Kamponc Ptnag^ area. The terrorist*
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    THEIR POINT OF NO RETURN
    69 8 11.011.l livinu in tVec Nam Kurt Singapore have been "hottlrd up" by City Council workmen la>in c mwm mains It is a cul-de-.sa t and residents of the part between the dead-end and the srene of the workmen's operations are stranded for days on end.
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    Fireman charged with theft during cabaret blaze
    230 8 SAW HIS HANDS IN SAFE— OFFICER A FIREMAN, Dehan bin Hassan, claimed trial in a 1 Singapore court yesterday to a charge of stealing 5467 early on Aug. 14, when he was fighting a blaze at the Air View Cabaret. Fire Officer W.
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    'Stop being slaves' call to bandits
    87 8 ALOR STAR, Tues. rpiIRKE hundred thouA sand leaflets are being dropped over north Kedah jungles in a bid to get bandits to surrender. "Your leaders sit back and drive you around like slaves," the leaflets say. "Surrender now and be free from fear and
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    Course for 125 ends with forum
    99 8 Course for 125 ends with forum rpHE FOUR-DAY extra-mural I course, which 125 men and women fmm Sinsapore and the Federation are attending at the University of Malaya, ends tonight with an i open forum. Last night the ".students" and members of the university staff were guests at a buffet
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    Woman robbed
    33 8 A Chinese woman employed !at the Britannia Club. Singapore, was waylaid by a cyclust in Bain Street at 12 30 am yesterday and robbed of a I wristwatch and $27 I
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    Negligent: $50
    36 8 I Teo Bee, a lorry driver, wns I fined $50 in Singapore ye.ster- day at the First Traffic Court for negligent driving resultina i In a collision with another .^ar I at Alexandra Road
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    LIM PAGODA WILL BE READY NEXT MONTH
    183 8 Hold up in Hong Kong bronze THE $50,000 PAGODA, being erected in the Esplanade opposite the Singapore Cricket Club in commemoration of Major-General Lim Bo Seng, martyred Chinese hero of the Japanese occupation, will be completed by next month. The reinforced concrete i
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    Mothers urged: Use the health centres
    170 8 MRS. GOODE OPENS No. 12 MRS. W. A. C. Goode. wife of the Colonial Secretary, yesterday urged residents in the Serangoon area of Singapore to make use of health centres provided by the Rural Board. rhis. she told mothers. Anuid ensure not only their
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    Poppy appeal nets $96,934
    30 8 i Singapore Poppy Day App.-.il for the Earl Haig Fund 'his yrar totalled $96.934— r011-n tion.s $44,692; sports $13,089 wi oaths 93.191: donations $16,795. Services $19,167.
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    Former MP here to write on Malaya i
    160 8 Former MP here to write on Malaya i \|R. Vernon Bartlett. of I'l the London News Chronicle, arrived in j Singapore by Comet yesterday to tour the Federation and gather material for a series of articles on the present situation in Malaya Mr. Bartlett, a Member of Parliament from 1938
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    RETIRING AFTER 267 YEARS OF WORK
    101 8 BIGHT I.MMI-SKKVICK ••mpl «>«•«•>. of Iho Shell Company Singapore, whosr *<»-ivi<es totallrd "!<i7 >«\»rs, \»rrr kih-Mn-hI hnnnur at a Ira-parly Riven by Mr. I). 11. Palmer, ccncral m.niacrr. All are retiring at the mil of I In- war. Picture shows Ihr hiiridiin .I rmplovp.s
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    315 found a scorching death
    2023 9 1 HE great wooden hall of Brooklyn Municipal Market, New York, resembled a scene from Dante's Inferno on the night of December 6, 1876. Stretched in rows on the floor were more than 100 burned and disfigured corpses. On the breast of each was a
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      153 9 "tyd**** J>OH Quixote deb Manda wSandwTbza T>ON (JuiJfOTj DID WOT eSCArti y. ThEm fANCnO EVEN SHOUL.D *OO 'i»D *ff 'v "^\"~~Mf^^ wss^a'med «2om his pieces on n<E atouHD it woulc> bi vecESiAt* o.^ 1 /^Br victorious encounter */m» \n> put n,£ pieces b*ck(ma^n6 c(*taih that they Jf* %£liV >^"~ T
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    TRONOH MINES LIMITED
    1689 10 COMPANY MEETING PROLONGED LACK OF PROSPECTING CAUSES CONCERN MR. J. H. RICH ON THE YEAR'S ACTIVITIES THE FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINO of Tronoh Mines, Ltd.. was held on December 18 at 73, Cheapslde, London, B.C. MR. J. H. RICH, chairman of the company presided. The following Is
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    INDUSTRIALS CONTINUE FIRM BUT TINS EASE
    502 10 I Around the markets TIN AND RUBBER RISE rIE Singapore share market had a very quiet day yesterday when the turnover in all sections was very small. Industrials remained very firm with onr or two exceptions and tin shares generally wore again fractionally easier.
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    RUBBER PRICES
    45 10 The Singapore rubber market was dull yesterday with no incentive to take on new commitments before the end of the year and January first grade closed at 57| cents a pound, one-eighth of a cent above Monday's close. Prices ranged during the day
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    WALL STREET
    135 10 NEW YORK. Tucs IJOPES the cus'omary year-mo rally dev«>lopinc dimmed as thr S'.K-k Market ye-trrrlav failed tn attract sufficient n placement buytne to extend Mat Thin i p.iitial recnvery. Wttk business nrus patchy and President Eisrr.hnwers nn coming in January the list was inclined to be lower owing
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    Produce prices
    69 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchance: Noon prices per picul were: Copra: .steady: January $39", buyers, *40', sellers; February $39 buyers. $40 sellers. Coconut oil: unchanged »62' sellers. Pepper: quiet: white unchanced: black up t5; Muntok while »330 Sarawak $325. Lamponc black tm Lewis and Peal: CloMnt: i were: Copra:
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    FINANCE TALKS IN AUSTRALIA
    119 10 THE United Kingdom delesa- tlon to the Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting at Sydney in January, will be led by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. R A. Butler. The other Ministers will be the Parliamentary Under-Sec-retary for Commonwealth R»lr.tions Mr. J. G. Foster and the Parliamentary
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    Singapore shipping
    129 10 CHIPS lying alongside the Sinca- pore Haibour Board wharves or exported today are: Caltex Singapore i-2. MMVBtai 4-5. Kyoritsu Mam Coal Plant. City of Chicago fi-7. Bra. side R-9. TectU5 11-12. Benrlnnes 13-14. Benm;ichdul 15-16. Chnndara 1718. Sunnyvllle 19-20. Rawane N Wall 6. Raj.. Brooke 23-24. Fujiliam Maru
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    Exchange rates
    43 10 On the free exrhaniiP market In Hong Kong veMfrdav I he ti S dollar was quoted at 5 782.S for cash and S 88 for T T Steilinc *M nn"" 1^ IS 3 and one tafl of gold at 2S0 37ft.
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    SINGAPORE SHARE PRICES
    318 10 THE following quotations a it those of the Malayan Sharebrokers Association (Singapore branch) revised at 4 p.m; imm HTKIAUt IIh.it.. *>rllrM A Hnrkl ZJ/t I n~o m All.is lr» I] h h p»irol .11 ■> H M I i^lrft iM M CM I in .--in. .1 i'rrf.
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    SUNGEI WAY DREDGING
    267 10 K. LUMPUR. Tiios. AT the annual meeting Of Sungei Way Drrdc-* J Ing Ltd. here today. Mr. W. M. Macleod the chairman, said that the rompany. in conjunction with other companies of the Tronoh group had voted against the introduction of a control scheme for tin. He
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      625 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS SINGAPORE Improvement Trir.t Invites applications (nr the fnllowIns posts. Cost n( 1 nine and Housing Allowance payable (at Awlst-ant Cashier (Sl!)2 $408). School Certificate essential and Bl least f. yean "fnre experience, preferahlv trw hiding cash transactions Minimum age 2K. Initial basic salary $192. pm. Total monthly emoluments
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      549 10 NOTICE CHAPTER 216 (Pawnbrokers.) I'nredersned Plodded Good* and Jewellery from the following Pawnbrokers' Shop* No. 21 New Bridge Road. Chin Chontr Pat iChop Tlive Sheng). No. 135 New Brldce Road. Lam Joon Slong (.Chop Sam Pohi. No. 189 South Brldce Road. Lam Joon Cheng (Chop Sem Thye>. No. 255 South
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      552 10 NOTICES NEW YEAR SEA SPORTS The public are hereby notified that only holders of Invitation rards will be permitted to board SS PANOKOR" during the Sea Sports to be held on Ist January. 1954. This notice is inserted at the request of the Owners, who have kindly plared the vessel
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      279 10 SHIPPING NOTICES NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD' HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE JOINT FAR EASTERN SERVICE T.S. "WERRASTEIN" Arrived 26.12.53 Oodown 1 2 Consignees of cargo ex the above vessel are advised that a General Survey will be held today. Wednesday, 30th December. 1953, at 2.15 p.m. No further survey will be held after this.
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      FORGOTTEN CITY
      837 12 FINAL INSTALMENT OF OUR THRILLING SERIAL HE'S going to get away with it." muttered V v s s o f m iscrably. "There's nothing we can do to stop him. We can't, roach the roof of the palace and we cant prevent him from taking his stuff away
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      NEW ZEALAND STAMP
      361 12 NEW ZEALAND STAMP BOY Scouts and their .m.s•f"rr.\ the Girl Guides, arc nearly alwmtfi in the neus one najj or another, cither doing good deeds or celebratuig with a Jamboree you may remember that quite re- cently there futve heen Jam- boree's in Australia, Great i Britain, and Jamaica Thr
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      CORNER RIDDLE
      111 12 LI EKE arc a *ew riddles 11 for you. Q. What is the difference between a jeweller and a jailor? A. One sells watches, and the other watches cells. Q. Why did the milk turn? A. Because it heard the ice-cream. Q. Why did the willow weep? A.
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      Uncle Bill talks of coins
      244 12 THOSE who are responsible for the desicn of our coins have a wonderful opportunity which we hope will not occur again lor a very very long time. They have the occasion to provide us all with a worthy image of our gracious I Queen, so
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      MORE PRIZES TO BE WON
      214 12 I\EAR BOYS AND OIRLS < I hope you had a very lvippy time at Christmas < with lots of fu n and p>ntv of B^od things irom Santa Claus. I expect you will he eagorlv awaiting the results of SS the contest in 'which you
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      THE FIVE SONS
      96 12 /\NCE upon a time there '-'was a farmer, and when he died he left his land to his five sons. The oldest was given a quarter and the remainder was divided between the other four. These four had equal shares and the pieces of land were exactly
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      275 12 gjfik Last GRAND X MAS SALE hflti *»t-o'r in rmmpmmmm t FURTHER REDUCTIONS in ALL DEPTS. PFAFF c»tcr% for all the hou\r- 111 V~Tr»li wit». the drmmakrr. thr tailor U V. I «.'j n<< *Uo industry Machines which iJm^^J •r« built with thought and J*^^^^^^Tl pre<uton designed to mikr every
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      25 12 DLEASE enrol me ai a member of the Children's Corner Wise Owls and tend me a badge .NAME i, IADDRESS, j. j.n T»i.nf. iiji i.i.tr..^.,,..,!,!,,!,,.
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      286 12 \jTvour lucks A if **fsfl* 7 \zSk fVO YOU OTHER ftLLOWS LlK£ IT f\ IjS^f WHAT ABOUT YOU TFO- W P r SO li *3 you Hi -Ow7\ (V^A J -£i( rue yr> <- c q THf 6AM£ LI KC MILO -^M > m WAH. MD TELL YOU* hum sussfsreo
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    Shangrila's trial points to strong chance in cup race
    380 13  -  EPSOM JEEP By gHANdRILA, likely favourite in the Penan? Turf Club's Commissioner-General's Cup over i m* on Saturday, did a solid workout over a mile oji the training track at Penang this morning. Steadily picking up speed in the back stretch,
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    HIS MASTER'S TROPHY'
    56 13 SUB-LIEI'T. John Lamb, captain ot the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve badminton team, receives the .Master's Badminton Trophy from Rear- Admiral E H. Shattock, 0.8. E., R.N.. which MRNVR won in the first annual triangular tournament. Other teams which took part werp Singapore Volunteer Corps and Malayan
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    NORTH'S BANNER IS HIGH
    262 13 By A Special Correspondent LONDON. Tue.s THE banner of the northern section of the third division is fluttering high and proudly a.s the result of Wrex- hams Cup success over BriqhA ton and Hartlepool<- defeat of Northampton. The southern section lias always looked disdainfully upon Its
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    20 13 l ONDON. Tues. Yesterdays rugby l<*acue results were:— Leeds 44. Bat ley 5; Swinton 0 Halifax 10 Router.
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    RUGBY UNION RESULTS
    46 13 LONDON, Tups.- -Yesterdays rugby union result! wore; Cardiff 5 Watsonians 15: Gloucester 12 Universities Athletic Union 3: Leicester 11 Barbarians 39: Liverpool 14. Waterloo 6: Northampton 11 Guys Hospital 6: Swansea 11 London Welsh 9. Penzance and Nrwlyn 3 St Ives 9.— Renter.
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    TITLE FIGHT FOR MARCIANO
    60 13 NEW YORK, Tues. ROCKY Marciano. the world heavyweight champion, -.nfl last night that he would defend his title against Danny Nardico of Florida in Mian i on Feb. 24. Nardico is ranked in the Ring Magazine's end of the year ratings as fourth contender for the
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    'Crawl man' dies
    30 13 'Crawl man dies MILWAUKEE. Tues— George J Whi' taker, aged 80. world champion swimmer of rinlf century ago and credited with <i*\ eloping the "Australian crawl" died here yesterday. AP.
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    Australian 'no' to S. African request
    212 13 MELBOURNE. Tuesday. THE AUSTRALIAN Cricket Board of Control has A refused a request from South Africa that the Australian team should visit there on its way home from the next tour of England. Board members said the j players would not welcome a South
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    George is champion
    141 13 THE men's sihgles championship x of the Government Servants Welfare Organisation iHaig Road Quarters) badminton competition v. as won by Stephen George. Runner up was John Reutens. Other winner* were: Women, «tn»»es- Berntee R«drigues; Jennie Tan (runner-up) men's doubles: Jerry Chan and Brian Soo; J. J. George
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    SCOREBOARD
    196 13 SOI'TH AFRICA list Inns) 271 Second Inning, J McGlew b MacOibbon 8 J H. Wane c Reid b MacGlbbon 5 W. R. Endean c substitute b Reid 1 K. Funston c Overton b MacGlbbon 11 H. Tayfleld b Reid 34 I J. Cheetham c SutcX'Te b Reid 1 1
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    LEAVES HOSPITAL
    22 13 SYDNEY. Tues.— World bantamweight, champion. Jimmy Carruthers. left hospital today after a six-day treatment for a tapeworm In the stomach.
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    RACE BROADCAST
    44 13 KIM. A LUMPUR. Tues.— Friday's Penanx races will be relayed on the Red Network of Radio Malaya. Kuala Lumpur (432 metres) from 2 p.m to 4.30 p.m. After this listeners should re-tune to the Singapore short wave frequencies (41 and 62 metres).
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    Arsenal still climbing the league table
    173 13 LONDON Tue.s. A RSENAL, although held to J\ a one-all draw by Blackpool at Highbury yesterday, improved their position in the first division table. They are now seventh. On Sept 12 Arsenal were at the bottom of the league with only two points from
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    PERAK RUGBY MEET DRAW
    89 13 IPOH, Tues. Eight teams have entered for the Perak Rugby Union's knock-out competition which is being run for the second time Last year Kinta Europeans were the winners. The first round start* on Satur"day, Jan. 2. The semi-finals are on Jan 9 and the final on
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    NEW ZEALANDERS LOSE AFTER LAST 7 GO FOR 32
    238 13 NEW ZEALANDERS LOSE AFTER LAST 7 GO FOR 32 JOHANNESBURG. Tuesday. A FINE SPELL of fast bowling by Neil Adcock for South Africa in the second Test here today wrecked New Zealand's hopes of gaining their first victory in Test cricket. New Zealand, who began the day with a winning
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      FORMER M.H.C.
      180 13 f am surprised that Ronnie Barth, captain of Singapore and South this year, has been placed on the reserve list of Malayan Hockey Council's 22 players Tor training in preparation to meet the Indian Hockey Federation in February. Selector* of the team have the light tn keep their
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      STAGE BIG GAMES ON SATURDAY PLEA
      205 13 AS a keen hockey enthusiast it U with genuine pleasure that I am looking forward to the forthcoming visit of the Indian Hockey team. I am also happy to learn that the more important game* In the Federation are to be played In Kuala
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      SELECTOR FLAYS
      264 13 Pennefather Is by far the better richt half and Ls- more reliable. The way Pennefather gathers the ball, sends 1' where he wants It to go, and helos his forwards to score coals, is alttavs a treat to watch. He Is also far more experienced than Murugesu. Prithvinath.
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      Wong and the BAM
      306 13 f READ the Straits Times article on Wonc Penp: Soon and Co.'s return to Slngaixire from their tour or Formosa, Honpkong and Bangkok, and wax rather taken aback by Wongs latest attack on Mr. Heah Joo Seanc. the President of the BAM. I had no desire
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    New Zealand shield cricket
    134 14 WELLINGTON. Tues ¥N the first Plunket Shield rricket matches of the season. Central Districts and Aurkland sained first innincs wins over Wellington and Canterbury respectively at Wellir.ctr.ii :uid Christchurch Wellington were dismissed for 133 in their firt innings. Central Dls;ric:s replied with 293 for nine declared
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    AMERICANS TAKE DAVIS CUP LEAD Hartwig—Hoad pairing fails
    547 14 AMERICANS TAKE DAVIS CUP LEAD Hartwig Hoad pairing fails MELBOURNE, Tuesday. THE United States took a 2-1 lead over Australia in the challenge round of the Davis Cup here today when Vie Seixas and Tony Trabert won the doubles match, beating Lewis Hoad and Rex Hartwijj 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. Australia
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    Chew Bee may play in Asian tennis meet
    123 14 MALAYA'S top-ranking tennis player, On* Chew Bee. may play in the fourth Asian tennis championships to be held in Manila from Feb. 4 to 14 next year. Other players invited are Jack \i km- 1 in of Australia, Kosei K .urn and
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    SHEFFIELD SHIELD N.S.W. grip on Victoria tightens
    72 14 SHEFFIELD SHIELD N.S.W. grip on Victoria tightens MELBOURNE. Tw s. VICTORIA are facing defeat in their Sheffield shield match against New South Wall hew and m*J h< beaten by lunch time tomorrow. They followed <>n 155 runs behind today and at the close of play were 210 for eight only
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    S. Australia win
    56 14 IN WOTHER Sheffield Shield match, at Adc-laide. South Australia beat Queensland by 83 runs today. Declaring their second inninss at 222 for eight South Australia lelt Queensland to score 329 runs tn win. Queen.land were all out for 245 Final Scoreboard- South Australia 414 and 222 for
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    The Globe-Trotters ARE fabulous
    540 14  -  W. K. TREVOR By pOR once the advrrti<4>ment.s did not exaccerate. Thrre is only oiie word to rieyrrlbe the Harlem G lobe-Trotters —fabulous. Other arijertives like sensational. magnificent, terrific or crea*. could' be used equally well but fabulou.fit.s them perfectly. A team of eleven 1,-inky. loa^e-
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