The Singapore Free Press, 26 December 1952

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No:***** SINGAPORE. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1952. PRICE FIFTEI S
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  • 505 1 STALIN 'S OFFER TO IKE Would meet new US President for talks WASHINGTON, Friday M r Eisenhower mment yesterday on Marshal utement that hi consider a proposal ior a meeting between "Id tension. "I won't have m i that thi> morning, I assure Lisenhower told reporter, who him when he
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  • 9 1 m Mau terrorists killed Eve s of
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  • 7 1 4 BANDITS KILLED, 2 GIVE UP i
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  • 69 1 TWO Singapore Chinese were killed when their car hit a tree on Bukit Timah Road, barely 100 yards from Newton Circus at 5 p.m yesterday. This was the only fatal accident during: the Christmas holidays. The dead were 35-year-old Sum Kai Chong. a clerk, and 41-year-old
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  • 349 1 Xl ALA LUMPUR, Friday. ONE of the most urgent and important jobs m Mmlajl today was to get people to grasp responsibility and to stand up under the strain of grasping it. declared the Hish Commissioner General Sin Gerald Templer m his Christmas Day message
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  • 72 1 AUCKLAND. Fri. NEW Zealanders learnt yesterday that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will spend next Christmas m the dominion. The Prime Minister, Mr. Sidney Holland, announced m a national broadcast, when most families were assembled for celebrations, that the Royal party will arrive
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  • 20 1 Egypt's "strong man," Maj. Gen. Mohamed Neguib, will visit the United States m the near future. A.P.
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  • 301 1 HANOI. Friday. RED-LED Vietminh troops Have made their first "encroachment" m the nominally independent Indo-Chinese kingdom of Laos and the French command feared it marked a new step m the gradual Communist push to the interior. The action was reported m the region of San
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  • 44 1 THERE was a strong shower m Penanjf on Wednesday evening, but that is the only rain there has been for nearly three weeks. The soing for today's races will be hard. jack Beaumont's best bets are Northern Circuit and Sudan^
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  • 15 1 Fifty-four babies were born mi n Singapore's Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital on Christmas Day
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  • 197 1 ARCADIA. California, Fri. rpiNY Mrs. Fthel Arata. 52, arrested while m the act of trying to h"ld "P bank here confessed to FBI agents on Christmas Ere she was the woman responsible for a series of ••(irandma" bank robberies m i... AnsH The trimly-dressed
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  • 205 1 AIRMAN ROBBED OF CASH DRINKS Free Press Staff Reporter TWO Singapore houses were robbed of $4,979 m c. and property during Chr. mas. A British airman attached to Royal Air Force, Seletar. who lived with his wife m rooms m a house m Boseombe Road lost $1,141. The couple went
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  • 110 1 Free Press Staff Reporter PENANG. Fri rriHREE hundred Catholic parishioners m Machang Buboh new village. Province Wellesley, who could not attend midnight mass on Christmas Eve because they had no church, have contributed $1,000 towards the building of a church m the new village. The cost
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  • 273 1 'Keep alive the spirit of adventure' THE QUEEN'S BROADCAST LONDON Mil THE QUEEN called m a Christ^ terdav for prayers by the M monwealth "that God may im and strength to carry out the solemn prom- ie will make at her coronation on June: Speaking Irom Norfoi:. }ueen pie: on
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  • 34 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The Singapore Fire Brigade was called yesterday attend six fires m lallang areas. In each case the fires were put out minutes after the arrival of the Brigade.
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  • 28 1 and Chr. 4 on Ch: iior P GIANT METEOB A i ig a flashed Chr -ated pea' ihe (t>t A P.
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    • 121 1 26 DEC 1952 Moke Your Reservation* Now SPECIAL MENU PROGRAMME NEW YEAR SINGAPORE 0 RESTAURANT BAR 79. Brat Basafc Road Phone 4088 Whom have YOU forgotten? I &SP^^^Jt-i \yu y Vji Jt^f If tne arrival of unexpected "|/y )^T\ Christmas cards from 1 V overseas has caught you Av^^^ empty-handed
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  • 391 2  - Mayfair Moves Out as the Money Moves in EVE PERRICK BHf The coronation switch-and-shuffle By IJTHI M ud Knott. Berkeleyonly prival nous e-dweller, announced that come the Coronation she would the shrieking city, she :ng th< the 8.000 residents of Mayfair. -let to and the rom and f" r e.
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  • 39 2 YLSTERDAV- SOLUTION. j Across: 1. T^rt- 8. Quarters. 9. 11. Curl. 13. 19. Bell tent J Chariots. 23. Steer. Down: 2. H ;j up. 3. Equals. 4. Seventy 14. Titbit. f*. Ermine. 17, Aback.
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  • 591 2  - MARGARET Will SeeaNewCity DONALD McCORMICK Spotlight on next year's Royal Tour By WHEN Princess Margaret goes out to Southern Rhodesia with the Queen-Mother next summer one of her wishes will come true. She has always wanted to pay a return visit to what,* m many ways, is British Africa's happiest
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  • 646 2 IT'S A MYTH ABOUT THE 'BEST-DRESSED' says Eileeen Ashcroft, from New York IT isn't true what they say about American women. Ne w Yorkers are not the best-dressed women m the world. True elegance is a combination of fashion and individual taste. That is something American women do not seem
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  • 256 2 Sweater that Sheds?-Put It in the 'Fridge' IF you have an angora sweater that sheds every time you put it on— stop worrying. Just put it In the 'fridge.' No. I am not crazy. Refrigerator treatment is the latest method of dealing with those maddening little bits of angora fluff
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    • 349 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR ROOM today you cannot blame >our >tars it >ou are not eminently successful. \uu have been given outstanding capabilities and the to make the best possible use of your Sifts. You are happiest when giving the order*, but you do that m ordtr to lead may. first,
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  • 118 3 I Bridge I Hand ■iTII •v t i 7 3 A A Q 10 a x a >. ack of <-ttd. rick declarer ■'-•A U> lead Too often .::onj are missed bedeclarer stops leading :ie round too soon South -v the hand had he ln- and or heart eats
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  • 9 3 Arab League poi. to t uesdeplorable pL;
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  • 13 3 ition i by Prime Defence obHi r parlia- m a 63-24
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  • 249 3 PUTS NAGGING WIFE ON RECORD Ahk nwi.iv, GLAMORGAN, Friday. ,11i ma de by the husb and of his wife's .ileged nagging' u^ played over to a judge m and \\^lJT c U S made On a Sunday afternoon and lasted from 4.15 to 5 o'clock Arthi'™ n« c v!L tO
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  • 82 3 Work Is well ahead on the new wind tunnel for the! British aircraft industry a will cost about £1,500,- i 000 The wind tunnel will be one > of the biggest In Great Britain, and will run at speeds of up to 1,000 m.p.h The j
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  • 226 3 2 friends swop their soul mates LONDON. Fri. AN exchange of wives between two men was disclosed m a possession case recently heard at Brentford County Court. One of the husbands involved, Mr. Harold Harmsworth Robinson, was sued for possession of his threebedroom council flat m Hornlane, Acton. The flat,
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  • 172 3 COLOMBO, Fri. ANEW republic without crimes of violence, pet dogs, nor alcoholic hangovers, is emerging on January 1 from the 2,000 scattered islands of the Maldive group, 400 miles south-west of Ceylon m the Arabian Sea. After 800 years as a sultanate under British protection,
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  • 51 3 Connie Mack, the Grand Old Man of baseball, celebrating his 90th birthday at Fort Myers. Florida, passed along this tip for old don't worry. "There's not a worry m the world worth worrying about," he said. "That helped me live longer than anything jelse I know."
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  • 21 3 Yugoslavia directed the Bulgarian Embassy at Belgrade to send its employee, Zdravro Sevstarski. out of the country —AP.
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  • 40 3 DANCING is delightful m this off-white gown of shantung taffeta. says M.G.M. actress, Monica Lewis, who patronises many of Hollywood's nightspots. New on the fashion scene is the skirt treatment of flared panels separated by accordion pleats.
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  • 52 3 Britain has announced she will pay the second annual instalments on the 1946 American and Canadian loans m full and on time. A second annual payment on the wartime American lend-lease account also will be made on Dec. 31 as scheduled. All together, the payments
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  • 274 3 DERBY, Friday A FATHER of four children, who killed his slover during a quarrel at a spot called the Skull and Crossbones will serve ten yeaiv imprisonment for manslaughter. Grey-haired Benjamin Brown, 46, a married man, ■was charged with murder, I but the jury
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  • 27 3 Dr. Hu Shih. famed Chinese scholar now visiting Formosa, is scheduled to leave Tai- peh on Jan. 14 to return to the United States.^A.P.
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  • 215 3 SHE REFUSED TO LIVE WITH WAR TRAITOR LONDON. Fri. 4 "WAR TRAITOR" won a decree m the Divorce Court here when the wife who refused to I live with him was adi judged to have committed adultery. The man Norman Rose of South Yard-ley. Birmingham. j is serving a life
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  • 74 3 ROME Fri. EX-KING Farouk of Egypt told told reporters he preferred "to wail for events" before making any comment on the accusations made against him m Cairo the night previous. It was authoritatively learned 1 m Cairo that Farouk would lose his Egyptian nationality under Egypt's
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  • 45 3 The Association of British Chambers of Commerce, reprsenting more than 70,000 business executives, sent a. letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. R. A. Butler, telling him to slash government spending and taxation when he makes out his 1953 budget A.P.
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  • 38 3 The Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, flew to South India where he will spend the Christmas period. He is planning to return to New Delhi on Dec. 29 after visits to Travancore and" Cochin.— A.P.
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  • 20 3 Japanese freighters are expected to resume shipping services between Japan and Formosa possibly some time next month.— A.P.
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  • 71 3 Dunkirk' man has retired DOVER I MR L. E. H. Annand, the man responsible for gett- ing the troops home from Dover after the evacuation ,of Dunkirk has retired after :47 years' railway service. During World War 11. he was m the Dover control office and his job was to
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  • 37 3 The 17-year-old Duke of Kent, who has been m bed m Geneva for the last two days with mild influenza is due to fly back to London next weekend for the Christmas holidays.- Reuter.
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  • 30 3 New York state's 130 mutual savings banks hold over $13 billion m resources; —50 per cent of the assets of all such banks m ihe counI try.— U.P.
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    • 114 3 Today's Radio BBC Programme Summary Round-up; 6.30 The 6.45 Welah :>yd (tenor); b David Lloyd Goossen* <oboe). ao> St The i Orch; 7.30 :rom the Forces nen. Kong. Malaya. Korea, and Baa '*eh tune man who chose .gs made on the spot: Jean Metcalfe. 8.30 Interlude. 8.45 .ea says 'Can
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  • 531 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Dec 26. 1952. Just fancy PRELIMINARY work has started on the building of an aquarium ai King George the Fitth Park. In a year i'- will be completed and Singapore need no longer feel ashamed that it has not an expensive collection of fancy fish.
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  • 844 4 Spotlight on Burglary How do you deal with a burglar? Do you shoot at him, ring for the police, or hide under your bed-clothes and remind yourself that you are fully insured so it doesn't matter anyway! This week correspondents report on how far you can go to defend your
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  • 561 4 The Crime-busters Roll up their Sleeves [ONDON'S 20,000 membei Metropolitan Police Force sput on its hands and sal lied forth to rid the world's biggest city of a creeping crime wave which threatens to sully the splendour of next year's coronation. Tne nations foremost crimebusters have just concluded a week
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  • 636 4 CRACK BIG-CAME HUNTER You would not notice him m a crowd. ..but he earns £10,000 a year the hard way TO look at him. you would never think he lived by the gun. His name is George Michael, he is 37. and he is one of South Africa's top big-game
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    435 4 GORDON YOUNG i mts m the French capital LIKE the searchlight which revolves on top of the Eiffel Tower, piercing the gloom of these bleak nights, so the eye of the correspondent stationed m Paris roves m many directions at once. It looks at SHAPE, That supreme headquarters for
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    • 17 4 JSEFUL NEW YEAR GIFTS ■Old and WHiTF. GOLD P. H. HENORY Royal Jt NORTH BRIDGE RD SINGAPORE-6
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    • 46 4 THE PIBAHHA r Identified by viciout X triangular teeth set r^==3E=j^. fS m an undershot ~-^^~2s^^£ jaw. Hie man eating Piranha is usually only "v."^ -i £*r i 1— eight to tweh/e inche* long. Easily i4e* another »J»o»« Medicinal P^od^ c CHEI THONC SAN pro*'4 f
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  • 204 5 ADAY OF CAROLS, PARTIES, PICNICS— AND SANTA CLA US IT was a gay Christmas for thousands m Singapore yesterday. There were singing of -urols and lavish parties The people had a good time as good a time as at any other Christmas after the war though this time they were
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  • 298 5 77*£ covers Colony 's busiest streets Free Press Staff Reporter ONE-WAY traffic sehern?* which will cover a "loop" of four miles, will b* enforced n*xt month, Mr. A. E. Minns, Singapore traffic police chief, told the Free Press this morning. This plan will involve
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  • 101 5 a ffMIE Singapore Regional Indian Congress has de- cided to organise a relief fund to assist victims of a B wclone which recently swept ►ver Madras State. The decision followed an appeal from Sri. A. Rnmachandra Naidu secretary of he Cyclone Relief Conrmittee. a "anattinam. The
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  • 60 5 THE Y.W.C.A. Havp'"~k R )ai and Mount Erskine Girls' Schools have a number of vacancies <n their English classes Enrolment forms can be obtained at the association's premises m Raffles Quay. Several free places are a'so available. Monthly fees p^ld by the students vary from $1 to
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  • 50 5 A 13-year-old Malay student Jaffar bin Arshad. died m the General H<;spital Singapore on Christmas Evo. an hour after his bicycle had collided with a Singapore Traction Company bus at Katonn Road. Eyr-witnes>es to the accident are reauested to contact the Traffic Accident Branch, Sepoy Lines Police Station.
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  • 29 5 Christmas sto:k of toys and textiles worth $400 was stolen from a Chinese shop m Henderson Road Singapore on Tuesday nWht. The theft was discovered on Wednesday.
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  • 18 5 One hundred and f-ve school children from Australia arrived m Singapore on the Gorgon on Wednesday.
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  • 143 5 POOR ARE SHY TO ASK FOR HELP Free Press Staff Reporter THE MALAY YOUTHS' Literary Association, Singapore, wants to help poor Malay students but, so far, no one has applied for aid. The association is willing to pay school fees, buy books and clothes and pay bus fares. It has
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  • 57 5 A 69-year-013 Chinese i.s in a critical condition at the Singapore Naval Base hospital following injuries sustained m an accident at the 13th mile Sambawang Ro?d at about 10 p.m on Christmas Eve. Police are trying to trace a vehicle with a broken headlamp and possibly
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  • 29 5 Three Malay civilians and a British soldier were seriously injured on Wednesday when a military truck overturned at the 5 milestone Paslr Panjang Road, Singapore.
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  • 144 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE, students studyin* Britain are attending Christmas vacation courses organised by the British Council. They are among 700 students from overseas who are taking part m 21 courses m England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. An introductory course on the Welsh
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  • 137 5 A S3. i -MILLION project to house 236 "middle class families m semi detached bungalows at Tanjong Katong. Singapore, will be carried out next year by Bajaj Estates Ltd. Plans for the scheme were sabmitted to the Singapore Improvement Trust last month. Building will
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  • 47 5 Christinas show at church The Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church. S presented a Christmas pageant— "Light Of The World" m the church auditorium at 235 T.-iok Ayer Street, last night. The pageant. d:n :ted by Mrs Tay Soo Kong was the highlight of the Christmas Day service.
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  • 41 5 EXCHANGE FINDS JOBS FOR 9,055 c Press Staff Rrportrr SINGAPORE Em i Exchange found 055 people during t; 11 months of thi It met all demand amahs and la for.™ Driv nd There I JUV< Exchar. 177 han firsi H 14,283
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  • 121 6 Only big names left INDIAN TENNIS I .AS national lawn te«pionships entered! fourth d*i' v 1 ijor nation of purely players appeared to been computed and the better known pi a with nal reputations, are now ng. Mrs Tony Motiram. wife of player, entered the third round of the women's
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  • 943 6 Tomorrow's Penang race chances By JACK BEAUMONT IJOLIDAY racing continues at Penang tomorrow when the main event of the second day's programme is a seven furlong sprint for| horses of Cl. 2, Div. 2. This looks to be one of the most difficult
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  • 38 6 TN VIEW of going, most trainers being cagey about what they are going to scratch for tomorrow. Only those known to me at present are: Olympic, Tiberius, Jack McGinty, Enjoyment, Northern Light and Billy Bee.
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  • 214 6 FORGET FORM TAKE MAN O'WAR qTARAIN won well enough at Ipoh on the second day, but may have been penalised Just enough to prevent her making 1% two wins m a row m the Cl. 4, Div. 2—5 F. race. She has been promoted from Div. 3 and given an
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  • 30 6 Three outstanding German and three Turkish track and stars will compete m the American Amateur Athletic Union championships and other leading meets during the coming indoor season —UP.
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  • 292 6 Class 4. Dl». 2— 7F T^ILM PAN. Unamare. Academy r Award and Sailor bird catch the eye as being outstanding candidates for this event. The first named scored a fine victory over Unaware on the opening day of the Pexak meet--1 ing but the going
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  • 386 6 LIECTOR won so convincingly at Ipoh m a 9F. Di\ 11 oppose him m this Cl. 4, Div. 3 7 F. event. He >f 9 o an increase of 5 lb. but he won with so mi that it should make little or no
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  • 379 6 Springboks all out for 227 runs TEST MATCH SOUTH Africa were all out for 227 and Australia rI plied with 26 for 0 before I stumps were drawn yesterday at the close of the first day play m the second Test cricket match m Melbourne. Australia won the first Test
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  • 99 6 /THE Indian cricket team to tour the West Indies has arrived m London by air. They leave Southampton for the Wost Indies m the "Golfito" today. Accompanying the 15 cricketers was the team manager Mr. C.R. Ramaswami who said: "I think playing the West Indieg m
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  • 49 6 UK rugby league results-—Hali-fax 6 Huddersfleld 12; Hull 9 Hull Kingston Rovers 16; Leeds 20 Batley 16; Leigh 2 Saint Helens 22; Oldham 15 Swinton 8; Widnes 0 Warrinpton 8; Wigan 34 Salford 8; Workington Town 27 Liverpool City 5; York 12 Featherstone Rovers 10.— Reuter. i
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    • 156 6 TODAY J. ro «Aur £Nioy r«f Christmas b ff SEASON. ..YOU MUST SEE THEBoiIMv, 7 ROGLT WHO HII^A a^^^B V EVER LED A L W '-M DOUBLE I II X fee ~~^P^ M v list entirely suspended i#& W^OHMIDHIGHT TOMORROW! 74% THE GREAT STORY BEHIND ig THE BILLION DOLLAR SECRET
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    • 172 6 Mdndr3k6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya I NEVER MINO THAT.' WHAT ABOUT 1 1 1 HAVEN'T THE SLIGHT- 1 BUT YOU SAW) 1 1 CAN*T,KNOX.NOT YET/ YOU __J THE THIEVES? HOW DID THEY r EST IDEA. SUOOENLY. THEM COME THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMETHING THEY 00 USE SOME
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  • 467 7 Latest hints from Penane From JACK HEAUMONT i IH XX 7 A? S J ROX(; TIP for the Lewi, lined Dude Hay, when today's race prodiscussed after early morning r 1 nans: this morning. i n working well and condition. It is not difficult
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  • 810 7 Race I—Class1 —Class Div. 3—51 Furs. L' 44 Lcfckvic J. J i Thompson Yong l\«rnia 8.13 Niel KOI Allan 000 Mi> s Nathan Poshni 6. iJ Mr E. L Nathan Rodgers i -00 Lucie Ma T by Jr 3.11 Mr Wong Sc Mdm Chan LowLs Mourn Wizard J
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  • 100 7 JAKE TULI IS TOP CONTENDER R'.assach world hea champion. mcd her, of prepared before Robinson announced retirement from bo:> urn as world middleweight champion. Randolph Turpin of En" land is listed as the leading contender for the middle&--,*ne£ ht title and also as the 10:h ranking contender for t heavyweight
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  • 159 7 'We recognise Turpin'— N.B.A. THE National Boxing ion has assured the! l British Boxing Board of Con- that i' Ranh Turpin No 1 contender for the world mid- dlewcis?ht championship va- cated by Sugar Ray Robinson. 1 1 The- assurance was given m res- rjonso to a cable from the
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  • 178 7 SPRINGLIKE weather on Christmas Day helped produce some equally surprising results m the small soccer programme staged yesterday when 16 English and one Scottish games were played In the League programme. The second half of several matches produ a rush of goals, and Tottenham
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  • 94 7 YESTERDAYS IK. football results: DIVISION I Blackpool 0, Manchester V. 0. Rolton 4, Arsenal 6. Burnley 2, Liverpool 0. Newcastle 3. Cardiff 0. Tottenham 7, Middlesbro' 1 DIVISION II Birmingham 4, Plymouth 0. Blackburn 2. Leicester 0. Brentford 4. Barnsley 0. Huddersfifld 3, Swansea 0. Sheffield ltd. 2. Doncaster
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  • 211 7 The Fijians are confident that Isimeli will win Free I Bmdnf Reporter /jl R dusky, crop-haired champion from tin South Pacific gets his big chance tonight ;»t the H World Stadium. A win or even perform against American Mcl Brown uould KimrU Kadrodro a claim to rank amongst ihe top-uoirhrrs
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  • 298 8 WORLD HAD PROSPEROUS CHRISTMAS Lrayesi jeasi since the war LONDON. Friday. r yili: WORLDS CHRISTMAS fathered yesterday round cheery hearths and on frozen battlefields to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Peace and take comfort m the hope that the day promises. Unertca, besides traditional by m festive parties
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  • 176 8 VATICAN CITY. Fri. THE POPE addressed his 14th annual Christmas plea for peace on Christ:: Eve to the world's 'poor and oppressed" and criticized Communism for its attack on the Christian faith and capitalism because it has not c enough to rove
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  • 303 8 PARIS, Friday. THE FRENCH President. M. Vincent Auriol, has asked the Gaullist leader, M. Jacques Soustelle, to try to solve France's 18th postwar Cabinet crisis, and the 40-year-old floor leader of Gen. Charles De Gaulle's French People's Rally said he will tell the chief
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  • 71 8 TAIPEH. I pREtIDENT Chiai EC .-^hek yesterday told 1,000 men and women of the National that the fight Communism Is 'not the business of Fiee China alone but the business of all countries m the demcx word." The President said Free C 1 role war a colleagues
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  • 276 8 Korea Reds sang carols, but the war went on SEOUL, Fri. TT was Christmas on the calendar. It was the old deadly routine on the Korean front. Communist loudspeakers were blaring carols somewhere there m the hills. They said some thins: about p on earth. But the Reds attacked too,
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  • 46 8 An ancient sanctuary of a cult, which thrived 26 cenluries ago, has been laid barnear Meniko. 16 miles rus. Accidentally discovered •priot farmer ones, the ed a treasure trove ol siatuettes consecrated terracotta objects and images, cense burners and other lies cuter
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  • 40 8 Mr. Dwight Eisenhower has chosen Mr. True D. Morse, 56, a Republican who was a Democrat until about 20 years ago. for the job of Un-der-Secretary of Agriculture m the new administration, says a New York message.- AP.
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  • 34 8 Mr. Eugene Cox, 72. of Georgia, a Democratic member of Congress for 27 years and opponent of many Rossevelt-Truman policies, died m the Naval Hospital at Bethesda. Maryland, on Christmas Eve. Reuter
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  • 271 8 4 N AGREED STATEMEN terday on behalf of tin at Monte Carlo and Sir B announced that iew led to return their Int ca»ds to Sir Bernard and mitting them to the Casi] LOXDOX. Friday. T issued m London yese Summer Sporting lub
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  • 38 8 The Arab League Political j Committee m an official < statement yesterday de- nounced the mere idea of direct Israeli-Arab talks and expressed the hope that attempts to arrange such talks would not be relocated.— U.r.
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  • 32 8 Cardinal-elect Alois Stepl- I nac, operated m Belgrade for i thrombosis of the left leg, 1 celebrated Christmas by getting out of bed for t!^ first time since the operation.
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 73 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris -S\t IT WAS, YOU > [AND IN AMERICA, ALL KwHY DIDN'T WE WAIT UNTIL WE WERE) THE LOCAL COPS WILL fvOU THREW HIAA^V- \WERE IN ON IT, ACCOMPLICES ARE I FARTHER OUT, MISS SHANE ?THE/ PROBABLY WRITE IT OFF J over' to drown Br^fellS^^j equally
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