The Singapore Free Press, 4 December 1954

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya >„. mi. Singapore. Sal.. Dec. 4, 1954. Price 15 (ts
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  • 84 1 Marie (The Body) is buck with Karl FIILM star Marie (The Body") McDonald (right) and the husband she divorced m Las Vegas 11 days .t»o flew to Paris yesterday I 0 be remarried. On their return to New York they will pick up their adopted children Denise, five and Harrison,
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  • 183 1 PUNCHED BOY DIED: TEN PALS GAOLED mEN boy soldiers were gaoled 1 at Winchester. Hampshire, rday for brutal attacks on j a colleague who later died m hospital. The judge asked for the facts of the case to be given to the War Secretary, Mr. Anthony; Head. He .said they
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  • 65 1 Sooner the better HPHE sooner Australian troops 1 •1 went to Malaya as part of a Commonwealth force the Major-General Horatiu.s Murray, former Commanding Officer' of the British Commonwealth Division m Korea. said m Melbourne yesterday. 0 jI Murray, who is visiting Australia and Now Zealand, added:
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  • 35 1 Police have detained three of four men involved m an attempted robbery ye.sterday afternoon. One was picked up at an opium den m Angus Street at 3 o'clock this morning.
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  • 56 1 'Till MAYOR of Jerusalem, 1 In a circular yesterday, forbade women staff m the nuiiu ipulity to wear slacks Ui work, lie said that wear- i in£ of slacks was ;i violation of Old Testament teachings. The women said Un i v win* slacks became tin-
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  • 93 1 THEN I X'iLLL: HER SAYS HUSBAND RAYMOND WILSON, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, said he kissed his invalid wife and told her, "Goodbye, sweetThen the 65-year-old butcher hacked her to death with a meat cleaver, dismembered her body and burned the remain* m the furnace, Detective-Cap-tain John Sweeny yesterday quoted
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  • 146 1 A dissident Gaullist member alleged m the French National Assembly yesterday that a police raid on the home of a Vietminh Communist agent m Paris had disclosed documents naming the French Premier, Mr. Mendes France as a contact. The member. Mr Jean Legendre, added
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  • 32 1 The Singapore Ru'olxt Market opened this morning on steady tone, with lir^t grade, December shipment ;tt 81 7/ m ;t lb., 9/16 ni ;i cctit alX)ve yesterday's clo.sv
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  • 32 1 Th<> British R»'M Cross So ciety will hold a f' I i f the j)j)l.-d Children's Home T i rial) Merah Bi'sar. Irani 3 to k G p.m. today.
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  • 138 1 U.S. case for U.N. POMMUNIST CHINA yesterday announced that the death sentences had been passed on M "counter-revolution-aries" which she said were working (Or the Nationalist Chinese. Sixty-one others were gaoled for life and another 129 sentenced to "various terms of imprisonment and hard labour. Meanwhile,
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  • 98 1 HOPE FOR THE POPE BUT A WARNING FIVE specialists summoned to an emergency confer- ence m Vatican City early today reported that hope for the Pope was growing but at the same time a highly-placed source said the PontirTs immediate condition had deteriorated. The optimistic tone of the medical bulletin,
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  • 47 1 Pelandok Specials HKRE are Pelandok s Special Selection* for today's Ipoh races: hmctML nap Stealth nor km: (iuUr 11, Samroig HIMJ (•ular 11, Bearer liond, Samroif IVluiulok >u»cc»'sts these bets: Special Nap: one win one place ($10); Double: one win, MM place (510): Treble: one win (ff).
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  • 34 1 Here are today's Best Bits U\ Trespasser and the Straits Times racing experts: TRESPASSER Samroi* EPSOM JEEP— Above All CALL BOY— Dantesque POINTER— (;ular II Other selections are on the Back Page.
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  • 14 1 EiKht members ot the Brttish parliament left Tokyo for home yesterday. A.P.
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  • 167 2 Quee n beats Tito AT RACING PI GEON SHOW BIKI»> .n|. i* d hy <|uern I li/.tfM'th tv\ i< f he i( two Mi«r»-d h> Marshal f it«i of Yiumnl ivi.j i! tr» international racinj P' ;eon show m I.otidon \«->t«rBoth cntrrrd l»irds for the championship pn/« I 1 Ounn's
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  • 135 2 BUDDHISTS MEET IN RANGOON FOR TALKS rwMIK third world BtKldhlsi 1 conference opened In Ran go ij yesterday. L> l< .1*- b fame trom Au 1--truli.i, Austria, Cambodia. For mosa, France. Malaya. Germany. Britian Hawaii, the Philippines, La- is. Finland Slam. Nepal, Canada. United States. India, Pakistan. Vietnam. Ceylon and
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  • 59 2 ]>REMIER Nro Dinh Dtem'j government ha.s arrested 17 more member i of the Intellectual pro-vietmlnh "Movement for the Defence ol Peace." In all. 25 memberi of the organisation have nern .seized Tho.se arrested included newspapermen, professors, druggtetl, students, and lawyers. Tiny were charged with creating a political
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  • 123 2 SPACE SUIT FOR CHARLES AND A DOLL FOR ANNE PRINCE CHARLES han- j kers to be a "space I pilot ol the future.' so the Queen went Christmas shopping for a Dan Dare space outfit. Nothing but spaceships will do now for the future Kin^ of England. Kike a dutiful
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  • 104 2 JjiRF.E PRESS readers have been so touched by the plight of three girls, Ng Aim Moy 14, Ng Aik Keok 9. and Nr Hai Quay that they have .sent money for them. Yesterday, the three girl.s appealed for $1,000 so that their mother,
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  • 20 2 More than 50 Chinese Communists, comprising a cultural mission to Indonesia, arrived In Hoiik Kong irom Canton yesterday.
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  • 136 2 Silt WINSTON CHURCHILL KO last Tuesday now received nearly 24, (MM) WeinafCl and telegrams confntulmttllf him on his birth da\ and fTtctillfl are still coming m. lie has been jjiven between 500 and !»<)<) presents by people throughout the world not counting those from his family
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  • 24 2 Mr. Wilhan Teelipg, Conservative Member of Parliament is Ito visit Formosa later this month at the invitation of General Chiang Kai-shek.
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  • 66 2 'No a ga in U.N. told South Africa once again rejected the competence of the I'nited Nations to investigate its apartheid policies and said the U.N. report on its racial problem was a "study m intellectual arrogance." This was when the U.N. Special Political Committee yesterday began to debate for
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  • 253 2 Canada had a partly-built flying saucer r PHE Defence Production Department confirmed i x m Ottawa, yesterday that Canada attempted to build a flying saucer but said the project was dropped after it was found the eventual cost was more than it would be worth. The Canadian Minister for Trade.
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  • 266 2 I PEACE HOPES IN NORTH AFRICA RISE A5.... r VHE mass surrender of Tunisian outlaws under a Franco-Tunisian ami 1 olid Increased yesterday. The authorities believe that peace may return to the French North African protectorate of Tunisia. A total of 177
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  • 193 2 New Premier gives a hint qOUTH AFRICA'S new Prime Minister hinted 0 strongly last night of much-rumoured but still imrevealed plans to declare the dominion a republic In the first formal address since his installation Mr. J. G. Strydom, m a broadcast, spoke of
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    • 13 2 M.FLINTER&S.GRINBERG Diamonds Jewellery 67, Stamford Rd., (Eu Court Bids.,) Spore, 6. Telephone 7923.
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    • 63 2 Finishing Points tor your X'mas and New Year Party Dresses Georgette Handkerchiefs, lll^fl^^^ff trimmed with gold, m green, ?£s££&* red, rovul and black at $1/50. Georgette Squures m white, black, emvnild, pink, royal, mauve, yellow at $2/25. LADIES GIFT BOXES of Embroidered Hdkfs. packed 3, 4 and 6, m attractively
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  • 331 3 Threw body of wife tied m sack into sea DR. DALIP SINGH, an Edinburgh -trained Bast Indian doctor, wa*s convicted m Port ol Spain. Trinidad, yesterday of murdering his Viennese-born Wife whoso disembowelled body was found last April 8 floating m the sea. Dr. Singh'B wife.
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  • 25 3 NOW BUTTER FLY NEHRU \lea ol buttrrily, discovered by Indian coll Sircar Shillong. has been named "Lechna Nehru" m I vi India* Prime Minbiter.- UP
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  • 179 3 The Astor divorce 'will be spicy' THE second wife of millionaire socialite John Jacob Astor was grunted temporary alimony of 1 T 552,500 a month yesterday amid indications her forthcoming separation suit m New York promises to be spicy. It looks certain that both parties will accuse each other of
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  • 170 3 STREET KNIFING IN CITY OF RACKETS A "VERY IMPORTANT" witness who had testified A before a Grand Jury investigating the A. L. Patterson murder case was stabbed to death on a street last night m Phenix City, Alabama. A 16-year-old Negro high school student
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  • 68 3 GEOLOGIST TO RETURN HOME IN IRON LUNG 1 4 BRITISH geologisi stricken i\ with polio who wa.s flown to Balboa (Panama Canal Zone i, from Ecuador 1;i sl month, will return homo soon In an iron Inns to Sudbury, Suffolk. England, if arrangements now being made materialise. The patient Ifl
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  • 136 3 COURT ca.so between an j ein g Chinese, Leong V Hing, and the Canadian department has closed m Vancouver, by 7,,. a cook, died of a (k He had appeared •mo immigration departseveral times to try to rmission for hLs 20-year-to enter Canada
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  • 181 3 I didn't use force on woman soldier I PRIVATE Leslie Hughes. 27, tig a Nairobi court marfor alleged maltreatment imbul, an African woman r, fit-nied yesterday he rdered her to be placed i pit behind his quarters denied ever having seen r bottle with which he is •d to have
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  • 23 3 en Sovirt surgeons, m three women, arrived l^ndon yesterday from to »pend three weeks ng British hospitals, mcdiand research m Reuter
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  • 30 3 Portuguese Embassy m yesterday denied presa reports from Now ihi that Mr. Nehru, Indian Minister, and Dr. Paolo Portumie.se Foreign mid discuss the Goa m January. Reuter
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  • 21 3 Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery and General Douglas MaeArthur met for the first time yesterday m New York.- Reuter
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  • 59 3 A- ASH VICTIMS GET 'LEAVE' Twenty-two fishermen of the Lucky Dragon, which was dusted with atomic ash on March 1 near Bikini, would shortly be given week-long home passes from two hos- pitals m Tokyo, a (iovernment health official said yesterday. He said doctors derided the passes would help train
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  • 59 3 BRITAIN TAKES STOCK OF STORM HAVOC BRILLIANT warm gunshine bathed m inj parti ol ravaced Britain ye iterdai as the floods began to nibsw Several main roads In the Wcsi country and the North of England were still Impassable, but traffic authorities rpu<>rt»'ci thai COOdlUotu weff improving. Meanwhile authorities t>
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  • 337 4 SATURDAY. Dec. 4, 1954. TASK FOR ALL Th. 1 reported statement of a Chinese Nationalist leader, Mr. Cheng Yin-kun, m Taipeh, that unnecessary governmental obstruction has been phi red m the way of anti-Red and patriotic activities ol many Chinese m Malaya", could scarcely be farther removed from fact. Understandably
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  • 876 4 Vi llages behind ba rbed wire In a tour of the area around Mount Kenya (where live the gods of the Kikuyu tribe) special correspondent DUDLEY HAWKINS finds that the L'nd of the iMau Mau terror may lie m the spread of an idea from Malaya. WHILE thousands Qj Kikuyu
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  • 415 4  -  J. C. Graham by T*HE policies announced by the parties m the recent New Zealand general election gave a clue to the type of come back bid the Socialists are likely to make m Britain. They pointed the way because they seem to be typical
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    • 59 4 Qamden RECORDS by RCA Neve* before. such low prkci lor Records with these (^rcat f< aturct Acclaimed p< rfo/mances of popul.ir *nd clastic.il musir by world famous arti\tt. Unsurpassed quality of reproduction equal to record* costing doll.irt more. Manufactured to highest standards nn famous Vinyliti brand plastic. Sole Ag» Edward
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  • 137 5 tIV .students of the Bukit Zaharah School m rohore have been refused admission to the Johoiv h College because they are not up to standard. N Rees headman »t of the English College, told the pVpss' yesterday, that 163 stadents imm the Buicit School
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  • 114 5 Mr Kazuo Momoi. munagdirector of Momoi r Net Manufacturing m Japan, H In Sinto introduce two new fishing netting. re known as syntnen netting and vinilon synthetic fibre netting. Momoi who arrived Sydney accompanied by Istant export manager, Pujlsawa, said the new ttings were stronger
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  • 23 5 AMAT, Rat— An exhibitand sale ot needlework of nts will bo held at the v GirLs' School, Segamat. j nday. I
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  • 92 5 This map is of the Tioni? Bahru electoral division. In the division arc hundreds of SIT houses. It is bounded on the west by Henderson Koad where it meets Tiong Rahru Koad and on the south by Tiong Bahru. Outram and Cantonment Koads up to its junction
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  • 177 5 NEW COUNCIL WAGE SCALES THERE Is back pay for peons and firemen m the sub-! ordinate division of the Singapore City Council under the consolidation scheme which has been approved m principle. It is proposed that men m this division should be put
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    • 24 5 CLAMOROUS SViIMSUITsI for leisure time wear, care- md fully cut and tailored for Bf See them now at Jf^ EXCELSIOR LTII., 1114.11 STBBET. SIK«AP«BIT
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 669 5 CHURCH VNNOCNCEMENTS I Redemptoiist Monastery (Thorn- j Teck (Big.) Mr. Koh Tiong Ta! Miittril OF ENGLAND *> n Road > Ma;^ s En^ 630 a.m. (Malay). SI i!!u,ei-s i "thedra.: 7 8 a.m. 7.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m. Katon* Straits MNit^M pm. Communion; ».3O a JB. BUBd»y Church of Our Lady
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    • 190 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk """and Phil Davis i~~] MANDRAKE f E/CUSE MY DRESS, -CAPABLE Of I[m>lM- ORDINARY I THANK YOU. PLEASE PHONE I f~"\ w "SORRY TO CAPTAIK.CAMf GOING A MILE BATHYSPH{R£S. HIM I'M COMING. MATTER J[V fR -GO RIGHT IN, THANKYOU. HEAR ABOUT PIGHT FROM THE DOWN UNDER Of
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    • 662 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR JJOKN today. self < <,„,„., through >our 0h,,,,, any kind of opposit,,,,, art J"' of jour major ,1,.,,,,,,,, >ou have a keen mind. so U ,,d I judgment and are a job that needs to he dun,. You can be depends ltti to accomplish what >ou sa*
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 227 7 LONDON. Dec. J. iTnmuv Today I" I BI'.F X No 1 K>s c.i.l. European 23 916 buyers 23 13 16 buyers 'ports Drc 23 13 16 sellers 24 sellers Xi BISt X No 1 SSS cJJ European 23 916 buyers 23 13 16 buyers ports Jan 23
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    • 100 7 NEW YORK, Dec. 3. Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 90.37 nom. 90.12 nom. il\ future* Dec 90.00 bid 89.50 bid 90.37 asked 90.32 asked Jan. 90.00 bid 89.37 bid 90.25 asked 90.25 asked Peb. 90.00 traded 89 30 bid TONE: Quiet. SALES: Nil. Xl BBfcß
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    • 48 7 Spot \fulabar was quoted at 45 'j per pound. December ship--44 January 43. January. iary and March (equal monthly proportions) 42. Sarawak spot 44' i. awaiting release 43 and Lampong spot at 454 rents per pound, sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib.
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    • 10 7 Previous Today I Mo<k> (onipositV Averages 141.24
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    • 128 7 Dec. 3. Previous Today COPRA Philippines c.i.f. IK /North. $196 sellers $196 paid buyer 1 Utopian delivered weight per long t<>n Dec, .lan. COPRA, Philippines f.o.h. Manila, delivered! weight, per long l«n unquoted unquoted OPRA Mraits. c.i.f. I K/North. £72% buyers £73> 4 buyers European delivered
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  • Article, Illustration
    50 7 Air Vice-Marshal A. M. Engineer, Deputy Chief of Staff, Indian Air Force, and Singapore's Undersecretary, Mr. J. D. Iligham, facing camera, join m a tete-a tete after a luiu-h ffiven by the Indian C'ommi sioner m Malaya, Mr. R. K. Tandim. Singapore Indian community leaders were there. Free Press picture.
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  • 462 7 4 SINGAPORE Chinese widow, who lives on public charity, was recently forced to borrow money to buy new books and uniforms for her son who is going to a Government English school next year. A Free Press inquiry revealed that she
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  • 30 7 The Study Group Movement starts a new venture on Dec. 14 a year's instruction to students of Economics. Contact the organising secretary at tlic British Council for details.
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  • 35 7 $141, 885 for drains JOHORE BAIIRU. Sat. Construction of anti-mul;irlal drains m the ravines adjoin Ing the new Customs omcera quarters m Julan Larkin is now m hand. The work tf estimated to cost $141,885.
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  • 72 7 Temple to get big overhaul The Sri fkinnaii vbuurmgar temple at O :<>n Road.Si: papore. Is to be completely renovated at a cost of $25,000. Indian artists are bein^ eUffßff* ed to repair and paint the temple don "Balasthupanarn" a Dtmnonf In Which all Idols are tsaembled for religion rites
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  • 41 7 Mr. Carl T. Rowan, Negro journalist and tuthor, who li now visiting Btnfftpor«, will speak to members of the Si port- Teachers' Union it the British Council (fall at 8 o'clock Untight. The public m welcome.
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  • 310 8 Magistrate con victs m 'test case rpU APTEABANCE of eolonel'i two children, brother and sister i-ed II and 12, at a pony display m Olympia was an o/Teine against the Children and Young Persons' Act, it u as decided bj Mr. E.
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  • 83 8 ONF of the few people to push the police force around with impunity is pretty brunette Margaret Wood, 16. who sends police sergeant Fred Fennell, 4:2, and 14 stone m weight, fl.ving through the air with a stomach throw at Hove, Sussex. Fred, of Brighton, holds a
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  • 165 8 ANEW and "kinder" system of deciding the future education of primary school Children is to be introduced by London County Council. Instead of the county examination and the formal letter announcing the type of .school chosen, there will m future be talks between
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  • 236 8 IF you think all police recruits are "green" the latest man m blue to enter the Metropolitan Police School at Hendon makes that seem a fallacy. Albert Bernard Cook may be a novice as a London policeman but at 27 he's quite a veteran
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  • 167 8 TWO KILLED WAITING FOR PRAYERS TWO little old ladies killed M they sat m the lounge oi an old folk 1 waiting for evening pra be fere television. A chimney stack clashed rough the root and buried them and 11 other \v< under bricks and rubble. They were all .sitting
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  • 68 8 PAIN caused sales of beer tc drop during the .summer, Mr. Geoffrey W Dobson, chairman of Yate.s's Castle Brewery, Manchester, told shareholders. He added: "Beer drinking is to a certain extent dependent on weather conditions, and I seldom recollect a wetter or colder summer." Beer-drinking trend:
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  • 22 8 Dr. a. C. T. Perkins, county medical officer, reported mat there wi re 129 fatal accidents homes m 1953.
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  • 616 8 THE MASTER SERGEANT WHO GAVE GIRL A LIFT IS FINED DESCRIBED as the disciplinarian of a U.S. camp, a master-sergeant— the American equivalent of a staff serif anl attended a party to cell brate promotion Ol nine of In.s men to corporals. what happened afterwi l< <i to the man.
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  • 68 8 TOO MUC H TOOTING I^MfliT linns a ,|av, sinus J s» uixl m Portsmouth m. kvini. They htthn the ■tafl au pmtlenU of Rtyal ll— pitol Ml lIHUII v"iu "i iiic Mi) h««iltAl com- mittee is U usk (he Achnirain to redacc the none. Ainl the tity council will hv
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  • 116 8 Stolen car crushes constable A POLICEMAN who JUI n the running-boa: a stolen car went to h with multiple Injuries the same city, his m hospital with her w< baby. She had not been of the crush. P.C. Harold Spenec. aged 20 was crush < d betw< en tl and
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  • 42 8 The captains of four G.P.O. cable .ships are to get t2 a week more, making theiT salaries D 1.460 a year. And the rise is backdatul to January 1, 1953. which means that each will get nearly £2'JO -less tax
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  • 291 9 FOUR-POINT PLAN TO CLOSE GAP IN THE LAW JMIE authorities should I consider a permanent ban on learner-drivers failed three or more a magistrate said retly. Four .suggestions for dealing u; tli what he railed a gap m law on driving licences made by the
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  • 78 9 A BOY aged three was saved running under a lorry tncycle recently. His was a girl aged four. Klrl, Carole Birkins. <( i oil her own tricycle .saw Clifford Ashton 1 backwards on his. She rabbed the handlebars of his and stopped it. home m
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  • 22 9 lage halls m Suffolk built by volunK 30 mon v to start Other spare-time worklylng out 22 for children
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  • 40 9 'HURCH and rhapel sern Pwllhcli and vilta Bouth Caernarvonm,y carried on with Ol torches oil lamps ndles, when the deeply failed, hone operators a) wrted by candJe-light ujjUl the light supply was restored alter about 45 minutes.
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  • Article, Illustration
    108 9 IMII-: first Royal (iuarcl with the new V. N. Belgian rifle was mounted by the Ist Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment at Warminster m honour of their Colonel-in-< hief, the Duke of Edinburgh. The Wiltshire* are the demonstration battalion attached to the School of Infantry, and the Duke saw the newest
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  • 148 9 fTOMMY COTTERELL, aged A seven, saw this three-year-old sister's nightdress burst into flames. He rushed across and beat at them with his bare hands. His action saved her face and eyes. Magaret, whose dress was wafted up the chimney as she stood by the
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  • 162 9 80 mph GALE ON DARTMOOR BEATS RUNAWAY IN 3 HOURS IT took The Moor just 195 minutes to beat 27-year-old Samuel Dakin. At 4.30 one afternoon he dashed away from a party of prisonen from Dartmoor gaol' Just 8J tliey were Stopping work m a quarry. At 7.45, .soaked and
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  • 19 9 The legal aid scheme introduce d m 1949 m Britain cost £2,503,000 up to March la^L
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  • 58 9 Actress gets the push' I^ILM a< Iross Joan j Greenwood i bilting j the Bertram Mills m us at Ascot finds that st.ir^ j of the ring ran be Jealous j of the limelight. j Here sl»r gHs 1 1.«* "push" from Odense one of the knapstrapper "sp»t- j teiV
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  • 169 9 MOTHERS WARNED DIPHTHERIA CAN RECUR Parents were recently warned not to allow themselves to be 'lulled into a lal.se pfittN of complacency' by the dramatic tall m the incidence Df diphtheria The speaker was Miss Pat Homsby-Smith. Parliamentary Secretary. Ministry of Health. She was opening a new maternity and child
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  • 70 9 A TINY Fie ich jet f i J-' H t to be adopt N prrt. c to Britain i, land Gnat The French "cheap I the Breguet will tht r< fort 1 i). v.' the standard plan fi r the West. TiiY future ol th< aircri
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  • 92 9 Friend of Princess is happy now Amera iii their duties m loung( ol London Ail 1 I ntly to .see Mr.s. aid I would do fri( nd o: Princess Margan i and I City COUIK illor. ci Iticised the airpi 1 1 cl< liness when she left 12 c o.
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  • 447 10  -  KATHLEEN HICKLEY Another episode m the under-sea adventures of Mansoor, Fatimah and their Magic Jar. A Story for the young by MWsOOK and Fat I Mali haw l»rrn turned into mrrpeople through finding a mafk jar The.\ ire taken to tin bottom of the sea where
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    • 150 10 JUNIOR CROSSWORD CLUBS ACROSS. 3. The f»t ranges! tower of a astle. 6, A MM* a fB? I'' 1$ chemical th;if burn.s. 8, It guided «9H r the M WiM Men" to "10 AOtMt" 7 grjJ KS 9. Statue in Piccadilly Circus. 10, |W 1 Town in winch Je.^u.s was
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    • 190 10 I Colour this house L jj l\ It might win LLUCyK y winners you ti prize l ast coi ur c ntt i »ers <who each win v, THHERE are four prizes of $5 each priie) are: Ito be won for colouring this Teresa flanur (13). 67 i picture with
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  • 315 11 Complex 'take' launches Olivier film STR Lawrence Oliviers production of "Richard III", In which he Is again acting m the three-fold capacity of producer, director and principal player, was well and truly launched at Shepperton Studios this w< ek with one of the most complex and complicated takes on record.
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  • 157 11 EO GENN, who stars with Gregory Peck m "Moby has been receiving cck'.s fan mail ever since the troupe arrived at Fkhguard, wales, for location shooting. <-*nn finally came out m the W>en and admitted he's been vice-president of the Gregory Peck Fan Club m England •since its
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  • Article, Illustration
    73 11 Operatic oriole Helen Traubel and drama classicist Jttc Ferrer join forces for some harmony of the lf)00 variety m "Deep In j My Heart" a picture which j Hollywood is making,: based m the life of Sig- mund Romberg and his; rmisic. It will be Jose's original voice
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  • 278 11  - GLAMOUR? Just be yourself, advises Barbara Michael Ruddy AS a film star, do you have to be glamorous all the time? "Just be yourself. Be natural," says Barbara Stanwyck who's been m the limelight and before the cameras for 25 years. She's 47. admits it. Her hair is silver-grey. She
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    91 11 Great secrecy surrounds the making of the main scene m the firm "L«\s Demoniaque" which Georges- Henri < lomot is directing m Paris. Only those people activ«l\ connect ed with the scene are allowed on the set. ...in fact, the studio has been 'out of bounds' to all others for
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  • 214 11 SCHOOL bells are significantly .silent on Hollywood lots today and this as a record-breaking hall million students return to classes m the Ix>s Angeles public-school system. Major studios which once conducted regular sessions have made no provisions at all this term for what, few youngsters
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  • 269 11  - COBRAS give you the creeps HAROLD HEFFERNAN says INSECTS and reptil* ha\f always b« en considered taboo audience-appeal Items by all Hollywood film producers, but occasionally a major .studio will actually take a Chance on a story featuring ants such as the recent and dubiously successful "The Naked Jungle" or
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  • 106 12 Bomb Kill er gets medal IN West Germany where miexploded bomb.s are .still a.s common a.s repentent Na/i.s the Order ol M»i it ha., just been conferred on 61--jrear old Wilheim Weiin known to his friends as "The Bomb Killer Risking In. life almost daily, Weiier ha., dismantled ami rendered
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  • 578 12 fnmetm ckx plays an Important role m the life of the < 'immunity and Of the individual. Most people em to tuwHiatc sex with youth :md the loss Oi Sexual power with senility. Since the human race became c< 1 ol the life cycle of birth, childhood
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  • 70 12 DR. LESLIE. M. Fitzgeial President of the America Dental Association, said i Miami, "the nations dent; health will be substantial! improved" In the future b fluoridation of public watsupplies. Dr. Fitzgerald said rtourici tion is now m ooeration i 1.020 cities with a eombinec population of more than
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  • 40 12 "Country Casual" is the descriptive title of this untrimmed cloche with small fluted brim. Of wool melusine m a brilliant shade of nastertfum red, it is ffood to look at and comfortable to wear. Reuter picture.
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  • 200 12 Women get equality ulcers too women's entrance into TT competition with has resulted m an crease m stomach intestinal ulcers among women m recent years 'Women want to be par with men," said Dr E. Cox. "They want the privilege of making a living they want such thing, suffrage. And
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  • 111 12 rpAKINC! the cis:arettrs-and--1 cancer controversy still further there comes evidence from Japan to support the American opinion that heavy cigarette smoking causes cancer of the lungs. Dr. Takeshi Hirayama. a leading Japanese cancer specialist, reveals that m a careful check of the smoking habits of nearly 4.000
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    • 261 12 CLUES ACROSS: 7 Unhippiness experienced by a 3 Prom Which hlvt betma may be hoaidrr, perhaps (6). constructed <!>> E^ 6 11 111 to a scarecrow <3>. a Bve nominated some f5) JJ x straln tones in (7 >- B erts ail to begin with (7/. nreserve? ri >- IU
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  • 441 13  -  JOSEPH EDMUNSON by HOW attractive a girl can look with golden tan and newest fashion swimsuit, as she runs n the beach and into the sea. Could she be YOU? But look at her later, coming out of the Blue-limbed, gooseinpled—just a forlorn girl
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  • 502 13 IN the 4-3-2-1 point count method, a takeout m a lower-ranking suit (a two-over-one response; shows a minimum of 10 points. When the combined hands have a total of at least 26 points, there should be some play for game at a major suit or at no-trump, barring
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  • 304 13  - What do YOU do about a Cold? ANNE SHARPLEY bf DO YOU just "lie down and die" to colds, or are you a faithful pilltaker—or do you have some private answer of your own to the problem that is perplexing the experts at the Common Cold Research Unit at Salisbury?
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    44 13 Today's Zipp girl is none other than charminy Elaine Stewart. SHE has the i .tit idea, this /'PP girl by the sea. She's out to he FIT and she cm do that best the FUN way. Why don't you try it too?
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  • 203 13 You'll feel fit after a dip, Mr. Flop SHIMMING Is the ideal exercise for Mr FLOP, the man who keeps fit the takf-it-easy way. It can be ideal for YOI too if you ofoev some common-sense Do's and Don'U. DO ret warm KKFOKK you go into the water (old water
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  • 61 14 Iy-b-r Mueller, the former (i c r m a n middleweight champion, gets another chance to display hia talents tonight when he tangles with Ralph (Tiger i Jones m a 10--round US bout. The nationally televised flint win bo Mueller's second m the U.S. In
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  • 60 14 BELGIAN boxers Pierre Cos.srmyns and Joseph Jcan.s"'i) will fight Asian title bouts against Filipino championa m Manila on Doc. 20, Cosscmyns will meet Leo Ksplnosa m a 12-rounder for tbe Orient bantaweight crown. Jeaiuen will tackle Bonnie Espinosa. Leo'.s elder brother, m another 12- round
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  • 41 14 After a ,scyreless first half 22 Special Air Service Regiment was beaten by Weit York.-; by six points (two tries i to three dry) m their quartet fhnl iepU<y In the Farelf rugger cup (Federation zone) In Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 24 14 Detroit Timers baseball team annourn ed the pun -hn.se of Robert D. :s«jhulfz, 31-yenr-old left -handed pitcher, from the Pittsburgh PH \tM
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  • 343 14 ALFIE SANDS FOR DEC. 26 CARD I rvv Press lloxing Reporter Alfll SANDS i s comiiiK to do battlf once more m a Singapore* ring. H«* and his manager have ignei to a fight on Dec. i<» against Filipino Kay Rico. Leading Aussie middleweight. Ainc win battle Rico at the
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  • 174 14 Moss may join Mercedes in the New Year STIRLING MOSS, 25-year-old British racing motorist, flew to Frankfurt yesterday from London to talk business with the Mercedes Racing Stable at Stuttgart for a possible contract for 1955. Moss s to try out the Mercedes racer. Tests have tentatively been arranged for
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  • 279 14 THE Social Match between Royal Island Club and R.S.G.O. will be played at the Royal Island Club tomorrow. The draw and starting times are: FIRST TEE 8.15 F. Jones (4> and Hodgkin s on (8C) v MofTett (6) and McEwan (So; 8.20 Stirling (2) ;i
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  • 124 14 lEN MUTTON'S reacon.s for putting Australia m to ba( LONDON. Pri— Len Hutton's reasons for putting Australia m to bat fir.st m the first Test match were perfectly logical, said former England opening batsman Sir Jack Hobbs, before he left Southampton yesterday for South Africa on
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  • 73 14 The Singapore Combined Services hockey team against Penang and Combined Schools at Penang on Dec. 11th and 12th is: Sgt. Bath <RAF); Sgt. Gellard (RAF), Fit. Lt. Walker (RAF): Lt. I Pritchard tArmyi. Cpl. N. Baker (RAF), M;ij. Bennett (Army); Capt. NunniArmy), Capt. Lumley (Army),
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  • 88 14 SCOTS REBUILD SOCCER TEAM ONLY three of the side which drew 2-2 with Ireland on November 3 are included m the Scotland team to play Hungary at Hampden Park, Glasgow on Wednesday next. The three to retain their places are centre half Davidson, inside-right Johnstone and outside-left right Ring. The
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  • 117 14 rriiE Singapore Cricket Club elected the following official^ at the annual general meeting: President: L. A. WUttUßt, VicePresident: L. L. Cooper. Committee Members: j. W. Cashin F. W. Dunhill, L. E. Lake. J. S. Kirkham, J. H. Mills J. c. Smith, H. L. Storr.s, A. If.
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  • 638 14  -  GEORGE PASQIA L By I GEORGE PASQUAL, an exchange student from Singapore now at Idaho State College, wrote this article m his college I* 7/iagazine from which it is extracted. I WAS a spectator, not the perspiring, howling kind, but one who was
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  • 15 14 (Answer m Column 1). "Ghost" picture of a local jockey. Guess who?
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    • 152 14 Sports quiz (1) Name the two young Singapore players who defeated Ilichard Bergman n during his visit to Singapore m September? What was the last world title held by a British boxer? (3) In two field events the throwing circle is the same size. What are they and what is
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  • 281 15 R.A.F. were m scoring form By FIRST-TIMER Kwyal Air Force 3; Civilians 1. rplllS upset victory by the airmen is going to make the Singapore quadrangular tournament more siting than was expected. Civilians were the ..nirites, and their defeat makes it an open competition. In
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  • 97 15 CANBERRA. Frl WHEN the If.CC. play the Prime Minister*! XI here on Dec. 8 the batsmen will have a chance to help the Itgacy movement. Tho Canberra Chamber of Commerce has promised to donate £1 (about *7 Malayan) for every and 5s for every four while
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  • 26 15 BOMBAY. Fri -India's leff.spin bowler. Subhax Gupte today ran through an opposing team and UMfe ten wicket. s fcr 78 runs.
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  • 186 15 r w world flyweight boxJ ing champion Pascual of Argentina would dehis title m about three Perez's manager said day. The manager, Lazaro Koci, that the match would defi- be held m Buenos Aires that Perez's opponent I either be Japan's Yoshio shirai from
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  • 54 15 BOURNE. Frl. Australia d four more players for its cniad to defend the Davis m the challenge round m Sydtn Dec. 27 to 29. cv are Ashley Cooper. George thintiton. Neale Fraser and Roy i. Lewis Hoad Ken Rose wall, rtwig and Mervyn Rose
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  • 107 15 WORLD welterweight cham- pion Johnny Saxton won an unanimous but narrow 10- i round decision last nisht over third-ranking challenger Ramon Fuentes m a non-title match In Saxton's first fieht since he took the title from Kid Gavilan six weeks ago. The Brooklyn fighter turned m another
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    29 15 Free Press uicture. < 'viliuns fullba<k Ajit Sin/jli checks a Royal Air Force attack m yesterday's hockey quad fixture on the padang. The airmen won 3 l, an upset result.
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  • 274 15 TONY TRABERT, AmeriC selected as the world's t yesterday by the eitfht men an Davis Cup star, was >est amateur tennis player nber world tennis writer's ranking committee. The British "Lawn Tennis Magazine" said the rankings are "the most authoritative m the history of
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    104 15 Imefa Sports Club "Building Department" tram which woo the inter-departmental table tennis championship for tht t A. Jackson Challenge (up. Left to right: Teo Hong Fei, Lim Choo Ann. X S. Murry (Patron of Jacks Sports Club who gave away th«* prizes). Teo Sin Kone. One Choon The doubles championship
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  • 44 15 rpWo Japanese tennis stars U-av« today i<< '(ui:p(.te In tIM Philippine chainpk>oahtp on Int.- day m IfJUltla Tbey are Atauahl Iflymgi, Waseda r.sity Hud Yuji Takivama, Keio Uiiivcrsiiy. 'J'hty will play In Hony Konu on thill WAI hoili) A. P.
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  • 355 16 KALEMARIA (In Race 4) I Going still yielding Free Press Course Correspondent ABOVE ALL is every body's tip for tin < l.iss I, Div. 1 (if. sprin (Race Six) at I puh today On his Penang October win tliis four-year-old *jre> Appear! a handicap certainty.
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  • 77 16 •n Wfdt v, (minimum) < WARD On November 22. it U, Hu-ih Goodwin Civil Service. •n\ of Paha i TAN CHIN YONG, Age '>8 passed ■i peacefully at 'lie Oeneral Hospital, Singapore S-12-54. Funeral will leave 572 Havelock Road, today for Bidadari Cemetery, a( 5 j).m. MRS. M WILFRED
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  • 247 16 LASS 1 horses engaged on the second day on Wednesday w«-re out lor fast work on a \wt track at ?[M>h this morning. Kumar, now m the Bagby Stable, (Jui surprisingly mo<kl gallop when li<* stretched out freely over Sf. m :jk 9 .>
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  • 20 16 I formation of the "Argen-tine-American Sports Relation Committee* 1 was announced during a luncheon at Buenos Airos yesterday.
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