The Singapore Free Press, 24 December 1954

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya I4ISS iltMWi, WrL, Dm. J4.IJS4. Me* IS 4 I*
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  • 171 1 Special Xmas Message by the Bishop of Singapore to it this ycjr I pray we %h »il no .mi welcome H.m who b ir\ rh Divm m .».< and be trin\rigur, J by th.it vivian into th«.» children ol Cod Look wher 7 Wlii-n- child*, n n d your h
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  • 199 1 HOLIDAY CROWD RUSH NORTH r |MIK BIG Christmas holiday exodus from Singapore to the Federation has betfun. For thousands of Colony office workers and schoolchildren, it will he a Malayan Christmas. Already, hundreds have crossed the Causeway by car and rail. Many others have Rone by nir. Record crowds are
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  • 45 1 Weather experts say the prospect s for tomorrow are bright although a slight shower may i)e expected late m the afternoon. There is a possibility of monsoon rains breaking out again on Sunday or Monday. Moderate showers may be expected this afternoon.
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  • 65 1 THE POPE LEFTS BAN FOR HAY POPE PITS XII has decreed that Catholics m/iy eat meat on New Year's Eve even though it falls on a Friday. This action was taken because New Years Eve is "traditionally devoted by the faithful to thanking the Lord for benefits received during the
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  • 88 1 I EIGHTEEN passengers survivrd out Of a total Of 28 when a twin-engined i> >u^lu.s airliner crashed into th< i Mon on ga he la River, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Most passengers were vi('tncn going on Christmas leave. Eight bodies have 10 far been recovered,
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  • 44 1 Parenta were up early tod i to welcome their children who d m Sin In the Gorgon from Australia. She brought N children itudylni m Australian sr; In time to .spend Chit I home Twenty-nine i from the Federation
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  • 30 1 Malaya will be able to sec th< rare solar eclipie lomorro? Christina i Day Thto annula rfi< moon "f>s« ol th< tun, wii. gtart vi 4J20 p.m.
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  • 90 1 J^URIOUS storms lashed Westr crn Europe yesterday for third day. At least 26 were dead or missI m the incessant wind, ;> and snow which extend--1 from Denmark to Northn Italy, from Scotland to Germany and France. M >re storms are predicted. .ophone
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  • 116 1 JANUARY first grade rubber opened on the Singapore Market this morning at RO l^ 'tits a lb.. eight-sixteenths of •:it below Thursday's closing price. The tone was uncerI tin. Later the price went down t t 89 7 cents but recovered to cents. The reaction was partly
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  • 137 1 V' S. ABAKUMOV, former Soviet Minister of National Security, and three others have been condemned to death as accomplices of the executed police boss, Lavrenti Beria, Moscow Radio said last night. The other three were identity Leonov, Konarov and lacher. The radio said that Abakumov
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  • 47 1 Bid for Lasting Peace r i .sh m I 1 1 ir O.i Bomb iit The Mr. M< m I likely to put I wit|j for inut:. LI Mr. sub crlbln Atlantic Pact, \h tleved it to '>• I preliminary step to irda the h;»»i> oi co-exUtence. Reuter
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  • 29 1 Two women from Huh Lane, Singapore, were admitted to hospital last night with b wounds after .1 quarrel Another woman wai ire it.- 1 t m outpatient.
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  • 99 1 Some hate syce-driven cars r JMiE Singapore rmprore- tnent Trust today started registration of prospective well-to-do truants for hotlflea m the Queenstowri area Alxmt 30 application forms were t^iven out diirtag the first one hour. Borne who railed to collect forms came m syce-driven cars. The
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  • 310 2 Move to delay German rearmament pact lost THE FRENCH PREMIER M. Mendes France, scored a notable triumph In favour of the ratification of the Paris Agreements soon after midnight today when a motion hostile to the Government and asking for the adjournment of the ratification
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  • 53 2 FIVE DIE IN MOROCCO TERROR IjUVE people were killed and 11 others wounded m a series of teirori.st attacks on Wednesday nijzht m Casablanca. Two home-made bombs killed three people. Two others were killed m individual revolver attacks. Machine run bullets were sprayed outride two cinemas but no one was
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  • 43 2 ITALY'S Chamber of 1 Deputies last night ratified by a big margin the Paris agreements setting up the Western I iimpeaii I'liion and admitting: West Germany to the Atlantic pact. The secret vote was taken after a ion-day debate. Reuter
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  • 72 2 The U.S. army will obtain U5512,000,000 worth of utility transport planes from the De Havilland Aircraft Co. of Canada, it was announced yesterday. The Air Force said that it is buying 90 of the planes, known as Otters, for the army. The plane may be
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  • 35 2 A court m Rumania has sentenced 20 officials to prison terms of up to 20 years for the theft of nearly 160 tons of wheat, thp Bucharest Daily Rumania Libera .said yesterday. U.P.
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  • 181 2 RENDEZVOUS IN MAIZURU *THE Soviet Union has agreed to return 27 small naval 1 craft of the United States which she borrowed during the second World War. the State Department announced m Washington yesterday. For six years the United States has been demand- ing; the
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  • 151 2 WILLIAM CLADISH. aged 57, was at Canterbury, K»-nt < England) yesterday s '-nt lor medical observation lor trying to drive off with a railway engine. He told the court that he v.< only trying to better him: elf. I idUh said
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  • 160 2 'TRADE UNIONISTS m London were told yesterday r that an attempt may be made m the near future to disrupt the services of Britain's slate-operated airlines by unauthorised labour disputes. Mr. J. M&thews, secretary of the trade union side of the Civilian Air Transport
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  • 81 2 JAP GOVT'S THREE BIG DATES JAPAN'S Diet will adjourn today, be reconvened January 22 and dissolved on January 27. Prime Minister Ichiro H, it rama had to promise thi solution of the Diet In January and nation-wid. elections m early March I Socialist support to force the recent resignation 01
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    • 246 2 Oz/r collection of famous r Swiss watches is really worth seeing and they're Real X'mas Bargains 1 20 BATTERY RDS'PORE. TEL ***** THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD. The good things of life come easily to the man with the security of a Lion Policy. THE LION POLICY The
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  • 139 3 SIR Newham Worley, vicepresident of the East African Court of Appeal referred yesterday to what he ;ibed as the common practice of Kenya police m handing Man Mau suspects to ning teams for "softening to extract information. He was giving judgment m the case of
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  • 80 3 SIR Vincent Glenday. Speaker of the East African Central Legislative Assembly, lias b -n told to carry out a full scale investigation into the conditions m screening camps. The government has now decided that no Mau Mau suspect will m future be detained at a
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  • 194 3 Marilyn and Marlon top headliners M\ lULVN MONK °fc Marlon Itrumlo are tin Inures oi the year m Hollywood, now that it iv lime to assess the happening of 19.) 1 A year thai Drought fewer scandals, more marriages, less divorces longer pictures. l^;r« w.is better actiai tal leu sen
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  • 174 3 COURT OF INQUIRY FOR BRITISH RAIL STRIKE THREAT CIR WALTER MONCKTON, Minister of Labour, last night set up a Government court of inquiry into the national rail strike called for Jan. 9, by leaders of 400,000 British railwaymen. The Minister decided this after an unsuccessful bid to find a peace
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  • 179 3 BRITISH postmen are together walking enough miles to encircle the earth m efforts to deliver a record 701) million Christmas cards and letters before tomorrow. London's General Post Office has hired 140,000 extra help ers to sort the mail and solve the problems posed
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  • 39 3 The Governor or Northern Ireland, Lord Wakehurst, yesterday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence on John Joseuh Gonzalez, 24, who was found »,uiltv of murdering his 19-year-old-wife, Teresa, 11 months after their marriage.. Reuter
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  • 138 3 A BELGIAN priest, freed by the Chinese Communists last month, had his back broken under torture and lay paralysed on a prison floor for Six months, the Hong Kong Catholic Church stated yesterday. The prie.st, Father Albert Schier was one of 14 priests
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  • 102 3 11/ HEN Veronica Cerdeiro, W !7 and her husband. Daniel, 9 returned from Christmas shopping, tnej sei down before their Christmas tret and began «uarrelinf. Their three children n> the next room heard Mrs. Cordeiro say. M Cc ahead and pull the trifier." A
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  • 28 3 THE TAPIRS WERE TOO BIG FOR PLANE IJKM M ipln Christ the i V <:k the m. Xi m r it pi t lls ill uiy i irk
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  • 275 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Dec. 24, 1954. GOODWILL TO MEN PEACE on Earth, Goodwill to Men How these words have rung through the ages and have given hope and strength, if only for a j few hours, to all who have heard them. The post-war years have been troubled
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  • 472 4 West looks forward to four-power talks YEW moves for top level talks between East and West are the subject of conversations ostween London, Washington and Paris. Apparently President Eisenhower has been considerably impressed by the fact that both Sir Winston Churchill and M. Mendes-France attach great importance to talks with
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  • 37 4 A correspondent passes on without comment the question he was asked to reply to by a French banqueting club. "Why does a declaration of love often misfire if the loved needs a hearty meal?"
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  • 163 4 A SECTION of the British Cabinet is pressing for the amalgamation of all throe defence services into one body, with the R.A.F. as the new senior service. It is argued that this could enable drastic economies to be made without impairing the defence structure Of
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    • 16 4 WEDDING GIFTS DISTINCTIVECUfLERY IS ALWAYS APPRECIATED P.H. HENDRY. JEWELLER 78. NORTH BRIDCE ROAD. SINCAPORE-6 X LUMPUR
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    • 148 4 AVAIL YOURSELF OF 20 years of experience m estate development by CREDIT FONCIER MEYER CHAMBERS 3rd FLOOR, (RAFFLES PLACE) FRANKEL ESTATE OPERA ESTATE FIRST CLASS NEWLY RECENTLY COMPLETED DEVELOPED ESTATE AT ESTATE 61 M.S. CHANCI ROAD BETWEEN CHANCI NEAR THE SEA EAST COAST ROADS AT PROXIMITY OF A NEW LARGE
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  • 130 5 6 new diesels will haul trains m 1955 T*HERE will be a marked Improvement In the Mai Railway service next year. Th«-n m\ ne* B l locomotives will by hauling the trams. Tin- first thn 'iy arrived "n the .s. B Antil'M-hus. now m port. A
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  • 79 5 Mass carol rally tonight MORE than 1.500 will take m a mass carol rally re tonight. The rally, organised by the Christian Youth Council, will be at the Presby--1 imrch ground m OrchRoad. Chinese carols will start from p.m. to 11.15 p.m. and English carols from 11.30 p.m 15 a.m.
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  • 76 5 THE CRIPPLED STAGE THEIR OWN PLAYS II was the liny actors Mid Mtrwwg who really enjoyed their own concert at the Siftap Orthopaedic Hospital. The faces the audience Of about 1 3*1 adults were ahvorlieri hut s o sadl> compassionate thai man) had moist eyes and forgot to smile. In
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  • 32 5 Th ;itid pupil o! Umar Pulavar Pa mil School. will m< el ;»t the pr-' mlses, Maxwell Road sv on (Jmar Ehilfti tr Ri m branc< Day on Bund i
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  • 101 5 THREE PARTIES -AND REWARD QANTAS Empire Airways gave three separate Christpartiei to staff members nr;jloyed at Serangoon Road je, Kallang Airport and Raffles Hotel. (apt. H. M. Birch, local manager, thanked employees for their co-operation during the year. At Kalian^, Capt. Birch presented Mr. Anthony Koh of the engineering department
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  • 31 5 THEY SEEK SUPPORT OF ALL RACES lerce but lion foi a multl ndli > the n Mi v i 1 t)ut multl could loin. I petti the chambei tlon committee ftnd i
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 1087 5 CHUECH OF ENGLAND Benediction. Sunday: Mass 6.30:4 p.m. Service of Christmas Music St. Andrew's Cathedral: Tonight: a.m. 8 a.m. Alt., Weekly. 5.30 p.m. Thanksgiving Meeting m 4.30 pm. Crib Service. 11.30 p.m. st< Theresa s c hurch (K ampong H tne f rs Lai Chlap Hin Midnight Eucharist. Tomorrow: 6
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    • 384 6 i- f /iHI-M j.v/il r naiH'Vhi i \W your ■l|l.UMIlllJ...I!lII.~>.i^M.I-i^-^g LUCKY MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and lPhHPavis STAR WUNDRAKri -M rJ ?I/fwOv"-"sSAPP/«6THlc:4Blf^ U^O^ITBACK^|miO GET TO THE P^^ir^JK^^^^V iher T^ls^^L/ \CANNON HtTSTHt >■ Wm t*d43fM fkk U V 7^"^^j| WSIDE?"; "i'imeir^of "new ldeil| lh -^^X^^T You m *y ea»*ly be considered
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 209 7 I<>M IV ,X 2! m.: Xl BBEI No 1 RBS cJ.f. European 2515/16 b ;><•;> 2f> 7 16 buyers p<»its .lan 26', sellers HI BUCK M« RSB cJ.f. European bu 26*4 bu ■Mil !•!< M sellers 26 9 16 Mil R| i.i.l X so I RSS
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    • 101 7 NEW YORK. Dec. 23. Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 8fi.37 nom. 87.00 nom. UN futures Dec. 86.25 bid 87.25 bid 86.50 asked 87.50 asked Jan. 86.25 bid 87.23 traded 86.50 asked Feb. 86.25 bid 87.25 bid 86.50 asked 87.40 asked TONE: Firm. SALES: Three lots.
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    • 48 7 Spot Malabar was quoted at 41. A floats at 40 December shipment 40. January. February and March (m eaual monthly proportions > 39. Sarawak spot 40. Lampon* sp 41 and awaiting release 39 V* cen per pound sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per 10.
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    • 29 7 Previous Today SI Industrials 397.07 397.15 20 Railroads 1 44.11 44.76 II Domestic Bond* 100.96 100.J1 1.1 lUlities 61.25 61.51 til Storks Composite Averages 147.73 148.ua
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    • 103 7 Previous Today COPRA. Philippines ci.f. UK/North. $198',. sellers $199 sellers European delivered ireifht per COpTv^M^Uppin™'. f.'o.b. Manila, unquoted unquoted ((^rJtS hll «S IO ;&ti; £73 buyers £72 S buyer. E«ro»J> delivered weight per £78% sellers £73. sellers long ton Dee. Jan. m vpr Jan./ Feb... l™
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  • 164 7 TiHE Governor, Sir John 1 Nicol] prpsonted sold ertificatea of Long gervii to tafl members of the Oriental Telephone and E Co, Ltd., at a far terdav tiiven by the C chairman, Mr. B. JBunbury. The party, held at Fraaer and N'\ive Sports
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  • 206 7 'TIME-WASTING' LIGHTS WILL NOW BE SHUT OFF EARLY IMIK two new sets of pedestrian tnillie lights recently set un at Kmpress Plate, Singapore. RTC now switched off every day at ti.3o p.m., >Ir. A. A. Kajah. acting Superintendent of the Trallit Police, said yesterday. Mr. Rajah was replying to criticisms
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  • 66 7 Mobile P.C. gets new look suit The Si men of the Singapore •bill VaAc squad havr h»-rn i* sn»-(i with a nrw look m he/i«Uear They n o v a r whttf iris U helmed v*hnh h.ivc a hand <»l oloiirs round tlir rim m-st«-.MI »l navy hlup Urrets. The
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  • 21 7 Tin- (itivi rnmeni Serv Welfare Organisation (Halg Road quarters), Singapore. will hold iUs Christmas social and dinner on Monday.
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  • 142 7 ABOUT |M vai eolloeted a\ for the Singapore Flood KHi«'f Fund it tin- < "onlrsl < nncrrt MTfanised by Koormun Musk Studios Fift > sei Ml mhii ami RTODK D pupils of the school romp) led on t h <- accordion and the
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  • 74 8 A 20-year-old lorry driver dangled from a rope over a sheer 400 ft. drop to rescue a .sheepdog trapped for three days on a narrow ledge near the .summit of Mam Tor, 1,700 ft. Derbyshire hill. Mr. Kenneth Jar vis, of Whahybridge, made the
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  • 405 8 TRIUMPH OF A DETERMINED WOMAN THE fly-aw&y-tO-Naptefl Wife, Anne Gail, and her run away -to Australia husband. John, have been reconciled and arc now on a .second honeymoon m Italy. The £475 special charter plane which Hew her from Croydon to intercept
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  • 49 8 picture. TIIF. celebrated violinist. Yehudi Menuhiii. is now m London for recitals of Beethoven's Sonatas. And here is the Menuhin family at their London home. Yehudi watches his youngest son try out a small violin. Perhaps there may be another genius m the family soon. Popper
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  • 51 8 Aircraft towing advertising signs should be controlled, says Lambeth (London) Council's town planning committee. Committee chairman Councillor U/. W. Begl c y who saw a plane carrying the words "Cheers Winston" on the Prime Minister's birthday, said: "This sort of thing could make the night sky very
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  • 240 8 DON'T LET'S BE BEASTLY, SAYS GERMAN CIRCULAR i^ERMANS were told In Dusseldorf how to be- have when travelling abroad. They must dress inconspicuously, tone down their voices— and stop laying down the law m other people's countries. For lately there have been complaints about German travellers. The advice was given
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  • 24 8 A motor-cycle and sidecar was found wrecked at the foot of Beachv Head less than 24 hours after it was stolen.
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  • 54 8 TWELVE Russian doctors visiting St. James's Hospital, Balharn, London, were as much impressed by a lourpenny bottle of "Dr. Barlings" cough linctus 2u> by thu hospital's new £500,000 out-patients' department. The linctus— red m colour, and concocted by a staff physician cured their interpreter's sore throat
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  • 351 8 FATHER DIDN'T KNOW HIS OWN DAUGHTER A FATHER who muld not recognise hi- s own daughter when she asked tor his o< nscnt to her marriage to a 30-year-old Latvian, opp marriag it Wolverhampton mat couri \u declared that nothing would ever change hii mind "because I am a BrltUher."
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  • 60 8 Major Peter Dawson ("Casanova") Witty, sentenced to be cashiered lor assaulting a German nursemaid, baa had his sentence cut to a severe reprimand and the loss of two years' seniority. General Sir Richard Gale. Rhine Army C-in-C, made the cut. Major Witty s accuser, a
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • 318 9 Better than juvenile court trial AN old-fashioned way of dealing with naughty children is being tried out as new way of lighting juvenile delinquency and is working. Instead of facing the formal background of the juvenile court the youngsters are dealt with at home, with
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  • 98 9 MARGARET SETS THEM TALKING PRINCESS Margaret went to the London Casino a few nlfhU ago to sec the film "This is Cinerama" and set the audience talking with her new hair style. Picture above shows her hair flowing back m smooth waves. It is brushed up from the forehead and
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  • 279 9 A BOY of eight has an appetite so big that it cannot be satisfied. He Will eat anything, anywhere, and at any time. Not only that. He wants food SO much that he evej steals the lunches from the pockets Of his school
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  • 45 9 Sixty-fix-yeai ild Mr wnllam Barnea had hia le« broken when he wai knocked down by a car On thr fin -nt w st Road at Osterley, Middlesex one night recently A1 once hla ran ion yard his home to fiT« the alarm.
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  • 25 9 The research vessel Discovery IT is to do temporary duty m the North Atlantic during February and March as a weather ship.
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  • 224 9 A WIFE who was forbidden to use the front door of her home was given a decree nisi because, said Mr. Commissioner Temple Morris. Q.C.. "She didn't eet the one thing very wife and mother wants m her home— security The break-up ol
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  • 42 9 T he Vicar of Oorleiton, Norfolk, the Rev. E. L. Cortx v, thinks Christmas preparations be^ntooearly.Hebaici^ur-i day "There Wftl a parly 01 car.. thla yitr who we nt round singing to hum money lor the t u
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  • 220 9 BUT THIS CRIME WAS NOT ON THE RECORD A MAN two and at reeUvc Iratolßi for rrcnvinu I p-nr Ol ■>nnb(K)ts sat down t« P*l Ol ,t. ptaa. and ma h< d tators at his mother 11. wu thrrc because of I typing GFTIIC. Thr man. 22-yoav old Dmnifl Wiikes.
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  • 119 9 Husband wasn't allowed money AN almost Illiterate husband who was |lven no spending money and Wh cigarette supply v >ned by his witr. waa put on probation lor two yars at Sale, Cheshire, att«- r admittini stealing *:i note nron i colleague's wallet Mr! b. Wanes, probation Officer, '-aid Pred
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  • 287 10 II." ESTER N STYLE popular music has gained an uneasy foothold m the Soviet Union despite grave misgivings by the more orthodox guardians of Communist cultural purity. The Russian PresS now concedes that "good fox trots and tangos can be found m foreign music."
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  • 226 10 He rose to speak, but his notes had vanished U'IFTY conjurers, mem- bers of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, went to a party at the Criterion, m London, determined to be "off duty." But inside an hour they were plucking apples picture. Strange things happen m m mill when magicians
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    • 36 10 \^ul r 9ll I REMEMBER si ,\«oi.is:- FHf FASF ASIATIC CO., LTD. |3 IE IE Rl Wai s?i!/ j* ss^ss.* «sa y« *vs mm «v* »>* «a» »jaxtyg >»:</ tt y? »>? SM9 <»X? W»? Wj* !SSK S3S? R^
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  • 64 11 The winners of last 1 colouring contest are: il) Miss Sally Yeo (13>. 3A, Westmoreland Road. Singapore 8; «2i Master Ronnie Lim U3i, C. Duku }{".xd. Singapore 15; (3 1 M;ister Hah Peg Yoon^ <9>. 51. Portchester Avenue, Bingapore 1 4i Miss Penny Lowden (7t, 92, Woodleigh Park.
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  • 134 11 HERE'S something different for« you to do this week to w n /< .me of the four prizes offered^ iuo for boys and two for girls) < mi this page. All you've got < m do is to solve this Christmas future Puzzle
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  • 699 11  -  KATHLEEN HICKLEY A story by I>IPPA, the puppet, hung on the Christmas tree, her long arms and logs dandling uselessly, she had a comical little face, not at all pretty but for all that it was the sort of face that children love. Pippa, however, didn't know
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  • 193 11 Rupert's River Rescue 3 Farmef Brown props the gate g.nnst the iree. We'll k.i\< lh I icrc with the rope." he decides. It may help me when I DOOM >ack later. Thank you again. tupert." He marches off whistling vhule -the little bear looks .11 the ;afe. "7here"s a name
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 167 11 CLUEB ACKOSS:— I. Wind m stiument u.^ed m the Army. 6 m of the camel found m S rica. 8, Small member of th< I Iraffe family 9, A marsh or quag mire 10, Shakespeare's famou shrew. 14. Yellowish-brown colour 16. —Williams" is a famous Weld playwright and actor. 17,
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  • 581 12 I ST hand OS over a J sharp knife. We've had enough of these dotty kitchen »adtfets— the eggtop cutter-offen the tomato pattern makers. the garlic chopper-uppers. Far too much energy and inventiveness go into makin" too many gadgets one can live without, and not
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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    • 90 12 a sensational new V: imTV powder Gnom France Incredibly fine, it clinp without lying, covers tHfcdowi ami pores, fzis a beautiful lutninous look. Delicately perfumed, Wan exquisite box. S'\en radiant shaded MAYNARD CO., LTD. 1 I, BATTERY ROAD. SINGAPORE-1. a■■■ f I ;i Celebrate your X'mas New Year THE CARLTON
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 256 12 CLVBI ACROSS: 8 Order to dog not to eat (2, s>. 1 Damages the plunder <6>. 6 Engrave In relief (6). 4 Promise Father a part 0 (6). 7 Lop off this plum (si. 8 Bags that have a use <B>. 10 I paid stars for a plant (10). 9
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  • 689 13  -  GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON says O RARE AMANDA! By Jack Loudan. Chatto and Windus. 15s. 200 pages. AMANDA McKITTRICK ROS wrote novels like no other novels since the world began. It was as if a confectioner, suffering from sunstroke, were trying to build the
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  • 361 13  - MOVIE 'KING OF COMEDY' TELLS HIS LIFE STORY Harold Heffernan by itory-Ulling style. Mr Shipp once ;i";iin cnriclK-.s movie literature with tlie Mack Bennett tag*, titled Km^ of Comedy.* 1 Mack's famous hirelings and di-sroveues a.s well as the contemporary great! <>f hi s era arc all letchlnfly exploited. Chapters
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  • 314 13 North-South vulnerable °;outh dealer NORTH 4 7 3 v 6 3 OKJ 9 4 3 A 10 f) 7 6 •EST EAST +KQJIO 4 2 ?Q 9 8 5 4 \?K2 OA2OQ 10 8 6 5 AA*J 8 5 4 3 SOITK 4A9 8 6 5 7 A
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  • 1458 14 A CONTEST OF BRAWN -AND BRAINS AMERICAN FOOTBALL ITKOM the warm da> > of September until long after the BltOWfl fall, Saturday afternoon moans i big football game to millions of fans throughout the United States. This year more than 15 million Americana arc hi all kinds of weather to
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    • 136 14 'iiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiii ii l THE STRAITS TIMES, which has pioneered the use of colour photography for magazine journalism m South East Asia, Announces a New SERVICE Sales of a selection of the superb full-colour illustrations from The Straits Times Annuals m the form of 11" x 14" dye-transfer photographic prints. These
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  • 1371 15  -  TRESPASSER By Logical choice for 7t. event SOI'TH PACIFIC, back m serious training after a three-month spell, is the obvious choice m the class 2, division I—71 7 furlongs event at Penang tomorrow, first day of the Christmas-New Year meeting. This black Torbedo gelding
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  • 41 15 pitOBABLE grrilfMSin for tomorrow's Penang races are: Supremacy. >1 eln i k, (Graduate, True Bell. Alpine Knight, Itobin Hood, Little Cherrington, Canterbury, Above All, Carpenter, Stealth, Crown Link. Sangkilat, China Town 11. The going is likely to be good.
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  • 141 15 I) Who Mill captain \fri<a\ rricket tram m the I»M series against riulaml ni\i \rar? Frank T>son. Kimlaml "s Test hero, playt for wliuli count y m the I X (3) Who won the K.im.iU Kam.inujan (up at Ibc recently concluded Asian Table Tennis championships? •1) What is
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  • 263 15 Lindwall harder to face than Tyson IjiRANK Tyson. England's Test 1 hero, v not a.s tricky as Lindwall. according to Nell Harvey, Australia's batsman. Harvey weathered England's pac attack and was 92 not out m Australia's second innines. The Melbourne newspaper, The Herald auoted Harvey a.s tayin*: "Lindwall ha s
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  • 99 15 Hiijiiji Spoif.s Club Is making i (rip tc Kiuaiiß over the Chrtttauu holidays to play two friendly k«"tioc igaintt the Government bigllsh Sclkm.i Old Boya nVnoclaUon to morrow md on Sunday ■(jUnat the Kluani Indian AMOClation Ilir follOWtaC ;ii o tritvrlllnc: rYeeMeai] k jUijangam, Be*.
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    • 32 15 1 WISHING OUR PATRONS A MERRY CHRISTMAS :Air View Cabaret (off Maxwell Road) TONIGHT EXTENSION 2 A.M. Spot Dances, Lucky Dip, Streamers, Balloons. Surprises t Carnival Hats. "X'MAS NIGHT' EXTENSION 1 A.M.
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    • 56 15 HOCKS ALCIS EXTRA 21 JEW EL S^^ SWISS MADE :hncabloc>: ANTIMAGNETIC. J SHOCK-RESISTANT. QBTA/NAfili WATCH DIAIHS** >fey ai a »^Sf I MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW fo, X'MAS EVE Celebration THE OCEAN PARK HOTEL Splendid Entcrtjmmcnr Programme leatiir."* First Personal Appearance MISS BELLA LING The moil .ipplauded Stoffef Sf.u m Hongkonf MttMttSM
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  • 62 16 20 Word* $6 I minimum) THE ENGAGEMENT is announced on the 24th December 1954 between Mr. Bobby Tan and Miss Sally Yeoh. both of Singapore. lEONGSOONG: The MlMfe* men' will be announced between Slew KwoOf, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leong Peng Kuan, and Mcl Ling, daugh ter of
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  • 25 16 20 .->> i minimum THOMSON. ROBERT, Superintendent. Prai Power Station, suddenly on 23rd December, 1954. Cremation at Batu Gantong. Crematorium 24th December, at 5 p.m.
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  • 440 16 SOMDEZ LAUGHS— THEN PROMISES K.O. 'Rico is trying to annoy me' Free Pres s Boxing Reporter OOMDKZ YONGTRAKIT ehacklcd to himself when his manager and trainer. Devil hatikanavi.j, translated vesterda> s Free Press story by Little Nene, Kay Rico's manager, m which Nene tailed Somde/ "a bag °1 wind." Then
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  • 31 16 The Portland Oregon State College Basketball team defeated a combined Hong Kong Chine.se team last night. 63-48 before 3.000 fans The Americans led at half time 30-13.
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  • 30 16 Six teams are playing m the in-ter-state Sikh hotkey tournament which Starts m Seremban today. They are Kedah, Pahang. Johore. Selangor. Singapore and Negri Sembilan.
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  • 257 16 LAN AYRE, 24-year-old former Australian Davis Cup squad member, turned professional yesterday and signed with Jack Kramer's tennis troupe as replacement for Ken McGregor. Ayre never played for Australia In the challenge round but was on the 1951 Cup squad. McGregors contract ends on December
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  • 57 16 PLAYING with fourteen men for threequarters of the game. University of Ceylon beat University of Malaya m the first match of the triangular rugger tournament at Kuala Lumpur yesterday by six points (try. penalty) to nil. Other team m the tourney is Technical College. Kuala Lumpur,
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  • 53 16 A cheque for $40,000 was presented to the Federation of Singapore Boys' Clubs yesterday by the Singapore Business Houses Football Association. At a reception held at the Anchor Breweries. Mr. R. P. W Gosman. SBHFA vice-president, handed the cheque over to Mr. Lim Choon Mong President of the
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  • 52 16 KEITH MILLER and lan Johnson return to Australia's team for the Third Test, beginning m Melbourne next Friday. The team is: lan Johnson capt). Arthur Morris (viceeapt>, Keith Miller, Fa veil Benaud, Archer, Lindwall, Langley, Johnston, Burke, Hole and Harvey. The twelfth man has yet to
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  • 90 16 Ex-Empire champ is dead AL Foreman, 49. former British Empire lightweight boxing champion, died m a Montreal hospital yesterday. He recently guffered a heart attack. A native of England. Foreman first, fought under the name of Harris. In all. he had 'A'2l fights m rings of the world Chicago. Vancouver.
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  • 264 16 Americans say Cohen no longer champion THE National Boxin Association of America last night declared world bantamweight championship vacant of the Association* chan ihlp committee, said the a was approved unanimously hy his group because Rob hen, French ho!.: thp title, "violated the terms of Macia's 1 1 1 t0
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  • 22 16 The Indonesian hockey tourists, who lost three of their four games m Sin^aixire, leave by >'ir this afternoon for Indonesia.
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    • 357 16 Straits Times Free Press for the convenience of odvertiscrs our representative ot Ist Moor. SINGAPORE COLO STORAGE. ORCHARD ROAD, will receive small advcrtiicmentt and answers 'o box numbers Classified advertisements mo» also be handed to: CITY 6OOK STORE LTD Winchester House. Collyer Quay. Singapore. CLASSIFIED ADS. ACKNOWLEDGMENT 2§ Words $6
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    • 68 16 F* 807A supplement^ fthe training diet 'Ovaltine*, reinforced with extra vitamins, is prepared from Nature's finest foods. This hiphly nourishing, palat able beverage, taken regularly, helps to promote a standard of fitness essential to success m sports and athletics. As a dietary supplement durinp train ing, delicious 'Ovaltine' is appreciated
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
    • 9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Fr.day Dec. 24 1954.
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    • 637 1 $2,000,000 PAID OUT DURING 1954 Cup over I 1 .1 miles m May. This five-year-old by Kingstone ran a galiant race but found the task of conceding 15 lbs to Never A Blank (Clarke) beyond him. Oleander < Jones) and Josker II fought a keen dud iti the Singapore Cup
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    • 180 1 \m ii ki\ Utl tmrgttm la lh I K. ar<- nr«rryi«i ■> lh<lr doping pioM.-n reeclvlni nir <ios. attrition of the J«ckej < i<>» VII. CMMftittCC which veterinary opinion MMiJcn it demands? \ot uid<iv ippmlittd bj tl»»>^ who undrt stand Urn br—4 asp.rts o f dopr
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    • 13771 2 Penang Race Form Guide pOLLOWIMi arc IhC horses entered f«r the Penan*; Turf Clufc'l X mas New Year Meettokg. Class One \I>M AID! SI \K I it 111 »12 KUrUd) 2"i I 54 b pore lo 6F (Awl) Cl 1 I ivt Drt.rmin.ttion •i if. |rd B I i.d l-ll
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