The Singapore Free Press, 13 January 1955

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    15 1 The Singapore Free Press ijrtesi Aftornoon_Sale m Malaya M c. Thurs., Jan. 13,1953. PricclsCt S
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    Lock icon Schoolgirl who was afraid her friends might find out
    144 1 Schoolgirl who was afraid her friends might find out 1)KI 1 IV Pfttrkia Sheeron, gassed herself be(IUM she feared her school friends would know she had been iccased of shoplifting before ;i juvenile court, a rorO nei was told In Newcistle (Enfland), yesterday. Patricia nil due to appear before the
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    Lock icon Mystery memo hits at Formosa pact
    195 1 RATIFICATION of the United States -Formosa mutual defence treaty would put the U.S. on record as agreeing that Formosa and the Pescadores were part of China proper, according to a mysterious confidential memorandum" circulated m WashingCommunist China could then contend that any attack it
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    Collapse of balconies 'a surprise'
    110 1 Collapse of balconies 'a surprise' SINGAPORE Citj Councillors v surprised to learn v balconies at the izabeth Walk had not their first test of b Bftle. Two of em collapsed m the past two I I It was fortunate revealed the error edy. X un Chee said he •'i hear
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    Lock icon His solution —with guns
    40 1 PRESIDENT Anastaso 1 Somoza of Nicaragua last night challenged the Costa Rican President. Dr. Jose Figueres, to meet him at the NicaraguanCosta Rican frontier "with revolvers'' to settle the dispute between their two countries. v.p. I
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    Rubber price
    32 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened on a steady tone this morning, with first grade, January shipment, .at 95 3 a cents a lb., Sk of a cent below yesterday's close.
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    Lock icon HE DIVES FOR GOLD
    73 1 WILLIAM MARDORF. 29-year-old American deepsea diver, started a hunt yesterday on the bottom of Bolivia's Lake Titicaca the world's highest large lake— for an ancient submerged city. Mardorf also hopes his exploration will turn up Inca gold and other treasures. He lias a concession from the
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    S'pore winds subside
    29 1 I -easterly gale i ;';>^ht unexpected -■■ipore during the l« gradually dying la unlikely today r st y ation is )o (ld t a gust of
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    Husband heard his wife's cries
    47 1 An Indian tried to disrobe a Chinese woman m her Serangoon Road home yesterday evening. Her husband was working outside and heard her cries. He detained the intruder with the help of neighbours. A man was later handed over to the police.
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    GIVE US ARMSAPPEAL
    280 1 XU'uruffiut step* up raids JHE ORGANISATION of American States held another emergency meeting m Washington yesterday, to consider Costa Rica's urgent appeal for military and material aid from the 21 American Republics to repel what she cabled an "invasion." Mr. Fernando Fournier, Costa Rica's Deputy Minister of
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    Lock icon Blizzards sweep UK
    168 1 SEARCH FOR RAF PLANES FIERCE blizzards swept Scotland and northern England yesterday isolating dozens of small communities as subfreesinc temperatures gripped the British Isles. Bitter gales swept down the North Sea and the Irish Sea rorcing ships by the hundred to seek shelter. In the Atlantic, aircraft
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    FREE TODAY
    16 1 An eight-page Chinese New Year Supplement is given free with the Free Press today.
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    Ex-badminton star robbed
    86 1 A FORMER Singapore woman badminton champion, Wai Leen Wong, and" sister of Won° Peng Soon, was threai tened and robbed last night as she was about to enter her house m Goodman Road. She said that as she was entering the house she saw a man leaning
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    STABBING
    32 1 A fight between two school boys m Sumbawa Road yesterday afternoon led to a family quarrel m which a father and son were stabbed. The police have detained a 14-year-old boy.
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    Lock icon Shoddy goods in shops grouse
    49 2 Fifteen men and 10 women In London will begin this th t.) champion British housewives complaint about Ihoddy j;ood. m Bhl They Viii work under the name ol v council on 1 1 foi Their aim to rai c th< tandard of shop I
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    Lock icon Ike defends rights of Govt. men
    244 2 REFLECTS NEW U.S. VIEW ON RED SECURITY RISKS PRESIDENT EISENHOWER today (!< monstritrd a MW atmosphere m Washington over se< urit\ risks m the (iovrrnment when he came out m support of the decision to Rive a post to Mr. Wolf Ladejinsky. a Kusian-horn
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    Lock icon MR. DAG STAYS SILENT
    112 2 M\> Dag Hammarskjoeld, the United Nations Secretare(\i neraj arrived m Honolulu terdav on bis way back to New York from )u talks m Peking. He wa.; silent on the remi] t at hli conversationa with Mi- Chou En i.»i. tin 1 Chinese Premier, about n American
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    Experts to give advice on TV advertising
    105 2 Experts to give advice on TV advertising 'THE Independent Television Authority announced In I ondon \< terday the appoint men! ol an expert advisory committee on advertising" to a. t ji m running the nation 'a first commercial television service The Authority i. due to bogin operating later thi.s year
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    Lock icon 15 die as two planes collide
    84 2 A Trans-World Airlines airliner and a privately-owned DC-3 aircraft collided m flight 1 and crashed m flames near Clncinatti yesterday killing 15 people. Two officials said that 10 passengers and three crew members were aboard the TWA twin-engined Martin 202 The plane was on
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    Lock icon WE GUARD OUR INDUSTRY — COMMERCE MINISTER
    141 2 WE GUARD OUR INDUSTRY COMMERCE MINISTER TU Australian Minister of Commerce, Mr. John Mr i ommentinf on reports that Ja; iffering .shirts at a shilling .»< h .^aid In v statement yesterday: "Australia is interested m Sfteing that British industries are not rendered incapable of looking to Australia as a
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    Red military pact
    38 2 The Easl German Parliament yesterday approved the :ue three-power confer,. nee decision to form a military alliance of [-..I t Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia if the Paris pact to rearm West Grrm;im i ratified.- U. P
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    Lock icon Greek flood havoc
    18 2 Flooding rivers inundated large area* of Greece festerday, destroying :>:::> homes and affecting 4,000 people, UP.
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    Lock icon AMNESTY: 'BRITISH VIEW IS RIGHT'
    90 2 AMNESTY: 'BRITISH VIEW IS RIGHT' PXPH m the Philip 1 J th I inJ iiuk dto ..up]) >r1 th.' ppo ;ition to a 1 In Malaya at the pre-"-'■w York Times said yesterday. lid the v now being Urged uv political •■ronp.s m Malaya bad been tried twice m tii<
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    Lock icon Talks in Asia 'not sinister' —envoy
    183 2 Talks in Asia 'not sinister' —envoy TWERE was no need for an--1 xiety on either side of the 'Iron or Bamboo Curtains" ibout the forthcoming conferences m Asia. There was nothing sinister m any of them, Sir Ro^er Makins. the British Ambassador, said m Washington yesterday. He told the Association
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    Lock icon Nine competing
    19 2 Nine nations will participate m the 38th international car .show m Brussels which opens on Saturday. A.P.
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    TB FIGHT IN S'PORE PRAISED
    156 2 TB FIGHT IN S'PORE PRAISED OIR Eric Pridie. chin medical rL adviser to the Colonial Office, said yesterday impressed with the st< taken by the medical ties m dealing with the culosis problem m Singapore Sir Eric described the multi-million dollar hcxsp; be built for T.B patients 'magnificent" scheme. He
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    New record in British exports
    39 2 British exports m 1954 totalled £2.674 million the highest ever reached m both value and volume according to provisional figures announced yesterday by the Board of Trade. British exports durine 1953 reached £2.582 million.
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    Lock icon 'WE HAVE OVER 200 GIRLS ON OUR BOOKS'
    473 3 'WE HAVE OVER 200 GIRLS ON OUR BOOKS' i«-riiM k €i of running Vail i»irl* rarkcl AIJLM.IIft STATEMENT „Rl MS f' lled with A photographs of beuuti"women were produced on( ,on court yester Zm \s evidence against 3 running a big can 2irr racket m London. me prosecution alleged that
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    Lock icon INDIA WON'T GO TO WAR WITH ANYONE
    215 3 Xehru explains remark THE Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, said m New 1 Delhi yesterday, there was no chance of India roing to war with any country though it had certain 1 "problems' with some. He was surprised at recent reports that he
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    Lock icon They want austerity—in a big way
    80 3 They want austerity— in a big way \USTERITY m the extreme soon may darken life n S'mth Korea. (lovemment and social leaders In s<M)ul proposed that President Svn»man Rhee and the Stite Council approve a rigid code which bans. Neckties, Jewell and rings, the mvm f.nt urc of sold or
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    Lock icon Bell for Attlee
    42 3 Mr Clement Attlee, the »na>r. Labour Party leader. {■"■> is on a lecture tour 01 west Germany, was presented w Berlin yesterday with a replica »j the -Freedom Bell"! to the people of West erll1 by the UnitpH Rtotoc neuter
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    Lock icon She wantedd to be sure
    89 3 She wantedd to be sure HOW much tax is due on a $75,000-income? M lan anonymous woman j I caller m Denver, Colorado, asked a Government tax j I expert by phone. About 841,180, not i j counting deductions, she j i was told. "Well, what about $150,- i 000?"
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    Lock icon Robins out on the spree
    63 3 ol robins have been on a spree m Anna Maria The b i£ «V he past few days. oiros nutter back and forth on telephone lines, fall me ground and remain there. Sometimes they mnot account for the strange behaviour, but iS !2 ca l
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    Lock icon Claire will star
    28 3 arid pit a( n Ss Clalre Bloom Fiednc March have been to co-star with British Wchard Burton m ler the Great," United Corporation announ- p
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    Lock icon Millions for Uganda
    33 3 The Uganda Government plans to spend £30 million during the next five years to improve and develop existing services m the territory and provide more houses, hospital? and roads. -Reuter
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    Lock icon 'Keep up Italy aid'
    32 3 Mrs Clare Boome Luce. United States Ambassador to Italy, has persuaded her government to continue military and economic aid to Italy it was reported yesterday m Washington -Reuter.
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    Lock icon Coming off at last
    37 3 Producers are taking off Agatha Christie's successful play "Witness for the Prosecution" after a fifteen-month run m the London West End because they say they have to pay too much entertainment tax. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Countess dies
    28 3 Countess Elizabeth ToerringJettenbach 50, a former Princess of Greece and Denmark and a sister of the Duchess of Kent, died yesterday m a Munich hospital A.P.
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    Lock icon Mitchum sacked from film
    155 3 Mitchum sacked from film ACTOR Robert Mitchum was fired yesterday from the picture "Blood Alley" tor throwing a 250-pound coworker into the icy waters of San Francisco Bay. He was dismissed after he refused to apologise "for creating disagreements among the production staff" and after he was first given a
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    Lock icon CHINA REDS TO RETURN JAPS
    47 3 Communist China yesterday asked Japan to send a ship to the northern China port of Tangku between Feb. 15 and 20 to take Japanese nationals who want to return home. Japanese Red Cross officials believe about 1500 Japanese will be returned U.P.
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    The Singapore Free Press Opinion Money for Malaya
    278 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion Money for Malaya THURSDAY. Jail IS Vj CIR WILLIAM COCK- BURN, chief general manager of the Chartered Bank, has given a timely warning to Malaya. He say.s that unrest m the country is keeping capital away. This is one more reason why all should bend
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    Lock icon Peasants stop the bulldozers
    460 4 MICHAEL MANNING'S newsletter from Greece The u.n. decision to shelve the Anglo- Greek dispute on Cyprus j provoked riota and disf turbancea In many parts n! Greece. Windows of British and American Offices were broken -M\i\ least I hundred StUdentfi and schoolchildren bore, m various parts
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    More hardships in Red China
    374 4  -  F. K. WU reports /COMMUNIST China is scraping the bottom of the barrel of its civilian economy to industrialize and gain foreign exchange from the Free World. Refugees arriving m Hong Kong from Shanghai report that the Red state faces the New Year with deteriorating
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    BY THE WAY
    306 4  - BY THE WAY Beachcomber A PHOTOGRAPH of the plane called the i Bedstead shows that all the fuss about "streamlining and makine planes look like "beautiful, sleek greyhound. of the air Is nearly i The photograph might t> a heap of old clothes, tangled with gas-pipes, wire, and hit of
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      104 4 AVAIL YOURSELF of 20 years of experience f m estate development by CREDIT FONCIER MEYER CHAMBERS 3rd FLOOR, (Raffles Place) BINJAI PARK A HIGH CLASS RESIDENTIAL ESTATE AT 6J M.S. DUNEARN ROAD MANY LOTS IN THIS PARKLIKE ESTATE ARE IN ELEVATED SITUATION WATER ELECTRICITY ARE LAID ON TELEPHONE AVAILABLE I
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    He wants to see more new industries
    244 5 He wants to see more new industries 'TAKE A LESSON FROM HONG KONG' SINGAPORE Government should encourage the growth of manufacturing industries m order to avoid mass unemployment m the near future, Mr. John Laycock, Legislative Councillor, told the Free Press today. He said he was not advocating direct financial
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    HOW IT'S REALLY AN AQUARIUM AGAIN
    210 5 HOW IT'S REALLY AN AQUARIUM AGAIN riINOAPORES Van Kieel [5 Aquarium has come to After a'complete washout of tanks and building, and an almO st total loss of fish polluted by the water, the aquarium (s well on the way to being restocked. Staff vigilance Prevented the salt water tanks
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    Ex-Malayans for Kenya
    84 5 J\l Kb Pauline Oerrity who An ,u 7 0r sanised the St John i&r A nce Brigade m Malaya Sth v c v ar> has left London y fm.i Sba dl Major GerIn dh^ lfare omcers t0 work »n Pasons m Kenya to ,nV Vere cnos enin
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    12 attend British courses
    70 5 MaUyan studen amnn 0 rOm Saraw^ are TZ" huse now atte "ding a fcfeMte Chrys Y. K. V H&t 2" Sok K ern Miss o-*cc Huan (Singapore), Mr. Dennis de Silva, MLss Kho Eu-yong, Mr. Joe A. Manula (Kuala Lumpur), Mr. K. F. Koh, MLss Jessie
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    Lock icon Woman P.C. loses all IN fire
    40 5 Corporal Katijah binte Abdullah of the Singapore Constabulary, looks a forlorn figure as she learns on coming back from duty on Tuesday that heT house m Chan pi Road had been burnt Free Press
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    New officials of Beng Choon Kok
    110 5 mm Officials of the Beng Choon Kok m Sennett Road, Singapore, for 1955 are:— Patrons: Messrs. Wee Thiam Siew. Tan Kirn Van, Quah Sia Chwee, Poo Chin Peng. Yeo Hock Thye, Chua Liang Chuan, Cho Chin Yee, Chng Boon Huat. President: Mr. Urn Koh
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    Request for increased pay
    44 5 i Singapore Marine Officers Association at a special committee meeting decided to send a letter to the Straits Steamship Company requesting the management to consider paying its Asian staff a salary amounting to half oi what European employees are drawing.
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    53,823 tons in 3 months
    32 5 Malayan Collieries produced 53.823 tons of coal m the lasi quarter of 1954. Monthly output was: October 18 523 tons, November 17,056 tons. December 18,244 tons. picture.
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    TRUST STAFF PROTEST
    169 5 'Statement slurs them THE Singapore Improvement Trust Junior Officers Association has complained to the Trust authorities about a statement by the estates manager, Mr. J. C. Lee, on the method of allocating the Queenstown flats to people of unlimited income. Mr. Lee said that thp Trust r
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    Floods send up cost of assistance
    98 5 DECEMBER floods m Singapore caused the Public Assistance section of the Social Welfare Department to pay about $132,000 more than the average monthly dole. The total paid was $334,218.--65 compared to the average of $201,958.53 a month. The number of people helped increased by
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    Transferred
    14 5 Mr. A. Brazier, assistant enRineer, PWD, Johore Bahru, has been transferred to Ipoh.
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      184 6 (MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis r (^■^jsrsgrl 1 l^^^c^^l M I z^r^p I X CAN «iTILL FLY OPF 1 INSIDE THEIB OWN J MILE UNOEM AM -WE'RE SAFE FROM TME 3^. ifiru c I ooi 1% -31 SHlP'r WATER" f\[ TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs r 1 >^
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      660 6 z 1 YOUR I LUCKY STAR JjORN today, you are a p^ r son of many contradi. ti, mv \ou have secret ambitions for power and money and this gives you a stern, rigid atti tude toward life, which mak.s many believe that you ha*, nerves of steel and a
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      O.K. closing prices
      170 7 LONDON, Jan. 12. Previous Today BBt K »i m. c.«. as S3 SK Si i" E n 8* SKS S%" I 6 5E ports t«-b. l 284 buyers 28V* buyers R IVuK no 1 K>> SpOt 28% seUers 284 sellers r^ Settlement 284 buyers 28 buyers KNUUK
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      New York prices
      92 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 12. Previous Today IlMuiun* J«n 86 00 asked 87 00 askea Feb 85 75 bid 86.75 bid 86 00 asked 87.00 asked March: 85.75 bid 86.75 bid 86.00 asked 87.00 asked IONE: Mrm. SALES: Two IoU. BIBBER future, March '55 32.70 traded 32.15 traded
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      U.S. PEPPER
      48 7 Sarawak spot 3 9 4 and lampon* spot 40 cents per pound sellers ex dock. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib. Spot Malabar was quoted tt 40 cer.ts per pound. Awaiting release. 40 Afloato 3IH. January shipment 39. February 38 1 March 38. 1
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      31 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 12. Previous Today 30 indiMriaK 400.25 399.78 20 Railroads 144.98 144.26 40 Domestic Bonds 101.10 101.01 15ltilitirs 62.57 62.64 61 Stocks Composite Averages 149.17 148.88
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      Copra, coconuf oil prices
      108 7 COPRA Philippine c.i.f. IK/Noilh European delivered weight per long ion Jan./Feb COPRA Philippine* fob. ManiU, delivered weight, per long ton IOPRA Straits c.i.f. IK/North Kuropean delivered weight per Jong ton Jan./Feb t>b./M*r. woman on crude strut* c.i.f. twopean (ontinenUl ports In bulk, per ton lan./Feb COCOMt
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    Union meeting
    24 7 The Woodland Road branch of the Singapore Petrol Dealers' Employees' Union will hold its second annual meeting at 2 pjn. on Sunday.
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    WHORE'S BIRTHRATE ON THE INCREASE
    123 7 WHORE'S BIRTHRATE ON THE INCREASE S N( r E th( civil administraBma lh n l°° k over from the has blFth rate Of Johor -ively increased in T number ot births 51,160 and 36.910 [J birth totalled 32.516 ith 36,171 the preblrth :ir^the highest ot herr iO p S com
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    GOVT. IN ROW OVER ADULT EDUCATION
    268 7 Studios are being delayed A ROW over money has flared up between Singapore Government and adult educationists. It is holding up further studies of a majority of the 12,000 adult students. Before making the quarterly $100,000 grant to the Adult Education Council, the Education
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    Lock icon He won the first prize
    41 7 picture. Mr M. L. Durrant, the Director of Posts, Singapore, congratulates Mr. Lim Siang Heng, *<*}*>**** ot **r* r Panjang, for having won the first i>nze m the 'best maintained general appearance" competition m 1954. Free Press
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    Soprano to play in opera classic
    154 7 MISS MABEL LEE, 20, popular Singapore soprano, evidently has other talent. The production committee of "Western Chamber", a classical Chinese play to be presented m English, has chosen her for one of the leading roles. Mabel will appear as Hung Niang, the mischievous but
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    NEW OFFICIALS OF MALAY SOCIAL
    70 7 Officials of the Malay Social Association, Singapore, for 1956 are: President, Mr. Abdullah Sanggura; Vice president. Mr. A^Hamd Rahmat; secretory, Mr. M. Taib Siron; asst. secretary. Mr Johari Baba; treasurer, Mr. D. m. snaui Affendey; committee. Messrs. A Khar Haji Hamid. Arrlfin M^Said. Ahmad Masood.
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    State ministers confer
    28 7 A meeting of the State Council of Ministers, was held m Johore Bahru on Tuesday. The Sultan's Diamond Jubilee was one of the subjects discussed.
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    BUT FACE IN ROOM 210 MADE DOCTOR'S WIFE SCREAM
    372 8 Jmmmmh wimnim* UiiU uut§... AN unwelcome xuvst at bi« London hotels was Joseph Lugunuwicziu. lie was m expert sneakthief. H< meaked Into 27 bedroom* at nine hotels m six monthi and left with gems and clothes worth £3,446 ($3O 0i)0). Sneak
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    Gaol frees mother for son's burial
    295 8 Gaol frees mother for son's burial TWKNTI YEAR -OLD Nancy Buckley, who is accused of murdering her two-year-old son •Wchael, was released from llolloway (iaol to attend the boy's funeral. She went to Kensal (ireen Cemetery, London, under the close arrest of two women warders and two detectives. Fair- haired
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    Fewer bad boys
    16 8 The number of children on probation m Nottinghamshire iell by 72 last year.
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    Industry told: Index the bright boys
    243 8 Industrialists, searching i for talent m Britain have j been asked to provide gram- j mar and public schools with a I I card Index of the careen they can oiler boys. The suggestion came from I the Federation of British Ini dustries m
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    Lock icon The wife who said the wrong thing
    87 8 The wife who said the wrong thing Frau Daisy Schlitter, 42, wife of the acting German Charge D'Affaires m London, who was recalled after she had told the diplomatic staff that they were on "hostile foreign territory." The former actress and beauty queen is now ill at a clinic m
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    HOY, 10, GETS STATELY HOME-FOR II YEARS
    107 8 OIR Charles Wolseley, llth baronet, is a pupil at St. Bede's Srhoi.l. two miles irom Wolseley Hall, the family seat. Now, through the C 95.617 will of till grandfather. Sir Bdric WoLselcy, the ten-jrear-old baronet has Inherit- ElO.OOO m Treasury 1 Stock and
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    Death halts train
    53 8 The driver of the 8.25 pJ" Glasgow to London exp train collapsed and, died i the controls of his ci while leaving D v n Station, East Lothian. Th< i man stopped the train, reversed it back to the sta It continued its journey r another crew.
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    BRIDE HAS TO WAIT AT EVERY PORT
    195 8 Carries bridal dress m suitcase THE girl for whom the wedding bells never ring another disappointment recently. Twenty-two-year-old Janny Rotterdam, who came from Holland England to marry, learned once again that the we< dins: was off. For five months Janny has> been carrying
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    No one meets the rector's challenge
    124 8 No one meets the rector's challenge TX)R three hours tin R«*F Hanbury Ashdowm reel of what he has called village of hate." sat large rectory waiting for critics "to face him lik< But none arrived. The critics objected to Mr. Ashdowne, aged 70, Rector of Faimer, Sussex (pop.. MO), descrlbin
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    The nine excuses...
    197 8 ...or why we didn't pay SOMEBODY pur :1 whisper" to th Office about th« pirates of the Nottinghamshire village ol East Leake. So, on two days m Novel a detector van lC j round the 2.500 am g O f the parish, its directional aerials picking up
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    Lock icon THE GIRL FROM GREECE
    132 9 THE GIRL FROM GREECE Variety and cabaret au- E diences m Britain who E enjoy the singing of E Creek-born Lina Petrou E have Prime Minister. Sir E Winston Churchill to r thank. j= E Lina. who sings m E E English. Greek, French, E E Spanish. Italian. Hun- E
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    To flavour -add insect killer
    86 9 A L BERT GRIFFIN, who does not like having a lodger m me house, watched his wife Prepare the lodger's casserole Mew lunch— and then added t killer P.J52: G ri ffin lt was said at n?I u louth Sessions, believed 2HP o^ Wjth expenses.
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    Baby falls 40 ft.
    32 9 of uS^.J?-JK? th a <l son mcaJw 2 lly Davles of Lon gH Hereford .England). h'-mJ V HmiM WlndoW at hi s on toul a On grass and
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    'GAY' FOOD IS BAD FOR YOU
    299 9 Colouring with coal-tar dyes health hazard pOODS coloured to make your moulh water may be harmful to health. A British Government report urges that colouring should be more tightly controlled, and, m some cases, banned altogether. Almost all synthetic colouring substances can be used
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    Lock icon A paper crown for Her Grace
    36 9 picture. The Duchess of Windsor carried a paper crown when she and the Duke left the New Year's Eve celebration at the El Morocco night club m New York. Popper
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    LOST BUND MAN SLEPT OUT IN DOORWAYS
    213 9 'Will you still be turned out?' "POR two cold nights, blind j x and deaf Geoffrey Kirk slept m doorways. For 36 hours he ate nothing but dry crusts and drank only a bottfe of lemonade. A cleaner found 52-year-old J Mr. Kirk
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    Enough for snack
    22 9 Waiting to be claimed at Huntingdonshire police lostproperty office: A set of diningroom chairs and a sack of nuts.
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    SHIPPING RECORD
    23 9 Clyde shipyards during 1954 established a post-war record by producing 85 ships totalling 477 204 gross tons and valued at £48,000,000.
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    POLICE SAY: WE HAVE BEATEN CRIME WAVE
    294 9 POLICE SAY: WE HAVE BEATEN CRIME WAVE UCOTLAND YARD have earned a pat on the back. With six out of every ten master-crooks m jail, detectives are saying: "We have beaten the past-war crime wave." Figures for 1954. now being prepared for the Commissioner's report, back up this claim. The
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    Broadminded
    21 9 A 14-year-old boy who won a prize for an essay »»n temperance has been arrested for drunkenness at Joenkoeping. Sweden.
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    She scrubs floors for the sake of a book
    374 9 A FAIR-HAIRED girl with blue eyes went to work scrubbing floors at three dockside canteens to listen to what the dockers said. And what 27-year-old Enid Mumford and her colleague Joan Woodward heard them say has been turned into a learned
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    Hooting ban cuts road accidents
    359 10  - Hooting ban cuts road accidents ROBERT WALLING Of IHTEREST TO MOTORISTS by ii/HAT i.. the result bo W tar of the threemonUi old no-hooting rule In Paris? Just before the opening oi the city's Motor Show I Have t><-«'n driving alon^ Un- boulevards and MlCient narrow streets m a British
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    NEW PAIN KILLER
    135 10 IXTEW local anesthetics will 11 soon be available that act falter and longer than procaine ■N.iv.icaim with little or no painful after-effects, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, they will be ol particular value m
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    They'll have the worlds best highway net
    390 10  -  NORMAN LINDHURST by I WEST Germany next year will begin construction of the first additions to its superhighway Autobahn net to be made m 14 years. The new roads will give Germany the world's best integrated superhighway net. The United States has better
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    BAD? NO, ONLY NEGLECTED
    201 10  - BAD? NO, ONLY NEGLECTED Eileen Ascroft by I AGREE with Judge 1 Jacob Panken, of New York, when he says: "There are no bad children only neglected ones." The child with an unsatisfactory home background can usually be recognised by his manners. I had a good demonstration of this when
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      34 10 A BEAUTY FROM JF^Sk l/<>velv Pamela Warder is a 19-year-old ?irl from SK^^;^^^^^ Johannesburg who was Susan llaywood's double "'^^s m "Untamed.** She is now m England and has appeared on television. f I
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    IT'S MIKE AND MUM
    33 11 A handsome Hollywood couple indeed are beautiful Elizabeth lav lor and her 20-months-old son, Michael Wilding. Jr. enJoying a sunny afternoon together m the grounds of their Hollywood home.
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    Diana grows up at last
    353 11 Diana grows up at last NO MORE PIANO ROLES FOR HER IjIANA LYNN protests that she can't be mentioned m the same with such figures as Jose Iturbi and Oscar Levant, but the three have something m common. All three know more about Steinways than they do about studios, but
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    NEW LOOK FOR A GODDESS
    109 11 NEW LOOK FOR A GODDESS I ANA TURNER found a J brand new dressing -room waiting when she reported at her studio for her new film "The Prodigal" her first on that particular lot m over a year. A fitting welcome for the actress who will play a living goddess
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    CUKOR has that Oscar touch
    309 11  - CUKOR has that Oscar touch JAMES DEE DIRECTOR HAS GUIDED MANY II M I HIM > t Ml WIUNHi A PLAYER TO ACADEMY AWARD lIIIIHIIItIMIIIII I HUM FAME reports A NY screen player with a principal role m a George Cukor directed picture is sure to get the gleam of
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    Admirals are growing older
    93 11 rriHE admirals are growini 1 old and the sailors art getting younger m the filn "Hit The Deck." For comedy scenes m th< musical, "Admiral" Walte Pidgeon is seen before oi paintings of his nautical an cestors. All are admirals considerably older than Pid geon. By
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    Producer's prescription
    106 11 START of actual shooting on "Not As A Stranger" was celebrated by producer Stanley Kramer m a manner befitting such a medical story. With an memo blank, "Dr." Kramer called the Press over m the following attractive terminology: "This prescription is to be filled on Stage 2, 1416
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    Lock icon Princess in this play
    299 12 BUT MOTHERS RUSH TO ENLIST Mil Mil till 11 11 11 1 111 lIIIIMM DAUGHTERS HI Ml I lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMiIIMIIIIIMI II 4CTOK JOHN LODKR, whu producing a charity plmy this year with debutant In the cast told .t reporter In London had a me from Buckingham Palace
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    Lock icon Her car sails with the bananas
    372 12 rrHE ear Princess Mur- garet will use during her Caribbean tour next month ll already on Its w a y to Grenada smothered In grease and discreetly anonymous aboard the Swedish fruit ship Leeward Islands. A black Humber Super Snipe saloon < priced at,
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      202 12 1 i B B iCUJII ACKOSS: 5 Undome«tlc beginning (4t. 1 Familiar sailor amldahips (5) (J How a P«t rat may walk? (6). 4 Klephaut's noise has npirit (7) 7 Magic carpet, perhaps, to keep 8 (iet the better of Ted? (9) tnp knees warm? (10, 3>. 9 Eat a
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    Cop's taxi saved his life
    178 13 Cop's taxi saved his life 1 1 hi i.ni. A GERMAN sports-writer, fy Wio came to Britain lor the recent International soccer Match at Wembley, elephoned his report irom the stadium and found had only one hour to get ni^train at Victoria. Tv, v were lon g Queues for tne
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    Get slim — with a rhyme and song
    249 13 Get slim with a rhyme and song IF YOUR New Year resolutions included slimming (most women's do) here's a brand new "Rule of Thumb" diet to help you. All you have to do is to learn a rhyme you can mutter as you step off the bathroom scales, or even
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    Bridge Hand
    318 13 \IfHAT makes a particular hand < one's favourite? Life Master 1 Kiffln Rockwell, of Warrenton, Virginia, has three good reasons for I selecting this one: < It was the first time he ever executed that comparatively rare squeeze known as a Vienna Coup; it was a high-stake rubber
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    He saved the Premier but shot the general's horses
    585 13  - He saved the Premier but shot the general's horses Fred Manor A BOX of cigars is now on its way to Sir Winston Churchill from the prairie city of Winnipeg. The box is beautifully hand-embossed and with it is a. letter bearing to the Premier good wishes from 84-year-old (No.
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    SLUGGER JO MAY STEAL THE THUNDER
    273 14 SLUGGER JO MAY STEAL THE THUNDER Free Press Boxing Keponei THK tW Belgians tatting In Sunday nights prolr--1 sionul card at the Happy World Stadium. Singft- M »re. could not by brttir suited to (fee a rare Blgfti Ut oL^^Sentiflc boxer, the other Hugger, and I have feeling that spectators
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    Lock icon S.Africa call to Jake Tuli
    100 14 Jakk TULI, bolder of the south African non-Europeim flyweight iod bantamweight titles, h.i.s bttn called on to defend lib flyweight championship by the Ti hi/, i H Board ol Control i«r k u >t" islonal boxing. Tun, former Empire flyweight h unplon, ha bought i
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    Lock icon Aussies name 19-yr-old spinner
    112 14 A l'» VKAHOI H leX spinner, J. Oaborn, le m the 12 from whom thf South Australian State side *m be chosen to play the 1f.C.0 m 1 return four-day match beginning hi Adelaide on January i 21. He made tn. first clasps cricket d**t>"i' last
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    ORDERED OFFBUT CHEERED
    422 14 QIOROI i.ANE of AnneMey Wei- i f in- Rover was .sent, off m the Klrkhy iNott.s i Charity Cup natch I with Baagrave United but he wa.s i applaudfld all the way to the dresslog rooms Anne-sley v<M e attacking and there w,i a handling infringement j
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    Lock icon Italy juniors beat first XI
    91 14 ITALY'S hard fighting junior lick their national .senior soccei •.-..ni to a one-all tie jrwtcrda? I their final training «ame before tw( international matches next week For the national '"A" team which defeated Argentina 2-0 last month, the tie wa.s a disappointment and a blow
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    2 FOR LAWRENCE
    38 14 Selangor centre forward Tommy Lawrence scored two of his aide's goals when the State XI beat Combined Police 3-1 at hockey m the last practise game on the Taylor' Road mound, Kuala Lumpur, yes-' terday.
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    Briton coaches German golfers
    501 14  -  JAMES GOODFELLOW By CEVERAL German golf pro their Association on month. They are to have a course by Ryder Cup pla; Fulwell professional. The visitors will be shown Instruction*] films by Cox: will visit club-making factory: and will play with Cox on several courses, including Sunningdale,
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    Lock icon U.S. BOXER FINED $1,500
    94 14 U.S. BOXER FINED $1 ,500 Joey Glardello, a leading conpnder for the world middleweight boxing title, was yesterday suspended by the Pennsylvania State Athletic CommLssion, but was immediately reinstated on payment of I fine of $500 (Malayan $1,500). They originally suspended him m November until he cleared himbelf of charges
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    HQ MALAYA WIN CLOSE MATCH
    48 14 Headquarters Malaya Command yesterday scored a well deserved rugger win over 22 Special Air Service Regiment "B" by 12 point;, (penalty goal and three tries) to eight (goal and try) m Kuala Lumpur. The Issue was m doubt till five minutes from time.
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    Div. 3 lesson for pampered soccer stars
    364 14  - Div. 3 lesson for pampered soccer stars DESMOND HACKETT By I MUST watch more Third Division matches. This resolution was inspired by tru^p eager chaps Leyton Orient and Bristol City figbtine it out for promotion points as rare and precious as penalty goals used to be at Chelsea. I strongly
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    Women riders are barred from Olympic event And yet they beat the men
    489 15 Women riders are barred from Olympic event And yet they beat the men By HYLTON CLEAVER WOMEN will not be allowed to compete m the Olympic three-day Equestrian event. The General Assembly of the International Equestrian Federation have come to this decision, m spite of the jfact that Englishwomen won
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    MALAYA'S BEST CYCLIST
    162 15 MALAYA'S BEST CYCLIST 4 PENANG cyclist, Alan A Blakey, has been j.osen as Malaya's best ,11 rounder (road and (rack) tfdm of 1954. Blakey received 25 points. Mlansor's Charles Jalleh, with 22 points, was runner up. The rankings were detided at a meeting of the Malayan Cyclists Federation held m
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    Lock icon ROWING MEET
    62 15 The Gorman Rowing Club Valparaiso., Chile, will celebrate its sixtieth anniversary at the end of this month with i tournament which will be attended by the German Rowing clubs of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. The tournament will also serve as a tryout for the Chilean rowers who wil
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    DAYS OF VOCE AND LARWOOD
    433 15  -  ARCHIE QUICK By i\ a time when Australian stumps are being merrily and cheaply rattled by Frank Tyion and Brian *tatham it is worth while remembering those stalarts of other days, Harold Larwood and Bill Voce— the Nottingham speed kinss. the junior partner of famous
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    RENE ROOTHOOFT STILL CHAMPION
    99 15 France? Rene Root hoof t retained Ml title m the international table tennis championships m Pans last niuht. defeating Romania s Matel Ganiner, 21-16, 21-18, 16-21. 21-19 In the women's singles finals. Romania's Angelica Rozeanu beat France's Chri&tiane Water, 21-IJ, 21-9. 21-8. Other final results:— Mixed
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    Umrigar just misses 100
    143 15 AN innings of 95 by Polly Umrigar, the Test b.tsman, and some keen bowling, placed the Indian cricket tourists m a commanding 1 position after the second day's play m their three-day match against Sind Cricket Association at Hyderabad yesterday. At the close. Sind required 156
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    Tanny Campo was poor
    218 15 TANNY CAMPO of the Philippines retained his Orient flyweight title last night m Tokyo by outpunching game Hiroyuki Tezaki of Japan over 12 rounds. Campo floored Tezaki m the Uth and drew blood Each fighter weighed 112 lb. the flyweight limit. Both had to go through
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    Sports quiz
    129 15 (1) (an a footballer be offside m his own half of the field? (2) In the long jumD, is the measurement taken from (a) the pit edfce, (b) from where the jumper's foot was before the jump, or (c) from the take off marker? (3) When did England
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    SCHOOLBOYS MISTAKEN'
    100 15 THE Kuala Lumpur schoolboy* who turned up at Taylor Road i ground, Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday and were disappointed not to find I hockey coach Gian Singh there had 1 only themselves to blame, Mr. H. M. IDe Souza, chairman of School's Sports Council commented yesterday. I "Schoolboys
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    Lock icon A pitch guard for 4th Test?
    110 15 rpHE question of a guard for A the Adelaide pitch, where i the fourth Test between AusI tralia and England begins on January 28 is to be considered, an official of the south Australian Cricket Association sidd yesterday. Precautions follow *he allegations that the
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    Lock icon 8 SKATERS BEAT RECORD
    96 15 THE world's 1.000 metres speed skating record for women was broken by ei-ht Soviet women .skaters m the international meeting at Alma At m yesterday. Tamara Rylova, who on TUMOIJ brat the 500 metres world record. I mv the fwtert of the eight who i bettered
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    MALAYA DISTRICT RUGGER FINAL
    34 15 Tlie Fijians of Johore and the West Yorkshire Regiment of Ipoh, meet m the Federation final of the FAR ELF Cup next Wednesday at the HQ Malaya stadium, Kuala Lumpur.
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    Lock icon ICE HOCKEY
    19 15 The Soviet Union beat Czechoslovakia 3-0 m international ice hockey match In Moscow ycsler- day.—. Reuter. I
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    PICTURE HOUSE AND MATINEE II BEST AT IPOH Final gallops for first day
    499 16 PICTURE HOUSE AND MATINEE II BEST AT IPOH Final gallops for first day I'irc Presg Course i orresponoem r VUt: majority of Saturdays probables were given their winding up gallops at Ipoh this morning, but few horses were nut to make time on a firm track. Only two horses cracked
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    Lock icon Jap awaits S'pore visa
    102 16 ITOE ol j p ,i n Qtamv i M.' "i Yaiii.iinoto .it In •he bine c the Oolony authorities' refu <»J 10 fai to n\ him an cntr? ..iii. h k/ioAn m S. A kail bi Kirn Lin miM he imoto i, mi ed a nth.
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    Aussies beat Changi in fourth clash
    551 16 i KWI \l: RAF C hangi 3 IN their fourth meeting with riiangi, Roynl Australian Air Force yesterday won through to the final of the s.mderson Cup rugby comoetition All three previous matches were drawn after extra time, but yesterday's game played at uhangi,
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    BIRTH
    29 16 JO Wonts $t> (minimum) BRMI.AND TO Thfllma, wife of f C Brit l*nd, at XX Hospital on 1 1-1-:.) a ion Both well. Playin. tie a i," endollnc.
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    DEATHS
    109 16 ZU Wmtdl M 'minimum) ONQ WONG FOOK imed 83, notnei "i mi, a H. Ki.it passed :.w iv today a! 2 am COftegC Will leave Mo Ml Jslan Hajijah at a ;> m tor Hid.nlari, arrivim; .it M m y. wkk Madam Wee Kirn Choo, i■• i wife "i
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    Upsets an F.A. Cup replays
    377 16 BDSHOP AUCKLAND, B Northern amateur side, swept into the fourth round of the English Football Association Cup competition yesterday. Thoy outstayed and outpUyed their division two opponents, Ip.swich Town, to win 3-0. The match was one of .seven third round replays played on frozen .snow
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    MILE DUEL
    32 16 Two of the world's fastest milers. We., Santee of the United States and Gunnar Nielson of Denmark will run on January 22 m the Washington Evening star Games at Washington.
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    98 16 wa.'nijy BADDLER uill d.-fend his world re»UMrw«lfhl boxing title again I reddv Datli on February 25 ai Madison square tarden, Ken York. 'i lie Internationa] Boxing club announced thl ,it,. r \i r Johnston, Baddlti manag«r, h.id aid evervtljinwc Wi ie( except for a fen
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    NEW SKI
    40 16 The Newspaper Soviet Sport report* that the Russians are producing new kind of ski which is exceptionally light but strong. It i.s built with air spaced between several layers of wood. This newest ski i.s called the Arrow*.
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      7 1 CHINESE NEW YEAR Thursday, Jan. 13, 1955.
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      The Year of the Ram
      601 1  - The Year of the Ram FU HSI Introducing..., The heavenly sign points to a tranquil, unevenful New Year. If the portents are not exciting, neither do [hey give cause for anxiety so speaks ;he Ram. by ■i adhere W lunar calenI 'sly I beliefs m I. nbols l«»ok k lioul
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      TWO CHARACTERS IDENTIFY THE YEAR
      485 1  - TWO CHARACTERS IDENTIFY THE YEAR Ho Yung-chi by Ur. B EF £>RE the introduction of the Western, or Solar, Gregorian calendar m 1912, China reckoned her years with a device that consisted of a combination of two c characters. One character is taken from a series of ten callI ed
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      They looked down on the novel
      1417 2  - They looked down on the novel E.C.S. ADKINS by SINCE THE REVOLUTION THE OLD YLE OF CHINESE NOVEL HAS COU£ OUT OF FASHION BUT IT STILL PROVIDES FASCINATING READING JH X Chinese have a wry sti ki defini lion o\ wh.ii consti lutes literature, and have never given fh<name lo
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      IN SEARCH OF THE TREASURES OF THE PAST
      42 3 A reader absorbed m reading a Chinese book m a public library. The new method of printing described m the article that follows will make the production of such books simpler and less expensive.
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      Revolution in the printer's world
      745 3 Revolution in the printer's world SIMPLE and inex pensive method of Chinese printing traditionally one of Ihe most laborious m the world has been invented by a researcher al Yale versityKwei Chung-shy, n search associate m fori Lgn area studies at Yale, huilt his new printing device Last year and
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      'FOLEIGN MAN ...HE KNOW PLENTY BUT HE NO KNOW ALL'
      1161 4 'FOLEIGN MAN ...HE KNOW PLENTY BUT HE NO KNOW ALL' "VELLY (l mor V |ingi m Tsse ter, me so happy see you come time 'go since foleign man he come laltoe .so please you wke seat.. .my go catchee cup tea. no?' 1 Thus It was that Chan Ah
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        197 4 'rvvit^S IB J X < //v c\ r r/ B I H I H Chinese New Year H land Jk a hot 3^ /nl I pint boti jftg Delivery Fr.r ''9 Errvvf rs E*^'bitlO« I" 1954 and 1950 rrsD*rtivrl v I jl MM, VI Hi rED BY V;j: CELEBRATE YOUR
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      615 5  -  LI CHU-LIEN by of i were jifltti \> ith people, the frfll' 1^ of shops I)|;j--2a£( I with red signs. (jSl<h\ n were shouting irecrackers pOj): L The i:rful cirajron dar nultitud faros. &Pr 1 and goc irt of America that is also China was
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      HOW TO ENJOY A CHINESE DINNER
      1488 6  -  HOMER CHENG The most commendable feature of a meal, says ihis expert lies m the noise or the freedom to make any noise, whether sustained or m staccato by Tin- Chinese people 1 vending and anything the) lay hands on. Son* do so oni
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      OPERATION DIAMOND
      1979 7  -  STANTON ROBERTS by This is not a Chinese story but a good tal e is always welcome at a festive season. This crime adventure will entertain and keep you guessing until the very end -AND NEVER MIND THE NOISE "I'VE had you brought here, Thompson, because you're a
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      77 8  - The Yea the Rai FU H Introducing,.... The heavenly sign tranquil, unevenful the portents are neither do they giv anxiety —so speak. by fHIXESE who adhere 1 to the lunar calendar and superstitiously retain their beliefs m signs and symbols look forward without misgivings to their New Year which begins,
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      HEAVEN'S OF BESTOWS WE
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      401 8  -  CARL LIM by gVEKYONK knows that lhe Chinese are a iiiperstitious race. 1 heir superstitions are based equally on deities as Well -is ,lc\ ils. "Heaven is low" i.s ail expression ten hear wn.-n a man wl to rebuke a friend lor mentioning eril w6i it
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      The food's the thing
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