The Singapore Free Press, 7 January 1956

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya No> ***** s| nsapore. Saturday, January 7, 1956. Price 15 Cts
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  • 158 1 Tilt eight-man Malayan delegation headed by Teneku Abdul Rahman will arrive on Jan. 1» for talks on independence for Malaya, says a London message. Talks will beria on Jan. 18 and will last two weeks The salient points for discussion with the British
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  • 391 1 EXPATS: NO QUICK SACKINGS SOURCES close to the Malayanisation Commission in Singapore anticipate that strong emphasis is likely to be put on an accelerated programme of training and scholarship for local officers to fit them for top jobs within the next two or three years rather than an immediate pensioning-off
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  • 209 1 COME Singapore Government local senior officers told the Free Press this morning that they did not understand why their representative at the Malayanisation Commission, Mr. K. M. Byrne, should suddenly challenge them to prove that their case was being wrongly handled. The officers unequivocally accept Mr. Byrne
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  • 125 1 TUC BACKS DEMAND TO 25 FIRMS FOR WAGE INCREASE "THE BingapOTe Trade Union Congress today declared its support for the Business Houses Employees Union's demand for pay increases. Twenty -live firms have been asked to pay more to their 4.000 employees. The TOC President, Mr. s. Jaganathan, said the union's
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  • 91 1 rpKRRORKSTS Last nighi 1 bl<w up >n ot the railway track In Perak and two night man trains. The charge w.u set ofl between Sungel SiDUt and mor about 11 p.m. The crew Of a look-out wickham trolley spotted the break and r la
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  • 30 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on an easier tone with grade. January shipment, at $1.23' i a lb. two cCn t a below yesterday's Closing price.
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  • 22 1 The U.S. air force announced yesterday an additional contract for $744 million worth of B-52 heavy bombers. A P
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  • 31 1 Two men, one with a knife, broke into a hou.se in Balmoral Crescent, Singapore, last night and robbed Mariani bmte Mohamed ol $117 in cash and jewellery.
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  • 14 1 w A light earthquake shook parts Kansas and Okkihorn rday.- A. P.
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  • 111 1 FIFTEEN thousand children invaded the Kremlin yesterday and the grim old fortress rocked with song and laughter. The frolic was part of a 10-day open house for children over the New Year holidays More than 150,000, including a sprinklof foreign diplomats' ofT.sprin?. are expected to take
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  • 24 1 The female population of the U.S. on July 1. 1955. exd the male population by 1.245.000. Female totalled 83.245.000 males 82.00.000.
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  • 122 1 RITA hay worth and Columbia Piclures yesterday took i federal Judge's advice and settled i breach ot contract suit out ol court Both Bid to drop the paring the way for Rita's return to work in a musical film The actress had sued her bosses for KM
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  • 125 1 IS STABLE, SAYS BRITISH TREASURY T!HE British Treasury, with a new Chancellor, Mr. Harold Macmillan. served notice last night that Britain intended maintaining the present value of the sterling. I It disclosed in I statej ment that a closed meeting of the Oversea* Bank. Club was told authoritatively On Thursday
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  • 233 2  -  trishaw helicopter Ktg and He'll agree with Ike on Red China if Britain gets Mid-East backing AT THE Washington talks this month it is likely that Britain will offer to support Inited States policies in the Far East in return for support for herself in the Middle
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  • 37 2 Dr. Franz Bluecher, ViceChancellor of West Germany, heads an eight-man government mission which leaves for a two-week official visit to India on Monday to strengthen economic and political relations between the two countries.— Reuter
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  • 22 2 Bing Crosby has added $300,000 to the trust fund for a "Crosby memorial library" at Gonzaga University at Spokane, Washington.
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  • 14 2 Nepal will shortly negotiate a trade treatv with Red China.- A.P.
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  • 36 2 Funeral services for Mistinguett, 82-year-old former music hall star, will be held on Monday in stately Madeleine Church in Central Paris. Her body will lie in state jn the church row morning.- A. P.
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  • 134 2 JORDAN Premier Ibrahim Hashim will hand in the resignation of his caretaker government to King Hussein today after only 16 days in office, it is learned in Amman. The government was formed solely to supervise parliamentary elections following King Hussein's dissolution of
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  • Article, Illustration
    72 2 U.S. Navy men yesterday in Singapore showed one way ofT getting off a ship but ashore they learned a unique way of city travelling. It was the trishaw however that had the edge as the picture above shows— when the visiting sailors from the I SS Bremerton sped in "convoy.'
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  • 101 2 'CONDEMN ISRAEL' MOVE IN UN liHE United Nations is ex- pected to meet ne^t week probably on Wednesday and to have beiore it a Western resolution calling for a "strong"' censun of Israel for the raid on Syrian forces across the Sea of Galilee on December 11 An informed West
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  • 168 2 SAVED— 7 MEN OF HILL 616 TWO thousand troops which had thrown a cordon around Bou Z mountain, just across the bay from Algiers, returned to their posts yesterday Ing most of a ill garrison kidnapped on Monday by n bel forces. Seven of the little force on I nil
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  • 140 2 Portuguese uniforms 'made in Bombay' PORTUGAL in a communit que last night said it had received reports that Portuguese flags and uniforms were being "clandestinely and Illegitimately" made In Bombay. The communique Issued by the Portuguese foreign and overseas ministries said: "The Portuguese Government has repeatedly received reports that a
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    • 107 2 i^hh^.J^ </ M^titif* tit t itfi& V ntvttMt a Int... i Vy"--B| ESPECIALLY WHERE MEN'S Y^M CLOTHES ARE CONCERNED. I ll j H' LEGS ELEVENS I f% THE NEW SNUC-FITTING I I OFFICE SLACKS j 1 B- They look as immaculate I m at sas they do at f breakfast
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  • 185 3 ty E NCm Mu *ve we know about the contents of w J sni<) Silld Dr Geor C Elt0I1 > ne ad of the log dispersal project in South London, last night a* the first killer smog lifted yesterday after causing traffic chaos
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  • 94 3 In 20 years the 'forever' atom-car SOVIET scientist L. shaumiyan, writing in the government newspaper iz- i. said yesterday that Within two decades the preear will be aj outmoded aa a Elided coach nnd four. He predicted that within 20 yean th e automobile with its poisonous exhaust will yield
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  • 348 3 An alley cat s wink wins world tour A SINGAPORE alley cat with a new home aboard a ship and a new name. "Patch." yesterday began a world tour. Patch was legally adopted two days ag;o by Captain H. A. Carver, veteran master of the motorship Glenbank. and sailed yesterday
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  • 183 3 17.5. SENDS DAMAGES BILL TO RUSSIA FOR FIGHTER ATTACK ON NEPTUNE 1 T*HE State Department yesterday in Washington I asked the Soviet Union to pay $2,174,841 as damages for the destruction of a navy Neptune I aircraft and injuries to its crew resulting from an attack
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  • 42 3 The United Nations Korean reconstruction agency is preparing a blueprint for a $35,700,000 hospital, the biggest in South Korea, to be built in Seoul by the Scandinavian nations in cooperation with the agency and the Korean Government Reuter
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  • 178 3 SINGAPORE'S Minister £5 f o r Communications and Works said yesterday that tl lony ha developed lmm< tisely In the field of arts. Mr. Francis Thomas said this when he declared opfn the first one-man exhibition of art in Singapore by Mai iv artist
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  • 122 3 (irace Kelly, lovely tress fiancee of Prince Rainier 01 M< wtni with him y I to a spectacular charity Imil Ball' 1 at tho Waldorf Astoria Hotel In New York. The Prince promised more than B year ago to of honour at
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  • 32 3 Claude Bcsson, 54. was executed by a firing .squad yesterday after being convicted of denouncing about 500 members of the French underground to the Germans during World War 11. A.P.
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  • 32 3 Lt. George Balcom Jr., aged 32, was sentenced to 12 years' hard labour yesterday by a general court martial at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, for wounding blonde 18-year-old Sylvia Miller.- A.P.
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  • The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, JAN. 7, 1956.
    • 114 4 A RECORD YEAR PROGRESSIVE mech- anisation which has gone hand -in hand with the steady expansion of Singapore's wharves is paying off in the ever-increasing volume of cargo handled. Figures for the first ten months of last year exceed those for the whole of the previous year and a new
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    • 60 4 Applause for Malayan Communist terrorist leader Chin Peng by members of cinema audiences during the screening in Kuala Lumpur of the Baling meeting comes as a fresh reminder of the existence of Red sympathisers and fellowtravellers in our midst. While alarm over this fact is
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  • 917 4  -  OMER ANDERSON by The little noted West German air contribution to the defence of the Free World is regarded as more vital than the 72 German divisions to be assembled THE North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is counting on West Germany's new Luftwaffe to
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  • 240 4 THE fact that world air transport traffic has reached a new peak during the past year, and that orders for new aircr a f t throughout the world total £750,000,000 is a pointer to prosperity continuing in the special steels industry for many years to
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    • 178 4 I tiding rrpotten irx ».rU o%«r have tpont*nc> IBfijj^SSHH outly actUimtd iht tmtr.nf accuracy of automatic flß^F^BaßJfe »irxJn| on a rail hrarmf "ll n to »j hmikinc EMEa^^^^vVk •hai j« propuK.cn n 10 ivianon The first self-winding watch on a ball-bcaring^^^^^^ I fill TNII ■•^^■■^^•^a^piMi^paaaa^a^Maia^aMa^i^a^a^i^i^^^^^^^™ »'l»na»YM»ul banishes the last weak
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  • 81 5 BIRD SNARING RACKET IS SMASHED A J; U i R ATIVE s l«re-timo h v been smashed Dy the Royal Society for It la the end of a two. 5S SSJfffrS!" into the bird r Ai actlvlt e s of ille ßal hJ^h tc ers who use outlawed nets and
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  • 210 5 THIS new— ip looks ahead to the Britain of 1956. Between them, the planners will change the present map considerably. The "Town and Country' planners for instance have already put 14 Post -war towns on the map. These will continue to develop throughout 1956.
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  • 101 5 'pHE 50 people in the tiny village of Longway Bank, near Wirksworth, in Derbyshire, are tired of paying for water to be delivered in dustbins at 10s. per lorryload of full dustbins. Since the drought dried up the village spring families have stopped
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  • 375 5 PADRE LASHES OUT AT YOUNG 'BUTTERFLIES' SELFISHNESS, of youth, of workers, of nations. was attacked in a sermon with a vigour which has rarely been heard from a British pulpit during the last quarter of a century. »«Ji£ e J&Lif' e Ue w Weatherhead, president of the Methodist Church, lashed
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  • 57 5 Ij^RUIT farmers in BfMS, Knuhind ar<» pr«'ssiiis; for a law to inakr it an oflYmv t«» ieacrikc Mtißf applrs wrongly. l'h«'v arr indit;nant hrranso one of them saw a London burrow hoy aellina an inferior apple ticketed U 1 'ox's OrftßfC Pippin." when tackled thr Harrow
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  • 170 5 l^TRS. Winifred Everett is a mother with a problem. For she has had to give away her five-yeai-olo son's pet rabbit— to kee; her home. Tottenham Council warned her and her husband that either they got rid ot the little chocolate-brown rabbit
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    • 816 5 J" 1 .<■• BNGLANU School tm Sm5re I, M Andrew 1 < ith. «i,.ti Malay Mr. Lim Ka Huat; 1001 nmunion; a a.m. Sung »Jn. Sen'ice In English— Mr H Parish Commu- T Coccon. Ueylang straits Titnat: "4 }J »JB nil. 8undaj School: 300 pm 11.45 am Service in Malay—Mr.
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    • 177 6 MAXbitAKE by Lee Falk and l'liil »«"j» 1 I J-*m\ rTHEWEVmTl I UH--HE WHATS--IN jjL s (T) I Alt/A\ by I di;ai Hire tfurroiijjii* P£C~c9SC£ S^^On i^^^^ Hi F^W^^ -J!^f MSk J JWlt^^ H *SO«^KV, goT iVC GOT OT-.Ee S MuC>P£ezC7 v *NjO 0^£ THE SAINT by Leslie C liarleris
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    • 676 6 BORN today, you nave personal j| magnetism, managerial ability <> and the power to lead others. You J| 11 have a sincere desire to get at the <► truth and will leave no stone un- <• turned in your search for the exact facts. You would make a good jurist.
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 177 7 LONDON, Jan. 6. 3g.ft.v-3 -j gas fats eSSSL* i I k RSS Cj r 36 4 buyers 35^ bu y"s KLKBEK No. 1 RSS Spot U% buyers 35% buyers BRIBER no. 1 RSS Settlement J$ B»S J$ RI?rS?r 1^*1 F p^ J 36N sellers 35 S sellers
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    • 111 7 NEW YOEK. Jan. 6. Today Previous TIN Straita spot and nearby 108 n om. 107.37 nom. TIN future* January ***** bld 105.50 Md 107.25 asked 106.50 asked February 104.00 bid 103.75 bid 105.25 asked 104.50 asked March 103.00 bid 102.75 bid K 104.00 asked 103.25 asked SALES:
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    • 38 7 M.iUb.ir and Lamponß spot Jan. Mar. 33, Sarawak spot 36. awaiting release 35 ftfloaftl 12%, awaiting release 32. arloats 35 to 34. Jan. Htt. Malabar 314. Sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per Ib.
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    • 36 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 6. Today Today SO Industrials 464.02 4B5 .68 20 Railroads 160.55 161.13 44 Domestic Bonds 96 30 98.40 15 I'tlHUes 63 64 64 04 «4 Stocks Composite Avrrafe 170.80 171.48
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    • 118 7 COPRA Philippines cJi. C.K./ North European delivered weight per long ton Jan./Feb. COPRA Philippines f.o.b. Manila in bulk per ton COPRA Straits e.i.f. UK/North European delivered weight per long ton Jan./F>b Feb./ March COCONI T T OIL crude Straita eji. UK North Kuropean In bulk, per
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  • 236 7 PERSECUTION DANGER IN TEST, TEACHERS ARE WARNED TEACHERS in Britain whose reports help to decide children's school futures may find themselves in danger of "persecution" by parents. The warning comes from Mr. W.R. Smedley, Bournemouth's chief education officer, in his annual report. He criticises a new scheme in Kent in
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  • 72 7 a LTHORESS Han Su-yin *A (Dr. Elizabeth Comber) will leave for India for one month arly in February. She will be the guest of Britain's High Commissioner for India, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald and Mrs. MacDonaldL Soon after her return from India, she will leave for a
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  • 44 7 A medical officer of health thinks parents who allow a child with whooping cough to mix with other children should be prosecuted. Dr. William Perry of Basford, Notts, warns that «neb action is in defiance of th<» public health law.
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  • 54 7 Air Chief Marshal Sir DeiDlOt Boylo. new Chief of the Air Staff, who is due in SiniMpore on Monday from London in a Canberra j«'t which he is pilot'n? himself nrrly one of the KVK's hrst arrohilir pilots he i s •ii a tour of the
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  • 42 7 The New Maternity and Child Welfare Centre adjoining the Ama Keng Police Station at 17i milestone, Lim Chu Kang Road. Singapore, will be opened by Mr. A. J. Braga, Minister for Health, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
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  • 26 7 Fifteen-year-old Valerie Simpson visited the Queen at Sandringham House to receive a Bible. One is offered each year to pupils school for religious knowledge.
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  • 159 7 B. Panjang youths show way JZEEN disappointment wa. IV expressed by the organisers of the Inter-Club Arts and Crafts Exhibition held at the Bukit Panjang Community Centre when only three out of the 25 invited clubs sent in exhibits. Other than the Bukit Panjang Youth Club, the other two entrants
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  • 369 8 WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES picture. picture. picture. picture. > Above, richt: t special p Prince Akihito of I ipan. takei photographer for the Prince's 22 month. The Prin.< a special (i.tkushuin I'niv(TMt\ is in his boratory M the Palace. A picture. picture. The sign Jesus never fails' spoke truth as
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    • 36 9 SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT i e£ WU* M€AN$ OF CEILING FANS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE CITY ELECTRICITY DEPT. ON HIRE AT ONLY $1.00 PER MONTH. CONSULT YOUR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR OR RING: PHONE 2419 EXTN. 352
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  • 845 10  -  KATHLEEN HICKLEY More about those New Year IliiiiiiiiMHiMiiiimiiiiiMiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiii resolutions by The Nursery Rhyme people make their New Year resolutions. The wolf promises not to eat Red «idinfi Hood, Tweedledum and Tweedledee resolve not to have a battle. Old Father William promises not to
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 206 10 JUNIOR CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS:— 1. City In 5. Character in the Merchant of the East Riding of Yorkshire; Venice; 6. Word meaning "by 5. Vanity Fair, for example; 7. way of"; 11. The conductor of A book by Rudyard Kipling; 8. an orchestra may use one: 13. Poetic name for
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    • 158 10 A Picture to Colour SEE how well you can FU1 in your name, address colour Chis picture with and age in the coupon below paints, crayons or chalks. and send to Aunty Wendy, Your effort may win you c/o The Singapore Free some pocket money for your Press, Cecil Street,
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    • 193 10 Still shouting his orders, .he be hotfoot to rut off the earl reaches a courtyard. mour..s miscreants. Meanwh'e. you and his horse, and carls for Rupet. ;o I wMI tide alone to that long line be lifted up behirj h m. Your of diffn. They are on my domain, news
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  • 1785 11 1 HAPPEN another story in the series that keeps you guessing B rire or no tire, orders or no orders, he still wanted his fiddle-and with good reason too! IT WAS a grisly, ghostly business, that December night in 1942, driving through London, feeling like prisoners in
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  • 188 11 rpiUBTEIN jmn Ago today the 24,000-ton liner Strathallan was torpedoed and sunk en route to North Africa. A. G. Morris was on hoard as an Army chaplain hence this story. Morris was horn in 'helsea of a Lancastrian father and a New I nul.i ltd mother. Kducated
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  • 662 12 The girls? That 'one-dimension' treatment! ONCE upon a time, in vaudeville, a headline act touring season after season from coast to coast featured the sawing of a woman in half. Claire Trevor. Academy Award winner and one of the most interesting as well as respected
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  • Article, Illustration
    660 12 T*HE over-aggressive player A takes too many penalties; hands for a mess of undoubted the timid player sells his good penalties. Somewhere between these two extremes, th winning player operates to make a profit of as much as he can on whatever the gods of chance may send
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  • 291 13 Mr. Mattli proves men DO dress faster reports EILEEN ASCROFT WHAT a time women take to dress! That is the moan of the average man, and I was hoping to prove them wrong when I set out With my stop.vateh this week. But Joe Mattli, one of London's Top Twelve
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  • 35 13 MARCIANO MALLARI of Manila chased the c<>nr off the bus and hit the driver. They have no manm •Id police later. "They don't know how to treat their pa rs." iductor hrforc A.P.
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  • 139 13 Traffic rules you should know TOURISTS driving througn J France will be glad to have the now traffic rules They come with the compliments of Mr. Muton Wallach who is .secretary general of the Auto Polo Club of Paris. 1 If a driver extends n*s hand, it means the window
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  • 321 13  - How to understand your daughter JENNIFER JOHNS by A SERIES of leaflets fluttered through my letter box in New York the other day and it had to be my daughter Caroline who picked them up. They were headed ''Towards Understanding Girls," with each folder covering a period of three years
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    • 110 13 L 12/55 Donna Paterson Singapore TO EXPECTANT AND mTL 4^ TL^ NURSING MOTHERS 11l p A really smart publication that provides ~-*tiSi Ijjjr^ f° r 10 recording of many fascinating details of baby's birth, progress, christening, first remark! anc^ aotions photograph* and family tree etc. J l/\An t J Presented
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  • 1446 14  - The Unsolved Mystery of the GOLD CUP H.E. BLYTH by The Ascot stewards knew there was no trophy to be awarded for White Knight's win: It was probably already in the melting pot SFAFAFA rpo the foreigner the 1 English scene presents no more formal or decorous occasion than a
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 250 14 DAILY CROSSWORD HB1MBR CLUES ACROSS 4 Devouring the tin a«e (6) 1 Weather phenomenon on 5 All begin the fast bit (7) November 5? (7, 5j 6 Contemed spinlualiatn? (5> 8 Ten storm tortures (8) 7) 9 Applaud, but not when a 7 Contradictory direction* i O r trap, foUotn
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  • 2280 15  -  RALPH BLAKEMAN R.A.F. CHANCI SPORTS REVIEW FOR J955 GREGORY STAR PERFORMER I I n a i mi 1MII Changi athletes, inspir. <i bv tlM example and enthupltMl ..f Itir Athletics Officer lit I I J I* Stewart, had ;m exi
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    • 72 15 DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE TO SEE THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. IJL KINOSHITA 1 unmi CIRCUS Jff^ At the GREAT WORLD PARK, Singapore 3 Show, Tod.iy md Tomorrow at 2 p.m.. 630 p m 9.30 p.m. WEEKDAYS: 2 SW$ 6.30 P &9 30 pm. ADMISSION: $8. $6. $4 -i U.
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    • 27 15 OCEAN PARK HOTEL'S FAMOUS QUINTET Ace Band of Singapore with MISS S4LOMA th< Mate) Marilwi >!nnroe" (»Oo— Rine 4 1 ."> *> 1 for Table K«-v t r\.i linns
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  • 253 16 THIS MORNING'S GALLOPS AT IPOH fOUNSEL IV, a recent winner at Penang, is retaining his form. Ridden by Jackie Tait. this four-year-old went attractively in a tryout with Hot Iron (Leong) covering 3f. in 40 1/5 at Ipoh this morning. The going
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  • 55 16 A DMINISTRATIVE Wins f\ and Engineering Wing drew 1-1 in the Royal Air Force Seletar hockey final yesterday. After a scoreless first half, Admin. Wing opened scoring in the 21st. minute of the second half when Maxell sent in a hard low shot. Engineering Wing equalised
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  • 275 16 Mankad and Roy in record stand: India 234 without loss A record first-wicket Test partnership for India was made in Madras yesterday when V. S. Mankad and P. Roy batted all day without being separated to collect 234 runs on the opening day of the fifth and final Test against
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  • 167 16 DOYAL Signals, won the no- vices' competition for Malayan Other Ranlts in the finals last night at Tanqlin gymnasium. Singapore Guard Regiment (29) were second, and Royal Army Ordnance Corps (23) third. Results: Semi-finals: Fly: I. Cpl. Abdul Wahib (RSi bt. Pte. Hassan bin Shainan (SGR);
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  • 145 16 ORIAN ISSAC beat R Rajoo 0 on points to win the Singapore Harbour Board Boys Club flyweight boxing title last ni«ht. in a fight which produced DflBstop action tl.vughout. Best SHBBC boxer award went to Ronnie Manasseh. Sonny Solomon being the Best Loser. Amongst non-club contestants,
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  • 486 16 VyEHiHTS for all races on the first day of the Perak Turf Club January meeting (Jan. 14) are: CI. 4, Div. 1-5 F Flaxley Green 9.00 Golden Serenade 8.12 Marvel of Peru II 8.10 Scholarship 8.09 Tarzan 8.08 Brown Eyes 8.07 Marcelle 8.06 Motion Picture
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  • 497 16 Richardson hits 105 and puts M.C.C. in control pair made their stand worth three figures in an hour. Alan Moss. Middlesex pace bowler, struck the first blow when Sind began their Innings 15 minutes from the close. In the third over he bowled Anwar Arif, and in the final over.
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    • 475 16 CLASSIFIED ADS. BIRTHS 20 Hords >6 (minimum;. EU To Pearl John, a son. at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on 4th January, 1956. SHERIDAN: On Jan. 6, 1950. at Bungsar, to Monica (nee Ereaut>. wile of Cecil Sheridan. DEATHS 20 Word* $H (minimum). JOAQUIM: On January 2nd In London, Olga, beloved wile
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    • 87 16 k/l\W FUUY MJ COVERED mk\Jk ND PH^ljfh CARED leave While on leave store vnur your car in our firstclass godown. Expert attention by storage %C specialists assures you of finding your car await- ing you at the dock, -mmmz airport or railway station on your return. PHONE O5# u i..
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  • FREE PRESS SUPPLEMENT KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES opens new singapore office
    • 17 17 FREE PRESS SUPPLEMENT KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES opens new singapore office y Saturday, January 7, 1956. Ix
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    • 494 17 CINGAPORES most modern airline offices, open this morning for the first time, set new standards in convenience and decoration. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have spared no effort to ensure that their new promises are notable from any point of view. FIRSTLY, they are located in
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    • 216 17 AN MAY 17, 1920, two passengers complete with leather jackets, helmets, goggles and furlined boots crowded into the rear cockpit of a converted de II. u ilia i id plane for a three-hour flight from Amsterdam to London. The world's oldest airline, KI.M. was in
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    • 429 18 One had plans to be a planter; the other wondered what to do KLM's two chief executives in Singapore both fell almost accidentally into aviation—and it seems to suit them well. The general manager, Mr. J. W. Turner-Lashmar. was wondering what to do when he was
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    • 13 18 MESSRS. Lim Bok Sim, Vincent Lim and him Tiong rhnn
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    • 367 18 ANY KLM employee with ability and personality could hope to attain any I position in the company, regardless of race, said the Singapore manager, Mr. J. W. Turner-Lashmar. this I week. 1 "It is not our policy to give executive posts to Europeans
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      • 61 18 M In their New Offices m m mm Jm m swl m M/m JmJ m. F m J Il^s mJUw m w^ mm Wty 9^%^ 1 Ssjr .Ic^Ti'^ W/ Its) \vw,ruQYQiPQ rn p p n ba"Ti nM I Conditioners I I TUC DCCT I IHt Bt>l 1 IN THE WORLD
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    • 276 19 KLM FLEW TO STORE WAY BACK IN 1927 T'HE Flying Dutchman x had very early introduction to Singapore as long ago as June 1927. In that month a KLM plane on its way to Jakarta (then Batavia) landed here to become the first international airliner to reach the
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    • 243 19 MURALS, 3-D PAINTING ADORN NEW OFFICES A SINGAPORE musician turned I artist, Gerard d'A Henderson, this week put the finishing touches to an ambitious mural he has executed for the new K.L.M. office. His design for the mural, 80 ft long and 4 A ft. high, was selected by Dutch
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      • 55 19 All Furniture, Panelling and Woodwork for the new KLM Offices, Ground Floor, Asia Insurance Building executed by niEfUEI wkM^tfM WwH' Ulfcl""""MS PO3S: Standard Household and Office Furniture, aireonditioned proof construction, on display at our showroom in Market Street DIETHELM CO., LTD. (Incorporulcil in Switzerland) 139/498, MARKET STREET SINGAPORE, PHONE :»:ti>6
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    • 363 20 FUNCTION DICTATES ITS FORM— EVEN IN OFFICES WITH the opening of the new K.L.M. offices, another superbly finished furnishing and panelling contract by Diethelm's furniture department finds its conclusion. The architectural layout and the furniture, designed by Swan Maclaren, r.ivc a fashionable appearance and touch
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    • 312 20 stand any temperature Influences and variations ID humidity. Diethelm'.s strongly bcIleve that a great future lies ahead for veneered furniture and wall panelling in Malaya. With the effects of airconditioning on wood under normal circumstances, special care had to be taken in the manufacture of all loose
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    • Page 20 Advertisements
      • 52 20 SINGAPORE BAGGAGE TRANSPORT AGENCY LTD ADfl SINGAPORE PACKING COMPANY LIMITED K.LM (ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES) on the opening of their new offices in ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING and hopes that the existing happy relationship in connection with Air Freight Transportation may long continue Approved Agents for Air Freight by the International Air
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    • 34 21 DOYAL Dutch Airlines, which started operations nearly 36 years ago, is today the world s oldest airline. This picture shows its head office at The Hague, Holland.
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    • 132 21 I/LM milestones since its historic first flight In 1020 have been 1920: Kl M l)O|I n t Fokkcr K-! monoplanes carrying four passengers. 1921: F-3 planes carryini: five pas- sengrrs itfi bought and the world's first airline ticket c— ntcf was opened in Amsterdam. Routes were extended
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    • 124 21 New paint resists tropic heat A SPECIAL brand of Dutch paint found to be particularly effective in the tropics was used for the interior decoration of the KLM office. This paint Sikkens "Holland -co me a in a remarkable range of colours. Mr. Low. of Tong Brothers, a firm of
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    • Page 21 Advertisements
      • 28 21 i: ANGLO-FRENCH TRADING CO LTD. TRAVEL DEPARTMENT 132/6, ROBINSON ROAD SINGAPORE I WISH II ROYAL oarCH AIRLINES 3 EVERY SUCCESS IN THEIR NEW OFFICES AT ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING
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    • 152 22 Making fine signs Vk. Mm m^m pLASTICS. tho u g n discovered more than 50 years ago, have only recently become popular for commercial use. Their properti-.- of Lightness, toughness and ease of working are now fully appreciated and they are used in many industries. An unlimited range of bright
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    • 1041 22 KLM's airliners wins their way to a distance record THE year 1955 a satisfactory year for KLM. No new aircraft were added to the fleet, so that the Company's output did not increase to the same extent as in 1954 when the output was
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    • 126 22 ANOTHER achieve- ment of Chrysler Airtemp is to aircondition the K.L.M. office, using the latest dynamically balanced Radial Compressor Model 2105-1, manufactured by Chrysler Corporation, with automatic push button starters. Many exclusive features have been incorporated into the Radical Compressor which are essential contributions to
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    • Page 22 Advertisements
      • 118 22 TONG BROTHERS II OL* II GENERAL CONTRACTOR AND FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS v JJ 27 TIVERTON LANE vv N^_^^ SINGAPORE PHONE 6269. j Tong Brothers have pleasure in announcing that they were responsible for the PAINT WORK and INTERIOR DECORATION of K.L.M's new offices in the Asia Insurance Building. j SIKKENS "HOLLAND"
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    • 325 23 Planes rely on special oils The lubricating oils and greases so essential in this modern world are nearly all derived from crude petroleum brought up from the depths of the earth. How these crudes are converted into the highly-refined products which keep our machines run n ing smoothly demonstrates the
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    • 185 23 This firm sends anything anywhere ONE of the leading or ni.sations of its kind in the Far East, Singapore Baggage Transport Agency Ltd covers the complete freight service relating to .shipping, insurance, customs, storage, forwarding and clearing of baggaj and cargo. A subsidiary company specialises in packing per.sonal effects, household
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    • Page 23 Advertisements
      • 149 23 PLASTIC ALLIED INDUSTRIES LTD. 36, Bain Street Singapore. Tel: *****-***** [MEMBER OF MASTER SIGN MAKERS ASSOCIATION, LONDON] SUPPLIED ALL PLASTIC SIGNS FOR THE NEW K. L. M. OFFICE Specialists in the Design Manufacture of Plain Decorative Shades for Fluorescent Lighting and all kinds of Ornamental Illumination. Equipped with the latest
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