Singapore Standard, 2 January 1954

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  • 20 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD DFAS S F m s. Vol. IV. No. 184. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY I, 1954. TWELVE PAGES 10 CENTS.
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  • 446 1 'THE PLANTER' RENEWS HIS TIES WITH MALAYA THE man who helped pat the Malayan planter into world focus in his battle against the bandits, dropped ia on Singapore on New Year's Eve to renew ties with a country in which he served as a Colonel nine years ago. He was
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  • 175 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— A nine-man delegation of the Selangor Parents' Association yesterday concluded "satisfactory and secret" talks with the Mentri Besar, Che Othman bin Mohamed, on widespread public resentment over the dismissal of failed -overage stadents from government schools. A joint communique on the decisions reached
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  • 64 1 PANMUNJOM, Jan. 1 (AP) Corporal Claude J. Batche--1.. rejected his Communist captors today and returned to thj American side with the jammer.* that it was "quite possible" other Americans will follow him. Batchelor said he wanted to return a month ago but feared for hi s
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  • 28 1 JAPAIjr aihd Nationalist Chint have exchanged a series of recorded cultural radio broadcasts which; will be beamed in each country during the new year's feolidaya.— UP
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  • 636 1 Mystery in jungle KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Three tall, hairy beings with fearful fangs, but friendly manners, are today Malaya's New Year sensation, rekindling also worldwide interest in the possibility of their being the much sought after 'missing link' between man and ape. These excitingly
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  • 47 1 SAIGON, Jan. 1: (UP).— Premier designate Prince Buu Loc today finished drawing up his cabinet which he hopes will create "a new, young and dynamic Vietnam" by giving more power to the nationalist north. The new government will be announced within a week.
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  • 56 1 MOSCOW. Jan. I— (AFP)— The three Western Embassies here handed in their replies to the latest Soviet note at the Russian Foreign Ministry tods v It was understood that the Western Powers in their replies accepted the date of Jan. 25 for the Four-Power conference in
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  • 120 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. —In one of the most unusual surrenders of 1953, two terrori ists in Perak-gave up yesterday, after reading an airdropped government appeal to repent and retreat from Communism. They wet* living with another "comrade" in the Selama area, on a self-imposed
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  • 519 1 TEMPLER 'S NEW YEAR OBJECTIVES Beat The Bandits Fuller Elections KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The winning of the fight against the Communists and successful elections in Malaya were two objectives which General Sir Gerald Tempter, the High Commissioner, urged the people to achieve during the New Year, in a broadcast over
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  • 129 1  - POLICE DETAIN SUSPECT By WILLIE SOH Standard Staff Reporter THE Singapore Police have detained a man alleged to be connected with the shooting of Mr. Guok Sing Inn. manager oi the Hock Lee Amalgamated Bus Co.. Ltd.. on Thursday morning. Detectives of the Special Branch, assisted by Divisional plainclothes men
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  • 83 1  - HEY PRESTO! Oh, what a beautiful doll Wong Khye Yin. ABOUT the biggest ap p lause magicianlawyer, A. J. Braga ever raised by a trick was when he produced 18-y e a r old Phyl Westerhout out of a doll house at the Sing apore Eurasian Association's dance on New
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  • 67 1 LONDON. Jan. 1 (Reuter) The great door s of the Kremlin. Russia's most closely guarded fortress, swing bark > today t 0 admit the first of j thousands of Russian children, j Moscow Radio reported. For the next ten days Moscow school children will be allowed
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  • 31 1 BUJANG bin Mohamed (41) was yesterday crushed between a motor boat and the Nuller Jetty in Pulau Brani. He died in a launch which was taking jhim to Singapore.
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  • 142 1 THE first New Tear baby was born five minutes after midnight, yesterday, in lpoh The baby an eight pound boy was born to a cobbler. Soon Kim Seng and his wife. Chan Sook Ngoh. In Singapore, the first baby was born at 12.50 a.m.
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  • 52 1 HONGKONG. Jan 1 (UP). Pope Pius has contributed US$lO,OOO to help victims of the Christmas night fire that left up to 60.000 Chinese homeless in Hongkong, #it was announced today. The office of the Cathoiie bishop of Hongkong said the lunds would be used toward j
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  • 39 1 TEHERAN. Jan. 1 A guv- ernment spokesman announced j yesterdav Iran wili take ail possible measures durin£ the elections which begin this month to prevent Communists from winning seats in Parliament on their own or other tickets.
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  • 306 2 THE PROBLEM OF SCHOOL SITES MAY BE SOLVED THE Singapore Education Department faces 1954 with great hopes of overcoming the difficulty of finding suitable sites for schools which the 1952 Report of the Department listed as the most serious obstacle to the building of new schools. pore. New buildings and
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  • 122 2 Change Age Rule Union EMPLOYEES who are con- j victed and sentenced on minor; charges and who have no break in service, should not be dismissed, was one of the de- 1 nanda contained in a memoranchnn adopted by the! (iovernment and Ci'v Council; Laboi r Union at its -eventh
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    41 2 photo. Asuvt and LEFT: Scenes from the Eurasian Association New Year's Ere donee ot the Victoria Memorial Hall where nearly a thousand people rang in the New Year to the tune of the traditional Auld Lang Syne.— Standard
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  • 178 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Another trade union whose strength will be predominantly Chinese was formed in Kuala Lumpur today. It is the Selangor State Rubber Factory Workers Union which has a potential membership of 6,000. Acting as chairman on the invitation of the Selangor
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    47 2 MR. ABDULLAH bin Abdul Ghani of Jalan Jumat chief clerk to the Civilian Labour Officer at the Royal Air Force Maintenance Base, Seletar, who has been awarded the M.8.E., in the New Year's Honours List. He has been in continuous employ with the R.A.F., since 1935.
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  • 104 2 IN the first Singapore fire for the new year a n Eurasian family of 12 were rendered homeless, yesterday. Th e fire completely destroyed the roof of their attap hut in Haig Road. The family— Mr. J. Rodrigues, a clerk, his wife
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  • 28 2 THE STRAITS Chinese Methodist Youth Fellowship, Singapore, will hold its annual general meeting, and elections today at 7.30 p.m. at the Church Social Hall, Kampong Kapor.
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  • 78 2 TO MARK the arrival in Singapore of Mr. Francis Wu. a photographer of international reputation, the United States Information Service, is offering the public during the week of Jan. 4, a display of Mr. Wu's photos and a special collection of books on photography and
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  • 22 2 A PATROL o f the 2nd King's African Rifles killed a terrorist on Thursday in the Raub area of Pahang.
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  • 46 2 A 16-year-old boy, San Teo Beng, who lives in Market Street in Singapore, was yesterday stabbed in the back during a fight with another youth in Cavanagh Bridge. He was taken to the General Hospital where his condition was reported "not serious."
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  • 39 2 THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. R. B. I. Pates, recorded a verdict of death by misadventure on Thursday, at an inquest on a six-year-old girl. Tan Moi Moi, whose death was due to an obstruction of her air passage.
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  • 12 2 who went to meet the delegation.- Standard Photo.
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  • 346 2 GOOD SUPPLY OF LIGHT, WATER AND GAS City's Pledge For 1954 SINGAPORE City Council greets its one million citizens for the New Yeor with on assurance of a plentiful supply of electricity, 90s and water during the year. City water engineer, Mr. W. S. Stredwick. told The Standard yesterdav that
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  • 138 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Seriously handicapped by lack of trained staff, the children's service of the Federation Social Welfare Department will launch an extensive training: programme this year. The Department has already procured the mi Vices of a matron with several years' experience in cniid
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  • 68 2 IN ORDER to comply with the demands of the increased number of Catholics and nonCatholics who attend the! novenas conducted by the j Redemptorist Fathers on Saturdays, the Redemptorist Mission, Thomson Road, has increased the number of novenas and also have altered the times. Commencing from todav
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  • 168 2 Malaya's Loss Is Europe's Gain NEW YORK. Jan. 1, (Reuter) Malaya loss would be Europe s aain when General Sir i^iald Templer is transfer;-. 4 to the Command of the North Atlantic Treaty Ory^nisation's Northern my group in West Germany, the New York Time-.- said today. Hard J«h The papei
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  • 63 2 FUNERAL OF SHOT MANAGER A LARGE number of people, including several Singapore City Councillors, attended the funerai of Mr. Guok Sing Inn. manager of Hock Lee Amalgamated Bus Company, who w..s shot dead by a Communist gunman on Thurscir.y morn'ng. Mr. Guok. who \va^ buried at Bidadari Cemetery, unsuccessfully r-ontested
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 71 2 Weather Report MIXI M U M Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. Dec. 31 to 7.30 a.m. Jan. 1 Singapore (75F); Penan? (73F); Kota Bahru («3F); Kuala Lumpur (72F); Ipoh (72F); Kuantan (70F) Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. Jan. 1 Singapore OOF); Penan* (88F); Kota Fahru 83F); Kuala Lumpur
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  • 152 3 1 0,000 Watched The Sea Sports IT WAS like a Sunday at Collyer Quay yesterday. The offices overlooking the waterfront were shuttered. Few cars were on the road. But a milling throng of New Year holiday makers in shirt and sleeves, in bright new
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    • 147 3 OPENING BATS £*£0\& ON lith JANUARY 'H £T JK WOVADO SERVICE STATION MOVADO watches had been sold in Singapore and the Federation of Malaya for many many years These watches had given satisfaction to many thousands of Malayans and had contributed in no small way to the orderly habits and
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  • 194 4 STABBED AS HE PLAYED MAHJONG, COURT TOLD A MAN tapped a painter on his shoulder and as he turned round, plunged an eight-inch dagger into his bosom. This was stated by Soh Ah Kow to the Singapore Coroner, Mr. R. B. I. Pates, at an inquest into the death of
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  • 161 4 ACSU Views On Political Reforms THE view that it may be "presumptuous to expect a radical change in the constitution of Singapore in the near future" is expressed in the January issue of the A.C.S.U. Gong, the official organ of the Army Civil Services Union, which represents more than 12,000
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  • 22 4 TEO KHYE HIN. a Singapore salesman, was on Thursday acquitted in the Singapore First Traffic Magistrate's Court of negligent driving.
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  • 117 4 He Worked To Preserve Old Relics MALACCA'S Resident Commissioner, Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom who received the C.M.G. in the New Year Honours List was a land revenue collector in the Settlement in 1947. He became Resident Commissioner on Oct. 25, 1949, after acting in that capacity for a month.
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  • 274 4 LAW WAI who admitted being a former member of the Quee Leng Tuan secret society was acquitted on a charge of extortion in the Fourth District Court on Thursday but before he could leave the dock he was brought up again on an amended charge of
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  • 382 4 MR. BLADES URGES CLOSER LIAISON WITH THE POLICE Standard Staff Reporter -OPERATION FRIENDSHIP'' between the police and the public is what the Director of the Singapore Special Branch, Mr. A. E. G. Blades, called for in his New Year message. He said, at a press conference on the eve of
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  • 322 4 AN EX -WIRE MAN IS FINED FOR TAPPING POWER JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.— A former wireman in the Johore State Electricity Department, Omar bin Othman was recently fined $200 and ordered to execute a bond in the sum of $150 in one surety by the Johore Bahru Magistrate, Inche Sheik A.
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  • 114 4 Oil Firm Manager Convicted KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— C. V. Allen. 2n employee of Socfin and Co.. Kuala Lumpur, was yesterday sentenced to one day's imprisonment and a fine of $2,000 when he was found guilty of criminal breach of trust of 4,000 gallons of palm oil worth $8,400. by Mr.
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  • 91 4 AFTER three year.; of arguing over the installation of meter s Singapore taxi owners have at last toed the line on the City Council's recent law. Now, all the 1.500 taxis operating in the city will have meters within a few months. Technically speaking, all of them
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  • 71 4 MR. N. A. Kularajah, president of the Singapore Government Administrative and Clerical Services Union in a New Year message to members pledges to strengthen the organisation to serve their interests. He asked members to give their full support and cooperation to achieve this aim. Reviewing the
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  • 62 4 SEREMBAN. Fri.— A mysterious fire broke out in the strong room of the Supreme Court here yesterday but the timely arrival of the fire-brigade prevented it becoming serious. Firemen were unable to force open the strong room door and had to tackle the fire by pushing
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  • 42 4 PASSING -OUT PARADE TODAY SOME 90 recruits will take part in the passing-out parade at the Malayan Basic Training Centre, Nee Soon, today at 9 50 a.m. Brigadier E Clarke, the Director of Supplies and Transport. GHQ FARELF, will take the salute
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  • 281 5 RURAL BOARD'S PROUD RECORD BUTTERWORTH, Fri.— The Rural Board has done exceedingly well and the results have justified the introduction of this "char- acteristically British institution'* into a colonial territory, said Mr. R. P. Bingham. the Resident Commissioner. Pena n g. j when he addressed the i members of the
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  • 97 5 Klang Youth Discuss Need For Centres A MEETING cf representa- t; fa oi youth organizations in t• K nig Distri t was he:d r undei the chairman- jf Air J. S Henry. a Malayan delegate to the first i wealth Youth Comer- ei |in L odon .a.-t year. V "he
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  • 46 5 Standard photo. CINEMA MAGNATE Loke Wan Tho does a rhumba with raven-haired Laya Raki at the Island Club on New Year's Eve. Laya Raki will do a voluptuous Maori dance in a film to be shot in New Zealand, "The Seekers."
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  • 278 5 Mr. Hunt Explains LONDON, Jan. 1 (Reuter)— A letter from Mr. Nigel Hunt of Perak, Malaya, published in The Times here yesterday, said that though public exhibition of the bodies of dead terrorists was not the general practice in Malaya it was one means of convincing
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  • 63 5 FOR failing to furnish particulars of his driver. Lee Bah Chee of Albert Street was fined $100 by the Singapore Second Traffic Magistrate. Mr. Howe Yoon Choruz on Thursday. Two other car owners. Chew Hip. Suan arid the Manager of Messrs. Sin Chew Brickworks Cu.. Ltd.
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  • 128 5 SEREMBAN, Fri.— General Sir Gerald Templer completed an extensive two-day tour of parts of Negri Sembilan yesterday during which he travelled several hundred miles by helicopter and by road. When he was at Gedok Bharu Village. Sir Gerald advised the villagers, most of whom
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  • 48 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri The new foreign exchange regulations recently gazetted by Government will come into force today. The High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Tempier. has appointed the Financial Secretary. Mr. E. Himsworth as the Controller of Foreign Exchange under the Exchange Control Ordinance.
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  • 44 5 TAIPING, Fri. About 180 children from Taiping Boys School and Pokokasam had a grand treat On Wednesday when they were entertained by No. 2 Supply Depot RASC. Following games and a magic show, the children were given a cinema treat.
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  • 121 5 THE UNIVERSITY of Malaya Geographical Society is sponsoring a second series of three public lectures on geographical topics connected with Malaya and S. E. Asia. The lectures will be held in the Arts Theatre of the University in Cluny Road on Fri- j days at 6
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  • 45 5 IXCHE ISMAIL bin Ali. Permanent Staff Instructor of the Home Guards. Alukim of Bangau. Pahang, has been awarded the B.E.M. This brings the total number of recipients of New Year Honours in the Federation to 59, it was announced in Kuala Lumpur. yesterday.
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  • 30 5 THE High Commissioner. Sir Gerald Tempier. formally handed over the defence of Ulu Beranang Village to the local Home Guards after a two-day tour of Negri Sembi!an.
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  • 88 5 FOUR newly commissioned Malay officers of the R.A.F. Regiment arrived in Singapore on New Year's eve from Britain after successfully passing out from the Air Officer Cadet Training Unit at Spitalgate, Lincolnshire. Standard photo shows (from left): Pilot Officers Ahmad Shah bin Ha shim. (P?nang) Abdul
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  • 277 5 First Drop In Accidents Since Postwar Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Traffic Police here are saying "Happy New Year" with a wonderful present lower accident figures for the last year despite increased traffic. During 1953 there were 3,790 accidents in which 49 were fatal,
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  • 163 5 Standard Staff Reporter THE four members of the Committee of the Malayan Chinese Association, Singapore branch, who recently tendered their resignations to the MCA President, Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan, have withdrawn their resignations. They are: Messrs. Lee Kok Liang, Quek Kai KeeP. T.
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  • 96 5 U.S. Banker On Malaya's Prospects SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 1. (Reuter).— Mr. T. B. Coughran. Vice-president of the Bank of America said here yesterday that prospects for economic improvement and political stability in Malaya and Indonesia are good. Mr. Coughran, Director of the Bank's international department, told reporters that personal conferences
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  • 39 5 TWO lorry drivers. Lee Choon Tong and Tay Kim K'iat. who on Thursday pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Traffic Court, to carrying an excessive weight of rubber and timber were fined a total of $80.
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  • 74 5 photo. SPANISH acrobatic dancers. 21-yestr-old Margot and 39-year-old Chiwerto. pictured on their arrival at Singapore's Kalian? Airport on Thursday for a sixweek season at Raffle's Hotel. They were a sensation at Paris' Moulin Rouge and had made films in Hollywood. Mexico. Turkey and Cairo. Their full names
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  • 59 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri Delegates attending yesterday** joint meeting of the F.MS. Chamber of Warn and the All-Malaya Chinese Mineis' Association hem ■■or;>iaered a rapad an Hm tataraatiaaaj control on tin Bfhtca warn recently precented by Malayan delegates the Geneva oaatference. Yesterday' h meeting lasted about Eti j-
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  • 900 6 pVERYONE hopes but nobody believes that the Emergency will end in 1954. In fact the Emergency has become so much a part of our normal existence that we have begun to take it for granted- We have adapted ourselves so well to this unhealthy environment
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  • 60 6 We the PEOPLE J. HALCRO FERGUSON of the London Observer broke an unwritten law in Bermuda. He stayed with a coloured family and when he went into a bank with a Bermudian woman who was a lawyer everybody stopped work and stared. In this article in which he utters a
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  • 401 6 Sir: I have followed with interest the words of those who appeared to belittle the fact that there are guarantees of freedom of speech and Press written into the Soviet Constitution. When I say I have followed those words of belittlement with interest, I
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  • 176 6 Review of Views Call For Strength CHUNG SHING JIT PAO in] its New Year message calls lor strength and faith among, the free nations of the world i against the forces of aggres-i sion. "It is only through i these mean s that righteous- ness can ward otTt: -dangers, that
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  • 68 6 Sir; I am writing this in the hope that the Kampar cinemas will show some good pictures in their cheap matinees. Two cinemas in Kampar recently introduced cheap weekend matinees an advantage to picture-goers here but the films shown so far have been rather old. Moreover they have
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  • 382 6 SELF-RULE FOR MALAYA Sir; Sir Cheng-Lock Tan's reported speech to the members of the Annual General Committee of the M.C.A., cannot be read but with a sense of dismay and fear. That a leader of his political standing can be so inconsistent and nonchalant in his statements to the public,
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    738 6 a college graduate with specialised training, but could not find an opening in his own field. Other people of his kind of qualifications, and of his colour, are often waiters, maidservants or even manual labourers. Even if they are professional or business men they are denied access to
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  • 1170 6 Sir: The chairman of TECSAM'S letter which appeared in the Straits Times on Thursday has failed to disclose the real nature of expatriation pay. Expatriation pay is paid in some Colonial territories (not ail) on the principle laid down in Colonial 197 that "where
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  • 338 6 (\S the first morning of a recent visit to the island of Bermuda, I walked into a bank with a young Bermudian lady whom I had long known in England; and who had been a frequent visitor to our house. At we went in the tellers stopped telling,
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  • 163 7 THE QUEEN VISITS A FAIRYLAND HAMILTON. New Zealand. Jan. 1, (Renter) Queen E izabetta and the Duke of E linburgh saw the New Year m amo.ig the scenic attractions at Waitomo, world famous for r.s cathedral-like caverns. Before lining at their hotel they spent IB minutes in the I underground
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    26 7 photo. THREE passengers were injured when this U.S. Navy P?V Neptune aircraft from Sangley Point, the Philippines, crashed and burned on Kai Tak airfield. Kowloon. A.P.
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  • 62 7 WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. |AP) Representative Sam C i (Republican-Oregon] said jresterday the State Depai ne la b'~i > bought a lot the Marseilles ric as a site for office bui ding. B i Sate Department > -k •>■ oa i said the Departr baa
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  • 31 7 DH a •ri Plesman, 4. Pres !< D I KL -I H al Ova.-. Airlines and t aviation. I 1 the Hague on < alter a sudden illo as.— E
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  • 342 7 LONDON, Jan. 1 (AP)— Merrymakers in the streets and squares of Western Europe danced in the new year on Thursday, blotting from their minds for the moment the thought that 1954 could bring either atomic peace or despair. From Moscow to London Came
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  • 323 7 QUEEN HONOURS THEATRE LONDON. Jan. 1 (AP) Ine Queen today put the final >eal of respectability on American-born Jacob Epstein, former stormy petrel ot modern art. She made him a Knight. The title means the shambling, shaggy-haired sculptor, who Still taiks in the east side accents of his New York
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  • 306 7 REDS STEP UP ACTIVITY IN INDO- CHINA Hand-To-Hand Fighting HANOI, Jan. I—(UP1 (UP) Loyal French forces fought hand-to-hand bayonet battles with Communist Vietminh rebels yesterday as the Reds stepped up their activities on three Indo-China fronts. Close-in fighting took place on the central coast, south of this strategic city. and
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  • 175 7 MEKNES, Morocco, Jan. 1 (Reuter)— Police here have opened an inquiry into a Moroccan woman's complaint that Sidi Mohammed, deposed ex-Sultan of Morocco, had her husband whipped to death for making love to one of Sidi Mohammed's concubines. The husband, a servant named Belkhir at
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  • 133 7 S. KOREA MAKES A VEILED THREAT PANMUNJOM, Jan. 1 (AP)— A move by India, which sent 135 more Chinese prisoners back to Communism, so angered South Korea today that Foreign Minister Pyun Kung Tai made a veiled threat to free the more than 7,000 North Koreans in anti-Red compounds. "Unless
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  • 104 7 Heiress' Marriage Questioned NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (Reuter) —The validity of the marriage of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton and Mr. Porfirio Rubirosa of the Dominican Republic, which took place here Wednesday at the Dominican Consulate, was in question today. Mr. Murray Strand, New York City licence clerk, said the marriage
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  • 195 7 MEN IN ARTS of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, so was Daniel Lascelles. Ambassador to Afghanistan. Sir Thomas Gardiner, termer Director of the AngloIvanian Oil Company, moves up to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. He was a member of the British delegation that
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  • 98 7 LONDON, Jan. 1, (Reuter)— A British soldier, 29-year -old Corporal Harry Partridge, landed from a troopship at Liverpool yesterday with his Chinese bride Betty Fung from Hong Kong. Corporal Partridge is taking Us wife to stay with his parents in London. He said today:
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  • 53 7 PETERSBURG, Indiana, Jan. 1 (AP)— The parents of a two-headed boy said yesterday they have rejected an offer to put the extraordinary baby for exhibition. The father. Cecil Hartley. 44, said a freak show scout approached him in a restaurant and "I nearly punched him
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  • 20 7 TWO-HUNDRED and hitysix overseas Chinese deponed by British authorities in Malaya have arrived in Canton from Hongkong. AFP
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  • 22 7 T.HE campaign to raise £1,000,000 to restore Westminster Abbey ended last night about £173.000 short of its target.- Reuter
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  • 34 7 TOKYO. Dec. 31 (AP)— The newspaper Asahi, Japan's biggest daily which claims ti.UOU.OOO circulation, a n nounced today it will start publishing an English-language evening edition on Jan. 20. photo.
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  • 91 7 GOLFE JUAN. France. Jan. 1, (AP) A preuy young night club singer, whose beauty won her the patronage of the wealthy Aga Khan, was in hospital yesterday after an unidentified person threw arid in her face. Mile. Yvonne B'.an. 22. was attacked in a dark side
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  • 72 7 HONOLULU, foil. iAPi Mrs. Lucille Armstrong, wife lof band leader Louis (Sal Armstrong, wa.s arrested PB«- terday on a charge of .qlir.g* abort US$5 WOt\ marijuana into the United States in a cigarette and I igarette stubs. Mrs. Armstrong to I aew»men she was u al
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  • 96 7 BOMBAY. Jan. 1. (AFPi Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru declared in Mmgaon, near here today, India would not tolerate the presence of any foreign broofM on her soil under any pcefa Kt or under any shape or to' Referring to the proposed military pact between Pakistan and
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  • 67 7 HONGKONG. Jan I (AFP) —A tola! of 58.20:- lost their homes in a di a fire which swept through I e squatter areas of Kuw Christmas night, according an ofii'iai Govern u ent yesti i day. This wac the tota registered ior reiiel the registration
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    22 7 U.P. photo LOOKING weary and weai ing the winner's sash Mis.* Marrella Mariani after winning the "Miss Italy' title
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    • 720 8 HAMBURG -AMERIK 4 LINIE AND NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD JOINT SERVICE 1* Caiaasb*. Genoa Marseilles. Antwerp. Rotterdam Hamburg Bremen S pore r Sham Penans TS. Nerfcarstria (NDL) Gdns IS 16 sJaa *Jan 7 BJaa T-S Essra (HAPAG) IS 2tlaa «/24Jai. 25 2fiJap Hoac Kong. Manila. Kobe J. Yokohama. Peaaag P.S'ham S'pore TS
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    • 1017 8 SHIPYARDS GET SHARP WARNING LONDON, Jan. 1 (Beuter)— New orders placed la iritish shipyards for merchant vessels fell sharply luring 1953. Gross tonnage totalled sM,M*— a third of hat ordered in 1952 and only an eighth of the 1951 lglire. dustry was "frankly appreThis was revealed in a hensive" about
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    • 732 8 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIA U.K. CONTINENT Spore P.S'bam Peua« "LALANDIA" for Bangkok 3 4Jan "JAVA" for Kohsichang, Saigon, Hongkong. Manila, Kobe and Yokohama 8 10 Jan 7/7 Jaa "PANAMA" for Kohsichang. Hongkong U/lSJaa "KINA" for Djakarta. Kohsichang. Saigon. Hongkong. Manila. Kobe Yokohama22 24 Jan 20 21 Jan IS
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  • 346 9 WASHINGTON, Jon. I— The Soviet Union is selling big chunks of its gold hoard to pay for a hidden trade deficit economic experts said yesterday. The deficit apparently stems fi*om a series of adverse economic developments and efforts to buy more goods from
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  • 41 9 TWO new cement works costing about £5 million are to be built in the United Kingdom by Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers. They will each hav? a capacity of 175.000 tons a year snd building is expected to start soon.
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  • 205 9 Warning On Tin Control LONDON. Jan. 1. (Reuter)— Mr. G.W. Simms, chairman of Sungei Besi Mines, has warned that if Malaya again participates in any form of tin control scheme involving restriction of production, prospecting and the future development of the industry will be jeopardized. He told a company meeting
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  • 98 9 KARACHI. Jan. 1. (AP)— Mr. R.A. Butler. British Chancellor of the Exchequer, told pressmen at Karachi airport on Thursday that the best way to improve the economic situation of Commonwealth countries is through development of trade between all these countries. He said he was in favour
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  • 21 9 BRITAIN will import £250.--000 worth of German commercial motor vehicles during 1954, it was announced in London.- AP
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  • 111 9 EK ßusiness To Exploit Thailand BANGKOK.. Jan 1 (CP>— A number of Hong Kontr iaetories are trying to meve into Thailand m alternatively set up local plants here, according to official sources today. Buv.mwv executives of the factories are making representations to the government for necessary permission. The Thai government
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  • 87 9 MALAYAN banking statistics show the volume of operations during November at $1,432,943,000 in Singapore and $1,161,100,000 (51. 583.049. 000 in October) in the Federation ($1,281,748,000 in October Assets of Colony banks in November stood at $485,353,000 ($409,769,000) while those of the Federation I \ver e $244,412,000 ($243,131,
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  • 237 9 MALAYAN products will be on display at the forthcoming British Industries Fair at the two great London centres Olympia and Earls Court and at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham. Rubber goods ann handicrafts wi oe amon? Um try's exhibits on show, j, 1 in
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  • 123 9 Now Its Fats From News print RESFAR HES in thi United Kingdc n into f m ;i gai h'.d sugar v. into fat event to a tu n eial ■,r A rtment ol :.!>■ ed ebi rin th< M ier I T- dun ogy, D- TK. V.'u tei trying tte
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  • 87 9 COXSJ R\ CTION v..,rk Mi or.e of the fast "caters Icere" to be built in Austra! b If planned to begin early rex' war at Geelong refinery. ».< j or Melbourne, according to i Shell Company press rtatettw W., n completed I>e ft 1955. the r.<-\:
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  • 72 9 MALAY A produced I I3f ions of copra in estates ana 11.265 tons m smalim d ,g* during November, accoi ing to official statistics. The total production fiom both sources for the 11 rr.orlht of 1953 amounted to 138.651 tons compared with '42 190 tone for
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    • 434 9 Un Abner By 41 Copp I s J^t,^n^B^^i I H£ po^^s OFGoaa aajd I j Its ajsust-but- sudde.no.v- I I mo«tlm^o^bd> Y^^tf^^^JSf^S^^A SNOW FAU S p*- oogLE street:! AUey Oop By V.T. Ham/in L *-L-^ I I-j J hm^Ph! NOBODV EVER/^~S I ...THE VWV YOU'RE PUTTING }MW/iit y 1 e
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    • 933 9 lllLiiMliMiiiiMMMWWMiwi IB—— 1 9.15 p.m. [Hindustani l 3. and I fflSf'Sr^a. .-k 04 a. "S SIN: Fah Kai 12.30 p.m.; Fun STAK: Because Of Y.m Me INU APD RFf Hee Yun Kah 3. 630 and 915 dar;n\ 1.15. 3.30 7 an.: 5,3d p.m lnr P- m <il.^^K^ Nenlunes Ds,; .Vi:
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  • 34 10 H YAH, EVERYBODY! THF only reason why I've popped up on this page, says little Dickie, is to wish you all a very happy 1931— especially the readers of the Music and Stagedoor coloumns!
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  • 923 10  -  BILL WEBB JONES Ia column for [swing fans BY \VEKY Happy New Year to you .ill. and to the musicians who have toiled during the holidays to make your own particular holiday a success. 1 would add the thanks and ul wishes of a grateful publii.
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  • 660 10  -  'Anacrusis' Music Notes By WE HAVE long applauded W the thoroughness and tenacity of the Musical Society's organisation, not only as a performing body with its own productions, but as impresario, too. In Singapore the roles are necessarily and. at the commencement of a New Year, the
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  • 292 10 PRODUCER Samuel Goldx wyn has urged the film industry to liberalize its code for judging the morality of films. Goldwyn's action was disclosed in a letter to Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Picture Association of America. The letter, released by Goldwyn's New York office, said' "unless
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  • 872 10 INFORMATION regarding 1 the Stage Club's next play "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" is coming to hand, and it is announced that Ray Coombs will be the producer. In the London production. Sir Cedric Hardwicke was in the role of the cold, sadistic, typically Victorian father that
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  • 465 10  - THE STARS AND YOU RITA DEL MAR lift EfPOtAV'fi qiot\iio\ < < 1 "Ring out th> old: Ring < in ilii new > 5 SATIRDAY FOR H\LK\ 5 ONE: Dayr.me offers tne be^ < 5 t:me for tne promotion < J> ;:id.vidua! interests, a- v.< i S as foi organizing
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  • 98 10 SHE'S STILL AS FRESH AS A DAIS. T OYELY Anv Miller, Vke Thomas Edison, gen by on little sleep. She is one of the lev: stars who never lets her pic-ture-making interfere xvv.h her social life. Even trhe?i she has to be at set at G a.m., she wBU g<
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  • 221 11  - SHANGRILA CAN WEST THE CG. CUP FIELD WINDSOR LAD By Shangrila earned promotion after his very fluent win over the St Leger distance in Class 2 at Bukit Timah last month. He gets 11 lb. less in this, giving him a first rate chance. Easily the most versatile performer at
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  • 127 11 Windsor Lad Gay Reveller Goodwood VALIANT BOY C- PATROL SEA GIRT IWMy Corner Valiant Boy Campos BeUe Channel Putrol Sangfroid Channel Patrol GORING DEWIN DONCASTER Patrcnonx Frog II Why Worry r>w— m i Duncaster Jimson MAJESTIC SIGHT PALIO DENDRITE Palk> Sweet Dream sound Wave Sweet Drama Majestic Sight
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  • 263 11 STOP PRESS TODAYS DOUBLE mn RACK TWO Race 2 is most open with Goring, Patechoux, Pasamora. Doncaster and Jimson having strong claims. Goring is an improving horse. This Turkhan gelding came into his own when he led all the way to defeat Patechoux over seven furlongs in division 3. He
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  • 376 11 ASIA MINOR, Who Regrets, Pedometer, Badalona and Rubber Exporter appear to be the pick of Race 7. My vote goes to Pedometer who usually improves in his second attempt. Pedometer was not well served at the start— he was bit slow off his mark— but
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  • 240 11 itifc going today is likely to be soft. Best Bet's fluent win over :he mile on the opening day entitles him for consideration. Be goes up 11 lb. He has developed stamina with age and should run very prominently. Lillibullero is another that should run well. His second
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    • 194 11 NOTICES IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA. IN THE HIGH COURT AT IPOH. NOTICE of Receiving Order Etc: In Summary Case: In Bankruptcy. No. 22 of 1953. Re: LIM SIEW YIN (f) Miner of 64, Caufield Street, Tanjong Rambutan. Receiving Order made: 27th April, 1953. Adjudication Order:
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    • 519 11 1 NOTICES NOTICE OF SALE BY COMPETITIVE TENDER— SURPLUS R.A.F. EQUIPMENT. CURPLUS R.A.F. equipment] is offered for sale by I competitive tender. This equipment may be viewed at the Sales Section, U.R.D.S. R.A.F. Maintenance Base, Seletar between the hours of 10.00 A.M. 12.00 noon and 2 P.M. 3 P.M. on
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    • 523 11 SITUATION VACANT TT/ ANTED immediately, press- I men able to operate Hcidel-j berg automatic and platen print- J ing machines and Centuretie printing machines. State expe'i ence, salary expected it copies of testimonial* to SINGAPORE STANDARD. 128, Rpbinson Rd I Singapore. 1. Apply by letters in the first instance. ACCOMMODATIONS
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    • 1011 11 Si and aid Service For The Unemployed AT HHR StRVICfc: Art unemported and ia need: T« help you to tind work the s»i»rapore Standard I nemplo.\ m*-nt ftureaa offers you free space ia 4»«& column Ium call *r «iit« roar local Stjudartf oBio« lor in ap plication mm which should
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    • 1033 11 TOD A Y 9 S RACE CARD RACE 1: 2.30 p.m.*- Class 2 Div. 2 6 Furs. 1 Sea Girt 3y S.OQ Mr. M. van Breukelen G v B °£?,c~it 5t4 Sangfroid 5y 8.12 Mr. Chan Lai Hong A.W. Sleigh ""ff*^ 3. 722 Channel Patrol Ky 8.t8 Mr. 4 Mrs.
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  • 2042 12  -  WINDSOR LAD Whitney Brings In My Pearl By MAKING a great bid in the final furlong;, Carthusian, brilliantly handled by Athol Mulley, came through with a smooth run to defeat Harringay by threequarter of a length to annex the Club Cup over B'. furlongs for class 2
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    71 12 ■5 TWO of SiMftWK's t 1 latest •skyscrapei* the Bank of China building: in Battery Road (top pic- ture) and the Asia Insu- ranee building in Finlay- Z. son Green (lower pic- 2 ture) were appropriate backgrounds to the New < j Year pictures of yester- day's New
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  • 463 12 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. 1 (Renter)— The M.C.C. drew the first match of their tour in the West Indies, a two day game against a combined parishes XI yesterday. With Trevor Bailey and Denis Compton contributing 115 in a third wicket stand the tourists declared their
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  • 127 12 Lee Is Amateur Athlete Of 1953 NEW YORK, Jan. 1. (Reuter). Major Sammy Lee, America's Olympic highboard diving champion in 1948 and 1952, has won the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the amateur athlete of 1953. Major Lee through being stationed in Korea with the United States Army Medical
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    55 12 SYDNEY. Jan. 1. (Reuter)— Jimmy Carruthers, Australia's world bantamweight champion will, owing to stomach trouble, be unable to fight Bobby Sinn, Australian title holder on Jan. 18. KEMPTON PARK: Jockey R. Francis comes to grief gracefully as Mailed Fist (Number 5) crashes at the last fence in the
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  • 138 12 MELBOURNE, Jan. 1 (Router i Davis Cup stars Lewis Hoad (Australia) and Tony Trabert (United States) said her e today that they would not become professionals yet. They were commenting on reports that Jack Kramer the American promoter was anxious that they should join his
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  • 40 12 SAO PAULO, Jan. 1, (AFP) Czech long distance runner Emil Zatopak last night won and broke the record for the New Year Eve race through the streets of Sao Paulo covering 7.3 kilometres in 20 mint, 30.14 seconds.
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  • 147 12 Kelly Voted Britain's Best Boxer LONDON. Jan 1, (AP> John Kelly, the Belfast bantamweight who won the European championship without. leaving home, today was voted the best young British boxer of 1953 by the Boxing Writers" Club. Kelly, who is 21, has fought 21 times as a professional. Every fight
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  • 76 12 CALCUTTA, Jan. 1 (Re> i Ramanathan Knshnai. lo- year-old Davis Cup payei, j defeated India's No 1 Surnant Misra 6—l. 11— 9. S— 2 I reach the men's single> lin the National Lawn Tennis Championships here yester: Knshnan and Misra i- presented India against B^ gium
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  • 31 12 TOKYO. Dec. 31. (AP (Russia mil send a strong I Ito Japan in January to jpete against the Scandina and American aces in the world speed skating chju:.: ships
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  • 272 12 CALCUTTA, Jan. 1 (Reuter)— The Commonwealth touring side needed 40 runs with four wickets standing to take first innings lead over India in the third cricket test here today. At the close of today's play— the second day— Commonwealth had scored 199 for six wickets in
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  • 143 12 Winds Blow And Landy Fails Again KERANG. (Australia). Jan. 1 (AP) Strong winds spoiled another stab at the four minute mile by John Landy today as the Australian won a special mile race in 4:13.8. The lean speedster took the lead at the start from three. rivals and won with
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  • 38 12 NEW YORK. Jan. 1. (UP).— Police arrested middleweight boxer Jimmy Flood yesterday on charges of assaulting and injuring two patrolmen who stopped his automobile after he drove through a red light at an East Side intersection.
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