Singapore Standard, 18 January 1954

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    16 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD iiii Vol. IV. No. 200. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1954. TWELVE PAGES 10 CENTS.
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  • Article
    BOMB IN COMET THEORY
    420 1 BOAC Probe Stop Points In Far East LONDON, Jan. 17. A concealed bomb was "a high probability" as the cause of last Sunday's Comet Jetliner crash off Elba, that cost the lives of 35 people on board, Sir Frank Whittle, the Jet engine pioneer, said today.
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    Site For The 'Big 4' Talks Is Fixed
    120 1 BERLIN, Jan. 17 (AFP) An agreement has been reachttl on the meeting place fog the Berlin fourpower conference, it was unoMu tally learned today. Representatives of the Big Fi -a- hojr.e to bed at 5 O'clock (C4.00GMT) this morni\Z after talking all
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    VIETMINH SET FOR NEW PUSH
    99 1 hax; Jan. it (UP)— A Frei H gh Command spokesman sa i today that strong bands ol Communist guerillas amb ~-c! a French column m N Laos, while the bulk o: el army massed for fresh rcata to the Centra! Lao base of Seno and
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    LLOYDS ARE COMING HERE
    56 1 H G 3 KONG Jan 17; (Re T.ie Hongkoti4 j i announced today, thai Sir Thomas Uoya,| B Permanent Under- 1 Se rretai ol S:at c for the Co v accompanied bj Lady 1 i arrive here Or. C 4 OB a six-d.iy i t S
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    Youths Meet Tragic End
    104 1 TWO YOUNG boys met tragic deaths m Singapore yesterday. Ghulam Rasul. aged six, was playing m the rain at 1 p.m. yesterday when he slipped and fell into the drain outside his house m Walmer Drive. off Serangoon Garden Estate. He was hauled out of the
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    NUT-BY-NUT CHECK ON COMET
    33 1 photo. OPERATION "COMET SPECIAL INVESTIGATION" IS ON: Picture shows the GALYU, one of the BOAC Comets grounded after last Sunday's disaster, being examined nut-by- nut at London Airport. A.P.
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    All Set For The Big PoW Release In Korea
    369 1 PANMUNJOM, Jan. 17 While the Chinese Communist Government last night lodged a strong protest with the Indian Government over the decision to hand over unrepatriated Korean prisoners of war on Jan. 22, the United Nations Command declared tonight that it would
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    M. DUFRICHE IS ARRESTED
    50 1 PARIS. Jan. 17. (Reuter) A 10-month hunt by the French police ended here last night when Marcel Dufriche, a member of the administrative committee of the Communistled general confederation of labour, was arrested as he left a trade union meeting. He was taken to Fresnes prison.
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    HQ CAPTURED
    28 1 BURMESE Government troops yesterday captured the Karen Brigade Headquarters at Eihe. a small town about 60 miles north of Moulmein, it was officially learnt m Rangoon.
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    THUGS BEAT UP COOK, GRANDSON
    199 1 By J.A. JUMAT Standard Staff Reporter SIX secret society thugs, believed to be members of Gang 24, yesterday morning attacked a 50-year-old cook m Lavender Street when he refused to pay $36 "protection" money. Seizing chairs from a roadside coffee stall, the gangsters assaulted the
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    They Can't Resist The 'FrenchLine'
    106 1 They Can't Resist The 'FrenchLine' AMERICAN males can't resist the "French line" curvaceous thighs, short legs. high bosom. slim waist pert Gallic starlet Gaby Bruyere (above) says. She is training hard for her next tour of the United States by "developing those particular portions of my anatomy which make me
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    'Big 4 Should Meet In The Nude'
    152 1 ALLAHABAD, Jan. 17 (AP).— The holiest of India's holy men suggested today that the world's Big Four leaders gather nude on Himalayan heights and there seek peace for the people of the troubled earth. They think India's Premier Nehru also nude should preside
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    RI-Malaya Talks On Trade Policy
    269 1  -  ARNOLD BRACKMAN By Standard Special Correspondent JAKARTA, Sun.— Singapore's fate as SouthEast Asia's trade bastion may well hinge upon the opening of top level talks here today, between a strongly-manned Singapore-Malayan delegation, which includes rubber tycoon, Lee Kong Chian, and an equally powerful Indonesian delegation
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    PAPAGOS ON EUROPE TOUR
    32 1 ATHENS. Jan. 17. (Reuterj The Greek Prime Minister Field Marshal Alexander Papagos left here by train yesterday on a visit toihree Westers capitals Paris. Brussels and The Hague.
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    OK Soldier Stripped Of His Uniform
    114 1 BELFAST. Jan. 17. (APj— A British soldier was attacked mi n the Belfast street, stripped oft his uniform by angry Irish nationalists and loreed to watch it uurned. Late last msht the outlawed Irish Republican Army announced it look bill responsibility foi the ir.r-ident
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    BAN LIFTED
    19 1 MARILYN Monroe's suspension at 20tn Century Fox, Hollywood, has been lilted following her marriage to Joe Dimaggio.-
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    HONOURS GRADS HIT AT SCHEME
    412 2  -  CONRAD SMITH By 3-ManDelegation To See McLellan Standa d Staff Reporter A THREE-MAN delegation is to meet the Colony Director of Education, Mr. D. McLellon to protest strongly against Government's "conversion salary scheme for honours graduate teachers." This decision was taken at a meeting of
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    He Killed Five Reds
    54 2 DURING his tour of south and central Johore recently, the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, congratulated Rifleman Birbahadur Rai, of the 1 10 Gurkha Rifles, who killed five terrorists m about six minutes near I'lu Remis Estate, Rengam, Johore. Picture shows General Templer congratulating Rai
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    FORCES 'BAG' 2 MORE BANDITS
    153 2 Xl ALA LUMPUR, Sun. Two more terrorists have been killed m the Federation during the last twenty-four hours. A six-man patrol of the 2nd Platoon of the Kinta Valley Home Guard shot and killed a terrorist near Malim Nawar, Kampar. A rifle and some ammunition
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    BABY LING WINS PRIZE
    84 2 PEXAXG. Sun. A six-month-old baby girl. Tan Siew Ling, weighing 17 lbs. 5J ounces won the first prize at the baby show sponsored by the Student Nurses' Association of Northern Malaya held m the New World Park yesterday. Some 60 babies took part. Seventeen-month-o!d Colin Helps,
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    He's Here To Retain The Market
    92 2 He's Here To Retain The Market MR. C. K. PERRETT, general manager of the Australian Wheat Board, arrived m Kallang yesterday to find ways and means of retaining the important Malayan market for Australian wheat He told The Standard that Malaya is a major market for Australian wheat. The imports
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    3 Years' Jail For Man (60)
    123 2 3 Years' Jail For Man (60) JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Tow Vow Hong. 60. found guilty of consorting with bandits, was yesterday sentenced to three years' imprisonment by Mr. N. L. Cohen. President of the Sessions Court, Kota Tinggi. According to the prosecution, an area security unit on patrol m Sungei
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    SCHEME TO EXTEND PARK
    96 2 SINGAPORE City Council's Finance Committee will today consider a plan to expand Katong park by about 10 acres. The proposal is for Government to buy the land; and the Council to improve it at a cost of $200,000. Picture MR. LAURITZ JESSEN. who is helping: the
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    Alliance Holds Secret Meeting
    238 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Leaders of the MCAUMNO Alliance, The Standard understands, devoted much time today m a three-hour "secret 1 meeting m Kuala Lumpur, discussing the controversial Government's proposed amendment to the Road Transport Ordinance for reserving a quota of haulage permits to Malays. I It
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    Five New Rural Health Centres
    163 2 THREE Midwifery and two Nursing Centres estimated to cost the Singapore Government $270,000 wiU be built m the Colony's rural areas this year, the Director of Public Works. Mr. A. Wear, told The Standard yesterday. Mr Wear said a Midwifery Centre will cost about $25.00u
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    UNION ASKS ONCE AGAIN
    48 2 SINGAPORE City Council Water Department Labour Union has again requested the I Council to withdraw dismissal notices issued to 150 workers. The Council had previously rejected the request. A Union statement say s that the only choice now left was to "lake suitable action."
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    Untitled
    99 2 LT. COL J. J. Lamb. Commanding 19th Air Formation Signal Regiment, pins the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on Cpl French of the Ist Battalion The Gordon Highlanders yesterday morning. He served m Malaya and was takes prisoner when the Japanese invad- Ed the country He «a& taken to
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    300 Police In Dawn Operation
    232 2  -  BOB PERILS Hunt For Lost Gun: By Standard Staff Reporter MORE than 306 members of the Singapore police spent five hours in Jurong area at dawn yesterday in i combined operation to recover a stolen shotgun and ammunition. After throwing a ..c roand the area,
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    Race Day Is Changed
    48 2 Race Day Is Changed THE second day of the Singapore Turf Clob's January race meeting has been shifted from Jan. 1%. to Ja n 19. Traffic Police announce that the usual one-may traffic scheme along Bukit Timah and Dunearn Roads will be enforced on the new race day.
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    HOMER CHENG ILL
    19 2 MR. Homer Cheng, pres.dent of the Singapore Chinese V.M.C.A. was adnrtted to tht General Hospital yesterday
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    DON'T FORGET P.O. NUMBERS
    79 2 THE Posu: Servian Dap&rtmeat. Singapore, umou I yesterday, that as fa— i ,1. it wi's not be i>oss.tj i direct post:,! ar'i ■•.< *c I respective Post Offi«e B ms j unless they bear the appropriate Post Office Bos i m ber. i The Standard was
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    UNIONS WANT PAY INCREASE
    52 3 SINGAPORE Wharf and Ship Labour Union a" I Harbour Board Employees' Union yesterday decided to a .< for an increase m living allowances for the daily-rated workers. Similar clairm have also been made oy another union the S ngapore Harbour Board Labour Union representing about 3.000
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    Trophy Winning Squadron In Action
    99 3 THESE are two of a series of photos just released by the British Admiralty showing a typical operation by 848 Mav.il Air Squadron now serving m Malaya, which has Just been awarded the Boyd Trophy for 1953 for the most outstanding feat of aviation m
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    S-EA School For Girl Delinquents
    161 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. —A Henry Gurney School has just been established m Batu Gajah as the first institution m South-east Asia to care for juvenile girls, it was announced. A:y girl who b ordered ')>- the court can be sent to a Henry Gurney school
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    Expat Pay Decision Tonight
    77 3 THE Council of Joint Action, representing about 18,000 Singapore Government employees, will make a final decision tonight on Government proposal to abolish gradually the nonpensionable expatriation allowance tor European officers. The Standard understands Council members will favour the proposal, but it may suggest a few amendments.
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    CAMERA CLUB PLANS DANCE
    72 3 THE Singapore Camera Club will hold its first social and dance at Sea View Hotel m Katong from 8 p.m. on Feb. 27 to I a.m. to raise funds for the club. The band of the Royal Navy Will be ia attendance. Tickets at $3 per
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    LOKE MADE AN ASSOCIATE
    49 3 MR. Loke Wan Tho, vicepresident of the Singapore Camera Club, has been made an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and an Associate of the Photographic Society of America for contributing to the advancement of photography m Malaya and for his excellence m bird photography.
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    NAVY SHIP TO VISIT PENANG
    36 3 PENANG, Sun.— The Indian Naval ship Investigator, which m on her second visit to Penang, will arrive on Jan. 21 for a two-day visit. She sails from Penang on Jan. 23.
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    FEW PAHANG GIRLS JOIN DENTAL NURSING
    96 3 PENANG Sun. Pahang is short of dental nurses because not enough girls of good education are seeking to join the service, the Federation's Chief Dental Officer Dr. C.F. Mummery, told The Standard yesterday. However, he explained that th c shortage would be eased when
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    Trust In Police Upset By War
    184 3 PENANG, Sun.— The Settlement's C.I.D. Chief, Mr. J.R. Cole, told The Standard yesterday that the war has brought about more general dishonesty, especially among youths, throughout the world. There have been more crimes of violence after the war and less co-operation with the Police,
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    When You May Fire Crackers
    61 3 When You May Fire Crackers LETTING off of fireworks, except for sand crackers, within the Colony is allowed between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. On Chinese New Year's Day o n Feb. 3. Singapore Police announced recently. But no fireworks shall be let off m the vicinity of any hospital
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    SHB MAY BE ASKED TO PAY
    52 3 The Singapore Harbour Board will be asked to pay $320,000 to the City Council without any delay, if the recommendations to the Finance and General Purposes Committee are accepted. The sum represents the cost of electricity supplied to the S.H.B during July 1952 and
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    2 UNION MEN FOR WHITLEY
    48 3 THE special delegates' conference of the Singapore Government and City Council Labour Union yesterday elected Messrs. R. K. Palaiyan and K. Somu to represent the union at the proposed Whit ley Council, which will be the negotiating machinery for all City Council employees.
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    Club Plans Dance
    41 3 TO USHER m the Chinese New Year, the Chinese Recreation Club m Taiping will hold a New Year's Eve Dance at their clubhouse on Feb. 2 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. There will be several dance exhibitions
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    WOLF CUBS SING CHINESE SONG
    79 3 WHEN he met members of the 9th Kiuang Wolf Cubs at Sungei Sayong, near Rengarn, during his two-day tour of Johore, the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer asked the cubs to sing for him. They responded with a Chinese song m praise of the
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    LABOUR FRONT IS QUIET: GALLETLY
    221 3 Only 5 Strikes In 1953 Standard Staff Reporter INDUSTRIAL relations m Singapore improved remarkably lost year and the labour situation was very quiet, Colony's Assistant Labour Commissioner, Mr W.I. Galletly told The Standard yesterday. "Today there is a better understanding between Singapore employers and employees.
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    Extension To Jetty
    123 3 THE Singapore City Council is to extend the jetty at Marine Parade 150 feet seawards at the expense of the present owner and also incorporate facilities for fish marketing activities at the extreme seaward end. of the jetty. A recommendaiton to this effect will be put up
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    NO PASSAGE FOR CHILDREN
    56 3 SINGAPORE City Council's Staff Sub-Committee has turned down a request for passage grant for children of officers who go on leave. The request was made by the Council's local senior officers through the president of their Association. The Council, at present, pays for the passage only
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    BUTTERWORTH TO BECOME BETTER PORT
    76 3 BUTTER WORTH. Sun. It was revealed at the inaugural meeting of the newly-elected Town Council here, that plans were under preparation to develop Buttervvorth into a j deep water port, and that it is I to be linked with Prai (the northern terminal) by railway
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    4 Laughed At Prison Sentence
    105 3 4 Laughed At Prison Sentence JOHORE BAHRU, Sun Four Malay. with previous long term prison convictions m Singapore, laughed aloud when they heard Mr. N. L Cohen. President of the Sessions Co'irt here, sentence them to a total of 21 years' imprisonment today The men Omar bin Ali, Masket bin
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    Sir Frank
    62 3 SIR Frank Lee. (left) Permanent Secretary to Board of Trade. United Kingdom, arrived in th e Colony yesterday on his way back from Australia where he attended the Sydney Conference of Commonwealth Finance Ministers. Sir Sydney Caine. ViceChancellor of University of Malaya, who met Sir Frank at the
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    NEW BANDSTAND
    27 3 A NEW pan to construct a bandstand at the Singapore Esplanade has been approved by the Estates and Fire Brigade Commi"',ee of the City Council.
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      80 3 Weather Report Minimum Temperature: from 7.30 p.m. 16 1 to 7^o a.m. 17 —Singapore (74 F), Penang (74 F), Kota Bahr« (75 F), Kuala Lumpur <«2 F), Ipoh (72 F), Kuantan (72 F). Maximum Temperature from 7.30 a.m. 17 1 to 7.30 p.m. te 17 1 Singapore (87F). Penang (88
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    Youth A PAGE FOR THE YOUNG
    801 4  - Youth A PAGE FOR THE YOUNG CHOW CHIN YEW 'SWOTTING IS NO JOY! by \f ITH the earning of aay eii»iaarioa comes the expression ltmm gf im f till four o'clock ia the moroias" This phrase has becmc m (Mum that it is ■ihrioaita throw* at the local -Mowers** or
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    Dick Dobbin And His Straw Hat
    906 4  -  DONALD RAYMOND By With Pictures By rviCK DOBBIN didn't mind going to the Fair very much, although he would have to stand doing nothing almost all day long. It was the straw hat with places for his ears, the bright ribbon on iis name,
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    AS THE SMALL FRY SEE IT!
    347 4 r\NE mother had cause for embarrassment as a result of the practice of using literative names m children's stories. Meeting a dignified friend on the street one day, she turned to her small daughter with the prompting, "You remember Myrtle, don't you, dear?" To
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    'Copters Will Land Here
    49 4 A SEVEN-STOREY building just erected m the southwest of Paris is provided with a terrace mor c than 140 yards long, designed specially as a landing stage for helicopters. It will have garage accommodation and station service complete, bar, hairdressing room, betel information office, etc.
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    While-You-Wait Car Cleaning
    56 4 A NEW process* for clean- ing motor cars has made its appearance m Paris, the latest while-you-wait cleaner ever. The master tool of the new cleaner is a collection of giant nylon brushes, horizontal and vertical, turning at great speed ensuring the complete cleaning and polishing of
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    SOME PLASTICS HAVE A MEMORY
    327 4  -  M.A. Glasgow PLASTICS are as much a part of our modern world as aircraft and automobiles And. m their latest forms, these versatile materials play mi important role m the construction of both planes and cars. But we are oolv just beginning: to make full
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    Speaking of Pictures...
    96 5 1 PRIZE-WINNERS top Mt I "TWIN" by Lam Sai Hoong of 30 Campbell Street, Penang. Rolleiflex, f8, 50th, Super XX. louvvr it* ft •MASTS AND REFLECTIONS" by G. Kantilal of 97 Urab Street, Singapore. Kodak 6/20, £11, l/50th, F.P.3. i tihttvi* "PHOTOGRAPHER" by Siow Seong of 513
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    Easier Tendency In Industrials
    660 5 By A Market Correspondent A replay of last week's record of market movements could well be an accurate description of the period under review. Until Friday there was no resistance to the easing trend m Industrials. With few exceptions, Tin Shares continued ttieir downhill movement and
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    THE STARS AND YOU
    330 5  -  RITA DEL MAR By npO O AT'S QUOTATION: "The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself" Aristotle. MONDAY FOR EVERYONE: A conservative course is necessary today; proceed on a practical basis. Defer making revisions, moves, changes,
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    R.I. RUBBER, TIN FOR RED CHINA
    262 5 JAKARTA. Jan. 16 (AP) The Republic of Indonesia will export 33 items in- eluding rubber and tin to Communist China as the j result of a trade agreement signed between the two j countries m Peiping on Nov. 30 last year. The full text
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    HE ATTACKED PARTY LUXURY
    81 5 BELGRADE. Jan. 17. (Reuter). Yugoslavia's Vice President Milovan Djiias who has attacked privilege among Communist party leaders and their use of luxurious motor carwent on foot to party headquarters here yesterday to hear his fate on "heresay"' charges. The 108 members of the Central Committee of
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    3,000 ATTEND KREMLIN BALL
    35 5 LONDON. Jan. 17. (AP) The Kremlin, lately Moscow's brightest spot, threw a ball last night. Moscow Radio said the 3,C«0 guests inHuded leaders of Industry, transport. building, science and the arts.
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    SHIP DAMAGE IS MALICIOUS
    65 5 LONDON. Jan 17. <AP> The Aamiralty reported yesterday there has been '"malicious damage" aboard the submarine depot ship Montelare the .sixth siKh ocrurrence abroad a I British warsnip snice last summer. An Admira'ty spokesman said the damage on the Montrlare inr-iuded "the breaking of i a
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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      252 5 fgngf iTJNGAPOIIEj SHELL THEATBBTTB, 115 p m Film show for staff and friends "Happy Landing" and "Pathe Pictorial." 530 p.m. Meeting for the Outboard Boating Club of S.agapore. CHINESE V.M.C.V: Staff meeting 9 am Board of Directors meetir.g 5 p.m Tab'.e tennis 2 and 7 pm.; Bodybuilding 5 p.m.; Badminton
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      325 5 KUALA LUMPUR CAPITOL: Zombies of The Strotosphere 2. 6.30 and 9 30 p.m. PAVILION: Wong Si Chee Tor Slew 1. 3. 6.30 and 9 p.m. RKX: The Last Posse 2.30, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. LIDO: Asai Magan (Tamil) 2 p.m. HINDI STAN: Ratnan Deepam (Ta- mill 3, 6 and 9
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      201 5 Calling All Children: 6 p.m.! Listeners' Choice; 6.55 News;| 715 Barrell House: 730 Sports Parade; 8 pm World Affairs;! 815 At Your Request; 9 p.m. Nicholas Nickleby; 9.30 News;! 9.45 Cabaret; 10 15 My Fast Novel; 10.30 Meet the Bands. PENANG lADIO MALAYA. PENANG: lorn —2 p.m As Spore; 6.10
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    Another Chapter
    757 6 'THIS week will see the end of another chapter of the Korean war. On Wednesday, the Neutral Nations Reparation Commission will return 22,000 prisoners-of-war to their captors. Most of them are Chinese who fought for the Communists and who refused to go home to China. Others are North
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    Wranglings Become Furious
    1486 6  - Wranglings Become Furious Manchester Guardian Correspondent COLD COAST POLITICS By A AT the very moment when Gold Coast political leaders await with much confidence London's approval for a new major advance m Gold Coast self-government, the third since the war and the penultimate step towards aims which seemed very distant
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • Letter
      Role Of Chiiese Minor Parties
      400 6 HONGKONG. r PHE smaller political par- ties taken into very junior partnership by the Communists in China have recently been holding meet' ings to instruct their members in their future role now that industrialization is the dominant theme. Reports of these yneetlngs in the Press
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      SNACKS
      56 6 Sir: My daughter attends Eedok Girls' School and because there are hawkers at that school I have to give her 40 cents every day for her snack at recess time. Why can't this school have a scheme similar to that m the boys' school and thereby help us parents
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    • Letter
      For Mr.
      113 6 Sir; My attention has been drawn to a report in your paper of an interview with Labour City Councillor Mr. Philip Williams, in which it was said that he charged the Singapore Government in collusion with the Progressive Party with trying to "scuttle" the Land Acquisition Bill. Nothing
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    • Letter
      Polygamy
      90 6 Sir; This subject has been given so much space m the newspapers that one wonders how the world has kept moving so long with its marital affairs apparently m an unsettled state. A woman has always ruled the world despite her outcries of male injustice and domination. Some women
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      MALAYA NOT MEMBER OF C'WEALTH
      528 6 MALAYA NOT MEMBER OF C'WEALTH Sir: Your correspondent THREE SCORE AND TEN badly overlooked the fact that Malaya is not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, although she is a member of the Empire. She is not a member equal m political status to the other nation-state members who
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      Williams' Guidance
      98 6 cumstances alone that the writer requested Mr. N.A. Mallal to present the petition, and he consented so to do. It is interesting that at this interview the writer expressed the hope that, m so agreeing, someone would not endeavour to make "political capital" out of the fact that
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    BUTLER PLEDGES BRITISH AID
    372 7 But The Cwealth Must Work As A Team, He Says SYDNEY, Jan. 17 (Reuter)— Mr. R.A. Butler, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, tonight pledged Britain to give all she could to further Commonwealth development. In an Australia wide broadcast, he also warned that Britain's defence
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    35 7 A.P. photo. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH shakes hands with the Anderson triplets Mary, Rose and Elizabeth at Hastings, New Zealand. The triplets were born in Hastings on Coronation Day, May 12, 1937.
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    Labour Unrest Sweeps Britain
    215 7 LONDON, Jan. 17 (AP)— lndustrial strife is sweeping Britain's Parliament into the toughest session it has known since Prime Minister Churchill took over the government more than two years ago. From the minute '.he legis:ators reassemble on Tuesday Churchili will face angry demands for action to
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    Turpin Is Pulled Up Again
    90 7 Turpin Is Pulled Up Again OXFORD England. Jan. IT. \P). Randy Turpin ran afoul of the law again yesterThe dethroned world midd'.e\ve:_;ht hoxjng champion was fined 15 guineas With £5 for reckless driving Only two weeks ago Turpin paid a £2 tine for illegal possession of a rifle Other recent
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    DUKE READS LESSON AGAIN
    69 7 WESTPORT (New Zealand). .Tan. 17. (APV— The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh rlew here from Xe'son today In continuation of their New Zealand tour. They stopped for an hour for vociferous welcome from thousands of children and adults, then flew on to Hokitika 65 rniies
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    18 INJURED IN $3 MIL. FIRE
    37 7 XEW YORK. Jan. 17. (UP). 1 —A three-miliion-doHar fire and explosion destroyed a four- storey television equipment warehouse on the Brooklyn waterfront yesterday and injured lt» firemen and two poiice--1 men.
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    Lift Ban On Brotherhood, Neguib Told
    159 7 KARACHI, Jan. 17.— Sultan Ahmad, chief of the Jamaat Islami, Pakistan's counterpart of the Moslem Brotherhood ha s called upon President Mohammed Xeguib of Egypt to withdraw the ban on the Brotherhood m Eg3 r pt. He warned Gen. Neguib that by trying to
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    Ike Holds Secret Talks With Advisers
    111 7 WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (AP)— Top officials of the U.S. Government held two secret conferences yesterday on ways to use atomic power for peace and defend against atomic war. One meeting at the White House, with President Eisenhower presiding, reportedly set diplomatic strategy to be
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    HOUSE BURNT IN AIR CRASH
    54 7 NASHVILLE. Tennessee, Jan. 17, (AP) A U.S. Air Force J3-26 bomber crashed from murky skies into a house near the Nashville Airport and exploded yesterday, killing all throe crew members. Cause of the crash was not immediately determined. The house was badly burnt, but the
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    2,000 Now Free Again
    57 7 BERLIN, Jan. 17 (Reuter)— About 2,000 orisoners. sentenced by Soviet Military Courts m East Germany since 1945, have already been released under a general amnesty, officials of the German Repatriates Association here announced. They said about 1.700 prisoners had been released to East Germany, 115 to
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    U.S. Aid To Make RAF A Jef Force
    152 7 U.S. Aid To Make RAF A Jef Force LONDON, Jan. 17 (UP) The United States is nearing agreement with Britain on a special US$252,000,000 defence grant to bring the Royal Air Force up to date as a jet age fighting force, it was reported yesterday. The Air Ministry made no
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    Queen Will Not Cancel Gib. Visit
    83 7 Queen Will Not Cancel Gib. Visit LONDON. Jan. 17, (Reuter) Britain has rejected a Spanish request that Queen J Elizabeth should call off her one day visit to Gibraltar, next May. authoritative sources said yesterday. The sources said -Britain made this view clear to the Spanish Ambassador here, the Duke
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    MIRACLE STATUE
    85 7 DR. ROGER TROPINI peers through the radioscope at the small wooden statue of St. Ann m an examination to investigate reports of a miracle m which the statue was said to have centred. The reports said that when its owner m the south of France town of entrevaux,
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    Italy's 3-D Beauties
    58 7 photo WE REMEMBER someone in Paris, the world's sex capital, saying that men are beginning to prefer women with the boyish figures. Well we are not too sure, specially after looking at tempting Sophia Loren (left), and inviting Silvana Pcmpanini Two Italian movie stars who certainly have
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    Henry Ford Hits At US Politicians
    173 7 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 17 (Rcuter)— Mr Henry Ford, head of the Motor Company, called on the United States yesterday "not to make a fetish of security." Urging more noerai united States trade policies m an address to an advertising and literary organisation, the Poor Richard
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    SOVIETS SACK A RED LEADER
    76 7 LONDON. Jan. IT (AP).— The Soviet Union announced another shakeup in the Communist administration of the Soviet Georgian Republic. A radio broadcast heard here said First Deputy Premier Vilian Zodelava h?-s been fired alter nine months in office. Appointed to succeed him was M. I.
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    MR. V. AGREES TO UN DATE
    41 7 LONDON, Jan. 17. (Router); Mr. Andrei Vyshinsky, the Soviet delegate to the United Nations has agreed that the i eighth session of the Genera, Assembly should meet on Feb 9 to discuss the Korean problem.
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    ROYAL THANKS
    29 7 QUEEN JULIANA of the Netherlands has thanked President Eisenhower "lor the help given by the United States when floods ravaged her i t»un- try last February. IP
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    Soccer Pool Inventor Dies In Obscurity
    127 7 BROCKLEY, England. Jan IT. (AP). The man who made millions for other peop.e— died yesterday. John Jervis Bernard. mvenKr of the soccer poo, belling system, died in th;s I ny Cotswold village all but fopgotten. Bernard worked out the coupon system in Hn ham
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    794 9  -  MARGKANITA LASKE By TT'S easy to know what one A ought to like, far harder to know what one likes. In week-to-week reviewing both criteria* must be used lest personal prejudice deprives readers of their different pleasures. But when looking back m the hope of gaining even
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    522 9  -  NAOMI LEWIS By Ancient Melodies. By Su liua. (Hosarth Press. 155.) fkUR interest m this book the early life a a Chinese high official's tenth daughter is roused by a curious circumstance. It springs out of a correspondence with Virginia Woolf, not long before her death
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    RUSSIA IN ASIA
    470 9  -  EDWARD CRANKSHAW By Soviet Policy in the Far East, 1944-51. By Max Beloff. (O.U.P. 21s.) T ET it be said at once that J this volume is indispensable for the serious student of Soviet policy in S.E. Asia. Mr. Beloff's rare and meritorious combination of meticulous scholarship
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    A WELCOME PRESENT
    799 9  -  Harold Nicolson The Age of Inigo Jones. By Janes Lees Milne. ißatsfonl 425.). Reviewed By "\fR. Lees-Mflne, now an hitectura] advi-scr tc tne National Trust, is an adrn rable art historian, since. apart from the essential gun lies of accuracy and peroeplkML he possesses an astonJEhing visual
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      353 9 LTI Abner By 4/ Copp 1 ««-'SH CvEst A.N' r MONEY// THIS WEDDiisf O' ROTTEN TUFUsI I I^/TJ lWE^l^^Vl>jr. t-^1 Alley Pop By V.T. Noiafin The Heart Ot Juliet Jones By S#c»i Drake ICUIJjLjiOOU^VXfZn^ -.I'VE GOT A COC<EVED NOTION \v___^_i--~"Tl T don-t ny? i I'U 'LJLL- W *CBSTTONBHT.>AW6AIC.i«WyB6EV£N I THAT
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    Japan Reasserts Itself
    1306 10  -  Hessell Tiltman By- TOKIO. 'THE year 1954 is m Japan the "Year of the Horse" traditionally a time of swift-moving developments. It finds Japan emerging from the post-war political and mental vacuum and preparing to increase armaments, intensify the search for new markets, and to tackle the
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    BIG TOP WILL BE MISSING
    381 10 BIG TOP WILL BE MISSING HAMBURG, (AP) One of the world's greatest "bis tops" will be missing next season and perhaps forever from the sawdust trails of circus entertainment. The famous Carl Hagenbeck Circus is going out of business. It's not that little boys and girls no longer shriek with
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    A MISLEADING REPLY
    252 10 I Sir; With reference to I my letter of Jan. 1, on the subject of 'Slavery in the Malayan Railway Clerical Service?' I would like to say that the reply given by Mr. H. F. Wilkins is very misleading. Mr. Wilkins could help by pointing out through
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    FILMS
    69 10 Sir: In Kluang there are two cinema theatres and these provide the only entertainment for poor people. But it has been a long time since either a Malay, or Indian or an English film was shown on a Sunday because Sunday is a holiday for many. We request the
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    ENGLAND IN LEATHER HUNT
    677 11 West Indies Make Merry KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. 16 (Reuter)— Conditions were again ideal for batting today when West Indies resumed their- first innings against England on the second day of the Test. Yesterday, they batted cautiously lor 168 for two but this morning Everton Weekes was
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    Arsenal Topple Wolves From Leadership
    664 11 Arsenal Topple Wolves From Leadership LONDON, Jan. 16 (Reuter) Wolverhampton Wanderers, knocked out of the F.A. Cup before their own spectators last week, were beaten at home by Arsenal m today's league programme and toppled from the leadership of the First Division. They were one of three English Division leaders
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    UK SOCCER POSITIONS
    1005 11 LONDON. Jan. IT (Reuter) [—Football League standings lather yesterday** matches are 'as follows FIRST DIVISION P W D L F A PtJ W B Albion 27 18 4 5 70 36 4o W haraptoo 27 1 3 5b438 ,9 H dersaeid 27 13 8 b47J2 34 i£&?
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    LAYCOCK AIDS CLUB
    87 11 The first sports club m the Bedok area of Singapore was declared open yesterday afternoon by Mr. John Laycock, the Singapore Legislative Councillor. Speaking to some 40 youths m a classroom m Bedok Boys' School. Mr. Laycock. a patron of the club, expressed full support for the
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    Changi Regatta
    89 11 THE annual Regatta of RAF Changi Yacht Club, with over 150 entries from the Ser-, vices Yacht Clubs, will be held ion Jan 23 and 24. commencing at 2.30 p.m.. on Saturday and 10-30 a.m., on Sunday. The programme will start with a 12-mile handicap race to Tanjong
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    Roman Victory
    35 11 MIAMI. Jan. 17 (AP).— Italo Soortichini (152J lbs.), of Rome, battled Carmen Basilio (149 i lbs.), top contender for Kid Gavilan's welterweight title, to draw m a 10-round boxing match here last night.
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    ENGLAND BEAT WALES AFTER 14 YEARS
    479 11 TWICKENHAM, Jan. 16 (Reuter)— England recorded their first victory over Wales at home since 1939 today when they won by nine points (three tries) to six points (a try and a penalty goal) here. The teams were level three all at the intercal. It
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    Commonwealth Lose By An Innings
    451 11 MADRAS, Jan. 17 (Reuter)— India beat the Commonwealth touring^team by an innings and 50 runs in the fourth cricket Test here today. India scored 440 for nine declared in their first innings. Commonwealth, all out for 222 in reply, followed on 218 runs behind and
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    After 40 Years
    27 11 FOLKSTONE England Jan. 17, (AP) The North of England defeated the South 3 2 at hockey yesterday the North'g first win in 40 years*
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    Freddie's New Role
    79 11 ADELAIDE. Jan. 16, (Seuter). Brown, who captained the last England cricket team to visit Australia will return next September with the MCC team, to write on the 1954/ 55 Test series, it was announced here today. It is believed that Brown who is also chairman of England's
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      205 11 NOTICES j CITY COUNCIL OF F SINGAPORE TENDERS 11 CLEANSING DEPARTMENT: 2 Supply of (A) 500 Carrier l Bins— Close NOON— 25/1/54: tl (B) 170 Street Bins— Close n NOON— 26/1/54. Forms and ti Blue Print shewing speciflca- r tions from Tender Room, t Second Floor, Secretariat (Room 235) City
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    England's Track Stars Show Form
    131 12 PARIS. Jan. 17. (AP).— French and British trackmen last night ran away with the international athletic mcct first indoor track meet ever held m France. Some B. POO spectators cheered four French, three Britons, a German and an Australian to victories m the track and
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    Sikhs Rally Beat BSC
    76 12 After being two goals down I m the first half, Young Men's Sikh Association made a fighting second half recovery to beat the Brotherhood S.C. 4—3 at the 8.0.D. ground yesterday. B.S.C. opened through Kumat who put his side another goal up three minutes later. Y.M.S.A.
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    Annual General Meet & Dinner
    61 12 Annual General Meet Dinner THE Annual General MeetingDinner find Prize Presentation of the Singapore Cycle Racing Association is to be held at the Chinese Swimming Club on Saturday 23rd. January at 7 p.m. It is hoped that all association members will attend to pay tribute to the prize winners of
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    Neo Is Beaten By Leg Cramps — And 'Nerves'
    372 12 Neo Is Beaten By Leg Cramps And 'Nerves' SYDNEY, Jan. 15 (UP)— Asian champion, Neo Chwee Kok, from Singapore, failed to impress a capacity crowd of more than 3,000 m the New South Wales State swimming championships tonight when he finished last m the 440 yards freestyle championship, the only
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    Neo Crashes His Head But Swims Fast Enough
    73 12 A Reuter report from Sydney last night (Sunday) said that Neo Chwee Kok has been ordered special night trainin? to get used to strong: under water lights. In a record 50 metres free style attempt at Banksdown Olympic pool Neo crashed his
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    STTA TO PAY CREDITORS BY INSTALMENTS
    241 12 THE Singapore Table Tennis Association, m debt lo the extent of over $2,000 yesterday decided to pay this amount to the creditors by instalments. At present, it was disclosed at the meeting of the association, the STTA had insufficient funds m the bank to
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    U.S.L.T.A. Now Toe The Line
    166 12 U.S.L.T.A. Now Toe The Line NEW YORK. Jan. 16: (Reuter).—The United States Lawn Tennis Association voted at its annual meeting today to allow lawn tennis players who had reached their 21st. birthday to work for sporting goods companies. In so doing the association followed the lead of Australia. Britain and
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    Eddie Is In David Out In Toronto
    267 12 TORONTO, Canada, Jan. 17 Eddie Choong, of Penang. defeated Gordie Simpson, of Montreal, 15-4, 15-7 yesterday m the semifinal men's singles seeded competition m the Strathgowan Club's 10th annual international invitation badminton tournament. Don Smythe. of Toronto, defeated David Choong 10-5. 15-11. m
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    SRC Football Practices
    65 12 THE Singapore Recreation Club will hold football practices on Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, commencing from Wednesday, Jan. 20. The following are requested to turn up: J. de Silva, R. Westerhout, M. G. Wright, A. de Rozsrio, R. Henderson A. W. Fox. K. Grosse, R. Stevens, L. Rodrigo,
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    295 12 All Blacks Held For 20 Minutes PONTYPOOL. Jan. 16 (Reuter) The New Zealand Rugby Union touring team beat b combined side representing the Welsh Clubs, Pontypoo and Cross Keys, by 19 poirr (two goals, one dropped go: two tries) to six (one penal goal and one try) here tod aThey
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    ALL BUT ONE FROM THE FED.
    425 12 ALL BUT ONE FROM THE FED. The Colony's hockey stocks took a tumble yesterday when the Malayan Hockey Council, selecting Malaya's national team, selected... KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Pcrak's Phillip Sanker will captain Malaya when this country* national hockey eleven meet the Indian Hocke\ Federation tourists. Singapore only player selected, Burdett
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      499 12 WEIGHTS FOR 2nd DAY WEIGHTS for tomorrow's races, second day of the Singapore Turf Club's January meeting are as follows Zambesi 8.10 Ali Raba 8.10 Cam-hew 8.09 Heremai 8.09 River Moon II 8.07 Colorado II 8.0(1 Proctor B.o©' Guiar II 805 Chirala 8.01 Feature Him 8.00 CL. S Div 4-6
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