Singapore Standard, 6 November 1954

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  • 15 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Vol. V. No. 126. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1954 TWELVE PACES 15 CENTS.
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  • 102 1 WHEN Mrs. T Rosser Roemer picked up the phone a voice at the other end said: "This is the President speaking" and it really was President Eisenhower. Mrs. Roemer. of St. Louis, is pictured (above) a s she spoke to the President, who was calling from
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  • 137 1 U.S. Chief Host To A Queen SHINGTON, Nov. 5, Queen Eliza- Qu en Mother, White House in President p< rsonal limon her arrival here m New York. men and d the touched d the mousine Mother's .veil as the United States lag In >ho drove to the Queen Mother was
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  • 47 1 OUL, Korea. Nov 5 <UP) rhree Korean students 1 burned to d^ath en lay whrn sparks from v.^t-T train Ic^omotive I "lino flowing from n pipeline besi'Je the 1 and set the cars aflame vrrriment announced Pregnant woman grapples with gunman
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  • 104 1 Democrat Support Promised WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (Reuten President Eisenhower's Republican administration will receive substantial co-operation from the Democratic Congress elected last Tuesday. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, new Democrat majority leader in the Senate, promised this last night after final results confirmed that his party had won control of the Senate
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  • 44 1 NAIROBI, Nov. 5 (AFP^ After sawing through their leg-chains with hacksaw blades. 25 hard-core Mau Mau prisoner's attempted to escape from Nairobi prison today. A watchful guard spotted the attempt and raised the alarm and warders recaptured all the prisoners.
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  • 193 1 IPOH, Fri. The body of the 16-month-old boby who was kidnapped from her home on Wednesday night was today found floating in the Pan River. It was discovered by two boys, Khoo Kok Khoon and Suchiveloo, who were fishing in the river. The
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  • 108 1 HONG KONG Nov. 5, (Reuter) The 10,000-ton British cruiser Birmingham tonight battled through mountainous seas in a 150-mile an hour typhoon in an attempt to reach the United States Navy cargo steamer Muskingum which flashed an SOS this afternoon saying she needed help. The
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  • 49 1 NEW DELHI, Nov. 5. (Reuter)—A crowd of 2,000 burst a police cordon to mob Mr Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, when he returned to New Delhi today after his visit to China. "I think the world situation is Improving," he told reporters at the airport.
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  • 655 1 Brother Sister Put Seven Men To Flight Plf 808 PERIES Standard Vrinte Reporter AN expectant mother and her courageous brother escaped death when a gunman's revolver jammed twice as we tried to shoot them down in their home in Lorong 24, wytang, Singapore, yesterday
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  • 12 1 MRS. ALICE KUM
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  • 183 1 v. ARMY OF GOD 1 ALGIERS, Nov. 5, (UP)— French paratroop reinforcements poured into terror-stricken South Algeria today to fight the outlaw "Army of God." Columns of tanks and half-trucks rambled south through the dusty Algerian countryside to Batna at the foot of the Aures mountains near the
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  • 104 1 HE CONDEMNS ENGLISHSPEAKING FAD TAIPEI. Nov. 5, (AFP) Legislator Feng Chengchung at a meeting of the Social and Educational Committee of the Legislative Yuan yesterday condemned "the fashion" of speaking English. "To worship everything foreign has become a prevailing tendency on the island and more and more people think that
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  • 35 1 TUCSON. (Arizona Nov. 5 <"Reuter» Four men were killed and eleven seriously Injured when a United States Navy Convair plane crashed and burst into flames at the Municipal airport here during the night.
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  • 6 1 MR. JOSEPH YEO
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  • 155 1 Another Threat To Docks LONDON, Nov. 5. (Reuter) The threat of another stoppage menaced London's dockland today as the port began a bU drive to clear wares piled up during the great October strike. Cargo handling dockers who have staged three successive strikes, were back at work unloading ships trapped
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  • 27 1 WATCH for the return of the regular comic strips tomorrow, featuring Mandrake the Magician, the Phantom, the Lone Ranger, Henry and others.
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  • 129 1 CHICAGO. Nov. 5 (AP) A mother ha lost, at least temporarily, an effort to have her child recognised legally as the product of artificial insemination and removed from all rights of her former husband. r Bat m attorney foci Mrs. Arline Oh 1 son
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  • 84 1 MELBOURNE, Nov. 3. (Reutrt-)— The nation-wide Australian dock strike is unlikely to be settled before next Tuesday at the? earliest. a shipowners' spokesman said today. About 26.000 dockers hav© paralysed the country's ports in protest again-st the government's intention to shift the right to hire dockers
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 61 1 ;v SCHICK u 2O Mr, tru- Shavers flWgmf AC or DC rf* in beautiful M? leather cases Hk 1 Bole importers:— LEE CHAY tic CO. 100. North Bridie Boad Siniapore, 6. TeL ***** Delicious for Curru Tiffins H O T SLICED MANCO CHUTNEY _^:J SWEET SLICED MANCO CHUTNEY FITZPATRICK'S frt
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  • 173 2 Police View On Licence Furore A LICENCE to drive Class 3 motor vehicles is not an authority to ride a motor cycle, the Singapore Police Secretary, Mr. Peter Clague, told a Press conference yesterday. He was commenting on Press reports that people who held a driving licence were permitted to
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  • 79 2 Parang Wielder Jailed SENTENCING V. Marimuthu to six months' jail, yesterday, for striking an old man. Muthu Krishnan. on the ear with a parang, the Singapore Second Criminal District Judge. Mr. T. Kulasekaram. told him: "It's lucky the knife did not touch Krishnan's head. Had it been so, vou would
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  • 37 2 HONGKONG. Nov. 5. Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.72 to £1 sterling; $5.***** to US$l; $1,831 to Malayan $1; $0,142 to one Indonesian Rupiah. Gold $254,375 to a tael.
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  • 398 2 CONFIDENCE VOTE FOR LABOUR FRONT Candidates Back Leaders FOURTEEN candidates nominated by the Singapore Labour Front to contest seats in the forthcoming Legislative Assembly elections yesterday declared their loyalty and their confidence in the Front, its principles and aims. This vote of confidence was issued as an answer to the
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  • 112 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) hi Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 R.S.S. Spot Loose 79J 801 No. 1 R.S.S. fob Nov. 89} 80 No. 2 VJi 80i No. 3 78A 7f| Deo. To. 1 R.S.S 80i 801 Tone: Easier. TTN PBICE The price or tin
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  • 35 2 THE Secretary for Social Welfare, Mr. T. P. Cromwell, will five a talk on "What Voluntary Workers Can Do For Welfare." at the Singapore Junior Chamber of Commerce luncheon, at the Capitol Restaurant todav.
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  • 136 2 JA l^?*?' Koh Hock in the Singapore First Dwtrict Court yesterday while giving evidence against two men charged with trying to extort monev from him. The prosecuting officer. Mr. M. C. Boyle. D.S.P. and mem-! bers of the court staff, carried Koh out of the
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  • 65 2 MRS. J. S. C. LIM, secretary of the Chinese Ladies' Association, and a group of helpers will meet this morning at the Victoria Memorial Hall to make 250 Poppy Day wreaths ordered by Government officials. These wreaths will be laid at the foot of the Cenotaph
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  • 107 2 City Faces $7.3 Mil. Deficit THE Singapore City Council will face a deficit of $7,330,000 during the next year. At a special meeting of the Council yesterday. the $87,830,000 revenue and $95,171,000 expenditure budget for 1955 was approved for submission to the Governr Next year's revenue is about $1,000,000 more
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  • 84 2 GAS will cost less in Singapore from «Tan. 1, next year The Singapore City Council, at a special meeting yesterday approved the 1955 budget*, which cuts the ga s rates. All other rates and charges are to remain the same. The new gas tariff will
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  • 75 2 LEE KEXG BOH. accused of failing to obey a Polire order to stop when in charge of an outboard motor boat off Pasir Panjang on Sept T. was yesterday acquitted la the Singapore Sixth Police Court The Magistrate. Mr R V H Davies. said: "I can
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  • 187 2 Sir Charles Opens YMCA Art Exhibition A LARGE number of art lovers turned up at the Singapore Young Men's Christian Association yesterday when ViceAdmiral Sir Charles E. Lambe, C-in-C, Far East Station, opened the eighth annual Art Exhibition of the Y.M.CA Art Club. Sir Charles congratulated members of the Club
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 68 2 Weather Report Minimum Temperature: From 7.30 p.m Not. 4 to 7.30 a.m. Nov. 5. Singapore (72F»; Penan* (72F): Kota Bharu <74F); Kuala Lumpur (72F>: Ipoh <72F>; Kuantan (71F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. to 7.30 a.m. Not 5. Singapore <85F); Penan* <86F); Kota Rharu (87F): Kuala Lumpur (8«F); Ipob <90Fl;
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  • 133 3 LIM HONG JUAY, proprietor of a clog-makers shop and father of three children, wa s awarded a total of $5,100 damages and costs by Mr. Justice Knight, in the Singapore High Court yesterday, lor the death of his wife, Tan Ton^ Moi. The award was
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  • 62 3 WARRANTS of arrest were ordered by Mr. Justice Knight in the Singapore High Court yesterday, to be is-sued against John Tay. alias Tay Chin Hock, partner of Singapore Trading Company, and Sewar Singh, under the Bankruptcy Ordinance. The two men were stated to have failed to
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  • 39 3 A SINGAPORE police inspector and a constable gave chase and finally detained a Chinese in Tanjong Katong Road, yesterday afternoon, on a complaint by a 15-year-old ?irl that he indecently exposed himself to her.
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  • 58 3 A THIEF, who was getting away after robbing a provision shop in Owen Road of a few bottles of brandy, at 3 a.m. yesterday, abandoned his bicycle and took to his heels when the occupants of the shop shouted "thief! thief!" The bottles of brandy were
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  • 268 3 KNOCK ON DOOR' DRIVE FOR JUMBLE SALE A SINGAPORE housewife was called to the front of her home last week by the insistent ringing of her doorbell. On opening the door she met a smiling 15-year-old schoolgirl, who asked her for some old clothes. Old clothes?'' the puzzled housewife queried,
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  • 95 3 THE Chinese Ladies' Association. Singapore, yesterday entertained Miss Sally Butler (seated centre), American lecturer, to lunch at their premises in Gilstead Road. A clubwoman and a former director of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in the United States. Miss Butler is making an educational tour of the
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  • 197 3 SC Gets Two Years' IPOH, Fri.— A 16-year-old girl Miss Tan Peck Nai, of Gunong Bercham New Village, told the Sessions Court President Che Mahmud Hashim today how she overpowered a man who attacked her with a knife. She was testifying against Ariffin bin Othman,
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  • 39 3 THE Singapore Workers' Education Association will open four adult classes in elementary English at the Clement! School. Pasir Panjang, on Nov. 15. The classes will be conducted on Mondays and Fridays between 7 and 8 p.m.
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  • 22 3 AN election exhibition will be held in Malacca at the Meng Seng Charitable Association on Nov 8 at 5-30 p.m.
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  • 314 3 Half. Naked Woman Was Hacked To Death (court Told) l N Fr| The gruesome discovery ?vi«« J ol BO womon, covered with blood, A 9 J" he klfchc house wos related in the Magistrate's Court here today. Willitr °5 c r in Char g e Polic e District, Mr. J.
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  • 77 3 FundApplies For City Stock Issue THE Federation Central Provident Fund has applied for $> JUO.OOO worth of the j Singap re City Council's $30,000,000 Debenture Stock issue. The Deputy City Treasurer, Mr. S S. Scales. told The Standard yesterday that applications for this stock, which was opened on Wednesday, now
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  • 80 3 THE Singapore Children's Society will hold a fund-raising Carnival Dance at the Badminton Hall tonight, at 8.45 p.m. There will be several attractions, including Indian dances by Miss Francesca Mass and a magic show by Ron Knight, whose $1,000 box mystery baffles even the financial wizards.
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  • 91 3 Textile Strike Goes On SINGAPORE'S assistant Labour Commissioner. Mr. J. D. H. Neill, yesterday tried three tinfes without success to settle the dispute between the Malayan Textile Mills and its 400 striking employees. Mr. Neill said both parties were adamant in their stand on certain issues. He declined to say
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  • 43 3 TWO men. Han Mow Yuan and Gokaldas Virchand. were each sentenced to nine months' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Brown in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, for committing gross indecency at Farrer Park on the night of June 18.
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  • 44 3 AN adjudication order was made by Mr. Justice Knight in the Singapore High Court yesterday, against K. Venkatachalam, sole proprietor or K. Venkatachalam and Co., whose liabilities amounted to about $16,000. A receiving order was also made against the firm.
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  • 160 3 THERE are 500,000 young: refugees in Vietnam— from babies to university students in urgent need of milk, clothing and medicine, Mr. A.M. Cherian, chairman of the Singapore Youth Council, Vietnam Refugees Appeal Fund committee, told The Standard, yesterday. Mr. Cherian pointed out that
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  • 186 3 SHOULD rice, sugar and salt be sold in Singapore markets? Housewives and several City Councillors say "Yes." But the regulations of the Council ban the sale of these commodities and all other nonperishable foodstuffs in markets. The question arose at the last Council meeting
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  • 377 4 Gets 6 Months', Lodges Appeal KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Ton Chi Sheung, who described himself as o "commercial representative/' was today sentenced in the First Magistrate's Court here to six months' jail for cheating three girls of $90. The court was told that Tan obtained
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  • 25 4 SIR KENNETH and Lady Mealing after their tour of the Mercantile Bank branches in Penan* and Kuala Lumpur. Standard photo.
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  • 59 4 MR. B. A. MITCHELL, a graduate of the University of Bangor, North Wales, is Malaya's first ecologist. He flew into Singapore yesterday to work with the Forestry Department in the Federation. He said an ecologist is a man who studies the growth of trees and the
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  • 107 4 Man Gets Jail Fine For Assault A FISHERMAN. Tan Ah Boon, was sentenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment and fined $50 after he had been convicted in the Singapore Eighth Police Court yesterday for causing hurt to Yeo Kim Min -with an iron pipe. Yeo told the court that on
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  • 167 4 SIR Kenneth Mealing, chairman of the Mercantile Bank of India, flew into Singapore yesterday morning after visiting Penang and Kuala Lumpur. Sir Kenneth was accompanied by Lady Mealing. This is probably the first time that a chairman of the Bank has made such
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  • 222 4 TOMORROW is Remembrance Day. A memorial service will be held at the Cenotaph, Singapore, where wreaths will be laid by the Governor, Sir John Nicoll, the President of the Ex-Services Association, Mr. G. W. Smith and Service Chiefs. Today poppy sellers wiil help boost Earl Haig's
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  • 145 4 —Court Told A MAN referred to as^tfr. "X' was the complainant in an attempted extortion case mentioned in the Singapore Fourth Police Court, yesterday. It was alleged that $500 had been demanded from Mr. "X" with the threat that if he did not pay, his
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  • 339 4 Standard Music Critic A REALLY lovely performance of Vaughan Williams's haunting song-cycle, On Wenlock Edge, formed the centre-piece of last night's recital by Max Worthley, the Australian tenor. Here, more than anywhere in the recital, did Mr. Worthley entirely succeed in identifying himselr with the characters;
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  • 31 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Mak Meng Kee. an 18-year-old photographer, was today acquitted and discharged by the First Magistrate on a charge of causing hurt to a compatriot with a penknife.
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  • 111 4 Detainees Go Direct To Canton THE Norwegian freighter Eassenger vessel Sandvitn. which left Port Swettenham with 20(» Chines* detainees, bound for Red China by -passed Singapore. This was confirmed by the vessel's agents in the Colony. Messrs. Wah Seng Co.. who told The Standard that the ship is on the
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  • 21 4 PENAN G, Fri.— Jewellery to the valllt of $212 were stolen from a house in Tanjong Tokong last night.
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  • 91 5 Income Tax Offender To Appeal JOHN Haaeke gave notice of appeal in the Singapore City Police Court yesterday after he was convicted and fined $400 on two charges of failing to furnish income tax returns lor 1952 and 1953 within t lie prescribed period. He was also ordered to pay
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  • 253 5 Eiaht Hands Meat Retreat To A id Pappy Fund EIGHT bands of the Combined Services and the Singapore Police yesterday Beat tHe Retreat in one of the most colourful and certainly the loudest— ceremonies to be held on the Singapore Padang in recent years. The spectacle and the music attracted
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  • 255 5 SON TOOK HIS LIFE BECAUSE OF THRASHING photo. —Mother Tells Coroner A FEW days after a Singapore student, Tan Se Koan, 20, claimed he had been thrashed by his teacher for being backward in his lessons, he left school and committed suicide by hanging himself This was stated at the
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  • 176 5 THERE is a tendency for buyers to regard Australian goods with a lack of confidence said Mr. Cedric Godden, representative of President Industries and the deputy leader of the Australian Mission now in Singa- pore. This lack of confidence. Mr. Ciodclen said, stemmed from the
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  • 44 5 ANTHONY VAZ, a sanitary cleaner of the oil tanker Caltex Venice, was sentenced to two months' simple imprisonment by the Singapore Second Criminal District Court yesterday, for stabbing the ship's fireman. Robert Graham on Monday last, with a pocket knife.
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  • 148 5 THE TEMPLER PARK TIGER CLAIMS A COW FOR DINNER KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. -The "Templer Park" tiger, which in recent weeks put visitors to this Selangor Beauty spot, and security forces in the area, on their alert, has killed a cow that strayed into its domain off the 16th mile on
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  • 40 5 MUAR, Frl— Dr. K. L. Verghese of Muar hospital, was entertained to a dinner last night at the Muar Ceylonese Association. Jalan Petrie. by the Indian and Ceylonese communities here on his transfer to Kluang as Medical Officer.
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  • 18 5 THE Malacca Municipal Council will hold its special budget meeting on Nov. 10 at 10 a.m.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • 918 6 New Projects WITH the impending deficit of over $148,000,000 hanging like a dark cloud over the Federation and with nobody caring to take over from the Custodian of Enemy Property and develop the iron deposits in the Mersing area of Johore, a private company is clearing the virgin
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  • 396 6 Review of Views Discard 'White' Policy ('"HUNG Shing Jit Pao today calls on the Australian trade mission now visiting Singapore to use its influence to have the "White Australia' policy discarded. It is true that Australia and Mafaya, both being located in the Southeast area and both being parts of
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  • 166 6 by Jock Thornton SUVA. WHEN the Japanese occupied Tarawa twelve years aao they fortified the atoll with Biitish naval guns captured at Singapore, and built on airfield at Betio islet, which became the stronghold of Japanese troops stationed in the Gilbert Islands. It will be
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  • 1002 6  - Testimony To A System And A Philosophy LORD RADCLIFFE By A YEAR or two ago there was published a book called Diary of an Unknown Indian. Its dedication runs: To the Memory of the British Kmpire m India, which conferred subjeethood on us but withheld citizenship, to uliirh yet every
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  • 496 6 Answer To Five Queries Sir:— I am referring to the l*ttcr of "Justitia" in the Singapore Standard of November 3rd. The answers to the five queries which your correspondent raisrs were included in the Pr« .vs release which was issued on the 19th of October. 1954. These MMfPCtI were as
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  • 124 6 Sir;— ln his recent speech at the Eighth Army reunion in London General Sir Gerald Templer said that Communism cannot be defeated by 'bombs and bullets" alone. His .statement is indeed very timely and true. History tells us that bombs and bullets are not practicable tools
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  • 78 6 We the PEOPLE Men In their Cupidity to understand the 1o real peace ;ind pi Instead of practising rir-< which nothing, they ..i > f out' .mother. Little rral./e that they ire i f fuel to the fire. Communism i< ha id to eradicate, i I siry budgets can he
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    • 145 6 Settled Sir; Due to 1 prompt and I taken by thf M-hiM»l board concerned the of a teacher punching Hi* pupil's eye ha** hem I 1 amicably settled I Thanks for your UVdnrs i 1 day's publication Ml \M TJ\II\.I\ Singapore. You'll like this d» iCf Iflf TIVO H EUt^bpjS
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • 206 7 Premiers To Study Chances Of Co-existence With Reds LONDON, Nov. X (Keuter) The Commonwealth Prime Ministers' meeting here next January will review the prospects of peace ful co existence with the Communists following a year of lessened world last conference here in June 1953 the' nal situation
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  • 96 7 1 ONDON. Nov. 5. 'Renternnal report ol the government court the causes of i „M.,b. r dock strike was court set up by Sir :ton, Minister ol p ised In its relation of the me to make Issue in the to agreement Unioi criticised <>n<n
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  • 41 7 Florida. 40 men- mat ion a 1 Riven lie the result of SSJSOOO diamond Barney Kaplan lay the jewellery missing after a quarrel en Duru-an McMartin. lian millionaire, and bis during Saturday night lit the home of Bri^e
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  • 60 7 NEW YORK. Nov. 5. <UP» An Egyptian feminist, fighting for the rights of the women of her country but looking like a Paris model or a Hollywood pin-up girl told the press yesterday that >he intends to continue the fight for the elimination of polygamy and
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  • 55 7 NORWOOD. Massachusetts. I Nov. 5 'AP> The nude and -tabbed body of a 15-year-old school girl was found today in the garage next door to her home. Police >aid the body of! i Qeraldlne Annese was found by the owner of the house next door when he
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  • 48 7 Nov. r>. (Renter)— ne-year-old S u m i •nine ballerina of l"kyo Takarapuka ballet ny. lasi night led 14 fellow dancer^ ;t first nip to Paris. ved here bv air e where they had in s enea of "Madame fly* the fust italofl m production.
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  • 16 7 OUS French fashion Christian Dior is Paris today for Tokvn private visit AFP
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  • 166 7 LONDON. Nov. 5. »UP> Time run out today on Tommy Manners. the veteran winder of 800 clocks in London's Law Courts. A clock killed him. Manner. 52-year-old civil servant, was caught and pulled into the mechanism of the famous old LawCourts clock
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  • 175 7 LONDON. Nov. 5. (Reuter) —Over 1.000 guests glittering with diamonds and orders of chivalry attended the Queen's presentation party for the Diplomatic Corps at Buckingham Palace here last night. The State apartments were a glow with finery as 800 diplomats from 7f>
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  • 73 7 HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 5. «AP Producer Director. Otto Preminger, has announced he would make a movie of the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Preminger said yesterday he will leave lor New Delhi on Nov. 13 to submit plans to Prime Minister Nehru in the hope of getting
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  • 54 7 A.P. photo QUEEN Elizabeth the Queen Mother is flanked by William J. Kearney (left), former president of the Empire State Building Corporation, and Ku hard C. Patterson, official representative of Mayor Robert Wagner, during her visit to the observation tower of the \vorld"s tallest building during her recent
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  • 192 7 NEW YORK. Nov. 5, (Renter)— The I'nited States today offered to help other countries construct and operate research reactors abroad to develop atomic enerffv for neaceful uurnoses. The oiler was made by Mr Henry Cabot Lodge. Chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations, as lie
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  • 41 7 Rank Widow Suicide LONDON. Nov. 5. (Renter*— Mrs. Palrk-ia Rank. 56-year-old widow of Mr. J. V. Riink. millionaire miller and i a(e norse owner, poisoned herself in her London flat on Monday by taking barituric acid, a London inquest decided yester'iay.
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  • 22 7 M. PIERRE Mendes Francethe French Prime Minister, will arrive in Washington on Nov. 17 I6r two days of talks
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  • 76 7 RI Troops Landing Is Denied CANBERRA. Nov. 5 <Reuter> An Indone>ian Embassy official here today denied Indonesian troops had landed in Dutch West New Guinea. It was officially announced in The Hague yesterday that Dutch marines were pursuing Indonesian troops who had landed in Dutch New Guinea during the second
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  • 37 7 Reds Bomb N 'list Island TAIPEI. Nov. 5 tßeuter> Two Communist light bombers dropped 21 bombs on Nationalist held Yi Kiang Shan Island off the Southern Chekiang coast today while Nationalist planes were grounded by a typhoon.
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  • 138 7 'Seadart' Explodes In Front Of Crowd SAN DIEGO, California, Nov. 5 (UP)— The Convair XF-2-Y Seadart jet seaplane exploded in the air yesterday and crashed in (lames into San Diego Bay. The pilot. Charfes E. Richbourg. of San Diego, died two minutes after being pulled out of the water. The
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  • 125 7 LONDON. Nov. ft, (Renter)— Captain Peter Baker. S3. Conservative Member of Parliament, was alleged at a London Bankruptcy Court yesterday to owe between C 1.600 and X. 1.700 to 25 creditors. Six proofs of debt had been lodged with the official receiver for a total of
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  • 83 7 PARIS Nov. ft, (AP)— Madame Later, an actress. ha.« filed a Bllil against a Catholic girls' magazine for allegedly using her photograph to illustrate an article on prostitution. She is asking an equivalent of U552.837 damages. The article on "Women Slaves" published in "Siliage* (Tracks), was
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  • 56 7 VIENNA. Nov. 5. (AP>— Police announced they issued a warrant against an alleged Syrian professor who tried 4o hire Vienna girls for "beauty parlours" in the Orient. He is suspected of attempted white Slavery, police said. They became suspicious, they said, when he specified in his
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  • 18 7 YUGOSLAVIA and Indonesia have agreed to establish diplomatic relations and exchange representatives at ministerial level. UP
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  • 287 7 Maior Denies He Tried To Undress The Maid BERLIN. Nov. 5, (Reuter) Major Peter Dawson Witty, former Commander of British military police in Berlin, told a court martial here yesterday it was "completely untrue" that he had attempted an indecent assault on his second in command's German maid. The maid,
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    • 72 7 RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICES Stondord London Correspondent LONDON, Nov. s—The5 The following ore th« closing prices of rubber and tin on the London Market. LONDON RUBBER LONDON TIN December 241d! V* f, 7 Jonuory/Morch 23*d. 726 April/June 23 Id. Three months £723 buyers, July/September 23 id. £723 10s. sellers. October/
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    • 1025 8 Upward Trend In U.S. Economy Vital To Trade LONDON, Nov 5: (Renter) Mr. R.A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said liere yesterday there were signs of an upward trend in the United States economy which was vital to the expansion of world trade on a stable and sound basis. Addressing
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  • 359 9 Industrials Still Firm And Tins Are Steady ON the Malayan share market yesterday industrial shares continued firm and tins were steady with a few notable rises. There was selective buying of rubber shares at slightly higher levels. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Boyers Sellers
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  • 375 9 Standard Staff Reporter MALAYA'S $40 million iron ore mine at Ulu Rompin in Pahang, which will be thoroughly mechanized to speed up output aimed at reaching 2,000,000 tons annually, is in the process of development. The Eastern Mining and Metals
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  • 551 9 ADVANCE reports from the U.S.A. indicate that consumption there during the first quarter of 1955 is going to be at a high level, and the ratio of natural rubber to synthetic quite satisfactory from Malaya's point of view, says the weekly rubber
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  • 44 9 MELBOURNE, Nov. 5: (AFP).— The wool sales in Sydney and Melbourne which were due to begin next Monday have been suspended as a result of the waterfront dispute, It was announced here today. The dispute has tied up all Australian ports.
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 384 9 Rubber Still Above 80-Ct. Mark IH^n^^^^ A OITER ROADS A^ha, Jad Laadki. Bentong. fe'na. Caltex Rome. USNS Hukat. Batoela. Lang. President Jefferson. Nachisan Maru. Leneverett Benledi Ascanius Mowgli. INNER ROADS Hong Eng. Hanthale. Laksula Kiuas, Rajah Brooke. Soon Bee. Naiko Hin Cheong. Rhu. Indra|in, Marudu, Sadso. Pepana King Bay. Mahathevi,
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    • 287 9 EVERYBODY concerned in the copra trade in Singapore and Penan; would welcome the possibility of a return to more normal trading conditions and a healthier atmosphere than had been the case in the past month, says the weekly copra market report by Holiday, Cutler,
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    • 114 9 WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, <AP) Russia and Communist Chin:i have reduced sharply then purchases of natural rubber in the first nine month? of thi* year, figures released by tht International Rubber Sturix Group Secretariat disclosed on Thursday. The two countries imported a tota] of 8M.200 tons between
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    • 64 9 EXPORTS of tin and tin-in-concentrates during October amounted to 6.180 tons. according to the Registrar cl Malayan Statistics, Mr. EJ Phillips. The quantity exported In the previous month was 6.764 tons. During October, the United States bought 3.775 tons of Malayan tin. while the Continent 778
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    • 846 9 CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE. ■HIOVAI. OF NIGHTSOIL _T^ 4 kc'C'I'PIERS of houses, lands, <£^ jSfiL Mk icings a"rf tenements WMJd&^fi 1( ui'.h the nighisoil collec- WjV^lKri J system is applicable are r*«JL«H3fci LVnfv notified that the sys- fr rTirW i W u of alternate day nightsoil wS^Z^zF) ,-c-iion will be
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    • 197 9 The Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 45) In the High Court of the Colony of Singapore Island of Singapore. TN BANKRUPTCY. No. 21 of 1 1950. Re: MOHAMED ALI bin ABDUL RAZAK. of 103. Haig Road, Singapore: Shroff at the Currency Office, Singapore. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Second and Final
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    • 180 9 THE GROSVENOR ■l««MI«I4><(tllJI J||««»«»H .H MfMMMIMi ••Qf BH«tM.|«|.l.,,,J| VClflZ «2I balanced b th>r Stocked by d) BALBIR&CO.-NAHAR&CO. Made by THE ATLAS CO.. LONDON. 9 *****999 Owix j 9 WATERPROOF 9 \A/A Tf U 9 AUTOMATIC -CALENDAR 9 UNBREAKABLE 9 9 MAINSPRING 9 9 25 JEWELS. V a ANTIMAGNETIC. SHOCK-RESISTANT^ 9
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  • 1178 10 J^ELA SIKI, a young Hungarian pianist with a rising reputation, it to give one recital for the Musical Society on Sunday, November 28. Critical notices suggest that Mr. Siki is marked for a place among the elect; certainly a brilliant career was prophesied by his two eminent teachers, Ernst von
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  • 343 10  - STAGE DOOR JOHN HALKIN by JT is a great pity that some of the productions given by the dramatic groups of various branches of the Forces cannot be seen by the general public in Singapore. These groups present an interesting variety of plays, which would do much to supplement Singapore's
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    • 1008 10 jOTv45-RPM EXTENDED PLAY v^l^fSfi Longer in Music xJOr Lower in Cost VIENNESE WALTZES— Fronk DeVol his orch. EBF 98 Vienna d -earns; The Danube waves; 1000 and one nights; Gold and silver; Merry widow waltz; Du und du; Treasure waltz; Sari waltzes TIME TO DANCE WITH GORDON JENKINS E8F264 Always;
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  • 74 11 LAM) Division eainerf two ETr by w holdin "*S2? D '*i° wv, c th r*e-«ll draw in their !Hr l "■WWW 1 Inter-Division soccer match played a t Farrer rark vtsterday. v.o T 5 e r\ WiU nOW meet lhe Dock>ard Division in the final for
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  • 63 11 KOLA BHARU. Fri. In their annual inter-state Police, •noounter. Keiantan beat! Trtngganu Police by three' goals I > nil. Ke .tan policemen had' more ol the game with the defer, e giving the forwards good support Keiantan*! scorers were i Yahya who gave the state a I
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  • 43 11 SINGAPORE Harbour Board Recreation Club beat Singapore Regiment. Royal Artillery 3-1 in a SHB division 3A fixture play- I ed yesterday at Kepp.J Harbour ground. Scorers for Recs were: D. Boyd (2). and G. Fox. Ra/ak scored for the SRRA.
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  • 38 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri— Sel- angor Eurasians Association B scored their sixth successive victory in the Selangor Hockey j Association Division 3 league I competition today when they edged TPCA B" f 2-1 on the
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  • 534 11 MELBOURNE, Nov. 5, (Reuter)— The M.C.C. again failed to find their batting form today and were dismissed for a modest 205 runs by an Australian XI on the first day of a four-day game here. They collapsed against the spin of lan
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  • 248 11 SCRC 2 University 1 Lim Swang 2. Jesudason. Umpires: Mr. Thiagarajan A Mr. Khoo Ong Lee. LAST YEAR'S knock-out hockey champions, the University of Malaya were surprisingly knocked out by a depleted Singapore Chinese Recreation Club side wlio scored a 2-1 victory in
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  • 193 11 THE Singapore Badminton Association honorary secretary, Mr. Quek Kens Siang. yesterday 'la rified the position with regard to the Selan- > gor Badminton Association's invitation to Ong Poh Lim for their exhibition matches in aid of the Poppy Day
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  • 115 11 HOCKEY: SHA League: Div. 1 Ceylon Sports Club v Police at Balestier; Div. 2 YMCA v REME at YMCA; 3BOD v RAF Seletar at Seletar; Div. 3 Dockyard v i Tempanis Rovers at Rovers I ground: SHB Police v Royal i Nary at RN; Div. 3A YMSA v
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  • 595 11 Navy Surprise Hold Rovers Navy 2 Rovers 2 Gazeley i\ \'ass Missnn. Referee— S/Sgt. Hollouay. ROYAL Navy, a team which had recently gone down to weak Indian and Eurasian elevens, surprised the Cup favourites. Rovers Sports Club, to hold them to a two-all draw in the final of the Singapore
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 193 11 DIABETES ni\Bi PES is now curable permanently by *'PANi\\ i\ n»K DIABETES" non-poisonous Indian agreeable taste. Highest references ninent physicians and grateful patients. One nonth's medicine tin costing $12.60 including postage suffic< c< nviction. M S ALLY ft Co Penang. Ipoh. K.L. SingaBalim Co., 15. Battery Rd Singapore. Himalaya Medical
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    • 437 11 ACKNOWLEDGMENT J\|R. Mrs. Eu Ken« Loon J-'A and members of the family of the late Mrs. Eu Tong Sen nee Chooi Hee Yoong. thank all relatives, and friends for sending wreaths, messages, letters and cables of condolences night visits and attending the funeral an<i for their kind assistance in every
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 202 11 Lii Abner By Al Capp DAISY MAE? -TH' CRITTER f ONLY DC-OPATCH^R WMo"^B I^TTilC^A^^ BB^""1H TOOK KERT' GATHER S^C<'. I EVER v.hNT-S^DE^THAR t 'ARE WHO -c^Oo/r- MUD MUSHROOMS y4 L WAS PUFFY 100 Y'ARS M I JB& ME? B O ,s a SJSToIe) JtSS^ aoo.^an' he s sfS 1 L
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  • 29 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Frl.— Rain fell during the past three days and if there is no further rain tonight, the going for tomorrow will at best be soft.
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  • 1297 12 By WINDSOR LAD KUALA LUMPUR, Fri: My advice to punters is to adhere to Penang form and in this connection, Penang trainer Jimmy Martin, who topped the list of winning trainers at the recent Penang Meet, looks like landing a double, at the Selangor Turf Club's
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  • 1370 12 Race l: 2.30 p.m.~-Korses Clam 5, Mv. 2— About 7 Fora. L f7B S r«ltlire 2r 900 Shaw Stable" Martin Vlney Z. 027 ciw'lur UI" M/s W s!n. Lim T.G. Lim Hobbs FgnkUn 3 §95 Thelma s Kuda 3y 8.12 Dr. J.D. Dennehy Daniels H ?P le
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    • 175 12 Ix^\KALjmiml tag at THE SINGAPORE HOTEL'S "STARLIGHT ROOVIPANCE HALL (g.3t to MIDNIGHT) MC/SIC /41 Miss VAI n OK^ nit linff DOUBLE A BATH Every Monday Night 53? .^I and ?«WOH A BATH ...h ana telephone service Room daily Sunday Tea Dance Kuom a full Board I da "T t>> TEA
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