Singapore Standard, 7 December 1954

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  • 14 1 Singapore Standard <^a^^^p IJl a, r -wj SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER~1i954 14 PAGES IS CENTS.
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  • 129 1 VATICAN CITY. Dec. 6. The Vatican announced today that Pope Pius XII is continuing to improve, .-lowly and gradually, in his light to surmount the illness that has threatened his life. "The Pope's slow and gradual improvement continues." the Vatican Press spokesman announced at
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  • 79 1 Gales Play Havoc With Shipping LONDON. Dec. 6 <UP>. A Dutch trawler saved 29 •hunt sailors from lifeboats in the North Sea yesterday when they abandoned r foundering freighter in fierce gales raking Northern F.un.pe- for thc second straight ic-end. A 60-mile-an-hour souwester shrieking in off the tntic all but
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  • 290 1 AVA RAVES OVER THE SLITS HONGKONG. Dec. 6 (Reuter) Film star Ava Gardner, em her first visit to Hongkong, said today that she thought Chinese dresses were the- "sexiest things'* she had ever seen. Dresses with high neckline tix lit waist and slit skirts \wre 'simply divine,"
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  • 166 1 JOE IS BACK ON THE WITCH HUNT WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. (UP) Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, swinging to the offensive after his condem; ation by the Senate, called his subcommittee into action today to investigate alleged subversion in defence plants. James N. Juliana, subcommittee staff director, announced McCarthy planned to preside
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  • 186 1 AT the age of six David Hutchinson has decided to give up smoking. It won't be easy. He has been puffing at pipes and cigarettes for five years. But he still has the consolation of his nightly bottle of stout. When he was one year
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  • 31 1 FRANKLIN. Massachusetts. Dec. 6 (AFP) Five young children were burned to death here last night when their home was destroyed by fire. The eldest child was seven.
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  • 17 1 NOVELIST James- Hilton still is in serious condition in a Long Beach, California, hospital.
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  • 227 1 THE entire fire-fighting force at Kallang Airport joined by three engines from the Singapore Fire Brigade, were mobilised for the landing yesterday of a QantasBOAC Constellation from Calcutta. The precaution was taken following a report received from the captain of the Constellation "Berkeley." that a
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  • 355 1 Chin Peng Is Off To See Ho Indo-Cpina Truce Boas MCP Plans. So.. And A Woman From China Is The New Boss By RONNIE DUCLOS, Standard Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Chin Peng, secretary-general of the Malayan Communist Party, for whose head the Malayan Government was once willing to pay
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  • 62 1 ANNISTON. Alabama. Dec. 6 (UP) Tornadoes raked a destructive path across Alabama and Georgia yesterday, injuring at least 49 persons at a dozen towns and wrecked the little community of Wellington. Alabama. A black funnel-shaped cloud barrelled into Wellington with a "terrible roar." witnesses said, sweeping homes
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  • 46 1 HONGKONG. Dec. 6 (AFP) A new freighter will be launched for the shipping firm of Butterfield and Swire and Company Ltd. by Lady Maureen Grantham, wife of Hongkong's Governor. The freighter to be named Chungking, will be of 2.580 tons deadweight.
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  • 23 1 SIR John Kotelawala. Prime Minister of Ceylon, left Montreal by air yesterday for Washington after a four-day visit to Canada. Reuter.
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  • 48 1 LONDON. Dec. 6 (Reuter) —A non-stop flight of 2.100 miles from London to Beirut (Lebanon* will be made on a new British Overseas Airways Constellation service to Ceylon which begins tomorrow. Over four hours will be saved on the flight from London to Colombo.
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  • 206 1 And Police Nab 7 Injured SEVEN Chinese, including a 14-year-old boy, were arrested in Singapore yesterday following a clash between two rival secret societies near a cemetery in Kheam Hock Road. All the arrested seven were injured during the clash, in which more than 100
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    42 1 THE Standard Toy Fund yesterday received $165. bringing the total to $7,059.01. Yesterday's contributions were: Singapore Motor Club 8100. Miss Angela Drew. Nee Soon, Singapore $10. Mr. Ang Chu Kim, Singapore $5, Mr. Lai Tin Yong. Singapore $50. Previously acknowledged $6.--894.01.
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  • 50 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Communist terrorists murdered a kepala of rubber smallholdings. Peng Long, in the Labis area of Johore last night. Shots were heard in the area at dusk yesterday, but a police party who investigated found nothing. At first light today Peng Yong's body was found.
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  • 29 1 HONGKONG, Dec. 6 (Reuter). U Nu, the Burmese Prime Minister, left Peking today tor Manchuria to visit Chinese Communist industrial centres. Peking Radio reported.
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  • 110 1 MANILA, Dec. 6 (AFP).— A 21 -year-old former law student went on a lone "panty raid" on Sunday night but landed in hospital instead. "Panty raider" Maurlcio Antipolo broke into the Palencia Home for Women, in Manila's Sampaloc District, but was discovered by the dormitory
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  • 370 2 Trust' Charges Involve $10 452 Worth Of Gems SOON after he returned to Singapora Vfrom a world tour, Mr. T i^j«« Poon son of a wealthy merchant, said he received reports IlUgiS ?hs This co- partner in I pawnshop hadl taken out unredeemed jewellery to
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  • 108 2 I CLOSING rubber pnre* (rents per lb.) lo SincaDore vesterditv were: Tone: Quiet. lIN PRICE The prire oi tin ve«^ terday was $3532 per picul. Down 25 ots LONDON RlBbfcß No. 1 R.S.S. Settlement Motive Terms. Monday's opening prices first session were: Tone: Steady. I ON HON HN
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  • 153 2 GUIDES HAD A YEAR OF SUCCESS THE first year that the Singapore Branch of the Gir. Guides' Association worked as a separate unit. In direct contact with Imperial Headquarters in London, has been not J only a great •"success" but also a record year for the number of Guides from
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  • 63 2 NEW DELHI. Dec-. 6 (Reuter) _.a venkataraman. 55. former Secretary of the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry was found guiltj today on a charge of corruption and sentenced to six months' Imprisonment. a I J e u as alleged to have abused his position as a
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  • 63 2 Th« A T R i S Dec 6 (Reuter)The Independent Engine Driv ers Union .today caKed f for a 48-hour railway strike from tomorrow morning to press iu wage claims. p s lts lik.ly nC to h ilU y traffic is unthe Mho be TT d,
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  • 51 2 HONGKONG, Dec 6. (AP)— Three British members of a United Kingdom and Hongkong industrialists' and businessmen's mission to Red China arrived here today by train from Peking and said their negotiations with the Red Chinese were "fairlv successful." They did not state the actual value of agreements
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  • 45 2 TAIPEI. Dec. 6. (Reuter)— Chinese Nationalist military sources said today that actions between the Chinese mainland and Nationalist-held islands were dying down. But the sources said the "sporadic" exchange of gunfire continued at both ends of the 360-mile Tachen-Quemoy *'front."
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  • 94 2 S i %S_ UR kittens we re born in The Standard Chief Re- porters desk yesterday I fu^te Mother cat chose i C i hic f Reporters open j. desk locker as the "home" j ior her kittens. The surprise was disJ SSSf* wl en a
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  • 117 2 Today Is D-Day For Mr. Yoshida TOKYO, Dec. 6 (UP).— An overwhelming Socialist-Con-servative majority drafted a no-confldence resolution in Premier Shigeru Yoshida's Government today charging that Japan Is "disgusted with its leader." The bitterly-worded resolution will be put before the Diet tomorrow < Tuesday) with the full support of three
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  • 33 2 A GIRL was injured yesterday when a number of rubber bales dropped from the side of a lorry as it negotiated a corner around Finlayson Green ln Singapore.
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  • 137 2 SINGAPORE journalists yesterday took the first step towards a world-wide link up with their counterparts in other countries. At a luncheon meeting of the Sinqapore Union of JourSalists m the Capitol Blue oom. the terms ot a working ..qreemenT with the National Union of Journalists
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  • 70 2 CAIRO. Dec. 6 (Reuter).— Britain and Egypt today exchanged instruments of ratification of the Agreement for the evacuation of the Suez Canal Zone by British troops. The seven-year treaty signed on Oct. 19 provides for the withdrawal of British troops within 20 months. Civilian technicians will maintain
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  • 161 2 A SMALL patrol of 5 No. 7 Platoon. 4 C Com- pany. Ist Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment. killed two and wounded one of three Communist terrorist^ encountered last week in Gemas, I Negri Sembilan. c The patrol, led by CorI poral Derek Tullett. 19, of Shirley. Croydon. Sm rey.
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  • 58 2 CAIRO. Dec. 6 (Reuter).— Six Moslem Brotherhood leaders sentenced to death for plotting against the Egyptian Government will be hanged here tomorrow, It was announced today. First to die at 0600 G.M.T. will be Mahmoud Abdel Latif. Cairo tinsmith who tried to shoot the Egyptian
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  • 29 2 VATICAN CITY. Dec. 6 (UP) Pope Pius XII today erected a new diocese of Bunbury in Australia and appointed Monsignor Lancelot Goody as its bishop.
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  • 75 2 PARIS. Dec 6 <AFP> The coveted annual literary award known as the Goncourt Prize was awarded today to a woman writer. Simone de Beauvoir. friend of Jean Paul Sartre, for her latest novel "Les Mandarins" vThe Mandarins*. At the -amp time, the Goncourt Academy, a literary
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  • 53 2 Rats Beat Japs 3—1 TOKYO. Doc. 6 .UP».-Th( Welfare Ministry today asked the nation to wage a wai of extermination of rat; which outnumber the Japanese population three to one The ministry said that thc rat population was more than 260.000.000. It If estimated that some 87.000.000 personi live on
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  • 140 2 Society To Start A TIIK Chairman oi the Ho Kok BM, nli vesterdiv at thr«ar,| general meeting held »t the lint,; because Singapore lacked l.u. •> forms of art training, his sotiehtkfcf it could to send promising \ounttttf It inten scholarsh:; pose kccciv i the soc« provided an.:; young
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    • 398 2 ">.- -x _f_| _Bw UNGAPORE PENANG >/ tANGOON RANGOON einyle tore: Single tare: X i ,294.90 520K95 r«ight: Freight: f ;0 65c. per lb I $0.50c. per lb. tETURN FARE: 10' REBATE UNION OF BURMA AIRWAYS Consult: ENG LEE HONG CHEE SENG 6 CO., LTg A) IELCK AYER STREET. 183-B.
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  • 204 3 tfOMAN, petitioning for divorce in the High Court yesterday, said her Usually come home very late, and on s ion s"e found lipstick marks on his Juanita Priscilla Morton, who is emCouncil, said that on another ocgraph of a girl on the floor The petitioner said she engaged a
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  • 63 3 L is one ngapore n i<» r I dlschair- told rovide n to ;'iace JSind very for dis- i have rafts, them is ifesf Need ind rmners. visits to I 'Vil ws made Harvey ner ol PnS hon i atest tht i 1 prison J ris ners irts and
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  • 144 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon Four boys were charged in the Juvenile Court today with committing house trespass anrl theft of cash amounting to I $62 and jewellery worth ■$1,667. at Senai on Oct. 17. Two of the boys said that they had been given the
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  • 44 3 MALACCA, Mon.— A Police photographer. Sergeant Mohamed Noor Haji Hussein. 37. appeared today in the Magistrate's Court on a tentative charge of attempted murder and causing hurt to Adam Osman. The case was postponed to Dec. 13, bail of $1,000 being .ved.
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  • 139 3 WISH soldier, the father of two children, Will a General Court Martial in SingaJwrday to a year's imprisonment, and dis[nom the Army with ignominy, for indecently lla an eight-year-old girl. iui rl the [aj. >urt, th. a ■.onj" the girl at the ffences ■ns. the The i ition ii
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  • 33 3 SIR John Martin. British Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, went on an inspection tour of Singapore Improvement Trust houses yesterday, accompanied by the Trust chairman. Mr. T.P.F. McNeice.
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  • 46 3 photo. MRS vitfn KA TSFUNG of Singapore (seated centre) celebrated her 60th birthday at tlu r2 Restaurant over the weekend. The dinner was attended by more than 8Q of her family. She is seen here with some of her 4* grandchildren. Standard
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  • 398 3 WHITE BLACK MUST LIVE TOGETHER Negro Writer's Advice To Asia Standard Staff Reporter MR. CARL ROWAN, American author and newspaperman, yesterday told members and friends of the Singapore Union of Journalists, at the Capitol Restaurant, that tremendous changes were taking place in Asia changes that vitally affect the future stability
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  • Article, Illustration
    210 3 A Chick With 4 Legs A 16-year-old Malay girl, Poon binte Ah m an. is the proud possessor of a four-legged chick. Poon who lives in a little attap house off Paya Lebar Koad. Singapore, had been watching her net black hen sitting on six eggs for the past
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  • 61 3 A WOMAN. Lim Lian Heng. 52. dressed in a sarong and kebaya, was charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday with attempting to sell a 23-year-old woman. Chew Ah Hock, for $1,600 at Everitt Road on Dec. 4. Lim claimed trial and was remanded in Police
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  • 294 3 Inquiry Transcripf As 'Evidence' THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander, was vesterdav faced with th& task of wading through the voluminous transcript of the BOAC Constellation crash inquiry proceedings. Mr. Alexander has grven himself 10 days in which to complete this task, and at the
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  • 161 3 MARRIAGE MAY BE A REMEDY MALACCA, Mon.— Ong Ee Meng, a youth, wham Magistrate Ramanatha Iyer said had good manners, appeared to have had a good education but did not _*eem "100 per cent all ri._ht." was today acquitted, and discharged for failing to produce his identity card to a
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  • 117 3 SIXTEEN new English Primary sc.iools in Singapore will be in use by next April, the Senior Inspector of Schools, Mr. T. P. M. Lewis, told The Standard, yesterday. These schools, which come under the Education Department's Six-Year Building Pro gramme, are under construction, while six
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  • 62 3 MALACCA, Mon. The Malacca UMNO-MCA Alliance Joint Action Committee will meet informally over tea on Friday at 4.30 p.m. at Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan's residence to discuss and decide on plans for a public protest against the elected minority of its Settlement Council. The protest will be
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  • 265 4 Mr. Tan On A Campaign: Chinese Urged To Aid Nanyang U. KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Mr. Ton Lark Sye, chairman of the Nanyang University Fund Committee and Singapore rubber magnate, today urged the Chinese to regard Malaya as their home. If they did not want to
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  • 36 4 photo by Yong Peng Seong. 5 MISS GUNN CHIT WHA, receives a basket of flowers from petite Miss Yong after being elected to the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council from Petaling Ward last Saturday. Standard
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  • 185 4 Gunmen Fooled By Shop Owner KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Police radio cars raced to the Chan Sow Lin Road area here today in a bid to capture two Chinese gunmen who had held up a shopkeeper at pistol point and demanded money. The shopkeeper. Ang Choon Huay. told The Standard that
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  • 56 4 VICE-ADMIRAL Jozan. the Commander-in-Chief of the French Naval Forces in the Far East, will arrive in Singapore tomorrow on his flagship the Montcalm." He will stay here two davs This will be h: s first visit to Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Lambe, C-in-C, Far East Station. Vice-Admiral Jozan
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  • 161 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Cheong Wau Yee. a 39-year-Old portrait painter, "who claimed he learnt his art while In prison, was sent back there today for a further six months by Che Abdul Rani, the First Magistrate. for possession of j stolen property. Cheong.
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  • 234 4 I'I 0 6 Studenf s Entrance Exams JOHORE BAHRU Mnn i>Bukit Zaharah School hive wSS_ h d of students from the be started at th Johofe En^ish nln J h^ re Government that afternoon student s. since it cannot take in any more The suggestion was
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  • 47 4 HONGKONG. Dec. 6 (AP)-gl-KTfSS»£S:. dta w 5?r g u° ng ,oda y fro Shang" to? H_°p a eh d he Bri iSh '"'SSSabruro Tsuda said he was a Japanese sailor returrdns nor why the fe? rh'" China lowed hta to eave neSe al
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  • 135 4 RUBBER COUNCIL NOT IN SIGHT Uon N wn?i? al Union ot P&nta"on Workers today met thp s%__%y industry. But aftrHS rU ber hour meeting r their two »Ull aTng n w^ n 0 a^ zatlon was Ge«fd T_f inC f General Sir me d nt S h7_ a L 4e^^
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  • 255 4 Posed As Buyer To Rob POSING as a customer, Yuang Swee Kern, 21 unemployed, was stated in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, to have thrown pepper at a goldsmith's face and made off with two rings from a shop in Serangoon Road.. I Yuang. who
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  • 118 4 Malayan's Second Wedding LU.\OUN, Dec. 6 (Reuter > Sergeant Desmond Keating of the RAF was waiting on the quayside at Southampton yesterdav when the 14.000-ton Empire Trooper berthed after her last trooping voyage from the Far East. The 1.200 servicemen and families on board, included Sergeant Heating's 33-year-old Malayan wife.
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  • 123 4 MALACCA. Mon. Haji Hashim Othman. 37. a polling agent, who was removed from the Ujong Pasir polling station during polimg time last Saturday, had a charge for an electoral ofTcnce read out to him in the Magistrate's Court today. No plea was recorded The charge was that'
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  • 107 4 PENANG. Mon. The Police should have realised that a criminal case they brought UP against two Chinese was purely a civil matter' said Defence Counsel, Inche "uaoOt Abdoolcader. in the Magistrate's Court, today Mr. Abrioolcader's clients. Chai Sum (44) and Wong Leang (41) were acquitted on
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  • 38 4 HONGKONG Dec. 6 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.70 t°„._. £1 sterling; $5.***** to US$l. $1,854 to Malayan $1; $0 170 to one Indonesian Rupiah. Gold $255,875 to a tael.
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  • 227 5 I He Nearly Walks Out i Mon -> lr Tan Lark Sye chai «nan of the inivtrsitv Executive Committee, last night, disappointment over the lack of response •Irak Chinese to appeals for donations to M the University Fund. Quite a stir was caused among the 200 guests, most of
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  • 27 5 v(l M,n Thf 1' cawwMioaer. 'p Bin^'"" ,,d here today bP ,n banished fatn iromen. i out etn aaa nder th-' hnier|Ll3ti»n>- «»ne ,drurv and onr
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  • 102 5 of I 20 y the British Council has been on for several week s and will end on Dec. 18 with a Christmas Party given by an O.d Age Pensioners' Society. The survey consists of lectures and visjts demonstrating the life of people in the
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  • 116 5 Kajang To Change 4 Road Names KAJAXG. Mon.— The Town Board yesterday approved a proposal to change the names of four roads and "suitably number" the lanes. The Board decided to invite the Selangor Registrar of Motor Vehicles to its next meeting to impress on the need for improved taxi
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    45 5 Mr. and Mrs. Neo Lam Chu an who were married at the Registry of Marriages, Singapore, on Saturday. The bridegroom is a teacher at MacNair Morning School. The bride was the former Miss Ang Yeo Tee. The honeymoon is being spent in Penang.
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  • 175 5 PENANG, Mon.— The Settlement Council elections have been fixed for Feb. 19, next year, while the nomination of candidates will take place on Jan. 13, the Resident Commissioner, Penang, Mr. R. P. Bingham, told a Press conference today. Touching on the Historical Society of
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  • 80 5 MYSTERY surrounds the discovery of a human skeleton in a fish pond somewhere in Jurong. Singapore, on Sundayevening. The skeleton is believed to be that of a Serviceman, as a military belt head and 40 rounds of ammunition were also found in the
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  • 151 5 Postmen Benefit Thousands KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Over a thousand other nonpensionable officers of Divisions 3 and 4 in the Federation stand to benefit from the recent settlement between Government and the Postal Uniformed Staff Union in respect of commuting a part of their gratuity into a monthly retiring allowance, The
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  • 58 5 TAIPING. Mon. After 36 years in service, Che Mohd. Ramly bin Abdullah. Chief Sanitary Inspector. Taiping. is proceeding on leave prior to retirement early next month. Che Mohd. Ramly was guest-of-honour at a farewell dinner given by his colleagues at the Yat Sun Restaurant. He was
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  • 379 5 Investigation Petition Will Be Sent To MacG. _J^_*_"_* J LUMPUR Mon.— Thc Malayan Trade Union Council last night decided to ask the High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray tor an immediate investigation of reports that the Special Branch had exceeded its powers in probing the activities
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  • 46 5 TAIPING. Mon. Dressed as a dulang washer, a 8.0.R. John Warr, won the first prize in the annual fancy dress social of the Taiplng Wesley Methodist Youth Fellowship here. The runner-up was Miss Catherine Paul who looked radiant as a Persian beauty.
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  • 129 5 PHUA Kway Or. a student of the Yoke Eng High School, told the Singapore Third Criminal District Court yesterday how a thug demanded $10 from him and warned him that he would not be able to move about safely in the Katong area if
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  • Article, Illustration
    66 5 A Health Inspector. Mr. Lie w Kai Thong and his bride, the former Miss Cheong Sie tv Rm at their treddinr reception held at the Jubilee Dance Hall. Ipoh on Saturday. Mr. Liew, a popular sportsman In Ipoh. il fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. Liew Chong Lum. while the
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  • 175 5 170 In Penang Fail Std. Six Exam PENANG, Mon. One hundred and Venty boys from the Government feeder schools 1: i have failed in th' Standard VI prom examination thii and many of them, it feared, will he a Iced 10 leave 4 school. The Chief Education I Penang, Mr.
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    • 593 6 \Y*E have mentioned on more than one occasion in this column the unsavoury incidents that had occurred on previous polling clays both in Singapore and the Federation. If those incidents have been dismissed by the authorities and electorate as mere teething troubles, we are afraid they are underrating
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    • 334 6 V^HEN the Rural and Industrial Development Authority announced its ambitious dockyard project some two years ago, hard-headed Malayans wondered if this would not turn out to be another white elephant. They refrained from pointing out it would not be wise to spend some millions of public money in
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 255 6 Sir I would like to bring to light some of the things that are happening in my school. The rules are too strict to be abided by. Some of the teachers are not doing tneir part of work and in most cases the boys are left stranded. Form
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    • 113 6 The Voice Of Malaya Sir: Your paper is beyond* the shadow of a doubt, the "Voice of Malaya." No proof is needed to confirm my' statement. Is there any' necessity to? The Standard is fearless im that it is not afraid to voice I the sentiments or opinions* of the
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    712 6  -  PETER J. HENNIKER-HEATON By Editor of the Home Forum Page o/ The Christian Science Monitor Vicenzo revives an ancient form of one of the oldest known games "Indian sages long ago, Tiring of the sword and bow, Of ivory battle drank delight On checkered plains of red and white."
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  • 408 6 Review of Views Why The Comic Song? JJTUSAN Melayu is joyous to hear that more than one million Malayans have already registered their names as voters in the coming Federal elections. The daily also believes that a bigger percentage will do likewise before the elections take place. The journal applauds
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  • 69 7 I)fC fi, .Router) A Vietnamese army V J nmtinird in Southern Annam 10 days *^wa. with hißh explosives into the seaIcuMw,1 cuMw, H 8 mi,es north eas^ ot Saigon, and 'rtJrbon there <*n Saturday, it was learned hiding in the jungle since „nd mutinied in favour of the Diem,
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  • 176 7 CHURCHILL FACES A CENSURE LONDON. Dec. 6 (Reuter)— The Labour opposition in Parliament will try to bring down Winston Churchill's government tonight on the ..large that it has failed to take steps to meet the menace of the hydrogen bomb. The opposition attack takes the form of a censure motion
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  • 44 7 I I I This was revealed in quesionnairei completed by stufor the Political and nomic Planning Organization. The survey, says P.E.P., "shows a picture which is not one of unrelieved gloom some of the students commented on the kindness and understanding shown them."
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  • 112 7 Ike May Be 'Dratted' For Polls WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. (Reuter)— Three Republican senators yesterday predicted that their party would "draft" President Eisenhower to run for a second termeven if he was opposed to such a step at the moment. Senator George Aiken said the President had been making decisions that
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  • 70 7 HONGKONG, Dec. 6. (Reuter)—The New China Communist news agency said yesterday that the former Nationalist Chinese Premier Dr. Wong Wen-hao who returned to Communist China five years ago after fleeing to the West had now confessed to his "criminal record" under General Chiang Kai-shek. The 65-year-old geologist fled
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  • 24 7 THE six Moslem Brotherhood leaders sentenced to death in Cairo for plotting against the Government are expected to be hanged today. Reuter
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  • 66 7 Mountain Climbing Limited NEW DELHI. Dec. 6 (Reuter) India will not permit mountaineering expeditions to climb peaks in the Himalayas beyond a "security line" .bout 20 miles from the Tibetan border. Prime Minister Jawahar.al Nehru told the House of the People here toiay. But the Prime Minister said that India
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  • 47 7 NAIROBI. Dec. 6 (Reuter) A courtmartial here today .nd Private Leslie Arthur tghes, 27. not guilty of all charges arising from the questioning of an African woman. Hughes had been charged with causing her grievous ly harm assaulting her threatening to bury her alive.
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  • 355 7 '6,000 Shot In Three Days' Slave Labourer Tells Of Red Purge STOCKHOLM, Dec. 6, (AP)— A 68 -year-old Greek who spent his mature years as a slave labourer in Russia said yesterday that "trainloads of Beria people" were sent to the dreaded Vorkuta camp on the Arctic sea following the
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  • 296 7 'New World' Trips For The Queen Princess —Nothing Official Yet LONDON, Dec. 6 (UP) Queen Elizabeth is expected to make her first visit as sovereign to Canada next year and there is a possibility high-spirited Princess Margaret may talk her family into allowing her a United States trip, well-informed sources
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  • 61 7 LANSING, Michigan. Dec. 6. (AP) A young couple on their honeymoon died in the flaming wreckage of their car yesterday less than 12 hours after they were married in Detroit. Marvin R. Foerster, 20. and his bride. Rhea Mae. 18, were trapped ln their burning automobile
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  • 44 7 AMMAN, Dec. 6. (AP)— Nine Alsation dogs trained by British police arrived here by plane from London yesterday. One of the dogs is for King Hussein and the other eight will go to the newly created police dog school here.
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  • 130 7 LONDON. Dec. 6.— An attractive, raven-haired woman who frequents the Paddlngton area of London, is wanted by Scotland Yard. She drugs men friends and robs them while they are unconscious. Her latest victim was an American who met her In a Paddington
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  • 282 7 Beachhead For Reds—P.M. BANGKOK, Dec. 6 (Reuter) Vietnamese refugees in Northeastern Thailand were a beachhead of Communist infiltration into Thailand and Thai Government was prepared to use force to make them leave, Premier Pibul Songgram said at a press conference here today. "Perhaps we
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  • 166 7 EVATT WINS A BATTLE MELBOURNE, Dec. 6.. (Reuter) Dr. Herbert Evatt. Australian Labour opposition leader, has won his bitter twomonth struggle against Party groups he claims are dominated from outside. according to most political commentators here. The Australian Labour Party Executive after crisis meetings here to investigate charges and counter-charges
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  • 30 7 ZURICH. Dec. 6 <AP)— Emperor Haile Selassie, of Ethiopia, left here by air for Addis Ababa today at the end of a two-month tour of Western Europe
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  • 99 7 SOUTHEND. England. Dec. 6. (Reuter)— A pilot fell 20.--000 feet yesterday with only half a parachute into four feet of water and lived. The airman. Pilot Officer Brian Cross baled out of his spinning Meteor jet fighter after it had plunged 10.000 ft.
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  • 63 7 NEW YORK, Dec. 6. (AP)— Everything wasn't sweet for 21 delegates to a candy-makers Convention yesterday. City detectives rounded up the group in a raid on a suspected card game at the hotel New Yorker. No evidence of gambling was found but the men
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  • 144 7 BERLIN. Dec. 6 (Reuter).— The Socialists wrested control of the West Berlin City Parliament from Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's supporters yesterday by a margin of one seat. Results of the election announced early today were: "Social Democrats 64 seats; Christian Democrats 44; Fre» Democrats
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  • 80 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 6. The following ore the closing prices of rubber and tin on the London Market LONDON RUBBER Spot 24 Id. January 24 id. February 24 d. March 23 2d. April/June 23|d. July/September 23§d. October/December 23id. December c.i.f. 23 13/1 6d. Tone:
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  • 182 7 Surtax Plan In Britain Is Challenged LONDON, Dec. 6 (Reuter) A banking chief today challenged Incentive principles and suggest d that an inquiry should be made Into Britain's surtax scheme. Mr. Julian Stanley Crossley, Chairman of Barclays Bank, DCO formerly Barclays Bank (Dominion Colonial and Overseas) said while a gross
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  • 31 7 A JAPANESE youth organization said it has asked President Eisenhower to help it buy a B-29, "a devil to the Japanese during the war." for weather observation.— UP
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  • 114 8 DON'T BOTHER US, SAYS A.C.S.U. SINGAPORE'S powerful Army Civil Service Union does not want any interference from the Trade Union Congress. The latest Issue of the ACSU Gong (magazine of the union) says: "If the T.U.C.. notorious foi Its masterly inactivity, cannot rouse itself to any fruitful endeavour, at least
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  • 108 8 A MOVE to make the committee of management of the Singapore Government Servants' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Societv as non-communal as possible will be made at the society's half-yearly meeting on Dec. 1 7. An amendment to the society's by-laws which will come up
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  • 76 8 ONG Kian Hin. holder of a provisional driving licence, was fined a total of $30 in the Singapore First Traffic Court yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to display "L" plates while riding a motorcycle and carrying a passenger on the
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  • 59 8 THE three victorious Alliance candidates being chaired at the Town Hall, Penang, on Saturday night after the results of the Municipal elections were announced. From left: Mr. S. M. Mohd. Idris (Tanjong Ward), Mr. G. H. Goh (Kelawei Ward) and Mr. Abdullah Ariff (Jelutong Ward).
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  • 205 8 A 3 -Point Plan For Aquarium Opening In 'Less Than 2 Months' THE Singapore City Architect, Mr. VV. Irving: Watson, now has a three-point plan to get the City Council's $485,000 Van Kleef aquarium working soon. He hopes to announce a tentative opening date in "less than two months." The
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  • 62 8 Training Within The Industries THE International Labour Organization's training within the industries expert. Mr. J. D Marier. is in Singapore to train supervisors from about 200 big industrial firms. He arrived in the Colonv last week and starte'd work yesterday. The Co'.ony's Chief Emplovment Officer. Mr. F. G. Tyson, has
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  • 53 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. The opening and dedication of the new Holy Light Presbyterian Church will be held at Jalan Gertak Merah here, on Fr:da v at 11 a.m. The Cornmissioner-Gereral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, is expected to officiate at the opening ceremony. A luncheon party will
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  • 33 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Mr. S. B. Bernard, a former Administration Officer. Kota Tinggi. is now serving his articles to become a solicitor at Cheltenham. England, where he has settled down
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  • 63 8 Religion Is His Adventure HAJI Siraj bin Karjan of Sungei Triang. Bagan Datoh. who has travelled 2.250 miles to visit hundreds of kamnongs and villages on an "adventure of religion." He is now in Sitiawan District visiting the kampong schools. From Sitiawan he intends going to Grik and Ipoh. During
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  • 111 8 Two Face Expulsion By Labour THE Singapore Labour Party's General Council will decide tomorrow whether or not to expel Messrs. C H. Koh and Mak Pak Shee, two of its members, for not dissociating themselves from the Labour Front— a federated bodv of the Labour and the Socialist parties. A
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  • 91 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. RL. T andon. Indian commissioner in Malaya arfi Ve lr Kua,a Lumpur, today wL e i crmal Presentation on Wednesday of a big collection or Indian antiques to Malaya's National Museum here, following a personal request from General Templer to Premier Nehru last March
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  • 71 8 KAJANG, Mon. Three P i epci S* the 15th mile flioH L ?i n l at Road were today fined $100 each by the Kajang Magistrate, Inche Mohd Is? 21? ii for selling restricted fhVfi es _!5W a Permit. All three pleaded guilty. They were arrested as
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  • 127 8 PAYMENT SOUGHT FOR 800 WORKERS THE Singapore Labour Department is negotiating with the managements of the Lam Choon Factory and the Bin Seng Company Ltd. for payment of compensation to about 800 workers who were retrenched last month. •The Assistant Commissioner fcr Labour. M r J. D H. Neill. told
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  • 62 8 IPOH. Mon Jewel.erv c.othing and cash worth $173 were stolen from a woman villager. Madam Checw Mooi of Kampong Simee when her house was broken into in broad daylight on Saturday. Madam Checw came back from her farm about two mi.es away to find that the front
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  • 36 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mod— A lighthouse is being erected at Pontian Kechil to help fishermen. RIDA has contributed $3,000 towards the cost and self-help from the people will provide the balance of about $500.
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  • 83 8 Govt. Will Cost 228M Next Year THE Public Services of Singapore will cost $228,000,000 next year according to the Supply Bill to be introduced in the Legislative Council this month. Expenditure (all in millions) of major departments are: Education 7. Defence 129, Medical 527. Police $24. Postal services $9.2. Social
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  • 60 8 PENANG. Mon— A Singaporean. A. Muthukumarasami, 27. was charged in the Magistrate's Court today with having committed criminal breach of trust of $1,200 while in the employ of one Servanamuthu at Jalan Kayu, Singapore on Dec. 1. The Magistrate. Mr. J. W. D. Ambrose, ordered the
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    69 8 photo by Yong Peng Seong. MR. AND MRS. WONG NANG DICK cut their wedding cake at a reception held at the Chen Wu Association Hall. Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday. The bridegroom is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wong Shian Yein of Singapore and the bride is
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  • 283 8 Two Detectives Sip c 0 ff TWO Singapore detectives sat drinking j n 1 Road on Sunday night while a gang of thr Co^ et J 40 minutes ransaking a coal-and-beer shop at 5 rm^ J before leaving with more than $2,000 worth of C °L hcr %l The
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    32 8 DR. LIN n-TANG (right. en.mi„< 4 millionaire Mr. lim Lean Trtu; ilrfti __L_ mansion at Northern Road on Iridic J donated $500,000 to the \an\anc B JJ Photo by Sam Kii
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  • 142 8 THE Singapore Fourth Polrfei J Mr. J. M. Devereux-Colebourn. i^KutrjJ arrest of a 39-year-old woman, tvudil in court yesterday morning. The woman. Tan Ah I who ki on bail, li chin with living on part I I earnings of three pr Heng Ah Lek. Ol Din land Lee Mool
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  • 86 8 KUALA LUMPUR. M The residents of K Kampong. Kuala Lu Cinderella suburb, have appealed to the aul against a proposal to I an army-built Ba..<y H its only communn with the capital— pay royalty for its |fttnl The residents, nu over 1.500 of all ran their protest
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    • 705 8 ij| m m^m\^^mWm^m\^m^mmmm W^wtwtW^^^^^ S CtUES ACROSS People who habitually im. 1 FMTDV c J CLUES DOWN p Se u n f J. iends loans tlv D4C 1. Youngster Is often fairly often HA— E to be asked to o rtiTnirr qu:ck to sum un ASTFR^ repay ,T or V»
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    357 9 I- builder, jS Churchill. the Commons |.j s scorching repartee across the v. ay drop dead. n-Hicks was once making a Churchill shaking hi s head ible friend shaking his "I wish to remind my own opinion." 1 the speaker that I am only ti d Winnie, ly
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  • 362 9 so slender that she escaped :rom Dublin's celebrated Mountjoy Prison in 1950 by lipping through the tiny ndow of her grounder cell. Other women found that if they a small enough waist, need never make a cage; Tne Mistake TWENTY-TWO-YEARS-v OLD girl proved too ry a
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  • 412 9  -  Noel Whitcomb By trying to get him down. One night a young air-raid warden diffidently asked him if he'd mind moving. "Why?" growled Churchill. "Well, sir," said the warden, "you're sitting on the air vent, and everyone's choking down below." ft it it TTE practically fathered J
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  • 270 9 VOU are a black girl. You live somewhere in the overseas Empire in Jamaica, say, or British Guiana, or West Africa. You arrive in Britain for the first time. What happens to you? Well, here are the answers that three girls give to
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  • 249 9  - Punches In Print Denis Dunn By ND then she hit me over 1 the head with our almanac." Husband's evidence in matrimonial case. And put years on him! MAN up for arrears stated: "This landlady hides behind the kitchen door and runs out at you every pay night!" She's charging
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  • 43 9 IT was only out of politeness that they invited the Joneses to dinner. "There's one way of getting rid of them early." suggested the wife. "Tell them about your fishing trip. And if that doesn't work, give them your political views."
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  • 303 9 Beirut, Lebanon HPHERE'S a spanking new welcome mat out for tourists to this pocket-sized nation. It unrolls beneath international plane wheels where visitors step out onto the new terminal at Khalde Airport near Beirut. This small country, one of the gateways to BiblelancLs.
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  • 650 9  -  JOHN WORRALL By CAPE TOWN, Mon. 'pHE election of Mr. Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, as leader of the Nationalist Party and Prime Minister of South Africa, ushers in a period of political uncertainty, not unmixed with fear among large sections of the population which will probably
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  • 445 10  -  Gerree Read Says \)^OMEN are divided into two distinct classes whenever hats are in the news. There are those who wear hats on every possible occasion, and those who refuse to wear them except when they are a 'must', and the lack of a hat
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  • 729 10  - ADVICE TO TEENAGERS Shirley Nock By I 'JIIE later teens ean be '1 very lovely and exI citing:— you are really starting: to grow up and j also experiencing the I thrill of attending your J first grown-up parties. c There i s also the excitement of changing your I
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    33 10 The white cape stole, of Arctic Fox was worn over a tight fitting black evening dress, at a fur fashion show in London. It was the cheapest fur in the show, "M-jre £250.
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  • 322 10  -  HELEN HUGH How to get the boy friend to say Y To aTI ™It £XS niCeSt thin S s a b °y ca say to a girl? It is: "My, you smell good'/' wSLtAS *___^LPer_u me They If the boy friend groans, Don t you think
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  • 438 10  -  Gerree Read By I 'M Y MOST EMBAR- 1U -RASSING moment' !is a party piece guarI anteed to raise a laugh when things are getting a bit dull. Almost every- body can make a contri- bution in this field, and some of the incidents i thus recalled are ex--1
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  • 211 10 What Would The Boss Say Girls TT will be no surprise to I me if my secretary shows I a pair of delicate ruffled l flounces below her frock one l of these winter mornings. And I'll be wrong if I suggest that her slip is showing. No. ..She'll be
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    • 318 10 THE STARS AND YOU X Znn/An'i th J S „fe ls diligent in d 2 then™!?J£f ml ron ,lfn, l an< Eliminate weakn. tSSiJV"**** ,s ure <*i«rk tions wa,n > VMGO— Aug 13 t I Ti'vuniv Revise your outlook on 1 Trv t„ OR I^ERVONE: especially poraoi A 2 Try
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  • 201 11 fi A /£5? N hio >' Dec6, (AP)— Tyre industry executives estimate that rrom three to five years, the inner tube will be a thing of the past. J?,£u ally all Passenger auli?w le K S will be equipped with
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    • 682 11 jjJj^TSCHER LLOYD IBURG AMERIKA LINIE r—rta Marseille!. Antwerp. Rotterdam, U* C £!Urg 0 BREMEN Spore P 5 ham Penang iiOYO) 13/16 Dec 17 Dec 18 Dec T{ '_PAG 3 7 a 8, n 1 VfoYD. 15/20 Jan 21 Jan 22 an 4 H L A PAC 5/12 Feb 13 Feb
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    • 1177 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD «c CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lines) (12 lines) Shipping (Incorporated in Singapore) Travel Depta. T E BLUE FUNN|:L L]NE Dept Carriers option to proceed Tie other ports to load and discharge cargo SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL. GLASGOW. LONDON Si CONTINENT. Singapore Due Salla P S'ham Penang lyndareus
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    • 712 11 JAVA NEW YORK SAILINGS Royal Rotterdam Lloyd Holland America Line Nederland Line maiJ__v Rotterdam Amsterdam HALIFAX BOSTON. NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE, MOBILE. NEW ORLEANS, via SUEZ S'pore P. S'ham Penang KmVi^-iL; 19/25 Dec 26 Dec 27/28 Dec SOESTDYK (HAL) 19/25 lan 26 Jan 27/28 |an Excellent passenger accommodation. Agents for
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  • 142 12 Little Trade Interest Seen In Rubber Market THE rubber market in Singapore was featureless yesterday, first grade rubber for December shipment closing at 82 cents per lb unchanged from the weekend price. Quotations opened slightly steadier and during the day moved between 82 and 821 cents. 4 Little trade interest
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  • 91 12 Vickers' Chairman Flies In > LIEUTENANT General J Sir Ronald Weeks. g 2 (above). chairman of 2 Viekers Limited, flew into Singapore during the 2 J weekend by Qant a s BCL^C on his way back 2 to London after touring 2 his company's three plants in Australia. f One
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  • 29 12 AUSTRAL Malay Tin Ltd. announced the following returns for November: Thabawleik Tin Dredging 500 piculs. Pungah Tin Dredging 706 piculs and Austral Amalgamated Tin Ltd. 3.162 piculs.
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  • 785 12 FAO Experts End Talks By RAWLE KNOX Hon fit? 22? dUc^nsK TJaW**. *>*••»«« Or 9 onixoehief rice producing counfr;« R *»»e dismol conclus.on that Asio's hare on exjortob of a^? irf d !'J I< Chi "HI the coming harvest— JnA ,i .Mf OUr m,1,,0n ons
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  • 76 12 M^ H H A d t ath fe re P°rted of Mr. H. Ashley Mason, overseas trade director of Messrs Evans Medical Supplies Ltd England, on Nov. 26 An announcement bv thp Singapore office of Evans Medical Supplies Ltd Eted that Mr. Ashley Mason was
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  • 513 12 This Year May Be Most Prosperous For U.K. Since War LONDON, Dec. 6.— With the end of the year only a few weeks away, it looks as if 1954 will have been the most prosperous year of Britain's post-war economic his tory. Latest Treasury estimates put the October industrial production
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    72 12 A BRITISH Vickers Viscount of Air France is seen in flight. The overall dollar value of Viscount orders including spare parts has now reached U5584.840.000. an indication of the tremendous dollar earning capacity of this British turbo-prop airliner which has slashed journey times on over 40 European, routes I and
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  • 713 12 tht. ?t L f ET co dition s again continued to prevail in the Malayan share market yesterday on the oMnln? £fi*ft_^ bUt thCre Tin shares provided the bu.k of the modest turnover with Rawang Tins still attracting the major interest. Prices quoted by the
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  • 32 12 SWEDEN will establish a new record by building more than 500,000 gross tons of ships this year. A record was set in 1&53 when 493.000 ffross tons wpre built.- AP
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  • 83 12 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association's buying rates to merchants yesterdi 3 L were: New York 32? (T.T.). 322 (OD). 33 credit bills and 33 1 16 trade bills: Canada 31? (T.T.). 312. 324 credit bills and 32 316 trade bills. Selling (T.T. OD): New York 32}. Canada 312,
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  • 120 12 THERE is no more pressing problem in Asia today than that of the relationship of man to the land. So said Field Marshal Phin Chunhavan, Thai Minister of Agriculture, when he officially opened the F.A.O. sponsored Land Problems Seminar for Asia and the Far East in
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    58 12 MAJOR General ami Mr*. Dunphie pictured after th»ir arrival in Singapore aam the weekend. (I In«• r 1 I Dunphie is a director <•> Vickers-Armstrone ltd H« has just completed tour of Australia. "The replacement Vickers Viscount arrivnl in Australia before we l«'tt he said. The first Vickers. a turbo-prop
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  • 242 12  -  KHOO BOON CHOO PENANG /m— Potoni, Kedoh.\ Th, A 1?-"S which con kJ^H planr. This incidcntolly L 1 3 j The mm! aunti Plantations Ltd., M, V ?Y ,he that their latex plant mg two grades, em Harvard Estate, whj in size and out ol thi aci replanted since
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  • 62 12 PENANG. Hon.— The Aj cultural Department Settlement will hold in I Week" from Dec. 13 to 1 Ayer Itam Africultur. t:on. Penang, and at To'Kun Agricultural Bukit Mertajam. During the "Week." lie are invited to visit I stations where ta.k^ monstrations on crops, stock, plant produd nisation
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  • 82 12 THE produce n Singapore opened with quiet conditio! ing in most Mctiona Copra oponcil steadier but closed fractionally above the v.« end quotations. Pepper priee-. Itaxe '1 higher but no deal* arete ported, Muntok white bu quoting at $207 per pi u J Lampong black at $142 Coconut oil
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    • 355 12 CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD OF THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA 'TENDERS are invited for the purchase and removal of the following generating plant from the Kota Bharu Power Station of the Central Electricity Board:— .I—2oo K.W. Ruston 6 cylinder Oil Engine direct coupled to 400 440 Volt Alternator, 3 Phase 50 Periods.
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  • 308 13 re sNoTaxToPay! 11lK M<>\ SALAYSAY i.n and Singapore boxing promoter; > heads <>»■' trying to break even oi fit in t"«" ir < nosen livelihoods, Sydney fI jtting pretty on their revolving [king o0(! P rofits on tneir weekly K'tl< 1,,v tax! I I •> x levied by the
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  • 25 13 iter) Ser- -hat nly in of inty him I the E j pearI v. no tame nut b been ■:ncf i not even I
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  • 221 13 CLUTCHING the table-tennis championship challenge cups which they won from Singapore last year, Vietnamese players look as if they mean to retain them in this year's Asian tourney. The team from Vietnam arrived by Cathay Pacific Airways from Saigon yesterday. THE Portland State College basketball team
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  • 246 13 'MAT WOMEN' FOR COLONY May Fight If Police Permit SIX of the best women wrestlers in the worid will arrive from Manila on Dec. 17 to fight at the Happy World if the Colony police authorities accede to the request of their manager, Mr. Leo Levitt, co-owner of world middleweight
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    54 13 THIS is Gloria Barattini. a girl who studied singing at the Peabody Consistoru in. Baltimore four-and-a-h a1 f years ago, and aave it up to be a wrestler. She ivill enter lhe rin<j in a beautiful purple lobe. She will wear a one piece block silk costume. And oh boy,
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  • 37 13 MELBOURNE. Der 6. (Reuter) Arthur Morris, the New South Wales opening batsman, was re-appointed vice-captain of Australia for the second test match with England beginning at Sydney on Dec. 17, it was officially announced
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  • 606 13 SCHOOLBOY TEO IS MR. SINGAPORE Beats Two Mr. Selangor A COLONY schoolboy, Robert Teo realised his ambition of becoming Mr. Singapore when he brushed aside strong opposition, especially from Herman Goh (Mr. Selangor 1953) and Leong Siew Hon (Mr. Selangor 1954), to win the title at last night's Singapore Amateur
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  • 48 13 TAMPENIS Rovers beat Chartered Bank Sports Club by four goals to one in a hockey friendly at the Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers for the Rovers were James Gomez, Leslie Theseira, K. Toft and B. de Souza. Salleh seored f o»* the Sports Club.
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  • 129 13 1 INDONESIA'S hockey tourists, consisting of 16 players and three offi- cials, due to visit Singa- J pore for three matches, J will arrive on Dec. 16. 5 said Mr. G.K. Gossain. g J the acting President of W the Singapore Hockey Association
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  • 151 13 ROCKHAMPTON, Dec. 6. (Reuter) Bob Appleyard. Yorkshire's off spinner, had match winning spell of six wickets for 18 runs to give the M.C.C. victory by an innings and 12 runs over a Queensland Country XI here today. Appleyard raptured the last three wickets in seven balls
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  • 91 14 Bmßir' JmWmWmamm ■iwmmsmiii .......Mill mill vvxvy x CAMERAMAN Lean Kap Sens shows how they 1 i finished at Ipoh before the rain stopped racing. Race I—l. Border Scot. 2. Rice Milk 3. Maha Ranee. Tote: 537, Sll. S6. SB. j Race 2—l. Yutoi 11. 2. Fairy.
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  • 270 14  -  VERITY GILL Five Colony Assns. Will Decide Today By FIVE COLONY sports associations, at a meeting today sponsored by the Singapore Amateur Football Association, hope to make the first concrete step for a Colony sports stadium which will include 'all amenities for sportsmen in the island.'
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  • 78 14 SAIGON. Dec. 6 (AFP)— The Filipinos continued their successes in the Saigon International Lawn Tennis Championship today. Davis Cup player F. Ampon beat Seng of Hongkong 6-3, 6-1 and Beyro of the Philippines beat Ip of Hongkong 6-3. 6-4. In a match last night
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  • 90 14 MELBOURNE. Dec. 5 (Reuter) Harry Hopkins. Australian Davis Cup captain writing in the Melbourne Herald on Ken Rosewall's defeat yesteiday of the American champion Vic Seixas in the Victorian State Lawn Tennis championships said: "It was a fine flighting match with Rosewall always the master.
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  • 33 14 Naval Base Dockyard won the l_X_ a. Lr ,i lgue Championship yesterday when they beat REME by three goals to one at hockey at the Naval Base ground.
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  • 40 14 P J'! F />Howinq have been selSnn?t. f-l rejjrese nt the Jacks rKSAfi?"' at pm at tali!* t Ch o° Ann Loh T_ck Nam reo Bin Kong. Teo Hong 11 r£ s Bee. Johnny Chua. Ong Choon Thiam.
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  • 1245 14  - BEARER BOND PROVES HE'S TOP CLASS LEONG HEW MENG A 'Hattrick' With Samroig By IPOH, Mon. Three 'hot' favourites and a rank outsider scored on a heavy track here today, completing the first day's racing of the Perak Turf Ciuh December meeting. The favourites were Bearer Bond and Samroig, who
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  • 375 14 Selangor BA 'Gives' Piruz Six Months BAM Secretary Seconds Proposal KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Abdullah Piruz, Selangor's badminton ace and Thomas cupper, has been suspended for six months by the Selangor Badminton Association. This decision was taken by its general committee which met here tonight to deliberate and decide on a
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  • 251 14 Seixas Trabert Take Victoria Title KOOYONG. Tei.nis CourtH Melbourne, Dec. <ip,_vi c Seixas and Tony Trabert of the United States beat Mervyn Rose and Rex llartwi P of Australia 4-6. 5.7. t-t, §.4, today in the final of the Victoria mens doubles championship. Rose and Hurtwig were ficht mg hard
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