Singapore Standard, 11 December 1954

Microfilm: NL2605
Total Pages: 14
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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    16 1 Singapore Standard J 3&. JrL. ;^J 161. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1954 14 PAGES 15 CENTS.
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  • Article, Illustration
    JAVA GARDNER
    19 1 I D jsclo.-™d to be the ''world's most gfiful animal" is seen here in a green cheongsam.
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  • Article
    Imas Fanfare Cancelled: Money To Be Refunded
    157 1 Imas Fanfare Cancelled: Money To Be Refunded '3 ARD Toy 'rani are lace toancelled JHimlx r of factors roy Fund lecision, the weather guest t appear due to their heavy Christmas bookings. The fair was abandoned on Nov. 27 owing to rain after few items had been run off. Those
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    BACHELOR SHEIKH GETS THE SACK
    139 1 CAIRO, Dec 10 (Reuter) The millionaire Sheikh Ezzat JafTar. who tried to woo exQueen Narriman of Egypt earlier this year has been dismissed from his post as chief of the Royal Cabinet and expelled from the sheikhdom of Kuwait. according to reports here today. Jaffa.-,
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    FLOODS HIT TRAINS
    964 1 And Xmas Mail May Be Delayed Half ot Fed* is struck by rising waters KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— More than hah the Federation's 50,000 square miles of territory and nearly 2,000,000 of its population were tonight believed to have been affected by the biggest floods to strike Malaya
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    STUDENTS ON STRIKE TODAY AT VARSITY
    162 1 STUDENTS ON STRIKE TODAY AT VARSITY UNIVERSITY of Malaya professors and lecturers will, for the first time in its history, face empty faculty halls when they don their academic robes for lectures today. The reason: The undergrads are on a one-day sympathy strike as a protest against the expulsion of
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    Red Guns Keep On Booming
    35 1 TAIPEI, Dec. 10, (Reuter) Chinese Communist guns on the mainland continued their long-range shelling of two Nationalist islands yesterday for the second consecutive day. a Nationalist spokesman here announced today.
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    It Wasn't Ava —Just Malcolm
    119 1 AN old woman who sat patiently in the Kallang airport terminal building yesterday morning looked up and saw a group of photographers gathered outside the V.I.P. room, stood up and said: "Ava Gardner." Soon a crowd collected round the photographers and a minute later, the
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    Hatoyama Forms His Cabinet
    158 1 Hatoyama Forms His Cabinet TOKYO, Dec. 10. (AP) Japan's new Conservative Prime Minister named pcgIcgged Mamoru Shigcmitsii, wartime Prime Minister, to the top post in his "caretaker** cabinet today. Shigemitsu was named Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister by Ichiro Hato- yama. Conservative Democrat, I who was elected Prime Minii
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    30 Minutes Late But The Press Didn't Mind
    691 1 A Picture In A Green Cheongsarr HER AGE 32 on Dec. 24 HONGKONG 12-Course Dinner By TONI MARSH WHEN Ava Gardner walket into a crowd of pressmer and photographers half an-hour late last night most of the assembfec newsmen thought tht wait
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    Government Says 'No' To Sharma
    277 1 Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Government has written an emphatic, "no" to the request by Mr. P. V. Sharma, former President of the Singapore Teachers' Union, to return to the Colony. Mr. Sharma wa.s repatriated to India on Nov. 27. 1952, after spending 687 days in
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    Boiled Egg Breakfast
    59 1 THE POPE VATICAN CITY. Dec. 10 (UP)— Pope Pius XII spent a restful night and ate a softboiled egg for breakfast today. The Pope's doctors announced last night the Pontiff had shown ""marked and steady" improvement since his collapse eight days ago. They frankly confessed, however, that
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    Gales Hit UK
    37 1 LONDON. Dec. 10 (Reuter) More gales and torrential rain swept across stormwhipped Britain today, bottling up shipping, rupturing transport and damaging homes. Flood chaos gripped many counties in Western England and threatened to spread
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    Fire Guts 700 Shacks
    62 1 PUSAN. Dec. 10 (Reuter) Fire fanned by strong winds destroyed about 700 flimsy refugee shacks and other buildings in Pusan this morning and. for a time, threatened the American Consulate building and the United States Army hospital, before being brought under control. About 5.000 persons were
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    Autograph, Please
    13 2 WHICH ONE FIRST? Ava and autograph hunters al Kallang Airport yesterdav
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    After 19 hours wait only glimpses of the 'beautiful animal'
    714 2 After 19 hours wait only glimpses of the 'beautiful animal' AVA GARDNER Shutterbugs Delight SINGAPORE press photographers had a field when Ava posed for them yesterday in her suite at Raffles. AFTER waiting: for 19 hours, fans of Ava Gardner were rewarded with only glimpses of her when she arrived
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    FLOOD STORY IN PICTURES
    250 3 In calamity they find time for laughs THOUSANDS of kampong dwellers in Singapore were under the severest strain yesterday, with water flooding all roads, washing away their farms and livestock and even penetrating every nook and corner of their humble dwellings. Hundreds were even forced out
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    Four Put In 117 Years' Service
    189 3 SINGAPORE'S Director of Posts, Mr. M. L. Durrant, yesterday presented Valedictory Letters to four postal employees, who together completed 117 years' service in the department. The letters were in recognition of their services, and the presentation took place at a ceremony in the General
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    370 Classes For Adults
    69 3 THE Singapore Council for Adult Education today has 11,143 students in its 370 classes. Of this number 279 students are learning English and 91 English and Mandarin. The Council has 461 teachers and 24 supervisors. Biggest centres of learning are the People's Education Association (1,961 students),
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    Call-Up For National Service
    113 4 Call-Up For National Service THE second intake of 400 National Servicemen for the Singapore Military Forces will be called up early in February. A ballot will be held on Jan. 7. at the Singapore Military Forces Headquarters at 5 p.m. for the draw of names. It will be open to
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    GOVT. GETS THE BLAME
    391 4 Inaction OnFloods Is Flayed Standard Staff Reporter THE Singapore Government and the City Council were criticised over Thursday's floods in the Colony by Legislative Councillor, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, two City Councillors, Messrs. A. R. Lazarous and V. K. Nair and the Peoples Action Party. The
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    Going Back To Business
    117 4 THE Australian Government Trade Commissioner for Malaya. Mr. Geo. S. Anderson, who is resigning from the Australian Government service to return to business. He will lea\e Singapore by sea on Dec. 30 on his way back to Sydney, his hometown. In the course of his future
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    HK EXCHANGE
    38 4 HONGKONG. Dec. 10.— Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.70 to Cl sterling 55.8725 to US$l; $1 854 to Malayan $1; $0,176 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $256,375 to a tael.
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    3 Fined For Worn Tyres
    62 4 THREE persons were fined $20 each in the Singapore First Traffic Court yesterday for either driving or permiting their vehicles to be driven with the cord fabric of the tyres exposed. They were Hock Leong Hin. Goh Ngo Chee and Husain bin Ahmad. Hock and
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    SERIA'S SCHOOL FOR DRILLERS
    146 4 SERIA, British Borneo. Dec. 10 (Reuter).— The British Malayan Petroleum Company's oilfield here is to be used as a training centre for young British recruits to the oil industry who want to become drillers, a Company spokesman said today The first 12 trainee-drillers are to arrive
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    Soldier Had Gun In Cabaret —$100
    231 4 Soldier Had Gun In Cabaret $100 A SOLDIER, Patrick Neel Winter, 22, of RAMC, was fined SlOO, in default one month's imprisonment, by Mr. Justice Whitton in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully carrying an automatic pistol at the Southern Cabaret on
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    Storm Was A Blessing To The Lees
    209 4 THE hackneyed adage "showers are blessings" certainly proved good for Federation sports personality Mr. Lee Kok Chee yesterday. For, if it had not, Mr. Lee would be stranded in Singapore with his family, instead ot being Hongkong bound on the P O liner
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    1,990 BOYS AND GIRLS GO INTO SECONDARY SCHOOLS
    307 4 OF 2,590 children from 65 Government Primary English schools in Singapore who sat for the recent Common Entrance Examination for admission to Standard VI classes of Government Secondary schools, 1,990 passed, the Senior Inspector of Schools. Mr. T. P. M. Lewis, said
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    Muslim College Professors Due
    219 4 CHAIRMAN of the Central Committee of the AllMalaya Muslim College, Dato S. I. O. Alsagoff, yesterday received a cable from Cairo stating that the two professors, loaned to the College by the Egyptian Government, will arrive in the Colony shortly. The cable was sent by Col.
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    TWO NEW CHARGES AGAINST AGENT
    199 4 TWO NEW CHARGES AGAINST AGENT MALACCA. Fri. Haji Hashim Othman. a polling agent in the Bukit China ward, had two fresh charges preferred against him this afternoon in the Magistrate's Court. He is now firstly charged with being in unlawful possession of a voting paper and secondly, with attempting to
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    COMMODITY PRICES
    110 4 CLOSING robber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singa- i pore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 R.S.S. Spot Loose 811 81? No. 1 R.S.S. fob Dec. 81 1 81; No. 2 80J 81_ No. 3 78 1 79 Tone: Slightly easier. lIN PKK l The price of tin
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    Teachers' Convention
    60 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Student teachers from all over the Federation will be in Kuala Lumpur to attend a three-day convention organized by the Selangor Student Teachers' Association The convention begins on Monday The Ag. Member for Education, Mr. L.D. Whitfield, will open the convention at the Methodist Girls'
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    AFTER 48 HOURS THE SUN DID A QUICK PEEP
    1130 5 Slowly Recede Standard Staff Reporters AT EXACTLY 3.30 p.m. yesterday. Singapore had its first glimpse of the sun in 48 hours. This relief from the grey skies and continuous downpour of the last two days was perhaps the most acceptable of
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    Waters The Corfu Sails But Shipping Is Held Up
    112 5 Waters The Corfu Sails But Shipping Is Held Up hold up in work alongside the Singapore Harbour Board Wharves. Outer Koads and Inner Roads yesterday due to the inclement weather. Two Blue Funnel ships, the Perseus, and Phrontis. had to cancel sailings, and the Limburg and the Japanese freighter. Hakonesan
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    Father Sold His Son's Pot
    76 5 CHOO AH POH. 50, father ol a Singapore hawker, was fined S5O in the Fourth Police Court yesterday for stealing a cooking pot belonging to his son Choo Keng Leong, on Aug. 2 at Jalan Ampas. Keng Leong said he had kept the pot in
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    Judgments Against Ex-Lawyer
    100 5 Judgments Against Ex-Lawyer THE Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsiey. gave two judgments in the Singapore High Court vesterdav. to Dr. VP. Menon and M.M. Malai. businessmen, against a former Colony lawyer CG. Menon. on whom extradition proceedings were taken in the ivladras Hign Court last year. Dr Menon claimed that
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    Fire Stops Traffic In Colony Road
    88 5 Fire Stops Traffic In Colony Road TRAFFIC was brought to a standstill for a few minutes in Singapore's New Bridge Road yesterday morning not beans of floods but because a Singapore Traction Company junction box caught fire. Buses, lorries and cars were held up while firemen put out the flames,
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    RUBBER TIN CLOSING PRICES
    77 5 RUBBER, Stondord I ondon Correspondent LONDON Dec 10.—The following ore the closing prices ol rubber ond tin on the London Market LONDON RUBBER Spot 24 Id. January 24Jd. February 24.d. M«"ch 24 d. April/June Jjt} July/September Zi2d. October/December 231d. December c.i.f. 23 16. Tone. Steadier. LONDON
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    Blackout Lasted 50 Minutes
    77 5 Blackout Lasted 50 Minutes THE Tanjong Pagar area of Singapore wa? temporarily blacked out last n g'nt owing to a short circuit at the Boon Tat Road sub-station. The blackout started at 6.50 p.m. and the service was restored 50 minutes later. The areas affected were Beach Road. Sembawa Road.
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    615 Treated To A Musical Feast
    370 5 Fijians Get Big Ovation Standard Staff Reporter THE 615 people, who obtained tickets to see Radio Malaya's 1954 pot-pouri of musical variety at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore, last night, were treated to a musical feast dished up by the best local radio artists
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    Irons, Chains Are Things Of The Past
    124 5 Irons, Chains Are Things Of The Past THE only mechanical restraint on prisoners in Singapore during a transfer from one nla^e to another Is the hnndcufT. Irons and chains used on prisoners are things of the dim and distant past, says the Commissioner of Prisons, Major W.L.P. Sochon. Modern prison
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    Hypnotized Gent
    61 5 pic- ture. A YOUNG lady gets a resounding kiss from George Dosling of Radio Malaya. He enacted the part of a hypnotized gent— the hypnotist being Geoff Raymond who was ordered to kiss the lady. This sketch formed part of last night's musical feast served up by the
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    MIC Man Is Front Candidate
    189 5 MIC Man Is Front Candidate THE Singapore Labour Front last night named Mr. P.V. Krishnan, secretary of the Malayan Indian Congress (Singapore), as its candidate for the forthcoming Legislative Council election in the Pasir Panjang Division. He will be opposed by a Progressive candidate Mr. K.M.S. Hamid and the Malay
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      Rains And Floods
      499 6 Ttf ALAYA is experiencing its "winter" or year-end rainy season. The rains usually start at the north and come down south in stages. In recent years the rainy season had started late and less volume of water fell. As if to make up for that, the rains
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      Reduced Rations
      377 6 rj-HE Emergency has brought forth a number of sacred cows, so sacred in fact that one sour look directed at them by the untouchables would render the latter liable to punishment. Getting tough 'with the people in certain areas has not yet paid any dividend in the form
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    BEGGARS AND SMART BICYCLES
    1126 6 BEGGARS AND SMART BICYCLES This is the first of two articles by CYRIL DUNN the London Observer's Specialist on African Affairs. BEFORE they go D S outh of the Sahara Desert, travellers into i Africa arc well advised to soak their spirits for a while in the surviving I splendours
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    Review of Views
    499 6 Review of Views Win Asian Confidence SIN Chew Jit Poh writes that the prerequisite to the implementation of the SEATO treaty is for the West to make all efforts to win the sympathy and confidence of Asian peoples. One of the most important political realities in this area, according to
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      INTRODUCE TAX RESERVE CERTIFICATES
      337 6 Sir: Many an Income Tax payer seems to be in arrears thereby causing a great dearth in the Income Tax Department's reve- nue. It U observed that most of the taxpayers when they have to pay a couple of j hundred dollars request such payment of
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      DESIRE OF MR. SHARMA
      127 6 Sir; Last week your paper reported the desire of Mr. P. V. Sharma to return to Malaya. It is strange that one Malayan should have to apply for re-admission to this country whereas another Malayan, namely Mr. J. Eber. now in U.K. is free to return
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      Self-Govt? First Kill Communalism
      293 6 Self -Govt? First Kill Communalism j S.r: Coming from Mr. Tan Peng Siew. tiie Pre>i- dent of the Perak Progres- sive Party, a partner of the Perak Grand Alliance, that Malaya is not ready yet for self-government shows him to be a realistic man of courage and foresight. Like j
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    UNKNOWN
    226 7 mi Dec 10— Prime Minister Winston r h his labour Party critics tangled yesterP debate over Field Marshal Viscount 55 stilus in the British Army and his Pjissified documents. L° .Wigg. a co loncl in the Army Educae .var. said the Field Marshal tion "on leaving the army" that
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    117 7 •c Df( lrt (lT) J. police lieuten- fi IrifidlJ watei iM ul w,ut A I Ltf politiral philo- fHe did 8,,t hcs i L to figure out ri Shea said he S^ hnnmired" to -'vfd .i kttcr from nan" in reply had written. to keep read- ,lsfpr-for years if
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    KILLED IN FORD FIGHT
    22 7 KILLED IN FORD FIGHT UP).— ranttive an Sulu cd o a it the Pl the Iter a so-called the Phi•ics as j
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    Groggy From The Social Whirl
    71 7 Dec. io. State Departyesterday that may be ?y from P- fc reign visitors. It disclosed plans to slow the pace. The Department's press officer said: "The whole matter of foreign visit for next year is bein^ examined to see how it shapes up. Efforts are
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    Dock Hands On Strike
    46 7 BRISTOL. Dec. 10 (Reuter) Some 2,000 dockers struck work at Avonmouth, port of Bristol, yesterday to back a protest over new handling methods for refrigerated meat from New Zealand. Work on all 17 ships in the port was brought to a standstill.
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    EXERCISES FOR ROYAL YACHT
    61 7 LONDON, Dec. 10 (Reuter) I —The £2,100.000 Royal yacht Britannia will join in combined fleet exercises with the Duke of Edinburgh on board in th e Mediterranean next March, it was announced last night. The yacht, subject of controversy over its cost, will join the exercises
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    MINSITER DIES
    43 7 DR. Joseph Escher, head of the Swiss Federal Department (Minister) of Posts and Railwavs, collapsed at a meeting of the National Council (Lowe r Hou.ce of Parliament) in Berne yesterday and died of a heart attack a few minutes later. Reuter
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    A Warm Welcome
    50 7 photo. THE Queen Mother enjoys the enthusiasm of four-year-old Francesca Wynne-Roberts' curtsy on her arrival to open the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art's new Theatre in London recently. Francesca is the daughter of actress Joyce Redman. At right L Sir Kenneth Barnes, Principal of the R.A.D.A A.P.
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    Europe Expected To Join Aid Plan
    244 7 WASHINGTON, Dec, 10.— U.S. Foreign Aid Chief Harold Stassen said yesterday the United States is looking to Western European countries for direct appropriations of money for an Asian Aid Programme. Mr. Stassen told a news conference he expect^ to discuss this and other aspects
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    A Bigger Appetite For News
    126 7 MELBOURNE. Dec. 10: (Reuter)— Mr. H.A.M. Campbell, the chairman, speaking at the annual meeting iv Melbourne yesterday of the Australian Associated Press declared that some action was necessary in the field of Commonwealth communications Last year AAP brought into Australia 9,000,000 words of' overseas news,
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    Prince Weds Lady Ashley
    71 7 FORT LEE. New Jersey, Dec. 10. <Reuter)— Mrs. Clark Gable, formerly Lady Ashley, was married for the fifth time at a civil ceremony yesterday to Prince Dimitri Djordjadze, a former White Russian cavalry officer. The Prince, aged 53. is assistant to the president of the Ambassador
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    Home At Last After Red Jail
    43 7 VANCOUVER, Dec. 10 (UP). Sqdn. Ldr. Andrew MacKenzie of Montreal arrived here yesterday from two years in a Chinese Communist prison camp. MacKenzie, 34. was met at international airport by his wife, who flew here from Montreal.
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    Cardinal Welcomed
    74 7 MANILA, Dec. 10, (AFP)— Fernando Cardinal Quiriogay Palacios, Papal delegate to the recently concluded Marian Congress here, was given a rousing welcome and presented with the keys to the city of Ilolso, in the southern Philippinesr today. The Cardinal received a 21--gun salute upon his arrival. The Cardinal
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    RECORD NUMBER
    18 7 MOTOR vehicle licences in force in Britain last August totalled 5.622,000—the highest number ever recorded. Reuter
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    Postman Was Curious
    57 7 BAYONNE, France, Dec. 10. (AP)— Justice caught up yesterday with the overly curious postman. A court sentenced Paul Fayet, 52, to eight months in prison after finding that jor 10 years he had taken five letters a day from his bag of mail. Motive Not blackmail, not
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    Cost Of UK'S Foreign Service Hit
    168 7 Cost Of UK'S Foreign Service Hit LONDON. Dec. 10 (Reuter) The Select Committee on estimates Parliament's "watchdog" on how government departments spend public money launched a strong attack on the costs of Britain's diplomatic service abroad. The committee called for an independent inquiry to be made declaring that the total
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    A SETBACK FOR ADENAUER
    62 7 MUNICH. Germany. Dec. 10, (AP) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's firm hold on the Bonn parliament's Upper House was shaken yesterday in one of the biggest domestic setbacks he has suffered this year. The anti-rearmament Socialists and three right-wing parties announced a decision to form the unprecedented state
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    'Pleasure' Jaunts Hit
    63 7 MANILA. Dec. 10, (AFP)— Speaker of the Lower House. Jose Laurel, came under flre last night on charges that he and other Congressmen had used the taxpayers' money for "pleasure jaunts" abroad. Laurel, who has just returned from Europe, asserted that his trip actually benefitted his country
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    Report On Mau Mou
    61 7 LONDON, Dec. 10, (Reuter) Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd Secretary of State for the Colonies disclosed in the House of Commons yesterday that on Nov. 15 there were 17,629 Mau Mau convicts in prison and 47,562 persons detained in works and detention camps. "The estimated cost per week
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    £952-M. ON FOOD
    38 7 A RECORD total of £952, 000,000 was spent on food In Britain in the third quarter of this year. Household goods also claimed a record with £231,000,000, though clothing dropped substantially to £215, 000,000. Reuter
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    Sir Roger's Body Will Still Remain In Prison
    211 7 Sir Roger's Body Will Still Remain In Prison LONDON, Dec 10: (Reuter) —Mr. Gwilym Lloyd George, the Home Secretary said yesterday he did not think returning the body of Sir Roger Casement Irish patriot executed by the British in 1916 to Ireland would improve relations with the Irish Republic. "In
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    STOP U.S. AGGRESSION' – SOVIETS URGE THE U.N.
    422 7 STOP U.S. AGGRESSION' SOVIETS URGE THE U.N. Propaganda Stunt Replies Jackson NEW YORK, Dec. 10, (Reuter)— The Soviet Union called on the United Notions yesterday to condemn allegedly aggressive acts by the United States against Communist China. Ina resolution presented to the Special or Ad Hoc Political Committee of the
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    'Even A Visitor From Mars Would Wonder At Malik's Reasoning'
    241 7 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Dec. 10: (UP)— United States delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. bitingly denounced Soviet delegate Jacob A. Malik in the United Nations yesterday for using false arguments in defending Red China's imprisonment of 11 American airmen as
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    Surrender Is Extended
    53 7 TUNIS. Tunisia, Dec. 10. (UP)— France last night extended "Operation Fellagha" an additional 24 hours in a bid to bring out the last holdouts of the once-powerful Tunisian "national army of liberation." The amnesty offer, which was to have ended at midnight on Wednesday night was extended
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    Action On Horror Comics Soon
    84 7 Action On Horror Comics Soon LONDON, Dec. 10, (Reuter) The British Government is considering taking legal action to prevent the sale in Britain of "horror" eomics and publications glorifying violence and torture. Mr. Gwilym Lloyd George, the Home Secretary told the House of Commons yesterday he would much prefer to
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    'Church May Forgive Single Act Of Adultery'
    178 7 'Church May Forgive Single Act Of Adultery' LONDON, Dec. 10 (Reuter) Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, said today that the Church of "England would wholly approve if the law was no longer content to accept a single act of adultery as a sufficient ground for divorce. He said the
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    R.I. CONSUL'S TOUR OF FED.
    38 8 DR. HERMEN Kartowisastro. the Consul General for the Republic of Indonesia, will leave Singapore for a week's Federation tour tomorrow. During his absence Mr. Susman Prawirokusumo will deputize as Consul-in-Charge of the Consulate.
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    URBAN HEALTH CENTRE TO GO UP SOON
    331 8 Boon To Medical Research WORK on Singapore's $2,000,000 Urban Health Centre, multi-purpose model institution for medical and health training research and treatment of diseases, will begin soon, the Director of Medical Services, Dr. R. H. Bland, told The Standard yesterday. Architects have prepared
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    30 GALLONS OF EGGNOG FOR PARTY
    140 8 FIVE turkeys weighing about 20 pounds each, and 60 pounds of f»^m have been ordered for the American Club's traditional eggnog party on Christmas Day. from 10.30 a.m. to 2 p.m.. a committee member. Mr. Paul Bordwell. told The Standard yesterday. Because no American
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    Fashion Show
    31 8 THE fashion show and dance at Rallies Hotel on Dec. 13 and 16 organized by Datin Pagiar in aid of Singapore T.eper Relief Association will be held as planned.
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    Boys Body Found In Rochore River
    204 8  -  CHUA KIM YEW By Standard Staff Reporter THE Singapore Marine Police, recovered the body of a child that was wedged between logs near the mouth of the Rochore River at 6.40 p.m. yesterday. The body is believed to be that of seven-year-old Yeo Hock
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    Election Campaigns Already On
    100 8 Election Campaigns Already On POLITICAL parties in Singapore have already started ™n Ctlon ca m P a *gns though polling day is months away The Labour Front last nieht announced that a mas s iX will be held on Dec 26 The Place will be announced later. Meanwhile a campaign
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    Unemployed, He Faces 2 Counts Armed Robbery, 'Outrage'
    288 8 Unemployed, He Faces 2 Counts Armed Robbery, 'Outrage' KHOO Cheng Hock, unemployed, stood trial in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, on a charge of armed robbery and another of using criminal force on Mrs. Joyce Iris Hawkes, wife of a British Army .Sergeant, with intent to outrage her modesty, at
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    Rehearsal Again Today
    76 8 THERE will be an extra full choral orchestral rehearsal of Handel's Messiah at the Victoria Memorial Hall, this afternoon at 4 30. as many were unable to attend Thursday's practice because of the floods. The Singapore Musical Society also wishes to remind the public that some seats
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    $3,490 For SATA
    130 8 CONTRIBUTIONS to S.A.T.A.'s annual appeal to the public for donations, today total $3,490. made up as follow* Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. $1,000; Sime. Darby Co.. Ltd. $1,000: Henry Waugh Co.. Ltd $250; The Chartered Bank of India. Australia, China $150; Messrs. M. Flinter S. Grinberg $150; American International
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    Dakota's Return Trip Was Delayed
    115 8 TIIE Malayan Airways Dakota, which flew an iron lung to a patient of thr Stanvar Hospital in Palembang on Thursday affernoon on a mercy mission, belatedly returned to Singaporr yesterday evening. The plane was "drlavrd in Palembang while waiting for the approval of the Indonesian
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    "Pirate" Is Jailed For Robbery Bid
    147 8 OXG IfßfG CHI'AN*. <\c'-\ cribed as "a pirate in I Cecil Street area." was filter day sentenced in tht I pore Second Criminal D. -trict Court to 11 months' iaii on two charges of attempted robbery. Lee Chon? Hin. fc 12-ycnr-n!d shop assistant. to'd
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    Tragic Ending To Dispute About A Bench
    166 8 Tragic Ending To Dispute About A Bench A 10- YEAR-OLD girl, Ruthrani, told the Singapore Eighth Police Court, yesterday, that her neighbour, after stabbing her father, abducted her. She was testifying at a preliminary inquiry in which the neighbour, Appavoo Thagan. was tentatively charged with the murder of Irrvillapan. at
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      XMAS MUSIC—AND SOME PERSONALITIES
      1177 9 XMAS MUSIC— AND SOME PERSONALITIES J^S I mentioned last week the Chamber Ensemble's contribution to our seasonal Christmas musicmaking takes the form of a choral concert of carols and choruses from Bach's Christmas Oratorio, in addition to the Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Vaughan Williams and a Palestrina motet for
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      STAGE DOOR
      912 9  - STAGE DOOR JOHN HALKIN iilWsi T OW that the Victoria Theatre is only a shell of a building:, giving rise to mainly pleasant memories, it would appear that the time for a revision of production methods has really come. The opportunity and necessity for such a revision has always been
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  • Your Saturday Page Of Malayan Sport
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      BAM TO DECIDE ON CUP COACH TODAY
      804 10  - BAM TO DECIDE ON CUP COACH TODAY JEFFERY JAMES By TONIGHT the big match is decided. In one corner, Singapore's Leow Kim Fatt; in the other, Selangor's Chan Kon Leong. The winner becomes coach of the Malayan Thomas Cup team. The Badminton Association of Malaya's meeting at the Cathay Building
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      TODAY'S SPORT
      74 10 RL'GBY; HMS Malaya Cup Combined Services vs. Johore at Jalan Besar Stadium: REME vs. SHB "A at REME; Singapore Cricket Club vs. RAAF at SCC. bingapore District semi-finals; Anderson School (Ipoh) vs. Victoria School at VS 5.00 p.m. TABLE-TENNIS: Opening Ceremony of the Third Asian championships at thc
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      Wednesday's Race Finishes
      7 10  -  Lean Kup Seng by
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      McNeice Opens Asian Tourney
      406 10  -  EDIN PETERS By ASIAN table tennis players and officials at the opening of the third Asian championships today at the Singapore Badminton Stadium will observe a minute's silence in memory of the late chairman of the Organizing Committee, Dato C. J. P. Paglar. Representatives from all
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      INDIAN ARSENAL
      62 10 THE Indian Arsenal Sports Club will meet the Indian Brotherhood Soccerites in a friendly soccer match on Dec 12 at Farrer Park. The following will represent the Indian Arsenal S.C.:— A. M. Pillay. N. Samy Kannu. Ponniah. S. Valayutham. Arumugam. M. Pakkiri V. Ramanathen. Kalimuthii. V. S Maniam.
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    NEW JAGUARS ON DISPLAY
    59 11 T N£ W VORK. Dec. 10 (AP)The 1955 line of Jaguar autoYbrk 1S n displa > r in Ne w Jaguar Cars North American Corporation. New York subsidiary of Jaguar Cars. Ltd of Coventry. England, is promoting the new line as higher powered with increased seat
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    W. Germany Completes 216 Ships
    94 11 BONN, Dec. 10. (AP).— West Germany's busy shipyards completed 216 ships totalling 09d._.-,8 tons during the first ten months of this year, the Federal Economics Ministry announced today. Of these. 63 ships totalling 317,376 tons were built for foreign concerns. a>*?-\« 0 ct 31> 224
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    STANDARD VACUUM
    26 11 EXPLORATION rights in Bnt:sh Somaliland covering 1 1.380 miles have been acquired by Standard Vacuum Oil Company, it was disclosed in new zonc- UP
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    TIN PACT MAY NOT BE BROUHT INTO FORCE YET
    265 11 LONDON. Dec. 10* (Reuter)— Hopes of the much publicised International Tin Agreement coming into force at the beginning of the New Year are receding. So far only three of the six producer and 14 consumer countries who signed the agreement have
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      BUSINESS REPORTED FOR PEPPER
      188 12 BUSINESS REPORTED FOR PEPPER THE produce market in Singapore was steady in most sections yesterday but only small business was reported. Several tons of pepper was reported to have changed hands lor both the black and whitc varieties, but quotations remained largely unchanged, Muntok white being quoted Sl'o7 per picul
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      Overseas Assurance Nets $5M A Year
      283 12 Overseas Assurance Nets $5M A Year THE Overseas Assurance Corporation Ltd., had reached the stage where the annual gross income had exceeded $5 million, said the chairman, Dato S. Q. Wong at a dinner party at Cathay Restaurant marking the close of the Corporation's second conference of branch managers and
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      US Will Swing To Synthetic If...
      599 12 Weekly Rubber Review: THERE is almost certain to be some swing in favour of synthetic rubber next year, particularly i n the USA if the present price is maintained, but the increasine world consumption should well be able to take care of all the
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      'Fruits Of Freedom' At Fair
      210 12 'Fruits Of Freedom' At Fair "FRUITS of Freedom." showing what can be accomplished in a democracy, is the theme of the American exhibit at the Bangkok annual Constitution Fair which has just opened in Bangkok. With this fair, the United States will inaugurate its official participation in international trade fairs
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    ALOR GAJAH PAYS 7½ % DIVIDEND
    120 12 ALOR GAJAH PAYS 7½ DIVIDEND THE directors of Alor Gajah Rubber Estate Ltd. report a working profit of 526.388 for the vear ended Sept. 30. 1954. A dividend of 74 per cent, less tax will take $11,381 and the balance to be carried forward is $24,654. The low prices for
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    Mission's Proposals 'Anti-Capitalism'
    195 12 LONDON, Dec. 10 (Reuter)— Proposals of the recent official factfinding mission into the rubber industry are condemned as "crude anticapitalism" by Sir Andrew McFadyean Chairtt? f u Ledan g Bahru i-td., in his annual statement to shareholders. The mission. ha sa _d claimed there was a good'
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    518 12 Ceylon PM Sounds^. SIR John Kotelowola, the Prime M Akron, Ohio, yesterday thot the synthetic n!^*' of Ckl States was threatening to "exterminate' nn >'' !*2S Ceylon and other South-east Asian countr.- ol If this happened. Sir John sa,d in a J"!?'*' 1 sociation, -then there is no alternative
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    Industrial Shares Are Firm
    57 12 Industrial Shares Are Firm INDUSTRIALS in tl., Malayan share mark- I i firm, while tins and rub: were practically te yesterday. Trading wa.s ona: scale. Price change announced b- the Malayan Bl Association yesterday ■mum i Ba.HH *»rllrrs Wearne Bros. Wilkinson Procew Wiiliam Jacks MIMNd Aver Hitam Hong Fatt Renong
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    28 12 DULL conditio prevailed on the a gapore rubber nu terday with q closing unchanged those on Thursday, b. r NOON* FAOH| •IMPR& I j i I j
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    Ships In Harbour
    133 12 Ships In Harbour OI'TKR RO\l>n Asha. ■art Rome; Steel Direcl Hsiang: Chip Lam Goldmouth; lit Granheim; N Hoi Houvv; Hum (bl Schevenko. Van Ifaiaion: Bangl Ti INNTR ROM'** Rokan: Teck Se Y Hona Ta*.. Hin Hong Ming; Hyd Kim Heap Hua:. Hong Ho; Kah S Belaga; Torina; 1 Landak: Taype:
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    INT. DIVIDEND
    38 12 IDRIS Hydraulic Tin U* has declared an >"•" dividend of 4ld per >■■' (less income tax at £> for thc company > cial year ending D«'» 1954 payable in London Jan.' 3. 1955. to all **",n holders registered on 1954.
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      1237 12 __lii»_i<£?l§ 5. I I Sv _W»Tfl^BM AUCTION SALE OF NATURALISATION Undivided Shares and Interests in "VOTICE is hereby giver Valuable Singapore Properties that the following perTo be held at our saleroom sons whose names and LHo. 10. CHULIA STREET addresses are given below are On Wednesday, applying to the Governor
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      278 12 tt&wAv>^x<'C<KOcofrv^-»'*btWw^^ oo.MMfr ,^w_ve_-i_ox«eaa— aa» SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST SHOP PREMISES A REGISTER is now being maintained of those persons who wish to rent shoppremises In Trust Estates. Persons wishing to have their names recorded should send their name full postal address and trade or typ e of business in writing to
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  • Your Saturday Page Of World Sport
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      HIS! BUT ON CONDITIONS
      204 13 t RUSSIANS FOR WIMBLEDON? I; i Srtondly, the entry of Rus- 1 a hose outlook on sport very different from ours must not result jn any altering or j mg of our own standards »1 amateur play and friendlv sportsmanship Loid Temolewood who. a s Simuel
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      21 13 r Dec. 2 match icith Rocky Castellani of Cleveland at Cleveland^ Ohio. Castellani. No. 3 middleweight contender, scored a technical knock-out.
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      SCA PARTY FOR MCC SECRETARY
      73 13 MR. R. AIRD secretary of the Maryleborne Cricket Club, who is on hi s way to Australia for the Test matches, will arrive in Singapore on Sunday. Mr Khoo Ong Lee. honorary secretary of the Singapore Cricket Association to^d The Standard yesterday Mr Aird. who
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      WILD HITS
      38 13 TAIPING. Thurs.— ln his third day of coaching here. Mr. Gian Singh told local players never to resort to wild hittir.2 but to adopt the push forward stroke. He made several demonstrations to press his point.
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      Last Chance For Hutton
      97 13 MELBOURNE. Dec. 10 (Renter)—Norman Preston. Reuter's cricket correspondent said today that the MCC's match against Victoria will give *Len Hutton and his co-selectors a last chance to iron out England's team problems before tne second Test match, due to begin on December 17.' He added that
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      MCC BATSMEN FAIL AGAIN
      273 13 MELBOURNE, Dec. 10, (Reuter)— After an nmm.™ at u w Hutton and Trevor Bailey-the best of the LTccl battiV «ain a game h w.th We -s.ctoria ,0r Whe Sht ended <*» thirst^"oMhefr' where oth^r^er^d^ba^nl^eV *****^ 6 ded He stayed 165 minutes for 60, including five fours
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      SCOREBOARD
      129 13 M.C.C. lst innings— 2s3 for eight wickets. L. Hutton lbw b Loxton 41 T. E. Bailey c Maddocks b Loxton 60 P. B. 11. Mav c Maddocks b Johnston 4 T. w. Graveney c Power b Johnston 48 M. C. Cowdrey nqt out 44 R T. Simpson 0 b
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      No Winner
      70 13 GOTEBOT.G. Sweden. Dec 10 <AP» An unusual three-wav draw occurred last night in the final round of the International Table Tennis tournament here pmon<? world chamnion Ichiru Ogimura of Japan. Johnnv Loach of England, and Ta cc Fli«*berg of Sweden Flisberg first beat Loach 23-21. 13—21. 21-19. Then
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      Britain's 'Miracle Miler' Is Retiring
      199 13 LONDON, Dec 10 (Reuter)— Roger Bannister, first man to run a mile in les s than fou r minutes announced lght that he IS re t'^ng from international athletics. Bannister. Empire champion and European 1 500 metres title holder said at the annual dinner of
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      Portland Beat Nanyang
      120 13 THE Portland State College Basketballers won their second Colony victory when they beat Nanyang Siang Pau 70-64 in a thrilling match at the Happy World Stadium last night. Players of both teams showed a high standard of basketball The College players were deadly accurate in their long
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      Anderson Schoolboys Here To Play
      153 13 THE Anderson School of Ipoh arrived here yesterday for a series of matches with the Colony schools. The fixtures are: Today Rugby against Victoria School at 5.00 p.m. Tomorrow Badminton against Victoria School at 2.30 p.m. Hockey against Victoria School at 5.00 p.m. Monday Rugby
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      Chataway May Go To S. Africa
      75 13 JOHANNESBURG. Dec. 9 (Reuter)— The South African Amateur and Cycling Union tonight granted formal permission for Chris Chataway. the leading leading British 5.000 metres runner to compete at a Jubilee meeting in Johannesburg i n January. Chataway told Reuter in London that subject to
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      1198 13 ENGAGEMENT ANNAMALAY-SANTHA The r\ engagement is to be nnounced on 12th Dec. 1954 at 11 am between Annamalay of Malavan Railways Singapore son of Mr and Mrs. Periasamy of Bukit Mertajam and Santha daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gurusamy of Singapore Harbour Board. IN MEMORIAM 'T'HE Committee and Teachers JL
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      322 13 P" c: fiy Al Capp Y L>A_,^ WON T EAT IF IT'S STARVING, WhV V BUT-THIS FOOD "1 r (-OH MAH THAT'S THE TN PC OF 30KJE-SO.KIN 7 DONT VOU FEED IT OUT HAIN'T GCOO I PORE HOHGRV U GIRL I UKE/^-FAT V FO'MINE?-A OF YOUR BASKET OF A FO'CHILLUN-
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  • Your Saturday Page Of Racing
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      TODAY'S RACE CARD
      1274 14 RACE 1: 2.15 p.m.— Horses Class 2, Div. 2— 5V2 Furs. Str. 1. 09 Jesselton 4y 9.00 "Belmont Stable" Spencer Elliott 2. 512 Ascot 4y 9.00 M s. Lim Chong Pang and Lim Eng Kwan Heddle (Unfixed) 3. 786 Enjoyment II 4y 8.12 "Shaw Stable" Spencer Sawyer
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