Singapore Standard, 22 December 1954

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  • 23 1 Singapore Standard x<£ 1 11 nT I*^1 WT* WTL #r j% i. r^Z, 172. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 195* v i»a<;es is <:ents.
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    60 1 THESE children had a wonderful time when Santa Claus called on them last year ivith YOUR gifts. They arc looking forward to see him again j n a few days With more of YOUR gifts Would you let them down? Of course, not. So send m your contributions NOW
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  • 540 1 VViTH another $342 c€( vcd y^terdoy, the dar d Christmas L Fund now stonds ,5)1,217.10. R .i donation of mo from r Hock Seng who sent the sponZ# »rl ol a wellgave the Fund ie donations com--7 of his office jlarse i.umbrr of toys ived
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  • 59 1 21 (AFP).— "pocket war" i flared up anew when Rustiinese Com..incs bombed I Ministry comled today said ngined TU-2 rs, escorted by and two Iriven fighters, Dalist-held Taa.m., local rning. ck was directed tionalist warci m Tachen he communique than 10 bombs iod by the Complanes
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  • 221 1 r jc^i?' Tues.— The Penang Harbour board Staff Association today agreed to defer all strike action until the findings of the Court of Inquiry have been placed m the hands of the Federation High Commissioner. The strike, which was scheduled to begin at 2
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  • 129 1 USED HER BEAUTY TO SPY FOR THE REDS voluptuous German beauty who became so friendly with American officers that she was given an Intelligence Department job was sentenced today to five years* imprisonment for spying for Russia Brunette Irmgard Margaretne Schmidt. 24. wearing the best clothes obtainable m the American
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  • 55 1 RANGOON. Dec. 21 fAFP) —A village headman and 25 women were kidnapped by a band of 300 rebels who attacked Bango village on the middle Irrawaddy a few nights ago. according to delayed reports received here. Before withdrawing, the rebels set fire to the houses and burnt
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  • 27 1 THE Commissioner General for South-east Asia, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. left Singapore by air for Hongkong on Monday for a short, routine tisit.
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  • 151 1 LCNG BEACH, Californa, Dec. 21. (AP) Jamss Hilton, screen writer and novelist who wrote sud books as "Goodbye Mr. Chips'' and "Lost Horizoi," died on Monday night. lie was 54. Hilton, who died at the jeaside Hospital, was sufferng from an infection the
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  • 246 1 3 Men Rescue A Chinese was Strange FOR three tense minutes yesterday after-^ noon, hundreds of people gazed m alarm as three men struggled with a Chinese m a blue shirt on the fifth floor of a block of nine-storey Sin- V gapore Improvement Trust
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  • 72 1 Waterfront 'Aomeo' Tops NEW YORK. Dec. 21 (Reuter) The AngloItalian film "Romeo and Juliet" has been voted the best foreign film of 1954 by the Committee on Exceptional Films of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Machiko Kyo was cited for creativeness m the modernisation of
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  • 177 1 LONDON. Dec 21 (UP) Britain refused to abandon Gorman rearmament today and told Russia to tear up their 1942 ft iendihip treaty if the Soviets want to. A Foreign Offlrc spokesman bluntly branded Russia's threat to abrogate the treaty if Germany is Riven an army as
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  • 385 1 Russia Accuses US, Snubs Big 3 'Allied Control Agreement Violated' PULL OUT FROM TYROL' And The Western Envoys Are Fed Up VIENNA, Dec. 21 (Reuter) The Russians today accused the United States of violating the Allied Control Agreement for Austria by keeping troops m the Tyrol. The Charge was made
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  • 221 1 PRITT WINS STALIN PEACE PRIZE MOSCOW, Dec. 21 (Reuter)— > Mr. D. N. Pritt. Queens Counsel, a British lawyer Li and former Member of Parliament. has been awarded a Stalin prize, it was announced m Moscow yesterday. Ml Pritt headed the list of fize-winners issued by the alin Peace Prize
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  • 64 1 HONGKONG. Dec. 21 (AFP) Madame Doria Shafik Egyptian champion of the one wife for one husband campaign, who is now on a world tour preaching her doctrine, arrived here this morning to sell the idea to Hongkong women. She is the President of the "Daughters of
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  • 24 1 FRANCIS Cardinal Spellman, Military Vicar for Catholic servicemen, arrived m Tokyo yesterday for his fourth successive Christmas m the Far East. AFP
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  • 47 1 VATICAN CITY, Dec 21 (Reuter) Pope Pius XII after a restful night troubled by hiccoughs, spent part of this morning working at his desk m his study. The 78-year-old Pope is suffering from a small hernia of the gullet, -accompanied by gastritis.
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  • 48 1 THE price of rubber In Singapore spiralled upwards to 90 cents per Ib. lor first grade January shipment at the openinß yesterday, the highest since Jan. 3 last year <902 cents >. and closed at 89i cents, a rise of 1 11/16 cents on Monday.
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  • 85 1 NEW YORK. Dec. 21 (Reuter). A Japanese woman who offered her life to save Mr. Daniel Langford. an American arrested In Japan as spy during the war. was named today as the heiress to Mr. Langford's $40,000 estate. Mr. Langford died m Japan last year at
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  • 140 1 TOKYO. Dec. 21 (Reuter). A young: Japanese fisherman, seriously injured and scarred by "death ash" from the hydrogen bomb explosion at Bikini last March, has become engaged to an attractive 24-year-old nurse who cared for him at the Tokyo University Hospital, it was i learned
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  • 66 1 FLKIOKA. Japan Dec. 21 (AP) The samisens will twang again tonight m this southern Japanese city. Ftikuoka got along r*actly one week without its Cieisha girls, nho sum k until the city fathers reduced taxes on their earnings. The City Assembly also formally
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  • 19 1 AVA Gardner arrived m Stockholm yesterday for the opening of her film. "The Barefoot Contessa." A.F.P.
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  • 60 2 THE Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, will broadcast a New Year Message to all territories on the various services of the 8.8.C. Malayan listeners can tune m to his broadcast on the General Overseas Service of the 8.8.C. on Saturday, Jan 1. 1955.
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  • 350 2 Lawyer Drafting Chamber Petition THE Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday accepted the decision of its Elections Sub-committee to draft a petition to the Queen for (he lifting of the language ban under the Rendel Constitution. The meeting heard Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, VicePresident
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  • 110 2 TUT* following hav^ boon elected ofllce-beareri of the' Pck Kio (Owen Estates) Community Centre for next year Chairman Sim Enc* Wan; vice-chairman Dr M A. Gabriel: secretary Han Tew Hong: asst. secretary BA. Nathan; treasurer C.C. Especkerman. Committee: H o Joo Huat Van Kens Soon Soon? Kay
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  • 53 2 THIS is an artist's impression of the proposed College of Science at Nanyang University at Jurong, Singapore. The building will cost approximately $260,000 and will take about eight months to complete. Building work will commence as soon as the plans, which have been submitted to the City
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    50 2 photo. MR. Aw Cheng; Chye, managing director of En? Ann Tone' returned to Singapore yesterday by (Juntas •BOAC after a ten-day business tour m Indonesia lie was met by relatives and friends at Kallani; Airport. Picture shows Mr Aw at th<* airport with his wife and children. Standard
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  • 270 2 City To Frame Policy Standard Stall Reporter THE Jalan Besar Stadium and Farrer Park, which have hitherto been the venue for politic:*! Bseettagß, will not be available to the Labour Front lor its fust election rally on Monday. Reason: The City Council which is Ihe supreme
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  • 161 2 Colony Triplets 2 Die BABIES Christopher and EUsabeth. two ot the triplet! born to Mrs Elisabeth Paeack. :;t; year old wife of a British Merchant Na\> captain, died at the xouttgberg Hospital. Singapore, of prematurity. The triplets, two boys and a K«rl were u«rn on the morning of Dec. II
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  • 42 2 KOTA BIIARI\ Tue<— The Queen has awardet the Brit.>i Empire Meri;>l to Mr. Pans Kwec Vow. 13-year-old !ai)ourcr of Borlam near horo. who saved two men from death duo to nctroi fumes m a railway well on April I^.
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  • 171 2 Naked Coyple Surprised In Anti-Vice Raid Syed Alwi R«ad and 7^ l-rt, 4; the rooms. M(1 d roup], fo the dock s tood 1 d N on part of the earning mating her premise Inspector Nadesan G o the Anti-Vu, B C.1.D.. who led th€ P^y- on Oct. 27 if
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  • 10 2 COMMODITY PRICES 1 l-Osixr V 1... 1 1,1, s<; riij
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  • 100 2 KUALA LUMPUR, 1 Tne War Department haj ■cree«< to reinsi t< 24 civilian emp oyec e-i fryrn the B. i ply Depot, on j|> o j redundancj, The S The department h. agree. i to extend the d notice served on the othei
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  • 84 2 Col. Young To QuitIt's Official LONDON. Dec. 21, (fl The Colonial OAVe ft I day coofknned that Co 1 Arthur Yo.jng. former C; London Police Chic.. K.s rosigneci from hil Ken\v"s Police Commi The Kenya Government oflU* c-iaiiv announced CoI o i Young*i resignation last ;ind said he was e\ju
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  • 10 2 80 Threaten Strike At Middleton AB I 1 P I
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  • 7 2 Failed To Carry Out An Order o
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    • 134 2 I HEINZ I V BABY FOODS < are always Jfif T) j| V <^ pared to retain maxi* X y> mum nutritive value. Their pure, fresh fla\or makes them unusually appetizinc. I 1 and they are strained to a fine, even tex- V ture, so it's never any problem to
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    • 116 2 DO YOU KNOW THE VALIi OF YOUR EYFS Do you know how much the court con award against any one dcprwW of your sight Insurance companies vai one Eye 1 at $10,000- or both Eyes at $25,000- Really, there is no price m the world 1 which you could measure
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  • 43 3 < ommodore Wallace j. rl K\l' who is to brcomc Officer Commanding, m January. 1955, i ink of Air Vice Air Commodore is m Australian. :ij is appointed A.I) C. to Ring m 1949 and is now i|,i to the Quern
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  • 86 3 pire jet fighter air--60 S juadron the .Malayan tcrflying to Ceylon m Royal Air t in Singapore for hment. They will by Squadron 1). C. Webbe. 3 to Ceylon to ibility of the •:i<)V^c Ceylon eptor airc r a f t i arise. The
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  • 276 3 Nine-Hour Day Plus Holidays KUALA LUMPUR, Tucs. Hundreds of Indian shop assistants m Malaya are expected to benefit m the New Year from a decision of the Associated Indian Chambers of Commerce on a nine-hour work day. The decision has already been accepted by
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  • 39 3 HONGKONG. Dec. 21 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: 51 5.69 to LI sterling; 15.***** to US$l; 51. 840 to Malayan SI; $0,188 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $250 to a tael.
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  • 323 3 Deserter Says He Was On Police List Of Bad Hats' A SOLDIER admitted m a Singapore District Court Martial yesterday that 11 weeks after he absented himself from his unit he was arrested by the civil police as a "suspected gangster and extortioner* and charged m a Police Court. The
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  • 57 3 THE owner of a house against whom the Singapore City Council has taken out a closing order may ask for its cancellation if he carries out the required repairs to the satisfaction of the Council before the order is enforced This was decided at a meeting
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  • 57 3 The City Council President, Mr. T. P. F McNeice shakes hands with l Mm. Pham Khac Ran, «if c of the Vietnam Consul m Singapore, at a reception to mark the opening of the Vietnam Consulate m the Co.'ony. The Governor of Sin K apore. Sir John
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  • 122 3 Odf To New York Mr. Yuen Kum Chuen of the Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, and Miss Tatty Larasati Stokandar of Surabaya, Indonesia. two lucky winners of the New York Herald Tribune Forum essay contest, are shown as they departed from Singapore yesterday by Pan-American Airlines en route to attend the New
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  • 201 3 BOGUS BIG SHOT GOES TO PRISON THE bogus managing director of a non-existing firm was sentenced to six months" jail m the Singapore Eighth Police Court yesterday for cheating a furniture dealer. The bogus director. Goh Wan Sin, 21. had visiting cards indicating that he was Lim Kirn Hoe, a
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  • 71 3 MAII Soo Xco claimed trial m the Singapore Second Criminal District Court ye>tc r day. to a charge of refusing to show her identity card to a police officer on demand on Dec. 13. at the junction of Cut! Road and Serangoon Road. Bail of
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  • 465 3 APPEAL FOR 'WHITE GIFTS' CHURCH SERVICES "CHRISTMAS is here and nhite me are enjoyin» ourselves* lei us not forfei those Irss fortunate than us.* 9 With those words the W esle y Methodist Church is appealing to its members to send m "white gifts" for the poor. These "white gifts"
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  • 375 4 SEA SNAKES WERE THE CULPRITS Coroners Finding Misadventure PENANG, Tues.— The Coroner here Mr. J. W. D. Ambrose, today recorded two verdicts of death by misadventure due to sea snake bites after inquiring into the deaths of a nine-year-old boy, Ch'ng Han Lee, and a goldsmith, Siew Yuen Fong, 28.
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  • 122 4 5 Awards To Study English SINGAPORE Government is granting t\vc scholarships a year for children from neighbouring islands to study English m the Colony so that they can manage their "home alTairs" after they complete their education. This stop was taken after Legislative Councillor and Member of the Rural Board.
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  • 106 4 River Is Searched For A Man THREE Marine Police launches, with searchlights blazing searched the mouth of the Singapore River until late last night for the body of a man who is believed to have fallen into the water. The search followed by an alarm given by a courting couple
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  • 68 4 THE Singapore City Council Labour Unions' Federation has written to the City Council to ask the Council's Electrical Engineer to withdraw dismissal notices served on two members of its union. The letter ai>o urges the City Water Engineer to stop the "present practice" of giving all
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  • 22 4 THE residents of Malacca have raised $6,440 to aid Mood victims since a relief committee made an appeal last week.
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  • 178 4 NEARLY 3,000 pounds of raw opium worth approximately $3,000,000 were seized by Singapore Customs so far this year as compared with 5.500 pounds captured last year. Bulk of the "black gold" interceded last year came from Burma and Siam. This year however a
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  • 125 4 GETS 8 MTHS' FOR THEFT OF TWO PENS TWO Singapore merchants found their fountain pens missing from their shirt pockets while they were outside the Immigration Office m Palmer Road on Dec. 20. And yesterday, a former taxi driver. Lee Kee Foo, was sentenced bj the Singapore Second Criminal District
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  • 23 4 TAN AH YUM. a two-year-old boy, was found drowned m a drain near the Bukit Pan3ang market m Singpore yesterday afternoon.
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  • 161 4 Pickering Street Suicide THE Singapore Assistant Coroner, Mr. Giam Chong Hingr, yesterday recorded a verdict of death by suicide at the inquest of Ng Kew Lai, a 32-year-old salesman. The Coroner said the evidence before him showed that Ng had flung himself from the ninth-storey
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  • 81 4 973 Left School Last Month ENROLMENT m Singapore schools last month dropped by 973 compared with the total for the previous month. The total enrolment m English. Chinese. Malay and Indian schools last month was 181.065 as against L 82.038 m the previous month. The fall m enrolment is due
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  • 95 4 THE Secretary of State for War, Mr Antony Head, and the Army Council have sent a Christmas and New Year message to all ranks of the British Army m Malaya In his telegram Mr. Head stated: "During 1954 the Army has once again shouldered the main
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  • 251 4 Chinese Chamber Starts A Relief Fund THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday started a Flood Relief Fund to aid victims of the recent floods. The president. Mr. Ko Teck Kin. pointed out to the meeting of the full committee that flood victims are faced with loss of livelihood and
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  • 55 4 RADIO Malays "High Tide" m aid of the Singapore and Federation Flood Relief Funds was attended by more than 1.000 people at the Badminton Hall last night. Below: Magician Ron Knight, m one of the variety items, produces a girl from a dollhouse to the astonishment
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  • 73 4 JOHORE BAHRU Tues Route One of the Kuala Lumpur to Singapore main trunk road is open to traffic At Mile 121 (m Segamat area) the water is four inches. On the Se-jamat-Muar road. Mile 119$. the water is 3 ft. 6 inches, and falling very slowly.
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  • 26 4 SEAH Kirn Liar, 19-year-old girl living ir Joo Chiat Road. Singapore, was admitted to the General Hospital yesterday, suffering from suspected poisoning
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  • 139 5 jqrE; than 200 Singapore children yesterday atid Christmas party held at the Singapore Hotel, Geylang Road. Every child present had entered the Malaya-wide '•Dutch Baby" condensed milk colouring competition. There were four Ist prize winners who were awarded $50 each and 91 consolation prizes of
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    33 5 photo. CHILDREN who attend- 4 ed a Christmas party given by the manufac- <: turers of "Dutch Baby" J condensed milk watch a I magic show performed > 1 by "The Great Wong., t Standard
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  • 82 5 ('boon Kns:, pporr < 't> Council- u ho i^ coatestiag the Legislative pablj rlrction m btftstown. has starthis voters /IU the season of ■-n .md goodwill It is the <>nl> candi- uho baa thought of iin^ nearly T.:>oo is .inri Now Year i 'is 1•) f of hi^ prospective
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  • 31 5 BURGLARS ransacked two rooms m a house m Wee Nam Road. Singapore, on Monday and stole a camera worth $350. a wristwatch worth $50 and $8i) m Hongkong currency.
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    48 5 Nora Returns photo, wwww MISS. Nora Lim. who is studying 1 accountancy m J Australia. returned to 2 Singapore yesterday by J Qanias BOAC from Syd- 5 ney for the Christmas J holidays. She is the J daughter of Mr. Lim Chee Meng, a Colony t businessman. Standard
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  • 138 5 AN expert of the Singapore Police searched for fingerprints on a radiogram at the home of an exdetective, Mr. Walter Neubronner, m Waterloo Street, yesterday. The radiogram had been meddled with when six thugs, wearing Hawaiian shirts entered the house on Monday night at !).;*0
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  • 70 5 Foremost TB Experts To Confer THE fourth Commonwealth Health and Tuberculosis Conference will be held at the Royal Festival Hall m London from June 21 to 25 next year. Some of the foremost authorities on tuberculosis from countries all over the world will be among the speakers. Discussions and clinical
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  • 64 5 THE Singapore Kerala Samajam, a social organization of Colony Malayalees. has started n fund to aid victims of the recent flood. Samajam's president. Mr Cyril Peter, yesterday appealed to all Malayalees m the Colony to give generously to hcilp relieve the thousands of distressed people. He
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  • 48 5 SINGAPORE TrafTic Police aie appealing lo r eye-wit-nesses to fa^l accident between a motor cycle and a motor car at the junction of Mountbatten and Tanjong Katong Roads yesterday morning. The cyclist. Hamzah bin Haji Karim. 27, died from injuries sustained m the crash.
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  • 144 5 TAN SA WAT. 19. who spent wo weeks m a temple as a novice when he was a schoolboy, had a condition m his probation order cancelled by the Singapore Sixth Police Magistrate, Mr. R.W.H. Davies. yesterday. Mr. Davies had put Tan on three
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  • 685 5 Rushes Off To Cable Mother KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The two-day trial of Col. L. F. Morling, the Federation's Principal Probation Officer, on a charge of committing an offence against a Malay boy ended m dramatic suddenness here today with his complete acquittal and
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  • 137 5 Father Fined For Neglect JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. A 12-year-old Chinese boy was charged m the Juvenile Court today with importing three katis of raw opium. A few days ago, when he arrived from Singapore m a bus. a Customs officer noticed that he appeared nervous. He was taken off the
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  • 92 5 SINGAPORE. Military authorities have detained 2!) Malay Other Ranks m connection with the clash between more than :*0 soldiers and eight civilians at the 11th Mile Woodlands Road, on Monday night. Three of the civilians the proprietor of a petrol kiosk, his son and an
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    • 92 5 The exhilarating pink wine with the exciting champagne sparkle I sayiM is pressed from Mediterranean graj>es •ts pink colour and sparkle come from i alone. No wonder it is so delicious the exhilarating of all naturally sparkling Get it tonight at bars and licensed i irants. t>y ANGLO-MEDITERRANEAN WINES LIMITED
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    • 344 5 TO^NITE Commenting 8.30 p.m. at the $X S.B.A. Stadium, Guillemard Rd. V* X'MAS VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT v Featuring The celebrored Hungarian Artiste* LISBfTH JOE. J^ MARIANNA th»i. famous televised and filmed J^, MARIONETTES (Puppett) I A unique programme of MIRTH FUN LAUGHTER 4 Admission: Seats $2 (Reserve) and $1 X| Gallery
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 418 5 Standard c&lmctncic Information at a Glance WBUmmmmmmmm^^- 'IM '"I VS*9^m Mm itSmmm^m J SI: 73n Variety (XLI; 8 pm ffC i ii/: a nr^ Dtt ifcres t/ Times i> su f)P ort .k. »3u w j c fJINQAPOKM 82 a m (8 day conajr, jyy New., JWffßts^i iMiifimai 3BP l!)
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    • 78 5 Weather Report MINI M I M 'rm prr.it u r. From 7.30 p.m. Dec. !0 to 7. 30 a.m. Dec 21 Singapore (7.'{F). Pcnang (7:iFi, «%ota Bahru (72F). Kuala Lumpur (71F), Ipoh <7.'»F>, Kuantan (71Fl. Maximum Temperature: From 7..J0 p.m. Dec. 20 to 7..'J0 a.m. Dec. 21 Singapore (87F). Penang
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 537 6 "MALAYAN memories are notorious for being short, and many, probably, remember the acidity with Which Tengku Abdul Rahman, President of UMNO, referred to the Chinese m his speeches before the great marriage of convenience. On several occasions he criticised Government for its policy of giving lands to
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    • 276 6 J^ READER wrote to an upcountry Malay newspaper complaining that pawn tickets issued by pawnshops are so badly printed that the words are barely legible with the result that arguments have frequently arisen between the parties concerned and led to the public suffering losses. This s a legitimate
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  • 832 6 GHOSTS OF EUROPEAN PAST IN CHINA Sy A rimes' Corcespoaafeat 'THERE has never been much to see of China's past. The tourist who goes to Peking expecting to find an oriental counterpart to Home \v\Yl be oAsap- pointed. Each dynasty has carelessly or even deliberately destroyed the monuments of its
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  • 381 6 Review of Views Offer Pooh-Poohed I jTUSAN Melayu editorially po^h-poohs the Federation Government's offer of a fifty-five-dollar-per-month post of Assistant Religious Teacher to any qualified Malay m the country to serve m the Sultan Idri's Training College, Tanjong Malim. Pointing out that the salary offered ij less than that of
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  • 379 6 I think we ought to be willing to trade with Iron Curtain countries whether m butter or anything else so long as the trade is m our favour.— Mr. Ezra Benson, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. *5i ol i eg s arc no more than high-class flophouses
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  • 619 6  - Burmese Army Seeks Advisers RAWLE KNOX gy .TpHE Burmese Government A is likely soon to ask for Yugoslav and Israeli experts to advise on conscription and the training of its army. General Ne Win. Burma's Commander-in-Chief. whose first experience of military activity, after his training m Japan, was as an
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 359 6 Why Another $60m Plan For Johore River I Sir;— May I congratulate i you on your brilliant edi- torial on the Johore River Water Scheme which, if 1 bulldozed through the City Council as I have no doubt it will—will cost the Colony ratepayer somethins m the vicinity of 160
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    • 224 6 Compromise Is The Solution Sir;— ln your Saturday issue you carried a report, d statement by the Member for Education, Mr. L. D. Whitfleld, to the effect that a public co-operation patterned on Britain's BBC should take charge of Malayan education. No doubt Mr. Whit field made it clear that
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  • 300 7 L 0N I)ON Dec. 21, (AP) r The Churchill Govern- 3t said v« sterday Britain is under "no obligation" deienel I ormosa other than that arising out of its J ed \ations membership. ading. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs c of Lords
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  • 128 7 AGO. Dec. 21, (AP) of doom who i cataclysms I the Amcribofore mid- c will be no Martin. who tidal waves r much of the Arctic circle i Mexico, said t on on the of earth, distayed." aid she and 13 m her
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  • 16 7 f ADMIRAL Arthur Radford. the U.S. .'oint Si aff, arrived m I rdav. Reuter
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  • 41 7 BANGKOK. Dec 21 (AFP) The Thai Cabinet today authorized the Minister of Communications to permit a private enterprise to establish a television station and run Rediffusion. The two services have boon a state monopoly till now.
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  • 73 7 I Standard London Correspondent ONDON Dec. 21.— The following arc the closing rjbbcr and tin on the London Market. LONDON RUBBER 2616. 26W 2616. 26 d. *Pnl June 25^d. July September 25|d. Ocfobcr December 25 1 d. (Jonuory c.i.f. 25Jd. I Tone: Sftody. LONDON TIN Spot
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  • 36 7 EARL HARGROVE, checks a switch box along a street m Washington's business district for the Christmas decorations his firm engineers. They include the big canes, strings of lights and the Santa heads. UP
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  • 185 7 U.S.-China Relations RANGOON, Dec. 21, (AP)— Burmese Premier U Nu, just returned from a visit to Red China, told newsmen yesterday he had "outlined plans m my mind" to establish cordial relations between the United States and Communist China. U Nu said he
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  • 102 7 DUBLIN. Dec. 21, <UP>Police announced a shabby old woman tried to snatch a baby irom a shrieking mother's arms yesterday m Christmas jrowds cramming the gaily decorate^ Dublin street where a nine-month-old boy was kidnapped on Saturday It was the third time a kidnapper has struck
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  • 94 7 Moira Not Interested In Films MONTREAL, Dec. 21 (Reuter) Moira Shearer, 28--year-old Scottish ballerina, who closed her sparkling international career here last Saturday, boarded a plane at one minute after midnight today for England and Christmas with her family. "I will be with my family a good deal more m
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  • 74 7 Found Dead In Jail With Cut Wrist CAIRO. Dec. 21 (Reuter) Max Bennett. 37. one of 13 Jews accused by Egypt of belonging to a Zionist spy and terror ring, was found dead m his prison cell today with his wrist slashed. A pencil written note to his wife lay
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  • 87 7 KLAMATH FALLS, Oregon Dec 21. (AP)— The Klamath Falls Herald and News yesterday began a week's publication m which only news which Bts into the "Christmas spirit" will be printed on page one. In a front-page box. readers were told this was the newspaper's gift
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  • 39 7 NEW YORK. Dec. 21. (AP) S.E. Gleason. an American 'elevision comedian, yesterday received a contract 'for six million dollars over the next two years. It is one of the biggest deals m television history.
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  • 24 7 LONDON Road accidents m November killed 75 people and injured 4,482 making H the worst month of the year so far. Reuter
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  • 70 7 Cyprus Riots —Students Were Duped LONDON, Dec. 21 (UP) Colonial Secretary. Alan Len-nox-Boyd yesterday praised the way Britons on the scene handled the week-end Cyprus riots and said Britain would not allow an "orderly government" be replaced by a "government of hooligans." Lennox-Boyd made a statement on the heaving Cyprus
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  • 63 7 MANILA. Dec. 21 (UP).— Communist Huk kidnap killers were blamed today for the murder of a son and daughter of a prominent Sampaloc, Quezon, family. The bodies of Juan Caballer. 13. and Herminia Caballer, 9. were found eight miles from Barrio. Owain. Officials said the two
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  • 37 7 TOKYO, Dec. 21, (UP) Japan's major political parties today agreed tentatively for the dissolution of the national Diet on Jan. 27 which then would require that general elections be held within 40 days
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  • 105 7 His 26th 'Season' In Jail SPRINGFIELD. Illinois, Dec. 21 (AP) Coney L. Coffee, 52. is not a man to break a habit. He told a St. Louis judge: "I've been lorked up on Christmas for the past 2»> years." Granted parole from a burglary jail term. Coney was given a
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  • 54 7 NEW DELHI. Dec. 21. (Reu♦er)—Over 900 employees of India's National News Agency the Press Trust of India, will' begin a 24-hour token strike at 9 a.m on Thursday, it was announced yesterday. The strike has been railed m support of demands for nighe r wages
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  • 115 7 TOKYO. Dec. 21 (Reuter) Yokohama police reported yesterday they had arrested four "Father Christmasses." all members of the "Santa Claus gang," on charges of burglary The group, of about 20 burglars, were dubbed the "Santa Claus" gang, when they started operating some
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  • 269 7 0..A/0 Progress Otherwise NEW DELHI, Dec. 21 (Reciter)— Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, told the House of the People (Lower House) today that he aimed at creating a Socialist society m which there was bound to be more and more nationalised
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  • 55 7 LONDON. Dec. 21. (Reuter) —Fighter planes shot down a Royal Air Force balloon trailing 3.000 feet of cable as it drifted over the sea from England yesterday heading for Europe. The balloon had broken away from the base at Aberporth North Wales, early yesterday morning and
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  • 151 7 PEACE 'AREA' TALKS NEW DELHI. Dec. 21 (ReuteD— President Tito of Yugoslavia last night met the Indian Prime Minister. Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, for the fourth of a series of talks which the two statesmen are holding on world problems. During their meetings over the past four days. Mr Nehru and
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  • 57 7 A -Energy For Peace DETROIT, Dec. 21 (Reuter) An organization with the aim of promoting, on a world-wide basis. "vigorous and early development of the peaceful uses of atomic energy" was formed here yesterday. The organization. known as "The Fund for Peaceful Atomic Development, Incorporated." listed as its officers and
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  • 263 7 LONDON. Dec. 21. (AP) Henry William Carter, who for four years operated the Shanghai water works for the Chinese Communists, said yesterday it makes him "hot under the collar, now that I am home m England, to hear the rosy optimism of British businessmen and
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  • 177 7 PARIS. Doc 21 (UP) Premier Pierre Mendes France won a dramatic confidence vote on Indo-China yesterday by a smashing majority that at last cleared the way for France's historic last chance debate on rearming her ancient enemy. Germany. The vote was 310 to
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  • 53 7 JAKARTA. Dec. 21 <UP> Indonesian women leader served notice today tru want no repetition of President Soekarno's action m takine a second wife. The national convention of Perwari. Indonesia', largest women's organization. pasMri a resolution demanding a constitutional amendment that would make monoßamy mandatory for future
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  • 21 7 PAKISTAN has recognized the three Associated S of Indo-China and Communist North Vietnam. It VI announced m Karachi. Reuter
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 113 8 MR. LEE KIIEE WEE Assistant Lecturer of the Department of Dentistry. University of Malaya and his bride, the former Miss Foil- Yuen Phill eldest daughter ol Mr. and Mrs. Fosjg Sin Mm of Kuala Lumpur, cut their wedding cake at a party held at the Eastern Hotel. Anipang;
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  • 55 8 THE Prime Minister of Pakistan. Mr. Mohamcd AH. will arrive m Singapore en Sunday from Karachi on his way to Jakarta to attend the Colombo Powers' conference. Mr. Ali will stay m the Colony as the guest of the Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. and leave
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  • 20 8 The Taiping Town Council will hold their last meeting of the year on Dec 30 at 2.30 p.m.
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  • 409 8 Restrictions End For 99,000 More In Perak IPOH, Tues. Two areas m Perak were simultaneously declared "white" today. This is the second declaration of this kind m the State and the 22nd m the Federation. The new white area is made up of the Bagan Datoh
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  • 196 8 PENANG, Tues A youth, Cheah Guan Chuan who had be?n put on a bond before "because he had a bad start m life." was sentenced to six years' imprisonment m the Sessions Court today when h- pleaded guilty to two charges of cheating/ The
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  • 44 8 PENANG, Tiu\s.— The Atjeh Trading As^OL'iation, Penang. has taken a good lead m donating $1,000 to the Singapore and Federation Flood Relief funds. A sum of $750 is for the Federation flood victims and $250 is for the Singapore victims.
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  • 61 8 TAIPING. Tues— The threeday leadership training course organized by the Perak District MYF. was attended by 35 delegates from Ihe Methodist youth groups m Ipoh. Parit Buntar. Sitiawan and Taiping. In response to an appeal by the Dean. Rev. J. Harry Haines. the delegates donated
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  • 54 8 KULIM. Tues.— Mrs Wong Kooi Yoong becomes the first woman m South Kedah to serve m the Lunas Town Council, the elections for which will be completed during the weekend. T^ dat o Yellow Ward and Che Man bin Bakar. who was returned unopposed fo
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  • 187 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Tucs A young man with seven previous convictions who today told Mr- 1. C. M. Rigby. sitting as Firs' Magistrate, 'that he could not find employment "because people don't trust those who come from jail/ 1 was sentenced to 12 months 1
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  • 48 8 TANJONG MALIM. Tues.— The Selangor Christian Youth Lounnl will hold a Christmas andle light service tomorrow jn the lawn of the Young women*! Christian Association, Davidson Road, Kuala Lumpur, at <>.:;o p.m. R^V .1. R Eery. Chaol»<n to the Forces, will deliver the Message-
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  • 32 8 TAIPING. Tucs.— The annual Xmas party of the Wesley Church Sunday" School will be held tomorrow at 4 p.m On Xmas Eve. the Church carol party will visit homes.
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  • Article, Illustration
    42 8 TWO hundred boys and girls attended a grand Christmas Party held at Peel Place, Peel Road, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday. Standard photo shows six-year-old little Jennifer Jeremiah receiving a gift from Father Christmas. Standard photo by Yong Peng Seong
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  • 60 8 Col. Watkinj Ii interested m Inlying considerable equipn ent for organizing fire services m the new villages, whose flinty wood and attap structures present the biggest potential fire danger m the country. Material is also needed fot* the units m towns and airports, whose fire services m general
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  • 143 8 r>u *>V ALA Ll MPI R Tues.-Col. F. F. C. Watkins, Chief Inspector of the Federation Fire Services, has just left for London on a holiday-eum-business trip to order the most modern equipment for the fire-fighting units of the States and Settlements. "He is
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  • 117 8 3 Orphans Are Now Happy PENANG. Tues. Throe young orphans, two girls and a boy, who were recently taken off a ship bound for Ked China, because they '"did not fee] happy about It." are now staying with 2ood families m Penang. Th. 1 Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Penang, Mr.
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    61 8 MEMBERS of a Malay danciir: troupe headed by Mr. K. Dean of Malay Opera fame. left for Dacca. East Pakistan, by air yesterday. The. troupe has been invited by the Pakistan Arts Council to dance at the Festival of Asian Music and Damin? to be held m Dacca.
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  • 161 8 ...And 3 Ex-Students HM IPOH. Tues. I our tCMten the sl Chinese Srhool m Telok Anson „.i r^V notices of dismissal from the management t! T a-o. They were given three days lo return ai ,h!" belonging to the school. lh:ll In the notice
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  • 23 8 MCA CHECKS GRASPING LANDLORDS 1 l I r 1/12 nual a 7 are invit m Hale S of pi i the tenant advi
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  • 69 8 KUALA LUMPUR, T;:e>.— Chen Yoon. l' 3. today claim* I trial before the First Magistrate to a charge of stealing a handbag containing ca articles. The charge stated thai hi the hand bag from I woman, Ah Loons. It contained 169 cash, a Social W< Lottery
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  • 45 8 TAIPING, Tues.— There v: be a Christmas Day Service at the Wesley Church, here a' B. HO tJIL To usher m the New Year, there will be a Watch Night Service at the Wesley Church lon Dec. Ml at 11 p.m.
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • 248 9  - SPORE SEES SOME ITALIAN FASHIONS Toni Marsh By \*OT i very long ago i one mentioned d "fashion" it .nymous with In the last year rso it Has become apthat other cene laying claim to pne c the spotlight. tweeds/ "EngUi su« ts," "English for exam- erec r e considered
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  • 514 9  - A WEALTH OF SWISS TRADITIONS Michael Goldsmith By gERNE (AP) .—Christmas customs vary almost from village to village m Switzerland, a tiny nation of intermingled and overlapping cultures. languages and religions. Not ever, the Christmas-card landscape is common throughout the country. Mountain villages may lie under several feet of snow
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  • 130 9 pLAY POTS dressed up m tissue paper to iook like donkeys saints politicians or what have you are always the centre feature of Christmas parties m Mexico. The decorated pots called "pinatas." are primarily for children but almost every adult party has one, too They are
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    126 9 j skintight cocktail dress, "Scandal," of mauvy;3 e and gold taffeta with onesided shoulderline, Iftnigtt tigtit skirt shirred on the righthand cde and caught up with a pouffed panel. A hat of •x same colour trimmed with sequins and black lioves and shoes. The mannequin is Betty Ashley Cooper. Appropriate
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    100 9 eHBfit «a^^B9I^BHHEHHHiHHIHBIDB^HBHHHiBHHHIHHHH Woiters wears "Halloween," the very latest ily. A two-piece green and black gabardine immed with five rows of green straw fringe uhile rick-rack. The line of the bodice is just shoulder, ending m a little cape fringed at lh e end, and the skirt has full width. "Surprise"
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  • 347 9  -  Rita Del Mar •«> r ue s mainly ad- n for resting. [•'I r «cr«ation Eve- vojrs sociability. Out a bit*" loved ones; i» rll A iJft U to Apni i > '»:"or shun L »SSL Ven!n ß: attend if M liii ther s 7 find
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    • 214 9 I PFAFF uioxM&a 1 ONLY $EWIM&\ 5 S MACHINE WITH A 2 2 1 CERTIFICATE OF LIFE- I l^V^ V TfME GUARANTEE/ jj O> iUCCISi S HIRE PURCHASE 2 W^^ I THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. f SINGAPORE, MALACCA KUALA LUMPUR. IPOH. T. ANSON, FENANG. Singopore Show Roomt: 304 C
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  • 1379 10 Torn Marsh Goes On A Last- minute Whirl Of the Shops Before X'mas LAST-M INUTE whirl round the shops brought forth an amazing number of good buys m Jgy all price ran- Jgr For the hub- WL by who has been wracking his brains for days as to what would
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  • 80 10 JJERE'S what you'll want to give yourself, as well as your friends! It's a cheerful Christmassy carton of Tiger Gold Medal peer 24 sparkling bottles for 515.40 (517.80 Federation). Same price for Gold Medal Anchor Beer special Christmas cartons, too Order the Tiger and Anchor cartons from any
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    • 227 10 #&m&:ffj&i%&m& *a& i%& m& w& i%& I MARE IT CHRISTMAS TIME fk fcj? 'ii °S 5s With v. 1 ELIZABETH ARDEN tJf~> Cxqutiite (jitft Package* fc AGENTS I MAYNARD CO LTD. I i^ 11. BATTKKI KOAII, U siis<;apork iil: 6115 jJ MM S^? S£? S^? S^? S^jj? S?^ 5*JO? S?a?
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  • 293 11 ''THE Statistical Year Book 1954: Tin, Tinplate and Canning" (260 pages, 5 maps and charts. £2.15.0 or USS7.7O post free, from The International Tin Study Group, 7 Carel van Bylandtlaan, The Hague, Holland. Price includes the "Statistical Supplement" 1955 when published The signing of the
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  • 79 11 TOKYO. Dec. 21. (AP) Japanese firms which have ordered 40.000 tons of soyabeans from Red China on a barter basis got a list yesterday of chemicals and wonder drugs the Communists want m return. It included penicillin, streptomycin, carbon black wax. acetic acid, acetone, sodium bichromate
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  • 60 11 MEMBERSHIP of registered unions represents about 90 per cent, of the whole Trade Union movement m Britain, says a report of the Friendly Socie ties for 1933. During that year, members of registered unions of employees (8.323.000) subscribed £17,917 000. the highest amount ever recorded. The
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    • 736 11 I^ODEUTSCHER LLOYD U AND ■uSURG AMERIKA LINIE m |OINI SERVICE ■jH hn Genoa. Marseilles. Antwerp. Rotterdam, rt Hamburg BREMEN. ■H S rC P Sham Penang I HAPAG 3/7 Jon 8 Jon 9 Jon iiOYD' 15/9Jon 20Jon 21 Jon 5/12 Feb 13 F «b 14 Feb L^H Korn: Manila. Kobe Yokohama.
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    • 1148 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD <Sc CO., LTD. Tel- 2412 <18 llnrn) s»nlp|>inc Uncorporated m Singapore) U* linr«> 1>w THE BLUE FUNN!IL LINE SAII.IMi* to LIVtKIOVL UfJUNM*» LONIMIN Sb i ONI INtNT. SingaDore Due Sails P S'bim Hemm Adrastu* for £Jverpoo. Avon- Dpc I Dt'f '^1/24 Atre, JS for Ljverpool ulaiROW Qn/U
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    • 590 11 JAVA NEW YORK SAILINGS R y R«»'l? lm UOY<I H Ml Al "«"<» N«de.lani Unc BALTIMORE. MOBILE. NEW ORLEANS. via Suez TAB.AN (SMN) 30 D«/ 10 Jon I,t P CoU iToec 'ffiSi SOESTDYK (HAL, ,9/25 Un AVA 29|an/sFeb 6 Feb 7/8 Feb Excellent passenger accommodation. Agents for R.L. HA L.
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 358 12 RUBBER PRICE TOUCHES 90 CENTS, THEN DROPS THE price of rubber m Singapore yesterday touched 90 cents per Ib. for first grade for current month's shipment, the highest since January 3, 1953, but closed at 89i cents per |b a rise of 1 11/16 cents on Monday. Prices opened at
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    • 86 12 WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UP) The Rubber Producing Facilities Disposing Commission has announced the sale of two more government-owned rubber producing plants. They are a synthetic rubber plant and a petroleum butadiene plant, both at Borger, Texas. Both were sold to the Philips Chemical
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    • 170 12 Standard Market Reporter THE produce maikct m Singapore was easier m most sections yesterday with only gmalJ business passing. Copra was slightly lower m quotations with little activity reported. Pepper prices remained about unchanged for the white varieties, but Lampong black dropped to $135 per picul.
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    • 50 12 BRITISH European Airline?, state-owned corporation cut its losses to £43,000 m October and made a net profit of £1,100,000 m the first seven months of the present financial year. Last Ov-tobcr deficit \va? £178.000 less than m the same month of 1953 when it was £221,000.
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    • 59 12 THE Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association noon prices (cents per lb. > yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot loose 881 882 RSS t.o.b. Jan. No. 1 882 89 Feb. No. 1 881 882 Jan. No. 2 norn 88 88> Jan. No. 3 norn 8G Btfi RMA on rca
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      59 12 The Laos, (seen above), latest addition to the Messageries Maritimes passenger liner fleet which will take over the sailing sche- dules of her sister ship, the Cambodge. from early next year. rhe Cambodge has been unavoidably delayed due to engine trouble but will soon make her appraranre again as soon
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    • 149 12 Ships In Harbour Outer Roads Aaha. Batoela. c,vn Van Goens. Ftenulma. Chip Lam, Seven* Belaga, bland Mail, Mm Hork. Bonneville. Aldefonda. Marsik. Inner Roads Tong Leone. Scudai. Tong Hong. Kah Poh. Tung Song, Selanjgor. Hin Ann. Auby. Kaiang Kah Soon. Rcnqam, Naga Mas. Langsa. Kirn Heap Huat, King Bay. Tong
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    • 243 12 Standard Market Reporter MALAYAN rubber shares were the feature of the local share market yesterday and there was a general marking up of quotations m this section with buyers unsatisfied at the close. Industrials were quietly steady but the downward trend m tins continued. Price
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    • 144 12 U.K.Output Of Steel Hits New High THE year's output rate of Britain's steel indu>try for November reached the record figure of 19.606.000 tons compared with 19,472.000 tons for the previous month and 18.--878.000 tons for November a year ago. Figures issued by the Iron and Steel Board show that the
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    • 83 12 LONDON. Dec 21: (AFP>.— The Council of the United Textile Workers' Association yesterday decided at Manchester to send a telegram to Mr. Peter Thorneycroft. President of the Board of Trade, protesting against the maintenance of imports of Indian cotton cloth by Britain. Such imports have for a
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    • 50 12 TIIIRTY-three ships, uith a total IWMfI of 40 00(1 tons. were totally lost through casualty ilurini; the quarter ended June .10. according to statistic issued by Lloyds Register of Shipping. Of these, eight, totaling 1.932 tons, were from tl»«Commonwealth countries, four of them being wreck- cd.
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    • 317 12 Trade Deficit Amounts To $119M.In9 Mths Standard Staff Reporter THE adverse Malayan trade balance has accumu lated to Sll9 million dollars up to the end of Srpu m ber, for this year. The total imports amount $Z+M million against exports $2,175 million. me dencit lor boptcmbor alone is $4 million.
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    • 107 12 AN agricultural engineer who is consultant to the Royal Agricultural Society and adviser to the Ford Motor Company, Mr. S.J. Wright, is going to India next month under the Technical Cooperation Scheme of the Colombo Plan to advise on the setting-up of a tractor testing
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    • 68 12 TOKYO, Dec. 21. (AP) Japan, wnose new Hatoyama government advocated expanding trade with Red China, triplea us exports to that nation during the first 11 months v vI S year under the former Voshida regime. Kyooo News Service said yesteiday customs reports •^n^nn JaPan cx P°rted US$l3.--230,000
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    • 8 12 "S'saiuyjr-.n.T'l 1 .or T c mcci. Kcr
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    • 98 12 Shell's Research Relate To Malaya THE research work I earned out by Shel w. stock Farm m Ker:\ 1 frequently has a bearing agricultural problem Malaya. This was stated by Mr N. S. Farquhai graduate m agriculture fi the University of Fdn who has recent Shell's chemicals staff Singapore. He
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    • 90 12 Hongkong Line Buys O ver Fionia Standard Shipping Reporter THE Danish East Asiatic Company's "four master" Fionia. which has been m regular service between the Continent and Bangkok for the last 40 years has been sold. The buyers are the Shun Kee Navigation Co. Ltd. of Hongkong. A representative of
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    • 1206 12 CITY COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA SINGAPORE OFFER OF SCHOLARSHIPS TENDERS UNDER THE TECHNICAL ENGINEER'S DEPART- CO-OPERATION SCHEME. MENT: Dredging and ReDPhH 1 ?Inm U S^ San t Ind1 nd r rHE Government of India Outlet Drained t hi Dredging who must be Fedof Paya Lebar Canal from End for
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    • 240 12 THE SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 134) NOTICE OF PREPARATION OF AMENDMENT 1O THE GENERAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 52 (>) OF THE SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE. AMENDMENT No. 3 OF 1954. IVOTICE is hereby given that 11 m pursuance of ihe powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section
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  • WORLD SPORT
    • 440 13 Us It Regains Supremacy -I B < V r J p H ?hL A p" RY k I;P Staff Correspondent Stfass^tas lo prove that cc &ivzu?& toppled during the last world cup services t all but three H services. m world cup ing from
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    • 96 13 AUSTRALIA'S Davis Cup squad off the chain for a while, play at Ballet xcith J aneite Keyte, Judith Cohen and Gayrie MacSween of the National Theatre Corps De Ballet at a Melbourne Gymnasium. The tennis players, left to right, are Leiris lioad, Mervyn Rose cnid Ken
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    • 482 13  -  Peter Wilson By Dr. Bannister O?i. M !!Z. 6 1954> Roger Gi ">ert Bannister conquered 3 mhfu.P V e St f thleti »>y running the mile m o minutes 59.4 seconds. h*H V C thU v bccamc th e first man to shatter what h^rr g
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    • 502 13 LONDON, Dec. 21, (Reuter)— One of the biggest handicaps m golf is a figure unconnected with the allowance conceded to a Rabbit or the penalty imposed on the Tiger. It ii the figure of finance for comparing th P price of equipment needed for golf with
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    • 126 13 VIENNA. Dec. 21. (AFP) Goal-nets and nyloni have an association ior Hungarian International goa keeper Grosics of the famous "Honved" Nx>tball dub Which rceentlv played m Britain. At any rate, that seems to be the ease fur. according to the Vienna evening newspaper "Bild Telegraf."
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    • 81 13 NEW YORK. Dec, 11, (UP)— The world professional boxing champions .-it the close of i:>.*> 4 were as follows: Heavyweight Rocky Marrijino. Brockton, Massachusett?. Light hcavyweiglit —An hie Moore San Diego* California Middleweight—Carl (Bobo) Olson San Prancisco. Welterweight— Johnny Saxton. Brooklyn. Light woißht —.Jimmy Carter New Yo-k.
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    • 58 13 LONDON. Dec. 21. (AP) England and South America still have the best soccer players m the world. Leopold Gernhrrdt manager of Austria's Rapide of Vienna, said yesterday. Gernhardt and his team left by air for Austria after a fourday tour of Scotland. Rapide defeated Hibernian
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    • 290 13 FORMAL invitations to the 83 Olympic nations to send teams to the 1956 Olympic Games were recently sent out by Melbourne the host city. With almost exactly two years to go before the Games open, the city has a full-scale £A3,650,000 programme of preparations well
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    • 160 13 PARIS. Dec 21 (Rev- 2 ter) Robert Cohen. French holder of the J World bantamweight C championship beat Roy j Ankarah. the Gold 2 Coast's former British 2 Empire featherweight J i champion m the fourth I round of their ten 2 rounds non-title bout 1 here last
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    • 73 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Tuvs. Mr. Gian Singh. tn« Indian Hockey Umpire eng roach by the Malayan \l federation, will aei the examination papers t«»r the MHF Umpires Boards' written I I The Umpires Board fttffftad at jts meeting recently, that it would not issue rertifl of competency
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  • 26 13 I 111 VONG SWEK od ;m»v peacefully on 10th luc ItM at &th milestone Pasir Panjanf Funeral at BidadarJ at 5 i m on Wednesday.
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    • 485 13 ■*wvO^ ■TUfcPfr otooi'* v ■jv^frWMMßflßsaaM^a^aai SI 1 1 IA I IONS VAC AM PPLICANTB for the peat ~i rm. Assistant Manager. Union Jack ClUb, ai't> th;uikcd are advised mat the vacancy Ml been filled. APPLICATIONS art Invited for the post of Ac oundl Reporter, Singapore, on the salary ><\nr ol
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  • 57 14 GRAVENEY TAKES A LOW ONE ;V's: :v TOM GRAVENEY, m the slips, catches an easy snick from L. Favell off Trevor Bailey m the Australians first innings m the second Test, at Sydney on December IS, Favell was out for 26; the Australians were all out for 228, leading on
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  • Today's SPORT
    • 47 14 RIGBY sc? Club VS Scl Vtd Padang: SAS vs. R. Ham ps— Bluff Road; Police vs. Malays Depot Ground: Hq Malaija vs. C. Wanderers Hq Malaya: RAB^ vs. MCSS—RAF Ground; Malayan U rs Tech College V.I. Ground' HOCKEY: Malayan V VS. Tech College— Gurney Road.
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    • 7 14 HOCKEY:— P.C.R.C. vs. Rest... Ipoh Padavg.
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  • 558 14 AUSTRALIA NEEDS 151 RUNS FOR VICTORY Bowlers On Top Again SYDNEY, Dec. 21, (Reuter)— Australia with eight wickets standing, need 151 runs to win the second test and become two up m the five games series against England. The bowlers were again on top today and England losing their last
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  • 51 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Tue>. The Railway Recreation Club Billiard 3 ball open singles final between Mr. Kwok Lo and Mr. R. Gangram will be played on Thursday, at 6.45 p.m. at the Railway Recreation Club, Brickfieds Road. Mr. E.T. Williams the President will give away the prizes after the
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  • 346 14 Selangor Rangers 4. Muar F.A 2. Sulaiman (3), Abdul Ghani. Ali' Radin')'}). Referee Govinda. Xl ALA LUMPUR, Mon. A Sulaiman hattrick sparked Selangor Rangers, FAS Knock Out champions to a 4-2 win over Muar Football Association m a soccer match on the Princes Road Stadium
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  • 166 14 SAPPHIRE B.P. TOO GOOD FOR CAMERONS SEREMBAN. Tues. Sapphire Badminton Party won the Still Shield last night when they handed a five-nil defeat to Cameron Badminton Party m the final match of the competition. fo Th< Shield was Presented lor inter-team competition by mI former President of the Mr 5
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  • 66 14 Markandoo Is Champion Athlete this week-end n lk sround ■SSWBtK T 0 d^ ard S: v I E M mdOO: 2 2 p^^-1 K^enapanChollaparTl a 7 h ddiri: 2. Weißht---i m lz Hussein. 2 yTT i- Mukhtiar SinchHiffli Jump:— 1 m a a) Thimc p h; 1 4 f?« 110
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  • 184 14 likely to prov"e toTe t£ J W nes i a match whi «h is Ion? time c the best P'ay^ at Seremban for a Tho occasion will be *u« P?KKHJ«| final of the FARELF Cup The winners will meet tho Northern Zone toMUtefiw^S
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  • 73 14 SCOREBOARD England Ist Inning;— ls4. 2nd Innings 296. Australia Ist Innings 228. 2nd Innings. L Favoll c Edrich b Tyson |g A. Morris Ibw. Statham 10 I Burke not out 13 N. Harvey not out 26 Extras 7 Total for two wkts. 72 Wickets fell at: 27 and 3T
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  • 919 14  -  WINDSOR LAD By m. o EXAN^ Tues —In order to ensure good fields, the Penang Turf Club have decided to alter the schedule of racing for the meeting, which opens on Saturday The Class One Division One and Two events over the mile, including the
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