Singapore Standard, 29 December 1954

Microfilm: NL2606
Total Pages: 14
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    Masthead
    20 1 Singapore Standard <?snsilD8^ #R jt vH \ol. Vm No. 178. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, DEC EMBER 29, 1954 14 PAGES l.» CENTS.
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    FREIGHTER IS LAID TO REST
    290 1 Still Blazing OH" Tanjong Rhu Beach THE blazing Danish freighter, Lexa Maersk, aflame in Singapore's Outer Roads since Christmas Day, was yesterday towed to her final resting place in shallow wcters off Tanjong Rhu. As the ill-fated ship moved slowly on her last journey, the
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    ANOTHER FREIGHTER ON FIRE IN YOKOHAMA
    62 1 TOKYO. Dec. 28. (Reuter) I ire broke out early today ie hold of the Norwegian •iter Fernplant (5,274 while it was unloading in Yokohama port Hi at here. Japanese Coast Guard reported. The Coast Guard said the fire was put out after destroying 150
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    What It Looks Like After 69 Hours On Fire
    88 1 Standard photos by THIS PICTURE (above) taken at 1.15 p.m. yesterdayshows the freighter Lexa Maersk still burning f/ercely, 69 hours after the fire first broke out in one uf her holds on Christmas Day at 4.15 p.m. The vessel is coming
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    TOY FUND SAYS: THANK YOU ALL
    127 1 $13,572 For 6,000 Children MORE than 6,000 underprivileged children have benefitted from donations sent in to the fourth Standard Christmas Toy Fund which closed at $13,572.85. To date, Father Christmas has visited children at Penang. Ipoh. Malacca. Kuala Lumpur, Johore Bahru and Singapore, with
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    CAIRO POLICE NAB 6 JEWS
    46 1 CAIRO. Dec. 28 (Reuter)—! Police today arrested six Jews, including a girl, employed here by a Belgian company on charges of subversive Communist and Zionist activity. Twelve Jews are already on trial in Cairo for alleged spying and sabotage for Israel.
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    FIRE RENDERS 235 HOMELESS
    34 1 HONGKONG. Dec. 28 (UP) Two hundred and thirtyfive persons were rendered homeless by the huge fire on Monday. Some 40 huts were believed destroyed. Police said there were no casualties.
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    RUBBER Up and Up To 94¾ C.
    86 1 RUBBER Up and Up To 94¾ C. RUBBER prices rose sharply by 32 cents to 942 cents per lb. on a steady market yesterday, following a wave of speculative buying. Overnight orders from New York to cover 1.800 tons of rubber lost in the fire in the Danish freighter. Lexa
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    GIRL IS MISSING
    21 1 A GIRL. Tang Mui Yeng. 17, of Race Course Road. Singapore, has been reported missing since Dec. 26.
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    Senate's Great Achievement
    31 1 WASHINGTON. Dec. 28 (AP) Senator J. W. Fulbrlght (Democrat. Arkansas) ranks the condemnation of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (Republican, Wisconsin) as the U.S. Senate's "greatest single accomplishment during 1954."
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    After Big Win, A New Battle
    175 1 M. FRANCE AND THE ASSEMBLY PARIS, Dec. 28, (Reuter)— M. Pierre Mendes France today gave the French National Assembly another breathing space before he demands a final decision on rearming West Germany. Wearily fighting his toughest parliamentary battle, be won a major victory last
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    Thailand Frees Rice
    76 1 BANGKOK. Dec. 28 (AP> Thailand plans to end Government rice monopoly on Saturday and return export trade to private merchants. Luang Thavil Settaphanichkarn, Director-General of Foreign Trade, said today that pricing policies probably would be revised so Thai merchants can bargain in competition with other rice exporting
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    Airlines To Lose Permit
    58 1 NEW DELHI, Dec. 28 (AP) The Indian Government formally notified two major American airlines today that their permission to operate through India will end on Jan. 15 "as a result of the failure of the United States to negotiate a new alr agreement." The companies affected
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    Terrorist Missed Him
    53 1 CASABLANCA. Dec 28. (Reuter)— A terrorist yesterday made an unsuccessful attempt on the life of M. Andre Herse. a local French offlclal attached to the Moroccan courts. A man aimed a revolver at him as he was leaving a court house in Casablanca but it misfired. The
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    'LITTLE GENEVA' OPENS IN BOGOR
    120 1 'LITTLE GENEVA' OPENS IN BOGOR BOGOR. Jakarta, Dec. U, (Renter) The Prim* Ministers of India. Pakistan. Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia todav started their "Little Geneva*' conference to iircpaie foi a. conference mui African. Arab nqri -Asian countiies. The Prime Ministers met behind closed doors in Bogor Palace Police guards barred
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    Five 'Brothers' Sentenced
    40 1 CAIRO. Dec. 28 (ReuterV— The Egyptian Peoples Tribunal today sentenced live officers and men of the Egyptian armed forces to death by a firing squad for their part In a Moslem Brotherhood conspiracy to overthrow thc Government.
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    CHAMBER TO PETITION QUEEN
    366 2 Move To Have Lang Ua g._ Ban In Elections LifteJ THE Chinese Chamber of Commerce Elections k terday approved, after a heated debate to sub™;* om *'*te. Chinese draft of the petition to have the ban on n«„ r C election candidates lifted. 0n non E
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    THEY LAND IN S'PORE TO BUY WINTER CLOTHES
    340 2 IT is not often that people from Europe and America come to tropical Singapore in mid-winter for tweed suits, but that is what the 10 men and women passengers from the Lcxa Maersk, the ship that caught fire on Christmas Day in
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    COMMODITY PRICES
    105 2 CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 R.S.S. Spot Loose 941 94 No 1 R.S.S. fob. Dec. 94] M No. 8 94 i 94,! No. I 91; 92 i Tone: Steady TIN PRICE The prices of tin yesterday was $341; per
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    $7,000 For Malacca Flood Relief
    186 2 $7,000 For Malacca Flood Relief MALACCA. Tues.— A told of 57.:356 has been received from donors by the Malacca Flood Relief Fund, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the resettlement of flood victims. Thi donors arc: United Malacca Rubber Estates $1,000: Ifalaka Pinda Rubber Estates $1000: Lee Rubber
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    Union Man Acquitted
    85 2 O. BALAKRISHNAN, Secretarv of the Singapora Workers' Union, was acquitted by the Fifth Police Court Magistrate. Mr. R. B 1 Pates, yesterday, when the prosecuting officer, Inspector R. Sandosham, withdrew two charges a.gainst him. Balakrishnan. wai charged with failing to furnish statements of expenditure and receipts cf
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    Two Women Told:Behave Yourselves
    91 2 Two Women Told:Behave Yourselves TWO young married women. Som binte Salleh and Zahara binte Taib were ordered in the Singapore Eighth Police Court yesterday to sign a bond of $50 to keep the peace for four months. Both of them live in Nee Soon Army Quarters Zahara. who issued a
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    'Support Motion Or Quit'
    135 2 'Support Motion Or Quit' •11 S T before tk. ended M r „hf. ,hf »m. lc stood ud t iD? f Hu wertinj- where 08,n W'e Tan Urk s'7"hll Mr rounc, r« r the.,,,, "J Jl.* Jan u.ll h, tabbd h r,pr,.,. nt(llv h^ lj n (hm j u M
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    MARILYN MAY COME TO S'PORE
    49 2 HONGKONG D Tii- re re n would _b Mr. 1.. I) Tw i I in H< ing on pore w w II H tiu.* Dcnueh I M ni 1 bidri Pr Ft. i ton h wil A wood to try sto corr.c I pore.
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    3 Mukims Now Given Less Rice
    95 2 3 Mukims Now Given Less Rice IPOH. Tues. Inhabitants living in the mukims of Bidor. Sungkai and Slim, in the Batang Padang District have had their rice ration* reduced to three katis for males. 2_ for females and two for children. This reduction has been made by the authorities because
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    KOREA VETERAN DIES IN COLONY
    156 2 KOREA VETERAN DIES IN COLONY PRIVATE J. J. Timmermans, the last Dutch soldier who saw action with the United Nations Forces in Korea, died in the British Military Hospital. Singapore, yesterday. He died after a sixweek battle with jaundice. The 27-years-old soldier was buried with full military honours at the
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    Bingham's Deputy
    71 2 photo j MR. DAVID OKAY, fori mer Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Federation of Malaya, arrived in Singapore in the vVillem Ruys, yesterday. lie left later in the day for Penang where he will act as Resident Commissioner. Penang. in place of Mr. RP. Bingham who is on six
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    REWARD $500 To Finder Ot This Plate
    68 2 REWARD $500 To Finder Ot This Plate AN EUROPEAN woman residing at Caldecott Hill Estate, off Thomson Road. Singapore, is offering a $500 reward to the finder of a diamond breast plate, valued at $4,000. which she lost in the vicinity of Prince's Restaurant. Orchard Road, and Tangling Club. Stevens
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    Ansell Denies Charges
    192 2 Ansell Denies Charges KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Colin Philip Ansell. 32-year-old mining employee from Malim Nawar, today denied in the Sessions Court that while in Kuala Lumpur between Sept. 17 and Oct. 9. he cheated two hotels and two restaurants to the tune of $57. drove a car under influence of
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    Labour Front's Four-Year Plan
    355 2 Labour Front's Four- Year Plan If Runs The Govt. SINGAPORE Labour Front announced a four-year programme which it will strive to carry out, if elected to power, during the first term of the Colony's new Legislative Assembly. The Front, which is pledged to establishing a democratic Socialist State in Singapore,
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    Nanyang's Librarian
    40 2 MR Yen Wen-Yu. who MM been appointed Libarian of the Nanyang University, will arrive in Singapore by air from Ncw York on Dec. HO. Mr. Yen was formerly Librarian at the United Nations Organization headquarters in New York.
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    HK EXCHANGE
    38 2 HONGKONG. Dec 28: Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today werc: $15 fit* to £1 sterling; .$5,905 to US$l; $1,834 to Malayan $1; $0.1!M to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $257.00 to a tael.
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    NO TIME TO PAINT HERE
    35 2 AN art. Ml pore y Celboum I who li •Th place." Sir. Qi yestei way b» Mr held I J London fhlni frow to I Lon d o n T^Tm
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    PICTURE ROUND-UP
    11 3 photo. photo. cb,.vbn,c,mcc,/x. Eng Tong Studio l[yup]] ;fglhflhf';h' Standard
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    A BIG AFFAIR AFTER ALL...
    138 3 THE wedding that a shy bridegroom hoped would be a simple registry ceremony on Christmas Eve was transformed on Boxing Day into a modern version of an old-fashioned elaborate Chinese affair with 600 guests and a fleet of expensive motor cars. The groom is Mr.
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    Toy Fund Gifts For 50
    38 3 SOME of the staff of the Tuberculosis Ward of the Johore Bahru General Hospital who took part in a Christmas party for 50 young patients who received gifts from the Standard Toy Fund.
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    Premier's Wife At Changi
    68 3 photo. BEGUM Mohamed Ali (centre), wife of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, photoGraphed at Changi Airport on Monday with Mrs. M. H. E. A. Baig (right), wife of the Pakistan Trade Commissioner in Malaya, and Mrs. Tirtawinata, wife of the Indonesian Ambassador in Pakistan. The Begum
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    The Labour Front's Big Three
    62 3 photo THE Singapore Labour Front held a mass rally at the Victoria Memorial HaM on Monday to introduce its four-yeai programme. Picture shows hAr C. H. Koh, a member of the Front's executive committee, addressing the meeting while two other members, Mr. Francis Thomas (extreme
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    We're Hungry – That's Why! — Retorts Mr. Kotelawala
    288 4 We're Hungry That's Why! Retorts Mr. Kotelawala Why Sell Rubber To Red Carina? THE Prime Minister of Ceylon, Sir John Kotelawala, told a Press conference in Singapore yesterday why Ceylon was selling rubber to Communist China. Replying to a correspondent. Sir John burst out: "WE TRIED TO SELL OUR RUBBER
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    BREWERY MEN SAVE VILLAGE FROM FIRE
    152 4 BREWERY MEN SAVE VILLAGE FROM FIRE A MALAYAN Breweries rire fighting team prevented Hames from wiping out the whole of Kampong Kachor, lying behind the Brewery in Alexandra Road, Singapore, yesterday morning. Fire was engulfing one of 15 attap huts clustered in this village when the tire fighting team arrived,
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    Principal Officers Re-elected
    110 4 PENANG, Tues. The President of the Penang Municipal Services Union, Inche Mohamed YusofT bin Mohd. Noor, was re-elected for the fifth time to serve as President, when the Union held its annual general meeting today. Mr. Yeoh Cheang Seng, hon. general secretary, and Mr. Tan Chye Thuan,
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    Navy Gets 'Thank You'
    65 4 CAPTAIN H E H NicbolLi Senior Officer of the Royai Malayan Navy, hn s received a letter of thanks from th e Administrative Officer Muar for the part he Navy played during the recent floods in the Federation During the floods the Malayan Navy carried tent
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    LAYCOCK ON WAY BACK
    40 4 HONGKONG. Dec. 28 (AFP) —Mr. John Laycock. Singapore Legislative Councillor left here today to return to Singapore after spending his Christmas holidays here with Mrs Laycock. They are returning to Singapore in the Italian liner "Asia."
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    THREE HELD AFTER NIGHT CAR CHASE
    156 4 A POLICE radio patrol led by Police Lieutenant E. M O. Wolff chased a car which did not stop when ordered to do so in the small hours of Oct. 5, this year, the Singapore Third Criminal District Court was told yesterday. The chase
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    Segamat's Farewell To Gurkhas
    42 4 COL Powell-Jones. Commandina Officer of thc 2 6 Gurkha Miles, hands the silrer remembrance plate given him ior his men by the Administrative Officer, Mr. Kern Wells (extreme left), to the officer in charge of the Orderly Party.
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    Special Piles For Kallang Bridge
    240 4 SPECIALLY developed 17-inch positive piles will be used to support the 58.000.000 Kallang Bridge when it is constructed early next year. Piling work will be undertaken by Messrs. Sime Darby, which is onc of the ihree contracting firms (the other two, Messrs. Paul Y. Constiuction
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    20 Aussie Exchange Cadets Due
    181 4 20 Aussie Exchange Cadets Due NINETEEN cadets from the Malayan Air Training Corps will leave Changi airfield at 5 a.m. on Dec. 31 on a threeweek tour of Australia, under an air cadet exchange scheme between Malaya and Australia. In charge of them will be F.Lt. J.A. Challinor of the
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    Peer Arrives On Business
    86 4 THE Earl of Balfour a direetor of Brunstons. manufacturers of wire and rope in Scotland, who flew into Singapore yesterday by Qantas BOAC to see his agents here. The earl is on world tour visiting agencies and customers. He has already visited Canada. New Zealand and
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    Mystery Of Skeleton & Bayonet
    100 4 Mystery Of Skeleton Bayonet A HUMAN skeleton and a rusty bayonet were found in the compound of the Middleton Hospital. Singapore, the Coroner's Court was told yesterday. A gardener, Haj Seval, made the discovery when he was digging the hospital compound. A Government pathologist's report revealed that the skeleton was
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    NO FEAR OF MALARIA OUTBREAK
    189 4 SINGAPORE need have no tear of an outbreak of malaria, although the recent floods have increased the nuisance caused by mosquitoes. This assurance was given yesterday by both the Chief Health Officer, Dr. L M. Ram and the City Health Officer! Dr. J. Cameron, who
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      67 4 Weather Report Minimum Temperature From 7.30 p.m. Dec. 27 to 7.30 a.m. Dec 28: S'pore (?3F): Penang (72F): KoU Bharu (72F); Ku~la Lumpur (71F); Ipoh (70F); Ku_'<'-n (68F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. to 7.30 a.m. Dec. 28 Singapore (86F); Penang (90F): Kota Bharu (B.F). Kuala Lumpur (92F); Ipoh (94F);
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    'MALAYAN FREEDOM' FOR UN?
    96 5 JAKARTA Dec 28. (Reuter) organization calling ltayan Youth Outside in congress here on resolved to call on ers ol the Afro-Asian pcrially india. Ceylon. r.. Burma and Indoneput question of freedom before the i Nations. resolution urged young e ir/ Afro-Asian countries C in France. Britain
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    They Deny Cheating Two Firms
    80 5 They Deny Cheating Two Firms Tay Peng Hong Lee Heng Sim. claimed in the Singapore Second District Court yestertwo charges -A cheategedly committed on 2, this year, at Boat complainants were K. Chandra oi East t Trading Co.. and G. of L. E Tels and Co.. Tav and Lee were
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    PAK. LEAGUE OFFICERS
    55 5 THE following were elected -bearers of the Overseas sian League of Singapore. ion— Mr. Kushi Moha President— Mr. Hajee ned Khan Vice-pre-ts— Messrs. Siraj. MohaMajamil and Lai Khan. Secretary— Mr. Manir Uddin. Secretary Mr. A. S. Ihuiy. Treasurer— Mr H. Mustafa. Asst. TreasurerMr Abdul Majeed and a
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    Harbour Inquiry
    61 5 PENANG. Tues.— The Court ol Inquiry into thc dispute be the Penang Harbour Board nnd the Penang Harir Board StafT Association. commence its sittings at 10 a m on Tuesday. Jan. 4. The sittings will be under rmanship of Mr. JusThomson in Court room and will, so far
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    Singapore Weddings
    112 5 photo. MR. KOII CHIN WEE and Miss Low Meng Kiar who Ch.? K m 'p d T f C V! ily at No 8 Phillip's Avenue, off Yio of Mr ?«rf iff" 1, SSPP^vJ**- Koh is the secon <* s f "JjdM". Koh Joo Cheng and Mis s
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    MIDWIVES FORM THEIR OWN ASSN.
    88 5 THKEE hundred Singapore private midwives yesterday formed an association to "establish and maintain professional standards and conduct." The body— The Singapore Private Mid wives Association —has already elected officebearers and applied for registration. A spokesman of the Association told The Standard that by uniting under
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    EXAM-FREE SCHOOLING PLAN FOR COLONY
    338 5 EXAM-FREE SCHOOLING PLAN FOR COLONY No Detentions And One Test In 6 Years SINGAPORE Government is contemplating introducing, next ycar. a policy of examination-free schooling for the first six vears of a child's primary education. And with the abolition of the tests on which the capabilities of a pupil for
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    CHE WAN TO VISIT PENANG
    71 5 PENANG. Tues Che Wan Baharuddin. Lia'son Officer of the Malayan Students* Unit. London, at present in Malaya, will be paying a visit here from Jan. 1 to Jan. 5. Any prospective students, exstudents or parents of students studying in the United Kingdom who wish to
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    Remanded In Custody
    57 5 PENANG. Tues A plea that he was an illiterate man. was made by middle-aged Hari Singh in the Magistrate Court today, .when ne claimed trial to a charge of using a forged passport on board the 'Corfu" in Penang Harbour on Dec 24 He was ordered to
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    He Used Trousers To End His Life
    80 5 A 37 YEAR OLD la bourer. Yeoh Siew Hong, was found hanging fron, a rami. ut< n tree on <>«*. 14 in the Teochew Cemetery Singapore, at tht Fourth Mile. Upper Ser- angoon Road it was stated in the Coronei s Court yesterday
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    Reds Kill 2 Civilians
    76 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Four terrorists today clubbed a Chinese to death in the Gclang Patah district. .lohore, it is officially announced. Yesterday, another Chinese was murdered by three terrorists in the Ulu Choh New Village in the same district. A Malay Regiment patrol spotted at Triang
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    The Light Fingered Make Hay
    99 5 The Light Fingered Make Hay PENANG Tues.— Two cases of pocket picking and eight bicycle thefts were reported to the Police during the Christmas holidays While a large crowd was present at the trade fair inside the New World Park, a Sikh was relieved of $39 in cash and a
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    Free Concerts By Chung Ling Boys
    213 5 FORTY-SEVEN students and two teachers, comprising the orchestra of the Chung Ling High School, Penang, took advantage of the holidays to see the country by road and, at the same time, to entertain large crowds and help worthy causes in the towns they passed
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    SUPERVISOR
    21 5 DR JOHNSON LAM. Supervisor of the Chung Ling High School. Penang. who leads the Orchestral tour of the school orchestra
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    EXCHANGE CONTROL CASE FAILS
    140 5 A SINGAPORE trader. Teo Siew Chuan of 27. New Bridge Road, was yesterday acquitted in the First Criminal District Court on a charge of infringing the Colony's Foreign Exchange Control Regulations Teo, who was not called on for his defence, was alleged to have paid $13,500
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    You Can Give This Child A Future!
    63 5 By forming a konqsi and collecting as Utile as 10 cents a iceck from cach member durinQ the near, yon can collect $1000. with which you can adopt one of these crippled children from the Ued Cross Crippled Childrens Home. Tanah Merah. For
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    Singapore Standard Presumptuous!
    766 6 Singapore Standard Presumptuous! 'THE vexed question of whether Hospital Assistants who are grade one officers and above should be regarded as pharmacists has been raised again by the proposal of the Federation of Government Medical Services Union to apply to Government for registration When the subject was referred to on
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    Rebuilding Japan's Aircraft Industry
    608 6 TOKYO ALTHOUGH Japan's postwar aircraft industry is only a bare shadow of its former war-time structure, significant gains are being made which indicate that the nation is once again on the road to becoming one of the world's leading producers. The first significant step towards rebuilding
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      110 6 Sir; I cannot remember having seen anything in such bad journalistic taste as the picture on the cover of the latest issue of "Raayat" which shows a picture of the late M a li a t in a Gandhi's body bearing on its shoulders
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    Insatiable Demand For New Homes
    524 6  -  Alastair Buchan WASHINGTON QNE of the most remarkable phenomena in the United States today is the enormous demand for new houses. This has far surpassed the expectations of even the most optimistic economists. After the war it was assumed that there would be a big
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    He Has Makings Of A Great Dictator
    1081 6  - He Has Makings Of A Great Dictator PHILIP DEANE By He Crushes Corruption NEW DELHI. "I KNOW," said Genei ral Iskander Mirza, 1 the strong man who runs Pakistan today for the ailing, semi-paralysed Governor-General; "you think our censorship is pointless because you can fly out of the country to
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    B-Girls' Siren Song Is Fading
    264 7 B-Girls' Siren Song Is Fading I VORK. Dec. 28, (UP) -Tne siren song of the B-girl is fading away. Citi( s throughout the S are clamping down the activities of the girls," whose conc k nt pleas of "just one re little drink'' have c I many a customer shirt.
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    Vietminh-China Pact
    67 7 VietminhChina Pact HONGKONG. Dec. 28 (ReuI China and the Viethave signed agreements r which China will supexperts, technicians and rials to help restore unications. postal and mmunications services and water conservancy works In northern Indo-China. the China (Communist) Agency reported today. Ihe agreements were signal en Christmas Eve by NguVan
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    Just Say 'When...'
    59 7 pic. TWO-YEAR-OLD Grah m Miller is not so sure that his brother. three-year-old David, knows just when to stop blowing up the balloon. Any second it might co bang. David and Graham were at the balloon stand in Kelvin Hall Carnival where foot bellows are used to
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    Churchill May Visit The U.S. French Situation Raises Anxiety
    255 7 Churchill May Visit The U.S. French Situation Raises Anxiety WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.— Usually reliably sources said yesterday Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill is believed to be contemplating a visit here in January whether or not the French Assembly ratifies the Paris agreements. They understood Sir Winston has been in telephonic
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    CRASH KILLS 17
    29 7 SEVENTEEN persons werc killed and five injured when a bus plunged over a 650-i'oot cliff near Cuzco in Peru on Sunday when the brakes failed. AP
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    Formosa To Ratify US Pact
    89 7 Formosa To Ratify US Pact TAIPEI, Dec. 28 (Reuter)— The Chinese Nationalist Premier. Mr. O. K. Yui. said today the recently concluded pact with the United States for defending Formosa had "smashed a plot by proCommunist and neutral nations" to turn over the island stronghold to the United Nations. He
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    FIRE DAMAGES ROYAL LODGE
    41 7 WINDSOR. Dec. 28 (Reuter) Fire damaged a bedroom and destroyed furniture today at the Entrance Lodge to Royal Lodge, Windsor Country home of the Queen Mother. Entrance Lodge is occupied by one of the Royal Lodge keepers.
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    Peking Man: New Discovery
    33 7 TOKYO. Dec. 28 (AP) Peking radio said yesterday Chinese scientists have found a couple of more teeth of the Peking man, who inhabited the iarth about 500,000 years ago.
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    Tito Clamps Down On Rebel
    43 7 BELGRADE. Dec. 28 (Reuter) Marshal Tito's Government today clamped down on Vladimir Dedi' "rebel" Communist leader who complained of "lack of freedom" in Yugoslavia, and decided that a Press conference he had planned to hold tonight was illegal.
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    GIs SAVE BABY
    40 7 TOKYO. Dec. 28 (AP) A two-day-old Japanese gin whose 14 brothers and sisters died at birth was in good eondition yesterday following a transfusion that gave her a completely new supoly of blood donated by American G.I.
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    PEKING SAYS YES
    22 7 AFTER nearly six >ears of silence Communist China has -nally decided to accept Yugoslavia's offer of dip.omatic recognition. UP
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    RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICES
    72 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 28 —The following ore rhe closing prices of rubber ond fin on the London Marker. LONDON RUBBER Spot 28 d. February 21 id. March 27 id. April/ June 27_ld. July/September 26id. October/December 26 id January c.i.f. 27jjd Tone: Quiet. LONDON TIN
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    A QUIET CHRISTMAS FOR ROYAL FAMILY
    287 7 Carols In The Drawing Room SANDRINGHAM, Norfolk, Dec. 28, (Reuter)— Queen Eliza beth, the Duke of Edinburgh ond rheir family house-party rested quietly at Sandringham House yesterday after their traditional Christmas weekend. i A shooting party for male members of the houseparty was the
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    MacTavish Clan May Get A New Chief Soon
    218 7 EDINBURGH. Scotland Dec. 28, (Reuter) The death in Quebec of John William Alexander Joseph MacTavish at the age of 54 may mean that the clan MacTavish will be able to have an official chief for the first time in 150 years. Mr.
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    A Test For 'The Space Brother'
    84 7 A Test For 'The Space Brother' LANSING, Michigan. Dec >8 (AP) A probate judge /esterday ordered an immeliate mental examination of Dr. Charles Laughead. forner Michigan State College taff doctor, who reportedly )redicted world disaster. Laughead gained national ittention with his predicions that a great tidal wave accompanied by tremendous
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    Broadside View Of Farouk
    187 7 Broadside View Of Farouk J EVER since ex Kin* g J Farouk of Egypt left Ins homeland he han had a C 1 constant enemy the 1> S press photographer. In J his constant battles with the cameramen Farouk J has had them thrown out S J of places he
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    HARTINI GETS OUT OF THE WAY AT BOGOR
    152 7 BOGOR. Dec. 28. (Reuter)—The much discussed, beautiful, second wife of President Soekarno. Madam Hartini was missing from Bogor Palace today when the five Asian Prime Ministers held their "Little Geneva" conference. The burning question ln local social circles was whether the President's
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    Astrologers Predict A China War
    139 7 Astrologers Predict A China War HAMBURG Dec. 28 (Router) Astrologers predicted here today that in 19_5 there would be peace in Europe but an armed conflict would break out over Formosa involving Britain, the United Stales and China. Thc astrologers were speaking in a traditional discussion held each ycar at
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    Miracle Heart Operation
    98 7 Miracle Heart Operation MONTREAL, Dec. 28 (Router) An operation durinq which the patient's heart stopped beating for two and a half minutes was described here yesterday by Red Cross officials. Mrs. Emery Richard. .'.5, was suffering from scarring and narrowing of the mitral valve in her heart which restricted the
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    A Russian Occasion When Vodka Flows Like The Broad Volga
    192 7 A Russian Occasion When Vodka Flows Like The Broad Volga LONDON, Dec. 28 (AP) Russia started preparations yesterday for its biggest holiday of the year January 1— a combination of Christmas and New Year's day called "Novie God." "On Novie God." Roes an old Russian saying, "you comb out your
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    S'PORE NEEDS MORE NURSES AND DOCTORS
    380 8 WITH the approach of the end of 1954, the Singapore Medical Services still find themselves faced with a severe shortage of doctors and nurses with the result that recruitment will have to be done abroad next year. "In 1955/' the Director of Medical Services.
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    AID FOR FIRE VICTIMS
    110 8 AID FOR FIRE VICTIMS BUTTERWORTH. Tues Real "Operation Service" was manifest after the disastrous fire which broke out in the fishing village of Kua'a Muda two days before Christmas. A splendid gesture was seen when the inhabitants of the neighbouring areas came forward with small donations which, to date amount
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    Busmen's Strike Spreads
    131 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Tue? 1 Taking a decision r-t an informal meeting last night, sixty mechanics and fitters employed in the General Transport Company's workshops, walked out this morning in sympathy with the 300 bus drivers and conductors who have been on strike for the part six days.
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    Councillors Flay Schools Policy
    242 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— The Johore Education Department came in for strong criticism for its decision to bar a number of boys from gaining admission to secondary schools, at today's meeting of the Council T^TTT of State. 1 1 Haji Mohamed Noah bin 1 1 Omar tabled
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    TEMPLER'S ONE-MAN DRIVE
    309 8 TEMPLER' S ONE-MAN DRIVE To Promote Better U.K. Understanding Of Malaya KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— General Sir Gerald Templer, former Federation High Commissioner, is now running a one man campaign to promote British understanding of Malaya while waiting for the announcement of his next assignment, The Standard learnt today. Dato Nik
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    Sailor's Dizzy Perch Had Crowd In Suspense
    191 8 Sailor's Dizzy Perch Had Crowd In Suspense A NORWEGIAN sailor sat and dangled his legs from the edge of a parapet on the top of the Singapore Improvement Trust's nine-storey flats in Upper Pickering Street, last night. And below a crowd gesticulated and pleaded with him not to do it.
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    YWCAs IN AUSTRALIA DOING A GRAND JOB
    191 8 YWCAs IN AUSTRALIA DOING A GRAND JOB MISS Ivy Khan, pretty Indian delegate to the recent World Y.W.C.A. membership conference at Marysville. Australia, said that she was impressed by the far-sighted policies of the Y.W.C.A's in Australia. Mis.s Khan, who is General Secretary of the Calcutta Y.W.C.A.. was the guest
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    FILM ABOUT BUDDHA'S LIFE
    50 8 HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 28 (Reuter) A film about the life of Gautama Buddha, founder of the Buddhist religion, will be made by Metro-Gold- J wyn-Mayer. Much of the factual material for the film will be taken from the Vitaka. the Buddhist text, the studio has announced here.
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    Promoted To Special Grade
    46 8 KAJANG. Tues. Mr. V.I Thambynathan, Chief Clerk District Office. Kajang. has been promoted to Special Grade, as from the New Year. He has put in 35 years service in various departments, having joined as a clerk in the Selangor Secretariat in 1!)20.
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    Meets Her Grandma
    68 8 photo. IT was tears and laughter when 21-year-old Miss Ho Pin-pin saw her grandmother Low Loun Niew, 70, for the first time in 16 years. Miss Ho. who got her school leaving certificate at the Management and Business College in Sydney flew into Singapoie yesterday to spend
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    Council Storm On Johore's Budget
    263 8 Council Storm On Johore 's Budget Federal Cuts Resented JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— The reduced allocation from Federal funds to Johore for 1955 raised a vigorous storm of protest in the Council of State here tcday. Johore had asked for $20.--971,814 but the Federal Government cut it down by 21 per
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    PC REMANDED IN CUSTODY
    53 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Police Constable. Yoe Ah Foo. 27. todav claimed trial before the First Magistrate to a '•large oi attempting to rob Tan Chin Chiew. at Jalan Tiga (otf Chan Sow Lin Road), here at the point of a revolver. He was remanded in custodv
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    Council To Discuss Kinta River
    82 8 Council To Discuss Kinta River IPOH. Tues— The Ipoh and Menglembu Town Council will discuss measures to prevent the possible over-flowing of the Kinta R:ver at their monthly meeting on Thursday. Although the Kinta River has not given anv trouble for many years now. it is nevertheless thought advisable to
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    CHILD FOUND ABANDONED
    44 8 Ini__h S t ING f APC^ RE PoVlce iast rhuL uvs a newl >* bo Chinese child wrapped up i n a sarong abandoned under the staircase of a house in Tank Road The child was later removed to the General Hospital.
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    Boy Injured In Road Accident
    42 8 PENANG. lues A six-year-old bov Cheng Sun Nan. was serious. v injured when he was involved in a motor accident at Farquhar Street opposite Hutchings School this afternoon He was removed to hospital with serious head wounds
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    FASTER TRAINS
    238 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Malayan Railway is to start a series of speed trials next month, to assess the possibility of accelerating mail schedules to pre-war levels, The Standard learnt today First trials will commence within a fortnight on the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore route on which the Railway wants
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    New Swim Pool For S'pore
    173 8 BY Christmas next year, 1 Singapore will hav e another "delightful" public res >it a modern swimming pcol at I Farrer Park whieh is being converted into the athletic centre of Singapore The City Architect. Mr W I. Watson told The Standard yesterday that the
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    Died In A Rail Coach
    67 8 IPOH. Tues -Mr A. Francis, aged 51. a rolling stock inspector attached to Kuang railway station, collapsed and died in a railway coach when the train was about to leave here for Kuala Lumpur at 6 25 this morning. An Old Boy of St. Michael's
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    'L' Cyclist Fined $25
    42 8 A SINGAPORE learner motor cyclist. Koh Siak Poh. was fined $25 in the First Traffic Court yesterday when he pleaded guilty to riding a motor cycle while holding a provisional licence in River Valley Road a restricted area.
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    1/7 GURKHAS MOVE OUT
    57 8 SEREMBAN. Tues--Serem-ban residents toda\ Mid goodbye to the 1/7 Gurkha Rifles who have killed 178 terrorists and captured 25 After taking the salute at an impressive' parade, the Yan^ di Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan. presented the Battalion tvith an attractive piece of mess silver in
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    Selangor Gets More Nationals
    57 8 KAJANG. Tues. Registration of State I Selangor > Nationals in the district ot Ulu Langat is making good progress, it was officially learnt today. The last batch of applicants called for Interviews this month totalled 83. Ot these. 49 have been recommended, made up of 32
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    HAD EXCESS PASSENGERS
    34 8 A SINGAPORE lorry driver. Cheng Shek Leong was mtwA $50 in the First traffic Court yesterday for tarrying 12 extra passengers in his lorry at Clemenceau Avenue o n Oct M
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    UNFAIR-SAY THE CHINESE Give More To Our Schools Call
    239 8 UNFAIR-SAY THE CHINESE Give More To Our Schools Call KLALA MHOOT, Tues.— Mr. Lim Lian Geok, president of the All-Malaya Chinese Teachers' Association, said today the Chinese community in Malaya was "rather uneasy*' about Government expenditure on English education. He said that out of a total expenditure of $90,000,000 on
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    WORTH QUOTING
    596 9 I ACK BENNY (defining J education) "It's what makes you worry about what's happening in other parts of the world." BARBARA STANWYCK: "I sympathize with people who don't have enough to do. I personally only feel alive and vital when I'm t< rribly busy." DONNA REED (giving ce):
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    BRIDGET JONES'
    227 9 JJAVE you ever shed a shoe waltzing on a dance floor? Or lost an earring twirling around during a fast fox-trot? Or broken a shoulderstrap while jiving? And have you ever wondered why this doesn't happen to the dancing stars of the screen as you watch them spinning
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    PUNCHES IN PRINT
    228 9  -  DENIS DUNN A WOMAN reader writes: "My husband always insists on calling me ♦mate/ What's my best answer?" Cheque I m m ONE of the evening gowns on show in Paris is called "Danger. Only you mustnt try to wriggle out of it. A SPORTS WRITER says:
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    Hollywood's Cinderella Needs New Teeth
    612 9 Hollywood's Cinderella Needs New Teeth HOLLYWOOD. (AP).— It turns out that Cinderella needs not only a pumpkin but new teeth as well. The latest Hollywood Cinderella is Marjorie Hellen, a gorgeous, 19-year-old honey blonde (or blonde honey, if you wish). She amazed many people last week when she went to
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    Coin Drops
    38 9 "W/HATS a retaining W fee. dad?" "It's the fee you pay to a lawyer, son. before he'll do any work for you." "I see. Like putting a shilling in a meter before you ret any ras.'*
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    Telling Tales
    820 9 Worth Noting FlEBBIE REYNOLDS says her first taste of the theatre was in a school play when she wa s chosen to stand in the wings and work the sound machine. When JEFF HUNTER played an Indian rol e in a recent film he had to wear contact
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    'Love' At 35/-A Kiss
    398 10 'Love' At 35/A Kiss JOHN FULTON sought a divorce at Hartford, Connecticut, because of his wife's "cruelty" in kissing him after she had kissed her pet white rat. In England a railway booking clerk found the law sympathetic alter he had complained that his wife expected him to kiss her,
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    GET SOMETHING NEW FOR 1955
    480 10  - GET SOMETHING NEW FOR 1955 Toni Marsh LET'S make it a resolution to get something NEW for the New Year. A Page Of Fashions Comments By As every worr a n knows, something new makes everything seem much brighter. The morale thermometer zooms up, and family and friends decide that
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    WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT?
    462 10 WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT? ISN'T it odd, come to think of it, but every subject one picks on. there are always some •'for" and some "against." I've never yet been able to get anyone to agree completely with me about anything. But is not that the spice
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    Luminous Rug
    171 10 JQN the lunatic fringe of this year's Christmas presents in America is a tt luminous rug for the W children's nursery which glows in the dark q. when the lights are turned out. It is a wool rug ana woven into it a collection^ of dolls, clowns, ducks
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    Ball Gown
    41 10 LOOKING for a ball sown? You will have a hard time finding an> thins prettirr tkit this vision in pink ano cerise nylon pleated tulle with stole over massrs of «tif" j»" coat. 52.5. at the Little Shop. vb,vb,/,.b/x
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    Ring Out The Old Year
    221 10 •THERE are several ways of celebrating New Year's Eve. Some prefer to stay heme quietly, just the family, drink a toast at midnight and then toddle off to bed. Others like private parties, gathering the crowd and having lots of noisy fun and games one
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    PROSPECTING IN THAILAND
    59 11 BANGKOK, Dec 28. (AFP) —A Japa: ese and a West German firm have asked the Thai government for permission to prospect for iron ore and then set up iron foundries in Thailand This follows a decision made by the government several months ago to encourage foreign firms
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    RICE FOR JAPAN
    27 11 TAIPEI has concluded a deal to sell 34.000 tons of rice to Japan in addition to thc 30,000 tons previously sold to her.- AFP
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    Loan To Help Private Industry
    74 11 PARIS. Dec. 28. (Reuter)— The World Bank has approved of a $10.00(1,000 loan to thc Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation Limited. Mr P. S. Bcale. chief cashier of the Bank of England, is to resign in January to become general-manage r of the Corporation, which
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    Aviation In U.S. Broke All Records
    262 11 PRIVATE and commercial aviation in the United States broke all previous records for traffic and safety this year. Civil Aeronautics Administrator, Mr. F.B. Lee reported in Washington. Scheduled airlines carried 34.673,000 paying passengers with only 18 lives lost in accident. Total scheduled airline mileage
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      RUBBER SHARES ARE GENERALLY MARKED UP
      736 12 A FEATURE of the Malayan share market yesterday was the general marking up of shares in the rubber section, bu t the volume of business here was restricted due to the absence of sellers. Industrial shares wei c quietly steady with the exception of
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      Rubber Leaps To 95 Cts. On Speculative Purchases
      209 12 RUBBER prices in Singapore yesterday spiralled upwards to 95 cents per Ib. and closed at 94| cents for first grade rubber for January shipment, the highest since December 1952. Yesterday's closing pricc was 32 cents pcr lb. above the close on Friday,
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      Produce Is Quiet
      171 12 QUIET conditions prevailed in all sections of the Singapore produce market yesterday with little business reported Copra quotations were fractionally below those prevailing on Friday with the market opening dull and closing quiet. Pepper prices remained about unchanged from those* before the holidays. Coconut oil sellers at
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      Thailand To End Rice Monopoly
      249 12 Move Not A Surprise' Standard Staff Reporter THAILAND'S decision to end the Government rice monopoly from Jan. 1, next year and return export trade to private merchants ior the first time since the war, does not come as a surprise, Mr. J. B. Clegg, Director
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      RUBBER'S RECOVERY MOST REMARKABLE
      569 12 RUBBER'S RECOVERY MOST REMARKABLE LONDON, Dec. 28: (AFP) The gradual disappearance of the U.S. recession brought fresh confidence to markets in 1954 and. during the first half of the year, there was a marked strengthening of demand ior most commodities. During the year, sterling commodity price levels were tighter than
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      RUBBER IN LIGHT CARS...
      127 12 RUBBER IN LIGHT CARS... RUBBER, in addition to its already aeeepted uses, can make a really worthwhile contribution to the problem of producing a light, simple and roadworthy car It is already doing so and could, perhaps, do even more Two small cars introdueed to the British postwar market exemplify
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      24 U.S. SYNTHETIC PLANTS SOLD
      112 12 24 U.S. SYNTHETIC PLANTS SOLD WASHINGTON. Dec. 28: (Reuter)— Sale contracts f or 24 of the Government's 27 synthetic rubber plants have now been signed with the possibility of one or two more being completed before the deadline runs out. The Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Commission agreed yesterday to sell
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    EXPORTS OF RUBBER & LATEX UP
    244 12 EXPORTS OF RUBBER LATEX UP RUBBER and latex exported from Malaya in the first 11 months of the year were substantially more than these for the corresponding period of 1953. according to official statistics. Exports of rubber totalled 838.241 tons, while shipments of latex totalled 83.136 tons for the 1
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    Best Busines Year in United States History Is Forecast
    207 12 Best Busi nes Year in United States History Is Forecast NEW YORK. Dec. 28 (AP)The best business year in IW hv r f3 S forw «t for I.:V J°_ rtune a ma R afin. published by Time, Incor porated. Fortune predicts that business will continue to improve at least until
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    Group Negotiate Burma Rice Deal GOVT. 'NOT WORRIED'
    334 12 Group Negotiate Burma Rice Deal GOVT. 'NOT WORRIED' Kl ALA Lt.MPI R, Tues. srOMD importers have concluded negotiations l" buv tons of cheap but poor qualitv rice imm L' syndicate but the Federation GovernnWi no.!? stSVtX"' an fficial spokesman Mr. J. M. Gullick. Controller of T said: 'There are no
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    'BUILD IT YOURSELF' PLANE
    52 12 ph*'** 1 nus i.."<'i-' ,s nf 1 Germaa-enKinrd N fl>inK over Britam. ■ff^iU Genaa" arid >' s fhn n ;n":;,p' a p f n> P-"-' :t nist ol f Mini* The rurlU"^«f3isil ,iiuhC nI. «l«-iunrr- 'flits rr f ni .trill* h tend it "rnUi't fl Phil
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    Applications For Replant Grants Are Flooding In
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    NOV. TIN STATISTICS
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      384 12 NATURALISATION. "VOTICE is hereby given that Mr. Hoc Chyo Kee of No 343, Pasir Panjang Road. Singapore. 5. is applying to the Governor for Naturalisation and that any person who knows any reason why Naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to
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      154 12 Ol TER ROADS Asha. Allobrogia, Hai Fei. Chip Lam. Kambock. Kyoei Maru, Ifengkara, Ha] Hock. Van Reimcdijk. A.degonda. Kurgan Shinwa Maru. INNER ROADS. Pasoso, Gang Seng, Hock Ho. Tung Song, Selangor. Hong Tat. Taype. Sadao. Kah Hua. Hai Seng Hin, P. Kidjang, Torina. Langsa. Lawak, Ilosangi, Hwa Chuan. Aik Leong,
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    SUNDERLAND TAKE TOP PLACE: WOLVES LOSE AGAIN
    208 13 SUNDERLAND TAKE TOP PLACE: WOLVES LOSE AGAIN ton o?PnJSk DeC 28 i < AP >~Sunderland moved to the lop or English soccer league standings todav as miehtv Wolverhampton Wanderers suffered their second holiday defeat in three days. Everton opened the way for Sunderland with a 3-2 hurbleTwoVri^ 01^' TW dayS
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    Wright Injured
    49 13 LONDON, Dec. 21 Btlhj \Vrig)it, d and Wolver--1 soccer Captain, n to hospital i oncussion a/ter today jor his •.gainst Everton. ght sustained the vt before lhe end i match and ajterh as taken ill. He d consciov.^ness il<rce hours and his i. irus stated to factory.
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    4 Leagues For SBHFA Next Year
    104 13 ...GAPORE Business loot ball Association r in three leagues and ire league in the forth- not ball season, said -adaison. the honorary ot tne association y terday. affiliates of the SBIIFA hoping to take part Association's 1955 r competitions are asked t i In
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    U.K. Soccer Results
    267 13 DIVISION 1 Chelsea 1. Arsenal 1 Huddersfield Town 1. Sunderland 1 Everton Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 Leicester Citv C. Sheffield U 1 Manchester U. o Aston Villa l Newcastle United 2 Manchester City 0 Portsmouth 3. Blackpool n Preston North End 0. Burnlcv 1 Sheflield Wednesday 2, Charlton
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    BEAUTY & BRAWN
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    S. JOHORE XV
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    MAY (157) IN POLISHED INNINGS
    183 13 NEWCASTLE. New South Wales, Dec. 28, (Reuter) Peter May, the young Surrey amateur, hit 157 to lead thc way in an MCC scoring spree against New South Wales Northern District here today. With the Third Test only three days off, the MCC. who's batting hitherto
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    ALL BLUES WHIP WEAK CEYLON XV
    391 13 IN their first match played in Singapore. Cevlon Iniversity suffered defeat at the hands of Singapore All Blues by 11 pts. (1 goal 2 tries) to nil. at Thomson Road yesterday. The game played in perfect conditions was extremely last throughout and thus unfortunately
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    DAVIS CUP TO U.S.
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    S'pore Malays Humble Champs
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      481 13 ACKNOWLEDGMENF \|R It Mrs loa Boon Cheer. g and f.imilv thank all latiVCl and f: icnds for lhe presents sod congrotutot om i «»u tiie oeeasion «>f marriage of their third son T.Hi Eng Be,. M 12 :>4 TUITION B Ft; INN FRS Class-Singapore Chinese Mandarin Scho<> 4 122 12G
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      306 13 111 Abner By Al Capp L^gPf VES. SISTER. J BUT, I DON'T V* IT'S A MAMELV -TC^^SQUlR^^fe f FOUND HIM CRAWLING TVV m2££* < l^V^ MUCM Lm. TAKECAP.E^> LITTLE AROUND THE /vOU'VE So^Jil Fi/.___s£S V J- B L' S V MORE OF m _^7 CREATURE.^ HOUSE LAST NIGHT. T BECOME
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      16 13 Today's Rugby The Singapore Cricke' Club XV will play the Police XI on thc padang today.
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    TODAY'S RACE CARD
    979 14 RACE Ii 3. 1S p.m.— Horses Class 5, Div. 3—l Mile 1 Ml limsnn Sv 9.00 Mr. Cheong Thiam Chye Rodgers M ti_3[ 2. 771 Fori View Sy 8.13 "Kia Ora Stable" T.ioa Tait 3 M5 Jimmy Bov II 4v 8.1. Mr Tan Cheng Hock Allan Younger
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    CHANTICLEER DESERVES A WIN TODAY
    931 14  - CHANTICLEER DESERVES A WIN TODAY WINDSOR LAD Enjoyment II The Danger By cvb,cv,b/z./fs/r. At Ipoh a fortnight ago, l Chanticleer was strongly fancied to win by his connections, but were disappointed to see him distressed by thc heavy going. He has. however useful form to commend and tomorrow's going should
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    Standard's Selections
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    Going Good
    12 14 PENANG. Tues. Thc going ior tomorroir will be vcry good.
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    4 X'MAS DAY WINNERS
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    GOLDEN LOTUS IS GIVEN STIFF TASK
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    Marciano, Fighter Of The Year
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