Singapore Standard, 1 January 1955

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    14 1 Singapore Standard r i __Z \#>. SINGAPORE, ~iTURD*T, JANUARY J, 1955 11 PAGES 15 CENTS.
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    Lock icon 84 MALAYANS HONOURED
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    Lock icon Queen Names 3 Barons & 56 Knights
    122 1 Queen Names 3 Barons 56 Knights ALL THE FOREIGN NEWS (Kriitrr)— Queen Elizabeth irons and gave awards, high and more oi her subjects m her New üblished today. nous actor or author One of the few sportsn to be honoured was n Landy. Australian runner who holds the Id record.
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    Lock icon An Historic Act Saves The French Alliance
    171 1 (UP)— The French National As- (I the rearmament of Germany :rn European Union last night In rd the French alliance with Bri-i-tl >tates. The vote was 287 to 260. II ended lour yea^s of h stalling and r- versed aning Ptelin p ry
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    Lock icon THE BEUTIES' BROKEN UP
    7 1 THE BEUTIES' BROKEN UP ry, r "The
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    Lock icon GLORIA TO ASK FOR DIVORCE
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    Lock icon Federation Recipients
    18 1 Mr. Mustapha Albakri, CBE (Hon.) Mr. Koh Sin Hoik, MRK Mr. E. M F Payne. OBK
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    Lock icon BEER GIFT FROM THE GENERAL
    135 1 BEER GIFT FROM THE GENERAL KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Thi" Director of Operations. Lieut. -General Sir Geoffrey Bourne, paid a surprise visit to the jungle this morning by a Royal Navy helicopter to convey his personal good wishes to security forces for a Happy New Year. Accompanied by Army and Police
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    Lock icon UN. SEC-GEN. OFF TO PEKING
    44 1 NEW YORK. Dec. 3 (Reutcr>— Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld. the United Nations Secretary-General, left New York yesterday for London on the first leg of his journey to Peking to seek the release of American airmen and other United Nations personnel.
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    Lock icon The Work Of Three Women Is Recognized
    278 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri— The Raja di-Hilir rfa Perak, 62-year-old sport-' loving older statesman.' who is a former SSicU i 'c' treasurer and head ofi the Religious Affairs De-i partment, was today made an Honoiary Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
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    Lock icon Federation—1955 will not be easy, but it won't be dull
    275 1 Federation— 1955 will not be easy, but it won't be dull GFFGGF KUALA LUMPUR. Fi 1. The Federation High ri I V,. Commissioner. Sir Donald MacGillivray, predicted today that 1955 was not going to be an easy year for Malaya, but it would not be a n auil one. In
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    Lock icon Singapore: Crucial year for Colony
    156 1 THE year 195 will be the mos crucial for Singa pore, the Govei nor. Sir John Ni coll. said last nigh m his New Yea message over Radi Malaya. "It will be th most crucial yea m the long, prosperous and enterprising history of this
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    Lock icon Britain's Quest For 'Bright Families'
    147 1 LONDON. Dec. 31 (Reuter) A search for Britain's "Bright Families" is to begin soon. Sir Charles Darwin, grandson of the famous scientist, said at a meeting of the Eugenics Society here today. The society will begin its nation-wide survey by asking schoolmasters to nomi- nate
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    Lock icon Singapore Recipients
    39 1 Top Honours Go To Perak Religious Affairs Chief And Singapore Housing Trust Manager Mr. C.oh Hood Kiat. OBK Mr Gordon Van ilien. MBK (apt. K. J. Minjoot. MB Mr. T. Strickland. OBK Mr J W. Chilton. CPM
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    Lock icon Race Track Free For All
    43 1 TOKYO. Doc. 31 <AFP> Two Jockeys and thrco policemen w( %r e injured at the r w -c tracks here today when 300 inlunated puntfcfj Clashed with 400 policemen neer* I they alleged the race was "fixed. 11
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    Lock icon 4 OBEs And 5 MBEs To Colony Men
    173 1 SINGAPORE'S New Year Honours List is headed this year by Mr. James M. Frascr, the Manager of the Singapore Improvement Trust, who has been awarded the Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civil). Fuur other Colony personalities; i
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    Lock icon 27 Years With SIT
    363 1 T.B.E. (Civil) Mr. James Milner Fraser. Manager of the Singapore Improvement Trus^ Mr. Fraser joined the Trust m 1927 and served m various departments ot thr Trust until 1932 when he was appointed Acting Manager. He was Manager m 1946. ORE. (CIVIL) Mr. (...h Hood Kiat.
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      56 1 iMJ LEE .CHA* I; |ft •HI. Singapore Standard wishes a| l its readers a happy and prosperous New Year. S PRIME -FROZ-N CALIFORNIAN FRUITS 1 I I f Salad I B °ysen6err/es Rhubarb 5 t Pe oc/»es 5 Cr ope Fruit Segments I C °NCENTRATED FRUIT JUICES I Grange AV
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    1451 2 THE Queen has honoured 81 x the services they have rendered the coun, ons m her New Year awards for Be/ow is a full list of the awards. Federation Recipients C.M.G. aion.) Vans Amat Mulia Raja diHilir. Perak. Raja Haji Kamarulzaman ibni Raja Mansur, OBE. c.b.e. Mr. Ik-rbert Alan
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    Lock icon 7 Honoured In Sarawak, N. Borneo
    103 2 five resident! of North Borneo and two oi Sarawak have been honoured by the Queen. They are. CBK (Civil): Mr. John Ramsay Baxter. for Public Services m North Borneo OBK: Rev. Barnard J. Davis, for .services to education m North Borneo: Mr Law Cheng
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    Lock icon The Body's Marriage Off
    41 2 BEVERLY HILLS. California. Dec. 31 <AP> New Year's Eve re-marriage plans for Marie (The Body) MrDonald and millionaire shoe manufacturer, Harry Karl. were called off today after the film actress collapsed on Thursday from nervous exhaust ion.
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    Lock icon CHINA AIRLINES
    31 2 Soviet share- of the SinoSovirt civil airlines v. > c formally tinned over to China at a ceremony held In Peking yesterday, the Communist NV\v China nev/f agency reported yesterday.
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    Lock icon HONOURS FOR THE AIR FORCE
    212 2 Tilt: following awards are announced m connection with the New Year's Honours List 1955. They arc published m the London Gazette dated Jan 1. 1955. C.BE. Group Captain A. L. Derry, O.BE. obi: Winu Commandrr R. U Williams < ***** >. M BE. Flij;i»t Lieutenant
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    Lock icon Councillor Decides To Stay
    42 2 Mohan I s i th< redci P [i tm i year that i■ i p II h not v >i m 1951 1 pie i i i I Stand ird t "I h pea Thei I > the Cot.:««
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    Lock icon '$s FOR DISCS'$45 PER MINUTE
    230 2 An alert compere uninteri uptedlv remained at the nuke for six hours and ardent band of Servicemen and iporting challengers helped Radio Malaya last night to break collection coids of its annual "Dollar Fur Discs' charity programme. With the aid of two ol Malaya's smartest
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    Lock icon Contractor Fined $700
    87 2 PEN'AN'c;. Fri A Municipal rontrai tor, I. A Mobd Ibra linn, was Rned a total of $70Q m the m.i^i trate'i couri today when be pleaded Ruilty t<> ■even lummons rhargea "f failing to furnish income tax return from IH4H To l:i.> The a lant < !onti
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    Lock icon M/Cyclist Killed
    17 2 MOTOI' s.- n H- ng, midnight on Thu head-on i (jth* r motor I Lumi
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    Lock icon Great Strides In Politics Foreseen
    213 2 THE Sultan of I'erak m his New Year messaue said: The year 195."> would be one of "tremendous political development.'* He added that it wa.> particularly important that Ci<»vornmont officers should show no .signs of political partisanship, otherwise, be pointed out. the public would m-
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    120 2 CLOSING rubber pi U (rent* p«*r In m Shui pore yestenl.iy mic lluwrs s« r. No 1 R.S.S. Simil I.IMISC M No 1 K.S.S. I«. I, l>< < No. t •>' 99 No 'lon. Qtii< I us I'liio: The print o! tin t«*ni.i\ w .is s; I pri
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      70 2 Weather Report Minimum l.mperalurr |n,n S YSI b lo :::o c r i»«irr (73T1: Ptnaitf Kola Uharu iM| Kiml.^ Lumpur ,73r»; |p o Ku.nii.,l, „,7| Maximum Temporal ur««: I rum 52 m ■>«•« :iO lo 7 ::o m ftlTI Kola Itharu IttF); Ku.il.i Lumpur <<r»|/, l|loll Kuantan (X9Ki. RalnUM: Sin
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    Lock icon LANGUAGE ROWQUEEN CAN LIFT BAN
    197 3 Changes Cannot Be Made Locally oildard Staff Reporter NO ONE other than the Queen -in-Council has the power to change the Rendel Constitution and lift the ban on non-English speaking candidates contesting Singapore elections. i v ?u y o G vernmen t spokesman told The
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    Lock icon She Pawned Friend's Gems-Jailed
    108 3 She Pawned Friend's Gems-Jailed EXDAH binte Babu. a 35--year-old woman, was sentenced m the Singapore First Criminal District Court yesterday to eight months' jail, for criminal breach of trust of $2,700 worth of jewellery belonging to a friend. The prosecution said Endah borrowed two diamond earstuds and 30 gold bangles
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    Lock icon MAN STABBED
    34 3 A CHINESE was stabbed when he attempted to separate two men who were fighting m Lorong Lalat. Singapore on Thursday. The wounded man, Quay Siong Hwee. was admitted to the General Hospital.
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    Lock icon Council's Pinball Taboo Is On Today
    91 3 Council's Pinball Taboo Is On Today FROM today, Singapore coffee shop owners will lose their licences lor the whole of this year if they have pinball machines m their premises. The City Council has attached this condition to the renewal of licences for this year following a public outcry against
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    Lock icon Girl Died After Fall From Tree
    94 3 A FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl, Bibiana Sin Mvi Siok. fell from a guava tree while plucking guavas, and died the next day. a Singapore Coroner's Court was told yesterday. She fell on some broken pots beneath the tree and cut her ne k. Her father, Sih
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    Lock icon COUNCILLORS WATCH BALLOT
    39 3 Standard Staff Reporter A BALLOT for stalls at Singapore's Hock San Brickworks Market, was held yesterday m the presence of two City Councillors. Mrs. Robert Eu and Mr. Mah Pak Shee. Thirty-three people were allotted stalls.
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    Lock icon Jail For Snatch Thief
    52 3 Jail For Snatch Thief SAMIN.bin Jaudin. a youth, snatched a woman breadseller's tin of money m Church Street on the morning of Dec. 17. He was arrested by a policeman after a short chase. Samin who pleaded guilty was sentenced to eight months' jail, m the Singapore First Criminal District
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    Lock icon Off For Training
    42 3 ELEVEN Cadets and one Officer of the Federation Air Training Corp. from all parts of the mainland pictured at Kuala Lumpur Railway Station, on Wednesday night prior to leaving for training m Australia. Standard photo by Yong Peng Seong.
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    Lock icon OFFERED TENANTS $15,000
    121 3 OFFERED TENANTS $15,000 SAHARUDDIN Abdullah, assistant manager of Van Leng Co. Ltd.. pleaded guilty m the Singapore City Police Court yesterday to failing to carry out repairs to two houses within 30 days. He. however, sought the court's help to have the houses pulled down as he would like to
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    Lock icon TAXI DRIVER STABBED
    36 3 A SINGAPORE taxi driver. Chia Han Tone, was stabbed by his fare at the junction of Pepys and Pasir Panjang Road about midnifht on Thuisday. Motive for the stabbing has not been established.
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    Lock icon AQUARIUM IS WELL STOCKED
    170 3 AT the present rate at which the Van Kleef Aquarium is progressing, there is hope that the doors of this building will be opened to the Singapore public within two months. i Stocking of the fresh water tanks la nearly completed, and all that is needed
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    Lock icon PAYS A FORFEIT
    38 3 MISS Rita Frugtniet helps Brian Frank to suck a rubber teat and pay a forfeit ot a Christmas party organised by St. Mary's Youth Fellowship m Kuala Lumpur recently. Standard photo by Yong Peng Seong.
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    299 3 TWENTY-NINE local officers have been appointed to posts m the Singapore Higher Services, a Press release revealed yesterday. Fifteen have been appointed to Part 11 and 12, including a woman, to Part 1 of the Services. Of the 12 appointed to Part 1, 10
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    Lock icon COLONIALISM LEADS TO COMMUNISM-P.M.
    733 4 Bogor Delegates Meet The Press COLONIALISM leads to Communism, Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, said yesterday during his brief stay m the Colony en route to Penang after attending the Bogor Conference. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Mohamed Ali, also passed through Singapore yesterday
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    Lock icon WIFE PUT ARSENIC IN HIS FOOD
    112 4 WIFE PUT ARSENIC IN HIS FOOD JOHORE BAHRU. Fii. In love with another man, Neela. 22-year-old wife of a labourer, of Mawai Estate, tried to poi.son her husband. Convicted m the Sessions Court. Kota Tinggi, yesterday, she was sentenced to three years' imprisonment with effect from Oct 24. The evidence
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    Lock icon An All-Community Reception For Nehru In Penang
    215 4 An All-Community Reception For Nehru In Penang Greeting PENANG, Fri.— The hope that the Indian Government's influence would be turned to encouraging the Indian sons and daughters of Malaya to give to her their chief love and service was expressed by Mr. Heah Joo Seang, at a dinner given by
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    Lock icon PLATFORM – WORTH WAITING
    131 4 PLATFORM WORTH WAITING KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The UMNO-MCA Alliance declared today that its platform for Federal elections was a matter of great consequence and hence must necessarily take some time. Confident of releasing its platform at "the appropriate time." a press statement issued by the Alliance headquarters said: "When it
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    Lock icon 'SATURDAY DATE' ON THE AIR
    58 4 PENANG. Fri.— One of the several procframmes announced by Radio Malaya for 1955 if the revival of an old favourite Saturday Date Listeners who wish tc have requests played on this programme, which commences on Saturday, Jan. 8. at 1 p.m., are asked to address
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    Lock icon Deadlock In Bus Strike
    128 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Prospects of an early resumption of full-scale omnibus services m Kuala Lumpur vanished today, with a total breakdown m negotiations between the strike-bound General Transport Company and its 300 drivers and conductors. The negotiations which began yesterday over demands of the transport workers
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    Lock icon POPPY DAY FUND
    22 4 THE proceeds from the Butterworth Poppy Day dance were $1,128.48 which ha? been paid into the Poppy Da\ Fund.
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    Lock icon H'Kong U. Art Show
    67 4 H'Kong U. Art Show PROFESSOR R. Gordon Brown (centre) Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Hongkong University, shows Sir Sydney Came, Chancellor of the University of Malaya, some of the drawing* made by the Faculty s third year students The drawings were put on exhibition at the British Council Hall
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    87 5 TRAFFIC CHEIF'S NEW YEAR APPEAL sr. PS appealed Colony .deration a d during so as to number of thai claim of 100 hves reduce road declare! people wIU themselves." one good records is tal accidents. n killed to a ,-Mmpared 1 fore. ires so far were 586 injury and 7fi
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    55 5 c w R vvther A' r ht om day etec\'2 sale, ed v~)(io m F irth F I sql Rosa Chai [ma Xt h ol Brai eh of ■:in Is m Streel when squatti on 1 k a r ted to buy Chinese
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    11 5 ar tubes Bencooien ntenc- isonment theft.
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    Lock icon He Sold Rice Without Licence
    59 5 MUAR, FrL— S. P. Alagappan a shopkeeper at No. no Pagoh Village, Muar was I $60 by the Muar Magistrate Inche Ibrahim bin Abdul Manan fo r offering to sell rice without a licence and for failing to tie the price list to the bag
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    65 5 MORE than 1.000 children were given a Christmas Treat at the Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace In Tanjong Katong Road. Singapore, last Sunday. Lucky programme numbers iwn were: *****, ***** *****, *****, *****. ****** l'1H:-:l\ *****, *****. ***** *****, *****, *****). and *****4." The
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    Lock icon The'Mung' Bean Puzzles Chinese
    206 5 The' Mung' Bean Puzzles Chinese SINGAPORE Chinese were puzzled yesterday by a I nited Press report that "the juice of mung beans now used chiefly m the making of the Chinese-Ameri-can iood chop suey' is about to get a trial as a medicine." "We never heard of the mung bean,"
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    94 5 NEWEST member of the Australian Women Pilots' Association is Miss Wong Chiew Wan. of Kuala Lumpur, who has temporarily given up her Australian studies to run a Sliest -ho use fo r Asian students m Melbourne. To celebrate her entry into the association. Miss Wong invited members to
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    Lock icon AMPLE DOCTORS HERE TO FIT IN
    339 5 AMPLE DOCTORS HERE TO FIT IN No Need To Get Them From Aboard —Prof. Sandosham Alumti F S >RM ER President of the Singapore vestTrdo °-i° h0 L n Prof A A Sandosham, docttr, d here ore enou 9 h qualified mSS. I S m 9°P° re *> fill vacancies
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    110 5 Study Grant Offer Is Extended THE date for submission of applications for research iranti under the Massachusetts In. S? 1 °i Terhri W Foreign Student Summer Project has been extended to Jan. 6 The Project is organised to provide technical graduate! m Ma'aya and other countries a short term study
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    Lock icon NEW CHAIRMAN
    28 5 TAIPING. Fri.— Mr. F.A.W. Gahbutt has succeeded Mr. R.F.H. Drake-Brockman aChairman of the Taiping Town 1 Council, on the latter's return I to the United Kingdom.
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    Lock icon A SUSPECTED POISON DEATH
    25 5 A SINGAPORE man. Chang Tong Chee, of Kampong Yap Guan San. died In the General Hospital last night of suspected poisoning.
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    Lock icon All Are Invited To A Musical Treat
    286 5 THE public is invited by the Singapore Musical Society to attend the preliminary auditions of its first pianoforte competition on Monday and Tuesday Jan. 3 and 4, at the Victoria Memorial Hall, from s.ii p.m. to about 10.30 p.m. There will be a
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    Lock icon Dramatic Recitals
    94 5 SIXGAPORE may enjoy a dramatic treat some time m February if Dame Sybil Thornj dike and Sir Lewis Casson I decide to spend 10 days m the Colony and give recitals, on their return journey from India to Australia They will arrive at Kallang Airport on Jan. (i.
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    79 5 PRESIDENT Eisenhower's State of the Union message will be broadcast by the Voice of America to Far East listeners on Jan. 6. at 1715-1815 GMT. the United States Information Service announced yesterday. The following are the frequencies and wave-lengths for the English transmission: United Stales: 9600 kilocycles.
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    Lock icon Annual Parley Of Methodists
    43 5 TAIPING, Fri.— The annual conference of Methodist Churches m Malaya will be held m Singapore from Jan 4 to Rev. Wong Hoon Hec. Mr?. Jeyamoncy. Mi<s Addington. Miss Killingsworth and Mr. D.G. Jeyesekera. will be the delegates from Taiping.
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      Lock icon 1955-A Crucial Year
      487 6 J^ NEW YEAR opens out before the people of Malaya today. It if a time when men and women of Ixll nationalities, races and creeds lcok back for a moment on the year that has just ended, then wonder what the new year that lies ahead holds
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      489 6 JT has not come as a surprise that a Johore State Councillor should suggest the secession of Johore from the Federation if it did not receive a bigger allocation of Federal funds. Johoie joined the Federation unwillingly and since then it had complained on several occasions about its
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    420 6 Review of Views Memorable Recollections THE year 1954 will soon end but for us it will be one Of some memorable 'recollectfons, according to Sin Chew Jit Poh. The international tension C€ tho end of World War II n;nc year- ago was eased abruptly fo; lowing the Geneva Conference and
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    Lock icon Use Malay As Official Language In Singapore Legislative Assembly
    1004 6  - Use Malay As Official Language In Singapore Legislative Assembly S. SHAW B vsssssssssasfflffifa people claim they know the Malays. They DON'T! They don t because they haven't studied their literature, their arts, their customs and the deep influence of their religion m their lives. It is amazing: how many non-Malays,
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      319 6 Sir; At about 3 p.m. on 24th. Dec. '54, 1 went to the Maxwell Road Post Office to post a registered letter by "A.R.." I asked a junior clerk who was nt the counter to obliqc vie with an "/I.R.' card. However, the card which he gave
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      104 6 Sir; What, I suspect, has shocked "Disgusted Hindu" is not the imaginary insult to Mahatma Gandhi but the unwarranted flattery extended to a local political leader. The purpose of the photo-cartoon and the article accompanying it m the current issue of Raayat was to debunk any attempt at comparing
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      349 6 Sir;— The Labour Front's four-year-plan announced m your paper of 29th December. '54 carried a promise to those civilians serving the Imperial Government m this colony, but are not considered as Government servants. The promise is this, "the front also promises to provide civilian employees m the three
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    Lock icon Sarawak, Elysium Of The East
    858 6  -  O.M. GREEN the distant and peacer: 1 ful little British Colony J of Sarawak once the 2 famous kingdom of the 2 Rajahs Brooke, founded m 1841 by James Brooke, but ceded to the Crown by Sir J Charles Vyner Brooke m 5 194G -is
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    245 7 Lion's Share Of $3 ,OOO MiL. Aid May Go To Asia WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, (Reuter)— A foreign ecolM d military aid programme of about 3,000 mil- irs —with heavy emphasis on military funds— spected to be proposed by President Eisenhower budget message to Congress on Jan. 7, officials Sported yesterday.
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    50 7 Chelsea Arts Ball No Hooliganism (R( .••-r)— boys and ni's ari leir heart aring the Arts Ball, which nnocently and c a .1 brawl I mother v Arts S< yen to] have m the m proriot. promised .ooliThere will for the B m :Ie are They i six pi c^c.
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    45 7 nd. Dec. Ll 0 barl ey'a gi 1 from a he a year with* alB--won the to terans. th( Idea. He r 5 lo al pub and ners to help ~r.ee a later the 1 Grim x pei md fund.
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    69 7 WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UP> The government moved yesterday to name 27 new organizations as subversive and to force a New York City M-hool of social science to register with the Justice Department as a Communist front. Attorney-General Herbert Brownel!. Jr.. gave the 127 organizations 10
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    51 7 BELGRADE. Dec. 31 (Renter;—A Belgrade judge decided to open criminal inquiry against rebei Yugoslav politicians Milovan Djilas and Vladimir Dedijer for "criminal offences of slanderous hostile propaganda aimed at inflicting damage to most vital interests :of Yugoslavia abroad' the I Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported last
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    38 7 WILLIAM PIT claimed to be Britain's oldest under the sea coal mine, closes down today. The shaft was sunk m 1812 and at one time workings extended nearly seven miles under the sea. I Router.
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    306 7 Red China's New Map Big Slices From Her Neigbours NEW DELHI, Dec. 31— (AP)— A Communist Chinese map being sold here claims big slices of Indian, Burmese and Pakistani territory for Red China. The map, distributed by a local Communist bookseller yesterday, extends China's boundaries to approximately the same limits
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    102 7 NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UP) Wealthy Viscount Hambleden. formerly one of Princess Margaret's favourite escorts, yesterday announced his engagement to Donna Maria Carmela Attolico de Adelna of Rome. The 24-year-old heir to a bookselling fortune is here with his bride-to-be. 23. daughter of Countess Attolico de
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    403 7 A New Year Behind Bars For A Star HOLLYWOOD. Dee. SI, (UP) The most fabulous New Year's Eve party m Hollywood used to be Riven by Producer Sam Spiegel at his beautiful Beverly Hills By 4.30 a.m. more than I.. "500 Kuests from diplomats flown from Washington to movie stars
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    57 7 BENARES. India, Dec 31 (Reuter) President Tito was blessed by Hindu priests during a three-hour visit yesterday to the ancient city of Benares. He stopped there on his way to Calcutta. Crowds broke through bamboo railings and police cordons when he visited Dashmswamedh Ghat on the
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    25 7 ELEANOR Maley. 18-year-old Minnesota milkmaid, finally took off for France last night with 48 quarts of milk for dairy-minded Premier Pierre Mendes-France.
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    218 7 Wine,Women Waltzes Vienna Lives Again VIENNA. Dec. 31 (AP)—Occupied Vienna, once a capital of wine, women and waltzes. is determined to recapture its old-time gaiety m the coming carnival season. Nearly 2,000 balls will be staged m the seven weeks beginning next Wednesday to help Viennese forget the cares of
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    43 7 LONDON. Dec. 31, (AP) The following item appeared yesterday m th e front page personal column of The Times: "Mr. and Mrs. Denzil Batchelor give thanks for Christmas greetings. Through laziness they sent no Christmas card? this year."
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    202 7 An Age-Old Profession Is Now Legal BUENOS AIRES, Dec. SI, (Reuter) Prostitution became legal under State supervision throughout Argentina yesterday after a 20-year ban. A decree to this effect was broadcast over the national radio signed by President Peron and all cabinet ministers. It instructed local authorities and provincial governments
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    401 7 But Not Radio Moscow BONN, Dec. 31, Western leaders last night cheered the French National Assembly's approval of West German rearmament as o major step toward bolstering free world defences and improving prospects for peace. Moscow Radio claimed the French people were still opposed to
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    205 7 Cupid Gets Ready For The New Year LONDON. Drr. (Reuter) F.ros. the puckish <iod of l.o\r who lives m the midrilr of Piccadilly Cirrus Han today hidden behind a protective wall of wooden hoardings a sure sign lhat New Year s Eft is on its way to London This evening
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    164 7 AIRLINE ENGINEERS MAY STRIKE LONDON. Dec. 31 ißfuter) —About 330 airline engineers employed by British European Airways and British Overseas Airways last night urged strike action on Jan. 6. unless a union official .sacked for 'grave industrial misconduct" was re-instated. They took their decision to ask the Amalgamated Engineering Union
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    35 7 WASHINGTON I), (UP)— Soi trials of the i submarine Nautilu delayed for three month a mix-up m ins:. I o( steam piping, will I cd until early Mai ii. the navy sa.d.
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    47 7 LONDON. D< II <AP) London evening m said yesterday nearly £500,000 v. t in the crash of the Bi Itj h 0 seas Airways Sir;.' Prostwirk on Christ l > v. An official at th< G Po^t Office mid ti > have been received.
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    263 8 'New- Powered' Petrol On Sale Today And At No Extra Cost Standard Staff Reporter STANDARD-VACUUM officials m Singapore yesterday announced a new double-powered Mobilgas which will be marketed m the Colony and the Federation from today. mis now Mobilgas will replare the previous petrol sold by ihc Company, and for
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    98 8 Citizen's Week For Youth KUALA LUMPUK. FriThe SHangor Youth Council announced today that it planned to hold a "Youn^ l Citizens We*k" throughout the Federation Irom Jan. 2'j to Feb. 1. A spokesman ol the 8.T.C.. raid that the aim ol the week would be to "turn the spotlight on
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    127 8 42 KILLED IN K.L. ROAD ACCIDENTS KUALA LUMPUR. Fri Forty-two people were killed m a total of 3,996 Accidents on Kuala Lumpur roads m 1954, traffic police revealed tcday. This i s a slight improvement over last year which had 4f> deaths and 3.79!) accident! «u T he r, surprise
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    77 8 KUALA KAXGSAR Fri A new district health centre costing $76.(X)() has been completed for Kuala Kangsar. The din- houses the Infant Welfare Centre and the Dental Clinic as well as quarters for the staff. It will be run by the Mcd:cal Department and the official opening
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    35 8 MUAR. Fri Tan Ban Choon. 48, was i\nc(\ $7(j by the Mva r magistrate ior falling to comply with a notiro to j demolish a temporary i>hed at Jalan Meriam, Muar.
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    218 8 MORE SAY 'I DO' AT THE REGISTRY PEN AM;, Fri. The Senior Kruistr.tr of (i\i| Marriages, Penang:, Mr. J. C. Adams, said today th.it civil marriages were becoming greater m popularity m all communities especially among the poorer people One of the reasons is thai the parties realize that it
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    102 8 'Poet' Pens Terrorist Documents KUALA LUMPUR, Pit— A young Chinese, charged under the Emergency Regulations with possession of terrorist documents, told the First Magistrate today thai he wrote the documents lor nil ''own pleasure." The Magistrate, howi committed Mow Sui Yong, 30, of Berdang Bahru New Village, to stand trial
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    60 8 TAiPixc Fri— The following voluntary workers iii Pcrak will receive Certificates or l\itriotir Service from the Adult Education Association, Federation Of Malaya, U>r Mtvici rendered m i!«.">4. Mr Oh Bak Hiri (Kri.in). Mr. K.C. Vcoh (Taiping), Yang Mulia Tunku Hussain (Ipoh). Mr. S. Kajaratnam (Ipoh), Che Hamdan
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    137 8 IPOH. Iri During t' >#• first six months of in.')}. (iovcrnmcnt Servant Cooperative Thnit and i Society. Ipoh. nave oui loans involving a sum r $227,230. according to t! half-yearly report and I ment oi accounts i June .'JO this year. However, the amount »f
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    102 8 KUALA LUMPUR, rri .pp-<i- nt lack ol i the Lady I i H" pi*.. i Fund to lay m the Mth li t < i tion fa the fortnight up tfl I>■ 27, MM.2Q was rioi to the fi<f.<( ii). amount i o far
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    46 8 1 iron. Mi Tbt ttaadard OlDcc m ipnh today r<c« jvi d a cheque for sum from th»? Local Council. New Villam-. Jelapang, Klatm, for the Fedrratlon Hood rr in-i fund. The cheque will b«- .mt to the flood nil* t authoi
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    177 8 KIALA MMPIK, Fri.— ln an attempt to strengthen the trade union organization within the mining industry, the Mining Workers' In ion of Malaya is proposing a national delegates conference m the new year. It is planned to hold the conference on Jan. 25 at the
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    35 8 MR. AM) MRS KKNNKTII I. RO/ARIO. uho urnmarried at St. Joseph's Church. Singapore, recent- ly. The hrielr \».is formrrl? Miss Kcln.i Brins rr< rp« I Kin u;is held .it (he Vie* toria Memorial H ill
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    50 8 'I MPING Fri A danrc will I I ihe S< ileant 4c ol -t,. H' n• nt here on Jan. Hln i of the Ma H« ent Old Comrades' A j..n<.rj <>f P( rak. 'i he dan <• ■.< •< ol i i .1 i.
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    28 8 MUAR. Fri.— For obstruct- 1 ing the road with his car at Jalan Abdullah. Muar. S< i Soh. 11, was fin'-d $10 m th»Muar Magistrate*! Court
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    142 8 Council To Lay Down Policy On Stadium THE Singapore City Council yesterday decided to lay down a policy soon on whether Jalan Besar Stadium could be used for political meetings When the Labour Front wanted to hold a mas.-, rally at the Stadium recentl> th c Estates and Fire Brigade
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    602 9 Tr hl L aCk 1° 1954 The Tra c Kdlan 9 Crash T Th ««*nt Lexa Maersk Fue The New Year 1955-The Year Of The Sheep-A Better Year On The Threshold Of The 'Lean' Year Of The Sheep, Let's Hope For The BEST Top: The Lexa
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    348 10 YPPROPRIATELY, youth heralds the New Year. with the preliminary sessions of the Municipal Society's Beethoven/Chopin Piano Competition which take place in the Victoria .Memorial Hall next Monday and Tuesday, January 3 and 4, from 5.15 p.m. Each session will end at about 9.30 p.m., with a
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    948 10  - STAGE DOOR JOHN HALKIN mmmm r PHE coming of the New Year usually finds the theatre at its busiest period. The pantomime is running. The latest plays are usually still on the boards, unless the failure has been so bad as to cause a withdrawal even before the active December
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    33 11 THE Argentine Government has banned t he imports of ekvtnc Washing machines into the country r.s enough of them arc bei n<* produced by local manufacturers to meet domestic de.nnnd. UP
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    105 11 A GIANT rubber bag. which holds 12 million gallons ol water, nas been installed inside a concrete reservoir m Sunderlani, England. The bag was installed after iiormal plaster-repair work m cracks down the sides of the reservoir failed to produce satisfactory results. The bag went through
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    280 11 THE first Viscount of a stream of now on order has been delivered to the Western hemisphere. The airliner i s for Trans Canada Airlines, and within 30 months it will be followed by the remaining 8f aircraft for T.C.A.. Capital Airlines British West
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      1170 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD «Sc CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 ShippTnV' incorporated m Singapore) (12 lines) D.pts f THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE t d.# Carrlm-s option to proceed vlj other ports to lead »nd discharge cargo SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL, CLASCOW, LONDON CONTINENT. Singapore Mjlr# Duo Sails P Sham Penan* Maron for L.verpool
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    128 12 THE vice-president and general counsel for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania). Mr. Leland Hazard, has accepted an invitation to lecture m the Far East. Including Malaya, and Australia under the International Educational Exchange Programme of the U.S. Department of State. Leaving on
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    261 12 Rubber Producers Want Stable Market "THE Malayan producer of rubber does not want a feast or famine type of market," said Mr. H. C. Bugbee, president of the Natural Rubber Bureau m V/ashington on Thursday. "He wants a stable market built about competition with I privately owned competitively priced synthetic.
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    313 12 Drop In Balances Not A Bad Thing— Paper EVIDENCE of some reduction m Britain's liabilities to the Sterling area m recent months was "not itself necessarily a bad thing, says The Financial Times m a leading article on the fall m recent months m the Sterling balances of some of
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    21 12 THE United Stales enjoyed one of its best postwar years m labour-management relations during 1954 the Labour Department announced.
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    172 12 NEW A-30s GO ON 3 GENTS A MILE... The new Austin A-3Q Van, a lively 5-cwt. vehicle for door-to-door delivery, is the handiest van m the business. Like its other model, the new Austin A-'.iO Countryman, it will weave m and out of traffic, tuck itself into the smallest spaces
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    65 12 A NOISELESS engine capable of driving a bicycle at the spe£d of 15 miles an hour without consuming a drop of petrol has been invented and tested by a Netherlands' engineer, it was revealed m The Hague. Fitted to a bicycle, the power unit comprises a
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    375 12 LONDON, Dec. 31, (Reuter) Shipowners were warned today that British shipping would be faced with a serious decline m its size unless considerable replacement orders were made for every type of tonnage m the years ahead. Mr. J. W. Elliott, President of the Shipbuilding
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    600 12 Rubber Market Review— THE last few days of 1954 constituted the shortest trading but the most hectic week of the year, recording both the highest price and the greatest upward movement m any week this year, says the weekly rubber report of Messrs. Holiday, Cutler, Bath
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    180 12 13BBBffiJ*ffB^WWi!ffBl Standard Market Reporter THE rubber market m Singapore was again not a hi? for wide fluctuations yesterday, first grade January shipment closing at 98* cents per lb., a rise of 3 cent on Friday. This is the highest closing price for the year.
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    67 12 ON the basis of number of workers employed, the aircrnft industry is the largest m the United States, according to Admiral Dcwitt C. Ramsey, president of the Aircraft Industries Association. Adm. Ramsey said airplane manufacturers employed an average of 811.000 workers during the first nine months
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    243 12 TRAVEL CHIEF 'SOLD' S'PORE TO TOURISTS Standard Staff Reporter Mr. B. O. Martin, (ieneral Manager of Thomas Cook and Son. Singapore, and the man who has m the past IS months been responsible for "selling" this Colony to hundreds of globe-trotting tourists, leaves Singapore for Kome on Jan. 7. Thousands
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    79 12 THE Malayan share market closed the quiet note with industrials and tins stradv were irregular due to profit- taking. Price rhani:< by the Malayan Bl A.sbociatlon yr trrda 1X1)'. SlR|\| lluvrrs S< ,n 'I K«<l lit Sti git* T ir.i Unit**! K.-.^inecr* M
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    31 12 WOLFSBURG. < Germany*. Dec. SI, <AP» Volkswagen, Germany's biggest car producer, announced today ttl output has passrd 1.000 daily and that it plans construction of a second plant.
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    60 12 TOKYO: Standinc sidr by side are these tuo sets of scaffolds, the old bamboo on the older buildinc at the left and the new "Uestern" steel pipr scaffold. Bamboo has been used by the Japanese for years m their construction and repair of building but apparently
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    62 12 'i i S p ir but 'i lopra Thm for ;i H( B I U < per pic i JANLAKY 1 1 I m. POM (Mil Noon M.ir k( Singap n i i iit the Ex« hange [)l < I.: Java I! $50; i■
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    184 12 U.S. Trains Will Ride On Rubber KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Several American trains will be riding on rubber by the beginning of next year and saving millions of dollars m maintenance costs. An engineer on the Illinois Central iianroa«~ one 01 the largest m the U.S. reported that after patient years
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    52 12 PAN American A rwa\ > uiiiuj id ed irj today its "Fly now. p.»y !.it« p m is to < Britain l.'mler it. resident .n the I'mted Kingdom w to travel anywhere In the world on a down p« per cent, of the fare \w'h the
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      483 12 IThe Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 45) In the High Court or the Colony of Singapore Island of Singapore IN BANKRUPTCY. No. 422 of L 1954. Re LIM BAH CIIEE of No. 123. Albert Street, Singapore. Receiving Order made 22nd October, 1^54. Date of Adjudication 22nd October, 1954. Date and place of
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    1164 13 COWDREY SAVES ENGLAND FROM A COLLAPSE Victory, Now Buds! Miller Starts The Havoc IW her* tm£ V^" 5? < Reu «er)- Australia made a grand start m the third and Trevor R^l^r 1 d who lost four ww ets for 41 before Colin Cowdrey A. tea Vnll/J me ?J he
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    166 13 NEW YORK. Dec. 31 (AP) Mai Whitfield. who has been the world's best half miler for six years. Thursday won the James E. Sullivan memorial trophy for 1954. top honour for American amateur athletes. The two-time Olympic 800--meter champion, currently m the Middle East
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    57 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri— It was a much closer thing than the 4-2 margin by which Singapore Malays beat their Selangor compatriots m a soccer match highlighted by an Awang Bakar 'hattrick' at the Princes Road stadium here today. Selangor hod just as many goalworthy chances but they
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    78 13 THE visiting University of Ceylon rugby players will meet the Ceylon Sports Club m a friendly cricket match at Balestier Road today at 11 a.m. The visitors are reputed to have a few all-round cricketers who have played m good company m Ceylon. The CSC
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    102 13 LONDON, Dec. 31 (AP) -Dr. Roger Bmviistcr. the iirst man to run a mile under four minutes, Thursday nig Jit iras named Britain's sportsman of 1954, The title of Britisli sportswoman of the year went to Miss Pal Smyth, internationally known competitor m horse show
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    64 13 THE Army team to play the Police at hockey on Jan. -8 at Tanglin will be:Sgt. ,lee; IVlaj. Liang Major Bennett: Lt. Pritrhard.' WO II Duncan 2nd. Lt. Bennett: Capt. Nunn. Maj. Hobson, Sgt. Tr.iman Thapa. Cpl. Wee All Kuan. Cpl. Nizar. Reserves: Cdr. O^man. S/Sgt. Haynes. 2nd.
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    49 13 photo by THE Singapore Malay School Ouunpions, Kota Raja Malay School (left) and the Kuala Lumpur Combined Malay School's team (right) pictured irith the Sulta?i of Sclangor (centre) before their Inter-State soccer match at the T.P.C.A. ground, Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. Both teams played barefooted. Standard Yong Peng seong
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    94 13 TAIPING. Fri. A record crowd of 5.000 saw the Singapore Malays play delißht'ful IOCCer to beat the Ferry Youngfteri of Penang m a friendly football match by throe Koals to one on Wednesday. From the .start, the Malays showed the:r superiority and inside-left Ismail Yusof.
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    1373 14 Want Two More Good Ones? Take Purple And White (Race 3) Percussion (Race 5) MY NEW YEAR BET IS GOLDEN LOTUS. Although penalised seven pounds for his stylish victory m the Christmas Cup race over the mile on the second day,
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    140 14 IN* the seventh rnce the Club CTjp. Triiincr J.irk Spencer has two good <>nr> m South Pacific and Show Show The former was not disgraced when he came m second to H Fire over the seven on the Ri day Although n ow ptnaliscd pounds.
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