Singapore Standard, 14 February 1955

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  • 14 1 Singapore Standard r \i. r SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1955 J2 PAGES 13 CENTS,
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  • 233 1 )S Feb. ft (Reuter) Britain has tolc j, tnrmosa conference without Nationalise nested by Russia "could not have a usefu Vforeisn office said last night. Hayter, the British Ambassador ir jotor, the Soviet Foreign Minister -ctitain observations" last Wednes isal for an international confer 1 ence on Formosa.' The
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  • 61 1 iLK nMPrR. gmm f— l t04 1,. kiMrll b> party at mil»-> f rom J, !pt| ttwj > moor's .»ar^n. Mr. j hJ<l >hot the JJr fill t« rror" 00 I, party vis out jr o! the Gum- ntul si-hted the i.»t her on l i l«\ipt. Udßouni up
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  • 34 1 I j. 13 <Reum rescue ship mv crew of 17! n British ship. r ~.nich radioed had sprung a Indo-China naval sources -aid the crew I off the port n the west na.
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  • 12 1 H 13 •Reuter> I Uery worth n from the Veil Lynn
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  • 38 1 MILAN, Feb. 13 (Reuter) Gina Lolobrigida. the Italian film star, has been chosen by 27 Milanese painters as the "Mona Lisa of 1955" and has agreed to pose for all 27 of them .simultaneously.
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  • 49 1 Picture. James Mason THIS IS Marshal Grigori Zhukov Russia's rev/*. Defence Minister, with all his medals and decorat'ons^ earned for leading the vast Russian armies intdjj* Berlin in 1945. Zhukov succeeds Marshal Bulgaria* who has taken over the premiership from George Malenkov.- A. P.
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  • 476 1 MCP HQ In Pontian School Seized Papers Give Police A Vital Clue KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Federation Police have smashed a complex underground Communist Party Branch in Pontian town with well-established connections in several Chinese schools in the area. The Branch itself was centred in a Pontian school
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  • 125 1 General' Mambo (MAU MAU CHIEF) Nabbed NAIROBI, Feb. 13. (Reutcr) -Kikuyuguards last night wounded and captured "GeneiaP Mwangi Mambo, stocky. 30-year-old principal Mau Mau leader in Nairobi since "General" Karioki was captured a fortnight ago. Detectives were today questioning Mambo about murderous knife attacks on four Asians in the past
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  • 60 1 TAIPEI, Feb. 13 (UP).— Artillery duelling In the Quemoy area resumed today as the Nationalists exchanged fire with the Communists on Tatang and Amoy. A Ministry of Defence communique said the Nationalists started the exchange when they discovered the Reds on Tatang preparing to open fire
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  • 168 1 Mason Named For 'Oscar' HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 13 (Reuter James Mason, the British film star, was one of five players nominated here last night for the motion picture academy's "Oscar" award for the best film performance of 1954. The others were Marlon Brando. Bing Crosby. Humphrey Bogart, and Dan O'Herlihy. Mason's
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  • 24 1 MRS. Marianys Huxley, wife of Aldous Huxley. th« British writer, died on Saturday at their home after a short illness. Reuter
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  • 211 1 Police Find Gun, Ammo KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The Police here have detained two men in connection with the murder of Mr. Yap Kon Shin, 58, cashier of Messrs. Wearne Bros. Ltd., whose battered body was found in a drain oil Sungei Besi Road here, yesterday
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  • 103 1 MARGARET OFF TO ANTIGUA BRIDGETOWN. Barbados. Feb. 13 (Reuter). Princess Margaret was given two warm send-offs by Barbados —"Little England" of the West Indies as she drove through crowded streets here last night to join the Royal yacht. Britannia, for a 300-mile voyage to Antigua. The first was official. The
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  • 15 1 EIGHT attap houses were destroyed in a fire at Woodlands. Singapore, yesterday.
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  • 92 1 'They're Good Friends' IRELAND. Feb. 13 (Renter) Mr. Georgi Zarubin, Russian Ambassador to Washington, asked "why not?" when questioned here today about the possibility ot a meeting between President Eisenhower and Marshal Zhukov, the new Soviet Defence Minister. Reporters asked the Ambassador if he thought it likely that Marshal Zhukov
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  • 59 1 COLOMBO, Feb. 13. (Reuter).— The Venerable Kumburupitiya Gunaratna Thero. incumbei t of Mahindarama Buddhist Temple in Penang has been appointed Chief High Priest, of Malaya. The appointment was made in Kandy yesterday by the Malwatte Chapter of Monks, the highest Buddhist ecclesiastical authority in Ceylon. It
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  • 184 1 PARIS. Feb. 13 (Reuter) The 20th post-war French Cabinet crisis seemed this morning to be moving slowly in favour, of the Premier Designate. M. Pierre Pflimlin. Last night's Conservative revolt against what was considered "Cinderella" treatment in the distribution of portfolios died down somewhat today
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  • 159 1 BO AC PILOT MILLED ON HIS HONEYMOON SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 12 (UP).— Tragedy in Cairo united 8.0.AC, pilot Godfrey Charles Liggins and stewardess Janet Medwin last May and today it separated them in Australia They met when Janet. 23. was run down by a jeep at Cairo airport Exactly four
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  • 83 1 Newspaper Offices Hit By Grenades SAIGON. Feb. 13 (Reuter) —Grenades were lobbed last night into offices of two progovernment newspapers in Saigon injuring one person in each and slightly damaging, equipment. J^blicesaki the two newspapers, the Vietnamese language Saigon Moi and Tient Chuong would be able to continue publication. Some
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  • 79 1 BERLIN. Feb. 13 < Router) Herr Otto Grotewohl. East German Prime Minister, today described the Allied air raid on Dresden which 10 years ago today left six square miles of the city in ruins as comparable to the atom bombing of Japan and "bacteriological warfare in
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  • 217 2 $41 1 /4 Mil. Registered Stock With 4 Per Cent Interest KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Federation Government tonight announced the issue of $41,250,000 of registered stock as the second instalment of the $100,000,000 loan authorized under the 1951 ordm- ance to finance national derelopmsnt. The
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  • 199 2 Dato Onn's Reply Accepted By Shelley PENANG. Sun. Eurasians throughout the country are now being asked by the President of the Eurasian Union of Malaya. Mr. G. Shelley, to accept the explanation made by the Secretary-General of Party Negara. Dato Onn bin Ja'afar. in his address at the Party Negara
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  • 190 2 McNeice Invited To Visit SIT Flats THE CHAIRMAN of the! Singapore Improvement' Trust, Mr. T. P. F. Mo Neice, will today be invited to visit the S.I.T. ''Suicide Flats'' at Upper Pickering Street for an on-the-spot investigation for taking measures to prevent people from jumping oft these flats. City Councillor.
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  • 55 2 ABOUT a square mile of semi-jungle off Clementi Road. Singapore, and nine big patches of lallang scattered over the Island caught fire yesterday. A tractor overturned and caught fire in Sime Hill Park. Lim Chin Hoe. aged 20. who was pinned under the tractor was
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  • 63 2 JOHORE BAHRl T Sun. While o:\ a visit to his daughter. Mrs. A. Stewart, of the Nursing StafT of the General Hospital. Johore Bahru Mr. William Michael Read took suddenly ill and died. Mr. Read, who was 83 year? of age. was a pensioner, residing in
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  • 43 2 A B O.A.C Constellation returned to Singapore yesterday evening after it left nine hours before The plane developed engine trouble a* Jakarta. Among those onboard were eight passengers from Peking bound for Calcutta. They are expected to leave the Colony today.
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  • 169 2 SINGAPORE City Councillors are wondering how to meet demands for water in about 15 years from now, when the rapidly increasing population is expected to touch the 2,OOO,<HH> mark. At present, about 47 million gallons of water is consumed daily. In 1972 consumption is expected
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  • 58 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun Dr. S. N. Ponniah, Medical Officer. Kluang General Hospital, son of Mr. and Mrs. S S Ponniah. of Johore Bahru' was married on Friday to Miss Esther Gnanesvary Rasiah of Taiping. The marriage was solem£L sed v st Christopher's Church by Rev. J.j.
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  • 37 2 kr7s« .Singapore Rama-kn-shna Mission Boys Home yesterday, celebrated the first f£ n i Versa 7 of its Literary Sfl^ n n SS r the snip of Mr. V. T Arasu Asst. Editor of Tamil' Murasu'
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  • 61 2 THE Singapore Malay Social Association formed a branch at Bukit Panjang, at a recent meeting attended by about 100 Malay young men and women. The following were elected office-bearers of the BranchPresident. Mr. Yacob Ahmad Vice-President. Mr. Hussin bin Yusoff; Secretary. Mr Ja'ffar bin Abdul Rahman' Asst.
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  • 79 2 200,000 Folders On How To Vote PENANG. Sun.— The Elections Office has printed 200.--000 copies of a folder in four languages, telling the electorate how to mark their ballot papers correctly. The Malayan Auxiliary Air Force have air-dropped 50.000 copies of the folders in remote areas. Seven mobile Public Address
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  • 138 2 THE Singapore Hire Car Association which claims to represent 1,400 Colony taxi owners, yesterday protested against the Registrar of Vehicles action in cancelling the registration of 1947/48 model taxis "without giving sufficient time." Such action was "unreasonable." At least a six-month period should be
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  • 80 2 MALACCA. Sun. The AllMalaya Kheng Chiew Association, today added its voice to the protest against "national tcooots" plan and decided to take up with the MCA Education Committtee its objections to the 1952 Education Ordinance. More than 40 representatives of the association came from all over
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  • Article, Illustration
    57 2 photo by MR K. H Mah and his bride, the forme." Miss Luk Lai Ngo, a Hongkong University graduate and daughter of Madam Shin Sau Chin and the lat« Mr Luk Oi Wan of Hongkong, who were married before the Secretary of Chinese Affairs. Mr C. W Webb
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  • 55 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— The staff of the Johore Bahru Central Electric Board, bade farewell to Mr. C. Woodbridge, the consumers' engineer, at a dinner party yesterday, on the eve of his transfer to Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Woodbridge is succeeded by Mr. A. Ramanath B.Sc, London. from the
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  • Article, Illustration
    54 2 photo. MR G. 11. KIAT (on left) being congratulated by Mr. Aw Cheng Chye. Managing Director of Haw Par Bros.. Ltd. on Saturday night at trie Singapore Chinese Association's re-union dinner on being awarded the 0.8. E. by the Queen. In the centre is the Colony film magnate Mr.
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  • 207 2 MALACCA, Sun.-Dato Sir Cheng-M- T I dent of the Malayan Chinese Association JS pressed his "protest and disapproval of M closure of extracts from what he termed ••> confidential letter" written to him by 'heiSl missioner, last Oct. 15. This letter, said Sir Chenslock, was in continuation to an
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  • 74 2 THE Chancellor M Anyang I niv^l I-in Vu tang Hill si^H 1 '*h n tfc M budget lor thiv n rl I'niversih < < n Un(l I He h.iv M University win fl S.'.till.Ul on <ap:!i diture before it sunjß The main iten> ifl huiidio; s*£Jl.M|. SU.?f)'.OM. /urn, iv«
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  • 50 2 johoe: appc. fl was Court. Urn > "V and < M (a con 1 M I in tm Hit I I Judg< livit.fi rr:: M in C( I -I 1 be taken to cv- appea I a P .9 roq fl ten* i fl i I The !a I
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  • Article, Illustration
    70 3 A CONFERENCE of Thai and Malayan senior officers was held at Taiping recently to study in detail the position on the border between the two countries. MajorGeneral St. Clair Ford, presided. On his right are Police Colonel Ataphorn. Police Brigadier Faed, Air Vice-Marshal Bua. Colonel Ch-»mrat, Air Commodore Prasert
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  • 186 3 ar Trips To Europe Mm -Two well-known residents of Ipoh .jkv that overland motor trips to Europe from aerr accomplished several times in the They were commenting on a attempt by two Malayans. Mr S M. Sharma. a barrister, .said Mr. Pillay, son of Mr. D. S. Pillay. who
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  • 59 3 2 Sagas' Trust hopes lUve hous- t in a lew nay build X am, sccre- iatlon, said v intends perative lieved Ihe not only we negot- will al>o H :n its comI r -ult task of X claims of W the Asso- launched a H f to house H
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  • 66 3 IPOH. Sun. Miss I.M. Checkley. Federation Organizer of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, has just completed a successful tour of the nine branch centres of the Perak St. John Ambulance Association. in Ipoh she conducted an informative course based on the general regulations to all
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  • 43 3 MR. Dudley Turner of Messrs. Dudley Turner and Vincent (Overseas) Ltd.. London advertisers, and Mrs. Turner, arrived in Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday. They are on a world tour and are expected to stay here for a week before leaving for Australia.
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  • 131 3 THE Indian Musical Art Society. Singapore, ha.s elected the following office-bearers for the current year: President Mr. S. P. Samy; Vice-President:— Mr. V. k. Anandan. Secretary Mr. S. Krishnamoorty; Asst. Secretary Mr. If, V Gurusamy; Treasurer Pandit M. Ramalingam; Auditor— Mr. P. Shunmugam and Committee, Messrs. V.
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  • 28 3 MR. William Barrington Baker, has been admitted to practice at the Bar of the Federation by Mr. Justice Paul Storr in the Supreme Court. Johore.
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  • 243 3 Mr. Heah's Challenge KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan, president of the Malayan Chinese Association, today described as "empty" the challenge of Mr. Heah Joo Seang, Penang Party Negara leader, for a wordy duel on their war-time records. Mr. Heah told a
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  • 45 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun —A 68-year-old flower seller Wong Vat. died in Uu- Kuala Lumpur General Hospital today after bein? knocked down by a motor cycle at the junction of Circular and Pasar Roads Wong Vat died about two hours after admission.
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  • 45 3 TANJONG MALIM. Sun On a charge of gambling on Chinese New Year s Day. Slew Yon. was fined $25 by the Tanjong Malim Magistrate, today. Yeong Kew and Tan Yoke Chan. who pleaded guilty to the same charge, were fined $10 each.
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  • 357 3 PAP JOINS ASSEMBLY ELECTION FIGHT Names Five Candidates Passes Poll Manifesto THE People's Action Party of Singapore, at a three-hour conference yesterday, decided to contest the forthcoming Colony Legislative Assembly elections, and named its five candidates. They are- Mr Lee Kuan Yew (Tanjong Pagar) Mr. Chan Chiaw Thoi (Paya Lebar),
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  • 157 3 KUALA LUMPUR, SunMr. G. V. Thaver. president of the Malayan Indian Association, urgeC the community leaders today to get together in a welfare organi-. zation that could function towards its progress and betterment transcending political and sectarian considerations. Speaking at the annual general meeting of
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  • 53 3 THE Malacca Indian Chamber of Commerce will hold a tea party on Feb. 19 tor Mr ii.M. Seth. a former, thrice elected president of the Chamber, on his being awarded the M.B.E. Mr. Seth who is a Justice of Peace is the first Malacca Indian to
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  • 97 3 Grass Fire Burns For Four Hours BUTTERWORTH. Sun.— A large area of undergrowth in Bertam Estate, Kepala Batas. caught fire yesterday and burned for nearly four hours before the fire was finally brought under control. Two fire engines from the Butterworth nre brigade and a fire tender from the RAF
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  • 34 3 TANJONG MALIM. Sun.— Valliammah was fined $75 by the Tanjong Malim Magistrate, Mr. Wernham. yesterday for theft of two katis of rubber from the Tanjong Malm Rubber Estate on Jan. 11.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 878 3 cAlmanac Information at a Glance Tpfiman— mi nm in LIDO: Four Guns to the Border Melody and Song from Stage Wf lat r m. fS ft C 3.15. 7 and U3O pm Screen tP>; 1.3U News -S>; 145 I) I N(l A r \-J XC XKW STAR: Jumoi G-Men (11'
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  • 72 4 If you dash into a shower too soon after your sun bath, you will wash off valuable Vitamin D. before your skin has had sufficient time to absorb it. This is Max Factor's warning to sun-bathers who spend hours soaking up the precious vitamin so good for skin
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  • 353 4  -  Norah Littlejohn By fdasdfasdfs HERE'S the sheerest twin-set, all in lace. Straight from Paris. Twin-sets are becoming more popular than ever, and the lace version isn't going to be left out of the race. Designed like an ordinary twin set, the shoulder-strap "jumper'* or the cardigan can be
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  • 621 4  -  GERREE READ Says E SAW HER in the Ladies Room of one of Singapore's hotels. She sailed up to the mirror and made a terrific to-do about powdering all over her face. She reddened her mouth with a flourish, ran a comb through the front of
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  • 316 4  -  ALISON SETTLE BY r fHE PARIS dress collections commenced with a variety of elegant compromises on the Hline which was DIOR'S innovation last season. But all were out-man-oeuvred by CHRISTIAN DIOR himself. He has compressed together the top of his last season's "H" to form
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    671 4  -  JAMES F. KING By LONDON, (AP)— Wo men got the vote in Britain 37 years ago and an attractive redhead is keeping the revolution going. And don't laugh men, wherever you may be, for she is liable to appear anywhere like she did a few months ago in Tokyo
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 316 4 TODAYS QI'OTATION: "The secret of the universe, ax by slow decrees it reveals itselt to us. turns out to be personality." J. C. Powys. MONDAY FOR EVERYONE: Allow extra time en route so as not to be tardy. Opposition can be stubborn: do not stir it. Moderation is called lor
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    450 5 I n /va to statistics motorists in Britain llions. -hat hardly a day passes without •*ian being run into. r i SS SHOULD BE SEEN AND NOT r to be dead sure than sure dead .safety lecturer telling his audi- >Tory of a motorist who knocked houted angrily
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  • 1106 5  - Bright Lights Mean More Madness LEWS ONSLOW Bf from NEW YORK fasdfasdfdas i \\Y. of the fascinating things about New York Ls that you can get ANYthing ANY time. You can buy a cabbage, say. at three o'clock in the morning. It's almost as easy to shop at midnight as
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    661 5  - A BAD BUSINESS John Boland By J^HE note from her husband took Mrs. Brownly completely by surprise. "Dear Sara," the note read, "I know as this will be a shock to you, but I thought as it was only right and proper to let you know straight out that I've
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  • 156 5 ryHE British find them- selves stirred these days by a rasping controversy— should the poptrimmit owned airline buy an American long range plane in preference 1o the vaunted Bristol Britannia. The British Overseas Ainrays Corp. asked the Churchill government ior permission to use US$2B,OOO--000 in hard
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 27 5 "Morning, Mrs. Jones! MY, what a dirty week you've had!" "I'm not gtfteg ™y consent to you marrying an officer and a jenUernan. my ffirl. That's BIGAMY!
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  • 1020 6 Malayan Films LIVERY evening mobile units of the Federation Information Services are braving dangers from the enemy in the Jungle when they go to remote rural areas to give film shows and talks on current affairs to the folks there. During the worst periods of the Emergency they
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  • 1065 6 London gO Sir Winston Churchill will never meet Comrade Malenkov. There will be some who will say that if only the West had taken Malenkov to its heart he would never have fallen. But is this, really, the whole story dont think it is. So far
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  • 569 6  - NOW ITS FEAR IN GERMANY Sebastian Haffner Berlin. THE resignation of the Soviet Prime Minister, Mr- Malenkov. and his replacement by the former Defence Minister. Marshal Bulganin. Has sent a wave of pessimism and fear through Germany. The two Governments both the West and the East German— have so far
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  • 196 6 IF you have false teeth blowing a hunting horn is almost impossible. I have my own teeth. fortunately—The Duke of Beaufort, M.F. H. Will Men make good mothers? Headline in News Chronicle. 1 do not think we can discuss a hypothetical riot —The Speaker. is something
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  • 513 6  -  Alastair Buchan mw WASHINGTON. IHE announcement from Moscow of the resignation of Mr. Malenkov and his replacement as chairman of the Council of Ministers by Marshal Bulganin took everyone here b y surprise, for it is a n unheard «i way of transferring power in
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    • 29 6 EDWARD_CRANKSHAW, Britain 's Russian affairs specialist who in 1946 publicly tipped Malenkov to succeed Stalin and suggested that Bulganin might outclass Malenkov, today writes for the Singapore Standard on
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  • 35 7 I Feb. 13. F3H-1N 10,000 feet a r.ew un,:d. the Melt Corporation jet tighter, anay. in, McDonnell I pilot who was timed from liim souii, muni- ontly. ll* record of I'd
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  • 109 7 HAMILTON. Ontario, Feb. 13. (AP)— Linda Doyle, 6. of nearby West Flamhoro township, wanted to visit her aunt here and decided she knew just the way to do it. Post Office employees hero were non-plussed when she told them she wanted to be posted.
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    133 7 till. Eng■P»—A 22--said -and by 'hough he raitor who .i:l term his own Walsh, workli: md town. to marry r— known at the a Frank— the priest and the ng for itificate. id >erved S.S. L. Two. As stormtrooper Ressler, Frank was drafted with the German forces fighting in
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  • 76 7 TWO Japanese Buddhist monks from Japan, now making a pilgrimage of India, pray at Gandhi's shrine in New Delhi, as all India observed a two-minute silence to mark the seventh anniversary of his assassination recently and also to honour Indians who had laid down their lives for
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  • 234 7 Tito Returns Home €c Says: BELGRADE, Feb. 13, (Reuter)— President Tito returning to Belgrade yesterday after a ten-week tour of Asia told a welcoming crowd at Belgrade station that the international situation had worsened recently. He did not specifically mention the recent changes in Soviet leadership
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  • 187 7 DOWNED MIGsPROBE ON MUNSAN, Korea. Feb. 13 (AP)— The four-nation Korean Neutral Truce Commission yesterday agreed to investigate Communist charges of an Allied air violation the day American Sabrejets shot down two Russian-built Communist MIG jets over the Yellow Sea. The U.N. command has denied the Red charges of violating
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  • 21 7 SIR WILLIAM THOMAS White. once Canada's Finance Minister, died on Friday at his Toronto home. He was 89. UP
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  • 63 7 CHICAGO. Feb. 13, (UP) John Meyers, 59, complained in a circuit court that his wife was giving him the bird 93 of them in fact. Meyers said his wife's pets dive bomb to attack him at night and keep him awake. He asked for emergency action
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  • 401 7 But Will Stand By For Emergency WASHINGTON, Feb. 13,— The United Mates Government announced yesterday thct with completion of the withdrawal of Nationalist Chinese troops and civilians from the Tachen Islands the U.S. 7th Fleet will leave Formosan waters. Vice Admiral Robert P. Briscoe,
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  • 181 7 TAIPEI, Feb. 13, (Reuter) —Major General Liv Lien-yi. Commander ot the Tachen garrison, today formally announced the completion of the evacuation of the Tachen IJands on his return to Formosa. The 45-year-old, Ameri-can-trained General, arrived at the north Formosan port of Keelung with General Chiang Ching-kuo,
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  • 77 7 MUNICH Feb. 13. (Reuter) Balloons released in West Germany today carried eastward into Poland the first of more than one million copies of a 40-page book written by a former Polish security official. The book, by Josef Swiatlo, a deputy chief of the Polish Security Ministry
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  • 363 7 CASCAIS. Portugal, Feb. 13. (Reuter) Princess Maria Pia of Savoy and Yugoslav Prince Alexander married yesterday in the simple church of this sunlit fishin? village. Afterwards they reigned smilingly over a wedding feast of 2.500 blueblooded guests from all over Europe. Where they will
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  • 154 7 CHICAGO, Feb. 13, (Reuter)— President Eisenhower was bitterly attacked by Conservatives of his own Republican Party, including Senator Joseph McCarthy, at a rally here yesterday marking the birth of Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 12, 1809. Senator McCarthy, the last of seven speakers who were wildly
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  • 55 7 photo. GLORIA DE LA FIELD, a mannequin of 46. Holland Park Avenue. London, who is on holiday in Rome, displays a fantastic pattern painted on her face, neck and shoulders by noted Roman painter Novella Parigini. Many Italian girls will be seen wearing this latest in
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  • 95 7 HONGKONG. Feb. 13. <Reuten—The .standing committee of the Communist ChloeM National Peoples Congress yesterday adopted a resolution supporting the foreign policy declaration passed this week by the Supreme Soviet (Russia's Parliament), the New China News Agency said. The resolution said the independence and sovereignty of the
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  • 26 7 POLICE announced on Saturday night they had blocked plans of six Paraguayan Communists to attend a Red youth congress in Sao Paulo. Brazil. AP
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  • 105 9 THE Chancelloi of the Exchequer, Mr R. A. Butler, disclosed in Manchester that Britain's imports for January had grown at twice the rate of her exports He told a meeting that while exports for January were £25,000,000 above the 1954 average, imports rose £50,000.000
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  • 98 9 Biggest -Ever Instrument Display THE third British Instrument Industries' Exhibition, to be held at Earls Court. London, from June 28 to July 9. 1955, will be the largest of its kind. It will show the latest equipment of manufacturers of scientific and electrical instruments, industrial motors, automatic controls, scientific glass
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  • 159 9 CHUNG KHIAW'S RAPID GROWTH I Fin<.,.,,. AnaT^mm!^!^ THE opening of the Chung Khiaw Bank* third branch office in Singapore on Saturday was said to be an occasion which marked its rapid growth since it was launched five years ago by the late philanthropist. Mr. Aw Boon Haw. Mr Ko Teck
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  • 329 9 Norse Oriental Line To Start Service To Malaya Some of the guests who attended the opening ceremony of the branch of the Chung Khiaw Bank at Selegie Road/Short Street junction on Saturday are seen here with the directors of the Bank. Pictured from left are: Mr. Aw Cheng Talk. Managing
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  • 462 9 Standard Market Reporter A RUMOUR is current that Indonesia has sold about 60,000 tons of copra to China.... The delivery and price were not reported. On the local market, only limited quantities of copra changed hands with the price inclining to ease on lower
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  • 19 9 MESSRS. Gattey Bateman, secretaries for Jimah Rubber Estate Ltd., report an output for January of 30.500 lb.
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  • 30 9 AMFRfrAN output of tyres for passenge. automobUeito*l** decSned to *****,822, a drop of 5.7% from the rewrd production of 1953, industry sources in New York reported. A.P.
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  • 79 9 BURMA has agreed to sell Ceylon rice this year at US$llO.4O per ton. A four-year agreement between the countries, signed in January 1954, provides for Ceylon to buy 200,000 tons of rice from Burma each year. Ceylon's Minister to Rangoon, A. E. Goonesinha, said his country
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  • 187 9 Business Done In The Week BUSINESS done in shares from Feb. 5 11 INDUSTRIALS:'. Frascr Neave Ord. $2.03 to $1.95 to IWJr Fed eral Dispensary $3,374, Gammon $3.27$ to $3.20 to $3,224, Hammers $345 cd. cb., Hongkong Bank Colonial $1,110. Wm. Jack $3.75 to $3.70, Malayn Cement $1.55 to 51.47J
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  • 58 9 THE U.S. Foreign Operations Administration (FOA) has signed a contract with a private U.S. firm to supply Thailand with road building equipment in connection with that country's road improvement programme. The equipment, ranging from steamrollers to an asphalt plant, will cost about US$2--450.000 and will be
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  • 56 9 KLM. (Royal Dutch Airlines i, reported from New York it has ordered radar equipment to enable Its pilots to see "weather conditions ahead" and determine themselves If It would be a good idea to change course. Plastic will replace rnnal In the nose of the pi
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  • 47 9 MESSRS. Harrisons Crosfleld (Malaya) Ltd- have advised the crops harvested for companies in the group during January a& follow*: Allenby 38.000 lb.. Benta 64.500 lb. t Jeram Kuantan 20.000 lb.. Kundontf 40.000 lb.. Meniakab 76,500 lb.. Sungei Bagan 104.000 lb.. and Tanjong Pau 03,000 lb.
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  • 29 9 BY the production of 6.500 million beer cans in 1954. a new record annual output for this type of container was set up in the United States.
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  • 582 9 Share Markets Irrational On Soviet Change By A Market Correspondent THE Singapore share market, which had hitherto shown stability throughout the Formosa affair, behaved quite irrationally on Thursday, when the Tachen evacuation was nearly over, and the prices of many Industrial stocks plummeted on the resignation of Malenkov. Dispassionate appraisal
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    47 9 kilometres on a litre of petrol at a speed of 105 kilometres per hour.- Auto Show. Built of fibreglass it has a 2-cylinder 200 cc engine developing 11 horsepower. H docs 31 BRUSSELS: The new Brutsch sports car on exhibition at the Brussels UP Photo.
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    41 9 Photo. MR. AW Cheng Chye, Executive Director of the Chung Khiaw Bank seen chatting here with Mr. Lee Kong Chian, Chairman of the OverseaChinese Banking Corporation, after the opening of the Bank's branch office in Singapore on Saturday.- Standard
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  • 21 9 A NEW £1,000,000 can making factory, to be built at Westhoughton, Lancashire, is planned by the Metal Box Company.
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  • 335 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Malayan wood is now being examined in England by the "Bartrev" process technologists to determine their suitability for resinbonded boards, the "Malayan Forester" disclosed here today. The Forest Research Institute at Kepong. it said, was about to start work into the pulping
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  • 1388 10 ANGRY FATHERS TARRED FEATHERED 'PROPHET' PASSENGERS I on the Yaquina Bay ferry boat smiled as they pulled away from the jetty. A latecomer had rushed up and was wildly waving for the captain to bring the boat back. On deck a tall, bearded man. attracted by the commotion, stood up
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  • 351 10  - Language Of The Atom Age Is Enalish A.I. Goldberg UNITED NATIONS. New York. (AP) The leading language of the Atom Age is English. Because of U.S. and British leadership in the atomic energy field, most of the technical jargon is in English and is being taken over bodily into other
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  • 204 10  -  Denis Dunn AN evening paper reader writes: "I protest at the outrageous charges by some hairdressers in London's West End." Well, they are clip joints, aren't they? fyHE city of Buffalo. A U.S.A.. has a male club entitled "The Tall Teetotallers For the high and dry? ACCORDING
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  • 475 11 > mutes at halfMualised ihe end. vrappy r inland's mi -ct I '?>% I m tne right ;nd prop were C. Pedq larter, after 23 .treN.J. tb a good ODen movements and a fine match seemed likely. But it fell 1 x y .j nl a scrambling affair non
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  • 157 11 ."Pakistan, rjutfr Paki>j »v» f»r IHH J |rft innings Si for rv\ u^£ hl j j ndtd the -ttrday 100, i h the j nark- 47 ners. He bowled 27 maiden overs. At the other end. pace bow:cr Dhattu Phadkar recovered from a finger injury, and spinner S.P. Gupte
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  • 13 11 If in a p ayed iay. a ere r and :c<\ for
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  • 26 11 YOUXG Chinese Amateur Weight-Liftin? Party celebrated their 22nd Anniversary with a grand dinner at the j Diamond Restaurant. Great I World Park on Saturday.
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  • 621 11 LONDON, Feb. 13, (Reuter)-English First Division soccer clubs were heavy scorers today. J The eleven games in this league produced 59 goals towards a total of 178 scored in the English programme of 45 matches Wolverhampton Wanderers hit six goals in a 10-goal game
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  • 232 11 POLICE Sports Club, favourites to win the SHA senior knock out competition this year, were held to a one-all draw by the division 3 champions, Singapore Harbour Board Police, in a senior KO fixture yester- day on the GSC ground. Austin Nonis. SHBP
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  • 190 11 PENANG. Sun.— A warning that Penang may lose the services of goalkeeper Dave MacLaren was given by the President of the Football Association jf Penang, Mr A. M Abu Bakar, at the Association's annual general meeting today MarLaren is attached to the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force. Abu
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  • 257 11 Ireland fi England 6 Interservices Tournament Royal Navy 3 Royal Air Force 6 CLUB MATCHES Blackhcath 15 Richmond 8 London Scottish 5 Pontypool 0 Old Alleynians 3 Guy^ Hospital 0 Old Merchant Taylors C London Irish 8 St. Bartholomews Hospital 9 Old Paulines 8 Si. Marys Hospital
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  • 57 11 JOHANNESBURG. Feb. 12 (Renter Jannie Van Rens burg. Champion of South Afrira. won the vacant British Empire Lightweight boxing championship here tonight, when he outpointed British champion Jos Lucy over fifteen rounds. It was a hard tough unspectacular contest, fought at great speed, with the
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  • 1101 11 HOW THEY STAND LONDON Feb 12. (Reuter) IHVIMON ONK P W D L F A .8 Wolver ton W l»!t 14 8 ***** 36 Sunderland 29 10 U 4 47 37 35 Chariton A 28 15 4 9 63 43 34 Manchester C. Si 14 6 9 57 5() Chelsea
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  • 155 11 NEW YORK Fcb 13 (UP) Fred Dwyer. former Villpnova star, pulled the biggest upset of the indoor track season tonight when he outran world record holders Gunner Nielsen and Wes Santee too win the Baxter mile in the meet record time of 4:06.2 in th? New
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    • 752 11 PERSONAL THE Annual General MeetIng of the Oxford Cambridge Society will be held on Monday. 21st February. 1955 at the Adelphi Roof Garden at 530 pm. All membf-rs ot either University are cordially Invited. SITUATIONS VACANT PPLICATIONS are invited trom Federal Cili/ens for training in auditing and accountancy with Australian
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    • 61 11 MISCEUAIMEOIiS t\JR DOMESTIC SERVANTS trained in European. Chinese A^ian huuseholds available from LABOUR SUPPLY AGENCY Phone *****. 191. Benrooleo Street Singapore. FX)R RAPID Copytypmg Af Stencilling Wo. (Price Lists Circulars, Pamphlets Magazines. etc.) consult the Specialists. Ring ***** Rapid Duplicating Service. SECONDHAND Typewriters for O nire. Local residence only Also
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  • 424 12  -  KHOO BOON CHOO By Standard Equal To India, Says Manager PEXAXG, Sun.— Dressed in smart green blazers, green ties and ash-grey trousers, the Pakistan Hockey Federation touring team, headed by their manager, Mr. S. M. Ayub, arrived at the Bayan Lepas airport this afternoon on
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  • 120 12 England B.A. Invites Peng Soon EDDIE CHOOXGS cherished hope of winning the All England singles title for the third successive year, may wen be shattered if the Badminton Association of Malaya permits Won? Peng Soon to compete in this year's championships in March The All England Badminton Association had cabled
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  • 92 12 MANILA Feb. 1] «AP> isimo Ampon ot the Philippine-, won the Philippine national open tennis championtoday, defeating Sven Davidssoo <>' Sweden 6-1 6-4. 'Lie SA«.di>h Davis Cup player erratic throughout the match and frequently netted or >\ c. The veteran Ampon had good Control of
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  • 52 12 WOODBfHDGE Hospital Reci cation Cub beat Kumaran's by .52 rtM, in an out-of-t riefcet match played on the Wourlbridgc grounds yesterd.i v. W odbndne l>t innings— lo9 JN. SU Maria 32. 1. Lestrange Krishnan 4 for 21 >. Kuma--71 «Sundarajan 42. A. Markar 12. N Sta Wana
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  • 20 12 RAJAJI Sports Club beat Jetaji Sports Club 5-2 in a ir.ondly sorer match, played at rurrer Park yesterday.
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  • 503 12 Kedah 's Second Halt Display Humble S'pore The Blues Cup Thriller KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— There was plenty to enthuse over in this all Asian Rugby Cup final in which Kedah Asians beat their Singapore counterparts by nine points to three to win the All Blues Cup for the first time
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  • 314 12 Rough Sea Holds Up Rega tta TWO events in the Singapore Outboard Motor Club regatta held at Ponggol Point yesterda.v had to be rancelled because of hi* rough sea. The choppy surface was responsible for one motor boat being upset soon after the start of the race. All the way.
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  • 597 12 MCFA HOLD ADM IRAS THEN CRACK UP Admira Ucin 3. MCFA Invitation 1. Cejka. Richtcr and Holler. Referee— Capt. H. F. Slockcr. Kong Lin Tel. KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— After playing brilliantly for 60 minutes during which time they shared two goals, the Malayan Chinese Football Association's Invitation XI cracked up
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  • 440 12 THERE wil] be only six races op the second day of Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting on Wednesday. Weights are: Cl. I. Div. 3—l M. Zatopek 9.00 Palio 113 Millionaire 8.11 Magnificence S.<»7 British Paragon 8.07 Majestic Sight 8.06 Airmark 8.05 Josker 11 8.04 Dinna Forget
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  • 67 12 SPEED......SPEED..... AND MORE SPEED FIVE speedboats siccep past the judges' stand in a roar I and a cloud of spray as ihey compete for the Tiger Chal- lenge Cup. The leading boat. No. 29. maintained its position all the way to win the race. Standard photo. AUSTRALIAN Neil Moncriejf, seated
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  • 797 12 Records Take A Bash^ NINE Singapore and seven Malayan records were smashed uti. Motor Club's annual half-mile standing-start speed trial heldon'th i Road off 10th mile Bukit Timah road yesterday. l c Singapore's Chan Lye Choon (Cooper 1097 c.c.) and W ton Featherbed) were the star performers at yesterday's
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