Singapore Standard, 26 November 1955

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    25 1 Singapore Standard Urni, p %u c£ ?ft j% vjH __L ""jt"—^.st 1 01. VI. No. 143 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1955 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon Mr. Mo Gets Mandate For London Talks
    346 1  -  E. M. RASH EED By CHIEF MINISTER David Marshall's power fo bargain at the forthcoming London Talks next month was greatly strengthened when, for the first time, all political parties in Singapore reached complete unanimity on the definition or self-government. Leaders of 11
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    Lock icon Trains To Give A Lift
    169 1 Trains To Give A Lift AN emergency suburban r ;.vay service between Singapore and Johore Bahru will start trom Monday, the Minis- ot Communications and \v rita announced last night. A statement from the Ministij said that the service would relieve the present inspart difficulties in the areas through which
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    Lock icon H-Bomb Tests Next Year,
    37 1 WASHINGTON. Nov. 25 (Renter)— Senator Clinton Anderson, chairman of the Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, said today the United States planned to hold "very susbstantial" thermonuclear (hydrogen) weapons tests in the Pacific next year.
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    Lock icon Dr. Ong Slruck Off Register
    432 1 LONDON, Nov. 25 (Reuter)— The Medical Disciplinary Committee of the General Medical Council in London today directed that the name of a Malayan doctor, Bak Hin Ong of Malacca, should be erased from the Medical Register. The doctor appeared before the committee charged with having
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    Lock icon CAT LED POLICE TO DEATH HOUSE
    65 1 THE persistent meowing of a starving cat led to the discovery of the highly decomposed body of a 72-year-old woman in a house in Frankel Estate, Singapore, last night. The woman, identified as Jessie Dorothy Perreau, was last seen by her neighbours four days
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    Lock icon RAID ON POST
    33 1 A GROUP of armed men attacked the Portuguese customs post at Benselor on India's frontier with Portuguese Daman on Wednesday. They hurled two hand-gre-nades but there was no damage. Reuter
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    Lock icon 50th. JUBILEE
    21 1 KING Haakon of Norway celebrated his 50th jubilee yesterday and greetings poured in from all over the nation. U.P.
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    Lock icon Touch And Go
    63 1 THE dredge of the Kuala Lumpur Tin Company in the outskirts of Tanjong Malim, which 10 Communist terrorists boarded with the object of sinking it on Tuesday night. Standard photo by Yong Peng Seong also shows the barge (in foreground) which they captured to board the dredge,
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    Lock icon The Duchess May Testify
    68 1 MINEOLA. New York. Nov. 25 (AP) The case of the shotgun death of William Woodward Jr. goes before a special session of the Nassau County grand jury today with the widow who killed the millionaire sportsman scheduled to be the star witness. The Duchess of Windsor
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    Lock icon SOVIET CONSUL
    15 1 THE Soviet government has decided to open a con-sulate-general at Port Said. —Reuter.
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    Lock icon REDS' BLACK DAY
    569 1 STC STRIKE Meet MCP' Proposal Thrown Out A MOTION by People's Action Party leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, to discuss peaceful settlement with the Malayan Communist Party to end the Emergency was thrown out by the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday without a single "Aye." Mr. Lee was
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    Lock icon Dramatic Bid To End It
    178 1 Dramatic Bid To End It DRAMATIC efforts were made by Chief Minister, David Marshall, to end the two-month old strike by 2,800 Singapore Traction Company employees yesterday. Mr. Marshall tried to contact the S.T.C. chairman, Sir Thomas Strangman, by radio telephone last night but as this was not possible, he
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    Lock icon ONE-DAY TOUR
    30 1 SEVEN members of the United States House of Representatives who are on a round-the-world survey and orientation trip, will arrive today on a one-day tour of the Colony.
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    Lock icon BIG BRASS MEET
    27 1 ADMIRAL Felix B. Stump, Pacific Commander in-Chief, met in Tokyo yesterday with General L. L. Lemnitzer, United Nations and U.S. Far East commander. A.P.
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    Lock icon RELIGIOUS POLL
    28 1 THE most religious people are the happiest and the least religious the unhappiest, according to a survey in the United States by Mr. George Gallup. Reuter
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    Lock icon SHE PRAYED, THEN SHOT HIM
    189 1 LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25 (Reuter) Police here said that Mrs. Nina Sorensen told them she knelt praying for an hour beside her sleeping husband's bed yesterday then shot him through the temple. "All during our married life, for more than seven years, it has been
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    Lock icon Workers Plead & Dredge Is Spared
    339 1 Workers Plead Dredge Is Spared BLACKED -OUT STORY KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Twenty Malay, Chinese and Indian mine workers of the Kuala Lumpur Tin Company have just saved its million-dollar dredge near Tanjong Malim from destruction by Communist terrorists by just pleading with them. This near miracle, however, has been almost
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    Lock icon FATAL RESCUE
    37 1 AN 80-YEAR-OLD spinster who re-entered a blazing building to rescue her cat, was cut off by flames from a fireman's ladder and burned to death in Malone, New York. Her pet died with her. Reuter
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    Lock icon EDEN ORDERS PROBE
    113 1 EDEN ORDERS PROBE LONDON, Nov 25 (U.P.)— Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden was reported today to have ordered an inquiry into a Foreign Office charge that Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin is a hypocrite. The official responsible for the statement on Tuesday was rebuked for being undiplomatic and for stepping beyond
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    Lock icon A Warm Welcome
    92 1 JAKARTA. Nov. 25 (UP) Indonesian film actress Nurnaningaih who gained fame last year by posing in the nude for photographs was pelted with stones by indignant Indonesians when she arrived by plane at the north Sumatra city of Medan on Wednesday. Most of the stones missed their
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    Lock icon JAPAN'S DEMAND
    25 1 JAPAN will demand the unconditional return of the South Kurile Islands when the current deadlocked peace negotiations with the Russians are resumed. UP
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    Lock icon Leaking Freighter Is Lost
    110 1 HONGKONG. Nov. 25 (AP) The Hongkong-bound Pakistani freighter Fakira, which sent distress signals on Wednesday night after springing a leak in a cargo hold, sank in the South China Sea early this morning. After receiving signals from the 6,771-ton vessel all ships in the vicinity proceeded
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    Lock icon KL NEEDS MORE INDUSTRIES
    322 2 UN Expert Warns Of Job Crisis In 10 Years Time KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The United Nations town planning expert, Mr. G. Rudduck, who is here to design the Federal Capital's $100 million business hub, today warned that unless secondary industries are established here rapidly, there will
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    Lock icon Toe Pulled The Trigger — Court Told
    202 2 Toe Pulled The Trigger Court Told TEMERLOH, Fri. A Special Constable shot dead a tractor driver, injured a rubber tapper and a housewife and then attempted to end his life, a preliminary inquiry held in the West Pahang Circuit Court, was told today. In the dock stood constable P. Karunakaran,
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    Lock icon Bandit Killed In Malacca
    95 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— A patrol of the Special Operational Volunteer Force killed a Communist terrorist contacted in Jasin, Malacca, yesterday. He has been identified as Chiu Tiang Koon, a District Committee Member of the Communist terrorist organization, who went into the jungle at the start of
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    Lock icon Worker Fined
    35 2 A SINGAPORE odd-job labourer. Liow Kee Thew, 50, who indecently exposed himself to an 11-year-old girl in Gillman Close on Aug. 11, was found guilty yesterday and fined $50 in a Singapore Court.
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    Lock icon Lady Black Opens Art Exhibition
    76 2 THE ninth annual art exhibition of the Singapore Y.M.C.A. Art Club was opened by Lady Black, wife of the Governor, Sir Robert Black, yesterday. The painting that captivated Lady Black was one entitled "Home Coming" by the "baby" of the Club. Miss Kuan Ying Lee,
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    Lock icon 'ALL PARTY TALKS NOT NECESSARY'
    123 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, told The Standard tonight there is no necessity to call for any "all party conference" to agitate for the independence of the Federation He was commenting on the proposal in Singapore initiated by the Singapore division
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    Lock icon HK EXCHANGE
    37 2 HONGKONG. Nov. 25 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.41 to £1 sterling; $5.***** to US$l; $1,826 to Malayan $1; $0,165 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $253,875 to a tael.
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    Lock icon 'Japanese Rumba' Girls
    45 2 'Japanese Rumba Girls THREE members of the Don Yada Latin Quarter Revue soon to be seen on the stage at the Odeon Theatre, Singapore, put on their best smiles for the Standard cameraman. From left, the charmers are Shizue Sawabe, Hisako Fukumura and Keiko Asai.
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    Lock icon Plenty Of Tease But NO Strip
    213 2 THERE will be plenty of tease— but no strip when the 47 dancers and singers of the Don Yada Latin Quarter Revue perform at the Odeon Theatre, Singapore, from Dec. 1. "We are not like the American strip-tease shows which always seem to get
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    Lock icon Hawkers To Hold Meeting
    33 2 AN inaugural meeting of the Muslim Hawkers and Stallholders Association will be held at No. 2, Langsat Road, Singapore on Nov. 27. The organiser is Mr. A. M. Russull.
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    Lock icon Five More Strikers Choose Jail
    119 2 FIVE striking employees of the Song Hing Sago Factory found guilty and fined yesterday in a Singapore Court for obstruction under the Trades Disputes Ordinance preferred to go to jail rather than pay their fines. A sixth striker, Goh Ah Hai, who was also convicted,
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    Lock icon RUBBER PLANT WARNED
    239 3 Workers Want Union Accepted KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Malayan Trade Union Council today gave a two-week ultimatum to the Fung Keong Rubber Manufactory to recognize its 1,000-s tro n g workers union at Klang or "suffer action that would be taken in defence ot the workers' right."
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    Lock icon 'DANCING BELOW THE SEA'
    162 3 'DANCING BELOW THE SEA' POTENTIAL Esther Williamses and frogmen will have a chance to show off at Singapore's first big Art Ball at Victoria Memorial Hall, on Dec. 10, in aid of the Convalescent Home for the Colony's poor children. Organizers of the ball promise that there will be dancing
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    Lock icon Christmas Feature On Malaya
    106 3 Christmas Feature On Malaya MR. FRANK OWEN, the famous British journalist and author who visited Singapore five years ago to write about the Maria Hertogh case for the Daily Express, will be visiting Malaya again next week. This time Mr. Owen will be making a Christmas feature for I.T.V. in
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    Lock icon Invitation To Talk Maths
    54 3 THE Singapore Government has been invited by the Indian Government to send two delegates to attend the conference on Mathematical Education in South-east Asia scheduled for Feb. 22. to 28 next year in Bombay. The conference partly sponsored by the International Mathematical Union. UNESCO. will discuss
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    Lock icon Thugs Beat Up Factory Worker
    137 3 He Spoke Up For His Boss A SINGAPORE sauce factory worker was beaten up by a gang of secret society thugs yesterday when he advised his boss to refrain paying them protection money. The worker, Thong Soon King, 22, was in the factory office in
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    Lock icon HONGKONG STARS TO AID CYMACA
    134 3 HONGKONG STARS TO AID CYMACA THREE popular Chinese artistes from Hongkong will feature in a local Peking Opera in aid of the Singapore Chinese Young Men's Christian Association Building Fund next month. Two of the trio are stage actresses, Tsiao Hung Ying and Wu Yeh Ping. The third is Professor
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    Lock icon KLANG WEDDING
    62 3 THE wedding of Mr and Mrs. Lee Thiam Phan took place at the Kim Moot Association, Klang, this week. The bride is the former Miss Teo Siok Chin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Teo Chen Hoon and the bridegroom is the third son of Mrs. Lee Boon Tionq.
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    Lock icon 2 OF TOY PISTOL GANG GET TEN YEARS' JAIL
    188 3 2 OF TOY PISTOL GANG GET TEN YEARS' JAIL KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Two young Malays who with toy pistols robbed an aged rubber dealer and his wife of $460 in cash and jewellery were jailed for 10 years today. They were Abdul Kadir bin Haji Thambi. (be has spent more
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    Lock icon Judgment Reserved In Appeal
    110 3 Judgment Reserved In Appeal THE Singapore Court of Criminal Appeal reserved judgment yesterday after a two-day hearing of the appeal of Ong Ah Too, a lorry driver, who was sentenced to death for Deing a member of an unlawful assembly which caused the death of the American journalist. Gene Symonds
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    Lock icon Illness Can Be Traced To Superstition
    154 3 MUCH of the illness of Singapore babies can be traced to superstitions and age-old customs, which persist among the mothers. fostered by the standard of illiteracy and the existing social conditions. This was stated in an islandwide Health Week talk on "Maternal and Child
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    Lock icon LUCKY TICKETS
    33 3 THE St. Anthony's Convent Fun Fair "lucky ticket" draw made yesterday, resulted as follows: No ***** (typewriter). No. ***** (camera), No 0115 (doll), No. 0203 (wonder book), No. 1398 (autograph book).
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    Lock icon EXAM PROTEST
    23 3 MALAY parents in Perlis have protested against the recent religious examination in Malay schools. The questions set were difficult, they said.
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    Lock icon 960 BUSMEN APPLY FOR THEIR OLD JOBS
    253 4 960 BUSMEN APPLY FOR THEIR OLD JOBS Quek Gives The Lie To Rumour Mongers SINGAPORE Chinese bus companies will resume their services on all routes as soon as they get a full complement of workers to man rheir vehicles. The Secretary of the Bus Owners' Association Mr. Kuek Seah Eng,
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    140 4 CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) to Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Seller* Spot fob. (nom.) 135 136 No. 1 R.S.S. Dec. 1285 1285 No. 1 Dec. 122 123 A No. 2 Dec. 121. 122. Tone: Barely steady. TIN PRICE The price of tin yesterday was 5377i per picul
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    Lock icon MAPS ANO PLANS
    38 4 COLONEL L. T. Firbank, a member of the Friends of Singapore, will give a talk on "Maps and Plans of Singapore since its Founding," on Friday at the Regencv Room, Raffles Hotel, at 6.30 p.m.
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    Lock icon Indian Dances At University
    75 4 THE Raffles Society of the University of Malaya will present a recital of Indian classical dances by K. P. Bhaskar and his pupils at the Oei Tiong Ham Hall, Cluny Road, Singapore, at 8.45 p.m. today, the proceeds of which will go to the University Endowment
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    Lock icon Marshall Will NOT Be There
    58 4 SINGAPORE Chief Minister David Marshal] will not be present at his Saturday "Meet the People" session at Assembly House this morning, it was announced last night. The session will, however, take place and officers of the Public Advisory Section of the Chief Minister's Office will
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    Lock icon GIFTS FOR ALL
    79 4 photo. SANTA CLAUS keeping up with the times, arrived yesterday at the Cantonment Road Primary School, Singapore, in a ieep Five' hundred school children were there to greet him. They wore paper hats and let out a big, loud cheer. In picture Santa Claus standing on his
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    Lock icon Inspector Leaves To Bring Back Mr. Moto
    120 4 Inspector Leaves To Bring Back Mr. Moto A SINGAPORE Police officer, Detective Inspector Lim Chooi Sian, flew to Hongkong yesterday with a warrant to bring back Japanese boxer, Mitsuo Yamamoto. The boxer is wanted ln Singapore for allegedly voluntarily causing hurt to a Colony reporter, Mr. James Chan. Yamamoto is
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      995 4 Standard cAlmanac Information at a Glance _g____— Wk** Society Indian dance by Mr Dance Music. Concert" (19 59m); 630 World IV W. r K.P. Bhasker and oarty at Oe: KI'AI.A LUMPI R (Regional); 6 News .1959. 19.74. 16.85m); 635 ITS INGAP O R t Tiong Ham Hail. 8.30 p.m. p.m
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    Lock icon Retired Unionist Gets Trouble-Shooting Job
    167 5 SINGAPORE Government has appointed a retired English trade union leader, Mr. F. W. Dalley, to examine and advise on industrial relations in the Colony. Mr. Dalley is expected to arrive on Nov. 30 and his mission is likely to take three months. He will be
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    Lock icon Base And Dishonest, Sir! —Hart To Lee
    358 5 Base And Dishonest, Sir! —Hart To Lee ORDER! ORDER! CALLS SPEAKER IN JOBS CLASH SINGAPORE'S Financial Secretary, Mr. T. M. Hart, yesterday refuted People's Action Party Assemblyman, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew's allegations that senior posts were deliberately created for the benefit of expatriates as "base and dishonourable suggestions." Speaking at
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    Lock icon HIS SPEECH COULDN'T BE READ
    172 5 P.A.P. Assemblyman for Ponggol, Mr. Goh Chew Chua. was cut short in his support of his leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew's motion on a peaceful settlement with the Malayan Communist Party, in the Legislative Assembly, yesterday. Before Mr. Goh could begin. Chief Minister Mr. David
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    Lock icon Army Employees To Get Increased Pay
    171 5 SOME 8,000 employees of the War Department will get increased pay and improved conditions of service following an agreement reached last night. A statement issued by the Army Joint Consultative Council, comprising the Army Civil Service Union and GH.Q. Far East Land Forces and
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    Lock icon 'Extravagant' Cost Of Govt. Buildings Flayed
    385 5 'Extravagant' Cost Of Govt. Buildings Flayed PROVISION of houses for senior civil servants and the "extragavant" cost of government buildings came in for attack in the Singapore Legislative Council which concluded its five-day budget session yesterday. Mr. Lim Koon Teck (Prog. Pava Lebar) questioning a $4,000,009 provision lor officers' quarters,
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    Lock icon Marshall Will Tell Of The Hopes Of Colony's Million
    468 5 Marshall Will Tell Of The Hopes Of Colony 's Million THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO BE FREE' SINGAPORE Ministers to the forthcoming London talks will seek to make Britain conscious of the fact that in this "lovely island of ours" there are more than 1,200,000 human beings with their primordial
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    Lock icon Minister Is Told What He Should Do
    167 5 Minister Is Told What He Should Do SINGAPORE'S Education Minister should refuse to be conducted by expatriates in perpetuating the colonial education system, Mr. Lim Cher Kheng, (Democrat. Changi). said in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. It is time to formulate a policy to give equal educational opportunity to all communities
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    Lock icon Ministers Talk At Airport
    44 5 THE Singapore Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, will speak on possible future employment to present and former employees of the Public Works Department at the P.W.D. Office, Paya Lebar Airport on Monday Nov. 28, at 8 a.m.
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    972 6 Road To Freedom POLITICIANS both in the Federation and in Singapore should ponder carefully on what Ceylon Premier Sir John Kotelawala had to tell them on the way progress should be made on the road to freedom. He pulled no punches when he explained the real meaning of
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    Lock icon The NEWS as it strike me!
    1109 6  - The NEWS as it strike me! ASTER GUNASEKERA By JUST how interested are J Singapore Assemblymen in their ro! e of legislators was proved to the hilt on the third day of the Budget meeting when the AttorneyGeneral drew attention to the fact that some of the amendments to the
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    291 6 VIEWS REVIEW OF Malay Education TTTUSAN Melayu asks the Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee whether as Minister he leaves it to his Permanent Secretary, to decide on the memorandum of the Malay Education Council. The paper points out that while Mr. Chew says that he has not rejected
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      Lock icon THE GUIDING LIGHT
      253 6 Sir: I appreciate and admire your expert editorials in the Singapore Standard, and no true Malayan can deny the facts and prophesies you have dealt with in your column. It is a light for all politicians to follow, and if they follow your advice and encouragement, Malaya
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      375 6 Sir: Once again the pros and cons of strip-tease shows have been publicly discussed, and those who have expressed a favourable opinion are, I am afraid, those who have not studied the causes of the rise and decline of nations. It is an established fact
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      Lock icon Music FOR All, BY All
      75 6 Sir: Music and arts know no territorial boundary. It is only in totalitarian states that music and arts are banned. The objection of the Musicians' Union of Singapore to the appearance of overseas musicians is unjustified and reeks of bigotry. By all means, let us
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      Lock icon Challenge Was Made, But...
      420 6 Sir: "ANAK MELAKA" wishes to have more particulars about this clause of mine: "When the expatriates threaten to resign en bloc before their subordinate officers are quite ready to take over (I meant, of course, European expatriates). On Sept. 14 the local newspapers reported of a
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      109 6 Sir: The S.T.C. transport strike is now drawing near to its third month, but the Government is doing nothing to help the man-in-the-street. Why the Armv is not called out to run such an essential service as public transport is beyond understanding. Perhaps the Labour Front Coalition Government
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      198 6 Sir: In his speech on Nov. 19 the Education Minister Mr, Chew Swee Kee ruled out the possibility of introducing political education into the school curriculum of Singapore schools. If the boys and girls are prohibited from taking active part in politics, may I enquire
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      107 6 Sir: The political somersault of Mr. A. R. Lazarcus during the Singapore Labour Front Annual Conference and his subsequent crossing of the floor in the Assembly House are most deliberate and revealing. Perhaps, this i.% the result of looking into things with perverted outlook, jaundiced view and
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    126 7 New Drive Against Vietnam Rebels SAIGON, Nov. 25 (Reuter) —Vietnam's national army aunched a new attack ll linst the rebel forces of the Hao religious sect in s thwest Cochin-China, it officially learnt today. iic new drive was begun eral days ago and was offiv described today as a tine
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    35 7 MAASTRICHT. The Netherlands. Nov. 25 (AP)— Two passenger trains collided on the Maastricht-Heerlen line t day and early reports said Z6 people all believed to be I f chmen were seriously ..red.
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    292 7 Can Visit USSR' Red Party Chief In Fighting Mood BOMBAY, Nov. 25 (AP)— Nikita Khrushchev declared last night Russia had torn aside the so-called Iron Curtain and "no one who applied for permission to enter the Soviet Union was refused a visa this year." The Russian
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    48 7 LONDON. Nov. 25 (UP) Russia presented the Order ot Lenin yesterday to first deputy Premier A. I. Mikoyan with an unusual message of praise. Radio Moscow broadcast a long and glowing announcement of the award. Usually the awards are reported in a single sentence.
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    83 7 Mobs Trample Riot Victims To Death MOB violence in which eleven people were killed and 36 injured., occurred on Nov. 19 in Morocco, the first disorders since the Sultans return to his throne. The most serious incident was at Rabat, within the confines of the Royal Palace, where four people
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    35 7 KARACHI, Nov. 25 (Reuter) Seventeen Pakistani politicians, including the leaders of one of the East Pakistan coalition government parties were arrested under the Public Safetv Act today in Karachi. Dacca, Chittagong and Comilla.
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    43 7 LONDON. Nov. 25 (UP) British troops in distant deserts and jungles may soon be getting concentrated beer, Agriculture Minister Derek Heathcoat Amory told the House of Commons yesterday. The beer is concentrated by freezing it and removing the ice.
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    26 7 A CYPRIOT was- shot to death early yesterday after he failed to stop when challenged as he approached a military vehicle, in Nicosia. UP
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    63 7 NEW DELHI. Nov. 25 (AP) India had 22,727 cases of riots during 1954 according to "crime in India," an official booklet issued yesterday. Arrests for rioting totalled 128.925. These figures were nearly 10 per cent higher than in "In many cases, large scale disturbances developed from
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    86 7 Two Dolls From Mr.Molotov ST. LOUIS. Nov. 25 (AP)— A St. Louis woman has succeeded where most diplomats have failed she got a Russian to say yes. Mrs. Rae Ann Hillmann decided last July she wanted a pair of Russian dolls for her collection and wrote her request to Soviet
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    178 7 LONDON, Nov. 25 (UP)— Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden declared in the House of Commons yesterday that he had given an assurance that if "our services are required" in the settlement of dispute between Israel and Arab "both the government and I personally
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    246 7 Terrorists Declare War On British. After An Ambush More Violence In Troubled Cyprus NICOSIA, Nov. 25, (UP) The anti-British underground lost night proclaimed warfare on the troops guarding this Mediterranean bastion and warned Cypriot citizens off the streets lest they get caught in crossfire. The warning from the "Eoka" terrorist
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    162 7 'Chumley's' First In 32 Years LONDON. Nov. 25 (AP) The Marquis of Cholomondeley, a member of the House of Lords for 32 years. has finally made his first speech in that august assembly. "At long last," he told his fellow Lords last night, "I have been brought to my feet
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    36 7 FRENCH Premier, M. Edgar Faure, yesterday put the vote of confidence on a motion asking the Assembly to give priority to the discussion of the Government's new bill for holding elections in January. Reuter
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    23 7 FRANCE and Japan have agreed to do away with visas for visits to each other's country after Dec. 1. UP
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    115 7 Free Vote On Death Penalty LONDON. Nov. 24 (Reuter) —The House of Commons is to have a "free vote" to decide whether Britain should retain the death penalty or not. The date has not yet beep fixed but it will not be before Christmas. Sir Anthony Eden, the Prime Minister,
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    206 7 LONDON. Nov. 25 (Reuter) The independent weekly. The Economist, commenting today on the British project to produce synthetic rubber commercially, said tyre manufacturers lacking a synthetic content would be outpriced when scarcity of natural rubber made it far dearer than general purpose synthetic rubber <GR-S).. It
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    57 7 AJACCIO, Corsica. Nov. 25 (Reuter) Two Corsicans fought a gun duel in the main street of Ajaccio. One collapsed badly wounded in a shop. But the jury at Bastia Assizes has decided that it never happened. It acquitted Bartoli Biancoli and Pierre Santoni, who admitted the
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    198 8 THE Singapore public have responded generously to the appeal made by the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association to provide transport for its patients to and from the Clinic. Mr. A. G. Dobb has placed his car and driver for the whole of each day,
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    76 8 Waterfront Unions Call For Probe THREE waterfront unions, claiming to represent 5.000 workers in the Singapore Harbour Board, last night decided to ask the Board to institute an inquiry into the conduct of '"certain officials? of its Labour Department. They alleged that the officers concerned have been working against the
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    145 8 AUSTRALIANS living in Singapore, the Federation. North Borneo. Sarawak and Brunei are eligible to vote through the post for the forthcoming Parliamentary elections in Australia on Dec. 10, an Australian Government statement revealed yesterday. Eligible voters must be over 21. Their names must
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    41 8 HONGKONG, Nov. 25 (UP) Singapore's industrial exhibition beatity queen. Miss Lee Chuan Chan, received a warm welcome when she arrived here from Singapore yesterday to attend the tenth exhibition of Hongkong products opening on Dec. 2.
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    45 8 photo. WITH umbrellas shielding her from the rain, the Sultanah of Johore hammers the stone in place with a mallet at yesterday's foundation stone ceremony at the site for the new TB sanatorium in Tampoi, five miles from Johore Bahru Standard
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    207 8 Sultanah Lays Foundation Of TB Centre JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.— With umbrellas to shield her from the rain, the Sultanah of Johore, Lady Marcella Ibrahim, yesterday afternoon, laid the foundation stone of the $310,000 TB Sanatorium in Tampoi, five miles from Johore Bahru. Rain fell intermittently throughout the ceremony. Later, the
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    70 8 TEN-MINUTE documentary film on the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Francis Chan. "first Roman Catholic Bishop of Penang. is currently being screened at the Odeon Theatre, Singapore. Monsignor Chan was one of two Asian bishops appointed by the Holy See. The short, preceding Twentieth CenturyFox's Cinemascope production.
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    362 8 'UNJUSTIFIED ATTACK ON UNIVERSITY' Caine Answers PAP Boss THE accusation by the People's Action Party leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, that "political persecution" existed in the University 0 f Malaya was an "unjustified attack," the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Sydney Caine, said yesterday. Sir Sydney declared: ''Various staff members have, with the
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    51 8 MACHMUD bin Haji Suidin claimed trial in the Singapore Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday, to a charge of theft of a watch belonging to G. C. De Silva Brothers at Raffles Place on Nov. 24. He was allowed $500 bail till Dec. 2. GLENN FORD as a young law
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    113 8 Sir John's Portrait A Work Of Art THE portrait of the r Governor, Sir John when finished will certaii e a great work of art thai Singapore will take pride in said the president oi tha Friends of Singapore, r T. W. Ong, yesterday. Mr. Ong told The" Standard that
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    187 8 $20 Too Mush— Say Parents GOVERNMENT does not exercise control over fees in Singapore kindergartens, although such schools and their staffs have to be registered, Mr. D. McLellan, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Education, told The Standard yesterday, i Mr. McLellan was
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      70 8 Weather Report MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: From 7.30 p.m. Nov. 24 to 7.30 a.m. Nov. 25. Singapore (74F), Penang <75F). Kota Bahru (73F), Kuala Lumpur (73F), Ipoh (73F). Kuantan (71F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 a.m to 7.30 p.m. Nov. 25. Singapore (89F). Penang 188F). Kota Bahru (78F). Kuala Lumpur (90F). Ipoh OOF).
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    1470 9 A SERIALIZATION OF M.G.M.'s THRILLING DRAMA |N tha heat of the day the crowd began gathering in front of the jail. Incited by Castillo, they brought up a telegraph pole and began battering at the door. Inside Barney spoke plainly to jailer Sanders. "If that boy gets lynched, this
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    414 9  -  ANACRUSIS MUSIC NOTES by T^HE Musical Society is to hold its annual Christmas Carol Concert on Thursday, December 15, with a repeat performance on Sunday, December 18, in the Victoria Memorial Hal.) at 8.45 p.m. The soloists J will be Christine Stirling < (soprano) and Choo Hwee Lim
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    238 9 AHGEL CHAVEZ, a young Mexican boy in San Juno, has been accused of assaulting teen-age Marie Wiltse, who has died as a result of the attack. District Attorney Armstrong charges the boy with murder and the to w n is aroused by the minority haters to
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      245 9 ■^g}g^lzi_________-_______- CLUES 32. The servant giri has a [_U-t_lojß-iE---t J-t-J-tq ACROSS large illness ii seems (7) Vi^/?Hj/ £B£^ /t^ 1 Just humaa nature to 2 Rainfall areas feeding lrM/VM4M^BgMr^/VB^ read (5.3,7,) river s (9-6) IE TV^M^^A I0 Smg t0 s:eep <7> 1. Scottish halfpenny <0 "3*^wr*o*rm Wk u \r mmm
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    264 10 Work On Ist. Phase Begins A CHINESE real estate company, the Singapore Building Realty Ltd., has embarked on a $3 million dollar project to provide houses for the middle and lower income groups on the instalment plan. Building work on the first phase
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    125 10 A SHORTAGE of crepe rubber in Ceylon is foreseen if the price of crepe continues at the present levels for some time, resulting in an excess of sheet rubber in the market. Trade circles in Colombo are of the opinion that as the price
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    27 10 THE Philippines will import American tobacco in the near future but the amount still has to be determined, a Government source in Manila said yesterday.
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    429 10 $1.5 M Profit For Cold Storage 'FAITH IN THE FUTURE' WITH the Governments formed by elected majorities, the real business of running a country is stimulating those elected to a sense of their responsibilities, says Mr. J. M. Mason, chairman of Singapore Cold Storage Co. Ltd. in his statement to
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    123 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices: Muntok white $136 sellers, Sarawak white $135 sellers. Special Sarawak black $88 sellers; coconut oil (bulk) $40^ sellers, coconut oil (drums) $43 sellers; copra Nov $26| buyers, $27£ sellers; Dec. 271 buyers, $27j£ sellers. Singapore Copra Association closing prices: Straits mixed
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    77 10 ALOR GAJAH Rubber Estate Ltd. report a working profit of $118,261. including cess refund, investment income and balanre brought forward, for the year ended Sept. 30. 1955. The directors have recommended a dividend of 25 cents per share, $23,659 transfer to reserve and a balance of $30,486
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    24 10 A TRADE agreement, under which Rumania will export cement to Egypt in exchange for raw cotton and cotton yarns, was announced yesterday.
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    317 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri Dame Fortune seems to be smiling again on Malaya's only coal mine at Batu Arang, which after two years of retrenchment forced by loss of market, today reported $866,000 profit for the past year. "Coal sales had continued at a rather higher level
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    69 10 MORE than 250 Fraser and Neave dealers from Singapore. Johore and the neighbouring islands, business associates and official guests were entertained to a dinner given by the firm in Singapore. The party was held at Fraser and Neave's sports pavilion at River Valley Road on Wednesday night. Mr. H. L.
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    106 10 Share Market Is Quiet QUIET and steady conditions prevailed in all sections of the Malayan share market yesterday. With few exceptions, prices where changed were to higher levels. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Con. Tin Smelt: Ord. 29/6 30/- xd Fed. Disp. 3.30 3.40 MINING Ampat 10/3 10 6 Austral Amal. 16/3
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    110 10 MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: Fed. Disp. 53. 30. $3.27': F&N ords. $1,724 to $1.75; Gammon $2.52i: Hammer $2.55: Hongkong Shanghai Bank $89(100; M. Cement $1.65: M. Colls. 87i and 90 cents: S'pore Cold Storage $1,721: U.E. ords. $10. Ampat iO, 4: Austral Amal. 16/3.
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    32 10 INFORMATION has been received in Singapore yesterday that Mr. N, Venkatachari, Secretary of the United India Life Assurance Company Ltd., collapsed and died in Madras on Thursday.
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      458 10 But Arrivals Here Good REPORTS that Red China has purchased small quantities of Indonesian prompt rubber have been confirmed, though little reaction from this sale is expected here, since arrivals from that country still continue good, according to the weekly market report by Holiday,
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      107 10 I SINGAPORE rubber prices yesterday closed barely steady at $1,282 for first grade December shipment, a drop of 1| cents on Thursday. Quotations opened steady but in the absence of support sagged throughout the day. At noon prices were around $1.30 per lb. The decline continued
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      28 10 A SLIGHT increase is expected in the world supply of wool during the 1955-56 season, according to a survey by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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      153 10 RUBBER dealers' stocks in Singapore at the end of October totalled 26,781 tons, against 33,121 tons at the end of the previous month. Of this figure, which is the lowest so far this year, 21.335 tons were dry rubber and the remaining 5,446 tons wet
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      26 10 JAPAN is continuing to h*port large quantities of soyabeans, principally from th« United States to meet her domestic requirements Ut vegetable oil and meal.
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      597 10 NOTICES TENDER NOTICE. TENDERS are invited for the Supply of soap as described below, to the undermentioned establishments for a period of six months commencing from lst January, 1956. Taiping Prison. Kuala Lumpur Prison. Johore Bahru Prison. Penang Prison. Alor Star Prison. Sungei Patani Prison. Batu Gajah Prison. Seremban Prison.
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      626 10 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT TENDER NOTICE TENDERS will be received up to noon of 12th December 1955. for the supply of AntiMalarial Oil for a period of six months commencing from the Ist January, 1956 to 30th June. 1956. 2. The quantities required will be approximately 39,600 gallons of Anti-Malarial Oil and
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      50 10 NOTICE ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD m.v. "MODJOKERTO" Arrived from Europe on 26th instant and her cargo has been discharged into godown 42/43. Damage packages may be tendered for Survey on sth December at 8.30 a.m No further Survey will be held. ROTTERDAM TRADING CO. (M) LTD. Shipping Department Tel: ***** Agents
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      1009 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lines) (Incorporated in Singapore) (12 lines) US" THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE T Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL, CLASCOW, LONDON b CONTINENT Singapore Duo Sails P. S ham Penang Astyanax for Liverpool
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    1003 12  -  Marjorie Proops 7 Says I CIX weeks away from I England. Home and Mas- culine Beauty and what j do I come back to? An outbreak of pin-up boys. When I went away, commercial television hadn't vet come into our parlour. Now I'm home again, and it's
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    359 12  -  HELEN HUGH Says LJALF the women who complain that ready-to-wear dresses are made too long in the bodice are not really abnormally short waisted— they just don't stand correctly! Don't take your posture for granted Take a look at yourself without benefit of bra or girdle. If
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    122 12 AMERICAN housewives are famous for glamour, for modern streamlined kitchens and for wonderful home cooking. One of their specialities is Hamburgers, nourishing, mouth-watering dishes of meat and onions. Here is how to make them. PEAL hamburgers are all meat, with flavouring added. They taste delicious, are easy to cook.
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    346 12 ji LTERE'S a tip for keeping 1 that good-to-be alive, j 1 look: touch your cheek-bon-i' es with tissue oil. blot off I any surplus and then make up as usual. I, The trace of oil gives a highlight to your, eheekbonji es and makes you look
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      321 12 1 r r.°. DAYS QUOTATION: are practical Don't i-~jt_ X "Persecution is not wrong censure lnvit wrong." wbafelv £_h^___S? accounts both due e miwuij. an owed; protect posses- i -J? ATUEDA FOR EVERY- Slons atld reserves Add to I ONE: Be conscientious in ful- savings J filling duties; use dietary
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    224 13 NO RULE AGAINST LIGHTS ON Sir Stanley Ends A Controversy SEREMBAN, Fri.— Sir Stanley Rous, secretary of the Football Association of England, asked for a ruling on floodlighting during a football match, said that there is nothing in the rules to prevent this. "There is no rule to prevent a
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    58 13 Today's Sport RACES Last Day of Singapore Races at Bukit Timah. RUGBY S.C.C. -lst vs. Ist Fijian Inf. Regt. at S.C.C; Tengah Nomads vs. Royal Engineers at R.E.; R.A.A.F.-lst Squadron vs. Royal Signals at R.A.A.F. HOCKEY S.H.A. LEAGUE— DIV. 2: University vs. S.H.B. Police at University. JOHORE BAHRU RUGBY: Police
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    56 13 THE following contributions from the Indian Chamber of Commerce have been forwarded to the Hon. Treasurer, Singapore Youth Sports Centre. Th e National Insurance Co., Ltd. $500/The Indian Bank Ltd. $500/-. Messrs. C. P. Ghariwalla $101/With the above contributions, the total amount donated by the members
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    425 13 Robert Saves Mayflower From Complete Rout ROBERT LIM once again proved that he is the most improved junior player by beating Ismail bin Marjan 15-3, 15-0 to save Mayflower B.P. from a complete rout in their inter-club badminton final against the Marigold Badminton Party at the
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    137 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. TPCA. the Football Association of Selangor 's senior Cud champions and Poppy Day Cup holders, have invited several top class soccer stars for their match against the Negri Sembilan Indo-Chinese on the TPCA Princes Road stadium this Sunday. The
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    96 13 IPOH, Fri.— Following are the teams for the annual Scotland versus The Rest rugby match to be played on the Padang tomorrow at 5.15 p.m.: Scotland; J. A. Meikle, Anderson. Lt. Dalrymplehay. RossRussell, L/Cpl Aitken. Garside, Black. Duncan. Heel, McAlister, McKenzie, Simpson, Munroe, Thompson, B. Smith The
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    79 13 THE Quek Hock Seng basketball team will play an exhibition match against Nee Soon basket-ball team at Nep Soon, Sembawang at 8 P-m. today. When they met the last time, thev drew 52-52 Q.H.S. basket-bailers will be: Sim Kian Eng (Capt). Quek Chin Wah. Fong We
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    72 13 RAIN caused two Singapore Hockey Association division 1 league matches to be cancelled. They were yesterday's University of Malaya versus Singapore Cricket Club on the padang. and GHQ Farelf versus RAF Changi at Tanglin yesterday. Other games postponed were between the division 2 encounter between BOD
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    139 13 Sime Darby Vs HK Bank B'ton Final KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Sime Darby 'A' will meet the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in the final of the Selangor Clerical and Administrative Staff Unions inter-commercial houses badminton knockout tournament lo be held at the Selangor Badminton Association hall tomorrow night. Three singles and
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    24 13 808 MATHIAS, twie c winner of the decathlon title at the Olympic Games, left the Colony yesterday. Bob's next stop is Cambodia.
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    79 13 KHOR YAH CHIEW. aged 69 of Malayan Traders and Co. Kuala Lumpur (Shares and General Brokers) passed away peacefully on 25.11.55 at 2 a-m. at No. 11. Seavoy Road. Kuala Lumpur. Funeral today. The cortege will leave at 3 p.m. from No. 11. Seavoy Road for Cheras Road Cemetery.
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    1593 14 S'PORE ST. LEGER DEMANDS SPEED. STAMINA AND COURAGE AND Baxter -Miss Winnie On Winning Way swerwe APPRENTICE Alex Baxter, rides MISS WINNIE, in Race Five and with a 7.07 handicap looks like getting another winner. SAYS WINDSOR LAD THE 1955 Singapore St. Leger, to be decided
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    1297 14 RACE l: 2.15 p.m.— Horses Class 3* Div. 2—7 Furs. 1. 1 Joe's Tipple 4y 9.00 M s. A. C. Simmons and R.A.C Wills Rodgers Mawi 2. 650 Sporter 6v 8.13 Mr. Mrs. T.H Teo Yong Manning 3. 604 Marciano 3y 8.11 Mr. Mrs. Choo Kok Leong
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    185 14 4.55 p.m. Class 1 1% Miles 1. 040 Zabaglione 4y 9.00 Mr. T. H. Menzies Sullivan Mawi 2. 511 Bearer Bond 6y 8.10 Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Foo R. van B'kelen Bougoure 3. 008 Cypress Point 7y 8.09 Mr. Wong Ah York Heddle Donnelly 4. 955
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    456 14 RACE FOUR PALIO is accepting in Race Four and 1 am giving this Pink Flower six-year-old gelding a chance to come into his own over nine furlongs in this Class One Division Two lot. Palio has been working well in his
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    207 14 DOUBLE TOTE: Races 4 and 7. BIG SWEEP: Race 8. I Windsor Lad The Pilot Trundle HUI Scrutineer m JOES TIPPLE MARCIANO NOT A VERSE VIOL* >—— j 1 Marvel of Peru II Marvel of Peru II Every Chance Marciano i Every Chance Every Chance Marciano Notaverse WHITE HEATHER
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    49 14 SHOWERY weather through yesterday afternooin Singapore has worsened the already soft track a* Bukit Timah. There r every likelihood of tht going becoming heavy this afternoon. Radio Malaya will broadcast all eight races and full results, with dividends, will be re-read after the seven o'clock news bulletin.
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