Singapore Standard, 28 December 1955

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    29 1 Singapore Standard V^=^ '^fc STANDARD ***** (5 lines) POLICE 2400 FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 5111 2414 Vol. VI. INC 174 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1955 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon END WAR TALKS BEGIN
    817 1 Malay Will Lead M.C.P. Delegation 'Pin Up' In Chin Peng's Boudoir BALING, Tues.— All is set in this Perak-Kedah border town for tomorrow's crucial meeting between the Chief Ministers of the Federation and Singapore with the Malayan Communist Party Sec-retary-General, Chin Peng. The talks, beginning at
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    Lock icon All Eyes On Baling
    85 1 TOP picture shows Baling English school, the venue for today's "end the emergency" talks between the Chief Ministers of the Federation and Singapore and the Communist leader, Chin Peng. A security officer is putting in extra wiring needed for the conference rooms. ABOVE: The interior to
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    Lock icon CHANCE CONTACT NETS FIVE REDS
    178 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuos. A police inspector's chance I ntact with two armed terI risfca on Christmas Day at tungei Buloh, less than ten miles from the Federal capital set a chain reaction resulting in rive terrorist sur- renders and one death, it was announced today.
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    Lock icon Buses To Roll Out Tomorrow
    248 1 ALL 400 buses belonging to ten Singapore Chinese Bus Companies will roll again tomorrow. A skeleton service may even run today if arrangements can be finalized in time. This follows an agreement reached at 2.45 p.m. yesterday, ending the 42-day-old dispute between the Chinese bus
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    Lock icon 'Gen.' Cohen Enters Red China
    79 1 'Gen.' Cohen Enters Red China HONGKONG. Dec. 27 (UP) Morris Cohen, one-time bodyguard for Dr. Sun Yatsen. entered Red China on Dec. 15, it wa s learned today. A government spokesman here said Cohen's immigration card showed he came from Taipei. Cohen told friends here he was going to Peking
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    Lock icon New Chief For Settlements
    61 1 NOVA GOA, Portuguese India Dec. 27 (AP) Portugal has installed a new commander over its armed forces in the Portuguese settlements on the Indian sub-continent. The man who has taken over military responsibility in these areas, where India is demanding the ouster of Portugal, is Colonel
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    Lock icon A HOME CRUSHED
    23 1 AN overhanging cliff crashed down on a house in Roseburg Oregon, killing three children and injuring another person, yesterday A.P.
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    Lock icon MEN OVERBOARD
    26 1 ROUGH Mediterranean seas swept four sailors off the British frigate Ulysses yesterday. A nearby vessel rescued two. Two were missing and feared lost. U.P.
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    Lock icon THIRD A-TESTS
    38 1 BRITAIN will carry out her third series of atomic bomb tests in Australia a few months hence at the Monte Bello Islands, off north-west Australia, Mr. Howard Beale, Australia's Supply Minister, announced in Canberra, yesterday. Reuter
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    Lock icon X'mas Cake Poisons 50
    78 1 BRINDISI. Dec. 27 (UP) Fifty persons were poisoned by bad Christmas cakes here on Christmas Day. Doctors at the city hospital sent about 40 adults and children home after first aid treatment. A dozen more were still in hospital today. Their condition was not serious, the
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    Lock icon ANTI-TAX RIOTS
    19 1 FIVE rioters were killed when anti-tax demonstrators clashed with police over Christmas in Freetown. Sierra Leone. A.P.
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    Lock icon Police Alert For Red Infiltrators
    141 1 BALING. Tues. Baling Police tonight alerted Special Branch men to watch for Communist agents reported to have moved in here as the advance listening post of Chin Peng's party. The infiltration according to well informed sources, was known to local residents, several of whom today
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    Lock icon 'I'll Be Firm But Fair,' Says Tunku
    294 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Federation's Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, today gave an assurance that he would temper firmness with fairness at his end-the-emergency talks with Malayan Communist Party leader. Chin Peng. An official statement issued by the Federation Government this morning stated
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    Lock icon And Now For The New Year
    81 2 And Now For The New Year PROPRIETORS of places of entertainment in the Colony are busily planning for the New Year celebrations. Immediately after Christmas, work started in hotels, restaurants, night clubs and dance halls to obtain a fresh look and to give patrons a New Year air. All in
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    Lock icon Waterfront Men Send Ultimatum
    99 2 THREE waterfront workers' unions yesterday served a seven-day ultimatum on the Singapore Harbour Board 1o take "some positive action" to their demand to institute an inquiry in to the "anti-trade union activities of rcrtain Labour Department officials." The unions concerned are SHB Labour Union. Wharf and
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    Lock icon Man Jailed A Year For Escape Bid
    120 2 PEXANG, Tucs. A carpenter on remand, escaped from police custody because he wanted to see his wife, the Magistrate's Court was told today. Chan Choon Weng. 45, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment when he pleaded guilty before Mr. Au Ah Wah to
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    Lock icon Tea For Indian Philanthropist
    73 2 MORE than 200 members of the Indian Community in .Singapore and Johore attended the tea party given in honour o£ Mr. J. M Ab.iul Aziz, a leading Indian philanthropist ol Saigon, who is on his way to India for a holiday. The party was given by
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    Lock icon Union Of Veterans
    78 2 PENANG, Tues. Former members of the Malayan Security Forces in Province Wellesley met at the Aso Han Wanita Islam Club in Bukit Mertajam during the weekend and unanimously agreed to form a Province Wellesley branch of the union of exmembers of the Malayan Security Forces. The meeting
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    Lock icon Twins Beat All In Christmas Day StorkDerby
    199 2 Twins Beat All In Christmas Day StorkDerby PENANG, Tues.— The Nursing staff of both the maternity hospitals in Penang and Bukit Mertajam were kept very busy on Christmas Day when 13 babies including a set of twins, were born. The twins, a bey and a girl were the first Christmas
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    131 2 PENANG, Tues. Parents of school children in Penang and Province Wellesley have sent a petition to the Minister for Education, Dato Abdul Razak bin Dato Hussain requesting that the present Acting Chief Education Officer Penang and Province Wellesley, Mr. G. D. Muir, be retained to
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    Lock icon Backdrop To Peace Talks
    48 2 RENDEZVOUS for today's historic "peace talks" is set against typical mountainous terrain of North Malaya which the Communists have used to their advantage for the past seven years. Standard picture shows some of the tents which will house the security forces during the talks.
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    Lock icon A SATELLITE OF THE FED.? NEVER!
    219 2 Equal Partner Only Progs SINGAPORE'S Progressive Party will not submit to Fedration Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman's proposal that the island become a member state of the Federation in its struggle for independence. The spokesman for the Progressive Party, Mr. Chan Kum Chee, said:
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    Lock icon Better Roads For Taiping
    103 2 Better Roads For Taiping TAIPING, Tues. The State administration is to be asked to look into the improvement of roads in the Green House area here it was decided today. Dr. T. Markandu. said in the Larut and Matang Town Council today that the Council had many times referred to
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    Lock icon ROAD OPEN AGAIN
    29 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.—A Government statement said today that the Triang-Meng-kuang road is now open to traffic. The road had been under flood for the past week
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    Lock icon X'mas Road Death No. 2
    64 2 X' mas Road Death No. 2 HENG GEOK KIM, 35, died a few hours after admission to the General Hospital on Boxing Day of chest injuries when his car crashed into a lamp post at Norfolk Road about 8 p.m. This is the second death during the present holidays. On
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    Lock icon Thrill Of Magic
    76 2 "Hey Presto", cried 120 bedridden children in St. Andrew's Orthopaedic Hospital, Siglap, Singapore, yesterday, when the Colony magician, Mr. Jimmy Choo, made a ten-doller note disappear from the clenched fist of a patient. Mr. Choo, who was entertaining the children told them that they were magicians and
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    Lock icon X'MAS LOTTERY LANDS HIM IN COURT
    84 2 X'MAS LOTTERY LANDS HIM IN COURT KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Wong Theng Gnok. 36, of Jalan Raja Laut was today, charged in the First Magistrate's Court with possession of a record of lottery stakes, on Christmas Day at his house He also faced -another charge of possession of a record of
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    Lock icon Malicious Holiday Fire Calls
    77 2 Malicious Holiday Fire Calls TWO ''malicious" fire rails were made, to the Singapore Central Fire Brigade Station at Hill Street yesterday. The alarms, one from Short Street at 4.52 a.m. and the other from Kampong Silat at 2.30 p.m., turned out to be false Two fire engines that arrived in
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    Lock icon Housing Co-op
    31 2 THE Singapore Government Officers' Co-operative Housing Society will hold its sixth annual general meeting on Wednesday. Jan. 4. at the Civil Service canteen in Empress Place, at 5.15 p.m.
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    Lock icon FIRE KILLS SIX
    39 2 AN EARLY morning fire at a farm near Gaylord. Michigan, yesterday took the lives of a 38-year-old woman, Mrs. Gladys Soper, and her children, Elaine, 13, Marilyn. 12, Loren, 10, Owan, 3, and Dale. 2. U.P.
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    Lock icon EVEN CHANCE FOR MALAYA TO BECOME COMMUNIST
    168 2  -  Lee *~Says THE chance of Malaya g Communist was fifty. said the leader oi People's Action Patty, Lee Kuan Yew. in Singapore yesterday. In an interview with the representative of an Indian n paper Mr Lee adira "Like the Nationalist Communists also belie
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    Lock icon Registered Envelopes Charges Up
    83 2 Registered Envelopes Charges Up WITH effect from Jan. 1. all stamped registration envc.opes bearing stamps to the va.. 1 30 cents (20 cents registi fee, ten cents postage.) will be sold at higher varying rat' The prices will be: 36 cents, 40 cents and 45 cents, depending on the sizes
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    Lock icon PoliceRound Up Suspects
    76 2 SINGAPORE CID yesterday detained a number of people in connection with an attempted roobery in a sundry shop in Alexandra Road ias: week. L Four men, believed to rH armed with revolvers, ton* part in this futile hold-up. They all escaped when the owner's wife screamed for
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    Lock icon RAZED A CHURCH
    40 2 RUSSELL Henry Apgar. 30, was arrested last night and charged with arson in the U*****,000 nre which razed the historic first Presbyterian Church in Matawan. New Jersey, on Christmas night Apgar was a church mcmoer. A. P.
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    Lock icon OUTCRY AGAINST JACKPOT TAX
    468 3 Tanglin Leads Protest By 24 Colony Clubs By ROGER YUE f Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE clubs and associations having fruit machines (jackpot machines, or "onearmed bandits") are up in arms against a Government proposal to introduce a new law to impose a 50 per cent, tax
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    Lock icon He Brings God To The III, The Old
    245 3 He Brings God To The III, The Old Four At The Crib MR. JOHN* HOGAN has a unique way of helping handicapped people. Ke plays tape recordings of church services to bedridden people who are unable to attend church. This Idea of using a tape recorder to help others came
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    Lock icon Man Knifed In Hotel
    60 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tucs. Ton thugs, believed to be rs of an extortion ri:i~. stabbed a man in a PudU Road hotel last night. The victim. Tar.s Chow. 25. 0; Kampong Hharu was rusbC the General Hospital. v here his condition is reported to e serious. Poll
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    Lock icon Need For Effective Leadership
    91 3 Need For Effective Leadership KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The M.C.A. was fully conscious that more effective leadership was necessary to gain support for the aims and ideals of the Alliance. This was stated by Mr. Ong Yoke Lin, Selangor M.C.A. president and Minister for Post and Telecommunications, at a party given
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    Lock icon Two Naval Ships Due In Penang
    83 3 PENANG, Tues. HMS Alert, flying the flag of the Commander-in-Chief. Far East Station, Vice-Admiral Sir Alan K. Scott-Moncrieff. will arrive here on Jan. 10, for a formal visit. Alert is under the command of Commander D. A. DunbarNasmith, the frigate has a complement of
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    Lock icon ONN TURNS DOWN MENTRI PROPOSAL
    311 3 Johore Party Wants Him JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Dato Sir Onn bin J^'afar, the former Federation's Home Affairs Minister and Party Negara leader, has turned down a proposal for appointment as Mentri Besar of Johore if the present Mentri Besar, Dato Wan Idris, is deposed by
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    Lock icon 'There's No Need To Fight Now'
    121 3 'There' s No Need To Fight Now' KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Abu Samah bin Mukin Mat Amin. Communist Party State Committee member for Pahang who surrendered on Christmas Eve, said here today that thr M.C.P. had finally realized that the armed struggle was meaningless as there was now an elected government
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    Lock icon FOUND HANGING
    21 3 HENG FOCK HIN. 35. was found hanging yesterday morning in the bathroom of a flat in Pulau Bukom Besar.
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    53 3 MISS I. KOHLER, icellknouni English pianist will give a few concerts in Singapore during the end of May, at the Victoria Memorial Theatre. She arrived in the Colony yesterday b?/ Qantas/BOAC jrom London en route to Australia to give 28 concerts during a 12-ireek tour. Miss Kohler iiras m Malaya
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    Lock icon A GOOD MAN'S WIFE IS TOLD: YOU'RE FOOLISH
    121 3 PENANG, Tues.— Lim Ah Gcoh tried to commit suicide after she quarrelled with her husband over $5 the Magistrate's Court was told today. Lim pleaded guilty to attempting suicide by drinking caustic soda. She was bound over. Lim said her husband, a
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    Lock icon Indians Plan To Build
    51 3 PENANG. Tues. —The formation of a building committee will be considered by the Indian Association at its 25th annual meeting to be held at the association's premises in Bagan Jermal Road on Jan. 7. The meeting will also elect a committee of management for the ensuing
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    Lock icon New Group Is Pledged To Merdeka
    90 3 New Group Is Pledged To Merdeka KLUANG. Tues. Committee members of the new-ly-formed Labour Party hen yesterday pledged to fight for immediate independence. The decision was reached at a meeting which ended in cries for merdeka and clenched fist. Kuala Lumpur Unionist Mr. A. Ratnasingam said that unless the Chinese
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    Lock icon Red Packet And A 'So Sorry' Note
    100 3 PENANG. Tues. A maintenance suit was struck off in the Magistrate's Court today after the defendant. Goh Kay Eow. a shop assistant agreed to publish an apology in the newspapers for the nuisance he had caused." Goh admitted paternity of a child the
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    Lock icon Santa Calls At Telok Ayer Tawar
    72 3 Santa Calls At Telok Ayer Tawar PENANG. Tues.— More than 100 boys of the Telok Ayei Tawar Camp School in Province Wellcsley had fun on Chri'tn.as Day when gifts from The Standard toy fund were distributed The toys were handed out by Mrs. G. A. Kleinman Poor children at the
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    Lock icon Puja Under Bhodi Tree
    58 3 WOMEN members of the Singapore Buddhist Association will observe the annual celebration of Bhikkuni Sanghamitta with a special puja under the Bhodi tree in St. Michael's Road at 7 o'clock tonight. Bhikkuni Sanghamitta. the first royal lady missionary in the history of Buddhism, was tbs daughter
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    Lock icon Ex-Journalist Takes Over
    63 3 THE newly appointed Assistant Commissioner for India in Malaya. Mr. P. H. Desai, will take over today at Kuala Lumpur from Mr. Madhavan Nair. who has been transferred to New Delhi. Mr. Desai. 35. holds an M.A. degree in political science. He was the Assistant Editor of
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    49 3 KOTA BHARU, Tues.— The Kelantan Adult Education Association and the Education Department are sponsoring a civics course for teachers of Malay literacy classes. The course which was officially opened recently by the Mentri Besar. Tunku Hamzah, is being held at the Malayan Teachers' Training College here.
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    Lock icon 145 ARRIVING ON THE CARTHAGE
    453 3 THE P O liner Carthage scheduled to arrive in Penang on Jan. 1, and Singapore on Jan 3. next year will hav? on board more than 145 passengers. The following is the list. PENAN G Mrs D. Barbour. Mrs. E.W. Criddl'e and six children, Mr.
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    114 4 SAWMILLS ARE RED SUPPLY FRONT KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. —The Negri Sembilan Government today cracked down on two large sawmills tn the Jelebu and Kuala Pilah districts which, investigation showed, was a front for an extensive Communist terrorist supply organization. The government shut down the two sawmills by cancelling their logging
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    Lock icon Keep Out The Loose Women
    114 4 Keep Out The Loose Women TAIPING, Tues.— Hoteliers and owners of lodging houses in Larut and Matang council area are to be told that they must not permit women of loose character inside their buildings. The town council here is in the process of distributing copies of the relevant section
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    Lock icon The Jaycees Choose Five
    61 4 PENANG. Tues The Junior Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors met here recently to select five candidates for the Hongkong Junior Chamber of Commerce scholarships. The five successful candidates were Lim Chin Yeang. Lim Yew Huan. Ho Wai Ming (all of Chung Ling High School) Ting
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    Lock icon PRINTERS UNION CHIEF RESIGNS
    52 4 PRESIDENT of the Singapore Printing Employees Union. Mr. o>car Fernandez, resigned yesterday "for personal reasons." Mr. Fernandez who had been elected president for six consecutive years, informed the Union that he "regretted that the circumstances prevented him from continuing to work for the upliftment of printers
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    20 4 The Malay Women's Association staged a charity show at the Broadway Hall. New World, Singapore on Monday night.
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    Lock icon $2,000 For No. *****38
    47 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. An official correction has been announced today regarding a digit in the eighth prize of the 34th Social and Welfare Lottery drawn on Christmas Eve. The number originally announced as *****36 should read *****38. The ticket carries a $2,000 prize.
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    Lock icon FIRST FLOOR DROP
    31 4 TAY TAN SOON, 55, a mason, was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital after a fall from the first floor of a house in Chander Road yesterday morning.
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    Lock icon 4 Wedding Guests Lose Their Pants
    92 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues Kuala i Lumpur police are looking for the thieves who removed pant- and over S2OO worth of property belonging to four visitors from Malacca early yesterday. The thieves broke into a hotel in Pudu Road yesterday and got away with 5166
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    54 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— A silver plate will be presented lo the Ist Battalion, Fiji InTantry Regiment, in Batu Pahat, on Thursday, by the Tunku Mahkota. The plate represents a gift from the Johore Government in appreciation of the service which the Regiment rendered the slate during
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    Lock icon Peking Warns: Beware Of 'Bellicose Colonialists'
    256 4 THEY'LL SABOTAGE TALKS WITH CKIN PENG HONGKONG, Dec. 27, (Reuter) Communist China yesterday said that "a handful of bellicose colonialists" were bent on sabotaging the peace talks" in Malaya. Peking Radio, in a nationwide broadcast in Chinese did not identify the "bellicose colonial:,but referred
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    Lock icon Thank You, Readers, For A Merry X'mas
    63 4 SOME of the boys and girls under the care of the Salvation Army, Ipoh, pictured after receiving: their presents and toys bought from cash donations to The Standard Toy Fund. Smiling broadly, these under-privileged children say "thank you'' to you, readers of The
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    Lock icon Self-Rule Is A Challenge To Trade Unions
    284 4 Self-Rule Is A Challenge To Trade Unions PENANG. Tues.-With Malaya marching towards independence, it is a challenge to Malayan workers to strengthen the free and independent trade union movement to fight for a better standard of living and overall improvement of working conditions. The president of the Malayan Trade Union
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    91 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Police arrested three Tamil youths at Kepong early yesterday for allegedly roaming the streets of the town in the night carrying offensive weapons. They were arrested by Inspector Mokhtar Marahakim of the Campbell Road Police, who was returning from a Christmas
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    Lock icon $500 Bail For False Declaration
    93 4 $500 Bail For False Declaration KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. K. S, Parameswara Iyer, s -12--year-old Ampang Street Restaurant keeper. was today charged in the Session? Co ;rt with making a false declaration before the Registrar and Inspector of Motor Vehicles. ASP Santhok Singh, prosecuting, said that Iyer made the declaration on
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    54 4 TAIPING, Tues.— Larut and Blatant town councillors do not seem interested in visiting places of interest arranged for them. At the recent meeting of the council, the Chairman. Mr F A W. Gabbutt. reported that only one person turned up ft r the visit to the Centra!
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    849 5 'Fat Man 9 Comic dragged Hollywood I into ruin with him) Comic Fatty Arbuckle icas a lavish partythrower in the days when Hollywood was one long party. But the tragedy written into his script rocked a continent. jjOSCOE "Fatty" Arbuckle was one of the t tinniest screen comics
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    961 5  -  Our Own Reporter By 1 HOLLYWOOD. JOAN CRAWFORD is sys- tematic in everything. < She has a business manj ager, but every month 'she goes over the accounts personally. 2 She runs her home like 2 a corporation. Even her wardrobe is Indexed and j "filed" with evening
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    41 5 FRENCH DELIGHT. Brigitte Auber plays a dramatic role in Paramount's "TO CATCH A THIEF" with Canj Grant and Grace Kelly. As Danielle, the French girl, she acts with great liveliness arid humour and provides the film's most thrilling surprise.
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    368 5  -  Roger Yue j-ilm t^acfe BY in PRISONER OF WAR' "PRISONER Of War," a film banned this month by the Singapore Film Censor, Mrs. Cynthia Koek, but later approved for public screening by the Board of Appeal Committee, will be?in its reason in Singapore this week as a
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    59 5 808 HOPE likes to spend his time between "takes"' practising golf. One day, while swinging a driver at an imaginary ball, he splintered the club on the concrete floor. At the same time he lost his balance and sprainejl an ankle. When he was helped to his dressing-room
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    63 5 WHEN JANE RUSSELL .was at the premiere of "The Tall Men" she was approached by a visitor who asked for her autograph. On receiving It, the middle-aged woman commented: "I hope this Is going to be a good, clean picture." Jane responded with a poker-faced reply: "Well. I
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      963 6 EVEN the most ardent supporters of the Federation Government's bid to end the jungle war by asking the Communist terrorists to walk out of their hideouts and give themselves up have become completely disillusioned. The '•peace" talks that are scheduled to take place this morning at 11
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    2968 6 REVIEW OF THE YEAR Part 2 by 1 RECORDER LONDON. OF THE YEARS THAT HAVE PASSED SINCE VE-DAY, 1955 WILL RANK HIGH FOR ITS CONTRIBUTION TO HISTORY. HERE ARE THE IMPORTANT EVENTS WHICH WILL DEMAND SPECIAL ATTENTION BY HISTORIANS. Royal Activities THE ability of monarchs to
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    92 7 IT IS part of the United States presidential tradition for the head of state to light up the Christmas tree that stands in the White House grounds in Washington. President Eisenhower, recuperating from his recent heart attack in Gettysburg, maintained this tradition with the aid
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    179 7 Ghosts Are Used To Keep Women Away From Work BERLIN. Dec. 27. (Reuter) Her: Egon Reutzsch. a top E st German trade union official has declared that Western spies are using ghosts and h tbgoblins to sabotage East Germany's economy. Writing in the December i-sue of the trade union r-onthly
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    50 7 PORT OF SPAIN. Dec. 27 (Renter)— Sir Edward Beton, Governor of Trinidad, has asked all Government ministers who can. to attend 4 ne London conference on West Indian Federation next Febroaiy, "in view of the importance to the colony of the I Ms involved." I
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    90 7 TOLEDO. Ohio, Dec. 27. (Reuter). A baby girl born on Christmas Eve after her mothct had been stabbed to death by an unknown assailant was reported to have a fair rbance of survival. Th»* mother, 2J)-year old Joe Annv Burlage, was at
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    58 7 KINGSTON, JAMAICA, 21 (AP)— Mrs. Kenneih Mclean has given birth 10 two girls— the second born five days after the first. The first infant was born last Tuesday at St Ann's Bay Hospital Yesterday she complained aqain of maternal pains and her second daughter was
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    47 7 photo service. HER Royal Highness Princess Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christable, the daughter of the Duchess of Kent, celebrated her nineteenth birth da v on Christmas Day. This new portrait studv of the Princess was made by Dorothy Wilding A.P.
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    53 7 LONDON Dec-. 2 (Renter). The American "Everyman" opera group opened a tour of Russia last night with a performance in Leningrad of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess." Moscow Radio describod i* "a great success." Mr Charles Bchlen, the A-iieriran Ambassador to Russia, and Mrs. Bohlen were
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    18 7 PRINCESS Margaret sent nine big Christmas boxes of chocolates to British Homes for blind babies. Reuter
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    208 7 ROME, Dec. 27, (Reutcr) A professor of Mathematics who has become the centre of a great battle between public opinion and Italian Television spent Christmas studying light opera. Professor Luigi Degoh was eliminated from Italy's most popular T V. programme
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    112 7 IT TOOK 5 MENTOSbBDUE BIG MICHAEL HEREFORD, England. Dec. 27. ißeuter) It took three Policemen and two civilians to get 13-stone Michael Went, a Christmas reveller. a quarter of a mile through Hereford streets, the local Court was told on Christmas Eve. When they reached the Police Station, Went, 24--year-old
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    244 7 WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (Reuter)— Tripartite consultations between the United States, Britain, and France, aimed at co-ordinating their arms deliveries to Middle Eastern countries have now been expanded to include Italy and Canada, authoritative sources said yesterday. Since the original tripartite declaration of May
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    39 7 LONDON, Dec. 27. (Reuter) —The Salvation Army announced here that it now operates 17.630 centres in 85 countries and colonies. The organization employs 26.765 officers and cadets and 22.792 other people on full time work.
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    32 7 ERNEST Krogh Hansen. Norway's First Ambassador to Communist China, called on Foreign Minister Chou Enlai on Monday to make arrangements for presentation of his credentials. Peking radio said. AP
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    99 7 Grandson Marries His S. -Daughter WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. (Reuter) Senator Alben Barkley yesterday gave away his step daughter in marriage to his grandson. The senator from Kentucky formerly Democratic VicePresident gave away Miss Jane Hadley, daughter of Mrs. Barkley and her former husband. The bridegroom Army Corporal Thomas Truitt is
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    373 7 'BATTLE IN KOREAN SEA' SEOUL, Dec. 27, (UP) The South Korean Government charged yesterday that a fleet of Chinese Communist vessels, in a deliberate "act of war" battled with a Korean patrol boat off the southwest Korean coast on Christmas
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    137 7 Party Chiefs Pick Nixon, Stevenson U.S. Presidency NEW YORK, Dec. 27, (Reuter)—The Republican Vicepresident. Mr. Richard Nixon. and the Democrat Party leader. Mr. Adlai Stevenson were tipped to contest next year's presidential election, in a poll of 6 000 chairmen ot local party organizations throughout the nation published in Look
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    61 7 MARRAKLSH. Dec. 27 (Reuter) —E] Glaoui. 80-year-old Pasha ot Marrakesh has grown weaker in the last 24 hours, sources close to his palace here said last night. El Glaoui spiritual chief ol 1.000.000 South Moroccans, was operated on earlier this month for a stomach ailment. He
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    40 7 HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 27, (Reuter) British actress Audrey Hepburn will star in "L'aiglon, 1 film version of Edmond Rostrand's play, Paramount Studio.s announced. "L'aiglon." wiil be produced partly on location in Austria and in Hollywood starting next Autumn.
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    94 7 FLORENCE Italy, Dec 27. (AP)— All that Vladimir Santi Vannini did over Christmas was play his piano. He started out one minute after midnight on Sunday with the intention of playing i 49 hours non stop. He was j still going strong
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    175 7 PRO-PERON N.C.O. PLOT IS FOILED BUENOS AIRES. Dec 27 (Reuter) The Government of the Argentine Piovince of San Luis announced yesterday that a "plot aimed at creating disorder and altering peace, had been toiled. According to an official communique more than LM) NonCommissioned Officers and scores of civilians had been
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    32 9 TO add to its present chain of 40 theatre houses throughout Malaya and Borneo, the Cathay Organization is building four more modern cinemas at a total cost of 81,800,000.
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    53 9 One, to be known as Odeon Katong Cinema is now being built on its 39.000 sq. site, at the junction of East Coast Road and Ean Kiam Place, Singapore It will cost $750,000. The other three theatres are being built at Batu Pahat (Johore), Alor Star (Kcdah)
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    41 9 An architect's perspective of each of these thre-j cinemas shows: the Cathay at Alor Star (top), which is to cost $400,000; the Cathay at Batu Pahat (right) costing $250,000; and the Sandakan Theatre (below) which will cost $400,000.
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    525 9 How Work At Rothamsted Helps Colonies Finance And Commerce THERE are three important but different ways in which work on studies of the soil, which are constantly being carried out at the Rothamsted Experimental Station, near London, are aiding the production of better crops in colonial territories. First, a full-time
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    30 9 NEW items of equipment. seme of them in advance of practice in cthe*- countries. are enabling the 8.8.C. Television Service to extend the range of their outside broadcasts.
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    265 9 Best Year For Goodrich Seen INDUSTRY EXPANDS By ARNOLD C. BRACKMAN Standard's New York Bureau Chief MR. Bill Richardson, president of Goodrich, one of the rubber giants in the I'nited States, is today looking forward towards a top year in 1956. He is equally confident that the industry will continue
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    110 9 Sengat Turns Loss Into Gain THE Scngat Rubber Estate. Ltd. report a gross profit of £2.572 against a loss of £7.205 in the previous year, accordi ing to the chairman, Mr. R. 1 0. Jenkins. The crop harvested amounted to 491.000 ib. 36.500 lbs. less than the previous year. The
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    64 9 EXPORTS of rubber from the Federation. including stocks for transhipments at Singapore in November, totall led 63.070 tons, against 52.231 tons in October. Imports also rose from 1.--300 tons in October to 2.801 I tons in the following month. Production in November at i 51.917 tons,
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    372 9 NEW I'ORK. HIGH levels of economic activity in most parts of the free world, coupled with the rising volume of international trade and travel and of U.S. business operations abroad, has resulted in an increasing number of U.S. private banks expanding their overseas operations. These
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    279 9 A NUMBER of Asian visitors have taken advantage of the Building Exhibition in London, which closed recently, to investigate a new system of building quickly and cheaply, which has already been widely used in Britain, and is being increasingly used in other parts of the world.
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    25 9 ENGINEERS will begin a survey of prospects for a U.5. 535. 000. 000 paper mill at Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, on Jan. 5.
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    21 9 WORLD wool output for 1955 is estimated at 4.480 million pounds as compared to 4.400 million pounds in 1954.
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    122 9 THE accounts of Pajam Ltd.. show in a working profit of 5350.077 out of which the directors propose to distribute 25 cents dividend per share ($1 per share). With the balance brought forward and investment income, profit on assets, provisions for taxation, the company has a balance
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    191 9 LADY Eden, wife of Britain's Prime Minister, will open the first 1956 Eritish Industries Fair at Earls Court, London, on February 22. The Fair— 3sth since the first was held in London in 1951 will be the first to be held at two different times
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    53 10 U.P. photo. A GIANT snowplough clears drifts off the road at Ihixendalc, a village on the Yorkshire Nolds. A "barrier" of snow lays right across England, cutting the frozen North from the South. The snowline stretches from Shrewsbury to the Wash and Yorkshire is one of the
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    80 10 PARIS. Dec. 27, (UP) A bakery worker claiming to be the '"hand of god" admitted yesterday that he set a time bomb in Sacred Heart Basilica on Christmas Day and Poiice found he was building three more. They nabbed Daniel Havas, 45. who styled himself
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    220 10 Nehru Lashes At India's Reds TRICHUR, South India, Dec. 27 (Reuter)— lndian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru yesterday made his first attack on Indian Communists since the visit oi the Soviet leader, calling them "great reactionaries." He said they had stunted their minds and spent all their
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    95 10 Wrong Man Was Ripped Up TAIPEI, Dec. 27 (UP) Twenty-five-year-old Liu Chu dashed into a home where his wife was working as a maid on Christmas Eve bent on gaining revenge against" the house master whom he thought was taking a special interest in the maid. With a knife he
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    27 10 COMMUNIST China has announced that it had completed a steel bridge across the Han River section of the Wuhan transportation complex in Central China. UP
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    403 10 BOY (9) TELLS OF A X' MAS AMBUSH Only Two Survive Horror ALGIERS, Dec. 27, (Reuter) A nine-year-old boy told yesterday how 30 Algerian outlaws killed his father, mother and elder brother and then permitted him and a three-year-old brother to escape wounded from an ambush on a road in
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    30 10 RADIO Peking said that East German Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl arrived in Ulan Pator, capital of Outer Mongo]ia, yesterday, after visiting Red China and North Korea. AP
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    25 10 U.S. NAVY Secretary Charles S. Thomas arrived in Formosa yesterday from Hongkong for a two-day series of conferences with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. U.P.
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    164 10 NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (AP)— American motorists raced and rammed their way to an alltime record number of traffic deaths over the Ions; Christmas weekend. The final count was not tabulated but it was edging toward the 600 mark at a pace of more than seven
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    32 10 KHARTOUM. Dec. 27 (UP) Parliament yesterday named a five-man Sovereignty Commission to take over the British Governor-General's functions until a president of the Sudanese Republic is elected.
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    254 10 'NIXON IS BEST DRESSED MAN IN U.S.' NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UP)— Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, called the man with the "ideal look." was named the United States best dressed man for 1955 today by the American Women's Institute. Announcement of the top ten came from Mrs. Veronica Dengel, author
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    140 10 MOSCOW, Dec. 27, (Reuter)-Russia will cut her defence spending by about 10 per cent in 1356 to permit greater development of the public economy and culture, the Soviet Finance Minister, Mr. A G Zverev told the opening session of the Supreme Soviet, Russia's parliament, yesterday.
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    390 11 ssi^^ssssss Sadali was master of Wee :y turn of the game, and had do difficulty in taking his first major title. In the men's doubles final, th. new Perak combination of than Tens Kok and Soo Sam Fatt beat Malacca's Charlie Seow and Wee
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    47 11 FEDERATION'S Arijfin bin Hassan icas a worthy winner of the Mr. Physique title at the SingaporeFederation Indonesia weight lifting championships held at Singapore's Neic World on Saturday and Sunday. Arijfin beat Robert Teo, the Mr. Malaya of 1955, standing left, and Federation's Kuan Keng Lam, standing right.
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    63 11 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Mon.— Entries for the Bukit Mertajam Tamil festival, of sport, to be held some time in January, are invited from all Indian Associations, clubs and teams in Province Wellesley. Included is a soccer and table tennis competition Parties interested should send in their entries
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    410 11 This Time Charlton Get A Thrashing LONDON, Dec. 27, (Reuter)— Manchester United's brilliant young side held their lead of three points at the head of Division 1 after yesterday's English soccer league programme. They followed their 4 l thrashing of West Bromwich Albion on
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    81 11 KL Railmen Win Lose KUALA LUMPUR'S Railway Recreation Club beat Indian Recreation Club by four goals to two in a friene'ly soccer match played at Farrer Park on Monday. Scorers for the visiting team were: J. Gabriel. Ibrahim, Ananthan and Alek. I.R.C. scored through Narayanan and Krishnan. In another match
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    27 11 RUGBY: Naval Base vs. R.N.A.S. Sembawong at Sembawang: Tengah Nomads vs. Kent Hong at Keat Hong; R.A.A.F. 1 Squadron vs. Nee Soon at Nee Soon.
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    101 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tucs.— The sixth post-war All-MaLaya M'alays tennis tournament will be held at Kuala Lumpur during the Chinese New Year holidays. The organisers have, for the first time, made provision for two women's events to encourage Malay women to take a keener interest in tennis. Events fixed
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    76 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tugs.— The touring Hongkong basket ball team will meet Selangor at 3p.m. on Jan. 2 at the Chinwoo stadium here. Selangor's selectors have named the following for the match: Chen lon Ching, Fan Seong Siong. Lee Kok Wah, Yon Fook Nam, Ho Lien Siew,
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    309 11 Must Choose B'ton Or Cricket by TONY R ANGEL from PENANG. Tuesday. PENANG'S all round sportsman, Teh Kew San, whose recent performances in the inter-state junior badminton match against Singapore make him the best bet for i Malayan Thomas Cup berth in 1958, cannot
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    60 11 St. John Cagers To Tour Fed. ST. JOHN Ambulance Brigade basketball teams will tour the Federation for a series of games early in the New Year. The teams will play in Batu Pahat. Seremban. Kuala Lumpur. Ipoh and Penang. Under the critical eyes of Colony coach Kao Chang Ming, the
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    328 11 LONDON, Dec. 27 (ReuterK— Association Football results of matches olayed yesterdav were: LEAGUE DIVISION ONE Aston Villa 1. Portsmouth 3. Birmingham City 6, Everton 2. Blackpool 4, Huddersfield Town 2. Bolton Wanderers 1. Manchester City 3. Burnley 1 Preston North End 2. Cardiff Citv 1. Chelsea
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      500 12 Ambassador To Make A Comeback RACE FOUR Reinstated after his successes in amateur meetings Ambassador gave a good account of himself at Bukil Timah in November when hi ran a close fourth to Merrj X'mas over six furlongs. Ambassador was running or at the finish, suggesting thai he will find
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      506 12 WINDSOR LAD (4 Winners On Saturday) Points Out CLEVER BUG, an Irish-bred four-year-old from J. R. "Doc" Rodgers' stable, may prove too smart for his rivals in the main seven furlongs event (Race Two) at Pen a n g today, second day of the
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