Singapore Standard, 3 January 1956

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  • 177 1 FIRST BANDIT ELIMINATED IN 19 56- A WOMAN PENANG, Mon.— The first Communist terrorist eliminated this year was a woman, Lim Swee Hiang, 23. She was killed by Security Forces m the Paya Terubong area on New Year's Day. Formerly a Chinese school student, Lim, believed to be a member
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  • 74 1 <. OL. Tom Laister. Director of Public Relations, 0.H.Q., Far East Land Fortes, who was awarded the 0.8. E. for services m Germany. Attached to the Royal Ulster Rifles, he was wounded m North African fighting m 1943 and joined Public Relations. He served m Italy, Middle
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  • 45 1 Wins Banco' But Pips 90 Cents MONTE CARLO. Jan. 2, C'P)— Prince Aly Khan collectt a New Year's Eve windfall r 1.500.000 francs ($12,855) at Mante Carlo's baccarat tables I st night and then tipped the ak-room attendant 90 cents I his coat and hat.
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  • 116 1 CROSSED FINGERS AT POLLS PARIS, Jan. 2 (AP)— French voters went to the polls today to pick a new National Assembly wnich they hope will restore France to a respected place among the world's powers. Many doubt if their votes can do it. In the cities and villages of Metropolitan
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  • 24 1 THE U.S. 7th Army, a bulwark of European defence, reported yesterday it is America's "largest and most modern combat-ready army." AP
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  • 107 1 FORMER Commissioner General m South-east Asia Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald arrived m Singapore by air from Sarawak yesterday after completing his third book. This book, which deals with the social developments of Sarawak for the r ist ten years, will be pub- -hed soon by
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  • 336 1 ■ft Wmm Bui Id -Up Starts For Thomas Cup By BILL FUNK, Standard's Sports Reporter WONG PENG SOON, M.8.E., will be Malaya's first professional coach. The President of the Badminton Association of Malaya, Mr. Heah Joo Seang, said m Singapore yesterday that the Colony badminton player, honoured
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  • Article, Illustration
    13 1 WONG PENG SOON. First the Queen's award, now the BAM's
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  • 246 1 He Drops Commerce Post Standard Staff Reporter A MINOR Cabinet change m Singapore's nine-month-old Coalition government will take place shortly. Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, revealing this to The Standard yesterday, said he was awaiting an amendment to the Order m Council to create
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  • 62 1 NICE, Jan. 2 (UP) A Moroccan-born beauty, Gisele Charbit, held the title of Miss France, 1956, today because of popular demand. It was her second try m three days. On Thursday night a jury picked shapely Maryse Fabre But the choice provoked such a storm of
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  • 122 1 A UNION MAKES HISTORY FOR the first time m the annals of the trade union movement m Singapore, the Naval Base Labour Union yesterday paid 30 of its striking: members their full wages. The men employed at the Kra n j i Wireless Station received $1,300 their one week's salary.
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  • 69 1 WASHJNGTON, Jan. 2 (Reuter)— United States officials appeared cool to the suggestion by Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Premier, that it might be useful to hold a new Big-Four "summit" meeting. Diplomatic circles here ruled out another top-level conference between East and West m the
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  • 29 1 AMERICAN film director John Huston said yesterday that he plans to star Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier m a film version of "The Sleeping Princess."- U.P.
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  • 22 1 RUSSIA has offered Liberia diplomatic friendship and Liberian President William V. S. Tubman, m accepting, said. "We will reciprocate." U.P
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  • 183 1 LONDON, Jan. 2 (Reuter) The Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden will today discuss with the Labour Opposition leader Mr. Hugh Gaitskell exports of war materials from Britain to the Middle East. An announcement last night said the meeting was at Mr. Gaitskell's request. They
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  • 30 1 RUSSIA'S President Klementi Voroshilov yesterday credited the Soviet Union's "active peace policy" m 1955 with "unmasking the sponsors of the cold war" and easirn? international tension.- A.P.
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  • 26 1 CHINESE Communists heralded the New Year m the tense Formosa Straits by opening fire on Nationalist Chinese patrol vpsspi npar Wuchiu Island.- A.P.
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  • 151 1 MANCHESTER, Jan. 2 (Reuter) The Manchester Guardian today gave the case of Professor Liang Shu Ming, the Chinese philosopher, as an example of the Chinese Communist Government's pressure on domestic affairs. After claiming that Professor Liang Shu Ming has become a target of abuse, this
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  • 129 1 A DONATION TO YOUTH SIR Gporge Thomas, donor of the Thomas Cup and former president of the International Badminton Federation, has donated £250 to the Singapore Youth Sports Centre. The money will be used for the erection, equipment and maintenance of a basketball court at the proposed Centre. Sir George,
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  • 75 1 Perak Wins Shell Motor Rally A. BRAZIER of Perak. driving a Citroen 15, won the first annual Shell Malayan motor rally which concluded m Singapore yesterday. He scored 1.0 point and wins the top award of $4,000. Second was W. R. A. Wyllie (Triumph TR2) scoring 12.0 points, and third
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  • 67 1 DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 2 (AP)— More than 100 guides and volunteers searched m relays yesterday for the body of an American teacher who. with five other skiers, was engulfed by an avalanche on a New Year's Eve ski outing. The bodies of an American medical student
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  • 209 1 Vietnam Reds Seize Bishop SAIGON, Jan. 2 (UP)— Communist North Vietnam authorities have arrested the Roman Catholic bishop of Hanoi and sent him to a concentration camp, according to reports reaching here. The reports, printed m the Saigon newspaper "Cach Mang Quoc" (National Revolution), said Bishop Trinh Nhu Khue was
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  • 57 1 NEW YORK. Jan. 2. (Reuter) Americans, shocked by the Christmas weekend tol] of more than 680 lives lost m traffic accidents have cut by more than half the death toil so far over the New Year weekend. There were 121 traffic deaths by noon yesterday compared with
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  • 330 2 Bosses' Attitude Is Blamed For Fung Keong Strike THEY WON'T RECOGNIZE UNION KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The attitude of the management of the Fung Keong Rubber Manufactory of Klang towards trade unionism was named today as the chief cause of the strike of the company's 1,000 workers. The three-man court of
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  • 177 2 More Violence After Feb. 8? SINGAPORE Communist gunmen will find a resolute and efficient opposition from the Police, declared Mr. Peter Claque, the Police Secretary yesterday. Mr. Claque was commenting en the decision of the Council of Ministers to withdraw its amnesty offer to local
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  • 117 2 IPOH, Mon. The Alliance group m this State capital yesterday evening celebrated their sweeping election successes with a tea party m the Jubilee Cabaret. About 500 persons, including Alliance elected councillors attended the function. Two resolutions were passed, one giving full support to the "Merdeka" mission
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  • 104 2 Aquarium Problem Can Be Solved THE Singapore Van Kleef Aquarium Board said on Saturday that "certain views" m the press about the incurable troubles with the marine fish section, were not authorized. The Chairman of the Board, Mr. J. T. Rea, said, m a statement, that there was every reason
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  • 38 2 MARINE Police yesterday recovered the body of a 27-year-old woman Lim Fook Sim from the Singapore River. It is believed that the woman fell into the river on Sunday night near Elizabeth Walk.
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  • 141 2 N. Tear Joy Ride Ends In Court TWO soldiers attached to the King's Own Southwest Borderers, privates James Holland and John Kerr, who came down from Ipoh to enjoy their holidays here appeared m the Singapore Emergency Court yesterday to answer three charges. Holland pleaded guilty of stealing a motor
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  • 110 2 THE Singapore Chinese Bus Owners' Association will hold a meeting tomorrow to decide whether they should collectively apply for a licence to operate buses along all the STC routes. The City Council on Saturday gave permission to the owners to run temporary services up
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  • 31 2 THE "Singapore of the Future" exhibition illustrating the Master Plan will be opened by the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, at the Victoria Memorial Hall at 5 p.m.. today.
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  • 94 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Police are continuing their search for the two convicts who escaped when they were brought to a social hygiene clinic for a check-up last Thursday. Tracker dogs were used to comb a large section of blukar m the Anjpang district yesterday. The search
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  • 132 2 WHEN Italy's Charlie Chaplin, Mr. Renato Rascel, makes a brief stopover m Singapore this month m the course of a world tour, he will give one performance entirely for charity. Memorable throughout the world his role as "the little man" m the film "II
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  • 126 2 RAIN did not dampen the spirit of 2,000 children m the Buktt Timah area who turned up for a New Tear party organized by the Bukit Timah Youth Club m conjunction with the Singapore Voluntary Workers Association. Gifts of toys, sweets and biscuits from the
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  • 152 2 AMERICA might take a greater interest m Ifalayt m two or three years, said the well-known America a author and lecturer John Caldwell when he flew into Singapore yesterday. i Mr Caldwell is giving a talk on the American view on Asia m the British
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  • 140 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. His great desire to take a good picture of Sir John Kotelawala. the Premier of Ceylon, on his visit to the Fedu^. capital recently. landed a youth m the Juvenile Court, here on Saturday. The boy pleaded guilty ta three
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  • 142 3 IPOH, Man. A businessman from Telok Anson, Mr. Chan Peng Hong, 49, who was among nine persons injured when two cars were involved m a collision near Simpang Pulai, about six miles from here, on New Year's Day, died at the Ipoh District Hospital
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  • 51 3 KUALA LUMPUR Mon. The Secretary of State for the Colonies has approved the promotion of the following inspectors to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police with effect from Jan. 1. Inspector A. E. J. Koelmeyer of Negri Sembllan, Inspector Leong Kwai Wah. Perak; and Inspector N, Nadarajah,
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  • 364 3 Bid To Form New Selangor Branch KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The discontent that has been brewing within the Labour Party m Selangor has reached a crisis and a move is now underway to form a new ''Selangor division" of the party to the exclusion of its chairman,
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  • 56 3 Photo by IN THE presence of a large gathering of relatives and friends, the engagement took place m Kuala Lumpur, on Boxing Day of Kuala Lumpur journalist, Mr. Aster Gunasekera, Jr., eldest son of Standard columnist and Mrs. Agnes Gunasekera. and June, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
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  • 158 3 PENANG, Mon.— The statement made by nominated Municipal Councillor, Mr. H. Bracegirdle, at the last Council meeting: that there was really little place for party politics m the Council has raised a storm oi protest among- Alliance members. The Alliance Party whip. Dr. Lim
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  • 33 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. More than 500 members and guests from all over the State attended a dinner here last night to celebrate the second anniversary of the Seiangor Electrical Engineers' Association
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  • 81 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. H.M.S. Crane, commanded by Captain B.S. Pemberton, will visit Port Dickson on Jan. 3 for two days and Teiok Anson on Jan. 10. Crane is a Black Swan class frigate. displacement 1.470 tons, and is armed with six-four-inch guns. She has been m
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  • 143 3 PENGHULUS TO BOYCOTT SPEECH BY SECRETARY MALACCA. Mon— Malacca penghulus will boycott the Settlement Secretary, Mr. S. R. C. Fowle's talk on Jan. 8. m which he will explain the Settlement penghulus' new scheme of service. This unanimous decision was taken at yesterday's emergency meeting of the Executive Committee of
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  • 70 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. There were 20 road accidents m the Federal capital during New Year's Day. Kuala Lumpur Traffic Police reported today. This includes the death of a 20-year-old rubber tapper, Ahmad bin Khalid of Kedah m an accident at Ipoh Road. This morning. 13
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 383 3 cMlmanac Information at a Glance SHELL CO: Free film chow "Wings to Bermuda" at Collyer Quay, 1.15 p.m. TOC H: Weekly meeting at 11 Scotts Road 8.30 p.m. RAFFLES LIBRARY: Exhibition of English Children's Books 8.30 a.m. to 8 p.m. POLICE BAND: Public Concert at King George V Park 530
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    • 636 3 and 9.15 p.m. GRAND: Nebraskan 3, 7 and 9.15 p.m. SUN: Kanavane Kankanda Deivam 1, 5 and 8.30 p.m. TAIPING REX: Raj Darbar 2.30, 6 and 9 p.m. LIDO: Wife and Husband 3. 6.45 and 9.15 p.m. CARLTON: Gentlemen Marry Brunettes 1245, 3.15, 630 and 9.15 p.m. lAJESTIC: Paisan 3,
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    • 100 3 16.86 m): 1 p.m. International Report (19.59 16 82. 16.86 m): 7.15 World's Great Music (19.59. 16.86 m): 730 Theatre Organist (1959. 16.86 m); 745 Popular Australian Vocalists (19.59. 16.86 m); 8 p.m. Tempo of the Times (19.59, 16.86 m): 8 30 News (19.59. 16 86m); 8.40 News Commentary (19.59,
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  • 295 4 Alliance Caused Many To Lose A Lot Of Money KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Forty-three out of 77 candidates opposing the Alliance at the last Federal elections lost their deposits, being unable to poll more than one-eighth of the valid votes counted. Mr. T. E. Smith, Supervisor of Elections, said m his
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  • 97 4 He Did Not Want To Rejoin Ship A SEAMAN, charged under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance for failing to join the tanker "San Amado" on its departure for Australia on Dec. 30 last year, told the Emergency Court yesterday that he "did not wish to return to the tanker again.'' W.
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  • 66 4 U.K. Co-op Official To Give Advice A REPRESENTATIVE of the International Co operative Alliance of London, Dr. George Keler, will arrive m Singapore on Jan. 9, to study the cooperative movement m Malaya. Dr. Keler will also advise on the needs and problems confronting local co-operators. The Singapore Co-operative Union
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  • 82 4 CHAIRMAN of Singapore Safety First Council A. E. Shepherd last night urged the people to make "safety first" their number one New Year resolution. "Commencing at midnight we want to prove that it is possible to have 24 hours completely free from accidents," said
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  • 94 4 'Israel Today' Exhibition On Feb. 20 A FOUR-DAY photographic exhibition on "Israel Today" depicting the various aspects of life m the Holy Land will be held at the British Council Hall. Singapore, from Feb. 20 to 23. The organizer. Israeli journalist Isaac Ben-Ami, told The Standard yesterday that since he
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  • 43 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Kuantan-Sungei Lembing Road m Pahang is impassable to traffic, flood rei>orts reaching here today stated. At the 161 Milestone, the water is 10 feet above the Pasir Kemudi bridge and the level is still rising.
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  • 100 4 IPOH, Mon. At the close of an inquest here yesterday Coroner Che Abdul Kadir bin Yusof found that the driver of a Land Rover, Abdul Razak bin Haji Mohamed, 25, was "entirely responsible for his own death." Abdul Razak was fatally injured when the vehicle
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  • 155 4 P.M.U. PETITIONS SULTAN TO LIFT BAN ON IT'S ADVISER PENANG. Mon. The Secretary-General of the Peninsular Malays, Union. Inche Issa Hussain. has sent a petition to the Sultan of Kedah requesting to consider lifting the conditions imposed on the movement of its general adviser. Inche Chik Arshad, who released by
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  • 56 4 A CHARGE of escaping from the custody of the Simpang Anam Police Station. Penang, m 1953, was explained to Lim Chee Tong. alias Lam Chee Tong, m the Singapore Emergency Court yesterday. Lim was ordered by the Magistrate, Mr. J. M. DevereuxColebourn, to be sent
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  • 172 4 Famed Musicians To Give Concert BENJAMIN BRITTEN, one of the foremost composers m the world and Peter Pears, England's leading tenor, arrived m Singapore for a two-day concert at the Victoria Memorial Hall, tomorrow and Friday, under the auspices of the Singapore Musical Society. Britten and Pears are on a
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  • 110 4 DESPITE the rain, a large (crowd was at Singapore's waterfront to watch the annual sea sports yesterday. From early morning the holiday crowds took vantage points along the waterfront from Queen Elizabeth Walk to 'Collyer Quay. Most of them were Malays from the
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  • 305 4 No Place For Sultans,' Says Labour Alliance Urged To Face This Problem PENANG, Mon. Before there is any transfer of power m the Federation of Malaya, the Alliance "Merdeka Mission" must find satisfactory solutions to three major problems. These problems concern the status of the Sultans, the creation of a
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  • 40 4 ALOR STAR, Mon. Sim Thean Chye, 25, a fishing company employee was found dead last night m Jalan Telok Wan jar here. It is believed that Sim was shot from close range while cycling. Murder is suspected.
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  • 80 4 KUALA LUMPUR Mon. The REME Branch of the War Department Civilian Staff Association,- at its annual general meeting here last night, decided to demand for a minimum basic wage of $8 a day for all daily-rated civilian employees of the War Department. Those who attended
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  • 201 4 MR. C. B. TAN, Singapore cabaret manager, soccer referee and one of Penangs war heroes during the Japanese occupation, collapsed and died while awaiting for an injection m the out-patient's department of General Hospital yesterday. Mr. Tan, 41, who had been
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  • 99 4 IPOH, Mon.— Nine persons, a number of whom were schoolchildren, on their way to Penang to spend the holiday, were injured, while two others escaped unhurt about 9 a.m. yesterday morning, when they were involved m a road accident near Simpang Pulai, about six miles
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  • 71 4 Ke lan tan's Mentri On Holiday KOTA BAHRU. Mon. Kelantan's Mentri Besar Tunku Hamzah has left Kuala Prai for Singapore on his way to Australia, New Zealand and England. He was accompanied by his son Tunku Abdul Aziz who will join the Agricultural College at Brisbane. Before leaving, Tunku Hamzah.
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  • 52 4 Mrs. H. G. Hammett, wife of the Resident Commissioner, Malacca, handing out a Malacca Broadcasting Club gift bag with a Standard Readers' Fund toy to Aminah, daughter of an old blind raayat, after the cinema snow for underprivileged children at the Rex Theatre last Friday, Dec.
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  • 70 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon The new Wild Animals and Birds Protection Ordinance which came into force m Negri Sembilan, Pahang and Selangor and the Settlement of Malacca on Sept. 1. 1955 has come into force m Perak Kedah and Periis as from Jan. 1. 1956. This ordinance
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  • 2176 5 THIS is the second of three science features reproduced here by permission from the NEW YORK POST I The author is WILLY LEY, long con- sidered as one of the world's fore- most experts on rockets and the I possibilities of space travel. A native of Germany,
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  • 78 5 THIS is an artist's conception of a space station outlined by a University of Maryland physicist, Professor S. F. Singer, who called his idea the "Mouse," meaning minimum orbital unmanned satellite of the earth. He calculated it would circle 200 miles above the earth cl
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    • 277 5 STANDARD'S Crossword Puzzle pi lire 18. Cheerful song till broken ACROSS 21 Q uite irrational numbers 1- Beheaded he can still ap- 2 «> Bit ng ditch insect raise l9> 2 4~ One should be this (9) One of these may be worth 25 a fool needs to be back'vo
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  • 946 6 Singapore Standard A Clearer Perspective THE people of Singapore have always believed that this colony is more important than the Federation. Its strategic position as an entrepot, its concentration of population and its cosmopolitan character have given rise to this belief. However, since the past year, the Federation has taken
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  • 800 6  -  ASTER GUNASEKERA by A NOTHER year has dawn- ed; a year of considerable importance to Malaya and one which will write a new chapter m the country's history either m blood or letters of gold or both. We have been warned to expect more
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  • 1493 6 OUTSTANDING PROGRESS IN INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION WASHINGTON TRULY bright spot on the 1955 international scene was the progress achieved on the road to a better life through the peaceful uses of atomic energy. The past year was marked by these outstanding developments m the atoms for peace field:
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  • 137 6 Shorts from the Talks "TJXDR years people have been trying to puzzle out how Hannibal got over the Alps, with an army and elephants. We're not crossing the Alps, we're only moving from No. 12 to No. 4 m the same street, and we've no elephants except white ones, but
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  • 78 7 KEY WEST. Florida. Jan. 2 (UP). President Eisenhower yesterday began 1956, the year m which he must make one of his greatest decisions, by working on a new draft of his State of the Union message, which will go to Congress on Jan. 5. Instead
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  • 398 7 Harding s Warning To EOKA NICOSIA Jan. 2 (Reuter)--Secret talks m Athens 3 nd Nicosia during the last six weeks have failed to find a settlement for Cyprus, political observers said here, yesterday. Statements yesterday by Field Marshal Sir John Harding, Governor of
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  • Foreign Newsbriefs
    • 34 7 VIENNA, Jan. 2, (Reuter)— President Antonin Zapotocky Chechoslovakia yesterday i mitted m a New Year broad- from Prague that Czech propaganda against Yugoslavia "sometimes went too far" m tbc past,
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    • 32 7 LONDON, Jan. 2. (Reuter)— Sir Winston Churchill is retandng to the south of France fox a further holiday about the n Idle of this month, it was authoritatively learned today.
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    • 30 7 VIENNA, Jan. 2. (AP)—Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab said m a New Year's Day message that Austria will strive m 1956 to become a •reriiator between East and West.
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    • 25 7 JERSEY CITY. New Jersey. Jaa 2, (AP) Former Mayor Frank Hague, last of America's oldtime political bosses, died on Sunday. He was 79.
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    • 36 7 LONDON. Jan. 2. (AP)— Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe Britain's top straight actor and America's most famous curved one are to be teamed up m a film version of ''The Sleeping Prince."
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    • 36 7 LOUISVILLE. Kentucky Jan. 2, (AP) Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomery, 38. fell to her death from a second floor apartment early on Sunday when she rushed to a window to watch the New Year celebration
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    • 43 7 CHICAGO. Jan. 2, (AP) Robbers early on Sunday bound nine employees of the Chez Paree, popular supper club and took receipts from the club's New Year's Eve business which, police said. U might amount to as much as 515 C.000.
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    • 23 7 LONDON. Jan. 2, (AP) The post office confessed on S vaday it has lost a mailbag full of stamps worth $280,000
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    • 21 7 LONDON. Jan. 2 (AP) A direct rail link between Moscow and Peking was opened on Saturday, Moscow Radio reported.
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    • 34 7 ROME. Jan. 2. (AP)— Italy's two leading men of the left. C mmunist Palmiro Tog'iatti and Socialist Pietro Nenni. yesterday predicted that 1956 aid be a year of leftist gains a Italy.
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  • 43 7 photo. Mrs. Suharmi Sentanu, daughter af the Indonesian Ambassador m London, Prof. Raden Supomo, performs one of her native dances at a holiday lecture and demonstration of foreign dances for senior school pupils at the Central Hall, Westminster. Associated Press
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  • 310 7 CIVIC HONOUR FOR LAST BRITISH GOVERNOR RANGOON, Jan. 2, (Reuter) The City of Rangoon yesterday gave a civic reception to the last British Governor of Burma, Sir Hubert Ranee and Lady Ranee who are both on a visit here at the invitation
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  • 117 7 Documents Are Just Lies— Reds BERLIN. Jan. 2, (UP)— East German Communists yesterday flatly called the U.S. State Department's documents on the Yalta conference lies and said it was the West, not the Soviet Union, who insisted thai Germany be divided. The official Communist Party paper Neves Deutschland fiercely attacked
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  • 97 7 If Turned Into A Silver Rush LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Jan. 2. (UP) Police had a headache yesterday as a result of an impromptu "silver rush" at a multi-millicn-dollar hotel. Mobs of New Year's Eve revellers descended on the Sand s Hotel when word got around that the management was handing
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  • 167 7 OTTAWA. Jan. 2 (UP) Russian officials hampered firemen here last night— and one even struck the fire chief —fighting a blaze which broke out on the toD floor of the Russian embassy. Flames leaped high into the air and an estimated crowd of 5.000
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  • 242 7 LOS ANGELES. Jan. 2. (UP) __A 29-year-old mother of four children, brutally beaten and raped by two teenagers free on bail "from a previous rape case involving a minor, died yesterday. Sheriff's detectives said Nazario Gonzales. 18. and Jerry Garcia. 19, admitted
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  • 332 7 Sudan's Greatest Day KHARTOUM, Sudan, Jan. 2, (UP)— More than 100,000 Sudanese gathered yesterday outside Government Palace where the new Sudan flag was hoisted to mark the country's independence on what Premier Ismail El Azhari described as the greatest occasion m the nations
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  • 160 7 All Hail Birth Of This New Republic LONDON, Jan. 2 The British Government yesterday formally recognized Sudan as an independent sovereign state and sent messages of goodwill to the Sudanese Government and people. Queen Elizabeth 11, m a message to the Sudanese Council of State, said: "On this auspicious occasion
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  • 46 7 MONTMELIAN France. Jan 2, (AP) M. and Mme. Malliet, returning home early Sunday after New Year celebration, found their children. Patrick. 2\ years, and Annick. 13 months, choked to death by the smoke from an electric blanket which had developed a short circuit
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  • 30 7 THE Yugoslav Government, m a gesture of goodwill to the Germans, released 38 German war criminals on New Year's Eve. it was announced officially on Sunday.- UP
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  • 73 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 2, (UP)— The New York Daily Newfilm reviewer. Kate Cameron, yesterday picked the British movie, "The Prisoner," as the best film introduced m December. 1955. It is the story of a Catholic priest imprisoned by a totalitarian regime. Alec Guinness stars m it.
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  • 227 7 FEZ. Morocco. Jan. 2 (UP)— Tanks, artillery and planes were rushed to the Riff Mountains yesterday as the New Year dawned to put down the biggest uprising m Morocco since savage Berber tribesmen revolted thro? months ago. In a major clash near BcmOulid. northeast
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  • 414 9 TWO NEW TYPES OF POLICIES FOR MALAYA WITH the approach of self-government m Malaya, local companies should play a leading role m the economy of the country. Dr. S.Y. Liv, managing director of The Overseas Assurance Corporation Ltd., Singapore, said yesterday. Dr. Liv said this
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  • 95 9 HONGKONG achieved economic stability m 1955 and looks forward to a prosperous new year, the newspaper Hongkong Standard said yesterday. During the year, the paper said, the local industrialist upon whom the economic stability of the colony depended after the United Nations embargo was imposed, made
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  • 41 9 AMERICAN Corporations paid out some U*****,000,000 m dividends during November, the U.S. Commerce Department reported on Thursday. This brought publicly reported payments m the first 11 months of this year to a total of about US$lB,OOO,OOO.
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    54 9 THE President of Scandinavian Airlines System signs the $50 million contract for seven Douglas DC-8 jet airliners m his office m S.A.S. Headquarters at Bromma, Stockholm re- cently. From left: Mr. Olof Carlstein, Vice President Engineering, S.A.S., Mr. Henning Throne -Hoist, President, S.A.S., Mr. James W. Clyne, Manager of International
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  • 119 9 Cane Fibre Boards For Insulation SUGAR fibre is cutting fuel costs at a British aircraft factory, as a result of a British firm's ingenuity m devising a method of making bagasse into fibre boards. These have such high heat insulating qualities that their installation m one of the largest shops
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  • 326 9 Flying The Atlantic In 8 Hours SCANDINAVIAN Airlines System, SAS recently signed a contract for seven Douglas DC-8 commercial jet aircraft, at a total value of $50 million, including spare parts Delivery of the giant, swept-wing aircraft will begin during the first quarter of 1960.
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  • 173 9 THE recent launching of the Spyros Niarchos, a tanker of 47,750 tons deadweight represented for the builders a threefold achievement. In her. they had built the largest-capacity tanker afloat, and the longest and broadest merchant ship to come from a British yard since the Queen Elizabeth; and
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  • 23 9 CITRUS prospects m South Africa are excellent m the main growing areas where there have been good rains m recent weeks.
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    16 9 A SKETCH of one of the Douglas DC-8 commercial jet aircraft ordered by Scandinavian Airlines System.
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  • 116 9 EXPORT MART FOR BAGASSE U.S. Agriculture Department experts after a survey, have concluded there are promising possibilities for expanding the market for bagasse the residue left after the juice is pressed from sugar cane. Most likely possibilities for using bagasse, the experts said m a report, are m production of
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  • 265 9 I THE increasing desire of Americans for more variety and flavour m their meals or for foreign dishes that many of them have sampled abroad, has resulted m the world's largest food producer becoming the world's largest importer of foodstuffs grown or processed elsewhere. More
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  • 597 9 CREDIT Foncier D'Extreme-Orient, which has taken a lead m a number of building projects throughout the Far East, has embarked upon a new $400,000 building scheme m Frankel Estate, Siglap, Singapore. Building operations will start shortly on a new group of 40 larger and
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  • 389 9 Prospecting Operations Hampered PROSPECTING operations were still severely hampered despite the improvement m the security situation m Malaya and there was a growing shortage of mining land, said Mr. D. T. Waring, presiding at the annual general meeting of Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging Ltd. at Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Waring, who
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  • 92 9 BUSINESS firms over an area extending from Leicester to Wolverhampton may now control their fleets of vehicles by radio. A new communal business radio-tele-phone system was inaugurated recently at Meriden, the traditional centre of England, six miles from Coventry: The system was installed by Pye Ltd., Of
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  • 28 9 THE new Mai. $2.5 million dairy project of the Kaira district co-operat&e union at Anand m Bombay State has been opened by Prime Minister Nehru.
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  • 64 9 RED China's sudden largescale purchase of Hongkong currency m Portuguese Macao has caused the va:ue of Macao money to drop m comparison to Hongkong dollar, Hongkong newspapers reported. The sum involved is estimated to come up to HK$27 million and the large-scale purchase is ascribed to
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  • 25 9 The Australian apple crop is indicated to be slightly larger than that of last 3 T ear, while pears may be slightly lower.
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    • 643 9 NOTK CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDERS ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT: (a) The closing 5 e for the receipt of tenders JJL the installation of 9,300 £as ol 22 kV and Pilot U.G. a tables and supply 5,000 yards b ■■•< kV U.G. Cable has been k Stended to NOON— 23/1/1956, 1 [m
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    • 264 10 Agy?%~ FURNITURE I 1 L^ J I ioj^o^^\ wish Id never a sked y° u "The doctor told me to /i**TiM*V X to ffive c u a^,» up of tea take my mind off business /^i|^iif%?|l m bedl M "NOTHING, thank you. I'm just waiting for a iriend." 4 "Remove
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  • 807 11 ffltex Soars writes about 1 Champion State Of The Federation THK highlights of Sela n^or s 1955 sporting year gen the state's phenomenal successes at cricket, ru^bv, hockey and m a lessee degree, tennis, athl?t v s and badminton. Se'.angor Cricket, Rugby, I and Tennis Associations k back on
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  • 54 11 KARACHI Jan 2 (Reuter)— The louring M.C.C. cricketers wer c m sight of victory. At lunch today when they had captured seven second innings wickets for S.i runs against the Governor-Generals eleven on the last day of their match here. At that stage, the GovernorGeneral's eleven
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  • 172 11 LANDY TO RUN AGAIN •fr.LBOURNE, Jan. 2 (AP)— V d mile record holder John I will return to competition I a break of mor c than 12 m a special carnival ere at Olympic Park on Jan. 4. Ke will meet Lon Spurrier of l rnia m the half mile
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  • 300 11 Manjrekar Roy To India's Rescue CALCUTTA, Jan. 1 (Reuter) The fourth Test match appeared to be heading for a draw when India, 301 for four m their second innings, led the New Zealand touring team by 97 at the end of the fourth day's play here today. The match ends
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  • 82 11 CALCUTTA, Jan. 1 (AP)— Althea Gibson of the United States won the women's singles championships m the Asian lawn tennis tournament today by defeating Japan's Suchiko Kamo 6-3, 9-11, 6-2. In men's doubles. Britain s Roger Becker and Jim Barrett won the championship with
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  • 46 11 TUNIS, Jan. 2 (AP)— Tiberio Mitri of Italy, former European middleweight boxing champion Sunday Night defeated Bill Jo Cohen of Tunis when the latter failed to report for the Eighth round of the Ten round match. Both fighters weighed about 161 pounds.
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  • 41 11 THE New Zealand Royal Air Force XV did well to hold Singapore Cricket Club 'A' to a 8-3 points draw yesterday. The Kiwis scored a try through Begnell and the S.C.C. replied when Harrison kicked a penalty goal.
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  • 347 11 By BILL FUNK THERE is a strong possibility that Malaya will compete m the Über Cup competition the international tournament for women, to be run under lines of the Thomas Cup competition. President of the Badminton Association of Malaya, Mr. Heah Joo Seang,
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  • 1252 11  - WYLLIE, BRAZIER OR BARUCH TO WIN SHELL RALLY EDIN PETERS By TWO Perak drivers, 24-year-old W.R.A. Wyllie (Triumph TR-2) and A, Brazier (Citroen 15), and Singapore's Francis Baruch (M.G.T.D.), occupied the first three positions of the general classification at the start yesterday of the final stage m the first annual
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    • 376 11 CLASSIFIED ADS SITUATIONS VACANT SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL: Required (A) two Midwives m salary scale $155 x A 16— 251 plus Variable Allowance. Midwifery Certificate "B". (B) Laboratory Assistant. Analyst's Laboratory. m salary scale 5155 x Al6-187, Bar/203 x Al6— 347/ Exam. Bar/385 x A20— 505 plus Variable Allowance. School Certificate
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    • 121 11 Li 1 Abner By Al Capp /VO* 1 I WRONr /VWOUI-DTHATBOVQ>JSIDER] MOf^'THERE'S ONLS M^mUTu/ 7^ I'dONES >oID S AUDREY HEPBURN'S HANDS J ONE PAIR OF HANDS J C^iilirr. PRAMKLVVCXJNG XWft-"%/ PORGOT I MAESTRO* i > PERFECT?- ELIZABETH f > HE'D CONSIDER V^S?"> MOOTHwSh J^J^ 3 HER V^ESTWQTy TAYLOR'S?- RITA ,-!--<
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    170 12  -  Windsor Lad By A YEAR OF PROGRESS Another racing season has just ended. All you people connected j with the Sport of Kings owners, trainers, jockeys, stable hands and, of course, the punters can proudly put this down m your notebooks: 1955 a year of progress. i iL wi
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  • 438 12 1956 RESOLUTION': i Says SCRUTINEER THE 1956 racing season will soon be upon us., and with such a crop of newcomers among us we can expect another year of thrilling racing and close finishes. Among the new horses we may see another "Jackie's Kuda"
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  • 420 12 The "HORSE OF THE YEAR" is undoubtedly the Irish "flying machine" Jackie's Kuda, owned by Dr. J. D. Dennehy and trained by Keith Daniels, both of Singapore. Indisputably one of the most brilliant sprinters ever to come to" Malaya, Jackie's Kuda, except for his initial
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  • 31 12 ABOVE: Jubilant owner is Dr. Jack Dennehy. And little wonder for Jackie's Kuda has just won the Liberation Cup (with Jackie Jones up) his fifth win m a row.
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  • 167 12 Cypress Point Best Over Middle Distances PERHAPS the best middle distance performer last season was Cypress Point. This seven-year-old Court Martial gelding scored a splendid win m the Spring Cup over the mile at Bukit Timah. In May also at Bukit Timah he won the Governor's Cup Oi miles). He
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  • 492 12 CONGRATULATIONS to Garnet Bougoure. This brilliant Australian rider has earned the honour of being "Top Jockey of 1955." Bougoure rode 54 winners, 45 seconds and 43 thirds a fine achieve ment For Bougoure, it was third-time lucky. Twice runner-up for the joe key championship, Bougoure has finally
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  • 114 12 To Keith Daniels, The Palm TO CAPTURE m one season most of the rich sprinting prizes with different horses the Perak Gold Vase, the Singapore Liberation Cup and the Williamson Memorial Stakes is indeed a unique training achievement This was accomplished by Trainer Keith Daniels, of Singapore, who finished the
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  • 119 12 3rd Time Lucky For Champ age year for apprentice jockeys, several having a good share of the rich prizes. Most senior of the apprentices is 20-year-old Kitson Leong, who has now 33 wins to his credit. Leong forfeited his riding allowance m September when he drove Barakat first home over
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  • 92 12 ...DURING the ye a 1 Malayan racing fraternity lost a popuiar figure by the death of Mr. C. R. P...;: ...;d y Martin, for many years secretary of the Selahgor TV Club. 1 No more fitting tribute '■■<* "Paddy" was paid than th it given
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  • 176 12 Irish-Bred Horse s Assert Their Superiority ONCE AGAIN Irish horses asserted their superiority m the season's staying races. Euphrates chalked up four wins m a row including the valuable $30,000 Perak Derby over li miles. Euphrates clinched the decision by a shorthead from Three Rings and covered the trip m
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  • 90 12 AS IN previous years Shaw Stable headed the winning owners' list earning stakes totalling $260,045 with 40 firsts, 31 seconds and 37 thirds. Shaw Stable's powerful string was managed by Jack Spencer of Singapore and Jimmy Martin of Penang, and to these two trainers go tha credit
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