The Straits Times, 18 January 1953

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  • 18 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NET! MALES EN MALAYA No *l(t SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JANUARY IS. 1953. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 333 1 They tell me it's bad for my health CHE FAH B BACK Sunday Times Crime Reporter LUMPUR- Sat. THE Ciee F*h racketeers a-f t*a:K A powerful svna cate of secre; society men has taken over m Mr. X whose DOO month gambling empire crumbled ->t Sunday Times am twe weeks
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  • 301 1 Thirty five detainees go back to the new Permatang Tinggi Women's petition to Gen. Templer PENANC, Saturday THIRTY five Permatang Tinggi villagers out of a total of 66 sent to a detention camp by the High Commissioner. General Sir Gerald Templer, last August, have been
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  • 68 1 LONDON. Sat—Representatives from Commonwealth air forces are expected to ioin the Royal Air Force in demonstrations at the R.A.F. Coronation review on July 15. Details of the programme have not yet been settled but Britain's latest jet fighers and bombers will probably stage a mass fly-past.
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  • 33 1 LONDON. Sat Queen Eliza--:d the Duke of Edinburgh will see E*w Cia:r".<fllni -Les Belles LV Nult" as the ruesu of the French Ambassador Mr Rene Massicli or. Feb 11 —Renter.
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  • 34 1 JOHANNESBURG. Bat— A special South African committee yeslerday expressed alarm at the growing dagga Indian hemp) smoking in South Africa and said the traffic, backed by powerful interests. was increasing. Reuter.
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  • 62 1 THE QUEEN, Princess Margaret and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from their car as they leave St. Giles' Catbedral in Edinburgh after attending th e wedding last week of the Earl of Dalkeith, 29, to Miss Jane McNeill. 22. daughter of a Hong Kong lawyer. Britain's "Wedding
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    54 1 The boy with the dog is It year-old Vu Van Tong. who has been adopted as a mac-cot by French troops in Indo-China. He is seen here at the head of a column in th Tarkinese Delta area being led in turn by his own mascot a four month
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  • 102 1 CEYLON SPURNED U.S. OFFER WASHINGTON, Sat. THE RETIRING American foreign aid chief, Mr. Averell Harriman Expressed "critical concern" yesterday over a deal by Ceylon to ship 250.000 tons of rubber to Communist China over the next five years. In a farewell report to U.S. Congress, Mr. Harriman said the Ceylon
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  • 146 1 Cordons kill Red leader KUALA LUMPUR. Sat CIVE hundred yards from a road where the High Commissioner General Sir Gerald Tempter and Lady j Templer had passed barely an hour before, one of Malacca's top Communist terrorists was yesterday killed by security forces. He was Choong Nam Wah, commander of
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  • 64 1 CALCUTTA. Sat. A boat carrying pilgrims down the Hooghly river smashed against a buoy here today, spilling its passengers into the river. First reports placed the death toll at Thousands of Hindus take part annually in a pUgrimape to Sagar Island at the mouth of Hooghly.
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  • 64 1 COLOMBO. Sat Shavenheaded Buddhist monks in saffron robes chanted hymns of welcome at the airport in Colombo yesterday when a Burmese religious mission arrived by air from Rangoon. The Burmese Minister for Religious Affairs, U Win. who headed the mission told reporters that it would seek
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  • 218 1 /^LERKS and other subordinate employees of trie Singapore City Council are facing a crisis. And no-one knows how to deal with it. Even. the officials of their Union have not been able to agree 01 a solution. The trouble Is all over a
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  • 43 1 TO MARK the installation of its new $500,000 Crabtree rotary press, the Straits Times is publishing with today's Sunday Times a CENTURY OF PROCRESS supplement. Make sure that this copy of the Sunday Times contains this fully illustrated 24-page supplement.
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  • 133 1 BANGKOK, Saturday I OVER PRICES are expected in the world nee market 1J during the coming year, delegates to the international Rice Conference at trangkok were told at the closing session yesterday Preliminary estimates of the 1952-53 world rice output reported at
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  • 24 1 BELGRADE, Sat— An explosion in a military establishment near Sarajevo in Bosnia yesterday killed 21 persons and injured about 50.— Reuter.
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  • 37 1 NEW YORK. Sat. Presi- dent-elect Dwight Eisenhower today named Mrs Oswalf Lord as the U.S. representative of J the United Nations Commis- sion on Human Rights, sue- i ceeding Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt. U.P.
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  • 49 1 SEOUL, Ut. CHEMICAL wjrf.re cipcm were ruihea to the jjckion Heights Jrci en the central front Hii» week after night parrels reported "strange and offensive odours" coming from the Chines* position. The experts went out with a patrol to make an on-the-spot examination. They found garlic.
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  • 241 1 JAKARTA. £aru/day. COMPANY OFFICIALS, dockworkers and port authorities, v vs ho early this morning yaw the Netherlands Steamship Lim-* Oranje arrive at Jakarta were surprised at the extent of the damage. The 19. 000 -tori Oranje fcol- llded with a*iotheT Dißch i liner, the Willem Ruys,
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  • 31 1 THE HAGUE, Sat.— The British ship Derwentdale. 8,454 vons. was in collision yesterday with the Panamanian steamer Rhea off East Goodwin. The Derwentdale radioed that damage was "slight. Reuter.
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  • 78 1 LONDON, Sat— Mr. Clement Attlee, the former Biitish Labour Prime Minister, said in London yesterday the Asian Socialist conference just concluded at Rangoon would lead to closer understanding between Asian Socialists and those of the West. Questioned about the conference's closing declaration which totally rejected Communism as
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  • 203 1 NO PEACE TILL CHINA RECOGNISED— NEHRU HYDERABAD, Sat. rE Indian Premier, Pandit Nehru, declared today that there could be no final settlement in the Far East without recognition of the new Government of China. Non-recognition of thi£ Government by some cou.. cries was a refusal to see one of the
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  • 328 1 Neguib promises iron fist' for plotters LONDON. Saturday. QENERAL Neguib clamped a complete military dictatorship over Egypt today by arresting 25 army officers suspected of plotting the overthrow of his reform government. The 52-year eld Egyptian "strong man" purged the 25 from with.n his own army ranks, announced the dissolution
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  • 121 1 TOKYO, Sat. THE IXITED STATES told Japan yesterday that General Mark Clark had been ordered to. take "all possible measures" to stop violations of Japan's skies by Russian planes In a Note to the Japanese Foreign Minister. Mr. Katsuo Okazaki, released today, the
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  • 55 1 LONDON, Sat—Lieut-Com-mander William George Marshall. 31. former secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, West Indies Station, was found guilty of being absent without leave at a court martial at the Royal Naval Barracks at Chatham yesterday. He was sentenced to be dismissed from his ship, HMS Pembroke, and
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  • 31 1 CAIRO. Saf. The GovernorGeneral of Pakistan. Mr. Ghulam Mohammed, will visit King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia at Riadh next month, it was learned in Cairo yesterday
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  • 1596 2  - END OF A 'PAINFUL' AFFAIR ALAN MOOREHEAD By 77ie first of the major atomic spies refused to help the authorities in any way before or after sentence This continuation of our weekly extracts from Mr Moorehead's book. "The Traitors", opens with the return of Allan Nunn May to England from
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  • 64 2 Four men who are conducting new atomic weapon tests in the United States. Lt Cen. t. R. Qucsada (top left) 45 -%ear-oid Air Force officer, is in command of a joint task force. His deputies are. Brig. Cen. K. Gerhart (top right) of the U.S.A.F., Brig.
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  • 190 2 DR. Allan Nunn May, history's first convicted atom spy. Wat released from prison on Dec. 29. Mst year. The brilliant physicis' w«s a trusted member of the war-time atomic 'isison group which included jcientisrs from the Unircd States, Canada an<J Britain. He passed on to
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  • 43 2 AND NOW IT'S THE ATOMIC GUN A «unr teN-prope«lcd cannon, designed to deliver an atomic blast deep into enemy territory. M demonstrated at the Aberdeen. Maryland, proving ground of the U.S. Army. The 85-ton weapon can fire a 12-inch aromie sheM 20 miee>.
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  • 55 3 L CLARKE "Thank goodness for cricket." |OHN BROWN "I'd rather stay in bed" E. R. NATHAN "A matter of getting used to it." ANTHONY CARLINC ."11l miss the new villages". IVAN BAPTIST "Oh. tor another month at home!" A. COUPER The firs*
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  • 41 3 Two brothers Rodney (IS) and Cordon (12). with their 13-year-old ii*rer. Allison Bain. Hew from Kuala Lumpur by special Malayan Airways plane to ca'ch the Charon which left Singapore for Australia yesterday. Sunday Times picture.
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  • 232 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A SCHEME to encourage people in the Federation to rear quality chickens in place of the local "mongrel 1 breed will be started soon. With S 10.000 fiom the Rural and Industr.al Development Authority. R l xxle Island chickens
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  • 64 3 A cyclist. Haji Mohamed bin Hadi, 45, a P.W.D labo.irer, was Injured last night in a collision with a bus at the junction of Victoria Street and Sumbawa Road, Singapore. He was admitted to hospital where his condition was reported to be critical. Eye -witnesses of
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  • 88 3 The China Society of Singapore will hold an exhibition of modern Chinese art including porcelain, paintings, carvings, embroideries and other works of Chinese art produced during the 20th century, to coincide with the visit of Miss Jade Snow Wong. American artis* and writer of Chinese descent, from
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  • 28 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat— Mr. J. D. Hodgkinson, British Adviser, Johore, has acceoted the invitation of the Johore Bahru Rotary Club to be an honorary member.
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  • 54 3 Members of the Telok Ayer Methodist Youth Fellowship in Singapore yesterday gave a treat to about 40 handicapped children of the British Red Cross Society at the Katong Park. The treat, which Included popsicles, cakes, sandwiches, chocolates, sweets and other tit-bits, was organised by the M.Y.F.
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  • 286 3 PENANG, Sat. THE President of UMNO I Tengku Abdul Rahman, last night warned members to "beware of so-called high j ranking Malays who have Join- ed UMNO merely to direct peo- j pie, especially when they see j that UMNO is now getting
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  • 77 3 KUALA LUMPUI, Sat. A Malay told the jftg&la Lumpur police today that he was stopped by four armed men a little after midnight last night near the Griffin Inn in Am- pang Road, Kuala Lumpur. I Two of the men,
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  • 315 3 QNE hundred and twenty-four Malayan students who. returned to their schools in Australia yesterday on the Charon after spending their long vacation with their parents were unanimously agreed on two things. 1. THEY HAD SPENT A MOST ENJOYABLE HOLIDAY IN. MALAYA. 2.
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  • 183 3 REPORTS circulated yet again in the Singapore Rubber market yesterday that Indonesia had concluded a rubber-rice barter deal with Communist China on the Ceylon pattern and the price of rubber steadied, after opening easier. February first grade opened at 83 Vi cents a lb. and closed at
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  • 14 3 SINGAPORE. Sat. Jan. 17. SIT 1.25 a picul (up 62 i cenU).
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 205 3 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 5 30 a.m. Tamil Music; 6.40 New* in Tamil; 6.45 Chinese MuMc; 7 News In Chinese; 7.05 Malay Music; 7.15 News in Malay; 7.20 Morning Star; 7.30 News in English; 7.35 Bright and Early; 8 Announcers' > Choice; 8.30 Breakfast with Thorne; i). 30 Time for Music;
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  • 755 4  -  AND ONL V ONE CAR MO one in the outside world is certain how many islands there are in the world's newest republic; one reputable book of reference says 12.000. another equally reputable but this time wrong says 12. No one in the
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  • Article, Illustration
    71 4 VV In response to numerous requests, the Sunday Times today begins a new "Miss Malaya" series. The picture above is of Miss Jenny Yap of Singapore We shall be glad tc accept pictures fronyoung women of even community. The Sunday Times can only return rejected pictures if a
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  • 577 4 CARS FOR THE TAPPER FAMILY T»EN days ago a major calamity occurred In the Dusun— the typewriter went phut! The suppliers ignored a telegram and letter so we had to ask a friend in Singapore to send the necessary spare part One is quite helpless without a machine. There was
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  • Article, Illustration
    15 4 This picture, "Flowers of Pride," was taken at Hie Botanic Gardens. Singapore, by Sunny Cian.
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    • 581 4 Worlds First Jetliner NOW IN REGULAR SERVICE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND LONDON. VIA INDIA. Enjoy Air-Travd ahead of it* tim«! Ry faster and in qrarff comfort by the latest 8.0.A.C. Speod- bird, the de Havilland Comet designed and built in England in collaboration with B.O.A.Gfc by the famous de Havilland Aircraft
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  • 335 5 GOING, GOING— AND $325,000 WORTH HAS GONE IN 3 WEEKS 'The bidding zcas fair' SINGAPORE'S biggest jewellery auction of 4,650 brilliants, diamonds, gold and silver ornaments, chains, watches, fountain pens and other valuables realised $325,000 when it ended yesterday after three weeks of brisk bidding. Items for the auction came
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  • 82 5 SIN Kay Chool and Lee Kan San pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Poifce Court to gambling in a canteen at Singapore Harbour Board and were each fined SlOO. A man who was alleged to have asked a detective to refrain from taking action against Sin and
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  • 101 5 LIM CIIWKE PECK, a lorry driver, asked th e Singapore Second Traffic Magistrate yesterday to send him to prison for two traffic offences because h e could not pay the fines. Lim was fined SB5 when he pleaded guilty to charees of careless driving and
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  • 220 5 They will go eft tour A NEW THEA T RE group has been formed in Singapore Mr. Donald Paves on Friday afternoon registered The Isiand Players as i theatrical enterprise. Ha is in partnerih p with ano t hi>r theatre enthusiast who w.shes to rema n
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  • 31 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— The Ir.A.F. dropped nearly 50.000 lb. of supplies to security forces throughout the Federation during the past week, an Emergency Information Service communique revealed today
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  • 295 5 26 brewery workers get gold watches TWENTY-SIX men and women who have given a total of 500 years' service to two Singapore breweries yesterday received gold watches from their employers. The 26 are workers in the Malayan Breweries Ltd and Archipelago Breweries Ltd., whose chairman, Mr. T. Aiken, made the
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  • 88 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat—Rubber smallholders in Johore have received the first grants to enable them to replant. Total applications exceeded 1,500 for approximately 13,500 acres. Many smallholders apparently did not understand the terms of the grants and did not fulfil the conditions for instance, in the Kluang district
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  • 29 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat Sungei Burcog Estate and South Malaya Pineapple Plantation, which are controlled areas in Pontian, have now been declared food controlled areas as well.
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  • 38 5 Low Choo Hong was yesterday tentatively charged in the Singapore First Police Court with attempting to extort money from Lan Ah Loi outside a Desker Road house on Friday. Low was remanded will till tomorrow.
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  • 135 5 IPOH. Sat MALAYA'S only Indian seminary for the training of ministers of the Methodist Mission, established last year in Ipoh has been renamed after the Rev. S. S. Pakianathan, who retires this month after 51 years' service. The seminary at present comprises a school
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  • 60 5 Twenty-two women and seven men crowded round the usher's table as they were charged in a Singapore court yesterday with gambling In a common gaming house in Woodlelgh Park on Friday. All admitted having gambled but denied that the house was a
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  • 158 5 -..r MC DI CkAni A SEREMBAN. Saturday. JHE NECRI .^EMBILAN State Government has appued to the Johore Government for the services of their buperviso^ of Elections, Inche ismi bin Ismail. c Tungku Mustapha, Chairman cf the Seremban Town Board :.aid that Inche Ismi
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  • 177 5 So now it's 'cheers' with Red Eye SINGAPORE has taken a new drink to its hearts tomato juice and beer, mixed. Yes, mixed Tile concoction rejoices in the name of "Red Eye" but nobody seems to know where the recipe came from. All that bartenders know Is that more and
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  • 148 5 IPOH. Sat. IF I were High Commissioner of Malaya" is one of the subjects of an essay contest which is to be part of the programme of the Perak Youth Council's "Youth Festival" on March 6 and 7. Members of all youth organisations are
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  • 828 6 Nan Hall surveys our budgets IS the cost of living rising or failing? Few people can agree. The Statistics Department in Singapore say there has been a slight increase for Europeans, slight decrease for Asians. But even the Department's findings are subject tc
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  • 330 6 I O.i. II.""! lf hou eb °V r i| e«* he brought in the turkey, and teemed N> enjoy j .iTT',!!!?! il"* P i!T* cr kerf md wearing P«P« hat.. After dinner he brought coffee and X""- 1 11 m 4!"« He «krd our
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  • 736 6  -  'THE New Villages are giving thousands of people their first real taste of civilised living. But some of them are awfully dull places. Man cannot live on rice alone, and I now put forward the suggestion that the Federal Government should form its own brand of
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    • 179 7 THE latest shape of vanity in a woman's jewellery is pictured here The necklace is designed in fake gold —the newest stage in the development of the Midas Touch. The chain is made of base metal changed into a gleaming gold. It has two special
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    • 443 7 Vanity THE mirror business x started from scratch when Eve first peered in a pool. Since then the urge of a woman to see how she looks has created a history and a trade. In the first place, the mirror business was slow. I looked
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  • 189 7 A CODE of private vanities has been created by the tiara-wearing classes. I talked last week to a man who is peculiarly aware of them this Coronation year, a director of one of those international jewellers in Bondstreet (or "The Street," as he calls It). Part of
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  • 489 8  -  CLOTHES, FRANCES BARBER says LONDON. OEHIND the scenes the fabric designers, the clothing manufacturers, the beauty firms are getting into gear for a livelier new year. The fabric story grows more interesting every day. Lovely airy-fairy nylons are in the shops everywhere. Nylon's sister, terylene, will
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  • 46 8 /"»LOSEUP of one of Horrecktes Vrf lovely spring cre»Hon». ChevroneS itrpci are utcd for Hiis striking corton drett which it net* and cool with it* tiny collar, cap tW«v«* and very fwil gathtrcd skirt boasting two larga patch p«ckaH.
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  • 358 8  - Pinito, 21, has the world's most terrifying job Lovely young girl on the flying trapeze KENT STEVENS By LONDON. I SAT terrified. My hands clutched the arms of m> 1 seat My nerves struns taut. I could hardly breathe. Hish above me in the Harringay Arena a lovely girl named
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  • 395 8 IAM 23 years old and am at present working; as a clerk, hut clerical work is not my line. I have tried many times to join the Federation Regiment and the Police Force as an Inspector. I have passed my Standard VIII but because of financial
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  • 504 9 Corporal builds own school, teaches his neighbours LANCE Corporal Mohamed Zain. 26. has built his own school on Pulau Blukang off the northwest tip of Singapore and in his spare time teaches most of the island's 130 inhabitants to read and write Malay. Cp Za n s i trie attap
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  • 281 9 Teasers for Army recruits rpHE army in Malaya has I turned to psychology as an aid to the solution of recruits. Applied to the recruits by a series of "picture-book" tests. It can show very quickly just how bright or how stupid a recruit is. regardless of the degree of
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  • 225 9 HER FATHERS SAVINGS GIVE NANDAWATHI BIG CHANCE A MALAYAN Ra.lway c man stood on thi pore >y and waved to hi* 12-year-old daug.iter t one of hundr> the Charon, loaded Vttfc Malayan ch.ldri-n rt'.urnins to Australian schools Nandawsthi Nanayakkara of Ipoh was leaving h< r parem s lor the second
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  • 70 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat AFTER sen-ing the Johore Government for 33 years. Mr. S. V Sanmugam. Senior Indian Interpreter. High Court, Johore. has retired. He joined as a clerk in the Labour Office. Johore Bahru. in 1920 and at the same timp acted as interpreter in th»>
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  • 26 9 Caught smoking opium in the five-foot-way of a store in Gumming Street. Singapore, Tan Kan Hir was sent to prison for one month.
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  • 197 9 Two Perak Red nurses give up to the forces KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. CIVE Communist terrorists, including a platoon commander and two nurses, have surrendered to the security forces in Perak. Two ga/e up yesterday in the Talping area. They were Yu Yut Hoi. alias Chee Haak, 27, a Hakka, and
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  • 36 9 Twenty two people were each fined $10 in Singapore Third Police Court yesterday after pleading guilty to trespassing in Singapore Harbour Board labourers' quarters in Nelson Road— with In- tent to annoy the authorities.
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  • 71 9 KAJANG. Sat.— Mr. N* Bow Thai wa s elected a life member of the Broadrick Club. Ka. jang. at its annual general meeting last night. Officers elected were: Vic*«president. Mr. Ng Bow Thai' secretary, Mr. H. S. Christopher; treasurer, Mr. S. Sivarajah: committee. Raja Azam bin
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  • 61 9 After he admitted dishonestly retaining two stolen duck-s. Chinnayah was yesterday sentenced by the Singapore Fourth Criminal District Court Magistrate. Mr. J. B. Jeyaratnam, to one year's imprisonment to be followed by two years' police supervision. He had a previous conviction for nousebreaking and theft
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  • 26 9 TELUK ANSON, Sat.— Mr A W. V. Kenyon has assumed duties as Colonisation Officer Lower Perak He is being stationed at Teluk Anson.
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  • THE SUNDAY TIMES
    • 476 10 IT is easy to sit in the safety of a big town and advise people in bandit areas to show courage. It does not, perhaps appear such a simple and attractive proposition on the spot. Neverthel^s, Malaya will never be free of fear unless its people
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    • 111 10 rERE will be head -shaking among our more sobersided citizens at the news that the Sultan of Perak's birthday celebrations were the grandest ever and cost more than $10,000. The more human of us even those not fortunate enough to witness the spectacle will feel satisfaction at the good
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    • 48 10 rE world is seething with unrest. But one strong ray of light has suddenly pierced the gloom Sarawak has ended the Emergency in the First Division. This is the best news so far of 1953. Little Sarawak has set an example to the rest of the world.
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  • 1241 10  - The man who is wiping out the world's past R. W. BAXTER gVENTS of the past few weeks in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union make it clear that the world struggle has entered a new and startling phase. The trials in Prague and the lunatic "murdering doctors" charges from
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  • Sunday Times POSTBAG
    • 230 10 SINGAPORE landlords still *3 demand any amount they like as tea -money. This is a matter which Government should tackle effectively; the man who cannot afford to pay tea-money is deprived of accommodation. What the Bombay Government did to deal with the landlords was to appoint an officer
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    • 330 10 CONGRATULATIONS to Dato C. J. Paglar for moving an amendment to the Legislative Council Elections Ordinance at the last meeting of the Council. This amendment makes it necessary In future for would-be elected Councillors who are not of locaj hi th to possess at least 15 years' Iccal
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    • 206 10 (Lines written after listening to "To Start You Talking" on Radio Malaga). Alack, professors, there's another task for you. Teachers and pedagogues and ushers tool Your skill i n class and lecture room and hall Advice, tutorial and helping hand Are insufficient fo r the student's need. A god-like
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    • 71 10 THERE is not the slightest need for our local ChamSSi 1 f Comme «c to have special representatives in the Legco., because the Labour Party members will i pso facto °c theii -test representatives The Party j s foresworn to make Singapore a fre^por? so that *c businessman
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  • 742 10  -  Mothers now flock to the child clinics EVERY mother wishes to give her child a good start in life, and in Malaya she has an opportunity to do so. The Infant Welfare Centres see to that. In faci, they go further, for
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 690 10 CLASSIFIED ADS. SITUATIONS VACANf BILL CLERK. Recepli >r. Clerk. •nd Cashier wanted by Hotel Apph Box No. ASIB. Sue T.. slating edu: itJor.. experience and salary expected. EUROPEAN Importing House ha* vacancy for Lady Bt«T»rgrapher food salary and conditions. Please write stating qualifications to Bex No A 517. Sun.T. ABOUT
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    • 39 10 For CHINESE NEW YEAR an attractive glass will be given awayfTREE) with every 3 cases of aerated waters from 2 1st Jan. till 11th Feb. (inclusive). It will be a happy New Year with lots of F. O N.
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  • 434 11 'Wealthy client 9 vanishes MONEYLENDER. K. A. N. Annamalai Chettiar. and a petrol kiosk proprietor. Lee Keat Leng, told the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday they obtained a $1,000 currency note in the course of normal business in July
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  • 312 11 REGENTS WIFE TO LAY SCHOOLS FIRST STONE JOHORE BAHRU. Sat Tungku Tun A»ninah, wife of the Regent of Johore. will lay the foundation jlone of the Princess Elizabetlr School for the Blind on Feb. 5. The building of the school Is the outcome of a suggestion giade in 1948 when
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  • 66 11 IX'HLN 29-year-old John J. K. Lv was yesterday ordained a minister of the Straits Chinese Presbyterian Church, he followed the footsteps of his father and grandfather. Reverend Lv was born in China and obtained his B.A. and B.I), decrees there. Later he went to
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  • 76 11 For disobeying the Colonial I Secretary's order to stay indoors between 6 p.m and 6 lam.. Tan Bok Heng, an I Emergency detainee, was yesterday fined $10 by Mr. H A Forrer. the Sinagpore District Judge. A detective told the court that he stopped
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  • 256 11 'King' of the Solomons in Singapore MR. KENNETH Houston Dalrytnple-Hay, whom 90.000 Solomon Islanders call "king", scratched his uncrowned head in Singapore's Raffles Hotel yesterday, and said: "Has that joke reached even this part of the world?" He modestly laughed away his monarchy and added: "I don't want to be
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  • 25 11 The Chinese Ladies Association of Singapore will hold their annual dinner and dance at the Cathay Restaurant on Feb. 6 at 8.30 p.m.
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  • 224 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. r r ENTY-SIX women teachers from all over the Federation will return home tomorrow, feeling much fitter and with huge appetites. They completed today a seven-day course in physical training, held at the Malay Girls' College. Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 200 11 V"EO Siew Hong thought out what he considered the perfect cigarette trick. On Nov. 13. Yeo told a woman, Lim Chang, that he was a cigarette salesman and could supply her. Lim Chang sent her daughter I with Yeo and gave her
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  • 75 11 GOVERNOR AND THE 'DEVILS' THE GOVERNOR OF SINGAPORE, Sir John Nicoll, (centre background), with Gen. Sir Charles Keightley, C.-in-C. FARELF, on his right, posed for a souvenir photograph with men of the Ist Battalion of the Suffolks at a farewell party at the Tanglin Club on Friday night. They will
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  • 211 11 'Woke up/ dog owners told KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. |(UALA LUMPUR will have its biggest ever dog-shooting campaign if dog owners continue to ignore the Government's warning that all dogs must be re-inoculated. Col. J. D. Daly, Veterinary Officer, Selangor, told a press conference today
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  • 50 11 MUSTAKJN D:n Hj Yusuf. a special constable, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment by Mr. H. A. Forrer, Singapore District Judge, on a charge of desertion yesterday. Mustakin told Mr. Form that he went to ACor Star to see a religious teache r who wae ill.
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  • 48 11 THREE MONTHS after he left prison, Yip Chong Kee, 20. stole a fountain pen from Lee Tai Heng. Yesterday, the Singapore Second District Judge. Mr. J. F. McWilliam. sentenced Yip to nine months' rigorous imprisonment to be followed by two years' police supervision.
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  • 67 11 Elected officials for 1953 of the Singapore General Headquarters. Far East (ACSUt branch are: Chairman: Mr Chew Seng: ■ecreiiiiy: Mr. Tan Tuck Chee: treasurer: Mr. I. M. Kassim: asst. treasurer: Mr. Soon Kheng Seng: auditors; Mr. N. Ramamoorthy and Mr. Lim Chin Kia. committee: Messrs Yap
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  • 26 11 PENASG. Sat.— Th 0 Annual General Meeting of the Penang St. John Ambulance Association will be held at 5.30 p.m. on Friday. Feb. 6.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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    • 18 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat.— Mr. and Mrs. S. Anthony, of Taipitiß, today celebrated the golden anniversary of their marriage
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    • 266 11 TiUtyed to fit ...who must co light on weight but heavy on work. People who want a really portable portable prefer the HERMES "Baby' the world's lightest typewriter. On ships planes a/id trains more than half-a-m 1 1 1 1 o n HERMES "Baby" have typed more letters in more
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  • 129 12 THE Sunday Times is awarding $15 for the best picture of the week. with $5 prixes for runners up. This week's first prise goes to Yew Hai Sum, of 540 Ceytan? Rjjd. Singapore, for his picture "Low Tide." Camera ustd was a Roftteiflei. Exposure 1/100 fB. The
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  • 806 12  -  GEORGE SCOT!" Stalin believes in catching them young A IS for Apple The Cat sat on the Mar. Goldilocks ate the Little Bear's porridge. Remember? Of course you remember. And Russians remember much the same thlnp from early children. But from his early childhood—ah. there the
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    • 504 12 A-t 'Ugharr by 21 ounces than the average 16mm roll camera. Loads In seconds with economical 50 foot and 100 foot rolls. Interchangeable lens mount adapts in a Jiffy to wide-angle and tetephoto lens. 7 speeds from 10 to 64 frames per second. Audible scene-length Indicator. New type Mm exposure
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    • 77 12 flWrfe If CV l|P BRANDY %vfj|j£b DR/NKOfQUAUTY 4f^fr}£*~ \Hion you need w^Jk better take a fk disprin 9 /%/zMm%^ very good reason that Disprin provides all the benefits of aspirin and because, unlike ordinary aspirin, it is neutral (non-acid) and freely soluble in water. Consequently it brings rapid and effective
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  • Article, Illustration
    1338 13 JOHN BEHAGUE goes on a three-hour chariot ride arou*id ancient Rome Everything's big about 'Quo Vadis' Story of the world's most wicked empire 'THERE is nothing 1 small about "Quo Vadis", it is everything Hollywood claims it to be —the most colossal spectacle ever filmed. With a parade
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  • 95 13 AN old. old larourite in unusual -t* costume. Can you spot him 7 Send your answers to "Spot The Star." Sunday Times. Sine* poraPrizf* of $15. $15. SlO and $3 will be awarded to the flnt four correct entries opened on Thursday morning. The answer to
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    • 250 13 TODAY ih<>m JLji^v-^nnY^Y]ll 1.45 2ND BIG WEEKEND HAVE YOU SEEN IT YET? fcl^jj* t$ JACK HAWKINS 4&.5&§8l MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! GOLD DIGGERS" if STARRING LI LI HWA if PREMIERE THURS. 22nd AT 8.45 P.M. •DAILY THEREAFTER 10 -1.45-5.15 8.45 M-G-Mt TECHNICOLOR Life aid Look Miaziies describe it as "THE MOST COLOSSAL
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    • 338 13 PaTRICK HOBSON CUMMINS Pins! c'Sl.s Short "THE IMPRESSIONABLE YEARS' Also! Malayan Film I nit's 'THE SUFFOI.KS Today 1 1 a.m. "NOW. BARABAS WAS A ROBBER" FIRST RUN Picture Starring RICHARD GREENE From Tuesday! "An adult film uhich only the Italians could have made. The acting b Superlative" —BRIAN CROZIER fS.
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  • 449 14 "SEE How They Run", the Stage Club's next production, reminded me of the Olympic games at Helsinki when I saw a rehearsal last week. The speed with which gentlemen in clerical garb rushed across the stage was in the McDonald Bailey class. The play opens its
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  • 416 14 Marie Gough's Cookery Corner SO good and individual is the flavour of onion, that there is hardly a savoury dish In which it is not included either as a basis, a garnish or both. Here are some suggestions for serving them In "their own right."
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  • 280 14 pERMAINE Mounier, who is giving a concert at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Singapore, tonight is one of the best of the younger group of French musicians. In 1942 she won first prize for pianoforte playing in a national contest held under the auspices of the Paris Conservatoire,
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  • 218 14 JADE SNOW WONG, an American-born young woman of Chinese descent, is to visit Singapore in March under the Educational Exchange programme of the U.S. Department of State. She grew up In San Francisco's Chinatown and was educated in the American public schools as well as private
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  • 190 14 HAN SUYIN'S "A Many Sptendourert Thing" is getting flnp reviews in the United States iwhefe it becomes "Splendored">. Margaret Parton in the New York Herald Tribune guesses that "the conventional cofonialisty who are pictured with, such n:erclless acidity wlfl condemn her book as "poor taste."
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    • 332 14 9~ Tjtir^l hi sL sf 1 1J r] r I n I I w TMlj AS LITTLE r*» CS>S_^bss9 bU SI 60/--p Full 8.1 cv. ft. capacity at a low, flf 5^ low price! Stainless steel freezer, big fruit-and-vegctable drawer, chiller tray. and many more features! HURRY IHTODAVI^M >BOHKEO/- AP*
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    • 405 14 citizen the world's best value 1 in ballpoint pens BLUE, GREY '//aW f MAROON. BLACK J^M/f OR MOTTLED ,WJ^ CASES fw Jffl BLtIE. RED Mm GREEN AND 1 /^m INDELIBLE Jw/ A BiRO PRODUCT WITH THE WORLD-WIDE REFILL SERVICE Ager.ts in Malaya: DUNCAN ROBERTS LTD., 18H BATTERY BOaD. imiWK, 1.
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  • 1366 15  - FIGHT TO DEATH WITH A GIANT OCTOPUS 'KING OF THE STRAITS'— THE 17th INSTALMENT By BE.NG SWEE four Singapore frirnd*. John King. Kamim. Chandra and Ah Mnt haif fjllm foul of a «roup of piratr* and ftmucf len who nil thrmvhn th- Rlark Dragon (tanr. John. Chandra and Ah B*ng
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  • 565 15  - Choosing your album Collectors' corner PHILRAY' By gTAMP albums are made in four distinct types. There are the very elementary, cheap varieties which have the names of several countries grouped together on each page and perhaps an illustration of one or two stamps. Such albums have little value to a
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  • 47 15 X— Thu amusing pictutc of Sally, a cocker spaniel, being fed with a bofNe. comes frcn. Mrs C. Catener. of 1027 CUffow Road. Singapore. 19. If you have any photographs of your pats at pUy send them ro "Pet Pictures'. Sunday Times, Singapore.
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    • 92 15 I The V*«" d$ mrl M K\fl li^lt^BJ Iff 1 I Th# minute you one *nd (here »re a lot of them .»->. ro« MJf Thati tor me because this It •^Jgj»-^^^^r everyone'! reaction to tt» H.Mmin M.nx. the car thitj u»ed |Mb^ W&l n<l •P° rov throujhout the world.
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    • 175 15 lU* QMART, healthy hair begins with Brylcreem, the cream 1 that's emulsified for clean grooming. Begin your day with J Brylcreem and see how lustrous it makes your hair see how K /^jfhs. J it keeps your hair gently but firmly under control all day long. I I s bGS&UMb.
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    • 161 16 JUMBO'S yttisP*** e&^ 0»«C<TO It T*€Y J>lg)it£ ITLINQ w*irr i*aPl so how foft t«»c V V P*C<:k9 4kT rtU- WAiTCMf S V—C a KtiTime cm X'^rUSlWftr'i i JDOC K ON^A L ...■W«#CAftTIIiff^DL CFM, &L&'K PL STIP LIVtLY Y-SZ^l ftUiilY 60t$ UP Y^^ "M SaiftS *r» "*f G.EftrctUoE... VCvvOftliESW* /~^A 6LSIN
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    • 534 16 Rheumatism quickly ended This Is the true story of a miir who wit* In very bad pun with rheumatism Then he started to take Kruschen Salts and quite ■ood his pain went. He wai so pleased with this quick result th it he sent us this letter. "Some year* ago
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    • 1322 16 by EDGAR ix I C E D u \R RQ u CjH S i MB n" vW WDB(+ t *ntiSlk *£mSJ^^^k A 'XZZX\ <Ks* NOW THAT THE C\LS C~±^CE C OZ t >X^ :2ENE'S RESCUE L^ N EA' THE -i^^JßW^ S Tr-^^^^^»B^B^B^B^H»l^BC I H S -C^EO fSgß&ff a^a^B^B^^B^BJBjSSBBKaBBB^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^BBaP^SAIBLaftjfBti r\ I
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  • 1025 17  -  a> jp<b s I WLlrn^ other publiations offering new and startling features for 1953. this column offers you nothing at all. There will be no new features, unless it happens to think of one by accident. There 'will be no special articles by best-selling authors, unless
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  • 354 17 WHILE the winter sun filtered through »he glass walls of the green-house, an earnest young researcher rubbed what looked iike an ordinary cheesecloth over the leaves of the hybrid tobacco plants on the long benches. But what the researcher gripped in his hand was a cheesecloth
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 556 17 End Rheumatism While You Sleep If roa suffer shui >p^ljsv stabbing pains. /KajlfSX tolnis ar» swoilan. f^jWjH It show* rour blooj I PO>a°»»*"<l throu*s) A \w<*J Wloiiey krtton y(1 K.dn*y Disorders ir« Backacha. Aching Jointa and Ulmba. Sciatica. Neuritis. Lumbago. Getting up M ghts. Dimness. Narvousnasa. Ci-cles under Eyes. Burning.
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    • 114 17 POPULAR CROSSWORD B* Jwf ACBOSS DOWN MS B ,W- 8 1 \l t <*•• 2- Show 1. htri of seal, (3). 17. V*«e! (4). LffS^l, ,*> y 15--18. GH to knew (5). 21. Command t^' i^ t J* B^ a ifii I* Trick i J t ■>■; i,,,ih«l nt- l
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  • 917 18  -  Highlights of Sport ...by CRUSADER IJTHEN the Selangor Cricket Association meets on Jan. 26 it will aeain decide whether it should continue with the Stonor Shield League in the coming season. The president. Mr. N. J. A. Foster, reveals in his
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  • 104 18 Arrow: 1 Cede ft. Powerful 10. Avenge 11. Axe 12 Slit 13 Distal*. 14 Entire 16 Pod 17 o*k 18 Learn 21 Bfhrst 24. Huv 25 H»tec 37 Reff 30 C 33 Endow 35 Zero 36 S p 38 Antler 41 Ciuvons 42 Tone 43 Eve 44.
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  • 601 18  - A FLYING START FOR RACING MOTORISTS EDIN PETERS and second in last year's G.P. So. motoring enthusiasts, you can rightly expect to see some thrilling finishes at all speed meetings this year I A FITTING start to the Singapore Motor Clubs sixth post-war motor racist? season which gets under way
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  • 739 18  - 'TAILOR MADE' SPORTS CAR CAN DO 135mph INTERESTING NEWCOMERS ON THE SINGAPORE ROADS I HAVE often wondered why i one sees so few Continental cars in Singapore and the Federation, but after reading the interesting correspondence about the 15 per cent, "fee" that is levied on them, I begin to
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  • 480 19 Negri improve, beat Johore MALACCA. Saturday. CNAPPINCi out of yesterday's lethargy, Singapore today placed them>el\es well on the way to championship honours in the Malayan Horkey Council's southern quadrangular meet here, when the\ convincingly beat Malacca by three goals to one. Singapore have now only
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  • 203 19 ■V^EGRI Seirbilan took full points here, winning their match KoaL- to nothing. ne\er gave up tnlnp al♦hough it was an uphill battle Negri fide which had improved beyond recojrnitlon over the ••earn that had lost yesterdays against Malacca. For Negri Sheikh All. the left wing, was outstanding
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  • 25 19 LONDON. Sat. Rugby Union results yesterday: ountv rh»mpion*hip: Lejcestershire 8. East Midlands 8. C"l«b match: Royal Air Force 17. Police 10. Reuter.
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  • 68 19 MELBOURNE. Sat. A USTRALIAS wonder miler. John Landy. "having a trot" as a warm-up for his Australian title and world record attempt in Perth on Jan. 24. today ran a mile In 4 mm. 8 fee. In an inter-club meet at Olympic Park.
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  • 393 19 KUALA Ll'MPl'R. Saturday. FEDERATION Services today beat Federation Police 1 in their first post-war annual rugger match by 13 points (two goals, and a try) to nil on the padang here. It was the faster and bettor combination between half backs and threes that
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  • 93 19 MALACCA. Sat. THE Malayan Hockey Council at their meeting in the Malacca Club today aereed in principle to run sweepstakes. They appointed a subcommittee to go fully into the matter and to report to the M.H.C. meeting: in Penang nrxt month. The Council will be
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  • 281 19 SRC Blues hit four past Shell IN rpite of startling play wi'h a ten-man team and having a hectic ten minutes defending before the eleventh man joined in. SRC Blues played a splendid second half to beat Shell S.C. 4-1 In a Junior Cup-tie hockey match at S.R.C ground yesterday.
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  • 95 19 PENANG. Sat. DEN AND Sports Club won the seven -a -side rugger tournamen c today when they beat Buklt Mcrm High School by 10 points two coals i to three points tone iryi in the final played In the Western Road grcund. Schoolboys who had
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  • 177 19 HOBART, Tasmania. Sat. I 'THE South African cricketers toI x day von the first of two matches agalrust Yasmania by an innings and 122 runs, after dismissing Tasmania for 35 lr the first Innings tne mallest total by the State' against any International side. i The
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  • 573 19 SCC BACKS SPARK 19-NIL WIN Handcock taken to hospital S.C.C. 19; R.A.S.C. 0. OOLSING RIGGER was seen on the Padang yesterday when Singapore Cricket Club convincingly defeated Royal Army Service Corps by 19 points (two goals and three tries) to nil. The game, scrappy in parts yet brilliant in others,
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  • 85 19 KLANG. Sat. TILAYING on a waterlogged ground. Selangor Club defeated Klang Club by eight points (goal, penaltyi to three (try > in thrilling rugger match here today. In Ult 18th minute Hopkins scored a pei.alty goal for selangor Cub Store it half time wa* 3-P.
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  • 251 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. THE North Malayan Quadrangular hockey tournamen' among Perang. Per..: r-^r.ne and Selangor team?; will be played on tht Kuala Lumpur padang on Safcirday. Jan. :u Sunday. Feb. 1, and Monday.; The schedule is: Jan. 31 4 pm. I Penang v Selangor. 5 15 p.m.
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    • 184 19 everywhere p people are saying HAVt A CAPSTAN 20 for 60 cts. in Singapore 20 for 70 cts. in Federation A Mr nniilil One tablet ensures relief from. \x^ strain and anxiety! v Vhen asthma ttrikes by night, robs you at your iteep, it is doubly damaging tc health. The
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    • 336 19 Clamshells, Draglines /A&V Hoes, Motor Cranes MnMf Aw!drranep *^>£*w /Wmßt //ss&' ot s P (>rial adaptions anri /Jj/// /Jtw/lw attachments ls availabln //dp/ /Jfci*u Although not the cheapest /JLMfU on tflP mar ?t t 'h° se w^o measure f »^>- *i\tf DPrformancr^. maintenance costs Art fl CwJ^tßi ll'^i^fcf production losses
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  • 58 20 THi three KijUn, selected for South in th~ir annual ruscer match against North on Jan. 21 will nut be available owing to operation duties. The three arr 1 KabuU mint). N'aitini (scrum- j half I and Kadrodro (wine forward) H. Handrork (forward) may also mi
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  • 106 20 .RETE. beat RE. by six points ■2 tries > to nil in the PARELF Cup semi-f.na! rugger match at Gillman Barracks yesterday. Taylor rr.d Mommy scored the :ne* Mr GoWle retereed. Results of other matches played 'iay GHQ "beat Nr e Soon by nine points
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  • 111 20 J~HORE BAHRC. Sat. COUTH Johcrr HFC. beat Royal by IP pints i two goals) to •hr~- points i one try in a friendly match played on the Civil ■-".md. here yesterday. With this victory. South Johcre 10 urn-- in a row. dominated the play
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  • 46 20 SYDNEY. Sat -Mnrjorle Jack- I Ill's Olympic sprinch'.mpion clo.-ked 10.5 sec. 1 10 th of a second outside her world recor<i ,o win the 100 yards final j of me country athletic championiiere today. Trie run was mad? on a heavy track. Reuter- >
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  • 40 20 NEW YORK. S;it. r IGHT heavyweight contender H.irold Johnson of Philadelphia battered Jimmy Slade of New York groggy in the closing rounds last night and won a unanimous tenround dfcis.on before 2.065 In St Nicol.'a arena.
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  • 30 20 Singapore Sikh Youngsters will hold their first annuai general meeting at the Tamil Brotherhood Association. Farrer Park at 1 p m I today. All Sikh youngsters are invited.
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  • 21 20 CAIRO. Sat.— Yugoslavia beat Egypt 3-1 in their International soccer match here yes.erday. At half-time the score was 1-1.
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  • 29 20 IPOH, Sat. The annual general meeting of the Perak Cricket Assoc -tion will tx> held on Sunday, Feb. 1. at 10 a.m. at the Ipoh Club.
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  • 422 20 Sea Dragon and Fort View fastest By EPSOM JEEP p^EEP AN eye on Kronchong (late Golden Kumar) at the Perak Turf Club January meeting. This four-year-old displayed a nice turn of speed in his initial races at Ipoh in December and is coming to
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  • 544 20 WEIGHTS for all eight races at Ipoh on Saturday, first day of the Perak Turf Club's January meeting, are: Cl. 4, Div. 1-8 F. Oomaridairn 9.03 Flame of the Forest 8.08 Pilot's Point 8.07 Pax Haven K.d6 Why Worry 8.06 I ape Town 6.05 Ilarrobye H.
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  • 397 20 MELBOURNE, Saturday. [TEN ROSEWALL won the Australian tennis singles title today, beating his compatriot Mervyn Rose by 6-0, 6—3, 6 4 in the final at Kooyong today. Maureen Connolly added the Australian chanfpionship to her Wimbledon and U.S. women's tennis singles titles. She beat
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  • 160 20 ALTHOUGH R.N.A.S. Sembawang played superior rugger in tneir match against Royal Air Force Tenpiah at Tengah yesterday, they j were beaten by six points ta try and a penal"- ?oal) to nine points (three penalties'. For this, the R.N.A.S. forwprd.s were to blame. Their overeagen. ess
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  • 36 20 Singapore Corinthians drew 2-2 with the Town Rangers in a Madly soccer match played at Farr Park yesterday. Scorers for Corinthians were: Avtar Singh and |Hamid. Town Rangers scored through Jaffar and Ah Chong.
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  • 187 20 CHICAGO. Saturday. AUSTRALIAN Olympic officials were warned yester- day by the President of the International Olympic Committee that they must assure proper preparations for the 195.6 Olympic Games at Melbourne "or the Games undoubtedly will be given to some other city." Avery Brundage. the 1.0.C. president,
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  • 296 20 LONDON. Sat TODAYS league football resuits: LEAGUE DIVISION 1 Arsenal 5 Wolves 3 Blackpool 1 Aston Villa 1 Cardiff 0 Tottenham 0 C'harlton 3 Sheffield Wed. U Chelsea 1 Bolt on 0 Derby 3 Sunderland 1 Liverpool 0 Manchester C. 1 Manchester I. 1 Portsmouth 0 Middlesbrough
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  • 190 20 PORT OF SPAIN. Sat. TRINIDAD yesterday scored 247 runs for the loss of six wickets in reply to inala's first innings total of 322 when their match was continued here. With only one of five days allotted now remaining for play, however, nothing but a draw
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  • 66 20 The Eclipse Badminton Party will meet the Mayflowers in a juniors' match at the Clerical Union Hall at Rangoon Road next Thursday starting from 7.15 p.m. The Eclipse team will be Sulaiman bin Jaffar; Cheong Hock Lock: Stephen Gecrge; Chan Loon Fonu: Wee Ah Moh; R. L. S.
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  • 216 20 NEW YORK. Sat. Vy OR L D heavyweight boxing champion. Rocky Marclano must defend his title on or before April 10, the Joint Review Board of the National Boxing Association and New York Sate Athletic Commission ruled yesterday. The Board ruled after a hearing on a
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