The Singapore Free Press, 24 December 1951

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LAKGE S* AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    CHURCHIL CALLS IN MONTY
    363 1 WAdvtce on military I Malaya LONDON, Monday. rtQJD Marshal Viscount Montgomery attended f j tench party yesterday at which the Prime faster, Mr. Churchill, discussed Britain's new p a n> for defeating Communist terrorism in \jjia t. with the Secretary for Colonies Mr Lyttelton. Earlier, Mr.
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    SNEAK ATTACK WARNING
    106 1 j KOREA, Mon. J unmander of the I nwealth Divi- Korea. Major- Archibald J. H i Is, yesterday warnI men to be on the I r Christmas 1 a possible ComI sneak' 1 attack. 1 was containI of the Day C :r. mon wealth Christmas 1 Year
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    TEST SCORE
    47 1 atting Lj Langley D an easy-playing Adelaide this morn- 01 rims to Austrand innings score in tes. Ring (41 not ail fours. At 81 ir.ed forward to a Valentine and was He had scored Ist inns: 82. West inns: 105. Aus- Inns 3 for 91.
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    FIREWORKS KILL 6
    19 1 An illegal hoard of fireworks exploded in Nocers, Inferiore. Italy, yesterday killing six people.- A. P.
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    Rescuers dig for 117 miners
    103 1 Rescuers dig for 117 miners WEST FRANFORT, Illinois, Mon. /COMPANY officials said last night that 104 to 117 coal miners may have died in a violent explosion which ripped through the New Orient Mine the world's largest shaft pit on Friday night. The estimate was revised sharply upward from the
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    'Race' to Everest
    88 1 LONDON, Mon. RUSSIA as well as Britain and Switzerland have applied to the Nepal Government for permission to send an expedition in the spring to Everest, the world's highest mountain. Russia was expected to send 150 men, and the Daily Mail predicts a race to reach the
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    Farewell gift
    71 1 Dr W. E. Hutchinson, Deputy Health Officer of the Singapore City Council, who resigned from the service, was given a farewell dinner by the Sanitary Inspectors Association at the Great World last night. The other guest of honour at the dinner was Mr. J. B. McMurine, of the
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    U.S. airmen fined $30,000
    246 1 BUDAPEST, Monday. A HUNGARIAN people's court yesterday fined the crew of four of an American plane forced down in southern Hungary by Russian fighters last month $30,000 each. Alternatively the four Americans were sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Their plane and its equipment was ordered confiscated.
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    PINK GIN FOR P&O GUP
    49 1 ALLAN LEWIS, Free Press racing correspondent, fives Pink Gin, Sudan and Pegasus as the best bets In Penan g tomorrow. TRESPASSER recommends Young Jack and Munlee. Picture Tip in Page 11. "We're with you as far as Penang Sir, then we join H.M.S. Fetlook".
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    OLDEST WOMAN
    16 1 Mrs. Martha Coppins, 109, believed to be Britain's oldest woman, died on Saturday.— U.P.
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    SINGAPORE CHURCH SERVICES
    321 1 St. Andre* Cathedral: thcisima. Fve* 7 a m.. Holy Communion; 8.30 pm! ChorTl Children's Crib Ser vice: 11.30 p.m., Midnight Eucharist. Christmas Day: 6 a m.. Holy Communlon; 7 a.m.. Holy Communion 8-13 ii.m.. Choral lucharlst: 10.30 tm Choral Matlna: The Lord Bishop: n il J. I
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    Children die in Xmas tree fire at party
    160 1 Children die in Xmas tree fire at party TIJUANA, Mexico, Mon. FIRE at a Christmas tree party for poor children killed at least 41 persons here on Saturday night. One person is reported missing, and there -may be others. Eightyeight people were treated in hospital for burns, 32 being in
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    Aged 6, he is Xmas gift
    68 1 For.; Uiesblcau, France, Mon. AU.b. Air Force Staff Sergeant. Robert Meisenheinier. has adopted a six-year-old German boy a s a Christmas present for his four little daughters. He made his choice from a family of seven who lived in two tiny rooms in Frankfurt,
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    FIRST TIME
    24 1 For ihe first time .since World War 11. a Japanese ship has called at the Australian west coast port at Freemantle.- A.F.P
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    MOB THREATENS PERSIAN EDITORS
    116 1 'WE'LL TEAR YOU TO PIECES' TEHERAN, Monday. OERSIAN troops with fixed bayonets last night K guarded 15 Opposition deputies and about 70 anti-Mossadeq newspaper editors taking refuge inside the Majlis. A mob pi the I liters of the Nationalist priest, Abolghassem Kashani, outside the building, had
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    KILLED IN AIR CRASH
    247 1 TEHERAN, Monday. rPHE bodies of 20 persons, including Dr. Henry 1 Bennett, 65, Director of the United States 'Point Four'' programme to under-developed areas, were brought to Teheran mortuary yesterday following a plane crash outside the capital on Saturday night. The crash occurred after the aircraft
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    XMAS GIFT
    39 1 George Bishop told the police at Atlantia, Georgia, that all he wants for Christmas are his two front teeth plus all the others in the false set of dentures lifted from his room by a burglar. U.P.
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    The Singapore Free Press wishes all its readers a very Merry Christmas
    31 1 The Singapore Free Press wishes all its readers a very Merry Christmas There will be no issue of the Free Press to- <( morrow. Publication will be resumed on Wednes- day. t
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    Turkeys by the vanload in S'pore
    329 1 Turkeys by the vanload in S'pore Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE is ready to enjoy one of the most festive Christmases since the end of the war. From an early hour this morning, 28 turkey-loaded vans of the Singapore Cold Storage were out delivering orders from all over the island.
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    Bombay tries 'Drunkometer'
    55 1 BOMBAY, Men. T'HE "DRUNKOMETER :md the lie detector two modern crime detective instruments are being trr d for the first time in India by the Bombay police The drimkometer indicates if a man is drunk and the lie detector enables the police to ascertain authentically if he
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    WOMEN ACCUSE IN-DICAL MAN
    292 3 WOMEN ACCUSE IN-DICAL MAN 1 33 HTLA Mon. m women had M tdence against a 4 psychologist 1 ,Sge >ent officers 1 a fourth, who 1 testify in court. 1 gist, 50-year-I Gellerman, I V ssor at the I j v. .^hington, is prr>:r:bing im- menl tor women I denied
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    LESS SMART NOW
    42 3 ting for Grammar ntrance examinations in the last few have shown themselves he boys and girls :he same exams in Bsa x Educational Aus Chief Examiner said, i >: level of ability 1 lust before the lowest level in Reuter
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    THE TRAGIC BRITISH SOLDIER WHO MADE U.S. LAUGH
    786 3 THE TRAGIC BRITISH SOLDIER WHO MADE U.S. LAUGH From A Special Correspondent Peter Graineer h« £T'° ld Eighth Arn »y Veteran, Helen Grffir of te n r n eV^,! ed his wlfe Mrs! who made Ta whol? J»»2? T e story of the man tragedy of a war L k
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    Road studs futile—Duke
    126 3 Road studs futile— Duke LONDON, Mon. THE Duke of Edinburgh, president of the Automobile Association, said there was one thing on the roads which he failed to understand —that was the reflector studs In the middlle of the road. "It seem s to me that in my car— and, I
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    Cominform and the milch cow
    145 3 PARIS, Mon. WHETHER a cow that moos a lot gives less milk than a cow which does not has become an issue in the United Nations Political Committee. British Minister of State. Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, began it by reminding the garrulous Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr.
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    GAS TURBINE TO BURN PEAT
    41 3 The wzids first, gas turbine capable of generating electricity from peat was demonstrated in Glasgow. If it is successfully developed, hundreds of square miles of peat bogs in Scotland could be utilised to provide power Reuter
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    NEW JUTE MILLS
    27 3 Pakistan has ordered 3,000 looms in England and other European countries for equipping its new jute mills to be built in the country.— AFP
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    3,900 WOMEN
    22 3 The Federal Cabinet at Canberra has agreed to tjie enlistment of 3,900 women for the Citizen Military Forces.— Reuter AAP
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    Bridge Hand
    418 3 Neither side vulnerable. North-South 30 on score. South dealer. NORTH 4 Q J 10 7 KQ J 8 0 K 4b 10 6 6 4 WEST EAST A K 8 6 5 *942 C? 7 3 <? A 6 5 OQIO 742 OAB3 *83* J 9 7 2
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    A MERRY CHRISTMAS
    14 3 TODAY'S PIN-UP, Coleen Miller, sends Christmas greetings to everybody from Hollywood.
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    Cut his tongue to keep secret
    144 3 MILAN. Monday. A ROMAN Catholic missionary cut his tongue with a razor blade rather than reveal the names of Chinese Catholics to Communists who threatened to torture him. He is the Rev. Alfeo Emaldi. member of the Saveriano Institute for Foreign Missions at Desio,
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    It was legal by his code
    174 3 NORWICH, Mon. A HUSBAND'S code, under which he claimed he had a right to smack his wife to punish her, was referred to by Judge Carey Evans in a judgment at Norwich Divorce Court. He granted a decree nisi to Louisa Clara Boud, aged
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      257 3 Paloma h Mrs. Robert Henry $9 00 i A moving vivid, almost uncomfortable .study of a woman friend, the truth of wfoose strange story is reinforced by the sombre artistry of the presentation -by the author of The Little Madeleine. J. M. DENT 6c SONS LTD. LONDON DONALD MOORE OLDHAM
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      304 3 Radio SINGAPORE 1.00 p.m. Monday Matinee Lewis Williams Orchestra Whippoorwiils; 1.30 Time Signal Bnd News; 1.45 Home on the Range; 2.00 Close Down; 5.00 Programmes in Malay; 6.15 Programme Summary; 6.17 Children's Corner; 6.55 Announcements; 7.00 Time Signal News; 7.15 Spot the Favourites Bumper Edition; 8.00 World Affairs; 8.15 Interlude;
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    Not a Japanese export
    325 5  -  Frank Rogers Abominable Snowman qB jj t the cap- a "monkey -•ring to the des- the e snowman' in on India's frontier s strength to a new ijLry about the Snowvoiced by a noted Sljtish animal and bird jfector who has work- British zoos in arts
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    Stalin's 'Prof is Shadowed
    483 5  - Stalin's 'Prof is Shadowed Ralph Hewins By trrALUi has his *'Pro--5 fessor* 1 close at land rattier like Churchill's Lord Cherwell at Ho 1 1 Downing-street Prof" in the 0 SJSJt is the ace Germun scientist, Professor C :tv Hertz, who won the Nobel Physics Prize 1923 and was until
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    'Operation Strangle' Has Failed
    411 5  - 'Operation Strangle' Has Failed ROBERT MacCOLL by WHILE they are J f arguing over whether the Korean war is or is not, an authoritative voice is heard saying that one of the main patterns for victory on the Allied side -ja cherished hold-over from the last war— has been an
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      123 5 6 to the Sin^ a p° re Free Press in Malaya i i| i IA/i at nn Tu c v C C C c •mmmm p -y 's. I A//IL4/ I*l l PINQ OUT IF THIS 19 THE I j vwHmi uu insr jcc 3 \NE Exclusive to the Singapore
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      164 5 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOBN on this first day of the incoming sign, Capricorn, yea are ruled by Saturn, the fod of time. You have a sense of universality and are a natural awibawdor of good will, father confessor and consultant for all those who are in need of help. Loving,
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Dec. 24, 1951. Monty & Malaya
    376 6 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Dec. 24, 1951. Monty Malaya IF Mr. Churchill's Christmas present to Malaya is the appointment of Field Marshal Lord Montgomery as "Supremo" it will be received with acclamation by some, with mis givings by many. It is easy to understand why some would welcome the
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    Cold comfort
    154 6 \|R. Winston Churchill's l"i call to the people of Britain to mobilise for a "three-year fight against national bankruptcy" is couched in terms reminiscent of his speeches during the darkest days of the war Th many Conservatives who thought that a vote for Mr Churchill would "set Britain
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    A CHRISTMAS 'PRESENT'
    167 6 THE British people x who lent £20i million, or £4 each, to feed and house the Germans since the end of the war, are to get only three-quarters of their money back The missing £51,000,000 stays as a Christmas con"s H si °n in the lots-to-eat and
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    Lyttelton, the Realist is Approved
    1777 6 Lyttelton, the Realist is Approved THE LIE TO SOCIALIST CLAP-TRAP 1 II London Letter j by Hall Romneyl a MR. LYTTELTON has -^had a good press in Britain and there is almost unanimous approval of the realism inspiring the proposals he outlined before he left Singapore for Hong Kong. Unanimity
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    Japan's multi-pronged trade drive
    235 6 TAKE a slant-eyed view of the world; the view through the eyes of a Japanese exporter. Follow one of Hie black arrows on Newsmap and you have a market and a large market for your goods. The commodities you will export wil| include textiles, metals and
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    SYRIA KEEPS THE WORLD GUESSING
    511 6  -  PETER KIRK writes from a country whose rulers' expectation of life is not rated very high. IT is unlikely that the name of Colonel Adib Sheshekly means very much to the average man outside Syria. Yet the future activities of the colonel may mean a
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    Canada's Women Are Angry
    172 6 Canada 's Women Are Angry /'AN ADA'S women arc protesting against the recently announced decision to drop the word "Dominion". At first the matter went almost unnoticed. Unobtrusively, for two years, the Government have been eradicating the word from official publications. Matters came to a head in Parliament last month
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    30 6 When Rusty the Ldntlon Zoo's latts* ,> h ?r* ~*ta a nwnicure Ws a tou h business. It requires a iinni brush —and Rusty sometimes gives a slight show of temperament.
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    52 7 picture TWO SINGAPORE DOCTORS pictured after their wedding before the Registrar of Marriages on Saturday. They are Dr. Chee Phui Hung, fifth son of the lat«- Mr. and Mrs. Chee Wor Lock of Penang. and Dr. Diana I. mi Toan Yang:, daughter of Dr. and Mrs A. I. F Lim.
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    LEADERS URGE EARLY RURAL ELECTIONS
    381 7 LEADERS URGE EARLY RURAL ELECTIONS The population are eager Free Press Staff Reporter £JOLONY leaders yesterday called for immediate legislation to permit elections to the Singapore Rural Board. The Rural Board is now a nominated body with the Commissioner of Lands as Chairman. Dr. c. J. Paglar, LegislativeiCouncillor, said elections
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    29 7 picture. MRS. E. LEONG in the title role of Lady Precious Stream, in a scene from the play which was rehearsed at Victoria Theatre, Singapore, on Saturday.- Free Press
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    35 7 picture. e^nh^?f* MR ?u l OBERTORRY NEUBRONNER photooffi?Jr!l heir m r ddingat the Registrar of Marriages SfutenTnf^^f y- N eubron ner a Singapore police neuienant and the bride was formerly Miss Marv Ton.— Free Press
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    Power station gets $ 1 1/2 million
    307 7 Power station gets 1 1/2 million SINGAPORE City Council has approved another two big items of expenditure, totalling $1,500,000, on the new Pasir Panjang power station, expected to begin functioning in October, next year. Over $1,300,000 of thet____ amount Is for erecting the third and fourth boilers at the station.
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    City lends a surgeon to Govt
    145 7 City lends a surgeon to Govt Free Press Staff Reporter IN response to a request by the Singapore Government, the City Council has agreed to second its Deputy Veterinary Surgeon to the Government Veterinary Department to reiieve the Chief Veterinary Officer, Mr. R. A. Wright, of some of his duties.
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    $30,000 canal to drain a squatter area
    138 7 SINGAPORE City Council wiU improve sanitation O in one of the Colony's biggest squatter areas, Gey'^ng Serai, without dehousing the squatters. To drain the area, it will construct a canal, at a cost of $30,000 along the existing anti-malarial drain. Originally the plan
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    61 7 it rni THF REV BM.D. PRICE, Senior Chaplain to the Fo°rces officUtekat th e christening at the Garrison Church, Tanglin. on Saturday, of Dickenson son of Mr and Mrs. R. J. Holmes Mr Holmes (right) is Senior District M n W^ _'afi ?onThe godparents were Mr. A.C. Pritchard^ N.A.A.F.I. Controller,
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    4 TOLD: 'CUT YOUR LALLANG'
    56 7 Free Press staff Reporter To reduce the risk of fire, four land owners in the Geylang area of Singapore will be- served with notices to remove "dangerously inflamable vegetation" on their properties. If this request is not complied with the City Engineer will carry out
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    RINGSIDE VIEW
    21 7 TA IP ING, Mon. Taiping residents had a ringside view wh£n R.A.F. planes bombed jun|le hideouts around the hills.
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    CITY MAY GET MOTHER PLAYGROUND
    99 7 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE city may get another playground as a result of the City Councils decLsion to fill a 17-acre piece of land in Bendemecr Road belonging to the Improve- ment Trust. In return for filling it, the Trust will allow the Council
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    Colony TUG is now ICFTU member
    87 7 Colony TUG is now ICFTU member COLONY workers will be now represented in all important world labour conferences, the secretary of the Singapore Trade Union Congress, Mr. S. Jaganathan, said yesterday. He said, the Congress is now affiliated to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which would enable the
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    Malayan Christmas gala in Britain
    147 7 LONDON, Monday. MALAYAN students in England will enjoy a gala Christmas this year. Some of them will spend the season in British homes. 1 A dinner, with the tradttional turkey, pudding and mince tarts, will be held in their hostel on Christmas night. Students have
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    Long-term outlook for tin is 'good'
    195 7 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. rPHE LONG-TERM out- look for tin is good, says Mr. G. W. Simms, chairman of Ayer Hitam Tin Ltd. But if it is to remain good, it is essential that goodwill be re-established between producers Malayan producers, in
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      63 8 m^^m iPlk "TWO DAYS WRONG!" sighed the Hatter. li M fly f IVv (^T _^-—^k/ WORKS!" he added, looking angrily at the March Hare. li I mwm M *mmJJp mm m B B I B M A/ mtßm w^^m a Jw^r BB I T^ flf I k b vi A
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    'Scrooge' to the Life
    299 9 gflgggrei^ IT is a general belief *that at Christmastide people feel kindlier disposed to their fellowbeings than at any e n r J™ 6 of the year. Even those who sneer at the Christmas spirit and spend days mentally bracing themselves against its spell find themselves
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    No excuses, Red
    169 9 RED SKELTON has been turned into a technicoloured Henry Ford in "EXCUSE MY DUST" (Cathay), and the result is not good Skelton. Skelton is seen as the inventor of the "Gasmobile,' supposedly the forerunner of the present day automobile. Few. besides himself, have faith in the machine,
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    The 'Arabian Night' epics
    222 9  -  BOB THOMAS Yvonne de Carlo discovers Arabs love them. OULTRY Yvonne De Carlo, who has slithered through many an exotic epic, has returned from the Middle East with a healthy respect for such films. She found the r folks love them over there. Miss De Carlo,
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    CONTEST WINNERS
    146 9 E THt winners of the Free Press film E contest were: E Philip Chop of 207 Queen 2 Stree^SjncaDore, who wrote on "Why I like British films" S and Tan Chin Kiat of 179 River Valley Road, Singapore who wrote on "Why I disE like British films" E
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    GRAND GALLOP BY AVALANCHE
    306 11 Going should be good tomorrow I rom ALLAN LEWIS T [r Number Two track was again opened for 1 f M v^ork this morning. Saturday's rain has ta n all the stmgout of the ground and iOld ti(m s were ideal for galloping. Without anv mn
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    Aussies worry over Sedgman
    110 11 TENNIS fans In Australia believe they will retain the Davis Cup because they have Frank Sedgman, but thev are worried that it may be his last appearance a s an amateur. Sedgman is rated top amateur In the world and the Australians believe he is sure
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    Non-starters for tomorrow
    38 11 THE following de finitely be scratched tomorrow Technicolor. Tudor View, \asco Da Gama, Satin J-ifnt. Alphonsus. Zanzibar, Inky Bill, Trigger, Gay Coed, Firm, Birchgrove, Stage Show. Opera, All worth, Lightning, Astute Monarch, Gold Medallist, Honolulu
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    110 11 QUEENSLAND scored 292 for 9 wickets on the opening day 'of their Sheffield Shield match against Victoria, the holders, on Saturday. Victoria were without five Test players but had Jack Iverson playing in his first topcJass match of the season. Queensland won the toss and batted
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    Sockets tumble in Test at Adelaide
    209 11 Sockets tumble in Test at Adelaide WEST Indies gained a slight advantage over Australia on Saturday in a remarkable opening day's play in the third cricket Test in which 22 wickets tumbled for 207 runs on a rain damaged pitch at the Adelaide Oval. Australia, after being dismissed for 82,
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    France beat Kiwis 8-5
    91 11 "FRANCE'S Rugby League team r defeated New Zealand's "Kiwis" N by eight points to five in Paris yesterday. The French took their revenge for the defeat they had suffered at the hands of the New Zealand national team during their tour of New Zealand last summer.
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    66 11 More than 20 entries have already been received for the six-mile road race to be held at Naval Base on Saturday, Jan. 5. ■nie event, -organised by the wen-known Colony miler C. A. Seabrooke, will be contested for three handsome silver trophies and entries should
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    43 11 Tne Vilners Stakes over a mile at Randwick on Saturday was won by Mercury a 14-1 chance carrying 7^5 which beat Bankbrook 7.7 (4-1) by half a length with Grand Monarch 8.5 (16-1) third another one and a half lengths away
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    27 11 The Austrian soeeer team, Admira, defeated Benefica 8-1 m Lisbon yesterday, at Istanbul, Rapid (Austria) football team lost to Istanbul's Fenerbache soccer team 1— A.P.
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    873 11 OINNERS and probable jockeys for tomorrow's 1 races at Penang: The P O Cup—Class 1, Div. I—6 Furs. 342 Pink Gin McPherson 9.00 Mr. J. M. Mason Heddle 410 No Regrets Bagby 8.13 Lt. Col. DrakeBrockman Breukelen 001 Best Bet Mawi 8.11 Mr. Mrs. S. K. Poo Breukelen
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    86 11 THE visiting French Air Feree 1 net? team from Saiga* last to Royal Air Force Malaya at Cnanri in Saturday. BJLF. scored 11 point* (goal, try tmalty goal). Tin French replied with three points from a try* 6a Friday the French side was narrowly defeated rix-three by
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    MCC HELD TO DRAW
    257 11 MAHARASHTRA and Mcc drew their three-day match at Poona yesterday after MCC had gained a first innings lead of 161. Replying to Maharashtra's first innings total of 249, MCC were all out after lunch yesterday for 410Sy the dose Maharastra had scoreed 124 for two wickets.
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    1881 12 Second day 's Penang races Non-starters for 2nd day The following horses will not start on Wednesday, second day of the meeting: Majestic Scholar, Rebuke, -Birthday Gift, Result, Fairy Tale. Assize, Waikiki, Variety Revue, Eudora, Cinema and Greater Love. From ALLAN LEWIS A SMALL select
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    CHARLES TO MEET WALCOTT IN FEB.
    49 12 Poriiici heavyweight champion, Ezzard Charles, said yesterday that he would attempt to regain his crown from Jersey Joe Walcott. Asked when that would be, Charles' co-manager, Tom Tannas, said: "Probably late February or March. The International Boxing Club is fixing it up."- U.P.
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    24 12 Sliema Wanderers beat Gothenburg I—o1 0 yesterday in Valetta, Malta, in the second match of the Swedish Club's Christinas soccer tour. A.P.
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    416 12 FINEY AND MORTENSEN IN GRAND FORM _7' a r 'if s 4 From JIM CHAMBERS A CROWD of nearly £0,000 saw a dazzling display of football between Newcastle United and Manchester United on Saturday. Half-back Harry Cockburn, with a long range drive from a corner kick, put Manchester aheaA but
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    208 12 SOUTH Africa's Rugby Union League team came through a very tough assignment at Cardiff on Saturday a s they defeated the Welsh national team 6-3 in a grim game. The 55,000 crowd did not see spectacular football, but they did see superb tackling and marking and~a
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      231 12 Solution To Crossword Noi 542 Across: 3. Cork. 6, Abraham, 'h Pain. 8, Lobster. 12, Sparrow. 15, Oval. 16, Gallons 17, Bray. Down: 1, Abbot. 2, Bass. 3, Cape. 4, Omar. 5. Kent. 9. Tea. 10. Round. 11, Comb. 12, Saga. 13, Play. 14, Role. New Crossword No. 543 CLUES
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