The Singapore Free Press, 5 January 1952

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA NO. 18,281. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 319 1 Four Centurions wipe out sniper nests j.IFTV-TUO-TON British tanks yesterday silenced with high explosive shells Egyptian I lerillas sniping from rooftops at a vital water filtration plant m the Suez Canal Zone. Twenty-pounder guns of four Centurion tanks holes m the walls of houses from
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  • 106 1 AFRICAN LABOUR MOVES IN \.i H.Q., l&mailia. Sat. TH up of 600 East African labour volun- rs Re m Kenya will arrive v Adibya. the British •.rv p rt I the Suez area. a British military spokesman meed last night. i o! 10.000 volunteers sn r-»:ruited to re- British troops,
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  • 10 1 A.P. Indonesia yesterday officials' recognised the new kinsOl Libra-
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  • 96 1 LONDON, Sat. A WHITEHALL spokesman yesterday officially confirmed that Field Marshal Lord Montgomery had a long conversation on Thursday with the Secretary for Colonies. Mr. Lyttelton. Circles close to Whitehall, however, declined to make any comment on the nature of this conversation Political circles interpreted this official
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  • 58 1 An estimated 50,000 to 60,000 residents of Formosa's east coast towns and villages huddled m the open air under overcast skies yesterday as earthquakes, which began on New Year's day. continued for the fourth straight day. Reports from Hualien, half destroyed by the October quakes,
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  • 28 1 All public transport In Toronto, Canada's second largest city, came to a halt yesterday when about 4,700 tram and bus drivers struck for hi?her wages. Reuter
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  • 24 1 The Export-Import Bank said yesterday it has established a credit of $12,000,000 for the purchase and shipment of cotton to Spain.—
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  • 79 1 A SEAMAN from the tug T urmoil clambered aboard the stricken Flying Enterpris e to jfHn Captain Kurt Carlsen as darkness fell yesterd ay, but a gale whipping up to 40 miles an hour thwarte d seven attempts to get a line aboard the freighter. The
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  • 74 1 THE RETIRED CHAIRMAN of the S.A.T.A. Council, Mr. C. L. Edwards, thanks Miss C. Windsor, senior nurse, for the souvenir gift which she gives him on behalf of the S.A.T.A. staff. Dr. G. H. Garlick. (centre) S.A.T.A. Chief Medical Officer, looks on. The Free Press picture
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  • 210 1 LONDON, Saturday. ORITAIN is willing to accept the World Bank's proposals to solve the Anglo-Persian oil dispute as a basis for discussion, a Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman said the proposals did not cover all the problems concerned with the management of the
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  • 52 1 The U.S. United Steel Workers heeded yesterday a plea against giving "comfort to Communism" and postponed a nationwide strike until at least Feb. 21. Delegates to a Union convention at Atlantic City shouted approval of the postponement after p*» by the Union pre I*'1 'nt Mr. Philip
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  • 50 1 Americas first cold weather atomic war practices will start later this month at Camp Drum, New York. Some 35,000 infantrymen, paratroopers and Air Force troops will join m a sixday manoeuvres, making tactical use of atomic weapons for the first time on a division level. U.P.
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  • 81 1 'QUAKE TOLL UP TO 93 ISTANBUL, Sat. gEVERAL villages remained cut off yesterday as rescue teams dug through wreckage of the earthquake m the Hasankale region of the East Turkish province of Erzarum. At least 93 persons were reported killed, 200 injured and 600 houses destroyed. Thousands of farm animals
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  • 27 1 Fire which followed an explosion killed one crewman of a Brazilian oil tanker and injured six others m Porto Alegre, Brazil. Two are missing.- U.P.
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  • 130 1 THIRTY DINERS DEVELOP TYPHOID Free Press Staff Reporter THIRTY of 100 guests who attended a Singapore Chinese dinner fell ill with typhoid after the dinner. On investigation, it was found that the food had been prepared with well water. The City Bacteriologist's .report says that germs were recovered m large
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  • 55 1 BOMBAY, Sat. THE Congress Party won a landslide victory m the Bombay City State Assembly elections, capturing 17 of the 18 seats. The Socialists put up a stiff fight, losing several constituencies by a fairly small margin. The Communists ran a poor third, and minor parties
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  • 54 1 A YOUNG British sergeant who routed a superior force of Malayan bandits after leading eight men of his patrol m a bayonet charge has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, it was announced m the London Gazette. He is Kenneth John Jackman of the first battalion
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  • 53 1 The Rev. Michael Scott yesterday confirmed that he had received a letter from the South African Government informing him that he was forbidden to re-enter South Africa. Mr. Scott is no longer m possession of a South African passport. He has acquired one from the
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  • 19 1 Chinese troops m Tibet have been supplied from the air by Chinese air force planes. Reuter
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  • 142 1 b'Eßi\ CREEK, Kentucky, Saturday. "QPOOKS" have gone from this tiny community after an imaginative 11 -year-old girl admitted she was the force behind the "mysteriously moving objects m the Henry Thacker home. Little Joyce Sanders gave up the ghost last night when she told
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  • 32 1 Eighteen-year-old Signalman, William Griffith, of London, was found guilty of manslaughter of another signalman by a British general court martial on Berlin and sentenced to six months detention.- Reuter
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  • 17 1 Yugoslavia yesterday protested for the second time against the alleged occupation by Hungarian soldiers of
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  • 331 1 U.S. against new Soviet truce plan WASHINGTON, Saturday. SECRETARY OF STATE, Mr. Dean Acheson, yesterm day charged that the Soviet proposal to throw the Korean problem into the Security Council was designed to wreck the progress the United Nations has already achieved toward a settlement of this question. He said
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  • 20 1 The newspaper, Melbourne Herald, yesterday predicted the resumption of diplomatic relations between Australia and Japan m Spring.- U.P.
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  • 98 1 Free Frees Staff Reporter THE Navy lock a hand this morning m the search for the Hornet single-seater fiyhter which disappeared 85 miles from Singapore yesterday while on Itf way from Singapore to Labuan. Fresh Sunderland flyingbeats and a formation of Brigands continued the search syice
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  • 59 1 WASHINGTON. Sat 'JHE Bolivian Ambassador said yesterday President Truman gave him assurance that he will try to reach a mutually satisfactory solution m the tin price deadlock between the United States and Bolivia. The Ambassadoi, Mr. Ricardo Martinez Vargas, toid reporters thai Mr. Truman made the
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  • 1038 2 LiONG Bee promised to have the cover rolled and protected from the heat and Shorty agreed that it was a good hiding place, provided they did not have to stay there' lono; The tongkang rolled it's way southwards, keeping well out to sea. with the
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  • 933 2 Page For Children If you fail, don't worry. The virtue is m the attempt f !!lll!,l, f l,H,l|,il f §f m 9 fi f'IFTS I.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ll!!!!!!! !!!1!!!l!!l! !l!!!!'!li!! 1 l ll! l 1 Sl!™!. I 'THANK you, boys and girls, for all the
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  • 525 2 rjOLDEN sovereigns are again being ..urned out w at the Royal Mint m London, where all Britain's coins are made. It is expected that more t*p°n -100,000 will be made. But though they are made m 1951 they will bear the date 1925. This is because
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    • 96 2 JUNIOR CONTEST 0 id) M^. tl® j3F SS ffERE mi n picture form are the names of four English < (> XX holiday resorts. When you have discovered what < << they are fill m your name, address and age, and post JS to Children's Page. Singapore Free Press. Cecil
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    • 234 2 cc I 0F E KR EUS! aa Iris Colour Book This beautiful book is introduced hy LAURENCE BINYON and include? 16 plates m colour from the work of j|| Chinese and Japanese masters. lj It costs $9.60. BATSFORB HMUKO ie LONDON SfNGAFO^C 9 ___________________________________Wffi_^^ e.s p^^^^^^pHpiiiy 11 j|P ß *?ffi9S
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 142 2 JUNIOR CROSSWORD CLIKS ackoss— i ihe Drake played bowls on "PlyWarbler" is a Httle bird which mouth IL Male rulers 12 visits Britam ln May. 4. Romney Another name for the mountain Marsh is m this county m Eng- ash. 14. Pointed Instrument for land^ 7. Father sheep. 9. Small
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    • 123 2 RUPERT AND THE SHRCEHEH B '**'**\tO mm*\\\2*^m\ Q~C '*%^U VcF*«* "<V s "d>*l**~ '*A*'\ an^Tepfng" V*^** LS ?*&_T Th lS,je g V -T^? s ih Id„TS K n °T* 5 touch saucer." he wh?,£r, ~bw whi fc in too much can kbe doing TO^lß fe fe S^^ "^ST When he
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  • 374 3 He may be m U. S. i BERLIN, Saturday. 4 KEY man m Soviet atomic production has fled to the West and is now believed to be m Washington. He is Colonel Fedya Astrachov, a Stalin. Prize winner who was boss of the sealed-off uranium
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  • 21 3 The Vietnamese Chief of State, Bao Dai, handed high decorations to 60 French and Vietnamese officers m Hanoi AP.
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  • 228 3 ONE-SHIP FIRM DOES £1 ,800,000 DEAL LONDON, Sat. DOATS and ships brought Donald Henry Ewan McCowen sporting fame. They earned him honour.- Now they have given him a fortune. For 42-year-old McCowen has just sold three tramp ships for £1,800,000. He has been a shipowner for only 15 years. He
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  • 62 3 NEW KILLER FOR WEEDS The Dupont Company m America has announced a new weed killer that wipes out dense growths of mixed grasses and broadleaf weeds, leaving just bare soil. It is intended for railroad beds and other spots where grass might be a fire hazard. Its name is CMU,
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  • 26 3 The chewing of gum has become cause for arrest m Russian-occupied East Germany and East Berlin because f ,c an American habit."- A.P.
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  • 29 3 Pakistan Petroleum (a subsidiary of the Burmah Oil Company) have announced that their test well No. 1 at Sui, Baluchistan, found petroleum gas at 4,000 feet— A.P.
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  • 110 3 It measures the liquor in one 's breath LONDON, Sat. A MACHINE which measures the liquor m your breath —and m your blood— is to be offered on test to Scotland Yard to help make Britain's roads safer. It is the alcometer, developed over 11 years at Yale University. U.S
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  • 58 3 He cried when ewes were sold Mr. J. F. Guthrie broke down and wept when his world-renowned Corriedale stud flock of 3,419 sheep was sold at Elcho, Victoria, for A £68,448. The ewes brought world record prices of 59 guineas each. About 2,000 buyers from South Africa, New Zealand, and
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  • 34 3 The United Nations Trusteeship Committee has approved an Indian resolution calling on all member states to help educational advancement m trust territories by awarding scholarships to students from those regions. Reuter.
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  • 369 3 War— and a few yards —kept them apart DIKJEN, Isle of Sylt, Saturday. pERMANY had struggled from the morass of World War I, and life was good when slim, Anna married Erich Modrszinski. They had a solid, comfortable farm life before them m Mecklenburg. In a decade they had six
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    13 3 TODAY'S PIN-UP, Esther Williams, models a swimsuit with the sea as the background.
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  • 38 3 Canada will have supersonic jet Canada has decided to produce a supersonic jet fighter which may reach maximum speeds of more than 1,000 miles per hour. Indications are that the plane would be designed along British lines.- Reuter
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  • 180 3 W atw CARDIFF, Saturday. ALES has banned wedding send-off trains— when thistles and exploding detonators start couples on their honeymoon trips. All because the one-coach i honeymoon train of 23-year-old Eileen Hayes and her soldier husband Brynmor Colnet was m a crash on the single-line
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    • 469 3 vQUR LUCKY STAR SATURDAY io lay, your deep lovo t hask truth, your genius I M ,t- i mentation and talent s gating all knowledge aiinf up with something I s and ingenious might well you a real leader m the „i ideas. Yon are a m tl activity and
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    • 177 3 MandrakC' v(/////y to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya BH B Uf/ a\W//&\ I FIRST I PUT PLASTER ON HIS FACE I1 1 GREASE THE MOLO, THEN POUR I I THE MASTE R MASK .IS 11 1/ f JfT^ -TO GET A MOLO. AS SOON AS p PLASTER INTO IT.
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    • 200 3 Radio SINGAPORE 10 am -10.10 Emergency News from X.L l p.m. "Saturday Ballroom"; 1.30-150 News; 2 ••Album of Harmony"; 2.30 "Rhythm Cornyr"; 2.45 "London Studio Melodies"; 3.15 Tun With Music"; 3.30 "Tea Dance"; 4.15 5 "Southern Serenade"; 6.15 Children; 6.40 "Fred Waring His Pennsylvaniana" 7 News; 7.15 "Listeners' Choice"; 7.50
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  • 512 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Jan. 5. 1952 Big Two China Wfd c< issues m the Chur- (hill-Truman talks which begin next week are of greater importance than the problem of how to deal with Communist China. None find the two great Western powers more divided m their effort to
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  • 852 4 Stalin's New Men- of- War Russia Seems to be Falling Short on her Submarine Plan Britain goes ahead with programme to beat the menace of underwater ships TWO years ago Russia was reported to have embarked on a huge naval building programme which would give her 1,000 submarines by the
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  • 184 4 ANEW American invention a pocket radio receiver designed to keep doctors and business men m "round-the-clock" contact with their clients— is now m everyday use m New York. The receiver, believed to be the first of its kind m the world, is a short-wave model with ar range
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  • 780 4 Around Singapore By Citizen COME University of authorities are wondering if the present shortage of doctor^ justifies the arrange ment whereby only medical graduates resident m Singapore wir be admitted to the Colony's Government service. Graduates living m the Federation must work m the Federation. One reason, apart from that
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  • 142 4 pROM two authorit- ative sources one m Britain, the other m South Africa come reports of a possible cure for car-sickness m dogs. The dogs' appear to be affected by static electricity that builts up inside th e car. The cure is to release that current In Britsfln Mr.
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    511 4 Thin Man Vanishes. It might be the title for the newest chapter m the strange life and times of Dashiell Hammett, a developing, fascinating biography with nc touch of fiction m it, though packed with unsolved situations Sam Spade himself would Jaunty of step, his thatch of
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    17 4 "Wait m Dad hears you\. had a dollar loan (»m those Americans **m came lor Cfcl WWI
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  • 117 4 Here m New York. where lor years he has lived quietly m a modest second-floor flat m a Victorian house m the Greenwich Village arty Quarter, he has not yet been seen around any of his old haunts. If his publishers, lawyers and agents know where
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  • 217 4 Konev has 1,000 Officer H. Quarters ALLIED officials m Frankfurt are worried over news of the rapid headway being made by the Russians m building up an Eastern European Army to counter-act General Eisenhower's North Atlantic Forces. Soviet war hero, Marshal Ivan Konev, who has been placed m command of
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  • 207 5 Our trade with Indonesia may he cut further SINGAPORE banks are considering measures to tighten credit facilities to combat inflation. A leading Singapore banker said he did not think there would be a slump m Singapore this year even though the import market is fairly
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  • 131 5 PENANG. Sat. „.1 I oi) per cent of the ideals applying to join r r.'.-h schools m Penbe admitted this -..'ranee examinar;e neid tomorrow rhs candicla:es Prr- survey yester- a nai loui Chin--1 r schools the Ling Chung Hwa, Girls' School and the I
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  • 24 5 IL :;U Commissioners Admiralty have apCaptata C. H Camp- S C Royal Navy, to he duties of King's M»«. tr. Sin?:, pore
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    47 5 photo. Mtt JACK A iiKKTZ, of the t'SIS. who leaves Singapore for Kuala Lumpur on Monday to become Public Affairs Officer and Associate Director in charge of the Kuala I-umpur offices. Mr. Gert? has been in Singapore a s USIS Information Officer since April last year USIS
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  • 52 5 The Chief Scout's Commissioner for London, General Sir John Shea, who has never visited Malaya before, is due m Singapore m the middle of January by the Willem Ruys General Shea; who will be m Malaya for a month, will spend part of his holiday
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  • 126 5 Free Press Staff Reporter piVE Singapore Chinese were elected m Kuala Lumpur early this week to head thp newly-formed Malayan Chinese Methodist Benevolent Society. The object of the society is to provide relief to members of bereaved families. The elections were made at the annual
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  • 68 5 A proposal that the post of Deputy High Commissioner of the Federation be given to a Malay, preferably to the president of the UMNO, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will be discussed at the Perak UMNO Youth conference on Sunday at Ipoh, according to the Utusan
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  • 146 5 5 teachers quit office in union IPOH, Sat. MR. Terrath Ram. generai secretary, and four committee members all graduate teachers— have resigned from the Perak Teachers' Union on the question of the PanMalayan Stamford Club's right to negotiate graduate teachers' salaries Mr. Terrath Ram told the Free Press yesterday: "The
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  • 58 5 A Chinese cultural mission headed by Mr. Liv Pei Yu, secretary-general, arrived m Singapore yesterday on its wav back to China after a two-month tour of India and Burma. The mission comprises 15 delegates and six staff members and includes five women. They have been studying
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  • 40 5 The Singapore Raffles Society is to sponsor a concert by Mr. Devdatta Jetley at del Tiong Ham Hall on Jan 12 at 8.30 p.m. The programme will include Indian folk songs and dances and admission will be free.
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  • 245 5 WINS STUDY GIFT A Yap Ec Chian Scholarship has been awarded to Miss Su Hong Kai of the Pasir Panjang English School, Singapore. A recommended on Thursday that the wells m Rochore, used for growing beansprouts, should oe closed because the water is insanitary. A
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    29 5 pic- ture. TWO CAPTAINS of the Ind ian Army Medical Corps, who arrived in Singapore yesterday on board the Santhia. They are on their way to Korea.- Free Press
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    36 5 A CHARITY SHOW will be held at ihe Happy World Madiu m on Sunday at 7.30 p.m. A body beauty contest will be held at the show. Two of the participants are: Maria (left) and Rose.
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  • 20 5 Mr. S. Thiruchelvam has been appointed an Assistant Commissioner for Labour m Singapore with effect from December 24, 1951.
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  • 149 5 THE heads of the Department of Religous Affairs and Malay Custom m Negri Sembilan, Selangor and Perak yesterday criticised the proposed appointment of a Grand Mufti for Malaya now being considered by the Malay Rulers the Utusan Melayu says. ...ii i ..#fi bilan Department of
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  • 220 5 (SINGAPORE City Council has done magnificent work during last year with the limited finances available, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, the Pres dent, said yesterday. i Mr. McNeice referred to the public utility projects now m the course of construction and said: "All this
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  • 44 5 KEDAH UMNO will soon launch an appeal for $100,000 to build a national school open to all races m Alor Star, according to the Utusan Melayu. An UMNO spokesman said that an inter-racial committee would be formed for the purpose.
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  • 39 5 The Tangkak branch of UMNO, Johore, has sent a cable to the Prime Minister, xMr. Churchill, requesting the appointment of Lord Louis Mountbatten as Supremo and High Commi.ssione r for the Federation, says the Utusan Melayu.
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  • 187 5 OIXG APORE Improvement Trust w 11 spend neurit $4,000,000 this year on Covent Garden, oflf Kini Seng Road, and Telok Ayer improvement schemes, Mr. A. B. Sewell, manager of the Trust, said yesterday. Fart of the expenditure will be recovered Irom sale
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  • 85 5 •'fl.IE 1200 new members of the Chinese V.M.C.A., Singapore, who were enrollea during the recent membership campaign, wfll be welcome: by the association at a party tonight. Two big and six small silver cups and 16 medal? will be presented to teams and individuals who brought m
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  • 16 5 Next \session of Assises m Singapore will be held on Jan. 14 at 10.30 a.m.
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  • 159 5 Many abuse Post Off ice Box 5000 mite Press Staff Reporter itit: use ot i'ost Office Box 5000 was abused by many people last t >ear. A Sin£ »ore (ID official said yesterday (hat of the 1.508 letters received from January to f December many tried to work off a
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  • 177 5 Free Press Star? Reporter QINGAPORE will soon have a home and school for crippled children run by the British Red Cross Society. Singapore Branch. The Overseas Director of the British Red Cross, Missi John Wittington, said yester-i day: "The Home will educate j crippled children who
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  • 59 5 Dr. B. c. Leortg, gereral secretary of the Wcrld Young Men's Christian Association m South East Asia, will arrive m Singapore from Hong Kong eariy next week for the annual regional YM.C A. conference. Delegates frcm V.M.C.A. i centres m the Federation will i also
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  • 1037 6 Signals beaten m Anchor Cup I T night at Tanglin Barracks gymnasium, J Royal Army Service Corps boxers redeemed t Wives. Showing tremendous improvement i. form since their recent individual champions tips they emerged triumphant through the first rjjnd ot* the Anchor Cup for inter-unit
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  • 42 6 The Singapore Cricket Club Ru«o\ XV to meet R.A.F. (Changi) on the S.C.C. padang today is: Parker: G. ITdvlor. Clements. Mclver Roper: fßees. G S. Taylor Dale Mosey [Harding. Chalmers Storrs Cashin Handcock. Tucker. i Referee will be Lt Canter
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    285 6 y^HEN the Schenken team won the right to represent America m the World Team -of Four Championship match, they ran up against the most compiKited and artificial bidding systems used by any of the world's leading players. The Italian team, winners of this year's European Championship, comprised three
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  • 46 6 Across: a Window. 7, Cleaner. 8. Liffey. 9. Jackass. 10, Helena. 13. Dob. 15. Sir. 16. Routed. 19. Females. 20. Hansom. 21. Rosebud. 22, Stamen. Down: 1, Bleat. 2. Back out. 3. Welsh. 4. Irises. 5. Duffer. 6. Weyman. 11, Lie-abed.
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  • 20 6 Mrs. A. Cobley and Mrs. Eileen Addison (50—13*4=36%) won the I Island Club's women's foursomes competition last Friday.
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  • 221 6 WHERE are 346 footballers who may welcome the A recommendations from the recent inquiry made by the Ministry of Labour into the terms of employment of professional footballers. They are the men who have been retained by League clubs, but not offered terms. The Players'
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    72 6 BELL DOWN Writhing: m a corner is Sgmn Powell of G.H.Q. Signal Regiment after Pte. Barnes of R.A.S.C. had beaten him into first-round submission m last night's inter-unit at lin.—F Free Press g Tang picture. picture L/Cpl Bell of the Royal Ar my Service Corps goes down from a right
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  • 204 6 BAILEY WINT MAY MAKE.... TENTATIVE proposals that the two British running stars, E. McDonald Bailey and Arthur Wint, should visit Russia this year on a good will tour have recently been under discussion. It is understood that the two runners made it clear that any
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  • 56 6 Uln* sports club Xt to meet tbe Kua'.a Lumpur P.W.D. Sport* 'Club women In a friendly hockey match to be played on the S.R.C. ground at 3.45 p.m. tomorrow will be: Mrs. A Pennefather: Mrs. E. Ebert Miss M dance: Miss 2. Barker Mrs A Milne
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  • 32 6 COMEBODY m Washington. U.S.A., has dreamed up the fantastic notion of a third "rubber meeting between Joe Louis and Germany's Max Schmeling. This is where father came m!
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  • 215 6 INDIA MAKE 5 CHANGES FOR 4TH TEST THE Indian team for the fourth Test against England starting at Kangpur on Jan. 12 is as follows: V. S. Hazare, P. Roy, V. Mankad, D. G. Phadkar, P. Umrigar, P. Joshi. S. G. ShLnde, C. S. Nayudu. H. Adhikari, V. Manjrekar, Gulam
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  • 74 6 roKi MCK***ix*H t tn... At a general meeting heto recently, the Combined BJP. elected tbe following officials for 1952: President, Capt. Mohd. Taib bin Rais; vice-presidents, Lt. Mohd. Desa biu A. Rashid and Cpl. Mohd. Ali Habidon; hon. secretary, Mohd. Ali; hon. treasurer. Cpl. Hassan bin Abu
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  • 40 6 The British Army Boxing Association is sending a powerful team to Denmark and Sweden next week. In Denmark the Army team will meet the Sparta Club ln Copenhagen on Jan. 11, and m Gothernhiirff the RrHUh
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  • 460 6 U.K. Olympic outlook is brighter From GEOFFREY SIMPSON AFTER years of cap-in-hand begging the British Olympic Association, who every fourth year organise and equip an Olympic team to represent Britain, are seeing the possibility of a 1952 s id« that will not have to be cut to the bone. So
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  • 75 6 The Hong Kong f team yesterday defeated the Philippine NCAA self two goals to nil at the Rial Memorial Foo:ball F.f.:' Manila Chu Kam-wins. lef side, scored the first goa. tor the visitors during the early half of the game. Lan- Yuklun, left half-back netted
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  • 95 6 KUALA LUMPUR F. go v 's Rugby XV are I Klang tomorrow to ptaj a again<t Neg.i Bembti n < will be Selangor: M R X Wil MacMullen. Sgt Hvland 0 Hughes. Cpl. Baker: H O Be: G. M. Browne; P J Tn rd t
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    • 227 6 Todays sport RUGBY: R.A.r. Ma Royal Navy at Seletar; S.C*.. v R..\.E. Changi at S.C.C; St. Andrew's Old Boys r R.E. at RE. ground; 223 8.0.D. v RE JHE. "A" at 8.0.D.; R.E.M.E. v South Johore at REME. HOCKEY: S.R.C v Army at S.R.C; S.C.C. women* v P.W.D.S.C (Kl.) women
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  • 556 7 Only one horse made time By ALLAN LEWIS POUR inches of rain yesterday made the training tracks at Bukit Timah too heavy for galloping this morning. Howevctr, there was a fairly good muster of horses doing useful pace work, among them several newcomers who will
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    25 7 rd Omar (left) and Pte. Barnes, two of the School boxers ta sain victories against GHQ s in last Right's inter unit boxing at Tanglin.
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  • 276 7 r;if Hying Fish of Fujiyama,'' Horonoshin FuruI hashi, has started his training 6 with his eyes defeating the world's best swimmers at the wipic Games m Helsinki next summer. j Furuhashi. who is no long- I jer a college student with I plenty of time
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  • 253 7 THIRD INDIA TEST DRAWN ENGLAND lost two quick tJ wickets when the final day's play m the third India-E ngland Test opened at Calcutta, yesterday morning, but went on to make 252 -for five before declaring. With only 90 minutes' play remaining India needed 251 to win. One hundred and
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    56 7 ENC. LAND— IS. 1. INNS.: Uv INDIA— IST. INNS.: 344 ENGLAND— 2ND. INNS. Robertson st Sen b Mankard 22 Spooner b Mankard 92 Graveney c Sen b Divecha 21 Watkins b Divecha 2 Kenvon b Phadkar 0 Poole not out 69 Howard not out 20 Extra* 26 Total (for
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  • 162 7 At Twickennam today the South African Rugby Union team hope to follow the pattern set by the second and third Springbok teams and complete victories against all the home unions. It does not seem ljkely ttiat the untried England team v. ill check them. If the ball
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  • 132 7 Cherry Ling promoted to Class one rm and Cherry r.e been promoted a lo Class 1. states from the Straits Association, late Flying Arrow Traveller and 1 Ighl have been fn m Cl. 1 to Cl. 2. stars are: 2 ted 3— Ocean Snare KM, ta Cl 4— Batavia. I
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  • 79 7 By Allan Lewis ADDED money for the Commissioner General's Cup at Penang amounted to $7,925, making that race worth $10,447 to the winner which is a post war record for a race at Penang. The added money for the minor events was $5,986 per race.
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  • 204 7 T ADDIE Outschoorn, former Singa pore Recreation Club and Colony cricketer is due to arrive m Singapore today by air from Colombo. Laddie is now one of the most adventurous batsmen m English county cricket. He is coming for a snort holiday and to meet old Saddle has
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  • 227 7 'I vill do da scalping' says King Kong CHIEF Little Wolf, the snarling Redskin may catch the next plane back to Honolulu if he fails to beat the mighty Hungarian grappler, King Kong, at the Happy World tonight. The Chief, who has fought and* beaten some of the best matmen
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    2 7 SULLIMAN AWANG
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  • 34 7 JERSEY JOE WALCOTT. oldest-ever world heavyweignt champion— he admits to a rising 38 will be dropping m on London next February with the idea of showing his paces m exhibition bou\6
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  • 501 7 HOLLOWING are Lhe weights for all the nine races for the first day of the Singapore Turf Club's Spring meeting. CL. 2, DIV. i— l Rt. Cape Horn 9.00 Chantilly 9.00 The Meare 8.12 Haydee 8.10 Munlee 8.09 The Ra*& 8.08 Unless 8.07 Charlema;...
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  • 489 7 Crowded year for Malaya 's race cyclists By ED PETERS [N a crowded 1951 cycle racing season, the standard Ift competition for this sport m Singapore increased. This is largely due to the determination of tbt Colony's enthusiasts to lower the colours of -23-y irol<L Awthar Singh who lias reigned
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  • 62 7 KUALA LUMPUR, ft..-- a .ror Chinese R.C. trounced Selati.»or Club by five goals to nil at I i :ty on the padang here this evening. In the first half Wenp Chee Inslds right, scored twice followed by a third goal from Eng Kirn, centre forward Eng
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  • 30 7 Ben Hogan. whose life history has become synonymous with the word "comeback". was yesterday named tht "South v.esterncr of 'ha year" by the Texas Sjv: Writers Association.- UP
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  • 298 8 LONDON, Saturday. T»HE Sterling area was now passing through its A third and worst postwar crisis, following earlier crises m 1947 and 1949, an authoritative source m London said yesterday. Consequently, he said, the main question before the mid-January conference m London of Commonwealth
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  • 158 8 TOKYO, Sat. JAPAN'S application for admission to the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East will be one of the biggest questions at the fifth ECAFE session m Rangoon late this month, ECAFE's outgoing Chairman, Mr. Cornelio Balmaceda, said here yesterday. The Philippine
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  • 57 8 WASHINGTON, Sat. JLjORE than 500 narcotic peddlers were picked up m raids yesterday throughout the country, Secretary of the Treasury Mr. John Snyder announced. Raids took place m every major city of the United States. Snyder said the nationwide raids were an effort to
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  • 25 8 The Soviet Foreign Trade Mission is preparing the ground for an April meeting m Moscow, to be called the International Economic Conference. A.P.
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  • 177 8 WASHINGTON, Sat. PRESIDENT Truman was giving his weekly press conference and one of the questions was: "Is it true that Attorney-General J. Howard McGrath has offered to resign?" The President smiled blandly, selected a piece of paper before him, turned to the inquisitive pressman
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  • 54 8 The Japanese peace treaty is to become effective soon. The U.S. and Japanese Governments are winding up plans to reopen Tokyo's embassy m Washington. It has been kept m good order since Pearl Harbour and has been used by the Far Eastern Commission, which drafted
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  • 68 8 Dr b*. Stuart Kirkby, Professor of Economics m the University of Hong Kong, was appointed the third member of the Colony's delegation to the ECAFE meetings In Rangoon. The other two members ure Mr M. W. Lo, a barrister, and Mr Ngan Shing Kwan, General
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  • 32 8 British film star Jem Sin; mons has called off negotiations to renew her contract with the RKO Movie Studio after making only one picture. "Androcles and the Lion' v
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  • 28 8 Nearly 10 tons of drugs were seized by the Egyptian customs service during 1951, including one ton of opium and nearly nine tons of hashish. A.F.P.
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  • 23 8 France has requested a week's postponement of the Atlantic Pact Council conference, scheduled to open on Feb. 2 m Lisbon. -UP.
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  • 161 8 TEHERAN, Saturday. OUSSIA has told Persia she will not deliver 6,000 tons of badly needed sugar promised under a trade agreement, until Persia keeps her end of the bargain by sending 1,200 tons of raw cotton to the Soviet Union. A Finance Ministry official
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  • 37 8 The end of an eight-day strike against the Bank of Chile at Santiago was announced yesterday along with a cabinet denunciation of "foreign agents" trying to tie-up Chile with a r.*t+.r>n wide strike.- AP.
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  • 160 8 KARACHI, Sat.— Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, warned yesterday trat the world during 1952 faces a year of anxiety m which the stage is being set for a conflict of forces. Sir Zafrullah, who has been actively engaged m behind-the-scenes mediation both on the Big
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  • 50 8 THEY GUARD THE CANAL picture. A ROYAL NAVY launch patrols the Suez Canal at Port Said. In the background is the Cruiser, H.M.S. Liverpool. Small craft like this launch have policed the harbour against "thugs" since October, preventing thefts from lighters and quaysides of stores arrivin for the forces. A.P.
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  • 382 8 PARIS, Saturday. EGYPT'S Foreign Minister, Saleh El Din Pasha, yesterday asked the United Nations if the stationing of British forces m Egypt against the will of the people was m accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter. The Middle Eastern Powers refused to
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  • 63 8 LONDON, Sat. i 'TRADING m the London Stock Exchange yesterday was spasmodic and barely sufficient to establish well defined trends. Prices moved within narrow limits and with operators limiting commitments ahead of the weekend. Government funds showed little change on the day after being widely fractionally firmer.
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  • 65 8 French sources m Paris said today they have received unofficial reports that Red China has concentrated 200.000 soldiers with full battle gear m areas iust north or the French Indo-China border. The French did nGt believe RecU China would attack Indo-China, while fighting continues m
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  • 38 8 The second informal discussion m a series of preliminary talks on the proposed p^ace treaty between India and Japan was held yesterday at Tokyo between Japanese Foreign Office officials and the Indian liaison mission. U.P.
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  • 18 8 A pit explosion m one of Czechoslovakia's main coal mines has completely stopped production there.— Reuter.
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    • 675 1 HOTTED along tht sea const of beau Jiful Penong Island i !i\ fishing ham- where small comrtii lilies of fisherfoHs sl a living from 1 oi these is l 1 sque village Ffenlnghi, L Her- 4 three Indiana have 'i is theirs l*y 1 bom
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    • 15 1 RICHARD A BR. HERDER SOLINGEN A _Tl IMIP mm* Am. mm mm* A* mt ivk
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    • 317 1 Story by VIOLET R PONNUDURAI Photographs by SHANTHA SUNDRAM cost about $30 each. To them sinkers are attached and well fastened with twine. The sinkers are smooth, small stones and the floats are brown, dried coconuts used with their husks and all, to mtrl the line where have tanned their
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      892 1 THE FLIGHT A Free Press Saturday short story by RAE MARCH ALWAYS have had the utmost admiration for Harry Ropotra as a pilot. I have even greater admiration now. What a flier that man is. He spent most of the war behind stone walls, they caught him so early, but
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    • 938 2 rrHE Malayan teenager, whether Eurasian, Indian, Chinese or Malay, now represents a very im- j portant section of the cinemagoing public. Their numerical importance can be judged any time. They can be seen queueing m great numbers outside the Cathay or the Capitol. Jane Powell, for
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    • 309 2 VAN HEFLIN of Hollywood arrived m London last week with a phrase "Going Hollywood"—and an explanation of why he wouldn't. Mr. Heflin it was his 43rd birthday has been m and out of Hollywood since 1936. "But I know what it is like and I
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    • 353 2 MARIO LANZA HAS A DIET PROBLEM HOLLYWOOD. NEARLY everybody from Mario Lanza to Francis-diets m Hollywood. It is more than a matter of health m the film capital: it means an actor's livelihood. Many actors are suspended from salary if they exceed a certain weight and cannot report for work
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    • 431 2 a LEC GUINNESS, 37 years old, and the man who usually does NOT get kissed m pictures, is Britain's top film star today. His name over a British film means more money at the box office than any other artist's. That is the
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    • 111 2 "The Man m the White Suit"— excellent write-up and with a first class reputation for entertainment value barely shown by the cinema moguls m Singapore, whereas "Excuse my Dust" with a bad Press and an even worse reputation, went on and on and on How come
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    • 636 2 DOUGLAS LACKERSTEEN writes on Burmese film tastes and on the antics of Burmese film heroes. SINGAPORE'S favour- ite film star is Esther Williams. She is also Burma's favourite. Rangoon audiences still queue to see "Bathing Beauty", an annual visitor. The Burmese love spectacle, and what
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      • 13 2 FRENCH FILM "Les Anges dv Peehe M 'The Ancels at Sin) will be
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    • 1078 3  - Pen money does not gush W. A. CLARKE says WHAT does an author seek fame or fortune? Neither, if he is wise. Dt suite, popular opinion, the world of h iters is not one that flows with silk or money. The work is arduous, often poorly rewarded and very often
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    • 127 3 HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint By Max Factor Starring Florence Marly. Allied Artists Holhwood Don't limit your dancca ot skin perfection by assuming that hand lotion is only rhe hands. Many of the screen stars, like Florence Marly, who have exceptionally tender skins, always protect their complexion* with a touch of lotion
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      890 3 (Continued from Page 1.) me along today, then it was not through me. "Let's go upstairs," he said shortly, and I felt m.v ears click and squeak as we climbed. The window was open and the breeze seemed to come from Arcadia. The sea lay blue and serene
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    • 737 3 THE MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE Why poke fun at women? Annie Reid asks and takes a look at MANY are the indulgently cynical anecdotes, articles, books and plays that have been written generally by men about the vagaries of women m the home. Their glamour or lack of it, their
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    • 417 3  - THE CHINESE PREFER THE RED CANDLES A. S. LEE by IN Christian places of worship and al birthday parties white candles are usually lighted, but to the Chinese the lighting of white candles appears very strange. White to them is a symbol of mourning and white candles are lighted only
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      • 107 3 The Flying Dutchman Today, there are many "Flying Dutchmen" luxurious X.L.M. Constellations, which circle j aW^ the globe on a vast network \jJ^,A which embraces 61 countries W^Jr and spans five continents. wtrJ^ Pianos leave Singapore thrive W[ W^a Sec your travel agent or: M^JrjJt X L M JLmWWA MM.
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    • 999 4 Parker is Mr. Rugby 1951 ENTERING a new we look back on the first half of the Malayan rugby season and fln&lt;j that so far it has been one of mixed success. Pre season prospects were high but the general standard of play has failed to reach expectations. Supplemented by
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    • 157 4 Freddie Mills, promoter FREDDIE MILLS, exworld cruiser-weight champion, will do hi s own match-making when he becomes promoter at Empress Hall, Earls Court, m March. "I think I know enough about it by now to se c that as many youngsters as possible get a chance of showing themselves." he
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    • 199 4  - BUXTON IS TURPIN'S NEXT OPPONENT GEORGE WHITING By champion Randolph Tumi, Tu^?n' H? tei 16 m °Dths,' turpin directs his fist* £2* ♦h^LSPS sinc c he weight fiti?^ middle Sii B s*i tltle from Albert Finch last year. Apart from Finch, 23-year-nn 11 ha s boxed only the SLrth?2 kle
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    • 59 4 ENTERPRISING Eastern Counties League, m which Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea. West Ham run "A" teams are to call K4w- ng to in QUire into possibilities of forming another division. Two ideas have already been put forward. One is that the league should run a reserve section. Another suggestion gaining
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    • 110 4 TONY MOTTRAM and his wife Joy sail for India and Ceylon on Jan. 17 to compete m the Asian tennis championships. Geoff Paish. who, with Mottram, is Britain's leading player is going, too. Fourth member of the party has not yet been settled—possibly Susan Partridge As
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    • 399 4  -  WATERMAN By Wiebe Wolters Is working hard for a ticket HERE'S the spirit we need II for Helsinki; the ditermination that goes to make a champion. While. Singapore's Olympic swimming hope. Neo Chwee Kok. b getting into shape for the coming test
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