The Singapore Free Press, 2 January 1954

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1 16 The Singapore Free Press
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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. No. tSHi, Singapore. Sat.. Jan. 2. 19.*»4. Price 15 C'ts.
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    Pakistan Premier Pleages: WONT TURN ON ASIA
    296 1 Pakistan Premier Pleages: WONT TURN ON ASIA JHE Pakistan Prime Minister, Mr. Mohammed Alt, said m Calcutta yesterday that his country would not enter a military alliance with Western Powers "against those of the He safch M Any aid from Aqierica lo Pakistan, military >r otherwise, will be without strings
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    40 big business men for Moscow
    271 1 11 I A PARTY of 40 British businessmen will leave m a few [day* for Moscow m a bid to .sell British goods to Russia, t They are going with V.v* I blessings of the British Foreign Onice and Britain* Board j: Trade. We
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    The killer volcano
    108 1 PICTURE shows Mount j Ruapehi with its crater lake which is believed to have been the cause of .\>v. Zealand's recent railvsj% disaster m which 166 people were killed. An eruption m the crater. f UMMUt. had caused water m the lake to rush Into tin* river
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    Baby scares of robbers
    227 1  - Baby scares of robbers SIT YIN FONG By MEN <>i the Singapore Police Reserve I nil scoured the Odin Square area m Alexandra last night after three irmed. masked Chinese had held up a shopkeeper. One had a revolver, the other two knives. The proprietor was about to 1 :e
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    Best bets for heavy going
    42 1 rpHE g ling >r thU afternoon's JL racing at Penang will be heavy. Best bets should bo Flushing. ►hrates and Doncaster, .sayAllan Lewis. Best outsiders: Tryas and Rubber Exporter. Latest Information from the course m Page 16.
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    11 ACCIDENTS
    39 1 Thirteen i>eople, including a European woman visitor from Johore. were injured In 11 road collisions m Singapore yester- I day New Year's Day. Most were minor accidents. Since Christmas Day there has only been one fatality. i
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    NO ARREST
    39 1 l Singapore police this morning said several men had been quest ioned about the shooting of "■the Hock Lee bus company manager, Mr. Ouok Sing Inn, on Thursday. But there had been na arrest as reporti I
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    Cheaper for the judge
    55 1 Wff£JV the daughter of Judge Edward Grey appeared m hit court i Lincoln, California, charged with a traffic violation, the ge fined her $>5. The alternative: suspension of 'I!-, "the fine/ the oirl told. Hey, that'll come out i oi my pocket/ the judge said. So
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    TEMPLER
    114 1 Europe's gain, says U.S. paper THE New York Times said m an editorial that •Malaya's loss will be Europe's gmin when Gen. Sir Gerald Templer is shifted this year from his post m South-East Asia to the romnand of NATO'S Northern Army Group m West Germany. •Gen. Trinpier has
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      51 1 Hv' I I Announcement Due to the exceptionally high demand for j RED LION ti^ regret that we are m short supply of Red Lion crown corks. For the next two weeks therefore we shall be using our Orange Crush crown corks far Red Lion Still Orange. Fraser Cf Neave
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    DUFF COOPER DIES ON BOARD SHIP
    590 2 DUFF COOPER DIES ON BOARD SHIP Statesman, poet, lover— FORD NORWICH, formerly j Mr. Alfred Dtifl Ca booc blunj outcry again t Hitler led him to rei Ign from the Chamberlain Cabinet at the time ol Munich, hai died aboard trie French ship Colombic before she entered the Spanish pori
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    Honours List is 'anaemic'
    152 2 Honours List is 'anaemic BRITAIN'S New Year Honoors List was criticised adversely by several national nevspaper.s m London yesterday. The Times said: "The ideal Honours List provokes neither yawns nor cynicism. It Ii an ideal that has not lately, or invariably, been attained. The Daily Mirror Rave over its front
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    A blind man, 23, drove a car
    367 2 A blind man, 23, drove a car THE STRANGE WORLD rpOTALLY blind, Arlow Ebcns--1 tein, 23, was lined US. $lO for driving a car without a licence at Bast Jordan, Michigan, us. A 16-year-old youth was there to tell him whether he was J4oing straight, or to the right, or
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    Berlin on Jan 25, West agree
    183 2 Berlin on Jan 25, West agree BRITAIN, France and the United States today signed ofT nearly two years of correspondence with Russia by agreeing to the Soviet proposal of Jan 25 as the opening date of the Berlin Foreign Ministers conference. Their 200-word Note handed over m Moscow today, was
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      113 2 Slart the New Year right with j I shopping at your favourite Store! 1 J Now is the time to replenish sf I i your Household goods- A new H shipment just unpacked for C f-Tw If HOUSEHOLD LINEN DEPT. j I] FIRST FLOOR '\J& l| 1 1 D A
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    175 LEARN ABOUT A-DEFENCE
    144 3 175 LEARN ABOUT A-DEFENCE 0 hundred and sevent\ |vil defence volunteers begin lesson -s on Monday at Iquarters In Kolam [^ne In defence against attacks. The Commissioner of Civil colonel L. T. Firbank. the volunteers would be In about four months to c with any atom bomb at;e lr.en have
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    IT WAS THE YEAR OF 1,000 FIRES
    267 3 Millions up m flames Free Press Staff Reporter. THI past year was a record year for the Singapore Fire Brigade. The mark of 1,000 fire calls for 12 months wsa almost reached. Uc to New Year's Eve. fire eng hes had answered a
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    One way of telling 'the tyrant's dead
    185 3 One way of telling 'the tyrant's dead 4 LETTER from Mr. Nigel Hunt of Perak, published m the Times, London, on Thursiv said that though public xhibition of the bodies of dead Lsts was not the general ctice m Malaya it was one leans of convincing the "susis" Chinese peasant
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    HIGH GOVT POST
    29 3 A Negro, Mr Hulan E. Jack m m on Thursday as h president of Mannatftrst of his race ever to the L T 5025,000 a year
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    FRUCKY GETS THE CHEQUES
    86 3 THOUGH his mother was shot by hunters m the Venezuelan jungle last year, Frucky the monkey, is collecting cheques for a jungle expedition. Frucky's owner, Miss Jean Liedloff, is off on an expedition to Virgin Venezuelan jungle, with the Italian explorer. Count Bentivoglio. She has had
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    TIBET TALKS
    40 3 China and India have opened negotiations "on matters coiiI cerning the two countries regarding Tibet." Radio Pekm?, >uid yesterday. Chinese Premier. Mr. Chou En Lai. and Indian representatives ;met and -decided to begin the negotiations immediately." It added.
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    QUEEN TO UNVEIL MEMORIAL
    69 3 pIK QUEEN will unveil a memorial to Common•ilth airmen at Valetta, ll ta. on May 3. Hie memorial, 1 39- foot -'l» marble column suriiioun--1 l>> a bronze gilded eagle, I commemorates, 2,300 airmen from Australia, Canada, N«W Zealand and South Alrit i. All died m
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    TOO MANY SALARY EARNERS GO BANKRUPT
    250 3 TOO MANY SALARY EARNERS GO BANKRUPT Free Press Staff Reporter. SINGAPORE'S Oilicial Assignee, Mr. W. Alcock, said yesterday that more and more wage-earners were becoming bankrupt every year. In 1933 there were 146 bankruptcies 44 more than m the previous year. The 146 cases involved about $3i million m liabilities
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    MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING UNCLE, AUNT
    158 3 rriHOMAS Ronald Lewis Har- ries, 25, was sent m Britain yesterday for trial on a charge 1 of murdering a farmer and his wife who were round buried m i a field beside a main road. When Harries was committed for trial at the
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Jan 2, 1954. Opinion THE SIXTH FILM
    425 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Jan 2, 1954. Opinion THE SIXTH FILM THh Malayan Film Censor. Mrs. Koek, has used her powers sparingly. Of sou ninis which were sent to her office for approval this year, only six failed to puss the test. We suggest that the Dumber should have
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    A New Goebbels?
    703 4  -  ANTHONY TERRY DR. ADENAUER, TIME MAGAZINE'S MAN OF THE YEAR' HAS STRANGE ASSOCIATES. SOME HAVE EVEN PROPOSED A SECRET PROPAGANDA MINISTRY AFTER THE NAZI MODEL OF DR. GOEBBELS-AND DEMOCRATIC GERMANS ARE WORRIED. 'Thought police plan has shocked Germans BERLIN. rHE shadow of Dr. Goebbels, the "little man
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    To all Who Hate Me....Peace!
    358 4  - To all Who Hate Me... .Peace! R. M. McColl FATHER DIVINE, the ebullient evangelist from Philadelphia, has a slogan. "Peace it's wonderful!" So, at this season, and m the hope of cooling off some of those who, strangely enough, have harboured evil thoughts concerning MacColl m the year now staggering
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    RENTS FOR CHEAP HOMES 'STILL TOO HIGH'
    366 5 RENTS FOR CHEAP HOMES 'STILL TOO HIGH' Fire-victim families move out I ,re Press Staff Reporter SEVERAL families living In Government built -cost homes m Aljunied Road. Singpore. have moved out. And many more plan to co. Their complaints: Water shortage. High rents. Terrific heat m the houses during the
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    TAXI CHITS AGAINST ARRESTS
    144 5 TAXI CHITS AGAINST ARRESTS Free Press Staff Reporter rnUE Singapore Hire Car A-sso--1 elation on Thursday issued more than 800 official receipts to be carried by taxi drivers to show they had bought taxi miters and so prevent arrest by Registrar of Vehicles offlclals. Only about 300 of the Colony's
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    RATS AND MICE ARE CHINESE DELICACY
    230 5 RATS AND MICE ARE CHINESE DELICACY Free Pros Saflf Reporter U time immemorial the c have made aeiiclout of rodents. I was v that there was In an American advocating use of rats for human r to niches and b feed on left- per are eaten Dly < on fined
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    All who passed get admitted
    308 5 1,093 FAILED STANDARD V Free Press Stair Reporter. PI \CES have been found In Government secondary schools for all the 1,352 pupils who passed their entrance examination to Standard Six last year. Mr T. 1. M I ewis Senior Inspector of Schools, said yesterday. Of
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    MEDAL FOR EVEREST MEN
    73 5 The National Geographic So. eiety announced m Washington yesterday that it had awarded the Hubbard Medal conferred only 15 times m the PMj 50 vears-to the British expedition which conquered Mount Everest I this year. The Medal will b»-ar the inscription: "Awarded to the British Everest
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    GERMAN CARS
    18 5 Britain will import £250.000 worth of German commercial motor vehicles during 1954, it was officially announced.
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    ROCHORE CANAL TO BE DREDGED
    138 5 ROCHORE CANAL TO BE DREDGED SINGAPORE City Council is spending about $25,000 to the half-mile Roehore Canal, Mr. Sim Beng Seng, ProMember for Roehore iid yesterday. was replying to complaints the canal was m an atrociondltion. Thi.s biu sum Will cover the of clearing one section of ma] from Kandang
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    IN LIGHTER VEIN
    75 6 Police examiner (to prospective recruit*: Suppose >• v are accosted late on evening by a charming young lady who tells you that a strange man has embraced and kissed h< What would you do? Applicant- I should endeavour, sir to reconstruct th< crime, with the young lady's
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      173 6 MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis c te™ A'Ms?^sl l^^^u^sj te^s^.. mrDOIWrSHEF MONEY.) V~-v A/0 00. YOU OBEY WEj^Ly o^ ANWER? r~S T^S-i EFFECT rcj, 1■ f J^l WaA? CARMA/ IT^MEWi/ M /f Mt U i^^^^Y /^sk REMEMBER? r ,jJ\ TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs A RIGMT-YOU
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      552 6 LUCKY IJOKN TODW. you ha\e one of those gay. charming personalities which draw friends to you like a magnet. In fact, you have s O many friends, that you may have difficulty m settling dorm to make a choice of any one special person with whom you feel you would
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    SERVICE IN NAVY KILLED ADMIRAL, SAYS WIDOW
    506 7 She fights ruling on death D:D the Admiral die because he served his to the utmost its of his strength? it is what his widow ims. Or was his death two years at the age oi 60 due to naui.ses? That is what
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    It paid mother not to work
    266 7 It paid mother not to work T was said by a probation oflQ- cer that a woman with two young children preferred not to go to work because she was better off on National Assistance. ml then from magistrate Lieut. -Colonel W. E. Batt, at Old Street, London, came the
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    GAOLED PARSON LEFT FORTUNE TO CHURCH
    155 7 BACHELOR parson who last October while a three years' sentence Muidstone Gaol, Kent, has i r -hed more than half his 1 KKJ fortune to the English m the Windward Isl" 'v West Indies. h Rev. Arthur Milton Ruma«jed 52, who used to go
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    The hands that made the dam in Damoder
    296 7 THE Marquis of Reading, 64-year-old Minister of State, spoke m London about the changing East. He was introducing: to reporters the second annual report of the Colombo Plan, lls t published as a White Paper. And of the plan— originally devised to
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    'THAT FOOL OF A MAN' WAS POLICE CHIEF
    227 7 DRIVING his private car. with his daughter as passenger, Mr. A. E. Edwards, Middles- brough's Chief Constable, took; part m a 65-mile an-hour chase. He thought the car he was chasing was stolen, he told Middlesbrough Court "The driver." he said, "forced
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    'Miss Chinese Swis Club of 15
    198 8 'Miss Chinese Swis Club of 15 piVE THOUSAND people s;i\\ the beauty contest, organised by Ihe Singapore Chinese Swimming Mul). Seven ijirls competed and the winner wns Miss Nancy Koli, Malayan airways hostess. Miss Nancy Koh rereived $150 and a free trip to Hong Kong by Cathay Pacific Airways. Miss
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  • THE FREE PRESS Saturday Magazine
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      Masthead
      11 1 THE FREE PRESS Saturday Magazine i I Saturday, Jan. 2, 1954.
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      LUBA AND I
      1238 1  -  WILFRED JUPE A Free Press Saturday short story by i/ICTOR MARSH was V thirty-six, good-look-particularty charmHis arrival amongst Shanghai's international munity received rapid :nition from hostesses apparently knew about him beyond fact that he was very ative at their expenparties. did nothing to stimueir further interest, reg
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      THE POTTER
      9 1 Photo by Sin gapoi <\ Yam Fatt Sung
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      DOCTOR GIVES GIRLS THE 'WESTERN LOOK'
      417 1  - DOCTOR GIVES GIRLS THE 'WESTERN LOOK' John Sack by ►ME m and "perfume nature." says the on the plastic surclinic of Dr. Kahn ing Mm m Seoul. Since the war Ban, more than 1,000 an girls have gone to Kahn and perfumed natures by making faces more Western. Many Korean
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      Saturday CHILDREN'S PAGE
      179 2  -  AUNTIE WINDY lUDGING FROM the J|< ttcra I n ceived this 1 1 jro I must all have been fully occupied during th< Christina and have had little time to thmk ol Auntie Wendy beyond trying to win one (t the lour prizes In the Junior Contest.
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      Smokey Bear helps to prevent tires
      560 2 TOR more than ten I treet car rid< m the United been attracted by a Diet ture ol a sturdy brown p, dressed In blue work pants and a forest rani ger's hat. The bear has looked clown from potter cards and solem--1 nly
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        83 2 Junior Contest I I Hoys and girls here is another opportunity to win a priie f<»r cohturing. You can use paints, crayons or chalks for this picture. The method used, and your t age. will he taken into consideration. There are four I prizes (two hoys and two girls) of
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        43 2 I RADIO -fEEBY I INCORPORATING RADIO MALAYA NEWS I MA. THE BEST M\ I Full Pro f/ra ninths I Asians t alliny Hnmv I Musiv front Hnlluncl I Classical music noivs. Chimmmm music* Film f rmwimmm. Cmrtmmm* and t f*ffsc/#*^. Picture s<n tlon
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      Dlight to Adventure
      909 3  - Dlight to Adventure KATHLEEN HICKLEY a rhrec ichool friends, Mok Ling, Chalky Whitehead and Abas. .v,» been marooned on a strange island. They discovered it inhabited by German and Japanese war criminals who almost perfected a new secret weapon with which they lend to conquer the world. The chief scientist
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      Safety Tips
      66 3  -  ESTHER WILLIAMS TOM TERRY by assisted by and 13. DON'T OVERESTIMATE YOUR SWIM-ABILITY Even the most professional of swimmers knows never to overestimate his or her water prowess. Don't think you can swim farther than you can or longer than you are physically able. Remember, to paraphrase a
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      The great adventure of the old car
      705 3  -  CAROLINE D. EMERSON by ONCE UPON A TIME there was a little old car that nobody wanted. His mudguards were bent. One headlight was sone. His battery was dead and his tires were flat. His generator wouldn't generate and his carburetor wouldn't carburet.
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        217 3 ICItOSSVHllll) iIH Mltf IH CLUES ACROSS. 1. Austrian composer Who wrote 41 symphonles 5, Cut, as the lawn. 6. Cone-bearing t.c- valuable tor its timber. 1, it may be ere-tcent-shaped h. Part 0] the Royal Regalia, 9, insect which collects nectar from (loners, 11. Its home is called a sty.
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      Jacques to Ginger: I love you
      599 4  - Jacques to Ginger: I love you SHOW TALK lACQUES BEROERAC suitably rugged-lookins m blue jeans and tan leather jacket, took twc .steps forward, gulped once, and began to declaim. J'tU .11 I'j/r li,l h I/nil" Informed <>^ R<j the studio camera > m•• don t care about aflythina el c
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      ARTIE'S HEADLINE
      8 4 I" Just you dare to hoo
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      The Glamourised' Granger
      445 4  -  HAROLD CONWAY I>EAU BRUMMELL died m Calais at the age of 02 poverty-stricken, bald and fat. The end will be rather different for Stewart Granger, now making a film of BrummeH'fl life. "I shall merely die. he .says. "My employers don't consider it seemly to show star
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      Jean Simmons goes American
      225 4  - Jean Simmons goes American LAN GRANT AT LAST! An American family on the screen who behave like a family. You can see this screen i phenomenon m "THE ACTRESS" (Cathay). This family has no horribly precocious children— just one teenage daughter and the Mother is easily distinguishable from the daughter
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      It Was a Varied Film Year
      862 5 It Was a Varied Film Year LAN GRANT recaUs the Good and the Bad of 1953 r QUITE a lot happened m 1053. "The Conquest of Bt" happened... so did ilyne Monroe "Julius and "Moulin and "The Sound and "Lili." A varied year, on the whole, •ood y« ar. And
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        310 5 TOB>AV l»\ll V 11.00 a m.-l 4~>-4 15-h 1"> ?> :*0 p.m 10th DAT TODAY fRH) ASIAiRE OYD tHARISSE TONIGHT MIDNIGHT!^ STAIIIMQ FERNANDO ARLINE PATRICIA LAMAS PAUL MEDINA A Ptuwmnt Pidur* Hire of Polaroid Viewers "?0 <ts Plus 40 cts. deposit refundable on return of Viewers jjTj^JJ* SHOWPLACI Ol rMI
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      Here's to a better year of sport!
      474 6  - Here's to a better year of sport! MALCOLM MODDER Bi the old year has tab I the final count but during Its brief rei*n te a l«>t was accomplished m the field ol »rt. The country was Invad ,1 top ranking sportsrre 1 .v imen from other lands i must
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        64 6 The weekly issue of the STRAITS BUDGET can oe sent by Air Mail to any address m the United Kingdom at an inclusive rate of I $24.00 FOR SIX MONTHS If you want the "BUDGET* while on leave or wish to make an "Air-subscription on behalf of your Home office
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      DEFENDER CAN'T MAKE MISTAKES
      1637 7  - DEFENDER CAN' T MAKE MISTAKES Choo Seng Quee I sa V s 1 Secret of defence is positional play rHIS weeK I am going to deal with defence uositioning. There are four types of defensive formations used m England, the Continent and South America— the third back lefence, the attacking
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        52 7 rmT~ 3 The Oriental Optical Co., 1 M ~&*JtoA ::IIS N«rth Brill < Koad A Itt, south BrMce Im4 i'-*'j&* i rr HcJtertofl Street r rf- Singapore, Fenang Siam 'L fe P.O. BOX s«7 y I TIL, 2152. NtSI Will OPTOMBTftIftTS MANIFAf TIKING OPTKIWS ANI> SCIKNTIIK ETI KXAMINATION U ITU
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      The Christmas spirit was missing
      992 8  - The Christmas spirit was missing KAY MURRAY THE USA AS A WOMAN SEES 11 by YORK FATHER CHRISI 1 1 J clanked his little bell on- department In New York, there on the radio and the price of flowers went •«!>■ Nothing seemi d to b( except the spirit ol
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        37 8 I i I II r II i I I T O]\ SALE Olllli:i| \|MV from THi: SIHAIIS TIMES PRESS ITD CECIL SIUI 11. SIM.AIMMU IMIOM: 5171 Kuala Lumpur. Pliom- DM. Ipoh. Phone 513. Pr— g, Plmmm- ||s|«,
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      132 9  -  PETER de CRUZ MM ll. i ll nil ••■■mi m i btory by $340 i« Wht third prize, a set of nclci jingles worth $H< went to Jennie Ttt other four (B( >*iints i eived B> lm [isolation prt Pictures by A view of the swimming pool showing: the
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      Master-crook forgot where he left car
      519 10 Master-crook forgot where he left car THE terror that stalks every old lag caught up with the No. 1 Jeljyboy" of London's criminal world. it was preventive detention, the toughest of *aol I sentences, from which there is no good-conduct remission. The .senter.ee rocked even gaolhardened M year-old Alfred Oeorgc
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      FLYING GRANDMAS
      93 10 \They were pilots m ***** Mrs. Helen? Dutrieux, <l«*lti, who gained her air pilot's licence m Belgium hi lilt, and Mrs. Marie Manrteft, who obtained her UctllCC on the name date m an "Antoinette" monoplane, seen whe n they "««*t at UK Palais He Cfetfllot. Paris, at a
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      TV PROVED A 'FAGIN' TO THREE BOYS
      173 10 TV PROVED A 'FAGIN' TO THREE BOYS r FHREE boys became successA ful housebreakers because one o: them, aged 14. saw on TV a film showing how a silent burglar breaks into a house Sticky paper pasted over windows enable them to break the glass without making a noise. In
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      SERGEANT SPOTS PRISONER
      394 10 Eating by the fireside i IVRENCE Edward CutU, th.« man no gaol can hold.*' who a Houdinilike break from Winchestei PrUon two weeka '1 1 iaa captured by chance aa he eating baa of erUpt In ;t hOuae m South London. Cut! ■> w.i litttna by the
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      He paints with his teeth
      72 10 rplK AIR Ministry^ Christmas A card was painied by an artist .so severely |> ir ii\ i that he HM use only the musch's ol his head and oerk. He painted •t with the brush between his teeth. The artist fa David Jackson, -2. formerly
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      Grade wins a place in the sun
      210 10 'RETIRES' AFTER i SAVING DRIVER j OVER a stable door on a 33- acre farm on the Lsle of Wight hung a sign: "Reserved I lor Grade". Gracie —whose name is already inscribed on the Animals' I Roll of Honour— is the London
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      Business is Eager to Use Atomic Power
      609 11  -  SAM DAWSON by rilE ATOM'f peacetime role appears due to ,1 m the New Year. This seems likely whether not the U.S. and Russia can set together on President Eisenhower's lea of pooling atomic materials for peacetime American industry definitely antfl to make
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      Bridge Hand
      315 11 JV'TtL-South vulnerable Jortb dealer R H B (our club bid was unwise. A better call would have been Sinc< North had passed his first to make nee rebid. it i '..id be obvious to his partner that Is *as no slamtry cue-bid but waa, ther. an attempt to
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      Cookery Book for the Blind
      104 11 Chef Emil Joerns of Braunschweig, Germany, who lost his sight m Poland m 1944. has written a two-volume cookery hook containing US recipes. In Braille, the hook is intended to help the blind housewife with new ideas and methods. It gives many useful hints to
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      U.S. MILITARY PACT WITH BONN?
      169 11 WILL the United States enter into a direct military alliance with West Germany? This startling possibility may come increasingly to the fore during the coming months. Reason why the U.S. should now enter into a military commitment with the country from "I which she was
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        215 11 Today's Crossword \CR()SS .-hois m air (1O>; r Kautlcal off--1 Plastered tatermlttently? (6); 4 spring? (7); 6 Mark, bul not n i SOS PUt m anotl.er way '4. 2); 8 ,6); 7 Pu» on by pixies? (5); 10 is this an extended stay by a People In thi* And cheap
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      MALAY IN THE COUNCILS
      281 12 MALAY IN THE COUNCILS I) aba m la's translation of a certain tatemeni m English into what i c m standard M ilay M per cent ■<>vir>-l" or ail eyond tii«> Pre i- But can him, if that's <: \t Future I islativ( < »rs m the perhaps, m iiii
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      ALL WRONG
      65 12 I'l' IS P and biologically natural ami proper for a love two women at the BtU "Bereaved md ol Only Wife", *ly not alf \m ht n( <'i wrong hut h; ls eon. Ith lust. 1 men naA nm Using our baser t biological human i^uik-, to H>at
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      Too close to see well
      99 12 I 1 l! i Bi Heoni baa ol the "Geylana to me i rhapi too 4 to things m ocrHoon Keow, i tin many Initances JJ l S h M perhaps M l to defend bim;hx»plp .-irou.irt .1 DU7./.1,. pervene and m.»- Mloui and -mii.
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      DOCTOR 'CAN'T DECIDE ETHICS'
      279 12 DOCTOR 'CAN'T DECIDE ETHICS' w* IS it not clear that though he accuses me of it, '\\ntiIntoterance" himself actually 'belongs to a school of thought which speaks with one regimented voice on the subject of scientific contraception", when he and they (to quote him again) say "contraceptives under medical direction
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      Crossing issues with the police
      133 12 Crossing issues with the police AFTER reading the letter from ••Motorist 1 about traffic lights at certain junctions not being turned on throughout the day. I should like to relate my experience. I had travelled up and down Middle Road often but had never seen the tattle lights at the
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      POLICE IN BUS
      122 12 j N Monday, Dec. 28. at about y 7.40 a.m.. I happened to hoard a Service 8 S.T.C. bus Sitting be.side me were four police men. All had red should-! rr-bands and one was a corporal. Their mod unbecoming behaviour truly shocked me. One of them took
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      How to be intolerant though married
      210 12 How to be intolerant though married qurely "Anti-Intolerencc must admit that there are some things about whkh we cannot be tolerant which w are m duty bound m coasciem to fight tooth and nail. Thei is no need to quote many examples, but militant Communism will do for one. However
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      ASAHI IN ENGLISH
      26 12 The newspaper Asahi, Jap ;est daily which claims '.000 circulation., haa announ :ed it will start publishing English-language even. n on Jan. 20.
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      THIS THREAT BY TAXIMEN
      126 12 rpHIS U the first time I have I 1 ever written to a newspapx but I feel I must voice a definite .-.ion about fitting taximeters to Singapore cabs. To whom are we indebted for the ido:i to give a further three or six mo-. axi
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      The Actress
      1331 13 STORY OF THE FILM The final instalment of the story oj the New Year film at the Cathay. Clinton Jones of Wollaston, Massachusetts, has a difficult time providing for his little family. He has a strong-willed daughter, Ruth Gordon Jones, who wants to be an actress.- Clinton, totally
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        65 13 ymm jean simmons j |3 THE BEST ACTRESS P3L OF 1953 m *Jaß^% (Selected b> the National Hoard ol mB Keview «>f Motion Pi turrs II" Ix wood For Her Outstanding Performances m "Young Bess" "Tie Robe" "The Actress" WILL SOON BE jfij^^* IN M GM'S f"^^t \f yf \\^L
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      TABLE TENNIS TRICKSTERS MAY RETURN HERE
      538 14  - TABLE TENNIS TRICKSTERS MAY RETURN HERE TAN HONG POH By \FTEP the proposed visit of Dick Miles, the reigning American tabletennis champion, had fizzled out, officials of the Singapore Table Tennis Association were surprised to c Martin ReiSman and Douglas Cartland, shopping around Rail l»s Place early this week. MARY
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      Champion
      18 14 Marty Reisman, U.S. professional tible tennis champion who is iccompanyin? the Harlem Globetrotters along: with I><mis (artland.
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      Red challenge to top English soccer teams
      733 14 Red challenge to top English soccer teams HERE'S a framing to Arsenal, i neisea, or any othei top-flight Fntflish soccer club visiting Russia '•gel ready lor the match of your lives." Thai i^ not my warning. It comes from Gee Workman, storekeeper at the British Embassy v Moscow and a
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      Spore Malays draw hockey
      66 14 SINGAPORE Malays drew twoall with Selangor Malays In Seremban yesterday m the triangular hockey meet. Negri Sembilan are the other side competing. Inside right Rafique opened accounts for Selanuor early on but tw > quick eo;'ls by centre forward Sheikh Mansor and inside lef r Mohd.
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      A COMING CHAMP
      206 14 AUSTRALIA has an ■f*- athlete who ir.ight join miler John Landy m the world sporting headlines within the next two months. He is Hector Hogan of Queensland, who twice has run 9.r>sec. for 100 yards an Australian record, BIT IT IS NOT SPRINTING WHICH WILL BRINCi HIM
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        305 14 Halt-time (Jn>ssinn'tl T^A^SxiX SOWtTHINC NEW FOR SPORTS FANS I'^ those idle minutes at a B^ i rugby or hotkey match when I' I' l the players take their rest and *>" (M-<i.tt..r- mi waiting for LP""H pHal Wa^^l M the second half to hegin. I i I a^LH a^H See
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      GREAT DAY FOR SCOTS FOOTBALL
      275 15 eljer scores 3 to down Queens qCOTTISII footballers celebrated the New Year yesterday with some rousing league matches. Games were played m the English league also. Willie Telfer, Scotland's international centre-half, must have had an early night at Hogmanay for he was m scintillating form
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      All the results
      156 15 EMI isii IMMOMM FIKST DIVISION: BoKon Wanderers 2 Sheffield I Id. 1; Newcastle I Ulatkpool 1; Sundnland I Aston Villa 0. SECOND DIVISION: Blackburn Rovers 0 Derby C. 3. THIRD DIVISION (NORTHERN): Accringlon 0 Scunthorpe ltd. 1; Barrow 4 Bradford 1; Carlisle I YVorkington Chesterfield 0 Mansfield
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      BATTING BROTHERS HIT OUT
      162 15 t CRICKETING brothers Neil > and Ray Harvey and Dick and Len Maddocks put Victoria on the way to a big score after two wickets had been lost for live runs on the first day of the Shield match against South Australia m Melbourne The Harveys
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      N.S.W. fight for runs
      72 15 OtNT In to bat on a pitch made difficult after rain New 8011 th Wales struggled for runs against Queensland on the first day of their Sheffield Shield match m Sydney. By the close New South Wales were 183 for six wickets. Jim DeCourcy the allrounder
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      Mulley at his best for Carthusian win
      613 15  - Mulley at his best for Carthusian win ALLAN LEWIS By 1 iTHOL MI LLEY was seen at his absolute best to land Carthusian the winner of dV the Club Cup (Class Two, Div. 1, 8! F.). main race yesterday the third day of Penang Turf Club's Christmas/New Year racing carnival.
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      NEW ZEALAND HIT 212 FOR 2 WKTS.
      122 15 A RECORD opening stand of 126 between Geoff Rabone and Murray Chappie on the opening day of the third Test m Capetown yesterday, laid the ground for a possible big New Zealand total against South Africa. New Zealand who lost the first two
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      TAKING NO CHANCES
      32 15 Big German heavyweight Hem, Ten Hoff took no holiday yesterday j and went through another tough workout m preparation for his ten rounder with Dan Bucceroni next Thursday night.
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      U.K. boxer Kelly best Writers vote
      144 15 U.K. boxer Kelly best Writers vote JOHN KELLY, the Belfast bantam- I weight who won the European championship without leaving home, was yesterday voted the best young British boxer of 1953 by t^e Boxing Writers 1 Club. Kelly, who is 21, has fought 21 times as a professional. Every fiyht
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      Commonwealth need 40 runs for lead
      123 15 Commonwealth need 40 runs for lead The Commonwealth touring side needed 40 runs with four wickets standing to take first innings lead over India m the third cricket Test m Calcutta yesterday. At the close of play— the second day—Commonwealth had scored 199 for six wickets m reply to India's
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      It will be hard to get the Cup now -Sedgman
      342 15 If rank sedgman. Australia's top professional lawn tennis player, predicted on his arrival m Kan Francisco wterday, thai Australia would retain the Davis Cup for the next three years or four years. Sedgman. who as an amateur helped Australia to
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      UK RUGBY LEAGUE
      35 15 Yesterday's U.K. Rugby league results: Whitech;uen 6 Workington Town 12; Wtean 12 Warring ton 17; The Leigh-St. Helens and SaJfonlSwinton matches, scheduled for yesterday, were postponed owing to frott and fog. Reuter
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      CLOUDS OVER PENANG COURSE
      385 16 Shangrilu or Cinema? From ALLAN LEWIS I'wo HOURS of rain after the races yesterday evening, will make the going for today's racing vcrv heavy. At the time oil writing (that is 8.: jo this morning) there La evjjry prospect ol more ram f)i .< lon on
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      MID-DAY NAP
      511 16 RUBBER EXPORTER m the 25 i Race 6) Channel ,I a i! 1 be hard to !>•■•• .miii I canno* fane? any of 'he others. i»onr.is(,T won <.1 1 1 v enough In Div to win 1,, hlgbei division >"i<i complete i double for the ""■•"ii"-' i ri
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      It's Box Office
      45 16 By MALCOLM >loi>i>j:r WILLIES horse Resaarfcf? l «;«s kealca into fourth place yestfrday Disbemrtened IVillic asked nc r > Up t'» pull him out oi \Uv men ii»- is m, ii«- j s s: i Cl«»\\ rt tn ditc. ift inn BOX OFFICE.
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      'NO CHANGE FOR OLYMPIC SITE'
      66 16 I ORO B1 ROH] BY, Brm.sh mem itlVf Committee 'tiori.il Olympic Coni- l«h| no Mil racentlf to Justify It i>i' Q ime Im'lmk fakeii mime He was commenting on a n. IUtMBeQI hv Mr. A very Bninciage. [American praftdtat of the ioc' Vhicti < onUUiMd
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      PIRIEMAYSTAY IN U.S.
      235 16 PIRIEMAYSTAY IN U.S. CORDON ratlß, BRITAIN'S r GBEAT DISTANCE RUNNER, SAID LAST NIGHT HE MAY LEAVE ENGLAND THIS YEAR TO STIDY AT AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY. The reed -like 22-year-old Surrey bank clerk, who runs with the world's best Irom one to six miles, Bald ht h;id receiwd invitations troni .sevt-ul
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      ARKINSTALL TO MEET KRISHNAN
      48 16 ARKINSTALL TO MEET KRISHNAN Jack Arkin&tall ol Australia inter" •d tbt OnaJ of the Indian Lawn it-inns champion hipa >" Calcutta erday, when he b«\ii Nareata Kumar India'a No. 3, «-4. 1-0, 8-10. M Aikinst.il meets Ramanatlnn Kriahnan, India Nn i m ih« iwml on Jan. I i Reuter
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      U.S. v. BRITAIN GOLF
      49 16 A proposed 36-hole chalkagtj ii bel ii the Amertc at Professional Golfing A^m liHhh senior m pton and the top lenior playei -I Britl h professiona] |01l will be played .1 KnflMid on July ;t-4. i-' oran, P Dromotlon dire "i ..id ft itcrdaj A.P.
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      Zatopek breaks another record
      62 16 Emu Zatopek, Caechotlorakia'i Olympic track star, won the 7,300--metre (about Qv« miles St. Silverier race m 20 niin 30 4 sec. on Thurs- day, and Chopped 1 X minutes off the record set last year by Fran jo Mihadlc of Yug< slavia. Two thousand runners t(X>k
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      Santee runs mile in 4 mm. 4.2 sec.
      45 16 WEs SANTEE of Kansas ran a TT 4min. 4 2sec. mile on Thursday, to break the 13-yenr-old Sugar Bowl rccoi d. Sugar Bow] offldali said it is the third f;istt"M mile eve»" *■""■"<■ < t— .m Anu'iir.m limner A.P.
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      WIND FOILS LANDY 4 MIN. MILE BID
      81 16 JOHN' LANDT, Australia's start mller, -(.ok 4 mln. i:i.B s.x. for the distance In winning race a( Kerang, 180 nule^ north o| Melbourne yesterday. Re dnished 120 yards ahead of bis nearest rival In a field „f tour Any nope of hi., breaking
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      CARD
      664 16 RACE 1 '3.30: CLASS 2, DIV. 2— 6 FIRS. 1 Sea dirt Bousoure 9.00 2 MM SaaffraM Russell 8.12 I 722 liaiiii* I Patrol Mulley 8.08 4 600 Windy orner Mawi 8.06 5 —i) < 'hfsti.ut Smith 8.04 6 9H4 Vaijiiit Boy Whitney 8.03 7 643 Thaumaturgy Mannint; 8.00
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        75 16 T)ERFECT physical fitness, strong f JL nerves and abundant vitality are the jU essentials for success m sports and '-^9 athletics. That is why so many of the lAv loading caches and trainers insibt on 1 Ovaltme as an essential part of the /7 J training diet for players and
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