The Singapore Free Press, 5 January 1954

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. V) *****, Singapore, Tues., Jan. 5, 1954. Price 15 t'ts
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    These Maoris are CHEERING
    41 1 These Maoris are CHEERING picture. These Maoris m Auckland, New Zealand are not being disrespectful. Decked out m their traditional costumes, they are giving the Queen an enthusiastic toelcome i?i front of the City's Town Hall during the Royal visit. A.P.
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    REDS CALL UP SIEGE GUNS
    291 1 Vietminh 's Ist artillery THE Communist Vietminh commander in Indo--1 China, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, is planning to make use for the first time of the artillery, which Communist China has supplied to him since the Korean truce, in the attack on Dien Bien Phu
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    TURPIN ASSAULTED ME. SAYS NEGRESS
    168 1 TURPIN ASSAULTED ME. SAYS NEGRESS BRITISH boxer. Randy Turpin. Amed the defendant m a US$lOO,OOO -\ut brought m a New by a woman who assaulted her. brought by Adele ident of Riverside she was the victim aults by the former leweight champion. fitly m her apart at. plaint, Miss Dasaid
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    GIRL SLASHES S'PORE GIRL WITH RAZOR
    93 1 A 15-year-old Chinese schoolgirl living m Maude Road. Singapore, was attacked near her home yesterday by two other young Chinese girls, one of whom slashed her with a razor. She was badly cut about the arm and right hand and sent to the General
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    Rubber Price
    24 1 Singapore Rubber Market opened steadily this morning with first grade, January shipment, at 57 cents a pound, onequarter cent above yesterday's closing.
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    Neguib expels Insulting' envoy
    173 1 Neguib expels Insulting' envoy p(iYPT last night expelled the Turkish Ambassador to iro, Mr. Hulusi Fuat Tugay, ><>r undiplomatic behaviour", iMd recalled its own envoy to Ankara Mr. Ahmed Hakky. Mr. Tugav, whose wife is a rmer Egyptian princess and a co/ m of ex-King rouk, recently criticised the suib
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    Promotion for Templer's No. 2
    67 1 MAJOR-General W. P. Oliver, Chief of Staff to the High Commissioner of the Federation of Malaya, is to be General Officer Commanding (British Sector) British troops m Berlin from March 1954, the War Office announced last night. Major General C. F. C. Coleman, the present
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    NEW POST FOR ENVOY
    21 1 Sir Geoffrey Wallinger, British Ambassador to Siam. has been appointed Ambassador and High Commissioner ki Vienna* j*
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    Leaning building to be jacked up
    209 1  - Leaning building to be jacked up SIT YIN FONG By A FOUR-STOREYED leaning l\ block of flats m Claymore Drive Singapore, is to be jacked upright with lorry jacks. The architect, Mr. Ng Keng Siang, yesterday said that the feat would be attempted for the first time m Malaya. He
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    BRITAIN GIVES $1½M TO VICTIMS
    104 2 of the worst fire m Hong Kong* history BRITAIN donated MSUJOO.OOO and the I'nited States M 5450.000 to the 60,000 squatters m llon« Kon£ who lost their homes m a Christmas Day fire. The fire, described as the worst m Hong: Kong's history, swept through
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    THE BIG SHAKE-UP AT THE YARD
    182 2 THE BIG SHAKE-UP AT THE YARD SIR John Not t -Bower London's 11 -year -old Police Commissioner, yesterday gave Scotland Yard its biugest s hake-up kn 20 years by switching more khan -M) men mound key jobs iii the city's 23 police division The Commissioner's cci campaign to policemen better
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    ATOM POOL TALKS
    58 2 The United Btatei Security ot State, Mr. Dulles, and .s<; V irt Foreign Minister, Mr v M Molotov probably will diacusa President Eisenhower's proposal f( r P«t« -time atomic energy when they meet m Berlin. The two may confer outside the conference proper whith will be concerned
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    Accused of mahjong murder
    121 2 Accused of mahjong murder MANILA'S prosecuting attorlfl nrv announced that Oaeai Casteio, former Defence and Juslire Minister m thr QuirilM <«<»vernment would be indntid (o,'|iv for the murder M Manuel Monroy. C astflo was alleged lo have ordered last June the assassi nation of Monroy uho was a i uitnrvs
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    GAOL BREAKERS RECAPTURED
    36 2 Forty Africans awaiting trial on various minor charges escaped from Nairobi remand prison. Kenya. m an organised break yesterday. Within 19 minutes they were recaptured and one wa.s shot dead by prison guards.
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    British 'go-slow' slowed up
    289 2 OKITAIN'S 3,000,000 ship building and engineering workers decided last night to postpone a threatened nation-wide go-slow which would have plunged the country into industrial chaos and damaged its export drive. Their leaders agreed by a majority vote to delay their action— timed for Jan. 18— until
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    DOUBTS ON BUTLERS STOCKPILE
    140 2 DOUBTS ON BUTLERS STOCKPILE Free Press Staff Reporter MR. A. F. TAYLOR, chairman of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, this morning said he had doubts about the success of any British natural rubber stockpile plan. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. R. A. Butler, at a press conference m Singapore
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    Ike: We Won't tolerate boom and bust U.S.
    355 2 Ike: We Won't tolerate boom and bust U.S. PRESIDENT Eisenhower yesterday promised that every legitimate means available to the Federal Govern. ment to sustain American prosperity would be used mi n 1954. He was making a nation-wide radio and television "address to the American people" preparatory to his presentation of
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    WORKLESS FISH FOR FLEAS
    179 2 WORKLESS FISH FOR FLEAS Strange World- ITNEMPLOYED at Ferrara. U Italy, are making a living fishing for water fleas m thi swampy delta of the River Po. The catch is sold m celophar.e packages on the world market Over 100 years nco a Xt brought back from China i mi
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      57 2 at 75 cents per tin of 1 Ib. nett Bun Bee Co. Ltd., Kirn Ann Co., M. S. Ally. Chop Siang Bee, Titzpatricks, Chop Chin Bee, Lim Khoon Heng, Eng Leong Chye Kee, Chew Nam Seng, Tcck y.o Co. Ltd., Naina Mohamed Sons Ltd. I m por te rs £o?>KIAN
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    Thy big hole in the pagar
    22 3 PICTURE shows the hole m the Katonf Park pagar. The swimmers arc boys from nearby school
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    30 ABSENT WORKERS WORRY SERANGOON
    245 3 30 ABSENT WORKERS WORRY SERANGOON Free Press Staff Reporter THE health of nearly 2,500 residents of Serangoon rural area m Singapore is threatened as a result of 30 scavengers not turning up for work for the last five days. They stopped their daily rounds of 300 houses m the area
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    Ingrid returns in cinemascope
    48 3 TNGRID Bergman will return to the screen In the role of Joan of Arc. Her husband, director Roberto Rossellini, said m Rome yesterday that he would film Arthur Honegger's dramatic oratorio Joan at the Stake m cinemascope, with Miss Bergman as Joan. A. P.
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    CONCRETE AGAINST SHARK DANGER
    218 3 Free Press Staff Reporter 'THE Singapore City Architect Department plans to rebuild the swimming pagar at Katong Park soon. The City Architect. Mr. W. I. Watson, .said yesterday it was planned to build a concrete enclosure because the present timber pagar was causing a '"lot of
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    Rubber plants: Buyers keen
    65 3 PRIVATE industry is showing keen Interest* *n the synthetic rubber facilities now owned by the U.S. Government according to reports m Washington. Representatives of bi^ rubber or petroleum companies, during the past few weeks, have been steady callers at office* of Rubber "Di-sposal Commission, the agency
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    Women taxi drivers now
    84 3 TWENTY-THREE men taxi drivers m Crewe, England, have asked the local council to ban the town's three women laxl driven. They say the job is not suitable for won en and there is »b« danger of them being molested— especially at njsht. One of the women
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    Holiday invasion ends
    103 3 Holiday invasion ends I ree Press staff Reporter HUNDREDS of Federation 11 t school students who "\nvaded" recently me this week In school*. re-open-ing nexl Wo: ay. here to spend their fraternize with my nts, th( m are from middle Pi nang, Perak. Seland Johore. accompanied these •se e\cu:sions have
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    Jap in Red unit for 5 years
    74 3 1 FORMER lieutenant m the Japanese army returned to yesterday irom China aboard the French M irs< Illaise after serving years with Communist tminh forces as a dentist. Maamaichi Oka. 39, said he s captured by the Ho Chi forces near Saison at
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    Navy base men may end vote boycott
    170 3 Navy base men may end vote boycott Free Press Staff Reporter rpHE 10.000 workers at the SinA gapore Naval Ba.se may end their boycott of Legislative Council elections. It begun m 1952 as a protest against the fact that Colony labour laws were not ai>pljed m the Admiralty area. An
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    5 CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE
    35 3 Five young children died yesterday In their flaming twostorey home -m Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Their mother leaped from a second floor window after a futile attempt to save them.
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      111 3 vaul^ climb the tree and bless tfie day these ££a/U<s Sandals came your way A NEW SHIPMENT OF "JOYANCE" SANDALS Brown or Blue Size 7— lOJ $10.50 "JOYANCE" SANDALS Brown or Blue ll— 1, $12.50 "JOYANCE" SANDALS Brown only 2- $15.50 "PLAY-UP" SANDAL Brown or Wh.te M 4- 7.70 "PLAY
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Jan, 5, 1954. Opinion
    411 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Jan, 5, 1954. Opinion SECRET SOCIETIES ON sunday, 20 secret society thugs set on a Singapore fitter, stabbed him and threw bottles at him as he lay wounded on the mound. On N w Year's Kve a Communist gunman walked Into the office of a
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    In Australia,—a Royal Barbecue
    584 4 In Australia,— a Royal Barbecue OTATE banquets and official receptions— that is what the Queen will have when she arrives m Australia next month. Bui I hope she is also invited to a barbecue. Any visitor v ill tell you that at no time are you nearer to open heart
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    Thank you, Sir Walter
    64 4 Thank you, Sir Walter a new version of the s Walter Raleigh ue^twe was ien during the Queen's official welcome at Auckland, New Zealand. Shortly after the ceremony opened it began to ruin. The deputy mayor took of] his own ram coat (above). The Queen [right) draped it over her
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    DEATH FOR MUTINEERS ONLY
    262 4 DEATH FOR MUTINEERS ONLY 'T*HE death penalty will m future be Imposed by Army and raf courts martial only for the most serious forms of mutiny U the recommendations Of a House of Commons Select Committee which have Just been published become law. The great change* m the last 250
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    Nobody likes ban on 'The Heart of the Matter'
    435 5  - Nobody likes ban on 'The Heart of the Matter' ROGER YUE INQUIRING CAMERA FINDS OUT »y SINGAPORE film-goers want the ban on the British screen version of (iraham Green's bestselling novel, 'The Heart of the Matter," lifted. "Should we be denied the chance of seeing this movie just because one
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    UNABLE TO ADJUST
    86 5 MR. p. k heRNON, organising >tary of the Singapore icil for Adult Education, a icturegoer: "I have read the book, enjoyand would most certain- forward to .seeing it oi" t:i > Teen. It, Graham Greene lys what happens to a )is unable to adjust to life m
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    Big win in 'homes race'
    51 5 DRITAIN has built 1.541.54? manent private n flats since the end I War 11. a government White Paper said last night. Local authorities put up 4 and private buildings remainder bttng actor by government dene: other sources. 300.000 target for 1953 exceeded by about 10.000.
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    MORRIS-OXFORD ENGINE TO GO
    54 5 British Motor Corporation, >I jitLs- Austin combine. is :ing 100 men and dropping ►rria Oxford engine under rationalisation move. d sldevahe Morris Minor has already given place Austin Seven overhead inlt m both vehicles. Now liar but larger fourlder overhead valve Austin engine will also °o
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    WAG TOASTS POLICE IN FAMOUS WINES
    153 5 ENG AH PATT WEVERAI blocks or unfinished '"^tony M.Us m Whitad, oil Thomson Road, tl><»i«' have been unofti;iwn the names oi 1 Ml liquors. il! house 131 families police constables and cost i UUon. Press reporter who ftsltt!l(l site, saw a name <l across
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    Why degrade the police ?
    178 5 Why degrade the police It will happen MRS. MIEKE SERRY, secretry: "I can't see vhy it should be armed. Events uch as those escribed m the tory will happen! .so why hould the pubc not *cc them on the screen. •What about really harmful films that depict and crooks? The^e
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    $700,000 SCHOOL FOR CHINATOWN
    265 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 NEW SIX-STOREY Chinese co-education school for the Hokkien Iluay Kuan is to be built at Telok Aver Street, Singapore. Plans for the $700,000 build ing have been approved by the Education and Health departments, and are now awaiting approval by the
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      143 5 J v F° r ercying or faded hair. Inecto hair tint wj yjw has a magical wav with it 5 Swiftly, \^\^f (ndetectably and tn one application V^ oerfectly matching aature's shades fjH S^\ tt Permanently restores the beauty V'/'^r'* of youthtui, natural colouring. Made Id 18 shades from deep
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      271 6 MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis STAR If earl .v i" life. v, Ml flt iyffu'y t(niti1 Job your own u.ll you M| S t t g -Si^^PM^^^M of personal MCffttec for' UM« you love. Tour marriage -honld be an e\<eptioni!h lnppy THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris
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    A BOGUS FILM MAN TOLD HEIRESS: 'I'LL STAR YOU'
    366 7 'Menace' is gaoledfor 7 years a BOGUS major who A posed m the West End, London, as a film director invited film stars to mpagne parties was need at the Old Bailey to seven years' preventive tention for cheating and riding
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    THIS MAN WON'TFORGET THE ELEPHANT
    148 7 who win never forphant, has returnirom a year's survey work remote parts of Africa to his m tiie outskirts of Lon- Francis Cunningham. -oU| surveyor, of Royal Bexlejheatfi, is the man the elephantine memory. rare experience of finding the body of a dead i lepbant.
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    Untitled
    67 7 picture. Mr. Aneurin Bevan. left-wing Labour MP, and his wile, Jennie Lee. enjoy an informal chat at the bedside of Egypt's Gen. Neffuib m Cairo. The Bevans were m Egypt on i visit as the guests of the Indian Ambasador, Mr. Panikkar. They had met several other leading members of
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    IF THEY ARE CRACKEDTHERE'S PERIL
    74 7 IF THEY ARE CRACKEDTHERE'S PERIL THE use of cracked cups and chipped plates in cafes and restaurants should be made illegal, says a London health authority. Southwards health committee said that food infection had been traced to cracked china. The committee points out that use of cracked crockery may be
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    A bang in the sky starts a search
    205 7 A bang in the sky starts a search A BANG a very loud bang startled Londoners between Whitehall and Wealdstone (distance: 11 miles). The sky-cracking explosion started police and firemen off on a string of fruitless searches and jammed police switchboards with demands for an explanation. The bang came at
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    FLIES IN COUGH MEDICINE
    55 7 For selling a bottle of cough mixture which contained flies. Boots Cash Chemists (Lancashire) Ltd., were fined £3 at Liverpool It was said that the mixture was liable to ferment and the flies ("harmless fruit {lies") might have got in through a small .space between the
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    £3 million man is in debt now
    272 7 £3 million man is in debt now AX Indian who gathered one of the greatest art collections in the United States has arranged for its transfer to new owners because he is in debt. The collection is worth at least £3.000.000. The Indian Is Thomas Gilcreese, of the Creek tribe,
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    OUT GOES 'LUV' AND IN COMES 'MADAM'
    152 7 OUT GOES 'LUV' AND IN COMES 'MADAM' COUPLE went into a restaurant for a meal. The husband ordered soup. And. the restaurant being m Huddersfield, Yorkshire, the waitress asked "Which soup would you like, luv?" The wife immediately coniplained to the manager against the "familiarity." And next day the waitresses
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      46 7 MX a jjk^m^, mf^F% JOld Fashioned! B 3 dashes Angostura. Crush sugar ORDCALVWT in oz° jgj^-^lp^jj lining, rour m I 2 oz. |\<^i^ Lord Calvert Canadian Wh.^ky and add a slice of lemon. li|| LOUD CALVERT Sole Agents fttaclaine Watson Co. Ltd. SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR PENANC.
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    SQUARE DANCING
    370 8  - SQUARE DANCING Roger Yue i > "Wipe off your chin, pull down your vest, Dance with the girl that you T H v w Ti C c startcd and member, of the J J.WXA Square Dance Club began their Chr.stmas Party night celebration at Rifles Quay There were lots of
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    Army gives A1 call-up boy pension after 72 hours
    452 10 TWO SPECIALISTS PASSED HIM I*WENTY-ONE-Y£ilß-OLD Thomas Kvans. it is now admitted, should probably never have been passed as fit at his call-up medical. But he was— and m category Now, after 72 hours' service m the Army, he has \wn given
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    It's love again for Ava
    183 10 It's love again for Ava AVA Gardner's dressmaker, Zoe Fontana, went to Ava's apartment m Rome yesterday to discuss son* new duds for her client. Here's Fontana's repart the first eyewitness account of the current status of the film star and her husband, ictor-singer Frank Sinatra. She said. "They're cooing
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    WIFE TRICKED HUSBAND INTO MARRIAGE -JUDGE
    270 10 WIFE TRICKED HUSBAND INTO MARRIAGE -JUDGE 4 Jl DGE held that a wife had tricked her husband into marriage by claiming he was the father of her expected baby. Mr. Justice Pearoe said at Leeds that soon after the chiid was 'uorn the husband was anxious to have a blood
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    A 'wonderful' mother gets babies back
    166 10 A 'wonderful mother gets babies back THE "wonderful mother" whose five X children were taken from her because they lived m a small caravan,, got them 1 back again. They wore taken away after an NSPCC inspector had .said all five— a<zed three 17 months, and triplets of six months—
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      39 10 HJHTWEffiffl RADIO MALAYA NEWS ALL THE BEST MS IBttO A BVA STING Full Programmes Isians Calling Home Music from Holland Classical music noles 9 Ckimmmm music* Film rmwimwm. Cartoons and *****. Picture* section PRICE 30 CENTS FROM ALL NEWSAGENTS
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    The Strange Power of Sophie Drucker
    1063 11  -  CONRAD PHILIPS WHAT WAS THE SECRET OF THE WOMAN FROM THE BLACK FOREST? by THE GHOST Of Sophie Drucker, they say. still walks m the woods of the gaunt Victorian mansion where she lived alone tor almost a quarter of a century. But then—
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      834 11 Bridge Talk >TC\VADAYS. there Ls considerable li perfect for the forcing jump k difference of opinion among ove i'' all lournament players m their use of ™c kind of example hands shown lt rtncle "imp overcall of an op- an advantage to the players ponent's opening one bid. What who
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      8 11 BUCKLEY I I GASOLINE I I ARpW] c
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    The Pressman's Postbag
    187 12  - The Pressman's Postbag B. THANDAPANI Fees too high m private schools SINGAPOREANS believe that »3 it is a U> m lafeeur to obtain a pJac m Government English schools 'Ihi.s year the efforts ol Chinese schools boys add strength to this belief. Due to the sudden slackness m the Colony's
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    Letters must be short
    28 12 J"! B SA^ DI J!f < """"»•> "i l«Chf lias, in hi.i l>ol and luche *al,,uih bmL. AImIuII.iI, who wen- married at Kumpom; Bitiru, KuaU Lumpur.
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    UNION OBJECTED TO PROMOTIONS
    348 12 ICCORDING to the Benham Report, promotions to special grade "IT 1 of the Hospital Assistants* Scheme should include "all officers m the time-scale whose work demands a greater degree of responsibility or technical knowledge together with officers of outstanding merit and ability for whom no vacancy
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    Any grouse?
    32 12 HAVE you .1 grouse? Have you a brisht idea? Have you seen anvthins stranue or unusual? Then write to th»- PRBBSMAN and tell others about it m his POSTBXd— hrieflv
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    City to improve Fort Rd.
    102 12 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City Council is Improving Fort Cunning Road. A steel fence has been t ed along the entire stretch on one side of the street. It is a narrow road and if a car went over the edge it wouid plunge
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    'TELL US HOW
    105 12 }fX-LORONG 32" writes that I friend "wa.s beaten up by a pack of five cowardly skunks, and after most of them were, rounded up by detectives they were just warned. I did not know that detectives have the power to take accuse 1 persona "m jeep for
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    SUSPENDED
    21 12 The Worid Bank announced yesterday that Czechoslovakia, has been suspended for failure to pay U*****,000 owing on her capital subscription.
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      239 12 f BOOK NOW AND SEE THE I f\ hly via Australia— to t rN Australia, beautiful New Zealand is iBSSjkK x holi(l:4v wonderland near enough s \Wuj&fc' l ven for lota leave. In less than a day's comfortable j^ J flight l>> big 1-engined < onstellation from Singapore, jK. f
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    TOO MUCH SECLUSION IS BAD FOR PEOPLE
    841 13 TOO MUCH SECLUSION IS BAD FOR PEOPLE says the SINGAPORE DOCTOR I WANT to ask your advice," began Mr. C. was a well-built, enerChinese with a smile for me whenever we met even when he had urticaria which swelled his face to twice its normal size. Now he looked serious
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    Map is work of art
    89 13 The work of Herman Bolman of Braunschweig. Germiny, proves that map making: can bean art as well as a science. He hag just completed detailed pic ture maps of Amsterdam, BUBkirg and Hannover. These pic tnre maps are true works of and arrangements are being:
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    NEW ATTACK ON THE HOUSEFLY
    424 13 NEW ATTACK ON THE HOUSEFLY LOS ANGELES. NEW SCIENTIFIC V .a tack on the housefly, imed to hit him m the tines, was reported to the Entomolouical Society America. 1 It rteu m the offensive W Imd out how the fly "nverts his food into enercv ceU building material. When
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    IT S TIME TO PICK MALAYA S SPORTSMAN OF 1953
    277 14 IT S TIME TO PICK MALAYA S SPORTSMAN OF 1953 Free Press readers make their choice f'KT READY, SPORTS FANS! YOU'RE ABOUT TO SELECT MALAYA'S v "SPORTSMAN OF 1953." VOTING OPENS TODAY. Readers are requested l<> vote for their choice' of sportsman who Ikis done llie mosl for local sport
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    Two more top drivers in new job
    140 14 FPWO mon of the wofld'j top 1 racing d Iv< Itched tine* iay m a widespread i iflU that will put new han thi heels Enzo Ft vi builder ol I cars that hi.-, name, ffoun hired A; enti ace Josi j tl
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    BASEBALL RECORD
    11 14 H Ori- i»n oi the ill LMgue A. P.
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    RUGBY UNION
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    Some names to help you
    256 14 'TO HELP you make your selection we give below a few x of the many outstanding sportsmen of 1953. You yourself may be able to think of many more. ANY Malayan sport.sman Ls eligible. i NEO CHWEE KOK. wh quailed the Olympic 100 m. time
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      88 14 JAN. W^ I fk I I PHONE: 2111 OPENING DATE OF THE NEW CATHAY HOTEL EVERY ROOM AIR-CONDITIONED WITH SHOWER I BATH i TELEPHONI RESERVATIONS NOW OPEN! The weekly issue of the STRAITS BUDGET can oe sent by Air Mail to any address m the United Kingdom at an inclusive
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    South Africa need 150 to save a follow-on
    385 15 South Africa need 150 to save a follow-on -AND ONLY 3 WKTS LEFT s^OITH AFRICA were 206 for seven at close of play m Capetown yesterday m reply to New Zealand's first innings total of 505. This is the third Test m the series between the two countries, South Africa
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    They didn't wait for prizes
    119 15 They didn't wait for prizes SINGAPORE Island ramblers, led by their captain, Kwa Chin Swee. staged a walk-out at the All-Malayan Cycling Carnival held on Penang's VieGreen. They did not stay to receive their prizes on Sunday nil iit. The Ramblers left after a dispute betweel Kwa Chin Swee and
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    BENAUD HITS 144 NOT OUT
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    21 15 IN a Tamil Festival league soccer match played at Fairer Park yesterday. Indian Brotherhood Soccerites beat Kamala ML. 4—2.
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    142 16 I*ill uoiKJiN. Arsenal's 22J yrur-oid centre-half, will captain a strong England wndi>r-2:s tram against Italy's Intermediate team at Bologna, on Jan. 20. Inlands iPain: R;iy Wood f.Man- >■<■ uni ed, ipd 212 > PhM Ounter (Vortsmbuth, 21); and Ellis' (Charlton A b 12); Jelf
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    BARTH GOAL
    50 16 CABLE and Wireless beat a Singapore Recreation Club hockey XI by one goal to nil on the padang yesterday. Ronnie Rart'n and John Martens were outstanding m the Cable and Wireless defence. The winninp; t»oal was .scored by Barth from a short coiner just I before half time.
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    75 16 The All-Malaya Malays badminton championships for 1954 will be held m the Nan Chiang Hi u h School Hall rauag, on Peb. 3 and 4. Entries with entrance feo of $3 must reach Che Ahmat Indot Botanical Laboratory, Department of Agriculture. Kuala Lumpur, not later than
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