The Singapore Free Press, 14 January 1954

Microfilm: NL2438
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    Masthead
    21 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. i .:■<!•.. 'm i poi f. ThurN.. Jan. 14, 1954. Price 15 Cts,
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    FEED US FIRST -ASIA
    224 1 FEED US FIRST -ASIA Ceylon plea wins at Sydney Blunt C'wealth talk THK Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting m Sydney yesterday accepted Ceylon's plea for urgency m developing Asian areas. The case was put by that country's representative. Sir Oliver Goonetilleke. Dollar ca pital with the backing of the Canadian Government
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    Army now seeks top Malayan Reds
    210 1 RECRUITS FEWER BrADIER K. R. Brazier Creagh, Army Chief of Staff said m London yesthat Britain now had ular objectives m the against the Commun- ts killing as many as the top men and he surrender rate. iress to the Royal :e Institution, he
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    Rubber price
    17 1 '""<' Rubber Market quietly this morning I Krade, January ship«.s 8 cents a pound, from yesterday's
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    15 DIE IN THE SNOW
    53 1 Aldbury, Hertfordshire, Fifteen of th e 16 occupants were killed. The" plane was taking an RAF ruffby team back from ;i match. The cold light of a January morning shines on a scene of tragedy the wreckage of an RAF transport plane which crashed m
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    5 nation meet in Colombo
    104 1 PRIME Minister of Ceyvho arrived m Karachi "d the proposal for I" 1 1 of nve Asian Prime i to make the world Istence of 600.000,--1 I he would discuss the conference of the ••"-t<-rsof India. Pakis-mdo-China and the Pakistan pre- mie r during hi.s
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    7 SECRET SOCIETY MEN ATTACK
    200 1  - 7 SECRET SOCIETY MEN ATTACK ROGER YUE. By SECRET .society gangsters struck again m Singapore yesterday. This time, their victim was a Hokkien hawker who was mauled by seven men at Upper Aljunied Road, m front of the Traction Company depot The thugs set on him with heavy iron rods
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    COUPLE ROBBED
    41 1 A Chinese courting couple were robbed of $35 m cash ami a $15 pen by "unman whilo sitting m v parked car at 10.35 last night. The robber and mis accomplice threw away the cuiia L^nittou Key Oelore fleeiatj.
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    No strike by M.P.H. printers: work today
    327 1 No strike by M.P.H. printers: work today 14 jr;ss4 fTMIK 75 printers who threaten 1 ed to come out on .strike at the Malaya Publishing House. Singapore, thi.s morning, offered late la.st night to work on under the in.stiuctions" of Urn company All the men were at work this morning.
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      49 1 B I? y^fc *y UNCHAM's W r^s No meaf /s complete without the delightful flavour 0f LINGHAM'S Chilly Sauce A Mild Piquant Relish Appetiser jj^jjjii nAUun ltd yy Branches m Mala/a. Sarawak. B. N. Borneo and Thtiland PN t waugh a CO i~t~o hi nm r waugm co i»O«
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    SEVERE TRADE WAR BY JAPS-WARNING
    378 2 Expand resources, Butler urges THE British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Bailer, calling on Commonwealth countries to earn their own way and stand on their own feet said m Sydney yesterday, "We will be faced with severe competition particularly from Germany and Japan/ 1 Addressing
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    U.S. refuses contract to Britain
    121 2 U.S. refuses contract to Britain It. MUD STATES Interior Department officials sai<i yesterday th.it bids by an Knglish and M .Austrian Urn were passed by and a contract Riven to IVflltinjhtlllf Electric Corporation of Pittsburgh for a 230- Kilowatt transformer lor a power project m Oregon. The lion tie ville
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    AMERICA WARNS ITALY
    143 2 THE United States Govern meni Is planning a tougher policy to prod Italy into sterner measures against the growing power ol net Communist Party. The us. Ambassador, Mrs Claire Boothc Luce, has be* 1 1 authorised to arivi.se the nev. Italian Government, when it la formed, that
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    50 warships in mothballs
    69 2 50 warships in mothballs rpiiK us. navy announced I yesterday thai 50 warships will t>€ laid up to meet the re dticed budget tor the y*ur tartlng on July 1. The cruiser Qulncy, now at L/tng Brach. California, naval shipyard, will b<- the nrst o| major vesseli returned to th»'
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    India Navy cadets had Red papers
    134 2 FIVE INDIAN Navy apprentices under training with the Fleet Air Arm m Britain have been 1 exiled home because of adverse reports."' a Defence Military spokesman said yesterday m New Delhi. The spokesman declined to elaborate but added the men were under naval detention
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    Man in icebox cuts off beer
    210 2 i E33E12n*****8- A KKIWIRMAN locked m a refrigerator m the base A^ ment of a tavern m St. Louis, Missouri, IT.Sl T .S summoned help by cutting off the flow of beer to th bar upstairs The trapped workman. Robert Moon*, .shouted and beat
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    Neiv singboards up
    32 2 picture left," and Reminder—Speed Limit. 30 m.p.h. along the Holland-Napier roads. .\s part >>; their wat road hogs, Smqapore Truffle police yesterday lined up sinnboivds bearing: "X( Fr -c i
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    HAXWORTH'S DRIVE AGAINST ROAD HOGS
    143 2 THE Traffic Police war on Singapore's road hogl is on Latest move is a lons line of signboards along Napier-Holland Koads to slow them down. Mr W. R. M. Haxworth, the Traffic Police Chief, said that it was a campaign to remind motorists to observe
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    RUSSIANS TOLD: LET'S TAKE TO JAZZ
    197 2 RUSSIA'S most popular dance band leader. Leonid Utyosov. wants the country to take to jazz and swing. The Kremlin has allowed Leonid to write m the magazine Soviet Music and condemn old-time dances, which were strongly encouraged by Stalin. I The Kremlin has also
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    POCKET CARTOON
    29 2  -  OSBERT LANCASTER *>> ''And now, Comrades, the People's Melody Makers will play the great new Soviet song hit How much is that doggie m the Co Operative? 1
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    US may sell butter to Reds
    180 2 US may sell butter to Reds RI'SSIAN bread nu> V »prud with bargain priced Amrrican butter if the United SUta government approve! i hunt sale of surplus goodl U the Soviet bloc The State Department **H Washington jresterdaj it li discussing with the < onunfm and Agriculture 1>« partment? whether
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    ON HIS WAY BACK TO CHINA
    38 3 picture. I(r HOON NEW, a s j labourer, with his possessions on his »houlder, i« ready to ?o aboanl hjn at Tort Swettenhan* lo return with many others to hina. -Free Press
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    HELLIWELL'S AT IT AGAIN
    187 3  -  S 'pore gin this time By Koger Yue 4 K THI X Helliwell. the "MonA key Brains" journalist, has l«| the Singapore public mad a»ain Writinf from a Mau-Mau out- p.i»t m Nairobi. Helliwell says: j Tnlikt Singapore, which is mile- away from the jungle war
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    NYLON WOLFCALLS IN SPORE OFFICES
    276 3  -  G. T. BOON By DV AND LARGE, Singapore working girls know how to dress for comfort and attraction without sacrificing decency, business executives and shop owners said yesterday. But there can be no set fashion for office wear for women, they said. It is largely
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    $15 mil. for Red China
    38 3 OINGAPORK Chinese last year sent $15,500,000 to relatives and dependants m China. This was one of the biggest yearly totals. The Colony remitted more than the whole of Federation. Mhich sent $13.145 969.
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    WAR MINISTER
    57 3 Minuter, Mr Anleft London ywter- < ek*a visit to troopi Man terrorists m picture. '•fiord Holliday (left) U.M. town planning t -oiiMiltaiit Chmlf with Mr. J. M. Fraser. MttMfef of the Sm\*"t Improvement Trust and Mr. T. H. 11. Hanroik. architect of the P.W.D, duriiu: a tea party
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    THEY'LL LEND IF SCHEME'S RIGHT ONE
    127 3  -  JOSEPH YEO By lill Colonial Development or|H>ration will consider giving loans to suitable industrial or agricultural projects m Singapore. A .spokesman said the CDC bad already financed .sever, il industrial projects at its 51-acre (Mate m Bukit Timah Roi»'i. The e.state was brought three
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    EGYPT EXPELS PERSIAN LEADER
    54 3 Sayed Nowab Safoy. leader ol the Per.sian Fedayan Islamic Religious Society, has seen ordered to leave Egypt m the immediate future, it was learned m Cairo last night, Saloy. who arrived m Cairo two day* ago as guest of tne Muslim Brotherhood, dissolved yesterday, is at
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    USE CAGES OR ELSE NO LICENCES
    201 3 USE CAGES OR ELSE NO LICENCES CINC.APoRF: City Council ha* told the Hawkers' Union that the Registrar ol Vehicles Department na« been authorised to Issue SOC handcart licences for fish hawkers' barrowa ;ui-i mobile, poultry cages. Under B Council ruling, hawkers must only sell rnh and poultry from approved types
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      68 3 i XI /V i N 'i tT*' B BEAUTY PREPARATIONS Glamo-Tint $3.25 Dusting Powder $2.25 $5.50 S P 3cia! lotion S 3.50 11.75 Bath Salts $6.50 Cleansing Milk $2.50 8.50 Skin Perfume $5.50 $6.75 Skin Tonic $2.50 $8.50 Skin Soap Tablet 1.75 Fate Powder 2.25 &S 4.00 Bath Soap Table
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    ThesingaporeFreePress THURSDAY Jan 14 1954 Opinion A SENSIBLE PLAN
    468 4 ThesingaporeFreePress THURSDAY Jan 14 1954 Opinion A SENSIBLE PLAN THK Hit son pay discu.s- sioiis have been dragging on for so long that at times it seemed that the Singapore Government and its expatriate employees on the one hand and Asiatic stall on the other would never get down to
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    The 'Men of Munich' Were RIGHT
    910 4 The 'Men of Munich' Were RIGHT The recent deaths of Lord Norwich *nd Lord Simon, respectively n critic of the Munich agreement with Hjler m 1938, uud a supporter, recall the controversy that still surrounds the policy o) Britain's Premier at the outbreak of war, Mr. Xcvillc Chamberlain. I ORD
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    THOSE GROUSES TO EDUCATION DEPT.
    226 5  -  P. L. KOH Heads to parents: Talk th ings over first By picture. SINGAPORE head teach ers said today: "What's the use of having parentteachers' associations if fathers and mothers are to jjo over our heads to higher authority. A Government primary school principal said:
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    5,000 WERE TURNED AWAY FROM SCHOOL
    207 5  -  P. M. RAMAN By |)K!\ 1 1; schools m Singapore are cashing: m on the inability of Government to provide primary education for all seven-year-old children, t imated that nearly who will be seven x: two or three months -t t admission to .school
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    INDIAN MINISTER DUE IN S'PORE
    42 5 Finance Minister. Mr n Deshmukh, is due to ;apore an Monday ending the Commoninance Ministers' conin Australia Indian Chamber of Comentertaln him to Sot X"* nhsht at tlie :i; «'Ukh is .scheduled to i moraine for India.
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    INDIA'S BID TO GET LOCAL MARKET
    110 5 INDIA 'S BID TO GET LOCAL MARKET INDIA is to make a itrOOf bid to rapture the Malayan mar ket for manufactured goods, especially electrical appliances, glassware, plastic and leatnei goods, steel and wooden furniture, and even steel She has so tftJ been content tending mainly textiles il *pices, and
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    The rat's bite is the most unlucky
    164 5 The rat's bite is the most unlucky Free Press Staff Reporter CONSERVATIVE Chine.se still V; believe X i* bad luck for anyone to be bitten by an animal, said Singapore experts on Chinese .superstitions yesterday. They were commenting on a report' that a Chinese boy recently had one of his
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    28 REDS GAOLED IN CAIRO
    36 5 Twenty-ei^ht people convicted -of conducting Communist i>n>naganda m Cairo were sentenced on Tuesday to «4a<»l terms ranging from live years to m years and fines of from v;:> 0 to €100.
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      317 5 I \H II 1 I I) HI Wli COLONY OF SINGAPORE. TMf MOTOR vehicles (M CtSTKATION ANO LICf MSING) auLis. i«« (R«l« 24.) F«na Wiwfcir 1 APPLICATION PO« A LICINCC *>-"l tM r«f<«(«ft4 «wo«f o/ motor v*Htd« NwrnWr *99*f for Uc«ac« (»r iwcK ««wr v«Mcl« for Urn f*rt«4 W m<—*h*
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    IN LIGHTER VEIN
    59 6 Waiter: H;.\< you I sausa < f sir? Diner: Yei and guilt) Fred: Don't you I ything but hor» Tom: Gocc: hei then to tnlnk young Arthur: i v< at last, Dad. It'a and 1 jjj a man who i married 20 year*. rather: Splendid! start a^^vw.y
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      183 6 MANDRAKE, THE MACICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs r I f ~< "^p^a I vv'^^^^S^^fc 7*o ceu«ei\N& oo*ee. LCtPSPI w&far.i t&£&\ -~z puluoh' *****0 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris r\YWM§r Xl SEE SOTHf THIFVES"IW YOUC AND THAT MAKEsTsO LON6 AS fvOU NEEPNT WOCRV ABOUT
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      510 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR H OI{N 2^i, (ln magnetic pe,so, M ilv ir«WI people o f »»'"n you to. In fact. x,, m popularity could eve real handicap for Z >»urself surround, d h f ld many people Mfcia. V(1( that you have f a i,,, to devote to >„,„• M
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    TO MOON AND BACK IN 5 DAYS
    347 7 TO MOON AND BACK IN 5 DAYS 25,000 m.p.h. trip WE shall probably first send an unmanned rocket to the moon to take photographs and send them back. That is what is being planned m the scientific world today," Dr. John G. Porter, the principal scientific officer of the Royal
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    TWO DIORS (AND THE 'TREASURE') VANISHED
    181 7 TWO DIORS (AND THE 'TREASURE VANISHED MAJOR GENERAL ERIC BOLS and hi.s wife are getting m therr Bayswater, Lonflal without the best of bed linen, without Mrs. Icwclt, without a bottle and a dozen eggs. vanished with (heir new- sure." A ilv help ImprMMd the f* nil wife. She railed
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    Hot one child killed in 31 months
    258 7 LO.S DON'S SAFEST BOROUGH VI) children have been killed m the streets of London's most densely populated borough for the second successive year. :n Islington they were that the chief life-savers Billy Beacon and a Alsatian, known M telepathic dog. Islington's safety "i>
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    WAH WAH RIFLES
    24 7 W AH WAH RIFLES '••ordnance factory at ih Punjab, is producing SfiSJI rif l e ammuni Ida Amir Azam Khan. for Defence said yester-
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    Thief gives back money to cripple
    71 7 MOST of the t2OO snatched frorr a crippled boot repairer has been returned. It was sent by registered post to the Birkenhead, England, address where the attacked man, 53--year-old William Edward Giles, has his business. All the stolen notes were there. The thief had
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    E. German army cut
    140 7 rpHE Soviet High Command. A which before the Berlin riots last June aimed at putting 150,000 East German.s into uniform, has changed its mind and reduced the armed forces there by 30.000 m the past six months According to the latest figures available In London, East
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    'Progressive India
    35 7 picture. Follow my iraster yes, but no t on foot. If he rides so shall I. Equality for quadrupeds. I s ay. After all India is a progressive country these days.- Paul Topper
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      29 7 IYouil like this i£?Tt%s oin ootn 3k s I 1 f* A -r-y^,, "M^T \^^^3^B Burnett While Sjtin' Ciin i» »nc MACLAINE WATSON CO.. LTD. Singapore Kuala Lumpur Penang
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    GUARDIANS OF PUBLIC SA
    193 8  -  ALL possible measures.are taken to <*« transport services. sait ?uard Twice yearly, before licences ire s v are thoroughly examined at the Mecrum, i V" 11 Vehicles' Office m Middle Road Vch-dc Ctl severe than m other countries, includ nj tV",^ Most affected are lorries and
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    TY
    122 9  -  >~ j. übhc Ufl* (hides j City \^K, more Hj Australia. Jlßrv. c tc ♦our Use Rc_gH r two mrr vinicles ■d^ to the ..ct.-ippcd |d j fr r f the LgfiTni vch»cle TTERELL A view of the yard m the Singapore Vehicles' Office where owner s wait for
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    QUEUE TO GIVE SKIN TO SAVE MINERS
    190 10 QUEUE TO GIVE SKIN TO SAVE MINERS fWVOL story of Bedwas ki IoW 1 tii. week hi the formal phrMej of a British Fuel Ministiy publication Behind them h- 1 a record of courage, comradeship, and .skill which gave b<* -k to M miners their full IIVf.S On Uie night
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    HE COULDN'T STAND SIGHT OF POLICE
    117 10 HE COULDN'T STAND SIGHT OF POLICE KOHMtI Joumier is m i Paris hospital with a bullet m his leg, because he is allergic to policemen. Robert, .'{2 years old, saw two policemen while he was saying "Good night" to friends. He cried out and ran away. The policen en eha>ed
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    When son goes to a better school than father did...
    413 10 When son goes to a better school than father did... THK young ton or daughter is getting a much better education than his parents had. Just what does that mean m terms of family relationships? That was the problem a professor talked about recently. Said Professor M. V. C. Jeffreys.
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    Car men grab cash, aems
    90 10 AIODDLE-AOED woman w:»s robbed o\ her handbag containing £250 diamond bracelet, i *;"><) locket md eaih, l n St. Albany Road Kentish Town. Mr> Pauline Bruner tv on her wuy home when tw men jumped from .1 moving car, hit her <> n the head,
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    TRIPS TO COTTAGE -LADY B. TELLS
    361 10 rpWENTY-Five-Year-Old Lady (Barbara) m stepped into the witness-box at Marllx, court. London, and denied that she had an arrangement" with a man to give him 11 1 his keep. The man. 22-y, Summers Jennings Terrace. Queens was accused with of .stealing from I B
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      63 10 The weekly issuo of the STRAITS BUDGET < J sent by Air Mail to any address m the United Kin«a«" at an inclusive rate of C O A f\f\ If you want the "BUDGET' while on leave or b to make an "Air-subscription on behalf of y»» r \Z olTi<e
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    'From Here to Eternity'
    1668 11 From Here to Eternity THE STORY OF THE FILM LihKOKANT WARDEN would have worried more about the |f he hadnt had his concern*. He and Karen to meet m dingy honkytonks where they could be rare no officer who knew Captain Holme* would .see them sonic time*, when slumming parties
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    Bridge Hand
    216 11 5 ONE ol 1.11. Master Di k fav< vi n- hands. Dck unt duplicate game* and lessoni m typical smallghok ol bridge, York. where hia own enthu- great game evokes like monj hia fellow lowns- things guided Dick to th» play on this \\e-.A One b feelinj thai
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      115 11 Todays Crossword ■■■I Mm^MHr I T J3 I Hl^l ■^^B IBM l Mixture 11mm n»»3 bi f< u»d ii fabric. <7» a D*-i i different 11 A salary In which 1 fi* 12 In a balanc« she< I edn 5». is it (i< esn'i j?ivt i m n (5). 19
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      83 11 Hi;.; In book 'ii» em i7j. 13 Hii ris< > ttei <;.t/,« i 4 h'' I It U] 16 II brawl c« mj i a coat Frenchman who is < > i I Hi Ij I -oi i no* ni..: 02 ii (urn i < u«g i'j i inajajf^ El
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    IS IT A ROAD OR STREAM?
    78 12 IS IT A ROAD OR STREAM? I*KI- :< >] Road «>l! I> > ,i road ii i i Could the ftuthu v \p.;*:n ■am*-*:, r 11 v i i waterway! Ho i otu thini thoi rh» m perplexing motorUi i pa** there Pise us Siagapt c. Si c 0/ traffic.
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      DRAMATIC OMISSION
      263 12 VnrK picture page last feai twic< carried newt of two local productions gtaged at St. Patrick* School. Singapore the Passion Play and the Nativity PJa* Hen i i a«u i.tttin surpil— d to note ':i rt if. jaii Grant's review o; local drunin :<•• l!o3 no mention will
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      BULLDOZER HIT MINE: ONE KILLED, 3 HURT
      59 12 A US soldier was killed and three othen Injured seriously I when their bulldoter int .He xploded .m old land mine neai Pumui, Korea Mil DOUGLAS j .1. tint «*i:tc:i md Miss. I rr<! i I' hi Itin c n < iMici'iiti) uho
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    Place of sex in marriage
    418 12 \IK. Kanulas says I have »ot my biology all wrong, and have "confused the word love with lust. He is referring to a remark I made In a previous letter. 1 I wonder if hv can be made to realise facti a* they arc or
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    KATONG WEDDING
    24 12 MX. TONY Richards of the Singapore Harbour Board Police and Miss Myka K<Klrißiies who were married at the Kat— f atholic Church.
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    SITTING ON IT
    68 12 IN .spite of d letter published m your IMUC of Oct 8 la.st year neither the Health Department nor the City Council did anything for the residents m the unhealthy .section of the 8 I T estate at Redhill Road Singapore I appeal to the City Councillors
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    Any grouse?
    35 12 JI ANK y°u s srouse? v <* ><>v v bright •neu Have you si en any thins str*n?e or unusual? Then write to the PKKSSMAN llul tell others about it m his POSTBAG— brierty.
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    HERALD KING OF ARMS DIES
    55 12 Sih Arthur Cochrane who publicly proclaimed the Queen's accession to tiie throne m February 1952 died m London on Tuesday. Sir Arthur. 81. was Clarenceaux King of Arms. Herald King of Southern England, from 1928. He was responsible for the organisation of state ceremonies and
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    FORCEFUL OFFICIALS
    120 12 J FULLY endorse the statements made by your two correspondents regarding the over-bearing manner and the bullying attitude adopted by th testers m Singapore towards "L'" drivers. To quote from mv own experience baftdas having my leu slapped for lilting r hf dutch I had my head pushed
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    Tripping up the S. American way
    166 12 Tripping up the S. American way nAVL re d Kwrtl letter* v 1- your paper on dancing I fee they should not bTSiiS without comment. P d I entirely agree with p r r* sjonal Dancer" when he vk that we cannot compare RenS xtyle of dancino with thi? pan
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    A Casanova Goes Off To Sea
    714 13  -  George Malcolm Thomson ft -^s^ Thomson reviews the story of A.^^fF mf/7 young naval lieutenant with mor C spirit than morals 62!5====*L by tUGI'STUI HKKVEVS JOI'R- him her. nAUSE before you conI demn too harshly the olute life to which istus Hervey conm his
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    IN BRIEF
    483 13 BOUND ABOUT INDIA. BY JOHN SEYMOUR. FVRF. AND SFOTTIBWOODB. Unconventionally arriving In South India us one of the crew of an Indian sailing boat. Soymou" spent a jreai drifting about the subcontinen*. visiting Ine Syrian Ch:istaina, the White Jews of Cochin, Uie deepp.s* gold-mine m the world, and
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    Saved by the 'Phoney' War
    540 13 R.A.F. HAD TIME TO BEAT THE GERMAN "BLIND" BOMBERS "Ko.val Air Konv IMi-4ft" HIM. Stationery (MB**) l»> l>« -hk Ki< hards and Hilary MGtMVi Sander*. LONDON. AS darkness fell on the night of June 21. 1940. an old twin-engined An son took off from Wytoo
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      65 13 w—^— EMBASSY moU_ w"w.CT-yw;w<sripg4 1 :>iii \ss^ 110 1 1:1. 4€, METER ROAD, SINGAPORE, TEL. si ».,i 1 THE NEAREST HOTEL FROM THE KALLANG URPORT DANCING NIGHTLY i:\ii:.\sio\ im 1.00 m. h»-i-.»i. CHAMBERS TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY as the best l>i« tiim.iM m th«- maiktt t«» s«>l\«- \our Cf— BWeWI Pttlle.
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    Preparing for Potnpey
    43 14 photo. Training j,,r Pomp.v MtMfeweifbt Bohhy l>aw*on of the I'nited States finds tree -felling and log -chopping a Jjreat help m hi.s pre»>antimis tt» meet v ndefeated Yolande Pompey of Trinidad over ten rounds at Nottingham on January 25.- -Keuter
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    The masters' go back to school
    491 14 By GEORGE CHANDLER C^NGLJBH soccer players J B no longer "Masters'" Ol th< Lr:me m which they ha\ H n supreme for the pas; i-(i years. This cold fact has been made crystal as the year 1953 dose* on one of the most disastn
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    HIGHLAND CAR RALLY
    113 14 iw i*m Internationa] Scot--1 ktoh Rally wil] be raced n Juni T-ii over a 1 400- mile route with a night section c thrown m to make things tough. The rally begini ;t t oiasso 1 md wmd.s through tiio central r< md northwestern highlands for .1
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    $550,000 SPENT ON NEXT ASIAN GAMES
    672 14 $550,000 SPENT ON NEXT ASIAN GAMES 11 Competitors will live at Varsity Special report from Manila PREPARATIONS for the second Asian (James m Manila nexfl -May 1-9 are proceeding smoothly. Organisation of the Asia-wide Olympic-style meet being left to Philippines officials, who are doinn -\t rything possible for the comfort
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    ARTIE'S HEADLINE
    12 14 "W/iac make* y On think i m a French horsey
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    BRADMAN'S SON SCORES 77 RUNS
    79 14 JOHN' Oradnian. M son of Ml Donald Bradman, rormer Australian Test Captain, made hit highest Oi 77 yesterday. John who w»t ;t 'polio' p^tien: II o. w;,s playing In Mi secon« K»nw In bt| cricket. He lookeo every inch batsman while playina [or Kensington m
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    PLANS FOR THE NEXT DAVIS CUP
    207 14 r TWI N ew South VV.ii^ Lin 1 A Tennis Association is tlretdi i making elaborate plam to gtaa the next Davis Cup Challenge Round at Rushaitter Bay mU m Sydney. A senior official of th* Avoeiation m Sydney recentlj that the plan Included
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    17-YR-OLD SETS SWIM RECORD
    55 14 Pam Singleton. 17 -ye**" New South Wales ba«; stroke swimming chai up an Australian record c minutes 47.6 sees women's 220 yard> backstroce^ a special attempt In Sy nijiht. The new Drum are 5.2 faster than the previous w» set m 1933 by 8.r.r..- Mea an
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    GERRY ISAAC THE HERO IN CUP DEFENCE
    303 15 Singapore keeps the Aw trophy Free Press Special Correspondent SINGAPORE youth boxers retained the Aw Cheng 3 (hye trophy by one point last night m Perth scoring 36 points to Western Australia's 35. There was a tremendous amount of excitement rht up to
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    Results
    134 15 IJ-hSI I/IS i Siiif:.i|iurr kIWI ni< iilioiu-d lust i Abdul A/i/ Ml llurum (h'Jlb) bt K«ii (o<»p#'r iTXlbi. K. Isaac I'Mlhi lost to Jimm> Kcttan (S!Hb). L Ahrvisckai a 1 901 b) bt Johnny lialwell ('H)lb) on a walkover. Sio» Watt hoon < *»71b) bt Don Leonard MHIb R.
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    Signals in Anchor Cup semi-final
    244 15 Signals in Anchor Cup semi-final l-MV Boxing Reporter Signal Regiment enU red the semi-finals of the ore Base District Interteam boxing competition ight \uch an 18 points to victory over Ist SingaResjt. Royal Artillery at lin gymnasium. Us won seven of the 11 two of them by knock- Pedley was
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    ROOTHOOFT WINS TITLE
    113 15 R Root hoof tOl France Pag< Fl:sb»rg of Sweln the final of the mtn'a ol the French open tabl■•hampion.ships m ParW v by 21-14. 21-20. 14-21. Worn of Austria beat reigning world champion Roseantl of Rumania RnaJ of the women's '■>'■ 21-17, 12-21, 21-17, 21 19. von
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    West Indies Test team
    73 15 FRANK KING and Frank Worrell are both unfit tc play and have been omitted from the West Indies team tc meet the MCC touring side Is the first Test starting at Kingston tomorrow. The team is: J. B. Stollmeyer < Captain M. Frederick, G. E. Gomez,
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    NAVY BEATEN
    19 15 Civil Ber'ice beal Royal Navy b\ 8 points to Mute 111 B UK RugD] Union matcli yestewlaf.
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    S.C.C. 'A' change tactics
    358 15 S.C.C. 'A' change tactics fc.C.l 19; ALL BLUBS 3. SOLIDITY among the forwards and opportunism behind 1 enabled Singapore Cricket Club j "A" to .score a sweeping 19 .points (two goals two tries and a penalty goal* to throe points < try victory over the All Blues I yesterday on
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    Navy lose in the water
    220 15 Navy lose in the water Free Prrss Ku«by Reporter Army ">; Royal Navy 0. VFTER yesterday's defeat a! the Naval Base th«- Royal Navy find themseWei wooden* spoontsts m the toter-S< rvic< series of rugby fixture. But both teams might have wished for a wooden spoon yesterday .0 help them
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    FARNLEY PLEASES AGAIN AT B. TIMAH
    635 16  -  ALLAN LEWIS Rims 3 m 37 l on slow track ».v LMKNLKY (Vine?) was again the outstanding gallnpei 1 :it r.ukit Timih this morning, when Saturday ru. :ners did thHr final gallops on the No. grass track, which was again slow after yesterday afternoon's
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    Siom Rice impresses
    150 16 Spwrtor »m not „t hls to run (hire m si ;un Ki«e (Wahab) work* better i thto morning when he vu „,nuomfortably to run three In 18 4 ■-> T, VI l il x Slwv ri •&*> wtU i l)n A t'«'ii running three In the mom
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    'Good luck Mabel'
    50 16 Onto .1 P;ti:lur wishes Mabel Hajrei die i>est of link .iiid present! her with i xMivcnir table tomiis bat. Mal»e| is leaving the olony today by the U'illem Kuys tor Mnijland. where •he will take part m the Mst. World Table Tennis Championships uhirh beUin In April.
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    She trained hard for this tourney
    168 16 She trained hard for this tourney SINGAPORE uiil hare tWO repre.H'ntutii es at the 2 1st World Table Tennis Championships to be held at Wembley Stadium, England, beCuecn April 6 to 14. They ac Mr. John Clarke, ucepresident of the Singapore Tuble Tennis Association and Mrs. Mabel Hayes, former AUtn&ia
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    ALL BLACKS WIN
    29 16 i try In the las the touring We Rusbi I nion 'earn to defe v M terday by two tries istx >ne try i three i>oiti!->'
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    Teams battle in mud and rain
    312 16 THERE were thrills and spills as players slithered and floundered m water and mud m most of yesterday's Football Association Cup third round replays Torrential rain oefoiv tlu> start and a persistent drizzle water-logged the pitch at Fulham where the match with Grimsbv wras
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