The Singapore Free Press, 25 January 1954

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. v> 1.'.'l Singapore Mon., Jan. 23, 1954, Price 15 Cts.
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  • 437 1 TOP US. WRITER IN CRASH Jungle hunt far Hemingway SMALL Cessna plane carrying the novelist Mr. Ernest Hemingway and his wife came down near Murchison Falls, where the River Nile plunges 400 feet down through a rocky chasm m North-West Uganda, yesterday. The couple's fate is unknown. At first it
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  • 51 1 After a kidnap escape A.P. picture Leonard Moskovitz, 36. a real estate broker of Sail Francisco, is greeted with a kiss from father (at right) aftrr being his freed by police from kidnappers, who tried to hold him to a SSOD.DOO- ransom recently. Two men have been
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  • 85 1 Druggist robbed: 6 arrested ORE police arrested six .v><)ii after six men late last night Chinese druggist m X it R lK id. r >bbers, all armed with trussed up the druggist. Han Seng and his two They were bound hand and gagged. »h and his family had already t>ed
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  • 28 1 P officials yesterday •Id worth £135.000. when ''d Me headquarters ot I of .smugglers m Central Borne of those arrested wt .old fastened to Reuter
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  • 14 1 l»ue of the Free Pres> v a free eight-pa^-New Year Supplement, i
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  • 23 1 Singapore Rubber Market opened quietly this morninff with first grade. February .shipment, at 54'} cents a pound unchanged since Saturday's close.
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  • 125 1  -  SIT YIN FONG By rWO masked robbers shot their way out of trouble early this morning, when they were surrounded by angry Villagers m Yio Chu Kang Road, Singapore. They had forced their way into a Chinese farmer's house only to find that the occupier
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  • 65 1 SPAIN OFFERS SELF-GOVT. TO MOROCCO SPAEN lias told the Arab countries she will offer self govenunent to Spanish Ifotocco soon a spokesman at the Arab League Headquarters m Cairo said. The Arab League Political Committee la-st night called oti the eight members of the League to support Spain against France
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  • 18 1 Mr Hume Wrong. Canadian Undersecretary tor External Affairs died m hospital m Ottawa yesterday, a^ed 59.
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  • 26 1 The Russian Ambassador «n Italy. Mr. Mikhail Kostylev. has been recalled and will be replaced by Mr. Aleksander Bogomolov. Soviet Ambassador t Prague,
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  • 323 1 Big Three may force a showdown BRITAIN'S Foreign SecreUry. Mr. Anthony Eden, Arivnca'.s Secretary of State. Mr. John Potter Dulles, and French Foreign Minister. Mr. Bidault, will meet the Soviet Foreign Minister. Mr. Molotov m BigFour conference at Berlin today with a joint strategy providing flat rejection of Russia's Red
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    • 24 1 HIGH POTENCY FORMULA Available at all leading ttorts: THE FEDERAL DISPENSARY LTD. Spore Cold Storage Arcade. Orchard Rd. 39 Seng Poh Road. Tiong Bahru.
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  • 243 2 IJ.S. army probes 'germ war' talk TIIK Marine Corps have ordered an investigation into whether Colonel Frank H. Schwable, a marine pilot, should be punished for making I "gCTM warfare" confession while held by Communists. General Lemuel C. Shephard, Jr.. Marine Corps Commandant,
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  • 191 2 rpHOUSANDS Of Swt'd:sn| Jl honsewirei left their husbands yesterday to cook and cope with chores while they went for a cutprice joy rid<> arranged by the state railways. Producers of a popular Saturday night radio programme "Merry Go Round", declared a
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  • 76 2 rE SYDNEY Sunday newspaper, "Truth," claimed yesterday that it planted a "time bomb" m the nose of the plane taking the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Butler, home from the Commonwealth Finance talks m Sydney. The "bomb" was really an alarm clock. "Truth," pointing out that experts
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  • 133 2 A HIPPOPOTAMI'S emergvd from the Nile yesterday and looked into the Owen Falls power station, m X impala, Bugamla, for a preview of the £22,--000,000 h}dro-electric project which the Queen will open next April. Us first call was to the retiring room reserved
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  • 83 2 U.S. TO CUT SPENDING ON DEFENCE rrHK United States is planning a $500 million cut m defence orders placed overseas next yeai as part of a move to trim foreign j aid spending. This sharply reduced pro- j j gramme will be accompanied by lan intensified drive to award contracts
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  • 52 2 picture. Singapore Indians yesterday celebrated Indian Republic Dtj with a public meeting m the Victoria Memorial Hall. Picture >how s the Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, making a Speech. On Sir John's left is Mr. Gopala Menon. Representative of the Government of India m Malaya.-
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  • 240 2 ANEW PHASE m the guerilla strikes by the Com-munist-led E^ctrical Trades Union opens today when over 7,000 men will be called out m London for a week. The strike will heraln a [reth line of action m the Urncns bitter dispute against employers over a three
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  • 205 2 Sr■ r S■ 9 V y li .Tw JDL JP? 11RS. Vijaya Laksmi Pandit, president of the T.N. General Assembly, is the latest victim of thieves and pickpockets infesting the Indian Congress Party confer- cnce at Kalyani. She had to trudge through slush m her bare
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    48 2 picture Mr John Laycock, Singapore Legislative Councillor, cuts the ribbon to open the new Pulau lekwiß KiiKlish School at Pulau Tekong, yesterday. <> n his left is» Mr. Hamid bin Omar, headni<t*U:t of tht mlk-01. A new polite station and a Government health clinic were ako opened free Press
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  • 81 3 Illness cost $1 0,200 mil. Reuter cost American familfej $10,200 million m r ending la*t Jime acto a .survey of medical published yesterday, the i its kind for 20 years. surrey conducted by the Opinion Research <>f the University of > With a grant from the Information Foundation is m
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  • 145 3 Kid gloves— and not iron fist TONG YFW KHONG <oran°eTrengganu Smith junction): "Why should at raid of raids? Our first y Is the our stomach. 1 a one of those driven ly during Friday's raid, but ill return. have been here six years know what raids are And is precious
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  • 73 3 M\ KWONCi-HSI -\Mi: out of gaol m Hong K«Bff Jttitrim J wearing trousers and a short hairdo. He said his days of beini a female impersonator were over Ma was accused of marryin« Leon, CM-jUMff and krepm« his sex secret while he swindled leone of HM» The
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  • 618 3 MUST THESE RAIDS BE KEPT UP? The inquiring Camera spotlights the hawker Free Tress Staff Reporter I tour o'clock last A j iday, Singapore police i renewed drive against ruction cleared Trengeanu Street of hawkers. During the raid a number of were destroyed an which has caused a cer?ction of
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  • 162 3 Education chief warns schools about holidays Free Press Stall' Reporter SINGAPORE'S Acting Director of Education, Mr. I). Mcl.ellan. yesterday warned school authorities against changing public holidays at will. 'i ins followed student*! Lett t to the Pressman'i Po.->tba4 stating that a .school was to «ive an extra Chinese New Year
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  • 89 3 BOY FALLS 20FT. FROM WINDOW .Arrow points to the spot at the junction of Queen Street and Middle Koarf where three-year-old Leo rig Turk Onn, fell V) feet from a window m his home. Leong is now dangerously ill m the (General Hospital. He was playing m a back riMiiii
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  • 120 3 The Peruvian Senate on Saturday gave the American millionaire. rtobert G. Letourneau. a million acres m Peru's rich jungles for development. Letourneau who calls himself "God's partner." hopes to spread Christianity through material aid to the natives. In 1952. he opened up hall a
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  • 60 3 The beautiful Anglo-Kashmiri wife of Sheikh Abdullah, former Prime Minister of Kashmir, has joined her imprisoned husband at her own request. She wa.s taken with their two sons and daughter. Sheikh Abdullah, who w.is deposed lust August by his Deputy Mr. Bukshi Ghulim Mohammed, is detained
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  • The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. Jan. 25. 1954
    • 427 4 THE BIG FUuK MR. Molotov arrived lr. Berlin fur the Foreign Ministers' Conference, which opens today, m the midst of a snowstorm. His first words were almost as chilly. Communist China, he .said, should be given a full void In negotiations to reduce international tensions. TnLs i> hardly a
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  • 720 4 French arc killing five times as many as they lose but MIIIIItIIIMHIMMMMimiIIIIMIIIIMIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMII LARRY ALLEN I REPORTING FROM I INDO-CHINA I i.i.m.h.i urn f HANOI. Indochina. V CASUALTIES m the vicious eight-year-long war m the Jungles, mountains and rice-fields of Indo-China have swept over the 1.000,000
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  • 328 4 ...In Walked 'Dream Man 'Peck BOMBAY. 3URAIYA, the darling of the Indian screen, is as "happy as a lark because she has just met her dream man, Gregory Peck. Peck, en route to Colombo to make a new picture, was held up m Bombay because of bad weather. 1 When
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    • 25 4 JEWELLS Exi lusivcly Desig wed )i Cr made by Craftsman over 30 years Experience < > S. P. H. deSILVA 45. HIGH ST SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR IPOH
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    • 68 4 f CHINESE NEW YEAR BALL Under the patronage of H.E. The Rt. Hon. Malcolm Mac Donald, P.C., H.E. Sir John Nicoll, X.C.M.6. y mk y #1 #1 a/ the VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL on Friday 12th February, 1954 from 8.30 p.m. 1 a.m. The Commander- in -Chief Royal Marines Orchestra will
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  • 275 5 MOST UP-TO-DATE ONE IN S.E. ASIA r ret" new rumi ivepuner gINGAPOBE will soon have the most up-to-date operating theatres and surgical wards m SouthEast Asia. Work on a four-storey building m the General Hospital grounds to house them starts toThe new theatre and ward
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    23 5 Mr. and Mrs Tan Peng Huang, uhu were married m Singapore. The bride is the former Mins Anna Lee Siew En?.
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  • 71 5 TOURISTS BUY SPORE MAN'S PAINTINGS r UU N G Singapore artist, Gerald Henderson, whose nude paintings were I ist y^a r by the Art found ready customers tourists m the Pfeslce.it >nr i•. now m port. ierald yesterday sola a ber oi his pictures, mostly the American tourists. effort m
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  • 60 5 Eleven school children and a number of adults have bee:i marooned for a week m sevn lorries on the flooded main road from Maun to Francis Town m Northhern Bechuanaland, Southern Rhodesia The lorrie.s, now one wck overdue at Francis Town, have been cut off
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  • 22 5 Israel will soon become a member of the International Bank and Monetary Fund lid a Washington report yesterday. Reuter
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  • 24 5 Lngworm diggers anglers UM the worms decided at Norwich to strike" until dealers pay 3s. instead of St., a hundred worms
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  • 51 5 Y.M.C.A to form dance club s^ JGAPORE Young Men's Christian Association U to form a square i <;•. the AMOclatlon i a course to train the dance. 15 are attending tlv> inder the Instruction of Mildred Lapingwell, a, keen 1 nicer. >ns are held at the pavilion on Wednes- 3
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  • 173 5 Schools want ban on boarders lifted Press Staff Reporter Js S leading Chinese the Chinese High for i ,nd the NanyHigh School, will ask! ition Departmeni once, < >? them to take m ►arders, Dormitories In the two schools i closed to boarders middle of 1950 when •swooped on the
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  • 213 5 Nucleus of sports stadium Free Press Staff Reporter AN APPEAL to the Government to take over the Singapore Badminton Hall was made yesterday by Dr. C. J. Pa&lar, chairman of the hall's Fund Committee and Legislative Councillor for Chan^i. The Government should build its
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  • 31 5 Marshal Alexander Papagos. Greek Prime Minister, received Frances highe>t military decoration, the Medaille Mllltaire m a ceremony m Paris yesterday, attended by the Frenrh Prime Minister, m Joseph Laniel.
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  • 97 5 ri^HE Singapore police ban 1 on pin-tables m public places does not affect football tables. The agents yesterday said: "We have received an assurance from the Commissioner of Police that the football tables have been proved games of skill. •The football tables have been recognised
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  • 148 5 $3-to take away a dead cat Free Press Stuff RcptfftCf IMIE price for MUrttaf aw*y a dead dog or cat? Three dollars. The men who asked to be pn«l are City Council labourers. Said Boundary Road residents who have found several ",«irCMH In overgrown lallang by the roadside: 'We buried
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  • 496 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR IJORX TODAY, u, u h4le natural bent ship, especially ln lh tf"', ideas. You have >it,,a and should cultivate ,h, m rarly age. Poetry. p al dram- are all p,,te-ni, a l h for the expression 0 your but it is Hke.y that become j.ur happi,,, Although
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  • 51 6 Wile: Would JTOT tender steak ami "I&band: I think we oughi money and cat a1 ••RastV who for at the last H< well sah a Do Democrat gavi mrs and de RjpuW dollar,, so I TOtedJ crats cos tn<> W<l corrupt. pale when 1 heard ttH P
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 160 6 MANDRAKE. THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis 1 g^TJ^w Tuc uvPHMIA feOTH CATS --GONIc INTO D A HYPNOTIC LION! J\ IHEH^OVC "sss&& BfAMOESTURES y V \U\ \r J 'A' T VT Tf6ER C y ACRAZIER BATTLE l-><* HyPNOTICALLY \fl IWL iAi w*' <n THAN THIS ONE? TARZAN by
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  • 57 7 —BIT WITH A DIFFERENCE Photo. This is a different version of the Great White YVay. Vehicles and pedestrians cautiously make their way alon<* Times Square, covered by a mantle of-snow early one January morning: as the winter's first heavy snowfall threatened to pile more than fifteen
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  • 244 7 Sales sold, sold and sold \i'i( grateful pat on the back comes to the British public from the London stores. Not since before the war have shoppers responded so nobly to the cry 'Sales. 1 The Amazing Bargains have really amazed them. The Final Reductions are still
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  • 176 7 4 TWIN ENGINED plane crashed m the rose garden the 400-year-old Anchor and Houseshoe Inn m Burnham. Surrey recently. he plane, a twin-enginod Miles Gemini, was almost cut m ti i but Kenneth Owen, a journalist, of Cranleigh-Gardens. ith Kensington, and his Miss
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  • 44 7 cashier, Michael Bn. recenfc ly beat David -^crn, the Russian chess B' "HUein was playing 19 »ntons at the same time Rj-shopsgate. E.C.— and n y to Franklin. AlexJ 7 Tolush, another master. lt M U-ir games m 20.
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  • 46 7 BY 1960 six million people will be flying yearly on intercity helicopter services m the United States, predict the Air Transport Association. They forecast that this helicopter traffic will rise to 18.000, 000 by 1965 and to 22,000,000 m 1970.
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  • 18 7 About 130.000 travelled by air between London and Dublin durin? 1953. reports the Iri^h airline, Aer Lingus.
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  • 44 7 France is buying Comets and Viscounts from Britain for her civil airline. Now the French Air Ministry have placed an order worth more than £100,000 with EMI Factories, of Hayes (Middlesex!, for radar navigation aids for the French Air Force.
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  • 52 7 The ice battle m pantomime between the Empress Hall, EarLs Court and Wembley's Empire pool will flare up again next summer with skating versions of two famoua musical shows. The Empress Hall will aaapl White Horse Inn and Wembley will counter with Ivor Novello's "The
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  • 124 7 Brother's gift to save a sister HENRY SEYMOUR. 17-year-old former page to the Queen, was not at his sister's funeral m the rainsoaked churchyard of Boxgrove Priory, Sussex, recently. Unknown to anyone save his family, he had voluntarily sacrificed large areas of his own skin m a vain effort to
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  • First Mass Review
    • 162 7 Reading tests are planned for 5,000 children YEW reading and intelligence tests are to he giver to 5000 children throughout Britain to record their progress since they began going to school. All the children were born m 191 H. The tests will form the first mass review of its kind
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    • 192 7 She is on her way THE Rirl that Hollywood railed Another Bergman" and 'The new Garbo." Swedish-born Viveca Lindtor.s, is to make her .stage debut m Britain m the new J B Priestley play "The White Countess." Until a few days ago, Ooogie Withers was to play
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    • 59 7 A new Bill will be introduced m the Northern Ireland Parliament to provide that any person who interferes with a Union Jack will be punished severely. The Bill, which also bans flying other flags In circumstances likely to cause a breach of the peace,
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    • 19 7 Judse Howel Walter Samuel, Q.C.. of Swansea, ex-pit boy has left £34,341. He died last April
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  • 224 8 THE religious festival of Thaipusam was celebrated by Hindus m Singapore. The Hindus paid homage to Cod Subramaniam (symbol of Truth! whose greatness »nd glory is praised m some of the most inspiring Tamil songs and lyrics. The Cod rides on a
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  • FREE PRESS SUPPLEMENT CHINESE NEW YEAR
    • 10 1 FREE PRESS SUPPLEMENT CHINESE NEW YEAR Monday, Jan. 25, 1954.
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    • 721 1  -  G. T. Boon by I NEW LUNAR YEAR PROMISES MY, PEACE AND HARMONY AND I'ROM EVIL INFLUENCES." 11 INN the last 'J,()()0 << us of China's L (here h;is Ik cm Si one occasion I, iii Ihe birth <>(' I DO year cycle
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    • 101 1 May the money horse bring wealth! The fastest of sill thr hclprrs of thr (inri of Richrs. the (iolden Steed, callops untiringly from the trrasurr ground to thr homes of those needing speedy relief from their financial troubles. On its back it carries various emblems of wealth. One can imagine
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    • 926 1  -  Leon Comber By JN THE mists of myth and legend which shroud the beginning of Chinese historic, Lbere lived au Kiuiutoj;.. known as Shun who ascended the throne two thousand years before the birth of Christ and reigned for about fifty years. According
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    • 242 1 IT'S GOOD ALSO AS MEDICINE Till UIIMM :ln 1 "ourir,| fnr pnntl "i hone* i v,, of i imoua >nist. m his sphere Han K.,n Vl> >(l «ti (l h Meni l J! IM > malted I i »"«i« h M(l i»"i „i luiirs,- mcdl Mnr pure while animil )s
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      • 39 1 W t With the best spirit m the §j\ world we wish you Good Health and Luck U throughout the year. \__rL/// $> W//f^£ y 11^^ SOL€ AGENTS \S^ ;V) ll A m MALAYA C BORNEO ii y^^ZzJi* I^u > x-^
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    • 1138 2  -  K.S. CHIA A short story by by Many of his colleagues said afterwards that Tommy was simply day-drearr iln himself into the part of a h ero- Whether it was so or not, Tommy acted with-". thought for his own safety- \LL his 1
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    • 599 2  - 'ANG POW' SPECIALIST Bebe Vco by gOMK people take great pains over the preparations of their "ang pows" and mv grandmother is one of them. Her procedure never varies a jot from year to year. So orderly and precise is she m this matter that the whole process becomes almost
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    • 1535 3  -  KAY SEE A slory by Pinky sighed to herself. Must a girl propose? She wondered. Evidently she had to d something more drastic than making an old-fashioned wish with oran&es moonlight if she was to make George realise how much she loved hi pINKY Chia watched
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      3779 4 EASY TO LOVE O;z^ o/ £//<? /i/;» attractions m Singapore at the Chinese New Year will be Esther Williams m Here is the story of the M-G-M Technicolor musical starring Esther, Van Johnson and crooner Tony Martin Esther is without doubt the most popular Hollywood actress with the Malayan >»•
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      • 177 5 >ttli|ifi|||||| i I||||||)M||)|| jjl Our Friends And I I Patrons A Very Happy I A I A if A n A irospcrous New Year I ATTENTION 1 I Inquiriea invited for suppllea I Ol all designs and si/:rs of KEW SPRINGS I for 'Machines, Motors, Printing Plants and Industries. Pica*
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    • 423 6  -  SPENCER MOOSA by It will be either glory or disgrace I \j|M I. Formosa. TH Y: VI AH 1953 1 slipped b> action m bill dormant ivil war between the lihinese National sts Kormosa and the < omnuinisls o" lh e
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    • 838 6  -  FRED HAMPSON And on the mainland there is a full by HONG KOXG. THE (Chinese Communists have done ;i full turnabout m their farm policy. For Imir vcai*s llicv "reformed" Hie land by dividing it into small plots and parcelling il out. Now they i
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    • 80 6 Jade sum Wong of San Francisco, California, show* p ol quart/ |ewel bowls sh«- has m.trl«> h N her nwn m < ess she says the bowls have bottom sections Ri porcelain hut as transparent as glass w lefl enamel pieces m brilliant colours. Miss \\i»nu known
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      • 199 6 You can get a steak ?pf •r anywhere, always tastes i r -i L^ < 1 the Pavilion Silver Grill I PAVILION RESTAURANT 275, Orchard Road Singapore h Telephone 4447. t t t t 4 t > .>it> f > t> > < i t' l _Jp —^^^U^TTy V J^^r
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    • 1065 7  -  KATHLEEN HICKLEY A story for children I 4 |:l. you to .< Chinese New ■ircusV" ;iske<l K'or, looking hopej|\ his friend. chmg snorted. c silly,* 1 ho said. very well i ane now* on that let rine. i shan't more money veek. Why. 1 t
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    • 999 7  -  NONI CHIA by ]yjV grandmother who will be 72 years old this Chinese New Year smiled when I asked her how she enjoyed her new year when she whs my ;ii^c\ 1 shall be 15 m the new year. "Why. Noni. that would be before
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    • 176 10 f'EORGK HATHEKIIX— once a clerk, now master detective— becomes v Scotland Yard's No. 1 Whodunit Man on February 1. Hatherill became a policeman m 1919. After three months m uniform, he was switched to detection. Soon he was travelling all over
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    • 127 10 Could you have solved any of these crimes? w SfUNDREDS of solved cases m the Yard map the career of George Hatherill. His acute observation, his uncanny knack of going to the the heart of a mystery brought him "Sherlock Holmes" succcesses. Take one
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      57 10 Popper picture. SINGER Edith Piaf celebrated her first wedding anniversary m Paris. At the Champs Elysees pavilion Edith was presented bronze cast of her hands. The presentation was made by the her recording company. The bronze hands were made by the Chiroteque Francais. Picture shows Edith with husband Jacques Pills
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    • 111 10 In a newly rented flat Brussels police discovered the body of a woman suspected of being a currency smuggler. Forged notes were found sewn inside the shouldier pads of her coat. Continental police seemed confident that woman was British, and as Hatherill was
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    • 74 10 The Hatherill eye for detail brought a conviction m the Goodman case m 1946— the "case of the little men." Russian -born, 63-year-old Annie Goodman, small-time East Ena moneylender, was found batUred to death m her flat. Suiwrintendent (as tie was then George
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    • 95 10 He was called out to a murder investigation one Christmas morning. There were six suspects, Gathering his murder squad together, he said: "Simultaneously, at 1.30, I want these six men brought m." At 1.45 Hatherill sauntered m to the station. He found five
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    • 123 10 Hatherill had to master the secrets of the tides to solve the mystery of the Perranporth Sands, m Cornwall. He did so m 1938, only a week after he had been promoted to chief inspector m the Murder Squad. A woman's arm
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    • 60 10 H\ I HI KIM. noticed that the woman's linen was not folded m the typical British manner. It was rolled m a way used by the Swedes. Within a few hours "Intfrpol," the 43-nation police radio network reported back from Stockholm with details of the woman's identity
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    • 44 10 Forty dancers of the Sadler's WelLs Theatre Ballet with nine toius of scenery, 400 costumes. and 1,000 pairs of ballet shoesleave London m April for a 12--week tour of South Africa. In February and March they will make a provincial tour.
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    • 183 10 Dearest liner one-third Q.M.s size rE most costly liner ever built m Britain she cost £500,000 more than the Queen Mary, though she is about one-third the size— will sail down the Clyde soon. The new ship, the 28,000-ton Arcadia, has been built for the P. and O. Line by
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    • 30 10 On the 4,000 ft. peaks of the Cairngorm Mountains m Scotland Royal Marines will learn snow warfare on training courses starting next month, the Admiralty .said.
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    • 168 10 'Mr. Simba' on Royal guard EMPLOYEE No. 47 of a London firm gets a wage of only Hi. 6d. a week for guarding fabulous treasures. For instance, he has the royal plate from Buckingham PaUce now on show m the Victoria and Albert Museum, m ms custody. But the status
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    • 62 10 The 60-year-old Dorset hill farmer who "carved a 254-ane farm out of a wilderness." Mr W. C. ELsworth of Part Bogcline Farm. Maiden' Newton, is not to be dispossessed. The agricultural land tribunal at Dorchester recently turned down the appeal of the hindlord, Mr B. C. Palmer,
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    • 130 11 SHE KEEPS A LION IN HER PA LOUR MISS Robbyetta Porter, 28, of llerscher, Illinois, has no need to take a seat at the local 3D cinema to have a lion m her lap she keeps one at home. The four year old animal, named Tex, lives m a special
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    • 381 11  - Jimmy s shell goes on view DONALD BLAIR by THE SHELL of •'Jimmy," Florence Nightingale's »et tortoise, is among rimean War relics from itain which will be lown m an exhibition Turkey during centenary year of arrival m this country history's best-known The exhibition is sponsored the Turkish Ministry of
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    • 614 11 THE MOSCOW-PEKING AXIS IS COVERNED BY says RALPH TEATSORTH ANKARA. NEW YORK. THE Moscow-Peking Axis, once heavily weighted ;it the Soviet end, is gmriiKilh being accepted ;is a balanced partnership m which Red China Ims the right to dictate the Communist line m Asht. Western observers
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      317 11 ivkkt O&WMD .i tWr—trf Bowtfi htld ii|> (Of tiie third round, but it didn't btlp. WeM had the aci ol lubs and f thftl two fflOfl c:;. 'ricks to set (MM contract ii. Men f.ini\ routine result, but Terence Rom ol England, ir i hii book "Modern bidmni:
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    • 333 11 ACROSS I. Revel m warmth and In Pi i6>: 5 The kind ol tUM hummed by 1 t'(x>d cricket hMUr (f); I F.im;h.ilv call a litmous sleeper IS); 10 Goes wrong nb-^i' an alttrna hra ,(i i] Ltanpi confusedly about letter (•>: 14 No packii t a tur
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    • 217 12 WHAT is wrong with our police that so many killers, kidnappers, sex maniacs and secret society thugs get away with impunity? We know the police are most efficient when they are able to "act on information." as they say. But m the absence of
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      • 60 12 WHEN sOOM S.T.C. buses .stop fOC passengers one often tees people sliding towards the front of the seats. This Is because the covering Ls U smooth a.s glass. It is most embarrassing for the passengers when they can't help being piled one on top of another. Couldn't the
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      • 55 12 I EDUCATION should begin m the home If drivers are to be educated m Singapore the police might set an example. A patrol r.'ir drove all the wiy up Orchard Road as far as Holland Road shortly after midnight on Thursday night on the crown of the road lUBMUL
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      29 12 LADY IKMIMKK is presen i«d with a basket of flowers by 1-year-old Chr Fahziah binte S herib, at Baling Women's In fctitute, Kedah. Lad> Templer w ik» louring Kedab.
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    • 309 12 I saw festival for myself 1 APOLOGISE to the editor oi the Free Pre.s.s and "A Ceyloneae" tor any inaccuracies Which may have appeared m my article Festival of Torture" and which may have caused ofience to Tamil Hindu read ers. I do not profess to be an expert 011
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    • 75 12 A WREATH is thrown from a corvette on the sea above the spot where the Comet, which crashed off Elba, m the Mediterranean, is belie veu to be. Funeral services were held at sea for tlv victims who died m the crash. At the extreme rieht,
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    • 62 12 I HAVE a very minor grouse Your papers dated Jan 19 had a picture purporting to ho of Ginger Rogers and her husband Jacques Bergerac, m their first British film. "Lifeline." Surely the photograph ihowe 1 Richardo Mor.talban and Lana Turner m a film called 'Latin Lovers". CINEMA-GOER.
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    • 49 13 photo. Mmith-shape picked out m sequins adorns the veil worn with ihU nylon organza evening dress from the Herbert Sidon collection In London. The dress has a harem drape •tei one shoulder and the skirt falls m two tiers. Herbert Sidon calls it "Marrakesh.' Reuter
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    • 310 13  -  Dorothy Roe by NEW YORK. HANDSOME nubby silk i weeds that look like wool, and wools so light and smooth they look like s-.lk. are headliners m spring suit fashions being reviewed by the nations fashion press. Philip Mangone, dean of the < Id school of
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    • 637 13 THE WEST GERMAN FEMINISTS WANT EQUAL STATUS WITH MEN AND THE RELUCTANT MALE POSES THE QUESTION PAGE FOR WOMEN BONN. VLfEST GERMAN males W still wear the family "trousers," and they give evidence of intending to do so for quite some time.
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    • 541 13  - HOW TO EAT AND STAY SLENDER Dorothy McCardle by WASHINGTON. HOLD IT! Don't reach for that extra piec< ol pie or fruit cake. You're- In a new year and must remember your bright re solve to reclaim your figure from the soft embrace of excess avoir*SSV. can j* HJJJ look
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    • 633 14 Yutoi too strong for Fairy and here's the finish COT UP IN LAST STRIDE VTTOI II put up a good performance to win the January Cup, main race on the last day of the Singapore Turf Club's January Meeting, at Bukit Timah on Saturday. Though
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      629 14  -  ALLAN LEWIS By Rice Mill, v\h-> wai 01M Of the laadan aU the w.tv. liu&q jo fairlj w«'ll. bu 1 vsj baattn Into third plare No sxcuaßt, Munahiki WEI tISQ finishing on fourth. He never really threa'en'd the winner. Tradurer and Sangfroid c'ici bS( Of the res'
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    • 126 14 f^xcESSiVFLY slow batting led to two ptayen, om of whom was booed off the field bein^ barracked by the spectators at the Sheffield Shield Cricket match m Brisbane yesterday when Queensland replied to Victoria's 287 with 266 for four wickets before stumps were drawn. Overnight, Queensland hid
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    • 162 14  -  JOHN FARROW By And mighty Arsenal fall QUNDERLAND'S new centre-forward Ted Purdoi, signed for £15,000 from Birmingham, slammed m three of his team's goals when the league trailers trounced Arsenal 4 l on Saturday. A crowd of 55,000 saw the visitors, who are struggling near the foot
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    • 107 14 Albion collected i pom*" from i ■oorelesa draw tganiM Burnley iiri now lead vi'h 41 points from 28 >( the scheduled 42 Rums Wolverharrmton ho!d s civ sin with 35 D'vnts Thre° tetni<— T*»i idersfleld. Bo!*on and Burnley share third place with 35 nointv Kudde'sfie'd ■crambled 1
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    • 58 14 ROY Ankarah. Briti>h Featherweight champion [fl making good progress after i kidney operation but he will not be able to go through with the Feb. 27 bout against Jean Sneyers. European titleholder m Brussels. Manager Joe McLean >< i yesterday the We.st African boxer will have
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    • 35 14 Jack Arkinstall of Aitttralh the men's singles title m the N-ir ftiei:i India Lawn Tennis Championship yesterday. He defeats I Stockenberi;. the Swedish is L player. 6-2. 7-5. 6-3 m the I Reuter
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    • 291 15 Italy qualify with 5-1 win A MIDST whirling snow which blanketed Milan's San Siro Stadium yesterday, the Egyptian soccer team lost by five goals to one against Italy and were eliminated from the World Cup. ITALY WILL PLAY IN THE TOURNAMENT IN SWITZERLAND LATER
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    • 167 15 Army beat Oxford in last min. iU'TSTANDING feature of U Saturdays Rugby Union cll ,b »ames was Coventry's win against Waterloo by point! to six their first vicu n alter 10 successive reverses. Nimhall, the England Captain and fullback last season, reappeared for Richmond at Newafter a months absence the
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    • 59 15 IjniTAIN'S mixed doubles players Roger Becker and Anne Shikoek opened the Scandinavian indoor championships at Helsinki easy win over Finland's Curt Lincoln and Ebba Him 6-4. 7-4. In the men's doubles, Vladimir Sbonecki. self-exiled pole, and S&ikari S.i)c I:im yr-ar's Finnish singles iiampion. defeated K. E.
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    • 71 15 pRANCE bear Ireland 8-0 en Sa\ urdaj m a rueby match before 'Hi spectator! at Colombes Stascorini two trys m the second I i match was one of a roimdMrici between France and United Kmydom teams. Two weeks ago Fi.,nce beat Scotland 3-0. Ireland anc' France
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    • 27 15 Singapore beat the All-Malayan Indians by tour goals to two after a ■J'nelesv. first na]f m yesterday's Itj hockey match at Jalan Besar iin.
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    • 162 15 AMERICAN tennis aces Tony TrabiTt and Vie Seixas won through the first round of the Australian singles championships on Saturday, making a lineup of four Americans, nine Australians, two South African.s and one Frenchman lor the second round tomorrow. Only surprise of the singles was the
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    • 82 15 JAROSLAV Drobny, revelling In hot sunny conditions, took little more than half an hour to de'eat Russell Seymour, South Africa's No. 2 player 6 2. 6 2. at the beach courts m Durban on Sa'urday. Driving with great pace and ac(•iiiik.v and dealing severely with anything
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    • 309 16 GET BEST MEN OLT AGAINST INDIANS IVy MALCOLM MODDKK THE SINGAPORE Hockey Association has selected 26 of the best players In the Colony to undergo special training. The SHA object If to pick a powerful eleven to meet the Indian Hockey Federation team next month. Training
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    • 259 16 Ex-champ makes a protest A STORM of controversy developed over Referee P. J. Stone's action m stopping the Empire welterweight boxing championship at Wellington on Jan. 15 between the holder Gerald Dreyer. of South Africa, and Barry Brown, of New Zealand. The fight was stopped a minute and a half
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    • 42 16 Indians and Singapore i Indians played out a scoreless J draw m their Thivy Shield hockey j match at Balestier Road. Singapore. yesterday. Selangor thus win the inter-State tournament, topping the list of teams with one win and two draws.
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    • 368 16 ITT KK.HTS for Saturday, first day of the Selangor Turf Club's January meeting: CL. 1. DIV. I—6 F. Fuphrates 9.:r» Always B.of> Asia .Minor 8.07 Box Oftice 8.00 Skryne Primrose 7. 1 T. 1 1 (I! mvim; 1.13 Sporting (iesture 7.1.' Purple and White 7.11) Adelaide
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    • 246 16 /-.ah i Roho Olson, world middleweight boxing chamr>AKl, Bobo "'7"- 1 Joe Rindone. of Massachusetts, m non-title bout m San Francisco s Q a^ r s f when he beat Randolph TurSn ?orC X last'october. knocked out Rindone with a right to the jaw.
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    • 155 16 FOR the first time m the present tour the New Zealand cricketers made a provincial side follow on Saturday when their match with Border was continued. In reply to the New Zealand total of 350 for four declared. Border who overnight had lost a wicket
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    • 99 16 A CROWD of 20.000 saw the New Zealand tourists win theii Rugby Union ma'ch agairw Welsh opponents on Saturday, with i i victory over Neath and Abe, n m but only after a few la<t minutshooks. The tourists held a comfortable 11-0 lead with only 15
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    • 128 16 r[E Hyderabad Sate Cricket A, ciation saved their game with ;he Commonwealth touring team In Hyderabad yesterday, and the matcb was drawn. The home team 230 for ei^iif overnight, still needed 4i» rtioi to save the follow on. the Commonweal' h having declared at 399 for
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