The Singapore Free Press, 15 December 1954

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1 16 The Singapore Free Press
  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya *****. Singapore. Wed., Dpc. 15, 1954. Price 15 Us.
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  • 253 1 This is what he had in mind THE FOREIGN OFFICE took the unusual stop yesterday of Qualifying a statement made in New York on Sunday by Mr. Anthony Nutting, the chief British delegate to the United Nations, when he said on an American television programme that
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    95 1 E rpWFNTY Army sappers, working nun- 1 stop for 18 hours, completed this new E E Bailey steel bridge for 5.000 flood-ravag.-d E inhabitants of Singapore Potong Pasir village early today. The bridge had been E E brought in parts. Fitting the pieces to- E E gether
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  • 46 1 Pope's live doctors ycs--1 terday expressed anxiety tationary' condition of very. Th- lecided to <*iv<> him an tamination tomorrow a fortnight earlier than originilanned. Pn\H> is weaker and he is again having; difficulty in eat- i U.P. A. P.
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  • 39 1 The Indian Prime Minister. Nehru, hopes to spend New Y.;u\ s Eve at Penang on nis nturn home from the nbo Prime Ministers' conin Jakarta, it was announced in New Delhi vester- Reuter.
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  • 15 1 Ihe Queen Mother is rering normally from the hich made her postpone yesterday.
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  • 153 1 INHERE is now increasing JL opposition in the U.S. Congress to giving the free nations of A.sia larer- outright gifts of economic aid .such as Europe received under the Marshal! P: I The opposition grew a.s President Eisenhower sought bi-pnrti pport for paneled tic
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  • 221 1 TIIK FLOOD waters in Singapore have receded. The weather e\pert>, howewr, warn of scattered showers with intervals of dear \s eat her. Farther north, in Ihc Federation, Ihere has been rain in large areas <>r Kuantan and Mersinfl this morning. II ma>' rain again in other
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  • 66 1 Fjiloods. gales, fog and mow harassed the 1 Briti.sii Isles yesterday. Troops and other rescue workers in Athkme, Southern [reland, watched anxloiuly as the swollen waters of the River Shannon began to run Into the lower part., of the town. The river has already flooded over iqiiari
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  • 108 1 AN armed gang surprised a C Chinese woman and her children at dinner yesterday in Bournemouth Road in the Katnng district and robbed A them of $3,000 worth of jewels and $220 in CftSh. 1 The woman told the police y that five men,
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  • 33 1 January first grade robber S buyers f.ob opened in Singapore thi.s morning at h:j.'. cuts ja lb., three-elghlhi ot a < i(> nt above yesterday's close. The I tone was quiet. Jj
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  • 137 2 Till world Reds change Dulles TiHE U.S. Secretary of State. Mr. John Foster Dulles. leaving for a defence meeting in Paris, said in Washington yesterday that the United States and its allies must steadily develop their strength until there are "dependable signs of change
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  • 216 2 Chinese students don't WANT to go back America will not consider exchanging 35 Chine.se students held in the U.S. for 11 airmen imprisoned as spies by Communist China. This was made clear by Mr. Lincoln White, a State Department spokesman in Washington after a Peking Radio broadcast had appeared to
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  • 192 2 SOVIETS NOT ANXIOUS FOR WAR, SAYS PEER LORD COLERAINE, loader of a recent British parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union, said yesterday that Russia was not anxious for war and would keep out of It if she could He told a Conservative Association meeting the Russians would not let the
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  • 51 2 Signing of a one-year trade Agreement between Sweden and the Soviet zone of Ger-1 many was announced yesterday j by the East German Trade Ministry. The agreement, effective from Jan 1. 1955, rails for an exchange of goods valued at 76 I million East Marks (about I M$12,()0().M)0i.
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  • 27 2 The Fn-nch High Command' announced in Saigon yesterday that more than 550,000 refugee from Vietminh zones in Indo China have reached South Vietnam Reute r
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  • 102 2 GENERAL Matthew Ridgway. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, said yesterday that the West should not "drop its guard" in the face 0/ Russian peace talk. "Nothing could better serve the Kremlin's cause or more injure our own," he said in a speech in
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  • 60 2 r TilF French Council of Minters last night authorts- *d Premier Pierre Mend«\sFrance to stake his Government cm the Assembly's vote ratification ol the PaxU and London agreements to rearm West Germany, usually reliable sources in Paris said. This decision was made at a four-and-a-half-hour
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  • 185 2 SINGAPORE CALLING HAMPSTEAD FOR ROAD SAFETY ADVICE ROAD safety experts in Hampstead, London, have received yet another call for assistance from the Commonwealth this time from Singapore. In June, the road safety officer, Mr. George H. Wade, was asked for advice by four Canadian cities who had learned of Hampstead's
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  • 101 2 650 police on hunger strike are disarmed riTOOOPS were called out yesA terday to disarm more than 650 policemen on a hunger strike at Howrah, four miles over the River Hooghly from Calcutta. The hunger strike began on Sunday for increased wages and allowances. It was announced last night that
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  • 100 2 L^LAMES roared through a big departmental *store r packed with Christmas goods in the centre of Sunderland early yesterday. The damage is estimated at several million pounds. The fire lit up the whole industrial area and could be seer 27 miles away as hundreds
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  • 39 2 I The U.S. Navy Secretary, Mr. Charles Thomas, 6aid last night the threat of global atomic war has diminished and the Communists now appear to be dei pending chiefly on subversive and economic warfare. U.P.
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  • 16 2 The Shah of Iran conferred with US. defence chiefs yesterday in Washington. 2
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  • 246 3 DOCTOR PUTS THE BLAME ON BOSOMS z. n'Hi jrr«'iit wave of sex l,\steria was in Chi- blamed for: Ch^rp increase in illegi- Stimate teen-age births- t dangerous bosom- ,-,,iwi<Misness among; rouni rls M {.oodriih SthaufTler- J Portland, Oregon, ob- etrician and gynaecolo- told x convention of doctors Ai il»^»t imate
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  • 51 3 EX-OPERA STAR TURNS BAKER WINS $75,000 i r \K-OLD 'self-taught A who has sung at the i Op< ra In Milan, yesMi the M 575.000 prize York's Pillsbury flour I contest with a pie recipe. Bernard Koteen of hington, the wife of a governmenl statistician, named her prize-winner "Open SePie."
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  • 19 3 Agriculture Department said yesterday it has arranged to sell 2,860,000 of Government-owned corn to Western Germany.-
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  • 20 3 A.P. Congress i passed a bill approv'resident Juan Peron to divorce in Argentina for th.> first time.-
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  • 27 3 A car park has been completed in front of the Potala Palace of the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.— Reuter
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  • 86 3 24,000 children seek parents MORE than 24,000 West German children stul registered with the trac••rvice of the German Cross to find their wents, officials .said yester- »JJ( 600 a month either their real parents or are *»*ea into loiter hornet. When the tracing service first started .soon after the end
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  • 329 3 M Ps' eleventh hour fight to save woman from gallows MINISTER REFUSES TO SEE THEM qjome Members of Parliament made an eleventh-hear fight last niuht to iave the life of Mrs. St.vllou liristofi, fitty-three-veur old 'ypriot due to hang j today for the murder of her daughter-in-law. Mrs. Christofi was
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  • 74 3 rw*u\ h 'ivmL \,i,- wha which p< i i i month, :\:\o hi an unannounced destination, prej kimably thr» Ant Peru releaaed the .^hips a ton ihip :md itchon Monday after thi ownor. Mr ArlltOtle OnassLs, paid the equivalent <»i Ms9.--ooo.ooi) in nilThe ship irere
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  • 129 3 A PRETTY 23-year-old government girl was found shot to death on Monday night amid piles of Christ- mas packages in a fashion- able apartment in nearby Arlington. Virginia. She was Sally Wood, who worked at a secret govern- ment installation in Arling- ton. Police
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  • 151 3 Secret force sails for Polar isles A BRITISH expedition mcrrtly has left for the Antarctic to reoccupy severa bases in the dUpUted Falkland Uand dependencies, totwn* sources in London said last Whi Both Argentina and chile have staked out rtrai claims to the region. Thr source, said the British are
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  • 20 3 An international telephone service will beuin today be- tween Osaka < Japan > and Saigon, dndo-China) A. P.
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  • 120 3 Statement by farmer Dominici THE French Minister of Justice yesterday ordered la new Investigation into the triple murder of Sir > Jack Drummond, his wife and daughter, for which 177-year-old Gaston Dominici. a farmer, has beencon- demned to death. A Ministry spokesman s aid
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 57 3 Df\ I C V OYSTER PERPETUAL A Landmark in the History of TIME MEASUREMENT Official Distributors: G. C. De SUVA BROS., "Jewellers" 3, Raffles Place, Singapore- 1- Tel. 831 15 colds, KTOR THESE) THROAT f chest 1 7?l/r£ THIS) viWB -SB" SV9^ ii; *"-t! THE FEDERAL DISPENSARY LTD. 33 ttifflw
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  • 135 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 1954. Opinion AND NOW ACTION! UOR the first time the 1 Singapore Government has really got down to ithc problem of tackling the flood problem in earnest. A plan has been put forward and the call has gone out for speed in compl<
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  • 106 4 THE Colony's road acx cident record is not a proud one. Every effort should be made to try new safety-first methods. Sin^ipore's safety first oilicials are doing so and silently. Their latest effort! were revealed in London. They have written to safety-first officials of i Hampstead,
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  • 676 4 Japan is at the crossroads CAN TOKYO MAKE HER NEW DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM WORK? I JAPAN let .sail tati t§ week on a course thai may maki or break hei as a democratic nation The result* of the could decide If Japan take her place as a bulwark of the Vi>
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  • 158 4 I T AM an Ava Gardner fan. But I'm not such a big fan as I was before Ava paid her fleeting visit to Singapore. Only a few people saw her in ■vinpapore. But what of the thousands like me who didn't? crowds waited outside
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  • 58 4 W HY did Ava Gardner wear a cheong-sum on the .stage of the cinema at the preview of h< i r new Him? I would love to have seen fctr iii one oX the beuutiiul I n.s she wears in films. We see cheong-sums every day. 3
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  • 173 4 Chinese move into French Pacific isles :T<HE Australian Govern A is getting won. B reports that increasin bers of Chinese are moving I i into French-held New i donia and New Hel lands, about 960 mill Australia The islands are part of a I strategic chain that B Australia's north.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 49 4 \Finor Rings I Whatever the purpose an ergagctnent, n anniversary I! or u $t a gift" there arc jt ring? to convey every gesture of goodwill with charm and elegance. j H. SENA I LIMITED i HIGH CLASS JEWELLERS 5 Singapore, Pcn»ng. Bangkok. V >/r<>%< >*O^< >*o^t )^<> w >>^<>«\i
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    • 128 4 ♦f-ju'ro Pretcy I |^in a Minute I -•BL«' -f b Helena Rubinstein B fVIENUTE MAKE-UP I Ju-t a touch <-f Helena Huhinsteiu's new sii.k mini tk m*ki -ip M ;hkl Miv rli>M like a n i rl in |n\c. Tln« glitmoroiiH rornliiti.ition B niitkc-iiji i- Rial sii.k lace Powder in
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  • 169 5 At reasonable prices, I says trade chief MALAYA can expect to buy more rue Irom mirm.i next year, said I Rashid. leader of a four-man trade mission, in Singapore yesterd iv. U Rashid, Minister for Trade Development and Labour said his country had a surplus
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  • 52 5 THE 'GAY GORDONS' rrllK Imperial Club (NAAFI) held its annual ball v the Britannia Club. Nuffield Building, in Beach Singapore, on Monday ni-ht Amnni! the items in the programme was th< •Gay Gordons"— a Highland dance. Picture shows Majoi L A. Cardy, RASC and Mrs Alexander demonstrating tn< dance- Free
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  • 277 5 5 RAL Singapore firms have complained to the eminent that Federation duty on manufactured Is discriminatory. y want the government to intercede on their behalf the duty on some either withdrawn or ifacturers say the: rl duty embraces a wide uoocLs and does not entiate
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  • 40 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. An examination in Malay for Government ofllcen was held m Johore Bahm y< terday. One candidate, Mr. P Bdington, District Forest i cor Mer.sinu, had to bo flown In to «tt tor it-
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  • 48 5 Members of the Singapore volunteer forces are now entitled to duty-free ale beer, stout, porter, cider and perry both imported and locally made. They must be sold only in a mess or canteen of the reserve force and must be drunK on the premises.
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  • 59 5 He lied about wife's death lI'OH, Wed A quarry bourer, H V un. 30, charged with givm in[ormation to the police, was Jailed lor three months hore terday. Vengada .ilnm, accordlni to the prus. ■< .lion, reported to the police on Aim. 19 thai bij »ife Cblnnamah had died or
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  • 27 5 ahau. Wed. Hie Commtoiloner for Land and Mil Perils Inche Zainul Abid-n, took hli oath m an official mber of thr Perlla BUU Council yesterday.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 80 5 World Famout j«, Conductors 3J 1 ff O\ and Orchestras M /tJ ItrrkV World Famous Artists V^trtWr R t LONC PLAYINC Lo n d on CLASSICAL. INSTRUMENTAL SELECTIONS, DANCE. VOCAL ETC.. Obttiimible from Accredited Dealers throughout Milaya ■*yy c. s. Isaac co., ltd. i^^iVSSml H IItIKIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIMIIIIH lIIIPIIIIIIHIIIIIIIII HiniHimi"*" 1 iiiiiimmmi
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 404 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis STAR I ~Z* <~ I INCRfDIBLE. 1 TLL SIGNAL TH£ SHfP, BUT OUTSIDE THE MACHINE --IN I- T//£ r<4fli£ /s" SUDDENLY CUT--] 2 I TO PULL US TO THE SURFACE/ WEII ITHE BLACK DEPTHS y _^^J r/y£ MACHINE DROPS-- J I U<>K.N iik!.^,
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 223 7 LONDON, Dec. 14. Previous Today 11 ritlß So 1 RSS ci.f. European 24 3/16 buyers 24 716 bu" Dry 2« l i .sellers 24 916 sellers i.'"ikiK No 1 RSS ci.f. European 24' m buyers 24', b\. I ls .lan. 24' 4 sellers 24. N& i
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    • 79 7 NEW YORK. Dec. 11. Previous Today TIN S!:iits spot and nearby 89.(52 nom. 89 37 nom. UN iuture« Dec. 89.25 bid 89.15 bid RtRKKR futures. Mar. '55 28.70 traded 28.85 to 23.83 traded May '55 28.60 traded 28.70 traded TONE: Very steady. BALES: 147 lots. No. I.
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    • 48 7 Spot Malabar was quoted at 44 rents per pound. Afloats at 43. December shipment 42*4. January January, February and March Above prices quoted tin equal monthly proportions) 41. Sarawak spot 43 'u and Lampong spot 44 cents per pound sellers exdock. in U.S. cents per Ib.
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    • 24 7 Previous Today M Industrials 389.79 387.03 21 Railroads 136.45 136.58 Jit Domestic Bonds 101.22 101.25 tl Murks Composite Averages 144.01 143.49
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    • 124 7 Dec. i 4. Previous Today < OPRA, Philippines c.i.f. ITK1 T K North. $197.. .ellers '197 sellers I uropeaa delivered weight per long ton Dec, Jan. (OPRA, Philippines, f.o.b. Manila, ielivered weight, per ***** lon unquoted unquoted COPRA, straits, c.i.f. IK North. £72 buyrr- £7L' buyri
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    • 134 7 lER of seven is coniat in the Havelon In next ye;itive Assembly. c 8. Soh, man port contractors' firm. he had worked .1 a schoolteacher, a I a salesman. S() h is standing as an lent. Though he has ved on any political
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  • 123 7 $500,000 GIVEN BY WELFARE I>ublk iiriitmfß given by the ire Department lust month totalled $483.013 17. disTibutcri among 13,629 c;. This included aid provided by the TB Treatment Allowance and the Silver Jubilee Fund. More than 1.500 tuberculosis cases were given assistance to the total of $131,655 95 during the
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  • 54 7 BACK FROM STUDY VISIT TO H.K. Mr. L. P. Comber has r< turned to Johorr Bahru alter three months in Hong Konp where he was attached to the Chinese section of the Honn Kong University. Mr. Comber, who was l'orm erly in the Federation Police is making a special study
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 252 7 Quicn Cr Cie have many yea riCf in shipping quality wines to the E i and we are pleased to be able to offer the following selection of Quicn and Chateau bottled Wines. tUureis iiui-uitnrifj St. Emihon 0 Chateaunouf dv F'jpe St julien Cevrey f.hambertin Chateau Pontet Canet Peaune Chateau
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  • Article, Illustration
    124 8 v i M tiaUi. ht> h.i\r k-•• i» Installed to help p trians cross t in s.if» t> I nun m Ii it in thr roundabout opposite Ihc Vu t<>! it Memorial Mai! 1> tomatk i"<l i N t Jlr i,.. tut. .it riffhl iliusIratrs, at Unci I
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  • 70 8 PICTORIAL ROUND-UP OF RECENT EVENTS IN THE PUBLIC LIFE OF THE COLONY A I Resident* of U.M>dN\ill. distrut jm Nerangoon *.idr out of their homes after the recent r.un* in Sini:.ip«»re Wm-.d^villr \\.is one of *t\»r.il .irt-.iN b.uil> H^odtd. RHi» f H.is rushed Xo Uw -md the puture. risht. ifeeWl
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  • 159 9 This was part of the crowd that waited patiently outside the Capitol Theatre for the appearance of Hollywood film star Ava Gardner. They waited in vain because Ava was taken into the theatre by the back way She appeared on the sta ge in a cheonK-sum
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  • 1091 10 PUBLIC ATTITUDE TODAY IS VERY MIXED I iMiMitiiiiiiiiiiiiii din in mi mm illinium m■ in iimiiiiiiii niimm.i i 1 1 •nn H'liiMliiiiii I llllllllilllllllii 1 1 1 nil 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 in ill 1 1. CIELD
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • 599 11  - Watch that dream— it may give you away! A. W. JARVIE WARNS A page to tefl you of NEW WONDERS in the MODERN WORLD 1 DON'T scoff at dreams. r centuries primitive races and superstitious people have looked on dreams as a means of foretelling the future. today they are
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  • 221 11 ONCE a month concrete coffins are brought from Bethesda, Maryland, to Norfolk. Virginia, and loaded in an American coastguard ship at night to be taken out for burial at sea. The coffins do not contain corpses, but materials, such a.s clothing
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  • 178 11 THERE'LL BE PLENTY OF POWER FROM THAT A- PILE FOLLOWING in the wake or Britain and America. Switzerland Ls soon to have an atomic pile for the production of electricity. It is estimated that it will co.st ju.st under MsB-million to erect and operate the necessary nuclear reactor and the
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  • 110 11 Corks will pop on this cargo show-ship A FRENCH cargo ship "Villr de Montreal" is to be fitted as a floating-exhibition ship and will next year visit th< principal ports of the Gulf Of Mexico and the Weal Indus What mifcht be termed ofTiviul stands will show exhibitions of medals
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 50 11 j *^[tR«IISPORT STORAGE Cjjiil CUT 1 73 CECIL STREET SINGAPORE I AS A CUCUMBER AIR CONDITIONED /%f #■/<•"?" RESTAURANT S!^S I ..KhaL AND BAR 4s&s 1 f lUdifhiir ARMENIAN ST. SINGAPORE m t r TEL ***** HOTEL j KEEP IN TOUCH WITH... THE STRAITS BUDGET MDMths \ii I lit Subi
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  • 477 12  -  Judith Simons #<>>#• Ihosv Christmas parties by AMONG the other bounties of Christmas comes one of the greatest joys to all f&shioned-minded women. For an evening or two we step out to parties and dances in all the flimsy finery we can muster. Today the trouble
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  • 289 12 FASHION should do something FOR the figure, not TO it. A talk with some clothesconscious women shows they have a complaint against designers, mostly because of the constant tempering with the silhouette. And one top designer agrees the women have a legitimate complaint. Women complain that
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  • 58 12 fHRISTMAS NEWS from B London shops includes a self-service budget toy shop. H Each tot is displayed on see- at-a-glance racks and noth- ing costs over MsB. Toys are picked out personally then taken to the counter to be wrapped and paid for. For the lazy present-siver one
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  • Article, Illustration
    47 12 picture. The three smart sirls. wearing attractive white vcluur pan caps decorated with rhinestones and pearls, are fashion models frum Holland who recently visited London to give a display of Date! fashions. From the left: Maria van Amstel 25, Henrika Ilendriks El, and Magda Bruns 28. Reuter
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 59 12 Do not hide your eyes I I tt^^BS' '-'-'^^^B^^HBf- -*-'-ft-.-.(Mi wvt XT.'J^BC- 'vS^^BSc ...v.yww" H IHk"^ '^^M^^BBtei: I fflfv?*: :^W :>«MBB;: ■^sHSsSr HB H bXv v 8 ''•'•fl^^^^Bl&'-' 1 I1 $SSoBsn&s3r VM Available at all reputable Opticians I See you at the OPTICAL FAIR I HOLLYWOOD ROOM I Odeon Theatre,
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous

  • 411 13  - So CHEER UP for CHARM JOSEPH EDMUNDSON I Fall in for the Zipp Parade for you can't I get GLAMOUR from GLOOM advises expert hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihh, t\ T OU'LL never get TURTLE. This ij played with I A AMOUR fr o m a Partner. -mM that's the tip p turtle down
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  • 109 13 Fibres keep your heart beating IVSCOVERY of the human 17 heart'a "equipment" for a of beating ceaselessly clay was recently ed by Dr. Bruno Xl eh ol New York. equipment consists of v small fibres within ■t muscle filaments. U"e called sarcosomes! are found in great masleart muscle, but are
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  • 68 13 BRITONS were still Switzerland's best customers in the tourist invasion of The Little Country last summer. Of the M 514.060,000 spent by foreign tourists in Swiss hotels and boarding houses in the I peak month of July. Britons accounted ior M 52,936,00 most one fifth followed
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  • 331 13 Both sides vulueruble North dealer ♦Q 6 2 wmn kast 10 7 4J9653 <?K532 r 0 10 9/8 7 ft OQIO 9 087* J io y 5 SOUTH A 2 4 OKJ 6 3 4k A X 8 7 4 3 l*he bidding: Nortk Kast South West 1
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 116 13 I I iryvwm^- nft f£l -fT& rj'.t everybody ii ibfc I i Mmit6 distM '■i.ixirnij'n ipcrtun <!• n i d With ol th< I !r>y finder WMft of Ihf Im It-in I th, f'f RKEO KU' HI "mi urc .ill dr d<?^rpe of accuracy and Ml the len ngly, man,
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  • 128 14 THE game o! Indoor curling, ai vii' of bowla on Ice so beloved, of sroLsmeu. la being fostered under j ureat difficulties In the North of England by lome m»0 exile* from Scotland, Joined by I lew English converts. Ice rink owners not unnaturally prefer to
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  • 314 14 /'lll ISI l.(. have thrown down the sauntU'l N < I L\ Banner F.C. and. just in case you don t know it R«i Banner are the Hangarlan champions-.. I.Ational Army side and most of them world-famous Hungarian International players. For this
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  • 167 14  - Snowy plans McCarthy triumph ARCHIE QUICK By SNOWY" Buckingham has long been recognised as one of the canniest boxing trainers in the world, but I doubt if he has ever before planned a victory so skilfully as that which brought Sammy McCarthy victory over Roy Ankarah at Harringay. Throughout the
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  • 487 14  - THE OXFORD SKIPPER STARVED HIS THREES PKTKR LOVEGBOVI BY 4 solitary penalty goal by full- back Peter Da vies in the. tenth minute took Cambridge to victory over Oxford at Twickenham last week in what will suerly rank as the poorest Inter-Varsity rugby match since the war. Davies. son the
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  • 368 14 Test man hits at run-shy batsmen gOME Interesting rtevi on cricket have from two .stars of the Charles H. Palmer, captain of Leicestershire and manager ot last year's IC.C.C. touring .side in the West Indies, and leant Constantine, the West Indian Test personality of former years and in later day.s
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 110 14 Sports quiz (1) It >nu wttt pteytaf foil on the "litii <»iii where would >ou »>• (2» Edward Albert Gcrici is ucllknou M Knglish boxer, but under different ring MUM, Who is he? 3 For what sport > are these international trophies contested: (a) Kamala Kamanujan (up, <b> MaCrini Cap
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    • 35 14 Answers to Quiz qnio I^.hjo auoqatfjm (ft) •pa.\oiudJ aaneiag am a.\«n uwo jaAßjd am 'JpnsSey XT) }sui«3b SJSBJ [teg au.i JI (5^ •puomuißH •3uipXa O) 'Oiqes) Supuaj <q> -stuuai-aiqßi (V) (S> •pußno^e s.A\djpuv :s <I>
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  • 92 15 Lan Johnson and Miller doubtful i JOHNSON, the AusI tralian Test captain, xtremely unlikely" to for the second Test nst England beginr m Sydney on Friday. Johnson was twice struck on :k of the right thigh while fielding against the M<'(' yesterday. Subsequently iscle went when chasing jo! *on said
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  • 68 15 TBftta post win All-Malayan Malays tennis champions will be held at Kuala Lumpur during iiese New Year holidays from to Jan. 25. events are: open singles and handicap singles and veterans doubles and junior stnglai for under 18. y forms may be obtained the various state
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  • 358 15 ENGLAND, once top-rank: badminton, has dropp there are now strong i )rmer world prominer Tht lapse came about mainly bi cause other countries ticularly Malaya, started to take seriously a game nothing worthwhile is achieved without hard work. will tell you that it's tough
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  • 55 15 About 550 midshipmen have volunteered to go to New Orleans to cheer their Navy football team apainst Mississippi in the Sugar Bowl on January 1. i Capt. Elliott Lougniln said yes- terday that many had Indicated their Intentions of going to the 1 game from their
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  • 29 15 i The Portland University touring basketball team beat Selangor State 'by 60 41 at Chenwu Stadium. Kuala Lumpur ia.st night after leadi ing 27—17 at half time.
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  • 194 15 VIC SEIXAS and Tony Trabert are heavily avoured to srlve tho the United States victory over Sweden in the Inter-zone D»vi R Cup tennis fin at .starting In Brisbane tomorrow, despite the sparklinK form of the European champlonjs. "The devil may be impressed but not I."
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  • 72 15 THE Soviet yesterday claimed a new world record of 210 feet, 3 4 inch for the 16-pound hammer throw by KtanLslav j Nenashev, a youn^ Russian Komsomol Pravda, the newspaper of the Communist Youth lieague, reported that Nen;tshev made his prodigious heave at Bakku on Monday
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  • 361 15 A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK FOR 2nd TEST lowcfrey and May hit out yyiTH the second Test sti was the outstanding fi the drawn match against Was it Tyson's bowl sharing pride of place 1 deliveries was yesterday's May and Colin Cowdrey. May scored a century In brilliant style. He was not
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  • 128 15 1 I M( < IS! INNn 11J VICTORIA— IST INNs 277 MX X 2ND INN! Hutton c Maddorks b I ..u..,, 2S lUilev h I'owrr I May not oat lOS <»r»vrn«-y c Mftddorlu b Loiton 12 omdrry McDonald b Johnson 54 Simpvon r hambn, b Hill Krmna not o«t
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  • 137 15 'SANDY SADDLER STILL CHAMP' —MANAGER SANDY Saddler's manager yesterday criticised the National Boxing Association i for withdrawing title recognition from the world featherweight champion. "The only people I know who can give or take away titles are Kings and Queens," said Charlie Johnston, Saddler's manager. "I never heard of the
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  • 47 15 rE Indian Cricket Board ol Control yesterday announced the remainder of the Indian party to tour Pakistan starting on December 28 The first ten members wenannounced a fortnight ago The others are: Phadkar. Man Jrefcar. Gopinath. Danljasu Patel. Prakash Bhandari and Borde. Reuter
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  • 303 15 WALKER CUP PLAYER QUITS GOLF iohn langley. three J times Walker Cup player and former English champion, is up tournament nolf. He is only 36. Aftrr the IMS Walker Cup contest at Marmn. Massachusetts. Langley decided to r» st from big golf for ;t yar because it hud become a
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  • 331 15 I pOALKEEPER of Welwyn Garden y City PC (Herts) Is Gerald Hlbbs son of England's gmit goalkeeper of two decades Ago. The famous Harry Hlbbs lives In WHwyn and scouts for Villa. He guarded the England goal in 1935 when the Oerrruins were last
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  • 355 16  -  TOPSPIN Individual ties start tonight By li()N(J KONCi more than made up for lost time In Winning all their matches in two days in their quest to regain the Baroda Cap at the Third Asian Table Tennis Championships. They have thus qualified to
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  • 380 16 ■ONG KONG BT KOREA -I Lav Seck-fong beat Chang Hung Xi 21-13. 21-13; lost to Rhee Kyon-.; Ho 19-21 16-21 Chum Chin-shlng i. lost to Rhee Kyons Ho 16-21, T-21 beat Cho Your.- Jae 21-10. 21-10. Chu Cheung-lint: beat Cho Young JM 21-9. 21-13; beat Chang Hung Xi
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  • 109 16 (CHAMPION Cari <Bobo; Olson yesterday remained the experts' choice to continue his reign over the *orld middleweight division in his 15--round title contest with Pierre Langlols of France tonight. Few. if any. of the boxing critics think that Olson, an efficient and workmanlike performer, can lose
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  • 65 16 Jimmy Sladr is Hal Ml back outside the ropea after being belted ill the third round of his bout with Floyd Patterson In Mrndtson Squ.ire (iarden. Neu York. Pitters() M \vm\s over the ro\n^ riimsiders put up their army Made went down for the
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  • 34 16 JOE LUCY. British lightweight boxing champion, and Johanny Van Rensburg, the South African title holder. are to meet for the vacant Empire championship in Johannesburg on January 29. Reuter
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  • 20 16 The Cuy of Brussels will bid for the 1960 Olympic Games, it was '.earned here yesterday. A. P.
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  • 112 16  - Italians shoot 6 past West Ham VERNON MORGAN r,v MILAN, the Italian Football League leaders, beat West Ham United, the English second division club. 6—o in a floodlit match last night in London. The Italian team, who led 2 —o at half-time, gave a brilliant exhibition. Main contributors to a
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  • 34 16 The Badminton of Malaya has ::v George Thomas, don r I trophy bearing his i visit this country in year and personally pr the Cup to the winn rs Challenge round
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    • 37 16 Tonights ties 5 p.m. Men's singles. Round 1 and 2: Men's doubles, first round; Women's singles, first round. 9 pm. Men's singles, up to quarter-finals. Doubles second round. Women's singles, up to quarter-finals. Mixed doubles, first round
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