The Singapore Free Press, 29 December 1954

Microfilm: NL2441
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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. MM!. Singapore. Wed.. Dec. 29, 1951. Prior els.
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    Peter & Atesandra call off dirorce
    123 1 Peter Atesandra call off dirorce Ij* X X I 1 1 J Peter of Yugoslavia announced yesterday lhat he and his wife. ex-Queen Alexandra, had become reeon- ciled and decided to ab- andon their divorce suit. The 31 -year- o 1 d former monarch arrived m (Istaad, Switzerland unexpectedly on
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    Firemen keep up ship blaze fight
    109 1 SPHERE is still some hope of saving what is left of the Danish freighter, Lexa Maersk, which caught tire on Christmas Day and is still burning. Two Singapore Harbour Board fire tenders started today to pump water into the ship, which is now lying
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    ROYAL SHOOT
    31 1 The Queen, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret who are spending Christmas at Sandringham, Norfolk, yesterday followed a shooting party, including the three Dukes, Edinburgh, Gloucester and Kent.- Reuter
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    TUGS REFLOAT SINGAPORE LIGHTER
    89 1 TUGS REFLOAT SINGAPORE LIGHTER FOUR tugs two owned by the Malayan Stevedoring Company of Singapore and two by tne British Malayan Petroleum Company at Kuala Belait, Brunei succeeded early today m refloating a 350-ton Singapore lighter which had been ashore for more than a week at the mouth ol the
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    LEAKING SHIP
    30 1 The Japan sfo Kyuko Maru carrying 6.000 tona of coal, was towed back to Calcutta yesterday after t had sprung a leak m the No. 1 hold. A.P.
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    MR. DAG LEAVES TOMORROW FOR TALKS WITH MR. CHOU
    86 1 Mr Dag HammarskJ the United Nation Si retary-General said night he wUI leave foi i tomorrow m sn the <•• *JW hate talks m London with Anthony Edei B "n Sec. InNea Delhi wit harlai Nehru, the Indian Prime Mini Tn
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    BIG U.S. ARMS AID FOR ASIA
    131 1 BIG U.S. ARMS AID FOR ASIA Ike expands plan jjjjjfc "i^a T HE United States plans to make 13,360,000,000 worth of military aid available te Formosa, Japan, thc Philippines, Indo-fhina, Siam and Pakistan under an expanded Asian defence programme for 1955. Official soirees m Washington said jresteri that the administration
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    BOGOR PROBLEMSRED CHINA, JAPAN
    192 1 T^HE Prim? Ministers of thc five Colombo Powers India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia end their two-day meeting at Bogor today with a decision on the cruclai question ot whether to invite Communist China and Japan to the conference next April m Indonesia of African and
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    FLOODS KILL 47
    27 1 The death roll m the floods which swept through the town of Carmen Del Atratn on Colombia's Pacific coast has risen to 47. Reuter
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    WOMAN ROBBED OF $1,200 GEMS, CASH
    60 1 A Chinese woman Madam O.h Kirn Thoy. Ol Killiney R i 1. Singapore, was robber! worth of Jewellery and $108 cash by two men, at tins morning. One of the men, who we armed with a knife put hlfl hands on her mouth and
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    RUBBER PRICE
    30 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on ;i steady tone, with first grade, January shipment ai Mi cents a lb., i "of a cent below yesterday's clo
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    French Navy ordered: Stand by in Delta crisis
    164 1 French Navy ordered: Stand by in Delta crisis rpin; French Par East 1 t 1 it un north from gon n< xt week to protect I nch <•:• i I troops nt Haiphong, the port of H.moi In Northern vt< tnam, who are now m critical ita ra lat from
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    U.K. RAILMEN FIRM ON STRIKE PLAN
    201 2 BUT THEY WILL JOIN GOVT COURT OF INQUIRY itnion leaders of 400,000 British rail workers yesterday refused a Government appeal to withdraw their call for a nation-wide pay claim strike on Jan. 9. But the union chiefs, members of the 24-man executive of the
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    FRENCH REJECTION OF PARIS PACTS SHOCKS BRITAIN
    208 2 BRITAIN took a cautious view of the French National Assembly's approval yesterday of German membership m the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "I'm keeping quiet and keeping my fingers crossed." The Press almost unanimously condemned the Assembly's Christmas Eve
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    FIVE MORE 'BROTHERS' MUST DIE
    68 2 FIVE MORE 'BROTHERS' MUST DIE A CAIRO People's Court yesterday sentenced three officers and two men from the armed forces and police to death for complicity m a Moslem Brotherhood plot to overthrow the present regime. Another 20 men from the armed forces and police were sentenced to prison terms
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    Catholic school teachers sacked by Peron
    61 2 Catholic school teachers sacked by Peron DISMISSAL of five Roman Catholic priests and 40 religious teachers from Cordoba province's educational institutions was ordered yesterday m Argentina. Peron, m his now famous November 10 speech condemning alleged political and labour activities by a section of t[ie Roman Catholic clergy singled out
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    CHEQUES WERE WORTHLESS COURT IS TOLD
    137 2 r r O post-dated cheques I which proved worthless j were given as payment by Tay Peng Hong for goods taken from L. E. Tel and C 0. and another firm owned by X Chandra, the Singapore Becond Criminal District Court was told yesterday.
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    'Settle threat of H-bomb'
    167 2 DOC TOK Cyril Garbett, the Archbishop of York, said m his new year letter yesterday that the prospects for peace were brighter than they had been for some years. The world should be thankful for having passed through 1934 without a major war. Disputes which might
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    W. Indies islands get more self-rule
    245 2 r,|„ IHHIiIiMUMIIMIIIMIM IMMMII LOCAL MEN AS DEPARTMENT CHIEFS: HALF A MILLION people, mostly negroes and descendants of slaves mi n the tiny colonies of the Leeward and Windward Islands, off the West Indies, are to have more self-government as soon as possible the British
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    Reds hold US PoWs
    30 2 Three Americans are being held by the Russians at a camp 280 miles east of Moscow, newly-returned German prisoners of war said m I Vienna yesterday.
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    He'll lecture here on free enterprise
    74 2 He'll lecture here on free enterprise jjljß. LELAND HAZARD. vi ce jlT* president of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.. will leave the U.S. m January to lecture m the Far East in- eluding Singapore and Mal- aya. [He will speak on labour relations free enterpri>e and educational television. [Mr. Hazard,
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    Car crash leads to discovery of murdered rector
    300 3 Car crash leads to discovery of murdered rector I^Lt l n S lninor (ar accident curly yesterday found the beaten t 2 k W^ W«OP-1 Church. Philadelphia, brutally Mpvp?Wpl,pc -Htn apartment Patrolmen Joseph Nieholl and olflv i^wt ll je body of the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Bissell, 59. was dad Ul
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    Marlon and Grace voted best stars
    88 3 Marlon and Grace voted best stars NEVV YORK, film critics yesterday voted "On the Waterfront" the best English language picture of the year. It was made by Columbia. Marlon Brando, star m the film, was voted the best actor of 1954. Lelia Kazan, who directed it, wa s voted best
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    ARROW IN CHEST NOT IN THE ACT
    121 3 A WOMAN collapsed on the >tage m Bridlington, with an Indian arrow through her J.j 1PS t— and the crowd of 1,200 cheered and clapped. They thought it was part of the act. The performance on Montiignt featured "Big Chief .>r," a North
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    Report denied
    30 3 The Vatican Radio yesterday denied that Cardinal Mindszenty. Archbishop of Strigonia, had been released irom a Hungarian Communist prison, as recently reported from behind the Iron Curtain. U.P.
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    New ambassador
    21 3 Mr. John Davis Lodge, the outgoing Republican Governor of Connecticut, is to be the new U.S. ambassador to Spain.
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    Forest blaze threatens 120 homes
    105 3 Forest blaze threatens 120 homes A FOREST fire, fanned by 75--mile winds roared out of control yesterday, threatening I the mountain community ol Devore Heights, m the San Bermardino valley, m California. Three hundred fire-lighters massed at the east edge ol the 120-home area to make a stand lat that
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    CHILDREN BURIED BY AVALANCHE ESCAPE WITH BROKEN LEGS
    107 3 AN AVALANCHE swept down upon a group of ten Danish children and their adult leader yesterday m mountains m northern Sweden, but all survived. Only two of the children and the leader were caught by the I snowfall. It hurled them 70
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    Peking pays in full for plane Reds shot down
    163 3 Peking pays in full for plane Reds shot down RED CHINA has sent Britain a cheque for £367,000 as compensation for the British airliner shot down by Chinese Communist fighters on July 23 near Hainan Island with the loss of 10 lives— three of them American. The Foreign Office said
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    GREENLAND PARTY
    42 3 The US. Air Force Secrei tary, Mr. Harold Talbott, ac- companied by 20 entertainers, headed by Bob Hope, will 1 spend New Year's eve with officers and men at the re- mote air force base m Thule. i Greenland.- U.P.
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    Mother saves children in Royal Lodge fire
    144 3 FIRE broke out m a building of the Queen Mother's country residence yesterday and trapped a royal groundsman's three children. Their mother dashed twice into a blazing room to rescue them before three Are tngines arrived at the Roy il Lodge at Windsor
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    MIDDLE EAST
    24 3 /CAIRO'S steadily-expanding y cinema industry is giving t'>' city the name Hollywood of the Middle East." Eighty pe r cent of films
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    'HOLLYWOOD'
    23 3 shown m Egypt are locally made Egyptian films dominTte the Arabic language cinema markets of all Arab states. Turkey and Iraq. A.P.
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    ANOTHER BOOM IN U.S.-THIS TIME BABIES
    103 3 ANOTHER BOOM IN U.S. -THIS TIME BABIES rwva m m I Ami rican In the Surgeon I the (JJ9 P Health rday that birth., In ti tin.-, will top I f<»r the time. Th«- birth rate per 1.000 population, howei t pected to fall below the Itfl record. Scneele a,
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Dec. 29. 1954. EYES ON BOGOR
    275 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Dec. 29. 1954. EYES ON BOGOR THE Prime Ministers ot the five Colombo Powers— lndia, Pakisitan, Burma, Ceylon and Indonesia are now meeting at Bogor, a hill station near Jakarta, to fix the agenda, the date and the countries to be invited to an AfroAsian
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    END TO DIVIDED LOYALTY
    839 4  - END TO DIVIDED LOYALTY RENE MacCOLL by who has flown out to South Africa to meet its people and leaders and find out what the new regime of Premier Johannes Strydom means to Britain 1 SPENT an hour talking to Eric Hendrik Louw, h4-year-old Minister of Economic Affairs m South
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    THE BATTLE FOR TRADE
    276 4 LAST year, 4,800 West German manufacturing firms went bankrupt They failed m the ruthless war of price slashing and savage international competition that is making Germany Britain's most dangerous "export trade" rival And the effect of those bankruptcies could be more disastrous for industrial Britain than
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      51 4 Finer Rings at I SENA'S J Whatever thr purpose »n j 5 engagement, an anniversary 3 or just a gift" there are 3 rings lo convey every gesture of goodwill with 2 charm end elegance. H SENA LIMITED HIGH CLASS lEWELLERS Singapore, Penang. Bangkok. ~\i ltoxs >,r«>v< htn rv y*\
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      136 4 Helena Rubinstein s j i pm>^ j for Young Beauty >w^ r wrw-?fSfl J^L. X WWM___I ___^v naapCUaLr Skin CUar ing Cr warn Mediated Cream Beauty Oram, Pretty, Pink and Priced to please 1 Z i\ow For young hearts and slender purses, Helena Rubinstein introduces PINK QUARTET— four of her
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    SCOURGE OF T.B. CAN BE CONQUERED
    77 5 TUBERCULOSIS specialists ..nate that nearly five million people throughout the i will die m the next 12 mthfl from the disease. Man has had no more stubt>r terrible foe than tubetsls, they say. But Dr. J Burns Amberson. oi Columbia University, dean of American
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    This is their only link with city
    47 5 THIS IS the Geylang Serai temporary wooden bridge for pedestrians only of which residents m the area complain. They say it cannot be used by motor transport, and this is causing great hardship to the farmers and others. Free Press
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    The guest preacher
    58 5 HPHE Rev. John Fleming, 1 general secretary of the Malayan Christian Council, will be the guest preacher at the Watch Night service of the Tamil Methodist Church, Short Street, Singapore, on Friday. Wesley Methodist Church m rt Canning Road, will hold a Watch Night Service and Holy
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    CHINESE FARMERS IN GEYLANG SERAI SEEK NEW BRIDGE
    216 5 T!HE recent floods m Singapore have stranded some A 3,000 villagers of the Chinese farm m Geylang Serai. Their only link for motorised traffic with the city a 12-foot wide wooden bridge over a canal at Jalan Alsagoff was swept away on
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    NEW YEAR SOCIAL
    27 5 The Wesley Guild, Singapore, will hold a New Year dinner and social at the V.M.C.A. restaurant, Orchard Road, at 7 30 uu Saturday night.
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    XMAS TREAT, SHOW
    24 5 The Singapore V.M.C.A. will give the boys at the Gimson School a film show and Christmas treat tomorrow at 6.30 n.m.
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    Untitled
    58 5 Dr. Tseng Yun Lin. on the staff of the Ceneral 1 losp.Ul Singapore, leaves the Church of the Sacred Heart In T*M Hoad after his marriage to Mi>s Connie Uh. *^TO Pianist. Dr. Tseng is the fifth son of Mr. and T **a«. The bride is the eldest daughter of
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    Home Guard wounds Red
    58 5 A Home Guard on Sunday opened fire and wounded a terrorist as he levelled his rifle to shoot him m the Chlkus forest reserve ln the Tapah area of Perak. A gang of 10 or 12 terrorists were cutting trees when th Horn' 1 Guard saw
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    Escape' charge withdrawn
    44 5 X F Falek waa acquitted m the Singapore Fifth Police terday on a charge of resisting arre t and c iping from Holla:. d Koui Police i Station at 230 a.m. on Nov. 6 while being detained ior alleged drunken driving.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      313 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis V^%nff^ s WEREN'T IN TME SS WOD ON COMING POR US/ yyy// LOTMAR.PORTHE IN METAL Wttt THENWiMNT Jj; T R YOuBROKE 1 BOAT-- IJJ^T^^P^M HUNDREOTHTIMf^- ROOM. THAT^ POOR/ J > >^_iZ_gOjgjia^. f TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs lAS TARZAN APPI^OACmEP THE 1 f
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      761 6 1 K^Z j YOUR j I STAR i I gORN today, you .re a Xar r j and seldom think as riA others m the world about ou Your Ulents are ma.n 2 t I courage great; and your ah.liv to promote a new idea is 2 standinr You have
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U. K. closing prices
      209 7 LONDON, Dec. 28. Prerious Today RI'BRER. No. 1 RSS cJi. European 26 11/16 buyers 27 buyers ports Jan 27 sellers 27\ sellXl BBEK. So. I RSS c-U. European 26 v buyers 27 516 buyers ports Feb 26 sellers 27 >* sellers Xl BBKR No. I RSS
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      New York prices
      103 7 NEW YORK. Dec. 28. Previou* Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 87.25 nom. 87.25 nom. TIN futures Dee. 86.70 bid 86.50 bid 87.40 asked 87.25 asked Jaa. 86.70 bid 86.50 bid 87.40 asked 87.25 asked Fefc. 86.70 bid 86.50 bid 87.40 asked 87.25 asked TONE: Dull. SALES:
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      U.S. PEPPER
      83 7 Spot Malabar was quoted at 41 M pong spot at 41 H cents per pound to 42. Awaiting release at 41. Afloats sellers ex dock. Bids were noted at at 41. January shipment 40^.. Feb- 41 cents per pound for spot Malabar ruary 40. January, February and and
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      32 7 NEW YORK, Dec. 28. Previous Today 30 Industrials 393.88 398.51 M Railroads 143.84 145.30 -10 Domestic Bonds 100.90 101.00 15 Utilities 61.37 61.43 64 Stocks Composite A*eraffes 147.07 148.47
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      123 7 Dec. 28. Prerlovs Today COPRA, Philippines cLf. UK/North. European delivered weight per lon S ton Dec./ Jan $200 quoted $200 sellers COPRA, Philippines. f.o.b. Manila. delivered weight, per long ton unquoted unquoted COPRA. Straits. cLf. UK/North. European delivered weight per lonj U>n Dec./ Jan £724 buyers
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    New rail services from Singapore
    201 7 BEGINNING on Saturday Malayan Railway! will start new passenger IMV vices between Singapore and KlU&ng and Singapore and Qema The railway administration has had to Itep-tip services to COpt up with the increasing number of passengers. The day mail trains from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur
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    27 7 Mr. Robert Kow. a Singapore insurance employee, and his bride, the former Miss Sybil Rufus, leave the Church of the Holy Family m Kitong, after their marriage.
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    WELCOMING 1955
    18 7 The Segamat International Club will hold New Year's party with a dinner and dance on Friday.
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    3 ESCAPE AS HOVER PLANE CRASH-LAND
    86 7 THREE senior R.A.F. officers escaped unhurt yesterday when a Whirlwind helicopter of 155 squadron crash-landed near Semenyih, 18 miles from Kuaia Lumpur They were Squadron Leader N. H. Jackson-Smith, O.C. 155 Squadron; Wing Commander W. R. Williams. O.C. Flying Wine R.A.F., Kuala Lumpur and
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    New stamps
    26 7 New postage stamps bearing the portrait of the Queen will be on sale at all post offices In Malacca and Penang on January 5.
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    75 8 npHESE men of "B" Company, the lst East Yorkshires, were on *jj* t^l it turned out to be an advantage, because they received two JJ^J them m the jungle near their camp at Kluang, two days before plum pudding, nuts, fruit and champagne and beer. And, as to < oV
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    Body-snatchers Unlimited
    879 10  - Body-snatchers Unlimited Mary Hewat i 0 A 'UNIVERSAL AUNT' LEADS 'GET THERE FIRST' RESCUE SQUAD LIEUT-COLONEL RAYMOND CARLETON, a tall, rangy, soft-voiced American, is a man who could qualify as Britain's top Universal Aunt. He is a Texan— "a modest Texan, ma'am, but I'm not bashful "—the actins commander of
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    'Death plane' I now beats the world
    141 10 'Death plane' I now beats the world JOHN WILSON, 30-year- old test pilot for de Havillands, has flown the D.H.I 10 far beyond the speed of sound to make it the world's fastest multi-seater fighter. It was a D.H.UO which crashed during the 1952 Farnborough Air Show, killing test pilot
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      148 10 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu THE STRAITS TIMES, which has pioneered the use of colour photography for magazine journalism m South East Asia, ■lew SERVICE... on of the superb full-colour illustraitraits Times Annuals m the form of ansfer photographic prints, ably mounted, are now available at a lUAL for 1955 lopra Boats (Page 5).
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    Camels cost more than men in this epic
    286 11 Camels cost more than men in this epic THE Hollywood company filming "The Ten Commandments" m Egypt received the first of many surprises when it started hiring extras and livestock for some of the movie's more supercolossal scenes. Human's were priced at 20 piastres »,about 20 Malayan cents) a head
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    Men like to work for this girl
    286 11 And this includes iiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiMiimiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiMitiMiiiimHii temperamental MMMMMMMINHiHMMHMMMM actors too T<HERE are many men A who say they never would work for a woman. Their wives excepted, of course. These males might even relax and enjoy working for a woman once they tried it, especially
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    The Cabbie waved her goodbye
    225 11 |\IANNI Foster, whom E S \j Canadian TV deve- E E loped, came to Hollywood E 5 by way of the London stage. And her most vivid m o t someE thing that E happened m s Ho 1 1 y wood Ewhc n she
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    It's the horse that makes the cowboy
    219 11 It's the horse that makes the cowboy AUTRY predicts the cowboy and the Western film will be around for generations yet because "they are part of the national heritage of America. The millionaire cowboy is not, worried about perseded by the spac* jockey. A man on a horse, he I
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    Pretty boys are much over-rated
    238 11 Pretty boys are much over-rated says ABBE— AMERICANS the wrong slant on male sex appeal, says Abbe Lane, delectable Latin from Brooklyn. Abbe is actuali. Ift Latin than Ebb I Fl< Id but •h d Im] n ai the itnfi with husband vier C ll m.irln »ndThe < at wori
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    Do you ENJOY your own cooking?
    514 12  -  PAMELA RICHARDS Be bold— and banish boredom Be brave— shed kitchen tyranny Begin NOW— with a second helping by HERE'S a challenge for every woman who has ever Bald *'I can't enjoy food I have to cook myself." And that almost certainly includes YOU.
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    They keep the children happy
    66 12 rro keep the children among A their passengers happy Belgium's SABENA airlines are rounding-off their mid-air lunches with a whole series of cardboard games for every child. The games include bricks, giant dice, draughts and geometrical puzzles. The very Junior Miss among the passengers comes
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    It's captivating
    35 12 picture. CAPPING THE HEADLINES, This snug little head-hugging cap m white wool melusine is a popular headwear m Britain this winter. It has a rolled brim which is twisted at the side. Reuter
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    HERE'S THE FIVE-MINUTE WAY TO A FIT FIGURE
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    Bridge Hand
    320 13 North-South vulnerable West dealer ALTHOUGH skill is by far ihe most important element In bridge it would be noo i claim 'that luck does not pi considerable part. For example, if you were to any -six bid on the North-South bands, it would It that .six hearts or
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    TIME, LADIES, PLEASE!
    513 13 TIME, LADIES, PLEASE! j^tJlJ^^ 0 NT elevenses-it's TIME for ZEST, it's time for ZIPP, i t 5 WHEN it's eleven o'clock, m the morning, it's time for your elevenses. And just the time for five minutes of exercise that will keep you fit the fun way (like Miss Zipp). No
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      101 13 (A Ml measure) offeligHf _^__B_rfl—^^L^ m\ C^ im&mWw^^ mm* m m, Mushroom /fe<* 4 Cm soup JL*j Js^JSl H J- HEINZ CO. I&^W C*\\ (r>) E ver y l ast drop of this tan- X i m^NpVZ talizing soup tempts your 1 I appetite. Those tender little mushrooms are specially
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    BEST YEAR IN SPORT FOR BRITISH FANS
    726 14  -  VERNON MORGAN o*m in. ii unit IN TBI realms of sport the year IM:>4 uill no down to history m Britain. Indeed 1 it may be argued that it was the year ol the century the >ear m Which a mortal for the
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    English F.A. reply to critics
    433 14 English F.A. reply to critics By \R( hif: QUICK THE English Football A elation, much critic for not giving permission for the Queens Park Rangers Walthamstow Avenue Cup replay to take place by floodlight at Highbury and thereby benefit the two clubs financially, hits back m the latest edition of
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    U.K. STARS STILL IGNORE SPONGE BAT
    242 14 JAPAN'S chances of retaining their world table tennis titles, m Holland next year appear to be slim so says Ichiro Ogimura, Japan's world singles champion. Why the pessimism? Ogimura thinks that European players are catching up on Japan's techniques, especially m the use of
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    U.S. adds another fabulous trophy
    466 14 THERE is a new addition to the fabulous prize money golf tournaments m the United States the "Cavalcade of Golf." for a prize fund of approximately £18.000. This event will be held next September on the Shackamaxon Country Club's course, m Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
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      84 14 dfgsdfgdfgdfg (1) May a goal be scored direct from a goal kick? (2) Which team won this years Malayan A. A team title, and who were ninnersup? (3) Neo Chwee Kok's 1.500m freestyle Singapore swimming record is (a) 16 min. 583 sec, (b) 18 min. 22 sec, (<•> H) min.
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      59 14 Marten Mendez, (c) K. Brann? (6) Tony Trabert beat Lew Hoad in the opening singles of the Davis Cup challenge round on Monday. What was the score? Answers to Quiz *E-9 'OI-Zl '9-Z >-9 <9> 'wdjjjV mnos (0) sajejg paiiun <q> <«) (S) uiioin^iS 1« ZI6I (q) D9S LQV UllU
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    It could have been even better, Blues
    377 15 It could have been even better, Blues Free Press Rugby Reporter All Blues 11; Ceylon Cniversity 0. a ITER a scoreless first half, the Singapore All Blues A took command of a gruelling rugger match at the Police ground yesterday to beat the visiting University of Ceylon XV by a
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    YESTERDAYS U.K. RUGBY
    59 15 Rl/GBY UNION Bedford 3 Penarth 12; Bristol 9 Old Merchant Taylors 6; Cardiff 8 ninns 0; Gloucester 3 UniverAihletie Union 14; Leicester 13 rians 22; Newport 9 Ebbw Vale 8; Northampton 16 Netron Police 0; Swansea 6 London Welsh 6. RUGBY LEAGUE Hucidersfield 22, Bramley 18; Leeds
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    S'pore boy is champ
    146 15 SINGAPORE schoolboy N. K. Devan won the men's singles title at the annual Perak Indorse badminton championships which concluded at Taiping on Monday. Devan beat F.A.L. Gonzaga. the Selangor Foong Seong Cup player, m straignt sets of 15-11, 15-8. Devan also won another title when he
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    RUSSIAN CHESS MEN ARRIVE
    21 15 Three Russian chess players taking part m the Hasting tournanjenl which opens today arrived In London yesterday.
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    Peter May leads MCC batting spree
    664 15 Peter May leads MCC batting spree \I C.C. batsmen com- piled their highest total of the Australian tour yesterday against Ww South Wales Northern District at Newcastle. PoUt May led the scoring spree with 157 runs, hit up m brilliant style. With the third Test starting on Friday the MCC
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    ASIAN MEET IN PAKISTAN
    81 15 rnHE A lion Quadrangular 1 football Committee dectd rd y< rday m Calcutta tO hold the next tournament m Pakistan. India recently retained tin Colombo Cup when they won the third annual tournam from Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon. The Pakl itan Foo thai) Federation his ta
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    A DOUBLE KNOCKOUT
    87 15 TMIE Miami Beach Boxing Commission has ruled a fight between middles eights Gus Rubicini of Toronto and Andy Mayfield of Miami last week was a double technical knockout. Both fighters suffered serious cuts when they butted heads m the fourth round. Referee Petey Sarron .stopped the fight
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    NAVAL BASE BEAT R.A.P.C.
    42 15 In their last league tie of the season Naval Base beat Royal Army Pay Corps 5-0 m a Div. 3A hockey match yesterday at the Naval Base. Half-time score was 4-0. Goal-getters: JO— neon <3i. Hardy and Brooks.
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    WRIGHT OUT OF HOSPITAL
    49 15 BILLY Wright. England's soccer captain and Wolverhampton Wanderers centre-half, was yesterday discharged from a Liverpool hospital where he had spent the night suffering from concussion. Wright collapsed after has ding the ball three times near the end of a game against Everton, the Liverpool club.
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    VILLA WIN 2-1
    25 15 A.ston Villa defeated Manchester United 2-1 m fth English Soccer League First Division match yesterday. Villa Jed 1-0 at half-time A. P.
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    AUSSIE PRAISE FOR U.S. WIN Davis Cup is safe
    386 15 AUSSIE PRAISE FOR U.S. WIN Davis Cup is safe TOT Australian press generally has taken a sporting view of the loss of the Davis (up to the Inited Mates after thr l gained a winning 3-0 lead yesterday b\ taking the doubles after successes m the first two of four
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    9 sons—and all play top soccer
    199 15 9 sons— and all play top soccer T AMBHILL (1 I .mud J oi ths Dunn t_ mil] rhs sins tons of Barney Dunn <ne footballer. 1 All are oWi f»"Cl tall. Fi\e bad turned i»' .md ths other four have sppSSTSd m 'op junior football Dunn Senior: "If I
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    PIRIE PLANS RECORD RUN
    217 15 /GORDON PIRIE, British runner, said yesterday that he plans to attack Emil Zatopck's 10,000--metre record next summer. Pirie broke a foot bone la.st summer and has done little competitive running since. His German COtCh, Woldemar Gerschler would not rom- ment on Pirie 's plan to attack
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    FORT VIEW ENJOYMENT SPECIAL FEATURE
    862 16 3 good bets for Penang races today Free Ptcm C— ex Oripspondent IMIRT VIKH io lU©J One, Enjoyment II m Kate F«« a "d Special Feature In R«ee Six, all stable fancies, should make a safe treble at Penang today. nu is hkchi to ?>e
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    All the letest selections
    115 16 {;r:-Z<mf'^ wmmgn* It M' (Ml BOY POINTER twi RP \>>l R EPSOM JEW rRESPAhSEK gai w lV()N OATDBLYON I<Mt VmW iovl x SPIKNDOI X ntOG II vs 1 i"'-'u l!1 sjsriUi 'car lkHrle rOMBTELLATION GUTTEBINO VOl MX I lITT HIN YOVNG ALE 4 tier ni Dy~W»J
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    PENANG HOCKEY
    22 16 Penang Combined Schools will meet the University of Malaya m a friendly hockey match on the Free School ground today.
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    2 TOP CLUBS WIN THROUGH
    41 16 MARIGOLD and Mayflower won their first round ties m the Singapore Badminton Association's senior inter-club championship at the Badminton Hall last night. Marigold beat Lucky Strike by 5-0. I and Mayflower beat Flower by 4-1. 1
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    CARD
    439 16 RACE 3—4.15: CL. 5, DIV. fc— AA. 1 493 Tia Juana By McCloud 9.00 2 163 Pride of Burma tiy 8.13 3 800 Master Touch 5y 8.12 4 573 Young Alec 4y Mortimer 812 5 077 Pearl Snap 4v Donnelly 8.10 6 008 South Bridge 3y Smith 8.08 7
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    WEIGHTS FOR LAST DAY
    403 16 IIfFIGIITS for all eight races on Now Fear's Day. last day of the Penang Turf Club meeting are: C-C's Cup, Cl .1, g] miles Golden Lotus 1.01 Broadside 905 Bearer Bond 8.12 Campus Belle 8.09 i Klturius 8.07 Cinder's Prince 8.06 Pedometer 8.05 Zatopek 8.01 Harringay
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