The Singapore Free Press, 7 January 1955

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya ill". Ningapore. Fri. Jan. 7. 1955. Prior 15 Cts.
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    Lock icon TROOPS: PLEDGE TO MALAYA
    172 1 TROOPS: PLEDGE TO MALAYA Key talks m Canberra JllE AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies, will m a few days take to the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference m London an assurance that his Government will commit troops, if necessary* to block future Communist aggression m South-East Asia, particularly m Malaya,
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    Typhoon kills 23
    27 1 TWENTY-THREE people were killed and thousand! ss when a typhoon Leyte Island, it was rei m Manila yesterday. T!v. storm, called •Violet.' istrous Hoods.
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    Lock icon GIRL DIES IN TERROR BLAST
    40 1 i MOROCCAN terrorist hurl- i a a grenade Into a crowd s in the market at a Last r^ght, killing ,vo people including an eightand seriously inms< ii and lour others. 14 peoole were' Reuter
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    Lock icon JUNGLE WAR TRAINING FOR AUSTRALIANS
    53 1 JUNGLE WAR TRAINING FOR AUSTRALIANS THE Australian Army is adopting at once a new tactical doctrine to keep pace .with developments m atomic and thermonuclear warfare, the Army Minister, Mr. Josiah Francis, said yesterday m Canberra. At the same tinie. army will implement its plans for training m tropical and
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    Lock icon Mr. FRANCE HAS A REST
    27 1 The French Premier. Mr. ndes-France, arrived plane yesterday iya rest, before next week with Itamier Mario Sc plh ->"* lian officials.- A .P.
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    Big losses in U.S. selling wave
    164 1 '1929 CRISIS LOOMS AHEAS'-SENATOR RLY widespread losses ranging up to two dollars share were registered on the New York Stock rday during two waves of selling. But me of business rose to 5,300,000 shares— ince September. 1939, when World War Two DlOKe OUt. Senate
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    RUBBER UP
    46 1 JOBBER was better on the IV apore Market this n and at the opening b^n 97 and 97* buyer« f °foh an t ai flrst cent above last night'i close. B?i :l s steady. York and London "days Singapore '■■■■,r n,oht d aCCepted rub
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    DRIVER ATTACKED
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    Railmen call off strike threat
    164 1 BRITAIN'S Railway Inion leaders decided last night after a tens.-three-hour meeting to call off a national railwi\ strike which had heen planned to start at midnight Ml Sunday. After a day of negotiation with the (iovernment and the British Transport Commission, which operates the state-owned
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    Lock icon AGA KHAN TOLD: POSTPONE TRIP
    50 1 Doctors have told the ailing 77-year-old Aga Khan to postpone his trip next month to East Africa. The leader of the Ismail! Modem sect was to have attended ceremonies at which his followers m Uganda and Kenya would match his weight m platinum gifts. A.P.
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    WOMAN LOSES CASH, CLOTHES
    28 1 A Chinese woman m Upper Serangoon Road. Singapore. yesterday told police she had lost $100 m cash and clothing, worth $200. from her house.
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    Lock icon Mr. DAG MEETS Mr. CHOU
    67 1 3-hour talk on gaoled airmen THE United Nations Secretary-General. Mr. Da? Hammarskjold. conferred with the Chinese Premier. Mr. Chou En Lai. for three and half hours m Peking yesterday. It was their first formal talk on the fate of 11 American airmen. The next meeting
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    Lock icon FOG-BOUND
    19 1 St. John's, Newfoundland, was fog-bound for the second day yesterday, grounding aircraft anri strandina 190 passengers. -A P
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    Lock icon 4 DIE IN RIOT
    16 1 Four prisoners were killed during a prison riot m Omdurman yesterday. U.P.
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    Found hanging
    22 1 An elderly Chinese was found hanging from a beam at the 4 1 mile stone. Thomson Road, Singapore, early today.
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    Set up inquiry on S.I.T., Labour asks Governor
    307 2 Set up inquiry on S.I.T., Labour asks Governor rnHE Singapon I mt today Governor, Sir John Nicoll, to appoint a com tkMi oi inquiry to hole housing situation and programme of th< ipore [mprovemeni Trust a Front spokesman said it iiiid been }>■ beyond doubt that the SIT had blundered
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    Lock icon NOW MAU MAU TAKE 'ARSON' OATH
    175 2 mau terrorists have added m arson clause to their oath to do acts of terror on pain of death, it wai revealed Uj Nairobi yesterday. A monthly report on afiti-Mau Mau operations Issued by the Government say the arson oath has been administered m
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    Lock icon NOW VIETNAM CLAMPS DOWN ON LUXURIES
    112 2 VGUYEN VAN THOAI. Planning and Reconstruction Minister of South Vietnam, said m Saigon yesterlay that he was negotiating trade agreements with iiitain, Italy and Japan. The Minister Mid Vietnam would encourage the investnent ol foreign capital m the country's industries The state industrial and--ommercia]
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    Lock icon London hails Ike's view of world A-stalemate
    132 2 London hails Ike's view of world A-stalemate DRESIDENT Eisenhower's acceptance of an atomic "world stalemate" was welcomed m London diplomatic quarters last night as reflecting Sir Winston Churchill's own assessment of the stage reached m the cold war. The President's aim— made m his "State of the Union" speech yesterday—
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    Lock icon THERE'S TROUBLE BUT NO WAR SAYS JAKARTA ENVOY
    228 2 THERE'S TROUBLE BUT NO WAR SAYS JAKARTA ENVOY A REPRESENTATIVE of the self-styled -Soutn Moluccas Republic" of Indonesia said m The Hae:ue yesterday that the rebel leaders of the •Republic" controlled 4,000 well-trained and armed rans of the former Dutch East Indies army as well [is about 6.000 volunteers. But
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    Lock icon RENTS SLASHED FOR DIPLOMATS IN MOSCOW
    96 2 rH>REJGN diplomats ami newspaper correspondents living m MWCW were told yesterday that rents for their offices and flats would be rut by m average of 16 per cent. The llurobin Organisation, which deals with matters afTectinjj diplomats, told the BritiNh l.nibassy that its total
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    Woman doctor charged with murdering ex-lover
    515 3 il I CAiVT HAVE HIM, NO-ONE ELSE WILL, MOTHER IS TOLD AN ATTRACTIVE young woman doctor was committed for trial m Dunedin, New Zealand, yesterday charged with murdering her former fiance, also a doctor. Senga Florence Whittingham, 27, collaosed at the preliminary hearing yesterday
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    Lock icon JET FLEW TWO DAYS NON-STOP
    112 3 JET FLEW TWO DAYS NON-STOP \ir lone B-l" Stratojet bomber has set tie* T.S militiry record uith i -1 0(MI-mile nonst, > M trip tolttaf nearly 11,,. Bifhl was mad*' i,st November with the i: sjiuttlinjj between \orth Anita and Britain for 47 hours and .T» minutes Hi* 1 bomber
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    Lock icon Liner saves crew of foundering schooner
    111 3 Try liner Queen of Ben sterday rescued the crew of the indland fishing nt Prince II from Atlantic Th< N Vrk Coast Guard tved the message from the British liner which help of the 250-->ner. Th n took to a lifeboat on Wednesday as
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    Closed to ships
    17 3 hjSSi 1 Yanno^th Norfolk. :;;tre^ toppled over°by blocked mi still -Reuter entran^ e channel.
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    1,000 SIT IN THE DARK AS LIGHTS FAIL AT MORRISON WEDDING
    235 3 1,000 SIT IN THE DARK AS LIGHTS FAIL AT MORRISON WEDDING UERBERT MORRISON, 67 year-old Second-in--11 Command of the British Labour Party, was married m Rochdale, Lancashire, yesterday to a local business woman, 47 year-old Miss Edith Meadowcroft, In what British newspapers have called "the wedding of the year." In
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    Lock icon Nehru hits at those 'slaves of Moscow'
    84 3 Nehru hits at those 'slaves of Moscow' Reuter PRIME Minister Nehru denounced Indian Communists yesterday, saying they were offering solutions to India's problems based on their knowledge of distant countries. In a public address at Ahmedabad Bombay state. Nehru said that both the Communists and the eommunalists were attempting to
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    Lock icon Percy the ghost is back in society
    75 3 II fCHIEVOUB .host has i^^cond appear- months m the hRh-cla Al^ de London, shopping cen- olo.ant haunt of eailv l»th century. I i-«nd articled "ta in a semi-circle on the floor when she arrived yesterday. The same thing happened m two shops la.st
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    R.A.F. STAGE THEIR OWN PANTOMIME
    53 5 R.A.F. STAGE THEIR OWN PANTOMIME MEMBERS of tne ti*r a 1 Si 4., Squadron. lt i.nsah. stage Kfr ,!un pantomime •len.arHla for New V Xture on the right i>»t Pattinson as 3 the Tea- and below are 1 rni,T' CUt, the Jairy ks I r r" d I^ I d'o
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    Govt'S big flood relief aid blow to 'vampires'
    217 5 Govt'S big flood relief aid blow to 'vampires' OPPORTUNISTS HIT POVERNMENT'S big grant to the Singapore Flood Relief Fund and its wide rehabilitation scheme for the flood victims have left no room for manoeuvring by vampire politicians, says the latest Progressive Party newsletter. It states that some opportunist politicians have
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    27 5 picture. M&mittee of Vh C recent Singapore floDds get a cash payment from the relief me Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce at Lorong Tai Seng.- Free Press
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    Council wants say
    57 5 Johore Bahru. Town Council 5 to press the Government for Inancial autonomy this year. The Council has appointed its president, the Senior Executive Engineer, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir. Inche A. Rahim pin Kiman, Im-he Ahmad bii fohamed Shah and Mr Won*. put up recommen s and
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    ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
    55 5 An extraordinary general meeting of the Federation Forces Civil Staff Union and members of the departmental Whitley Council. Federation Military Forces, will be held at the Sea View Theatre, Port. Dickson, on Sunday. This meeting is to celebrate the first anniversary of the departmental Whitley Council which was
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    Taik by leader
    28 5 The Tamil reform leader, riyar E. V. Ramasamy, will ive a talk at the Joo Eng ."hinese School, Jalan Kayu, Singapore, tomorrow at 2 p.m.
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    THE CHUNG CHING HARMONICA BAND
    72 5 The Penans Chung Ching Harmonica Band held its eighth annual general meeting recently. The tpllowing officials were elected: Captain: Lim Ching Beng; viceoaptain: Tung Yeok Khoon; tre- asurer: Ooi Phee Teong: auditor: Khor Guan Liang: correspondent: i Tan Tentr Geok; proctor: Ooi Leonp ,Huat: 1st
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      100 5 i baby to eat j lIFHI7 tl£illi£i BABY FOODS m It I m Wy lhe natural, pure flavor of Heinz Baby V^:i I Foods makes them welcome even with fiissy little folk! You see, Heinz selects the choicest, fresh ingredients for their >^ many delicious varieties of Baby Foods. Then
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  • Round the World MArket Prices
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      K. closing prices
      219 7 LONDON. Jan. 6. Previous Today ii im'.lK \o. 1 BSS cJJ. European 27 buyers 28 buyer* IJI r ,n 27 sellers 28 sellers r.'rbYr No. 1 BSS c.U. European 26 buyers 27 buyers h l j£ i, b 27 sellers 28 seller, riBBiK No. 1 RSS *»*>*
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      New York prices
      102 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 6. Previous TodayUS Straiti and nearby 86.50 nom. 85.87 nom. ri\ ful Jan. 86.10 bid 85 50 bid 86.50 askeJ 86.00 asked Feb. 86.10 bid 85.50 bid Bti 50 asked 86.00 asked March: 86.10 bid 85.50 bid 86.50 asked 86.00 asked li>M. Barel) Steady.
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      U.S. PEPPER
      42 7 \sbu was quoted at 42 *4 Sarawak spot 41^ and lampong pound. Awaiting release spot 42 \i cenk per pound sellers 4:. January shipment i ex dock. «!i 41. March 40. .4 bore pnces quoted m U.S. cents per W.
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      31 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 6. Previous Today 1 industrials 397.24 391.89 Kailroad s 142 56 140.31 M Domestic Bonds 101.07 ***** 62.05 61.76 u» >tock> Composite Averages 147.62 145.76
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      130 7 JAN. 6. nun. n ,T Previous Today COPRA Philippines c.i.f. IK/North European delivered weight per J;!""?":^ $210 sellers $210 quoted I() U'V Philippines f.o.b. Manila, d«>in,. rt «d wdgkt, per long ton unquoted unquoted LOPRA Straits c.i.f. TK 'North •uiopran delivered weight per I""; ton Jan.
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    S'PORE IS FASCINATING -THEY WANT TO RETURN
    95 7 People who find Singainattaß are Mr. Leon Kaprelian, d m the colony on a round the world V 'V they toured gjwl and visited the Mfcwf oyal sin a cl i^ he was "m"es^ res^ d with d nvn es he visited. aavu
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    Two fined $290
    38 7 Chow Ah Cheong and Chant? Mun Sang were each fined $290 m Johore Bahru on Wednesday for al l empt i n g to evade Customs duty on a gold chain and pendant worth $198.
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    MERCHANT'S LAND GIFT HELPS SOLVE CLUB PROBLEM
    172 7 JYJR. M. J. NASSIM, a Singapore businessman, has LTI given a piece of land, worth $25,000, m Frankel Estate, off East Coast Road, to build a club house for the Katong Catholic Young Men's Association. Mr. Herbert Peacock, the president of the association,
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    Civics for prisoners
    70 7 Prisoners at the Pudu Gaol, m Kuala Lumpur, will be kept up to date on current affairs and the workings of Government departments with a series of pivics lectures which started this week. They will be given a lecture overy three weeks for the next ypar. On
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    Shorthand success for thirty nine
    213 7 'FHE following candidates were successful m the recent shorthand examinations of the Faculty of Secretaries m England:--180 w.p m. (Ist class) Mr. Lim Swee Kiat; 160 w.p.m. (Ist class) Miss Nancy Goh; 140 w.p.m. (Ist class) Miss Agnes Teresa De Sa; Mr. Robert Lee: Miss
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    New name for Hoegh Clipper
    126 7 New name for Hoegh Clipper rE freighter Hoegn Clipper will call m Singapore on Monday flying the flag of France instead of the Norwegian standard aa s she has formerly done when calling m Singapore. Reason: She was recently sold to the Messageries Maritime! by her Norwegian owners. The Hoegh
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    Workers need safety heroes
    394 8 Workers need safety heroes /.ifoir hv's an orphan V, facto >rKei too valuable t wast 4 In avoidable incident their acdd< n record year by year n mairu too high ct mment i- made bBrit i n C\ InspecJ i Blr <• n In nil report for r Hi I
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    PRISONERS LIVE THEIR PAST AGAIN
    190 8 /iiYrtu ally nt prisoner^ Wormwood Scrubs prison nardlv «'v. warder They sleep In hospital dormiUr\ and are treated a pat] an attempt to make i)j. m lav abiding citia nj pi ychiatry. Thii rereaied by docton I ..m i report: to help each pri- i
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    HOW I ESCAPED FROM THE FOREIGN LEGION HQ.
    307 8 HOW I ESCAPED FROM THE FOREIGN LEGION HQ. The son who vanished for nine momns A YOUNG man who vanished nine months ag;o has conic hack back from the Foreign Legion. Peter Kr< n. 24-year-old former R.A.F. pilot, joined the Legion on the spur of the moment at Marseilles. He
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    Pacific Queen gets reprieve
    68 8 PACIFIC QUEEN, the 68--year-old Glasgow-built steel sailing ship which was used for the film "Mutiny on the Bounty," i s going to a San Francisco maritime museum instead of the breaking-up yards. Money Riven by Pacific Coast trades unions and others will rebuild the 1.862-ton ship.
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    Secrets officer hurtles to death from 7th floor
    144 8 SOMETHING FLASHED PAST 1 A YUUNb naval omcer doing secret research fell 60ft. to death from a Government building window m London. He was 30-year-old Lieutenant Robert Wilson Trail, R.N., of Campbell-avenue, Milngavie, Glasgow. Research into new types of naval aircraft was
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    A patient cost more in 1954
    89 8 A patient cost more in 1954 IT cost 10s. ($4.30) a week more Last year for each patient In Britain's general hospitals. The average weekly cost of an in-patient was £15 15s. 5d.. although the average for the London teaching hospitals was €25 4s. 2d Returns from 2.500 National Health
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    Please raise my rent, says tenant
    133 8 A S h USe ci l ant at Pet ewfleld. Hants, has theamoi n th nnUal "5? to be in <^ased by £8 18s., He waT tL c councils subsidy on each house, "cadv m In mi n ease dat from last April and
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    SO NOW IT'S THE HOUSES OF SALTS
    51 8 THE House of Parliament j are slowly turning into Epsom salts. Sir Frank Whittle said m a geological lecture m London. He explained that the buildings were made of dolomite, which was being turned into magnesium sulphate (rpsom salts) by sulphur m the
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    NOW CALL-UP BOYS RIDE TO HOUNDS
    335 9 PALL-UP boys m Britain will shortly be riding to hound! with age-old hunts full of prestige. That they can afford the tally of their tally-ho, estimated at -much less than SB5O a year." This revolution m the more gentlemanly countryv >rk&hire comes about because
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    Cleared, she leaves court with husband
    226 9 Cleared, she leaves court with husband AFTER i 42-year-old woman liad been acquitted on a charge of shooting at her husband with a humane killer with intent to murder him. the couple left the court at Wrexham arm-in-arm The woman Emily Roberts, of Ak'xandra-road. Wrexham, was discharged after Mr. Cyril
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    BABY FOUND DEAD HAD SEVEN BROKEN RIBS
    146 9 BAEY boy. 16-months old ti r'v" t found at the bottom »Wa Street. Cardiff. ten to a doctor who an hou r d had died within loiis'i vl lliam James Patho- yho nia de a post-mor-diff atlon to] d a Carfo nc or
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    Weather men get a world language
    226 9 A NEW "world language" for weather men which will speed up forecasting everywhere is nc i <i force It means that within half an hour of weather observations being taken, a universal weather chart can be made for shipping, airlines and the man-in-the-street. The
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    Why I love Audrey—by Mel
    212 9 Why I love Audrey— by Mel Why Fvrrvrs ox plain WHEN actress Audrey Hepburn arrived m London recently, her gazelle eyes laughing and her cropped >iead high, people were asking her husband Mcl Ferrer: Why did you fall m love with Audrey? Ferrer looked surprised and then answered: Because of
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    Where are the Graham converts?
    714 10 Where are the Graham converts? I BAVI n tookii 1 000 people In Brt- ire the Hilly ftham coi h who urd to ter i decision tor Christ aft* r hearing the a m erlcan evangell f preach at Harrtngay. That wa.s nine month Then, each one signed Today. the
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    It's BALM to the mentally sick
    116 10 It's BALM to the mentally sick 1M I I VISION apparently has charms to .soothe the mentally 111. Doctor m several mental hospital* m the United States h:iv»- d( (hat "trlevin therapy" hai become definite aid In the treatment of mental ca Such grammes give patients a link \uth the
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    MEW RECRUIT
    90 10 Wiiii.i. commanding t inoiiMt.iiii irai .tMinst the Aim h rebehi m Oi« \iii< s range «>f Algeria tin- oiiur «i.i v iptain hiK urnt-.iu nt h i m m h parachutisti there !••< rived \\<T(! <»f i padre ai h ned to itu- n(imrnt The padre cane wi\u
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      197 10 r— Conversion record of twenty London parishes 'OutCome church 'Out- StTll PARISH -with population forward' goers Aiders' going All Saints Edgwore, i 5,000 14 It 2 2 Sf Gobr.ei 4AH Samti. Pml.co, 30,000 6 4 2 0 Chr.sf Church. Clophom, 25.000 0 0 0 0 St M.chaH, Willesden. 25,000 17
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      11 10 )o;i eau Phone I Your SMALL ADS. <o Singapore 2800 108
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    Lock icon The queen of the stage loved beef — and beer
    753 11 The queen of the stage loved beef and beer ■BifIWHHffIHBSH: ir> SIDDONB. TRAGIC tin >n B> Yvonne ,V' Ifeftft V.-rM-hoyle, Ms. EM pagci raH SIDDONS v for a generation m isili century, the undisputed queen of the English stage. William Siddons, her husband, was far from being its kini Vrt
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    SHORT REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS
    273 11 WJTHIN THE TAl'Ri S By Murray. Ife! XIK IN M travell^ along Tu lktv c i*t lack Sea coa of cv r ?hl a cautious peep tuSed h S Vlet border and 01 h a a the end that h rR he re fl e
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    HEIFETZ'S WISH
    69 11 rpHAT great violinist Jaschs I Heifetz flew into Londor recently for a concert "If I 'weren't a violinist," h€ said, "I would like to be a writer. "What would I write? A book on the sham and hypocrisy m our world. The kind of book few people would
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    You can loosen up unknown muscles with ballet
    179 12 BALLET is m every .sen.se hitting the in^h ipota In the United Btatei K'vci musical him worth the name boa.sts a! least v ten minute ballet sequence '"An American m Paris,* 1 "Hans Christian Anderson/* 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," i to
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    Lock icon She DOESN'T like to dress up
    325 12 cture. YVONNE GLORIES IN BEING NUDE 1WE problems that confront a Foiics Berre girl bave just come out into the open in America where vivacious Yvonne Menard has been told that she must wear SOMETHING when she appears before American audience* The only problem
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      78 12 At Last a Swimsuit that actually helps you stay afloat the Ever-Float Safety Swimsuit Lee of New York It keeps 150 poundi afloat even a novice. Looks just like any onepiece bathing suit. Has shirred front pane that conceals a spongy buoyant material which wont let its wearer down In
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      121 12 V V 0/? C ELIZABETH ARDEN Wpt them to speak for you m the language of beauty ardena eye lotion, cools and soothes tired eyes, helps to keep them youthfully clear eye shado. the lightest touch makes eyes look larger, dramatizes their colour. In many gloriout siimi i ash, a
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    The colour problem is growing in Britain
    633 13  - The colour problem is growing in Britain DONALD MeCORMICK by f F GEORGE unwr,u live today, h( mi on the evidence ;ay could be sei Sol Glasgow or Cardiff.... would portray a natior. '°d become involved m and most bestial colour-bar W*T. In Britain there would be Sast coloured population
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    Bridge Hand
    418 13 -^t^lnerable and 60 NORTH 4J9 7 3 k 10 *****3 A 0 r tAST 1 X A 10 6 4 2 SOUTH A Q 10 6 2 0Q g 4 ♦J7 5 3 The bidding W SOUTM EST J i 2 0 2 9 Pass. ;j Pat PM.
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    Be kind when you fire your boss
    209 13 and again with an eye to the future offer to stay for a time and break m your successor. When you leave, says the agency director, who says he has placed sales managers m companies where formerly they worked as clerks, go the
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    55 13 picture. A sight to send the sales soaring Italian film star Sophia Lorens serving behind a snack bar counter, just to show off her skill m preparing Neapolitan dishes. The occasion was the Milan premiere of her latest film "LOrd di Napoli' ("Gold from Naples") m which she
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    LOOKING AHEAD TO 1955
    34 14 ThdC arc the men he picks to rise to the heights of world lame this year. Who will bC MUlß'f outstanding s,HMtsmr n of IfSS. MAESTRO makes his nominations hrr«v
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    FIGHTER WITH THE FACE OF A FILM STAR
    86 14 BOXING MY nomination for boxtng honours of 1955 is RON BARTON, the West Ham cruiser-weight, with the face of a film star and the punch <>f a sledgehammer. Only '>\ he hat won 12 contests m succession, vine of them inside the
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    No.1 on the 'hit' parade
    583 14  - No.1 on the 'hit' parade SYDNEY HULLS By j^OUR world-title lights shine brightly on the 1955 horiz(»ij for British fighters. That quartet plius a handsome schedule <.'i British, Empire and European championships make \n\\ boxing's New Year look a.s busy as any m the history ol the' spori Britain's first
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    Will he lead England?
    92 14 Will he lead England? SOCCER RON' FI/OWERS. Wolvt's* 20-year-old I'-lt-hall, will. I am sure, be the outstanding .ngster of 1I>55 He has the physique, the ability and. as he proved W matches with Spartak and Honred, the temperament i<>r the big occasion. B m In YorkshiH' be hu ail the
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    APPRENTICE TO FORE
    100 14 RACING I.M>\V\Kl> HIDE, hading apli prentice of 1»"»4. is my choice m hone racing. Tkll smiling 18-year-old son of Ludlow trainer Willie Hide has had the soundest of training from his lather. His natural ability was recognised when Captain Charles llsey. the leading N o r them
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    Alliss will reach peak
    93 14 GOLF Britain's young golfers, will have the tournament world at his feet m the summer Ol 1955. Allis.s. son of a famous golfing lather, is spending the first thre <■ lars and ex- 7aafflJ perienc*' i n America. Now he has li M -j^ l| reached
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    'Flying Mile' on Feb. 13
    175 14 TUIE Outboard Boating Club of Singapore will hold, for the Qrs4 time, a combined regatta and ;t "Flying Mile" race at either Lojrani or Pasir Ris, Singapore on Sunday, Feb. 13 at 9 a.m. At this meeting participants for the regatta will have to travel
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    YOUTH TOURNEY
    25 14 The S.A.B.A. will begin their annual competitions with the youth championships on Feb 2. 3, 4 and 5 at the Singapore badminton stadium
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    Will he open with Hutton?
    98 14 IKIIM Worcestershire's kft-hand-ed oi^ening batsman, gets my confident *ot€ tor fame this year. Ho may well prove to be the man Len Hutton is seeking a sound opening partner. It seems certain, if his Service duties permtt, that he will get his big chance next
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    WATCH PIRIE
    88 14 ATHLETICS A of^Uc^rS' UeKm. of athletics reveais irt 1 rnj^s colnpaiuon m Ov yrai j"i"u, Chris Chat away. Gordon PVle and Derek Johnson—all show form surpassing their previous greatness and records topple like ninepins before their onslaughts. The indefatigable Pirie gets my verdict because of fantastic achievements at
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    WIFE'S NO SPOILS BIG SOCCER DEAL
    545 15 Lge leaders wanted one man for two npHE strangest on-of Soccer deal of the season collapsed m c Sunderland hotel lasi night, after Scottish internationals Charlie Fleming, Tommy Wright, anc Jimmy Cowan had talked with Sunderland and East Fife officials foi more than three
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    Seixas will play Swede in final
    111 15 T IC SEIXAS. who helped America regain the Davis Cup last month, swept into the finals of the South Australian Tennis Championships at Adelaide yesterday by defeating Australia's Mervyn Rose -•4-6, 8-10, 9-7, 6-3, 10-8. In the finals, Seixas will face Lennart Bergelin of
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    'GIVE US TO FEB. 15' -Says Marciano's manager
    116 15 'GIVE US TO FEB. 15' -Says Marciano's manager UOCKY MARCIANO'S ma ager Al Weill. said yesfc flay he would know by Febr n the heavyweig mpton will be ready make his next title defence 1 pick among three propo: SPtoSSJSS tolul suarantc Weil] so informed promot gm Norrls of the
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    Perak State rugby trial
    79 15 RUGGER trial will be held tomorrow on the Ipoh town padang for selection of the Perak team to meet Johore m the H.M.S. Malaya final m Kuala Lumpur on January- 15. The rugger team of the West Yorks. finalists m the Perak FARELF competition, will provide
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    BASKETBALL
    18 15 The Panhelllnios Basketball team of Athens defeated Virtus Minganti of Bolonga by 54-37 m Italy, yesterday. 1
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    S.A.S. BEATEN
    33 15 Malaya Command Signals beat a Special Air Service XV by 13 points' •two goals, and a try) to nil, on the T Bluff Road ground, Kuala Lumpur I yesterday I t
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    GOALIE TO RESCUE
    45 15 With left back Evans standing guard Arsenal goalkeeper Kelsey leaps over fallen West Bromwich out-side-left Crowsjiow to intercept the ball and break up an attack m their Div. 1 match at Highbury on New Year's day. The teams drew two-all. Renter picture.
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    Lock icon GRAND PRIX MEN GATHER
    138 15 FkRIVERS have begun as- sembling at Buenos Aires for the international racing season opening on January 16 with the Grand Prix of Argentina for formula one cars. A one thousand kilometre sports car race on January 23 will follow and the Grand Prix of the City
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    Lock icon WORLD BRIDGE THIS MONTH
    53 15 The fifth international team match for the contract bridge world championship will be held m New York from January 9-14 between teams from the United States and Great Britain. Eight sessions involving 224 hands will be played. The United States has won four times m a
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    Lock icon GAVILAN WITHDRAWS RETURN BOUT CLAIM
    170 15 pX-CHAMPION Kid Gavilan yesterday okayed a proposed world welterweight title fight between champion Johnny Saxton and Carmen Basilio for Syraucse. New York, sometime m February or on April 1. Gavilan. who claimed that he had return bout contract with Saxton. agreed m writing ,to withdraw
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    STARS LINE UP FOR SINGAPORE Davis Cup players due
    298 16 STARS LINE UP FOR SINGAPORE Davis Cup players due PPM irc>N tenon ncpvrm MALAYAN lawn tesnifl courts will soon be 11 brightened by the visits of several international stars. Plljrera have been invited from England, Sweden and India. Mr. Chua ChOOfl Leong, President ol the Malayan Lawn Tennia Association, told
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    BIRTHS
    62 16 20 Hottl* sft (minimum (m HOUR To Patricia ft Derek r.n the 4th. January, ■< Bats Gajuh. m Oi than DOBR'KE: To Kathleen, wif* 1 of <- i \v Dobi i<■ Ma] an Po „ii January 4t»i at Bungsur Hospital, aa ightar R( ii'KH Doroth; 'li' 1 1 stillt
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    Thai prince favourite
    74 16 PRINCE Birabong.se of Siam ll favoured to win the New Zealand Grand Prix motor race at Ardmore. 26 miles from Auckland today. However, Bira's formula 1 Maaerati Ls expected to be pushed hard by Britain's Tony Gaze and Peter Whitehoad m their new short chassis, three litre
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    32 16 Free Press picture. Urn Kee Chan, the Singapore featherweight, put a little too much power into this left during yesterday's training session: he kayoed his sparring partner Mcl
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    KEE CHAN FLOORS SPAR-MATE
    137 16 KEE CHAN FLOORS SPAR-MATE Free Press Boxing Reporter LIM KEE CHAN is fitter than I have ever seen him before. He is certainly going all :nit to give Pierre Cossemyns i tough night on January 16. Cossemyns is the fourth ranking world bantamweight, out this fact is not worrying the
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    TIONG BAHRU RANGERS
    82 16 Tlong Bahru Raagen officials for 1955 elected at the annual general meeting are: President: Mr. Cheah Thye Eng; Vice-Presidents: Messrs.. Cheong Kai Sen^. Yap Thian Teck; Hon. Secretary: Mr. Hum Chun Hoonsj. hmt. Mr. Hum Wye Hoong. Hon. Treasurer: Mr. Tang Shee Wali; Asst. Hon. Treasurer: Mr.
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    87 16 Senator warns boxing racketeers Senator Warren Ifagnnfon, new Democrat chairman ol the Senate Commerce Committee, yesterday warned box Ini racketeers there was M a itroni possibility 1 hii rommit tee would conduct hearings »n the sport tills y«ar. Senator Magnuaon told reportera that Senator Bstea Kerauver Democrat Chairman of the
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    Lock icon U.K. papers praise Len Hutton
    209 16 U.K. papers praise Len Hutton BRITISH newspapers yesterday lavishly praised Yorkshire born skipper Len Hutton and hia men for their victory over Australia m the third cricket Tost match. Lengthy reports of the match are featured prominently on the sports and news pages with the main emphasis on Hutton's captaincy
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    49 16 UfALLY THOM. European and British welterweight boxing champion, left London by air last ni^ht for Bangkok v here he is to fisht the Oriental champion Somdez Yongbraldt on January 16. Thorn's manager said Thorn night fight Alfie Sands, m Australia before returning to London. Reuter
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