The Singapore Free Press, 10 January 1955

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  • 23 1 The Sinapore Free Press I .reesl Vttornoon Sale m Malaya k nisi- i; :< Ml>n fan ltlf l 9: 5 PPeer cc I: ts
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  • 309 1 6 As vital as arms 9 gKITAIN and the United States are said to have agreed that political and economic measures must be given priority equal to military preparations to counter Communist subversion m the critical area of South-East Asia. Plans for the early creation
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  • 127 1 Women screamed v two youths collapsed blood streaming irom stab wounds m the crowded foyer of the Rex theatre m Kuala Lumpur t.erday. One youth, 19-year-old Tan Swee Lok. unconscious and with a knife wound m the chest, died m a taxi on the way to
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  • 82 1 INAUGURATING the State 1 branch of the National Union of Plantation Workers at Johore Bahru today, the Regent said the Government would give every encouragement to develop a free and Independent trade union movement. He told the unionists to realise that the development of free trade
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  • 21 1 ocanaditn destroyer will 19 to I SP 0 from o cf n I hey are °n their way
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  • 170 1 Alexandra is taking over as the new Royal glamour girl nSIN< Iss \lc\andra. tail 1 and d rk rvrd is ra P' dI > becoming t*dmm rival to Princess Marfarel a> a Koyai tlamoMi i;ir'- The only daughter of the Duchess •>! Kent, the 18--u\u-old Mneesf (»nt birth|aj u.i> on
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  • 127 1 DR. EDITH SHOCKS HEADMEN TVR Edith Summerskill. the B:: r ;-!i Member of Parliament who is touring Israel. reported In Tel Aviv yesv to have shocked the i remote village by unconventional way m tered a protest ainst what she considered to ;e of sex equality. Repi rta said she
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  • 6 1 Rubber opened steadily on
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  • 27 1 HO BART, (Tasmania): MC€ 39 for no wicket. Hutton not out IS, Simpson not out 23. Extras 3. (Combined XI 221).
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  • 37 1 A Chinese woman living m a kampong off Tampenis Road, Singapore, was robbed of $40 and $40 worth of jewellery on Saturday night by an armed gang, who threatened her and her seven children.
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  • 78 1 Crash kills Maharajah's girl friend MISS Vicky Martin, 24--year-old mcxifij and friend of the wealthy Maharajah of Cooch Behar, was one of two people killed when two cars crashed near Maidenhead. England, yesterday. She was driving one of the cars. In July 1953, she and the 39-year-old Maharajah were injured
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  • 80 1 A 7<n<;u.s reader has I'lieque for $25 Jhe story m last *J«« Press of the 1 b Jy^r-old Mah Ah via We have t hls w-year-»avt fo r ye ars eked out a living from their few chickens but they lost everything m the recent
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  • 135 1 Pickets sleep near gates THE strike at Singapore's Ocean Park Hotel is now on its third day with still little prospects of a settlement. Officials of the Singapore Workers Union said the strike might spread to other hotels because most of the hotel staff on
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  • 102 1 MORE THAN 200 Russians are working at the new Soviet Embassy m Hanoi, capital of Communist Northern Vietnam, say reports reaching Saigon. Similar staffs are said to be employed at the Communist Chinese and Polish Embassies. Local Communists were said to be openly complaining about the "invasion"
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  • 227 2 Two leaden of the South African Federal J said In Durban yesterday they were trying to I -he N;*tionali.st I'arty making South Africa a republic outride the Brtf unmonwealth. The party leader, Mr. (<<< Heaton NlcnoUs and the chairman, Mai. Oen, A.
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  • 38 2 Five numbers of a ten-man Dutch mission to Red China j arrived m Hong Kong from j Canton by train yesterday j ;i!ti r concluding trade talks 1 1 with the Chinese Rods. A. P.
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  • 128 2 Priest stops service amid flames HIRE broke out m St. Josephs Roman Catholic Church m Berwick, Pennsylvania, yesterday and 450 worshipper* were forced to flee halfway through the morning service. Ushers standing m the rear of the church discovered (iames shooting up from a basement social room
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  • 59 2 A GROUP of promirv Ameri'Mi) jresfo rd called on tin- United Nations nsor a new world trade me? In which GATT should ted to help buU le and I wA programmi Issued b llip the Citla Conference ol inU rnational Bconom tC Union aLso
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  • 105 2 FIRST TOP RED TO QUIT nrfUNH QUOC QUANG, a Communist Vietminh delegate at the Geneva conference, has fled from Northern Vietnam and taken refuge with the French at Haiphong, South Vietnam authorities said yester- aay. But Vietnam sources refused to confirm or deny reports that another
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  • 93 2 WIFE-KILLER TO LEAVE GAOL FOR FUNERAL I|\K. SAMUEL Shcpphard will leave his prison cell m handcuffs today to attend the funeral of his mother. The 31 -year-old OfteOfMLtfa believes Mi. killed herself because she lost bei Will lO live tin- day he w;i.s convi'tcd of laying his vdf»* Marilyn. on«
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  • 24 2 von Juan of Bourbon. Pretender ol the Spai throne, left Rom., y. »«>r 1 big wimt> huntina pedltlon n Africa. A.P.
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  • 64 2 m Robert Ernst, N Mayoi ol Sti durin th< World War II occupation will appcai before a Prencl military court at Metz, today on war Crimea charges The 17-year-Old Alsatian is >oine tried as a German His irovious conviction for trean was quashed on the linda
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  • 324 2 CAMBODIA 'IS TEST AREA FOR COEXISTENCE OF WEST AND REDS' pAMBODIA m Indo-China may soon become the world's main testing ground to show if coexistence is possible between Communism and the West. Cambodia is a key state on a belt of neutral territory between two great world blocs. With its
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  • 79 2 Norodom wants referendum KIM; Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia told Iluddhist congress m Pimm Penh yesterday he would like to hold a national referendum soon about the feelings of his people towards the Throne. lie reproached what he I called "political agitators" —especially Mr. Son Ngoc Thanh whose propaganda, he said
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  • 89 2 AIRPORT ROOF CRASHES Many injured at display SEVERAL people were injured yesterday when the flimsy roof of the Customs shed at Ratmalana Airport, Colombo, gave way under the weight of people who climbed on top to watch the Ceylon Air Academy's fourth annual display. No one was seriously hurt. More
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  • 106 2 Bomb tossed into cinema, kills two AN unidentified man tossed a hand grenade among a cinema audience m Aneona (Italy) last night, killing two women and injuring 40 other people, some seriously. The man then fired thfl c revolver shots into one of the gallery walls, and slipped out unnoticed
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  • 65 2 The Costa Rican government has sent reinforcements to strategic points on the Nicara- guan border to meet the in- creased threat of an invasion from Nicaragua. The government also sent its [Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Fernando Fournier. 'to Washington to request the intervention
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    • 40 2 RADIO WEEKLY INCORPORATING RADIO MALAYA NEWS ALL TUE BEST IS BROADCASTISG l%eu> Programmes Choirs m Ma hit fit Battie of the Sexes tiadio PostbaQ Cartoons and Pitatsles Pirture Section PRICE 30 CENTS I FROM ALL NEWSAGENTS ON SALE TODAY I
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  • 226 3 U.S. LINE hoops the B-LINE in new H-LINE V l\\ YOKK designers > have revealed to t u. in fashion papers (I, ,t tromen can look feminine and alluring— tbOMffh their bosoms no i precede them into .1 room. Previews of new "prini; fashions irere I distinct re jief alter
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  • 84 3 CITY OF SIN GETS BIG CLEAN UP GERMAN police said yesterd a y. Kaiserslautern, once known to American I soldiers as the "capital of sin" had been cleaned up ali most entirely. A recent check showed no sign of the prostitution long i rampant there. Police said E some 200
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  • 17 3 Colour television has made its debut m Russia, said Mos- cow Radio yesterday.- A. P.
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  • 213 3 MAINTAINING THE RELICS QRANT more than $600,000 have been iclc m the past three months for the repair of Britain's historic— but ramshackle— buildings, the of Works announced yesterday. flve buildings, among them a Fifteenth manor house which Charles II was said
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  • 55 3 A f' AR IVA L dancer held m yesterday m a parent, Cilen better tha the arJsf e f B M anno »need the 7 S kiH ßarbara Lee ';i° r kl dnapping two toy "from X S 3i-year-old nTida. home m Liva SJ^ Waymond M dnd
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  • 221 3 AGENTS STOP PLAY TO ARREST ACTORS SECRET service agents, who stopped the show m Los Angeles to arrest two members of a stage play as counterfeiting suspects said yesterday the round-up ol 10 people m three states had ''pretty well cleaned up" a $900,000 forgery ring. The arrests m Los
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  • 347 3 A LEGAL battle is brewing over Marilyn Monroe's plan to forsake 'Blonde Bombshell" roles to make fllma based on "great literature". Her studio. Twentieth Century i Fox. said that after giving her the best build up Hollywood could provide, it will use
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  • 48 3 French police said yesterday they had found the plane and the body of the pilot from the U.S. aircraft carrier Randolph, lost m a snowstorm last Wednesday. The wreck was near Mont Taroub, about 40 miles west of the town of Montpellier. A.P.
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  • 61 3 THE Pakistani Minister of Justice and leader of the Awami League, Mr. Suhrawardy. yesterday said rumours of a planned separation of East Pakistan from the western half of the country were absolute- ly baseless." He told a meeting m Lahore that East Pakistanis loved Pakistan and
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  • 42 3 Five wide-eyed little war orphans— first to arrive from Japan under the Refugee Re- lief Act—emerged from a San Francisco plane at the In- ternational Airport yesterday en route to American foster homes and a new life.- A.P.
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  • 117 3 A Monkey Brains", vntmg m The i>iw 33 fc l nc 'S ent took ltl J^t weeks snowin i nnH Ru^ sla n Em- a pint-sized little Russians dashed excitedly into the garden and began building a snowman. As they added a Groucho Man moustache and
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    • 186 3 3 ftt Itt tf tt Importance i. is keenly appreciated by NEW COMMONWEALTH— the only fortnightly review of all-Commonwealth affairs. Special articles planned for early publication include: 1. The Outlook for Rubber. 2. Fighting Communism by Propaganda. 3. The 1955 Malayan Elections. 4. Australia's Role m South-East Asia. In every
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  • 275 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion Youth shows the way Jan 1". MEMBERS of fourteen youth organisations In Klang, n< ar Kuala Lumpur, have decided to do something about criticism of visitors regarding the litter In the I treets. They have decided on a "Keep Klang Clean" drive as part Of
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  • 697 4  - SPEARS against the Mau Mau DUDLEY HAWKINS The dancing men of the plains arc awakening by Mil d to Otli aye just I \nU\ rnment oil. th< must to the dai m their midst and thi the bis told tin X mai and i )lh herd men. ur their hi
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  • 372 4 GHGHJK i cannot help .smiling (politely, behind my hand) at the story of the fox which broke all the hunting rules by deliberately leading hounds to destruction. Some fell over a precipice, others were trapped underground. It is intolerable that an animal which Is supposed to provide
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  • 329 5 Village children follow them on rounds gIXGAPORE kampong folk, especially those m the rural areas, are now seeing for the first time woman constables at work. Ten members of the Women's Constabulary, which was formed m 1949, are now stationed m the rural divisions. k
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  • 79 5 PASTOR OFF TO U.S. The Rev. Tracey Jones pastor of the Wesley Chirch, Singapore, since April. 1952, W. r s. Jones and \hf\r Three children picon board the P. and 0 liner Canton before they left lor Hong Kongf and the United States. Kore than 300 friends *a\v them off.
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  • 209 5 MISSIONARIES DECREASING Itber of Malayans who are appointed heads icdist schools m Malaya increases every cording to Dr. Ho Seng Ong, the Methodist fcaucauonal Secretary. s annual report, Dr. Ho says: "It is the policy Methodist Church m Malaya to place Malayans ability and
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  • 57 5 These machines are menace Several workshops m Malaya are makine machines without repard to sound enpineeriner principles, said a Federation Machinery Department report. They considered a machine satisfactory if it worked at all, the Department added. A case was cited of a Johore noodle factory worker who was injured by
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  • 64 5 THE Singapore V.M.C.A. is to form a new section for members under 23 to promote cultural and recreational activities. It will be inaugurated at a meeting m the associations hall next Saturday at 3 p.m. Known as the Red Triangle Club, it will also be open
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  • 71 5 Mr. D. C. I. Wernham, the Tanjong Mallm Magistrate, on Saturday told an Indian labourer: "If you are m a curfevy area you are liable to be shot." He fined Appala Naidu $25 for breaking the curfew outside the perimeter wire of Escot Estate on
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  • 34 5 Business licences for the year 1955 are now due for renewal. Applications should be submitted to the Registrar of Businesses, Suleiman Building. Kuala Lumpur, not later than Feb 28.
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  • 48 5 Mr. J. Lim Ann Lak, senior member of the Malayan Airways reservations staff, leaves for London tomorrow for a 12--day training course organised by BO AC. At Airways Terminal, the BOAC Sales Organisation's headquarters, he will cover all aspects of the complicated booking system^
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  • 104 5 SINGAPORE was full of surprises for Abbot Gregory Gomez, of the New Norcia Monastery, 82 miles north of Perth m Western Australia. Progress, the heat and the beer all made an impression on Abbot Gomez, who left at the week-end by air for
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  • 217 5 A SLOWER tempo m school building and expansion, l and greater efforts to consolidate the gains made that is the future educational policy of the Methodist Church m Malaya. A sign of this change appears m the annual report of the Methodist educational secretary
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 209 6 MANDRAKE by I and wH^ aV TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE SAINT by Leslie Charreris I /WE'LL HAVE WO MORE KlONG AS VOU BEHAVE VOURSELF AN VOU JEST GIVE TME RIGHT ANSWERS A It PIGHTIN JUNIOR SOU BRUCE YORE WIPE WON T HAVE NO TO ANYONE ELSE WHO CALLS
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    • 681 6 I YOUR i I LUCKY STAR i BORN loda> >ou are i getic, ha\< a m.i-i.(in p. 4 4 sonality. an- :;enerally optimis* tic and can MMflj conquer llu 4, knack of real leadership it (> u <> mill dispell a certain nali\e <> shyness which could impede success. This
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  • 161 7 Cargo bonus rate may be increased ifXGAPORE Harbour Board has told representatives i four labour unions that it is only a matter of before many houses will be available for workers. 3 was told to the Free Press by the secretary Singapore Harbour Board Stevedore
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  • 51 7 MR. H. VOSSENBERG with his bride, Miss Tonny Nijman, who were married at the Church of the Good Shepherd m Singapore. The bride was given away by Mr. G. L. Oostergo, managing director of Hagemeyer Trading Compony. Mr. Bill Stagger flew from Rangoon to be best
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  • 46 7 Lim Tong Kirn, an icecream vendor, hit Ah Wei on the head when he went to demand repayment of a loan of $24. Yesterday, m the Magistrate's Court, Johore Bahru, Lim was fined $40, or 20 days' gaol, for causing hurt to Ah Wei.
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  • 224 7 COUNCILLOR HITS BACK ON WATER ATTACK SINGAPORE'S drawing of O water from Johore was not a wholly one-sided transaction as Dato Sir Chenglock Tan seemed to make out. said City Councillor, Mr. Chan Kum Chee. He was replying to Sir Chenglock who last week instanced the Johore water supply as
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  • 177 7 WOULD a general amnestj Mlaya's 5,000 Corns. as suggested i. v sident of UMNO Tengku Abdul Rahman, solve y problem? pore leaders sked this question that they were not sufficieni :ned to comment. The Secretary. Mr. W. A C Goode, said he did
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  • 37 7 Ane Ker. Lee How Nghee, Pek Slang, of Singapore, and X Nana Mohamed, of Tanjong I Pelepas, for breaking the curi few on Oct. 20, were each fined $20 m the Magistrate's Court, Johore Bahru.
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  • 74 7 T) 1 R REES a Direcff tor of the World Fedrat.on of Mental Health, H ea th Problems Modern ultures" at Inmrsity o f Malaya Fromn,,,. s m ith, the Pre- They describe their visit as 'solely to educate ourselves.' Dr. Rees was Chief Consulting Psychiatrist to
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  • 355 7 LAYCOCK WARNS SENIOR GOVT. MEN: OBEY OR OUT 4 WARNING that senior Government officers who are not willing to carry out the policy of the legislature must look to another colony for a living is given m the elec- tion manifesto of Mr. j John Laycock, vice-pre-sident of the Singapore!
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  • 46 7 The Federation of Boys' Clubs, Singapore, will hold their annual dinner on Feb. 5. Any interested member of the affiliated boys' clubs, including those m Pulau Tekong and Pulau Übin who wish to attend should contact Mr. Tan Huat Keng, No. 57, Koek Road
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  • 284 8 PICTORIAL ROUNDUP OF RECENT EVENTS IN THE PUBLIC LIFE OF THE COLONY Kohcrt Krniiss, 7. of Killanicy School, Singapore, lias huh a scholarship to a preparatory school m England »> passing Ihrcc int<lli«ni(r l.sts ui(h full marks |{olnrt <ould rrad win 11 he W as only four
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  • 512 10 The NEGRO gets a FAIR deal at WELKOM! IT'S HOSTELS-. NOT COTTAGES-FOR HIM. I says RENE MacCOLL 1 1 ii m i Jisi .vi hour's trip by plane from Johani burg brings you to Wdtow a spot where South African energy and enterprise have wrought a change bo fantastic to
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  • 254 10 This new will be a showplace THE contract let, engin--1 eers are making measurements to complete a vast church at Washington's Catholic University that will attract an estimated million visitors yearly. It will be the largest Catholic church m that hemisphere. The edifice Ls the national shrine of the Immaculate
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    68 10 Twenty-one-year-old Glas-gow-born actress LMary Ire has just landed the prize for which she has striven for many years a screen contract. Under a long-term engagement recently signed with London Films, Mary starts work shortly on a newversion of "The Four Feathers." She is the daughter of a retired civil engineer
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  • 191 10 They would rather die than eat when hurt r r\VO Johns Hopkins 1 University psychologists have done some experiments involving the appetite centres m the brains. And they've found that if the centres are injured, rats will starve themselves to death. These centres are located In the hypothalamus, near the
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    • 46 10 SHRINE shrine will be entirely of masonry, with no steel beams, designers say. Approximately 6,000 worshippers will be able to gather m it at one time. r IVm can Phone Yonr SMALL ADS. to Singapore 2800 108 -IB This is a STRAITS TIMES Classified Advertisement Service:
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  • 823 11 circus Sa>s WILLIAM THERE was a great I triangle of soft blue Ught shining clown on the ring. There were naif a dozen men and girls performing impossible feats with one of those glittering circus bicycles. The artists were brilliant m x and
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  • 206 11 An apple a night makes the show a delight S 1^ 1 Is a season interested m s P^ciflcally, on- thought what hind SfLSu w P there be hero bounds on W W« theatrical ''..y,< behind and ex- gullet. (One American actor who played m a year-long run became so
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  • 405 11 man SEXTON LIVES IN THE SKY BUT HAS HIS FEET ON THE mmm GROUND IMIIIIII lIIIIIIIIMI FOR 63 years Heinrich Hayn has been a contented man. and wny not? For all his life he has literally lived on top of the world—the world of
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  • 68 11 Til Fit X was a poodle trimmed and crimped m the best French man m r sitting outside a ri-omt's by Shepherd*! Bush Tube Station, Ix)ndon. The newspaper st-llrr and one of his customers were much intrigued. 'Doesn't it smell lovely? said one of them. ••flieMFrench <loks always
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  • 195 11 This dog remembers what his master forgets IF YOU are dogged by a bad memory then meet Mr. H. S. Gatchell who, m colourful Georgia has a dog which can hound forgetfulness to death. Should Mr. Gatchell happen to lose anything around the house he has merely to say: "Say.
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  • 473 12  - Hazel has a plan for short girls EILEEN ASCROFT AN ANSWER TO THE HEART CRY FROM THE TINY WOMEN by HERE come the Little Girls with their Big Complaints. Whenever I write about the Tall Girla and their difficulties m tiding the riuht clothes m come f Ji tieartcriea from
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  • 370 12 'TAN commandments for sun bathers SERIOUS Ulneit, and ,'h. can follow inlight, which Ifl onthe ca ol klll (':in■ordirv.! io Dr. Charlei Pai> Brooklyn dermatolog mho gives these io "tan commandments' 1 for the guidance of sun bath< Heliophob( whose skin Will redden. and burn, but never tan) ud the
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  • 55 12 I)H> you Mi Judge Tudwi Jfc-e.s'.s Christina* couiiili men! to the ladiet? At Brentford, Middlesex court, he .said: 'A man on nLs own ls quite Uelple ,s 1 •hudder to think what mil MCXi would look like if I had to <i;irn then /iiy.s*'ll Ah'l here
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    13 12 This drmurr slvlr with Vkt si -hoolgirl look romrs from N^w Reuter picture.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 295 12 liSP £^>j I CLUES ACROSS 6. So far, so far! (4). 1. Be sleepy, though orderly In- 7. This part of a church is mostside (6). lv a lapse (4). 8. Shovel for a journalist? (5). 10. Man does It over the animal 9. Lead mixed round a base in-
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  • 548 13 KING' UFFA'S GENIUS LIES IN SAILING BOATS if sailing were a nation- a] gambling sport, as he: ing Is, men like Charles Carrey. Stewart Morris, or Beecher Moore would be as famous as Charlie Smirke, Lester Piggott, O] Doug Smith. And the Sir
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  • 121 13 IP* the first tinu m the miin 7 y of Spain the re;V f;1 p^historic monSL 2! e #l h^n discovered 1 r'/'V 1 1 of SarThe h» lrom Si^tander. WPm^iS?^ t0 be n< V; rH h h ?u <)saurus a m era f th(>
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  • 358 13 North-South vulnerable South dealer NORTh 4 Q J 10 9 9 Q J 10 9 8 0 *Ag 3 2 WEST EAST 454 3 2 4— V—C76 5 4 3 2 X Q J 10 9 8 C 2 *U 10 49 ***** The bidding SOUTH WrfST NORTH
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  • 239 13 Synthetics if Japs don't dive for pearls rpHE Australian govern- ment has been culled on by a sagging pearlshell industry to import Japanese divers. Pearlers fear that American synthetics will replace real shell if they do not keep up production. Japanese are the world's be.st pearl-sholl divers, but the Australian
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    • 87 13 jLtffr TRANSPORT STORAGE ON* LIMITED V 6577 173 CECIt STREET SINGAPORE PACKERS, SHIPPERS INSURANCE AGENTS^ The weekly issur of the STRAITS BUDGET CM be sent by Air Mail to any address m the United Kingdom 2 at an inclusive rate of g $24.00 I FOR SIX MONTHS If you want
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  • 130 14 Sporteview i was amused to read the comments ot tin--1 nan cricket writers quoted In the local the third Test between Australia and England Ibourne. Pint of ail tJ i •er > tot non ii. form on this tour Then ii tty that the wicket nould
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  • 696 14 I' W I) L P API O. f ***** 38 Brl '»i n it- 6 B :>8 12 38 South unptoa 2fl 16 4 7 4:» 30 34 Mii-A ill 19 5 i 38 28 3] Norwich i.i 5 40 30 31 Ollltn (ham 26 13
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  • 72 14 rp. O'RULLY, i red haired 18--yeai •old centre threequarter win. ha played only four Mnlor club i .nut i one of four new caps In the Ireland Rugby union team Prance In Dublin on .J.tiiuaiv L'LV ire fullback w a|< 1 .'mi foi i .mis p (Mono and M
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  • 259 14 All the U.K. Rugby results \l*~ Union and League matchei played m Bri- mi on 3al urd lim.il lush In.il: I'iobables 19 Possibles 11. < <»untv li.tmpmri-hip fqnaiUi laal) Cornwall 17 Berkshire I < i«i» Matches: Harlequins 0 Blackheath 9 lon n Hots. IS Met Police 11 I ondon Irish
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  • 115 14 The Free Press invites sports fans to express views and ideas \rHrrss letters to ••sports\iew Frtt f t9m Cecil Strrrt. Singapft I" 1 WAS most interested m your explanatory article on American Football. I have on several <>< < asions seen it on films and haft
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  • 305 14 'Dragon' race won by A.M. Pearson A M. PEARSON m Chey Loong. won the International Dragon Class at the Royal Singapore Yacht Club's .mnual regatta yesterday. The Club Commodore. E. G. Holiday won the All-Comers Division "A" race, tatting a 16-foot Sydney Harbour skiff. Ruth 11. Results were as follow
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  • 86 14 /.calami and Franc< hist season Tin tean U: w. a. t« tor (Wanrs >: 8. Byrne (University College Dublim, n. j. Henderson 'i ol Ireland p.c A Ol >ld Belvedere), a c Pedlow en's University Belfasi J 1 North of Ireland w i j Dmeara (Dolphin);
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  • 484 14 By ARCHIE QIICK pEGASUS Football Club have just concluded their 1 fifth successive Christmas tour. This time it was to Poole. Worthing and Brighton. Previously it has been to Cornwall. Switzerland, the Channel Islands and the Far East. Behind that .statement lies the earnest
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  • 24 14 The second Thomas Cup badminton trial will be held at the Perak Turf Club. Ipoh on January 29 and 30.
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  • 53 14 JOHN Devitt, 16, unofficially broke by point two seconds yesterday American Dick Cleveland's 55-yard world freestyle record of 25.8 sec. at the Worth Sydney Olympic pool. The record was not recognised because Devitt was swimming m a relay event. John Henricks equalled Cleveland's time m the
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  • 320 14 RACE PROGRAMME UNEVEN r pAKE :i l k a 1(i 1 racing programme for 1955:— Prom Jan 1 <IPOh> to March the fixtures are „.,.kly Then comes two weeks be another I programme April 2 (Ipoh) to July 16 'Selangor). her periods of weekly activity with two-week breaks betwt n
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  • 348 15 STRONG JOHORE CHALLENGE IN YOUTH BOXING MEET J^ STRONG contingent from Johore will challenge Colony scrappers m this year's Singapore Amateur Boxing Association Youth Championships. Boys from the Johore Coronation Boys' Club will be out to capture a few titles from their rivals this side of the Causeway. The championships
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  • 51 15 Drobny loses trophy final to Patty nr paTTY of the United Stadium Paris m a hard bertl Mttle with Wimbledon S" i- Jaroslav Drobny of E^ypt The score was 11-9. 6-2. l2 il the finals of the women's ,ip« Miss Angela Buxton of figf Britain 8 defeated France, i.-4, 6-1-
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  • 105 15 THE NORTH team to meet South I m the annual Malayan hockey 2 In Kuala Lumpur night without a The of the selection tee. D. K. Daniels, said that quadrangular did not reveal a worthy centre forward and g r eso: be put m later. Penang
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  • 78 15 PERAK'S team against Joliore |n the H.M.S. Malaya rifb] final at Kuala Lumpur next Satwtfaj is: A. Martin; U. Breakwell, S. I. Flinnery. P. X Key, Ambri hteh; T. Bellcn, J. A. Meikle; I). Hambliu, T. R. Dickenson, D. Onran (capt); P. H. Wrightnooth. Tan
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  • 21 15 ballen wishing to pare Indian RepSblic Day irnament should suband playing posienor, Mr M. Krish- Her., btiore Wednes-
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  • 45 15 Robert Cohen, world >antamweight champion, received his championship belt, at a reception given at Maxim's restaurant, Paris, and given by the "Companions of the Ring". Photo shows the popular French singers, "Compagnons De La Chanson" admiring the belt. Paul Popper photo
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  • 75 15 THE Swedish National ice hocke> team beat the Soviet national team 5-2 m the second and last game of the Swedish visit to Mos- cow. Period scores were: 1-1. 2-1. 2 2. In Friday's game the So\iet field- ed their world championship teair and scored a
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  • 70 15 A team of 20 expert Scottish curlers arrived m New York yesterdaj for a series of 60 matches againsi American teams. The Scotsmen, who flew fron Prestwick, said they expected to plaj their first match m Chicago today They expect to return home m earli
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    77 15 (No. l w »s taken a few seconds before the leading cars and br'uu \h n u H aley) and (No M A Porochc) collided a newsn Jr the fence i"i«rtnf Mr. Victor Blackman, pital withY photo r aPher. Blackman was rushed to hosTrophy r !!S lnjuries
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  • 54 15 Ninety five riders from 14 countries, including Britain, Vietnam, Prance, Belgium. Denmark and Bulgaria, assembled at Luxor this weekend ready to start the 988 mile cycling Tour of Egypt. The event starts on Wednesday and is due to last ten days, during which 15 stages
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    • 98 15 Sports quiz (1) What are the fi v e "classic" races in British horse racing? (2) If a shuttlecock hits your foot outside the court, whose point is it? (3) (a.n a goalkeeper take a penalty kick in soccer? (4) What is the Malayan A.A.A. three-mile record? (5) Did Yolande
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  • 133 16  - CUP TRIAL LEAVES A DOUBT NETMAN Can Malaya keep ahead? By IT W\s the old war horses «»i Malayan badminton who salvaged hopes •>• tin* selectors In the first Thomas Cop Irlal ii Koala Lumpur al the weekend. Hut om vi" player did stand oui ;< a future Hoo Chye
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  • 32 16 In a friendly soccer match played at Fairer Park yesterday, Bprlngdale defeated Maxwell xi 3-l\ Thlam Soon (2) and Kok Merit- .scored for Bprlngdale; Ahmad Hiueeln (2» for the kx>er.s.
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  • 276 16 These golfers like the tough weather WHILE many parU of England were .still under the white mantle of the year's first heavy snowfall nearly a hundred hardy British amateur golfers were crowding the ancient Sussex town of Rye— one of the Royal Cinque ports. The occasion wa.s the annual President's
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  • 123 16 £HRIB CHATAWAY, Britain's Empire Games threeAirport Johannesburg, last night. He i s to run m a nmr-milc race at the Johannesburg Harriers Golden Jubilee meeting at Wanderers Oval, Johannesburg liiAt Diiiurauy. At the airport, Chataway said: '"I don't know what effects altitude will have on me.
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  • 80 16 Maiden for Trueman FREDDIE Trueman. t h c Yorkshire and England last bowler, is to marry Miss Edith Chapman. 23. daughter Of a wealthy local auctioner. it was announced at Scarborough yesterday. Trueman. also 23. is at present a furniture salesman, and met Miss Chapman at a cricket reception m
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  • 98 16 I California swimmer Florence Chadwick has written to London friends that she expects to be back next summer to "wind up a little unfinished business" this means iwlmmlng the English Channel both ways non-stop. The former San Diego stenographer is the only swimmer ever to j swim om>
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  • 36 16 A 20-man delegation of the Newells Old Boys First Division soccer club is planning to leave Buenos Aires tomorrow for a tour Of Belgium. Prance. Switzerland Germany ii rid Italy.- A.P.
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  • 126 16 HEAT WORRIES GRAND PRIX MEN THE lialian Lancia team made several tests of the Buenos Aires municipal autodrome yesterday m preparation for the Argentine Grand Prix car race on Jan. 16. No times were clocked. Drivers Alberto Ascari, Lui£i Villoresi and Zugenio Castellotti, under the direction of \ttilio Pasquarelbp, head
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  • 47 16 Diehl Mateer of Philadelphia won the Toronto Badminton and Racket Club's pro-amateur invitation squash championship yesterday as he defeated Azam Khan of Pakistan 15-12, 13-18. 15-11, 15-11. Mateer also holds the United States open championship and the Canadian and United States titles— U.P.
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  • 67 16 A swipe... ..and a miss! Trevor Bailey of England trios to iji't ;i nail from lan Johnson of Australia away to leg, but misses. His cap fell off as a result of the energy of his stroke. Bsllej went on to make M not out and the England second innings
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