The Singapore Free Press, 18 January 1955

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya Z „,,S shmapore.Turs. Jan. 18. 1955. Price 15 Cts
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    Lock icon Sweeping new amnesty offer to Mau Mau
    195 1 Tin Kenya Government is to make a new surrender oiler to the Mau Mau terrorists at once. Under it a ny one who gives up will not be prosecuted for any offence committed under the Emergency Regulations, it was learned in London yesterday.
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    FIRE AT THE 11th HOUR
    76 1 A blaze, believed to have been started by boys firing off rockets, gutted the dome and top floor of a three-storey building: (picture above) at the junction o f Robinson Road and Boon Tat Street, Singapore, shortly after 11 p.m. yesterday. No one was injured.
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    Rubber nears dollar mark
    88 1 übber on the Singapore morning was graIglng its way back to which it reachd at thi New Year before sub- y easing to the middle- first grade buyers opened at 99 2 cents a lb.. 99' 8 cents and then ked UP to 99' 4 cents.
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    Lock icon Bonn rejects plan
    37 1 West Germany last night bluntly rejected a French plan for a European arms production pool which would have placed new and additional restrictions on West Germany's economy and on her future arms production. U.P.
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    Lock icon Super Connie crashes: 13 lost
    165 1 A Navy Super Consteljtton transport plane 1 n the stormy AtlanI southwest of steWoundland yes- Ail 13 men aboard (i drowned off from a^ which had 1(; I!:,r field, New- Patuxent, Mary,'rnin. to Harmon two motors plane The escorting B-29 reported .sighting five life rafts
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    THE CONFLICT IN S.E. ASIA
    411 1 THE CONFLICT IN S.E. ASIA THE FIGHT IS NOT ONLY FOR MEN'S BODIES BIT ALSO FOR THEIR MINDS— EDEN THE Foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden, said in London yesterday that the true conflict in South-East Asia was not only for men's bodies but also for men's minds. Nowhere in the
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    Lock icon Dies after TV show
    80 1 ELEVEN-year-old Roy Johns, got excited watching a television programme on air warfare and was found dead in bed next morning at his home in New Ferry, Cheshire. A coroner told an inquest yesterday that the boy must have had an epileptic attack during the night and
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    Firm loses $9,049
    62 1 MALAYAN Motors, Singapore, said that $9,049 was stolen from their office over the week-end. The monev was kept in a locked steel box on Saturday. The box was missing when the 1 office opened yesterday. Later, the box was found in a cupboard. It had been forced
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    MAN WAS P.C.
    27 1 A Sikh tried to assault a i policeman, who was in plain clothes in Keat Hong, Singapore, last night. The constable arrested the Sikh.
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    Lock icon Blast made safe eren SAFER
    90 2 Blast made safe eren SAFER A BLAST set ofT at tinFarmers Bank at Nicholasville, Kentucky earl> yesterday wrecked the building and sealed off from would-be robbers a vault containing I Ssloo,--000 in t.ash. The explosion, presumably caused by nitroglycerine, shook the little town wide awake and sent people hurrying to
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    U.S. may decide—no H-bomb tests
    238 2 U.S. may decide— no H-bomb tests NO NEW IDEAS NEED PROVWG 50... ACCENT ON PEACE NOW 1^ HI R E Is "'ii" imour m Wi ton that the United Sf ha <;• ;<:< d nut to hold an n bomb tests this year jj jt and Informed last that <
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    THE HAPPIEST DAY FOR BOBBY
    139 2 AT death's door only a few weeks SfS, young BsbSJ kept steadily at his brandy and milk diet to recover and become the "star" at Kallang Airport yesterday. Bobby is a Dacbshund a short legged "sausage" dog with amazing powers of recovery. Yesterday was an
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    Roy Ankrah in court
    64 2 Roy Ankrah of the Gold Coast, former British Empire featherweight champion and Vincent Okine, Gold Coast welterweight champion, appeared in private at the Glasgow Sheriff's court yesterday 'on charges alleging offences against young girl.s. Another coloured man, Smokey Amugie, appeared with them on similar charges. No
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    Royal Navy will get new ships
    182 2 Royal Navy will get new ships Britain's Navy Minister I pledged last night that "a new generation of i hip would replai e the pn i til rships. Hlfl promise eame a few hours alter Admiral Sir I.ouis Hamilton had critic! ed the "run down state ot the N which,
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    Now Nicaragua wants to buy planes from US
    132 2 G.KRAL Anastasio Somoza. President of Nicaragua, declared in Managua yesterday that he has urgently requested the United States to sell him five planes similar to those sold to Costa Rica on Sunday. He protested that the four fighter planes and one transport
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    Lock icon A -FOR-PEACE PLAN GETS A START
    267 2 A -FOR-PEA CE PLAN GETS A START Cured of thyroid condition RESTORATION of the career of a former Egyptian woman singer with the aid of atomic energy has 'provided the background for the first concrete implementation of President Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace plan, among nations abroad, it was learned in Washington yesterday
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    Lock icon Home-rule talks
    32 2 Leaders of the Tunisian i home-rule delegation to Paris met yesterday with Tunisian Government officials to frame the country's final terms for an agreement with France on Tunisian autonomy. U.P.
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    Lock icon Pope at Mass
    41 2 Pope Pius xii yesterday attended a special Mass in his i private chapel on the eve of the Feast of St. Peter's Chair commemorating the taking up bv St. Peter of the Episcopal I oiJice in Rome. U.P.
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    SNOW ISOLATES SCOTTISH FARMS
    213 2 Helicopters drop food ROYAL NAVY helicopters were sent to north-west Scotland yesterday as further heavy snowfalls threatened serious food shortages for marooned areas. The helicopters dropped rnd fuel to snow-bound 1; In southern England, r. swollen bv melted snow c. extensive flooding in Kent, Thames Valley
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    Diesoline to cost more
    60 2 'THE Shell Company said today that the price of Shell diesoline for use as automotive fuel mostly by buses and lorries, in Singapore will be 54 cents a gallon (increase three cents from today Other price increases are kerosene by ten cents for a four-gallon tin.
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    Lock icon FOUR-YEAR SENTENCE: COMMANDANT APPEALS
    332 3 Change of plea wasn *t allowed A NAIROBI magistrate was yesterday said by defence counsel to have turned a mental somersault in refusing: to allow former Police Reserve Commandant Derek Searle to change his plea from guilty to not guilty on a charge of perjury. The
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    Lock icon 'QUAKE WAS RIGHT ON CUE
    101 3 A sharp earthquake jolted Tokyo yesterday. No damage was reported. aJthough concrete buildings swayed for 30 seconds. The tremor added remarkable realism to a radio programme. "And then came a big jolly earthquake." said a voice on the U.S. Army's Far East network. At the
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    Lock icon NAZIS WANTED NELSON'S COLUMN
    172 3 As sign of German victory NAZIS planned to move Admiral Nelson's imrj from Trafalgar Square to Berlin after conquered Britain as "an impressive sign of n victory," an East German publication said yesterday. The Nazis also planned to accupy Ireland, it added. The publication, the Englishlanguage
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    Lock icon No tax cut this year, says Ike
    51 3 at Eisenhower again 1 told the American five up hope of a cut this year, but held out me possibility he might re--1 U «»n a year from mnot afTurd to have •r loss of revenue through reductions the Presidvnt said in rv.n_
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    Lock icon 10 die in plunge
    35 3 g People were killed and! Injured last night; r truck in which they /"^rning from a Sunday y?d down a precim h r una River at S e Tucuman in, U.P.
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    Lock icon MARGARET PICKS THE 'H' LINE FOR TOUR
    124 3 MARGARET PICKS THE 'H' LINE FOR TOUR nRINCESfi Margaret, recent- o ne oi the world's 5l (i,, ssed women, has the peg ral with a for her trip to the West u-dered from a lich turns them out by have deep i ecklines. Pinks, yellows are in the collecspring comes
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    Lock icon Maldives lashed
    22 3 ne has lashed the m part of the Maldives Indian Ocean atolls. s ul :;\vi st ol Ceyl n. A.P.
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    Lock icon IN JAMAICA
    17 3 A. ire and the Earl lie arrived in Jamaica for a few weeks' A. P.
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    Lock icon Low-cut neckline costs Avis her job
    119 3 Low-cut neckline costs Avis her job TOO SEXY TV? E ,s s "»tt has lost her job as a television annoiim =r\ Iftei i lesti it \ms .md h.-r low seek line Briti-.li S viewers simply could not gel their BBiBBSBI SB the pro S Enrammes she introduced. This disturbed
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    Lock icon Bridge heliport in city 'not practical'
    194 3 THE British Transport Minister, Mr. John Boyd-Car-penter, has rejected a plan to build helicopter landing sit< in Central London on bridges over the River Thames. In a letter to a Member of Parliament, Lieut. Col. Marcus Lipton. the Minister said the idea "is attractive
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    Lock icon 'Marilyn will be barred unless..'
    53 3 Marilyn Monroe's studio said yesterday it will prevent the blonde actress from actine lotanybody unless she lives up to her long-term contract. Twentieth Century-Fox Studio has suspended the star for failing to appear for pre-pro-duction work on her next film, "How to be Very. Very
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      Opinion
      282 4 Terror and Amnesty DECENTLY the leaders ,v ol the UMNO-MCA Alliance .said they would willing to go into the jungle to offer a general amnesty to the terror- Lsts to end tin- six-and-a-half-year Emergency. Opinion v.a.s divided as to whether the gamble ior gamble it- is should be tak»-n.
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    CRY...this land of SHADOW
    820 4 CRY... this land of SHADOW RENE MacCOLL introduces a man who found a NEW 'Darkest Africa' I/LOOK is the name of the place where Alan Paton lives about hall an hour's fast drive 1 from Durban through lovely hilly country with i the Indian Ocean a blue blur ofl to
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    186 4 IMI E fascinating report from Mosco w that "SfCry able-bodied and redundant official should be put to material and productive work" caused certain interested parties to SSggest that it was about time Britain did the same with London s thickly populated Whitehall. As millions of able-bodied and redundant officials were
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      31 4 J*~ J v /mmm^M M V.9***m* *tM Ji VULCAIN GRAND PRIX M.ik( t\ of fh. famous CRICKET Al.irm Wftaf W^tlh FINE WATCHES SINCE 1858 "Buy a Vulciin .md be on fim<
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      24 4 CHINESE NEW YEAR BRING OUT THE BRANDY PENFOLD HENNESSEY BEEHIVE MARTELL COURVOISIER MEUKOW EXSHAW ADET All the best brands SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
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    Queues for store's annual sale
    114 5 Queues for store's annual sale i|EN women bargain l hunters were in queues for the doors to open when Whiteaway's stocktaking sale began There are bargains in every department but the biggest are the ladies' department model clothes are do wn to considerably han half-price. A lone man waiting for
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    Another link in the chain
    67 5 school year which last week in Johore u marked an important in the progress of education in the states. the occasion for the Brothers to add an- link to their chain of Malaya. now taken over St. s English School which for its director Bro.
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    Lock icon THE JUDGES RETURN FROM THE SERVICE
    66 5 picture. The judfics of the Singapore High Court (the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, Mr. Justice Brown. Mr. Justice Taylor and Mr. Justice Whitton) returning to the court, with the mace-bearers leading, after attending the service at the St. Andrew's Cathedral in connection with
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    TURTLE PAYS SURPRISE VISIT-AFTEB THE RAIN
    204 5 TURTLE PAYS SURPRISE VISIT-AFTEB THE RAIN S ter Sunday's heavy Mr. Edwin Owsiak, or of a Singapore printfirm. k found a turtle ing about in his garden 'h Orchard Hoad Owsiak took pity on him pounds— and decided him from further *ust have been swept Hood waters. It may '"body*
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    ENOUGH MONEY FOR ONLY ONE WEEK'S WAGES
    264 5 j inner i l I'm vs crisis: rpHE Singapore Council for Adult Education is short of cash. It has only just enough money to pay teachers for another week. This was stated at a three-hour meeting of its executive committee on Friday. About
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    Lock icon Cheer up
    30 5 picture. Mr Edwin Owsiak holds up 17-lb. Nelson, the turtle which he stumbled across in his garden after Sundays rain in Orchard Road— Free Rescuer and Rescued Press
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    SHIP DAMAGED
    45 5 The 785-ton Sarawak Steamship Co.. Ltd. freighter Angby. which was reported to have run aground in the Rejang River on December 16 last jeai Mid not do so. Local agents for the v< iid that she was instead .ally damaged by a otona.
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    Lock icon SOLOMON AT 'TALENTIME'
    35 5 picture. Sn t noa bsesoel, singing "The Rugby and the Pearl" and "Flaming Heart." at the Singapore Siglap Girls' Club "Talentime" show at the Happy World Stadium on Saturday night. Free Press
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    FAO officials in S'pore for talks
    71 5 Two United Nations officials arrived in Singapore from Bangkok by air yesterday. They were Mr. Charles Coltman. Regional Information Officer of the Food and Agricultural Organisation, and the assistant officer, Mr. Surateon Bunnag. They will have informal talks with U.N. officials in Singapore before
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    'WE'RE NOT A CHARITY'
    144 5 PIPED WATER PLEA REFI SED Tl ling un<: cannol be philanthropic So Kampong D will iv .1 piped suj they cannot assure the Council enough revenu justify water mains being laid lor tlvm. The Council's public utii I committee agreed with this view and decided that
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    Dustbin theft
    47 5 Wong Tai Sen pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to theft I of a dustbin, valued at $5, j from the Bethesda Church, I Bras Basal) Road, on the night of Jan. 15. He was offered $250 bail in one surety till Jan. 22 pending sentence.
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    Co-op staffs unite
    22 5 The constitution of the Selangor Co-operative stores .stalls' Union with a membership of about 250 was adopted on Sunday.^
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    REPORT ON MINOR OFFENDERS
    34 5 The report of a select committee which was set up to examine a new Bill dealing with i minor offenders will be tabled at the Federal Legislative (Council meeting tomOCTOW
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    FLOOD FUND TOTAL IS NOW $280,645
    69 7 contributions to the FeRelief Fund, on Saturday, total to $230,--■>ntributioni totalling 15.82 were received in the -%202.40 in Singapore Federation Fund co tri butions <* North pir° m the P 9o^ 6 br he Penan K Chinese ie Oi Fu C r merce DisM^cSSSfK?
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      U.K. closing prices
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      Wew York prices
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      U.S. PEPPER
      37 7 Sp<v Malabar was quoted at 41. pound AfloaLs 40%. ment 40. February 39%. March 39. Sarawak spot 40% and lampong spot 41 cents per pound sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per lb.
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      112 7 Jan. 17. Previous Today COPRA Philippines c.i.f. UK/North 1 »pean delivered weight per long tea lan./Feb $205 nom. $206 sellers IOPRA Philippines f.o.b. Manila, weight, per long ton unquoted unquoted ("»'K\ Straits c.i.f. UK/North European delivered weight per Jan./Feb £74% buyers £73%. buyers £74% sellers £74
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    Expand market request
    27 7 The recently-formed Kampong Bahru Fair Stallholders' Association, Kuala Lumpur, is to ask the Rural and Industrial Development Authority for aid in expanding the pre-
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    MALAYAN M.A.T.C. CADETS TAKE A LOOK AT FAMOUS BONDI BEACH
    57 7 MALA YAN M.A T. C. CA DETS TAKE A LOOK AT FAMOUS BONDI BEACH BEACH INSPECTOR Brian Davidson shows four Malayan Air Training Corps cadets over famous Bondi Beach in Sydney. The cadets are (left to right): S. Sher Singh of Ipoh, Chua Teik Hwa of Penang, Kandiah Kanagendram of
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    They sign same book as the Queen
    542 7 AMONG the proudest boys in Australia today are four Malayan air cadets who were invited by the Lord Mayor of Sydney, to sign the city's Visitors' Book. The book was signed by Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh when they visited Australia
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    The Wren who drank whisky and brandy
    604 8 The Wren who drank whisky and brandy SACIOII SI VI 1011 IHIAI ASSAM* «II AIH.I AbARK UAIUKI) i did In A J Fred eric I I i i B jie llth. Ki i-yon wa nt foj i ith Quartei Ses. the Marjorii 1}i Duchess ol Kent B Portsmouth, with to
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    Lock icon PRINCESS AND HER GODSON
    77 8 PRINCESS AND HER GODSON Showing concern that her newly-christened godson does not catch a cold is Process Margaret, who tucks baby Alexander Pepys Muir in his shawl as he lies in the arms of his mother. Lady Rosemary Muir, outside Woodstock Church. Oxfordshire. The child, whose father is Mr. Robin
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    BRIAN'S KEEN EYE WINS HIM £50
    163 8 BRIAN'S KEEN EYE WINS HIM £50 YOUNG Brian Johns gave up stamp collecting some time ago tor tram spotting But he Still has a keen eye foi a stamp. Such SS when he was .sealing up some letters lor his mother the other day Eleven ar old Brian potted irr<
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    Dry rot at Oxford says U.S. Don
    138 8 Dry rot at Oxford says U.S. Don A 44-YEAR-OLD American lecturer at Oxford University, speaking at Banbury, condemned scholars who were more concerned about their personal prestige than with learning. Dr. David Wesley Soper. Ph.D.. said that some at Oxford were dead from the neck I up. "There is an
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    Mr. Duffy loses four jobs, keeps eight
    186 8 I^EBRUARY 7 is the day F thai Mr Duffy becomes redundant in four jobs. And that will cost him ss. a week. It does not worry him creat lv. He will still have plenty to do In his eight remaining jobs. For 32-year-old
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    MAN TAKES OUT $.85 mil POLICY
    295 8 MAN TAKES OUT $.85 mil POLICY He beats death duly at 71 A 71 -YEAH -OLD man taken out an Insur. policy for $850,000. He pay $3,060 a week in prem. Who the man is must main a secret. It is known I he is regarded as a firstinsurance life
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    Anti-kissing police raid cinemas
    108 8 Anti-kissing police raid cinemas SIXTY loving couples were detained in Turin picture houses by the newly-formed "anti-kiss flying squad." Com plaints had been received by the Turin police from irate fathers and mothers about "petting." An anti-kiss squad was termed. Police visited manv picture houses and picked up couples caught
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    Judges hear bride's see ret, make gift
    207 8 SHE was waiting not at th< church but in the 16th Tribunal ol the Paris law courts She was young, pretty. brant and clearly agitated i three red-robed Judges I Ol case alter case. Still he waited Sudd* nly her lawyer Maii tre
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    THIEF'S SMILE WON HIM KEYS TO HOTEL ROOMS
    361 9 THIEF'S SMILE WON HIM KEYS TO HOTEL ROOMS Grvvd h>d in cliiivnfall IS LONDON'S smart hotels, Joseph Lagunawiczia was the model guest. His smile of happy contentment »is to the harassed night staffs a grateful nowledgcment of comfort and kind attention. v His politeness cheered them, and his quiet voice
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    League will fight for jet-bang damages
    118 9 A. ERSONIC Defence is to be formed lera and propcrty,vho are claiming com- n damage from jet Mr Leslie Green, who Is $34,000 worth of damage at his tltham 'Hants* July, said: aim to make the league affair. It is the to flght cavalier
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    Friendship trees
    20 9 trees are being y Essex County Council village of Lidice d in a garden of friendship. ai^n uj
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    Lock icon 'MR. CINDERS' FIRESIDE HOBBY
    102 9 'MR. CINDERS' FIRESIDE HOBBY don sn,] A "*tral.an-born captain of the WimbleB**edwav8 **edwav rhmSS 9 V ,ilrn who last Autumn won thc World ,v «n uh,„ E»? W P at Wembley, has speed on his mind. toasting. Wlasl«| over his hobby, model aircraft Wlx »>« has m h .rt W
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    Lock icon THE PEKING IS LATEST IN HATS
    50 9 The oriental effect of the pointed crown has given this fluted bonnet-shap.t hat its name "Peking." It is made in a tweed blue peichbloom material, reversed to give a ribbon effect round the crown and a tailored bow at the centre back.- Reuter picture.
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    Girl, 13, was mother to four brothers
    215 9 Girl, 1 3, was mother to four brothers Teachers bathed the boys WILLIAM Bittles expected his 13-year-old daughter Carole to be "little mother" to her four brothers when his wife went into hospital 12 months ago. "1 He regarded it as her res- ponsibilitv to do the shopping, 1 keep
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    A NEW WAY TO TRAP POISONERS
    128 9 A NEW WAY TO TRAP POISONERS CHEMISTS at Harwell. Britain's atom research staI tion, have perfected a techni- que to trap the most elusive of all murderers— the poisoner. They can trace minute particles of poison in a human body by a system known as "activation analysis." One chemist. Mr.
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    DON'T BE TOO STRICT WITH BABY
    298 9 How to make a happy family PARENTS v trict With babies turn them into spoiled, unhappy children with no coi e. This Ls the finding ol Dr. R. S. Illingworth. Professor of Child Health at Sliefheld (Yorkshire) University, who has studied what makes children
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    Villages join halls queue
    62 9 A list of 150 villages that badly need community halls has been sent to the British Education Ministry by the National Council of Social Services. Other names will follow. The Ministry will decide which villages are to receive grants towards the cost of building the halls,
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    Officials make her walk miles
    185 9 PAULINE GOUGH Is only eight, but stupid officialdom has decreed that every day she will have to walk 5| miles along lonely lanes to and from school. Her seven-year-old sister Sheila will make the same journey alone in a tix-seater taxi. The taxi will call
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    SHIP ORDERS DOWN
    33 9 British shipyards built merchant ships totalling more than 1,500.000 tons in the 12 months ending la.st September po.st-war record. But orders ire now down sharply, says Lloyds List Annual Review.
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    Spies can have a field day in this "paradise"
    618 10  - Spies can have a field day in this "paradise" JAMES WHITE reports Fv>k hai to ftnd defen ark can be artily recoi .fieri i ind relax wh 111 bu Iness. Foreign agents win And that the people tinre will go out of their way tO make espion easy. in i"
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    Diplomats sell food to make a living
    181 10 [\IPLOMATS from the U former Chines e Nationalist Embassy in London arc exploiting their national flair lor interesting food by going into the catering business. Two of them, Mr. Y.M.Lee, former First Secretarf at I the Embassy, and a colleague, 1 Mr C.
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    His airline carried a million passengers
    69 10 His airline carried a million passengers /GORDON R. McGregor, BatVI tie Of Britain pilot who is now chief of Trans-Canada Airlines iwho have just received the first of their 22 Viscount propeller-jet airliners irom Britain! reports that his airline carried 1,429,--000 passengers in 1924, a nine per cent increase. The
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    Their's was a love-at-first dance
    186 10 T OKI) HAMBLEDKN and J his Italian fiancee, Maria Carmela Attollco, have had a gay engagement week in New York. Every night they have made a round of private parties, ending on the dance floors of the Stork Club and El Morocco. i n ay
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    ETHEL IS STILL THE BIG HOLLYWOOD HIT
    328 11  - ETHEL IS STILL THE BIG HOLLYWOOD HIT Michael Ruddy by ON Br adway 20 years ago, was George C.irl Crazy.'' show was in) Merman H I Got Rhy•ii same show McMath who lywood, teamed Astalre under her Ginger Rogers— stardom. 1955. The big sood Is Ethel ti. belting out songs
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    SHOW TALK
    25 11 lack Hawkins there seen having fun with his son Nicholas) —Britain's t<»p box-office star— has agreed to star in Romoey Pictures' "The Island."
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    GANGSTER roles have brought fame to MANY a star
    199 11 GANGSTER roles have brought fame to MANY a star j tpone to Dilgangster roles an unknown fhat's why a m wcomer m campmighty anxious elease date of Heath Row." is best- to date And The rei the role "nan. thi Red wrote this tied Quentin Prison ng Ins I a
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    SHE carried off Jack with a purr
    832 11  -  THOMAS WISEMAN by EDANAS BATTLECRY: "JUST BE NICE TO PEOPLE— EVEN IN SHOW BUSINESS" r PHE tough world of show business, which used to be a jungle, turns out to oe nothing: wilder than a botanical garden. Who says so? The newest him
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    36 11 ,t\ nice catch for Esther Willi;.: a beat during the Aiming <•» swimmh i enes lor Jupiter s Darling" ofl th. coasl ol < atalina Nlanu, uisorni avhm tin priie frssi the Pacific waters is a rocs ba
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    Lock icon A veteran derides the dummy
    53 12 Al the very mature ape of eight months, Jacqueline IIob[SSBJ of Brighton has to scold her toy chimpanzee. He reallv is too babyish, still wanting a dummy. Why, Jacqueline discarded hers over two months ago. The chimp is certainly the thump in this little scene
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    HINTS for the HOUSEWIFE
    226 12 HINTS for the HOUSEWIFE r VO CLEAN pots or pans used A for holding paint, cover the paint area with sand, and scour with sheets of clean newspaper. This brings the containers up like new. r\X> PREVENT skin forming on a custard, sprinkle with castor sugar. 'PO TEST egga for
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    Don't let baby 'cry it out
    513 12  - Don't let baby 'cry it out CHAPMAN PINCHER DO YOUNG MOTHERS KNOW' TOO MUCH? by WHEN a baby cries incessantly the cause is most likely to be a mother with too many "modern" notions about mothercraft. That is the belief of Pro>r Ronald Illingworth, a .cading child-specialist, who gives the
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    They get a kick out of this new sound
    783 13 They get a kick out of this new sound DAVID LEWIN'S spotlight on Britain's teenagers and one-night jazz u ..•j-j ir buslent adstoj title th.girl m Uw band sipped coffee to ,h. during Lna minute. •p e iple are older 'and thst speed around wlthThe It taster. the band was
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    That drum-beat rhythm proved too much for Moira's gown
    78 13 Room «niV i c Stork out ,ft d °n. to beat hot rhythm. began. Miss D ,n to the dance iS i 1 with her V, air the ..r tight-fitting iress split *ito the f r nun^bers. [■*V said used to
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    Bridge Hand
    317 13 East-West vulnerable East dealer 'JUIE advantage of sacrifice bidding are, like home cooking, sometimes overrated. West opened the king of spades, shifted to the king of hearts, then unwisely led a small spade instead of the ace. East ruffed ami returned a heart. South trumped, cashed the two
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    Ron Barton is going to U. S.
    604 14  -  GEORGE WHITING -By- pRUISER-WEIGHT Kon Barton, premier prospect in Britain's blood and knuckle business, will he taking a look at America in 1!).')."). What is more important. America will be taking a look at Ron Barton. The idea is that meat porta Barton
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    REPUBLIC DAY BADMINTON
    105 14 Ol the Indian Republic Dav badminton tournament will be played at th. Blngapore Badminton stadium on Saturday at 8 p m. under the Distinguished Pat ronage oi Mr. R. K. Tandon Indian Commissioner in Malaya. An exhibition match will be played on the same night be tween
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    Amicable A.A. officials
    118 14 AMICABLE Athletic A offl foi the year: Mr Chan Cher S Messrs. Howe Soo K( e I lai in Lian Kee Robe Tan Queea Phuan. Ang Scon Hoc Low Fan Kw. Yap Cheong, Hon. General SecreMr. Lim Cheng Hal, H< Q neral Secretaries, Messrs. Koh Swee Chiang,
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    Lock icon WHY NOT SEEDINGS IN F.A. CUP?
    427 14 WHY NOT SEEDINGS IN F.A. CUP? Bj VERNON MORGAN rpHE ilraw lor the fourth I round oi the Football Association i up, which h.is brought together many of thc giants of the competition, raises tlie point as to whether an open draw, as at present, is the »nst thing. I
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    MALAYS TENNIS FOR SATURDAY
    478 14 Johores tennis champion, Yon Bin Mian, will defend his singles title at the All-Malayan Malaya championships starting in Kuala Lumpui on Satun The 74 competitors include leadilayers from Singapore, Selangor and Ptr.k. Among the entries are the Sultan of Pahang and the Raja of Perlis. The
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    CONSISTENT ORE TO WIN AGAIN
    1061 15  - CONSISTENT ORE TO WIN AGAIN TRESPASSER He can overcome strong rivals By Class 2, Div. 1-6 f. QRE, a five-year-old Pink Flower gelding looks like keeping up the good work of his illustrious sire, who finished as top money spinner last season, when he tackles a bright lot of Class
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    35 15 picture. The one bone race: Pride of Burma (Mortimer) who on the opening day won the fifth race (Class 5, Div. 2 7f.) easily by seven lengths enters the winner's gate at Ipoh. Free Press
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    Tjoa can land a treble at Ipoh tomorrow
    562 15 UINER Tjoa may land a treble with Border Scot in the Class 2, Division 2—6 furlongs, Kheng lie lower division these two horses are wonderfully fit just now— and with old Munlee in the Class 5 i. struck his best at Ipoh
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    27 15 Allegiance (Mawi) winning the third race ((hiss 5. Div. 1— (If.) from Young Alee I Hudson) and Black Palot (Mortimer) at Ipoh on Saturday. Fourth is Cinemascope
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    PROBABLE SCRATCHINGS
    40 15 PROBABLE scratching for tomorrow's t at Ipoh are: Little herrington. Pink Treasure, First Trick, Zanzibar, Canterbury Bell, Sound Wave. Live Wire, Crown Link. Orchestration, Saigon Bran, Special Feature. Big Money, Sangkilat. Jimmy Boy 11. The going rem/iins firm.
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    Lock icon STOKE AND BURY BATTLE OUT A THIRD DRAW
    178 16 They meet once more tomorrow DURY and Stoke City dre* mAn yesterday in the third round of the Football Association Cap. It was their second replay. The dubs drew 3-all after extra time yesterday, taking their third round battle to a total
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    Lock icon CEYLON BID FOR RUSSIANS
    116 16 rpHE Ceylon Football /Association Is making efforts to get the Russian i! team, which is due to play in [ndl i this k, to come to Ceylon foi A. w Mussf< r. secretary ol i on i tball Ass' ild th< Pre Idenl oi the All
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    Draw certain in India Test
    301 16 I PAKISTAN and India are almost certain to draw the second Test match at Bahawalpur today. At close of play yesterday Pakistan were 312 for the loss of Dine wickets in reply to India's first innings total of 235. The match ends today. Hanii Mohammad
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    DUNNE ELECTED REFS' PRESIDENT
    45 16 Mr, w. T. Dunne of SelanKY>r has been elected president of the Malayan Society ofl, Rugby Union Refer Other office-bearers:— Hon. secretary and treasurer Mr. K. H. Cantrell i Penani; >. Committee Capt Kellett 'Sin- gapore) and Mr E. Smith (.Selangor). M
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    MARRIAGE
    23 16 2U Words $H (minimum) HANNAY (iUNN: On lath Jan 1956, .<t 81 Mary's Church, Kuala Lumpur, William Hannay to Elizabeth Ann Gunn.
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    SHUTTLE GIANTS TO MEET AGAIN IN CUP TRAIL
    177 16 SHUTTLE GIANTS TO MEET AGAIN IN CUP TRAIL V RETURN meeting between Wong Peng Soon and Ong Poh Lim is sc- lied a red to take place during the second Thomas Cup trial .r the Perak Turf Club courts on Jan. 20 and 30. Five matches three singles and two
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    79 16 \XTES SANTEE, holder of the American mile record of 4 mm. and 6 seconds, will make his first New York appearance on February 5 In the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden. Tlie Kansas star's entry in the Wanamaker mile was announced yesterday by Fred Schmertz.
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    29 16 European middleweight boxing champion Charles Humez last night I knocked out German champion Han/ st ret/ in the ninth round of their bout in Pans U.P.
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    MORRIS IS DROPPED
    65 16 A USTRALIAS team to meet England in the Fourth Test, which begins in Add tide on Jan. 28. was announced yesterday as:R. Archer, R. Benaud. J. Burke, L. Favell. Nell il.trvey, lan Johnson, Bill Johnston, R Lindwall L. Maddocks, K. Miller, and Colin McDonald Alan Davidson, is
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    Lock icon Sugar Ray has 2nd fight tomorrow
    147 16 Sugar Ray has 2nd fight tomorrow OUGAR Ray Robinson and Ralph "Tiger" Jones were found in excellent condition yesterday after a pre-fight medical examination at the state Athletic Commission office in Chicago. They will meet in a 10 rounder at Chicago stadium tomorrow night. The fight will be Robinson's second
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    Lock icon MONTE CARLO RALLY STARTS
    44 16 More than 350 competitors started out yesterday from eight points in Europe on a testing run to Monte Carlo in hazardous road' and weather conditions. The starting points were Glasgow. Lisbon, Monte Carlo Athens, Munich, Palermo. Oslo and Stockholm. Reuter
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    Trophy is 2ft. tall
    87 16 A handsome tico-foot high silver challenge trophy has been presented to the Amateur Athletic Association of Malaya by the Sultan of Brunei. It is to go each vear to the state whose women athlete* gain the most points in the annual Malayan championships, which will this
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    Lock icon FREDDIE DAWSON HAS OPERATION
    36 16 The world's fourth-rated welterweight boxer, Freddie Da underwent an eye operation in Sydney yesterday for an believed sustained during his December 8 right against Eddy Dione. Dawson's condition i\i reported satisfactory.— U.P.
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    MAHINMA SINGH CUP CRICKET
    41 16 The Selangor Sikh Union will travel during the Chinese NewYear holidays to Singapore to meet Singapore Sikhs at cricket for the Mahinma Singh Cup. They meet the 81 Khalsa Association at hockey and the Singapore Sikh badminton.
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