Singapore Standard, 31 January 1955

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  • 15 1 Singapore Standard fc. jl m «H SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1935 12 PAGES 15 CENTS.
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  • 161 1 |A iUMPUR, Sun.— A *r t hc Hawthorndcn r 1 outskirts of the ■JJht gutted 350 acres The Standard learnt -cement today. cm would not loss but rubBe caused ics a producobcr per acre [i i vcsicrday iing of old because of •reded 20 miles of water hilly ter-
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  • 87 1 I Mr H. by- s nister d of orn■d a •ors' to the was rehave idly :\id mh "growing campfjiftyw.'* £0* the Government would not cease to be watchful of the interests **of this vital industry." Mr. MacDonM Steward s Labour opponent is Mr.
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  • 121 1 MORE than 30 people living in a shophouse at Tanjong Pagar Road escaped injury when a section of a disused wall adjoining their home collapsed yesterday. The wall, weakened by a continuous afternoon downpour, fell on to two vacant market stallholders' huts standing on
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  • 72 1 Police Quiz 500 About A Murder NEW YORK. Jan. 30. (UP) Deputy Chief Inspector Edward Feeley said today that homicide detectives have questioned some 500 persons about the slaying of Serge Rubinstein, but admitted they were "up against a stone wall" in their efforts to crack the case. Feeley said
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  • 79 1 ALTOGETHER 60 0 people joined in one of the biggest fire-fighting operations to be carried out in the Federation* when troops, police, labourers and Fire Brigade personnel, fought a $300,000 estate blaze on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. In the photo above the fire
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  • 89 1 NEW DELHI. Jan. 30 (AP>.— India observed the seventh anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's death today with a nationwide two-minute silence and solemn ceremonial. At Rajghat where Gandhi was cremated— President Rajendra Prasad laid a wreath while a 150--man combined Service guard reversed arms and
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  • 94 1 BELGRADE Jan. 30. <Reutcr)—The Yugoslav Govern-] ment announced today that it had expressed regret to the Italian Government for an "unpleasant incident" yesterday when an Italian soldier was shot at and slightly wounded in the Italo-Yugoslav frontier f.reu The Yugoslav annoincrtment said the Italian .4ldi<r and an officer
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  • 31 1 MAIDSTONE, Kent. an. 30 (Reuter).— Police rujed an urgently needed drug rom a shop in London J miles awa y to a woman plent in hospital here last nigt.
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  • 248 1 HIALEAH. Florida. Jan 30 (AP) The status of a li-vear-old Welsh boy now living with his mother here will be investigated at the request of the British For. eign Office while his relatives squabble over his custody. The boy. Anthony Morse, told reporters, "I
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  • 329 1 IF REDS ATTACK TACHEN EVACUATION CHIANG HOLDS SECRET TALKS ON PULL-OUT TAIPEI, Jan. 30, (Reuter) Admiral Felix Stump, Commander of United States Naval Forces in the Pacific, said here today that American units would return any Communist fire in their operations in the Formosan Straits.
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  • 156 1 TAIPEI, Jan. 30, (Rev-! ter)— Chinese Nationalist Ministry announced today that Chinese Communist bombers under cover of a MIG-15 fighter fescort. this afternoon bombarded Lower Tachen Island, destroying a number of civilian houses. The communique said 82 Russian-built medium bombers took
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  • 250 1 Mr.Nehru May Be Man Of The Hour LONDON. Jan. 30, (Renter)— Sir Anthony Eden, tonight climaxed an all out effort by British Commonwealth leadeis to end the Formosa crisis by talks here with Mr. Jawaharlai Nehru, India's Prime Minister It was the key meeting of a weekend in which the
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  • 227 1 ...And Tory MP h Behind It LONDON, Jan. 30, (Reuter)— A Conservative Member of Parliament plans to take the first legislative step on Tuesday that could curb the mass immigration of West Indians to Britain. The M.P., Mr. Cyril Osborne, will seek the
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  • 70 1 DUEL IS CALLED OFF PARIS, Jan. 30 (Reuter).— A duel between French Foreign Minister, Edgar Faure and M. Jean Jacques Servan Schreiber, a young newspaper editor whom he had challenged, will not take place, it was stated tonight. A communique issued by the two men's seconds, said it had been
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  • 43 1 TOKYO, Jan. 30 (AP).— Prime Minister, Ichiro Hatoyama, said today he will talk over with his cabinet the idea of restoring normal relations with the Soviet Union. He said Russia must first end the state of war with Japan.
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  • 59 1 50 Search For Queen's Watch SANDRINGHAM. Norfolk. Jan 30 (Reuter).— A oarty of 50 local scouts and guides as a good turn to the Queen, spent yesterday combing the grounds of the Royal estate at Sandringham looking for her wrist watch lost earlier this month. The watch, one of the
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  • 18 1 PAKISTAN'S First Ambassador to Japan. Dr. Omar Hayat Malik, arrived in Tokyo from Karachi yesterday. A.P.
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  • 44 1 ONG POH LIM, the Malayan Badminton champion, blasted the great Wong Peng Soon, uncrowned World Champion, 15-11, 15-7, in less than 25 minutes at Ipoh tonight. This was Poh Lim's second victory over Peng Soon. Full report in page 12.
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    71 2 MR. ARTHUR Glad win Lee. a teacher at the Methodist Boys School, Sentul. and his bride. Miss Jeyamalar Niles, who is also a teacher, after their wedding at St. Mary's Church. Kuala Lumpur, recently. The bridesmaids are the Misses Beatrice and Isabelle Thuraiappah, and the flower Rirls are
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  • 179 2 PLEDGE that Singapore Government servants Win continue to serve the public with enthusiasm under the nrv.-Iy-constituted Legislative Assembly is made in the editorial the latest issue of Rural News. The editorial also stresses the importance of the coming ions and appeals to rural Iwellers not
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    29 2 LITTLE Mch Choon Hong uqs the first prize winner in the fancy dress competition held by the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club ct Amber Road yesterday. photo. Stendard
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  • 38 2 THE Governor. Sir John Xicoi:. has appointed Mr. P.F. de Souza, Dr. SH. Al-.lunied, Mis, Mary Lobo. Mr". Thomas Liao and Wing-Commander B. Barthold. members of the Advisory Committee of the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force for 1955.
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  • 339 2 Students Hit At 'Anglklzation KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The second annual conference of the Pan Malayan Students Federation today decided to fight for the abolition of all national type schools and the "Anqlicization" of Malaya's educational system. The conference unanimously adopted resolutions demanding Malay to be taught as
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  • 79 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Mr. P. Oorjitham. re-elected president of the Pan-Malayan Students Federation, declared this evening that the Federation would steer clear of politics. "However, the attitude of Government towards education and social welfare and the work of the political parties in Malaya will always
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  • 31 2 TAIPING, Sun.— The Lady Treacher Girls' School Taiping. has launched a magazine known as "The Quest." This Is the first time that the School has published a school magazine.
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  • 79 2 THE Singapore Government Administrative and Clerical Services Union now has a Typists Branch The branch, which h?.s many women typists as members, has alieaciv taken up a number of matters with the Government. These concerii the trans- tor of typists from Division Four to Three revision of
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  • 40 2 "NIGHT-TIME Study* is the name of the above picture which will be among those to be displayed at the Sixth open photoffraphic exhibition of the Singapore Art So gaPore HC photogra P h is b > Mun^non^ of lin"-
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  • 204 2 DISPLAY OF PRIZE WINNING PICTURES THE Singapore Art Society will hold its sixth open photographic exhibition at the British Council Hall on Feb. 4. The exhibition will feature a display of all the prize winning photographs taken by amateurs throughout the world. Following are the prize winners in their respective
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  • 56 2 COAL CITY, Illinois. Jan. 30 (II?).— A D-C-Y airliner made' an emergency landing south 5 of here early today but j:8 persons escaped injurjl. Thespeninsular Air Transport i bn-scheduled airliner made belly landing in a corn mid miles south-west of Co: City after one of
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  • 135 2 MULTI-MILLION PLANT FOR SERIA SERIA. State of Brunei. Jan M (Reutei) The Sultan of Brunei has agreed to perform the official opening ceremony on Feb. 21 of the British Malaya Petroleum Company's new processing plant here, a multi-million dollar installation f r the extraction of natural gasoline from oilfield waste
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  • 167 2 THE Labour Front of Singapore has pledged itself to work for complete independence as the first step towards the creation of a democractic socialist state in this country. The Front's manifesto issued yesterday also outlined its policy for a full selfgoverning united Malaya. It holds
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  • 54 2 photo. MEMBERS of the United Malays National Organizations branch in Singapore (in the forefront) counting the voluntary subscriptions from "sympathisers" at thr first meeting of the UMNO-MCA-Malay Union election campaign, in Singapore, yesterday. while Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan appeals to them to unite and work for the
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  • 262 2 Standard Staff Reporter THE political and economic merger of Singapore with the Federation of Malaya was urged by Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan, president of the Malayan Chinese Association, in Singapore yesterday. Sir Cheng-lock, speaking at the first UMXO-MCA-Malay Union election meeting in
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  • 11 2 MO] R re the r .cais». R ■-i gvan* J*
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  • 16 2 inc.cr.cn: w3 "0 pore. T:, Chn. jjjjgj to b< Air I Pri were awar I
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  • 95 2 Refused To Pay Lottery Winner JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Chong Kirn. Yeong Seng and Chong Yoon were each fined $1,000 in the Magistrate's Court today, for conducting an illegal lottery. Their activities came to light when they refused to pay a man who had successfully staked and won $3,600. The Court
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  • 25 2 k: j Ltbouren. CUM and P r.r 3 and Jan. 2ft vrmt in the Meat! being dr-mttt said it wa they had 1 drink.
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  • 11 2 TUT. MIJT tion S Kuala 1 The tion j J
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    • 112 2 CENTRAL PROVIDENT FUND EMPLOYERS IN SINGAPORE except those who employ only domestic employees I ARE REMINDED that they must register with the Central Provident Fund not later than 4TH FEBRUARY, 1955. [forms fur registration (CPF 1) Tj can bo obtained I at any Post Office in Singapore. I Chinese New
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    211 3 to junior management status. During that year and 1954. a further ten trainees were selected for training in the Company's various departments selling, advertising, buying, accounts, legal and secretarial, technical and personnel. Five of the ten trainees, including a woman, successfully completed their courses and were appointed to junior
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  • 275 3 ommon Emergency \pnKr should he made to contribute large towards the cost of fighting terrorism tu-ause the Emergency is a panMalayan affair. This was stated by Tengku Abdul Rahman, president of ♦he United Malays National Organization. over Radio Malaya, last night. The Tengku said: "The militant Communism against which
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  • 389 3 'Fully-Elected Council Must Have Full Powers' BY a unanimous show of hands, about 1,000 people at a public meeting yester-i day resolved that Singapore must have a fullyelected legislature in which ultimate power should be j vested in the elected representatives of the people and not in the Governor. The
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  • 271 3 New Deal For Temporary Clerks A LARGE number of temporary Singapore Government clerks who have been working n er the fear of being sacked at any time, will be given permanent jobs if their union accepts a scheme prepared by the Government. Under the proposals,
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  • 26 3 pnoto. DISTRICT Officer Mr. Lee Swee Heen of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, receives a Long Service Medal from the Governor.— Standard
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  • 137 3 THE late Dato C. J. Paglar, prominent Singapore, sports patron and Legislative Councillor, was remembered yesterday when the Governor, Sir John Nicoll, presented a long service medal of the St. John Ambulance Brigade to his son, Eric, at the Victoria School. jEl— l_ The
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  • 40 3 PENANG, Sun. The St. Nicholas Home and oJ ior Blind Children special appeal fund has now reached a total of 522.097.97. The target figure is SlOO.OOO. A sum of 55.000 was received from the Settlement Government.
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    39 3 photo. Standard MR. AND MRS. P. VELU, after their wedding at the Sri Veerama Kalianiman Temple, Serangoon Road, Singapore, on Saturday. Mr. Yelu is the son of Mr. R. Panjanathan. and the bride is t!ie former Miss R. Sundarambal.
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  • 55 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30 (AP> Russel G. Smith, executive vice-president of the Bank of America, has left for Singapore where he will complete arrangements for a new branch of Bank of America (International). Mr. Smith, in charge of the bank's international activities, will also visit
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    • 375 3 STANDARD ALMANAC* (8 ft Bin 5.13 pm aft 1 Ini In JJm Sun: J P m Calling All _mi iiHiMim ii ii m p potr t Dickson 1140 am. (5 ft Children; r> 4o How It as uone IS ING A P ORE 1 PeSn? ft 530 in am 5
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    1392 4  -  Eric Ley land A New Serial WELL DONE SKINNY By •TTEY, look out!" It was a n miracle that nobody was killed, for even as the warn inz was shouted from the back seat of Hilary Scott's tar. a whole lot of dangerous things happened at once. Out
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  • 447 4 JJY settling on marshy land or even over water, early men made themselves safe from attack by enemies. They covered the swamp with layers of brushwood and tree trunks or sank piles for a wooden platform. On this the settlers built little wattle and clay huts.
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  • 190 4 ALL COLWNS HAVE DIFFERENT FACE WHENEVER you go to a circus, take a good look at the faces of the clowns and augustes. The clowns are the ones with white faces and spangles on their costumes, and augustes usually wear big shoes and baggy trousers. If you look carefully, you
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  • 244 4 PEOPLE ON THEIR TRA VELS HPHE heaviest passenger to sail from London in recent years is Jumbo, a 2\ton elephant now on his way to South Africa to join a circus. He was hoisted on board the Australian Star at Tilbury with a crane. His fare cost £300 plus another
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    107 4 J)0 you get FURIOUS when the boys tug your pigtails and call you "Ropey Jane"? Maxine Aslanoff, 14, of Wood Green, Middlesex, hates plain pig- tails. That's why she's scowling left. But we showed her some new styles and as we promised were passing the tips to you.
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    208 4 FJEREK COCKERTON. 18. of Bermondsey, Lcnciun, is learning to become a '"finisher" in bookbinding a craft that has changed little in hundreds of years. Derek's firm specialises in "fine-binding" of books which is all done by hand. This high-quality bookbinding, mainly done in line leather with gold
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  • 91 5 afternoon l* 1 m red v and is J*t Plmprr"l Milt■i! \1 1 r!' .u--til" 1 »«< A mannequin stands wearing a sheath evening gown of pink and brown print on white pique background. Swathed pink pique band at the bustline, shoulder straps of tiny pink and printed
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    37 5 This model, wearing a hat designed by the Pans Milliner Achille, can really eat it— it is coated with real popcorn. Possibly the Van Cleef and arpels diamond clip might stick in her throat.
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  • 342 5 |>lER Angeli and Edmund 1 Purdom will co-star in romantic love story of Green Mansions, scheduled lot l !>.").") production. M-G-M MMMunrcd. Their casting resulted from one of the most 'Tate screen tests ever M at the studio. Arrangoriginally for Pier, Pro- r Arthur Freed and •or
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  • 753 5  - PAID £50 FOR ROASTED SOFA DINNER LEWIS ONSlow Br from NEW YORK I AT New York's lulli Lcl- **> mont Plaza Hotel the I chefs claim they can preJ pare any dish in the wor.d. ■> Their boast was chalJ lenged the other day by J Harvey Vomer. a Texas
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  • 22 5 "Vr E L L." said the sweater salesman to the glamour girl, "how's that one. miss? Too s mall enough?"
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  • 369 5 THE WINNER IS MR. MARCH VV HO is Hollywood's best actor? That request from a reader spurred this column into an informal poll of some 30 top stars, directors and producers The xrinner Frcdric March j£ about two to one ..Runners- up were Marlon Brando. William Holden, Ronald Caiman and
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  • 68 5 I OUIS Calhern has Joined Glenn Ford and Anne Francis in a top role in M-G-M's Blackboard Jungle dramatic best-seller by Evans HunterTne star, who recently completed his role as the tush priest in The Prodigal, vvill pntrav a hard-pressed teacher in a school where juvenile delinquency
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    212 5 ('HINLSE restaurants. after a long, hard struggle to break down the conservative British outlook on food, have begun to spread out from the heart ot London to the suburbs. But the British insist on a few variations of their own. For example a great favourite is chow
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    • 866 6 rpODAY is the last day in office of the first Member for Home Affairs, Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar. He not only relinquishes a Portfolio which has been the envy of many because of the emoluments that go with it. but also the Chairmanship of the
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  • 505 6 i<r FHE trouble about power systems is that they are generally controlled by men who have themselves a deep-seated desire for power that can never be satisfied, unlike an appetite for food, drink, women and luxurious living. Much of the ideological welfare of our time is
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  • 649 6 WHAT GOOD HAS D.I.D. SCHEME DONE? Sir;— Mukim Panchang Pedena may not sound as important as Bedok in Singapore, but it is nevertheless an important section of Sabak Bernam District in Selangor. It was a contented place in the early 30s before the Sungei Besar Drainage Board, Kuala Selangor, began
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    12 6 "Now let's do that again and remember you're Portia whoever she is!*'
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  • 718 6 We the PEOPLE History Of The Padi Planter's Plight Sir; v Salaams to Inche' Rashid and his supporters who have so well fought against the Government proposal to reduce the price of padi from $17/- to $12/--a picul. I could not believe my eyes when 1 first read of the
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  • 293 6 Sir; "Orang Kampong complained in The Standard that the Principal of the Anglo-Chinese School, Klang, had refused to have a Special Malay Class this year although Government had requested it, but had forced Malay boys to travel to Port Swettenham to join such a
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  • 383 6  -  Edward Crankshaw By Brita'n's Specialist On Soviet Affairs 'FHE heartless bureaucracy 1 which all but strangled the Soviet Union undei Stalin is being harried mercilessly. As part of its convulsive and necessary efforts to improve Soviet life, both materially and morally, the Government, through the Press
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  • 259 6 Sir: Your editorial "Leave Asians Alone" was a masterful analysis of th American mind. In war areas where British and American troops lived together, the British troops soon realized that an average American loldier behaved like an overgrown child. In America too the average male in the home plays
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  • 215 7 I i ,i:« iH«r) The Prime Ministers I N ,ith n«»w assembled here for talks I" jjti«>n ha\e immediately confirmed I will dominate their weeklong in— representing eight Ie airport statements And belore the conference mn> on Monday. all of will be involved in n<ive behind-the-scene :ry on Formosa—highd
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  • 157 7 I H rib* d the bedroom dispute. Why. it's my bedroom. >nd I told him so." she said. Nt my bedroom. I told Mm, but he said he was go•■I to sleep there." What happened then? 'I itept on the couch." 'I hud wen flying
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  • 126 7 I.OXDOX. Jan. 39. (Renter) —The first new British Sunpaper, launched in the last 36 years ar.d the only ..itionn! newspaper designed i v for women readers. I first appearance on n stands here yesterday. The newspaper, the Woman's ay Mirror. is published by Daily Mirror
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  • 25 7 MORE than 400 persons •yore treated last night in Vienna for broken bones, ruts I Uses sullered in falls City's icy streets.
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  • 92 7 I H H I I H •n in a police car with two- lawyers and a detective and left accompanied by a detective. Six other women called at the police station and left n unaccompanied. Police also studied lists of prisoners recently released irom the jail where Rubinstß -pmt
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  • 70 7 STUNT MAN Jimmy Crossini gets ready for his "Houdini" act. Here he is all strussed up in a strait jacket which is tested by a pretty helper. JIMMY hangs suspended by his feet 50 feet above the ground as he struggles to free himself. HE'S made it,
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  • 124 7 COMING DOWN— head first. Stunt man Jimmy Crossini (seen here), 27-year-old self-styled "Successor to Houdini," is lowered after freeing himself from a strait jacket and chains while suspended by his feet 50ft. above Soho Square, London. For the feat Jimmy had his hands tightly bound. It
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  • 148 7 The Queen Will Be Just In Time LONDON*. Jan. 30. (Reuter) —The Queen will return to London from her holiday at Sandringham on Monday just in time to wave goodbye to her sister Princess Margaret who flies to Trinidad on the first lap of her British West Indies' tour. The
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  • 36 7 MANILA. Jan. 30 (UP) Vice President, Carlos P. Garcia. said yesterday he would make a goodwill tour of South-east Asia after the Manila pact 'nations' conference in Bangkok late next month.
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  • 63 7 TRIESTE, Jan. 30, (AP) Yugoslav border guards opened fire yesterday on an Italian military patrol along the Trieste frontier, slightly wounding one soldier, according to an official Italian communique. A later Italian government report said the Italian patrol "involuntarily, in a section where it was not
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  • 32 7 A DEER jumped over an automobile, near Newburyport. Massachusetts, breaking the window glass with its hooves. Two men In the car were injured. The deer apparently was not. UP
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  • 590 7 How'sAndWhy's Are Explained WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, (AP) President Eisenhower's granted request for authority to use American armed forces in the defence of Formosa and the Pescadores Islands has raised more questions than have so far been officially answered. Here, however. are the Sfl nc i pa il
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  • 147 7 PARIS Jan. 30. (UP)— Russia and her European satellites have (5,000.000 men under arms with their fighting power "greatly increased by mechanization and modernization" Secretary General Lord Ismay of NATO reported formally yesterday. Thirty days after a war started, they could field 400 j divisions, he said
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  • 40 7 RANGOON, Jan. 30 (UP) A Thai goodwill mission, led by Vice-Interior Minister and Inspector Genera) of Police Phao Sriyanon arrived here on Saturday. The nine-member mission includes Mom Luang Pcekdhip. one-time Thai Charge d'Aftairt in Burma.
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  • 231 7 LONDON, Jan. 30, (AP) The Soviet Union announced last night it has formally notified Japan of readiness to start talks aimed at normalizing SovietJapanese relations, Moscow Radio reported. The broadcast told of a call by Andrei Dominit.sk>, chiel Soviet representative in Japan, on
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  • 72 7 NAIROBI. Jan. 30. (AP) Police made a surprise raid on the servants' quarters of an Asian Girls' School in Nairobi last night and captured "general" Karioki Chapara. He is the reputed commander of all Mau Mau terrorists in the city. The "general" was caught by
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  • 60 7 'WAR PEACE' TO COST $5 M. NEW YORK, Jan. 30, (AP) Dino Delaurentiis, the Italian producer, has completed plans to film Tolstoy's "War and Peace" in June, Paramount Pictures Corporation said yesterday, adding: "The film will be the most expensive ever made in Italy, with a budget of 4.5 to
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  • 52 7 TORONTO. Jan. 30. 'UP)— Police constable William Haley testified that he was able to count to nine while the driver of a car he was following kissed the girl beside him. Willy Kcmpcr. 19. who was at the wheel, was fined US$25 and costs for
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  • 40 7 ROME, Jan. 30, (AP) Silvana Mangano, the Italian film actress, gave birth on Friday to her first son. He weighed nearly seven pounds. Her husband, film producer, j Dino dc Laurentis, is in the United States.
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  • 174 7 Mao Makes Progress At A Price SYRACUSE. New York. Jan. 30, (AP)— A Syracuse Univcr- sity professor who has just completed a study of Communist China's first five-year-plan says Mao Tze-tung's Communists regime is making substantial gains in changing China from a backward agricultural nation to an industrial one But.
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  • 115 7 German Clash Of Ideas BONN. Jan. 30, (Rcutcr) The clash of opinions within West Germany over ratification of the Paris treaties restoring her right to arms reached a climax last night as government and opposition bombarded each other with statements and broadcasts. As the battle reached its height. Communist East
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  • 59 7 KITWE Northern Rhodesia. Jan 30, (Reuter) Northern Rhodesian copper mining companies yesterday sacked about 30,000 striking African workers who had ignored their "back to work" ultimatum. The strike was called by the African Mine-Workers' Union in support of demands for a wage increase of ten shilling
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  • 58 7 BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 30 (AP)— Maria Aurora Annas. who has been blind since the age of six but who teaches art and English here, sailed yesterday for London on the liner 17 de Octubre. She will spend six months in England studying on a scholarship
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  • 103 7 SIOUX CITY, lowa. Jan 30. (UP)— lt became legal yesterday to wink at a pretty girl on the street if you want to moot her. Municipal Judge Berry J. Sisk ruled unconstitutional a city ordinance prohibiting a male from attempts to become acquainted
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    • 803 8 NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD AND HAMBURG -AMERIKA LINIE lOINT StRVICE 1o Colombo. Genoa Marseilles Antwerp Rotterdam. Hamburs 6 Bremen S'porc P P«"«"8 HESSENSTEIN (LLOYD) B l \*l"^ FRANKFURT (HAPAG) 8/ 1 1 Fcb 12 Fcb 1 3 Fcb HAMBURG .HAPAG) 26 Fcb/3 Mor 4 Mor 5 Mot BAYERNSTEIN (LLOYD) 18/2 Mor 24
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  • 128 9 C'WEALTH BEST CUSTOMER IN U.K. TRADE aI J^?JI" PU f bl l? hed Provlslonann ls of Member's trade customer during the year was the Commonwealth. roj> six buyers of U.K. exports (with figures m o-7o i lllons were: Australia ?Iq j? outh Africa 156. USA Jo?' Ca ada 132. New
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  • 61 9 U.S. CONGRESSMEN, diplomats and government officials flying abroad now have as part of their travel kits Pan American's best-selling travel guide "New Horizons Tne book, describing 84 countries and colonies on all six continents, has been made a part of the Department of State's pre-departure check list,
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  • 73 9 THE Malaya^ Exchange Banks' Association rates to merchants on Saturday were: London 2 4 1/32 (T.T./O.D.)* buying T.T. 2 4— 5 32. 2 4—9 32 (30 d st). 2 4—5 16 (60-d'St), 2 4—7 16 (120 d st or four months); O.D. 2 4— 3 16, 2/4—9 32
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  • 51 9 HONGKONG. Jan 30. (Rcuter)—The British firm, Butter, field and Swire, announced it had sold its 3,000-ton vessel Sbengking to the Chineseowned Shun Cheong Steam Navigation Company. The Shengking, which has been on the Hongkong-Formo-sa regular run in the past few years, will be replaced by the 3,033-ton vessel
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  • 22 9 A THREE-MAN unofficial Japanese trade delegation arrived in Hongkong from Red China after two weeks of conferences in Peking. AP
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  • 123 9 NEW DELHI. Jan 30. (AP) The Government's Controller of Insurance reports that 1953 was a "prosperous" year for insurance companies operating In India. His report in the Indian Insurance Year Book. 1954 gave these figures for 1953. Life insurance: Total net income of Indian insurers, R5.247.900,000
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  • 23 9 NEGOTIATIONS for the nroduction of U.S. jet nlanes in Japan will open in Tokyo soon. the_ Kyodo news service said. A.P.
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  • 368 9 Concern Over High Prices Of Rubber Standard Market Corr. THE tense political situation off the China Coast continues to be the dominating factor and is largely responsible for the speculative activity in the rubber market in Singapore. On a buoyant and bullish market, prices hav e moved
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    111 9 LOOKING back on a long history with Hagemeyer's is Mr. G. L. Oostergo who. after several years of service in the then Netherlands East Indies, became Manager in 1934 and later Managing Director of the organization now known as H^gemeyer Trading Co. (Malaya) Ltd., incorporated in Singapore. He will return
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  • 153 9 CEYLON has told China she wishes to negotiate a revision of the price payable for Ceylon rubber under the five-year barter deal. accordIng to ministerial sources in Colombo. >Under the terms of the deal, Ceylon is entitled to ask for a. revision if the
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  • 82 9 New Studebaker On Colony Roads A RECENT arrival in the Colony which has attracted much attention among motorists is the 1955 Studebaker Champion Regal fourdoor Sedan now on display at Cbampion Motors Ltd. This is the first car produced by the newly amalgamated Studebaker-Packard Corporation to come out to Singapore.
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  • 235 9 UK MOVING FORWARD TO AUTOMATIC FACTORY AN INDUSTRIAL revolution greater than the world has yet seen was predicted by Sir Roger Duncalf. President of the British Standards Institution. at the annual luncheon of the British Industrial Measuring and Control Apparatus Manufacturers' Association (BIMCAM) neld recently in London Sir Roger. who
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  • 413 9 BANK RATE INCREASE DID NOT AFFECT SHARE MARKET By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE markets, starting: on a rich mixture of "dollar plus' rubber and fast reacting tin. required none of the usual warming up, after Chinese New Year and, in the three days, a satisfactory volume of business was written.
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  • 106 9 A SPECIAL resolution to reduce the capital of llu Klang Tin Ltd. from $1,200.--000. divided into 1.200.000 ordinary shares of M each, to $720,000. divided into 1.200,000 ordinary shares of 60 cents each will be considered at the extraordinary general meeting: of members at the
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  • 217 9 Business Done In The Week BUSINESS done in shart market from Jan. 22-28. INDUSTRIALS: Frascr Neave Ord. $2.00 to $2.02. Gammon $3.30. Wm. Jack- %:>> 824. and $3.85, Malayan Breweries $4.10. Malayan Cement $1.55. Malayan Collieries f7 cents. Metal Box $1.55, Robinson Ord. $2.32$ to S2.:i7i. Singapore Cold Storage $20£*
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  • 163 9 RAMBL'TAN LTD: Working with hydraulic methods, a profit of £23.175 (SSJ%) was shown for the year ended June .'JO. 1954. Two dividend* totalling 2/3 d per share (M|%l were paid Nrt liquid assets at balancing date equalled £83.535 or IG/8d per share. Output for the first quarter of
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  • 33 9 RADIO TELEPHONE service between Bangkok and North America this month became available between 10 JO and 1130 hours GMT daily except Sunday Previously the se 1 a times a week.- AP
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  • 59 9 MARINE radar equipment widely used in Asian waters has now been fitted in more than 3.500 khips of all classes. Radar has been selected for use by 840 shipowners, navies and ministers throughout the world. Out of 19 vessels now on order from a single British shipyard
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    • 795 9 -Tjf" IN THE MATTER *\lsit> OF THE CO!V| PANIES ORDINANCE 1940 and IN THE MATTER OF < aT H j Ml MALAYAN FISHING |H I, INDUSTRIES LIMITED i %l (Creditors Voluntary Winding-Up) \OTICE IS HEREBY > GIVEN that the Creditors of the abovenamed Company •h Is being voluntarily xuund up.
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    1052 10 Money Mirth T 1 HE V used to say money talked— b v t these days it goes without saying. "When 1 started working, a friend told us the other day. "I used to dream about earning the salary I'm starving on now "About the only thing 1 can still
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    • 289 10 BROTHERS^] TEU 5159 W 9th SMASH DAY! NOW SHOWING! 4 WARNER ?'*®s>--'"**<4i SiSi^ -Cin«maScoPb\\s.«w ;v^ ssco-j/5 sco-j/ IWuiIitIICOLO«^>SHI»OWICMCSW»C «i* \jn itmsoN mm imm awß-iABW a«m_ NEXT ATTRACTION! The Golden Harvest Award Winner In The Ist Film Festival of South east Asia <19.'>1> A^ FIJIKO YAMAMOTO JUN NEGAMI C* GOLDEN XMk
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    • 219 10 11th DAY TODaTtiJ 11 AM. 145 4 I:, [IT 6.45 Hi '.vms M '1(1 TREMENDOUS* WEEKEND SUfi POWELL V I MM/ M '{i^ 1 ALHAMBHA^I 111 UIDIIIUKtb PHONI fc^c I Y IXG HUA PICTIKES K^l on ri rurxrxriJ^ J 'Mandarin 1 J /t^^lW k; (j| i| r^; THE BIC MUSICAL
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  • 381 11 LAHORE, Jan. 30, (Reuter) Pakistan were ill out for 328 an hour after lunch on the second d ay of lhr T J d H St if 1 1 lndla and at lhe cl «se had taken three of India s first innings wickets
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  • 158 11 HOAD ROSEWALL FINAL ADELAIDE. Jan. 30 (Rev--Lewis Hoad and Ken Bewail, Australia's famous ..twn tennis doubles combina- ached the final of the I singles yesterday when :ai:an lawn tennis I v ps were continued Rosewall stopped the title I :ng to the United States when he defeated the Ameri- can
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  • 97 11 FOURTH ROUND RESULTS Birmingam C. 2, Bolton W 1. Bishop Aland 1 York C. 3. Bristol R 1, Chelsea 3. ■Doncaster R 0. Aston V. 0. Everton 0 Liverpool 4 Hartlepools C. 1. N'ham F. 1. M'chester C 2 MVhester U O. Newcastle U. .3 Brentford 2. Preston N E.
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  • 61 11 THREE of the four drawn matches in today's t. A.' Cup Fourth Round will be replayed on Wednesday. Feb. 2, and the other on Thursday, Feb 3. 1 The replay arrangements 'are: Wednesday: Aston Villa v, Doncaster, Notts Forest v, Hartlepools United Sunder-, land v Preston North
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  • 31 11 Irish League Bangor '1 Ballymena United 2. Cliftonville 0 Glenavon 4. Colcraine 4 Distillery 0, Glent ran 3 Aids 2, Linfield 1 Derry City 0, Portadown 0 Crusaders 2.
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  • 607 11 j- """"""\\\\\V\\\W\\\UVU\\\V\\\\\\\VV j F.A. Cup Matches i s*w 650.000 I \\\\xx\xxxvvvxxwixxx\xxxx\x\xv\\xxxxxv- A\\VXXXXXXXXXXXXXV\XXXXVVXXXXXXXXXX\XXXXXXX\XXXXXXXXX«, Charlton Crushes I West Bromwich -V\\xxxxxxx\\xxxv\xxxv\xxxxxxxx\xxxxxxxxxxv\xxxxxx\\xxx> The 'Gunners' Co Down Fighting c v; LONDON Jan. 30, (Reuter): Wolverhampton Wanderers strengthened their position as favourites for the Football Association Cup today as a number
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  • 966 11 U.K. SOCCER Results Positions LONDON J:m 30. (Reutcr> Football results and league standings after yesterdays matches are as follows: LEAGUE DIV. 11l (South) Exeter 3, Brighton 1. Gillingham 2, Crystal P. 1. Leyton O 2. Northampton 1. Ilillwall 1. Watford 0 Norwich 0. Bristol C. 1. Queens Park R. 3,
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  • 114 11 NEW YORK. Jan. 30. (Renter) -A belief that boxing frequently adds damage to the brain has teen challenged by two Hew York doctors on the basis of a study of more than 1.000 professional boxers The study included observation of the boxers during and alter contests and
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  • 280 11 JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 30, (Reuter) A wellbalanced South African team containing ten of the side who went to Australia two years ago and shared the rubber, was announced here today to tour England this Summer. The team is J. Cheetham (Western Province Captain). J. Mcglew (Natal—
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    • 203 11 TUITION CLASSES For Decorative Machine Art I broi 'erv Starting on Ist February. 1955 2 Sessions Daily Q am to 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 pm "PFAFF" Sewing Centre. 304E-F Orchard Road. Telephone ***** REAL ESTATE WANTED URGENTLY WANTED: BungaU lows. two-storey houses vacant building sites, shop and
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    • 828 11 ACKNOWLEDGMENT THE bereaved family of the 1 late MADAM KAM SOM NEO thank all relative* and friends for their assistance, telegrams and letters o' condolence, wreaths, scrolls. c?rs. etc. and attendance at night visits and funeral. ANNOUNCEMENT pAPTAIN PERMALLING dnvv>ing a Sunbeam Taltot equipped with WYRESOLES fitted ov TyresoleS NORWAY
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  • 605 12 Rate weights for Wednesday, second day of the Singapore Turf Club January-February meeting and four races for the third dav are: Class I Div. 1— G F. Determination 9-7 Cypress Point 9-2 Man About Town 8-9 Spider King 8-8 Percussion 8-7 (oralita 8-5 lVir.ik.it 8-5 Rubber Exporter
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  • 37 12 Popular Is The Word For Them! Mr. Chan Lai Hon? ...one of the Federation's most popular officials. Dr. X Sundrum ...the mail putting the FAS Joncard, his re-election is proof of his popularity.
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  • 199 12 IPOH, Sun. Mr. Chan Lai Hong was unanimously elected President of the *Perak Amateur Football Association at the Annual General Meeting held at the Perak Chinese Amateur Dramatic Association this morning. The Mentr* Besar, Perak. Dato Panglima Buk.t Gantang. President for the pa<t five
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  • 232 12 Dr. Sundrum Is Still FAS Chief KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. —Dr. K. Sundrum scored a 'landslide victory' over his only rival, Mr. S. C. E. Singam, to retain the leadership of the Football Association of Selangor at the annual general meeting here today. Dr. Sundrum was elected FAS president by 48
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  • 46 12 ESHER, Surrey. Jan. 2.0 (Reuter) Horses have been racing at Sandown Park. Esher, since World War Two with an unaxploded bomb buried in the track, it was revealed yesterday The 14 inch finned mcrtar bomb was found by workmen this week.
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  • 774 12  -  Leong Hew Meng Humbles Wong In 25 Mins. To Repeat Victory Reporting IPOH, Sun. One thousand silent fans saw their idol, Wong Peng Soon, helplessly beaten by a relentless foe in Ong Poh Lim, who once again confirmed his superiority over the unofficial world champion here
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  • 118 12 U.S. Walker Cup Golfers For Britain NEW YORK. Jan 29 (Rcuter) Bill Campbell who has played In Britain was today named captain of the United States Walker Cup golf team to oppose British Amateurs at St. Andrews. Scotland, on May 20 and 21. Other members of the team will be:
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  • 541 12 Lim Tan Combina Show Much Prom SATURDAY'S jufl TWO things stood out on Saturday night's display r gence of a new combination which miglit well pro\ e to hpth have been looking for. 1 refer to the partnership of lim t* Eong. 'X Against the dynamic combination of Ong Poh
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  • 134 12 LAST NKiHI SINGLES: On s p oh Lin, n at n u i°- n& F 7* s"--15-5, 15-C; Lim Kee Kjf f5 at V «"R Kht-an 13— la. 15—3, s—o rptirfH DOUBLES: Ooi Teik T^j, and Foo Vong Khean h, f Lee Hop Chye and Eg Koon
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  • 259 12 KUALA LI'MPUK, Sun.— J. Kaniseelen, Mercury Athletic Club won the. .Royal Air Force Invitation Cross-Country run when he beat a field of 41 runners in the smart time of 28 minutes 17 seconds over the. gruelling 41 miles Lake Gardens course here this evening.
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  • 460 12 Youth Boxing Entries SINGAPORE Youth Featherweight boxing champion, Austin Dunsford will be out to win Dr Chan Ah Row's trophy outright at this year's Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's Ycu t h Championships to be held at the Singapore Badminton Stadium on Thursday and Friday.
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  • 59 12 BUENOS AIRES. Argentina, Jan. 30, (AP)— World champion racing driver Jaun Manuel Fangio of Argentina won the pole position yesterday in the start of today's Buenos Aires City Grand Prix auto race. Fangio drove his Mercedes Benz around the 4 706.92-metre circuit in 2. 31.5
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    106 12 NORTH, who suffered a 63-0 defeat last year, created the surprise of this season's Rugby by beating the South (with Fijians and all) 17-11 at Jnlan Besar Stadium in Singapore on Saturday. it was a glorious North victory, coming at a time when South were in sight of victory. Five
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