The Straits Times, 1 February 1959

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  • 15 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES 1 JfSai it* Mat* No. 1,223 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1959 20 CENTS
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  • 784 1 'AND HERE COMES THE CROWD LED BY 8 'LIONS' 'What a start for our year of opportunity!' SINGAPORE, Sat. OPENING the Singapore Constitution Exposition this evtnmg, the Chief Minister, Tun Lim Yew Hock, said that the fair was something new and on a larger scale
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  • 330 1 FRANCIS THOMAS RESIGNS And Af.P.D. Hair takes orer CiNCAPORE, Sat. Mr. Francis Thomas, Minister for Communications and Works, resigned today from the Government. Announcing this, a Government statement said: "The Governor, after consultation with the Chief Minister, has decided to appoint Mr. M. f. D. Nair, at present Assistant Minister
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  • 1044 1  -  SIT YIN FONG By SINGAPORE, Saturday AMASS of humanity 60,000 strong streamed through the brilliantly lit grounds of the Constitution Exposition at Kallang tonight. Lovely weather favoured the fair and as the searchlights probed the skies thousands, young and old, poured
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  • 127 1 HALIFAX, (Nova Scotia), Sat. Hopes were dimming rapidly today for the rescue of any of the 94 passengers and crew of the Danish freighter Hans Hedtoft last reported "slowly sinking" after hitting an iceberg oft the Greenland coast last night. The German trawler Johannes
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  • 236 1  - Comet IV in record flight to S'pore R. CHANDHAN By who leaves today in the Comet for Colombo as a guest of BOAC. SINGAPORE. Sat. A BOAC Comet IV streaked into the airport here from Hong Kong tonight to claim two records: The Comet did the trip In four hours
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  • 18 1 DULLES FOR LONDON BONN. Sit— lS. SecDtdlei will i Msday London, and Bonn, diploi i I'l
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  • 1587 2  - Her suicide cleared the way for Akihito's love [teiko horinouchi THE ROMANCE OF THE CROWN PRINCE AND THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER by THE romance between Japan's 25--year-old Crown Prince Akihito and the 24-year-old common c r, Michiko Shoda, at one time endangered the Imperial dynasty. Akihito was prepared to sacrifice his
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  • 40 2 Crown Prince Akihito met his fiancee on a tennis court and here they are shown cutting a cake at their Tokyo tennis club. Inscribed in English, the cake was a gift from their friends to mark their engagement.
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  • Article, Illustration
    1627 3  - WOMAN TRO UBLE ART COHN by- WHEN HIS WIFE (LEFT) DIED THE GOSSIP STARTED...WHEN JOAN BLONDELL (RIGHT) WANTED TO MEET TODD SHE HAD TO TURN UP IN ALL KINDS OF DISGUISES IN HOSPITAL Michael Todd begged: 'You've got to keep this out of the papers." He stammered as he always
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 520 3 Be Proud of Your English Are you content with the way you speak and write? a \r i 11 Are you sure that you are not making mis- A VdlUdblP takes that cause people to underrate you? WWMIV Never has the importance of effective speech and rnrr /\riririFfc writing been
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  • 463 4 CINCAPORE. Sat.— The Chief Minister, Tun Lim Yew Hock, held a telephone conversation this evening with the Federation's Deputy Prime Minister, Dato Abdul Raxak, from the grounds of the Singapore Constitution Exposition at Kallang. Here is the text of the conversation: CHIEF
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 271 4 > iNk Ifellllllfl f^m I m I t JtM^k'^^^^^^. J^^rl Some day, perhaps, they will build cars that can both '•"V.V.V.V.V.V.V.\/^?g^, ;.{-^:^fc^ yiTj^m^y glide along the road and soar into the air. Instead of toiling uwM^cifci^fflß^^m 'jf^fy t T *V '■yi'V J /,^^^rJ /Hf^ J^*'^ft '<el^l*Z o -iiJw Meanwhile, let's
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  • 85 5 LION DANCE: SWIRLING BALLOONS CATCH SPIRIT OF THE DAY Dragon dancers meander their way into the Singapore constitution exposition, after it was declared open by the Chief Minister, Tan Lim Yew Hock last night. The troupe, belonging to the Chin Bu Athletic Association, is
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  • 85 5 YIPs v.ilk into the fair ground after the opening ceremony. Picture shows: (From left) Mr. Lim Kee Ming, Toh Puan Lim, Tun Lim Yew Hock, Mr. Ko Teck Kin, and Mrs. Ko. Sunday Times picture. Receptionists get drinks for the YIPs at the reception hall
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  • 220 5 Ko: Our role in the world SINGAPORE, Sat. THE president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mr Ko Teck Kin, said at the opening this evening that the commercial, industrial and cultural exhibits, both local and foreign, at the fair "exemplify the international role we play in world affairs." He
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  • 39 5 SINGAPORE, Sat. A suicide verdict was recorded todiy it the inquest on Ho Toh Enfe. 55. who jumped from Ward 23. on the third floor of the General Hospital. on Dec. 14 last year.
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  • 308 5 All Negri now 'white' -and the 364,000 people in State rejoice SEREMBAN, Sat. Ten thousand people cheered today when the Regent declared all Negri Sembilan "white" in a ceremony on the padang here. For the 364.000 people in the State, it means the end of the shooting war— and the
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  • 61 5 Kuanfau CATHAY: Love Many Splendoured Thing 10.30 a.m.; Ttga Dara 12.30, 2.30, 7. 9.30; HEX: Escape To Burma 10.45. a.m.; Mata Hart (Malay) 12.30, 2 30, 7, 9.30. Kola Itli.iru ODEON: Wyoming Renegade 9.45 a.m.; In Love And War 12.30. 3, 7 15, 9.30; LIDO: Paisa HI Pals*
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  • Susan Barrie's Sunday Page
    • 435 6 Colony women prepare for a Royal visit QRESSINC or Royal occasions means not only wearing the loveliest and mosi stinguished clothes you can, but taking more than ordinary care wit. accessories jewellery and make-up. Next month 'ince Philip vill visit Malaya, and already women are rushing to their tailors ano
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    • 63 6 Contrast in formal evening gowns. Marjorie wears a ball gown made from 52 yards of shadow-print pink pure silk, with a moulded decollete bodice and huge, billowing skirt. Eunice wears a sheath-like reception dress of black duchesse satin, with a floating back panel and
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    • 453 6 A special effort is needed to look your best for big evening Q ROOM ING for formal occasions is just as important as the dress you choose, and needs a special effort well ahead of the event if you are to look your best on the big evening. Those who
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    • 187 6 HERE Is another recipe from "Cooking from the Commonwealth," which the author Kobin Howe calls Malay Pudding, or Wattalappam. He adds that although this is of Mala /an origin, it has become so typically Ceylonese that It was served to the Queen on her visit to the island during
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    • 125 6 Paris sheds the sack: Bosoms back rE 1959 Paris fashion showings have brought in the Lillian Russell look, says Peggy Massin from the French capital. The silhouette is moving to another era of pinched waistlines, rounded bosoms and padded arched hips. It was the New Look of 1947 and it
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 445 6 J i ON YOUR OWN TWO FEET Make up your own mind about Tampax I Don't wait for someone else to come and lead you by the hand you're net thnt kinj of person. You like to be first with new fashions and new ideas. What's keeping you from trying
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    • 469 6 BEWAIISj I IS THE I VV H I S X'K Pj 1 OF CREAT*Ct- jj No other dnnk n quite pOP,|) DpU/nr&SO^ rrfrahing v Scotch Whnkv l» o E pS til You can dnnk it short or lent I )i_ i»»»ta r-»tfl V' I i» the mood uket you, but
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  • 559 7 JUDGE NOTES 'EMOTIONAL STRESS 9 BUT RULES APPLICATION MUST BE REJECTED Crown: He should have sought quashing of order SINCAPORE, Saturday. MR. JUSTICE AMBROSE in the High Court today dismissed with costs the application of Mr. T. T. Rajah, a Ceylon-born Singapore lawyer, for a
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  • 61 7 SINGAPORE. Sat. The Malayan Air Training Corps held a Commandant's Parade this afternoon at its headquarters in Kallang in honour of its new Commandant. Wing Commander Roland Park. The nine school squadrons comprising 230 cadets were led by a guard of honour. More than 50
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  • 216 7 Mrs. Loire finds a piece of priceless loot SINGAPORE, Sat. Mrs. Christina Loke. wife of millionaire Mr. Loke Wan Tho. has recently acquired an authentic Honan marble statue looted from the Summer Palace in Peking The statue is her proudest possession and holds pride of place in the spacious entrance
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  • 34 7 SINGAPORE. Sat. The Rev. Oscar Guinn of the Wesley Methodist Church will speak on "The Christian Answer to Communism" tomorrow at 7 p.m at 4 Fort Canning Road to the Methodist Fellowship.
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  • 119 7 Mother of 7 had 30 packets of opium- $150 SINGAPORE. Sat— A mother of seven was arrested for possession of 30 packets o[ I opium three days after ncr i arrival from China, an inspector told a magistrate's court today. Inspector Toh Keng Tat was testifying against Chin Guan Song,
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  • 331 7 Problem as rubber demand falls KLANC, Saturday. A DROP in the demand for high-grade rubber in the world market in recent months has created a multi-million dollar problem for rubber exporters in Malaya. In Klang and Port Swettenham alone there are more than 3,000 tons of high grade rubber kept
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  • 146 7 Police find $300,000 opium in ditched car DENANC. Sat. About 7201 b. of raw opium valued at $300,000 was found abandoned in a car on the Nibong Tebol main road, Province Wellesley. early this morning. The car had run into a ditch after the driver had apparently attempted to avoid
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  • 34 7 SINGAPORE. Sat— A verdict of misadventure was recorded today at the inquest on Toh Wai, 55. who died after a fall in his room at Kampong Silat Road on Nov. 11 last year.
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  • 26 7 THE REMAINS of Lhe late Mr Lawrence Justin Alvis who died in Bombay in 1942 will be interred in Bidadari Cemetery today •t 11 a.m.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • Foreign News...
    • 213 8 'Passing devil' on rampage in a slum district 21 ATTACKS ON GIRLS SO FAR TOKYO, Saturday. IN the slum area of Arakawa, a factory district on the outskirts of Tokyo, the warning has gone out; "Beware, Torima (the passing devil) is on rampage." That is the name given to a
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    • 57 8 A FOG-BOUND DUCK HAS A BUS RIDE LONDON. Sat. London Transport added a new item to its lost property list today— a white duck found in a bus latr on Thursday night. The duck lost in the thick foe waddled on to the bus and squatted comfortably alongside >ther passrn««rs
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    • 68 8 WASHINGTON. Bat.-Dr. T. Keith Glennan told a Senate inquiry yesterday tha; the U.S. would try "with th; same sense of urgency we hal during the war to place man in orbit "within the neit couple of years." The director of the Nitional Aeronautics and
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    • 39 8 BOMBAY, Sat Prince Philip met 800 of Bombay'j leading Britons and their wives at a reception given 3y the Deputy High Commialoner, Mr. Eric Norris. at hs residence on Malabar Hll last night. Reuter.
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    • 317 8 Tapper to die for killing three children CEREMBAN, Sat. Chew Ming, 28, a tapper, accused of the murder of three children at Mambau new village on Dec. 1, 1957, was today sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Smith in the High Court here. The Jury took 6j minutes to return
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    • 79 8 American concert pian-i-i Joel Rosen, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by air from Jakarta, for two recitals here. His first performance here will be a recital of compositions by Haydn. Brahms. Chopin, Ravel and Liszt, at the Cultural Centre today. On Feb. 6 he
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    • 328 8 SINGAPORE MCA AND 12-POINT GUIDE TO FUTURE THEME: A LITTLE MORE FOR ALL SINGAPORE, Saturday JHE MALAYAN Chinese Association (Singapore branch) today issued a 12-point manifesto aimed at "raising the living standard of the people by providing more employment, more houses and extending the free education period." It also pledged
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    • 71 8 IPOH. Sat. Police arrested a girl, aged 15, shortly after midnight last night while investigating the theft of cash and Jewellery from the house of a Special Branch officer. Deputy Police Superintendent, Mr Lee Heng Pong, in Caldwell Road here yesterday morning. Mr. M. Balasundram,
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    • 55 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— The Federation's external trade with Singapore and other countries dropped by 5460.2 million last year Statistics issued Dy the Government today show that imports dropped by $166.5 million from $1,814.4 to $1,647.9 million. Exports dropped by $293.* million from $2,179.5 million to $1,885.8
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    • 82 8 SIX CHINESE girls who recently arrived in London for training as BOAC air hostesses have joined the Japanese girls already at the corporation's training school. They will spend the next two months studying the intricacies of passenger service in jet airliners. Miss Vivian
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    • 106 8 "JOHANNESBURG, Sat. Booksellers are busy removing the dust covers of a new 400-page book called "A History of Sexual Customs" because the South African censors have objected to an Illustration on It and have made its removal a condition of sale. The illustration is taken from
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    • 181 8 NAIROBI. Sat— The African elected members of Kenya Legislative Council today published the text of the telegram they sent the Queen Mother explaining their decision to support the proposed African boycott of her visit to Kenya next week. The members decided on Thursday to
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • 483 9  - THE COUNTRYMAN'S JOURNAL TUAN DJEK By \X/E are hoping that the prevailing Scotch mist weather will soon end. No one thinks that a belated flood is possible. Had we been cut off from town by a flooded road on the 16th when the Nyonya had an accident no medical attention
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  • 1537 9  - We drive across two rivers on the way back 6. Sheridan Lea COLONY COUPLE MOTOR TO BANGKOK WHERE EVEN THE POOR REAR ORCHIDS By At journey's end we are hauled up— for speeding! VyE stayed ten days in Bangkok. Flowers were our business and our days were passed in offices
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • THE SUNDAY TIMES
    • 341 10 TWO things prevent coun- tries in the Pacific area from sharing more largely in the annual profits that are made from the wanderlust that lies in everyone of us: cost of travel and the still too prevalent pettifogging interference of bureaucracy. Delegates to the annual
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    • 149 10 THE Singapore Kheh Com- munity Guild National Dramatic Corporation has refused to take part in Radio Singapore's special programme for the Chinese New Year and the Constitution Exposition. It objects to the condition that the conductor must make his announcements in Mandarin. rhe disappointment of the Guild is understandable,
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  • 1073 10  - TODAY'S PROFILE UP YD MORGAN P mJ interview tourist! indefatigable! AMIABLE, pipe-puffing, ex-G.I and news- paper reporter Richard ("travel- g writing is my business") Joseph, Croix de Guerre winner and Chevalier of the Order f of Merit for Tourism, set his own tireless feet on the success trail he has
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  • 1085 10  - Ibis Minister makes news Steven Fox LEAST-KNOWN BUT POWERFUL MEMBER OF MACMILLANS INNER CIRCLE' WHO KNOWS AND CETS HIS WAY By Yet he is seldom in the headlines THE Earl of a tavourite story. It concerns the trials of being a Cabinet Minister. mmm A harassed colleague came to his
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 820 10 CLASSIFIED ADS. 20 Words $10 (Minimum). TAY-KOH: Robert Teck Wah third son of Mr. and Mrs. Tay Poh Chang to Merina Choo Neo, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Koh Soon Lim on 1.2.59. ANNOUNCEMENTS 2» Word, $10 (Minimum). BRAND NEW SELECTION Morning, Afternoon Cocktail Gowns with matching accessories. Vanity—
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    • 7 10 t 111 li j& j Watchword World,
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    • 64 10 Celebrations and a celebrated drink Af +^y. Celebrations and Key ////i» *<$ /s Brandy go so well //'/0~4/^ 1 together and so they VNJ 2i£*/V < Q"iP e:= t should because Key V/^Sf£/ \v Brandy is a celebrated \^*jy 'I i brandy, warm and invitV^l r N ing, the result
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  • 418 11 Solved: Mystery of the Changi murals CINGAPORE. Sat —The mystery of the murals in Changi is solved. Sunday Times readers contributed various bits of information which tied up with readers' letters in the London Daily Mirror. But, the last piece of the puzzle fell into place today. The man who
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  • 461 11 REPLANTING ON ESTATES IS A SIGN OF CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE OF MALAYA Lord Home leaves and promises meeting this year KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. •fALKS WILL take place this year on more British assistance to the Federation to end the war against the Communist terrorists,
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  • 89 11 Highest price in nearly 2 years By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE, Sat. The price of tin in Singapore today spurted by another dollar and at $390.50 per picul was the highest price registered for nearly two years. The improved local price reflects the firmer London market where there has been
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  • 110 11 JEALOUS WIFE, 20, HANGED HERSELF AFTER CHILDBIRTH MALACCA. Sat.— A rubber tapper told the Coroner, Mr. Ramanatha Iyer, today that his 20-year-old wife hanged herself at their house in UJong Pasir Road here on Dec. 25 last year because she was jealous. Lim Kok Sia said his wife. Yew Kirn
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  • 91 11 The Federation Govt. won't be at fair ffUALA LUMPUR, Bat. A spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said today that the Federation Government would not be officially represented at the opening of the Singapore Constitution Exposition. Any ministers of the Federation Government who attended the opening or visited
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  • 76 11 SINGAPORE. Sat. The 2,491-ton Russian freighter Mogilev came alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves today to load 3,000 tons of rubber for Odessa. The Mogilev Is the last of three Russian freighters that between them have lifted 17.000 tons of Malayan rubber valued at more
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  • 38 11 Singapore Copra Association noon prices per picul on Saturday: fair merchantable Bombay mixed copra: January $42 >« buyers, $43 sellers. Tone was firmer. Singapore Coaonut Oil Millers' Association: bulk $63.50 sellers, drum $67 sellers. Tone was quiet.
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  • 208 11 $420 down will send you on a tour of world SINGAPORE, Sat— For a down payment of about $420. Malayans can now board a BOAC plane In Singapore for a world tour. They can take up to 21 months to pay the rest. A world tourist fare costs about $4,208.
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  • 327 11 PIANIST WHO FLED REDS TO PLAY IN SINGAPORE C INC A PORE. Sat. Fou Ts'ong, Hi* brilliant young Chinese pianist who created a sensation when he flew to London from Warsaw last December and said he would not return to China, is expected in Singapore next month. He has agreed,
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 217 11 YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO VISIT OUR PAVILION IN THE SINGAPORE CONSTITUTION EXPOSITION WHICH IS OUTSTANDING FOR IT'S ORIGINALITY IN DESIGN THERE YOU WILL FIND THE LATEST DESIGNS IN FLOOR AND WALL TILES ON SHOW. TO CELEBRATE THE "DOUBLE-HAPPY" EVENT WE ARE OFFERING YOU SPECIAL CONCESSIONARY RATES RANGING FROM 5
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 71 11 HIGH TIDES TODAY: Singapore 3.45 a.m (8 ft. 7 in), 4.31 pjn. <7ft. 3 In); Port Dickinson 11.21 a.m. (6ft. 5 In.); Penan* 5.21 a.m. (5 ft 81n 8.37 p.m. (6 ft. 1 in.). TOMORROW: Singapore 4.39 urn. (8 rt. 4 In.), 6.24 p.m. (6 ft. 8 In); Port Dickson
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    • 82 11 i 1 1 a .^^L. j .a^L^LV^am. .^LV^^aw^h^A^^^^ a^L^L^a^^^^^a^^kHH I k^L^lk^L^Li CULTURAL CENTRE THEATRE (Canning Rlae): Ooh Soon Tloe presents Joel Rosen, young American pU«l»t. 45 P m RAFFI.ES MI'SEUM (Stamford Road): An exhibition of photographs of Sarawak by K. F. Wong. 10 a.m. 1 p.m. CHINESE V.M.C.A. (Prince Edward
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    • 165 11 INDEPENDENT MISSIONARY MOVEMENT: Free Aim show at H.M. Convict Prisons. Changi 7.30 p.m. TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL: Success Through Speech at Cultural Centre 8 p.m. CATHOI.It- TEACHERS' MOVEMENT: Lecture for Government school teachers Instructing Catholic doctrine at St. Joseph's Institution, Bras Baxah Road, 10 a.m. TELOK AVER METHODIST YOITH FELLOWSHIP: Devotional meeting,
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  • Sunday Times Picture Contest
    • 191 12 rE judges this week selected as the picture deserving the first prize ($3O) "Quiet Row" (top. left) by Tang Cheong Hon, 183 Penang Road, Penang. It was taken with a Yashicat on Fuji film. Exposure was Ap. F. 11 and 1/MO secy speed Strand prize (flftl
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    • 1189 12  - MOTHER NATURE WEARS A CLOAK THAT'S IDEAL FOR COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY -Terry Field By mirror surface of a lake and towering pines silhouetted against a deep blue sky patched with vagrant clouds here's a breath-taking scene that's just waiting to be captured in colour by a photographer! Thanks to miracles ot
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    • 92 12 THE Sunday Times has decided to award a special cash prize (or •The Photo of the Year." Selection, by an independent panel of judges, will be made from among pictures winning first prize in the weekly contest. Handsome cash prizes will also be awarded to pictures
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    • 124 12 When you take a camera to the beach r»OING to the beach? Well, W don't forget your camera and that wherever there's wnite sand and sunshine it's easy to over-ex-pose films in you aren't careful. If you don't own an exposure meter. carry a handy pocket exposure guide or to
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 190 12 ACROSS: 1. Recompenses <s>. 2. Always (4). 3. Existed (7). 7. Shy (5). 12. Each (Si. <4j. 4. Defensive equipment (8). 13, Quality of sound (4>. 14. 5, Cereal (3). 6. Closely woven Pervade (8). 17. Dash (4). 18. silk (5). 8. Particular (4). 9. District (4). 19, Embrocation Interfered
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  • FILMS PREVIEW
    • 536 13 Sessue confuses issue for Jerry when he builds bridge in Japan JERRY Lewis among the Orientals is a perfect riot, and that, I suspect, is more by design than merely Occidental. Quite obviously, gang ling Jerry has gone to enormous lengths towards making his newest Paramount film "THE GEISHA BOY"
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    • 247 13 Simple crime fools Yard T»HE HYPNOTIST" sets out x to show that hypnosis cannot induce anyone to perform an action foreign to his or her nature, and proves Its point after 90 minutes. The foreign act here is murder: the victim a woman deserving of
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    • 277 13 SUB PLOT PROVES TO BE SUB ZERO HOLLYWOOD'S tragedy n lies in its inability to leave well alone; its weakness, its tendency to play the copyist. The success of one type of film results in a flood of dozens of others similar in pattern and theme. And seldom are the
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    • 569 13 'TO those who have always nursed a secret ambition to stand before the footlights and emote with such .stage luminaries as Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Virginia Mayo, Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas, CoStar Records offers the opportunity they've been waiting for. specially written sketches and adaptations of faded
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    • 800 13 EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! J ■yt A special Cathay Organitat on newtrcel cevcrinq th« Smgapor* Conrtitu»i»n Exposition and last night's aacaiajg -4C will ka ahown from today in the Oaaoa, Cathay, New Jf" Alhombro, Odaon Kotono., Maje-tic and Ruby Th«otre». Wa ore alto proud to annoanta that w« or* tfca only
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    • 578 13 iBSLVwmMKSIi Announcing the Grand Opening if the MOST LUXURIOUS CINEMA IN THE FAR EAST! LIDO THEATRE Official Opeiiinq Ceremony by I H.E. Tbe Commit iotipr-Grtieral for Soi.t'i-Eart Asis Sir ROBERT SCOTT, GCMG., CB a I Friday v p^\ r r. t ;d^T h h r lit It t N>w st
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    • 117 13 Your Radio Ligtening Radio Singapore Mediwsa wave 476 metres A.M. 6.30 Good Morning; 6.32 Morning Prelude; 7.00 News; 7.05 Moments Of Melody; 7.30 There's Something In The Air: 8.00 The News: 8.05 Breakfast Club; 9.00 Programme Summary; 9.02 The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra; 9.30 Sing It Again; 10.00 Redgauntlet; 10.30
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    • 97 13 day Evening Service; 645 Sunset Serenade; 7.00 The News; 7.10 \ew sulk; 7.16 The Radio Doctor: 7.30 Be Our Gutst; 8.00 Radio Theatre; 9.00 The BlUy Cotton Band Snow; 9.30 The News; 9.40 Sports Results; 9.45 Entra'cte; 10.00 Talking About Writing; 10.15 Music From Holland; 10.30 Reverie; 10.50 Epilogue; 11.00
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    • 137 13 80S Breakfast Club; 9.00 Summary Of Programmes: 9.03 South Of The Border; 9 15 Moraine Service; 9.55 Interlude; 10.00 Redgauntlet; 10.30 Malay Mixture; 11.00 Talking About Teaching; 11.15 Joel Rosen (Piano); 11.30 Malayan Theatre; PM. 12.00 Music For Plucked Strings; 12.M Speak Malay; 1.00 Errol Gamer; 1.15 Relax And Listen;
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  • Article, Illustration
    2363 14  -  Freddie Mills Continuing: MY GREAT FICHTS by AS TOLD TO TERENCE FEELEY There we stood.., try ing to give each other IT IS late afternoon, June 20, 1942. Wartime. Rommel has just turned round to lash out at Tobruk. Churchill is in Washington, discussing the war with
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    • 108 14 I Planning a trip? Going on leave? hall awaiting you on arrival Vc5L-£- ~Z^TTV.fi anywhere in Europe. No fuss l /\^^iffe£?T/^J~3aLl^Lr or otner Orchard Motors Vauxhall A GENERAL MOTORS PRODUCT i r i --.s^jf =4 ill r v« .ji if^p- jf 3 jlI \^i*Cnißi*tt MOTORS SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR REPRESENTED ELSEWHERE
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    • 345 14 TIGER ■tft Made in England Insist on TIGER BRAN! Baby Vests and Wrappers for your Baby Resident Agents: GOH HOE KIM CO. P.O. Box 1651 —Singapore. MEN WOMEN feel Young again As we crew oUrr It's onlT natural nn peapl* (raw old ftsssssT than thrr should. Thrn they frrl wrak.
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    1345 15 CAR 'SHED' KACHANG AS IT CRAWLED DOWN BUSY STREET Address your letter: The 'Know Alls,' The Sunday Times, Times House, River Valley Road Singapore. pYCLING behind a slowmoving flashy car we were angered by the inconsiderate driver and passengers. The huge red car moved at a snail's
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  • 912 15 Girl fights shy at prospect of becoming a second wife gane ■fTUVE years ago I met a M: boy. We became very friendly and finally fell in love He promised to marry me but later became entangled with one of his relatives and eventually married her. We still meet, and
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    • 322 16 Qve Bob Martin's once a dag to keep Mm healthy, handsome, gay! M tr Cb_______> \f ml ;^3B \j^^ sP^jF Ever see your dog really out of condi- vnit »rn T tion? Off his food, listless and dull. f"":™" 1 111" 11 his coat loose and irriUtinjr with umSn^»biJ? r
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    • 645 16 hi, FnrzAß Ricf Rttd d nTrm-rc? i <■ swfiln ii >^ JP^^rJ __bL' v^ «^\nL__l^^B-~^ oy LjLfKjs\r\ Ait_ jj ukhkjl 'Lr/7o 'piff iy/gfJi/4 '/Jr y_i_^ vfcii Kr si? j w-r^ —-"s, Ikjto t*e Prehistoric Clipp Caves of TAKZANLANP. Jjs¥ .rr f^/ M^lJ^Mk^M nJ^^^S have to a 7 HIP7EN AA/U2? OP
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    • 145 16 be short-lived. ARIES (Mar. 21 Apr. 20). At last you see good results from sometbing tbat you have =ty been working f_y jf a 'or many months. Recent i I ac h ievements should soon be bringing in a substantial amount of cash. This week you will be much perplexed
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    • 411 16 ,—KINDLY PEOPLE—. "■DEOPLE born brtwern Jan. !u and Feb. 18 are probably the most difficult of all to analyw. They have more than usual > originality, are probably mentally and emotionally perverse. J! Yet they are companionable, public spirited and kindly. <', The career plays an important part of the
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    • 198 16 THIS WEEK FOR ALL TODAY: Don't try to make clearcat arrangements today. Better leave social gatherings to chance and be informally hospitable. If quarrels spring up within the family circle either turn a deaf ear or attempt conciliation FOR LUCK TODAY WEAR OF USE: Rose red, 6, Turquoise. TOMORROW: Excellent
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    • 200 16 DAY WEAR OR USE: Black and white. 4, Opal. WEDNESDAY: Although the day may begin with a few hold ups. pace steps up later in afternoon. Excellent for making long term arrangements and for contacting old friends. Good too for taking a chance in entertainment or on the race course.
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    • 704 17 Laurence Harvey says: It's so sudden (NOMINATED FOR BEST ACTOR AWARD) I PUT in a call to Laurence Harvey in America. And even though he had just woken up in his Boston hotel suite when the call came through, his voice was unaccountably faint. Perhaps, I pondered, he was still
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    • 35 17 Latest of the Crosby clan HERE'S THE LATEST of the Crosby clan to enter show business black- haired Cathy, daughter of Bob, niece of Bing. She has a singing role i in THE BEAT GENERATION. *•••••••■••••••••••••••••••»•••••••>••••••••••••••••'
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    • 85 17 THE MONROE TEMPERAMENT SUSPECT that Mr. 1 Billy Wilder will think twice before he again agrees to direct a picture in which Marilyn Monroe is to star. For he has Just finished Some Like It Hot with her —and he says he has had enough temperament to last him a
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    • 104 17 TN America Sir Laurence Olivier has been talking to frienos about his son, 21-year-old Tarquin. "He's had the advantage of an education I never had, says Olivier. "Eton. Oxford, and the Guards. And now he's aspiring to a diplomatic career, praise be. For a dread moment,
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 173 17 FROM TO 19th 7th JAN. FEB. t if lE-35»^ v EVERY PURCHASER OF REMY MARTIN riHS CHAMPAGNE V SOP BRANDY vl 1 —Si ««E^~ \<§i v s p jA I '^^H^^jl Jl 'is* i ■pagne cognac I &JX UNt CHAMPAGNE COGNAC m.ymit/!nf.' 1 Pff^ I BIGNAC IjP I fi..^K m
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  • AMBROSE KHAW
    • 854 18 Cutting a dash —with TWO cars! THIS WEEK our motoring correspondent reports on two new cars with the accent on styling. On the left is the Ford Fairlane 500 Town Victoria which shows the influence of the highly successful prestige car, the Thunderbird. ft ON THE right is the all-new
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 77 18 SPRING PARK UPPER EAST COAST ROAD I EASY PAYMENTS CAN BE ARRANGED II Construction of all the houses has commenced. j li is adviseable to book Early (only a FEW houses left) j i WELL CONSTRUCTED and UP-TO-DATE DESIGN j Types of Houses: I Two-Storey Semi- Detached Houses $23,800 Two-Storey
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    • 66 18 You never know when you'll need Elastoplast FIRST AID DRESSINGS (now ventilated to let wound* br«othe! You can't be too careful with cuts, scratches or grazer Clean the wound and put on Elastoplast the dressing doctors use. Elastoplast stops the bleeding and guards •gainst infection while the wound heals. in
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 138 18 i 2 3 Read bowttn th« lines to find the Hidden Personality 1. Turn over to find headgear statistics (7). 2. This is something between only horse and rider (6). 3. Frustrating aspect of fencing? (5). 4. A material advantage in rowing? (6). 5 6. Deteriorate through following greyhounds? (2,
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    • 104 18 CROSSWORD SOLUTION ACROSS: 1. Rewards; 7. DOWN: 1. Repay: 2. Ever; 3. Timid: 12. Every; 13. Tone; 14. Were; 4. Armament; 5. Rye; Permeate; 17. Elan; 18. Area; Satin; 8. Item; 9. Molested- 10 19 Liniment; 21. Mounds; 23 Inane; n. Dentate- IS. AlumSea; 24. Term; 25. Salt; 27. 18.
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  • 1183 19  -  JACK FINGLETON /THE N, (FOURTH V TEST J ENGLAND AGAIN TOIL ALL DAY IN SWELTERING HEAT From Adelaide, Sat. RAKING no risks and scoring no faster than yesterday, Australia moved surely on today to clinching the "rubber" against England
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  • 73 19 AUSTRALIA 1st Inns. i overnight 200-1) McDonald retired hurt 149 Burke c Cowdrey b Bailey 66 Harvey run out 41 O Neil b Statham 56 F.ivcll b Statham 4 Mackay c Evans b St.itri.im 4 Benaud b Trueman 46 Davidson not out 16 Grout not out Extras 14 Total
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  • 358 19 LONDON. Sat. LEAGUE ONE Aston Villa 3 Chelsea 1 Bolton 4 Luton 2 Burnley 0 Birm'ham C 1 Everton 3 Man. C 1 Leicester 0 Leeds 1 Manchester I 4 Newcastle 4 Portsmouth 1 Blackpool 3 Preston 3 West. Brom. 4 Tottenham 1 Arsenal 4
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  • 63 19 SINGAPORE. Sat. RAJ. Seletar "A" trounced 231 Base Vehicle Depot by 19 points (two goals, three tries) to eight (goal and try) In their rugger match at Seletar today. Lewis (2). Kent, Owen and Bailey scored tries for Seletar Bailey and Brand each made a conversion.
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  • 38 19 HYDERABAD. Sat. West Indies were all out for 315 In reply to Hyderabad's firs'! Innings total of 332 here today. The state were 19 for two wickets In their second Innings at the ckse. Reuter.
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  • 219 19 SANTIAGO, Sat. The unbeaten Russian team Jeopardised their chance of winning the world basketball championship here when they refused to play Formosa last night. The Russians, who were leadIng in the final series with 10 points, did not turn up for the match claiming that
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  • 704 19 North deserved a better winning margin NORTH 23 SOUTH 9 By SAUL JOSHUA Singapore, Saturday .Illlllllltlllllllllllll ***************11 lIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIV KJORTH made a brilliant second-half recovery to beat South by 13 points to nin« in the Malayan Rugby Union's annual match at Jalan Besar Stadium here today. North scored two goals and
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  • 26 19 BANGKOK. Sat. Malaya a touring soccer team drew threeall against Bangkok Combined here today, scoring through Robert Choc. Boon Bee and Rahim Orr-"\ Reu'.er.
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 578 19 CLASSIFIED ADS. AT YOUR SERVICE :n Words tit (Minimum). Daily I month. 10 Words tIJt (Mln.) PHOTOSTATS BY POTOMATIC— 2O7IO. PLAN Printing from Tracings. FotomaUc— 2o7lo. TRAVEL? In Asia? Need Service? See Asia Travel Service. *****. •LIFE" PROCESSES Colour Film in 48 hours, Telephone *****. Singapore. "AMOCE" Plan Printing Paper.
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    • 270 19 B^BH^iBH i^^^^H iß^^ifc^^ Huge Spiral Casing of the [■AAMHi > jlfa«^ 150,000 HP Francis Turbine *"^*^^^t' r l^ C B" a k ra Power Station, >-^^ V *Jp<i3P^B Kw Wj JHwQka> «3 Punjab, India. V /sW r mHI S m. Mm v lJl^& x Bg\ X U JLmuf^^LWx. U y
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  • 66 20 TOTAL POOL: $194,334 Ist No. *****8 ($87,450) 2nd No. *****4 ($43,725) 3rd No. *****4 ($24,291) start««rs (52.024) each: IMM9, *****5, *****1, £*****, IKXitiX. *****3, *****1, *****7, 2«0435. 371(i0(i, Io007(i, *****7. Consolation (51.457 each): 215K98. *****9, *****0, *****3, *****8, 481.504. *****7, *****5, r.l'riH. *****5. FORTUNE TOTE: Divisible pool
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  • 20 20 BERLIN. Sat. East Germai.y's national football team left here by air last night for four matches in Indonesia.
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  • 28 20 .-a Words $10 (Minimum). VAN DER BEEK, Alfreda on 31.1.59. Cortege leaves 47 Carpmael Road at 4 p.m. 1.2.59 for The Holy Family Church thence to bidadarl.
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  • 2292 20 Downing Street sets new time for 7 furlongs By EPSOM JEEP Singapore Sat. BRILLIANTLY ridden by jockey Arthur Ward, Prince of Lalita snatched a thrilling head win from Who Knows in the last running of the Governor's Cup over 1 miles at Bukit
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  • 86 20 ADELAIDE, Sat. Former Test all-rounder and exVictorian captain, Sam Loxton, has been appointed manager of the Australian team to tour India and Pakistan next season. Loxton, 37. retired from first-class cricket at the end of last season, after playing for Victoria for 12 years. Loxton will be
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  • 117 20 KARACHI, Sat. The West Indies will play three five-day Tests during a short tour of Pakistan after their present visit to India, it was announced here yesterday. The team will arrive here from India on Feb. 17 and will play six matches during
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    • 293 20 CLASSIFIED ADS. 2« Words $lt (Minimum). LANDEWEER: Born 30th Janutry YounKberg Memorial Mark. M Word., $10 (Minimum). LI AW UM: Mr Llaw Hwong Yeet. second son of Mr. and Mrs. Uaw Yltt Chuung, Haadyal. to Miss Urn Yinn. third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Llm Chien, Penang. THE ENGAGEMENT Is
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    • 40 21 A^^J-^ l^ l^ pXJI^— «^J -HW—i^l^— M MMM^ >B^ B^^M^^B^^^ T^ T"™^^^"™^^ X l( A 1 I9M, King Features Syndicate. Inc, ll\l I) ffli feilGv' T^Mot^l I H 1 World f.^MtN rrv.f>cJ J I 1111/ f 1 I I m
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