Sunday Standard, 18 January 1953

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  • 15 1 Sunday Standard ™)H(;*i*>sH*l£ VOL. 11l NO. 198 SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1953. 16 PAGES FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 572 1 Mrs. Eu intensifies drive to bring food cost down (Standard Woman Reporter) PISHING ahead with her campaign to bring food costs down in Singapore, Mrs. Robert Eo, President of the Singapore Consumers' Association, last week talked with hawkers, headmen of kampongs and the women of the Inner Wheel Club to
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  • 225 1 HUNDREDS of niornin? shoppers and workers stared and gasped at the daredevil acrobatic stunts of the German acrobatic pair, Rox and Eve-Lyn. atop the Capitol build in* yesterday. Rox performed his favourite act— a one-arm hand stand on two stacked up wine bottles on his suitcase
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  • 79 1 MONTREAI Jan. IT (AFP) A 24-year-old bride commit- j tec yesterday few h s e >ne was due to ge: married !^v firing a bullet d her throat. The parents, realising ttie impossib of uifonning ail the guests > the wedding, d.d not tancel the
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    51 1 Dr Lim Kim Siong and Miss Ang Kim Choo who were married yesterday at the Wesley Church, Singapore. -The bride a teaTber in the Anglo-Chinese School Singapore. U the second daughter of Dr. Ang Swee Hian Dr Lim fc asonofthe late Mr. Daniel K. C. Lim of Malacca. (See Page
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  • 140 1 TEMPLER LEAVES JASIN AND... KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.^Fivejjpttdred yards from a road where barely one hofcr before Sir Gerald and Lady Templer had driven duri^/ Ifceir tour of Jasin District, Malacca, yesterday, ih«e7th Platoon, C Company. Ist Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, killed Choon Gnam Wah, commander of the
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  • 91 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— The High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, has asked the Mentris Besar. when they discussed with him about Malay ex-detainees, to take an equal and active part in the development of the country in ali fields, including politics. The Standard
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  • 143 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. (Reuter).— Britain nas sent a neVset of proposals to Persia as a basis for Element Tf the* oil nationalisation dispute, it is authoritatively learnt here today. Britain's new plan is reported to be based on three main P °i nt
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  • 34 1 THE HONGKONG Standard said today' that Sir Arthur Morse chief manager and chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, would resign his offices and leave for Lon- don in March. Reuter
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  • 101 1 BONN, Jan. 17: (Reuter) British intelligence men yesterday began sifting through a loi ryload of documents confiscated from the houses and offices of the seven former Nazi leaders arrested on suspicion of plotting to seize power in West Germany. I The possibility of more arrests tomorrow
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  • 278 1 Willßeßeady By June This Yr. On Orders KUALA LUMPUR, Sot.— A $25,000,000 railway project will be in service by June this year when Malaya's Eost Coast railway connecting Singapore with Tumpat on the northeast tip of the Malay Peninsula a distance of 464
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    59 1 ONE HUNDRED FEET above in the air and he feels at home! German acrobat. Rox. performing: the one-arm hand stand on two stacked-up bottles, placed neck to neck. Rox and his shapely partner Eve-Lyn yesterday thrilled Singapore shoppers and ogee workers with acrobatic stunts on top of the Capitol buildinsr.
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  • 78 1 Naguib Galls Crisis Meet CAIRO, Jan. 17.— Premier Gen. Mohammed Naguib summoned the Egyptian cabinet into an emergency session today in the wake of his dissolution of all political parties in the most sweeping reform since, he dethroned King Farouk last July. Simultaneously British ambassador Sir Ralph Stevenson held a
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  • 67 1 MEMBERS of the Singapore City Council Services. Union at their Executive Council meeting held last night to discuss the Select Committee on Salaries Report decided to write to the President of the City Council. The letter will ask for his assurance that in the event of members
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  • 218 1 Two Airlifts A Ramp Is Broken Standard Staff Reporter TWO airlifts last week from Singapore to Kota Bahru of tilapia- a fresh water fish specially favoured by Malays— will help smash any black market threat. Tilapia breeding has been encouraged in Ke'antan by RIDA Recently the Develop^ ment 'Department imported
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  • 60 1 LONDON, Jan IT. Renter i Mr. Clement Attiee. former British Labour Prime Minist< r, said here yesterday the Asu'i'» Socialists conference .just concluded at Rangoon would lea to closer understanding between Asian Socialists and those of the West. He was speaking to procorrespondents after his re:
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  • 97 2 THE Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association will benefit bv the premiere of the Stage Club's presentation of '"S^e Kow Thev Run" at the Victoria Theatre on Feb. 29. at 9 p.m. The hilarious comedy, which was written bv Philip King. was first produced at The Comedy Theatre. London,
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  • 64 2 THE following \ver e elected officers of the St. Patrick's [Society. Singapore: President: General Sir Charlies Keigirloy, K.C.8., K.8.E., i D.S.O. Viee-Presideut: Dr. R. J. Grove-White. Hon. Secretary: M.C. Bovie. |Esq. Treasuren A.M. Nolan, Esq. Committee: Mrs. M.C. Wheeler. Dr. W.B. Young Dr. M.F.X Slattery and P.F.X.
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  • 127 2 HOW one of two missing $1,000 Straits currency notes was recovered was told in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday during an inquiry into the disposal of the note. It had been stated earlier that the owner, a woman named Lim Poh Kim. left the notes
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  • 166 2 Progs Prefer It To Lower Interest Rate THE Singapore Progressive Party is in favour of an outright housing subsidy by Government instead of a hidden one by way of a lower interest rate on loans to the Improvement Trust. At the Party's committee meeting recently, it
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  • 162 2 AFTER attending the recent Pan-Pacific Jamboree in Australia, thre e Singapore scouts decided to stay back in that country to further their studies. They are Han Lap Kwang (18). Ho Eng Woo (16) and Tan Song Koon (18"». Han, who passed the School Certificate
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  • 51 2 MALACCA. Sat.—Representatives of the Bentong subbranch of the Malayan Chinese Association, the Bentong District Chinese Schools Guilds Associations and leaders headed by Messrs. Hoh Chee Chun? and Chui Nuin Chong called at Heeren Street and presented Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan with a Chinese ornamental wooden
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  • 90 2 JOHORE B AHRU, Sat— Police authorities have notified all shops that credits amounting to more than $30 a month to special constables should be stepped immediately. This follows the concern expressed by the Johor* Planters' Association over the indebtedness of special eoi>. stables stationed
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  • 50 2 19 Women On Lottery Charge !NINETEEN women and ten men were charged in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday with staking money on a lottery u chap-ji-ki tanjong* at an address in Woodleigh Park' on Jan. 16. All claimed trial and police bail of $50 was extended until Feb. 2.
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  • 343 2  -  DEMI TASSE By The Singapore Arts Theatre has big plans for 1953, and when the curtain "foes up for their Chinese New Year presentation, theatre fans will be served with a double bill treat with the staging of AnouiltYs "Antigone M and George Bernard Shaw's
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    31 2 Photo. .The German acrobats, Rox and Eve-Lyn. who are bow appearing in Singapore at the Capitol Chinese Restaurant and the Capitol Restaurant, resptrtively. Yesterday they performed atoi^the Capitol building Standard Standard
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  • 73 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat.— When patrolling Fraser Estate. Kulai. Police saw a Chinese i near the boundary who quick ly hid a parcel under his shirt when he was observed. When the Police searched him they found that the parcel contained three katis* of unbooked rice. In
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    90 2 photo. MARRIED at the Sin gapore Registry Office yesterday were Miss Tie Kim Nio and Captain R. Verhoeff. Both employees of Standard Vacuum Oil Co.. they decided to get engaged only last Saturday, having known each other for several years. Captain Verhoeff is master of the Stan vac vessel Pendopo.
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  • 88 2 THERE was no change Sa rubber prices :n Singapore yesterday as *he market closed for the week un a steady rmte. First Grade rubber (Fen.i closed at 81 1 8 ictus per H NOOM PRICES THB Singapore Chamber ot Commerce Rubber Association noon prices <in
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    70 2 photo. DR. AND MRS. P.S. BUN who celebrated the birth of ihvlr daughter at the Wins Choon Yuen Restaurant recently are ptetured with some of their guests. From extreme left to right: Mrs. T.S. Tay, Mr. Tay, Mis s Katharine Kan, Mr See Tsu-sien, Mrs. A. I>e. Mrs. Bun, Dr.
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  • 56 2 THE S Samajam claim the G for the Naval B who w* i ibeenb. which from a spoKfnisation dard \< It ployn a re u < ccjjcc earlier tive [ndia, Etc askr. pro 1 A <en tal cop? been "A- the "\ve ire
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  • 11 2 PFNA' :n Plena the S. rity Lofl ployees stocks
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  • 57 3 it'FEK'S P»WW W l" 1^ Uui Perhaps p. hive noticed in a H'i|s x nri-' know. toUar* «W in ft Prireof hl s beet carried i tor the or solu- tin- Contest .is>o>sors. Contest Mndard, K ;;:.,.n u.aa. smstill n-ceiv-S y ,i in by u ill not
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  • 92 3 I AST week's Sunday Prize Puzzle proved too difficult and for the fir*l time sinct this series was started not our of the thousand odd entries was correct. The majority or <-o»upetitors assumed that thepicturerenresented a plastic Venetian blind. Others nssNn>ed that it iraa I *>>
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  • 158 3 5,000 Posters Call For 'News' Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S drive against corruption in the public services begins tomorrow. Five thousand posters in four anguages— English Chinese, Malay and Tamil, w.ll be put up all over the island calling on the public to give information about corrupt practices
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  • 131 3 THE father of a 22-year-old Royal Marine killed in Singapore last year said he was considering starting legal proceedings to obtain compensation for his son's death, reports Reuter. The father. Mr. H. H. Smith of Goldthorpe, near Sheffield, England, already has written to Prime Minister
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  • 105 3 AN Emergency detainee on parole. Tan Bock Heng. was fined SlO in the Singapore First District Court yesterday Jor being out of doors when he should have been at home between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. The Court was told that after finding him not
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  • 22 3 MR M. SAVARIDASS. Technical Assistant in charge 'of the Public Works Department. Pasir Mas. has been i transferred to Kota Bahru.
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  • 32 3 A YOUTH Khoo Yew Yin. Aral allowed bail of $2,000 when he claimed trial to a charge of house-breaking and theft of textiles and toys worth $400 on Dec. 23.
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  • 38 3 THE Singapore Police Court Magistrate ordered a warrant of arrest to be issued against Tan King Lira for failing to appear in Court in answer to a charge o* wounding a cow belonging to K. Gopalan.
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  • 76 3 YEO SIEW HONG, who had a string of previous convictions against him. asked the Singapore Fourth District Judge, Mr. J.B.Jayaretnam. for a "final chance yesterday when he was charged with cheating a woman cigarette vendor or $43. Yeo 26. a lorry attendant, pleading guilty, told the
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    50 3 TOP: One of the "specials" for the big race on Feb. 15 undergoing trials in the Johore Straits. It is powered by a 25 h.p. Johnson Seahorse. ABOVE: Alu Alu the boat that last year won the unofficial speedboat championship of Singapore. It is fitted with a 25 h.p. Evinrude.
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  • 233 3 SPEEDBOAT RACING SO WIDESPREAD is the interest aroused in the first properly organised outboard motor speedboat race meeting to be held off Pasir Panjang on Feb. 15, that the organiser, Mr. HJ.C. Kulasingha, has set up a committee that is mapping out details, most important
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  • 51 3 "AREN'T MEN BEASTS", i three-act farce by Vernon Sylvaine, will be the K»^ N v Year production of the Do kyard Club Amateur Drama.. c. Society. Produced by Leslie Hat a the play will be staged at is I Dockyard Theatre on Jan. and
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  • 166 4 FIVE HUNDRED uniformed staff members of the Woodj bridge Mental Hospital. Singi apore, are likely to go on strike at 7 a.m. on Jan. 29. A 14-day strike notice was served on the Government on Friday. Mr. J. C. Griffiths. Govem- ment negotiator, is reported to have
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  • 99 4 A SPECIAL constable, Mustakin bin Haii Yusoi. charged in the Singapore First Criminal District Court yesterday with deserting his post on Dec. 23. told th e District Judge, Mr* Forrer, that he did so because h e wanted to sec his religious teacher
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  • 96 4 MR. JOHN J. K. Lu, (29) was ordained minister at a special service held at (he Straits Chinese Presbyterian Church yesterday the first of its kind to b e held by the church. Rev. Lu, dressed in a black cassock, took his ordination vows under Rev. H.K.
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  • 322 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat.— Four information officers yesterday, showered their blessings on an unknown Indian rubber tapper who saved them from being ambushed by terrorists in Senai, last year. They only came to know of their lucky escape when one of the terrorists who recently surrendered, related
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    62 4 photo. Haji Ilamid bin Haji. 45, a P.W.D. worker, Is riven first aid after an accident with a tram at the junction of Sembawa Road and Kalians Road. He was rushed to hospital and up to late last night, he was still in a coma. Eyewitnesses of the accident are
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  • 150 4 Several Chinese schools in Malaya are now teaching their students English the easy way— with gramophone records. Hundreds of people are also learning other languages with their families for the price of one. A spokesman t>f the Linguaphone Institute in Singapore told The
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  • 163 4 MORE than 700 people attended the wedding reception yesterday of Dr. Lim Kim Siong and Miss Ang Kim Choo at the Lee Kuo Chuan Hall, Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore. The marriage, which was well amended, to. >k place at .he Wes'ey Church and was solemnised by
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  • 107 4 HORSES at the Singapore 'Turf C!ui> will not get the protection from noisy human neighbours which the Club had hoped to give thiem. The Club recently asked the City Council to scrap a housing scheme for its staff on land near the race course
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  • 132 4 Detainees: Paglar Backs Socialists Dr. C. J. Paglar, Singapore Legislative Councillor (Progressive. Changi) yesterday called upon the Colony and Federation Governments \o release Emergency detainees and send them out of the country j or put them on trial. He was commenting on the resolution passed at the Rangoon Conference of
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  • 123 4 VICE -ADMIRAL Sir Charles Lambe, Who is coming, to Singapore as Naval Com-mander-in-Chief, Far East, left the headquarters of his command as Flag Officer (Home) on Friday, says an official statement. His car was drawn 'part of the way by follow-officers. This courtesy i s
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  • 85 4 THE strike threat by the members of the Singapore Cinema Projectionists' ai:d I Electricians' Welfare Associa- tion was withdrawn yesterday. the strike threat was the result of the flismissal of four members of the Association by a local employer, but the men have agreed to accept 14
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  • 41 4 HAJI Agoes Salim. 69. Indonesian scientist, philosopher and advisor to the Foreign Office, passed through Singapore by air yesterday on his way to a iecure-tour of Europe and the United States. He will also represent Indonesia at ihe Coronation.
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  • 41 4 THE MA LAY ALA Pre.ss Ltd.. will give a reception to the Malayalam journalist, Mr. S. K Pottakad, today. Mr. Pottakad will stay here for a fortnight before going to Australia. Indonesia Siam and other South-East Asian countrie?
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  • 297 4 'Mac' Will Return With Story Of Malaya A TIRED, sun-bronzed but happy British film producer leaves Singapore by Comet for London this morning. He hopes to return in April with one of fris best productions "Operation Malaya" a 7,500 feet film which tells •'the story of Malaya as it is
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  • 944 5  -  WILLIAM DRURY i fat lil Sawdust. Buxom Karma id I w Missing \>> p and Road. In D ,hulot,ui Uie *<*• r i: Grnnaß I m m eg- gdora its Warquts of Stai and GarP seaiidCirowm only the sawd^ board i trendy "Handout**, "Bandung", Bati'toooonsj".
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  • 1042 5  -  P.H. SPENCER This essay on "Eyes' won the second prize in a com petition organised by Britain s influential Sunday paper the Observer. The first prize winning essay was published recently in the Sunday By HPHE lucl oi my life is < determine iby
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  • 76 5 RAUB. Sat. Plans for the building of a new Home Guard Headquarters in Kauo have been approved The building will be furnished with -modern J^ure and would be situated near the present Police Check Point on the Bukit Koman Road in the hean of the
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  • 68 5 MR. NG KAM YEW of .he staff of St. George's Institution and P^iff^Kh sportsman, has left f or Kedah on transfer. He is now a tached to the Sultan Abdul Hamid College. Alor Star. MR J. D. HODGKINSON, British Adviser, Johore, has consented to become an Honorary Member
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  • 1503 6 People At St Moritz St. Moritz, THIS is the focal point of Switzerland's famed winter sports season— a wide-open village of 2,600 people with hotel beds for 4,2oo— where nobody talks anything but ski-ing and where the bills at the luxury hotels are about
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  • 1275 7 6th Columnist Smashes Tennis Racket Alone Flees To Unknown Border The shocking story which electrocuted three sub-editors! The copy was so hot that it had to be handled with a barge pole! This stranger-ihan-truth expose brought to you for the first time in colour by glorious Technicolour! By SUNDAY CRIMES
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  • 1127 8 Sunday Standard There Is Mutual Aid Even Among Beasts Independent Horning Nm/upmpw yHE fact that Nature is "red in tooth and claw" is often offered as justification for tolerating the predatonness implicit in modern economic and political systems. In Nature, we are told, the paramount law is the straggle for
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  • 1287 8  -  MARGARET SAVIUE She, is perhaps, the most hard-working: woman in the world, as well as the most photographed and, in her Coronation year of 1953. the most publicised but she has a life of her own too. Few writers on the Commonwealth's
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  • 507 8 The Queen's Private Life At this lime of the day. and When in a few minutes the fcwhite door flies open to admit Prince Charles and Princess Anne* When "good-morning" kisses have been exchanged all round, the Queen devotes a little space to playing with her children. Prince Charles has
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  • 1958 9  -  JAMES PETER CHIN People's Poverty In Direct Contrast Malayan Student Delegates Impressed On Visit To Delhi By fO one who hoils from the lond of rubber ond tin, o visit to Delhi, India, ond its outlying areas like Mutura and Agra, can be very inspiring and
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  • Kallang Diary
    • 915 10 Tourist-Class UK-Spore Flights In Apr. r rOURIST-CLASS air serJ- vices are soon to start to and from Singapore. British Overseas Airways Corporation have decided to step into the tourist picture next April as far as Singapore and Hongkong are concerned. These two colonies art •'part of the United Kingdom." it
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    • 837 10 (MITE a number of motorists are still under the impression that the juice we get here is pool petrol. Said an official of one of the two leading petrol companies in the country. "Just because motorists in the United Kingdom are getting: pool
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  • Movie Talk
    • 1402 11 COLOSSAL' S TH E WORD FOR IT! lis -otr.iiifht I l#»* .i k t .rt- M iMUnS-linc m s m eandid r seetea this .-mightier mh! presenta- ht h etU -a*. Item* fa an exper,UW a rare I thai era not races in "Ben Hur," wept at the persecution of
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    • 117 11 HERE'S news of something that's never happened before Republic's Technicolour presentation of 'The Quiet Man" (which Sir Gerald Templer, the Federation's High Commissioner is privately seeing) has been booked and is olaving with enormous success at M-G-M' s Metro Theatres in Bombay and Calcutta, TWO Cantonese movie stars
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    • 148 11 FRIEDER FILMS (Malaya) Inc., which commenced Operations in thU territory m 1948 handling th e distribution of Republic pictures, is now concentrating pn the ac( l ul fj; ttoniof*indepchdent Products fe anticipation Of the end or Jtf francnue* the fc ute L p i2 Sf
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    • 380 11 ANOTHER film from Italy— -nLand this time it is "Women Without Tears"— a stark, realistic tale of post-war camps and unwanted women. There ar e no fancy trimmings here, nor is there spectacle. It is a grim story in black and white about thousands of
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    568 12  -  DOUGLAS HOWELL Builds A Bra By CROWNS, LOVERS' KNOTS AND BUILT-IN FALSIES... JJRASSIERE or bridge the basic idea behind the design is the same," soid hAr. Alec Pelican. "You've got to make sure that nothing gives way." I So iy-year-old Mr. P lican finds that the honours degree
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    • 611 12 A EURASIAN of 24 years. I used to work at a place where I net a Chinese girl. I visited her home, and was welcomed by ber family. This continued for three years, but we never mentioned our feelings for each other. Then I left my
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    • 183 12 Taped For Beauty IZKKPING your if are in line *v calls for more than dieting and indiscriminate exercising You should grt into tlie habit of taking a monthly tapemeasure check-tip. Draw a simple liUle Hurt for yourself, allotting a line for every one of your figure
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    • 229 12 TF you are a busy, determinx ed shopper, you cover many miles in your daily rounds, say leading foot specialist*, but you rarely bother to see that you are properly "shod" for the occasion. Tender feet, headaches and backaches are all the clues necessary to prove
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  • 596 12  -  ANNETTE GREEN By IN CASE youve been wondering about the anxious expressions on the faces of your iamiry, they're probably caused by that seasonal hazard spring cleaning. A clean and orderly home doesn't make family living mor e pleasant, if
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    • 315 12 bell ImsHl^JIF ■1 7 V WIRITADEUMaR TODAVS QIOTATIOV: MraMirr ji.nr raiiui\ *t^ h J»r «Hc »kade It Kobert Browning. SIXDW KM KVKRVO>E: Commercia! and financial interests are due for »pme action and fluctuates You can make gams if v O u art alert and far-seeing. YOIR BIRTHDATE AND lIIRTIfsK;\ ARlES—
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    • 1175 13 News And Views Of Malayans From V T the beginning of December I almost decided to form a Society to Stop People from Talking About the Weather. My resolution, which had previously wavered, was fixed at the annual sherry party of the Association of British Malaya. This annual party seems
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    • 576 13  -  ROSALIND RATNAM riiEE X*MAS PATTERS i\o. H By lI ERE ore the sewing instructions for the free X'mos Pattern No. 6 which appeared in the Dec. 25 issue ot The Singapore Standard. Note: 80,),CE 1 Wi;h your pattern p e ,->« vcu will receive an i lentiftnitlou
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  • 203 14 The finalists in this seasons competition, 390 Maintainence Ink R.A.F. Seletar and No. I R.A.A.F.Sqn. R.A.F. Tengah. will inert tomorrow at Seletar to play off the final round. This Trophy was presented by Air Vire Marshall A. C. Sander*n C.B C.B.E. D.F.C. in 1949 to ta
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  • 812 14 From "ROGER" THIS week one of the most important R.A.F. Seletar Hockey League matches was played between Station Administration Wing and Armament Ancillary Repair Squadron in which the former fought hard to deprive A& A.E.R.S. of the two points which would place them out
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  • 421 14 In th c Tennis Doubles Fixture with the Civil Service during last weekend when William* Goodall: Clarke LawranceMartindale Glaister were to battle Or? Swee Keng Tan Hock Tht Kok Bok Oik Urn C hin Sen,, Only four of the i j nine matches were completed
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  • 1281 14 Cflltf YOU P«Y rootbaU? Tennis? Or Sfco« u Until You Tn< Says SAPPER It is said, and often quite rightly, that Wf gifted in some particular way and that wt ai! dual as the leaves of a tree. The talents of mJ are immediately apparent. '"V The
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  • 80 15 Chartered Bank Dance Nets $2 500 THE eharity dance held on Friday night by the Chartered Bank Sports Club in aid of the Singapore Association o{ the Blind raised about $2,500. The winning numbers of the lucky prize tickets were announced as fotlows: Ist 686: 2nd 2d5; 3rd 893; 4th
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  • 175 15 Not Too Late For Coronation Week Very h™ d *K Water T temperaturc ver y "ear freezing point-has umes to consider the matter at another meeting." coSdS'S Bgal 2^ n Jan 26 but tbis «">• they will not fund.'JS!? b nr a m ns of P
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  • 229 15  -  JEFFER Y JAMES KLJKL;JDFKLD 4nyom? tcttfc pretty f(tc€ can become Miss Max Factor Singapore but not our weight lifting beauties— eight women with strength in their arms, charm in their smiles, and a trip to Hong Kong in their minds. Rending
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  • 670 15 ALTHOUGH for most of the game they had only 14 men, S.C.C. easily defeated R.AJS.C. by 19 points (2 goals and 3 tries) to nothing: on the Padang yesterday. Watson, aithoasih inclined to lie too deep, had a good day for the
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  • 384 15 i tJt*^* o**'*0 iuaior soe< r "ally want rrom the Singapore Amateur Football Association More representation— or i s is just money? Unless the clubs are more definite in their aims, tody's meeting wUI be nothing but a plate to air hot air l.iat SAFA considers
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  • 265 15 PENANG, Sat— A team from the Bukit Mertajam High School provided the biggest surprise in the sevenaside rugby tournament organised by the Penang Rugby Union which was completed at the Western Road ground today. The B. M. H. S. beat the strong Penang Recreation
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  • 197 15 SINGAPORE Recreation Club Blues beat Shell Sports 4—l in a S.H.A. junior knockout hockey competition yesterday. Recs playing with one man short for the first ten minutes were forced on the defensive but their hardworking fullbacks. J. Aeria and R. Stevens, kept the Shell
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  • 40 15 BRISBANE. Jan. 17 (RcuterAAP>— A whir -wind knock of uij. kft minutes by test allroundfr Doug Ring helped Victmia to !e:»d Queensland by M run.' on first, innings in their S'-wftfrWl Shisid mntch here today Seeines *rr« Quscnfiiand
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    • 158 15 v^, yf A You I v Sr^\/^\|A w©ul*i*fc But*** It's still possible that you ore being poisoned, particularly if you hove rheum ttC aches ond pains. Few people know K >he k.dneys do not work perfectly, 4f>j fhese poisons often causa rheumatic Clear the poisons out ond your d appear.
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    • 281 15 I j I Are your hands as fast as their feet? Yes. your Bngcn Wiß mo^e as swiftly i\ the wln-ej j feet of doer n-faea you m rire en Ufa, the SwciUi j portable. Ib«xks 10 ih* fjmojr HjU.i fo.nher-touch you *'rlte easily ai:J capidry \Mihout pettiM tircj. The
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  • 301 16 LONDON. Jan. 17 (Reuter)— Football results: LEAGUE DIVISION I Arsenal 5. Wolves 3. Blackpool 1. Aston Villa 1. Cardiff 0 Tottenham 0. Charlton 3, Sheffield Wed. 0. Chelsea 1. Bolton 0. Derbv 3. Sunderland 1. Liverpool 0, Manchester C. L Manchester U. 1, Portsmouth 0. Middlesbrough 0,
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  • 54 16 Innings W in HOBART Tasmania, Jan. IT (Reuter-AAP):— The South African cricketers today won the first of two matches against Tasmania by an innings and »122 runs, after dismissing Tasmania for 35 in the first innings, the smallest total by the state against any international side. Final scores: South Africans
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  • 59 16 THE following have been selected to represent lIQ A.C.C. and T.C. against MBTC tomorrow at Nee Soon. Bully oti 1715 hrs. Sgt. White (T.C): S.'Sgt. Boyle (A.C.C). WO I McDermott (H.Q) (Capt.); 9.5.M. Ewers (A.C.C) Sgt. Windsor (IIQ.). Cpl. McDermott (H.Q >: Pte Robinson (A.C.C). Cupt. Kirk
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  • 37 16 A FRIENDLY soccer- match at the Farrer Park. Singapore, between the Works Section and the Distribution Section of the City Gas Department ended in a win for Works Section by four goal to two.
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  • 74 16 THE followins will represent the Eclipse B. P. (Juniors) in a friendly badminton match of tnree Singles and three Doubles against the Mayflower B. P. (Juniors) at the Clerical Union Hall, Rangoon Road on Thursday at 7.15 p.m.:— Sulaiman bin Jatfar. Cheong Hock Lock. Stephen George, Chan
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  • 395 16 singaporean Line For Another QuadC' ship MALACCA, Sot.— Singapore s victory^orcr Malacca puts the Colony in line for yet another wadrangSlar championship when the second S/s matches of the Malayan Hockey Council s southern quadrangular tournament were played today. Singapore now lead the other states with four points from two
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  • 297 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— Before a large crowii on the padang today Federation Services beat Federation Police by 13 points (two goals and a try) to nil. Services, with a belter set of threes, adapted themselves well on a sodden ground. Both packs were equally matched.
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  • 68 16 MELBOURNE, Jan. 17: (Reu-ter-AAP) Ken Rosewell. who is 18, won the men's Australian lawn tennis singles championship here todav when he heat his compatriot Mervyn Rose, favourite for the title, b— o. 6—3, 6 l in the final. The women's title was won by Miss Maureen Connolly,
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  • 53 16 PORT OF SPAIN Trinidad. Jan. 17 (Reuter) Trinidad yesterday scored 247 runs lor the loss of six wickets in reply to India's first innings total of 322 when their match was continued here. With only one of five days allotted now remaining for play, however, nothing .but. 3
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  • 181 16 MALACCA, Sat. Negri beat Johore 3—o in the second same of the quadrangular hockey tourney at the Malacca Club today. Johore had as much of the game as Negri but they were weak in front of the goal. Johore pressed for the first 10 minutes but
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  • 348 16 IPOH, Sat.— Following ar e Weights for the first day, Jan. 24, of the Perak Turf Club meeting: Cl. 4. Div. I—Bl furs. Oomaridairn 9.03 Flam e of the Forest 8.08 Pilot's Point 8.07 Pa x Haven 8.06 Why Worry 8.06 Cape Town 8.05 Harrobye 8.04
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  • 176 16 CL. 4, Div. I—5J1 5J F. Cinder's Prince 9.00 Ali Baba 8.13 Philanthropist 8.12 Golden Sands 8.11 The Monarch 8.11 Piercebridge 8.10 Binnton 8.09 Silverfort 8.09 Man O'War 11 8.08 Kind Regards 8.07 Rejoice 8.06 Lillypad 8.05 leannette 8.03 Kiss Awake 7.12 CL. 4, Div.
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  • 266 16 IPOH, Sat.— Fort View and Sea Dragon were the best workers when training for the Perak Turf Club's three-day January meeting started this morning. The pair went very fast from the three to clock 39 seconds for the distance. Sea Dragon finished slightly ahead. Both
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