Singapore Standard, 5 January 1951

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  • 19 1 Singapore Standard *l Ul M J. VOL. 1 N0 19 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1951. 12 PAGES TEN CENTS
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  • 344 1 Commonwealth Nations Begin 10-Day Farley s IOM)0\ Juii. V (Reuter) The conference of ftonweahfc Prime Miiriatera opened here today the -ion taking place at No. 10 Downing Street, rcndencc oi ihc British Prime .Minister (lenient For the fir*t time m the conferences one member I Pakistan *a» an absentee Mr.
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  • 88 1 Lever Bres Chief Calls At Colony i Mart R r th, 1. nous hirers, 1 The a sd c Kallang airport by •ellation from gdom, that a huge his firm w is being a Lumpur. v rey that had temporarily ed last year for P the 1 vy m ration
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  • 86 1 photo. U.S. Consul-General and Mrs. William R. Langdon gave a cocktail party last r.i;lit at 53, Grange Road to mark the farewell to Consul \V. Henry Lawrence, Jr.. Director of the USIS. who is leaving shortly for Formosa to take tip his new post. Among
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  • 230 1 Ceasefire Sponsors' New Move LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 4 (Reuter) Tiio 12 Asian and Middle Eastern countries who sponsored the Korean ceasefire appeal and the six nations who backed the resolution calling on Communist China to withdraw from Korea, were today working on now proposals for the next move m Korea.
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  • 137 1 Many Britons Want Posts In Malaya LONDON, Jan. 4 (Router) Recruitment m London of administrators and police officers for the "Briggs Plan" m Malaya has met with M a most enthusiastic response," the Colonial Office said today. The British Government agreed to 'recruit a considerable number of Chinese-speak-ing administrators and
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  • 79 1 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A sensation has been caused here by the detention under the emergency regulations of Mr. Lee Seng Peng, the general manager of the Lee Rubber Company. Mr. Lee, who was detained at 12 noon yesterday for
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  • 171 1 WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 (AP) The United Stales. Britain and Fiance will send Russia a new note m a few days asking clarification of Moscow's latest proposal for a Big Four meeting. Some officials here consider that Moscow's proposals were deliberately confusing Hope of disrupting
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  • 85 1 SAIGON. Jan. 4 (AP» A French military spokesman said tonight that a major battle is being fought m North IndoChina, but that no details would be released to correspondents until the completion of the current phase of operations. The spokesman, the personal representative of the
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  • 41 1 LONDON, Jan. 3 (Renter) King George VI this afternoon invested the Australian Prime Minister Mr. Robert Menzies with the Insignia of the Order of the Companions of Honour, awarded to him m the New Year Honours.
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  • 172 1 Reds Trying To Outflank UN Forces TOKYO, Jan. 4, (Reuter-AAPV Chinese and North Korean forces driving down the centre of Korea threatened tonight to split the United Nations army into isolated perimeters on the east and west coasts. One army of about 200.000 Communist* troops was reported thrusting deep below
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  • 189 1 'UN Approval Needed To Bomb China' t-Truman WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UP) President Truman told a news conference today that he hoped all tho world's troubles can be cured through diplomatic negotiations and there never again will be war. He .said the United States is not considering asking the United Nations
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  • 51 1 Congress Asks PI Trade Law MANILA. Jan. 4 (AP) Passage of a law requiring that at least 60% of the employees of any corporation or person engaging m any business or profession In the Philippines be native Filipinos was advocated m the Philippines Congress today by Represer>vtive Miguel Cuenco (Liberal,
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    50 1 Photo. General S^r John Harding, C-in-C, Farelf, Is seen aoove speaking to a Green Howard durins the* parade yesterday at Seiarang Barracks. The Howards are undergoing re-gain-as afte! six months of fighting m the jungles of Malaya. After six weeks of rest. they will go back to the jungle. Standard
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  • 331 1 Chinese Occupy Seoul, Smash On To Han River TOKYO, Jan. 4 (UP) Chinese Communist force* occupied the smouldering ghost city of Seoul and smashed to the hanks of the Han River today. They were hammering hard on •the heels of the United Nations troops retreating southward. An allied task force
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  • 259 1 Scribe Predicts UN Ous ted From Korea SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3 (AP)— -Don Whltrhfi, veteran A. P. war correspondent. lo<lay predated the Communists will drive thr 1 "..V out of Korea, but that il will he a fighting withdrawal. Red manpower is just too much for the Alli« he said
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  • 139 1 LONDON. Jan. 4 (AP) King George VI today presided over a Privy Council meeting unique m British history. Present were six Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth. The Privy Council is appointed by the King to advise him m matters of state. It also is the
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  • 47 1 TAIPEI. Jan. 4 (AP) Ex-' Premier Ho Ying-chin lett for Japan today ostensibly to be With his wife when she undergoes an operation there. Ho. who expect- to be away for a month, is believed to be on an important mission.
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  • 79 1 TAIPEI, Jan. 4 (AP> Norman Paige, correspondent jof the Mutual Broadcasting System now visiting Formosa, received a cable from th« Press Club of San Francisco asking him to invite President I and Madame Chiang Kai-shek to visit the United States as the club's
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  • 84 2 200 POLICE AT 'TEC'S FUNERAL Standard Slaff Reporter MORE THAN 200 offic- er» and men attended the 1 funeral of Detective Ang Bonn Siong yesterday at the Hokkien eemet.'.ry m Whitley Road. Ang was shot dead by Wo gunmen m Haveloek Road on Tuesday night. Yesterday, Mr. N. G. Morris.
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  • 120 2 Standard Staff Reporter THE recently-formed Singapore Glass Factory Employees' Union has put forward a Bet of 14 elainis to the management of the Singapore Glass Manufacturing lompany. The most important claim is that for fixing of graded salary scales for the different categories of
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  • 384 2 ACSU WARNS AGAINST DELAY IN PAY REVISION 'Strong Steps Likely To Be Tv ken Standard Slaff Reporter THE ANNUAL delegates conference of the Army Civil Service Union of Singapore, to be \u\d on Feb. 11, is likely to sanction "strong constitutional action" to help implement the Union's proposals for basic
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  • 44 2 SINGAPORE Police are looking for a woman who telephoned the officer-in-charge Beach Road police station at 10 a.m. on Jan. 2. toneernins an offence at Gafflemarfl Road. The woman is asked to get m touch with the office! at her convenience.
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  • 47 2 WEE KUM CHOW was allowed bail ol $250 m the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday alter he pleaded not guilty a c large of being a member of an unlawful assembly at Market Street on Jan. 3. The case was postponed to Feb. 16.
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  • 414 2 RIOT DEATH INQUEST KOW two Malays robbed a dead man as his body was being retrieved from a canal, was told m th<' Singartore Coroner's Court before Mr. Choor Singh yesterday. Mr. Choor Singh was holding an inquest on Henry .lames A..s;in CutmK'c.
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  • 370 2 7 INJURED IN JOHORE CRASH Standard SlaiT Reporter AN HOUR after *ix Johore Bahni Poire conBtables left the Johore Bahru General Hospital on Wednesday night after guarding sick prisoners and detainees, they were taken hack to the Hospital this time as patients. The
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  • 241 2 23 MORE TURKS ARRIVE FROM KOREA A Special Correspond* nt ANOTHER hatch of 2>, wowmlml members of the TurUi-h Bri»a«l<- m Korea arriw<l at Thanni >< "*t« nlay h\ Hastings 'flying ;»rnhiiljiin'« puwig from Japan where they ivrre lowa i<> from tin* Korean frsmt. Added to the 22 Turkish casualties
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  • 350 2 THE WOUNDED Turks who arrived at Changi yesterday jrom the Korean front, via Japan, iccre lavish :n their praise of the Australians' fighting prowess. "The North Koreans and the Chinese seem to fight like the Japs a lot of blowing of whistles and bugles to
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  • 64 2 VKO SONG CHENG, n member ot the crew ol > Mvi Nan who was charged m the Sin pore Third Police Court with having imported 15 tahils of gold into the Colony without a licence Dn Oct 16 last, was acquitted y« '.crday. The
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    42 2 MRS. VV. E. WILKINSON (risht) sister of Lady Gimson, (centre) who arrived m Singapore yesterday for a two-month holiday from the U.K. Mrs. Wilkinson first paid a visit to her son. Captain IJ. D. Wilkinson of the Royal Artillery (left) an AOP
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  • 779 3 New Chief J ustice Of The Federation Greeted By KL Bar Standard Staff Correspondent Xl ALA LI'MPUR, Thurs. Kuala Lumpur's Legal frater,,,tv turned up m full force at the Supreme Court today to wel- „m r lh€ FYilrration's new Chief Justice, Mr. S. W. P. Foster-Sutton when lit- took his
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  • 260 3 Standar I Staff Correspondent 'ALA LUI Thins.—- A submission of grave on did not succeed m an appeal W aim im bin Wan Abu Bakar, before Appeal today, against a convic■ntence of death passed on him for murdering his wife's suitor. The appellant was found guilty
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  • 88 3 Well Known Planter Off To Australia Standard Stafl Corress p..: ut V —One of I r members of the rubng c m Mr. T. Scl I and Settlerr. Reid ha? 'for of Sha: i c 191 Malacca ail 2 g with S fr des m S etiren I md m
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  • 25 3 x- .:d staff Reportei Tiong B hrn ra Road were night by two g oga J Chinese. ii were robbed of cards.
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  • 29 3 20 Arrested In Police Raid to be secret were the P m Cum it night Chinese w m >us parts n under the Emer- 1 as. ta are expec'.ed.
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  • 49 3 fc a OICT was re- n I H is co r, th Ni Hotel Dec. 23. <s i I er, L id Bai %Xl c H^f 3r fOf> :afc ;e Ii? I l teBB P i ra life by d had been bound «istrate
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  • 82 3 SEREMBAN. Thins An official of the Neijri Sembilan CtiiTVeshop Keepers' Association told The Standard today that Government had agreed to supply 10 piculs of sogar for the J!>2 coffeeshops m the State. This derision followed an appeal lodged by the Association with the Government that
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  • 260 3 REFERFACE to the recent 1 death of a Kuala Lumpur lawyer. Mr. Kitson Kong, was made by Mr. W. G. W. Hastings on behalf of the members of the bar when the Federation Court of Appeal assembled yesterday. m Brian Hardy MacNamara, a European planter, was fined $180
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    31 3 Photo. NFTO y ar T7, nfy Dress Competition, a feature m the New Year Celebration organised by tte^^Jtoto^^SffiS: the right are Mr. and_MK. ASH. Kemp. Administrative Officer, m Malay dress. Standard
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  • 23 3 EIGHT babies— two boys and six girls— were born on New Year's Day at the Chinese Maternity Hospital, Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 188 3 Standard Staff Correspondent kl ALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Opposition is likely to l>e forthcoming from Malay members on the Federal Legislative Council to amendments to the Immigration Control Bill which certain Chinese Members on the Select Committee have proposed to reduce the
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  • 48 3 WONG TECK KIM claimed trial m the Singapore First District Court yesterday to a charge of bouse trespass on Dec. 29 at Telok Blangah Road. He pleaded guilty to another charge of altering his name m his identity card. The case was postponed to Jan. 12.
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  • 94 3 KUALA LOMP L R. Wed. The Yen. X- Sri Pandit- head priest of the Buddhist Temple at Sentul. and head of ihe Sinhalese School m the same area, sails for Ceylon on Jan. 17 for health reasons. He will be away ior six months. A graduate
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  • 132 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The appeal of a Chinese, •Le I Teck, against a conviction and sentence of death passed on him for collecting supplies for the bandits at Bahau m Negri Sembilan on Oct. 15, was dismissed by the Federation Court of Appeal
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  • 28 3 A COOK, See Boon Kirn (33) was bound over for three months m the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday for stealing cigarettes valued at $2.50.
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  • 43 3 Koh Chai Ker. 21. was fined $10 today by Inche Raub, Muar Magistrate, for unlawfully depriving his wife. Ker Kirn. of her identity card. Koh said he kept his wife's card to stop her going to the house of her parents.
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  • 125 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— A welfare fund i<> meet the many appeal* for help from squatters and general members of the public is to be started by the Malayan Chinese Association, The Standard learns. The fund will be established by ihe
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  • 71 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Selangor Indian Association and the Indian Chamber of Commerce will jointly celebrate Indian National Day on January 26. The programme includes the hoisting of the Indian Tricolour on the Indian Association ground m the morning and a tea
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  • 115 3 Standard Statf Correspondent SEREMBAX. Thurs.— The Lukut Fort and the monolithic stones (Batu Hidopi at Pengkalan Kern- i pas m the Port Diekson District of Negri Sembilan figure m the, year's Annual Estimates. A sum of $250 has been entered under the heading of
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  • 29 3 LONDON, Jan. 4 (Renter)— Lieut-Gen. Sir Eric Garden Robert Mansergh, General Officer Commanding British forces m Hongkong left London airport today for Singapore.
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  • 241 3 Two Airstrikes A Day By RAF Last Year Standard Staff Correspondent AIR operations during December against the bandit* m Malaya covered six states, with Johore receiving priority attention, F.E.A.F. Headquarters announced last night. Bad weather, which made target identifications dinVult on many occasions, resulted m a slight reduction of the
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  • 168 3 Standard Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— A Chinese woman. Yee Woon, and a Sikh Panja Singh, were fined $50 each today, m default one month's hard labour by Che Annuar, Second Magistrate, when they pleaded guilty to a charge of being m possession
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  • 242 3 Standard Stall Reporter MR. Edward Eianlon, Queensland's Laboui Pren last night said this of a Singapore Chinese, ftov, .resident m Brisbane: "V >v can always d< pend upon him on election day"' <■<." he added, "he is George Chick Tong of Bri Hospital, who El
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  • 88 3 Good Progress By Co-op Shop Standard Staflf Corn -spoudVnt SEREMBAN, Thu: The C Operative Store on the resettlement area. on the Seremban-Port Dickson Road, which was established through the efforts of Mr. Chin See V.:. has made good progress. Recently a general meeting was held when office bearers were elected
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  • 195 4 PENANG CHINESE SHOT DEAD IN HIS OFFICE Standard Staff Correspondent PENAING, Thurs. Mr. Cheoh H&i In-, 38, manager of Concord Advertising Bureau, was shot dead by unknown gunman or gunmen while he was seated at his desk m his office at No. 2 Market Street about 9 o'clock this morning.
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  • 91 4 PENANG, Thurs. That the public would be benefited if the Government system of importing Japanese cotton piece goods was abolished was the opinion expressed by Mr. K. R. Assomull, president of the Indian Chamber of Commerce here today. Mr. Assomull said that he was
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  • 20 4 Mr. Munir Ahmad Mallal has been promoted to rank of Cadet Captain m the Rallies Institution Cadet Corps.
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  • 239 4 Standard w laff Correspondent R VI B, Thurs. The evidence of a witness due io lra\e the rountr\ was recorded yesterday hv the President of the Sessions Court, Mr. M. (iarion. m the ease against James (!ar>alho. Oficer-in-Charge of the West Pnhung Customs
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  • 110 4 Standard Stall Rtporter A PROVIDENT Fund scheme, engagi I civilian employees the RAF m Singa- may be introduced m the near I rturc Air Mil stry Local SI T 0 of Singapore was recei tly asked by the "R A F uthorities .:i
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  • 83 4 MALACCA, Thurs.— A spare driver, Ahmed bin Jaffar, 21, and a car cleaner, Mohamed bin Gaus, 24, each got 18 months' hard labour from the Sessions Court President, Mr, F. A. Chua for lifting a car from a garage m Heeren Street about midnight on Oct.
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  • 95 4 MR. A. G. W. Coleman (formerly Acting Secretary) has been appointed as Secretary of the War Damage Commission, while Mr. F. C. Tuck (formerly Acting Superintending Assessor) becomes Superintending Assessor. Appointed Assessors are: Messrs. E. M. Akerib, F. M. Still, E. B. Holte, W. J. Burnet, J. L. Baistovv,
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  • 16 4 Dr. D. A. Frye, Senior Chemist, Penang has been transferred as Chief Chemist m Singapore.
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  • 180 4 BANDITS ROUTED 9 TIMES Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. There were nine engagements between security forces and bandits m the last 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. today. In each case the terrorists (led. Six jungle hideouts, four of them m the Bentong area of Pahang, with accommodation for
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  • 209 4 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LII'IS, Thurs. In a simple bni impressive ceremony at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce today, the Sultan of Pahang bestowed the hereditary title of Dato Oraiiii Kaya Indera Shahbandar Pahang on Dalo Abdul Razak bin Hussein MCS, barrister-at-law son of the
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  • 129 4 Standard Staff Reporter ABOUT 30 boys of the Singapore Royal English School yesterday went to see the Deputy Director of Education, .Mr. R. M. Young m connection with his statement published m The Standard on Thursday. Mr. Young had stated that there are 120
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  • 71 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR. Thurs.— An Indian, Rapiah Naidoo who lay m the centre of the road caused a motor car to swerve m an attempt to avoid running over him. The car just grazed his head and the Indian had to spend eight clays
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    30 4 Mr. S. A. G. Menon of Strathairiir Estate,/ Sungei Buloh and Miss Y. Kalyani who were J married at the Chinese Assembly Hall m > Kuala Lumpur on New Year's day.
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  • 42 4 SEREMBAN, Thurs. Mr. S. Somasundram, general .secretary of the Ceylon Workers' Congress, and one of the advisers to the delegation to the recent 1.L.0. Conference at Bandoeng was entertained to a party by the Tamilar Sangam and Malayan Indian Congress.
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  • 21 4 MALACCA, Thurs.— Due to a case of smallpox m Bunga Raya mass vaccination is taking place m the town.
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  • 325 4 Ipoh Miner Has Big Scheme For His Labourers By Gob CtlOMg keng. Standard §Ul {{.p,,. IPOII. Timrs. An up-io-dalr settlement for mining labourers n stratfae offices cinema hull, iwiauning p canteen, is being huill by Hr. Choong Sam j 4i mile Cgprng Hoad. Situated on a three-acre plot of land
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  • 309 4 Standard Staff Correspondent kl ALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Federation Court of Appeal today upheld the death sentence passed on a Malay, Hamid bin Enjanjr, who had been convicted of the murder of his wife m Kedah, whom he had twice divorced and remarried. The-
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  • 80 4 PENANG, Thurs. To speed up bicycle registration here it has been decided that Authenticating Officers m the 1950 registration should be again authorised to verify application forms on behalf oi" their owners. This procedure proved very satisfactory m HMfJ and 1950 as it eliminated the
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    52 4 Mr. Yap Mau Tatt, secretary of the Negri Sembilan branch of the MCA (left) and Mr. .1. D. N. Harrison. Kegri Sembilan's Chief Police Officer (right) who have been honoured by the King m the New Year honour list. Mr. Yap is awarded the OBE and Mr. Harrison the Colonial
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  • 117 4 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH. Thurs— A party of about 12 Inoh Chinese have planned to tour England during the Festival of Britain period. They have booked passages m the Chusan which Is due to leave the Malayan shores m March this year. Among those
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  • 78 4 Standard Staff Correspondent SEGAMAT, Thurs.—A full grown wild boar entered Segamat town a few days 000 and went past the Sega mat Police Station. A few minutes later a big, fat elephant was seeyi. It followed the same route taken by the boar before disappearing
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  • 44 4 IPOH. Thurs.— Appearing m court for the third time fur th< ft, 42-year-old Chai Chong Yong was sentenced to months' imprisonment by gistrate Che Bahaudin today. Chai will undergo one > police supervision after he has finished his jail term.
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  • 259 4 Incremental Exam Standard Staff Reporter CERTAIN officers m the clerical division of th< Singapore Municipality will not l\uw u> !»it ftir the inere> menial examination to be held from Jan. 2 I i«> 27, This decision was taken by the Commissioners at their ordinary meeting last Friday
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  • 71 4 500 To Sit For Dental Examination Standard SUM < PENANG, appli been receive <j to on to iv Chief D< tion ©f |fa Mummery i€i thost no up dentistry f hood three j 15. 1948 v. subject to their examination un amendments of I tion of Dent I E ies
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  • 42 4 Pol Nickname On Identity Carrd B ■davl Stal < PARIT BL'XTAR. bin v ntity car I nickname n he pleaded g It to a charge of ha una Inspector Ahnu l b, who pro Cil dul Wahab to post an. 10. Tli granted.
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  • 29 4 St.:i>;i. id Stall nual general rru i tang. Provii and Balik P Women's Sen I bo held i: I Jan. p.m. All membei to attend the nu
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  • 20 4 Dr W tor of Medical S< will pn to tliree blood d m Fullerton B 1
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  • 296 5 Teachers' Training College Enrolment To Be Raised By 250 Standard Special Correspondent IT l> understood that a new batch of 250 trainee teachers be recruited under the Five-Year Supplementary Education Plan time m March this year, bringing the enrolment at the Teachers' ning College to well over a thousand. The
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    24 5 I MARI S.;thyab;ih:ima was married to Mr. N. laiprrtat of Works. Malayan Kaihvuys. at the Temple, Waterlee Street. Singapore aciordins to Hindu religious rites.
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  • 214 5 fisdlst Aided Schools StuMbund Staff Reporter \IETHOMST j:raiit-in-aiil schools m Malaya. ."ii is iiradually giving over places <»f leadership ana, Rev. Ralph Kesselrifl^ yesterday tohl .">(>ili \tuuial onferenct' of Methodists lieM at the I luirch here. m 1939 eighteen s had mission^
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  • 66 5 IX a report about Borneo. which was rejad at the 56th Malaya Annual Conference; of Methodists, held m Singapore, it was stated thai plans were being made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Methodist Missi -p. m Sibu. In Borneo during 19J0. it was announced. LjOOQ
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    31 5 Photo SOME of the 800 students teachers who reported for duty at the Teachers' Training College yesterday mornins: are here seen filing m their individual records to bring them up-to-date. Standard
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  • 98 5 7 Fined For Income Tax v iolations FIXES ranging f:\,:r, $20 to $150 were imposed by the Singapore Second Police M&- gistrate yesterday od seven I men who appeared on charges of failing to furnish their income tax returns. The men were Tan Kam Toei, fined Si so. Soon Poon
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  • 55 5 Crossword Prize Winners THE following are prizewinners of Crossword Puzzle Ist Prize ($50): 1..T. Braga, P.O. Box t;35, Singapore. "2nd Prize is 2.">): Utah Ilee Kirn, 110, Creagli Lane, Tuiping. 3rd Prize ($15 1: I.im Boon Klang, Railway Station Coffee Stall, Johore R.ihru. 4th Prize ($10): Md. Idris, Pekan Lama,
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  • 141 5 HOLDING that a sentence of 14 months' rigorous imprisonment for the possession of 150.8 tahils of opium was not excessive, Mr. Justice Brown m the Singapore High Court, yesterday dismissed the appeal of Ling Tiong Guan who asked for a reduction of sentence. Ling was arrested at
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  • 266 5 THE PRESENT world situation required Sarawak anti-eessionists ti> actively co-operate with the authorities "m guarding our shores and our way of life from danger." This was the note of warning sounded m Singapore yesterday by Inche Abang Haji Kassim Taha, President of the
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  • 218 5 Spore Teachers 9 College Standard Special Correspondent A LIBRARY is taking shape m the TeacnerV Training College which, when completed, will be one •f the finest educational libraries m the Far East. Mr. E. W. Jesuda*on, a part-time lecturer
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  • 287 5 Dato Onn Calls Secret Meeting To Pick 15 Members Hetv Federal Legco Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurg.— lt i* reliably underBlood that Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, UMNO President, lias called a scent meeting of members of the Central Executive Committee of the UMNO at the Hotel Majestic tomorrow, for
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  • 32 5 MALACCA. Thurs. The Settlement MATB almoners. Mrs. H. Acton and Capt. George Tan of the Salvation Army distributed 90 Rotary food parcels to 86 dependents of TB. outdoor patients.
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  • 78 5 THREE BRITISH seamen who deserted their vessel at Pulau Bukom on Dec. 7. last, and wen sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment m the lower courts, appealed unsuccessfully m the Singapore High Court, yesterday, against the forfeiture of their wages. The seamen. Leonard Wiltshire, Leslie Edmondson and
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  • 379 5 MR. R. M. Robertson, well known planter, rugger player and rifle shot, known to his many friends as "Robbie"' died at sea m the Tegelberg while on a visit to South Africa. He came from a well-known Northumbrian family and was educstfed at Merchiston
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  • 80 5 The following new irorkers were welcomed at the Methodist Annual Contcrence m Singapore: Miss Dorothy Wall, Fairfield School: Miss Marj Esi i Drake. Lady Treacher School, Taipiiig; Mr. Robert F. Lundy. Klang Wesley Church: Rev. Harry Haines. District Superintendent. Central Malaya: Mr. Bernard Wakl. ACS. Penan*; Misfl Marjorie
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    64 5 THIS TAY KOH Vat bus was set on fire at 7.50 a.m. yesterday by two Chinese arsonists who were travelling on the bus as passengers. They ordered the conductor to stop the bus when it r?ached the junction of Rochore Canal Foad and Prinsep Street, and after hording the passeneers
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  • 114 5 CARD ROBBERY Standard Staff Reporter A SEQUEL to the Loron<r 27 Sim* Avenue junction identity card robbery, when two Chinese women *ere robbed by three Chinese and a Tamil of their identity cards a ivy, ■IgJIU ■go, mi the arrot of the fourth suspected member of the
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  • 706 6 14 MINOR sensation was created m the United Stales m February last year when Senator Brien McMahon. Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission proposed that the United States should upend U5510,060,000,000 a year for the next five, years m a Crusade for world peace. This "Peace by Investment"
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    • 768 6 It Took forty tears To Discover This Readers Write 0n... Normal Teachers 0 Identity Cards 4-H Clubs Engineers Sir; I have been following with considerate interest the correspondence m your columns about the case for and against the inclusion of the Normal trained teachers m the Unified Education Service, and,
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    • 457 6 Sir: I saw m The Standard a picture of an agricultural show of the 4-H Club of America. 1 should like to follow this up because m my opinion Malaya needs a 4-! I Club to stimulate a "Grow more food" campaign. \i\ America
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    • 254 6 Sir; As one of your readi ■om the beginning, I egret to note that of late you have been committing many cdii al blundei s. F tunately com pendents have time and again pointed out some of these. As far as I am concerned, your editorial "Guard
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    • 135 6 S.i I 1 .t>- hmnbly to express the most grateful feelings of my five"*children and self for the sympathy shown to me since the tragic loss of my husband. 1 will be extremely grateful if. through the columns ot your esteemed newspaper, you would kindly
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    • 173 6 Sir,— The report m your paper about the resignation i t three Municipal Electrical Engineers have attracted the attention of your readers very much. As you have already reported, if it affects the already poor services of the Electrical Departmei t the matter is not one
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    • 249 6 Sir:— The Right Reverend Bish p Baines of Singapore m his New Year Message, to "Singapore Standard" readers says: v God Wonderfully made man m His own image." Yet we find m the "Singapore Standard' 1 of Dec 31, 1950. on page 8. the following by Andrew
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  • 561 6  -  S.C. OEI Bj PEN AN G. THE holiday mood is over Thousands of people from the mainland and Singapore who came here fur their Christmas and the New Year holidays have already returned to their homes. They should, by now, have settled down
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  • 493 6 No Miracle, 8ut.... NANYANG Siang V.-.v expected do miracle from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference which opened yesterday with eight nations participating, but the daily ;idded. should it only help to prevent the world situati< a from deteriorating further, it will have achie\ ed significant results. Britain
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  • 23 6 T'M very opl t 1 i won't try :<•• dictions about the Former AEC I cad D I Lilienthal, on I
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    • 32 6 r 7777'! I R pa r«-r k*' I N I f i v t k f j THIM LCCK w ircaM w m 3 .t;r.h Brklci j i S'p i I'll, i
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    • 64 6 iLL MUSLIMS WILL HE [NTERESTEO 1\ THESE RECORDINGS m MOHD. M SOF hin UNM L RAIIMW "Surotol Koh Pee" Koran. NAM 20 "Mawol Kurdi" Kosidoh. NAM 21. "Surotoi Furkhon" -Koran. P ***** "Yaumil Widok" Mowol. P ***** "Yomon Hejox" Kosidoh. P *****. "Surot Lokh Man" -Koron. P ***** Order \onr
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  • 482 7 RED THRUST BROKE DOWN POOR DEFENCES OF SEOUL By JULIAN BATES TOKYO, Jan. 4 (Reuter) American inili lary sources m Tokyo said today the precipitate United Nations withdrawal from Seoul was dictated by a Communist flanking thrust down the mountainous centre of Korea and the tactically poor defence possibilities north
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    67 7 photo. !>lrin <>i the entire Chinese staff of the Hongkong IKfdf K Club were entertained "by Santa" at a simaa pwrtS m the club s main dining room. The ,v rorrespondrnts were hosts. At the table are svvn 1 William Parrott. vile of the Reuter correspondent m r,in- and th»ir
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  • 194 7 UN Air Force Resumes Heavy Pounding Of Reds rOKYO, Jan. i (UP) Warplanes of the ;!i \ir Force swarmed into tin* air at ih«* first hi <»i dawn lodaj to resume tin* massive air -I :h atiainsl Communist hordes streaming -onii! from ihe 38th Parallel, i ohtm and linlit bombers
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  • 66 7 i >NDON, Jan. 4 (UP) Pr .1 raster Attlee ha ap- i to British miners to increase the coal output by 000 tons m the next four months to avert a coal crisis. lee and his two advi ers met with the 27-man executive National Union
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  • 38 7 DANSALAN CITY. LANAO r.1.. Jan. 4 (APi— Seven buffa oes were slaughtered to fee< guests a1 the w< dding oi Sultana Bin Dayang Ali anc Dato Dimatimpos Mindalano— the biggest social occasion hen m many years.
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  • 231 7 HONGKONG, Jan, 4 (AP) Th- Hongkong S andard today blasted former U.S President Herbert H ai d his followers as "political quacks." [ndigi a1 I oth Hoovers stion that America's deshould not include continents oi Asia or Europe <iiu\ a Foreign Policy Assoeialon pi posa
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  • 131 7 Pi c Ministei rial Ne laid here (i world f only h I g -<■■■. nt. I j delegat Con- ai.ioi, ferei *oiv i d enough -.11 toi* i, 5 de* a1 Put 1 have .< \ed ■■■< only way it .an finally I achieved
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  • 103 7 WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UP) President Truman has signed a new excess profit? tax bill and warned that "the task ahead of us will require more and much heavier taxes." He said that even new taxes mighi have to be considered. The bill which he has
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  • 62 7 SOVIET NOTE NOT CLEAR— ACHESON WASHINGTON, .lan. 4 (Router) United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson told a press conference that Western powers must have further clarification of the Soviet attitude before assuming that the Soviet Union was ready for Four-Power talks. Mr. Acheson said thai the Soviet note did
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  • 86 7 DJAKARTA, Jan. 4 (ReuterAAP) Premier Natsir told Parliament last night that owing to the failure of The i Hague talk on New Guinea, [n< mesia would have to eon- sider revising last year's roundtable agreement with the Dutch j including the Netherlands[ndonesian Statute. Any t
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  • 117 7 PI Pakistan Sign Treaty Of Friendship WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 (AP) The Philippines and Pakistan have signed a Treaty of Friendship. The pact is the first between the nations It becomes effective upon exchange of ratifications at the Pakistan Embassy here. The date was not determined. The pact was negotiated here.
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  • 107 7 TOKYO. Jan 1 <l'P> Far Kust Air Force spoke .ran disclosed to- day Unit the Air Force i tactical units fighters and lkhi bombers were 1 no longer operating from 1 Kimpo Airfield, located on the south bank of the Man River, 10 miles wwist» i st
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  • 79 7 BANGKOK, Jan. 4 AP) Four American ftrms here have been ordered by SVir head offices to evacuate wives and children of American personnel immediately A .spokesman of one of the firms said the action was a "common sense move." He pointed out many of those affected had
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  • 58 7 Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz-Tito (centre) rode a white charger when he inspected officers of his crack jjuard during Army Day ceremonies at Belgrade. In an Army order of the day. he told Yugoslav troops they must wmk**i* the highest vigilance and fighting fitness to guard Yugoslav borders
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  • 213 7 LONDON, Jan. 3 (UP) Rnggia ha* made a major bid to divide the Allies on the West on two issue recognition of (lommunUt C.l.iiu» ami the rearmament of Western Germany. That was the mo*t important interpretation placed by Western diplomats today on the
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  • 64 7 MOSCOW, Jan. 4 (AP) Soviet newspapers informed their readers that war hysteria m the United States is growug, and concluded that American government lraders are insane by "scientific definition." Articles i n various newspapers today pictured U.S. leaders as attempting to Quell confusion
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    • 58 7 Democratic members of Parliament yelling "You are a liar shouted down former Turkish President Isniet Inonu when he was defe iding himself m the National Assembly at Ankara againsi charges of callous behaviour and graft during the 1939 Erzincan earthquake d:.;aster. At lean 50,000
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    • 33 7 The resolution supporting Liaquat Ali Khan's attitude toward* the London Prime Ministers conference and urging reconsideration of Pakistan's ties with the Commonwealth was passed by the Northwesi Frontier Province legislature m Peshawar. Reuter
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    • 62 7 A grenade exploded m the trousers pockei a native, pre sumably a Communist terrorist, who was riding a motor cycle, m Saigon. He died Instantly.— UP. V A trade agreement between India and Poland will be signed i iday, a reliable sou cc 'id. The old Indo-Polish A.g e< expired
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    • 27 7 Mr Jaw arlal Nehru has 'called at 10 Downing Street to meet Mr. Attlee and Mr. Gordon Walker. All visiting Prime Ministers have now made courtesy Renter
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    • 57 7 The Missouri Pacific Railroad will spend U557,000,000 for improvemt ts exclusive of new rail and rolling stock equipment. One of the projects is to build about one mile of new trackage to eliminate a tunnel. The railroad is also going to instal two-way radio on 22 Locomotives and 2o freight
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    • 49 7 fiidian newspapers have been ordered by the government to limit editions to 00 pages a week. The government explained this was necessary to conserve newsprint stocks m the country m view of the world shortage. India's present monthly cong imption is 500 onii tons oi ne a sprint. A.F
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    • 33 7 The Rev. Vaclav Pulda, Roman Catholic Dean ni Prestice near Plzen (Pilsen), has joined the local co-operative farm with his three hectares -7.4 acres) of meadow theofficial Czechoslovak news agency rep irts.- AP
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    • 22 7 U.S. Attorney-General Mci Grath has announced a plan for I breaking up Warner Brothers Motion Picture Corporation into two separate concerns.- AP
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  • 228 7 NEW DELHI, Jan 4 (AP)— Unless India's President intervenes, 12 Indian youths will hang togethei soon m Hyderabad lor murders they committed two years a^o m connection with Communist activity there. Most <>i the 12 are m their late teens. Ten of them
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  • 97 7 SAIGOX. 4 (AP)— The French Army .said m a communique last ni.^ht that Corn-' munist-led Victminh troops have harassed three French posts and attacked a village m the region north of Hanoi. [1 note.' a ssi ning m the intensity of enemy offensive action, however. The
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  • 64 7 MANILA, Jan. I (AP) A Xi ova Erija province farmer jumped <"j 1 of the window of bis bouse on the approach of n army patrol. His wife said he fled m the belief tin wen- a band <>t Communist Hukbalahaps. The soldiers shol and killed tl farmer.
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  • 140 7 LI VIA, PERU, Jan. 4 (VP)— Seventy-two railway workmen wepe killed and BO were injured yesterday by a delayed dynamite blast m the Santa c valley of nqrthw i tern Peru, the Santa Railroad I poration announ The workers were digging a now bed lor the
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  • 170 7 WASHINGTON, lan I <AP —A U.S. State DefMU I source said the pnmoA i I ence of Aim n< n "fii- Sa.^on M te aimed it reviewing the i itui I !j thereat outi ia tin- light constant conditions/ The source derhnInto 'ail. but sai'i
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  • 401 8  -  NG SEK YEW By Standard Staff Reporter BOOM IN Japanese goods is developing as Malayan businessmen, entering 1951 *ith a premonition of shortages, double and treble their orders from Japan. Sales prospects are good because of Malaya's rich harvests from
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  • 72 8 Malaya Earned More US Than UK In 1950 Standard Staff Correspondent LONDON. Jan. 4:— Malaya's rubber and tin industries earned more dollars for Britain m 19.">0 than total exports from this country to North America. Conservative M.P. Harold MacMillan told his auditrue here that he estimated marly V:300.000.00t) is invested
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  • 277 8 War Danger Would Recede If SEA Rice Output Raised MUCH WOULD be done for tin* ultimate \>c:\cr ibe \k «»rl«l if the yield oi riot- could by increased m Burma, India and Thailand, I>riti>h Food minister Maurice el>l> tt>M ike opening session of a series of discussions ■muis>ed m London
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    68 8 One of the world's great est collections of scientific apparatus to maintain absolute standards of quality and quantity is housed m the r.S. National Bureau of Standards m Washington, D.f\ Picture shows a hosiery testing machine which has been developed by the Bureau of Standards. It has been very useful
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  • 133 8 S' pore Copra Market CLOses Firm Standard Staff Reporter COPRA m the Singapore produce market was firm yes- terday. Buyers opened at around $50J per picul and rising to $51. In the afternoon se ers came m at around $52 j with buyers at S 5 l l No bu
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  • 72 8 Burma War Precaution Hits Industry F• ;OON, Jan. 4 AP) B weavers want the imI it:un of to be con--d, charging unrestri' is a threat to the j I har.dloom weaving ixidu The Burmese G t deed texi last fearjloth ent c.• era? union now comX Burmese products have unmarki
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  • 205 8 Gutta-Percha Exports U p CXP iBTS ol gntt percha from iya m the third quarter oi 1950 amounted I 173.67 tona C pared nth 148.6] tons m the D *ding quarter, the U.S. C i nerd Department :.as rep ted. van gutl i-percha exj rta h the first n nonths
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  • 131 8 RUBBER The Litest Singapore rabbef prives yesterday (Jan. 1 1 were per lb. Buyers Sellers No 1 RSS Spot Loose $1.79? S! SOI FOB m bales Jjn No. 1 X S <s $1,783 51. 79. No. 2 RS.S. $1,733 $1,743 No. 3 RS.S <Norn > $1.C71 $1,683 Tone:
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  • 107 8 Japanese Trade With Germany Is Flourishing' 2 pan's ex: '.v- Germany has been flourishing recently Ih a Jap favourable balance of reach! m" U552,810,000, reports the Tokio the International Trade and Industcy. The balance figure, compiled the basis of letters o: credit established either way between the two countries," include
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  • 93 8 Standard StafT Reporter THE FEDERATION of Rialaja exported 19,277.82 lons ol palm oil during the fir->'l JL months of 1930 compared with 52,100.22 tons for the whole of 1949, i oporta <>: palm oil into the j up to the end of I ember amounted
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  • 804 8 Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE, Thurs.—Business m the Malayan share market today was on a restricted s^ale. Prices m all sections continued to sag. Advices from London indicated quiet n that market. To-dav'.s prices were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers S rs A Bricka Pref. 1.85 1.95 Orel 1.95 2.05 Atlas
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  • 60 8 Pakistan exported abow! 12,000,000 lb. of raw w valued at R5.18,848,235 m th< four months July throu October, official figures disclose. The United Kingdom was the biggest buyer, taking 7.700.000 lb.. and the Unit< I States was next, importing over 3,000,00 lb. Production of
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  • 76 8 Govt. Funds For India Cottage Industries Drive FOR STEPPING up eotti ies m the S the Ul Pradesh Go-.' 1 Ra. 88.fiOU .jus c<>: E tries during 1951. 01 Rs L^.'i.OOO will be giv< i P. ducts, s; weaving, soap pn ing. leather, blanket :iP.d car] making and tanning are
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  • 47 8 The U.S. Agriculture Depart-' mcnt announced that 39 importing countries have already purchased 283,830.000 bushels of wheat and wheat flour since last Aug. I under the International Wheat Agreement The total quota for trie year is 543,843,000 bushels. The year expire* Aug 1. 195 L
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  • 157 8 Standard Staff Reporter FAIRLY GOOD United Kingdom and Continental orders a^ain gave Mipport to the Singapore rubber market yesterday, though not on a scale as on Wednesday* Buying for covering uj> positions from America continued. As on the previous day. sellers
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  • 221 8 EXCHANGE rates now m force as supplied by the Malayan Exchange Banks Association, are as follows: Transactions w'th Trrio Ch'na tnfl SUm are Dfin'tt^d lo Bfn!t!> 1ol)ar- oniy HONGKONG. San. 4-- <Sper!al Standard Srr'i^e''— Closh^ p-irp^ on the Honykon* Exchange tudav wee HKSIS.46 t» £1 ster
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  • 59 8 WASHINGTON. .lan. I (Reufer) Th<- British and French Ambassadors discussed raw material supply pn» biems for two hours with I.S. Secretary <»f State Deaa Achcson. French Ambassador Henri Boaael said afterwards that there had been a complete exchange of views m the best
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  • 194 8 WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 (AP) The Western Hemisphere pioduct-d a record 6.2 million tons of rice m 1949-50 and the outlook for this year is bright, says the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). FAO says many Latin American countries plan to expand rfce production m
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  • 223 8 SUiulard Staff Reporter MAIN calculations of the 1947 ami national incomes of Malaya ha\e MM Ironiunted. it is learnt officially. The Standard understands that before thi published it is hoped to include the ]M4h i national incomes. Based on first estimates, the "gross
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  • 48 8 US Concern At Rubber Availability MR. HAIT STONE. Jr.. ifi Tyi\ ipany m Ak; die rubber will deti rubber industrj ion perforn \h-2 usual w rep": muc ber will be I rubb( pi capacity. fill.' The m IS comparing further m 1951 I suction of industrial products, company?
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  • 30 8 US COTTON RESERVE DECLINING increase m cotton c i already I •<■-. vp<. The IntemationaJ C 11 Commi per cent dm period. tart Can i per cent dv Rep I 1
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  • 43 8 WASHINGTON n 1 AP) (.ua\ u\r tmtt m d«\«*l<»!)iti a stitute for rubh« r v.oal have been plai i d on the top of thf prioi it for the national i str»ckT>ile. the NMUtu Board has an noun i
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    • 32 8 j WISHING WON'T MAKE IT SC BUT SAVINGS WILL YOU TOO CAN OPEN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/- INTEREST WILL BE PAID AT 2% PEB ANNUM. CHUIIG KHIRIII BRIIiUTL.
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  • 246 9 New Trathc Control Cen tre For Kallang To Be Built Shortly Standard Staff Reporter KALLANG Airport terminal building is to have a third store; this year for the new air traffic control centre. The centre, Jn< h is also to house the meteorological and telecommunications offices, will be erected on
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    89 9 photos. Masters and officers of the Straits Merchant Service Guild held a farewell cocktail party on Wednesday night in honour of Mr. H. J. C. K. Toms, the retiring managing director of Straits Steamship Co., Ltd. (Above): Mr. Toms is seen chatting with Mrs. G. H. Dalev; (left): Mr. H.
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  • 51 9 PAN American World Air- ways announce that as from tomorrow the ETA time of their Clipper 'Sleeperette' will be 05.30 every Saturday morni ing and the ETD time will be 20.30 hrs. every Sunday night. There will be no 'further Pan American Airways service on Wednesdays or
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  • 216 9 Stand ird Shipping Reporter THE wreck of the floating crane which was sunk during the war m the Eastern approach to the Singapore Outer Roads has ceased to be dangerous to navigation from last week-end. The wreck has now been demolished and the depth of water
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  • 82 9 2 jap Ships In Distress FRANCISCO, Jan. 4: -The Pacific far East We Ines lay repoi ted essc were stan ling ipanese ships m dis- miles east of J ls. Mathew I nckenbacn Pacific Far East Line i that the force of a prevent! ren lering ase to the 2^oO-t<
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  • 79 9 BOURNE. Jan. 4: (RevI iAP) Members ol three is have placed a black ban I Australia's newest warship. v> Anzac, and have refused to take her to sea for trials 1 n ffl i tls said the men r iei/lared her black because B i had
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  • 33 9 t* S. shipments to Europe under the mutual defence assistance programme amounted to US 544.800.000 m October. This was nearly 15 per cent, of all exports to that area— A. P.
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  • 141 9 Britain To Have Faster Submarines BRITAIN is developing faster submarines which can remain submerged for longer periods than has so far been possible. The trials and experiments carried out m the last few months are referred to m a review by the British Admiralty of naval activities during the last
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  • 68 9 LONDON, Jan. 4 (AP) The Admiralty last night reported an attempt to sabotage the 1.652-ton submarine target ship HMS Woodbridge Haven, twelfth case made public within the past several months. A small quantity of sand was found m the ship's steering gear at Londonderry on Dec.
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  • 30 9 Nearly £4 000 sterling lies unclaimed a y the London Headquarters of the British Admiralty awards to crews who saved £1 million sterling m silver bullion. 1 Reuter
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    30 9 photo. Two French army sergeants, en route to Indo-China, m the liner Pasteur, stopped off for a few hours m Singapore and did the sights m a trisha. Lillian Buckoke
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  • 155 9 SHIPS AT ROADS AND WHARVES, 4 P.M. YESTERDAY. WHARVES Gdns. 44/45 Steel Recorder, Sheers Wharf: Stan Meiio, 42/43 Meliskerk. 40 Merlimau, 41 Sumpitan, 38 /.'-)9 Selandia. 36/37 Maron, 33/34 Automedon, 31/32 Soestdijk, 29/30 Pachumba. 27/28 Falsria, 25/26 Belleville, 23/24 Panama, 21/22 Szechuan, 19 /20 Benreoch, 17/18 Benveg.
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  • 152 9 BRISBANE, Jan. 4 (Reu-ter-AAP) The 11. 063- ton P& O cargo liner Palana was slowly sinking off the Central Queensland coast today after striking a rock m the Great Barrier Reef last night. The captain. Francis Russell Spurr, said m a radio message that the Dutch
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  • 204 9 Standard Shipping Reporter THREE Japanese freighters belonging to different shipping lines will call at Singapore this month, but onry one will unload here and take on fresh cargo. The Japanese freighter, the 11,000-ton Shinano i Maru, is due about the end of
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  • 138 9 Standard Shipping Reporter TEN American coast guard cutters are due m Singapore within the next ten «lavs. They will Incoming as "cargo"' on hoard a ship. These CO-ton coast guard cutters are to be taken over by Burmese officers and men now m
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  • 150 9 A new kind of mechanical cooling unit has been developed m the United States for preserving fresh and frozen *oods m railway refrigerator cars. The unit is electrically operated and uses a refrigerant gas to cool the cars and also to control their humidity. It
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  • 515 9 Eisr ASIATIC LINE Outward Prom Europe In Port: 6eiandi» for Saigon end Bangkok. Jan. 16: Meonia for Saigon and Bangkok Jan. 17. Feb. 7: India for Bangkok. Hongkonjr Manila and Japanese ports Feb. 10. Local Bangkok Run In Port: Danhnim. In Port: Btntang. Homeward v;a uo.ombo Rea Bea
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  • 87 9 Broadcasting Studios For HK authori bleki the technics side ol roa ing m Hong Koof has ed an ordc i Eor f out :v and small studio c< tro -nwith Marc Wirelesa r :>h Co Ltd. These will hinu b two cow i <"s of from h program nes w
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    • 129 9 R AIR ARRIVALS X^^^A j ond DERARTVRES j^f^^^K Arrivals RLM CONSTELLATION from Jakarta 10.45 a.m. C. P. A. DC— from Bangkok lH.su MALAYAN AIRWAYS DAKOTAS from Alor Star. Penang. lalping, [poh. Kuala Lumpur ETA 6.1A p.m from Knzntan. Alor Star Penan*. Kuala Lumpur ETA AJft P no from Penang Tr.ipinf,
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    • 113 9 P^MAILSf Despatches TODAY: Jakartai Soural aya noon by Ophir. U.S.A. and Canada noon by Soestdyk, Sibu noon by Belaga, Pontianak 8 a.m. by F. Amnuputty. TOMORROW: Gt Britain, N. Ireland, Eire, Europe, N. and W. Africa, West Indies (letters only), Egypt and Ceylon 6 p.m. by Oranje, Japan. Hongkong and
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    49 10 (On left): Zachary Scott as the wealthy and gullible socialite Curtis succumbs to the wiles of Joan Fontaine portray ing the grasping: Christabel m this scene from the KM) Radio Picture "Born To Be Bad" whose star list is shared by Joan Leslie, Robert Ryan and Mcl Ferrer.
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  • 245 10  -  Ivor Kraal By Standard Staff Reporter TJf/^AHID a young and handsome Malay band leader leaves Singapore by Dakota aircraft for Kuala Lumpur to see his sick mother. Two minutes later a glamourous city singer Lily fearing he is heading to marry his childhood sweetheart dashes
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  • 81 10 LTOLLYWOOD. Jan. 4.— J L Lloyd Bridges hopes he's now within a few hundred film feet of screen success. In picture after picture the young actor has been killed off early m the story. In "Homo of the Brave," however, he did manage to last
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  • 206 10 TTOLLYWOOD, Jan 4— "A chance meal m a Hollywood restaurant led to Bruce Cowling's film debut. One of the diners. Cinematographs Charles Kosher, saw the tall young man. He suggested a visit to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where Rosher was photographing "The Yearling." Director
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  • 119 10 Maria of Menado, twice crowned •'Queen 1 at the recent All Malaya-All Indonesia contests held at Singapore's Happy World Stadium, yesterday put her signature to a long-term contract to appear m Malay movies with Shaw Bros. Malay Film Productions. She successfully underwent a screen test about
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  • 55 10 SO MART A CAME HOLLYWOOD, Jan I— M aT a Toren. the Swedish pot,. ress, was telling how she decicU ed to come to Hollywood— alone. "My father told me ever] b: thing that could happen to me she said, "and every good *Now,' he said, 'youil havt *o make
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    • 161 10 mum. iiufiu you, ij^ii X UlTjnu mwrir OWING TO OTHER CONTRACTUAL COMMITMENTS MUST CONCLUDE ITS RUN ON SATURDAY TO DAY TO MORROW ONLY /0 *j-J LAST TWO {^ahaov days 11 a.m.— 1A5— 4.00— 6.30 9.30 THE ALLCAFTWATUIG LUSCIOUS LASS JOAN CAULi-SELD i^i&l OF IN* NEVER BEFORE HAVE YOU SEEN PSUCH
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    • 335 10 8 DAYS and NOTHING BUT PRAISE i/QL 2nd SMASH II 'EE§i j Cl> r r jf j 5 SHOWS 4.15-6.45 <...:» p.m THE GREAT STAGE MUSICAL EVEN P* GREATER ON THE SCREEN! _^ta^^^*T V^?JV ybuß Gvn JL BETTY HUTTON^pTM^—« howard-keel J ffirr > a Phone reservaitoris must be picked up
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    • 93 10 OPhNiM. lot) i\ 3 SHOWS— 1. 5 A. I LS p Columbia's Kx< iting Thriller "BATMAN AND ROBIN" Sun. Jan. 7th Morning Mat. Warner Bros.' "ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON" IN TECHNICOLOR Due to length of BATMAN AND ROBIN' SHOW WILL START AT 10 A.M. FIIONf 10 ***** -fiEYLMIG BD^ Last Day:
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  • 290 11 Patience Is A Virtue I -iguers, V to read, j one si to possible and c a sure rd to k,. b ra in Club's actrpift sections. m c to a i 01 her behalf td is: be patient about badges'" She s doing best to c p ry ercro'
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  • 198 11 and sc tmd Chri pent m i \va> rear Durban, and the four were celebratPtetermaritzburfi, I enjoyed ►re, but for the one travelled to we had just home m year I -eleristmaa reresa r«weft kl I:. I v t, but m b b oi lung I have
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  • 251 11 I \I!AR Junior Leaguers, Aunt Christobel has asked me to write to you about a sul'ieet m winch I am very interested and m which, I feel sure, many of you are too music. I wonder how many of you can play a musical instrument no matter
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    33 11 Today's "portrait" is of a younff Leaguer m Singapore Lilian Nff Chen# Chye who at 15 years is quite a linguist and a promising pupil at the Convent of the Holy Inf:tnt Jesus.
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  • 373 11 Ten Pounds Off Would Make Them Perfect Says Star-shaper AL ROON TVEW YORK, Jan. 4 (AP) Jane Russell and Denise Darcel are among: the "10 most beautiful ifs m America." The full title for this list is: "The 10 most beautiful women m America if they Would only lose 10
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  • 121 11 Standard Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Jan. 4—Cantonese film star. Tze Lob Lin of "Dark Heaven" fame, told press correspondents m Seremban yesterday that she would like to star m a Malayan produced Chinese film provided her passport facilities for extended stay would be approved
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  • 17 11 DENISE DARCEL Too sexy. JANE RUSSELL Too busty. LAN A TURNER Too hejiy.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 40 11 JUNIOR LEAGUE ENROLMENT FORM I ChriMobel, iiroi n-.e a member of The Junior League < <»tto is "lit lp O.e Another" and send me a I po^t ihs co:, o>: to AU XT CIUIISTOBEL, i Anitr Lcsgu^ Singapore l-S, Folinson L^
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 351 11 f THE STANDARD SKi/ V jfcSs'H fjgr Pad .i X V tsAo'f rPAH.' YOU CAN TaL^SJ PUT WIM IN TUB YIX «iT IN IT. \-^l K-SEE SlO P- A COMPV, j.-^y e^SR TWAN *S Lia THAT >OUR TO" CWAIR wuilß I FETCH i MISB— IT WILL Y£\ CHAIR-SOME NICE GAS,
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    • 631 11 ON THE AIR RADIO MALA A 5>J Mi AFORE ENGLISH PROGRAMME HM .Metre.- and 417 Metres) 10 a iii .Sens, I n.ai Llghl Mulls) I \r«>, ii," Hance Mosic; *i p.os> Programme 6.«2 Kadio Urrbestru; i; > o ns ol the Pioneers; t p.m. News, Singapore Shart >lai'k«« Keport and
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  • 526 12  -  RANJIT SINGH By ROYAL Navy XV were seen at their best yesterday when they met ami defeated the visiting French Air Force (Saigon) XV by five points (a isoal) to nil at .Naval Base m a game which had all the thrills
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  • 399 12 Press Attacked A t SAFA Meeting \T A Council meeting of the SAFA yesterday, the Press wu> accused of making misleading and un. authorised statements, ami it was suggested that the < imncil appoint a Press liaison officer. The speaker was the Army representative, Major A. Paimer. He said that
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  • 114 12 M KLROUR Nt IaJL 4 (Kf utrr -AAP) Boy Crooks, triple boxing champion of the Orient gives hißWftf a v >;1 chance of outpointing Eapire champion Pave Sands m the Melbourne SiacUum rlasa on Jan. 12. I'll be much fitter this time In the
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  • 77 12 Li ttile Leaving For Australia ON MONDAY, tl wi known i.• W t Billy 1 1., c leaves an t suycker foi rti ilia on ctended holiday. Little is one of the most amickiea ar.d the Malayan (miners will miss bis as he was always willing to ride foe one
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  • 71 12 PENANG, Thurs. Penang scored a creditable victory over Kedah by 11 points (.one goal, one drop soal and one penalty goal* to nil on the Victoria Green this afternoon and avenged an earlier defeat m an All Blues Rugger competition. Penang had a heavier pack and a
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  • 94 12 AUCKLAND, Jan, 4 (AP) Fresh from their victories at the Canterbury Centennial Gair.es at Christ* hurch. Jamaican Arthur Wint and the English miler Roger Bannister leave Auckland for America by air on Thursday morning with E. McDonald Bailey, the British sprint champion who also competed at
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  • 92 12 DETROIT. Jan. 3. (Reuter> Former world heavyweight champion Joe Louis won his fight against Freddie Beshore last night by a technical knockout. The referee stopped the fight m the fourth round. Beshore suffered a badly cut left eye m fhe third round. In the next round
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  • 38 12 Capt. M. H. Tan scored 183 points m the Inter-Colonial Rifle and Revolver matches O950) held recently. Capt. Tan's score was inadvertently omitted m the report appearing m Thursdays issue oi The Singapore Standard.
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    22 12 Photo. The Royal Navy (striped jersies) and the French Air Force team pictured before their encounter at the Naval Base yesterday. Standard
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  • 242 12 IN a friendly game of hockey the Shell Sports Club narrowly defeated the Command Royal Engineers (South) by four goals to three on the Shell Sports ground at Paya Lebar yesterday. Rodrigues was outstanding both m defence and attack for the CRE while Chin Yong did
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  • 445 12 Sin Haw Trounce Fraser Neave THE Sin Haw Badminton team of Penang opened their Colony tour with a smashing seven-nil victory over last year's Commercial Houses runners-op, Fraser and JVeave Sports Club, at the Fraser and Neave hall at Trafalgar Street last night. The Sin Haw (a team named by
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  • 442 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. —On the XL Padang today a strong Selangor Club XV just managed to beat the Selangor United by 12 points (four tries) to 9 points (three tries). The Selangor Club with a set of hard running threes and a heavy pack did
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  • 270 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Headquarters Malaya District drew with the YMCA each team scoring one goal m a hockey match, today, at Brickfield's Road. The soldiers were a more compact side and played with better understanding. The half-line Brown, Beeson and Holden. proved impregnable and
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  • 667 12 IN the quarter- finals of the SHA Knockout Competition, the SCC Hockey XI scored a decisive t\vo-;iil victory over the RAF (Seletar) at the padang yesterday. The game was played under ideal ground conditions and a large crowd of interested hockey fans
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  • 147 12 CHARLIE GAM AGE. 2> Jb. grappler who was disqualified m the bout with Wong Buck Lee last week for using dangerous tactics, meets popular Jim Anderson m tomorrow's card at the Happy World Stadium. Anderson's admirers believe he has a good chance of winning m spite
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  • 267 12 AT a meeting ©f $> f Singapore Olympic Sporti Council held at the tMi yesterday, it was drudr-d t send a contingent from Singapore to rwptlt at th* First Asian (atncs at N«» Delhi. The standards s *>{ h» t>. Board of Control
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    • 72 12 wj__M TIMES r _____^___m_> _> HIGH TIDES at the principal fCSOfta in Malaya TODAY: AM HM. Singapore 7.34 9.52 Malacca 5. 2t 5.4 Port Dickson 4.01 4.23 Fort S'ham 2.46 3.31 Penang If 40 10.58 TOMORROW: Singapore S.:".-i. 10. "5 Malacca •>. :t; <U7 Port Dickson 5.07 5.J8 Port S'him
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