Singapore Standard, 24 October 1953

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    17 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD MGm£>^^- zM Vol. IV. No. 114. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2i, 1933. TWELVE PAGES 10 TENTS.
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    RAJ TOLD TO GIVE UP HIS SEAT IN COUNCIL
    487 1 Laoour general Council Causes Stir Standard Staff Reporter THE General Council of the Singapore Labour Party yesterday decided to ask its representative in the Legislative Council, Mr. C. R. Dasaratha Raj, to forthwith resign his seat as a protest against Government's
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    Menon Mystery: Out And Still In
    130 1 Menon Mystery: Out And Still In gl I IMPLR, Fri. InrtMn leaders are surprised that Mr V. M. N. Menon, Jntf »»t the five Indian repreviii.uivrs who recently reigned from the Federal I rgislative Council, is still on the Federal Executive IMIRCiI. Pfi K I Devesar, president M.ilayan Indian Conaid:
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    NIXON VISIT PRECAUTIONS
    35 1 0 police officers re Police Force today when Mr. Nixon, Vice-Presi-•i;ted States, is .'irrive. rig full security during his short a d the Commise, Mr. Nigel 1 thoro will be it leave.
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    Flood Sweeps Away 200 In 'Toe' Of Italy
    172 1 Flood Sweeps Away 200 In 'Toe' Of Italy REGGIO CALABRIA. South Italy. Oct. 23 (Reuter) Two hundred people were reported missing today fa devastating floods m the "Toe" of Italy. Troops were rushed to try to stem the flood waters, still spilling over river banks as the known death toll
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    ANOTHER $10 FOR THE FUND
    80 1 MKS. CHAN CHEE WAN of Singapore sent $10 as her contribution to The Singapore Standard Christmas Toy Fund yesterday. With this donation, the total now stands at $7,115.--77. All cash donations should be sent to The Christmas Toy Fund Singapore Standard. 128, Robinson Road. Singa-pore-1.
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    NURSES STRIKE
    17 1 Nurses at Malta's only tuberculosis hospital went on strike yesterday, for better working conditions. Reuter.
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    MATERNITY SCANDAL- AN INQUIRY?
    125 1 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The Selangor Government is to start an inquiry following reports of the shocking treatment being meted out to expectant mothers in the maternity ward of the General UospitaJ. Ibe Standard learnt here today. Meanwhile, none of the officers in the
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    52 1 photo. ACROBATIC dance rs Kethryn and Orly. known abroad and murb admired by ex-King Farouk of Egypt, were both born In Paris, but only recently made their debut there. Here they are during a rehearsal for the Paris debut, which they made as "the most aero* batic dancers in the
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    Stop Press
    55 1 ISRAELIS SHOT DOWN PLANE? BIERUT. Oct. 23: (AP) Thirty-five passengers ami crew members were killed an:l two others seriously injured in a crash reportedly caused by an attack b v Israeli fighter planes °n a Swedish airliner near the Israeli LebanocSyrian borders yesterday. The shot plane crashed on
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    VILLAGE WITH A PAST IS NOW 'WHITE'
    334 1 VILLAGE WITH A PAST IS NOW 'WHITE' MALACCA, Fri.— Tiang Dua New Village— "the village with a past" was yesterday by the emergency power vested in Resident Commissioner, Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, brought into the Malacca "white" coastal strip. I But something appeared to have gone wrong .somewhere for
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    USELESS EUSTACE
    11 1 "Scared silly!— Visiting day. and he's in for bigamy!"
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    SOVIET WIVES GET NEW DEAL
    56 1 LONDON. Oct. 23, (Reutsr) Russian housewives are promised more food, better restaurants and shops and increased supplies of refrigerators, washing machine? and vacuum cleaners under a government decree issued in Moscow today, according to a Tass message received here. It also ordered a new drive
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    Pupils Asked To Clean W.C.
    95 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri Malay parents here are furious over reports by their children that they wer e made to dean drains and latrines and do general chores in their schools. A mother told The Standard that her two daughters had complained to her that their
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    HE CAN BANK ON HIS JOB
    35 1 LONDON. O<t. 2.'*. (Renter) The Queen today approved the re-appointme:it of Mr. Cameron F. Cobboid as Governor of the Bank of England for a second term of five years
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    YOUTH TO HANC
    28 1 A 20-YEAR-OLD Londoa youth. Mi<hael John Davtes wag ientenceJ to death Wday for stabbing to death John Berkley. aged 17 in teenage gang light.- Reuter
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    Only Dearer Synthetic Can Save Rubber Says Palmer
    312 1 PENANG, Frl. Sir Sydney Palmer, chairman of the British Ruhher Development Board, stated today thai it was up to the governments of the United Kingdom and Malaya, and probably with the assistance of other South-East Asian countries, to approach the American Government
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    IT IS BLACKMAIL, INDICT STUDENTS
    131 1 THE Council of the Students I'nion of the Inivcrsity of Malaya is to consider sending a protest to the Federation Government at their meeting today in connection with the "blackmail" of eight undergraduates. The ei2ht |tudentl hive l>een told by the Federation that as they
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    CID Receive Murder Cine
    41 1 CID Receive Murder Cine THE r I D of the Bii tapora t> P'(»i r< m of my cd 10 M rft>k K tho «jf the i >• >nt •1 Ornk Tin v\ >-<\ on Hill eVvrn (i Tho \<Vor irrltltfl ir lanj
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    MINISTER QUITS
    18 1 CEYLON'S \l ni f, In- <*s .-in, i Fi t i. Mi < t' am re Reuter
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    'Sandwich' Rubber Roads On The Way
    186 2 'Sandwich' Rubber Roads On The Way Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City Council road engineers will begin laying Maxwell Road with the new rubberised "sandwich filling" next month. A City engineer told The Standard yesterday that rubberised "sandwich filling'* already has been experimented with along New Bridge Road. Th e results
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    Air Race Planes Due Tomorrow
    148 2 TWO of the three Royal Air Force Canberras which took part in the recent EnglandNew Zealand air race will touch down at Changi Airfield, Singapore, at 2 p.m. tomorrow from Perth. Australia. They will be piloted by Fit. Lt. R.L.E. Burton, the winner. and Fit.
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    723 BIRTHS
    30 2 SINGAPORE'S population fn. creased by 723 last week according to the number of births reported by the City Health Department. There were 181 deaths, in the same period.
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    Airman Knocked Down Pedestrian
    188 2 FLIGHT-LIEUT. Robert Johnston Irving of the R.A.F. Seletar, was fined $175 in the Singapore First Traffic Court yesterday for negligent driving and failing to stop after an accident on May 29 near the Police Training Depot in Thomson Road. Irving was originally charged with dangerous driving
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    $500 Bail
    74 2 A SINGAPORE clerk Yeo Kee Meng. claimed trial in the Eighth Police Court yesterday, to a charge of criminal trespass by entering the compound of the Convent of the Holy Infant Oct US 20 a BraS Basah Road on It' was alleged that Yeo Intended to outrage the
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    Train Technicians Says Prog Manifesto
    380 2 Train Technicians Says Prog Manifesto Standard Staff Reporter THE Singapore Progressive Party yesterday issued a nine-point manifesto for the forthcoming City Council Elections which includes a promise of more attention to the technical training of local men to fill senior posts in City Council Departments. Party secretary, Mr. John Ede,
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    66 PENGHULUS GET MEDALS
    85 2 IN a simple ceremon\ at the Court House at Pasir Puteh. Kelantan. on Thursday, the District Officer, Tuan Haji Abdullah bin Mahmud. presented a Coronation Medal to Che Ismail bin Awang. Penghulu Gong Pechat. Daerah. Semerak, in the Pasir Puteh district. Penghulu Che Ismail has served
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    TRESPASSED IN RAF HOUSE
    61 2 LIM LAY SENG, who is under police supervision was sentenced in a Singapore police court yesterday to six months' rigorous imprisonment for trespassing in Royal Air Force quarters at Changi on July 17. He had five previous convictions. Lim said he went into a house in
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    FINED $200
    44 2 ONG KIM SOO, a salesman formerly employed by Makhanlail and Co., admitted in the Singapore Eighth Police Court yesterday that he misappropriated $562 which he collected from various people for his employer. He was fined $200. in default, two months' rigorous imprisonment.
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    Women Finish Civics Course
    50 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Forty-six women Malay, Chinese and Indian have just completed a short civics course in Kluang. Johore. They came from outlying kampongs. new villages and estates to hear talks on Women's Institutes. domestic science, and to visit the Social Welfare Centre and Government Hospital.
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    GILLON TELLS COURT HOW HE THROTTLED GIRL
    1095 2 GILLON TELLS COURT HOW HE THROTTLED GIRL "Doreen Pestered Me PRIVATE Hammond Gillon, who is standing trial in the Si pore Assizes for the murder of Doreen Pereira, gave a dramatic yesterday of how he throttled rfte Britannia Club dance hostess Questioned by his counsel, Mr. David Marshall, Gillon ,t
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    66 2 THE BIGGEST United Nations Exhibition in Singapore will be opened today at the Victoria Memorial Hall by Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. The exhibition, which features photographic evidence of the progress made by the IN. in the cause of peace, will be open to public from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. till
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    Missing Schoolboy Mystery
    164 2 Missing Schoolboy Mystery MALACCA. Fri. Police have begun an extensive search for nine-year-old Wahab Tabir who disappeared on Oct. 16, u-hile selling cakes in th,. Bachang area. It is stated that Wahab, a pupil of a Malay school, set out from his home in Mata Kuching with a schoolmate Abdullah
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    HAD NO LICENCE
    30 2 THE Muar Magistrate. Inche Ibrahim bin Abdul Manan. fined Tan Khai Hon? $20 for celling nr.rk without a licence. MR. J D. PROFUMO half pint of oil.
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    THE AIR RACE VISCOUNT WINS ACCLAIM
    275 2 THE AIR RACE VISCOUNT WINS ACCLAIM Standard Aviation Reporter The Rolls Royce Dart engines of the Vickers Viscount wbicb was first home in the transport section of the 12,500-mile London-to-Christcburch air face, burnt up only half a pint of oil. Only one of its four engines had to be replenished
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    Housebreaker Worked By Day
    51 3 LOW AH BOON\ 18, was yesterd iv sentenced to six months' Imprisonment by the Singapore Fourth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. J. B. Jeyaratnam for housebreaking. He is to undergo two years' police supervision atter that. The court was told that Low broke Into a house in
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    27 3 phut*. MR H I WINSER, Chief Transport Officer of Malafte Always photographed with his wifa and two children nine year old Karlja and six-year old Barry. Standard
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    AUXILIARY FIRE BRIGADE TO GET OWN EQUIPMENT
    368 3 Auxiliary wEI volunteers of the to hold their heodsh^^T/h Wi b C static^ i t n he^, t a h^' I r 1 tag^ their 9 own' $155 ,000 fire necessary, they mav eLI ?£L Serangoon Road, and if alongside the m T
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    YWCA Chief Is Due On Tour Of S-EA
    211 3 YWCA Chief Is Due On Tour Of S-EA SINGAPORE and Federation YWCA Centres are preparing for the arrival of Miss Li lace Barnes. World Prebidont of the Association, who is expected at Kailang Airport from Australia on Nw. 1 at 3 p.m. Miss Barnes, who was elected to the post
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    Tribute To Lord Nelson
    79 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Speaking at the Trafalgar Day Celebration Dinner today, a landsman paid a tribute to one of the greatest seaman Great Britain has ever produced. He was talking of Lord Nelson of the Nile. The acting Deputy Hiqh Commissioner, Mr. DC. Watherston told a
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    STEHOS TO FORM A TRADE UNION
    149 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Members of the Federation Stenographers Association want their organisation to be changed into a trade union. A motion to this effect will be tabled at a general meeting of the Association, to be held shortly. A spokesman said today that the
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    COLONY BIRTHS TREBLE THAT OF UK
    430 3 COLONY BIRTHS TREBLE THAT OF UK Services Run On Emergency Basis SINGAPORE'S birth rote is now nearly three times thot of Britain, the Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers, said ot a press conference yesterday. He disclosed this to emphasize the congestion in the Kondang Kerbau Hospital. He
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    37 3 photo. COVERED FROM HEAD TO TOE: A new arrival to Singapore from Pakistan yesterday Mrs. Idhar Khan who is seed above in strict purdah costume with her husband who is a warder in Outrun Road Jail.- Standard
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    More SATA Donations
    98 3 THE Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association yesterday acknowledged Um following donations. Army Pay and Records Office. Pasir Panjang: $187<):<. John Little Co.. Ltd., $14:{ SI; Medi' al Hall: $!)8.9:<: Mrs. C. E. Hudson! 1 1 0 Anonymouv $100; Khalsa Dharr^a SaWi 580.25; Major and Mrs. C. H. Baguley: $.">0;
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    Youth Council Prepares For Big Assembly
    106 3 Standard Staff Reporter AN APPEAL Committee baj v IJ 5^ up liy ih(t Singapore Youth Council |Q diaoiM vayi and means of raisins funds for the coming WorM Assembly of Youth m the Colony Draft estimate show that ■bout $200,000 will be required tor
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    35 3 photo. MR. E. V. DWIKS. former leader of the Labour Party in the City (ounril of Sin** pore, who returned i Singapore yesterday in the Atia, after an ei*ht month vacation i n Britain.- Standard
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    New Residence Laws For Polls
    159 3 Standard Staff Reporter CANDIDATES for the coming December Singapore City Council elections must possess the seven years* residential qualification, Mr. M. Ponnuduray, Supervisor of Elections, told The Stan lard yesterday. He said alj candi inles have to satisfy the Election Office that they have been
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    Election Body Has 2nd Meeting
    102 3 Election Body Has 2nd Meeting THE Federal Elections Committee which held its second meeting today, has received representations from individuals, political bodies and other associations in response to its invitation for views. The views expressed, have been the subject of consideration by a working party which held five meetings and
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    SIKH LEADER HERE ON TOUR
    65 3 SARDAR Jagir Singh, a representative of the Akali D:tl Party in the Punjab who is now on a tour of the Far East, yesterday met Mr. R. W. Jakeman, the Deputy Commissioner General for South East Asia and discussed matters concerning Sikhs. He is due
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    Co-op Experts Study In Ceylon
    56 3 TWO Malayan co-ooerative experts Mr. W.H.B. Ibrahim, Senior Co-operative Marketing Officer in Malaya, and Mr. H.J. Putra, Senior Urban Cooperative Officer, have started studying tho co-operative movement in Ceylon. Mr. Ibrahim will concentrate on co-operative marketing, production and industrial activities while Mr. Putra will study
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    From Success To Love
    96 3 Mr. CHAN FU HO. 29, after five years in the United States in pursuit of success, returned to Singapore yesterday in the luxury liner Asia to find love waiting for him on the quay. Proud holder of a Master of Science degree, he stepped off the
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    OUR TRANSPORT IS BEHIND EUROPE
    200 3 MR. H. E. WINSER, chief transport officer of Malayan Airways, who has been on a six months' leave tour of Britain and Continental ports returned to. Singapore yesterday in the Lloyd Triestino liner Asia. He was accompanied by Mrs. Winser and their two children. Transport
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    Co-op Civics Course For 35 Managers
    131 3 Co-op Civics Course For 35 Managers IPOH. Fri -Thirty-fivo operative n» r« fro n 111 over the St it.- t»i i v b*£Ml a thrtf> I .v h«'re ii the Porak Clerk il Ifai la pr -nibt 1 ThoM tttendiafl th«» course from altr tiori of t'\,« m.iv.'- the ruril
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    HE FAILED TO SHOW LICENCE
    34 3 A SHOPKKK.PFK »f U.ikit Hoe Swoo. [.an Li«n C \v;«s fin.' 1 $10 hv th City Police Court M i festtrday for f i ■> i,,. play his w--: holiday
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    Chinese To Help Men Out Of Jail
    203 4 Chinese To Help Men Out Of Jail REPRES EWTATIVES from six Chinese associations in Singapore have pledged to co-operate with the After-Care Society to rehabilitate ex prisoners and look after their welfare. About 30 representatives from the Kwanluiig HuJ Kuan, llokkien Hui Kuan. Kheng Chow Hui Kuan, the Khck Community
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    Salesman To Stand Trial
    69 4 SNG TEXG CHYE. a salesman, was committed to the next Assizes at the end of a preliminary inquiry before Mr. I) H. Chapman in the Singapore l-itth Police Court yesterday. He uas tentatively charged *vith Stealing m x blank cheques iging to n woman. Teo Seng
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    New Police Court Opens
    118 4 Standard Staff Reporter A NEW Singapore police <",jrt opens today to relieve the pressure of •'work" in the t i^'it courts in South Bridge Road The new court will bo known as the Ninth Police Court and Ai be housed in the Coroier's i"<urt section <>f
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    Wife Stopped Death Leap
    102 4 PENAKG, Fri.— Because a TB patient could not gain admission to hospital, he went to the top floor of the Nam Kok Hotel in Penang Road on Oct. 22 and tried to jump from it. He was pulled back by his wifeThis wus stated in the
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    50 4 2 VICE-President Nixon, who Ls due in Singapore today is seen present- 2 ing an autographed I picture of President 2 Eisenhower to President j Sukarno of Indonesia on his arrival at Jakarta re- 5 eently on his tour of the 2 Far East. At left is Mrs. I Sukarno.
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    UNIONISTS WANT PROVIDENT FUND EXTENDED TO ALL
    329 4 Standard Staff Reporter TRADE UNION leaders in Singapore yesterday described the recommendations of the Select Committee on the Central Provident Fund bill as a "document" aimed at providing social security for Colony workers. They said that though the recommendations are not up to
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    Swiss May Have Lesson For Malaya
    141 4 Swiss May Have Lesson For Malaya PENANG, Fri. The people of Malaya should study the detailed political history of Switzerland because it was the only country which had the same problems Malaya is facing today. Dr. Sau] K. Padover, American author and lecturer, told a press conference here today. He
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    MENTRI AND D.O. FETED
    61 4 MUAR, Fri.— A public dinner was held last night at the Muar Club in honour of Dato Haji Syed Abdul Kadir, Mentri Besar. Johore. and Dato Mahmood bin Mohamed Shah, District Officer. Muar. The guests of honour were feted for having been awarded the C.B.E. by
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    Costly Ride For This Motor Cyclist
    125 4 Costly Ride For This Motor Cyclist WHEN stopped by a Radio Patrol on Oct. 11. and asked to produce his licence, a motor cyclist. Amar Singh, said he had none. He produced a motor car licence instead. He pleaded guilty in the Singapore First Traffic Court yesterday, to three charges
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    3 PEOPLE FALL FROM TREES
    72 4 WITHIN five hours yesterday three people, one man and tvvo boys, fell from three trees in different parts of Singapore. First to fall was A. N. Vadiveiu (27). He dropped, from a tree In Tampenis Road at 7. 23 a.m. Next was Aim Bakar b/.i
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    SPECIAL SERVICE
    23 4 THERE will be a Special Children's Day service with drama at the Methodist Tamil Church, Short Street, tomorrow at 9.30 a.m.
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    29 4 ?J ih£ r P*^ 1 8 S -f Conceicao after their marriage at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in Singapore recently. The bride is Miss Yvonne Celine Chaine.
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    Driver Cleared Of Parking Charge
    67 4 A SINGAPORE taxi driver, Koh Kim Hock, was yesterday acquitted by the Singapore City Police Court Magistrate, of a charge of parking his taxi in the vicinity of a taxi stand at Handy Road on Aug. 24 Koh In his defence said that he had
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    They Want 58-cts Rise
    109 4 THE SINGAPORE Harbour Board Labour Union wants a 58-t-ent wage increase for the daiiy-paid workers of the Board. In a letter to the Board, the Union state* that the Singapore Government already has agreed to pay a 58 cents wage increase to lt| daily rated employees,
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    A Change In Status Recommended
    199 4 IPOH, Fri.— A change in i£ e s **\"s of the Perak btate Welfare Committee is recommended in tne annual report which is to be tabled for discussion at the annual general meeting of the committee on Nov. 14. Mr. M. S. Dlioss, the honorary
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    Build More Rubber Roads, Says Sir Sydney
    255 4 PENANG, Fri. Surprise that a country like Malaya which produces about 600,000 tons of rubber o year, has done so little in the laying of rubber roads was expressed by Sir Sydney Palmer, chairman of the British Rubber Development Board, who arrived here
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    He Offered Me $3,000 —Court Told
    206 4 A PROSECUTION witness, Mr. W. J. William-, testifying in the Second District Court, yesterday, said that Boey Panf E;g, a canteen manager, charged with criminal breach of trust of 40 cases of beer valued at $848 nt Selarang Barracks on July 2!>. offered him
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    Uproar Over Play On Planter's Life
    81 4 'Tea With The Wnliiscs' Standard London Corre^pondrnl LONDON, Oet n. A storm in M.,., Nltl —or perhaps a gin bottle- has irfeeti tver i pi n i cast night before last by the BBC and schedi broadcast again next Monday !Im rail*- retar> i
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    Lee Queries Trisha Policy
    84 4 MR. LEE CHOON ENG, City Councillor (Ind Lab.) West will ask the City President at the next Council's meding whether any policy is being followed in licensing trishas and their riders Q Singapore. Air. Lee also wants to know how many licensed trishas and riders there
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    Hospitals To Get Own Electricity
    105 4 Hospitals To Get Own Electricity ALI SINGAPOKK lios pitals will be equipped with duplicate lightini: s> stems to cope with failures of lite normal supply of electricity in an emergency. Or. W.J. Vickers. Director of Medical Services, told The Standard yesterday that this was mainly a Civil Defence plan. It
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    HE ASSAULTED POLICE-JAILED
    153 4 INSPECTOR T. E. Hong said in (he Singapore Eighth Police Court yesterday that Shal Hamid bin Kather kicked and punched him and another constable in the Tanjong Pagar Police Station at midnight on Sept. 12. Shal replied to thU taring. "The fat police constable k:cked me with
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    MICYLE MISSED
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    HK EXCHANGE
    43 4 HON'GKON'G. Oct. 23-Spe-cial Standard Seivicc. Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were $15 79 to £1 sterling: $5.***** to U9 $1 $1,815 to Malayan II: $184 to o°« n nVL nd()nrS|:in Ru r>P'ah; GoJd '20CJ.8 15 lo one m tL
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    Off After 3 Years
    45 4 Off After 3 Years ajf;af afj MRS. CALVERT. wife of It (o sI) < bye to the (i.O C Malay a. LI (Jen s, r V\! at the Kuala lump,,, Railway Stotio^ on V Col. and Mrs. alvrrt urrr 1r. m f year, in Malaya.- SUadard
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    VILLAGE HITS AT LACK OF WATER
    123 5 VILLAGE HITS AT LACK OF WATER K l \LA LUMPUR, Ihe villagers of Kampong Puah, a prem tly Malay set/1M .,,t D eai here, today I(M .<l the Municipal thorities of being disnnating in supplying: water to another li as e, while Kampong p ul t, receive! only an np
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    Colling Scots Varsity Men
    53 5 and matriS iota uni>re will universities' ith a dinhe Adelphi in Friday. head— ide on the towards the pore Gold awardScots unitati in for the roved for the ol Medicine Science on it 1 With Trop.or Tropical in the apply to Mr. R< gistrar of the
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    Music Show For Pupils
    43 5 •re Junior Symtra will a ri on CM 28 at Vi toria MemorThough the performpr< ference for >n will bo who have can be bought Music nk's HID School R. i Girls" will iilso take under ihe Paul Abishe-
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    Mr. James Quits Elections
    88 5 Mr. James Quits Elections •MIS. I C. JAMES, Pro i;n'>siv«- Party Councillor in we East Ward, will not stand for rc clecttel in the forthi-onunu City Counril r>ttions. d«C to healtk rrasons. His withdrawal was ar cepted hy ;i Party nuM'tins on Thursday niuht after Mr James had expressed a
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    Anyone See This Mishap?
    62 5 LEE SIN HEE. (43) labourer, was knocked down by a »ar while cycling at the junction of New Bridge Road and "Havelock Road at 5..-ifl p.m. yesterday. He was admitted to hospital where his condition is reported to be serious. Anyone who witnessed the accident is
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    63 5 THE CHINESE of Kluang District through its three main associations, the Kluang Chinese Association, the Kluang Branch of the MCA. and the Kluang Chinese Chamber of Commerce, recently honoured their leader Mr. Teoh Chze Chong. J.P. with a Chinese dinner, on the occasion of his receiving the S.M.J. on the
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    Charge Driver, Says Coroner
    125 5 Singapore Coroner, Mr. Choor Singh, told a inspector yesterday that a motor car driver, Soon Pens, should be prosecuted for negligent driving. at tiie end of i the death of a Tham Cheong /as knocked down and thrown into a Street on Sept. was the driver
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    24 5 photo. *-l* t f th« Kuala Lutfpur Rotarians at thr "set tosether^ party held at Col. Watkin* home iii Vouag Kvad. KuaU Lumpur.- Standard
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    79 5 A HUNTING party while out hunting for wild pi«s at Bukit Merah. Parit Buntar, last weekend came across a 20-foot python. The snake was asleep and it was obvious that it had just finished a big meal. The reptile was raptured and when rut open an 80-kati wild pie which
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    COUNCIL REJECTS PROPOSALS FOR NEW PAY SCALES
    139 5 COUNCIL REJECTS PROPOSALS FOR NEW PAY SCALES «-.i-, i APOR K Governments proposals for new salary scheme lor its employees in division I, II and I mIT eserlb< (l t b > spokesman of the Council of Jomi Action as "utter nonsense." He said: 'In making these proposals Government has
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    Tapper Faces Murder Charge
    63 5 SEREMBAN. Fri— A charge of murder was preferred against 40-year-old rubber tapner Armamalai. when he was produced before the Port Dickson Magistrate, on Wednesday Annamalai is alleged to have hacked h: s 23-year-old second wife to death on Oct. 1!> ;i! Sendayan Estate. 9 a t^iile
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    NAIR WANTS MORE TIME
    52 5 MR. M. T D. NAIR (Ind. Seletar) will Introduce a, tnotion in the next Singapore, Legislative Council meeting calling for a month's extension of the period between the nomination date and polling date for City Council and i Legislative Council elections bringing the interim period to
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    Water Men Seek Police Protection
    101 5 Water Men Seek Police Protection THE Singapore City Council Water DepaitmesU Labour Union wants the help of th e police to protect its members from alleged intimidation by strangers. The union's request was contained Ui a resolution passed at it.-> annual conference recently. The conference also passed another resolution asking
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    STAKES WERE LOST AS WELL
    49 5 MUAR. Fri.— For gambling at Sinkang Tangkah. Ng Toor Seng and Ta n Cheng Terk were each fined $10 by Inche Itirahim bin Abdul Manan the Muar Magistrate A sum of $18.20 which was found on a table at which they gambled was confiscated.
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    Promotion Drive For Local Pines
    242 5 THE MALAYAN pineapple industry which is enjoying a period of prosperity is organising it s biggest advertising campaign, similar to that for rubber in the United States, to expand the overseas market. The campaign calls for active trade promotion particularly in th« United Kingdom (to
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    GOVT WORKERS TO JOIN IN POLITICS
    318 5 A Final Ruling On Categories THE Singapore Government yesterday agreed in principle to allow certain categories 'a 1 m P l °y««» ♦<> take Poi* in local politics. ii u r U"ng specifying categories of employees will, however, be given after the sub-committee of
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    61 5 picture. THE new C-in-C Far Mast Land Forces, 14--<i«'n. Sir Charles 11. I.oe wen. flew to Taiping on Wednesday where he visited the Headquarters of the First Federation l>i vision. Picture shows Sir Charles (second from left) talking to an officer of the staff. Looking on (extreme left) is Maj.(len.
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    No Breakfast
    34 5 KARUPAYEE. a woman labourer was fined $5 by Mr. E A Long. Circuit Magistrate yesterday in the Tanjong Malim Sessions Court. for oarryinc her breakfast with her in a food restricted area.
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    Detainees' Centre For School Use
    81 5 THE $250,000 Singapore Detainees Rehabilitation Centre at Yio Chu Kang Road will now be rotivertcd into Malay school, a Qownmcni spokesman said yesterday. The building was until recently a rehabilitation centre for young people detained under the Emergency Regulations. They were all released after completing
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    Good Word For ILO
    101 5 CONFERENCES of tail nature do much to broaden the outlook of government-, employers and workers, Mr. C Yarrow, employer's delegate at the recent International Labour Organisation Conference held in Tokyo, to'd The Standard yesterday. He said that although he wsnt to Tokyo in a rather .sceptical
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    Driving Fine
    27 5 ABDULLAH bin B.ikar of Kampong Sari Lalang, Mersing was fined $15 bv the Mersing Magistrate yesterday for driving a motor car without a driving licence.
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    Life Guard Club For Katong Area
    116 5 Life Guard Club For Katong Area MEMBERS of the S n| tp Life Guard Corpi and iward holdert in life laving, living in Katong District, will n at the -100 Chill Police Station compound today la discuss tin* possibility «>i forming Life Saving Club in thu* area. Th r Club,
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    Ulster Rifles Are Due Today
    41 5 ON the Empii e which pa li Dt homeward bound t iday wrill be the t I Bai i ion. th U ter Rifl Regiment lia Korea and Hongkoni ;i fin(> sportin cularly In boxing .itm
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    Haji Found Dead In Sea Off Penang
    101 5 PI N \\C f- I in mi lu Karim bin Hajj Ai lah of K Kuala I whu disai from the pilgrim *Anki the I.m f fo >«'uiJ t h.'s Mu home found n Wedn morning Hii bod: wa Boatinjj in the s.
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    ASSAULT ON MAN COST $60
    23 5 V' >R lull I K Mil by Inrhe l».i ahi I Mu.tr He N.'ll 0 man he a
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      79 5 Weather "VI I N IMI'M Trmprraturr: From 7..10 p.m. Oct. to 7.."0 a.m Oct. Singapore <7.~iF>. I'i-im n k i7tF>. Kim. i Kahru (74K). Kuala I umpur 7::Fi, Ipoh t7tl Kuantan (7::f». Maximum Trmprraturr: From 7..10 a.m. Oct. 23 to 7..".e p.m Oct. M Singapore (H9F». Prnanr s 1 1-
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    United Nations' Day
    775 6 IJNiTED NATIONS' DAY must mean much more than an occasion for fine speeches and pious hopes, if the United Nations is to serve the interests ot peace and progress in a positive manner. For example, the ordinary man and weman must have a fuller knowledge of what
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    75 6 ABERDEEN Angus cattle have become highly popular in Australia, especially in the last 20 years. They have proved their value in soft, wellimproved country, where they mature morp rapidly than other breeds, yield a greater proportion of moat to bone and a higher percentage of dressed carcases to live tveight.
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      203 6 Sir; Mr. Alex Josey described Mr. P.P. Narayanan as a man of high integrity and Mr. Lee Moke Sang as a man of principle. In agreeing with him I wish to request Malayan workers to take special note of these facts. A s leaders of M.T.U.C. they
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      MR. ESS
      141 6 Sir: In the manifesto issued by Mr. C. F. J. Ess I notice that he does not state the Party to which he belongs. In the English and Indian sections, although he mentions the U.M.N.O. in the Malay section and the M.C.A. in the Chinese section; As the
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      Guided The Masses
      167 6 Sir;— Recently there ha* been a lot of bickering over the resignations of the two trade unionists who unfortunately belonged to the Indian Community. I say Indian Community, because any member in Malaya according to the Legislation of this country should belong to some community or other
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      NEED OF REPAIR
      180 6 Sir; Being a resident of Pulau Dama Darat lor several years. I think it is my duty to express a few words on the present condition of Boon Lay Road leading to Tanjong Kling. This road is in urgent need of repair. The traffic on it is
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      Give Us A Better Service
      177 6 Sir; As a member of the R.S.P.C.A. 1 have taken many stray animals o the Kampong Java Animal Infirmary for destruction On m v Irxst visit about 12th September. I took a small rat and decided to go with (he attendant to the gas chamber.
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    BRA VE HEARTS
    838 6 AUSTRATJA NERDS From The Times Canberra Correspondent L, EW AUSTRALIANS in the big cities of the East give even a passing thought to the plight of their North-West, that empty sixth of their continent which in 530,000 square miles, lying north of the 26th parallel, has fewer
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    19 6 i flock of Wvriiut HSM and lamh*, ihv fau mini inn af lh r irrallh of Boonoke, nrar < anarfio.
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    Review of Views
    260 6 Review of Views Announce Them JUTUSAN MELAYU speaks of the disappointment felt by Malay writers and scholars < on the failure bv the Prepara- < tory Committee of the Malay 5 Writers Association in Negri 2 Sembilan to hold a second > Congress of M.ilay Writers > and Scholars this
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    FRENCH TROOPS OUIT REBEL TOWN
    202 7 HANOI, Oct. 23.— The French High Command iiucd today its troops had abandoned the town of Mm> Quan, 55 miles south-west of Hanoi, after Itttroying all Virtminh military install it ions there. T h e Fn iich Vietnamese troops staged a surprise attack on Thursday
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    Nixon On The Progress Of Indonesia
    78 7 iA. O 23. (Renter) e-President, tonight he by the progress a though a relative- ha~ made. -late dinner lent Soekarno .v the residence Ambassal lumming, Jr., Mi-. "We ate ■ISO a can thererne of your in I lie iisht of our ind th c
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    GUN EXPLODES ABOARD EAGLE
    56 7 lOUTH, Oct. 23: man was injured in a gun ex- board Britain's bigifi carrier. Eagle I last night, it was meed to c Eagle, flagship of the [uadron of the Home 'cd to arrive at mouth from Invergordon, tomorrow. •'1 man, a rating. anded as a-s
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    LT-COL CARNE AWARDED VC
    36 7 now Oct. 23 (Reuter) itc lani Colonel James a li i of the "Glorious regiment during Imjin River Battle in n April 1!)51 ha^ been the Victoria Cross. i'l high* award lor
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    DUKE TAKES OVER AS G.M.
    59 7 LONDON, Oct. 23, (Reuter) The Duk e of Edinburgh, who earlier this year qualified for his pilot's Wings, was installed last night as Grand Master of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators of the British Empire at a special ceremonyhe re. The Duke
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    52 7 photo. WATCHED by some 2!>,000 relatives of the fallen, the Quern lays a wreath at the Runnymede Memorial to officers and mea of the air forces of the Commonwealth who lost their lives in the last war while operating: from bases in England and north-west Europe and have no known
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    TORIES BACK GUIANA POLICY
    338 7 TORIES BACK GUIANA POLICY LONDON, Oct. 23. Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's Con servative government won a vote of confidence tonight on its policies in British Guiana, where it charged international Communist conspirators were trying to set up a Red state. The vote was 294 to 2. r )6. The
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    CHERWELL QUITS
    19 7 LORD Cherwell, scientific and atomic adviser to the British Prime Minister, yesterday resigned as Paymaster GeneUniversitv. U.P.
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    Thorat Beaten With Poles, Says Peking
    164 7 > K V O Oct. X3 (AP).— 1 radio asserted today Gen S P. P. Thorat, 1 lander of Indinn cus- >]>* was "struck poles and fiomto sign" three de- < hinese prisoners islodial compound «n Sept. 25. ■kj i iree demandi listed bj
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    34 7 photo. sUW'MY Maria English is about to tak r the plunge H.lru And all. This lovely actress has been named the Bathing Beauty" because of the manv IrnnKUa .w.*. won in Ixatitv contests. U.P.
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    STIFF RULES FOR NYASALAND POLL
    317 7 SALISBURY, Oct. 23 (Reuter) Regulations for the first orthodox political elections ever to be held in Nyasaland make it unlikely, according to officials, that many, if any, Africans will be able to vote for Nyasaland's candidates for the Federal Parliament. The regulations. to be published
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    LAOS GAINS INDEPENDENCE
    331 7 First Of New Accords To Be Signed With I-C. PARIS, Oct. 23 (AP) France and Loot yesterday signed a treaty of friendship and association which establishes the small IndoChinese kingdom as a "fully independent and sovereign state/' but keeps it within the French Union or "Commonwealth." President
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    69 7 LIKE any other son away from home for a J I Jong time. Crown Prince 2 C Akihito tells his parents, C the Emperor and Empress of Japan, of his expert- ences during a six-month 2 1 tour of the world which -2 ended on Oct. XI. Enjoying his recital
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    BIG RUBBER FIRE IN MACAO
    69 7 MACAO. Oct. 23. (UP)— A big fir e today destroyed KH$2.--000.000 worth of strategic rubber tires and tubes stored near the Macao waterfront Police suspe< te v j the fire, which was punctuated with two sharp explosions, was purposely let It followed by > days
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    INCOGNITO TRIP
    27 7 king Tribhuvana of Nepal and his son. travelling incognito under the names of T.1.1. Shall. are due to arrive in Genoa on board the Victoria.
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    Nizam Too Must Pay Tax
    99 7 NEW DELHI. Ocl (F ten The IfMi... < ;<)- i inn has de< jHc tiuit former Ind Prince mu I pay taxes like any other citizen "ti income 1 derived (i offl MMircei o! h« than the Pi Ivy Purn .mcl investment In Government rities.
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    WINNIE CALLS IN THE ARMY
    78 7 WINNI E CALLS IN THE ARMY LONDON. Oct. 23: (Renter) -Sir Winston Churchill raited in ii is in. [tai v advlaeri to u Cabinet meeting jretterday to discusi the Eailure ol Um Anglo-1 n negotiators t«* "ii the evacuation <>f Bi italn'j 70,000-strong Suei ■on at tiiL-ir Cairo U k
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    HK FIRMS DCDCE RED EMBARGOES
    204 7 HONGKONG, Oct. 23 (IP) Some Hongkong trading companies hope to skip restrictions on trade with Red China by shifting their headquarters to Japan it was reported today. j 1 The managing director of one firm frankly admitted it was "too difficult" using Hongkong as hi<
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    U.N. Troops For Israel Borders
    232 7 NEW YORK, Oct. 23 Members of the United Nations Palestine Truce Observation Team had advocated stationing forces under the United Nations, along the Israel-Jordan and Israel-Syria border, it was reliably learned here today. Informed sources said the head of the Truce Team, Gen Vagyen Bennike.
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    Duke Leaves £10M. Estate
    65 7 LONDON, Oct. 23 (AP) The late Duke of Westminster, Britain's richest private landowner, left a gross estate valued provisionally yesterday at more than £10,000,000. Death duties of 80 per cent will have to be paid by the London portion of the estate, by far the most
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    Death For Ten
    35 7 THE North Korean Supreme People's Assembly has approved the death sentence imposed on ten members of the North Korean Government convicted last August of treason, the New China News Agency reported.- Reuter
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    BURMA BANS EXTREMISTS
    66 7 RANGOON, Oct. 23, (AFP)— The Burmese government yesterday outlawed all extreme leftist parties, the Communist Party of Burma, and organisations of racial minorities who have been in open rebellion against the government since 11)48. It was understood that the ban was decide^ upon following the ai.-eovery of
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    POLAND ASKS CONSUL TO GO
    46 7 COPENHAGEN, October 23. (AFP)— The Danish Foreign Ministry confirmed reports today that Poland had asked Denmark to recall the Danish Consul at Gdynia. Carl Oscar Thorbjoernsen. The request was submitted to the Danish Foreign Ministry through the Polish Minister in Copenhagen.
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    NO PRIZE FOR PM
    45 7 BRITISH Premier Sir Winston Churchill is not a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, according to Gunnar Jahn. chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Storting Lower House. The winner will not be announced before the end of the month. AFP
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    YUGOSLAVIA BANS TIME
    40 7 BELGRADE. CM. 23 (Router) Two issues of the Amerit ;.n magazine. Time. have been banned in Yugoslavia because they contain reports calculated to damage M «taw and national interests." the Yugoslav nawi agency Tan jug said yesterday.
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    RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICES
    78 7 Stondord London Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 23, The following ore the closing prices of rubber ond tin on the London morfcet: LONDON RUBBER Spot 16 Id. Nov. 16. d December 16 id. Jon./Morch 17 d. Apr /June 17id. July/Sept. 17id. November c.i.f. \6ld. Tone: Bvycrs Very Steady.
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    Strathnaver Is Delayed
    43 8 BOMBAY. Oct. 23. (Router) —The 22.000-ton Peninsular and Oriental liner Strathnaver bound for Australia from Britain has developed engine trouble near Aden, the Company's Office here reported yesterday. The liner due here on Saturday will now be a day late.
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    U.S. BARRIERS ON TRADE WITH CHINA FLAYED
    202 8 U.S. BARRIERS ON TRADE WITH CHINA FLAYED LONDON, Oct. 24 (Reuter) Mr. Donald Anderson, president of the British Chamber of Shipping, recently attacked American-imposed restrictions on trade with China which, he said, were "most irritating" to British owners. i "British ships have had to suffer the indignity of having an
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    Sea Trial For Soviet Tanker
    73 8 COPENHAGEN. Oct. 24. (AFP) The 13.000 oil tanker Tuapse built here for the Soviet Union underwent its first sea trials here recently. The United States has protested over the Danish Government's order with the Russians, but the Soviet Union placed the order before the U.S.
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    Air Radio Link-Up For R.I.
    77 9 Air Radio Link-Up For R.I. INTER NAT lOAL Arradio Limited are installing all air traffic (•ontrnl equipment in Indonesian Stations, under the direction of the Internatumal Civil Aviation Organization's Mission to Indonesia When completed it is expected to be one of the nnrst air radio-link ops in South East Asia.
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    DOING THE MARKET
    309 9 DOING THE MARKET Prices Drop Cents RUBBER prices in Singapore dropped I cent per lb. yesterday to 552 cents per lb. for first grade rubber for November shipment, after having been considerably higher during the day. The market closed easier, though at one stage prices were steady at 56* cents
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    US TRADE BAN ON HK IS LIFTED
    123 9 US TRADE BAN ON HK IS LIFTED WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UP)— The United States today lifted a ban on shipping certain "non strategic" goods to British Hongkong without a special licence. The licence requirement established three years ago after Communist China entered the Korean war, applied to all United States
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    PRODUCE
    85 9 TH E produce market in Singapore remained quietly steady yesterday at around the previous day's quotations with small business p.issing. Copra for November shipment was quoted at $38 per picul buyers with sellers at $39. Coconut oil sellers quoted $61 per picul. Singapore produce prices (per picu!) yesterday we:e:
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    FISH DEALERS MAY LIFT BAN
    26 9 C.lUY.sir, V }< 1 ft ■<n <>n 1 from I 1 wo their A nu*l have to c«^ i. dci ib« matttr.
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    303 9 a* n™ ON Ocf 2 3— Britain's foreign trade cholkcd up o slim 5l 222'222 the first x month of this year— less than a third of the £93,000,000 produced in the second half of 1952. Kcporting this yesterday, the Treasury .said not earnings would
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    SHARES
    106 9 rI IE Mj ayan shj re mai t dull and k\itui i '"MIS VMtll a tendency rtw volume of btl intH v i <i< rriJ>cd by the Mala>ati Sli.nrhrokors A Itttion ••> n .i^i« because of extcew rautioi the part of buyers, \< r sharei remained m i Chained
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    MERGER OF SMOKES FIRMS
    36 9 NEW Y< .UK. Od (A! 1 Philip M nd I Ltd.. on P** <\ nv n ktli b H< Iges. UnHer the 1 r. a d.'w Philip ,v I >irt> 1 I pan
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    Fuel Strike Hits Transport Services
    136 9 LONDON, Oct. 0 (Beater) More than i, «<•<) strikers ignored (Jovernment an,i |'nj« n annnk h» return to work yesterday and JecMed to rontinur thrir peiroi stoppage whidi threateag tt» pnai e London*i transpoi t. II f off the n o/r in,- t t i
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      681 9 S'pore Diary kvala lumpur t I.MTKD V4TION D\\ ENTER l AINMENT SIN: Satya Sodanai ramlh 1 Tan, J o free ¥T film show at OOEON: QlO Vadif 145 515 and Ml l: 3 6 :< Tan Tock Seng Hospital at 7 843 :> m. VJrct Me After The WHO: Apacha
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    OLD MUSIC BY THE YOUNG
    754 10 ■yHE Junior Symphony OrA chestra Singapore's Young People's Orchestra wliich Is run under the aegis of the Education Department is to give a concert in the Victoria Memorial Hall on Wednesday next, October 28, at 6 p.m. Admission is free; invitations and programmes (at 50
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    110 10 The guest of honour, Mr. Harold Williams, made an impromptu reply which included some nostalgic memories of Worcester and Sir Edward Elgar over 20 years ago. (I had to play the Cello Concerto on the gramophone before I went to bed that night). Mr. van Hien
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    OF MEN AND MUSIC
    743 10  -  Bill Webb Jones By HOW fares opera in Australio? The Australian National Theatre Movement, hj 3 a headquarters are in Melbourne, hag just produced Gian-Carlo Menotti's 'The Consul*' and. in playing a number of country towns, cities, and major capitals, it ha s travelled some 6.000
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    STAGEDOOR
    444 10  -  BARRY OLIVER By 'TIIE coming of Xavier 1 Cugat on Dec. Ist. at the Happy World a«nd Raffles Hotel, has opened up a host of possibilities regarding future entertainment for Singapore. Undoubtedly much depends on the success of his visit before one can conjecture what mav be the outcome,
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      87 10 Can You Name This Star? ALL through this week The Singapore Standard prespnts its thirty eighth star contest VTOwP't .>^' x:^' '^Sk j^aßl Wff All you've got to do is to rolled the six pictures and their respective coupons and send them together with the name of the stars under
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    S'PORE TAKE DEFEAT
    584 11  -  FORWARD Selangor Win 2-0 In Quadrangular Opener By little value left in the w\nnln/i? 0r< U Ho S key ssocl *«°n has decided that there's the Southern OaidmrXT a title. In the opening game of two v«lml* I y«««Uy. Singapore's selectors thrfw away ■s^**™^ A^^arsr&tfS.? much success
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    Extra Time Decides This Boys Soccer
    173 11 Extra Time Decid es This Boys Soccer <ll,rr<> «a* nrvrr a dull mo--1)ir nt in vfMrrdav'* Singapore Sj| a ys l»l*r School soccer in i I between Kota Raja and Tanah M.rah at Jalan Besar stadiam. Kota Raja. who flircd vigors by three goals uo decided the match in fourth
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    P&T Soccer Team For League Reply
    47 11 vitig win represent l occer team in a match against United at Jalan ;m on Sunday at 4 i IJ G Pinto, Omar ang Salleh H;ishim lares. A. B. Sidik. my, Lourdes, A. De r irmara joo Javasiri, Carnegie,' and R
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    F&N And Mercantile To Meet For 3rd Time
    347 11 A FINE opportunist goal, brilliantly scored by h\c -risht Samad three minutes to full time, saved rjs«T and Xeave from being edged out of the seminal of the Singapore Business Houses knockout cup competition when they met Mercantile Bank at the (icylang
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    MALACCA START TITLE BID WELL
    358 11 IT was a hot afternoon but the heat did not stop a large crowd from congregating at the Singapore Cricket Club padang for the opening game of the Quad where Malacca, aiming for the title, started off with a 2 l victory over Johore. Fortunes
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    BARTLEYS LOSE 4-0
    47 11 Showing a marked superiority in both attack and defence, Victoria School** "A M team beat Bartley School 4-0 in an inter-school hockey encounter played at the Victoria School ground yesterday. Tht Victorians scored two quick goals through Charlie Chan. Andrew scored the other two.
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    SPS SET TEN NEW RECORDS
    463 11 TT was a record breaking afternoon at the St. Patrick's School's sixth annual swimming carnival which was held at Chinese Swimming Club's pool yesterday. A total of ten new marks were set up. RafTles Institution was responsible for the record when their trio Voon Set
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    FIRST DEFEAT
    21 11 KAJANG, Fri. Kajanc Malavs lost their hockev record when thev went down to High School Kajang by 2— t
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      115 11 IODAITS GAMES 4 p.m. Singapore v johore at SRC. 5.15 P"». Malacca v Sdaniior at SRC TOMORROW 8 a.m. Singapore v Malacca at SCC. 5.15 p.m. Selangor v jfborc at SCC. TODAY 1.45, 4,6.30 4 9.30 9 Tommnm 11 a.m. niElf died WITH THEIR BOOTS ON" <iU)K!A SWANSON JL, Tn
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      552 11 NOTICES CONSTRUCTION OF PROPOSED LABOURERS' DWELLINGS FOR CIVIL DEFENCE. CENTRAL REGION, KUALA LUMPUR ON LOT 2996, RIFLE RANGE ROAD. 'TENDERS are invited for the A constructior of proposed labourers' dwellings for Civil Defence. Central Region, Kuala Lumpur, on Lot 2996, Rifle Range Road. Specification site plan and details of general
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    Ist Hockey Game
    36 12 KUALA KLAWANG. Pit— Th*» Aral ever hockey game was pi lyed here bv the Government English School in a House mitch which ended in Maroon b it ng G i d by 4-1.
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    KING CROW LOOKS BEST FOR MAIN CUP RACE
    339 12  - KING CROW LOOKS BEST FOR MAIN CUP RACE WINDSOR LAD By PENANG. King Crow, a vastly improved Kingstone horse is my choice to win the Autumn Cup over 81 furlongs at the concluding day of the Penang races today. King Crow, was far from disgraced when he finished third to
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    TODAY'S SELECTIONS
    151 12 Windsot Lad Cray Reveller (ioodwood Z NOOIT OK DA CUT ROYAL PIPER ETCHING 1 Etching r. Finish lighting Hnlsh Gambar China Kt ching Nooit Gedacht tm. SEW YEAR OONDOLINO H ARRINGAY X Harringav New Year New Year Big Hit Harrlngay Cabaret II PHOTS POINT PILOTS POINT SIR CLIMAX
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    Kelantan Trial
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    Today's Race Card
    1175 12 RACE 1: 2.30 p.m.— Class 4, Div. Z—l Mile 1. 302 Etching 4y 8.13 Mrs A K DCotta Fox Woods 2. 519 Nooil Gedacht 3y 8.12 Mr. Mrs S.K. Foo R.W. Breukelen Mawi 3. 531 Fighting Finish 3y 8.11 Mrs Loh Chin Allan Smith 4. 208 Trumping.
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    31 12 THE P.itmn> p i H sr. ri-l.ir\: WH i< I «m i I tii-.isun r h auditor: J I) H K Ikii U v badminton iM# fnnis:
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    18 12 K! iLA LI flnalu S K.idminloM B Ull'l Itllv I •Kllll ill it 5
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    N. GEDACHT GOOD BET FOR RACE 1
    197 12 Nooit Gedacht missed his Engagement °n the first day but over the mile he should make a good bet. This Linklater gelding was a stylish winner over the KL mile and then finished in the middle of the field in a division one
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    Scots Grey's Win Points To Double
    471 12 THK Committee Cup over the Penang mile is an intriguing one but I expect the improving Scots Grey to score a double for the meeting. This Scratch gelding came up with a well timed run to head home I.u •hin» over seven furlongs on
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    Colleague Will Raise Another Winning Flag
    478 12  -  WINDSOR LAD Bv COLLEAGUE (Race Four) looks like raising another winning n nus van Breukelen. This Colorado Kid gelding has romp out rizhi l'spell. On Wednesday he gained the judges nod when he ran aw a r* S to finish two lengths clear of
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    GINSENG SHOULD MAKE AMENDS
    200 12 GINSENG ran his best rare yet when he finMie:l a neck behind Heremai over 5\ furlongs on Wednesday. He goes up 3 Ib. in this higher division lot and anticipating improvement he should open winning accounts in this race 7. Galway Greer could improve on his
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    Going Soft
    23 12 PKNANG. Fri.-lleavy rain fell last ni«ht and also this morning. Th P soins for tomorrow's rarrs a likely to »p soft.
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    Ten Teams For PBH KO Soccer
    53 12 PWNASQ. Fiid:iy. The Business Houaet knockout sor cer competition has #ttiact*»d ten teams They nre Sing. Cold Storage. Chartered Brink Boustead Sports Club. India Ci^ar Co. Eastern Smeliin« Company. Mercantile R:mk Fraser and Neave Shell Sports Club. Guthrie Sports Club and Malayan Stevedoring and
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    ACS VICTORY
    20 12 Anglo Chinese School beat Beatty Secondary School threenil in an inter-school lv (Ixtura played at Barker R ye^teiday.
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    HQ Win 2 Games
    25 12 KUALA LUMPUR. FriHQ Ma.-.ya boat RAF J-l in friendly horkcv on the \H) ground lorl.jv. HQ Malay B' heat REMK 3-2.
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    SAINTS COMPLETE UNBEATEN ROUND
    365 12 UNBEATEN St. Andrew's School Ps i .u- i disputed inter-schools' ru^er su,lr"m d defeated Raffles Institution by 12 points iin thf penalties) to six (two penalties) in their Raffles yesterday. r at This victory, their third in succession. completes the Hist round of the qu.Tdrnrnjul.it competition
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    MONTANO WINS IN 6 ROUNDS
    37 12 MONTANO WINS IN 6 ROUNDS lippi!ie>. I K Ixth round boxing at tl btadiwm. Co.r and iraj I that. His iccon el at th<> round Pancho rifhtini i rounH. I in the Hl| 1 Kill 1 M
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