Singapore Standard, 15 February 1954

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  • 17 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD m m. Vol. IV. No. 228. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1934 TWELVE PAGES 10 CENTS.
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  • 174 1 FORCES BAG THE 1,000th BANDIT JOHORE BAHRU, Sun! Se .ty torces operat- Johore one of the; esi sp^ hi the Fede- 1 n M 'itf lilj ba?^ed !ith terrorist since I r. mhv started. made .{•v. jsh r Bekol la e Labis right sparatd the >99th a :ne 2 f
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  • 191 1 Reds Test Strength In India NEW DELHI. Feb. 14, (Ifceuter) The Congress (Government] Party ol In- 1 ■>. ill eel i T StTODgfSt ■m mge fin m Communism m >w v hen mere tiian 4. MXXOOO peop c ol India's S > tthern State 1 1 TravanM P-C >•'■'■■:: begin
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  • 43 1 TOKYO. Feb. 14. (AFP) Another 12 lives were .ost today when a 59-ton fishing craft was caught m a storm and sank off Wakkanai, north of Hokkaido. The drifting wreckage was sighted by rescuers out no onrvivors were reported
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  • 390 1 REPRESENTATIVES of 63 trade unions m Mnsapore with a total membership of about 83 000 yesterday called upon all workers m Malaya to "boy-' ott the Straits Times.' a Colony English daily, "until such time as it acknowledges the right of its employees to
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  • 1402 1 Council Is Now Only A 'Debating Society' KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The National Convention, sponsored by the UMNO-MCA alliance, decided today to petition the High Commissioner and the Malay rulers, urging that Federal elections be held"not later than 1954" and that the legislature should have a three-fifth
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  • 23 1 HOLLAND and Czechoslo- i vakia signed a onesyear trade l v.-r last week. It ex- >:'i .Taru'ary 31. l!'.).!.— Reuter
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  • 89 1 MRS. SUN YEE, who believes she is the first Chinese woman to study modern art m Paris, is shown here at the China Institute. London, with her painting, "Chicks," priced at 50 guineas. It was one of a number of her works on show at the Sino-British Cultural
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  • 99 1 Laos Say 'No, Thank You' WASHINGTON. Feb. 14 CAP) Laos, the Indo-Chinese kingdom invaded by Communist Vietminh troops on Saturday returned, a polite "not just now. thanks" through its Legation here to an offer of help from South Korea. Minister Gurot Souvannavong issued his statement: "Concerning the reported ifTer of
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  • 142 1 BERLIN. Feb. 14, (AP)— Secretary of State Dulles proposed formally today m the Berlin conference that the Bi^ Four foreign ministers sign an Independence Treaty for Austria next Thursday. The America:: proposal I amounted to a deadline for either solving the dilemma over Austria
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  • 36 1 CORTLAND. New York. Feb. 14 (AP) Plans have been announced here for a monthlong visit to Pakistan by Mayor: Robert H. Kerr as part of an exchange programme between Pakistan and Cortiand.
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  • 65 1 ANKARA. Feb. 14. (AP) A blind man stood m line at the city registrar's office for a marriage licence. A friend tame aloni, r and. told the name of the intended bride, exclaimed: But she's ugly Taken aback, the blind man muttered: "They told me she was
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  • 32 1 VATICAN CITY. Feb. 14 j (Renter) Pope Pius XII. for the first time during his threeweek illness. today attended 1 morning mass m the chape] of his private apartment.
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  • 245 1 Paratroops Dropped To Stem Vietminh Advance SAIGOX, Feb. 14.— The French High Command ann6unced today that a battalion of paratroopers were dropped over Muong Sam. 60 miles north of the Laotian capital of Luang Prabang. Muong Sai is being threatened by the advance of two Vietminh columns of several J
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  • 113 1 LEAFLET RAID OVER SHANGHAI TAIPEI. Feb. 14: (AFP)— The Chinese Nationalist air force carried out its first and largest raid over Shanghai last night when the Commui hist-oecupied metropolis was j '-bombed" with 30,000,000 j pamphlets, it was announced today. The raid was described as the largest of its kind
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  • 135 1 Plot To Kill Molotov Uncovered NEW YORK. Feb. 14 (AP)— The New York Daily News quoted Allied security sources m Berlin today as disclosing a plot to assassinate Soviet Foreign Minister Y.M. Molotov m that city last Thursday. The newspaper's story said j the assassination was to have taken place
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  • 123 1 Crowds Kneel In Dust To Pray CANBERRA. Feb 14. (APV Thousands krw:'. m the dust around St. John's Anglican Church, Canbe; i a today when the Queen and the Duke oi Edinburgh attended morning service there Hie tiui i H LOO yi I BBi c and adrm.->sio was, therefore, restricted
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  • 44 1 HON( Feb 'J [UP] KSSOO,(HM) ed by a Magistrate*! terday. The so.ci the Bril 1 bera Queen < H bsl yea effon the ed for S -.-..pore. A tola! of 1.575 taess of go d Krai the r*- egal exp n I
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  • 337 2 Plan To Change Into A Strong Socialist Body KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The PanMalayan Labour Party is planning to reorganise itself into a "strong centralised, fighting socialist organisation to promote the political, economic and social emancipation of the people." A draft revision of its constitution to
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  • 50 2 KUA LA U M PL' R. Sua A I-. e-iian delegai i I he 5 Depul I Mr. R C. W n, today and rt«r acting i men? eoi. osi rf the s g aye oifl I I 9 rhe Standard I eteta v B Ln-
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  • 110 2 MALACCA. Sim. The dedication ceremony of ihe new 1 $80,000 Wesley Church at Tran-j querah today brought Metho- j (list leaders from al] over Malaya to the Settlement to v. itness the occasion. About 500 people i rowded into tiie church which was built to accommodate
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  • 57 2 THE Singapore Police Secretary, Mr Peter Claque, yesterday denied a newspaper report (not The Standard's) that ten men on the island are marked down for assassination by gunmen. "This story ha? no foundation whatsoever," Mr. Claque said. 'No official police confirmation has ever been sought on
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  • 70 2 MALACCA. Sun. The question of building a public swimming pool m the Municipal area of Malacca town will be brought up for consideration when the Malacca Municipal Council meets on Feb. 24. The motion will be brought up by the Progressive Coifhcillor, Mr. P. G. ML
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  • 35 2 THE Singapore Fourth District Judge, Mr. J. B. Jeyaretnam, on Saturday discharged Lim Choon Huat, who was alleged to hav e abducted a Singapore millionaire, Mr. Lim Kok Gin, and his driver.
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  • 30 2 A MALAY and his brother living m Alexandra Road, Singapore, lost all their clothing and a wristwatch, total cost $130, \yhi] e they were at work on Friday.
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  • 79 2 THE case against Cheok Tong Seng, who s alleged to have committed criminal breach of trust of $50,000 wtii c m the employ of Messrs. 1- ay Kerr Co. Ltd.. was mentioned m the Singapore Fifth Police Court on Saturday. Cheok told the Court he could
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  • 79 2 TWO American educators of Harvard School of Public Health m Cambridge. Massachusetts, are expected to arrive m Singapore on Feb 15 from Bangkok. They are on a Far East tour to survey the possibilities of developing a "bridge of health" between Harvard University School of
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  • 55 2 THE Advisory Committee for the Malayan Roya! Naval Volunteer Reserve will be composed of the following this year: Chairman, The Flag Officer Malayan Area; members Mr C C. Tan, the Chairman of the Singapore Harbour Board. the Commanding Officer of Sj e Sin gapore Division of M.R.NV.R.
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  • 169 2 ELEVEN medical students who were killed by Japanese shells on the eve of the fall of Singapore m 1942, were remembered by their friends and fellow-students at a simple wreath-laying ceremony at Harrower Hall, Medical Faculty, yesterday. Telling the tragic story. Professor E. Monteiro said:
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  • 224 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun— A Federation Road Safety Council is to be set up to educate the public m the principles of road safety, to advise on such matters as enforcement of road safety laws and regulations and to create a road safety awareness
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  • 210 2 PATROL GETS ITS FIRST BANDIT KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A terrorist was killed yesterday m Kota Tinggi area. Johore. by a patrol of t lie Royal Hampshires, who arrived m the Federation last month and are stii] undergoing operational training before being posted to a duty station. A ride, ammunition, a
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    • 251 2 3 months' hammering! A T;;dor Qystei Prince the new self- perfectly. Its accuracy astonished us. winding watch commissioned by Rolex Every one of the watch's 157 delicate of Geneva was strapped to the right parts was then checked against the Wrist (ri a stone-cutter whose task it equivalent part of
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  • 360 3 Invitations' Did Not Attract Their Former Comrades KOTA TINGGI, Sat.— Employing the method used by hunters to snare a tiger, a squad of the Special Operations Volunteers Force, (ex-bandits who had defected to the side of the Security Forces), was recently posted m the jungle to
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  • 109 3 TRAFFIC arrangements m the >' mv are excellent, said S:r Thomas Strangman, chairman ol the Singapore Traction Company, before he left by tfa Oranje for the United Ki'-4 lorn .r eight Sir Thomas, who arrived m Singapore six weeks ago for "ore;:: 1 iry
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  • 192 3 SINGAPORE'S new constitution will be a liberal one, aimed at establishing self government progressively, Prof. Hood Phillips, Constitutional Adviser to the Rendel Commission, told The Standard yesterday. He said that the constitutional commission has been studying th.c various political problems confronting the Colony foe months
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  • 30 3 MR. 3.1. C. Compton, on transfer from the Colonial Administrative Service, has beea promoted Deputy Controller of Immigration (Supernumerary), Singapore from Dec. 23. 1953. the Colony Gezatte announced yesterday.
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  • 29 3 THE decomposed body of a Chinese was found hanging from a tree m King George V Park. Singapore, on Saturday. He has not yet been identified.
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  • 63 3 MR. P. T. Woncr was yesterday elected President of the Singapore Junior Chamber of Commerce ior 1954 at their Annual General Meeting held at the V.M.C.A Hall, Orchard Road. Vice-President. Mr. Lim Siew Poh; Hon. Secretary and Hon. Treasurer, Mr Lee Chiew Wing. Directors:- Mr. M.
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  • 194 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Ninty-tive poor families m Johore Bahru District, dependants o f tuberculosis patients m the General Hospital, are today flat broke and badly m need of assistance. During the past three months these families have not received their monthly subsistence allowances from
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  • 174 3 Standard Staff Reporter THE 29,000-ton Canadian Royal Navy destroyer hmuii arrived m Singapore yesterday on her way to Halifax, Nova Scotia, via Colombo, after completing her second operation m Korean waters. The officer commanding the ship. Commander T. C. Pullen, was received at the Naval Base
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  • 123 3 FIFTEEN' thousand copies of popular Hindustani BOOgE m Romanised Malay are now available m Singapore's bookstalls to meet ;ne demand o! those singers whose tastes have t3ken a turn towards Hindustani music. The publication of these nookis the resuH of the combined efforts of three
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  • 221 3 THE Thai Government has agreed to supply the Governments of British territories m South-East Asia a minimum of 276,000 metric tons (maximum 400,000 metric tons) of rice this year. This was announced yesterday by the Governments of Singapore and the Federation, Special provision has been
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  • 22 3 THE body of a new-born baby boy ua., found Moating m the Singapore River, near Boat Quay, yesterday afternoon.
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  • 132 3 Build More Schools— Govt. Urged I THE Federation of Ka Via* Chu Associations (Malaya) decided at their annual tneet- m Singapore yesterday to urge the Governments of Singapore and ilie Federation to bui d mon school I i acrom- nds" of children who are now unable to attend school due
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  • 121 3 THE Singapore Yfouth Council is organising a £aia ddi.ee lin aid oi the world Assemb f •of Youth and 'he Tanah Merah Camp Funds. at the I Badmintofl Eiall on March *> from 8.:-io to i a B The dance is beiQg held under the
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  • 62 3 A Police Inspector v«*s terday evening saved a Chinese from being badly beaten up by 12 secret society gangsters m Tapah Street. Singapore. The gangsters were attacking their victim with sticks and fist s whe n the inspector arrived on the scene on his motor cycle.
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    28 3 photo MEMBERS of the St. John Ambulance Brigade (YMCA Divisions 1 and 2) who held their annual picnic yesterday at the Hua Yu Villa. East Coast Road. Standard
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 85 3 Weather Report I Minimum Temperature: from 7.:i0 p.m. 13 '2 54 to 7.:50 a.m. 14 154 Singapore (76 F), i Penan? (75 F). Kota Bahru j (75 F). Kuala Lumpur (71 F), Ipoh (74 I i. Kuantan (71 F). Maximum Temperature: from 7..50 a.m. 14/2/54 to 7 :?0 a.m. j
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  • 713 4 COLOMBO PLAN IS STIMULATING THOUGHT IN AUSTRALIA A SIAN students studying m Australia under the Colombo Plan have plenty of opportunities to mix informally with Australians. Friendly gatherings organised by social clubs, religious organisations and individuals are helping to foster friendship between Asians and Australians, and are stimulating thought and
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  • 893 4 ATOMIC energy is pene- m Australia under the Coin a growing number of cities and town? across the United States young boys and girls are learning that there is far more to atomic energy than the souring and bn>oding mushroom cloud
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  • 488 4 ryt\ tittlf girls m Brook hn. and thr more or less v ling hrothrrs of onr o Iht-ir number. hu\e started utu-om-monlv voun» to fulfil an ambition to become journalists. Di ected by the < year-old H unthh I i The b 8
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  • 75 5 .LEFT: "Two Sisters" by Lam Sai Hoong of 30 Campbell Street, Penang. Rolleiflex, fll, 1/lOOth, Isopan. ABOVE: "The Shy Lady" by Francis A. Loh of 451 St. Joseph's Lane, Singapore, 19Linhof Technica, f4, l/50th, Peruz. ABOVE RIGHT: "Grazing" by Khaw Eng Boon of 26 Kinta Lane Penang.
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  • 429 5 Malayan Share Market (By Market Correspondent) UNFORTUNATELY, activity on the Malayan markets was far rerr.ovefl from that on the London Market which had quite a hectic week, beginning on >i0...:;i u:?h the greatest turnover m seven years. I o 1 a reduced there was sed ova
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  • 297 5 Industrials: Consolidated Tin Smelten Or is. 245. 9d. to 255. ;o 245. yd., Fraser and Neave Ords. $2.00 to $2.02;, Federal Dispensary $2.80. Gammons $:i.t)2i to $-5.07 i to $3,021, Hammers $2.90 cd cb. John Littta 18s. 6d.. Malayan Brew-, cries $3.20. Malayan Collieries 85 cts,
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  • 220 5 TOKYO, Feb. 14 (IP)— Japanese delegates who negotiated the recent Anglo-Japanese trade agreement m London warned the nation recently not to be to<» optimistic *about future trade between Japan and the British Commonwealth. They said the pres lion held no promise of immediate improvement m
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  • 33 5 NEW DELHI. Feb. 14 (UP)— India has decided to import 600,000 tons of rice from Burma 'o build up its reserves of this item, a Government spokesman said today
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  • 36 5 WORK is rushed under the personal supervision of Eire Ambassador, ML Abdel Verdier. on the instal ations for the French Industrial exhibition which is expected to be v m Bogo'a. Colombo, next week. U.P.
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  • 717 6 LWPRESS my satisfaction at the determination and dc ffOliOT to duly which led to the extermination of IJUs dangerous .g tinman." the Governor. Sir John .N ■< I', -^.d m a menaflc at congratulation to the Singapore Police Force. Sir John's commendation ol the Police gallantry m
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  • 1830 6 SDFGDSFGDFSDFGSDFGDF i *y 1 1 THIS year expeditions of many nationalities will be climbing m the Himalaya. The ascent of Mount Everest has stimulated further the interest of all mountaineers m this wonderful area of unclimbed peaks and unexplored glaciers. The techniques and equipment
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 624 6 Sir: I would like to reply to the Straits Times editorial entitled "A Million Dollar Error". The Benham scales of salacy replaced all other scales of salaries for Government servants as from 1.1.50. The teachers and a few others rejected the Benham proposals. Government, however, implemented
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  • 149 7 DON'T MAKE ANY DEAL WITH RUSSIA, WARNS VIETNAM lhree yesterday not to make any deal with RuS I c^jEsrj^BCgar b a^sastf Mrs Sss^rss z 2 ars SMtraussSS "Important consequences might result m our country ne said. ""Anyway Vietnam would not recognize aa y obligations agreed to without its appro- i
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  • 138 7 TORONTO. Feb 14. tßeuter).— A 30-year-old German brunette. who had 187 proposals of marriage by post, arrived here by air yesterday to meet the man of her choice. >liss Lilo MMSCfcc was met by Mr. Jack Fletcher. \vho>«- letters were so >imere and attractive that
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  • 92 7 Panic Over Indo-China Piastres SAIGON. F- b I I .APi pren es :^e off] i s re- ■re 10-C lina piastres I transfers to F:\ The action rame a mI d ..rs the piastre U leva m I nrona m |q perhapa On Qm r^o money nart I no fi
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  • 32 7 SCOW, F-. >. 14, (Reut< rj —Soviet a ea bay« no« p< rm to 1 its to phd ph stw ier« Bui ib&y cc pictures Urn s rtel I
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  • 116 7 TOKYO. Feb. 14. (AP)— The nunists yesterday denied j v. >. I barges that they had ggled warplanes into Korea m olation oJ "he Armistice and refused :o consent to a behind-the-Une* investigation. Tiie Reda accused 'he U.x. Command making th c 'harges to oi ci
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  • 29 7 ELDER statesman Tsou-Lu, lei Chancellor ol Sun Vat- University m Canton and me .<• Preskleni Chiang Kaishek's ■■>' sers died yesterday m Taipei, o ins 3 cerebral lage. AP
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    51 7 photo. A FRENCH reconnaissance plane flit's low over a file of French Union soldiers on Colonial Road m Indo China. The troops come to the rescue of a French outpost m the Gian Khau region, attacked by Vietminh Red forces. The battle is raging on all the war fronts m
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  • 47 7 photo SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD PRINCESS MARGARETHA of Sweden, wearing a brooch on the bodice of her strapless gown, was attending the recent Swedish Naval College's ball m Stockholm. With her is naval cadet Anders Forsberg, whom the Princess partnered at the dance. A. P.
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  • 121 7 'If Indo-China Goes, Asia Will Go, Too' CLEVELAND. Fob. 14. (AP) Senator Stuari Symington (Democrat-Ma) told the City Club yesterday that "if we lose Indo-Cbina, we lose Asia." "Then," Mr. Symington added, "i; would be only a question of time before we lose the whole free world." The man who
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  • 448 7 NO WAY TO UNIFY KOREA PEACEFUL LY'-RHEE Conferences With Reds Cannot Possibly Succeed' SEOUL, Feb. 14: (UP)— President Syngman Rhee rejected todoy any peaceful settlement of Korean problems and warned that withdrawal of American troops will disintegrate the United Nations army in Korea. The South Korean President, in an interview
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  • 103 7 I VATICAN CITY. Fcb 14 (UP).— Pope Pius XII yesterj day recorded the introduction of a message to the sick people of the world which will be I beamed on both sides of ih e Iron Curtain by the Vatican Radio tomorrow evening. A microphone and
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  • 20 7 A RECORD 53 Bovemnv contributed U5514,245,00fl 10 the United Nations Child i i Fund (UNICEF) last yeai
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  • 198 7 THOMASVILLE, Georgia, Feb. 14, (Reuter)—President Eisenhower will send Congress a special message next week on the peace time use of atomic energy by American private industry and the sharing of certain atomic information with America's allies. Mr. Eisenhower's plans were announced here yesterday. He I
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  • 22 7 THE pilot was killed when a Royal Air Force Meteor jet fighter crashed m Horsham. Sussex, on Friday.— AFP
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  • 45 7 HONGKONG. Feb. 14: (Renter). The American-owned airline the Civil Air Transport, announced rrere today that the second evacuation of more than 2,000 Chinese Nationalist guerillas and their dependants from Burma to Formosa by CAT planes would definitely be resumed tomorrow.
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  • 103 7 LONDON. Feb. 14: (AP).— Britain's young Communist League claimed yesterday "many young people" are both Scouts and Communists. The assertion was made m a letter, to Lord Rowallan. Britain's Chief Scout. The letter protested against the current move to oust 19-year-old Paul Garland from hi?
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  • 72 7 BOSTON. Feb. 14. (AP).— English-born author Brian Cleeve has been ordered to leave Scuth Africa as a "political intractable." his Boston publisher. Houghton Miff lin Co.. said on Friday. The publishers quoted a letter m which Cleeve said: "For a year or so now, the
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  • 60 7 LONDON, Feb. 14: (Reuter) Soviet Premier G. M. Malenkov, m a message of greetings to Mao Tse-tung to mark the fourth anniversary of the sign- i ing of tlie Sino-Soviet treaty. sent his good wishes to the Chinese people for the "development and consolidation of its
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  • 44 7 I ATLANTA. Feb. 14. (UP)—' RKO Picture Corporation today accepted the offer of Howard; R. Hughes' to buy out the company for US $23,489,487. The acceptance by Use directors of the linn is subject to I approval by RKO stockholders.
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  • 41 7 V IV EC AIN DUBLIN SWEDISH actress. Viveca Ljnfors, arrived m Dublin yesterday with British author i J. B. Priestly and his wife. Jacquet A. Hawkes. to play the j lead at Dublin Theatre m their play, "The White Countess." AFP
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  • 47 7 TAIPEI. Feb. 14: (AP).— A three-man South Korean mission, seeking an Asian alliance against Communism, arrived here today. A call for such an alliance was jointly made >\ President Chiang Kai-shek vi Nationalist China and Presideni Syngman Rhee of South Korea En November.
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  • 19 7 SIXTY-FIVE Soviet scientists have been decorated with the Order oi Lenin m a Kremlin ceremony AFP
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  • 227 7 It's Still Time To Keep Power Balance In Far East ST. LOUIS, Feb. 14. (AP)— Sen. William Knowland said yesterday he believes it is still possible to keep the "balance of power" from passing into Com-; munist hands m the Far East. 1 ''although the hour is very late." Sen.
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  • 166 7 CAIRO, Feb. 14, (AP)— An Egyptian Government expert outbid foreign buyers and bought two major- lots of ex-King Farouk's stamps tor a total of C 5.100 at the auction m Kubbeh Palace yesterday. The. lots amounted to ten complete sheets of a stamp Series
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    65 7 photo FORMER Interior Minis ter Mario Scelna. read- In* statement to ilw Pi«>^ during an inlet view uitli Italian radio and Newsmen. Earlier, he (ailed «>n l*nsident Laiffi Kinaudi. wha offered him the difficult task of forming a new government m the hope ol finding a solution to
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  • 53 7 LONDON. F.-: 1 [Bt U Mrs. Chariec Chaplin merly Oona o"Nei] with her a< "or husi ai United States En bas en yesterday sn I •<- -nounoed her American iti» ship. She Mgiieri a d© I giving up her p aftei eing a -ken by l
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  • 143 8 EXPERIMENTS in the United Kingdom in the use of tin as a means of preserving jute bags against rot, mark the latest development in a new use of the metal which opens a wide field of potential uses. Tin for these experiments, is
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  • 82 8 KARACHI; Feb. 14. (UP).— Pakistan is making rapid progress m its stepped-up programme for self-sufficiency— m the production of eot'on textiles, according to statistics released here today. During the month of December. 1953, Pakistan turned out as much clcth as it did m the entire year
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  • 36 8 THE United States will not authorise the sale to the Soviet Union of surplus food products belonging to the U.S. Government, the Commerce Secretary. Mr. Sinclair Weeks stated m Washington yesterday. AFP
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  • 54 8 TOKYO, Feb. 14. Japan's rayon yarn export contract set a new record nign last month, the Japan Chemical Fibre Association reported. The Association said Japa" contracted to export 3.463.530 pounds of rayon yarn to foreign countries, including I^JJ-JJJ pounds for South Korea. <4-.b/U for Communist China,
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  • 40 8 BUENOS AIRES. Feb. 14. (UP).— An Argentine-Japanese I agreement to exchange a total of U. 5.5180.000.000 \vorlh of goods this year will be signed here as soon as the Japanese Embassy received permission from its government m Tokyo.
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  • 45 8 WELL-INFORMED United States Government sources expect some gafa m U.S. consumption of tea as a result of high coffee prices but think that the price of cocoa beans is too high relatively to encourage greater consumption of cocoa as a beverage. U.P.
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  • BOOKS of the WEEK
    • 937 9  -  HAROLD NICOLSON The Diaries of Lewis Carroll. Edited by Roger Laat-elyn Green. Two Volumes. (Cassell 305.) WHEN m 1898 Mr. Stuart Collingwood published the 'Life and Letters" of the Rev. C.L. Dodgson. it was assumed that, owing to natural piety and the fussiness of his aunts,
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    • 439 9  -  Maurice Richardson Searchlight on Psychical Research: By Joseph F. Rina. (Rider 25 S By .\\\VVV\\V\V\\\\Y\\\V\\\\\\\\V\\\V\\V \|R. RINN* is a veteran American psychical researcher and friend of the Late Houdini, that incomparable illusionist. For more than fifty years his hobby has been exposing fraudulent mediums. His book is an
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    • 941 9  -  IVOR BROWN -By LONDON IT HAS BEEN agreed by the devotees of Sherlock. 2 Holmes that the great detecj (ive is now a hu dred years old. Since he was stated by Conan Doyie to be sixty m 1914. the arithmetic is on j their side.
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    • 199 9  -  Geoffrey Crigson 4.1 tveig, Men c■ /w, -C H Morus. {Goi:a>, 2U.| \By < |N Vi torfao tfmet j Mid others v.,--5 o nnibus tx ofci c aboid c I Vr. a 5 L tures; S h 5 Family Robinsoi n bo ir.. f I woi tnd f uti
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    • 88 9 LLOYD TRIESTiKO MAKE YOUR ROUND-VOYAGE TO HONGKONG IN AIR CONDITIONED COMFORT SIN 1 1. Ml lON I I \l m I.INKKS "VICTORIA" "ASIA" ll\ l»\\^ KUI'NU IKH 1 w iiis h, it m ik«\<,lnmN4, \IO\IIII S^||.|\4.v lllitM *|N<.\P<HSii Al.-O K\l'Kl.n» MONMIIN »I.K\HI 'JO ITM.\ UIIH X All < n\\l r
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 229 9 Lii Abner By A/ Capp A f y^P 8y VT. Han,Un I^^^^^^^SSioii 0 Iv^y.-^Y^I I k"'-^ lHkk b& L^T S K NO l! W IT' l_H PCNtY UNCLE £AM\ SURVIVE? VOtJ <Xr£iteTsF \l^^^ C E TlMf: 1 EXTRADITION \1 _^^H "5O NARROW- CAN CO ABOUT iSJStoK AND L M^HINE' VS:TM
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  • 1212 10 (CAIRO, r VHh recent meeting between the eighteen-year-old King Hussein of Jordan anil King Sand of Saudi Irabia, who is already a veteran m the politic* of the Arabian desert, uas more than a mere courtesy between neighbouring tnonarchs. 7 lif meeting,
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    • 340 10 Where Is British Justice Sir; I would refei "Job Hunting" to read The Standard of the following dates 28.5.53 and 18.6.53, m which he will find letters signed "PLAIN PAUL" and "MATA BUTA". I too wa= convicted for C.B.T. and served a sentence. Did I not pay the penalty for
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    • 120 10 Sir; Having noticed on several occasions, letters m your paper from Asians vho have been assisted by Europeans after accidents. 1 should like to bring to your notice arc occasion irhen the reverse teas the cute. On Chinese Xcir Year's day, Hie car 1 was driving iras
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    • 64 10 Sir:— While I was travelling to Taiping. I left my Identity Card m the mail train. After returning to Ipoh the next day 1 was about to make a report, when I received it through the post. Although the sender did not give his or her name, I wish
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    • 71 10 Sir,— May I through the medium of your paper draw the attention of the OC Traffic Committee of the City Council of Singapore to the need for a ZEBRA Cro.-smg m front of Haig's Girl School m Tanjong Katong Road. I am sure that the OC
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 238 10 ORGAHISATION^^ ATTRACTIONS "^jr a <«ats S3 Seats ci>» parchuso reservable by at tr.eatr^ JbT 4^ > tt>le P h< >n e or onU at theatr e The M-G-M World-Wide FILiM FESTIVAL N.G-M*! mm. ii i > 1 1 .1 li >m oi.ch; ADVENTURE!! TODAY ONLY!--f #^Zactually js^^ unu a* m
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  • 442 11 LONDON, Feb. 13, (Reuter)-West Bromwich Alblon today strengthened their bid to become the finrt 4 iub this century to win the English Football Association tup and the League championship m the same reason. eing two goals down i. n mutes' p. 1 a
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  • 312 11 UK SOCCER POSITIONS ON. Feb. 14 iR( Leagui ci I I >75 94 a .i i i i a 41 4 it i 1 -i ►11" i i I 12 4 14 4 !66 2 »9 59 y .-i 4 4 h 14 h ::i i. 44 1 4 11
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  • 85 11 Hockey Star Kills Himself CAMBRIDGE. MASSAI HUSETTS Feb. 13, (UP). F Olym pi .".'.key star. R<■ ci L. Elliot. (45), of Marblehead, ig rted js a suicide I i -> v after c »llapsing at his office icrc E..io f was a vice-President of the McA ister-Nicknell Co.. Hipp f
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  • 32 11 1 ONDON Feb. 14, (AP Mrs. Hele i Futo v. m the British men's amateur billiards championship ait night, de[f eating Miss Maureen Barrett !bv 44J points to 43t.
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  • 228 11 Fe i 13, (Beuesta kg< on ex Western > m the Baal i> ol •ir S i \frican ci ickei v a tdxy :ierl "■<"• n? 3 i" 1 < a ji kei v:■ |l bs |he Pros 'e'-; It, >•• 324 lot ared, J. ?-.d
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  • 184 11 NEW YORK, Feb. 14, (Reuter).— Horace Ashenfelter, the record Olympic 3,000 metres running champion, set I up a world's best time for the j indoor two mile s m the New j York Athletic Club games last night. His time was 8 mins. 50.5
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  • 81 11 MANILA Feb. 14 (AP)— Catherine Ctaecketti of Singapore and Miss Kamo of Japan won "the doubles title from Filipina. Desid>-rui Ampon niid Loures 1 Ang, 0-. I m the Asian tennfs championships here today. Mis>- Kamo, the pretty Japanese champion, playing a deadly net
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  • 72 11 Star S ecerites beal EmbafkaS tes, Rahim Omar vo c ich aiid Tan Man Fook one. Rutherford scored: Farrer Juniors beat Yang Wah 1-0. Hassan was t!"e scorer. Town Rangers beat Junior A A 3-1. Ifariamuthu <2^ and Morris scored fat 'he Rangers. Baskaran reduced the score
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  • 371 11 TWICKENHAM, Feb. 13, (Reuter) -England beat Ireland by 14 points (goal, penalty goal, two tries) to three (penalty goal) after a hotly contested rugby union international here this afternoon having led by 6—3 at the interval. A crowd ot over M.OOO saw an entertaining
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  • 401 11 Great Forward Display By Beaten Scots MURRAYFIELD, Feb. 13, (Reuter)— The New Zealand Rugby Union team touring Britain beat Scotland by three points (a penalty goal) to nil here today. Scotland who had lost 12 internationals m a row confounded expectations with a great display especially forward. Here Doug Elliot,
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  • 95 11 BOMBAY, Feb. 13, (Reuter) Twenty-one-year-old Nandu Xatekar, the reigning India badminton champion, and Trilock Kath Seth. last year's champion, left here today by air for London en route to Glasgow where they are to play m a world invitation tournament. Later they will play m the
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  • 102 11 SAXDOWN, England. Feb. 14, (AP). Dorothy Paget's Mont Tremblant, a 22-1 chance m the March 27 Grand National, carried top weight of 171 Ib. to a five-length victory m I the Grand International HandiI cap steeplechase at Sandown i Park yesterday. Mont Tremblant was favoured at
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  • 481 11 Varsities Draw Their Matches LONDON, Feb. 13. (Reuter). —Ken Jones, the Newport and Welsh International wing threequarter. injured a leg muscle m his club's home match with Leicester today. He was off the field for al! the second half but Newport won easily by 20 points to three. Londo n
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 118 11 FOR SALE HOUSE No. 64 Jalan Kampong Paloh. Ipoh: Vacant: Area :<9 poles. Offers should be enclosed m a sealed envelope with words written at the top "Offer for Hpu.se" and addressed to the Assistant Official Assignee. Perak Sessions Court Building, Ipoh. Offers after 25 th February 1954 will not
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    • 591 11 NOTICES TENDER NOTICE PETALING JAVA k, SELANGOR '"TENDERS are invited for the construction at Petaling Jaya of 1. Labourers Quarters 2. School Teachers Quarters. 3. Senior Officers Quarters. Plans may be seen end Specifications. Schedule cf Rates and Form of Tender may be obtained at the Development Office Petaling Jaya
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    • 766 11 SITUATIONS VACANT I PERSONAL Assi--ant tr ti.f pore. salary scale ??-52 pn. p'u^ C.O.L. and Singapore aiiu*: :icc* Total emolumenis at present l for an orVicer who is singlt S IAC p.m; for a marrifd officer $852 p.m. In add, '.ion a housing allowance is paid "m lieu of Qtiarten.
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    • 487 11 Standard ServtOi For The inrmploM'd AT VOl R St-RVKK Are vu um-tripuoed and m u«-rd: To help \ou find work Urn Sinita> por«> Standard I nrnipli,\m« nt Bureiu oflers you fret- s pa«< m this column. Just call or write >our local Standard oth< l«r an applir-jtion fur.n wlmli <>d
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  • 202 12 TWO MEN one from India and one from Seremban shared the same ground at Jalan Besar stadium on Saturday, with but one thought m mind: to keep the little white, ball out of their respective goals. On the left f R. Francis, India's goalkeeper of
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  • 540 12 NG SHOCKED THE HALL MEN Influenced' By Parties' Who Want Stadium Closed! STATING that the Singapore Badminton Hall Fund Committee was 'shocked' that of all people it should be Mr. Ng Keng Siang, the designer of the Stadium who should take legal action against the Singapore Badminton Association, a press
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  • 716 12 THE Indian Hockey Federation team begin their upcountry tour at Malacca today when they play a Settlement side and then continue what will be the most strenuous part of their visit— strenuous from the point of view of the long distances they have to
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  • 166 12 WONG CO. THRILL TEMPLER Xl ALA LUMPUR S in.— 1 "et th< usand oighi ranv Chenyv v A rj m vatch the cream cf the luti rhasera .:i nc- paid .-e-.-t'r.i ars and m '.vere helping a:' >' —La Temp!er'i T tal. Obvio J Peng Soon. 1 was ire cf
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  • 54 12 two Singapore Kampang League soccer matches for the 1 Tiger Bee:- Cup were played ■1 Alexandra Road yesterday. la the first match. Kebenarj:i Club, bea: Permuda Lath an 3-0. Hantid, Bashfan, and AH Ahmad were the scorers. Boana Vista Ra«gers beat IBadan Kesenian "B"' 1-0. MohdL
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  • 397 12 Xl ALA LI MPIR, Sun.— The Football Association of Malaya, at its annual general meeting held here today, unanimously adopted a resolution to carry out a vigorous campaign against the Federal Government's imposition of entertainment duty on soccer. The resolution a;is moved by Mr.
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  • 309 12 THE Third Annual Medical Week goi under way yesterday whea Undergrads met the Graduates at crickei jor the Hoisington Cup presented by Dr.) Mrs. I. Rajaratnam at Sepoy Lines. Undergrads retained the cup for the second ■•ear. winning by 10 wickets. The Grads won the toss
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  • 178 12 IT should be a very busy afternoon tor many Singaporeans who plan a big welcome for the returning Aw Cheng Chye Cupperg from Australia today. While many Colony personalities have promised to forego their middav lunch (the ship i s due about 1
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  • 367 12 SINGAPORE'S outstanding tabfe tennis player. Low Heng Chew, who will remembered for hi s great victory over world ranking Fu Chi Fang, of Hongk<>. m the first Asian Championships, retained his singles title and also won doubles, when the Singapore Table Tennis Association Championships
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