Singapore Standard, 3 March 1954

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    20 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD GHKGHK ft t, m s. Vol. IV. No. 244. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1954 TWELVE PACES 10 CENTS.
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    Fanatics Shoot Up Congressmen In Assembly
    307 1 Fanatics Shoot Up Congressmen In Assembly WASHINGTON, Mar. 2 Several Puerto Rican fanatics, led by a 34--v ear; Id woman, cut down five members of the I'.S. House of Representatives here yesterday with a wild fusillade of bullets from the spectators' gallery. T:i-- ar.'s. who wanted to ".<. anybody in
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    4 Trucks Go Oft The Rails
    110 1 4 Trucks Go Oft The Rails SEREMBAX, Tues. The soods train f° r Singapore, which left Seremban at 7.40 this morning, was derailed one and a half miles from Seremban Raiiway Station. Four trucks, fully laden with I vegetables and perishable goods, went off the rails. A policeman received minor
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    ...And Mow Kenya Bans Arms
    68 1 ...And Mow Kenya Bans Arms WIKOBI Mar I (Keuter Keny.i -> Leni.slativv f uacil w is told toAu :n.,; in fiuiire nobody wiuiit: In aU*>w»'d to take firearm* into the Council h lasbcr. Less than "-4 hours after ire shooting affray in Hm Hous»>* of Represratsitiv«s in Washington. Ike T-*
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    SIXTEEN SENT HOME
    78 1 COLLEGE STRIKE IPOH Tues. Sixteen out of the lt)3 Malay students who staged a mass walkout at the Junior Technical Trade S'.-hool on Fei). 12, have been given fares to return home. In a letter to parents, the Chief Instructor. Mr. P. H. Cooke, states that the
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    MUST BE COMMUNISTS BEHIND PLOT, HE SAYS
    202 1 KANSAS CITY, Missouri. 2 —Fo President H Trumaa whose as>a a was attc npte i o:: W '.vj- "very .v .-.-.>■■. ne waa '.o i shooti 4 the Reprt atatives in eking that su -h a d b ip Truman i i P..
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    ZALI INSTALLED
    27 1 MOHAMMED Saleh M. Za i. th.> new Tunisian Prem er, was officially installed yesterday of the at Dar E] Bey, the se 'Tunis Government AFP
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    SUSPECTS NABBED
    70 1 THIS ASSOCIATED Press radio photo from New York via London, below, show s three suspects arrested immediately after fanatics had sprayed pistol bullets into the U.S. House of Representatives while it was in session. The woman is identified as Lolita Lebron. in whose hapdbas police found a note
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    Now Robin Hood Joins The Fight
    111 1 Now Robin Hood Joins The Fight BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. Mar. 2: (Reuter) Twelve Indiana university students, describing themselves as "Robin Hood's merry men", have called for recruits to combat "both Communism and the McCarthy ism threat to American freedom". "Wear the green feather", said a printed pamphlet, criticising Senator McCarthy, passed
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    5 PURGED IN SYRIA
    72 1 DAMASCUS. Syria, Mar. 2., (AP) Syria's new Premier.* Sabri Assali. forged ahead to-, i day with purges of followers of ex-President Adib Shishek- ly. He fired five close associates of the dictator who fled to Saudi Arabia after an army revolt last Thursday. Those ousted i
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    Rubber Wages: Times Urges Round-Table Talks
    305 1 Rubber Wages: Times Urges Round-Table Talks LONDON. Mar. 2 (Reuter)— The Times today submitted that the wages dispute in the Malayan rubber industry may be resolved if a 1 round-table conference between employers and the rubber workers can be held. This independent newspaper believed that a strike in the Malayan
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    GOVT. WANTS TO BE 'BOOKIE' TOO
    415 1 For The Sake Of More Revenue From The Horses-* THE Singapore Government is planning to compete with illegal book-makers, and rake in more revenue from what has been termed the country's "third major industry horse racing." In a press release, the Government said yesterday
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    Girls See Sister Hacked To Death
    285 1 Girls See Sister Hacked To Death Standard Staff Reporter TWO teenage Indian girls yesterday saw The-:: 33-year-old si.-*< j backed to death with a parang by a man a: Btti mile. Yi i Chu Kan^ Road. Sinc;apotc. T 9 »mi 1 A mother of i ten. v. as n ported
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    Naguib Had A British Guard
    234 1 Flies Back To Cairo CAIRO, Mar. 2. President Mohammed Naguib and Major Salah Salem, Minister of National Guidar?e, returned to Cairo today from Khartoum, where British troops guarded them all night after yesterday's rioting in which 30 people were killed and 117 injured. Men of
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    RED CARPET WAS A FEW INCHES SHORT
    139 1 RED CARPET WAS A FEW INCHES SHORT MELBOURNE. Mar. 2. (AP) The ladies of suburban St. Ki'.da roiled out the red carpet today for the Queen and found it a few inches short. They made their shocking discovery only a short time before the Queen was to \va;k across the
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    FAMILY OF 4 ARE POISONED
    58 1 LONDON. Max. 2. (AFP)— An entire family wa- discovered poisoned in their home at Waltham Cross in the out--1 skirts of London today. Four members a grandI mother and three of her grandj children, two girlc and a fivei year-old boy are dead. Police have
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    Stop Press
    40 1 GEORGETOWN. Mar. 2 (Reuter) England are almost sure of victory in the third test against West Indies, needing only 73 runs for a win. LATEST: West Indies all out for 256 in the second 1 innings at lunch.
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    POLYTECHNIC PLAN BY UK EXPERT
    273 2 POLYTECHNIC PLAN BY UK EXPERT Govt. Confident Of Early Start Standard Staff Reporter A SPECIALIST from Britain will arrive in Singapore on Friday, to initiate the preliminary planning of the Colony's proposed Polytechnic. He is Mr. A.W. Gibson, Principal of Dudley and Staffordshire Technical College and Secretary of the Association
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    Boy Was Dragged By Car After Accident
    207 2 Boy Was Dragged By Car After Accident BUTTERWORTH, Tues. A child of RAF parents stationed at Permatang Kuching ran across the main road as a cSr was approaching. He was knocked down, and carried for a distance of 20 yards and died of his injuries while on the way to
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    NEW OFFICIALS OF PRAI MIC
    95 2 PRAI. Tues.— The fourth annual genera! meeting of the Prai Branch of the Malayan Indian Congress was held on Feb. 25 The- following officials were elected: President Mr. X. Govindasamy. vice-president Mr. S Rama >a my: Hon. Secretary Mr. M. Somasundaram; Assistant lion Secretary Mr.
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    TWO DIDN'T GIVE DETAILS
    63 2 FOR failing to furnish the particulars of the driver, who had committed a traffic offence on last July 20. Kwok Wah Kee. the car owner, was. fined (100 by the Singapore First Traffic .Magistrate, Mr. F.A. Chua, yesterday. Another car owner. Tan Kim Hoe of Victoria
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    MR. COMPTON He Will Take Over
    51 2 photos. MR. M. C. Compton, the new Deputy Controller, who will act as Controller, when Mr. Haxworth retires. Mr. Compton came to Malaya in 1946 as District Officer, Perak. He was transferred to Singapore as Assistant Financial Secretary and later acting Deputy Financial Secretary.
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    MR. HAXWORTH He's Due To Retire
    46 2 SINGAPORE'S bearded and ever smiling Controller of Immigration, Mr. J. L. J. Haxworth, who will sail on Mar. 13 on leave prior to retirement after 26 years' service in Malaya. He was partly responsible for the Colony's new Immigration Ordinance.
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    HE FORGED HIS LICENCE
    55 2 FOR forging his trisha rider's licence, Wong Ah Yew, 54, was sentenced in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday to 18 months' rigorous imprisonment. When arrested at a road block in September last year, Wong was found in possession of an expired licence which had been altered
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    BAR BOY GETS A WARNING
    68 2 LING HO SENG, a bar boy. who made a false declaration, was yesterday cautioned by the Singapore First Traffic Magistrate. Mr. F.A. Chua. not to try to get a licence again. Ling was charged with making a false declaration and obtaining a driving licence by
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    GOLD CROSS IS STOLEN
    41 2 A GOLD CROSS worth $12 was among various articles stolen from a Chinese house in Ang Siang Hill, early yes- i terday. Also stolen were a purso with $50, a fountain pen and two bunches of keys.
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    STOLE FROM HOSPITAL
    36 2 MALACCA. Tues.— A cook in the General Hospital. N.E. Sebastian, was sentenced in the Malacca Sessions Court here today to six months' imprisonment for theft of food valued at $1.80 from the hospital.
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    HK EXCHANGE
    37 2 HONGKONG. Mar. 2:— Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were $15.48 to £1 sterling. $5.***** to US$l; $1,817 to Malayan SI: $0,214 to one Indonesian. Rupiah; Gold 5250 to 1 tael.
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    GIRL MISSING
    23 2 AN 18-YEAR-OLD girl. Lee Soh Tin. has been reported missing from her house in Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore, since Feb. 24.
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    NEW INDUSTRY: FROZEN FISH
    223 2 Standard Staff Reporter A NEW industry— frozen fish— may soon develop in Singapore if experiments, now being conducted by the Fisheries Department, prove successful, said Mr. Tah Ah Kow, Deputy Director of Fisheries yesterday. The process of freezing fish has already proved successful,] he staled. 'We
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    COMMODITY PRICES
    106 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (rents per lb.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No 1 K.S S Spot Loose 52; 535 No. 1 K.S.S. 53^ 53 1. No. 2 R.S.S. 53A 533 No 3 R.S.S. 52k 525 Tone: Quiet. ILN PKICE The price ot tin vesler day was S.'i2fU.
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    WEDS IN PENANG
    49 2 PEXAXG. Tues.—Miss Jacqueline Marie, daughter of race horse trainer, Mr. J.W. Manning an:i Mrs. M; nning was married today at the Church of the A; u i| tion, to Mr. John Francis A:: in. A large gathering attended the reception held at Ko. 12 Lo&au Ruad.
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    JAIL FOR BREAKING PROMISE
    91 2 M. RASU (20), who was under a probation order to be of good behaviour for two years, appeared yesterday before the S ore Fourth District Magistrate, Mr. J. B. Jeyaretnsm. eaking his bond. The Magistrate told Rasu "This is the sixth time you have broken your
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    New U.S. Trade Outlook
    159 2 New U.S. Trade Outlook SOUTHERN California is in a position to supply many of the basic requirements of the Malayan people, the Director of the Far East Division. World Trade Department in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Mr. John A. Sowers, said 3'esterday. Mr. Sowers who returned to Singapore
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    He Kept Trains Going Despitekeds
    78 2 AFTER 35 years" service with the Malayan Railway, Mr. Sinniah Maganathar, Chief Permanent Way Inspector is retiring. He leaves soon for Cry ion. Immediately after the Emergency was declared, he was stationed at one of ihe 'hottest' soots in Malaya. Mentakab. While there, 'he Communists
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    He Shot Man's Nose, Court Told
    223 2 WHEN his demand for money was ignored, a young special constable from Johore. Mawi bi n Dollah, was alleged to have shot a Singapore poultry dealer in the knee and nose This was stated in the Singapore Assizes yesterday when Mawi was charged with
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    I-C FORGERY: YOUTH JAILED
    57 2 I -C FORGERY: YOUTH JAILED A YOITH. Lim eT< was sentenced in the E g; pore Assize Court three years' impri for iu:ging an idei* It was stated that Lira I stolen the i (entity moved its owner's p and rep >.■■< d it sritii ■e of own. Police, acting
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    64 2 MISS SIZY WEE. 21. another contestant for the Kiwi League's "Singapore Youth Beauty Queen" contest, which is to be held at the Raffles Hotel o n Mar. 5. The League intends to make this contest an annual affair, and a 12-i»eh silver Challenge Cup ha* been donated by Dato C
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    POLIO SCARE IN K.L AGAIN—TWO SCHOOLS CLOSE
    301 3 POLIO SCARE IN K.L AGAIN— TWO SCHOOLS CLOSE Kt ALA LUMPUR, Tues— Another poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) scare has hit Kuala Lumpur parents. Two polio cases reported over the weekend cau»ed the temporary closing down of two schools a kindergarten and a creche. These are the Alice Smith School in Damamsara
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    PUBLIC WORKS WILL AID JOBLESS
    133 3 PUBLIC WORKS WILL AID JOBLESS Standard Staff Reporter TH >UGH ---:c is ear pa:ii>S re trade unk i er ii 1 unemplo •be G intent Is a J-.t the atl The C Chief Employn•■ l -er. Mr F. G T. i Th Standard jresterd thai Ii Govern- ..r Ex i
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    58 3 photo. MR. JOHN VINE, Club Captain of the Royal Sin-japore Flying Club, was entertained last Saturday to a dinner at the Sea View Hotel on the occasion of his departure for Eu?h»i. Picture shows (from left): Messr*. F B. Oehlers, N. Kingsley Pallant. J. M. Devereux Colebourn, John Vine. K.
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    Federal Counsel's Authority Is Challenged
    436 3 Federal Counsel's Authority Is Challenged KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The authority of the Federal Counsel to represent the Government of a State in the Federation in a civil dispute, was today challenged by the solicitor for the defendant in a civil suit heard before Inche Ismail bin Mohd. Jamil, the first
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    AUSSIE GIFT FOR YOUTH COUNCIL
    134 3 AUSSIE GIFT FOR YOUTH COUNCIL KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Majayan Youth Council haf 1 received a cheque for £20 18s. 2dL (approximately S180) from the Presbyterian Fellowship of Australia to promote youth work in Malaya. Delegates n f iv3 receni Presbyterian Fellows h i p camps held in Adelaide decided
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    AID DETAILS
    45 3 MR. M. P. D. NAIR, Independent Labour Legislative Councillor for Seletar. will ask at the next Council meeting. for the nature and details of aid Singapore has Deceived to date under the Colombo Plan, and what further aid [s expected in the future.
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    Transport Problem Is Solved
    133 3 (Standard Staff Reporter) HUNDREDS of residents in the Serangoou Garden Estate have solved their transport problem For the Singapore Traction Company en Monday started a regular bus service from the Estate to Finlayson Green. The General Manager f>[ the S.T.C.. Mr. A. A. Ewing, told The
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    Oil Company Sends Local Staff For Studies
    479 3 Oil Company Sends Local Staff For Studies STANDARD-VACUUM Oil Co. is sending lour of its senior Resident Staff employees to New York for special training courses early in March. These four employees will have an opportunity to undertake special studies in their own fields of endeavour as well as to
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    They'll Aid The Blind
    72 3 THESE are the Singapore I'ilippino women who will exhibit and s.-il Philippines-made souvenirs at the International Bazaar on Saturday in aid of the blind Picture shows from left (sitting): Mrs B. d? Leon. Mrs P G. ieraita. Mr> <\ Corrleirn, and Mrv K Bacsafra. Standin«;: Mrs
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    'MAN GAVE UP WITH A SWORD'
    276 4 —Sergeant Tells Court PENANG, Tues. How he saw a Chinese woman lying dead in a bathroom in one of the houses in Perak Lane after 27-year-old Ong Thean Soo, holding a sword in his hand, had lodged a repoit at the Jelutong Police Station
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    ROK Team Hands Out Invitation
    147 4 ROK Team Hands Out Invitation A SOUTH KOREAN goodwill and observation mission arrived in Singapore, by PAA Skymaster from Saigon i^T night, to invite local leaders to visit and see the destruction inflicted bv the Communists to, their country. These envoys of President Syngraan Rhee are Mr. Young j P.
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    THEY IGNORED PC's PISTOL
    79 4 THREE men, all armed with daggers attempted to rob a carpenter in his shop in front of Singapore's Rumah Miskin Police Station at (lawn yesterday. As the three men held up the carpenter, his brother slipped away, ran to the Police Station and came back with
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    WRONG HOLD BY INSPECTOR
    94 4 KOH KIM SENG was yesterday acquitted in the Eighth Police Court of kicking Cadet Inspector Seah Wah Toh in the stomach when he tried to stop him creating a disturbance at the Happy World Stadium on Feb. 22. Mr. Leslie Rayner, defending said that the arrest
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    Britain To Step Up PRO Service
    181 4 LONDON, Ma*. 1, (Renter) Britain is to strengthen her information services in South-East Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe, in the coming year. Mr. Anthony Nutting. Foreign Under-Secretary, said today. He told the House of Commons there would also be some reinforcement
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    LAUNCH CHASE GETS FOUR IN POLICE COURT
    136 4 FOUR Chinese, found in a sampan about 200 yards from the motor vessel Baud, were charged in the Eighth Police Court, because the ship had not yet been inspected by Immigration authorities. One of the men who fell iuto the sea. was seen
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    Soldier's Visit Lasted Two Years
    232 4 WHEN a Malayan Other Rank attached to an j KASC unit in Singapore received two letters from his wife in Kuala Lumpur one of which stated that his daughter was ill he approached his commanding of- fieer for leave. The leave was not granted. A
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    PERMITS A 'MUST' FOR JAP TUNNY VESSELS
    173 4 PERMITS A 'MUST' FOR JAP TUNNY VESSELS Standard Staff Reporter j JAPANESE fi s hin g j boats, which intend crossing Singapore territorial waters on tjheix way to fishing grounds in the Indian Ocean, will have to obtain permission from the Government every time i they do so. said Mr.
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    131 4 THE Prefect of Saigon. M. Nguyen Phuoe Lor. and two City Councillors. M. La Thanh Nghe and M. Nguien Van Thom. arrived in Singapore by PA A Sky master last niirht on a one-week official visit. They have been invited by the City President. Mr. T. P. F. McNeiee, to
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    Judge With A Memory Cowed Him
    136 4 A STATEMENT made five years ago by Bagbir, a cowherd was recalled by the Singapore City Court Magistrate. Mr. J. M. Devereux-Colebourn, yesterday, when Bagbir was charged with keeping cows in the City limits. "You said the same thing to me in 1949, remember?"
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    TIME TO ACT, SAYS UNION
    102 4 Standard Staff Reporter THE SINGAPORE Workers Union is threatening the Phoenix Aerated Company with a public campaign to boycott its products "unless a satisfactory rep!y j s received within a week" on its workers' grievances. Union President. Mr. Peter Williams. told The Standard yesterday that
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    PROSECUTORS NOT HELPFUL – COURT
    273 4 PROSECUTORS NOT HELPFUL COURT DEFENCE counsel, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, asked the City Police Court yesterday to clarify a charge against the director of the Bombay Trading Company for operaing a ratan factory without permission. "Who's the prosecutor?" Mr. J. M. Devereux-Cole-bourn asked. "Is this man being charged under section
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    Chief Hits At The Careless Driver
    210 5 Chief Hits At The Careless Driver THE Colony's Traffic Ike Chief. Mr. W. R. M. Hax worth, on Mon- (^iticised a section Singapore motorists km careless driving. r\ rtv-five per cent of the notorists. he said, stall i an at junctions, fail to attention to other motorrt. •:< the ash
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    20 AUSSIE ARCHITECTS SEE COLONY
    91 5 20 AUSSIE ARCHITECTS SEE COLONY TWO Y A istralian ar -Y- n1 I VOrld Dg s arrived in S Tuesday for a '■V P. a i mhr, de j gatii a and were recc v d irp rt by Hm Austra- Commissioner in G« rge S the Assistant Tr Ic
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    'Lower Our Standards? — No Fear!'
    167 5 'Lower Our Standards? No Fear!' Standard Staff Reporter THE UNIVERSITY of! Malaya authorities have met I representatives of Singapore Chinese schools on several j occasions to discuss the ques- j tion of lowering the standard of education in the University Sir Sydney Caine, Vk-e-Chan- cel'or, told The Standard 7*s*erday: **We
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    81 5 THE Governor-designate for North Borneo Mr R. E. Turnbull. C.M.G., and Mrs. Turnbull photographed on their arrival in Singapore en Monday on board ttie Cartha?e. They left by air fo r Jesselto n yesterday. Prior to his present appointment, Mr. Turnbull was deputy High Commissioner of the Union of South
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    Didn't Know The Word
    85 5 UM GONG, a labourer, told the Seventh Cowi Magistrate yesterday thai he did not know what the v. hi "Police" meant not what a police station was. He baa been a resident in the Colony for the last 33 years. He was charged with obstructing a
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    TROUSERS CASE
    43 5 A WOMAN, Khan Boh Lin, i i the Sir j in ire Fifth Poli "e Court a: is t rate, Mr. D.H. CJ] by r -v other whotn p t tro The w >men, I Yin and Ah Kgan, re I
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    O.K. Scientists To Help Us Study Body Cooling
    178 5 Nlis;.' :i Staff Re^ort.-r SI S from Bi I i Cai re exS gai re hoxtty 1 M effects g that are ie University ot Standard learned ■be reseai workers, BIS B i of the NaI ail itc r Medi Re-' I
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    61 5 photo. DIRECTOR of Shell Transport Trading Company, Mr. J.W. Plan and his *> i rr 'red ■■> Singapore yesterday, by 80.A.C. Argonnut Jrom Bangkok on. a arfd-r'' f ipection or Shell installations. jk, „,e i!t Kvlxng Airport by Mr. DH. Palwer, general vunnger of Shell omgtmy, and wiU be leaving
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    Laycock Does Not Want To Be A Minister
    256 5 Laycock Does Not Want To Be A Minister Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S veteran politician, Mr. John Laycock, (Progressive), Leg- j islative Councillor for Katong, told The Stand- j ard yesterday, that he was not prepared to j take up any ministerial post in the nev Govern- j nu i nt
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    52 5 MR. B F. H. B. TYABJI (left), ambassador-designate of India to th e Republic of Indonesia, seen with Mr. M. GopaJa Menon, Representa- tive of the Government of India in Malaya, in Singapore on Monday. Mr. Tyabji arrived in the Carthage on his way to take up his new post.
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    C.D. TO HOLD A HOBO NSGHT
    105 5 THOSE who are bound by so ;a co/iventions but arc hoboes by instinct will have! the opportunity to throw off their inhibitions on March ti. when the Singapore Civil Defence Association holds its "Hobo Night" social at its Ko'am Ayer Headquarters. Members of the
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    Troops Go Home After Three Yrs.
    210 5 Troops Go Home After Three Yrs. Standard Shipping Reporter THE Ist Battalion the Queen's Own Royal West I Kent Regiment are due to leave Singapore in the trooper Empire Orwell today after completing three years on anti-terrorist operations in Malaya. They arrived in the trooper Devonshire on March 3, 1951.:
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    Ballroom Dancing
    113 5 AN Official Board of Ball- room Dancing (Singapore), has been firmed with the object of controlling and recognising i all official Colony champion- ships. It has been exempted from registration by the Registrar of Societies. Officials of the Board for this year are: Chairman Mr. C. H. Chan.
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    50 CIGARETTES COST HIM $100
    45 5 'LEE GUAT YONG, 25, was yesterday sentenced in the Singapore Fifth Police Court on Monday to three weeks' simple imprisonment and fined $100. in default a further one month's jail, for cheating one Syed Mohammed oX a tia of cigarettes,
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    502 5 STONE FOR GEN. HOSP. MISTRI GIFT IS LAID THE Foundation Stone of the Mistri Wing at the General Hospital named after the late Mr. Navroji Rustomji Mistri, who donated $950,000— was laid by his brother Mr. H. R. Mistri yesterday. This new wing a four-storey building will provide 200 beds
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    38 5 photo. MR. E. BOWEii. who arriv ed ia Singapore on Monday to take up his new appointment as United Kingdom Trade Commissioner in Ma laya. He will take over from Mr. K. E. Mackenzie. the present Commissioner. Standard
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    PAYMENT OF BOARD RATES
    78 5 THE Singapore Rural Board will make a collection ol a. rates and dues payable to truBoard on houses, Jand and rubber estates in the Changi District on Tuesday, March 9, at No 15 IK Upptn Changi Road. Payments can be made during 9 a.m. and 1.30
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    THUGS INVADE YOUTH CLUB
    68 5 FIFTEEN young men invaded the compound of Katong Boys' Club in Joo Chiat Road, j Singapore, late on Monday night and clashed with four youths sleeping at the club-j house. When the battle was over, it i j was found that a Colony box- I er.
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    Time For Talk
    755 6 r PHE workers in the rubber industry having almost unanimously rejected the unfortunate, and now largely discredited Taylor- Award, which recommended the tilth successive cut in wages, union leaders Viave once again appealed to the employers to resume Be spoliations. Some of the employers have complained th:it
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    Reviews of Views
    356 6 Reviews of Views Party Negara UTUSAN MELAYU say s that if a competition were held in Malaya for attractive political party names the 'Party Xegara" would easily win. It.s name is all embracing for a people like those in Malaya who have for long wished to be an independent nation,
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    22 6 "If that fails to pull the wife up with a jerk the next time she drives in I'm beat!" t
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      256 6 Sir: -I think that I have been a Trades Unionisi as long as Mr. Josey so perhaps l may join issue with him when he writes thai the alternative lo Trades tlnionism is Communism. There are others jusi a< grim, when Trades Unionism ceases to
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      135 6 Sir: K<Mdin!> the let- I ter in yesterday's Stan- i dard from the Managing Director of The Straits Times reminded me how comparatively easv it is sometimes to try to poke fu n at a writer instead of replying to what he has written. In Mr. Simmons' case
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      TRAFFIC PUZZLE
      137 6 S r: —It \va« must annoy- J_ ing to seo thai r: traffic arrangement was made to control ;he flow of traffic along the junction of Ja'.an Ah Fook and Jalan Station, Johore Bahru. during the Chinese Wayang which began on Monday Feb. 22. Thousands oi peop'e jammed
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      DISCRIMINATORY
      131 6 Sir: I am very disappointed at the news that children born outside Singapore do not enjoy the same status as the local born children in the matter of admission to Singapore schools. I have been here since prewar but all my children were born in the Federation ol Malaya.
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      Question Of The Hour
      236 6 Sir; The question of the hour which every business man is asking himself is how long this so-called trade depression will continue and will it end in complete and universal stagnation? The greater question, however, which is now forcing itself upon all business men is whether
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      119 6 OU T OF LINE II Sir; Universities all over the world have been known lor long to be associated with some great metropolis or individual e.g. Harvard. Oxford. Paris. Bombay. Peking. Hawaii etc.. the terms American, English, Indian or Chinese being used merely to distinguish national groups. Thus, the name
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      135 6 Sir; Mr. Chan Kum Chee's suggestion that petrol oil tankers should not be allowed to use the Kallang bottleneck during rush hours deserves every support. It is not the obstruction but the likelihood of a col- I lision with one of these tan- j kers that is the
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    After The Buganda Crisis
    1302 6 After The Buganda Crisis By The Times Kampala Correspondent 'THE recent Buganda crisis was undoubted 1 y influenced by events in Central' Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria, and even in the Sudan. It was also affected by the widespread fears of East African federation after Mr. Lyttelton's East African dinner speech
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    8 6 They're not only making history*-' they're making geography
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    Grave Concern Over R.I. Riots
    174 7 JAKARTA, Mar. I— (AP)— lndonesian authorities se>teru*ay showed considerable concern at the riot during Sundays mass religious demonstration which resulted in one army captain killed and an unknown number of other persons injured. The demonstration was staged oy a quartet- million men and Rrocoen from
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    30 7 photo. The candid camera reveals Queen Elizabeth discreetly adjusting her belt at a rally of Ex-Servicemen and women at Canberra Standing with the Queen is the Duke of Edinburgh. UP
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    Red Allowed To Remain A Rover Scout
    74 7 UNGHAM Eng I Ri r] Seoul Ml IB a S S Moveas S Richard H ie- the Young iue. ii s Pa Gai Bristol S sn from ■ause oj Qnv i i the Odd S Lord R the Couni Captaii Spreckiey II i
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    BRITAIN PLANS HUGE ATOM REACTOR
    139 7 LONDON, Mar. (UP). Minister of Works Sir David Eccles disclosed yesterday Britain is preparing to launch u "powerful and dramatic" reactoi project design- i Bel more power to the ounce of uranium. He hinted the plant—which DC built inside a buge steel sphere to prevent
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    37 7 BANGKOK, Mar. 2, (Renter) —The Thai Government is considering banning or restricting import of foreign films as a step towards conserving Thailand's foreign exchange. The move would be designed also to promote the Thai movie industry.
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    NEHRU MAY OUST U.S. PERSONNEL
    280 7 Kashmir UN Team Not Neutral Now NEW DELHI, Mar. 2, (Reuter)— lndia is expected to demand the withdrawal of American members of the United Nations observation team in troubled Kashmir following Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru's declaration yesterday that they could not be considered neutrals after United
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    POPE (78) CELEBRATES
    71 7 VATICAN CI^Y. Mar. 2. (Router) Yellow and white 1 papal flags fluttered from Vatican City buildings today j as Pope Pius XII, on his sicki bed, celebrated his 78th birth- day and the 15th anniversary lof his election to the papal throne. The Pope, suffering from a
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    U.N. Duty To Consider Withdrawal
    156 7 U.N. Duty To Consider Withdrawal WASHINGTON, Mar 2—(Reuter)—The State Department said yesterday that the United Nations might 'have to consider a possible demand by the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru. for the withdrawal of United States military observers attached to the United Nations truce team in Kashmir. Mr. Nehru
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    9 DEAD IN WRECK
    40 7 NEWCASTLE. Wyoming. Alar. 2. (Reuter).— All nine people aboard a Western Airline's plane missing since Friday were found dead when a search party reached the shattered wreckage in the rugged Rochelle hill area near here yesterday.
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    VIETMINH POISED FOR ATTACK ON I.-C. RICE BOWL
    164 7 HANOI, Mar. B— (UP)— Commaaiat rebel armies were reported massing around the Hanoi delta yesterday to threaten the Indo-China rice bowl during forthcoming peace talks. Staff officers believe rebel "Generalissimo" Vo Nguyen Giap may make another bid at cracking the formidable Preach
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    A-Device Exploded In Pacific
    114 7 WASHINGTON, Mar. 2 I (UP) The spring series of I atomic tests in the far Pacific i has begun with the explosion of "an atomic device." the I Atomic Energy Commission I announced yesterday. The tests are expected to i continue i'or some weeks and Lto
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    NSW Will Repeal Press Gag Act
    77 7 NSW Will Repeal Press Gag Act SYDNEY. Mar. 2. (Reuler). —The New South Wales State Government planes to repeal the "Press Gag Act" passed last year after newspaper al- 1 legations of corruption in Sydney City Council. The Act— officially called the Sydney City Council (Disclosure of Allegations Act) sought
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    Vhat Is Wrong With Joyce?
    91 7 Vhat Is Wrong With Joyce? LOS ANGELES. Mar. Z (AP) It took two doctors, three assistants and two X-ray machines to find what was wrong with a 15-year-old girlShe is Joyce, a 300-lb. elephant i n Griffith Park Zoo. "She'll be laid up about a month," Dr. Victor Tierstem, veterinarian,
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    HAF Priority for New Jet Fighter
    149 7 LONDON, Mar. 2, (AP)— A new jet fighter which can blast through the sound barrier in level flight is under top-priority construction for the Royal Air Force, the Government said yesterday. Several Western countries have operational squadrons of fighters that can dive through the
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    SIXTY-SIX MAU MAUS KILLED
    65 7 NAIROBI. Mar, 2— (AP)— British security forces in Kenya killed 66 Mau Mau ter- rorists in the four days ending j Saturday, it was announced j here Monday. One white man and ten Africans serving with the security forces were killed. British Assistant Inspector Derek Farncombe
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    LIABLE CANCER CASES
    89 7 THE HAGUE, Mar. 2 (Reuter) A Dutch doctor has said that inn-keepers and waiters whose job entails using alcohol in fairly large quantities, are seven times more likely to have throat cancer than men i n other professions. The claim was made bv Di. .1. Z. Baruch,
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    MAGSAYSAY SAYS 'NO' TO HUK CHIEF
    112 7 MANILA, Mar. 2— (UP)— President Ramon Magsaysay yesterday rejected a move that he meet with Communist Luis Taruc to discuss terms for the surrender of the Huks. Instead, the President called Taruc's attention to Government terms submitted to another top Huk leader Casto Alejandrino
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    44 7 photo. It's not every man who gets a chance to face a- gale and enjoy it. But actor Don Defoe does so here as he has a brief chat with screen and TV actress Gale Storm a t a recent Hollywood dinner party. AP
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    27 Vlant Li To Be Sacked
    115 7 TAIPEI. Mar. 2, (APi— j Nationalist China's General Pai Chung-hsi bas demanded i the impeachment and ousting ;ol disgruntled vice-president I Li Tsung-jen his closest poI Htical and military associate J for more than a quarter ol a century. Both are natives of the
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    BUU LOC TO SIGN PACT IN PARIS
    149 7 BUU LOC TO SIGN PACT IN PARIS SA] JX. Mar. 2. (Reuter>— The Pi -ik? Minister ol Vietni rr Prii Bju Lor. left re for Pi i today to negotiate t treaty with Prance granting h s Indo-Chinese state complete independence within the •Trent h Union. A treaty w. I
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    MAUS ABDUCT TWO CHILDREN
    51 7 NAIROBI. Mar. 2. «R iterj A Mau Mau gan£ U one automatic weapon other firearms atta< ki burned down African quarters on Europeai in the Rift Valley, Bi. Army Headquarter :•!>■ ed yesterday. One young African git m wounded and two African women and two childn
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    RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICES
    78 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Mar. 2. The following are the closing prices of rubber and tin on the London Market. LONDON RUBBER LONDON TIN Spot 16 d. April June 16id. j c July September 16|d. f I October December 16Jd. j March c.i.f. 15 15 16d.
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    Crowds At Graham's Opening Address
    208 7 LOXDOX. Mar. 2. (Beuter) Hundreds were turned away from London's huge Harringay Arena last night as American evangelist, Billy Graham, opened a three-month Greater London crusade on a strangely quiet note The barn-storming American hoi gospeller wore a subdued deep bine gabardine suit and a
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      107 7 the new STANDARD EIGHT Designed for Happy Family Motoring in Malaya THE STANDARD EIGHT represents a major achievement in the reolms of popular motoring. Its designers set out to produce a car which would give the family motorist all that could be demanded in the way of efficiency, economy and
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    US 'Shadowing' Of British Ships Ends
    297 8 LONDON, Mar. 2 (Reuter)^-Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, told the House of Commons yesterday that Americans had stopped ''shadowing" British ships in their ports after British representa- tions last June and July. He was being questioned on protests last week by the British
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    TWO FIRES ON BELGIAN SHIP
    103 8 CUXHAVEN (Germany). Mar. 2, (AP>— Troubles have dogged the Belgian freighter Oui s Sheid— a collision and two fires in two days. The 6,G39-ton ship, carrying cotton, coffee and other goods, collided with the 12,502-ton Panamanian tanker Irving Brook on Sunday just outside Cuxhaven harbour.
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    RI MOVE TO FORM OWN BUFFER AGENCY
    325 9 RI MOVE TO FORM OWN BUFFER AGENCY By ARNOLD C. BRACKMAN, Standard Special Correspondent JAKARTA, Mar. 2, Deputy Vice Premier Wongsonegoro has revealed Indonesia's intentions to go ahead with the development cf her own rubber bufferstock. It would operate in the interests of small-holders during the presentday period of depressed
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    62 9 photo THIS is the neu Mercedes Benz t\ litre rat. a? tar (formula one) which has just be<n completed ..r.d rl enter international race* this year. Its top speed i> Mid t» be about 180 mph. No other data has been release < bj ttie Mercedes Works at Stuttgart. With
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    SHARES
    144 9 u- i were :n. j T. i e arti\ ty in the til .1 wen s d or ed en IVM <TKf I i \v i oc M Brewi 7 tent 1 u Ma a van < 0 *0. Ordj i.w I Btra 2 0 s'pore T; a Qrds.
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    PRODUCE
    109 9 THE PRODUCE marfeel m Singapore was dull i w tfoos rcay. rrith only Rna repoi te I Con! a b rs i m M irch and Ap: i .V Si5J per pi< .vth se i 135| a v,h: el for Mn tiprr.i .t q :o' S i-':r. v k
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    New Activity In Textiles Forecast
    171 9 Standard Market Reporter THE textile trade in Singapore may soon experience renewed activity in anticipation of demand from Indonesia and Pakistan, leading merchants here forecast. The rvo nooptrieß Mfe be iieved to be interested i: tex tiles because oi tht approach of the BarJ Raya.
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    Minister Is Aware Of Our Prices
    176 9 LONDON. Mar. 2 (Renter) Mr. Heathcote Amory Minister of State at the "Board of I 1 Trade, said in the House of Comrnon s yesterday: "The j Minister of Materials (Lord Woolton) is aware that the present price of natural rubbar is low in
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    JAPAN EXPORTS
    23 9 JAPAN will export goods to Britain to the amount of j £14.500.000 during the coming; year. Kyodo News Agency said.— A.P.
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    A Record Tyre Output
    66 9 NEW YORK. Mar. 2. (LP> Production of passenger car tyres hit a new all-time high in 1933 while shipments were the second best in history, the Rubber Manufacturers Association reported recently. Tyre m.liers turned out a record 81.45'.. '.05 passenger car tyres last >ear. This was
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    MARKETS
    132 9 QUIET ooditioas ■>_ pro. 'vailed on the Singapx tr I market which clo.se' at 53 a rents per lb. for fir gratia rubber for March iment (S3 5 8 rents on M The only notab'e I < f the market yester I as ia- '^res- i y factoi Tiie
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      372 9 ffl Jmeg By Al Capp A6.VicISS E>;DS.'-^Nt 3^ WMN DIDN'T V.'E TH:\iK O' >. UNCLC IRONFANTS. fr _^v\ WHO EVER A E.££T*vwmA«. .SSENOiisi'iN )>^*l UMCLX IRONPANTS B.EPORE? J HOWDIDVD' V SAIPAH.7 X "**X. D£ASONhOwTO 6:T, jSfIA Mt STARTED LITE. BEiM' -r— < EVER GiTOUTA )\K DID? <g f £*-EF THAR
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      842 9 mm Surface Mails I p ffi,T^ |U NG A P OREI WEPAKTMCI-;: T, V^V r r% fc jp Al ica a d EasJ Al ca i tetters mxpsOK; i>. d Forl E&^^/ j l[Hlrnlilpli weekly luncheon mee*-. g l ri'lillC RELATIONS; i'ree educa-; <. i; j !r > s Tk^
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      380 10 THE orchestra at the Highway inn was pluvinjr "Lovely Lady" when this picture was taken— an appropriate tag to ine nighterie's charming singer Anita scon. Apart from her prowess behind a ""ke. Anita also writes -qngs many of which have aroused notice in the IK. Strangely j-nnugh. it
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      IT'S THAT GIRL AGAIN!
      193 10 IT'S THAT GIRL AGAIN! RACK In Singapore after her three months' successful son? tour of hvurlinj. Si'ou Miri. Brunei and L.i'.Hi.wi, singinjr in the Cathay O r g 3 nisation rim>njas there. Hong; Kong: star Alice Lee is now featuring with the bund in the Capitol Chines^ Restaurant. Duringtnur she
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      'Um! These Mushrooms Aye Delicious!'
      113 10 A >' Dl in e\;>rc>ooro» and a contrast in tackling Chinese "makan" was captured bj r*v n- earner* in rin? R>of Garden Friday night. Threesome busy on meal are Cant. 8i i: I. v i:;it) and lohn Batenma, Fir^t Officer of KLM fame and P.arhar*
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      May Her Wishes Come True
      127 10 "CHIN chin" says Frances as jhe drinks a toast to nappy jr.i>s in Singapore with hubby David Brown of the Admiralty. The Browns who come from tl:e West Country, in the UK have been in the Colony a year now—found the Highway Inn a cosy
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    England Are In A Winning Position
    330 11 GEORGETOWN. Mar. 2. (Reuter)— England are in a winning position at the end of the filth day's play in the third Test against the West Indies yesterday. t West Indies scored 251 in the first innings in reply to England's 435 and following- <
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    Scoreboard
    152 11 m In? land Ist innings 135 We*t Indies First Inning* W.irrHt c Evans b Siuthmn 0 Stoilmeyer b Statham I Hreke* b Lock 94 Clyde Walrott b Statham 4 Christiani c Watson b Laker S3 (.onu-i b Statham 8 Atkinson <• b Lock 0 MeWatt run out 54 Holt
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    SCOTTISH CUP ROUNDS 4 DRAW
    61 11 LONDON. Mar. 2. Reuter) The draw tor the fourth round of the Scottish Cup made yesterday is: Aberdeen versus Hearts. Hamilton Academicals versus Celtic, Partick Thistle versus MotherwelL, Third Lanark or Rangers versus Berwick Rangers. Marches to be played on S av March 13. Replays,
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    The Cydaris And Matinee Impress
    639 11 By WINDSOR LAD PENANG, Tues.— Making their efforts in the centre of the second track which was opened for fast work this morning, Jimmy Martin's pair— Ballroom II (Viney) and Matinee (riding boy) were very attractive workers when they ran three furlongs in 37 4/5
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      357 11 2nd Half Rally IPSWICH, Mar. 2, (Reuter) The New Zealand Rugby Union touring team, playing an unofficial match against South 1 eastern counties here yesterday, won by 21 points to 13 after being led 13-3 at half I time. NOTICES A JR. Wong Peng Tong is no longer in the
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      690 11 NOTK cmr council of SINGAPORE TENDERS ELECTRICITY DEPART- ii 111 MENT: (a) Tenders are tl nvited for the purchase of 12 tl ots of scrap materials. S Schedule of materials and con- iitions of sale may be obtained p from the City Electrical Engineer's Office (Room 109). 2 Close NOON—
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      778 11 DEATH I RAGUXATHAX: Sudden > at I MOOLAI. CEYLOX. on Ist March C. Ragunathan late Re- 1 gistrar of Co-operative, Societies. I Ceylon. ACKNOWLEDGMENT THE FAMILY of the late Mr. Yee Cheok Wah ihank all friends, relatives, for their night visits, loan >f ears, letters and telegrams of condolences and
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    MARINES' NINE GOALS CAME IN 2nd HALF
    375 12 reinforced Marine Sports Club proved too clever and classy for depleted Kota Raja and crowned their efforts with a crushing 9—9 victory in yesterday's SAFA Division One League game at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Already noted for their fast and fiery soccer the
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    Radin Mas Beat SHB Police 5-4
    228 12 in a kttnly contested puved a: the SJI.B ground yesterday P^din Was Ramblers. a Mm '.earo in the S A. FA Division .<A League. narow'y be»t S.H B Police by five goafs to four. Radm Mat were one up In the Brs on mitt
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    The keferee Was Lenient
    151 12 SEL£T R Football Club points when "■"K; a .ir Mus 1 i >;^ Leagu« a S.A.F.A Division K S3 i Farrer Park pesr S< etar score three > i s one. R prevent good 'si ia e ri«ht M M. the \v >rst ffende: H .id
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    Raub Cricket
    27 12 RAk b ru«s m« nrkket v < 1 t cer.ed avith a ri t > R mb ers an 1 thi Rcsi Tie ended in di iw
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    Another Jardine Needed
    244 12 LONDON, Mar. 2 (AFP)— English cricket could do with another Jardine. This opinion was expressed by George Duckworth, former England and Lancashire wicket-keeper, when he arrived at Tilbury, yesterday, in the s.s. Chusan, following his third tour in four years with a Commonwealth team in India. The
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    24 To Bid For Island Club Title
    213 12 24 To Bid For Island Club Title THE annual Island Club Championship will get under way this week-end when 24 members with handicaps of 13 and under play their 36-uole qualifying round. Eight players of the 24 will qualify for the second round which' will be decided by match plav
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    T. Bahru Rangers Get Good Start
    305 12 TIONG BAHRU Rangers got off to an impressive start of their SAFA Division II league against BODCA at St. Georsje's Road yesterday when they scored a runaway 6—l victory after leading 2 l at half time. Rangers victory was a reward of good teamwork.
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    Bintang Win By The Only Goal
    135 12 DOMINATING plav for the greater part ot the -jume. Bintang Bulan Sports Club beat C.vrp- khana Sports Club 1-0 ni their S.A.F.A. Division :!B rixiure at; St. George's R'»ad yesterday. Gymkhana's goalkeeper, S. Regunathan, was the tutstanding player and saved his side from a
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    Kampong League
    20 12 ALEXANDRA RANGERS drew two-al] with Badan Kesenian "B" in the Kampong League soccer played at Alexandra yesterday. I
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    KL RAINSTORM CHECKS INDIAN DELUGE
    621 12 Game Off After 20 Min. KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Bitter disappointment, a thorough drenching and biting cold awaited over 2,000 hockey fans who paid several thousand dollars to watch the Indian Hockey Federation play Pahang on the HQ Malaya Ground here today. The unpredictability of Malayan
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    29 12 picture. CINDER'S PRINCE. Kilson Leong up, being led in by Dr. Tan Chens; Leng of Taiping after his record breaking win over seven furlongs at Ipoh last Saturday. Scoops
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    RAFFLES DEFEAT BEATTY
    109 12 RAFFLES Enstftutioa sowed a 3 U victory over B-, Secondary (School in a;: j school soccer sa-. the Raffles Enstitui yesterday. Raffles imn cup throughout md srore Krhan spearhea Peng flashed pa>: the Bdeferider. Harbans S. rammed in a stifl beating Hak Seng romp e Sahari made
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    OFFICIALS OF MARIGOLD B P.
    65 12 AT the BM bi i E meeting ol the Marigold, B.dn Party the 1 elected offici i Patron: Sea Peng President: K^ red esidents: '1 gTe K Woon Kew Lta Bong So.) Ban. Secreta Yeak Khern A.-: Let Sea'.. Bon. Freasure <)■ Choon. Asgt: Wu
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    PT.C.SC. Golf Championship
    41 12 Tu< E S riiomat sne "i McKinsti if arch 28 t< of the P< £por*i Clu: B [n the semi-fina i i Thomas beal Lawrence the 18;:< ho e, be IfcKinstei j Too Soon L >ke two and
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    Neo 2nd To Henricks
    58 12 BRISBANE, Mar. 2—(Reuter)—Jon Henricks, 18, the fastest sprint swimmer produced by Australia, failed last night in his bid to better the world record for 100 metres free style. He clocked 56.7 seconds, compared with the 55.4 seconds set by the American, Alan Ford, in 1948. The
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    They Could Not HaveDoneWorse
    462 12 By LINESMAN IF JOHORE converted one-quarter of the chances they had on the SRC padang yesterday they would have left the field winners by more than the 2—l margin they lost, and Singapore would have had themselves to blame for not having their heart in the
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      177 12 HOCKEY:— 5.H.,1. KO (Junior): s.H.B. vs. S.F..R al S.C.C. padana .>••. 5.H.,1. KO Final (Senior): S.R.C. vs. C.S.C. Jt S.C.C padanq. 510 p m SOCCER: 5.8.H.F..4. Leog«e; Dtr. l: Stmt Darbu -5. F.StN. Jt Jala* Besar, HJC HtauJfc -v S.C.S. al Farrer Park, C. Banfc >•>. p i( j 0
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