Singapore Standard, 10 March 1954

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    19 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD fdgdfg a n m it Vol. IV. No. 251. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY/MARCH 10, 1954. TWELVE PAGES 10 CE\TS.
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    S'pore Tin Up Again By $5
    159 1 FHE price of tin m the S -pore markei contin- to rise sharply yesteri a hen for the second sshre day, it rose by >; to $340 per picul. I ...y responsible for the of the market m .c is the new interl of
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    Producers Welcome US Tin Policy
    325 1 Producers Welcome US Tin Policy rCX, Mar. Despi? lb* United States will 3 the international tin t proposed at the :onference la<t Decemprodu -ers here wel"e announcement that ed Sta'es Government i ofl *>.c market with r. sarp .!s stock of tin. raders generally wel- c announcement be--y consider it
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    Russia To Aid Ho With Arms
    185 1 WASHINGTON, Mar. 9, (Reuter)— Chinese Nationalist radio monitors here reported yesterday that the Soviet In ion and Communist China had agreed to ship enough arms to equip eight more Vietminh divisions m Indo-China. The broadcast from Taipei picked up by American government monitors said
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    MacDONALD'S BRIEF VISIT
    26 1 PNO.M FFN'H, Mar. 9. (AFP) The British Commissioner Genera] m South-East A-ia. Mr. Ma' m MacDonuM, paid a brief vte t here today.
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    ROYALTY AT CRUSADE MEET
    64 1 LONDON. Mar. 9 (Reuter) For the first time m his gospelling career American evangelist Billy Graham found last night that Royalty had taken a seat on his campaign platform. Mutesa 11, 29-year-old Kabaka (King) of Buganda, exiled last year by Britain from his African protectorate, booked
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    POLICE RESCUE ERROL FLYNN
    64 1 MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Mar. 9. (Reuter). Police rescued Errol Flynn from crowds, who- lifted him from his car and carried him shoulder high, on his arrival here yesterday for Argentina's first film festival. The festival attended by representatives of 17 countries, including 11 from the
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    SAAR PROBLEM
    29 1 PARIS. March 9 (Reuter)— West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrived here today by pane from Cologne to discuss the Saar problem with French Fortu^a Minister Georges Bidault.
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    100 1 LITTLE Mis s Li Yee, one of the crippled children at the Red Cross Children's Home at Tanah Merah, giggles with de- JJSM at a joke by Lady 3 Mouatbatteu during the Countess' visit to the Home yesterday. At right, unperturbed by the visit, seven-year-old Ha n Jong Kwang braces
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    Killed Girl Who Spurned His Love
    88 1 Killed Girl Who Spurned His Love STAFFORD, England, Mar. 9: (Reuter)— A 19-year-old airman Ronald William Moore was sentenced to death here yesterday for murdering a 17--year-old girl after she told him she would not go out with him. She had said she was "only 17" and too young to
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    PILOT KILLED
    29 1 LONDON, Mar. 9.— A jet plane crashed a few miles from Perth, Scotland, yesterday, a few seconds after breaking the sound barrier. The pilot was killed.— AFP
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    MAU LOSE 178 IN TEN DAYS
    59 1 KENYA, Mar. 9 (AP)— The British claimed today, their ground and air forces have killed at least 125 Mau Mau terrorists m strikes during the past 10 days. The colonial government said 53 Mau Maus also had been captured during the period. Security forces
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    POPE 15 WORKING
    20 1 VATICAN sources said yesterday that Pope Pius XII is now spending several hours working on church affairs.
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    'City Of Pleasure'
    55 1 BANGKOK, Mar. 9 (AFP) Th e Thai Police Department Is planning to set up a separate district m Bangkok where the city's growing number of prostitutes will be confined. The new district will be called the "City of Pleasure" where police will make constant endeavours to make
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    RUBBER TALKS MAY BEGIN MAR. 18
    210 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— "Round Table" talks between the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association and five rubber workers' unions are expected to begin here on Mar. 18. The Negotiating Committee of the Rubber Workers Unions today suggested this date for the resumption of direct talks
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    FOUR OPIUM KINGPINS DEPORTED
    369 1 Standard Shipping Reporter SINGAPORE Customs Officers operating from Clifford Pier seized 62 pounds «5 fi cn a A W op l nm va,ued at M 8.600 on board the Ordia which arrived ih the Colony yesterday. -The first 'haul of 32 lbs., was made at noon
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    DETENTION FOR 2 WHO DESERTED THEIR SHIP
    187 1 DETENTION FOR 2 WHO DESERTED THEIR SHIP TWO British ratings, who deserted fully armed ifom. thte destroyer, H.M.S. Concord while anchored m the Singapore Naval Base on Mar. 5, were yesterday tried aboard the destroyer and sentenced. The two men. A.E. Titterton, 19, and A.P. Francis. 20, were sentenced to
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    Temporary Dislocation
    107 1 Well-informed sources m the Colony, however, believe that the banishment of these "millionaires" will, at best, only temporarily dislocate the Colony's vast opium smuggling racket which has tentacles 'in North-east Burma. North Thailand and India. All it will accomplish, they hold, is to give those who have not
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    He Warns Of More Trouble In Sudan
    169 1 LONDON, Mar. 9 (AFP)— A warning that new troubles were possible m the Sudan where the situation remained tense was .given today by British Minister of State, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd when he arrived m London from Khartoum. I Mr. Lloyd said, "The situation
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    NEW CID BRANCH STRIKES A BLOW
    385 1 NEW CID BRANCH STRIKES A BLOW {Police Hold 6 In Ambush Standard Staff Reporter j Society Sub-Bianch of Oe t ecti yes, cessfully am thug., one an 8 mm. rethey were euhad sent letters dematidThe three I house m fortune"' on the businessman's family, because he did Later m the
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    ICE-SELLER IS HANGED
    56 2 A 20-year-old ice-seller. Boh Hai Ann. who shot dead a fit- ter. Lee Pak Ghee, m a coffee shop at Potong Pasir on the night of Sept. 12. last year, was hanged at Outram Jail m Sin- gapoie yesterday morning. Boh was sentenced to death at the
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    HEALTH FILMS
    27 2 THE Malayan Christian j Council mobile film unit tour- J j ed Taiping and the neighbouring villages recently showing I film? on health education. I
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    Teacher On 2 Traffic Charges
    95 2 Teacher On 2 Traffic Charges A SINGAPORE school teacher, Teng Liang Seng, changed her plea of guilty on two traffic charges, yesterday, on the advice of the Singapore First Traffic District Court Judge. Mr. F. A. Chua. Teng wa s charged with permitting and abetting a friend of hers, who
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    2 BRITONS WITHDRAW WRITS; WILL FLY HOME
    406 2 2 BRITONS WITHDRAW WRITS; WILL FLY HOME PENANG, Tues. The cose of Leslie Marro and Stanley Irwin, two Britons, who applied for Writs of habeas corpus alleging illegal detention after they had served their sentences, took a new turn m the High Court today when their counsel, Mr. Marcus Knorpel,
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    HK EXCHANGE
    37 2 HONGKONG. Mar. 3— Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were $15.60 to £1 sierling; $5.8525 to US$l; $1,817 to Malayan $1: $0,214 to one Indonesian Ruppiah; Gold $250,125 to 1 tael.
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    Mr. R. Beaumont
    28 2 MR RICHARD Beaumont director of a London gunsmith company will arrive m Malaya later this month for two or three years on -private" business. Reuter
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    Assistant Testifies In Damages Suit
    279 2 PENANG, Tues.— Mr. E.J. Marchant, an assistant In the textile department of Messrs. Henry Waugh testifying m the High Court here today, said he had no authority to make contracts on indent goods but had power to negotiate such contracts, with the final approval lying
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    FENCERS TO FORM A CLUB
    130 2 EXPERT fencers m Singapore including a British Olympic fencing champion, want to form a club to promote the art either as a sport or as a means of "keeping fit.* Mr. Keith Payne, the orgaIniser, now wants to find out the number oi enthusiasts who
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    Man Goes To Fleeing Wife's Rescue
    323 2 And Gets Her Acquitted HARBANS KAUR, a Sikh woman, who fled from her husband m Malacca, leaving her seven children there, to follow her Malay "adopted son" to Singapore, was acquitted by Mr. H.A. Forrer m the Third District Court, yesterday, on a charge
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    VARSITY WILL NOT CONDUCT SCHOOL EXAM
    105 2 THERE is no possibility m the immediate future of the: University of Malaga conduct- j ing school certificate examina- 1 tions to repiace the present system run yearly by Cambridge University, the ViceChancellor. Sir Sydney Came, told The Standard yesterday. He said the University
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    'MORE RIDERS, MORE INCOME'
    92 2 MORE trisha riders would mean more income to the owners, the three Singapore Associations connected with trishas advanced as a reason for increasing th e number of riders m the Colony. In a letter to City Councillors, the associations appealed again for reconsideration of the case
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    CATTLE MEN WANT BALI PRICES CUT
    102 2 Singapore livestock traders are making representations to the Indonesian Government to consider a reduction m the prices of cattle from Bali. The Standard understands. Representatives from the traders have asked the ioca! Indonesian office to refer the matier to their Government. This move has
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    'Recruiting Officer' Cheats 12-Vanishes
    163 2 'Recruiting Officer' Cheats 12Vanishes A MAN m jungle green uniform, astride a motorcycle, talked to a group of labourers at Patani Street on Sunday lor over an hour during which he spoke of the advantages of joining the Federation Regiment. He told them he ws- i <- cruiting officer sent
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    Trust To Apply For $33M. Loan
    62 2 THE Singapore Improve Trust will apply to the ernment for loans am< to S.'-i3.40f1.000 tor its project?. Of this sum. the SIT wm li the sum ot $23,000,000 I payable m 60 years a; cent interest and the remaii at three per cent repayable
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    45 2 photo. "WOMEN'S International Day" was celebrated at the Jubillee Home for the Aged la Kuala Lumpur on Monday. Inmates of the home had a seven-course dinner given by the Chinese community. On left Mrs. Tan Ho Tee is seen serving food to the women. Standard
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    COMMODITY PRICES
    106 2 A$ CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) m Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No 1 KS S Spot j Loose 53i 53f No. 1 R.S.S. 531 53; No. 2 R.S.S. 531 :>SJ No. 3 R.S.S. 52£ S2« Tone: Steady. TIN PKICt The |iri«f of tin wr-Ma* day was
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    KELANTAN, KIRKBY TEACHERS' COURSES
    226 3 KELANTAN, KIRKBY TEACHERS' COURSES KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The Federation Government today invited applications from suitably qualified young men and women who are F dk vtl citizens to undei the fourth training C c at the Malay aa Teachers Training Col- i 1 gc al Kirkby, England. t'.i 'he first training
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    2 More Bandits Killed
    120 3 KUALA LUMPUR. T&es.— Two Communist terrorists hie :>ee.n killed and another three wounded by security f r e m the Federation. An- "err ,>t has surra ie: 5 I m th« Federation, O- c en st was killed md Mm ied when they were led yesterday
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    CABBIE LOSES HIS :AXI
    70 3 i Si EMB T ie& A i > .s c le Iged a itfa the P .to the effect that -I i estei iy. tour soldierhired ran Seremban 'i j Tai i but or. reaching i Ttb mile, they forced -he o t ol tiie tax
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    109 3 MANY members and their guests attended the Chinese dinner given this week at the Y.W.C.A.. Raffles Quuy, to welcome Miss Phyllis Lowe, new National Director of the Y.W.C-A.. who arrived m Singapore from her headquarters ii. Kuala Lumpur on March 8. Standard picture shows from left to right: Mr. Rowland
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    Cement Quota To Stay
    117 3 Cement Quota To Stay KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Federation Government his refused to abolish the quota system on imports of cement from Japan. Acting Controller Trade Dm ston of the Federation Treasury, Mr. J. M. Gullick. said that the matter was Jis- •;s-;ed by the Central Advisory Committee on trade
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    LECTURE IS OFF
    31 3 THE lecture by Sant Teja Singh Ji scheduled for Mar. 13 at the British Council Ha...: Singapore, under the auspices >f the East West Society. I\m been cancelled.
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    Malayan Students Learn Of Rubber
    233 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues— Ten thousand boys and ;irls m 500 Malayan schools will shortly hear '*the story of natural rubber"— exactly as it is being told to millions of their counterparts across the Atlantic. Through a pictorial "teachi j ing kit," tho teen-agers will learn
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    12 Months' jail For 'Mischief,
    131 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Arumugam. 23, was today sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for causing mischief by setting fire to the hut of a compatriot, 66-year-old Suppiah. Arumugam and Suppiah were stated to have been neighbours m Ceylon Hill, here. Late one night. Arumugam rapped at
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    LLOYD RETURNS
    23 3 SIR THOMAS LLOYD. Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, is due tp arrive m the Colony from Kuching. today
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    Saigon Mayor Praises S'pore
    346 3 Studies Colony Affairs THE Singapore City Council received unqualified praise yesterday from the President of Saigon City Council and two of his City Councillors, who have been studying local administration m the Colony for the past few days. Mr. Ngyen Phuoc. the President. Mr. Nguyen Van
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    Jail For Outrage Bid
    63 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Mohamed Ali bin Osman, 27. was today sentenced m the Magistrate's Court to four months' rigorous imprisonment for assaulting a woman with intent to outrage her modesty. The complainant, a young woman said that while she was sweeping her house one morning. Mohamed
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    MIC To Give Up Its Seat?
    187 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Malayan Indian Congress may have to give up its only seat m the Federal Legislative Council, if its previous "occupant" wants to have it back. The Standard learnt today. This, according to wellinformed sources here, is a "condition" on which
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    Take A Look At Penang—Sopiee
    194 3 Take A Look At Penang— Sopiee NEXT WHITE AREA* PENANG, Tues.— lt Is time the authorities take a look at Penang with a view to making it a White area, Inche Mohamed Sopiee said today. j The chairman of the PanMalayan Labour Party said j that m his view, at
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    WHY GOVT. MUST STAY IN RICE MARKET
    560 3 Reply To Chambers' Cali For End Of Controls KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Wmie Government procurement of rice ond sugar is not intended to continue as a permanent system, the time has not come when restrictions on importation of these two commodities can be abolished,
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    Blamed Horses For His Trouble
    108 3 IPOH. Tufw Lav Chan Yip. 30. a food contractor to the Tambui Home Guards told the Magistrates'* Court here today that he used money belonging t<> a smutty shop proprietor to bet on horses and l«*st all of it lav was charged with criminal breach
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    Constable Gets Jail
    84 3 KUALA IJPIS Tue- Abdul Aziz hin Mohamad Stam, 20. an extra P Constable, ol Kuala Lipis Police Station, pleaded sui'lty m the C mrt here to escaping from Police custody whil v as ttet lined on a 1 v > thefl ot jia V Pw stea m,?
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    Call To Aid Youth Teams
    70 3 TAIPING. Tues. Speaking at the Youth Leadership Traittmg Course here, president ot the Taiping Rotary Club. Mr T. B M. Krishnan. tolo those present to rally round the youth service teams. He urged them to s'art small traffic advisory committees m villages to teach the
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    KLM's New Uniform
    65 4 KLM' s Ne w Uniform photo. KLM staff at Kallang: Airport, Singapore, yesterday were fitted out with new uniforms, similar to those worn by the airline's personnel all over the world. Above Thi 0 Sam It. Tan Kirn Teck, Joseph Yap and Thio Tjan Giok. pose m their new uniform
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    RISE IN TIN IS 'FLASH FLOOD'
    194 4 RISE IN TIN IS 'FLASH FLOOD' KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The majority of local tin miners are not over jubilant about the substantial jump m the price of tin. They feel that this is a "flash flood" created by the recent announcement of the U.S. State Department. While any increase m
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    PENANG COUNCIL
    30 4 THE first meeting of the seventh session of the Penang Settlement Council will be held at the Council Chamber, Peel Avenue on Wednesday, Mar. 24. at 2/M) p.m.
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    56 4 photo. MR. J.T. Pit-ken. managing director of Containers Ltd.. a firm of Australian can makers and an associate company of the Metal Box Company, is greeted by Mr. N.D. Holt (right), secretary of the Metal Box Company mi n Singapore, on his arrival by Qantas BO AC Constellation yesterday. He
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    Firm Won't Deal With This Union
    98 4 THE Straits Steamship Company does not recognise the Indo-Malay-Pakistani Seamen's Union, as the majority of the Malay seamen employed by the Comoany are members of another Union the Malay Seamen's Union a spokesman of the firm told The Standard yestcrdaj'. Commenting on the I.M.P.S.Us
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    Girl (16) Drove Car
    52 4 SINGAPORE dance hostess. Cheng Wai Kee (16). pleaded guilty before the Second Traffic Magistrate. Mr. Howe Yoon Chong. yesterday to two charges of driving a car while under age and when not covered by third party insurance. She was fined $1 00. and disqualified from obtaining
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    Two To Face Assize Trial For Murder
    159 4 Two To Face Assize Trial For Murder TWO men. Mat Nor bin Ahsan and Abdul Wahab bin Jono of Johore Road. Singapore, were committed m the Ninth Police Court yesterday to stand trial m the next Assizes for the murder of Tan Sam Heng, 36. a fruit-seller. Another fruiterer. Gan
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    UNION WILL FETE MENON
    49 4 MALACCA. Tues. The Malacca Estate Staff Union will give a luncheon m honour ot Mr. V.M.N. Menon. genera' secret ary of its Union Federation, at the Capitol Dance Ha,: on Mar. 14. on the occasion of i his appointment as Member for Posts and Telecommunications.
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    COUNCIL QUIZ ON AIRLINES MONOPOLY
    267 4 COUNCIL QUIZ ON AIRLINES MONOPOLY Standard Staff Reporter THE Singapore Government will be queried m the Legislative Council, next week whether its policy is to discriminate against local capital and concerns. In a lengthy series of questions, Mr. Lim Yew Hock (Lab. Keppel) will ask Government about the monopoly enjoyed
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    53 4 photo. Mr. D. Webe-. representative of Paul F. Weber, producers of condensed and powdered milk m Hamburgh, Germany, arrived m Singapore by air yesterday on a survey trip to introduce his firm's milk products to South-east Asian markets. He was met at Kallaog Airport yesterday by representatives of Rickwood and
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    Court Dismisses N.S. Govt. Claim
    340 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The First Magistrate. Inche Ismail bm Mohd. Jamil, today dismissed with costs a suit brought by the Government of Negri Sembilan against Inche Mohamed Din bin Ali, a Kuala Lumpur barrister, now Secretary of the Kuala Lumpur Municipality for the recovery of
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    BRANDY ORDER WAS A FRAUD
    93 4 A Singapore storekeeper on Monday received a telephone call, supposed to come from a hotel, with an order for $900 worth of brandy. The man who put the call through told the storekeeper that a person would go over to his store to collect the
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    'It Shouldn't Have Come To Court'
    110 4 THE Singapore Eighth Police Court Magistrate. Mr. A. W. Chows, told the prosecution m a case yesterday: '"If I have to take into consideration every push, every bump, and every punch m Singapore. I won't have time for anything." Mr. Ghows was commenting on
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      81 4 Weather report I Minimum Temperature: I rom 7.30 p.m on Bth March to 7.30 a.m. on 9th March. Spore (76F). Penang (73F). Kota Bahru (73F), K. L. (76F). Ipoh <74F|, Kuantan <73F|. Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on 9th Mar. Spore (90F), Penang tB7F). Koto Rahru (88F),
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    'How Am I Going To Pay Fine?'
    144 5 WHEN Salamat bin Sukir was fined a total of $250 on three traffic offences yesterday. >he asked Singapore's First Traffic .Judge. Mr. F.A. Chua: "How am I going to pay the fine 0 Retorted Mr. Chua: "That is your problem, not mine." On
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    THIEVES TAKE $891 IN CASH
    43 5 PENANG. Tues.— A sum of $120 was stolen from the Fisheries' Department Store m Sungei Pinang Road. Another ease of theft took place at the Universal Cars Ltd., m Anson Road where cash of $771 was found missing.
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    BAN YOUTHS FROM BAD FILMS SAYS WEE
    352 5 BAN YOUTHS FROM BAD FILMS SAYS WEE SYC Must Speak With Authority Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPOREANS under 21 years should be banned by law from seeing undesirable films m Colony cinemas, the president of the Singapore Youth Council, Mr. Eric S. B. Wee, suggested at the Council's annual general meeting
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    28 5 LORD Foppington (Peter Wise) and Loveless (Pat Craig fight it out m "The Relapse", an Arts Theatre production which will open at the Victoria Theatre, Singapore tomorrow night.
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    Nanyang Varsity Seeks A Professor Of English
    125 5 THE Nanyang University is looking for a British professor of the English language, either from the United Kingdom or the United States, The Standard understands. i He is to be paid a salary equivalent to that paid by the University of Malaya for
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    His Smiles Later Led To Years
    152 5 A PRIVATE, who smiled and winked at his comrades while he was awaiting trial on a charge of theft, broke down and wept when defence counsel read out correspondence between his Commanding Officer and his mother and brother m England. A letter written by
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    FUNERAL OF MR. THAMBIAH
    61 5 SEREMBAN, Tues. The funeral of Mr. V. Thambiah who died at the Seremban General Hospital after a brief illness took place on Saturday at the Hindu crematorium. A former president of the Negri Sembilan Ceylonese Association, the late Mr. Thambiah was a keen social worker and
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    SAILOR IS NOT ALLOWED BAIL
    69 5 A SEAMAN. Joseph Black, pleaded guilty m the Singapore Fifth Police Court, yesterday, to three charges of theft committed on Mar. 8, at Connell House, Anson Road. It was stated by the prosecution that Black stole a jacket, a pair of trousers and belt fr.om
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    Another Bill On Hindu Marriages
    192 5 THE Hindu Marriages Bill prepared by Singapore Legislative Councillor, Mr. C. R. Dasaratha Raj, is meeting opposition from the Tamils' Reform Association and various other Hindu organisations. The Association yesterday l sent the Government its own Bill for the registration of marriages of Hindu residents
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    Planter Fined For Hitting Jaga
    219 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. W.G. Chrystall, a young planter, wa s today convicted m the Sessions Court here on two counts of assaulting a Sikh watchman and fined a total of $250 by the President. Mr. J.R. Whimster. Chrystall was also ordered to pay a compensation
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    BAZAAR: THREE STALLS NAME THE WINNERS
    170 5 j PRIZE winners at three stalls of the International Bazaar for the Blind, held at {Victoria Memorial Hall last j Saturday, were announced yesI terday. At the Japanese Stall: Mr. Harry Chiew. of Pasir Panjang Road, won a camera with ticket No. 037; Mr.
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    35 5 FOR using criminal force on a woman. Chan Siew Choon. with intent to outrage her modesty at Sagil Tangkak. Yeo Quek (44) was fined $250 or two months' imprisonment by the Muar Magistrate.
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    'RETURNED WITH THANKS'
    206 5 HOW citizens of Singapore can help themselves by cooperating with the Police, was illustrated m a fast moving documentary film entitled. "Returned With Thanks"', shown at a preview to members of the Press yesterday at the Film Censor's Office. The film, which will be one of. the
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    48 5 TAIPING, Tues.— Che Zainab binti Mahmudin died here on Saturday at the age of 87. Her husband, the late Mr. Ibrahim Khan, was one of the pioneers of this town. She leaves one daughter, two sons, 15 grand children and 12 great grand children.
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    14 6 "These were little things these past few days"**Generat Naguib
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    1030 6  -  CHARACTERISTICALLY enough discussion on IndoChina still revolves around dfe question of how many guns and how many tanks and how many planes delivered m time to the pro-French Bao Dai Government could help turn the tide against the Vietminh. So a few statistics should help make clear how
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      942 6 Socialism A La Josey Colonialism Sir, Mr. Alex Josey presents a pathetic spectacle these days. A number of irritated members of the local intelligentsia have been, finally goaded into articulate impatience icith the effete ratiocinations and puerile dogmaUcisms of this Philistine among Philistines. Mr. Josey meets the attack on him
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      169 6 No Power Plugs In New Flats Sir: In the newly completed S.I.T. Flats at Alexandra Road, I have noticed that there are no power plug points, whereas the other old flats at Tiong Bahru, Delta Road and elsewhere have them all fixed up. The unfortunate tenants of the new flats
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    482 6 terim Constitution which can permit of some form of Parliamentary life. In any case the structure of the regime has been modified by Naguib's return; although m theory the Revolutionary Council has been strengthened by Nasser's becoming Premier and Chairman pt the Revolutionary Council— two positions
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    Review of View
    168 6 Review of View Senator McCarthy UTUSAN MELAYU say* American liberality, a worid knew it once the days of former Pre- Roosevelt is slowly stifled m America the hysterical anti- campaign of Senator Carthy. The fact that S. McCarthy i s gathering friends m influential m America shows thai Carthyism is
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    202 6 them, by letter, that it would be m their own interest to accept a cut. If they accept. say the Maharajahs. then the trick will be tried again. Yet how can they refuse since It is Nehru who holds the purse strings? THE fabulous Maharajahs
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    14 6 "Needless to say the buyer of Government surplus is a© longer here!*
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    BURMA TO SUPPORT ASIAN PLAN
    127 7 BURMA TO SUPPORT ASIAN PLAN MANILA. Mar. 9 (AP).— j B irma is ready to support the; Philippines' new "Asia for the; Asians" Foreign Policy. Maimg: Ba Ha, a member of the Bur nese Parliament, declared here last night. "It is high time that we !ock to the East instead
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    77 7 TOKYO. Mar. 9 (AFP) For the iirst time since the war, three British soldiers have :ieen sentenced to penal servitude by a Japanese court, according to an announcement by British Commonwealth forces today. The Kure district court convi *ed Lance Corporal G. Nit aa to five
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    MORRISON MAKES BIAS COMPLIANT
    203 7 LONDON, Mar. 9: (Reuter)— Mr. Herbert Morrison, Deputy* leader of the Opposition, complained m the House of Commons last night that Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, was showing a bias against the nationalised British airlines. Mr. Morrison said m a debate
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    This Was How the five Were Shot
    110 7 THIS diagrammed view of the House of Representatives shows the conditions under which three Puerto Rican Nationalists shot five Congressmen on March Ist. Firing from the visitors' gallery, the would-be assassins (small figures) shot Representative B. F. Jensen, wounding him m the back
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    161 7 CAIRO, Mar. 9 (Reuter)— General Naguib, the man who dethroned King Farouk, was back m the saddle as Prime Minister of Egypt yesterday with greater power than he ever had before. This latest somersault among r Egypt's top rulers was announced after a joint meeting of
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    Search For Modest Girl
    72 7 OXFORD, Mar. 9 (Reuter) Some male undergraduates at Oxford are to hold a competition to find the most modest woman undergraduate at the University. The winner will be the girl who blushes first at the talk of a panel of Oxford men. She will become the
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    DEATHS
    111 7 THE deaths of the following persons on Sunday was reported by AP yesterday: KIEL. Germany: Dr. Otto Diels. 78, who shared the 1950 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Kurt Adler. a former pupil. Born at Hamburg. VENICE. Italy— Raoul Moretti. 61. French composer who composed the operettas "In Camicia*'
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    PROBE INTO US$3M BABY 'RING' IS ON
    63 7 NEW YORK. Mar. 9. (Reuter) A Canadian investigation into an alleged $3,000,000 international blackmarket baby racket was continuing here today m the utmost secrecy. Two Montreal lawyers and three women there have been arrested m connection with the alleged sale of the babies
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    PHONE THREAT TO McCARTHY
    72 7 PHONE THREAT TO McCARTHY NEW YORK, Mar. 9, (AP) An anonymous telephone caller, who reportedly spoke with a Spanish accent, told Waldorf-Astoria Hotel security guards early today, that "something terrible" would happen to Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican-Wisconsin) during the night. Sen. McCarthy had checked into the hotel last night. A
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    Soldier Cut Ear Off A Mau Mau Suspect — Court Told
    261 7 Soldier Cut Ear Off A Mau Mau Suspect Court Told ■AIROBI. Mar. 9 (Reuter> A l&-year-o!d Somali soldier to.d a general court martial laeTe yesterday that he cut •ff th e ear of a Mau Mau tuspect and made a hole m •ie ear of another with a bayonet when
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    UK Probe Into Map Mystery
    139 7 LONDON, Mar. 9, (UP).—Bri- tish diplomats were probing yesterday into the growing mystery of what has happen- ed to Mao Tse-tung as the Red Chinese dictator remain- ed among the missing. Unformed sources said discreet inquiries have been made. But they have produced no response
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    Rhee Sends A Letter
    75 7 GRAND ISLAND, NEB. Mar. 9, (AP). Mr. Syngman Rhee. President of the Republic of South Korea, again has outlined a plan for organising antiCommunist societies m America and elsewhere, this time m a letter to a Grand Island insurance man. The personal letter was the second
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    NEW U.S. C-in-C
    34 7 WASHINGTON Mar. 0, (AP) The White House yesterday announced th e appointment of Vice Admiral John H. Cassady as Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Naval Forces m the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean
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    BIGGER ARMS AID FOR JAPAN SOON
    143 7 WASHINGTON, Mar. 9 (UP)— Congressional sources said yesterday that they expected the Senate and House of Representatives to move quickly to transfer title to Japan of an estimated $500,000,000 of American military equipment to bolster increased Japanese defence forces. They emphasized that this transfer
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    Peking Full Of US Cars
    77 7 HONGKONG. Mar. 9, (AFP) American made automobiles of the latest designs are to be seen m great numbers m the streets of Peking today, according to a recent arrival from Red China's capital. Fritz Seeker. 65-year-old former German journalist who spent the last 25 years
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    RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICES
    69 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Mar. 9 The following ore the closing prices of rubber and tin on th London Market. LONDON RUBBER LONDON TIN Spot 16 d. Spot £702/10 per ton April/ June 16id. •>%"*< «07/ l t<3 Three months £681 July/September 16|d. buyers, £682/ 10s.
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    ASIAN NATIONS URGED TO UNITE
    318 7 ASIAN NATIONS URGED TO UNITE Must Develop On Economic Basis WASHINGTON, Mar. 9, (UP) The Foreign Operations Administration (FOA) m a report transmitted to Congress yesterday by President Eisenhower said that the non Com- j munist nations of Asia must develop "a greater degree of regional co-operation" on an economic
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    CHIANG'S MAN GETS DEATH NOTE & BULLET
    126 7 CHIANG'S MAN GETS DEATH NOTE BULLET TAIPEI, Mar. 9, (UP) A Nationalist newspaper today reported that Legislative Yuan President, Chang Taofan, who violently criticized former Governor K.C. Wu recently, 'had received a letter threatening his life. The National Evening News said a bullet was also enclosed m the sealed envelope.
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    Drilling For Oil In N. Sarawak
    169 7 Drilling For Oil In N. Sarawak MIRI. Mar 9, (Reuter)— The Sarawak Oilfields Ltd., intends to begin deep exploration drilling for oil shortly m the Suai coastal area of Northern Sarawak, about 45 miles south-west of Miri, it was reported here. Drilling will be preceded by a "D-day" type of
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    UK Refuses To Protest
    59 7 LONDON. Mar. 9, (Reuter). The British Government refused yesterday to protest to the United States against the fingerprinting of Britons including members of Parliament who want to visit America. Mr. Victor Yates, a Socialist asked for the protest. He told the House of Commons that fingerprinting
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    64 7 NEW YORK. Mar. 9 (Reuter) —At least 11 of the 16 United Nations members which fought m Korea will probably attend the Far Eastern conference opening m Geneva on Apr. 26, it was learned yesterday. Informed sources said that New Zealand, Turkey and Thailand had joined
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    46 7 LACOQUNA. Spain. Mar. 9, (AP) Spanish naval authorities said yesterday all crewmen of the 260-ton Spanish freighter Minas Sorriego are believed to have perished when the vessel went aground 40 miles south of here m a storm. Two bodies have been recovered.
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    170 7 Warning Against Far East Munich TAIPEI. Mar. 9 CAP).— Madame Chiang Kai-shek said yesterday a Far Eastern Munich is possible at the coming Geneva conference but predicted the Chinese Nationalists would trees! (ha Chinese mainland from the Reds. Madame Chiang who Datura y is familiar with the view, at her
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    103 7 POLISHED RICE SALE BAN BY RED CHINA HONGKONG. Mar. y. <FU ter)—China has impo^ a complete ban on sale and pi duction of polished throughout the nation, a ing to unofficial reports reaching here today. She is also reporter i. experiencing a severe shortage of cooking oil throughout 1 I
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    30 7 QUEEN Mother Elizabeth will fly to Oslo on Mar If for the silver wedding >ebration of Norway's < Prince Olav and Crown Pi cess Martha. Buckinfj Palace said yesterday.
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    JOINT EFFORT TO GUARD THE WEST
    158 7 Dulles Galls For CARACAS, Venezuela, Mar. 9 (Reuter)— Mr. John Foster Dulles, the American Secretary of State, yesterday asked the 10th inter- American conference here to apprc c united resistance against Communist penetration of any country m the Western hemisphere. During a debate on
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    CONGRESS SHOOTING: POLICE ARREST 110
    132 7 NEW YORK, Mar. 9 (AP) More than 110 Puerto Ricans, including the wife' ot a would-be assassin of former President Truman, were rounded up m New York and Chicago yesterday m a follow-up to the shooting of five Congressmen \msi Monday. Mrs. Rosa Coliazo. secretary
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    Safety Record For British Railways
    180 8 LONDON, Mar. 9 (Renter)— One Briton was -killed m every 35,000,000 journeys made on Britain's stateowned railways between 1946 and 1952, a Ministry of Transport official said yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel G. R. S. Wilson? the Ministry's chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, calculated the mathematical odds against
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    67 8 WIESBADEN GERMANY, Mar. 9, (AP)— The first pilotless bomber squadron, equipped with Martin B-61 Matadors, will leave the United States today for Germany, the Air Force's Squadron Headquarters announced here, last night. It makes the first overseas deployment of pilotless bombers to the NATO defences. An
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    Britons Plan Trade Talks With Reds
    319 9 Britons Plan Trade Talks With Reds LONDON, Mar. 9 (UP)— A group of British businessmen hope to open negotiations for increased! British trade with Communist China at a meeting with Communist autho- rities m East Berlin next j week, a spokesman for the group said yesterday. The group of about
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    Kesang Tin Profits
    69 9 KESANG TIN Ltd. reports a working profit of 522.314 after deducting 511.972 for depletion reserve for the year ended Dec. 31, 1953. Income payable took $5,740, while three dividends of five per cent each absorb $11,000. leaving a balance of 82,333 to be carried forward to fbe
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    Rubber Company Sees A Good Year
    166 9 NEW YORK, Mar. 9 (Renter)— The United States Rubber Company expects 1954 to be a good business year, only slightly below 1953 and is not attempting to reduce its inventories at present, according to the chairman of the board. He announced that the company
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    US EXPORTS TO ASIA UP
    127 9 W ASHINGTON. Mar. 9. (UP)— United States exports to Asia m December gained over November due to larger shipments to the Philippines Republic and Japan, but imports from Asia remained on the I down trend. Hongkong trade shewed little change. Exports to al! Asiatic countries
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    84 9 LONDON. Mar. 9. (Reuter) —Mr. Herbert Hoover, special Sate Department oil consultant, flew into London yesterday for final talks with loading world oi! companies on plans to market Persian oil again Principals of five American oil companies are on their way to Britain for the
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    Talk After A Dinner
    83 9 photo. MJ. Brunswick, r lit) representative of Election Watch Company Ltd.. Switzerland, who is on a survey tour of South-Last Asia for his company, is seen giving a speech at a farewell dinner given by Chun Chong Watch Company at the Happy World on Monday night
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      148 9 THE rubber market m Singapore yesterday i sosed steady at 53| cents per lb. for first grade rubber for March shipment (53-3/8 cent on Monday). The market was live ier than the previous day. with lerate activity on bettei inquiries bom overseas Upcountry centres were reluctant sellers and
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      225 9 MALAYAN industris -es m the Singapore marl-;" ..ere quieter yesterday whi c '.i'. though generally irapr vaA i.ver riav joilowing the OOr tinued rise m the meta; rioe, became erratic anc o>ed slightly easier at the higher levels. Rubber shares re ru ned neg c"ted. IMM 'STRIA I S
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      PRODUCE
      65 9 THE produce market n Singapore was idle m -opra and dull m the coconut oil sections ye.-terday, witn hardly any business passing. Singapore produce prices (per picul) yesterday were: Gambier S210; Bali Coffee S280; betel nut $28; (Split $27; copra $331; coconut oii $53 'sellers!: Pepper $345 (Muntok White
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    689 10 DOWING THE TOWN gfhg P. 2 ING out candles th\i decorate attractive flower-bedeck-ed t\x? cake which mirks attainment of his tilst mr is S.s ->ore bu^.ness tveooa Kh«»o Hen; Pho who celebrated au clous occasion with a gala birthday p»rty at his Grange k residence Monday night. Giving helping hand
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    FLORAL TRIBUTE
    63 10 Tii Di V accepting garlaud from father, Singapore naer-•hi-.t F. Tv -bally, as he receives his blessing and that oi his ■•tfcer. T»ung Abdullah lyebatty says 'au revoir' ta paren's Si Ha g R>i.| prior to le.iv ing t<*r ship th-t witl take hitii to JK. Abdullah plans
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    Open Letter To India's Ambassadors Of Sport
    558 11  -  LINESMAN By Friends: At dawn tomor.j frou emplane for home t ding over a month a May 1. on behalf K>rl -iien of this tryespi .-■>' our hotkey rs and fang express lha tks to you. And gh you. to the Indian F<
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    Ten S'pore Lifters Aim For Tickets To Manila
    212 11 TEN Colony weight lifters, representing the cream of Singapore's 4 iron men,' will try to make the grade for the Asian Games m the first trial to be conducted by the" Singapore AWLF at the Happy World stadium tonight. The trialists are
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    Japan Want The Tigers
    123 11 TIGER Sporting Association, last years SAFA league and tup champions, have been invited by the Japan Chinese Chamber of Commerce to play a e ries of matches m Tokio. Kobe. Yokohama and Osaka. Mr Aw (hens: Chye. president of the association, said yesterday that llie invitation
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    'HATTRICK' BY GABOS
    142 11 A SUPERIOR forward line bad the game won for Bukit Timah Sports Club when they j beat the Kebenaran ("rub by J four clear goals m a S A.F A Division 3A League match at the j CYMA ground yesterday. Pro- minent was Awang G ibos who
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    'Save The Hall' Dollar Fund
    226 11 'Fatty' Aids The Hall A SINGAPORE food seller I from Tekkah Au Chan Seng on his licence plate and 'Fatty' to his customers came to the aid of the Singapore Badminton Stadium yesterday. '•Fatty donated S2. And he emphasised that it was not the amount
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    PENG YUEN SCORES A VARSITY 'DOUBLE'
    192 11 MISS Chan Peng Yuen, a final year science student and sister of Singapore's well known athlete, Chan Onn Leng, won the women's singles and mixed doubles University of Malaya tennis titles. Peng Yuen beat Teoli Gnat Kin 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 m the women's singles
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    YOUTH SOCCER
    65 11 THE first round draw of the' Singapore Amateur Football Association Youth soccer competition is as follows:- j BarUey Secondary School v I Junior Technical School; Beat|ty Secondary School v Badan Kesenian; Methodist Boys Afternoon v St. Joseph's: Anglo Chinese School v Victoria School: St. Patrick's School v Kota
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    201 11 ASTON Sports Club, new- ly promoted. opened their soccer season with a 2-1 victory over BODCA m yesterday's SAFA Jiv. 2 league mutch at BODCA ground. For the full 'JO minutes m the first haif. Aston forwards did everything but score. They had numerous
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      554 11 gong SINGAPORE TURF CLUB MARCH MEETING— SATURDAY 20TH, WEDNESDAY 24TH AND 1 SATURDAY 27TH MARCH j 1954. ENTRIES CLOSE at 12 noon on WEDNESDAY, 10th March, 1954. SWEEPS. $1/- Unlimited Sweepstakes FOR MEMBERS ONLY will be held each Race Day. Applications for tickets must be m writing and be received
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      227 11 FEDERATION MILITARY FORCES TENDER NOTICE TpENDERS are invited for the supply of the following to The Ordnance Depot. Federation Military Forces, Port Dickson. Furniture and Woodware Bedsteads and their CornTextile Articles Crockery and Glassware Brooms, brushes, lamps. garden implements, weighing machines, safes, scaies Enamelled and Metal Household utensils Extinguishers and
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      667 11 gnjHBB nam 4 PPLICATIONS are invited im lor appointment as Temporary Chinese Translators m the Federation of Malaya Police Force Qualifications required <a> School Certificate with Credit m English and <b) passed Chinese Junior Middle School Standard. Successful candidates may be required to serve any where m the Federation of
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      852 11 Standard Service For Tin* Liicm|»lo\cd VI )(HK M.KIKI Art warn ■nt-mplott'd and m n««-d To help you lind wtnk the M»u if»or© Slmri.ird n. mptovmem Hat. <v oiler;- you Ike space m this column Just rail at «nt> »<>ur lot.il Standard office toi 411 jpp huiion form wtncti ><iv should
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      155 11 Today's Sport i CER: SBHFA League: r F V n OTEC at V. She'l vs Chartered I -at Shell. Hongkong J < pa State Darby at Pale Bmkem ea Cold at Tmrrmt Park, Div. < ,'a ICI at Farrer IS VS s G.'hre li > Amraya va il Rf; STC
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    Standard's Selections
    1414 12 I Treble Tot-: Races 3. 5 and ti. Big v, weep: Race 7. RACE 1: 2.45 p.m.— Class 5* Div. 3—7 Furs. 1. J Palitoy 3v MR Mr Ell Vac .Yin W i fcworth W iods 2. ui-S Hroie Leader 4v 3.13 Mr. Mrs. H.C Chionfa Eilery Sawyer
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    P. Fan Worth A Bet
    448 12 RACE 1: Picture Fan is my choice for this race. This Pactolus gelding figured very prominently m his last race over the nine at Ipoh but he lost valuable ground at the top of the straight to finish well behind Hurry Up and company. He
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    World Cup Soccer
    23 12 TEL AVIV, Mar. 9 (AP).— Greece beat Israel 2 o m the second footabll match for the world cup yesterday.
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    Choongs Say We Have Good Chances
    286 12 LONDON. Mar. 8 (Reuter)—; Malaya, dominant m the AllEngland Badminton Champion- 1 ships over recent years, do not exped a severs challenge] to their reputation, according to ;^e ipk)n Malayan -ousins, Eddi« and David Ch tong. The CI gs and two other Jalayan representatives,
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    Mayflower Picnic
    25 12 The Mayflower Badminton Party will celebrate their 26th anniversary on March 21 with a picnic at Pulau Tekona Kechii starting at 9 a.m.
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    UNAWARE BEST OF 6 WINNERS
    402 12  -  WINDSOR LAD By PENANG.— Six winners at the recent Ipoh meeting: have been brought together m. the main seven furlongs event (Race 5) for class 5 horses today, second day of the Penang Turf Club's spring meeting. They are Munlee, Pasamora,. Unaware, Tail Light, Motion
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    STOP PRESS
    183 12 gfhgf Profit M^aioehoux Bug Morning Heading For Another Win RACE 6: Bug Morning showed rare ability when she came- through with a flourish to defeat Grazie and Ballroom after she was denied a clear j run on the rails. It was a very gallant disiplay and she should
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    Going Good
    9 12 The going today will be very good.
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    Andersonians Win At Taiping
    58 12 TAIPING, Tues- In their inter-school soccer fixture here yesterday. Anderson School. Ipoh, beat King Edward VII School 3—2. The Edwardians started well to score two goals mi n the first half through their centreforward. Jamaluddin. In the second half the Andersonians staged a fighting finish, to
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    EAGLE HAWK WILL SWOOP PAST FIELD
    436 12 Penang trainer Jimmy Martin holds a strong hand m race 3 with three candidates— Sea Wolf, Picture House and Eagle Hawk. Of the trio I like the chances of Eagle Hawk who scored his maiden win at Ipoh over six furlongs m very convincing
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    Carefree Batting
    165 12 GRENADA. Windward Islands. Mar. 8 (Reuter).— The MCC touring cricketers drew their two-day match with the Windward Islands here today A solid innings of 90 not out by Neversori helped Windward Islands to score 194 m reply to the MCC first innings total of 205 for seven declared.
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    Tiger Beer Cup To Alex Rangers
    89 12 Alexandra Rangers with 19 points have won the Tiger Beer Cup for the Kampong League soccer sponsored by the Bre weries Sports Club. The runners up position will be decided between Kebenaran Club fl3 points —one game m hand) and Badan Keseman A (12
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    Cricket Meeting
    24 12 Th e Singapore Indian Association will hold a cricket mceth c on Thursday. Practices will be held every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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