Singapore Standard, 30 March 1954

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  • 18 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD ft fc <#I £l Vol. IV. >«. 271. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1954 TWELVE PAGES 10 CENTS,
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  • 196 1 FIKST ta-k of the three-man Constituency Delineation Commission for txe Federation of Malaya will be to ■j >uin i-\.ut details of population and t.ien h.\ constituencies "'as fahh us pos>i^!^.' >a:d its chairman. Lord Merthyr, who arrived m Singapore by Qantas KOAC Constellation
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  • 417 1 Airlift For Passengers ALGIERS. Mar. 29.— A first shipload ©i British soldiers, rescued from th^ burning troopship Empire Windrush. sailed lor home today thankful to be alive after one of the most spectacular rescues m naval history. Some 1 ,500 Britons among them 277 women
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  • 55 1 MELBOURNE. Mar. 29 (Reuter). A 60-foot barge oa i with munitions for the Fren h m Indo-China drifted across Melbourne's Port Phillip B .<.• and ran aground on a urban beach Gianl Synchrotron PLANS for th* buil ling of t giant synclu" >'; m near Rome,
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  • 222 1 ALGIERS.. Mar. 29 (Reuter)— Captain W. Wilson gave this account of the disaster: "I wa s alone on the bridge at about 0630. I saw volumes of black smoke shooting up from the raft tunnel and up the engine and boiler room ventilator shafts. "I
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  • 41 1 WASHINGTON, Mar. 29. (AP). Rep. Alvin M. Bentley, who was wounded seriously i ivhen a group of Puerto Rican NTationalists fired on the House )n M&r, 1, left the hospital j yesterday to begin a period of convalescence-.
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  • 74 1 KYUTU. JAPAN. Mar. 19 (AP) The latest advice to Japanese college graduates j is "don't accept free drinks." j President Y. Yakigawa told the graduating class «>f Kyutu University; "My final warning to you is always to pay for your own drinks never touch a
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  • 32 1 R 29 J at I i c i ii jrester- \ev r was t< A^a vr h ipa gby bia rto la c, T x e c s
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  • 155 1 THE Singapore Mattukkotta] Chettiars' Cbambei of C mmci Owe 6h their soiicitors leclared yesteriay thai the majoi ity ol Urn Chetl :a; •Omni unity nol rept the *shes ol those >i the ite Mr M Ct \l. tambaram Ch< ttiar. wb<
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  • 440 1 Troops Ordered In To Cairo CAIRO, Mar. 29. The Egyptian army took control of the security of Cairo today as violence erupted m the struggle for power between the President, General Mohammed Naguib and the Vice-Premier, Col Abciel Gamal Nasser. Dr. Abdel Razzak El Sanhoury.
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  • 136 1 NEW YORK. Mar. 29: (Reuter) j Porfirio Kubirosa. the Dominican diplomat, who "s being divorced by the Woolworth heiress. Barbara Hutton, said m an artkie yesterday one thin? which caused the marriage to break up wuj that "she prefer^ to stay ia bed a»l
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  • 202 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Twelve officers and 13 other ranks who had served m various units m the Federation j were on board the troopship Empire Windrush. Names of the officers issued by the Army Public Relations m Kuala Lumpur as being on board the
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  • 139 1 And Now The THEATRE Pays Tribute To Audrey NEW YORK. Mar. 29, (Reuter): Audrey Hep- j burn, 24-year-old. British actress who won an "Oscar" last week for her performance m the film "Roman Holiday", won Broadway's "Tony" Medallion last night for her role m the current play "Ondine" Her award
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  • 176 1 French Smash Rebel A. A. Guns HANOT. Mar. 29 <APi French Union troops bi -k oui of their dustbowl foi Lress at Dien BBino n Pint I»--dav and killed 1,000 C ,m--munist-led Viettn counter-attack outside the fortress Cringes. French Arm announced thai the Eon es der fortress commandei i Del
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  • 87 1 C A P E T O W X. M 3, H (Renter). Francis Bi-ett Young, best selling British novelist, died m Capetown yesterday, aged 69. tftet m illness asting several months On<? oi his many hooks w^s based on his experiences as ship.- surgeon on a
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 57 1 FASHIONABIE SHOES SjEASON sincapqreTuSi?^ SHIP BLAZES OFF ALGIERS THE British troopship Empire Windrush which cilled at Singapore rec*nt- «»n its, way to Southampton c:»u«ht tire of? Algiers on Sunday. This AP ridi.» puture revived last night show> fbmes risias: from the troopship. Two's Company with Playgrs N?3 .he Quality V^Av
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    • 10 1 COLO STORAGE fSj^ 1 I CREAMERIES I f f^ I™^
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  • 245 2 MR. PETER CHONG. proprietor of a firm of pv inters, publishers aud biu>k importers, was awarded tud^mrnt m the Singapore High Court yesterday over I «:.»?m h«> had made tor possession of office premises !.s* had rrnted ont to Enj; Cheon^ Peng Kee Ltd., a food
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  • 234 2 SIB Man Tells Of Deal A Trap JOHORE BAHRU, lion A non-English speak n« i nesc win was alleged U IUHN conducted Ml Ulc£<i\ business transaction with a Military potkeman by s ating with hia haniK. appeared before IWn Sheikh Abdul Rahman today on a charge of afo ting :he
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  • 39 2 HONGKONG Mar _N S eoaJ it c i iv.._ g -^c 11.I 1 a cr c SI 78 to El g >' z rss! <i to M.. .tv..- $1 Nd »l« >do- Hi::. i 1 524.i *n to
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  • 114 2 T. J DAVIES. an Hinplnjfl Of Messrs. Shaw Bros. Lid. [a ed sia tentative charges yesv T::e Singapore Fifth Po ice Co ixi of falsifying state- i nenta ol accounts or. various dates -:i February, this year. While he was the ho.:>e ager o f Ifa
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  • 71 2 GARUDA Indonesian A!rv.a.v> wi.i handle it? own grc tnd operations at Ka'.a:.^ Airport, Singapore, as Iron 1 Api: 1. P:e\ luu-'v the operati ->:;< were handled by KLJI start. The ClaruJa oilire i> no.v !•>••. <:ed :;ear the ir.am entrance to tile tullUflal JL;i!di!:» at Ka
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  • 200 2 BASE WORKERS TO BOYCOTT NEW CONSTITUTION THE Novel Bose Labour Union representing about 10,000 civilian industrial workers of the Admiralty m Singapore will "boycott" all constitutional changes enforced by the Colony Government. An emergency meeting of the Union's executive committee will today pass a resolution to this effect, and "condemn**
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  • 136 2 'Support National Service' MR. Tan Kok Chor. Director of the Chung Shing Jit Pao urged 2,000 Chinese youth yesterday to support the National Service scheme m Singapore and help to smash the Anti-British and New Democratic Youth Leagues. He made this appeal at the Happy World where the youth gathered
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  • 87 2 THE dauehter-in4a« of Low Say Lav, a woman Chap ji-kce runner, asked the Singapore, Eighth Po'ice Court yesterday to se:;d hex to prison ir -tead of her mother-in-law who was fined $750, m default five months' rigorous imprisonment, fur assisting hq the management of a public
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  • 75 2 A CHARGE of robbery with causing hurt was preferred against four nava! ratings. Gordon Barnes. Alan Johns. Peter Knight and Clive Dailies m the Singapore Fifth Poiice Court yesterday. The offence was alleged to have taken place at the 12J miie, Chua Chu Kang Road,
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  • 96 2 ME N ARE NEEDED FOR RED CROSS BUTTERWORTH, Mon.—Recruits who have a knowledge ol both* English and Malay «'<re required for the local detachment of the British Red Cross Society. THE Cathedral Players are to presi it their first play m St. Andrew's Memorial Hall toniffht and toirorrow, at 8.00
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  • 163 2 Lorry Jacks Lift Leaning 4-Storey Building A FOUR storey leaning block of flats one of three m Claymore Drive is being jacked upright with lorry .■jacks. The estimated tlreight of the whole building is between 200 and ."Slid tons and must be raised three ieet. The jacking process is being
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  • 184 2 Floating Menagerie Calls At S'pore Docks The Ihmrsh East Asiatic n ijMifc? Pajudena which i* on hti lust v^.t to L.; Far East berthed alongside the ><neap«ri Harbour Board «harve>, .\e*terda> v;itb "live cargo" valued at S4O 006. The cargo uhiefa is destined U, r tin Bangkok Zoo inciudes two
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  • 96 2 CLOSING rubber prices fceats per 1b mi n Singapore yesterday were: lin I'KiriThe prices of tin ester day «a> *14ft\ dp 75 cts.) LONDON firftitt.K Nr I KSS Bttlltwul Hnusf Terms Monday's opening prices first sission were: LONDON TIN Monday'^ opening session were: Spot £3211 buyers £732J sellers.
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  • 89 2 PEXAXG. Moil— The Tow:.- 1 Branch of the Malayan Indisi: j Congress at its annual genera;; meeting yesterday unanimous- 1 i ly resolved that iis parent body should accept the invitation of the UMNO MCA to join flu I Alliance. This resolution will be put
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  • 554 2 PRESS EMPLOYEES DENY INTIMIDATION TWO Straits Times witnesses for the Crown yesterday went back on the 1 story they told their employers and the Police. and denied that anyone of the striking Straits Times employees had criminally m- timidated them. This took i lace m the Second District Court before
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    • 157 2 I Foi/ Wb/te Foil "Sjj^ P§Ss^^^ can be hod t Paying $27 mmtklg Cosh $350. H F WU Easy yA.uouutf ior Standard type* I con also be a -ranged. COMMERCIAL TRADERS LTD. House of Hire Purchase Head Office: 17-18. Bonhom Building. Chuka Srrec' Tel (Ml Breach: 15, Tiong Eohru Road,
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  • 62 3 X GENERAL v ew of IS studi-nis ttmm the GovwnmmtmVa iVy.hrr services Jttt-ndinj; the fir>t Cadet \dni;n:stranve Course i>f^B.>r.l by th^. Singapore ('•(•vernnicnt yesterday >ren addressin? thrm > Mr. W. Taylor. Acting Colonial Secretary. In thr .fntre is Mr J. lr P „t Tramia-: 6m tW. aiici
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  • 51 3 A Women's Saves Homes iin Race S v \v i j les i" ha n b of an an i Brc i:- shd w Ira m near by .■>••• and i s m Ok nonso > i the i r Asp sp ikes i to! i the Si i resterda
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  • 172 3 WORK on the new $378,000 Kirn Sen? Road Bridge will becia early m April this year. "When complete, the bridge will be the "most modern type" to be constructed m Singapore. c\ specia feature i its construction the main girders which >:
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  • 405 3 SINGAPORE'S Civil Ssrvice was no place for a person who wants to get rich quick, seeks independence or has a Master Plan to reform the world, the acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. C. Taylor, said yesterday. W Scorning 15 members of the Higher Services
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  • 31 3 A »-YEAR-OLD woman, v I >< Sio v Ti.i. fell into the sea! M C!lffocd Pier yesterday i:' 11l aB9 W rued by She <■- idmitted to hospitaL
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  • 211 3 Men In Stores To Get Rise? Standard Staff Reporter A FIVE-MAN delegation of the Singapore Army Civil Service Union yesterday met Army authorities m the Colony and suggested an increase m the salary rates for civilian store-keepers of the War Department. The Command' Secretary. Mi (i. C. Forbes agreed to
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  • 49 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Air. Justice Wi lson [n the Selangor Criminal Court ol j Appeal, today, upheld r >_- conviction and fine of $1, 1 10 imposed on Gun Teng Seng, by Kuala Selangor Magistrate. Can was convicted for issisting m running 3 '1.000 haractev' lottery.
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  • 51 3 KU LUMPUR, Mon. A i m 24-year-old Ramlan ii today stood na the t y 51 Magistrate's a* charge ol ncr T lar^e stated -hat ai liv she can I the i >" > i one Moha- n a ho ise hi MaxX i impur. limed trial.
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  • 17 3 SPORE GIRLS FOR GUIDES COURSE IN UK Helena N i I ra I «l i ranch r
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  • 17 3 DEI-I T s ht Ma railways to ts to ntres In s and
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  • 59 3 PENANG. M m A special meeting hel I y ster In- under iw chairnn m ship >i Mr. S. Baboo. former vi president of the Pan-M i o m Dravidan Association unanimously decided thai id Marriage Reg >tration Oi v. i:>-'> 4. draft biU, be uid
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  • 240 3 Si indard s:.i.Y X -p >:\er > i trisha ps on > Ihei* i 4 r 1 v ?fle >r. The it will t sis v i "the C able to d t the Ha o. i< led." %».d Mi R. 'Hi -3 ni n
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  • 42 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Man.— Forty-five-y "ear-old Manbi p pan, a Municipal labourer, w lay sentenced m the F. i ?trate's C »urt to m >nths' impris lament I causi ig hurt to another lab i uer, Muthusamy witii sidtLs.
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  • 152 3 SINGAPORE Improvement Trust's decision to increase rates and charges has divided residents of tts estates m the Delta and Ganges Road areas into three groups. One group Favours paying a Sti increase m rates to bring the total to 51 2. 0f). The second
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    • 183 3 |il the V c~*tppointment 11% OF THE NEW PHILIPS cJtutkorided Zuealer OVERSEAS INTERNATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED 9 Si« band Super, 10 valves rotatable Ferroceptor. pushpull output stage, high quality 10" loudspeaker. A five-valve receiver with a 7" loudspeaker gives 1 nn n crystal-clear reproduction due to the Noval type valvei HNEATOtf
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  • 61 4 A SOLDER. William Hendry Butler Jenkins, was charged m the Singapore Seventh Police Court yesterday with being m nofatwftd possession of two revolvers, v Smith Wession -45. and a Webly .45. on Mar. 6 at the R.A.O.C. OHicers Mess, Ras^el Road. .ler.kins was offered $1,000 bail.
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  • 338 4 WAN Mahadi bin Wan Ali, the orphan who had his smile restored by plastic surgery at a Sydney hospital, may forge a vital link m friendly inter-racial relations between Australia and Malaya, if two Sydney families have their way. Both families, the Gil Smiths
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  • 318 4 New Turn In Strike Standard Staff Reporter WHILE plainclothes and uniformed policemen waited outside the office of the Malay Seamen's Union m Jalan Sultan yesterday, about 100 Malay seamen, alleged to be members of the union, assembled m the office and decided to "expel" the Union
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  • 219 4 TWENTY-SEVEN civilian empluyees of the War Department m Singapore, the Federation and Hongkong have been ;.wc:rcieri testimonials for Good Service by the C o m m a n ri c r-in Chef. PARELF, Sir Charles Loewen. They are: Miss M Halliday (GHQ, FARELF):
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  • 230 4 Singapore Coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander, asked the Police yesterday to bring to the notice of the authorities concerned that Portsdown Road level crossing is a dangerous spot and that proper traffic sims should be put up. i He said this at an inquesi op
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  • 183 4 TAY Pong Sai a member of the 4 Hai Cfchi No. 36 Group" secret society was sentenced t 0 six months' rigorous imprisonment m the Singapore Seventh Police Court yesterday. Sub-Inspector Goto Ah Pok. the police secret society expert, giving evidence against 'fay, told the
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  • 135 4 THE ttafaqr community is being a^ktn by the Singapore "Malay Union to unite and protek against the report of i the Rendtl Constitutional Comi mission. At a recent turfing SMU presidem. Jnr.be Mohamed Si'dik bin Haj: Abdul Hamid. nominated City Councillor. described the report
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  • 45 4 JOHORE EAHKU. Mon. Vusof bin A>.;:s was 5« otencefl to five years' imprisonment, followed by two years po:ice supervision and 1- strokes c* 'the rottan by (be President d the Sessions Court. Mr. ?v i Cohe n todai for theft
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  • 213 4 Five Kills— And Branch Is Extinct KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Five terrorists, including: two women, who were killed by the First Royal Hampshire Regiment in the Benton?: area of Pahang on Saturday, were the entire l"cal branch of the Communist terrorist organisation, it was revealed here today. The Senior man was
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  • 116 4 THREE mrunis arc if presented m thesf hats by ihe Queen's millißer. Mr. Aate Thaarup. nh*» arrived m Sin^aporf on Saturday with the last word m hat* from London. He will show ilwm at 3 p.m. today m Whiteaway's. "Sweet S« ventren.'" a small flower pot
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  • 59 4 SEAH Boon Peng, a professional driver, who knocked down a pedestrian and then bit ".he pillar of a shophouse and a car, was yesterday fined $lflO by ih<? Singapore First Traffic- Magistrate, Mr. F. A. Chua, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of negligent driving.
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  • 27 4 THE Taiping Postal Telecoms Recreation Club v. '.'.'< .10. <1 its annual genera] meeting on Apr;' S at 4 pjx*. iollewcd fey a tea dajjoc. **J
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  • 394 5 JUDGE HEARS 'A MOST STARTLING' DEFENCE A SINGAPORE lawyer, Mr. R. S. Boswell, submitted m the Singapore High Court yesterday that a person is guilty of "contributory negligence if he were accidentally shot by a member of a shooting party which he had voluntarily accompanied. Mr. Boswell made this submission
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  • 111 5 St mdard Staff Reporter tBOUT 600 temporary i .<> employed by the gapoft Government j nol get 28 months' i pay m accordance UK Yong Peng ird R presentatives of the 5 gapore (Government Cle- a:\\ Administrative es Union yesterday j Orficer Administr-
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  • 51 5 a Assistant Commi-;-Police, Mr. W.J. Urn Singapore Court yesterday, i car stopped at j rouad-a-ooat tiatfic on tne a approachi:.^ his vehicle j about sbi the other -..ays, and l»e ti d Patri John artered accoL;-:- Fraaes nnd fined $50 by 'he Mr. Howe Yoo.i v ;^e:i*
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  • 68 5 NE W OFFICIALS OF RUBBER ASSN. i THE Sngapore Cbambei oi Corr.meive Rubber A iocialion otT.eials for 1954 are: Mr I. (>. i Sahr.ond, chairman; M-. E c Holiday. deputy i h linn m; 'Committee Members Mci r R Cox F D. Harrison. C. H I, Kent. X G. L
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  • 142 5 They Look At Mace Presented By Mr. Loke \"OKE City Councillors yesterday had a pseview of M)O ;;o!d and silver Mayoral Mace presorted by mil lilm magnate Mr Loke Wan Tho llir- Mace will be formally handed »vr t.» the City tomorrow before it sits tor its monthly met t.n^
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  • 103 5 Bargain Hunters: ABOUT 15,000 people visited Robinson and Company, Raffles Place, Singa- pore, yesterday opening day of its annual sale. An hour after the opening, housewives and their husbands had to queue outside. Those who came by car during the ntornins rush-hours caused a traffic jam. During
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  • 810 5 A Review Of Factors Which Depressed Price Of Rubber In 1953 The Chairman of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association. Mr. I. G. Salmond -esterday reviewed ihe uepre^sivc factors, which contributed to the progressive decline m the natural rubber price and said that perhaps the worst i may be
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  • 104 5 THE Sixth Police Magistrate. Mr. R.W.H. Davies yesterday termed "severe" a* District Judge sentence of five monthrigorous imprisonment on Chong Kam Leng for his previous conviction of failing 4 o notify the Registration OftVe of the change of address m hia identity card. Binding Chong over
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  • 764 5 'Perhaps The Worst May Be Over'— Says Mr. Salmond the effects of the American Strategic Stockpile rotation prac- c tices, the consequences of which s during the second half of the year, began to assume very s serious aspects. I t "'At a rotation rate of some IS 10 000
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    • 59 5 Thr First Amateur Ballroom j Challenge WEST AUSTRALIA vs SINGAPORE h>, thr DATO C. J. PAGI Iff Challenge Cup THE HAPPY C ABARET Thr City's nod enchanting nighi »pot) Wednesday, 31st March Thursday, Ist April. A S«e The l.fa.linis Amal.ur Dmin J Krom Au*lralui 4 SiiiKa|>i>n- I" V.lk.ii TEDDY KOON
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    • 201 5 DO YOU KNOW? Taxi Owners who use Seven times •s many tyres as private Motorists, invariably choose Continental FOR mileage UP! cost DOWN! SYMBOL OF QUALITY RELIABILITY /or automotive TYRES TUBES Obtainable from any motor tyre dealer Sole Agents > ANGLO-AMERICAN CORP., LTD, 3, PRINCE STREET < SINGAPORE TEL: 5171
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 88 5 Weather Report MINIMUM Temperature: I from 7^o p.m. on Mir. C 8 to 7.10 a.m. on Mar. -'9 Singapore |77F>- PWMUBa (76F); Kotu Bahru 75F Kuala Lumpur (74F»; Ipo i 175F); Kuantau I i7SF). Maximum Temperature: from 730 a.m to 7.30 p.m. on Mar. 89 Singapore <SOF>: Pen-wsj i (89Fi:
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  • 775 6 E make no apology lor adding our widow's mite of contusion to the current debate on whether what used to be known as the British Empire would be more ac-ceptable to everyone concerned and even those who are quite unconcerned— if it were called the Comrnonv. ealth.
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  • 1391 6  -  Alex Josey -By- T?RO\l Kuala Lumpur a European reader has sent me a letter urging me to discuss m these columns the recent case of a Malay sent to prison by a religious court for teaching Islam tcithout authority. Inviting me to criticize the action of
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  • 188 6 Review of Views 5-Year Plan Query UTUSAN MELAYU ask? the| Singapore Government j whether the Five- Year Plan? lor Malay schools m the£ Colony has been abandoned. The paper says Ihat according to the Plan. Malay school's J m. the Colony would have' started English classes last' January from Standard
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  • 974 6  - RACIAL STRIFE DOESN'T EXIST IN BUKIT BATU G.I. TAYE Says gUT for the resettlement order issued on Feburary 23 by the Muar District War Committee no-one would have heard of Kampong Bukit Batu an obscure community of humble villagers who are practising what some of our intransigent leaders and foot-loose
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  • 293 6 We the PEOPLE Is The Tungku Losing Confidence In Himself.' Sir; In the course of his speech at the monthly luncheon of the Singapore Union of Journalists, Tungku Abdul Rahman was quoted as posing the following three questions to non-communal political parties. 1. Are they willing to hare a non-Malay
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  • 344 6 Sir; With reference to Mr. Alex Josey's article What is a Living Wage 0 he will find the term "Living Wage" defined m the Oxford English Dictionary as follows: Wag.es sufficient tor worker and his family to live on without privation. The Chamber's Twentieth Century
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  • 212 6 Sir. Mr. Airs .»<•*■ i article on hauk<-i* In day' s Standard terms show some coafuswa tween the iun« ti<»n» Cit v Council and thi the Singapore Govern i;.The policy with regj hawker s was d<< idi <; the Singapore Govern** after Silcoek Comnuv* had presented
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  • 13 6 "Sorry. Miss, sold out! A Canadian Mountie bought the enlire stock!"
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    • 91 6 I SINGAPORE tiger STANDARD ■UHMIM MORNING NEWSPAPER HEAD OFFICE: 128, Robinson Rood, Singapore. Telephone Not *****—***** Cable Telegraph Address: TIGERNEWS. Singapore. BRANCH OFFICES: LONDON Room 222. The Times Building. Printing House Square, London E.C. 4. KUALA LUMPUR IPOH PENANG 45 Sultan St.. 83. Cowan St.. 8, Leith St.. Tele 4588.
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    • 39 6 Westinghouse Roaster Oven simplifies cooking tasks ROASTS BAKES FRIfS G«*'^ s Optional B '^i-'.cr cabinet. electric til m SOLE AC t NTS: Khoo Heng Pho V Cc. li 6 A B, Anson Rood, Singapore 2. Telephone 835G9 and BI7Zt.
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  • 136 7 NORFOLK, Virginia, I Mar 29, (UP)— The United Slates Navy announced here yesterday that an LST grounded on a coral reef m the Bania Islands had been i reed alter a 12-day battle. -poke^man here said salpi -rews -'used every trick I tbc
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  • 82 7 k IPEI, Vlar. 29, (AP)—Nalinese Premier Chen to d liberated war from Korea this j a Nationalist invasion C Una mainland is 4 ;ve no Indication night happen. that "when the I shall do:', my you m BghV badi to out m the Army
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  • 57 7 MONTREAL, Mar 29 (UP] twin g;r:< ioined head and a normal girl c orn on Satur lay to a lon ther, Cathee Booth H ana imced T v: s reported thai .he >ta are to ng we! I m mit >ra They said I te mother,
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  • 33 7 Nr'.'.V YORK, Mar L'!». (AFP) oi the US. Atomic I >gj Comi Lewis r si ig I I DlO OK 1 I Straus Pr d E >enh >wei sti?ati
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  • 333 7 FRENCH GOVT. STORM OVER EDC DEBATE PARIS, Mar. 29 Storm clouds are gathering over the French Government formed nine months ago by Prime Minister Joseph taniel which is split on the ratification of the European army treaty. The cabinet is torn between the supporters of the European army who are
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  • 65 7 Souvenir Of His Stay In Malaya AS a souvenir of his stay m Malaya, this soldier brought home an outsize labourer's hat which was secured to his Deck. Private John Ainsworth, a 19--year-old national servicman from Maidstone, arrived m S o uthampton on the trooper Empire OrweJl with the Ist.
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  • 107 7 'Eleventh Hour' Warning SYDNEY, Mar. 29, (AP)— Professor E.W. Titterton, Pro(essor of Nuclear Physics m the National University at Canberra, said yesterday mankind has "reached the c eventh hour of human tpmeni if the deadlock over atomic armaments or war cannot be solved." Referring to hydrogen bomb tests, he said
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  • 57 7 BEIRUT. Mar. 29, (AP)— p v removed a student's y from the American University Hospital mortuary here yesterday to forestall a de- ostrati «i planned tor the si lent's funeral today. The student was, killed 1 -Qg demonstration on Satur stud< nts protest- agajj si Arab participat
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  • 190 7 LONDON, Mar. 29, (UP)— United States Foreign Operations Administrator Harold E. Stassen met Prime 'Minister Sir Winston Churchill over a dinner table i last night m an effort to iron out Anglo-American diffenences over expanding trade with Iron Curtain countries. Stassen landed here from j
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  • 78 7 BELGRADE. Mar. 29. (Reuter) Some foreign correspondents here received a letter yesterday announcing the forma- tion of an underground antiTito '-Socialist Party of Yugoslavia." The declared aim of the party was to "'fight for the esta--blishnieni of freedom which does not now exist m this country.*
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  • 112 7 54 GOW Max -"< Weutt General Vo Nguyen Giap, comma:: -it- r of the ittminh armies m Indo-Chitfa, has so -Mort-d a French broadcast urging him to stop his troops r.a- on ambu!an« pane- eva uating wounded trom the bceag red fortress oi Dien Biea Phu. the
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  • 70 7 AGADIR. Morocco, Mar. 29, iß.uten— The Pasha of Agatiir was injured and a Moroccan killed when a terrorist threw a bomb at the Inezgane race course here yesterday. Six other people jyere also injured. The Pasha who was injured m the face and thigh was
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  • 93 7 FAITHFUL DOG GUARDED DEAD MASTER LONDON. Mar. 29. (AFP)— An old sheep dog kept faithful vigil by the body of his dead master lor 15 weeks, it was announced here today, when a chance passer-by found the body of 86-year-old shepherd. Joseph Tagg, still guarded by his dog. Tip. The
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  • 66 7 SYDNEY, Mar. 29, (Reuter). A group of United Stales businessmen wants to can Australian kangaroo meat for American dogs. Reporting this the Sunday Telegraph said the reason was that dogs' meat was getting scarce m America as people were eating more horse-flesh and the horse population
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  • 128 7 VILLAGE IS ENGULFED IN HEAVY QUAKE TEHERAN, Mar. 29. (AP) —Giant cracks which opened m the earth after a heavy quake on Thursday swallowed the village of Jezinan about 40 j miles west of Teheran, the Iranian capital's evening papers said yesterday. I The papers said about 200 j houses
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  • 170 7 TIGRIS RIVER SUBMERGES NEW BAGHDAD BAGDAD. Mar. 29: (Renter) The surging Tigris Rivei day totally submerged !he fashionable "New Baghdad", suburb of Baghdad, capita! of Iraq with a population ot more than half a million people. Most of the inhabitant? escaped to safer ground and Iraqi army teams worked feverishly
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  • 38 7 THE British-Soviet Friendship Society has adopted a resolution asking the British Government to co-operate with the Soviet Government to outlaw atomic weapons and institute a system of international inspection and control of atomic energy. AFP
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  • 184 7 NAIROBI, Mar. 29, (Reuter)— A second Mau Mau "General" surrendered yesterday as a result of the Government's recent offer by thumbing a lift on an i army lorry m the South Nyeri reserve. He is "General Kaliba", :asl i of captured "General China-"
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  • 55 7 TAIPEI. Mar. 29, (AP).— The official Chinese Nationalist News Agency said m a statement published today that former Governor of Formosa K. C. Wu. now living m the United States, had threatened to sue the agency for U552,000,000 for "spreading organised and malicious propaganda against
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  • 30 7 DURHAM. North Carolina. Mar. 29, (Reuter). Mr. Ad!ai Stevenson, leader of the Democratic Parly. entered Duke Hospital here last night for treatment oL a kidney ailment.
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  • 249 7 Queries On H-Bomb LONDON, Mar. 29 (Reuter) The Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill today worked out his repk t« a barrage oi questions on America's hydrogen bomb tests awaiting him m the House of Commons. He will make an important i statement m Parliament
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  • 95 7 LONDON. Mar. 29, (Renter). Richard William Moore, 19. sentenced to death earlier this month Eor the murd* c of hi? [7-year-old sweetheart, hu been reprieved, it was announced on Saturday At his i!:: at Stafford Assizes the prosecution claimed Moore, an airman, killed Margaret Chaseby plunging a
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  • 76 7 Stondord London Correspondent LONDON, Mar. 29. The following ore the closing prices of rubber and tin on the London Market. LONDON RUBBER Spot 161 April June 161 j July September 17 October December 17£ Jon. March 171 April c.i.f. 161 Tone: Steady. LONDON TIN Spot £727
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  • 204 7 INDIAN STAR SAYS ITALIAN PIN-UP GIRL IS SEXY... CANNES, Mar. 29, (AFP) India's buxom film actress, Mohna, who says "they call me the Indian Jane Russell." met Italy's leading shapely pin-up girl. Gina Lollobrigida. for the first time today at the Cannes international film festival. Mohna said, "She's sexy, all
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    • 825 8 NORODEUTSCHER LLOYD AND H^ MBURG AMERIKA LINIE JOINT SERVICE T« Catombo. Genoa. Marseilles. Antwerp Rotterdam Ham bur X- Bremen Spore P S'ban Peaan^ TS bMi (HAPAG) JOMar SApr «:\pr 1 S.Mar MV Si hwabesstein (NDL) 11 15\pr lt.Apr ITApr f s i.everknsen HIAPA(i> 5 1 1 >!_> VBKbo 13 MMaj
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  • 349 9 Sumatra May Take The Lead] Standard Staff Correspondent JAKARTA, Mar. 29, German experts m Indonesia have predicted that Sumatra may become South-East Asia's greatest i «eal producer of the future. ft itas ti»e eaal reserves but it is &ot exploited, they said. SSaese Germans. two La somber,
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  • 116 9 THE pifriiire market m Sin- gapor€ was steady m copra find quiet m coconut oil yester3ay with only small business passing. Copra for April ship-neni rlosed a1 $30| per picul buyers i with sellers at $31. Coconut oil sellers closed $52 per i til at Penang with noj buyers.
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  • 147 9 RUEB-FR prices m Singapore. closed 56 cents per ib. for first £fr.(-(. rubber Aorii shipment (55j nents on Saturday) I aa a cu)€\ ji.rkci Fairly good orders received! from New York which eontri-l buted to i! t improvement m quotations. Small manufacturing interest fron- the United States helped to
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  • 737 9 THE turnover bmJkumf :r. the Ifalayan sto« maafaei ye;--, terday mas ont v smallesi Eor a veer, aca rd qg to the Byfalayan ShasebrofcEßB 1 Asso- With the exoeptk n of Straits Steamships w%ich eased f ightLy, prices bofij h i ndustriate and "vi were qai^
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  • 123 9 THREE British electrics gnn the Bnjisii Than soo- X .on Company Lu.. Ferranti fjtti. srr Tin Genera. E-e-:.:\.- Cx:r-c' v Ltd. of Bagland t\ ii. order of Hz-rszid-aae-faail BMlttnn co.jars pbuoed by ffawHiuc ESbpironics DnipMalion of Ntv. York City under its offshore 1 procurement
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    • 248 9 tri Abac* j i I By A/ CfifDU (i^ii^l^^^ l^^^Sd ESI |s^3jSr! hd r vr l 11 ff TVeGOCJEBOR.I rV™^^#J toSS'^^S r V^STCK.'^! BEBSTH. /H CHAAiaE.' WONDER UWATS 1 The Heart Of Jufiet Jones 6y Sfen Drake t- --i-s a— srr t^ I e_cc;jen- 6\t weti V. r 9 pC
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    • 429 9 <t H|llßß>lipiWTpintlilTOlllJllt»lW r^BBSa»ii^^ S-I><ttti: ,4KI SOt'lKlA exh:b:tinn mMjtW MffA iA i,;cr.;tecijre m Smgapßne at j J^oiMdiM%> C'Jl irw Britislj Council hall. Stamfcrod Read, from 9 a.m.— 6 pan. C&nWQte Ttx C\v Thai Never AVII-IMrHTHERIA CAMPAMiN: l.ilKh^-'Tu h V'^Sf n'-' ,/i r 12.30 2. ree immunisation will be grass r^ _j«j
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    • 117 9 XjiHw amniiK.* w i 1 1 SINGAPORE R4I»K» M&4..%%J1. I'OKl 716 IX 1 L S: .j' N« WE 7 :;.i Bffie id? Mixture; r a.m Wtjcipn r "ciin* Memo es; n57 it II t o Sv ioo 101 p.m. L-■ Kasic: I n< v.>. i(5 P.:-. -:r. {'••.< i i:.
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  • 588 10  - Don't Cultivate A Mania For Weighing! MARGARET SCOTT WARNS (.IKI fhIEND was ask- in< me the other day if I knew uf a youn;' mother or niolhrr tube who mi^ht like lo buy a pair of scales. >ly first inclination was to try and br helpful and find v»mr.>ne but.
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  • 169 10 I 111 l:t*liion spotlight turn- on V-u S „rk this w.-.-k iii.l v, li\«- creations shown here cunte (nun rh<- v, M m iui,. r < <tlh'< tion ol Couturier I i-hinn- arranged »> the (Han (Corporation <»( imrrtea hrtd i.i^ 1 u.-,k
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  • 455 10 CEX appeal may ?et yuu a date with the l>o»s. but it won't produce x salary increase. This is the opinion of two young women who have achieved top executive jobs m widely separated fields. On e is Cecilia W. KeUy. recently appointed VicePresident
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    469 10 pLEASE. no more letters asking how *i become friends with a girl or boy whom you see regularly yei ;< noi know: I cannot introduce you, nor can I give you any help. You should gdin an introduction through a mutual friend, or, failing this, try t>
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    • 16 10 £cc hcu> ikeij 4<tHce the 'a In (Zjcf >; i*-"-- v v vvWwwOwt ■'"^'^^^s^^B Sy ''"v. '■'■'■'•'•'■"^S^^^Bt%«''^^Bßs^
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  • 588 11  - SEL SOCCER PLIGHT Dependant On Old Brigade ANDY ROZARIO By -kil can be groomed aßd harnessed forK achTeve of its goal. I l acni e>«- t Pudll Road ground o:: the Ifcrsl State trial U was mi animated »ard ahj tli og too oe-ajse. exrept for :new Uicis who r
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    52 11 NINA Ostralenko of Russia wins the two-kilometre crosscountry race for women lu-ld on Mar. 21 at the Vieennes Hippodrome. Paris. Her time was seven minutes, seven seconds. The 10-kilometre race for meo was won by Emil Zatopek. the famous Czechoslovak runner. A number ol Ciech and Russian runners entered for
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  • 166 11 Collings Hits Out Lustily MALACCA, Men. Malacca Club yesterday made an auspi- ia -tar: for Settlement cricket beating the Serembar. P v v- 13 runs at the dv i paitani A who foiled as a son irs m I m Mi was Bnc fcti te, itting tily a bance ess
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  • 32 11 .\:'"AR. Mon.— Playing on the Muar -b padang yesterday |g i Friend i football match n Distc were b«ateri by 3,- Pahal District 1-0. Ban Chuan scored r winners.
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  • 542 11  -  LINESMAN (By The final cricket Test between England and the West Indies opens m Kingston today, the scene of the first match m the present series which the home team won by 140 runs. Todays match is vital It is invested with more interest than
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  • 448 11 LONDON. Mar. 29 (Reuter) managers appear to favour any of international selection. Th more say. This is one of the conclusions that may be drawn from the I conference of managers called by the Football Association to j discuss means of improving English football standards. They
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    • 625 11 NOTICES AUCTION SALE OF Valuable Freehold Singapore Properties To Be Held At Our Saleroom, No. 1 Prince Street (Corner of ColJyer Quay) 'On Thursday, Ist April, 1954 At 2.30 p.m. !T OT l. Freehold land and house No. 159 Kallang! Road, area 1,183 sq. ft Monthly rent $75.00. (Chinese Month).
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    • 668 11 TUITIOH TUNG LING AFTERNOON 1 1 ENGLISH SCHOOL. 145, J Marine Parade European Super- Q visor. Vacancies exist for School Certificate. Enrolment between 1.30 p.m. to 530 p.m. Fees $10/- per month. FOR SALE i ORCHIDS by hir:— T;-.e best gift tor your friends g line away by piane. is
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    • 719 11 DEATH DR. Joseph Tan Kwang Mdf' passed a\'.;;>- p€<iaefull: 29.3.54. cortege leaves it>. dence 28i*. .Taaapenai Ko,'«L ?>\ 4 p.m. .i 1.3.54 icr tui iai n\ BidadarL ACKNOWIBCMRNTS MR. Mr*. Choßf F«h Heng wi>h to tendtr t'ltir ciwj grateful thank 1 to iht-i: relatives ;j:id t: lend*- f< r their
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    • 859 11 Slandard Srr\icor I <m* Tht 1 A I tniK iHm Ar- r*m un« m|»li»v j jud D arr.. T« fefip v«»u mid uttrfe tar Smc Mire Standard lupiovMrni Bureafl oners vwu ire* spare ii <h;s column lu-i rJll «ir »r«r »..:ir local Sundird .»m»» iai n •ippllcaliou ;ni:»i »hwr «>U
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  • 116 12 THE star turn of the evening m the SBHFA versus Malay F.A. friendly soccer at Jalan Besor Stadium teas young Wilfred Skinner, making his debut tor SBHFA m goal. Though he let five past him, this logical candidate to Cfiee Seng's berth, saved twice that
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  • 398 12 SINGAPORE Cricket Club, who are bent on proving this season that they are actually a first division team m the secon d division SAFA league, scored their fourth successive victory when they beat Chinese Athletics 2 l on the padang yes-
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  • 43 12 COLOMBO. Mar. 29 (AP) M Navratna Swamy, a 45-year- > i Fanil from North Ceylon win swan the 30-mile wide Pah Strait which separates Cej ::j;n South India, said ksl jhi ne will so U Europe kn .1-' English Channc
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  • 1081 12 LONDON Mar. 29. (Reuter)— Football League standings after yesterday's matches are as FIRST DIVISION P W D L f A Pts West 3i MOB v.eh 33 2! B G H2 48 50 Woh > 36 21 6 a 33 ",4 48 Hudders- i 38 11 11 R
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  • 321 12 EVEN with one man short, Kinta Rangers found Netaji Sports Club no obstacle m a division 3B league match at River Valley Road. Kinta Rangers won 6 l. P.K. Samv the centre-forward of the Rangers, completed a hattrick for his side before he
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    90 12 THIS year's officials of the Malayan Chinese Footoall Association alter their election at the T ua L general meetin S of the association at Mr I.W. Ongs residence on Sunday. Seated m the front row are: "Messrs Tan Chin Beng (hon. Treasurer), Choo Kwai Low (hon Secretary), Teoh Chze Chong
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  • 751 12 SKINNER DEFIES BAKAR Co Saves Weak {Without Vas>) SBHFA From A Trouncira 9 THOUGH friendly rivalry prevailed m this early season "res; 3 i strength between the powerful Malay Football Association and Singo^. Business Houses FA at Jalan Be: ar stadium yesterday, the spec?, far were treated to a fair
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  • 39 12 PENANG IE BEAT PWFA BUTTER Y *he Provii md 1 at goa rworth Disti 'Ul d a^n a i a ised Mrs F. S Oj bairman ol I tiallense ompeted for 1 i the Penang Mr. A. W I
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  • 195 12 KEBENARAN Football I Club gained their first vie- I tory this season at the ex- j pense of Tuan Mong Old i Boy's Association whom they j i beat 2 l m a SAFA division j 3A match at Farrer Park. Kebenaran went straight in:o the
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  • 65 12 i IPOH, Mon.— The Malays beat Ipoh Detention Camp by two goals to nil m a senior chvi.-ion league soccer match on the pa dang. The winners led by a solitary goa! scored by centre forward Ismail Ghani early m the game. The second goal was m
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  • 241 12 AFTER opening the score, Darul Afiah cracked up badly to go down 3—l to Tampenis Rovers m yesterday's SAFA division 3B league match at Farrer Park. It was the Rovers' third out- ing. and their record is still good. Cheng Meng and Justin Morais were
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    • 123 12 TONIGHT IS THE 6th HEAI AMATEUR TALENT QUEST t 8 VARIETY SHOWS 8 FIRST ARTIST APPEARS AT 84.> p m JUDGING BY THE APPLAUSE METER DANCING AS USUAL AFTER THE QUEST THURSDAY Ist APRIL 1H54 LAf/Af AMERICAN NIGHT Watch advert lor EASTER HOLIDAY attta.ii.KiLLOYD TRIESTINO MAKE YOUR ROUND VOYAGE TO
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    • 56 12 SINGAPORE BOCCEH SAFA Div. Pulau B i m H.M Dockyard Betar D.- 2 i-.v. rt(yapore H i i -SHB YMSA—Farrei P i SjC CYMA. -> Josepl 't Instit I Patridc'g S .4 ■!(,•.'<'-(■ v. Ga Eng Seng Andre N gooi Engligi S B v S.S. T'"(.'c;- S Ins' oi <x
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