Singapore Standard, 25 August 1954

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    15 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Vol. V. No. 54. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25. 1954 TWELVE PACES 15 CENTS.
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    Swam With Clothes On
    52 1 TOKYO. Aug. 24. tAP>— i Imperial Palace guards tcday arrested a young man who was found swimming around; with hla clothes on in the moat that surrounds the' palace. Th-' guards said the man. 24 years old. was a dope ad- j did jirTecteri by Tokyo's]
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    SUICIDE: A PLEDGE KEPT
    575 1 Forced To Quit, BraziFs Uron Man' Vargas Chooses Death Bullet Ends President's 5 -Year Reign RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 24, (AP)— Brazil's old iron man, Getulio Vargas, sent o bullet through his heart and died in his palace today after generals forced him to quit as
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    Police Recover 300 Pounds High Explosives
    290 1 Police Recover 300 Pounds High Explosives Buried In Trench 1^ j THREE hundred pounds of high explosives believed to be part of that extracted from forty-nine 500-lb. bombs "stolen from the R.A.F. Station at Tengah, during the past few months, were discovered yesterday half-buried in a trench behind a pigsty
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    REPATRIATION FOR REFUGEES
    34 1 BANGKOK. Aug. 24. (Reuter> The Thai Government has decided to repatriate to Vietnam about 50.000 Vietnamese refugees now living in the north-eastern provin.ee.> of Thailand, it was officially stated here today.
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    MAO RECEIVES ATTLEE AND CO.
    424 1 PEKING, Aug. 24, (Reuter)— Mr. Mao Tsetung, Communist China's top leader, accompanied by his senior advisers today met Mr. Clement Attlee, the British Labour Party leader, at Ching Chen Tien, near here. It was the first time Mr. Mao had met a ranking Western politician
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    Vice Squad Probes HK Shoe Shine Girlies
    65 1 Vice Squad Probes HK Shoe Shine Girlies HOXCKOXG. Aug. 24: (Renter). Hongkong police vice squad, which only a week ago raided and closed down several spurious "Art schools", was toduy investigating establishments offering shoe shine services by "beautiful" girls for a fee HKsl (l/3d. sterling). Newspaper reports said the girls
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    54 1 THIS is the spot where Singapore Police found 300 pounds of high explosives extracted from bombs stolen from RAF Tengah when they raided a village in the Sembawang area early yesterday morning. This picture taken last night shows the trench (covered by zinc sheets) where the explosives were half-buri-ed in
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    Soldier Held In Ammo Case
    117 1 Soldier Held In Ammo Case A MALAY soldier has been detained for questioning following the recent discovery of 116 rounds of 9 mm ammunition hidden on waste land in Pulau Blakang Mati, an island off Singapore. The discovery was made by officers from the Military and Singapore Police who acted
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    CHINA REDS OWN STANVAC
    48 1 HONGKONG, Aug. 24. (Reuter)— All assets on the China mainland of the American owned Standard Vacuum Oil Company have Oeen taken over by the Soviet Kw.ong Hwa Petroleum Company, according to a China Press Union report in the Kung Sheung Daily News here today.
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    Zilos The Name
    23 1 ROME, Aug. .24 (Reuter)— Former Justice Minister, Adone Zoli, 67, was elected President of the Italian Christian Democrat Party todav.
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    FRENCH WARSHIPS
    25 1 THE French aircraft carrier Arromanches which arrived in Manila yesterday from Indo-Chinese waters will leave for Singapore today en route to France. AFP
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    Indonesia, China Sign Trade Pact
    130 1 photo. By ARNOLD BRACKMAN Standard Special Corr: JAKARTA, Tues. The Indonesian Government announced today that it had reached an economic agreement with Red China after almost two months' negotiations here. Details of the agreement have not yet been released. The talks between China and Indonesia
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    World Nudist Meet To Discuss Bare Facts
    127 1 VIENNA, Aug. 24 (AP)—Undoubtedly onlv the bare facts will be discussed by an International Congress of Nudists to be held on a Danube River island later this month. An announcement yesterday by the Vienna "Society for Spiritual Interests of Free Body Culture" said
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    Big Haul By HK Robber
    53 1 HONGKONG. Aug. 24. (UP) —An unidentified man trailed an office worker from a bank, then stabbed and robbed him of more than HK$5,OOO as he entered a building today, police reported. A colony-wide search was quickly launched for the attacker. The victim, 39-year-old Wong Wing-keung,
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    11th-Hour Bid To Save EDC
    130 1 11th-Hour Bid To Save EDC PARIS, Aug. 24 (UP) Former Premier Antoine Pinay launched an 11th hour attempt last night to save the European Defence Community treaty by proposing that France should agree to join in the pact on an 18--month trial basis. M. Pinay, who is the most likely
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    N.Z. ELECTION
    19 1 NEW ZEALAND will hold a general election on Nov. 13. it was announced in Wellington yesterday.- Reuter
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    AIR CRASH – NO SURVIVORS FOUND
    174 1 AIR CRASH NO SURVIVORS FOUND AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 24, (AP) Search crews combed the stormy North Sea today for traces of a Dutch airliner which disappeared en route from New York with 21 or more persons aboard. So far only bits of wreckage and a lone child's body had been
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    Nude Attacks Woman
    82 1 A NAKED Malay who was seen dragging a young Chinese housewife. ras chased and caught by the woman's husband on a hill near the Singapore Riding Club ground in Dunearn Road on Monday. The woman was sweeping grass when she was suddenly pounced upon by the Malay.
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    STOP PRESS
    44 1 WASHINGTON. Aug 24. (Reuter) The Secretary of State. Mr. John Foster Dulles, said today that the South-east Asian Defence i conference would consider 1 the threat of Communist 1 economic penetration as well as the Communist threat of outside military I attack.
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      160 1 THE Singapore E Standard Quick-Quiz Contest No. 32 resulted in a tie the first j time since the com- < petition began. The winners are Mrs R J. Parr of 7 Ridgeway. Nee Scon. Singapore and Mr. C.B. Ong of 21 Burma Lane, Penang. A cheque of $50 has been
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    50 STUDENTS IN LONDON
    33 2 LONDON*. Aug. 24— Fifty Malayan students arrived i n London this morning to find the weather cold and raining and too overcast for them to fly On to Manchester.
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    Stage Being Put Up For WAY Show
    147 2 Stage Being Put Up For WAY Show MALACCA, Tues.—Workmen are now feverishly engaged in putting up an open stage In position on the Residency lawn where the pageant of St. Francis Xavier was staged 16 months ago. Stage floodlights are being installed and fairy lights fixed for the International Variety
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    JOHORE WANTS MORE $s
    343 2 States Progress Slow Compared To Pre-War—Datc JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Dato H. E. M«cKenxie told members of the Johore State Council at its meeting today that the State was not getting the second best share of the allocation and loan money from the Federal Government although Johore
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    Jailed For Cheating
    77 2 TWO men, who posed themselves as detectives and cheated a couple of $25. were sentenced to 21 months' and three months' jail, respectively by the Singapore Third District Judge. Mr. H. A. Forrer, yesterday. The men. R. Bangarn and Jayarenan s o Piu-hakannu. were found guilty of
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    2 Manufacturers For UK Air Show
    144 2 TWO plane manufacturers passed through Singapore yesterday on their way to Britain. They were Wing Commander A.W. Millson, General Manager of Vickers Armstrong (Australasia) and Colonel R.T. Elvish, General Manager of the Fairey Aviation Company (Australasia). Colonel Elvish, whose company produces British naval aircraft,
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    M.I.C. Suspends Party Leader
    259 2 He Opposed Elected Reserve KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Mr. V. J. Somasundaram, one of the long time leaders of the Malayan Indian Congress, was suspended from the Party, today, following his open opposition to its demand for an elected reserve in the Federal Council for the Indian
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    KEEP BACK OUR YOUNG MEN, SAYS WISDOM
    188 2 KEEP BACK OUR YOUNG MEN, SAYS WISDOM MALACCA. Tues. Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, the retiring* Municipal President, said the Settlement should induce its youngsters to remain here by providing sufficient opportunities for them. He made this appeal at a tea party given by the Councillors and staff of the
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    Broadcast Interview
    54 2 MR. ALEX PETERSON, former Director-General of Information Services. Federation of Malaya, can be heard over Radio Malaya on Friday night, answering questions about Malaya put to him by three well-known journalists. The journalists are Mr. Bruce Miller of Australia. Mr. Ernest Itel of British Guiana and Mr. Derek
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    Mrs. Aw Aids The Poor
    38 2 photo. MRS. AW BOON HAW (extreme right) celebrated her 70th birthday in Singapore last Saturday by visiting the Little Sisters of the Poor in Thomson Road and distributing gifts to the occupants. Standard
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    Captain On Fraud Charges
    125 2 Captain On Fraud Charges KUALA LUMPUR. Tuee. Captain J. C. Worley. ol "he Royal Artillery, was charged in an Army Court Martial today, with alleged fraudulent conversion of lands belonging to the Kuala Lumpur Garrison Players. Captain Worley is attached to the Malayan Signals Squadron. According to the prosecution, the
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    'MOTHERLY' DELIGHTS DELEGATES
    203 2 'MOTHERLY' DELIGHTS DELEGATES THE Ms-jrice Co. is p-ay "Motherly and Auspicious." produced and directed by Mr Seow Cheng Fong. was wellreceived last night by the delegates to the second Woric Assembly of Youth. Miss Chua Swee Eng. at the Empress Dowager Tzu H<: towered above the others. Her fine dictioa
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    PC Let Prisoner Escape, Is Bound Over
    209 2 PC Let Prisoner Escape, Is Bound Over BHfANG. Tues.— A police constable, Mohamed Yasin bin Hussain. 20, had no conviction recorded against hint- when he was found guilty in the Magistrate's Court today for negli- 1 gently allowing a prisoner. Letchumanam. to escape from the General Hospital on April 6.
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    commodity PRICES
    104 2 commodity PRICES i CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No 1 R cS.6 Spot Loose <#& mi. No. 1 R.S.S. «€g 061 No. 2 R.S.S. W?J Wii No. 3 R.S.S. 951 *>k Tone: Slightly easier. TIN PER* The price of tin yesterday was $36*51
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    HERE ON FACTFINDING TOUR
    73 2 MR. AH'IHUI DOl>i>* PARKER Vmfrr-Serrruix •f Stair for Fowycn Affairs arrived in Kiaiu.pore b> Garudi from Baspfcok jresterday «m a faft-fiAdißg mission in a<-quaini himself witt: the pe^tp!*- xn4 the c«Mintn»-^ here. He has already isit?tl B«-i rut. Karachi. Defiii. Rangoon Calcutta and Bangkok and will
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    HK EXCHANGE
    40 2 HONGKONG, Aug 24 Special Standai d S Closing pi ices t-f t;-: j H kong Exchange U-gjv v i 515.61 to sterTtng; R •o USS:: s lo SI: $0.19Q to e I: loi Rupiah, Gold t251 "> U tael.
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    Merchant Faces Cheating Charge
    193 2 MALACCA, Tues— Tan Kee Gak. a company director, who had his case transferred to the Sessions Court from the Magistrates- Court last week, today had two new alternative charges preferred against him. This was dene after Chief Inspector I-akir C'.iand withdrew the six old harges. Tan
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    HIGH-HANDED' ACTION BY TAX DEPT.
    409 3 Manager Can't Leave The Colony A SINGAPORE manager yesterday charged that »he income tax authorities of the Colony had applied "high-handed" methods in recovering tax allegedly due to the Department. Rpifn^ Fos er manager of the Pavilion Restaurant, who is under a restrictive order issued
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    Colony Social Workers
    106 3 THE Colony's leading women active in voluntary social work met Mrs. J. S. Silverio, head of the School of Social Work, Philippine Women's University, at tea this week at the Ocean Park Hotel and exchanged ideas on how they can solve their problems relating to their respective
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    NEW J.P. IN NEGRI
    41 3 photo. .MR. Lee Siew Joo, \Vt-rt Sembilun's new Justice of the Peace, is the President of the Negri Sembilan Branch of the Malayan Chinese Association. He has a long record of public service in the State Standard
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    Ponggol Boating Tragedy
    129 3 THF Singapore Assistant Coi ner, Mr. Giam Chong H::-.4. returned a verdict of death ;y misadventure, yesterday, at a:i inquiry into the death oi Tan Beng Khun, i 16-year-old student o: a Chinese H:^a School. who was drowned in the Sea Ofl PonggOl Read, on J.:ne 6.
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    Island Tour For WAY
    72 3 ONE hundred taxis will provide free rides for WAY delegates on tours round Singapore Inland on Saturday. The Singapore Hire Car Association has arranged ior the tours. The taxis will assemble at the Anglo-Chinese School. Barker Road. Delegates wishing to avail themselves of the opportunity are
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    45 Meters Stolen
    55 3 THE Singapore City Council will this month consider whether it should write otl $1,700 representing the value of 45 water meters stolen from its stores. Or. the morning of April -»>■ it was found that a window oi the meter workshops at Woodle'°h was found broken and
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    Plant For Gas Works
    118 3 A COMMITTEE of Singapore City Council is considering in principle the spending ol about $1,000,000 on a dry purification plant for the Kallang Gas Works. The present plant, built in 1912. though still in working condition is able to handle only 300.000 cubic feet of gas
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    OPPENHEIMER AMONG 3,700
    65 3 PROFESSOR A. Oppenheimer, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Malaya, will be among some 3,700 .scientists who will attend the British Association Meetings at Oxford from Sept. 1 to 8. Association meetings are held every year to let the scientists and laymen meet each other so
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    Arts Society Concert
    62 3 THE Indian Fine Arts Society, Singapore, is staging a variety concert at the Victoria Theatre on Sunday, Aug. 29, at 8 p.m. The 11-item programme features the two Indian dance teachers. Mr. Devdatta Jet ley and Mr. K. P. Bhaskar and many of their students. It includes
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    55 EMIGRANTS
    19 3 A SPECIAL K.L.M. plane yesterday brought 55 emigrants from Holland to Singapore on their way to Australia.
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    2 'Tecs On Hurt Charge
    92 3 TWO Singapore detective^ were charged in the Fifth Police Court yesterday with i causing hurt to Tan Chwee Leong, alias Tan Tua, at 2 a.m. on Aug. 7. This was the result of an allegation by a Colony law- yer. Mr. David Marshall, that i
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    Work On New Reservoir To Start Next Year
    127 3 Work On New Reservoir To Start Next Year WORK on the 5.000.000-gallon reservoir at Jalan Eunos to provide water to Changi and Katong areas of Singapore, may be started next year. A "committee of the Singapore City Council is recommending $50,000 for preliminary work. The reservoir, expected to be completed
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    Hammett To Be RC
    61 3 KUALA LUAIPUR. Tues. Mr. H. G. Hammett, former British Adviser of Selangor. will succeed Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom as the Resident Commissioner of Malacca. Mr. Wisdom is leaving Malaya on retirement next month and Mr. Hammett, now on leave, is expected in the country by
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    MR. WU'S ART IN PENANG
    34 3 PENANG. Tues.— The Penang Pictorialists will hold Mr. Francis Wu's exhibition on Malayan pictures at the showroom of Hin Company, Ltd., 31A, Brick Kiln Road, from Friday to Sunday.
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    CALL TO REDUCE CINEMA SMOKE
    138 3 THE Singapore Cinema Fans' Association yesterday asked all theatre owners in the Colony to improve existing conditions in the theatres especially to eliminate cigarette smoke. A resolution adopted by the executive committee of the Association said that if the improvement was not made soon, it
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    Gigantic Drive For New Varsity
    162 3 MR. TAN LARK SYE, multi-millionaire Chairman of the Nanyang University Council, has circulated an appeal to prominent industrialists and financiers in Malaya "to donate generously to the University." The special committee of 19, formed a week ago to raise $20,000,000, has set the example by
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    Bike Gave Him Away
    116 3 1 PARIT BUNTAR, Tues.— While returning home shortly after midnight. Ong Say Kim's suspicions were aroused when he saw a bicycle parked on the grass verge just outside his house. He called his brother and a friend to keep watch over the bicycle while he went
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    PUBLIC DISCUSSION
    29 3 A PUBLIC discussion on "What Is a Malayan" will be held by the Singapore EastWest Society at the British Council Hall, Stamford Road, tomorrow at 8.30 p.m.
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    TAGORE SONG RECITAL
    41 3 THE songs of Rabindranath Tagore will be given in a recital by Srimati Sujata Guha, at the Ramakrishna Mission, 9 Norris Road, on Saturday, Aug. 28. The programme will begin at 5.30 p.m. and the public is invited.
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    'Rider Was Flung Over Bonnet'
    107 3 'Rider Was Flung Over Bonnet' KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Within a week of obtaining his driving licence. 17-year-old school boy, Chan Shang Han, was alleged to have knocked down and killed another school boy, the Coroner here was told today. Chan, who was driving his brothers and sLsters to school, is
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    Serem ban's Registers
    56 3 SEREMBAN, Tues.—Certified copies ol the registers of electors in respect of all electoral wards within the town council areas of Seremban are available for inspection at the following centres: Lake Ward:- Town Council. Seremban; Lobak Ward: Audit Office, Seremban; Italians Ward: Department of Islamic Affairs, Town Council
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    Claims Trial To Hurt Charge
    73 3 PARIT BUNTAR, Tues Sukuru claimed trial before Inche Abu Bakar bin Haji Hussein in the Parit Buntar court to a charge of having voluntarily caused hurt to Maniam at Simpang Lima on Aug. 6. It was alleged that Sukuru stabbed Maniam with a knife. At
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    Reward For Overtime
    95 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Hospital stall who are ordered to standby or are called bark to duty after office hours get an equivalent number of hours off on the following day, the Government stated in the Johcre Council of State today in reply to Mr. S. Thavaraja who
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    Dayaks Anxious For Treatment – Dr. Coffin
    264 4 Dayaks Anxious For Treatment Dr. Coffin NEARLY 100 per cent of the population of the Dayak villages he recently visited suffered, from malaria Dr. Galien H Coffin. Medical Director of Youngberg Memorial Hospital n Singapore, told The Standard yesterday. In 12 days of travelling through the jungle with Mrs Coffin,
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    COUNCIL TO SAVE $½ MILLION EVERY YEAR
    531 4 COUNCIL TO SAVE MILLION EVERY YEAR City Workers 1 Sunday Holiday THE Singapore City Council will save $500,000 a year on the "no work on Sunday plan" for workers of the City Council Cleansing Department. The day of rest on Sunday was introduced as part of the strike settlement with
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    City Council Stuck With New Gadget
    115 4 THE Singapore City Council is now "stuck' with the mechanical doors it ordered for the new Alexandra Fire Station. The 5T. 500 mechanical doors that work by means of electric motors were obtained for the newest fire station "after consultations with Ihe Home Office
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    Mme. Pandit Visits Bali
    84 4 JAKARTA. Aug. 24 (UP) Madame Pandit watched the famous dagger dance performed today during the periodical temple festivities which happened to be in full swing when she arrived on famous Bali island on the last leg of her trip through Indonesia with President and Madame Soekarno
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    Centre For Registering
    90 4 A REGISTRATION' centre for all those who wish to register as ritizens of the U K. and the Colonies has been established at the Umar Pulaver Tamil School. 41 Maxwell Road, the Management Committee of the Kadayanallur Muslim League announced yesterday. The announcement drew special attention of
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    Trader Is Fined
    30 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues Lu Choon Seng. a Klang businessman, was fined $100 in the First Magistrate's Court here today for failing to lodge his income tax returns.
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    Onn Makes Progress
    80 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar, Federal Home Member and Party Negara leader, has made satisfactory progress since his heart ttack on the night of Aug. 21. A bulletin issued by the Bungsar Hospital this morning stated that he had a comfortable night. However, he
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    'A School A Day' Plan Will Cost Too Much
    348 4 'A School A Day' Plan Will Cost Too Much SINGAPORE cannot afford to build a school a day. If such a plan is carried out, even for a short duration, it will cost the Colony millions of dollars. "A school a day" plan was raised by a member of the
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    Charged On A Statement
    69 4 A CHARGE of making a false statement before a Commissioner of Oaths was preferred against Abdul Halim bin Abdul Aziz, in the Singa pore Sixth Police Court yesterday. Abdul was alleged to have falsely declared on July 7 that he was born on April 15, 1934,
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    $137,000 Robbery For Next Assizes
    197 4 $137,000 Robbery For Next Assizes YEW WEY, charged with armed robbery of $137,000 was committed to stand trial in the Singapore High Court by the Eighth Police Magistrate, Mr. M. Kathigesu, yesterday. The robbery was alleged to have taken place at the China Company, a watch dealer's shop in Middle
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    Boys Get Workshop Training
    92 4 Boys Get Workshop Training A MECHANICAL workshop j has been opened at the Gim-j son School for Boys to widen the scope of training. Preliminary instruction is now being given in stripping down a car. which was donated by the Singapore Rotary Club Thi s was told by Mr. T.
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    Tenants Not Registered
    52 4 IPOH, Tues.— Two tenant?— Mohamed Salip. 45. and Kooy Chooy. 60, were each lined S3O by magistrate Che Abdullah Ghazalii today when they pleaded guilty to failing to register persons residing at their premises. The offence was detected when Home Guards made a check in the Treacher
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    Cinema Takings Found Missing
    219 4 MR W. TAME, Secretary of Shaw Bros. Ltd. said m the Singapore Criminal District Court vesterdav that a sum of $703 collected from matinee shoWs in the Pavilion Theatre, on Feb. 13 and 14, was not accounted for at the Company's Head Office in Robinson Road
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    'PATIENTS' ASK FOR DOPE SUBSTITUTES
    253 5 Doctors Are Warned e ie^rm a^n P e a ed emS PreSCribe thiS drU S without doctors 7«r a 4 rcsourceful "patient" went to a££d I J m P *T Pt nc P rescri P««ns which he altered to obtain large amounts of the drug.
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    Donations For Widow Pour In
    83 5 Donations For Widow Pour In i m>l I.OU'ING a story •i i he Singapore StanIt rU last week, from i.-uk Anson. about i Ni.tiiime Lay Ah Thow. -old widow left n live small children support, donations i- bten received from rVnaag and Kuala Lumi totalling S5l. I h«> amounts are:
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    They Buy Boats With RIDA Loans
    90 5 j KUANTAN, Tues. The Pahang Rural Industrial Development Authority ha? ad- ministered ten loans to exspecial constables, formerly fishermen after iive years service. Each man applied for $3,000 i which was then pooled. From the sum obtained a 35-foot fishing vessel powered by a
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    Police Find Opium In Her Baa
    135 5 A LIPIS. Tues.— Her eniency that she had e:i foui of the law. e avail to KeUom > Hamat. 4t». of Kampor.g g Kota Bharu. who guilty of possessing katis :t:ui three t anils of Md at 53.000. vaa sentenced to four; imprisonment and
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    Carrying Of Cooked Food
    56 5 MALACCA, Tues. Municipal Councillors at their monthly meeting yesterday agreed :n principle to license cooked food curried by hand in two small baskets at the nominal fee ot $12 per year. But such food has first to be scheduled in the scale of fees, with the
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    HC VIEWS PLANS OF SMIL PROJECT
    127 5 KIALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The High Commis- ntr. Sir Donald MacGillivray. yesterday saw O9 of a multi-million dollar Government housing ••if* t in Seremban. r are to hou^e Govlent ernpioyees in the capital :s located on a re plot tn Ra.sah. Work -tearing the site
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    NEW OFFICERS FOR SOCIETY
    31 5 i annual sen^ral meetthc .lailnese CoQ Soeictj Ltd.. Raub. vii 4 '.\ore eleited t Ir MT Pillai: Treasurer. Mr. m; Committee Vlessrs. T. AriaS K Ampalava- '^"appah
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    TWO PASS LONDON EXAM
    27 5 TWO PASS LON DON EXAM The foliowi dates have passed lon Chamber of Examination held r»S In May: S. MeeS mdram, Book-Leep- I S. Munian- Shorthand tCerti-j
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    CAMP FIRE
    30 5 I es Scouts of ing Boys' School will unp-flre concert on Aug. 23 at 730 proceeds from be given to the i Malaya Bov its \ioociiuoa, HQ ->'■'> rund
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    Five Students For Kirhby
    55 5 Khoto. FIVE Malayan students who left by 8.0.A.C. Argonaut from the Kuala Lumpur airport on Sunday for Kirkby for training. They are (from left to right) Misses Khadijah binte Yacob, Lee Yoke Lan, Ooi Gu a t Looi 7 Too Joo Yean, and another from the
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    Labour's 'String Of Platitudes'
    225 5 LONDON, Aug. 24. (Reuter)— The Times said yesterday that the resemblance of the Labour Party's colonial policy to that of the Conservative Government "gives great strength to Great Britain as a trustee of colonial peoples. 1 The Party's statement of policy on colonial affairs was 'the
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    Goods Sold For Rice
    64 5 KUALA LIPIS. Tues. Adopting the barter system in which he got rice lor goods supplied to villagers at Kampong Bharu Merapoh. cost Abdul Wahab. a staiikeeper. SI SO and confiscation of 87 katis of rice. He was charged with being in possession of this quantity of
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    'COMPANY SHOWS NO CHANGE OF ATTITUDE'
    115 5 IPOH. Tues The 700--strong Perak Hydro Employees' Union has forwarded a petition to their employers stating that there is still no improvement in either the salary and wages scheme or working conditions since the acceptance of the Hawkins Award over 20 months ago. The
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    LEAVES RAUB
    24 5 Mr. A. Murugasu. chief clerk. Land Ottioe. Raub. has been transferred to the District Office. Kuala Lipis, in I the same capacity.
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    CLERK CHARGED $90 EXTRA AS PHONE DEPOSIT
    222 5 CLERK CHARGED $90 EXTRA AS PHONE DEPOSIT IPOH, Tues.— Thirty -seven -year-old Lim Kew Thye f clerk -in -charge of the traffic section of the local Telecommunications Department, was today sentenced by the President of the Sessions Court. Mr. A. P. Jack, to one year's imprisonment for cheating:. On Dec.
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    New Road Attracts Settlers
    162 5 KUANTAN, Tues. Th- opening of the new Marar.Temerloh Road is attracting new settlers along it. The first new settlement is Kamj pong Paya Luas. at the second mile, where more than :y .Malay lainiiies are Bettled. Twenty per cent, of ttie em settlers will be ex-spe.Ku
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      Unique Concession
      959 6 \O one will deny that Trade Unionism is a fine thing. If it was not. the civilised world would not accept it as an essential necessity. There are, of course, people who regard it as a luxury to workers and a nuisance. Are there not people who think
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    WHITE BROTHERHOOD SUCCEEDS KU KLUX KLAN
    1198 6  - WHITE BROTHERHOOD SUCCEEDS KU KLUX KLAN ROGER BELDOM By \FTER 86 years of intolerance and terrorism which victimised many Americans, the Ku Klux Klan seems to have ended last November when the Grand Dragon, who was sent to prison for four years, advised his fellow Klansmen to renounce the organization.
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      Horrible War Prospect
      192 6 LpTUSAN Melayu says that ifi both China and the United! States are adamant in thein respective intentions to liber-i at c and to defend Formosa then the outcome will simply be war, and a horrible one. too. I But Utusan believes such belligerency can .be averted by
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      EUC Conference Discussed
      160 6 CIX CHEW JIT POH discusses O the "fruits*^ <>[ the six-nation conference in Brussels. Belgium, where France and five oi ler powers of the F.DC West Germany. Italy. Belgium. Netherlands '.me Luxembourg '.ailed to break tne long-stand-ing deadlock. The conference broke up after lour days in which
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      The Only Path
      131 6 t> RITA IX i.< now expanding her "tvii point"' diplomacy says Nanyang Siang Paii. The t Conservative Party continues its overtures to the Americans and the Labour front solicits the goodwill of the Russians and th e Chinese Communists. :fa the past, many people thought thai there
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      Death Of An Army
      73 6 IN a black-bordered editorial. Cfaung Shinjj Jit Pao moans the death of the proposed European army plan. The Knonintang daily attributes the "murder" to France. France, it says, has killed the plan thai can reasonably hope to stem the tide ol aggressive Communism. Everyday that M
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      Tackle Squatter Problem In A Better Way
      362 6 Tackle Squatter Problem In A Better Way Sir: Your leader of August 21st comments on the eviction by force of 100 persons most of them "helpless women and children" from hovels in Palmer Road by the City Council. In regard to this incident there arc certain questions which need immediate
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      ENLIGHTENMENT WANTED
      214 6 Sir; Your interesting article by V.T. Sambandam in Saturday's issue on the earnings of United States dollars amounting to M55.460.000.000 should open the eyes of all future administrators when Malaya gets independence. After deducting the $1.--300.000,000 used up by Malaya, the balance of M54. 150.000 should have been
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      A Question
      46 6 Sir.— When those Straits Steamship cadets qualify as officers and captains, will they get the same salaries as the Europeans for doing practically the same work; or will they get a half or even a quarter as much as the Europeans get? "INTERESTED" Singapore.
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      An Object Lesson For All Asians
      333 6 Sir;-— To Malayan Indian womanhood, the unconcealed contempt of Madame Vijayalakshmi Pandit for the handshake and her obvious preference for the traditional Indian "Namaskar" as a means of greeting must have come as a rude shock. It was one of those rare occasions when
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    Vietminh Want A Bigger Slice Of Laos
    185 7 Vietminh Want A Bigger Slice Of Laos ™-n^Ti T? COl °r' Dan 6 Va ™Jh chief Vietmmh delegate on the mixed military commission for Laos, hurr.ed north following the deadlock for conNs£e°» n Giap D _l te Minister Gen Vo The sources said the negotiations at the Laotian administrative capital
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    Guard Runs Amok Kills 2
    74 7 MANILA. Aug. 44. >AP< dun shots echoed through' M liucanan Palace Monday it- a presidential guard ran amok. killing two fellow guards and wounding three >- hers. Plicate First Class Barthk>m<" Estipular, 25. a former mental patient. >hot his comrades with a rifle in the
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    REDS INVENT ATOMIC CLOCK
    37 7 LONDON. Aug. J4. -AP>S--\ o* scientists c ..i-.^eti jres*erda.v to hu\e invented n •lock." Mo- «OW r.: nea= ;:■►>- me wth an \.i tness of a mil ionth of :i I in J4 houfs
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    NEHRU TO SPEAK
    27 7 PRIME Minister JawaharlaJ N«hru >j.ti uu Mondav thai u v. make .i statement on gn affs irs to the Parl a- ent *O(:;t\ UP
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    U.S. Fleet Brushes With Reds
    159 7 U.S. Fleet Brushes With Reds NEW YORK. Aug. 24 (fteu- |er)— Robert Allen, Washinglon correspondent of the New York Post. reported yesterday that United States naval forces guarding Formosa and other Chinese ■Nationalist islands have "already had several brushes" with the Chinese Communists. "•None of these unpublished incidents involved shooting
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    Ballerinas' Complaint
    73 7 LONDON'. Aug. 24. (AP)— Ba lei dan «ers with the inter- ■■'f pna ly known Sadlers W< Company voted last :::^:H to demand mote monej. British Actors Equity .-aid the 30 dancers have rejected unanimously a compromise offer by the management and complained the] r salaries "compare unfavourably
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    FOOD RESERVE
    41 7 A WORLD food reserve will be- .set up it a proposal, which the Costa Rican delegation i to the United Nations is trying to place on the agenda of the next session of the General Assembly, is adopted. A.F.P.
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    Here's A Family Of Ten As Planned
    321 7 Here's A Family Of Ten As Planned 1 SURGEON Mervyn Pem--2 brey was one of a happy 2 family of ten. And when 2 Mervyn married, he and j his wife agreed: "We, too, 2 will have ten children." 2 Recently, in the births j column of a newspaper the
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    The Vietminh 'Brainwashing' Drive Boomerangs
    170 7 HANOI, Augf. 24, (AP)— Vietminh efforts to indoctrinate the North Vietnamese in the Communist way of life are back-firing, a top French official says. The Indo-Chinese don't like hours of lectures after a hard day's work. As a result. Jacques Compaui. French delegate genera! to
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    Virgin Peak Conquered
    64 7 GILGIT. Kashmir. Aug. 24. iReuUTi The GermanAustrlan expedition to the Karakorum Range has climbed an unnamed 23.900-foot virgin peak on Batura Glacier, according to a message which arrived here yesterday by runner. The expedition's message said the peak was climbed on Aug. 5 by Marti Sehlisser and
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    'Apology' To A Reporter
    66 7 'Apology' To A Reporter CALCUTTA, Aug. 24. (Reuter) Professor J. B. S. Haldane, the British biologist. last night ended a three-day fast which he had undertaken as a "penance" for being rude to a British journalist. The 62-year-old scientist here as visiting Professor to the Indian Statistical Research Institute, started
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    SUICIDE AFTER HURTING WIFE
    40 7 WASHINGTON. Aug. 24 (Reuten— The Senate's Paymaster Joseph C. Ellis. 45— .shot and wounded his wife yesterday, then killed himself, police reported. As financial clerk. Ellis handled Senate expenses and a payroll for about 2,000 persons.
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    CADETS ARE EXECUTED
    53 7 MEXICO CITY. Aug. 24 (UP) Usually reliable Guatemalan sources here reported yesterday that an undisclosed number of cadets from the military school in Guatemalan City were executed before a firing squad after a court martial convicted them of rebellion and sedition for an abortive revolt on Aug.
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    BOMBER TESTED
    27 7 THE first production model of the U.S. Air Farce's GRB-.'ifi reconaissance bomber, modified to launch and retrieve a jet fighter. has been. test flown. A.F.P.
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    VIOLENT QUAKE
    24 7 A VIOLENT earthquake occurred on Monday at Bushire on the Persian Gulf. The extent of the damage i.s not yet known. A.F.P.
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    RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICES
    67 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 24.— The following are the closing prices of rubber and tin on the London Market. LONDON RUBBER Spot ]9ld. October/ December 19id. Jonuory/Morch 19jd. April/June 19 d. July/September 19id. September c.i.f. 19^d. Tone Steady I LONDON TIN Spot £731 buyers, £731.10
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    Ike Urges A Free World Partnership
    213 7 DENVER, Aug. 24, (Reuter) President Eisen- i hower in a nationwide broadcast last night called for a "solid partnership among the free people" of the world. That partnership, he said, should be based on increased international trade, mutual understanding and pacts and other measures
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    M. FRANCE SETS A NEW COURSE
    374 7 Result Of Brussels Talks PARIS, Aug. 24, Premier Pierre .Mendes France returned to France last night ready to bury the European army treaty, restore sovereignty to West Germany and then find another formula for her control orer rearmament. High French sources said the Premier
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    Pakistan Is Ready
    78 7 MELBOURNE. Aug. 24 Reuten- The Pakistan High Commissioner in Australia. Mr. Habibur Rahman, said yesterday that Pakistan was fully prepared to play her part in deiending freedom and democracy, particularly in South-east Asia, in co-operation with Western nations. Speaking at the Melbourne Constitutional Club, he .said "Let
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    ANOTHER TV DEATH LETTER
    182 7 ANOTHER TV DEATH LETTER This Time A Lady Is Threatened LONDON. Au- 24: (Reuter). The second letter in nine days threatening murder to 'a British television personality has been received here by Lady Katherine Boyle, Italian-born mode! and TV programme compere. On Aug. 14 Mi Donaid Gray. South African television
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    Envoy Is Recalled
    76 7 BERNE Aug 24. <R< iter)— Switzerland has obtained the recall oi foreign ice cons il after the arre.-: •<: two S sc private detective-* suspe U d of espionage during the Gene a oulerence on the F\w Easi ;i was announced veeterday. The two detectives mply ■■a
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    U.K. Party In Manila
    67 7 MANILA. Aug. 24. ißcuterl -An advance party of live members of Hie British <i< i. nation to the SEATO conference arrived in Manila yesterday irom Bangkok. Mr. J H. Bonham Carter. chief of Hie group, tolri reporters at the airport that the remainder oi the British
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    Aust. Trade Mission For East
    166 9 MAY VISIT MALAYA AUSTrai ia nd r l Staff R *P«>rter select fll^l? WIU J* ndin a trade m «sion to c S ttnt cs ln South-east Asia to seek trade in flow, brandy, wine, foodstuffs and machinery Its itinerary may include Malaya ™acninery. This
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    BRITAIN EXPORTS £247 MIL
    91 9 BRITAIN EXPORTS £247 MIL EXPORTS from Britain totalled £246.900.000 last month, the Board of Trade announced. This was slightly above the year's previous peak in March. and the highest monthly value since January 1952. A good export figure was not generally unexpected in ftiy* a long working month of 27
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    FALSE ALARM ON DUNVEGAN
    56 9 THE Donvegan, Singapore Fisheries Department research vessel which wa- reported missing, arrived safely i n the Colony yesterday morning. The false alarm was proi t>a^iy rabed when she had failed to contact a vessel of j the Sarawak Government. It i 3 believed that the DunI
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    —Jap Team Due, Too
    73 9 Jap Team Due, Too A JAPANESE mission is due in Singapore shortly in i the course of a tour of Southi east Asia to j tudy the aluminium market, says a Reuter report from Hongkong. i The leader of the group, Mr. I. Mori, general manager of the foreign department
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    PRODUCE MARKET IS QUIET
    171 9 PRODUCE MARKET IS QUIET Standard Market Reporter irlE produce ;i:arket in i Singapore remained quiet in [most sections with only small business passing. Copra was an uncertain market in the morning but I closed quietly steady at fractionally below Monday's levels. Coconut oil remained a dull market. Coconc: ers at
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    U.K. NEWSPRINT MILLS IN U.S.
    67 9 BRITAIN'S largest capital investment in the United States since the war. represented by pulp and paper mills at Calhoun, Eastern Tennessee, is beginning to show results. The plant. operated by th e Bowaters Southern Paper Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bowater Paper Corporation
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    DEATH
    57 9 MR. R. V. Packbisamy Thevar, j the father of P. Kun.iitham. Lawyer's clerk and father-in-law of A. K. ArumuEUim. Changi, Singapore passed away peacefully at 11 a.m. on Tuesday 114 8.54 and the body is resting at No. 8 Flower Road. Cremation will take place on Wednesday the 25.8.54
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    U.K. Delivers The Ships
    117 9 UNITED KINGDOM ship- yards delivered 21 new ships of 104,742 tons gross during June, according to Lloyd's List. The month's completion total was increased to 22 ships to 106.592 tons by the inclusion, as late information, of one coastal tanker delivered in May. The largest vessel
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    First Flood Gate Ready To Save land In Johore
    57 9 THE Federation's $3,000,000 flood control scheme in the Batu Pahat area of Johore. is making good progress. When the scheme is completed, it is expected that several thousand acres will be made possible for agriculture. Standard picture shows one of the
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    COLONY SHIPOWNERS HIT
    395 9  -  BERNARD WILLIAMS BY Expansion Of R.I. Fleet Causes Drop In Freight Rates Standard Shipping Reporter SINGAPORE shipowners, who serve Indonesian ports, are now recording on oil ritn« low in business. They hove previously operated with marked success, especially during the early years of Indonesian independence. The decline
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    Finance... Commerce... Shipping
    49 9 MR. C. A. HAYTER, area representative of the British Tabulating Machine Co. Ltd., London, whose responsibility in this region involves planning and application in the initial stages for customers desirous of installing the tabulator machines. STANDARD PICTURE shows punch operator Peggy Ang at the sorter machine.
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    Rubber Erratic, Closes ⅝ c. Lower
    232 9 Rubber Erratic, Closes c. Lower Loans Are A Firm Mart Standard Market Reporter ERRATIC conditions prevailed in the Singapore rubber market yesterday as selling and buying alternated between the news of United States natural rubber consumption and estimated Malayan production figures. First grade rubber for September shipment closed at 66|
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    Now Peggy Has No Worries Over Over Files...
    212 9 Now Peggy Has No Worries Over Over Files Standard Staff Reporter UNLIKE other office girls, pretty Peggy Ang has no worries over misplaced files. She drops a card into a machine. And out comes the answer What is unusual about her job is that she reduces information into a series
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    SHARE PRICES
    75 9 Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebmkers' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Fraser Xeave Ord. 1.98 2.01 1 Gammon 3.25 .128 Hongkong Bank H kong reg. 910 00 920.00 Malayan Cement 1.32 L36 S Brit. Insur. 25.75 2f>75 mixing Berjuntai 22/- 22 6 Klang River 2.20 2.25
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    U.N. EXPERT ARRIVES TO STUDY OUR ECONOMY
    182 9 Standard Staff Reporter A TOP-FLIGHT United Nations economist is in Singapore collecting material for a survey of ECAFE region. He is Professor C. M. Palvia, Economic Affairs Officer of the Economic Commission, for Asia and the Far East. A professor of Agra University.
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    TRADE PACT MAY BE EXTENDED
    41 9 TOKYO. Aug. 23. (AFPJ —I The Japanese government has j proposed to the Thai govern- ment that the current trade agreement between the two countries be extended auto- matically for another yetr, II j was learned.
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    $162 MIL. TRADE
    63 9 Kl ALA LIMPII, Tues. The Federation's foreign trade touched 5162,«»y «0i during July, the Registrar of Statistics. Mr H L. EUrnet, said today. This was s«:.<HMKWK» ever that of SiniMiHirr s during the month and nearly S16.000.(M0 over the previous month's total. The total value of the
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    U.S. Used Less Rubber In July
    138 9 U.S. Used Less Rubber In July NEW YORK A g 24 (Router) United States consumption of >!■ w rubb totalled 78,598 long tons in July, accord:?^ to the P;fcb*r Manufactun Association This comppr<d v.iih 111.143 tons in Jun; Of the July total .'.7627 ton;- were natural and 40.971 synthetic against
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    SHIPS IN HARBOUR
    125 9 OUTER KOARS Nerpa, Bivuch, Neri :psis, Gomel, Benventh CTlyses^ Olensk. Ana. r;.; p Lam, Budennovsk. Stee] Ixi-: Morzh. Ore stes. IKNKfi ROADS Huah Heng, h.-.o:l, Anne Reed. Hin Anr Ren.gam, Tonna. MaJim. Kan S on, Cornfish. Papad< Er-nda, Siru.sa, Sin Hia 3'uat, Hanthale. Angby. P Kidjang, Giang
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    CHRYSLER PLANT IN P.I.
    83 9 MANILA. A-• 24 > The Chry r Corporati< n will start "act LaJ monufact :nng in the Phi] ppirw of three type.s of cai and trucks bj» November r D- E»ber this year. This wrau* disclosed by Mr. Charles Cress. xecutive manager for Chrj ter*s Far
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    Red Tanker Leaves Colonv With Fuel
    178 9 Red Tanker Leaves Colonv With Fuel Standard Shipping Reporter THE 7,961-ton Soviet tanker Kherson, which arrived here over the weekend with a load of diesel and paraffin fuel, sailed lor Vladivostok late last evening. The tanker, which came from Odessa, has a cargo of fuel declared for Vladivostok, but it
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    NO CASE FOR STUDENTS TO ANSWER – PRITT
    1102 10 NO CASE FOR STUDENTS TO ANSWER PRITT Second Day Of Sedition Trial NOTHING could do the Singapore Government more harm in the long run than if it should succeed in the prosecution of the eis:ht University of Malaya students on" sedition charges, said Mr. D. N. Pritt, Q.C., yesterday. '•This
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    Duchess At Reception
    99 10 QUEBEC, Aug. 23 (Reuter) The Duchess of Kent and her daughter, Princess Alexandra, called on tne Premier of Quebec, M. Maurice Duplessis, at the Provincial Legislature today and were guests at a brief reception. A crowd of about 200 applauded the Royal visitors as they stepped from
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    'Prosecution-An Attack On Freedom Of Speech'
    719 10 knew that certain of them were taking examinations that day. Did you or the Vice Chan cellor suggest postponement of that operation till after the examinations?— We suggested that possibility at one stage. But you did not press it? We had that earlier arrangement
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    HOTEL WORKERS' STRIKE NOTICE
    171 10 THE Singapore Labour Department yesterday intervened in the dispute between the new Tavern Hotel management and its Workers' Union over the dismissal of eight of the hotel's employees. The Union served a 14-day strike notice on the Commissioner for Labour and the Hotel management. The manager
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    'THIS IS WHAT POOR DO HERE'
    216 10 'THIS IS WHAT POOR DO HERE' Standard Staff Reporter CUPPING his hands in a gesture of supplication, Singapore's Secretary of Social Welfare, Mr. T. P. Cromwell, told newsmen at a Press conference, yesterday: "This is what our poor expect from my Department without even first fighting to better themselves." "The
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    Terrorists Disarm 11 Guards
    130 10 Terrorists Disarm 11 Guards KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Eleven Home Guards from Brapit New Village in Province Wellesley set out on bicycles yesterday for shooting practice. But on the way. Communist terrorists held them up and took their firearms. The terrorists released the out-witted Home Guards after 20 minutes. The Home
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    GOLD INGOTS
    38 10 OAKLAND, California. Aug. 24. (AFP) An American salvage company will try, in the autumn, to recover U5530,000,000 worth of gold ingots from a ship which sank off San Francisco in 1888, it was learned here today.
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    Hongkong Mission Throws A Dinner
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    KL RACE FINISHES
    13 11 First Day, Saturday Aug. 21 Pictures are by Photo. Scoop
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    F & N VICTORY
    28 11 F N VICTORY FRASER and Neave beat Shell by two goals to nil in Group "A" of SBHFA League and Cup Competition at the F N ground yesterday.
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    Tigers Rub Out Rovers: Now For The Marines
    360 11 Tigers Rub Out Rovers: Now For The Marines TIGER 5A........5 ROVERS SC 2 Tigers—Boon Seong. Ismail Yusoff 3 Jimmy Tan. Wooers— Dutta and Tommy Misson. Referee— P.O. Manhire. Two down, one more to go. This is probably Tigers' refrain after their 5-2 victory over the Rovers in last night's senior
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    Oregon Ducks Thrill Fans
    66 11 THE University of Oregon basketballers opened their Colony tour with a convincing 83-68 victory over the Nanyang Siang Pau team before a sell-out crowd at the Happy World Stadium last night. Barney Holland top-scored for the tourists with 15 points while Bob Hav.es was next best
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    BUSMEN WIN
    70 11 PENANG. Tubs.— Kowioon Bus Company tourists were in sparkling form today when j they trounced a Penang Malays Invitation XI (comprising players from the Federation and Singapore) by eight goals to two on the Victoria Green today. Scorers for the Busmen were: Wing Keung 2. SzetoMan 3. Kai
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    ARGONAUTS IN KO SEMI-FINAL
    34 11 ARGONAUTS F.C. entered the semi-final of the S.A.F.A. Junior Knock>out Cup tournament, when they beat R.E.M.E. "A" 2 l in a quarter-final tie played under floodlights at Jalan Besar Stadium
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    Thai Rugby Team Coming
    128 11 A THAILAND Combined Services rugby team, made up of 18 players, will arrive in the Colony on Oct. 16, for two matches. Their first game will be on Oct. 17, against a Singapore Rugby Union Invitation XV. probably on the padang, and on the next day,
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    Tonight's Badminton
    199 11  -  JEFFERV JAMES Tale A Tip! Don't Bet On Says WANT TO TAKE a bit? I looked up in surprise Pe"han< I shouldn't be (.surprised. I mean 1 Alter aT its race day. and betting is the favourite sport 'until vou lo^e of course). No, not on horses, my
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    Malays Vs SBH Today
    51 11 SINGAPORE Malays to play Singapore Business Houses F.A today will be selected in>m iht following Arshad JafTar. Idro^ Albar. Yassin. Drman, Maroi. Ahmad Juri. Osman Jofean. Barith Mahd. Bab.. Omar Daud. Aboi' Zainol, Ha.ii Gmhan. Omar S.<id. Lazim Ad.-im. Om^r A.wan« Ismail YusofT. Ibraivr* M.insoo? Ismail
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      412 11 GGGH GFH FGHG SITUATIONS VACAM SENIOR LECTURER IK ARCHITECTURE. EDUCATION Officer < Senior Lecturer in hiteeture) at the Technical College. Kuala Lumpur. Preference will be given to candidates who are Federal Citizens, under the ape of 35. They must possess a University decree in Architecture or an equivalent qualification. The
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      564 11 ACKNOWLEDGMENT \~EAP POH in M. POH CHIAP brothere and thank all frieads relatives business firms, schook and associations for tlieir messages >f sympathy wreath* scrolls loan of cars and assistance of 11 kinds during the bereavement of their beloved rathe; the late Dato \eap Kong Ghee SITUATIONS VACANT APPLICATIONS are
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      265 11 111 JU| r By Al Capp TELL MODEST J WHY FILL HIM I I -SO. AH LLTELL>C'TH > "J I -NAMELV TH' SHMOQ^- \I I -AM' <C it w^itc^ t' Wl rS 7 TRUE* SAD STORVOFA ItUld aIgS, AN* ALSO* J STRAIN irSLnLSB&OaT tftir^Srl,, fSS9P S 1 i-''L-AMIMAL WHAT LIVED
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      85 11 Today's Sport SOCCER: Floodlit—Business Houses v Malays at Jalan Besar stadium 8.30 p.m. Radin Mas Ramblers v SHB Police at Jalan Besar Stadium 7.15 p.m. SBHFA League F N Res. v Breweries Res at F N: C W v Thornycrofl at Farrer Park; Stanvac v Mansfield at Geylang; Boustead v
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      107 11 MISCELLANEOUS YOUR futures, you must know them and prepare to take advantage of good fortunes avoid the bad ones. Consult Siamese astrologer for all your problems, fee $4/-- Personal Consulting only (not by post) Jim Rugdee. 40 Bras Basah Road. Singapore. MANDARIN. Cantonese. Hok kien. Hakka. Romanized. Word-for-word Books and
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    Standard's Selections
    223 12 Windsor Lad The Pil Blinkers Scrutineer nrama finish bsidcnoktu movie ii kalemaria 1 Jarebin Movie II Kalemaria Movie II j .Movie II Kahfaria lighting Finish Announcement PRODICLR STKONU AND FREE STRONG AND FREE GENERAL VIEW Froje* tor Birardi Producer Strung and Free I s^°"* and fHt General View
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    PROCTOR LIKES THE SIX-f SPRINT
    495 12 PROCTOR LIKES THE SIX-f SPRINT By WINDSOR LAD from Kuala Lumpur, WITH the present underfoot conditions *n his favour, I am giving a confident vote to the vastly-improved Proctor 10 win Eace eight, the main six furlongs sprint for Class Three Division One performers, second day of the Selangor Turf
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      30 12 I COL IN, the Amateur Tipster, says that the tig three' for today are: NAP— General View, Race 2; NEXT BEST— Wide Screen. Race 8; SAFETY BET— Cynosure, Race 7.
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      360 12 THE WATCH THE WORLD HAS LEARNED TO TRUST So-« <U> y* e OLYMPIC GAMES For 20 years Omega has officially timed the Olympics \r recognition of Omega'* Outstanding leadership in mbcWm timing, the Olympic Committee of Helsinki presented Omec, with the Olympic Cross the highest award for consistent accuracy any
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      412 12 PEON FOR the benefit of The Standard's readers, Windsor Lad's speed rotings for today's races are: RACE I FIGHTING FINISH 107 JACOBIN 102 MOVIE II 100 KALEMARIA 98 RACE 2 PRODUCER 110 PROTECTOR 109 STRONG AND FREE 104 GENERAL VIEW 103 RACE 3 BINNTON 97 ROSALIND 97 PREVIEW 92 RACE
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      1203 12 RACE l: 2.30 p.m.-Class 4, Div. 4- About 7 Furs. 1. 829 Canton 4y 9.00 Mr. Chng Chwee Kim o Mme. Goh Choo Tho Allan (Unfixed) 2. 7>3 Brown Eyes 4y 8.13 "Leo Kongsi" Mr. Tan Keng Kwei Martin Sawyer 609 Announcement 3y 8.12 "Shaw Stable" Spencer Mitchell 4. .99
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      642 12 Fighting Finish has been showing such striking form in his morning work. He has yet to win a race this season, but seems to have made good progress since his filth to Rippling River and Kingsbeau over the mile at the Penang June Meet. Sent down to this lot with
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      720 12 Race four is an open affair with Samroig, Duke, Big Hit, College Don, Cabaret and Chirala holding strong claims. My vote goes to the improving Samroig', who ran a most promising race to finish third to Allgood and Baby Chris over 54 furlongs. Now dropped six pounds Samroig should come
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