Singapore Standard, 26 August 1954

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    23 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD VoL V. No. 55. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1954 TWELVE PAGES 15 CENTS. MR. F. A. CHUA Not seditious, he says.
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  • 97 1 NEW DELHI. Aug. 25 <AP> Hyenas and wolves, prowling :n the hills and ravines or Uttar Pradesh State, are reported to have devoured 29 children since the end of April. This state is in Northn India along the borders of N pal. With the monsoon
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  • 1150 1 Article Not Seditious: Judge 8 University Students Are Cleared THE eight University of Malaya students, on trial for publishing an allegedly seditious newspaper, were acquitted in the Singapore First District Court yesterday without their defence being called upon. In acquitting: the students, the Judge, Mr. F. A.
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  • 325 1 Brazil: Mass Riots Follow Vargas Suicide RIO DE JANEIRO. Aug 24.— Demonstrators roamed the streets of Rio today storming opposition party and newspaper offices after President Getulio Vargas had shot himself following the demand for his resignation by the Brazilian Air Force and Navy. Latest reports say that three persons
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  • 200 1 The 'Brains', Say Police THREE Chinese, believed to be the brains behind the organization responsible for the theft of 59 bombs from R. A. F. Tengah, were detained ty the Singapore Police yesterday. Two of the men were caught in the rural areas, while the
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  • 68 1 HONGKONG, Aug. 25 (AP) Nationalist Chinese shore i batteries based on Matsu Is- land opened fire last night 1 on the 1.908-ton British cargo ship Inchkilda. Royal Navy Headquarters here an- nounced today. The Navy statement said I the ship radioed no hits were scored. Her
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  • 31 1 EVANSTON, Illinois, Aug. 25 (AP) A petition signed by 33,000 Japanese youth calling on the world to outlaw atomic weapons was presented today to the World Council of Churches.
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  • 29 1 S H THE solution to the J $128,000 Squareword Con- > test (D-31) appears in Page 3. The prize-win- 2 j tiers will be announced 2 later. 5
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  • 27 1 5 w The second square- word contest (D~32), for which $160,000 ty prizes %s being offered, appears i in Paae 5. 5 -»\vv\\\v\vvvv\\vv\v\vvvv\\v\v\\vvvCt
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  • 53 1 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. 25, (UP)— A sister-in-law of President Getulio Vargas died of a heart attack yesterday on receiving the report of the president's suicide. Mrs. Alda Sarmanho, sister of President Vargas' wife, suffered a heart attack and died shortly afterwards after learning of
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  • 111 1 BOMBAY, Aug. 25, (Reuter)—The Indian national news agency, the Press Trust of India, today reported that Portuguese troops fired three rounds at nine "volunteers" of the Diu liberation committee when they entered Diu and squatted there waving an Indian tricolour. There were no injuries, the agency
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  • 182 1 Meet Pamela (the baby, that is) —she's only 1 1 inches long NURSES at Plaistow Maternity Hospital, East London, are to use a doll's feeding bottle to save the life of 28-ounce baby girl in this picture. She is 11 inches long— compare the size with the penny held next
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  • 249 1 FOR two of the acquitted University of Malaya students yesterday was a double celebration. It was the birthday of Mr. Lam Kuan Kit. 22, and Mr. J. J. Puthucheary. 32. With the six other students who were acquitted, they adjourned from the South
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  • 47 1 DINANT, Belgium, Aug. 25. (ReuteD— A Belgian Air Force Thunderjet was sabotaged at a military airfield near here last night by a piece of metal tube being stuck In the intake, police said today. The sabotage was discovered before the plane took off.
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  • 18 1 WASHINGTON. Aug .25, (UP)— Senator Mike Mansfield, of Montana, left yesterday on a six-week EuropeAsia tour.,
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  • 39 1 LONDON, Aug. 25. <AP)— Lord Asquith of Bishopstone, 64-year-old appeal judge, died here yesterday. He was the fourth son of Herbert Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister in the early years of World War 1.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 177 1 MR. M. Ariffln Ishak of No. 28. Jalan Ibrahim, Johore Bahra, wins The Standard's QuickQuiz contest No. 33. A cheque for $100 has been sent to the winner. The judge was Mrs. Shufen Khoo. General Secretary of the Singapore Young Women's Christian Association. The correct answers are: CLUE NO. 1—
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  • 375 2 P.W.D. SPENDS $2 MIL. PER MONTH School Projects Are Well Ahead Standard Staff Reporter AN average of $2 million is given out every month by the Singapore Public Works Department for its Works' Programme, the Director, Mr. R.G. lies, told the Press, yesterday. The programme covers the construction ana improvement
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  • 150 2 MR. WHYTE HEADS NEW DISPUTES TRIBUNAL KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. V -The Federation Government announced today the appointment of an Arbitration Tribunal for Divisions I to IV of the Public Service, with Mr. James Whyte, Member of the Federal Legislative Council, as its first Chairman. Agreement on this arbitration machinery was
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  • 56 2 KUANTAN. Wed.— Lee Ting Poh, 25, and Bun Hua 22. fitters at Jabor Valley Estate, were each fined $350 or two months' imprisonment by Che Abdul Hamid, Circuit Magistrate, yesterday here for stealing 112 yards of telephone cable, property of Federation Telecommunication Department between June 1
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  • 54 2 IPOH. Wed— The 12 new Councillors of the Ipoh and Menglembu Town Council were entertained to a tea party in Market Street by the Kinta Hawkers' Guild today. The president of the Guild, Mr. Ho Chor Tak, in an address said he hoped the Councillors would
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  • 105 2 i CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) is Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No 1 R.S.S Spot Loose 66} 662 No 1 R.S.S. 66 J 661 No! 2 R.S.S. 661 661 No. 3 R.S.S. 655 66i Tone: Steady quiet. TIN PRICE The price of tin yesterday was $3621
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  • 136 2 Half Dozen Of One, Not Of Other KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. "How many wives have you?" Lt General G. K. Bourne. Director of Operations, asked Mr. Kow Chiet Nam, Chairman of the Chui Chak Local Council when he paid a surprise visit to the New Village during a tour of Telok
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  • 48 2 SAIGON, Aug. 25, (AFP)— The Vietnamese Government is shortly to set up consulates in Singapore and Hongkong, it was disclosed here today. Le Quang Nha has been nominated for the Hongkong post and Pham Khac Dau for Singapore. The British Govvernment has agreed to their nominations.
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  • 39 2 HONGKONG, Aug. 25. Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.70 to £1 sterling; $5.8075 to US$l: $1,825 to Malayan $1* $0 187 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $251,625 to 1 tael. THA
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  • 184 3 Girl Tells How She Was Tied Robbed A WAITRESS, Goh Yarn Chng. said in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, that after three men had robbed her in a hotel at Race Course Road, they threatened to "skin" her if she were to identify them later on. She was giving evidence
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  • 63 3 FOUR clerks who took a 'short cut" home were fined $5 each yesterday in the Singapore Seventh Police Court for trespassing into a restricted area of the Malayan Railway Gate 2. oi Aug. 24. The clerks were G. R. C'xxiencuza, Wee Hock Chye. N^
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  • 44 3 SINGER "Mono Fong who will be a guest artiste at the Anniversary Ball of the Liberty Musical and Dramatic Association, in aid of the British Red Cross Crippled Children's Home, to be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday.
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  • 81 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed 3a, ad bin Abdul Rahman, 23. Ibrahim bin Idrus, 27, and Yap See Sang, 29, claimed trial in the First Court here today on charges of housebreaking and attempting to steal five bags of tin ore valued $1,800. They were alleged to have broken
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  • 43 3 MR. W. J. PHILLIPS, delegate of the League of Red Cross Societies at Geneva, is expectea to arrive in Singapore today by air. He will see local Red Cross activities and meet Red Cross members of the WAY delegation.
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  • 298 3 JOINT CHAMBER BID TO DECONTROL RICE Request To The Governor By HSU TSE KWANG SINGAPORE'S three Chambers of Commerce may jointly demand that Government immediately and unconditionally decontrol rice, failing which, a mass public meeting will be called. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce which numbers among its members all the
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  • 154 3 60 HAVE NO FAITH IN THEIR UNIONS SIXTY seamen belonging to three Pakistani Seamen's Unions in Singapore yesterday told the Asian Seamen's Welfare Officer, Mr. T. A. White, that they have no faith in their organizations and its leaders. They said: "Many of us have been out of employment for
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  • 87 3 CHAN Kim Chung, claimed trial in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to charges of cheating two businessmen of goods valued at approximately $6,500 in December, last year. It was alleged that Chan told the businessmen that he was a partner of "Heng Giap" Trading Company,
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  • 88 3 MALACCA, Wed.— A plea that he was acting under the advice of a Chinese "sln-seh" did not prevent Tan Leong Yan from being sent to three months' jail today for the possession of 24 hoons of prepared opium. Tan told the President of the Sessions Court,
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  • 109 3 Special Cake For Their Wedding AN Australian woman, attending her son's wedding: in Singapore, has brought with her a specially made four-tier wedding cake, weighing: about 40 pounds, all the way from Western Australia. She is Mrs. L. Urem, who arrived here with the cake about a month ago. The
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  • 33 3 Mr. Jag Jit Singh said today in Penang that his term of office as president of the Malayan Indian Congress. Penang and Province Wellesley region, has expired.
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  • 165 3 OFFICIAL SOLUTION OF SQUAREWORD D-31 The Adjudication Committee met on August 24th to discuss the clues of Squo reword D-3 1 V They were agreed that the most apt answers to the clues were as shown in the square below, which thus is the Official Solution. For Hie convenience of
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  • 252 4 A STORY OF LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT ft Miss Federation' Weds School Teacher ik— PENANG, Wed.— A story of love at first sight, which started at a fun fair in a Telok Anson school, was told by "Miss Federation" 1954, Miss Vanaja Madhavan, who was married today to a school
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  • 96 4 WAY Votes To Oust Colonialism YOUTH in independent countries should work for the complete destruction of colonialism. This motion had overwhelming support yesterday at the Plenary Session of the World Assembly of Youth in Singapore. It was moved bv Mr. Yakir of Algeria and supported by Mr. K. Roy of
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  • 81 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Captain J.C. Worley of the Royal Artillery was today cashiered and sentenced to nine months' jail by a General Court Martial here for "fraudulent misappropriation" of $1,900 belonging to the Kuala Lumpur Garrison Players. Sentence is subject to confirmation. This 43-year-old officer who
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  • 32 4 A SINGAPORE hawker was yesterday beaten up by two secret society gangsters in the Paya Lebar area over "protection money." One suspect was detained soon after the attack.
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  • 175 4 PENANG. Wed. Unlike t Kuala Lumpur and Malacca, Penang will not hold an early morning dance for the 80 delegates to the World Assembly of Youth expected here on Sept. l. This was disclosed by the chairman of the reception committee, Mr. Ong
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  • 57 4 «v. KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— lndian magician. Dr PK Chatterjee-Cardo, has cut out all "vanishing tricks" irom the magic show he will put on for inmates of Kuala Lumpur's Pudu Jail tomorrow night. "jstead. Dr. Chatterjee will show the prisoners his headless woman" and "coffee from sawdust" tricks
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  • 55 4 The 1, 4 10 th Surrender KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Federation Government today reported the surrender of the 1,410th terrorist since the beginning of the Emergency in June, 1948. On the terrorist front, the No. 7 Federal Field Force killed tico terrorists in ambush on the Kelantan-Siam border. The patrol
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  • 71 4 MALACCA. Wed. Police have recovered the body of nine-year-old Kong Ng Ngan, 1 who was believed to have fallen into the Malacca River yesterday. Kong, son of a goldsmith's assistant, was standing on the landing stage of the river, with two younger brothers, watching people
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  • 60 4 THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander, yesterday, recorded a verdict of misadventure at an inquiry into the death of a 60-year-old painter, Choo Keh Teh, drowned in the Outer Roads on July 3. Choo was engaged in painting the hull of a vessel anchored
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  • 101 4 RECOGNITION AFTER 40 YEARS KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The 93rd Field Battery of Royal Artillery, bow stationed at Tampio. today, received recognition from the War Office in London lor a battle It fought 40 years ago. At Le Cateau, a small town south of Valenciennes, in Northern France, the battery fought
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  • 58 4 A FAREWELL party will be given by the Bedok Methodist Youth Fellowship, in honour of Mr. Richard Yim in the Social Hall of the Bedok Methodist Church at 6 p.m. on Friday. Mr. Yim, son of Mr. Robert Yim, a Singapore architect, is proceeding
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  • 242 4 Challenge For Malacca MALACCA, Wed.— The retiring Resident Commissioner, Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, appealed to the Chinese business community here, "because they can do something about it/' to pull their weight in the development of the vast industrial potentialities of the Settlement. He said
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  • 84 4 $40,000 Dope Haul 'In The Bag' KLANG, Wed.— Two policemen on duty in Port Swettenham harbour area saw a Chinese moving suspiciously with a heavy bag at 2'.45 a.m. on Aug. 21. On searching him they found 63 packages of opium in the bag valued at around $40,000 on the
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  • 72 4 A YOUNG Chinese girl set out early yesterday morning to look for firewood in a jungle near her house in Sembawang Road, Singapore. She strayed away from the beaten track and got lost. And for five hours she roamed about until she finally picked her
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  • 56 4 THREE thugs, posing as fares, robbed a taxi driver of $70 worth of his belongings in a dark lane off Clement! Road in Singapore on Tuesday night. The men engaged the taxi In Serangoon Road. They told the driver to enter a dark lane off Clementi
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  • 40 4 BELFAST, Aug. 24 (Reuter) General Sir Gerald Templer. lately High Commissioner in Malaya, was guest of honour of the North Ireland Government at a dinner at the Parliament building here tonight. General Templer's home is in County Armagh.
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  • 279 4 Village Honour At Stake PENANG, Wed.— Fourteen hundred Home Guards from all kampongs and new villages in Province Wellesley set out today in search of Communist terrorists who robbed 11 of their colleagues yesterday of their guns and ammunition The 11 Home Guards were
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  • 72 5 SINGAPORE Police yesterJjy dftiied a report that a BritiMi Army star! sergeant \v;i_-, arrested in Orchard Road on Tuesday under the Emergency Regulations on rharges ai being in possession of ammunition. Police confirmed a Standard report that the person detained in connection with the discovery of
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  • 231 5 Voters To Elect 15 To State Council KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.-The Trenggonu Government announced today that the «rst Stote Council will be held on Norn inations for the 15 elected seats will be called u-m h P m u J he presenl Nomin ated Council uil! dissolved.
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  • 114 5 TWO Burmese social welfare workers. now visiting Singapore. are impressed with the work done by Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association and other welfare organizations. Said one of them. Madame Daw Aye. Deputy Director of the Social Welfare Directorate in Rangoon: "What we have seen here will be
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  • 107 5 A WOMAN'. Koh Siew Ting, asked the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday to be lenient to her son. Tan Sah Watt, who had admitted steal- \nz hei jewellery worth $2,504 j between July 28 and Aug. 16. 'If I had known that it
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  • 21 5 A PROVISION shop In Robinson Road. Singapore, was burgled on Tuesday night and $282 worth of articles were stolen.
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  • 51 5 THE new Assistant Treasurer. Mr. Llewellyn Williams, and his wife arrived in Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday. This is his first appointment out East. He was formerly with the City Council in Cardiff. England. His appointment here with the Singapore Treasury is for three to four years.— Standard
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  • 100 5 Now They Demand Strike Pay ABOUT 10.000 open vote employees of the Singapore City Council, who staged a 12--day strike last month for the back-dating of Ritson Pay from June 1952 have put forward a new demand. They want the Council to pay them wages for the strike period Yesterday,
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  • 57 5 AN exhibition of Chinese paintings by Mr. Kam Chau Ping will be declared open today at 5 p.m., at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Hill Street by the Chamber's President. Mr. Kam Chau Ping. The exhibition will be open to the public daily from tomorrow until
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  • 20 5 EIGHT Chinese who had allegedly helped, from Yala Province, Malayan terrorists, are to be deported from Bangkok. A.P.
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  • Article, Illustration
    46 5 CHE ARIFIN bin Depali Sarin. the Malay hero who killed two bandits with a parang two months ago in Gemas. is seen receiving his medal from the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan on the occasion of the Ruler's birthday celebrations in Seremban.
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  • 178 5 DELEGATES to the World Assembly of Youth in Singapore, will tour the Federation of Malaya by train and bus on Sunday. They will be divided into five batches. One batch of 40 delegates will tour Johore by bus. They will be met
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  • SINGAPORE STANDARD
    • 781 6 E have often heard it said that Malaya at its present stage of development needs men with technical training. Yet, apart from those employed In the technical sections of the public service and the small number of engineering firms, there has not been much scope in the technical
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  • 3 6 We, the PEOPLE
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  • 547 6 Sir: Now that our- overgrown youth of over fifty nations are holding their conference in Singapura the Golden CheroneSe of the Romans and the Suvarnadipa of the Indians would it be too much to ask them to try to find a solution to the following problems 1.
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  • 286 6 No Protest From Thd Teachers Sir; A short time ago there appeared in the newspapers an announce- *i merit that must have given rise to great surprise and consternation. That was the announcement by the Member for Education. Dato E.E.C Thuraisingham that the Federation Government was to acquire another Kirkby
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  • 104 6 Review of Views servative Govt. gr^ in. The daily points out iliiit the Labour Party's stand is no different from xh e policv <>i the Conservative Party. In-! deed, ii is dcplojabie and k*- wildering to see a party, to; Wit i-ie Labourite?, socialistic! in ideals, adopting an attitude; equjjiinjd
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  • 2325 6  -  Captain B.H. Liddell Hart By Cn/DY WAR; 'keep strong; keep cool; have unlimited patience; never corner an opponenl; avoid self-righteousness like the devil; see things through your opponents eyes; do not delude yourself that victory is possible. Explaining his paraphrase of the text of
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  • 87 6 Sir;— Congratulations on your editorial of August 19 on Bahasa Indonesia". Important indeed for people who are forming a nation to discuss the problems of forming a national language. Among other things I would suggest that the problem of an alphabet should be the first thing discussed.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 126 7 'It Doesn't Go To My Head' AS FAR as Sam Balmer Is nun ernetl. beer is always going up. Up his throat, that i.v He likes it that way. It doesn't lie so heavily on his stomach, for one thine. Once the Navy ordered Sum to drink while standins on
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  • 149 7 DENVER. Colorado, Aug. 25 (UP) President Eisenhower yesterday signed a bill practically outlawing the Communist Party, saying the American people were determined to eliminate organizations purporting to be political parties but actually dedicated to overthrow of the government by violence. The bill strips the
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  • 104 7 Too many generals Not enough privates WASHINGTON. Aug. 25. (AP> Izvestia. official organ of the Kremlin, is complaining that Soviet buieaucracv Has 100 many generals and not enough >>: Vdtes. *oupl« <>f examples from r esl .1 editorial translated I Three managers for each *> in
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  • 66 7 TKOIS 111 VIEKKS. Qurbrc. Auk- i.> (AP) Students of St. George** College who live at home will have to do their homework at school. College officials said a plan whereby students will re- main at school for a couple of hours after the end of regular classes
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  • 335 7 Withdraw U.S. 7th Fleet' PEKING, Aug. 25 Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung yesterday proposed at a meeting with the British Labour delegation visiting China that the United States should withdraw her Seventh Fleet guarding Formosa as port of a programme to ease East-West
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  • 159 7 Schedule For SEATO Is Approved MANILA. Aug. 25. (Reuter) Philippines Vice-President and Foreign Minister Carlos Garcia will preside as temporary chairman at the opening session on Sept. 6 of the Manila conference of 1954 (official name for SEATO), the Philippine Government announced. Representatives of participating nations yesterday approved the schedule
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  • 186 7 - WASHINGTON, Aug. 25: (UP). Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said yesterday the United States navy may have to defend some smaller islands held by the Chinese Nationalists as well as Formosa if the Chinese Reds attack. He made the statement at a news conference in
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  • 43 7 BOMBAY. Aug. 25. (Renter*. An explosion which destroyed a fireworks factory near here last night killed 14 people and injured 15. Police are investigating the cause of the disaster which occurred at Andheri. a suburb 15 miles outside Bombay.
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  • 112 7 Denies He 'Whispered' To Soviets SYDNEY. Aug. 25 (Reuter) Rupert Lockwood. h Communist journalist, denied today that he had given secret information to V. Antonov. Soviet news agency representative in Australia- who is stated to have also belonged to the Russian secret police. He told the Royal Commission on Espionage
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  • 89 7 THE HAGUE, Aug. 25. < Reuter)— A Dutch naval frigate yesterday began an asdic echo sounding search for what remains of a KLM Skymaster airliner which plunged in the sea off the Dutch coast on Monday with the loss of 21 people on board. Two minesweepers
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  • 57 7 Kings Queens Go By Bus ATHENS. Aug. 25 (Reuter) Gaily dressed members of Europe's Royal families yesterday went by bus to Olympic. birthplace of the Olympic Games. Kings and queens, princes and princesses some throned, some dethroned had arrived at Katakolon in the Greek luxury liner Agamemnon, in which they
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  • 407 7 SOVIET TROOPS RULED RAPED' 'Madame X f Tells Congress C'ttee Of Horror In Hungary NEW YORK. Aug. 25 (AF) A mystery woman only her nervous hands visible behind a protective screen described yesterday how Russian wartime troops raped her in a mass attack. She collapsed as finished her dramatic recital.
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  • 33 7 A ONE-DAY token strike by more than 250,000 West Pakistan communications, industrial and municipal workers fixed for Thursday has been postponed for six weeks, it was stated at Karachi yesterday.- Reuter
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  • 79 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 25. The following ore th c closing prices of rubber and tin on the London Market. LONDON RUBBER Spot 20 4. October/ December 1924. January/March 19Jd. April/ June 19 Ad. July/ September 19id. September c.i.f. 19|d. Tone Quiet. LONDON TIN Spot
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  • 222 7 NEW DELHI, Aug. 25— (AP)— Prune Minister Nehru offered his own "collective peace" formula today for easing world tension. As an example, he cited his recent non-aggression agreement with Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai. In a 25-miaute foreign policy review to the Indian Parliament. Nehru condemned
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  • 206 7 PARIS, Aug. 25 Premier Pierre Mendes-France last night confirmed, after a meeting with his Cabinet, that he would not stake the life of his government on approval of the European army treaty. The Premier told newsmen that the Cabinet had agreed not to
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  • 86 7 Preview Of Television In 3-D LONDON. Aug. 25: (Rcutor). Three dimensional television was shown to the public for the first time here yesterday at a preview of Britain's annual radio show. It will be a long time before it is available for home entertainment. But it will be of value
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  • 91 7 Marilyn Fires "Mr. Stripes' -A Scratch Did It LAS VEGAS. Nevada Aug ;25 (Reuter) Film if-rc- Mairiiyn ItaKwetl was sera! -i< <i about the leg by => 140-4b. Tiysr in* r. swimming ;xx> here today. The animal appears he: in a cabaret ftet «>' Las Vig,^ hot^l. They were splashing
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 45 8 SYDNEY, Aug. 25, (AP)— Spring has started in Sydney two months early. Yesterday's temperature soared to 86.8 degrees, the hottest August day on record. Trees and flowers were blossoming weeks ahead of schedule as temperatures hit some 20 degrees above normal.
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  • 198 8 WASHINGTON, Aug. 25: Public hearings on possible revisions of the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) will be held here Sept. 14 to 17. The hearings, announced Saturday by the Department of State, are expected to form the basis for any U.S.
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    • 786 8 NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD AND HAMBURG -AMERIK A LINIE lOINI SERVICE To Colombo. Cenoa. Marseilles. Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg 6 Bremen S'pore P S'ham Penang HESSENSTEIN (LLOYD) 6/8 Sept. 9 Sept. 10 Sept. FRANKFURT (HAPAC) 26/29 Sept. 30 Sept. 1 Oct HAMBURC i HAPAC) 17/20Oct. 21 Oct. 22 Oct. NASOS tLLOYD 9/16Nov. 17
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    • 1276 8 tei: 3*05 BLUE FUNNEL LINE <»,> iim-i ■PaWMtttaft' •28 lines, MAINSFIIXI) CO.. LTD. Oept Incorporated in Singapore carriers option to prurretl via othrr ports to load and •lisrharee cargo SAILINGS In LIVERPOOL. (M.ASIiOW LONIMIN CONTINENTAL POK'IS Due Sails P Snarr. fenane Kellrruphoß for Liverpool Glasgow A«g26 28 Aug29'3« llyvsre lor
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    • 597 8 JAVA NEW YORK SAILINGS Royal Rotterdam Lloyd Holland America Line NederlanO Line Rotterdam Rotterdam Amsterdam HALIFAX (MONTREAL). BOSTON. NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA. BALTIMORE MOBILE. NEW ORLEANS via SUEZ. Spore P. Sham Penan* SOESTDYK (HAL) 26/27 Aug. CAROET (RL) 29 Aug./sSept. 6 Sept. 7/8 Sept. ARKELDYK (HAL) 19/25 Sept. 26 Sept. 27/28
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    • 749 8 EAST ASIATIC LINES SAILINGS TO CONTINENT/SCANDINAVIA For Aden. Port Said. Genoa, Antwerp. Rotterdam. Hamburg, Cdynia. Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Oslo. Spore P Sham Penaiuj x) "SAMOA" 27A»g/lSept. In Port xx) "ERRIA" 14/15 Sept. xxx) "KINA" 18/23 Sept. xxxx) ••SONGKHLA" 27 Sept/2 Oct. 26/26 Sept 24/25 Sept. x) Calls Naples and Karlshamn.
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  • 519 9 TIN OUTPUT CONTROL PLAN IS DRAFTED gMflmlflfflmifflflmTO|A|^McSmiraßmMmß^^ Goes For Legislation Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The draft legislation for control of tin production, when the International Tin Agreement is enforced, is almost completed and will probably be tabled at the next meeting of the Federal Legislative Council, Mr. H.
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  • 135 9 Check Your Brakes! Standard Staff Reporter MOTORISTS! Check your brakes! In a few days' time, you will be using petrol with an extra kick... It is "Top Octane" Mobilgas and the new and more powerful Shell with ICA. depending on which brand you normally buy. The two major oil distributors
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  • 166 9 $34,000 Pepper Deals ABOUT 15 tons of black and white pepper, worth about $34,000, changed hands in the produce 'market in Singapore yesterday at slightly higher quotations than those prevailing on Tuesday. The pepper market was steady, but copra was quiet and coconut oil dull. Coconut oil sellers at Penang
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    42 9 MR. G. Ph. U. de Stoppelaar, above, is now acting as General Manager of K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines) Singapore, in place of Mr. J. W. Turner-Lashmar, who has gone on four months' leave. Mr. Turner is expected back in November.
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  • 73 9 Reef Tanker Is Expected In Colony Standard Shipping Reporter ANOTHER Soviet tanker the Vaillant Cuturier was expected in Singapore late last evening "from the West." The local agents for the ship, Harrisons and Crosfields. Singapore, told The Standard that they had not received any advice, as to where the ship
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  • 322 9 Standard Market Reporter THE trade agreement between Indonesia and Red China made no perceptible impression on the rubber market in Singapore which closed quietly steady yesterday at 66| cents per lb. for September shipment, a rise of cent above Tuesday's level. BJ Prices opened
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  • 19 9 GRAIN crops in Turkey are forecast at a somewhat lower level than the record harvest in 1953.
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  • 104 9 PRICE changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Eastern United .JG.OO 37 00 Malayan Cement 1.34 1 37 S. Cold Storage $1 stock 1.62 1.67 xci S. Steamship 17.00 17 10 Straits Traders 21.20 21.30 United Engineers Ord. 12.55 12.65 William Jacks 2.90
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  • 58 9 WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, (Reuter)— Average income in the United States last year was U551,709 (about £610), the United States Department of Commerce announced yesterday, representing an increase of US$65 (about £23) over 1952. Personal income for the whole nation in 1953 totalled. U*****,577,000,000 (about £90,000,000,000)
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  • 128 9 OUTER ROADS Asha, Sambas, Morzh, Sachem, Van Riebeck. Lesie Maersk Shokyu Maru, Harpathion, Gomel. Stanvac Canberra, North Star, Atjeh, Sivuch, Olensk, Mina, Chip Lam, Soestdjik, Buddeno vsrk. INNER ROADS Hua Heng, Salong, Anne Reed, Hin Ann, Darvel, Tung Song Moonfish, Stia, Aik Leong, Tong Hock, Irian, Hin
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  • 153 9 Bank extends to serve public Standard Staff Reporter WORK on the frontal extension .of two and a half storeys to the present premises of the (hung Khiaw Bank Ltd. in Robinson Road. Singapore, is nearing completion. The extension will cost more than S 100,000. Part of the frontage of the
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  • 117 9 MALAYA may soon be mass producing screws made of wood, if offers by an Ameri- can company are taken up by local manufacturers. This American company offers to furnish all the necessary equipment and technical data as we'll as train local I personnel by American ex- perts.
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    • 999 9 NOTICIL TKNDER NOTICE OTICE is hereby given HOUSING TRlt«st > thai I Han Siew Wah of FEDERATION OF MAI at a \l Bukit Timah Road. BUKIT GLUGOR HOUSWG rr^^LS^ C^ACTOR^ desirous of «0e oJ Beer and Stout, tion of i£L construc n -espect of premises j T ads > surface
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    • 219 9 STATE HOME GUARD HEADQUARTERS- JOHORE. r FENDERS are invited for the supply of the following articles: Belts, Home Guard Pattern .21,000 A sealed pattern of the article may be inspected during office hours, on application. Tenders. together with a sample, should be submitted to the undersigned before the 7th September,
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    • 26 9 WHEN DID YOU LAST CHECK YOUR OIL? I Take your car for Shellubrication this month and every month. VHM rnr 1 SHELLS SHELLUBRICATIONI sSf SIA-4 I
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    • 49 10 ««v The gasoline for greatest "knock free" power! DELIVERS MAXIMUM POWER INCREASES GASOLINE MILEAGE! > Available in Singapore on Ist of September Available shortly in the Federation itlßi STAMDARD-VACUUM OIL COMPANY yl M^t v (INCORPORATED IN USA, WITH LIMITED LIABILITY) I /^K JMobilqasl Singapore penang kuala lumpur ipoh A.. —^2rl!?lx
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  • 231 11 After The Game Ferry Sonneville had no excuse for his defeat. 'Peng Socn is too good for me I lost all my concentration j after levelling up the score at 3-3 in the first set. When Peng Soor stood at 7-3. I did not know what strokes
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  • 78 11 Now Piruz Versus Ferry KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Abdullah Piruz. reigning i Selangor champion. will i meet the Indonesian flash. Ferry Sonneville. in an exi hibition match in aid of i the Selangor Badminton Association Hall Fund here on Monday night. And with Piruz making the first return to Selangor badminton
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  • 756 11 MORE than 7,090 badminton fans who were at the Singapore Badminton Stodiu.n last night will agree with me: WONG PENG SOON IS BETTER THAN EVER. And if the Indonesian Ferry Sonheville was good, Singaporeans never saw it. Peng: Soon slashed his
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  • 273 11 PENANG, Wed. It appears that a Singapore newspaper (not The Standard) has already selected players for the Malaya's third defence of the Thomas Cup next year. Mr. Lim San Hai, honorary secretary of the Badminton Association of Malayo, said today that the selection of the players
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    • 782 11 SIfUATIOIMS V ACA\f (SINGAPORE CITY OL VCIL •-J ASSESS^ i\ I ESTATES DEPAK, .1 Required Probation; \s*e**ment Officer Salary S lOg«Ai2--132 pius varial »*?bwanocs Applicants <houi< be 18 to 29 years of ase u. >d -it d must possess th e Scl Certificate or equivalent A cre<i i in 4
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 241 11 Ml Elmer By Al Capp S-'-'ZCS v.CS -~H' VCS"" 3UT BROILED,TV.E> f 1 I THAR EVES MADE TH' -J I AH'LLTAKENO'TO TH' CONVENIENT ANtMAiJS/r CAME UP STEAK.V- \f FINEST SUSPENDER BUTTOMS TVALLEV OF TH' SHMOON" PRJED, "-EN TASTED LiKE J AN' THAR WARN'TrfX A -AN'THAR MUSTACHES MADE I -WHARTHEV-GuLP/'y— -->
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    35 12 FORMER Malayan jockey E "Porky* Donnelly and wife Betty returned to Singapore from Australia on Monday by Qantas BOAC. Torfcy," bow a licensed trainer, is to set up his training establishment in Kuala Lumpur. Standard
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  • 91 12 SWiFT Athletic Association WU] no.d their annual meet on September 25 at Victoria Schoo] at 2.30 p.m. Members intending to take par: should send their entries to the Hon. Secretary 215 Dorset Read, before September 4. The events are: MEN: 100 yds. 220 vdi. 440 yds. 888 yds.
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  • 1565 12  -  WIISDSOR LAD By Scores Maiden Win In The Main Sprint KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Making his run in the final furlong at the right time, CASH CHEQUE, brilliantly handled by Garnet Bougoure, ran home an easy two-length winner to win the main 5J furlongs sprint for class
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  • 955 12 TOTAL I>OOL $261,164 Ist PRIZE No. *****5 ($70,515) 2nd PRIZE No. *****9 ($35,257) 3rd PRIZE No. *****1 ($17,628) STARTERS ($2,203 eoch) Nos. *****3, *****0, *****9, *****1, *****9, *****9, *****6, *****9. CONSOLATION: ($1,567 eoch) Nos. *****5, *****5, *****0, *****2, *****9, *****8, *****9, *****5, *****8, *****2. FORECAST POOL: Race Three
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  • 291 12 Breweries Trounce F N Res. BREWERIES Sports Club Reserves trounced the Fraser and Neave Reserves by eight goals to two at the River Valley Road ground yesterday in a SBHFA Reserve League fixture, to end up runners-up the STC. Breweries opened the score in the 7th minute through Charlie I
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    • 210 12 mnrm i mwnmwmwn Pens Soon thrills the Crowd: Humbles Sonneville.— See page 11. *\VVV\VVVVV\V\\\\\\\*v\\\\\\\\x%\xx x f JOIM THt CROWD AMD DANCE THE LATIN AMERICAN way TO-NIGHT at the CITY'S- "NIGHT-SPOr SATURDAY IS SPECIAL I DANA MIGHT X x\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\v VALLATHOL TROUPE'S KATHAKALI at VICTORIA THEATRE Under the Distinguished Patronage of His
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    • 152 12 ■*i« Why go ftiil«s •o fhe seashore km B# COOI Af IIOfIVIO if with a new IM4 CARRIER ROOM AIR CONDITIONER The new slim silhouette looks so handsome in your window. The new Carrier scarcely extends beyond the sill. You can see how little space it takes. Yet it cools,
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