Singapore Standard, 8 January 1955

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    16 1 Singapore Standard ♦UJ 2W )r^ _s V*| fll. SINGAPORE, SATCRDfAV, 8, 1955 11 PAGES 15 CENTS.
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    Lock icon $10 Mil Water Plan Is Off
    65 1 $10 Mil Water Plan Is Off I Johore which i Singawith a has been fflclally mmittcc of Council eme (to Tebrau nough r.. requiretcefell that in tatementsbj It would Citj counmany more lars on the reason for its a nrmand from Govi rnment for n every r taken E It
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    Lock icon India Gets Licence To Buy Plane
    61 1 [•ON. Jan. 7. State Dei i nounced yester- that 11 had granted a export of a n passenger India for use by International. was one of a Washington aid had p because of United States- r a new agreement to to expire r 14.
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    Lock icon MAU EXECUTED
    16 1 0 MAU "Field Marshal" leader in W Kenya area, was Nairobi prison night Reu-
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    124 1 Nicoll To Hand Them Over To Australia Next Week over T t"e 0 "i !2S* wIU hand fhesV itfandTtexrweek AUBtraMa dUrin his visit to to hear B o°f U fhe of h a A n U d S i t n^ ian Cadets were tft e first 10
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    Lock icon Kuching Puts Up The Shutters
    228 1 Kuching Puts Up The Shutters No T«Ms Martlets Empty Cafes Closed TRADE AT A STANDSTILL KUCHING, Jon. 7 (Reuter)— Apart from Government offices, limited companies and banking concerns, all shops in the town area stretching to upper country as far as Seria, 40 miles away, were closed today, in the
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    Lock icon VOLCANO SUICIDE PACT MISFIRES
    212 1 VOLCANO SUICIDE PACT MISFIRES Lovers Rescued TOKYO, Jan. 7, (AP) —Two young lovers who tried to suicide •by leaping into a boiling volcano were rescued today after 33 hours near the hissing lava They plunged into the crater on Thursday, trying to end an unhappy love affair. They tumoied hundreds
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    Lock icon Railmen Call It Off & Win Rise
    162 1 Railmen Call It Off Win Rise More Pay For Lower Grades LONDON, Jan. 7, (Reuter) Britain's railmen who called off a threatened nationwide strike last night, today won increased rates of pay for men in the lowest paid grades. This was announced after a meeting this morning between representatives of
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    Lock icon Dies At 79
    34 1 MOSCOW. Jan. 7 (Reuter) Professor Evgeny Tarle, the Soviet historian and Academician, has died at the age of 79 after a long illness, Tass, the official Soviet news agency, reported today.
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    Lock icon Hurricane Leaves Fiji
    46 1 SUVA. Fiji. Jan. 7 (Reuter) The all-clear signal was given throughout the Fiji Islands today as the hurricane, which hit the northern islands yesterday, moved to the south. The 100-mile-an-hour hurricane was reported to have caused heavy damage in the northern Yasawa Islands.
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    Lock icon DAG, CHOU MEET AGAIN
    50 1 NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (Reuter). Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld. United Nations Sec-retary-General, and Mr. Chou En-lai. the Chinese Communist Prime Minister, had another meeting today. It lasted three and threequarter hours. A cable from Mr. Hammarskjoeld himself to United Nations Headquarters said thev would meet again tomorrow.
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    Lock icon Crash Inquiry
    36 1 GLASGOW, Scotland. Jan. 7 (Reuter).— A public inquiry is to be held in Scotland into the Prestwick air disaster on 1 Christmas Day when 28 I people lost their lives In a British Stratocrulser.
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    31 1 photo. THE Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, shares a joke with some of the Australian air cadets at a tea party in the visitors' honour at Government House yesterday. Standard
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    Lock icon RUBBER Up To 98 1/8c.
    74 1 RUBBER Up To 98 1/8c. FOR the second day in succession rubber made sharp rises in the Singapore market, yesterday's rise being $2i cents to 98A cents per lb, for first grade rubber for January shipment. In two days rubber had recovered 4 3/8 cents in prices on a market
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    Lock icon Saved Flat From Big Fire
    39 1 VIENNA. Jan. 7 (Reuter).— Mrs. John Blair, wife of a British Embassy secretary, threw a blazing Christmas Tree out of a window yesterday and saved her flat from being burned down, police reported today.
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    Lock icon Conquest Of Space Very Soon
    89 1 LONDON. Jan. 7 (Reuter) Mr. Peter Masefield. Chief Executive of the British European Airways, yesterday forecast the conquest of space "in a few years time." Speaking at the Royal Aeronautical Society's annual lecture for young people. Mr. Masefield added: "It is not all that far
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    Lock icon Tremors Hit Islands
    54 1 SYDNEY, Jan. 7 (Reuter) Violent earthquakes have rocked the New Hebrides islands, an Anglo-French group in the South-west Pacific, over the past two days. according to reports reaching here today. Houses have been knocked down and trees uprooted on the islands but no casualties have been reported
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    Lock icon U.S. Senafors Call For Probe
    29 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (Reuter) Forty-one senators today signed, as cosponsors, a resolution calling for diligent and vigorous investigation of Communism in the United States.
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    Lock icon Morrison's Wedding Ends In A Blackout
    184 1 ROCHDALE, Jan. 7, (Reuter)— Herbert Morrison, 67-year-old second in command of the British Labour Party, was married here yesterday to a local business woman, 47-year-old Miss Edith Meadowcraft in what British newspapers have called "the wedding of the year." In the 25-mlnute ceremony in
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    Lock icon ACCUSED OF AIDING ASSASSINS
    39 1 ACCUSED OF AIDING ASSASSINS THELMA KING who is accused of having given the signal to gunmen who ass ascinated the President of Panama, Gal {ose Antonio ficnton. last Sunday. s Consul ai ifair Panama Embassy In Lonaon. A7PT" photo.
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    Lock icon The Fields Vanish For Second Time
    88 1 WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. (AP>.— U.S. officials disclosed today that Noel and Herta Field have again vanished from American sight inside Communist Hungary. The Fields, freed last Nov. 17 after five years in a Hungarian jail were reported by the Hungarian press and radio last
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    Lock icon ANTI-KISSING SQUAD NABS 35 COUPLES
    83 1 TURIN, Italy, Jan. 7 <AP> —A new Police anti-kissing squad went into action on Thursday in Turin's cinema, and in the first four hours, they arrested 35 couples. Police headquarters announced that members of the squad will "patrol" the movie houses daily hereafter. "This kissing
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    Lock icon BOY, 13, KILLS GRANNY THEN-GOES TO SEE TARZAN
    102 1 BOY, 13, K ILLS GRANNY THEN-GOES TO SEE TARZAN BERLIN. Jan. 6 (Reuter).— East Berlin police said today that a 13-year-old boy murdered his grandmother in West Berlin yesterday and then went to see a film with money he stole from her. The East Berlin News Agency A.D.N, said the
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    Lock icon UK SCIENTIST DIES IN KENT
    36 1 DOWNE. Kent. Jan. 7 Reuter > Sir Arthur Bcrrl dale Keith, the British anthropologist, died at hi> home here last night, aged 88. He was a former President of the British Association
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    Lock icon Gets Off One Count But Fined On Two
    205 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Colin Philip Ansell, a young mining engineer who questioned the competence of a chemist to certify intoxication, was today acquitted and discharged by the President of the Sessions Court on a charge of drunken driving. Ansel!, however, until recently
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    Lock icon Increase In Petty Thieving
    103 2 KUALA LUMPUR, FriPetty thieving in Kuala Lumpur has been gradually increasing day by day. Angry housewives are complaining bitterly about poultry and other articles missing from their backyards. Along with this increase In petty thefts, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of loitr
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    Lock icon FOUND DEAD WITH SCARF ROUND HER NECK
    84 2 FOUND DEAD WITH SCARF ROUND HER NECK COLCHESTER, Essex, Jan. 7 (Router)— Brigadier O. H. Tidbury, formerly a commander in the Middlesex Regiment in the Far East, yesterday found his wife. Beryl Marjorie, dead in the bedroom of her home at Colchester with a scarf round her neck. Doctors ruled
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    23 2 MR. CEDRIC LAWRENCE ALCANTRA and the former Miss Ruth Daphne Lawrence who were married at St. Lourdes Church in Ophir Road, Singapore, recently.
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    Lock icon Caretaker Acquitted
    79 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri M. Joseph caretaker of the Selangor Badminton Association Hall, was todav acquitted and discharged by the Second Magistiale on a charge of assaulting a ten-year-old boy who attempted to steal mangoes from a tree in the Association's compound. Yong Chin Tong said Joseph pelted him
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    Lock icon EVERY PC IN PUDU WAS BRIBED-'GENIUS'
    380 2 'Allowed' To Run Gambling Den For $380 A Week KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Liew Sin Siew, "organizing genius" of a $500-o-day Fan Ton gambling den, told the High Court today that if he did not bribe every policeman in the Pudu Police Station he would
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    Lock icon Army Clerk Acquitted
    72 2 TAN Hung Tiew. an Army rierk. was acquitted in the Singapore Second Criminal District Court yesterday on two charges of rioting at a bus terminus in Moulmein Road on Sept. 21. He was alleged to have been a member of an unlawful assembly. The judge. Mr. T.
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    Lock icon Rotary Treat To Children
    50 2 ABOUT 4.000 under-privi-leged children in Singapore were given a grand Christmas treat at the New World vesterday evening by the Rotary Club. The party was postponed from last month due to the floods. Each child was treated to rakes and refreshments and took a toy home.
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    Lock icon Boys' Brigade New Course
    47 2 THE Singapore Battalion Boys' Brigade, will hold a one-month officers' initial training course beginning from Monday. Jan. 10 Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, the City Council President, win declare the course open at the StraUs ChAnese Methodist. Church. Kampong Kapor, at 5.30 p.m.
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    Lock icon JUDGMENT RESERVED
    130 2 TEXTILES CASE PENANG. Fri.— Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson in the High Court, today. reserved judgment after he had heard two appeals of a Customs case involving the confiscation order of $134,664 worth of textiles made by the Sessions Court President. Mr. J.G. Adams, on Sept. 15. last year.
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    Lock icon COMMITTEE TO OPEN PRIMARY CLASSES
    118 2 COMMITTEE TO OPEN PRIMARY CLASSES MALACCA, Fri— The Malacca Primary English School Committee has accepted Government conditions for using Government English school classrooms in the afternoon for children of school age who cannot gain entrance in primary English classes. The Committee will start its classes on Jan. 17. Two hundred
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    Lock icon AMNESTY SHOULD BE CONSIDERED
    254 2  -  Sir Cheng-lock MALACCA, Fri.— The President of the Milan Chinese Association, Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan. Midi day that since the President of the United Mahyil tionai Organization, Tungku Abdul Rahman, hid I vived the question of an amnesty, it should t* sidered if it would result
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    80 2 (rents per lb, X Pore yetterda, n l no.irs.s Bu c;^ Loose No 1 R.S.S. ti\ Dec. i v No. 2 No. ,j; T »n*: BrraU. TIN PR, CP ine pner» of ln terday was v- >* picul. (l)ow n v v' P■£e Verm* Sf,U "»r Fr ida.v*
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    48 2 Judgments Ordinance Extended JUDGMENTS the Supreme C pore arc now ml the Colony North Borneo and BruJ? The Governor has. therefor.' Reciprocal En! Judgments Orriir judgments obti High Court North Borneo ar the same mann^ r ments obtain* ;n a tan Court In the dom. says j Gazette.
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    Lock icon Planters Offer 2 Bungalow
    61 2 Planters Offer 2 Bungalow MALACCA. K ber planter*. 9% compound hou t other in the I i area. hn\ i often for the §eeo cast for the film, if Mr. cides to Malacca. The ho i galow type water. They are abo miles fro'n The owners. nnd Chan S<~ their
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    37 2 She's Guilty Of Assault KUALA LUMI Chung Lai Mo wife of a salesman- W$ six-month "g« bond by trie St tratc who .'< assaulting ;.r: mother The \fa£i<'> Ram. u.*'. riant to p.. J fo her Urn, Chicw.
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    44 2 THE Vcrv I Marie-Eugene I of th«- Order flew into S.nc;< American Air a 9 Ife was met bishop Michael O'.comenHy J Father Mai ha s already visit* J Hongkong Ma ao pines and M« leave on Sundaj Colombo. India ;i''ijV
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    Lock icon FREED ON FAKE LICENCE CHARGE
    120 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Poh Yen Cheng, a 40-year-old businessman was todav acquitted and discharged by the First Magistrate on a charge of dishonestly using as genuine a forged driving licence. It was stated in court that Poh handed his licence to his driver witn instructions
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    Lock icon DENIES $23,000 'EXTORT' CHARGE
    56 3 rrWG '\H Ki;l of Church Singapore claimed Eighth Police lay, to three d extorting to $23,000. ged that fori the money from Pen red offences took p 28 lasl year and fan r, this year. ere d by the a «e Mr M Karthigesu. i a
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    50 3 'Bad Hat' Driver Gets 112 Days i bin Mo- Royal Army eel by J A. was d by a Disi n Pretention. found g lilty of ab- from his unit thoul leave. 7 ntence arc in. The court was B kin. litted of a y i eglect. and ied at
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    46 3 KUAI LUMPUR. Fri. New eve. had 239 registered ith a total memip of 119.985 it \va.s The membership said Ihe irar of S r ties received Tca- the Assooiat .of in Chines Schools Transport Union. Twei nj n$ are I i r< gistra
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    21 3 Chinese deck trked on the Tjiluwah which for China ports led as pas- veral teen-aged frorr Sing-
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    25 3 °lEH Owen Gall* in the Court nprisoninto a in Raffles l at 2.15 who pleaded unto ho at the
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    24 3 Acquitted Of 'Trust' Charge BAHRU, Fri n Hassan. v the Ccntion. Aver in the iang, yester- criminal respect of worth g to the Depart-
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    Lock icon Food Prices Drop But Veg. Still Dear
    291 3 Food Prices Drop But Veg. Still Dear Cheaper Rice, Beef And Eggs THE retail prices of main foodstuffs in Singapore have shown a promising drop this year as compared with the prices prevailing during 1954. The prices of vegetables, however, maintain their present abnormal level. This is due to the
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    151 3 180 WORDS PER MINUTE STENO MR. Lim Swee Kiat, 32 (above), is the first man .1 Singapore since the war to ™L th e astest speed test 180 words a minute. Mr Lim. who is private secretary to the Commissioner for Labour passed the Faculty of Secretaries shorthand examinations (Ist
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    Lock icon FIRE SERVICES FOR ALL VILLAGES
    246 3 City Council Works Out Plan THE Water and Engineer's Departments of the Singapore City Council are now working out the cost and layout plans necessary to provide fire fighting services in every kampong in the Colony. The Estates and Fire Brigade Committee of the Council
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    22 3 lMf,f r ieveltilS hv C !SJ?. the new X-Ray Image Inof tn annarf*. s The Dowcr consumption apparatus is under 200 watts.
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    Lock icon Entry Laws May Be Relaxed
    124 3 RESTRICTIONS on the enI try of Indians into Singapore I and the Federation under existing Immigration laws may be relaxed by both Governments. The Standard understands that both Governments favour certain recommendations submitted by the Colony's Controller of Immigration, Mr. M. C. Compton. It is
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    Lock icon 6 Youths Attacked Taxi Driver
    66 3 SIX youths jumped out of a czr in Victoria Street. Singapore, late on Thursday night and attacked a taxi driver named Chung Beng Huat. Chung claimed he was beaten up after an argument which started when the youths* car refused to give way to his
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    Lock icon Clothing, Cash Gone
    57 3 A CHINESE couple returned to their house in Upper Serangoon Road. Singapore, on Thursoay evening to find the first floor rooms broken into and th e place ransacked. They checked the scattered belongings ond discovered the loss of $100 in cash and $200 worth of clothing. A
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    174 3 Cresson Is Chairman Of Polytechnic MR. L CRESSON formerly Managing Director of Cressonite Industries Ltd and a we!!-kno\vn figure in Singapore business circles, has been appointed Chairman of the h-man Board of Governors of the Singapore Polytechnic an institution for vocational technical training. ine Polytechnic now being bui'.t is expected
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    125 3 Malayan For B.O.A.C Training FOR the second year in succession. British Overseas Airways Corporation is to run a series of 12-day training courses for its overseas reservation officers. These courses are held at Airways Terminal, the BOAC sales organization headquarters in London. They cover all aspects of a complicated system
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    Lock icon Molested Girl In Swim Pool
    90 3 Molested Girl In Swim Pool LIM Thiam Chai, while bathing in thr Mount Emily Swimming Pool, Singapore, one day. swam under water towards a young girl swimmer and felt her person. Furious, the girl. Oh Choon Eng, dived after Lim. pulled him up to the surface and took him to
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    Lock icon BRAKES WERE AT FAULT
    44 3 A SINGAPORE cofleeshop proprietor. Loo Kiok Gek, was fined $50 in the First Traffic Court yesterday for driving a car with faulty brakes. The prosecution stated that while driving down an incline at Woodsville Road. Loo knocked down two schoolboys.
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    Lock icon $800 FINE FOR MOVING FOOD
    45 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. Kumarasamy. a labourer on Ulu Paloh Estate, Paloh, was fined $800, in default six months' imprisonment, by the Kluang Sessions Court President, Mr. N. L. Cohen, yesterday, for moving food into a restricted area without a permit.
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    Lock icon INCOME TAX MEN BEING TRAINED
    171 3 LOCAL personnel who have been appointed to higher services in the income tax department are receiving training to make them proficient in their work, the acting Comptroller of Income Tax. Singapore. Mr. G. T. Holloway. said yesterday. A number of local men have been recruited
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    264 3 New Equipment Makes X-Rays Brighter THE Philips Electronic Tube Division has developed and perfected an X-ray attachment called the X-Ray Image Intensifier. which will soon be marketed in Singapore for use in hospitals and clinics. This apparatus, which has been marketed with great success in Europe, will enable radiologists to
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    Lock icon Beth Sides Can Settle On A Fair Wage, Says Fr. Hogan
    347 4 FATHER Walter Hogan visiting Roman Catholic Socialist priest said in Singapore yesterday that employers and workers can, with goodwill, bargain out a wage scale that is fair to both. Father Hogan who was speaking on "What is a Just
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    Lock icon YOUTH SOUGHT DEATH FOR 'RUNNING DOGS'
    267 4 SENTENCED TO 3 YEARS' JAIL LEE LENG WHAI, 18, a former member of the St. John Ambulonce Brigade, accused of writing three documents advocating the elimination of running dogs normally referred to as Police officers and those co-operating with the British said yesterday "I
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    Lock icon Professor Due Today
    37 4 PROFESSOR Orient Lee, well-known author of historical works in English, French, and Chinese, who has joined the Tsanyanc University as Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts. He is expected in Singapore today.
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    37 4 HONGKONG, Jan. 7 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.58 to £1 sterling; $5.8775 to US$l; $1,834 to Malayan $1; $0,183 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $257.25 to a tael.
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    Lock icon HOUSE BURGLED
    27 4 A HOUSE in St. Michael's Road. Singapore, was broken into on Thursday night and $185 worth of cash, wristwatches and a fountain pen were stolen.
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    Lock icon OPENING ON JAN. 19
    21 4 photo. THE Chartered Bank building in Robinson Road, Singapore, which will be opened on Jan. 19 Standard
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    Lock icon Another 400 To Answer Call-Up
    126 4 THE second batch of 400 Singapore national servicemen for this year's six-month basic training were selected yesterday by public ballot at the Singapore Volunteer Corps headquarters. Those selected yesterday will be informed individually within the next four days. Training will be on the same lines
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    Lock icon BABY DIES AFTER FALL
    34 4 THE four-year-old boy, Ramli bin Saat who fell from the first floor window of a house in Bussorah Street in Singapore on Thursday, died in the General Hospital yesterday morning
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    Lock icon Gang Of Four Robs Family
    41 4 A GANG of four men. one armed with a knife, broke into a house in the Brickworks Estate, oil Alexandra Road. Singapore, at dawn yesterday and robbed a Chinese family of cash and jewellery worth 52.000.
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    Lock icon Colourful Defence
    131 4 By Lawyer A SINGAPORE lawyer, F. Bernard Oehlers, successfully defended himself in the First Traffic Court yesterday when he was charged with failing to conform to a traffic light signal. He was acquitted without his defence being called. Police Constable Jantan Abu Samah said that while he was
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    Lock icon CALL FOR MORE AID TO NEW VILLAGES
    157 4 CALL FOR MORE AID TO NEW VILLAGES A CALL for more aid for new villages in the Federation was made by Mr. V. D. Kuppusamy, Perak Legislative Councillor and Kampar delegate to the Annual Malayan Methodist Conference on the third day of their 60th session at the Methodist Girls' School,
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    Lock icon Boy, 2, Found Dead In Well
    50 4 A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy. Kamaron bin Kamari. was found dead in a well near his house in the Katong area of Singapore yesterday morning The boy's rrister found his body lying face downwards in the water when she went to the well to draw water.
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    Lock icon RAF SEEKS RECRUITS IN PENANG
    135 4 RAF SEEKS RECRUITS IN PENANG PENANG. Fri. Recruiting for the Royal Air Force (Malaya) will take place here early next month and successful candidates will commence training on Feb. 14. Enlistment Is open to young men between the ages of 18 and 32. A recruiting team of the R.A.F. (Malaya)
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    Lock icon FOUND HANGING
    18 4 CHOY Kwck Yin. 55, was found hanging in a house in Thomson Road, Singapore, yesterday morning.
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    272 4 Standard Staff Reporter THE new seven-storey, $3,500,000 Chartered Bank building, in Robinson Road, Singapore, which rose on land once the City's shoreline, will be officially opened by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode, on Jan. 19. The building, which reats on 590 50-foot
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    Lock icon 'CAR JACK GANG' SMASHED
    531 5  -  K. C. ARUN Police Break Up Smartest Thugs Since The War By KUALA LUMPUR, Fri._The Federation police have cracked the notorious car jack gang/' the best organized* and most scientific gang of burglars and robbers ever to plague the country in post-war years. Two members of
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    Lock icon Out To See The Far East
    152 5 2 TWO fruiterers from > Auckland out to see the 2 S tar East flew into Singa- 2 pore yesterday after- noon. They were Miss Anna Chan and Mrs. 2 R_ ora Chong, seen in 2 i!? e above picture with 2 Mr. and
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    Lock icon PROTEST OVER 'SCHOOLS' POLICY
    132 5 ILOB STAB, I ri.— About 1,000 persons attended „'ur-hour meeting last night here called by the ietv tor Advancement of the Malay Language to C i protest against the proposed national schools be get up by Government, this year. Main speakers were Syed Mahadzar of Perlis
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    160 5 Two Penang Weddings A Day Since New Year PENANG. Fri.— The Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Penang, Mr. B. T. W. Stewart, who has taken over the job ol Registrar of Civil Marriages, has officiated 15 marriages since Jan. 1 this year. Mr. Stewart today stated that the Civil Marriage Ordinance.
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      564 6 IpOR over six months now, the President of the United States and his advisers have been watching with grave concern the march of events in Asia and the increasing threat of aggression to the free nations of that vast continent. The President realised that very soon he would
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    179 7 Mau Mau Add New Clause To Oath Ltroßl, J an r (R e Wvurj Man terrorists "added an "arson their oath to do rlf terror on pain of Ru -/was revealed here |tD, <-e:^y 1 -thlf report on anti- tau operations issued says the 1 n a been adminNairobl area
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    46 7 TOKYO. Jan. 7 (AP).— taner Japanese Prime Milter Shigeru Yoshlda inhe may run for Selection to the Diet in the general elections. 76-year-old politician kswered an appeal from i f his homo district I z ho may run "if the beral Party needs me."
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    105 7 Tito Won't Go To Siam, Indonesia BELGRADE, Jan. 7 (Reuter). President Tito has declined invitations to visit Indonesia and Thailand, the official news agency, Tanjug. said last night in a report from Rangoon. Since President Tito's current \isit to India and Burma was planned some time ago and since his
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    54 7 CAIRO. Jan. 7, (AP> Doctors advised the ailing, 77--year-old Aga Khan yesterday to postpone a scheduled trip next month to East Africa. The leader of the Ismaili Moslem sect was to have attended ceremonies at which his followers in Uganda and Kenya would match his
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    39 7 Adenauer' s Gift To M. France PARIS. Jan. 7 (Reuter).— M. Pierre Mendes France, the milk drinking Premier, has received another gift of dairy products this one personally selected and packed by the West German Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer.
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    91 7 Burglar Is Caught Napping WEISSENBURG, Germany, Jan. 7 (AP).— A farmer's wife ran into the police station here and exclaimed: "There's a burglar under my bed and he's even snoring." "We don't believe you," said the officer on duty, "but we'll have a look." At the farmhouse, police found Rudolf
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    69 7 Assassin Laotian Arrested BANGKOK. Jan. 7 (Reuter) A 27-year-old Laotian. Udom Luksurind. arrested at a Thai police crime prevention fair here on Jan. 5. has confessed to the murder of the Laotian Defence Minister. Tiao Ku Voravong, according to a Thai police spokesman today. The Laotian Government had asked Thailand
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    242 7 Atomic, Guided Missiles LONDON, Jan. 7, (UP)— Britain, which scrapped its conventional anti-aircraft defences in December, was reported today to be rushing secret preparations for critically important atomic and guided missiles tests in Australia, this year. The Ministry of Supply. w T hich is responsible
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    270 7 But There Is No War'Onlv Trouble' THE HAGUE, Jan. 7, (Reuter)— A representative of the self-styled South Moluccas Republic of Indonesia, said here yesterday that the rebel leaders of the republic/' controlled 4,000 well-trained and armed veterans of the former Dutch East Indies army as well
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    35 7 Mrs. Pandit Recovers LONDON: Jan. 7, (Reuter) Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit. India's High Cimmissioner in London, was reported yesterday to have recovered from her attack of influenza. She is expected to resume her duties next week.
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    128 7 TO CO-EXIST IS NOT TO DE NEUTRAL TITO RANGOON. Jan. 7 (Reuter) President Tito of Yugoslavia declared today it would be erroneous to describe peaceful co-existence as an "independent neutral policy." President Tito who arrived yesterday on an 11-day state visit to Burma said this in answer to written questions
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    58 7 LONDON, Jan. 7. (AP) Laly Vacas. 21-year-old Greek beauty queen, has vanished from her apartment here, Scotland Yard reported yesterday. The Yard said Miss Vacas left Edaoming House in suburban Kensington on Dec. 17 and wa s driven off by a car waiting outside. She left
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    72 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 7. The following are the closing prices ot rubber and tin on the London Market. LONDON RUBBER Spot 292<2. February 2P«d. March 28}d. April/June 21 Id. July September 27 d. October/December 26 id. January c.i.f 28)d. Tone: Easier. LONDON TIN Spot
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    144 7 Prayers And Hymns For A Hilltop Vision BATHURST, New Brunswick, Jan. 7. (Reuter) About 500 people, praying and singing hymns, gathered in freezing weather on a hilltop here following a report that a young girl had seen a vision of the Blessed Virgin there. The girl is reported to have
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    141 7 We'll Level U.S. Cities, Warns Peking TOKYO, Jan. 7 (UP) Communist China warned yesterday that if the United States begins an atomic war the Reds will retaliate and level American cities like the United States did Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A Radio Peking broadcast heard in Tokyo criticized "American generals who
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    144 7 American Held In Round-up PANAMA. Jan .7 <AV) Panama police held a 34--year-old U.S. citizen Incommunicado vesterday in connection with Sunday's slaying of President Jose Antonio Remon as they oim >- tioned at least 70 suspect! in the gung style murder. Police said they picked up Martin Irving Lipstcin t<
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    377 7 DUNEDIN, New Zealand. Jan. 7 (Reuter) An attractive young woman doctor was committed for trial here yesterday charged with murdering a fellow physician formerly her fiance. The 27-year-old doctor. Senga Florance Whittlngham. collapsed at the preliminary hearing yesterday when called to answer the charge of
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    222 8 Church Confab Votes To Give Up Direct Control ANGLO-CHINESE School, one of Since- cre's well-known educational institutions, will be run by a 12-man Board of Governors instead of directly by the Methodist Church as previously. This was unanimously decided by the Malaya Annual Conference
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    114 8 2 BOYS BITTEN BY SNAKES PENANG, Fri.— A 11-year-old boy, Cheang Eng Chang, was bitten, by what is believed to be a sea-snake, while playing in knee-deep water in the sea off the Chinese Swimming Club, Tanjong Tokong, last evening. There were three punctures on the heel of the boy's
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    167 8 A NEW $150,000 building to house Trinity College was yesterday announced by its Principal, Rev. C. Stanley Smith, at the Malaya Annual Conference yesterday. Rev. Smith told the Conference that the Foundation of the Nanking Theological Seminary, which was closed by the Communists in China,
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    94 8 1 THIRTY FIVE year old Chinese Affairs Offi- < 2 cer, Mr. Chew Chon Pin, attached to the S State Secretariat. Perak. J J will leave Ipoh early I next week on a I ocal I and Public Administra- tion course in Australia 1 under the
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    81 8 IPOH, Fri. Omar bin Sharif, an Assessment Officer attached to the Kampar Town Board, was today fined $100 and his licence endorsed when he was convicted by the President of the Sessions Court. Che Mahmud Hashim. on a negligent driving charge. The court was told that
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    43 8 KUALA LIPIS, Fri. The District Crime Officer, here Mr. Jaimal Singh, has been transferred to Penang as assistant O.C.P.D. Rural District. Mr. H. C. Greenall will succeed him at Kuala Lipis. Mr. Jaimal Singh has been in Pahang since 1948.
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    41 8 MUAR. Fri.— lnche Ibrahim bin Abdul Manan, the circuit magistrate, flies to England on Jan. 12 to join Lincoln's Inn. Inche Ibrahim, a graduate of Rallies College. has been awarded the Judicial Scholarship by the Federal Government.
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    158 8 FIVE HUNDRED "whitecollar" workers and 10,000 industrial employees of the Admiralty In Singapore, will discuss the possibility of putting up a united front in their fight for improved conditions of service. The Industrial workers represented by the Naval Base Labour Union have been waging a
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    333 8 Peoples Action Party Hits Back At Progs. THE People's Action Party in a press statement yesterday, hit back at the Progressive Party for accusing it of trying to cash in on the distress of victims in the recent Singapore floods. The Progressives had attack, ed PAP in the January issue
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    161 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Mahatma Gandhi High School in Kuala Lumpur has taken a lead in trying to bring relief to the town's acute "school admission" problem. It is starting two new classes to absorb some of the 1.500 children, unable to gain admission into
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    215 8 BOOKS DON'T DO JUSTICE TO CITY -AUSSIE CADET Standard Staff Reporter FIFTEEN-year-old Sergeant John Dane, the 20 Australian air cadets, who arc in ?1 J? a three-week visit, hastily revised his opinion V City soon after he landed here. He cxp< <■'• find an Island jnakes and i found Insfc
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      811 9  - STAGE DOOR JOHN HALKIN iiiiai Talking Slides Are Bad 'J'HE Singapore Film Society has announced that the next 35 mm. film to be shewn will be The Golden Coach, directed by Jean Renoir. There will be one performance only, at the Pavilion Cinema, at 9-30 p.m. on Monday 10th January.
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      1173 9 ONE0 NE of the most talk-ed-about musical Personalities of this generation is the 23--year-old American pianist, Julius Katchen, who arrives in Singapore today to give a concert for the Musical Society 9L Sunday, January 16, In the Victoria Memorial Hall. Like Solomon and Menu-1 KATCHEN-
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    570 10 1. Champs Of Yesteryear CHICAGO, (UP)— The man who used to run faster than any other human being now runs projects which may help youths to break the records he set. Jesse OAeris today is a prosperous Chicago business man who finds enough
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    567 10 Youths Improve Bv HANS SCHAEFER U.P. Staff Correspondent FRANKFURT, (UP)— A score of new and promising talent has been discovered in Soviet Russia's track and field sport in 1954, reports gathered by the United Press from both East and West German sports publi- cations indicated.
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    80 10 New Coopers Get Many New Admirers LONDON, Jan. 7. (Reuter): Britain's newest racing car. the 500 c.c. Cooper Mark Nine, which had its first tests only a few weeks ago, has already been ordered by drivers in Holland. Sweden. Germany and Casablanca, the makers revealed here today. The Cooper is
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    61 10 Here's Chris Chataway, famous British athlete, in a new role He's seen here rehearsing his Dart as Algernon in "The Importance of Beina Earnest" the Oscar Wilde play now being produced by members of the amateur dramatic society of the jirm of brewers ior which Chataway works.
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    511 10 2. Champs Of Yesteryear By BILL WILK LA GRESCENTA, Calif., (UP)-The old man bristled— almost angrily. "Who says the youngsters of todav can't fight?'* he asked, i'm tired of hearing the old timers keep telling them that. Give the kids of today the
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    121 10 Seixas Meets Bergelin For SA Title ADELAIDE. Australia. Jan. 7 (UP) Vic Seixas who helped America retain the r is Cup last r. nfswept into the finals of the South Australian Tennis Championships yesterday by defeating Australia's Mervyn Rose, 4-6, 8-10. 9-7, 6-3, 10-8. In the finals, Seixas wili face
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    104 10 CHICAGO. Jan. 7 <AP> Babe Zaharias will join Ed Furgol in playing against the country's golfc- in the Third National Golf Day. June 4. ai the 01. :pic Club. San Fran cisco, site of this year's national open. Mrs. Zaharias. 1954 women's open champion, is
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    223 10 HASTINGS. Jan. 7, (Reuter) Ties for the leading places in the premier tournament of the Hastings Chess Congress appeared likely last night at the end of the eighth round with one more round still to play. The two Soviet players. Smyslov and Keres, were leading with six
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    307 11 "discover the Pacific »i* *™»»>* «ie to And despite growing com- petition, particularly from foreign flag carriers, the division's executive vice-pre-sident expressed confidence that the new year will be an even better one for Clipper travel. A vital factor in 1954s growth.
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      187 12 RUBBER PRia RECOVER TO 9fiJ More Confidence THE rubber market in Singapore regained more conU day and prices recovered to 981 cents per lb. for first a/ shipment before closing at 981 cents per lb., a rise of Thursday. I In two days rubber prices have recovered 42 cents per
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      90 12 FOREIGN exports of tin and tin-in-roncentratcs from Malaya in December last year. excluding movements bet Singapore and the Federation amounted to 4.974 tons, compared with 5,404 tons in the month before. The total quantity exported last year was 70.278 tons compared with 61.753 tons in 1953.
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      80 12 JONG-LANDOR Rubber Estates. Ltd. reported a net profit of 1 £536 for the year ended June 30, 1954 and is paying a dividend of five per cent, to shareholders. Brought forward was £9.990. and war damage claim less estimated £207. Dividends took £4.475 and the carry
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      177 12 Industrials Steady And Rubbers Are Firm Standard Market Reporter WITH a few exceptions. Malayan industrial shares were steady yesterday. Rubber shares were firm on the higher commodity price. Tins continued to ease in sympathy with the fall in the metal price. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday
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      70 12 PRODUCTION of cigarettes in the United States dropped 3 per cent in 1954. according to the U.S. Agriculture Department which partly attributed the decline to reports linking cigarette smoking to bad health. "Another factor," the department said, "is the change in the age structure of the
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      44 12 The sailing frigate, Vanadis. (seen above), Swedish navy ship which visited Singapore in 1885, and the second Swedish warship to make its appearance in Far Eastern waters after 70 years, the mine-layer-cum-training ship, Alvsnabben. (below), seen at anchor in the Singapore Outer Roads yesterday.
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      236 12 THE Alvsnabben. first Swedish navy ship to call at Singapore since 1885, sailed into port yesterday under the command of Capt. Willi Edenburg. bringing with her a complement of 260 officers and men. Most of them are seeing the Far East
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      222 12 PRODUCE A QUIET AND EASIER MART THE Singapore produce market in Singapore was quiet and generally easier yesterday with small business reported. Copra quotations were easier for both January and February shipments at the close, with quotations about 50 cents per picul lower than those prevailing on Thursday. Coconut oil
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      50 12 THE Netherlands Bank has granted permission to the foreign exchange banks in the Netherlands to grant credits, in guilders or in foreign currency, for financing international goods transactions between dealers in other countries. For the time being, only transactions in staple and bulk goods will be financed
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      20 12 -j THE output of Hong Fatt 'Sungei Besi) Ltd. In the ;°«H£5« Quarter 1954 wis 3,232.29 plculs.
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      285 12 'Memorable Ist VI At present the 1955 estimates of the F 1 natural rubber to be used in the UsJs.ll ably but it must be realised that u> i determining this ratio will be the prut former, and with such an unprerliitublf i mates must have a large element
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      59 12 Malayan Trade Is Better MALAYA'S external trade continues to show improvement, preliminary statistics for October indicate imports and exports just about balanced at 5279.3 million and 5278.7 million respectively. The total value of the external trade was valued at $558 million with imports (including parcel post) exceeding exports (including parcel
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      333 12 WASHINGTON, Jan. 7: (Reuter) Government officials yesterday described as "erroneous** the points advanced by Mr. John L. Collyer, chairman of B.F. Goodrich Company, in his recent criticism of Government's rubber stockpiling policy. At the same time, a spokesman for Dr. Arthur S. Fleming. Director of Defence Mobilization,
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      502 12 BOARD OF ARCHITECTS (Federation of Malaya) TT Is hereby notified for lnx formation that in accordance with Section 9 of the Architects Ordinance No. 48 of 1951, applications for renewal of Registration for the year must be made before the 31st day of January 1955. IV. S. VAN LANGENBERG, Registrar,
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      427 12 aaj*j*nw»aa»a^ajfa»aapa NOTICES' •*9~T9 ttt**'«" „,,»+a i NATURALISATION j^OTICE i s hereby giver that the following persons whose names and addresses are given be!o w are applying to the Governor for naturalisation and that any person who knows -any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and
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      306 12 PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Klang and Coast Water Supply 'T'HE continuing dry weather since restrictions to the supply were introduced on December 7th. 1954 is causing the serious situation apparent at that time to deteriorate further. At the present rate of consumption the Subang Reservoir will be dry in 80 days'
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      134 12 Ships In Harbour Outer Roads Asha, Katong. Eastern Trader. Tabian. Novo llaru, Chip Lam, Seladang, Ferndale. Blinioc. Bibo Mara, Lotorhim. Van Hcutsz. Aldegonda. Siberoct, Bir Hakeim, Allebrogia. Inner Roads Tabinta. Tong Soon, Lee Seh. Segamat, New Susana. Pasoso, Kimanis. Indari. Kaa, Hock Hai. Merlimau. Lasem, Pcrinti.s. Bentong. Mahaihevi. Larantuka. Auby,
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    365 13 'Giant Killers' Make Their Bid For F A Cup invnON 7 Reuter )-Into the English F.A. r *r clubs of the first and second divisions toP rtne big third round of the 1954-55 competi- Ithc.se premier leagues hitherto vivors of the 504 clubs who nt which began with qualifying no
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    75 13 FIVE sets of thoroughbred cars prick up undoubtedly on learning that the wearers nave been chosen to represent Australia in the 1956 y Sl pic E °:uestrian events at Stockholm. Photographed at the Berwick, Victoria, estate of AusWMtan team Captain David wood are, left to right: Dumbbell, Mr. Melbourne, Radiant.
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    142 13 AUCKLAND. New Zealand, Jan. 7. <Reuter): Prince Birabongse (Bira) of Siam is favoured to win the New Zealand Grand Prix motor race at Ardmore, 26 miles from Auckland tomorrow. However. Bira's formula 1. Maserati is expected to be pushed hard by Britain's Tonv
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    370 13  - DOES IT PAY TO BE LOYAL? BOB FERRIER Derby Full ßackGets £100 Benefit He Asks- By £JERT Mozley, England and Derby County full I back, sails for Canada, and a new career in hotel management, on Saturday. But ne leaves with little seasonal goodwill towards Derbv Count v. For yesterday
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    73 13 Punjabi Mankad Hit 226 Runs KARACHI. Jan. 7 (Reuter) P. L. Punjabi. India's new opening bat aivd Vinoo Mankad. captain of the touring team, put o n 226 for the first wicket when the Indians began a threeday game against the Karachi Cricket Association here today. India had scored 277
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    277 13 NEW YORK, Jan. 7, (Reuter)— Al Weill, manager of the world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano, said here yesterday he was considering "quite seriously" the offer made by the British Boxing promoter Jack Solomons for a title defence against England's champion Don Cockell, in
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    135 13 U.S. vs BRITAIN IN WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIP NEW YORK. Jan. 7. (AP)— The sth international team match lor the contract bridge world championship will be held here on Jan. 9-14 between teams from the United States and Great Britain. Eight sessions involving 224 hands will be played. The United States,
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    53 13 NEW YORK. Jan. 7. (AP)— Jean Cronstedt. 22-year-old member of the Swedish national gynnastids team making a tour ot the United States, told newsmen on Thursday that the Russians were the world's best gymnastic performers, but that Japan will give them a rough time at the Melbourne
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    511 13  -  BOB FERRIER It Depends On The Clubs... By LONDON, Jan. 7.— What does the New Year hold for football in England? Will it be restoration year for out international game? Will the Chancellor give football the blood transfusion it needs much more than lotteries, legal
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      672 13 SITUATIONS VACANT COLONY OF SARAWAK VETERINARY SERVICES. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. APPLICATIONS are Invited for the following vacancies which will occur during 1955. Assistant Veterinary Oflleer (twof Candidates should possess a degree or diploma from an approved Veterinary School. Approved candidates wlh be on probation for a rertod of three years.
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      139 13 SBy Al Capp '•VASSUH//-ITIS > "T^CRItTzS^rTcOMING TO LOCK AT P DRE OF A PLEASURE THIS PAINTING TOMORROW. I WANT <;•* )'A MAMMV TO HAVE THEM TO SEE MV MODEL TOO// AFTER j»? LR BABV, THAN-S°ar- A THAT-VOU CAN GO —AND r a^lj to r^\ good riddance; rr 8 By T.V.
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    81 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Friday Wong Peng Soon will not meet the Malayan champion, Ong Poh Lim, on Sunday's singles tie, the first Thomas Cup trial starting here tomorrow. This was announced through the Selangor B.A. by the Thomas Cup Selection Sub-Commit-tee of the 8.A.M., today. Peng
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    233 14 HUTTON CO. RIDE HIGH IN UK LONDON. Jan. 7 (Reuter).— British newspapers yesterday lavishly praised Yorkshireborn skipper Len Hutton and his men for their victory over Australia in the third cricket Test match which ended at Melbourne. Lengthy reports of the match are featured prominently on the sports and news
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    83 14 DRAW and starting times of the Royal Island Club Golf tourney for the Ladies Captain's Prize to be played on Sunday, are as follows: 2.45 p.m. Mrs. G. Hodgkinson—Mrs. E. M. Frenkcn; 2-50 p.m. Mrs. C. LePage— Mrs B. Abbott; 2.55 pm Miss N. Conway— Mrs.
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    154 14 TWO goals scored Oaf sho.t corners in the second halt enabled H.M. Dockyard to hold the Singapore Recreation Club XI to a two-all draw In a friendly hookey match played on the SRC padang yesterday. SRC took the lead in the 16th minuje. when Fernando hit
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    504 14 Fainting Yusuf Wins Aw Trophy By EDIN PETERS AN INDONESIAN badminton team of eight players, which will include two or three women, plan to play a friendly match against the Colony early next month, the representative of the Indonesian Badminton Federation, Mr. E. S.
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    99 14 Kiat Is SOSC VicePresident COLONY sports official. Mr. G.H. Kiat, who was awarded the 0.8.E. by the Queen, was elected a Vice-President of the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council yesterday. Mr. Kiat replaced the late Dato C.J. Paglar. The proposal, made by Mr. Aw Cheng Chye. was unanimously adopted by
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    63 14 A FRENCH Rugby XV are expected to arrive in the Colony from Saigon on January 13 for two matches here. The visitors. who will be guests of the Royal Air Force. Singapore, will play their first match on Jan. 14 against the Royal Air Force Combined at
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    618 14 M^uAruKL, playing tneir nrst game since the Indonesian visit, proved too superior for Johore to leave Jalan Besar stadium yesterday with a 5-1 victory in the inter-state encounter yesterday. If Dunn Company had been a little more careful, instead of
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    76 14 INDIAN Brotherhood Soccerites drew with the Indian Youngsters 1-1 in the annual Tamil Festival Day soccer played at the Farrer Park in Singapore esterday The scorer for the Soccerites was Marimuthu. David replied for Youngsters. In another game. Indian Arsenal SC drew with the Seletar Tamil Association.
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    362 14 THE main pack of the Singapore Asians rugby team, led by 29-year-old Inspector Yap Boon Keng, left Singapore last night by train for Kuala Lumpur where this evening they meet Selangor Asians in the opening game of the southern zone's AH Blues Cup competition. Boon
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    440 14 Perak Trounce Pahang Kedah Upset Penang The Northern Quadrangular surnrise? U^SS^. erw helme P han °y ten goals to nothing, and Kedah surprised Fenang with a 3-1 victory in the opening day's nlav of the North o„„i rangular Hockey Meet held at the Chinese Assembly^Hafl GrounS today Q Combining beautifully,
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    52 14 Kedah's win over Penang by three goals to one was their maiden victory in interstate Hocney Playing with determination, they sat on Penang right from the start and deservedly won Penang. on the other hand, played listless hockey. Except* for a short spell late in the second half,
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    195 14 IPOH, Fri In view of the favourable financial outcome in the past year, the Ipoh and Uistric* Football League has placed on the agenda for the coming general meeting on Jan 23 a resolution that each of the participating affiliates in the 1954 first division league
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