Singapore Standard, 14 January 1955

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  • 334 1 The FutureAs Dato Tan Sees It 'Form Big Public Firms And Keep Economic Hold' MALACCA, Thurs. -President of the Malayan Chinese Association, Doto Sir Cheng-lock Tan, said today that the future of the Chinese in an independent Malaya would lie in their ability to preserve their
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  • 112 1 Jan. 13, (Reu- onalist pped scores of a pre-dawn e Communistn and Tianao South CheCl nese Defence Minis- unique anil third icc( na list air attacks B mist i>land> in rci in r heavy CommuQbing Nationalistfihen Island last >i '-mmunique said I this morning's raid. Nationalist gunad op'-ned intensive
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  • 42 1 ICOON, Jan. 13. (RpPnutr firms of anv »alitv will be pcrniit)'\port 1 Burmosc rop which now is karrfsttd. the Minis- Trade Development """•d (oda>. 'Ministry statement wrp wmOi he no re»n reurdins quality •uantity uhich private 1 f '»uld rxport.
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  • 148 1 NZ Forces For Malaya DECISION LIES WITH LONDON PREMIER WELLINGTON, Jan. 13, (Reuter)— The New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Sidney Holland, said today that if any decision were reached to invite New Zealand to make a contribution to the defence of Malaya it would first be taken at a Commonwealth
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  • 18 1 CHINA has appointed Liu Hsiao as its new ambassador to Russia. Peking Radio announced yesterday.— Reuter.
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  • 125 1 KUCHING ROW GOES TO C-G KUCHING. Jan. 13 The row between Sarawak s trade bodies and the Government over the increased trade licensing fees is to be brought to the attention of the British Colonial Secretary, the Com-missioner-General and British M.P.s. The traders' representatives, at a protest meeting here today,
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  • 185 1 'Let's Hurry Up Those 4-Power Talks' Mendes ROME, Jan.- 13, {UP)— French Premier tftoriV Mendes-France said today the West shoulft c*H tfwnirpower conference as soon as ratification of the West European Union is complete. "We must lose no time." the Premier told a Press conference at the French embassy. M.
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  • 87 1 SIX large boxes arrived in Singapore by plane at Kallang; yesterday for the Commissioner of Currency. Three policemen with carbines watched two labourers carry the six boxes straight from the BOAC Argonaut into a police van, while a police inspector in a radio patrol
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  • 76 1 SEARCH FOR CITY UNDER A LAKE LA PAZ. Bolivia, Jan. 13, (AP).— William Mardorf. 29--year-old Chicago-born deepsea diver, started a hunt yesterday on the bottom of Lake Titicaca the world's highest large lake for an ancient submerged city. Mardorf also hopes his exploration will turn up Inca gold and other
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  • 58 1 RANGOON Jan. 13 (Reuter) Groups of white men escorted by Chinese Nationalist troops have been seen along Burma's border with Laos and Northern Thailand, the independent English language daily newspaper, The Nation reported today. The newspaper said they were apparently on a special mission to inspect the area
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  • 77 1 DETECTIVES yesterday called on hotels and lodging houses in Singapore to check on a European found hanging from a tree in the Bidadari Cemetery in Upper Serangoon Road in the morning. The European was identified as Louis Frank Maiden from a Federation identity card found on
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  • 50 1 Ex -Ed it or Dies In Hotel Room BRIGHTON, England. Jan. 13 (Reuter) Mr. Wilson Harris, a former editor of the independent British weekly review, the Spectator, died on Tuesday in an hotel here where he had gone to spend a holiday, it was announced last night. He was 71.
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  • 178 1 HER MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: 15 CHEONGSAMS IN THE BAG MRS. Yeo Jui Mok wears a big smile for a mission accomplished. Toe mission 15 cheongsams from Hongkong, depicting the latest fashion for the parade at the Chinese Swimming Club's New Tear Dance on Feb. 6. Among the 15 cheongtwill be one
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  • 71 1 KINGSTON, Jamaica. Jan. 13, (Reuter) Mr. William Bustamente's Labour Party lost its 10-yea.' control of Jamaica's House of Representatives today to the People's National Party, led by Mr Norman Manley. Mr. Manley. 61-year-old Oxford law graduate, will take over from the Chief Minister. Mr. Bustamente. after winning
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  • 29 1 NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (AP> Standard Vacuum Oil Company says it p:-ns to invest about US$75 million (about M5225 million) in Indonesia during the next four years.
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  • 130 1 HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Jan. 13 (up) The crew of a heavily-listing: British freighter boast? 1 a victory over the gale-lashed Atlantic today and scorned services cf a tug to get them to port. Capt. T. L. Bradford of the 7.000-ton cargo ship La Orilla radioed
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  • 182 1 NEW DELHI, Jan. 13, (Reuter)— The Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, said here yesterday that there was no chance of India going to war with any country though it had certain "problems" with some. He expressed surprise at recent reports that he had said war with
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  • 41 1 BAGHDAD. Jan. if, <XfP) —The Soviet Union closed its legation here today and the personnel started leaving bv plane for Moscow. The Russian departures followed the Iraq government's decision to suspend diplomatic relations between Iraq and Russia
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  • 179 1 BLOCKADE CHINA, SAYS SENATOR KNOWLAND 'Dag Failed...' HOUSTON, Texas. Jan 13, (Renter) Senator William Knowland, Republican leader in the United States Senate, said last night that hr feared Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld had failed in hi s mission to China to free 11 American airmen. He told a Press conference the
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  • 100 1 No Money, No Friends And No Will Power rto»i» ELEYt S? U fiH ll<1 Jan 13 AP»«Gordon Emlow f^lit- i?" ye r r°y j o y oss salesman w^o once held an important public health post in the Japanese occupation hanged himself here. Beside his body, found hanging in a
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  • 445 2 BANK CHIEF ON NEED FOR GOOD GOVT. MALAYA'S continued prosperity depends mainly on responsible government and development of the plantation and mining industries, the Chief General Manager of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia ond China, Sir William Cockburn, told The
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  • 37 2 A PARTY for disabled children in Johore Bahm will be hole* at the Lecture Hall of the Genera: Hospital on Feb 4 x' u L or Bani8 aniz ed by the Johore Bahru Rotary Club
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  • 143 2 Buddhist College Planned SINGAPORE will soon have a College to teach Buddhism and train Bikkhus (Buddhist priests). The President of the Singapore Buddhist Association, Mr. T. A. Simon, told The Standard yesterday that the College will be sited at the Association's premises and will be organized by two prominent Bikkhus.
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  • 104 2 CLOSING rubber prices (rents per Ib in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No 1 K.SS Spot Loose 961 96 4 No 1 R.S.S fob. Dec. 96| 97 No. 2 96 !16! No. 3 93i 93i Tone: Steady. TIN PRICE The prices of tin tes terday was S34l| per
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  • 248 2 He Kept Part Of Widow's A ll owa nce A FORMER village district committee member who for eight months, took away a total of $40 from a 68-year-old widow's Sl5 monthly welfare allowance was bound over in the Singapore 4th Police Court yesterday. The Magistrate. Mr. J. M. Devereux-Colebourn, ordered
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  • 67 2 His Job To Enrol Photo. MR. ROLF LYNTON, Director <k the Centre for Advanced Study and Training for the World Assembly of Youth in Ceylon, who arrived in Singapore yesterday to select applicants who wished to enrol with the Centre. The purpose of the centre i s to increase the
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  • 131 2 THE Singapore Admiralty Local Staff Union, which represents about 500 clerks employed in the Naval Base yesterday decided to put off a decision to strike until Feb 21. This decision was taken at a meeting of the Union's executive committee last night. Earlier. Union representatives
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  • 276 2 ANOTHER 200 days and corporal Baba bin Sulalman would have completed his seventh year In the Army without a stain on his record. But he failed to keep up with his clean record because he wanted to visit a sick relative, while on
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  • 118 2 TANNED Captain Stephen Love, 23-year-old aide-de-camp to the G.O.C. Malaya, sported a new straw hat, the gift of a barber in Indonesia, when !*.e returned by K.L.M. Constellation after hitch-hiking his way through that country. When he left Singapore on Dec. 28, he had three changes of
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  • 69 2 photo. DR. D. W. G. FARIS, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Malaya, who arrived on the Chusan, with his wife, after six months vacation in Britain. He said while in England he had discussed the interchange of staff between the
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  • 62 2 photo. SIR Edward Reid, a godson of King Edward VII and partner of Baring Brothers, one of the oldest and largest private banking houses in London, who arrived by K.L.M. Constellation with Lady Reid. Sir Edward who is on the London committee of the Hongkong and
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  • 100 2 Uc] kcp« M r lly I Mr. W I Austra Into: :r Chief I agmrv War I Said dV^B lr N^i >F nigh! f: g ra^ r I Mun -^B ful to tht D I GOVCT' they T: ?jm r aba v.i from M r I "There a rbape]
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  • 65 2 wan i. a man aging pa: •.:.(<• Universal Ho'c! Strcci w.i the loivann— rtaH frectuit This v > i Third Ci yestcrdd lidhar Udl in with gritvoui 17. \ii Goli \< Toa Peng K.v ring for the saw Bin his show. .1 When the pc was toid to the
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  • 27 2 STOPPED 1 the Jiincti and An on Jan. Krithnaa ■esslon of •M*l Indian i Singapore jresterday, I after hr I I Hr ha o:.c >J VictiOßt
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  • 19 2 HONGKONG, J Spci i l a Closing j Exchange I to Cl US$l; $0,178 t piah: c
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    • 39 2 A Sandals M K\ S>ORE-PENANO jj* y/k FED. OFMALAVA jf^^^^^H In soft brown Auifrolion Bo»c« lf wifh full leather lining. Por greater comfort Mm mIW M^W The new amoiina microceH- 1^ "Duro Cush.on" tolei and hft«« Con be repaired.
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  • 113 3 :i: q cnatched [bag '< om MisS W ng, rT of badminton Peng Soon, m Road, SingaWcdncsdav night. pDg fust driven from a dinner mc saw a slim c youth hoverted compound are you?' asked Miss Without replying, the thue whipped out a penknife and pointed it against her
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  • 48 3 <T\ii members of The Singapore Standard (below), led by the Managing Dir,.tor Mr An Cheng Taik. yesterday observed two minutes' silence before the V Hoc Memorial at Haw Par Villa, Pasir Paojangi Singapore, in memory of the lite Mr. Aw Hoc, who started the paper.
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    41 3 ">Hr (l C a r ri, t ITa n K"™l I >,„""'""■'■ fW the h Ml M ,c«,. ss i,, n r rri'Jh ari C ""> E j*Nc Mr v \h II (l S|h <i- Mr <>-„„„" A»an K in; t Sun Sfe6S
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  • 12 3 in Sin S ly M on a an
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  • 14 3 Women Is Molested Bf rt AN a. man was husband outr lldts vester- by
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  • 13 3 Charlei Eati o m. erla »ned to &M of he Volun. H.M.S.
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  • 158 3 Others Feared Drowned EKSING. Thus.— Four of the six members of rev (he motor vessel, Mersing Cargo 64, re--1 to have been drowned when their boat capsizutornn seas oil the Mersing Coast on Tuesday pi returned to Mersing yesterday. Police authorities now believe that only two
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  • 162 3 EIGHT Singapore firms a total of $1,050 to the Singapore Anti -Tuberculosis Association in answer to the annual appeal for funds. They are: Messrs. William Jacks Co., (M) Ltd. $250, M 5. Harper Gilfillan Co.. Ltd. $250. The Overseas Chinese Banking Corpn. Ltd. $200, The Angio-Thai
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  • 38 3 THREE candidates. Mr Chua Bak Chai, Mr Lim 100 Hock and Mr Loke Siew Hoong. were successful at the Intermediate Examination 10 Law or the University of London held in Singapore in September last year.
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  • 225 3 D MR F D. ASCOLI, managing director of Dunlop Kubber Foundations Ltd. and one of the world's foremost authorities on rubber, arrived in Singapore yesterday with news of a new threat to synthetic rubber. «#I«^ an J !ll terv!ew w c »> The Standard Mr. Ascoli di sclosed that
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  • 100 3 To Contest Ulu Bed ok Division MR. A HAMID bin Rahmat. a Government pensioner, will contest the Uni Bcclok Division as a Progressive Party candidate in the coming Sinsaoore Legislative Assembly elections. Air. Ham id will ren'are the Party's original candidate for this; division. Mr. Sandy G. Pillay. who has
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  • 49 3 THE Singapore Malay Union and the United Malays National Organization will hold a joint meeting on Sunday 1o select candidates for the forthcoming Colony Legislative Assembly elections The two political organizations recently formed an election alliance after the Malay Union broke away from the Labour Front.
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  • 200 3 160 TRY TO GET PARTS IN FILM THE search for 20 European women in Malaya to appear in the $2,000,000 film, "A Town Like Alice," has brought response from some 170 applicants whose qualifications are "better than expected," Mr. Joseph Janni, a J. Arthur Rank representative, told The Standard yesterday.
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  • 31 3 THOUGH the Ocean Park Hotel Singapore, closed business on Monday its former employees who went on strike last week-end continued to picket the hotel's main gate yesterday
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  • 40 3 A SINGAPORE salesman, Kuan Yoong Fatt, was fined $2,000 in the Johore Bahru Sessions Court today for attemrjtin? to ev?de Onstoms duty on 20 doien bottles of penumery. He was a passenger on a train when arrested.
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  • 110 3 NIGERIAN PRODUCE A THREAT TO SYNTHETIC -ASCOLI the crowing competition of the synthetic product He said all those inter estea in (fee rubbei industry in Malaya should waste no time in replanting schemes with higher yielding strains that should realize a minimum of 1.000 pounds per acre Mr Ascoli concluded
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  • 57 3 THERE will be a Red Mass L n 2 med after the ceremonial red robes worn by judges) at the Cathedral of the Od Shepherd. Singapore. a .Monday at 9.30 a.m. to mark the opening of the Singapore Assizes. All judges, lawyers, doctors, police officers and
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  • 91 3 TWO WOMEN ROBBED OF JEWELLERY THREE men. Goh Chok How. Ng Choon Seng and Lau Kim Lim, were tentatively charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday with armed robbery at an address in Red Hill Road yesterday. Armed with two knives, they were alleged to have robbed two women.
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  • 188 3 A WIDOWED maidservant, Kuan Ah Koon, 44 committed suicide because she disapproved of her daughter s affection for a boy, the Singapore Coroner's Court was told yesterday. The widow was found in the General Hospital compound on Nov. 8, last year, with
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  • 121 3 AN extraordinary meeting tomorrow of the Royal Army Supply Corps (RASC) Civilian Association. Singapore. will decide whether or not to wind up the organization, because of lack of response from the members. The President of the association. Mr Lee Choon Eng. told The Standard
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  • 108 3 MEMBERS of the Standard Christinas Toy Fund Committee were entertained to dinner on Wednesday night at the I'athay Restaurant by the Managing Director of the Singapore Standard. Mr. Aw Ch• n g Taik. Top picture (from left): Mr J. Hunt. Mr. Son Ghee Soon, Mrs. R.
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  • 296 4 Pastor Dunbar Defends Youth Of Our Generation THE youth of today are as good as, if not better than, they had ever been before and as such they are ready for heavy responsibilities. Pastor E. W. Dunbar, General Secretary of the Seventh Day Adventist Church Youth Department, said yesterday. Pastor
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  • 267 4 Didn't Intend To Cheat 'Pub' Bosses Engineer KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Colin Philip Ansell, a 32-year-old mining engineer, claimed in the Sessions Court here today that he had no deliberate criminal intention to deceive the proprietors of four "pubs" where he had consumed $42 worth of food and drink. Ansell was
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  • 76 4 PERHAPS the most successful police officer from Singapore to go to England on training is Inspector Dudley De Cruz (above) who returned to the Colony in the Chusan yesterday. He not only captured second place in a police examination but has also won the heart of
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  • 53 4 THE Management Committee of Yock Eng High School in Singapore, yesterday decided not to take any action against 21 students who had taken part In recent demonstrations in the school. The Committee made this decision after discussing a letter from the teaching staff demanding that the
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  • 54 4 SINGAPORE Rural Board has approved the reduction of assessment on eight properties in various parts of the Colony. One of these is the Royal Island Club in Thomson Road Hitherto the annual value of this property was fixed at $9,000. The Board has now reduced
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  • 39 4 A SINGAPORE motorist. Lim Teck Chong, was fined S5O in the Second Criminal District Court yesterday for driving his car negligently at the junction of Bras Basah Road and Victoria Street on Feb. 7, last year.
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  • 82 4 A CHINESE woman was sleeping in her attap hut in Scrangoon Road when a man walked in through the front door, which was shut but not locked. She was awakened suddenly by the man who was bending over her. The terrified woman screamed as
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  • 29 4 A SINGAPORE labourer. Tang Min 46, was killed yesterday when a bale of rubber fell on him as he was working in a godown n Beach Road.
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  • 57 4 A GROUP of 25 geography students of the University of Malaya, will visit the Shell Company's installation at Pulo Bukom tomorrow on a study tour. The visit i« organized by the University's Geographical Society. The students will be shown round the island by Mr. R.
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  • 180 4 K.L.M. Pre -Cools Planes At Kallang THE two K.L.M. Constellations which left Singapore yesterday were pre-cooled for the comfort of the 80 passengers. For the first time yesterday. K.L.M. made use of their mobile Rheinkalte air-conditioner (below). Standing under the fierce tropical sun. the interior of a plane developes various
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  • 200 4 Great Musk Has No Need For It PENANG, Thurs.— Great music speaks for itself and there is no need for it to be popularised as Hollywood has done, the world famous American pianist, Julius Katchen, said here today. Mr. Katchen will give a recital at St.
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  • 66 4 LEE Yang Teng. proprietor or Everfalr and Co., ol North Bridge Road, was yesterday acquitted In the Singapore First Criminal District Court on two charges under the Exchange Control Regulations. The prosecution alleged that Lre. without permission from the Foreign Exchange Controller, paid $10,000 to a nrm
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  • 56 4 LEONG FONG SAW. 32 of Carver Road, was charged in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday, with using criminal force on Jean Thompson with intent to outrage her modesty, outside the Capitol flats at 1.40 p.m. on Jan. 12 He claimed trial and was remanded at Woodbridge
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    52 5 Standard photo by A BISCUIT factory and three squatter houses were destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning, making about 40 persons homeless at Chan Sow Lin Road, Kuala Lumpur. Most of the people managed to save their belongings and about 20 firemen fought the blaze for two hours. Yong
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  • 277 5 IL\ U MPI K, Thurs. Police Sergeant Babu h<. is accused of agreeing to accept a bribe of (k white in charge of Pudu Police Station in j t 1J53, admitted in court today that policemen k command must have been taking money ■an-Tan
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  • 45 5 .iprß. Ti g cards ar should id a early «> posiven "in The latest dal to en '..cry he Chinest Ne \v 20. ub i f> is particularly the P' to] rigbi hana E 5- d to n a u in
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  • 15 5 43. of I ninal k trust ol -vaii. S npany in Febnot 000 in
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  • 117 5 Pulot Rice For New Year Cakes PENANG, Thurs.— ln order to enable Chinese residents in the southern district of Province Wellesley to celebrate Chinese New Year happily, the District Administration has agreed to make an allowance of a quarter katty of pulot rice for each Chinese male, female or child,
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  • 37 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Ang Yang Seng, 25-year-old storekeeper, was today acquitted and discharged by the President ol the Sessions Court on a charge of criminal breach of trust of $1,580 worth of tinned foodstuffs.
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  • 326 5 GRANTS-IN-AID TO GO ON BUT NO INCREASE Fed. Govt. Gives Assurance To All Chinese Schools wkote».r" of .topping ony x jJJ "Iron,, i^.ij I* f"t°-7 education fo? t hiT.f ntS responsibility to provide DeonlP «f ,u- Ch 'nese as well as other young permff th f t 0U^ ry u
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  • 145 5 Curfew Stops A Strip-Tease KAJANG. Thurs.— Hundreds of strip-tease fans who nocked to Kajang from neighbouring villages to see strip-teaser Rose Chan dance last night were caught napping in a surprise curfew imposed to check the efficiency of the tenants registration in the town. Police and Government officials, with the
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  • 71 5 PENAXG. Thurs.— A giant model of the "Beanstalk" mobile hydraulic working platform which is carrying out complete installation loi the Paya Lebar International Airport will be available for inspection in the compound of Chung Sie Yin Building, Light Street, on Jan. 21 Mr. F.R. Emerson, manager of
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  • 496 5 27 Sign Nomination Papers PENANG, Thurs. A total of 27 candidates out of whom 14 are from the Alliance, signed their nomination papers today for the first Settlement Council elections which will be held next month. The Alliance, as anticipated, have put up a candidate in
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  • 120 5 SIX CANDIDATES ARE RE- ELECTED PENANG. Thurs. Six candidates who had served on the Machang Buboh Village Committee the previous veai were re-elected when the village he!d its third elections yesterdav evening. The village was divnieo into eight wards and three candidates contested for a scat in each ward. Ballot
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  • 212 5 No Rice Cartel Says Trader KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A group of merchants here who recently formed the "Central Rice Corporation Limited" today stated that none of the importers has formed any "cartel" to corner the Malayan rice market. Mr. Ong Poi Guan. president of the Selangor Rice Millers Association and
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  • 93 5 $2,000 In Jewellery, Cash Stolen PENANG. Thurs.— A sum of $1,000 in cash and jewellery valued at S 1.000 wero stolen from a Chinese temple in Kulim Road, Machang Buboh, yesterday. Entry was made by scaling an iron gate and opening the windows of the top i 1 or. Mrs.
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    • 488 6 J^ TIGHT-LIPPED diplomat is on his way back from Peking. He is United Nations Secretary General. Mr. Dag Hammarskjold. Was his mission to Communist China to discuss the release of 11 American fliers imprisoned theie a success or a failure? So much hangs on the
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    • 420 6 INHERE are towns on the mainland which strike the visitor as clean and serene and he wishes ne has the time to linger there longer. There are other towns which fill him with revulsion because they have a dirty and ramshackle appearance Now that town councils have been
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  • 1354 6 By L Harrison Matthews, Sc.D., F.R.S. Director, Zoological Society of London r J^HE joint expedition sent to West Africa by the Zoological Society of London and the British Broadcasting Corporation returned to the United Kingdom just before Christmas after a 10 weeks' journey through Sierra Leone. It
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  • 912 6  - China: 'Shining Example To Asians Rawle Knox Singapore. rrilE United States prex paration of new plans for greater economic aid to Asia appears to have caused more interest in Washington than in the capitals of the East. American critics of their own Government's "give away" programmes have to be placated
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  • 206 6 Review of View Vnnesty' To Hawkers CIN Chew Jit Poh appeals to the authorities to grant the petition of the Singapore Hawkers* Union for a "general amnesty"' tc all hawkers licensed or unlicensed during the week preceding the Chinese New Year. This is one of the rarest opportunities for the
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    257 7 Substantial Accord On His Arms Pool „o MF Jan. 13, <«<•"'"> —M. Pierre Mendes France French Prime i -i niRM ...nduded two days of talks with government leaders here have won^substanha. agreement on Sis pllTn'fora European .tni^Hinfp 3 50 r T iVe< in P rivatc audience by the h
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  • 56 7 mbs On The lefenceless' 13. Ic.'in i was J an poo- j the [nd I it Intfoanci I I lam. nta- by N i w m rsday II in n M luce n Ind in i d and Lud- nited I Indon the n- the
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  • 145 7 NEWCASTLE. Jan. 13, (Reu- ter) Pretty Partricia Sheeron. I 13, gassed herself because she cd her school friends would know she had been accused of .shoplifting before a Juvenile Court, a Coroner was told. Patricia was due to appear for'e the court yesterday. But she need
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  • 54 7 KATMANDU, Jan. 13 (Reuter) A millionaire, MajorGeneral Mrigendra Shamsher and his two sons, Bharat and Jagdish, were released today after six months' detention by the Nepalese authorities. They were arrested in June last year and charged with being connected with a violent demonstration during a goodwill visit
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  • 65 7 Judges' Pay Increases Start Strike SYDNKY Jan. 13, (Reuter) Australia's judges wer n yesterday granted substantial pay increases and dockers in Sydney immediately went on a "lighting" protest strike. They claimed that the judges had consistently rejected pay demands by the lower paid workers. In Australia an arbitra tion court
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  • 96 7 Communist Mayor Not On The List SAIGON. Jan. 13. (Reuter) —Vietnam's police headquarters today admitted they had made a mistake by including the name of Dr. Tran Van Lai. former Communist Mayor of Hanoi, in a list of four important Vietminh officials who, they said, had taken refuge in the
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  • 30 7 ORLEANSVILLE. Algeria. Jan. 13: (Reutcr» A ten second earth tremor last night shook the Orlenasville area where thousands died last September in an earthquake which devastated the town.
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  • 205 7 Venezuela Govt. 'Is Backing The Invasion BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 13 President Jose Figueres of Costa Rica claimed last night that his country had been attacked by "wretched Nicaraguan mercenaries backed by Venezuelan money." Speaking by telephone to a correspondent here, he added: "You can be sure that the invasion will
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  • 31 7 THREE members of a seven-strong Indonesian Youth delegation to a Youth rally in Peiping at Hongkong en route to the International Rural Youth gathering in Vienna, Austria.
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  • 114 7 A-Weapons Not For Police Use WASHINGTON. Jan. IS (Renter President Eiscn- hower was asked at his Press Conference yesterday whether atomic weapons %'ou!d be used in hostile actions, less than a world war. or in situations "not broadened by the intervention of a major aggressor's forces.'' The President replied he
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  • 493 7 'Girl Played Gramophone Then Undressed INSPECTOR BARES CALL-GIRL RACKET LONDON, Jan. 13 (Reuter) Albums filled with photographs of beautiful women were produced in court here yesterday as evidence against Mark Langtry, 27, accused of running a big "Call Girl" racket in London. The prosecution alleged that Langtry, good-looking and drapper,
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  • 78 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Jan. IS The following ore the closing prices of rubber and l n or the London Market. LONDON RUBBEK Spot 28 sd. February 2Sld. March 28 d. April/June 27 id. July /September 2 7. id. October/ December 26 14. February c.i.t. 28
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  • 264 7 Hammarskjoeld Brings Proposals VISAS TO STUDENTS FOR U.S. AIRMfcN? NEW YORK, Jan. 13, (Reuter) Mr. Das Ham* marskjoeld United Nations Secretary-General, expected back here today from his mission to Peking will immediately inform Mr. Henry Cabot Lodgr. the United States delegate, of the counter proposals brlieved to have been made
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  • 58 7 CACUTTA. Jan. 13 (UP)— A 19-day long seamen's strike spread into other States and the strikers were estimated to total 8,000. Ships anchored at Bahar and Assam have been deserted by their crews. Crewmen aboard ships on Pakistan rivers heading toward India have said they will
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  • 48 7 WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 The State Department said yesterday that a letter signed by Noel Field confirmed that he and his wife have asked for asylum in Communist Hungary. Noel and his wife Herta were released from five years imprisonment in Hungary on Nov. 17.
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  • 50 7 LONDON. Jan. 13, (Reuter) —Fifteen men and 10 women will begin this month to champion British housewives complaints about shoddv goods in shops They will work under the name of the Advisory Council on Standards for Consumer Goods Their aim: To raise the standard of shop wares.
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  • 143 7 ASIAN CONFERENCES WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, (Reuter) Sir Roger Makins. British Ambassador, said yesterday there was no need for anxiety on either side of the "iron or bamboo curtains" about the forthcoming conferences in Asia. There was nothing sinister in any of them. He told
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  • 177 7 SAN RAFAEL, California. Jan. 13. (AP)— Actor Robert Mitchum has been released as the star in the Motion Picture, Blood Alley, beins filmed on San Francisco Bay. Lee Ferrero, publicity man for the Warner Brothers unit, said Robert Fellows, co-producer of th« film. ousted Mitchum from
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  • 183 7 VIENNA, Jan. IS (Rcuier>— Triangular gaudy butterfli fishes which app \y on the I I ha\a cau i .1 lUon in philatc'.ic circles here. It Wai found Ihut the "Republic Maluko I i." who.se name they bore, dii not exi An oftVini explanation i two years
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  • 308 8 POLICE VIGILANCE KEPT CRIME FIGURES DOWN KIALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The impact of the economic recession hit Kuala Lumpur hard during 1954 but the crime wave which was apprehensively anticipated failed to materialise. "Kuala Lumpur, in fact, passed through a lucky 1954," a Police spokesman claimed today. Crime statistics compiled for
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  • 143 8 REME MEN TO PROTECT OFFICIALS KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Members of the REME branch of the War Department Civilian Staff Association, at their quarterly general meeting here on Sunday, will he asked to i< olve "not to tolerate any victimisation of their officials." Following this, a resolution Will be plarcd before
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  • 80 8 n.VB. Thurs. A "Grand P. Fun Fair and Ronggcng sponsored by the Chairman. Inche Anjang Saith bin Haji Abas, District Officer. Raub. and members of the Raub Town Board, will be held at the Raub Government Club on Jan. 31, the eve of Federation Day,
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  • 58 8 'More Tea Darling Standard photo by '♦MORE tea. darling says Mr. Chan Sow Cheong to his bride, the former Miss Lean Swee Choo at their wedding reception at The iMr cadily Hotel, Penang. on Wednesday. They were married at the Churcn of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows. Rev. Fr. Philip
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  • 69 8 Repairs To Kajang Power Lines KAJANG. Thurs. Kajang's power supplv and distribution system is getting a '"face lift" at last Workmen and technicians of the Central Electricity Board, have, over the past week, been engaged n repairing overhead lines and laying underground cablesThis, according *o Central Electricity Board engineers, is
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  • 84 8 KUANTAN, Thurs.— A shop assistant. Osman bin Abdullah, and his family were made homeless on Tuesday when their house was destroyed by fire at Tanjong Api, Kuantan. Sparks from the kitchen stove started the fire about noon. Three school boys, AH bin Haji Hitam, Alias bin Idris and
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  • 74 8 IPOH. Thurs. Tiab bin Antong. 2.J. of Besar Sabak Bernam. Lower PeraK was today sentenced by the President of the Sessions Court, here. Che Mahmud H^Lim. to six months' imprisonment for stealing a bicycle valuea at $60. The- bicycle, belonging to a woman, Poon Sooi
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  • 207 8 THE Singapore City Council Electrical Workers' Union, which has threatened to call a strike on Jan. 20, appealed to the members of public yesterday to help them settle their claims with the Council. In a letter, sent to ail prominent citizens of the Colony,
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  • 376 8 Discharged Specials f, Shy Of Manual Lai* KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Discharged Special Co™ the look-out for jobs are the problem children" of the K Uo r fcmployment Exchange, an official said yesterday. The majority of the "Special skilled labourers, and they work calling for manual luboui Though
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  • 119 8 Day In Jail $250 Fine For Woman KUALA LUMFUK. inurs.— A 25-year-old Thai woman who embraced Islam to marry a Malay Serviceman, was today sentenced by the First Magistrate to a day's imprisonment and fined $250 for house trespass and theft of jewellery. Noik S?n Papasar Noraini Abdullah' liad pleaded
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  • 56 8 TAIPING. Thur The new building of the North Perak Kwangsai Aieocietion In Bir h Road. Taiping, was official > opened by the District Officer. Larut nnd Matang. Mr. D. R. Home here yesterday. The Association's three "lion" parties (boo tsai) tourer' the town today, and donated
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  • 232 8 Scholar Advises Malayan Tamils Standard Photo by KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Rev. Xavier Thaninayagam, Progrcssor of Tamil at the Ceylon University, and of the contemporary authorities on the language. urged Malayan Tamils not to squabble over religion and custom in the study of this ancient language and appreciation of its priceless
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  • 66 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— Mr. Kenneth Gould was today admitted to the Bar of the Federation by Mr. Justice Storr in the High Court. The application was made by Mr. C. Duff and supported by Mr. K. Visuvalingam. on behalf of the Federation and Johore Bar
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  • 40 8 TANJONG MALIM, Thurs.— Ration card holders in Batang Padang District, Perak, would be issued extra rice rations for, the Chinese New Year. Adults and children in a family would be permitted an extra kati of rice each.
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  • 38 8 RAUB, Thurs. —Police Inspector. Ismail bin Mahmud of Raub. has been transferred to Eentong as District Crimes OiTicer. Hi.*? predecessor Inspector Harun bin Majid has gone to the Police Trainnlng College at Kuala Kubu for a course.
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  • 55 8 TANJONG MALIM. Thurs -The house curfew in Batang Padang district will be shortened by an hour on Jan. 23. 24 and 25 to enable merrymakers during Chinese New Year to spend more time in the towns. Dunn? these throe day? the curfew will last from 1 a.m.
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  • 31 8 TANJONG MALIM, Thurs 1 T f Tne p erak Government has lifted the restriction on the movement of cakes in the Batang Padang District during Chinese New Year
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  • 29 8 RAUB 1 Regiment Srh.lt. plead* ii nrnllU' 1 fined MO prlKonm< n\ Thf couri drove i i rollid'fi V W I Tr;i Raul I Yim held UC4 D
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  • 171 8 COURTESY COP WASN'T -SAYS DRIVER A SINGAPORE taxi driver told the First Traffic Police Court Magistrate, Mr J. P. Trainor, yesterday that a "courtesy cop was d scourteous" to him. He said that constable No. 1575, of the Mobile Squad, refused to accept nis licence and later when he placed
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  • 928 9  - BOOKS of the WEEK Harold Nicolson PAUL GAUGUIN The Noble Savage. By Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson. (Chatto and Windus. By pAUL GAUGUIN, as we know, was a clerk in the firm of Bertin and Co.. stockbrokers of Paris. He married a Danish governess of the name of Mette Gad. produced
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  • 696 9  -  R. B. Ooi HGJGHJ npHE Malayan \vh o spent his boyhood a generation «£o in the count? yside, small town. village, or estate knew more of local birds, insects, reptiles, fish and animals than his counterpart today. A MALAYAN ANIMAL LIFE by M. W. F. Tweedie J.
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  • 418 9 CHINESE COOKING by G.E.C. (General Electric Co. (Malaya) Ltd. $4). REVIEWING a book on cooking is the most delicate job anyone tan find because methods of rooking and individual tastes differ so widely. Where Chinese cooking is concerned any categorical pronouncement is bound to raise a storm of
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  • 701 9  - MASTERS AND BOYS ROBERT BIRLEY By (Headmasfer of Eton College) The Lanchcster Tradition. By G. F. Bradby. (Richards Press. 7s. 6dl) PERHAPS it is a mistake x for someone who was a boy in G. F. Bradby's house at Rugby to review this new edition of THE LANCHESTER TRADITION. For,
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    • 160 9 I iNGAPORE HOSPITALS must be fcossurcd of a constant supply o f to carry on the great work of healing |c O ving life H I I CCIDEHTS IN STREETS, WORKSHOPS, etc. L serious casualties. These cases and rs dangerously ill in Hospital or Irnity Wards must be given the
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  • 508 10 WHO WEARS THE TROUSERS RINGHAh P A D R R T E Y S 'THE old adage har- it that trousers ore a sign of masculinity, a sign of power in the home, of course, something decidedly male. It used to be rother embarrassing for the husband to be joking
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  • 356 10 THE IN-BETWEEN DRESS GOOD friend of mine made me realize someI thing last week. Whatever the reason, big ball gowns 'long evening frocks are only available in one or two shop? i in Singapore readymade that is. Possibly it is due to i the fact that most of these long
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  • 762 10  -  TONI MARSH BY K. VASUDEVA is a very Paper mache work from this enterprising young man. state has not been seen in Together with Gursharan any quantity before here. Singh he runs a tiny little and in this shop one finds new shop^ called "Smarhvays"
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    • 64 10 The Si: AndYi Bu liita W ri- HP.%I J MM'lrr- It. lll' I MIWU ONI r f \Ol K MH MH I r.n it 1 lit l||*l 2n 1.. i X N, 1.1 J.r I I" T\<kr 1 \IK««» -He b\ A I I IHKX t) it lifnt h\i.lM t
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  • 70 11 BY I?o3, the aircraft industry m France had not only regained its place in the national economy, but it had become equally significant in the international field. Two types of passenger freighters, one of medium. the other of small capacity the Hurel-Dubois HD-32 arid the Max
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  • 75 12 BRITAIN'S EXPORTS A RECORD BRITAIN'S exports in 1954 totalled was i;2.674 million— the highest ever reached in both value and volume, according to provisional figures announced by the Board of Trade. Exports during 1953 reached £2,582 million. The provisional figure for British exports in December was £255.700.000, compared with imports
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  • 35 12 THE B. F. Goodrich Co. of Akron. Ohio, one of America's largest tyre makers, announced it has agreed to provide technical assistance to Veith-Gummiwerke, one of the largest rubber companies in Germany. A.P.
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  • 274 12 'SMALL MAN'S BANK' WILL OPEN NEW SUB-BRANCH THE "Small Man's Bank," (The Chung Khiaw Bank Ltd.), will soon open a new sub-branch in Selegie Road, Singapore. This is in accordance with the progressive policy of the bank's directors. The sub-branch is situated at the Selegie RoadShort Street junction, in a
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  • 142 12 Ship In Harbour OUTER ROADS Asha. Zalatoust. Chip Lam. Molenkerk, Aldegonda. Frenulina. INNER ROADS Perlis. Buloh. Tg. Pinang Hong Eng. Landak. Kali Soon. M. Bahru. M'oentjoeng. Lawak. Pacific. Tong Hong. Kah Kheng. PerintU, Scuriai. Tong Sing. Torina. Hin Chuan. King Bay. Darvel. Hua Heng. Rajah Brooke. Thepamat. S.H.B. WHARVES Tjibodas
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  • 76 12 RANGOON. Jan. 13 (AP)— Ceylon has asked Burma to reduce the price of rice she is supplying Ceylon to £40 per ton, an authoritative source said yesterday. Under a four-year agreement Burma is to supply 200,--000 tons of rice annually to Ceylon Ceylon contracted to pay
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  • 188 12 COPRA was steady yesterday, with quotations showing improvements for both January and February. Coconut oil sellers ai Pcnang closed at $50 per picui. Singapore Copra Association prices: January buyers $31 and sellers $32 per picul; February buyers $322 and $321 per picul buyer*; ■n d sellers
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  • 79 12 LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13. (UP). Scandinavian Airways System has announced a new flying-time record of 20 hours and 18 minutes for its new trans-Polar flights to Copenhagen. The airline said a DC-68, flown by Thorkild Peterson of Denmark, took oft from international airport here early on
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  • 199 12 CONSTRUCTION of a statefinanced "China Village" in the Chinese community in New York was announced recently, by New York Housing Commissionei Mr Herman T. Stichman The "village", to house 500 families in two apartments, will incorporate traces of Chinese architecture, including pagoda-like structures on the
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  • 227 12 Building In U.S. Sets Record WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.— A new record high for construction activity in the United States was established in 1954 the eighth consecutive year in which construction activity broke all previous records. Preliminary estimates announced by the Departments of Commerce and Labour indicate U5537,200 millicr: was spent
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  • 41 12 MESSRS. Boustead Co Ltd.. secretaries, report the following rubber outputs for December: Amalgamated Malay 59 000 lbs., Borelli 75.500 lbs., Connemara 53.600 lbs New Serendah 55,000 lbs Bassett 5 2? lbs Kuala Sidlm IISSo 4 BUklt KeP ng
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  • 145 12 A 1 Finttnvv And Commerce Standard Market Reporter RUBBER prices in Singapore rose by 1£ cents to 96* cents per lb. for first grade rubber for January shipment on a steady market yesterday. I Prices opened steady at I 952 cents, i cern per below
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  • 159 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The spectacular jump in rubber prices in December, which gave the Federal Treasury an unopected "bonus" of $7,800,000 b> way of duty, was largely responsible for an increase of $17,400,000 in Customs revenue over the anticipated figure for 1954, a Treasury spokesman said today Revenue collected
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  • 229 12 REDS PLAN TO STEP UP BUYING OF RUBBER SOVIET Russia, China and other Communist countries are believed to be planning a step-up of their rubber buying to 140.000 tons this year, an increase of 20,000 tons. This will leave for the rest of the world 800,000 tons of natural rubber
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  • 111 12 And Offer Cheaper Sugar LOXDOX. Jan. (AD Iron curtain countrk offering lUgar on the national market at prices bolow cost, the head of Bi v largest sugar refining li: said on Wednesday. Mr. George VtflMMI '1 President of Tat e and I told shaie-hnidei .i\ Ihi annual meeting that Poland.
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  • 117 12 US$289 M. TO PROMOTE FOREIGN TRADE WASHINGTON. Jan. 13 (UP) The Export-Import Bank reported yesterday that in the last six months of 19.54 it made new ioan commitments totalling U*****,000,000 to promote foreign trade. It allocated U5514,000,000 under credits already authorized in the same period. This brought the bank's new
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  • 192 12 TINS improved on the Malayan share market yesterday, following the better metal price which me $3 to S34IJ a picul. Industrials were irregular, while rubber shares »encied to ease. Price changes announced by the Malayan Shareurokers* Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Buvers Seller* Gammon 3.2
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  • 98 12 AUST GUARDS HER BUSINESS MINISTER CANBERRA. Jan. 13 (AP) Australian Commerce Minister. Mr. John MeEwen. commenting on reports that Japan is ottering shirts at a shilling each said in a statement today: "Australia is interested in seeing that United Kingdom industries are not rendered incapable of looking to Australia as
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    30 12 A MODERN Shell "bouse r < in nm .'{.GOO gallons of 100 ex tain is .shown beside a plane at Kota Rharu airport b«* r f..,ii 2 a -ti m
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    • 586 12 ■-•■ninii •fiirij.TnnnmnioMiwiuußuiiijiLiiiiiuuimumiMWiiin* P W. D. NOTICE. WATER SUPPLY FITTINGS. "IT IS hereby notifieo for information of lmtcrters, dealers and plumbers that, on and after Ist JULY, 19b6, only. DRAW-OFF TAPS, STOP VALVES and BALL-VALVES that bear the standardisation iii.irk authorised by the British Standards Institution and the {Standing Committee or
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    • 315 12 P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE HPEXDERS from Class "A" JL Contractors will be received by the Settlement Engineer. Penang up to 3.00 p.m. on 2nd March, 1955 for the erection of the English Teachers Training College and Start Quarters at Glugor. Penang. Forms of tender. Bill of Quantities and Specifications may be
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  • 42 13 FLORENCE, Italy. Jan. 13. C'lemonte Boindctti. Italian automobile rarer lo win Italy's noted 1 000--race four times, was rci near death yesterday. 1 famous driver under--1 an operation on Sunday for cancer of the larnyx. He years old.
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  • 67 13 TAIPIXG. Thurs.— Showing a better forward line. Taiping "A" bent Taiping "B tf 4-1 to enter the final of the Perak inter-district K.O. hockey tournament, at the Esplanade yesterday. The first hall was well contested and the score was 1-1 at half time. Scorers fo
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  • 353 13 'BISHOPS' MAY MAKE FA CUP HISTORY Sweep Into Fourth Round LONDON, Jan. 13, (Reuter)— Bishop Auckland l M Hin«r xi *u ss^dLs* fourth round of the e to J&tfSS SSBJSSStt frozen snow covered pitches. mrd round rc P^_played yesterday on Bishop Auckland. seven times winners of the Amateur Cup, who
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  • 145 13 PARIS. Jan. 13, (Reuter). Rene Roothooft of France retained the men's singles title in the French table tennis championships here last night. In the final, he beat Matei Gantncr. champion of Rumania. 21-16, 21-18. 16-21. 21-19. Mrs. Angelica Rozeanu (Rumania) the world champion, won the
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  • 89 13 I.OXDOX. Jan. 13 (Renter) Revised fourth round ties (on January 20) as result of yesterday's replays are: Bishop Auckland vs. York City. Manchester City vs. Manchester United. Torquay United Vf HudI dersfteld Town or Coventry i City. The second replays of yesterday's drawn third round replays will take
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  • 130 13 DJAKARTA. Jan. 13. (Reuter). Australian Minister of the Interior. Mr. Kent Hughes, who is chairman of the Olympic Organizing Committee in Melbourne, told members of the Olympic Committee here he hoped South East Asian nations, and especially nearby Indonesia, would have a
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  • 103 13 SADDLER TO DEFEND HIS TITLE NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (Reuter)—Sandy Saddler wil! defend his world feathet weight boxing title against Toddv Davis of Hartford. Connecticut, on *eb. 20, at Madisoii Square Garden here. The International Boxing Club announced the match yesterday after Mr. Charlie Johnston, Saddler's manager had said everything
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  • 38 13 CLEVELAND. Jan. 13 (UP) —Rocky Castellani of Cleveland used hit and hold tactics last night to floor Solly Mlms once and win an unanimous 12-round decision that may give him another shot at the middleweight crown.
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  • 30 13 SINGAPORE Harbour Board Police beat S.R.R.A 4—o in a Div: 3A hockey match played at Blakang Mati yesterday. Scorers were: Santok Singh 2, Chankar Singh and Abrahim.
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    • 1196 13 SITUATIONS VACAN T ♦TEMPORARY Inspectors in J- the Federation of M*alaya Polic; Force. Candidates must have attained their 21st but not their 40th birthday and must be Federal Cititena or eligible for Federal Citizenship Lack of Educational qualifications will not preclude any candidate for employment as a Temporary Inspector, but
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  • 684 14 ACCENT ON CAUTION, NOT FAST TIMES Matinee Picture House Work Best By WINDSOR LAD IPOII, Thurs.— The exceedingly hard going kept trainers cautious and none of the horses were out to impress in their final gallops for Saturday's races, opening day of the Perak Turf Club January meeting here. Only
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  • 616 14  -  TRUNDLE HILL By BEAUTY they say is only skin deep. In my opinion this applies as much to a race-horse as to a woman. An animal may be perfect in conformation and looks; he may be bred from the best; but unless he can win he is of
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  • 60 14 THE following players will represent the Tiger Sports Club in a friendly billiard match to be played against the Chinese Swimming Club on Sunday: Aw Boon Seong, Hugh Savage, Jimmy Tan, Soon Guan Shing, Soon Choon Lye and Henry Teo. Play will begin at 12.30 p.m. at
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  • 402 14 THE French Air Force Rugby team of Saigon, Indo-China, who flew into the Colony yesterday, open their Singapore tour against the Royal Air Force (Malaya) XV at Seletar this evening. Their team of 20 players Is captained by 28-year-old Bederede. who has the
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  • 370 14 GRAVENEY 134, LEADS MCC BATTING SPREE LAUNCESTON, Tasmania, Jan. 13, (Reuter)— Tom Graveney of Gloucestershire led a batting spree by the MCC with his first century of the tour against Tasmania on the opening day of the three-day match here today. Graveney who made 134, took part in two century
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  • 75 14 LAUREL, Maryland. Jan. wo i* eu er) T he Annual SXSf hlI lf ton In ternational Horse Race will be held here toda H WaS announ ced The race over one and half miles carries a purse of $65 000 (£23.216) of which the winner receives $50,000 (£17.--858).
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  • 87 14 MCC First Innings L. Hutton lbw b Considinr 61 R T. Simpson c Coulcv b Considinp 4 T. U Graveney c Smith b Diprose 131 D. Compton c Rod we I b Considine 50 M. C. Cowdrey b Diprose 27 V. Wilson not out 41 H. J. Wardle not
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  • 609 14 SRC Reds Open Title Bid With 6-0 Victory SRC 6 Indians 0 Andrew Clarke 3, B. Coulls 2, and Hoeden Umpires: Messrs S. Nagiah and Thiagarajan. SINGAPORE Recreation Club "Reds," fancied favourites for the Singapore Hockey Association's Knock-Out title, completely overwhelmed the Indian Association with a 6 o victory in
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  • 263 14 SHELL Sports Club were easy winners again last night when they trounced Morton Sports Club 4 l to become Commercial Ileuses badminton champions for the sixth year in the final of the competition at the Badminton Stadium last night. Except for one match between the
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  • 561 14  - Wily Wong Versus Oddity Ong Jeffery James ■■/it This Corner The Match Of The VH h ONCE in a while, comes the natural... the dream o/ every sportsman... when two men, of equal strength, match their wits, their skill and their energy against each other... Vic Seixas meeting Ken Rosett'all
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    • 27 14 SPORrff HOCKEY: S.R.C. vs. Customs Sports Club. Padang; S.C.C. vs. R.A.F. Tengah. Tangah: Div. I— Varsity vs. C.S.C. Varsity. RUGBY: Combined R.A.F. vs. Select French Seletar. AV,
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