Singapore Standard, 21 January 1955

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  • 15 1 Singapore Standard Ifi. A. 1 S. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1*55 11 pages ir> CENTS.
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  • 49 1 dits Police Kill PCs I I MPI'K. f_ unknown indils I r«-pt E|rr P«^t »t to Kluang |od aj |no police j is dlsL then stole Em's riflea lion before I [hr 'un_.l« I of tl)* 1 -9/9 Lre found Mween th** i r duty P ,,vt peter fen<
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  • 37 1 P) 3 L;i v wm anLr I Id to )r US$l each I bord< r i rlin< r dropped me neartyi cowI j by the i fi lit iorre" I bed ar.y this U)rC P'probably des-
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  • 31 1 n. 'ID (UP)— into an fane carrying Ibis afternoon i" line thai t Communist tin- United One soldier il I lieutenant lrd was landed air strip near I army re-
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  • 144 1 'WE WILL WAIT AND SEE': TUNGKU Amnesty I KUALA LUMPUR Thurs. Tungku Abdul Rahman, president of the United Malays National Organization, told a mass iy at Kajang tonight I that the Alliance would have a new amnesty plan ior the Communist terrorists when they get into power after the July
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  • 35 1 LONDON. Jan. 20 (Reuter) Sir Walter Monckton, the Minister of Labour who has n ordered by his doctors to take a complete rest abroad, will leave London for Sicily tomorrow.
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  • Article, Illustration
    38 1 INCHE Mohamed Noor (m white pants) and his two friends from the village of Parit Raja m Batu Pahat. pose with the 17-foot crocodile they caught m a river at Parit Jolah. Muar, last week.
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  • 152 1 17 -ft KILLER CROC (He Swallowed A Child) LURED TO DEATH BATU PAHAT, Thurs.— A villager from Parit Raja m Batu Pahat, Inche Mohamed Noor, assisted by two friends, last week captured one of the largest crocodiles to be found m Malaya m post-war years. Thc croc measuring 17 feet
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  • 63 1 CREW SAVES SHIP FROM MAJOR FIRE TIIE Blue Funnel freighter. Mentor, carrying oil tanks and other inflammable goods, caught, fire at its fore peak at 3.30 p.m. yesterday. The ship was berthed alongside Godowns 6/7 m the Singapore wharves. Prompt action by the crew and oth^r seamen put out the
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  • 58 1 BOMBAY. Jan. 20 (Reuter) —The Persian Gulf, India and Far Eastern Conference, representing eight shipping lines owned by Japanese, British and Indian interests, has decided to increase freight rates from Indian ports to the Far East by ten per cent, it was officially learnt here.
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  • 25 1 MR Richard Casey, Australian Minister of External Affairs, is to visit Indo-China after attending the SEATO conference tn Bangkok m February.- Reuter
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  • 303 1 Britis Ship Bombed And Sunk UK. DEMANDS REDRESS I LONDON, Jan. 20 (Reuter) Britain will protest to Nationalist China and demand com- I pensation for yesterday's bombing of the British freighter Edendale by Nationalist aircraft, the 111 l Foreign Office said here today. HONGKONG, Jan. 20, (Reuter)-The 1,717-ton British* freighter
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  • 176 1 CEASE-FIRE 3 Powers Shelve Proposal I ONDON. Jan. 20 (Rev ter) —Britain, the lnited States and New Zealand have shelved a proposal th if have discussed m recent months for >ponsorship by the Tnited Nations Security Council of a cease-fire between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists. the Foreign Office announced
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  • 76 1 RUBBER HITS A DOLLAR THE price of rubber In S nn.iporc rose above the $1 per Ib. mark again yesterday on the political news ofT the China Coast. firsf gra flr rubber for February shipment closing at SI.OOJ per lb., a rise of U cents on Wednc c day. The
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  • 204 1 Flogging Law Applies To ALL Including British Troops In Malaya BRITISH soldiers m Malaya are subject to the same punishment as the local citizens if they break the civil laws or. the country, a Singapore Government spokesman told The Standard yesterday. A British Sunday newsPaper, the Sunday Pictorial, recently carried
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  • 29 1 .-EOUL. Jan. 20 (UP)— A psychiatrist pronounced insane today the Korean Army major who threatened American Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor with a loaded automatic pistol.
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  • 43 1 DES MOINES. lowa. Jan. 20 (UP) A United Airlines Convair made a forced landing six miles south of Dexter, lowa, late yesterday, but all 36 passengers and three crew members walked away without serious injury, the airlines reported.
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  • 120 1 SAN ANGELO. Texas, Jan 20 (UP).— Mrs. Helen Harris Weaver, 52, leader of Sanmangelo Society, was killed yesterday when she pressed the starter on one of her husband's ears and touched off a bomb planted under the hood. Texas rangers and
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  • 505 1 TAIPEI, Jan. 20. (Kcuter) Nine waves of Nationalist Chinese bombers blasted Communist invasion fleet concentrations, off the central southern Chekiang Province coast early today, it was announced here. Main targets for the bombers were around Sungmen. Shektong and Haimen m the region of Chiang
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  • 65 1 NEW YORK. Jan. 20 (Reuter) Walter Smith. 45 a leading organizer of the International Longshoremen's Association, was found shot dead m gangland style yesterday. His body was m a car m a section of New York known as the old "Murder Inc. dumping ground. Police said
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  • 39 1 HONGKONG. Jan. 20 <UP> Fire destroyed two grocery stores today and four persons died m the blaze. Reports ln the local Chinese press said the victims were an aged shopkeeper, his wife and daughters.
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    • 77 1 T-m~A OW" _£2S_b_X. UgccL tTC, WC CLASSES ~jy for Chinese New Year two attractive glasses will be itf!) Riven away free with every 9. -t ea of Red Lion (I case 24 bortlesi from 28th December till 23rd |anuary inclusive,. I p lace your orders early with •^v Fraser (j
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    • 127 1 K2J X _S_r______ tP ,M M<kM IE fHOTO Hfl n»<« •■m\\m%\\\mW $„-_T.I i^O. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦o< I \S$|P sfe*i'^ i^^_y SINGLF DRAINBOARD I \m \F~^^^^m^^^ extra to inj o*rt Malaya. MeaAiiremer t 42 x2l xV" DB 1-2 DRAINBOARD TO > V^y>|' FIT EXISTING SIN* X HK 2 $11* o<i 22 x 15".
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  • 99 2 Man Charged With Operating Pirate Taxi WHILE a Vehicles Inspector was interrogating the driver of a private car for picking up passengers, three at a bus stop at Prince Charles Crescent and two near Bco Lane, the driver of another rar drove up and ask the inspector, "Who are you?"
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  • 65 2 GOH Joo Tiak. alias Ah Hui. claimed trial m the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to robbing Lim Ah Nguang, a woman, of cash and jewellery worth $997. Gon. who was alleged to have committed the offence at 7.45 p m. on May 24 last year was
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  • 402 2 'It's Simply Not Done' Say Chinese Are Invitation Cards Sent For New Year? 'Open House' Is An Old Custom CHINESE, who send printed invitations to friends asking them to call during the New Year, are breaking a very good old friendly custom. Anyone is welcome to a Chinese household during
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  • 171 2 I THERE is no international pioblem that cannot I be solved with justice and If airplay. Dr. Lin Yu-tang. Chancellor of Nanyang University, told the friends of Singapore, at the Adelphi Hotel yesterday. In a muJti-racial and multi-cultural Malaya m which
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  • 129 2 COMMODITY PRICES t CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) Iq sine*- J pore yesterday «<et c e NC Buye i No I K.B 8 Spi. x <^* Loose IOO?. J No I K.SS t.u »P \*J* Feb. 1001 back ,3P No. 2 991 hot^f No. 3 06; litterlOf Tone: Steady.
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  • 38 2 HONGKONG. Jan. 20 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.72 to ill sterling; $5.87,") to US$l; S 1.828 to Malayan Sl; 5i.176 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $257.5 to a tael.
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  • 168 2 Govt., Hotels Get Together Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Government m conjunction with managements of leading Colony hotels is planning to start a regular campaign overseas to attract more tourists to the Island. A Government spokesman told The Standard yesterday ***** pamphlets giving detailed information about the
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  • 144 2 CHIN Lim Choon was found guilty m the Singapore Third Criminal District Court yesterday of abducting Ong Teong Ho. an 18-year-old farmer, on June 29. last year, with intent to cause Ong to be secretly and wrongfully confined. He was sentenced to eight months'
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  • 153 2 ALOR STAR. Thurs.— At a meeting of the Town Council here today, an elected member. Che Azahari Taib. criticised the Council President Inche Ahmad Sheriff for failing to convey to the Governments of Singapore and other States aifected by recent floods a
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  • 80 2 TOKYO, Jan. 20 (UP) Plans for operating a tin mine m Thailand with Thai capital were revealed here today by mining interests of the former Mitsubishi cartel. If the scheme goes through it will reduce Japanese tin imports from Malaya and result m
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  • 42 2 Dunlop's Ex -Agent Dies BIRMINGHAM. Jan. 20 (Reuter) Joseph McDowell, who bought a million tons of rubber during his career as Dunlop's chief purchasing agent, has died at tbe age of 76. He retired m 1946 after 46 years with the company.
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  • 165 3 warmhearted Story j Malaya's Young ■tional Servicemen handsome i«; |flf yesterday the theatre TmS*> Mr !i 6 Koek, and themselves on rctar? I s I,i m i Internal m.- «ad« lb. k»v_ -II ,tars" ol mad- bj Him L'nil «n ltK m ,l manno man is National
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  • 137 3 P^ll VERDAYNE, one of the leading per- Colony's show business for the past I for Britain yesterday on retirement, Ldbv his wife and daughter. erdayne first arrived gapore m 1922, on his i Australia, playing the of a Red Indian for a publicity stunt for r picture "Covered Wagon."
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  • 24 3 THE British Council's speech g course scheduled to 1 c he'd on Tuesday. Jan. 25. as been postponed* to Friday. an. 28.
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  • 54 3 TWO British cruisers Newcastle and Birmingham— of thc Fifth Cruiser Squadron. arc paying an informal visit to Singapore. Thc two ships will arrive tomorrow and stay till next Monday. .Tari. _4. Tlie Birmingham will be flying the Rag of Rear Admiral G. V. Gladstone. Flag Oflircr.
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  • 174 3 Child Gets $15,000 Damages On Appeal FIVE-YEAR-OLD Amina Bee binte Abdul Majeed. who received $2,000 last year for injuries she sustained m a motor accident, was awarded $15,000 by the Singapore Court of Civil Appeal yesterday when she successfully appealed against the earlier Supreme Court decision. The accident occurred on
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  • 34 3 THE Malayan Indian Concress. Batu Pahat branch. will celebrate Indian Republic Day ion Jan. 28 with a public meetling and tea party at thc Chcttiers' Chamber of Commerce I Hall, Jalan Jcnang.
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  • Article, Illustration
    73 3 m ne copies m English went .?i*° Sl "X a Pores theatres im n u Khl The Firs 400" will be run m Chinese theatres starting tomorrow. ihfboysall agreed that they had fun being movie rS they felt "awiul watching themselves l sc reen. They needn't have. It
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  • 475 3 GIRLS (without make-up) PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE IN BUILDING UP NEW CHINA Behind The Bamboo Curtain' Wi#fc Lady Coomaraswamy By BERNARD WILLIAMS, T u P Standard Shipping Reporter ■nc increasing part which women are playing the development of Communist China ""pressed Lady Coomaraswamy most when .he toured the country for six
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  • 92 3 JUDGMENT for $12,000 with costs, was entered by the Cliief Justice Sir Charles Murray-Aynslcy. m thc Singapore Supreme Court yesterday for Mrs Loise A.C Klocr. Mrs. Kloer filed a claim for this sum against her husband, Mr. A.C. A. Kloer and Mr. A. G. Pangcmanan
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  • 77 3 A STOWAWAY from Labuan. Ismail bin B'ljanc. p'eaded* guilty m the Singapore Sixth Police Court ycsterdav to entering the Colony without a valid travel document issued by the Immigration Authorities. The court was told that Ismail was a stowaway on board the motor vessel
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  • 57 3 FIREWORKS— a pleasure to small boys and girls is a terror to animals, the Secretary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Mrs. J.M. Frenken said m Singapore, yesterday. She appealed to the people to keep all animals as far as
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  • 65 3 THE Ramakrishna Mission. Singapore, is to conduct elocution, recitation and essay competitions m connection with thc birthday celebration of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. The elocution and recitation competitions will be held on Feb. 19 at 4 p.m. at the Ramakrishna Temple, m Bartley Road, while the
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  • 151 3 THE attempt to snatch a $2,230 Malayan Airways payroll on Aug. 31 last year, had its sequel m the Singapore Assizes yesterday when two youths. Ismail bin Yahaya and Hassan bin Rahmat faced a charge of attempted robbery. It was stated that
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  • 498 4 Japs Invade Singapore_^4gain DELIGHTFUL)— DqV Is Set At Jan. 28 SINGAPORE will face another Japanese invasion next week. But it won't be the fearsome ugliness of war that the land of the Cherry Blossom will send out this time. It will be instead,
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  • 88 4 THE Governor of Singapore. Sir John Nicoll. saw children of Cocos Islands yesterday do an intricate Scottish reel dance. This type of dance brought to the islands by the original Scottish settlers has become the national dance of the islanders. In the evening Sir John
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  • 85 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs Chua Sa Kuan told Customs officers she had nothing to de clare on her arrival from Singapore Questioned about a pair of bangles she had on she said she borrowed them from hhre r married daughter m Singapore. She was searched and a
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  • 16 4 A P.W.D. report yesterday announced the Temerloh Ferry m Pahang is closed to traffic
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  • 134 4 TIIE Thwaite family of Sin- 1 gapore has been plunged into despair lhev have ost their favourite pedigree dog named Pedro. They have reported the loss to e c _v Police and ottered a $50 reward for anyone wh can find the missing doc Mr
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  • 101 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Johore still leads the rest of the Federation as the worst terror State m the country. Out of a total of 69 incidents m Dec. 30 occurred m Johore. Security forces made 54 contacts with terrorists m December and found and
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  • 62 4 THE Singapore Improvement Trust has given permission to the Balestier Community Centre to open a rent collection office at 36-U Whampoa Square. A spokesman of the Centre said that rents from residents of the Balestier estates (S.I.T. houses) will be accepted at the new office from
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  • 40 4 A MALAY woman living m Paya Lebar Road reported to the Singapore Police yesterday the theft of four of hei- pigeons. She said the birds were missing when- she went to feed them two days ago.
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  • 597 4 Warrant Officer Asked Hotel For $200 A BRITISH Army Warrant OHicer was arraigned before a General Court Martial, yesterday, on a charge of corruptly attempting to obtain from the manager of Shamrock Hotel m Dublin Road, Singapore, a sum of $200 as an inducement to have the hotel put "In
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  • 169 4 BOUND OVER FOR CAUSING HURT A SEAMAN. Looi Ah Wee. was yesterday bound over by the Singapore Eighth Police Court for a period of three months on a personal bond of SIOO for voluntarily causing hurt to a schoolgirl. Tan Lung Kian. Tan told the court that on Aug. 13,
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  • 125 5 ..pjViwi Thins —Maintenance of the Bukit Mertajam costs $48,000 a month, 1, M Kidner, C hairman of the Town ,1 a meeting thi^ atternoon. Iner was replying to lan Cheng Bee. who rethat a stand pipe be at Sungei Rambai poorer residents m Mohamed Noor bin wlio seconded the
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  • 66 5 YOI'XG Singapore housewas waylaid by two while r:ding m a trim Mayappa Chetty Road afternoon of Nov. 28. cd ot S4OO worth of try. the First District Court was told yesI 'he cyclists. Tay Swee m. was convicted of robthe housewife, Khoo Bak of a gold necklace.
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  • 593 5 TEC AND INSPECTOR FOR HICH COURT TRIAL $700 Corruption Charge Irate s Court today tha, whlle she was jn g dunng the trial of an inspector ond a detective corporal, detecrire sergeant Yeap Ch««9 H«P who was m the witness room threatened that it those people were not convicted he
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  • 138 5 Unions Win The Day On Politics Question KUALA LUMPUR,! In urs.— Despite strong opposition trom the commercial interests, Malayan tiade unions won the right to start political funds m the Federal Legislative Council today. But the Unions lost their demand for 16-year-old members to be allowed to vote on issues
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  • 66 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. "Your age saves you from a prison sentence." the President of the Sessions Court. Mr. N. L. Cohen, told Tan Kwee Keow. a 75-year-old Singapore woman, when he lined her $1,500, today Tan was convicted on a charge of importing three pounds of
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  • 81 5 MALACCA. Thurs. More than 5.000 school children and uniformed youth organization members will participate m a mammoth parade at the Reclamation Padang on Federation Day Feb. 1. This is part of the celebrations for Young Citizens Week m Ma'acca by the Settlement Youth Council. Highlight
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  • 94 5 Adventists Plan Youth Congress THE Far Eastern Divi>ion of !he Seventh-day Adventists. decided at their Annual Council, now m session m Singapore, to hold a Far Fastern Youth's Congress m Manila late m April next year. Twelve hundred delegates from the Far East, including five from the Colony, will attend
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  • 135 5 PEXAXG. Thurs— There will be free evening shows at Waterfall Hill temple as part of the celebrations of the Thaipusam festival which falls on Feb. 6 The festival m commemoration of God Sri Subramanian going to the temple to meet his mate, will start with a
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  • 41 5 FIVE copper tubes worth $32.) were stolen from t h c Oth mile Dunearn Road. Singapore, during thc heavy rainstorm on Wednesday night. Thc tubes, each 20 feet long, belonged to the Singapore City Council Water Department.
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  • 448 5 Dock Hand Found Guilty Of Woman Seducer's Death KLALA LLMPLK, Thurs. Eu Ah Tui, a Port Swettenharn dock hand, was today convicted by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Mathew m the High Court, on a charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder by causing the death of a fellow
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  • 43 5 THE Singapore City Council if working on a scheme to insure all its buildings and plant. The Public Utilities Committee has recommended that the Council tirst spend ibout SUa. OOO a year. to insure the Pasir Paniang Power Station.
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  • 99 5 Farewell To Brigadier Henniker MALACCA. Thun Oflieers from Brigade Headquarters were among th c people who were at Malacca Airport today to bid farewell to Brigadier M.AC. Henniker !on his transfer to thc First Corps m Germany. Brigadier Henniker. wh o had completed his three-year tour of duty as Commanding
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 173 5 Jard Almanac >AIIO~ AT fl GLANCE il w FolK Dincp Club 730 nm m^^°~~J s PI'HI.K- RII.MION.s: Mobiie Film mm n U 1 s shows at Delta Ganges ;Ifi[J j We fare Assn Sembawang 15 I /.flr .-mi Veerasamy Road Lab Ors W r KKITISH COUNCIL: Film show m -m\
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    • 71 5 Weather Report MINIMUM Temperature: From 7..10 p.m. Jan. 19 to 7. JO a.m. Jan. 10 Singapore (711 i. Penang <7(iF). Kota Bahru (74F). Kuala Lumpur (7.1 Ipoh (7!Fi. Kuantan i7'!F). Maximum Temneraturr: From 7..10 p.m Jan. lt* to 7.:»0 a.m. Jan. St. Singapore i81F), Penang (89F). Kota llahru iK".Fi. Kuala
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 599 6 SINGAPOREANS these days hear nothing but criticisms ol the way things are being done m Singapore. If they listen too much and too long to thc moans and lulminations of the carping critics they are liable to develop an inferiority complex. Through this negative type of indoctrination
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    • 348 6 gINGAPORE is, indeed, grateful to the eminent American pianist, Julius Katchen, for having so aroused the enthusiasm of music lovers m this Colony that steps have immediately been taken to set up its first music scholarship abroad Not that musically-minded people here have had any doubts
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  • 857 6 a CIDE by s! X..V. this H struggle for power H between the leaders of w the masses and the XI established upper and ci mi. .'le classes there goes £3 on a Jess apparent but n nonetheless vital struggie for the adjustIX ----nt of status between H
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  • 454 6 Review of Views Ccsta Ri:a War r rIIERE are strong grounds that the war m Costa Rica is involving American business interests m Central America, says Utusan Melayu m an editorial. Costa Rica is the only surviving Central and Soutn Ameri- 1 can country run by a democratic regime, the
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 239 6 Praise For Dato Sir Cheng-Lock Tan Sir;— Dato Si r Cheng-lock Tan, president of the Malayan Chinese Association has declared that if the Chinese want to make Malaya their home, they "must wholeheartedly support the movement for independence." It seems to me that the political horizon m Malaya is bright
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    • 101 6 Sir;— The Member for Industrial and Social Relations is reported to have said that the Government cannot be blamed for the inhumanity of .some employers and that it ll up to the employers themselves to regulate working conditions of shop assistants. Well, what about the working
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  • Article, Illustration
    301 6 THE visitor returning to the British Caribbean after almost five years' is struck by the changes that have taken place m the interval. It used to be static, almost stagnant, area: today the forces at work arc dynamic. The area m which this ferment is discernible includes the British
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  • 88 6 FINALLY, i I .1 whila J:.. dlan i: 1 ■j m o i I I nai I 1 I j Quit 1 i I I I 1 M I ■i I colon. l I Ihr i whirh l l SfllM' I -X I .itm v iriwh M Ln populiti'in
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  • 221 7 ,j It Might Not Be frny Use, Says Ike SHiHGTON. Jan. 20, (^f^H-fr^^ Eisenhower soid j would l.kc to see the Un.ted Nations exercise its good _.„a o cease-fire m the Formosa areo. 3 grains nt j n answer to a question during the recently increased fighting between^___ws at
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  • 37 7 CROWBOROUGH. Jan. 20 (Reuter)— Sir Hartley Shawcross. Labour Member of I Parliament and former prei sident of the Board of Trade. is to enter hospital here on Sunday for an appendix I operation.
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  • 177 7 TOKYO, Jan. 20, (Neuter) The Mitsui Shipping Line today emphatically denied it had undercut freight rates to get orders to carry rubber from Malaya to Japan. The firm said however "a certain Japanese company, other than Mitsui. seemed to have been pay- ing secret rebates." Mitsui
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  • 74 7 Standard London Correspc ndent LONDON, Jan. 20 The following arc thc closing prices of rubber and tin on thc London Market. LONDON RUBBER LONDON TIN Spot 291 d. Spot £689 buyers, March 29£ d. £690 sellers. April/June 29 d. Three months £692 July September 28ld. buyers,
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  • 95 7 Reds Pledge To Wipe Out Imperialism JAKARTA. Jan. 20 (AP)The Communist Party and its satellite organizations have set up an anti-imperialist front here and have called for general military mobilization, it was announced today In a proclamation the Reds pledged themselves to "wipe away all kinds and forms of lmoerialism
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  • 58 7 CLEVELAND, Jan. 20. (AP) —Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard. denied bail yesterday, will be permitted to leave jail to attend the funeral of his father today. Dr. Sheppard, convicted on Dec. 21 of second degree murder m the bludgeon death of his pregnant wife, attended his mother's
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  • 143 7 Whites Oppose Offer To Mau SOUTH KINANGOP. Kenya. Jan. 20, (Reuter) European Farmers and settlers from Kenya's "White Highlands" iast night told the Colony's Government they would oppose vvith every means m their power the new surrender and amnesty terms offered to Mau Mau terrorists. Captain Fey who resigned m
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  • 90 7 Mussolini's Letters In Parana RIO DE JANEIRO. .lan. 20. (AP). The newspaper Ultima Hora said yesterday that Enroco de Toma. former Italian official who claims to have 161 letters written by the late Italian Dictator. Benito Mussolini, is now residing near Londrina m the State of Parana. De Toma is
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  • 43 7 PERPIGNAN, Jan. 20 (Reuter) Marguerite Marty, 30--year-old French hotel keeper, was acquitted here early today of poisoning her lover's wife— her own pretty, blonde cousin. The jury found her not guilty after retiring for an hour and 20 minutes.
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  • 24 7 THE Belgian Lower House m Brussels yesterday ratified the Paris agreements to rearm Western (Germany and form a Western Eurooean Union. Reuter
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  • 27 7 Talks In Peking U.N. Secretary-Gen-eral Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld and Chinese Premier Mr. Chou En-lai conferring on the question of the release of United Nations prisoners m China.
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  • 72 7 HONGKONG. Jan. 20 (Reuter).—Plans for a £6.500.000 (about Msss million) bridge from Hongkong to Kowloon. were discussed here today The newspaper. The China Mail, reported that a Britishowned Hongkong company would soon submit preliminary plans to the Hongkong Government for an eightspan bridge prepared by
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  • 45 7 WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. fAP)— New York City's air traffic experts have abandoned the dream of using skyscraper roofs for helicopter landings They now believe that. generally speaking, roof-top heliports will be limited to buildings no taller than three or four storeys.
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  • 195 7 BOSTON. Jan. 20. (AP).— Brunette 17-year-old Toby Green appealed through the steel bars of a State prison window yesterday to her father to give up the revolt he is leading m an attempted prison break The father, bank robber Theodore "Teddy" Green. 31). is the
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  • 308 7 India s Socialist Society South India J an. 20, (Reuter)— The Indian Prime Minister Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru said E*__»_, that the Chinese Communists were interpreting Marxism m a very different way from Russia. He told the 60th session of the National Congress. India's ruling
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  • 184 7 'With Restraint On All Sides' WASHINGTON. Jan. 20. (Reuter) Mr. Dar Hammarskjoeld, the United Nations Secretary-Gen-eral, told the United States Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, that he thought it would be possible to effect the release of the 11 United States airmen held as
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  • 125 7 LONDON. Jan. 20. (Reuter) —Three men alleged to have pushed a 17-year-old girl into a car and driven her gagged to a forest outside London, have been found not guilty of raping her The accused Alexander Anderson. 28. Harvey Miller. 21. and Samual Pasha 21.
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  • 24 7 WASHINGTON. Jan. 20. (AP) Swissair announced something new m European luxury travel yesterday a full-month "opera tour" for music lovers
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  • 58 7 BUFFALO. New York. Jan. 20. (AP)— A fuse blew yesterday and snuffed out the life of a man who had been kept alive m an iron lung for five years. Henry Ciesla. 44. paralysed by a nerve disease, died m Meyer memorial He pital after the
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  • 26 7 KARACHI. Jan. 20. (Reuter) —The Pakistan Cabinet yesterday unanimously approved ratification of the South-east Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO) agreement, usually reliable sources said.
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  • 159 7 Yeh Goes 'Where Belong' WASHINGTON. .lan. 20. (AP). Chinese Nationalist Foreign Minister. Mr George Vch. called on Mr John Foster Dulles, for about* 20 minutes yestcrdav following the meeting with Mr Dag Hammarskjoeld and announced afterwards that he is returning to Formosa "where I belong Mr. Yeh appeared somewhat angry
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  • 57 7 VIENNA. Jan. 20 (Reuter) —The Soviet Union may allow Western scientists to inspect a Soviet atomic power station. Mr. Ilya Ehrenburg. the Soviet author told reporters here today. "The Soviet Union would have no objection to scientists viewing our power station, details of which have been offered to
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  • 318 7 RUSSIAN YOUTH HOLD BEDROOM PARTIES MOSCOW. Jan. 20. (AP) Russian party girls wear "indecently tight" dresses with slit skirts and bright lipstick, hold bedroom parties with zoot-suit boys and dance to American .iazz music. That is the description m the newspaper Soviet Culture. The official organ of the Ministry of
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  • 360 8 COURT TOLD OF 'BOMO'S' POWERS TO DRIVE SPIRITS SEREMBAN, Thurs. Sardi bin Mohan;. 30. who was alleged to have claimed to be a "bomo" with powers to cure sickness and drive away evil spirits, was acquitted and discharged by the President of the Sessions Court here. He was charged with
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  • 143 8 Polling Advice From The Air PENANG, Thurs. Voters m the rural areas will be able to receive POLLING advice and news from the air during the next two week-ends, as the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force will air-drop the pamphlets. The pamphlets are m eight different colours and four different languages
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  • 67 8 IPOH, Thurs.— Thieves broke into the Officers' Mess of thc 15/19 Royal Hussars m Ashby Road here early yesterday morning and got away with articles and cash worth 5450. Four officers were sleeping m the Mess at the time which all thc doors and windows open. They
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  • 133 8 PENANG, Thurs. Merchants as well as school children staying m Province Wellesley were happy to learn that the dock strike has been called off yesterday afternoon. Work m the Harbour Board went on as usual after 1 p.m yesterday, though tension was high throughout the
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  • 44 8 TAIPING. Thurs.— Members of the local committee of the British Red Cross Society entertained Miss Jane Austen Red Cross Nurse at Pokok Assam New Village to a farewell dinner at the Hup Bee restaurant. Miss Austen s leaving for Australia
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  • 34 8 TAIPING. Thurs. The Wesley Methodist Youth Fellowship started their activities this season with a social A grand time was had by all and Mr Tony Baker discharged his duties well as master-of-ceremonies.
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  • 48 8 SEREMBAN. Thurs.-The Negri Sembilan State Welfare Committee and the Board of Governors have invited government oflßc* M ts and community leaders to Witness the Chinese New Year tea party for the inmates of the Children's and Welfare Homes on Saturday, Jan. 22. at 4.15 p.m.
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  • 39 8 THE Press Club of Malaya is holding, a combined Christ-mas-Georgian and Chinese New Year dinner at the Kum Leng Restaurant at Pudu Road. Kuala Lumpur, on Feb. 1, at 8 p.m. All members and guests are welcome.
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  • 168 8 Kajang Youth Plan A Busy Season KAJANG. Thurs.-A programme to provide members of the Kajang Youth Club with more social and sportin" activities together with a series oi educational excursion* to other parts of the Stat* is to he drawn up. This was decided at the joint meeting of the
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  • 52 8 SEREMBAN. Thurs. Ar rangements are being mad< by the Seremban branch ol Party Negara to hold another Kebaya Queen contest on I bigger and better scale than the previous one. The last contest held al the Vivekananda Hall, m aid ol the Party Negara Fund attracted a
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  • 58 8 IPOH. Thurs— A 1.1-ycar-ol.i Police supervise* Dahal.m bii .JafTar, who was last rel< .1 from prison on Nov. IH. lasi year. on completion of a month sentence. fOSi again. In the Magistrate's Court here, this morning, iv* W•' sent to prison for four monthfor stealing
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  • 272 8 Johore Is Accused Of Setting Up A Motorists' 'Trap' THE Johore Government has found a way of earning a few extra dollars by waylaying Singapore motorists at the Johore Causeway, Singapore motorists complain. Thc method employed is to threaten to prosecute a Singapore motorist who goes into the Federation m
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  • 95 8 Farmers Training School KUANTAN, Thurs.— A New Agricultural Training School, the first of its kind m the State, erected at Pekan by R.I. DA. at a cost of $30,000 will be opened by the Sultan of Pahang. on Feb. 7. Since the beginning of this month a fortnight course has
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  • 70 8 IPOH. Thurs.— An unemployed Chinese. Lim Che< n Chong. was sentenced to IS months' imprisonment today, when ho admitted to housebreaking on Jan. 11. at the Magistrate's Court hcic. Inspector B. Tahir. pr. for a deterrent sentence. ToM the Court that though Clue, Chong had
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  • 51 8 IPOH. Thurs -Mr. P Price and Mr. R. Brattie. who received serious head injuries during a road accident four mies from here ori T day night, are recov. thc Ipoh Hospital and the conditions of both arc itated to be better than yesterday The Standard learned
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  • 26 8 SEREMBAN. Thurs— Negri Sp"ibilan Indian Association will celebrate the Indian Republic Day with a tea party at the Century Hotel. here, on Jan. 26.
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  • 62 8 SEREMBAN. Thurs.-Mi^ Push pam Nair. a memb ol the tutorial staff of St. Paul Institution. S; remban, va yesterday married to Mr R Nadarajan. a teacher ol tlu King George V. School Seremban. The ceremony took place at the Subramaniam Temple, Seremban. m the morninu and
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  • 78 8 SINGAPORE Government^ letters of protest against its d c (isi ,N P. V. Sharma. former president 0 f ll to return to the Colony lrom inn; *h «uuja. i i The protests WM from Sharma aiul his father. Mr. X V. Parameswara Aiy< who is thc supervisor of a
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    375 9  -  Neil Hunter By X I I Ie Japanese were very and very far between indeed. The erstwhile victors /er watchful, ever on I to prevent them and ady with new and ome punishments for iose who made attempts to away and were recap- cd. No Detail Omitted rPHE earlier
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  • 393 9 JHE SOLDIER by KarlInawig Qpitz. London: Shakespeare Head. Sydney: Grahames, 13/3. Re^!_rnf lnce Erich Maria p m J h Ue u, scor ed a bull! Ooip7 lth his classlc "AU Front Sa the w^tern tront. 26 years ago, German authors have tried to repeat the performance
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  • 938 9  -  HAROLD NICOLSON Still Digging. By Sir Mortimer Wheeler. (Michael Joseph, 15s) By "T THOUGHT." remarked x his Corps Commander to Brigadier Wheeler, "that you were a regular soldier." There are moments when the reader of STILL DIGGING shares this illusion. We are told about two great
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  • 660 9  - is Cockney Fough t One -Man War WALLY CROUCH By Wil'. the recent flood of wartime "escaper** books they Iprttiding the sort of high drama and originality that X ttdtint lending. nti- t 1 ners m a mass demonition against the Nazi r that they be chained spiteful revenge for
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    449 9  -  STEVIE SMITH B y LIGHTWEIGHT novels, like ghost bodies, throw no shadows. Herr Stefan Andress We Are Utopia iGollancz. 7s. 6c.) throws such long ones it might be lit by a setting s.. n tossing mountains off cobblestones It is a short novel of Catholic-Christian persuasion, rich m
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  • 553 10  - A WORD OF ADVICE FROM A DESIGNING WOMAN Mary Mayer nnnrrn: By ARE YOU A PRISONER OF FASHION? Do you shorten your skirts or 1 c n g t hen them; cut your han or let it grow; paint your finger-nails purple or cramp your normal breathing with a waistcincher
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  • 293 10  -  Denis Dunn Ey A NEW VOKK husband asked for an injunction to stop his wife from attending a slimming parlour. A yoo j guy would stick to her through thick and thin. INURING B brawl In a Marseilles rate, a man was arrested for biting a gir!
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  • 260 10  - Do You Want A Sweter Girl Figure Constance Walsh By ITIGURE flattering sweaters are popular. But to look cute m them a girl must have a trim bust line. Girls whose curves are not perfect should not stop wearing sweaters. But they should improve their curves. Exercise is the way.
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  • 388 10  - FASHION TRENDS WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM ELIZABETH H By ffl ffl TAYLOR g (M-G-M star) IS H A^" t* mes seems as though Dame Fashion is the most 9 fickle, if figurative, [±j creature ever to enter fl a woman's world. She is constantly changfl ing her advice on
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  • 89 10 £HOR Bazar, a Hindustani picture based on an Arabic historical story, is first class entertainment The theme is based on the colourful lif e of an Arabic Prince. Director P.N Arora should be congratulated for making the film a box-office hit. Shammi Kapoor a.s Prince Murad,
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    368 10  -  Victoria Chappelle By tTARLV pre-views of the millinery planned for the spring of 1955 suggests that m London, materials rather than straws will take the lead, although sometimes both are used together.. This means that hats will continue to be light, small and intricately made a forecast emphasised by
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  • 99 12 GREETINGS from the head office m London of thr Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China on the occasion of the opening of thc Banks new branch at Crosby House, Robinson Road, were received m Singapore on Wednesday. The message reads: "On the occasion of
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  • 49 12 MESSRS Turquand Young.--.v Co. reported the following rubber crops for December last year: Alor Gajah Rubber 19,800 |b., Ayer Pana s 72.500 1!). Glenealy Plantations 83,--500 lb. Kluang Rubber 67.000 !b.. Pa jam 97.500 lb.. Talisman L*B,_oo lb.. Teluk Anson 00.399 lb., and Ulu Benut 47.500 lb.,
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  • 223 12 RUBBER TOPS MARK AGAIN laffl?ltfffM Political News Boosts Mart Standard Market Reporter THE political news off the China coast continued to influence the rubber market m Singapore which yesterday remained above the $1 per Ib. mark all day and closed at $1,001 for first grade for February shipment a rise
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  • 243 12 $3/ 4 MIL. BUSINESS REPORTED IN PEPPER GOOD demand from overseas resulted m a substantial amount of business m pepper valued at 5750.000 m the Singapore produce market yesterday. About 50 tons of white pepper and 20 tons of black pepper were reported to have changed hands yesterday at market
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  • 23 12 A SEVEN -MEMBER Yugoslav trade mission has arrived m Rome to conclude negotiations for a renewed trade accord with Italy. AP
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  • 151 12 Ships In Harbour Ol TER ROADS Asha; Chip Lam; Aklegonda. inner roads Wah Sing: Kasimbar; Tong Hock; Kah Poh: Hua Li; Mm Huang; Tg. Pinang; Lee Seh: Larut: Belaga; Hai Seng Hin; Juliana: Sedili; Sofia; Giang Bee; Nanyang; Hero: Henrik; Selangor: King Bay; Tung Song: Labuan Haji: Kajang; Hong Ming;
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  • 187 12 RUBBERS m the Malayan share market showed a general improvement with the commodity price over the Sl per lb. mark again, but business m this section was still restricted. Industrials continued steady with only narrow variations. There wa s a variable trend J to the tin shares
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  • 104 12 GENEVA, Jan. 20, (AP) The member states of the <ip neral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) set up a special committee yesterday to consider a British request for the extension of preference tariffs on imports from 3 British colonies. Any extension of tariff preferences
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  • 235 12 Rice Traders Not Afraid Of Competition Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thurs. Local rice merchants aro not m the least perturbed over reports that the Mgfesl rice concern m Burma is pooling with European capital. The President of the? Penang Rice Merchant Association, Mr. Yeap Suan Cheng, remarked that merchants showed
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  • 362 12 IN 1954 Pan American World Airways recorded the largest volume of business m its history, Mr. Juan 1. Inppe, president, announced. In a year-end statement. Mr. Trippe said; "Gross volume including mail payments will be approximately 3226.000.000 compared with $217,949,996 m 1953. Total passenger
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  • 142 12 New Radio Compass For Planes CIVIL aviation and private pilots can now benefit from a new radio compass. It has been designed specially for modern high speed aircraft and can operate m conjunction with any ground transmitting station of known location to give the aircraft's position and course. It can
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  • 31 12 AMERICANS are providing a quarter of overseas capital now being invested In new Australian enterprises, the •cting Australian Prime Minister, Sir Arthur Fadden disclosed in Melbourne on Wednesdav. AP
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  • 245 12 Collections Exceed Estimates Standard Siaff Reporter COLLECTIONS made by the Singapore City Council m respect of rates and v c lii c1 c I licence iev_^ for the fi. I ten months of 1054 exceed estimates for thc whole year. This is stated by the Tr« usurer, Mr. JH. HUI,
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  • 145 12 'R.I. Should Revise Regulations' HOPE was expressed by a Standard Vacuum Oil Company spokesman m New York last week that Indonesia would revise its mining laws and throw open to the three major oil companies operating m the country new areas for exploration oil, The Financial Times reported. The spokesman
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    • 509 12 FEDERATION MILITARY .FORCES TENDER NOTICE. ■TENDERS arc invited for the Repolishing and Repair of Furniture and Barrack Stores during period 1 Fch. 55 to 31 Dec. 55. Spare parts, where required, will have to be provided by the contractor carrying out thc repairs. Tender Forms can be obtained personally, or
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    • 267 12 :._^y_"-.- v -^wXvxaw.v.w. _w. >: -s '■'""'■'•■^v :^i._o^' vw... --.V yWWW v.y»V--- V w.- VOOOO~yw.wAW.-.«.VK» lii the Supreme Court of thc Federation of Malaya In the lii ;h Court at Johore Bahru. TN BANKRUPTCY. Johore 1 Bahru No. 4of 1954. Re LIEW PANG YING of No. 15-K. Jalan Storey, •lohore
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  • 181 13 one s NCa rt i *?-S l*« *Barl n, a -1-year-old London market porter who had hi a year ago. Since then he has won all of 12 con knockouts, and m his amateur days he fought 127 timo," ebest B p ti ion to a Czech m the
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  • 220 13 FRENCH, ITALIAN CARS FOR 1,000 -KM RACE BC ENOS i AIRES, Jan. 20, (AP) The Argentine racing committee announced yesterday that the stables of Ferrari of Italy and Gordino of Fn^^ v f«uS entered t\yo cars m the 1,000-kilometre sports car race to be run here on Jan. 23. committee
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  • 184 13 CHICAGO, Jan. 20, J MP>). Ralph (Tiger) _t 2 Jo7.es, wi ranked bo.rer j 2 /rom Yon Jeers, iVeic York, _j 2 icon a tinantmoui dec?- < 2 x Son orer former ?n iddle- 2 2 u'eigfht champion Sugar Z Ray Robinson at the J
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  • 115 13 LIVERPOOL. Jan. 20 (Reuter)—Stoke City and Bury again drew 2—2 when they met m the third replay of their English football Association Cup third round tie here yesterday. The clubs have now played for a total of 7 hours 22 minutes and by taking
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  • 876 13 f?r th* s'i_!gLpwf L_7 Cl S _,h 3 |i n ,aS l ne and 126 m C,ass Three h >vc entered Timah on Jan 29 Ub Janu a«-y-t ebruary meeting whi«.i begins at Bukit Memorir^take^oS'the ?a"? di a v y^ S ,h_; c ln
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  • 413 13 Negri XV Aim To Retain Farleigh Robertson Trophy SEREMBAN, Thurs. The Perak Rugby team which went down fighting to Johore m the HMS Malaya Rugby final at Kuala Lump/ will be seen m action at Seremban on Saturday when they meet Negri Sembilan m their annual encounter for the Farleigh
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    • 861 13 SIUATIONS VACAMI APPLICATIONS arc invited for tlie posts of Medical and n Othccrs m the Mci Department. Singapoie. Appointment will be on probation for years m the first inson the salary -car of 1920s 1.030/ Bar 1 100 x 40 A- 1.420 per month plus vanahlt allowance. Total emoluments at
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  • 598 14  - Fast Times Fine Workouts First Trick Impresses WINDSOR LAD By T_l Ht mTmT' _T_l *JmmW IPOH, Thurs.— Several candidates who missed their engagements on Wednesday, were seen to advantage at this mo ring's fast workouts at the Ipoh racecourse. They were FIRST TRICK, CANTERBURY BELL, MAHA RANEE, CROWN LINK, HATTRICK
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  • 32 14 Standard's Photo Form STANDARD pictures by Lean hup Seng shon how they finished at I poll on IT edncsda\m second day of the Perak Turf Club January meeting. __________^3»_______. m-f_i___lii^_lliWr"""" M aoo^^
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  • 288 14 IPOH, Thurs. The following are the weights for the last day. Saturday, of the Perak Turf Club January meeting here: CI. 2 li M. Graduate 9.0! Dantesque 9.00 Fastern Pearl 9.00 Show Show 8.09 Lagopus 8.0? Bloodshot K.()t» Conventional 8.05 The Bosun 8.0:: Greet 8.0!
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  • 196 14 Forced Indoors. Our Sports Reporter Gives The Lowdown... MR. WEATHERMAN has walloped Sport m Singapore to a standstill there was no quarter given m this almost one-sided battle' during the last few days no claps, no applause by us spectators watching the fray wet and dismayed. Perhaps Mr. Weatherman
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  • 77 14 THE following team will represent Johore against the S.C.C. on the Padang on Saturday. kick otT S p.m. E L. Lawley, P Soark J. Edington (Capti Lt Pike'W. D. A. Adamson. Dr j G. Phillips Iw Batten Lt Wilder. A. W. Marshall Edwards P. Giles J. R. M.
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  • 171 14 Tay Shines Against Hutagalung By Queen's Castle AT last night's .session of thc Dutch Club's International Chess Tournament, the Indonesian Chess Champion. B. Hutagalung ran into difficulties m his game with Mr. Tay Kheng Hong. Hutagalung opened with thc King's Gambit which Tay accepted but did not attempt to hold
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  • 408 14 THE Singapore Badminton Association, meeting on the hitch m their inter-club final, decided last night to make an appeal to the Mayflower Badminton Party, one of the finalists, to consider a replay against the other finalist, Marigold 8.P., on Thursday, Jan. 27.
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  • 69 14 THE following \vcrv elected Oi'lire-bearers of the Singapore Corinthians Sports Club for the year. President:— Mr. Carl Albuquerque. Vice Presidents:— Messrs. S R. P Naidu and Chc Ihsan Hj Nawawi; Don. Secre- ry: Cho Buanf H. Abdullah lion. Sports Secretary:— Che Jaafar Ridzwan; Hon. Treasurer—Mr M. Toledo, Hon.
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  • 38 14 NETAJI beat Nehru team by two goals to one to enter the final ot the Indian Republic Day soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday. Netaji will meet Azad team at Jalan Besar on Sunday.
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  • 290 14 There seems to be but one remedy, for the Singapore Hockey Association if Mr Sun fails to convince Mr. Weatherman to play fair. That is for thc Association to postpone all knock-out matches indefinitely. But then, an indefinite oostponement ma.v kill the enthusiasm of
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  • 295 14 1 4 Uniteds Down The Hampshires KUALA LLMPLK. Thurs. A grand tr> by wing; "threequarter" Thasen m the .">sth minute helped fourteen-man Selangor United team to beat Royal Hampshires by six points (try and penalty) to three (try) m a Rugby match on the Headquarters Malaya Command ground here today.
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  • 96 14 From ADELAIDE. JIM Me (onnon. the (il.imo, n turn in- home from the M( tnur )l( p leave Forth in the liner Mrathnmr.- McConnon fractured the littt- f int in a rrrent match in Tasmania and would be out ot action for fi\, Mr a Howard, the M< g,
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  • 23 14 THE MCC's team for thc four-day match beginning m Adelaide tomorrow again?* South Australia will be eh from tiie following 12: PJ
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  • 89 14 AT the Bth annual general meeting of th c EOS Sport. s Club held recently the lollowing wer c elected office-bearers for the ensuing year; President:— Mr. T P Cromwell; Vice-President:— Mr P. H. Meadows; Hon. Secretary: Mr Goh Teck Phuan: Asst. Hon. Secretary: Mr. Chia Cheong Fook:
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  • 25 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs Selangor Eurasian Association, this year's league champions, whipped Selangor Club 4-0 m a friendly hockey match on the padang today.
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  • 68 14 LONDON. Jan 20. (Re ut Adapting them- ctlcr to thc difficult underfoot ditions, England beat Italy I y 9 goals to 1 m the Intermediate (under 23) Soccer International on Chelsea's ground at Stamford Bridge yesterday. They thus avenged their three-nil defeat at Bologna In the lirst of these
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 49 14 SfWjf HOCKEY: S. C. C vs. S.C.R.C. ..SCRC ground. K.O. lst Round—3B.O.D. rs. R.A.F.. Seletar... BOD. L. Wanderers vs. 5.C.C... Wanderers; Khalsa vs. Police Khalsa; Varsity II vs. R.A.F., Changi Changi; Junior Roiynl Navy vs. Singapore E.R. ..Naval Base. BOXING: R.N. A.S. Sembawang Invitation Boxing at Sembawang 8.30 p.m.
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