Singapore Standard, 24 January 1955

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  • 18 1 Singapore Standard GH Jfc /L J *1 S. c: SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1955 12 PAGES IS TINTS.
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  • 436 1 US To Extend Defence Line New Measures To Meet The Threat WASHINGTON, JAN, 23, (Reuter). The United States plans to extend its protectionof Nationalist China to islands within 15 miles of the Communist mainland according to authPresident Eisenhower will ask Congress tomorrow to approve new measures
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  • 28 1 MOSCOW. Jan. 23. (Renter) Pravda. the Soviet Communist Party newspaper today published the first photographs ever issued of Russia's atomic power station opened .^cven months ago.
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  • 188 1 A Movie Boss A His Film Star Wife Miss Dinah Sheridan, star of the British film' "Genevieve", which was recently shown in Malaya, arrived in Singapore yesterday, th her husband, Mr! John Davis, managing ciirector of the J. Arthur Rank Organization. Davis announced that the male lead the $2,000,000 film
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  • 237 1 Chinese In P.I. Oppose A Truce M ANIL A. Jan. 23, (AP)-The Federation of Chinese Chambeis of Commerce in the Philippines last night sent a message to U.S. Secretary of State John Fosti r Dulles deploring any id. a of a cease-fire beta n Red and National. .1 China. The
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  • 146 1 400 RED PACKETS DROPPED FROM AIR KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Chinese New Year red packets were dropped from the skies for more than 400 children of Salak South New Village, four miles from the Federal Capital today. The celestial postman wore a black silk skull-cap. sea blue cheongsam. a handle bar
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  • 577 1 Link With Fed. Must Be Mutual-C.C.Tan PRESIDENT of thc Singapore Progressive Partv. Mr. C. C. Tan. last night said that a political tieup between the Colony and the Federation should be achieved through discussions between the two territories. In a radio interview broadcast from Singapore, Mr. Tan said it was
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  • 64 1 PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad. Jan. 23 < Router) The Trinidad Government yesterday appealed to telephone workers not to obey their union's call for a strike on Tuesday and warned that "stern measures" would be taken against saboteurs and strikers threatening violence to loyal workers.
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  • 125 1 SAIGON. Jan. 23 (Feuter* The Prime Minister of Vietnam, Mr. Ngo Dinl. Diem, last night denouncei the "coercion of refugees" by Communist Vietminh in northern Indo-China Speaking over the French Radio here, Mr. Ngo said that the Communists h:.d deliberately held up th( evacuation of many
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  • 186 1 LONDON. Jan. 23 (Router) The Stratocruisor taking Mr. Mohamed Ali. Pakistan's Prime Minister, to New York on his way to Ottawa, returned to London i Airport last night with one engine out of action an hour after it took off. Earlier, the British Overseas Airways
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  • 59 1 PARIS. Jan. 23. (Reuter):— Franco-Tunisian negotiations for completing agreements giving Tunisia home rule, entered a new active phase yesterday with a surprise meeting between the French and Tunisian Premiers. Official circles here expressed confidence that agreement on the detailed conditions of autonomy for the North African
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  • 21 1 THREE motor cars caught fire yesterday, but were extinguished by the timely arrival of the Fire Brigade.
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  • 78 1 British Ship Sails For Swatow HONGKONG. Jan. 23. 'Reuter).— The Brit sh 2.171--ton steamer. Tairhungshan sailed today fo\- the Chinese Communist port of Swatow. where the British Ireighter Edendale was bombed and sunk by Chinese Nationalist planes in an air raid on the port last Wednesday. The Taiehungslu-n had been
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  • 56 1 SIXTY ratings of the visiting British worships— 11. MS. Birmingham snd H.M.S. Newcastle were taken on a tour of Singapore by the members of the Singapore Sea Cadet Corps yesterday. Among the places of interest which the ratings visited were Haw Par Villa. Botanical j Gardens.
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  • 220 2 Service Employees To Join Provident Fund ABOUT 25,000 daily-rated and non-pensionable employees of the three services of Singapore will soon come under the provisions of the Central Provident Fund Ordinance. Government will introduce an amendment Bill in the Legislative Council possibly on Jan. 28 to give
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  • 67 2 Mr. Lam .Toon Khim of the Joon Anne School of Dancing and his pretty partner. Miss Sa'adiah Abdullah, who will give a dance exhibition at the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association Chinese New Year Ball at Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday. Feb. 5. Tickets (S5 single
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  • 66 2 POPULAR Chancellor of the University cf Malaya, Mr. Malcolm MacDona:d has offered his residence Mallaig to the Students' Council of the University to hold meetings He made this offer when he heard that the Student Council was without a "courtroom" to hold their meetings. Mr. MacDonald
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  • 192 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The "old boys" of the Malay College at Kuala Kangsar last night took up the challenge of its present headmaster to revive their national association and "prove that we still have plenty of go' left in us." The 'old boys' who
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  • 67 2 NEARLY $24,000 was distributed among 800 Singapore fljod victims yesterday at the Bedok English School The relief was for the 175 famines who were made victims of floods due to recent rains, for the third time since °-tot^r last year. Each member of the family got
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  • 72 2 PENANG. Sun— Mr. Mohamed Sopiee, Federal Legislative Councillor, was injured in his left arm as a result of a car accident at Slim Village. Perak. Friday, on his way back to Buttcrworth after the Legco meeting at Kuala Lumpur. He was given 15 titches at the
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  • 143 2 TWELVE GET CITIZENSHIP PAPERS PENANG. Sun— For the first time here certificates of naturalization as "Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies" were presented to 12 successful applicants by the Resident Commissioner. Penang, Mr. D. Gray, yesterday evening. Among the 12 recipients, one was a woman. She is Madam Chan
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  • 98 2 Settlement Reached In Libel Suit IPOH. Sun.— Mr. Tarn Hin Yin. 37. proprietor and publisher of a Chinese weekly. Swift News, was yesterday acquitted and discharged by MaWratl Che Abdullah Ghaza^li vVhen counsel. Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam. told the court that both parties had come to amicable terms last night.
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  • 203 2 SEASON OPENS ON FRIDAY THE atomic girls of the Shochiku Revue Troupe will land in Singaoore at 1* noon HTwn/Uhl- Y***' al^rt b y Thai Airways plane SS'UK'S Th"^) Tapa^se P "eS wT^ f tOW T^gay. start their fortnight's revue programme on Jan. 28. at the
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  • 133 2 Flying Noah's Ark Leaves For Japan A PAN American Airways Constellation looked more like a flying Noah's Ark at the Kallang Airport yesterday vith its cargo of wild animals. worth more than $3,000, that were on their way to a buyer in Kobe. Japan. They were despatched by Mayfield Kennels.
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  • Article, Illustration
    56 2 Photo by SGT. O. D. J. (BEAU) HUGHES of Wasa Wa K a. N> u South Hales. Australia, pictured after his marriat; i aTith Miss Mimi Cameron of Kew. Melbourne. Australia. in the Singapore Marriage Registry, last Friday. Mr. Huchrs is attached to the Royal Australian Air Force Squadron now
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  • 155 2 Angry Over A Report KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Goldsmiths all over the country are angry over a report in a Singapore vernacular daily alleging that it has been the practice of some goldsmiths to adulterate their gold articles with silver and copper. Considerable amount I
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  • 111 2 Selangor UMNO To Protest KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Selangor liaison committee of the United Malays National Organization meeting here today decided to protest against the Selangor Government's decision that the State's first semi-elect-ed council will have an elected minority. Behind locked do^rs. the meeting also decided to call upon all
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  • 47 2 ANG JEE BAH. t*Vt missing from his bou* Kampong Nc e Soon. Binfl| last Thursday. u as found dead m a ramshackle hut in l Scmbawang late Sat. night. Also in the room was the body of a woman. Police aie investigating.
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  • 40 2 PENANG. Sun.— A p meeting w.i!l bo held it the Indian Association's pn on Wednesday. Jan. m\ p.m. to commemorate 1 Republic Day. The public meeting w followed by a dinner it the Association in the even,:
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  • 82 3 Two sisters. Miss Tins Wen Thow (right), teacher of Pudu English School, and Miss 'I**. en Iian teacher of Pasar Road School with their father Mr. Ting Pine Sum and Mr L. D. Whitfield (left) Director of Education. Federation of Malaya at the nuala Lumpur railway
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  • 103 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Many of the inhabitants of the East Coast saw their first "Cinemascope" movie on Friday night when Kviantan's new cinema was officially opened. This cinema, costing $300,--000, has a seating capacitv for 800. "Such selfishness, being a human failing, is nothing amazing, but I
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  • 270 3 Forget Prejudices Call KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A distinguished Malay gathering including the Rulers of Selangor, Pahang and Peril's was warned by tAr. L. D. Whitfield, Member for Education, last night that if they failed to convince their community about the desirability of giving an English
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  • 157 3 PENANG. Sun— A debate, a poster competition and a youth rally, are among the items to be included in the "Young Citizens' Week" programme, to be held here from Jan. 26 to Feb. 1. "Young Citizens' Week" is to assist in fostering the spirit of
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  • 115 3 Two Women Impress Film Scouts KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Several excited European women yesterday showed of their smiles and charms before a visiting team of film producers here, in an effort to get a lifetime ambition fulfillpd small speaking part on the screen. They took the cine tests for the film
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  • 174 3 SINGAPORE Police has launched a "pink card" campaign to encourage owners of motor vehicles to record details of their vehicles and accessories. These cards will fac.litate police investigations in case the vehicles or their par s are stolen. The Registrar of Vehicles Is distributing these
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  • 86 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Two Malay terrorists, belonging to the gang foi'merly led by the notorious terrorist leader Osman China who gave himself up recently, surrendered to the Police yesterday. Details of two other surrenders were withheld. The Malay terrorists. Abdullah bin Mat Pi'ah. alias Dollah. and
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  • 57 3 KUANTAN, Sun.— Sir Eric Pridie, Chief Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office, accompanied by Dr. RE. Anderson, Director of Medical Services. Federation of Malaya, arrived on an inspection tour of Kuantan yesterday. They visited the hospital and the office of the Institute for Medical Research, which is
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  • 65 3 PENANG. Sun. "Bravo Netjara for announcing that Malaya would be independent in 1960." said Inche Zainal Abidin Joint Chairman of the Allian ■.■<? in Penang, today. "It ii a pleasant surprise.' exclaimed Inche Abidin. He added that most of Negara's aims, especially re garding education, immigration, language,
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  • 46 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun A 14-year-olr' Chinese boy was killed in a collision with a Police truck at Rodger Street here yesterday. A spokesman of the Traffic Police said the boy was crossing the road opposite the Central Market when the accident occurred.
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  • 134 3 HAPPIEST family in Singapore on Saturday night was the Thwaite family of Cuscaden Road. They got back their favourite dog. Pedro, missing since Wednesday. And happiest man on Saturday ni£ht was none other than shopkeeper Lin Yew Wen. who received $50 for returning Perro
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  • 842 5  - Kitchen God (the most loved Makes His Annual Visit To Heaven CHRISTINE DIEMER By SHORTLY offer 12 o'clock lost nighr, all Singapore heard great bursts of firecrackers in neighbourhoods where Chinese were living. It was the morning of the 24th of December, by Chinese calendar, and the firecrackers were a
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    • 497 5 iStandard c^Lmcincic Information at a Glance BUDDHISTS* UNION: Special Ser- n U/rTTPITir^ *UT vice 11 m f J -a_-___iii ___h HH| wYsVtA MmVtIVmTM «r^ nl Jalan Senyum I P I ITT RT 1 11 11 IT klTl CAWA*. Spring Is In The Air s'PORI JOIRWUSTS INION: 1 I II 1111
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  • 1007 6 Singapore Standard Year Of The Ram r rHE Chinese in Malaya have been celebrating A their new year for at least over two hundred years. Back in the 1600's Chinese colonists and traders In Java celebrated their new year ln grand style when it was the only time they stopped
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  • 1227 6 th« J CarJ THE British Caribbean territories are today bidding for Dominion status, whether individually or as a federation. Their chief handicap is not their state of advancement but the geographical and economic weaknesses. Since 1937, when their political awakening began, they have all come near
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    • 136 6 Sir; The report appearing on the front page of The 'Sunday Standard'' of January 16. 1955, under the heading "Jim Crow Order to Negro Sailors" should have been splashed across the front page of your valuable journal, as it shows that South Africa's ruthless extermination of
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    • 567 6 Sir;— The War Department classifies its Civilian employees under various heads; Clerks. Foremen, Industrials, and Nonindustrials etc. Such classifications are normal and necessary to the efficient administration of a vast organization with a great division of labour and a variety of functions. But it becomes a different
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    • 615 6 Quotation From St. Luke Is Trie Answer To Problem. Sir;— As an employee of the Naval Base. I have to congratulate you for your editorial headed "Good Employer Policy" in your issue of 13-1-55. which while pleading for the just claims of the Admiralty's local employees, has exposed the unfair
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    • 181 6 Sir—Malay parents like myself were much surprised and disappointed when no accommodation u -as provided c l children in the Special Mala u Class at the Anglo-Chinese School, Klang —the more so as the Department of Education has allocated it. „w™f, instead, admitted them to the school
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    • 214 6 Sir;— Whilst I think that your paper has done the cause of children's fucdom from adult tyranny great service in Singapore by reporting my talk t.. the International Women*! Club so fully, I WOUld I C grateful if you would give equal prominence to corrections. The world could never
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  • 107 7 JOHANNESBURG. South Africa, Jan. 23. <AP>— Prime Minister Johannes Strijdom's government begins a mass shift of 00.000 Johannesburg negroes next month in the face of possible strike action. The transfer will be the greatest practical test yet undertaken to put into effect a programme of racial
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  • 59 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 23. (Reuter) -Film producer John Huston, on a flying visit to New York after completing the film "Moby Dick" in the 1 .nary Islands, is to leave on Monday for India to seek at ions in the Khyber Pass for the filming of
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  • 58 7 KAMPALA. Uganda, Africa. Jan. 23, (UP)— The biggest manhunt, in Uganda's history ended last night with the death of the Kikuyu gunman. Okello, who was caught by Beganda villagers as he tried to steal a bicycle and was beaten to death. A fingerprint check yesterday proved
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  • 333 7 INDIA AIMS FOR A PEACE AREA But Only In The Minds Of Men MADRAS Jon. 23 (ReiTer) India's agreements with Communist China, Yugoslavia and neighbouring countries are not an attempt to create a geographical "peace area Mr. V. K. Krishna Menon told the 60th session of the governing National Congress
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  • 60 7 photo. TELEVISION guest announcer since last Marc h, actress Avis Scott has been dropped by the 8.8.C. because, she thinks, she is too s»\y. Said Avis. 29. "My personality is apparently too strong for their new policy." The 8.8.C. is planning shorter intervals between TV programmes.
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  • 109 7 GUATEMALA CITY. Jan. 23 (Reuter)— Col Francisco Cosenza and other alleged leaders of an attack on a Guatemalan army barracks last Thursday have taken refuge in the embassy here of El Salvador A number of people were killed and wounded in the incident. The Minister of
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  • 61 7 PARIS. Jan. 23, (Reuter)— M. Pierre Mendes-France, the French Prime Minister, said last night his government was going to embark on the "deep renovation" of the country's economy now that the "essential directions" of its foreign policy were decided. This would be the second phase of his
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  • 226 7 UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 23 (LP)— The United States government's seeming reluctance to take a firm stand against the spread of Asian Communism is irritating some of Its Manila pact allies. Australia, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand in particular are reported in diplomatic circles to
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  • 58 7 LONDON. Jan. 22, (Reuter> More than 50.000 former British prisoners of war of the Japanese or their dependents have received their final share from Japanese assets in Britain, the Ministry of Pensions announced yesterday. Total cash distribution. Including an initial payment of £15, was £43
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  • 64 7 LONDON. Jan. 23. (Reuter) One of the early results of next week's conference of Soviet diplomats in Moscow will be a new note to the West about German reunification, it was confidentially believed in official quarters here today. Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov. the Soviet Foreign Minister,
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  • 49 7 LONDON. Jan. 23, (Reuter) —Dr. G. J. Van HeuvenGoedhart, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, told a conference here yesterday that there were still 75.000 refugees living in European camps whose plight could not be solved by giving them "old trousers and packets of powdered egg."
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  • 87 7 TORONTO, Jan. 23 (UP)— A Toronto man, who had a beautiful woman living next door to him and couldn't stop staring at her, landed in court. Magistrate T.S. Elmore told Peter Coltin, 34, that next time he had better quit watching and start talking. Detective John
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  • 38 7 THIRTY passengers were burned to death when a bus caught fire after overturning into a gully near Cuautla about 50 miles south of Mexico City yesterday. The driver and 16 passen- gers escaped.— l Reuter
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  • 142 7 The Well-Dressed Miner Wears 'Scanties' SYDNEY. Jan. 23. (Reuter) The well-dressed Australian miner at the coalface wears only his wife's "scanties" and a pair of boots. This fact emerged yesterday ln a discussion of miners "fashions" following a strike of miners at 250 CoalclifT, New South Wales when the management
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  • 148 7 'Tippy' Talked His Way Home TORONTO, Jan. 23, (AP)— Mr. and Mrs. Howard Brasseur said yesterday Tippy, their pet budgie bird, talked his way home. They said he flew away last Monday and they gave him up for lost. However, as they discovered later, Tippy went to an apartment a
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  • 146 7 WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP)— The United States was reported yesterday to be nearing the "pay-off stage" in developing atomic missiles that can be guided from North America to the heart of Communist Russia. A high defence official said: "We are today at the pay-off stage
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  • 50 7 photo MR. Geoffrey I.iggins. an Australian I- Irst Officer of thr British Overseas Airways Corporation carries his bride. Miss Janet Medwin, a stewardess, from the Church of Our Lad of Ransom in Kaslbourne, after their wedding there recently. Miss Medwin is from Stone Cross, Sussex. UP
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  • 160 7 Adenauer: 'We're Not Stupid' BONN, Jan. 23, (Reuter)— Dr. Konrad Adenauer, West German Chancellor, rejected categorically in a nation-wide broadcast yesterday the recent Soviet offer of a united and re-armed— but neutral Germany. He also turned down thc suggestion that MOSCOW and Bonn should open diplomatic
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  • 241 7 TOKYO. Jan. 23. (AP)— lf you promise not to tell her boy friend we'll let you in on Akiko Sawada's secret job. She's a nude model in a photo studio. These studios for professionals, amateurs or Just plain onlookers—have sprung up all over
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  • 122 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 2) (AP) Chinese most of them cut <>if from their homeland n up the largest group of icign students enrolled in the winter session of Columbia University, it was ennounoi t on Saturday Columbia said the 1 aOO students it has It on
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    • 573 8 EAST ASIAfiLMi SAILINGS lOCON|, N|N For Aden Port Said Ceno. Art, K.H Copenhagen Citk,... V, %H 1 •N K '•Or, "ASIA" Cdn 27 28 B ■> k,na B ml "MiONIA" 4/7m 2 'SH aaa) "FALSIRIA" IS/19_a' '^B a, Calls Beyrouth Cdvn,, M I aa) Calls Cdvma d «K«> Calls London
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  • 206 9 THE RAINS HIT BUILDING AND CEMENT BUSINESS Finance AndCoZi!rcH Standard Staff Reporter CONTINUOUS rains hare affected the cement trade and building construction in Singapore, cement importers told The Standard yesterday. The close of 1954 saw a slowing down of imports of cement and dull conditions have been prevailing since. However,
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  • 212 9 The First 'Jet-Only' Merchantman THE Shell experiment tankcr. Auris. 8,221 tons, which has been operating on three diesel engines and one gas turbine, is to be re-equip-ped with a single gas turbine. She will be the first merchant ship in the world to be so powered. Mr J. \V. Piatt.
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  • 122 9 SAILORS who served in thc British Royal Navy may soon have the chance of taking part of their old ship home, thanks to a 154-year-old Plymouth family firm. The firm i.s using teak from old warships to make tubs and stands, barrel furniture, coal buckets and hearthware. "The
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  • 60 9 A new grade of palm oil of 3 per cent or less FFA will be established in Nigeria with the beginning of the 1955 marketing year. The decision follows an Investigation in which it vas found that there is a large production of
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  • 29 9 THE number of milk cows on Canadian farms in 1954 increased by 2.8 per cent, and milk production was 3 per cent, more than a year earlier.
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  • 107 9 Will also show teak and elm furniture for the garden Much of this furniture is exP u rt d to the US Can acla and the Bahamas One of the most elective ways of attracting overseas buyers, the firm has found, has been the BIF
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  • 52 9 THE Singapore Chambers of Commerce, the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association, the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association and th e Malayan Exchange Banks' Association will close today and tomorrow Tor the Chinese New Year holidays. The Chinese produce market in Singapore will close for three days, and re-open
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  • 699 9 PRICES quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association, before the close of the Chinese New Year holidays. were Buyers Seller?* Alex. Bricks 2.00 2 10 Urds. 265 2.15 Atlas Ice 12 25 19 25 Petrol 33/G 34/fi B-M. Trustees 6 50 7 00 Con Tin Smelt 28/6 29/Prefs.
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  • 100 9 Eight Years Ot Industrial Progress In P.I. THE United Nations Plaza, the site of the last Philippines International Fair, is the locale of the "Cavalcade of Industries." The exposition will start on Feb. 19 and end on March (>. The site will be about four hectares in area or about
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  • 479 9 By A Market Correspondent CHINESE operators in the Malayan share market carry their commitments into the New Year in the Western fashion, and the approach of the festive season brought no perceptible slackening in the share market in the past week. Gone are the
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  • 424 9 DIMINUTION in the volume of business in the Singapore rubber market, which usually characterizes the approach of the Chinese New Year, was not experienced in the past week Instead, the market improved steadily and the dollar per pound market was established despite some hesitancy in the
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  • 35 9 PRODUCTION of olive oil in French Morocco in 1954-55 will be about 28.000 short tons, it is estimated. This is over 50 per cent, more than the 18.000 tons produced in 1953-54.
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  • 31 9 COWES: The new plastic speedboat, Moonjlee. demon' strates Ha prowess at Cones. At the controls is the designer John Hutchin*. The. passenger is his rcife, Margaret. UP photo.
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  • 130 9 MESSRS. Turquand. Youngs Co.. reported the following forward sales contracted by rubber companies for which they are secretaries Alor Gajah Rubber Estate Ltd.. 18 tons R.S.S. 1 for delivery January/July, 1955, at an average price of 95J cents per lb; Teluk Anson Rubber Estate Ltd.. 30 tons R.S.S.
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  • 236 9 Malayans Invited To Cavalcade Of Industries MALAYAN industrialists and businessmen are invited to take part in the "Cavalcade of Industries" to be held in Manila from Feb. 19 to March G. Sponsored by the Philippine Chamber of Industries, this ls the first Industrial exposition of its kind ln the PI.
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  • 53 9 THE number of permanent houses built in Britain in the first eleven months of I!»."i4 was. 316.943. This brings the post-war total to 1.81)1.993. Total of permanent hoiifcs built in the same period of the previous year was 285,274. New buildings since the war had housed some 6.000,000
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  • 352 9 BUSINESS DONE IN THE WEEK BUSINESS done in shares from Jan. 15 to 21: Industrials:— Chartered Bank of India Australia <*: China 50/-, Consolidated Tin Smelters Ord. 28 6 Fraser Neave Ord $2 00 to $2.02. Gammon $3.30, Hammers $120. Hongkong Bank Colonial $1115 to $1112.50, Hongkong Bank London £1211
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  • 235 9 GIVEN continued peace and economic stability. 1955 will be a record year for Qantas Empire Airways as a revenue earner in Australia's national service, even exceeding the 1954 figures which in themselves were a record. Qantas Chairman and Managing Director, Sir Hudson Fysh. said this
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  • 847 10  - Adventures Of Edmund Purdom Fritz Goodwin By ADVENTURES of the young: man who sets out to seek his fortune in a faraway land have been a favourite theme for story-tellers in all ages. In many variations, the story has always been a favourite with listeners and readers too. Relating, as
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  • 84 10 JULIE Dorsey, daughter of rw and M leader Jimmy Dorsey. will portray a pretty n£L c SSL girl at a fa^us YOT night dub for IT S ALWAYS F4ID WEATHER The role islhe result of the excellent job Julie did on a peisonal appearance tou r with a
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    863 10 WIZARD IDEAS VHBAflill =*m A NEW-BORN babe, someone has said, is a new wave on the ocean of life. A fresh squall, some fathers would say. One father we know calls his baby daughter his clamour girl. "Can't you do something about that baby of yours?" a neighbour asked
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  • 76 11 Ist inns. 1 1 S j er Singh b Inderjit 11 o Singh not out Extras 4 Total ""J Rowling: Jagi{ Singh 9-0-2-6- Singh 32-1-4-2; HarSingh 6-2-8-3; Bachan 1-0-15-0. Singapore Sikhs Ist inns. Singh not out 25 Singh Gill b GuruSingh o Singh run out :i st Balbir Singh
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    47 11 Photo ROBERT Cohen, the World featherweight boxing champion, is X-Rayed at a Paris Hospital after his car crashed into a wall while he was driving to Paris from a boxing touryiament at Saint Germain En Laye, about slv jtulcs away. He broke his jaw. AP
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  • 61 11 IPOH. Sun. The weapon's competition between the teams ol the Federation Volunteer Force was won by the Perak olunteer Reserve. Under Insp. Leong Yen Wei the PVR swept the board In all events except one. The Individual championship tor the Choong Sam challenge trophy was won
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  • 38 11 CHICAGO. Jan. 23 (Reuter) Russia has been invited to send women athletes to compete in the United States National Amateur Athletics Unions women's indoor track meeting here on February 5. it was announced here today.
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  • 408 11 FRANCE WALES WIN HARD WAY LONDON, Jan. 23, Reuter)~France beat Ireland by five points to three in Dublin today to record their second victory in the International Rugby Inion championship while Wales beat England by three points to nil at Cardiff Arms Park. Cardiff. Ireland, Wales and England were playing
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    • 68 11 The Northern Rodesian Government yesterday cancelled the visit of Mel Whitfield. Negro American world half mile champion, to Kitwe the centre of the Copperbelt strike. Whitfield was to have run on a local track but with the strike by ***** African miners now in it s 18th day, the
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    • 62 11 Amateur Athletic Association on Thursday asked the I government to back construction of a U553.500.000 stadium for use in the 1958 Asian games here. Masaji Tahata. Association Managing Director, suggested at a conference with Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama that US$5O,OOO be earmarked for the project in this year's budget,
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    • 100 11 A contract of five clubs <>n the final board after three nights of play gave a Miami Beach team of contract bridge life masters a slim 150-point victory over the world champion British bridge team in a challenge match. The British team, which a week ago won the Bermuda
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    • 29 11 Joe Davis, Britain's champion Snooker player made the maximum break of 147 to set a yiew world record and achieve his life's ambition at Leicester Square hall Reuter
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    • 120 11 The Ferrari stable of Italy La favoured to win thc 1.000 kilometre snorts car race of the city of Buenos Aires, which will be run tomorrow over a naved 17 kilometre 136 metre circuit. The sports car race is the second event of Argentina's International Racing Season. n-?
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    • 54 11 Th e Austrian No. 1 crew of Aste and Isser were leading at the end of the second run here today in the World I woman Bobsleigh championships. They had an aggregate ume of two minutes 45.73 seconds with the Switzerland No 2 nnd No j teams comma second
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    • 92 11 McConnon Says Farewell ADELAIDE. Jan 22, (Reuter) Jim McConnon, the Glamorgan offspinner. says farewell to his MCC colleagues tomorrow when he begins his journey home. He will fly cross-count-ry to embark on the liner Strathmore at Perth on Monday. McConnon. who is returning because of a broken finger, said here.
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    • 95 11 Popular enthusiasm for cricket has brought about a relaxation in t/ic stringent travel restrictions between India and Pakistan which had not been achieved in Vear s of diplomatic negotiations. Both countries have agreed to simplify passport and visa regulations to enable cricket fans to watch the Lahore tests which
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    • 94 11 Japanese wrestlers easily defeated 6-2 by a picked Moscow team are being given honoured guest treatment in Baku where they are to meet a squad from Azerbaijan. The newspaper Soviet Sport reported a complete sell-out of tickets, with many wouldbe spectators turned away, for matches to be fought at
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  • 74 11 Russian Soccer XI In India CALCUTTA— Jan. 22 (Reu'er) —Tlie Soviet Union Sports Control Council today invited India to send a football team to the Soviet Union. The invitation wai sent through Vladimir Moskarkin. leader of the Russian soccer team. Eleven members of the team nrtived here today and seventeen
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  • 274 11 Armstrong Sails To 'Double' In Changi Regatta FINE weather, which favoured the second and concluding day of the annual R.A.F. Changi Yacht Club's regatta at Changi yesterday, saw a record number of boats compete in the programme of ten races. F/Sgt. Armstrong (Golden Eagle) scored a fine and well deserved
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  • 231 11 15,000 IRISHMEN SING AS KELLY DOWN McCARTHY BELFAST. Jan. 23, (Reuter) Fifteen thousand singing, cheering Irishmen rushed the ring at King's Hall here last night when 22-year-old Billy Kelly of Derby took the British featherweight title from Sammy McCarthy of London by a clearcut points decision over fifteen rounds. Kelly
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  • 107 11 India Lead, Manjrekar Hits 100 MONTGOMERY, PUNJAB. Jan. 22 (Reuter) The Indian touring team gained a first innings lead of 184 runs over the Central Zone of Pakistan here today. The tourists scored 307 for seven wickets declared In answer to the Zone's total of 184. But by the end
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    • 139 11 TUITION I EARN cakemaking (including sweets, and plastiricing from Oon's Java Cakes morning, afternoon, or evening class. Morning clast begins next month. 6 Aliunled Rd Singapore FOR SALE PROF B V RAMANS Annual (Januarv 1955) Number ASTROLOGICAL Magazine. LAHIRIS INDIAN FPHFMFRIS 1955 Available at BASRAI BROTHERS. Chulia Street HALEX TABLE
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    • 855 11 MARRIAGE KO TEO: At Hongkong. t,r\ 19th January 1955 Sun Siew. son of Mr. and Mrs Ko Tian Beng. Singapore, and Susie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Teo Lip Poon. Hongkong SITUATIONS VACANT KOALA Li'MPCR MtMCIPAL COUNCIL APPLICATIONS are invited lor the post of a Garden Horticultural Assistant in the
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  • 592 12 'Rooting Hooting' Shocked UK Women THE Singapore Badminton Association made history by taking the cover of the irtternntionally famous Badminton Gazette, edited by Mr. H.A.E. Scheele, secretary of thc All England BA and the International Badminton Federation. The piclnre shows Mr. Aw Cheng Chye, president of the association, being introduced
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  • 44 12 Wes Santee, of Kansas, who hopes to become the first American to run a mile in less than four minutes, during a practice at Lo s Angeles, California, earlier this mo n t h.— Associated Press Photo from London.
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  • 22 12 kelson Youngsters heat Maxell Youngsters 4-1 In a |endly soccer game played at !ter^ v Way Instilute ground
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  • 397 12 Perak— 2 Negri Sembilan— l Thillianathan 2, Mike Lewis. Umpires: Gian Singh (coach) and Curil La Brooy. KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Two beautiful goals, one in each half by star centreforward A. I. Thillianathan, enabled Perak to beat Negri Sembilan 2—l today, and emerge Federation of Malaya
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  • 89 12 I SOCCER in Britain took another pounding z from the weather today. 5 In England 16 of the 46 league games had J to be postponed through ice and waterlogged J grounds. This in two weeks, the League programme has been cut by a total
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  • 153 12 IPOH, Sun.— At the annual general meeting of the Ipoh and District Football League held at the Perak Chinese Amateur Dramatic Association today, it was unanimously agreed to award $100 in equipment to each of the affiliates who participated in the li)o4 first division league. Mr. Chan
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  • 138 12 Colony Malays Make Good Start IPOH. Sun. Following are the results of the opening ties of thc Malayan Malays Badminton Championships played at the Perak Turf Club' s courts her e this morning:— Singles: Omar Ibrahim (S'pore) beat H.A. Kamaruddin (Pk.) 15-7. 15-7 M Sadali (S'pore) beat H.O Shoeb (Pk.)
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  • 479 12  - Dantesque Jesselton Promoted To Class 1 WINDSOR LAD By IPOH. Sun. The 18-year-Old Malayan record for the Ave furlongs straight, and the ten furlongs course record held by Restriction and Mac Scott respectively, were shattered at Ipoh on Saturday, concluding day of the Perak Turf Club's January meeting. Jesselton asserted
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  • 1329 12 U.K SOCCER Results Positions LONDON. Jan. 22. (Reuter) The following are today's football results league positions. LEAGUE, DIVISION I Aston Villa 3. Blackpool 1 Burnley 0. Newcastle 1 Chelsea 0. Manchester C. 2 Manchester Utd. 1, Bolton 1 Preston 3. West Brom. 1 Sunderland 2, Portsmouth 2 Tottenham 7. Sheffield
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  • 116 12 Police Hit Seven Goals Past Khalsa Centreforward D a 1 b a r a Singh sparked the Police Sports Association to a 7-1 victory against the Khalsa Association in the Singapore Ho key Association Knock Out competition played at thc Shell ground at Paya Lebar yesterday Police led by three
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  • 85 12 SIX players have been added to the Singapore Hockey Association Training Squad of 2!) members, it was announced yesterday. This brings the total now under training to 35. Five of the trainees are from the Combined Schools. They are Tan Heng Hoe. Jayathurai. Chin Kim
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  • 242 12 LONDON, Jan. 23, (Reuter)— "No game" annoum-em, satisfaction to the leg-weary players of Stoke City a n i N fc battled for nearly seven and a half hours in an attempt t F.A. Cup tie and meet again on Monday for the fifth time lde Even where footbo possible,
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