Singapore Standard, 2 February 1955

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    15 1 Singapore Standard fo A, g 212m-' SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 195.> J4 PAGES J> (FATS.
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    64 1 Inland 341: stralia Lead y 51 Runs InAIDE, Fcb Australia had a lead o r the close of ploy here today wher -J 69 or n fnc r scc <>nd innings, pissing England for a first innings fourth and decisive Tesi ton when England lost Comp. minutes for
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    Lock icon INDIA TO TRAIN R.I. AIR FORCE
    57 1 JAKARTA, Feb. 1 (UP) Indonesia and India have reached agreement on details the programme under which India will train the Indonesian Air Force, it was learned today. Reliable sources said 35 officers and more than 100 enli>ted men of the Indian Air Force will
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    Lock icon TACHEN: FLEET WAITS FOR THE WORD GO'
    220 1 TAIPEI. Feb. 1. (Reuter)-Thirty-thousand-ton American aircraft carriers with the Seventh Fleet cruisers and destroyers rode at anchor off Formosa today beside Nationalist warships awaiting an order from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek and Washington to begin evacuating the Nationalist 20.000-man garrison in the Tachen group.
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    22 1 NATIONALIST and Communist naval units clashed off the Tachen Islands, the Defence Ministry announced. It add*H tb"t neither side suffered losses.
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    Lock icon Seamen Want War Bonus
    44 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1 (Reuter). The Sailors' I'nion of the Pacific is demanding: a 100 per cent. War Duty Bonus for all seamen going into Formosan waters. The Union also wants all American ships in that area to be armed.
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    Lock icon United Nations To Invite Red China
    361 1 UMTED NATIONS. New York, Feb. 1 <UP> The United Nations Security Council, by a 9—l vote, decided last night to invite Communist China to send representatives here to discuss a cease-fire in the Formosa Straits fighting. The United States voted in favour of the
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    Lock icon RHEE'S MAN HELD IN SEOUL MURDER PLOT
    156 1 SEOUL, Feb. 1, (Reuter)— The Prosecutor's office in Seoul announced today it had arrested the Deputy Inspector Chief of President Syngman Knee's Liberal Party in connection with an alleged assassination plot to kill 40 political leaders in South Korea, including Opposition leader P.
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    Lock icon BILL HOLDEN IN HONGKONG
    35 1 HONGKONG. Feb. 1 (Reuter)._ Hollywood film stars William Holden and Jennifer Jones arrived here today from Tokyo to begin work on the film of Han Su-yin's best-seller "A Many Splendoured Thing."
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    19 1 A MILD quake shook Santiago and Central Chile on Monday. N" rinmaee was reported. A. P.
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    Lock icon Red Toughs 'Bully' Chinese Pupils
    501 1 Red Toughs 'Bully' Chinese Pupils TEA PARTIES AWE POLITICAL MEETS POLICE ASK FOR HELP A HARD core of "professional students'" have infiltrated into almost every Chinese school in Singapore, and were responsible for most of the recent incidents involving Chinese students. This was revealed to The Standard yesterday, by two
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    Lock icon Chiang And Admiral Pride
    27 1 Chiang And Admiral Pride pnuio. VICE-ADMIRAI Alfred M. Pride. Commander of the United States' Seventh Fleet, pictured with the Chinese Nationalist leader. Chianu Kai-shek, in Formosa A.P.
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    33 1 COPENHAGEN. Feb. 1 AP> Holger Nielsen. retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Danish Army, who invented the Nielsen method of artificial respiration, used all over the world, died yesterday, aged 89.
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    27 1 SIR John Kotelawala. Ceylon's Prime Minister, will visit Dublin on Feb. 9 at the invitation of Mr. John Cc tello, Ireland's Prime Minister. Reuter
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    Lock icon PREMIERS DISCUSS ANOTHER 'GENEVA'
    135 1 LONDON. Feb. 1 (Reuter).— Delegations at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference here are discussing behind the scenes the possibility of an international meeting on "Geneva" lines to tackle the Formosa problem. Last year's Geneva Conference produced an armistice ending the eight-year Indo-China war. The idea of
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    Lock icon OSMAN CHINA'S TEARrUL REUNION
    325 1 OSMAN CHINA'S TEARrUL REUNION HC Rescues His Starving Wife KUALA LUMPUR, Tucs.— Ah Lian, pretty -24-year-old wife of Malay terrorist, Osman China, who gave himself up last December had a touching reunion with her husband at the Kuala Lipis Police Station yesterday a few hours after she had surrendered to
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    30 1 GUATEMALA. Feb. 1 <AP> —The Guatemalan Government announced yesterday that 435 persons have been arrested in connection with the revolutionary plot it crushed on Jan. 20.
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    Lock icon Eden's Big Day
    36 1 LONDON. Feb. 1 <AP>.Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden will lormally be installed by Queen Elizabeth as a Knight of the Garter in a ceremony on June 13 in St. George's chapel, Windsor Castle.
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    Lock icon Reds Hoist 3-Star Flags In S'pore
    110 1 Reds Hoist 3-Star Flags In S'pore COMMUNISTS hoisted nine Red flags in Singapore yesterday to mark the anniversary of the Malayan Peoples' Liberation Army. These cloth flagsthree yellow stars on red background were seen fluttering from tree tops and telephone posts in various parts of the island and taken down.
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    Lock icon JAP MISSION IN RABAUL
    47 1 RABAtJL. Feb. 1 fßeuter) The Taise Maru with members of the Japanese W?r Graves Mission on board arrived today from the British Solomons and is expected to sail to Bougainville at the week-end after recovering the remain^ of Japanese war dead buried here.
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    Lock icon 22 FACTORIES FOR RED CHINA
    35 1 HONGKONG. F< b. 1 <RoutfD.— Twenty-two large machine factories. including China's first motor car and tractor plants, aro to be built this year, the New China Communist News agency reporu-d.
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    Lock icon Dior Takes A Dating Plunge
    201 1 1955s 'A' and V Necklines PARIS, Feb. 1, (UP)— Fashion czar Christian Dior I almost bared the feminine bosom today with the most daring evening neckline in years. At the same time he completely banished it from sight by day. Dior unveiled a new "A"
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    39 1 LONDON. Feb. 1 <Reuten Princess Margaret arrived at Montego Bay. Jamaica, in the stratocruiser Canopus at 1235 GMT today on her way to Port of Spain. Trinidad for her West Indian tour 8.0.A.C. announced here.
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    63 2 Bu forming a kongsi and collecting as little as 10 cents a week Irom each, member durina Vie you can collect $1000. with which you can adopt ore of these crippled children from the Red Cross Crippled Children s Home. Tanib Merck. For
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    Lock icon 4 FACE TRIAL FOR ROBBERY BIDON WOMAN
    231 2 4 FACE TRIAL FOR ROBBERY BIDON WOMAN SINGAPORE Police rounded up four armed thugs and recovered their weapons 12 hours after they atfempteS to rob a farmer's wife in West Coast Road, thp Seventh Police Court Magistrate, Mr. Choor Singh, was told at a preliminary inquiry. At the conclusion of
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    120 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber price* (rente per Ib in Sine* pore yesterday were: Bu>ert> Seller* No 1 K.SS Spot Loose 103 103 i N. I RSS fib Fob 103 V 103? No. 2* 1021 10 •>{ No. 3 norn 99 00 1 Tone: Barely steady. MN PKIUfc The prices of
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    Lock icon McNEICE AVERTS A CITY STRIKE
    115 2 PERSONAL efforts by the President of the Singapore City Council, Mr. i\ P. F. McNeice, yesterday averted a threatened strike by the Council's 3,000 electrical workers. Mr. McNeice who met a workers' delegation at the City Council, agreed to settle the major portions of the
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    Lock icon FISHY STORY WINS HER A DIVORCE
    77 2 FISHY STORY WINS HER A DIVORCE LOS ANGELES. Feb. 1 A. P. > Her husband told her he was going fishing five nights a week. Mrs. Betty Joan Graham. 25. told the court this story in winning a divorce from James M. Graham. 28. a mechanic. She said he also
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    Lock icon OIL STOVE EXPLODES
    57 2 THE wife of a Singapore Marine policeman living in Police Barracks in Ncrth Boat Quay was cooking in the kitchen about noon yesterday when a kerosene stove exploded and burst into flames. T\v> fire engines from Cential Firr Station raced to the scene but the fire was
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    132 2 This Relief Payment May Be Last THE Singapore Social Welfare Department will give rehabilitation relief to Hood victims during four days beginning from Feb. 16. The relief will gc to 2.000 fami'ics representing nearly 10. OOP p?ople. wno have been put ofl their agricultural and animal husbandry occupations because of
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    Lock icon HE BRINGS NEW FILMS
    76 2 MR. Fred Simmins, Far Eastern Representative and General Manager in Bombay, of London Films International Ltd. and Shaw Brothers Singapore, who is here on a trade promotion tour. Pressmen and representatives of the film trade attended a cocktail party given by Mr. Simmins at the Capitol
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    Lock icon HERE TO STEP UP PEN SALES
    80 2 SALES of Sheaffer pens in the United States exceeded U5532.000.000 last year the managing Director of Foreign Sales of the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. Mr. Karl F. Dinnauer (above said on arrival at Singapore's Kallang Airport, yesterday. Mr. Dinnauer is here to discuss
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    Lock icon Prettiest Girl Dies In Mishap
    45 2 BARDONECCHIA. Italy. Feb. <AP>.— Maria BeicofTer. 23. the prettiest girl at this Italian ski resort, was killed when her ski pole broke, and she lost her balance and fell on the jagged end. which pierced her brain through the eye.
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    30 2 NICE. Feb. 1 (AP).— King Tribhubana of Nepal, who suffered a heart attack yesterday, was resting at his hotel here today after an examination by a Swiss specialist.
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    309 2 Paid By Cheque -coorl ANG Soo Wah, a ledger clerk in the Ban Hj n I gapore, was stated to have placed an order for 500 B *M tables shortly before his employers discovered that 'l'^H curred discrepancies totalling $254,000. c Lfl This was stated yesterday in the Singapore
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    127 2 THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander, yesterday returned a verdict of death by misadventure at the inquest on a 57-year-old broker Teo Chiar Song, who died after a table had fallen on his stomach. The Court was told that Teo was having a cup of coffee in a
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    Lock icon 71 GERMANS SEEK A NEW LIFE
    82 2 71 GERMANS SEEK A NEW LIFE SEVENTY-ONE youns German emigrants, on transit. left Sinuapore yesterday in a chartered Sabena plane for Sydney where they hope to settle down. Most of them arc farmers, others are electricians welders an engineers. They said it was very difficult to find employment in German*
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    Lock icon FOWL THIEF
    29 2 TEE Ah Soi. who had three previous convictions for theft was jailed for six months by the Singapore Second Criminal District Court yesterday lor stealing two fowls.
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    Lock icon 79 American Gold Coins Confiscated
    81 2 SEVENTY-NINE Arm I god coins, valued at approximately $2,400 were confiscated in the Singapore First Cr: District Court yesterday 0 application of Customs a rities. The coins were seized 1 y Customs officers from if. Mohamed Zakaria at Gate N 2 of the Singapore Har
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    Lock icon My Husband Is Not Dead, Then Find Him'
    160 3 Missing Detective's Wife Dares Police Loam u« J»» Moi, wif. o si B9apole j.,,,,, T h Pt-jT 5t52? fl d h 1 J Last week. Madam Lee received a letter from the Commissioner of Police, stating that the CID have investigated her
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    235 3 KHIK thr 10.000 industrial workers of the "jul W** irr > out their t hre at to strike tht- attempts at mediation by one 1 individual. 11 t t rk He b Mr. J. D. H. Neill. As--istant Commissioner for Lab(Conc:!iation) who is I Uattaf with the Admiral:.d its
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    Lock icon Signalman Overstayed His Leave
    120 3 Signalman Overstayed His Leave SIGNALMAN Chew Kirn Meng. 23. of the Ist Squadron. Singapore District Signal Regiment, was yesterday sentenced by a District Court Martial to 56 days' detention when he pleaded guilty to absenting himself from his unit. The sentence is subject to confirmation. Maj. B. Butler, prosecuting officer,
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    Lock icon Old Georgians Elect Officers
    83 3 SEREMBAN. Tues. The Mentri Besar of Negri Sembilan. Inrhe Shamsuddin bin Nain. was elected president of the Old Georgians Association Seremban. at the annual general meeting held here recently. The State Secretary. Inche Lokman bin Yu?of and Mr. R. Subramaniam were elected vice-presidents. OfYice-bearers Secretary Inche
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    Lock icon TYRE DEALERS ENTERTAINED
    104 3 C ANGLO AMERICAN J Corporation Ltd. Singapore, agents for ContinZ ental automotive tyres. tubes and mechanical x rubber Roods, held their annual dinner at the Empress Restaurant on 2 Monday. More than 300 dealers attended. Mr. H. Ritsrher. factory representative of Continental, was also at J the
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    67 3 TAIPIN'G. Tues— The demand ior English education in the new villages necessitated the opening of two new classes at Bukit Gantang by the Taiping Branch of the Perak Adult Education A>sociation. The opening ceremony was performed by the District Officer. Larut and Matang. Mr. D.R. Home,
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    79 3 thl Overseas Airways Corporation is ri >m today two new names in its luxury r^» on the London, Far East, Africa and routes. "M.iand rla.ss. i- its narch" nuts in Donald .ruing yesteri bf no they ring r i. n.d The I b< t-n I tail for' F ood
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    Lock icon THIEF TAKES 24 NAPPIES
    30 3 TWENTY-four napkin?* and two bedsheets worth $50 were reported stolen from a Euronean res demc at the Hi Mile, Changi Road Singapore, a few (Jays ago
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    48 3 TUAN Sycd Hussein Alatas. Editor of "Progressive Islam" at Amsterdam University, will rive a talk on Democracy of Islam as compared to Socialism and Liberalism." under the auspices of the University of Malaya Muslim Society, at the Arts Theatre tomorrow at 8 p.m.
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    Lock icon Arlinda Slept Through All The Noise
    73 3 PERHAPS the youngest passenger to arrive in Singapore by air is Arlinda Fern Nelson, aged ten days. She flew in yesterday with her parents. Dr. and Mrs. James Nelson, who returned to the Colony from a holiday in Bangkok where Ariinda was born. Oblivious
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    Lock icon He Couldn't Get Away With His Winnings
    74 3 A CHINESE was beaten up till he lost consciousness after he left a gambling den in Shelford Road, Singapore, in the early hours of yesterday. When he recovered, he found S4OO cash, his wristwatch and two fountain pens missing. It i s learnt
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    46 3 MUAR. Tues.— Chia Choon Hce and Lee Song Eng were charged yesterday before the Muar Magistrate. Inche Pawan Ahmad, with gambling. Chia was fined $100 in default 30 days' imprisonment. He admitted three previous convictions. Lee Song Eng was cautioned and discharged.
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    Lock icon Cyclist 14, Dies After Accident
    49 3 KUALA KANGSAR. Tues.— Mohamcd Sani, a 14-year-o'ci schoolboy, died shortly after admission to the District Hospital here following a road accident yesterday morning. Sani was cycling to school when he was involved in a collision with a bus at Talang about miles from here.
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    Lock icon A Hawker Says: Thanks, SATA
    236 3 And Contributes $15 TOH YEN, 44-year-old hawker with an old mother, wife and four children to support, yesterday gave Singapore the ultimate object lessons in gratitude. Since 1952. Toh Yen. who lives at the 9\ mile, Yeo Chu Kang Road, has received treatment at the
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    49 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Mr. Lee Hong Wai. who recently returned from Australia where he graduated in Dental Science is joining his father. Mr. Lee Kiang Choon, in practice in Johore Bahru. After graduating in Australia Mr. Lee did a year's houscmanship in various hospitals there.
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    Lock icon TRIBUTE TO SATA — FROM ENGLAND
    240 3 TRIBUTE TO SATA FROM ENGLAND THE story of South Winds. Singapore's rehabilitation centre for tuberculosis patients, which appeared in The Standard in November, has resulted in a letter to Dr. G. H. Garlick. Medical Director of the Singapore Anti Tuberculosis Association and Administrator of SATA Clinic, from Dr. Richard R.
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    Lock icon ONE IN EVERY 2 ENDED IN DIVORCE
    192 3 Muslim Marriages MORE than fifty per cent of Muslim marriages performed in Singapore ended in divorce last year. Official figures reveal that there were 1.354 divorces in 1954 as against 2.456 marriages conducted by 11 Kathis. In 1953 there were 2.451 marriages and
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    Lock icon IN COMPANY OF ARMED MAN
    61 3 LAI Chop and Choi Chong were charged in the Fourth Police Court yesterday with being found in the company of a person, who possessed two pistols and six rounds of ammunition, at a house in Hemment Road, Singapore, on Jan. 28. They were charged under
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    Lock icon Throat Slashed
    32 3 LIM Sin Koh. 45. was found with his throat slashed in his house in Bukit Theresa. Singapore, yesterday afternoon and admitted to the General Hospital. No foul play is suspected.
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    370 4 One Firm Given Two Jobs— Ong KUALA LUMPUK/ lues. tyeorows were raised at a meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council last night at the wisdom of awarding a stupendous contract to a certain Mr Ong Yoke Lin (Alliance) said the new contract for $656,000 for
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    132 4 Fleet Street Turns To Jazz LONDON Feb. 1 (AP)— Fleet Street which has produced such writers as Charles Dickens and Edgar Wallace, ha« produced its owr Jazz Clun and its band is pronerh called the Press Gang It makes good jazz too. The membership has grown from a handful in
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    124 4 MR. F. Pelton, the present Design and Research Engineer, of the Drainage and Irrigation Department. Kuala Lumpur, has been appointed to the Public Works Department. Singapore, as Chief Drainage Engineer. Mr. Pelton has been In Malaya for 27 years, and had long and valuable experience
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    37 4 HONGKONG. Feb. 1 Special Standard Service Closins prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.70 to Cl sterling; $5.***** to US$l; $1,824 to Malayan SI; $0,176 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $259.25 to a tael.
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    90 4 SEREMBAN. Tues. Four Negri boys have left for United Kingdom to join Dover College, England, where the headmaster is Mr. A.D.C. Peterson, until recently the Director of Information Services, Federation of Malaya. The boys are Willie and Chester Chai. sons of Mr. and Mrs. Chai
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    237 4 TRANSFER OF COCOS IS. 2nd Reading Of Bill Is Unopposed LONDON, Feb. 1, (Reuter)— The House of Commons last night gave an inopposed second reading— agreement in principle— to a bill authorising Queen Elizabeth to place the Cocos Islands in tie Indian Ocean under the authority of Australia. Agreement for
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    Lock icon The New Chairman
    34 4 Mr. Loo BafT Chit was elected Chairman of the Bukit Panjang Rural District Committee, Singapore, and also Chairman of the Man agement Committee of the Bukit Panjang Community Centre for 1955.
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    89 4 MALACCA, 'lues Hongkong film actor-producer Yen Tsun said here today that Malacca might be the locale for two or three projected Mandarin films with a Malayan background Yen flew into Malacca yesterday from Ipoh after a tour of north of Malaya on the eve of the
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    Lock icon PATIENT HURT AFTER FALL
    45 4 TAN AH NEH, a 32-year-old woman, fell from the first floor of Kandang Kerbau Hospital in Singapore, on Monday. She was removed to the General Hospital with face and head injuries. Tan had given birth to a child the previous day.
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    Lock icon YOUNG CITIZENS WEEK ENDS
    60 4 KUALA TRENGGANU. Tues —Young Citizens Week in Kuala Trengganu concluded today with a flag-hoisting ceremony and parade by school children. Other items organized by the Youth Council of Trengganu during the week included a talk on Federal elections by the State Election Officer, an oratorical contest
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    Lock icon MAN TELLS STORY OF A STABBING
    195 4 AN eye-witness account of a fatal stabbing at a house in West Hill Road on the night of Oct. 27, last year, was given by Bernard V. P. Gomez, a cook, in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. Giving evidence at the trial of Appavoo
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    Lock icon ART EXHIBITION OPENS FRIDAY
    33 4 THE Sixth Open Exhibition of Photographs sponsored by the Singapore Art Society will be officially opened by the U.S. Consul-General. Mr. J. Lampton Berry, at 5.30 p.m. on Friday.
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    Lock icon Forget Petty Quarrels —Sardon
    155 4 Forget Petty Quarrels Sardon PENANG, Tues. As the target date for Federal elections draws nearer and nearer, the Alliance must forget their minor squabbles and concentrate on winning the 52 elected seats, said Inche Sardon Zubir, the UMNO youth leader, today. Inche Sardon met the UMNO youths of Penang at
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    Lock icon Speed And Comfort Of Air Travel
    128 4 THE speed, safety and comfort with which humans travel through the air to other lands, and animals from the Far East carried to European and American circuses, was shown yesterday evening at a cinema show by the X.L.M. Royal Dutch Airlines in Shell's Theatrette.
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    Lock icon Call-Up Youth Is Charged
    63 4 Call -Up Youth Is Charged TOH Kee Seng, a Singapore Chinese High School student, was charged in the Second Criminal District Court yesterday under the Colony's National Service Ordinance. It was alleged that as an enrolled member of the Civil Defence Corps he failed to attend training on three occasions
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    148 4 PENAN G, Tues. The iT g a re the candidates who handed in their nomina■?Vnf rS L° u Distri <-t Officer of Bandar Bahru contesting nine seats for three war! "S inn^f'u 1 1 C UnCil eleCtion to be held on Feb 13 TOWN WARD:
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      66 4 Weather Report Minimum Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. Jan. 31 to 7.30 a.m. Feb. I.— Singapore (73F), Penang (72F), KoU Bantu (70Fi. Kuala Lumpur (73F). Ipoh (73F), Kuatan (67F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. to 7.30 a.m. Feb. I—Singapore (85F), Penang '87F), Kota Bahru (84F), Kuala Lumpur (88F). Ipoh OOF). Kuanta
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    171 5 Closing Hours For K.L. Bars KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A recommendation that all ban and restaurants in the capital should close at 1.00 a.m. on ordinary days and i 2 00 am. on Saturdays and holidays, was referred back to its committee at the Municipal Council meeting, last night This ruling
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    232 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council last night directed heavy broadsides at the "street lighting-' agreement between the Central Electricity Board and the Municipality. The Council decided that negotiations be reopened with the Board so that it might be prevailed upon
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    131 5 BUILDERS URGED TO ABSORB STUDENTS KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Mr. K. Nankivell. the Federation's Director of Public Works, today urged building '•mtractors in the country to orb some of the 160 Malayan students now studying engineering and allied subjects in overseas Universities. Mr Nankivell, who was opening the recently- formed ChincM
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    508 5 Malayan Nationality After Polls, Says Onn KUALA LUMPUR, Tucs. T The present constitution of the Federation lacks an essential element" in the absence of provision for a single Malayan nationality and this by far will be a most difficult problem to a new Party Government after elections,
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    222 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The successful development of the member system as a principal instrument of Government in the Federation was lk in no small measure" due to Dato Onn bin Ja'afar. said the High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, today. In a tribute to the
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    71 5 IPOH. Tues.— Five bottles of liquor, 600 sticks of cigarettes and $5 in cash are missing from the bar adjoining the Sergeant's Mess of the 3 Coy RASC in Ashby Road here. The attendant Sergeant. Thomas Robertson, went to the bar yesterday morning and found
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    132 5 PEKANG. Tues.— The ferry service is being specially extended up to 1.30 a.m. on Feb. 5 and up to 2 a.m. on Feb- 6 to enable Indians from Province Wellesley to take part in the Thaipusam festival here. In addi'ion- late buses will be run
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    52 5 Pboto by LITTLE Steve Pearson makes an attempt to rut the rake at his christening party after being baptized by the Rev. Dumper at the Church of St. John, Ipoh recently. His parents. Mr. G. E. Pearson. Secretary of the Federation Chamber of Mines, and Mrs. Pearson look
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    222 5 $40,000 Fire Destroys Shop Family Nearly Trapped PENANG, Tues.— Damage estimated at $40,000 was caused by a fire which gutted a tyre retreading shop in the heart of Chinatown in Carnarvon Street, here at noon, today. The fire which destroyed the shop. Chop Sin Leong. within half an hour, drew
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      474 6 Asia: Doubts Fears rFHE cold war between the Communists and the Western Powers is getting warmer, particularly in the Far East where the Formosa issue between Red China and the Nationalist Chinese seems to be approaching boiling point. With the increase of efforts from the West to find a peaceful
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      319 6 A CCORDING to a Reuter report from Tokio, high American authorities there declared that American military power in that area was ready even to use the atom bombs against the Chinese Communist mainland targets. President Eisenhower's delicate position is thus being rendered even more precarious by such
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    680 6  - PEKING WOOS ASIAN NEUTRALS PHILIP DEANE Delhi, Tuesday COMMUNIST China is again stealing a diplomatic march over the United States and has practically assured herself a resounding success at the Afro-Asian conference in Indonesia although there are three months to go until that meeting. This is the opinion of diplomats
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    147 6 THE BLACK BOY WITH A BLACK FUTURE live in a one-roomed shanty measuring not more than ten by fifteen feet. TN some of these hovels 1 there is not enough room to lie full-out on the ground. There is no light. There is no water. And the sanitation consists of
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    207 6 Review of Views A Lament SQHUNG SHING JIT PAO disS agrees with English philoX sopher Bertrand Russell who S attacked President Dwight Eisenhower for his present S Formosan policy. ©People like Russell, the daily v laments, are only concerned X with peace of a temporary V nature and overlook coma
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    383 7 Stossen Explains Programme For US. Aid To Asia LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1 (Reurer)-Mr. Harold Srassen, the United States Foreign Aid Director, said today that the projected aid programme for Asia was "utterly different from the Marshall Plan which restored Europe Mr. Stassen told a meeting of the
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    160 7 Korea Will Join U.S. If China War Flares Up SEOUL, Feb. 1, (AP)— South Korea's top military leader said today his 20--division army would "act in complete co-ordination with United Nations forces" in case of a shooting war between the United States and Red China. General Lee Hyung Keun. chairman
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    78 7 CHICAGO. Feb. 1, (AP) A man convicted of murdering his wife married yesterday the woman who paid the legal costs and saved him from the electric chair. But instead of going on a honeymoon. Edward Proszewski, 32, was hustled off to start a 14-year prison term for
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    167 7 Ex Nazi's Appeal Is Turned Down BONN. Feb. 1, (Reuter) Dr. Konrad Adenauer, the West German Chancellor, has rejected an appeal for help by former Nazi Field Marshal Ferdinand Schoerner, whose recent return from 10 years Soviet captivity was greeted by allegations that he illtreated his wartime troops. Ihoerner, 62,
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    63 7 HOLLYWOOD Feb. 1. (AP) Actress Rhonda Fleming yesterday had full possession of her US$75 000 home. Her estranged husband. Dr. Lew Morriil moved out on Sunday night. The red-haired beauty complained over the weekend thai Dr. Morriil camped in the bedroom after she returned from
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    67 7 LONDON. Feb. 1 (Reuter)— Twelve thousand underground railway workers have threatened to strike within 14 days if the balance of a 15 per cent wage claim is not met. Their union leaders rejected new wage proposals made by the London Transport executive The underground workers
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    50 7 WIDNES, Lancashire. Feb. 1 (Reuter) A former milk bar manageress, Miss Beata Brookes, the 25-year-old daughter of a Welsh farmer, was chosen as prospective Conservative candidate here yesterday. Miss Brookes is already the only woman member of her home town council at Rhy) in North Wales.
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    34 7 RANGOON, Feb. 1 (Reuter).— The 9,100-ton British cruiser Newcastle arrived here today on a four-day goodwill visit with the Com-mander-in-Chief of the Far East Station, Admiral Sir Charles Lam be. on board.
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    186 7 TOKYO. Feb. 1 (Reuter)— A tiny Japanese island which depends on Tokyo, 220 miles away, for Its food and other necessities is on the verge of starvation, it was learned here today. Rough seas have supply ships from reaching the island. Aogashima,
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    68 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 1 The following ore the closing prices of rubber and tin on the London Market. LONDON RUBBER Spot 1916. March 1916. April/June 29id. July/September 29|d. October/ December 29 d. February c.i f. 29jd. Tone: Dull. LONDON TIN Spot £707 buyers, £708
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    45 7 photo. THE United States submarine Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, is seen here during her first diving trials off the New England coast recently, a few days after her first surface trials. She is oowered by her own nuclear reactor.- A.P.
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    215 7 WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, <AP)— Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway yesterday brought his opposition to proposed army manpower cuts into the open and said it would jeopardise the American position in the Far East. The Army Chief of Staff 1 made his position clear to the House
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    50 7 TIMNINS Canada. Feb. 1 'AP) Discipline took a new twist yesterday when a student monitor charged school principal Earl Everson with breaking a school law. Without a murmur the principal spent a few leisure hours Denning the lines "I must not wear my rubbers in school."
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    260 7 NEW YORK. Feb. I, (AP) —Adhesive tape binding the slain Serge Rubinstein was revealed yesterday to have borne fingerprints, presumably his slayer's. At least one print was believed to be a woman's. The 10 to 15 fingerprints from the Rubinstein bedroom were being checked
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    48 7 NAIROBI. Feb. 1. (Reuter). A meeting of one hundred European settlers at Thomson's Falls in Kenya s White Highlands yesterday condemned with only three dissenting votes the government's recent amnesty offer to Mau Mau terrorists. They demanded the offer be withdrawn at once.
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    230 7 U.K. Writers Support Lawrence Of Arabia LONDON, Feb. 1. (Reutcr) Angry British writers have quickly rallied to the support of Lawicnce of Arabia— one of the nation's favourite romantic heroes attacked as an imposter in a book published here at the week-end. Author Richard Aldington, in "Lawrence ot Arabia" accused
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    60 7 LONDON. Feb. 1. (Renter)— Mr. Anthony Nutting. Minister of State for Foreign Allans, said yesterday British troops would stay in Korea *W long as the situation requires it." He was replying in the House of Commons to a question by a Conservative. Mr. Harris, who asked
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      57 8 photi GRACIA TAY and Keng the August Moon." now thfi r f>v Hmt Long Chee, both from Singa- Paying .at Her Majesty s (hm^v, pore, who have announced S*^ their engagement. London School of Lconomii s. po*s" f r<ja v Gracia is in "Tea House
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      57 8 SERVICE In Nigeria TWO pretty African girls. Virginia Charity Ahakpo. 18, and n Esther Adchcsin, 19. are the first to start a car valeting and petrol pump service at Yaba near Lagos, Nigeria. Here Virginia and Esther, watched by two little boys, are getting car ready for the road before
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      47 8 Excuse Me Talking While I'm Eating EXCUSE me talking while 'm eating, but I love apples and tomatoes. It's my twelfth birthday, and the visitors to Whipsnade Zoo have sent me heaps. I'm Mohan the rhino and it seems my keeper has another apple for me. Mirrorpic.
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      34 8 photo. MARILYN MONROE is caught wide-eyed by the camera at a New York party. With her is photographer Milton Greene at whose home she stayed following a break-up with ler husband Joe Dimaagio.- U.P.
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    249 10  - Curtains Up At The Palace Noel Whitcombe 'THE most exclusive film premiere of all time will takp place in London this week. Most of the audience will b" very ordinary people, sitting on garden chair?. The movie they will ?ee Will be a forty-five-minute travelogue in colour, produced, directed and
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    995 10 Olivier In One Of His Greatest Roles r rilE filming of Shakespeare's "Richard III," which Sir Laurence Olivier has produced in association with London Films and in which he re-enacts one of his greatest stage roles as the notorious hunchback king, is in the cutting stages this week at Shep-
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    291 10 Now Paul Is The New Heart-Throb A young man with the athle- tic ability of a Douglas Fairbanks and the personal magnetism of a Rudolph Valentino bids fair to become the newest Hollywood heartthrob. That would be Paul Newman, of Cleveland. 0., and the Broadway stage. And take it from
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    498 10 Python, The Matman, Is Mr. Camera Python is the cunning violent brute u'}io draws the crowd because he is capable of doing anything. Contempt of those who lose or who are weak if natural to him He is the fighting bull with the bull's cunning charging to\ca ds the bull's
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    46 10 photo. CONSTANCE SMITH, of Ardnocrusho, Limerick. Ireland, in her roof garden in Rome. She has acted in a number of Hollywood films, including "The Big Tip-off" with Richard Monti and "Thirtieth Letter" with Charles Boyer, and is now to make some films in AP
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      209 10 It Is No Garden Of Eden said Lex, "it's got to go!" Richard Davalos describes the place as "Hawaii's answer to Knott's Berry Farm." famed southern California tourist attraction 'AILUA is the hub of the L Kona Coffee Coast. Schools stay closed until after the coffee harvest so the rchole
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      295 10 \f-G-M's star studded proA Auction "Weekend At Las Vegas" will have Esther Williams as one of its headliners. M-G-M Studio Head Dore Senary announced. The movie mermaid, who l« apcearing in an act at the Sahara Hotel in the desert resort, will be a highlight of the story
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    305 11  - SALVATION OF RUBBER DEPENDS ON REPLANTING KHOO BOON CHOO By PENANG, Tues.— The salvotion of the Malayan rubber industry will depend on a more vigorous application of the replanting programme, although at present there has already been a satisfactory progress on replanting This view was expressed by the President of
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    218 11 TRADING IN SHARE MART QUIET Standard Market Reporter THERE was quiet trading in the Malayan share market yesterday with both industrials and tins showing variable trends. With few exceptions, rubber shares eased. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: ENTITLED -The Artists View of an Industry,' an
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    70 11 artists and bought the entire collection. The artists were free to choose their subjects and taken to refineries, storuge depots, and research centres as they preferred. No restrictions were imposed on style and treatment. A committee of five, which advised on the selection of the artists,
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    559 11 THE U.S. is expected to have higher sales for all rubber products during 1955 and a 4<> increase in consumption Is anticipated, says the rubber report of Lewis Peat (Singapore) Ltd. for the second half of 1954. I Tubeless tyres came in for
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    206 11 THE produce market in Singapore remained quiet in most section with little price variations yesterday. Copra opened quiet and steadied later, buyers of February shipment indicating $31 2 at the close. Pepper prices were about unchanged from Monday, with little trading reported. Singapore Copra Association Copra prices
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    36 11 A PAINTING by Rowel 1 Tyron entitled "Gas Storage Tank" (Stanlow Refinery, Cheshire) is seen above. Picture on left is a painting by Alfred Daniels entitled "3/C CFR Supercharged Engine" (Shell Haven Refinery, Kssexl. Shell Photos.
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    49 11 THAILAND has a big exportable surplus from the 1954 rice crop but it* is a little under what was available after the 1953 season. The 1953 figure was 1,300.000 tons. The Agriculture Ministry announced on Tuesday it estimated the surplus at one million metric tons.— AP
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    177 11 Rubber Price Regains 7/8c. Closes Barely Steady Vinanev And Commerce RUBBER prices in the Singapore market yesterday closed barely steady at 51.03J per lb- for first grade February shipment, a rise of -J cent on Monday With good offtake from the United States and the Continent and some short covering
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    60 11 SHELL Oil Company, the new operator of the Torrance synthetic plant, is offering: synthetic rubber at 23 cents (U.S.) per lb. f.o.b. producers plant, according: to a cabled report from Akron, Ohio. This price, plus local trucking: charge, places the synthetic rubber f.o.b. Los Ang:eles consumer
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    208 11 $69,745 Profit For Benta THE Benta Rubber Estates. Ltd., reported a profit after taxation of $69,745 for the year to Sept. 30, 1954 ($106,668 for the previous year). The chairman. Mr. R.D. Hume states in his annual review that the year covered a period of low prices for rubber resulting
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    19 11 MOTOR vehicle output in U.S. factories in January will come to 657,000 cars and 93,500 trucks.— AP
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    Lock icon Tug Stands By For Big Job
    260 11 Standard Shipping Reporter THE 500-ton British tug Growler, a sister ship of the world-famous Turmoil of Flying Enterprise fame, is now in Singapore, en route to Britain from Hongkong and also standing by for a "big towing job." The Growler, an Admiral-ty-owned tug, is
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    Lock icon Narrowing Of Premium For Straits Tin A Feature
    285 11 Narrowing Of Premium For Straits Tin A Feature TWO features of interest in tin during the year were the narrowing of the premium for Straits Tin and the disappearance of the backwardation, according to the annual review of the Straits Trading Co, Ltd. From a peak of £52.10.0 on March
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    Lock icon BIDDING FOR LEXA MAERSK RUBBER BRISK
    112 11 BRISK bidding for some 300 bales of damaged rubber, salvaged from the Lexa Maersfc which caught fire on Christmas Day, was reported by the manager of Messrs. Cheong Hock Chye Co. Ltd.. Mr. Yeo Wee Sect. The rubber, comprising six lots of ribbed smoked
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    57 11 COMMERCIAL aviation which Goering used to build the Luftwaffe that bombed England during World War Two is being reborn in Oakland, California. The first pilots and flight engineers who will man the aircraft of West Germany's Deutsche Lufthansa, have already completed their course of training at a school
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    176 11 Standard Staff Reporter INSURANCE is probably the most misunderstood thing today, according to Mr. S. L. Bhoraskar, past President of the Insurance Institute ol Malaya. He told members at the Institute's annual dinner at the Capitol Restaurant last night the public has believed that insurance companies amass
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    32 11 CANADA will start to design this spring a small experimental atomic power plant to produce electricity and it may begin operation early in 1958, the government said Mondiy. AP
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    38 13 photo from London. Keith Miller, Australia, cuts Frank Tyson. MCC during Australia's opening innings in the fourth cricket Test at Adelaide on Jan. 28. Later, Miller was caught Builoy bowled Apnlevard for 44. Associated Press
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    332 13 |f OEBS |B >l»tor Cycle landed S «apw« id iw« md t"" 1 >; tv roinpete br held e \l»>n <•» (>l> g tl Corner that they would willing to pay each Colony and motor cyclist n Rs. 500 and Rs. 350 respectively. The road races at Kandy carry
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    48 13 MR. P.W Corner, Secretary of the Sinirapo*'' 1 >1 > tor Club, said today that he had written to the Sultan of Johore in England, asking for permission to run the Grand Prix this year. He has not received a reply so far. he added.
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    Lock icon APPLEYARD IS NEW THREAT FOR AUSTRALIANS
    574 13 Leads Attack For England i a D LAIDE < Feb. 1, (Reuter)— Australia led England by 51 runs with seven second innings wickets in hand on the fourth day of the fourth Test which was left in an extremely infesting position. England, who lead
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    192 13 Australia Ist Inns. 323 England Ist Inns. L. Hutton c Davidson b Johnston 80 VV. Edrich b Johnson 21 P. May c Archer b Benaud 1 M.C. Cowdrey c Maddoiks b Davidson 79 D. Compton Ibw b Miller 44 T. Bailey c Davidson b Johnston 38 T.G. Evans
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    Lock icon Cowdrey Gets Hurt
    100 13 Cowdrey. the young England batsman, broke his nose while fielding today against Australia in the fourth, an X-ray revealed. Cowdrey fielding in the gully to Morris was struck between the eyes by a ball whicn bounced sharply. He was carrie f off thp field and at first
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    Lock icon Test Ends In Draw
    49 13 LAHORE (West Pakistan), Feb. 1 (AP).— The third cricket Test match between India and Pakistan ended today in another draw. The score: Pakistan, first innings. 328. India, first innings. 251. Pakistan, second innings, 136 for five wickets declared. India, second innings, 74 for two wickets.
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    Lock icon Six New Caps For S'pore: One Problem For Fed.
    323 13 EXCEPT for Bourdett Coutts who retains his position, the Singapore hockey team will take the field at Ipoh this Sunday against Malaya in the second International with a completely new forward line. I The Colony tea"n which has undergone vigorous training
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    Lock icon Wolves Are Favourites For FA Cup
    239 13 Wolves Are Favourites For FA Cup LONDON. Feb. 1 (Reuter>— Wolverhampton Wanderers were confirmed as favourites to win the Football Association Cup when a callover took place at the Victoria Club tonight a few hours after the fifth round draw had been made. Naturally with the elimination of teams in
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    Lock icon Waiting For Austrians
    69 13 OFFICIALS of the Singapore Amateur Football Association were disappointed yes-te-day when they were kept waiting in vain for the arrival of the Admira Wein Football Club. iU The Austrian Footballers who are the first to come from behind the Iron Curtain, did not arrive as expected by
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    Lock icon Springdale Beats School
    34 13 SPRINGDALE Sports Club beat Beatty Secondary School by five goals to nil in a friendly soccer match played at Farrer Park yesterday. Pian Soon (4) and Ah Chye scored for Springdale.
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    Lock icon A Knock-Out
    34 13 PARIS, Jan. 31 (Reuter)— Seraphin Ferrer, lightweight champion of France, tonight knocked out Paddy Demarco (United States), former world lightweight champion, in the fifth round of their scheduled 10 rounds bout here.
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    55 13 Today's Sport RUGBY: R.N.A.S. Sembawang vs. R.A.F. Seletar at Seletar; Johore vs. H.M.b. Consort at Johore Bahru: S.C.C. vs. R.-V. Kranji at Kranji. SOCCER: Vienna Admira S.C vs. Singapore Combined at jalan Besar 8 p.m.: Falhul Karib Club vs. Woodbridge Hospital at Jalan Besar, 7 p.m. RACES: Singapore Jan.Feb. Meeting,
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    Lock icon Postponed
    24 13 THE junior hockey knockout fixture between Royal Air Force Seletar and Young Men's Christian Association, which was to be played yesterday was postponed.
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    Lock icon WANDERERS OUT OF KO TOURNEY
    297 13 WANDERERS Sports Club were eliminated from the Singapore Hockey Association's senior knockout tournament when they went down to the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club 1-0 on the Girls Sports Club ground yesterday The Wanderers opened the game strongl/ and in the first three minutes they came
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    Lock icon LEN HUTTON THE ACTOR
    59 13 ENGLAND'S Test skipper, Leonard Hutton will be seen executing ali his favourite strokes in the film to be shown to members of the Singapore Cricket Association at the Shell Theatrette on Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 6 p.m. Members of the S.C.A. wishing to attend may contact
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      183 13 Ibner By Al Copp I -V.V2S.™ MEXT-TH'BRAT GETS MIS- L AN' TWEN I BOWS OUT fiT,— V lT WAS BECAUSE O' YOU. TMAT 1 t>lO J/ V LEAVIM' YOU ALONE, J^L j THIS TO YOUR K\Of?~ j Oop By T.V. Hamlin TELLINARAUd WiTH YOU. I V^TTPH I UN^! I LIKE
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    1436 14 Race Ii 2.1 5 p.m. Howe* Clatt 3, Div. z-o rM ugoure L 2 Bracelet Boy ?,y 9.00 Mr. Yap Kirn Hoc {JiJ^' 1 1 ".V.V. Bagby ?lt Snow Blaze 5V 8.1?, "Huka Kongsi' M i?J^ Mortimer S. 830 Sky High *5y 8.11 Mr. M. M. Whittles IJISS-; Elllot 4.
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    Lock icon Race 5 Belongs To King Crow
    382 14 KIN<. I Kirn has r«-li.ihilit;ili-i| huiiM-li itft**r .1 Irt-iip ami cm win this iius> our dixtsion two mile \eiit. On Monday this Kingstone geldinc took the eye when he ran a fluent three furlongs solo in 42 »*c on a heavy track. He loves
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    213 14 Windsor Lad The Pilot Trundle Hill Scrutineer oo t tvi rTMRnv"^" SNOW BLAZE SNOW BLAZE SNOW BLAZE BRACELET BOY R, f .Vy Sugar Bush Talkie II 1 S5r r ß |Ksi Taikfe II Proctor Bracelet Boy B~\\KFR BOY ASMARA DISTRIBUTOR &SMAKA 2\mnira Banker Boy Asmara Bon Trevor Koii
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    Lock icon DETERMINATION (With 9.7) CAN WIN
    1409 14  -  WINDSOR LAD By DESPITE the heavy impost of 9.7, Determination, who is now in peak form, should assert his superiority in the main six furlongs sprint for class one division one performers today, second day of the Singapore Turf Club's January February meeting at Bukit
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    Lock icon RACE 8: SEVEN FURLONGS WILL SUIT FAIRY GIFT
    293 14 fAiKY Out put in a grand display over the mile on the first day when finishing third, behind Harwood and Privateer, and I expect her to score over the seven. This Hyacinthus mare hit the I front soon on sighting the straight
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    480 14 Jockey To Follow... PROVIDED there is no further rain, the going for today will, at best, be yielding. LITTLE ANDY in race 3 MILLIONAIRE in race 5 very good trac* form to commend and could improve on his sixth to Bon Tresor on the first day. He drops two pounds.
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