Singapore Standard, 8 February 1955

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    16 1 Singapore Standard fc A> H 2 •II SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 19.>5 J2 PAGES 1> CENTS
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    Lock icon ALAY MUST BE UR NATIONAL NGUAGE'-ONN
    951 1 Dream' To Make English lingua Franca, He Says LUMPUR, Mon. Dato Sir Onn Secretary-General of Party Negara, Malay must become and remain the longuogc of the future sovereign and efl t State of Malaya. pendent Malaya must also deationality of its oonw n people
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    Lock icon Blames ain For cing Us The Reds'
    54 1 Blames ain For cing Us The Reds' M m. I OS ana we people by forelers. T^.g tO and dan- :ay hit ng on f to into Hess of he such al-born ol the of the j ments. and people. I Chinese f rt deed md cood r this L
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    Lock icon Three Types Of Slits!
    72 1 Three Types Of Slits! FROM left: Mannequins Miss Laura Koh in cyclamen velvet v.ith silver lame border featuring only ONE SIDE SLIT.; Miss Violet Ho i n green brocade with dark green satin leaf-pattern border, showing the conventional TWO SLITS: and Miss Annie Lim in mauve shot with silver, sporting
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    Lock icon IS IT A MANIAC WHO ATTACKS THE K.K. BABIES?
    321 1 IS IT A MANIAC WHO ATTACKS THE K.K. BABIES? IS there a mysterious maniac haunting the wards of Singapore's Kandan£ Kerbau Maternity Hospital, intent on pouring hot water on helpless infants? This is a question that has been baffling hospital authorities and Police, especially after the attack on a fourth
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    Lock icon Reds Keep Off Tachen Pull-out
    375 1 Reds Keep Off Tachen Pull-out 700 Planes Provide Air Umbrella or Nationalist Evacuation TthFleetCommander Reports 'No Incidents' TAIPEI, Feb. 7, (Reuter) General Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist* troops began evacuating the Tachen Islands off the coast of China today under cover of about 700 United States jet planes and other aircraft. Nationalist
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    Lock icon SABOTEURS RIP OUT 25,000 RUBBER TREES
    116 1 SABOTEURS RIP OUT 25,000 RUBBER TREES JAKARTA. Feb. 7 (Reuter) Twenty-five thousand young rubber trees have been pulled out and carried away by unknown persons at Belawan Estate in East JLjmatra in one night last week, it was reported today by "Pia". Indonesian News Agency. This mass destruction of rubber
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    Lock icon Dockers Plan A Boycott
    43 1 LONDON. Fcb 7. (Reuter)— Leaders of Britain's National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Union announced here today that they will recommend members to boycott all ships carrying arms for use against Communist China at an executive meeting next Friday night.
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    Lock icon Speed Trial On Day Mail Succeeds
    260 1 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— For the first time since the last war, the Kuala Lumpur-Singa-pore day mail arrived in Johore Bahru, 16 miles from Singapore. 81 minutes ahead of schedule. To set up this record the train did 45 miles per hour at certain stretches
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    Lock icon £15,000 STOLEN FROM BANK
    62 1 LONDON. Feb. 7, (AP) Robbers tunnelled into a bank within sight of the Houses of Parliament and fled vith £15.000 after blasting open a safe bank officials discovered today. Scotland Yard men swarmed into the basement of the St. Jame's Street branch of Martin's Bank They
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    Lock icon Japs To Trade With China
    39 1 HONGKONG. Feb. 7. (UP) K.L. Suzuki, a member of the Japanese Association for Promotion of International Trade, who arrived on Sunday from Peking, said Japan ha.s signed contracts totalling Hk528,000,000 with the Chinese Communists.
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    Lock icon 50 Home Guards Surround Ipoh Cinema
    76 1 50 Home Guards Surround Ipoh Cinema IPOH, Mon. A combined Police force of censtabies. area security unit and the Kinta Valley Home Guards ot about 50 strong today surrounded the Odeon Theatre in the heart of the town in a screening operation. The operation started at 4 p.m. and when
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    Lock icon US WARSHIPS CAN REFUEL IN HONGKONG
    56 1 US WARSHIPS CAN REFUEL IN HONGKONG LONDON, F 7 ißcuter) American warships engaged in any righting over Formosa will be able to put in to the British Colony of Hongkong for repair and refuelling. Government made this clear in the House of Commons today despite left-wing Labour protests that it
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    Lock icon DEFENCE TREATY
    19 1 THE Philippine Senate Foreign Relations Committee has unanimously approved the South-east Asia Collec- tive Defence Treaty.- UP
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    Lock icon SOEKARNO HAS WIFE TROUBLE AGAIN
    145 1 JAKARTA. Feb. 7 (UP) Domestic trouble in President Soekarno's household hit the front paces again today with a newspaper report the President's first wife was building herself a separate house in Jakarta suburb. The newspaper. Pedoman, said Fatmawati Soekarno, mother of the Presidents five children
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    Lock icon It's Part Of Our New Plan —Chiang
    151 1 It's Part Of Our New Plan —Chiang TAIPEI. Feb. 7. (AP)Chinese Nationalist President Chiang Kai-shek said today the evacuation and iedeployment of his Tachen island troops were "positive preparations for the counter-a tta c k (against the Red mainland) and not a negative stand.*' President Chiang, in a written statement,
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    Lock icon Djambi Has Worst Flood In 1OOYears
    77 1 THE HAGUE. Feb. 7 (Reuter) The swollen Batang Hari River has made thousands homeless and cut oil almost all land communications at Djambi, south-east Sumatra, in the worst floods for a hundred years, according to Pia. Indonesian news agency message received here today. Colonel
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    43 1 LONDON. Feb. 7 (Reutrr) Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru and Sir Anthony Eden today rpported to a special Formosa session of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference here on Mr. Vyaeheslav Molotov's separate meetings on Friday with the British and Indian envoys in Moscow.
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      7 1 PSEASON oft« H WILLS. BRISTOL 8t 10M00H.
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      63 1 NOTICE IT HAS been brought to the attention of The Singapore Standard that a number of leaflets from a political party in the Federation were distributed in Kuala Lumpur with yesterday's issue of this newspaper. The Standard wishes to inform its readers that such distribution was completely unauthorized and done
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    Lock icon Penang Lost $10 M Foreign Trade In 1954
    316 2 Neighbouring Countries Help PENANG, Mon.— Although Penong's total foreign trade last year was some $10 million lower than 1953, yet the percentage of total Federation trade coming through Penang was higher and trade with the neighbouring territories also increased. This was revealed
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    Lock icon NO DANGER OF WATER SHORTAGE IN PENANG
    167 2 NO DANGER OF WATER SHORTAGE IN PENANG PEXAN'G. Mon.— Despite the present prolonged drought, there is no reason to fear any shortage of water here as the $1,250,000 water scheme at Telok Bahang. started about a year ago. is now almost completed and can supply water into the system if
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    55 2 COMMODITY PRICES t LONDON RUBBER No 1 K.S.S. Settlement House Terms Monday's opening prices tarsi ***vm«io *rr*. B»ivi»r« March 2!>J 30 Apl. June 3f>i 29; July Sept. 291 29} Tone: Easier. lON I (ON lIN Monday's opening session were Spot £719 buyers, £720 sellers. Three months £720 buyers £721 sellers
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    Lock icon FIVE NEW CHIEFS
    84 2 IPOH. Mon.— The Su'.tan of Perak has awarded the Perak Meritorious Service Medal to Yang Ma h a Mulai Raja Ta'ayah binte Raja Abdul Ham:d. Raja Perempuan. Perak. at the Istana, Kuala Kangsar. this morning which was preceded by the installation ceremony of five new chiefs. The
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    Lock icon Cyclist Is Assaulted With Sticks And Bars
    88 2 Cyclist Is Assaulted With Sticks And Bars PEXAXG. Mon. While riding a bicycle along King Street yesterday morning, a man. Naina Mohavned. was attacked by ten persons who hit him with sticks and iron bars The victim's arms are suspected to be broken. The motive for the attack is not
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    Lock icon Val D'Or School Gets $11,000
    86 2 Val D'Or School Gets $11,000 PENANG. Mon. Government's allocation of $11,000 for improvements to the Val DOr village school has helped to add two new blocks of class rooms, each block containing three class rooms to the school. As no government funds are available to provide a new .school hall,
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    33 2 photo. SGT. MAJOR Ibrahim bin Dahan of the District Police HQ. Kulai, hands over the keys to the Kxdai gates to Lt. Hicw Nai Fui of the Home Guards.- Standard
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    Lock icon Home Guards Take Over Kulai Defence
    232 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The defence of Kulai New Village became the responsibility of the Johore State Home Guards yesterday at a small but colourful ceremony at the Court House. Kulai Besar Kulai. The ceremony was watched by six Cambodian police inspectors headed by Prince
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    78 2 2 Services For Assizes Opening PENAN G, Mon. For the first time two church services were held to mark the ceremonial opening of the Penang Assizes today. At the "Church of the Assumption, a "red" Mass, that is, Mass of the Holy Ghost, was performed tor the Catholic members of
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    37 2 HONGKONG. Feb. 7. Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.68 to £1 sterling; $5.9375 to US$l: $1,830 to Malayan $1; $0.1765 to one Indonesian Rupiah: Gold $261.25 to a tael.
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    Lock icon Judge Spares Man's Lite, Sends Him To Jail
    318 2 Judge Spares Man's Lite, Sends Him To Jail JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. -Mr. Justice Storr spared a man's life in the Assize Court here today and instead sent him to prison for life. The man. Chiang Ah Chee, had pleaded guilty to a charge of consorting with persons Who were unlawfully
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    Lock icon THAIPUSAM GOD GE ANGRY WITH 'UNCLEAN' WOM
    219 2 THAIPUSAM GOD GE ANGRY WITH 'UNCLEAN WOM HINDU BELIEF AT TfJ PENANG, Mon. A report that God Subramaniam was angry with an Indian woman, who was suddenly seized with cramp in the legs while going up a hill to a temple, spread among hundreds of Indians celebrating Thaipusam yesterday. They
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    Lock icon Step – Father Accused Of Raping Girl
    94 2 Step Father Accused Of Raping Girl KOTA BAHRU. Mon.— A 12. year-old girl, Marian bir.it Yacob. alleged in the H Court, this morning, that I step-father raped her while hhc was on her way to school The step-father. Yusof bin Arshad. 28. a padi planter, ii tentatively charged with raping
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    Lock icon WOMAN IS MURDERED
    56 2 ALOR STAR, Mor. A year-old woman, Haji 1 binte Ahmad was I murdered in her bed morning. She had a stab wound on the neck. Her husband heard Mine noise after midnight b;.' <'. not suspect anything at the time. When ?he did not g> for prayers
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    29 2 Dato Dropp 'Sir' Portt m A Da: A I 0: < the otSl a B: m I nrc-< c 's>3 'he re-;.^3 fo.io. 0- bißji d I 1 Do: .3
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    36 2 MBONC. fill Tlin wa^ »ifl«P of fowU m Liv thr Xiboßs Tflti thp weekend The rhicfcti vt.xk for tiK Cta season, a Ptl* said toda'- Ti* >to|rn h* ri>t rlem^nt* their fo<»d SM^
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    Lock icon CNATION' THE GEM' 'CONTROVERSY' 'SOOCHOW ROSE' AUTUMN DREAM' SOPHISTICATION'
    194 3 1 "Fascination" a frosted green crepe cheongsam with vine-leaf adornment worn by Nancy Koh. O Laura Koh modelling "Gem of the East," a powder blue Chinese silk dress with a circular cape that goes around the shoulders and is studded with
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    168 3 Demand Get All-Asian Jury M«m.— Three labourers successfully l Kuropeans selected as jurors and got Nj < mpannelled for their joint trial on vdviivr at the Assizes here today. Ihe men, Sundarajoo. Mu;amy who b Sundarajoo's CT, and Gurusamy, were ged with murdering one do at Kampong Java Bahru nir
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    41 3 cup Storm ds Three Hospital 25 Giian, 3u. a not I in the i tenera] vathed eytd treat- r taciaJ ;ht to une into Nil n who el n he i a bi I his, am- I on N« on ;ind
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    Lock icon $1,000 Bail Allowed For Police Inspector
    153 3 $1,000 Bail Allowed For Police Inspector KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. —Bail of $1,000 was today granted temporary Inspector James Stephens of the Kuala Kubu Bahru Police Station who claimed trial before the President of the Sessions Court to two counts of criminal breach of tiust and forgery. Stephens, who was charged
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    Lock icon 3rd YEAR OF ACCESSION
    37 3 THE third anniversary of the accession to the throne of the Queen was commemorated yesterday in Singapore with a 21-fun salute from Balkan Mati at 12 noon, by the First Singapore Regiment. R.A.
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    Lock icon Businessman To Contest Farrer Div.
    93 3 MR. A. Majid Ismail, a Singapore businessman, who announced yesterday that he will contest the Farrer Park division in the April elections to the Colony Legislative Assembly as an independent candidate. "I can make no promises now But my watchword is service to the people
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    Lock icon FOUND HANGING
    20 3 TAN Jik Loke. 49. was found hanging in a latrine of a house in Scah Street. Singapore yesterday.
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    Lock icon 17 Cheongsams Go Under The Hammer For $4,985
    226 3 17 Cheongsams Go Under The Hammer For $4,985 THE 17 cheongsams auctioned at the Chinese Swimming Cub on Sunday raJ i 54.085 for the E*poffe Anti-Turbercuiosis Association. The four-s'.it cheongsam fetched the highest price. It went to Mr Goh Cheng San for $~>2o. Mr Run Run Shaw donated another $520
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    304 3  -  TOM MARSH By ...IT TURNED OUT TO BE MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING APTLY named "Controversy", the much discussed four-slit cheongsam was the highlight of the fashion parade held at the Chinese Swimming Club's New Year Ball on Sunday evening. Modelled by Miss S. G. Lee. this white net
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    Lock icon RACKETEERS CAUGHT AS STUDENTS WATCH
    288 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Hundreds of Kuala Lumpur students today received an object lesson that crime does not pay. They were eye-witnesses to a wellplanned raid during which police arrested seven racketeers who were preying on children. The scene of the raid was a hilly path
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    81 3 THE Singapore Judo Club in celebration of its first anniversary, will hold a dance at the Singapore Badminton Hall on March 5 in aid of Boys Town and the Association for the Blind. A judo exhibition will be given by members of the club during
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    Lock icon MEKYA (The Elephant) ANSWERS A KEEPER'S CALL
    424 4 MEKYA (The Elephant) ANSWERS A KEEPER'S CALL After Three Yrs. Of Separation KUALA LUMPUR/ Mon, In one of the rarest reunions in the Malayan jungles, a Gurkha Gombola (Elephant Boy) of the Game Department has just found his elephant which escaped from custody in March, 1952, and got lost in
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    Lock icon 'Care-Taker Govt. Takes Over Till Elections
    178 4 'Care-Taker Govt. Takes Over Till Elections SINGAPORE will be administered by a "care-taker Government until such time as a Council of Ministers is appointed after the General Elections in April, this year. Members of this Government are those who now form the Executive Council. The Singapore Colony Order-in-Council which provides
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    155 4 BIGGER LOTTERY PRIZES KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Social Welfare lottery has received such a boomIng response from the public of Malaya that the Federation Government has Increased the total cash disbursements on each draw by $250,000. There will be a total of 96 j main prizes awarded at the 27th
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    43 4 THE Singapore Relief Court Magistrate, Mr. D. C. D'Cotla, yesterday dealt with about 100 cases within two and a half hours. Most of the charges were for causing obstruction on the roads, gambling and being drunk and incapable.
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    171 4 Call In The Police,' Says CID Chief IF SCHOOLS CAN'T CURB THOSE STUDENTS SINGAPORE Police yesterday urged Chinese school authorities to seek their aid if they cannot control the political activities of their students. The Director of the Special Branch. Mr. A. E. G. Blades. said this when commenting on
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    24 4 CHARMING Miss Mong Chin Lian who has been engaged to sing: Mandarin and English songs nightly at the Highway Inn. Singapore.
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    233 4 Where To Put 12 Patients JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Twelve persons in Johore Bahru are giving a man-sized headache to the District Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis with the problem of having suitable accommodation found for them outside the General Hospital wards and the Tampei Sanatorium
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    Lock icon Boy Drowned In A Well
    50 4 TAN Kee Meng, a three-year-old boy, was found drowned in a well at Lorong 17. Geylang, Singapore, yesterday evening. Opposite the Post Office in North Canal Road the same evening Lim Khai Peen. 58 was found dead. It is believed he had collapsed and died.
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    132 4 THE chairman of the Singapore Chinese Middle School Students Exemption Committee. Soon Low Boon, has been subpoenaed to appear before the Registrar of Societies, Mr. R. N. Broome today. In a statement issued yesterday, the student body said the subpoena was served by police dfficers.
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    198 4 'It's A Curb On Social Activity,' Says PMSF THE Pan-Malayan Students' Federation yesterday criticised Singapore Government's ban on what it described as the "social activities" of Chinese Middle School students. A statement issued after an executive committee meeting yesterday states that the PMBF feels the students of the Chinese Middle
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    87 5 ]jand Against 'otnmunism Is jol, Says Rhee Ml, Fcb 7 (UP) Pr e si dent Syngmon A yesterday the issue of war or peace '"depends on what the United Nations sfo still Has not the decision to .-ion/ Rhee said in an inter- M. moment
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    56 5 TOKYO. Feb. 7. (Rcuter) The Japanese navy fired its first postwar 21 gun salute in honour of a visiting foreign warship when the Swedish naval training ship Alvesnabben. of 4.000 tons arrived here today for a fiveday goodwill visit. She is the first Swedish naval ship
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    24 5 KYO A CITY MURDERS -or) :i Police today ne murwas City area the teaming of this a said 14 I mmitted. of had been
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    237 5 NEW YORK. Feb. 7, (IP)— The nearly nude body of a 24-year-old New York University sociology student who had been stabbed 40 times and choked was found yesterday in a friend's Greenwhich village apartment where she had been hiding from her boy friend since a quarrel
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    103 5 Wrong Man Was In Her Bed MANILA. Feb. 7. (UP) Mrs. Paulina Manuel reported to police today .she su>pected nothing at nrst when a man entered her bedroom last night and tlopped down beside her. •Mv husband Manuel often came home late from work." she explained. She called the police,
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    122 5 A Polecat Takes Over Classroom JOHNSON CITY. Tennessee Feb. 7. (AP)-Stinky, a lonesome polecat with a quest for knowledge and 'or warmth has taken possession of a part of Happy Valley High School. Stinky moved m* o school agriculture building with its 65 students ten days a-o and now has
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    Lock icon Showdown In Formosa Near
    84 5 TAIPEI. Fob 7 (Reuter) The Nationalist Chinese Premier. Mr. O. K. Yui. told a Kuomlntang party meeting today that the present situation was moving towards a final showdown." Speaking with force he added: "We are determined to invade the mainland and restore our nation We must
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    271 5 ST. GEORGES, Grenada. Feb. 7: (Reuter) Princess Margaret was caught in a tropical shower la.^t night during a garden party in the sugar and spice island of Grenada in the Windward Islands. The party was being held at Government House a few hours after the
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    104 5 AN unidentified schoolgirl (above) presents a.V bouquet of lilies to Princess Margaret at Arima Rate Course, during her recent visit to Trinidad Seated on the dais behind the Princess are the Governor of Trinidad, Major General Sir Hubert Ranee (left). and the Mayor of Arima Councillor Raphael Chinaleong (right), who
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    192 5 'Paris Treaties Will Go Through' BONN. Feb. 7. (Rcutsr) —The West German Chancellor Dr. Konrad Adenauer said in a nation-wide broadcast yesterday he was convinced that the fall of the French government would not have an adverse effect on the Paris treaties The treaties signed last October rearm a sovereign
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    62 5 SEOUL. Feb. 7. (Rcutcr) The Military Armistice Commission will meet on Wednesday to discuss Communist allegations that United Nations personnel crossed the military demarcation line into Communist territory, a United Nations Command spokesman announced today. The spokesman said, howover, the United Nations i Command had no
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    35 5 TOKYO. Feb 7 (Reuter) The Tokyo police reported today they had asked the International Criminal Police Committee in Paris (Interpol) to help identify 'bank notes" seized from a printing shop here.
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    53 5 If \<mi UN t !i<>m <".< time If i.f \ik"H' ur weak* i .<>u fclwuWl hi l|> your li <»• UUn4 Immediately with ROGKNA. Thm viiiiiil* i imi «lv in* makes you f« el filtfir. strotiß* r and uleep without hit« r r upt urn. <••( J:-
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      446 6 IN the explosive situation wh.ch is developing in the Far East over the Formosan issue, it i.s necessary to draw a clear distinction between the kind of peace desired by the democracies and that propounded by the Communists. There appears to be a great deal of
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    241 7 QUEMOY. Feb. 7, <AP> While a gun duel rages almost daily between this Nationalist held island and the Communist mainland only three miles away, a battle of words and ideas is also boiling. Communist and Nationalist Chinese blare at each other irom half a
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    59 7 Mountbatten Extinguishes Fire In Home ROMSEY. England. Feb. 7, AP) Fire threatened the borne of Earl Mountbatten while India's Prime Minister. •Jawaharlal Nehru, was a guest there last night. Earl and Lady Mountbatten were sitting in the drawing room with Pandit Nehru when a maid screamed "fire." Mountbatten grabbed a
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    53 7 ML'SENSTER. Feb. 7. (RevT e-> Two British soldiers were killed yesterday when the private car they were driving rushed int« a tree on the road betweei! Musenster *nd Nienberge, German police reported The Police said the car beongeri to a German farmer '*ho had
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    45 7 photo. CROONER Frank Sinatra and his daughter Nancy, 14, walk past cheering fans as they arrive at Sydney airport for a fortnight's tour of Australia. Sinatra told reporters that Lindsay Crosby, 16. son of Bing Crosby, was wooing Nancy. AP
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    207 7 Pi nay Asked To Head New French Govt. PARIS, Feb. 7, (Reuter)— President of the French Republic, M. Rene Coty, last night asked M. Antoine Pinay, the 63-year-old Conservative ex-Premier to form France's 21st postwar government. M. Pinay told reporters after his interview with the President of the Republic that
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    57 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 7 —The following ore the closing of rubber ond tin on the London Market. prices LONDON RUBBER 29id. Maxell 29id. am/1-— 29|d. SS&. ffi i 291 ToTe: Quiet. JSER?" T'N Spot £719 buyers, £720 sellers. Three months £721 «a« d Soles
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    55 7 KITZBUEHL. Austria, Feb. 7 (Reuter) The Duke of Kent arrived at this fashionable winter sports centre In the Tyrol last night for a skiing holiday. The 19-year-old Duke took a room in a modest boarding house where his room and breakfast will cost him
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    313 7 Splashed Beer Was A Signal VIENNA, Feb. 7, (Reuter) The American Embassy here lasr night issued a statement charging Soviet officials with setting a trap to implicate two Americans. The official statement replied to a Russian note which said two Americans. Robert Gray and Colonel
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    150 7 £7,000 Ransom RANGOON, Feb. 7, (Reuler)—Burmese bandits believed to be Communist rebels kidnapped a retired British Army oflicer. Colonel Richard Oswald Perrott, while he was bird shooting, 40 miles north of Rangoon yesterday, it was officially stated today. The bandits were reported to have demanded a
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    48 7 HULL. Yorkshire. Feb. 7, (Reuter)— Mr. Aneurin Bevan. leftwing Labour leader, said here last night that "we should make it quite clear to the United States that Great Britain will not sacrifice a single life in order to get Chiang Kai-shek back into China."
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    33 9 BURMA-Malay Tin Ltdreported the following tin ore outputs for January: Katu Tin 107.000 yards dredged and 449 piculs of ore; Renong Consolidated Tin 228,000 yards dredged and 427 piculs of ore.
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    243 9 SAUCE INDUSTRY FACES A GRAVE PROBLEM ™*TtriH^^WlMg!ff[ffiffll^H Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Mon. Chinese sauce manufacturers here are now faced with a grave problem. They are unable to do any more business with Indonesia and Thailand owing to exchange control. The new Customs duty has also hit the industry. The proprietor
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    32 9 THE first official postwar Japanese airliner piloted by an American arrived in Hongkong or. Saturday to inaugurate a new service from Hongkong to San Francisco via Okinawa and Tokyo.- Reuter
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    214 9 Rubber Boom May Hit Rattan Imports Standard Staff Reporter FURTHER increases in the price of rubber may hit imports of rattan into Singapore, if past experience is to be, counted upon. During periods of the last rubber boom, many collectors of rattan in the countries of supply found it more
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    283 9 Xl ALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Statistics just issued by the Federal Government gave ample evidence that 1954 was a splendid year for the country's agricultural undertakings from points of yields and exports. Production of palm oil totalled 53.950 long tons as compared with the 1953 production
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    623 9 Malayan Sharebrokers Assn. Quotations PRICES quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association before the weekend and Thaipusam holidays, were INDUSTRIALS Buyers Seller* Alex. Bricks Prefs. 2.00 2.10 Ords. 2.65 2.75 Atlas Ice 12.25 13.25 8.8. Petrol 33 6 34/6 B.M. Trustees 6.50 TOO Con Tin Smelt Ords. 29/- 29/6 Prefs. 20/-
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    58 9 PAKISTAN International Airlines has announced in Karachi that its inaugural eastbound service established a new scheduled airlines record from London to Karachi. A PIA Constellation which took off from London on Thursday arrived in Karachi in 14 hours, 25 minutes lly- < n tint* The nlane. carry lnr
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    89 9 India May Export Rice To Colony INDIA'S Deputy Food Minister, Mr. M. V. Krishnappa, said in Madras yesterday, India would be able to export 200,000 to 300,000 tons of quality rice this year to Singapore, Britain, Formosa and some Middle Eastern countries. Last year, India could not export much because
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    84 9 THE Bell Aircraft Corporation will soon produce a revolutionary airplane that can take off and land vertically and fly with jet speed. It developed the plane at its Niagara Falls plant and has already put it through a number of test flights. Designated the "VTOL",
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    34 9 CAPTAIN G.C. Forrest, who has commanded the 29,734--ton liner Arcadia since January 1954. has been appointed Commodore of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, it was an- nounced in London.- Reuter
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    63 9 During January to November last year. 4.139,139 tons of cargo were discharged and loaded in the major ports of the Federation. In the corresponding period of 1953, the quantity of cargo loaded and discharged was 4.161,208 tons. Penang handled 1,713.814 tons Malacca 129,721 tons. Port' Swettenham
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    292 9 Standard Market Reporter TRADE circles in Singapore reported recent purchases of coconut oil by Red China totalling about 4,200 tons, of which 2,200 tons were from Ceylon and 2,000 tons believed to have been from Malaya. China bought the oil fror Ceylon in drums
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    47 9 BANK officials fn Teheran on Sunday announced thai the rates of exchange for Sterling following the Iranian Government's de<-i« sion to revalue the cur* rency would be: Bank buying rate: 210 Rials: Bank selling rate (commercial rate) 222(i Kial.x: Official rate: 89.4 Rial* <un- changed).- Reuter
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    208 9 BRITAIN is leading in the peaceful application of atomic energy, said Lord Waverley in London, when he opened the travelling exhibition organized by a British firm to demonstrate industrial uses of the atomic discoveries so far made. He revealed that one of the latest applications of
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    46 10 NEW YORK. ♦THOUSANDS of American x motorists are driving their cars right through the middle of tree trunks. They are the Sequoia trees in California's Sequoia National Park. Some are over 300 ft. high and 100 ft. round and have highways carved through them.
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    385 11  - Malacca AFA Must Improve Cup Record GEORGE TAYE By MALACCA, Mon.— Though it wound up the last season with more money in its coffer than ever before, the Malacca Amateur Football Association has nothing to be jubilant about as far as its Malaya Cup record is concerned. Starting the season
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    249 11 THE Singapore Judo Club, which will celebrate its first anniversary on Mar. 5, received high praise from a master of the "gentle art." Gunji Koezumi, 'black belt, 1 7th dan Judo expert. Watching members of tho Judo Club working out last week-end he said: "Quite good
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    90 11 TAIPING. Mon. The Taiping and District Amateur Football Association held their annual general meeting at the St. George's School Hall, and following were elected office-bearers for the current year: President— Mr. S. Bayley; Vice-presidents— Mr. X h o o Kwee Swee and Che Abdul Aziz bin Md. Zain;
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    48 11 TODAY'S Sport HOCKEY: S.C.C. vs. R.F.M.E. at R.E.M.E. ground. FOOTBALL:— BartIey Secondary School vs. Junior Technical School at Bartley ground. RUGBY:— Seven-aside at SCC: R.A.F., Seletar "C vs. H.M.S. Birmingham, St. Andrew's "C" nt. R.N.A.S. "A", South Joh ore "B" pg. R.A.S.C. St. Andrew's "A" vs. Royal Signals.
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    78 11 MELBOURNE. Feb. 7. <Reuter> Apart from bringing home the idles* 1 the M.C.C. touring party will return to England with a boomerang as a memento of their visit. An aborigine. Laurie Moffat. travelled 110 miles from the lakes entrance of the Victoria coast to Vallourn south-east
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    21 12 Standard's Photo Form Jfotr thvt§ finished at Hukit Titnah Oft Saturday* in pirturos by our Spi>riui rarina rantvrantan. €nou? Kuan IW.
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    Lock icon Don Patterson's Treble Makes Him Champ
    477 12  - Don Patterson's Treble Makes Him Champ WINDSOR LAD By KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Twenty-three-year-old Don Patterson displayed brilliant riding form when he landed a splendid 'Treble* on Saturday to become champion jockey at the recently concluded Singapore Turf Club January-February meeting. With three wins to his credit up to the last
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    541 12 WEIGHTS for first day Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting are as follows:— Cl. 1, Div. I—l M. Three Rings 9.00 Golden Lotus 8.1.'» Broadside 8.1! Bearer Bond 8.11 Jolly Sailor 8.09 Never A Blank 8.09 I Iturius 8.08 Shangrila 8.07 Adelaide Star B.ot Harringay 8.01 Kingport 7.1*
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    26 12 ..SINGAPORE Cricket Club Women trounced the Women Hoyal Aimy Corp (Tanglin) 11 0 in a friendly hockey match, played on the SCC padang yesterday.
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    571 12 Selangor 2 Singapore 0 C. de Souza. Umpires:— Cdr. J. L. Breaks Mr. Hui Wang Chee. KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Two opportunist goals in the first half by young Christie de Souza gave Selangor victory by that margin over Singapore, who only yesterday at Ipoh,
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    45 12 RAJ A.I I Sports Club beat Falim Sports Club. Ipoh. s—l in a friendly soccer match played at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers for Rajaji were. G. Xadaraja (3) F. Ramias and G. Vorraippan. Maniam scored the only goal for Falim S.C.
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    330 12 FEDERATION STUMBLED SINGAPORE FUMBLED XaJt Vtcffo the 'J}htetHatfrhat\....L Icchq U el/C IPOH. Mon. There was a great deal of head shaking when the much vaunted Federation Hockey Team stumbled to a one-all draw against Singapore yesterday. What happened to the Federation players who received the best of everything during their
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    Lock icon San key To Lead Malaya In 'Tests'
    165 12 KUALA LUMPUR Urn.-* i J skippered All Malaya m the 4t tr Indian Hockey Federation las, =1 lead the Malayan team again,: Federation at Ipoh on Feb. 2U- n many eyeorows were raised when Selectors overlooked Sankey's claim to the berth earlier in
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    62 12 SIALKOT. Punjab. (Feb. G. (Reuter) India's cricket tourists easily beat the Punjab Cricket Association today by an innings and 162 runs. Having declared yesterday at 422 for six and got rid of eight Punjab batsmen for 150 the Indian bowlers finished off the Punjab first innings
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    28 12 SINGAPORE Harbour. Board Police beat G.H.Q. 3—o in a first division knock-out hockey match Played at Tanglin yesterday. Scorers were: Chankar Singh (2) and Albert Aug.
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    49 12 m AY RlCo> the Filipino Welterweight prize fighter left Singapore by plane today *o hght Siamese Welter Champion, bamat Sitsing at the Razpamern covered Stadium on Feb. 20. Rico who has fought in Manila Singapore. Sydney and Indonesia, left with his manager promoter Nene.
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    18 12 THE annual general meeting of the Social Athletic Party has been postponed to Sunday. Feb 13
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    60 12 PERHAPS you shared their glory. three winners at Bukit Timah on Saturday, last day of the Singapore Jan-Feb. meeting are: left to right— MISTY JADI (Mawi) led in by owner Mr. Teo Koh Kee; grand outsider GOLDEN CLOUD (Mulley) coming in with Mr. R. Y. Lim; and
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    366 12 THE fifth annual chess match between the City of Singapore and the University of Malaya for the MacDonald Cup took place yesterday at the Chinese Swimming Club, and resulted in a win for the City by 18 points to 12. The Commissioner General. Mr. Malcolm
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    58 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— The Royal Johor c Challenge Cup shoot will be held in Johore Bahru during the last week of March, the Johore Bahru Rifle Association announced today. The meeting is open to all rifle clubs in Malaya. Further particulars will be announced when
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    84 12 YALLOURN. Feb. 7. (Reuter) The Marylebone Cricket Club touring Australia beat a Victorian Country XI by an innings and 26 runs here on th c final day of their two-day match. Thp tourists declared at 307 for 8 at lunch and dismissed the country side
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    67 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Amateur Athletic Asso-. ciation of Negri Sembilan. and an organization calling itself the "Malayan Dance Association" Kuala Lumpur, have been refused registration by. the Federation's Registrar of Societies. The December report of the Registrar, which was re-, leased today, says that
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    17 12 I I ■4J Pakistan T j X. A KM 15* V> .1 j
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