Singapore Standard, 10 February 1955

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    16 1 Singapore Standard fc A. ;ti l r.'ii SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1955 11 pages IS COTS.
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    Lock icon USSIA'S BULGANIN SPEAKS
    355 1 Stress On Heavy Industry That Is The Basis Of Our Strength' MOSCOW, Feb. 9, (Reuter)— Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, the new Soviet Prime Minister, today delivered his first speech since his appointment yesterday. He addressed a combined session of the two chambers of the Supreme Soviet winding up
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    Lock icon ARCES AND UNTERARGES
    127 1 ARCES AND UNTERARGES t rt*t4 Stales tuiiimuniote *<*«* r v h h *M in t|J r Ightrr battles roast ol -v hince pfftini; «»f H mattes ptar> Arniispi&ion hrre. frrft* rsc#rtRB- 1 "> 't rfjnir bornh.r Lj ;ht att.ukU Knrf jn >110s .n<> dea tkr arrial ,b Mi On. hif
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    24 1 HOY Feb. 9, ■Mini Kis«%--i it his press tMj\ that the &n;rs in Soviet «b n»» reason for tailed States remaining lwkta| peace.
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    Lock icon Red A-A Guns Snoot Down US Skyraider
    244 1 NOT A HOSTILE ACT' WATERS "p X S N .T? FLEET TACHEN > 7n Cb j 9 The US Nqy y $oid one of its AD Skyraiders was shot down by Red antiaircraft batteries today when it misnarigated and possibly flew over the
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    Lock icon Groom Steps Out With Two 'Brides'
    410 1  - Groom Steps Out With Two 'Brides' DAVID TAMBYAH Father's Shock At Colony Wedding By SCORES of relatives and friends of a Singapore school teacher who turned up at his wedding received a shock when the groom, after the normal nuptial ceremony, led two "brides" away to pay their respects to
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    Lock icon 2 DIE IN B36 EXPLOSION
    57 1 FORT WORTH, Texas. Feb. 9 <AP>— A giant 836 bomber from Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso exploded and burned on the runway at Carswell Air Force Base here early last night. w At least two men burned to death In the wreckage. Another
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    Lock icon India —RI Air Courier Line
    44 1 India RI Air Courier Line DJAKARTA. Feb. 9 <Reuter)—The Governments or India and Indonesia have decided to start an air force courier service between the two countries to be run on a reciprocal basis by their respective air forces, it was officially announced today.
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    Lock icon Whales Sighted & Search For Sub Called Off
    77 1 Whales Sighted Search For Sub Called Off WELLINGTON, Feb. 9. (Reuter) An extensive search for a "submarine" in the coastal waters of north New Zealand has been called off today when air force planes sighted a school of whales a few miles off Auckland. Defence Minister, Mr. Thomas Mac Donald
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    Lock icon RUBBER
    76 1 7% C. Increase THE tense political situation consequent on the change of Russian premiership and the shooting down of an American plane off the Tachen Islands were largely responsible for the rise in the rubber and tin prices in Singapore yesterday. Rubber closed firm at $1.04 i per lb..
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    Lock icon INDONESIA HOLDS SHIP
    45 1 JAKARTA. Feb. "9. (UP)— An American freighter carrying arms has been detained by Indonesian authorities, it was disclosed today. The Steel Vendor on Saturday was forbidden to leave the harbour of Jakarta. It was reportedly carrying five field artillery pieces plus ammunition.
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    Lock icon 'Friendship With West Possible'
    89 1 MARSHAL Bulganin, said friendly relations had existed during the war between the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union and could do so now. I "But it is not our fault that they have changed." The Western Powers were basing their policy not on friendship
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    Lock icon 'Merdeka' Bureau In London
    131 1 'Merdeka' Bureau In London From ANDREW ROTH LONDON, Feb. 9 Two Labourites Lord Ogmore and Mr. W. P. Proctor today unveiled two organizations to help Malayan nationalism, at a luncheon in the House of Commons. One is called the "Merdeka Malaya Bureau" and is to provide information for the UMNO-MCA
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    Lock icon 'China Can Count On Us'
    61 1 BULGANIN was greeted by great applause when he promised China "full support" from the Soviet Union over Formosa. "The Chinese People can count on help from its true friend, the Soviet Union. he said. Bulganin said the United States was following "a dangerous road" in
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    Lock icon Malenkov Is Deputy Premier
    80 1 Malenkov Is Deputy Premier MOSCOW, Feb. 9. (Reuter) Mr. (ieorgi Malenkov who yesterday resigned as Soviet Prime Minister was today appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Electro (Power) Stations. Marshal Georgi Zhukov was named Defence Minister. Nomination of Marshal Zhukov who was formerly First Deputy Defence Minister was confirmed
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    Lock icon Ex-Showgirl To Wed 'Down Under'
    137 1 Ex -Showgirl To Wed 'Down Under' VIVACIOUS Ann Sullivan, a former London StowirtfJ. who flew into «lnfapore last night from Britain on her way to Australia. She blinked in surprise when, on stepping out from the Customs shed, a reporter asked her: "Whom are you going: to marry?" "David Hughes,'*
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    Lock icon PRINCESS MEETS 'CAPTAIN BLIGH'
    155 1 KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent. Feb. 8 (Reuter) Princess Margaret was welcomed to sunny St. Vincent Island today by "Bligh of the Bounty" to recall the famous British captain's association with the island. After the mutiny on the Bounty, Captain Bligh came to St. Vincent with 500 breadfruit
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    Lock icon Faith And Not a Girl He Says
    196 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. —Eric G. Holland, the British soldier who became a Buddhist monk, denied here today a report that he embraced Buddhism because he was in love with a Siamese girl and wanted to marry her. The report was attributed to a
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    Lock icon Malaya To Send Delegate To Tokyo
    141 2 Malaya To Send Delegate To Tokyo KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. —Malaya is to send a representative to the Asian conference of the Federation of International Transport Workers Union to be held in Tokyo on April 11. Representatives of the ten unions of Malayan Railway Workers and those of road' transport workers
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    Lock icon Alert P.C.s Discover A River Theft
    97 2 Alert P.C.s Discover A River Theft SHARP-EYED crew members of a police patrol car cruising along Robertson Quay spotted four men standing in a motor boat in the Singapore River early on Tuesday, morning. They shopped and flashed a torch at the sampan. Like a flash, two men jumped into
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    Lock icon Children See Preview Of Police Tattoo
    106 2 KUALA LUMPUR Wed Several hundred policemen braved the day-long drizzle thi^ evening, to stag^ a special full dress rehearsal of their ambitious tattoo for children. Sheltered under canvasstoppea shamiunas the children watched the 12-ifem spectacle with great excitement and wonder. The 'public show' will
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    Lock icon Eurasians Want Onn To Clarify
    128 2 Eurasians Want Onn To Clarify KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Mr. G. Shelley, Federal Legislative Councillor and President of the Eurasian Union of Ma'aya, said here tonight that he would see Dato Onn bin Ja'afar about a statement he made at a public meeting on Monday night attacking the Eurasian community in
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    Lock icon DANCE FOR CHARITY
    50 2 A VARIETY concert, in aid of the Kajang Tamil School Building Fund, will be held on Feb. 13. Sivadas and Vatsala in the "Siva-Parvati Dance," (above) provide one of tiie Items of the show, which is being: held under the patronage of the District Officer, Ulu Langat.
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    Lock icon City Aquarium Opens In April
    246 2 Dealers Keep Fingers Crossed SINGAPORE'S $500,000 Van Kleef Aquarium will be opened to the public on April 6, the City Architect, Mr. W. I. Watson, told The Standard yesterday. The man who will open the Aquarium will be Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, Vice-Chairman of the
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    Lock icon $200 For Extra Pair Of Shoes
    38 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— Cheng Kin Ong of Rimba Terjun who had two pairs of shoes in a prohibited area, was fined $200 or two months' imprisonment, in the Sessions Court. Pontian yesterday.
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    Lock icon Merchants Find A Way To Beat Import Ban
    129 2 Merchants Find A Way To Beat Import Ban BANGKOK, Feb. 9, <AP) Merchants in southern Thailand have found a way to get around the government's ban on certain imports. They smuggle the goods across the southern frontier from Malaya by coastal boat. Often they are caught by customs patrols and
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    Lock icon Motion To Muzzle Town Councillors
    87 2 Motion To Muzzle Town Councillors SEREMBAN. Wed.— A move to muzzle Town Councillors in their relations with the Press will be made by Mr. Stanley Ponniah, Independent, candidate for Temiang Ward, at tomorrow's meeting of the Town Council. Mr. Ponniah will introduce a motion that a Councillor must not communicate
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    Lock icon BBC TO EXPAND FAR EASTERN STATION AT TEBRAU
    170 2 BBC TO EXPAND FAR EASTERN STATION AT TEBRAU Standard Staff Reporter BRITAIN i s to consider the question of more financial aid to expand th c British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service transmitting station at Tebrau, declared the assistant Director of the BBC's External Service Mr. E. Tangye Lean, on his
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    Lock icon $15,000 AID TO BOYS CLUB
    44 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— The Social Welfare Lotteries Board has given $15,000 to the Unity Boys Club for underpriveleged children. The State Government has offered a site and the Rotary Club who sponsored the project has collected more than $15,000.
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    Lock icon IT WAS A BARGAIN FOR LIFE
    341 2 IT WAS A BARGAIN FOR LIFE 7 Wouldn't Give In/ Woman Says At Extortion Trial A WOMAN told the Singapore Third Criminal District Court yesterday that when she was confronted with a demand for $5,000 as a price for her life, she bargained it down m $1,000. She said that
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    Lock icon Reds Killed On Malaya-Thai Border
    70 2 Reds Killed On MalayaThai Border KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Three bandits were killed by security forces in the Federation yesterday. Two were shot dead on the Malaya Thailand border, while the third was killed in the Mentakab area. Pahang. Twenty terrorists attacked a patrol of the Ist. Bn.. West Yorks near
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    111 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No 1 R.S.S. Spot Loose 103 i 1041 No. 1 R.S.S. fob. Feb. 104{ 104' No. 2 103 i 10.:* No. 3 norn 101 101 j Tone: Firm. TIN PRICE The pi ice of tin yesterday
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    Lock icon Denies He Posed As Detective
    101 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Tham Yoon Piu. 42, today claimed trial before the first Magistrate to two charges of impersonating a public servant It was allied in the first charge that Tham posed as an officer of the Special Branch and searched the Chcras Road house
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    Lock icon DEATH SENTENCE FOR PSYCHOPATH
    198 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— Musa bin Kassim, 30 year-old woodcutter, was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Paul Storr in the High Court today for the murder of another woodcutter, Sulaiman bin Hassan. 18, on Aug. 2 at Kebun Teh, a suburb of Johore Bahru. Musa and
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    Lock icon Clerk Is Acquitted
    76 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Lav Ting Kai 35-year-old Malayan Railway clerk, was today acquitted and discharged by the First Magistrate on a charge of using his office as a common gaming house. The Magistrate, Inche Mohd Ismail, maintained that the prosecution had failed to make out a satisfactory
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    169 2 Ed in it and not for the sake Ql any woman. "I have decided to sett down in Malaya but I have no intention of marrying, in any case. I cannot predict the future The present incumbent the temple, Rev. Dhamananda Thero. agreed with Hoiland that Rev. ParmaThero must have
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      69 2 Weather Report Minimum Temperature From 7.30 p.m. Feb. 8 to 7.30 a.m. Feb. 9: Spore (75F): Penan* (73F); Kota Bahru (73F); Kuala Lumpur (74F); Ipoh (73F): Kuantan (72F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. Feb. 8 to 7.30 a.m. Feb. 9: Spore (87F): Penan; (87F); Kota Bahru (8(F); Kuala Lumpur (88F);
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    Lock icon CITY ROADS 'DANGEROUS
    354 3 Police Progress On Right Lines, Says Col. Muller MOST of the roads in Singapore are extremely dangerous" because they hare no pavements for pedestrians, the InspectorGeneral of Colonial Police, Colonel W. A. Muller, said yesterday. Col. Muller. who has just completed his .first inspection of the Singapore
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    Lock icon $13,000 To Workmen Injured In Duties
    107 3 $13,000 To Workmen Injured In Duties THE Singapore Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation last month ordered payment of more than $13,000 to workmen injured in their duties. Of the five fatal cases, four difd from falls and one was killed in a road accident. Beneficiaries of workmen living in China received
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    Lock icon No Special Allowance For Clerks
    88 3 SINGAPORE Government clerks and book-keepers will not get that special allowance they were promised. Government originally assured the clerks they would be granted the allowance, but it has now withdrawn that undertaking. The clerks* union was told that government had changed tta ruling after it
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    Lock icon AILING MAN FOUND DEAD
    29 3 AILING 64-year-old Tham Charn was found dead in the lavatory of a house in Pagoda Street. Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Police do not suspect foul play.
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    Lock icon IT WAS NOT VEGETABLE
    46 3 IPOH, Wed. A vegetable gardener of Kampong Tawas New Village. Liew Hong. 21. was sentenced to three months' imprisonment by Che Mahmud Hashim, President of the Sessions Court, this morning, when he pleaded guilty to possession of three katis of scrap rubber.
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    Lock icon Returns After A Year And Is Sent To Jail
    95 3 Returns After A Year And Is Sent To Jail A FEW days after Rajagopal. a youth, returned to Singapore from the Federation, he was arrested for an offence committed a year ago. Inspector Elam Din. prosecuting, said in the Second Criminal District Court, yesterday. Rajagopal admitted stealing SI SO from
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    Lock icon TAP WATER SOON FOR PULAU BRANI
    174 3 Undersea Main Link-Up Standard Staff Reporter KAMPONG people on the little island of Pulau Brani off Singapore, will no longer have to depend on neighbouring islands for their fresh water supply. A major Colony Government $80,000 scheme, now under way, will soon supply all
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    Lock icon LESSON ON JOB INSTRUCTION
    79 3 photo. THE ten trainees from various Government departments in Singapore listen to their instructor, Mr. J. D. Merler (facing camera), the Training Within the Industtfes expert of the International Organization, during their second day session on job instruction. The trainees are attending a two-week course under
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    Lock icon Canberra Jets Due Tomorrow
    214 3 Step Up Of Air War On Reds THE FOUR latest versions of the Canberra twin jet bomber in service with the R.A.F, Bomber Command, which are to spend three months undergoing operational trials with the Far East Air Force, are due at R.A.F. Changi tomorrow. They
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    Lock icon Remanded On $145 Armed Robbery Charge
    88 3 Remanded On $145 Armed Robbery Charge TAN Ah Seng, alias Tan Ah Lai. alias Ah £vi was charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday with voluntarily causing hurt to Tan P;n Ling while committing armed robbery with three other persons. It was alleged that Tan robbed two women of
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    Lock icon SERENADER FOUND DEAD
    47 3 IPOII, Wed —A 60-year-old Chinese was found lying dead at Panglima Lane, here yesterday. An identity card was found on the body showing that he was a street singer. nam°d Leow Shin residing at the Thin Hoo Temple, in Sungei Besi Road, Kuala Lumpur.
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    Lock icon $1,000 Bail In Hurt Case
    62 3 KOK King Chew was tentatively charged in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday with causing grievous hurt to Neng Tan Boey with a piece of firewood. It was alleged that Kok assaulted Tan Boey in Jalan Besar at 1 a.m. on Feb. 8, breaking his
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    Lock icon BEAUTY IS HER BUSINESS
    106 3 MISS JANE KOK. 22, who is seen smiling here, had wept unabashedly in the arms of her parents just a few minutes before this picture was taken. Her tears, however, were shed in happiness at being reunited with her parents whom she had not seen for
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    Lock icon Infringed Trade Marks Fineds$1,500
    91 3 A SINGAPORE merchant. Tan Chwee Kit. was fined 51.500 in the First District Court yesterday en six charges of infringing the Colony's Merchandise Marks Ordinance. It was stated that Tan had for sale 132 bottles of beer and stout bearing a false trade description. He was
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    Lock icon Don't Drink If You Can't Hold It Magistrate
    153 3 Don't Drink If You Can't Hold It Magistrate TWO men were having drinks on the eve of Thaipusam at a bar in Singapore. One of them. Tan Kirn Song, felt giddy and started to abuse people in the bar. A man then advised Tan to stop, but Tan's friend. Lee
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    390 4 Recognition Brazier Called In To Stop Rot KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— A crisis has arisen in a dispute between the Government Seamen's Union in the Federation and the Marine Department as a result of the Department director's alleged refusal to recognize the Union or set up Whitley Council
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    Lock icon A MORRIS MINOR CLIMBS THAT HILL
    23 4 photo, THE "Minor" driven by Mr. Isle reaches the top of the hill in yesterday's "test" Standard
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    Lock icon Expert Does It But Mr. Lambert Is Not Convinced
    376 4 A DRIVING instructor's $100 challenge to another instructor went unanswered yesterday, but the point at dispute was cleared up by a Colony racing motorcyclist, Mr. Ross Isle, who is the Sales Manager of Malayan Motors Limited. On Tuesday. Mr. R.L. Lambert,
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    Lock icon Taiping Co-op Stores Shows Growing Gains
    95 4 Taiping Co-op Stores Shows Growing Gains TAIPING. Wed. The Taiping Co-operative Stores Society, Ltd. will hold their annual general meeting at the King Edward VII School Hall on Feb 23 at 4.45 p.m. At the meeting the committee's report covering the year s 1951. 1952 and 1953 will be presented.
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    Lock icon POLICE PROBE AMAH'S DEATH
    38 4 SINGAPORE Police are investigating the death of an amah, Sheo Ting. 45. who was found dead in the bathroom of a house in Winchester Road on Tuesday. She was employed by a European family.
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    Lock icon PACIFIC AIR TOUR
    67 4 TWELVE retired American businessmen, doctors and widows, arrived in Singapore last night by Garuda Indonesian Airways' Dakota from Bali, on a Pacific tour by a ir. Arranged by th e Ame Photo. rican Express, the passengers left America last month. In the course of their tour they
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    Lock icon Woman Held Up After Wayang Show
    65 4 Woman Held Up After Wayang Show LIM GUAN HIANG, a 25--year-old housewife, was robbed of a bracelet worth $500 by two men who attacked her as she was walking along Tiong Bahru Road on her way home from a wayang show at midnight, yesterday. Lim struggled and screamed for help.
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    37 4 HONGKONG, Feb. 9— Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.69 to £1 .sterling; $5,915 to US$l; $1,827 to Malayan $1; $0,171 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $259.75 to a tael.
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    Lock icon Curiosity About Sex Lands Boy In Court
    220 4 Curiosity About Sex Lands Boy In Court KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A schoolboy's curiosity about sex landed him in court today when he was charged with assaulting a six-year-old girl. The boy. Chan Choon Loy. 17, pleaded guilty to the charge and was put on a year's bond to be of
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    Lock icon AUSSIE TEAM TO MAKE TB SURVEY
    203 4 A TUBERCULOSIS survey may soon be conducted in Singapore by a team of Australian doctors, the Australian External Affairs Minister, Mr. R. G. Casey, told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Casey, who is now in the Colony on his way to attend the South-east Asian
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    Lock icon ADUCATION & POLITICS ON'T MIX
    344 5 ADUCATION POLITICS ON'T MIX h Government Lfies To M.C.A. |A A LUMPUR, Wed. The FederoJ h Commissioner, Sir Donald Mac- has told the Malayan Chinese Li hof an a PP ro P riotc *>ody for conwith Government on professional l fl matters should not be political. he was "not entirely
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    70 5 ockyard Blames nion For Deadlock' yesterNaval lor the k in ncgo- the two lea- i.n propodure i walked between rer. re- m the ndent ard Fire reviewratcs for r.- by the L and appro- r. ror new t I T.plemen- r. Nov. 1. I •d. thr r tier and r.ilty
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    Lock icon Mullet Sees The Police Tricks
    209 5 Then Gives A Word Of Advice THE Inspector General of Colonial Police, Col. W. A. Muller, watched an impressive parade at the Police Training School, Thomson Road, yesterday. More than 100 men. representing all the police divisions, took part in the parade. The mobile squad.
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    Lock icon Students Undertake To Inform
    104 5 STUDENTS of Singapore Chinese Middle schools yesterday gave an undertaking to report to their school authorities, students who are found having Communist documents. "We have been asked by our principals to report students who are found in possession of such documents and we shall certainly do
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    Lock icon 'Tecs Call On A Shy Farmer
    118 5 'Tecs Call On A Shy Farmer DETECTIVES yesterday trudged through mud and slime to call on a farmer living in a kampong off the 9£ mile You Chu Kang Road, Singapore, to urge him make a report of a theft which occurred in December last year. It was only after
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    Lock icon Constable Is Charged
    60 5 BEXTONG. Wed Special Constable Sentol bin YusotT. 25. of Karak Tin Mine in ihe district of Bentong, was tentatively charged in the West Pahang Circuit Court yestcrdav with the murder of a 13" year-old girl. Lee Yok Moi, on Jan. 18 this year Mr J R Whimster.
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    Lock icon Ten Men On A Bike
    44 5 Ten Men On A Bike photos. TOP: Ten men on a motor cycle but there won't be any cops after them They are members of the Traffic Police Mobile Squad giving a demonstration at yesterday's police show. ABOVE: Col. Mullcr inspects the parade. Standard
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    Lock icon Youth 17, Threatened His Own Mother
    111 5 Youth 17, Threatened His Own Mother BENTONG. Wed Seven-teen-year-old Ariffm bin Ismail pleaded guilty in lhe West Pahang Circuit Court. yesterday, to criminal intimidation by threatening his mother Umi binte Kassim. with a broken bottle The magistrate Mr J R Whimster. poslponec sentence until March 4, pending a leport from
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    Lock icon Religious Leader Due Here Today
    113 5 AN Indian religious leader. His Holiness Kundiakudi Adigal. who has been touring the Federation, is expected to arrive at Singapore's Kallang Airport today. He is scheduled to address four public meetings in the Colony and one in Johore Bahru before emplaning for Jakarta The Singapore
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    79 5 THE two-week-old strike by about 50 lightermen employed by the Swee Hin Company. Singapore, may end soon. Yesterday, representatives of the disputed parties met at the Labour Deprrtment to negotiate a settlement of the workers' claim lor better conditions of service and revision of wages. The
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      346 5 Standard cAlmanac Information at a Glance jUgßHmmmmmmmr*-— 1 ■'< Penan? 223 am (7 ft 7m) Review on R N>?w< kf f(I II Aft t% C 56 l> m <7 .sin SINCAPORK (Ifrgioiial 715 am W* IWU A r L-l X C TOMORROW. Singapore 128 am Morning Star; 730 New.'-; 735
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      795 6 A "DANGER AHEAD* signal appeared on the international horizon on Tuesday when Moscow announced the resignation of Russian Prime Minister Georgi Malenkov and named Marshal Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin as his successor. The announcement, which was made after a ten-minute session of the Supreme Soviet, startled the world and
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      139 6 r J^HE story of a 20-year-old Chinese youth having 80 three-foot long skewers stuck into his body and a six-inch spear thrust through his tongue must have horrified a good many readers. But as an example of devotion, strong faith and determination to keep a promise made,
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    20 6 Photo. PERFORMERS in the colourful costumes which they appeared before Princess Margaret at a carnival at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.- A. P.
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    389 6 AS a town Port-of-Spain belies its romantic name. A There are no gilded galleons lying beneath the guns of shimmering, crenellated fortress. Insttad, dusty streets, t.n roofs and stuccoed waMs straggle away into suburbs and hous.ng estates. There are no bathing beaches within easy reach. Reddish-p.nk
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    671 6 5 The Times Colonial Correspondent <.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\w\\\\* welded plates tempered to the chromatic scale. Their technique has improved enormously in the last five years, but their appreciation is an acquired taste. Economic Progress THE island is far the richest of the British Caribbean
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    158 6 'Who Does He Think We Are' Sir; Much has been said i of the whims and fancies of 1 car testers. This also api pears true in the case of motor-cycle testers. Recentj \y a hefty Chinese tester tested five of us in motor- riding. At the end of the
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    316 6 Review of Views New Soviet Premier 'THE new Soviet Prime Minister, Marshal Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, will adopt a stern policy both domestically and externally and will undoubtedly tighten the Soviet control over the Chinese Communists, predicts Chung Shing Jit Pao. As a result of such a change of policy, the
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    208 6 I Sir;— Mr. Sim Beng Seng faces the threat of expul- sion from the Progressive Party for not toeing the Party line in the City Council. He is alleged to I have got together with Lab- ourite A. R. Lazarous and done the Progressives much harm. Mr.
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      359 6 Testers Expect Too Mud From The Drive Sir: Quite recently, there was a minor "revolt" at the Traffic Office against local driving testers. Owners and driving instructors together with their pupils gathered outside the office and refused to be tested until the O/C had heard their many grievances. It seemed
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    57 7 N J London Correspondent Feb. 9 The following arc the closing and tin on the London Market. ■•ON RUBBER 30id. 30*4. <imbcr 29 id. 29 4 d! LONDON TIN Spot £724 10s. buyers, £725 sellers. Three months £725 buyers, £725 10s. sellers. Settlement prices: £722. Soles
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    118 7 Airport Workers May Strike LONDON. Feb. 9 (Reuter) —London Airport workers derided at a mass meetine last night to strike if shop steward Jack Peters sacked after a recent dispute was not reengaged by British European Airways by next Monday evening. About 300 engineers at the airport were sacked last
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    81 7 LONDON. Feb. 9 (Reuter) British Foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden, has cancelled his planned visit to Burma and Ceylon and curtailed those to India and Pakistan owing to the international situation, the Foreign Office announced today. Sir Anthony Eden's plan to visit Singapore and Malaya, where
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    73 7 photo. \W\\W\W 1 ALONE in the French S 2 National Assembly sits 2 Pierre Mendes-France, 5 ex-French Prime Minis- ter. He was first to arrive Z before the Assembly dis- S cussed his Xorth-Afri- J can policy, and he sat 2 J at his bench waiting for
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    237 7 As Protest On Formosa LONDON, Feb. 9, (UP)— Leftist union leaders yesterday proposed closing British ports to defence supplies if the Formosa dispute becomes acute, and a railway union local demanded a nationwide rail strike in case of further American "interference." These and other proposals
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    81 7 Boy, 1 5, Dies By Self-Made Suicide Gadget LYONS, Feb. 9, (Reuter) A 15-year-old boy rigged up a "suicide machine" here and died when his mother unwittingly fired the fatal shot by remote control, police reported. He propped up a shotgun and run a string from the trigger to the
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    101 7 TOKUSHIMA. Shikoku Island, Feb. 9. (Reuten— A 21--year-old Burmese student, Khin Maung Win. Is to help the local Burma Society here to build a pagoda "for consoling the spirits of 110.000 Japanese soldiers who perished in Burma during the war." Tokushima Burma Society decided
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    110 7 Aircraft Drop Rice To Victims JAKARTA. Feb. 9 (AP) Indonesian army planes dropped hundreds of tons of rice, medical supplies and clothing to tens of thousands of the homeless in southern Sumatra today as flood waters from rain-swollen BatangHari River inundated towns and villages and swept over 20.000 square miles
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    128 7 KARACHI. Feb. 9 (Reuter) -The Sind Chief Court ruled today that the Governor General's dissolution of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly last October was illegal and ordered five Cabinet ministers to vacate office because they were not members of the Assembly. The Court also issued a
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    76 7 WASHINGTON. Feb. 9 (AP) The United States has apologised to Egypt for an incident in which an unknown gunman fired at the Egyptian consulate in New York, last Saturday. State Department Press Officer Henry Suydam told a news conference yesterday that "the United States Government has
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    48 7 COPENHAGEN. Feb. 9, (Reuter) Mistress Anna Anderson of Vester Nobel Jutland, went to the doctor after feeling a pain in her left hand. He removed a needle point which had wandered around her body for 38 years. It was originally in her right hand.
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    40 7 DALLAS. Texas. Feb. 9 (AP) —The burglars who stole 100 phonograph records from the nome of Mrs. C. F. Hadsell had better understand GreekLyrics of the records are all in Greek. Mrs. Hadsell told police.
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    70 7 NAIROBI, Feb. 9, (Reuter)— For the second successive night a young Asian man has been slashed to death in a Nairobi street. Harbajan Singh Gill, 17, was attacked last night in Grogan Road, the Asian commercial centre not far from the city centre. He was severely slashed
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    157 7 LONDON. Feb. 9 (Reuter) India's Prime Minister. Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, last night pleaded for moderation of language in international dealings. Speaking at a public reception given to him within a few hours of the conclusion of the Commonwealth prime ministers* conference. Mr. Nehru said
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    687 7 A POLICY OF WAR FOR THE RUSSIANS Molotov: No More Compromises By William L. Ryan NEW YORK, Feb. 9, (AP)_ "he Soviet Union has clearly spelt out its foreign policy now. There is nothing conciliatory or compromising about it. _Jj ls u a w ,a r Policy and one that
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    81 7 U.S. -Chiang Treaty Is Passed WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. (AP)— The Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday approved the Formosa Mutual Delenee Treaty committing 1 lie United States to defend Chiang Kai-shek's island refuge. The vote was 11-2. Senators Wayne Morse (In-dependent-Oregon) and William Langer (RepublicanNorth Dakota) voted "No." Senate action ratification
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    56 7 LOS ANGELES. Feb 9 (AP) Actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher have set June 17 as their wedding date, her studio said yesterday They announced their engagement at a party for 400 here last October. The couple plans a two-month honeymoon in Europe. Site of
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    245 7 LONDON, Feb. 9, (Reutcr).— Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, the Communist Party boss rather than Marshal Nikolai Bulganin will emerge as the real ruler of Soviet Russia, in the view of diplomatic quarters here today. The appointment of Marshal Bulganin to the premiership in succession to Mr. Georgi
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    272 7 THE fall of Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov brought uneasy forebodings to world capitals last night. LONDON: Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill told the House of Commons: "The future is veiled in obscurity." That was his answer to calls for a statement. WASHINGTON: Tentatively, officials said the
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    43 7 THE 1.500-TON Converted Seislim claimed to be the first British ship equipped for geophysical exploration at sea leaves London for Far Eastern waters on Friday to prospect for undersea oil. The exact search area is being kept secret. I Reuter
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    29 8 HER skirt billowing in the breeze, Princess Margaret listens on address of welcome by the Goverror, Si r Hubert Ranee on her arrival at Piarco Airport, Trinidad.
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    230 8 Trinidad Welcomes Princess Margaret THE people of Trinidad planned their welcome for Princess Margaret last Wednesday to be the sort that Royalty receives in England. And Trinidad could not have made a better job of it. For the weather took a hand and— yes, it RAINED. For half an hour
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    214 9 Port of Spain, Trinidad. named her Margaret Rose and so she i* 1 ne d. But after this wonderful week I shall always think of her, affecadmiringly, as "little Princess For-So." v ..p incident. X d dudes of icularly i::i !ying is > _a tbittfi s^l bands fa Until
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    25 9 DON'T ENCE HER IN I w ls doin iC b I(>b but K^ri iplp t and K 1 ir. fK4retr tour Frinc^ B r'* front
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    1204 9 From Our Correspondent i MADRAS, Feb. 3— All eyes are presently turned to London where the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference is now in session. Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian Premier, has in his dispatch case an Important statement sent to him by the Chinese Premier. Mr. Chou En-lai.
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    26 9 Marie Does A Strip-Tease Pix. These three pictures show Marie (the Body) Wilson doing: a strip-tease at the Flamingo Night Club at Las Vegas, Nevada.- AP.
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    385 9 Caribbean cocktail Capers that are going on need to be seen to be believed. GAY LITTLE Princess For-So is gay and happy, too. but at the same time she is doing a very sensible serious job of work. Here are examples as they come
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    624 10  -  AILS A GARLAND By I Hot temper |j > "T WANT a muff." said 2| J the girl at the fur 1 a- counter. "Yes, madam/ said the assistant. "What fur?" <\ > "T o keep m v hands J, J warm, of course." Paris. Tuesday.
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    592 10  -  Constance Walsh EBy^ COMFORT Y^U can find out as much about a girl by the way she walks as by the way she talks Her character and temperament are reflected in every step she takes. We've been doing a little step-by-step character reading lately— and this is
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    571 10  -  Gerree Read By i^HE FIRST TIME you hear a reproduction 1 of your own voice, I can promise you that you I will get the shock of > your life. [You will deny vehement- ly that it is you at all. > You will say there
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    131 12 MR. G.M. HUGHES, Managing Director of American International Insurance Corporation in Hongkong and Mr. R. Rhodebeck, Vice-Presi-dent of the American Life Assurance Company, are in Singapore on a week's visit. They are accompanied by their wives. They will also visit the two companies' branches in the
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    181 12 First Goody ear Tubeless Tyre Shipment THE first shipment of Goodyear tubeless tyres arrived in Singapore last week, Mr. P. F. Kavanagh of Messrs. Goodyear Orient Sales Co., Ltd., announced yesterday. "There is a tremendous number of inquiries for them,'' Mr. Kavanagh added. This is the first srzeable shipment of
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    82 12 MR. I.A. ALER, the Pre-sident-Director of X.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines), seen above, who recently passed through Singapore in a X.L.M. Super Constellation, on his way to Indonesia. He was met at the Airport by the Netherlands Consul-General. Mr. D.G.E. Middelburg. the DirectorGeneral of Civil Aviation, Mr.
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    54 12 IN the first nine months of last year Air France has carried 1.192.309 passengers, an increase of 15 per cent, over the figures for the corresponding period last year. Passengers on the company's international lines totalled 94.119; 81.162 on the French Union Lines; 443.459 on Mediterranean lines; and
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    78 12 BRITISH scientists, according to A.X.Z. Bank's Quarterly Survey, "have been investigating the possibility of producing heavy water from Wairakei's geothermal steam." "Heavy water is wanted for use in certain types of nuclear reactors for producing atomic energy. Its heavy hydrogen, which has the special name of
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    250 12 PEACEFUL development of atomic power is important t~ Britain because she foresees a "great shortage" of fuel within about 20 years, according to a leading physicist of Britain's Harwell Research Plant. Dr. J. V. Dunworth, head of Harwell's Physics Reactor Division was broadcasting in a
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    41 12 BRITAIN boosted its exports of motor spirit last year to almost 1.500,000 tons against a little over 1,000.000 ton s the previous year, the Petroleum Information Bureau announced today. Motor spirit exports in 1952 were 350.000 tons
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    476 12 ALL kinds of fabrics and garments made *rom Britain's wonder fibre, Terylene. will soon be available in many parts of the world. Large scale production 11 million lbs. this year and double that quantity by the end of 1956 has now started at the huge
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    231 12 RUBBER RISES ON POLITICAL TENSION -Price Of Tin Also Improves a I t" 1 9 I" A he Russion Premiership and the shooting of American planes off the Tachen Islands were factors largely responsible for the improvement in the rubber price in Singapore yesterday. Rubber prices were firm at the
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    97 12 NEW YORK, F#b. 9 <AP).— Board chairman, John L. Collyer of B.F. Goodrich Co. yesterday predicted a sharp decline in American use of natural rubber because of its "continuing high price." He pointed out that natural rubber Is now priced about 50 per cent higher
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    184 12 LITTLE TRADE INTEREST IN PRODUCE MART THE produce market in Singapore remained dull in all sections yesterday, with little trade interest reported. Coconut oil prices wore slightly lower, sellers Penang indicating $49 per j picul. Singapore Copra Associai tion prices yesterday were I Feb. $301 and $31 J; March i$3U
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    287 12 EXCITEMENT GRIP STEEL-MAKING CENT Economic Letter From PITTSBrRGII, Feb. 9-A new extiwaj ped this steel-making: centre an eiciM statistics can measure only in part. I 1 AI I t I T:. I 4 .'t I 1 i Statistics show, for instance. that the U.S. turned out nearly 9 million short
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      177 12 THE turnover in industrials and tins in the Malayan share market showed an appreciable shrinkage yesterday and the small amount of business was written at or below Tuesday's levels. Both sections showed variable trends at the close. Rubber shares were quiet. Price changes announced by
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      142 12 More Days Lost Thro' Disputes BRITISH industry lost more days through industrial disputes In 1954 than in any year since the end of World *War 11. Provisional figures published in the January issue of the Ministry of Labour Gazette revealed that 2,470.000 working days were lost the most since 1945
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    62 12 GLASGOW: A general view of the new Empress of Britain, showing; the incomplete deck, which is being built by Fairfield's of Govan. It will be launched by the Queen on June 22. The cost of the new 22.500-ton liner will be £5,000,000 many times that of
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    66 12 EXPORTS of British-made office equipment broke all records for the ninth successive time last year, announced the U.K. Office Appliance and Business Equipment Trades Association Id London. Shipments reached a total of £12,197.352. which was £1.1 million more than In 1953. Typewriters sales made the major
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    142 12 OUTER ROADS Saidja. Growler. Chip Lam. Caltex Bengkalis, Baud. Kazbek. INNER ROADS Perak. Labruan Hadji, Resang. P. Kidjang, Hanthale. Lawak M\ Bahru. Sin Hin Huat, June. Cornfish. Caltex 95, Hong Ming. Lawu. Pacific. Ciang Seng. Van Den Brock. Sedili. Heather. Tg Pinang. Hin Cheong. Pangkor. Hong Ens,
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    10 12 RICE ACRI ALLOTME US Sccrgy cent HP-: ann- and n
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      569 12 CITY ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT TV'ORK in connection with electrical extensions in the Bukit Timah area of Singapore will necessitate cessation of supply between the hours of 9.00 a.m. and 2.00 p.m. on Sunday. 13th February. 1955. The substations supply the following areas will be affected Hume Industries Rheem Hume (Far East
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    417 13 ENNIS-A MENACE TO THE AUSSIES tfHYENGLANDJ<EPT THE ASHES-PETER WILSON ADELAIDE, Wednesday. NOW that we've got used to being "The Champs" again, it's worth while doing a brief "recap." Len Hutton, looking as usual like a rather youthful bank clerk, gave a typically unemotional mass interview, after it was all over,
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    33 13 BOSTOX: Wes Santee, the Kansas Jlash is shown finishing the hunter mile in a new world's indoor record for the Milt clocking 4:03.8 recently at the Boston Athletic Association track meet.
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    225 13 Pirie Says 'Sorry' To Emil Zatopek EMIL ZATOPEK. the Czech wonder runner, has sent an invitation to Britain's Gordon Pirie to join him in an attack on the 10,000 metres world record in Czechoslo- vakia on May 14. But Pirie has had fo decline because of earlier commitments. "We write
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    154 13 MELBOURNE, Feb. 8, (Reuter)— Keith Miller, the New South Wales captain, today was named vice-cap-tain of the Australian cricket team to tour the West I Indies. Lan Johnson (Victoria), had previously been chosen as captain. The Melbourne Herald's cricket correspondent. John Priestley, said
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    107 13 MELBOURNE. Feb. 9: (Router) The MCC team to meet Victoria in the four-day match beginning here on Friday will be chosen from the following 12. P.B.H. May. M.C Cowdrey, T.E. Bailey, T.W. Gravency, R.T. Simpson. J.H. Wardle, W.T. Edrich, F. Tyson. JB. Statham, R. Appleyard, K.
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    76 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaya Districts will meet in the Annual Far East Land Forces hockey competition to be held on Fed. 19. 20. and 21 on the HQ Malaya Command ground. Malaya will meet Singapore and the winner of this match will qualify to
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    93 13 AIRD PROPOSES A TOUR BY 'RESERVES' CRICKET AUCKLAND, Feb. 9, (Reuter)— MCC secretary,' Mr. Roland Aird. who was in Singapore recently, proposed for fullscale tours by English "reserve' cricket teams before leaving Auckland for Canada by air today. The idea is likely to be discussed by the New Zealand Cricket
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    58 13 MANILA. Feb. 9 (UP) Lennart Bergelin and Sven Davidson of Sweden today advanced to the semi-final of the Philippine national open tennis championships by defeating Filipinos Eugenio and Alejandro Saranglao 6-2. 6-2. 6-1. Roger Becker and John Barett of Britain beat the Gavia brothers. Leonardo and
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    62 13 TAIPING. Wed.— As a result of several new entries, the Taipins Football League should be an interesting one this year. One of the new teams comes from the Tigers Football Club whose players are the old boys of the King Edward VII School. Mr A.
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    20 13 TAIPING. Tucs- King Edward VII School beat Taiping Rovers XI 3-2 in a, soccer match played here yesterday.
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    110 13 RAWALPINDI. Feb. 9 (Reuter) After dismissing a Service XI for 101 here today the touring India cricket side scored 112 for the loss of only one wicket before stumps were drawn at the close of the first day's play. Lala Amarnath. a former Test star.
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    69 13 SEREMBAX. Wed— The all conquering Fiji rugby will be seen in act onre again when they will meet an invitation XV at Seremban on Sat., Feb. 19. The following players have been selected to represent the invitation team: Philip Negri. Dexter Negri. Key— Perak, Flannery
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    42 13 PARIS, Feb. 9 (AP) Char.es, Humez, 28-year-old Frenchman who ho!ds the European middleweight championship. yestorda> officially signed for a JO-round fi^ht here on Feb. 28 against his countryman, Pierre Langlois, 30. It is to be a non-tit!e match.
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    53 13 PARIT BUNTAR. Tucs Clifford School, Kuala Kanffsar. beat the Anglo-Chinese Sihool 3-1 in an inter-srhoo. friendly sorrer match played on the public padang yesterday. Yunos (2) and Mohamad Na scored for Clifford School while Nasaruddin scored for ACS. In another game. the 2nd Clifford School team beat
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    95 13 LONDON, Feb. 8 (Reuter) —Dynamic Dai Dower, tousht little Welsh miner, added the vacant British Flyweight crown to hi?? British Empire title by brilliantly and easi.y outpointing Eric Marsden, a Lancashire steel worker over l; rounds at Harringay arena, here tonight It was Dower*| 23rd
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    379 14  - BAGBY'S BEST GO OUT FOR GOOD TIMES WINDSOR LAD by Satellite Beats General View For 37 2 In 3f. c loorkl KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Although sjow work was the order of the day, a number of Wally Bagby's candidates were sent against the clock at the training track this morning.
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      200 14 SINGAPORE Trainer Keith Daniels is introducing a 'newcomer' at the Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting, opening in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. He is Milky' Way (late Walcheran Raid), a handsome four-year-old gelding by Pappageno II (same sire of Shrangrilla), from Kingswell Lass. Milky Way, who caught the
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      126 14 Bold Dragon, who is also making his debut at the meeting, is a four year-old gelding by The Bug out of Lady Victoria. As a two-year-old, he won a juvenile Selling event, when with 9.0 he finished threeauarter of a length clear of Helen Ho 8.11 (rec 3
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      107 14 Maori Chief, a four-year-old brown gelding by Rorbide out of Lone Haven (by Fair Haven), was placed twice last season. He was beaten two lengths by 9-4 favourite. Olympiad 8.7, in the Quccnsfcrry handicap over the mile at Edinburgh, in July (5 ran) with the winner returning 1
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    61 14 ADMIRA Sports Club play- ed their last game in the Colony last night when they < beat Singapore by five goals to nil at Jalan Besar s(a dium. 3 The Austrians led 2 o at J the interval, and scored j three more in the second
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    995 14 ALL THREE teams entered by the Singapore Cricket Club for the club's annual seven-a-side rugby competition are now in the second round, and judging by their displays, at least one of them is expected to reach the final. Yesterday. S.C.C. "C"
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    32 14 nf Mo a nua l General Meeting wii^l Badmi "ton Party of lir T held c a J the resident Boat Quay, on Fri. Feb. 11 at o p.m. sharp.
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    251 14 G.H.Q. Signals Regt. will meet 30 Bn. Royal Army Ordnance Corps in the Singapore District Inter-Unit team boxing championship zone final, at the Singapore Badminton Hal) tomorrow at 8 p.m. The winners of this tournament will meet the winners of the Malayan Command
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    146 14 SPORTS LETTER AFTER reading the results of the Singapore-Federation hockey match, we must ex.pect a severe trouncing from the coming Pakistan Hockey Team. The highly-rated and the well trained Federation Hotkey Team could only draw with Singapore The result of this match is most •hocking to hockey
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    360 14 ENGLAND H.A. 'CONSIDERING COLONY VISIT' Favourable Reply Expected Soon The All England Hockey Association is considering the visit to Singapore of the England team to the coming World Olympics in Melbourne next year, said Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers, Singapore's Speaker Designate now in England, in a letter yesterday to
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    72 14 THE following have been selected to play hockey for Combined Services against Johore State at Jalan Besar Stadium today: S.A. Eastwood, Sgt. Gellard, Comdr. Middleton. Lt. Pritchard. Comdr. Trowbridge, Cpl. N. Baker, F. O. Mansoor, Sgt. Tejman Thapa. Sqn. Ldr. Dunn. L/Cpl. Wee Ah Kuan.
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    121 14 THE quarter finals draw for the Singapore Hockey Association's knock-out competition held at the SRC yesterday resulted as follows: Senior division (today) Ceylon Sports Club vs. Dockyard Sports Club at CSC(Sat.) SCRC vs. LatifT Wanderers at Hong Lim Green; SRC "Reds" vs. RAF Seletar at
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    61 14 GLASGOW. Feb. 9 (Reuter) Emergency centre forward, Duncan Edwards, scored a second half 'hattrick' in England's 6 o defeat of Scotland in an Intermediate (under 33) football International match under floodlights at Shaw* field Park here tonight. Scotland playing their first Intermediate match had a good
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    18 14 PENANG IN SIXTEEN TO PAKISTAN I repr: ;M 1 Ho. C I F 1 I the Kr.r.:; Rovqsii
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      44 14 Today's Sport RUGBY: Seven-a-side: R.A.F.Changi "B" v R.E.M.E. II; R.E.M.E. 1 v South Johore "A". HOCKEY: Senior K.O. Tourney Ceylon Sports Club v H.M. Dockyard at C.S.C. Junior: P.W.D. v Customs at G.S.C; Friendly Combined Services v Johore at Jalan Besar stadium 5.15 p.m.
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