Singapore Standard, 15 February 1955

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    12 1 Singapore Standard Kss SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1933 1* PAGES IS rFNTS.
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    269 1 Lue/ 7*o Bandit Raid $EMBAN, Mon. A group of Chinese •j wept oloud outside the Magistrate's Utt* today when 14 Chinese Home v of Rasoh New Village were brought custody to face charges of neglect of „,<! loss of arms and ammunition. to the Friday night raid on the
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    64 1 it c from an to his rpart has Police in■r 4 ercial of which in the .died re- b isinessra*es ol but when II destina- that one crap paper pieces of ,icrth SJ 734. businessman delivered exporting lor Basin n to Aden questioned i with the d they fillt
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    28 1 SONG. Feb. 14 (Rev- .7'j-ton British Thorncombe Binh. Indo:.nging a leak V Pan. managi the China ci.ns Company, el. said tocrrw abandoned and were I French rescue
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    18 1 Feb. 14 truncheons, released by ten recomby Swedish t holdup to the Miniit ions by a rta.
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    16 1 ISRAEL has announced her diplomatic recognition of the Associated States of Laos and Cambodia. Reuter
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    146 1 H BOMB OverS'pore? Not Likely, Says Expert PROFESSOR Marcus Oliphant. an Australian atomic physicist, screwed his face in amused concentration yesterday when asked the effects of a 11- Bomb explosion over Singapore. "Imagine yourself standing 15 miles away from Fort Canning." he said. "You won't be standing there seconds after
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    Lock icon Birthday Jaunt Ends In Tragedy
    203 1 Woman Killed In Crash KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— A birthday party jaunt ended in disaster here today when a taxi carrying five women and two children to Kuala Lumpur from Serdang Bahru New Village ploughed into a laden bus at tho junction of Sungei Besi and
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    Lock icon UK Calls For Quick Cease-fire
    455 1 UK Calls For Quick Cease-fire FORMOSA 'An end to the fighting would improve the chances of a conference succeeding.* Chiang Won't Talk With The Reds LONDON, Feb. 14— Britain called today for a quick cease-fire in the China fighting before the great powers take any decision on whether to convene
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    Lock icon POLICE BATTLE NEGRO RIOTERS
    136 1 JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 14, (AP) Armed police clashed at midnight with negro rioters shattering the sullen calm of Sophiatown, brooding over the government's plan to evict non-whites from the city's western areas. A police car broke up a gang of stone-throwing young negroes and the youths fled,
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    Lock icon Mystic Prophesies 'Phoney War' In Asia
    143 1 NEW DELHI, Feb. 14 (Reuter) A famous 40-year-old mystic, Tyagi Bawa. who lived for 15 years in a Himalayan cave without seeing the sunlight, today prophesied that there would be no world war in the near future but a "phoney war In Asia. Tyagi,
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    Lock icon SALESMAN AND BOY ACCUSED OF MURDER
    166 1 SALESMAN AND BOY ACCUSED OF MURDER KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A car salesman and an 18-year-old boy were tentatively charged in the Second Magistrate s Court here today with the murder of Yap Kon Shin, 58-year-old chief cashier of Wearne Bros. Ltd. The salesman, Chen Chung Ling. 22, of Cochrane Road,
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    Lock icon Alliance Says The MIC Is In
    117 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The U.M.N.0.-M.C.A. Alliance executive committee, meeting behind closed doors here tonight decided to accept the Malayan Indian Congress as a full partner in the Alliance, The Standard understands. The meeting appointed an ad hoc committee specifically to study the whole question
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    49 1 TAIPEI. Feb. 14 (UP).— The Fifth Air Force's 18th fighter bomber wing which was rushed here for operation "Pullback." has received orders to "evacuate Formosa as soon as operationally feasible." It will be replaced, by another squadron. The new outfit was not announced here. photo.
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    62 1 PERTH, Australia, Feb. 14 (Reuter). Two naval corvettes today rescued 17 ere* men of the crayfishing vessel Shelley Boy as she sank in heavy seas. 70 miles from Fremantle. The Shelley Boy's captain, R. Line, stayed aboard till all his crew were safe and then clambered
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    59 1 TRIVANDRUM. South India. Feb. 14 (Reuter)— The local leader of the Congress Party— governing party in India— was today appointed Chief Minister of TravancoreCochin State, where the only socialist government of an Indian state resigned last week. *w The party leader in the Assembly. Panampally Govinda
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    Lock icon BRITAIN TO STATE ITS ATOM STRENGTH
    125 1 LONDON. Feb. 14. (Reuter)— The British Government will announce tomorrow a widescale piogramme of atomic development, including its latest plans for producing electricity from atomic energy. It is to publish a White Paper reporting on the peaceful uses of atomic energy and setting out
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    Lock icon ELY CONFERS WITH CASEY
    43 1 SAIGON, Feb. 14 (Reuter) Australia's Foreign Minister, Mr. Richard Casey, conferred here today with French Commander-In-Chief General Paul Ely pn the military situation in Vietnam where the Vietminh Army has been rapidly expanding the number of its fighting divisions
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    36 1 UNITED NATIONS. Feb. 14 (UP). Britain proposed today that the United Nations Security Council adjourn without taking action on the China crisis in view of the Communist Chinese refusal to attend cease-fire talks here.
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    128 1 Can Dancer Marries 'Heart Throb' MELBOURNE, Feb. 14 (Reuter) Police had to clear a way through crowds of milling people when Welsh singer David ("Heart Throb") Hughes left St Paul's Cathedral here today with his can dancer bride. Then Police sorted out a large traffic jam. Motorists had stopped or
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    47 1 LONDON, Feb. 14 (Reuter) The Countess of Harewood, Austrian-born wife of the Earl of Harewood a cousin of the Queen gave birth to a third son at her London home early today. The boy is 14th in line of succession to the throne.
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    251 2 KI'ALA LIMPIR, Mon -Six high-ranking Thai military and police officials, now here to work out details of future joint operations on the Malaya-Siam border, today expressed 'amusement' over newspaper reports (not The Standard) that Siamese army units might be used to
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    65 2 Fouce Are Baby Sitters X t A L A MMPtR. Mon Paeoh Police are now "baby sitting for a woman terrorist in the neighbourhood With two men "comrades. -he met a Chinese rubber tappet yesterda> and handed to him a !oda>-old baby sirl which he promptly passed <>n to Police
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    68 2 SINGAPORE'S assistant Labour Commissioner. Mr. J. D. H. N'eill. has invited the Paya Lebar Bus Company and its employees to meet in his office tomorrow to negotiate a settlement of their disputes. The workmen have threatened to down tools on Feb 27 if the company fails
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    60 2 pnoio Dy THE scene after a collision between a taxi and a bus along Sungei Besi Road in Kuaia Liunpur yesterday. One of the eight occupants of the taxi, an 33--year-old woman, Kau l.ok. died in hospital later. The others including the driver arc reported
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    110 2 k CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb ii» Singapore yesteiday were: Buyers Sellers No 1 R.SS Srot Loose 105 10.V. No 1 R.SS fob Feb. 105 A 1 05 i No. 2 1044 1044 N;>. nom 10'ZS 1021 Tone: Steady quiet. run prick The 01 »cc of tin
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    Lock icon The Jagans Drop Out Of Favour
    107 2 GEORGETOWN. British Guiana. Feb. 14 tßeuter) Dr. Cheddi Jagan and his American-born wife. Mrs. Janet Jagan. lost their key positions in the Left-wing Peoples' Progressive Party in a reshuffle of the executive yesterday. A largely attended Party Congress passed a motion of no confidence
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    71 2 Odd Job Man Admits Sex Crime DETROIT, Feb. 14 <AP) Police say a 34-year-old former grave digger has confessed to the vicious rape-slay-ing of 18-year-old college coed Joann Gillespic. The girl's mutilated body was found In an alky near her home on Jan. 3, 1953. Police said Ballingall admitted the
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    21 2 THE Old Vie, Britain's star theatrical company, is to visit Australia in May for a six-month's tour. Reuter
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    100 2 Alcohol Is Blamed For Accidents PARIS. Feb. 14 (Reuter) Eetween 60 to 70 per cent of all road accidents in France are caused by drivers under the influence of liquor, the inventor of a new "alcohol meter" said here today. M. Michel Piedelievre said he had devised a machine which
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    533 2 WIFE'S NAGGING LED HIM TO DIVORCE SHE THREATENED TO END HER LIFE IN SEA-HUSBAND HEE CHIT LIM, 34, an accountant and former general manager of Seventh Storey Hotel, told Mr. Justice Knight in the Singapore High Court, yesterday, that he had no alter native but to seek a divorce because
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    180 2 Don't Ask For Special Treatment, Women Told WOMEN who seek equal pay for equal work and get it, should not afterwards ask for privileged treatment because of their status as women. A small group of Singapore women of all nationalities was yesterday told this by the Begum Hamid Ali at
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    52 2 IPOH. Mon.— Three firemen were slightly injured last niffht when a fire engine in which j they were travelling, skidded and went off the road at the 92 mile Jelapang-Chemor Road. Road. The firemen rushed from Ipoh in answer to a call to pat out a
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    75 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— ln the Magistrates Court today. Police Lieutenant J. Barker, of Kulai. was charged with criminal breach of trust of $8,500 being money entrusted to him as a public servant, for payment of wages to Special Constables. He was also
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    177 2 1 SINGAPORE City Councillors who J rf ful in the forthcoming: Legislative Assemw > < may have to give up their seats in the lm The Government sponsored committee which is drafting the City and Island Council Election Ordinance is expected to include provisions to bar I Legislative Councillors
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    277 2 They Pick A Safe At Fire Scene FROM under the noses of the Police guarding the area at the 12th mile Mandai Road, Singapore, where 56 people were rendered homeless on Sunday evening by a fire destroying nine attap houses and causing damage estimated at $50,000,
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    Lock icon Heckler At Spy Inquiry Thrown Out
    86 2 SYDNEY, Feb. 14 (ReuteD— A burly young heckler was carried bodily out 'of the Royal Commission on espionage hearings here today when he started to exchange punches with security officers. The incident followed the cross-examination of Mr. Morris John Hughes. President of the New
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    20 2 MR. Nehru left London yesterday for home after taking part in the Commonwealth Prime Minister's Conference. Reuter.
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    42 2 CAIRO, Feb. 14 (Reuter) The Aga Khan, leader of the Ismaili Moslem sect, who is ill with bronchitis here, had another good night and his temperature is almost back to normal, the Begum Aga Khan said today.
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    52 2 TOKYO. Feb. 14 (Reuter) A young high school girl who committed suicide yesterday left a note in which she expressed a wish to be "born with a prettier face in the next world," Tokyo Police reported today. The girl was reportedly distressed because she had
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    167 2 A YOUNG man called at a house in East Coast Road Singapore, and asked the occupants if his girl friend named b:ti had gone there. "No." they told him. but he stayed on for half an hour before leaving. After he had f one
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    50 2 PEXANT, M uanif 1 Constituency. Dr Ua i Eu. today r: I N'cgara. re-.-., -^H spc< '.ye: V "Malaya ciOHl r-'jfl have :ner.. v.— c r r^M so obvi' .jM sonal selfishness' an^B tow.. ,Dr. Urn r a He sa.-i :;;aj toleraM i independence and .'fl rea'frjH tha' I
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    38 2 A BOLT $*****0 <J spent to U|bt 4 J of rural i Those ar> Road. B» im I Astride Pari ar.d C:n Road. We>t. Tampan > Roil l£ tance of Gold Cup Biscuit also to b« stref |sj
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    179 3 MARINE POLICE CHECK STRIKERS' ROW Trouble At TToh o Waterfront J timely orrivol of tn** Po C C V *L t ,n Telok Ayer \esrerdoy prevent,moM incident the Swee Hin Krooe Comoony ond k'ng wooers from in g into ugly pro- h.iv born on l.n. 81 ovrr uhit h has
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    221 3 Technical Schoolboys To Stage A Walk -out ABOUT 200 students of the Junior Technical School, Singapore, will plan to stage a walk-out after their roll-call today in protest against a change in the system of training. Student representatives yesterday told The Standard that third-year students of ihe school were now
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    70 3 Conference On Cultural Freedom THE condition and problem of cultura 1 freedom in Asia will be discussed this week at Rangoon during a four-day conference to which delegates from South-east Asian countries, including Malaya.' have been invited. The conference begins on Thursday and will be a purely intellectual gathering of
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    133 3 THESE are the five People's Action Party candidates who are contesting the Singapore Legislative Assembly elections on April 2. From left: Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. lawyer (Tanjong Pagar): Mr. Tann Wee Tiong. lawyer (Changi); Mr. (lon Chew Chua. Contractor (Ponggol Tampenis): Mr. Lim Chin Siong, trade unionist (Rukit Timah)
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    38 3 W J. M. Officer Admir East Air Force. o r n i to :icn the in, the three airFedeiation to be onunodate the fighters and •m i airfields are I Goof Kcriah. !>c comend < f the year.
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    28 3 B stood trial Taylor in izc Court irge of armwtth a knife. have entered aloon in Joo Aug. 31 with robbed Mak $860 worth of •ending. p
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    51 3 photo I Sandosham of the Faculty of Medicine, KVr ii f Mala > v lays a wieath in the University s K>llJ ln m «-mory of 11 medical students who I^'WV* I uar y*»™ *KO Two hundred stu- ru '<i two minutes* silence at yesterday s
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    215 3 Anglers Won't Have To Angle THE fish who goes over to see the modern angler's bait will get a shock. A fishing line has been developed in Germany which carries a 200-volt shoek enough to stun any fish. Tnc Food and Agriculture Organization
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    34 3 ONE hundred members of the Singapore branch of the Overseas League and their guests attended a dinner in the Capitol Blue Room on Saturday night to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
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    64 3 Two women officers of the Radio Malaya left Singapore yesterday by air for a sixmonth training in the United Kingdom. They are Mrs Zahara Zaba. Ma ay announcer and Miss Mildred Appadurav of the Err.; ish schools section While in Englann they will visit the BBC
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    Lock icon KNIFED BOY GETS $200
    40 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.-Ng Chee an apprentice carpenter, vvho injured a 14-year-old Chinese bo y with a knife, was ordered to pay the boy SJOO compensation by Mr. N. L. Cohen, in the Juvenile- Court, Mersing. yesterday.
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    75 3 MORE than 3.000 scouts, wolf cubs and rover scouts in Singapore will take part in a rally to commemorate the 98th birthday anniversary of the late Lord Robert BadenPowell of Gilwell. founder of the Scout movement. The rally will take place at the Lee Kuo Chuan
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    269 3 A GIRL BROKE UP THESE 4 MUSKETEERS But Everything Ends Well And They're The Best Of Pals Again FOUR men, who told a Singapore magistrate that they are the best of pals, were each fined ?5 yesterday for fighting in public on Saturday night over a girl. The pals are
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    201 3 Aquarium Secures Upside Down Fish IT may sound rather fishy, but the Van Kleef Aquarium in Singapore has recently acquired eight fish that swim vertically and heads down, too! The fish, which is about five inches long, resemble the blade of a small knife and when seen edge-wise appear to
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    37 3 HONGKONG. Feb. 14 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.66 to Cl sterling; $5.***** to US$l; $1,830 to Malayan SI; $0,157 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $257,875 to a tacl.
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    148 3 82-Yr-old Helped In Chap-Ji-Kee AX 82-year-old woman, Tan Keow Tee. was yesterday lined SI, OOO by the Singapore Fifth Police Court Magistrate. Mr. R. B. 1. Pates, for assisting in running a chap-ji-kee lottery at the cigarette stall in Chin Hin Street. Inspector T. E. Hong told the court that
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    56 3 THE 24th annual general meeting of the Chettiars' Chamber of Commerce. Singapore, elected the following office-bearers for 1955. President. Mr. V. Chellapa Chettiar: vice-President. Mr Malaiyandi Chettiar: secretary. Mr. AM Manickam Chettiar; asst. secretary. Mr SP Nachiappa Chettiar: treasurer, Mr. AR Meyyappa Chettiar, auditor, Mr. MR Ramanathan Chettiar.
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    24 3 RAMAH bintc Johan and Chong Ai Tshin have passed the "B'' Class Examination of the Central Midwives Board held on Jan. 28.
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    54 4 PENANG. Mon.— Chan Gaik Looi. a 26-year-old woman was tentatively charged in the Magistrate's Court today with causing grievous hurt to James Valentine Ccx with a rhangkol at Tanjong Tokon^ village on Feb 2. The preliminary inquiry has been fixed for March 14. Chan was
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    27 4 BATU PAHAT. Mon. A middle-aged ex-cook. Chua Ah Ay was found hanging at the staircase of his friend's house in Jalan Ibrahim early this morning.
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    435 4 Pistol Lay Beside Engineer A SERVICE engineer, Donald McPherson, 25, secured a S4OO loan from a Sikh watchman and got engaged to a nurse of the Singapore General Hospital in December, last year. Just over a fortnight later, on Jan. 3. this year, McPherson
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    133 4 Colony Elections FOR the first time in the history of trade unionism, an industrial labour union representing about 10,000 workers of the Admiralty, yesterday decided to put up its own candidate to contest the Colony Legislative Assembly elections on April 2. The Union, the Naval Base
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    34 4 FIRE victims hunt for what is left among the charred ruins at 13th Mile Mandai Road, Singapore. yesterday after a Sunday evening blaze destroyed nine attuD huts. Standard photo.
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    188 4 Mr. L. KEEPS A BET AND THE LITTLE ONES GAIN SOME poor crippled juvenile patients of St. Andrew's Orthopaedic Hospital, Singapore. May. at some future date, thank Mr R L Lambert Vice-President of the Singapore Driving Instructors' Union, for having given them an education Receiving Mr. Lambert's donation of $100
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    325 4 THE Manager of the Asia Lighterage Transport Co., Mr. G. R. Lombard, alleged in the Singapore Third Criminal District Court yesterday that a man, accompanied by eight others, called at his office one evening and threatened to smash up his office and
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    47 4 KUANTAN, Mon.— Mr. G.A. Dixon. of the Mercantile Bank of India Ltd.. Singapore, has arrived in Kuantan. to take over from Mr. R.F.K. Terrill. as Agent of the Mercantile Bank's Kuantan branch. Mr. R.F.K. Terrill will be going over to the bank's Singapore office.
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    160 4 Jap Revue Girls Lived In Fear ALTHOUGH practically every member of the Shochiku Revue Troupe had a Singapore police bodyguard, they lived in constant fear of their lives, during their stay here, business manager of the troupe, Mr. A. S. Ozorio. said in an exclusive interview with The Standard yesterday.
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    73 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A patrol of the Fifth Malay Battalion 3 r esterday attacked a camp occupied by 40 terrorists one of the largest concentrations seen these days in the Gurun District of Kedah. The terrorists fJed but members of the patrol are unable to say whether
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    66 4 PENANG Mon. The Federal Association of Teachers of Dancing (Australia and Nev; Zealand) and the Penang Dance Association, will be presenting the second "Festival of Dance" at the E. and O. Hotel, on Feb. 26 The well-known ballroom dancers, Dan Judah and Joan Curtis, will give ballroom
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    165 4 Czar's Present Will Be Shown At Arts Exhibition KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Valuable antiques and contemporary silverware will go on show at the National Museum in Kuala Lumpur on April 9, in an exhibition sponsored by the Federation's Arts Council. Over 50 items arr expected to adorn the glass-covered cases, but
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      70 4 Weather Report MINIMUM Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. Feb. 13 to 7.30 a.m Feb. 14 Singapore (74F). Penang (73F). Kota Bahru (69F) Kuala Lumpur (72F), Ipoh (7 OF), Kuantan <68F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. Feb. 13 to 7.30 a.m. Feb. 14 Singapore (91F). Penang OOF), Kota Bahru <86F), Kuala Lumpur
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    392 5 First To Be Admitted To U.S. Under Relief Act h A m» il a! 1 two cl lldr en from Malaya who will make their fufure leaTe S?n«^! PIC i U c dcr l he new United States Refugee Relief Act, will leave Singapore forjon Francisco, by Pan American
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    162 5 NEWSREEL DEBUT BY MFU KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Malayan Film Unit will make its international newsreel "debut" this month covering the SEATO conference at Bangkok for the British and Australian Governments. w^!t. Low Hong Chve one of MFUs veteran cameramen is already in Bangkok for a preiminary investigation of location
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    116 5 MELBOURNE. Feb. 14 <Reuter> In a front-page editorial headlined "Keep Out of Malaya" The Argus today said the mere presence of Australian troops in Malaya could be used as a basis for hostile Communist propaganda in Asian countries whose goodwill was "vital" to Australia. The
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    361 5 $18,439 Cheque Dishonoured BEFORE obtaining: from the Malayan Watch Traders 522 watches valued at 818,439.50 on a dud cheque, a Singapore business man made a show of his large transactions with other firms, it was alleged in the First District Criminal Court yesterday. The businessman,
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    55 5 photo. UON'd FUN YAO 17--year-old maidservant, who has been reported missing; from her home at Potong Pasir, Singapore, since Feb. 6. She vent to work for a neighbour on Chinese New Year but left the job on the eve of Chap Goh Meh (Feb 6) and
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    60 5 PARIT BUNTAR. Mon. Caught in a speed trap, a lorry driver. Yeap Khoay Kam was fined S5O by Tuan Sheikh Abdullah bin Sheikh Abu Bakar in the Bagan Serai Magistrate's Court for exceeding the speed limit of 25 miles per hour. It was stated that accused's
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    226 5 Multi-Lingualism Question KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The UMNO-MCA Aliiance has rejected appeals by a section of the Chinese community in Kuala Lumpur to fight for multi-lingua-lism in the new Federal Legislative Council. In a letter today to Mr. Leung Che« Cheong, chairman of the Federation of
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    86 5 MENTAKAB. Mon. A swine fever epidemic exists at the moment in TYmerloh district and so far 130 pigs have died of the disease in Mentakab town alone. This is the first time the disease ha.s come to Pah an g since it was noticed first in
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    226 5 Urges Youth League KUALA LUMPUR, Mon —The Malayan Socialist Youth League now being formed here, will demand that political science should be a compulsory subject in all senior schools throughout the country, Mr. V. David, the League's key sponsor who returned recently from the United
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    33 5 MUAR. Mon.— For failing to submit returns of income under the income tax ordinance S. Tarasinqh. 36 of Jalan Maharani. Muar, was fined $20 by the Muar Magistrate. Inche Pawan Ahmad.
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    91 5 IPOH, Mon. T«W Mv Cheong. 13. of Mulim Nawar. pleaded guilty to three charges of theft before Magistrate Che Abdullah Ghazalli this morning. He admitted Mealinn a blanket valued at $24 at Sin Tong Lee kongM in Buntong on Feb. 12. and theft of a bicycle
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    233 7  -  Jury Manslaughter Says DI'NEDIN, New Zealand, Feb. 14, (Reuter)— Dr. Senga Florence Whittingham, 27, a pretty woman doctor, was today found guilty of the manslaughter of her former lover, also a doctor, who was shot after a hos- pital party on Dec- 12. Dr. Whittingham
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    136 7 PFLIMLIN FAILS TO FORM NEW CABINET PARIS. Feb. 14. (AP)— Pierre Pflimlin early today gave up his attempt to form a new French cabinet. President Rene Coty at once asked Christian Pineau, a right-wing Socialist, to make the next try. Pflimlin, a member of the left-of-centre Popular Republican movement (MRP),
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    86 7 HONGKONG. Feb. 14 (Reuter) Mr. Mao Tse Tung, the Communist Chinese head of State. Mr. Liv Shao Chi. chairman of the standing committee of the National Peoples Congress, Mr. Chou En Lai. Premier and Foreign Minister and other leading Chinese leaders, were present at "a grand
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    167 7 MIAMI, Feb. 14, (UP) A segregation squabble caused a near-riot last night at a Lincoln Day dinner in Miami. Twenty-four Negro guests were told to leave the party because the hotel manager said his place is "for whites only." The Negroes were members
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    48 7 LONDON. Feb. 14, (Rculcr) —British European Airways asreed late tonight niter a i 2-hour meeting to re-employ a union official and so avert a threatened strike of London airport engineers. The official was shop steward Jack Peters dismissed last December after a union dispu'.e.
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    155 7 LAS VEGAS, Feb. 14, (UP)-The Atomic Energy Commission announced yesterday that the first jest in its 1955 atomic experiments in southern Nevada has been officially scheduled for Tuesday with AEC chairman Louis L. Strauss here to personally witness the series. I A spokesman stressed
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    33 7 COLOMBO. Feb. 14 (Rcuter).— Mr. Robert \V. S'mpkin. 43-year-old British tailor, choked to death while eating a beefsteak at a hotel here, a coroner found here. Verdict: Misadventure.
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    65 7 NEW YORK, Feb. 14, (AP) Seven homeless men. arrested for sleeping in subway trains, asked Magistrate Hyman Bushel yesterday to send them to jail "until the cold spell is over." How long did they think the cold speil would last, the magistrate asked. The replies varied from
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    761 12 THE Malayan share market opened the week with a better sentiment in industrials but tins continued irregular. Rubber shares remained very quiet. The turnover was still restricted. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: Buyers Seller* Alex. Bricks Prefs. 2 00 2 10 Ords.
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    24 12 photo. Mr. K. Skat-Roerdam, (seen above), Chairman of The Carlesberg Breweries, Copenhagen, who is in Singapore on a week's visit. Standard
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    147 12 More Shops Spring Up In J. Bahru Standard Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, MonIn the last few months a number of small busi- i nesses, mostly connected! with the repair and I painting of motor vehicles, have sprung up all over the place. These businesses are usua'v conducted in lean-to-sheds or
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    409 12 LET US WORK FOR COUNTRY, SAYS CHAIRMAN Standard Staff Reporter THE Chairman of the Directors of The Carlsberg Breweries, Copenhagen, Mr. K. SkatRoerdam said in Singapore, yesterday that Carlsberg's motto "Laboremus Pro Patria" (Let Is Work For The Country), could be appropriately adopted by the people of Malaya as well.
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    55 12 fl A £n n™ ATION lists for .t. 1.250.000 one Dound Sterling shares in the White-Head Iron and Steel Co., seventh firm to be denationalized by the Conservative Government were heavily over subscribed within one minute of being opened last week on the London Stock Exchange. The shares
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    204 12 Small Business Is Seen In Produce THE produce market in Singapore was quiet in most sections yesterday with only small business passing. Copra buyers were somewhat reserved. buyers for February closing at '$302 per picul. Coconut oil sellers in Penang indicated $49 per picul. No interest in pepper was reported
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    21 12 RICE FOR GERM ANY THAI rice will be sold to West Germany, according to Economic Affairs Ministry sources in Bangkok. A.P.
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    52 12 With a successful year behind them U.K. shipyards are now building more than a third of the world's total export tonnage currently under construction— 2.l4 million tons gross. Last year saw the end of steel supply problems with tho result that 1.49 million tons gross were completed, a
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    39 12 DISCOVERY of the Rrsi major oil well in Italy— an initial production of 2.000 barrels a day was announced in London by the Gulf Eastern Oil Company, a subsidiary of the giant American Gulf 0.. Combine.
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    124 12 This also had the effect of i reducing the total order book from 5.5 million tons at the end of 1953 to 4.3 million tons, or 773 ships, at the end of 1954. thus enabling the industry to speed its deliveries. Launchings last year were also
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    192 12 Finanw And Coming BANK Ml THE rubber market in Singapore reman* and slightly easier all da\. first sradf nil February shipment closing at 51.051 per I I cent on Saturday. -"I Prices opened at an I $l.U5i and moved be!v. 51.05J and $1.05£ most of the
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    53 13 KEDAH beat Singapore 9-3 to win the All Blues Cup at Kuala Lumpur on Sunday with a storming second half rally. Besides winning the Cup, Kedah maintained an unbeaten record in the competition A group photograph taken before the match shows the two teams all set for
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    299 13 I 14, <Keuha> *>"'" little reI ,'me attack on f^tbali by a 'doctor who dcs11%l 1% harluric and s replace- most I 1 it I the National earally d no hed has letter pic gainst 'ball S nday to the de- tball It has won its place as the
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    336 13  - BRITAIN MAY MISS 1956 GAMES SOCCER VERNON MORGAN By luisuun, Feb. 14, (Reuter)— Great Britain's participation in the Olympic soccer tournament i s extremely doubtful. While the English, Scottish, Welsh and u 1 io- c Associations are making up their minds whether to compete in the 19ob tournament in Melbourne,
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    441 13 Police Beat Off Fighting Rivals For KO Semi-final Police 3 SUB Police 1 Rozario, Dalbnra Singh Sta Santokh Singh. Maria. Umpires— Messrs F. Milne S. Yogarajuh. THE Colony Police fought their way into the Singapore Hockey Association's senior knock-out semifinal when they beat their rivals, the Singapore Harbour Board Police,
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    459 13 India Collapse Pakistanis Ate Struggling PESHAWAR, Feb. 14, (Reuter)— lndia and Pakistan, having drawn the first three Tests of the current series, look like drawing the fourth which has one more day to run here. At the close today, the position was Pakistan 188 and 44 for one, India 245.
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    150 13 SURPRISE OMISSION IN IRISH XV LONDON, Feb. 14. (Reuter) Jackie Kyle, the Irish Rugby Union outsidehalf who has made 34 international appearances has been dropped from Ireland's team to meet Scotland at Murrayfield on Feb. 26. This is one of four changes from the side that drew 6-6 with England
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    48 13 THE Singapore Hockey Association's K.O. semi-final draw held at the SRC last night resulted as follows: SRC vs. Police at SRC; SCRS vs. winners of CSC/ Dockyard vs. University. Junior Section: PWD/BOD vs. SRC "Greens/TTC; RAF Seletar vs. winners of RAF(T)/ Police vs. YMSA.
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    124 13 LONDON. Feb. 14. Reuter— Frank Edwards. 45-year-old Stourbridge Worcestershire building contractor reached the final of the English Amateur Billiards Championship here last ni^ht by beating Reg Wright, by 3.864 points to 1,760. In the final beginning next Tuesday. Edwards will mer* ALF Nolan, a Newcastle male
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    145 13 PENANG. Sun. As part of the training programme in preparation for the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, the Malayan Hockey Federation will be sending a team to India or PakiMan some time in February next year. This was disclosed by the President of the Malayan
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    285 14  - GOLD CUP PROSPECTS WORK IN STYLE WINDSOR LAD By I Standard's I L Photo 1 Form M KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Penan? trainer Wally Bagby's Gold Cup candidates, Shangrila (Hudson) and Airmark (Bagby), were associated in a testing trial at this mornings workouts. After going once round at a steady canter,
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    281 14 Milky Way Joins The Select Band THE Milky Way (late Walcheren Raid) a handsome four-year-old chestnut by Pappageno II (same sire of Shangrila) from the Blanding Mare. Kingswell Lass. joined the select band of first time out winners in the Malayan Turf when h*e scored cleverly in the main 5i
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    33 14 LONDON, Feb. 14 (Reuter) —Association Football results: F.A. Cup fourth round third replay: Aston Villa 0, Doncaster Rovers 0 (Abandoned after 90 minutes. Bad light prevented extra time being played).
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    649 14 SINGAPORE seven-aside Rugby quarter-finalists, decided at the SCC yesterday, were the Fijians, and the -A' teams of RAF Seletar, SCC and the RASC '1 he Fijians swept through a 1.;-.") victory over the Singapore Harbour Board \V; Seletar scored a narrow win against RAMC at
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    32 14 MEET the lou r Internationals irho jlevc into Singapore yesterday. From left: England's John Barrett 23 Roger Becker 21. and Su-edens Lennart Bcrgelm 29, and Sven Davidsson 2G.
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    259 14 MELBOURNE, Feb. 14. (Reuier)-A persistent deluge washed out the thirdday's play in the match betweev the MCC and Victoria here today and it will not be surprising if the game is abandoned tomorrow. Rain also washed out play on Friday, and caused a hold
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    513 14 ONE-TIME conqueror of Frank Sedgman, Australia's world famous champion now professional, Sweden's Lennart Bergelin, accompanied by his Davis Cupmate, Sven Davidson, flew into Singapore with Britain's young Davis Cup stars, Roger Becker and John Barrett yesterday. Fresh from the Philippine national championships where the
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    115 14 MELBOURNE. Feb. 14 (Reuter)—Trevor Bailey, the England all rounder, has fractureo the fourth finger of his riphhand, an x-ray revealed today. Bailey said his chances of playing in the fifth Test begin-; ning in Sydney on Feb. 115 were "50-50." He injured the finger when fielding
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    51 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Johore English College beat Telecoms and Postal Combined 5-4 in a friendly match of soccer played on the Co.- < iege ground yesterday Lias, Denny Lim (2) and Dollah (2) scored for the College while Law.cv completed a 'hattrick' and Darwish I scored for the
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    615 14 TO BLAZES WITH CHARM IN CRICKET > ENGLAND'S cricket selectors are on top of the world. They've been going about with smug 1-told you-so smiles. 1 We lead the Test series 3-1 and the Ashes are won. But does that mean the selectors were dead right in all their decisions?
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