Singapore Standard, 25 February 1955

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  • 17 1 Singapore Standard fr A, J *i iS >••• -3r> SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1955 14 pa<;es is cents
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  • 184 1 jOßOftf BAHRU, Thurs. H'ians today killed t *,> terrorists and wounded others in two >fparate engagements in i he \onz Peng area of j^ore where Major R. I Commanding Offi(,i A' Company of the juian Regiment was shot ,j, in an ambush on ju^day. of the
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  • 71 1 All Civilians Are Now Out Of Nonchishan AIPEI. Feb. 24. <AP»~Na- ilist China said today all had been withdrawn Hi Nanchishan, a Redit ened island outpost 140 north of Formosa, he withdrawal seemed an certain prelude to a \»ry evacuation. The isr» ported garrisoned by 5.000 regulars and I were
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  • 32 1 THE Anatasamakom Throne Hall photographed from across the water in Bangkok. This is where the Foreign Ministers of the eight Manila Pact nations are holding their conference.
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    203 1 Site For Permanent SEATO Secretariat Ministers Strip Off Coats And Complete All Plans BANGKOK, Feb. 24, (Reuter)— SEATO Foreign Ministers completed oil their plans today for an organization to defend South-east Asia against Communism except for an economic aid programme to stop hunger and poverty. Conference sources predicted this
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  • 411 1 BANGKOK. Feb. 24 (Reuter) Differences between Britain and the United States on the Formosa situation were discussed tonight between Sir Anthony Eden and Mr. John Foster Dulles, an authoritative source said. Each member state will send one representative to each of these three groups. Besides
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  • 108 1 BANGKOK, Feb. 24, (Reuter)— Delegates to the SEATO council meeting here say they have been "overwhelmed" by the reception which hospitable Thailand has given them. The Pakistan Prim* Minister Mr. Mohammed Ali called it "incredible." A senior-administrative officer from one delegation said: "I have
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  • 164 1 KITZBUEHEL, Austria, Feb. 24 (UP)— A shapely, thirtyish brunette who appeared in the 19-year-old Duke of Kent's arms In news photos a week ago maintained a strict handsoff policy on Tuesday night at a skiing ball they attended. The Duke, seventh in
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  • 64 1 Faure Now Premier Of France PARIS. Feb. 24. (Reuter) The French National Assembly last night voted M. Edgar Faure. Radical, into office as Prime Minister. He was the fourth man to attempt to form France's 21st. postwar government, in succession to that of M. Pierre Mendes France, which fell 20
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  • 31 1 The population of Tokyo hit a peak of 7.807,666 as of Jan. 1. an increase of 280.000 over one year ago, the Government Statistics Bureau reported yesterday.- UP
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  • 271 1 AUSSIES TOLD: DON'T MEDDLE IN MALAYA MELBOURNE. Feb. 24. (Reuter) Australia should not "meddle" in Malaya, said an article in the Argus today by an "Australian expert on Malayan affairs who holds a high post in Singapore." The article carried a Kuala Lumpur dateline. The writer said there was no
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  • 78 1 Their Married Life Lasted Only 15 Minutes TULSA, Oklahoma, Feb. 24. (AP)— Mrs. Rena Matthews Wallace filed a suit for divorce in a district court charging her husband of less than 15 minutes of incompatability. Her petition alleged that her mate, Robert Arthur Wallace, deserted her within 15 minutes after
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  • 51 1 THE Governor of Hongkong, Sir Alexander Grantham, arrived by a Royal Air Force plane at Changi yesterday. He is here to attend the annual conference of British ambassadors to Far Eastern countries, governors of colonies and adminstrators of territories in Asia, to be held at
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  • 89 1 LONDON. Feb. 24 (Reuter).— Sex crimes in Britain are increasing yearly, states the report of Inspectors of Constabulary issued here today. The report which calls the increase "one of the most disquieting trends of postwar crime." said there was an increase of nine
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  • 611 1 Ex -Students Spill The Beans And,., Hunt For Comrade Who Moved Bombs SINGAPORE Police on Wednesday uncovered the largest Communist arms cache on the island since the Emer vicy started, in a small plot of waste land off Sennett *ood in the Siglap District.
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  • 61 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The Federation Government will announce within a week the date of the first national elections in the country, The Standard learnt today. The date will probably be in the "latter half of July." The Standard was told. The Malay Rulers are said to
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  • 50 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (AP)— A United States Air Force plane with 11 men aboard crashed in flames near its Sedalia, Missouri, base last night. The Air Force here six bodies have been recovered. Three men are missing. Two baled out and have been picked up.
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  • 77 1 LONDON. Feb. 24. (Reuter) —The bank rate was today raised from three and a half to four and a half per cent. This is the second increase in a month— the last being from three to three and a half per cent. Today's increase is believed
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  • 182 2 43 PIONEER STUDENTS IN NEW MUSLIM COLLEGE XL A N (i. Thurs. Forty-three enthusiastic young Malays, 15 of them from Kelantan. tiled into the Selanijor Ruler's Istana Jamiah at Klang this morning to become pioneer studrnts of Malaya's new Muslim College which commenced its academic term today. They were welcomed
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  • 160 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs— The Malay Rulers, at a two-day conference which ended today, are understood hive decided that there should be no "impetuous Interference 11 with the country's defence build-up planned by Britain. The Rulers are said to have also agreed with the aims
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  • 300 2 Specialists For Templer Hospital KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday— The most modern method of tuberculosis treatment will be introduced on a large scale for the first time in Malaya at the $5,000,000 Lady Tempter Tuberculosis Hospital which will be opened here in August, The Standard learnt today. A
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  • 110 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices I (cents per lb) in Singapore yesterday were: lone: Easy. Down: 2£ cents. TIN PRICE The price of tin yesterday was $355 i, up by LONDON KUBBtK No. 1 K.S.S. Settlement House Terms Thursday's opening pnres first sessior were* Tone: Quiet. LONDON UN Thursday's opening
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  • 39 2 HONGKONG. Feb. 24—Sper'p} Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exi nange today were $15 59 to £1 sterling: $5.***** to US$l: 51. 839 to Malayan $1; $0,157 to one Indonesian Rupiah. Gold $256,125 to a tael
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  • 151 2 MORE than 10.000 people turned up at No. 946 Upper Serangoon Road yesterday to attend the last public elections meeting to be sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for the forthcoming Legislative Assembly elections. Mr. Tan Lark Sye. a committee member of the Chamber, said
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  • 44 2 PENANG, Thurs.— An armed robbery took p!ace in the early hours yesterday morning when a woman. Kung Char Bor. living in Green Lane was awakened by two Chinese, one armed with a knife, who took jewellery, sarongs and cash. valued at $265.
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  • 69 2 IPOH, Thurs An ex-Home Guard. Chan Swee Lan, of Guntong New Village, here, was fined $600 or six months imprisonment by the Ipoh Magistrate. Che Abdullah Ghazalli, today when he pleaded guilty to four charges of theft of a motor cycle valued at $300.
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  • 125 2 THE Singapore Art Society will be presenting an exhibition of Book Jackets in the British Council Hall from March 17 to 27. Th e exhibition will be opened by the wellknown British journalist and author, Mr. Vernon Bartlett. This is the first time an
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  • 65 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— J. Thomas, a 29-year-old unemployed clerk. was \-esterday freed on his entering into a six-month "good behaviour" bond after he had pleaded guilty before the Second Magistrate to a charge of attempted suicide. It was stated Thomas drank* some poison at his kampong
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  • 22 2 THE Iraqi Cabinet approved the final text of the defence pact with Turkey yesterday it was officially stated in Bagdad.
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  • 82 2 IPOH. Thurs. An aptfj lion by the Perak S: c We fare Departn i mission bui; a E and Ron.and Hon. Kangsai Road was down by the Ipah mi Kg* lembu Town Coui it wa< kit But nrh a km was out of plaot an im
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  • 56 2 Why Try To Kill Me, Says Teacher Justice t c Singapo re Ass yesterday myslei a textile 2S3?i tion, oould n tivei ran iway. L;m r an a hit him on with a revolver Lim cUiaed la lefa he was hflp Mr. X. 11. Tsan appLim and Mr H E
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  • 167 3 SCHOOL'S PROTEST AGAINST NEW RENT THE Singapore City Councillor, Mr. Lee Choon Eng. yesterday asked the Improvement Trust authorities to waive its decision to collect $55 as monthly ground rent from the Taiwan school in Alexandra Village since the land is used to run a community school. Mr. Lee told
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  • 106 3 A SINGAPORE Naval Base employee. Vidayadharam Narayanan, 21. was bound over in the sum of SI OO to be of good behaviour yesterday in the Fifth Police Court, when he was convicted of causing hurt to Anandan Pillay with an iron rod. Anandan told
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  • 88 3 Cyclist Drove Dangerously Gets 3 Months' JOHORE BAHRU Thurs. Ng Ter Tee. a motor cyclist, was sentenced in the Sessions Court here, today to three months' imprisonment lor dangerous driving. The court was told that on Dec. 27, Ng rode his motorcycle into four persons who were walking along Jalan
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  • 46 3 FIVE thousand Chinese blood donors arc urgently needed by the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service. Last year Singapore hospitals gave 5.139 blood transfusions to Chinese patients. "Some day you may need such help." says the appeal issued by the B'.ood Transfusion Service yesterday.
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  • 227 3 Red Letter Day Far Kampong Panggol New School Is The Cause Of It NEARI-Y four hundred Inhabitants of Singapore's Kampong Ponggol are so thrilled that their village is to have a school that they are going to mark the openIng of the building tomorrow by having a koleb race, a
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  • 234 3 MIC To Contesf Only On Slate Municipal Levels KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. —The UMNO MCA Alliance/ it is understood, has reached agreement on the allocation of constituencies for contesting the forthcoming Federal elections. The United Malays National Organization will put up 40
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  • 187 3 500 Are Asked To Quit Estate SIXTY squatter families of more than 500 persons in Namly Park, off Bukit Timah Road. Singapore, have been asked to quit their homes to make way for a land development scheme by the owners. Credit Foncier D'Extreme Orient. The land, an area of about
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  • 124 3 Lab. Party To Contest One Seat THE Singapore Labour Party will contest only one electoral division Geylang in the Legislative Assembly elections on April 2. The president of the Party, Mr. S. S. Manyam. told The Standard yesterday that the Party's other candidate in the Pasir Panjang division. Mr. Ahmad
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  • 64 3 THE following were elected office-bearers of the Singapore Battalion. Boys Brigade. for this year at a meeting in the Princep Street Presbyterian Church. President Mr. J M. Fraser; vice-presidents Messrs. A. M. Cherian, S. Brownsword. Chua Fiak Phuang: secretary Mr. Liau Myuk Siong; asst secretary Mr. Eric
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  • 63 3 TEMERLOH. Thurs.— An 18--year-old girl. Ho Ah Tai alias Law Kiew. charged with unlawful possession of a single barrel shotgun under the Emergency Regulations was ordered to be remanded in custody by the President of the Sessions Court. West Pahang, Mr. JR. Whimster. It was stated
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  • 217 3 $500,000 To Improve Rural Sanitation, Drains Water Supply THE Singapore Rural Board yesterday passed plans costing about $500,000 for various improvements in outlying districts. These include: 1. A $100,000 scheme for lining and improving roadside drains: 2. A $20,000 plan to improve kampong sanitation; 3. Additional water supply for eight
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  • 283 4 3 Yrs For Fatally Stabbing His Childhood Friend GRIM END TO A TALE OF KNIVES IPOH, Thurs. For fatally st year-old padi planter, Hashim bin Mr. Justice Thomson to three year Hashim was found guilty on a eh ing to murder, by causing the death __of obbing his childhood friend,
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  • 311 4 Brigade Officer Demonstrates (Singapore Standard Reporter) ALL big fires start from small ones, a group of nursing sisters from the Singapore General Hospital were told at the Central Fire Station in Hill Street yesterday. The nurses were there to t learn henv to deal
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  • 101 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— A trisha rider. Awang bin Uda. was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment in the Sessions Court here yesterday, for stealing a shirt and sarong from a house. He was also put under police supervision for 18 months. The prosecution
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  • 75 4 A Father Finds His Son Hanging JALLALUDIN bin Mahuddin, 18. a compositor in a Malay press prayed three times In his home in Jalan Senyum. ofT Singapore's Changi Road, before going to bed on Wednesday night. His family thought it strange as Muslims normally pray only once in the evening.
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  • 41 4 PENANG. Thurs.— The Board of Management of the United Hokkien Cemeteries derided at a meeting held yesterday to reduce the cremation fee at their Batu Gantong crematorium to $100 per cremation. The fee previo usly charged was Sl2O.
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  • 136 4 'FenceSitters' Taken To Task IPOH, Thurs. Criticising the lack "f public co-operation in the Emergency and the deplorably high number of fencesitters still existing, Mr. VV. G. Scott. Chairman of the F.M.S. Chamber of Commerce. Perak Branch, said that a greater sense of urgency on the part of political leaders
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  • 165 4 EX-INDIAN STATE CHIEF IN SINGAPORE A 63-YEAR-OLD former Chief Minister of the South Indian State of TravancoreCochin, arrived in Singapore yesterday aboard the 8.1.5. N. vessei Rajula from Madras. He is Mr. C. Kesavan. a political leader who fought the Government of that Princely State for about 30 years for
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  • 156 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— A woman, Low Choon Lan, who attempted to provide supplies for terrorists on Aug. 11, last year, was sentenced in the Sessions Court, today, to one year's jail. The Court was told that on the day in question a Fijian patrol saw
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  • 85 4 Driver Held After An Inquest THE Singapore Coroner. Mr. K. T. Alexander, yesterday ordered the immediate arrea t of Ali bin Okete, a 25-year-old driver from Malacca. The order was made at the conclusion of an inquest on Hamzah bin Haji Karim. a fitter, who died on Dec. 21, last
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  • 108 4 ONE of Britain's most famous actresses, Dame Sybil Thorndyke, arrived in Singapore last night from Hongkong to give a series of performances. She was accompanied by her husband. Sir Lewis Casson. Among the first to arrive at the airport to meet her was Dr. S. I
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    • 69 4 Weather Report Minimum Temperature From 7..°,0 p.m. Feb. 23 to 7..°,0 a.m. Feb. 24: Spore (74F): Penangr (75F); Kota Rharu <7?F); Kuala Lumpur (7.°»F); Ipoh (71F): Kiintan (70F>. JV.aximum Temperature: From 7..°i0 p.m. Feb. 23 to 7.1.0 a.m. Feb. 24: Spore (90F): Penanji (901): Kota Rharu (8(iF); Kuala Lumpur (9?F);
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  • 260 5 AN ANGRY LEOPARD IS PUT IN HIS PLACE ...And Koko Did It KOKO. a five-year-old oranei.mtang from Borneo, was the star attraction at Singapore's Kalian* Airl|)O rt yesterday. In fact his playful antics and childish •'coos" were so captivating h e even outshone a more alluring personality who was present
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  • 368 5 KIALA LIWIPIR, Thurs. —Party Negara will not have an Indian expert to guide its Federal elections campaign after all. The Standard learnt today from sources close to its high command hereis said to be due to advice of
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  • 67 5 AR. Than, Pleading to two charges of illegal n of lA pills of pre--1 opium, a leaf packet red with chandu and a jar 1 ndu drosa and smoking 1 on Feb. 7. Tan Kan:; was finec! S,'iso or four r..pri-onment on the rqe. and
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  • 265 5 FANS WAIT 2 HOURS TO GREET FILM STAR Standard Staff Reporter INDONESIA'S to p flight actor, Raden Sukarno, arrived in Singapore yesterday by a Garuda Convair from Jakarta, to play the leading role in the first Indonesian film to be "shot" in Malaya '"Chemti" (The Whip). Mr Raden was almost
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  • 119 5 One hundred gramophone records and a sewing machine were among articles worth $2,050 stolen from a house in Jalan Hajijah on the night of Dec. 24. last year, the Singapore First District Court was told yesterday. The prosecution stated this at the trial
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    • 567 6 ITH the Singapore elections barely two months away local political parties are gearing themselves for action. The Progressives have all along been confident of their success, but the last minute entry of the Democrats into the arena has upset their calculations. Their outcry against the Democrats l-
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    • 362 6 [N his talk to Rotarians on Wednesday night the High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, said that a positive approach to the problem of Communism would be better than a negative approach and that selling democracy was more constructive than denouncing Communism. We agree with Sir Donald on this
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  • 487 6 Review of Views No Solution, No Hope UTUSAX Melayu avers that the SEATO conference in Bangkok could never resolve the differences among the Powers in the world because pitting one world blor against another is no solution to the present international tension. The editorial compares the Bangkok conference and the
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  • 1435 6  - Politics Fascinated Young Anthony Andrew Roth By afsdfasdfsdgdfgf ■*•<* 1 THERE were many who thought Sir Anthony Eden's political career had been cut short in June 1950 when, pale, greying and minus his usual carnation, he stepped up to the witness box in an all-but-empty London courtroom. He testified that
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 206 6 Sir; True Muslims as compared \v:th others are poorer but I think this is not the sole cause why they did not succeed in raising 500.000 dollars in a period of over four years. Our Chinese friends are aiming to collect $20.000.000— a sum 400 times greater
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    • 396 6 AH Correspondence Should Be Short And To The Point Sir;— An interesting feaJ ture of the first Penang J Settlement Council's Geneg ral Election results is the number of voters especially the Muslim and Chinese J women who have gone to 5 the poll. Under circum- stances
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    • 196 6 Sir; It is becoming more and more evident that the spirit of personal initiative, independent thought, on-the-spot-decisions and, in general, that spirit of go-aheadness is being throttled by rules—rules that are drawn up by men with so-called progressive minds. This is especially true or Government departments in which
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  • 254 7 BW'GKOK. Feb. 24, (Rcutcr) The SEATO fount il was told that the United SUtes military vrness in the Far East now was in excess of tn peak of American armed power during the war „t Japan, American conference sources reported
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  • 141 7 Aussies Plan Radio Network In S-E Asia To Beat Red Subversion IKOK, Feb. 24. I— Australia plans turc thousands I aye radio sets them in to the corners of rural Laos and CamI means of comg b version in these threatened of South-east to the Austraon attending the I Council
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  • 74 7 TOKYO. Feb. 24 (AP)— A policeman stopped a car going at 60 miles an hour yesterday, the newspaper Asahi said, and sarcastically inquired what the rush was. It was Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama. hurrying from one speaking engagement to another in
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  • 61 7 LONDON. Feb. 24 (UP)— Britain admitted yesterday Ua supersonic sweptwing Swift fighter plane— costing M 5720.000 each— is a failure and that its production will be halted. Defence Minister Harold MacMillan told the House of Commons that most of Britain's aerial defences for the next
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  • 56 7 TVRBAX. South Africa, Feb. P) Twenty-one nurses in m*a Addington General :Ml were stricken with elitia yesterday, bringtotal of polio cases I Ufc nurses in the past necks to 37. >>pital authorities said of those afflicted are between the ages of 17 Nearly all the
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  • 70 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 24 The following ore the closing 1 of rubber ond tin on the London Market: LONDON RUBBER 27£ d. Mwcft 27Jd. A P"I June 27id. J«'v September 27 d. October/December 26|d Maacft c.i.t. 27^d. Tone Steody. LONDON TIN Spot £710 buyers,
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  • 103 7 Marilyn To Ride Pink Elephant NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (AP) The circus will arrive in New York this year with Marilyn Monroe astride a pink elephant. Showman Mike Todd announced that Miss Monroe would be his main star in an opening night charity performance of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and
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  • 92 7 Margaret's Tour Is Nearly Over PORT ANTONIO. Jamaica. Feb. 24. (Reuter)— Princess Margaret is leaving here today aboard the Royal Yacht. Britannia for the Bahamas on the last stage of her month long Caribbean tour. After a hectic five days in Jamaica the Princess will have two days to relax
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  • 76 7 A FEW of the Italian ski-tourist girls who entered for the "snow queen" title contest held recently at the popular Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo Left to right: Maria Luisa d'Atria from Abruzzo, Nadja Brivio from Tuscany, Maria Monti from Rome. Maria Pia Goggi from
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  • 341 7 Offshore Islands LONDON, Feb. 24 (Reuter) Sir Winston Churchill said yesterday there was no question of Britain being involved militarily in the defence of the islands off the coast of Communist China. He was answering questions in the House of Commons on the Government's present
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  • 43 7 MELBOURNE, Feb. 24 (Reuter) Twenty-one people died as a result of a three-day heat wave in Perth, Western Australia, where temperatures have hovered around 100 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity. The heat wave Is expected to continue.
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  • 37 7 LAS VEGAS. Nevada, Feb. 24 (Reuter)— The third explosion of the 1955 atomic test series was postponed until Friday morning at the earliest after a weather conference yesterday because of unfavourable winds.
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  • 37 7 VIENNA. Feb. 24. (AP)— Aure' Setu, Rumanian chauffeur slain last week in Bern when anti-Communists seized the Rumanian legation, was posthumously awarded the "Star of the Rumanian People's Republic, third class." Bucharest radio reported yesterday.
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  • 126 7 BOSTON, Feb. 24 (AP) Police said a Boston woman who twice attempted suicide on Monday threw herself in front of a train pulling into a station here yesterday. She landed between the rails and three-quarters of the first train passed over her. However, patrolmen Joseph Passanesi.
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  • 338 7 OVERSEAS CHINESE A VIRTUAL DANGER Must Be Given A Place For Their Loyalty 0r... BANGKOK, Feb. 24, (Reuter) -The American delegation told the SEATO Council of the potential danger that existed in the Southea# Asian area In the number of overseas Chinese living in the area. The delegation was understood
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  • 159 7 LONDON Feb. 24. (Reuter) —Mr R W. Sorensen (Labour) asked in the House of Commons yesterday what further consideration had been given to introducing an elective element into the British Borneo and Hongkong Governments. Mr. Henry Hopkinson. Minister of State for Colonial Affiairs. replied. "In
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  • 28 7 TOKYO. Feb. 24 (UP) -Two United States Air Force Sabre jets collided over Hokkaido island today and one pilot Is missing, the Air Force announced.
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  • 90 7 LONDON. Feb. 24. (AP) The United States pledged today to seek an ''honest and workable" agreement with Russia for reduction of nuclear and conventional weapons. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. US. delegate to a secret five-power conference on disarmament opening here tomorrow, tojd a
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  • 93 7 Japs Start A Masonic Lodge TOKYO, Feb. 24. (AP)-A Masonic Lodge, which will include In its membership some of the most prominent men in Japan, will be organized on March 1, it was announced today. Rituals will be conducted exclusively in the Japanese language. The lodge will b* known as
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  • 436 7 LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuter) Mark Lanutry. 27, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment at the Old Bailey yesterday for operating a widespread "call girl" racket. Langtry had pleaded guilty to living in part on "the earnings of prostitution." The prosecutor said Langtry ran a
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    • 112 7 .jj \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\v\\v\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\v\\\\\v\\\\\\\\vv\^^^ xxvv vxxx^^ vxxxxvv \^j: vvvxvxvxvxv\\\\\\v\\\\\v\\\\xv\\\\\\\\\\\^^^^^^ xxxx^^ x^ xx^ xxx^ vxx^ vxxxxvx%xv^ vv^ %xxvxv^ x^ 2 I j Come to the 111 SINGAPORE ROTARY CLUB \ti GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY BALL VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL I SATURDAY MARCH sth 1955 1:1 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. i Under the distinguished patronage of
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    • 80 7 "Happy Birthday to You!" You can now say it ivitb music! MUSICAL BOX toiki I BIRTHDAY CARDS My/- I Play "HAPPY BIRTHDAY S^'ftL \F* TO YOU! JZsm k They really are musical with Wf ft I simple wording, and will delight I *J Jf I both young and old. \^jy
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  • 337 8 JEEVES THE PERFECT G EM .THIEF jHE not so perfect gentleman's gentleman, "Jeeves" Dempsey, will not be seen in the homes of the titled and the rich in England for some time. Instead, Irishman Patrick Alexander William Luke Dempsey, 43, will spend the next twelve years in one of H.M.
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  • 404 8 But The Boy Who May Be Shah Is A Captive Says Mother JL YTHILE a little boy who one day may be a king played with his toy soldiers. a drama was being weaved around him in two word capitals. Capital No 1 was London, to
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  • 359 8 What Curious Things Your 'Red Indian Spirit' Said Magistrate Tells Medium V SPIRITUALIST minister who claimed he had a Red Indian "spirit guide" was alleged to have told a policewoman: "You are going to have your hair tinted." According to court witnesses, he told other people* They were not happy
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    • 318 8 £yerjr Friday For The Children i r ,«^/9/*-.£r Try^- I 1 X WE'VE GOT A SUN ANDX PtW^ OP>DUGET IJSi j^/ 8 2iNG HIM Virs THE "™£ggffi)&!s£%?ZL 7HBKI»O^»»WdM AFTER THAT RED- 3^*^^NS,XS?Y/ObTLAWAND) A/.SV TVg^OSC^^^ -LETS GET BACKWTUISIS<IN-TW£ BEST SJ 4^4^-^— -Ajg^llZ JVcHANce^ro\ v SHAC<BEPOEeTH f yi^Ac^-T^e^ I I^Z Jfc^v •b.
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  • 1747 9  -  TONI MARSH By TS one thing I can have enough of— I: I were rich rybody else. I hink about what I'd i of the first c comes to my Id buy a lot of sandals. v Frc n c h -hoe 1 bronze silk and
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  • 185 9  -  Rita Del Mar h '»l> s vtl OIAT1ON: NivalC only the >>it- that >ou are ii«»til«| mister you M lUli.tnl. i-.u k\i:ryi .e^r ot a tendirci misunderstand. igances. Be atory tsp*--18 the afternoon iie progress in tasks, solving .ri the morning *"l X ItIKIIIDW KM» HIKTIISICN
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  • 262 9 I^AKE good care of your shoes and they will last longer! So often, just for the lack of proper care, cood shoes begin to crack and tear, suede shoes to look shiny. There are a few simple things which anyone can do to help keep your
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  • BOOK of The WEEK
    • 1018 10  -  MAURICE RICHARDSON Honours For Sale. By Gerald Macmillan. f ßichards Press. 16s. J By 'PHIS book tells for the first time the story of the late Maundy Gregory (1877-1941), a powerful influence behind the political scene of the twenties, a figure so extravagantly fantastic
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    • 323 10  - LE BON D A VID C.E. Vulliamy By THE assimilation of new philosophical ideas, particularly when they move in a direction which appears to be at variance equally with religious dogma and empirical method, is often a slow and irregular process. Thus. Hume's analysis of experience, either distasteful or incomprehensible
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    • 570 10  -  Freya Stark By Saudi Arabia. By H. St. John Philby. (Benn. 305. ONE of Kipling's poems, of which I cannot remember the name, expresses the admiration of the amateur for the expert: the "man who knows" comes into his own domain of knowledge and uncertainties vanish— the enginee-driver
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    • 230 10 SHORTER NOTICE TOO many of the multitudinous forms of tribal life will have disappeared long before they can be adequately recorded, and a great wealth of sociological ideas will be lost to us. before we even know what they could teach us. just when we are beginning to
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    • 207 10 V BABY foo" S j I y arealv% I L Py««..4ar€ I (and NOUMSKingj I mum nutritive value. Their pure, fresh M flavor makes them unusually appetuinc I I 1 and they are strained to a fine, even tex- V ture, so it's never any problem to get I Most
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 34 10 "Now before we go in— if Elsie asks you what you think of the house, say it's lovely and if George asks you to have a drink, say you've given it vp and if..."
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 752 11 itfCLO-FREMCH TRADING CO., LTD. 6. *****/4. I J2/< Mw t TIL THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE NORTH AMERICAN SERVICE T M,Ma«. Boston. Mew York, Baltimore. Philadelphia. Cult Port. pore P. rww|lf arr N V 0BUS S±g ts, l Z VA M p 5 5 jSS 9/i wBS ?8 r-i y 25
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    • 1172 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 ltn««) lneorporat«d in Singapore) (12 lines) •15? IHE BLUE FUNNEL LINE U"," Carriers option to proceed via other porti to load and ditchargo cargo SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL, CLASCOW, LONDON b CONTININT. Singapore. Omo Sails P. Sham Ptnang Cl»toneu« for Uvtroool b rlssajow
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    • 822 11 MITSUI ]p|n LINE FROM JAPAN for INDIA. BURMA PAKISTAN Spore P. Shorn Penone HAKUBASAN MARU for Ranftoon, Calcutta 10 Mar. 14 Mar. FOR JAPAN •UNYO MARU for Kobe. Osaka. T ©kvo Load* S'oore 28 Feb AMACISAN MARU Loads Spore 5 Mar. FOR USA VIA SUI2 Foi New York, Philadelphia. Baltimore.
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    • 790 11 EAST ASIATIC LINES SAILINGS TO CONTINENT/SCANDINAVIA Fot Aden, Port Said Genoa. Antwerp. (LotfSom. Hamburg, Copenhagen. Gothenburg and Oslo. S oore P. Shan* Fenanf x) "KINA" 28 Feb 3 Mar In Port xs) "MEONIA" 7 9 Mar 10/10 Mar 11/11 Mar xxx) "FALSTRIA' 19/22 Mar 23/23 Mar 24/24 Mar x) Calls
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  • 220 12 BANK OF EAST ASIA EARNED HK $4.5 MIL. -Dividend, Bonus THE Bank of East Asia Ltd.. Hongkong, earned during last year 11K54.498.465 and has declared a dividend and bonus of lIKSIO per share, free of tax. it was announced at the 36th annual meeting held recently in Hongkong. Sir Shouson
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  • 320 12 Many Malayans To Attend Tokyo Int'l Trade Fair THE forthcoming: Japan International Trade Fair will be held with a view to assembling and displaying a wide range of quality exportable goods manufactured at home and abroad, attracting overseas businessmen interested in trad in? with Japan and providing opportunities for expansion
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  • 207 12 ABOUT ten tons of white pepper were transacted in the Singapore produce market yesterday. The oil and copra markets were quiet. The Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange prices yesterday were: Singapore Copra Association prices yesterday were: Feb. $'2SI and $294; March $29| and $2Dg; April $29
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  • 73 12 LONDON, Feb. 24. <AP> The National Union of Manufacturers said in a statement recently that a number of small British industries are disturbed by a recent and rapid increase of imports from Hongkong. A union sub-committee is preparing a protest to the government, it said. "Seven trade
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  • 101 12 DINERS toast with Hennessy Brandy at the dinner at the Cathay Restaurant in honour of the visit to Singapore of the Hon'ble Frederick Hennessy, Managing Director of Jas. Hennessy Co., Cognac. About 150 people, mostly dealers, sat down to the sumptuous 12-course dinner. Picture
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  • 56 12 THE Singapore firm of Messrs. Cheong Koon Seng Co. Ltd. on Wednesday sold six properties at a n auction which realized $240,600. These belonged t 0 the Estate of Shanfah Fatimah bi n te Omar bin Ali Aljunied (deceased). Among the properties wa« a house— No.
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  • 31 12 CANADIAN newsprint pro--4q U o C ft£> n t in Janua fy reached 7^5? tons an increase of 14.671 tons, or 3.1 per cent. 1954 fi2Ure f r January
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 337 12 DIFFICULT YEAR FOR TRADE MR. SCOTT IPOH Thurs. From the point of view of commerce the past year was a somewhat difficult one, said Mr. W. G. Scott, chairman of the F.M.S. Chamber of Commerce, at its 34th annual general meeting. He explained that the volume of trade was satisfactory
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    • 192 12 LOOK! NO FLINTNO WICK... i«;-fr> around package of hre 0., *m Airflam." a new Pll| l «ff th, j. df| t«jp and v« u tt a S *5 blue fl am, (hat^ light a < -iuar<>ttf in -jvej in a high Hlld j •Ins lighter has n.. fl M »<>
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    • 31 12 'Electronic Brains' At Exhibition DEVELOPMENT troni in the 4.- B. Bxhfbiti n I offl c I he London. I ed for Exh 1 5 oi ing and mal 18 < r pro-
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    • 148 12 DESPITE one or two continued weakenings uf boti Industrials and Tins in the London Stock Exchange, the Malayan share market show- ed a slight improvement in sentiment. But the turnover was still meagre with restricted interest. The rubbers were stagnant. Pricr- changes reported by the Malayan Sharebrokers*
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    • 129 12 OUTER ROADS Chip Lam. Van Goens. INNER ROADS Lee Sen. Torina. Yumely. Senai. Petereins. Hock Ho, Pacific. Vong Ann. PiTak. Billiton. Marudu. Tung Song. M. Bahru. Pangkor Sin H:n Huat. Hua Heng. Semenyih. Kampar. Hong Ming. Sg. Deli. June. Ai'k Leong, Loh Sic Lee. Sunon Hua Li.
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    • 26 12 THE U.K. Commercial TV stations which will kc built in Scotland. Stations will start operating towards the end of l^ob, it estimated.
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    • 205 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Federation, which set a post-war record for tin production last year, has had a surprisingly high output of 5.151 tons of tin metal in January, it was announced today. This good boost is due to two factors: the production of
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    • 151 12 RUBBER dropped 21 cents in the Singapore market yesterday, the price closing at 93; cents per lb. for firjjt grade for March shipment. Some liquidation from upcountry godowns and the report of the B.F. Goodrich plant strike in Akron, Ohio, were said to be mainly
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    • 42 12 NINE thousand workers went on strike at B. F. Goodrich Company's plant in Akron, Ohio on Wednesday. The strike was ordered when company and union negotiators failed to reach accord on supplementary agreement to last October's wage contract.
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  • 20 12 TURKEY and Bulgaria have signed a trade agreement in Ankara for the reciprocal exchange of goods worth $2,500,000.
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  • 26 12 A NEW. high-yielding, disease resistant and delicious type of strawberry will be introduced in 1956 as the result of work by U.S. plant scientists.
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  • 137 12 NCRC Executives Visiting Malaya MR. JOHN S. Scott. VicePresident, Overseas Operations of The National Cash Register Company, arrives in Singapore for a visit to his Malayan organization shortly. He is at present on a round-the-world tour of National offices. In Singapore Mr. John S. Srott will be the gaest o€
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 638 12 NOTICES ANNOUNCEMENT THE Board of Directors of Henry Waugh Co.. Limited.. Kennedy. Burkill Co.. Limited, and J. A. Wattle Co.. Limited have great pleasure in announcing a merger of their plantation agency interests in Malaya. A new Company is in the process of being formed designated "Plantation Agencies Limited" which
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    • 417 12 NOTICES TENDER NOTICE. Central Electricity Board, Federation of Malaya Demolition of Junior Officer's Quarters at Bungsar Road. Kuala Lumpur. TENDERS are invited for demolition of existing quarters of tile and timber construction which are in a good state. The materials salvaged are to be the property < of the successful
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 43 12 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association buvine (air mail) rates to mer- ts /T w «e: Canada 32--3.16 (T.T). 32-5/16 (D.D) 32-9/16 credit bills and 32-5/8 trade bills (90 d/st). belling: Canada 31-7/8 ready (T.T. or O.D ,i# S r rate s remained unaltered.
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  • 254 13 OMAR JEROME MEET TOUGH OPPONENTS SGf SYED OMAR (RASC School) and L/C Jerome Tan (District ?»«£»!?> firs roun d victors of the semi- ,k n bouts will both have tough assignments in the L a ls of the Singapore Base District Individual Champ M ,n l»ips to be fought out
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  • 137 13 Thomas Cup Asiatic Zone Final In India BOMBAY, Feb. 24, (Reuter)—The Asiatic zone final of the Thomas Cup badminton championship, between India and Hongkong. will row he played in India on Apr. 9 and 10, Casmiro Gomas. secretary ot the Ail India Badminton Association, said yesterday. India originally suggested that
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  • 61 13 THE following have been elected office-bearers of the Johore Bahru Indian Recreation Club for the year 1955: Patron Jam»s Ho; President—Oliver Rozario: VicePresident— John Clark; Secretary—A. Shanmuganv. Asst. Secretary —S. Sandrarasa; Treasurer R. N'allathamby: Captain Michael Dawson Peters: Asst. Captain— R. M. Sinnaiyah; Committee Members —P. K.
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  • 246 13 Will 'Little MO' Come Back NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (AP)— Leading figures in l\S. tennis circles are refusing to take too much stock in Maureen Connolly's retirement announcement they think she will be back. 'I believe this is just temporary," said Lawrence Baker, a top figure in the LT.S. lawn
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  • 375 13  -  PETER WILSON AussiesAttackTyphoonTyson's'Drag' By SYDNEY, Thurs. I HOPE there is not going to be trouble over the light in the finol Test which begins here tomorrow. I bring this up now because I understand there is strong resentment in the M.C.C. party about the
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  • 402 13 HEAVY RAIN MAY DELAY 5th TEST TODAY SYDNEY, Feb. 24. Heavy rain has continued and chances of a start are remote. Since yesterday it has been pouring-, preventing net practice for both sides today and the forecast is "no foreseeable relief for 48 hours". Gil Langley, the Australian wicket-keeper, has
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  • 99 13 Reds Want Nationalists Out Of FINA HONGKONG. Feb 24 (Reuter) The Communist All-China Athletic Federation today lodged a protest with the Amateur International Swimming Federation (FINA) against the decision o p its bureau to admit the "so-called sports organization of the Nationalist Chinese." It demanded that the decision should be
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  • 364 13 LONDON. Fob. 23. (Reuler>— The following are football fixtures for Saturday, Feb. 26: LEAGUE DIVISION I Arsenal vs. Sheffield Wednesday. Burnley vs. Charlton. Cardiff vs. Manchester United. Chelsea vs. Huddersfield. Everton vs. Aston Vilto. Leicester vs Bolton. Manchester City vs. Wolves. Newcastle vs. Sunderland. Preston vs Blackpool. Sheffield
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 439 13 REAL ESTATE WANTED TTRGENTLY WANTED: Bunga U lows. two-storey houses vacant building sites, shop and terrace houses etc.. for sale or to let within 5 miles from th€ City List your properties with us. we are ready to serve you Singapore House. Land and Estate Agency. 338/M42. Telok Aver Street
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    • 682 13 CLASSIFIED ADS ANNOUNCEMENT t^REE' FREE' A extremtl? attractive GLASS TUMBLER will be given FREE in exchsnge fo. fifteen MISSION crown*. REFRESH now with MISSION Beverages available in four TOP flavours Orange. Coco* Creme. Pineapple and LemonLime. SITUATIONS VACANT MIMCIPALITY OF GEORGE TOWN PENANG M.MOK POWER STATIOS ENGINEER PPLICATIONS are invited
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 313 13 LI 1 Abner By A/ Copp [2w^9^?3HEßlm^^ SHE Ia f T T tOC'.L KIN -SO, AH l^ I I v;-V.JUID)' rJO.THAMK'J. AH P y^ y ?^v' SLNDM 7K MAH GAL!. f IS GONNA y *l V-YO* r-( IS Mf.RF.LV 15', I /\Vlr^A r 54 t^T^ CITHER/.'- -SPESH'LV BUST <^ r<*
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  • 486 14 ONE WAY TRAFFIC AT STADIUM It Belonged To Pakistanis By JEFFERY JAMES THE COLOUR was RED-Singapore Selection's. And if S {||P the Pakistani traffic at Jalan Besar stadium from f,°' n^/^ ei Xcement of cele Singaporeans would have succeeded even if they had a reinforcement of celebrated Polo players from
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  • Article, Illustration
    430 14 Goal No. 1 Within three mm r Sc'.ect:on attack .stopped by Asghar A i R hub Z ur Ali X in opened the score. He ig finished the trick :c Noronl i could say 'a:i (,oal No. I: Habib-l'r-Reh-man. who had led A iV ior Irst etTort.
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  • 100 14 Gopinath Top Scores With 130 KARACHI. Feb. 23. (Reuten— Test player C. D. Gopinath. scored 130 not out. for the Indian touring team who declared their first innings closed at 352 for live wickets against a Pakistan Combined Schools s:de here today The Schools replied with 60 for 2 after
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  • 50 14 FLORENCE. Feb. 24. <Reuten— Clemente Biondetti. one of Italy's greatest racing drivers died here today aged 56. He underwent a serious throat operation three weeks ago. Biondetti was a road-race specialist and achieved the distinction o* winning the Italian Mille Miglia race four times in his life.
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  • 208 14 *or the first time in renang. badminton enthusiasts will see Ooi Teik Hock Poh Lim combination in action in the doubles This world's doubles champions meet Lim Kee f«>ng and Tan Jin fcong on ihe first night and come up asainst the two exponents
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  • 355 14 HONG KONG WIN FARELF HOCKEY: WHIP MALAYA Hong Koss: 8 Malaya District 1 Fclron (3). Allison (3) and Cox Fidelis 1. Umpires: Major Bennett and WO Dodd. KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Hong Kong District took the honours in the Far East Land Forces Inter District hockey tournament today when they trounced
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  • 493 14 By TONY RANGEL PENANG, Thurs.— The heat is now on for the first singles berth in Malaya's SmSS^*"" 1 f r thC Th r mas C "P Challe "ge r «"»1 to beplayed in the mfddle The honour of playing in the first
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  • Article, Illustration
    106 14 Pakistan: Fazal Reh- man; M.H. Atif, Asghar Ali Khan; Khurshid Zaman. Aziz Naek Ali Kiddi; Mohd Sidiq, Naseer Ahmad, Habib-ur-Rehman. Zafar Ali Khan. Latif-ur-Rehman Singapore Selection: B. Noronha; R. Fernando, Sgt Gellard; Kirpal Singh, D Hay. S. Gunendram: C. de Witt, R McCoy. James Quek Dalbara Singh. Capt.
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  • 96 14 MALACCA. Feb. 24.— As a result of an ugly scene created by a St. Francis Institution player in yesterday's interschool soccer match against Anglo Chinese School, the team were with drawn from inter-school games for the rest of the season. In yesterday's game SFI were held to
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  • 414 14 SABA' s NOVICES MEET ATTRACT RECORD ENTRIES RECORD entries have been received for the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's Novices championships to be held on March 1, 3 and 4. Originally two days had been set aside for this tournament but because of the heavy entries, totalling 70 in the various
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  • 238 14  -  WINDSOR LAD Convincing Solo Effort i Final Gallops For Tomo," By PENANG, Thurs.— Jimmy Martins candidate Distrih..« workout at this morning's final gallops for the Penan J P r «vidtd n, day when he easily breezed over three furlongs in 3 7 l 0
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  • 198 14 SUDAN (Mortimer), who worked with an unnumbered horse did an attractive half mile run in 50-3 5 sec— the last three in 37-4 5 sec. Sudan won the trial. He looks fit and fresh. Magic Eye (Patterson) and Maharanee < riding boy>. matched strides over
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  • 26 14 TWO S ry S from V. t off i I Bart ey won i 'car V. towards I Vici defer.' d B;.. lita:
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  • 29 14 ALEXANDRA Football Team (Youth Section) beat Balestier Sports Club 4-0 in a friendly soccer match played at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers were. Ali (2), Osman and Kuchil.
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  • 134 14 THE latest Straits Racing Association classification of horses is as follows: Transfers from Class 4 to Class 3: Happy Life: Marshal Foch: The Milky Way. NEW CLASSIFICATIONS: Class 1 Festivity (late FunmanV 3 beg. by Fun Fair Avec Vous Class 2— Siboney (late Turnpike) 4 rh.e.g by
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