Singapore Standard, 1 March 1955

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    23 1 Singapore Standard fo A. s. >oi >o. 555 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1953 1 1 PAGES 15 CENTS Two Last-Minute Entries At Nominations
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    Lock icon TWO WOMEN & 77 MEN TO CONTEST THE COLONY POLLS
    347 1 TWO WOMEN 77 MEN TO CONTEST THE COLONY POLLS TWO last minute entries— a woman and a man were the highlights of yesterday's nominations for the Singapore Legislative Assembly elections on April 2. A total of 7 I candidates-two women and 77-men— i their nomina ion papers to contest 25
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    Lock icon She Joins The Fight
    29 1 photo. MRS. KIIEW PEE GING (Labour Front), one of two women candidates for the Singapore elections. The other is Mrs. Elizabeth Choy (Progressive Party). Standard
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    Lock icon Hongkong Firm Buys The Lexa Maersk
    76 1 Hongkong Firm Buys The Lexa Maersk H tNGKONG, Feb. 23. The Chinese;i Chiap Hi. a ManuCompany announclay :t had purchased burnt-out hulk of the freighter Lcxa k, which burst into last Christmas in re Harbour. A :nan of the comIt is not decided to break it up in ng or
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    Lock icon A Full Page Withdrawal
    78 1 V YORK. Feb. 23 «Rev- The New York Times carried a full page adment calling on the d States to withdraw from Russia and :iitt's. wage "unremittlofica] warfare" nst Communism and give aid "my to CO- perating The advert i>env I was d by 63 people
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    Lock icon STRIKE 15 OVER
    26 1 AKRON, USA. Feb. 28 iter>.— Some 9.0(0 workt n turned to work at irieh Akron plants this morning following settlement five day-"ld walkout.
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    Lock icon FED. GOVT. TO BUY 5 'ENEMY' ESTATES
    134 1 FED. GOVT. TO BUY 5 'ENEMY' ESTATES KUALA LUMPUff. Mon. The Federal Government has accepted offers to buy live of the remaining enemy estates in Malaya, it was announced today. Totalling 6.469 acres in extent, four of the estates are in Johore and the fifth in Negri Sembilan. Eight other
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    Lock icon JAP DEMOCRATS GAIN CONTROL
    207 1 TOKYO, Feb. 28, (UP) Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyamas Democrats, pledged to seek "co-existence" with the Communist world but to stay on the side of the West, won working control of the Japanese Parliament today and announced they would form m nno. nartv fiovrrnment. In a victory
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    Lock icon Bishop's 'Girlish Figures' Sermon Raises A Royal Smile
    197 1 Bishop's 'Girlish Figures' Sermon Raises A Royal Smile NASSAU. Feb. 28 (Router) Princess Margaret smiled as the Right Reverend, The Lord Bishop of Nassau, referred in his sermon to "girlish figures." Taking the Lent Fast as his theme, the Bishop said "the poor of necessity practise fasting and abstinence, because
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    Lock icon HOLLAND DENIES TROOPS REPORT
    290 1 HOLLAND DENIES TROOPS REPORT KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The New Zealand Prime Minister. Mr. Sydney Holland, denied categorically here today that he had made any promises about recommending his government to send troops to Malaya. Mr. Holland, who charged that ho had been misquoted by a section of the Malayan Press
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    Lock icon Eden Says 'No' To Amnesty Plan
    293 1  - Eden Says 'No' To Amnesty Plan K. C. ARUN Foreign Secretary Meets Federal Govt. Members By Sir Anthony Sees Par atr ooper s photo by That Would Mean Giving Up Our Gains' Xl ALA LI MPIR, Mon. The British Koieisn Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden, is believed to have told Federation
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    Lock icon Second Son For Taylor
    45 1 SANTA MONICA. Feb. 28 Router London-born actress Elizabeth Taylor, wife of British star Michael Wilding, gave birth to her second son last night on her 23rd birthday. Like her first child, two-year-old Michael, the baby was delivered by a Cacsarean operation.
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    Lock icon FLOODS HIT MORE TOWNS
    42 1 SYDNEY. Feb. 28 <UP».— Two more towns in New South Wales were in danger today, the fifth day of the worst floods in Australia's history. More than 70 persons were known dead and an uncounted number were missing.
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    Lock icon 'CHAMPAGNE GIRL' IS DEAD
    31 1 PASADENA. Feb. 28 <Reuter) Miss Trixie Friganza. one time "Champagne Girl." vaudeville star and toast of New York. London. Paris and Budapest has died here, aged 83.
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    Lock icon EDEN AND HIS 'MINIATURE'
    66 1 •BLINDED" by a photographer's flashbulb while having tea with the Sultan of Selangor at the Istana yesterday. Sir Anthony Eden dipped his hand into his pocket, pulled out a miniature camera and shot the cameramen who had been following him since he stepped off the plane
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    Lock icon Chou Agrees To Receive U.S. Mission
    69 1 Chou Agrees To Receive U.S. Mission RANGOON. Feb. 28 'Reuten —The Burmese Premier. U Nu said today he had told Mr." John Foster Dulles on Saturday that the Chinese Premier Chou En Lai had agreed to receive an "unofficial American mission" in Peking. U Nu told a Press conference here
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    Lock icon Eden's Plane In Perfect Landing On 3 Engines
    841 1  -  KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The British Foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden, set scores of servicemen's hearts throbbing in anxiety this morning, when his chartered BOAC Argonaut "Athenae" touched down on three engines at the Airport here. The giant plane, in which Sir Anthony
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    Lock icon REPLACE BALCONIES SAYS COUNCIL
    269 2 Contrary Motion Lost The Singapore City Council decided at its monthly meeting yesterday to press on with its decision to require the contractor who built the balconies at Princess Elizabeth Walk to meet the replacement cost ($9,993) of these structures. The balconies collapsed in a storm
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    Lock icon POLICE PROBE WORKERS DEATH
    42 2 SINGAPORE Police have begun investigations into the mysterious death of a worker at the Royal At Force Base in Seletar. The victim was identified as Abdul Hamid bin Bnhaman. 33, who lived in Block 758 at RAF Sclctar.
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    Lock icon SIT Tenants Watch For Imposters
    130 2 SIT Tenants Watch For Imposters SINGAPORE Improvement Trust tenants in the Alexandra (North) Estate are keeping a sharp IOOk-OUI for ImpostCTS who obtain entry into their flats umicr the guise of housing pe tor In a circular to tenants in tho Estate yesterday, the President of the Alexandra Community Centre.
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    Lock icon UNIVERSITY SOCIETY
    69 2 AT the annual general meeting of the University of Malaya Society held on Feb. 25 the following were elected ofticcbearers tor 1955: President Dr. C. Subrahmanyam, vice-president Mr. Lim Kirn San, hon. secretary Miss Hcdwig Aroozoo. Hon. treasurer Dr V. Thambipillai. committee members Messrs. K.M. Byrne. Foo Yeow
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    Lock icon He Outstared A Tiger In Burma
    255 2 He Outstared A Tiger In Burma BOYS with imagination oitcn wonder whether they would break the world's record for cycling if they came face to face with a tiscr. Twenty-six -year old Badiuzzaman Ahmad, from Pakistan, has already met his tiscr. on a Burma Road but he still doe s
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    Lock icon Sailor Jailed For 'Genuine' Robbery
    297 2 A SWEDISH seaman, Carl Herman Anderson, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment by Mr. Justice Taylor in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of committing robbery with hurt on board the ship Caltex Rupat on Feb. ll Mr H
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    Lock icon Commodity PRICES
    110 2 Commodity PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 R.S.S. Spot Loose 91 !)1} No. 1 R.S.S. f.o.b. Mar 91] 91! No 2 DO: MO; No. 3 nom. 89 1 90 Tone: Easier. Down: 1 cent TIN PRICE The price ot tin yesterday
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    Lock icon Burglars Awaken Victim
    112 2 Burglars Awaken Victim TWO BURGLARS broke into a coffee shop in Albert Street. Singapore, at dawn yesterday and started collecting tinned goods and cigarettes amounting to $40t>. They then decided to steal money as well and began hunting for the keys. Suspecting that the shop owner had placed his keys
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    Lock icon Redhill Officials
    134 2 MR. Pang Tong Kham was elected President of the Rcdhill Community Centre at a meeting held recently. Other officials elected were: Patrons Mrs. Elizabeth Choy and Mr. Lee Choon Eng. Vicepresidents Messrs. R. P. Ratti. Lee Kwok Peng, Chong Hong Woo and Soh Teow Seng. Hon. Secretary Mr.
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    Lock icon CHARGEDWITH TELLING A LIE
    57 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Sim Liang Ngo. a woman charged in the Magistrate's Court today with giving false information, was alleged by the prosecuton to have marie a report to the police that .she had been cheated of $1,500 alter she had lost the money in gambling.
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    Lock icon $991 Robbery Charge Denied
    57 2 TAN Wah Lam. was remanded in police custody yesterday when he claimed trial in the Singapore Fifth Police Court to robbing a woman. Lin Ah Nguang. of cash and jewellery worth $991. Tan was alleged to have committed the offence on May 24 last year. He
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    Lock icon PENANC COUNCIL
    29 2 THE Pen an g Settlement Council's first meeting of the eighth session will be held at the Council Chamber, Peel Avenue, on March 9 at 3.30 p.m.
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    Lock icon RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICES
    72 2 .ss.._ A Stondor <* London Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 28.— The following ore the closing pr.ces of rubber and tin on the London Market: LONDON RUBBER S P°* 26id. Morch 26id. April/June 26 d. July/September 25id. October/December 25} d. Morch c.i f. 25gd. Tone: Easier. LONDON TIN
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    Lock icon 'Withdraw That Strike Notice'
    222 2 McNEICE TELLS UNION: THE Singapore City Council President, Mr. T. P F. McNeice, yesterday asked the City Council Water Department Labour Union to withdraw their strike notice and not "embarrass the people of Singapore by withdrawing your iabour." In a letter to the Union. Mr. McXeice
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    Lock icon HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS STOLE BOOKS
    227 2 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS STOLE BOOKS TWO Singapore Chinese High School students broke into the school's bookstore on Feb. 1, and stole $3.85 and educational supplies worth $153.40. the First District Court was told yesterday. Part of the missing articles were later recovered in the a t i i of the
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    Lock icon Sultan Serves Tea
    41 2 THt; SULTAN of Sri angor serves Sir Anthony Kden tea at an informal "KOt together" at the Taylor Koad I.stana \nstcrday morning. To the right oT the British I or risn Minister is the Raja Mmi.t of Sclancor.
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    Lock icon AdultEducafion Asst. Sec. Is Back From US
    80 2 AdultEducafion Asst. Sec. Is Back From US THE .instant BecretaT] the Singapore Council <-f Adult Education. Mr. Tan Bah Chee, wbo has been away on a six-month scholarship to America returned here last night by Pan-American ways Sriy master. He told The Standard: "I learnt lot in thr USA. and
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      75 2 Weather Report MINIMI M Temperature: I mm 7.",0 p.m. Feb. 27 to 7..:() a.m. Feb. iS Singapore (711 i. I'maiif (7:; i i. Kota Hahm IStF), Kuala l.umpur i73F>. Ipoh (7:>F), Kuantan <7(>F> Maximum iemporature: From 7..'!0 p.m. F z\ to ~,.'.\\j am Feb. *.H Sinjjanore (90Fi P iian^ l9tT),
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    Lock icon PREMIER TURNS RUBBER TAPPER
    166 3 PREMIER TURNS RUBBER TAPPER TPOH. Mon— The Prime r of New Zealand, Sydney Holland. led rubber tapper when paid his first visit to a r estate in Perak morning. iod by the British P rah Mr I.w. BUe- ted by a heavy urt. the New Zealand r made an exive
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    Lock icon Failed To Show Identity Card
    34 3 Joe ided guilty c Third Cri- yesterday s his idenruied by a n at "the n& Street and t Ro Feta, 27, at >y the Ir. H. A. Forrcr.
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    Lock icon Two Charged With Armed Robbery
    218 3 TWO MEN, Wan Chuen and Leong Saik Pong, •8* Nga Chai San, stood trial before Mr. Justice Tayltf in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, on a charge of armed robbery of $136,000 in cash and watches at the China Company in Middle Road on May
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    Lock icon Claims Trial To Robbery
    78 3 COB HOCK POH claimed trial In the Singapore Fourth I c Court yesterday to a of robbin™ a woman, i Peck Nj;o of a cold banC t worth $4:* l) on Feb. 14. It was alleged that Goh and other persons, armed with a pair of
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    Lock icon How Police Dealt With The Strikers
    26 3 tome on, break it up (3) Up and (4) into the black maria (5) all clear: out with the buses.
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    Lock icon SATA Gets $3,965 From CSC Show
    112 3 SATA Gets $3,965 From CSC Show THE Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association acknowledges the following donations to its annual appeal and to the Chine>e Swimming Club Fa>hion Show. Appeal funds already acknowledged for 1955: $17.--465: Shell Co.. $500: Malayan Breweries Ltd.. $250: Singapore Cold Storage Co.. Ltd.. $150. and James Miller Co..
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    Lock icon CIGARETTES
    52 3 IPOII. Mon.— A coftee-shop keeper. Lee Kah Yoke. 42. of Clare Street, was fined $500 today when he was found guilty in the Sessions Court. d/ 1 a charge of having dishonestly received 80 tins of stolen cigarettes valued at 5176. the property of the NAAFI store in Ashby
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    Lock icon T.A.Simon's Pledge To Electorate
    101 3 MR. T. A. SIMON, a City Councillor who is contesting the Singapore Legislative Assembly elections as an Independent candidate in the Stamford Division, said yesterday that if*e!ected he would strive to set the Colony's immigration regulations relaxed and thus lessen the l.ardsl.ips caused to the citizens
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    Lock icon Committed To Assizes
    76 3 HUSSIEN bin Ahmad, was committed for trial in the next Singapore Assizes by the Fifth Police Court Magistrate. MX R. B I. Pates, yesterday on a charge of robbing Shri Asgar Ali ci his wallet. It was alleged that Hussicn. armed with a revolver, robbed Shri of
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    Lock icon Top Posts Kept For Local Police
    332 3 Seven Are Still Vacant SEVEN posts for gazetted officers in the Singapore Police Force are being reserved for local men, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nigel Morris, told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Morris revealed that no expatriates have been taken on in the Force
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    Lock icon ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
    61 3 A WIDOW. Lee Yong. yesterday told the Singapore Seventh Police Court that she attempted suicide by drinking washing soda because her 18-year-old son refused to obey her. The Magistrate, Mr. Choor Singh, callea for a probation report. Meanwhile Lee was granted bail of $250 in one surety. The
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    Lock icon 'Mr.Speaker' At London Press Conferencc
    61 3 photo. MR G. E N. ("Geno") Ochlers (left), Speaker-designate of the Singapore Legislative Assembly, seen at a Press conference in Malaya House, London, with the Malayan Commissioner. Inche Othman bin Mohamed. Mr. Oehlers has been in England since the end of last year studying British
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    Lock icon 150 STRIKERS BUNDLED INTO BLACK MARIAS
    619 3 Students Give Bread M oial Support SINGAPORE police yesterday bundled into vans and Black Marias, about 150 striking Paya Lebar Bus Company workers who were obstructing the Company's officials from employing new men to operate the buses. The men are being held for interrogation
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    Lock icon Shorter Time In Prison For Girl, 17
    135 3 Shorter Time In Prison For Girl, 17 IPOH. Mon.— A 17-year-old farm girl, Lee Ah Looi. today had her sentence of three years' detention .an approved school reduced to three months' imprisonment for possession of three tahils ol biscuits in a restricted area. She was sentenced last De comber by
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    Lock icon Magistrate Gives Him Last Chance
    144 3 Magistrate Gives Him Last Chance MICHEAL Ramiah. who was convicted in the Singapore Seventh Police Court yesterday on a charge of .being drunk, w*S told by the Magistrate. Mr. Choor Singh, that he was giving him a last chance. Ramiah admitted six previous convictions of being drunk and disorderly. He
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    Lock icon HOUSEWIFE HAD DOPE
    60 3 A HOUSEWIFE. T?n Cher Kiam, was fined S5OO, ii default six months' imprison ment. in the Singapor Seventh Police Court yestei day when she was convictr of be.ng in possession of 2 tahils of raw opium. Tan was arrested in a bu at the 7J mile stone
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    Lock icon at yesterday's nominations...
    96 4 at yesterday's nominations photos. photo. PEOPLE'S ACTION PARTY secretary Mr. Lee Kuan Yew (left), who Is contesting the Tanjong Pagar Division, seen at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday with another of the party's candidates, Mr C.V. Devan (Farrer Park). PROGRESSIVE PARTY candidate Mrs. Elizabeth Choy (extreme right), who is contesting
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    Lock icon 77 MEN & 2 WOMEN FOR THE ELECTIONS
    443 4 77 MEN 2 WOMEN FOR THE ELECTIONS THESE are the 79 candidates, two of whom are women, who will contest the April 2 elections to the Singapore Legislative Assembly: Tanjons: Pagar 13,000 voters: Peter Lim Seek Tiong (Prog.). Lee Kuan Yew (P. A. P.). Lam Thian (Democrat). Telok Ayer— ll.4oo
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    Lock icon NIBONG TEBAL CURFEW CUT
    72 4 PEXAXCJ Mon.— The curfew order imposed by the OCPD, Nibon^ Tebal. on the village limits of Nibong Tebal in Province Wellesley South has been shortened by two hours. All persons living within the village limits of Nibone Tebal shall remain indoors between the hours from midnight
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    Lock icon Labour Front Candidates Arrive In Bus
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    Lock icon THE NAVY PROBES 3 INCIDENTS
    157 4 NAVAL authorities in Singapore are investigating three incidents involving damage to minor electrical cables in two C class destroyers, the Comus and Consort. The last incident occurred only three weeks ago at the Naval Base, Seletar. A spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief. Far East Station. Admiral
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    Lock icon He Asks For More
    80 4 A CLAIM to increase the Collector of Land Revenue's award of $322,000 in respect of 46 acres of land in Thomson Road was heard in the Singapore High Court yesterday. The claimant was Dr. Lai En Fo. whose 46 acres of land were acquired by Government
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    Lock icon 'I Have Every Right To Beat My Daughter'
    185 4 Woman Fined $350 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Aminah binte Abdul Majid, a 40-year-old housewife, who was charged in the Magistrate's Court today with ill-treating her 16--year-old step-daughter, Rokiah, said she had every right to punish the girl. Aminah admitted slapping the girl now
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    Lock icon IT WAS THE GUARD REGT.
    45 4 It was incorrectly reported in the Sunday Standard that Sir Anthony tden inspected a guard of honour provided by the Ist Singapore Regiment (RA) on his arrival in Singapore. The guard of honour was provided by the Singapore Guard Regiment.
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    Lock icon Negligent With Rifle: Fined $150
    87 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Mahat bin Shawal. a Policeman, was fined $150 in the Magistrate's Court today for causing hurt to Ng Chit by negligently firing his rifle. On New Year's Day, Mahat and Ng Chit were sitting at a table in Ng's shop and as
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    Lock icon ANTHONY GOH
    35 4 MR. ANTHONY GOH. a candidate of the Democrat Party, is a merchant and exsales executive of Getz Brothers Ltd. He was inadvertently described as a clerk in the Sunday Standard of Feb. 27.
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    Lock icon One Day's Jail & $500 For Assault
    156 4 One Day's Jail $500 For Assault BECAUSE of his love for a girl, Mohinder Singh, a storekeeper employed by the Public Works Department, told the Singapore First District Court yesterday he was assaulted by a cloth merchant in Sungei Road on Nov. 21. last year. The District Judge. Mr. F.A.
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    Lock icon Marshall Calls For Union In 3 Years
    299 5 I'NION of Singapore with .Malaya within three years so that the two may ultimately become one independent nation is the main plank of an election manifesto issued by the Labour front Candidate for Cairnhill Division. Mr. David Marshall, yesterday. Mr. Marshall said that
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    Lock icon Taxi – Owners Complain To City Council
    64 5 Taxi Owners Complain To City Council pow Hire Car representing 1.400 yesterday asked v Council to consider xty certain grievances ter to the secretary C incil, the assothat owners be vehicles. worthy Department. 1 to take without f b the a taxi driver's c-ommit- B ces. It the City's l
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    106 5 Council's 'No To Taxi Ads' THfc Singapore City Council at its ordinary meeting yesterday rejected a suggestion that taxis be allowed to display ad vertisements on or inside vehicles The request came from Mr T A Simon (Ind. Stamford). who said that advertisements would enable taxi owners to get additional
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    Lock icon Christian Conference At Bangkok
    97 5 Christian Conference At Bangkok SEVERAL delegates from Singapore left yesterday tor Bangkok to attend the Reqictial Conference of the Malayan Christian Council, which opens tomorrow and continues to Mar. 8. Main purpose of the Conference is to discuss the use of audio-visual aids in teaching, particularly, religious education. Among those
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    Lock icon Chinese Chamber Calls A Halt To Election Rallies
    254 5 Chinese Chamber Calls A Halt To Election Rallies THE Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, at a meeting with leaders of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in January, praised the efforts made by the Chamber to get voters to go to the polls on Election Day. President of the Chamber,
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    36 5 HONGKONG. Feb. 28—Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today wer $15.60 to Cl sterling: "$5.***** to US$l; $1,838 to Malayan $1: $0,155 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $2.i5.75 to a tael.
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    55 5 .TOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Tco Kian Mcng was charged in the Magistrate's Court with causing the death of Kamisah binte Buddin by doing a rash act not amounting to culpable homicide. He was stated to be the driver of a car which on Nov. 8, last
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    194 5 LOG STORAGE A FACTOR IN FLOODS -McNeice STORAGE of logs in the s of Singapore is factors which Hoods in certain the island, the the City il, Mr. T. P. F. Mci vestordav at Council's monthly nice: this during an M Co incil to rerona unanimous rccommen*hat licences be issued
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    Lock icon Inoculation Centre To Be Transferred
    89 5 THE vaccination and inoculation centre now functioning at North Canal Road is to be transferred to the former St. Andrew's Mission Hospital Building as from April 1. The new centre la situated at Kadayanallur Road, ofl Maxwell Road in the vicinity of Maxwell Road market
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    391 5 SHB Gets $176 As Refund For Council Charges BY a majority vote of lb to eight (two abstentions), Mr. Lee Choon Eng (Lab. West) lost his fight in the Singapore City Council monthly meeting yesterday to stop payment of $176 to the Singapore Harbour Board. The money
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    282 5 IN Singapore, there are about 300,000 people who read English and yet, of this number, only 8,800 are members of the Raffles Library and this figure includes 3,200 junior members. "I cannot explain it." said Mr. L. M. Harrod. the librarian. His library is about
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    146 5 TWO travellers who arrived in Singapore yesterday. Major and Mrs. W. T. Blake (above), did their travelling in style through Thailand in a car stopping at the homes f Thai officials from Prahuap in the south to Changrai in the north. It is believed that they
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    223 5 Reluctance To Teach Girls LONDON, Feb. 28, (Reuter)— The reluctance of Malay parents to send their daughters to school is worrying the Government of Brunei. The annual report for the Protectorate published today, says that the Protectorate is being deprived of more than a
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    206 5 'GHOST OR NO GHOST, FENCE IT AT ONCE' A SUGGESTION that the Singapore Improvement Trust should take immediate steps to fence up their Upper Pickering Street Hats to prevent furthei attempts at suicide, was made by City Councillor. Mr Ix>e Choon Eng (Labour West) terday. Mr Lee said he had
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      557 6 j^INCE the Rural and Industrial Development Authority started operations it has come up against certain quirks in the Malay character that have turned the table against its good intentions. One of its earliest big projects was the establishing of the co-operative rubber factory at Grisek in Johore.
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      357 6 'J'HE British challenge to Communist China's leaders, Mao, Chou and their comrades, to deny charges that they subjected United Nations prison-ers-of-war in Korea to their brutal "brainwashing' methods, must have caused many a phlegmatic Briton to think furiously. The challenge accused China's sabre-rattling government of having resorted to
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    387 6 Review of Views Unimpressive Platform THE Democratic Party and its election platform forms the subject of comment by Utusan Melayu. The paper avers that the election platform is "unimpressive." There is no mention at all of the question of a multilingual legislature, an issue which Utusan points out is a
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    47 6 Sir: Mr. Braga's statements on the subject of family planning will indeed rojo'rr the hearts of all Catholics. There is. alter all. "joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." SEE JOO LENG, Singapore.
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    320 6 POLICE REPLY TO EDITORIAL Sir; I am directed by the Commissioner of Police to refer to the editorial in your issue dated the 28th February 1955, and to inform you that the statements made i:i your editorial, and these attributed to Mr. Lee Choon Ens In an article published in
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      557 6 NOW HOW MUCH LONGER IS IT GOING TO BE Sir: In your article "Three Medical Unions protest to Government" dated the 18th Feb.. the Director of Medical Services <DMS) is quoted as sayine: "that he was not prepared to proceed further un setting up a Departmental Whitley Council) until somebody
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    311 6 Sir,— As a regular reader of your paper I want the first paragraph of your leaderette dated 21.2.55 to be read twice by Mr. Lingam and other W.D. clerks whose various complaints are as old as the W.D. itself. Everyday there is one or another
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    850 6  -  Sayed El Hashimi By TRADITION has it that A when St. Paul and Barnabas landed on the Island of Cyprus, its beauty .struck Paul greatly. The devout villagers today say that he was convinced of the success of his mission to convert the people, for* "so
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    381 6 More Changes Foreseen In Fed. Polifical Sky Sir. The Standard report that the Alliance has decided that Malays shall have 40 seats and the M.C.A. 12 seats in the Federal elections raises the prestige of the M.C.A. for agreeing to accept that figure and of the U.M.N.O. for agreeing to
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    148 6 Sir; The result < f the Cambridge Higher School Certificate Examination which was published in the "Tiger Standard" very recently brought to mind a question that I wanted to ask year Here it is. Why don't private candidate- quality for a Higher School Certificate? A mere statement
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    146 6 Sir; I wish to correct a wrong impression given in a report of the speech at the Annual Dinner of the Association of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. Among other things the Vice-Chairman said that "in conjunction with the Singapore Association of Chartered and Incorporated Accountants, the Association
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    88 6 Sir; It came as a bitter disappointment that Sir Cheng-lock Tan sheepishly admitted during a Press interview that the M.C.A. would have to play second fiddle to the U.M.N.O. All these years we have been told that M. C. A. and U.M N.O. were equal partners in the
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    183 7 Released 'Spies' Sing Red Praises INGKONG, Feb. 28— ft Yorkers, describ- veteran observers of indoctrination f)f a new high in .4, came out (ed C its and their own guilt :e Malcolm 29, and Mrs. 35. r pying in 1951. i by train from aid they were uurt 10 days
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    145 7 PeopleFacts Figures NEW \ORK. Feb. 28, (Rev- The population of the I world increased from 2.455 million to 2.547 million between 1950 and 1953 United Nations iticiana reckoned today. N cwegian girls are likely to !ive longer than the women of any other country. Mo<* crowded place in the world
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    215 7 (Renter)— was corny with a was said don Divorce arranged a that his wife adultery with ill's husband. 1 and the hus- wttnesKi it *:ng experDfrorce comild he had "a ->f mind." Judith Leonore granted a decree grounds of valid in :x weeks* enrich Weill.
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    339 7 US. TRAINING SCHEME FOR LAOS But It Maybe Held In Thailand VIENTIANE, Laos, Feb. 28, (UP)— Laotian troops may be sent to Thailand in the near future for training either under American military men or U.S. -trained Thais, it was learned from reliable sources last night. U.S. Secretary of State
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    61 7 WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, (Renter)— President Eisenhower said yesterday "the big task we fate is to prevent war and to maintain and strengthen the foundations of peace." "This same purpose is at the heart of the United Nations charter," he said in a message to the
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    59 7 PARIS, Feb. 28 (AP)—Former policemen Ernest Carrere. 52. sued his wife for divorce and accused her of partially sawing through his wooden leg. Carrere said he was walking down the stairs when he noticed the leg seemed to give a bit. He examined it and found
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    28 7 MALTESE in Oieir best Sunday clothes went to the polls in a carnival-like atmosphere yesterday on the second day of the island's three election days. Reuter
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    31 7 THE Duke of Edinburgh on Sunday returned to London by plgne from a weekend visit to Germany where his mother. Princess Alice of Greece, celebrated her 70th birthday.— UP
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    217 7 Brother Leaves, So Shell Marry Again HULL. Feb. 28 (UP) A 24-year-old mother of two who said she married her own brother four years ago and did no t know it until their second child was born, said yesterday she plans to wed another man on Thursday. Mrs. Margaret Hughes
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    192 7 New German Army The Way Is Clear BUT CABINET SPLIT LOOMS BONN, Feb. 28, (Reuter)— West Germany's Bundestag (Lower House) last night ratified the Paris agreements giving her sovereignty and the right to raise half a million 'troops for Atlantic defence. The controversial FrancoGerman agreement providing for "European" status for
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    66 7 WASHINGTON. Feb. 28 (Reuter) Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas said yesterday that he would take a motor trip in the Soviet Central Asia this summer accompanied by Mr. Robot F. Kennedy. Counsel to the Senate Committee on Government Operations. Justice Douglas said that he and
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    54 7 TEL AVIV. Feb. 28. (Reuter) Israel yesterday condemned Egypt's "refusal to co-operate" and called on Egyptian leaders not to maintain a state of war with her. A Foreign Ministry .spokesman said Egypt would find Israel a "loyal partner" if she adopted "a policy of constructive deeds
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    147 7 'The Key To Asia -India And Japan' WASHINGTON Feb. 28 R ev t c r)— Senator Estes Kefauver said yesterday that the future and strength of Japan and India held the key to the future of Asia. > "If they remain free there is every reason to believe that the
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    78 7 CATANIA Sicilly. Feb. 28 f AP) A lion with a dead dog in its jaws ran through the streets of nearby Acircale yesterday while frantic villagers fled for their homes. The beast escaped from the Caravano Bianco Circus, killed a dog and ran to
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    33 7 ONE man has been killed and eight people, including two women, injured in a new wave of terrorism in Algeria in the past 48 hours. All were North Africans. Reuter
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    173 7 PEBBLE BEACH, California, Feb. 28 (AP) A man who forgot his own face was described to the San Francisco and Los Angeles Neurological Societies at a joint meeting here by Dr. Donald Macrae. University of California Neurologist. The patient, who received a
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    56 7 KARACHI. Feb. 28. (Reuter) The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Mohammed Ali. said last night that the other countries of the Middle East would shortly join Turkey. Iraq and Pakistan in a mutual security arrangement. He was replying to questions from reporters on his return
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    136 7 NEW DELHI, Feb. 28, (Reutcr)— Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, said yesterday the Government should come down "with a heavy hand" on war and horror films and horror comics. Addressing the opening session of a nine-week film seminar here, he said
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    50 7 photo. BUBBLES DARLENE. strip-tease artist. wa s wearing her working clothes at her Washington nightclub recently when she told reporters she was offering USSSOO reward for the recovery of a collection of photographs stolen from her drpssing room. Some, of them showed her nude, she said. AP
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    178 7 LONDON, Feb. 28, (Reuter)— Every member of the crew of a British naval vessel dumping: atomic waste in the Atlantic was tested for radio activity with geiger counters after two accidents on board, it was disclosed yesterday. The vessel. the 9,800-ton ammunition ship Fort Rosalie
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    304 7 HIS 'CLIENT' LIST WOULD ROCK LONDON SOCIALITES LONDON, Feb. 28. (UP)The boss of a London call girl ring chose silence and a guilty glca to keep out of the public records a client list that would have rocked London society, reliable sources said yesterday. "Disclosure of his clients* names and
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    114 7 We're Behind China— Says 'Red Dean' LONDON. Fob. 28 (Reutor) The Dean of Canterbury. Dr. Hewlett Johnson yesterday declared that Communist China would be operating nuclear power plant i soon as Britain. The Dean, speaking at a rally to mark the 25th birthday of the London Communist newspaper. The Daily
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    41 8 A PLAY specially written for puppets by J. B. Pnestiey entitled "The High Toby" is being presented in London by Donald Mowat. Here daughter Rosalind, aged 11, finds these queer little people ac.ightful toys to play with. Mirrorpic
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    86 8 TOP: The Shah and the Queen of Persia paid a surprise visit to the London Zoo recently Queen Soraya is seen with Head Keeper Reginald Lanworn holding a large snake in the reptile house. EXTREME LEFT: Mr. Jigg the orang utang showed he was quite prepared
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    36 8 photo. BARBARA NICHOLS can hardly contain herself. She's overjoyed at being named "Trimmest Maid of the Month" by visitors to the Wholesale Grocers' Convention in Chicago. Barbara is an actress and a model. U.P.
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    35 8 man in the huge, ballooning suit is a clown on the Caribbean island of Antigua. He is one of the dancers who gave a special dancing display for Princess Margaret. Mirrorpic
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    37 8 photo. LEFT: The new H.M.S. Ark Royal, the first aircraft carrier to have all the postwar developments in flight deck technique, leaves Cammel Laird's yard in Birkenhead, Cheshire for trials. UP
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      59 9 Sir. Most of the students attending schools situated between Tanjons Pagar and Moulmein Roads, are often handicapped by the fewness of number Eight buses running in this area. It is, therefore, our fervent desire that the Singapore Traction Company should run some more buses to accommodate all the students
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      600 9 Nanyang Abortion Is Out Of The Question -I have keenly follow- lopment of the University from its jp to its ou!--thajr Building. unlike my I .'nor, when I Dr. Lin ar- y a Lawyer, compel the Prcjraog Univer--10 fulfil the contract I tion will bo _;hten up the > incident
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      Lock icon Model Sues For $300,000
      87 9 This file photo just received by radio from New York shows photographer's mo. del Lyn Jones, who is suing for MS.lOO.nOO £35,700) da. mages, claim, ing that someone had super, imposed actress Jane Russell's head on her figure in film advert i s c m ents.
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    1354 9  - THE MAD DASH FOR FREEDOM MICHAEL ALEXANDER The man they call BEAU WEST is found -and begins... By I Concluding DESERT I SNATCH j How I smuggled j a Briton out of the j I Foreign Legion i 1 MICHAEL FENTON, Old Etonian, 28, came back to England this week
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    127 10 - HEX he goes to work, Eric Slatforde, aged 17, enters an •Aladdin's Cave' world Of precious stones. For Fric is learning to be a diamond mounter. He is serving his apprenticeship with a firm in the heart of .London's West Fnd. AXTIQIES The firm specialises
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    146 10 gEVENTEEN-Year-0 1 d Joan Brown of Waltham Abbey, Essex, went straight from school to learn the trade of stringing: tennis rackets. Joan has the right temperament for this skilled craft. She started by Inserting the main strings and lacings into the frames ready for the senior
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      510 10 Young Britons In The News AfERVYN COLLARD 17, -*l has made his own film which he claims is the first Cinemascope cartoon. He joined hundreds of scraps of blank CinemaScope film together into one strip, using film cement. Then, with a pencil, he marked the strip off into tiny sections.
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      100 10 "I think that boys are much better behaved than girls, and I also think that boys learn more than girls do, because the girls are always fiddling with their hair, and worrying over their appearance. What do you think." This is part of a letter that
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    233 10 "THIS IS Radio Bullbrook calling! And here is the school news." Once a week the clear voice of fourteen-year-old Ida Etherington comes on the air with these words. Ida is a pupil at Bullbrook School. Bracknell, Berkshire where headmaster Mr. J. H. Telford has made
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      334 10 YOUR QUESTIONS HOW many of you /MCWPPFH would like to travel ANSWCKtU on the first trip to the By T°n\ und^ cd JOHN HILLABY should think, so the first question deals with 555 who bail out of planes travelling ai supersonic speeds Spuce-Uave-1. the Colonel wa s jerked to a
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      145 10 ALL YOU NEED IS A PENCIL A c w j Hitch Hike Catj 111 l j\jARM.\I..\DE an old j g^^ Tom cat. regularly j f hilch-hikcs in planes, j He travels from the airport at Cloneurry YOU will never guess Q lle^ n «lancl, to Mount j the surprise that
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      29 10 KEEPING OUT OF THE RAD) -V /||V/ 'V/ /§2' HE's quite gentle— except when anybody touches me. all right Mum. We're playing at Robin Hood, and he's Friar Tuck,
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    219 13 g, \l |>Rt V RIGGS T 2:. RetireMaureen "Uttki competitive •.tr.c away from ccne one of the I c arming perI years. •:nian now ct-ci t i-.:s week the same for I ins to niarry m C >:r.o.nin^ power xuraqi won
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    39 13 RUSSIA WIN AGAIN BOMBAY Feb. 28, (AP) Russia beal *idia 3— o in the Mcond soccer international on Sunday before 30.000 sp?<:tators. The Russian* have won all 1R matches in India, with a total of 91 goals to 4.
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    148 13 TAMPA, Florida, Feb. 28 <AP) Babe Zaharias plans to t?ke a long rest to get back into shape but has no idea of retiring. That's the word of the Babe's condition after she stepped out of the Sarasota women's open golf tournament on Thursday after getting
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    501 13 LONDON, Feb. 28: (Reuter) The decision by the International Amateur Boxing Association to increase the number of judges for Olympic and European championship bouts has not met with much sympathy from the British Press. The boxing corrcpondent of one of Britain's leading
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    612 13  - THE CINDERELLA GAME' NEEDS MORE PUBLICITY VERNON MORGAN By R,;#. L 0, N 0N Feb. 28, (Reuter)— One of the mysteries about sport in Britain .oday is the poor show that a great and popular game like hocKey receives. nlavJ #J? n 5 °L the cinder ella games of the
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    229 13 KARACHI, Feb. 28, (Reuter)— After drawing the first four Tests of the present tour by India, Pakistan and India look like reaching a decision in the fifth and final encounter now in progress here as each side has completed an innings. Pakistan (162) gained a first
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    197 13 IPOH. Mon. The Perak Motor Club is organizing the first post-war hill climb at Simpang Puiai. seven miles from here, on Sunday. May 1. Included in the 18-event programme is on? for Vintage cars manufactured before 1931. The length of the tricky course is exactly
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    115 13 Willie Pep Reinstated By The NBA MILWAUKEE, Feb. 28. (Renter) American Willie Pep. the ?2-year-old former world featherweight champion, has been reinstated by the National Boxing Association it was announced last night. He was retired from boxing I in New York State last April following a physical examination by the
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    39 13 TROYES. France. Feb. 28. (UP)— Gilbert Bozon of Frame broke the world backstroke swfmming rerord yesterday in one minute two .seconds and one tenth. The former record belonged to Oyakawa of Hawaii in 1 :2.8.
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    43 13 TANJONG Rhu Boys' Morning School beat the Afternoon School 2-1 in a friendly football match played on the school ground on Saturday. Scorers for the Morning School were Chiap Seng and Misiri while Cuming repl.ed for the Afternoon School.
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    235 13 HAARLEM. Feb. 27 (Reuterl —Eddy Choong (Mal.ya). The AU-Etigland badminton champion, today won the Dutch title from powerful Danish opposition. L the final, he beat Ole Mertz (Denmark) 15-5. 15-0 alter knocking out another Arne Rasmussen 15-1, 15*6 in the semi-final. The Choong brothers,
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    210 14  -  WINDSOR LAD By PFNANG. Mon Billdaw. With Bill Bagbv astride, stepped up his preparation for his race on Wednesday when he reeled off three furlongs to return 36-4/5 sre the best workout at Batu (iantong this morning. Billdaw did his work in most fluent
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    25 14 Standard's Photo From THE pictures by Lean Ktip Seng below show how they finished at Penang on Saturday, opening day of the Penang Spring meeting.
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    422 14  -  WINDSOR LAD By PENAXG, Mon. There was plenty of merit in Little Cherrington's triumph in the main six furlongs sprint for class two horses at the opening day, Saturday, of the Penang Turf Club's spring meeting. It was his maiden win and his
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    82 14 Novices Boxing To-Night THE preliminary rounds of the Singapore Amateur Boxing A etattoa Novices championships stari this evening at the i Training School. The bouts will commence immediate.- after the weighing in and medical examinations A total of 10 entries have born received lor this championships The semi-finals m.d finals
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    44 14 SAN RFMO. Italy. Feb. 2*, (AP) Wimbledon rhampion Jaros'.av Drobny of Bgypt, yesterday won a four-.-et victory over Budge Patty of the United Static to takt the San Remo International Tennis tournament singles crown. Drobny beat Patty 5-7. 6-2, 13-11. 6-2.
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    36 14 RAJ A.I I SC. beat IfcNaif Youngster] 7-0 in a friendly football match played at Farrer Park yesterday. Srorcrs for Rajaji S.C. were K. Syedosman <4). G. Doraippan, T. Narayansamy and Lingam.
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    57 14 TODAY'S SPORT HOCKEY: 2nd Test Pakistan vs. Singapore at Jalan Besar. CRICKET: V.M.C.A. Cricket Practice at Balestier Road at 5.15 p.m. FOOTBALL: S.A.F.A. League Div. 3B— Alexandra F.P. vs. Arab Union at Geylang; Blue Rovers vs. Darul AHah at Clerical Union; Katong S.C. vs. Kebanaram at C.V.M.A. Inter-school— Bartley Srhool
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    274 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Amateur Athletic Association of Malaya, at its half yearly meeting held on Sunda?, unanimously decided to discontinue awards for the best performances at their annual championships. There wai a good attendance, with representatives from Singapore and Perlis being present. The
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    328 14 By Our HOCKEY REPORTER SINGAPORE'S National team, with two changes the inclusion of Gellard and Dollah Hamid, heroes of the President's XI on Sunday hope to redeem their prestige, or at least some of it when they meet the Pakistan Hockey Federation tourists
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    190 14 And At Karachi... KARACHI, Feb. 28, (Reuter)— An overnight thunderstorm restricted play to an hour and 50 minutes on the third day of the fifth and final Test between Pakistan and India here today. The saturated outfield prevented a resumption until mid-afternoon. At the close. Pakistan
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    207 14 JEC Mar The Beatty Record Johore English College spoiled the unbeaten record of Beatty Secondary School when they took a 3-1 victory in their interschool soccer encounter yesterday. The Collegians opened in the sth minute through Hashim Hassan who shot past three delenders to net the ball
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    59 14 TEMPENIS Rovers to meet the Tamil Brotherhood Association in a friendly football match at Farrer Park today will be selected from: Peter Geike. Tan Chiang Meng. Ahamad Bakar. Jaffar bin Ismail. JafTar. Andrew Lim, A. Ma.rd. Yusop bin Osman. Kum Wah. Donald Tan. Shazali, H. Morcira. B.
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    59 14 THE following have been elected office-bearers of the Flower Badminton Party for the year: President Hcng Joo Song; Vice-presidents Koh Ah Bah and Peter Low; Hon. Secretary G. B. Soon; Hon. Treasurer —Francis Cheng; Hon. Sports Captain Quck Koon Chye; Committee Scah Hark Chim. Seah Lye Huat. Ng
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    43 14 A GOAL srored in the concluding minutes of the game by Hussian enabled the S.nfjapore Tract on Company to hold the Singapore Cricket Club to a 1-1 draw in a friendiy soccer match played on the SCC padang yesterday.
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