Singapore Standard, 11 March 1955

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    16 1 Singapore Standard #6 5H r> it* SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MARCH J], 1953 I I PAGES l"> CENTS
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    96 1 ducted day most of the In the ith- •> an (I in. dfoldecL i at sterdaj cl by were takrn irds I ins went rted the who an in the I r.v some 1 up the .it. They I r leased the ..i t b.i a Stand. irtl Km.
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    Lock icon NGO USES TROOPS TO QUASH THE REBELS
    152 1 NGO USES TROOPS TO QUASH THE REBELS SAIGON*. March 10 <UP> Vietnamese army units with tanks and armoured cars battled scattered rebel forces today in renewed fighting which threatened the government of American backed Premier NfO Dinh Diem. Simultaneously, it was reported that two representative ol the Binh Xuyen and
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    Lock icon SEARCH STILL ON
    24 1 NORTH Ireland Police were still searching yesterday for I young couple missing since Tuesday in the snow covered Mournc Mountains. Reuter.
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    Lock icon ALLOCATIONS: NEW DEAL
    334 1  -  K. C. ARUN More For The Backward States Move To Overhaul Grants System By Staff Correspondent X U A L A LUMPUR, Fhurs. The 20-mem committee appointed by the High Com mi and the Malay R la review the financial sions of tho Federation Agreement is understood
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    Lock icon 'Where Cash Is The Only Thing That Counts'
    334 1 'Where Cash Is The Only Thing That Counts' REPORT ON HONGKONG LONDON, March 10 (Reuter) The British moss circulation newspaper Daily Mirror today reported that the Victorian age still bloomed in the colony of Hongkong. Under large headlines WHERE ARMY WIVES ARE SNUBBED and v CASH IS THE ONLY THING
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    Lock icon 10 Puerto Ricans Found Guilty Of Conspiring
    70 1 10 Puerto Ricans Found Guilty Of Conspiring NEW YORK. Mar. 10 (Reuter>—A Federal Court jury today convicted ten Puerto Rican nationalists of conspiring to use violence and armed revolution in bringing about the political independence of Puerto Rica from the United States. An eleventh man was acquitted. They will be
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    85 1 Truce Men Censure Israel JERUSALEM. Mar. 10. <Reutcr>— The Israel)-Jorcl?rv Mixed Armistice Com\Tiism<su today censured Israel for the murder of five Jordanian Bedouin tribesmen last Friday night, an Israeli military spokesman announced. The Commission today decided by a majority vote that the "brutal murder is a breach of the armistice
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    Lock icon STILL IN THE BEST CIRCLES
    61 1 LONDON. March 10 (AP)— Georgi M. Malenkov. deposed Soviet Premier, is still moving in the same circles as the Kremlin hierarchy. Moscow Radio yesterday said Malenkov. Premier Nikolai Bulganin— the man who succeeded him a month ago and other high ranking officials of the Party
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    44 1 LONDON. Mar. 10, (Router) —Some 200 London dockers refused today to unload the 2.000-ton British freighter Sheldrake. They demanded a special rate of pay because meat in the hold had gone bad and was causing an unpleasant smell.
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    Lock icon JAPAN CALLS FOR '2 CHINAS' SOLUTION
    206 1 TOKYO. March. 10 (UP) Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama called today for a "two Chinas" solution to the Formosa crisis and pledged Japan to work towards bridging the gap between East and West. In an exclusive interview, with United Press, his first since leading the
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    Lock icon KALLANG: HOUSES, SCHOOLS AND A SUPER PARK
    185 1 A ML'LTI -MIL! lON DOLLAR project to develop thp 410 acre site at Kallang Airport into a huse residential area, with provisions for a super park a sports stadium, a school and community centres will be launched by the Singapore Government in the
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    38 1 WASHINGTON, Mar. 10. (Router) The Eisenhower Administration was reported today to be planning to ask Congress for $1,200 million to step up by about a fifth the flow of American aid to the Far East.
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    Lock icon US Recognizes SEATO's Power
    273 1 ...As Dulles Depends On ANZAM WASHINGTON, Mar. 10, (Reuter)— Representatives of the SEATO nations yesterday expressed satisfaction with the Tnited States acknowledgment voiced by Mr. John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State that it would rely largely upon "mobile Allied power" for military defence in the
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    Lock icon The 'Mother' B-36 And Her 'Baby' Jets
    77 1 The 'Mother' B-36 And Her 'Baby' Jets WASHINGTON. March 10 Router >. Formation of the first unit of jet fighters capable of being carried, launched and recovered in flight by giant bombers was announced by the United States Air Force yesterday. The unit, the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, has been
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    50 1 Two Chinese girls are mi.ssing from their homes in Singapore on Wednesday. They are 17-year-old Kwae Fong Wong and 24-year-old Chia Teng Hea. Kwae left her homo in Sim? Avenue on Wednesday night while the other girl left hnr homo in Wishart Road earlier in the afternoon.
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    42 1 MEXICO CITY. March 10 rescue party trudging through smouldering ashes of a forest fire yesterday reached the wreckage of crashed Mexican airliner. The pilot of a search plane said all 26 persons aboard the airliner apparently were killed.
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    Lock icon 'Defy Expulsion' Call By Bevanites
    151 1 LONDON, Mar. 10, (UP)— Aneurin Bevan's left-wing faction of the British Labour Party appealed today to the Labour members of Parliament to defy and defeat the demand for his expulsion for insubordination. The call was sounded in the Tribune, weekly organ of the Bevan-led left-wing
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    105 1 'Difference Only In The Approach' I EDEN, DULLES MELBOURNE. March. 10 Reutcn Mr. Richard G Casey. Australian MiniMrr for External Affairs, said tonight he saw "no fundamental clash" between the statements made by Mr. John Foster Dulles and Sir Anthony Eden on the Formosa .situation. There was a difference in
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    21 1 CAIRO. March 10 'R^utrr) The Yemen announced today its support of th< i New Arab Pact proposed by Egypt.
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    637 2 COURT TOLD OF POLICE TRAP IN 'GIRL FOR SALE' CASE THE mysterious Mr. Moore who offered to buy a woman for $1,600 at Everett Road on Dec. 4, last year, stood revealed in the Singa pore Third Criminal District Court
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    114 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prires (rents per Ib) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No 1 X S.S Spot Lonsi Bf»i 805 No 1 R.SS f.o.b Mar. Bf»i 89; No 2 88i 88; No S 87. 1 88 Tone: Firm after erratic Up: 3] cents. UN PKICE The price of
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    Lock icon Alleged Robbers Surprised By Police
    273 2 Alleged Robbers Surprised By Police A SINGAPORE Court wa? told yesterday how lour men who allegedly went to rob the occupanls ot a bouse in Redhill Road, got a surprise when a party of Pol ire officer? rushed into the house immediately they entered :t. This was stated at a
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    Lock icon Killed By A Coconut
    38 2 AN elderly Indian woman was killed instantly when a coconut dropped on her head in Chancery Lane in Singapore yesterday The woman, (iO-year-old Suburnam wa sweeping a garden when the coconut crashed on her
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    Lock icon 30 CREAMERY MEN STAGE A WALK-OUT
    81 2 30 CREAMERY MEN STAGE A WALK-OUT FOLLOWING a dispute with the management over the compulsory wearing of uniforms, about 30 employees of the Singapore New Sea Land Creameries yesterday staged a walk out from the factory in MacPherson Road. All those who refused to wear uniforms, were working under a
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    123 2 Australia's Special Link With Malaya SPEAKING at the Overseas League lunch, yesterday Sir Alan Watt. Australian Commissioner, said it was not surprising that Australians have a special interest r f alaya. A simple explc ,on for this expansion of Australian representation in South-east Asia i.s the growing realisation that Australia,
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    136 2 'ELECTION LANGUAGE' MAKES NO HIT HERE J O II O R E BAHRU. Thurs.— The President of the Sessions Court. Mr. N. L. Cohen, today told a Singapore lawyer. Mr. David Marshall, not to use "election language"' in court. Ho chocked counsel when Mr. Marshal] put a question in Malay
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    Lock icon Labour Men Keep Their Boycott
    93 2 SEREMBAV Thur?. The StTcmban Town Council met today without four Labour members, who boycotted the meeting on the issue of the Alliance sponsored Fun Fair. With only the Alliance, nominated members and officials present, the meeting was conducted in a calm atmosphere. The discussion on
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    295 2 FANS cf Ted Heath did not have a chance to see him or his orchestra when they flew into Singapore yesterday. They arrived at their hotel at 5 o.m. and left for Australia in the afternoon. The musicians were up at ten in the morning ond swarming over town.
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    135 2 A MESSAGE delivered to a satin -rin? «(J than 100 Muslim women in Singapore yrsterdav't on them to stand up for their own ri^hu divorce. The messaft fro;rj Co!. Anwar El Sariaat. Egypt's Minister of State, was read to the meeting by Mr.*--. Shums Titnf. president of the Young
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    151 3 ieS To Be Sold And May piurn As A Merchantship fHI H.«M>«-ton Fmpirc Trooper, one of Britain's il.utiiu prizes of World War II," paid her the rapacity of a trooper to Singapore yesund»T the command of Captain R.H.A. Bond. '.per is to be sold and may be Eastern waters
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    226 3 LMTLOYEKS in Sin; Kltd l»\ the Chief Seci mplo\ecs time off t gapore were yesterday rettary of their obligation to to go to the polls on Polling Day, April 2. Letter* sent to tight establishments in the Colony pointed out that under the Singapore Legislative Assembly Elections Ordinance, every
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    34 3 taring v.- re I the s Lim V b n;>: X i Chiang. E Bonn Hk r Joo Leow Fhiam ("now and m Supt. H- Asst. Joo I Kirn and
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    10 3 RE FLOAT FOR PORT AREA i I as an c.Hi-
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    19 3 v Wo- Anak n tomort photo I|l|N| whirh Subramaniam (extreme rieht) picked up by mistake yesterday morning. Standard
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    64 3 THE Minister of State for Colonies said it was unlikely that any Chinese living in Malaya were stateless as under Chinese law all children ol a Chinese father wherever burn were citizens of China He was replying in a writer to Mrs Jeger. (Labour*. who asked how people
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    188 3 MPs Hear Of Reds In Chinese Schools Many Students Are Led Along The Garden Path LONDON, March 10 (Reuter) Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, the Colonial Secretary, gave details yesterday of "intensified" Communist Party attempts in Malaya "to penetrate schools and to use the students for its own ends. He told the
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    193 3 Glamour Girls Wanted Railway Seeks Their Services THE Malayan Railway is urgently looking for women receptionists. But according to an advertisement, only glamour girls stand a chance of getting the jobs. Those who apply, must be: 1. Attractive unmarried ladies. 2. Not less than 22 years of age. 3. Five
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    70 3 MOHAMAD Yunos bin Ayub. 7. so:) of a Volunteer Special Constable, died in the Singapore General Hospital yesterday from his injuries sustained in a road accident in Canada Road. in the Naval Base, on Wednesday morning. The boy, one of' the VSC's six eh Idrcn. was on
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    68 3 THE Singapore Coroner. Mr. K. T Alexander yesterday re- corded a verdict of murder Igainsi a person or persons unknown at the conclusion of an inquest on a 27-year-old seaman, Loy Sin Wheng Loy was assaulted by some Indians on Feb. 4 last year at 11.15 p.m.
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    41 3 THE Franciscan Missionaries oi Divine Motherhood plan to 1 build a hospitJ I, to be staffed by members of their Order. I 1 ncy will hold a Flag Day tomorrow in aid of the Mount Alvernia Hospital Building Fund.
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    230 3 SNAKES ALIVE Subramaniam Crabs A Hose And It Turns Into A Python NOTHING much ever happened to a City Council labourer. Subramaniam in hi.s 52 years of life until yesterday. Yesterday. Subranianiam woke up bright and early to go off to work on the culvert that is being laid at
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    162 3 MR Lennox-Boyd said that Communist assertions that the federation Government was trying to suppress Chinese culture in Chinese schools in Malaya were "absolutely untrue." Mr. Gilbert I.onjjden (Conservative) had asked whether the Minister knew that the Malayan Communist Party was trying to indoctrinate students in schools
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    122 3 Noise Nuisance A VEHICLES inspector will be sent to the Police and District Courts building in South Bridge Road to see it anything can be done to prevent traffic noises from interrupting court proceedings. This is the result of a complaint by the Third District
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    54 3 MR YAP Phcns Geek, I champion of multilingualism. will answer questions on this subject at the Labour Front rally to be held at the Marine Police Station ground at 1.30 p.m. today. Mr. Yap has accepted the challenge of Mr. David Marshall, a Labour Front candidate, to
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    248 3 MR. HENRY lIOPKINSON, Minister of State for the Colonies, said he was disturbed that between 25,000 and 45,000 people in Malaya qualified to vote had not registered as voters for the forthcoming elections. i But Mr. Hopkinson stated every effort had been made to give publicity
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    78 3 AT the 22nd annual general meeting of the Singapore Catholic Young Men's Association (Church of Our Lady of Lourdes) the following were elected office-bearers for 1955: President— Mr C. Anthony. Vice-president Mr. V. V.ctor, Genera! Secretary Mr. Joseph Francis. Asst Secretary— Mr. L.A. Miranda. Treasurer Mr. M.A
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    41 3 A PUBLIC meeting to welcome Mr C. Kcsavan. former thief minister of TravancorcCochin State will he held at the U.M.XO. Hall. .lohore Bahru at 5.30 p.m. tomorrow. The mec'ing is -pon-orcri by the .lohore Kerala Scva Samithi.
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    36 3 A VISITING American professor of geography. Prof. J.O.M. Brock, will give a lecture on '"Borneo Backwoods or Frontier" to the Science Society of Malaya at the Shell Theatrettc at 5.M p.m. today. I
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    532 4 MAMMOTH HOMES PLAN FOR KALLANG Super Park, Stadium, Too A MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR project to develop the 410-ocre site of Kallang Airport into a huge residential area with provisions for a super park, a sports stadium, two schools and community centres will be launched by the Singapore Government. The project will have
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    43 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Secretary of thr Council of Women. Singapore. Mrs. Shirin Foxdar, will give a talk on "Women Through the Ajjps" to tho members of the Kuala Lumpur Psychology Club at tho British Council on Sunday at 7.30 p.m.
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    119 4 THKKK h ii n il r r d teenage "tars" of the Singapore Sea Cadet Corps produced a very «mart turn-out for their end-of-term parade before Vice-Admiral (i.V. Gladstone at the Cian Eng Seng School, yesterday. Vice-Admiral Gladstone, who was second-in-command Far Kast Station, and is
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    196 4 2 LABOUR FRONT MEN HAVE A GROUSE TWO Labour Front candidates contesting the Singapore Legislative Council elections complained yesterday that their election banners had been pulled down by "unauthorized" persons. The first complaint came from Mr. AJ. Braga. who la contesting the Katong division, the other from Mr. J.S.C Lim.
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    64 4 IPOH. Thurs.— The Federation Police band Will lend a procession of wrecked vehicle^ nrre on April 13 tc inaugurate •'Snfctv Week." Tods/. representatives of Chinese and English schools met to co-ordinate their plans for the week which would particularly stress to all road users the hazards of
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    96 4 Just The Work Of A Prankster IPOH. Thurs. The note, purported to have been writton by the killer of 1(5--month-old. Lim Siew Lan, has been described by the Police as the work of a prankster. Perak C.I.D. Chief. Mr. T. Hamilton, said the Police attached no significance to the note
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    65 4 MALACCA. Thurs. Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan continues to show progress and had a restful n"ght, it was stated in Ihe official bulletin released this morning by the General Hospital. The Dato. who is hospitalized with a fractured leg is expected to be confined to his
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    161 4 'Use Your Vote' Call By Alliance THE I'MNO -MCA-Malay Union Alliance started its election campaign yesterday in Singapore with a mobile film show which told the people to shape their own destiny by making use of the franchise. Speaking at the meeting at Kampong Bahru Road, the i Alliance nominee
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    Lock icon 'Trespass' Trio Get 4 Years' Each
    150 4 'Trespass' Trio Get 4 Years' Each CHUNG Kia Chuan. one of three men convicted in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, for house trespass, was told by Mr. Justice Knight that he was lucky to have escaped a flogging for hitting an elderly woman in the stomach. "Had robbery been committed
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    255 4 Defendants Win Case Counter Claim THE Chirf Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Ayn.sley. gave judgment in the Singapore High Court yesterday. in favour of Guan Soon Transport Company. Ltd.. defendants in an action brought by Mann Singh. Amir Singh and Ranjit Singh, for specific performance of a contract. The Chief Justice also
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    310 4 JOIIORE BAIIRl T Thurs. A tentative charge of murder was preferred in the Circuit Court, today, against Lim Ec Hin, who was alleged to have poisoned his two-year-old son by making him drink acetic acid. The offence was stated to have been committed on
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      74 4 Weather Report Minimum Temperature From 73f p.m. Mar. 9 to 7..50 a.m. Mar 10: Spore (74F1: Penang <77F>: Kota IJharu I70F); Kuala Lumpur (74F); Ipoh <7?F>: Kuantan (t.SFi. Maximum Temperature From 7..50 p.m. Mar. 9 to 7. .10 a.m. Mar. It: Spore (90F>: Penan? (9.'>Fi: Kota Ilharu <K7F); Kuala I.
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    Lock icon Arrested Man Had Dynamo
    34 5 DETECTIVES yesterday ar.l man and found a which they believed en from an unattended bicycles. Anyone who has losi a dyna- I to report to the Pi re Stat on.
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    Lock icon Sunderland Beaches For Repairs On Tawan Shore
    188 5 Sunderland Beaches For Repairs On Tawan Shore SUNDERLAND Flying Boat "U" for "Un.on" of No 205 209 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Seletar 'Com manding Officer Squadron Leader D J G. Norton), successfully beached for repairs on the sandy foreshore of Tawau on the north-east coast of Borneo "U" for "Union"
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    251 5 Air Passenger Refuses To Leave Plane They Kill Me../ He Shouts FIVE airport employees strussled for a long time to forcibly remove a shouting Chinese passenger from a BOAC Argonaut alter it landed at Kallang Airport yesterday. The passenger. Chiow Check Gim, refused to alight. clinging desperately to anything he
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    140 5 THREE servicemen, Warrant Officer A. C. Martin, R.A.S.C., Warrant Officer N. M. Prentice. R.E.. and Battery Quarter Master j Sergeant i*. 11. Coraey, R..V. were presented with long service and good conduct medals in Singapore yesterday. General Sir Charles Loewen. C.-in-C, FARELF who made
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    127 5 RAF Officer Wins Essay Competition AN R.A.F. officer formerly stationed in Malaya has won the 11)54 Gold 'Modal and Trench Gascoigne Prize Essay Competition, open to members of the Royal United Services Institution. The officer. Wins Commander Peicr de Lacey le Cheminant. won the prize out of 24 contestants from
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    40 5 HONGKONG. Mar. 10— Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Honakqn? Exchange today were: 51 5.58 to £1 sterling: $5.8675 to US$l; 51. 837 to Malayan $1: 50. 148 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $254,875 to a tacl.
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    192 5 12 MORE LIGHTS TO CONTROL TRAFFIC TWELVE more pedestrian and road junction traffic lights are to be installed in Singapore. Work will start scon but it is not known yet when it will be romnlcted, the Colony's Traffic Chief. Mr. A. A. Rajah, said yesterday. At the same rime, all
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    85 5 Customs Find Opium In Attic A SINGAPORE Customs party yesterday raided a house in Duxton Road n the heart of Chinatown and recovered 70 pounds of opium in the attir. The Custom? men discovered the opium only after two and a half hours' intensive search of the premises They found
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    68 5 TWO charges, one of murder and the other of attempted murder, were yesterday preferred against Vairappan s/o Vaithil&ngam in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday. Vairappan is alleged to have murdered V. Kulathevilu on Wednesday at 4.15 a.m. in Mackenzie Road. \lc is also alleged to
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    70 5 SEVEN men and three women were yesterday ;»p--pointcd members of the Singapore Education committee for the next two years. They are Messrs. Paul S. my, Lim Kirn Sens and Dato Syed A.M Alsafoff (all appointed by the Governor). Mr T.. Cresson. Prot A. A Sandbsham, Mr V Pakirisamy
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    812 6 Petition Writers J/KOM the early clays of British administration till now the petition writer has occupied a I Q< Dt place in the Malayan scheme of things. At one time when few people knew English and I ministratiTC machinery worked, he was I an (Xpert who could negotiate
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    532 6  -  COLIN LEGUM By sUKKA l.oonc is suffering I nun a seriOttl fltti of diamonds. Ike operative word is Mitlcrinji because unlen some way tan be found of restoring control over the diamond market. this British Protectorate in West Africa tares a serious setback both economically
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      570 6 LONDON. rFHE recent publication of the White Paper on Defence the Government's official survey of Britain's^ needs and resources I brought home to the British people, as never before, the* implications of the H-bomb| age. Since then, newspaper* comment, articles by mili-J tary and scientific experts.)
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      297 6 Sir; It augurs well for the future of Malaya to learn in The Standard of March 8, 1055. that Malayan leaders from all walks of life put their weight behind the Singapore Standard in the stand it has taken against an attempt by the Malayan Chinese
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      73 6 Sir;— l should like to congratulate you on your courage in exposing the wretched M.C.A. attempt to gag the ireedom of expression which is the essential inaction of a jree press. This move, on your part, together with those lively and penetrating articles "The Newt As It Strikes
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      122 6 Sir: May I congratulate you for your fine editorial under the heading of "A Widows Faith." We are rather fortunate to have the "Voice of the People" to air our views. As .soon as it was mentioned that Detective Toh was listed as a deserter many people were shocked.
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      96 6 Sir; At the recent Malayan Indian Congress meeting in Klang. Mr. Devaser was reported to have said '"Critics of the M.I.C. and some friends ol mine say that Devaser is doing somersault. Physically I am unable to do it and mentally I cannot help it." Then I do not
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      371 6 Sir The residents of Kirn Keat Avenue are still awaiting a bus service while the SIT. and City Council are bickering over details. For more than a year pirate taxis have be(\i flourishing in this area May we hope that a bus service will start immediately. TROJAN. Singapore. Democracy
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      84 6 Review of Views km XC Q mg Shins mv The A i h^ Pc ar.y China Uh a deft the rc< i treaty i I Kati the Pc- i g Too High. Toi the util tral Prov gran 4 ins I riti/ens to on houses, 'his is tho r. <
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      282 6 Sir; The impracticability of a multilingual assembly has been so much exaggerated and emphasised in our English Press that I feel constrained to release for publication a statement of an authority on how the multilingual Parliament of Switzerland works. This statement is by an authority well
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      96 6 Sir; Congratulations: you have done a great thing for Malayans by publishing the letter of Mr. Tan Siew Sin. Publicity Chief of M.CA. So this is one of the wonders from the iron curtain of MCA! Hope this will be an eye-opener not only to Malays but also to
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      71 6 Sir; I quite agree with what you wrote in your Sunday editorial and sympathise with your feelings. I do not think this type of threat will frighten you into showing bias towards any individual or political organisation in this country. Your fairness is very much appreciated, and I wish
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    163 7 Unknown MARGARET'S ROMANCE qsDON, Mor 10 Neuter) Sign-: yesterday that if Princess decides to marry Group Captain British Air Attache in hsh public opinion will support she should so abroad into uncle the Duke of Windsor ne for love 19 years ago will i newspaper, the Glasgow Bulletin, today in
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    255 7 PETER LENDS SUPPORT TO THE RUMOURS Cro'jp Captain Townsend has given support to reports recfnt.v by meetI the Press freely n Brusthough his answers to lave been large y rommiti He ha> known the Princess a made an Equerry !to Kin?; George VI when he and she was 13. He
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    360 7 South-East Asian Defence WASHINGTON, March 10, (Reuter)— A stronger role for Australia in the air defence of South-east Asia would be discussed during talks here next week between the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies, and President Eisenhower, informed quarters said yesterday. The strategy
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    38 7 STROM BOLI volcano cruptrdav for the first time this year Smoke and sparks hot into the sky and lava roll- down a well-worn path to 'he sea. bat there were no reI of damage or injuries.
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    19 7 ABOUT £125.000 worth of Chocolate was damaged when I three-storeyed biscuit factory raughl tire in Preston. nd.
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    102 7 LEEDS, England. Mar. 10, (AP) Twelve year>ld Michael Grant woke :n his j»as-filled bedm and found his father and mother dead. Then crawled back to bed and scribbled his will. It was rend at the inquest rday as verdicts of acci:i death were
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    98 7 M.Ps TO SEE A-BOMB FILM ON HIROSHIMA LONDON. Mar. 10 Reuter) A special perlormance of the Japane:>e atom bombing film. Children ot Hiroshima, for British Members of Parliament at the House of Commons was postponed last night. A spokesman for the International Film Bureau said prints of the film depicting
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    37 7 LONDON. Mar. 10. <Rcutor> London County Council experts today rejected as "hardly practicable or desirable" a proposal to erect three 30--storev blocks of flats to accommodate 8.000 people in the crowded Pacidington area.
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    414 7 LONDON. March 10, (Reuter) A (W-year-old woman who sued a 73-year-old man for breath of promise was awarded AM, OOO damages with costs in court here yesterday. The couple, who met at a Fun Fair, went through a form of marriage on Christmas Eve
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    172 7 LONDON March 10 (Router) British Prime nu\ QT Sir Winston Churchill, will have a holiday in Sicily next month during the Easter Parliamentary recess, it was officially announced last night. i c 53! 1 be accompanied by Lady Churchill, but final arrangement for the
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    102 7 Her Third, His Second Divorce WASHINGTON. Mar. (AP) The Evening Star said yesterday Mrs. Joseph B Davies, wife of the former U.S. Ambassador 'o Russia, has filed suit for divorce. Mrs. Davies. 67. is the former Marjorie Post who inherited a breakfast cereal fortune. She and Davies. a Washington Attorney
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    119 7 BRIDGEPORT. Connecticut. Mar. 10 (AP) Gue?s what happened after Aiton F. Niles. of Newtown. wrote a note to "the letter column in the Bridgeport Post recently complaining that all girls are "'gold diggers*' and not desirous of a home and fam !y. His letter drew a
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    84 7 NEW YORK, March 10.— Hold-up men have spoiled things for children who like to play with real looking toy pistols. The City Council passed a Eill banning these realistic toys after Councilman David Rose pointed out that more than 100 hold-up men
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    156 7 BIRMINGHAM, Central England. Mar. 10. (Renter) The 450 busmen of West Bromwich near Ilu -minimum who stopped work on two recent Saturdays in protect against the employment of an Indian trainee conductor will work normally next Saturday. They adopted a resolution late last night to
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    116 7 NEW YORK March 10. (AP.— The headi r ot what police ci hool for murder an proteges were seni to pri yesterday lor lons ten Anicllo Uaccto. :;l Brooklyn butcher n.^ Mfc r of the nn^. :ind urn students. Willard R Ryder, 21, were sentenced
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    198 7 PLEA FOR PEERAGES TO ASIANS, AFRICANS LONDON. Mar. 10. CAP). Viscount Samuel, a Liberal i Party leader, suggested yesterday that the Queen beslow seats in the House of, Lords on distinguished Africans and Asians of the Commonwealth. Opening a debate on retorm of Parliament's Upper j House. Viscount Samuel viM-
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    56 7 RANGOON. |far. in <AP)— A student, who is detained iri the Inscin Jail here ior his pnrt la a strike staged at the University last October, bag been permitted by the authorities to appear for his matriculation exam, nation Special arrangements will he made for him
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    67 7 Standard 1 ondon Correspondent LONDON, March 10 The following arc the closing prices of rubber and fin on the London Market LONDON RUBBER Spof 26 d. April/June 25id. July/September 25}d. October/December 25id Morch c.if. 25ld. Tone Easier. LONDON TIN Spot £714 10s. buyers, £715 sellers. Three
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    47 7 HONCiKONG. M 10 Rout«r Chotl Ir, Commiinisi C Minister, jave Farewell t fjlK'J tonifht to D;iJ..i Panchcn Lam:temporal ruler of 'I Hte U Peking Radio rcportd d Th' 1 Lamas arc rxpocted to leave China i n for h* after th» ir six-month
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    26 7 patrolman Jack Fapscott. 2f, v-.i c <\ from the Detroit police fora 'I uesday. He wa ace of ):< Ipinp hin; i win < a druf? ston burglary.
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    101 7 LONDON. Mar. 10 (Router)— A British Army Sergeant. Frederick Kmmrlt Diinm was charged in London yesterday with the murder of Sergeant Rcginal Walter* (shown above with his wife) found handed Hi months ago at Du'sberg. West Germain Walters wa s originally declared to have committed s uicide.
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    809 8  -  LARRY FOLEY pYitA^**** I t NII YORK. New Yorkers have been shocked by chares that their modern house of detention for women was not the "model" prison they had been led to believe 11 was, in fact. «a;d the r a hell on earth G
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    445 8 i:.~»0.000 gamble with YOt'K money is about to be made at the Harwell Berks J Atomic Research fitlti— But Dr. Henry m, 43 the top scient'i- masterminding it. i~ q lietljr confident that M big dividends, lividends, too. V I
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    412 8 We the PEOPLE Sir:— ln your Leader <Sat. Mar. 5) on "Planned Families." you speak of certain sections of the community "who have been shouting themselves hoarse in condemning what they describe as a 'criminal and poisonous' practice." I am afraid that the loudest shouting has come from the other
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    352 8 house, new dresses, a new car. Sometimes the baby is way down on the list. The Catholic who puts Crod ftrst in his thinking may also like a better apartment, a new car. etc. But if he ii> really God-fearing he will not put his own .selfi.sh interests ahead
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    62 8 Sir: Lot me assure you that what I am going about Mr Yap Phens k is no fulsome flattery. It is my since.' c conviction thai Malaya. at the present moment, sorely needs men of Mr. Yap's calibre m< n who dare to have the courage of their convictions
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    451 9 4 WILD hunting piece lit by the mournful legend of Le Chasseur Maudit (a ghost-sin-ner condemned to hunt a demon quarry across stormclouds forever) is 1\" Pierre Mould's novel The R«val Hunt (Hamisfa Hamilton, 10s. 6d.>. The young man Philippe has com to stay with his landed friend
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    752 9 *a cs or the African fi°, ntl by J A. Hunter and Daniel P. Mannix. 'New York: Harper and Brothers. 30* pp. $4 land. by Esther Warner. (Boston: Houghton MiS:l 50.) Pany 2m p Pr _piE story of Africa south of the Sahara IJ the story of
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    570 9 4 Elected To American Academy Of Arts Letters "LXH'R new members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. They are Wystan Hugh Auden. poet; Aaron Copland, composer; Allan Nevins, historian; and Joseph Wood Krutch, critic and essayist. The Academy, limited to a membership of 50 t
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      98 9 INTO THE TEEMING DEPTHS OF THE BRAZILIAN JUNGLE COMES THE AMERICANO! ...encountering ABBE LANE... fiprrp man-patina fish^Bw passionate, savagely sensuous Mt M _4hi e /Hi ...to the frenzied throb j^ .^■h. t-A if o r~\ ex fl mM'} I^Bk. Ul lUIIvJ I L> VJfUlli^**.. Dl id Ml ld.^^^l m jp
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      51 9 "Don't you wKh (hrlinf, wp could he nn a little island all on our ohm 0 "(irorgp is so consider;! le. He knows I hate fitting um the pchblrs! "1 buried daddy over there when the tide was down." IrSWll 1\ "How i s that (old war *ith Mrs. Smith
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    334 10 A black boucle "Tohi" blouse with pearl and simili embroidery (price from 532.- up) is worn with a white silk rattia skirt with Harlequin straw polkadots on the large pockets and hem. Price 555.Both items available at Chotirmall's in High Street. Baj* and stole to match can be
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    290 10  -  Rita Del Mar rw\ oi» v n moi i ion- \<\rr throw mini \on in.i> til i > our in. irk. ••it >ou must h;i\c dirty li.nido IKII'W i mi EVERY•>%t: T .i ittmg the I already ate Bi i M T I i es !<•
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    475 10  - RAFFIA CRAZE HITS SINGAPORE TONI MARSH By CINGAPORE women have embarked on a new craze: RAFFIA. Italy is primarily to blame for this new mode. Rome having been the first to show the new medium in its collections. And what a wealth of ingenuity in weave, design, colour and texture!
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    489 10 TAILORS here are going to have a hey-day withln the next couple of months, making up dresses. coats. suits, jackets and possibly even curtains. For Wassiamull's in High Street have been shelling out or selling out materials at the rate of approximately ONE THOUSAND YARDS PER
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    501 10 SHOW YOUR SLIP r KNOW perfectly well that the stiffened petticoat, halfslip or underskirt, whatever you like to call it. is nothing new. Our grandmothers, and probably some of our greatgrandmothers. and even some of our mothers were wearing them ages ago in fact, most of these gals wouldn't be
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    219 12 BANK OF S'PORE TO OPEN AT END OF MAR. Manager Is Named SINGAPORE'S newest bank— the Bank of Singapore Ltd.— will be opened at the end of the month, Mr. Chew Lian Seng, the manager, told The Standard yesterday. The bank has been formed by several Chinese business leaders. Mr.
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    202 12 Standard Aviation Correspondent AIR fares will be raised slightly from April 1 on some routes, including Singapore-Colombo and Madras, The Standard was told yesterday. SingaporeLondon fare will remain unchanged. The student concession fares will also be changed from that date. They will
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    46 12 MR. J GULAM, proprietor of Gulam and Company. Singapore, has left the Colony by Air India International for Madras on a short business-cum-holiday visit to India. He will visit Colombo and Cochin during his leave and will return to Singapore on March 26.
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    166 12 Why Rubber Collapsed In Feb. THE Natural Rubber Bureau said in Washington yesterday it believed that the substantial drop in the rubber market during the latter half of February was due principally to "the easing of tension following the Taehen evacuation." The Bureau said: "The market had gone too high,
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    33 12 THE International Bank plans to have a U. 5.550.000,000. 550. 000,000 loan for Australia ready for signature during Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies' official visit to Washington next we?k. U.P.
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    279 12 HAMMERS REPORT A GOOD YEAR SINCE the recommencement of business following the occupation of Malaya, deliveries of water by W. Hammer Co. Ltd. Singapore, have shown a steady increase from year to year and the financial year just concluded has proved to be no exception, says the chairman. Mr. W.
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    107 12 LLOYD'S Register of Shipping, surveyors of nearly half the world's merchant fleets, have recommended "structural modification" in 280 vessels because of the risk of breakup at Kt. The Register's annual repor. for 1954 disclosing this says "A comprehensive inv< stigation was undertaken into those existing classed
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    107 12 SIR Winston Churchill's Government on Wednesday defeated, by 238 votes to 2\6 a Labour Opposition motion seeking to censure it for its policy towards the Lancashire cotton industry. The Opposition asserted in the House of Commons that the Government had failed to take effective action to
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    77 12 A NEW kind of plastic portable "wardrobe" to protect clothes in any climate will be marketed soon by a British firm Moths and other insects cannot penetrate it, yet fresh air circulates freely inside. Believed to be the first of its kind, the "wardrobe" is made
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    90 12 MALA V A N Exchange Banks Association buying rates to merchants are: New York: 32 13 Hi (T.T.), 32 15 Hi (0.D.). 33 116 credit bills (!)0 d st) (airmail). 33 1 8 trade bills (90 d st) (airmail). Canada: 32 1 4 (T.T 32 3 8 (0.D.).
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    115 12 OUTER ROADS Kamuning. BauJ. Eastern Venture, Stale of Madras, Hikachi Maru. Van Goens, Arndskerk. Dorinthia. Laertes, Peleus, Nantes. Mvi Ann. ENNEK ROADS Bruat. Playaran. llua Ileng. Teck Hong. Peterzwei. Tong Leong, Larut. Kah Poll, Sin Hin Huat, Tong Nam, Ton" Sing. Teck Seh, Teck Thong. Cornfish, L*e
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    32 12 MESSRS. Sime. Darby Co. Ltd.. secretaries, report output of rubber by the following companies: Kcmnas- 2!i3.5()D 11). in Fob (Jan. 252.000 lb). Radella— KJ.fiiWj lb. in Feb. (Jan. 18,800 lb.).
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    210 12 M^M^^^^^M^^MkMii^M^Bl^^^^Mß^l^^B^ig^^/^^^:^^P THE Singapore rubber price jumped 3! cents per lb. for RSS No. 1 March shipment, following the "general war" warning by the U.S. Secretary ot State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, on Wednesday. Mr. Dulles said in a broadcast that if the
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    98 12 INTEREST in rubbers increased slightly in lh<Malayan share market yesterday because of the b<'tf/-r commodity prices. Tins also improved slightly. Industrials were quietly stra'iv. Price changes annniind'd by the Malayan Sharrbrokers' Association urn IMM STRIM s Ru\or» Rcflteft Malayan Cement 144 United Eng Ords. 11.80 12
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    86 12 THE director! I Plantation.- Ltd.. w\ 'annual meeting to be hcid in London on M..r<h 30, rmend a dividend of 7 p< •on preference sti d pence per 2 shilling Ordinary .stock. The company of El 12J13 lor the year < Oct. 31, lUj.i for taxation and
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    91 12 A 15 PER CENT dividend, free of tax. for the shareholders of the Oil Palms of Malaya. Ltd.. li to be recommended by the director r the annual meeting to b< held in London on March M The company's profit !<>r the year ended Oct 31,
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    261 12 U.K. PRODUCTION is being well maintained and, in fact, still appears to be increasing. This Is evident from the provisional output index for January. At 132-L'tt a record for the month it compares very favourably with the corresponding month i a yt-ar ago when
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    401 13 MELBOURNE IS READY FOR VISITORS OLYMPIC Officials in Melbourne have issued emphatic assurance to world travel agencies and the public, that accommodation will be available for rwrybody coming to next year's Olympic Games. The Games will be opened by His Royal Highness he Duke of Edinburgh on Nov. 22, and
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    74 13 IPOH. Thun. The Ipoh team to meet the Taip nq Di>trict Association Football XI lor Sunday's tri.V. will be selected from the following: Vcloo. Pak Weng. Kon? Ciiak. Wan Thong, T. John. Ishak Abdullah, Kok Sin. Yong Fook. Mustapha. K::n Fons. •la'afar. Yoon Mcng. Kam Fook. Tco Dion^.
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    54 13 the Uth of the 12 round hout. The California Athletic Commission refused to recognize the fight at the world Bantamweight Championship RAVL Raton Marias, (lejt) of Mexico and Chamrern Songkitrat of Thailand pictured (it the San Francisco Gymn, before their big jight last night. Songkitrat was TKO'd
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    216 13 WINNIPEG, Mar. 10, (AP)— Top-ranking badminton players from Canada and the United States will meet at the Winnipeg: badminton club on Friday and Saturday in the North American zone draw of the Thomas Cup matches— the equivalent of the Davis Cup tennis matches. Canada's .six-man
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    715 13 SONGKITRAT TKO'd BY MEXICOS MIGHTY MOUSE SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 9, (Router)— Raton Macias of Mexico defeated Chamrern Songkitrat of Thailand by a technical knockout in the 11th round of a 12-round figfit here, to be recognised by the National Boxing Association of America as the world bantamweight champion. The referee
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    103 13 SAN FRAN-CISCO. Mar. 10 (AP)— Rocky Marciano will dej fend his heavyweight boxing title against Don Coekcll of j Fngland at San Francisco's Kezar Stadium, on the night of I J May lfi. promoter Jimmy Murray announced yesterday. Murray said he had settled the date
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    50 13 TAIPING. Thun RF.MF. trounced Vounf Muslims in their first division league soccer fix ture on the esplanade by 8 goals to n. Centre-forward Hal] led the aUnck well, lo >eorc five eoaN while other scorers were Row*, Lewis and Gal'.aeher Majid Kamaruddin .'md Hussin replied for tlie losers.
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    1223 14 ■ft S P T Fast Times In Final Gallops For Tomorrow By WINDSOR LAD CYNOSURE, Harringay, Cargo Rice, Starry, Elturius, Misty Jadi, Proctor and Grazie were very impressive workers at yesterday's winding up gallops at Bukit Timah, in preparation for their engagements at
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    187 14 M \Y( OMF.RS Sukaramai Sports Club, chalked up their second successive victor>. brating Younj; Companion Athletic Association I in a Div. .IB league played at the Clerical Inion ground yesterday. The Malays, pressing aga n>t a si born Chinese defence ring in the 1 8th run. Ned
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    57 14 KU LUMPUR Thursdaj— s Jotl irr in the tic <>f the 1 Leonj un tennis com- Kia Lumpur this tnc Lake Club i I iro the teams Ncl.«ii|jiir Lcong Hoc Vrng (U»<n Kf>k I Reserve: lloni Johore Yon b!n Mian. Dnud l>uky Hsu 'i. a <
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    112 14 THE Massachusetts State Boxing Commission is to investigate Sugar Ray Ro- binson's last-minute icithdraical front his scheduled 10-round fight with Georgie Sma I o; Brooklyn, on I March 5. Robinson, former world middleweight c}\ampion, who is now attempting a comeback, retired to his hotel rootit in Boston on March 5
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    135 14 JUNIOR A. A. boat Bintan? Bulan I—o in a Spore Div. 3A League soccer match played on the C.V.M.A. ground yesterday. The pame which started 20 minutes late, saw both teams share the exchanges Tne Juniors had their chances through Haridas who sent in several
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    494 14 Negri Keep The Pakistanis Down To Three PAKISTAN— 3. NEGRI— O Habib, Lntif Naseer. Umpires: Capt. Hamid J. Pepper. By GILBERT FERNANDEZ NEGRI SEMBILAN, Thurs.— A s anticipated this evening's hockey match between Negri Sembilan and the touring Pakistan Hockey Federation tourists proved to be a keenly contested affair, Negri
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    123 14 KEBENARAN Sports Club trounced Singapore Civil Service Association 7-0 in a Singapore Div. 3B League soccer match on the MFA ground yesterday. Kobonaran took the load when Dollah Malik scored from 10 yards in the 10th minute. Five minutes later. Ramloe increased the score. Kebcnaran took
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    800 14  -  JEFFERY JAMES Vicfory Is Small Against Kota Raja Kota Raja 1 Ah Saitnjaru By Tiffer S.A 2 Chong Mun Sharma. Referee:— Pop Hollouay. IF TIGERS can wear false teeth it is quite possible that our soccer Tigers, opening their Colony senior league campaign, had them on
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    344 14 Anybody's Came Nobody Took The Decision IT was anybody's game right to the final whistle on the bumpy Balestier Road ground yesterday, and nobody got the decision in the SHA senior knock-out semi-final between the Singapore Recreation Club and the Police Sports Association. The game ended in an exciting goalless
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    66 14 ROVERS Sports Club will meet Pu:o Bukom in a footba'l friendly at Puio Bukom on Saturday. The team will be sc.erted from: Arshad, Chow Huay Eng Hoe. Boniface, Teow *Keng* Suppiah Vass (Capt.), Hoon r>cong. Omar Said, Kee Seng. H. Cummin^, Hoi Meng. Mat Noor, Dutta.
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    273 14 NEWLY promoted Argonauts Football I. their 1955 soccer season with a well d»narrow 2-1 victory over the Singapore i r a keenly contested Colony division Z\ ku played on the padang yesterday. Lim Soo Woon. between th< posts, was perhaps the outstanding player for the Argonauts. He was only
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