Singapore Standard, 16 March 1955

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    15 1 Singapore Standard r^ #r jt m SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 195", Jl PAGES 1.1 CENTS
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    Lock icon CHINATOWN SHOOTING
    68 1 THIS is a reconstruction of yesterdays running battle between two detectives and a gangster in the heart of Singapore's Chinatown. Figure in the foreground represents one of the detectives shooting it out with the gangster who later escaped. In the heat of thefbiiUJe, one bullet hit the signboard
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    Lock icon LACK DAY OF VIOLENCE
    441 1 SINGAPORE: Gun Duel In Street TWO HURT IN POLICE CLASH WITH STICK-UP MEN TWO people, one a woman, were shot in a running gun battle between two detectives and an armed gangster in the heart of Singapore's Chinatown yesterday. in a goldsmith's shop in Tanjong Pagar
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    Lock icon errorists Murder our, In Morocco's hunting Crisis
    97 1 error ists Murder our, In Morocco's hunting Crisis aUBLANCA, March 15 (Reurer) Terrorists killed n nd qravcly wounded seven others in a series of lost night c death toll for the past eight days to •ectorate. A| Oujda on the Algeria-Morocco ntier gunmen burst into a cafe and I a
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    Lock icon Ngo Brings In Shock Troops
    95 1 SAIGON, Indo-China, Mar. 15, (IP) —Shock troops urgently summoned by Premier Nft Dinh Diem poured into Saigea yesterday and the government prepared for a showdown with the lM>werlul Vietnamese sects whose opposition threatens Indo-China with civil war. T< r. inted near the rday morning :nor
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    Lock icon 00 Stand To Meet of Threat
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    Lock icon Mob Rule' forces Shut In At Docks
    8 1 Mob Rule' forces Shut In At Docks I
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    42 1 LONDON. March 15 I AP) Howard Jone>. 14-year-old British schoolboy who Is "mad about pharaohs and other old ptian.s." accepted today invitation of Egyptian r.ier Colortel Gamal Abdel Nasser to come and look at ■I] the antiquities. (See Page 7.)
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    Lock icon TRAGEDY OF A WISH COME TRUE
    89 1 I BUFFALO. New York. Mar 15 (AP) -About two months ago. six-year-old Gregory Masters watched a cornea transplant operation performed on a television programme. ••After I die Gregory told l his mother "my eves won't be any^ood to me I want them to go
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    Lock icon 300 Women Boo Govt. Bid To Cut Allowances
    99 1 300 Women Boo Govt. Bid To Cut Allowances BRUSSELS, Mar. 15, (Router) Police today dispersed a crowd of 300 mainly women who demonstrated outside th c Prime Minister's o fli c c here in protest against Government's proposed reductions m family allowances. Police arrested three women and four men who
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    77 1 ZURICH, Mar. 15 <UP> A special plane has been chartered to take the body of King Tribhuvan of Nepal, who died here on Sunday from coronary occlusion, to the Nepalese capital of Katmandu, it was announced here. Meanwhile, it was reliably reported the king's two
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    Lock icon Quiz On Anti-Red Pact With Thailand
    229 1 LONDON. March 15 (Routei Mi. Anthony Nutting. Minister of State at the Foreign Oflice. disclosed in the House of Commons yesterday Thailand had agreed to Dcimit Malayan police forces to pursue Communist terrorists across their common fiontici. He had been ufcetf by Mr. R<
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    Lock icon N'LISTS SINK RED FLEET
    156 1 N'LISTS SINK RED FLEET TAIPEI. Mar. 15.-The Nationalist air force announced that it destroyed 10 Chinese Communist gunboats and armed junks and turned back a 70-vcs-sel Red fleet toward inva-sion-threatened Quemoy yesterday. Informed military quarters said the Communist fleet was made up of 50 armed junks and 20 escorting gunboats.
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    Lock icon Reserve Prices' For Jap Estates
    87 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.The Federal Custodian oi Enemy Property tonight announced 'reserve prices' at which he would consider oilers for the purchase of six former Japanese estates. "The Custodian, however reserves the right to ret use any or every offer whether or not higher than the
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    Lock icon Aussie Envoy To Thailand
    23 1 ISA2VUK.UK.. M:ir ID lin ;i--fcCTI Mr David O liny lew Australian Minister to Thailand arrived hen today Iron Canberra
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    163 1  -  ANDREW ROTH By Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Mar. 15. Ex-Singapore Policeman Thomas Grey was the hero of yesterday's Moscow incident when a Russian gunman shot his way into the British Embassy. Grey who is now with the Foreign Office, attached to the Embassy in Moscow, grappled
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    383 1  -  BERNARD WILLIAMS While Spore Awaits The Aruba By Standard Shipping Reporter WHILE world attention is focussed on the movements of the Finnish tanker Aruba which is carrying 13,000 tons of jet fuel to Red China, a United States aircraft carrier, the Kearsage (30.000 tons),
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    Lock icon OFF TO BRITAIN
    27 1 POLICE General Phao Siriyanond. Thailand's "strong man left Bangkok by air this afternoon for an unofficial visit to Britain and the United States. Reuter
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    Lock icon MEASELS EPIDEMIC KILLS FIVE
    70 1 MEASELS EPIDEMIC KILLS FIVE KUALA LUMPUR. Xues. Five deaths have been caused by an epidemic of measles among the children of Jen.jarom New Village. Kuala Langat. Heart trouble brought about by the disease has been the cause of death. The last of the deaths occurred on Sunday and since then
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    50 1 HONGKONG. March 15 ißeuter) Air Marshal FJ Fre&sanges. Commander-in-Chief Royal Air Force units in the Far East, arrived in Hongkong today by air from Iwakuni. He will present a standard to Number 23 Squadron Royal fUr Force at a ceremony in the British New Territories tomorrow.
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    27 1 LONDON. Mar. 15 <UP». Sir Anthony Eden tonlfht postponed his visit to Turkey tomorrow because he is suffering from influenza, the Foreign Office announced.
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    Lock icon Passage Cancelled On Police Advice
    203 2 Passage Cancelled On Police Advice A PASSAGE was booked for lan Indian to travel to the United Kingdom In the ship Autolyeus but was cancelled !on instructions, the S ngapore Third Criminal Di.strict Court was told yesterday. The man. Kharaiti Ram. a surveyor. was charged with fraudulently using as genuine
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    Lock icon SUPPORT FOR GIRLS' HOME
    63 2 MALACCA. Tues, Thirty Chinese Associations decree at a recent meeting to give support to the suggestion made by the Secretary for Chinese Aifars. Mr. J. A. Sweetman. to re-establish the Poh Leung Kok home for wayward girls in the Sett'cmcnt. A 21-man committee hasbeen set up
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    60 2 THE following candidates were successful in the December 1954 Examinations ef the Faculty of Secretaries, England Final— James Chin Tct Siong, Kassim bin Sulong, Lee Khenc Kcng, Ong Soon Ec. Sim Boon Howe and Steve lee .Too Kong. Intermediate Using Chin Siaug and Loh Peng Liat. Unsuccessful candidates
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    Lock icon Teenagers Not Safe Enough Traffic Cops
    78 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Teenage school prefects are not ".-^afe enough" as traffic wardens at busy read crossings ot the Federal capital, the Selangor Safety First Committee has ruled. They have told the Municipality to appoint full-time adult patrolmen to guide the children at school
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    Lock icon $15,000 For Vendor's Widow
    78 2 $15,000 For Vendor's Widow KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Mr. Justice Buhagiar in the High Court today awarded SI 5.000 compensation to Madam Jesunessannal. wife of a Kuala Lumpur news vendor who was killed in a traffic accident in 1952. The Official Administrator of the Federation, on behalf of the estate ef
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    37 2 HONGKOXG. Mar. 15. Soerial Standard Scrv;ec Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.59 to ci sterling; $5.***** to US$l; $1,837 to Malayan $1; $0.140' to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold 5J5:}.875 to a tacl.
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    Lock icon Driver Gets Five Yrs. For Robbery
    257 2 A VAN DRIVER, Hussein bin Ahmad, 27. was sentenced in the Singapore Assize Court to five years' imprisonment yesterday, when the jury unanimously found him guilty of robbing a hawker, Asgar Ali, of ,5247. It was stated that at 9.45 p.m. on Sept. 27.
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    Lock icon THE TUNGKU'S HEADACH
    445 2 Clearing The Sultan's Backyard Ten Q j By MICHAEL GOH Standard Staff Reporter 'AN embarrassed Tungku Mahkota is now trying to find alternative accommodation for the 80 "tenants" he permitted to live in the backyard of his palace Istana Stulang —in Johore Bahru. In 1953 and 1954.
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    Lock icon New kampong road opened in Malacca
    329 2 New kampong road opened in Malacca STORY OF GRIT AND SELF-HELP (built by farmers, tappers) MALACCA, Tues.— A kampohg road, built by 500 farmers and tappers with financial aid from the Rural and Industrial Development Authority, was declared open yesterday in Parit Penghulu, Sungei Rembai, about 25 miles from here.
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    Lock icon Cheated Contractor Of $591/, PC Gets Jail
    153 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Former police constable Sa'ad bin Abdul Rahman. 30. was today sent to prison for six months by the President of the Sessions Court who found him guilty on two counts of cheating a timber contractor of $591. Tan Kai. the
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    Lock icon 10 Yrs.' Jail For Bandit Food Suppliers
    172 2 ALOR STAR. Tues Three rubber tappers. Chong Sim, Chong Fook and Phoon Fong. living in Junong New Village, were today convicted by Mr Justice Hill, in the High Court on a charge o; supplying foodstuffs to terrorists on Jan 20. and sentenced to
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    Lock icon Air Commodore Sees Iron
    56 2 AIK COMMODORE A. E. Clouston. Air Officer Commanding. Singapore, inspects the latest "iron lung" manufactured by the General Engineering Squadron. Royal Air Force. Sele t a r The Squadron Commander. Squadron I.ead.'r A. Mackelden. stands between him and llarun Wan. the foreman-technician of the workshop in
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    Lock icon The' Amazon A Her 'Puny' Fo
    184 2 The Amazon A Her 'Puny' Fo KIALA LI MPIR, Tues -Mr ft. lU m defending a woman charged with cuiMmaatl other woman, said that the <oi?i»]ainan\twto*: for an "amazon" compared with his M pt His "puny client" was Nn^ Bwary. a .'io-vear-o'.d bouaew who was alleged to have i:.--t nV'.ed
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    Lock icon COMMO PRICE
    79 2 CLOSING (cents per pore yesterd I No l|{w Spot I IM.-' NO I|{NN f• h \|>: No I Ma I Ton. SI Biter Wi ik Up: \l < *tjt- 11 v ptluj The pi lerdaj $352 daan ion no v i m No. j ks^ m House Irrim
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    Lock icon Rasah HGs Acquitted
    81 2 SFREMBAX. Tues. The Seremban Mai I Sulong. today acquitted discharged four Rasah N Be Home Guards charged with Fai in| to araaaajt Ua selves for auty between I p on Feb. 1 1 and (J a.m. on r [2. Court inspector 1 Sivanathan to.d the eon he
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    Lock icon Guilty Man Allowed Bail
    43 2 KUALA LUMPUR Tues. S. Arokiasamy. of Fd.nburgh estate. Kepong. today pies guilty before the Fir^t Magistrate to stealing jewellery and cash worth |3S§ from a compatriot. Sentence was postponed to March 22 and the accused was granted $250 bail.
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    Lock icon Ambush Victims Progressing
    45 2 THE mar.. I garang Estate, Johore John Btreeter, its auditor. Hr. Goon Kok Rot and three Malay police constables i wounded in a terrorist am on Sunday were yesterday n ported to lie making tory progress at the Johore Bahru General Hospital.
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      75 2 Weather Report MINIMI M Temperature: From 7.30 p.m Mar. 14 to 7.30 a.m. Mar. 15 Singapore <7(>F>. Pei:ang <7." iF). Kota Kahru (73F). K u.i l.i Lumpur (73F>, Ipoh <73Fi, Kuantan (71Fi. Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 a.m. Mar. 11 to 7.30 p.m Mar. 15. Singapore (9?F>, Penanjr <93F>. Kota Kahru
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    24 3 FF COME ANNERS N GOVT. USE GATE all, In hieh D KO r In rd.>: i Mr. 'rue tne to mt I 1 i
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    Lock icon Committed For Trial
    58 3 A 22-YEAR-OLD youth. Lee I Vee. was committed to :hc next Assizes by the Singanore Fifth Police Court Magistrate. Mr. RBI Pale-, yester- rge of attempted ier. Lee was alleged to have tried to murder Bercsford I. Satur by firing a revolver at in the Sun Sun
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    Lock icon Union Sends Reminder To The CG
    86 3 Union Sends Reminder To The CG THE Singapore Admiralit\ Loral Stall I nion which reeenth threatened to strike wrote a second letter t,, the (oinmissioner(icncral. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, yesterday asking him to mediate in its disputr with the Admirality. Ihe Unlaw > first request to Mr MaePonald was forwarded ten
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    32 3 RABBI Jacob Shababo will deliver a lecture on "Duties of Man towards his Neighbours* 1 the Singapore Lodge of the Theosophical Society. Cairnhill on March 17 at fi.oO p.m.
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    Lock icon Found ln Curfew Waters: Fined
    45 3 LEE Ki:ri and Lee Hock Xge both fishermen, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Criminal District Court yesterday to being found in a curfew area at sea off Sungci Bu!oh. Straits of Johore. at about 6 p.m. on March 14
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    Lock icon DEMOCRATIC CLUB
    39 3 "THE Platform of the Labour Front" w 1! be the subject of a lecture sponsored by the Democratic Club of the University of Malaya 1o be held at the Arts Theatre on March 18. at 8 p.m.
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    Lock icon Soldiering Is Good, Says Sgt. Dass
    204 3 SERGEANT Samy Dass. of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, receives the Commander-in-Chief's certificate from the General Officer Commanding Singapore Base District. Major General D.D.C. Tulloch. at the 40 Base Workshops. REME in Aver Rajah Road. Singapore yesterday. After the ceremony Sgt. Dass told The
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    Lock icon City To Get $7M. In War Damage
    203 3 Fight Has Been Hard And Tough AFTER nearly nine years of negotiations (including rous appeals) the Singapore City Council ha.s been awarded more than $7-million as war damage compensation. Its fight for compensation has been a hard and tough one. Legal expenses alone
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    Lock icon INVITATION TO THIEVES
    275 3 Tenants Demand Safety Guards On SIT Estate ONE HUNDRED and twenty-three residents of the Brickworks Estate have petitioned the Singapore Improvement Trust to take steps to make their houses less vulnerable to the activi fives of robbers and petty thieves. In their petition the residents said the
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    Lock icon Saw Father Bleed So Son Struck Death Blow
    167 3 Saw Father Bleed So Son Struck Death Blow IPOH. Tues.— A young rubber tapper. R. Ponniah, facing a manslaughter charge, said in the court here today that he struck a fellow worker. Munusamy. with a stick when he saw his father bleeding from a wound near the eye. Ponniah was
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    Lock icon Rhodesians Kill Three Terrorists
    80 3 KUALA LIPIS. Tues.— Three terrorists were killed by a patrol of the First Battalion Northern Rhodesian Regiment in (he north-west area of Panaris this morning. A Thompson sub-machine gun. a pistol and a grenade were recovered. Fi\e terrorists fired on a military convoy of three vehicles
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    Lock icon NEW DEPARTMENT FOR CITY COUNCIL
    285 3 Work Of Two Centralised THE Organization an* Methods Department has recommended the establishment of a new department within the Singapore City Council to deal wifh all local markets and hawkers— a work hitherto undertaken by the City Cleansing and Hawkers Department and the Health Department.
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    76 3 MRS. Irene Mary Baker pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Criminal District Court yesterday to failing to register and obtain an identity card. She was fined $10 by the District Judge, Mr. H. A For re r. Inspector T. S. Zain prosecuting said that since her
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    Lock icon REMANDED ON THEFT COUNT
    51 3 TANG Lim claimed trial in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday to a charge of housebreaking n Norfi Ik Road and theft of two gold rings and a watch. The offence was committed on March 14 at 5 p.m. Tan was remanded in custody for 48
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    Lock icon S'pore Man In London
    54 3 MR P G. PERALTA (centre) of the Singapore Public Relations Office is or"* of five Colonial Information officers who are attending a course in London organized by the Colonial Office and the Central Office of Information. Others in the picture are from Northern Nigeria, the Gold
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    Lock icon Escaped With Knife In His Back, Court Told
    365 4 2 Charged With Murder Attempt A LABOURER. Mohamed Shariff bin Kassim, said in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday how he was assaulted and stabbed by a gang of six men early one morning and how he escaped from ithem with a
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    Lock icon BROTHERS FOR AUSTRALIA
    61 4 TWO BROTHERS Scow Kec Ying. 19. (left), and Scow Moh Ying. Ifs, both former pupils of the Anglo-Chinese School. Klang. who will leave for Australia on Saturday. Kee Ying will study engineering, while Moh Ying will study medicine. Their brother Mr. Scow How Ying, is managing partner
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    65 4 A BURGLAR broke into the chaplain's office in Tanglin Church, in Singapore, on Sunday night and dragged out an iron sale containing $300 Once out in the church ground, the burglar began bashing the safe but all he succeeded in doing was to break the
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    Lock icon SHB Aid For Lighter Strike
    41 4 THE Singapore Harbour Board Stall Association has sent a cheque for SI OO to the Singapore Transport Vessel Workers Association in answer to an appeal for support in connection with the strike at Swee Hin Co.
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    Lock icon Association For Blind
    38 4 THE third annual general meeting of the Singapore Association for the Blind will be held in the Board Room on the Ist floor of Crosby House (Chartered Bank in Robinson Road) at 5 p.m. tomorrow.
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    72 4 THE following were elected office-bearers of the Singapore Lorong Limau Chinese Sports and Family Benefit Party. President— Mr. Chua Chong How; Vice-Presidents Messrs. Lim Kirn Hai. Ong Kirn Seng. Lee Hock Lim and Loo Keng Soon; Secretary Mr. Lee Eng Kee; Asst. Secretary— Mr. Tan Eng Kway;
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    41 4 photo by THIS is the newly completed SI B,OOO premises of the Victoria Institution Old Boys' Association in Shaw Road, Kuala Lumpur. The Sultan of Selanaor will declare the building open next month.- Standard Yong Peng Seong
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    303 4 \Narns Democratic Candidate MR. TAN ENG JOO, Democratic Party candidate for the forthcoming Singapore Legislative Assembly elections, last night warned against the danger of creating two classes of citizens in Singapore. In a speech over Radio Malaya. Mr. Tan said that the imposition of
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    Lock icon Lee ('I Am Not A Liar') Is Cheered
    287 4 SPEAKING at an election rally at Henderson Hill last night, Labour Front candidate for Queenstown, Mr. Lee Choon Eng, said he was disappointed because Democratic candidate, Mr. M. B. Brash, who allegedly called him a liar, had not turned up to meet
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    Lock icon Six Years' FREE Education Is His Aim
    192 4 Six Years' FREE Education Is His Aim MR. LEX POH SONG, Independent candidate for the Seletar Division, in his election manifesto issued yesterday promised to fight for six years' free compulsory primary education for all children. "For those who are unable to continue with the academic course, I will advocate
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    251 4 One Day A Week Marshall's Pledge THE Labour Front candidate for Cairnhill, Mr. David Marshall, yesterday promised that if he is elected to the Singapore Legislative Assembly, he will dedicate one day a week, possibly Sunday, to meet people to study and understand their problems. He said this at an
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    103 5 Blaze In Village Claims 5 Homes I na v. ere made when a lire attap houses In Pot on 2 1 ved to have the kitchen of ises. It soon c housea woman, who out quickly inor burns. ami was raised by a teacher at St. Andrew's .>'.. He was
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    29 5 MUAR. Tue^ —Tan Chin 5. 26. was fined $10 by the Magistrate, Inehe Pawan A Mad. for failing to reto the Registration Officer lariqe of his address.
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    221 5 iouncil will consider this **JJ »i which will be required by Ocpf. Needs 54 /2 MiL tment requires an extra 000. For a children's 'ground at Chew Hock ng SIT. Flats. $16,000. i covered way for the E.-pianade restaurant. $20.--|OOO. tor the Van
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    36 5 IN recognition of the contribution he had made towards the success of the Stamford Community Centre, the Executive Committee of the Centre has aDpointcd Mr. T. A. Simon, a City Councillor, its first patron.
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    Lock icon Reds Put 'The Squeeze On Aboriaines
    300 5 'The Squeeze On Aboriaines Govt. Move To Win Over Tribes Hits MCP Camps KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Communist Terrorists are putting violent pressure on AAala van aborigines again in the light of Government's success in winning over the tribal folk and thupiercing the one-time "human screens" around MCPcamps, The Standard was
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    53 5 NURSES who have completed their training at the School of Nursing. General Hospital. Kuala Lumpur. Seated (from left): Mrs. S Maclntvre (Sister Tutor), Mrs. M.C.C Hushes (State Matron). Dr. It Mac-Beth (State Medic a Health Officer), Miss M. McDanash (Matron, General Hospital) Dr. I. W .lavesuria and Miss Teoh Chve
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    147 5 Nelson Sent Back To States My Plane RICHAKI* XI I SON year aM Aaaerfeaa seaman, who with his shipmate Billy Allison recently refused re palliation to th«- Cnited States, was put aboard a Pan American Airways plane homeward bound from Singapore vc-.terday Nelson was remanded in custody at Ontram Koad
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    Lock icon 2 Charged With Rioting In Coffee Simp
    85 5 2 Charged With Rioting In Coffee Simp SHAHUBAR Meeragani and Chacko Mathews were charged in the Singapore Seven 1 h Police Court yesterday with riot ng in a coffee shoo at 4| mile. Pasir Panjang Road on Sunday. The prosecution alleged that they caused hurt to .loan De Mello and
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    37 5 MUAR. Tues —Seven people, i six Malays and one Chinese were each fined $10 by the Muar Mag strate Inehe Pawan Ahmad, for breaking the curfew order at Jalan Aver Hitam Bakri. Muar. on March (i
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    Lock icon $15 M. Windfall For Padi Men
    374 5 $1 5 M. Windfall For Padi Men To Make Up For Price Cut (By X C. ARIN) Xl ALA LIMPIR, Tues.-Th c Federation Government is understood to have agreed in principle to spend up to H5 million immediately to relieve the distress of planters due to the recent fall in
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    273 5 RUBBER TREES HIT BY THE 'BIG HEAT' TANJONG MALIM, Tues. —A heat wave in the past few days has caused extensive damage to rubber trees in the Ulu Selangor area of Selangor. and the Tanjcng Mali m and Bidei aieas of Peiak. Large areas of foliage between rubber trees have
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    468 5  - Laughter And Applause Greet Professor ANDREW FANG By i IT was a night of much spontaneous laughter and prolonged applause at the Arts Theatre. University of Malaya, last night. The laughter was not provoked by very good comedy nor was the applause for superb acting. The laurels were accorded a
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    104 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Kee Lai Heng. a woman cla mod that ciLmt gallons of samsu found in her house were for her own consumption, when she was charged in the Magistrate's Court today with beng in possession of a still and eight gallons
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    299 5 He Was Architect Of Reforms KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Sir Charles Mathew. Federation's Chief Justice, is to fly to Dar-es-Salaam next month to attend the inauguration of the new Const tut ion of Tanganyika. The Standard learnt today. Fifty-two-year-old Sir Charles is the architect of the reforms
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    522 6  -  Cassandra By of the Daily Mirror am indebted to the Madras Public Service Commission (hereinafter called the M.P.S.C.) which is a hell of a thing to be indebted to at this hour of the morning. The M.P.S.C. has been peering into the minds of candidates for
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    391 6 Review of Views Drawbacks UJTUSAN MELAYU points to some drawbacks of Rida and says that the organization has not fulfilled the hopes of Malays in the rural areas Plan s are carried cut rather sporadically, says Utusan and adds that while loans to the rural inhabitants are necessary, the role
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      92 6 Sir;— l was shocked at the revelation in the Singapore Standard of Mr. Tan Siew Sin's letter an 1 his attitude to the Tamils or Indians The Malayan Indian Congress President forced the M.I.C. into the Alliance, and the letter of the Publicity Chief of the Alliance dearly shows
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    699 6 ,CO I was not making a gu> <,° in the dark on Saturday I when I said some peop,! I would like to see I Standard boycotted be- cause its Sunday edition I disclosed the dictatorial I tendencies of the MCA. I This was
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    167 7 Aussies, U.S. Agree On WASHINGTON, March 15 (IP)— President Eisenhower and Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies are reported to have agreed in principle to take immediate steps to co-ordinate plans for combined operations in South-east Asia in the event of aggression there. Menzies is known
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    73 7 Probe Into Reports Is Ordered MELBOURNE. Mar. 15 Army Minister Francis today ordered v into Australian reports that summer is were on sale to Malayans In Communistdominated areas for three shil Vustralian) each. The reports said the uniform complete to the tons marked with a map Austral! The st at
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    47 7 ion to his family. The boy set out three weeks ISO wth a rucksack and C 5 oping to get to Spain He I through Paris and Poi-South-arest France, be« being found by French o He h3d slipped past COStOmi immigration barriers ua-
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    55 7 LONDON. March 15 (Reuter> The body of Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin who died on Friday, is to be cremated on Wednesday and his ashes buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, it was learned here. Famous Englishmen including Lord Nelson and Sir Christopher
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    334 7 Top-Level Talks Will Have To Wait LONDON, March, 15, (Reuter)— Sir Winston Churchill's Conservative Government yesterday defeated by 298 votes to 268 a Labour opposition motion censuring if for "delay" in calling top-level talks between Britain, Rus sia and the United States to lessen world
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    133 7 Honour For G.I. Joe, The Pigeon WASHINGTON March 15 (AP) Congress was asked yesterday to honour a homing pigeon which carried a vital message in World War II and was credited with saving the lives of 1.000 British soldiers. Rep. Cecil King introduced legislation to provide an appropriate citation for
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    51 7 STRAW POLL MARKS DOOM FOR BEVAN LONDON, March 15 (UP) A secret Labour straw poll today gave party leader Clement Attlee a two-to-one edge over leftwinger Aneurin Bevan in a battle for direction of British Socialism. The vote virtually sealed Bevan's exile from Socialist ranks in Parliament. The verdict comes
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    29 7 GREEK police have arrested "five most dangerous Greek Communists" for spying on North Atlantic Treaty Organization activities in northern Greece, it was officially announced in Salonika Reuter
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    155 7 Prosecutor Wants 2 To Face Trial Monfesi Case Rn R n ME v Mar 15 <Reuter>- lc ch^t Prosecutor today demanded that Piero Piccioni Itai y ian r ol p S n f a fOTme shnniHK Forei S n Minister, should be committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter
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    62 7 LONDON, March 15 (Reuter) Warsaw Radio announced yesterday that a military court in Warsaw has opened th c trial of a grorp of six people accused of "spying f o r America. The Radio said that one of them had repeatedly ap proached an American correspondent
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    67 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, March 15. The following ore the closing prices of rubber and tin on the London Market LONOON RUBBER Spor 26 d April/June 25id. July/September 25id. Ocrobcr/ Dccimbcr 25 id. April c.i.f. 25^d. Tone: Uncertain. LONDON TIN Spot £709 buyers, £710 sellers Three
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    42 7 photo THIS picture of Mi Aneurin Bevan. whose expulsion from the Labour Party is threatened, was taken in October 1051 when he addressed his own constituency at Ebbe Vale in a cinema just before the general election. Keystone
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    54 7 EDINBURGH. March 15 i Reuter) A petition, asking for a reprieve for John William Gordon, a 24-year-old freelance journalist, who is due to hang on March 24 for the murder of a Scottish actor. George Ford McN'iell. was presented here yesterday to the Secretary of State for
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    50 7 TULSA, Oklahoma, March 15 (AP) Psychiatrists yesterday declared grandma Nannie Doss to t-e insane and recommended the confessed posoner of four husbands be recommitted to an asylum. The ruling will prevent her trial at this time, on murder charges in the death of her last husband.
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    28 7 LONDON. March 15 (Reuter) Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, has influenza and has cancelled her public engagements for this week, it was announced yesterday.
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    330 7 RICHMOND. Virginia. March 15, (AP>— An Episcopalian* bishop recently returned from a tour of Far Eastern military bases said yesterday the problems of morality among U.S. soldiers and the residents of friendly countries has reached "staggering proportions." Prostitution, narcotic addiction and the result of these
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    122 7 Malta 's New Premier Was Not There VALETTA Malta. March 15 (Reuten Mr. Dom Mintoll. Malta's new Prime Mini asked to be excused at today's official welcome for the Duke of Edinburgh because ol the great pressure ol work in taking up his post. The Duke stood on the bridge
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    49 7 HOLLYWOOD. March 15, (Reuter i Shirley Yamaguchi, the Japanese aetn began work yesterday at 20th Century Fox Studios on tl.<production of "House of Bamboo." Mr. Shinsaku Hogan. Japanese Consul Gem was among those on hand to wish Miss Yamaguchi well and present her with flowers.
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    64 7 JAKARTA. March IS CUP) Next month.- Aslan-Afri-can conference will stimulate the growth of independence among nation* ol Asia and Africa. Prime Minister Sastroamidjojo said today "I have been laying g; stress on the role of Asia and Africa." Sastroamidjojo told United Press in an exclu interview.
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    81 8 100 Homeles In KL Fire FIRE destroyed five squatter V San Peng Road in Kuala Lumpur on 100 people homeless. The victims ings. These Standard photos by Yonq Extreme left: The charred rcmcr Below left: Victims salvage their b' Below: Two of the 20 firemen I Army fire brigades who
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    148 12 Rubber Now Goes Below 90 c. Mark PRICE SLIPS 3%c THE rubber market in Singapore yesterday again experienced one of its erratic spells and dropped 3', cents per lb. to 89£ cents lor first grade rubber for April shipment. Traders were somewhat puzzled by the trend of the market yesterday
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    56 12 THE Singapore Chamber of Commerce Robber Association im,);-! prices (cents per lb.' yesterday were: Buyers. Sellers. >se 90] 91 R&S i o.b Apr. No 1 91 911 Mas No 1 Ml 91 An: X-. 2 89; 901 Apr No. 88; 892 RMA <>n reg tender: i; 91 Ma;
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    110 12 Standard Shipping Reporter A SINGAPORE Chinese I ness firm may s gn a contract with Japanese shipI tilders in the near future for a 3.500-ton freighter, A Reuter message from Tokyo reported that the Sasebo Shipbuil ling Company, Japan, s expected to Mpi
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    226 12 Produce Market Stagnant STAGNANT conditions prevailed in the Singapore pro- duce market yesterday, with little buying interest reported. No business was reported for copra, coconut oil and pepper which remained at much the same pri es as those prevailing on Monday. Coconut oil prices, however, steadied slightly and was quot-
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    99 12 TIN IMPORTS MOVEMENTS MALAYAN imports of tin concentrates during February amounted to 931 tons compared with 1.099 tons in .January (727 tons in Feb. 1934). Imports from Thailand amounted to G77 tons. Burma 232 tons and other countries 22 tons. Movements of tln-in-concen-trates from the Federation to Singapore and Penang
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    62 12 US$10M. LOAN TO CORPORATION the International Bank has announced in Washington it has entered an agreement to lend USSIO.OOO.OOO to assist the growth of private Industry in India. It -said the loan would be to the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India. Ltd.. which Is a newly formed group
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    369 12 Talks Seek To Boost Rubber Output Standard Special Corr. NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 15. In the background of the Inter-American Investment Conference held here, there is considerable attention being paid to rubber. The conference, which IS designed to attract North American investors towards Latin America, has brought together some 800 leaders'
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    55 12 BANGKOK. Mar. 15, (Router) Burma has promised Thailand she will not undercut Thai rice on world markets, a Burmese Embassy sookesman said here today. This resulted from talks between U. Raschid, Burmese Commerce Minister, and Thai Ministry Economic Affairs officials when U. Raschid visited Thailand with the
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    303 12 SIR Miles Thomas, chairman' of the British Overseas Air- i ways Corporation, is hopeful that the Corporation will again show both a gross profit I and a net surplus this year. unless some completely unforeseen disruption occurs. 'These will not be as much as
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    180 12 OPERATORS on the Malayan share market were reluctant to deal either wav and the turnover continued to be restricted. I All lections of tb.c market were quietly steady and almost completely featureless. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' As--1 sociation yesterday were Buyers JSelirrs
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    63 13 Records Tumble At Mexico 0 CITY, March 19 The pc rerftal United American Games rronl ot" their and :i continued ength seemed in wrer of this mpics. to fame. Ros.v\n i sensational re--4-1 8 inches. shed stars as of the shotput umpers Ernie Saeil Herman Wyatt have Panrecord books exploits
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    78 13 r| RE BAHRI*. Mon. I rifle Royal Johore will be held at n April 16 and On the invitation of the i Regent of Johore. Col. R.A.J. I Wiggins, of 221 Vehicle Battalion. R.A.O.C. and Col. W.P.B Arkwright. of F.A.R.E.L.F. Training Centre, will serve on the
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    80 13 Victors The Vanquished Rfc. I Hi: Tnited States which beat Canada by five games to four j n the American mL /on.- final at Winnipeg on March 11 and 1?. This team will com r to Singapore W?W* to play the Asian /one finalist. I* Picture shows the IS team
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    46 13 LONDON March 15 'AP> Sunderland' who knocked OU Wolverhampton Wanderers last Saturday were made 2-1 lavourites to wi n the English Soccer Cup at a betting call-over by Britain's top bookies last night. Other' odds: .Manchester City 5-J Huddersfteld 7-2, Newcastle .->-! York City 100-7.
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    47 13 ARGONAUTS Sports Club registered their second successive victory when they beat Singapore Recreation Club 3—l in a Spore Div. 2 A league match played on the Padang yesterday. William Tan 2. and Rahim Omar netted for the Argonauts. K. Grosse replied tor the Recs.
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    53 13 THE following will play for BODCA against Police Training School, in a friendly cricket match at Thomson Road WIS afternoon. Wiieweera (capt). C. «XT? ♦•s F Van Roovan. R. Ondatp Markar. Joe X. Carvallio, R. L. Scully. Sam Chelliah. Won* San Chong. V. Margcsh, lat rick Chooi Umpire.
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    29 13 KEPPEL Club beat Royal Island Club by 10 1/2 points to 7 1/2 in an inter-club go! match played at the Royal Island Club course on Sunday.
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    45 13 RAJAJI Sports Club beat Arab Union by three |oall one in a Spore Div. :iB league soccer match played <> n tnc Clerical Union ground yeaierday. Scorer s for Rajaji were <-» Doraiappan 2 and G. Nadarajah H. H. AlkafT netted lor the loser*.
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    32 13 THE Spore DJ ."iB match between the Blue Rovers ann Social A. P. scheduled to he played off at the C.V.M.A. around] yesterday was postponed j The referee was not present.
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    393 13 KOTA RAJA GO DOWN 5-2 four Goals In 7 Electrify in g Mins. And... made the I h had Hassan did not ma tempt to save the i Three minutes later Mohamed Yusoff opened E4 X Rajah during Shoi 'c: ards. Ho Bin side-stepped the onrushing Arshad. to kick into
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    170 13 THREE expert skin divers from Australia will address the meeting of the Singapore Underwater Spearftshing Club at the Association of Engineers, Raffles Quay, tonight. I They are Me. rs. Johnny Mather. Brian Stever, and Reg Burgess Of the Australian Underwater Spearftshing Cluo of .New South
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    58 13 Rough play and an unruly crowd which surged on to the field forced referee LAC Terry to call oft a Spore Division t%% league soccer match between the Young Men's Sikh Association and Balestier rnited at Geylang Stadium yesterday. The Sikhs were leading by three goals
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    156 13 TODAY'S... BUSINESS HOUSES SOCCER DIVIMON I: MP II \s P Buknm at Jalan Besar. Sitne Darh> vs. Chartered Bank at (•••>lang: Shell \s I i .ser A. Neave at Shell: SIR v> Mercantile Bank at SUB. Si( rs, Hong K»n; Bank at S 1 C DIMMON Breweries rs CmUm k*
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    93 14 IPOH. Tues.— One-Six Gurkha Riflc> shocked Kinta Indians for the greater part ol play but collapsed midway in the second half to lose by sixgoals to nothing against Kinta Indians in a Div. I soccer league played on the Town Padang this evening. Indians have
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