Singapore Standard, 5 April 1955

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    15 1 Singapore Standard it m C^ 1 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1955 It PACKS 15 CENTS
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    32 1 0000 Rubber ut By Trates An.nd i ocr, "and at r m ol n said r Buns, ninha- iced .ind i the rrew row m In- v, o to the of Penrum-
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    23 1 .:cr> Its the v r- pcct Bid i .r. the .-arae Ihicn n unccd dispute and piletors beany I before
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    Lock icon ACK DOWN ANG'S F-47
    13 1 R< uter) antipro- ilist and cording Newi pilot baled
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    9 1 I AP>rd of rce hour rinese in.
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    Lock icon GUARDS KILL 13 MAU MAU
    45 1 NAIROBI. April 4 (Reuter) A patrol of eight Kikuyu guards, commanded by District Officer Peter Nicholas, are believed to have killed 13 Mau Mau gangsters, wounded two more and captured 13 firearms and ammunition early yesterday, police here said today.
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    Lock icon A WORLD RECORD
    20 1 A RUSSIAN woman parachutist has claimed a world record for 600 jumps, according to Moscow Radio. Reuter
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    Lock icon NICOLL CHATS WITH CHIEF MINISTER DESIGNATE
    547 1 Spore Should Not Repeal Crisis Law' BOURNE ORDERS SURVEY OF No. 1 TERROR SPOT KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Federotion Government today took the first precautionary move against the possibility of any hasty repca| of the Emergency Regulations in Singapore under its new Labour administration.
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    Lock icon Two Red Leaders To Be Purged
    114 1 HONGKONG, April 4, (Reuter) The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee today unanimously condemned and called for the expulsion from the party of Kao Kang, former vice-chairman of the Chinese People's Government and chief of the Northeast China Administrative Area, Peking Radio reported. The Radio
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    Lock icon IT'S A COALITION NOW
    282 1 FRONT ANNOUNCES MOVE TO BRING ALLIANCE MEN INTO GOVERNMENT Talks With The Governor Going Well -Marshall SINGAPORE may have a Coalition Government formed through a merger of the Labour Front and the UMNO-MCA Malay Union Alliance, the Chief Minister-designate, Mr. David Marshall, said last niqht. In
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    Lock icon Dr. Lin & Staff Quit En Bloc
    214 1 Dr. Lin Staff Quit En Bloc $325,000 To Be Paid Out DR. LIN YU-TANG, Chancellor-designate of the Nanyang University, and his entire staff resigned en bloc last night from the University. A joint statement on the resignations was drafted jointly by Dr. Lin and representatives of the Trustees and signed
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    Lock icon New Atom Testing Ground In Australia
    155 1 New Atom Testing Ground In Australia CANBERRA, April 4 (Router The Aii, lian and British governments have reached agreement on the establishment of a proving ground lor atomic weapons' trials in the South Australian desert, the Minister of Supply. Mr. Howard Beale announced today. Certain tests, planned for later this
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    Lock icon Italian Movie Queen Obliges Newspapermen
    73 1 TOKYO. April 4 <AP) Sylvana Pampanini. tall and lovely Italian movie queen here for the Italian-Japa-nese film festival, appeared for newsmen and photographers on Monday in a modest, neck-high black dress. Correctly interpreting the frowns and looks of disappointment, she went upstairs to her Imperial
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    Lock icon PACT IS SIGNED
    15 1 BRITAIN and Iraq yesterday signed a new defence treaty of alliance. Reuter
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    Lock icon SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
    233 1 He's Expected To Retire TODAY LONDON. April 4. (Reuter) A dinner being given tonight to Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh by Sir Winston Churchill at his official residence here is widely interpreted as marking the eve of the Premier's retirement from ofHce. He has always
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    Lock icon Ho Will Not Attend Meet
    53 1 TOKYO, April 4. <AP) President Ho Chi Minh of Communist North Vietnam apparently will not attend the Afro-Asian conference at Bandung. Radio Peking on Monday broadcast a report, quoting the (North) Vietnam News Agency, that Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Pham Van Dong will head the
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    Lock icon PENNEY IN U.S. FOR A-TEST
    66 1 NEW YORK. April 4. (Reuter)—Sir William Penney, leading British atomic scientist flew here yesterday from London for talks in Washington and a probable visit to Nevada to watch a US. atomic test. Sir William arrived with a party of 10 and told reporters that he
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    Lock icon NZ CABINET GIVES THE NOD
    37 1 WELLINGTON. April 4. (Reuter) Prime Minister Sidney Holland announced the Cabinet today formally approved New Zealand's new military commitments for Malaya as announced by him in the House of Representatives last month.
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    Lock icon Saigon Blow-up Threat
    159 1 Saigon Blow-up Threat Private Army Warns Diem SAIGON April I (Renter) The Binh Xuxn private army opposing Premier Ngo Dinh Diom has threatened to blow up South Vietnam's securil> headquarters in the tit v centre if their garrison is attacked, an authoritative soune said today. The city authorities fear that
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    Lock icon commodity PRICES
    114 2 commodity PRICES CLOSING rubber prircs (cents per Ib) in Sitma pore yesterday were: Biners Sellers No I KS S Spot Loom 87 i 87; No I KSS fob. April 87; 87; No 2 86! S«i No 3 8.")! Mi Tone: Steady quiet. TIN PKll'F The price ot tin >esterda.v (per
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    37 2 HONGKONG. April 4 Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hormk-m:* Exchange today were: $15.66 to El sterling; $5,810 to US$l; $1,845 to Malayan $1; $0,132 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $2,515 to a tael.
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    Lock icon GOODS ABOVE HANDLE-BAR
    40 2 CHONG Chin Slew p.cadcd guilty in the Singapore City Police Court yesterday to carrying goods which projected above the hand:c-har of his tricycle and was fined S3 by the City Police Magistrate. 1 Mr. D. C. D'Cotta.
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    Lock icon STUDENTS PETITION THE GOVERNOR
    284 2 STUDENTS PETITION THE GOVERNOR They Want Union To Be Registered SINGAPORE Chinese Middle School students last Saturday petitioned the Governor, Sir John Nicoll, to have the Singapore Chinese Middle Schools Students Union registered. A student spokesman claimed that tin student body, some 10.000 students from seven Chii Middle Schools, signed
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    Lock icon Athlete To Contest Elections
    99 2 Athlete To Contest Elections IPOH. Mon. Mr. \V. E. Ba 1 a singham, well known Perak athlete and a Government servant, has announced that he will contest the Federal Legislative Council elections in July. Mr Balasinfham is attached to the Geological Survey Department at Batu Ga.iah. He has to be
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    Lock icon Armed Men Rob Woman
    63 2 ALOR STAR. Mon Five men dressed in green uniforms and carrying three shotguns entered the house of a Malay woman. Puteh binte Matisa. 22. of Kampong Panggas Besar in Perlis on Sunday morning. The woman was alone with her daughter, when the men entered and blew
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    Lock icon IT WAS 'A LONG WAIT FOR THE DIRECTOR
    181 2 IF You Wait LoMf Enough, You (iet It. This is the title of the first Cantonese film to be shot by Malay Film Productions in Singapore since the war. And Guh Wen T'zong. the director, just had to believe in this yesterday.
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    Lock icon Terrorists Escape 'Shower Of Bombs
    122 2 KUALA LIMPUR, Mon.— About 50 terrorists lurking: in the ranges of 3,549-foot Bukit Payong on the Selangor Negri Sembilan border arc perhaps still safe in their lairs, as a "bomb shower" by the Royal Air Force last Saturday "did not cover the main terrorist hideout,"
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    Lock icon FUN FAIR AT GIRLS' SCHOOL
    65 2 KUANTAN, Mon. A large crowd visited the fun fair held in aid of the Methodist Girls' School and the New Methodist Church Union building funds at the Methodist Girls' school compound on Saturday. The fair was opened by the Sultan of Pahang. Boy Scouts. Girl
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    Lock icon Post-election Clean-up
    117 2 Post- election Clean -up THE Singapore Legislative J Assembly elections arc over, but stuck on thousands of walls' and pillars arc the remains of election posters, and banners that will now have to be taken down. The task of removing the: soiled and tattered posters j from the walls and
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    207 2 Lead, Don t Follow Public Opinion Governor Tells Press SINGAPORE'S i ing Governor. Sir J Nicoll, and the Colony's Chief Minister-de^m. in the new Labour Government, Mr. Do Marshall, were guests at yesterday's S g Union of Journi luncheon at the Cap* 1 Blue Room. It was a historic occ
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    Lock icon Gurkhas Kill Terrorist
    45 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Man A terrorist iU killrd and another wounded in the Ponggerang area of J yesterday by a patrol ofl I 1 2 Gurkhas. The wounded terror raped. A sub-machin<m;n three magazines, ammunition, a grenade, two packand two hats were recovered
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    Lock icon Indian Studies For Varsity
    43 2 THE University of Mai Is to establish a Department of Indian Btudii Bex! year. The head for this dei»rtmeitfl has not yet b'< n appointed, but it Is undrr^n^rt he will bo on the lrvd < I I senior lecturer.
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    Lock icon 'Chinese Medicine' Turns Out To Be English Cigarettes
    231 2 'Chinese Medicine' Turns Out To Be English Cigarettes SEVENTY-TWO packages of Chinese medicine imported from Hongkong turned out to contain 324.000 sticks of English cigarettes when they were checked by Customs officers at the Singapore General Post Ofiice, the Seventh Police Court was told yesterday. In the dock was Yco
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    Lock icon Braddell And Allen Submit Their Report
    327 3 students to make it a real II quite possible that in the next four or five will be a few h'.:nc. The acquisition of law books ft >r a library would e heavy capital expenlil ire, h ted out. He hoped that there will
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    Lock icon New Diplomas Suggested For Public d Business ministration
    29 3 Ne w Diplomas Suggested For Public d Business ministration fi rnent beinjl a i.CS in «ya. cs- t Uni- R G. r of a Appointments I I in in
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    Lock icon OH CITIZENS TO 'ADOPT' VILLAGES
    113 3 I This adoption scheme is to within the next week or two when tea of prominent Ipoh citizens i1 the New Villages .1 this town, holding intalks with the village rs and meeting the in- habitants and discussins their problems. It will, therefore, ho one
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    Lock icon Action On 2 New Faculties: Law And Social Studies
    544 3 Action On 2 New Faculties: Law And Social Studies ploma in Social Studies Sir Sydney indicated that the i ;.V'>!i>hment of the f of La W wil! not he r ished, aa the University is to see that "When we will be on nrm 'Wo nrr satisfied." he said "there
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    Lock icon EX-TEC KILLED HIMSELF WITH FRIEND'S GUN
    372 3 Coroner Is Told He Slapped The Girl He Couldnt Forget JOHNNY Tan Yew Wall, a former detective of the Security Squad, shot himself through the temple with a friend's .38 Service revolver two days after he slapped his girl friend. This was disclosed in
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    Lock icon SOLDIER STOLE 2 CHICKENS
    79 3 SOLDIER STOLE 2 CHICKENS MALACCA, Mon. A Federation Regiment personnel. Lee Tee Boh, 21, was convicted today and fined $150 in default three months' jail for the theft of two chickens from a house in Gaja Berang last month. Lee told the Magistrate. Mr. Ramanatha Iyer, that he stole the
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    Lock icon Bus Was Not Clean: $10 Fine
    41 3 CHANG Kck Long pleaded guilty in the Singapore City Police Court yesterday to using for hire a bus which was not kept clean. He was fined $10 by the City Police Magistrate, Mr. D.C. D'Cotta.
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    Lock icon HANDCARTS: $20
    28 3 WONG Jun Jui and Tay Bak Tcng were each fined $20 in the Singapore City Police Court yesterday when they pleaded guilty to using unlicensed handcarts.
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    Lock icon THAI HOLIDAY
    16 3 THE Royal Thai ConsulateGeneral in Singapore will be closed tomorrow, which Is "Chakri Day."
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    Lock icon Post Office Closing Times For Easter
    142 3 THE Singapore General Post Office will open from 9 a.m. to noon on Good Friday. April 8. Saturday. April 9. and Easter Monday. April 11. All other Post Offices and Postal Agencies, except Joo Chiat, Tion<? Bahru. Towner Road. Kandar.^ Kerbau and Maxwell Road,
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    81 4 Told Not To Make Report After being involved in a collision with an elderly Indian woman In Gcylang Road yesterday morning a Singapore Taxi driver took her home and gave her Before he left, it was reported, he asked the woman the w:fe of a magician not to make a
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    Lock icon DISSATISFIED WORKERS LOOK TO 'FRONT'
    309 4 Strike Problems For Govt. THE Labour Front which has been elected to power has among many other matlerS/ one strike and three threatened strikes for immediate attention. And the workers involved in these disputes expect a lot from the Front, including legislation to protect their
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    Lock icon 'The Story of Oil'
    78 4 'The Story of Oil' photo. "The Story of Oil" was told in pictures and sketches in an exhibition sponsored by the Shell Company at the Oei Tiong Ham Hall. University of Malaya, last night. Among those present were, (from left): Mr. D. H. Palmer. Shell Co.. general manager, Mr. Lee
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    Lock icon Cable Break Cuts Off City Council
    95 4 Cable Break Cuts Off City Council HUNDREDS of people yesterday dialled the Singapore City Council telephone number 2410 and banged the receiver after hearing a continuous "engaged" dial tone. Finally, they rang up the Telephone Board at Hill Street and were told: "There is a cable breakdown." Throughout the day
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    Lock icon LALLANG FIRE DESTROYS HUT
    52 4 A LALLANG fire in the 12th. Mile, Woodlands Road. Singapore, cost a family of eight. $1,500 yesterday. The flames reached their attap hut and razed it to the ground. Soon after the fire was put out. a Social Welfare team drove up to Woodlands to help
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    Lock icon Union Gets $700
    25 4 MALACCA. Mon. Nearly $700 was donated yesterday to the general fund of the Malacca Shoe Factory Employees' Union by sympathisers and others.
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    Lock icon SYBIL'S FIRST BIRTHDAY
    53 4 Photo by birthliav^ w^Ji A "fu ant daugh 4 l< of u Mr ar »d Mrs. A nchant celebrated her first ture shnufLvi k i 1 part y u at her home in Paya Lebar Road. Singapore. Picture shows Sybil, hands in mouth, with some of her
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    Lock icon CHOSE SUICIDE TO H.K. VACATION
    166 4 THREE hours before his departure to Hongkong on a two-month vacation. Choy Kwok Yim. a gardener was found hanging in his room on Jan. 7. This was told to the Singapore Assistant Coroner Mr. Giam Chong Hing yesterday. Choy, employed in the Beventh Day Adventist
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    Lock icon Necessity To Form A Team For Producing Stable Govt.
    241 4 UK Comment On Colony Elections MANCHESTER, April 4 (Keuter)— The Manchester Guardian, commenting today on the results of the general elections in Singapore said the first thing now is to form a team in Singapore which will produce a good Government.
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    Lock icon Marshall's Call On CG. Purely Personal
    92 4 Marshall's Call On CG. Purely Personal THE Commissioner-General's Office In Singapore issued a statement yesterday "to rlear up any misrnderstandins" that might have arisen as a result of the visit of Mr. David Marsha]!. Chief Minister designate in the new Labour Government, to Mr. Malcolm MarDonnid on Sunday. The staten
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    Lock icon Given 80 Days To Quit Land
    34 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Chai Toh, charged with being in illegal occupation of State land at Majedec. was given 80 days notice by the Magistrate's Court today to quit.
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    Lock icon PASCAL STRING QUARTET DELIGHTS AUDIENCE
    220 4 PASCAL STRING QUARTET DELIGHTS AUDIENCE Standard Music Critic THE Pascal String Quartet—Jacques Dumont and Maurice Crut (violins), Walter Gerhardt (viola) and Robert Salles (cello > gave the first of two recitals of chamber music for the Musical Society in the Victoria Memorial Hall last night. The programme consisted of three
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    Lock icon 27 Killed In Road Accidents
    74 4 TWENTY-scven people were killed in road accidents in Singapore during the first three months of this year, one loss than the death toll for the sam e period last year. Nine people died in January, nine in February and nine last month. A reward of
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    28 5 TAIRNG, Mon.-Mr. Abdul Majid Khan, Indian Interions Court. Taipins. i.as left on transfer to Johore Bahru. His place has been n by Mr. K. Moorthy from Sitiawan.
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    Lock icon JAIL TERMS FOR 4 STUDENTS
    484 5 Unsuitable For Detention' In Approved School KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Four Chinese students, convicted under the Emergency Regulations of possessing terrorist documents, were sent today by the Federation's Chief Justice to prison instead of an approved school "for fear that they may corrupt its inmates." After
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    Lock icon Final Bid To End Mines Row Has Failed
    145 5 Final Bid To End Mines Row Has Failed IPOH Mon. —Al efforts to bnr..: about a reconciliation n the Tronoh Mines Company and the dismissed OUT force of over 4DO strop. rj failed, when the two parties met for what was > be the last r nighi at the Station
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    Lock icon DO'sWiieOpens AmpangLibrary
    55 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— An enthusiastic crowd of over TOO villagers yesterday watched Mrs. M. F. Garling. wife of the District Officer Kuala Lumpur, open the 1.000-book public library at Ampang, near here The Ampang Local Council has set aside $600 for use of the library which is housed
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    Lock icon Mystery Of A Tombstone In An English Churchyard
    178 5 ..Jm, •■use. ia^t^s plain U.mhstone marking th?' gra\ ,*f hiaesc immigrant uhoso past is as oh ESKafiSHSieS Such an Englishman came across thi« tombstone recently «*iross mis living in the Colony. He learned from the girl that her brother. J.rr.my Koh Yew
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    Lock icon $600 FINE FOR TAPPING POWER
    195 5 PENANG, Mon.— Municipal Meter Inspectors investigating a case of a consumer illegally tapping electricity in a house in Presgrave Street, discovered alter thanking a meter there in January 1954, when only 36 units were recorded, the February reading jumped to 132 units. This was stated
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    Lock icon Cheng Beng In Penang
    65 5 PENANG, Mon.— Thousands of Chinese yesterday, in cars. trishas. bicycles and on foot made their way to the Chinese cemeteries of Pfenang to pray at the graves of the ancestors to commemorate the Cheng Beng festival. Chen? Beng, this year falls on Tuesday, but the opportunity
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    Lock icon LABOUR OFFICE IN BENTONC
    32 5 KUANTAN. Mon— The office of the Deputy Commissioner for Labour, Pahang and Trengganu is now in Bentong The Assistant Commissioner for Labour will now occupy the Kuantan office.
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    Lock icon WOMAN ROBBED
    36 5 A KtMLA LUMPUR woman Esah binte Ekebar. who was .taying in a hotel in Geylans. Singapore, was robbed ol cash $250 and a gold ring worth $170 yesterday, while she was in the bathroom.
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    Lock icon CHICKEN POX EPIDEMIC IN HOME
    105 5 CHICKEN POX EPIDEMIC IN HOME KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A chicken pox epidemic Is raginf through the wards of the Kuala Lumpur Children's Home and has compelled it to refuse new admissions. The epidemic. The Standard was told today. startMi thrre months ago and nearly 50 of the 72 children at
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    Lock icon Residents Quit Terror Village
    224 5 Every Home Demolished NIBOXG TEBAL, Mon Four days ahead of schedule, the Chinese residents of Changkat, a "terror" village in Province YVellesley South, consisting of about 153 families, have completely moved out of the village to Val I) 'Or and Jawi New Villages arranged for them
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    Lock icon OpiumlnBasket With 2 Bottoms
    78 5 JOHORE BAIIRU, Mon. Found importing four po*unds of opium into the Federation I on March 2<). Law Swce was yesterday sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Mr. X. L. Cohen in the Sessions Court, Law Swce. who was travel- j ling by train to Gemas, when
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      Lock icon Election Machinery
      433 6 OBSERVERS from many parts of the Federation, who were here last Saturday to watch the working of the Singapore election machinery, were much impressed with its smooth working and the absence of incidents. The authorities had done well to keep the crowds away from the polling booths and
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      Lock icon Service Is The Keynote
      465 6 r rilK senior students of the Technical College. Kuala Lumpur, were told by the Federations Surveyor-General, Mr. C. Noble, that the keynote ot Government employment was service and that they would never get rich in it He also advised to resist attempts to bribe them in
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      Lock icon Victory For Freedom
      102 6 IT is up to the elected can-i didates and the party in( power now to live up to] their election pledges. < Utu s a n Melayu com- 1 ments on the outcome of] the Singapore elections. < The paper pointed out, earlier that the victory] of
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      Lock icon New Page Of History
      141 6 NEW page has been add^di to the political history i of Singapore with the Labour Front victory, writes Sin Chew Jit Pch. As too Labour Front has won ten out of 25 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly. —an overwhelming success —the Left-Wing party is undoubtedly
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      Lock icon Era Of Democracy
      116 6 Democracy SINGAPORE has entered an' era of democracy with the successful conclusion of the elections on Saturday, Chung Shine Jit Pch states The three greatest parties in the contest were the Labour Front, the Progressives and the Democrats, the journal recalls The Labour Front represented the working
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      Lock icon Colonialism Over
      92 6 VOW that the new LegMa- 1 1 live Assembly is elected, it is' our sincere hope that incom-j ing lawmakers will faithfully carry out their promises to the people. Nanyang Siang Pau writes. At least, adds the journal. the< winning candidates should* do their best to serve the'
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  • We, the PEOPLE
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      Lock icon Mr. Wan Hamid Writes...
      505 6 Sir.— Your editorial o( 24th March began by deploring that "Too much emotion has been expended by certain parties about my case. You then proceeded to include yourself as one of the parties Communist menace."' "McCarthy,;; 14 Professor Pontecorvo. "three to one ratio for scholarships' and
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      644 6 Sir; Today in Malaya we are faced with an important and disturbing question as to which language should be the National language when Malaya gains independence. This question must be viewed seriously and impartially by every conscious Malayan, because the choice ot language has a great bearing
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      58 6 Sir; The returning officer has lailod in his duty in not informing me of m-u voting number and the place to vote Does he leave all this work to Mr Ghoirs who has kindly offered the required information. Is this how the colonial administration expects us to be politically
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    42 7 MLA. April 4 <AP> P. Kamulo. Sp- 1 Pn idrntial Envoy to the d States was named by dent Ramon Magsaysay Monday as head of the ippine delegation to the n-African conference in r Indonesia, openn April 18.
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    110 7 Tory Gains Round London Area LONDON. April 4 .Rcr.ter) The Coo* rvatives com- :i their >tr..n:i ring round I '..i<'n area today when ntj Council election ro- announced from and Essex The outcome in widely believed like- hasten a g< neral elecLaboui wren of its 13 seats in Surrey which
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    120 7 NICOSIA. Cjrprus, April 4. Anti-British terrorist struck again last night. hurling bombs at the homes ol two uiiiiv officers. These incidents occurred in sia and suburbs while a explosion, as yet unlocatcd. was heard in the town of Limassol A water pipe near the British
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    46 7 LONDON. April 4 < Router > ViscounU Catherine Britain's Italian-bcrn n beauty, did not d a petition brought by .band in the London Court today alleging n The husband. Viscount 30-year-old heir to the Karl r Shannon, was grantdecret nLi valid in six time.
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    35 7 MADRID. April 4, (TP)— Royal Princess Infanta Maria Luisa Silva Fernandez Henestrosa died of a heart stroke yesterday She was 84. She hid married Royal Prince Fernando of Bavaria and Bourbon.
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    80 7 Jack Home? Taken From His Plum rRLSiwiCK, Scotland. April 4 (AD— Jack Horncr, 27, American clergyman who Hoped to Scotland with a prc t t v Kng;lish orphan, was deported last niuht by order of the British Home Office. The deportation thwarted his plan to marry 1 f> -> earold
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    231 7 SAN FRANCISCO, April 4. (AP) Mrs. Adds Austin Ricketi arrived home from China yesterday and she was driven quickly out of the City to family friends. They gave her no chance to sing further praise of the Communists who imprisoned her lor three and
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    57 7 IT is a case of sharing for these Londoners, one of whom possesses a copy of a Provincial newspaper. The capital has been without the National daily newspapers and London Evenings for over ten days owing to a dispute between the Newspaper Proprietors' Association and members of
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    253 7 KARACHI, April. 4 (Reuter) Pakistan Radio said last night that a Pakistani official had persuaded 10,000 Pathan tribesmen to abandon a foray into Afghanistan yesterday to "avenge" an attack on the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul last Wednesday. The Afghan demonstration was in protest against Pakistan's
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    76 7 Girl Sentenced To Death Is Reprieved LONDON. April 4, <Reuter> —Twenty-year-old Margaret Jane Williams, sentenced to death for murdering the illegitimate newlyborn child of her 24-year-old room-mate has been reprieved, the Home Office announced. She was recommended to mercy bv the jury at her trial. Her execution had been provisionally
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    92 7 WASHINGTON, April 4. (Renter) War in the East was "imminent" Dr. You Chan Vang, South Korean Ambassador to the United States, said yesterday. ••The Communists have no desire to bring about peace unless they can subjugate the free world," he said, in an interview recorded for
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    177 7 NEW ORGANS. April 4 CAP) 1_ cheering crowd Kreeted crime prober Aaron Kohn's release from jail SSST^errtaf a 10-day contemDt sentence. f,"., rl s „f the CMMM <>f JIS u'tonner M^ Federal Bureau of ln\estigation asent, went to jail rather than reveal hi s
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    312 7 Racial Injustice In South Africa NEW DELHI, April. 4 (IT) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru warned the Western world yestrrday that India "cannot tolerate racial injustice in South Africa," where, he said, the whites are uprooting the natives inhumanly. America and Europe arc talking a lot about
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    44 7 ITALIAN movif star Silvana Pampamni arrived on Sunday in Tok>o to attend .in Italian film festival opening on April 7. Miss Pampanini and her party MM welcomed at Tokyo*! intcrnational airport b> members of the Italian Lmh.i^y and representatives from th^* Japanese movie industry.
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    155 7 LIEGE, Belgium, Apnl 4. (UP) A iii o touc off by an explosion razed the El Rio motion picture theatre at nearby Sclessin last ni^ht and authonties reported a heavy death toll. ThC police said 31 persons, including 18 I children were killed in
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    88 7 Death Toll In Philippines Rises To 432 MANILA. Aprn 4. »AP> The death toll from the worst quake of the century in the Philippines reached 432 yesterday, the Philippine News Service reported. Charles R. Burrows. U.S. Charge d'AOaires. offered full American aid in combatting disease and suffering in the stricken
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    168 7 SAIGON, Indo-China, April 4— (UP)— Premier Ngo Dinh Diem launched a powerful offensive against armed Hoa Ilao rebels yesterday and announced he will smash "to nothing" all foes of his American-backed regime. At the same time the Binh Xuyen sect announced it would
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    50 8 A MOTOR CAR belonging to a Chinese woman was found in North Canal Road on Feb. 16. this year without a current motor vehicle licence in force. The woman, Lim Poh Mul. pleaded guilty yesterday in the Singapore City Police Court and was fined $20.
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    71 8 N.F.J. BENOIST claimed trial in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday to a charge of criminal intimidation by threatening to kill a woman. Wong Kit Lim, if she did not marry him. Benoist is also accused of being in possession of a large kitchen knife while in
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    163 8 Youffi Gets 2 Yrs. Jail For Having Explosives A SHOP assistant. Ng Hock Seng. 19, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Whitton in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, to two years' imprisonment, after the jury unanimously found him guilty of unlawful possession of explosives in Jalan Klapa on Jan. 10. Mr.
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    119 8 A RECRUITING team will tour the Federation from today to April 30 to interview 85 men needed for the Royal Air Force Regiment (Malaya), it was announced yesterday. Recruits must be at least 18 years old. 5' 4" in height and educated up to Standard
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    59 8 I IPOH, Motl The Pcrak Christian Council has orgaI nized a united Good Friday i service in English at the Wesley Methodist Church, Ipoh. The service will he conduet- cd by Rev. R. A. Elder of the Presbyterian Church, and the sermon will be given by the
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    341 8 Association Attempts To Promote Vocational Training KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Federal Adult Education Association declared today that its experiment demonstrating the feasibility of radio for teaching without an instructor a.* the elbows had been a complete success. Handicapped though by the necessity of
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    55 8 INFORMATION has been received by local authorities that smallpox exists in Rangoon. Dar-es-Salaam and Cnnnanore. and the Director of Medical Services. Singapore, has declared these ports as infected places. Ships plying between the Colony and any of the three ports will be subject to quarantine regulations till
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    115 8 Reminder For Labour Returns ALL labour returns, under Section 36 of the Labour Ordinance. Singapore, are required to be in. by April 14. 1955. This mean.; employer? should give tho number of male and female, adult and juvenile labourers under their care on March 31. 1955. B'.ank forms will be
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    29 8 A SINGAPORE woman. Davarki Thamby. who was visiting her mother in Bukit Timah Road, yesterday, was attacked by a man armed with a knife following an argument.
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    262 8 MR. HE. DUGGANS, manaeer of Hoover Ltd., Far East, took time off to iron some clothes yesterday to introduce two new Hoover models to Singapore housewives a steam or dry iron and a washing machine with heater. He wa s demonstrating the new type of
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    310 8 MODEL OF MILLION S.A.T.A. CLI FOR LONDON A FEATURED exhibit at the forthcoming Tuberculosis Conference at the Royal Festival Hall, in London, will be displayed in the window of one of Singapore's leading department stores. John Little's, in Raffles Place, from this morning until it is sent to England in
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    164 8 Drove Car Dangerously JOHORE BAHRI, Mon Convicted on a charge oi dangerous driving, J. J. Holland, Assistant Superintendent of Police, was fined $250, in the Magistrate's Court today. He was also disqualified from holding a driving licence for six months. Mr. D. K. Grant, the
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    90 8 THIEVES MAKE $1650 HAUL FROM TEMPLE IPOH. Mon. Th: broke into the Thye B Low Kuan Chine.se tempi Gunong Cheroh. neat the Coronation Park here, and got away with 11.650 worth of bra&sware IMO for worship. As the temple was in a curfew area, the caretaker, Lee Chin Seong. 38.
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    93 8 TAX KIM HOCK. 17, ed guilty in the Sing;.; size Court yesterday, to as genuine a forged purporting to be wr/ Isigned by his former master, Mr. Yap Ah Clvian. The accused wa have handed the letter In Yap at her house in C Road on
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    59 8 YUSOF BIN PRAL WU i.ed $25 in the Singapore Police Court yesterday he pleaded guilty to us his station wagon at Timah Road on March 4. t I year, without a llcencj Yusof was allowed by in* City Police MaßiMrat*-. w i DC. D'Cotta, to
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    22 8 CHWEE 800 Wall VMM $5 in the Singapore Police Court yesterday he pleaded piilty to using m'trisha for carrying goodx
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    1189 9  -  SURESH VAIDYA u, r'u'hrr »*>il* of iheir country tultitnlinii rice farmer* of ihnn their nation nerds. By from Ckristiam Science Monitor and Reader 9 Digesi |r-l t P r I i :al half an acre or so caution was shorti. Once the plants grew .showed that the
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    43 9 a home scene *<»rmer actress June Haver has a music ie»sun ny»' ht t husband, Fred MacMurray. They were married June, 1954, and now plan a second honeymoon in Mexico when Fred has finished his present film, •There's Always Tomorrow."
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    527 9 BRAVE PATIENT COMICS GRUMBLERS "Asks The Young Nurse TTOKKING on a hospital ward you meet all types of people. There are the brave ones, the natural comics and the patient ones and the everlasting grumblers, who arc quite sure that everything the. young nurse does is
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    916 9  -  FRANK ROBERTSON GIANT RED PROJECT: By Honj; Konjf pEKING'S plan to rapidly industrialize China may well put the Communists' control of the nation to its first real test. For while the regime has been strong enough to impose terrorist programmes in the past and get away
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    92 9  - DON'T BE AFRAID TO SPENDS TO be afraid of wast- ing money is wise; to be afraid of spending j it is both stupid and craven." Bernard de Volo. 2 2 "A sale is where a 2 woman goes to save 2 more money than her J C husband can
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    34 9  - UNLIKE AS TWO P' s Henry Ford WHERE are always two 1 kinds of people in the world those who H 2 pioneer, and thoso who J plod. Thr plodders always attack the pioneers.
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    145 10 CPA Plans To Have More S'poreHK Flights Soon Standard Aviation orr. CATHAY Pacific Airways plans to have more flights between Hongkong and Singapore shortly, a (PA spokesman told The Standard yesterday. At present. (PA ha* three weekly services on this route. Meanwhile CPA s new DC-C aircraft mad*- its first
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    865 10 THfc Singapore electoral results, together with overseas advices, found the Malayan share market in an apprehensive mood at the opening of the week I :nc nervous selllni resulted in a general easing of industrial* but Una wert ted to a lesser extent and dosed irregular.
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    31 10 TEKKA-TAIPING Ltd. has deilared a third interim dividend of one shilling per share in respect of the year ended Oct. 31. lfl.")4. payable in England on May 13, 10.V,.
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    353 10  - IMPORTERS HIT BY RED CAMPAIGN PETER KUM Chinas Currency Barrier To Blame By KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Red China s big drive to stabilize her currency is causing great hindrance to Malayan and other EastAsian importers who are rushing to buy "cheaper and better goods trom behind the Bamboo Curtain. Despite
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    75 10 INDIA is the biggest buyer of coconut oil (crude) frcm Malaya during the month January, according to official statistics. Her purchases from this country amounted to $1,210.--000 (1.452 tons* compared with $957,612 by the United Kingdom. Other big buyers included: West Germany $925,501. Italy and
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    175 10 THE produce market in Singapore remained quiet in all sections with only small business passing. Coconut oil continued a dull market at $44 per picul for i sellers at Pcnanq. COPRA APRIL 1 1 a.tn S2f) *-2!>! Noon S2!> $29] 4 p.m. S2B; s-_>ni 3 n.m. $28;
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    16 10 INDONESIA will build a 5,000-spindle ramie spinning mill at Mcrian. using Japanese machinery. UP
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    162 10 SOME 300 Singapore businessmen and officials attended a party given in honour of the visiting Andhra trade delegation tay the Commissioner of India for Malaya, Mr. R. K. Tandon, at his residence, Bharat Bhavan. on Sunday. Picture shows: (from left): Mr. G. Sheridan Lea (Deputy Controller of
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    95 10 The staff of the American International Group, comprising American International Assurance Co., Ltd., American Life Insurance Co., and American International Underwriters Ltd., (representing twelve «en- eral insurance companies), pictured at the cocktail party to celebrate the opening of the new building at Ampang Street. Kuala Lumpur
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    151 10 THE rubber market in Singapore remained completely unaffected by the local political .situation, first srade rubber for April shipment closing at 87? cents per Ib. on a quietly steady market yesterday, a rise of cent on Saturday. Quotations opened lower on an uncertain marki
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    131 10 Transfer of Plants To Start April 21 THE U.S. Government trill start turning over its tyntltetie rubber plants tn their new private owners on April 21. The U.S. Rubber Disposal Commission, which handled the sale of Die uictories lor the government, lias announced that tlic entire transfer wiU be completed
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    18 10 Total exports of rubb srades to all count Singapore and Federation during March, amounted 93.374 tons.
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    373 11  - BANG!— And Up Went A Whole Island John Hillaby By HAT paused the loudest 1.--: over hoard on this ;i of ours? Think about it for a moment. Was it an avalanche, a nav thu ler clap or the hydrogen botr.i)? Or was i: the sound of ice-bergs splitting v
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    331 11 WHEN the manager of Dundee's Palace Theatre held an audition recently, one of the artists who came along was a young girl, Margaret Mackin, of Kirkcaldy. Fife with her father, Mr. David Mackin. Margaret partners him in an acrobatic act, and she has won a
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