Singapore Standard, 6 August 1955

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    15 1 Singapore Standard j% A M. FL SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1953 14 PAGES 15 TENTS
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    Lock icon MALAYA HAILS THE PLAN
    564 1 But Tunku Told: Do Not Endanger Nation's Security KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. All Malaya today received with "surprise but admiration" the Federation's Chief Min-ister-designate, Tunku Abdul Rahman's bold plan to end the Emergency by direct talks with Communist SecretaryGeneral Chin Peng. However, they held that the Tunku
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    96 1 VIPs In For $8 M. Claim Patrick McKerron. Secretary of re. How into the v iv yesterday with a itenant general and two rs, one of whom Is a n Counsel. Standard understands hey have come specially to appear in a 58.500.000 lawsuit (lied by two oil companies igaJnst the
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    253 1 Russia Studies Ike's Plan MOSCOW, Aug. 5 <AP) Premier Bulganian said today his government will continue to study President Eisenhower's proposal for an exchange of military information and mutual aerial inspection. Bulganin told the Supreme Soviet that Soviet Russia naturally prefers its own disarmament proposal but will not refuse to
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    Lock icon UTOJO TO QUIT
    36 1 UNRECOGNIZED A r m y Chief of Staff Major-Gen. Bambang Utojo ias requested President Soekarno and Vice-President Hatta m writing that he be allowed to resign and put on a retirement pension. A.P.
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    Lock icon 40 Police Charge, Hold 150 Strikers
    268 1 SINGAPORE Police yesterday bundled 150 strikers including- 30 women into Black Marias at Diethelm and Company's Aluminium Factory in Alexandra Road, when they squatted at the factory gate and pre\ented a fuel tank from being: taken out. Later, after they were taken to the
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    33 1 BELA LUGOSI. the actor. will leave the Metropolitan State Hospital today and start work on a new movie in two weeks. He was treated for three months for drug addiction. A.P.
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    31 1 NINE members of the crew of the Soviet tanker Tuapse, seized by the Chinese nationalist navy last year are expected to leave soon for the United States. Reuter
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    1057 1 CASHIER MURDER TRIAL KUALA 4-UMPUa, Fri. Eighteeri-yeor-[oW KWong Kirn On, second accused in the Wearne Brothers cashier murder trial, confessed in the High Court here today vhat he struck 58-year-old Mr. Yap Kon Shin on the head with a hammer during a struggle in
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    31 1 NITYANAND S a h a. a member of the group of Indian volunteers that were fired on Wednesday by Portuguese police, died last night reports rearhiner Bombay said.- U.P.
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    106 1 Rubber Still Rising SINGAPORE rubber prices yesterday continued rising sharply to $1.56 i per lb. before heavy selling brought them down to $1,533 at the close, a rise of 1£ cents on Thursday. The heavy selling was caused by reports of increased production of synthetic in the United States in
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    63 1 KLUANG, Fri.— Three terrorists one of them in his "birthday suit" fled today when an estate manager and a pig-shooting party fired on them from close range. Two packs and clothing were seized. Terrorists, meanwhile, last night fired on a civilian lorry at the 65th mile
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    53 1 A MAN went to the Singapore City Council with his five-year-old son to pay his water and light bill yesterday. He left his son outside the building. When he came out again, he found his son dead. He had been involved in a collision with a
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    24 1 ALL British Civil Servants earning up to £1.500 a year are to receive a five per cent salary increase. Reuter
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    24 1 PREMIER Edgar Faure announced yesterday that he and Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay will go to Moscow in the beginning 01 October. C.P.
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    163 1 LONDON. Aug. 5 (Reuter) A triple ring of scientific observatories will circle the earth in two years' time in man's biggest effort to unravel the secrets of outer space. Britain's Royal Society announced here tonight. The assault by more than 30 nations on space with
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    31 1 THE Oylon government plans to confiscate th< passports of 31 students who defied a ban on participation in tho Communist -sponsored WorM v lfH ITocHvol in Warsaw. U.P.
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    Lock icon Cynthia Is 'Hello Queen'
    124 1 IPOH. Fri Attractive 20--year-old Miss Cynthia Pereira. a surnrvisor of the Singapore Telephone jloard. won the Miss Golden Voice of Malaya contest from the cream of Malaya's best 19 "hello girls" at a competition held at the new $2,000.--000 Telephone Exchange building here tonight. Second was
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    168 2 1 III: Master Plan for Singapore prepared b> the Diagnostic Survey Team will be submitted next month to (•overnment if the Singapore Improvement Trust approves it, the chief of the team. Mr. D 11. Komlosy said y»-sterda>. lie Milled in Singapore from Fngland
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    56 2 THE chairman of the Singapore Hawkers' Association and his committee will see the Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall at his public session this morning. They want to tell him to go ahead and form the Hawkers Advisory Council which he had. a month back, proposed setting
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    Lock icon KNIFE CHARGE
    35 2 TEO Bens Guat was charged in the Fourth Magistrate's Court ycsierday with causing hurt to Wee Cheong Pok with a knife on July '20 at Silat Roa^i. He was remanded till Aug. 8.
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    64 2 THE celebration of the Health Week in Singapore from Nov. 21 to 26 will include exhibitions and a procession. The sub-committee which met this week agreed to invite many voluntary organizations to take part in the exhibitions. Parmaceutica,^ firmfc prorXueing nutritivf, products ar<* also ibeing asked
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    56 2 A FAREWELL party was given last night at the Johore Bahru residence of Tunku Abdul Rahman, who Is leaving for Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. Among the 200 present were those who helped the Chief Minister-designate of the Federation win his election. Singapore's Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall, was
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    22 2 S R D S. Si V nayagar in Cey\. R S I morrow at 7 3fl p "!hr grca' jar."
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    Lock icon Alliance To Vacate Seven Seats In Lower Councils
    220 2 Alliance To Vacate Seven Seats In Lower Councils Ministers Can't Holj <Ojgi!/o"» KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Members of the UMNO MCA MIC Alliance have to quit at least seven seats in State and Town Councils throughout the country, as a result of the combine's sweeping victory at last week's Federal polls.
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    Lock icon Have You Lost Any Of These?
    105 2 HAVE you ever had a maroon Imitation silk tie stolon off you? Or a de Luxe cigarette lighter with pictures of nude women on it? If you have, call at the Tanjong Pagar Police Station any day and collect them. The police have recovered
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    38 2 HONGKONG. Aug. 5 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.59 to Cl sterling; $5.***** to US$l; 51. 837 to Malayan $1; $0,133 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $252. to a tael.
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    Lock icon TRADE EXHIBIT FOR COLOMBO PLAN MEN
    169 2 DELEGATES to the Colombo Plan Conference, to be held in Singapore in October, will get a good idea of the Colony, as a business centre when they visit the Trade and Industries Exhibition staged in their honour at the Great World. s The exhibition
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    73 2 A GROUP of 100 underprivileged children of The fr° Cia We J are Chi!^en's Con! We at Mount Erskine will jpend a happy day i n .j O hore ier .They will be taken for a oar ndc to the Zoo and Botani. dl oardcn at
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    154 2 COMMODITY, PRICES CLOSINU rabberprhe» (cents per Ib In Sincapore Tester day were: Bayers Sellers No R.SS Spot Loose 1532 154 No. 1 R.SS f.o.b. Aug 1531 154 No. 2 145 145 i No. 3 138 138 i Tone: Steady. TIN t*KICE The priie of tin ?e«terday was $3725 per picul
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    Lock icon $1 Mil. Lost Each Year On Moonshine
    255 2 SINGAPORE Government is losing an estimated $1,000,000 a year in potential duty on illicitly distilled liquor, the annual report of the Customs department disclosed. According to the Comptroller of Customs. Mr. R S Tufnell the "very tenacity of the illicit distillers indicate the
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    116 2 Hammett Opens Exhibition MALACCA. Fri. The ReI vjdmt Commis»ioner. Mr. H. G. Hammett ppened a two<la,v exhibition on the uses of water at the Meng Seng Hall today. Wong Yoke Fong. a 17--year-old girl of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, took the first prize in the poster competition.
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    316 2 f FORTY-SIX cmnln Middle Rood, SinX^%l doy os o protest O goi n$t c t M decision to dismiss th em th -J cleaners— were paid a me I missal notices by U I They were told I hotel proprietor that i -<L'« ness will be impended porarily their
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    Lock icon BAG OF MONEY DISAPPEARS
    63 2 A STXGAPORE eonta Appv Aii Yakka. woke his home in Woodlands Rou-i find a bag containing $300 missing from under his bod. Another man living in the same house discovered the lon of $17. Police were a so Informed the theft of a gold watch I
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    203 3 Iperfs Advise On Scheme \(hisorv Council met for the first Ministry, yesterday to discuss ways ucinii a National Health Insurance M-heme for Singapore. The Co in i! was formed for he express purpose of enibling the Health Minister, Mr. A. J. Bra«a. to receive export advice from a repre>enta'••tion
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    26 3 a parrd^r :n ted a had the >aid \rn- he he inafter :ng nefit Sir to to into I CQOd
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    38 3 TAN KAY SENG was fined 'Sio in the Singapore Eighth Magistrate's Court yesterday when he pleaded guilty to behavins riotously by throwins brok- n glass at people in Falan Besar on Aug. 4.
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    381 3 Lennox Boyd And Black Open Airport Squatters Are Honoured Guests When... THE Secretary of State for the Colonies". Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd. and the Gov- j ernor, Sir Robert Black, will fly to the new Inter- national Airport at Paya Lebar on August 20. in a j Maiayan Airways Dakota from
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    305 3 Fed. Boys Make Best Use Of The Navy— Marshall YOUTHS from th c Federation were making the best of the opportunities offered by the Malayan Royal Navy although Singapore was paying for every cent to upkeep it, the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, said yesterday. Mr. Marshall said this after
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    Lock icon $3,000 BAIL ON TRUST COUNT
    61 3 ENTUJ Ali alias Tarmuzallab Interzullah. was charged in the Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday with eriminj 1 breach* of trust of 54.H00 beonsing to a lawyer's firm between Sent. l!K">2 and Feb. 1953. He denied the rharge and was allowed bail of i-3.000. The Magistrate. Mr.
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    74 3 A FIRE on the roof top of a shophou.se in Change Alley was yesterday put out by a civil defence worker employed at John Little's, before the arrival of three engines from the City Fire Brigade. It is believed that the fire started when a patch
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    38 3 TAN Jat On. who pleaded guilty to selling caustic soda without a licence to a customer on July -1 in a shop in Joo Chial Road was fined* $lf)0 in the Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday.
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    176 3 A 17- YEAR-OLD BOY, Tan Ah Mow who was treated as a hostile witness in the Fourth Police Court, was yesterday charged in the First District Court with fcivins false information in an attempted murder inquiry. The boy told the First Distort Judge. Mr. J.W.D.
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    109 3 $200 Fine For Making False Entry MALACCA. Fri. The President of the Sessions Court, Mr. G. R. T. Chelvam. today convicted and fined Horace Dewitt. 29. a former sales manager of the Singer Sewing Machine. Co.. Ltd.. $200, in default three months' imprisonment for making a false entry in one
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    61 3 A SINGAPORE Magistrate. Mr. J. M. Devcrcux-Colebourn yesterday fined two men $5 each for selling without a licence a cough mixture containing morphine hydrochloride, a poison. The two men. Mohamed Shaikh bin Mohamed EusofT, Secretary of the Barkath Stores Ltd.. and his agent. M Daud bin
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    28 3 THE iota 1 exports of rubber of ail firarics to all countries from Singapore and th<» Federation of Malaya during last month amounted to 89.20.'/ tons.
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    154 3 S'pore Poultry Meat Prices Unchanged MEAT, poultry and eggs showed no change in price during the past week, with the exception of ducks' eggs, which dropped from $1.30 to $1.20 for 10. There was the usual seasonal increase in the price of most types of fish, the better quality rising
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    Lock icon ONN DRAFTS BLUEPRINT IN BIG PARTY SHAKE-UP
    251 4 Negara Plans For State Elections KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar, Secretary-General of the Party Negara, is heading a special committee charged with the drafting of a top-secret blueprint to avenge its total rout at the recent Federal polls by the
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    157 4 She Got Three Kisses From Dr. Soekarno PKtTTY little He.tiana not only got an jutocraph from Dr. S#ekarno but also three kisses. from Indonesia's President, when he passed through Kalian g Airport yesterday on his wav homp from Merra She tripped up to him while he breakfasted with the Comm
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    116 4 Taxi Driver Jailed For Trespass A TAXI driver. Moharam bin Mohammed Noor charged with trepassing into the Sisters Officers' Mess at Russels Road on the night of June 25. explained to the Seventh Magistrate. Mr. Choor Singh yesterday, that he was there to collect his fare from a woman passenger.
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    78 4 WASHINGTON. Aug. 5 (UP) The State Department announred today that Leta H. Galpin of the Young Women's Christian Association will make a three-month visit to Ma'.aya under the international educational exchange programme. Mrs. Galpin is director of the international training project, foreign division, of the
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    Lock icon Owed $4,490 To In-Law
    50 4 KEH Tien Wan of Joo Chiat Road, was adjudicated a bankrupt by the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley. in the Singapore High Court yesterday, on the petition of his mother-in-law. Keh Ah Kiat. Tien Wan is indebted to his mother-in-:a\v on a judgment debt of $4,490.
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    18 4 TENDERS have been called for the construction of a Coroner's Court at Outram Road in Singapore.
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    108 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri {he Malayan Agricultural Journal spotlighted today the need for a "critical enquiry into the Federation s policy of land alienation in the light of the experience that in less than two generations a considerable number of the lots issued bear little relation to the areas owned.
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    163 4 Airmen To Take Part In 36-Hour Exercise More than 75 Royal Air Force aircrews pilots, navigators, signallers and air engineers will have a taste of the jungie during a 36-hour exercist on Singapore Island. Starting at 6 a.m. today and finishing at 6 p.m. the following day. the exercise will
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    Lock icon False Evidence Charge Against 2 Youths Fails
    204 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Two tecnaged rubber tappers, Subramaniam and Visvalingam. were today cleared by the First Magistrate of a charge of giving false evidence in a case of attempted gang robbery in which they themselves were suspects. The magistrate. Mr. G.V Howard acquitted
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    Lock icon Calls For Probe Into Land Policy
    167 4 employment and immobility of labour, so that land la virtually the sole incomeyielding investment. In this environment, fragmentation has also occurred due to laws of succession the sub-division being aggravated when beneficiaries attempt to share equally the various lots in -nearness to water canals,
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    473 4 THE PLEASURES OF CRICKET CAGES SNUFF BOTTLES Art Expert Talks On— ON one of the very rare occasions when the American Association of Malaya invites a woman to speak at its monthly luncheons, members yesterday heard a most gracious talk on "The Little Pleasures of Life.' by Mrs. Helen D.
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    567 5 YOUTH SEEM TO HAVE LOST TOUCH WITH IT' MacD Speaks Up For Religion THE Commissioner-General for South-east Asia, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, yesterday blamed the absence of religious teachings in Singapore s schools for "some of the bad things going on in this country. J **I deplore the way many
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    36 5 THE Flag Offifcr. Second lin-Command.I in-Command. Far Ea>t Station. I Vice-Admira] R. F. Elkins, will sail in the H.M.S. Newcastle from Sincapore oti Aug. 28 j for nn Australian and New i Zealand cruise.
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    78 5 Banks To Raise Rates On Loans HONGKONG. Aug. 5 ißeu- Leading British banks ledded to raise the bank rate on advances by be--0 one and three per cent In an attempt to curb inflationary tendencies in the economy, it was od here today. The new rates, which will be between
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    22 5 SINGAPORE'S Assistant sioner for Labour. Mr. Koo Pui, has been apted Commissioner of Oaths OBfl as he retains his position.
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    79 5 CAUX SUR MONTREUX. Switzerland, Aug. 5 (Reuteri Student loaders from Singapore. Burma. Japan. India. Germany. France. Britain. America and Africa gathered lure today for the World Assembly for Moral Rearmament. Mr. Emanuel Obe. assistant secretary of Ibadan University Nigeria Students Union, told the Assembly: "M.R.A. means
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    149 5 PEN AN G. Fri.— Boys of St. Xavicr's Institution were told by Urn Municipal President. Mr J, S. H. CunynghamBrown never to forget the debt they owe generations or selfless brothers and teachers who had given I hundred jean in their service He was speaking
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    57 5 Expert To Advise On Land Values MR. John F. N. Murray, Chairman of the Australian Valuation Board, who flow into Singapore yesterday »> the Qantas-8.0.A.C to advise the Colony Government on land valuation Mr Murray will be in the Colony for six weeks. He was met at the airport by
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    32 5 A QUARTERLY session of the Board of Licensing Justices for Singapore will be he'd in the First District Court in South Bridge Road at 2.30 p m on Sept. 20.
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    110 5 Tamils Are Against Use Of Hindi AT a meeting organized by the Dravidar Kazhakam yesterday the Tamils of Singapore condemned the compulsory introduction ol Hindi in Madras State by the Indian Central Government. In a cable to the Indian Government, the Madras Premier and the leader of the Anti-Hindi movement.
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    52 5 SINGAPORE Police last nighi warned shopkeepers ann traders not to accept Bank ol China cheques bearing the following numbers: *****7 to *****5. These cheques have been re- ported stolen Irom a man living in Geylans Road. Also stolen I was a crossed Overseas Chinese 1 Bank rheque drawn
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    955 6 Singapore Standard 9-Point Peace Plan 'HIEF Minister-designate of the Federal Government. Tunku Abdul Rahman, has satisfied most people after the elections that he is a lover ot peace. It seems to be almost an unspoken pledge that the goal of independence which he has set lor the Federation can. and
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    1034 6 WHAT ARE THE POSSIBILITIES? "SASSENACH" concludes his series on the Industrialisation of Malaya COMETHING further must be said about foreign investment in Malaya. There is no doubt that in the past foreign investors have remitted a considerable proportion of their profits to their own respective countries.
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    109 7 SPOKANE. Washington. Aug. ."> (AP) A nudist's wife is just like any other wife about clothes. She wants a mink coat just as much as any other woman Women sit around in nudist camps and disna their wardrobes all the time. These revelations of
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    240 7 Aussies Have A Space Conquest Scheme ...And It's Cheaper Than US Plan MELBOURNE, Aug. 5 (UP)— Australia announced plans yesterday for an outer space rocket programme which it claims will cost less than the US. satellite project. Australian scientists plan to fire data-recording rockets more than 300 miles above the
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    86 7 HE'LL MAKE THAT LUNAR TRIP IF MILAN. Aug. 5, (Rcutcr).— An Italian astrologer, Alfonso Del Bcilo. ,")0. wants to be the first man on the moon. He has volunteered his immediate >erv:ces for the first lunar trip to any scientific body planning to shoot a human c-ar^o into space. His
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    80 7 NEW YORK. Aug. 5 (AP).— Kins Baudouin of Belgium has awarded the medal of the Order of Leopold to Adoiph Zukor. chairman of Paramount Pictures Corporation, it was announced here yesterday. Belgian ambassador Baron Silvercruys will present the decoration to Zukor here next Monday afternoon. The
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    47 7 RHEIMS. France. Aug. 5 Prisoners in Cha-teau-Thierry Jail, near here, lost a good chance to escape when 15 yards of the prison wall collapsed during the night. They were all asleep. By morning the warden had barbed wire over the gap and guards posted.
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    67 7 ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, Au£. 5 (Router)— Mr. James Johnson, a former sailor in the U.S. Navy, expected a $100 cheque from the government as part of his demobilization pay. But when the cheque arrived It was for $800,100. He said he would return It
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    80 7 TOLEDO. Spain. Aug. 5 (UP> The Cardinal Primate of Spain. Enrique Play D> nlei Archbishop of Toledo, yesterday condemned mixed bathing and dance halls and bar> near bathing places. The Cardinal, in a pastoral letter, said "bathing is a pracUcc of hygiene and therefore should be carried
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    146 7 ing amnesty to 300 political internees in Tunisia. U.P. A BRITISH firm announced a new product yesterday: a built-to-order atomic power station. There's just one hitch: the customer has to provide his own uranium.— U.P. BRITISH scientists are preparing detailed plans for constructing an atomic powered merchant
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    156 7 Reds Secretly Plan War TAIPEI, Aug. 5 (UP)— Foreign Minister George Yeh said today Geneva talks between the U.S and Communist China were giving the Peking Government sorely needed prestige. Further talks at the foreign ministers level between the two nations would only
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    60 7 BONN. Aug. 5 (Reuter) The West German Bundesrat (Upper House) today cut by one-fifth the salaries which Herr Theodor Blank, the Defence Minister, proposed for his 29 generals. Under the rates approved today, a full general a rank the minister will not use for the present
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    174 7 October Confab Will Be A Flop— British Press LONDON, Aug. 5, (Reuter) British newspapers today interpreted Marshal Nikolai Bulganin's report on the Geneva conference to the Supreme Soviet yesterday, as a reiteration of certain East West differences particularly on the German question. The Times said that so long i as
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    165 7 RABAT, Morocco. Aug 5 <UP>— Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa told France today he will reiuse to abdicate, and tension mounted dangerously in this ancient North African kingdom. Powerful Nationalist groups instructed their followers in the native quarters to stane mass demonstrations around Aug. 20 to
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    81 7 Paint Those Lips With Care Vicar RAYNES PARK. near London. Aug. 5, (Reuter).— A Church of England vicar has asked the ladies of his congregation to put their lipstick on with care before goin^ to church because so mucn is found on the chalice and purificator after Communion. The Reverend
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    43 7 NEW YORK. Aug. I (AP)— A feature length film based on the life of Johann Sebastian Bach is planned by Louis de Rochemont Associates of New York, the same company which produced the highly successful film "Martin Luther."
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    372 8 ESTATE WOR KERS WANT 6-DAY WEEK "Or It Will Become A Political Issue" KUALA LUMPUR/ Fri. The Notional Union of Plantation Workers today demanded a six-day week for Malaya's 300,000 estate workers or alternatively payment of overtime rates for work on Sunday. In a letter to the Malayan Planting Industries
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    53 8  -  Ching Seng Poh by Photo "REQUESTS" on records was one of the many popular items at the fun fair held by the Methodist Girls' School. Klang. recently. Five thousand dollars was collected for the school's building fund. Here. some of the girls are busy choosing the records for
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    48 8 MAJOR General Tulloch. GOC, Singapore Base District, paid an informal visit to school cadets at their summer .amp at Chang] yesterday. He spoke with many of the cadets and the only complaint he received was that the duration of the camp was too short.
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    84 8 THE Singapore Third D:s rrict .Judge. Mr. H. A. Forrer. yesterday put an 18-year-old hawker's assistant. Ho Goh Kee. on two years' probation. Ho was convicted on Aug 25 for robbing two school children of a set of fountain pens. <* wrist watch
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    76 8 GENERAL Henri Archaibault. the new Commander-ln-Chiel of the French Air Force, Far East, will pay a three-day visit to Singapore next week. He will arrive in the Colony by air on Monday and will stay here till Wednesday. The General, who commanded Fighter Groups in Morocco
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    38 8 AIR. Rajaratnam Ramason was admitted to the Singapore Bar as an advocate and solicitor by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the High Court yesterday. Mr. Chon« Thutt Pitt appeared lor Mr. Ramason.
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    29 8 RAGUXATI^ Baldio. was fined $50 in the Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday for allowing his cows to stray without proper supervision alons Tanjong Katong Road on July 8.
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    22 8 THE Royal Intcrocean liner Tjlluwah is expected today with yet another boat load of Indonesian Chinese, Red China bound.
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    183 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri Tamil teachers from estate schools in the Federation are Keen to attend literacy classes, more to increase their personal knowledge than to sain teaching experience. Mr. r. Gnanasunthram. a spokesman ol the Adult Education Association, told The Standard today. He said
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    291 8 A Bit More Help We Beat Reds BOURNE TELLS MALAYANS IPOH, Fri. The Director of Operations, General Sir Geoffrey Bourne, said that "only a little more active help is now required to enable the security forces to defeat utterly the Communists." In a message to the peopie of the country,
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    73 8 THE executive committee of the Singapore Progressive Party, at its meet ins on Thursday night fully supported the. action taken by the Party Assemblyman in the legislative Assembly on July 25. It also agreed with the views and reasons given by the Member for Serangoon.
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    115 8 Talks On Van Kleef Opening THE van Kleef Aquarium Advisory Board will meet on Monday morning to decide whether the Aquarium can be opened without further delay. The Aquarium is at the moment well stocked with fresh and salt water fish although one of the bigger salt water tanks is
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    87 8 A WOMAX. Rosminah bintc Ila.ii Sai.eh was yesterday sentenced in the Eighth Magistrate 8 Court to two months* imprisonment op a charge of cheating another woman. Goh Xeo. of two gold bang.es. three years ago. The court was told that Rosminah took the bang.es for "safe
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    124 8 JITRA TO HAVE POWER SOON KUALA LUMPUR p -The Central Ele Board has spent $13U.uuo bring power to Jit Kedah, Mr A. 11. p Q i dew. Deputy GcManager and Chief I neer, told The Stanoa-.c today. He said the Board miles of underground from Kepala Betas. small power station
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    112 8 Pay Rise For Dairy Farm Workers NEARLY 250 daih -rated employees of thr SincapoK Cold Storage ompanv dairy farm in Bukit limah Road, will get a teacrml wage increase. The compan\ aKo asrerd to give 14 days paid lra\« a year to the ■■tfcm. in addition to six monthv unpaid
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    45 8 A POLICE supervise sein bin Ibrahim, was tenced in the Seventh Nitrate's Court yesterday to two months" impr:>onmem for failing to report to I Police on July 5 His sentence is to b lowed by a y» a: s I supervision.
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    563 9  -  ANACRUSIS 1^ m£ I '...and so Good-bye!' T AST Wednesday we said good-bye to Arthur Sharp— "Jock"' to his friends. He was Hon. Secretary of the Singapore Musical Society. He has been over eight years in Malaya and he does not expect to return. Jock was the sort
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    666 9 £y A DOCTOR THINK most people know something about snake bite. There are three kinds of snakes: the non-poisonous group (grass snake, rock snake and python); the poisonous group (black mamba, hamadryad ?«d vipers) and water snakes. There are only two snakes which will attack one the black
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    190 10 Colony Trade Circles Hail Caine's Appointment THE appointment of Sir Sydney Came. Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, as an Economic Adviser to Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, has inspired confidence among the commercial community here. His able and successful handling of the University of Malaya augurs well for
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    243 10 MALAYAN rubber shares continued very buoyant with prices showing all round improvement largely on the strength o f the commodity prices. Industrials were slightly better in sympathy with rubbers, while tins were irregular. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDI STRIALS Buyers Selleis B
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    171 10 SIXGAPORE sh.irebrokcrs yc> trdav reported the following U'iness done: Praser X- Neave ord>. $1.70 vcrnighf and M.72i: Gammon 2.671 odd lot. 52.7.> to 52.32. 1 f. Hammer $2 »;o and 52.57J vrrnight: M Breweries >.> :*0: lalayan Cement 11.52}: M. Colls B to 80 rents; Metal "Box 51.36'
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    323 10 THE United States Government is hardly likely to listen to advice on stockpile policy which is being given by a group of persons so financially concerned in any such action, says the weekly rubber review of Holiday, Cutler, Bath and Co. Ltd. The report
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    307 10 Higher Synthetic Output Forecast A SUBSTANTIAL increase in production of synthetic rubber by his company in the last half of IMS was foreseen toda.v by Mr Harvey Firestone. Chairman of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. He announced in New York that Firestone's Lake Charley Louisiana, factory would produce about
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    474 10 RUBBER BOOM AIDS FED. GOVT. For U.K. Training MR. CHEN Ting Chan?, I (seen here). Chief Cashier of Overseas Union Bank Ltd.. Singapore, will leave by BOAC 1 lor the United Kingdom tomorrow for advanced training at the Midland Bank Ltd.. London. He will be away for several months. His
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    194 10 THE rubber market in Singapore yesterday moved on much the same pattern as on the previous day, first grade August shipment closing at $1.53 per lb.. a rise of 11 cents on Thursday. after having touched 11.561 at one stage of the trading. Quotations opened uncertain
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    136 10 MANY INQUIRIES FOR THESE FILTERS Knn trade lnc ui nes have been received for the Swiss made Katadyn water niters now being exhibited at tE Johore Health Week -hmj which ends today Mr E X 0 .managinj director oi Spolradio Ltd. the Malayan agents for the manufacture, said yesterday The
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    493 12 EVERYBODY SAYS: ZABAGLIONE! For the Penang Gold Cup Throo Mtings has boon voru carofutly proptirod but m Windsor Lad, summing up M AFTER his brilliant exhibition in the Cup 'trial' over the mile, ZABAGLIONE will carry all the money as a warm favourite in the li miles race for the
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    1301 12 Air mark To Score A 'Double' RACE ONE With three last start winners brought together, and Disney. Christmas Carol. Orissa and second run specialists Technicolor and Sealed Orders thrown In the fray, the six furlongs for I class four division one race is most intriguing. WKSTOTII is very much on
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    299 12 (nm 7ntH(tte Mil O IX If Holiday Flight is ready, he will win this, but a —♦I savor is advised on Disne> unlucky when going I over to Westoth last week. If you prefer outsiders, take Spitfire II <i\ A^ A poor field best <-• 4*) Ignored
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    163 12 RACE 8: 6.10 p.m.— Horses Class 4. Div. 2—1 Mile 1 333 Santa (la us 3v |.M "Giam Stable" Spencer Bo!! Sol Fifhtiac Finish 5y B.l> Mr I Allan Owner Knuckev o p an Inn ay 8.10 Madam M. V Chcong Tioa Tait 4 08? Bibv Chris 4y 8.08 Mrs.
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    124 13 IPO!!. Fri— F. a. L. Gantaga of Kuala Lumpur became the first holder of Ihe AU-ifalaya Telecommunications department badminton sinflefl championship beating former Perak juni runner-up. Lim F>h Thye after three >et>. The scorers were 13-8, 5-15, I.VII. (lonzaga then went on to take Men's Doubles
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    47 13 SOCCER Malaya Cup Finnl Singapore rs. Kplanian at Jalan Resar Stadium .>./.> p %m Friendly Sukaramai S.C. vs. Alexandra f.T. at Jalan Resar Stadium 3M p.m. SWIMMING Chinese Swimmimg Club championships at Amber Road 3.30 p.m. BADMINTON SR.i tourney at Hadminton Stadium 6.45 p.m. i i»x»\\\\\\\A\\WV\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\»%»»»
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    220 13 ITS HARD to say who enjoyed the game more— the players or the spectators. Salzburg beat Combined Services 4-1 but this was soccer on the lighter side. There was little excitement. The 500 odd Jalan Besar crowd the smallest ever to watch a visiting team
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    123 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri— l n a day of upsets. San Mu n Kee and VVong Hin Hong beat favourites H. J. Sinclair and Col. ClyntonReid (seeded) (J-2. (J-0 in the men"s doubles .semi-final of the Selangor lawn tennis championships here today. Then S A
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    262 13 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.— Johore Police entered the final of the Hannigan Shield football competition this evening the easy way when they beat Trengganu Police in the semi-final 3-0 on the Contingent Headquarters ground. Johore will now meet the winners of the Kcdnh-Perak tie In be played
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    137 13 Saif Shah Tackles The 'Tiger' THE Pakistan champion. Syed Saif Shah clashes with Tiger Joginder, the 'cobrahold king of Hindustan.' tonight at the Happy World and the promoters have asked for additional Police protection. The reason? Both wrestlers stand at 6 ft. 2 ins. and weigh around 250 pounds each.
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    376 13 Trueman Ray Rescue Yorkshire LONDON. Aug :> (Reuter) A bold eighth wicket stand of 133 runs in 00 minutes by Freddie Trucman and Ray Illingworth earned Yorkshire a slim first innings lead over Leicestershire on the second day of their match at Leicester today. Replying io Leicester's first innings total
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    417 13 Ten-Wicket Victory To S. Africans BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 5, (Reuter) The touring South African cricketers again showed their liking for the present fast wicket conditions when beating Warwickshire by ten wickets here today. To avoid an innings defeat they just succeeded in making the tourists bat again for only eight runs.
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    656 13 SINGAPORE Badminton Association ties for today from (i.45 arc: Men's Junior Singles < third round* Court No. 1: Leong Vun Chan (Marigold* VI A. Manap Rahman (Bu.shcy Park); Robert Son (Junior) vs Cheons Hock Lock (Eclipse); Lim Kirn Jc P < Swift) VS Tajr Chin San (Mayflower).
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    336 14  - Standard's Special JOGINDER SINGH By UNDERDOG KELANTAN CAN DO IT UNDERDOGS. That is what the so- 1 called critics are making of Kelantan in today's Malaya Cup Final at Singapore. And that is also what the Northern finalists will revel in. For Kelantan have been underdogs all the way in
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    242 14 MALAYA CUP FINAL ccntly and should give Singapore a very good fight. MR. NG VOW CHOXG, secretary: "We will surely start underdogs but that won't worry us. I expect my players to give their best as they have done in Kuala Lumpur. -We have no stars but they play very
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    43 14 Loh Fok Ten* Ivan Vass Lee Yong Kong Aman Kastawi Lee Kok Seng Johan Omar Awang Rahim Omar Awang Bakar Ismail Yusoff Dollah Zainol Yacob Ibrahim Yahya Hussein Samad Hassan Daud Yusof Mahmud Salleh Ismail Ahmad Ishaak Che Su Maurice Khoo II
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    649 14 Loh Fook Teng (Goalkeeper). In his first Malaya Cup Final Ta!l and "full of promise L J. Vass (Right Back) Captain The only pre-war payer in the side. Cool and steady under pressure. Lee Yong Kong (Left Back) One of the *'finds" of the season. Youn? and very fast
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    699 14 S'PORE TO WIN BUT IT WILL CLOSE THIS MALAYA Cup Find of 1955 is a test of courage against skill. Whether an indomitable spirit will prevail or be sacrificed against football science will be decided at Jalan Besar Stadium this afternoon. Remember well that Kelantan are proved fighters whose show
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    91 14 SPECIAL traffic arrange- Petain Road. No parkins li monts have been made for allowed in Allenby Road today's Malaya Cup final at To avoid unnecessary o^nJalpn Besar Stadium. fusion. Police are advising The stretch of road in motorists not to drive into Kitchener Road from Jalan this area
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      198 14 THE PROGRAMME 2.30 pm.: All gates open. 2.30 p.m.— 3.30 Gra- j mophone music 130 p.m. 130. Suk- < karamai S.C. vs Alexan- < dra F.T. 4.30 p.m.— 5.05: Band of the Singapore Police Force 5.05 p.m.: The Governor arrives and is introduced to the players. 5.15 p.m.: Game begins.
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