Singapore Standard, 9 August 1955

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  • 63 1 UP> d to I of a urthe de- pendents of soldiers who die in the "line of duty." She never denied shooting her helicopter pilot husband, but said he forced her into sexual perversions, boasted of his love affairs with other women and finally threatened to k:ll their three
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  • 230 1 VALIANT DOES IT AGAIN Sets Up Darwin Spore Record BRITAIN'S swept wing secret atom bomber, the Vickers Valiant, which broke the London to Baghdad speed record on its way to Singapore, yesterday broke yet another speed record— from Singapore to Darwin. An RAF. spokesman In S ipore told The Standdard
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  • 435 1 I'm Confident Spore Will Make 1t...' THE Commissioner-General for South-east Asia, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, told representatives of the Singapore mercantile community last night that he was sure the Colony would survive the present teething troubles which the present Constitution is at present experiencing. He warned, however,
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  • 267 1 He Makes His First Speech As Chief Minister Tonight KI'ALA LUMPrR, Mon The Federation's Chief Minister-designate, Tunku Abdul Rahman, held a final meeting tonight with his nine Cabinet colleagues before the official swearing-in ceremony tomorrow when he assumes the reins of government. The Tunku. who received a
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  • 19 1 MRS. UNA SCHMIDT Fine, 23, and Her Son. Danny Schmidt, 2\.
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  • 176 1 Speaks To No. 1 Over The Phone NEVADA CITY. California. Aug. 8, (Rcuter) Mrs. Lna Schmidt, wife of American airman Daniel Schmidt who is returning from a Chinese prison, today talked to her husband for 20 minutes over the trans-Pacific telephone. Mrs. Schmidt. who '•married" lumberjack Aliurd Fine in the
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  • 87 1 4ViC. Drop On Nervous Selling RUBBER dropped four and a half cents yesterday for first grade August shipment. The Singapore market closed uncertain at $1,433 as nervous holders were liquidating heavily both locally and upcountry. Quotations dropped to as low as 51. 41 per lb. in the morning as
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  • 38 1 LONDON. Aus. 3 <AP) Actress Eva Bartok and Austrian actor Kurt Jurgens will be married on Saturday at the lakeside resort town of Schloirsee, near Munich, the London Office of Columbia Pictures announced today.
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  • 45 1 A SINGAPORE secret society gang raided two Chinese temples in Tiong Bahru area last night and removed three statues of deities and a sacrificial urn. The thugs arrived in three cars, then split into two parties. Police have detained a man.
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  • 178 1 Suhrawardy Takes Over From Ali As Premier KARACHI, Aug. 8 (Reuter)— Mr. Hussain Shahecd Suhrawardy, 64-year-old leader of the Awami League, has consented to form a government to succeed that of Mr. Mohammed Ali, who resigned last night. Mr. S v hraw..rdy. who was educated a t Ox f o
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  • 82 1 SAIGON. Aug. 8. (Reuter^ —Terrorists tonight exploded a time bomb in Saigon's Palais de Justice daw courts). But the bomb went of! at 5.50 p.m. at least an hour after the courts adjourned and no one was killed or injured. The bomb was placed behind a
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  • 136 1 Gina On Parade -But No Pink Tights PAIUS. Aug. 8. (AP)— ltalian movie queen (iina Lollohrigida paraded through the sunny streets of Paris yesterday behind six dappled circus horses But she wasn't wearing the promised pink tights. Instead she had on a pink full-skirted dress with tiny white dots. There
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  • 165 1 SEOUL, Aug. B— U.S army compounds in four major cities were under near siege today as South Korean demonstrations against the neutral nations truce incnontnrc „v.»in,i,,,i i n vir.iiMico with American soldiers. In Pusan, more than 2.000 screaming Koreans today ripped down the main
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  • 335 1 GENEVA, Aug. 8 (Reuter)— Scientists from 72 countries took over the vast Palace of Nations here today in an attempt to beat the atomic sword into a ploughshare of peace and unheard of prosperity for the world's 2,300,000,000 inhabitants. About 1.200 delegates from
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  • 102 1 25 Killed In Red Air Crash MOSCOW. Aug. B— The Soviet Union officially ottered "profound regret" and compensation to Norway today for the deaths of 30 visiting Norwegian women among 25 persons killed when a Soviet airliner crashed on Satuidav on a flight from Stalingrad to Moscow. Tho Soviet news
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  • 38 1 OPENS AUG. 27 SINGAPORE'S Van Klerf Aquarium will bp opened to the public on Aug. 27. The long-awaited opening will be quiet, without any fanfare. the City Architect. Mr. W.I. Watson, told The Standard yesterday.
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  • 178 2 First 8 Patients For TB Hospital Xl ALA LUMPUR, Mon. —The first batch of patients moved into the 84,000,000 Lady Templer Tuberculosis Hospital, one of the most modern sanatoria in the East, this afternoon. The first cit;ii! patients were nil men who hailed from Malacca and Selansor. Ten more Deojre
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  • 77 2 Cheated Death Twice— To Give Himself Up KUALA LUMPUR. Mun A Communist terrorist, who twice escaped death, realised his ambition today when he surrendered to a rubber tapper In the Se-pang area of Belangor. Cheah Onn had set off on his surrender trek two months ago with Gch Choim Piew.
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  • 87 2 THE Public Assistance section of the Social Welfare Department in Singapore spent $5,210,000 on social assistance last year, as compared with $3,790,000 in 1953. The average number of casr* assisted each month was 4fi per cent greater than in 1953. The number of persons receiving sickness
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  • 222 2 SINGAPORE'S Education .Minister, Mr. Chew Swce Kee, yesterday told five representatives of 150 Chinese schools that government could not consider their request for increased grant-in-aid unless they sunnlv details. l The tepresentatives. at n 100-minute meeting at the Education Ministry, presented Mr. Chew
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  • 79 2 Operator, Give Me 'Chuchoh' Please! KUALA LIMP IR. Mon. No matter how nuuh you 'howl' into the tele phono Mala\as honey-tonsurd telcphonr operators will rrach your caller, TdccOMa macazine •'Morturv" indicated today. A subscriber, said the Maglßiße, recently asked for "tika chuchoh chuihoh. He wa s promptly connected to No.
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  • 59 2 MERSING. Mon. An 18--year-old girl. Lim Lan Heong of Jemaluang New Village was convicted on two charges of possession of stolen samsu and fermented rice. She was fined $750. Lim was arrested in June when Customs officers raidrd a house. Circuit Magistrate Inehe Mahmood bin All
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  • 40 2 Standard Photo by FIRST patients moved into the Lady Templer's T.B. Hospital at Cheras Road. Kuala Lumpur on Monday. Picture shows the patients being attended to by Miss B. Ouster, a Sister from Australia. Yong Peng Seong
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  • 264 2 Don't Divorce Unions From Politics Lee KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Trade Unions cannot be divorced from politics. They must form the infantry and be the spearhead in Malaya's inarch towards independence. Mr. Lee Moke Sang:, Central Committee Member of the MTUC, told a general meeting of the Government Printing Workers tonight.
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  • 38 2 HONGKONG, Aug 8 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15 o'? to El sterling; $5.***** to US$l; $1,839 to Malayan SI: $0,128 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $252,125 to a tael.
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  • 43 2 VATICAN CITY. Aug 8 <AP)— Vatican sources reported today that Josephine Pacelli. 84-year-old sister of Pope Pius XII. died last night after a lonL illness These sources said Miss Pacelli had been paralyzed for more than 20 years.
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  • 92 2 SINGAPORE Government collected 546.4!);>.000 revenue for the first seven months of 1955— 51.r>!>.0()0 more than for the same period last year, the Monthly Revenue Statistical Report for July revealed yesterday Petroleum netted Sll).\">8--000—S 1.1 0,1.000 more than fo r the corresponding period last year
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  • 112 2 FED. HGs' ANNUAL SHOOT KUALA LI'MPFR. Mon. The third weapon training meeting for Home Guards from all over the Federation will be he'd on tiie Siginting ranges, near Port Diekson. this month. Starting from Aug. 24. there will he competitions involving jungle contact and bandit attack, night firing and falling
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  • 341 2 KUALA LUMPUR m Technical College ,n 'j( I'^ft^ the only Malayan instituti!>? U %S engineering education will pfr trade school if proposals of i* 01 7M S G d r fio Gov S^^i Standard learnt today Cnt PoM The oflßculs, heads of department which is turning i I technical
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  • 72 2 Pore ywtffdn^J *|.M I I I, W Jl Imr^L n. flNltltt 7' Prut 01 P" til i|,(m n M«nd Ort. if. v I CUHH ()< Mr It. niter .l.tnu.tr \1 April Juiit \u::iiq I 1 lon< Inner l»">c|v MM ra M"iiri.i\ pricrs tiM s< i Spal C II s»*||»»rs
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  • 53 2 LUM MENG TUCK, I .shop assistant who iv burn! when he sinffle-Jianded to p that engulfed the rear poi of Lip Chee Furniture S Joo Chiat Road on S,. n has since died. Lum. tiio BOH t f partners of the shop. ishing some furnii the
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    59 2 MR. BEN COHX. Av.Manl I rniversal International arrived i to look at the theatres meet mm ie m {t0 m to share with them, his eaUwsia* "simply wonderful" I "ni\ersal i»i< The first o f those BCT I he said, would be M H< Back." the tr.;e StoCf Hot
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  • 133 2 Strikers' Delegates Walk Out REPRESENTATIVES of 600 .sawmill workers who have boon on strike for the past ten days. yesterday walked out of a joint meeting of Singapore Sawmillers' Association and the Sawmill Workers' Union. The walk out was staged as a protest against the employers' suggestion to discuss jointly
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 69 2 Weather Report Minimum Temperature From T.:JO p.m. Aug. 7 to 7..J0 a.m. \uy. 8: Spore (7<iF); Penang (75F); Kota Bahru (71F); hu.ili Lumpur (71F>; Ipoh (71F); Kuantan (69F). Maximum Temperature: From 7. :»0 a.m. to 7..10 p.m Aug. 8 Singapore (88Fi: Penang (87F); Kota Haliru (89Fi; Kual i Lumpur (90F);
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  • 312 3 resistant* a for oir c Moquis noses of dur i n g j-:ved m :y. Henn c new Chief of East Air n the two- day the mshal C-m-C, c. 7 c ranges perfect endant ♦s who nd dur- ing the French Revolution. During the
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  • 55 3 00 hus con "i rs employ-; >>ns Bahru id a $1 so effeci g now cnt of I also stipu- c >hould omipf of exceed Other Terms a a-ree- be en's age or the I I l ies 1 ees .-y a Bus nit ".itiona
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  • 147 3 v 19 year-old cakeseller at Raffles N u a pore, was robbed and slapped in a tun when returning home after having sold her cakes. The man. Sujak bin Yusof. 26. pleaded guilty in the Second District Court yesterday, nn a charge of robbing
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  • 12 3 Talk On Wage Rates Continue I". B.— P antN'n- of in the
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  • 456 3 SUNDAY WILL BE THE DAY OF DECISION A CLASH for power between two rival groups of trade unions in Singapore will come to a head when the Trades Union Congress and the Factory and Shop Workers' Union hold their annual conferences this Sunday. The T.U.C's
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  • 186 3 THE 2.000-strong Singapore Traction Company Employees Union yesterday warned the Company's genera i manager. Mr. A. A. Ewing. not to interfere with the Union's internal alTairs. In a .statement issued lasi night, the Union's secretary Mr. Hashim bin Idris said: "Who we approach for help
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  • 65 3 A GROUP of 40 Malays froiti Kuala Lcngat. will spend a day touring Singapore, as part of a civics course. The trip today will start with a visit to the Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall. They will also call on the Minster for Local Lands
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  • 235 3 JOHORE BAIIRU, Mon.— The present high price of rubber had not affected wages of rubber tappers in Johore and the workers generally were being very sensible, said Mr. E. H. Walworth-Bell, the Deputy Commissioner for Labour, today. Only In one small estate in Johore havt workers
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  • 163 3 Jail For Ex-SCs Who Perjured KUALA LUMPUR Mon.— Two former Special Constables who were pro>eeution witnesses I a receni preliminary cny Into an alleged armed robbery case, were today convicted and jailed for perjury by the President ot the Sessions Court. Mohamed Noor bin Abdul Aziz. L't). who made a
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    53 3 WHEN Sir Robert Scott arrives in Singapore to take up his appointment as Commissioner General in Southeast Asia he will use this S4!)0.000 house in Nassim Road as his office. The house, which is called "Kden Hall." belonged to Colony racehorse owner. Mr. V. C. Bath It will undergo renovations
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  • 95 3 Students Join Protest THE Pan-Malayan Students Federation is appealing to the Singapore Government to reconsider the appeal of the Singapore Chinese High Schools' Graduates' Association against the banning by the Police of six items of their concert. The P.M.S.F. in t\ pressrelease yesterday expressed surprise at the Government's decision, as
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  • 44 3 A NEWSPAPER vendor V. Sinniah. was stabbed in the nrtn and face, as B result of a fight with three <.thcrs In Veerasamy Road, yesterday. He was treated i n the Singapore General Hospital. Police have detained a man.
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  • 131 3 MAN ON RELIEF CHARGED THE Sixth Court Magistrate, Mr. J P. Trainor yesterday ordered a prut at ion officer's report on lunin bin Maiito. who wh S charged with cheating the Social Welfare Department ;f (264 between January and Mc.y this year Chiej Inspector Santa Singh prosecuting, told the Court
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  • 44 3 A CARPENTER. Ycc Sck Hong 45, died in the Singapore Genera! Hospital yesterday alter a collision involving his bicy:le and a van in CJemenceau Avenue. Eye-witnes-e^ to the accident are ..sked to contact the Traflir Accident Investigation Branch. Sepoy Lines
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  • 39 3 MR. Ganda Tara Singh Sidhu 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. K. I. Tan appeared for Mr. Sidhu.
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  • 76 4 Yam Seng' To Spore's Business Community "YAM SENG," cries the Commi ssionerGeneral, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald (third from left) at a farewell cock- tail party given by the Singapore's three Chambers of Commerce in his honour last night. Joining him in the bottoms-up are the
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  • 54 4 Photo. h> BEFORE the cocktail party. Mr. Mac Donald paid a farewell visit to the Ramakrishna Mission Boys Home where he is seen being garlanded on his arrival. He was conducted round the Mission building and before leaving was presented with a rare book on Sri
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  • 290 4 Man Punched My Chest' PENANG, Mon. A former sing-sons girl, Kcc Kirn Suan, 26, said, in the Magistrate's Court today two goldsmiths held her by her hands while a third goldsmith punched her chest. Kcc who said she was a divorcee, was giving evidence against
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  • 145 4 Served His Term Already ALOR STAR. Mori.— A padiplar.tcr. Jab bin Awang, was today sentenced by Mr. Justice Hill to sjx months and seven days 1 imprisonment when he pleaded guilty to an amended charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. But Jab, who was originally charged with the
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  • 73 4 DUE to the very strict immigration control, trafficking of women and girls from China lias virtually ceased in Singapore, states the Social Welfare Department annual report. Women and sir's from Asian ports are interviewed i>v the Department's Lady Assistant Secretary on landing in the Colony. Enquiries
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  • 50 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon All Pahang will celebrate the installation of the new State Capital in Kuantan on Aug. 27. The seaside town which has witnessed an unprecedented oHicial influx during the past six months, will see the climax of it all in the great "fete."
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  • 474 4 Solve Problem Of Immigration KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, Secretary-General of Party Negara, today challenged the UMNO-MCA MIC Alliance to find "an alternative to immigration from Indonesia, if they are sincere to Malays about rectifying the current imbalance in the internal increase of
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  • 138 4 Labour Supervisor Robbed Of His Savings THREE English-speak-ing Chinese broke into the residence of the Labour Supervisor of the Singapore Naval Base. Mr. C H. Toussaint, on Sunday night and robbed him of his savings amounting to $1,400 and two watches. The robbers who were masked and wore gloves, got
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  • 98 4 Boys Told: Don't Fight In Public TWO teenagcd boys were yesterday iold by the Fourth "Magistrate, Mr' J. If. Deve-reux-Co!ebourn, to go and fight in a quiet spot if they wished to rough it out and not In a place where they will get mixed up with the law. Ibrahim
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  • 31 4 THE United Chinese Library. Singapore, celebrated its fortyfifth anniversary yesterday with a cocktail party at Armenian Street More then 500 guests attended including Singapore Assemblymen and other prominent citizens.
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  • 137 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— An intimate and highly sue" cessful recital was given by Mr. Michael Head in the High Street School hall here this evening. Mr. Head, who is visiting Malaya as an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, ha? already
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  • 51 5 STUDENTS TO HAVE THEIR UNION AT LAST dfsgsdfgsdfgsdg Ho Politics And Hands Off trade Disputes Pledge A FTER prolonged negotiations, approval K,en 9' vcn to Chinese students to form the jT^ re Chinese Middle Schools Students form this union was approved awaiting formal registration by S^r»r* mti«»c /or* c proIllegal
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  • 91 5 Journalists Tour The Stock Yards dfgsdfgsdfgsdfgdfsg J-J^OLX. Nebraska. All* 8. CAP) Tne Standard assistant r. Peter Hill together with six other journalists from the Far East made a tour of the stock yards of Omaha Nebraska, and Boys Town yesterday. The party, who are on a months tour of the
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  • 67 5 professor Vincent HarlOW, Professor of History at Oxford University, who is now visiting the Far East, is expected to arrive at Kalians Airport today Professor Harlow S visit to the Colony la sponsored bJ the British Council. He will attend the Singapore Union of Journalists'
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  • 34 5 A STORE- KEEPER employed oy H Sub Depot. BOD. makin? a check of the stores on Aug. fi found one of the rases mpty. A battery charging sei worth >4(M> is missing.
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  • 224 5 Fish In Aquaria Must Be Kept Apart THE authorities in the van Klecf Aquarium will have to learn to segregate certain species of salt water fish in order to keep them alive longer Dr. Marshall Laird, parasitologist at the University of Malaya, has found that there is hardly a fish
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  • 28 5 A SINGAPORE seaman. H Kee. reported the !d chain and >ix valued at $620 from locker in a cubi !e in Bali Lane, <n Sunday n:ght.
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    13 5 THE Sultan of Kelantan whose 58 birthday is being celebrated today.
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  • 56 5 LKIL Havelock. left Singapore yesterday in the "Bronx ville" on a four year scholarship voice training course at the I'niversity of Chattanooga. Tennessee. The scholarship was sjiven hy the Ridgedale Methodist Church in Chattanooga. Miss llavelock during her two-and-a-half year stay in Singapore, was a secretary who
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  • 82 5 JUDGMENT STAYED IN DAMAGES SUIT MR. JUSTICE Knight reserved judgment in the Singapore High Court yesterday, in an action for damages brought by a woman. Bertha Lindsay Diekson. against Jim Victor Inch, for injuries received in a motor accident in Woodlands Road on the night of Dec. 15. last year.
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  • 256 5 CHINESE school students in Singapore are going to protest to the Government against what they described as the "banishment" of one of their teachers, Chen Yang Cheng, who is now detained under the Emergency Regulations. This decision was taken at a special meeting yesterday at
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  • 36 5 RONNIE Lin, son of Singapore's Minister lor Labour and Welfare. Mr. Lim Yew Hoik, left the Colony on Sunday for Britain where he will study civil engineering at Brishton Technical College.
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  • 54 5 MALACCA. Mon. For the first time here, over 30 police and other members of the uniformed services attended a Settlement civics course. The course, the 25th in the Settlement, includes a twoday programme at Kuala Lumpur next Wednesday and Thursday and will end up with a
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  • 86 5 JOHORL BAHRU. Mon In the Sessions Court. Merging yesterday, Abubakar bin Ali was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment on each of two charges oi forgery and cheating, the sentences to run concurrently He ttas ordered to pay the Post Office $300 or senre a further three
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  • 258 5 CHAMBER RENEWS BATTLE AGAINST BAN ON LANGUAGE An Appeal To Lennox-Boyd THE SINGAPORE Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday renewed its battle to introduce multi-lingualism into the Legislative Assembly It called on all communities in Singapore to support its appeal to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd.
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  • 171 5 TAXI-MEN MUST NOT RUN RISK of ROBBERY ...And Judge Jails Thug For 6 Yrs SALIM bin Mohamcd. who had six previous convictions, was sentenced to six years' imprisonment, by Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah, in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. He was found guilty of causing hurt to a taxi-driver
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  • 78 5 BOOKS by and about five Amen, an winners of the Nofaie] Prize tor Literature will be en display at an exhibition which opens at the USIS Library, Raffle? Place today The hooks are a. so available for .oan to members The most re( ent winner
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  • 212 5 THE chatter of three women passengers so distracted the driver of a car that he collided with and killed a cyclist at the 13th mile, Woodlands, on June 5, the Singapore Coroner's Court was told yesterday. The driver. Tan Joon Teck. a 38-year-old cook for
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  • 138 5 PAMEL A Gregorie. future ballerina and daughter of Squadron Leader 11. Jacobs and Mrs. Mary Jacobs, has arrived in Singapore hoping to start a small school of ballet in Changi where her father ts stationed. Pamela. 17. is a student member of
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  • 225 5 PENANG, Mon. All Federation Eurasians were yesterday called upon to learn Romanized Malay. This was a resolution passed at the annual conference of delegates of the Eurasian Union of Malaya held here yesterday. The president of the I'nion, Mr. G. Shelley, in his address to
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 924 6 PHANGEB have taken place so fast in Makna U during the last decade that education Today has become a serious political problem. The ldeoiQHeal tussle to gain control or the minds of the youth of this country has brought this problem to the lore The schools of today
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  • 438 6 THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME 1 ALAYANIZATION ap--U pears to have bred a germ which impedes the cerebration in some persons. Proof of this was published in the Sunday Standard in the case of Dr. X. Dr. X— in the event you did not read the story Is a
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  • 655 6 VIEWS REVIEWS Citizenship Rights rpilE popular demand for A cltlxenship rights la not only a reasonable and natural tendency, but also one for basic human rights. writes Chung Shing Jit Pao. The British Government has no excuse to delay the issue and turn a deaf ear to the demand, adds
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  • 276 6 Sir: Here la an open letter to Mrs. E.A. Irwin. My dear Expat's Wife As a daughter of an Asian Officer I have read with interest and amusement what you obviously consider a logical condemnation of Mr. Marshall and a sturdy support of a slow progress
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  • 947 6  -  MURRAY FROMSON by If WAR Starts Tomorrow. If an enemy again STRIKES WITHOUT WARNING in the Pacific/ what forces could the United States and its Far East allies put into the fight at once? Here is a line-up of American and Allied troops now on the frontline
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  • 328 6 We the PEOPLE All Correspondence Should Be Short And To The Point and privileges which your husband and his class ot people have enjoyed exclusively for over a hundred years and imagined that they .should continue to do so. Again, in your naive and very simple wav you accept the
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  • 138 6 Sir: The selection for the nominee of the Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce to the enlarged Federal Legislative Council is rather surprising and puzzling and cannot be a popular one since there are several other members of this chamber who have more experience in commerce and industry
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  • 165 7 Last Steps To Freedom For 1 1 Airmen TOKYO Aug. T^ h€ recently f*\ JUBtftCOH oirere today being r^j ready for "^a states and home -nd O holf fl C^nimunist Enoch Ardon ksuMici jcnmidt this morning was closeted in a telephone booth where he spoke to his twicemarried wife. Th
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  • 219 7 luhanin Sends Peace Plea To Scientists V, Aug. 8 Marshal pi Bulganin, the rm: Minister, sent a telegram Ik Geneva confer- 3« atomic energy, ing today step ng ful Iby AND PLAYS THE THEME AT A GARDEN PARTY the official Soviet news i agency TASS. said the Soviet L'nion places
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  • 26 7 I tag. 8. (AP)— Hundreds of persons ln>t sunshine yesterday waiting the bronze coffin in which Car- ma Hollywood mortuary. I I I I I
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  • 87 7 'Unsinkable Boat' Claim By Teacher TAIPEI. Aug. 8 (UP> A Chinese teacher has revealed here what ho terms an "unsinkable boat." but he declines to ;>ay what keeps It afloat. Amateur scientist Pao Teh Hsia. who teaches school when he is not inventing >hips. says his boat Is half submarine
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  • 118 7 'SOFTER WIND BLOWS FROM RED CHINA' WASHINGTON. Au g. 8. (Reuter). The Assistant Secretary of State. Mr. Walter Ro'iert-un. >a:d today that while "the ga.e forrc wind of Communist agsres>ion becomes softer" it was too soon to tell whether this was a change of heart. He told a conference on
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  • 40 7 BARBY. England. Aug. 8. <AP>— A Manchester-to-Lon-don express train was derailed on an embankment here yesterday, plunging six of ten crowded cars and the engine into a meadow. The engineer was killed and around 20 passengers hurt.
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  • 43 7 KANSAS CITY. Missouri. Aug. 8. iAPi- The battered, nude body of Mrs. Wilma Allen, attractive 34-year-old wife of a wealthy automobile dealer, was found yesterday in a pasture In nearby Johnson County. Kansas. 15 miles southwest of Kansas City.
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  • 84 7 He Is Killed Doing A Good Turn NEWARK. New Jersey. Aug. 8. iAP)— An expectant mother, her infant nephew, and a Korean veteran who went to their aid when thunderstorms knocked a power line across their pickup truck, were electrocuted yesterday. The woman. Mrs. Fany Reed. 35. and the baby.
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  • 166 7 Alexandra Linked With Romance Rumours LONDOiN, Aug. 8 (AP) Royal romance rumours are in the air again. Not Princess Margaret this, time but her glamorous cousin, Princess Alexandra The willowy 18-year-old Prince*. Atcx to her rhums- Is paying her fourth vLslt in a year to Barons Court, the Northern Ireland
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  • 186 7 SURETE MEN SEEK ACCOMPLICE IN DRUMMOND CASE hp** f France Au S- 8» (Reuter)— Two top Paris aeiecuves today begin interrogating key witness, who testified at the trial of Gaston Dominici, 78-year-old, goat farmer sentenced to death for murdering the British Drummond family three years ago. Inspcr-tor Char'.e. Chenevicr and
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  • 108 7 CALCUTTA. Aug. 8. (Rcutcr) Police investigating the disappearance of Mrs. Edna Mary Dixon, a British housewife living about ten miles from here, are trying to trace an Indian servant of the Dixon family who is also missing. Mrs. Dixon 34-year-old wife of the British
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  • 24 7 RED A- STATIONS The Soviet Union will soon be building atomic-powered electric stations of 50.000 and 100.000 kilowatt hours. Moscow Radio said yesterday.— Reuter
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  • 169 7 ENVOYS SEARCH FOR A SOLUTION Students Free To Return Says U.S. GENEVA Aug. 8. (Reuter —United States and Communist Chinese diplomats at their fouith meeting here today were continuing their search for a solution to the problem of repatriation of civilians in each other's country. Mr Wang Pmg-Xan principal Chinese
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  • 52 7 JAKARTA. Aug. 9. <AP> The Indonesian army's top officers meeting in Bandoeng last Saturday reaffirmed their support of the suspended Deputy Chief of Staff. Colonel Z. Lubis, it was announced today. The meeting coincided with the fourth congress of the influential Army's Officers' League, also held
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  • 115 7 He Cave Wife Panther, Now Seeks Divorce LONDON. Aug. 8. (IT)— Millionaire industrialist Baron Henry Yon Thyssen is socking a divorce Irom his former English model bride. the Sunday Express reported yesterday. The newspaper quoted the Baron as saying "1 think wo got married too hastily." Grounds \viii be incompatibility,
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  • 228 7 LONDON, Aug. 8 (AP) Twelve nuclear power stations which Britain expects to have in operation in 10 years may save five to six million tons of coal a year, it is stated in a pamphlet published today by the Central Office of Information.
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  • 94 7 MCALESTER. OKLAHOMA, Aug. 8. (AP)— After scribbling a note that "It's just too much for me," a prominent McAlestcr physician charged with the murder of his wife and three children slashed his wrist yesterday in an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself on the eve
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  • 66 7 NEW DELHI. Aug. 8 (AP) There will be no "president, hotel" or "republic theatre" in India. Jt is now against the law to u.se any word with an official connotation in connection with a business, trade or profesbion. The object of the regulation, said an announcement,
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  • 51 7 KANSAS CITY. Aug 8 < Router) Ex-President Harry Truman said hero he would send Sir Winston Churchill, a copy of the first volume of his memoirs which Is to be published on Nov. 2. The book "Year of Decisions" deals with Mr. Truman's career up
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  • 74 7 PICTURES taken at a window of Clarence House on Aug. 4. when Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother appeared for the crowds who were cheering her on her 55th birthday. A royal servant opened the window so that the crowds could get a better
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  • 111 7 WASHINGTON. Aug. 8 (UP) Vice President Richard Nixon yesterday that the Big Four conference In Geneva "substantially reduced" the. chances of war. although the same basic differences < i between the East and We I These differences, Nixon said, "have to be settled in
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  • 53 7 ST. DAVIDS PFMBROKSHIRE. Aug. 8. (Router)— The Queen and Ihe Dufa Edinburgh yesterday attc: I divine service in historic Bl David s Cathedral here, shrine of Wales' patron "-.tint. It was the first time f r nearly TOO year? that E reigninc monarch had knc^l
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  • 373 8 'We Needn't Go To Japan To Learn About Yields' TECHNIQUE IS TOPS-GOVT. KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The last meeting of the Selangor Council of State was urged today to send agricultural teams abroad for specialised training to improve Malaya s podi Y^lds. P Inche Mahidin bin
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  • 78 8 THE foundation stone oi the new $200,000 rehabilitation centre of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association will be laid this afternoon by the Governor. Sir Robert Black, at 5 o'clock. The new centre, at Shenton Way. adjacent to the SATA clinic, will provide accommodation for the increasing
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  • 134 8 A Timely Move On Finance KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A timely amendment to the Standing Rules and Orders approved by the Selangor State Council today will save the State Government from embarrassment during the transitional period before the coming State Elections. The amendment serves to perpetuate the work of the Council's
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  • 26 8 AN AMERICAN. Joe Fitzgerald, now on holiday in Singapore, reported the loss of a $600 cine camera at the Botanical Gardens on Saturday.
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  • 41 8 JOHORE BAIIRU. Mon. Mr. K.J. Pillay. chict clerk of the Supplies Depivtment here, died yesterday morning after a brief illness. His remains were cremated the same evening. He is survived by a wife, four sons and two daughters
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  • 87 8 Air Lines To Help Philatelists QANTAS Empire Airways and X.L.M. are offering philatelies in Singapore a chance to receive new issues of Singapore stamps sent out from the Colony. Qantas will post a complete set of ali the new issue stamps 15 denominations to Australia for $10. 85 cent? for
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  • 193 8 Jailed For Not Having Insurance Coverage IPOH. Mon A motor-car cleaner. Ra>hid <23>. was sentenced by the President of the Sessions Court. Mr. EVA. rs, to three months* imprisonment today for not being covered by third party risk while driving a motor cycl<\ On another charge of driving a motor
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  • 55 8 IPOH. Men- Tons Chong T a Chinese kepala, was v found >hw and >lash- Rth »t Suloh Estate the Tapah district of ak. Of*a bod 1 was found rubber tapper who urd a shot and intig a ted. A security patrol red the body Communist leaflets
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  • 35 8 I K. W. GRAY. OSPC. Per; eft for Kingdom on furlough J ,i. E. Ptnm -z aa OSPC until a successor arrives. n he will revert to his r-o</.. a> OCPD. Taipin^.
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  • 148 8 Food Check To Starve Terrorists IPOH. Mon. The Food Control Department here i> iarr;. out a systematic check ol rice distribution in State >>j thai none of it can fall into the hands cf terrorists or their suppliers. It is also a step to stop malpra i lain shop proprietors
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  • 43 8 THE Local Government Committee under the chairmanship of Mr. T.P.F. McNeice will meet for the Qrst time to discuss administrative arrangements for the work of the Committee, at the office of the President of the City Council at 4 p.m. today
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  • 191 8 TANJONG MALIM, Mon. Three men, charged with housebreaking, described "police methods of torture" to the magistrate Mr. D. C. I. Wernham. One of the thioe Ishak bin Naluddin said lie was: Asked to swim a pool at night; made to squat down with his knees grasping
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  • 61 8 PENAXG Mon. —An Inaugural meeting. i n connection witn the Poppy Day appeal, will be held tomorrow in the Penang Turf Club committee room. Chartered B ink Chambers. The Resident Commissioner Penang. Mr R. P. Bingham. will give an opening address. The chairman of the
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  • 48 8 THE motor fishing craft Manihine (213 tons) research vessel of the Singapore Regional Fisheries Research Station, is expected in Singapore on Aug 10 or 11 The ship which is under the command of Capt. D R. Davies will anchor in the Telok Ayer Basin.
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  • 31 8 FOR stealing a pair of trousers valued at SB. Ibrahim bin Abdul Rahman was sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment yesterday by the Mersfclg Circuit Magistrate. Inche Mahmood bin Ali.
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    70 8 Studio photo. Mrs. F Healey and daughter. Patricia, were garlanded by Miss Ong and Mr. Kcsavan at a farewell party given m their honour h»/ officer* and stan of B" Yard, Engineering Base Installation, at the Islamic Restaurant on Saturday Mrs. Healey, is the wile ol Mr. Healey, a civilian
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  • 35 8 OSMAN bin Ifohamed wju sentenced to eight months imprisonment and a police supervision and Wife to three months :mpnsonment for stealing five of scrap rubber from I Estate, in Perak. on May 11.
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  • 501 8 THE following passengers will disembark from the P. &O. liner Corfu when she arrives from Britain at Penang and Singapore on Aug. 15 and Aug. 17 respectively PENAXG Mr. G. D Bennett, ftfta J. G. Jackson. Mr. R. G S Kerley Miss S. A.
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    71 8 MR TEO WIIYE I /A „f Km hi™ 41 Asian students of ninr nationalitips \h, m at the coaching collegr in Melbourne Mr i M Mr. Teo Boon Kwcp. an rMpiiju of th. s Ltd.. Kuchinß. hopes t o enter the Fai-ulii I ing at the
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  • 162 8 PENANG, Mon.— Thp people n! Penan«havti increased civic consciousness l> reportins treatment of children to the Social ment, said the Settlement Social Welfare (rife Goon Sem Sye, today. Mr. Goon told The 51 ard that several petition? regarding treatment of chi dren have been received i\ v his iei
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  • 338 9 LON DON in 1 J /.icnt- FAT tail rant tective Constable Law ey ■MMt have had a rea v superhuman task in unravel aig this fraud." It was alleged that over top years the baker was paid between £9,000 and 12,000 by the Air Ministry for
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  • 327 9 Love Began Upside Down IT ITT V BLUETT, 31. who was Ted Ray's radio "wife" in the "RAY'S A LAt'GH" programme, is to marry a daring young man on the flying trapeze. Handsome, muscular Julian Jover, 29. was flying through the air with the greatest of ease when rednaired Kitty
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  • 387 9 In>.\iM)\ m ti djflliult crimes ,-id to »toP" < ,W' ni;ht i thief jggt ax :iun% as n JL .> I comes from research laboratories and scientific firms. Tney need the cats as "guinea pigs" for experiur for use in the protlon of serum against
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  • 45 9 SUN GIRL in GOLD Photo. Glittering and decorative bathing suits will beautify the beaches next year as shown recently by COLE of California fashions in Los Angeles. BETTY KOCH iccars here a gold suit; trimmed with 'J4-karat gold sequins. Its called "EL DORADOr Wide World
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  • 120 9 (^)NE unfortunate husband said in court: "Recently niv wife has simply refused to do a single thing I ask. I don't know what's happened to her" She's gone into a decline. IJ USB AND in court: "She pawned the very bed blankets the day beiora she returned
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  • 421 9 Smuggling Turns Mesai Into BOOM TOWN RANGOON AIES/1/, on the Thai side 1 of the Thai-Kenglung border and about 104 miles south-cast of Kcngtung, capital of the Shan State, is once again a boom town. SMUGGLING has made this once dead frontier town pulsate again. Mesai which boasts a few
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  • 27 9 AW EYEFUL OF CURVES: This "regular" bikini shows off the beautiful lines of shapely Laura August of Seattle as she sports around at Las Vegas.
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  • 911 9  -  BETTY SMITH by LONDON EVEN mild, friendly kisses make some men red in the face. The touch of a girl's cheek against theirs brings them out in a flaming rash, but it's nothing to do with emotion. It's just because their skin can't stand
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  • 290 10 Speculative Buying Reported Standard Market Reporter THE Singapore coffee market is experiencing a nervous perioa with supplies from Indonesia still irregular and direct shipments trom that country quoted at well below local prices. anticiDaSome suocuhn. v,. buy.ng ol about 300 tons in the past feu da
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  • 59 10 >1K lI AKOI I) Homr Crawford (abovr) .\>>istant Yur Pr«->ident of the Sinu« r Sou ins !\la< hine Conip.»in. u York, is rxpr( trd irrivr in Sin?apor»* shortl>. KornH-rly Cfttal Man■gCff wi Ike Sin^rr Srwin? Mackiae < wmmj. Sonthr.i>t \m.i Mr (raw ford vii: Nt.«> ab«»ut 12
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  • 69 10 THE rx the lirsi quarter of reached the record Rs. 534 M C40,--i m)ii) due mainly to the lea. The export increase of R=: 106.000.0 C7J50.000) on the I rter las! d v to a very on me i the B I Ceylon R
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  • 130 10 SINGAPORE sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: I -er Neave ords (1.721; Gamin ma $2.80 and 12.774; W. Hammer 12.60; M. Breweries ?;::o. Malayan Cement $i:>7'.. I Singapore Cold Storage 91.10: Straits Time- S2.M and $2 92\ United Engineers ords $11.00 1 ar.f} $11-05; Wearne Bros.
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  • 147 10 30 TONS PEPPER TRADED SOME 30 tons of pepper were transacted in the Singapore produce market yesterday as overseas orders came in. Other sections of the market. particularly coconut oil and copra, remained quiet with litt'e or no transactions recorded. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices (per picul) yesterday
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  • 34 10 U.S raw silk imports during July totalled 2,080 bales. itly l*sa thru during the same month r\ year ago. the A erican silk council reported 1 in New York. A P
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  • 206 10 SELLERS predominated in Malayan rubber stares and the market in this section eased due to the fall in the rubber price. Drops in prices were reported in a i number of rubber shares. Tin shares were neglected, while industrials were slightly easier in sympathy with
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  • 140 10 MESSRS. A.W. Scott and W.H Spiers of Sime Darby and Co. Ltd. were guests of the Athey Products Corpora-tion-Hyster Company, during a weekend recently, in Chicago. They met 140 other dealers from all over the world and combined business with pleasure at the Conrad Hilton Hotel.
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  • 63 10 THREE Japan-built ship? will bolster the Philippines inter-island service this year, a Japanese shipping official said. Mazao Maruyama, cf the Hitachi Shipbuilding ana Engineering Company. said the vessels—two of 2.000 ton? and one of 1.200 tons were ordered by Everett Steamship Co. of Manila for
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  • 76 10 Bank's Share Capital Is Rs.50 Million THE statenirnt of the Bank of India, Ltd.. for the first half of the year show<'d share capital at Ks :> 00.00.000 divided into .).00.000 shares of Rs. 100 each. The bank's assets were Ks. 19.23.tU46 Including investments and bills, while Us liabilities included
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  • 77 10 Standard yesterday. Among the building materials which have appreciated in prices are bricks. tiles, steel bars and the like. Increases in the prices of bricks in Singapore ran^e from per pioul per thousand upwards, according to the report. Items such as imported cement and
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  • 29 10 AN Indian Ministry of food spokesman says farmers who have adopted Japanese methods of rice cultivation have increased their per acre yield by 50 per cent AP
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  • 22 10 REPORTS coming in from nee farmers throughout Japan indicated that this year's rice ptod will reach an all time high.
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  • 148 10 THE Burmese Government will be -virtually compelled" to seek a foreign loan in an eilort to overcome the present financial crisis facing the country, it was widely reported in newspapers in Rangoon yesterday. The newspaper reports which were almost identically worded, said the Govern- merit's
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  • 21 10 MEXICO'S cotton crop this year will be over two million bales for the first time, it is estimated. AP
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  • 283 10 FIRM STARTS PROCESS TO GALVANIZE IRON, STEEL THE United Metal Works Ltd. has recently begun the manufacture of metal windows and doors in its factory in Bukit Timah. Singapore. This new company has had orders from the Fedeiation and Borneo. Pic- UNITED Metal Works Ltd., a locally established British company,
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  • 37 10 THE Directors of Pusing Rubber and Tin Ltd. will recommend a 15 c c dividend for the last financial 3'ear at the annual general meeting to be held o n Sept. 14, payable Sept. 15.
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  • 92 10 MALAYAN t:\rliangc I*, ink. Association buying; rates t.i merchants arc: \ni ork Mi (T.T.I. X 7 X IOJI credit bills and S3 1 16 trait bills; Canada M I|C II n (O.n.i. n n i«. mm bilK and St] trade hilU Selling rates (IT 0 l» New York
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    71 10 AS part of its pJan to Malay (uiize its Surrey Service, the Federation Government no\r has eight locnl surveyors studying abroad. Of the eight, three are studying m Ntw Zealand under the Colombo Plan. They are Messrs. Paul Foo Irom Kelantan; Leong Yew Kuan and Scow Soak Ilenng, botli
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    • 389 10 NOTICES HUM! NOTICE (KNTKAI. ELECTUCm BOARD. FLDFRATION OF MALAYA TENDERS are invited for the tioo of: TMTOSED VLHICLF YARD. WTLKN AND STORKS AT PANTAI VALLEY, BUNGSAI ROAD KUALA LIMPIR." CF.B registered Class A and B ntraci to apply to the itect. Central Electricit] Boani. Gombak Lane, Kuala pur with a
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    • 98 10 NIPPON YUSEN Sf Atsuta Mini for Genoa Aide's Oan. Tan««ei bianca. London. Antwerp tt-rdam. Hamburg (P^<" fJ Accepted Mantetsu Mjru for Rargoon. C Kokoku Maru for Aoen t P boiaan. leoda^. P N v A-« Atami Maru for Aden D bodan. ledaah. P swd t Istanbul P.raeu? Alexano'-a :s A«l
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    • 149 10 OUTEB ROAIM Veatun. Van Outhoorn. Kurdi* stan. Adrastus. Odessa, Ally. President Arthur, Lapaz. Tantalus. i\ni:r roads Marudu. Tav pe. Scdenak. *>Tatahari, Aik Hin, Hai Hui. Tong Goan. Petaling, Lucky Trader, Giang Seng. Lorinda. Slia, Pang kor. Hin Ann. Senang. Larut. Senggarang, Kah Kheng. Nan vans. Lawu. Aik Lcong. Mvi Hock.
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    • 1122 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 iblmetl llncorpdrated m Suifapore) lWlme»> 0.17 THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE Carrien option to proceed via othei portt to load and discharge ca»to SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL. GLASGOW LONDON b CONIININI Sm^apor. Due Sail* P. Sham Penang Tantalus fcr Holland HamPatrocHia tor Lrverpooi (j Cl«»
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    515 12  -  DENIS FOSTER by. CHANNEL FACTS AN Englishman. Captain Matthtw Webb, was the flrtl to swim the Channel tn 187 S. Hi iwam from Oovtr to Calais In 21hr 4Smin. Th« Channel wii not conQuertd axain until 1911 when T. w Burgess iNim Irom Dover to Calais 2?hr. 3Smm.
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  • 148 12 THE days of maraud ins: western states are long Redskins attacking wagon since past. and these trains in America's great colourful people are now as civilised as anybody else. Rut it is still a (real thrill for American tourists to see their first Red Indian, and every year
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  • 375 12 T am a big river which 1 flows into the sea, and I like to recall when I am whispering to other rivers which come from all corners of the world, some of the interesting adventures of my journey. I started as a small stream that
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  • 253 12 Schoolboy Film STARS IT'S not ALL fun being: a iilm star. Just ask thir-teen-year-old London schoolboys Billy Clarkson and Alan House. For Billy and Alan are still nursing bruises they collected recently from member s of Pretoria Girls' School Cine-Club, in Canning Town, London. They are the only boys taking
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    347 12  -  John Hillaby fISh.S U'lIV HAS BRITAIN Mill XO VOLCANOES? THERE ARE volcanoes in Britain— or at least the remains of them— in hilly country. Edinburgh Castle stands on the plug or hard core of an old volcano. The rest has worn away. And there are many remains
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    • 16 12 i t J?g*>— i3^^ ••Ruf I have tidied my dc^k, Miss Broirn clam strau?, and everything!"
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    • 66 12 YOUB MAM£,\ JWE NAVE JUST ARRIVED F GREAT JETS/ rTS TME ICAPTAIN STALWAJTT,COMMAND»T SHOW MYG^n^ WTj^rL YOUNG MAM?/-'*^ PBOM EACTW/^^l PAMOUS PCOPE^R 7OP MOON RASE 1 AND J SOMEwAn--*; TT/f J rTW£K A 2£ TWE V| |H B^YeT^PTAIN^^ .ML >IUL 73SR^///CTj| /?r£^ii)n£ Xl^'S^^&A^ i^^^^^^^^^^SWSTALV^ACT.THE V SJR.BUT WWERE »6 TWE J^^^H
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  • 43 13 <"*~~" the Colony in the last Asian it the Chinese Swimming t>s hHd «n Saturday. Elsie pic t \%o n the l©o metres hack i Ike record time of 1 mm. .WK ■p lo w Ken:; Sec in the centre Standard Photo.
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  • 44 13 c II 15, 15-4 15-11: Lrong P Chee Hun 15-4, 1-15, 15-lt (Juartrr Finals: Koli Tcng 800 I- wa S '>'■ h 15-h. 15-4; 'Lee Poh Yin 4 Lee Tuck Chew beat t Swce 17-14. 15-18. 15-o. Keng Lip bea*. Leong Kwok I 15-&
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  • 8 13 American singles ♦ennij c- imoion Reuter
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  • 92 13 LONDON*. Aug. 8 Renter i The following are football fixto- Saturday, Au< l' SCOTTISH LEAGUE (IP Airdiie vs. Dundee. Celtic vs. Queen Of The South Danfermline vs, Clyde. Falkirk vs. Rangers Hibernian vs. Aberdeen. X marnock vs. St. Mirren. Partick vs. Hearts. Raith vs. East Fife.
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  • 333 13 W/iqf A Stumper For Test Selectors \NOTHER injury headache for England Test selectors. Godfrey Evans is out ol the deciding Fifth Test against South Africa at the Oval. And deputy wicketkeeper Arthur Mclntyre is doubtful Evana nw a specialist yesterday ai.ri the verdict: N*o
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  • 77 13 Ford Wins Rich Golf Prize CHICAGO. Aug. 8 <AP) Dons Ford, National Professional Goif Association champion, shot a dosing to capture the U553,420 first prize in the All-American s°'f tourney by three strokes yesterday. Ford',- 72-ho!e total of 277 was 11 below Tarn O'Shanter par. The 33-year-old Ford, fourth leading
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  • 783 13  -  Peter Wilson Says Charles Joins The Sad Parade Of Fallen Champions WHAT species of madness is it that afflicts former world heavyweight champions so that they drag their reluctant bodies into the ring long after their eyes have dimmed, their limbs have weakened and their reflexes
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  • 435 13 World Sport In Brief JOHANNESBURG REG lIIGGINS, British Isles forward who was injured during the first Rugby Union International between the Lions and South Africa at Ellis Park here was left behind in a Johannesburg nursing home today. Reuter. HAMBURG Ken Bousfield (Coombehill) recent winner of the newly instituted British
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  • 180 13 LONDON. Aug. 8 (Rev- ter) Moscow Radios x sports commentators said today's match be- tween Spartak and Wol--2 verhampton Wanderers x was "high sport." Summing up the game he said "Our traditional 2 .encounter with the Bri- tish footballers air x marked by a fierce sportsmanlike pugna-
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  • 122 13 Sixteen Colony schools have entered for the SBA's Inter School Knockout Tournament. They are: SL Andrew School. St. Thomas .School. Chung Cheng \v School. Holy Innocents School. Chung Cheng B School. Bartley Secondary. Youna Institution. ACS.. Chinese High Sihool. St. Josephs Institution. Serangoon English School. Vcitoria (YCllOW),
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  • 475 13 SINGAPORE Badminton Association fixtures for tomorrow arc: MEN'S JIMOR DOUBLES I Second Round) Court No. 1; 1i.45 p.m.: Tco Chyc Hoc and Slow Watt Soon (Fairwind) vs. Kok Tcng Foo and Chen Ah Chee L. Strike). Amir Hassan and Ang Ah Chee (Superwing) va Suadi bin Hi.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 265 13 Ibner By Al Capp j They'd l/ve harp/lv. ever after, sp -aa/o a tvp/cai. careful mother. T*Z /T WERE AST FOR TWO STRAA/GERS xJL TH/S /S TH£ V/EW <V RORO[/ER GETS OP VOKUMS POPCVER P/LISB/LL Y. PRES/DEAJT CF THE HER. AS SHE ZOOMS TOWARD H/M A T A#£ &/HS3/L/.Y FLOUR
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    26 14 Race Finishes THESE pictures show how the runners finished in all eight races at Penang last Saturday. Picture No. 6 is the Penang Gold Cup race.
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  • 279 14  -  WINDSOR LAD By ]\OW it can be told. Mr. T. H. Menzies' four-year-old champion Zabaglione which slammed the Penang: Gold Cup field on Saturday was very nearly a scratch- j ing in the big race His trainer, Milton Sullivan, was in Kuala Lumpur
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  • 130 14 Hongkong Will Name Boxing Team Today THE TEAM to represent Hongkong in the South-east Asia boxing championships to be held in Singapore from Aug. 20 to Sept. 3 will be announced today. This was stated by the Hongkong A.B.A. in a le"tter to Bertie Dunsford. Hon. secretary of the Singapore
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  • 62 14 -KJi^LA LUMPUR Mon.-The rAKLLf individual swimming and diving (individual* championship! will be held on Oct 5 at the Xuflield Pool. Singapore On Or: 4. FARFLF water polo championships will be held a t 1 tot HO Malaya Command compeiit.)!> are asked to send in their S2T« Sept.
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  • 31 14 MALACCA. Mon— Malac Ch' Muar Club at billiards by 4 mal^ R< T re tion Club beat game here yesterday. «*"-nes lo 1 in a friendly
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  • 168 14 Spore vs Selangor Four Times A Year SINGAPORE will play four matches a year against Selangor. The Singapore Amateur Football Association disclosed last night that arrangements have been finalised for this annual series. Two of these matches will be played in Singapore and the other two in Kuala Lumpur. The
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  • 214 14 WITH the Malayan Games at Ipoh 18 days away, Singapore's chosen athletes turned up in force for their second training: session at Bras Basah Road yesterday. The session be^an with starting practice? for the sprin- ters, led by 9.9 man Tan Ens Yoon. The relay team
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  • 111 14 BOD. in preparation for the commg hockey season started off 0:1 the right note yesterday when they beat R.E.M.E 2-I.' in a friendly match at Friendly HiM Centre forward Kirpal Singn played an outstanding game for BOD. scoring two goals. Alter a .session of mid-field play.
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  • 190 14  - KITSON LEONG IS RIDING IN TOP FORM WINDSOR LAD II v bes moctmu ever when he rode of trainer Jack Martin's stable Kitscn rode hi. 26th winner ?ol m atUrd< y 1o et °n even terms with apprentice John Manning In their neck and neck ince apprentice allow.tv^iih 0 ]andcf
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  • 388 14 Singapore "A" 3 Kelantan AN OPPORTUNIST goal by Ibrahim Yohov- I scored in the last minute, enabled Kelantn* hold Singapore "A" to a 3-3 draw in last niq h t floodlit soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadi The match played before a crowd of saw the Singapore side start
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  • 137 14 MILAN Mon (Reuter) Pol'ce stood by here yesterday with radio cars and fire hoses in case fans of tvo Italian football clubs staged demonstrations outside the National League Headquarters while a commission investigated a bribery scandal. The League Commission was examining charges by *he former secretary of
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  • 31 14 JOHORE BAIIRU. Mon. John Edington of Kulai Besar Estate, who captained the Johore Rugger team in the past two years, leaves for Britaia on Srunday with his wife.
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  • 23 14 ROYAL S i Timah Sport> goate to one in a Sii A.F.A. Junior Cup-tii played at Jalan Besar last night
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  • 224 14 SINGAPORE Cricket Association failed to arrive at a definite decision on the projected-visit of a strong University of Ceylon cricket team. The Association, meeting at the SCC yesterday, then proposed to leave all arrangements of the tour in the hands of the Malayan Cricket
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  • 38 14 1 l .L l( f| hfi lamed In r »^i M'lrr and FriPJ ik( Did g DOU NOTimcto] Iron (.Int^y ie [xm "douhl 100 v, *hue and Kn: vitrcc 1 kk tl.ird RKif!| prcM-nt malttl Hilt M
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  • 174 14 Tay Volleys His Way To 'Last 8' IPOH. Mon. In conditions not conducive to good tennis, Moses Tay. defending champion in the Perak open lawn tennis championships, volleyed his way through to the men's singles quarter-finals today. Tay scored a resounding (1-2. 6-: i victory over club male Choong Gah
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  • 162 14 AX Ipoh Swifts team of 11 athletes will compete at the Singapore Swift Athletic Associations fourth annual championships on Saturday m 2. .50 p.m. on the Victoria School ground. This If t-he first time a Federation team will take part in the Swifts' meets An official
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  • 65 14 THE "Amoy Canning" girls' basketball team from Hongkong won their opening match 54-16 against Nanyang Girls' School on Sunday "night. Mr. S. T. Wang, manager of the visiting team, told The Standard yesterday that his team would play a series of matches in Singapore and
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    • 40 14 DIV. 1: s t fiia us r.s. lan Bcsar at JI'XIOR CUP: I X I Plain; BOD Kaiovg SC at G Springdalc SC. Allah al St. G< Western S.C r.c at Farrcr P ARMY M.O.R. LEAGI I Div. 2- Junior
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