Singapore Standard, 18 August 1955

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  • 18 1 Singapore Standard #a jt A m. PTT. v H SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1955 VI PAGES IS CENTS
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  • 45 1 Witness Escapes Attempt On Life light aton the life Gene Case in d he was road at ofl Rochore :a Street broached. Uoitor. Yelled ffce Taxi-Driver MX. WfTVWttl Awards and iv. id being 1 the taxi 11 You sped n made mvestigai foreign was killed
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  • 24 1 Aug oka circu-L'n.u-d States here have circulation in comol certain v an inlocal reliinnounced "Allah. God "How the Began."
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  • 11 1 I to Commuk or Security I T*e6 in the i
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  • 94 1 r\P L > ON 4 bO: AuK 17 »Ar)—An India couple r arr l r d two days abandoned their honeymoon today and staited a u ung r strike in fr °nt of tne Portuguese Embassy to protest the shooting of Indian demonstrators in Goa. A
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  • 86 1 Tanker In Distress Seeks Aid BOMBAY, Aug. 17 (Reuter) i- The British 'tanker Caltex Glasgow sailed from Bombay today to help her sister ship the Caltex Singapore, reported in distress 250 miles to the south. Both tankers belong to the Overseas Tankership Corporation. The Caltex Singapore (10.610 tons) sent out
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  • 491 1 Birthday Gift For MacD City Freeman TEN THOUSAND people in Singapore yesterday saw the Commissioner-General for South-east Asia, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, receive his 54th birthday gift the Freedom of the City of Singapore. The popular Commissioner-General, was made the fourth Freeman of the City at a colour ceremony held
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  • 281 1 Tm Very Pleased With The Outcome' Says Jubilant Marshall SINGAPORE'S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS OVER. A jubilant Chief Minister (Mr. David Marshall) announced at a press conference yesterday that he was "very pleased" with the outcome of the month-long constitutional negotiations, which climaxed in a brief meeting
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  • 52 1 STANLEY COUNTY. Durham. Aug. 17, (Reuter)— Ralph Bowden. 34-year-old disabled ex ser/ice man. drank a pint of beer in 4.4 seconds to win a challenge cup as "the fastest beer walloper ever seen at the club." He is a member of the Central Working Men's Club
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  • 25 1 THE Chief Secretary. Mr. VV.A.C. Goode. will move a motion prolonging the Emergency Regulations for a further three months at today's Legislative Assembly.
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  • 52 1 photo. THE Commissioner-Gen-pral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald inscribes his name on the roll of the Freemen of the City of Singapore at the City Hall steps yesterday. Behind him is the City Council President. Mr. TP.F. McNeice On the rifiht is the City Council Secretary. Mr
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  • 310 1 Calcutta Turns Into A Ghost City CALCUTTA, Aug. 17, (Reuter) Rioting Indians today attacked^ the British-owned premises of G. MacKenzie and Company Limited here, hurling stones through the windows and trying to fire a car because the firm did not respond to the general strike
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  • 27 1 QANTAS air service from Cocos Island to Singapore will cease on Aug. 29. the airline office annoi 1 1 4 <rk Capetown yesterday.- Reuter
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  • 35 1 NEW DELHI. Aug. 17 < Reuter) Some 2.000 Government Junior clerks postponed their "strip tease strike" for higher wages here today in view of "the serious situation facing the Government in Goa."
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  • 130 1 FAMAGUSTA. Cyprus, Aug. 17. (Reutcr)— A so-called sorcerer. "Michael the Turk." sent to prison here on Monday for procuring women by "magic." was told by the judge that the stupidity or loose morals of his victims was no defence for him. Jeering crowds shouted
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  • 37 1 KUALA LUMPUR Wed. The soaring price of rubber swelled the Federation's revenues by more than $3,000.--000 during July. Government announced tonight. Export duties on rubber netted $16,474,000 as against $13,339,000 for June.
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  • 185 1 MR. S. JAGANATHAN, City Councillor for South Ward, yesterday accused "petty dictators" of forcing: the City Council workers to strike. He said that the shouts of "Merdeka" by pickets and the reported sabotage attempt on public property proved that motives other than the welfare of
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  • 31 1 AN inmate of the Outram Jail in Singapore was admitted to the General Hospital with severe head injuries received in a light with a fellow prisoner last night.
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  • 51 1 MELBOURNE. Aug. 17. ißeuter) The Australian Army Minister Mr Josiah Francis. announced today that Major D.G. Sharp would command the Australian unit of the British Commonwealth Far East Strategic Reserve in Malaya. Major Sharp, 35. will be promoted to Lieutenant-Col-onel before taking up his new
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  • 194 1 TIMES ON STORE LONDON, Aug. 17 (Reuter) The Times said today that Singapore sought more of the spirit than the constitution s definition of self-government. 4 'Singaporc is surrounded by countries which have achieved their independence within the last decade.' tins independent newspaper
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  • 65 1 PRESTWICK. Scotland. Auk. 17 <AP) The Duke o! Edinburgh today piloted a plan* which brought his mother. Princess Andrew of Greece, here on her way to Denmark The Duke arrived six minute^ before a Scandinavian Airlines plane was to take oft for Copenhagen. Three minutes after
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  • 471 2 British People Lauded By MacD. THE ORDINARY British citizens are not snobs or stuffed shirts, but are people who believe in equality, I freedom for themselves and others, ond friendship, said the Com-missioner-General for South-east Asia, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, yesterday. Mr. Mac Donald said this
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  • 278 2 A FORMER ledger clcik of the Overseas-Chinese Bank Tay Eng Wah. came up for trial before Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah in the Singapore Assizes yesterday <>n two charges of criminal breach of trust involving The Deputy Public Prosecutor. Mr. T.A. Mahony. tola the
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  • 181 2 THE LITY Council President. Mr T P F McNeice, yesterday described Mr. Malco.ii Mac Donald, as "the embodiment of the democratic ioa:? which are the ba»i* of our conception of life. 1 Mr NflcNeice, who was speaking at the conferment ceremony, said, "We know
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  • 127 2 LONDON Aug. 17 (Rruter) The Independent risht winj; Daily Kxpiess said today that it was "preposterous to Mggest trat the Indian Print* .Minister Mr Jawaharlal Nehru had been largely responsible for the Bis Four leaders' meeting in Geneva. The Express was criticisiiK Mr. Maleota MatDonald. Britain's Commi
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  • 94 2 A FATHER and his two aooptcn children \vn be the nrst family from Borneo to enter the United States under the Refuse Relief Art Ihey are Mr Hugh En Chen jnd bis children Herbert and Helena aged 13 and 15 res- 1 pecliveij The./
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  • 39 2 HONGKONG Aug 17 Special Standard Service: LHosins prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.36 to HI .sterling. $5 8075 to US$l. 835 to Malayan SI. (0.134 to on c Indonesian Rupich. Gold $*****5 to a taei.
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  • 96 2 KANGAR, Wed.— Perils today sprang an election surprise for the Alliance which had enjoyed a spate of walk-overs in State and Settlement Council nomina- The Alliance will bo opposed by NVgara and PanMalayan Islamic Association candidates in all the nine constituencies in the coming
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  • 212 2 Workers' Claims Settled THE 20-day-old strike by 1.300 employees of 25 Singapore sawmills is over. The men will return to work today. This follows an agreement between the managements of sawmills and the workers reached yesterday on claims affecting all categories of workmen. The Assistant Commissioner for
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  • 116 2 Bus Drivers Arrest Is Ordered THE Singapore Coroner. Mr. K. T. Alexander, yesterday ordered the immediate arrest of Scow Ah Leng. a Tay Koh Vat bus driver, on a charge of causing the death of a two-year-old child by a negligent act while driving along Thomson Road, on June 10.
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  • 17 2 THE Cathay Organization was yesterday granted ten lots for a cinema near Newcome Road. Malacca.
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  • 150 2 COMMODITY Price CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 K.S.S Spot Loose 1341 1.°,4 t fob Aug. 134; 145{ No 2 129| 130 No. 3 125" l:> 6 Tone: IrresuJar. TIN PRICK The price of tin yesterday was 5373J per picul dp SI).
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  • 373 3 MORE COUNCIL LORRIES TO BE OUT TODAY- RE A Strike— But 'Hundreds' Report For Work ESSENTIAL services in Singapore were not seriously affected by the strike of the 10,000 dailyrated employees of the City Council which began yesterday. The City's water, electricity and gas supplies wore normal in spite of
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  • 59 3 photo. THE Secretary of Stale for the Colonies. Mr. Alan Lennox Bo\d (in b a r k g r o v n a facing camera) with the 20 Tradt Union leaders who held an hour's discussion with bim yesterday. On his right is the
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  • 559 3 A HEALTHY trade union movement devoted to the improvement and dedicated to raising the standard of living of workers in all British territories is part of British Government's policy, declared Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, the Secretary ot State ior Colonies, yesterday. Afier a sixty minute closed door
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  • 62 3 TWO youths attacked a young couple who were sitting in an open space in Tion? Bahni on Monday night and got away with a fountain pen worth $48 The youths snatched the pen from the pocket of Lee Yeow Tong. When Lee attempted to retrieve his
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  • 46 3 GOH TECK SIEW. alias Ik Slew was charged in the Singapore Fifth Magistrates Court yesterday with the murder of Peck Boon Yiam at Cro.v> Street <>r. June 15 The Magistrate, Mr. R. B j I Pates, remand. 1 Goh till Aug. 19.
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  • 111 3 WELLINGTON, Auk. 1" CBe«ter) Army headquarter* here announced today that New Zealand's Special Air Service Squadron to Bghl Malaya's terrorists would be taken by Koyal New /•aland Air Forte transport aircraft to Malaya in three sections. beginning about Nov. 10. A small advance party
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  • 39 3 PART of th^ cost of sending a Pan-Malayan Student Federation delegation to visit student organisations in Australia will be met by Government if a 12,500 vote is approved by the Legislative Assembly tort a v.
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  • 88 3 TWO teenage sirls. Wong Chec Lat. Mak Scow Ha, and a boy, Ng Choon Sum. pleaded guilty in the Seventh Magistrate's Court to a charge of being drunk and disorderly at 1 a.m. on Aug. 17, at Prince Edward Road. Police in a
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  • 85 3 Picked A Pen From Tec's Pocket In Bus HOW a plck-pockrt. Woon Pan Lim. was caught when he "fished" a detective's fountain-pen from his pocket in a bus at E.as Basah Road on June 29. the Singapore Third District judge was told yesterday. On Worm's person was found another pen
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  • 386 4 Wife On Acid Charge KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— A pretty washerwoman, Low Ah Kiew, 24, told the Magistrate's Court here today how she spent a night in a hotel room with a barkeeper and his wife. The next morning, she said, the wife threw
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  • 141 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A man pleaded with the Federation Chief Justice. Sir Charles Mathew. here today not to be sent back to Pudu Jail. Leong Ah Kow pleaded cuilty to robbing Foong Chow of Scntul of $3,000 in cash and Jewels
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  • 93 4 JOiiORE baiiru. WedL Chow Ah Hon. who was captured by a patrol of "the Ma' a y Regiment in :hc Plentong area after an engagement with terrorists on .Tune 10, was sentenced to death at the Assizes today for being :n unlawful possession of seven rounds
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  • 26 4 TWO nurses from Pcnang will shortly leave for the United Kingdom to attend the nurse tutor course which begins at Edinburgh University in September.
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  • 179 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The despatch clerk of a printers' firm told the Sessions Court today that he regularly visited the General Post Office and used official rubber stamps on cash receipts himself while counter clerks were engaged on other duties. Abdul Gafoor, 23. of
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  • 41 4 THE Little Sisters of the Poor will have their Home for the Aged at Thomson Road repaired at Government expense if the $.35,000 allocated as contributions to the Home is approved at the Legislative Assembly today.
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  • 116 4 He Now Has One Penalty To Pay Off KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Khoo Teng Chwce. 18-year-old former \'ictoria Institution student, emerged tcday from Pudu Jail where he is serving a seven-year jail term for culpable homicide to face another charge in the High Court. Khoo who wa.s imprisoned for the slaying
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  • 49 4 MORE thefi have boon reports I police. Yeo Boon I lives in an SIT fl Road which were hai iw on I ins when be woke lip the lowing morni A watch valued ai $90 in cash which ho c< the trouser pockets v. missing.
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  • 43 4 KOH Hens Choy v claimed trial in th Magistrate's Court charge of voluntarily hurt toPoh Ah Y< axe on Aug. 16 at i C1 S?c nB wa^ O anowrd II and the case was postp to Sept. 22.
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  • 216 4 Fields For Political Meets An Election Issue— Lee PEOPLE'S Action Party's Sec-retary-General, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, yesterday declared that he will make the free use of public fields in the care of the local authority for political meetings an election issue in the next local .government elections. Mr. Le c
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  • 41 4 C^I ndenc^yp: MISS Ilertati Kartouisastrn daHghtf (leneral for the Republic of Indonesia P "Ciolek' dance, at last Bight* < < 1.-bralum in Sm J of the 10th anniversary of l«d<HKsu'f Miss Hcrtati has just returned from Europf.-sui photo
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  • 183 4 'Slum Clearance Law Oppresses Squatters Call For Repeal KUALA LIMPI R. Wed. KJifan amm and welfare societies claiming to represent id Lumpur's 100,000 squatters are petitioning Imj Abdul Rhman, the Chief Minister. U repeal ttej sent slum clearance law and Hi up local M authorities to provide low <»st houses.
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  • 40 5 THESE are the "Merdeka" shouting and fist-waving workers of Sinftapon- s Pumt Panjans Power Station who were the fnst of 10.000 City Council employees to strike at midnight «n Tuesday. Standard photo by Joseph Wee
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  • 88 5 TWO men robbed $200 from i ;> trol Mosk m Holland Road, on Tuesday night. ng Ngiap Choon. A.i em- ployee, waa awakened from .-ieep oy motorist who asked for petrol Mter attending his CUS- 1 torn* r. Wong waa about to urn the
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  • 383 5 Dutch Law Expert Called In Big Oil Suit OIL extracted from Dutch company concessions in tin- Netherlands Kast In- dies during the war became Japanese property w hen they got it into the pipe line. s was said by Dr. D. G. V< Senior Deputy Standing Counsel of the Netherlands
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  • 295 5 Citizenship And Language SINGAPORE Chinese Chamber of Commerce will present two petitions to the Secretary of State for Colonies, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, today. One calls for the creation of a Singapore Citizenship and the other urges the introduction of the Chinese language as a
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  • 67 5 GrRLEIINGS to the Federal Legislative Council from the peop^* of Singapore will be sent today alto a motion by the hief Minister Mr David Marsnall is adopted The motion to be tab'.ed reavls. 'Oi this historic oreasion. the Singapore Legislative Assembly oti beha't (j( the people of Singapore
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  • 207 5 Four To Keep The Peace SINGAPORE Fourth Magistrate, Mr. J M. Deve-roux-Colebourn, yesterday called a Standard reporter to give evidence before binding over two men and two women to keep the peace. The four people were Court peon Ibrahim bin Ahmad. Rii hard Ong Ban
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  • 93 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed Sinnasamy. a labourer employed on Ulu Tiram Estate, was committee today to stand trial in the High Court on a charge of murdering his two-year-old daughter. Hi.s wife told the Magistrate's Court that on May 14 she found the girl in a room in the
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    • 1080 5 mHfiAPORt, l.l.»;i*l \TIVK ASSEMBLY: Meeting a" Assembly Hail lo am PI Bl.'l RELATIONS: Mobile J Units shows at Henderson H: Lab Q:s. and We-. Coas? Road 7i mi \M( A. Cn-ke practice 53t pm Judo practice S JO »m Table tennis 7pm Ir.'i.a. dancing ciat^ 7 30 p m. SHELL
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    • 473 6 |N the Old Testament there is a chapter which a\s that there la a time to everything under the heaven a time to love and a time to hate, a time to build and a time to destroy. The time to hate and to destroy has
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    • 440 6 r PHL Pan-Malayan Islamic Party has administered A an effective snub to the supporters of multi- In a petition which the party plans to ■end the Malay Rulers, the PMIP shows that it will rot stand lor any attempt to introduce this form of babelism into meetings
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  • 1219 6  - US- Far East POLICY More Flexible Alastalr Buchan By WASHINGTON. PRESIDENT Eisenhower ant Mr. Dulles. the United Sidles Secretary of State. hu-e been at some pains in their recent public statements to ensure that too mi;; h significance shall not be attached to the recent conversations between represervatives of the
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  • 625 6  -  Aster Gunasekera By IT IS one wretched strike after another in the City of Singapore. Today, 10.000 daily-rated employees of the Singapore City Council members of the City Council Labour Unions' Federation have downed tools 13 months after a 12--day strike last year which caused considerable inconvenience to the
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  • 171 6 Sir: The setting-up of a TV station in Singapore is really an interesting proposition. I will lea 6 its intricacies to wiser heads but I would like to point out here the pros and cons of it and you can see that the favour is for TV.
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  • 203 6 Sir: Unnecessary inconvenience is beinsj caused to visitors to Brunei by the peculiar attitude of the Immigration Department officials there. I have observed this during my recent short visit to that State when the Immigration officer, who collected travellini papers on board for endorsement, took lour days to
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  • 101 6 Sir: Piny? arc wanted by the Pcnang Chinese Advisory Board but they be written in Chinese. May I say thai n good production should have a universal anneal. It could oniy be appreciated by heterogeneous public in Malaya when the language spoken on the stage could be understood by
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  • 150 6 Sayings Of The Week Capitalism has ceased to be a mattei of Individual Ownership. Capitalist organisation now is merely a way of getting tilings done. In America the common funds buiit up for labour pensions anH the like are buying, and in 25 years will own. the chief power over
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  • 436 6 We the PEOPLE Sir: The Wamta Malaya are beginning take an active part evolution of Malaya was .shown by the \w. participated in the elections, discarding conservative upbr,: enter public and work. Compared with Western counterpart are moving up rat] The women in M properly guided. a great part in
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  • 19 6 UjyilJiL TO Languages i I I I I I J ."j Ii CO!. 1 I I Conference I j
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  • 231 7 U.S. Army Officer Stoned In Renewed Riots .r (l I* 17 < IP > Angry South Koreans ations against Communist truce insmi a U.& army lieutenant was stnnpH \r back by 1 to storm the causeway Ujd m Inchon harbour, but S. troops with tear gas lire hoses. The officer
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  • 19 7 'Red Bid For Korean Unity Is Fancy Talk' j-.-ctcd withi crn- of on rth Ko- i ed :p:ed as
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  • 55 7 Affair With Movie Bit Player Denied S w ;k: ES, aif it. I (AP P^r Ai in..;:' Freed denied yc.-terdav he mate with a er. Mis Mai y haa brought a him. (1 further that she him. Mrs. Morr fes she and F imate on numeS US$lOO,--ment suit afainsi fa
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  • 38 7 SELSEY. England. Aug. 17 <AP> The quiet thief entered the home of gold mine magnate Claude A de Bernalies on Monday night and made off with Jewellery Tahiti l 1 27.000 while he and watching lelen.
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  • 72 7 A NKW picture of Her Royal Highness Princess Anne by photographer Marcus Adams, taken for her Fifth hirtnday. r l he Princess is wearing a blue broderie anglaise dress, edged with embroidered daisies. The doll she is holding was presented to the Queen for her, by New Zealandcrs
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  • 284 7 Chou s View On Visit To Japan HONGKONG, Aug. 17, (Reuter)— Mr. Chou En-lai, the Chinese Premier, said today that the time "may not be ripe" for the heads of the Chinese and Japanese governments to visit each other, Peking Radio reported. Ho was
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  • 86 7 A Lover' s Clasp And Then Bang Goes A Grenade SOUTHAMPTON. Aug. 17 (AP) A jilted young lover clasped his former girl friend to him and set off a handgrenade on Monday shouting: "If 1 can't have you, no one else, will." Leslie Horn. 21. fell dead of wounds from
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  • 116 7 CANBERRA. Aug 17, (Reuter)—The Australian Defence Minister. Sir Philip Mcßride. announced today that service officers from member countries of the South-east Asia Pact <SEATO» will meet in Melbourne next Monday "to take defence planning for the treaty area another stage forward." This meeting,
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  • 41 7 VIENNA, Aug. 17 (Reuter) —The la.st trace of the "demarcation line" between the old British and Soviet occupation zones of Austria disappeared today when Russian soldiers carried away the wooden barrier on the Semmering Pass in the southeast.
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  • 50 7 NEW YORK. Aug. 17 (Reuter) Dr. Richard Porter, president of the American Rocket Society, said yesterday there might be several man-made moons in the sky soon after the U.S. Government's artificial satellite project was under way. One of them might well be Soviet-made, he added.
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  • 90 7 LONDON. Aug 17 (Reuter) Nearly one third of London Transport's 20.000 bus conducLors are women more than at any time since World War 11. the Commission announced today Ana the Commission still want more. Recruiting from among factory girls, secretaries, housewives and shop assistants is going on
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  • 22 7 A TREATY lor scientific and technical ro-operation between Finland and the Soviet Union was signed in Helsinki on Tuesday. Reuter
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  • 198 7 PINEVILLE, Kentucky. Aug. 17 <AP» As a testimonial to their faith, members of a snake-handling cult plan to hold services on Sunday with a rattlesnake that fatally bit one of their mountain preachers. Preacher Oscar Sutton said the killer snake will be handled by
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  • 191 7 PARIS. Aug. 17 (Reuter) Hundreds of French West African negroes. who make the Moslem pilgrimage to Mecca are sold into slavery in Saudi Arabia and the Yemen, according to Pastor Emmanuel La Graviere. a member of the French Union Assembly. "A real traffic in slaves
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  • 249 7 SOEKARNO'S PLEA ON REPUBLIC DAY JAKARTA, Aug. 17, (AP) President Soekarno tonight urged the provisional parliament to do its utmost to have the first general elections scheduled to start on Sept. 29 without any more delay. Soekarno was speaking before a special
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  • 102 7 US, Egypt To Discuss Friendship CAIRO. Aug. 17: (Renter)— A "lrank" discussion of United States-Egyptian relations took place last night at a two-and-a-half hour meeting between the Egyptian Foreign Minister. Dr. Mahmoud Fawzy and the United States Ambassador Mr. Henry Byroade. diplomatic sources said. The Egyptian Ambassador to the United
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  • 62 7 SRIXAGAR. Aug. 17. (Router) The executive of the Kashmir Branch of the Pra.ja Socialist Party voted here over the week-end for the dissolution of t he present Kashmir Legislative Assembly and for fresh election?. The executive adopted a resolution saying the party intended "to replare
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  • 28 7 WASHINGTON. Aug. 17 (UP)— The State Department has announced that the regular annual meeting of the ANZUS Council has been set lor Sept. 24. in Washington.
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  • 72 7 Nudists' Remedy For 'Peepers' WESTMORELAND ON SYLT. Aus. 17 (Reuter) The nudist colony on this North Sea Island, one of the favourite West German summer resorts, have been throwing "peeping toms into the sea fully clothed or forcing them to strip They have also threatened to stone visitors who come
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  • 41 7 LINCOLN. Nebraska, Aug. 17 (AP> Some 200 rioting prisoners at the Nebraska penitentiary returned to their cells peacefully today after a squad of shotgunarmed police and national guardsmen marched into the cell block. No shots were fired.
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  • 174 7 'BRITAIN'S ABYSMAL DEPTHS' NEW YORK. Aug 17. <Re'J- .-'—Britain's popular daiiy newspaper >• were labelled least informative" in the world and of "tawdry character" in articles la the New York Times and Time news magazine yesterday. Time magazine devoted most of a two-pag section i n the press to a
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  • 39 7 PUBLISHERS of Chine c newspapers in Nationalist China and South-east Asia have adopted a 12-polnt code ot conduct with thf double aim of raising their own ethical standards anC supporting the Nationalists anti Communist program- me.- A.P.
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  • 241 7 LONDON. Aug. 17 <UP> The tabloid newspaper Daily Sketch predicted yesterday that Britain's Royal Marriage Act may be changed to permit Princess Margaret to marry the m^n of her choice. The Conservative Daily Telegraph also mentioned the Marriage Act, pointing out
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  • 69 9 raX Ce>!on Government cd Burma asking for a [ensioo <>< rice expSrtj to Ceyto ';v C month, because of t. v ory position of stocks, it was learned in b rma's economy will n t be affected by accedmg o vJ request because Burma wi P
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  • 157 9 MARITIME EXPANSION Standard Shipping Reporter GERMANY is taking the lead in the international race for merchant marine expansion. A .study of statistics showthat only five years ago, the German shipping deadweight tonnage was betwetn the 135,000 and 150,000 mark. Today, the total tonnage has cleared the
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  • 139 9 Singapore Cmnese Pro-! due,. Exchange noon closing prices <per Dicul* yesterday wore: Muntok white pepper $169, sellers. Sarawak white $168. .sellers. Special Sarawak black $121 sellers, coconut oil! in bulk $40 sellers, in drum.* $42 sellers; copra Augu>t $26 buyers. $26J sellers. September $27 buyers $27 sellers. October
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  • 154 9 a^a^a^a^a^a^^a^a^a^a^^a^g^^^Bg^OgjOgjgajjßS>fltetfpMJfl|PMJ[MHtgj[li^^ ASSETS at banks operating in Malaya (excluding overseas assets) at the end of June totalled $775,456,000, against $805,839,000 at the end of the previous month, banking statistics show. The Juno assets were made lp of $55,997,000 in cash < Maayan currency); $5,000,000 in reasur? bills;
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  • 201 9 KUALA LIMPIR, Wed. The President of the Miners' Association of Selangor, Nefri Sembilan and Pahang, Mr. 11. S Lee, today expressed disappointment over the delayed ratification of the International Tin Agreement. Addressing the annual general meeting of the Association, Mr. Lee said he
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  • 31 9 THE International Cooperation Administration announced in Washington that it has allocated to Thailand U552,714,000 for the purchase of textile products, including cordace. two-ton trucks and tractors.— UP
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  • 24 9 THE state-owned British coal mines lost £4.596.000 in the first quarter of this year. The National Coal Board announced in London.
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  • 478 9 U.S. Plan To Clarify Cotton Situation WASHINGTON. Aug. 17 The United States Government has reaffirmed basic stockpiling policies in the announcement that it will continue to price its surplus cotton for export at the same level as domestic sales prices. This decision took more than the usual amounts of courage
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  • 176 9 PORT SWETTEMIAM, Wed. The first of three new ships of the Swedish East Asia Line, the 5,300--ton Minikoi, arrived here last night on her maiden voyage. She sailed for Sin gapore tonight. A spokesman of the ship's agents told The Standard today that Sabang. the
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  • 351 9 RICE BUYING POLICY BENEFITS CONSUMERS THE Singapore Government's rice buying policy has proved beneficial to the local consumers who for the moment will not be affected by the increase in the price of Thai rice. Government is selling its rice from the stockpile at below prices ruling in the market,
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  • 171 9 Price Rises 2 3 A Cts. THE Singapore rubber market yesterday closed weak after fluctuating: widely between $1,421 n the morning (up 7J cents on Tuesday) and 51. 37 A at the close for first grade September shipment, a rise of 2] cents on the
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  • 47 9 SOURCES Hose to the Burmese Cabinet reported that a Red ChineseBurmese bilateral air agreement had been reached. L'nder the agreement, these sources said, Burmese planes nil! fly to Kunming and Canton and Red Chinese planes will be allowed into Rangoon's Mingaladnn Airport.— A P
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  • 35 9 A TRADE agreement between Indonesia and India, originally signed on January 30, 1953, was further extended until the end of the December this year under an exchange of letters here on Tuesday. AP
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  • 111 9 WITH operators still with- 1 1 holding, all sections of the Malayan share market experi- enced another Quiet day. according to the Malayan Snare- brokers' Association yesterday, i The market was featureless. with rubber shares ignoring trends in the rubber commodity market. Price changes
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  • 125 9 SINGAPORE sharebrokers yesterday reported ihe following business done: 88. Petrol 43'- .',rviv.<l mr! UK. slumn: Fraser Neaw ord $1.70; W. Hnmmrr $2.«0: M Coll B] cents; Metal Box 40. Robinson ords S2 ')U. Sinca| CoM Storage II 871; straits Strnrmhip $13; Straits Trndcrs22 90; Union Ii ir.
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  • 285 9 1 111. British Colonial Secretary. Mr. A. I.rnno\-Bo>d, and Lady Patricia l.rnnnxBoyd. visited a "self-rnn-tained" township in British Borneo recently It had been hacked out of music and swamp to become a thriving industry of Hi 000 men and women (with their families) all
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  • 81 9 AUSTRALIA not mU ord to ncs'ft trade \vi !i Jap* an or drive her to c 1 cr markets, dialrman of me A.ua* tralian Wool-Growers Council, Mr. W A. Gunn, said in bourne yesterday. He was commenting on the recent announcement by P; Minister
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  • 38 9 THE New s tth W» cs Joint Coal Board ktmi arranged lor a trial shipment of roking rnal to Japan In m attompt to < tablish res ilai i M trade with that rountrv.- A P
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    • 151 9 OITI R ROADS Else Maenk, Wei If ing. Golden Cape. Van Outnoorn. Kyoto Maru. Gaastkerk, Japara, Thorstrand. Santhia. Hoosier S:ate. Maxwell Brandcr, Wcitcritcin, Mci Nam. ENNEB ROADS Tcrk Thong. Ar nhrim. Kimanis, Pacific. Vong Ann. Hydra. Merlimau. Indan Bcia^.t. Giang Seng. Hanyang, Tg. Pinang, Jarak. Loh Sic Lee. Van Den
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  • 1064 10 it is one or i n e s ica t vr:: I tragedies of India that despite her earnest and sustained efforts it has not vet been possible to repair the breach caused by ÜBjon's attempts to repatriate oYndia the old Tamil labour who had toiled on Ceylon
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  • 922 10  - Bandit-Hunter FIJIANS Have 3 Reasons To Return Home RAWLE KNOX by CERGEANT Ismaeli Radredo has become something of a popular hero in Malaya. This is strange, because he is a Fijian, and few Malayan., ever heard of the Fiji Islands before the islanders agreed to send a battalion here three-and-a-half
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    • 253 10 SHAW BROTHERS ORGANISATION ATTRACTIONS PADITfII STARTS TODAY!* UArl lUL fm n. <45, 4 n. 6.30, 9.30 .^B^B^B^T* Any Beton B BY gy^ BMW seusation&l 4 B^^^T H novel Cujnes j^fl I to life on 4 jT the «M*«a! Xjßk m^** > I BI^JMIjI' 4i 7 lB sBF^«te^llfcAa^^M < •r. >MA
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    • 102 10 CATHAY ORGANiSATItyC^^^m iAVisHjNT^^ THE ENTERTAIXvh^TT^J today CATHAY* 1 SOPHIA LORry Released by 20th 0n!u...,',.o n!u I THE TOUGIIKStTanT^B I< T in Z^s^'^ji^^ .cSipmon" 4 SHOWS OnH Ik^^M PEDRO ARMENDARiZ 1/ f\Tit I £j£ lUCRECE DUhlli GALA CHARITY WORLD PREMIERE TONIGHT AT9jJ O £k LOVE THAT DEFIED I v j Z+*
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    • 249 10 i 7 1 F i I i HBB^"""i 4 I I 7 I X HB BH Hh IHb 1 —^l —^^■HH I^ilhßl yij hi mhi bh BBF^^l F^l h^^ pi iirc fi- Waltz mixed in the end (8> **I*JC3 13. Supports, stopping flow of ACROSS electricity? (10) 1. Level weapon
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  • 686 11 ENGLAND VICTORIOUS Springboks Lose Test Series LONDON, Wed. (Reuter)— England won a thrilling closely fought Test series by three victories to two today when they beat South Africa by 92 runs in the fifth and final cricket Test at the Oval here. Swarms of schoolboys were already running BCTOSI the
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  • 88 11 IUK all-women friendly bad minton match at Kirn" Pona Koad on Tuesday night— the nrsi of its kind— arranged by ih e Rex Badminton Party and tho Sunbeam Badminton Party resulted in Rex wrinnino 4-1 Results <Rex women mentioned first) were: Singles: Nancy Anc brat Molly Ta,--:
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  • 491 11 JACKS Sports Club, the SBIIFA Division 3 League champions, maintained their lOO'o record to become worthy Group C winners of the League Cup competition after they had trounced Guthrie Sports Club by seven goals to nil at the Farrer Park yesterday. Guthrie were playing with
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  • 51 11 EXPLAINING why Bart Icy Secondary School did not turn up foi their match against Kelanlan Schools at Farrer Park on Sunday the school's sports master said that the matt h had been tailed ofi in the morning and the Kelantan boys had been informed of
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  • 30 11 MELBOURNE, Aug. 17 (UP>— The Austrian Rapidl j-occcr team Ja>t night outclassed South China 1-0 in floodlit C<ime in the Melbourne Showground. Half-time score was 2-0
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  • 78 11 SOCCER DIV. 1: Marine Department Sports Club vs. P.B.U. at Jalan Besar at 5.15 p.m. DIV. 2A: BO. DC. A. vs. St. John's S.C. at Geylang. GOVERNMENT SERVICES LEAGUE DIV. 1: Customs vs. S.T.T.C. "A" at Farrer Park. DIV. 2: S.T.T.C. "B" VS. P. T. at P. T.:
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  • 430 11 Lucky Strike Pair Win The Hard Way FAVOURITES for this year's Colony Junior men's doubles title, Kok l< n- 100 Chen Ah C her of Lucky Strike Badminton Party, entered the third round by eliminating t!i r Victoria Schoolboys, Wong IJoon Kong; Kg All Kov\, l.">-8 15-4, in one of
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  • 34 11 I'HOO-GAN: The engagement 1 announced on 14th Aug. 1855 between h younger brotl-.er of Mr 80,, K-.K s| B.,'u and Lily Cnn. eldest daughter o\ and Mr*. a n lUa Soo of Segan
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  • 30 11 I/OH. Madam w.o aged U i( r- i Aug-.. t md her Chip (.Urtii and five i Funeral sen Methodist Churc L'i 1 J August, 1y.).-, th< oidadar i.
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    • 78 11 111/! C Controlled A Operated by! |"U J ~?I^ (icnrral Amu*ement, ltd. L OPENS TODAY 7.00 o 9.3 0p m r' ds^ sflfl 1010' m ■B^m SSt^^^ t B|j|g^BS^^^B^^V^ IHDRUSCO, Brookfyns most iovabff character ?l> I fNNER OF THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 1". p m Today >i.30 and 9 1"»
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    • 57 11 TAJ CINEMA (Formerly New CHfl Geylanc Serai Phone Ittfi TOUAV 3 SHOWS 3 15. 615 9.15 "KASIH MENUMPANG" (Malay) Starring S. Koomai Noor. Kusini and many others. 4th Week 22 nd Day TODAI •!!.>. W- 9.15 p.m South-hast \via Film (os Talk -of- the litwn Musical •BHAC.WAN and HIS iCHVIII.M
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    • 901 11 CLASSIFIED ADS SITUATIONS VACANT \PPLICATIONS aTe^ invited *1 for the posts cf Obstetric* ar.d Gynaecological Scnirir Registrar, Orthopaedic Senior Registrar ar.d Pediairie Senior Registrar in the Medical Department Singapore. Appointments will be I on probation for years in the first instance, followed, if service has been satisfactory. by permanent and
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    • 238 11 pbner By Al Capp a *AJKe. COMICAL TjpAN A W^***» y_ 1 ,V^ x uaim't ur ley Oop 0y 7. V. Hamlin l* 'i 'V BALONEY/ rYE YET V- "H fT-7^ COOLA A\NT IT GOOO TO I 1 WEU_,YES, BUT I'D RATHER 1 "^Vsl^P SEE TH' LEMIAN I THERE'S I
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    15 12 is hou? they finished fivsivrdtßfj at Hukit iimtth in pictures htj Loo Yuen Hun.
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  • 297 12 It's Tonight Or Never For Don Chua TONIGHTS the night for two of the Colony's most promising boxers Don Razali, the be>t Malay bantamweight today, and Chua Gim Chiang, the youngest Chinese flyweight aiming to go places. R.ztli htf n itcra Icfl in Nai long, the hard-hitting bantamweight champion of
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  • 104 12 Razak Bats Bowls Well SIXTEEX-YEAR OLD Abdul, Razak scored 72 runs not out and took five wickets for tour runs for Ar\glo-Chinese School in an inter-sc hooi cricket match against Victoria School yesterday ACS. won by six wickets and 92 'uns. Razak, who went in as opening bat. was still
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  • 483 12 SABA's AIM: A Full Team jshsh THE Singapore Amateur Boxing Association hope to field a full team in the first South-east Asia Boxing Championships for the Aw Cheng Chyc trophy starting on August 29. The full team comprise 10 boxers, and there are 18 in training at present. This evening,
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  • 134 12 There will be a simple but impressive ceremony to open the championships this month. Australia will lead the competing nations into the Badminton Stadium on the opening night with Singapore, the host country, coming in last. The teams will be introduced to the Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall,
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  • 2205 12  - JACKIE'S KUDA SCORES RUNAWA VICTORY SCRUTINEER By JACKIE'S KUDA, a three-year-old chestnut by Coup de Lyon, made hacks of a Class two division one field when he beat them in a common canter over six furlongs at Bukit Timah yesterday, second day of the Singapore Turf Club August Meeting. Taking
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    • 27 12 ARRANGE YOUR NEXT STAY AT STRAND HOTEL 25 Bencoolen Street, Singapore 7. Central, all modern conveniences. SINGLE $8/. to $10/. DOUBLE $10/. to $12/. IMos. ***** *****
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    • 16 1 LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING h till KSDAY, Al (.1 SI \n. 1955. 11(1 L
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    • 507 1 CALLED, not without justification, lost moving and beautifully stories of modern times, "A I^Y-Sp ndored Thing," by Malaya's n He Suyin (Dr. Elizabeth Comber, 3ahru,> will be given its world re tonight, at the Odeon rtder the title, "Love Is A >Icnd
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    • 432 1 VIGNETTES of stars, and featured actors. JENNIFER JONES, whose rea; name is Phy'.is ls'.cy. started by attending the AcadeiDJ ot Dramatic Arts, New York. Did Little Theatre work which led to her discovery and film career Won an Academy Award as the best actress
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    • 193 1 ACTRESS Jennifer Jones, who plays the starring role ot Han Suvin in the Mm "Love Is A Many-Splendor-ed Thing." was not the only Jennifer involved in this 20th Century-Fox production which Will have its world premiere in Singupore today. The second important Jennifer
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    • 722 1 All Proceeds Will Go To SATA Clinic THE ORIGIN of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association, whose only child, the SATA Clinic, will benefit by tonight's premiere of "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing/ is "already almost mythical/ writes Dr. G. H. Garlick, the Medical Director, in his book
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      • 98 1 I THE OPENING ON THE 20 th AUGUST OF THE NEW SINGAPORE AIRPORT I HOTEL I PAYALEBAR Dine and Dance in the atmosphere of a Country Club V AIR CONDITIONED 5 OEO p INTERNATIONAL RESTAURANT W^j¥£C 7 MALAYAN LOUNGE W&^lJQ^ OPEN AIR TERRACE DANCE TO G. GASPAR jft^y^^'. AND HIS
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    • 326 2 SUMPTUOUS WARDROBE FOR STAR WITH on East-West heroine and the combined media of Cinema Scope and De Luxe colour, Hollywood could not resist the sure fire audience appeal of, in its own words, a "sumptuous" wardrobe for Han Suyin in "Love Is A Many-Splendored
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    • 190 2 SHE SANG SONG WON THE ROLE CAXDACE LEE, the six-year-old daughter of a Chinese butcher in Los Angeles, plays the role of Oh-no the little slave girl adopted by Han Suyin in the film, "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing;." And how she won the part is just one of those
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    • 106 2 there were language difficulties, of course, in the filming of the Oriental love story "Love Is A ManySplendored Thing." Strangely enough, however, tht'v beset the Chinese actors rather than American Jennifer Jones who. ns heroine Han Suyin, had to learn Mandarin lor several ol her
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      90 2 THE cheongsttn line has been rctainc 1 in this severely cool frock, right, eminently suitable for Singapore. Little bows take the place of the Chinese frog and there is no Chi Pao collar. ORIENT \I-Occid en t a 1 elegance says this ensemble centre, featuring the almost hem-line coat Side
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    • 70 2 THE ONLY concession in appearance. Jennifer Jones made apart from her costumes, as Han Suyin in "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing." was a wig of long, lustrous black hair which she 'wore both up and down during the film. It covers her own Italian cut.
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    • 46 2 SAMMY FAIX and Paul Francis Webster have written a title song for "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing." which is moving up fast among the popular romantic ballads of the day in America. Enquiry does not reveal definitely when it will reach Singapore in recording
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    • 128 2 Curiosity 'Killed' Holdens THE WILLIAM HOLDEBIS had a taste of that frank and innocent curiosity with which Western visitors are greeted when they journey to the Far Kast. nesting in their room at the Peninsul Hotel. Hongkong, after their long flight from America, actress Brenda Marshall (Mrs. llolden) was awakened
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    • 90 2 Firm's Good Work For SAT A THE WORK of the Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic has so impressed one big Singapore firm. Shriro (China) Ltd.. that they have sent a letter offering monthly contributions from their stair. The letter says: "The excellent and humane work which the Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic
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    • 119 2 Nepotism Creep Into Movie City NEPOTISM Chinese almost an; way to Hollvwo< Id j Century Fox C Many-Splendorcd Thing/ 1 s1 William Holden. H Director Henry King ed William 800 Hoo to the studio for an b view. When ho appears was accompanied by I little 800 Hoo's, and I
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      • 135 2 COMING SOON! ARRIVING SHORTLY!! Tin; film Tho Book LOVE IS MANY A SPLENDORED THING By Han Suyin See the film Read the book Price $7.50 a copy. Please reserve your copy now at: MARICAN SONS, Booksellers (j Newsagents, 74, Orchard Road, Singapore-9. Phone: *****. KiTOKKntcn ntntntjnnnnnHnnnnnntrnntcnnn) ti —^< uMttnniinnnnwnMH jj
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    • 48 3 WHEN the children come with their parents to the SATA Clinic, they are also seen by the doctor. They ilk Bar, which last year served 32,837 free meals of eggs, milk drinks and vitamin buns to poor undernourished patients waiting to be treated.
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    • 172 3 FILM WILL NET FOR SATA FUND «st Year's Appeal Realised $51,944 I! I) PREMIERE oi Love Is A Muyin Singapore tonight, marks the 1 jreat «>t organised entertainments Anti Tuberculosis Associa- t Ann* angca b\ Mcmbuid S ivenue ComI surplus a! $51,944, including I B.C.J B IC- I wta by
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      31 3 THIS man is a patient of SATA and his home, a bed -spare under the stairs. typifies those of many of the Clinic's non -paving dfeatele, virtims of tuberculosis.
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      47 3 THE first family to move into the South Winds settlement for '> former tuberculosis patients. In this case the husband was thr sufferer Z and he brings his wife and daughter to the set- tlement while he does light work and builds up hi N strength.
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    • 276 3 On the outskirts ol The Hague ri^lit In the midst •I the Dutch countryside and in Utrecht are situated the factories of van der lleem M.Y. and which are constantly growing. In these factories under the supervision of highly skilled engineers, the weu known ERRES
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    • 317 4 1 Alter a difficult day at the Victoria Hospital Clinic. Honqkon?. Dr. Han Suyin j.>ins her colleague, Dr, Keith, at a reception at the home of .Mrs. Adeline Palmer fours. (IsobH XlBow) imperious and condesreadins wife of the Hospital director. Here she meets Maik Lm Elliot,
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