Singapore Standard, 3 September 1955

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  • 20 1 Singapore Standar d t ft i m SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1955 11 PAGES 15 CENTS \,.1. M. >o V>
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  • 55 1 voMK of Singapore's p> uhich uill be to the public tot all post offices < >lony. Altogether Dininations have been The first designs for the stamps, with the exception of the Be, 30c and S5 denominations, were submitted by Dr. C.A. Gibson-Hill, Curator of Zoology Raffles Museum.
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  • 66 1 NOW IT 'S $1. 50 FOR EVERY DOLLAR C 'v Counr .a.ximum the Youth md inaugur Commi>r Smith- 1 MacD Dn was U I meetcouncil on decided to > for t subscribes ..:num of $150,--rnment's dcci- ar for dollar every dollar the people of bring another .nd. nre asked to
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  • 11 1 ickvd a .nployee. he was pame at Pid.ing yes-
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  • 67 1 UK SEEKS SOVIET AIR LANES LONDON. Sept. 2 (AP)— Britain is negotiating with Russia for to fly commercial airliners over Soviet itory. S,r Ifllea Thomas, chalri the state-owned British Overseas Airways Corps. (BOAC). told reporters last night the Foreign started the talks at the request of the Ministry of Civil
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  • 28 1 SYDNEY. Sept. 2 <UP> Nineteen persons were Injured today when one train ploughed head on into another at the Windsor railway station during a dense fog.
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  • 52 1 NEW DELHI. Sept. 2 cßeuter) A decimal coinage system will probably be introduced in India on Oct 2. 1956. the birthday of the late Mahatma Gandhi, a Finance Ministry spokesman said. At least 3.0C0.000 new coins will have to be produced before the system can
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  • 60 1 NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (Renter)— Philip Loeb. an actor, whose career was disrupted by allegations that he had ties with pro-Com-munist organizations, was found dead in his hotel room last night. Police said the 61-year-old actor, who had appeared on the stage, in film and
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  • 180 1 Havoc Caused On 'Devils' Day' PORT SWETI ENHAM, Fri.— A strong gaie whipped this western seaboard town this morning and created havoc on the waterfront. At least 75 sampans capsized, and launches were ripped off their moorings and cast adrift in the heavy I
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  • 144 1 Annie Topsy Advise On Love BRISTOL, England. Sept. 2 (Reuter)— Scientists have built an apparatus which can point the way to happy marriage or successful business. It was described today to a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science by Dr. W. Gray Walter, director of a
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  • 175 1 A Boy From Malaya Raises Storm In British Newspapers LONDON. Sept. 2 (Reuter)— The Daily Herald and the Daily Mirror today urged the Salvation Army not to accept the resignation of one of its officers. Miss Catherine Smith, because of the certain implications concerning a five-year-old Chinese boy. Ah Tsal.
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  • 54 1 $1,572 Air Pilgrimage PENANG. Fri. The British Overseas Airways Corporation has offered to ferry Malayan pilgrims to and from Jeddah. The Pilgrimage Control Officer. Federation of Malaya, Tuan Haji Ali Rouse said today that the fare per pilgrim is $1,572 provided there are 56 pilgrims to fill all the seats
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  • 38 1 TOKYO. Sept. 2 (Reuter) Japan surrendered officially 10 years ago today— but silence greeted the anniversary. There was no comment. no flags, no shrine visits, no speeches. There Is Confidence— But Don't Strain It
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  • 5 1 S'PORE CAN SURVIVE BAD PERIOD
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  • 254 1 MacD. FLIES BACK TO ENGLAND Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, boarded a Qantas-BOAC Constellation aircraft early yes* terday morning for a flight which marked the end of his nine-and-a-half-year term of office as Commissioner-Gene-ral for South-east Asia. Mr. Mac Donald was on his way to London where he will consult with the
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  • 72 1 Now Israel Agrees To Ceasefire JERUSALEM. Sept. 2 (AP) —Israel conditionally accepted a U.N. appeal for a ceasefire on the border with Egypt Thursday night. It came after a new blaze of serious ground fighting and a reported clash of air forces. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman announced his government
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  • 43 1 DETECTIVES detained another man last night in connection with the murder of fitter. Chow Seng. 40. in Waterloo Street. Singapore, on Thursday night. Three men had been produced in court earlier yesterday on charges of rioting and murder.
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  • Article, Illustration
    11 1 photo. MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD waves goodbye from the plane. Standard
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  • 203 1 Scotland Yard Flashed Warning LONDON, Sept. 2 (UP)— A thorough search of the luxury liner Chusan now in the Mediterranean with 1,000 passengers disclosed that a purported bomb threat was a hoax, Peninsular and Orient Lines said today. Scotland Yard flashed a warning to the
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  • RUBBER
    • 59 1 SINGAPORE rubber pr y< -t'Tday jumped 54 c< n' I 51.50J per lb. lor first grade September shipment. In two days the price has risen 8$ cents, the highest price done yesterday having been $1.51 per lb. Good buying interest from overseas and speculative
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    • 34 1 DETROIT. Sopt 2 (AP) American Motors Corporation—Hudson and NaMi producers today reached a settlement with the CIO United Auto Workers ending a strike called by the union at midnight on Thursday.
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  • 349 1 2ENNOXBOYD Big Business Is Sympathetic, Ready To Help SINGAPORE would get through the present "difficult period" provided there was strong leadership, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, said yesterday, In the last press conference of his tour, the Colonial Secretary said the business community had shown
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  • 168 2 HONGKONG, Sept. 2 (Reuter)— Corporal William Brine llarrir-.. JB-> ear-old amateur geologist who rerentlv (!isco\ ered d«-j,< >its of the rare metal beryl in Hongkong, has been allowed t« buy his discharge, an Annv spokesman announced hen* tudav. a British Army Pits,
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  • 147 2 Voice From A TreeThen Death lI'OH I n —In tlir SOBgel Siput North ar»\» «»f I*«rik irestrnbij aa \r«-.i Bee w My I nit pjtnil HIV I lannl eairyiag a vuk il.n.bin^ a hill tlir patrol approathrd, a on from thf top of the hill i.tlli-d out in l.imil I
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  • 49 2 FOR 1 It of ph Ind i lnt< n clal ftrst-daj Colon; ps to Km torr.. n T:. rail from 'Mice in the I are afnxed with Ihe new Issue Km addre i India Pari s office. Mr Ii to rciirn all rs to the nder
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  • 18 2 .TOHORK BAHRU, r'ri Thn t theii in r the One of tin S i
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  • 41 2 SINGAPORE'S Govern Ba. k has aopointed Mr Teh Sek Fn^ a Deputy itor, it was anight. Sir Robert a appointed Mr. X H. dc Xetto j of the Rent Consiliation Board of Mr. J B. Jayaretnam.
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  • 31 2 MR. YEAP Kee Aik, president of the Nibong T*^bal Recreation Club, and Mrs :> were entertained to a dinner, h^re last nicht. prior if caving for the United X ngdom.
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  • 81 2 THF First Singapore Aquaris4s' Fxhibition was opened by the Director of Singapore Regional Fisheries Research Station, Dr. F. D. Ommanney. at the Happy World Stadium, yesterday. More than 000 tanks, containing various species of fish from the Amazon River, in distant Brazil, to rare Malayan species and
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  • 97 2 FOUR Chinese schools have bc'-n struck off the Colony Registi r, it was disclosed in thr Government Gazette published yesterday. Action was taken against Chian Nam School at Kampong San Tens off Thomson Road and Lip Tat School in Ea.-t Coast Road as they were
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  • 30 2 THEY' RE EXEMPT ALL employees of the World Health Organisation stationed in Singapore arc exempt from the provisions of the Central Provident Fund Ordinance, 1953, it was gazetted last night.
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  • 24 2 ON THE MOVE THE total- amount of currency notes and coins in circulation in Malaya and British Borneo on Aug 1, amounted to (840,590.069.27.
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  • 40 2 Gold Dollar Reserves Drop LONDON. Sept. 2 <Reuter^ The Sterling Areas gold and dollar reserves fell by 87 million dollars in August. Total reserves on August 31, stood at 2.4;i7 million dollars compared with 2.544 million dollars on July 31.
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  • 33 2 C)IK Mahmood bin Haji Abdul Rahman has been apDOinted a member of the War Damage Commission in place of Mr. W. B. C Glen, who has resigned, it was gazetted last night.
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  • 64 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. More than 120 employees of the Central Electricity Board from all over the Federation today attended a farewell tea party in honour of Mr. Oscar Spencer, their retiring Chairman and the Federation's Minister for Economic A !l"airs. Mr. C. J. Harrison, General Manager
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  • 95 2 SHEIK Abdul Rahman Taj. Rector of the 1. 000-year-old Al-Azar University of Cairo and an eminent authority on Muslim Law, arrived in Singapore yesterday from Jakarta where he met professors of the University there 0:1 the invitation of President Soekarno. The Sheik who is a member
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  • 252 2 It's Still Independence Within 4 Years' WHAT BOYD SAID DOES NOT WORRY ALLIANCE KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. High-ranking Alliance circles her; declared today whether Britain liked it or not, the UMNO-MCA-MIC was determined to bring independence to Malaya in four years. They, therefore, did not worry too much about Mr. Alan
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  • 212 2 'CHINESE NEEDN'T WORRY' TUNKU KUALA LUMPUR, Fri Chief Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, repeated today that while none, need fear about encouragement to other tongues, it has been agreed that ?vlalay could be the only official and national language of the Federation. He told a party of Chinese Middle School teachers
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  • 60 2 CHAI YUE who pleaded guilty in the Fourth Magistrate Court yesterday to escaping from legal custody of a prison warder on Aug _'7 was recommended by the Magistrate. Mr. .1. If. DevercuxColebourn, to a Social Welfare officer lor employment as a printer. Chai Yue
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  • 118 2 THREE artists admire a painting; entitled "Lilies" by Judith Heard-White at the First Exhibition of works by Women Artists of Malaya which opened at the Singapore British Council Hall yesterday. The artists (from left) are Hisako Kawamura. s 11. Gilbert and (iwenyth Morgan. The paintings, according
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  • 105 2 TIME IS RIPE ECONOMIST AMNESTY LONDON. Sept. 2 (R. The Economist, tish businei probably ripe lo i to the Co l^t.s in Ma An editoi Chief Mini t:on of M« Rahman, rtMlti himself wiih con Aden his belief that I the Lei h:m the n ry. "At 4 '.i^ now
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  • 31 2 'Tip Led To Tee' s Arrest KUALA LUMPIR, I bail of $1,0 Magistral mitted poss< 'cry slips a' H day ftflernoi The court arrest v. i o:r' by ment v. Thursdi
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 69 2 Weather Report MINIMI M Temperatur. From 7..J0 p.m. Sept. 1 to 7..U) a.m. Sept. t Singapore <7.'JFi; Penang <7?Fr. Kota llahru (7!F): Kuala l.umpur l€SF|; Ipoli (711- Kuantan <70F>. Maximum Temperature: From '.'Mi a.m. to 7. .Hi p.m. Sept. Singapore (SSFi; Penang <BlFi Kota Kahru IMP); Kuala l.umpur <K9F); Jpoh
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  • 74 3 Crab Isle Ferry Strike ETTENHAII, '■ngcr ferry ccn Port and hcaviPulau Island). |< o away. till tofour motor the route hem i m-ar-ric ai morning imhad m the Har- j. St. was b« m<i n :.ad earlier n I the Harmon to pick up I is ragen ferried anchored laj
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  • 19 3 ;.\otoday an- Mil Che Khir arid I pport of late for opposed Isla Haji Man.
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  • Article, Illustration
    60 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ny TIIL Secretary of State for ihp Colonies Mr Alan Lennox Boyd. \v a v c s goodbye and takes a last Slimps'* of Malaya as he enters the I\..\ F plane, at the Kuala Lumpur R.A.F Station yesterday on
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  • 140 3 Surrender Of Penang Is Filmed PENANG. Fri. An authentic 1 the Indian army film unit taken under war conditions showing the surler of Penang exactly ten yean ago was screened at the 51 Xavier's auditorium today. Pot several years, the Settlement Scout Commissioner had :ui v to trade n The
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  • 100 3 IPOH, Fri. The following were elected officials of the Ipoh and Menglembu branch of the National Association ol Perak, yesterday. Chairman Mr. Foong Seong. Vice-Chairman Che C. M. Yusul and Mr. S. Rajaratnam. Leader Mr. Wu Ka Lim. Hon. Secretary —Mr. C. K. Lean. Hon. Treasurer Mr.
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  • 512 3 Action Will Cripple The Ambulance Service Too DECISION BY VOTE TOMORROW SINGAPORE which saw the end of two major strikes within the last two days now faces a strike by the City's 360 firemen The firemen are hold- j ing an emergency meeting tomorrow to take a
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  • 52 3 BUTTERWORTH. Fri. The Resident Commissioner Penang. Mr. R. P. Bingham. made an extensive tour of Province Wellesley today. The tour covered nearly two hundred miles by road. He inspected various publicworks projects including the Muda River reinforced concrete bridge, which is expected to be completed by
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  • 75 3 IPOH. Fri. Mr. Justice Thomson in the High Court today sentenced Tan Keao Ling, to seven years' imprisonment when Tan p'caded guilty to a charge of gang robbery. Tan admitted robbing I shopkeeper of several thousand dollars on Dec. 12. last year at Taiping in
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  • 89 3 POLICE HUNT A KILLER KLAXG, Fri. Police have started a countrywide hunt for the killer of a 56-year-old widow, who was slashed to death on Tuesday while cutting grass. The body of the widow. Ramayee. of Sungei Rawang Estate, was found by a search party organised when she failed to
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  • 307 3 A SOBBING housewife said in the Singapore Fifth Magistrate's Court yesterday that six "China Street people pulied her husband out of a car and beat him to death near the Telok Aver Police Station on the night of June 15. Tay Geok Leng was
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  • 135 3 'Teach The Children Democracy' KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Inche Abdul Aziz. Selangor's i Mentri Be.^ar. today urged Indian teachers attending a civics course to teach their pupils "the importance of true democracy." He said: "One of the tasks of you teachers is to teach history to the children In your schools.
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  • 72 3 MALACCA. Fri. Seventeen Malacca UMNO-MCA Alliance sub-branches in the Alor Gajah District will hold an at home at the Wah Kiow School in Alor Gajah to celebrate the Alliance victory at the Settlement and Federal Elections and welcome the successful Alliance Councillors on Sunday. Sept. 4. The
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  • 38 3 HONGKONG, Sept. 2 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.52 to el sterling; $5.***** to US$l: $1,837 to Malayan $1; SO. 155 to the Indonesian Rupiah: Gold $252.25 to a tael.
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  • 118 3 THREE of the men detained after the mahjong party slaying of fitter Chow Seng, 40, in Waterloo Street, Singapore, on Thursday night, were produced in court yesterday on tentative charges of murder^and rioting. The three accused were Lav Liv Mm. Fong Chin Bee and
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  • 58 3 MALACCA. Fri. The Re- sident Commissioner. Mr. H. G. Hammett. has appointed four oi the rive UnofficiaMembers to the Board ol Trustees of the Settlement Scholarship Fund. They are Mr S. Shunmugam. Tuan Haji Abdul Rahman bin Haji Osman. Mr. Ec Yew Lin and Rev. W. S.
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  • 202 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— A specialist officer. K. Kanapathy, of the Federal Agriculture Department was partly supported from maintenance his wife received from her lormer husband while in Australia for higher studies, the Second Magistrate's Court was told today. The allegation was made by Mrs. Lsabelle Theresa
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  • 393 4 RE-HOUSING PLAN GETS UNDER WAY 1700 To Shift into New Flats THE first phase of the biggest rehousing programme in postwar Singapore has been successfully completed. Involved in the scheme to put up modern 9-storey Hats in place of the present maze of tumbled down and oltcn dangerous old houses
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  • Article, Illustration
    49 4 photo BLIND Ho Poh. 84-year-old resident of Silat Lane, thanks Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, Assemblyman for Stamford, for his help in setting her an extension of stay in Rochore (anal Road wherr a Riant re-housing scheme is planned. Ho Poh expressed her thanks in a trisha. Standard
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  • 412 4 Dawson To See MacC. PENANG, Fri. An open challenge to Government to justify its right to pay gratuities to temporary contract officers (expatriates) when their contracts prior to 1952 did not provide for such payment, was issued by Mr. T. K. P. Dawson, president oi the
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  • 148 4 CMIMNJi rubber prices (rents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot fob 150 150 V fob Aug. 1501 150} No. 2 144 i 1451 No. 3 1425 1421 Tone: Firm. TIN PRICE The Price of tin yesterday was S37OJ per picul (Down 15 cts.) LONDON RITBBKK
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  • 81 4 Hume's KL Strike Is Over KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The National Union ot Factory and General Workers said today it had reached an Agreement with Hume Industries and the striking workers would return to work tomorrow. All workers will get the same rates of wage increase as their Singapore counterparts. A
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  • 74 4 KUALA LUMPUR Fri.— The Secretary of the War Department Civilian Stall Association, Mr. S. J. H. Zaidi, has resigned from his executive post in the organisation as a result of a misunderstanding within its executive council. In a letter to members of the Association. .Mr. Zaidi
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  • 55 4 PftNANG. Fri. The District Officer. Balik Puiau. Mr J. G. D. Warburton. today refuted rumour., that security forces were indi.^criminately shooting down dos^ in the district. Mr. Warburton told The Standard that ihe Rural Board employed a dogshooter to .shoot dogs without licence. The police gave
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  • 103 4 MISS Irene Chiew (.sealed centre), youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs. Chiew Sz e Kit of Kuala Lumpur, celebrated her 21st birthday at a party at the P.VV.D. Sports Club. Cheras Road, recently. Others in the picture are: seated, from left: Miss Violet Chin. Miss Rina
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  • 25 4 Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh w.ii make a state visit to Stockholm next .June. Buckingham Pa:ace .^aid Thursday night. A P
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  • 187 4 PENANG, Fn— Members of the Rural Board at tiieir recent meeting here agreed in principle that the maintenance of fire srvices in the rural area should be undertaken by the Municipality and that the Rural Board should allocate $20,000 annually to the Municipality for this
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  • 140 4 Rail Line Restored To Normal IPOII. Fri. Normal railway service between Ipoh and south will be restored as from tomorrow, the senior assistant traffic superintendent, Mr. H. M Sweeney told The Standard today. This, in effect, means that tonight's night mail will be the first train to resume service since
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  • 49 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— A 40-year-old woman, Chai Len. of Kepong. today claimed trial in the Sessions Court to a charge of unlawful possession of Gh kattics of scrap rubber at Hawthorndon estate on Wednesday afternoon. The court granted her bail nf 1300 pending hearing on Sept. 27.
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  • 79 5 'DAM BUSTERS' SEE FILM OF WAR EXPLOIT .tin IK^ and men Busters") X Vl\ which oprr.i jot bombers t .rrori>ts. flew „,,.r.- to sre The the new uhuh words No. 617 Squadron's spectacular wartime operations against the great dams of Germany. Upon arriving at the i cinema, they were met
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  • 286 5 MALAYA' S' WHITE ELEPHANT SOLD TO INDIA Chettiar Leaves K. L. With $1,000,000 Deal Xl m il MPIR.Fri. i Indian lndusmii today flew Kuala I umpur oversight vi^it a huh he contiations with. on (iovernpurchase of s immigration \\adi, near \1 111 T 1 Deluding piped sewerage is said to
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  • 57 5 HI \l II MN K. Fri. < MOM il Maeac m i.x^x rrsijjn i-f Mr 11. S Lrc K'ula fr niuirr Mr hon? led in bis p| i: pres■as iii.tn^ur.ilrd H Mi the 1 I"" n.u tt-nderin? nation with the t He had I Mhn.nt
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  • 196 5 The practice of using: dangerous 'X domestic squabbles among a certain i becoming; too common in this country stamped out," said Mr. Justice Thomson, nred toddy tapper, Sewanaudi Ponniah, jrcais 1 imprisonment today. guilty to l.» ichumi. ng knife 14. n marRelatlooa April this
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  • 163 5 $7,000 Fine For Gaming PENANG, Fri. A mon< jrchanger. K. Mydin, was fined a tola', of $7,000 or 20 months' imprisonment in default, in the Magistrate's Court today on two summons harg< in con- n with garni Ing. Imposing the fine, the Magistrate. Mr. Au Ah Wah, remarked that the
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  • 48 5 IPOH, Fri.— Nineteen Prsir Pin.j. new villagers were charged before magistrate Che Jamal bin Abdul Latif today with gambling. A claimed trial. Another new villager also claimed trial to a charge of assisting in the management of prcmi.-es used as a common gaming house.
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  • 47 5 'IOYIXDAX. 4H. of Sungci Plong Road, yesterday claimed Irial in the Sessions Court to a charge of driving his car under the influence of liquor ye>terday afternoon at the 11th Mile. Kuala LumpurKuang Road. He was granted bail of $200 pending trial on Oct 4
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  • 32 5 FRANCIS Ramdhas of Urhfie d Road, unemployed, was adjudi ated a bankrupt in the apore High Court yesterday on his own petition. His liabilities totalled S^.Boj.sU ciuc to six creditors.
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  • 303 5 'Harassing' Charge Denied KUALA LUMPUR,. Fri Federation Defence Secretary, Mr. A. H. P. Humphrey, today described as absolute nonsense" allegations of pol'.ce harassing trade unions. Commenting on a memorandum from the Mala\an Trade Union Council to the Colonial Secretary Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd.
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  • 129 5 IPOH. Fri.-A verdict that deceased was driving at an excessive speed which resulted In the fatal accident was returned by the Coroner. f!he Jamal bin Abdul Latif at the end of an inquest today The victim, Pte. Abdul Hamid bin Mokhtar, LM.
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  • 162 5 Tapper To Die For Murder KUALA LUMPUR Fri. S. Arumugam, 44-year-old rubber tapper and father of eight, was today sentenced to death by the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Mathew. for the murder of a young Klang factory employee. The verdict, a unanimous one. found Arumufam guilty of killing S. Palliah
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 855 5 Standard cJllmctncic Information at a Glance ffiriittimftfti—i hi in Scarlet Pimpernel IS» 915 Inter- 24.1 Australian Artists <l f )72m): M I II A n ff% r !jde iO! R;iv h n ISI 9 News 3 im Tec* with the Thomases ¥+iW\IA X CJ X L <Sl l> 41 evening
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 536 6 Let's Wait See SECRETARY oi SUtc L< nnox-Boyds disinclination »t date lor self-government in the I Uon sly <>t cause despondency. It is a primary rule of life that honours are bestowed on the proven worth ol the recipients and it is this condition that provides the urge for those
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    • 379 6 Rulers Settlements 1 TURING the pre-election period in the Federation we had occasion to touch on the then silent subjects of the Malay Rulers and the status of the Settlements ol Penang and Malacca. After the elections the Malay Ruler* have loomed large in the Malayan scheme of things. The
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  • 807 6  - Tribesmen Want Self -Government 0. M. GREEN LONDON. IT seems incongruous it night even seem comic opera that the wild tribes who inhabit the trackless mountains and forests °f north-eastern Assam between the valley of the Brahmaputra and Burma, shnuld be clamouring for self determination and self l 4O\ eminent.
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  • 670 6  -  CYRIL DUNN By RABAT. ITRENCH settlers travelled A into this refined little city on August 24 to attend the funeral of General Duval. the commander of French troops in Morocco who was killed in an air accident on Aug. 22. and turned parts of the proceedings
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  • 109 6 Sir: Now that the Victoria Memorial HaU is being renovated, it is to be hoped ifwt that monstrosity called a painting will be removed to the museum or burned. It Qtves one the "creeps-" It is not right that ice should inflict torture on visiting artistes by compelling them
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  • 762 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME ASTER GUNASEKERA By \IKETING the Press on the eve of hU departure from the Federation, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. Alan LennoxBoyd. echoed the same view expressed in these columns yesterday about the Alliance Government's target date for "self-gov-ernment and independence."
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    • 238 6 Sir: The complaints from a section of the Import trade against the formation of an Importers' Committee for Australian Apples and Pears made me feel that there must be some justification in these allegations. The import figures given for 1953 and 1954 as compared with the current
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  • 144 6 Sir: As a descendant of Malacca born Chine.se, I could not help feeling; greatly grieved to read your editorial about the Press being snubbed in Malacca. I recall the late Mr. R. J. Bland, who was Resident Councillor at Malacca some 50 years ago. It was lucky
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  • 123 6 VIEWS REVIEW OF Wrong Attitude fTTUSAN Mclayu U advocates of "no tions with the Chin< the question of .i t The paper critic Mohamed Nor. d the Pan Malayan y Teachers* Associati r i at the meeting < i organisations in Lumpur recently, sufgi i that the demand by i
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  • 184 6 Sir: I applied for post in the CiU oun< and was considered suitable in all respect I had made known that though I was born Indonesia, of Sintap< t domiciled British >uh jects. who had «oin Indonesia for a holiday and that I had tecmt a naturalized Bni
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  • 81 7 SCO. Sept. s of Research here are in harworld's f energy I nccomeffort by >ut the ort^d to conferd solar Arizona, >;. to the it sun Charles r of the U infornlmost ..pilation .yards fnm the More Energy to his :r ore than
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  • 22 7 Sept 2 <l*P> Turner. frit a a concus- ntly. yesterday v Studios. d the and Barker. \eapuliell o.
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    53 7 photo. (iROUCHO Marx is the man at left. With him is Mr. A.M. Ezekial. an Indonesian optometrist who is on a world tour, and who made a special side trip to Hollywood just to meet Groucho and compare eyebrows moustache and cigars Mr. Ezekial passed through Singapore
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  • 235 7 Peron Declares A State Of Siege On Capital BUENOS AIRES, Sept 2 (AP).— The Argentine congress last night imposed a state of siege on the federal capital of Buenos Aires to give President Juan Peron power for his announced drive to crush government foes. The senate converted the bill into
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  • 124 7 A Rise In Suicides Predicted LONDON, Sept. 2 ißeuten —A Britbh doctor anticipates a rise in the suicide rate if banks, carrying out the government's credit squeeze policy to press people to reduce their overdrafts. In a letter to the Lancet, leading weekly medical journal. Dr. T. D. Blott. Medical
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  • 30 7 WASHIXGTOX. Sept. 2. »AP>— The U.S. public health service announced 2.279 new polio cases were reported to it last week, the highest weekly total so far this year.
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  • 108 7 Four-Hour Running Battle constantine. Algeria. Sept. 2 <AP> trench troops and Algerian rebels today \va'4ed a four-hour running battle :n the stony mountainous section southeast of here near the village of Renier. Acting on reports from agents and scouts. French troops encountered a band of about 60 rebels. One French
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  • 106 7 She Claims Actor Is The Father HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 2 <UP> Actor Jess Barker, former husband of screen star Silvan Hayward. yesterday was named in a paternity suit as the father of the unborn child of actress Yvonne Doughty. The Superior Court suit asked that Barker be ordered to support Miss
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  • 67 7 MILAN. Sopt. 2 (AP)— lt's a dog's life for Leo, a monthold lion cub at the Milan zoo. His mother has no milk. Mrs. Maria Molinar. perhaps the worlds only women zoo director, appealed for help. She was offored a mother German shepherd dog
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  • 295 7 British Officials Blame Big Excess Of Imports LONDON, Sept. 2 (AP) Britain's gold and dollar reserves suffered another steep drop in August, dwindling by U5587,000,000 fo a total of U552,457,000,000, the Treasury announced today. The steady decline in the vital reserves was attri- j buted by
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  • 41 7 OTTAWA. Canada. Sept. 2. (AP» A one-time infantry private on Thursday became Chief of Canada's General StafT. Lt. Gen. Howard Graham. 57. took over from 52-year-old Lt. Gen. Guy S;monds. army chief since Feb. 1, 1951.
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  • 150 7 HONGKONG. Sept. 2 <UP> —A shapely young Chine.se girl was arrested early this morning by police when she was dancing and gesticulating in a "suggestive manner" before an audience in a ballroom. The ballroom manager was also taken to the police station. He was later charged
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  • 88 7 PARIS, Sept. 2 (UP* France ordered nine new battalions rushed to Algeria today and approved a reform programme aimed at keeping the rich territory peaceably within her North African Empire. The North African Co-ordi nation Committee meeting under Premier Edgar Faure made the decisions on Algeria
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  • 116 7 Ceylon's Bid To Smash Dope Gang COLOMBO. Ceylon. Sept. 2. (UP) M. Chandrasoma. principal collector of customs for Ceylon, said yesterday he has ordered three persons to appear before him on Moniay to answer questions which may help officials break an international dope-smugg'.ing rins. The trio identified as L. Samarakone.
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  • 27 7 A THREE-DAY conference of the Electricity and Gas Workers Union of Indonesia called on the government to nationalize "all power and gas enterprise throughout Indonesia." AP
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  • 28 7 U.S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on Thursday flew to an island in Lake Ontario, on the Canadian border, for a two weeks vacation. AP
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  • 196 7 NEW YORK, Sept. 2. (AP) —Elmer (Trigger) Burke returned to face a murder charge yesterday, with a police escort that would befit a visiting potentate. The wily, elusive underworld gunman- got the YIP treatment from the moment he stepped handcuffed from the train that brought
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  • 215 7 Governor Orders Probe Into Boy's Killing GREENWOOD. Sept. 2. (AP)— The Governor of Mississippi lias called for a full investigation! of the kidnap-killinq of a Negro youth, who allegedly whistled at a white woman. Governor Hugh White told newsmen: "Mississippi deplpres such conduct on the part of any of its
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  • 55 7 NOVA. Goa, Sept. 2 (AP)— Portuguese police arrested 71 Indian demonstrators one of them a woman at Maxem, near Goa's southern frontier, yesterday. An official announcement described the demonstrators as mostly unemployed Hindus who crossed the border at Supan^udi. The communique said all were taken back
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  • 72 7 LONDON. Sept. 2. <AP) Police today nought one ot Britain s boldest thieves— he broke into an apartment house occupied by a Scotland Yard sleuth md three uniformed policemen. The theft occurred in daylight on Wednesday. The burglar made off with M 51.680 worth ojf jewellery
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  • 62 7 GLASGOW. Scotland. Sopt. 2 < Router >— A .sudden strike spread through the Glasgow docks this afternoon stopping work on 40 ships. Some 2.500 men who struck work yesterday over the question of allocating labour returned to work this morning but 3.400 walked out again this
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    • 59 7 TOKYO. Sept. 2 (APIDefence chief Shigemasa Sunada today named 11 m< n who played a major role in Japan's Pacific war to a new and tentative military advisory camp. He said the nino former generals and six ex-admiral.> would advise him personally, but he might ask
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    • 166 7 UNITED NATIONS, New York, Sept. 2 (AP).~ Russia's chief delegate Arkady A. Sobolev called on the West yesterday to state its position on k< points of Moscow's disarmament plan. He hinted Russia ir.:ght not give an answer on I Eisenhower's aerial inspe programme until the
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    • 41 7 RABAT. Morocco. Srpt 2 (AP)— Figures !rom oOtfal and semi-official sourr' today put the number of c at 2^228 in the Algerian and Moroccan violence August 20-21. The sources said the number may even be hie
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  • 281 8 Sales Expected To Tip Million Mark FORTY-SIX sections at Singapore's General Post Office will serve o record crowd that is expected to buy about 1,000,000 stamps of the new pictorial issues, valued at $150,000, tomorrow, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. To avoid any
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  • 191 8 PKNANG, Fri.— Trade between Penang and Atjeh has been smooth and although the figures for the first half of this year show a reduction of $1,243,000 for imports there has been an increase of $2,882,000 in exports. This was stated by the president of
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  • 48 8 A RECEIVING and adjudication order was made by the Acting Chief Justice. Mr Justice Taylor in the Singapore High Court yesterday, against Kan Yam Kee. of Tanjong Pagar Road, unemI ployed, on a petition by the :iptroller ol Income Tax. Kan owes taxes totalling $12,217.41.
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  • 167 8 A FORMER furniture manual building contrac- Qi lan Pin oi Lorong L Telok X irau Road, was ad,tcd a bankrupt by the [Justice. Mr. Jus- the Singapore yestt rday o n the tion of the A. i tant •c, Mr. A. W. L: the Court in his
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  • 91 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Dr. Lim Chons; Eu. President of the Penani Junior Chamber of Commerce, and .secretary. Mr. Sam Ah Chow, were entertained to tea by Kuala Lumpur Jaycees yesterday. Dr. Lim told Jaycees the story that led to the formation ot the Penani Chapter and he
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  • 38 8 .TOHORE BAHRU. Fri— A 1 4-? ear-old Chinese boy was fined $-'> in default one jail, In the Juvenile X ang, yesterday for attempting to steal a bicycle which waa parked outside a cine na.
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  • 86 8 Selangor Gets 90 Citizens KA.IAXG. Fri Ninety people 45 of them women re reived State citizenship certificates yesterday at a function held at the Drodcrick Club here. This largest batch to receive certificates this year consisted of 4t> Indians, i! 9 Indonesians ■nd 23 Chinese. They were cheered by ISO
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  • 95 8 The Thief Looked So Innocent IPOH. Fri. Magistrate Che Jamal bin Abdul Latif. when told that a pickpocket found guilty of stealing a wallet, had three previous convictions, told the accused: "You are not so innocent as you look." He then sentenced the culprit. Leon? Thai. 31. to a year's
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  • 201 8 Braga Opens Child Clinic THE economic prosperity of Singapore is in no small measure due to the good health of the younger generation, the Minister for Health, Mr. A. J. Braga, said at the opening of the Yio Chu Kang Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, yesterday.
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  • 59 8 KUALA LUMPUR Fri.— A woman otic evening knocked down a motor cyclist at a street junction but took him home to treat his injuries, the First Magistrate's Court was told today. Barbara Jean Gregory. 26, was today convicted on a charge of driving without consideration on
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  • 38 8 A MAN snatched a go.d rhain from an Indian girl on Thursday when she was walking in front of the Rumah Miskin Police Station on her way to school. The thief got away on a blrvcle.
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  • 28 8 THREE Chinese armed with daggers and a pistol robbed a Chinese living In Lorong 27, Gcylang Road on Thursday of cash and jewellery valued at $250
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  • 107 8 THE following passed the Club Leadership Training Course held in July:- Wee Soo Hup. Tan Kirn Chye. Miss Janet Goh Keng Luan (all three passed with credit). Ong Chin Tee. V. Kathergamathamby, Vim Heng Peng. Chia Kirn Yam, Tan Huat Mong. Soon Kirn Seng. Arifrin bin A.
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  • 32 8 FOR BEING out of doors during curfew hours on July 25 at Rinqsit. .lohore, Ong Yam was fined $100. or four months' imprisonment in the Sessions Court, Pengerang. yesterday.
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  • 83 8 AFTER sixteen days of picket duties, meetings and carrying of posters. 10,000 City Council labourers were back at work yesterday. For labourers of the City Cleansing Department, there must hay* been at least one ton of silt and muck at the bottom of the Killiney Road monsoon ditch. But from
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  • 130 8 PENANO, Fri. Mechanised accounting ot revenue collected by rural fa iurds, di.^rict councils and land offices, will be Introduced early next year. This was disclosed at the recent meeting of the Rural Board. Mr. G. L. Johnson, had wanted to know whether arrangement* could be made for
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  • 28 8 The management committee of the Federation of Boys' Clubs will hold a meeting at 515 p.m. on Sept. 6. at the Queen Street Boys' Hostel.
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  • 244 8 CHINESE CROUPS PROTEST LANGUAGE BAR KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. More than 80 Chinese associations, guilds and new village committees in Sclangor are to petition the Sultan demanding the abolition of the "language hairier" in the legislative and lower councils. Copies of the petition will be sent to the Queen, the Colonial
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  • 119 8 Seamstress' $20 Offer Accepted A SEAMSTRESS. Tan Ah Cheng of Kiano Road, ottered in the Singapore High Court yesterday to pay $2(t a month to her creditor. Quah Bok Soon, who obtained a receiving order against her on a judgment debt of $1 2.JJ88 on Jan. 21. Tan. said she
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  • 52 8 To DommenM 25th anniversary today, the Ch.' Sports Association of Singapore is living away $40(1 to four medical Institution* here. The hospitals which will benefit by SI 00 each, are the SATA. St. Andrew's Mission Hospital, Kwong Wai Sin Free Hospital and the Thong Chai
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  • 41 8 249 NEW BLOOD DONORS A IOTA!, i 200 I' 102 rasii (>d B I of August. There 107 of v.f:«. during tinThe nun fusions i i was T)7."> 1 7 Chinese. 77 I 11 Eurasian Present B. nk is lL'n fl
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  • 15 8 THE SE I for the Lennox-B faro we o Malaya a' 1 ;< i
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  • 226 9 AUSTRIAN OPERETTA TOWN gT. WOLFGANG, a small town on the shore of one of Austria's most beautiful mountain lakes, i s one of those corners of the world vthich still is endowed with the atmosphere of movie and operetta. At the foot of mighty timbered mountains, the white houses with
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  • 455 9 CrECIAUZED dramatic training. hnweve r, forms only a part of the school's coordinated educational programme in the liberal arts. Applicants for graduate training. for ex- ISHINGTOSt. I'll; Drpjrtmrnt University s i ilv has ilrning inInwrkan In addition to pren plays to the
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  • 367 9 J^ADY LUCY, a maid of honour at King Henry VlH's court, was a girl with a thirst. Her daily consumption of beer was thirty-two pints, a gallon each with breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper. This astonishing liquid capacity was retailed by Tony Brown, broadcasting
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  • 897 9 STAGE DOOR by JOHN MALKIN T HAVE Just been reading: Charles Morgan's play, "THE BURNING GLASS." a play \\hich was given long and serious reviews by the long and serious critics when it was first performed in London about eighteen months ago. Since then it has been touring Germany with
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  • 361 9 Music Notes by ANACRUSIS SI R Steuart Wilson, Chairman of the international Music Council of Great Britain, with Lady Wilson, arrived in Singapore yesterday on their way back to England after attending the SouthEast Asian Music Conference in Manila. During his week's stay here Sir Steuart will give two lectures
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  • 541 9 DVORAK. Symphony in E Hat. Op. Posth. Scherzo Capriccioso, Op. G6. Vienna Symphony Oi cond. Henry Swoboda. Nixa WLP 502 1 DVORAK actually wrote nine symphonies, not five as the number of his last symphony (The New World) would lead us to suppose. The first four are seldom
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    • 87 9 i (VO/VT FIND EXCITEMENT CJKE THIS! Wayne Turner I >^ skipper sworn npverto be taken! rhe fuse of his floating t,mr bomht I -CJhtStSG" mm 'MaFWERCOIOB SrtPtotmtMK SoumO ji| yjwi Hk l i Across 26,000 miles of terror-swept ocean from Pom Pom Galli I to the North Sea he ran
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    • 136 9 l^i^B H^ al ,i S^B^l i^L^B^B^H good place to bury me (7> Cluide to brush-writing (7) 13. H<»lds a dog in the centre I ice »7> 1">. A bnd egg with mother to In finish in Holland (9> l He manages to lie down (8> Rope for t man of
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  • 278 10 BO AC Far East Service Via Russia? SIR Miles Thomas, Chairman of 8.0.A.C. spoke in London on Thursday about the prospects of a service to the Far East by way of Russia, .using Britannia aircraft which will shortly begin test flights to India. The chairman referred to flights across the
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  • 117 10 THIRTEEN V E A R OLD Redzuan b. Abdul Malik of Batu Caves. Selangor (left) has good reasons to be proud for |he won a SI OO < ash prize at a "Gtiess the Pea- nuts" contest organised C by Lever Brothers (M) Ltd. for their "PLANTA"
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  • 29 10 Rf'SSIA and YugOSli via will dOUb o :hcir \>rcvcnt tradr in an agreement announced .n Bel trade. Ih<* asreetn ?n1 kes R'l^bia Yugoslavia^ .-:icst trade partner.- AP
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  • 163 10 Good Buying Pushes Rubber Up sv4c. GOOD buying interest from all sections of the Singapore rubber market caused prices to jump 5} cents to 81.501 per lb. for first grade September shipment on a firm market yesterday. Quotations opened steady at $1,471 ($1.45 on Thursday) on better
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  • 211 10 BUYING INTEREST IN SHARES THE Malayan share market was firmer in all sections yesterday with a revival of buying interest [or rubber. industrials and tin shares. Fair business was transacted at .-lightly better quotations. Chanskat Serdans; shares again featured in the share market with buying interest sustained, business having; been
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  • 291 10 WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 The American people heard some cheering news last week: for the first time since 1951, the Federal Budget shows promise of being balanced in the current (1956) fiscal year, ending next June 30. This brings closer to realization the prospect of
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  • 131 10 SINGAPORE sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done Fraser and Neave <>rd> Sl.<l) and $1721; Gaimr.on S2.fi.-) Malayan Cement si 671: Metal Box si. 4:; and $1.47}: OTKC 76/9 xd. Singapore Cold Storagefl.7o; Straits Steamship $13: Straits Traders $24; United Kngincei> ords ?10P,0. Ampat 15/- and 15/1
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  • 94 10 BRITONS breathed a sish of relief on Thursday with the announcement that the bank rate, key to the cost of borrowing money, remained unchanged at the present rate of four and a half per cent. Newspapers had been full of speculation in the last few days on
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  • 39 10 MORE than 600 iirm.s will take part in the British Trade Fair in Copenhagen from Sept. 29 to Oct. 16. The exhibition, whose main object is to expand British export.s to Scandinavian countries will cost Xi million.
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  • 143 10 THE spate of buying activity in the Singapore coconut oil market which took place on Thursday following good demand from China declined considerably yesterday. Despite a limited turnover the market closed quietly steady. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices i per piculi yesterday: coconut oil < drums)
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  • 161 10 Standard Shipping Reporter THE American President Line vessel Palmetto State Mariner, which is now loading rubber from Singapore for New York, will not bear the same name when she sails in here again. She is to undergo conversion in US dockyards and will emerge as
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  • 290 10 Mil. Sino-Japanese Fishing Firm Plan TO IMPORT 3,000 TONS MONTHLY A GROUP of Chinese businessmen plans to form a $500,000 fishing combine in Sin 9 apore with Japanese participation, to import more than 3 000 piculs of fresh fish into the Colony monthly. The group expects \o import fish caught
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  • 470 10 FUBBEK arrivals from Indonesia have continued small and operators are now beginning to wonder what effect it will have here if the Indonesian Go\ eminent puts its "Commercial House" in order and its prices come more into line with the world markets, says the weekly
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  • 117 10 Allen For Cocoa Talks In London KUALA H Ml'l i; d Mala>a will h< the 19 countries ed at the World < Conference to b» London from Sept 15. The Senior mist at the Federati* Department of ture, Mr. E. F. Al)< be the Malayan del* }\o w: est In
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  • 109 10 Traders Adopt Wait-And See Attitude SINCiAPOKI. merchants, who lu\e the past hern mfratal with a series o! rompli ed regulation* in Indonesia, are waiting t<> Me would happen now i country is sweeping economic chan^ and import simplified. Mr. Balwaffl Messrs Gftt Colony nn would ;tiv tile trad* a sounder
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    • 586 10 NOTICES 1 ACCEPTANCE OF PRIVATE CANDIDATES FOR THE UNIVEKSITI Of CAMBKIIH.r OVERSEA V nooi CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION. 1956 QUALIFYING Test lor pri- vate candidates wishing to enter f©l the above exam- ination v. i be heM at !».0O n m lay Tth December If*.").") The fee fcr the Qualifying I 2
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    • 261 10 NOTICES Fstale of I.er Ah Lai also known as Lee lai. Deceased. Suit No 181 of lf):>."> between. 1. Che Eng Tian (m.W.) 2. Chee Eng Whay iliaa Chee Ah Loke (wl Plaintifis. and Chee Eng Scan Defendant. A X TION SALE OF Valuable Singapore Properties. To be he'd at
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    • 280 10 YUGOSLAV LINE From Hongkong to Colombo. Bombay. Aden. Port Sudan led Port Said. Beyrouth, Trieste and Rijeka: Spore P. Shorn Pt»o»1 M.V. "LOVCEN" 12/MSept From Adriatic and Near East Ports, Bombay Colombo. M> To Djakarta and Hongkong: M.V. "RUEKA" 26 27 Sept Generol Agent.: EAST MOUNT AGENCY 17-B, ROBINSON ROAD,
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    • 146 10 OITKR ROADS Weltervreden. Lucky Carrier State of Madrar. Kieolin^ Maersk, Hal Lee. Veatun. Belle ville. AE.'imemnon. Rkfathildf Maersk. Karaton. Nortli Star. ffoyo Mam. Lapaz. AlmkerJc Polvpliemu.-. *ii»>. Caltex (icnoa Yuso, INNTR ROARS Manihine, New Coronation Kin? Bay. Pangkor, Siru.-a. Pasoso, Pc:cv7\kc Belagsi. Kajang. Tong Hai. Hono F m e Bruas.
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    • 1072 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD tSc CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lin «»> (Incorporated in Singapore) < 12 lines> Shipping Travel o.pts. THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE D e P t. Carriert option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL, CLASCOW, LONDON CONTINENT Singapore Due Sail* P.
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  • 459 12 PROMOTION WON'T STOP JACKIE'S KUDA He Improves With Every Outing By WINDSOR LAD \FTER his runaway victory at Bukit Timah last month, JACKIE'S KID A despite his subsequent promotion, should again assert his superiority in the main six furlongs sprint for class 1 horses in race six today, opening day
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  • 405 12  -  Trundle Hill K3 I ie. MF.RRY X.MAS and FMPFROR were very 5 unlucky at Singapore and will be all out to J J make amends today. MARSHAL FOCI! and MONTANA must come into calculations and in a very difficult rate. I sive slight preference to the ••MARSHAL."
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  • 115 12 swim- 1 l I r accompanyI in the Co t 1 c S that hi < i. ...d. Mr. C .he had -eco:ck and found t! t eof a gh d. i back in Yesterday morning the five Americans coached 1 good ••"i at
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  • 157 12 This special series for Standard's readers begins tomorrow. YOU CAN LEARS TO SWIM and YOU CAX LEARN TO SWIM BETTER I idmg what George H laden has io n Vie S i Standard tomorrow. Mr. B'ngden is oiie of the c areatj of profession* i He
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  • 503 12 Burring any rain fhc going for today should be good. Ed prominently to finish a length behind Gular II over the nine furlongs trip. Although sent up a division Any lime drops nine pound.-, living him a pretty strong chance to lr.nd his maiden win. Three Dimension may
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  • 1214 12 RACE ONE GOING strictly on hi> dawn efforts, I anticipate Flower Quern to annex the opening race of the day. On Tuesday, this Hindostan mare put in a sizzling display when he held Above All over three furlongs to return :;9 >cc. on a soft track.
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  • 186 12 Today' s Game Should Be Good ALTHOUGH both teams will not be at their full strength. loot ball fans can expect to sec an enjoyable game at the .lalan Besar stadium this evening when the Federation and Singapore meet for the Sportsmen's Cup. a trophy which has been presented to
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  • 247 13 GRAND SLAM FINISH FOR SURREY County Champs Rout Derby j §cpi I (Keuter)— Surrey who had t rtain of the English County cricket p irtk MCCCMtf* year, completed their i programme today with a resounding ivshirc at the Oval here with a day to 1 k'U. v ■vi n. SI
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    100 13 FOREST HILLS. N.Y.: The coveted Davis Cup is the centre of attention at members of the Australian J^JJ* team gather at a ceremony on Ana. 28 at the West bitic Tennis Club on Die day of the final tiro matches oj vie Davis Cup finals. Vice-Presideni Richard Nixon presents The
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  • 141 13 GROSSIN'GF.R. New York, Sept. 2. lAP». World hcvy. weight champion Rocky Marciano celebrated his bii day yesterday by cutting a c-«kc. it was a double birthda? celeI >!i for Marciano's wife, Barbara, was 28 on Wednesday. :e but most the eating was done Mary Amu- the
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  • 237 13 Blistered Hand May Worry Trabert FOREST HILL. New Wk. Sept. (AP)._ Tony Trabert and his blistered racket hand get a stern opening test today in the i.s. tennis (ham pionships. The •!;,->■ ear-old Wimbledon champion. topseeded in the men's draw, fares England's youn? Davies Cup hopeful. Roger Becker, in tho
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  • 60 13 LONDON. Sept. (Renter) Association Football results were: LEAGUE DIVISION I Charlton Ath. 3, Sheffield Utd 2. LEAGUE DIVISION II Doncaster Rovers Plymouth Argyle L LEAGUE DIV HI (Southern) Colchester Utd. 1, Bournemouth 0 Lcyton Orient 2, Gillingham 0. Newport County 0. Alder shot 1. Northampton Town 2,
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  • 141 13 Johnson's Test Future In Doubt MELBOURNE. Sept. 2 (Router)— Doubt has been raised by newspapers here on the availability of Australia's Test captain. MT-year-old lan Johnson, for big cricket next season Johnson said yesterday he would not make a decision on his future for at least a month. He added
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  • 41 13 THE following will represent Indian Brotherhood SC against RAF Signals in a friendly soccer match at Balestier Road today. Perumal. UK Pandian DX Samy. Marimuthu, K. Krishna. G Raioo, Vellimalai, Muthusamy. V. Ganapathi, Veerappan. Ranianathan, Duraisamy. M David.
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  • 40 13 SPRINGDALE Sports C lub br.it Mercantile Ban. Sports Cub 3-1 in a lriendly soccer match at Farri-r Park yesterday Scorers for Spnnudale Sports Club were Tian Soon. Latiff and Muniandy. Eddie d c Silva replied for Ifercantils Bank.
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  • 47 13 THE team to represent Combined U.K. -Singapore Schools XI in a lriendly crickei rmirn a2a:n>t University of Malay.. »n Sunday will bo from E Tosohn. Abdul Razak, Sunda Kanchanlal. Townsend, M mod Yunos. Nathan. Jeyathura, Murice dc Vaz. Lait, Da. bell. Foo Fong Fong. Thirj,
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  • 704 13 Giambra Jumps Into Middle Weight Rating NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (AP)— Joey Giambra, 24-year-old U.S. soldier, bounded back into the middleweight boxing picture today, as the Ring Magazine monthly ratings jumped him into number seven spot in that division. Giambra. now stationed at Fort Hood. Texas, got the rating on
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  • 259 13 Festival Cricket Reaches An Exciting Stage good knock of 2G. Later Wooller. captain of the England Bide, played well lor SI and was last but one man out but the tail collapsed Spoone: nnd Wooller put on 49 for the sixth wicket and Wooller and Mortimore 4fi for the seventh,
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  • 56 13 LONDON. Thurs. (Renter). —First and final acceptors for the Don:aster Cup to be run over two miles and quarter at Doncaster on Sept 9 were announced yesterday. They are six and writh weights: Double Bore (».7), Harwin (9 6). Entente Cordiale (9.4). Fort Barnvton (8
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  • 221 14 Hockey Umpires Get New Powers 1 P O 11, Fn. Several amendments to the rules of hockey have been made by the International Hockey Board, an official of the Perak Hockey Association disclosed today. The most important of these is the power given to umpires to penalise a player for
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  • 80 14 THI lecoad °f the SHA scven-a-side ockry competition starts ternooa with 14 teams. I ttrsi match begins at 3 p.m., <t the SRC. Following arc the times and fixtures: 3 pm. PoKd "A" vs SUB Police. :t.30 p m BOD 'Reds' vs SCC B 400 p.m.
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  • 332 14  - Amnesty Will Be Good For Sports Too Rahman ANDY ROZARIO By KI'ALA LUMPUR, Fri.— lf the amnesty offer to terrorists proved successful, Malaya would be in a position to take large steps forward not only in the political and economic sphere but in sports as well, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Chief
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  • 105 14 East Yorks Hold On To Goal Lead KLUANG. Fri.- In a thrilling Garrison Cup soccer matrh East Yorkshire Regiment beat REME 1-0 on the Padanf today. As the score indicates it was a grim Rghi to the finish. But the Yurks deserved a bigger margin of victory. Yorks kicked of!
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  • 29 14 MALACCA. Fri— A hattrick by R. Linus enabled Malacca Indians to beat the PWD/Sur_ vey 4-1 in their Craven A League Soccer match at Kubu Stadium yesterday.
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  • 260 14 BLI'E ROVERS Sports Club trounced Social A P. 7-1 in a Singapore Division 3B League soccer match at 1 Farrer Park yesterday. Blue Rovers opened accounts n the second minute through umahat. Social A. P. tried to qualise, but they found the lovers' defence hard
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  • 87 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Headquarter! Malaya Commanrl sutTered their first hockey defeat of the season today i Selangor Ciub beat them 3-1 fan a hard fought game on the partang. HQ Maiaya look the lead in the fifth minute through lefter Clarence Wright but Si- angor
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  • 28 14 ROTA RAJA ma a walkover t C mthians in a Singapore Division 1 league soccer match which was la h.ivo bcvn played at Jaian Besar Stadium yesterday.
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  • 33 14 RESULTS the Singapore itioo'a Spoon Shoot held at Bukit Timah Range Gun Scores XX. i/oong 9-.. Heap Scores: (A) Major y c. w Davis* ioo.ti; SR (B> Chin Wai Fah 10()4»;.
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  • 68 14 PENANC;. Fri. Penang Malays chalked up their biggest victory of the season when, in today's inter community soccer match, they whipped Penang Indians 12 3 at Victoria (Ireen. Malays led 4 l at the interval. They went on a rampage in the second half scoring
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  • 101 14 TELUK AXSOX. Fri— Chin Yue Kce and Lim Eng Bee each won two titles in the rhst junior badminton ehamnionships organised by the Drew Reerea'ion Club which was concluded here on Wednesday. Yue Kce beat Chong Wong Choong 15-7, 15-3 to take the boys' sirgles He partnered
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    59 14 photo. Chu Winc-keung (with ball). South China's centreforward is about to score one of his two goals against Selangor Chinese R.C.s Invitation Team at Kuala Lumpur's Princes Road Stadium on Thursday. Chee Seng is ready for the shot, but failed to stop a hard drive. On the ground is right
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  • 38 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Trenggantl Combined Malay Schools won the Selangor Malay Teachers Association Cup when they beat Kuala Lumpur Combined Malay Schools (Selangor District champions) 2 o in a interstate school soccer at Princess Road today.
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  • 190 14 Malacca Hockey Off To A Late Start With An SFA Win MALACCA. Fri.— A scratch St. Francis Association side beat Malacca Club 4-2 in the first hockey match of the season here at the Club Padang yesterday. Starting the season somewhat late as usual the match yesterday showed that the
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  • 675 14 Who will win the Aw Cheng Chye Trophy? By THE SPORTS EDITOR Tovirirr from 830 Dm the fate of the golden Aw Cheng: Chye Trophy first bell to the last. Burma's masters of the r i n g_young men of quicksilver speed and intelligent punching—
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  • 268 14 SINGAPORE SOCCER SPORTSMEN'S TROPHY: Singapore Combined vs. Federation Combined at Jalan Besar Stadium at 5.15 p.m. JUNIOR CUP-TIE: YMSA VS. Katong Sports Club at Jalan Besar Stadium at 3.45 p.m ARMY LEAGUE— DIV. 1: R.E.M.E. Base Workshops vs. G.H.Q. Signals; Regt 1. Pay Office Malaya vs. 221 Veh.
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  • 95 14 FLYWEIGHT M. A. <!- (Ceylon* v. Thif n (Burma). BANT\M\\| im,, William f M (S^poro Ortouste (PhilippmFFATIIFR\\M«.|, T Mauro Diton Vh\\i* pines) v. H. P (Ceylon). IK. 11l AM |f, Celedonio Ksp r ,v (Philippines) ldUnt Mying (Burma LIGHT WM II \i\\) |r IH: Max C'arlov tralia v.
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  • 202 14 SIXGAPOR B Combined School*, beat UK. Schoolboys by 84 runs in their return cricket match, played at Sepoy Lines yesterday. Edwin Tessensohn <43> ;md Abdul Razak (36) gave SCS a good start. when they put 62 runs for the fir.^t lckct. Tessensohn who scored his runs
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