Singapore Standard, 2 November 1955

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  • 386 2 We Will Always Support Government Planters Clarify Views On Amnesty KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Executive Council of the Incorporated Society of Planters, which last month criticized the amnesty as a shabby sell-out, declared today that while it had not changed its opinions, it will, as always, loyally support Government." This
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  • 372 2 Two Jailed For Robbing Malay Film Star AN ODD-JOB labourer, Soh Uiin Hock, #1, who was sentenced in the High Court to six vears' imprisonment for armed robbery, vesterdav told Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah: "I now realise I have committed wrong, and I ask your Lordship for leniency." Lim
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  • 62 2 PROCEEDINGS in a civil suit in the Singapore High Court was stopped abruptly yesterday when it was found that there was a witness who could only speak the Lanchi dialect, and there was no interpreter who could understand it. Mr. Justice Whitton before whom the suit was heard.
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  • 133 2 'It Was A Natural Reaction A MIDDLE-AGED sampanman. Tan Hoe Eng. who pleaded not guilty to a charge oi attempted obstruction. was discharged in the Singapore Eighth Magistrate's Court yesterday. The prosecution said that Tan prevented a Senior Revenue Officer. Mr. Goh Swan Whye, from discharging his duties near the
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  • 45 2 THREE Federation students were awarded scholarships for study in the University of Malaya by the Indian Scholarship Fund Committee which met at India House, Singapore, recently. They are: Mr Harcharan Singh (Taiping); Mr. Suppiah Doraipandian and Mr. Sundram Hariharan (Kuala Lumpur).
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  • 159 2 THE second in command of the New Zealand Special Air Squadron. Captain G. N. Boswell, arrived in Singapore yesterday with three other N.Z.S.A.S. personnel from Auckland, to join the Air Squadron attached to the R.A.F. at Kuala Lumpur. This is Capt. Boswell's second visit to this country. In
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  • 157 2 A GANG assaulted and robbed a schoolboy when he told them he was not a gangster, the Sings: Seventh Magistrate's Court was tcld during a preliminary inquiry yesterday The schoolboy. Teo Kim Keat. 15. said, after leaving an open-air cinema in Ganges Road on Sept.
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  • 216 2 Find My Wife Appeal Goes Out To Marshall A MIDDLE-AGED Eurasian overseer of the Public Works Department. Singapore, sought the Chief Minister's help yesterday to trace his wife whom he believes was enticed away by another man three months ago. Is She Alive? "I'm willing to give her a divorce
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  • 177 4 Front Plans Further Ruling At Next Meet THE first meeting of the new Central Committee of the Labour Front yesterday decided that allegations of bribery and corruption ~j against a member should be investiq cited. The Committee will consider the results of the investigation and make
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  • 157 4 CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot f.o.b (noni.) 118 1181 No. 1 RS.S. Nov. 118 1182 No. 1 Hee. 117| 11*4 No 2 Nov 117 118 No 3 Nov. 1151 1152 Tone: Uncertain TIN PRICE The price of tin yesterday wa.
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  • 154 4 Union's Challenge To Minister THE Secretary General of the Singapore Factory and Shop Workers' Union, Mr. Lim Chin Siong, last night asked the Minister for Labour and Welfare. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, to explain to the public exactly what he believes are the functions of his ministry. "I want to
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  • 84 4 MR. TAY Bah Seng was elected President of the Messrs. Harper Gilfillan and Co., Branch of thc Singapore Business Houses Employees Union at an inaugural meeting recently. Other officials elected were: Hon. Secretary Mr. Lim Lean Tatt. Treasurer —Mr Chan Whay Yam and Auditor Mr. Chia
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  • 57 4 PENANG. Tues.— The Bumbong Lima Bridge on the main trunk road north at the Province Wellesley-Kedah border will be closed to all traffic on the nights of Nov. 5/6 and Nov. 6/7 between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6.30 a.m.. Traffic should proceed north
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  • 71 4 THE Secretary of the 11--man working committee of 95 trade unions representing 85.000 workers Mr. Jamit Singh, last night asked the 44.000-strong Singapore Trade Union Congress to start discussions on the unity of Colony workers. In a letter calling for the talks to the T.U.C.
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  • 22 4 THE British Red Cross Society. Taiping District, will hold a branch committee meeting at the town council chambers today.
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  • 72 4 THE USS Rowan, a destroyer attached to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, is due in Singapore this evening on a three-day visit. The Rowan has iust completed combined exercises with four destroyers of the Royal Pakistan Navy. The Rowan vhh-h is currently on her sixth tour of Far
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  • 250 4 Protest Strike May Hit Gourmets' Haunts MORE than 3UO cmployees of eight Chinese restaurants in Singapore will strike on Friday as a mark of protest against the dismissal of nine colleagues. They will serve a 48-hour ultimatum on their employers today to reinstate the dismissed workers. The dismissed men are
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  • 55 4 6 5 -Day-Old Hotel Strike Comes To End THE 65-day-old strike at the Singapore Hotel ended yesterday. The management ajgreed to pay a minimum wage of $95 a month plus free quarters and free food. This settlement beings the number of strike-boiand hotels in Singapore down to one. It is
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  • 36 4 HONGKONG. Now. 1, Special Standard Service; Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were $15.49 to £1 Sterling; $5.***** to US$l; $1,826 to Malayan $1; $0,135 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $254,375 to a fcael.
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  • 30 4 STAFF Sergeant Lilian Chew hands over part of her recent promotion rise to Mr. R B Ooi. Editor of The Standard for the Standard's Christmas Toy Fund
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  • 288 4 SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRATION JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— The roaring flames of a petrol fire, the searing heat of a blow torch and the intense fire of burning rubber licked at the tinder dry walls and roof of a plank and attap hut yesterday. After an hour,
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  • 169 4 THE Singapore Bata Employees Union yesterday rejected the management's offer of a revised pay scheme for clerks, piece-rate and dailyrated workers. The Secretary of the Union. Mr. M. S. Dawood said the Union also rejected the management's decision to grant workers one
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  • 184 7 geneva Programme GENEVA, Nov. 1 (Reuter)— The refusal of South Vietnam to hold the election talks with the Commun> North will almost certainly figure in discussions H t tomorrow between Harold MacMillan and Ma icheslav Molotov, diplomatic sources said today. Britain and Russia were co-chairmen
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  • 140 7 NGKONG, Nov. 1 (UP)— m k. a refugee-jammed in Hongkong today, three persons, injuring iers and leaving 5.000 meless. the biggest fire in Bi tish colon v this vear. Bre broke out at 1 p.m. in Kowloon's Thai vi'.l- ■■.> of black smoke belched
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  • 77 7 No Marks Of Atom Injuries NEW YORK. Nov. 1 I Reu- r> Two women victims of atomic bombing in Biro- j shima appeared in public yes- j terdaj after plastic surgery. rations and showed hard- •.ny traces of facial inMiss Yoshle Harada and Miss Mitsuko Kuramoto. two 25 women from
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  • 35 7 \DMIRAL Earl Mountbat- Britain's First Sea Lord. k i rj in Norfolk. Virginia, yesj^rdav. that there had been JB weakening" in the Atlanalliance as a result of the Geneva Big Four Conference Reuter
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  • 30 7 INMATES of Blitar Prison East Java revolted last ciav and seized control ot the prison for two hours, berc police and soldiers sub- J du d them. UP
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  • 79 7 Reform Of Red China's Language TOKYO. Nov. 1 (AP) .-Peking radio said a week's scientific conference closed in the Red capital yesterday on the reform ot thc Chinese language. It was unanimously .'-.greed the announcement said, that the commonly spoken language 'known to foreigners as Mandarin) using the Peking pronunciation
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  • 52 7 MANILA. Nov. 1 <AP> An independent Filipino movie producer says he is negotiating with Asian film companies for joint productions. Constancio T. Willamar. of V-I Cinema, says his first picture if plans materialize would be filmed in Singapore. Others may follow in Indonesia, India and Egypt,
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  • 32 7 PRESIDENT Eisenhower continued to make satisfactory progress in his recovery from his heart attack on Sept 24. a medical bulletin from the Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver reported yesterday. Reuter
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  • 192 7 Aussie Plan To Beautify National Capital CANBERRA. Nov. 1 (Reuler) A Senate Select C >mmittee has reeomD nded the expenditure oi millions of pounds to make Canberra, as Australia's national capital. a city of "great beauty and dignity, tit to rank with other great world capitals. But the committee, which
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  • 136 7 PRINCESS Margaret in a signed statement from Clarence House dated Monday, Oct. 31, said: ''I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend. "I have been aware that subject to my renouncing my rights of succession
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  • 396 7 SACRIFICE FOR CHURCH AND EMPIRE Bewildered! LONDON, Nov. 1, Princess Margaret's decision to give up Peter Townsend for duty left her people proud bur a little sad last night. Many Britons, steeped in their country's royal traditions, felt it was the only thing to do, of course, since the Crown
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  • 288 7 LONDON, Nov. 1 (UP)— Group Capt. Peter Townsend maintained a friendly front and masked his emotions to the end. United Press correspondent Anthony Cavendish, who had accompanied Townsend on the car-ferrv plane from France to England on Oct. 13 and had been
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  • 79 7 LONDON. Nov. 1 (UP) Almost 20 years ago. King Edward VIII renounced the British throne and chose exile. In a farewell address he gave his reasons for placing love before duty. You must believe me when I tell vou that I have found it impossible to
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  • 47 7 NEW YORK. Nov. 1 (UP) The Duchess of Windsor, the American for whom King Edward VIII renounced the British throne had "no comment" yesterday on the announcement that the -Duke's niece. Princess Margaret, had decided not to marrv Group i Capt. Peter Townsend.
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  • 54 7 I UNITED NATIONS. NY., Nov 1 (AP) Canada will propc_3 soon that the U.N. admit 17 new member countries including Japan altogether. Diplomatic sources said she planned to introduce a resolution to that effect in the General Assembly's Special Political Committee when the
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  • 69 7 WASHINGTON. Nov. 1 (AP) A German physician whc spent six years as a prisoner in Russia predicts some kind of U.S.-Red China agreement that will lead to China's break from Soviet Russia. In a book entitled "Limits of Soviet Power." Dr. Wilhelm Starlinger said also Soviet
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  • 30 7 SIDNEY Albert (Sam) Perkins, 90. a Washington State Newspaper publisher anc friend of half a dozen presidents, died at his home ir Tacoma. Washington on Mon- day A.P.
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  • 164 7 TUSCON, Arizona. Nov. 1 (Reuter)— The uses of the sun's power for year-round air conditioning of homes and for water heaters were described Yesterday by two Japanese experts at the opening ot the nrst World Sympolium of Applied Solar El More than 800 scientists
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  • 112 7 Thev Don't Want UN Trusteeship UNITED NATIONS. Nov. 1 UP)— South Africa reaffirmed yesterday that it will not agree to a United Nations trusteeship for the vast territory of South West Africa. Debate on South-west Africa began yesterday morning in the General •Assembly s Trusteeship Committee. As a preliminary, the
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  • 436 7 SAD A BUT 1 DECIDED C wealth Hails Margaret LONDON, Nov. 1 (Reuter) The independent Times, recording the deep sympathy felt for Princess Margaret throughout the Commonwealth during "her lonelv ordeal," declared that last night's message from her London home would "still further
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  • 53 7 BUENOS AIRES. Nov. 1 (AP)— A five-General Military Court of honour yesterday kicked Juan Peron out of the Argentine Army. stripped him of the title of general of the Army and barred him from wearing Army uniform for "the gravest offences against the honour of
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 1108 9 $HE longed for 'Grand Passion' and HE craved for 'Bag of Gold' By Arrangement with the SYDNEY Daily Telegraph NEW YORK. AMONG the movieland matrons that is, those still married— the most radiantly, ecstatically happy, says Holly. wood gossip, is the no-longer-youthful Ginger Rogers. od
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  • 407 9  -  Bridget Jones J'M telling tales about film stars' wedding days this week. The stars, it seems, are as excited nervous, sentimental and panicky as anyone else on these occasions. BETTY GRABLE confesses that s h e was in such a panic before her marriage to HARRY JAMES that
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  • 6 9 HER TRUE LOVE
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  • 223 9 HOLLYWOOD HEPBURN thought she was doing well when, six years ago, she was offered about £950 a picture by Associated British Films. She thought she was doing marvellously when Paramount paid her £4,000 foi "Roman Holiday." Now, her salary for "War and Peace." is £117.000 for 12 weeks'
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  • 180 9 Audrey earns £9.750 A WEEK with Andrea and Douglas CRANE After the system had been installed for two weeks. Jeanne and her husband, talking earnestly, were startled when the oldest boy's voice boomed out over the system from his bedroom: "THEN WHAT DID HE SAY. POP?" Paul is now considering
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • 173 10 BEING a woman business executive is not as easy as some people are apt tu think, says Mrs. Barbara Yolanda Gibbons, director of Barretto Shipping Co. Ltd. Singapore. Office workers as a general rule would rather work under men than under women, she added. In the management
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  • Article, Illustration
    125 10 RUBBER UP ½ct THE Singapore rubber market closed on an uncertain tone yesterday, with first grade November shipment at $I.lBi per lb., halt a cent above Monday's close. The market was irregular throughout the day. It opened uncertain at $1.18 and eased at one stage to $1,164. After lunch it
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  • 126 10 IN the second quarter of 1955 telegraph traffic handled by Britain's Post Office cable and wireless services amounted to 97.458.477 words. This total was made up of 42. 787. '579 words exchanged between Britain and other Commonwealth countries. 25.--284.579 words between the United Kingdom and
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  • 122 10 Plan Team Sees Lever Factory ON a tour of the Federal capital a party of Colombo Plan delegates took the opportunity of visiting Lever Brothers (Malaya) Ltd.. Kuala Lumpur. The party headed by U. Kyaw Nyein, Minister for Industries, Burma, included Dr. Tun Thin, Director of Censors, Statistics and Economics,
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  • 227 10 Standard Market Reporter TWO rubber counters on the Malayan share market —Alor Gajah Rubber Estate Ltd. and Lunas Rubber Estate Ltd. made substantial advances yesterday, following rumours of a possible "takeover." Business passed in Alor Gajah 'up to $1.40. a rise of some 35 cents
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  • 125 10 SINGAPORE sharebrokers reported the following business done yesterday: F. and N. ords. $1.(59 Gammons $2.55; Henry Waugh $1.(50: M. Breweries xz 53. 41; M. Coi.?: 91 cents, M. Cements $1.64: Met il Box $1.52}. .$1.55. $1.50 (odd lot): Singapore Cold Storage $1.70: U.E. ords $10.35; Wearne Bros.
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  • 21 10 ITALY plans to buy two million bushels of United States maize. American exporters in New York reported AP
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  • 151 10 MALACCA, Tues.— Shell has kept ahead but in the face of stronger competition dealers would have to work harder and do some w indow advertising to maintain iheir lead. Mr. E W L oyds. the Area Branch Manager of Shell, told dealers at the company's annual dinner
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 249 10 Standard Market Reporter PEPPER prices in Singapore toppled by $7 yesterday to $133 per picul for white and 880 for black. The prices are the lowest since the period before ttie Korean War boom. Prices slipped following the easier tendency overnight
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    • 70 10 New Freighter For HollandAmerica Line THE 7.200 dv ton motor freighter Kinderdijk building at a Flushing vard in Holland for the Holland-America Line, has been successfully launched. Dimensions— are: length 460 ft.. beam Sl} ft., and moulded depth 37 ft. The draught is 25 ft. The freighter will be propelled
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    • 66 10 THE Short Seamew twoscatcr light anti-submarine aircraft, a formation of which was flown at thc Society of British Aircraft Constructors' Flying Display last month, has now emerged from its preliminary development stage. Production versions are coming off the assembly line, and the first Royal Air Force Coastal
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    • 198 10 NOW in Singapore ir e course of a world ness tour, is Mr. Rii T. Aldworth. exc. vice-president oi I e Kn u x Company of Newark. New Jc He is visiting the c pany s agents and I ches. He Is also in Singapore to
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    • 529 10 INDIAN-OWNED SHIPPING EXPANDS NEW DELHI. Nov. I— ln the West. slipping on a banana-skin b something of a joke. But here in India it is an important part of a serious day's work. Each new ship which is launched at India's growing ship3'ards at Vizagapatanam j glides down the s'ipway
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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