Singapore Standard, 10 November 1955

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    31 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD POLICE ***** (5 lines) 2400 U it iH ~"P FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 5111 2414 Vol. VI. No. 127 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1955 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon MORE, HEAVIER TAXES LIKELY
    1975 1 Ljquor, Petrol Estate Duty Will Be Much Costlier THE MARSHALL Government 1 yesterday raised the tax on liquor, petrol and estate duty to narrow down the $22 million deficit m the 1956 estimates. The Financial Secretary, Mr. T. M. Hart announcing this at yesterday's Budget session
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    Lock icon This Is How The Budget Hits You
    85 1 This Is How The Budget Hits You THE following table shows the increase m prices since the raised taxes were announced at the Assembly, yesterday. SHSSL bulk $15.40 cts p.p.g. BRANDY per quart 2.00 per peg .08 SAMSU per gallon 4.00 (imported) per quart .67 (local) per quart .50 BEER
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    Lock icon Front Split Wide Open
    164 1 THE LABOUR Front split was complete yesterday when Messrs. A.R. Lazarcus and Lee Choon Eng deserted the Government benches to take up their new places with the Opposition. This dramatic move left Marshall Government m the precarious position of nrtng only 16 votes against the opposition's
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    Lock icon PIN AYS VISIT
    25 1 If. ANTOINE Pinay French Foreign Minister, will visit Bonn on Sunday for talks with Dr. Konrad Adenauer, the West German Chancellor. Reuter
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    Lock icon ARAB CONFERENCE
    22 1 LEADERS of the Arab nations met m Cairo yesterday to discuss the tense situation on their frontiers with Israel. Reuter
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    Lock icon Nudity Failed To Stop Her
    322 1 No-Stay-Put Girl Off Again PENANG, Wed.— Sim Ah Oi, 14, who was taken back to the Po Leung Kuk m Babington Avenue last Monday, made another escape from the home early this morning. She was one of the three young Chinese girls who escaped from
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    Lock icon Headed For Major Win
    67 1 MANILA. Nov. 9 (AP)— The administration Nacionalista Party today was headed toward overwhelming control of the Senate as counting continued In yesterday's national elections. With votes from the strongly Nacion&lista rural area only trickling m. the majority party already had placed five candidates among the eight
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    Lock icon He Won't Talk With The Reds
    53 1 SAIGON, Nov. 9 (UP)— South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem declared today he will refuse to meet the Communists to discuss unification of the Indo-China nations. Diem said his new Republic is "not bound by what is usually called the Geneva accord but we
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    Lock icon NO RECOGNITION
    29 1 A SPOKESMAN of Ceylon's Ministry of External Affairs said today Ceylon would not recognize the newly-created Republic of South Vietnam until the whole of Vietnam was unified.
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    Lock icon Girl (9) Slain In Blukar
    317 1 Girl (9) Slain In Blukar $5,000 Reward On The Killer MYSTERY shrouds the death of a nine-year-old Singapore schoolgirl, Lim Swee Gek, who was found strangled m a patch of blukar, 50 yards from her home m Nee Soon Village, yesterday. Police have not as yet established the motive for
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    Lock icon Tans To Marshall — Resign
    109 1 Tans To Marshall Resign THE Progressive and Democratic Parties after a meeting last night, called on the Marshall Government to resign. In a joint statement, both presidents, Mr. C.C. Tan and Mr. E.J. Tan, declared that the walkout by the two Labour Front Assemblymen. Messrs. Lee Choon Eng and A.R.
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    Lock icon CALL ME MISTER
    31 1 NIKOLAI Alexandrovic Bulganin, 60, Premier of the Soviet Union and a Soviet Marshal, will be known as just plain "Mr." on his coming two-week tour of India. A.P.
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    Lock icon MOROCCO CHIEF
    25 1 M. ANDRE-LOUIS DUBOIS, 52, Paris Prefect of Police was yesterday appointed ResidentGeneral m Morocco, replacing Gene ra^ 'Piprrp Rnwr H*> la Tour.- Reuter
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    Lock icon MINE TRAGEDY
    23 1 ELEVEN miners were killed and 18 others were injured m a cave-in at the Akaike coal pits, southern Japan, yesterday. U.P.
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    Lock icon NO DEATH PACT
    34 1 ISRAELI Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, declared yesterday that Israel is prepared to observe the armistice on the Negev-Sinai frontier, but warned "our aim ie noa iB —but not suicide." A.P.
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    Lock icon ATOMS FOR PEACE
    34 1 AUSTRALIA and the United States are studying a comprehensive atomic pact which would provide for exchanges of information on military aspects of the atom as well as its oeaceful uses. Reuter
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    Lock icon NOW ITS THE WHITE COLLARS
    106 1 MORE than .500 whitecollar workers of the Admiralty will serve a 14-day ultimatum on their employers today, to settle their claim for revision of salary. The president of the Admiralty Local Staff Union, Mr. K. Ananthanarayan, told The Standard last night that if the claim
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    Lock icon RUBBER RUBS OUT $148 MIL. DEFICIT
    308 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Rubber today rubbed out the Federation Government's $148.6 million budget deficit for 1955. Strongly backed by Customs duties. Malaya's top-money spinning commodity, is now expected to place m the national "kitty" a surplus of not less than $25 million by Christmas.
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    Lock icon ALLIANCE RALLY IS A SHOCKER
    178 1 IPOH, Wed. An Alliance pre-election open air rally was abruptly shortened last night when the honorary secretary of the Ipoh branch of the Malayan Indian Congress, Mr. A. K. Maniam, was nearly electrocuted after he grabbed a microphone. Only prompt action by a' Malayan Chinese
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    Lock icon HOUSES – A GLOOMY VIEW
    63 1 HOUSES A GLOOMY VIEW LONDON, Nov. 9 (Reuter)— The 160,000 families on the London County Council's waiting list for new houses were told tonight that their prospects were "very gloomy." At a meeting of the Council's housing committee, Mr. W. G. Fiske, the chairman, said that not more than 4,000
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    44 1 THREE Western Foreign Ministers said m an agreed statement at the Big Four conference m Geneva yesterday that Russia's objection to reuniting Germany through free elections was motivated by a desire to communise the whole of Germany. Reuter. (See Page 7)
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    Lock icon SCOUTS PROMISE
    36 1 SIR Anthony Eden last night promised his support for the biggest boy scout jamboree ever planned by the movement. It will be held m the summer of 1957 at Sutton Park, near Birmingham. Reuter
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    Lock icon Shoe Is On The Other Foot
    49 1 LONDON Nov. 9 (UP)— Britain's super-secret spycatching espionage agency MI-5 will be investigated itself because of the BurgessMaclean spy scandal, press reports said today. The inquiry would be the first since MI-s's almost legendary group started its work before the first world war.
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    Lock icon NEW GO-BROKE LAW FAVOURS WORKERS
    495 2 NEW GO-BROKE LAW FAVOURS WORKERS Opposition Tells Govt. 'Well Done' UNDER an amendment passed by the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday to the Bankruptcy Ordinance, a debtor will now have to incur $500 liabilities before he is liable to be made a bankrupt. The amendment was made because it was considered
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    Lock icon A Demand For Water 'Stockpile'
    82 2 KLANG. Wed.— Angry Town Councillors demanded today the building of a 5,000 gallon water stockpile" m Selangor's second city, where a cabaret burned fiercely this week-end as firemen waited with empty hoses for the supply to be turned on. The demand was reiterated m the
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    Lock icon Tribunal Hears Pay Claims
    55 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Government Service Arbitration Tribunal met here today to hear claims for salary scale revisions from Assistant Registrars, Assistant Public Trustees, Assistant Official Assignees and First Legal Assistants. Dr. K. ML Arifr is chairman of the tribunal. Members are Mr. R. Ramani and
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    Lock icon 'LET DOGS SOLVE REVENUE DEFICIT'
    278 2 $5 Mil. A Year Guaranteed GREYHOUND racing will help to solve the Singapore Government's financial worries. Mr. Jack Rooklyn. who proposes to start greyhound racing m the Colony, told The Standard that m view of the deficit of $22,000,000 m next year's budget Government should
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    86 2 PART of the 85,000,000 new Teachers' Training iCollege m Patterson Road, Singapore, now m the process of completion. The College will move into its new buildings m |December and the present building at Cairnhill will be taken over by its Chinese Branch. All normal classes will be held
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    Lock icon Lay Off New Hands, Bus Union Warns
    199 2 THE Singapore Bus Workers' Union, yesterday warned the Government that issue of licences to newly recruited workers of the Tay Koh Ya* Bus Company would "create a position analogous ;to the Hock Lee Bus Company dispute." lilt; WflmillK \Vd5 lumomcu n a letter
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    Lock icon Watchman Discharged
    70 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A. Gupand Singh, 60-year-old watchman, who imposed his advances on an aged watchwoman was today conditionally discharged by the First Magistrate, Group Captain G. V. Howard to a charge of behaving m an insulting manner. Singh initially claimed trial to a charge of. attemping to
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    Lock icon COUNCILLOR PROBES TEETH OF GIFT HORSE
    337 2 COUNCILLOR PROBES TEETH OF GIFT HORSE Answer: They Are Genuine SINGAPORE is not obliged to purchase po\vd< milk from Australia operate the |700,00Q milk reconstitution plant offered by tb, country to the Colony under the Coicn j Plan. This was disclosed by the Ch Minister, Mr. David Ms at the
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    Lock icon ANNUAL DINNER
    23 2 MALAYAN Breweries Ltd. will hold the annual dinn< r for its distributors En Mak> at the Sin Wah Restaurant on Saturday.
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    37 2 HONGKONG. Nor. 0 Special Standard Servic:e C ing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $15 47 to Sterling; $5.***** to USSI $1,828 to Malayan SI; 50. 14 one Indonesian Rupiah; oo.c $254.25 to a taei.
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    Lock icon SPEAKER UNDER FIRE AT PRESS CONFERENCE
    406 3 'An Extraordinary Order Says Ceylon Newsman C \XBERRA. Nov. 9, t Renter) The power of the >peaker of the Singapore Assembly to exclude Xiv reporter from the boose f°r writing an "un- !.<•! report, came under |re at the Commonwealth Press Union conference here
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    Lock icon 3-HOUR MEETING
    26 3 3 -HOUR MEETING THE Court of Inquiry Investigating the trade dispute at the Gleneagles Hotel. Singapore. sat for three hours yesterday and adjourned until Nov. 24.
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    70 3 REPRESENTATIVES of the Federation of Unions of Government Employees. Senior Officers' Association, Graduate Teachers' Association and the Teachers' Union will continue with their evidence on the Education Service at the Ma'.ayanization Commission meeting today. The Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Education. Mr D. McLellan. and the
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    Lock icon TRAIN HOLDS UP TENGKU'S FUNERAL
    208 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A goods train today held up mates the funeral prouon of Tengku IflUsa Edwartime Ruler of Seiawhose body was later i at rest m the Klang Royal W oleum. be train puft'ed and steamc its way through the Sungei level crossing as
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    Lock icon Biggest Dope Haul At Port Sham
    218 3 VESSEL CHASED, CAUGHT PORT SWETTENHAM, Wed —Customs officials last night boarded a tongkang at sea, five miles off Port Swettenham and seized more than $40,000 worth of first quality raw opium, The Standard was told today. Two men were arrested m the raid which
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    Lock icon IF U.K. TALKS FAIL
    242 3 IF U.K. TALKS FAIL Tunku s Plans JAKARTA. Nov. 9 (Reuter) The Federation of Malaya would "determine more definite steps towards achieving its aim" if independence talks m London next year between its representatives and the British Government fail, the Chief Minister of the Federation, Tunku Abdul Rahman said last
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    Lock icon Job Problem Upset Him
    64 3 JARKOFF VLADMIR, a white Russian, under police supervision, told the Singapore Fifth Magistrate. Mr. R. B. I. Pates, that he was so upset over his job last month that he forgot to report to the police. The magistrate discharged him for failing to report to the
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    Lock icon This Union Won't Call On P.A.P.
    127 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Port Swettenham branch of the Malayan Railway Traffic Operating Union last night decided to drop its much publicised fraternal visit to P.A.P. controlled unions m Singapore next week. This followed a visit from M.R.T.O.U. president Mr. J. Leo. and an
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    Lock icon Don't Let Reds Make Comeback'
    110 3 Don't Let Reds Make Comeback' KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The importance of safeguarding Malaya from any outbreak of Communist terrorism after the end of the Emergency, was stressed today by Selangor State Information Officer. Mr. Jack Hackett. Welcoming a group of 32 Malay women from Ulu Bernam, Kuala Selangor, to a
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    Lock icon You Failed In Your Duty,' Conductor Told
    254 3 You Failed In Your Duty,' Conductor Told KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Kuala Lumpur coroner, lnche Abdul Rani, today told a conductor that he nad failed m his duty by making no attempt to prevent a woman passenger from falling out of his bus. lnche Rani made this iemonstration a"t an
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    Lock icon SCHOOL PATROL
    32 3 THE new school crossing patrols scheme will be inaugurated at the Chung Kuo Kung Shieh School. Serangoon at noon tomorrow by the Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas
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    Lock icon GANDHI MEMORIAL OPENED
    97 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Sultan of Kedah this afternoon opening the 560.000 Gandhi Memorial Hall at Sungei Patani. said Mahatma Gandhi had succeeded "to a degree never before believed possible" pulling down caste barriers among Indians Gandhi, the Ruler continued, had forged Indian unity and had fought
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    Lock icon PERAK KEEPS ITS PURSE
    361 4 Financial Autonomy, Is Launched IPOH, Wed.— The Sultan of Perak, Sir Yussuf Izzudin Shah, promulgated from his Throne Room m Kuala Kangsar today, an amendment to the Perak Constitution, which gives his State financial autonomy. The Sultan signed the amendment m the presence of titled chiefs,
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    Lock icon TAX NEWS CAUSES BRISK SALE OF LUXURY GOODS
    165 4 MR. AND MRS. Singapore scrambled yesterday to stock up on luxury goods before the new purchases tax predicted by The Standard could come into force. Many householders entered into hire purchase agreements ror goods which they normally would not have bought Mr
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    Lock icon 3Months, No Sympathy For Teacher
    166 4 3Months, No Sympathy For Teacher R. SABAPATHY, 22, a former teacher of the Mercantile Institution, was yesterday sentenced to three months' imprisonment m the Singapore Eighth Magistrate's Court on three charges of criminal breach of trust of three Parker pens. The sentences are to run concurrently. On Oct. 26. Sabapathy
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    Lock icon STC Conductor Is Acquitted
    47 4 SIM KIM BEI, a Singapore Traction Company bus-conduc-tor, was yesterday acquitted and discharged m the Singapore First District Court, without his defence being called. on a charge of criminal breach of trust of a ten-cent fare, at Bras Basah Road on July 23.
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    151 4 CLOSING ruDber prices (cents per lb.) m Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Seller* Spot f.o.b (nom.) 1123 1131 No. 1 R.S.S. Nov. 113 113 i No. 1 Dec. 111.J 112£ No. 2 Nov. llli 112 No. 3 Nov. 110J 111 Tone: Steady. TIN PRICE The price of tin yesterday
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    Lock icon $600,000 Bank Share Case-Judgment Reserved
    431 4 CHARITABLE TRUST FUND DISPUTE PENANG, Wed.— Mr. Justice T. C Spenser-Wilkinson reserved judgment m the High Court today on a civil suit involving $600,000 worth of shares of the Ban Hin Lee Bank, Ltd., Penang. The plaintiffs were Yeap Hock Hoe, Yeap Hock Hin, Yeap
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    Lock icon Air Experts Arrive In Colony
    97 4 Air Experts Arrive In Colony FOUR aeronautical experts flew m yesterday from England on their way to Australia for the Aeronautical Advisory Council meeting to be held m Canberra soon. The leader of the delegation is Mr. E.T. Jones, Direc-tor-General of Technical Development and President of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
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    56 4 SCHOLARSHIP MAN DUE b AC K MR. WOON Wah Siang, a member of the staff of Singapore's Social Welfare Department. Public Assistance Section, is due back from England on Sunday. Mr. Woon, who left Singapore m 1952 on a Government scholarship, returns with a honours Bachelor of Science (Sociology) degree
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    Lock icon HELICOPTER TOUR
    31 4 THE Commander-in-Chiet of the Far East Land Forces. Sir Charles Loewen, will make a helicopter tour of the Singapore Base District tomorrow, visiting Kota Tinggl, Keranji, among other places.
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    Lock icon MR. AW GIVES DINNER
    101 4 PEN AN G. Wed. The Managing Director of the Sin Chew Jit Pao and the Sin Pin Jit Pao, Mr. Aw Kow, entertained a large and representative gathering to a dinner at the Heong Kong Restaurant m Penang Road last night. I Mr. Aw thanked those
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    Lock icon China-Bound Restrictions To Continue
    112 4 RESTRICTIONS on localborn persons travelling to and from China and Hongkong will continue for the present, the Singapore Minister for Labour and Welfare, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, told the Legislative Assembly yesterday. He was replying to a question by Mr. Lun Cher Kheng (Democrat-Changi) who asked
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    Lock icon Naval Base Strike Is Averted
    80 4 THE threatened strike by 10.000 industrial employees, scheduled to start at midnight yesterday has been called off. The Admirally has found jobs with the Aormy for the 16 sail-makers who were retrenched recently. The secretary of the Naval Base Labour Union, Mr. S. Woodhull. told
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    Lock icon Dice Game Operator Is Warned
    84 4 Dice Game Operator Is Warned LIM AH BENG, 11, operator of a dice game (si-gor-lark) was cautioned and discharged by the Singapore Sixth Magistrate, Mr. J. P. Trainer, yesterday. He had lost $10 to his customers. Lira said. Lim, who pleaded guilty to gaming m pubßic on Monday, was warned
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    Lock icon BODY RECOVERED
    50 4 THE body o£ a man from Johore, Muttia. Perumal, 36, was recovered irom the sea off Telok Ayer Basin, last night. Anyone who can give information concerning the identity of the man is asked to contact Inspector Tan Kah Wan of the Marine Police telephone 2400. extension 246.
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    Lock icon Strikers Refused To Make Defence
    252 4 FORTY-FIVE striking employees of the United Engineers, Singapore, found guilty on. a charge of obstructing the entrance of the firm's foundry at Tiong Bahru Road on Oct. 26, were yesterday each fined $20, m default, two weeks' imprisonment, m the Ninth Police Court yesterday- Nine
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    Lock icon EX-S'PORE LAWYER HERE ON VISIT
    245 5 Z AN OLD Singaporean who was here for 21 years and spent nearly two years as a prisoner-of-war m < company with the Commis- :oner-General for South- east Asia. Sir Robert Scott, la now m the Colony on a brief holiday. Mr. K. P. Kesava
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    386 5 TELEPHONE FIELD WORKERS WILL GO ON STRIKE IF... MORE than 320 field workers of the Singapore Telephone Board will go on strike at 6 p.m. tomorrow n the Board fails to begin negotiations with their union before 5 p.m. today. The workers who are members of the Factory and S.-.op
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    Lock icon 25 HOMELESS AFTER FIRE
    111 5 FIVE families were rendered homeless when a midaay fire gutted an attap house (above) m Kolam Ayer Lane, Singapore, yesterday. The b!a*e a?so damaged an attap iean-to a few yards from the house. Women m the house were preparing lunch when one of them noticed the
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    Lock icon Bus Firm Sued For Negligence
    162 5 Bus Firm Sued For Negligence AN action for damages against the Green Bus Company for alleged negligence, was brought by a widow, Lim Sor Ngoh, before Mr. Justice Whitton m the Singapore High Court yesterday. Lim alleged that her husband Ho Swee Joo, a driving instructor, was killed m a
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    Lock icon Evil Spirit Told Him To Steal
    60 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Ali Mohamed, charged m the Magistrate's Court today with the theft of a gold chain from a child, claimed that "an evil spirit prompted him to take the chain." He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and ordered to pay a
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    39 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. The Singapore Diocesian Secretary. Cdr, J. Hudson, will meet members of St. Christopher's Church council at the Vicarage, Johore Bahru. on Monday. He will speak about the finances of the diocese.
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    Lock icon Ratepayers Assured Of No Increase In Town Assessment
    431 5 Ratepayers Assured Of No Increase In Town Assessment Kuala Lumpur's Finance Is Sound KUALA LUMPUR, Wed—The Federal Capital's 100,000 ratepayers were assured today that they would not have to pay increased rates of assessment or higher charges for water and light next year. The assurance came from Kuala Lumpur's Municipal
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    33 5 THE wife of a Gurkha soldier recently gave birth to these bbnnie triplets m the British Military Hospital. Kluang. The proud father is Rifleman Manbahadur Rai of the 1/7 Gurkha Rifles.
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    Lock icon U.S.I.S. Girl Flies In
    52 5 MISS CAROL Harford, the new Public Affairs Assistant to the Singapore branch of the United States Information Services, arrived by air yesterday to take over the post from Miss Helen Simonson. Miss Simonson, who has been m the Colony for four years will leave for America
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    Lock icon Sir John's Farewell Cost $4,270
    139 5 Sir John's Farewell Cost $4,270 THE farewell party to the former Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll cost the public of the Colony $4,270.20, the Financial Secretary Mr. T. M. Hart told the Legislative Assembly yesterday. He added the party was given by the Chief Minister on behalf of the
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    Lock icon SEVENTH FLEET'S PURPOSE: PEACE'
    236 5 THE one purpose of the United States Seventh Fleet m Far Eastern waters was to provide strength and power to maintain peace m this part of the world, said Commander Thomas H. Suddath, U.S. Naval Attache m Singapore yesterday. He was speaking to Rotarians at their
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    90 5 RAUB, Wed.-r-Two terrorists were sentenced to death m the Assize Court here today by Mr. Justice Buhagiar for offences under the Emergency Regulations They were Kow Low, 40, who pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a handgrenade and Wong Kow, 24. who pleaded guilty to unlawful
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    140 5 SIT JUNIOR OFFICERS' ROW OVER THE difference of opinion over their memorandum on Malayanization which re-ulteri m a split among the members of the Singapore Improvement Trust Junior Officers' Associa- tion. has been settled. Mr. Chan Thye Swee, vice-presi-dent of the Association, said last night. The split occurred at a
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      533 6 THE long and short of the Financial Secretary's budget speech delivered at the Legislative Assembly meeting yesterday was while expenses snowballed revenue remained almost static on the present basis of taxation, with the result that Singapore is faced with a deficit of $22.7 millions m 1956. Mr.
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      398 6 CINGAPORE'S Minister for Communications and Works goes from the ridiculous to the ludicrous when he insists that teenage drivers (m the 19 to 21 age group) are better than older and more experienced motorists. On what grounds Minister Thomas bases his claim is not known, but those
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    2018 6 THE NEW CHINA -Land of LONDON "[TNTIL recently the Chinese would not say exactly where it was. But times change. Changchun lay a little to the north-east and, beyond, the Manchurian plain stretched away to distant, indignant mountains. We were standing m the central avenue of the No. 1
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    236 6 REVIEW OF VIEWS Special Constables I TTUSAN Melayu would prefer to see Special Constables m Singapore converted into a permanent police force. The paper's editorial expresses* the view that any improvement m the salary scale and working conditions of the Special Constables will In the long run prove unsatisfactory as
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    759 6 the training then handed out was was considered sufficient to place m his hands the future generations. BY THE results achieved then, and being achieved today, it has been proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the normal trained teacher Is as good
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    208 6 GFGFH Sir: Attention is very much focussed on meeting the needs of ex-Service men and women who require assistance. The Secretary of the ExServices Association of Singapore has received a letter which reads as follows: "For the past one or two years, we the Ex-Service men have
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    132 6 Sir: In all advertisements and Gazette Notifications for filling up Government vacancies preference is only given to students of Government or Aided schools. As such, it appears that the Government does not recognize the students of private schools though both are equally good. The object of
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    185 7 First Appearance PRINCESS Margaret made her first public appearance since she said >he would not marry Peter Townsend. She faced the ordeal of the public gaze at a service m St. Paul's Cathedral. In her dramatic announcement she placed luty before love. It was
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    123 7 Queen Says No' To TV. LONDON, Nov. 9 (AP> Queen Elizabeth II has turndown suggestions her traditional Christmas Day broadcast to the Empire should be televised this year. The BBC said '"her majesty Rave consideration to the possibility of a television broadcast this year but deeded to confine to sound
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    64 7 LONDON. Nov. 9 fUP) Princess Margaret partied early today with Peter Townsend'a palace successor Just ght days after she broke off r romance with the divorc. I I Group Captain. Her escort was rich and n tndsome Lord Plunkett. 32 i nog-time beau and an Irish peer.
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    27 7 LORD Earl Mountbatten. tin's First Sea Lord and > Mountbatten toured Headquarters yesterday a i the guest of U N ecretary General Da? Ham. rskjold.- AP
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    361 7 Peace In M-East Is Vital GENEVA, Nov. 9 (AP)— The United States and Britain today arranged high level talks to chart secret new moves against Russia's diplomatic offensive m the Middle East. Diplomatic officials said high up on the list of ideas before the conferees
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    96 7 Violence, Arson, In Uganda KAMPALA. Uganda. Nov. 9 (AP) Police reported on Tuesday that a patrol has been rushed to an area of Northeast Buganda to quell an outbreak of mob violence and arson. Police reports said hostile crowds surrounded two chiefs' houses and drove off their cattle, shouting that
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    78 7 WITH an excited cry of "Darling!" film star Mare.iret Leighton runs into the arms of Laurence Harvey. It happened at Lont!on Airport last week when Laurence returned from New York. He had hjea away a week. When 'he first thrill of reunion was over, he said: "Our T-.mance
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    109 7 NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (AD— British press criticism of the Archbishop of Canterbury for allegedly interfering m Princess Margaret's romance was "too vulgar, too crude and too unfair to cut any ice with the British people," an English Church official said. The Rev. Canon
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    65 7 HONGKONG. Nov. 9 (Reufter) General Nathan F Twining. Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, said here today that the United States Air Force was ready to go to the assistance of any South-east Asian country threatened by Communist aggression. The general, who arrived
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      88 7 'Cold And Indifferent' SANTA MONICA. California. Nov. 9 (AP)—Mrs. Ruth Carmichael, 41, wife of composer Hoagy Carmichael. 55. obtained a divorce yesterday on testimony that ho had been "'cold and indifferent" to her for the last Jhree years. Mrs. Carmichael said her divorce suit "was more or less a culmination
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      52 7 MINNEAPOLIS. Nov. 9 (AP)—Two University of .Minnesota scientists have found a way to make cows .give milk that can provide protection against disease. They have discovered that cows vaccinated for a certain disease or several diseases will produce milk that has the power to protect against
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      76 7 NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (AP)— The weekly magazine. Newsweek, said today Pope Pius XII will announce at Christmas whether full bodily remains of St. Peter have been positively identified. The magazine said that chemical tests will be made shortly on the bones found m 1947 under
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      44 7 BAGHDAD, Iraq. Nov. 9 (AP)—A high police source disclosed on Tuesday that investigations have uncovered a subversive secret organization m Iraq. He said that one of six men already arrested has confessed conspiring for the overthrow of the Iraq Government.
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    77 7 RANGOON, Nov. 9 (Reuter) A Burmese Communist who led a resistance group during the Japanese occupation and fought against the Burmese Government after the war has surrendered with 80 of his followers, it was officially announced here tonight. The Communist, Bonpauk Tha Gyaw, and his band of
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    39 7 THE Nagpur High Court yesterday confirmed a sentence of six years' rigorous imprisonment passed on Babu Rao, a ricksha puller, charged with attempting to cause the death of Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister, last March. Reuter
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    40 7 SIR John Kotelawala. Prime Minister of Ceylon, said on arrival m Auckland New Zealand, yesterday that he hoped the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret would visit Ceylon for the Colombo Plan exhibition to open early next year. Reuter
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    Lock icon Queen's Cousin Found Unconscious
    153 7 LONDON. Nov. 9 <AP> Lady Nancy Blair. 37-year-old twice-married first cousin of the Queen, yesterday was found unconscious m the sleeping compartment of a train and rushed to a hospital under circumstances that created an air of mystery. Scotland Yard said police were informed that they
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    359 7 Geneva Conference (The Last?) Is Plunged Into Confusion UNITED GERMANY TO BE PRO-RED GENEVA, Nov. 9, (AP)— Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov stunned the Big Four conference on Tuesday night with a thunderous demand for Communist dominance m any united Germany. The Western allies immediately
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    94 7 SYDNEY, Australia. Nov. 9 (UP) A brief funeral service will be held at 11.15 a.m. on Thursday for Peter Gruening, United Press manager for Australia. New Zealand and the South Pacific. The body wjl. be cremated at Ryde. eight miles north of Sydney. The ashes will
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    18 7 AN Air Transport agreement between Burma and Red China was signed m Rangoon on Tuesday —AP.
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    135 7 LONDON, Nov. 10, (Reuter) Rubber production costs m Borneo, as reflected m current wage rates are now nearly twice those of 1949, according to the Borneo Government's report for the year, published today. I The report adds that it is no longer economic to tap where
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    55 7 PEARL HARBOUR. Nov 9. (AP)— A U.S. Navy F9FB Cougar Jet crashed into the sea on takeoff from the Carrier. Bennington on Friday. The pilot's name was withheld. The Navy said search was cancelled after the destroyer escort Radford had sighted parachute and debris but
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    29 7 THE rationing of rice was ordered yesterday m four Taiwan cities by the provincial government as a measure to force down the risine nrirp of rice. U.P.
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    167 7 WASHINGTON. Nov. 9, <AP>— A four-year legal puri suit of a runaway Chinese Nationalist general who refused to account for US$6.--368.000 m funds turned over to him for the purchase of U.S. aircraft has come to an end. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek ordered his vice minister
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    61 7 TOKYO. Nov. 9 (UP) President of Northwest Airlines. Donald W. Nyrop, today said Northwest will begin using jets m 1960 while all other major airlines will switch to jets m the near future. He said that the jet airliners will cross from Tokyo to Seattle non-stop
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    24 7 INDIAN government censors yesterday banned the American film "Blackboard Jungle." a story of juvenile delinquency m public schools as "too violent." A.P.
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    108 8 Transport Appeal: One Reply NEARLY one month after an appeal was made through the press, to the public for transport for its patients suffering considerably from the bu s strike, the Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic has received just one offer. Dr. G. H. Garlick, director of the clinic, said yesterday
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    59 8 A suggestion to lift the 30 m.p.h. speed restriction on the dual carriage-way sections of Bukit Timah Road. Singapore, is now being considered by the -police This was disclosed by the Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, at the Assembly yesterday, when he replied
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    78 8 MAJOR General E C. Colville, Chief of Staff, Far East Land Forces, and Chief United Kingdom delegate to the South-east Asia Collective Defence Treaty military staff planners' conference arrives m Hawaii for defence talks. On arrival. General Colville and other United Kingdom delegates were greeted by Chief
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    278 8 Chief Ministers Both Are Sincere A New Zealander Says 1t... NEW ZEALAND'S Minister for External Affairs, Mr. T. L. Mac Donald, last night paid high tribute to Malaya's two Chief Ministers, lunku Abdul Rahman and Mr David Marshall. He said '"Both men are leaders and I have been impressed by
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    58 8 THE Local Staff Union ot the Air Ministry. Singapore, will hold a dance m aid ot their building fund, on Nov 12. at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Air Marshal Sir Francis Fressanges, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Air Force, is patron of the dance. Tickets, double $3. and
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    Lock icon Shot Students Wound Was Fatal-Court Told
    479 8 Shot Students Wound Was Fatal -Court Told FOUR FACE TRIAL ON RASH ACT CHARGE AN autopsy performed on the 16-year-old Chinese student shot during the May 12 riots showed that the wound was fatal and dangerous, a Singapore Court was told yesterday. This evidence was given by a pathologist at
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    Lock icon Study Of Transfusion
    67 8 FELLOWSHIPS have been made available to Malaya and the Borneo territories, as members of the Colombo Plan, to go to Australia to study blood transfusion methods. As the Australian Blooa Transfusion Service operates m all six states. Asian trainees may be dispersed to various branches Most of
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    Lock icon POSED AS MCP MAN IN BID TO EXTORT
    170 8 POSED AS MCP MAN IN BID TO EXTORT A MAN. who claimed he was a Malayan Communist Party man m a bid to extort $10,000 was yesterday sentenced m the Singapore Second District Court to two years' jail followed by two years' police supervision. Lim Ah Kwee was charged with
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    Lock icon Officials Of Colony MCA
    140 8 THE following have been elected office-bearers of the* Singapore Malayan Chinese Association: President, Dato Sir Chenlock Tan; deputy president, Mr. Wong Foo Nam; vicepresidents: Messrs. Teo Han Sam, Ho Pao Jin, Chua Ho Ann. and Yong Shui Lin; secretary. Mr. Lee Kok Han: treasurer, Mr. Lim
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    Lock icon Man Gets Off Outrage Count
    41 8 MULANDI Duraraj. a City Council labourer, was yesterday acquitted m the Singapore Eighth Magistrate's Court on a charge of usijlg criminal force on a 14-year-old married woman, Mah binti Samat. with intent to outrage, her modesty.
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    Lock icon We'll Kill You Today' Shouted Voice
    242 8 FOUR men attacked one of four jagas sitting on a charpoy playing cards at Raffles Place on the night of Aug. 14. and beat up a second jaga when he tried to assist his comrade. This was revealed at the preliminary inquiry m a
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    200 8 THIS RED SURRENDER IS NO PROBLEM Govt. Quashes Speculation JOH ORE EAHRU, Wed. The Federation Government said today the terrorist leader, Ho Toh, 35, who gave himself up m the Reng am area of Johore yesterday was a surrendered enemy person under the Amnesty. The surrender posed no problem at
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    Lock icon Kangaroo Route Reaches 21
    98 8 Kangaroo Route Reaches 21 QANTAS Empire Airways and the British Oversea ways Corporation will celebrate their 21st "wedding" anniversary on Dec. 10 Out of this "wedding 21 years ago. the famous "Kangaroo Route" was born, when the Qantas and the Imperial Airways forged the first regular air link between Australia
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    24 8 MISS Isabell Campbell, a school teacher, who was crowned "Rotary Queen 1955" at a Ball organized by the Taiping Rotary CJub, recently.
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    235 8 Despite Cut In Defence Costs SINGAPORE'S national service scheme will cany on m spite of Government's decision to slash defence expenditure, The Standard was told yesterday. The Colony's acting Na- tional Service Officer. Mr. J. F. Bentley. said it was not true that national
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    84 8 MALAYAN students mB join a full-scale Asian conceit to be given by the Asian Students' Council m New South Wales, next April. The Council, which is on!'. a month old. consists ol sevt-:: constituent associations; the Malaya Students' Association ol New South Wales, the Sydney University
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      73 8 Weather Report MINIMUM Temperature From 7.30 p.m. Nov. 8 to a.m. Nov 9. Singapore (7">l Penang (74F), Kota Bahu (75F) Kuala Lumpu. (7 21 Ipoh <72F). Kuantan <«■!' Maximum Temperature: Frmn 7.30 a.m. Nov 8 to 7.30 pJ». Nov. 9. Singapore (91F). Pcnang (86F). Kota Bahru (851 Kuala I. urn
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    1594 9 Letter from INDIA HIGHLIGHTS: Success ofS'pore photographers m Madras Delhi is Mecca of world industrialists An Ambassador's impressions of Red China American youth's rare Indian holiday From Our Correspondent PHOTOGRAPHS from 1 various parts of the world are on view at the tenth Madras (first International) Salon of Photography, 1955,
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    709 9 Train Them Young Sir: I am surprised at the attitude of the newspapers to the recent Government proposal to reduce the age at which a provisional driving licence may be applied for. I am shocked that the motorists' own organization, the A. A., was "anti" too. Many of us recall
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    164 9 1 Sir Aster Gunasekera's 1 recent comments on the case j of Teo Kirn Yam are indeed frank and sincere. The Standard has done well m i bringing to the notice of i the public one of many cases i that occur and re-occur m i the
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    494 9 Special STANDARD Science Series by M. A. Glasgow LONDON. A SMALL party of scient- ists has just completed one of the queerest journeys ever undertaken. The members of this adventurous team have been travelling around for a year on a floating island. The island is
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    374 9 More Letters from Readers M 111 Sir: Strangely enough, I find a number of sentences used m your straightforward leading article, "Frustrated Politicians'' on November 3 re-echoing m my head! "So long as politicians have, as their aim, selfadvancement...they do not believe that self-government will benefit the people
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      277 9 Standard's CROSSWORD PUZZLE pi I ice 5. Much more than games onj VyLUCa court <4> J ACROSS fi It'sjiseless iij) Z v v v.r.r,f> Tldv crowd of cows? 18) J Idea about a new book. (0. 9 make U[ J •4 it a wrong about attire H up m |Wi
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      121 10 WESTERN EUROPE, particularly Germany, is m the midst of "high level prosperity, substantially full employment and a raising standard of living, creating boom markets for cars and other consumer goods." the president of General Motors Corporation said m New York yesterday. Mr. Harlow H. Curtice, back from
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      Lock icon Burma-China Air Pact Signed
      50 10 AN air transport agreement between Burma and Red China has been signed m Rangoon. Burmese Minister for Communications U Win Maung and General Wu Fa-Hsien, representing the Chinese People's government, signed the agreement establishing scheduled air service to start on a date determined by either government.
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      Lock icon FREE SCRIP ISSUE IS PROPOSED
      167 10 FREE SCRIP ISSUE IS PROPOSED Harrisons Crosfield: The directors of Harrisons and Crosfield. Ltd. are applying to the Capital Issue Committee for permission to capitalize £500.000 of the general reserve, it is announced m the company's annual statement of accounts. If permission is granted it is I the directors' intention
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      133 10 Insistent public demand for a smaller car of quality and high performance has decided a British firm, whose models are well-known on road and race track, to produce a 100 m.p.h. 2\ litre saloon. Although details of the car have been kept secret, thousands of
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      148 10 JAPAN EXPORTS TO COLONIES MAY INCREASE THE Economist, leading British economic and political weekly, said Japanese exports of textiles and light engineering goods to some of the British Colonies wert expected to increase over the coming year. It was commenting on the Anglo-Japanese Payments Agreement which aims at securing a
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      Lock icon U. S. Tyre Prices Hike —Malaya To Blame
      257 10  -  ARNOLD C. BRACKMAN By Standard's New York Bureau Chief THE rubber industry m the United States has provided another example of the inflationary trend which today appears to be taking grip I here. America's rubber companies have all "ganged up"' to hike
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      132 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: Muntok white 5139 sellers, Sarawak white Sl3B sellers, Special Sarawak black $88 sellers; copra Nov. $262 buyers, $27.} sellers; Dec. $27 buyers. $211 sellers; coconut oil (bulk) S4OJ buyers, coconut oil (drums) $43 sellers. Singapore Copra Association
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      27 10 A SWISS watch smaller than a dime with the world's smallest self-winding mechanism was unveiled m New York by the Mido Watch Co., Bienne, Switzerland.-
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      82 10 A TOTAL 772 cars were registered at the Office of the Registrar of Vehicles. Singapore, m October. 32 more cars than m the previous month. The number of transfers last month was 1,806 (September 1,785). August was the peak month so far this year with 808 registrations
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      39 10 AMERICAN Airlines announced m Washington yesterday the purchase of 30 Boeing jet transports and said it would establish the United States' first trans-continental jet service on June 15. 1959 The planes will cost U554,500 000 each.— AP
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      19 10 THE Bank of Japan has predicted that Japan's foreign exchange holdings for 1955 will total U551,500,000 000
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      Lock icon Consul-General Opens New $¼ Mil. Firm
      112 10 Consul-General Opens New Mil. Firm ECHIGOYA and Co. 1955 Ltd., a Japanese company formed with a registered local capital of (250.000. was officially opened by Japanese Consul-General fa Singapore, Mr. nomiya. yesterday. ih P firm., situated at Coleman Street, openbusiness today. Board of directors of the ne W company comprises:
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      31 10 THE U.S. Department Agriculture has announc that ihe nation"* eoti< will be 145,000 bales abov previous estimates because c generally favourable wei particularly m most states and California.
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      144 10 SINGAPORE sharebroke ported the following bus 1 done yesterday:— Con. Tin Smelt, ord- 2 F. and X orris $1.69 $1 70 F, and M prefs $6; Gammons 52.55 W. Hammer $2,471 (odd 82.50; Henry Waugh $1 Malayan Cement $1 65; M C Si. o2: Metal Box 51.
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      Lock icon More Activity In Industrials
      101 10 THERE wa s more activity m industrials on the Malayan share market yesterday with prices tending: to harden. Tins and rubbers were both subdued. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association yesterday were:INDL'STRIALS Buyers Sellers Con. Tin Smelt: Ord 19/- 20 -xd Fraser Neave: Ords.
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      76 10 QANTAS Empire Airways i has taken delivery of the 11th of its 14 new Super Constellations from Lockheed Corporation. The aircraft is the VH-EAC. the "Southern Wave." The 12th Super Connie is due to reach Sydney this month and the remaining two will be cargo-passenger aircraft,
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      Lock icon REPORT FIRMS RUBBER MARKET
      162 10 'Lift Embargo On China Trade* Standard Market Reporter A FEATURE m the Singapore rubber market yesterday was the news that the British-owned China Mail m Hongkong had called upon the United Nations to relax the trade embargo now imposed on Red China. 1 November first grade
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      Lock icon Bonk Neguru To Open On Nov. 19
      76 10 Bonk Neguru To Open On Nov. 19 THE Singapore branch of Bank Negara Indonesia is expected to open for business m its new premises m South Bridge Road, on Nov. 19, Mr. Suryo Winoto. the manager, told The Standard yesterday. Every banking facility will be provided by the branch bank.
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      Lock icon QANTAS CARRIES MORE PASSENGERS, CARGO
      242 10 QANTAS Empire Airways, Australia's overseas airline, carried 13.4°^ more passengers and 20.5% more air cargo m the first nine months of this year than m the same period of 1954. Besides carrying more cargo and passengers, the Qantas aircraft flew more miles and above all
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      531 10 NOTICES HUME INDUSTRIES (FAR EAST) LIMITED TENDERS are invited from JL established Transport Contractors to supply transport with drivers and labourers to the Company for the period Ist January 1956 to 31st December 1956 Tender Forms with full details of the Company's requirements together with full description of the various
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      519 10 NOTICES AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE SINGAPORE PROPERTIES To be held at our sale-room No. 10, Chulia Street. On Wednesday, i 16th November. 1955 at 2.30 p.m. > J Lot I— No. 106, MACKENZIE 1 ROAD, areas 946 sq.ft. and 748 sq.ft. Freehold. Monthly rent $45.35. (M/s. Braddell Brothers. Solicitors). Lot
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    173 12  -  HELEN HUGH HPHE seductive beauties of Eastern harems set the style for this year's languorous look m make-up. The skin is pale and luminous as lotus petals. A creamy tinted foundation should glofcr through an even paler powder. The contours of the face are given a smoother,
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    42 12 CHE put on some lipstick, she put on some cream. She put on some rouge till she looked like a dream: A dream that was more like a nightmare m style. For alas! she'd forgotten to—put on a smile!
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    407 12  -  Ambrose Heath Says gRITAIN'S first Dairy Cookery week was held last week and demonstrations on milk cookery took place all over the country. Milk cookery means milk puddings to most of us. I suppose, so as my small contribution to dairy cookery let me give some
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    264 12 EATING humble pie," they call it. And that's what the majority of the girls m the German-speak-ing parts of Switzerland have to do when they leave school. In all but the wealthiest families the mothers pack their daughters off to do a stretch as maids-of-aH work to households
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    231 13 sEREMBAN, Wed.— The lion. Secretary of the Negri N nibilan Football Associalion Mr S. Muthucumaru today charged the Malayan Indian Sports Association „i showins favouritism to certain States arranging the \r>an Gymkhana tour of the Federation. Mr Muthucumaru was nunenting on the action of Malayan
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    95 13 LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9 (Reuter). Jack Kramer, the American promoter, said that Rex Hartwig would join him on a winter tour. Kramer approached Hartwig, who is 26 after an unsuccessful bid to get Lewis Hoad and Ken Rosewall into the professional ranks. He signed on Tony Trabert.
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    47 13 THE General Manager of the Malayan Railways, Mr. C. G. Harrison presents the Davis Cup to Kalwant Singh, captain of the Sentul Railways Recreation Club, winners of the inter-club Malayan Railway Hockey competition at the Kuala Lumpur Railway Institute on Saturday. Standard photo by Yong Peng Seong.
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    76 13 MOSCOW. Nov. 8, (Reuter>— Miss Galina Zybina. Russian Olympic champion, today broke her own world record for the women's shot putt with a throw of 16 45 metres (53 feet 11 and half inches) at Stalinabad. the Soviet News Agency reports. Miss Zybina set the official
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    57 13 NEW YORK. Nov. 9 (Reuter) Nino Valdes of Cuba will fight Bob Baker of the United States m a final world heavyweight elimination contest at Cleveland on Dec. 7, Harry Markson, managing director of the International Boxing Club announced. Baker is currently ranked third contender for
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    303 13 £97,000 Profit From Springboks' Tour Of Britain LONDON, Nov. 9 (Reuter)— English first class cricket associations will benefit to the extent of £97 000 as a result of South Africa's tour here last Summer Each of Ihe authorities, on whose grounds the five test matches were played, will receive £ti.()00
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    631 13 BRITAIN'S BIG FIVE FOR GAMES' TITLES This pre-Olvmpic year has seen a big: improvement m the standard of track athletics and has left little doubt that running: events m the Games at Melbourne next November will produce outstanding performances, writes. STAN TOMLIN. Editor of "The Modern Athlete," London. IN no
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    467 13 LONDON, Nov. 9 (Reu.ter) A recommendation to increase the number of matches for each county m .the English County Cricket Championship, was beaten by a considerable, majority at a meeting: of the Board of Cricket Con-, trol at Lord's here today. The recommendation, made
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    55 13 BRUSSELS. Nov. 8. (ReutersGroup Captain Peter Townsend won a mile race for gentlemen riders at the Slockel race course near heie today. Riding a five year old bay gelding Goristan. the group captain finished two and a half lengths m front of a field of five. Odds on
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    57 13 Today's Sport in the Federation KUALA LUMPUR HOCKEY: Div. I—SIA vs SCRC— Taylor Road: YMSA Vs Malays Pudu Road: TPCA vs SSU Princes Road.. Women's League SCRC VS PUAC—lmbi Road. RUGBY: Sel Club vs RAF Padang. JPOH HOCKEY: DIV. I—K.I.A. vs. P.C.R.C. on Upper Padang. Div. 2 3rd. Bn. Malay
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    289 14 Recs Earn A Great Win Over The Police SINGAPORE Recreation Club encountered their strongest opponents, the Police, and came out of this battle with a well deserved victory by two goals to nothing on the padang yesterday. But this SHA Division I game between the two leading teams m the
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    33 14 THE Indonesia swimming and water-polo team was entertained to dinner by the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association at the Chinese Swimming Club last night. t The Indonesians leave for Dome this morning.
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    242 14 ROYAL New Zealand Air Force's 14th squadron now stationed m Singapore kept their unbeaten rugger record here when they beat Police Sports Association by 20 points (1 goal, 3 tries, 2 penalty goals) to eight (1 goal. I try) m a friendly match played at
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    45 14 SWIFT Athletes Association gave a dinner m honour of their new member, world fame sportsman, Jesse Owens, who returned to the Colony after a tour of the Federation at their Vice-President's residence last night. The dinner was well attended by members and guests.
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    139 14 Jesse Owens Pays A Visit To The Standard AMERICA'S great ambassador of sport, Jesse Owens, winner of .four gold medals at the .World Olympics m Berlin, paid a visit to the Singapore Standard yesterday. .The picture taken with Mr. Peter Hill. Stan d a r d's Assistant Editor (seated next
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      856 14 73 CANDIDATES FOR ST. LEG ER THE Singapore St. Leger last classic of the 1955 Malayan racing season has attracted only 13 candidates. The St. Leger. for crack" stayers, will be run over 1| miles on the final day of the Singapore Turf Club November Meeting. A total of 189
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      127 14 FIRST DAY (Sat.) Nov. 19— Class 1 Divs. 1 and 2, six furlongs; Class 3 Div. 1. six furlongs and one mile; Div. 2, six furlongs and one mile; Divs. 3 and 4. six furlongs— eight races SECOND DAY (Wed.) No v 23— Class 1 Divs. 1.
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      288 14 SIX-YEAR-OLD CINECOLOR who beat a field of 15 to win the Summer Cup last year, has ended his racing career. Cinecolor's name is among the 24 deletions on the latest S.R.A. amendment list. Dr. J. D. Dennehy's champion sprinter Jackie's Kuda, has left Singapore for Ireland
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      26 14 TOKYO. Nov. 9 (UP) Japanese featherweight champion. Shigeji Kaneko. will leave next February for a series of fights m Honolulu and the United States.
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    35 14 HOCKEY: S.H.A. League: Div. 1 University vs. S.C.R.C. at University Div. 2 R.N.A.S. vs. R.A.F., Seletar at Seletar. Div. 3: Prisons vs. Dutch Club at Dutch Club; R.A.F., Tengah vs. R.E.M.E. at Tengah.
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    254 14 RaWesians Will Meet Jesse STUDENTS of Raffles Institution will meet America's world famous Jesse Owens after all thanks to the generosity of their principal, Mr. J. Young In a "Frankly Speaking" column last month, Standard's sports writer, Jeffery James, criticized the decision which deprived Rafflesians
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    267 14 Robert Upsets Poh Lim ONG Poh Lim was sensationally upset by youthful Robert Lim, Colony Junior champion, m straight sets 17—16, 15—8 m the Singapore inter-commercial houses semi-final round at the Singapore Badminton Hall yesterday. In fairness to Poh Lim, It must be said that he was not himself. Evidently
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    51 14 BOYS TOWN will meet Telok Kurau School m a semi-final of the Ang Soon Hoe Cup inter-primary school soccer competition at the Rangoon Road School ground today. Boys Town are the holders or the Cup and are District "A" champions. District "C" champions are Telok Kurau
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    43 14 TEACHERS Training College trounced Cable and Wireless 7—l. m an SHA Div. 2 League hockey match at Farrer Park yesterday Scores for Teachers were Sidhu (3). J. Raja, Soocelaraj, E. Wicks and Ronnie Lee G. Aeria scored Cable and Wireless' only goal
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    591 14  - NO PUNCHES PULLED AS FIJIANS WHIP THE ARMY 27-3 BILL FUNK By THE "FLYING FIJIANS," sparked by dynamic Joe Levula, shipped the Army Singapore and Malaya combined, by 27 points to three m a floodlit rugby match m aid of the Poppy Day Appeal Fund at Jalan Besar Stadium last
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    151 14 THE second week of the Singapore Hockey Association's drive for funds to send a team to the Olympic Games m Melbourne next year met with encouraging response. From Mr. Loke Wan Tho came $250. A spokesman for the SHA told The Standard that he was confident
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    83 14 BASE Ordnance Depot "A" went to the top of the SHA Div. 2 League table, when they beat Khalsa Association 3-0. at Friendly Hill yesterday. They have so far played six games, won five and lost one. With 10 points they are leading by
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