Singapore Standard, 28 November 1955

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  • 29 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD POLICE ***** (5 lines) 2400 ft m FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 5111 2414 01. VI. No. 143 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1955 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 336 1 Strike Threat: This Time It's The Clerks KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.—Representatives of the Federation's 30,000 Government clerks decided unanimously at a mass meeting here today to call a nationwide strike unless the Federal Government acted immediately to revise their salary scales. Mr. K. Aiyadurai, President of the Federation of Government Administrative
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  • 160 1 MANILA, Nov. 27 (UP) Army announced today I e breakup oi a natior.-wide I binesc Communist organization pledged to overthrow the .:.:i:ppine Government. Four persons. including ree women, already have been arrested and 64 other ntined party members will taken into custody. Defence Secretary Sotero
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  • 23 1 -\KAB Legion guards shot an Israeli dead as he tried to <■■/■ ss "No-man's Land" near Mandelbaum ite during the niaht. Reuter
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  • 27 1 A CHINESE girl was killed and 2H persons were injured In two fires which rampaged throng)] Hongkong's flimsily Dstructed wooden hut vii- last night.- UP
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  • 76 1 SINGAPORE Police are looking for a Colony businessman who disappeared with 515.000 worth of diamonds belonging to a dealer in Stamford Road. A few days ago the man approached the dealer and told him he had a customer for diamonds. The dealer gave him two
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  • 375 1 COLONIALISM MUST GO' PAP Rally Celebrates Ist Birthday PEACE in Malaya can be achieved only by getting rid of Colonialism, not Communism, the Secretary-General of the Singapore People's Action Party and the P. A, P. Assemblyman for Tanjong Pagar, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said yesterday. We
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  • 199 1 'We Are Against Nobody' Says The Tunku KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Federation Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman served notice tonight, that in the progress to nationhood, Malaya will steer clear of international "power bloc" politics. "As a nation in the making, we cannot afford to be against anybody internationally." the
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  • 57 1 NEW YORK. Nov. 27 (AP) Theodore H Limmer. Jr.. who has test-flown more than 1.000 Jet airplanes, has been assigned to Japan to assist in organizing a flight test programme tor the first Asian-built jet. Japanese flyers, now qualified in propeller-driven aircraft, will receive
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  • 49 1 photo. THE biggest amnesty procession ever, almost 10,000 strong, marches along Market Street on its way back to the Kuala Lumpur Padang. In the lead is the Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and most of the Alliance ministers of government. Storv on Page 4. Standard
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  • 88 1 MITSUO Yamamoto, the Japanese boxer, was flown back to Singapore from Hongkong by BOAC plane yesterday. The Hongkong Central Court had granted a Singapore Police application made under the Fugitive Offenders' Act to take Yamamoto back to Singapore to answer "certain charges." Senior Detective Inspector.
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  • 66 1 HONGKONG. Nov. 27 (Reuter) Chinese Nationalists have intercepted a British merchant vessel, the 3.599--ton Dorinthia. off the Chinese port of Foochow. The Royal Navy broadcast an urgent order over Hongkong radio station today to the crew of the British destroyer Consort (1,610 tons.) to return to duty.
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  • 28 1 HELICOPTERS bound for London may use floating platforms on the River Thames as landing stations because of the difficulty of finding suitable stations on land.- Reuter
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  • 22 1 ATOMIC fallout from the recent Soviet hydrogen bomb explosion has been registered at he West German Physical Institute. Heidelberg. Reuter
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  • 166 1 Budding Star Of Chinese Film In English MEET petite Maria Budd, 23, left. Hongkong beauty whom Singapore audiences will see play in the leading role of the first Chinese film with an all English dialogue to be released early next year. Maria, who speaks fluent English, was picked by Dragon
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  • 94 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Two Communist terrorists surrendered under the amnesty in Kulim, Kedah, this afternoon. They were Mon Kwok and Pak On. They went up to a rubber tapper and told him they wanted to surrender but would do so only to someone in uniform.
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  • 33 1 ONE man was reported killed and one policeman was seriously wounded yesterday when raiders from the Irish Republic stole across the border into Northern Ireland and bombed a police station. UP
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  • 18 1 PRESIDENT Tito of Yugoslavia has announced a new drive to produce more consumer goods.- Reuter
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  • 28 1 AIRMAN David Tarores was fatally injured in Duluth, Minnesota yesterday when he was sucked head first into the jet engine of a twin-en-gined FB9-D Scorpion.- A.P.
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  • 83 1 LONDON, Nov. 26 (Reuter) —The British Overseas Airways Corporation is looking for 11 Chinese and six Japanese girls to serve as assistant stewardesses on its Eastern routes. The Chinese girls are wanted to fly in 8.0.A.C. Constellations and Argonauts from Calcutta to Hongkong or Singapore. The
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  • 121 1 SOCCER WITH TEAR GAS RANGOON. Nov. 27, (Reuter)—Five thousand rioters besieged 150 policemen inside the Aung San football stadium for nearly six hours and set fire to its outbuildings after a soccer match here yesterday. Police using tear-gas shells failed to s,tem the rioters' repeated attacks on the stadium. The
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  • 32 1 MARSHAL Nikolai Bulganin and Mr. Nikita Khrushchev flew to Coimbatore, South India, yesterday from Bangalore to be greeted by caparisoned elephants which raised their trunks and trumpeted in salute.- Reuter
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  • 23 1 THE Soviet Academy of Sciencp in Moscow is using an electronic "brain" that can do 8,000 arithmetical operations a second.- Reuter
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  • 134 1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (AP)— The Communist bloc is reported moving: rapidly to deliver US$BO million worth of promised weapons to Egypt with the aim of completing the deliveries in the next 30 days, diplomatic sources said here today. Obsolescent MIG-15's are known to have been delivered
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  • 30 1 A MIAMI judse here has suspended a thre£-year jail sentence on a bank telier who admitted embezzling U556,742 on condition that he attended church rcgulariy for four years. Reuter
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  • 180 2 Parties Ponder On Arbitration MANY ASK FOR JOBS TODAY is a crucial day for the managements of the ten Chinese bus companies and their 1,700 employees who have locked out for the last 13 days. They decide today whether or not to submit their dispute
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  • 85 2 BRITAIN'S Secretary of State for Air, Lord Dc L'lsle and Dudley, who is touring Royal Air Force squadrons and formations in the Federation, fleto by a Pioneer Aircraft nf No. 267 Squadron R.A.F. into jungle forts Shean and Tclanok in PahaiiQ State, last iceek. Before his
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  • 146 2 THE posts of Registrar and three other heads of department for the new Singapore Polytechnic are now being advertised in Singapore, Malaya and Borneo. Two of these four appointments, that of Registrar and head of the Department ot Commerce, have already been called for
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  • 61 2 A COCKTAIL party in honour of Martha Graham and her company was held in the Regency Room of Raffles Hotel, Singapore, yesterday. Picture shows some of the guests (from left): Mr. Nick Feld of the U.S. Consulate, Mrs. E. J. Conlan, Mr. Tom Noonan of the
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  • 51 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. There will be several vacancies for men and women teachers in Government English schools in Johore Bahru next year. The posts are for education officers, graduates. Normal trained teachers and probationers. Applications should be addressed to the Education Officer, Johore Bahru before Dec.
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  • 270 2 Prelude Audience Entranced MARTHA Graham, the great American dancer, talked about her approach to the art of movement and dancing, and introduced her company in steps and ensembles to a keenly interested audience in the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday afternoon. This lecture-demonstration formed the prelude to
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  • 56 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Loh Sicw Poh, who was found taking a dozen bottles of chicken essence on Oct. 23 from Johore Bahru to Kukub without a permit, was fined $600 in the Magistrate's Court today. He told the court that the chicken essence was a
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  • 82 2 POLICE DRIVE TO SNUFF OUT RED BLAH SINGAPORE Police have launched an anti-Communist drive among the Colony's "English-speaking Intelligentsia." (E.5.1.). They have called in one of Its most brilliant officers the man who tracked down some key men In the M.C.P. The Officer. wa s appointed two weeks ago to
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  • 100 2 Call For Charity Appeal Dates A CALL to all charitable organizations to submit their choice of dates for their appeals for next year was made by the Director of Sociai Welfare, Mr. T. P. Cromwell, yesterday. He said: "Since early this year a calendar had been circulated by his department
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  • 33 2 REPRESENTATIVES from 21 trade unions in Kuala Lumpur met today to make plans for a mass demonstration by thousands of workers for a basic living wage of $8 a day.
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  • 85 2 MEMBERS of the dance committee of the Singapore Society of Amateur Ballroom Dancers, who are holding their sth Anniversary Ball at the Raffles Hotel on Thursday, Dec. 1. Seated from left: Mr. B. Annamalay, secretary, Mr. P. G. Wee President, Mr. E. B Paul, vice-president and chairman
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  • 252 3 Services Offer Falls Short' THREE trade unions representing the civilian employees of the Army, Navy and the Air Force in Singapore, will turn down a wage increase offer made recently b> the three services for the 8,000 industrial workers. According to the offer, a skilled labourer at
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  • 44 3 Mr. Gopal Shetty. the famous Indian dancer and Miss Malathi Ramchandra, in an Indian folk dance pose. The two will be in one of the several dance items at an Indian art show at the Happy World Stadium, Singapore, on Wednesday.
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  • 57 3 DR. JOHN R. Hendrickson, lecturer in Zoology and holder of the Atomic Energy Commission Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, will give a lecture on "Fish" at the University of Malaya, Cluny Road, at 5.30 p.m. on Dec. 2 There may be a small charge of $1 each and proceeds
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  • 72 3 MALACCA, Sun Transport workers met here last night to wind up the Malacca Transport Union, and to for m a new branch of the National Union of Transport Workers They also agreed to transfer their assets to their national branch. A pro tern committee was appointed to
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  • 129 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The working capital of Cooperative Societies in the Federation has jumped over $13 million in less than ten months to nearly S5O million the annual meeting of the Midlands Urban Co-operative Union Limited was told here today. Mr. Loh Ah Lam, vice-pre- sident
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  • 37 3 JAMAL bin Rasid. a rubber tapper, who formerly served three years with the Police Field Force, was sentenced tc six months' imprisonment by the President of the Kluang Sessions Court yesterday for housebreaking and theft.
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  • 106 3 MALACCA, Sun.— More than 1,000 daily-rated workers of the Settlement Government, today decided to support the formation of a national union representing: 65,000 daily-rated workers, now grouped into 26 trade unions. This decision was taken at a meeting held at the Capitol Dance Hall which
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  • 132 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.— Parents of two Chinese boys, aged 13 and 11, told Mr. NX Cohen, president of the Juve nile Court, Kluang, yesterday that they were unable to control their two sons. The boys were charged with committing housebreaking and theft at Layang
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 1053 3 Information at a Glance "T CENTRAL: Scared Stiff 7.30 and fJINQA P*O R E KUALA LUMPUR m %£Z, MADRAS: They Rode West 12..30. PARIT BUNTAR _^^i^^. 2 30. 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. r A^^ m REX: My Sister Eileen 12.30. 2.30. GRAND: Gun Belt 3. 645 and 915 tZ AT
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  • 126 4 Tunku Leads Big Amnesty Procession KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Thousands thronged the streets here today to watch the big amnestj parade organized by the Alliance The Chief Minister, Tunku Abd.:i Rahman led the parade in: purpose of which was to liet tne people to get the terrorists, to surrender peacefully. Ministers
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  • 41 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun The theft of a bottle' of aerated water valued at 15 cents, cost a Malay boy $30 fine here in the Juvenile Court. For breaking ?ome bottles, the boy was ordered to pay 56.20 for damages
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  • 302 4 Also To Vitalize Colony Branches INDEPENDENCE, a democratic government, an equitable economic system and a free culture are the aims of the, Malayan Chinese Association, said Mr. Lee Kok Han, secretary of the Singapore branch at its fourth annual meeting yesterday. Mr. Lee, said that in
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  • 25 4 The three Talentime winners; from left. Miss Regina Long of Penang (third,) Mr. Ronald Alcantra (first.) and Mr. Joe A. Misson (second.)
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  • 162 4 KAJANG, Sun.— Monseigneur Dominic Vendargon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kuala Lumpur today blessed and opened Kajang's new $42,000 Church of the Holy Family. Built on the site of the one destroyed by Japanese bombers at the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, the
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  • 216 4 'It'll Advance Immorality' MOST women of the Singapore UMNO are against the conversion of the Great Eastern Trade Fair in Geylang Serai into an amusement park. They want the site for an industrial project such as a factory. Che Hamidah Hassan, head of Kaum
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  • 212 4 And She Won A Radio Set EIGHT hours after winning: third prize in the finals of the 1955 All-Malaya Talentime Contest held at the Singapore Badminton Hail on Saturday, Miss Regina Long, a Penang Convent pupil, left by air to continue her
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  • 204 4 THUGS ELUDE POLICE AMBUSH A POLICE ambush v. i.: h failed to trap a gang, led to the recovery a billy loaded y m.m. Browning automatic pistol in a public lavatory on Saturday night. Earlier the police were Up. j ped oil about an intended gang robbery. Men ot the
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  • 46 4 TEE SOONG THEAN, 32, claimed trial in the Singapore Third District Court, on Saturday, to a charge of possession of 20 lb. raw opium on Nov. 11 at Upper Nanking Street. He was allowed $20,000 bail till March 1. next year.
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  • 25 4 KOTA BHARU. SiAi. Sultan yesterday vi s the Zainab School annual handicraft exhibition v. I was opened by the Raja Perempuan on Friday.
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  • 45 4 'Bu loh' Officer Weds pnoio. Mr. and Mrs. John Humphrey Martin icho were married at the Singapore Marriage Registry on Saturday. Mrs. Martin, formerly Miss Carmen Hilda Norris, is attached to the Telecommunications Department The groom is Chief Ofjicer of Straits Steamship "Bulo h".- Standard
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  • 145 4 Teenage Girl Routs Man In The Night KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A 15-year-old convent schoolgirl fought a half-dressed man who stole to her bedsid? in the small hours of last Thursday. The girl is the daughter of a Mines Department officer, residing in a Peel Avenue Government quarters She was awake
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 544 5  - Fijians Formed Suicide Ring To Save Their Chief Rosemary Timperley —by- j OYALTY is a quality all j too rare. Examples of it are precious. One of the most terrible arid beautiful examples of wiity comes from a small place in the Fiji Islands i died Korolevu. There. ars ago.
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  • 188 5 THE hen of the Great < Hornbill bird finds a i hole in a tree, settles her- i self in it and then, working i from the inside, nearly < closes the opening with mud or dung, using her beak as a trowel. When she runs short of
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  • 450 5  -  M. A. Glasgow -1 ..MmnnnnTmiinMujiiwr L Research l [g Indention By I T>2CKETTSL4£, the minute organisms ichich cause epidemic typhus and other serious infectious diseases, have been recently the sub- jVef of special study by medical research workers, In some ways, rickettsiac 1 resemble viruses, while
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  • Article, Illustration
    1815 5 M.G.M. 9 s COLHT DiIAMA-Pi. IV JURY that satisfied both David and the State was finally chosen, and Judg'je Motley officially began the trial of Angel Chavez by reminding the j'urors that they were to concentrate only on the evidence presented to them and must disregard anything they may
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    10 5 "THIS is the only way we can make it pay.**
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 216 5 B iJ L^^m SHI HEi IH B9 j 1 CLUES DO N 1 Quicker cheat (7) ACROSS o More wavering. 1 n th« MMri sooner lost and worn 4. T.ke a walk at tr.c concert .Twelfth Night) 17) 3, He composed "Oberon ts"> y. Fishing boat in the scrum 5
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  • 978 6 Trade Envoy IN the last two months trade missions from Singapore and the Federation visited Indonesia and, on their return, the people were told of their great achievements and of the steps to be taken to cement commercial relations between the two countries One of these was the
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  • 811 6  - Britain's A -Power Stations John Davy ll W AWWVVVVVVWVVWWVVVWVVVV, i J I LONDON BRITAIN'S first atomic power station, Calder Hall (Cumberland), which will start producing power next yeai, has just been shown to the Press for the first time. The two atomic reactors which will produce steam for the turbo-generators
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 276 6 Sir: To the multifarious duties of a teacher there has been of late an addition the lorry escort I well realize the exceptional circumstances that rcqrirc this additional duty What I am concerned with is the manner in which duties arc relegated to the schoolmaster by
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    • 135 6 Sir: 1 welcome the concensus ot legal opinion that English should be used in the country s law courts even if Malay should become the national language here Having worked u. the law court in one oi the ion Federated Malay States in pre-war days where Malay
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    • 249 6 Sir: 1 am glad that the Port Swettenham Railway clerk, who went on hunger strike because he was not selected, for the post of Chief Clerk in his department, has given up his fast unto death 1 should be grateful if you publish the following quotation for
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  • 174 6 WHAT we want is security without McCarthyism. Mr Alfred Robens, M.P. GAZING into the crystal ball is a pleasant drug, rather like looking at a field of corn on a summer evening.— Lord Rothschild. AN actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him.
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  • 841 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME Aster Gunasekera by pREDENCE was given to popular public opinion in the Legislative Assembly on Friday by the Peoples' Action Party leader, Mr. Harry Lee Kuan Yew, when he confessed to a very soft spot in his heart for Communism, during his speech commending
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  • 145 7 ROME. Nov. 27 (AP)— Turkish police and U.S. narcotics agents have seized four million dollars worth of illegal narcotics destined for the United States. The announcement was made here last night by Charles Siragusa. U.S. Bureau of Narcotics district supervisor for Europe and the Middle
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  • 236 7 DEATH Penalty For Carrying Arms In 'Terror Island' STATE OF EMERGENCY IN CYPRUS NICOSIA, Cyprus, Nov. 27, Britain yesterday decreed a state of emergency in this terrorized island and ordered the death penalty lor all Cypriots found carrying bombs or discharging firearms. Field Marshal Sir John Harding, Governor of the
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  • 72 7 How To Win A Scholarship PARIS, Nov. 27 (AP)— Students who want to study in other lands can learn how to win more than 50,000 scholarships and fellowships in more than 100 areas by consulting a new director issued in Paris. "Study abroad" is published by the United Nations Educational
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  • 48 7 NEW DELHI. Nov. 27. TAP)— lndia and Japan signed a new air agreement here yesterday. The accords confirms the present once weekly service between the two countries by the nationalised Air India International and opens the way for a similar service by the Japanese airline.
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  • 149 7 Mystery Ship, Missing Skipper Unhappy Wife CAPTAIN Thomas Miller, (right), who mysteriously disappeared with his crew and passengers from the Joyita. found abandoned near Fiji early this month, was sued for divorce at Cardiff, on Nov. 22 on the grounds of desertion. Adjourning the case sine die, Mr. Commissioner Temple
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  • 73 7 Reds Admit Holding UK Climbers LONDON, Nov. 27, (UP) Communist China has admitted that two British mountaineers. Sydney Wignall and John Harrop. were arrested along the disputed NepalTibetan border, it was learned here yesterday. A Nepalese liaison officer. Damadar Eubhal, wa s also arrested together with the two Britons, diplomatic
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  • 17 7 COMMUNIST East Germany yesterday named Richard Gyptmer as its ambassador to Red China.— AP
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  • 24 7 AMERICANS In Berlin yesterday turned over 1.300 toys to the German Red Cross, which will distribute them as Christmas presents.- AP
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  • 101 7 Z-E-E-P... Goes Her Zipper LONDON, Nov. 27, (AP) The barmaid bounced to the chase yesterday of a gang of robbers who snatched £900 from her mother. "I think I might have caught one," said 19--year-old Mara Halliday afterwards as she stood panting in a black sweater and black jeans. "But
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  • 75 7 LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27, (AP) No nudes on 1957 calendars. That was the word at a calendar salesmen's meeting here. Roger Turner, sales executive for the Kemper-Thomas Company, Cincinnati, said: "All the major firms have turned thumbs down on nudes for the 1957 line. "The
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  • 44 7 BELLEVUE, Ohio. Nov. 27 (UP)— A set of quadrupletsall girls— was born yesterdny to Mrs Margaret Briehl. 26. wife of a Cleveland engineer. The third born died 13 hours after birth. The other three were reported "coming along pretty well."
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  • 191 7 How Big Is The Red H -Bomb? WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, i (AP)— Moscow claimed yesterday that Russia ha s test fired "the most powerful ol all explosions carried out until now." But unless Soviet party boss Nikita Khrushchev who jumped the gun on his government's iormal announcement was wrong, this
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  • 65 7 CAPRI, Italy. Nov. 27, (AP)— Unable to afford costly bricks. Nicolo Soja. 47, used scrap material from a nearby military dump when he built a house in 1948. His wife and two daughters moved in with him. Yesterday artillery men evacuated the family and began, very
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  • 81 7 Tea Cake For Reds RUSSIAN Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Party boss Nikita Khrushchev, who are visiting India, addressed a joint session of the Indian Houses of Parliament at Delhi, on Nov. 21. Before the joint session they took tea and cake with the MPs. Photo shows: Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru
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  • 223 7 'Are You A Good Lover?' LONDON. Nov. 27, (UP)— A British doctor said yesterday his forthcoming booK on sex will cause a bigger sensation than those of Dr. Alfred Kinsey. Dr. Eustace Chesser. 61-year-old Director of the Research Council into marriage and human
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  • 56 7 RABAT. Morocco, Nov. 27, (AP)— Reports from Algiers last night said four native soldiers were killed and 12 wounded when a supply truck was attacked by Nationalist rebels in Constantine province earlier in the day. A thick fog covered the rebels" escape. Two rebels were killed
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  • 30 7 A DUTCH expert on nuclear research lias asked the Dutch government to start exploring the Dutch West New Guinea island in the Indonesian Archipelago for uranium ore. AP
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  • 52 7 RABAT. Morocco. Nov. 27 (UP)— Sultan Sidi Mohammed V. named independent nationalist Si Bekkai last might as Morocco's first modern Premier in her march toward independence. The Sultan called the -5 B-year-old former French army colonel to The palace to ask him to start forming Morocco's first
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  • 53 7 King Saud 's Visit Begins BOMBAY, Nov. 27. CAP) Kin? Saud ol Saudi Arabia landed yesterday with a party that included sever, princes and ministers for a 16-day visit to India. Thousands of Moslems were in the crowd that waited at Santa Cruz airport, where Bombay state Governor H.K. Mahtab
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    • 1081 8 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lines) (Incorporated in Singapore) (12 lines) 'dX 8 THE BLUE FUNNEL LINK T 0 e a p v t el Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargc SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW, LONDON CONIINFNT Singapore Due Sails P.
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    • 837 8 MITSUI fjQ LINE S'pore P. S'hom Penone FOR JAPAN from India Nagisan Maru tor Kobe 29 Nov FOR JAPAN trom Continent Hodakosan Maru for Yokohama Nagova via Saigon, Pan M l-ol< Hongkong 2") Nor Horunosan Maru *or YokOhamc Kobe Nagcvo vio Soigon Bangkok H kong S Cec fOR U.S A.
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    • 808 8 EAST ASIATIC LINES SAILINGS TO CONTINENT SCANDINAVIA VIA For Aden, Port Said, Genoa, Antwerp. Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Oslo S'oorc P. S'hom Penong x) "SONGKHLA" 3 4 Dec 5 C Ccc "FALSTRIA" 21/23Dec 24/24 Dec 25 2fc C.. c xx) "MEONIA' 26 27 Dec x) Calls Beyrouth. Gdvnio. xx)
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  • 342 9 'SURE MART FOR SE-A RUBBER UP TO 1960' U.S. RUBBER authorities said in Washington during the weekend they expect a ready market for South-east Asian natural rubber over the next four to five years despite increasing U.S. synthetic production. However, U.S. Commerce Department officials would make no predictions that present
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  • 43 9 A BRITISH firm has been appointed consulting engineers for the construction of a high dam. Egypt's £209 million colossus, that will tower above the Nile territory, four miles upstream from the old Aswan Dam. completed by British contractors in 1912.
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  • 587 9 COMPANY REPORTS ISSUED MALAYAN COLLIERIES LTD: For the year ended June 30, made a net profit of $841,153 or 24.5 r o- Dividend of 10% and bonus of I.t^> are recommended. The latter payment is made possible bv receipt of final War Damage Compensation dividend of $780,897. At balancing date
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  • 130 9 AIR traffic promises to make Hawaii ore of the world's top tourist capitals. Eighty per cent of the territory's visitors now arrive by air at Honolulu International Airport, already worldfamous for its Aloha Tower and Sky Room. An enchanted spot longdenied the average tourist by purse and
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  • 441 9 Finttn<*<> And Commerce By A Market Correspondent FAVOURABLE commodity prices generated a healthier tone in all markets. Industrials and rubbers generally were buoyant but tins irregular Over all a good volume of business was maintained throughout the period. Most prominent feature of the
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  • 46 9 A BRITISH European Airways helicopter was used this week in experimental landings on the Thames. When the present South Bank landing ground becomes n» longer available for helicopter landing next March it is proposed to use a floating platform on the river.
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  • 357 9 BUSINESS done in shares from November 19 to 25 INDUSTRIALS Consolidated Tin Smelters ord. 29/6 and 29/10>. Federal Dispensary $3.30 Fraser and Neave ords. SI 72i to $1 75. Gammons $2.55. George town Dispensary 52.02* and $2.05 Hammer and Co $2.55. Malayan Cement $1.66 and $1.65.
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  • 150 9 Freight Rates Up On High Operating Ship Costs Standard Shipping Reporter FREIGHT rates have been on the increase during the past six months because of higher wharf, lighterage and labour charges, a Singapore shipping manager told The Standard yesterday. The rise in the freight rates was attributed to the higher
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  • 204 9 A Short Squeeze For Nov. Rubber (Standard Market Correspondent) A SHORT squeeze has developed in November rubber during the past week and the premium over December remained above six cents per lb. It seemed that the Communist countries have been buying rubber for the current month in quantities and were
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  • 101 9 CONSTRUCTION IN 1956 TO REACH RECORD THE U.S. Government estimates that a new construction expenditure in 1956 may reach a new record of U5544,000 million. The joint announcement by the Departments ot Commerce and Labour in Washington says if the anticipated level is attained It will be higher by five
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  • 616 9 THE following passengers will disembark from the s.s. Canton which wiH arrive from Britain in Penang on Dec. 4 and Singapore on Dec.ti. (Penang) Mr Mrs Aziz- Raja Musa Ibhi Sultan Abdul: Sir R St. J. Braddell: Mr Mrs R.G Bryant 2 children; Mr F.J.
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  • 53 9 As their latest contribution to higher output by industry in general a London firm have developed an enamel that dries in 20 minutes. It can be applied by spray or brush. The firm say that it is suitable for all internal surfaces that need a hardwearing gloss enamel
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  • 213 9 New Boost To Steel Production A FURTHER expansion of the United Kingdom s rapidly growing steelmaking capacity is loreshadowed by the announcement of a new £2,845,000 development scheme by the United Companies ot Sheffield. This Includes the construction ot a second giant electric smelting lurnace. The new plant will provide
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  • 91 9 THE stability of living costs in the United States has been underscored in a report released by the U.S. Department of Labour. It shows that the cost of living was unchanged between midSeptember and mid-October, registering 114 9 per cent of the 1948-49 average. This compared
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 512 9 NOTICES TENDER NOTICE INIVERSITX OF MALAYA 'TENDERS are invited from registered P.W.D. Conacton of Class B and above the formation and surfacing I new roads, construction of i idside drains and culverts, soil drains and manholes and landscaping within the raits of Malaya Com- Cluny Road, Singapore. Bills of Quantities
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    • 373 9 F BANKRUPTCY. No. 38 Re KWANG NAM CO.. Ipoh 105, Theatre Street. Ipoh Pa 2 rt T e a r n S: Soo S Y e o°n W g KeeKuan SeS£ g S rmad 12th Date and place of First Meeting of Creditors 20th at the Bankruptcy Office Sessions Court
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    • 281 10 SHAW BROTHERS ORGANISATION ATTRACTIONS J J The Movie Magazine With The New Look! J CHRISTMAS Aj|r!\/IC MC\A/C 40 cts T issue MU VIE NEWS a copy ON SALE IN SPORE TODAY CAP ITuLfilp*' SHOWING "t*. h» n'Mp 11 1.45 -4 6.30 H.30 4 Incredible! Destructive! 9RBJifc\ J Shocking! Terrifying! i
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    • 330 10 CATHAY ORGANISATION ATTRACTIONS ir>i AIIEA lINOW SHOWIKG »HOIIE«aJMIi^UBCWII)iTIOMID 6 *5 6 9 30 p m THE STORY OF THE MOST DRAMATIC MASQUERADE WHICH HAPPENED IN CHftUA! ■ißH^j The 5 BBffll MM P% OF GCJD n §mB Cinemascope ■■■fIMH ™^T\ COLOR by DE LUXE -Jf ■■■■■HPVWI^f/ IN STIHO^MOniC SOUNO O| Plus
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 193 10 "Personally, I'm all for making passes at girls with "Never been so insulted in my life— she tells me glasses!" I'm getting it tor a ridiculous ~«w«» w s^l /fc /I I V "There's something I've been <■— £tC^ /7ti/H V 7 A j meaning to tell you for five
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  • 841 11 LONDON, Nov. 27, (Reuter) Blackpool's top of the table clash with joint leaders Manchester United was the soccer showpiece of yesterday's English Football League programme. And after a Cup tie style battle, which ended in a scoreless draw, Blackpool still head Division One on
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  • 1492 11 RESULTS POSITIONS LEAjGUE DIVISION I Arsenal O Burnley 1 A. Villa Qj Tottenham' Hotspur 2. Blackpool' 0 Manchester Utd. 0. Bolton w: 0 P'ston Norts End 0. Cardiff C 2 Birmingham C 1. Chelsea 1 Sheffield Utd. 0 -.'field T. l West B'wich A. 0. Manchester C. 1 N'castJe Utd.
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    • 179 11 Shaw Bros. proudly announce their SPECIAL MATINEE SEASON at the Pavilion Theatre THIS WEEK'S MATINEES Today 11 a.m. "Miss Sadie Thompson" Tomorrow 11 a.m. "Miss Sadie Thompson" Wednesday 11 a.m. "Plunder in the Sun" Thursday 11 a.m. "East of Sumatra" Friday 11 a.m. "East of Sumatra" Sat. Sun. 9 a.m.
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    • 217 11 ACCOM. VACANT SCHOOL Vacation Seafront. Rooms with all conveniences near Chinese Swimming Club. Single or families. Meals served in rooms. Moderate charges Box T. 2560 S.S. CHINESE Family have furnished bedroom Ra.Tles Park for Bachelor /Spinster. Full part Board. Modern Sanitation. Moderate Terms Apply Box T.2561 S.S. FOR SALE ORCHIDS
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    • 711 11 CLASSIFIED ADS SITUATIONS VACANT SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL kJ Applications invited tor iA> appointment to the Council"? Clerical Service from persons (male or female) between the ages of 16 and 27 years in salary scale $155-171 /Efficiency Bar, 187xA16-299 Examination Bar/ 315 x Alfi-39n/ Examination Bar/ 411xAlH-475 plus Variable Allow. ance.
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    • 705 11 CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD OI THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA Engineering Scholarships to be awarded under the Colombo Plan in 195(i APPLICATIONS are invited irom candidates who are Fcdorai Citizens who wish to be considered for \\\o Engineering Scholarships to be awarded under the Colombo Plan to enable them to obtain the
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    • 273 11 BiltflH|Ml| USEGR£ENB£f£R)ES,F£RBAK|N r L^ the full force cfa» Tl(^^ir^ .^^Wl) s=a=:2i;:ia^ L^^^^^^ ONt-THOIDWHAMMV f <Z%rV£, i^ j s^ fj C_^ft( CERTAINLY? Yff§p/? r POWERFUL EVOUGH^ K*f MOTHER S V^ ?--^^^~v^ N^.^X-. W^-^-j imrfi i j TOPEELTHEPAJNTGffA EM. FLEEGi-E- b^ !.< AxXVU^H N 1 HH^olw^ eATrL.ESM/psTCPAti£RD JR^ we < *^~'^*r<y2 v
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  • 71 12 pictures by SMILES all round as Mrs. M. F. Cutler hands out the big prizes to Mr. J. M. Mason (left picture) and Mrs. Aw Suan (right picture). Mr. Mason is joint-owner with Mrs. James Miller of Never A Blank, the
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  • 512 12  -  WINDSOR LAD ST. LEGER REVIEW -by NEVER A BLANK'S triumph in the Singapore St. Leger on Saturday came as no surprise although, as it turned out, he was the least -backed runner in a field of eight. But first, let's give credit to
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  • 105 12 JOCKEYS lst 2nd 3rd Mawi 5 3 2 Franklin 4 Bougoure 3 3 2 Aui 2 1 1 Donnelly 13 3 West 1 1 2 Larkin 1-1 Mortimer 1-1 Cracknell 1 Basri 1 Patterson 2 2 D. Jones 1 1 Manning 1 I Povall -1 5 Ransome 1 Schiller
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  • 156 12 PENANG. Sun.— The Aryan Gymkhana soccer tourists today beat Penang Indo-Malays 5-4 at Victoria Green, after staving off a strong rally by the home team. Half-time score was 1-1. A fine spell by the tourists saw them took the score to 4-1. Then in the
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  • 531 12 S'PORE COLLAPSE IN 2ND HALF KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Singapore's se-cond-half collapse gave Federation an easy 5-1 victory in today's hockey International at Gurney Road, Kuala Lumpur. Up to the interval, the struggle had been hard and even. The score was 1-1 at half time. Then Singapore fizzled out like a
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  • 432 12 Victory For Malayans Is Within Sight By A Special Correspondent HONGKONG. Sun.— Malaya today dismissed Hongkong for 218 runs and forced the Colony to follow on in their inter-poi t Test here. Malaya, following up with seme fine batting concluded their first innings this afternoon with a total of 391
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  • 181 12 Federation.... 5 Thillianathan 4. Aminullah Karim 1. Singapore 1 Wright 1. SINGAPORE Chinese y terday won the S.A.F.A. L murrty League championship, beating Malays 4-1 in the key match at Jalan Besar Stadium. Boon Kok Feow turned h sparklirg display by scoring three goals for Chinese
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  • 75 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Su n Kuala Lumpur Police qualified for the semi-final round of the Hanningan Shield competition for inter-contingent Police units when they beat Negri Sembilan Police 2-1 on th e padang today. IPOH. Sun.— Sitiawan beat Chamberlain tennis party 3-1 in the Sultan's Cup tennis competition at
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  • 68 12 Today 's Sport SINGAPORE RUGBY: Friendly Police vs. S.C.C. on Padang KUALA LUMPUR RUGBY: Garrison V. derers vs. 16 Field Ambulance at Batu Cantomnent. HOCKEY: Div. 1—H.Q. Malaya rs. Police Dcpo: Gurney Road. IPOH HOCKEY: Div. I— Cheng Wah vs. Ramblers Upper Padang Div. 2—15 I Hussars vs. Tronoh Police
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