Singapore Standard, 7 January 1956

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  • 31 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD POLICE ***** (5 lines) 2400 w m «i sl FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 5111 2414 ""Vol. VI. No. 184 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1956 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 382 1 SlLjohnWarns The Federation On Rubber... Denies Plans For A General Withdrawal By KHOO BOON CHOO PENANG, Fri. Britain's foremost rubber magnate, Sir John Hay, who arrived here in the Chusan today, blamed government's high taxation of the Malayan rubber industry, for tending to check new European capital
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  • 327 1 China's Debt Worries Ceylon COLOMBO, Jan. 6 (IP)— C ommunist China owed Ceylon more than M533,000,000 at the beginning of 1956 in the controversial rubber-for-me trade pact between the two nations, it was learned today. urces said that Red Cl .is trade deficit was i mated at more than £4
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  • 41 1 SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister David Marshall has can-c-V.ed all engagements today because he is indisposed. Two members of the Public A ivisory Bureau will deal v.th complaints at today's "meet the people" session at fr Assembly House confertr.;- 1 room.
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  • 22 1 THE funeral of Mistinguett, v French music hall star, be held on Monday at to Madeleine, her Paris Church.- Reuter
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    4 1 SIR JOHN HAY
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  • 91 1 VIENNA. Jan. 6 (ReuteD— Soviet astronomers will head a world study of Mars when the planet approaches the earth in September, this year, Rudo Pravo, the chief Czech Communist newspaper, said in an issue recently. On September 11, Mars will come almost to within its minimum
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  • 87 1 PENANG, Fri. A reconnaissance party of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment made lirst contact with Communist terrorists today. It was the Battalion's fifth day of operational duties in the Bongsu Forest Reserve area, South Kedah where it is operating from Butterworth. Four
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  • 41 1 AN Israeli military spokesman said an Egyptian border clash developed yesterday after an Egyptian position opened fire on an Israel patrol in the El Auja-Nitzana area. The patrol returned the fire but suffered no casualties, the spokesman said. A.P.
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  • 299 1 He Wasn't In Rl Then— Witnesses JUNGSCHLAEGER TRIAL JAKARTA, Jan. 6 (UP)— A Dutch boarding-house keeper celebrated his 73rd birthday today by testifying for the defence in the trial of former Dutch intelligence chief Leon Jungschlaeger. His ears still hurting from his first airplane ride, aged J. Pantus was the
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  • 42 1 THE Edsele power station on the Faxlriver, in Sweden, closed down for half an hour, yesterday, to save the lives ol three elk, which had fallen into the power dam and were being sucked towards the turbine intake. Reuter
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  • 20 1 POPE Pius XII received Francis Cardinal Spellman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, in private audience yesterday. A.P.
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  • 16 1 YUGOSLAVIA began a regular shipping service with Red China's port of Shanghai yesterday. A.P.
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  • 123 1 MELBOURNE, Jan. 6 (Reuter)—Mr. Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister will face a deadlocked Senate after July 1, it was confirmed today by the election of anti-Communist labour party member, Mr. Frank McManus. He gained the last of five Senate seats contested in Victoria in
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  • 98 1 LONDON, Jan. 6 (UP) A dense sulphurous blanket of smog began lifting from London and parts of Britain today, leaving six dead. Scientists said it was still too early to tell whether the acrid smog which hid the sun for two days and
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  • 83 1 ALGIERS. Jan. 6 (UP) French paratroopers killed 21 rebels in a bloody battle early today and swept ahead with a continuing drive to stop rampaging terrorist:-. Officials at Constantine announced the rebels were killed in a fight that started in the rebel infested region
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  • 73 1 SANTIAGO, Jan. 6 (Reuter) The Chilean Government early today arrested Labour leaders who were threatening a nation-wide stoppage. A state of siege has been declared. The Labour leaders. Senor Clotario Blest and Senor Juan Vargas Puebla, President and Treasurer of the Central Union of Labour Organizations,
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  • 28 1 FRENCH General Stagnaro, died in a car accident in Algeria yesterday while directing a search for French soldiers captured in a rebel attack on Sunday.- Reuter
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  • 187 1 EDEN'S HAND FORCED LONDON, Jan. 6 (AP)— Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, yesterday virtually gave up hope of stalling off a parliamentary debate on Britain's Middle East policies before his Washington talks with President Eisenhower. Under rising criticism from Sir Anthony's own Conservative Party as
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  • 53 1 HONGKONG, Jan. 6 (Reuter) The 812-ton British tug Taikoo left here today to refloat the British registered cargo ship Hongkong Trader which went aground on Dec 31, off the Chinese Communist island of Hainan. Permission for the tug's trip was received this,morning from the Chinese Communist
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  • 25 1 BANK clerks in New Delhi, began a two-day strike yesterday in protest against a cut in their cost -of livine allowance.- Reuter
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  • 103 1 HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 6 (AP) —Actor James Stewart suffered a painfully wrenched back when a parachute dragged him 50 yards during the liming of the movie "Spirit of St. Louis." Stewart, who plays Charles Lindbergh, was supposed to have baled out of a plane during a blizzard and
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  • 155 1 Govt. Throws Away Those Kid Gloves KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Federation Government is tightening regulations on the treatment of captured terrorists, under its "get tough" policy forced by Chin Peng's refusal to accept the amnesty. As from Feb. 9, Security Forces shall accept no more voluntary surrenders of terrorists, and
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  • 62 1 SYDNEY, Jan. 6 (Reuter)— The Australian Council of Trade Unions today approved, a general strike on the Australian waterfront from Jan. 23, unless shipowners agree to confer with the waterside workers on their grievances. If the strike takes place about 27,000 members of the Waterside
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  • 38 1 THE Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Hassan Maamoun, said yesterday that peace with Israel was not possible unless the Palestine Arab refugees returned to their homes and Israeli forces were withdrawn from "Arab territory." Reuter
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  • 22 1 VICE-CHANCELLOR Fransz Bluecher said yesterday, he is authorized to invite Indian Premer Jawaharlal Nehru to visit West Germany.- A.P.
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  • 23 1 CHRISTOPHER Lafarge. 58, poet and novelist, died last night in a Providence hospital after suffering from a cerebral haemorrhage. Reuter
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  • 22 1 AN explosion in the Felixstowe Gas plant yesterday killed two workmen and injured six others, four of them critically A.P.
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  • 195 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP)— The Administration plans to launch a greatly expanded antiCommunist idea offensive in Asia and the Middle East if funds to do so are voted by Congress. President Eisenhower Is expected to ask in his Jan. 16 budget message for
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  • 33 1 SINGAPORE Police driver Wahab bin Tabah, 33, collapsed and fell out of a stationary Land Rover outside the Happy World Amusement Park at midnight last night. He died on the spot.
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  • 13 1 SUDAN 'S FRIEND JAPAN yesterday officially recognized the independence of Sudan. A .P.
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  • 257 2 275 Strikes Add Up To A Record SITUATION IMPROVING By R. G. PILLAI, Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE lost 946,354 man-days in 1955 because of 275 strikes and lock-outs a record in the Colony's industrial history. The workers lost millions of dollars in wages and
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  • 89 2 More Buses Lengthen The Routes TWO more Chinese boa companies in Singapore will today extend their services to Finlay■oo Green. They are the Tay Koh Yat bus company and the Paya Lebar bui company. The former will run their services from the Paya Lebar airport to Finlayson Green through Serangoon
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  • 83 2 Maternity Centre Now Ready THE Minister for Health. Mr. A. J. Braga. will ODen the new $49,000 Maternity and Child Welfare Centre at the 17^ milestone Lim Chu Kang Road, Singapore, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. The centre is designed to provide facilities for anteand post-natal care, home confinements, pre-school
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  • 33 2 GANGSTERS deported from the United States to Italy will find a 'Test home" waitIng for them in Rome under the plans of a Neapolitan Friar. Father Blandino Delia Croce. Reuter
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    47 2 MISS AGNES CATNACH, educationist and lecturer, is d-.:c in Singapore on Jan. 19, from Australia for talks with Ministry of Education officials. She will give two lectures to heads of Secondary Schools, Inspectors of schools and administrative officers on "The Grammar School" and "Education and Citizenship."
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  • 78 2 THE fact whether 17-year-old "L" drivers will choke Singapore streets or not remains to be seen, said the Traffic Chief, Mr. A. E. Minns, yesterday. He was commenting on a statement in The Highway, official magazine of the Automobile Association of Malaya. He said that '"if
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  • 151 2 SPEAKMAN TO ATTEND VC PARTY VICTORIA Cross winner, Cpl. Bill Speakman of the Ist Battalion, The Royal Scottish Fusiliers, now serving in Malaya, will attend the Queen's garden party in Buckingham Palace in June, for holders of the British Commonwealth's highest award for valour. The Queen is giving the party
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  • 61 2 P.I. Consul Back To Work Soon MR. Alejandros Holigores, the Philippines Consul-General in Singapore, who was admitted to General Hospital recently, will resume work soon. Mr. Holigores' doctor has assured him that he was suffering from a nervous breakdown not a heart attack as it was first suspected. He is
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  • 61 2 TWO Singapore drivers, Ang Chong Wan and Leong Kin Hong were fined $15 and $20 respectively in the Singapore Traffic Court yesterday when they admitted sounding their car horns unnecessarily. Ang and Leong were respectively stated to have committed the offences in Lavender Street on July
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  • 67 2 MINIMUM Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. Jan. 5 to 7.30 a.m. Jan. 6. Singapore (73F), Penang (73F), Kota Bahru (72F), Kuala Lumpur (70F), Ipoh (73F), Kuantan (72F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. Jan. 6. Singapore (85F), Penang (87F), Kota Bahru (82F), Kuala Lumpur (87F), Ipoh (85F),
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  • 23 2 Mr. Komlosy shows the Governor a model of Singapore's waterfront as envisaged by the Master Plan for 1972.
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  • 161 2 Your Views Are Wanted' IT is the duty of every citizen in Singapore to take an intelligent and constructive interest in the Master Plan so that Government can get a good idea of their views, the Governor, Sir Robert Black, said yesterday. Sir Robert
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  • 49 2 HASSAN bin Hussain, a farmer, claimed trial in the Seventh Magistrate's Court yesterday, to a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to Abdullah bin Kunchli with a knife at a Malay farm in Singapore, on Jan. 5. He was allowed bail of S-OO till Jan. 13.
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  • 44 2 Representatives of the SEATO countries will review the work of the organization at their second meeting :n Karachi, it was announced yesterday. They will consider future activities and exchange views on matters affecting the peace and security of the treaty area.
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  • 64 2 PENANG, Fri. The Malay National Industrial and Commercial Company of South Kedah has been formed in Serdang with an initial capital of $100,000 at $10 per share. The aims of the new company are to open a padi mill, buy and sell rice, buying rubber estates
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  • 274 2 FIRST KISS IN 13 YEARS WAS SIGN OF TRAGEDY But He Did Not Know It A loss of $1,500 In i ton tine" and constant quar. rels with the over his drinking I might have driven a wq, man to commit the husband told Singapore Cora Court yesterday. The husband,
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  • 223 2 So It's Back To The Half-cut JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— Seventy assistant mines of the General Hospital, Johore Bahru, have been told by the hospital authorities that they can continue v.o«:--ing their accustomed half-cut cap instead of the new "toad-shaped" cap against which
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  • 60 2 BRUSSELS, Jan. 6 (Re —The celebrated 250-year-old Monnaie Theatre, wh seats about 1.200 poop. listing nearly 20 inches one side because of soil sidence. Workmen hastily reinl ing the foundations ol stone-pillared theatre have found that its original bu: ders planned it so well thi the
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  • 58 3 LOOI Bee Kim was fined BO n the Singapore Sixth Magistrate's Court yesterday I t organizing "Ti Kum" I alette) but had his toys M tricycle worth about $100 to him by the court. The order was made by the gi trate, Mr. D. G.
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  • 233 3 4 New Villages Are Flooded Out BENTONG, Fri. A heavy five-hour downpour beginning at ten last night inundated more than 1,000 new village houses near Bentong and rendered homeless several thousands of people here today. The new villages affected are Perting, Kemansur, C amang and
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  • 62 3 photo. PRESIDENT Eisenhower listens to his grandchildren singing carols in the foyer of the White House. At left is Mrs. Eisenhower with the childrens parents, Major and Mrs. John Eisenhower. The children are Barbara Anne, 6, Susan (4 on New Year's Eve) and David, 7. Woman
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  • 287 3 It's Planning And Memos COLOMBO, Fri.—Federation Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman's merdeka mission is all keyed up for crucial talks with Colonial Office in London, writes Utusan Melayu's Deputy Editor, Abdul Samad Ismail who is accompanying the delegation. Even the cake that
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  • 79 3 PENANG, Frl President of the Kang Har Tong Ooi Kongsi. Dr. Ooi Kee Wan, reminded his clansmen today that the function of a kongsi was to protect its members from being bullied, help in obtaining employment for them, educate the young and help those in need.
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  • 45 3 DR. A. STEEL, Principal of the University College of Cardiff and Vice-Chancel lor-elect of the University of Wales, will "ive a lecture on "The Place Sf History in Higher Education/' at the Arts Theatre, University of Malaya, on Tuesday at midday
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  • 123 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Representatives of the Malayan Trade Union Council. Mr. Lee Moke Sang and Mr. Cheong Pak Meng, today met the Deputy Commissioner for Labour. Mr. R C. Wilkinson and asked him to intervene in the Fung Keong strike which entered the 39th
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    65 3 photo. GISELE Charbit, 18, a typist from Casablanca, who has emerged {after considerable confusion) as the "Miss France of 1956," is embraced after her election at a New Year's ball in Nice, by Maryse Fabre, left, 18. ivho was crowned and then deposed on Dec. 29. and by
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  • 145 3 'Revenge Sweeter Than Truth KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— KM. Narayanasamy an Pitlerly railway shed engiheI; in. his wife and teena -p daughter were today 'r ed by the Second Magis-tr-Ue on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to a Homan neighbour. The three were cleared of
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  • 142 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The First Magistrate, Group Captain G. V. Howard, today criticized the police for their "inadequate" investigation into a hurt case brought before him. He held that the evidence before him was such that he was still in the dark as to
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  • 61 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A 23-year-old Municipal labourer. Nagappan. was slashed with a parang by a young Tamil at an Imbi Road toddy shop last evening His right arm was injured. H e was treated in the General Hospital as an outpatient. Inspector P. M. John of
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  • 253 3 Petaling Tin's Challenge KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Petaling Tin Dredging Company today offered to pay the widow of a dismissed worker Soosay Nathan a dollar for a dollar contributed by members of the Malayan Mining Employees Union, subject to a maximum of $500.
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  • 77 3 TWO fierce Alsatian dogs roamed the compound of a Singapore doctor's home in Balmoral Crescent last night while two armed robbers sacked the driver's quarters. At dagger's point, the thugs forced the driver's wife to hand over all the $150 worth of jewellery she was
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  • 86 3 TELOK ANSON, Fri.— A labourer. K. Chinniah, was fined $75 or two weeks' imprisonment in the Magistrate's Court yesterday for making a false statement. He had made the false statement in a case in which Salangamuthu was sentenced to three months' jail or $100 fine for causing
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  • 38 3 MISS Khoo Siew Eng of Geylang Road was fined $10 in the Singapore First Traffic Court yesterday when she admitted having failed to conform to a traffic "No Parking" sign in Cross Street on Sept. 28.
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  • 104 3 It Was Her Tenth Conviction A WOMAN. Ang Bee Hian. 38, was convicted for the tenth time in the Singapore Third District Court yesterday. Ang. a mother of four children, was sentenced by the judge. Mr. Eu Chow Chye. to six months' jail for theft of a briefcase containing articles
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  • 89 3 Tyre Thief Takes In A Businessman FAILING to find a parking place in Singapore's crowded Raffles Place, a businessman yesterday gladly handed over his car keys to a man who agreed to look after his vehicle. When he returned half an hour later the businessman was shocked to find both
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  • 190 3 M.C.P. Has 8-Point Plan For Red Govt. THE Malayan Communist Party expects to establish a Red government in Malaya, according to a United Press cable from Tokyo quoting Radio Peking. The Communist Chinese radio revealed that the Malayan Communist Party met last month and approved a programme to bring "independence,
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  • 128 3 Hodjetts' Bond Order Set Aside PENANG, Fri. Mr. Justice Hill in the Hish Court today allowed the appeal of W. A. J. Hodjetts, Workshop Superintendent of the Municipality and set aside an order made against him in the lower court. Hodjetts had a charge of causing hurt proved against him.
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  • 103 4 THE one-man art exhibition of 64 oil paintings by Che Suri bin Mohyani at the British Council Hall was opened yesterday by Singapore's Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas. The exhibition will continue until Jan. 15 and will be open daily from 9 a.m. to
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  • 415 4 He Strode Into The Night With A Bayonet But- Private Gets Five Years For Wounding A Comrade PRIVATE Clifford Hutton, 18, was yesterday sentenced by a General Court Martial to five years' imprisonment for "unlawfully wounding" and "indecently assaulting" another soldier on Nov. 2, last year.
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  • 235 4 She 's Face-To-Face With Her 'Dead' Husband DAR&-HAIRED Mrs. Margaret Mclver, 41, was recently brought face-to-face with her "dead" husband after believing for three months that she was a widow. She gave a gasp, shook his hand, then walked out of his life. She said: "Yes, that is my husband
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  • 71 4 MALACCA. Fri. Three Alliance Settlement Councillors are organizing biweekly "meet the people" sessions -on the pattern initiated by Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall. The Councillors, Hasnul Abdul Hadi, Mohamed Haji Abdul Rahman and Tan Cheng Swee. will hold their inaugural session on Monday, and
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  • 44 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri— K. S.abrarr.aniam, 18, today claimed trial to a charge of using criminal force on a girl with intent to outrage her modesty on Jan. 4. Subramanian was granted bail of $250 Hearing was fixed for Feb 20.
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  • 197 4 TOKEN OF APPRECIATION THE St. Andrew's School Old Boys Association is trying to raise $20,000 as a "going-away" present for Canon R.K.S. Adams, Principal of the school since 1934, who is retiring in March. The Association has set up a special "Adams Memento
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  • 200 4 JUST FAMILY AFFAIR, ROBBER TOLD PASSERBY AN armed robber claimed that he was the husband of his victim when a curious passer-by approached him to inquire if anything was wrong. The victim. Goh Lee Kheng, said this in the preliminary inquiry in the Singapore Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday when Lee
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  • 30 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Musa Mydeen of Seremban was today jailed for a month by the Second Magistrate before whom he pleaded guilty to sleeping in a bus.
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  • 240 4 Pears Britten's Artistry Supreme Standard Music Critic PETER PEARS and Benjamin Britten last night gave their second recital before another large Victoria Hall audience, the programme consisting of the most famous song-cycle ever written, Schubert's "Die Schone Mullerin." i.. t Mr. Pears agai gave evidence of his supreme vocal artistry
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  • 147 5 S^GAPORE artist, Gerard D'A Henderson, whose mnrals of local scenes at Raffles Otel have icon the admiration of many Colony visitors, yesterday put the finishing touches an 80-toot-long mural, illustrating the Orient in the new premises of the K.L.M. Royal C ten Airlines, at the ground floor
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  • 55 5 SINGAPORE'S Health Min- ter, Mr. A. J. Braga, will present certificates to eight hospital almoners in the conference room of the Health Ministry at 11.30 a.m. today. The eight almoners have Just completed their course of training in Singapore under the auspices of the Training: Committee of
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  • 166 5 Unions Ask Marshall To Explain THREE seamen's unions in Singapore yesterday wrote a joint letter to the Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall, requesting him to state the reasons for terminating the services of the Asian Seamen's Adviser. Mr. T. A. White. The Unions are: The Malay Seamen's Union, the Chinese
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  • 223 5 10,000 Civilians At Naval Base Threaten Strike MORE than 10,000 civilian industrial workers of the Singapore Naval Base will meet on Sunday to decide whether or not to go on strike to force the Admiralty to settle their claim for increased wages and better conditions of service. Their claims include
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  • 58 5 photo. REAR Admiral Howard L. Collins, United States Navy Commander of Cruiser Division One, and the captain and officers of the U. S. S. Bremerton held a reception aboard the heavy cruiser to "meet the people" of Singapore. In picture a section of some of the
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  • 166 5 THE VISIT of the Indonesian economic mission to Singapore, scheduled for this month, has been postponed to February or early March, said the Indonesian Consul-General in Singapore, Dr. Hermen Kartowisastro, yesterday. As it has been decided that the talks with Indonesia should be
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  • 95 5 DONATIONS totalling SllO have reached The Standard office for the family of the late Mr. C. B. Tan, Singapore cabaret manager, who died on Monday. They included a cheque for $50 from Mr. S. L. McNee, of Mansfield and Co. Ltd. Other donations came from "A
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    • 703 6 AIALAYANIZATION is not a matter which affects U only those who are vitally connected with it. It is a subject of interest and importance to all. The published proceedings of the sessions which have been held, even if they are not as informative as one wishes, are
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    • 292 6 QNE of the duties of the Department of Information, alias Public Relations, is to co-operate with the Press and see to it that no obstacles or inconveniences are created to prevent its members doing their duty to the people at public functions. On the occasion of
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  • 631 6 YOUTHS OF MALAYA pERHAPS at no period in A the history of the world has youth played a more important role than today. As in many other countries of the world where the political and social pattern has had a transformation after World War II the problems that face the
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    14 6 "I'll ask the boys if they've seen your braces anywhere, Herbert
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    8 6 I "Welt, it's been all 'right so far..."
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  • 1066 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRHCES ME ASTER GUNASEKERA by /~VNE of the greatest achieveJ merits of modern man for peace and understanding is the Boy Scout movement which saw the light of day almost half a century ago with the purpose of training lads to be good citizens with high
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  • 650 6  - U.S. Bases in U.K. are Assets SUSAN STRANGE By LONDON AMERICAN Service bases in Britain are now becoming a substantial economic asset to a country still periodically troubled by recurrent dollar deficits. Britons as a whole are not nearly so keenly aware of how the proceeds of constructing and maintaining
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 139 6 Sir: We have to draw your attention to a press report about a court case appearing in The Singapore Standard (Dec. 31) under the heading "The Gurkha Goes Free." We wish to point out that the last sentence "A sum of $19.20 found on the gambling table
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    • 136 6 Sir: My attention has been drawn to a news item in the Singapore Standard under the heading "Minister's New Phone." The article is presumably based on a press release from the Public Relations Office, the information for which in Its turn originated from this office, but this press
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  • 204 6 REVIEW OF VIEWS Rulers Support Mission TTTUSAN Melayu thinks it is nonsensical for the learic of the Johore Malay National Association to speak o' thfl "Merdeka" Mission a? a "Menrierhaka" Mission i derhaka is the Malay word for treachery). The daily points out that \e very fact the Rulers' n
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    • 34 6 Gardenjuvy Estate Ltd, ESTATE OFFICE, YIO CHU RANG ROAD, SINGAPORE 19. Phone *****. THREE-BEDROOM HOMES PERMANENTLY CONSTRUCTED WITH ALL MODERN CONVENIENCES ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THIS ESTATE $12,000/OR ON EASY PAYMENTS EARLY OCCUPATION GUARANTEED
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  • 69 7 photo. In a nation-wide campaign to combat illiteracy the Shah and Queen Sorya of Iran will each have a class and for two hours daily teach reading and writing in the down town quarters of Teheran. About 80 per cent of the Iranian population is
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  • 256 7 Syria To Iraq 'Withdraw Your Military Attache' 'He's Plotting Against State/ Allegation DAMASCUS, Jan. 6, (AP) Official sources said yesterday that Syria has asked Iraq to withdraw its Military Attache from Damascus because of "suspicious activities" against the Syrian Government. An official spokesman charged the Attache, Col. Saleh Mahdi Samarrai,
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  • 40 7 NOTTINGHAM. England. Jan. H (AP) Mrs. Evelyn Pearson admitted in court she was caught stealing a dress from a shop to replace one she stole earlier that didn't fit The judge fined the 39-year-old housewife £3.
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  • 229 7 LONDON, Jan. 6 (UP) America's European allies yesterday hailed President Eisenhower's State of the Union message as a powerful boost to the united front of the free Western nations The President's programme W9i seen to envision a new 0 6 initiative on a
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  • 178 7 I Now It'll All Be Changed KAMPALA, Uganda, Jan. tf, (Reuter)— Sweeping posals for the reform of land tenure in Uganda including the introduction of individual land titles for Airicans in areas outside Buganda were officially an- flounced here yesterday. Sn re 1902
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  • 78 7 MANILA. Jan. 6 (UP) The Philippine Navy today ordered the RPS Pangasinan to pull out of Babuyan Island and proceed to neighbouring Calayan to look deeper into the "gigantic hoax" about a homicidal maniac terrorizing islanders since last Christmas. An SOS picked up by an American
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  • 56 7 :A IP El, Formosa, Jan. 6 enter) Admiral Arthur :d. Chairman of the d States Joint Chiefs of b I -aid today he had no- an accelerated Commurnilitary build-up" along "hir.ese coastal area fac- ormosa since last year. he added, he saw no v rrisis
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  • 113 7 Girl Saves Horse After Wrestle In Icy Canal MANCHESTER. England. Jan. 6 (Reuter) A 17-year-old girl jumped into the icy waters of a canal near here yesterday and wrestled with a horse for over an hour before she could guide it to safety. The girl, Gloria Pooleyn a groom at
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  • 23 7 LONDON. Jan. 6 (AP) Briqadier Mrs. Hannah Lord. oldest Salvation Army officer in the world, will observe her 90th birthday today.
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  • 139 7 LONDON. Jan. 6, (Reuter) Rising production costs have put an end to plans for a new evening newspaper ill Ixmdon. The project, announced four months ago, aimed at a two million daily circulation and a separate north of England edition. "Princely salaries" were
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  • 80 7 CANBERRA, Jan. 6 (Reutcr) The Australian Primp Minister Mr. Robert Menzies told a joint meeting of the Federal Government parties today he would announce "considerable changes" in the Australian cabinet next week, it was learned here today. Members said after the meeting Mr. Menzies had told
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  • 26 7 THE Pakistan Prime Minister. Mr. Mohammad Ali. today set up an 11-man National Economic Council to review the overall economic situation in the country.
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  • 125 7 LONDON. Jan. 6. (Reuter)— Earl Nelson, great. c:eat. great nephew of Britain's sea here Admiral Lord Nelson is to -refight the Battle of Trafalgar in Parliament soon He will "refight" the 1805 battle to obtain compensation from the state fcr the termination nearly five veais
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  • 168 7 Socialist- Radical Coalition Govt? We Claim The Right,'— Leaders PARIS, Jan. 6, (Reuter)— The new deal alliance led by Socialist M. Guy Mollet and by Radical M. Pierre-Mendes-France yesterday announced they claimed the right to form the next Government. This statement made in their joint names followed a private lunch
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  • 158 7 LONDON. Jan. 6 (Reuter)— The Soviet Union's big purchase of rice from Burma was a gesture intended only to make political friends in the independent regions of Asia, the Economist. British weekly said here today. The weekly said it would be surprising if
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  • 449 7 Britain's Envoys In Arab States Say 1t... IF GUNS-AND-ROUBLES OFFENSIVE IS QUASHED LONDON, Jan. 6, (IIP) -—The two-day Foreign Office conference with British envoys from Arab states ended here yesterday with the diplo.mats warning that closer Anglo-American cooperation is needed to counter,
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  • 62 7 RANGOON, Jan. 6 (UP) Madame Soong Ching-ling. widow of the Chinese leader Dr. Sun Yat Sen today denounced the Formosa regime as the "hated. Chiang Kaishek clique." Speaking in English at a public reception in the City Hall she charged that the present Nationalist government has "continued to
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  • 75 7 MONROVIA. Liberia, Jan. 6 (Reuter)— Seven men including two former Ministers, have been sentenced to death here on charges of treason following the attempted assassination o£ President William Tubman on June 22. One of them. Soko Brown, who had revealed details of the alleged plot
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  • 34 7 THE Royal Air Force has agreed not to drop heavy bombs on its practice range on the Knechtsand Flats In the Elbe estuary while shell duck roost there in summer. Reuter
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  • 432 7 A Joyful Monaco Sends Grace Bouquet Of Flowers MONACO, Jan 6 The Mayor of Monaco, M. Robert Boison yesterday telegraphed a bouquet of red and white flowers Monaco's national colours —to Miss Grace Kelly when the engagement of Prince Rainier to the American actress was announced here. Monaco's national council
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  • 151 7 LONDON. Jan. 6, (Reuter)— Tests involving 175 ulcer patients, reported today in The Lancet, showed ■frhat near normal diets secured a greater proportion of heaied ulcers than the long recognised Bland diet. Three London doctors who carried out the tests declared "the present results
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 139 7 BAND-IT CLAMPS for ON THE SPOT'KCPAfxs BAND-IT Clamps of All Diameters Formed from One Continuous Roll of BAND-IT Sttel Band. table to Existing 1 1'|]]|1 Pt£j_ bll pfankV Taririer Pipe Lines Girders. MMmjgf^^TllO^ v|de Ralls <tf I PERFECT HOSE CLAMP kJ Wf mm^ 1 I For ol> types of pr^sur.
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  • 284 8 HE PAYS $7.000 TO MAKE $1,700 OF HIS OWN MONEY CRIME IS LESS SERIOUS IN '55 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Federation Police are after a gang of counterfeit racketeers who use genuine currency to 'trap' victims. At least two instances of this unique criminal "brain
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  • 266 8 RAF Padre's New Job A MOVE to help members oi the armed forces stationed in Singapore to understand the peoples living in this "melting-pot of the East" is being made by an RAF padre. Squadron Leader the Rev. Eric Lambourne of Tengah Station.
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  • 36 8 THE Sangeetha Abivirthi Saba, Kuala Lumpur, will stage a concert and ballet entitled "Seethabaharanam" at the Vivekananda School hall. Brickfields, on Sunday at 7 p.m. in aid of the South Indian Flood Relief Fund.
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  • 27 8 THE Katong Branch of the Labour Front will be officially opened at 4.30 p.m. today at 133, Koon Seng Road, off Joo Chiat Road, Singapore.
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  • 33 8 FOR speeding at 45 mp.h. along Dunearn Road on Sept 13. Ang Khor Huan of Clyde Terrace, was fined $35 by the Singapore Second Traffic Magistrate. Mr. Tan Boon Teik. yesterday.
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  • 75 8 Victim Calms Robber NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (Reuter) A man said during an armed holdup of a tailor shop here "take it easy don't get nervous." The man giving the calming advice was the tailor Mr. Theodore Yoachim. who was robbed at gunpoint of S9O. Police said the youthful gunman
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  • 333 8 25 Major Firms Involved A 15-POINT demand for increased wages and better conditions of service was submitted to the managements of 25 commercial firms in Colony by the 4,000-strong Singapore Business House Employees' Union, yesterday. The main claim is for a minimum 20 per
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  • 76 8 DEAN of the Consular Corps in Singapore, Mr. Ken Ninomiya. will be among Japan's chief diplomatic representatives attending a three-day meeting in Tokyo starting on Jan. 16. The conference will study Japan's foreign policy toward Australia, India. Thailand. Pakistan Nationalist China. Burma, Ceylon. Vietnam,
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  • 46 8 THE well-known Indian monk, Swamy Pranavananda Saraswathy. who is now in Singapore on a round-the-world tovr to preach Hindu religion, philosophy and spiritualism, will give a talk on "Spiritualism" at the Singapore Arya Samajam in Syed Alwi Road, tomorrow at 10 a.m.
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  • 152 8 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot f.o.b. 125 1251 No 1 K.S.S Jan. 1251 1251 No 2 Jan. 123 1231 No. 3 Jan. 122* 123 Tone: Uncertain TIN PRICfc The yrice of tin yesterday was 5403 per picul. (Down $4). LONDON
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  • 75 8 Newcastle Arrives For Refit H.M S. Newcastle arrived in Singapore yesterday for a *hree-month docking and refit at the Naval Base. This ship's company comprising of 54 officers and 730 ratings will work on board but will live in H.M.S. Terror, the Royal Naval Barracks The Commanding Officer of the
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  • 232 8 GURKHAS SAY 'THANK YOU' WITH A $7,000 CHEQUE KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Men of the Brigade of Gurkhas said "thank you" to the Lady Templer Tuberculosis Hospital today with a cheque for $7,000. Major General R N. Anderson, General Officer Commanding the Brigade personally called at the hospital and handed over
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  • 158 8 BELOW: The USS Bremerton which arrived in Singapore yesterday from Hongkong on a five-day goodwill visit. Inset: Rear Admiral Howard Lyman Collins, USN Commander Cruiser Division One. 980 ON GOODWILL VISIT NINE HUNDRED end eighty men aboard the heavy cruiser USS Bremerlcn heralded their arrival yesterday morning
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  • 310 8 'BYRNE CO. SPEAK FOR ALL OF US' Unions Have Proof OFFICIAL records will be produced before the Malayanization Commission at its next session to prove that various Singapore Government unions and associations have authorized three .spokesmen to speik for all local officers. This fellows the question raised at the Commission's
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  • 69 8 IPOH. Fri. A labourer, Arumugam. 24, was yesterday charged in the Magistrate's Court here, with murder. He was alleged to have intentionally caused the death of a cinema ticket collector, Apparajoo, 20, alias Chetty. The incident was said to have taken place at Kampong Gurap. at
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    593 9  -  UNKNOWN VBVV PIANO recital by a great artist is the popular form of entertainment Singapore au--5& And in this res\ve are not much tj fferent from audiences world over. Many al pianists have visit- Singapore in recent years, thanks mainly to Musical Society/ but perhaps, enjoyed success of
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  • 315 9  - NEW RECORDS Victor Doggett by TT IS appropriate, at this particular New Year, to talk :'bout the music of Mozart, and what more fitting: than to start off in lighter vein with a collection of 20 Country Dances for orchestra recorded by the Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Franz
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  • 472 9 M. I. 5 Major in Girl Spy Sensation LONDON. FORMER British secret service agent, Major John Riddel, denied at Nice that he was responsible for the death of a beautiful Swedish girl, Jane Horney Grandberg, 25, during the war. Her body was thrown from a boat into the sea off
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  • 632 9  - Visit to the 'Folies JOHN HALKIN with PARIS OUTSIDE France, and y F among those who have little or no knowledge of French civilization, Paris has a reputation vaguely connected with that daring word Sex. I shall deal this week with Sex and leave the more intelligent side of French
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  • 419 9  -  M. A. Glasgow DISCOVERY INVENTION RESEARCH owwxwwww jjj« 4MMMMMMI LONDON TODAY, when so many countries are planning to use atomic energy instead of the more conventional fuels, the need for obtaining large supplies of uraniuvi becomes increasingly important, and prospectors in aH parts of the world are constantly
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    • 82 9 The world famous family of TIGER medicinal products Jt ■jf :^B;wj-J;>.n-i:m'-x|H -A^^^m 'Z, ,-K&S*i22£&}&*^^Bp'.'&^^Kcr&/(jtM -M m '^aJw^f wFyBJf/ !l B^Bp>. fc l^i* M 4f*"V JB ME: .>>* CHINKAWHITE This invaluable Wind Mixture is an excellent remedy for Stomach Pains, Constipation, Indigestion, Acidity, Heartburn, Loss of Appetite. ENG AUN TONG THE
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    • 143 9 STANDARD'S Crossword Puzzle 77—^ BH JHB~~BBBn"^TßEr"Tßß^^^^^r^^^H^^ ACROSS Keep It a secret, His BigfaCis get^ round us twice <.4, Quite a game cock (6) i-swingex but not a lazy .1(8)' e nice Mora on the teep I Milton) <ti> is found in some letters receive 8> ch we hear Rov open
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    • 91 9 C. It is monstrous to say the sailor is standard <8> 7. A branch ol maths gets on and on for a triangle (8) R. Labour measures? (3—5) 13 Not a worker at a creche (10> 15. Is it OK. to fit a ripe cherry in it? iB> If). The
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    • 128 9 tTERE is a recording of n amazing luminosity, power and tonal fidelity in other words the engineers have produced precisely the right acoustic for the exotic music. Mitropouios lavishes great care on the "Caucasian Sketches," adopts slowish tempi and masses a particularly fine sweep of the first movement, with full
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    • 40 9 R Corner "Mother sent it you know what a wonder- ful sense of fun she < has "Must you embroider EVERYTHING?" I "Why Mr. Smith, d'you mean to say there's a MRS. Smith? Nobody'd have guessed it at the office l"
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 363 10 **U.S. Reports Predict MAJOR rubber manufacturers in the United SUtej are confident that the current year will be an e.v ei] eni one although they are not certain sales and earning aQ equal the record-breaking year just ended, according the latest trade reports from New York.
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    • 88 10 BOARD CHANGES NAME KUALA LUMPUR. FrU The British Rubber Dev* lopment Board lu< changed its name to reiterate the emphasis in in championing the cause of natural rubber. The body, formed by British rubber profilers as a publicity organi.'Uidß in the thirties. will now be known as the "Natural Rubber
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    • 156 10 THE Malayan share DUft ket was slightly easier in d sections yesterday, accora.r: to the Malayan Sharebro.-.' Association. Industrials, which wca steady the previous did were quieter and quota 1 in this section were easi< Price changes annour ■-i by the Malayan Share* brokers' Association
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    • 128 10 OUTER ROADS Tai Poo Ann, St. Valery En Caux. Han Yang. Troilus, Eastern Venture. Star.vac Manila. Tjiwangi. Reynay. Ushakov, Caltex Sydney. Hoegh Silverstream. Giang Seng, Calis. Precila. Lucky Carrier. Ormara. Shapur, liora. lIMS Newcastle. INNER ROADS Lipis Rokan. Senggarang. Taype, Scudai, Lam Ann, Kimanis. Langir. Belaga. Darvel.
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    • 88 10 MR. H. L. HILL, manager of E. C. De Witt Co. Ltd., for the past 16 years, who will shortly be leaving on transfer to Head Office, and Mrs. Hill were recently entertained to a farewell luncheon at the Hoi Meng Yuen Restaurant, Bedok, by members
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    • 193 10 P.A.A. SERVICE TO AMERICAN SAMOA A NEW Flying Clipper service from the West Coast to the U.S.A. and Honolulu to American Samoa will be started by Pan American World Airways on Jan. 24, according to an announcement by Colonel Clarence M. Young, executive vicePresident of the airline's Pacific -Alaska Division.
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    • 22 10 MALAYAN exports of tin to all countries during December amounted to 4.704 tons, according to preliminary official statistics issued yesterday.
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    • 140 10 MALAYA 'OVALTINE MINDED' PENANG. Fri. Malaya is getting more and more "Ovaltine minded." said Sir Harry Hague, proprietor of the Ovaltine Company, on board the P and O liner Chusan which arrived here today. Sir Harry, who is known as the "King of Ovaltine." said that Malaya has definitely made
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    • 28 10 JAPAN and Burma have signed an agreement under which Japan will import from the South-east Asian nation 250.000 tons of rice worth about £10,000.000 sterling. UP
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      27 10 SEEN here are Mr. H.B. Ta n, (left), acting sales manager of Getz. Bros. Co., Singapore, and Mr. Gaston Johnston, president of Gaston Johnston Corporation, New York.
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    • 269 10 AFTER the exceedingly quiet holiday period the rubber market re-opened on Tuesday to find operators unprepared for the sudden spurt of activity during which, despite further encouraging news from America, the premium on January R.M.A.I. R.S.S. completely disappeared and switching of this month against February was
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    • 177 10 THE drop in the Malayan exports of rubber for "December caused unexpected selling by a section of the Singapore market which closed uncertain at $1.25| per lb. for January shipment, a drop of U cents on Thursday. Total exports of rubber. all grades, to all countries from Malaya
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    • 15 10 DECEMBER tin ore outputs announced are: Katu 295 piculs; Renong Consolidated 636 piculs.
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    • 41 10 NEW YORK. Jan. 5, (UP)— Dow-Jones closing averages: STOCKS 30 Industrials 434.02 20 Rails 160.55 15 Utilities 63.64 65 Stocks 170.80 BOXDS 40 Bonds 98.30 The Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index (1 924-26- average equals 100) closed at 153.24.
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    • 96 10 'No-Roach' For This Market MR. GASTON Johnston., president of Gaston Johnston Corporation, New York, is in Singapore in the course of a world trip to introduce Johnston's colourless insecticide "NoRoach" into the Malayan market. "No-Roach" is a brush on liquid designed to control roaches and ants, and is effective for
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    • 37 10 THE United States Tariff Commission announced in Washington yesterday it had "denied and dismissed" a petition for increased tariffs on camera shutters and parts sought by the Woolensack Optical Company of Rochester, New York.- Reuter
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    • 304 10 Concern In Far East Over Keen China Competition Standard Market Reporter RED China is offering such serious competition in the Far Eastern textile trade that United Kingdom, Indian and Japanese textiles interests are alarmed at the rapid increase in the quantities of Communist goods in their
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 549 10 NOTICES THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT Holiday Chinese New Year's Day. Sunday, 12th February 1956. TVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that vessels alongside the Board's wharves and working before 11.00 a.m. on Saturday. 11th February 1956. will be worked after Ii.OO a.m. on that day without extra charge provided they
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    • 421 10 TENDER NOTICE UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA TENDERS are invited from first class Contractors only for the erection and completion of the New Medical Residential College College Road, Singapore, (within the compound of the General Hospital). BiPs of Quantities, Specification, Articles of Agreement, Conditions of Contract, Drawings and Tender Form will be
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    • 213 10 NOTICES TENDER THE Committee of the Singapore Children's Society invite tenders for the construction of the First Phase of the Society's Convalescent Home foi Children at Tanah Merah, Singapore. Copies of the plans and specifications can be obtained from the Society's Hon Architects Structural Engineers. Messrs Ho Kwong Yew Sons
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    • 83 10 tss. "STATE OF MADRAS" Voy; 18 Sailing 9th January f 956 5 p.m. EMBARKATION TIME DECK BUNK CLASS Passengers 1 P SALOON CLASS Passengers 2 fM. Ali passengers travelling per '.he above vessel ore he* notified that they should forward their heavy and excess bagc for inspection and loading on
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 70 10 PRODUCE PRICES SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: Copra Jan. $27i buyers, $27 1 sellers, Feb. S2B buyers, S2B£ sellers; coconut oil (bulk) S4og buyers. $43 sellers; Muntok white pepper SI 4I sellers. Sarawak white SI 4O sellers. Special Sarawak black $98 sellers. Singapore Copra
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    • 187 10 MALAYAN sfaarebrokci tcrday reported the ft busmes? done: Fed. Disp. $3.50: F. N B 14 ($1.82:.: Gammon $2.» Breweries $3. 50: H 51.K21. $1.63?,: M. Colls $1.02 McAlister 53.23?,. S3.IT I Box $1.(35, $1.64; OC B,Robinson ords. $2.47|; S'r Cold Storage $1.65; 9 I Trader? $27: U.E. urds $9.50: Wearnes
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    • 832 11 4HGLO-FRENCH TRADING CO., LTD. 923/ "The blue funnh linT NORTH AMERICAN SERVICE To Halifax Boston, New Tork, Baltimore. Philadelphia Calf Ports S'pore P. S'ham Penang fOiYDORUS v... 9/16 Feb 17 Feb 18 Fob KHTPHIMUS m* r 19/2S Mar 26 Mar 27/28 Mar Carr.ers option r. pro*— 4 l wia fhec
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    • 986 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 ten) UnctHDo.«ted m Smupnti fl2 tines) THE BLUE FUNNEL LIME Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL, CLASCOW. LONDON fr CONTINENT Singapore Dm Soils P. S'ham Pening Tantalus for Avonmouth Liverpool an 8/9 |an
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    • 820 11 MITSUI p>^ LINE S'pore P. S'hom Penong FOR JAPAN from Indlo Aiumisbn Maru for Yokohama Kdbe, Moji 21 Jaa Bansei Maru tor Kobe, Yokohama, Moji 1b Jan FOR JAPAN trom Continent Hoeisos Mara for Yokohome Kobe Nogoyo vio Hangkono 10 Jan Akibasan Maru for Yokohama, Kobe, Nogcya, via Hongkong 21
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    • 773 11 EAST ASIATIC LINES SAILINGS TO CONTINENf/SCANDINAVIA For Aden, Port Suid, Genoa, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Scthenburg and Oslo. S'pore P. S'ham Penang *xx) "KAMBODIA" 14/ 15 Jon 16/16 Jan 17/ 18 Jan x) "LALANDIA" 8/BFeb nut) "INDIA" 28Fcb/2Mar 3 4 Mor<?) 5/6 Mer(?) x) "SELANDIA" 5/7 Mar 8/8 Mar 9/10
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  • 118 12 OMO Picture Contest o°OO o Reproduced on this page are some of the best local entries received by Lever Bros, in their recent photographic competition. o°O O O°° Sent in by Saik Fook Loy, 39, Kuala Kangsar Road, Penang. Kong King Chong, c/o Kong Tup Seng, 42, Muntri Street, Penang.
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    • 62 12 ii'iiri I E DFORD WUMHuiiiiliuiilliltuiit;!) iIiUImhRUiHI i'!mllli!i!|!i| Iliijl] Tough tippers 3, 5, or 7 Ton Petrol or Diesel with Telehoist Hydraulic underbody tipping gear and all steel radius cornered bodies. OBoth end and 3-way tippers from stock. m*m*/m mm m*ml m mm motor company limited SINGAPORE AND K L A
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  • 221 13 Signals Are MOR Champs KOVAL Signals, with 31 p,>jritv took the team d' unpionship in the Malawi other Ranks Boxing h.unpionships held at T.inztin gymnasium last n;J'-t. ,pore Guard Regiment I were runners-up with while the RAOC third with 23 points. L :::2ineers trailed badly keen and interesting were witnessed.
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  • 34 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. So'.angor Eurasian Association "B" were awarded a walkover when British Military Hospital. K;nrara. failed to turn up for their Selanaor Hockey Association Division 2 League match at Brickfie'.ds Road today.
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  • 305 13 ARE THE FIJIANS SLIPPING? Ci> UA^ L V MPU Fn Selongor Club, leading rugger club in tne Mote, will make a determined bid to create rugger history on the Kuala Lumpur padang tomorrow by being the first Malayan side to beat the invincible
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  • 71 13 PEXANG, Fri. Mr. Jagjit Singh was last night elected president of Penang Cricket Association at its annual general meeting held at the Penang Sports Club. Other office-bearers: vice-pre-sident; R. N. Poyntz-Roberts; hon. secretary, Mr. Hayati Meah; hon. treasurer. Mr. J. M. Vohra; hon. auditors. Messrs.
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  • 147 13 THE Third Singapore Harbour Board Boys' Club annual boxing championship was featured by one knockout when Rajaretnam of Royal Signals made short work of Reginald of SHB Police in the first round. The following are the complete results:Special Paper Weight: Jaffar bin Almuderim
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  • 281 13 7 ASIANS IN NEGRI TEAM FOR CUP MATCH SEREMBAN, Fri.— Seven AllBlues players have been included in the Negri Sembilan side to meet Perak in the annual Farlei«h Robertson Cup match at Ipoh tomorrow. They are wing threequarters Kwok Yok Yen and Lim Chee Lin, standoff Boon Oon Lor and
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  • 40 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Today s Selangor Hockey Association's Div. I League match between Selangor Sikh Union and Young Men's Sikhs Association at Taylor Road was not I played as one of the umpires 1 failed to turn up.
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  • 123 13  -  Lee Thong Choon by photo Last Thursday was a special "Club night" for members of the Perak Motor Club. Ten out of the fifteen entries from the Club won prizes at the recent Shell Motor Rally. The Clubmen are seen in the picture taken in
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  • 782 13  - 'Big Three' Are Alone On Their Thrones JACK HAND RING'S ANNUAL RATINGS By NEW YORK. (AP)—Rocky Marciano. Archie Moore and Carmen Basilio rank all alone in their respective- divisions in the annual boxing ratings of Ring Magazine, copyrighted in its February issue. For the third year in a row, Marciano
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  • 69 13 PENAXG. Fri. Pcnang AllBlues team against Perak AllBlues at Ipoh on Sunday: Yeang Kah Chong, H. Joseph. Jalil Chedin. Lee Seng Tuan. Hamzah, Tan Kim Piew. M. Pestana. Tan Phee Tuan. Tham Yak Chong, Yeang Kwang Fook N. Reutens. Cheah Jin Teong. G. McCully, Sin Thean
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  • 317 13 ENTER, THE NEW BEN HOG AN LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 (AP) The "New" Ben Hogan was on hand on Thursday for the opening of the Los Angeles open Golf Tournament and the change in the man was remarkable. It was just over six months ago that Hogan taut, drawn, chainsmoking
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    • 690 13 CLASSIFIED ADS DEATH VTEO Mrs. Tang Ngian Un nee -I- Yeo Ai Siok aged 86 passed away peacefully at her residence, 7 St. Thomas Walk on Friday 6/1 1956 at 12.30 p.m. leaving behind 2 sons C.K. Tang. and •K.H. Tang 2 daughters Mrs. Teo Ngia, Pik Mrs. C. Y.
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    • 92 13 11l Abner By Al Ccpp Alley Oop By V.T. Ham! in The Heart Of Juliet Jones By Sfon Drake B^SBftj A^?A WffifiitEEL. LIKE A CHIM#\NZE£| ■B^^^gg jBgLBT^' r^3 IN WITH AN INVISIBLE CORP7DTHE SUN-SOURCE i^N e PK^^apft^^p^^J TgyiNe t6 imitate the f J 7HEIR ENERGV AS A p^^-Conpusep ensineer^ i
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  • 949 14 FOLLOWING are weights and probable starters for all eight races next Saturday. Jan. 14. first day of the Perak Turf Club January Meeting: Horses Cl. 4 Div. 1-5 Furs. Str. 074 Flaxlev Green 5y 9.00 Mining Kongsi. .R. van B'kelen Golden Serenade 5y 8.12
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  • 128 14 'SARA' TO GET CEYLON ARMY TO PLAY HERE THE Ceylon Commissioner in Malaya, Mr. M. Saravanamuttu, said before he left for Colombo yesterday that he hoped to persuade the Ceylon Array to play in the Colony some time in the middle of this month. Vlr. Saravanamuttu is making the arrangements
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  • 207 14 WEIGHTS for five races on Jan. 18. second day of the Perak Turf Club January Meeting, are: Horses Cl. 4 Div. 3—5 Furs. Str. Producer 9.00 Wild Fire 8.13 Glittering 8.12 Cyrene 8.10 Dapple Grey 8.09 Bold Dragoon 8.08 Stream Song 8.07 Satellite 8.07 Timor
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  • 420 14  -  BILL FUNK Yes Or N0... T0 SOSC 'Lottery 9 Plan! Colony Games Fund Depends On The Financial Secretary By APPROVAL of the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council's application for the private lottery, submitted during the second week of December to Government, will principally depend on Singapore's
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  • 165 14 THE SINGAPORE Hockey Association are determined to make amends for an unsuccessful season when they meet Selangor and Negri Sembilan in next weekend's triangular tournament in the City. Already, they have had three days' intensified training and the Association intends to sharpen the team up
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    78 14 r^ r^ A. BRAZIER of Ipoh (right), $4,000 top frixe winner ot the recent Shell Motor Roily, crocks o joke which his fiancee, Miss Ton Geok Peng, heartily enjoys. On the left, is P. H. Stewort, B rosier'* navigator at the roily This Standard picture by Lee Thong Choon was
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  • 120 14 THE Singapore Badminton Association Management Committee's contribution of $110, in addition to various donations by badminton parties and individuals during the month cf December. have swelled the Junior Tour Fund to $2,430 at the close of the year 1955. The following are donations for
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  • 49 14 MADRAS, Jan. 6 (Reuter)— India's opening pair P. Roy and V. S. Mankad batted throughout the first day of the fifth and final Test against New Zealand here today to finish with a score of 234 for no wicket. Mankad is 109 and Roy 114.
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  • 49 14 A BOARD of Control has been appointed by the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council at its meeting held at Garden Club on Wednesday. The board's functions are to set up standards and recommend competitors for the Olympic Games for the approval of the Council.
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  • 56 14 BRISBANE. Jan. 6 (ReutersLewis Hoad is seeded number one over title-holder Ken Rosewall in the Australian lawn tennis championships which open here on January 20. Hoad beat Rosewall last year in the New South Wales singles final and also won the Victorian title. Miss Sheila Armstrong
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  • 129 14 THE SINGAPORE Latiff Wanderers beat Malacca's Banda Kaba Malays 2—o in the Malay triangular hockey match on the Padang yesterday. Constructive hockey was displayed fcy both sides before Latiff Wanderers opened the score through S. Mansoor off a penalty bully. The Malacca Malays improved considerably in
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  • 71 14 INDIAN Brotherhood Soccentes beat Rajaji 3-2 at Fairer Park yesterday to enter the semi-final of the Tamil Festival soccer tournament. Soccerites will meet Indian Gymkhana on Monday and the winners of this match will meet Indian Recreation Club in the final to be played at Jalan
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  • 131 14 SINGAPORE Women's Hockey Association will hold this season's first committee meeting some time next week to name a selection committee to pick the Colony team to play in the pentangular women s hockey tournament to be held in Kuala Lumpur ou Feb. 24,
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  • 32 14 SEREMBAX. Fri. Malacca has withdrawn from the triangular hockey tournament be-^ tween Selangor and Negri Sembilan at Seremban today. Selangor and Negri will meet on Sunday as scheduled.
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  • 42 14 THE following team has been selected to play for the SJRFC aginst REME at Johore Bahru today at 5 p.m.:Whayman, Emery, MahafTy, Roberts, Stevenson, Poyntz, Graham, Syratt, Marshall, Chalmers, Giles. Credland, Scharenguival, Adamson, Yee Peng Sung. Reserves: Willis Swain, Shields.
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  • 66 14 JOHANNESBURG. Jan 6 ißeuter) Jan Barnard. S i African Marathon chant] was voted distance runner 1955 today by the Mar.-.: n Runners Club here. Apart from winning I e Marathon. Barnard beat nal I track records at two, three t *nd ten miles and was
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  • 52 14 ADMINISTRATIVE V. I held to a 1-1 draw by Eng ing Wing in an tntc Hockey final match played RA.F Seletar yesterday. There was no score in s first-half. Major Haxell opened the score for Administrative Wing Pereira equalised for Engineering Wing. The match will be r r
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  • 53 14 THE team to represent B Association in a friend hockey match against the B:i'.:to be played at Fairer Pa: W day will be selected fro Sardara Singh M Singh Serwan Sine!., Singh Anoop Sine:-. Dhial Singh. Harbhajan Smsh. Baidiaraj Singh, Swaran g**» Pritam Singh Darshan Satiner Singh, Jasbir
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    • 109 14 RUGBY S.C.C. Ist XV vs. Army at S.C.C; R.A.A.F.-l Squadron vs. Keat Hong at R.A.F.. Tengah; R.N.Z.A.F.-14 Squadron vs. R.A.F., Changi at R.N.Z.A.F.; The Blacks vs. R.A.F., Changi .at Changi; R.A.F., "Saracens" vs. R.A.S.C. at R.A.S.C; Police Sports Association vs. Suigapore Eng. Regt. at S.E.R. SOCCER TIGER CUP GROUP "A":
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