Singapore Standard, 28 January 1956

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  • 32 1 Singapore Standard EEEagjß-s*~ STANDARD ***** (5 lineiT POLICE 2400 *r ft m sl FIRE BRICADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 2811 2414 Vol. VI. No. 205 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1956 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 314 1 Ris'.. .sj Flood Waters Pose New Threat To Malaya Rail, Road And Air Traffic Hit KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Rising flood waters caused by heavy overnight monsoon rains cut rail and road communications between Johore and the rest of Malaya today. Typical rough monsoon weather also forced
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  • 466 1  -  Peter Kum By Stop All Anti-Red Speeches KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A top secret directive is to be sent to all Alliance loaders, especially Cabinet Ministers, asking them not to make anti-Communist speeches or attend public propaganda meetings after the withdrawal of the amnesty offer
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  • 181 1 Teachers' Seven-Yr. (H)itch Ends SINGAPORE TEACHERS' seven year (h)itch is over. The Education Ministry ruled yesterday that there was no "essential objection" to government's recognition of Normal Training as the basic minimum qualification for entry into the Unified Education Service. The 2,000 Normal Trained teachers began their fight for recognition
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  • 68 1 SYDNEY. Jan. 27 (Reuter) —The Federal Arbitration Court here today declared Illegal the strike by 24,000 Australian dockworkers. Fines of up to A£soo can noft' be imposed on the striking dockers for every day the strike continue for the next 12 months. The court acted on an
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  • 88 1 RESIDENTS of woodenhcuses are fighting for a repeal of an order compelling them to report repairs to their houses to the authorities and landords. At its annual general meetins recently, the Singapore Wooden-House Dwellers' Association, pointed out that this ruling enabled landlords to take advantage of
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  • 26 1 AT LEAST Jive French Foreign Legionaires. all Germans, dived fully clothed into sea from the French troopship Pasteur yesterday after she left Durban. Reuter
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  • 117 1 MEKONG DAM PROJECT WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (Reuter) The United States is considering recommendations for a major dam project on the Mekong River in South-east Asia, Mr. John Hollister, Director of the United States Foreign Aid Programme announced yesterday. Mr. Hollister said that the project through irrigation and power facilities would
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  • 124 1 HONGKONG, Jan. 27, (Reuter)—A Royal Air Force Sunderland flying boat today directed rescue to the 2,315--ton Danish freighter Bintang, which ran hard on to a reef in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea early this morning. The Hongkong based Sunderland radioed that the crew
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  • 79 1 LONDON, Jan. 27 (Reuter) The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, told the House of Commons yesterday that the Governor of Cyprus, Sir John Harding, who has returned to his post was arranging a further meeting with Archbishop Makarios. "I can assure the House that Sir John with
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  • 34 1 A NEUTRAL nations' truce inspector received "moderate burns" when a U.S. Army Hl9 helicopter carrying seven people made an emergency landing in a street in Pusan yesterday morning burned down completely. Reuter
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  • 22 1 EAST Germany signed the Warsaw Treaty along with Russia. Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland. Rumania and Czechoslovakia in Prague yesterday. Reuter
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  • 48 1 CHIA HONG. 53, an unemployed labourer, was found hanging from a beam in an attap house in Bukit Timah Road, Singapore yesterday at 10.30 a.m. An hour earlier Police recovered the body of an unknown male Chinese which was floating in the sea off the Esplanade.
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  • 22 1 THE Finnish, Government resigned yesterdav following the resignation of six ministers in protest against an increase in food prices.— Reuter
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  • 136 1 RANGOON. Jan. 27. (UP)— Each day over the Burmese radio network glides the soft crooning voice of Burma's leading film star May Shin, the "nightingale of the air." "Comrade," she pleads soothingly, "you have only 95 days to make up your mind to return to
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  • 109 1 Bulganin Proposes Soviet -US Pact NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (Reuter)— The New York Times reported today that the Soviet Union had offered to discuss the question of a non-aggression pact with the United States, according to diplomatic sources. The newspaper, in a Washington dispatch- added, "This was said to be
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  • 90 1 LONDON, Jan. 27 (AP) The War Office last night, reported Saudi Arabian troop movements near Akaba, only port of supply for British Forces in Jordan. The Saudi warriors were reported massing at Tebuk, 100 miles southeast of Akaba with 15 armoured cars and 12 field guns.
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  • 49 1 KATMANDU, Nepal, Jan. 27, (Reuter) King Mahendra today ended a period of direct rule, which had lasted nearly 12 months, by handing over to a seven-man cabinet. He formally swore in the cabinet headed by Tanka Prasad. leader of Praja Parishad. Nepal's oldest political party.
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  • 34 1 THE Hongkong police announced stringent new driving licence regulations yesterday to cut down the toll of accidents in the colony where there are already 136 drivers to every square mile. Reuter
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  • 50 1 photo. THIS portrait of the Queen by Cecil Beaton was especially made in connection with her visit to Nigeria. It was taken in the blue drawing room of Buckingham Palace. London. The Queen left England on the first leg of her journey to Nigeria yesterday. AP
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  • 193 1 HONGKONG, Jan. 27 (Reuter) The Thai Foreign Minister, Prince Wan VVaithayakon, said today he would propose "closer economic cooperation" among: SEATO countries at the next meeting in Karachi in March. Prince Wan who was speaking to reporters during a brief stopover from Tokyo after discussions
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  • 24 1 ARRANGEMENTS are being discussed for a meeting in the near future between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan on Kashmir. Reuter
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  • 149 2 Five To Draw Up Plan For Merdeka LONDON, Jan. 27 (Reuter) The independent commission of Commonwealth experts who will draw up the constitution for the new Federation of Malaya will probably number five and come from India, Ceylon, Canada and Australia, a Malayan independence conference source said here last night.
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  • 57 2 KUALA LUMFUR, Fri.— The Federation Government today gazetted on order closing the Yoong Yew Loong Saw Mill at Simpanc Pertang area in Negri Sembilan. The order had become necessary because there was reasonable cause to believe that it was being used by servants and agents "in further.
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  • 31 2 INDIA'S Commissioner for Malaya, Mr. R.K. Tandon chats with Sikh Police officers at Singapore's Naval Base while his wife looks on during Indian Republic Day celebrations on Thursday.
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  • 239 2 THE ex-general secretary of the Malayan Nurses Union severely criticized the functions of the Union and the behaviour of its president at a recent executive meeting held in Malacca. In a memorandum addressed to the president and all executive members of union branches in the Federation,
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  • 133 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fn. An army court martial today reduced a murder charge against a Gurkha rifleman Kalibahadur Limbu and sentenced him to ten years' imprisionment plus discharge from the army for manslaughter- u Kalibahadur. a 20-year-old soldier with eight years service, was originally charged
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  • 37 2 WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (AP) The State Department announced on Thursday it will ask Congress for authority to abandon special right 5 which the United States has exercised in Morocco for 168 years.
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  • 165 2 TELOK ANSON, Fri. Less than tnree days after his surrender, a terrorist, Choong Sin Nam was reunited with his family here this morning. His aged father and mother, his wife, two sons and two daughters arrived by car from Sungkai, to meet him Madam Liew
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  • 335 2 Nationalize Airways —Union Urges WE MUST TRAIN MEN TO RUN THE SERVICES' THE Malayan Airways Local Employees' Union yesterday urged the Governments of the Federation and Singapore to nationalize Malayan Airways immediately. In a memorandum submitted to both Governments and the elected representatives, the Union stated that only by nationalization
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  • 94 2 Union Of Printers' Meet Today MALACCA. Fri.— The National Union of Printing Workers will hold a delegates conference tomorrow at Kubu Road to discuss amendments to its rules and raise funris for the Ku«ia Lumpur Pudu Road fire victims. The conference will also consider the request made by the Selangor
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  • 77 2 Chinese Villagers Reunion SUNGEI BAKAP, Fri. Chinese residents living in Nibong Tebal will hold a thanksgiving reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve. "After all these years, the curfew has at last been lifted," a resident said. Mr. H. McG. Heiwitt. District Officer. Nibong Tebal, said the Emergency situation in
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  • 131 2 SINGAPORE'S Council of Ministers suffered a second casualty when Inche Hamid bin Haji Jumat was admitted to the General Hospital for an operation on Thursday. Inche Jumat, Minister for Local Government. Lands and Housing, is expected to be in hospital for a fortnight. Although Inche Jumat
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  • 185 3  -  CHRISTINE DIEMER By EXTRA police, to keep traffic in order and to hold the crowds back, were on duty from early yesterday morning in and around Chettiar Temple, Tank Road, Singapore, when parades', both large and small, of Tamil Hindus gathered to celebrate Thaipusam. Thousands
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  • 36 3 BONN. Germany Jan 27, (AP) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's strongest allies on Thursday threatened to wreck his coalition government and jean the Anti- Rearmament S-vialists to seize political control of five key states.
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  • 293 3 HOLIDAY SPIRIT IN K.L KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Several fights broke out at the Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves here. And pickpockets thieved on the festival grounds. Many children were reported :'lost" by mothers. The Police found most of the I**1 Presently the rest found their
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  • 53 3 THE charge of an enraged bull in Penang on Thursday is regarded here as a bad omen. Indians recalled the Thaipusam of 1941 when an ornament of the god's chariot toppled near where the bull this year made bis charge. That year, Indians here seriously recalled,
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  • 73 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Employers in Malaya were today asked by the Income Tax Department to send immediately returns of all mployers whose remuneration exceeded $3,000 last year. A notice gazetted today reminded the employers that the classes of persons in respect of whom the return was required
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  • 106 3 PENANG. Fri. Various housing schemes and potential housing sites in the Municipal and the Rural Board areas here were visited by the Minister for Local Government, Housing and Town Planning, Enche Sulaiman bin Dato Abdul Rahman. He inspected the Malay Kampong area on the
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  • 271 3 IPOH. Fri.— Negotiation between the Malayan Mining Employers' Association and the Employees' Union, representing 18.000 workers on European-owned dredges and mines, ended abruptly today with the walking out of the union's delegates, who charged the employers with "exploitation" and "lack of goodwill." Inche
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  • 19 3 SIX members of the Indian Parliament are arriving in Singapore todav in the ship, State of Madras.
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  • 224 3 PENANG, Fri.— lndians in Malaya stand dedicated to the progress, prosperity and greatness of Malaya, said Mr. Gurchan Singh, president of the Penang Indian Association on the occasion of Indian Independence Day celebration here last night. Addressing a large gatherIng, which included the Resident
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  • 142 3 Standard Shipping Reporter TWO new 8,000 ton cargo ships for the P O Steam Navigation Company's Far East service are being completed in the shipyards of John Brown, Clydebank. They are to be named the Salsette and Salmara. The Salsette will be
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  • 267 3 No Unrest At Dockyard, Says Union THE Singapore Naval Base Labour Union yesterday denied there had been continued labour unrest at the dockyard. The denial was contained in a statement in reply to a warning by the Flag Officer, Malayan Area, that the Admiralty could not guarantee full employment at
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  • 100 3 HE SURVIVED CRASH THEN FELL AND DIED IPOH. Fri. A PWD Overseer, Mr. S. V. Govindasamy, 42. who survived a road accident, died, later in the evening following a fall in his house in Jalan Istana yesterday. Mr. Govindasamy was busily travelling about the town making arrangements for today's Thaipusam
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  • Article, Illustration
    33 3 Standard photo by Stripper Rose Chan, who will perform hula dances at the Kuala Lumpur Town Hall on Feb. 2 in aid of Kuala Lumpur District (Voluntary) Welfare Committee Fund Yong Peng Seong
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  • 64 3 PENANG. Fri.— Members ol the amnesty committee ol South Kedah will visit various villages and estates in a. few days' time to remind the people of the amnesty deadline. Banners in four languages will be hung at conspicuous points in villages and estates Alliance leaders including State
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  • 73 3 Babe-ln-Arm Killed In Road Crash IPOH, Fri.— An infant boy, M. Ganasegram was killed yesterday when he fell from his mother's aims to the floor ol a military truck in which he and his parents were travelling The father, Munusamy, a" attendant of the Central Mental Hospital, Tanjong Rambutaa, and
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  • 56 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Federation Court of Appeal today confirmed the convictin and death sentence on 17-year old Abdullah bin Awang Bongkok for the murder of a fellow-villager. The Raub Assizes convicted Abdullah and a juvenile for the murder of Hamzah bin Mat Dilu at Telok Kertam.
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  • 59 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court Registrar, Mr. Teja Singh ha.s been missing since early this month, it was reported to the police today. H e wa s due to return fron* leave on Jan. 21. Mr. Singh did not reach Lahat. near Ipoh, where be
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  • 33 4 FIVE thugs, one armed with a pistol, entered a house in Tanjong Pagar Road at 4 a.m. yesterday morning and robbed the occupants of $1,500 in cash and $287 in jewellery.
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  • 293 4 The Most Proficient In 1955 THE most proficient flying unit in the Royal Australian Air Force during the year 1955 is No. 1 (Bomber) Squadron. Yesterday, at a simple but colourful ceremony, the Commander-in-Chiet, Far East Air Force, Air Marshal Sir Francis
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  • 46 4 THE Commander in Chief, Far East Air Force, Air Marshal Sir Francis Fressangcs, taking: the salute during a march past by No. 1 (Bomber) Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Tengah, after presenting the Duke of Gloucester Cup to the Squadron. photo. Standard
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  • 266 4 Women Guests Drop Their Handbags And Run For Cover VI Ps Leave Republic Day r\ I All Reception In A Hurry KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Hosts jostled themselves into choirs and guests, including consular representatives stood about in apparent embarrassment, as pandemonium broke loose at an Indian Republic
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  • 104 4 WARRANT Officer lan Gee, 29, one of the members of the crew of No. 1 (Bomber) Squadron, Royal 2 Australian Air Force, Tengah, has been promoted Flying 2 2 Officer. News of his promotion was received from Australia half-an-hour after his unit was awarded
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  • 222 4 NEXT THING I WAS IN A HOSPITAL' IPOH, Fri.— A Scots Fusiliers' sergeant, David James Brook, was knifed and punched on New Year's Eve when he went to assist a colleague who was lying inside the joget stand at the Jubilee Amusement Park, Magistrate
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  • 105 4 Art Society Presents A Mixed Programme THE Indian Fine Arts Society. Singapore, celebrates St. Thyagaraja's Day at Ramakrishna Mission today and tomorrow between 4 and 7 p.m. daily. This annual celebration commemorates one of India's greatest composers of Carnatic music. St. Thyagaraja has to his credit 10,000 compositions. In keeping
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  • 37 4 A MALAY labourer, Alias bin Busuh Talib 33. fell to his death while cutting off branches from a rubber tree in Langkap New Village. Telok Anson on Wednesday. He fell from 25 feet and died
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  • 30 4 A PATROL of the Ist Battalion the Queen's Royal Regiment, opened fire on a lone terrorist they contacted in the Rengam area of Johore yesterday. The terrorist escaped.
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  • 159 4 Seamen's Strike Averted THE timely intervention of the Singapore Seamen's Bureau has averted a threatened strike by 700 members of the Malayasian Marines' Union, over the dismissal of ten tally clerks employed by the Anglo-Dutch Lighterage Company. The men were sacked for alleged inefficieny, but tha Union maintained that the
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  • Article, Illustration
    99 5 BRIGHTER swim caps was the theme of a miniature aqua show put on by Kleinerts of London. Gaily printed 1 and fabulously flower- ed hats were shown and even the children were catered for. Eight year old Kay Crutchley (left) got into the swim wearing 'Perky' a
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  • Article, Illustration
    18 5 Photo) Mannequins Colette (left) and Cori display tico versions of a cashmere beach ensemble presented by Tiktiner. A.P.
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  • 526 5 rpWO HUNDRED DOLJl LARS for one shirt! Yes. it's enough to make anyone gasp even a millionaire. But that's the price a U.S. Air Force N.C.O. paid in Glasgow recently. The shirt was made of ocelot fur fabric and made by debonair Bob F'.etcher, who designs
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  • 312 5 Now It Is The Streak THE London fashion merry-go-round. will soon switch to Italy and then later to Paris. The report, from London says: JOHN CAVANAGH threatened us with The Streak a sleeveless, wide-shouldered dress, loose over the bust and waist, snugly fitting on the hips with a narrow, tapering
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  • 201 5 TF the dat-tat-tat of the postman's knock also heralds a sudden smell of roses, you can perk up. It is probably a love letter. Perfumed notepapcr is all the rage today. You can read the message with your eyes shut, and without even bothering to open the
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 499 6 QINCE the latter part of 1955, the two leading Communist countries have been actively stepping up their trade bids. Under cover of goodwill and friendship missions, the Soviet and Chinese have made much headway in establishing tiade relations with several western and eastern nations who have been
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    • 386 6 TTTHEN the Federation Government opened the Teachers Training College at Kota Bahru. many Malayans wondered if that was the iderl spot for training teachers for English schools. They then argued that the East Coast had been neglected for decades so it should have one of the three regional
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 299 6 Sir: With drawn sword and with my last breath I would defend Tunku Abdul Rahman's right to speak; but on reading your issue (Jan. 24) reporting the obnoxious unprincipled political statement by the Tunku I defy such right. "We would." said the Tunku. "welcome Singapore as
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    • 146 6 One View of Socialism Sir: Our Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall. has always emphasized he is a Socialist and takes pride in Socialism I would advise Mr. Marshall now that he is sick and has plenty of time for reading to take a good look at the January issue of
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    • 142 6 Sir: Immediately after the forming of the Singapore Coalition Government, the Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall, created a "Meet the People" session to give help, assistance and to hear of any grouse. Whereas immediately after the formation of the Federation Alliance Government the Alliance Chief Minister. Tunku
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  • Article, Illustration
    1287 6  -  Michael Davie from THREE MEW MJV A LEAKY BOAT 4 LONDON NOTHING in British politics for some time has been so compulsively watchable as the shifts of power and reputation among the Eden Butler Macmillan triumvirate. Sir Anthony will arrive in Washington on Monday with his feathers still
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  • 1093 6 The NEWSas it stickes me! IVO APOLOGY is- needed for doing a flashback to Malaya House, London, to a week ago tomorrow when the Federal Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, allowed his tongue to get the better of commonsense and loyalty to friends and make a scathing attack on Singapore
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  • Article, Illustration
    20 6 "I like the style of this hat, but it hurts my head every time I stick the pin s in...!"
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  • 406 7 She'll Have Enough To Keep Her Busy As A Princess HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 27 (AP).-Grace Kelly's marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco will mean the end of her acting career, the Prince said on Thursday He received the Holly- J# tr od press in the
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  • Newsbriefs
    • 33 7 THE U.S. State Department announced yesterday that 12 nations, including Russia will meet in Washington on Feb. 27 to discuss an agreement fox setting up an international a:omic energy agency UP
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    • 32 7 THE sensational mass circu|gtioo afternoon newspaper B: ci/eitung asserted in Bonn yesterday that Hitler's skull in a glass case in t]g ;ate Josef Stalin's private museum in the Kremlin. UP
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    • 29 7 THE Federal Parole Board TP^terday turned down the io-month-old request of Macnoes Mornard. confessed slayf of Leon Trotsky, for his release from prison in Mexico City. UP
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    • 39 7 THE blue and white Finnish g was hoisted at dawn on .rsciay over Porkkala, the f -r:rer Soviet naval base, west V Helsinki, to symbolise its tun to Finland after 11 •ears of Russian rule Reuter
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    • 18 7 THE new "National Peop'.e s Army of East Germany has }ust completed its first atomic manoeuvres. AP
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    • 28 7 PRESIDENT Eisenhower asked Congress on Thursday la vote $126,525,000 for basic research to penetrate the "dark mystery" of cancer and to combat other leading .killers. AP
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    • 31 7 DR. PAUL Clemente Huerta. 42-year-Old Guayaquil. Ecuador, lawyer, on Thursday was named the presidential candidate of the National Denver a tic Front. Elections will be held in June. AP
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    • 21 7 GOLD COAST. Premier Kwarne Nurumah said yestercav that 1956 will be the year o; independence for the Gold AP
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  • 96 7 A Loaf Of Milk, Madam MOSCOW, Jan. 27 (UP) i There are no milk bottles toi wash in Yakutsk, a Siberian! citv 3,000 miles east north-' east of Moscow. < The temperature is so lov^ they are selling milk by the 1 yard. In fact, according to the weekly magazine
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  • 135 7 WOULD a man, who has climbed to the top in the business of fighting wars, make a hit when he turns to some of the pleasanter peacetime pursuits? This poser was answered last week at the annual Officers' Diningin night at SHAPE near Paris. General officers of
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  • 147 7 Mr. Bevan Makes A New Bid For Power LONDON. Jan. 27, (Reuter).—Mr. Aneurin Bevan, the Labour Party's turbulent leftwinger made a fresh bid for power last night by standing for the Party's deputy leadership in Parliament. When nominations closed in the post ballot among Labour M.P.s there were only two
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  • 96 7 Nude Drew The Line At Her Toes PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania. Jan. 27 (AP) Vincent Nesbert, a dean at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, said yesterday, he fired a reluctant model who, while posing in the nude, insisted on wearing her sandals "When I told her the students were there to paint
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  • 426 7 DOCKER OPENS CUT TAX DRIVE STOP THIS DAMN SQUANDERMANIA LONDON, Jan. 27, (Reuter).— The head of the luxury Daimler car concern, 60-year-old Sir Bernard Docker, yesterday launched a one-man "cut taxes" campaign. His immediate target: "A one per cent cut in Britain's next budget, which is only a few weeks
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  • 245 7 LONDON, Jan. 27, (Reuter) A seven per cent wage rise for about 19,000 workers on London's underground rail system was an- nounced last night. Union leaders also accepted proposals by the London Transport Executive for improved leave and pay arrangements for weekend
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  • 289 7 Reds Toast India In Tomato And Orange Juice PRAGUE, Jan. 27 (Reuter). Mr. V. M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, land Marshal G. K. Zhukov, Soviet Defence Minister [drank informal toasts in orange and tomato juice here last night to the pro[sperity of the Indian government and people. They were guests
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  • 21 7 INSURGENTS bombed and attacked an armoured army escort train near Thrrawaw about 100 miles from Rangoon on Thursday. U.P.
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  • 108 7 HE CAN COUNT OK ME, SAYS M. FRANCE PARIS. Jan. 27 (Reuter). —The Radical ex-Premier Mendes France today pledged his "complete co-operation" with the Government which the Socialist leader M. Guy Mollet is trying to form. "We will unhesitantly contribute our complete cooperation to the Guy Mollet Government. "M. Mendes
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  • 44 7 IT IS one year ago on Friday since Serge Rubinstein was murdered and Police are still working in shifts trying to find the "person or persons unknown" who strangled the international playboy and financier in his own New York apartment. AP
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  • 209 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 27 (UP) A new type of steam room is scheduled to go into business here next week. Thi s one will be a place where people let off steam instead of soaking it up. Customers will be allowed to smash
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  • 20 7 M. GUY MOLLET. the new French Socialist Premier*desigrnate, is one of France's toughest politicians and a confirmed anti-Communist.
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    • 26 7 SINCE 1815, THE SWISS WATCH FOR ALL CLIMATES K AUTOMATIC oil leoding J(ili!!H^i§?^ss|fi^^*"^^^^^^ WATERPROOF G E N EVE FAVRE-LEUBA WATCH CO., LTD. 1«-f BATTI»Y RD.. SINGAPORE
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    • 809 8 ANGLO-FRENCH TRADING CO., LTD. Tel: *****/6, *****/4 132/6 Robinson Rov»d. THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE NORTH AMERICAN SERVICE To Halifax, Boston, New York. Baltimore, Philadelphia ft Cult Port*. Spore P. S ham Penang POLYOORUS .>. 8/14 Feb IS/1? Feb 18 Feb POLYPHEMUS 19/25 Mai 26 Mar 27/28 Mar Carriers option to
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    • 1076 8 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD <Sc CO., LTD. Tel: 2411 (18 lines) (Incorporated in Singapore) (12 lines) S^« THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE 0 Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL, GLASCOW, LONDON CONTINENT Singapore Due Sails P. S'ham Penang Antilochus for Liverpool G Clasgow
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    • 757 8 MITSUI |S|?| LINE S pore P. S'hom Penang FOR JAPAN from India Azumason Maru for Yokohama Kobe, Mojf 29 Jan FOR JAPAN from Continent Akib a a n > Maru *or Yokohamc. Kobe Nogoya, vio Hongkong Sn Port Awob a s a n A»i ar w for Yokohama, Kobe, Nagoya
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    • 812 8 EAST ASIATIC LINES SAILINGS TO CONTINENT/ SCANDINAVIA For Aden, Port Said, Genoa, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Osio. S'pore P.S'hom Penong x) 'LALANDIA" 9/9 Feb xx) "INDIA" 28Feb/2Mor xxx) "SELANDIA" 6/8 Mor 9/9 Mar 10 11 Mor "SIENA" 10/11 Mar 12/12 Mar 13/14 Mar x) Cells Londpp (Passengers only),
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  • 465 9  - Stanvac To Spend US$25M For Higher Grade Of Oil EDIN PETERS By THE oil industry is highly competitive on a world-wide basis. Standard-Vacuum has not only to keep supplying the demand for the double powered Mobilgas, diesel fuel, aviation gasoline, kerosine oil, heavy fuel and wax but to turn out
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  • 40 9 NEW YORK, Jan. 26, (UP). Dow-Jones Closing Averages: STOCKS: 30 Industrials 466.82. 20 Rails 155.80. 15 Utilities 63.35. 65 Stocks 615.86. BONDS: 40 Bonds 98.87. The Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index (1924-26 average equals 100) closed at *****.
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  • 108 9 CONTINUING its search for oil in the U.K. during 1955, an exploration company was rewarded by the discovery of a new oilfield in the East Midlands and of further producing wells at existing fields. The new discovery was at Egmanton, six miles from the
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  • 32 9 COMMUNIST China will buy rice from Burma under a contract signed in Rangoon and based on the 1955-56 protocol for the exchange of Burmese rice for Chinese export commodities.
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  • 462 9 WASHINGTON, Jan. 27:— It is not exactly surprising to find President Eisenhower reporting, in his annual economic message to Congress, that the United States achieved new and unprecedented levels of activity last year. Nor was it entirely unexpected to find him predicting a continued strong economic
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  • 94 9 TELOK ANSON, Fri.— Bagan Datoh, one of the largest copra producing areas in Malaya, will have an added industry coir fibre production if there is a ready market to absorb the material. The Bagan Datoh Mukim Council have decided to approach the RID A (Rural and
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  • 95 9 THE Canadian textile industry showed modest improvement during 1955 but the danger of the Canadian market being flooded by foreign producers still existed, Mr. Roy Crabtree, president of the Cotton Institute of Canada, said in Montreal. Mr. Crabtree told the Institute's annual meeting that "some optimism"
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  • 367 9 Fi nance And Commerce By ARNOLD C. BRACKMAN, Standard's New York Bureau Chief AMERICAN leaders in the rubber industry are voicing considerable confidence and optimism in the 1956 rubber outlook. Recently the Journal of Commerce reported on a survey made among industry executives. The
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  • 174 9 WHEN the new Vickers Viscount 802 fleet goe s into service with British European Airways, the aircraft will be equipped with a "new look" seat designed to bring greater comfort and increased safety to air travel. A product of Short Brothers Harland, Ltd.. the
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  • 304 9 Japan Is Building More Ships JAPAN is building a greater tonnage of ships than any country outside Britain for which figures are available, according to statistics published in London yesterday. The statistics, comprising the quarterly returns of Lloyd's Register, show that at the end of 1955 Japan had under construction
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  • 206 9 THE Singapore branch of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance fSociety Limited has started a scheme to train its employees to acquire further technical training in Britain. The Manager of the Society in Singapore Mr KB. Lax, told The Standard yesterday that this scheme is in
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    83 9 THE chairman of AngloFrench Bendixsens Ltd., Mr. S. W. Topsom leaves toda u for Europe on long leave. Mr, Topsom, who was chairman of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association last jear tcill spend his holiday, ou the Continent and Britain before returning to Singapore via
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  • 170 9 PROSPECTS lor establishing factories in Brazil appear to be good. The Brazilian Government welcomes labour and foreign capital. This was told to The Standard yesterday by Hongkong tobacco businessman Mr. John Tong. 26, who is stopping in Singapore on his way to Brazil.
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  • 18 9 STORE, Fri. The price of tin on the local market today was $386 per picul (Down
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  • 57 9 MORE than 2,225.000 passengers were carried by British European Airways during 1955 Viscount and Elizabethan airliners averaged 2.200 flying hours an aircraft. There was a traffic increase of 23% and a total revenue of more than £20 million. Freight increased by 22% from 5.692,000 ton miles in
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  • 125 9 PLANE TO FLY AT 4 TIMES SPEED OF SOUND A BRITISH aircraft company is to undertake research on an aircraft to reach speeds as high as four times that of sound. A.V. Roe and Co., a subsidiary of the Hawker Siddeley Group, announced in London yesterday, that a new wind
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    • 618 9 NOTICES CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDERS ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT: (a) Supply of no —3 x 80 w Fluorescent 6-reet Lighting Lanterns; (b) 500 Time Switches: (c) 175--400W HPMV Medium Angle Beam Street Lighting Lanterns, etc.. (d) supply of (1) 660 AC. House Service Polyphase Meters, and (11) 120 Metering Current Transformers:
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    • 335 9 NOTICES KUALA LUMPUR MUNICIPAL COUNCIL TENDER NOTICE TENDERS are invited for the supply of Block and Crushed Road Stone either delivered to various sites within the Municipality or into Municipal lorries. Forms of tender and further particulars may be obtained from the Municipal Engineer during office hours. Tenders must reach
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  • 929 10  - Music notes by Quairusis VICTOR DOGGETT NEW RECORDS (Reviewed by i pOR years Singapore has been dithering over the question of acquiring a really firstclass concert grand piano. While we continue to dither Kuala Lumpur has started a Piano Fund which now stands at $8,000. The Arts Council, which is
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  • 136 10 "The experienced j player's not likely to be asked to plav such a very small part that I there might be a rej petition of a very sad story connected with a young lady's first apI pearance at a West End theatre. She had a very short scene,
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  • 48 10 •One of the constant surprises and pleasures of London is that no I matter where you live you are never far from an open space, with green grass and great refreshing trees." Paul Jennings, the wellknown journalist, broadcasting in the BBC's "London Calling Asia" programme.
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    737 10 London Circus This is the first of a new weekly series by JOHN HALKIN reviewing current 'stage' activities in London. TT is often said that an author's real reputation is never really established until after he is dead. We have had one example recently in Ugo Betti, the Italian judge
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    • 322 10 CATHAY ORGANISATION ATTRACTIONS MOW SHOWING f* 1 -f II AUc?|b 11a.m.- 1.45- 4.15 -6.45 |jj| |ff AT JSand 9.30p.m. *i«cowpm<wna> tit. 3340_e IT EXPOSES A NIGHTMARE WORLD OF BRUTALITY, CORRUPTION AND VICE! ;?S'HtluMANi fci^S GARY MERRILL JAN STERLING ITS RIGH r NAME! "^^hir AN AU fO AUTIMS ,UUV\HUUVVVWUV« Ji^ l-..
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    • 254 10 SHAW BROTHERS ORGANISATION ATTRACTIONS TEL: ***** 6.30 9.30 J J BIGGEST OF THEM ALL! OUT OF OUR A SSST viaoß mature 1 1 GUY MADRON S I umtorgctwi v ROBERT PRESTON f MOTION A DirniDß \Jft V-INEMAS»COPC />. v Bc^ A JAMES WHITMORE ANNE BANCROFT^, wussoj.cou.ins MIDNIGHT TONIGHT fik^i FIRST
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 339 10 STANDARD'S Crossword Puzzle PI IJFS 24 Stops near if you change v.l«jlo position (9) ACROSS 26. Such days are of youth and 1. Dyed in the wool? No. in a inexperience <5) whir! (4) 28 R°ttenston e in N. Africa? 3. Like the ship of the desert i 7) (5,
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    769 11  -  JACK PEART BRITAIN MUST GO CAP IN HAND FOR MONEY TO SEND GAMES TEAM By LONDON, Frl Seventy-five thousand pounds one top dividend on the Treble Chance Pool is the target set by the British Olympic Association Appeals Com m ittee to send the cream of our sporting
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  • 217 11 LEE CHENG LEONG won the first annual Walking- Race organized by the Dunlop Sports Club held yesterday when he covered the distance of approximately eight miles in the time of one hour 29 minutes. Trailing him at the finish were Teh Chee Seng and Koh Chiak
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  • 42 11 CHINESE Athletics will hold their 18th Anniversary and annual general meeting at Hua Yue Villa. East Coast Road on Sunday 29 at 11 a.m. Members are requested to assemble at 62 Bras Basah Road at 8.30 a.m. sharp for transport.
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  • 23 11 MALACCA. Fri. Malacca Chinese Recreation Club will meet St. Francis Association in a billiards match at the SFA Clubhouse on Sunday.
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  • 307 11 TWO knockouts featured the finals of the Royal Air Force, Malaya and Singapore Novices Boxing Championships held at Changi on Friday night. Changi airmen won the championships with nine points from five finalists. Tlie knockouts came in the heavyweight bouts. LAC Davies who was knocked
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    24 11 THE start of the first annual Walking Race, organized by the Dunlop Sports Club yesterday. Some 50 walkers took part in the 8-mile event.
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    • 108 11 KINGS i^fc^ C ntro d a d Operoted by Geneful Amusement, Ltd. TODAY TOMORROW ONLY 4 SHOWS: 1.15, 3.30, 7.00 9.30 f TWWEP^^SymBK'B'eL RENNIE TOHITE at MIDNITE "HALF BREAK JOURNEY" in Cantonese MONDAY Today at 10 a.m. "ANNE OF THE INDIES (Tech.) Tomorrow 9.15 a.m. —"SOUTHSFA WOMAN" 11.15 a.m. —"STRANGE
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    • 60 11 Today 3.00 7.30 p.m. "CHELLAPILLAI" (Tamil) Starring: Savithri K. R. Ramasamv Tomorrow at 10 a.m. "SAMRAT^ (Hindustani)' mMara Last Day 3.00, 7.10 9.15. pjn. "PENAREK BECHA" (Malay) Tomorrow "PANTHER GIRL OF THE CONGO^ (Serial) lI'LIMI'MSI Last Dav 3.00, 7.00 9.15. p.m. "VIOLENT MEN" (Tech) CINEMASCOPE. Tomorrow "RASPUTIN" (French Film in
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    • 252 11 CLASSIFIED ADS ANNOUNCEMENT TRY a "GREEN SPOT' GINPOM. Recipe: One bottle Green Spot "Pomoade" and two fingers Gin. VLIHCLE FOR SALE FORD CONSUL 54 15.6 HP Owner driven, good condition, Good Tyres, 15.000 miles. $3,800/--or nearest offer, please call No 807. Lorong 3, Geylang. FOR SALE AWAIIAN ORCHIDS V. Rothschildiana.
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    • 302 11 SITUATIONS VACANT PENANG PORT COMMISSION Appointment of Assistant Secretary APPLICATIONS "are invited J\ for the appointment of ASSISTANT SECRETARY. Salary Scale $870 x S. JOA 5990 basic per month phis variable cost of living allowance at present between SllO and $225 per month according to jnlary and status. In certain
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 145 11 Ul Abner By Al Capp r-a THEy^Sr ATINV VOKUM VERSUS I WHUTISAHSOHAPPV WI I /a, T tucOP WIL IRF V l^^^l^^v sTCN( »?h^r^ JUley Oop By V.T. Hamlm K'llftTOllJ^-jJ^^^ 50MEOJE JUST>J POOR"" OUESTIOJ JE'J;-* ll if/ 1 tiy THERE JUST SLIP UP BE- LOCK WHAT DEAR \S Vst@(i&! -Wf, AWFUL
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    • 112 11 SINGAPORE RACES First Day, Singapore meeting, at Bukit Timah. SOCCER BREWERIES KAMPONG LEAGUE: Kg. Tanjong Rcvers vs Buona Visia Rangers at F. N. ground at 5.16 p.m. RUGBY North vs South at Jalan Besar Stadium; Naval Base vs Signals at Signals; R.A.A.F. 1 Squadron vs GHQ at GHQ. ATHLETICS Achilles
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  • 1725 12 RACE 1: 2.15 p.m.— Horses Class 3, Div. 4—6 Furs. 1. 072 Court Jewel 4y 9.00 Mr. Chong Swee Loke Donnelly (Unfixed) 2. Bajan 4y 8.13 Mr. R. H. Hardwick Spencer Ali 3. 5 Honey Bird Mate Awning) 4y 8.12 Kwik Stable Allan Manning 4. Balkan Arab
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  • 347 12  - FOUR CHARMERS FOR THE 6FUR. WINDSOR LAD Hobhs Poses A Problem, But VU Pick: Says 'Outside' Challenge From Joe's Tipple TRAINER Ne a I Hobbs has five of his horses running in the Class 3, Div. 1, six-fur-long sprint (Race Five) at Bukit Timah this afternoon and that poses the
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  • 46 12 Rain fell continuously for the past three day's in Singapore and with no likelihood of i m provement in the ueather, the going for today's races will probahlv be heavy. Even if rain keeps off this mornin? the going will at best be soft.
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  • 180 12 Windsor Lad The Pilot Trundle Hill Scrutineer 1 COURT JEWEL. BAJAN PRESIDENT PRESIDENT President Copacabana Violetta Court Jewel Bajari' President Balkan Arab Amusement Park CYNOSURE GRAND RAPIDS GRAND RAPIDS SENANG HATI £i Senang Hati Cynosure Cynosure Grand Rapids Melnik Perfect Pearl Senang Hati Cynosure 3 JUTTING GOLDEN REBUS MARCIANO
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  • 1390 12 Best Bets WINDSOR LAD'S two best bets for today are Four Charmers and Ajit. SCRUTINEER also gives Four Charmers and recommends So What for a double. TRUNDLE HILL says Four Charmers and Flower Queen are too safe bets. THE PILOT'S two best are Satisfaction and
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