Singapore Standard, 30 January 1956

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  • 24 1 Singapore Standard V^^^M^y^-tyy^^ Ifctt P^ vjf "T*^ J f\j J -E. Vol. VI. No. 207 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1956 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 224 1  -  PETER KUM Follow-Up To X.L Shooting By Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. —Investigations on the attempted assassination of Inspector K. Subbiah have uncovered the hideout of a ruthless gang. It was a plush and inno-cent-looking bungalow m Kiang Road, a respectable residential area of Kuala
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  • 22 1 A BUS plunged from a Shikoku island highway into Japan's Inland Sea yesterday, drowning all 10 persons aboard. A.P.
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  • 526 1  -  E. M. RASHEED Mr. Marshall Gets A Mandate Labour Front Backs Mission To London By THE LABOUR FRONT yesterday set the dote for Singapore's independence within the Commonwealth: April, 1957. The General Council of the hront unanimously authorised its delegates going to London m April to seek a
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  • 59 1 THIS aerial picture taken by Standard cameraman Yong Peng Seong from an RAF Valetta over Johore, shows the crew of a Malayan Railways repairs unit working on a line damaged by the floods m South Kluang. It was on this flight, that the Valetta spotted a Security Forces
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  • 29 1 CHINESE Nationalist guerilla units landed at Pingtan, on Haitan Island, on Saturday night and captured one Chinese Communist soldier. The island lies between Quemoy and Matsu. Reuter
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  • 215 1 Queen's Tour Of Nigeria LAGOS, Nigeria, Jan. 29 (Reuter)— Police had to use batons and their fists to quell part of an hysterically excited crowd which broke down a barrier outside Lagos Cathedral today when the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh attended a remembrance service
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  • 143 1 All Traffic Back To Normal KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. All road and rail communications between Johore and the rest of the country were resumed at noon today with the sudden subsidence of flood waters. Police reported that all roads m Johore were now open to traffic with the exception of a
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  • 32 1 AN ATOMIC proving ground worker m Henderson. Nevada, who received an overdose of radiation during a recent test was reported m serious condition yesterday, suffering from a brain clot. U.P.
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  • 20 1 THE Moscow News says Kharkov University's biological institute has card-in-dexed 30,000 centenarians living m the Soviet Union. A.P.
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  • 26 1 A DISASSEMBLED De Havilland Vampire jet trainer for use by Japan's air defence force, arrived m Yokohama. Japan, on Sunday from England. A.P.
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  • 17 1 RADIO Peking said yesterday that its buses have special seats reserved for expectant mothers. U.P.
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  • 36 1 THE British sealer Theron is now about 90 miles from her destination m Vahsel, Bay, on the edge of the Antarctic continent, and pressing on at full speed through a calm sea. Reuter
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  • 30 1 TAIPEI police banned the popping of firecrackers between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. m order to reduce fire hazards and give the public an undisturbed night's rest A.P.
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  • 20 1 MR DAG Hammarskjoeld, Secretary-General of the United Nations, flew into Karachi yesterday on a threeday visit. Reuter
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  • 120 1 HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 29 (AP) C olum b i a Broadcasting System radio workshop recently did Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," a story of life 600 years from now. The sound effects man went slightly crazy trying to figure how to depict the assembly line of
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  • 140 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A security forces patrol, lost m the Johore jungle for live days, was found yesterday. A Valetta aircraft of the Royal Air Force made contact with the patrol m the thick jungle east of Kluang. Johore. The plane was attracted by the distress signal
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  • 63 1 KARACHI, Jan. 29 (Reuter) —The Council of the Pakistan Moslem League today accepted the resignation as president of Mr. Mohamed Ali, former premier and now Pakistani ambassador m Washington. and elected Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, a former industries minister, to succeed him. Sardar Nishtar will now be
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  • 124 1 MINEOLA, New York, Jan. 29 (UP) A 24-year-old bank teller was arrested yesterday on a charge of spanking at least 40 little boys m the last year while posing as a plainclothes policeman. Police said Frederick O. Wood, who lives with his widowed mother m
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  • 180 1 'I Want S'pore Back' A DESCENDANT of Sultan Hussain who handed over Singapore to Sir Stamiord I Raffles, yesterday pledged that he would fight to get the island back for the people. The descendant. Tengku Muda Mohamed. made this pledge at the annual general meeting of the Singapore Malay Union
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  • 91 1 Colony Crew Held In Burma Jail RANGOON, Jan. 29 (Reuter) Burmese coastal patrol boats have arrested three fishing boats from Singapore which were alleged to have entered Burmese waters off Mergui, 350 miles southwest of Rangoon, according to press reports here. Seventeen of the crew of the fishing boats are
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  • 18 1 HENRY L. Mencken. 75. Baltimore's famous man of letters, died m his sleep yesterday. A.P
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  • 90 1 9 A new constitution for independence within the Commonwealth from April 1957. 9 Union with the Federation on the basis of maximum local autonomy. 9 Investigate running of Farrer Park and Bukit Timah branches. 9 Ask Messrs. Lazarous and Lee Choon Eng to show cause why they should
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  • 71 1 HONGKONG. Jan. 29 (UP) —A Hongkong tug is preparing to refloat the Danish freighter Bintang which ran aground on the north reef of the Paracel Islands on Friday, reports reaching here said today. The 2.315-ton freighter was still firmly locked m the reef but chances
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 394 2  -  HARRY CHI A Let's Have Night Varsity Courses By Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE educationists and labour leaders want the Malayan University to hold part-time courses for the man-in-the-street to enable him to gain a recognized degree on technical and scientific subjects. They were commenting on
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  • 183 2 Accept It Now —Teachers SINGAPORE teachers want the recognition of the Normal Training Certificate implemented "without any further delay." This follows a Singapore Government statement last week that there was no essential objection to the recognition of the Normal Certificate as the basic minimum qualification
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  • 79 2 Crowd Braves Rain To Attend Rally BATU PAHAT, Sun.—Despite incessant rain, a large crowd turned up to attend an Amnesty Rally at the Batu Pahat Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon. Dato Wong Shee Fun, president of the MCA, Johore branch, told the gathering that as the Amnesty would end
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  • 107 2 THIS flooded street m Segamat Johore. is a typical scene m towns and villages of the Federation after the heavy rain of last week. The rains have now stopped and the flood waters are fast subsiding. Below is another scene of the floods m Segamat. Picture shows
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  • 221 2 Canning Firm Calls The Premature Strike 'Unfair' KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The management of the strikebound Amoy Canning Corporation today refuted allegations that it had removed stocks of soft drinks from its factory last Wednesday because it was not willing to negotiate with the strikers' union. M The factory's manager, Mr.
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  • Article, Illustration
    52 2 A PARLIAMENTARY delegation appointed by the Indian Union Ministry of Transport, arrived m Singapore on board the "State of Madras" on Saturday to make a study of the conditions of deck passengers going to India. The delegation leader, Mr. T. S. Pattabhiram, told The Standard that they will investigate and
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  • 65 2 To Probe Deck Facilities dations to the Government of India. They will welcome suggestions and complaints from members of the public, the leader said. Their tour will include Kuala Lumpur, I?joh and Penan g before they return to India. Picture shows: from left to right, Mr. Ameer Jumabhoy, Dr. D.
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  • 185 2 A commercialized radio-relay programme, similar to the rediffusion system will be operated soon m Bangkok, Mr. P. H. Steed, managing director of the General Electric Co. (Malaya) Ltd., told The Standard yesterday. He said his company provided the "radio-diffusion" station with equipment worth half-a-million dollars,
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  • 243 2 TEACHERS START OUT TO PROVE IT THE Singapore Teacher 1 Union is conducting an island-wide sur v i among teachers to challenge an Educatom Ministry allegation that there are insufficient sen. teachers to appoint one headmaster lor one scnool. The survey follows a
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  • 164 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The Federation Court ol Appeal yesterday allowed with costs, the appeal of Ng Kirn Pong against the Belangor High Courts' award of (17,100 damages to Madam Goh Ching of Mentakab for alleged trespass on her property. Madam Goh sued Ng, her tenant for the
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 41 2 Announcement REPRESENTATIVES OF KHAIRPUR TEXTILE MILLS LTD. (PAKISTAN) ARE STAYING IN ROOM NO. RAFFLES HOTEL. THOSE INTERESTED IN THHR COTTON YARN, CLOTH AND WASTE CAN SEE THEM BETWEEN THE HOURS 3 TO 5 P.M. FROM 30.1.1956 TO 1.2.1956. TELEPHONE NO. 2804.
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  • 372 3 Classrooms Being Used As Relief Centres MORE THAN 1,000 pupils of the Bedok Boys' School, Singapore, have to stay away today, and tomorrow because 265 flood victims are still occupying their class-rooms. School re-opens on Wednesday. Nearly 400 men, women and children were evacuated to the
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  • 94 3 Leaving For Britain On Holiday JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. The State Welfare Officer. Mr. C. G. Waits, and Mrs. Watts leave for Britain on Feb. 4 on a holiday. A tribute to his sterling work for social welfare m the State was paid to him by Dr. L. H. Tan. chairman
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  • 47 3 KUALA LUMPUR, run.— At its annual general meeting today the Bar Committee of Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Kelantan elected Mr. R. Ramani of Kuala Lumpur as chairman. Others electee* T^re Messrs. M. N. N. A. Marjoribanks. S. M. V rig and P. C. Au-Yong.
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  • 60 3 PENANG, Sun.- Members of the judiciary and legal fraternity were among the large gathering at the wedding reception of Mr. and Mrs. Lim Kean Siew Mr. Lim, a lawyer, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lim Cheng Ean. The bride, Marie Therese, is the
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  • 48 3 FOUR masked robbers early yesterday morning held-up a Singapore housewife at her home m Serangoon Road and ransacked the place. They got away with $20 m cash, a wrist watch and earrings valued at $40. The incident occurred a little after midnight.
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  • 34 3 A YOUNG married woman. Ratnam of Bukit Panjang. Singapore, yesterday drank a glass of battery water which she thought to be drinking water. She was warded m the General Hospital.
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  • 161 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— A constable was fired at and slightly wounded while on his rounds at Batu Ampat Police Station, Kota Tinggi, Johore, early this morning. A patrol of the Second Royal Australian Regiment fired on two terrorists contacted at Kulim. Kedah. yesterday. One of
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  • 41 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Date Haji Mohamed Eusoff, a former District Governor of Rotary, will address the weekly meeting on Tuesday of the Johore Bahru Rotary Club The subject of his talk will be "Rotary m Malaya."
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  • 23 3 A CYCLIST was killed m an accident with a car driven by an army officer, m Pudu Road, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday.
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  • 267 3 —Says Works Minister THE 20th century has come to learn that work produces capital, whilst capital does not necessarily produce work. members Messrs. Chan Chow Wall Teo Kee San. Leong Sek Yuen, H. C. Schooling and M. A. Lance. This was the view expressed by the
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  • 353 3  - He Wants To Return To China Roger Yue But He's Broke By Standard Staff Reporter THIS is the story of a Singapore shoe-maker. Ec Chong Yin. who wants to leave Singapore after living here for 30 years, for the padi-fie'.ds of Canton. But Ec is broke and he is m
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 634 3 eMlmaUac Information at a Glance ~*jk J~ ale (XL); 9 p.m Music Shop Thomases f16.82m>: 545 Stace *f 111 /J Jl'O^^l D C (S) 9 30 News (S): 9.43 Para- Door Memories ilB8?mi; 615 tJIg% |*-.^^«.l\ guayan Son^s (Pi; 10 pm. Re- Music of the Islands tl6B2mi; Taiwi por* on
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  • 345 4 Clear My Name, It Told Widow ai HPP' Sun: At his monthly meet-the-people session today, the Federation Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Mr. Leong Yew Koh, heard Madam See Koon Yew. She is a widow; mother of seven children. She demanded that Government inquire
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  • 321 4 ANOTHER uproar and possible division is expected at the monthly meetIng of the Singapore City Council on Tuesday when the Independent Councillor, Mr. Sim Beng Seng's motion regarding land lease to the Island Club comes up for decision. Mr. Sim's motion, at
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  • 120 4 Peep Show Disgusts Magistrate MR. J. M. DEVEREUXColebourn. Singapore Magistrate, viewed two cinematograph machines last week and later commented: "They were disgusting and obscene." Before him was pretty Madam Tan Kirn Eng. who claimed trial to a cfrargre o£ i publicly exhibiting these machines m Geylang Road on Jan. 17.
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  • 63 4 ONG BARK CHOON of Jala n Chye was fined $25 m the Singapore Traffic Court last week for driving m an inconsiderate manner along Upper Serangoon Road on April 9 last year. He was said to have suddenly turned his vehicle around causing the driver of a
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  • 272 4 AFTER THE BULL, NOW THE BEES First Priority To Fire Victims KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Selangor State Government has decided to put up a number of seven-storey flats on the burnt out site m Batu Road, m the style of the
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  • 151 4 AND THE GOD WEARS A DULL, SAD FACE PEN AN G, Sun Some Indians here have predicted that a dark cloud will soon be hovering over Malaya due to the "signs" at the Tbaipusam festival. Following the incident on Thursday la?t. wnen a bull injured 11 persons at the initial
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  • 49 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Abdul Gaffar. an employee of the Singapore Traction Co., was fined $200. m default two months' jail, for moving two katis of bread m a restricted area m Pontian on Dec. 17 without a permit by the President, Sessions Court, Pontian, today.
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  • 49 4 THREE youths, who pleaded guilty to a charge of gambling when the Thaipusam festival was celebrated, opposite the Waterfall Temple m Western Road. Penang. on Jan. 28. were cautioned and discharged after the magistrate, Mr. E. A. Long had remarked. "I suppose this is a special occasion."
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  • 65 4 The Officer Administering Government of the Federation, Mr. David^ Gray (second from left), toasts India at a reception held here on Jan. 26 to celebrate the Republic's sixth anniversary. With him are (from left) Mr. P. Desai, the new Assistant Commissioner for India, the Raja Muda
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  • 126 4 REPRESENTATIVES of the 10,000 strong Singapore Naval Base Labour Union will meet the Admiralty today to clarify the reason for the continuation of the strike. This follows a letter from the Admiralty which said that there was certain amount of ambiguity and misunderstanding between the
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  • 47 4 THE Alumni Association of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, will hold a Chinese New Year dinner and dance at the Medical Centre on Feb. 13. The Chinese dinner, exclusive of drinks, will cost $7 per head for members and guests.
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  • 25 4 NEW PARK OPEN ED THE Mentri Besar, Negri Sembilan. Inche Shamsuddin bin Nain, last night opened the new $200,000 Paradise Amusement Park at Rahang, Seremban.
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  • 206 4 Garden City Look On Tap A PROJECT is under way to develop Singapore into a garden-city of Southeast Asia. Within a year, Singaporeans will see miniature gardens and boulevards side-hy-s;.ie with giant skyscrapers and asphalt roads. Already m the City Council nurseries at Woodleigh
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  • 105 4 A SPECIAL session, to get Singapore's medical men to set the example to the public t>y giving blood to the bankgl proved a disappointing affair^ when only 15 doctors and students turned up. Invitations were sent out to members of the Alumni Association
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 1667 5  -  NIGEL GEE Beginning STANDARD'S Special Feature Series By The Knight who turned Traitor SIR ROGER CASEMENT: tjioreign Office man turns traitor. Attempts to raise Irish Brigade from P. O. Ws. Secret landing m Ireland. An arms ship is scuttled. Casement caught and tried. Legal argument is lost.
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  • 405 5 Full-scale War for £5000 NEW YORK A FULL-SCALE war was once organized so that American cameramen could get good action pictures of the fighting. Operations were restricted to the hours when the light was good for photography and the general who started the war was paid for his co-operation. The
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  • 27 5 A statue of Santa Barbara, patron Saint of miners, has been placed m a niche 3,165 ft below ground m a coal mine near Lens, France.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 107 5 2 Make it clear with a leadCLUES ing one (7) 3. Fifty-one German children Across are more sympathetic (8) 9 For better halves m the 4. Strangeness of a tune we SS-jdrio* instrument- U. *g.«"JfS6^, on the a D l etLc!^ or .am, wor.er jlgW^ o. New Yo rt U
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 505 6 WHEN the Chinese Communist Government started its "Back to China" call to Chinese students abroad, it never for a moment expected that this move would boomerang and assist the outside world m learning of the increasing number of cracks that have appeared m its monolithic facade. Reports about
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    • 434 6 recent statements of Mr. Warren S. Lockwood, founder and former president of the Natural Rubber Bureau, have given bright hopes to our rubber industry. He has allayed fears that the year's production by the American automobile industry would drop. His optimism for the natural rubber industry
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  • 867 6 ASTER GUNASEKERA "Hate cannot wish thee \yorst Than guilt and shame have made thee" wrote Moore and this explains why there will be no brass band to play "Here the conquering hero comes," no shouts of Merdeka with an upsurge of clenched fists, of
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  • 962 6  -  ALASTAIR BUCHAN .l±!^^ 1;: Jll says LONDON. THIS week the British Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, and the Foreign Secretary Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, will be settling themselves down m the oval study at the White House m Washington to talk with President Eisenhower and his Secretary of
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  • Article, Illustration
    11 6 "Quick! She's got the hiccups again. Come and have a milk-shake."
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  • 227 6 Sir: Your answers to the following questions will show to what category of Malayan you belong. Are you born and bred In Malaya? If yes, you are just a Malayan. Born and bred, or not bred, m Malaya, do you regard Malaya
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  • 93 6 We, the PEOPLE Sir: May I on behalf of the General Working Committee of the Birthday Celebration of His Highness the Sultan of Perak through the courtesy of your column thank the following gentlemen and Organizations for contributing towards the cost of the Golden Casket and Silk address which were
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  • 315 6 To be a merchant of international hatred is perhaps one degree less bad than to be a merchant of death Mr. John Foster Dulles. Foreign Culture is a mental form of colonialism those who support foreign culture are fifth-columnists. Al Azhar University magazine Disparagement of the
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  • 166 6 Sir: I was happy to read that certain people m Singapore are proposing the formation of an Association aimed at the eventual establishment of an "Institute of Management." I think all progressive employers who are marching with the times will welcome this move particularly when industriali- zation m
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • 70 7 NEW JERSEY, Jan. 29, (UP)— A New YnHr inspector went berserk m his home ySSJSy SS^JSS oat six members of his family, including his i^flSJ Sfif* A" 12 gaUSC PUmp -""•tS? HeX^SK 43; a daughter. Elizabeth, s;a son Peter 18 month^hf,; Police chief Leo
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  • 214 7 3 RED GOSPEL PREACHERS FACE DEPORTATION MANILA, Jan. 29 (UP) Three young Chinese Communists faced deportation to Formosa today for advocating and spreading the Communist gospel m Chinese schools m Cebu Island and m Manila. An immigration board of special inquiry today urged the deportation of Lao Han King and
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  • 46 7 EARL ATTLEE. who was 13 last week, arrives at the House of Lords to take his seat for the first time since his elevation to the peerage. Karl Attlee plans to be an active and frequent attender at the Lords.- UP
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  • 50 7 TOKYO. Jan. 29. (UP)— Tokyo's prostitutes aided by a Japanese Christian social worker— have organized their own labour union. They call it the Federation of Metropolitan Women Employees' Association. Their membership numbers 4,300 jvomen. but they hope to nrole all of Japan's esti- \aated 50,000 prostitutes.
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  • 32 7 THE General Council of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association ended its seventh annual meeting m Kingston, Jamaica, on Saturday with a decision to meet m New Delhi late m 1957.— UP.
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  • 61 7 NICOSIA Jan. 29, (Reuter)— A British soldier suffered serious head injuries last night when terrorists threw a bomb at a tent next to a police station m Lysso village, west Cyprus. Two masked men seriously injured a Cypriot policeman shortly before midnight at Pyrgos village 47
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  • 33 7 LONDON. Jan. 29. (UP).— The British Foreign Office indicated last night it had considered jamming violently anti-British radio broadcasts from Greece beamed to ter-rorist-torn Cyprus. British newspapers bitterly condemned the idea.
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  • 42 7 THREE Asian delegates to the International Red Cross camp at Point Lonsdalc, Victoria, Australia, stand under a "hedge" of international flags. They are, from left, Ben.jam Vakaria, of Pakistan. Kamal Dastur, of India, and Amar Lenghu, of Malaya. AP
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  • 137 7 PARIS. Jan. 29 (AP).— Premier-Designate Guy Mollet wants ex-premier Pierre Mendes-France. his Republican front ally, as VicePremier m his prospective new government. Mollet disclosed the tentative cabinet last Saturday night. The list is notable on several counts: It is made up almost entirely of men
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  • Newsbriefs
    • 36 7 RALEIGH. North Carolina. Jan. 2!) (AP) A noval oneman aircraft called a gyrocopter, looking somewhat like an airborne bicycle, circtefl an airport here for about 15 minutes on Saturday m its first public demonstration.
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    • 34 7 St. ANTON, Austria, Jan. 29 (AP) A roaring avalanche last night engulfed and killed six holiday skiers at this famed Austrian Alpine resort. Two were British, two Americans and two Germans.
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    • 38 7 WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 9 (AP) 'Clarence B. Randall, special consultant to President Eisenhower on Foreign economic policy, headed for Turkey on Saturday for conferences on economic problems of interest to that country and the United States.
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    • 31 7 VATICAN CITY. Jan. 29 (UP)— Pope Pius XII, who will be 80 next Friday, spent a busy Saturday granting a large number of audiences m the Vatican apostolic palace.
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    • 28 7 WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, (UP).— The United States expects to resume delivery of jet planes to Yugoslavia within a few months, informed sources said yesterday.
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    • 29 7 COLOMBO, Jan. 29, (UP).— A motion to make Buddhism the state religion of Ceylon was tabled m the House of Representative? yesterday for discussion on Feb. 8.
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    • 38 7 ABOARD the Queen Elizabeth, Jan. 29. (UP).— Sir Anthony Eden will throw his full support behind President Eisenhower's "tough but realistic" attitude towards the latest Russian "friendship" overtures, sources close to Eden said last night.
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    • 31 7 TOKYO. Jan. 29 (UP)— Peiping Radio said today that Chinese Communist anti-air-craft guns shot down two Nationalist fighter bombers and damaged two others over mainland China on Friday.
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  • 135 7 ROME, Jan 29, (AP)— ltalian Catholic Action served notice on Saturday that it opposes exhibition of Paris' famous Folies Bergere girl show m Rome. The show, now completing a run m Naples, was sharply criticized earlier m the week by the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano L'Osservatore objected to
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  • 156 7 I CAN DO IT ALONE -CHIANG &a«k To China Mainland TAIPEI, Formosa, Jan. 29 (UP)— President Chiang Kai-shek said today that if he is left unhindered by outside influences the time has come when he can successfully counter-attack the mainland of China and overthrow the Communist regime. President Chiang said
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  • 78 7 TO.IYO, Jan. 29 (AP).— Taketora Ogata, a leading candidate for Japan's next Prime Minister, friend of the United States and arch-foe of Communism, died of a heart attack on Saturday night. He was 67. Ogata, Chief Managing Editor and Vice-President of the huge newspaper Asahi before
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  • 41 7 PRAGUE., Jan, 29 (Reuter) Mr. Molotov. the Soviet Foreign Minister, commenting here last night on President Eisenhower's reply to the proposal of a Russo-American friendship treaty paid, "I cannot understand how anyone can refuse a treaty of friendship."
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  • 258 7 'War Danger Is Not Over, We Must Be Ready' MOLOTOV URGES ARMS BUILD-UP LONDON, Jan. 29, (AP) Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Moloror told leaders of the Warsaw Military Alliance on Saturday the danger of war has not receded and said they must strengthen their war potential. Moscow radio broadcast
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  • 97 7 No Peace Treaty Is Needed -Ike WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (AP).— President Eisenhower on Saturday turned down, m effect, a Soviet proposal tor a 20-year United States-Russian friendship treaty but left the door open for further talks between the two countries. The White House made public Soviet Premier Bulganin's message to
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  • 78 7 WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Reuter). One of the world's biggest capitalist business enterprises, the General Motors Corporation, has grown so large that Congress has launched an inquiry m an effort to establish whether such business monsters are good or bad for the national economy. The Senate
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  • 238 7 by peaceful means." Eisenhower said m reply that "the present state of international tension" has been brought about by the Russians and "was not prevented by the words of the (United Nations) Charter." "How can we hope that the present situation would be cured merely by
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  • 62 7 TUNIS. Tunisia. Jan. 29 (UP).— Police raided headquarters of Nationalist rebels yesterday to smash a plot against the Tunisian Government which they said was fomented m neighbouring Algeria Heavily armed troops arrested nine men at the home of Nationalist leader Salah Ben Youssef. and put Ben
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  • 75 7 RANGOON. Jan. 29, <AP)— The Burmese Cabinet has approved sale to Red China of 2,000 tons of rubber, to be shipped m February or March, it was reliably learned on Saturday. The Burmese reportedly will receive sis pence over the current market rate of 294 pence
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  • 695 9 RUBBER OUTLOOK GOOD LOCKWOOD U.S. Consumption May Be Close To Last Years Record Standard Special Correspondent A BIG rubber year m the United States with a total consumption of 1,500,000 tons of which 600,000 tons should be natural very close to the 1955 record can be expected, Mr. Warren S.
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  • 164 9 Director Due On Survey Trip A LEADING representative of one of the best known m the Far East, of British manufacturers of medical supplies, has left Britain on a six weeks' survey tour of South Asia, including Singapore. Ke is Mr. Maurice J. Smith, overseas trade director of Evans Medical
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  • 199 9 JUST before Thaipusam Singapore rubber market rallied strongly after a spell of continuous decline which brought prices down to $1,041 at one stage (highest during the week $1.12|). On a declining market manufacturers have shov/n fair interest. Among the factors contributing to the sharp
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  • 20 9 TWO Italian firms have been awarded a US$l73 million contract for a steel mill for the Venezuelan Government.
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  • 20 9 A SOVIET delegation will arrive in Ottawa this week for negotiations on a trade agreement with Canada.- AP
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  • 318 9 NEW AIR-COOLED SHOWROOM FOR G.E.C. A NEW air-conditioned showroom for the display of contemporary lighting fittings was opened by the General Electric Co. (Malaya) Ltd., m its office m Battery Road, Singapore, on Saturday. To mark the occasion a cocktail party was held and guests included many of the Colony's
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  • 265 9 BUSINESS done m shares from Jan. 21 to 26:— INDUSTRIALS: British Borneo Petroleum 45/6, Fraser Neave Otds. $I.BIJ to $181 to $1.80. Federal Dispensary Old. $3.50c.i., Gammon (Malaya) $2.50 52.47J, Hammer Co. $2.92 to $2.85 c.d., Hongkong Banks (London Register) £98* to £93$ to £96
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  • 114 9 A SALESMAN of Boustead and Co., Ltd., lpoh branch, Mr. Tsang Ah Hoong, 21, became the first winner of the "Outstanding Salesmanship" challenge trophy m a quarterly competition sponsored by Lever Brothers (Malaya), Ltd., for Boustead's retail salesmen throughout the country. Mr. Tsang will get an extra
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  • 432 9 By A Market Correspondent CONSIDERING the lower commodity prices and Friday's Thaipusam holiday, the overall volume of business for the period was considerable. Despite the fact that commodity prices at present levels are satisfactory their fall, as is normal m this market, was instrumental m lowering
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  • 73 9 Tambalak Rubber Estates Ltd: All assets have been realized. A final distribution of 4 cents a share was declared on Nov. 7. 1955, making a total return to shareholders of $2.34 per share. United Malacca Rubber Estates Ltd: The director's report that the Ayer Molek Division, an isolated
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    • 904 9 NOTICES T H E The Bankruptcy Ordinance NANYANG UNIVERSITY (CHAPTER "T^ Entrance Examination l n the High Court of the THE Xanyang University is Colony o f Singapore scheduled to open on Island of Singapore a > v h 15th, 1956, with three T T Faculties: The Faculty of Arts.
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    • 498 9 NOTICES The Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 45) In the Hiffh Court of the Colony of Singapore Island of Singapore fN BANKRUPTCY No 402 1 of 1955. Re SALAMAT bin AJAR of No 398-A, Yio Chu Kang Road, Singapore. Receiving Order made 14th September, 1955. Date of Adjudication 21st November, 1955. Date
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 212 10 "Looks as ii the Joneses are having servant trouble I >v I imh '*No< m here. Charles; this aoain rnlnnpl'" I S^s^ I 1 4Br is the living room." again, toionei. r^-^ ILW k v,,i MS-^y Jm^ T? G<! and wash your dirty J I liSff I^l% I face immediatel
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  • 669 11 F.A. CUP FOURTH ROUND: LONDON, Jan. 29 (Reuter)—A dramatic 5—4 victory by Cup holders Newcastle United over Fulham, featured a day of thrills when the Fourth Round of the Football Association Cup was played yesterday. From all parts of the country came reports of desperate struggles
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  • 381 11 LONDON. Jan. 29 (Reuter) Football League standings after yesterday's matches are: DIVISION 3 (SOUTH) P W D LFAPts Ipswich Town 29 17 8 4 72 40 42 Brighton Hove 29 17 5 7 75 26 39 Leyton Orient 27 16 7 ***** 39 Torquay Utd. 28 14 8
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  • 272 11 CORTINA D'AMPEZZO. Jan 29 (Reuter)— Canada. Olympic and world ice hockey champions, were the first nation to qualify for the final pool m the Olympic tournament last night when they beat Italy 3-1. 0-0, 2-0 m the eliminating pool. Canada thus topped their fournation eliminating pool
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  • 101 11 CARDIFF. Jan. 29 (Reuter)— The Welsh Rugby Union team to play Scotland here on Feb. 4: G. D Own (Newport): K. J. Jones (Newport), H. P. Morgan Newport): B. Sparks (Neath and port), C. L Davies (Cardiff), C. I Morgan (Captain Cardiff), D. O. Brace (Oxford
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  • 74 11 CORTINA D'AMPEZZO. Jan. 29 (Reuter) The Japanese ski team which is competing m the Winter Olympic Games here have accepted an invitation to take part m an exhibition ski meet m Lebanon m March. Tsutomu Nozaki, the Japanese team manager, told Reuter that his skiers would book their
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  • 28 11 BOSTON. Massachusetts. Jan. 29 (Reuter) Ronnie Delaney Irish miler last night beat Wes Santee the American champion to win the Boston Athletic Association mile here.
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  • 125 11 Avalanche Holds Up The Games CORTINA D'AMPEZZO Jan. 29 (Reuter) A small avalanche crashed across the course and held up racing m the men's giant slalom when the Winter Olympics were continued here to day. Ernst Hintseer of Austria, third starter m a field of nearly 100 competitors from 29
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  • 97 11 BRISBANE, Jan. 29 (Reuter)— David Thiele, 18-year-old Olympic swimming "hope" from Queensland, covered 100 metres backstroke m 64 seconds here last night to better the Olympic Games record for the second time m two days. Swimming m a 50-metre pool m the Queensland championships. Thiele clocked 64.7
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  • 36 11 BORDEAUX Jan. 29 (Reuter) The Combined Universities Rugby Union team from Cape Town, which is to visit Britain, played the last match of their French tour yesterday when they beat French schoolteachers here 3-0.
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    • 725 11 CLASSIFIED ADS ACKNOWLEDGMENT R. MRS. JEROME MARIASELVAM PHILOMIN thank all relatives and friends for the kind presents and felicitations sent on the occasion of their wedding. SITUATIONS VACANT SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL: Required on 3 years agreement m first instance m salary scale $785 x A45— 1.280 'Qualification Bar.'l.SLYi x A45—
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 276 11 Li 1 flbner By Al Capp MAH LIFE'S AMBISHUN IS 0 r v r KIDS T*^^^^ I^THE WARDEN SAYS, SINCE 7 s •.THirBllMI IMJ.U. REELIZEO//-A B'DOLLAH < A CIRCUS//-WAL,VO'^ I YOU'VE BEEN INVITED TO A MRS. WWT XXUM WEDDIN'.r-WHEN AH COMES L S GONMA SEE SOMETHINT I .GENUINE 8-DOLLAR WEDOING
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  • 192 12 NEGRI SOUTH CHAMPS Win Title Hard Way Against Malacca SEREMBAN, Sun.— Following their 3-1 victory over Selangor yesterday, Negri Senibilan became South Malaya hockey champions when the State beat Malacca by three goals to nil m the final match of the championships concluded here today. But Negri did not win
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  • 94 12 MR. H. M. De SOUZA. the President of the Malayan Hockey Federation, told The Standard today that tie has invited the Indian Olympic hockey team to play a friendly match against the Federation team m Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 8. He also said that
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  • 183 12 THE MEN FOR THE SOUTH IMMEDIATELY after the final of the South hockey championships, Federation Selectors picked the following to represent the South against the North m the annual hockey match to be played at Ipoh on Satur- day. Peter Van Huizen (Negri). Aian
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  • 71 12 FORTY -FOUR competitors took par! m the R.A.F. Seletar Golf Club's oDen greensome competition played off at the Seletar course yesterday. The tournament, played under trying weather conditions saw Sqdn. Officer Allyne-Jones and Sgt. joice emerge winners. Runners-up were Capt. Scott and Mrs. P. Smith. 2fter
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  • 51 12 PERSEDA football team of Johore Bahru beat Western Sports Club 4-2 m a friendly soccer match played on the Johore Military Forces ground a. Johore Bahru yesterday. Mohd. Nasir 3, and Ismail Monsoor scored for Perseda. Western s two goals were netted by Ahmad Maon and Abdullah
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  • 94 12 AT THE annual general meeting of the Singapore Table Tennis Association, held at the Chinese V.M.C.A. yesterday, the following were elected officebearers for the current year. Patron: Aw Cheng Chye; President: Teh Shung Chee; Vice-Presidents: H. S. Chua, Chan Kwok Meng. Lav Kieng Hiong (re-elected), Ng Kuan Hoey;
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  • 297 12  -  EDIN PETERS Games Coach Leaving Soon By SINGAPORE Amateur Swimming Association, preparing for the Olympic debut this November of their water poloists, Asian Games gold medallists, will be hit by the impending departure of their water polo coach, former Dutch international J. W. Van Daat- selaar.
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  • 110 12 3 Games For Charity SINGAPORE Amateur Football Association have decided on three matches to be played for charity this year. Th e first will be the annual match for the Haw Par trophy on Feb 26 when Marine Sports Club, who last year won both the league ;nd Cud tournaments
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  • 48 12 KUALA KANGSAR. Sun. Clifford School second eleven beat the Public English School 3-2 m a soccer match played on the Clifford Green yesterday. Syed Ahmad and Zainal 2. scored for Clifford School. The two goals for the Public English School were scored by Ikram and Yunus.
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  • 63 12 TAIPIN 3. Sun Eight teams have entered for the Federation Day knockout soccer competition to be held here o n Feb. 1 The draw is as follows: King Edward VII School A' vs Hua Lian High School; Indian School vs Malay School; AH Saints
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  • 232 12 'Disgraceful ...This State Without A Stadium' IPOH. Sun. Mr. Chan Lai Hong, re-elected President of the Perak Amateur Football Association at todays annual general meeting, urged sportsmen m Perak to agitate for a sports stadium to be built and maintained by the State Government. "It is disgraceful." he said, "that
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    • 200 12 THREE FOR SATURDAY WEIGHTS for three races Admission 7.12 on Saturday, last day of the Ri« 7.11 Singapore Turf Club Jan/ Feb. Winterdrina 7.09 Meeting, are: Rehmat 7.09 Horses Cl. 3, Div. 1-9 Furs. Golden Dollar JOB Flower Queen 0.04 World Freedom 7.08 Quicksilver 8.10 Horses Cl. 3, Div 2—9
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    • 1192 12 Probable Fields For Wednesday FOLLOWING are the weights and probable start- Horses Cl. 3 DiV. 1 6 Furs. ers for all eight races on Wednesday, second day of 924 Applause 7y 9.00 ch'ng stable Yong the Singapore Turf Club Jan/ Feb. Meeting: 4U Shoeshine Boy 4y 813 Mr KS Leong
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    • 38 12 RUGBY: S.C.C. "B" vs. R.E.M.E. at S.C.C. padanq. BOXING: 30th Battalion vs. G.H.Q. at Badminton Stadium at 8 p.m. HOCKEY: C.S.C. vs. S.C.R.C. at C.S.C. SOCCER: Young Men's Sikh Assn. vs. A.C.S. at Farrer Park at 4.30 p.m.
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