Singapore Standard, 4 February 1956

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  • 26 1 Singapore Standard IMiZT T CE iW fl? VA 4l BR 'CAOI GENERAL HOSPITAL Vol. M. No. 212 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1936 16 PAGES IS CENTS
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  • 321 1 African Toys For Charles Anne KADUNA, Nigeria, Feb. 3— The Queen today received gilts from the children ol Nigeria's vast northern region for Prince Charles and Princess Anne. They were presented by two of 1.500 schoolchildren who paraded before their 'sreat white Queen" and tne Duke of Edinburgh. Ya Chilla.
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  • 55 1 JAKARTA. Feb. 3 (UP) A KLM. Constellation carrying emigrants to Australia had to make an unscheduled stop on picturesque Bali Island today because a passenger thought she was going to have a baby. She was examined by a doctor at Denpasar. Bali, who told the expectant
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  • 81 1 Weng Wins Suit And $13,000 By ANDREW hOTH LONDON. Feb. 3.— Singa-pore-born Weng Kee Sam yesterday won a total ol £1.600 (.more than $13,000) damages in a Hi^h Court action against a London Transport Executive and two railway policemen for false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and conspiracy to give false evidence
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  • 334 1  -  GOH CHONG KENG cncf Of Kuala Kanasar's Terrorists In Sight By They Were The Eyes, Ears Ot Four Reds IPOH, Fri. Ten Min Yuen workers operating in the Kuala Kangsar area have given up in one of the biggest mass surrenders since the Amnesty was declared
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  • 216 1 SINGAPORE'S Special Branch Chief Mr. A. E. G. Blades yesterday spiked reports that the fanatical Darul Islam movement, whose aim is the overthrow of the Indonesian Government, has transferred its headquarters to the Colony. Mr. Blades was replying to an article In
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  • 289 1 MALAYA FEELS EFFECTS OF STRIKE SYDNEY, Feb. 3. The cancellation of all wool sales in Australia was announced today because of the 12-day dock stride in 53 ports which has paralysed the country's overseas shipping. i kThe decision on wool cornierstone of Australia's omy— was announced
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  • 58 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UP) U.S. air force -disclosed today that jet interceptors soon will be armed with atomic weapons vjhen flying defence missions 'over America. Gen. Earle E. Part*ridge. continental air defence commander, said "all manner" of safety measures will prevent accidental detonations* in flight and
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  • 17 1 THE Fijian Government reported that a mystery submarine was seen near ;Suva yesterday. Reuter. r
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  • 93 1 5 EDEN PICKETS ARRESTED WASHINGTON. Feb. 3 (UP) A dozen teen-aged youth, carrying anti-British placards, picketed the British Embassy here this afternoon ica about five minutes before police moved in and took the gij'jup to police headquarters. {British Embassy officials s-av'd the vouth apparently belonged to a Zionist organization. They
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  • 84 1 MANILA. Feb. 3 (UP) Crown Prince Norodom. Sihanouk ot Cambodia told the Philippine Congress todav that geography and logic force his country to be neutral in the global struggle between Democracy and Communism. But he hastened to add that Cambodia s being neutral "does not mean that
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  • 26 1 INDONESIAN nationals living in Surinam in the West Indies would be given Government assistance to return to their homeland, it was announced yesterday.— U.P.
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  • 30 1 A MARINE Corps FJ-2 Fury jet fighter crashed and burned in a residential area ot northeast Tokyo yesterday, killing the pilot and injuring at least three Japanese civilians.
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  • 149 1 BRITAIN WON'T ACCEPT WASHINGTON. Feb. 3 (Reuter)— Sir Anthony Eden the British Prime Minister, expressed doubt at a Press conference here today of the value of an Anglo-Soviet Friendship treatv proposed by the Soviet Premier, Marshal Nikolai Bulganin. to President Eisenhower yesterday. 'T am not personally entirely convinced of the
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  • 135 1 It'll Be Voting Again LONDON. Feb. 3 (Reuter) —A long time may elapse before the legal structure of the new independent Federation of Malaya can be decided after the Constitutional Commission is set up. The issue and implementation of its report will be followed by elections on a new register.
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  • 74 1 TIN metal price in the Singapore market yesterday recorded another sharp drop of $7| to $3722 per picul in sympathy with the weakness of the overseas metal markets Absence of American buying also contributed to the continuous drop in the metal price which was having
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  • 154 1 SUVA, Feb. 3 (Reutier) The 40-ton island trading ketch Arakarimoa hasj disappeared in the Glib [rt Islands area, with 27 pecjple on board, in circumstanrec as mysterious as those in which the "ghost ship" Joyiija disappeared last year. The Arakarimoa, an auxili- ary ketch, has been
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  • 116 1 COLOMBO, Feb. 3 (Reutcr)— Many sheet rubber producers who switched over to crepe during boom prices have gone back to producing sheet, is reported here. i This reflects a drop in local crepe rubber prices following world price decline. In one month these
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  • 104 1 RUBBER: RECORD LIKELY PITTSBURGH, Feb. 3 (UP) —Chester Ray, administrative head ot U.S. Rubber Company's Tyre Division predicted todav that a new sales record in the U.S. rubber industry will be set this year. In an address observing ground- breaking ceremonies of the firm's new branch and warehouse nearby. Ray
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  • 32 1 A LOCAL train was derailed near Gemas at noon yesterday. The derailment was due to a technical fault Nobody was injured. Through traffic resumed a few hours later.
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  • 29 1 TEMPERATURES rose slowly in many areas in Britain yesterday, but weather experts forecast that the ley spell would continue for at least another 48 hours. Reuter
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  • 61 1 Diggers First Casualty KOALA LLMPIK Fri. The Army todaj announced that the first Australian soldier to be fatally wounded in antiterrorist operations in Malaya was Sergeant K. H. Ewald. Preliminary reports indicated that Set. Ewald was shot b> his colleagues when he moved during an ambush on Jan. 31. S«rt.
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  • 23 1 PAKISTANI Buddhists will celebrate on Feb. 26. the 2.500th anniversary of the Lord Buddha at Raozan in Chittagong, East Pakistan. Reuter.
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  • 24 1 FOUR policemen were seriously injured in rioting which broke out in Oran, Algeria, according to first reports reaching Paris yesterday. Reuter.
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  • 19 1 THE Times of Indonesia said yesterday that Soviet offers of aid would be welcome in Indonesia. U.P.
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  • 96 2 Six Months For Fake Order Man SUSPICIOUS about an order for $7,650 worth of a brand of soup, a company manager verified it from the firm which placed the order, and found it was a fake. He next informed the Com- merciai Sub-Branch. which laid a trap, which resulted in
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  • 215 2 London Talks To Protect Interest Of Services Staff SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall said yesterday that an "acceptable formula/' might be reached at the April constitutional talks in London protecting the interests of 30,000 civilians of the three Services in the Colony. Mr. Marshall was allaying
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  • 118 2 'Heaven Was Not Moved' CEYLON'S Assistant Commissioner in Malaya. Mr. C. Gunasin gharri, said last night that freedom had not brought a new heaven and a new earth to his country. But. he stressed, freedom had "placed within our reach the means by which to work for the wealth, the
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  • 98 2 MALACCA. Fri.— A trisha rider, Sidik Bachik. 22. was charged in the Magistrate's Court today with rape of a 39--year-old woman Ta n Ah Chia, in Kampong Annam. yesterday. Sidik faced another charge of robbery with hurt on Tan a farmer, on the same
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  • 28 2 THE British 812-ton tujr Taikoo left Hongkong yesterday to aid the Philippines' 1.306-ton freighter Resina which developed engine trouble 90 miles south of Hongkong. Reuter
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  • 87 2 A SINGAPORE couple, who handed over their car to a parking lot attendant at Raffles Place yesterday, later could not locate the car. The attendant had volunteered tc park their car for them While they went shopping The car MM* found abandoned the foKowh.g day
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  • 38 2 THE Labour Front Whampoa Division will hold a genera' meeting to elect ofticebearer s i n I^6 Balestier Road at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday. Members are asked to be present at the meeting.
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  • 146 2 Promotions Make Nurses Happy JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— Nurses here dined and danced today at a party in honour of four colleagues who were recently promoted to the rank of Sisters. The new Sisters are Misses Wong Kheng Sin. M. V. Lim. Cheong Yuick Tsien and M. P. Tan. All of
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  • 82 2 FOUR young pupils of a Singapore d a vt c i n s school rehearse Dpt the coming: Royal Academy of Dancing exami nations to be conducted next month in the C* 4ony by visiting examiner I from England, Miss, Ward Tamplin. At the piano is Patricia
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  • 110 2 WORK will isoon start to transform the I Customs end of the former/ Kallang Airport in Singa-fpore. into an out-patient clinic, the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Health,; Dr. R. H. Bland told The Staiidard yesterday. The clinici which will be able to
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  • 174 2 For 'Sudden Mishap Victims THE Singapore Social Welfare Department is actively considering the formation of a "Public Calimities Fund" to aid needy victims of sudden mishaps, Mr. C. S. Dant, Assistant Director (Administration,) told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Dant said that owing I to "certain
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  • 57 2 THREE thousand dollars bail was allowed to Lim Pang Cheng when h2 claimed trial yesterday in a Singapore magistrate's court to a charge of cheating Chan Wai Luan of a motor car worth 51. 700 at the Registry of Vehicles Middle Road, on Jan. 28.
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  • 86 2 THE Economic Adviser to the Singapore Government, Sir Sydney Caine. is to get another assistant at $17,600 a year. This and a few other posts created as confidential stenographers to Ministers and Assistant Personnel Welfare Officers will cast the Singapore Government an extra $156,555 this year, including
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  • 168 2 Railway Ticket Checker Jailed KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Malayan Railway ticket checker, A. Subramaniam, 21. was today jailed for a year by the First Magistrate for criminal breach of trust of $9.20 representing "defaultation fee" he collected from two passengers. According to the prosecution. one Lim Hoon Tiow and a friend
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  • 48 2 THE Zuellig Local Employees' Union. Singapore, yesterday submitted a 14-point demand to the management The claims include a gener?' wage increase, increased ar nuai and medical leave, automatic annual increments, overtime, staff loan, and promotion The union claims a membership of 50.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 69 2 Weather Report MINIMI M Temperature: From 7.-.0 p.m Feb. 1 to T.1'.0 a.m. Feb. Sinranorc (7.*^). Penang (7 IF), Kota Rahru i*5F), Koala Lumpur (T.TF), Ipoh (7*iF». Kuantan (7*'F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.J0 a.m. In 7.r.0 n.m. Feb. Singapore (8?F». Penang (88F). Kota Rahru (r»2F), Kuala l.umnur (K4F), Ipoh (85F).
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  • 322 3 THIS TIME IT'S ABOUT SALARIES THE Singapore Naval Base Labour Union, last night threatened to call its 10.000 members on strike again next month, as a last resort to settle its wage claims with the Admiralty. Union called off a 16--day-old strike by
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  • 67 3 Last Show Under Art Society PRESIDENT of the Singapore Art Society. Mr. Ho Kok Hoe, is seen here addressing a large gathering at the last photographic exhibition to be held under the auspices of the society. Next year the Singapore Photographic Society will hold the exhibition. Others in the picture,
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  • 108 3 'Theré s No Hopé So It's Suicide A 70-YEAR-OLD Singapore merchant who did not want to be a burden to his four children committed suicide by jumpin? off the third floor of the General Hospital on Boxing Day. The coroner who recorded a verdict of suicide was told yesterday that
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  • 82 3 LENG Kwai Chan. 16. recently engaged, has been reported missing from home sirce late Wednesday evening. The girl, who works in one of the many stalls in the New World Amusement Park, left home at 6 p.m. on Wednesday but she never reported for duty. Leng's
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  • 249 3 Young Father Weeps When Jury Says He Is Innocent k \VITHIN moments of being freed of a murder charge, a young father of two. wept on being told that he was to be remanded on a warrant. It happened at the Singapore Assizes yesterday. Relatives and friends seated in the
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  • 179 3 SINGAPORE needs a Staff Officer for the Colony's Harbour Board Reserve who will also act in the capacity of a Liaison Officer. Cadet Fcrces, the Asst. Secretary for Defence, Mr. C. G. Dickens, told The Standard I yesterday. Mr. Dickens pointed out that the
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  • 78 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The national Union of Factory General Workers. Federaof Malaya, deplore the proposed action ry the Government to ban students taking Part in industrial disputes. The Union's secretary. Mr. V. David, in a statement issu•d yesterday said that the B by Government was
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  • 47 3 MALACCA. Fri. Mr. Tan Siew S:n. a member of the Ma-iv-ca Alliance General Reception Committee, today cabled the Federation Chief Minister. dul Rahman, in Lon"•nn. for a reply regarding the e arrangements being e here to welcome the "crdeka Mission on its reMalacca.
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  • 32 3 SINGAPORE'S Assistant Minister for Commerce and Industry. Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, who has been attending the ECAFE conference in Bangalore will arrive here on Monday by air.
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  • 354 3 THEY TOO ARE PARTIAL TO MARSHALL We Missed Him Folk DELEGATES to the ECAFE conference in Bangalore, India, were disappointed at not being able to meet the "most talked about man" Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall. Disclosing this to The Standard yesterday, a delegate from Singapore, Mr. Yap Pheng
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  • 59 3 PROGRESSIVE Party members are reminded that transport will be provided for the extraordinary eonferenre to be held tomorrow at the Badminton Stadium, Guillemard Road, at 10 a.m. Buses will be at the pick-up points at 8.30 a.m. tomorrow. Further particulars may be obtained from the Central
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  • 282 3 ASP Tells Courf In Rice Case KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A senior Police officer testified for five hours in the Sessions Court today against two millionaire "rice kings" facing fraud charges. The officer, ASP Frederick Roach of the Federal CID Headquarters also produced before the
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  • 251 4 CLERK BEATEN THEN ROBBED THUGS ACTIVE ALSO IN KLANG KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. •—Robbers gagged and beat up a clerk, Lim Lei Man, and got away with $800 worth of articles and cash while his room-mate slept through it all peacefully in their Jalan Brunei home here
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  • 44 4 Photo by MR. RAYMOND Lourdes and his bride, the former Miss Margaret Jeeveratnam, both of Kuala Lumpur, cut their cake at a reception after their wedding. The couple was married at the St. Anthony's Church in Kuala Lumpur recently.— Mellow Yap.
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  • 166 4 Strictly For Teachers Only SINGAPORE'S Ministry of Education has announced that the Government of India is offering four scholarships under the Colombo Plan Technical Cooperation Assistance Scheme. Candidates for training under this scheme must be trained or qualified teachers. The offer i s not
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  • 123 4 THE Redhill Community Centre. Singapore, at its recent general meeting, elected the following office-bearers for 1956. President: Mr. Pang Tong Khiam; vice presidents: Messrs. Soh Teow Seng. Chong Hong Woo, R. P. Ratti and Ng Kim Peow; secretary: Tan Yong Koon. asst. secretaries: Messrs. Yap Sek Meng.
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  • 64 4 MALACCA. Fri. Hamzah Dollah. 19. was sentenced today to six months' jail to be followed by one year's police supervision in the Magistrate's Court here for stealing $3 10 from his employer. a coffee shopkeeper, last month. Hamzah admitted taking the money from a drawer
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  • 74 4 Two Unions Meet To Form Claims MALACCA. Fri— Members of two unions in Batu Pahat met yesterday to investigate complaints of alleged victimization of five employees in an iron mine. Members of the National Transport Workers' Union and the Shop and Industrial Workers' Union (South Malaya) held a mass meeting
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  • 61 4 AN AMERICAN woman educator and a church leader will visit Singapore shortly in the course of their Far East tour. They are the national president of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), Dr. Anna L. Rose Hawkes. and the general secretary of the
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  • 131 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Court interpreter Magbool Singh Dhillon today lost his appeal against conviction and fine of $500 imposed on him by the Sessions Court last year for an offence under the Land Code. Air. Justice Buhagiar in the Supreme Court *oday upheld the lower
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  • 37 4 SINGAPORE'S Chiel Minister, Mr. David Marshall, will again hold hi" "meet-the-people" session at the PRO Conference Room. Assembly House, at 9 a.m. today, alter being absent for the past few weeks since his illness.
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  • 151 4 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSINI* ninn**; i>rtie> (renU per tb n Singa pore vf-sterdav w«»re. H'ivt»r* Seller* Spot fob 106? 107 Jan. 107 1071 No 2 Jan. 105 105V No. 3 Jan 104? 10.')! Tone: frasier TIN PRICE The price ol tir> yesterday was S372ii pet pi i- u I (Down S7s
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  • 449 4 Words May Be The Same But Ihe Meaning Can Be Different PENANG, Fri. Mr. Justice T. C. Spenser-Wilkinson said in the High Court today that even if the wolds in the local tax ordinance were similar to that of certain parts of the English income tax law. it was by
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  • 79 4 PENANG. Fri— The Malayan Chinese Association. Penang and Province Wellesley branch sent a cheque for $2,032.57 to the Kuala Lumpur Fire Relief Fund today. This amount was received from several foo and coffee stalls at the Esplanade a game slal' and the Sea Hawk
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  • 194 4 PENANG. Fri— A bakers assistant went round the streets of Penang making a house-to-house collection to celebiate the birthday of the god "Teong Tan Guan Soay,' without authority to do so This was staled by Inspector D. H. Sharman in the Magistrate's Court
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  • 84 4 St. John's. Members Increase KAJANG. Fri.— The Kajang branch of the St. John Ambulance Association has entered its third year with an almost 50 per cent increase in its InUial membership, its annual report revealed today. On New Year's Eve the Association had 376 membersas compared with 269 the previous
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  • 299 5 EN GARDE ARMED ROBBERS AT LARGE Penang Puts Up Special Squads PENANG, Fri. Special squads consisting of regular Police and Police Vofunfeer Reserves, have been formed to operate in areas where recent armed robberies have been committed. This was disclosed by Penang"s CID Chief, Mr. E. H. Harries today. He
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  • Article, Illustration
    84 5 J photo. j »\\\\\\\\\v\\\\\\\\\w\\\\\\\\\\\\\» .WW\\\\V» AWWWWV 2 TWO Cadet Assistant 2 Controllers of Posts. j Singapore. Mr. Wong Lee 1 Hoong (left) and Mr. < 2 Low Siow Chek, both 2 aged 24. leave by the Chusan today, on a Gov- eminent fellowship to attend a postal adminis-
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  • 103 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The flood situation in Johore during the dav was follows: BATU PAHAT: 84 J miles s'or.e. 18 inches for a distance of half-a-mi'.e. PAKfT SULOXG NEW VILLAGE: Police compound 2i feet and town area 15 inches. Roads impassable to light vehicles. SRI
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  • 93 5 Taxi-Driver Fined For Negligence A TAXI-DRIVER. Mohamed Kunjo, 36. of Kolam Ayer Lane, was fined $65 in the Sinagpore Second Traffic Magistrate's Court yesterday for driving in a negligent manner along Beach Road on Sept. 9, last year. He was said to have suddenly turned his taxi around causing the
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  • 119 5 1865 Style Guard Of Honour A CONTINGENT of Raffles Institution cadets dressed up as soldiers of 1865. will provide the guard of honour for the Governor, Sir Robei t Black, when he open* the exhibition and Pageant of the History of Singapore at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Monday. The
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  • 152 5 IPOH, Fri.— Following the conviction and sentence of two caddies today, the police have smashed a gang of burglars who had been preying on European homes the past six months. The two caddies were Yahaya bin Ayuob 20 and Surani bin Jaal 17.
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  • 38 5 IPOH. Fri. A ten-year-old schoolboy. Choo Wool Kean was reported missing from home yesterday. Choo. about three-leet tall, returned from school at noon. He left the house immediately after lunch and has not returned since.
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  • 94 5 Equipment Was Lost By Neglect PRIVATE Izahar bin Abu Bakar, 21, of 37 Company RASC (Water Transport), was yesterday sentenced by a Smgapore District Court Martial to nine months' detention when he pleaded gui ty to two separate charges. The charges were absenting himself without leave from May 10, Dec.
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  • 69 5 IPOH. Fri. .iix wavering terrorists operating in the Siputeh-Pusing area have been urged to "pluck up courage" and come cut and enjoy the Chinese New Year. Pamphlets bearing the names of the six, Cheong Ah Lum. Futt Tai. Yat Kong. Hon Leong Siau Lai and Siau
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  • 275 5 Owner's Innocence Immaterial PENANG, Friday. A car in which uncustomed goods are being conveyed shall be liable to forfeiture even though the car owner has nothing to do with the offence. This was the ruling by Mr. Justice Spenser-Wilkin-son in the High Court today when
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  • 79 5 IPOH. Fri. A special constable, Mi bin Alang Amat 22. who deserted his post at Tanjong Rambutan Estate on Dec. 12 last year, was bound over by Magistrate Che Jamal bin Abdul Latif today. Mi told the magistrate that he returned to his kampong.
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  • 74 5 PENANG, Fri.—Officers-in-charge of Police Districts have been told by the Chief Police Officer. Penang. Mr. H B. J. Donaldson, to take action against nuisance caused by juke boxes where necessary unaer the minor offences ordinance. This was disclosed by the chairman of the Rural Board Mr. R.
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  • 173 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The Lady Templer Hospital today appealed for further public donations to meet the cost ot expensive surgery in urgent need. Mr Walter Gordon, who was Senior Surgical Registrar at the Regional Thoracic Centre at Newcastle-on-Tyne in England, has just been
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  • 100 5 Fire Relief Fund: $417,000 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri Total rash donations for the relief of the Batu Road fire victims have passed the $417,000 mark Figures released by the main fund collecting centre., the Municipal Relief Fund Committee, added up to a total of 5257,080 The Chinese Fire Reliel Fund which
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  • 153 5 PENANG. Fri. Mrs. J. A. Summers 69 of Khyl. passed thiough Penang by the ss. "Moldova. a Panaman cargo vessel today with her son. Mr. G. C. H. Lawrence, after travelling 5.000 miles by road across Europe in a trailer. They arc on
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  • 97 5 Bren Gun Was Left On The Road FOR a few hours yesterday, Singapore Police and the military authorities were worried about a missing bren gun. The gun had been left nehind on the roadside at the junction of Tampenis Road and Upper Serangoon Road by the crew of an armoured
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 945 5 Standard cAlmanac Information at a Glance *mawmwwm I O *SS News (Si; MB Singapore Share Sellers" (19 59. 16 82m); 2.30 "Tea I W% r* i-t-i -^"N C Maiket Report (Si: 150 Time for with the Thomases' ,1959. '3 INVIAr W C a Waltz (Si: 2pm Racing com- 16 82m):
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  • 338 6 RATHER-CLOSE-THAN-RECOGNIZE ATTITUDE LEADS T0.... Bosses Must Say Yes If Majority Are Members KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Federation Government is to consider measures to make it "statutorily obligatory" for an employer to recognize a trade union to which a majority of his employees belong. This
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  • 110 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. As a contribution under the Colombo Plan, the Australian Government is offering scholarships for correspondence courses to selected Malayan students. The scheme began last year and already some students from Malaya and elsewhere have begun their courses, ranging from clerical and accountancy
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  • 93 6 PENANG. Fri. Ng Choy Keng, a woman proprietor of the Yik Wah Printing Press, was fined $100 in the Magistrate's Court today when she pleaded guilty to a summons charge of failing to publish the name and address of the printer and publisher of a Chinese
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  • 90 6 Reds Flee When Fired At KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— A patrol of No. 5 Police Field Force opened fire on a lone terrorist they contacted in the Tcmerloh district of Pahang on Wednesday The terrorist fled A sentry of the 3rd Platoon. Ist Battalion, the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, fired at a
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  • 181 6 IPOH. Fri. Indians in Malaya were told by a memK„r *u« t~a- r> iber of tne Indian Parhamentary Delegation that they must decide on the question of citizenship now and that having decided they should not expect concessions. Speaking on behalf of
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  • 164 6 SINGAPORE Government has outlined plans to absorb more disabled persons into its service. In future "Life Operator" jobs in all departments will be reserved solely for the employment of dis- abled men, The Standard was told yesterday. Government has advised all heads of
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  • 258 6 MOVIE CAMERAS WILL RECORD... SIGNING OF FREEDOM DOCUMENT LONDON. Feb. 3 (Reuter) Malaya's talks with Britain on independence within the Commonwealth end with a touch of drama next Wednesday. The Press and movie cameras will record the signing of the document
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  • 132 6 A Happy Trip To Hong Kong FILM magnate Loke Wan Tho has just returned to the Colony from one of his happiest trips to Hongkong Happy because amidst bursts of firecrackers and fanfare of trumpets, the Great Hall of the Univer- sity of Hongkong was renamed Loke Yew Hall, after
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  • 240 6 INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL PAVES WAY TO SETTLE DISPUTES MALACCA, Fri.—Representatives of the Malacca Municipal daily rated workers today met the Municipal President, Mr. H. G. Hammett, and six councillors in the Municipal chamber and signed an agreement adopting a constitution for a joint Industrial Council. The Council comprising of eight from
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  • 35 6 HONGKONG. Feb. 3—Special Standard Service; Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: 515.70 to £l Stcrling. $*****5 to US$l; $1,840 to Malayan $1; $0,145 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $255,375 to a taeL
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  • 31 7 photo. COLOMBO Miss Sita Sena seems very fascinated about the jewellery she brought back from Bangkok. Undoubtedly most of our readers will be fascinated by Miss Sena. United Press
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  • 318 7 R.M.A. CHIEF REPORTS PROGRESS d WASHINGTON, Feb. 3— Mr. W. J. Sears, vice-president of the Kubber Manufacturers Association, yesterday reported good progress towards establishment of a n international set of rubber grades. Mr. Sears told Reuter that aft proposals from his Association had received
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  • 153 7 La Prensa Comes Back fighting BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 3 (AP) The voice of the old La Prensa. was raised once more in Argentina last night. The famous newspaper resumed publication with a fighting editorial promising its best efforts to keep dictatorship from rising again in Argentina. La Prensa appeared under
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  • 102 7 WASHINGTON. Feb. 3 (AP) A Federal Judge yesterday upheld validity of an executive agreement giving Japanese courts the right to try American soldiers for off-duty crimes. The ruling, by US. District Judge. Joseph C. McGarraghy turned down a plea by four American soldiers to
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  • 46 7 CAIRO. Feb. 3 (UP) Egypt's newly-acquired Soviet arms have been "deploved in full force all along the Israeli front." an official spokesman said yesterday. Egyptian troops." the spokesman added, "have fully completed their training in the manipulation of Soviet arms."
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  • 116 7 Give Him Time, Warns Doctor WASHINGTON. Feb. 3 (Reuter) President Eisenhower's personal doctor. Major General Howard Snyder, said j esterday "no man who is just lour-and-a half months past a heart attack is in a position yet" to decide whether to seek a second term in the White House. General
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  • 57 7 HOUSES designed by an Indonesian architect can be built from local materials in a very short time to solve Indonesia's estimated two-million house shortage. The model houses (below) contain a living room, one bedroom and a small kitchen and bathroom. Standard models can be put
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  • 376 7 Bulganin We Are Such Good Friends') Tries Again To Win Ike Please Think Again About Treaty Nilc«l«Tt S r ,N?T 5 >N V Feb^ 3 (^«*f^— The Soviet Premier, Morshol Nikolai Bulgamn has broadened his last week's offer to President Eisenhower of a 20-year bilateral Soviet- American friendship pact to
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  • 252 7 LONDON. Feb. 3, (Reuter)—Mr. James Griffiths veteran Socialist politician was last night elected deputy leader of the British Labour Party, defeating left-wing leader Aneurin Bevan. It was a narrow victory for the 65-year-old Labour moderale Labour members of Parliament who decided
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  • 187 7 ...And Saves Coalition Govt. BONN, Feb. 3, (Reuter)— Dr. Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats yesterday dropped their plan for a new election law in West Germany and thus restored peace to the Coalition. The new election would have decimated the Free Democrats, their present coalition partners.
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  • 120 7 FOK BOY WHO WANTS TO MAKE ROCKETS. $6 FORD GRANT NEW YORK Feb. 3 (AP) The Ford Foundation is noted for the millions of dollars it spends in grants for research studies Now it has given one for $6 to a 12-year-old boy for "rocket research." The boy, Jonathan Shapiro
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  • 77 7 WASHINGTON. Feb 3 (AP) —Eric Joseph, 33, a British citizen, came a step nearer on Thursday to his "most treasured wish," U.S citizenship. The House Judiciary SubCommittee approved a bill to give it to him, in return for his eye. He gave the eye In 1951
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  • 930 8 Heartening Signs rr»HIRTY-THOUSAND workers in Singapore are A worried about their future they are the civilian employees of the Service establishments and they want to know what is going to happen to [hem when this Colony becomes self-governing and its internal defence requirements are taken over by those
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    994 8 EIGHT years ago, Ceylon became a free country and resumed control of her affairs. After years of rule by foreigners, freedom came with surprising ease, without violent effort or bitter memories to trouble the future. In fact, so smooth and tranquil was the changeover that it could with
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  • 957 8  - The NEWS as it strikes me! ASTER GUNASEKERA by ONF man's meat, according to an old adage, is another man's poison. Apparently this is also the case with independence. While everybody is talking about Merdeka and is jubilant over the thought that In the near future the Colony of Singapore
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  • 137 8 >"_ v*~^tmrm^P^imm^mmmmmwmMi the K^alk* "Spiders are a very ancient group which have certainly inhabited the world for more than three hundred million years. compared with less that, a million years by man They had to wait about a hundred and fifty million years before flies
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  • 1069 8 General review of Ceylon's progress as a free country in the past eight years by Mr. C. Gunasingham, Assistant Commissioner for Ceylon in Malaya. Meanwhile new factories such as those for causticsoda, vegetable oil, plywood and leather have either been constructed or are shortly to be completed. The
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  • 181 9 MAKARIOS' 'YES' IS CABLED TO LONDON AT ONCE NICOSIA, Feb. 3, (Reuter)— Archbishop Makarios' reply to British proposals— cabled to London by the Governor yesterday— accepts the invitation of Britain to co-operate in drafting a constitution for self-govern-ment according to circles close to tye Church leadership. These circles said the
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  • Newsbriefs
    • 35 9 EN'CINO. California, Feb. 3. (AP) Bob Burns, one-time top comic of the American s-ase and screen famed for h:s home-made Bazooka Horn and his Arkansas jokes died vesterday of cancer. He was 63
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    • 35 9 PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 3. (AP> Judge Vincent A. Carroll yesterday reduced the sentences on Milton and Rosalie Schwartz to 11 to 22 months neir part in the abortion rieath of Mrs. Doris Jean O-treicher.
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    • 41 9 BOGOTA. Colombia. Feb. 3. (AP) A loaded passenger b m crashed into a 200-foot •bya yesterday, killing 11 persons and injuring 32. The ao l .--.ent occurred near the town of Valparaiso, 125 miles Northwest of here.
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    • 28 9 HAVANA. Cuba. Feb. 3. (AP) The Police and military intelligence yesterday charged that there was a nationwide terrorist plot afoot to overthrow President Fulgencio Battista's government.
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    • 26 9 PRETORIA. South Alrica. l-Jeb. 3 «UP> Detectives '/wasted a guard around the \psoviet consulate here yesterday following a threatening telephone call to the police.
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    • 33 9 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Feb. 3 (UP) The United States yesterday requested an early meeting ol the United Nations Security Council to consider Sudan's application for admission to the world organization.
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    • 32 9 MONTREAL. Feb. 3 (UP) Mrs. Harry Pursey. 44. wife of a member ol the British Parliament, was found guilty vesterdav of drug possession and sentenced to six months' imprisonment
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    • 44 9 NEW YORK Feb. 3 (AP) The World-Telegram and Sun. commenting yesterday on reports that President Eisenhower will send Harold E. Stassen on a goodwill mission to Asia, said "this sounds like the dispatch of a boy on a man's errand."
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    • 28 9 TUNIS. Feb. 3 (UP) Tunisia's national leader. Habib Bourguiba. yesterday announced he is going to France to seek faster independence for this North African protectorate.
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  • 79 9 PARIS. Feb. 3 I Reuter) North Atlantic Treaty talks open here on Feb. 20 to consider what atomic weapons will be needed to strengthen the Western Defence Alliance. Both civilian and military experts of the 15 NATO member nations will attend the conference. A NATO spokesman
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  • 59 9 PRETORIA. South Africa. Feb 3 (UP)— Police mounted guard on the Russian consulate here today following an anonymous telephone threat that none of the Russian staff rr.embers would leave the country alive. The government announced or. Feb. 1 that Russian officials i here and in Capetown
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  • 51 9 GLASGOW, Feb. 3 (UP). Six Indian seamen WfFf found dead today in the cabin of the British freighter Clan Alpine. They apparently were suffocated by the fumes of a homemade open fire as they slept. The Indians had built the fire to keep out the intense
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  • 88 9 THIS lightweight travel ensemble created by British designer Digbv Morton, is suitable for every day wear in the Spring. The stand-away line ot the collar is balanced by the tiered skirt, and a casual off-the-head beret. It is in geranium hopsack made from "Tritel" a new man-made fibre
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  • 266 9 TeacherWho Broke Out Of Purdah KADUNA, Northern Nigeria, Feb. 3, (Reuter) A 33-year-old wife of a blacksmith last night became the first Muslim woman in Nigeria to be decorated by the Queen She is Malama Kubura. a primary school teacher in the remote
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  • 31 9 WASHINGTON. Feb 3, (AP)— Sen. William Langer (Republican. North Dakota) introduced a Bill yesterday to transfer the office of Alien Property from the Justice Department to the State Department.
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  • 78 9 ST LOUIS. Missouri. Feb. 3 (UP)' A cigarette vending machine that "talks' has been unveiled here. The machine, invented b* Mr Herschel Price, delivers an organ flourish and a soft feminine voice saying tna n you, call again." along with the pack of cigarettes. Mr
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  • 218 9 MELBOURNE, Feb. 3 (UP) The Filipinos have offered the world a formula to defeat Communist terro* rism, force and friendship, p Lieut Gen Jesus Vargas, the Philippines military adviser tc the South-east Asia Treaty Organization, told the recent SEATO meeting in Melbourne how
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  • 67 9 BLAYDON. England, Feb l (Pieuter) The Opposition Labour Party retained its parliamentary seat in a by election polled here yester day. The result announced to day was: Mr R. E. Woof, Lah 'our. 18.791 votes. Mr. John Reay Smith, Con servative. 8,077 votes. The contest wa s
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  • 66 9 OSAKA. Japan, Feb. 3 (AP, Thousands were late tf work here yesterday when 1,000 angry commuters squat ted on the railroad tracks de manding an empty train 10 replace one that had broker down. Traffic on one of Osaka", majoi suburban lines wa.* stalled for three
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  • 596 9 Is It Destruction From Long Range?' Three Have Means To Annihilate Each Other US.-Britain Can't Find The Answer, Says Eden WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, (Reuter) Sir Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister, told the United States Senate yesterday that America, Britain and Russia commanded or soon would command, the means to annihilate
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  • 152 9 HE WAS A BIG HIT IN CONGRESS Ml. Anthony Eden proved a big di awing card in Conprcss. The galleries of both the Senate and the House of Representatives were packed and a majority of the spectators were women. Overflow crowds stood in the corridors waiting to catch a glimpse
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  • 213 9 PARIS, Feb. J (AP)— French Premier Guy Mollet decided today to fl> to Algiers next Monday to confront personally a rising tide of opposition to his policies among French residents ol Algeria. A lengthy cabinet session. I ti.- first for the new Mo!
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  • 135 9 BANGALORE. Feb. 3 (AP) The Soviet Union touched off another battle of words in the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East ECAFE) conference today by demanding circulation ot a Red Chinese report showing industrial progress on the China mainland. As in his other
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    671 10  -  tl n*"it'Wii&+£m m A FEW days ago. on January 27, the musical world commemorated the 200th birthday of Mozart, the great Austrian composer who, during a brief lifetime, wrote with equal success for every known musical medium of his day. During this Jubilee Year he will be remembered
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    632 10  -  VICTOR DOGGETT Reviewed by BEETHOVEN. Sonata in F minor, OP. 57 ("Appassionata"). Sonata in A major, OP. 2 No. 2 Robert Casadesus (piano). PhiliDS AR *****. SCHUMANN. F a s c h i n gsschwank aus Wien, OP. 26. Fantasiestucke, OP. 12. Karl Eng e 1 (piano). Philips
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  • 421 10  - Making friends with the HORN Bob Thomas HOLLYWOOD. T OUIS ARMSTRONG, Americas ambassador without portfolio but with horn, is willing to continue making friends for America wherever he's sent even behind the Iron Curtain. "Russia? That's okay with me," he says- "They say the Russians don't like music, but that
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  • 107 10 Laughs for All "TiHERE is a Martian prowling around In our fields!" was the news that shook the village of Seilhac, in France. The "Martian" turned out to be an American soldier of Chinese origin, stationed in Germany and spending his leave in France. Armed with a geiger-counter and other
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  • 25 10 AN American soldier post--ri ed in Germany found nine of his uncles and aunts were living in the district where he was stationed.
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  • 74 10 —AN ESCORT ALARM. It fits the palm of a woman's hand. The slightest touch of a button sets off an ear-srlitting siren so that police are called to the rescue. —WHISKY FLAVOURED TOOTH-PASTE ot three kinds Scotch. Bourbon and rye. "Genuine mouthwatering. Makes cleaning
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  • 899 10  -  JOHN HALKIN from &rcu4 WTHEN it was first proposed to introduce commercial television into England, there were many people who claimed that this would result only in programmes of a generally low standard. They pointed out that the type of programme produced in both
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    • 158 10 DO YOU REMEMBER INTERNATIONAL EVENTS IN RETROSPECT This picture was the best taken in 1950 and it won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for that year. It shows a grim facet of a war which involved some of the world's great nations. Can you recall when? Caption below explains, 3*BB« S
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  • 422 11  - Research Discovery Invention M. A. Glasgow by- LONDON. \OT so long ago, we were 1* hearing a great deal about the value of titanium in the industrial vjorld. Now it is the turn of zirconium to hit the headlines and this Tetal is likely to appear in the news more
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  • 214 11 •THE inside story of the A Roosevelt Cabinet provided by the first two volumes of Secretary Jjiarold L. Ickes's "Secret I jpiary" is continued no tfess interestingly in the third. THE LOWERING CLOUDS, 1939-1941 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 31s. 6d.). Once again no attempt has been made to
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  • 1440 11  - The Deadliest of the Atomic Traitors STANDARD'S Feature Series-TRIAL FOR TREASON- R4Z E M *^k Mf MLM m m JJis early life in Germany. Anti-Nazi turns Communist. Flees to Britain. A Gestapo warning. A brilliant student. Interned and released to work on atomic research. Treachery in America. A full report
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  • 520 11  -  Christine Diemer Horrors Afloat by H. M. S. ULYSSES, by Alistair MacLean (Collins, London, 12s. Gd.) EVERY horror known to a ship at sea engaged in modern warfare, and to the hapless men aboard her, is crowded into this book almost to the point of incredibility.
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  • 409 11  - Old Gurkha Hand JOHN RAYMOND BUGLES AND A TIGER By John Master. (Michael Joseph. 165.) im] Then oh, ecstasy! hard fingers were rubbing brandy butler into my hair and stuffing Christmas pudding into my ears. I was forgiven, accepted! I flung myself with abandon into the riot, and the steaming
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    • 253 11 i u i D I T*> I I mMMr I P iß^Bl bbM fIH bbbJ bbbj bb9 y KH 138 Ebbl bbm B ■H bbßbbjbbbbL I_JbM_P K— 'ii I Bj w^ I T7~^ I-*-"* I i I 1 BBBJI I nißl 24. That the Fixd ...s almost I.LLtS receive (King
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  • 28 12 $800,000 BUILDING AN architect's perspective of the new $800,000 building for Federal Dispensary which will be opened in Kuala Lumpur on Monday. The architects are Booty and Edwards.
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  • 375 12 Biggest Dispensary In Far East Opening FAITH IN MALAYA'S FUTURE FEDERAL Dispensary, with a record of over half a century's service to chemists and doctors in Malaya, will open the largest building for pharmaceutical products in the Far East in Kuala Lumpur on Monday. The new building in the Federal
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  • 320 12 Finance And Commerce <. THIS year more than ever it is difficult to hazard a prophesy on future results as much will depend on the manner of striding forward to self-government, says Mr. H. F. Clements, chairman of Messrs. William Jacks Co. Ltd.
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  • 161 12 1.5 m. Net Profit For Wm. Jacks Int. Dividends THE chairman of Messrs. William Jacks Co. Ltd.. Mr. H F. Clements, in his annual statement says that the company has experienced another very satisfactory \ear with a net profit of $1,519,998 compared with $1,282,826 for the previous year. The sales
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  • 60 12 MALACCA. Fri. Mr. P. Lignon, a director of A. Clouet and Co (Malaya) Ltd. is due tomorrow to open a branch office at Bunga Raya. To mark the opening, a dinner is to be held at Spring Cafe. Later, at a cocktail in the City Cabaret.
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  • 366 12 THE pattern of the rubber market this week has been very similar to that of last and possibly the most salient factor has been the reluctance with which sellers of off-grades are meeting the market for nearby shipment to most destinations, says the weekly report
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  • 41 12 NEW YORK, Feb. 3 (UP) Dow- Jones Closing Averages: STOCKS 30 Industrials 473.43 20 Rails 158.47 15 Utilities 64.35 65 Stocks 168.39 BONDS 40 Bonds 99.08 The Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index (1924-26 average equals 100) closed at 152.04.
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  • 24 12 TOTAL exports of rubber, all grades, to all countries, from Singapore and the Federation of Malaya during January amounted to 78,654 tons.
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  • 144 12 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday: copra Feb. $27J buyers, $273 sellers; March $272 buyers. $272 sellers; Maich $275 buyers. $28i sellers; coconut oil (bulk) $40 sellers, coconut oil (drums) $43 sellers; Muntok white pepper $134 sellers. Sarawak white $133 sellers. Special Sarawak black
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  • 97 12 MAiVY dealers ba Singapore ond the Federation have reported good sales for Beehive V.S.O.P. Brandy since the start of the "free gift" scheme sponsored by The Eastern Agencies (1946) Ltd., the local agents. Any customer who has collected six corks and red capsules from the Beehive V.S.O.P.
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  • 168 12 THE sharp drop in the tin metal price was largely re*, ponsible for the decline in til shares prices in the Malayan market yesterday. Rubber shares were easier, while industrial shares were barely steady. Price changes announced by the Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Seller» Rights .40
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  • 109 12 SINGAPORE sharebrok > yesierdav reported the fo. ing business done: Feb Disp. $2.30 xr. Rights 48 and 50 cents: Gammon $2.40; G. E. Life $75: Hammer $2.82.; Breweries $3.50; M. Cement $1.67i: Metal Bnx $1.65: Robinson ords $2 60, $2.62 *>: Singapo-e Cold Storage $1.62J. $1.01; Straits Traders
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  • 134 12 THE rubber market In Singapore again closed easitA* first grade rubber fll February shipment beirl quoted $1.07 per lb., a drop of I cent on Thursday. The market opened quiet at $I .OB J. a rise of one cent on Thursday, and remained at the level until about
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    • 934 12 TENDERS INVITED SUPPLY OF COOKED FOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE. KUALA LUMPUR. HTENDERS will be received at the office of the Principal. Technical College, Kuala Lumpur for the supply of cooked food for a period of 6 months commencing from 20th February. 1956. Schedule of meals and menus can be had on
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    • 205 12 NOTICES THE PENANG TURF CLUB SPRING MEETING, 1956. SATURDAY, 25TH FEBRUARY, 1956. WEDNESDAY. 29TH FEBRUARY, 1956. SATURDAY, 3RD MARCH, 1956. ENTRIES close at 12 o'clock Noon on Wednesday, 15th February, 1956. Application Lists for SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS for the Financial Year, Ist September. 1955 to 31st August. 1956, are now open.
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    • 557 12 Estate of FOO CHEE TWEE, deceased. PURSUANT to Section 29 of The Trustees Ordinance (Chapter 59) Notice is hereby given that all creditors and other persons having any claims against the Estate of tht abovenamed deceased late of No. 20 Lorong 33 Geylang, Singapore, wtio died on the 24th day
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    • 43 12 NOTICES ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD m.v 'KOTA AGOENG" ARRIVED on 2nd instant. Damaged packages may be tendered for survey at godown 20-D on 16th instant at 8.30 a.m. No further survey will be held ROTTERDAM TRADING CO. (M) LTD. Shipping Department Tel: ***** Agents
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    • 58 12 THE FEDERAL DISPENSARY LTD. and THE ASSOCIATED IMPORTERS LTD. Have pleasure in announcing the opening of their new building in Kuala Lumpur on 6th February. The building is named tht Mansion House and is situated at the junction of Yap Ah Loy St., and High Street, Kuala Lumpur THE FEDERAL
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 644 13 THE SINGAPORE SHIPOWNERS ASSOCIATION j invites the public to give generously to THE MISSIONS TO SEAMEN CENTENARY APPEAL FUND 0 —"T r- ;-______=_E \\\\\\c^^^^ mm^V***m\ PJB_Hl*__i JL m _______________^____________^__l ===r mzr *^H WW m^mk Sm o^HBH, WW I Bm VBr M MMMtwAt mmmM MM i™^ mum mm^M _v H I
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  • 148 14 Loft: 1/ i n g ol i n i and l Cugenheim of Rome launch 'Taurus the Hull'' their Spanish inspired 1 line for their SpringSummer styles. This\ model is in emerald! tirccn and while silk with* red trimmings, convertible into a sun-bathing-suit by detaching the*
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  • 804 14  -  ALISON SETTLE by Detachable overskirts for women and detachable capelets; swinging side panels; tiered skirts, also bead embroideries on dance dresses: ali these new fashion points by Antonelli attracted less attention than Brioni's 1956 fashions for men. His short overcoat with ribbed jersey collar
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    47 14 IN magazine svmposium ron "How I Met The Wile" ont entrant said: "I turni-d to regard a pretty girl in i he cinema. We sroke and from that moment I have ne'.'-er looked back." YOU DAREN'T CHUM! "But they ARENT my glasses, dear they're y«urs!"
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  • 449 14 nothing fair about this love game. Men have it all their own way. They do the choosing, the chasing, the proposing and the breaking off. (Thank goodness, they also do the paying.) But this year, girls, is LEAP YEAR. The boot's on the other foot
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  • 335 14  - THEY WILL MAKE THE QUEEN GAY John Walters By of Nigeria the Happy Country have Imade a happy vow. It is to make Queen Elizabeth laugh. With the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen will make a grand spectacular tour and Nigeria's 32,000.000 men, women and children are all in a
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    • 272 14 TO I) AV S QUOTATION: "Let ii* be of good rheer. howexer. remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come" Lowell. s\ti R|».\V LOR LVim ONI.: Maintain poise. d;gnit>. practicality: don't overdo, especially concerning alcohol. c beverages, expenditures VOIR HIRIHOATE AND KIRTHXON ARlLS— March 21 to
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  • 597 15  -  PETER HILL >^»i_^^— »«w_ KU I************ Dislocated Shoulder Ends Fight In Round 3 INTO everybody's life some rain must fall; last night at the Happy World, Singapore, a formidable deluge in the form of Mike R a v u 1 a, middleweight champion of
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  • 319 15  - TROUBLE IS BREWING IN THE S.H.A. VERITY GILL By THERE'S trouble brewing within the Singapore Hockey Association's coaching panel and unle**. this trouble boils over, about $30,000 will be going one way down the drain. In case you are curious, this $30,000 or more is the money that must be
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  • 81 15 RUGBY: SCC Ist XV vs. Fiji Regt. at SCC, Nival Base rs. REME at Naval Base, Tengah Nnmads vs. 14 Sq. RNZAF at Tengah, RAF Saracens vs. S'pore Eng. Regt. at SER. BOWLING: Final at American Club 2 p.m. BADMINTON: Foong Scong Cup-final, Singapore vs. Penang (Ist Day)
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  • 88 15 THE challenge round of the Foong Seong Cup badminton tournament between Penang and Singapore to be played in the Singapore Badminton Hall will start at 8 p.m. today. The programme fpr to-night's play (Penang players first) is as follows: Ist singles: Ooi Teik Hock v Omar bin
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  • 199 15  -  EDTN PETERS By COLONY soccer champions, Marine Department Sports Club, yesterday denied a report in an English newspaper that two of their stars, Johan Hassan and Hassan Ariff, have signed on for the Rovers Sports Club for the coming season. Mr. Ang Soon Hoe. the
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  • 73 15 SINGAPORE Amateur Football Association's finance and administrative committee last night approved a proposal to send Hai ith Omar and John Then to England to attend a coaching course. Hai ith and Then would probably leave in June. But first the SAFA council must give their
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  • 239 16 BANK ON ROYAL WORLINGTON II _Wy#^^. t i^j^^v^^^fi^^^oßßß|^^^^B PROMOTION WON'T STOP THIS SPRINTER, SO Says WINDSOR LAD ROYAL WORLINGTON II can win again at Bukit Timah today. This Denturius gelding won so impressively in Class 3 last Saturday that I take him to make it a double despite having been
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  • 1579 16 RACE 1: 2.15 p.m.— Horses Class 2, Div. 3— 6 Furs. 1. 160 Jetty 6y 9.00 M u Chippindale Lee 2. 245 Credit Balance 4v 8.12 Mr. Mrs. S.C. Law Tjoa Larkm 3. 210 Greet 6y 8.11 Mr. H.W. Cowling Mrs. JR. Rodgers Rodgers J. Jones 4
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  • 687 16 RACE ONE NEWCOMER Nicol Wings has been working well and I expect him to win first up today. Nicol Wings comes with a useful English record. Ore could go close. He is down 4 lb. since missing his race on Wednesday. Culvardo could run
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  • 30 16 HEAVY rain fell again in Singapore late yesterday afternoon and ruled out all possibility of any improvement in the going. The track this afternoon will again be heavy.
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  • 66 16 THE Perak Turf Club's meeting will be held on Mar. 10. 14 and 17. Class Three and Class Five horses are catered for. Distances are: Class Three: First run— s£ Furs. Straight or 8J Furs; second run six furlongs or nine furlongs. Clas s Five: First run— s£
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  • 42 16 TODAY'S best bets selected by the Standard's team of tipsters are: WINDSOR LAD: Royal Worlington II and Ever Victory. SCRUTINEER: Perfect Pearl and Gular 11. THE PILOT: Flower Queen and Kerry Laughter. TRUNDLE HILL: Royal Worlington II and Crawthorne Wood.
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  • 214 16 Windsor Lad The Pilot Trundle Hill Scrutineer NirOL WINGS CILVARDO £*£2* M EDDING WALTZ lOre Credit Balance Wedding V.altz Ore < uivardo Mrong Beam Farwaas t red it Balance rvV(KrR i. lIOUFK OIEEN ENOLA GAY I LOWER Ql EEN 2 f£S2^sSe_ SS? oV tEEJj ys^KL ?v:^ u <,aUMr Enola
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  • 470 16 RACE SIX NICK has shown pretty consistent form in recent starts that he could take the Bukit Timah Cup over nine furlongs for Class 2 (race 6.). This five-year-old Niccolo Dell'Arca gelding showed his staying ability when he scored over nine
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