Singapore Standard, 7 February 1956

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  • 37 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD POLICI _?tt F^T VtM *^C FH BRICADI GENERAL HOSPITAL ***** <5 __h4 2400 ~Tr+ J l\j J -lE. 2 81l 2414 \ol. V. No. 215 SLNGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1956 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 308 1 Reds Told Behave Or Else... It's Their Last Day To Give In THE EMERGENCY Regulations may >e re-introduced in Singapore, but only if he situation deteriorates seriously and presents a grave threat to the security of he Island. Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, yesterJay sounded this
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  • 345 1 AN ALL-PARTY delegation from Britain has been invited to visit Singapore to "judge for themselves the extent of the feeling here for independence/' said Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, yesterday. The delegation will also be asked to see for themselves the "magnificent type of
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  • 193 1 Major Rendel Change LOCAL GOVT. C TTEE MOOTS THE recommendations of t_i- Committee on Local Gov- ta -.ent. if adopted by the I -ipore Legislative Assembly tomorrow will be the Ant major change in the Rendel Constitution. The Committee recommends that from its inception, the new City Council should be
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  • 62 1 OTTAWA. Feb. 6 (Reuter) Sir Anthony Eden today held his first formal conference with the Canadian cabinet during his present five-day visit to Ottawa, Accompanied by Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, his Foreign Secretary, he reported to the Canadian Prime Minister Mr. Louis St. Laurent and other
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  • 28 1 A CANADIAN salvage tug te.-t rday raced to the aid of a Liberian freighter which radioed it was drifting helpin the Atlantic 800 •^s^ofllalifax^Nova U.P.
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  • 23 1 TERRORISTS, armed with bren gun s and rifles, raided three villages on West Java killing three villagers, recent- U.P.
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  • 47 1 photo. SPEARS arc flourished as mounted tribesmen thunder toward the Royal Stand in the Royal "Jahi" Salute charge which was the climax of the Durbar attended by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Ka d una, Nigeria, on Feb. 2._______ A. P.
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  • 210 1 NO NOD FROM UK. YET BANGKOK, Feb. 6 (UP)— The United States and two other SEATO nations will conduct this month their biggest defence exercises since the Manila Pact alliance was formed to defend South-east Asia against Communist aggression, the United States announced. U.S. Army, Navy,
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  • 60 1 LONDON. Feb. (Reuter)— Flags flew from public buildings throughout Britain today to mark the fourth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne. A 62-gun salute boomed out from the Tower of London, the ancient fortress on the Thames Bank. Royal navy ships in port fired
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  • 35 1 THE long delayed second meeting of the Asian People's Anti-Communist League will be held in Manila on March 9. the South Korean chapter disclosed in Seoul yesterday. A.. It will last five days.-
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  • 153 1 NICOSIA. Feb. 6 (UP) British troops and hundreds of Greek Cypriot students fought pitched battles through the streets of Famagusta today with the British using tear gas grenades and police dogs to try to restore order. One man was shot in the leg when a
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  • 69 1 BRUNEI. Feb. 6 (Reuter)— British Malayan Petroleum Company aircraft and ships are searching today off the coast of Brunei and northern Sarawak for the 50-ton selfpropelled barge Lee Lee missing with a crew of six aboard. The Lee Lee owned by a contracting firm left Miri
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  • 44 1 THREE thugs early this morning beat up taxi driver Tay Ah Ming. 57. and robbed him of $14 after forcing him to take them to a dark spot in Dunman Road. They fled after throwing away his identity card and arm badge.
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  • 27 1 FORD Motor Company employees collected more than a million dollars last year for ideas they submitted under the company's employee sug- A.. gestion plan.—
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  • 159 1 STRIKE TO END TODAY? MELBOURNE, Feb. 6 Shipowners today rejected the strikers' latest compromise terms for a settlement of the 15-day-old nationwide Australian dock strike. A prominent trade union leader said later: "This will be the end of the strike. We will not be able to carry on." He said
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  • 84 1 COLOMBO. Feb. 6 (UP) Burma has agreed to reduce the price of rice, K. Alvapillai, permanent secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, reported today upon his return from Rangoon. Alvapillai was discussing the reduction of the price of rice with Burmese officials and
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  • 78 1 COLOMBO, Feb. 6 (Reuter) Tamils in a northern province of Ceylon are preparing a petition to the Queen urging her intervention in a national dispute which threatens their language. The Tamil community, second largest language group in Ceylon after the Singhalese, are protesting against the
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  • 171 1 FREEZE ENDS LONDON. Feb. 6 Panic gripped millions of people in Britain and Western Europe as the great thaw replaced the worst cold wave of the century. The death toll rose to well over 180 (with many more still not accounted for due to disruption of
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  • 75 1 BANGALORE. Feb. 6 (Reuter) Russia today announced that she would grant 200 scholarships to students from under-developed countries of the ECAFE (Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East) region. The leader of the Soviet delegation. Mr. Maletin. told a resumed session of ECAFE here today
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  • 58 1 COLOMBO. Feb. 6 (UP) Sheet rubber for Communist China was piling up here today at what Rubber Commission officials termed an "extremely satisfactory" rate. They said some 5.000 tons have already accumulated and pointed out that only some 6.000 tons were needed by the end of
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  • 27 1 DUTCH lawyer A. C. Van Empel will not be officially permitted to defend two compatriots on trial in Jakarta for alleged subversive actlvities. U.P
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  • 209 1 Tunku Can End It 8-YEAR-WAR LONDON. Mon. The wide powers that the Federation Chief Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, will be given as Defence Minister shows that in British eyes he is the only man who can end the eight-year-cld guerilla war. informed sources said today. The Commonwealth stake in Malaya
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  • 742 2 THE RURAL Board should cease to exist and the basic pattern of future local government should comprise a City Council and four district councils administering Singapore Island and the smaller islands to the north, states the report of the Committee on Local Government, released yesterday. The
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  • 115 2 THE following comprised the Committee on Local Government. Sir Percy McNeice (Chairman) S. G. Burlock S. Jaganathan H. J. C. Kulasingha Lim Siew Ek J. T. Rea S. T. Stewart Syed Haron Alhabshee Toh Chin Chye Wong Foo Nam S. J. Askew (Secretary). ROAD TRAFFIC: The police
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  • 436 2 Use Of Land— Unique Problem For The Colony THE land utilization problems of Singapore are unique. This is the view expressed by Dr. J. F. N. Murray, a land expert from Australia, in his report submitted to the Minister for Local Government, Lands and Housing, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji
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  • 552 2 MORE and more of the once conservative population of Singapore are now looking to Western medical treatment, states the Medical Department annual report for 1954, released yesterday. The report urges the need for rapid expansion of medical facilities due to the natural
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  • 139 2 THE public will be asked to pay more for their water. electririt> ano gas if the service's are run by public corporation. This is one of the main objections raised hy two members of the Comnuv sion seconded to writ? the Local Government report Messrs. S. Jag
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  • 241 2 Cloth And Needles Smuggled Out Of Jail MORE than $700 wortH of cloth and sewing n chine needles were smuggled out of Changi Prison, Singapore, in 1954, it I revealed yesterday. The Annual Audit Report of Accounts for 1954, published yesterday, also disclosed that the Police k^ seven revolvers plus
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  • 145 2 THE Liberal Socialist Party yesterday consolidated its strength in the Singapore Legislative Assembly when independent Assemblyman. Mr. R Jumabhoy joined it s ranks. The Party will now have seven names in the Assembly and hopes eventually to have two more Announcing his intention to join the
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  • 362 3  - ITS BEEN TOO QUIET WITH THE OPS BR ASS K. C. ARUN By. Not One Meeting Since Tunku Left ARE THEY DITHERING TOO? Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Director of Operations Committee, which is the Federation's top policy body regarding the Emergency, has nor met since the departure
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  • 85 3 DR. Sir Kamil Mohamed An'// addresses the gathering at the teaparty, in honour of being conferred a knighthood by the Queen, at the E. O. Hotel, Penang, on Saturday. The party icas sponsored by the Penang Muslim community under the auspices of the Penang Malays Association. From
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  • 153 3 A HOUSEWIFE was given a ride in a motor-car by four airmen and robbed of $41, a Singapore court was told yesterday. The housewife. Chee Yong Lim, was testifying in the Third Criminal District Court against Norman Alger. 30. Arthur Wa? 3 27, Robert Giilen,
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  • 173 3 FULL-BLOODED Dyak. Bennet Empam. although being Native Administrative Officer in the Sarawak village of Kapit, in Sibu, looked skywards at the tall, dizzy buildings of Singapore and swayed a little on his feet. Empam. a Catholic, is in the Co ony to
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  • 37 3 A LABOURER. Loke Weng Yew. 34. was found dead in a bathroom of a factory in Tan Quee Lan Street yesterday. He had a throat wound. Police making investigations have recovered a knife.
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  • 54 3 MALACCA. Mon. A detective sergeant. Wong Hoong Pun. died in the hospital here this evening as a result of a gunshot wound in his temple. The incident is believed to have taken place at the Settlement Police Headquarters at Fort Road, outside the Photographic Department to
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  • 30 3 A TOTAL of 213 families fc'ho suffered losses during the recent Singapore floods were yesterday paid $38,062 bv the Singapore Government Nearly 1.000 people were paia
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  • 27 3 FRANCE is considering inviting the Soviet Prime Minister Marshal Nikolai Bulganin to make an official visit to Paris, the evening newspaper France Soir said yesterday.—Reuter.
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  • 363 3 A SINGAPORE sea-captain's wile. Bryce Bereford Fenwick, 49. committed suicide one or two days after her husband jailed for Sibu. Sarawak, on Dec. 30, last SHAW Brothers O.ganization in Malaya yesterday distributed "ang pows" and gifts to more than 2,000
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  • 337 3 39-Hour Week Called A BILL providing a 39-hour week for clerks and 44-hour week for shop assistants, will come up at Singapore Legislative Assembly, tomorrow. The bill, known as the "white-collar" charter. would regulate the service conditions for clerks, shop assistants and certain categories of
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  • 34 3 KUALA LUMPUK, Mon. The Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board announced today that the winning ticket number for one of the sixth prizes of $5,000 is *****06 and not *****06..
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  • 164 3 THE history of Singapore is a record of solid achievement combined with a romantic and human story said the Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, yesterday. "It is one from which we should derive encouragement in undertaking our responsibilities, and still further to enhance our
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  • 107 3 Ease Trade Rules-Urges ECAFE THE Secretariat of ECAFE should study and recommend ways and means of simplifying regulations and procedure for trade within ECAFE countries. This suggestion was made by the Trade and Industry Committee at the ECAFE meeting held at Bangalore recently. Singapore's Assistant Minister for Commerce and Industry,
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 67 3 Weather Report Minimum Temperature From 7.30 p.m. Feb. 5 to 7.30 a.m. Feb. b Singapore (73F>: Penang (71F); Kota Bahru (74F); Kuala Lumpur (72F) Ipoh (71F); Kuantan GIF). Maximum lemperature: From 7.39 am to 7.30 p.m. Feb. b Singapore (8oF); Penang (86F): Kota Bahru (85F): Kuala Lumpur (89F); Ipoh (93F);
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  • 311 4 CHEE FAH' NEST MOVES TO KLANG And Mr. X Is Heard Of Again By Our Crime Reporters KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A powerful crime syndicate has taken over the local chee fah (36 characters lottery empire lost two years ago by "Mr. X," an underworld lord after
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  • 254 4 'FIND ONG'S KILLER' —That's Top Priority PENANG, Mon. Police have given top priority for the captuie of the murderer of Mr. Ong Ewe San, chief clerk and cashier of United Traders Limited. He was found dead in his office room in Beach Street last Saturday. Every available detective and police
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  • 37 4 HONGKONG. Feb. 6 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $15.77 to £1 Sterling. 50. 8775 to US$l: $1,840 to Malayan $1: $0,150 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $256,625 to a tacl.
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  • 151 4 t'I.OSINd ronber price* ('cnU prr «b >• Sine* \r**rt- vesterdav were. Bnv*r«- Spli»»r« Spot fob. 1072 107, January 107, 107; N*. 2 Jan 10.1V 106 No. 3 Jan. 105, 105] Tone: Quiet lIN PRICE Ihe price o» tin yesterday was 5371 per picul (Down 62. cis). <ONI*ON Rl
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  • 334 4 Young Contractor Jailed On Red Document Charges AMIDST the protesting cries of his relatives, a 21-year-old building contractor, sentenced to five years' imprisonment, was hurried out of the Singapore First District Court yesterday by the police. Wang Hsueh Chuan was convicted of having terrorist documents on Nov 6. 1955. Two
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  • 197 4 SINGAPORE'S Minister for Education. Mr. Chew Swee Kee, yesterday charged the Malay Educational Council with twisting a 'purely educational matter into a political -issue." In a Chew I the the I that the trouble theß "I been given I the students a hearing I
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  • 38 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.One person was kii'ed and tnree others injured yesterday when a tree erasned into a lorry passing the llth mile. Klang. Mr. Tan Choo. a merchant, received the fatal blow.
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  • 84 4 PENANG. Mon. The Penang Discussion Group will hold a Chinese New Year social at the Khek Association hall on Feb. 22. to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Several items have been included for the night such as community singing, quiz and indoor games. Chinese supper
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  • 65 4 PENANG. Mon. A Baling rubber tapper, Suppiah, went to Penang to see movies, the Magistrate's Court was told today. However. Suppiah was found drunk and incapable by the Police at Jelutong Road yesterday. Suppiah pleaded guilty to a drunken charge and was discharged with a
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  • 352 4 Thugs Flee In Pirate Cab A SINGAPORE middle aged woman, Lim Ah Ki_Tw, was brutally beaten up by a gang of robbers yesterday, when she refused to surrender her cash and jewellery in Lorong Engku Aman. Blood streaming down her face after being punched
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  • 120 4 Jailed For Stabbing Detective A SINGAPORE detective, on patrol duty who received information that a gang fight was about to take place, was himself stabbed by a gangster. a Singapore Court was told yesterday. Prosecutor. Inspector T. S. Zain. said this in the Fourth Magistrate's Court when Tay Tio Kwang,
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  • 112 4 THE "Britannia." pride of British aviation will be in service before the end of next year, said the Deputy chairman of BOAC, Lord Rennell. when he arrived in Singapore yesterday. Lord Rennell who was accompanied by his wife, is on his way to Australia
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  • 204 5 Leaders Shocked, Army Denies FOOD SEARCH: JOHORE BAHRU, Mon —Malay leaders here today expressed shock that men are permitted to search women in village food checks. They referred to the incident at Kampong Sri Lallang in Kluang on Jan. 5 this year when 12 Malay women were allegedly searched bv
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  • 141 5 Mr. Speaker Returns From Talks I SPEAKER of the Singapore Legislative Assembly. Mr. G.E.N. Oehlers. arrived in the Colony b v Qantas-BOAC yesterday after attending a meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association General Council. Immediately after he stepped down from the plrne. Mr. Oehlers held up the Chief Secretary, Ministers,
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  • 53 5 SINGAPORE'S Governor, Sir Robert Black, will take the salute at the ceremonial parade of the Royal Malayan Navy at the Navy's barracks, Woodlands, at 5.30 p.m. tomorrow The band of the Royal Marines, under thc direction of Senior Commissioned Bandmaster S C Cooper, will
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  • 68 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The committee of the Federation School for the Deaf is anxious to collect records of all deaf children from 2 to 20 years of age in order to make educational provisions for them. The public are requested to notify the names and addresses of
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  • 698 5 As They've Been Loyal— Rankers SINGAPORE'S first Sergeant-at-Arms in the Legislative Assembly, the former ASP Mahmood bin Wahab, surprised last night's public session of the Malayanization Commission when he declared he would turn down an offer to be Commissioner of Police, if made to
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  • 151 5 A 250-pound Tudor Rose had a warm reception at the Public Works Department stores in Kandang Kerbau. Singapore, where it was delivered yesterday. It was bathed in warm sunshine, showing the dustcovered petals of the sandstone Rose. It looked more like a giant clay moulded cauliflower
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  • 134 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.-Mr. Justice Storr in the High Court today asked Inche Bahaudin bin Yacob DPP, to bring to the notice of the Chief Police Officer that prosecuting officers should not ask courts to impose deterrent sentences. The judge said this when S.
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  • 89 5 A TIN of burning petrol was Hung at a Singapore schoolboy accidently in Kallang Road yesterday. The boy. Yap Ah Mcng 13 was severely burnt and "was admitted to the General Hospital. Yap was on his way home from school when the driver of a
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  • 53 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon When charged in the Sessions Court today with being in possession of 16 packets of chandu. Kim Soon, of Scudai said that the chandu was used to relieve his illness caused by the Japanese during the occupation. He was fined $100 or
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  • 68 5 SINGAPORE'S Public Relations Officer. Mr. George G. Thomson, will represent thc Colony at the AFETC (AsiaFar East Travel Commission) and PATA (Pacific Air Travel Association) conferences in rokyo from Feb. 12 to 18. Mr. Thomson is also chairnan of the working partv considering the establishment of 3
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  • 938 6 Liberal Socialism THE architects of the political merger which has brought into being Singapore's Liberal Socialist Party have issued a fair and reasoned statement of their aims and policy. Based on the popular platform of working for the welfare of the country and for the building up of
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  • 855 6  -  ANTHONY NEVILLE KARACHI PAKISTAN, the connecting link between the Middle East and So u t h-e as t Asian defence organizations, besides acquainting the British and U.S. Governments of her disappointment over the lack of support, also plans to do some plain speaking when the South-east Asian Treaty Organization
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  • 816 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME ASTER GUNASEKERA WHILE EDMA was seeing the lierhl of day in Ipoh. two political bodies in Sin EUROPEANS domiciled in Malaya have hitherto preserved sepulchral silence in the broil of politics, an attitude of mind which led to the popular misconception that all Europeans
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  • 99 6 Sir: May 1 draw your attention to your editorial "Strange Neutralism" wherein you alleged that the Society for the Delence ot Freedom in Asia with headquarters ln Calcutta has had to stop functioning owing to governmental action. Investigations have since been made and we have received Information that
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  • 410 6 Sir; Reading through the news recently I sot the impression that the writer of the article in the bulletin of the Graduate Teachers' Association is either the mouthpiece of some expatriate official or a typical product of a colonial system of education where emphasis is always plared on
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  • 66 6 Where credit is due... Sir: "Singaporean," I believe, is interested in criticizing without first finding out the achievements of the Chief A-tnt's-ter. who has been working tirelessly to bring up this Colony before the eyes of the world. I am really disgusted at the attitude of such people and pray
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  • 125 6 Sir: I read with interest your report heac'ed "Ethics To Be Taught in Colony Schools." While agreeing tnat moral ethiC6 should be taught among children so that they would become better citizens. I think Christianity shotfld only be taught to Christian children and Mohammedanism to Muslim childnen
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  • 718 6 - Sir: My excuse for writing is that 1 have lived and worked in Singapore for 43 years. During that time I have made some hundreds of friends and acquaintances, from towkays to tukang ayers. from "inches" to tambies. Those who lack the ability to publicly voice their opinion
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  • 124 7 THESE dramatic pictures tell the story of a hoodlum who found out that crime does not pay. Police in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, said that the man in the car (seen attempting to run through a road block) had tried to hold up a small
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  • 283 7 Many Still Have Portraits Of Victoria JOS, Northern Nigeria, Feb. 6 (Reuter)— The tiny church of Saint Pirans, on the hillside here, was packed with 100 Europeans and Africans when Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh attended morning service there yesterday. a powdcdJ| wasH
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  • News briefs
    • 33 7 DAMASCUS. Feb. 6 (AP) Syrian President Shukri Kowatly yesterday indefinitely postponed his one-month state tour of Egypt. Pakistan. India and Saudi Arabia because of personal illness, a palace source said yesterday.
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    • 41 7 NEW DELHI. Feb. 6 (UP) An estimated 20.000 Indians packed the New Delhi YMCA hockey grounds yesterday to hear evangelist Billy Graham discuss brotherly love. Nearly 1.000 persons stepped forward in answer to his call to accept Christianity.
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    • 32 7 ROME. Feb. 6 (Reuter)— The Italian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. Professor Antonio Segni and Professor Gaetano Martino left h_re by train last night for a three-day visit to Bonn.
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    • 32 7 TOKYO. Feb. 6 (UP) Madam Soong Chin-ling, widow of the "father of the Chinese revolution" Dr. Sun Yat-scn. returned to Peking yesterday from a tour of India. Burma and Pakistan.
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    • 43 7 MACAO, Feb. 6 (UP* A group of Chinese farmers fled to this Portuguese colony from Red China in a small sampan yesterday. They said life behind the bamboo curtain was getting "worse and worse, day by day without enough to eat."
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    • 26 7 HONGKONG. Feb. 6 (UP) The Norwegian freighter S.S. Hai Hing rammed and sank a Government tugboat in mid-harbour last night. Two persons were missing.
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    • 31 7 LONDON. Feb. 6. (U_P.l Traffic accidents took 5.517 lives in Britain in 1955, the Ministry of Transport announced yesterday. This was an increase of 507 ever 1954.
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    • 34 7 BRUSSELS. Fcb. 6— Belgian steel workers have won their campaign for a five-day working week after long-drawn negotiations with employers and government representatives. They will also get 15 pa.d holidays a year.
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    • 27 7 LONDON. Feb. 6 (Reuter) Russia has protested to the United States against the intrusion of propaganda balloons over Russian territory. Moscow Radio announced last night.
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  • 83 7 SACRAMENTO. California. Feb. 6 (AP)— Se\enir old Ronald VYendorf ■»n slashed twice in the throat and killed on Sundo in a downtown movie tn.-.itre restroom by a s;range man who followed liim there from the auditorium. Thomas Lynn Johnston, a 24-year-old embalmer. was booked
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  • 299 7 LITTLE HOPE OF FREER RED TRADE IN DULLES TOUR WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (Reuter)— Mr. John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State, is not expected to offer any relaxation of the American attitude to Communist China when he visits Japan and nine other Far Eastern countries on a whirlwind tour
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  • 114 7 Row Over Drill Holes Causes Strike BIRKENHEAD, England. Feb. 6 (UP)— A strike, brought on by a controversy over who should drill the holes in the plates of banana boats being built here went into its 12th week yesterday. Leo McGree Communist district secretary ol the Woodworkers' Union, claims that
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  • 125 7 CAIRO, Egypt. Feb. 6 (UP) The Government yesterday prepared to launch a "sartorial revolution" aimed at getting Egyptians to dress more alike. The campaign reflected annoyance of the educated classes over the myriad clothing styles ranging from na- tive gallabias
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  • 579 7 A DIFFICULT AND DELICATE TASK LONDON, Feb. 6, (Reuter) One of the most pressing problems which will face Sir Anthony Eden when he returns from North America this week will be the extent of self-government Britain should offer the half-million population of Cyprus, diplomatic sources
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  • 167 7 ...If Empire' Attacks Dont Stop LONDON, Feb 6 (AP)— Russian attacks on Britain's colonial policies have given Whitehall second thoughts about its invitation to Soviet Premier Bulganin and party chief Nikita Khrushchev to visit London in April. A Government source said that unless Moscow's propaganda
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  • 151 7 NICOSIA. Feb. 6 (Reuter)— Bishop Kyprianos of Pyrenia. one of the three senior bishops under Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus yesterday openly denounced a self-governing constitution as a solution to the political future of the British island Colony. Political observers here said that his speech
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  • 100 7 A Hug And Lullaby: Its Culture LONDON. Feb. 6 (UP) Husky Soviet Minister of Culture. Nikolai Mikhailov put his arms around a London housewife on Sunday and sang her "an old Russian love song." Mikhailov. presently on a visit to England, sang the song to Mrs. Maurice Hartman during a
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    • 71 7 'ENGLISH ELECTRIC ,/W_>^\ Over 15 sq ft. of wide shelf area \aJ}J/ BRI MCI MC YOU BETTER LMMG Thermostatic temperature Built-in 3-shelf DOOR control with ample range STORE. for all normal require- Full-width FREEZER. X. Ll CTR I C C °7 DRA H -hermeticolly-sealcd refri- Two refrigerated MUMlgeroting unit— guaranteed
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    • 120 7 I sffy Wear it belted Offis Wear it loose !<___ tirK e P er ect r °b e t0 S ''P on f° r e A garden, beach or pool side —or ony other leisure moments. Make jt to your own design. TERRY \\lMfW TOWELLING fJrr 2_T7 /if n<^ don't
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  • 107 8 LOOKING at you with a slight bow is four-year-old Olu Jibowu and that is the Queen on his left. Olu had the important job of presenting a posy to Her Majesty when she arrived to instal the new law courts in Lagos. Nigeria. But
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  • 123 8 NOVARA, Italy. Feb. 6 (Reuter) An Italian court on Saturday sentenced Mrs. Joanne Patino Ortiz to eight months' imprisonment, for having defamed her estranged husband. Mr. Jaime Patino Ortiz, a member of the wealthy Bolivian tin family. Neither Mrs. Patino Ortiz nor her husband were
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  • 63 8 MAN W HO GOT THE BIGGEST STARE... YES, everybody stared at Nigerian Minister for Labour, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboe, as he arrived with his wife, Victoria, at the Federal House of Representatives in Lagos, where the Queen received an address of loyalty from thc Speaker. What were they staring at Chief
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  • 53 8 LONDON. Feb. 6 (J_ei___Tl A new Soviet Commun. party song book has b< i published in Moscow in time for the 20th Party conthis month, Moscow Rad;o said today. Songs include "Listen D< Party." "Thanks to the Pa "Lenin is Always With Y and "Lenin Came
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  • 164 8 Wife Changes His Mind About China HONGKONG, Feb. 6 (UP) Thirty-six year old Chinese student Liu Yung-ming, whom the Chinese Communists claimed was being detained in the United States against his will, was lured into Communist China by his wife today. Liu and his wife stepped across the border separating
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  • 27 8 TAIPEI. Formosa, Feb. 6. (AP) Nationalist warships destroyed a Chinese Communist gunboat in action northwest of Matsu Island last night, the Defence Ministry announced today.
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  • 170 8 LONDON. Feb. 6 (R. The Communist I Worker today splashed on front page an inter given by Tunku Abdul Rahman. Malaya's Chiei Minister, to Mr. Arthur Clegg. ti.e paper's foreign editor. Clegg, who was refused permission by the British Government to go to Malaya :n
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  • 156 8 LONDON, Feb. 6 (Reuter)— Seventeen men speaking for over three million people scattered across Britain's sugar and spice islands of the Caribbean are gathering in London empowered to create a new nation. Their meeting which opens here tomorrow is explicitly a "final'' conference designed
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  • 116 8 YATTENDON, England, Feb (Reuter) Workers ended rix days of toil yesterday when the> recovered the body of a _^-year-old woman from a 134--foot deep disused well into which she fell when a hotel scullery floor collapsed. The dead woman is Mrs. Phyllis Faithfull. chambermaid at
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  • 40 8 SUVA. Fiji Islands, Feb. 6 (Reuter) A mystery submarine hunted in vain by a New Zealand plane last week was reported today to have made a second appearance amid the Fiji islands in the southwest Pacific.
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  • 180 8 CABBAGES GREET MOLLET' S ARRIVAL Minister For Algeria Quits French Settlers Protest t Sell«Out» ALGIERS, Feb. 6, (Reuter)— French Premier Guy Mollet today announced he had accepted the resignation of General Georges Catroux, Minic.er for Alaeria. in his week-old government. I LJie b v air toda y from I to
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  • 203 8 WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, (AP) A U.S. cabinet committee vesterdav recommended longer prison terms, more enforcement agents and better co-ordina-tion of federal-state drives to combat illegal traffic in narcotics in the United States. The White House released the report along with a recommendation by
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  • 30 8 THE Japanese Governs yesterday granted permi to four Japanese businessmen to visit Communist China to make preparations for a Japanese trade fair in Peking and Shanghai. U.P.
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  • 30 8 THE first international conference dealing exclusivrly with the problems I training journalists for newspaper television newsreei and radio work will meet ii^Par^j from April 9 to 13.-B Reuter
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  • 181 8 TUSCALOOSA, Alabama. Feb. 6 (UP)— Autherine Lucy, first Negro student in the University of Alabama's 125-year-old history, will attend classes today despite attempts to "scare" her with two campus demonstrations on successive nights, her attorney said yesterday. More than 1,000 students, mostly on
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  • 56 8 GARDINER, New York. Feb. 6. (UP) A mother and her three young children were found shot to death with a .22 calibre rifle in their isolated Hudson River Valley home yesterday. The tragedy was reported to Police by the woman's husband, who said he was at work when
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  • 46 8 working on the theory Mrs. Alma Tattersall. 28. kJ ed the children and then herself. But they were at a los- o explain how she could I e carried out the triple rr with a gun that requirec -loading after each shot.
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 233 8 FRANKIE I LAINE! TW&gTechN^^ 1 /Ml cxni-n-ScEibwERS Y4Atcc___Sa?_. LUCT MARLOW WILLIAM LESLIE W_P STARTS TODAY AT THE REX MILKMAID C^l^l Mil K W_^ ITIIJL/IY MIUMAID BRANDj I'll; jJ j sßrß^t^H m_i ItJ.II i ffjjjSiJi* Last Dav 3.00, 6.30 9.15 p.m Today 7.10 9.15 p.m. STORY OF ROBINHOOD" "THE MOB" (Tech)
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    • 25 8 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OATr."AV ftESTAVfcANI will be closed for four days preceding the CHINESE NEW YEAR DAY from 9th to 12th Feb. 1956 both days inclusive
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  • 1193 9  -  the night with her lover, opulentlooking Madame Boyer cared little that her husband had just died after a severe illness, Madame had long ceased to care for her ailing husband, a retired Montpellier merchant. When he died in May, 1874, she
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  • 588 9  - Let's be beastly to motorists! Ralph (Champion £\v\\\\\\v\\\\\\\w\\\\\\\\v\\\\\\w ,W WW WW W IBy SO TRAFFIC COPS PINCHED 10,OGO IN ONE WEEKEND I \EW YORK'S tough police commissioner Stephen Kennedy is stepping up his cops' policy of "Let's be beastly to the motorist." Besides his usual formidable band of men with
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    • 303 9 The world famous family of TIGER medicinal products fL\W a*sm. 0"' I '•■jttf-j f^L\ __fl^Q_9r4_B9M^-_S-S3^K k t_ y^ __y j%^_»_t^.rK Sfr?Q— mJ Mmrr tßrnt tmr*r^^ 3^^^3s_^_K^ r rr f T >a w rtrHf TIN PACKED BALASHIN SAI (PAT KUA TAN) Very effective for Coughs, Ina i g estion, Seasickness, Nausea,
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    • 85 9 Mjire? fJOUSEWIVES in a town A1 ln Bedfordshire have been hurrying down to their doors at the sound of a voice crying: "Coalman! Coalman!" They open their doors to find the Rev. T. R. Colman. their local rural dean. BIRDS FOR A SONG ADVERTISEMENT In a Nottingham shop window "EXCHANOK
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 320 9 H__P __i__P I BP __I__P __F* H^ i P* i "r^i^^ i^i^i iT" ~"^|™~"__H^"T^^ T5 I I Ij_ I CLUES 27# Fixed rim n War Department (6) ACROSS 30 Dental Locum tenens? (8) -«u 32. Spa«m around torment is 8 It's greed may get ostrich (J, *l_r_l «8> 33. Twist
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  • 141 10 A POWERFUL industrial delegation left Duesseldorf on Sunday for a six-week tour of the Far East, including Malaya, to stake the claim of West German industry there in competition with the recent export efforts of the Soviet Union. The mission headed by Herr Fritz Berg, president
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  • 485 10 ON the recommendation of the Board of Directors of Hume Industries (Far East) Ltd., Humes Ltd. of Australia, the holder of all the Ordinary Shares in Hume Industries (Far East) Ltd., (formerly known as Hume Pipe), comprising in all
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  • 125 10 Hume Industries (Far East) Ltd. is also Jointly associated with Rheem International of America, (the largest Drum manufacturers in the world) in the operations of RheemHume vFar East) Ltd.. Singapore. This Company manufactures in its Bukit Timah Road Plant the full range of 44 gallon steel
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  • 87 10 AN "Artistes' Night" was held by the SAigapore branch of The Gramophone Co. Ltd., England, at the Capitol Restaurant over the weekend. It was held in conjunction with a Chinese New Year dinner given by the company for its H.M.V. record dealers. Standard photo shows Mr. D.J. Coupland,
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  • 236 10 FLOUR SHORTAGE IN COLONY LIKELY Aust. Strikes May Hit Supplies THE flour market in Singapore is rapidly becoming unsettled and the trade fears a shortage as the dock strikes in Australia approach tl. third week, Colony merchants told The Standard yesterday. The Australian Trade Commissioner in Singapore. ■Vlr. H. M.
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  • 120 10 Biggest Rubber Nursery CEYLON will have the largest rubber nursery in the world when the 90-acre nursery of the Rubber Rehabilitation Board is set up. This nursery will supply 3.000,000 seedlings a year and provide high quality planting: material to rubber owners under the state stabilized rehabilitation scheme. The Board
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  • 105 10 QUIET and dull conditions prevailed in all sections of the Malayan share market as the Chinese New Year approaches, according to the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association. Price changes announced by the Association were: INDUSTRIALS B'lvers Sellers Right* 0.45 050 O. Chinese Bk 36.75 37.25 minim; Austral Amal.
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  • 99 10 MALAYAN sharebrokers >esterday reported the following business done: Fed Disp. righls 48 cents. Gammons $2.35 to $2.42*; F N ords. $1 77'.; Georgetown Disp $2 10: Hammers $2.80. M Cement $1.67i IL66_; Robinson ords $2,624; Cold Storage $1,611. overnight; Steamships $26.50, $26 odd lot; Jacks $3, $2
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  • 75 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copra Feb. $27 buyers. $271 sellers. March $27$ buyers. $28| sellers; coconut oil tbulk) $40 sellers, coconut oil (drums) $43 sellers; Muntok white pepper $133 sellers Sarawak white $132 sellers: Special Sarawak black $91 sellers. Singapore Copra Association
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  • 42 10 TURKISH petrol, produced at the newly completed oil refinery in south-east Anatolia, has gone on sale. The refinerv is expected to produce 50.000 tons of high grade petrol and 110.000 tons of fuel oil. among other products, this year. Reuter.
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  • 187 10 MALAYAN and other overseas businessmen are invited to the 1956 Japan International Trade Fair Ito be held in Osaka in April, the month of Cherry Blossoms. It will cover a space of 1,200,000 sq. ft. with 1,200 indoor and „00 outdoor booths, roughly twice as
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  • 78 10 THE World Bank has reported a slight increase in its net income for the last half of 1955. as compared with a similar period in 1954 During the final six months of 1955. it also said, it made 15 loans, totalling U.5.5146 300.000. Private investors participated
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  • 36 10 STEEL companies in 19 states in the U.S. added 24. million tons last year to nation's steel-making capacity, boosting the total to 128.363.--000 tons, the American Iron and Steel Institute said in New York.
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  • 96 10 OUTER ROADS Bradeverett. Caltex 93. Lucky Carrier. Athos. Nishie Maru. Howa Maru. Daviken. Westfork. Griper. Fernfield. Bedford. Bruas. Soestdyk, Semiramis. Kota Baroe. Ceylon. INNER ROADS Lam Ann. San Geronimo. Darvel. Tong Seang. Petaling. Salong, Soon Bee. Buana. Stia. Sadao, Sirusa. Hai Seng Hin. Pahepa. Perintis. Bidor. Laiwui.
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  • 375 10 Your Best Bet Is Angsana Expert KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Are you in the market for a new set of furniture? Then your best bet is "Angsana," says Mr. EC. Cherrington, former Trade School instructor here. Mr. Cherrington backs his advice with 29 years of "cabinet making" in Malaya, and for
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  • 192 10 BENTA PAYS 20 P.C. THE Chairman of the Benta Rubber Estates, Ltd., Mr. K. D. Hume, states that the policy of strict food denial operations, in combination with continuous pressure by the security forces, and with bombing, seems to have met with outstanding success. Expressing gratitude to
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  • 400 10 B.o.A.C. TO CUT S'PORE -UK. TIME TO 24 HOURS lintutvv Anti Iyammcri&\1 y ammcri&\ BOAC plans to cut travelling time from Singapore to London to 24 hours, Mr. Donald Erskine Crum, the airline's sales manager for South-east Asia, told The Standard yesterday. The normal BOAC schedule from Singapore to London
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  • 40 10 Shipping Tonnage Increases SANDAKAN handled the highest amount of shipping tonnage and cargo last year. Gross shipping tonnage totalled 1.309.752 tons Cargo handled topped the 300.000-ton mark. Labuan was second with 1.133.251 gross tons. Cargo handled amounted to 214,776 tons.
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  • 33 10 KENT (F.M.S.) Tin Dredging Ltd. has declared a second interim dividend oi 10 per cent in respect ot the year ended Dec. 31. 1955. payable in England on Feb. 22.
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  • 135 10 RUBBER GOES UP ONE CENT THE rubber market lnl Singapore closed quiet I terday at one cent above I Saturday's levels, first grade rubber lor February shipment being quoted at $1.07| per lb. The market opened uncertain at around $1.06. per lb., a drop of cent oa Saturday. Some upcountry
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  • 132 10 the corporation, a spokest man for the Association said. Nearly 300 agents, staff and clients were present at the function. Standard photo shows (from left): Mr. Kee Yew Hock, Dr. K.L. Mah. Mrs. Irene Lim, Mrs. Yong Nyuk Lin. Mr. Tan Kok Soon. Mr. Lim Hee Seng.
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  • 118 10 GENERAL Motors Corp. achieved a record smash: tig 'net income of U551.189.000.--000. equal to US$4.3O per i share of common stock and also set new highs in dol.ar sales, employment and payroils in 1955. The figures were disci<^ ed by Mr. Harlow H. Curt ire. president,
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  • 17 10 A POLISH trade de I is at Karachi to nefotii* trade agreement with Paiu* tan.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 255 10 NOTICES HUME INDUSTRIES (FAR EAST) LTD wish to inform al] their customers and Agents that the Company's Head Office and Works in Singapore will be closed from noon, llth February next, to 8 a.m. 20th February next. A small skeleton Office staff will be maintained in the Company's Head Office
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    • 111 10 NOTICES TENDER NOTICE CENTRAL ELECTRICITY' BOARD. FEDERATION OF MALAYA TENDERS are invited for: "EXTENSION and ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING C.E.B. JUNIOR OFFICERS' QUARTERS AT KUALA TRENGGANU" C.E.B. registered Class A. B and C Contractors to apply to the Architect. Central Electricity Board. PO. Box No. 1006. Kuala Lumpur, with a deposit
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 67 10 HOLIDAY, CUTLER, BATH CO.. LTD. Copra FEBRUARY 11 a m $271 $27* Noon $27* $271 4 p.m 527, 527? 5 pm 527, $278 MARCH 11 a.m. $274 $27i Noon $27i $27i 4 p.m $274 $27J 5 p.m $274. $27J APRIL 11 a.m $27, $28J Noon $27, $28, 4 pm $27,
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    • 808 11 ANGLO-FRENCH TRADING CO., LTD. *****/«. *****/4 i 32/6 Robinson Road. THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE NORTH AMERICAN SERVICE To Halifai. Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia Cult Ports. P. Slum Fenang POiTDORUS ■aeo_n_____-lM 8/10 fab 15/1? Feb 18 F.b •OitPMIMUS 19/25 Maa 26 Mae 27/28 Mar Carrion option to proceed' vto other
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    • 1095 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD «c CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 <18 lm (Incorporated in Singapore) <|2 lines) Shipping THE BLUE p UNNiX IJnE Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo' SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL, CLASCOW, LONDON CONTINENT Singapore •Bellerophon for Holland. U W, Hamburg Dublin Avonmouth f r
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    • 830 11 MITSUI p2j LINE S pore P. S'ham Penong POR JAPAN from Indio Fujikawa Maru for Yokohama, Kobe, Moji 19 Feb 15 Feb FOR JAPAN from Continent Awoo o o n rVi a■ tor Yokohama, Kobe Nagoya vio Hongkonc 15 Feb Haguroson Maru tor Yokohamc. Kobe Nogoyo, via Hongkong 23 Feb
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    • 718 11 EAST ASIATIC LINES SAILINGS TO CONTINENT SCANDINAVIA For Aden, Port Said, Genoa, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Oslo. .'pore P._ hom Penong •x) "LALANDIA" 9/9 Feb (Passengers only) xx) INDIA" 28 Feb/2 Mar 3/4 Mar xxx) "SELANDIA" 10/12 Mar 13/13 Mar 14/15 Mor xxxx) "SIENA" 11/12 Mar 13/14 Mar
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  • Article, Illustration
    370 12 New Toy To Make \^HY NOT make a boomerang? Your father no doubt knew how to make them. This gadget came from Australia years ago. Either of the simple boomerangs described here, when thrown into the wind, can travel up to 100 feet along the ground, then gracefully
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  • 207 12 \IANY words, when spel 1 e d backward, make another good word. Examples are: NO and ON, TRAP and PART, REWARD and DRAWER. Here are definitions of 15 such pairs. All of them contain three letters. Read the definitions, and see how many of these word pairs
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  • 966 12  -  PAUL DEAN by was what they told BILL SPEAKMAN at school TN the summer of 1940 Bill Speakman was a grub-by-kneed second former at Wellington Road Senior School, Timperley, Cheshire. He was small for his 13 years, quiet and very shy but Bill was
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 120 12 that silken Sr fragrance J_m -^-M-^-^T— mmmmm\z&£E*%ammaW she loveS WW to vear Gi^jt ck CaW Perfume, Lotion and Eau de Cologne EMIILOT "ST mm mmmm Majflffi m»CAD. IUIOiNC HAIILES »LACE SINGAPORE O. BOX 3»3 i 4 s« Wv *'«e B. B d VeeP» ,^F Children are alvays on the go.'
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    • 138 12 t&^Ts7n*rA/JI/^*mm ***y\\ l/n4El__?S NO V^^A PnOW^ET^ V\ NevtSß TUquSUT W I KNOW a^^wt-T /;_fr/n''__i l^--i PC'* l in cisi-ins L<_________i I [space-boonE and /ro _.rvE ro see tue i now \ou e_3__« '^^fiALC l THAI! UVfi./ M. \Wm TAKE OMAC-.EOP }*Q^ tT OAV W_4EN I LEPT J ASGUHE,BUT hr~2ZmwwwwwwT*W B
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  • 711 13 Foong Seong Cup Final WATCH Mohammed Sadali and Robert Lim Any time a Malay shuttler who has been knocking at the door of badminton success for three years, comes up with a straight set win over Penang's 'great* Ooi Teik Hock, you certainly have a
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  • 130 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Wah Yik recovered from a one goal deficit at half time to beat Dawn Agency by the odd goal in three in the Selangor Chinese Recreation Talent Spotting Club League at Pudu Road today. With this win Wah Yik retained their unbeaten record
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  • 231 13 CEYLON SERVICES (With 5 Test Crickers) WILL PLAY IN COLONY A STRONG Ceylon Combined Services cricket team, including five Test men, are expected to arrive in Singapore to play against Singapore Combined Services XI on April 10 and 11. While they are here, the Ceylonese may play one other match
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  • 297 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A brilliant goal by Teoh Seng Chuan four minutes before the end enabled Combined Police to hold Young Men's Sikh Association 'A' to a 3-3 draw in their Selangor Hockey Association division one league fixture on the Malaya Command Ground today. The game was
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  • 197 13 S'gor Women To Hold Hockey Trial KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— ln preparation for thc forthcoming Ladies Hockey Quadrangular meet to be held here on Feb. 25 and 26 between Singapore. Perak, Negri Sembiian and Selangor the following players are requested to turn up for the first practice to be held on
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  • 49 13 SYDNEY. Feb. 5 Reuter Pat Crawford. Australia's young fast bowler, is to play in Lancashire League cricket this season and will not be available for selection for the team to tour England. Crawford, who is 6 ft 3 in. made this surprise announcement last night.
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  • 50 13 Today's Sport in the Federation KUALA LUMPUR RUGBY: 7-A-Side Tourney: PWD Sports Club v Selangor Services "B": Selangor Club "A" v RASC: RASC "B" v Selangor Club "B": Selangor United "A" v RAF; at Padang. IPOH HOCKEY: (Div. 2 KO Final) Tronoh Police v 3rd Batt. Malay Regl. Town Padang.
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  • 326 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The four first round matches in the Selangor Rugby Union seven-a-side competition are scheduled to be played today at the mm*am*am*am*am*am*m*m*m Public Works Department Sports Club, newcomers to the handling code, meet Selangor Services "B" in the first game
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  • 204 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Matthew Danker netted a goal in each half to help Selangor Eurasian Association to beat Tamilian Physical Culture Association 2-1 in a Selangor Hockey Association Senior Div. League match at Kampong Attap today. Eurasians took the field with nine men and were
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  • 73 13 TAIPING. Mon. In a friendly inter-district tennis match played here during the weekend Taiping Chinese Recreation Club beat Sungei Patani by 13 gcrmes to 11. In an inter-district friendly hockey match played here, Taiping beat Penang 4-3. Thc two teams have met four times this season, each
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  • 123 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Kilat Club beat Police Depot 3 o in their friendly hockey fixture on the Gurney Road ground today Kilat Club's centre half Mike Shepherdson turned out a good performance with his clever display and was responsible for two goals for his side. After
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 316 13 SITUATIONS VACANT THE SHELL COMPANY require an experienced mechanical and General Draughtsman preferably having passed the Intermediate Examination of the City Guilds Institute in Mechanical design. Applicants should apply in writing stating age and giving full particulars of previous experience- with copies of testimonials to the Shell Co. of Singapore
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    • 764 13 CLASSIFIED ADS SITUATIONS VACANT MUNICIPALITY OF GEORGE TOWN. PENANG. Appointment of Trainee Draftsman, Water Department. VACANCY filled. Applicant* thanked. TRAINING WITHIN INDUSTRY TRAINER MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND WELFARELABOUR DEPARTMENTSINGAPORE. APPLICATIONS are invited m\ from qualified Supervisory (T.W.1.) Trainers to fi:i the vacant post of Training Within Industry Trainer in the
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  • 32 14 SATURDAY'S thrills at Bukit Timah ore recorded here by Standard cameraman Tan Mon Long who catches the fields as they come pounding down the straight to the finishing post.
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  • 288 14 THE annual seven-a-side rugby tournament, sponsored by the Singapore Cricket Club, opened yesterday at the padang when four matche^weredecided^^^^ Mechanical H Royal I Army Service Corps the I opener eight points (goal. I to three Scorers were Clement. I (Raynor converted) I for
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  • 596 14 By VERITY GILL A SINGAPORE AMATEUR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION COUNCILLOR YESTERDAY ALLEGED THAT 75 PER CENT OF THE PLAYERS WERE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A BETTING RING AT JALAN BESAR STADIUM. This serious charge was made by Mr. Rahim Sattar, the Junior Delegate, during
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  • 293 14 By Our Hockey Reporter SINGAPORE Women Hockey Association -electors were set a problem after the second trial held ou the Singapore padang yesterday. The question now is not who to pick but who to leave out. An.) there is little time left to
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  • 855 14 FOLLOWING are weights and probable starters ior all eight races on Saturday, first day of the Selangor Turf Club February Meeting: Oil Palio 7y 9.00 Mr. YL. Lee Bagby 307 Adelaide Star 6v 8.12 Crest Stable Daniels 53. Krakatoa 5y 812 Shaw Stable Spencer 281
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  • 231 14 Badminton Tour Of 'Land Ofi The Rising Sun' Falls Flat Because- No Funds To Meet Expenses, BAM Told NIPPON (Japanese) Badminton Association has changed its mind about inviting six Malayan players to visit Japan in November. Badminton Association of Malaya, The Standard learned yesterday, has been
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  • 216 14 WEIGHTS for five Father CL. 1 DIV. 4—6 F. races on Feb. 14 Christmas 8.12 Lillibullero 9.00 (Tuesday), second True Bell 810 National Trust 8.13 day of the Selangor Willy L trd Now Showing 8.10 Turf Club February Bracelet Boy 8.08 4 Commando 8.07 Meeting, are:
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  • 232 14 By SPECTATOR WHEN is a PRO not a PRO? Easy. When he is appointed by the Singapore Amateur Football Association. For more than half an hour, SAFA councillors argued among themselves yesterday whether the man they appointed to be Public Relations Officer should give information to
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  • 73 14 SOCCER INTER SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Beatty Secondary School vs. A.C.S. at A.C.S.; Beatty Secondary School vs. Gan Eng Seng School "A" team at G.E.S.S.; R.I. vs. St. Joseph's Institution at R.I. (Ist and 2nd teams). RUGBY SEVEN-A-SIDE AT SCCPRELIMINARY ROUND: St. Andrew's School "B" vs. All Whites 5 p.m.;
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  • 138 14 All-Malaya Rugby Team Chosen THE Malayan Rugby Union had picked *th e strongest AllMalaya XV to meet the AllFiuahs in a floodlit match on Thursday. Feb. 23 at 8 p.m at the Jalan Besar Stadium. The All-Malaya side will be: Scott (NS); Spark (Spore 1 Ross-Russell (Perak): Roberts (Joh); Bye
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  • 101 14 SINGAPORE Recreation Club will be without the Colony stars. Burdette Coutts and Douglas Hay. this evening when the Recs meet Singapore Cricket Club in their first annual hockey encounter for tht Padang Cup, presented by Mr. R. Pearce. The former Colony stalwart Ronnie Barth. is making
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