Singapore Standard, 15 February 1956

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  • 28 1 Singapore TIGER Standard STANDARD POLICE ***** (5 lines) 2400 FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 2811 2414 \»l. VI. No. 223 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1956 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 232 1 About To Leave, But They're Fighting Fjt Well Done, Keep It Up, Says Bourne KUALA LUMPUR, Tues The Fijians who are due to leave Malaya soon, killed five communist terrorists in Johore and wounded a sixth yesterday. Two of the kills were important Communist leaders. Those
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  • 220 1 An Arms Race For The Kremlin MOSCOW, Feb 14 (rP)^Coidmunist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev declared in a major policy speech today that Kussia will keep pace with the capitalist powers in arms production. The USSR will not permit RmU to be outdistanced by arms production of the capitalist powers, Khrushchev
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  • 72 1 photo. THREE Royal Air Force men were shot in the back in Cyprus, on Feb. 11, in the crowded street Onasagorou, Nicosia. The airmen were off dut> and wearing plain clothes, when thugs opened up with revolvers in the crowded street. Two fell dead and the
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  • 93 1 FIVE people have been killed in road accidents in Singapore since Chinese New Year on Sunday. Latest crash victim to die was Johnny Sng Chye Lock who was involved in a collision in Sime Avenue on Sunday. He died yesterday. Monday was the worst day
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  • 303 1 BUT HOPZS ARE HIGH SINGAPORE Traction Company buses will not run today despite Chief Minister David Marshall's ultimatum to the management to resume services or face legal action. But it is unlikely that the Company will lose its franchise for keeping their vehicles idle in
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  • 118 1 DOCKERS VOTE TO WORK MELBOURNE, Feb. 14 (Reuter).—Dockers at mass meetings in all Australian ports today voted to return to work tomorrow after a strike of three weeks which has crippled Australia's economy. But a move by the Seamen's Union to hold a special stopwork meeting tomorrow to discuss problems
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  • 29 1 RADIO Moscow and Peking Radio hooked up yesterday to exchange greetings on the sixth anniversary of the signing of the Sino-Soviet friendship and mutual assistance treaty. U.P.
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  • 29 1 CROWN Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, arrived in Peking yesterday while Red Chinese newspapers predicted his visit will open new friendship between the two nations. U.P.
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  • 209 1 LONDON. Feb. 14 (Reuter) A nine-month inquiry into bribery and corruption among: Westend Police here drew to a close yesterday with the dismissal of Inspector Charles Jacobs, 47, of the Vice Squad. Jacobs, married with one daughter, was the eighth man named last year by a Maltese,
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  • 33 1 ABOARD THE U.S.S. MT. MCKINLEY NEAR IWO JIMA, Feb. 14 (AP)— A simulated atom bomb exploded over this Iwojima bound "invasion fleet" today, theoretically sinking four US navy transport carrying 2.000 men.
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  • 173 1 IBADAN. Nigeria. Feb. 14 (UP).— A Nigerian man ran unmolested by police to the side of Queen Elizabeth's royal limousine and pitched a petition into the Duke of Edinburgh's lap today "It might have been a bomb a perspiring British officer of the Nigerian police
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  • 193 1 SEATO TEST' STARTS BANGKOK, Feb. 14 <AP>— Military men of six of the eight nations forming SEATO tonight were ready for the opening tomorrow at dawn of manoeuvres on land, sea and in the air. Only France and Pakistan will not have troops in the field. But each is sending
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  • 100 1 SINGAPORE Police yesterday recovered two of three revolvers reported missing from officers, nine days ago. One of the guns, reported missing from a Marine detective corporal's home in West Coast Road, was found some distance away from the quarters. It was located by a party from the
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  • 57 1 HONGKONG. Feb. 14 (Reuter) An airliner, carrying Countess Mountbatten. wife of Britain's First Sea Lord, circled over Hongkong for an hour today but was unable to land because of low cloud. It finally flew on to Manila. 650 miles away and waited there for an hour
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  • 63 1 COLOMBO. Feb. 14 (Reuter) Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, has accepted an invitation by the Ceylon Government to visit Ceylon next year, it was officially announced here today. The Queen Mother, who It expected to arrive early in the spring of 1957. has agreed to
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  • 32 1 THE Soviet leaders. Marshal Nikolai Buiganin and Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, will be received in audience by Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, during their visit to Britain in April. Reuter
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  • 33 1 Mr. V. K. Krishna Menon, formerly India's chief delegate to the United Nations, was sworn in by President Rajendra Prasad as a member of the Indian cabinet on Tuesday.— A.P.
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  • 30 1 EUGENE TULL. a 85-year-old Montana rancher, went into a mortuary on Monday and paid for his funeral. Then he went outside and shot himself dead. A. P.
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  • 150 1 Opium Control Talks LONDON. Feb. 14 (Reuter) —Federation's Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman and Mr. John Hare Minister of State for Colonies, will tomorrow afternoon discuss problems concerning opium control in Malaya, usually reliable sources here said. They will be assisted at these private talks by Sir David Watherstone. the
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  • 73 1 IPOH. Tues. Shouts of "Merdeka" greeted the Mentri Besar of Perak, Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang on his return here this evening after attending the "Merdeka Mission" talks in Britain Among the gathering who welcomed the Dato. who acted as the principal representative of the rulers in London, were
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  • 280 2 A VIENNESE gag writer and a Hollywood cameraman are now in Singapore to capture its beauty in Cinemascope for 50,000,000 people in Canada and the United States to see. Mr. Andre De La Varre, who has been doing such pleasant assignments since 1919. and Mr. Kurt Jetmar, cartoonist, will
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  • 39 2 JAKARTA. Feb. 14 (UP) Terrorists set fire to over 200 houses in West Java during the past three days, reports reaching here disclosed today. Increased terrorist activities in West Java made hundreds of people homeless again.
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  • 9 2 m CINEMASCOPE
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  • 244 2 '•JOE MACBETH," a British film depicting the clash of two underworld gangs, which was recently banned by Singapore's Film Censor, Mrs. Cynthia Koek, is to go before the Film Appeal Board on Friday. Starring American actor Paul Douglas in the title role, the film
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  • 328 2 Another Royal Wedding In The Air In Johore Bahru Mentri Besar s Pretty Daughter To Marry Sultans Grandson? JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— A pretty English-speaking Malay girl who likes Western clothes heads the list of girls in court circles here as the future wife of Tunku Abdul Rahman,
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  • 139 2 FAILING to realize his ambition for a quick promotion to the rank of an officer in the Army, a young Chinese soldier took a drastic step He deserted. At a re-trial by a Singapore court martial yesterday, the soldier, Signalman Yeo Ah Teck
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  • 150 2 The Children Love Billy 'Old Mac' JOY and laughter yesterday came to 33 "forgotten children of Singapore" with Billy "I Love Children" Banks, the American Negro "Shake-rattle-and-roll" man. While Billy sang, mimicked and clowned the well-loved "Old MacDonald had a Farm," the children who are mentally-deficient inmates of the New
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  • 161 2 Raja Warns U.S.— KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Raja Ayoub bin Raja Haji Bot, until recently Colonial attache at the British Embassy in Washington, has served notice on Americans that Malaya would be forced to seek new avenues for selling her rubber if they continued to 'prop
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  • 177 2 Razak Tackles Education Problems LONDON, Feb. 14 (Reuter)— Da to Abdul Razak, Malaya's Education Minister will call on Sir David Eccles, Britain's new Education Minister here tomorrow morning for a general discussion, authoritative sources said today. Dato Abdul Razak has since the Malayan constitutional conference ended here successfully on Wednesday
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  • 44 2 JAKARTA. Feb. 14 (UP) Soviet Russia presented the Indonesian University with a collection of 940 English language books today. The Russian Charge d'Affsirs E. G. Zarohine also presented the Indonesian University with a great variety of Russian scientific books.
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  • 25 2 A GAS explosion in a coal mine near Nagasaki on Tuesday killed seven persons, seriously injured three and left five missing.- AP
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 64 2 Weather Report MINIMUM Tempenture: From 7.30 p.m. to 7.30 a.m. Singapore (7 IF), Penan? (73F). Kota Bahru MiTK). Kuala Lumpur (73F), Ipoh (79F). Kuantan (bOF). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. Singapore (89 F), Penang 89 F). Kota Bahru iBSF), Kuala Lumpur I89F), Ipoh (95F). Kuantan (89F). Rainfall:
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  • 198 3 THEY WANT SPELLING OF MALACCA CHANGED MALACCA, Tues.— Local UMNO youths will ask the Federation's Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman to change the spelling of Malacca to Melaka, when he visits this town on his return from London. Jhi> decision was made by representatives of the UMNO branches in Malacca
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  • 64 3 CLOSING rubber prices (rents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were: LONDON RUBBER No. 1 R.S.S. Settlement House Terms. Tuesday's opening prices first session were: Buyers Sellers Mar. 31V Nominal April 31 i Ai'l. June 31 Tone: Quiet. LONDON TIN Tuesday's opening: prices first session were: Spot £805 buyers,
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  • 70 3 A TOTAL of 150 patients Xmost of whom were children) of the Trafalgar Home, Singapore, were given a New Year treat yesterday, under the sponsorship of the Independent Missionary Move- ment, which also gave a similar treat to Kwong Wai Soo Free Hospital patients last
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  • Article, Illustration
    87 3 photo. FEDERATIONS Minister for Education, Dato Abdul Razak, speaks at the opening of the Malayan Teachers' Training College, Brinsford Lodge. Wolver- hampton, on Feb. 10. Others seen on the platform are, left: Che Sapuan Kastari, president of the students college, Dato Nik Ahmad Kamil. representative of the
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  • 196 3 LIBERAL Socialist leader Lim Choon Mong, yesterday attacked the Government for "withholding" $40,000 for the benefit of youth in Singapore. Mr. Lim was referring to a promise by Labour and Welfare Minister Lim Yew Hock that Government would help if the Federation of Boys Clubs
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  • 324 3 Inaction Held Up Indian Land Settlement Project KUALA LUMPUR, Tues— The Land Settlement scheme for Indian labourers sponsored by the former High Commissioner, Sir Gerald Templer, has been held up due to the "inordinate delay" of Indians to name representatives to the sub-committee probing the pilot project. The Standard learnt
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  • 273 3 SETTLEMENTS: TALKS GOING ON 'Must Be Part Of The Federation KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Penang and Malacca should be part of independent Malaya and there should be no strings attached to i*# Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang, Mentri Besar of Perak and Senior Rulers' representative on the "Merdeka Mission" declared today. '•Their
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  • 108 3 AN unidentified man, aged about 45, died in the General Hospital in Singapore yesterday a few hours after he was found suffering from corrosive acid poisoning on the five-foot-way in Joo Chiat Road. Dressed in black pyjamas, the man was medium sized and had
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  • 57 3 PENANG, Tues. The draw of the lottery in aid of St. George's School building fund. Balik Pulau. has been postponed to Feb. 24. The winning numbers will be announced in the press on Feb. 25. Sellers of tickets are asked to return unsold tickets and stubs
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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  • BIG MOVE BY CLERKS
    • 236 4 TWO HUNDRED car washers in the Colony are planning to form a union. Disclosing this yesterday. Inche Abu bin Said, one of the car washers, said: "We hope to call a meeting soon to discuss this important question." These car washers have proved
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    • 344 4 Negara Leader Defends Onn PENANG, Tues. Tuan Wan Mat Noordin, chairman of the Kampong Makam branch of Party Negara, said here today that Mr. A. M. Abu Bakar, the Alliance whip in the Municipal Council, was "talking through his hat" when he
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    • 52 4 MALACCA, Tues. Local Rotarians collected 52,000 for charity from their New Year dance at the badminton hall in Tranquerah last night, when more than 600 people attended. Highlight of the evening's entertainment was a striptease show by Rose Chan, whose hula and Indian candle dances drew rounds
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    • 47 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues Government has spent $37,500 to re-organize the salarypayment system here. The money was used to buy office equipment Following this change, employees in Government departments receive their pay packets direct from the Central Pay Office where they are prepared.
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    • 41 4 MUAR. Tues.— Forty people pleaded guilty in the Magististt's Court today to gambl:nq in public on Chinese New car's Day Fines ranging from $5 to *5.J were imposed on them by Magistrate, Incbe Pawan Ahmad.
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    • 104 4 N.Z. UNITS TO TAKE PART IN EXERCISE NEW ZEALAND Government will contribute Army. Navy and Air Force units to the SEATO Exercise "Firm Link" in Bangkok later this week. This was revealed yesterday by the Commissioner for New Zealand in South-east Asia and New Zealand SEATO Council representative, Mr. Foss
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    • 31 4 A LABUORER. Ho Seng Ting. 50, was yesterday fined S2CO. in default a month's fail, in the Kluan? Sessions Court for possession of chandu. chandu dross and smoking utencils
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    • Article, Illustration
      90 4 photo. SINGAPORE Special Branch detective Stephen David William Jones (in white shirt) pictured soon after being flown into Paya Lebar Airport yesterday under escort from Colombo Jones was reported missing: last Monday. He was detained when officers of the Ceylon-bound vessel Cambodge found him among the passengers and
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    • 296 4 SINGAPORE'S public yesterday unanimously supported the Federation's Education Minister, Dato Abdul Razak, in his assurance that the English language, being a world language, "will have a place in Malaya for many years to come.' Mr. Chew Swee Kee, Singapore's Minister for Education,
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    • 309 4 Rallies All Over Malaya KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. There is a fear that from next week a wave of demands for better salaries and working conditions will be made on the country's commercial nouses and secretarial organizations. A mass meeting of the Selangcr commercial and secretarial houses' employees will be held
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    • 77 4 PENANG, Tues. The Penang Division of UMNO has instructed its branches throughout the island to request all Malay homes to fly the UMNO flag on Feb. 19, when Tunku Abdul Rahman and members of the merdeka mission return to Malaya Thanksgiving services will be held in
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    • 48 4 JOHORE BAHRU Tues. More evening classes in Malay for non-Malays are now being nelc in Johore. There is also an increased rtttendance in Normal Classes by probationer teachers. In addition the State provides special evening commercial classes. The services cost the Government $113,000 last year.
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    • 46 4 BENTONG, Tues.— The first branch of the Malayan Indian Congress in Pahang will be fuimed at a meeting here next Sunday. The meeting will be held at the Tamil School at 3 p.m. M.I.C. leaders from Kuala Lumpur are expected to speak.
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    • 163 4 ALOR STAR. Tues.— Members of the Kedah royalty will contribute one percent of their royal allowance to the association which they formed last Friday. This year, tne Kedah Government has allocated $289,374 as allowance for 137 men and women belonging to the State's raj. who
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  • 51 5 photo. LONDON: Princess Margaret shakes hands with American comedian Danny Kaye when she attended the European premiere of Danny's film "The Court Jester," at the Plaza Cinema. The performance was in aid of the West Indies Hurricane Relief Fund. On the right is British sirtress Glynis Johns.-
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  • 356 5 ...It May Nof Be Good Enough VALETTA, Malta, Feb. 14 (Reuter) A weekend referendum on integration with Britain resulted in a three-to-one vote in favour of the plan which provides ior three Maltese members to sit in the House of Commons it was announced
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  • 84 5 467 Border Violaters Annihilated MOSCOW, Feb. 14 (UP) The official Communist Party newspaper Pravda said yesterday that Soviet "frontier guards" annihilated a large band of foreign saboteurs whirh attempted to cross the Soviet border from Central Asia last summer. The newspaper did not specify the nationality of the saboteurs, their
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  • 67 5 NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (AP) The Carnegie Corporation, a philanthropic trust, announced yesterday it has given $1,500,000 to promote international student exchanges in the next ten years. The money went to the Institute of International Education, New York, a nonprofit organization which administers student exchange programmes.
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  • 82 5 Soviet Bid To Invade' Antarctica LOXDON, Feb 14 (UP) Russian explorers hoisted the Soviet Red flag over British Antarctic territory yesterday in a ceremony believed to be the forerunner of formal claims to the Polar continent. Radio Moscow announced the flag-raising in a broadcast which made it plain the action
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  • 395 5 WILL ARMY GAIN WHIP HAND IN RUSSIA? West Keeps Close Watch On Moscow Red Congress WASHINGTON Feb. 14 (UP)— The West will watch Russia's Communist Party congress closely for signs of whether Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, former Premier Georgi M. Malenkov or other high Soviet officials are on
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  • 149 5 WASHINGTON. Feb. 14 (UP)— The United States and Germany yesterday signed an atoms- for peace agreement that will provide the Bonn Republic with the technical and scientific basis for successful participation in the European atomic pool. Under the terms of the agiecment Germany will
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  • 200 5 Result Of Geneva Flop JAKARTA, Feb. 14 (UP) The Indonesian Cabinet decided early today to abrogate its union with Holland at once and to consider breaking their financial and economic agreements. The Cabinet met in emergency session to discuss failure of the Dutch-Indonesian talks in
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  • 75 5 THE opening: session of the first National Eucharist ic Congress held in Rangoon early this month. The altar. 20 feet from the ground, is typical of Burmese architecture but it was designed by an Italian priest serving in Burma. Twenty bishops, about 200 priests and more
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  • 141 5 'Air Threat To Israel Greater Now' JERUSALEM Israel Sector, Feb. 14 (AP)— lsraeli Premier. David Ben-Gurion, told parliament on Monday that in Ihe event of war with Egypt Nasser's Russian bombers will attack everywhere." He said the air threat condiluted "a greater danger than ever before" to the new Israeli
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  • 108 5 It's Smooth Sailing In Any Storm NEW YORK. Feb. 14 (AP)— Captain Gunnar Nordenson said yesterday it's smooth sailing for the once iough riding Swedish American liner Stockholm now that the ship has been given stabilizer fins. Use of the fins has cut down the Stockholm's roll 6r» to 70
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  • 56 5 MELBOURNE, Feb 14 (Reuter)— The Australian Antarctic expedition's ship Kista Dan has blasted her way free from ice which held her fast for three days in the Davis Sea, according to a radio message yesterday from the expedition's leader. The ship is now steaming ahead
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  • 37 5 AMMAN. Jordan, Feb. 14 (UP) Queen Dina ot Jordan early yesterday gave birth to a girl. The baby, to be known as Princess Tijan. is King Hussein's and the Queen's first child.
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 467 6 POLONY Chief Minister David Marshall has ordered the Singapore Traction Company to get their vehides on tfTroad today or face cancellation of their franchise to run this transport service in the Colony in the course of a few hurried words with newsmen at tne airport before he
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    • 462 6 A SHORT while ago a Singapore magistrate warned the people about the danger of scandal sheets, dubbed locally as 'mosquito papers', which are belching forth their poisonous fumes daily. While the authorities arc concerned with the infiltration of communist ideology and are taking drastic action against it, they
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  • 521 6  - Another Red prey? Dennis Bloodworth By PHNOM PENH, Cambodia. THE news that ex-King Norodom Sihanouk, Prince-Premier of Cambodia, will shortly visit Peking on the invitation of the Communist Chinese Government, is causing considerable concern in official Western circles in Southeast Asia. Some experts fear that the "red carpet treatment," which
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  • 340 6 Kenya to curb Asian immigration NAIROBI TT7ITH the tacit support of some local Asian leaders, the Kenya Government plans legislation to curb immigration from the Indian sub-continent. The existing quota system already limits Asian immigration to skilled artisans not available within Kenya but the Government considers the flow still too
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 444 6 Sir: These days we have been talking Democracy, eating Democracy and sleeping with Democracy. It is such a craze that everyone is mad about it who quaffs from its springs. Let us analyze it and try to prognosticate its future Whither Democracy? Those great men of letters of
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    • 251 6 Sir: It is indeed regrettable that presentday Europeans in Malaya are termed by the word "Expatriate", which seems to be rather unpleasant to them. Now wives of certain expatriates want to give up charity work, which they have done for the Asians, just because some people
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    • Article, Illustration
      247 6 Sir: It is astounding that a presumably responsible Transport Commission should recommend bringing Singapore's public vehicles under State control. It is a typically empty-headed piece of socialism. Nationalization has failed wherever it has been tried. The mining industry was nationalized in Britain by the singularly inept socialist administra- tion
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  • 822 6 THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME ON THE eve of his departure to Switzerland on a holiday. Chief Minister David Marshall asked Europeans in the Colony to stop sulking and promised that when he returns he will urge them to support wholeheartedly Singapore's march towards independence. He added that Europeans
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  • 193 6 The Church, as part of the established set-up, la concerned too much to uphold the privileged position of what we may call the 'respectability of the State' Canon L. J. Collins. The U.S. Secretary of State (Mr. Dulles) is willing to play Russian roulette with the
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  • 333 7 DURING DARK PERIOD OF WAR BRITAIN GAVE 'LIGHT' TO AFRICA IBADAN Feb. 14 (Renter] —The Governor-General Sir James Robertson visitor to the University College of Ibadan, in i I address presentee to the Queen todav said recaH with gratitude thai tie college owes its origin largely to the farsighted w.sdom
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  • 66 7 NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (AP) Vice-President Richard M. N:xon said yesterday he never called former President Harry S. Truman a jr.raitor, nor did he ever infer 4 The Vice President also denied ever labelling the Democratic Party "a party of treason." Truman has been saying that
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  • 62 7 MITCHAM. England. Feb. !4 <UP> British Overseas Airways pilot Clive Houlder failed to show up in court ye>torday to answer a trafIr summons. His excuse: He is in ria piloting Queen Elizabeths Diane in her royal tour of the British African colony. Houlder pleaded guilty
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  • 190 7 ...For A Great White Queen' IBADAN, Nigeria, Feb. 14 (Reuter) Seventeen thousand schoolchildren yesterday roared greetings to Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh as they drove past a rally on the Ibadan racecourse. The children, from all parts of Nigeria's Western region, began arriving here
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  • 120 7 Titanic Hero Fights For His Life PETERBOROUGH. Ontario Feb. 14 (Reuter).— Mr. Joseph Maddocks, a hero of the Titanic liner disaster of 1912, is critically ill in hospital here after a train accident on Sunday Mr. Maddocks, now a 60--year-old paper company worker, fell under a moving goods train and
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  • 94 7 ALGIERS. Feb. 14. (UP).— i Half of Algeria's 60 Moslem I legislators ignored rebel death threats yesterday to attend the first session or the Algerian assembly since last September. When the assembly gathered at 4 p.m. (1500 GMT) for a 20-minute opening session (the formal
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  • 192 7 Better Than Union-With-Greece NICOSIA, Cyprus, Feb. 14 (AP) Leaders ot the Turkish Cypriot population said yesterday, they would sooner continue under British rule thaii have the Island controlled by Union-With-Greece supporters Dr. Fazil Kutr.huk, leader of the "Cyprus is Turkish" Party, and Faiz Kaymak.
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  • 89 7 TOKYO. Feb. 14 (UP) Prince Norodom Sihanouk premier of the Cambodian Kingdom, said in Canton. South China, he is visiting Red China "to examine its problems and to study Its realizations," Peking Radio reported. In an airport statement at Canton, he was quoted by Peking
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  • 72 7 LARRY AND MARILYN HAVE A PACT MARILYN MONROE and SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER announce, at a New York press conference, on Feb. 9, that they will co-star In a film version of the London stagre hit, "The Sleeping Prince." The film will be produced jointly by her own company. Marilyn Monroe
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  • 28 7 ALEGRE, Brazil, Feb. 14 (AP) A cloudburst drowned 10 persons yesterday near Pelotas. a port and meatpacking centre of 80.000 population in South Brazil.
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  • 145 7 KURUNEGALA, Ceylon. Feb. 14 (UP).— A Buddhist monk who has converted several young Ceylonese to Communism startled the crowd at a cornerstone-lav-ing ceremony yesterday by announcing he has "chosen freedom.' "I have given up Communism because I realize it is against my religion," Kalugalthana
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  • 415 7 BURGESS WAS NEVER IN MI-5 Turncoat Diplomat Is Also A Liar LONDON, Feb. 14 (UP)— The British Government branded Guy Burgess a liar as well as a turncoat yesterday and called Russia's exploitation of the BurgessMacLean case a vain effort to "drive a wedge" between the United States and Britain.
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  • 280 7 RUSSIA STAKES CLAIM FOR VOICE IN MIDDLE EAST MOSCOW, Feb. 14 (IT) The Soviet Union yesterday staked a firm claim for a voice in stabilizing the Middle East where it accused the United States and Britain of creating a "threat to peace." For the first time Russia made plain its
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  • 32 7 LONDON. Feb 14 (AP) Albert Gilles, who played host to emperors, kings, fiim stars and millionaires as general manager of two swank London hotels, died on Monday. He was 68.
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  • 106 7 Eden: There Is Wedge In M.E. Policy LONDON. Feb. 14 (UP) Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden frankly told Parliament yesterday there are "certain differences" between the United States and Britain on Far Eastern policy. Reporting on his recent talks with President Eisenhower in Washington, Sir Anthony said that in Fai
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  • 121 7 FILM ON CHRIST IS BANNED LONDON, Feb. 14 (Reuter) An American film "Day of Triumph." showing the figure of Christ, has been banned here by the British board ol Film Censors, the Daily Mail reports. The film was made in colour at a cost of £178,000 sterling in a replica
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    • 26 7 HONGKONG. Feb. 14 (AP) American evangelist Billy Graham said yesterday he had been invited to Russia and might visit that country next winter.
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    • 33 7 TOKYO. Feb. 14 (AP)-The U.S. Government yesterday notified Japan's Foreign Office it has granted parole to Minoru Toyaman. a war criminal sentenced to life in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison. Kyodo News Service said.
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    • 33 7 TOKYO, Feb. 14 (UP) Representatives of Communistruied Tibet on Sunday gave Red China's leader Mao Tselung a ceremonial scarf in honour of the Chinese New ">ear, Peking Radio reported yesterday.
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    • 29 7 PARIS, Feb. 14 (UP) Moroccan Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef arrived in Paris yesterday for negotiations designed to give independence to the wealthiest French possession in Africa
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    • 33 7 CAIRO. Feb. 14 (UP) Panama and Egypt formally established diplomatic relations yesterday when the first Panamanian Minister to Egypt Don Rafael Vallarino. pres-' ented his credentials to Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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    • 30 7 CAIRO. Feb. 14 (UP)— New Russian Ambassador to Egypt Evgeni Dimitrievitch Kiselev, presented his credentials to Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser in a 12-minute audience at the presidency yesterday.
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    • 29 7 TO YAM A. Japan. Feb. 14 <AT) Huge 20-foot waves pounding the Toyama waterfront have smashed 12 warehouses and damaged 46 others. Maritime officials reported last night.
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    • 25 7 TOKYO. Feb. 14 (AP)— A 12-man team from Japan today began collecting remains of Japanese war dead in Burma, Kyodo News Service reported
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    156 8 pOR two solid hours THE BIG KNIFE slits and slices mercilessly, sometimes hacking wildly, and then with three cold-blooded slashes inflicts the coup dc grace. And for every minute of that torturous passage the audience will suffer with the group of neurotics who let off all their
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    448 8 for the STARS Is this an expose? asks STEVE WEOH tender moments. His stars undergo a spell of neuralgia which, through excellent and first-class performance, envelops the audience like an epidemic In "The Big Knife" one wonders: 9 Is there such a jamous producer icho sports a hearing aid and
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  • 739 8 IT is three o'clock in the morning. and I am lazing In a green glade (strictly phoney) in Leices-ter-square, London, having a picnic, which is strictly crazy. In fact, it's the whackiest, sauciest picnic 1 ever saw. On my left is a showgirl
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    • 321 8 TELLING TALES IVTAMIE VAN DOREN is wearing a powder blue maternity outfit of velvet smock and slacks to go with her new powder blue and cream car a gift from husband RAY ANTHONY, For evening glitter VIRGINIA MAYO sews tiny bands of rhinestones around the cufls of plain black gloves.
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    • 210 8 by BRIDGET JONES the studio restaurant. The old man began chattering away to himself and it was a full ten minutes before he was recognized as DANNY KAYE. in one of the disguises he wears in his new film "The Court Jester." y^u^l r \3^ 3k^-. C <**■*% f\ Tan
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  • 561 9 Ordinary people had jobs she Self useless TV7E moved to Venice and lived each day fretfully. Now that Britain and France were at war with Germany, it seemed wrong to be doing nothing, yet where and when did one move to start doing something? Mummy was obsessed with the need
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  • 184 9 At nineteen she had never handled money 1 HAD absolutely no knou--1 ledge of money. 1 had never handled it, never carried a purse, and did not know the actual cost of any single thing. When 1 wanted to buy something I requested my mother's permission, then I signed for
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  • 787 9 MARRIAGE WAS THE CAREER FOR WHICH I HAD BEEN TRAINED She was detained in a place called Abano-Bagni, not far from Venice. KnowIng the haphazard methods of the Italians. I soon discovered it was fairly easy to smuggle food into her. and «*ven to smuggle ner
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  • 673 9  - Continuing the Story oi a great Royal Romance -by THE social whirl in Paris, where Mummy had taken a lease on a hotel suite— it was the fashionable way to lire in those days— saw little of us in the summer of 1938. We left early in the season and
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  • 814 9 Had only their suitcases on flight to safety AUNT Marie, a devoted friend and disciple of Freud, was immersed in her own versions of psychology, psychiatry and great theories on the perfect diet for the human race. She also had a total mania for photography. This, then, was the family
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  • 128 9 BY evening we reached our haven, a small rickrty hotel which stood on the edge of a minute hill-village. Here there was water and beds. We staggered them, doubling up together in the small rooms. Tonight we would sleep in temporary safety— and
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  • 146 9 Playing golf till dusk— war seemed remote EACH day we lunched at the golf club, and then, because Mummy insisted that I spent at least three hours a day in the open air for the sake of my health, we always played golf until dusk. Each evening the family gathered
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    • 212 9 H^B i ~1 n B8 fIH I i iil'w 10. The French wall monkey ILIU (5) ACROSS 15. Genus of gulls from 15 4 The rudiment, of a subject J'T^ lo string along Q (10) In the Spanish name for a Iwrd coverine (Cl 19 Thrown on the sUnge (4)
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  • 143 10 Japanese Firm To Boost Sales Here PENANG, Tues.— Asahi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., of Tokyo, is planning to boost the sale of its products in South east Asia, Mr. Akira Kitada, manager of the sales department, said here today. Asahi Chemical Industry is the largest of its kind in Japan
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  • 39 10 THE Kuwait Oil Co. Ltd. has announced a large expansion programme for its refinery at Mina Al Ahmadi in Kuwait. Refinery capacity will be increased from 30.000 barrels per day to 190.000 barrels per day A. P.
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  • 253 10  - U.S. Rubber Product Sales Still Rising ARNOLD C. BRACKMAN By Standard's New York Bureau Chief TALK about a big, 1956 sales year for rubber and pessimists say, "Sure, for tyres." With cutbacks in recent weeks at Detroit, the U.S. automobile centre, these pessimists point to the moral: less cars mean
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  • 361 10 First Display Of Atomic Energy At 8.1.F. THIS year's British Industries Fair is being held in two instalments the first of which will be opened by Lady Eden, wife of the Prime Minister, on February 22, at Earls Court, London. A second instalment, mounted at Olym- pia, London, and Castle
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  • 183 10 CHINESE firms in Singapore reopen for business today, after the past few days of Chinese New Year celebrations. So also are the other I ing companies and the ous Chambers of Comce, which have been xving the holidays, iny Chinese organizations marking their
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  • 60 10 A RECORD for steel production the U.S. was set for the third straight week a total output of 2,472.000 net tons of ingots and steel for castings last week. The mills produced at 100 4 per cent of their rated capacity. A year ago operations were
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  • 96 10 SHIPS IN PORT OUTER ROADS Shinyo Maru. Blissful, Lao, Song Bee, Hai Lee. Zakai Maru, Soestdyk. Hoiyu Maru, Khushu Maru. Oloh Maersk. INNER ROADS Four Lyke, Malacca. Karaton, Batoe Bahra, New Susana. Orna. Sangyun, Kinshu Maru, Eastern Trader. WHARVES Santhia, Godown 1/2: Overijsl 4/5; Coal Plant Eastern Muse; City of
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  • 30 10 TIN ore outputs for the quarter October to December 1955, announced are: Kent 885 piculs; Tekka-Taiping 303 piculs; Gopeng Consolidated 3.420 piculs: Rambutan 921 piculs; Pengkalen 3,140 piculs.
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  • 116 10 THE residue which formerly presented sugar refiners with one of their greatest problems, is now the source of what promises to be one of the strongest life saving agents of modern times. From dextran, a substance which for centuries proved a nuisance to refiners has been
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  • 23 10 TELEVISION took a giant stride in West Germany during 1955 with nearly 200.000 new television sets going into service in homes.
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  • 86 10 Mr. Teo Lay Swee. Managing Director of Guan Soon Transport Co. has just returned from the Lloyd factory in Bremen. Germany. At Bremen, he studied the workings of the Lloyd 600 cars and at the end of his stay, he appeared before a board of engineers and
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  • 312 10 A NEW Japanese venture into the Malayan market is seen in the plans now being made by the Japan Storage Battery Co. Ltd. to market their products here. Known as G.S. Batteries, the products are made according to S.n.E. (Society of Automotive Engineers) standards. Mr.
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  • 347 10 UK OUT TO EXPAND MART FOR TRACTORS $500 MIL WORTH SOLD LAST YEAR Standard Market Reporter BRITAIN is going all out to capture the Malayan and other world markets for earth. moving machinery, Mr. S.C. Stout, United King. dom Trade Commissioner, told The Standard yesterday. This was one branch of
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  • 17 10 THE East German state airline Lufthansa has opened a modern travel bureau in East Berlin.
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  • 41 10 NEW YORK, Feb. 13, Dow- Jone s Closing Averages: STOCKS 30 Industrials 467.17 20 Rails 155.27 15 Utilities 65.05 65 Stocks 166.51 BONDS 40 Bonds 99.13 The Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index (1924-26 average equals 100) closed at 153.24.
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  • 134 10 Firm Works OnReactors A BRITISH firm has announced that it is working on lightweight atomic reactors suitable for propelling aircraft. Further, that a nuclear engineering laboratory will shortly be in use to aid this development. The statement from the company, Rolls-Royce of Derby. England says "work on the application of
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  • 200 10 Timber Proofed By New Technique A TREATED timber which, it is said, is proof against attack by all forms of fungus, rot, termites and other insects, has been developed by a firm in Essex, England, in three years of research. The new material Is a plywood in which all laminations
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  • 36 10 THE display put np by Choy Kee Chan of Pudu Street. Kuala Lumpur. The firm won first prize in the Chinese New Year Meukow brandy decoration competition. It was sponsored by Guthrie's.
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  • 157 10 Greater Power— Less Fuel WITH an optimum cruising speed of 500 m.ph. and a capacity to carry 60 first class passengers with baggage and freight over stage lengths of 3.000 miles, the Comet IV has greater power than its predecessors, although its engines burn less fuel for a given thrust
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  • 74 10 A COMBINATION of helicopter and T.V. camera, whuto could be useful in searches over difficult country and fcr other purposes, was demonstrated in the U.K. recent:? to representatives of Scotland Yard and the Army. With the camera mounted In its doorway, the helicopr flew heights between 500 ar:
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    • 408 10 NOTICES CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDERS ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT: The closing date for the receipt of Tenders for the Supply of AirConditioning Plant for Victoria Memorial Theatre, has been extended to NOON— 8.356. ENGINEERS DEPARTMENT: Painting of the Undersides of (a) Victoria Birdge: (b) Mountbatten Bridge: (c) Elgin Bridge: (d) Crawford
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  • 281 12 The cast of SLEEPING U HEN baby raises hell and won't be pacified when even floor-pacing fails to hush him New York mothers call in the "Lul laby Lady" And round comes pretty Dorothy Davenport with a dimpling smile and a voice like a turtle-dove to soothe him with a
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  • 124 12 4 MERICAN wives wage relentless war on husl...nds who SNORE. Their h 'est weapons are snore ir^«k and snore balls A snore mask is a slins v lich fits right over and ■id-r a sleeper's rhin. keeps his mouth from falling open, prevents him from snoring or
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  • 715 12  -  DOROTHY ROE NEW YORK (AP) Slim is the line, light is the weight and wandering is the waistline of America's 1956 spring fashions. New York designers are unanimously agreed on the sheath silhouette for daytime straight, narrow and severe. But they do new tricks
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  • 149 12 np\VO out of every three L American wives dislike the twin-bed habit. They prefer to shore a double bed with their husbands," says Norman Dine, head of New York's Sleep Shop. "But they all want the nocrowding models beds that are 6ft. 6 in." Norman Dine
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  • Article, Illustration
    121 12 Above: This blue nylon taffeta ruched nmt. worn over a printed nylon organdie gotvn* is one of the models on shoiv at the First ISational Trade Fair* a five day event at the Royal Albert Hall. An exotic touch is the bead-decorated cigarette holder. Left: It's a new
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  • 193 12 TF you want to experiment 1 at breakfast-time try this unusual dish that is very popular in Switzerland. It's called MUESLI (say Mewsly) and it consists of uncooked oatflakes with fruit and sometimes vegetables, and milk. It is very good for you because it is what food experts
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  • 150 12 I/OK people who like a bedtime snack but dislike crumbs in the bed, the Meen Shop provides mouth fu 1 size biscuits which you don't have *o bite. For husbands who do£e off when their wives want a cosy bedtime chat, there are pure r-affeine pills which keep
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  • 112 12 •*\IANY wives admit the* J*- feel nervous when th< v sleep alone." Mr. Dine «1 New York's sleep shop sa>v "They find it reassuring w have their husbands dose to them. Often they say tfu have shared beds w»»J sisters before they married Most wives who do
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 280 12 CANCER— June 21 to July '2 Be at home or in your sT TXTTTT <■► b office, base. Centre things l^lllllllfflfiilliM there for best results; com|J|*7TT| s |iW|L| P lete arrangements. I 3 ill yHikl si I llsk«M| Seek iniormation; exchange KdffinnlnnnlinLmiJliti f views; make allies of those ||§*r'i nearby.
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  • 820 13  -  BILL FUNK THE greatest basketballing show in the history of tfie sports entertainment world will hit Singapore on Dec. 11 when Abe Saperstein's Harlem Globetrotters come to town in a big way big stars in a completely new production. The two basketball heads— Abe
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  • 131 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The following players are invited to turn out for Selangor Women's Hockey Association second trial on the 17th on the Army Command ground here in preparation for the \vopjens inter-state quadrangular tournament to be held in Kuala Lumpur on Feb. 25 and 26
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  • 208 13 RAF HOCKEY TEAM TO TOUR CEYLON THE ROYAL Air Force. Singapore will lour the Federation and Ceylon for a series of hockey matches. The team will start their tour on Feb. .J4 for Kuala Lumpur where they will play three matches. Probable opponents yre Royal Air Force. Malaya: Selangor State
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  • 151 13 COLOURS. possessing a more forceful forward line beat Whites by four goals to two in a SHA hockey trial played on the padang yesterday. Though they had the lion's share of the exchanges, Colours, who were at one time leading 2 o, lost control of
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  • 550 13 Three Top Racers Out Of Sunday's Speed Trial By EDIN PETERS THERE will be three notable absentees at the Singapore Motor Club's annual half-mile standingstart speed trial programme to be held on the Lim Chu Kang road, off 10th mile Bukit Timah road, on Sunday. They will be the Chan
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  • 100 13 THE following are the two teams selected last night by the Singapore Hockey Association to meet the Federation and Perak on Saturday and Sunday respectively. Both games will be played at Jalan Besar Stadium. Team for Saturday against the Federation: E. N. Pillai; R. Mosbergen, Ajit Singh:
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  • 198 13 SINGAPORE Engineer Regiment, led by Capt. A E. Beringer, meet the Hongkong finalists, 74 LAA Regt. Royal Artillery in the semi-final of the Farelf Rugger championship at Tanglin today. The Sappers are well served by 2/Lt. Phipps, Sgt. Bryant, Cpl. Evans and Capt. Beringer The
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  • 422 13 IT TAKES MORE THAN COURAGE TO BEAT THE FIJIANS KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. That it takes courage, plus weight, height, speed and thrust to be successful in that hard game called rugger was the lesson hammered home by the Fijians in their match against the Malayan Asians on the Prince's Road
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  • 44 13 INDIAN Brotherhood Sports Club trounced Royal Army Pay Corps 7—3 in a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers for the Indians were: S. Sankar (4). Syed Ali <2> and K. Pandan. Hyromskeikh <2) and Grimshaw scored for R.A.P.C.
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  • 44 13 AFTER a goalless first-half. Royal Signals combined well to beat the Singapore Cricket Club 4-2 in a friendly hockey fixture played at the SCC padang yesterday. Norris (2). Abdullah and Baharon netted for Royal Signals while Grezoux and Fiske scored for SCC.
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    • 423 13 CLASSIFIED ADS SITUATION VACANT CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD OF THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA DEISEL ENGINEERS required with sound knowledge and practical experience of erection and maintenance of small and medium sized Diesel Engines driving AC Generators. Electrical knowledge an advantage Applicants should preferably hold Ist class MOT Diesel Certificate or Endorsement.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 263 13 Li 1 Abner By A/ Copp S^^* //A/VAy-^/T j mic;c. g;TFMT.Fi V r HOW .ck- I HAVE C NOT i'mS^^ N A THAT'S UFE.'f- MA'M, WOULD NO' OLD ARE 1 V. 7 VOU > TOO C/ TO BE f# B-6UTVO'SA>D *^>.l HO MATTER HOW \BE SO KIND AS VOU?/-^ (V
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  • 969 14 Pulot Puteh next. Now Showing was last. Above All was comfortably clear of National Trust and Saratoga into the straight where Now Showing made up ground. Keeping up a bright run ail the way to the post Above All ran home a two-leneth winner from
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  • 1234 14 SHAMROCK SUPPER SPRINGS A SURPRISE FIRST TIME OUT P APPLE WICK PAYS $147 From WINDSOR LAD KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Mr. T. V. Mitchell's Shamrock Slippe today carried topweight and Jackie Jones to victory in the main sprin event on the second day of the Selangor Gold Cup Meeting. Shamrock Slipper,
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  • 342 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Yon Mian of Johore won the open singles title of ttie sixth post-war AllMalaya Malays tennis championships which ended on the Sultan Sulaiman Sports Club hard courts here today. Today, Yon Mian beat the holder H. Khamis of Singapore by
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    55 14 TAKING a smart uppercut on the chin. Kid Gavilan, the former World Weltertreight champion from Cuba during his contest against Peter Waterman of Clapham, London, at Harringay Arena, London, Feb. 7. When the referee, Ben Green of Yorkshire, gave the points verdict to Waterman, it was the signal ior a
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  • 53 14 TOTAL POOL $186,800 Is* Prize No. *****1 ($50,436) 2nd Prize No. *****8 ($25,218) 3rd Prize No. *****1 ($12,609) Starters ($3,152 each): Nos *****3, *****6, *****6, *****4. Consolation Prizes ($1,120 each): Nos. *****3, *****7, *****9, *****3, *****7, *****9, *****8, *****2, *****4, *****0. Treble Tote: No winner (pool to
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  • 65 14 SELETAR ROUNDUP SOCCER— Services Schools junior league results: Seletar A drew 2-2 with Pasir Panjang A at Seletar. Scorers: Andersoi. and Stevens for Seletar; P;ews (2) for Pasir Panjang. Seletar B drew 0-0 with Pasir Panjang B. HOCKEY Inter Section knockout competition: GSB again drew
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  • 257 14 AFTER FIVE YEARS, WHIMSTER IS CHAMP AT LAST IPOH. Tues— J. R. Whimster of Kuala Lumpur today won the North Malayan amateur golf championship title heating C. A. Collins of Penang two up in the final. This is Whimster's first success in this championship which he has competed in for
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  • 47 14 CHIEF Technician Lcgan and his 13-year-old son, Roy. struck a winning partnership in the RAF Seletar Golf Clubs 4 ball best ball bogey competition yester day. The Logans won «ix ud. They also won the ball sweep over t the second nine holes (3 up)..
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  • 27 14 RAF Dynamos be at RAF Jurong 3-2 at soccer at Yio Chu Kan? Road yesterday. Huggett and Jones (2) for Dynamos; MacHardy (2) for Jurong.
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  • 354 14 THE Ist FIJIAN Regiment's rugger team in the seven-a-side tournament yesterday took on a new look. Fielding six newcomers to competitive rugger, the Fijians won through to the second round by beating Nee Soon Waggoners 14 points (a goal, a penalty goal and two
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  • 62 14 PIC- lure. MAUREEN "Little Mo" Connolly, three times winner of the Wimbledon women's singles title, turned professional on Feb. 6 in Chicago. Maureen uses the back of William F. King, vice-president of the Wilson Sporting Goods Co., as a "desk" as she signs an autograph after
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  • 354 14 Federation XI Triumph 3-0 Over Pak. Navy KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Federation gave a dazzling performance to beat Pakistan Navy 3-0 in a hockey match at Gurney Road today beiore a large crowd. The Federation forwards playing with plenty of dash were brilliantly backed by their halves in wfhich left half
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