Singapore Standard, 18 February 1956

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  • 36 1 Singapore "Standard STANDARD rOLIwE J^L F? \M\ *^L FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL ***** (5 line.) 2400 ~l V* J J\j j£L 2811 2414 Vol. VI. No. 226 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1956 14 PAGES 13 CENTS
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  • 359 1  -  T. J. CHIA Bv MORE than 35 big commercial organizations in Singapore, some registered in this country, others in the United Kingdom, hove banded together under the name of the Malayan Commercial Associations ot Great Britain. Their object to promote trade between Britain and Singapore,
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  • 331 1 MANILA, Feb. 17. A ring of military bases in the western Pacific possessing "tremendous destructive power" is preventing a powerful Communist Chinese land army from pouring overseas, outgoing Rear-Admiral Hugh H. Goodwin said yesterday. Admiral Goodwin said: "At this moment there is
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  • 90 1 PARIS. Feb. 17 (AP) j France announced today that she has suspended all light arms shipments to foreign buyers in view of the tense situation In North Africa and the Middle East. A foreign office spokesman indica* d suspension of sales —which have been channelled mainly
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  • 34 1 MR. Sadao Iguchi. Japan's ng Ambassador to the United States- arrived In L ndon by air yesterday on his way to Tokyo He is to be succeeded by Mr. Masayuki Tani. Reuter
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  • 84 1 BANGKOK, Feb. 17 (UP)— Prime Minister Phibul Songgram of Thailand, said today it was his "firm conviction" that the S.E.A.T.O. pact will help bring 'peace and tranquility" to Asia The Field Marshal pledged that Thailand will carry out its obligations under the eight-nation S.E.A.T.O. pact aimed
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  • 138 1 Indian Threat To Goa NEW DELHI. Feb. 17 (Reuter) The Indian Government has strengthened its armed police on the IndiaGoa border and has told them to use force if necessary to prevent any violation of Indian territory, the Indian Prime Minister. Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, said here today. Mr. Nehru was
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  • 43 1 OITA. Japan. Feg. 17 (AP). Japan started construction of its first Braille library in this southern Japanese port citv today. The library scheduled for completion in May, will exhibit Braille books and serve 3.000 blind people in this area.
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  • 52 1 LONDON. Feb. 17 (UP) Europe today counted 618 dead in the third week of the worst winter in memory and braced for still more cold. The death toll was expected to rise when rescue parties fight through freezing snowdrifts to hundreds of isolated I villages, towns
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  • 29 1 A TORNADO unleased its fury on a four-block area in Aberdeen, a north-east Mississippi town, last night, killing at least one man and injuring 35 others. A.P.
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  • 170 1 BANGKOK, Feb. 17 (Reuter) Far Eastern exercises between British, American and French forces in the next few weeks would be the first step in turning the South-east Asia Treaty Organisation into a "NATO-type show" Vice-Admiral R. F. Elkins, Second -in Command of
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  • 55 1 HIROSHIMA, Feb. 17 (AP) Kyodo news service today reported the death of what it called 'the fourth victim of the atom bomb this year." He was Sanetoshi Namashiro. an Hiroshima farmer. Namashiro was near the Hiroshima railroad station when the world s first atomic bombing took
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  • 149 1 PRESTON. Feb. 17 (Reuter) —The man who could probably say most about yesterday's House of Commons vote to abolish the death penaltv In Britain is keeping his lips sealed. Britain's part-time hangman. Albert Plerrppolnt. jovial landlord of the Rose and Crown public house at Hoole, I
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  • 325 1  -  V. T. SAMBANDAM By Its Time To Link Against Extremists' PLANS are afoot to merge the Singapore Labour Front and the newly-formed Liberal Socialist Party to give a popular mandate to Chief Minister David Marshall's Merdeka Mission in April. Well-informed sources told The Standard yesterday that
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  • 183 1 The Big Invasion Starts MALACCA, Fri Hundreds of people have started pouring into this old settlement while arrangements tor the grand welcome tor Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, were being finalized. The Tunku and his Merdeka Mission will travel under two arches near the airport that the people of Batu
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  • 69 1 THREE Royal Air Force officers were injured today when a Valetta transport bound for Singapore made a forced landing in a swamp, 15 miles south of Saigon, a Far East Air Force spokesman in Singapore told The Standard last night. A sick woman travelling on stretcher
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  • 30 1 PRODUCTION of a Spanish film, starring American actress Betsy Blair, has been halted. The director. Jose Barden. is reported in jail on suspicion of having leftist tendencies. AP
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  • 27 1 MRS. Herman Burd. a grandmother at 36. whose husband is unemployed by ill-health, has given birth to her 18th child in Huntington. West Virginia. A.P.
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  • 19 1 JAPAN will never change her anti-Communist attitude. Ambassador Keneuke Horinouchi told the Taipei Rotary Club yesterday. A.P.
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    5 1 Mr. David Marshall
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  • 147 1 Charles, Anne First To Greet Queen LONDON. Feb. 17 (UP)— The Queen flew home from a tumultous royal tour of her largest African colony today and into the arms of her excited children. The young Queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, flew in from Nigeria and landed at
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  • 40 1 MANILA, Feb. 17 (AP) The Foreign Office today announced a 15-man Philippine delegation, headed by Vice-President Carlos P. Garcia. will attend the South-east Asia Treaty Organization's Council of Ministers conference opening in Karachi on March 6.
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  • 588 1 Spending Curb Shocker BRITONS HIT AT BREADLINE LONDON, Feb. 17 (Reuter) Mr. Harold MacMillan, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, shocked Britain today with tough new measures to curb spending by the public and by industry. In what amounted to a miniature budget only a few weeks before he is
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  • 167 2 LOVE CAUSES IT ALL FRUSTRATED romance is attributed to be one of the causes for mental derangement among young persons between twenty to thirty years age group in Singapore. The Medical Department's annual report for 1954 released yesterday states that 27.39 per cent of the total mental cases were in
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  • 204 2 FIVE men certified to be members of a secret society by a Deputy Superintendent of Police were recalled and reprimanded by a Singapore Magistrate yesterday for grinning when they were dismissed in Court after being bound over. Ng Chor Bak. Tan Seow Yick. Cher Kee Seng.
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  • 269 2 Abolish Tooth-For-A-Tooth Policy' Mr. and Mrs. Singapore yesterday agreed with the British House of Commons decision to ban the death penalty by hanging. By 293 votes to 262. the House of Commons decided on a "free vote", (meaning that members voted according to their conscience and
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  • 231 2 INDEPENDENCE for Malaya is no bed of roses. This warning came from Mr. Maurice Brown, Registrar of the University of Malaya, in an address to the Methodist Youth Fellowship at Wesley Church, Singapore, last night. "The achievement of independence would mean that Malaya would have to
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  • 149 2 'Cometh Merdeka You'll Get Fired' LAUGHTER rang out in a Court yesterday, when a policeman testified that a labourer told him he would get the sack when Singapore obtained Independence. Police Constable Abdul Aziz bin Hassan said the labourer, Ibrahim bin Kassim. used these words in Malay; "Jikalau depat Merdeda
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  • 126 2 PENANG. Fri. Rerresenta. tives from the various State* and Settlements in the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei will attend the next Pilgrimage Advisory Committee meeting at the Muslim College, Klang. on Feb. 23. The meeting will be presided over by Dato Kamaruddin
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  • 67 2 A SINGAPORE youth. Chia Ak Ah, 17. was acquitted by Magistrate K. T. Alexander in the Eighth Court after he was found not guilty of assaulting schoolboy Seng Ah Kee. 16. at Tampenis Road on Nov. 14, last year. Seng had alleged that he was
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  • 128 2 WELFARE arrangements for Malayan and other overseas students in England may be considerably improved. Steps to achieve this have been taken up by the U.K. Ministry of Education, which, in collaboration with the British Council, is offering a short instructional course to help principals, heads of departments
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  • 49 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. "Terror tips" last month cost the Federation Government $83,288. but helped the security forces to capture or kill many terrorists. Negri Sembilan topped the list with $35,450 and Kedah came next, claiming $13,500. No rewards for information were paid in Kelantan or Trengganu.
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  • 157 2 THE Singapore City Council yesterday asked the ten Chinese bus companies to withdraw their vehicles from the Traction Company routes as from today. More than 150 buses owned by Chinese bus companies have been serving the S.T.C. routes temporarily for over a month.
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  • 93 2 \\i'tt»r Tito Strikt* Ms Ov<*r... SMILES after a 142-dav strike. This Standard photo was taken in Labour Ministry after the signing of the "peace pact" between the Singapore Traction Company and its employees' union, yesterday. From left to right: Mr. Yay Thiam Meng. president of the S.T.C.E.U; Sir Thomas Strangman,
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  • 44 2 THE Governor of Singapore. Sir Robert Black, yesterday spent more than two hours touring the Pasir Panjang Power Station. He was accompanied by the President of the Citv Council, Mr. J. T. Rea and City Councillor Mr. Chan Kum Chee.
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  • 235 2 A 60-YEAR-OLD clerk who wag sentenced to a mandatory three months' imprisonment, after rejection by the Opium Treatment Centre, for possessing opium and smoking utensils, was released on bail yesieiday after serving one day in prison. Lee Eng Hock was released on a S5OO bail
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  • 44 2 SINGAPORE Police are looking for a hit-and-run motorbt who knocked down a 64-year-old woman. Cheng Yeong. at Bth Mile, Yio Chu Kang Ro&d on Thursday night. The woman's body was four 4 floating in a monsoon d:' a yesterday morning.
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  • 274 2 Soldier Lost His Head— And Now His Stripes NEWS of his family migrating to Australia led a young British soldier to lose not only his head but hit stripes. He was Corporal K. Bolesworth, 20, of 30 Battalion, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, stationed in Alexandra Road, Singapore. *j Bolesworth was
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  • 127 2 Protest Against Bosses THE 4.000-strong Singaprrt Business House Employees' Union has declared "war n some employees in order -.o better the service condil i of its members. The Union will ho'd a mass meeting in the Victoria Memoria' Hall on Feb. 22 to pan future strategy. In a circular to
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  • 37 2 SINGAPORE Police yesterday recovered four unserviceable rifles from the Kanw pong Bahru Road area. The rifles, believed to bv World War II relics, were handed over to the military authorities for disposal
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  • 34 2 THE Singapore City Council Services Union will hold a Chinese New Year treat for the children of its members st the club premises, Farrer Park, on Feb. 25 at 2.30 p.m.
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  • 22 2 SPARKS from explode* crackers set fire and completely gutted an attap tb in the 7th Mile. Jurong Road. Singapore, yesterday
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  • 303 3 Ministers Pledge To Shop Workers KUALA LUMJUR, Fri. The Federation Government may institute an inquiry into the working conditions of shop assistants. This was announced tonight by the Minister for Labour V. T. Sambanthan, who declared: "Sweated labour must stop. The time has come when
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  • 92 3 4 Convicts Now Face Hurt Charge SEREMBAN. Fri. Eight cenvicts. six Chinese and two iJa^ays, who were originally charged with rioting in Seremtat Prison on Jan. 19. appeared in court today and heard that the rioting charge against them had been withdrawn. However, four of the accused faced a tentative
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  • 89 3 Magistrate Rejects 7 Guilty Pleas RAUB. Fri.— Out of 40 persons arrested by Police on Chinese New Year, 36 were charged with gaming in a common gaming house at Raub and four w.th permitting their premises to be used as a common gaming house. Seven persons pleaded guilty J \>ut
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  • 73 3 Protest By Students Of Religion PENANG. Fri— The Kedah Malay Religious Students' Union will submit a memorandum to the Federation Minister for Education. Dato Abdul Razak requesting him to pay more attention to religious schools. The memorandum states that so far Government has not given fair treatment to the religious
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  • 199 3 i KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.-Mr. Tom Critchley, Australian Commissioner in the Federation today described the current visit of a student group romthe Commormealth here as "the indication of the increasing friendship and understanding.between our two eounMr. Critchley, who was speaking at a luncheon organized in their honour
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  • 49 3 Blaze In Change Alley A CIGARETTE butt dropped, on a canvas awning of a shop in Change Alley. Singapore, yesterday started a fire Which damaged hundreds of •traw handbags. Damage is estimated at ffi.OOO. Two adjoining stalls were also aiTected. Three City Council fire tngines put out the fire.
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  • 52 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri Mr. Hong Sup Jhung of Bouth Korea, a member of the United Nations Organiiat:on. arrived here yesterday, to study local welfare conditions. He called on the Mentri Besar and the British Adviser before meeting various offi•■2 at the State Welfare Office, and
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  • 88 3 BUTTERWORTH. Fri.— The Settlement Government is moat concerned lest there should be any deterioration in the drainage of certain areas in Province Wellesley consequent upon the sale of large estates and the splitting up of these estates into small-holdings. Much, of the Province is very
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  • 35 3 THE Singapore Girl Guides and Guiders of the Central District will hold their Thinking Day programme on Feb. 22. from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.. at the Raffles Girls' School, in Queen Street.
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  • 58 3 DR. S.E. Wright, senior lecturer in pharmacy at the University of Sydney, will give a talk at 5.30 p.m. on March 2 in the Physiology Lecture Theatre of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. The subject will be "Pharmaceutical Education and Research in Australia." Members
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  • 188 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— A schoolboy said in the Second Magistrate's Court today that he wanted to claim 53,000 damages from a banker, alleging assault, in order to finance his brother's wedding. The schoolboy. K. Meignanaratham said this under crossexamination in a case
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  • 153 3 Constable Sentenced To Death RAUB. Fri.— The Federation Chief Justice. Sir Charles Mathew, sentenced P. Karunakaran. 22. a special constable, to death for the murder of a tractor driver on Karmen Estate, Mentakab. on Sept. 23. last year. Karunakaran was said to have injured another man and a woman also.
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  • 59 3 Photo. THE Singapore YWCA. Square Dance Club held a "China Night" social in the association premises at Raffles Quay last night. The function was well attended and a number of entertaining items were provided by association members and their guests. Picture shows a section of the
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  • 261 3 TWO convicts, Zakariah bin Haji Ali and Heng Ah Song, were each sentenced to one year's imprisonment in the Singapore First District Court yesterday for committing extortion and abetting the offence respectively, on Tan Boon Leong, a tyre shop owner. The offence was committed at
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  • 223 3 SURPRISES AHEAD AT THIS YEAR'S TALENTIME SURPRISES galore will be In store for artistes who enter this year's Radio Malaya Talentime Snow in Singapore. What Is more, this year's Talentime will be the grandest since such programmes were started way back in 1946. But, producer and compere Kingsley Morando just
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    • 93 4 BENTONG, Fri. The staff and pupils of the Suleiman School here today observed a minute's silence in memory of Mr. S. S. Nathan, their former senior assistant who died under mysterious circumstances in Pekan this week. The body of 49-year-old Mr. Nathan was found in
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    • 82 4 Figures Lights Draw Sentry Fire KUALA LUMPUR. Fri At Tasek New Village Police Station at Kroh. Perak, last night, a sentry fired at two figures close to the perimeter wire. Two shots were fired back before the figures fled. There were no known casualties. At Jerantut. Pahang. yesterday, a sentry
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    • 62 4 MALACCA. Fri— Two Settlement Councillors, Inche Hasnul Abdul Hadi and Inche Mohamed Haji Abdul Rahman, said here today that the romanized Malay name of Malacca ought to be "Melaka" and not "Malaka." The Malacca UMNO Youths have decided to ask Tunku Abdul Rahman, when he visits
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    • 44 4 TEMERLOH. Fri: The Sultan of Pahang arrived here today on a tour of Temerloh district. He was received by the District Officer, OCPD and officials. In the afternoon, the Ruler inspected a police guard of honour and met community leaders.
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    • 183 4 PENANG, Fri. The former Member for Health and past president of the MCA Penang branch, Dr. Lee Tiang Keng, stated today that the question of the future of Penang would probably be one of the subjects to be referred to the independent Commission
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      48 4 CHARMING arrival at Southampton is fl year old Gwen Perreira, from Singapore. Gwen, who pulls her coat round her to keep out the cold, is to marry Mr. John Flynn, of Chalk Farm, London, whom she met when he was serving in the RAF in 4 Singapore.
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    • 201 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Malayan Trade Union Council supported other public and political groups in Malaya to oppose the Federation Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman's move to re-introduce the pre-war opium monopoly. The MTUC will send a delegation to meet the Chief Minister on his
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    • 145 4 CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot f.o.b. 10*2 105i No. 1 R.S.S. Mar. 1041 104* No 2 102* 103 No. 3 102 102i Tone: Easier. TIN PRICE The price ot tin yesterday was S3Bl per picul (Down $2g). i UN DON
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    • 129 4 THIS NIGHT DUTY WAS PAINFUL PENANG, Fri. A ivaterfront labourer punched a Police Constable and fractured his nose, it xcas stated fit a preliminary inquiry m the Magistrate's Court today. Kalimuthu tvas conimitted for trial, after the inquiry on a charge ol causing grievous hurl to police constable Megat Hashim
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    • 112 4 KANGAR. Fri. The Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Mr. Leong Yew Koh, paid a short visit to Perlis yesterday. The Minister called on the Mentri Besar. Raja Haji Ahmad bin Raja Indut at Kangar, and was entertained to lunch. In the afternoon, he visited Kangar
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    • 374 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, president of the Party Negara, today defended his resignation from UMNO in 1951/ as a "drastic decision which had to be made to attune the Malay mind to the larger problems involved in the political and
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    • 113 4 PENANG. Fri. Ten thousand copies of an attractive folder with a dragon boat on the front page will be printed to publicize the water festival to be held at Gurney Drive on June 16, and 17 this year. This was decided at the committee meeting
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    • 58 4 KUALA TRENGGANU, Fri. The British Naval task force, which took part in the SEATO exercises just ending, will anchor off the capital's seaboard at 7 a.m. on Monday. The group, commanded by Vice-Admiral R. F. Elkins, includes the cruiser "Newfoundland." destroyers "Comus" and "Concord," (R.N.),
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    • 188 4 PENANG. Fri.— After a woman was bitten bv a dog, the blood from the wound en her hand was wiped with rice which was then given to the dog to eat the Magistrates Court was told today. The woman. Goh Kim Suan, Wi.s, the
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    • 92 4 Branch Of Factory Union Formed PENANG, fri. Employees of the Tai Teong Rubber Factory in Tassek Glugor. Province Wellesley, consisting raostly of Malays have formed a branch of the National Union of Factory Workers. The inaugural meeting held recentiy elected Mr. Lim Swee Kee as president and Inche Ramli bin
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  • 333 5 BANDITS' SUPPLY LINES WEAKENED Big Grip On Ulu Langat Tightened KUALA LUMPUR, Friday— The Selangor Government announced today it had weakened the terrorist supply lines in the notorious Ulu Langat district with the arrests of 50 civilians known to be Communist sympathizers and members of the masses executives." In the
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  • 169 5 WHAT'S THIS OF ASKING CONVICTS TO HELP OUT?' KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Federation Government will be asked to investigate reports that conviets had been asked to maintain the i ential services in the event of a strike by dailypaid men. Complaints that such p*oposals were put to convicts in the
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  • 117 5 Nude Body Tied To Rubber Tree PENANG. Fri. The decomposed body of a 17-ycar-o.d sir!. Lean Kee Nyong. was found in a rubber estate in Balik Pulau. yesterday evening. The was reported missin-; since Feb. 13 and was last seen by her parents leaving the Roman C?tholic Church where she
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  • 128 5 BOURNE VISITS LANGAT KAJANG, Fri.— Lieut-Gen, Sir Geoffrey Bourne, the Federation's Director of Operations, today visited Ulu Langat to observe current action against ISO terrorists. Amidst the deafening noise of 4.2 mortars firing bombs 7,000 feet into the air to land on targets three miles away, he declared: "We have
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  • 47 5 MRS. Ammu Swaminadhan, a prominent woman Member of Indian Parliament, is expected to arrive in Singapore bv the State of Madras, on Feb. 22. She will stay In the Colony for three days and then leave for Kuala Lumpur on Feb. 25.
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  • 22 5 THE Asiatic Government Security Life and General Assurance Co., Ltd.. yesterday donated $250 to the Singapore Youth Sports Centre Fund.
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  • 57 5 TAIPING. Fri. Thirty estate workers are attending their first adult education class in Tamil at Jebong Estate. Matang Mr. K. C. Yeoh. secretary of the local branch ot Adult Education Association, said that it was likely more Tamil literacy classes would be opened in Perak. although
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  • 42 5 MR. J. Sudjarwo. Indonesia's permanent delegate to the United Nations, said yesterday in New York, that he saw no reason for a re-opening of negotiations with the Dutch following the breakdown of the Geneva talks between the two countries. Reuter.
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  • 34 5 REGISTRATION of tenants in Kuala Kangsar will come into effect after Feb. 20. The Tenants Registration Officer. Mr. Yeap Ghee Chuan. has informed residents here to complete their registration rorms before Feb. 20.
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  • 67 5 MINIMUM Temperature: From 730 p.m Feb. 16 to 7.30 am Feo 17. Singapore l73F>. Penang (72F). Kota Bahru (69F). Kuala Lumpur (74F>. Ipoh (74F> Kuantan (67F>. Maximum Temperature: From 730 am to 7.30 pm Feb. 17. Singapore <89F>. Penang <90F). Kota Bahru <85F>. Kuala Lumpur <93F>. Ipoh (96F).
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  • 82 5 This Town Wants A Rest House KAJANG. Fri— The Kajang Town Board is working to give the town a rest house. The former rest house is occupied by the Deputy Chairman, Town Board, as accommodation is tight here. The Town Board is also planning a second children's playground adjacent to
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  • 219 5 ALLIANCE POLICY BODY TO CONFER ON VITAL MATTER KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Alliance Government's policy-making body the National Council is to meet here On March 2, to frame the guiding policies for future independent Malaya. The meeting which will be held at UMNO House here will be presided over by
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  • 198 5 GOVT. TAKES FIRST STEP TO MALAYAN IZE SINGAPORE Government has taken the first step towards Malayanizing its services even before the Malayanization Commission has submitted its report. The Standard understands that it has been decided not to renew the contracts of certain classes of officers pending the final policy decision
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  • 144 5 Navy Recruit Interviews Next Month AN interview board for naval cadetships in the executive, supply, engineering and electrical branches of the Royal Malayan Navy will be held in Singapore in April. Candidates are asked to present themselves before the Board for interview and medical examination in the week commencing April
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  • 110 5 Grandstand View Of Task Force PEOPLE in the coastal towns and villages in Trengganu will have a grand opportunity of seeing the Commonwealth Task Group which took part in the SEATO exercise "Operation Firm Link." The ships will drop anchor off Kuala Trengganu at 7 a.m. on Monday and sail
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  • 54 5 THE Singapore City Council will be without a Deputy President for the next four-and-a--half-moths. The Deputy President. Mr R. Middleton-Smith went on leave earlier this week. Government cannot spare a man to act as Deputy President while Mr. Middleton-Smith is away on leave, said the Council President,
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  • 53 5 A SINGAPORE quarry worker, who set the fuse for an explosion and could not get away in time was badly injured at the Lian Hup Granite Quarry. Siglap Road, yesterday. He was admitted to the General Hospital suffering from injunes to bis fare and both his
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  • 43 5 R AF (M) Recruits RECRUITING tor the Royal Air Force (Malaya) in Perak will take place in Ipoh on Mar. 1 at the Police Volunteer Reserve Headquarters. Douglas Road. Recruiting in Taiping will be on March 2 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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  • 38 5 TWENTY-FIVE City Council workers yesterday claimed trial in the City Court to erecting huts at Kolam Ayer Lane in April and May without the approval of the City Council. Hearing was fixed for March 29.
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  • 36 5 TAN CHOON TECK claimed trial in the Singapore Seventh Magistrate's Court yesterday to robbery and stabbing. Soh Kim Tee at Geylang Road on Feb. 16 Bail of $5,000 wa s allowed till Feb. 24.
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    • 469 5 HAPPY CABARET TO-NIGHT EXTENSION I A.M. MACKESONS MILK STOUT NIGHT SPOT DANCES 6c LUCKY NUMBERS. Prizes:— MILK STOUT by kind courtesy of MESSRS JOHN LITTLE (M) LTD. GRAND INTER-STATES DANCE COMPETITION SINGAPORE versus feELANGOR FOR THE MISSION CHALLENGE TROPHE I on 29th February Ist March, 1956. iV I ICj lj
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    • 952 5 Standard cAlmanac Information at a Glance "liSjSSaji Waltz (S); 2pm Racins com- liar Dance Bands" (16 82m); |T|y -m m r Ta*A T. nientanes iKL); 6.30 Announce- 3 b ''As You Like Jt" (1682m); I NQADCj K C nients KLi; 632 Stardust iKL). 330 "Songs That Sold a Mil- *wm
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 507 6 THE PENANG Straits Chinese British Association is worried over the future of the Straits Chinese. The time has come for them to change their ideas because, by persisting in bolstering up their so-call-ed privileged position, they are only piling up trouble for themselves. In an independent Malaya they
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    • 483 6 THE rights of an employer to dispense with the services of members of his staff is challenged by the Singapore Business Houses Employees' Union on the ground that it is entitled to be consulted before such action is taken. In making this demand, the Union is acting on
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  • 734 6 DELHI. QUERRILLA warfare has violently exploded on India's Northeastern border with China, in the Naga Hills, where head-hunting tribesmen, trained by the Allies in World War II to harass the Japanese, now stalk Indian troops, disrupt communications, and burn villages which refuse support. The leaders
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  • 870 6  - The NEWS as it strikes me! Aster Gunasekera By THERE will be great rejoicing tomorrow in three Malayan centres Singapore, Malacca .and Kuala Lumpur the occasion being the arrival of Tunku Abdul Rahman and the remaining members of the Merdeka Mission. Tens of thousands of Malayans arc expected to congregate
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  • 664 6 We the PEOPLE Why Europeans should help... Sir: I consider that the call recently made by the Chief Minister and directed to Europeans to cease standing aside and come in and aid the new representative government of Malaya and take a part in politics, deserves the attention of all seriousmi
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  • 198 6 Bt'la di Taun Bahru orang-orang China di Malaya smua ada tarok ini barang-barang yang tersebot di atas meja datok. Itu barang-barang smua di tarok bukan-nya chuma chuma saja, dan bukan mau bvat prwsan, tetapi smua ada mmknanya dan ada berknt-nya. LEMO MAMS: lr,i bua chuma sa-taun
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  • 480 6 .Sir: As a Chinese I hasten to thank you for your Chinest New Year message to the Malayan Chinese people. But, as a Malayan, I must b*J that I do not agree with your statement that "the MCA monolith has served its purpose during the period when
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  • 92 7 HIRE is a flying machine hit can be taken in a trunk to the airport Pilot Dick Ulm flies it above, The I'htweUht monoplane is made of rubberised airmat fabric. The test flight here shown was made recently a t Akron. Ohio. Below, engineer Robert L. VVolcott, of
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  • 333 7 WOMEN CHEER AS MPs VOTE TO THREE IN DEATH CELL GET A REPRIEVE LONDON, Feb. 17 The House of Commons last night voted to abolish hanging in Britain by 293 to 262 votes despite the efforts of Eden's government to keep capital punishment. Thus the abolitionists won a
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  • 130 7 BI'ENOS AIRES, Feb. 17 (Reuter) Half ot the (Cuvian army was today reported to be rallying in Support of General Perino Perevra, who rebelled yesterdav with a 12,000-strong garrison in north Peru JMinst the rule of "strong man" ruler General Manuel (tfria. K ports
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  • 125 7 Miracle Birth To Wheelchair Couple SAN MATEO, California, Feb. 17, (UP)— A normal baby girl was born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Taylor in what doctors called a "miracle" birth both parents arc wheelchair patients. The mother, Marchy, 27. has been a cerebral palsy victim since birth. Her husband,
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  • 50 7 PERTH, Feb. 17 (Reuter)— The British navy's tank landing ship Narvik is due at Fremantle. West Australia on Feb. 23. on her way to take part in the nuclear weapons tests at Monte Bello Island off the western coast of Australia, the Navy Office announced today.
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  • 472 7 LONDON, Feb. 17 (Reuter)— Britain, Australia and New Zealand have agreed to set up in the Far East a Commonwealth Strategic Reserve containing naval, air and army forces to be stationed in Malaya and Singapore for the defence of that area against aggression, a
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    • 27 7 TAIPEI. Feb 17. (UP>— Nationalist Chinese dropoed 100.000 leaflets with New Year greetings over China on Tuesday night. it was announced in Taipei on Thursday.
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    • 17 7 CANBERRA. Feb. 17. (Reuter)—The Australian Minister to Thailand. Mr. D.O. Hay, has been appointed ambassador.
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    • 26 7 LONDON. Feb. 17. (PA) Peking Radio reported the arrival yesterday of Ahmed El Mantaw. Deputy Head of an Egyptian trade delegation to Red China.
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    • 24 7 KARACHI. Feb. 17. (AP Pakistan and Greece have agreed to abolish visas for travel between the two countries from next April 1.
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    • 25 7 LONDON Feb. 17 (AP) Japanese Ambassador Mr. Harukiko Nishi conferred on Thursday, at his request, with British Foreign Secretary Mr. Selwyn Lloyd.
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK, Feb 17. (AP) —A Group of 20 young German farmers who have spent the past year on U.S. farms under auspices of the American Farm Bureau Federation, sailed for home yesterday aboard the liner United States.
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    • 36 7 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Feb. 17 (AP) Britain denied yesterday that a British plane had violated Saudi Arabian territory on Jan. 30. It charged that a Saudi Arabian vehicle had violated Britishprotected territory that day.
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    • 33 7 JERUSALEM, Israel Sector. Feb. 17 (AP) —An Israeli Army spokesman said here Egyptian snipers opened fire three times on Thursday on an Israel position near Kissufim. east of the Gaza strip.
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    • 32 7 A ROYAL decree in Pnom Penh yesterday appointed Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian Premier, as permanent representative and head of the Cambodian Mission to the United Nations organization. Reuter
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  • 136 7 I Was Raped— Baby-Sitter MOBILE, Alabama, Feb. 17 (AP)— A 19-year-old White youth was charged on Thursday with raping a teen-age Negro girl. Chief Deputy Barney Bray said Jerry T. Yates, a dairy truck driver of nearby Eight Mile, was jailed without bond. The deputy said the girl gave this
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  • 157 7 NICOSIA. Cyprus, Feb. 17. (UP)— Archbishop Makarios Etharch of Cyprus was reported yesterday to have given his definition of selfgovernment for the islanders in a letter to Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the British Governor. The Cyprus Mail published the letter. It said Greek Cypriots
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    50 7 PRINCESS ASTRID of Norway, the first lady of the country since her mother's death, who celebrated her 24th birthday recently at the residence of th Norwegian Crown Prince's family some miles west of Oslo. She is seen in the library at the house, which la rallrd "Skaugum."- UP
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  • 23 7 WASHINGTON. Feb. 17, (AP)— The State Department said yesterday the United States is shipping 18 M4l Walker Bulldog tanks to Saudi Arabia.
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    • 54 7 I 2nd COLOSSAL WEEK! t The crowds are still flocking to see the film of the Chinese New Year! I THE PICTURE THAT [S] GIVES NEW MEANING > [L i ROSSANA PODESTAh*, JACK SERNASa-BS SHU mmm SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE Stanley baker mall m«otb L2£i ROBERT DOUGLAS TOWN THATCHER dkected by
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  • 159 8 Please, Where's My Son-Mother's Plea To Terrorists WORKSOP, Nottinghamshire, Feb. 17 (Reuter)— A British mother, whose soldier son is missing in Cyprus last night appealed for news of him in a letter to the Cypriot Greek language newspaper Ethnos The woman. Mrs. Lilian Hill, who lives at Langold. near here,
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  • 71 8 Dive-Bomber (It's An Owl) Kills 58 Hens CHARLIE LAKE (British Columbia). Feb. 17 (Reuter) A nearsighted owl dive-bombed at a chicken house at this Alaska highway centre and caused the death of 58 hens. Farmer Ray Sandy said the owl dived on the reflection of a hen on the window
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  • 129 8 SPAIN RETAINS DEATH PENALTY LONDON, Feb. 17 (Reuter) —Spain is the only country in Western Continental Europe to retain capital punishment for crimes in times of peace. The death penalty still exists in France but most sentences are commuted to life imprisonment. The method of execution in France is the
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  • 107 8 SANTA FE. New Mexico. Feb. 17 (Reuter)— A Federal Judge ruled here yesterday that the United States and Germany were still at war. Judge C. C McCulloh was presiding at a hearing on a school law. Opponents of the law argued that it was
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  • 56 8 La Lollo The Trapeze Girl LOVELY Italian actress Gina Lollobrlgida stars with Americans Burt Lancaster (left) and Tony Curtis in her latest film, "Trapeze," made In Paris. Burt is a former circus acrobat, which probably came in useful during the filming of the circus story. La Lollo appears in the
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  • 85 8 LONDON, Feb. 17 (Reuter) The Socialist Chief Minister of Jamaica, Mr. Norman Manley, yesterday forecast that the Caribbean would achieve "a solution to multi-racial relationships which will be a contribution to the whole world." Mr. Manley was broadcasting in the 8.8.C. overseas programme "London Calling Asia." when he
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  • 56 8 TRACY. California, Feb. 17, (UP)— An Air Force B-52 intercontinental atom bomber which normally carries a crew of six crashed yesterday apparently after colliding in the air with a jet fighter. An eyewitness said the fighter was making "passes" at the huge $8.000.000-bomber. Four parachuted to
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  • 66 8 WASHINGTON. Feb. 17 (Reuter) The State Department spokesman Mr. Lincoln White, announced early today that "all export permits of arms to the Middle East are being temporarily suspended pending further examination." The announcement came little more than eight hours after the Department had revealed that 18
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  • 31 8 THE United States has informed Japan that it intends to remain "an interested bystander" in London negotiations between Japan and Russia on a world war II peace treaty.— AP.
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  • 304 8 400,000 WITNESS THE FINAL GRAND PARADE BANGKOK, Feb. 17 (Reuter)— Eight thousand men from the armies, navies and air forces of the SEATO Nations paraded down Bangkok's majestic Rajadamnoen Avenue this morning in an impressive finale to operation "Firm Link.' Firm Link, the
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  • 181 8 NAPLES, Feb. 17, (Reuter)The scantil\-clad girls ot the Paris Folies Bergerea are in trouble again in Italy despite extra "clothes" adopted for they Italian tour. An outraged Italian, who signs himself Mario Puri. ricati (literally "Mario th» purified"), has denounced the Parisian dancing beau, ties for
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  • 90 8 BONN. Feb. 16 (Reuter) The West German Parliament today authorised the government to order the first ships eight destroyers and 145 smaller vessels including E-boats from German shipyards for its new navy. The Lower House defence and budget committees, in joint session, appropriated the
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  • 71 8 SANTA MONICA, California Feb. 17 (Reuter) The Douglas Aircraft Company has announced that its intercontinental DC-8 jet transport will carry 144 passengers, 19 more than originally planned. The wing span of the prototype, now under construction, has been lengthened by five feet, and the iusilage
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  • 15 8 THE FOLIES GlRL. ..(green stars and three postage stamps for clothes.)
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  • 114 8 TAIPEI, Feb. 17. (UP)— The Nationalist Chinese government will ask U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles to say unequivocally what the American government would do if the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu are attacked, a Nationalist news agency reported today. The World News
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    • 164 8 SAVE YOUR LIFE AND PROPERTIES! > The New Invention! For the safety of ATTAP Wooden Dwellers to prevent from FIRE! /•USE THE MODERN FIRE PROOFING PREPARATION PAINT TO PROTECT IT! Demonstration at Singapore, on the 19th July, 1955. Demonstration ot PETALING JAYA, SELANGOR on 14th January 1956. J"^fo^Jq. Tt^'per "oHor.!'
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  • 2045 9 The difficulties and the pains THE day after King Peter of Yugoslavia proposed to me, we tcent with my mother for a celebration lunch to a little restaurant in Cambridge, where Peter was studying at the university. We were very gay. "Your mother's not only human she's fun!" Peter's next
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    420 9  -  Anacrusis -by THE forthcoming recital by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in St. Andrew's Cathedral is to include a Performance of "The Holy Sonnets of John Donne." considered to be one of Mr. Britten's most dramatic md impassioned works. The settings were written ta 1945 on the composer's
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  • 635 9 The living-room in which we sat appeared to contain no priceless furnishings or pieces. The little dining-room at the back of the house, where we were served with a very simple meal, was the same. Upstairs were three small bedrooms and one bathroom. All the rooms
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    • 96 9 B^folfPl Nothing can beat a If VSHII f9ouA/e DiamondSi Mm. B M:l(|i||jlM I r//£ f/iVf sr pilsener li3\<3€mll M0 MiV Mr* <&V^A\ ~~lmu*wß Sm w^SSf^sr^^^^^^ Double Diamond is stronger, mor* WmmXmX^tm^^VSß^^^k thoroughly refreshing than any other |sio^g^^^^Eglg||l Pilsener beer you've ever tasted. |3 There's no finer beer in the whole
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    • 256 9 Tj I*! I'l I*l Wm B^ ■HT SBTTT I I I II 9 m^ r^^i "T^^ *lI*IB I I ■■■r 7 7r^nHMHBHH~i7 TT m "ll I* II I I *1 1 I I*l I*l I*II I *lIA II IB |'+mW* II* 1 4 1 I*l I*l I 1 I I
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  • 432 10 RUBBER TAXES SIPHON FOFF BIG EARNINGS -Chamber Chief THE year 1955 was on the whole a good period for commerce generally. The prosperity of the rubber and tin industries brought more money into circulation although much of the increase in the rubber industry was siphoned off by high taxation. This
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  • 33 10 Petaling Jaya Sees FireProof Paste Mr. Thong is seen (marked in triangle) with Mr. Rodthery, Administrator of Petaling Jaya (circle). Mr. Watkin, an inspector of the Federation's Fire Service (cross) and other spectators.
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  • 69 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday: Copra Feb. $27 buyers. $27 sellers: March $272 buyers. S2B sellers; coconut oil (bulk) $40| sellers, coconut oil drums) $43i sellers; Muntok white pepoer $134 sellers. Sarawak white $133 sellers. Special Sarawak black $94 sellers. Singapore Copra Asssociation
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  • 75 10 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterdav London- selling T.T. or OD. 2/4 1/32- buying, airmail. T.T. 2 4 5/32 OD. 2/4 7/32. 30 d/st 2/4 11/32 45 d/st 2/4 13/32. 60 d/st 2/4 1532. 90 d/st 2/4 19/32. 120
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    42 10 THE flower and fruit stall at Singapore's Paya Lebar Airport which is run by Corona Florist of De Souza Street. Miss Pauline Higgerson, (on left), is in charge of the stall. She is assisted by Messrs. Tan Keng Beng and Mohamed Yunos.
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  • 165 10 OI'TER ROADS Sandviken. Caltex 93. Batoe B a n r a Hoegh Silvermoon. Shinyu Maru. Fernhill, Stari Boshevik Wairata. Oluf Maersk. Sergei Kirov, Inchulva. Semiramis. Stanvac Benakat Doris. Feng Yuen. Saint Edmond. Queenstown Heights. Mina. Awobasan Maru. Karaton Chitfnyanna. Blissful. Thorstrand. San Eduardo. Frenulina, Kyoku Maru. Poona.
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  • 125 10 MALAYAN industrials again had quiet support yesterday. Tin and Rubber shares, however, were slightly easier. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sel'ers Gammon 2.30 2.35 Henry Waugh 1.40 1.45 United Engineers Ords. 8 50 8.80 cd MINING Austral Amal. 16/3 16/9 xd
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  • 140 10 MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: 8.8. Pet. 44/3 arrival: F. N ords S1.81J: Gammons 52.32J delayed: Georgetown D'«p. S2.IG: W. Hammer $2.80; HK. Bank $959 cd: Breweries $3.52*: Cements $1.58 to $1.60; 11. Cons 95. 85 cents odd 'ot: Robinson ords $2.fi7i: Cold Storage
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  • 48 10 DAILY average production in the U.S. of crude oil and condensate reached a new high of 7.072.060 barrels during the week ended Feb. 4. the Tulsa Oil and Gas Journal's survey showed. It was a rise of 8!) 085 barrels over the previous week A.P.
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  • 64 10 FORD Motor Company announced in Dearborn, Michigan, U557,375,000 worth of new expansion programmes for its affiliated companies in the Netherlands. Belgium. Denmark and Sweden. The announcement, made by Mr. Henry Ford, disclosed that Ford affiliated groups outside the United States would have invested more than US$5OO
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  • 34 10 OUTPUTS from estates and mines in the Guthrie Group in Januarv announced are: rubber 7.572.000 lb.; tea (black) 184.000 lb.; palm oil 1,024 tons; palm kernels 321 tons; tin ore 1,807 tons.
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  • 290 10 AS the Singapore rubber market was closed for three trading days of the week the period under review is very short, says the report of Holiday. Cutler. Bath Co. Ltd. Over the holidays, overseas market showed a sharp decline and on re-opening here there was a considerable
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  • 231 10 Evans' Director Studies Market A REPRESENTATIVE of one of Britain's leading pharmaceutical companies, Evans Medical Supplies Ltd.. is now visiting Singapore to investigate into the possibilities of selling products founc useful in other tropical markets. Mr. Maurice J. Smith, export director of the company, is on a week's business trip
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  • 82 10 PENANG. Fri.— Sales of the wellknown Japanese seasoning powder, Asahi-Aji in Malaya are increasing. Mr. Akira Kitada, manager ol the Second Sales Department ot Asahi Chemical Industry Co Ltd., Tokyo, said here. At a dinner recently given to North Malayan dealers ol the company's products, the manager
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  • 132 10 SINGAPORE rubber prices yesterday dropped 2\ cents to $1.04*4 per lb. for first grade rubber for March shipment, with the market uncertain most of the day. Prices opened well below j Thursday's levels and business was reported at around $1.04$ in the morning. Reports of
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  • 166 10 A.AORE PASSENGERS JOd SCANDINAVIAN Airlines System's annual report for the year to September 30, 1955 showed all around improvements over the previous year. SAS flew 931.000 passengers during the year (709.000 during the previous year), about 10.7 million kilogrammes of cargo (8.8 million) and about 4.4
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  • 220 10 THE rise in the British bank rate from 4A to 5' per cent occasioned little surprise in Singapore, the chairman of the Malayan Exchange Banks' Association, Mr. GAP. Sutherland, told The Standard jesterday. He said ■It has hern obvious for some time past from the
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  • 64 10 MR. GEORG LAMPE. factory representative of Accumulatoren Fabrik, A.G.. Frankfurt. Germany, is due in Singapore by KLM on Monday, in the course of a Far Eastern survey tour. His firm manufactures "Pertrix" torch and radio batteries. "Varta" rar batteries and other allied lines. Local agents
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    • 461 10 NOTICES SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST TENDERS are invited for laying over the flat roofs to 31 blocks of flats at Tiong Bahru I North) Estate. Lavender Street Estate and Prinsep Street Estate with felt and waterproofing cement panels or alternatively, lay with approved roofing felt carrying a guarantee of 10 years
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    • 240 10 YUGOSLAV LINE From Adriatic, N. East, India and Rangoon to Diokorto and Hongkong. Penang P S'ham S'pore m/y "DINARA" 22/23 Feb 23 24 Feb 25 26 Feb From Hongkong to Rangoon, Bombay, Aden, Port Sudan, Jeddah. Port Said. Beyrouth, Venice Trieste ond Rijeka. S'pore Molocco Penang m/y "LOVCEN" 21/24 Feb
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    • 50 10 HOLIDAY. CULTER. BATH &CO.. LTD. Copra MARCH 11 a.m. $272 $28 Noon $272 $28 4 p.m iLT" J 5 .j.m $272 $28 APRIL 11 a.m $28 $281 Noon $28 $28J 4 p.m $28 $281 5 p.m $28 $281 h.c.b. Ltd.. coconut Oil closing prices: bulk $402 sellers drums $43 sellers.
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  • 546 12  - Handymen can be a MENACE JUDITH SIMONS by IF you have the kind of husband who can't even knock a nail into wood without bashing; his thumb, you probably envy your neighbour whose husband loves "fiddling around" in the house. But there's one thing you don't realize— YOUß NEIGHBOUR POSSIBLY
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    431 12  -  HELEN HUGH says \'OU'RE only young once so don't skip too quickly from girlhood to womanhood. This phase is the gayest, prettiest of all. It's the only time in your life when you car. look like a million dollars in a dollar pair of earrings. Glamour is
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  • 248 12 BLACK BUT BRIGHT TTOW do you fancy black furniture in your home? Teamed with mahogany and rosewood veneer, I think you'll find the combination most attractive. This is all part of the Italian influence which is bringing black into our furnishings all the way from fabrics to wall-papers. The other
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    • 286 12 j&^SFj tj I jssssi %u iK I |T\Jsy^ s^sS si*if i^ssssk iI I K TODAYS QUOTATION: "Little boats should kwp near shore." Franklin. VOIR BIRTIIDVTK AND BIRTHSIUN ARlllS— March 21 to April 19— If minor setbacks occur. take them in stride. You can consolidate some basic gains if you are
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  • 98 13 7-A-SIDE RUGBY ENDS TODAY The semi-finals and finals of the Seven-A-Side rugby competition will be held on the Padang today. Teams in the running for the championship are the Singapore Cricket Club "A", the Fijians, KOSB "A", and Blakan Mati. In the first semi-final, which will start at 5 p.m..
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  • 52 13 Seletar Hold RAAF SELETAR Saracens drew with the Royal Australian Air Force nine points apiece in a rugby match at Seletar yesterday. The Saracens had 2 tries and 3 drop kick, while the Aussies had 3 tries. Scorers for Seletar were Bcwen, O'Hara and Newbury. RAAF scorers were Martin, Humphreys
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  • 34 13 A COMMENTARY on the Federation of Malaya vs. Singapore hockey match at Jalan Besar Stadium can be heard over Radio Malaya at 5 p.m. today. The Commentator will be Mr. Claud Doral.
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  • 187 13 Double Os Want US. Guarantee PENANG. Fri. Unless the American Badminton A s s o c i a tion guarantees to pay for the passages of Ong Poh Lim and Ooi Teik Hock, they will not compete in the American open championships in April this year. The Penang bad m
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  • 71 13 RUGBY Seven-A-Side senii-finals and jinal at Padang; Naval Base v South Jchore in Johore Bahru; The Blacks v Nee Soon RFC at Nee Soon. HOCKEY Singapore 0 Federation §f Malaya at Jalan Bttar. SOCCER Friendliest-Tamil Brother, hood Assn. v Windsor Rovers at Farrer Park: Gymkhana SC v CA
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  • 224 13 THE Singapore Olympic and Sports Council aims to send a weightlifting coach to accompany Singapore's ironmen who will be competing in the World Games in Melbourne. This was revealed by Mr. C. C. Tan, president of the SOSC, immediately after the council had held
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  • 63 13 A LAST minute goal bv Harold Oehlers gave St. Andrew's School a 3-2 win over Bartley Secondary School in their inter-school soccer match played at Bartley Road yesterday. Harold, who played a briliant game, scored a hattrick. Bartley Secondary School 2nd XI trounced St. Andrew's 2nd XI
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  • 481 13 SAAA DECIDES TO LIFT BAN ON AGE LIMIT KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Selangor Amateur Athletic Association at its meeting at the Chenwu Stadium today decided to abolish the age limit for athletes at its coming championships on July 6 and 7. Last vear the SAAA decided to debar athletes below the
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  • 94 13 PARIT BUNTAR. Fri.— Krian Chinese Youngsters beat the Anglo-Chinese School "B" 6-3 in a friendly soccer match played on the public padang yesterday. Chinese Youngsters scored two early goals through Chin Huat and Meng Fong but the school equalised when Azim and Hooi Teik scored a
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  • 194 13 IPOH, Fri.— The annual report of the Perak Badminton Association gives cause lor optimism. It said that the association had a very good year with promise c. better things to come. Its optimism sprang from what it called "the remarkable achievement of our juniors,
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  • 83 13 Glorious Team For Malacca MALACCA. Fri.— Argonauts Badminton Party will meet the Glorious Shultlers Party of Kuala Lumpur in a friendly match at the Malacca Badminton Hall. Tranquerah Road on Sunday starting at 730 p.m. The match will be decided on three singles and four doubles. The Argonauts side wil
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  • 59 13 INDIAN ASSOCIATION held Singapore Cricket Club lo a 1-1 draw in a friendlv hockey encounter played at the SCC pa dang yesterday. Harban Singh opened accounts for the Indians when he netted in the first half. Club, after a series of near misses, recovered minutes before
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  • 50 13 BENTONG Fri Bentong Malays defeated a Police eleven today in a soccer friendly played here on the Public Padang. Ihe score was 5-3. Scorers Bentong Malays Said bin Parin (2), Md. Nor bin Haji Sulaiman (2). Ismail. Police scorers were PC Jaffar (2) and Mohd. Nor.
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  • 50 13 BEATTY Secondary School's Old Boys beat the Present Boys by four goals to three in an annual soccer match played at the Victoria School ground yesterday. The Old Boys' scorers were Govindasamy 2. Chandra and Yusoff. Scorers for the Present Boys were Kadir 2. and Omar.
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  • 27 13 VICTORIA School XI beat Gan Eng Seng School XI 4-3 in their inter-school soccer match, played on the Gan Eng Seng School ground yesterday.
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  • 424 14  - THREE RINGS SHOULD GET HIS 3rd 'GOLD' WINDSOR LAD BOV GOV RE TAKES THE MOUNT Oi\ BEARER BOND. BET... Says Back At His Best After A Spell In Highlands MR. E.J. TAN's Three Rings is my selection for the 11th Selangor Gold Cup— the first classic of the season over
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  • 433 14 EMPEROR TQ FIND HIS TURN RACE TWO EMPEROR may find his winning turn in this nine furlongs' event tor class lour division two performers. After his third to What Happened over an identical trip at Ipoh last month. Emperor again ran third to For-get-Me-Not and Rubber Packer over seven furlongs.
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  • 954 14 Distine Can Make It All The Way In Trophy Race The Henggeler Memorial Trophy (Race Five) over six furlongs for Class 1 should develop into a tussle among Distine, Sovereign. Little Cherrington and Shamrock Sliooer. Distine goes up a division with 14 lbs. less for his second to Bracelet Bov
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