Singapore Standard, 7 August 1956

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  • 35 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD P O L I C I ***** (5 line*) 2400 n. it m i. FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 2811 2414 \ol. Ml. >•«»• 36 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1956 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 188 1 Enclave Booked For Envoys By K. C. ARI N \U\ LUMPUR. Mon. .-acre site on the outskirts of this I been reserved by cnt for Malaya's diplomatic enclave." icent to two plush resicallties ol the Fedital, this area will. ibassies, diplomats' and chanceries expected to be e^tam the Federation with
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  • 53 1 g 'ALA LUMPUR. Man. I frttHliPiHimfll m the x ration are to send a trade ion oi their own to Comt China next year. idcr of the Malay Cham- Commerce. Dato Yah:n Haji Abdul Razak. The Standard today this r. nation would be organized j m
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  • 22 1 AX 11-man Soviet trade arrived m Jakarta ite agreements on :a! and economic I tnesia. Talks will r: Thursday.— A.P.
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  • 53 1 TUPEI. Aug. 6 <AP> cding brothels m m a drive against delinquents found nz the patrons of one ment a 60-year-old and his 17-year-old 1 grand.-on. Startled police officers said the grandfather explained: "Tho boy was interested m prostitution and anxious to observe it at first-hand, so
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  • 448 1 BRITAIN'S BULWARK SAILS FOR THE MED. Egypt Replies With Volunteer Call-Up LONDON, Aug. 6.-The 22,000-ton aircraft carrier Bulwark sailed for the Mediterranean today to bolster British forces m any showdown with Egypt over the nationalization of the Suez Canal. Families and sweethearts waved and shouted tarewells
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  • 199 1 COMMUNIST domination and infiltration of churches throughout the world must be halted or else the entire world will face disaster. This was stated by Dr. Carl Mclntire. president of the International Council of Christian Churches at the Victoria Memorial Hall last night. He told
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  • 53 1 photo. TROOPS of the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry arrive at Worley Barracks, Brentwood, Essex, after being recalled from leave because of the Suez crisis. At the head o! the line is Sergeant John Trahern of Sutton CoHficld, who ~#as holidaying at Donaghadee, County Down, Ireland,
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  • 176 1 MOSCOW, Aug. 6 (Reuter)— Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese Foreign Minister, told the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Dmitry Shepilov, here today that the continued Soviet occupation of the southern j Km He islands of Kunashiri and Iturup "would mean the sheer enforcement of power above reason."
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  • 29 1 THE Tokyo economic newspaper Nihon Keizai said yesterday four Japanese firms will sell 10.000 bicycles to Communist China this fall under a newly-signed con- tract. A.P.
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  • 273 1 $100 Million -It's All For Works Development P.W.D TO DO THE JOB KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The Federation's Minister for Works, Posts and Telecoms, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir announced today that the Alliance Government had entrusted the Public Works Departnt with the $100,000,000 construction and developnt programme for 1956. The
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  • 100 1 Mr. Lim Leaves With A Clue By ANDREW ROTH LONDON. Mon. The desire cf Singapore's Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, to .slip out of Britain this rainy, crisis-ridden August bank holiday afternoon unheralded and unnoticed, was defeated by one technicality. Although Mr. Lim had asked Malaya House to keep
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  • 50 1 LONDON, Aug. 6 (Reuter)— Gloomy Britons looked out of their windows at pouring rain today and decided to call off plans for their August bank holiday outings. Traffic officials reported the quietest bank holiday since the war. Main reads out of London were almost deserted, they said.
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  • 102 1 Landed On Its Belly: Three Hurt LONDON. Aug. 6 (Reuter) Three people were slightly injured when a Hermes plane on a trooping flight from Singapore to England force-land-ed at Karachi last night, a spokesman for the owners. Britannia Air Charter, said here today. "Something went wrong m very bad visibility."
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  • 166 1 PESTA More Than Happy Memories KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Besides happy memories. PESTA. the Federation Cultural Festival, has left behind a number of unclaimed articles with the Department of Information. The Department has m its keeping a woman's wristwatch, a woman's purse, a fountain-pen, a pair of spectacles and a bicycle
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  • 33 1 TAIPEI. Aug. 6 (Reuter) Nationalist China is to expert Formosan light industrial products to South-east Asian countries m an effort to offset Peking's "economic lures." according tc Nationalist trade officials today.
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  • 149 1 HONGKONG, Aug. 6 (UP)— Quik Bah Che, a 30--year-old Malayan Chinese charged with the murder of the well-known Hongkong barrister, Arthur John Clifford, told a police court this morning he had been an inmate of a mental hospital m Singapore m 1948. Speaking perfect English. I
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  • 52 1 TRENT. Italy. Aug. 6 (AP) —Mrs. Bice Casari felt something trying to wind round her wrist when she went to the pantry to take a salami off the hook for dinner. She screamed and ran. Two firemen later killed a sevenfoot water snake hanging alongside the
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  • 25 1 A RUSSIAN tourist In Copenhagen. Ham Natchtich. manager of a sports club m Moscow, last night asked for political asylum m Denmark. UP
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  • 19 1 A MOSLEM goodwill mission from Nationalist China arrived m Amman yesterday on a cne-week official visit. Reuter
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  • 21 1 ROBERTO Domingo Fallalo 73. well known painter of bullfight subjects, died yesterday m Madrid, after a long illness.- AP
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  • 192 2 Goodwill Visits Will Be Many Between Two Countries Japanese Students Say 'Sayonard: DANCING DOLL FOR TUNKU A TEN-MINUTE meeting between the Federation Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and a visiting seven-member Japanese university student delegation has brought the assurance of a regular "interchange" of student parties between Japan and Malaya.
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  • 58 2 TAIPIXG. Mon.— A violent thunderstorm, with cyclone fury, hit this town at dawn on Sunday for half an hour. The stron? wind uprooted several trees m different parts of the town. Electric supply and telephone communications were interrupted for several hours. Cinemas had to cancel their
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  • 99 2 PENANG, Mon.— About ten that meetings among them LMNO Executive Committee should be held once a month members and forty informa- to discuss Malayan as well as tion officers from all UMNO foreign political affairs branches throughout Penang The meeting last night was at a
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  • 131 2 IPOH, Mon. Chong Sun Choong (25) of Burma Road. Penang, today became the twelfth person to be charged before Magistrate Che Abdul Kadir bin Yusof. m connection with the fatal gang fight along Anderson Road on July 15 which resulted m the death of two
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  • 94 2 Bali-bound To Paint, Holiday FOR peace, for beauty, there is no place like Bali," says Mrs. G. E. Dutton-Rced. who leaves today by BLLJi, for Bali on a month's holiday. Her mission: To paint the interesting Balinese folk. Mrs. Reed, who has spent more than fifteen years m this country,
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  • 78 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A boxer. Karim bin Mohamed Said, pleaded guilty m the Magistrate's Court today to a charge of assaulting two policemen on the afternoon of Aug. 5 at Kampong Manggis. "I didn't know what I was doing, I was drunk,'' Karim said. His companion,
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  • 58 2 TAX JONG MALM, Hon.— Military and Police threw a tight cordon around Tanjong Malim yesterday as Food Control inspectors conducted a two-hour check on rice stocks m all shops. No. arrests were made. It is believed that the check followed the discovery of rice outside
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  • 265 2 Unsold Welfare Lottery Tickets: Board's Statement KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Social Welfare Lotteries Board, m a statement issued here today, clarified the procedure adopted for dealing with unsold tickets. i The statement was m reply to a recent editorial m an English daily. The procedure is as follows: All tickets
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  • 23 2 THE city of Hiroshima yesterday observed the 11th anniversary of the A-bomb explosion over the city on Aug. 6. 1!)45.- Reuter
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  • 94 2 AN Australian parliamentary delegation of eleven is scheduled to pas s through Singapore by air today on their way to Hongkong and Formasa where they will be guests of the governments there. The delegation includes the former Chief Justice of Australia and first Australian
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  • 79 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The children's ward of the General Hospital here echoed to the rhythm of Latin-Ame-rican music this morning, when Don Yada's '"Latin Follies" gave a charity performance to handicapped children. Doctors, nurses and hospital assistants helped to prop up children who had been bedridden.
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  • 80 2 THE Chinese cultural delegation of seven men and a woman who are on their way from Indonesia to Peking, left Paya Lebar airport yesterday after being closely watched by the C.I.D. The delegates flew into Singapore on Sunday evening from Jakarta. Customs took nearly an
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  • 177 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Arabic Schools m the Federation should be geared to meet the requirements of the modern age and keep pace with the progress of the country. The Council of the Muslim College of Malaya at its fifth annual meeting yesterday, apnrovr.^ a scheme
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  • 44 2 A Standard newsvendor, Mr. Pitchai. puts his arm around the Managing Director Mr. Aw Cheng Taik at The Standard's sixth anniversary party for newsvendors in h Lumpur on Sunday. On the left is Mr. R. B. Ooi. Managing Editor. Standardpic
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  • 33 2 MALACCA. Aug. (s— The National Union of Printing Workers held its first executive council meeting here at Kubi Road 3'esterday. It adopted the design of a badge for the Union.
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  • 232 2 NEWSVENDORS PLEDGE FULL SUPPORT FOR THE STANDARD KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— About two h. newsvendors and newsagents m Selangor last r pledged to expand the circulation of the Singr Standard "to facilitate every Malayan reading Malagas really national newspaper." The pledge was made by Mr. A. N. M. Abdul Rahim, president
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  • 46 2 A DEB ATE IN MALAY An interschool deba'e m Malay was held m Taiping yesterday between the La ay Treacher Girls' School and King Edward VII Icfci Representative? of girls' school who coi that the poverty of peoples was due to education, were adjuri to winners.
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    • 370 2 cttlmanac Information at a Glance FEDERATION OF BOY* til H*: Council meet;np at the Queen Street Boys' Hosie!, 0.1.~> p.m STORE YOl 111 (Ol NCIL: Leadership training course "Social and Dance" by Khoon Keah: "Community Singing and Social" by Tan Huat Keng at Council Hal!. Orchard Road. 7 pm. CHINESE
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  • 284 3 The Stra ight And Narrow Path CAMPAIGN TO TEACH COLONY YOUTH THE FOLLY OF CRIME SINGAPORE Police authorities have given their blessing: to the "moral uplifting" campaign which will work m close conjunction with ."Operation Dagger" Colony Assemblyman Lim Choon Mong told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Lim, who is the
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  • 225 3 Pay For Youth Workers WAR ON CITY'S DELINQUENTS YOUTH club instructors §p Singapore will be paid an allowance by the Denent of Social Welthe President of the Federation of Boys' Clubs, Lim Choon Mong, told S:andard yesterday. He >aid the decision of the t re Department was "■KMt welcome" as,
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  • 109 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Malays are m the majority among some 600 women who to become constables m the Federation police. For the present, however, only 60 constables and seven will constitute the force's women's wing. Miss B. Wentworth. the officer-in-charge, told The Standard today.
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  • 64 3 MR. AND MRS. Francon William Wells after their wedding at the Church of St. Teresa, Kampong Bahru, Singapore, yesterday. Mr. Wells, eldest son of Mr. A. W. Wells, is attached to the Singapore Harbour Board Police. The bride, the former Miss Patricia Josephine Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and
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  • 218 3 Tricycles To Be Delimited By The City Council THE Singapore City Council has decided to delimit the number of tricycles m the City, Chairman of the Councils Traffic and Vehicles Committee, Mr. V. K. Nair, told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Nair said the matter is now before the Government and
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  • 230 3 Police Posts Will Be Rapidly Malayanized SEREMBAN, M o n.— Gazetted police officers' posts m Negri Sembilan will be Malayanized as rapidly as possible. This was stated m a written reply by the Negri Sembilan State Government, m answer to a question by Mr. G. K. Kathiravelu, trade union representative,
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  • 138 3 TEN Singapore teachers will picket ac the Sembawang and Canberra gates at the Naval Base this morning, while their union delegates have talks with the Base authorities for the reinstatement of a dismissed teacher, Mr. D. Puthucheary, of the Admirality School. A spokesman of
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  • 25 3 THE office of the Indonesian Consulate General at the Asia Insurance building, Singapore, will be closed tomorrow for the Mohammedan New Year holiday.
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  • 313 3 MOVE WITH CAUTION SAY CHAMBER CHIEFS TARIFF protection for secondary industries as proposed by the Singapore Government should come only after an agreement with the Federation. Mr. D. T. Assomull, President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Assomull was commenting on the
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  • 52 3 ANG Joo Sens, a former e-r»p4oyee of George Lee Motors, was charged m a S n^apore Emergency Court yesterday with criminal breach of trust of more than 20 motor-cyc'.es between April and July this year valued at $10,000. He m remanded m custody the C.I.D. for
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  • 176 3 MALAYAN cinema fans will see a variety of Indonesian films when a batch of 60 films arrive m Singapore from Indonesia within the next two months. Mr. Lecng Mm Loy of Legong Film Productions. N V. Anom Pictures, told this to The Standard on
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  • 53 3 AN RAF Au>ter plane from Sembawang flew into Paya Lebar Airport yesterday unannounced. Out of it stepped the pilot who went up to a serviceman who had just flown m from the Federation After handing over a "top secret" message he went back to the plane
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  • 120 3 His Mission Will Have To Wait A REPRESENTATIVE of the Muslim Congress m Cairo arrived m Singapore yesterday frcm Jakarta with a mission to see the Malay Rulers about the work of the Congress and the holding of the World Muslim Congress before the end of the year. The envoy.
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  • 79 3 TELOK ANSON. Mon Two old hajis, Haji Malik bin Mamor, 55, and Haji Din bin Haji Abdul Rahman. 60, were bound over for three years on a charge of criminal intimidation. They were also ordered to pay $50 towards the cost of the prosecution and $100 each,
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  • 178 3 COLONIALISM: THE GIRLS HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY TOO The recently-formed Singapore Women's Federation wants "colonial rule to end m order that Malaya may gain freedom, democracy and independence.' In a pamphlet entitled 'Outline of the Singapore Women's Federation Work". it urges women to rallytogether m their march to freedom. In
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  • 150 3 FOR the first time m the history of a political party, the Liberal Socialists of Singapore yesterday opened two branches m a day. Nearly three hundred people attended the inaugural meeting of both the branches at Katong and Tanjong Pagar. The Secretary of
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  • 54 3 QANTAS/BOAC airline hostess Mercedes Tait has won a trip to the Far East and will arrive m Singapore on Aug. 19. Miss Tait. whose new title is "Miss Speedbird 1956." gained a prize of a round-the-world tour and 25 guineas (5213). She was chosen because of her
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  • 186 3 A SEA LION from the north Pacific will he the main feature of the Singapore Aquarists Society's second Tropical Fish Exhibition to be held at the Happy World Stadium from Oct. 24 to 28. It is also hoped to have on view some
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  • 117 3 MORE than 10.000 people attended a gala fete at the R.A.F. Seletar sports field yesterday. The fete was opened by Lady Fressanges, wife of the C-iri-C Far East Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Sir Francis Fressanges. It was held to rai.se funds for lighting installations on
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  • 222 4 KUALA LI'MPIR, Mon. A subordinate Judge had erred m convicting a man of taking a bribe on the mere uncorroborated testimony and "demeanour of honesty" of a woman, the Selangor High Court was told today. This submission was made by the
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  • 143 4 We've Seen Insulted Teachers KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The National Union of Teachers alleged today that the Federal Establishment Office ha.^; incited the profession. imDlying that "the Education Service i.- not an important section of the Public Services" This alleged insult is said to have been contained m a reply to
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  • 20 4 PEN'AXG. Mon. Former Malay Police Constables m Province Wellesley plan to form a co-operative society for businesses.
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  • 80 4 SINGAPORE'S biffMt fete sinre the war the Boys' Town Fun Fair sold approximately $10,000 worth of lottery tickets, which were drawn over the weekend. Winnin? numbers were: First prize. ***** (a radiogram\ second, 2G149 (cane furniture set); third. ***** (bicycle); fourth, ***** (radio); fifth. ***** (safe and
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  • 38 4 Four people were injured, one seriously, when this car hit a P.W.D. concrete water enclosure at the 7th mile Changkat Jong, Telok Anson, last Thursday and broke its "back." The driver escaped uninjured.
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  • 124 4 $8 -A- Day Min. Wage Demand Crops Up Again MALACCA, Mon.— The Settlement's divisional committee of the Malayan Trade Union Council, at the MTUC's annual delegates' conference here yesterday, demanded an $8-per-day minimum wage for workers. No resolution, however, was passed en this issue. The chairman, Mr. C. P. R.
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  • 133 4 Lord Reid Is 'Not Talking' KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Lord Reid, chairman of the Federation's Constitutional Commission, has dropped a hint to socialites "who may like to invite us to dinner and expect a speech on what we are doing." "For obvious reasons, we have decided that so long as the
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  • 101 4 Woman Will Speak On Women IPOH, Mon. The main speaker and guest of honour at the Y.W.C.A. Pan-Malayan Conference here on Aug. 13 to 18, will be Mrs. Ba Maung Chain, vice-president of the World Y.W.C.A. Mrs. Ba will speak on "The Role of Wcmen m South-east Asia." After the
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  • 192 4 PENA N G. Mon.— Cooperative Housing Societies m Malaya were directed to form themselves into a Federation to strengthen their activities at the close of the 19th All-Malaya Cooperative Conference at the Westlands School here this afternoon. The Conference also adeptpd five resolutions at the third
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  • 54 4 IPOH. Mon. Che Yeop Adlan bin Toh Muda Aziz, younger brother of the Mentri Besar of Perak, died m hospital here this morning after prolonged illness. A pensioner and former Pcnghulu m Japan, the late Che Yeop Adlan was. beloic the war. bilanrds champion of Perak. The
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  • 60 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— In the Sessions Court today, T. Tangavelu, a P.W.D. lorry driver, was sentenced to three months' jail for theft of 3§ gallons of petrol belonging to the P.W.D. Tangavelu was on May 28 seen to drive the lorry up to his quarters and
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  • 362 4 Busmen Form Human Chain Find Twos All A Joke Holidaymakers Stranded By Bus Stoppage PENANG. Mon.— Tension rose high outside the Municipal Transport Depot when busmen formed a human cordon round the buses— and it was all because of a joke. The busmen 250 of them were on strike for
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  • 45 4 MUAR. Mon. Dato and Datin Ahmad bin Haji Tahir. of Jalan Othman, gave a dinner last Friday on the marriage of their daughter. Che Norsiah ninti Ahmad to Inche Abbas bin Haji A. Rashid. About 200 guests attended the dinner.
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  • 102 4 Men Wanted Money— Got Jail Terms JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Musa Ibrahim. 25-year-old trishaw rider, Yeoh Ah Kow, lorry cleaner, aged 21. and Alias bin Abdul. 22. were convicted m the Sessions Court today of trespassing with intent to commit theft. On May 25 they entered the house of an elderly
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  • 52 4 PENAXG. Mon.— The Municipal and Government Labour Union have requested the Municipal President to negotiate on five issues seeking an increase m housing allowance, better uniforms and more holidays. This union is seeking an early date for negotiations and want the meeting to be held during
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  • 47 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Choo Seng Chye of Singapore was charged m the Magistrate's Court today with being a member of a triad society. He was arrested at Ulu Tiram on July 26. Trial was fixed for Sept. 2 and bail of $1,500 was granted.
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  • 31 4 Dr. T. Balasingham was entertained to tea at the Ceylon Sport? Club, Singapore, yesterday by his friends m honour of his receiving the 0.8. E. on Queen's birthday this year.
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  • 522 4 Pretty Girl Terrorists Wanted— Dead Or Alive, Public Posters Announce IPOH, Mon. —An intensive campaign, now being conducted through the press, radio and other means of communication, seeks the public's aid m wiping out top Communist terrorists m the central and north Perak areas.
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  • 156 4 Police Hold 8 Miners After Reds Wound L/cpl. IPOH, Mon —Eight mine labourers were detained for interrogation following an engagement between a Home Guard patrol m the Bidor district last Saturday, a Government press release announced today. The engagement took place at about 730 p.m., 1J miles north-east of Bidor.
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  • 81 4 THREE thousand business houses' employees m Singapore will form a union to ficht for better wage? and working conditions, The Standard was told yesterricy An organiser of the ptopottd union said that rules and constitution of the union submitted to the Registrar f Societies for
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  • 181 4 Customs Raids Anger Muar Merchants 'Reflection On The Honesty Of Traders' _KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Merchants m Muar are angry over the several surprise raids on textile and other shops carried out by Customs preventive officers this week. The Muar Chinese Chamber of Commerce this morning contacted the headquarters of the
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  • 176 4 14-day Notice Begins Thursday WHILE the Singapore City Council Labour Unions Federation has postponed its strike action indefinitely, one of its affiliates— the Gas Department Workers' Union yesterday threatened to call its 400 members out on strike on Aug. 23. The threatened strike is to
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  • 91 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Fourteen-year-old Fauz.wh binte Danian of the Malay School. Penaga, Butterworth. has won the first prize of $1,000 m a recent nationwide e.ssay competition en margarine. She is m Standard Six. Her school will get a $250 special prize to be neni school equipment.
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  • 97 4 Journalist Gets Rap Withdrawn KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Police today withdrew a charge against a Journal Mr. P. J. Joshua, who was charged with using abus; c language to a policeman t n July 4. at the Ban Lee Rubber Factory fire at 4i-M..e Klang Road. Counsel lor Joshua, Mr. P.
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  • 857 5  -  JOHN HALKIN hjjkjkjkj -By EXHIBITION OF PROGRESS JAVANESE shadow play, c lanterns, spinning cardboard discs, a model of an early fairground cinema, costumes worn b- Douglas Fairbanks. _hes for the sets of The Cabinet of Dr. Calijari and a complete miniature studio go to make up
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  • Article, Illustration
    649 5 Big Top Flying Angel limbers up Seoul, South Korea Associated Press Correspondent JIM CARY recently toured the Allied area off the Demilitarized Zone m Korea and this is his report: Bright sunshine and the freshness of Plymouth's Central Park playground provide an ideal spot for this lovely young
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  • 111 5 LONDON SCENE LONDON: Taking a breather from rehearsals at the > Z Whitehall Theatre and brightcnina up the scene 2 are curvaceous actresses Hazel Sutton. 24 (left) and 2 Anna Gerber, icho is 20. The two beauties are mem- 5 bers of the cast of "Madame Louise,"
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  • 461 5  - GLASS becomes the tough Servant of Science M.A. GLASGOW H MM 9 By LONDON. JN the past, glass was not considered suitable for structural purposes, but today, industrial engineers often turn to this versatile material to solve some of their most difficult problems, because it possesses such an amazing diversity
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 207 5 CLLES Standard's ACROSS i,I CROSSWORD PUZZLE tropics a< well tho" (5> w^^ -2— 9. Heels we're taking to some DOWN oiher place .9. Xo necessarily RE, REME. L No taxi for the return IT Scotsman and so on felt but it makes no difference jww p,,ver, 27. D.U.ed so could
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    • 242 5 mODAY'S (ROTATION: A^ J •<• ra<•i o v s manners ttrengthen (h;ira«ter. whereas liahitual rinliTi.'-v until- it lor crises."— Henry i&i B. Haskins." TThSDAY FOR EVIRVONE: The accent is largely <k social and financial today. Promote matters having to <k do with purchases, pecuniary matters, an* entertainment <► during the
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    • 176 5 Pr.va'e affairs seem to A t* undergo changes favourabi* to you. Work out some m^jor JU problems smoothly Pest m the evening. SCORPIO— Oct. 23 to Nov. 21 A friendly pes:.,:e ;s we 1 received. Seek betterment of I your business finances. The social urge is strong <k >A(.ni\Kll S—
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 488 6 TENSION over the Suez Canal crisis has increased. While conditions on this vital waterway remain quiet, there has been a quickening m the pace of diplomatic activity m the Egyptian capital. After prolonged discussions with the Russian and Yugoslav envoys. President Nasser made the first move, m answer
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    • 402 6 gOCIAL and religious workers m Singapore are seriously disturbed over the increasing number of teenagers who are noticed m the public galleries of the Colonies law couits. They have discovered that this is particularly so when criminal ca^cs are being tried. One of these social workers said
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  • 579 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME Aster Gunasekera By SECTION of UMNO leaders feel that Tunku Abdul Rahman should give up leader-; ship of the Organization and concentrate on, the Alliance cabinet.; This suggestion was j made m this column i recently m connection, with the jus soli con-| troversy
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  • Article, Illustration
    328 6  -  Lord Birdwood "A UTHOR. A UTHOR AVWWYWVW By 'pHE decision of Britain, France and the United States to call an international conference is only m conformity with the new principles of international action and responsibility. It cannot be too strongly emphasized that any attempt to present the
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  • 483 6 INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM shipping which passed through the Suez Canal m 1955, 28% were British. Looked at m another way, of this total, over half the tonnage, some (56 million tons, represented oil from the Middle East. These figures are sufficient to indicate first the predominantly British interest, and secondly the
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  • 74 6 Shorts from the talks "We were talking abo;t our most embarrassing moments, and the Vicar i wife said that one of h<r worst was the time whm her Aunt Emmeiine stavri with them for Chr, and sang 'Christians Awake* with such abandon that her false teeth fell out and c'attered
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  • 753 6  -  Patrick O'Donovan By WASHINGTON, JPHE decision to send Mr. John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State, to London to join m the three-Power talks on the Suez Canal situation was even more sudden than Mr. Dulles's positiveness over the Aswan Dam. The seizure of the
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  • 138 7 -AND GROOM AN EX-KINGS BROTHER PRINCESS Christina Margarethe of Hesse, 23, a niece of the Duke of Edinburgh, married Prince Andrei of Yugoslavia. 27, brother of ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, m the library turned chapel at Kronberg castle, Germany, according to the rites of the
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  • 189 7 NEW DELHI Aug. 6 (UP) Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru told a closed session of the Congress Working Committee yesterday that h£™ountrv's policy towards the Suez crisis should be mainly guided by the need to aveA thl use of force, informed sources said.
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  • NEWSBRIEFS
    • 30 7 TOKYO. Aug. 6, (UP)— Japan will build 40 wooden I va:ued at USs3.ooo,noo I Communist China and negotiations are now being conducted with Pekin? on report said today.
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    • 38 7 THE HAGUE. Aug. 6 (UP) government circles last night refused all comment en the reported Indonesian government decision not to recognize any longer the Indonesian debts to the Netherlands under the round-table conference agreement cf 1949.
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    • 27 7 COPENHAGEN. Aug. 6 (Reuten About 2.000 delegates .from 43 countries, lncludin? the Soviet Union and China, attended the annual International Esperanto Congress which opened here today.
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    • 42 7 RIO DE JANEIRO. Aug. 8 'AP>— A surprise shutdown by bakers left this city of 3.000.000 without bread yesterday. Bakeries usually wcrk nights and Sundays and the custom is to buy fresh bread daily, so most households are without it.
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    • 35 7 BOISE, Idaho. AM 6 «UP) —C. B. (Wcody) Williams. president of Morrison Knudsen Co. and world's rrrognized builder of big dams, died here on Saturday at the age of 53 of cancer.
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    • 30 7 TOKYO. Aug. 6 <AP>— The newspaper Yomiuri said yesterday Russian ships pass through the Tsugaru Straits from Siberia to the Pacific m an average of once a h.
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    • 21 7 COMBER. Northern Ireland. 6 .AP>— John Miller Andrews, prime minister of Northern Ireland 1940-43. died yesterday. He was 85.
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    • 33 7 HONGKONG. Aug. 6 (AP"> —Red China and Lebanon have ratified a trade agreement .signed at the end of last year and it will go into effect today. Peking Radio reported yesterday.
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    • 37 7 ABANO. Italy. Aug. 6 (AP) —Premier Antonio Segni in- rrupted his vacation m this Northern Italian spa last yr a special conference Foreign Minister GaeMartino. who hurried m a vacation m Switzerland ahead of schedule.
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  • 133 7 BUDAPEST, Hungary. Aug. 6. (AP) Hungarian authorities yesterday grounded a U.S. military transport plane that was to fly U.S. Minister Christian M. Ravndal to Bremen, Germany. Danger "due to balloons" was given as the reason. The aircraft arrived here on Saturday to pick up the diplomat,
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  • 229 7 WO COMMITMENTS' BY DULLES RECEIVES A COOL RECEPTION PARIS, Aug 6 (UP)— The Suez Canal crisis has got the French feeling more warmly about the British and more coolly toward the Americans. Gone for the moment is the familiar French' re ference to the "Anglo-American
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  • 140 7 DEARER STEEL AFTER STRIKE PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6. (UP) America's steel industry, snapping back from a fiveweek, 2-billion US dollar strike of 650.000 United Steel workers," strove to resume its 1956 production boom yesterday as customers awaited word of price increases. Firms representing 80 per cent of the nations steel production
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  • 50 7 HALIFAX. Nova Scotia, Aug. 6, (AP) Two Italian passenger liners arrived here during the weekend, flying flags at halfmast m memory of the sunken liner Andrea Doria. The Conte Biancamano and Giulio Cesare unloaded more than 800 passengers, mostly immigrants, before continuing to New York.
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  • 82 7 Rebels Use Hit Run Tactics ALGIERS. Aug. 6, (AP)— Algerian Muslim rebels yesterday suddenly reverted to tactics of random individual attacks m the city of Algiers, wounding two French soldiers and a French restaurant owner. The two soldiers were stabbed from behind m the late twilight shadows under the trees
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  • 35 7 NEGOTIATORS for the government of Laos and the Com-munist-backed' Pathet Lao insurgents agreed yesterday to halt military operations m the two Northern provinces of Sam Neva and Phong Saly. Peking radio reported.- AP
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  • 207 7 McCarthy takes dim view of nasser j W WIINGTOX. Aug. 6 (AP) -Senator Joseph McCarthy publican-Wisconsin) said >rstprd?.v President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt is 'crackpot and a screwball" whose grip on the s uez Canal should be "rokm by military action, '-"lmcntinc on Nasser's natinnaliiation of
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  • 245 7 Mr. K Urged: Admit 1940 Massacre NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (AP) A group of Congressmen yesterday made public a letter calling on Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev to admit Stalin's guilt m the 1940 massacre of Polish officers at Katyn Forest. The letter, dated July 26. was signed hy former
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  • 400 7 WIVES AND CHILDREN ALL SET TO LEAVE By RONALD BATCHELOR ISMAILIA, Aug. 6 (Reuter) More than 100 British wives and children of employees of the civilian contractors now operating the former British Army bases m the Suez Canal Zone are to leave Egypt within the next
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  • 296 7 Childhood Sweethearts Marry 60 Years Later S TIVERTON (Rhode Island), j Aug. 6 (UP) Childhood 1 sweethearts Benjamin in J Franch. 82. and Mabel Smith, 2 79, were married here today after a 60-year separation caused by a jealous woman. French, a retired baker and J widower, and the girl
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  • 49 7 SOCUELLAMOS. Spain. Aug. 6. (AP)— Four baby girls were born here on Saturday to Aurora Fernandez Bonilla. 35. mother of three other children and wife of Eugenio Nieto Gomez, a 35-year-old farmer. Both the mother and the four children are m perfect state of health.
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  • 26 7 COMMUNIST China lifted its seven-year ban on American correspondents and granted one month visas to an undetermined number of them 3 r esterday. AP
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  • 66 7 HOLLYWOOD actress Joan Crawford strides alone: the platform at Paddington Station with her adopted twin daughters. Cynthia (taller), and Cathy, 9, after they entrained from Plymouth following their sea voyage from the United States Alfred Steele, president of the Pepsi Cola Corporation and Miss Crawford's husband,
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  • 207 7 LONDON 1 Allf. 6. (UP)— Four British families flew here last night from Egypt and said the situation m the Canal Zone is "extremely quiet." One of them, Jack Arris. Assistant General Manager of the Suez contracting company who has spent the last 18
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  • 88 7 SEOUL. Aug. 6, (AP) A home-made bomb was thrown on Saturday into the home near Taegu of an Opposition Party candidate m South Korea's forthcoming local elections. National police said yesterday they did not know who threw it but that no one was hurt m this
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    • 884 8 MITSUI |5| LINE Spore P. Sham Penong FOR JAPAN from India Fujikawa Maru for Moil, Kobe, Yokohama 19 Aug 15 Aug Azumasen Maru for Yokohama, Kobe, AAoji 23 Aug Amagisen Mara for Yokohama, Kobe, Mojl 25 Aug FOR JAPAN trorr Continent Akagison Maru tor Yokohama, Nagoyo. Kobe via Hongkong G.
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  • 525 9 N. Zealand Bid For Bigger Malayan Market TRADE BALANCE IN OUR FAVOUR NEW ZEALAND was now giving close attention to the particular likes and dislikes of the Malayan market, to improving the channels of trade to this market and to getting down to the best prices at which she can
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  • 246 9 Scheme To Help Asian Crops PLANNED seed-ex-programme among nations will mean expanded crop yields and a more balanced diet for people m the area, a Korean horticultural specialist believes. Mr Him Dong-woo, ROK to a recent Farmerence on seed imnt held m Formosa, improvement, deve- of an international xehange programme
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  • 33 9 FINANCE CINNERCE MR. K.T. TJL'SG, a textile merchant from Indonesia and his wife, who passed through Singapore on their way to Europe. This picture was taken on their arrival at Paya Lebar Airport.
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  • 180 9 SPORE MAY NOT REGAIN R.I. TEXTILE MART IT is difficult for Singapore to regain the textile market m Indonesia, Mr. K. T. Tjung, president director of C. P. Sumpersarai. and a prominent textile dealer m Indonesia, said this on his arrival m the Colony yesterday. j Mr. Tjung, who is
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  • 68 9 FURTHER £13 million re at their Fawley, refinery, was announced m London by the ESSO Pet- n Company. .-ays the company, is I -a! to the €9 million announced m April to raw materials for the r".anufacv.;re of synthetic rubber and other chemical pro!H the expansion
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  • 28 9 LONDON'S great building boom is using well over 11 million tons of sand gravel ear. This estimate was recently by the Ballast. ■»nd Allied Trades As"in.
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  • 180 9 SINGAPORE importers of Formosa sugar, who are trying to find new markets to get rid of accumulating stocks, are exploring the possibilities of reexporting over $500,000 worth to the Middle East 1 and Africa. Iran. North and East African countries are reported to be interested
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  • 186 9 TO meet an urgent demand for a water container that would stand on sloping ground, a British firm has produced a rubber tank large enough to hold 5,000 gallons but .which folds up into a small parcel. The tank has two inflatable rings of rubberized
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  • 31 9 EXPORTS of agricultural equipment manufactured at Sunshine. Victoria, reached a record level of £1.115.000 for the year to June 30 last, according to the manufacturers. McKay Massey-Harris Pty. Ltd.
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  • 100 9 THE Singapore Trade and Industries Fair 1956, at the Great World, which is due to end on Aug. 12 has been extended for a fortnight. Mr. A. Hamid. assistant manager of the park, said the closing date had been extended to Aug. 26 m view of the
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  • 311 9 FIRM OPENS NEW PLANT. OFFICES THE new factory and offices of International Air Conditioning Co., Ltd. m Singapore reflects the confidence which this locally incorporated company has m Singapore as a major port m the Far East. International Air Conditioning Co. Ltd.. which is incorporated m Singapore, is one of
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  • 29 9 PINEAPPLE cultivation, introduced into Australia by German missionaries more than 100 years ago, is today the foremost fruit industry of Queensland, with a value of A£3 yearly.
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  • 212 9 EXCEPTING for rubber, agricultural prices m Sarawak Jast year were low, according to the annual report on Co-operative Development. Pepper after a negligible improvement continued to decline and finished the year at about 30 per cent less than at the beginning. Sago rer mained virtually
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  • 119 9 Beautey on wheels DURING 1955 Britain's cycle and motor cycle vxanufacturers sold overseas goods to the total value of £40 million. Over 3.500,000 bicycles were made, together wMk nearly 200,000 motor cycles. (On left): In the showroom of one of Britain's leading cycle firms. Miss Janise Beaumont com}xires tiro of
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    • 139 9 YPOOILAT LIMB from Adriatic, Near East India end Colombo to Djnkarta and Hongkong. Perong P Sham Malacca S poic "TRIGLAV" 12/13 Aug 14/15 Auc From Hongkong to Bombay, Aden. P. Sudan, Port Said, Beyrouth Venice, Trieste and Rijeka. S'.o.e Molaccr. P. Sham Penont m.w, "LOVCEN" 13 17 Aug 18 19
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    • 702 9 NOTICES NATURALISATION TVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following persons whose names and addresses are given below are applying to the Governor for naturalisation and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to the
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    • 89 9 FDFDFDFDFDFDF EXPECTED TODAY Malayan Airways MLI2I KL/MAL 955 a.m. KLM" KLB29 AMS/BKOK Noon Malayan Airways MLIOI PG'KL 12.45 p.m. Qantas EM536 LONVCCL 2.30 p.m. Qantas EMS3I SYD/JAK 3.55 p.m. Malayan Airways ML4O7 SAND/KUCH 4.45 p.m. BOAC 8A786 LON/BKOK 5.10 pm. Garuda GA37O JAK/PAL 5.10 p.m. Skyways 8A776 LON/BKOK 6 30
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  • 765 10  -  Verity Gill Federation Make It The Hard Way Colony Almost Saved Defeat Sif THE all-powerful Federation side had to fight hard to beat Singapore by three wickets on the final day of the three-day Malayan cricket Test concluded on the Singapore padang at 4.59 p.m. yesterday.
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  • Article, Illustration
    25 10 DAVID McMullan, Royal Island Golf Club, (riffht) seen with championship cup after victory over David Stirk, holder, m the Colony Amateur Golf Championship yesterday. Standardpic.
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  • 360 10 MALAYA'S TEST AT A GLANCE FINAL DAY Singapore Ist Innings 89: Federation Ist !~ning^ 113. Singapore 2nd Innings (overnight score 66-5) Resumed Innings, 11.00 a.m. (rain interrupted play from 12.15-12.47) Innings closed at 2.25 p.m. Total for 7 wkts: 105 207 206 12 Wickets fell at: 8, 66. 69, 69.
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  • 63 10 Today's Sport SINGAPORE SOCCER— JUNIOR CUPTIE: Arsenal S.C. vs. Rajaji S.C. at Geylang Stadium at 5.15 p.m.; T.M.0.8.A. vs. C.A. "A" at Farrer Park at 5.15 p.m.: Katong S.C. vs. Mount Emily at C.V.M.A. ground at 5.15 p.m.: S.C.C. vs. R.A.F., Tenaah at S.C.C. at 5.15 p.m. ATHLETICS: Malay Schools
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  • 109 10 SUKARAMAI Sports Club has secured permission from the Singapore Amateur Football Association to play three friendly soccer matches m Kelantan. Their team consisting of 15 players and seven officials leave for- Kelantan today. They are: Adviser: Chief Inspector Kamaruddin Haji Akib: honorary secretary: Syed Tana Omar Shahabuddin;
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  • 46 10 SINGAPORE Harbour Board Boys Club will meet Pasir Panjang Boys Club m a soccer match to be played at Keppel ground at 4.30 p.m. on Sunday. The winners of this match will be presented with the trophy put up by Afr. Ang Soon Hoe.
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  • 40 10 GYMKHANA Sports Club held SDringdale Sports Club to 3 2-2 draw m a S*AFA Division 2B leasue soccer match played at GeylariiZ Stadium yesterday. Asoin and Wee scored for Gymkhana, while Tian Soon scored both goals for Springdale.
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  • 23 10 DARUL Afiah trounced Young Men's Sikh Association by nine goals to nil m a SAFA Div. 2A league at Farrer Park yesterday.
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  • 94 10 NEW YORK. Aug. 5 <AP>— The New York Yankees went down to their sixth straight defeat Sunday but Cleveland also lost, leaving the Yanks' American League lead intact at seven full games. NATIONAL Brooklyn 7-5. St. Louis 0-3. Milwaukee 5 Pittsburgh 0-5 (second game called m 6th rain).
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  • 459 10 Colony Golf Championship £ap Sill Junk k sls t G^ PORES Number One goif performer at the Rovaf Singapore Golf Club yesterday was stocky David McMullan who ousted the holder, DaVid Stirk by ifefuH«. r h co!S,tTnt he fi al f thC Amateur
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  • 641 11 INDONESIA' S WOMEN REIGN ./e««ry James reports en the Malayan Badminton Championships BUT POH LIM SAVES THE MEN'S REPUTATION ONG L V" ke Pt the national singles— and prestige— safe for Malaya. Before more than dOO Colony fans shouting their approval, he walloped Indonesia s Eddy Yusuf for a 15-8
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  • 37 11 SEREMBAN, Mon. St. Paul's Old Boys won the "La Sallian" Shield for the fourth time when they beat the Singapore Brother School's XI by nino goals t o three on the Station Padang here today.
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  • 110 11 Suleimans Win FAS Div. 2 Title KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Three goals by centre forward Sani Tasman enabled Sultan Suleiman Club to beat Selangor Indian Association 4-2 m the final of the Football Association of Selan^or division two league at the Princes Road Stadium today. Suleimans fully deserved the title. They
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  • 148 11 ALL THE RESULTS MEN'S SINGLES: Ong Poh Lim (S'porc) beat Eddy Yusuf (Indon) 15-8, 15-12. MEN'S DOUBLES: Ong Poh Lim Ismail Marjan (Spore) beat A. Piruz Mok Vat Wan (Sel.) 15-2, 15-6. WOMEN'S SINGLES: Yang Weng Ching (Indon) beat Tan Gaik Bee (Pg) 4-11. 12-10, 11-6. WOMEN'S DOUBLES: Yang Weng
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  • 305 11 SINGAPORE'S Helen Hen? and Penang-'s Tan Gaik Bee made a valiant bid to keen the Malayan women's doubles title on our soil, but it was a fight against superior odds and bad luck. Indonesia's Yang Wong Ching and Oei Lin Nio were edged
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  • 41 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Centre forward Gurubachan Singh scored twice to enable Victoria Institution Present Boys to beat Victoria Institution Old Boys Association of Singapore 2-0 m their annual hockey match played on the Shaw Road ground here today.
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  • 132 11 Sir: This is to confirm that my son Ronnie Manasseh will definitely not be taking part m any further boxing activities and has hung up his gloves m order to devote all his time to his future career which U not as a boxer. His mother
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  • 303 11 ROYAL Malayan Navy boxers, Austin Dunsford 21, and Gerry Isaac 20, will be among those taking part m the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's trials, to be held at the Police Training School at 8.30 p.m. on Friday. The trials are being
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  • 480 11 Gaik Bee Did All But Stop Indonesia Yang INDONESIA'S little Miss Yang Weng Ching is Malaya's new Queen of the badminton courts. She won the women's singles title from Penang's Tan Gaik Bee ...and can thank her lucky stars for the victory. Yang won only after reaching the climax of
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  • 146 11 S'pore VIOBA Win By 3 Wickets KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Victoria Institution Old Boys Association of Singapore beat the Present Boys by six wickets m their annual cricket match played on the Shaw Road ground here today. Brilliant bowling by Cecil Cooke. who captured six wickets for thirty six runs caused
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  • 115 11 Results of the Singapore Gun Club's August Bank holiday shoot: Ten Single Rise: 1. Walter Pflug 2. Ec Thian Han; Ten Double Rise: 1. F. S. Mennes 2. Yam Cheung Wah; Five high birds from left to right and five high birds from right to left released
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  • 68 11 ALL athletes who have be^n chosen to represent Singapore m the annual Malayan Amateur Athletic Association championships to be held m Penang on August 17 and 18 are requested to attend a meeting to be held at Raffles Institution on Thursday at 5 p.m. At this meeting. Mr.
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  • 55 11 SEREMBAN 7 Mon— A Combined Brothers' Old Boys soccer team selected from Sn.gapore. Need SembiLan, Selangor, and Malacca players held the Negri Sembilan Invitation XI to a two all draw on the Station padang today. Scorers for the Negri team were Stenhenfon and Supramaniam. Gabriel and Ivan Vasi
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 298 11 <iv li'l Abner By Al Capp \A9 "^^i ft L uF^UCh'bEAOTVUC^^ f (—M4/T/HG TEN YEARS FOR REX *N Aa u ,-a^e* A" I V^T^ r■/ tt V EYESfr-NOr nRED ANO I MOONUGHZ M.CX.TO MARRVME*r J SM^^S\L \T "If* AA/X/OCfS-UKE Z^>J*^l\ \B(Sn THOSE TEAJ YEARS ARE jS Alley Oop By V.
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  • 2362 12 Three-lengthY I ctory For His Third Cold Cup By WINDSOR LAD MALAYAN turf history was created by Three Rings, a seven-year-old by the Phoenix, when he ran home a convincing three-length winner to win his second Penang Gold Cup yesterday, concluding day of the Penang
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  • 182 12 AFTER being beaten at cricket, the Selangor Eurasians suffered a defeat m soccer when the Singapore Recreation Club outmanoeuvred their guests to gain a three-nil decision m their friendly match on the padang yesterday. The Selangor players had themselves to blame for their defeat
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  • 218 12 PENANG: Fourth Day, Mon. Aug. 6, 1956: Going: Heavy NOTE: Numbers m bracket denote barrier position. Race Horse J Dividend Sjgjj, Rate 1 6 F. Greet (1) Jones $12 6 1.22 2 see. CI. 3 Div. 2 Wedding Waltz (1) Geyer $7 2. 4. Tarzan <7)
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    • 194 12 I |jjjsjm HBB9B wtffpifM Ong Poh Lint keeps the The TesV was no far f e v;t! t M u^!i?P c« TnJZFf I I men's singles title here... +> almost became the match of the hi S ZL~J? ante I I but it's goodbye to the year! Federation win but
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    • 37 12 No need to buy a whole box buy them one or two at a time llu^^Ya^w^^ r A CASK'S c* ofC f I >W^Mfll)/^ I SINGAPORE ATTACKED BY REDSKINS!! MOHAWK ODEON 2nd fi/G MIDNIGHT ff_ w3BT SATURDAY
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