Singapore Standard, 13 August 1956

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    35 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD P 0 L I C t ***** (5 UncsT 2400 *r i% m sl FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 2811 2414 VII. No. 42 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1956 12 PAGES 13 CENTS
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    Lock icon MAHMUD'S BACK WITH A HANDFUL OF COMICS
    195 1 He Wins Battle For Sight i days ago, a 17-year-Scgamat school boy —his sight failing was to Australia for a operation. clutching an armj conic books, the boy Mah mud bin Haji Mohainos stepped from a p.ane with his sight cd underwent surgery
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    Lock icon 21 HURT IN SHOOTINGS
    46 1 ALGIERS. Aug. 12 (Reuter) -ty-one people were I by bullets and exin six hours of e in Algiers last night. Twelve were struck by sub"■ichine gun bullets while Tcere questlcning the \n occupants of z car "">y had stopped in the et.
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    Lock icon DEFENCE CUTS
    22 1 GARY will cut her d-icnce expenditure by 35 per cent and reduce her bj 35.000 men. Bud!?"adio reported yes- Reuter
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    Lock icon HE WEDS: DAD STAYS AWAY
    72 1 EARDISLEY. Hertfordshire. Aug 12 (Reuter) A knight's son married the daughter of a factory worker in this oldworld village yesterday and the bride&room's parents stayed home. Mr. John Griffiths, youngest son of Sir Percival and Lady Griffiths, married the village beauty. Miss Ann Timms, a
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    Lock icon Two Girls Killed In An Ambush
    219 1 They're Red Suspects IPOH, Sun. Two Chinese girls from Bemban New Village two miles from Batu Gajah, were shot dead early this morning by a military ambush party of the 3rd Battalion, the Malay Regiment. They have been identified as Wong Sao Ying. 20,
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    Lock icon MEDICAL CHECK
    31 1 WALTER FUNK, a major war criminal, now serving a life sentence in the FourPower Spandau Prison in Berlin, was yesterday admitted to hospital for a medical check up.- Reuter
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    Lock icon 'Embargo: We Beat It; Mao
    86 1 'Embargo: We Beat It; Mao HONGKONG, Aug. 12 (UP) Communist China boasted today that it has defeated the United Nations embargo. She claimed that 63 foreign countries were doing business with the Communist Chinese In a bannerlined story quoting Radio Peking, the proCommunist New Evening Post said today that since
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    Lock icon KING LEAVES
    23 1 KING Faisal of Iraq left London by air for Paris yesterday on the first stage of his journey back to Bagdad.
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    Lock icon NO RESPONSE TO 'COME HOME' CALL
    132 1 TOKYO Aug 12 (AP)— Twelve thousand leaflets containing a photi> of two teenage children and two [ptiprvT asking "Daddy, please hurry home," were recenUy over' the P jungles near Beaufort in North Borneo. The newspaper Asahi said the leaflets were entrusted to a Japanese
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    Lock icon Japan To Stop 'Peace' Talks
    44 1 MOSCOW. Aug. 12 (Reuter) —The Japanese Foreign Minister. Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu. today decided to interrupt the Moscow "peace talks with Russia and postpone a decision on a peace treaty until after the LondonSuez conference. Earlier story on Page 7.
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    Lock icon Much Money Causes Messy Mix-Up
    178 1 MANCHESTER. England. \ug 12 (AP>— Mrs. Myrtle Webster threw an old sofa out of her caravan home and did not give it a second thought. But then, five boys began breaking it up for a bonfire and they found a packet with £3.150 in notes
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    Lock icon INFILTRATOR
    30 1 \X Israeli patrol found a wounded Eg>T?tian infiltrator in the Hashlosha area near the border of the Gaza strip on Saturday night, it was reported in Jerusalem, yesterday. Reuter
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    Lock icon NASSER REJECTS BRITAIN'S OFFER
    368 1 'NO RIGHT TO TAKE DECISIONS' President Nasser said: The Egyptian Government cannot consider the proposed London conference with all the attendant circumstances as an international conference competent to take decisions.... "The London invitation cannot therefore be accepted by Egypt." A statement from the Egyptian Government said:
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    Lock icon Riots In Fifth Day
    56 1 BOMBAY. Aug. 12 (AP) Language riots continued in the Gujerat area for the fifth successive day today after a 60-hour curfew had been lifted in the town of Ahmedabad. Demonstrators hindered traffic and threw stones at the police. Four deaths have been reported from Nadiad. which
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    34 1 TWO Soviet dental experts have developed a method whereby artificial teeth are inserted into the gums after decayed teeth have been extracted, the Soviet news a a ency Tans rpnorted vesterday. Reuter
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    Lock icon Regret, But It Was Expected
    264 1 LUJNDUJN, Aug. 12 U^euter)—Britain, France and the United States—sponsors of the 22-power conference on the Suez crisis assembling here on Thursday—will reject Egypt's proposal for an alternative meeting, Western diplomats here forecast tonight. President Nasser's refusal to attend the London talks had been expected but
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    Lock icon Olympics: Egypt Out
    47 1 CAIRO. Aug. 12 (UP) Egypt's General Sports Federation announced today that Egypt is withdrawing from the Melbourne Olympic games. The announcement gave no reason for the withdrawal. Informed sources said, however, that the reason was purely athletic and not connected with the Suez dispute.
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    Lock icon Two Lose Lives In Sunday Mishaps
    160 1 A SINGAPORE businessman and a six-year-old boy lost their lives in two swimming tragedies yesterday. The businessman. Lim Jit Leng, 28. got into difficulties while swimming at Changi. Lim's body wa s later found floating in the sea. The boy. Benny Yep. lost his
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    Lock icon QUEEN VISITS OLD ABBEY
    50 1 OBAX, Scotland. Aug. 12 (Reuter) The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, on the Orst day of their cruise off west Scotland, today landed on the historic little Isle of lona. Scotland's "cradle of Christianity." for Sunday service in the ancient abbey. Princesi Margaret accompanied them.
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    44 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The 1.200-Ftrong Asian Customs Services Union of Malaya will celebrate its forthcoming tenth anniversary in. a "big way." Highlight of the festivities will he a ronggeng and joget modern party. It will be preceded by a dinner.
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    Lock icon Abolish Sultans? Never
    100 2 Abolish Sultans? Never ALOR STAR, Sun.— The resolution to abolish the Sultanates forwarded by the Malayan Trade Union Council to the Reid Commission was branded as "arrogant, irresponsible and disloyal" by Kedah Penghulus today. At an emergency meeting held here, 'the Kedah Penghulus Association expressed "strong abhorrence" for the MTUC
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    Lock icon Jungle Terror Killed
    78 2 Jungle Terror Killed A ferocious 400 lb. tiger was killed by Mr. Chua Yoke Long (holding tail) at Sunnei Pinang Ulu. Jalan Ayer Puteh, over the week-end. The huge animal, a male, was spotted by the hidden hunter as it prowled the jungle at night. The first shot failed to
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    Lock icon Equal Pay For All Revenue Officers
    238 2 'Women, Men Do Same Work KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Women Revenue Officers in the Federation Customs Department want the same pay as their male colleagues. are 25 of them of the total complement of officers 1.300 in the entire national Customs setup "they are an
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    Lock icon 'JUST WHAT WE NEED FOR OUR CLASSROOMS'
    51 2 MOTHER Superior (left) of the Kuala Lumpur Convent and a sister look over some books at the Education Aid Exhibition held at the Chinese Assembly Hall. Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Earlier, the Sultan of Selangor declared the Exhibition open Standardpic by Yong Pens
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    Lock icon CHIEP CLERK IN POLICE FINED $750
    83 2 CHIEP CLERK IN POLICE FINED $750 RAUB. Sun. Jit Singh, ."36. former chief clerk of the Raub Police Department, was yesterday fined 5750 or three months' imprisonment, for criminal breach of trust of $35 belonging to a special constable, Mat Ali bin Lia, of Jerantut. The court was told that
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    Lock icon Well Done, Says Ruler
    79 2 KULIM, Sun. The Button of Kedah today congratulated four Home Guards of Junjong for good work they had done in connection with the Emergency. The four Home Guards were Mofaamed Salleh bin Wahab, bdul Rahman bin Abdullah. Yusoff bin Chin and Ahmad bin Ibrahim. The Sultan
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    Lock icon STRIKES ARE NOW OBSOLETE': UNION BOSS
    343 2 STRIKES ARE NOW OBSOLETE': UNION BOSS Workers Are Usually Hardest Hit IPOH, Sun: The President cf the AllMalayan Estates Staff Union, Mr. Yeoh Guan Leong, said here today that some of the strikes and labour unrest in the country were the result of irresponsible leadership. Speaking at the annual general
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    Lock icon DRIVER NOT TO BLAME FOR DEATH
    98 2 IPOH. Sun. Magistrate Che Abdul Kadir bin Yusol said that a cyclist, Moo Soon. 42, a labourer at Kampong Simee. was to blame for his own death He said this at the close of an inquest yesterday when he exonerated an Army driver, Private
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    Lock icon MOTHER OF PARTY HEAD DIES
    59 2 MOTHER OF PARTY HEAD DIES MADAM Tan Guan Chua, mother of Mr. C. C. Tan, president of the Singapore LiberalSocialist Party, passed away a.t the General Hospital on Saturday evening, aged Gl, after a short illness. The cortege will leave her home at No. 27, Lorong H. Telok Kurau, on
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    Lock icon Accident Claims One
    43 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Inche Kassim bin Long of the Agricultural Department was killed at midday today when his motor cycle collided with a Municipal garbage lorry. Inche Kassim, 44, who was thrown off his vehicle, died instantly from head injuries.
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    Lock icon 'Huckster Success, Food Rules Relaxed
    205 2 'Huckster Success, Food Rules Relaxed KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The Government has decided to relax somewhat the stringent food restrictions imposed on the Kluang district in the ''interest of public convenience." The maintenance of a stock register of restricted articles other than rice will no longer be necessary, and tinned food,
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    Lock icon 'BUILD MORE SCHOOLS FOR THE CHINES; GOVT. URGED
    192 2 THE Singapore Chinese Schools' Conference on Saturday resolved to form a 15--unit committee to study the Colony Government's new policy en Chinese education. The conference, attended by the boards of directors of all Chinese schools in Singapore, was held at the premises
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    Lock icon Standard Fetes Its Vendors
    49 2 MORE than 200 Singapore news vendors were entertained to a "Nasi Beryani" luncheon given by the Directors of the Singapore Tiger Standard at the Haw Par Swimming Pool, Pasir Panjang, yesterday. The vendors photographed with members of the Singapore Standard f during the luncheon.—. Standardpic
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    Lock icon 700 Pledge To Stamp Out Evil Among Youth
    271 3 700 Pledge To Stamp Out Evil Among Youth YOUNG LIBERAL-SOCIALIST PARTY FORMED IN COLONY EN hundred Singapore youths yesterday formed a Young Liberal-Socialist Party. inaugural meeting held at Ta v Lian Teck Avenue off £ast Coast Road, was attended by youths from the Cairn Farrer Park and Stamford Road sections
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    Lock icon FECCC Third Assembly Winds Up
    114 3 FECCC Third Assembly Winds Up THE Far Eastern Council el Christian Churches concluded its eight-day 3rd General Assembly in Singapore yesterday. The next Assembly. In 1960. oeen tentatively fixed to meet in Ceylon. Alternate venues are Formosa or Australia. The F.E.C.C.C, the Far Eastern regional division of International Council of
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    Lock icon Canton Had An Easy Trip In Suez
    137 3 Canton Had An Easy Trip In Suez PENANG, Sun. The Canton arrived here today, after an uneventful passage through the Suez Canal on July 28. one day after Egyptian President Nasser's nationalization declaration. Passengers interviewed by The Standard said everything at the Canal appeared normal. According to an American couple,
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    Lock icon 3,000 Villagers Defy Reds: Come Out And Fight Us
    143 3 SUNGEI BULOH'S BID TO BE WHITE' AGAIN KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. About three thousand Chinese in the Sungei Buloh New Village this morning challenged the Communist terrorists hiding in the jungle fringe near their homes to come out and fight them The
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    Lock icon Big Anti-Communist Rally Planned In Ulu Langat
    196 3 tee, Mr. Liew Hon Chow, in his address said: "The villagers have good protection and they will smash any Communist attempt to infiltrate into the village." He urged the villagers to fight the Communists and win for their village the status of a
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    128 3 TWO lay preachers and an assistant pastor were yesterday ordained ministers of the Church. They were Mr. Phoa Hock Seng, Mr. Quek Kiok Chiang and Mr. Hsu Chiang Tai. Mr. Phoa. a retiring school teacher, and for more than 20 years a lay preacher of
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    Lock icon Could Not Prove Value Of Gold
    115 3 Could Not Prove Value Of Gold JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Foo Kong Chin of Malacca was today acquitted and discharged by the Sessions Court Judge, Mr. Corbally. of wrongful declaration of the value of 1.500 pieces of gold. The Judge agreed with defence counsel, Mr. S. M. Yong's submission that the
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    Lock icon FATAL FALL
    29 3 LAU Hon Sing, 38, died last night following a fall believed to be from the third fltior of the Singapore Improvement Trust Flats in Upper Pickering Street.
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    59 3 Foreign Minister Due Here THE Australian Minister for External Affairs. Mr. R. G. Casey, arrives in Singapore this afternoon on his way to London. He will remain in Singapore overnight. While here, he will see the 'Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, the Governor, Sir Robert Black, and also the
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    Lock icon Girls' Club Opened
    45 3 SINGAPORE City Councillor, Mr, S. 11, Vasagar, last Saturday declared open the Alexandra Girls' Club. The club, of which Mr. Vasagar is patron, was formed to provide education, vocational and recreational facilities for girls living in Brickworks Estate and the Alexandra area.
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    Lock icon 'A Tremendously Exacting Programme'
    305 3 Standard Music Critic FLORENCE Margue-Wong. the Singapore Chinese pianist, drew a large audience to the Victoria Memorial Hall last night for the first cf two recitals under the sponsorship of Donald Moore Productions. Madame Margue-Wong left Singapore a decade ago and it is to her credit
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      842 3 (Standard c&lmanac Information at a Glance (P): 130 News (S): 145 A Date Pianist; 145 The Best in Music; DlfJiKlr w;th *P':6 P-m. Proaramme 2.30 Australian News; 2.40 News ■^•ll»iMjHTAW<l%l* summary <KL>; 602 Mail Bag Commentary; 2.50 Australian fflßp* 3s lKL >: "1 P-m. News (Si; 710 New., Newspaper Editorial
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    Lock icon Weekend Weddings
    119 4 m Above: Corporal Lionel Norman, wireless fitter attached to RAF Station. Seletar. and his bride, the formrr Miss Barbara Howes, general duties clerk with the Far East Air Force. Changi. Singapore, after their wedding at St. Georges Church. Changi, over the week-end. Above right: Mr and Mrs. Anthony
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    Lock icon Morals Campaign To Save Wayward Youth
    102 4 SINGAPORE Liberal Socialist Assemblyman, Mr. Lim Choon Mong. will soon call a meeting of representatives of all religious, cultural, social and welfare organizations to map out a campaign for the moral upiiftir.cnt of Colony youths. He told The Standard his suggestion for such a
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    Lock icon NEW MOSQUE OPENED
    57 4 PEXANG, Sun. Municipal President. Mr. J. S. H. Cunnyngham- Brown, yesterday opened the new $8,000 mosque in Patani Road, in a colourful ceremony before a large gathering of Muslims. The mosque was thrown open to well-wishers by the Mufti of Penana ann Province We 'esley. Tuan Sahibul
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    27 4 MR. A. Maliapon. personnel and Welfare Officer of the Penang Port Commission returned yesterday after a sixmonth course in welfare and personnel management in England.
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    61 4 THREE Ma'ayans all postSchool Certificate students have been awarded the Shell Engineering Scholarships at Loughborough Engineering College. England, by the Shell Corr.pany of Singapore. They are Inche Hassan bin Abdul Karim. 20, of Trensganu. Mr. Tan Lin Book, 22. of Kuala Lumpur, and Mr. Victor Chen
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    Lock icon Irresponsible Unionists Caused Wildcat Strikes
    93 4 Irresponsible Unionists Caused Wildcat Strikes THE wildcat strikes that swept Singapore last year were aused p k> ir^:*~ ponsible trade union leaders, said organising secretary of the Laoour Gerald de Cruz, yesterday. He was addressing a meeting cf the Singapore Unemployment Society, at the Hokien Association hall Telok Ayer Street.
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    Lock icon 'Wake Up' – Middle Road Unions Told
    242 4 'Wake Up' Middle Road Unions Told Speaking of the part played by trade unions, he stressed that union leaders should develop a sense of responsibility or get out of the movement. He alleged that, one week ago, a trade union leader, in a "rabble-rousing speech aimed at playing on the
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    102 4 Indonesian MPs Back From China A FOUR-MAN Indonesian Parliamentary delegation, led by Speaker Mr. Sartono, arrived in Singapore yesterday after a week's tour of Communist China. Secretary of the delegation. Mr. Sunito. told The Standard the delegation met the President of the Chinese Republic. Mr. Mao Tse-tung. and the Premier,
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    Lock icon '$5,000 Anthem Reward
    52 4 A Singapore composer wants the Federation CJovcrntnent to withdraw its $5,000 reward for the winning national anthem "because material rewards may encourage professional patriots, who may, in turn, become professional politicians." The composer, Inche Zubir Said, in his observations on the national anthem in a memorandum sent
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    Lock icon MINISTER TOURS ESTATE
    44 4 KU^LA LUMPUR. Sun.— The Minister for Agriculture Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak today inspected the South Malaya Pineapple Canneries at Scucral and the South Malayan Pineapple Growers Estate at Pekan Nanas, Johore. He also visited the Agricultural Department experimental station nearby.
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    106 4 Singapore Malay Cultural Society to Federation Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, said a national anthem should be written only after the country had attained independence and "when a nationality, a name for the State and a flag"' have been decided upon. He said the anthem should be
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    Lock icon SIT Houses They Are Still Going
    106 4 SIT Houses They Are Still Going APPLICATIONS for the purchase of 68 Singapore Improvement Trust houses at Queenstown, are sun being examined, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Local Government, Lands and Housing Mr, J.E. Pepper, told The Standard yesterday. More than 1.300 applications have been received since the S.I.T.
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    Lock icon DEATH WAS MISADVENTURE
    43 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— Coroner, Inche Mahmud bin All, today recorded a verdict of death by misadventure, after an inquiry into the death of David Wiles, 8, who died on May 3 after he was knocked down by a motor car.
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    36 4 PENAXG. Sun. Dr. N. K. Menon, chairman of the Committee for Education and Health, will officially open the first special course for Chinese primary school teachers, tomorrow at' the Nan Chiang School.
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    52 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— A 12-year-old Indian schoolboy of Sungei Siput, Rahmatulla, was admitted to hospital here this morning after he had been gored by a buffalo. The animal. which had recently given birth to a calf, attacked Rahmatulla while he was untying her. Rahmatulla received back and
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    95 4 PRETTY, little (100 lb.) Miss Ho Syn Chin, acting matron of the Singapore Red Cro-s Crippled Children s home at Tanah Merah, has won the Sino-British fellowship to the United Kingdom. She will leave on Aur. 29, by air. for a year at the Rowley
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    Lock icon CINEMA MAN IS DEAD
    66 4 KUALA KAXGSAR. Sun An assistant manager of Grand Talkies here, Che Abdul Ranman bin Mohamed Idris, 37, died in the District Hospital last night after a short illness. The late Inche Abdul Rahman, an Indonesian, had been with the Grand Talkies since 1946. He was due
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    Lock icon MALAY SECONDARY SCHOOL PLANNED
    137 4 THE Singapore Malay Education Council plans to provide a secondary school for Malay students who are unable to advance their studies in existing schools. President of the Council. Inche Harun. Mohd. Amin. told The Standard yesterday that this plan would he carried out if the recommendations
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    1995 5  -  JIM HENRY reports fgsdfgs fdsgdf \PART from local (Queensland) issues the banner headlines in our papers this week have been devoted to Australia's defeat in the fourth Test at Old Trafford, Manchester, (earlier in the week) and Colonel Nasser's "nationalisation" of the Suez Canal Company (later).
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    280 5  - THE STARS AND YOU Rita Del Mar fdgsdf gsdfg TODAYS QUOTATION: "It is not the dawdlers and Utter* who find life worth l.hing: it is the steady. Mini— robust workers." thurics w. Eliot. MONDAY FOR EVERYONE: Those who keep occupied with tasks close at hand, who are discreet, philosophical, will
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    423 5 A LATE burst in the second half gave the Rest of Ausi tralia a comparatively easy I win over much fancied Queensland in an Olympic I Trial Soccer match at BrisI bane's Heath Park ground the other day. The Rest won "by 5 goals to 1, after being down
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      676 6 TTE cannot blame the Malays for getting more suspicious of non-Malays with each passing day. The Labour Party of Malaya, composed mainly of non-Malays, arrogates to itself the right to say, •'lt is clear now that Western Colonialism will no longer be a living issue in this
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      260 6 r^ERTAIN quarters are not happy because an Egyptian officer was not allowed to stay a few days here. In view of the inflammable nature of the situation in the Middle East, it is wise that this officer was prevented from contacting certain parties in this country. No
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    597 6  -  Clarence Kirton By GEORGETOWN, (British Guiana) Y^'HILE British Guiana makes painfully slow progress along the road to the restoration of democratic government, new economic horizons for the British Colony (sandwiched between Venezuela and Dutch Guiana on the northern edge of South America) are emerging from the five-year
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    292 6 NICOSIA. T ORD Radcliffe, who has been charged with the ta.sk of drawing up a liberal constitution for Cyprus, has ended hi.s three-week visit here, and returned to London. But the visit has brought nc change of atmosphere to this frightened and resentful island. Indeed, as
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    271 6 From A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ONE danger menacing the expedition with which Lord Radcliffe can get these main points formulated, is that the British Cabinet's attention is likely to be diverted from Cyprus by the Suez Canal crisis, and that he will be left twiddling his thumbs until he is able
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    520 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME Aster Gunasekera By gPEAKING at a dinner given to the Constitution Commission by the Penang Chinese last Thursday the chairman of the Commission. Lord Reid, assured them that the Commission had the interests of this country at heart and had come with the single
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    288 6 TEL AVIV. STSRAEL has been put on the map as a cotton producing country. From a modest begin- ning with an initial in--2 vestment of $30,000 three years ago, this 5 country's fledgling cot- ton production has now 0 reached an annual yield of $6
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    519 6 By FRANCIS OFNER ORITISH technicians contri- buted to the success of Israel's cotton project by providing "Endrin." a special insecticide produced by the Shell Company after extensive tests in Iraq. Previous attempts by Israeli agricultural experimental stations to grow cotton had all been foiled by the cotton pest. The pest
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      147 6 Sir; Much headline news has appeared recently in connection with a wave of strikes in the Federation. I have been watching a good number of unions clamouring for better pay and less working hours for their members, but I was astonished to find that some
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      70 6 Sir; May I ask the hospitality of your columns to draw attention to the condition of the lane between Arab Street and Blanco L.ourt. There are numerous holes in the lane and it *s filthy, muddy and smelly whenever it rains This is detrimental to health The residents
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    466 7 As The U.S. Presidential Elections Draw Near Weapons For Political Campaign To Be Chosen CHICAGO, Aug. 12 (AP)— This is the week for the Democratic Party to draw its line of battle, choose its weapons and name its top leaders for the 1956 political campaign.
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    143 7 'Soviet Ml Gs Outnumber U.S. Fighters' WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (Reuter) General Nathan Twining, American Air Force Chief of Staff, has said that Russia has "thousands more jet combat planes in operational units than the American Air Force and Navy combined." General Twining, who recently visited Russia, made his estimate in
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    136 7 Hope Dims For 260 Miners MARCINELIE. Belgium. Aug. 12. (AP).— A German coal mine rescue expert yesterday ruled out any chances of further survivors from the Bois Du Casier mine where about 260 miners have been entombed since Wednesday. "In my opinion." said the expert. Georg Langer from Essen, '-there
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    36 7 FRIEDE Lawrence Ravagli. 76-year-old widow of the late British novelist and poet D.H. Lawrence, died yesterday in the Taos, New Mexico, home she has occupied more than a quarter of a century.- A.P.
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    49 7 NEW YORK. Aug. 12 (AP) —Heavy drinkers who want to stay away from the stuff now can call on a chemical friend named Temposil. Take a Temposil pill, says Ledorle Laboratories, and you'll get a reaction that will annihilate your craving for strong liquor.
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    41 7 WICK, Scotland. Aug. 12 (Reuter)— The Queen Mother was yesterday made a Freeman and Burgess of Wick, a port on the northeastern tip of Scotland. She i s the only royal woman ever to receive the honour.
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    289 7 We Carried Girl Into Bushes Soldier WUERZBURG. West Germany, Aug. 12 (Reuter) One of seven coloured American soldiers accused of raping a 15-year-old girl said in a statement read to a court martial today that he and some of the others "carried the girl into some bushes and had intercourse
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    155 7 VALETTA, Malta. Aug. 12. (Reuter) The Maltese Prime Minister, Mr. Do m MintofT, said todav he had ordered the closure of the Island's Rediffusion Broadcasting system because it had not relayed a Government statement yesterday. The British owned Rediffus'on Company, which operates
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    113 7 LADY Temple r. (centre), wife of the C.1.G.5.. Sir Gerald Templer, turns to speak to Mrs. Minnie Taylor, with Leslie. 5, her daughter. after the troopship H.M.T. Dunera steamed into Southhampton. Also in the picture is Sergeant Donald Clark, with his children David. 3. and Linda.
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    21 7 CHARLES Winner, author of the comic strip "Elmer", died yesterday at his. home in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. UP
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    132 7 MOSCOW, Aus. 12 (UP) Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov yesterday rejected a Japanese plea for a change in the Soviet position on territorial questions. i In effect. Shepilov told Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu to accept the original Soviet terms or there would be no
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    36 7 POPE Pius XII has agreed to permit the Italian television network to cover his recital of the "Angelus Domini" at noon. Aug. 15. feast' of the assumption of the Virein Marv into heaven.— UP
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    180 7 CHICAGO. Aug. 12, (AP). Harry S Truman said yesterday he believes Governor Averall Harriman of New York is "the best qualified man" to be the next president. In a news conference statement, eagerly awaited by the Democrats assembled for their convention next week. Truman said that
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    50 7 NICOSIA. Cyprus. Aug 12 (UP) An island-wide protest general strike against the hangings of three Greek Cypriots was called off yesterday. The strike was called on Thursday, shortly after the hangings. But even though the strike was relatively ineffective, underground terrorist groups continued their reign of violence.
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    57 7 SLOUGH. England. Aug. 12. (AP>.— Nicholas Smith told a magistrate's court he had good reasons for carrying a nine-inch lons bayonet. "I was goin? to London." he said, '"and you know what life's like up there." Fined three pounds on Friday. Smith said he had been reading
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    230 9 NEW A.P.L. CARGO LINER ARRIVING THE s.s. President Atl.inis. newest ship in the American President Line's I -.75,000,000 replacement programme, will arrive in jiniMpore on August 24. jouncing this to The rd yesterday Mr. pey, managing dirI S uth-east Asia for said that the new cargo liner which is the
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    573 9 By A Market Correspondent IN Kuala Lumpur last week, during the Bank Holiday, we were impressed with the scale of business activity and the apparent discounting of political contingencies by Federation capitalists. Particularly has this been the case in the large investment of federation
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      174 9 f t> Standard Market Correspondent THE past week saw clear Indications of how political considerations could rule >.n<;apore markets. moved up to around -^S per lb., slipped below the SI per lb. mark but improved on Saturday on better overseas adv. A better sentiment was ?p--ving
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    41 9 THE Malayan Bechance Banks Association made the following chances in its rates to merchants on Saturday: Selling rates airmail T.T. or O.D. ready were. Belgian Francs I^l ll. Dcutsr'ie Marks 135|; Italian Lire *****. Other exchange rate:- remain unal'ered.
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    307 9 BUSINESS done in shares from Auc. 4-10: Industrials: British Borneo Pets. 52/- to 54/- and 54/4*. Fraser Neave Ords. $1.90 to $1.92.1 to $190. Commons $1.95 to $I*9o to $1.91 J Hume Industries A. 5/3 Jackson Co. si .;l", Malayan Cements $1 65 and $1.63 and 51 t>4.
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    184 10 Ceylon AAA Stars Fly In Today ONLY seven top athletes from Ceylon will compete in the Malayan Games at Penang on Friday and Saturday. They are due to fly into Singapore today. Originally the Ceylon AAA intended to send 25. Due
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    105 10 KUALA LUMPUR Sun. Fine bowling bv Cliff Harrison (five for SSI and Akhurst (four for 14) were the main features in the annual Non-Benders reunion cricket match when Wes. teihouts XI beat Jumeux's XI by three wickets on the Selangor Club padang yesterday. Jumeux's side, batting first
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    143 10 COMMUNITY CRICKET INDIANS WILL MEET CHINESE IN FINAL PENANG. Sun. A fine allround performance by N. Monerasinghe who scored 63 runs and took three wickets for 18 runs enabled the Indians to beat last year's champions, the Europeans, by 51 runs in the Inter-Community cricket match played on the Victoria
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    350 10 MALACCA, Sun.— JOHORE beat Malacca by one &oal to nil in a Federation Cup soccer quarter-final at the Kubu Stadium and will now meet Negri Sembilan in the semi-final round. I Malacca kicked off from the Kubu end but Kim Eng stopped the
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    152 10 PEXANG, Sun.— Pcnang, the defending champions in the FAM Cup inter-statc soccer competition, beat Perak 6-2 at the Municipal Sports Stadium yesterday. Ariff Ariffin at centre forward, who played in place of Aziz Ahmad, scored a hattrick Perak scored first through Bcon Meng. Two
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    64 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Selangor Club beat TPCA by two wickets in a cricket fixture at Brickfields yesterday. Tamilians 76: Param 29. W W. Hayes five wiokets for 21. Selangor Club 79 for 8 wits: lan Chandler 14. J. Steward 12. In another mutch. Commercial Institute beat
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    136 10 Marines In Govt. SFA Final MARINE Department entered the final of the Singapore Government Services Football Association's knock out league when they gained an easy 2 o victory over the Singapore Telephone Board at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The STB were badly let down by their wings, none of
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    688 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Records toppled like nine pins no less than 15 were broken and two equalled in a card of 26 events at the Selangor Chinese National athletic championships which ended on the Coronation Park ground here today. Once again, it was 20-year-old
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    210 10 Konno Makes Grade For U.S. Team For Olympics DETROIT, Aug. 11 (AP)--Olympic champion Ford Konno, faced with elimination, squeezed on to the American Olympic swimming team in the final event last night as the U S. completed a 46-member swimming and diving contingent for the trip to Australia next November.
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    42 11 BELFAST. Aug. 11 (Reuter)— Cc:lo Übbiali. the 27-year-o.d Italian motorcycle world champion, won the 125 c.v. race at the U'stcr Grand Prix on the Dundrod Circuit were today at h r<^co-ri snecd of 81 miles an hour (130 35 kph>.
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    276 11 Main Honours To Lesser-Known Clubs LONDON, Aug. 11 (Reuter).— First class soccer got under way in Britain today with 18 matches in the usual season-opener, the Scottish Football League Cup. England's 1956 57 season opens next Saturday. Main honours in today's games went to two
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    206 11 NEW YORK, Aug. 11 (AP) Don Newcombes string of 39 2 3 scoreless innings ended Saturday on a two-run homer by Stan Lopata but Brooklyn beat Philadelphia 5-2 to climb into a second-place tie with Cincinnati, one full game behind Milwaukee. Milwaukee and Cincinnati were playing
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    72 11 Toweel Retains Titles JOHANNESB URG. Aug 11, (Reuter)— Willie Tower 1 retained his British Empire and South African lightweight boxing titles when he fought a draw with Jannic Yen Rcnsburg over 15 rounds here tonight. The bout deteriorated after a promising start with the Boer reluctant to go forward and
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    612 11  -  Bill Junk Japanese Prepare fls S H TOMMY Wei's ball team bounced back in the fifth inning with a four-hit four-run outburst to nudge Jack Fochs' squad 8-7 in a softball thriller on the St. Joseph's .Institution ground yesterday. While pitcher Jack Emmett
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    471 11  - Arnold Grabs Top Honours EDIN PETERS By B. S. ARNOLD who drove his Cooper 996 c.c. rating car took top honours at the recent hill climb meeting:, held at Klang. He won the unlimited racing cars event in 27.76 sec., and this proved to be the fastest time of the
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    125 11 COSTLIEST HORSE ILL ATLANTIC CITY. New Jersey, Aug. 11, (Reuter) Nashua. the world's most valuabie rarchorse, became ill in his stall today two hours before he was to have raced in the SlOO.OOO Atlantic City Handicap and was scratched. Nashua, a? well as being the costliest racehorse in history, has
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    366 11 DERBY. Aur 11 (Reutcr) A fine innings of 73 not out by lan Craig helped the Australian cricketers make a partial recovery from a bad start after they had been put in to bat on a drying pitch by Derbyshire on the first day of their
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    1878 12 SINGAPORE Chinese Recreation Clubs Cheong Thiam Siew, with an unbeaten 85 runs, headed four other Colony batsmen who passed .the halfcentury mark in yesterday's Singapore Cricket Association senior league matches. Thiam Slew's batting spree vas largely instrumental for the 32-run victory which the
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    123 12 Time Saves Indians Vs Recs TIME saved Indian Association "A" from defeat when they met Singapore Recreation Club in a S.C.A. junior tourney match on the I. A ground yesterday. The match ended in a dra ir, S.R.C. battin c first were all out for 106 runs at tea. Indians,
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    52 12 MEET Mr. Malaya— Ipoh schoolboy Kuan King Lum, who won the title at the Malayan weight lifting championship meet at the Chinwoo auditorium on Saturday in Kuala Lumpur. Here Kuan receives the trophy from Tunku Sharifah Roziah, wife of the Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya. Standardpic by Yong
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    26 12 SYDNEY Aug. 12 (Reuter) Brace Crampton, 20-year-old Sydney professional who recently returned from a tour of British tournaments, won the 72--holes Australian open golf
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    213 12 Glare Wind In B'ton Stadium Sports Letter Sir; I rpad with great interest Jeffery James' eports on the recent Malayan Badminton Championships but I am quite surprised that he did not mention anything about the conditions of play in the Singapore Badminton Stadium. For a hall costing more than half
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    182 12 THIS cap may well spark a controversy in Singapore eric keting circles... It belongs *o Colony s pin bowler, Heyzer Perera. When he wore it to bowl for the Police at Thomson Road yesterday, opposing batsman Harbans Singh raised an objection on the grounds
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    365 12 Mighty Koh Is Champion Of Champions Two Malayan Records Broken But No Olympic Qualifying Lifts Tn« Kl £k\ UMPL S' Sun.-Selangor's Koh Eng Tong, British Empire Games Gold Medalist (Auckland 1950), warmed up with a 2101b. two hands press snatch ed another 2001bs, and then clean jerked 260 for an
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    110 12 Japanese Women Dominate TOKYO. Aug. 12 (Reuter) Japanese women swimmers again dominated the All Japan swimming championships which ended here tonight. Only one new national record was established in the men's events, during the three-day championships. Tonight Takashi Ishimoto won the 100 metres butterfly event in the national record time
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    44 12 JUNIOR A.A. scored a 2-1 victory over Biniang Bulan Sports Club in a S.A.F.A Div. 3. A league soccer match played at Gey^ang stadium yesterday Scorers for Junior A.A. were: K'.injuraman and a "gift goal'. S. M. Ali scored for Bintang Bulan.
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    616 12 Two Runs Decide For Kedah SEREMBAN, Sun.— Kedah scored a two-rim victory over Negri Sembilan in their first annual cricket match which ended today on the Negri Sembilan Club ground. Kedah managed to get their winning run within the 30 minutes left for play. Kedah. with a deficit of 82
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      41 12 SOCCER S.A.F.A. LEAGUE— COMMUNITY: Indians vs. Europeans at Jalan Besar Stadium at .5.75 p m JUNIOR CUPTIE: S.H B Police "A" vs. Bedok S.C at Geylang Stadium at 515 pin.; Star Soc. "A" vs Y.M.S.A. at M.F.A. at 5 15 p.m.
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