Singapore Standard, 15 August 1956

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    35 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD POL I C I "2 B P<? *Wl FIRI MI6AOI GENERAL HOSPITAL ***** (5 1400 //U -31. 2811 2414 "Vol. VII. No. 44 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1956 16 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon GALLOWS FOR A KIDNAPPER
    452 1 He Survived Duet Of Death His Gang Snatched Merchant From Busy City Street A KIDNAPPER, THE ONLY ONE OF THREE THUGS TO SURVIVE A GUN DUEL WITH SINGAPORE POLICE, WAS YESTERDAY SENTENCED TO DIE ON THE GALLOWS. Chief Justice, Mr. John Whyatt, passed the death sentence
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    Lock icon Those'Ape-men Appear Again
    308 1 Those' Ape-men Appear Again Hairy Creatures With Sticks TANJONG -MALIM, T^es.— The sly, mysterious ape-men of Malaya, who hit the headlines two years a^o. are reported to have been seen again. This time, three of them were said to have been seen b- at least five tappers at K.impong Chempa,
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    Lock icon As Big Confab Draws Near There's A Strong Bid To Keep Peace
    350 1 As Big Confab Draws Near There's A Strong Bid To Keep Peace LONDON, Aug. 14 (AP)— Delegates from a dozen nations poured into London today amid mounting pressures for a Suez Canal compromise designed to "save face'' for both Britain and Egypt. From within Britain and I outside came expressions
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    Lock icon Nehru Accepts Second Invite
    44 1 NEW DELHI. Aug. 14 (AP) —President Eisenhower has again invited Prime Minister Nehru to visit the .United States and Nehru has accepted, though no date for the visit has been fixed, one of Nehr u 's spokesmen told Parliament tcday.
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    82 1 MARCINELLE, Belgium. Aug. 14 (UP)— A new fire roared up deep in the bowels of ihe Bitter Heart coal mine today, extinguishing what faint hope remained for the men still trapped underground. The new fire in the 2.700--foot level drove back rescue worker teams struggling to
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    Lock icon ALL FOR MUM
    25 1 TAIPEI, Aug. 14 (AP>— A Chinese woman here is divorcing her husband so that he can be free to marry Vipr mother.
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    97 1 A WOMAN member of the Greek community in Cairo (at left) shouts antiBritish slogans while handin -hand with an Arab girl during a rally organized by the strife group for the liberation of Muslim people. The meeting was held in Cairo on Aug. 10 with 5.000 streaming
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    Lock icon Formula Will Be Found: Dulles
    201 1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UP)— Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today that he is confident a formula will be found for a dependable international operation of the Suez Canal which is consistent with the rights and dignity of Egypt. Mr. Dulles said this to
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    Lock icon Call For Russian Fleet
    57 1 Call For Russian Fleet PORT SAID. Aug. 14 (Reuter) Four hundred members of the Egyptian Home Guard gathered outside the Russian consulate here last night shouting demands for the Russian fleet to visit Port Said. The consulate remained closed and shortly afterwards a riot squad arrived in lorries, quickly dispersed
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    Lock icon Spellman To Be Legate
    45 1 VATICAN CITY, Aug. 14 (Reuter).— Pope Pius XII has named Cardinal Archbishop Francis Spellman of New York to be his legate at a Philippine Eucharistic Congress tc be held at Manila from Nov 28 to Dec. 2, it was announced today.
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    21 1 NATIONALIST China will lame Dr. Han Lih Wu new \mbassador 'to Thailand, it was lisclosed in Taipeh yesterday, U.P.
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    Lock icon Hoot Moit- 'Twas A Raw, Raw Wind!
    142 1 EASTBOURNE. England, Aug 14 (AP) For centuries tradition-minded Scotsmen have worn nothing beneath their kilts. But 69-year-old David M. Cummings. an old Cameron Highlander, has added an undergarment Here's why: Cummings was strolling down the beach, a proud ana handsome sight in his
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    Lock icon 4,500 Reds Take Over Burma Posts
    213 1 4,500 Reds Take Over Burma Posts MYITKYINA. Northern Burma. Aug. H (AP) Military sources say at least 4,01)U regular Chinese Communist troops are holding positions inside Burmese territory. They were reported Riving all indications they are part of a '"planned invasion" aimed at seizing and occupying portions of Burma. Officials
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    Lock icon 100,000 To Fight Flood Wave
    102 1 100,000 To Fight Flood Wave TOKYO. Aug. 14 (UP) Communist Chinese authorities mobilized 100,000 men yesterday along the banks of the Sungari river to fight, what Peking radio reported to be, the "highest flood wave in its history." Old people, women and children were evacuated from danger areas along the
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    Lock icon STUDY TOUR FOR MARSHALL
    53 1 HONGKONG. Aug. 14 (UP) —Mr. David Marshall, former Chief Minister of Singapore, left today by train for Peking on a "personal study tour." He will be the guest of the Communist government and at the same time will act as an adviser to the Singapore and
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    26 1 SOVIET Ambassador to France Mr. Sorge Vinogradov flew from Paris to Moscow yesterday for a month's holiday, the Embassy in Paris an- nounccd. Reuter
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    Lock icon Army Tries To Nab A Minister
    90 1 Army Tries To Nab A Minister JAKARTA. Aug. 14 (UP) 3 rime Minister All Sastroanidjojo conferred today with President Soekarno at Merieka Palace about tbe at;empted arrest of Foreign Minister Roeslan Abdul Gani ay the Army. Later they called in Attor-ney-General Suprapto for ;aiks with the Cabinet Suprapto told newsmen,
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    Lock icon Pineapple Man Held
    54 1 SINGAPORE Special Branch Police detained Mr. Gan Cher Keong. cashier of the Pineapple Industries of Malaya Limited, of Singapore. Mr. Gan. according to the Director of Special Branch, Mr. AEG. Blades, is being detained under the Public Security Ordinance. Mr. Gan's detention will be reviewed by the
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    Lock icon Lim, Tunku Study Suez Effect On AAerdeka
    213 2 Lim, Tunku Study Suez Effect On AAerdeka KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Chief Ministers of the Federation and Singapore met at Residency Hill tonight and are believed to have reviewed the Colony's "slender chances of self-government with the Suei crisis looming in the international political arena." Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. Lim
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    Lock icon $15,000 To Be Spent OnYoutt
    184 2 $15,000 To Be Spent OnYoutt SINGAPORE'S Federation of Boys' Clubs, will spend $14,866 in the next seven months, secretary, Mr. Tan Huat Kens, told The Standard yesterday. Expenditure is listed under three main heads General Fund, Leadership Training Fund and the Lim Chu Kang Camp Fund. The General Fund will
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    Lock icon 37 CENTRE
    25 2 THIRTY SEVEN centr-s have been set up throughout Trengganu for the registration of children born between 1949 and 1952 for admission to schools.
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    Lock icon PASSERSBY CATCH THIE
    40 2 IPOH. Tues. Passersby caught a snatch thief who took a handbag, containing $12.35 from Miss Loo Yi Kuan, 26. a ticket seller employed at the Rex Theatre, tonight. The passersby responded to Miss Loo's call for help.
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    Lock icon THUGS SLIP DAGGER AND FALL INTO NET
    137 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Federation Police have seized some ten secret society suspects who slipped out of Singapore since the start of "Operation Dagger." Three were arrested here over the weekend, two in Klang some ten days ago and the rest in Johore about
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    Lock icon ANTI-VICE DRIVE STEPPED UP
    178 2 New Protective Ordinance For East Coast States KOTA BAHRU, Tues.— The fight against; vice and white slave trafficking on the east coast of Malaya is to be stepped up. The Federation Government tonight accepted to the requests of the Kelantan and Trengganu governments and gazetted two
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    Lock icon 40 'Wise' Up On Unions
    57 2 KUALA KRAI, Tues. Forty estate workers today completed a two-day trade union course conducted by the newly-established branch of the National Union of Plantation Workers. The students were drawn from 20 estates. The course included talks and discussions on the principles and practices of trade
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    39 2 THE Federation Government has granted permission for the display of the Indian national flag today the ninth anniversary of India's independence. The display of the national flags of Commonwealth countries is not restricted in Singapore.
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    98 2 Festing Due Or Friday THE new Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Land Forces, Lt. General Sir Francis Festing, above, will arrive in Singapore from London by air on Friday. General Festing succeeds General Sir Charles Locwen, who left the Colony last month to take up a new appointment as Adjutant
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    Lock icon 'Robot' Stenos Relieve Shortage
    142 2 'Robot' Stenos Relieve Shortage KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. "Robot" stenos are becoming increasingly popular in the Federation, to relieve a serious shortage of shorthand writers. But Kuala Lumpur's Employment Exchange If still receiving scores of rails from anxious employers who prefer "live writers with or without glamour" to the cold steel
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    Lock icon $5 For A Ferry Ride
    86 2 PENAXG. Tues. Thirty-year-old Chew Liew Chan crossed over from Butterworth in a ferry without buying a ticket and now the Penang Port Commission wants him to pay 25 cents for the fare. Inspector S.D. Mitchell told thi Magistrate's Court today. Chew pleaded guilty to failing
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    66 2 MR. AND MRS. Jagccr Singh after their marriage at Kuala Kangsar last Sunday. The bridegroom, a teacher in a Singapore English School, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harnam Singh. The bride, the former Miss Labir fc.iur. was also a teacher in the Government English Girls' School,
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    Lock icon MCA Denies Baa Manners Charge
    175 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Malayan Chinese Association today refuted a charge that it had committed a "breach of etiquette" in not replying to the Perak Chinese Association's request for adequate representation of Chinese views before the Reid Commission, i MCA headquarters held that its president,
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    Lock icon Govt. Seeks More Say On Rubber Board
    87 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Federation tonight moved to raise its representation on the rubber industry replanting board. Government, which has just handed *>ut $280,000,000 to accelerate replanting of an estimated 400,000 acres in ten years, wants to "insure that the ultimate control of
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    Lock icon By-laws For 'Satellite
    44 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Selangor Government gazetted today 38 pages of bylaws for Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur's growing satellite town, to ensure control of amenities ranging from public sanitation to street trading. The by-laws will have effect from Jan. 1, 1355.
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    Lock icon Robbers' Haul: Opium Pipe And $44
    147 2 A BUILDING contractor and his two friends were robbed of $44 while enjoying a pipe or two in an opium den in Lorong Tai Sen;?. Singapore, the Eighth Magistrate was told yesterday. Lee Kuan, the contractor alleged that a. Chinese and two Malays, who
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    Lock icon Completes Training
    33 3 pic. SERGEANT llakimi bin Ha.ii Noordin of the Malay Regiment. Serem- ui who arrived in Singapore yesterday aboard the Canton after an right months' course at military colleges in Britain. Standard
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    Lock icon 16 SUMMONED TO COURT
    82 3 WHEN strikers and nongtriker s of the Wah Sun Barber Shop in Singapore failed to reach an agreement. Peace summoned them to Court. Yesterday. 16 of them, including two daughters of the proprietor of the shop, were a-ked in the Fifth Magistrate's Court to show cause
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    Lock icon RELIGIOUS TALKS
    27 3 THE Singapore and Johore Bahru Inter-rclisious Organization's general meeting will be he d at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aue. 16. at 109/113, Bideford Road. Singapore.
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    Lock icon Clinics: A New One A Year
    137 3 Clinics: A New One A Year SINGAPORE City Council proposes to build 12 new Maternity and Infant Welfare Clinics in the City area, the City Health Officer, Dr. H. R. Morrison, told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Morrison said that the Council plans to erect one new clinic a year, at
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    40 3 S. S. FERGUSON was convicted in the Singapore First Traffic Court yesterday, of failing to furnish driving licence particulars on demand by a police officer at North Bridge Road, on Dec. 20, last year. Ptrgumn was fined $.*>o.
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    100 3 A RUBBER latex producing p >nt. which the Russians vatrd during the last World War. has been ordered i the Soviet Union by the S.ngapore Botanic Gardens. v The seeds of the plant have I ce ir« n ordered by the Assistant ctor of
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    268 3 They II Compete With Rest -Yap THERE is no fear of Singapore being flooded with inferior goods from Communist China, Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, organizer of the trade mission to Japan and China, said yesterday. Mr. Yap, who leaves for Hongkong on
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    Lock icon Indonesian MP Flies Home
    52 3 THE Speaker of the Indonesian Parliament, Mr. Sartono, who arrived in Singapore on Sunday with three other parliamentarians after a week's tour in Communist China, left for Jakarta by air yesterday. Ho was seen off by officials of the Indonesian Consulate in Singapore at the Paya
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    Lock icon SOLDIER FINED
    34 3 SONG Kah Wcc, 22. a private in the Federation Regiment stationed at Asahan, was vesterday fined $50 for causing hurt to Tan Ah Leng with a knife by Magistrate Mr. Ramanathan Ivcr.
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    Lock icon On World Tour
    80 3 pic. MR. AND MRS. A. S. Muirden of South America who are on a world tour, arrived in Singapore by air on Monday night from Saigon. They will spend two days shopping in the Colony before entraining for Seremban to meet their daughter, wife of Major R.
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    Lock icon Plans To Help Cripples In Asia
    163 3 A REGIONAL conference on rehabilitation work among disabled war veterans and crippled children for Asia is being proposed for next year, Dr. Radon Soeharso, officer of the Ministry of Health, Indonesian Government, announced in Singapore yesterday. Dr Soeharso is returning to Indonesia, after attending
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    Lock icon UMNO To Hold Mass Gathering
    167 3 THE Singapore division of the United Malays National Organization will hold a mass gathering at 36 East Coast Road on Aug. 26 on the occasion of the official opening of U.M.N.O. headquarters. General secretary of UMNO, Sycd Ahmad Jamalullil, told The Standard yesterday that members
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    219 3 Its Aid With No Strings Attached PRIMARY examinations for Malayans who wish to qualify as Fellows of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons will be held in Singapore under the Colombo Plan, the Australian Minister for External Affairs. Mr. R. G. Casey, declared in Singapore yesterday. Mr Casey said a
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    Lock icon Pirate' Cabs Discussion
    62 3 A FOUR-MAN- delegation of the Singapore Hire Car Association will meet the Minister for Communication and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, to explain taxi owners' views on Government's refusal to introduce a new law curbing "pirate" taxi operation in the City. A decision to this cfTect was taken
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    Lock icon Sarawak Makes Sulpha Pills For Its Own Use
    142 3 KUCHING, Tucs. The General Hospital here has set up a medicinal tablet manufacturing department, to meet the demand and speed up distribution of storks throughout Sarawak, a Government release stated. The Government Pharmaceutical Chemist, Mr. R. Sturgess, said that today the need
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    Lock icon Family Reunion
    44 3 A HAPPY Mr. I. K. Harris I of the Chief Engineers De- I partment. Naval Base. Sin- I gaporc, with his wife and I two children, Yvonne and David, whom he met .on their arrival from Britain by the Canton Standard pic.
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    Lock icon COLONY SEEKS CANCER EXPERTS
    183 3 THE Singapore Government has advertised overseas for two radio-therapy specialists in order to expand facilities for the treatment of cancer in the Colony The Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Health, Dr. R. H. Bland, told The Standard yesterday that there was a short supply, the
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    Lock icon VOTING FOR NEW BISHOP
    70 3 FORTY-SIX delegates from all over South-east Asia, now In Singapore attending the Quadrennial Conference of the Methodist Church, will begin balloting for the new Bishop this morning. The new prelate will succeed Bishop Raymond L. Archer who will retire at the close of the conference which
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    Lock icon OFFICERS PROMOTED
    50 3 THE Government yesterday announced the following piomotions of officers in the Singapore Military Forces from the rank of second-lieutenant: Ee Tean Chye; Wong Geok Seam; Bobby Kwarf Eng Kwce; Low Peng Hai; Chua Cheng Whye; Gulam Mohamed Sadick; Malcolm Peter Hyder; Lim Soo Howe; Frankie Tan Boon Kock.
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    Lock icon FLIGHT TRAINING
    26 3 ROYAL Air Force fighter pilots in Venom jet aircraft will use Paya Lebar landing strip in short intervals tomorrow and Friday for flight training.
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    Lock icon 'Get Back To Work Or Lose Your Jobs'
    249 4 'Get Back To Work Or Lose Your Jobs' Municipality Moves To End Bus Strike PENANG, Tucs. Any Municipal bus driver or conductor who has not returned to work by noon on Monday, Aug. 20, will be considered as having voluntarily resigned his job. This notice was given to striking busmen
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    Lock icon Iban Chief Will Help To Make A Film
    109 4 WHEN Keris Film Productions of Singapore begins shooting of its latest film, "Virgin of the Jungle'' adapted from the Malay novel. "Gadis Rimba" in Borneo next month, a full-blood Iban chief will help supervise the shooting. The chief. Temcnggong Jugah, of Kapit.
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    Lock icon Off To The Big Town... With UMNO As Friend
    150 4 Off To The Big Town With UMNO As Friend KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The Welfare Section of the United Malays National Organization will launch a country-wide campaign to help teen-agers who leave their kampongs to seek employment in the towns. Many youths, who left their kampongs with nothing more than shadowy
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    154 4 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib in Singapore yesterday were: buyers Sellers Spot (nom.) 1012 10ii Sept. No. 1 R.S.S 1021 102? No 2 R.S.S 98 98 i No! 3 R.S.S. 97 97i Tone: Inactive. STORE TIN The price ot cin on the local market yesterday was $3844
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    Lock icon Hearing. Set For Colony Millionaire
    147 4 THE trial of a Colony millionaire. Lim Kok Gin, has now been fixed for hearing in the Singapore First Criminal and District Court on Oct 8 and 9. The date was arrived at after Lim's counsel. Mr. A. P. Rajah, had consulted with the Deputy
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    Lock icon DIRTY BOOKS LEAD YOUNGSTERS ASTRAY
    196 4 OBSCENE books and films, mental and emotional handicaps, were some of the causes of juvenile delinquency. This was stated at a "Brains Trust on Youth Problems" at the Katong Branch of the Singapore Labour Front at Koon Seng Road, last night. Front secretary. Mr. Gerald
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    32 4 THE Y.M.C.A.. Orchard Road, will present its second Hi-Fi concert, with long-play-ing records of music by Bizet and Hammersteim, at 8.30 tonight. The concert is open to the public.
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    Lock icon Love Eggs For Your Breakfast?
    157 4 IF that egg placed before you on Friday morning looks anything like this. Don't try to crack the shell or your breakfast may look something like this The thin? to do is to handle it with care, as it <nakes you one of 500 lucky
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    Lock icon EXTORTION BID DENIED
    72 4 RANASINGHE Eugene pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted extortion in a Singapore court yesterday. It was alleged that by putting Abdullah Mohammed in fear of bodily injury he demanded $6.00 from him on Aug. 11 in Alexandra Road. He was also alleged to have asked
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    Lock icon Died During Jail Visit
    38 4 A SINGAPORE unemployed, Lim Ah Lens, 40, collapsed and died while visiting his nephew in the Outram Road Prison yesterday. The nephew is remanded in the jail on a criminal branch of trust charge.
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    Lock icon Alumni Association Office – Bearers
    188 4 Alumni Association Office Bearers THE following have been branch representatives —Mr elected office-bearers of the A. Durairatnam and Mr Syed Council of the Alumni Asso- Mohd. Alhady; Central ciation of the King Edward Branch representatives Dr VII College of Medicine and S.G Rajaram and Dr LS* the Faculty of Medicine,
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    Lock icon Onn Takes Sides In Suez Row
    141 4 Onn Takes Sides In Suez Row KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— ••Kritik," the Malay weekly newspaper edited b* Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar, chairman of Party Negara, warned today that if a third World War were to be waged on the Suez Canal dispute, "the Muslim population in Malaya would certainly sympathize
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    Lock icon A 30-Bed Ward For Hospital
    88 4 A 30-Bed Ward For Hospital A NEW 30-bed ward built at an estimated $170,000 at the Singapore Middleton Hospital will he opened in early October. The Standard was told yesterday. The Health Committee of the City Council has entrusted the City Health Officer. Dr. H. R. Morrison, with arrangements for
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    163 4 She's Ud On Trying To Cheat Rap CLAIMING she could get the favour of a Singapore Magistrate, a woman insurance agent attempted to obtain $2,500 frcm an opium addict, it was alleged in the Fifth Magistrate's Court yesterday. The woman, Mary Ng. was charged with attempting to obtain the money
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    Lock icon A Tool Of The Expats
    236 5 TEACHERS' BOSS CALLS RAZAK... KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The President of the United Chinese School Teachers' Associations, Mr. Lim Lien Geok, today alleged that the Federal Minister for Education, Dato Abdul Razak, was allowing himself to be used as a "scapegoat" by expatriate officers of his
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    93 5 PENANG, Tues.— Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman will meet U.M.N.O. members and officials at the U.M.N.O. Hall here, on Thursday night, lor intormal talks on the organization's present activities. The Tunku will arrive here on Thursday for an official inspection of military installations on the island,
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    Lock icon FINAL VIEWS ON RAZAK REPORT
    168 5 FINAL VIEWS ON RAZAK REPORT KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. More than 100 representatives of Chinese school teachers and managements today decided that a conference of all Chinese organizations in the Federation should be called to adopt the community's "final attitude" towards the Razak education report. This decision was taken at a
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    33 5 ONE of America's most distinguished water colourLsts, Mr. Dong Kingman. will give an exhibition of his watercolour paintings and drawings at the U.S.I.S. Library. Beach Street. Penang Aug 23 to 27.
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    301 5 Cheap Housing For The Ex-Servicemen PEN ANG, Tues. The executive committee of the tx-Seryices Association has approved the allocation of $100,000 to the settlement of Penang for the erection of low cost houses for needy ex-Servicemen, many of whom were living in cubicles for which they
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    24 5 THE Taxi Drivers' CoOperative Society of Butterworth, will hold its general meeting today, to consider running a taxi service, financed by the Society.
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    60 5 SHE'LL STUDY ARTS IN HK PRETTY Cheong Mce Tuck. 18, a former pupil of St. Mary's Girls* School, Kuala Lumpur, leaves for Hongkong this week for further studies. She will join the Hongkong: University for an Arts course. Miss Cheong is the niece of Kuala Lumpur rt'lfonaire philanthropist Mr. Cheong
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    90 5 IPOH, Tues. Mr. H. W. Beatty, an instructor in machine shop practice, lent to the Federation by the Canadian Government under the Colombo Plan for technical assistance, is being posted to the Junior Technical (Trade) School here. Mr. Beatty will be particularly concerned with improving training which
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    285 5 Mystery Note Asks 'Stamp Out Gangs' IPOH, Tues. An anonymous letter has been sent to all members of the Ipoh and Menglembu Town Council urging them to take "lightning steps" to stamp out gangsterism in this town. i This note, written in Chinese, was sent by a "section of the
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    162 5 SUNGEI PATANI. Tues. Baling Police chief clerk, K. Singaraveloo, 36. was acquitted and discharged in the Sessions Court today of criminal breach of trust of $10 on May 17. He was alleged to have misappropriated the money sent to the OCPD. Baling, as traffic
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    128 5 IPOH, Tues.— A 23-year-old •'incorrigible" thief, Chong Ngow. was today sentenced by Magistrate Che Abul Kadir bin Yusof to one year's jail for theft of two big baskets of "langsat" worth $35 from a fruitstall at Market Terrace on July 23. Chong had throughout the
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    115 5 4 YEARS' JAIL FOR INCEST IPOH, Tues. In sentencing a 43-year-old gardener. Yusof bin Lebai Kuning. to four years' imprisonment for incest. Mr. Justice Thomson said, at the High Court today, "You have behaved more like an animal than a human being. You have not only broken the laws of
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    110 5 MIC Annual Meeting Elections KUALA KANGSAR. Tues More than 200 Indians from Kati and Sauk New Village, about 15 miles from here, attended the annual general meeting of the Malayan Indian Congress, Sauk branch, at the Community Hall yesterday. The meeting was conducted by Mr. K. R. Sinathamby, secretary of
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    86 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— A new primary mission school for boys will be completed in Petaling Jaya in time to admit pupils for 1957. The Petaling Jaya Boys' School is now offering places to boys born in 1949 or 1950 to be admitted to Standard One.
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    194 5 -BORDERERS' UNLUCKY DAY Reds Walk Into 5 Ambushes And All Escape KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Yesterday. Aug. 13. turned out to be an unlucky day for the King's Own Scottish Borderers. They shot at Communist terrorists five times but missed every time The Borderers laid five ambushes in the Yong Peng
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    72 6 Picture by MR. LIM Lian Geok, president of the Pan-Malayan Chinese School Teachers' Association and senior teacher of the Kuala Lumpur Confucian School, was entertained to a tea party by his former students and old boys during his visit to Klang, recently. Mr. Lim is seen
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    238 6 Equal Treatment For All Teachers- KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Federation's Minister for Education, Dato Abdul Razak, today assured all teachers that they would be accepted into the new unified salary scale regardless of whether they took the special examination recommended in the Alliance Education Report. He told a group of
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    270 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. —The 'Ra7ak Report" on education wa? by far the best ever produced by the Federation Government and the Chinese should not condemn it in a hurry, Mr. Too Joon Hin», Assistant Minister for Education, told Chinese educationists here today Mr.
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    103 6 KAJANG, Tues.— Volunteers are urgently needed to assist the town fire services. The present strength of three firemen and a leading fireman, it is felt, is insufficient to fight any serious outbreak of fire in Ulu Langat Efforts of Che Abdul Malek. Deputy chairman of
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    36 6 HONGKONG, Aug. 14. Special Standard Service: Closing price of the Hongkong Exchange were: $16.10 to £1 Sterling; $6.***** to US$l; $1,835 to Malayan $1; 50.186 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $262.75 to a tael.
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    82 6 IPOH. Tues. An exhibition of primary school teaching aids will be held in the Government English School. Jalan Pasir Puteh here from Aug. 15 to 18. The exhibition is open to all tethers and the sreneral pub- tic It will be open at 2.30 p.m. to 5
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    241 6 Reds Are Flushed Out Of Their Caves One Killed, 2 Captured In Daring Assault IPOH, Tues. One Chinese terrorist wos killed and two others captured in a daring assault by a platoon of Malay soldiers in the Gunong Rapat area, some three miles from Ipoh The operation was mounted following
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    24 6 AN all-Malaya Tamils conference will be held in Ipoh on Aug. 25 and 26. at which about 150 Tamil associations are participating.
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    240 6 IPOH, Tues.— A retired chief clerk of the Drainage and Irrigation Department, Mohamed Wallie bin Abdul Samad, today repeatedly claimed he was not a Muslim when charged before Magistrate Che Abdul Kadir bin Yusof with three alleged offences under the State's Zakat and Fitrah
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    150 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The mutilated body of 60--year-old Cheong Tong, a beggar found in the Sentul Recreation Club field on March 15, had been strangled, Coroner's Court was told today. Several ribs in his body were broken, and three strips: of cloth were used in the
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    124 6 HALF HIS PAY TO HIS WIFE IPOH, Tues A Te.ofc Anson resident, Loong Lek Looi of Denison Road, was today ordered by Magistrate Che Abdul Kadir bin Yusof to pay a maintenance of $75 a month to his wife. Low Wei Chun, and her three children. The amount was said
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    78 6 IPOH. Tues. Over 101 students. Including 30 girls, undergraduates of the Junior Middle of the Chan Wa Public High School from Seremban, arrived in Ipoh yesterday on the first leg of their North Malaya educational tour. The students, who are making the tour In three buses,
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    193 7 A DRAGON WILL TRAVEL DOWN TIME NEW COAST ROAD HIGHWAY WILL HAVE I 30-FOOT MONUMENT 128-FOOT-LONG dragon, manned by 120 members of the Chinese Physical Culture Society, will perform at the ceremonial opening of Merdeka Bridge and Nicoll Highway Singapore's new coastal road linking Katong with the city on Friday
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    417 7 lit Was A Tense Trio! I Through Buez Canal Standard Shipping Reporter THE 16.000-ton P& O 2 liner Canton which enZ tered Port Said en route 2 to Singapore from Bri- tain a day after Nasser 2 took control of the Suei j* Canal arrived
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    162 7 THE Singapore Ministry oi Education has prepared the first draft of the new Education Ordinance, envisaged under the Government's White Paper on education. A spokesman of the Ministry said yesterday that the Ordinance is designed to ine.ude many of the recommendations contained in the AllParty
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    184 7 THE 24-day-old strike by 250 emplDyees of the Fred Waterhouse Company in Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, may end today. The Fred Waterhouse Employees' Union is considering certain counter-pro-posals made by the management and a definite decision will be taken today. The counter- proposals
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    59 7 SINGAPORE Police swooped down on a number of kamP°ngs m the Geylang/Katong areas at dawn yesterday and detained 15 men. The raids were conducted order to clean up the p *aa where a series of robberies took place recently. •he raid, however, failed tr unearth any
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    176 7 A POLICE officer in mufti can stop and search anyone without a warrant, if he suspects that the person has committed a crime. Singapore Police Secretary, Mr. Peter Clacue, said this yesterday in reply to a question from "a Standard reader. The reader alleged that
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    103 7 3 Govt. Men Guilty Of Graft KUALA LUMPUR, Tucs. Three public servants in the Federation were convicted for corruption last month and eighteen prosecutions against members of the public were concluded. A clerk of the Motor Vehicles Inspectorate, Kota Bahru, was gaoled for six months for accepting a $150 bribe.
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    211 7 WHOSE GAME IS HE PLAYING? SINGAPORE'S Unemployment Society yesterday hit out at the Labour Front organizing secretary. Mr. Gerald De Cruz, "for launching an unwarranted attack on a large section of the trade union movement.' In a statement issued and signed by the Society's secretary. Mr. C. V. Devan Nair,
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    309 7 HE TRAVELS THE WORLD IN SEARCH OF BEAUTY MR. PHILIPPE Halsman. ace photographer of America's mass-circulat-ing: periodical. "Life," yesterday narrowed down the field of seven candidates for the title of "Singapore s Most Beautiful Girl" to two. Mr. Halsman told The Standard: "I interviewed seven girls in the morning, two
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      352 8 JTEDERATION Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman has warned the Malayan Mining Employees Union against jeopardizing the whole economy and future development of Malaya by their strike decision. It is a grave warning and the Tunku meant every word he uttered— there must be no mistake about it.
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    782 8  - FIGURES And FACTS In The Suez Question WILLIAM BLUETT by JN arbitrarily attempting to annexe the Suez Canal, President Nasser is threatening not only the nations of the West but the whole trading world. Today trade is indivisible, as peace was once said to be. Cut or block a vital
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    958 8  - CATASTROPHE In Call J. HALCRO FERGUSON by. London )N K thousand people are feared to have been killed and more than twice that number injured, in an ammunition explosion in the city of Call, the capital of the Department of the Cauca, in the Republic of Colombia, in South America.
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    417 8  -  LAJOS LEDERER by nun JLUNDUN yHE most significant change in the Hung a r i a n Government reshuffle announced is the replacement of Dr. Erno Gero as first deputy Prime Minister by Mr. Istvan Hidas, a member of the Politburo. Dr. Gero, who succeeded the Stalinist
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    659 8  - The as it strikes me! ASTER GUNASEKERA rnHE latest soap-box in the field of Singapore politics is the Singapore UnemI ployment Society. And don't be fooled that it is nothing more than its name implies. Sure it is interested in the unemployed but not to help them face the problem.
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    391 9 The Dynamite Is Ready Dancing Major Tire At Us And Well Blow Suez Canal To The Skies LONDON, Aug 14 (UP). —Egypt's "Dancing Major" Solah Salem flew into London yesterday for the Suez conference and said with a broad smile that Egypt would blow up the Canal with dynamite if
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    112 9 JAILED FOR USING CARD MAGIC BERLIN. Aug. 14, (AP) A Communist court in East Germany has Jailed a 53-year-old wom^n for using "card magic" to influence people to flee West. According to the official Soviet Zone nevspaper "Neue Justiz," the fortune telle» told her customers that they were being hunted
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    165 9 Chi Did Not Resist Sex Acf WUERZBURG. Germany, Aug 14. (UP)— Two American soldiers admitted in court yesterday that they had sexual relations with a 15--year-old German girl whom they are charged with raping. A third of the seven Negro defendants in the trial by general court martial said he
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    195 9 Menzies Warns U.S. On Panama LONDON, Aug. 14 (UP) —Australia's Prime Minister Mr. R. G. Menzies warned the United States last night that Panama has just as much right to seize the Panama Canal as Egypt had in nationalizing the Suez. But "international law would be a sham" if such
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    66 9 CAIRO, Aug. 14 (AP) Egyptian police on Monday checked names and addresses of all British citizens living in Alexandria. Egypt's main seaport, a British Embassy spokesman said. reason for the check was not known. So far no check of British citizens living in Cairo has been started.
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    104 9 Stevenson, Harriman In Running CHICAGO. Aug. 14. (AP). The U.S. Democratic Party opened its convention yesterday with the customary predictions of a sweeping victory in sight for November, but Democrats were uncertain over who is the man to lead them to it. Adlai Stevenson was out in front by a
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      54 9 LONDON, Aug. 14 <AP>— The Welsh G^ a "j« ba n was ordered to play before the start 01 me «m j Force cricket match yesterday. And that is just what they did to an empty ground. Rain kept spectators away, but the orders said nlav.
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      36 9 WASHINGTON. Aug. 14 (^P) The U.S Justice Department yesterday announced it will no longer oppose demands by provenly loyal west coast Nisei (Americanborn Japanese) for restoration of citizenship they renounced during Word War 11.
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      28 9 NEW DELHI. Aug. 14 (UP) A four-man Communist Chinese delegation left here by train for Katmandu yesterday to negotiate a trade and cultural treaty with NeDal.
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      32 9 KAMPALA. Uganda. Aug. 14 (AP) The drive against Western Uganda's man-eating lion menace was stepped up today with the drafting or nve more African game guards into the Area.
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      43 9 BOGOTA (Colombia), Aug. 14 (UP) Jose Tabares Escobar won a US$4,OOO lottery prize recently and hid the money from his wife i/.side an old mattress. His wife burned the mattress today "because it was too old and was in my way."
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    147 9 LONDON. Aug. H (AP)A blind girl uncovered a murder yesterday and called Scotland Yard. Catherine Birch. 22. a student at the Royal Institute for the Blind, was awakened by cries of her landlady and spran 8 from bed She was pushed on the stairs and
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    104 9 HONOLULU, Aug. 14 < AP> Airman Jackson H. Kilgore. who disclosed that the May H-bomb missed its target during recent atomic tests at Lniwetok. has been left off with a reprimand. The announcement came yesterday from Maj. Gen. Sory Smith. Pacific Air Force commander. Kilgore,
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    191 9 ALGIERS, Aug. 14 (UP)— Nationalist rebels, dealing the French army the biggest blow of the 21 monthlong insurrection, shot down 40 soldiers in an ambush south of Algiers, it was announced yesterday. Twenty soldiers were killed and 20 wounded in the daring rebel attack near
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    57 9 photo. AT the Harriman forPresident headquarters in the Hilton Hotel at Chicago on Aug. 10, Dr. Herwan N. Bundersen, President of the Chicago Board of Health, administers polio shots to campaign workers. Medical workers fear the Chicago polio outbreak will reach the epidemic stage, and city
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    229 9 LONDON, Aug. 14 (AP) The British Labour Party last night demanded that Prime Minister Anthony Eden publicly guarantee Uiat Britain will not attack Egypt over the Suez Canal dispute. The Party's high command demanded the Premier to recall Parliament immediately after the 22-nation London
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    168 9 TORQUAY. South Devon. Aug 14 (Reuten A vicar b having an 80-year-old "haunted organ" removed from his church here in the hope that the ghost which sometimes plays it will go. too. The Rev Anthony Rouse has twice held special exorcism services in St. Johns
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    294 10 Britain To Hold Trial Series In South Australia SYDNEY, Aug. 14 (Reuter)— Britain will set off four atomic explosions in the South Australian desert next month. One of them will be a "baby" weapon dropped from a Valiant bomber. Sir William Penney. Director of the British
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    154 10 RUSSIA DENIES HOLDMG AIRMEN MOSCOW. Aug. 14 (AP)— Russia denied today that it is detaining any U.S. Air Force or Navy fliers from planes shot down by Soviet pilots. The denial was in a note to the American Embassy from the Soviet Foreign Ministry. It replied to a U.S. note
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    101 10 'NeW Look' Catches On In Africa BANGUI. Übangi-Sharl, Aug. 14 (AP) Native women were tossing aside their drab loincloths yesterday and wiggling into bright Western-style dresses as a fashion revolution swept through this French Equatorial Africa city. The dresses were made of a silken material of lively colours, compared with
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    87 10 AHMEDABAD. India, Aug. 14 (UP) More than 100 demonstrators were arrested today when they marched to lay wreaths near Congress House in homage to those killed last week in riots against the formation of a bilingual Bombay state. Police fired on a mob near Shapore when
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    138 10 MOSCOW, Aug. 14 (Reuter) Marshal Semyon Zhavoro>iiov, chief of the Soviet State airline Aeroflot, is expected to visit London soon for talks on the establishment of a direct air-link between London and Moscow, diplomatic sources said. In June an authoritative source in London said an invitation to
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    52 10 LONDON, Aug. 14 (Reuter) British newspapers will get a larger newspaper ration as from next Sunday Aug. 19. Announcing this yesterday the Newsprint Rationing Committee said the board of trade had issued in order for a new rationing period to last from Aug. 19 to
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    122 10 OXFORD, England, Aug. 14 (AP) Author Joyce Cary is writing a new book with death looking over his shoulder. The 67-year-old writer has confided to friends the verdict of his doctors their belief he is doomed to die within two years, maybe less. He
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    384 11 SYDNEY. AMERICA has its USS64.- 990 question, but \u>tr;ilia has its lotteries. Here, with less brains bat more luck, you can win up to i ssi 100.000 iv:.)OO.0M). Already endowed with an International reputation as heavy and ready gamblers, Australians now dig deeper into their pockets
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    135 12 Trade Through Suez Figures By Casey BEFORE he left Singapore by air yesterday for London to attend the international conference on the Suez Canal, the Australian Minister for External Affairs. Mr. R. G. Casey, gave the following figures showing the percentage of the total trade of South of Suez countries
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    181 12 FED. IMPORTS 1,200 TONS OF CHINA RICE FEDERATION dealers have recently imported a total of 1,200 tons rice from Whampoa, South China. The rice is being marketed in Kuala Lumpur and Penang at $24.50 per picul. This is cheaper than Siam 1 rice. Prices of Siam rice vary from $32
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    128 12 RUBBER RISES CENT SINGAPORE rubber prices closed i cent above Monday, first grade rubber for September shipment closing at 51.02J per lb. on an inactive market. The market was steadier in the morning, prices opening at 51.02J and then moving up to $1,021. Selling brought prices down to the opening
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    85 12 AN Overseas Executive of Dexion Ltd. of London, manufacturers of a new constructional material, Mr. Norman Gilbertson, will visit Singapore from Aug. 21 to Sept. 9, in the course of a Far East tour. Object of his visit is to consolidate the already considerable business that is being
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    130 12 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copra August $274 (nominal) coconut oil (bulk) $41} sellers; coconut oil (drums) $43i sellers; Muntok white pepper $126; Sarawak while $125; Special Sarawak black $89. Singapore Copra Association closing prices: Straits mixed copra: August $26| buyers. $26}
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    434 12 akmljsdkfjkdsjflk A PRICE below 30 cents (US) appears to provide too little natural rubber to meet demand, a U.S. Department of Commerce publication says. An article in the latest issue of the Chemical and Rubber Industry Report says the U.S. rubber
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    172 12 Bangkok. Colombo. He will visit Athens on his way back. According to a spokesman Diethelm Co. Ltd., the local agents, Dexion is a slotted metal angle available either steel or aluminium alloy with which almost anything can be built. It is an extremely tough material which can be cut
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    123 12 IN July Britain's trade gap the excess of imports over exports narrowed. Excess of imports was £44.300,000, £6£ million less than the monthly average in the first half of 1956 and nearly £28 million less than the monthly rate for 1955 as a whole. Announcing this in
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    157 12 MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: 8.8. Pet 53/- overnight; Fed. Disp. $2.05 cb; F. &N. prefs $5 10; Gammon 51.91J: M. Breweries $2.85 to $2.87i; M. Cement $1.75: M. Colls $1.02. $1.02i: Metal Box $1.47!. $1.50: Cold Storage $1.45; Straits Steamship $14; S. Times
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    135 12 ALL sections of the Malayan share market were again steady and prices in several counters improved slightly. Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday reported the following price changes: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Honekon? Bank (HK Reg.) 880.00 900.00 xd Malayan Cement 1 62 1 65 Afeta] Box 1 45 I so
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    144 12 And Now Man-made Coffee A DUTCH industrialist said in Zoetermeer. Holland that he is now mass producing a secret formula "man-made" coffee which may well take over the world market. Industrialist A. Van Driel said at his factory a few miles from The Hague that the synthetic "coffee" bean he
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    150 12 U.S. Market For Rice To Expand THE U.S. Agriculture L partment has revealed a programme to develop foreicn markets for U.S. rice. An announcement said the Department and the U.S. Re Export Development Assort, tion, Inc.. of New Orleans who signed an agreement "to mcrease the demand for U.S. net
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    91 12 MALAYAN rubber imports during July amounted to 38,582 tons, the highest for one year, according to official statistics. The quantity cf rubber imported for the first six months of this year amounted to 201,804 tons compared with 216.309 tons for the same period of 1955. Of
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    41 12 NEW YORK. Aug. 13 fDF»-Dow-Jones closing averages: STOCKS: 30 Industrials 514 40 20 Rails }*«<n 15 Utilities 70 49 65 Stocks 1815.) BONDS: 40 Bonds 94.72 The Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index (1924-2fi average equals 100) closed at 161.16.
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    398 14  - Cheona-sams wooed these three brave lovelies Terry Pillay THIS IS THEIR 'WORK' By THREE girls who earn their living in one of the most hazardous professions in the world acrobatics on skates —still have the ordinary feminine vanity which makes them excited over clothes, and especially in this case, Oriental
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    527 14  - FOR THE LITTLE Won LANE „By,v Writing from Kuala Lumpur TJOW many times have you pint-sized girls and Malaya simply oozes with them— looked with envy at the soignee models in fashion journals, and sighed for those extra inches? All the dress designers in the past seem to have been
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    242 15 Reef Fans Not Pleased With Kuts MOSCOW, Aug. 14,1 (AD Vladimir Kuts Drought bitter disappoint- 1 jnent to Russian sports < followers yesterday when be used up too much of his strength in an opening mile and failed by more than six seconds to set a j ftorld record in
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    61 15 TORONTO, Aug. 14 (AP) Britain's Brenda Fisher yesterday wrested the queenly swimming crown of Lake Ontario from Canada's Marilyn Bell by crossing the 32-mile stretch from Niagara-on-the-lake in 18 hours 51 minutes, cutting two hours and five minutes from the Toronto girl's time. Brenda thus became
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    62 15 Form Grace Mrs. Pat Keller McCormick displays the form that carried her to Olympic three metre and 10 metre diving titles in 1952, as she practises at Brennan Pools. Detroit, Michigan, during: Olympic Trials there recenHy. She added the one metre, three metre and 10 metre crowns to her championship
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    69 15 TAIPING. Tues. Displaying all round superiority, REME beat 95 Field Battery 4-0 in the semi-final of the annual K.O. soccer competition for the Bayley Cup. After a goalless first half. REME showed their form and their centreforward Dallas, netted three goals in a row.
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    100 15 Cow Gate Soccer Draw IPOH, Tue?.— Following is the draw for the Perak Amateur Football Association's Cow and Gate Cup junior division knockout soccer competition which starts on Friday. TOP SECTION Kinta Indians vs. Bawan Putra (PCRC ground Sat.), Tamilians vs. PCRC (Coronation Padang Sat.f Cheng Wah vs. Detention Camp
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    663 15  - CONSIDER YOUR VERDICT! BRIAN CHAPMAN What Is This Old Trafford OR The Old Bailey? By LONDON, Tucs. SAY, what is this? Old Trafford or the Old Bailey? Leading questions, charges and countercharges, felonies and misdemeanours are flying through the air like dust. The cricket lawyers briefs are as thick on
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    433 15 Sweep Final Three NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (AP)— Have the Cincinnati Redlegs, who figured "to go as far as our pitching will carry us," reached the end of the line? It was manager Birdie TebbeHs who tagged his pitching the big "If" in the National League
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    537 16  -  WINDSOR LAD Track work A t K.L. livrvals By KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. ALL WELL, a newcomer from trainer "Pop" Sleigh's stable, showed promise of an early win when he went as well as Great Saxon, a Class Two horse, in a trial this morning. Breaking
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    75 16 DERBY. Au£. 14 (Reuter) —The Australians won an exciting victory against Derbyshire here today by 57 runs. It was their third successive win against a county side Glamorgan and Warwickshire were earlier victims and their fourth in all against a county team. Gloucestershire had been beaten earlier.
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    61 16 BIG WINS IN COUNTY CRICKET LONDON. Aug. 14 (Reuter)— Cricket results: At Cheltenham. Sussex beat Gloucestershire by ten wickets. Sussex 2H4 and 14 for no wicket. Gloucestershire 103 and 174. Graveney 53. Marlar seven for 87 At Oval. Surrey beat Middlesex by seven wickets. Middlesex 69 arA secondly 188. W
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    98 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. nival is Malacca, who are unable Eight states will take part in the to tak Part but will send tour first ever Malayan Hockey Fede- pl^ rs for the tournament ration', carnival which will be two^eSS wllh^o^^^^S held here from Aug. 26 to Sept.
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    36 16 By Bus, in cars and by inn, the athletes converge on Penang, venue of the Malayan Games on Friday and Saturday, THE Singapore contingent for the Games which left by bus yesterday morning.
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    352 16 A FRANTIC hunt for the Malayan 80 metres hurdles champion, Teng Pei Wah, by Singapore Amateur Athletic Association officials yesterday delayed the departure, by nearly an hour, of the Singapore contingent for the Malayan Games in Penang on Friday and Saturday. Pei Wah was
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    90 16 SELANGOR'S 41 athletes second biggest in the Malayan championships leave by cars today for Penang from the Majestic Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Before the departure, the Mentri Besai- of Selangor, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Haji Abdul Majid, will present the state flag to
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    211 16 $4,000 Gold Cup For Fastest Horse IPOH. Tues. A $4,000 gold trophy will be the prize for Malaya's champion sprint horse at the Sultan's Gold Vase meeting of the Perak Turf Club on Sept. 22, 26 and 29. Only class I and II horses are catered for in this "classic'"
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    125 16 COSMOS Sports Club beat Katong Sports Club by three goals to nil in a SAFA Div. 3A league soccer match played at -Geylang StadiXim yesterday. Cosmos held complete superiority throughout, and should have won by a wider margin. Both their goals were scored, following handling infringements. Cosmos
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    105 16 RAOC CRICKETERS THE learn to represent Royal Army Ordnance Corps against R.A.P.C. in a Combined Services Cricket Association league match to be played at Nee Soon at 2 p.m. today will be chosen from the following: Major Maguire (221 Veh Bn). Major Mackenzie (3 BOD). Major Hancock (3 BOD). Maior
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    400 16 Asia Foundation Provides Van For Kelantan's Athletes KELAXTAN's contingent, comprising seven athletes yesterday left Kota Bharu by van for the 360 miles trip from Kuala Lipis to Penang. With Sidique Merican at the wheel. Kelantan"s contingent, are making the journey with two stops betore they reach Penang today. Kelantans chances
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    76 16 Today's Sport SOCCER SBHFA League Cup: Jacks vs. Mansfield at Farrer Park; United Engineers vs. Straits Trading at Farrer Park; Hongkong Bank 'A' vs. Ford Motors at Farrer Park: Borneo Co. vs Henry Waugh at Farrer Park; Shell 'B' m. Malayan Airways at Shell. Malay Schools' competition: Tanah Merah vs
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    97 16 Gan Gets The Green Light AN application by Gan Eng Teck for permission to tour the Federation with the Tiger Swimming team has been sanctioned by the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association at an emergency meeting held at the Chinese Swimming Club yesterday. The Tigers' water-polo teams will leave Singa pore
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    328 16 MARINE Department, led by their inside right Ibrahim Hj. Mansoor, who netted twice in each hall, went on a goal getting spree and routed Pulau Brani United 9-0 in the SAFA Senior Cuptie at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. In fact, with the exception
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    105 16 Malayan Waterski C'ships THE Malayan Waterski Association will hold their second annual championships at Pasir Ris on Sunday. August 26. The programme will consist of the following events: Novices slalom (men). Novices jump (men women). Open slalom (women*. Open Slalom (men). Open trick competition for men and women. Mr. Lionel
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    37 16 TELOK ANSON. Tugs. Three goals down in the first fifteen minutes. Lower Perak Malays put up a grand performance to beat the Tapah Malays 6-3 in the Raja Muda Cup soccer fixture here on Sunday.
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    139 16 Sports Letter Sir; A pat on the back tot Kenneth Toft, your spor.s reporter, for tiying to encourage boxing in schools. As an all-rounder. I can safely say that boxing is not &t all dangerous when compared to rugger, hockey, and football. It is high time Colony Schools
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