Singapore Standard, 21 August 1956

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    36 1 Singapore TIGER Standard I STANDARD P 0 L I C f ***** (5 liaesT 2400 !t m FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 2811 2414 Vol. VII. No. 50 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1956 14 i;AGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon Guardian Angels' Bore Wings Of The Law
    252 1  -  BOB PERIES By Tees Watched The Thieves WHILE a Singapore woman knelt m prayer at Sunday Mass m the Good Shepherd Cathedral, evil minds m the Church compound were plotting to rob her. But watching the plotters were her "guardian angels" —the Singapore
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    Lock icon Man Dies In Death River' Plunge
    101 1 Man Dies In Death River' Plunge TELOK ANSON. Mon. A young man was killed and three others had a miraculous escape when a car plunged into the Sungei Mati (Death River) at the seventh mile, Chengkat Jong Road, here last night. The car was travelling tow ards Bidor with four
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    Lock icon Pilots Killed
    27 1 MANILA. Aug. 20 (AP) I^vo Philippine Air Force Mustangs collided m flight ath of Manila today. The .:pp*ne News Service said ntlnts wrr* 4 killed.
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    Lock icon Babies Are Burnt To Death
    41 1 MITO. Japan. Aug. 20 (AP) Three babies were burnt to death last nlsht m a fire near Daigo town, approximately 100 miles north ot Tokyo. The Daigo town police said the fire destroyed five farm houses.
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    Lock icon Gani's Accuser Shifted
    75 1 JAKARTA. Aug. 20 (UP) Indonesia's deputy Chief of Staff of the Army who split with Prime Minis--••mmidiojo over th« Abdulgani affairs was .ito. oaiciaily today to hia new command m North Sumatra. Col. Zulkifli Lubis had strongly criticized the prime minister for defending Foreign Minister Roeslan Abdul
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    Lock icon Grounded Ship Is Refloated
    163 1 THE merchant ship Metal Trader which has been aground off the West Coast of Johore since Friday night, was refloated shortly after 10 o'clock last night. It is now being towed by the Royal Navy tug Enigma back to Singapore where it is expected to arrive
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    Lock icon India Proposes New Plan For Suez Canal
    236 1 Falls Far Short Of Wests Demands LONDON, Aug. 20 (UP) India proposed a new Suez plan today giving Egypt full rights to own and operate the Suez Canal aided by a consultative body 1 of user nations with mere advisory functions. The plan
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    Lock icon DULLES PUTS FORWARD TREATY IDEA
    161 1 DULLES PUTS FORWARD TREATY IDEA LONDON. Aug. 20 (Reuter) The U.S. Secretary of State. Mr. John Foster Dulles tabled an amended declaration on the control of the Suez Canal at today's conference. The amended version dropped the reference to an "international board" to run the Canal and replaced this with
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    Lock icon Police Hold 50 Strikers
    94 1 PENANG, Mon. Fifty strikers of the Red Omnibus Bus Company were arrested by the Police m Bagan Serai. Perak, this morning. It was alleged that the men. who were among 100 employees who went on strike today, prostrated themselves on the road m front of the
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    Lock icon Snap Strike In Colombo
    51 1 COLOMBO. Aug. 20 (Reuter) A lightning strike of nearly 4 0 0 0 labourers, lightermen and stevedores paralysed the working of Colombo port today. The men suddenly struck work demanding double pay for working today which, though not a holiday for the port, is a public
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    Lock icon Nehru Backs Mao's Plan
    70 1 Nehru Backs Mao' s Plan NEW DELHI. Aug. 20 (UP) A Communist Chinese intrusion into Indian territory was reported here today and Premier Jawaharlal Nehru said India was ready to accept a Chinese proposal that the disputed area be "neutralized". The disclosure was the second Chinese penetration into free South
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    Lock icon They're Last To Leave
    34 1 CAIRO. Aug. 20 <UP) The last group of families of Suez Canal Company employees was due to leave Ismailia by flying-boat today bringing the total cf evacuated persons to 884.
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    Lock icon Villagers Start Tale Of Reincarnation
    187 1 BUDDHA FROM A ROCK? SAIGON, Aug. 20, (UP) A stone that plunged down a mountainside and split into two pieces touched off a village rumour that Gautama Buddha was born again. Reports of Lord Buddha's reincarnation swept through Chaudoc. a South Vietnam community on the
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    Lock icon CITY TO ASK FOR TROOPS
    393 1 IF 400 GAS MEN STRIKE TONIGHT SINGAPORE City Council may seek the aid of troops to run its Kallang gas works, if 400 Gas Department employees strike at midnight tonight. The acting City President, Mr. R. Middleton-Smith, told The Standard last night the Council had
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    Lock icon She's 26 Today
    69 1 MADE m connection, with her 26th birthday, which is today, this portrait of Princess Margaret was taken by Cecil Beaton m the drawing room of Clarence House, the Princess's London residence. The Princess wears a one-strap evening dress of pink tulle embroidered with flowers and sequins, elaborate
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    Lock icon Jordan Steps Up Defence
    54 1 AMMAN. Aug. 20 ((Reuter) The Jordanian Government has allocated £100.000 sterling for civil defence m Jordan, including the building of air raid shelters. At the same time it was reported that a group of Arab Legion officers and engineers left here today for Cairo and Damascus
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    Lock icon Founder Citizens Corps Urged
    263 2 Founder Citizens Corps Urged KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar, President of Party Negara, today suggested to the Reid Commission that m the framing of Malaya's new constitution, it should consider making provisions for a corps of "founder citizens." He defined them as "those who wculd be true
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    28 2 MR. JJ. P. DAVIES end Inche Abdul Hamid Myriin P;tchay have been named members of the Sungei Patani Town Council for three years from Aug, 7.
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    Lock icon 14 Vie For information Job
    85 2 14 Vie For information Job KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A joint Public Services Commission of the Federation and Singapore will tomorrow interview 14 applicants for the post of Information Officer on the staff of the Commissioner for Malaya m the United Kingdom. The Standard was told that these 14 were selected
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    Lock icon Sorry Picture Of Britain—As Seen By Onn
    396 2 Sorry Picture Of Britain— As Seen By Onn Preserve Malay States, He Says Positive Policy Is Wanted KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. President of the Party Negara, Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar, charged the British Government today with "collaborating m the denationalization of the Malay states and of the Malays, to whom
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    Lock icon Dutch Quartet Arrives
    114 2 A QUARTET of Dutch singers who will appear m the forthcoming Mozart bicentenary performances, to be held m the Colony, arrived from Britain by BOAC plane, yesterday. The Quartet which will also present a gala concert on Aug. 25 is composed of (left to right, seated) Aaijc
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    Lock icon Miners Present Five Demands
    151 2 KUANTAN Sat.— The Mining Employees Union of the largest tin mining company m the Far East, at Sungei Lembing, near here, has presented five de- mands to its employers. These are: 0 Reinstatement of eight men and two women employejes dismissed on July 9. 0 Payment
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    Lock icon Rubber Roads For Singapore
    105 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malayan rubber producers have scored their first major victory m their world wide campaign for more rubberised roads. The first success has been scored m Singapore where the Director of Public Works had laid down a policy of rubber surfaces for all future
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    Lock icon Three Nominated To Settlement Council
    227 2 PENANG. Mon.— A bank compradore, a secretary of an insurance company and a stenographer m the Municipality have been nominated members of the Settlement Council here They are Mr. Koh Sin Hock, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Mr. P. G. S. Nair, of
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    Lock icon TOWN'S BID TO TURN WHITE'
    58 2 SEREMBAN, Mon. The people of Gemas have formed a n Anti-Communist Society m their all-out effort to turn their district into a "White" area. At a meeting yesterday of all the communities, the District Officer of Tampin, Inche Nor bin Zainal, appealed to the people
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    Lock icon Ticket Sellers Charged
    66 2 MALACCA, Mon. Chin Chu. 12. and Lee Tea Boh 23. were charged m the Magistrate's Court here today with Wiling tickets for the Agricultural Show near the show grounds yesterday. Chin Chu was allowed bail of $100 and his case was transferred to the Juvenile Court for
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    Lock icon Three Benefits Of Co-op Societies
    131 2 ALOR STAR. Mon.—Cooperative societies would provide Malays with the means to improve their economic and social standing. Inche Murad bin Mohamed. assistant Commissioner for Co-operative Development, said here today. He was addressing committee members of co-operative organizations m the Kuala Muda and Yen districts, during
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    Lock icon Terrorist Kills 'Not Good Enough For Merdekd
    182 2 Terrorist Kills 'Not Good Enough For Merdekd LONDON, Aug. 20 (Reuter) The Times today suggested that it is essential to reduce the number of terrorists m Malaya still further during the nexttwelve months if an independent Malaya is to have anything like a peaceful start. This independent daily was commenting
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    Lock icon Crackshots The Key To End Of Crisis
    203 2 Crackshots The Key To End Of Crisis KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Federation's Director of Operations, Lieut.Gen. R. H. Bower, said m his first major speech to the troops today that accurate shooting and close liaison with the people are the "key" to the end of Malaya's costly Emergency. He said
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    39 2 HOXGKONG. Aug. M. Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: 51 5 92 to £1 Sterling; $6.03 to I 51. 837 to Malayan $1; $0.19^3 to one Indonesian Rupixh; Gold $261,875 to a tael.
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    Lock icon Private Jailed For Stabbing HE WENT LOOKING FOR A FIGHT
    305 2 Private Jailed For Stabbing HE WENT LOOKING FOR A FIGHT PRIVATE James Peter Gallagher, 19. of the King's Own Scottish Borderers' was sentenced m Singapore yesterday, by a General Court Martial to five years' jail for stabbing another soldier. In addition, Gallagher was ordered to be discharged from the Army
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    Lock icon Advice To Farmers
    28 2 CAMERON HIGHLANDS Mon.— The War Executive Committee has ordered all vegetables growers m the area to carry with them their farming licences into the fields.
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    Lock icon FOOD BAN AREA
    37 2 THE Assistant Controller of Supplies. Alor Star. Mr. E. Field has gazetted the area bounded by Province Wellesley border and the wired perimeter of Lunas as a food restricted area ss from Aug. 12.
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    153 2 CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) :'n Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot (nom.) 97J 98 Sept. No. 1 R.S.S. 981 98^ No. 2 R.S.S. 951 M] No. 3 R.S.S. 941 Ml Tone: Quiet and slightly easier. SPORE TIN The price of tin on the local market yrsterray
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    Lock icon Farm Show Is Over
    54 2 MALACCA, Mon.— The annual Agricultural and Show ended last night after three successful days. More than 50,000 people had visited the fair. Great interest was shown m the floral section m which were displayed carnations spc flown from England and Ho.land. The armed forces gave a
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    Lock icon MEDICINE IS HER FIRST LOVE
    125 3 ALTHOUGH her father is the headmaster of a Singapore school, the teaching profession holds no fascination for Irene Tan. 19. Medicine is her first love, and tonight. Irene, second daughter of Mr. Tan Lye Whatt. Acting Principal of St. Andrew's School, is leaving for a
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    Lock icon Now He Can Co To Jail In Peace
    140 3 Court Will Renew Trisha Licence A SINGAPORE magistrate assured a trisha rider that he would personally attend to the renewal of his licence while he served his term m jail. Seah It May pleaded guilty to a charge of being a runner
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    109 3 NOT ENOUGH FACILITIES FOR SCIENCE THE Singapore Minister for Education. Mr. Chew Swee Kee said yesterday there was a lack of facilities for the study of Science at the Admiralty Asian school. (Canberra School), at the Naval Base. However, he promised that when his Ministry took over -chool. he would
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    Lock icon LECTURES ON HOPE
    32 3 A SERIES of lectures by American Evangelist Mr. James L. Pogue. on the theme "Hope for these Times." has begun at the new Seventh Day Adventist Church, Johore B.\hru.
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    Lock icon Peacemakers' Get Hurt
    57 3 A WOMAN and her brother were injured when they attempted to intercede m a quarrel m a kampong off Upper Serangoon Read, Singapore, yesterday. The woman. Chia Cheng Lai. 26. received a wound on her shoulder Her brother. Chia Cheng Joon. 22. was wounded on the head.
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    Lock icon EX-COLONY TRADER FACES FRAUD CHARGES
    303 3 After 4 Years, It Is Hard To Find Bail, Court Told THE arrest of a former Singapore businessman m Hongkong last week had its sequel m a Singapore court yesterday when two charges of fraud were preferred against John Martin. Martin, a former managing director
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    Lock icon Pep Talks For UMNO Branch Men
    155 3 Pep Talks For UMNO Branch Men ALL branch leaders of the Singapore division of the United Malays National Organization will gather at thp residence of U.M.N.O. chairman, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat. on Aug. 26 to hear talks on the situation m Malaya. Syed Harun Alhabshl. local U.M.N.O. publicity
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    Lock icon MAN PLEADS GUILTY BUT JUDGE REJECTS PLEA
    206 3 Dentist' Was Not Registered: Court Told A MOBILE Police patrol came upon a "dentist" with a man whose bad tooth he had earlier extracted, DSP R. R amakrishnan, prosecuting, told a SingayesterdavH Investigations by the Police, added the Prosecuting Officer, revealed that the
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    Lock icon TEACHER BRIDE
    73 3 MR. AND MRS. Jogindar Singh cut their wedding cake, at a reception at the Celestial Dance Hall m Ipoh. after they were married on Sunday. The bride, the former Miss Joginder Kaur. a Kirkby-trained teacher attached to the Ipoh Convent, is a daughter of Mr. Sarmukh Singh, a
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    Lock icon Negligent Drivers Fined $350
    105 3 Negligent Drivers Fined $350 SINGAPORE school-teacher. Harbajan Singh Dillion. and a student, Harban Singh Toor, were fined $350 each and were disqualified from driving for a year m a Colony Traffic Court yesterday. Magistrate Mr. Tan Bocn Teik, before imposing the fine, said that, m the light of the evidence
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    34 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Mr. R. H. Hickling. Legal Adviser. Johore, will give a talk on "Newspaper Law." to members of the Johore Bahru Rotary Club at its tea meeting tomorrow afternoon
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    Lock icon ADDICTS CAUGHT IN THE ACT
    159 3 A RAID by a police party headed by inspector L. Williams led to the arrest of five persons who were caught m the act of doping themselves with morphine with a hypodermic syringe m Weld Road, a Sinqnpore Court was told yesterday. In the dock
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    Lock icon An Added $1.4 Mil. Is Requested
    76 3 MALACCA, Mon. A bill was gazetted today to make supplementary provisions for public Service m the Settlement for 1955 amounting to $1,456,846.92. The bill will be tabled before the Settlement Council at its next meeting. The highest expenditure for the year was for the
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    Lock icon DREDGE LOSES $4,000 CABLES
    37 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The store of the Sungei Way Tin Dredge, eight miies from Kuala Lumpur. w a s broken into last night and $4,000 worth of copper cables stolen. Police are investigating.
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    Lock icon The New Fire Engines Are Light, Efficient & Lasting costs $38,000 TO BUILD
    220 3 The New Fire Engines Are Light, Efficient Lasting costs $38,000 TO BUILD THREE of Singapore's fleet of fire engines are constructed of the latest lightweight all metal bodies. A fourth, which arrived m the Colony last week, is being fitted at the Alexandra Road Fire Station, the Superintendent. Mr. J.
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    Lock icon International Help For Local Seamen
    206 4 International Help For Local Seamen JAG. GIVES PROMISE TO RIGHT WRONGS Standard Shipping Reporter SINGAPORE seamen have been promised international aid m their struggle against exploitation, Mr. S. Jaganathan, Chairman of the Seamen's Council of Action, and President of the Trades Union Congress, told The Standard yesterday. He said: "Seamen
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    Lock icon Brazilian Envoy To Indonesia
    44 4 MR. Ildefonso Falcao, Brazilian Ambassador to Indonesia, arrived m Singapore yesterday on board the liner, Asia, en route to Jakarta He was accompanied by his wife and son. Mr. Falcao has just finished a three-year term as Ambassador to India.
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    Lock icon One Killed In Accident
    55 4 ONE person was killed and four others hurt, when two cars, travelling m opposite directions collided at the Ih mile stone Jurong Road m Singapore late last night. Sah Ah Keat of Kota Tinggi, the driver of one car. was killed and two others m the
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    Lock icon BARONESS SAILS IN
    115 4 ...And It's All One Big, Big Family Again ONE of the last of Austria's aristocray. Baroness F. von Pillerstorff. arrived m Singapore yesterday on board the Asia to be reunited with her son-in-law and daughter. Major and Mrs. James Bell. Major Bell is the Army's Public Relations
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    Lock icon FREE SHOW
    48 4 THERE will he a free cinema show for Junior Members of the X-ray Club, at the Pavilion Theatre, on Aug. 28. at 9 a.m. Non-members may enrol at the theatre doors on the day of the show. They will be charged 50 cents for enrolment fee.
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    Lock icon Terrorist Gives Up To Mandore
    87 4 Terrorist Gives Up To Mandore JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. A terrorist. Chi Ah Teong, 34. surrendered to an Indian mandore on Guntong Estate m the Pengerang area of Johore on Aug. 8. He went underground m October last year. A rifle and 40 rounds of .303 ammunition were recovered. A special
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    Lock icon TIN CIRCLES ARE HAPPY
    76 4 LONDON, Aug. 20. (Reuter) A message m today's Financial Times stated that there is general relief m Malayan mining circles that the threatened Federation-wide strike on 70 European tin dredges has been called off. The fact that the more responsible elements have played their part m
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    Lock icon MAN OR WOMAN? BENCH INQUIRES
    187 4 THE court usher of the Singapore Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday morning called out the name "Tan Toon Eng," and into the dock walked a sprightly boyish figure m blue jeans and open-neck white shirt. The bench, the bar and the prosecution took a good look
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    Lock icon SILENT ENVOYS ON SHOPPING VISIT
    104 4 > TWO silent women flew into Singapore yesterday on the Jakarta plane and. just as silently, drove away m a Bank of China limousine. S For all their silence, their presence caused quite a stir, because they were members of the Red Chi- j nese
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    Lock icon Telegrams Are Faster From Spore
    97 4 Telegrams Are Faster From Spore KUALA LUPMUR. Mon. Overseas telegram transmission timings published by the Telecoms Department today showed that Singapore's efficiency was seven times that of Federation cable bureau. One m every eleven ordinary telegrams originating m Singapore reached the receiving offices within fifteen minutes of being handed m.
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    32 4 MALACCA, Mon.— A midwife, Tima binte Samat was yesterday acquitted by Malacca Magistrate Ramanatha Iyer of causing hurt to her special constable husband, Abdul Hamid. on Aug. 10 m an argument.
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    Lock icon THE NATION IS YOUR AFFAIR STUDENTS TOLD
    495 5 7 -Day Asian Meet In Colony Ends CATHOLIC students In universities m the Far East should take a lull interest m national problems because they oucht to be "full citizens of earth and the elect of heaven." This conclusion was reached by delegates
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    Lock icon Parents Warned: See Your Boys Obey, Or Else...
    176 5 Parents Warned See Your Boys Obey, Or Else THE Singapore Catholic High School has called upon parents and sponsors of students under their charge to "exact a faithful observance" of the school's ■ret; v Lilian v The plea is made by the school's superviser and principal, following a circular from
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    Lock icon Labourer's Death Was Accidental
    113 5 Labourer's Death Was Accidental SINGAPORE Assistant Coroner, Mr. Giam Chong Hing. yesterday returned a verdict of misadventure at an inquest into the death of 19--year-old labourer. Goh 'Thiam Poh. at Kallang River on June I Chua Chong Vim, a labourer employed by Eng Bee Sawmill, told the Court that on
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    Lock icon 4th Local Man Joins Department
    107 5 4th Local Man Joins Department AN HONOURS graduate In chemistry cf the University of Malaya will Join <the City Analyst's Department next month. He will be the fourth local graduate to join the Department, where only the head Is an expatriate. Acting City Health Officer. Dr. J. Cameron, tfrtd The
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    Lock icon Language Course
    80 5 ELEVEN Chinese School teachers from the Federation, yesterday started an intensive four-month vacation course m Linguistic 6tudies m the University of Malaya. The course includes phonetics of Mandarin, transcription of Chinese, composition (oral and written*, reading of the Pekinese Novel. Precis (oral and written*. Evolution of Chine.-c Ideographs,
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    23 5 MEMBERS of the Dale Carnegie Club wi'.! be entertained t 1 a movie show at Shaw's Theatrette at 8.15 pun. today.
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    Lock icon Crushed To Death
    47 5 A SINGAPORE City Council mandore. M. Singaram. 36, was crushed to death by a lorry m a refuse dump at Bendemeer Road yesterday Singaram was supervising some labourers, when a City Council lorry backed and ran over him. He was killed on the spot.
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    Lock icon Entries For 1st Farm Show Is Closed
    98 5 ENTRIES for Singapore's I agriculture s"how to be he:d at the old Kaliang airport. on Sept 1. closed yesterday. The entries are now bein« Judged and results of the winning exhibits will be announced before the.' week-end The five-day show will give colony
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    Lock icon MUSICAL VARIETY TO AID A CLINIC
    112 5 MRS. Lorna Kulkarni, a resident of Siglap district, ■free clinic and dispensary for the poor m Siglap. To raise funds, Mrs. Kulkarni is organizing a musical variety show called "Singapore Review of 1956" at the Badminton Hall m Guillemard Road, next Tuesday at 7.30
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    98 5 Reds Will Soon Be Destroyed' SAIGON, Aug. 20 (UP) The Director General of South Vietnam's civil security force predicted that Malayan government forces will "soon" destroy all Communist insurgents. Ton That Trach. Director General of South Vietnam's civil guard, said uoon returning from a one-week survey trip m Malaya: "With
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    242 5 Challenge To Govt. Right Is Withdrawn SINGAPORE Government and the Staff side of the City Service Whitley Council have decided that the powers to ask for arbitration by either side m cases of unsettled disputes, should be retained. This was decided after a review of
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    143 5 Spirit Is Willing But... SINGAPORE'S City Council has been told by its legal advisers, that it would not be proper to donate S 10.000 to the Colony's Olympic Fund. The suggestion to donate the sum had originally come from Independent City C^uncil- lor. Mr. Sim Beng fceng. J Mr. Sim
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    92 5 THE United States Information Service, Singapore, will give a film show to working journalist;; tomorrow at 12. 30 p.m. on President Eisenhower's two Press conferences, on Aug. 1 and 8. and on Indonesian President Soekarno's tour of the United States. President Eisenhower's Press conterence on Aug.
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    21 5 MR. LA. Nalliah. science teacher m the Anglo-Chinrse Girls' School, Ipoh. died of a heart attack m hospital yesterday.
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    83 5 SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, addresses a large gathering, at a function m Sembawang on Monday, celebrating the centenary of Sree Narayana, a famous South Indian yogi and proponent of universal peace and brotherhood. Earlier. Mr. Lim opened a cultural and philosophical
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    160 5 200 Teachers Give Up Holidays For Study TWO hundred school teachers from the Federation, all members of the National Union of Teachers, yesterday started on a vacation course at the University of Malaya. There were 130 women and 70 men. representing every State m the Federation. The Vice-Chancellor of the
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    135 5 They Want Badges Of Silver SINGAPORE City Council Services' Union has suggested to the Council that long service lapel badges lor Council employees, should be of silver and not enamel. When giving long service certificates to Council employees m July last year the City President. Mr. J. T. Rea. suggested
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    142 5 'Happy For Only A Few Months' A CLERK, Simon Edgar Perera, who described his marriage as a "loveless one," was granted a divorce by the Singapore High Court yesterday. Perera sued his wife. Mary Perera nee Tan Cheng Keow for divorce on the ground
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      414 6 TWO proposals for settling the Suez Canal dispute appear to have emerged from the conference which is being held m London. One of these comes from the Big Three western powers— the other from the Indian delegate to the meeting. While Britain, the United States and France
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      459 6 JF ALL the objects that Singapore's newlyformed Anti-Yellow Cultural Council has set out to promote healthy cultural and recreational activities can be achieved as easily as its members seem to think, its name will probably go down m history. The "yellow culture" that the members of this new
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    630 6  - HOLLAND Battles THE SEA G. AALBERTSBERG By- THE HAGUE JJOLLAND has begun work to bar the North Sea from ever again bringing the havoc of the great flood of 1953 when 375,000 acres of fertile land, mostly m Zeeland, were inundated, killing 1,835 people, and driving another 72,000 from their
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    33 6 "Industrialisation has brought us new dangers of slavery and new chances of freedom." Sir John Maud. G.C.8., C.B.E. broadcasting m the BBC's General Overseas i Service on "The Impact of Industrialisation."
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    77 6 "We found that penguins have a taste for music, for one day when the second part of 'William Tell' was being played on the gramophone, hundreds of penguins were attracted to the music, pushing and shoving around the shanty and listening with their heads first on one
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    54 6 Shorts From the Talks ror, stumbling and falling over each other to get away." Ada Cherry Kearton, who as Ada Forrest was a well-known South African singer, speaking m a BBC programme about some of her experiences when she gave up her career to marry the late Cherry Kearton, pioneer
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    65 6 "When moving pictures were first shown even their inventor, Lumiere, did not think they had much of a future. He thought that people would soon tire of the novelty of moving pictures the craze might last six months or a year perhaps less." AJVI. Abraham
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    547 6 From A Special Correspondent NAIROBI. YI7ITH the virtual end of Kenya's Mau Mau emergency, the people of East Africa are no longer preoccupied with grave internal security problems and are looking around them once more. What they see to the north is proving most disconcerting. For years
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    185 6 WTITH an increasingly sympathetic regime m Egypt there are many indications that Communism is at last beginning to show more than a theoretical interest m Africa. If this is to develop into attempts to spread Communist doctrine. East Africa, and especially Kenya, will be placed m
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    39 6 A VERY real fear m Kenya today is that m its anxiety to adopt an extreme anti-British policy, Egypt will allow Russia to make inroads upon Africa down the Nile Valley through the Sudan into
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    57 6 "I think the gardener is a person apart, I envy him his knowledge and skill, his joy mi n reproduction, his gentle manner, and it is a benediction to have even one friend who talks with earnestness, and love about bis or her garden." H ar r y
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    88 6 "One smiling youth, like the rest of us. was often hungry, and succumbed to the temptation offered by the tuck kept m our schoolroom lockers. What impressed me was his impartiality. He didn't polish off the contents of one locker, but took a large, semi-circu-lar bite of jam
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    665 6  - The NEWS as it strikes me! ASTER GUNASEKERA By SPEAKING at the opening of the Petaling Jaya branch of the United Malays' National Organization on Sunday, the vice-chairman of UMNO, Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, uttered a fear, which has been m the minds of a great number of
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    104 6 We th e PEOPLE MERDEKA BRIDGE They call the brand new bridge Merdeka! A bridge to last till we have met Our Maker But millions then will wonder why, Oh why, A slogan to a structure should Apply? I'm puzzled why they called the bridge Merdeka! The longest pre-stressed bridge
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    170 7 Murders Linked To Riesel's Blinding NEW YORK. Aug. 20, (UP) ~With four murders tenuously connected to the acid blinding of labour columnist Victor Riesel. police feared yesterday that would be additional gangland executions. Abraham Telvi. 21. the thug named by the Federal Bureau oi Investigations as the man who hurled
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    52 7 HUGE crowds of onlookers mass around the square near Lancaster House London as they wait to catch a glimpse of the various foreign delegates arrive for the Suez Conference. Twenty-two nations are now thrashing out the Suez dispute over a conference table m the Great Hall.
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    192 7 BONE, Algeria, Aug. 20, (AP)— About 20 Algerian Muslims were reported killed yesterday m a wild fight through the streets of Bone as French soldiers opened fire on terrorists who killed a policeman. The first shot rang out on the Place d'Armes, m the centre of
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    72 7 PITTSBURGH. New York. Aug. 20 (AP) A new-bern baby girl weighing 14 pounds, one ounce, has broken records at Physicians Hospital here. Officials said Marcella Ann Alexander was the largest baby ever born there. She was born on Friday night to Mr. and Mrs. George
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    66 7 BONN. (Germany). Aug. 20. (UP) Britain will complete the removal of about 5,000 troops from Germany by the end of this week, the Bonn Government has learned. About 3,500 troops from supporting units have been sent to England m the past few days. The Government has
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      33 7 WASHINGTON. Aug. 20 (UP)— Dr. Konrad Maril, chief cf the Voice of America's Austrian Service, died yesterday at the age of 67 He suffered several heart attacks m recent years.
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      42 7 YARMOUTH (England), Aug. 20, (UP) All 19 crew members of the 565-ton British cargo vessel Traquair were rescued early yesterday shortly before the ship sank ori the east coast near here. The cargo apparently had shifted m heavy seas.
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      29 7 PARIS. Aug. 20 (AP) French historian and academician Louis Madelin. 85. died m Paris last Saturday He was elected a member of the French Academy m 1927.
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      45 7 LONDON. Aug. 20 (UP) Radio Peking yesterday claimed that a 61-year-old Chinese peasant fought a tiger that was attacking a boy and killed fhg animal with his bare hands. The man survived. The broadcast did not say what happened to the boy.
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      37 7 HONGKONG. Aug. 20 (AP) Premier Souvanna Phouma of Laos flew into Communist China yesterday for a sevenday visit and told welcomers at his first stop that his strategic kingdom is following a policy of neutrality.
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    107 7 Airmen Freed From Turkish Jail NICOSIA. Aug. 20 (Reuter) Two RAF men who have been missing from their unit since July 23 were flown back here from Turkey today. They are Corporal H. Holthofer. 21. and Aircraftman First Class J F. Jardine. 19. The two have been held by Turkish
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    140 7 MAFIA TERRORIZE PALERMO PALERMO (Sicily). Aug. 20. (UP)— Gang killings terrorized the Sicilian capital yesterday m what appeared to be an effort Dy a Mafia -like srouD to grab control of the Palermo market district. Fruit merchant Gaetano Saccaro. 58. was shot down m the centre of the city yesterday
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    84 7 FORT CARSON (Colorado). Aug. 20 (UP) Private Donald O'Brien, of U.S. Engineers at Fort Carson, wouldn't count his calories. It cost him USSIIO m fine. A special court-martial, with the full blessing of Major-General Thorn- Morgan Watlington, Commander of the Bth Infantry Division and Past
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    52 7 SEOUL: Foreign Minister George Yeh of Nationalist China, centre, presents a gift to President Syngman Rhee of the Republic of Korea as a token of congratulation for Rhee's third term inauguration. Yeh came here as a special envoy of Generalis simo Chiang Kai-shek to attend
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    70 7 LONDON. Aug. 20 (Reuter) The delta-winged Avro Vulcan, second of the Royal Air Force's fcur-jet V-bom-bers capable of carrying atom bombs, has entered service with the R.A.F. it was announced here. Details of the performance of the Vulcan, which is powered by four Bristol Olympics
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    67 7 LONDON. Aug. 20. (Reuter) Cardinal Bernard Griffin. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, died early today after a heart attack, it was announced here. The official announcement said Cardinal Griffin who was on holiday at New Polzeath, Cornwall, "suffered a sudden collapse of the heart shortly before midnight and
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    70 7 NICOSIA. Cyprus. Aug. 20. (AP) Tentative peace has produced a spurt m the Cypriot night club business and a shortage of cabaret girls Managers of several leading night spots, happy at the extremist underground's truce offer and a relaxation of British security restrictions, have cabled requests
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    74 7 WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. (AP) A twin-rotor army helicopter has set a new world record by flying non-stop for 1,199.07 miles. The previous record of 778.3 miles was set by France three years ago. The army announced yesterday that the H-21. flying a shuttle course between
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    130 7 ISLE OF CAPRI. Aug. 20 «AP) Siamese Prince Bira Bongse sulked today on his yacht anchored far out from Capri's regular anchorages after a dispute with port authorities about where he could tie up his vessel, the Lellollna. The adventurous, autoracing Prince drew
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    366 7 CYPRUS: FRESH BID TO DISPUTE U.K. Views Suspension Cf Terror A Turning Point LONDON, Aug. 20 (AP) Britain was reported last night to foe planning a fresh bid to solve the Cyprus dispute m the light of the EOKA ■pledge to abandon terror From a and see" attitude immeHdiately after
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    81 7 Turks Say Reject Truce Move NICOSIA. Aug. 20 <AP> A newspaper representing the views of the Turkish minority on Cyprus demanded today "total annihilation" of the EOKA underground Uespite a truce. The Turkish Party newspaper Halm Scsi (Voice cf the People) said: "The war against these murderers must go on
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    121 7 Moroccan Govt. May Fall PiABAT. Aug. 20 (Renter)— The Istiqial (Nationalist) Party today decided 1o withdraw all its ten Ministers from the coalition government of the independent Prime Minister Si Bekkai with the aim of securing a one party Istiqial Government m Morocco. The party's national council which yesterday began
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    26 7 RIO DE JANEIRO and San Paulo, the two largest cities m Brazil, drank fresh milk again today after a one^week strike by suppliers. U.P.
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    53 7 WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. (UP) Presidential news secretary James C. Hagerty said yesterday there is "absolutely rothing" to a published report that President Eisenhower may need another operation. "I have checked with the President's doctor and I can categorically deny it.'* he told newsmen by telephone from
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    152 7 Suez Pilots Wont Work For Nasser TRAFFIC STOPPAGE SEEN LONDON, Aug. 20 (UP)— A British Suez Canal pilot said today most of the foreign pilots will refuse to work for an Egyptian-controlled Canal Company. Capt. Richard Ruddock said that for months he and other pilots worked as much as 300
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    71 7 ""HOLLY WOOD. Aug 20T (AP)— Oil bubbled up m th» 1 front lawn of a luxurious Hollywood home yesterday and threatened to create a traffic problem. Police said the area of fine hemes apparently was built over an oil field and a cap on an abandoned well
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    110 7 'Dead' But She Wouldn't Lie Down MELBOURNE, Aug 2« (AP) A woman certified as dead uoke up m the Melbourne City morgue last night. A policeman «as about to wheel her into the mortuary's freezing chamber on a steel trolley used for corpses when he saw her eyes flicker and
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    132 7 NEW DELHI. Aug. 20. (UP) —Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who had a close brush with an assassin last year. narrowly escaped serious injury m an automobUe accident yesterday. He suffered bruises of the right shoulder, arm and knee when a jeep m which he
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    365 8 $25,000 BRIBE ALLEGED HONGKONG, Aug. 20 (Reuter)— The trial opened here today of four prominent British citizens who are charged with conspiring to have a Government official receive a bribe for favouritism m the issue of a mining licence. The accused are William Allan
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    136 8 Crisis Ends: Juliana Will Not Abdicate THE HAGUE. Aug. 2n (AP)— A government spokesman announced today that ••Queen Juliana will not abdicate." His statement was made m reply to a newsman's question on the Royai commission which investigated a royal crisis allegedly caused by the Queen's relations with a faith
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    63 8 AACHEN. (Germany), Aug. 20. (UP)— Four miners- were trapped by a stone slide m a coal mine 1.300 feet underground yesterday, with little hope held for their rescue. Crews have been attempting to reach the miners since yesterday afternoon. Miners' union officials believe that the
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    17 8 GABRIEL Pierre Sourdille. world-known eye specialist. died m Nantes, France, on Saturday, aged 55 years.
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    45 8 TOKYO. Aug. 20. (AP)— Five persons were crushed to death yesterday m a landslide on a mountain road 30 miles Northwest of here, the Nishi-Tama County police reported. One other person suffered serious m juries and is m critical condition. i
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    54 8 YOUNGSTERS bare to the waist shove and push while carrying the traditional Mikoshi or portable shrines under the sweltering Tokyo heat. The summer festival of the Tonioka Hachiman Shrine, one of the three big festivals here, has its climax as some 100 Mikoshi arc paraded through
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    198 8 Dianas Hollywood House-Warming Ends In A Brawl BEVERLY HILLS, California, Aug. 20 (AP) Lovely British actress Diana Dors, her husband, Dennis Hamilton, and two other men were dumped m a pool and a photographer was slugged m a brawling windup of Diana's housewarming last night. The photographer. Stuart Sawyer of
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    112 8 New Game Teenagers Defy Death PORT PERRY. Ontario, Aug. 20. (AP) Teen-agers converging on its village to attend Saturday night dances have devised a new death-defying car game to replace "chicken.*' Unlike "chicken." m which two cars race head on, the driver swerving first being declared the loser, the game
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    138 8 KARACHI, Aug. 20 (Reuter) Mr. N. M. Khan, the Karachi Chief Commissioner, announced today that the release had been ordered of 26 of the 57 people arrested m the past three days on a regulation banning processions and assemblies m the city J BjSM
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    124 8 Popes First Live Pose Portrait PARIS. Aug. 20 (UP) A Jewish philanthropist artist said here today he has become the first man to paint the Pope's portrait from a "live pose." Dr. John Myers, of 30. Rockefeller Plaza, New York, said the Aug. 16 audience was arranged through New York's
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    565 8 BepttbOcan Meet Will Be Quiet Israel Support Pledged SAN fRANCISCO, Aug. 20— The Republican Party's national convention meets here today m what is expected to be a quiet session with the re-nomination of President Eisenhower and Vice-President Richard Nixon assured. The convention is
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    61 8 COLOMBO, Aug. 20. (Reuter) Ceylon's Tamil Federal party a minority opposition group said yesterday it would launch a non-violent direct action campaign v the government did not constitute a federal union of Ceylon with an autonomous state for Tamilspeaking people within the next year. The Party made the
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    38 8 AMMAN, Jordan, Aug 20, (Reuter) Fuad Nimeh Nassar, once considered the number one Arab Communist m Israel, was released yesterday by the Jordan Government after spending nearly five years m a desert concentration camp.
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    167 8 COPENHAGEN, Aug. 20 (Reuter) Dejected wife-hunting bachelors on the eyeless Eden Is'e— Denmark's Fejoe Island (population 1,200 with 90 bachelors and not enough women) grumbled into their glasses here last night about the unwelcome guest at their marriage-making party rain. It didn't merely rain,
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    134 8 Fire-Razed City Being Rebuilt TOKYO. Aug. 20 (Reuter)— Reconstruction of the fireravaged Odate City began when a tailor's shop was the first building to be restored m the city. Electricity service was restored late last night, and wooden barracks for the fire victims were under way. National Police estimated the
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    55 8 TAIPEI. Aug. 20 <UP)— Foreign Minister Gecrge Yeh said yesterday that South Korea and Nationalist China will soon sign a treaty of amity and friendship. Yeh made the disclosure upon his return from Seoul, where he attended the inauguration ceremony cf President Syngman Rhee as special
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    116 8 Calls For Troops To 'Get Out' RABAT. Aug. 20, (Reuter) Si Allal ci Fassi. leader of the Moroccan Istiqlal, Nationalist Party, today called for the evacuation of French troops from Morocco. In a speech to 1,000 delegates to a National Party congress here, he said: "The transitory period during whicM
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    27 8 SYDNEY. Aug. 20, (Reuter) —Visas for 80 members of a Communist Chinese entertainment group to tour Australia will be granted by the Australian Government.
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    33 8 M.W.H. de SILVA. Ceylon's Minister of Justice, lights the traditional coconut oil lamp opening the China Ceylon Cultural Centre m Colombo. The centre has been established by the Chin^^yloii^^i^n^^^Asjocia- photo. UP
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    490 9  - Sneeze Season for 5,000,000 Americans Hal Boyle Special report* by NEW YORK JfflS is "S" Day the "S" stands for sneeze —for 5,000,000 Americans. It is the opening of the annual hay fever season, when man's best friend is no longer his dog but his pocket handkerchief or the nearest
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    670 9 j John Halkin, Our Dramatic Critic, begins today a special feature writing from the University of Bristol, where he was recently given a Fellowship. BRISTOL is a city m which the old has not been completely swamped by the new. While tradition is something which London expresses m
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    48 9 "Why don't you look where I'm going!" MR. J. A. CUMMING, (pictured on left), managing director of Gestetner Ltd., London, arrived m Singapore by air m transit to Australia. He was met on his arrival by the Far East manager for Gestetner, Mr. W. S. Blogt (on right).
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      93 9 SAGITTARIUS— Nov. 22 to Dec. 21 Make some sage adjustments concerning household, office or property interests. CAPRICORN— Dec. 22 to Jan. 19 Find peace of mind and elude contention, particulary over cnoccpts. program." Limit trips. AQUARIUS— Jan. 20 to Feb. 18— Try to find simple pleasurues ihat do not flatten
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    33 10 THE profit of the Bank of India Ltd. for the first six months of this year amounted to Rs. 3.966.371 subject to taxation and after the usual provisions for contingencies.
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    252 10 FED. TRADE $812.4 M. ON RIGHT SIDE LAST YEAR KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The favourable balance of trade amounting to $812.4 million for 1955 was the highest reached since the years 1950 and 1951, the Federation annual report for 1955 stated. "The record balance was attributed to the big increase m
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    194 10 FINANCE COMMERCE Record Steel Output THE British Iron and I Steel Board have announced that steel production m July was at the rate of 326.000 tons a week, compared with 307,--000 tons a week m the corresponding period of 1955. This is a record for the month. Total production of
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    143 10 RUBBER QUIET DROPS Cent Quiet and slightly easier conditions prevailed m the Singapore market yesterday, first grade rubber for September shipment closing at 98£ cents per lb., a drop of 1/8 cent on Saturday. The market opened uncertain at 974 cents per lb., a drop of 7/8 cent on Saturday.
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    112 10 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m its rates to merchants yesterday: New York: buying, airmail. TT. 32 9/16. OD. 32 11/16. 90 days 32 15/16 credit bills, trade bOto. Canada: buying. airmail. T.T. 31 15/16. O.D. 32 1/16. 90 days 32 3/8 crdit bills,
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    165 10 WORLD wheat stocks continue to mount despite a decline m some countries' production and despite some pick-up m trade early th^s year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported. In the latest issue of Its Monthly Bulletin of Agricultural Economics and Statistics. FAO estimated that world wheat
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    170 10 A U.S. World Trade Fair, to be held m New York early next year, is expected to draw at least 100.000 retailing and manufacturing industrial representatives. Mr. Charles Snitow, presi- dent of the exposition, believes it will attract "the largest concentration of buyers ever assembled
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    84 10 A LEAFLET quoting the standard grading of export pears has been sent to all large importers m Malaya by the Japanese ConsulateGeneral. Pears graded for export are divided into two categories, Grade 1 and Grade 2. Japan's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is not m a
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    30 10 TIN ore outputs for the quarter April/June, 1956. announced are: Tekka 541 piculs; Tekka-Taiping 2.258 piculs; Gopeng Consolidated 3.620 piculs; Rambutan 576 piculs; Kent 832 piculs; Pengkalen 2.146.
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    90 10 MEMBERS of the local Students Society of Incorporated Secretaries, London, paid an educational visit to Roneo Ltd., ln Robinson Road yesterday. A representative of the company demonstrated and explained the latest filing system to the visitors. The organization is arranging a number of educational meetings for its member
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    109 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices yesterday were: Copra August $26i buyers, $262 sellers; coconut oil (bulk) $40 sellers, coconut cil (drums) $43 sellers; Muntok white pepper $125 sellers, Sarawak white $124, Special Sarawak black $86 sellers. Singapore Copra Association closing prices: Sept. $26 i buyers, $265
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    64 10 THE Japanese Transportation Ministry has announced plans to build Japan's first two postwar luxury liners for Yokohama-California service. The ships, m the 20.000-ton class, are expected to be completed by 1959 at an estimated cost of U5520,833,333 each. These will have a displacement of 20,000
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    69 10 MALAYAN copra experts continued to drop during the first quarter ot 195 b, with only one-third as much copra exported as during the first quarter of 1955, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's foreign crops and market survey said m Washington yesterday. The survey reported that Malayan
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    14 10 THE Singapore rubber market will be closed on Saturdays beginning from October.
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    266 10 ASDF ASDFASDF ASDF SDFA SDFSDF THE Malayan share market reported better sentiment m both industrials and tin share sections yesterday. Prices improved m several counters. Rubber shares were steady. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Hongkong Bank (HK Reg) 880.00 890.00
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      590 10 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I. THIA TAI LUHN. of 15, Beach Road. Singapore, have applied to the Board of Licensing Justices Singapore for a Ist Class Public House Licence m respect of premises at Chop Seng Peng Hng, 15 Beach Road. Singapore and that this application will be heard
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      302 10 NOTICES XfOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN i" that I, MADAM GOH CHAI HONG, of 190. Queen Street, Singapore, have applied to the Board of Licensing Justices. Singapore for the transfer of a Samsu Shcp licence m respect of premises at Chop Seng Huat, 190, Queen Street. Singapore. to Mr. Leo Ah
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    221 12 DETAILS arc now available of the forthcoming one-day conference entitled "'Rubber m Engineering" organized by The Natural Rubber Development Board. It will take place on Sept. 27 at the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Savoy Place. London. W.C.2. The main purpose of the conference will be to
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    47 12 THREE new very-high-frequency omni directional range radio stations are m operation m Formosa to provide weather navigation guidance to planes m the Western Pacific and South-east Asia area. The three stations, located at Taipei. Taiwan, and Hengchun. were completed with U.S. technical and financial aid.
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    211 12 MALAYAN Cocoa Ltd. reported an outstanding achievement during the past year planting up with Amelonado and Upper Amazon materials, according to Mr. G. M. Knocker, the chairman, m his annual statement to be presented on Sept. 5. The acceleration of the planting programme will usefully
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    56 12 CEYLON'S Rubber Rehabilitation Board will subsidize the rehabilitation of up to 27,000 acres of icorn out rubber lands next year. This xcill cost about R5.20.000.000. The authorities do not expect viore than a maximum of 22.000 acres to be replanted next year, because some applicants xcithdraw
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    302 12 By ARNOLD C BRACKMAN, Standard's New York Bureau Chief THE port of New York, where most of Malaya's rubber shipments are unloaded, handled an over-all tonnage of 35,500,000 tons of general cargo last year, according to the annual report of the port authority. This cargo
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    100 12 Venezuela May Step Up Oil Output VENEZUELA la prepared to increase its oil production by as much as 20 per cent to keep up the supply of the Western World if the crisis over the Suez Canal should cut oft' Middle East supplies, a government spokesman said today. Venezuela's daily
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    176 12 THE U.S. Bureau of Customs has announced changes m its regulations governing travellers' baggage to ease the arrival m the United States of visitors and immigrants and the return of residents bringing purchases made abroad. The revision m the baggage declaration form is the
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    259 12 Jet Transports May Be Cheaply Ope rated AERODYNAMIC and power plant improvements of the past decade make jet transports more economical than reciprocating engine airplanes down to ranges as low as 200 to 300 nautical miles. Furthermore, the jet transports will have such short take-off distances when carrying fuel sufficient
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    139 12 A MOTORING accessory which is fast becoming a motorist's "must" all over the world is a British-made work-and-warning light which allows a wheel change to be made at night m safety. By plugging the device into the dashboard the motorist is provided with a combined two-in-one light a
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    121 12 Pakistan May Buy 95,000 Tons Wood PAKISTAN moy buy 95,000 tons of Mala. yan timber worth about Mai. $2 1 2 million, according to a market source. The Pakistan Trade Commissioner m Singapore, Mr. M.H.E.A. Baig. said his Government now required 250,000 hard or semi-hard wood sleepers for its East
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    44 12 SUSAN Flynn, 19, of London, tries out Britain's four wheeled economy motor-car. The manufacturers, Astra Car Company, claim a top speed of 55 in.p.h. and a cruising speed of 40-50 m.p.h. Every day fuel consumption is m the region of 60 m.p.g.
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    136 12 MALAYANS AT B' KOK SEMINAR MALAYANS are among the 50 delegates now attending a ten-day seminal^ m Bangkok on urbanization m the region covered by the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. Other delegates are from Burma. Cambodia. Republic of China, France. India, Indonesia. Japan. Holland, Pa*
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    359 12 TIN MAY REACT TO SUEZ CRISIS MINING CHIEF MR. D. T. WARING, chairman of seven tin mining companies m the Anglo-Oriental (Malaya) Ltd. group, said m Kuala Lumpur last week that an international tension has arisen m connection with the Suez Canal. In the event of any serious interference with
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    80 12 Sandbank Danger Is Reduced SHIPPING and the Australian steel industry will benefit by the construction of a radio and high-frequ-ency, direction-finding station ooi tiny, waterless Troughton Island. nine miles off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. The new station, built by the Federal Government, will provide a daily 24-hour serivce
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    45 12 THE board of Kinta Kellas Tin Dredging Co. Ltd. propose a dividend of 10 f less tax payable on Oct. 22 for the year ended March 31. 1956. The transfer books of the company will be closed from Oct. 8 to 21.
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    21 12 THE United States Department of Agriculture has announced the sale of 117,754 bales of surplus governmentowned cotton for export.
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    381 12 NEW YORK, Aug. 20.— Americans are accumulating long-term savings m increasing amounts saving that on top of their ability to buy goods and services help them to conserve resources for retirement and possible emergencies. r The U.S. Securities and exchange Commission recently estimated that Individuals m
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    211 13 NEW YORK, Aug. 19 (AP)— v.ikee's Braves ed«ed into --game lead m the tight League race as home by Ed. Mathews and Aaron backed Warren in*s eight-hitter to defeat :nati :>-l Sunday. The loss t led the Rcdlegs back to place with Brooklyn takI Urn runner-up spot m
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    106 13 Furgol Makes A Comeback MILWAUKEE. Aug. 20 (AP) Ed Furgol staged a spectacular comeback yesterday to win the U5535,000 Milwaukee open golf tournament with a 15-under-par 265 for 72 holes. Trailing Jackie Burke, Masters and Professional Golfers Association champion by two strokes going into the final round, the lame-armed Furgol
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    270 13 SOt'TIIEND. Au?. 20. (Renter) A hurricane seventh wirkrt partnership between Keith Miller and Alan Davidson, who added 1?5 m 13! minutes, saved Australia from collapse a?atnst Essex on lne •eeond day of their match here today. stopped play a few H before tea and the interval was taken
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    202 13 YOUNG AUSSIE STAR MAKES A CLEAN SWEEP *ik*Jh^Ss P de Islaßd Aue 20 < up Brilliant Ken Rosewall led imirl?n»nt V t a swe _fP. of the Newport Casino 75th annual invitation tennis tournament when he participated m both singles and doubles. First. Rosewall downed
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    117 13 Brothers Win £A15,715 SYDNEY, Aug. 20 (Reuter)— Two Australian brothers, Eddie and Lance Perkins, driving a Volkswagen, were today declared provisional winners of the £15.715 Australian (about £12,572 sterling) Mobilgas roundAustralia reliability trial. First drivers to complete the 8,700-mile course which circled the continent crossed the finishing line here today.
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    46 13 BUENOS AIRES, Au?. 20. (Renter) The combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities rugby team suffered the first defeat of the tour of South America when they were beaten 13-6 by a City of Buenos Aires selection today. The Buenos Aires team led 5-0 at halftime.
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    1227 13  - Fanny Is Undisputed Queen Of Olympics 5 JOHN COTTRELL By THERE can be no doubt the greatest woman m the history of the Olympic Games, Mrs. Francina E. Blankers- Koen of th^Netherland^sth^iindisjmted Queen Olympiad No woman athlete had ever won more than two gold medals and only one woman, figure-skater
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    381 13 He Beats A Thomas Cup Player PENANG, Mon.— Penang's fast rising star, Teh Kew San, scored the finest victory of his badminton career by eliminating the favourite, Lee Hoo Chye, from the Penang Open Badminton championships played at the Han Chiang School Hall last
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    61 13 CEYLON Sports Club will hold their annual Home and Home hockey match on their club ground at 5.15 p.m. tomorrow. Members who are interested m playing hockey this season are requested to turn up. Those who are unable to play tomorrow are asked to get m touch with
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      556 13 CLASSIFIED ADS SITUATIONS VACANT REQUIRED by The North Borneo Timbers Ltd.. P.O. Box 154. Sandakan. BUB.. Forest Surveyors capable of Chain and compass surveys along rentices. mapping, estimation of timber stands and enumeration of species m the jungle. Applicants to state age. experience and salary expected. VTTR ACTIVE Manageress for
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      251 13 ill Abner By Al Capp _Si yts bless MA H UjUAt 1 tk' list call (-/must Vs.mill/unaires-^ r a ~~T\n& SOULfT-NEVAH J YORE FRIENDS WHO TAKE HER G MOVIE STARS- I vaHOT^STLYAN'TRULV^yS RECKONED AH'D 'i LIST?- <. DONE LIKEWISE T A\mVJ=RC*4 J> 3 CARTOONISTSY^ISHES T MARKV ME/?- TV f MArTA
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    1255 14  -  CEYLOX 3 THAMLAXif O: INDONESIA 3 MALAYA O Ferdinands Up Against Liep Tjauw Today Bill Junk 4 CEYLON and INDONESIA qualified for the final of the tennis interport series for the Dato Yeap challenge cup on the Singapore Cricket Club courts yesterday. The final contest for
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    21 14 Racing Standard Photo- Form HERE'S how the> finished on the first day of the Selangor Turf Club's August meeting on Saturday.
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    41 14 Standardpic by Chen Ta Khoon show s Thailand's Karalak (left) and Ceylon's Rupert Ferdinands m serious concentration on the padang yesterday. The two ra,cketwielders furnished all the thrills m a 3-set tussle Ferdinands won 6-8, 6-1, 6-4.
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    112 14 RED China has three good tennis players who should do well if they compete m the Asian Championships. They arc Hu Cheng Kan, Mci Foo Chee and Chu Tsui Wah. This was revealed by Dr. Saroso. manager of the six-man Indonesian tennis team that
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    50 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Ceylon athletes who took oart at the Malayan Games at Penang recently were entertained to tea by Mr N. M. Vasagam president of the Selangor Amateur Athletic Association at his residence here today. The Ceylon contingent leave Kuala Lumpur by train tonigm lor Singapore
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    216 14 AMICABLE Athletic Association beat Indian Recreation Club by two goals to nil m a SAFA Cuptie at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. The winners scored both their goals m the first half. The Indians fought determinedly m the second half attacking for a long period. But then
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    151 14 Colony's Athletes Stuck KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Singapore athletes conquered their counterparts from the Federation. Ceylon. Borneo and Australia m the recent MAAA games at Penang but failed to master a stroke of bad luck which fell on them like a ton of bricks when their homeward bound bus broke down
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    97 14 CHINESE Athletic trounced Singapore Corinthians by 10 goals to two m a SAFA cuptie match at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Th e Corinthians fieLded nine men. The Athletics goals were scored by: Choon Chee 3. Maurice Khoo 3. Kok Peow 2. Swang Kang and a gift
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    519 14  -  WINDSOR LAD By Clocks 36 4/5 Sec For 3F KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. —Satellite, who missed his engagement on the first day, showed that there is nothing wrong with him when he shaped like a winner on the training track this morning. With apprentice Ismail astride, he
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    374 14  -  EDIN PETERS Coach Leow Kirn Fatt Says By "THE standard of badminton m Thailand has improved most noticeably and we were able to win only one fame m the two matches we played there x said Mr Leow Kirn Fatt, the honorary secretary of
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    142 14 TAIWAN'S Soon Tak girl eaf> crs trounced the Singar f e Combined team by 46-20 m I farewell game at the Singapore Badminton stadium last night. Tie touring basketbal'.ers to^k a 13-7 lead at the end of the first quarter, increased it to 23-11
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    39 14 TOKYO. Aug. 20 (AP) Tokyo's Saburo Otaki won the Japanese bantamweight crown from Danny Kidd of the Philippines tonight with a unanimous 10-round decision m i slow fight. Otaki weighed 117|. K:id weighed 118, the bantamweight limit
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      48 14 SOCCER SAFA LEAGUE DIV. 1: Tiger S.A. vs Marine Dept. at Jalan Besar Stadium at 5.15 p.m. DIV. 3A: Binlang Bulan vs Pcrhimponan Stia at Geylang Stadium at 5.15 p.m.; Bouna Vista vs Minto C.U. at Farrer Park at 5.15 p.m. TENNIS Inter-Port Tennis at SCC 3 p.m.
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