Singapore Standard, 28 August 1956

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    30 1 Singapore tiger Standard *r, D 5 A nLT "xt j% vH 1. im z:r Nt -r iTAL \,,1. VII. No. 57 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST .28, 1956 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    $30 MIL TO WIPE OUT POVERTY
    449 1  -  JAMES DAVID THAT'S WHAT IT WILL COST EVERY YEAR, SAY EXPERTS BY Probe Reveals That Widows With Children Are Hit The Hardest THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE TO DOLE OUT ABOUT $30,000,000 A YEAR IF IT INTENDS TO WIPE OUT POVERTY AMONG THE PEOPLE
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    Nasser: 'Yes, Come Over'
    159 1 LONDON. Aug. 27 (UP) Tne five-nation Suez connce committee met today to study semi;al Egyptian reports President Gamal AbKasser will receive n in Cairo to discuss canal crisis. An official Egyptian note of t ptanci had still not been i ered here when the fiven committee
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    15 Hurt In Border Clan Fight
    95 1 15 Hurt In Border Clan Fight ITELOK ANSON. Mon— A tie between two big rival the Sabak Bernam ing r-Perak sea coast border' broke out today after return of the cockle :ncn frcm the sea. least fifteen men were rppcrtod to have been injured *hen the Heng Clan and Kee
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    LOSS AT C.P.O.
    21 1 A PORE Police are 4 .n'o the loss of ?nmc orders worth $2JOM M General Post Office, <^rc.
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    TRIP TO CHINA MEANT JAIL FOR MRS. CHEN
    102 1 MRS. Chen Singping. 26-year-old Chinese language teacher in the Portuguese Colony of Macao, and her 11 -year-old daughter, are shown in Macao after Mrs. Chen's return from China, Mrs. Chen went for a short trip into Communist China, was arrested for spying
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    Crack Link With Thugs, Orders Police Chief
    235 1  -  BOB PERRIS By Probe Follows Graft In Force Allegations SINGAPORES Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nigel Morris has ordered stern action to break a ''link'' between certain members of the Police Force and secret society gangsters. He has assigned his top investigators to probe
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    Clash On Border
    73 1 SALONIKA. Greece. Aug. 27 (Reuter) Turkish and Greek border patrols on the Evros River, near Pithion, exchanged shots, it was officially reported today. The incident took place after Turkish border authorities were reported to have detained two Greek fishermen. Salonika's gendarmerie were standing by today in case
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    Prized Tony Curtis Hair-Do In Court
    99 1 Prized Tony Curtis Hair-Do In Court THE winner of Shaw Brother's "Tony Curtis Haircut" competition, Terence Edward Fernan,do, was yesterday charged in a Singapore Court with extortion. Fernando was alleged to have extorted $4 on three occasions from Sarputdin Nasir. in Upper Serangoon Road. Fernando, immaculately dressed in a tweed
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    FALLS FROM FIRST FLOOR
    33 1 JUNE ELIAS, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, was injured yesterday after a fall from the first floor of her home in Short Street. She was taken to the Singapore General Hospital.
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    Special Rulers' Meet Today
    221 1 Special Rulers' Meet Today KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Federation Government's plans for creating independent Administrative, Police and Judicial Services Commissions will come up for debate at tomorrow's Conference of Rulers convened specially to accelerate steps to implement the Merdeka Pact, The Standard learnt tonight. Reports of the working parties on
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    70 YRS. LATE BUT STILL WELCOME
    125 1 MOVIE-GO-ROUND LONDON. Aug. 27 (Keut er a cinema manager in suburban Hounslow saw an elderly woman walk in without buying a ticket. When he enquired, the Daily Telegraph reported today, the woman fumbled in her handbag and produced a much tattered cinema ticket "But
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    TUNKU TICKS OFF THE WORKERS
    188 1 They Are So Unreasonable' KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Malaya had never seen so much industrial unrest as at present, declared Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Chief Minister today. He blamed it all on the "fantastic demands" of the workers. The Tunku was addressing 70 head masters of
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    Play Again Abandoned
    84 1 THE TEST LONDON. Mon. Heavy rains flooded the Oval and made it unplayable today, the fourth day of thp final Test between England and Australia. Play was abandoned after the umpires and the test cap tains inspected the pitch. This is the second time that rain has
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    He Does 2,500 Miles On Stilfs
    37 1 SAINT ETIENNE. France. Aug. 27 <Reuter>— Henri Rochatin. 34. staggered Into Saint Etienne aftrr completing a 16-week 2.500-mile tour of France on stilts He fell only three times during his marathon.
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    MALAYAN FORUM CUTS EBER DOWN TO SIZE
    225 1  - MALAYAN FORUM CUTS EBER DOWN TO SIZE ANDREW ROTH From LONDON. Moo.— Mr. John Ebcr for three years secretary of the Malayan forum was over the week-end excluded from full membership with other Malayan nonstudents. Mr. Lim Hong Bee, European representative of the Malayan Communist Party, was another so excluded.
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    Sacking Of Girl Steno: Mr. Lim s Aid Sought
    172 2 Sacking Of Girl Steno: Mr. Lim s Aid Sought REPRESENTATIVES of the Singapore Insurance Companies Employees' Union, yesterday met the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, for the second time in a week, to seek his assistance over the sacking of a girl stenographer of the Union Insurance Society of
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    Greetings
    47 2 pic. SIR Robert Black, the Governor of Singapore, greets Mrs. Kartowisastro, wife of the Indonesian Consul-General, at the filming of President Sukarno's recent visit to the I'nited States at the Pavilion Cinema last night Lady Black is at right while Mr. H Kartowisastro is in Standard
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    WATCH THOSE LIGHTED BUTTS
    214 2 They Caused A Good Number Of Fires Last Year CARELESS throwing of lighted cigarettes caused numerous fires in Singapore last year. More than $3,41 5,000 worth of goods was burnt, a spokesman of the Colony's Fire Brigade told The Standard yesterday. Of the 1,350 fires last
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    Society's 'Adopted' Son Jailed
    173 2 CHIA CHONG HUAT. who told a Singapore magistrate yesterday that he was adopted by a secret society when very young, was sentenced to four months' jail on being convicted of being a member of an unlawful secret society. Chia told the Singapore Fourth Magistrate that he
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    APPEAL FOR EYEWITNESSES
    55 2 SINGAPORE Police are appealing for eyewitnesses cf the accident which occurred at 1.15 a.m. at the junction of East Coast Road and Chapel Road on Aug. 25. Witnesses of the accident may contact Inspector J. Wilson or Inspector Ahmad bin Hussein at the Traffic Investigations Branch. Sepoy
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    Chief Of Staff Atlvisers
    109 2 THREE representatives of New Zealand's Navy, Army and Air Force flew into Singapore yesterday from Sydney by Qantas/ BOAC to act as advisers to New Zealand's Chief of Staff. Major General C. E. Wier, at the forthcoming SEATO conference to be held in Manila. Above Cmdr
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    Goodwill Mission For Two
    106 2 Goodwill Mission For Two A TWO-MAN goodwill mission from Singapore will leave for Tokyo on Sept. 25. The mission, which consists of the Liberal Socialist Assemblyman, Mr. William Tan, and the Assistant Minister for Loc'a! Government, Lands and Housing, Mr. Tan Theng Chiang, will spend three weeks in Japan. Originally
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    Stone-Fall Kills Man, Injures Wife
    92 2 Stone-Fall Kills Man, Injures Wife A MAN \va s killed and his wife injured, when bags of stones, which a lorry was transporting, fell on them at the 11th mile. Jurong Road, Singapore, yesterday. The man was Goh Kear Hong, 4.'3. His wife, Soh Goh Whai, 44, was admitted to
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    FraudCharge Man Rejects Bail Offer
    161 2 FraudCharge Man Rejects Bail Offer JOHN Martin, an ex-Colony businessman, facing two charges of fraud involving 5202,141 has refused to avail himself of the opportunity of bail, a Singapore court was told yesterday. Mr. J. G. D. Elias, counsel for Martin, told the Singapore Fourth Magistrate, that though friends of
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    Skull Exhibited In Chettiar Murder Inquiry
    311 2 Skull Exhibited In Chettiar Murder Inquiry A HUMAN skull was the main exhibit at the con. tinued preliminary inquiry in a Singapore court yesterday into the murder of a Colony chettiar. In the dock stood Sulaiman bin Habib. arraigned on a tentative charge of murder of Muthukaruppan Chettiar on May
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    COMMODITY PRICES
    143 2 CLOSING rubber pri< es (cents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot (nom.) 982 Sept. No. 1 R.S.S. 98? 99 No. 2 R.S.S. %i 9fij No. 3 R.S.S. 95* 96 Tone: Very steady. SPOKE TIS The price of tin oo the local market yesterday was S3B6J
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    TEN PADLOCKS DIDN'T STOP THESE THIEVES
    72 2 TEN solid, heavy padlocks fastened to the front door of a textile shop in Jalan Sultan. Singapore, did not deter a gang of thieves from entering into the shop. They clipped the padlocks with a pair of iron cutter? Textiles worth $2,000 w« removed
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    At 30, Tom From Glasgow Wants To Settle 'Down Under'
    190 3 GLASGOW BORN, L.A.C. Tom Mitchell,' 30, (lower right) likes the Australians so much that he has decided to make Australia his home. Leading aircraftsman Mitchell is now serving with the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 1 Lincoln Bomber Squadron stationed
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    NEW RAF DANCE BAND
    84 3 THE first dance organized by members of the Royal Air Force stationed at Port Swettrnh.im was held at the Evergreen Cafe in Klang. Mr. Chris (Henley) Owens, the chief organizer said the dance will be a regular affair to be held every Thursday so that the
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    Wedding Of College Tutor
    68 3 TAIPING, Mon. Mr. Ng Kam Yew of the tutorial staff of the Sultan Abdul Hamid College. Alor Star and Miss Looi Swee Yong. younger daughter of Madam AuYeong Yoon Yee and the late Mr. Looi Ah Foong were marlied at the Registry of Marriages here today.
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    GIMSON BOYS TO SHOW LIVESTOCK
    229 3 They'll Vie For Show Honours BOYS from the Gimson School in Clementi Road, Singapore, will vie for honours with Colony farmers in the forthcoming Agricultural Show at the old Kalian? Airport on Sept. 1. Superintendent of Homes. a) Welfare Department, Mr. P. R. Ridley, told
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    JOYFUL DINNER
    28 3 MORE than 200 daily-rated yees of the Central tricity Board in Taiping 1 a dinner to celebrate ineir success in achieving inrease d wages on Sunday.
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    Yang Kuos Death Sparks Biggest Bid To Break Red Morale
    535 3 'GREATEST BLOW YET KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The biggest ever Communist morale shattering operation is on. Tne assault began this morning when "voice" aircraft of the Psychological Warfare Department directed a battery of broadcasts towards the suspected hideout of the elusive
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    EURASIANS DEMAND RIGHTS OF NATIVES
    391 3 ...And Economic Guards Similar To The Malays KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Eurasian Community in Malaya demanded of the Reid Commission today that it be afforded constitutional protection on parity with aborigines, when Merdeka dawns next Aug:. 31. Expressing in unambiguous terms its undivided loyalty to
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    R.I. PLANS 2 FILM FESTIVALS IN MALAYA
    67 3 R.I. PLANS 2 FILM FESTIVALS IN MALAYA JAKARTA. Aug. 27 (UP) Movie producers here will launch two Indonesian film festivals in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur this December, it was announced today. The Association of Film Producers iPPFD announced it will send 19 movie stars to the festival. Six movie companies
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    Move By Women
    64 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Ceylonese women, headed by Dr. E. S. R. Alfred, are proposing to form an active women's division in the Ceylonese Federation of Malaya. The following will convene the meeting: Mrs. Alfred, Mrs. A. Nesaratnam, Mrs W W. Rajasingam, Miss G. Chelliah, Miss D. Ponniah.
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    Sounds Like Bargaining-Says Bench To Counsel
    298 3 Sounds Like BargainingSays Bench To Counsel And Man Gets Chance To Pay Back Money He Took From Firm IPOH, Mon.— President of the Sessions Court, Mr. E. V. A. Peers tcday postponed sentence of the chief clerk of Lindeteves (M) Ltd., Michael Teoh Ming Kwee, 41, who pleaded guilty to
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    LADY BLACK TAKES A CLOSE LOOK
    57 3 LADY BLACK TAKES A CLOSE LOOK LADY Black, wife of the Governor of Singapore takes a close look at a "casualty" during the finals of the first annual Inter-Detach-ment of the Singapore First Aid competition Branch of the British Red Cross Society, in the Badminton Hall. last night. The contest
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    Duty-Free Limit Stays
    54 3 THE Indian Government will not change its decision to limit the duty-free allowance to Rs. 500 for goods taken into India by passengers from Malaya. This decision has been communicated to the Singapore Malayan Indian Congress which earlier requested the Indian Government to restore the previous duty-free
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    $1 FINE
    40 3 IPOH. Mon. A Home Guard, Clifford Jambu, was today fined $1 by Mr. E. V. A. Peers for not displaying an "L" plate at the rear of his motor cycle. Jambu. who holds a provisional licence pleaded guilty.
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    'Colony Health Is Gcod'
    201 4 'Colony Health Is Gcod' HEALTH conditions in Singapore are generally very satisfactory but every efiort is beinf! made to improve the health of the rural populations, the Chief Health Officer. Dr L. M. Ram, told The Standard yesterday. Dr. Ram said two new maternity and child welfare clinics one at
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    Come To Spore— Say Letters
    84 4 Come To Spore— Say Letters SPECIAL air letter fcrms, the first to be used by any tourist organization have been printed by the Singapore Public Relations Office. The inside of the form carries a vertical decorative fringe of symbols and scenes of Singapore, and alcng the bottom a horizontal fringe
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    Alice Sings A Song At A...
    31 4 pic. MISS Alice Lee, well-known Singapore singer, gives the 428 prisoners at Outram Road jail, three of her best songs at Sunday's variety concert. Standard
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    Concert For Prisoners
    214 4 Selfless' Artists Give Their Best At Show ONCE again, professional entertainers of Singapore have co'.re forward to devote the one evening off they have a week to present a variety show for the Colony's prisoners. There were 12 acts in the two-and-a-half hour show on Sunday for
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    New Labour Trouble At Bus Company
    229 4 AND IT'S OVER SPECIAL INSPECTORS LABOUR relations at the Hock Lee Amalgamated Bus Company in Singapore are strained and it's all over 17 special ticket inspectors. The 200 busmen of the company accused the inspectors of "unnecessarily interfering with their daily duties and not
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    SIX YOUTHS CHARGED WITH CAUSING HURT
    139 4 A 16-YEAR-OLD schoolboy said in a Singapore Court yesterday that ten secret society men "beat him up" when he refused to pay protection money. Ismail bin Wanjor, the schoolboy, said he was watching a football game when ten youths surrounded him, and demanded $2
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      197 4 c&lmanac Information at a Glance S I N <i A'PlOlß\g SHELL CO: free film show— The Varley British News— at Shell Theatrette. Collyer Quay 115 p m. CHINKS!. YMCA: Table tennis. Billiards. Bodvbuilding 2-10 p.m M.mdann class 8 p.m. Wrestling SINGAPORE MUSICAL SOCIETY: Choral orchestral concert at Victoria Memorial Hall
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      308 4 145 Rhythm Session (KL); 6p.m. Programme Summary (P); 6.02 Happy Anniversary (P): 6.56 Singapore Share Market Report <S>; 7 pm Time Signal and News (S): 7.10 News Talk (S/KL); 7.15 Sports Reel (S): 7.30 L. P. Review tS); 8 pm. Mark my Words IKL): 8.30 The World in Peril (S);
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      281 4 liar Music (19. 31 41in) 930 p.m. World News; 9.40 News Commentary; 9.45 Music of the Islands; 10 p.m. Listeners' Choice: 10.30 Guy Mitchell Sinus; 10.47 Talk International Report; 11 p.m. Australian News; 11. 10 News Commentary: 11.15 Cafe Continentale; 1130 Talk— The Australian Scene: 11.45 Ray Martin's Orchestra. (19.
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    Malays Want More Land To Settle In
    166 5 A GROUP of Malay headmen from the rural areas of Singapore yesterday suggested to the Public Relations Officer Mr. G. G. Thomson, that Government should set uo a special committee for the allo- cation of lands to Malay settlers. Inche Anan bin Haji
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    MALAYA'S FUTURE ENVOYS
    79 5 THESE five men are Malaya's future envoys. They are on their way to Canberra, Australia to undergo a nine-month training course in diplomacy. They leave today for Australia by Qantas/ BOAC. Standardpic shows from left to right, Tengku Ngah Mohammed (Trengannu), Raja Aznam (Pcrak), Lim Teck Choon
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    Hello, Japan, This Is A Direct Call
    110 5 Hello, Japan, This Is A Direct Call SINGAPORE residents will soon be able to hav e direct conversations with people in Japan, the Director of Telecommunications. Mr. J. C. Dallow. told The Standard yesterday. His department is now carrying out experiments on the new direct Japan Singapore telephone link, Mr.
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    Students Get Tough
    40 5 THE Singapore Chinee Middle Schools Students' Union has resolved to "unite and fight" schools' managements which do not co-operate with the Union. The resolution was passed at a three-and-a-half-hour committee meeting at the Hokkien Association last Sunday.
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    Vote Or Face The Penalty
    231 5 Front Secretaries Want To Make It Compulsory EVERY citizen in Singapore will be bound by law to exercise his franchise at the next general elections if a recommendation by the branch secretaries of the Singapore Labour Front is accepted by Government. Twelve branch secretaries of
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    This Love Story Is Frank But Not Risque
    108 5 This Love Story Is Frank But Not Risque SPECIAL film premiere of the Broadway and London stage hit. I AM A CAMERA, will be shown at the Pavilion on Wednesday. September 5, at 9.30 p.m. in aid of the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital. Tickets are priced at $10, $5, $3
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    Big Decision On New Polytechnic
    170 5 3 Top Posts To Be Filled THE Board of Directors of Singapore's new Polytechnic is expected to reach a "big decision" next week regarding the appointments of candidates for three top posts, Mr. Lionel Cresson, Chairman of the Board, told The Standard yesterday. At present,
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    DRIVER FREED
    34 5 MOHAMED Kassim. 50. a trolley bus driver employed by the Singapore Traction Company, was yesterday acquitted in the First Traffic Court, of a charge of negligent driving on April 5. this year.
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    3rd Hi-Fi Concert
    77 5 MOZART'S "Magic Flute," sung in English at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, and transcribed, will feature the third high fidelity programme tomorrow night at the Y.M.C.A., Orchard Road. The full two-act opera will start at 8 p.m., with Eleanor Steber as the daughter of the
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    Union's Lack Of Support
    152 5 THE annual report of the Qanta.s Empire Airways Local Employees' Union published yesterday alleged that members are net co-operating with the Union. The report says that in the past the members had been very co-operative and no reason could be given for this. Union Secretary. Inche
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    He Sold Used Tickets: $200
    71 5 MALACCA, Mon.— Lee Tec Boh was fined $200 for selling three used tickets at the recent Settlement agricultural show when he pleaded guilty to the charge in a Magistrate's court today. Lee said that the tickets had been given to him by the gate collector
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    Give Me A Smile...
    66 5 NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Miss Violet Shaw, second daughter of film magnate Mr. Run Run Shaw, smiles bravely for The Standard cameraman, although her eyes still glint with tears just before her departure by BOAC plane for Hongkong en route to the United States. Violet will be away for
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    Rankin To Vacation Here
    59 5 AMERICAN Ambassador in Taipei, Mr. Karl Rankin. and his wife, will fly to Singapore next month for a week's vacation here and in the Federation. H c will b e the second of the rmbassadors from Formosa to come to the Colony. The first was Japan's
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      A 'White' Malaya
      541 6 r THE Federation Minister for Works, Posts and Telecommunications, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir. urged the people of Malaya to make the whole country "white 1 at least six months before the dawn of Merdeka day. when he addressed UMNO members in Penang last Sunday. He suggested
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      Unwanted Infants
      380 6 THE Singapore Social Welfare Department must be congratulated on the success which has attended its "Boarding Out Scheme' for unwanted infants. What the Children's and Young Persons' Division of the Department has now been able to accomplish in five short months deserves unstinted praise and approval. In this
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    SICK IKE ond SLICK DICK
    1170 6  - SICK IKE ond SLICK DICK CASSANDRA A banjo strummed in a cathedral, a film star prayed at this rather dreadful rally f0r.... the famous British columnist By SAN FRANCISCO. T HAVE always thought that to play a banjo in a cathedral was just about the most calculated act of sacrilege
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    THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME
    453 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME ASTER GUNASEKERA By THE fears expressed in certain quarters that the MCA was in imminent danger of disintegration were dispelled by the general committee at its 10--hour meeting on Sunday in Kuala Lumpur approving the Alliance's draft memorandum to the Reid Constitutional Commission with
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    Service Is Wanted
    122 6 Sir; The City Architect and Building Surveyor's Department is one of our hospitable Government departments where visitors are requested, to "take a seat" and stay as long as they can. and to come again another day or any time they are free. But we the people cannot
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    What About British Asians?
    168 6 Sir; Now that Mr. Thome and his friends have started a new European body called the British European Association consisting of British subjects or Commonwealth citizens of European descent, I would like to suggest that we. British subjects of Asian descent should also start a new
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    Govt. Has Encouraged Tourism
    483 6 Govt. Has Encouraged Tourism UHUHUHJHJHJH Sir; The Singapore Government has encouraged tourism for the past 6 years and en terea the field of tourist pubSStJ before the opening o some of the major tourist aeencies now operating ss~oc Te 2 n t SSS2 S and 40,000 booK lcts have been
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    WHAT HAS HAPPENED
    38 6 Sir: Many persons, like me. read with much pleasure a few weeks ace that a certain lawyer was forming an Association of Debtors to fight unscrupulous monyelenders. What has happened since then? R.S. MOHD Singapore
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    Give This Boy A Chance To Represent Malaya
    194 6 Sir: As a keen sports follower I would like very much to suggest to the MAAA Selection Committee (through the medium of your popular Post-Bag) that Abdul Rahim bin Ahmad, at present of Penang, be given a chance to represent Malaya in
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      77 6 TWENTY MILLION MURDERS in CHINA Millions of Chinese have been murderer because they held religious beliefs, or were intellectuals, or were opposed to Communism. Here is the first over-all picture of the mass exterminations that have swept Red China massacres that have broken a people's will to resist. This is
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      92 6 A GREAT JOKE Sir: There Is a cry from the GCS. HQ. "The temporaries lower the efficiency of the Government." What I wonder is whether this cry comes from the same HQ. which presses the Government to Malayanize the Service even at the expense of efficiency? And if it does,
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    FRUITERER MURDERED IN MAFIA 'WAR'
    201 7 Police Placed On Emergency Call caS P^ ICC h re Werc P laced emergency niahMn r y C eW 9° n gmurder last MafiV WOf bctwcen Actions of the rich fr T' e A socl **y*<" control of Palermo's rich fruit and vegetable market. D'Ales
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    4 Formula For Her Long Life
    69 7 4 Formula For Her Long Life NEW YORK, Aue !7. <AP) Mrs Emma >chwarti received a ard of congratulation rom President Eiseninwer on reaching her OOth birthday on Sunlay. The President exiressed the hope that lhe uu' ou !i enjoy Bood lealtn "through many nore happy years." When newsmen asked
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    Derelict Had A Fortune In Shares
    144 7 Derelict Had A Fortune In Shares SYDNEY. Aug. 27. (Reuter). Tnousands of pounds worth of shares and a bank book showing a credit of noo were found by r ..^e in the dingy room of an 84-year-old man killed by a truck at the week-end. Alphonse Joseph Patrick Doyle was
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    Bitten By Zoo Snake
    77 7 LONDON. Aug. 27 (Reuter) A 16-year-old boy, missing from his home in Stourbridge, v i estershire since last Thursday, was found yesterday—because he had been bitten by a snake at London Zoo. Now police are searching for the boy's parents, who are somewhere'* in the London
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    £17,500 For A Painting
    35 7 LONDON. Aug. 27, (Reuter) —The well-known Thomas Gainsborough painting. "Peapant Girl Gathering Sticks." has been bought for 17.500 bj newspaper publisher Lord Beaverbrock for the art ry at Fredericton, New Brunswick.
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    29 Trapped
    33 7 WARSAW. Aug. 27. (Reuter) Twenty-nine miners are r-e'..eved to have died in a coll.erv accident at Chorzow. Stalino^rod, in the Upper an coal hasin. it was learned in Warsaw late last
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    Double Tragedy
    31 7 CECIL Collins. 19. slipped ■ni fell yesterday in Bude, ind, while delivering con"ces to the family of a 1 killed in an accident, ins died of head iniuries.— UP
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    RED CHINESE MUST BEHAVE THEMSELVES'
    83 7 WASHINGTON Aug 27 (UP) White House Press Secretary James Hagerty said in an interview yesterday that the U.S. Government will not approve Communist Chinese entry into the United Nations '"until they act as a civilized nation and behave themselves. When asked if he thought the
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    S. African Jailed In Indonesia
    107 7 JAKARTA, Aug. 27 (UP).— A South African boxer known as "the African Mauler" was jailed in Bandung on charges of swindling, it was learned today. According to reports. Johannes Esterhuizen was accused of swindling thousands of rupiahs from a Bandung radio store and a laundry.
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    Echo To Kidnapping
    75 7 CHARGED with kidnapping: Wcin b er ge r baby. 31-year-old taxidriver Angelo J. Lamarca is taken into the police station at Mineol.t. Long Island, New York, on Aug. 24. Police say that he has admitted to kidnapping one-month-old Peter Weinberger on July 3, and to covering the
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    ike Plans Active Election Campaign
    145 7 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27, (UP)— President Eisenhower plans to campaign actively this fall in "areas' where other Republican candidates face stiff apposition. White House Press Secretary James C. Hasjerty disclosed today. Hagerty. who said Eisenr is "no longer a conem." revealed that the President will
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    Experts Debate On 'Missing Link'
    119 7 DUESSELDORF. Aug. 27 (Reuter)— Three hundred experts meeting here this week will debate whether the Neanderthal Man, whose skull A-as found near here 100 years ago. had a contemporary in the long-sought "missing link 1 be- tween ape and man. Leading anthropologists, palaentologists and geologists,
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    Laines' Luxury Home
    104 7 SINGER Composer Frankie Laine and his wife, actress Nan Grey. relax at their Beverly Hills, California, home on two of their specially designed pillows and- mattresses pieces. The 2 house was built in 1939 for the late actor Ri- chard Dix. The Laine's 2 bought it three
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    SHOT WITH SPEAR GUN AFTER DRINKING BOUT
    224 7 ATLANTA Georgia, Aug. 27, (AP)— A 43-year-old man was shot through the chest with a skin diver's spear srun yesterday. The six-inch spear shaft, studed with two-inch barbs, entered John. T. Pritchett's chest and came out under the left shoulder blade. He is
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    Birth Control In Japan's Industries
    160 7 INCREASE IN EFFICIENCY' TOKYO, Auff. 27, (Reuter)— Greater industrial production at the cost of lesser human reproduction had been achieved by many Japanese companies, a spokesman for the Population Problems Association said here yesterday. i The spokesman said the companies have increased production by encouraging
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    REDS MAKE A BIG FIND'
    46 7 LONDON, Aug. 27. (Reuter) A big mine project has been started near Zaglik, in the small Caucesian range, following the discovery of the "world's biggest" deposits of alunite. a mineral with a large aluminium content, the Soviet News Agency reported yesterday.
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    Townsend s World Tour
    50 7 LYDD, England, Aug. 27, (Reuter) Group Captain Peter Townsend arrived here hy air yesterday from Belgium to begin finaj preparations for a 60,000-mile round the world trip. Group Cap'.ain Townsend will drive a Land Rover, a utility jeep-like vehicle, on the tour which begins next month.
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      AIRMEN ARE ALIVE
      90 7 IWAKUNI, Japan. Aug. 27 (AP.) Four American Navy wives, whose husbands are missing after a Navy petrol bomber was shot down off the Red China coast, today clung to the hope their husbands may have been captured by the Communists and not killed. They said they "were
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      Egyptian Tin Soldiers
      44 7 LONDON. Aug. 27 (UP) A British toy firm is rushing production of Egyptian tin soldiers. The Egyptian soldiers are being made from moulds first used in 1898 during Lord Kitchener's campaign against Insurgents in the Sudan, then part of British-con-trolled Egypt.
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      Exchange Of Diplomats
      35 7 HONGKONG, Aug. 27 (Reuter >.— North Vietnam and the Mongolian Peoples Republic will exchange ambassadors and raise their legations In Ulan Bator and Handi to embassies, the New China News Agency reported yesterday.
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      Kind Robbers
      32 7 PHILADELPHIA. Aug 27, (UP)— Pvt David Wasson, 21, of Harpersville. New York, was robbed nf US$BO. but the bandits "good heartediy" gave him back US$2O to go home on furlough.
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    100.000 Men In U.S. Bases Co On Strike
    300 7 PROTEST AGAINST RULES TOKYO. Aug. 27, (AP>— lnion officials said more than 100.000 Japanese workers left their jobs at IS. military bases throughout the nation on Monday in a 24-hour protest against new rules against sleeping or drinking: on duty and being
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    Marquis Dead
    39 7 SALERNER. France, Aug. 27 (AP) Marquis Jason De Castellane. 54, a descendant of American Railroad magnate Jay Gould, was found dead on Friday with two revolver wounds in his head. Authorities said the death presumably was suicide.
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    BAKER BOY BEATS GIRLS
    54 7 ST. PAUL. Minnesota. Aug. 27 <AP) A 17-year-old boy la?t night defeated 125 women to take the most coveted prize in the Minnesota State fair's baking division. Ronald Smallidge's Graham bread entry was judged the best cf 175 loaves entered in competition. Ronald was the only
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    Miller Flies To US For Questioning
    161 7 LONDON. Aug. 27 (AP> Playwright Arthur Miller clasped his wife Marilyn Monroe in a farewell embrace on Sunday night. Then he flew cflf to the United States where a congressional citation for contempt still hangs over him. On July 25. the House of Representatives
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    ITALIAN DRIVERS DUBBED CALLOUS'
    170 7 MILAN. Aug. 27. (Reuter)— Most Italian motorists "step on the gas'' and drive on whenever they see a road accident, according to an experiment made by journalists here. The reasons? They might be suspected of causing the accident. Thev went to keep out of any subsequent
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      98 7 BEAUTY \ff% in-the-BoxjJgJ* I I Just like a Jack-in-the-Box, Beauty can bm j produced out of a Box. Make yourself XjfSp^^. /ot e/i>r uith one of our Magic Beauty Cases. W^^^^^^^f^ LUXAN HIDE BEAUTY CASE 1 IVORY VYNIDE BEAUTY CASE I MOROCCO GRAIN BEAUTY CASES LEATHER CLOTH BEAUTY CASES t^fc.
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    What does fne future hold for the Princess?
    697 9  - What does fne future hold for the Princess? Tony Miles ...It She's Lucky, Marriage With The Man Of Her Choice says 1 LONDON A BLUE-EYED, go den-haired little girl is beginning her seventh year as from last week. To the world she a princess and second in succession to the
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    British Girls Sold As Slaves
    317 9  -  SHIRLEY FLACK By LONDON. EXPERTS investigating the growing slave traffic in the Middle East are convinced that many British girls have been shipped abroad and sold to rich Arab sheiks and oil kings. Each year 5,000 girls and women disappear from their homes in Britain.
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    Psychological Types
    748 9  -  C. Lyle Jackson WHICH IS YOUItS? ffissss askssssss PSYCHOLOGY today is far more a subject for discussion by the man in the street than it was 40 or, even 30 years ago. It is beginning to take its place in everyday life and more people are reading the
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      185 9 STANDARD'S Crossword Puzzle CLUES ACROSS 8 But the landlady doesn't for a display (8) 9 Not an asset of self-will (6) 10. Pellets to heat up the prey.' <8> 12. Is this material Navy brown? (6) 15. Some tenant who prefers makf amends (10) 19 We return to the Warrant
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      114 9 14. Time to change over money (3. 4) 15. A cheat as a trusty friend (7) 16. First class return to the sea for these islands (7) 17. School of note (4) 18. He takes a part rap (7) 20. Give a bad name and hang him (OLd proverb (3)
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    108 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing price yesterday were: Copra August $26i buyers, $262 sellers; ccconut oil (bulk) $39 1 sellers, coconut oil (drums) $43 sellers; Muntok white pepper $125 sellers. Sarawak white $124. Special Sarawak black $86 sellers. Singapore Copra Association closing prices: Sept. $26| buyers. $26g
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    Cambodia To Buy More Cloth From Here
    252 10 Cambodia To Buy More Cloth From Here THE Cambodian Government has approved the granting of nearly $3 million of foreign exchange for its traders to deal with Singapore, following the visit of the Singapore mission last month. Disclosing this, Mr. Ng Teng Kiat. the chairman of trie Singapore Piecegoods Traders'
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    It's Time To Leave!
    49 10 photo. TEAPOT clock on the breakfast table will remind many an absent-minded businessman that it's time to leave for the station. It's one of the exhibits at the 7th International Watchmakers' and Jewellers' Exhibition in Frankfurt, Cerviany. The clock has an eight-day lever movement. AP
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    Rubber Drops 7/8 Cent
    134 10 Rubber Drops 7 8 Cent QUIET conditions prevailed in the Singapore rubber market throughout yesterday, first grade rubber for September shipment closing at 98J cents per lb., a drop of I cent on Saturday. Prices opened lower In the absence overseas advices. The market was Quiet with prices moving between
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    SUEZ TRAFFIC TO FAR EAST
    170 10 1 i titan 4> Aiid €amtttvrv& NEARLY one quarter of the total tonnage loaded and unloaded in external trade at Indonesian and Malayan ports travels to its destination via the Suez Canal. This is revealed in the figures of the tonnage of Suez Canal goods
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    SHARES QUIETLY STEADY
    94 10 THE share market was quietly steady with a few price changes, according to the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday. Fair business was reported. Price changes announced by the Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers W. Hammer 2.85 2.90 cd Hume Industries A5/2 A5/5 MIMMi Berjuntai 24 '9 25/Consolidated
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    Business In Shares
    119 10 Business In Shares MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday -reported the following business done: Alex Bricks prefs. $1.70; Gammon $1.95: W. Hammer $2 85 $2 97* overnight: Hume A5/3; M Cement $1.62; 11. Colls $1.09 $1.10 overnight: Robinson ords'sl.ss: 9. Times $2.85; Straits Traders $25.25: Wearne Bros. $2.97t, $2.95: W. Jacks $2.80, $2.77
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    Transformers For U.S.
    28 10 THREE large transformers have been ordered from Britain by the Tennessee Valley Authority of America. Value of the contract is reported to be over £200,000.
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    Aircraft Arrivals
    88 10 EXPECTED TODAY Malayan Airways MLI2I KL/MAL 955 a.m. KLM KLB29 AMS/BKOK Noon Malayan Airways MLIOI PG/KL 12 45 p.m. Qantas EM536 LON/COL 2.30 p.m. Qantas EMS3I SYD'JAK 3.55 p.m. Malayan Airways ML4O7 SAND/KUCH 4.45 p.m. BOAC 8A786 LON/BKOK 5.10 p.m. Garuda GA37O JAK/PAL 5.10 p.m. Skyways 8A776 LON/BKOK
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    Rubber Price Revision Talks
    47 10 THE rubber price revision talks for the rubber-for-peace pact between Ceylon and China will take place in Peking again, it was learned in Colombo yesterday. A trade delegation led by the Minister of Commerce and Trade will leave for Peking in September. U.P.
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    Malaya Buys H.K. Rattan Furniture
    160 10 Malaya Buys H.K. Rattan Furniture MALAYA is Hongkong's fourth best customer for rattan furniture, according to the latest issue of the H.K. Trade Bulletin. Last year, a total of HK520,496,091 worth of bamboo, straw, willow and other furniture made of vegetable plaiting materials, were exported from that Colony. Malaya, with
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    FILM AIDS DRIVING
    55 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Police Driving School at the Federal Training Depot here is now equipped with a series of instructional films produced by the Shell Film Unit in London. These were given to the school by the Shell Companies of the Federation and Singapore, following a
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    Merchants Celebrate
    46 10 KAJANG. Mon. Two hundred people last night attended a dinner to mark the 46th anniversary of the Kajang Merchants' Club the eldest surviving club In the district. At the dinner was Mr. Then Lip Thong. 70, the only surviving founder member of the Club.
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    Mobile Foam Engine For Fire-fighting
    108 10 DESIGNED for use in industry and in ships where fire risk arises from the handling and storage of highly inflammable liquids and other sub- stances, is a new mobile foam engine. This consists basically of a steel container mounted on a two-wheeler tubular frame, rather
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    Executive Surveys Scope For Watches
    179 10 A REPRESENTATIVE of the Benrus Watch Company, New York flew into Singapore during the week-end to survey the market and investigate the possibilities of appointing a distributor. Mr. Gregory J. Pissarevsky. manager, Far East Sales of the company, told The Standard that Benrus was now
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      641 10 CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION. 1957. FEDERATION OF MALAYA CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION. 1957. FEDERATION OF MALAYA QUALIFYING TEST A QUALIFYING Test for Private Candidates wishing to enter for the Cambridge Schcol Certificate Examination 1957. and the Federation of Malaya Certificate of Education Examination, 1957, will be held at 9.00 a.m.
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      673 10 NOTICES In the High Court of the Colony of Singapore. Island of Singapore. Companies Winding-up Petition No. 6 of 1956. In the matter of Happy Cabaret Company Ltd. and In the matter of the Companies Ordinance, 1940. VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Petition for the winding-up of the abovenamed
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      578 10 LIQUORS LICENCE REGULATIONS. 1955— REGULATION 16 (1) APPLICATION FOR RETAIL DEALER'S LICENCE ]\TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 11 that I, LIM DJIN HAI, trading under the style of JAVA PROVISION STORE of No. 117 Killiney Road, Singapore, have applied to the Board of Licensing Justices, Singapore, for a Retail Dealer's Licence
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      532 10 The Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 11) In the High Court of the Colony of Singapore Island of Singapore TN BANKRUPTCY. No. 225 of 1 1956. Re: BUJONG of No 19, Holland Road, Singapore, 10. Receiving Order made 14th May, 1956. Dated of Adjudication 25th June, 1956. Date and place of First
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      29 10 PELNI-LINES 12, ROBINSON ROAD Tel: ***** (Freight /Through Cargo Cept.) Tel: 3607 9 (Manager "PAJANGAN" for Tambelan/Pontianak Aug 28 "PADEA" for Indrogiri Porri Aug 3' "PAHEPA" for Polembong Sept
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      1025 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 si. 1 1 <ln«oipoiated m S.nsapo.t) (12 lino) Mg, THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE Cam,,, opfion to p.octto via other po.ti to toad and dischane caigc SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL. CLASCOW. LONDON. 6 CONTINENT Singapore. £«ma.u, fo, LlvtrDOO ST«» P.«."t u«r»e, for Liverpoo A U
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      884 11 MITSUI |jEI LINE S'pore P. S'hom Penang FOR JAPAN from India Azumason Maru for Yokohama, Kobe, Mo)i 29 Aug FOR JAPAN from Continent Hakoneson Maru for Yokohama, Nagoyo, Kobe vio Hongkong G. 18 Hodakasan Mara for Yokohama Nogoyo, Kobe via Hongkong 14 Sept FOR U.S.A. via Suez For New York,
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      726 11 EAST ASIATIC LINES OUTWAEDS Sailings toi Bongkok ond/or Far East. Penoitf P. S how S'por* "JUTLANDIA" 3/ 5 Sept 6/8 Sept 9/11 Sepf "SONGKKLA" 9/13Sept 14/MSept 15/16Sept "FALSTRIA" 16/17Sept 18/18Sept 19/20Sept HOMEWARDS Soilings tor Genoa, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg. Copenhagen. S pore P. S'hom Penon« "MOMBASA" 26/27 Sept 28/28 Sep 29/30
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    Success Of An Experiment In Int'l Co-operation
    2484 12 SAS CELEBRATES TENTH YEAR TEX years ago, early in the morning of Aug. 1, 1946, the first truly international airline of the world was formed: SAS (Scandinavian Airlines System). Denmark, Norway and Sweden are small countries and so it is only natural that
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    More Low Cost Houses At Petaling Jaya Ready Soon
    217 12 THE Malaya Borneo Building Society Ltd. has received 4,000 inquiries for houses now being built at Petaling Jaya (off Jalan Templer), Selangor, Mr. J. Burgess, the general manager of the Society, told The Standard yesterday. The society acting as agents offer
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    SHIPS IN PORT
    124 12 SHIPS IN PORT OUTER ROADS Dikabrist, Kiku Maru, Langsa, Makhachakala, Kaloekoe Glory, Otori Maru. Metal Trader, Rajula, Telegburg. Lotte Skou. Akita Maru, Hakonesan M"aru. Golden C'amma, Murena, Alice Brown, Hoi How, Prosper, Silndoeng, Dardanus INNER ROADS Tai Tong. Moonrish, Stia, Padea. Pajangan. Petaling. Segamat. Long Sindhu. Soon Bee. Batacia. Torina.
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    New Fabrics On Display
    88 12 NEW fabrics evolved by the British textile industry of special interest to areas where cotton is traditional material for clothing, are now on show In Manchester. The exhibition shows the development of blends of rayon staple and cotton and will remain open until early in September
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    BANK RATES
    108 12 THE Malayan Exchange Bank* Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday New York: buying, airmail. TT 32 9/16. OD 32 11/16: 90 dav.s 32 15/16 credit bills, 33 trade bills. Canada: buying, airmail. TT 31 15/16. OD 32 1/16. 90 days 32g credit bills.
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    Firm Expects More Business
    111 12 BRUNTOX'S Holdings Ltd., flour millers of Sydney, expects additional business through contracts which it arranged recently with buyers in Indonesia, Malaya, Burma. Hongkong and Manila. The chairman, Mr. W. D. Brunton, told shareholders that flour export trading would be difficult while the world surplus of wheat
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    Three Win Prizes
    185 12 WINNERS of the "Crocodile" Shirts Competition, organized by the Malayan and Borneo agents for the shirts Hagemeyer Trading Co. (M) Ltd., have been announced. The conte%t was held in connection with the trade fairs at the Great World. Singapore, and at the 8.8. Park. Kuala Lumpur. At
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      109 12 'hmx\<\ SHELL MALAYAN MOTOR RALLY 1956 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT The Singapore Motor Club wish to announce that owing to the happy occasion of the visit of H. R. H. The Duke of Edinburgh on 31st October to 2nd \ovember, the Shell Malayan Motor Rally has been postponed until 28th- 30th December,
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    PERAK SHOCK CHAMPS
    420 13 PERAK SHOCK CHAMPS Malayan Hockey Carnival theiSlv« «f PtR 4 Mon Perak virtually assured SvFPdlf? ng m the final at the Malayan Sembilan a i, n T" 1 1 when the y sh k <* Ne&ri vital "A s™^a^yan5 ™^a^yan champions with a 3-1 defeat in a £L* n the
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    US Baseball
    151 13 NEW YORK. Aug. 2?. (AP)_ Sunday's baseball results and latest standings as follows: NATIONAL ft L^ui? 4-3. New York 4-3. Philadelphia 11-4 Cincinnati 10-5 F: '-burgh 2-0 Chicago 1-2. ukee 6, Brooklyn 2. AMERICAN York 7-0 Detroit 5-4. 2-1. Kansas City 7-6. ind 4, Washington 1. Ba u.Tiore
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    U.K. Soccer
    38 13 LONDON. Aug. 27 (Reuter) The following are football fixtures to be played tomorrow. Tuesday. League Division I Burnley v Arsenal. League Division II Grimsby v Stoke. League Division 111 (North) Carlisle v Darlington. Trar.mere v Hull.
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    WEARNES 4-0
    49 13 WEARXE Brothers. on their second attempt, cleared their first hurdle in the SBHFAs Junior knockout Cuptie when thev beat Metal Box bv -four goals to nil at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers for Wearne Brothers were: P. K. Samy and Mohamed Zain. They led 1-0 at half time.
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    Teachers Athletics
    70 13 THE heats and 3 Miles Finals c: e Ist Annual Athletic Meet of the Singapore Teachers' Ur.:on will be held on Saturcv September 1. at Victoria School commencing at 4.30 p.m. f; wing is the programme:- Heats: (i) 100 yards, (ii) 220 yards, (iii) 440 yards. Finals: (i)
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    Badminton Match For Schwinn Cup
    87 13 A BADMINTON competition for the "Schwinn Cup" will be played between the United States Information Service Kuala Lumpur and its Singapore office. The date for this annual USIS badminton tournament has not been decided. USIS Singapore has called for entries in the Men's Singles. Men's
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    US-JAPANESE BALL PLAYERS
    77 13 Ipic. HERE'S the US Consulate Braves and the Japanese 'Tokyo Dragons' before Nick Feld, executive officer of the US Consulate pitched the first ball to start off the 1956 Softball League Season The Braves clobbered the Tokyo Dragons for 24 hits and clinched the seven-inning tilt by
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    Braves-Pandas Clash The Highlight
    295 13 HEADS-LP softball »s *xpecled to be seen this Sunday when the highly-touted Consulate Braves tangle with the Pandas in the feature game at 10.00 a. m on the St. Joseph's Institution ground. The Consulate Braves are much stronger in the batting department but their principal weakness
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    FE AIR FORCE GOLF TOURNEYS
    177 13 THE Far East Air Force Golfing Society will hold its annual three-day meeting at the Royal Singapore Golf Club on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, during the course of which the Command individual championship will be decided. Among the entries are the Commander-in-chief.
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    U.K. Cricket: Close Of Play
    111 13 U.K. Cricket: Close Of Play LONDON. Aug. 27 (Reuter)— Cricket close of play scores; Rain prevented play today in following five matches: Saturday's close of play scores were: At Leicester, Essex 132 for three versus Leicestershire. At Chesterfield, Gloucestershire 76. Derbyshire 15 for no wicket. At Neath, Lancashire 102 for
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    AUSSIES TOO GOOD
    83 13 RROOKLINE, Massachusetts, Aug. 27 (AP) Australia's Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall jolted Ameriran Davis Cup hopes by overwhelming U.S. aces Vic Seixas and Ham Richardson for the national doubles tennis championship in the 75th annual tournament at Longwood. The 21 -year-old Aussies, the top members of their
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    Fine Win
    33 13 R.A.F. Scletar trounced Bedok Sports Club by eight goals to nil in a S.A.F.A. Junior Cuptie soccer match at Geylang yesterday. Scorers were: Davies 3. Ford 2, Hill 2 and Gallagher.
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    Motoring
    30 13 THE Singapore Motor Club have organised a motoring gymkhana versus the Police to be held at the Police Training School. Thomson Road at 9 a.m. on Sunday. September 9.
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    Drawn Match
    35 13 RAJAJI Sports Club held Tamil Brotherhood Association to a 2—2 draw in a friendly soccer match play at Farrer Park yesterday. VS. Maniam and Balan scared the goals for Rajaji and TBA. respectively.
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    Tennis Ties Rained Out
    47 13 PENANG, Mon. Heavy rain which fell throughout today washed out the fixtures of the Malayan Open Tennis competition. All ties were put off till tomorrow but if the weather continues to be bad. the remaining matches of the tournament may be called off.
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