Singapore Standard, 29 August 1956

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    31 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD ***** (5 lines) POLICE 2400 n it in i. /IRE BRIGADE 2811 GENERAL HOSPITAL 2414 \ol. VII. No. 58 SINGAPORE. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1956 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon TROOPS CALLED OUT TO RUN THE GAS WORKS
    268 1  -  R. G. PILLAI One And A Half Hours After Strike Is Declared Council Assures Public Of Normal Supplies By TROOPS WERE CALLED OUT LAST NIGHT TO RUN THE SINGAPORE KALLANG GAS WORKS ONE AND A HALF HOURS AFTER 400 WORKERS OF THE
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    Lock icon They Kiss Their Native Soil In Gratitude For Safe Return
    108 1 THEY have not seen their homeland for a lone: time and in their prison o.unp they dreamed of the riav when they would return home to see their loved ones a?ain. Now the day is here and these Greek prisoners-of-war
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    Lock icon Suez: A Time Limit
    132 1 LONDON, Aug. 28 (UP) The old Suez Canal Company announced tonight it will call Its non-Egyptian employees home if the fivenation Suez committee is unable to reach agreement en the waterway's future w.thin an "agreed" time The Company's offices in Paris and London issued this warning
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    Lock icon The Test
    75 1 LONDON. Tucs.— The Fifth and final Test ended in .1 draw at the Oval here today but not before Australia came perilously close to losing the game. With more than an hour left to play thev had lost tour wickets for onlv 10 runs but Miller and Johnson
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    Lock icon TREATY QUERIED
    308 1 Rulers Refer Draft To Working Party KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Malay Rulers of the Federation are today understood to have referred back the draft Anglo-Malayan Defence Treaty to its working party, "for further negotiations on some points concerning our sovereignty." This was the highlight of this morning's three-hour
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    Lock icon Emergency Follows A Riot
    130 1 BUENOS AIRES. Aug. 23.— Argentine authorities today proclaimed a state of siege at the city of Mendoza following student riots last night in which one person was killed and 15 others wounded. Shots were fired during the riots in the city, which is the capital of
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    Lock icon SALLEH SMILES AGAIN, HE'S GOT NEW ARMS & LEG
    247 1 S ALLEH SMILES AGAIN, HE'S GOT NEW ARMS LEG KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A young Malay boy today stepped out of a BOAC Argonaut from London with slow, painful paces. But the fact that he could walk at all was in itself a great tribute to modern science. Thirteen-year-old Moha- med
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    Lock icon A NEW ASSEMBLY
    185 1 But Most Of The Old Faces Will Be There THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black will today perform the opening ceremony of the Legislative Assembly, prorogued in June, following the resignation of former Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall. Empress Place, the home of Assembly House, will
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    Lock icon Soviet Aid Welcome —Soekarno
    118 1 Soviet Aid Welcome Soekarno MOSCOW. Aug. 23 (Reuter) —President Soekarno of Indonesia said upon arrival here today that he would be glad to receive Soviet aid to help make up for his country's backwardness, according to Moscow Radio. The President arrived here on a state visit to Russia. Although Indonesia
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    Lock icon Reid Commission Secretary Quits Job In A Huff
    200 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues Secretary of the Reid Constitutional Commission, Mr. H. P. Hall, has quit his 1 job. Mr. Hall. 43, was head of the Colonial Office's Pacific Department until he came to Malaya in June. He was said to have been
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    Lock icon A CHEQUE WILL DO FINE
    58 1 MELBOURNE. Aug. 28 (Reuter).— Traffic offenders in Victoria will soon be able to pay their fines by cheque, the Police Commissioner, Mr. Selwyn Porter, hopes. At present police are not allowed to accept cheques when they call at homes lor fines for traffic offences imposed
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    Lock icon Two Escapes From Police Custody In One Week
    163 2 SEREMBAN. Tues. Two men escaped from Police custody here— within one week. Bee Kah Hang. 22. detained the police on a warrant of •ntion for secret society vities. today escaped from the police station in which he was being held. Lee was
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    149 2 CLOSING rubVr prices (rents per Ib.i in Singapore yesterday were: Bayers Sellers Spot mom.) 98 981 Sept. No. 1 R.S.S. 98 981 No 2 R.S.S 9.">i No! 3 R.S.S! 94i 95 Tone: Very quiet. SPOKE TIN The price of tin on the local market yesterday was $385 (Down
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    Lock icon Teachers' Vital Role
    106 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. At this period, when Malaya is on the threshold of independence, teachers have a vital and important role to play Mr. Too Joo Hing. Assistant Minister of Education. Federation, told delegates to the Pan-Malayan conference of the National Union of Teachers' which opened here
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    Lock icon Malayan Students Meet Mr. Nehru
    60 2 picture. STUDENTS from the University of Malaya called on India's Prime Minister, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, in New Delhi, on August 13. These students are members of the Historical Society of Malaya on a study tour of India. Above, the Prime Minister .speaks to Mr Khong,
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    Lock icon DISPUTE OVER DEBT ENDS UP IN COURT
    196 2 PENANG. Tues.— A dispute over a sum of $45. representing the interest due on a debt, allegedly led a lorry driver to run over the bicycle cf a Tamil School teacher, with his lorry. This was revealed befcre Mr. E.A. Long in the
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    Lock icon 1,000 Women Turned Away
    42 2 MORE than 1.000 women yesterday were turned away from the special "women only" preview of "Never Say Goodbye" at the Capitol Theatre, Singapore. The theatre had sold out for the show hours before it was due to start.
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    Lock icon Rid Town Of Gangsters' Councillors Want Police Action
    182 2 Rid Town Of Gangsters' Councillors Want Police Action IPOH, Tues.— lpoh and Menglembu Town Councillors expressed "deep concern" over the increase in gangsterism here. They appealed to the Police for firm action. The Councillors are so concerned that minutes of a Committee meeting on Aug. 15, at which gangsterism was
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    Lock icon More Should Be Done For Youths
    160 2 More Should Be Done For Youths KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The shortage of youth leaders and lack of co-ordinated effort among them were mainly due to the insufficiency of youth clubs in the country, declared Mr. A R. Allen. Federation Youth Service Adviser. He told 70 headmasters of Pahang Malay School
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    Lock icon He Returns Home With New Limbs
    78 2 PENANG, Tues. Salleh, the boy who lost three of his limbs in a tram accident last year, will be returning here by plane tomorrow morning. Public funds enabled him to proceed to Britain for a four months' rehabilitation course and to teach him to
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    Lock icon HK EXCHANGE
    37 2 HONG KONG, Aug. 28 Special Standard Service: Closing price of the Hongkong Exchange were: $15.82 to £1 Sterling, $6,055 to U.S.$l: $1,839 to Malayan $1: $0,194 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Go:d $262,625 to a tael.
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    Lock icon $1.5 M. Supplementary Vote Is Approved
    186 2 MALACCA. Tues. Supplementary provisions for public services, totalling §1,456,846, was passed by the Settlement Council today. Out of this sum. more than 5879,000 was earmarked for the Rural Board. A British Red Cross team at Jasin would be withdrawn in the very near future
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    Lock icon Sweets From The Lib-Soc.
    58 2 IT was sweets, biscuit^ chocolates and rice, ill cthe house for the inmate? of Singapore Crippled Children's Home in Tanah Merah when 20 Young Liberal Soc;;--visited them during the weekend. This was the first outing of the newly created Social Welfare section of the Young LibSor<
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    Lock icon PICKETS AT WORK
    24 2 Gas Department workers picket the Kalians Gas Works af ter their union declared a strike at 9 p.m. last night. Standardpic.
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    Lock icon Meet Mr. Boyd-He Has Travelled 33,000 Miles With £5 In His Pocket
    361 3 ALL STARTED WITH DUKES CHALLENGE TO ™L?°^ IBLE IN THIS A GE 542 5™ WORLD OVER ON hav n n°ot Si !!Sfv POreyesterday camc a ma who tSt y C u mc very closp to proving h^ t
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    Lock icon THREE MALAYS ACCUSED OF MURDERING COFFEE SELLER
    301 3 THREE Malays— Ali bin Hamza (18), Mahdi bin Ismoon (20f) and Ali bin Osman (23) were yesterday charged in a Singapore court with armed robbery and the murder of a coffee seller, Lazar Marakkapakath, on June 6 I i year. The prosecution alleged
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    Lock icon CONSULATE RECEPTION
    57 3 THE American Consul-Gen-eral in Singapore. Mr. Elbrirtge Durhrow. and his wife, last ni?ht held a reception at their residence in Granse Road to say farewell to the U.S. Consulate's Executive Officer. Mr. Nicholas Feld. as well as to introduce his replacement, .Mr. Sterling Cottrell. Mr. Feld will be
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    Lock icon His Embrace Was Not For Love
    139 3 His Embrace Was Not For Love MALACCA. Tues. Khatibinte Puteh. a pretty teen-aged divorcee, yesterday recalled in embarrassment she failed to free her:rnm the embrace of a kampong "raayat" (peasant) one evening this month at Kleban? Ees;ar. She was giving evidence in a case where Mohamed bin Must akin is
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    Lock icon PAP Wonts Talks With Chin Peng Resumed
    516 3 PAP Wonts Talks With Chin Peng Resumed LEE ATTACKS ALLIANCE GOV7. AND WARNS OF RACIAL CLASHES The People's Action Party, in a manifesto issued yesterday entitled "The Tasks Ahead/' suggested that the inconclusive Baling talks between the Chief Ministers of the Federation and Singapore and the Malayan Communist Party Secretary,
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    Lock icon Missing Car Back But 'Naked'
    76 3 Missing Car Back But 'Naked' IPOH. Tugs. Police this morning recovered from the 2J milestone Kuala Kangsar Road, a motor car that was reported lost last night. The car, at the time Police found it. was without tyres, rims, spotlights or battery. The owner. Mr Lew Chin Chow, said he
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    Lock icon Next Move In Pay Fight
    74 3 IPOH. Tues. The local branch of the War Department Civilian Staff Association at a meeting held here last night said that it might reler the Associations fight for better wcrking conditions and revised rates of pay to arbitration. In a resolution, members unanimously agreed to
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    Lock icon Apex Club Lunch Meet
    54 3 THE Singapore Apex Club will hold its next luncheon meeting at the Cathay Hotel on Friday. Aug. 31. The Director of Social Welfare. Mr. T. P. Cromwell will speak on the "Scope for Service in Singapore." Members wishing to attend should contact Mr. Ho Kok Hoe.
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    Lock icon Thugs Who Beat Up Schoolboy Are Jailed
    191 3 Thugs Who Beat Up Schoolboy Are Jailed TWO youthful gangsters, who interrupted a football match to "beat up" a spectator, when he refused to pay protection money, were sentenced to three years' imprisonment each by the Singapore Second District Judge. Inche Ahmad bin Ibrahim, yesterday. The youths Zakariah bin Abdullah
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    Lock icon 'TORPEDO-GIRL'
    142 3 00-LA-LA no it's not the Z-Bomb again. She's 19--year-old Daisy Szeto. a Singapore commercial artist, who created quite a stir on board the latest American President Line cargo-liner, Presid ent Adams, with this pose. Miss Szeto is holding a perforated "torpedo," containing three Benrus watches, which is being towed
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      152 3 Everyone over 30 should take extra Vitamins and Minerals advise world-famous authorities Even a/properly balanced diet may not be adequate to supply you with all 8 the vitamins and minerals. Thafs because modern cooking methods tend I to destroy much of these vital elements present in food. J\jgf L°." that
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    Lock icon $200,000 WINDFALL FOR 3,000
    276 5 $200,000 WINDFALL FOR 3 ,000 More Pay For Army Civilian Workers BACK PAY AND BETTER DEAL FOR ALL MORE than 3,000 civilian monthy-rated industrial employees of the Army in Singapore, will receive $200,000 in back-pay, next month. This is the result of the Army's decision to implement new wage scales
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    Lock icon She Plays The Violin, Husband The Piano
    158 5 She Plays The Violin, Husband The Piano V FOUR-TIME winner of major music awards in open competition in America will give her first violin recital in Singapore. at Victoria Memorial Hall, on Sept. 27, under the joint auspices of Donald Moore Productions and the Singapore Chamber Ensemble. She is Miss
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    Lock icon Tell The Folks At Home: I'm Well, Happy
    143 5 Tell The Folks At Home: I'm Well, Happy THIRTY FIVE-YEAR-OLD Michael Allen, who made a mercy dash from Britain by plane two weeks ago to see his National Serviceman brother Terrence lying severely burnt in an Ipoh hospital returned to Britain yesterday by Qantas/BOAC. Michael wore a happier look on
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    Lock icon 'He Is A Waste Of Taxpayers' Money'
    214 5 DEFENDING Officer, Capt. P. F. H. Bass, yesterday told a Singapore District Court Martial that to keep Sapper Henry George Oliver in the Army would mean a "waste of the tax-payers" money." Capt. BUM asked the Court to discharge Oliver from the Army,
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    Lock icon 6 Youths Stage A 'Jailbreak'
    83 5 SIX youths escaped from the Gimson School for Boys. Clementi Road. Singapore, at dawn yesterday. The boys, who were locked up in a room for the night, escaped after removing a plank in the ceiling. Youths held in the school are all committed by the
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    Lock icon UN Jobs For Ex-Malayans
    81 5 TWO former Malayans have been appointed to United Nations posts overseas They are Mr. J. D M. Smith and Mr. Eric Himsworth. Mr. Smith, formerly Financial Secretary, Singapore, was appointed an expert in public administration to the Government of Chile and Mr. Himsworth. former Financial Secretary
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    Lock icon A Leaf From Asian Doctors' Notebooks
    155 5 DOCTORS in other parts of the world can learn much from Asian medical men about certain branches of medicine, particularly in the tropical diseases field. Dr. E. A. Shaw, a blood transfusion expert of Brisbane. Queensland, said this in a recent broadcast over Radio
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    Lock icon Voting Through The Post
    88 5 SINGAPOREANS living ab-oad will be allowed to vote in the Colony's future elections if government accepts the proposal to introduce compulsory voting. Those living overseas will exercise their franchise by post a spokesman of the Labour Front told The Standard yesterday. He" said the American system
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    Lock icon LUCKY NUMBERS
    43 5 THE following are the lurky numbers drawn at the Fun Fair on Sunday in aid of the poor registered with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul; Sl No^° re ii'BB9. 0730. 3688. 1928, 1400. 4832. 1127. 3276, 3355 and 1636.
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    Lock icon Beating Up The Navy
    56 5 Two Navy personnel were set upon by about 20 strong arm men and beaten up with stools, in Bugis Street. Singapore, on Monday night. The sailors earlier had an argument with the stallholders about the payment of a bill. A detective corporal, who was in the
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    Lock icon Off To Cairo- For Suez News
    140 5 Off To Cairo- For Suez News THE Indonesian Government and the people of Indonesia are unanimous in supporting Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalization of tH« Suez Canal, Mr. Mohamed Supardi, Chief Editor of the Sulu Indonesia said before his departure for Cairo yesterday from Singapore b> Qantas BOAC. Mr. Supardi.
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    Lock icon Two Proposed For Pilot Jobs
    143 5 Two Proposed For Pilot Jobs Standard Shipping Reporter THE Singapore Malaysian Ship Officers' Union has recommended two local ship masters to be trained as pilots, under the new scheme announced by the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J.M. Jumabhcy, recently. They are Leboh bin Samat. 56. and Johari bin
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    Lock icon Singapore Standard 'Fantastic Demands'
    863 6 Singapore Standard 'Fantastic Demands' 'THE continuing industrial unrest in Singapore and the Federation must be ended. Government and political circles are getting more than a little tired over these recurring labour disputes on the most unreasonable pretexts. It was only recently that the spokesman of the Singapore Labour Front condemned
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    Lock icon 17-Year-Old Girl Wants Pen-Pals
    140 6 17 -Year -Old Girl Wants Pen-Pals Sir; I am appealing to the readers who might be interested to correspond with me and be my penfriends in Malaya. I am a Filipino girl, seventeen years of age, and a first year student of Foreign Service at the Lmversity of the Philippines.
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    Lock icon CAN BRITAIN DO WITHOUT ARAB OIL?
    1145 6  -  Frank Challenger i*u WHAT would happen to Britain if. as some Arab firebrands threaten, Middle East oil installations were to be blown up in retaliation for British pressure on Egypt? One fact, encouraging from the United Kingdom point of view, is that there is
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    Lock icon The NEWS as it strikes me!
    531 6  -  ASTER GUNASEKERA By WHAT, probably, is the most sober memorandum received by the Reid Constitutional Commission has been forwarded by the Eurasian Community in Malaya. It contains nothing controversial and confines itself to the simple truth and for these reasons one does not envisage
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    Lock icon SUEZ: New Zealand ANXIETY
    226 6  - SUEZ: New Zealand ANXIETY E.G. WEBBER By WELLINGTON. New Zealand. r PHE outcome of the Lon- don conference on the Suez Canal is regarded pessimistically in New Zealand. The risk seen here is that if Egypt stands firm and makes no concessions in the shape of international control or supervision.
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    Lock icon U Nu turns away from Peking
    710 6  - U Nu turns away from Peking Rawle Knox By Rangoon. UNU'S announced intention of resigning the Presidency of the AntiFascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL), Burma's governing party, may well be the beginning of his retirement from national politics. Has he changed his mind or has it been changed for him?
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    Lock icon Shorts from the Talks
    79 6 Shorts from the Talks "The nervous layman may ask what practical effect this discovery will have on his existence. The answer seems to be none. Its value lies in confirming a theoretical principle of modern physics, to the effect that neither matter nor energy is ever totally lost." Christopher Serpell
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      Lock icon Trees Were Pruned — Not Destroyed
      136 6 Trees Were Pruned Not Destroyed Sir* I am pleased to write these' tew lines to enlighten "ANNOYED" as to his question of "WHO" destroyed the trees between the D.O. s office and Court House at Kota Tinggi. wo destruction was done to the beautiful trees mentioned. The Town Board decided
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    6 6 "They're off!— Hullo, where've they gone?"
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    Lock icon French Kill 29 Rebels, Capture 9
    114 7 ALGIERS. Aug. 28 (UP) Fast-striking French mobile patrols smashed two strong rebel bands in Eastern Algeria's Constantine Department yesterday, killing 29 rebels and capturing nine more. In a sharp clash. French motorized infantry trapped a strong rebel band in the Djebel Mestauca area 93
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    Lock icon KIDNEY OPERATION
    32 7 ALGIERS. Aug. 28 (Reuter) M. Robert Lacoste, French Minister residing in Algeria, underwent an operation for the removal of a kidney here today. His condition was stated to be satisfactory.
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    Lock icon Barbara & Atom Parcel In Platform Drama
    276 7 Barbara Atom Parcel In Platform Drama p OUCE rushed to clear No. 10 Platform at King's Cross station, London, last week after an "atom box" fell from a porter's trolley and burst "Pen. A Scotland-bound express was just pulling out as the lead-lined box crashed on to the platform. People
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    138 7 GENOA, Italy, Aug. 28 (UP) An Italian marine expert claims that the Andrea Doria could be raised from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Italian naval captain Alfredo Viola told reporters that the liner, which sank off Mantucket Island in the Atlantic on Ji^ly 25 after a collision with the
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    Lock icon U.S. Review Far East Situation
    234 7 Based On Radford s Tour WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, (Reuter) United States military leaders have started a comprehensive review of the military situation in the Far East in the light of a report by Admiral Arthur Radford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on his
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    Lock icon Shot Over A 25-Cent Bet
    74 7 DALLAS. Texas, Aug. 28 *AP> One man was shct to death and another knifed critically last night in a fight over a 25-cent election bet. A 19-year-old youth, stabbed in the chest, told officers he shot Milton Campbell. 21, to death in a street fight.
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    16 7 SALVAGE ANDREA DORIA are Louis Malles. underwater camera specialist, and Frederic Dumes, international deep-sea diving champion.
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    Lock icon TERRORIST ESCAPES FROM JAIL
    91 7 TERRORIST ESCAPES FROM JAIL NICOSIA. Aug. 28 (Renter) A Cypriot terrorist serving a life imprisonment sentence in Nicosia's Central Prison, was found missing last night, an official statement said. He was George Savve Olympios, convicted earlier this year on a charge of carrying arms in a Limassol district village last
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    Lock icon WOULD-BE STARS END DAY OF ADVENTURE
    115 7 TWELVE -YEAR -OLD Christine Powell (right) and her pal, Vanesca Williams, 11, (lejt) y ran away jrom the North Wales village of Llanrwst to London last week to see actress Janette Scott. She wanted to be jilm stars. Recently they saw the film, "Now
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    Lock icon U.S. Blamed For War In Pacific
    312 7 WAR-TIME MEMOIRS OF JAPAN'S TOGO Washington Sabotaged Talks WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (Reuter) Mr. Shigenori Togo, o wartime Japanese Foreign Minister, said before he died in prison more than six years ago that President Roosevelt, not Japan, was responsible for the Pacific War which began
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    Lock icon Word War MakesltHard For Nasser'
    138 7 WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 Mr. John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State, said today that Egyptian President Nasser's agreement to meet the five-nation committee on the Suez Canal issue was a contribution towards solving the crisis Mr. Dulles also told his weekly press conference that
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    Lock icon ARCHIVES GO HOME
    35 7 MOSCOW, Aug. 28 (Reuter) Yugoslav state archives taken to Germany bv Nazi forces and later confiscated by the Soviet army, will be returned to Yugoslavia under an agreement signed in Moscow today.
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    Lock icon A PHONE LINK WITH HELL & PARADISE
    126 7 A PHONE LINK WITH HELL PARADISE OSLO. Aug. 28. (UP) Reports from Johannesburg (hat South Africans will soon be able to put through a telephone call to Hell rame as no sur prise to Norwegians. They have been able to phone Hrll for years. This Norweican mono poly must now
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    35 7 SYRACUSE. New York. Aug. 28 (AP)— Jay A. Seitz. who claimed he was the first person to fly in an airplane as a passenger, died on Sunday in* hospital here. He was 83.
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      Lock icon BOAC Girl In Sea Tragedy
      115 7 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 28 (AP)— Margaret Grenselle, 30, of Salt Ash, Cornwall, England, was fatally injured on Sunday when slashed by the propellor of a passing speedboat while she was swimming at the Doctor's Cave bathing beach here. Many British and American tourists witnessed the
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      36 7 ATHENS, Aug. 28 (AP) The Greek Government has called its Ambassador in Ankara to Athens to repon on the theft of secret documents from hi? embassy on Sunday, the Foreign Office announced here yesterday.
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      48 7 MOSCOW, Aug. 23. (Reuter) Sir Claude Corea. Ceylon's High Commissioner in London, wn§ greeted with the first-ever display of Ceylonese flags in Moscow when he flew in to- night to prepare for the establishment of diplomatic and trade relations between Ceylon and the Soviet Union.
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    372 8 Mr. Menzies Co. Get Official Nod LONDON, Aug. 28. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser today agreed to see a delegation representing 18 nations pressing for internationalization of the Suez Canal. The 38-year-old Arab ruler who seized control of the vital 101-mile waterway on July 26
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    72 8 Samia Is Ready To Fight LONDON, Aug. 28 (UP)— The latest to rally to the Egyptian flag in defence of Suez are the belly dancers, according to reports reaching here today. They are forming their own guerilla battalion, led by the famous grinder Samia Gamal, once the bride of oil-rich
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    110 8 AUSSIE AIR CHIEF FOR SEATO MEET CANBERRA. Aug. 28 (Reuter) Air Marshal Sir John McCeuley, Chief of the Australian Air Staff, will represent Australia at meetings cf military advisers of the South-east Asia Treaty Organization Council beginning at Baguio. the Philippines, on Sept. 3. Announcing this today. Sir Philip Mcßride."
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    67 8 PARIS, Aug. 28 (Reuter)— French evening newspapers published reports from Algiers today that a Communist guerilla unit composed exclusively of Europeans was now operating against the French in Western Algeria. France-Soir and Paris-Presse said the existence of the *init. made up of 38 Europeans speaking Italian. Spanish and
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    25 8 INDIA imported 854,595 tons steel from 21 countries during the period January-June this year, according to Commerce Industry Minister T. T. Krishnamacharl. AP
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    268 8 BURMESE OPPOSITION CALLS FOR ACTION RANGOON, Aug. 28 (UP) The leader of Burma's opposition Democratic Party called today for a declaration of war on Communist China if the Reds refuse to evacuate their troops from Northern Burma. Thakin Ba Sein, head of the Democratic Party, told
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    83 8 SEOUL. Aug. 28 (Reuter) The Central Epidemic Prevention Institute here said today encephalitis (sleeping sickness) now had spread to the vicinity of Seoul and a 12-year-old boy died of the disease yesterday at Kimpo, 15 miles west of Seoul. Outbreak of the disease was reported last
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    111 8 JAKARTA, Aufi. 28 (Reuter) The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ruslan Abdulgani, whose departure for the Suez Canal conference was preceded by a dramatic early morning attempt by army officers to detain him in connection with a corruption investigation, today returned to Jakarta with "no
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    116 8 GENEVA. Aug. 28 (Reuter) —The Geneva Public Works Department plans to pull down the 100-year-old Palais Wilscn— former home of the League of Nations— and build a Maison des Congres (House of Congresses). Formerly the Hotel National, the building was taken over by
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    52 8 photo. SWEDISH film actress Anita Ekberg and American screen star Victor Mature walk up the Spanish steps in Rome's Piazza di Spagna during the location filming of a scene from the new film "Interrol". The film will be shot on location in Rome, Genoa, Lisbon, London and New
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    140 8 NICOSIA, Aug. 28 (AP)— The end of a 11-day truce proclaimed by the Greek Cypriot underground was punctuated today by a bombing at the east coast town of Lanarca. I Authorities said the bomb damaged a house occupied by a Greek family but there
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    53 8 TAIPEI, Aug. 28 (AP)— The spokesman of the Chinese Nationalist Air Force today denied as entirely groundless a claim by Peking Radio that a Formosa FB4 jet was damaged yesterday by Communist antiaircraft fire. Peking Radio said the plane was damaged while flying over Fukien. inland
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    145 8 Rebels Wreak Heavy Damage JAKARTA, Aug. 28 (Reuter)— The activities of rebel bands in Atjeh. North Sumatra, had cost Indonesia in material damage 75,000.000 rupiahs in the past three years, the army announced today. In the same period the rebels had killed 12.500 people and wounded 30,000 others. The Atjeh
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    73 8 BOLOGNA, Italy. Aug. 28 (AP) Italy will issue the world's first stamps printed to give the effect of a third dimension. Minister of Posts Giovanni Braschi has announced. Braschi said the stamps will be issued next month. One series will honour Europe's coal-steel pool.
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    78 8 HONGKONG, Aug. 28 (Rcuter) Madame Soong Ching Lins (Madame Sun Yat Sen. widow of the "founder of the Chinese Republic") returned to Peking by plane this afternoon from her visit to Indonesia, Peking Radio announced. Among more than 1,000 people welcoming her at the airport was
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    441 9 Discoveries by Request M.A. Glasgow LONDON r THOUGH mankind cannot demand that something shall be discovered, scientists often develop new substances in answer to a request from industrialists for a material with special properties to meet some particular need. Two such materials have just been produced. Not long ago, metallurgists
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      113 10 MARKETS DROP ON SUEZ TALKS OUTCOME PROSPECTS of peaceful negotiations on the Suez Canal situation caused Singapore rubber, tin and produce prices to ease slightly yesterday. Rubber dropped 3/8 cent to 98 cents per lb. for first grade rubber for September shipment yesterday, while tin was quoted $385, a drop
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      51 10 NEGOTIATIONS have been completed to transfer U*****,000,000 worth of American surplus farm products to India, authoritative sources said in New Delhi. The transfer would send the total amount of American assistance to India in the past five years over the billion dol- lar mark.—
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      40 10 NEW YORK. Aug. 27 <UP)— Dovv-Joncs dosing averages: STOCKS: ."0 Industrials 505.70 20 Rails 160.90 IS Utilities 68.67 65 Stocks 177.43 BONDS: 40 Bonr's 93.79 Th<? Dow-Jone? Commodity Futures Index (1924-26 average equals 100) closed at 159.80.
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      44 10 Buyers Sellers Spot (nom.) 98 9§J SeDt. R.S.S. No. 1 98 98. Oct. R.S.S. No 1 9?.\ 982 Sept R.S.S. No. 2 951 96 Sept. R.S.S. No. 3 94. 95 R.M.A. on Reg. tender: September 975 98 Or-tober 971 98_ Tone:— Dull.
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    31 10 THE Broken Hill Pty. Co. Ltd. is to erect an additional blast furnace at Port Kembla, New South Wales. with a capacity equal to the largest in the world.
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    116 10 Perak Tin Mine Owner Sees U.S. MR. YAP YIN FAH, a tin mine owner in Perak, wanted to see a medium size American city to compare it with his home cities of Ipoh and Menglembu. He went to the U.S. recently at the invitation of the U.S. Government, and his
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    148 10 INDIA is making a bid to export her 1955/56 coffee crop to Malaya and other new markets, the First Secretary (Commercial), India House, Singapore, Mr. D. M. Jejurikar, told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Jejurikar disclosed that an export quota of 4.100 tons had already been
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    56 10 1/2 Mil. Aero Engine Exports DURING the first six months of this year, aero engine exports earned for Britain an average of more than £530.000 a week, apart from royalties received from licence manufacturing agreements. At the present no fewer than 14 types of British aero engines are the subject
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    150 10 7,000 TONS FORMOSA, PAK. SUGAR DUE SINGAPORE will again be flooded with sugar from Formosa and Pakistan, according to local importers who are expecting about 7,000 tons from those two countries early next month. About 5.000 tons of sugar are expected from Formosa, which has been the principal supply source
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    32 10 Malayan Exchange Banks Association buying rates to merchants are: Canada 32 (T.T.), 32 1/8 (0.D.), 32 7/16 credit bills 32J trade bills (90 d/st). Selling rate: Canada 31| ready (0.D./T.T.>.
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    109 10 PRICES in all sections of the Malayan share market were steady with only small variations reported. Moderate business was reported. Price changes announced by the .Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were:. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers BB. Pet 57/- 60/Malavan Cement 1.6"V 166 McAli.ter 2.87 2.92 OTEC 69/- 71/Sim e Darby
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    146 10 Malayan sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: Gammons $1.93. $1.94 overnight; F N ords. $1.90: Georgetown $2.15; M. Cement $Ui:;» to $1.65; M. Cnlls $1.09, $1.10; Metal Box $1,534: Sime Darby $1.95: Straits Traders $25. $2485; Robinson ords. $1.53) overnight- Wearne Bros. $2.97^ W. Jacks $2.80;
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    52 10 A U.K. firm have been awarded a contract by the General Post Office to supply and instal a FM VHF coastal radio telephone station. First of its kind in Britain, it will be in operation on the Clyde this autumn, and is hoped to be of great assistance
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    110 10 SHIPS IN PORT OUTER ROADS Cebec. Hero. Davila, Stv Canberra, Schouten. Golden Gamma. Citte D e Viregio Alice Brown', lamma. Janssens. Glory Otori Maru. Melal Trader. Rajula. Laertes. Taype. Tone Leone Thempamat. Tegelberg INNER ROADS Tai Tiong Stia. Panjangan. New Coronation, Soon Bee Bruas, Segamat, Bemburong. Hong Ming. Langsa. Serdang
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    137 10 Malayan Trade Team In Peking A DELEGATION of 82 businessmen from Singapore and the Federation of Malaya has arrived in Peking with the main intention of re-establishing permanent rubber trade with China. The businessmen, the great majority of whom are Chinese, including some staunch supporters of the Nationalist Government, were
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    315 10 CURRENT indications are that the measures taken to restrain home demand in general, and in particular consumer's expenditure, to foster exports and to maintain productive investment, are beginning to have an effect, according to the progress report on the first half of the year, contained
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    172 10 NEARLY 100 engineers and others guests attended a demonstration of the scientific Centriline process of cleaning and lining water pipes, at the Singapore City Councils filter station at Woodleigh, yesterday. The Centriline process enables the job to be done "in situ" (in place), thus obviating the
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    254 10 Standard Shipping Reporter LLOYD TRIESTINO is to expand its cargo carrying service from Trieste to the Far East. Mr. J. N. Aucutt. man- ager of the shipping department, Harper Gilfillan Co., Ltd., Singapore, (local agents for the Line) told The
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    109 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Pro, duce Exchange noon c price yesterday were: Cop:* Sept. 526 buyers. $262 n coconut oil (bulk) S39A M coconut oil (drums) $42 lers; Muntok white pcr^er 51 24 sellers. Sarawak |123, Special Sarawak $85 sellers. Singapore Copra Assoclation closing prices: Sept. S26i buyers. $26i sellers.
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    138 10 FURNITURE designed pecially for export has recently been put into production by a London firm already manufacturing furniture for the home market. Processed to resist extrcr* climatic conditions, much cf the export furniture is n with metal frames and I metal parts are zinc plat and finished
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    88 10 A NEW era in the eflv use of radar is foreshadowed as a result of a new BO wave radar link announced in the U.K. A British company. (Marroni Wireless Telegraph I that at the Farnboroug: Display this month, the] transmit radar inform from their set
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      643 10 IN THE SUPREME COIRT OF THE FEDERATION OF MALAY. IN THE HIGH COURT AT IPOH. Originating Summons No. 202 of 1955 dooh Supreme Court Petition No. 88 of 1955) In the matter of the Estate Effects of Lam Suk Oy (f) late of No. 61. Belfield Street. Ipch. deceased. NOTICE
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    353 12 BEFORE going on with this regular Wednesday feature, I would like to say that if any reader has a tip she (or he) would like to pass on, please drop me a line. Malaya has household problems which are .unique in the world, but are common
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    895 12 PAGE FOR WOMEN To Win Friends ai Influence People c advises Terry Pillay is nothing in the long run which does more to give a girl popularity among both her own contemporaries, and especially with the older folk, than a set of well-observed, wellapplied simple good manners. The
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    106 12 Casual Slip-On > CASUAL slip-on for wear after tennis or on the beach > is easily made in a cosy fabric, such as jersey or > towelling. To fit an average size, yards of 26-inch > material are required. First, with the help of the simple diagram, try
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    90 13 Pahang Lose Cricketer Whimster RAUB. Tues. Pahang will be losing a very important sportsman at the end of this month. He is Mr. J. It. Whimster, President of the West Pahang Sessions Court, who is leaving on six months' leave to the United Kingdom. He is a very keen cricketer,
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    88 13 LONDON. Aug. 27 (Reuter)— Results of FA league matches played on Tues^av were: LEAGUE 1 Aston Villa 0 West Bromwich Albion 0 Blackpool 5 Evertnn 2 LEAGUE II Blackburn Rovers 0 West Ham United 2 Bristol Rovers 3 Leyton Orient 2 Port Vale 1 Lincoln City
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    278 13 EYES CUT BUT JOE TAMES WILLIAMS FOR BRITISH TITLE CARDIFF, Aug. 27, (Reuter)— Joe Erskine, of Cardiff, won the vacant British heavyweight boxing title here tonight when he outpointed Johnny Williams, a former titleholder from Rugby, over 15 rounds here. Erskine was a clear winner of a hard contest in
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    66 13 Asian Chessmen For Moscow MANILA. Aug. 28 (Reuter) Four Filipino chess players left here yesterday by air for Hongkong e"n route to Moscow where they will represent the Philippines in the twelfth chess Olympiad of the Federation Internationale des Echess. They are F. Cempomanes, G. Badilles. R. Cerdoso and C.
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    113 13 YOUTH Badminton Party beat the Balestier Community Centre by six games to one in a friendly badminton fixture at the Balestier Community Centre ccart last night. The following are the results: (Youth B.P. players mention first): Singles: Francis beat Phillip Lim 13-7. 15-2 Lian Soon Tee lost
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    209 13 Pennefather Bags Eight Of SHAs Eleven Coals A SINGAPORE Hockey Association team trounced Royal Air Force, Singapore, by eleven goals to one in a friendly hockey match played on the Indian Association ground yesterday. I Percy Pennefather had a good bag scoring eight times, and including two hattricks in them.
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    89 13 SCC Edge Customs In Last Minutes A GOAL scored a few minutes before full time gave Singapore Cricket Club a 2-1 edge over Customs Sports Club in a SAFA Junior Cuptie soccer match played on the SCC padang yesterday. After a goalless first half. SCC opened the score in the
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    115 13 SINGAPORE Cricket Association will hold their annual dance and prize distribution at the Raffles Hotel at 8.30 p.m tonight. A bat presented by Rose and Co. and autographed by the players of both the Colony and Federation teams will be auctioned. Tickets are priced at $2
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    81 13 IUOSCOW. Aug. 28 (AP) The international team tournament of the World Chess Federation (Fide> has drawn entries from 35 countries, more than ever before, for the competition starting here Sept. 1. Each team will have lour members. The entries include Albania. Argentina, Austria. Belgium. Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Chile, Denmark.
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    839 14  -  TONY RANGEL At last, the Weatherman behaves Fighting Terdi' has A Consolation: Doubles Title By PEXANG, Tues.— The man they call Indon Tan is Malaya's new tennis champion. The Indonesian ace, Tan Liep Tjiauw, fighting back after being twice in arrears, won the Malayan singles
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    97 14 SOCCER SBHFA KO Cup: SENIOR Breweries vs. P. Bukom/ Mansfields at Farrer Park; Hnnqkong Bank vs. Chartered Bank/ Ford at Jalan Besar Stadium: F. N. vs Jacks/Shell F. N; S.C.S. vs. S. Darby /Mercantile Bank at Farrer Park. JUNIOR: U. Engineers vs. 1.C.1, at Farrer Park; Bata vs.
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    72 14 THE team to represent Singapore against Johore in a friendly cricket match to be played at the Ceylon Sports Club ground at 11 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday will be: S. K. Sundram (Captain). 2nd Lt. Rose. C. Barron, B. S. Hadley, J. Kirkham, S. Velupillai, Alex
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    618 14 LONDON, Tues.— Australia survived the onslaughts by England's 'spin twins' Laker and Lock, to hold England to a draw in the fifth Test which ended 10 minutes before full time on the Oval here today, Australia had only 27 runs on the board for five
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