Singapore Standard, 30 August 1956

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  • 30 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD POLICE ***** (5 linttT 2400 it 'A i. FIRE BRIGADE 2811 GENERAL HOSPITAI 2414 \ol. VII. No. 59 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1956 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 274 1 PEKING. Aug. 29 (Reu—The Chinese Prime Minister. Mr. Chou En-lai, said tonight that if the various nationalities in both Malaya and Singapore get together "Britain wdl recognise their position as independent states within the Commonwealth," writes David Chipp. He added: "But if they are
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  • Article, Illustration
    35 1 AS the guns boomed in Salute and guards clicked their heels to attention and saluted, Governor Sir .Robert Black was welcomed into the Legislative .Assembly by the Speaker, Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers, yesterday.— Standardpic.
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  • 288 1 Spy Plot Clouds Talks On Suez LONDON, Aug. 29 (AP)— President Nasser will meet in Cairo with the five-nation Suez Canal committee headed by Australian Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies. an official Egyptian source disclosed there today. But the informant said he could not reveal the time for tha meeting,
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  • 280 1 DEFENCE TREATY TALKS-RULERS NAME DELEGATES KUALA LUMPUR, Wed —The Malay Rulers of the Federation today named Tuan Ha.ji Mustapha Albakri, Keeper of the Seal, and Inche Abdul Aziz, Mentri Besar of Perak, as their representatives to a fresh series of talks with Britain on the proposed AngloMalayan Defence Treaty. They
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  • 124 1 Police Grab Dud Sweep Tickets SINGAPORE Police seized more than 8.000 forged Social Welfare Lottery tickets from the boot of a car parked^ opposite the South Seas Hotel in Mayo Street, yesterday. A Chinese who was in the driver's seat of the car was arrested. The tickets were found loose
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  • 41 1 BECAUSE of recurrence of trouble from a back injury Istomin, the American pianist has been advised by a leading specialist to end his concert tour for the Australian Broadrasting Commission and return to America for medical atten- tion. Reuter
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  • 20 1 MR. FRANK Nixon, father of US vice-president. Richard Nixon, was in critical condition yesterday from a stomach ulcer. Reuter
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  • 19 1 President Nasser yesterday signed a decree prohibiting the publication of any information about Egypt's armed forces.- Reuter
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  • 104 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The Anti-Vice Branch of the Selangor C.1.1), last night detained a man who is believed to be one of the five "Tiger Generals" of the local Ang Bin Hoay Triad Society. The man. an ex-Police informer was picked up
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  • 52 1 ROME, Aug. 29 (Reuter) The Suez Canal Board of the Egyptian Republic today offered jobs to Italian pilots in a newspaper advertisement published in the Rome newspaper II Tempo. Applicants were asked to contact the Egyptian Embassy in Rome or the Egyptian Consulates in Milan, Genoa
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  • 65 1 LONDON. Aug. 29 (Reuter) Mr. Harold MacMillan, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said today that dangers facing the British economy were as serious in the long run as the current crisis over the Suez Canal. He told a press conference that the August figures for the sterling areas
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  • 26 1 THE U.S. Government is trying to collect* USS 117,497 in additional income taxes from film star Van Johnson and his wife. Eve. t A.P.
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  • 183 1 TROUBLE ABOUT THE GATES AT CAS WORKS THERE was trouble about the gates at Kallang Gas VVorks, yesterday. The trouble was over the closure of gates (below) which shut out striking workers from their families living in quarters within the Gas Works grounds. The gates were ordered closed and guarded
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  • 321 1 Links Are Now Being Forged, Says Governor THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, said yesterday that merger with the Federation of Malaya was still a top aim of the Colony Government. Although the goal is still not in sight, the links already forged are being strengthened to
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  • 139 1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, (Reuter)— The U.S. Navy today announced recovery of the bedy of a second member of the crew of the patrol plane which was shot down off the China coast last Thursday. The first body was found last Friday in an area
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  • 219 1 WE WON'T TOLERATE SUBVERSION TUNKU A Pointed Snub For P.A.P. KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Federation Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, angrily reiterated today his determination to "see that our Government functions free from interference from subversive elements." i In a stern rebuff to yesterday's criticism of his "colonial regime" by Singapore's
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  • 112 1 NICOSIA. Aug. 29 <AP) British authorities today issued a "restriction order" confining the Bishop of Kitium to his official residence at Larnaca. The Bishop, who was mentioned in the captured diaries of the EOKA leader Dighenis. is head of the Greek Orthodox Church m
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  • 325 2 Public Debate And Voting Better Than Violence -Lim COMMOMWEM.TH PARLIAMENTARY AS.OCIATION COMFEREMCE OPEKS THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, yesterday opened the Fourth Regional Conference o f t h e Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, (MalayaBorneo Region), at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Welcoming the various delegates from Borneo, Brunei. Sarawak and
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  • Article, Illustration
    21 2 CAPTAIN Van Dcr List proudly points at badges presented to him by various boy scout organizations all over the world. Standardpic.
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  • 165 2 'UNCLE HARRY' IS VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH" SCOUTS IN SINGAPORE CAPTAIN H. L. Van Dcr List— "Uncle Harry" to thousands of boy scouts all over the world arrived in Singapore yesterday as master of the 12.000-ton cargo-liner Benalen, now on its maiden voyage from Holland "Uncle Harry," who hails from The
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  • 140 2 She Spat And -Got A Black-Eye 2 PENANG, Wed. —A housewife spat near the 2 2 gate of the New World j Park. A woman passing j by. took it as an insult nicuit for her and > punched the housewife j in the mouth. 5 This was stated by
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  • 37 2 HONGKONG, Aug. 29 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $15.82 to £1 Sterling; $6.***** to US$l; $1,839 to Malayan $1; SO. 195 to one Indonesian Rupiah: Gold $263 to a tael.
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  • 87 2 P E N A N G, Wed. The Penang State UMNO (comprising the three divisions of Penang. North and South Province Wellesley) issued a statement today urging Malay parents in the Settlement to register their children for Malay schools. UMNO Secretary General In a statement says
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  • 53 2 A GENERAL view of the Fourth Regional Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Malaya-Borneo Branch, held at the \ictona Memorial Hail, Singapore, yesterday. Delegates from Singapore, Brunei, North Borneo. Sarawak and the Federation are seen around the table. The Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, is seen addressing
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  • 128 2 Pussy Caused A Three-Car Collision PENANG, Wed. A mewing kitten crossing the road in front of the St. Xavier's Institution in Farquhar Street during lunch hour today was the cause of a "follow the leader" collision among three cars travelling in a row. A fleet of cars was proceeding along
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  • 144 2 MALACCA, Wed. The National Union of Transport Workers today gave a second warning to five Malacca bus companies to meet its representatives within 48 hours to discuss 18 demands it recently made on behalf of their employees. The demands range from wage increases of $3.50
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  • 141 2 CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) i n Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot (nom.) 98 981 Sept. No. 1 R.S.S. 98 98i No. 2 R.S.S. 95} 96 No. 3 R.S.S. 94 1 Tone: Uncertain S'PORE TIN The price of tin on the local market yesterday was $384
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  • 298 2 Coffee Seller Murder: Court Told Of Street Chase After Gunman A COFFEE seller, who joined his neighbours in chasing robbers in Kampong Alexandra on the of June 6, was fatally shot, a Singapore Court was told yesterday. I Dr. K Vasudevan Nair, a pathologist, told the court that a post-mortem
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  • 73 2 A WOMAN wa s killed she \va s knocked down by a City Council lorry at the lion of Beach Road and L:.ti Chiak Road, Singapore, vesterday. Two others, a woman, Tw Poh Tian, 37. and a man Itut thu, 41, were found hanging. Teo
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  • 159 3 Magistrate Tjcks Off An 'Irresponsible' Father Of Three TAN TENG BAN, an English-speaking clerk an* father of three very young children wa? v^£r2 severely reprimanded by a Singapore mSutS y eornplei, lack oi responsibility \£Su"S£* *g Poh Kim Choo claimed maintenance for her^if and her children from Tan in the
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  • 96 3 2 Soldiers On Robbery Charge IPOH, Wed. Two young British soldiers, G. B. Losh, 21, and G. Whitworth, 19, of the 3 Coy. RASC stationed in A>hby Road here, were today jointly charged in the SesCourt, with robbery. L(x-h and Whitworth were d to have robbed a 34--old taxi driver.
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  • 109 3 SINGAPORE Guides will be young ambassadors of their country, said Lady Black, wife of the Governor of Singapore. Sir Robert Black, at the opening of the Guides' *un Fair and Fete at Nee Soon yesterday. Complimenting the Guides on their "initiative and resourcefulness." Lady Black said
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  • 47 3 PAHANG, Wed. A subDistrict and Land Office, and a branch office of the Treasury will be opened at Jerantut under the supervision of an assistant district officer from Sept. 1. All matters In connection with land work will be dealt with at Jerantut.
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  • 140 3 A SINGAPORE lawyer. D. B. Gunston, Vas yesterday fined $20 by Magistrate Mr. J. B Jeyaratnam, In the First Traffic Court, for failing to furnish particulars of the driver of his hin seven days, when demanded to do so by the Traffic
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  • 36 3 A 11-YEAR-OLD boy picked up an iron bar and hit another boy with it when they got into a heated argument in Jalan Eunos, Singapore on Monday. The injured child was admitted to hospital.
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  • 194 3 RIDA's Chief Clerk Gets 18 Months' Jail On $3,000 Trust Count JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— The chief clerk of the Rural and Industrial Development Authority here, Fadzil bin Mohamed AM, was today sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment by the President of the Sessions Court for criminal breach of trust of $3,186.
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  • 89 3 IPOH, Wed. Senior officers of the Perak River Hydro Electric Fower Company here, on service agreements with the Company, have decided to form an association "to promote the interests of the ccmpany." The main object of the proposed association is "to create a regularly constituted
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  • 30 3 SIR Hudson Fysh, chairman of Qantas Empire Airways, who arrived in Singapore from Sydney yesterday en route to Edinburgh to attend the annual International Air Transport Service Conference.
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  • 50 3 PENANG. Wed. Six slabs of tin ingots, worth $2,000 were reported stolen from the steamer Tai Por Hong In the harbour yesterday. It is believed that duplicate keys were used to cpen the lock of the ship's hold in which ingots were kept. Police are Investigating
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  • 192 3 Unmarried Mother Told: You Have No Claim On Him A YOUNG well-dressed unmarried mother was told by a Singapore magistrate yesterday, the father of her three-year-old son could keep a thousand women if he chose and she could have no claim on him as a wife. r Goh Ah Hua.
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  • 68 3 MORE than 60 students from three classes in Singapore's Nanyang Girls' High School continued to "boycott lectures" yesterday. The girls are demanding that an English teacher be sacked. Leaders of the Singapore Chinese Middle Schools Students' Union have told the students to "fight to the end."
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  • 185 3 Committed To Trial For Murder SARJEIT Pinbha, a Siamese woman, told a Singapore court yesterday that her husband. Kulwant Singn, wai, compelled to take money at knife point following an alleged murder. Sarjeit was testifying at the continued preliminary inquiry into provisional charges of robbery and murder in the Singapore
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  • 204 3 THE controversy over the recognition of Indian University degrees by the Singapore Education Department has cropped up again. The staff side of the Civil Service Joint Council yesterday agreed that automatic recognition should be granted to all Indian university graduates employed in the education
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  • 113 5 Boys From The Ulu... ...Come To A Big City MORE than 40 students from Fatima Institute in Tanjong Sepat, a New Village in Kuala Langat, in Selangor, visited Singapore as a part of their civic education on Tuesday. For most of them, this was their first trip outside their home
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  • 249 5 Call For Community Schools In Malaya DEMOCRACY and the right kind of nationalism could be brought to rural people in the Federation through the medium of community schools, Singapore educationist, Mr. Cheng Hock Hai said yesterday. Mr. Checng returned to the Colony last week after attending the General Assembly of
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  • 48 5 RICHARD ERNEST BLOM, 28. claimed trial in the Singapore Seventh Magistrate's Court yesterday to a charge of causing mischief by breaking window panels and furniture, worth $105. in the home of D'lima Charles Chung, on Aug. 20. He was allowed $500 bail till Sept. 5.
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  • 171 5 THOUSANDS of attap dwellers in rural Singapore will have a hard fire-proof roof above their heads, if a motion tabled by Mr. H. J. C. Kulasingha is passed at the Rural Board meeting today. Mr. Kulasingha will ask the Board to
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  • 295 5 METHODISTS PLAN MORE CHURCHES, SCHOOLS THE Methodist Mission is launching: a large scale expansion programme, the new Methodist bishop for South-east Asia, Dr. Hobart B. Amstutz, told The Standard yesterday. More churches, schools, hostels and hospitals will be built. The programme will cover Burma, Sumatra. Sarawak, the Federation and Singapore,
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  • 26 5 WONG KONG HOY of Redhill" Close, was yesterday fined $300. for dangerous driving along Upner East Coast Road at 12.15 a.m. on June 13.
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  • Article, Illustration
    56 5 MR. K P. RAMANATHAN of the Telecommunications Department, Kuala Lumpur, who left Singapore by Qantas BOAC yesterday for Britain on a three-year Electrical Engineering Scho- Standard Arthur (Mr. Personality 1 Bennett, famous Jamaican entertainer, who left for Bangkok yesterday by KL3I after a successful four weeks encasement as the
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  • 235 5 ONE of the exhibitions of particular interest to women, as well as to farsighted Christmas shoppers, which will be featured at Singapore's first Agricultural Show (Sept. I—s). is that set up by the Rehabilitation Centre of the Sin- gapore Anti Tuberculosis Association. Products from all
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  • 941 6 Singapore Standard Creating Drones 'THE speech delivered by the Governor of SingaA pore,- Sir Robert Black, at the opening of the second session of the Legislative Assembly yesterday, bears the unmistakable earmark of a thesis drafted by Labour Front ministers. Though the thesis tries valiantly to create the impression that
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  • 1196 6  - SUEZ: Successful Salvage, says U.S. PHILIP DEANE wwwwfjVwvw WASHINGTON A MERICAN diplomats are patting themselves on the back over the Suez conference in London. They call it a successful salvage operation and claim they have achieved many of the objectives they had set themselves when they supported the idea of
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  • 163 6 THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME is obvious when it states that "the army and gendarmerie will be predominantly, if not wholly, Malay and that these Malay forces will be used to police predominantly Chinese squatters and workers." IT says the army and the gendarmerie will be predominantly if not
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  • 901 6  -  Edward Crankshaw I'V London WHY is Mr. Khrushchev so worried about coal? At Stalino, in the Ukraine last week, the latest stage in the speechmaking marathon which is taking him all over the Soviet Union, he was very downright indeed, even for Khrushchev. and scathing to
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  • 880 6  - RUSSIA, ASIA AFRICA W. N. Ewer By Daily Herald Diplomatic Correspondent Anew committee has just been set up in the Soviet Union. Its task is to promote solidarity with Asian and African countries. Its sphere is to be both political and economic. Among its first objectives is to be the
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    • 24 6 PORTRAIT of a, PERSONALITY LALL i^INGH Indian Test cricketer and veWan of Malayan cricket says, "When rain stops play there is consolation in > i
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  • 289 7 C'ffee To Take Up 'Aug. 13 Affair' JAKARTA, Aug. 29, (Reuter) A commission representing the government and the law will decide whether the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ruslan Abdulgani, should be interrogated in connection with a current corruption investigation, authoritative government sources said today. Mr.
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  • 63 7 SYDNEY, Aug. V,) (Router) Post Office detectives are investigating the sale in shops here of underpants bearing girls' Christian names and telephone numbers. Detectives are buyinjj the cants and telephoning the numbers on them to discover if the subscribers have been pestered by callers. It is believed that
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  • 27 7 THE Cairo newspaper Al Ahram reported yesterday that an Egyptian woman in Alexandria had given birth to triplets. Their names: Gamal. Nehru and Tito.
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  • 107 7 IKE PLEDGES FIRM SUPPORT WASHINGTON. Aug. 29 (AP) President Eisenhower today declared firm U.S. support of the Western plan for settlement of the Suez Canal crisis and urged its backing by every country which believes in "international justice and conciliation." The President expressed pleasure at Egyptian President Nasser's decision to
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  • 137 7 ALGIERS, Aup. 29 (UP)— Premier Guy Mollet will fly to ailing Algerian Resident Minister Robert lilfMtt*! bedside next week to brief him on a "new look" plan lor Algeria's political future, informed sources said here today, j The plan reportedly would call for some sort
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  • 61 7 ATHENS, Aug. 29 (AP) Three Greeks alleged today that British agents offered them US$l4O,OOO for samples of the handwriting of Col George Grivas, believed to be the Cyprus EOKA underground leader Dighenis. The offers were made foui months ago and were rejected, the Greeks told newsmen
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  • 135 7 Not Our Type Of Song, Says Army LONDON, Aug. 29 (AP) The War Office has shied away from being associated with a song of surrender. Singing star Anne Shelton requested an Army honour guard while she launched a new song at the National Radio Show. As well as lending atmosphere
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  • 68 7 BY profession 19-year-old Thelma Taylor of South Harrow is a bookbinder. But during her holidays art Cliftonville she discovered that she has hidden talent as a pistol packin' momma. For Thelma was the winner of a Lido contest to fin 1 the prettiest girl who could give
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  • 25 7 MR. MAMORU Shisemitsu. Japanese Foreign Minister, arrived in New York yesterday by plane from London for a brief visit to the United States.
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  • 138 7 RELEASED 4 HOURS LATER STOCKHOLM, Aug. 29 (UP)— A Russian torpedo boat seized the Swedish sail-training ship "Flying Clipper" in the Baltic Sea today and held her for four hours. The Swedish Foreign Office immediately asked the Soviet Embassy here for an explanation of the
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  • 102 7 TRAPANI, Sicily. Aug. 29 (Reuter) Guiseppe Ceveilo. 23, was in jai! here today charged with trying to shoot himself without a gun licence. (Attempted suicide is no crime in Italy). Police said a constable was cycling along a lonely lane when he heard a shot behind
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  • 254 7 Deal Revealed In Bribery Case HONGKONG, Aug. 29 (Reuter)— Mr. Sydney George Davis, Professor of Geography in the University of Hongkong, said in court today that the Government's Superintendent of Mines, William Murray Keay, had lent him HKS4.OOO in $500 notes on June 4.
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  • NEWS BRIEFS
    • 38 7 MONTREAL. Canada. Aug. 29 <AP) An explosion, apparently caused by escaping gas. wrecked a 16-family apartment house in a Montreal .suburb on Tuesday. First reports said from five to eight persons were killed and 15 injured.
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    • 28 7 CHAMONIX. France. Aug. 29 <APt Three Frenchmen were killed yesterday practising to become Alpine guides. They fell about 600 feet down a peak called "Index Needle."
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    • 32 7 GALVESTON. Texas. Aug. 29 (UP) Babe Didrikson Zaharias is losing strength in her battle with cancer but laughs and jokes with her doctors, nurses and familv at John Sealy Hospital.
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    • 35 7 THE HAGUE, Aug. 29 (Reuter) Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard cf the Netherlands returned home by government plane last night from their brief holiday on Corfu as guests of the Greek royal couple.
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    • 32 7 LOS ANGELES. Aug. 29 <AP) The wile of author Elliot Paul was granted a divorce on Tuesday after she testified he drank to excess and on several occasions struck her.
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    • 31 7 RANGOON. Aug. 29 (AP) Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai is expected in Rangoon in the first week ot December for talks with the Burmese government on border problems.
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  • 2616 8 —And Calls For Loyalty To The Democratic Malayan Way Of Life THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, yesterday pledged for the Colony, the early attainment of complete internal self-government based on national prosperity and solidarity, when he opened the second session of the Legislative Assembly.
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  • 180 9 PART OF SCHEME TO MAKE SETTLEMENT A MILITARY CENTRE MALACCA, Wed.— A $5,000,000 Royal Air Force base planned for Tanjong Bedara will make this Settlement one of the strongest military centres in the Federation, a Government official told The Standard today. This base is
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  • 58 9 SINETEEN-year-old Mariah (2nd from right) pictured with her father, Dato Kamaruddin. Mentri Besar of Trenggajiu, at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Tuesday, before she left for Kirkby Teachers' Training Coiteee in Liverpool. She is an ofd girl of the Sultan Suleiman English School, Trengganu. 1
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  • 145 9 TAN JONG MALM Wed. A Sikh, alleged to be a member of a Singapore •ecrct society has been arrested here. «e i> Ajit Singh. 21, who was charged in the •rate's Ccurt today with having triad society in>ignias on his body. Prosecuting Officer, Inspector Samsudin
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  • 103 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Over 30 people have testified before the police court of inquiry probing the "incidents" between riot squad personnel and newspapermen during the bis rubber factory fire at Klang Road on July 5. As a sequel, the reporter of a local English language newspaper
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  • 121 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Bird dealer Yong Yen Yow. 38. was yesterday brought before the Second Magistrate. Inche Abdul Rani, on charges of exporting birds without a permit and possessing a "completely prohibited animal," the slow loris. He was fined $100 or three months on
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  • 63 9 THE Anglo-Chinese School Old Boys' Association, Singapore, will hold a food and fun fair on the school premises in Barker Road on Sept. 29. Books of coupons priced at SI are available from Mr. Foo Kee Sen? (Tef. *****) Mr. Wee Guan Chye (Tel. *****)
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  • 155 9 Thief Who Abused 'Last Chance' Jailed For Year TANJONG MALIM, Wed.— Magistrate Mr. E. M. Smallwood was yesterday surprised to see in court a thief who was given a "last chance" recently after being convicted of stealing iron rods from the Tanjong Malim Bridge in the same court. This time,
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  • 58 9 PENANG, Wed.— The Bayan Lepas Aerodrome will be closed from Oct. 1 for the runway to be lengthened and widened. Passengers travelling by Malayan Airways will have to land at R.A.F. airstrip at Butterworth and cross over to Penang by ferry. The Thai and Burmese Airways may
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  • 132 9 BENTONG, Wed: More than 2.000 children have registered here and in adjacent villages since "Operation Torch" began on Monday. The eight centres in the district were manned by teachers from the Sulaiman English School. The majority of the children were Chinese and chose, in
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  • 39 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. First Magistrate. Tuan Haji Mohd. Taib. had some surprise visitors today. They were 12 inmates of the Gurney Training Centre for the Blind. Led by three teachers, they came to "hear court."
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  • 66 9 A requiem mass for the soul of the late Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster. will be sung in the Roman Catholic Garrison Church of Christ the King. Tanglin Barracks. Singapore, today at 6.30 p.m. Cardinal Griffin died of a heart attack while on holiday in Cornwall. England.
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    • 629 9 a mODAY'S Ql'Ol^lTION: —See higher-ups: gain in a I "It matters now how prestige; dispatch duties dura »ong you live, but how ine the day Evening: gam a well senm-a news; eeek the company of t^ THI'RSUAV FOR HVKRV- conaemal folk. ONt- Get under way prompt- LIBRA— Sept. 23 to
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  • FINANCE & COMMERCE
    • 69 10 SPECULATIVE BUYING STEADIES RUBBER THE Singapore rubber market closed uncertain at 98 cents per lb. for first grade rubber for September shipment, unchanged from Tuesday. It opened a"t 96| cents per lb. ljj cents lower than Tuesday. The market was quietly steady and at noon the price was 97 cents.
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    • 45 10 Buyers Sellers Spot (nom.) 97 971 Sept. R.S.S. No. 1 97 97* Oct. R.S.S. No. 1 97i P7g Sept. R.S.S. No. 2 94J 95 Sept. R.S.S. No. 3 93* 94 R.M.A. on Reg. tender: September 96? 97 October 96J 97| Tone: Quietly steady.
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    • 121 10 OUTER ROADS Cebec, Kaloekoe, Metal Trader, Rebeverett. St. Mere Eglise, Mikasa Maru, Otori Maru, Inchulva, Kerbsia. INNER ROADS Tg. Pinang. Stia. Sirusa. Van Den Broek. Sg. Bila, Segamat, Lipse. Hin Ann, Eng Siong. Hong Ming. Pangkor. Lawu. Long Sindhu. Stv. Buatan. Taype. Lucky Trader. Hong Tat. Moonfish,
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  • 83 10 AMONG general cargo being lifted from Grangemouth by the Singapore, the third P O cargo liner to leave this port in the new Far East cargo service, are two tons of 'cotton fishing twine made by J W Stewart of Musselburgh, which is consigned to Singapore where
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  • 352 10 WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 Recent years have seen a notable acceleration in the flow of private capital around the world, as free nations everywhere have exhibited greater financial stability and an unprecedented capacity for economic growth. Bearing out this trend, reports just issued by the
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  • 230 10 Investment Answer To Population Posers HEAVY capital investment in countries where popu. lation pressure is greatest, is today's answer to the world's population problems. Professor J. J. Spengler of Duke University. Durham, North Carolina, said this at yesterdays Rotary luncheon in Singapore. He is a visiting professor at the University
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  • Article, Illustration
    34 10 MISS Lun Siew Yee of Ipoh and Miss Rizlina Andr es of P enang "eddying »n England, visited the shoemaking factories of C. and J. Clark Ltd. with other stuaems during their recent vacation.
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  • 304 10 INTERNATIONAL oil experts in London feel there is little short-term danger of Western-owned oil lines being seized or oil-right agreements being abrogated in the Middle East as long as the Suez Canal situation remains peace1 f 4 1 I But, they
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  • 31 10 FIRST multi-engined helicopter to be delivered to an airline, a Bristol Type 173. was recently handed over to British European Airways for a programme of extensive handling trials.
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  • 108 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing price yesterday were: Copra Sept. $26| buyers. $26? sellers; coconut oil (bulk) $39 sellers, coconut oil (drums) $42£ sellers; Muntok white pepper $123 sellers, Sarawak white $122, Special Sarawak black $84 sellers. Singapore Copra Association closing prices: Sept. $261 buyers, $26* sellers.
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  • 262 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. —The Rubber Research Institute's Planters Bulletin warned today that late annual planting of rubber, now suggested in some quarters here, exposed the budded or seedling material to damage by drought or sun scorch. The bulletin, writing on "correct timing," pointed out that at
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  • 40 10 NEW YORK. Aug. 28. (UP)— Dow-Jones closing averagesSTOCKS: 30 Industrials 503.05 20 Rails 159.78 15 Utilities 68.63 65 Stocks 176.58 BONDS: 40 Bonds 93.69 The Dow Jones Commodity Futures Index (1924-26 average equals 100) closed at 160.13.
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  • 114 10 Tins Easier, Rubbers Steady A FAIR volume of business was written in Malayan industrial shares and prices m several instances closed shade higher. Tins were slightly easier, while rubbers were steady Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharrbmkers' Association yesterday were INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sr'.leri 8.8. Petrol 58/- 60 Fraser N'eave:
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  • 130 10 MALAYAN sharebrokei> j terday reported the folio z business done: F. N. ords $1.91J: Gammna $1.92 and $1.95; Hammer $2.«* $280 odd lot: Hume AS *}> Jackson $1.32 J: M. Cement I McAlister $1.90; Metal Bn* $1.53J: Sime Darby $1 90 $1 Ki Straits Steamships $24.8~v MS
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  • 171 10 Japan's Floating Fair Coming To Spore A JAPANESE show boat, the 8,800-ton Nissho Maru, carrying latest machinery for display on board, is due at Singapore next February. It will be here on Feb. 13 and 14. The Japanese vice-consul in charge of trade, Mr. Y. Nomura, made this announcement yesterday.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 577 10 NOTICES THE TOWN BOARDS ENACTMENT (F-M.S. CAP. 137) IPOH AND MENGLEMBU TOWN COUNCIL NOTICE. TT is proposed under Section I 144 of the Town Boards Enactment, to amend the approved Town Plan No B3 (Gazette Notification No 2846/31) of the Township of Ipoh by altering the zoning cf Lot *****,
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    • 613 10 CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION, 1957. FEDERATION OF MALAYA CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION. 1957. FEDERATION OF MALAYA QUALIFYING TEST 4 QUALIFYING Test for Private Candidates wishing to enter for the Cambridge School Certificate Examina:ion 1957. and the Federation Dt Malaya Certificate of Education Examination. 1957. will ae held at 9.00 a.m.
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    • 690 10 NATURALISATION \OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN II that the following persons whose names and addresses are given below are applying to thr Governor for naturalisation and that any person who knows a n v reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts
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    • 221 10 NOTICES CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD FEDERATION OF MALAYA. To All Consumers in Port Dickson and Siliau. rpHERE will be a shut down A of electricity between the hours of 10.00 a.m. and 12 noon en Friday, 31st August, 1956. for carrying out essential maintenance on the transmission lines. Any inconvenience so
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    • 33 10 PELNI-LINES 12, ROBINSON ROAD Tel: ***** (Freight— /Through Cargo DeptJ Tel: ***** (Manager). "PADEA" for Indraq.ri Ports Aug 31 "PAHEPA" for Polembang Sept 1 "ESAU" for Belowon Sept 3 "PANTEH" for Djakarta Sept
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    • 698 11 ANGLO-FRSNCH TRADING CO Ltd" I* SJ»2J/«. *****/4 W VW LTD. THE BLUE FUNNEL Llnl*" RoW fWI NORTH AMERICAN SERvir. SBS 3% STV. TEUCE« t/14? 5/16 Oet 17/18 Oet NORTH GERMAN LLOYD HAMBURG -AMERICAN LINE m »IHT SERVICE .-abo b (uoyo) f1 •LUDWICSMAMN (HAPAC) 5* P 8 $#pt *Pt SCHWABENST.,* <UO
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    • 1021 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD «c CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lines) (Incorporated In Singapore) (12 line*; SMppin, TH BLUE FUNN L LIN M Carriers option to pVoeeed via othet ports to load and dischart* earfjc SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL. CLASCOW. LONDON. CONTINENT Singapore. to. lk.,pc. 6 1 V Of Liverpool Uth fßr
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    • 875 11 MITSUI |5} LINE S'port P. S'hom Penong FOR JAPAN Asumoson Moru for Yokohama. Kobe. Moji In Port Hodakason Moru for Yokohama, Nogoyo, Kobe via Hongkong 14 Sept Mikagesan Moru for Yokohama Nagoya, Kobe vlo Hongkong 28 Sept FOR U.S.A. via Suez For New York, Philadelphia Baltimore Awoboson Maru from Japon
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    • 716 11 EAST ASIATIC LINES OUTWARDS Soilings for Bangkok and/or For East. Penenc P. S how. S pore "JUTLANDIA- 3/5 Sept 6/8 Sept 9/1 1 Sept "SONGKHLA" 9/13 Sept M 'l4 Sept 15/16 Sept "FALSTRIA" 16/17Sept 18/lBSept 19/20Sept HOMEWARDS Sailings for Genoa, Antwerp. Rotterdam, Hamburg Copenhagen. S per. P. Shorn Penon« "MOMBASA"
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  • 24 13 LONDON. Aug. 29 (Router)— Cricket close of plav scores: At Cardiff. Glamorgan versus Sussex no play today. Wicket waterlogged.
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  • 43 13 THE following will represent the Special Constables in a friendly soccer match against the Singapore Cricket Club tomorrow on the Padang. C. Galistan. Kellion. S. T. Kim. Bala. Hashim Ibrahim, D. Angullia. Yusoff, Zakaria. Kassim, A Bnkar. Shariff. Ahmad.
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  • 300 13 H R TOP SEEDS AT FOREST HILLS Hoad To Start Favourite FOREST HILLS, New York, Aug. 28, (Reuter).— Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, both of Australia, were today seeded first and second respectively lor the United States lawn tennis singles championship to begin here on Friday. For the first time
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  • 213 13 AIR Headquarters Singapore retained the Far East Air Force Soccer Cup when they beat Air Headquarters Malaya by four goals to two in the Far East Air Force Cup Final Association Football at Changi yesterday. In the semi-final played on Sunday AIIQ Malaya beat
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  • 255 13 NANCY LIM. Convent of the Holy Infant schoolgirl, breezed into the women's singles and doubles finals of the Singapore Badminton Association's Junior championship at the Badminton Stadium last night. In the singles Nancy ousted Long Soo Chin 11-2. 11-7. Later on partnered by Chionh Bee Hwee.
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  • 171 13 NEW YORK. Aug. 29 (AP) Tuesday's baseball results lows:NATIONAL Pittsburgh 5. Milwauke 4 (nightt Brooklyn 6-3. Chicago 4-4 (2nd game 1\ innings, darkness) Cincinnati 11, New York 1 (night) Philadelphia 6. St. Louis 4 vnight) AMERICAN New York 4. Kansas City 0 (night; 6 innings, rain) Baltimore 1,
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  • 18 13 TJ"ARALASINGAM- To Maha -IA. wife ot N. K Singam at Sentul, K.L. on August. 28th a son.
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 62 13 PAVILION STARTS TODAY She knew whajhewag-and she was afraiH k< V*2 ever y fiber of her being cried out I _^1J JOAN CRAWFORD JEFF CHANDLER I\ RII T &S&^ CECIL KELLAWAY CHARLES DRAKE J JDITH EVELYN J.l-1 UlJullLllMJ NATALIE SCHAFER Oireeted by JOSEPH PCVNtY Scre*nsUy by ROBERT HiLl t f.,^
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    • 305 13 FOR SAIE CHEAP SALE: Used Radios Models from $25/ Excellent condition. 10 CoJlyei Quay S'pore-1.& 5 Bukit Bintang Road Kuala Lumpur. VEHICLES FOR SALE 1951 Pontiac. 1949 Vauxhall. 1952 Humber Hawk. 1947 Ford Prefect. 1953 Vauxhall Velox. All cars are guaranteed in working order. View Singapore Motors Ltd. Tel: *****.
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    • 497 13 CLASSIFIED ADS SITUATION WANTED TWO middle age English speaking Chinese women, seek employment with European family as Cook and Amah. Reply Box T2T99 S.S WANTED INSTRUCTION required in A Jiving and Latin American Dancing Reply to *****25 Cpl. Williams, Base Flight RAF Seletar. tDUCATIOM ITMANS COMMERCIAL EXAMINATIONS November 1056. Entries
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    • 602 13 SITUATIONS VACANT VPPLICATIONS are invited lor appointment as Stenographer. State Secretariat. Kota Bharu on the following salary scale: $253 x 14-351 3^6x14-422 plus Cost of Living Allowance, and housing allowances at current rate if not accommodated in Government quarters. Candidates must he able to write correctly in shorthand from dictation
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 113 13 Li 1 Abner By A/ Capp I^4 lnsf^?s^Sii^^wf^ Alley Oop By V. F. The Heart Ol Juliet Jones By Stan Drake l» „i *i W WWi i EVE/PARUNS— >/ IPIT^A i\ I I BREATHE WORDS TO EVER/-!' PI D you jfl t^^^^^^- i^_*_^\N<VwW where pip you y/ secret-wb \l &opy
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  • 484 14 Tkb khqlahd Team The £tnhseJt I HaQe Plaifed Aqainit LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuter) lan Johnson, captain of the Australian team which lost the Ashes in the Test series just ended said that he thought England now had their strongest side in 15 years. "I
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  • Today's Sport
    • 40 14 SAFA. JUSIOR CUPTIE: Police "A" vs. Rajaji S.C. at Farrer Park at 5.15 p.m. DIV. 3B: Bedok SC. vs. S H.B. Police "A" at Geylang Stadimn at 5.15 p.m. SAFA PRACTICE: Singapore players last practice at Jalan Besar Stadium.
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    • 15 14 Far East Air Force GoUing Society annual championsh'vs at the Royal Singapore Golf Club.
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  • 49 14 THE Mercantile Bank Sport? Club will celebrate it? sth Anniversary at Hua Yu Villa" 338-339, East Coast Road. 8 m.s. on Sundav from 9 a.m. to 12 midnight. Sports and Games will be held during the day followed by a Social Dance in the night.
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  • 89 14 RESULTS of the 9 Holes Mixed Foursomes (Stableford* August competition of the Royal Singapore Golf Club. Winners: R A Hellen and Miss P.C. Adams B+lOJ 18J. Other Cards: Mr. Sc Mrs. 9. Abbott 10-1-5.11/18=15. 11/lfi: Mr Mrs. S.F. Arnold fl-f9.5'8 13. J; Capt. Mrs. N. Wo^d 5 4-101
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  • 118 14 AMAZON Stable's Trinidad and Shaw Stable's Opera 11. two splendid winners at the recent Kuala Lumpur meeting, have been promoted to Class Three from Class Four, according to the latest SRA amendment list. Other transfers are: Frcm Class 4 to Class 3: Staff Officer: Opossum.
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  • 753 14  - A Surprise From Golden Surprise BEATS NEW YEAR BY 6 LENGTHS WINDSOR LAD By GOLDEN SURPRISE showed a bright turn of foot at the Bukit Timah track yesterday when he lashed past the post six lengths clear of NEW YEAR at the end of a three-furlong workout. Golden Surprise who
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  • Article, Illustration
    39 14 BERNARD Pinto and Mrs. Karin Le Mercier (left) bent Mrs. Claire Cheah and Anek Duangudom 7-5. 6-1 to win the mured doubles final of the Malayan Open Tennis Championships played on the grass courts of the Penang Sports Club.
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  • 194 14 MALAYAN Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation will spend about 55.000 in organising their sixth annual athletic championships to be held at Jalan Bcsar stadium on Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Chew Kens Ban, the organising secretary of this meet revealed this to The Standard yesterday. This meet
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  • 75 14 PULAU BUKOM eliminated Mansfield Sports Club in the S.B.H.F.A. Senior Knockout Cup at Farrer Park yesterday. Bidin and Saparin scored the goals for the winners. SHELL Sports Club beat Malayan Airways 4-0 in the SBHFA Senior Knockout Cup at Shell ground yesterday. A fine hat-trick by Ibrahim Hassan
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  • 193 14 i.PinJ?Q3 LLMPUR, Wed-Two fine goals by inside right Aminullah Karim helped Selangor to beat Perak 2-0 in the final match of the Malayan Hocke, Federation on the Army Command Stadium ground here this evening Selangor thus won the 6# championship crown at the carnival
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  • Article, Illustration
    40 14 photo. Mrs. Chan Kum Chee, wife of a Singapore City CounIh&i'JS pres f n «nß the Chan KumChee Challenge Shield to the captain of the winning team at the annual Srt?** of the Singapore Chinese Girls' School Em n Ming's
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  • 933 14 MALAYANS LACK INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE The Plums' Went Overseas... Tony Bangei Reviews the LTJIM championships PENANG Wed —None of Malaya's competing top-notchers reached the eminence of the ov™ tennis aces at the Malayan open tennis championships concluded here yesterday. international experience was The reason was obvious: the oasic quamy 01 ILC
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    • 25 14 coming to Singapore stay at, STRAND HOTEL 25 Bencoolen Street. Singapore —7. Central, clean airy rooms, all modern conveniences. SINGLE $101- DOUBLE $12/PHONE Nos. *****-*****
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