Singapore Standard, 19 October 1956

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  • 13 1 Singapore Standard v 109 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1956 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 233 1 SHOOTING DRAMA IN A COLONY FLAT Two Teachers Found Dead After Row About Lottery Ticket TWO SINGAPORE SCHOOL TEACHERS, KNOWN TO BE GOOD FRIENDS, WERE FOUND SHOT DEAD IN A FLAT IN RIVER VALLEY ROAD, YESTERDAY. They were Mr. Arthur Clifford James, 31, and Mr. Low Siew Mok, 21. They
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  • 196 1 URO Oct 18 (Renter)— Four Britons held on were taken to Court here today with tainees. I c a Magistrate later this whether they ihould be remanded m CUStOU'. The I Brltofif are: Janus Bwinburn, 50. business manager I the Arab News
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  • 46 1 18 (B to baud an nt in Thaiable Ihai dd o d aircraft I b the rnmpany a a i limurr a or power p r t itl plant G nent contrees i ltd. rnmenl ffei Energy Coun- j i
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  • 22 1 ew Chief For reign Office I,Vc i° r?rirte*# 1 rman- j the F Q tO mbo will IT, It V- I b
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  • 9 1 "."ORE Traction conductor. v stab- Loi
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  • 44 1 PEKING. Oct. 18. (Renter).— Pakistan Premier Hscvn Shaheed Suhrawardy arrived here by air today for a 12-day visit to China He was met at the airport hv Mt Chou-En-lai the Chinese Prime Minister who had invited him to make the trip.
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  • 56 1 French Seize Arms Cargo ALGIERS, Oct 18. (UP>, French authorities charged to day thai 711 tons of modern arms seized aboard the gunrunning motor yacht, Athos. came from Egypt. The Charge was marie by naval nrmy and administration a priorities investigating the case of a motor vessel seized ofl the
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  • 40 1 MRS. Mieke Bouman. who defended Dutchman Major H. Schmidt, a former Dutch army intelligence officer, in his trial on charges ot subversion in Jakarta recently was made a knigh* m the Order of the Dutch Lion yesterday. UP
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  • 165 1 RANGOON, Oct. 18 (Reuter)— The Burmese Government today ordered the abolition of all student unions in schools throughout the country in a move to prevent indiscipline and disorder allegedly instigated by Communist rebel agents. The order Issued by the Edu n Ministry, the would permit ondls
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  • 98 1 PINEOLA. Florida. Oct. 18 ,AP) Two Atlantic Coast Line freight trains raced down a straightaway stretch into a head-on collision today, killing four out of 10 crewmen aboard and injuring four others. Cars immediately behind the two diesel engines piled up and broke into
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  • 26 1 POLISH young Communists have demanded "the reappointment ot Wladyslaw Gomulka to the leadership Of the Poli.-h United Workers Party.' Warsaw Radio reported yesterday. Reuter
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  • 130 1 BERLIN. Oct. L 8 (UP). East German Communists have rushed troops to Magdeburg to meet labour unrest and strikes reports reaching West Berlin said today. The reports were given by the West Berlin newspaper. Dcr Tag. and the West Berlin "Free Jurists Investigating Committee." Der
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  • 36 1 JAKARTA Oct. 18 (UP) A tour-day strike ot 15.000 workers against the Royal Dutch Oil Company. BPM. ended today alter threatening to cut off gasoline and oil supplies to nearly the entire nation.
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  • 148 1 CLASSICS SPORT WON'T MIX DOWN UNDER CANBERRA, Oct. 18 (Reuter)— The Chinese classical theatre company, from Communist China would not perform in Melbourne during the Olympic Games, Prime Minister Robert Menzies told the House ot Representatives today. He said it would "better accord' with the spirit ot the Olympic Games
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  • Article, Illustration
    30 1 W-h-o-o -s-h photo. PRINCESS Margarette of Denmark hangs on to her hat as winds sweep at her skirt at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport, last week, as she was leaving Rome. A.P.
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  • 465 1 THE DUKE WILL BE BRIEFED ON EMERGENCY IN K.L. THE Duke of Edinburgh will depart from protocol governing Royalty, when he visits Kuala Lumpur, t ne Fedot at t atitai. on Nov. 1, Deepavali Day. The official programme relca>ed in Kuala Lumpur last night indicated that there will be a
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  • 131 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The. Duke of Edinburgh, during his 'r^thcoming visit to the Federal ccpita!, will ride in a Rolls Royce car after all, the Federation Government confirmed tonight. It is a "Silver Wraith" owned by Mr. E. J. Henton, chief
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  • 40 1 US$ 1O,OOO For Probe OXFORD. Oct. 18 <Reuter) The Rockeleller Foundation has made a grant not exceeding US$lO,OOO to cover costs of Investigating the possibility of making Oxford an efficient centre of Commonwealth law j-tudies. It was announced here today.
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  • 190 2 JOHORE BAHRU, TTiurs.— The Johore State Alliance will launch a full-scale campaign to back their chosen candidates in the Kluang Town Council elections. A member of the State Alliance Committee told The Standard yesterday that Alliance Councillors from every constituency in the State
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  • 169 2 Expulsion To Be Explained JOHOPE BAHRU. Thurs.— The Women Section of the Johore Bahru Town UMNO is preparing a full report on the reasons why Che Katijah Sidek, leader of the Women Section of UMNO, has been expelled. This report will be sent soon to the UMNO headquarters in Kuala
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  • 31 2 COMMAND A N'T of the Selmgor Home Guard Training Centre M Norman Stanifrrth rf.r-r-i to Kauia Lumpul yesterday bjr BO AC after a s.x weeks' holiday in Britain.
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  • 82 2 Dr. Eusoff: Bury Your Hatchets DR Haji Mohamed Eusoff, a pro-Chan -c '.or of the University < I Malaya, last night appealed to members of the university Council to "bury their differences' 1 and work in harmony to achieve a common goal. Dr. Eusoff, who arrived by air from [poh.
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  • 130 2 TWO men. found loitering in the vicinity of the former residen c of Singapore"? Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock. in Sine Avenue, were detained by Police yesterday. A Police patrol car cruising along Suns Avenue at in. 42 a.m. saw the men. A Pdlice spokesman said
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  • 83 2 FIVE more Malayan cooks have been selected for the .Ma-layan-Indonesian kitchen at the Olympic Games village in Melbourne. They a:c: Inche Samion bin Ha.ii Abdullah, who will be second chef, Inrhe Mah-nood bin JafTar. Enche Omar bin Mohamed, Inche Mohame bin Dewa 'and Inche Mohamed
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  • 109 2 THE Governor ol Singapore. Sir Robert Black, said last night he was confident that members o! the Muslim community in the Colony were ready and willing to play their Dart in meeting he challenges which laced the Island today. Sir Robert was speaking at a party at
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  • 172 2 APPLES:PANANG TAKES NO CHANCES PENANG, Thurs.—Municipal Health Inspectors have been sent out to fruit stalls in George Town to ensure that apples imported from Japan are washed by stallholders in their presence. This was disclosed to The Standard today by the Municipal Health Officer, I)r Lim Khoon Huat, who said
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  • 277 2 HE TRIED TO FORCE GIRL TO DO A STRIP' IN BLUKAR KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Makhan Singli, 26-year-old cowherd masqueradins: as a policeman, "lured" a young: Chinese couple into thick blukar and ordered he boy to strip his fiancee the First Magistrate's Court was told today. Lew Sim Mooi, pretty 19-year-old
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  • 34 2 V GOPAYA. 31, who had seven previous convictions, wms yesterday jailed for four months in the Kuala Lumpur Magistrate Court !or causing hurt to a compatriot vwto a steel paint scraper.
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  • 424 2 PENANG, Thurs.— A Danish architect, B. M. Iversen, denied suggestions made in the High Court today that the encroachment of a building, which he designed was due to his negligence and incompetence, or that his dominant idea was to avoid personal liability when he
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  • 27 2 TWO-YEAR-OLD Sarasmadi Fell from the first floor of a house in Race Course Road yesterday. She was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital. I
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  • 90 2 SIX Singapore trade unionists will go to Japan on a twomonth study tour in December this year, under a United Nations Economic Social and Cultural Organization (UNES CO) scholarship. They are Mr. Chew Seng (General Secretary, Army Civil Service Union), Mr. P. K.
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  • 128 2 COMMODIT PRICES CLOSING robtapr (rents pet A lr Si pore vesirrd-n r.?rt Bo.^r? id Spot Nov RSS < H S.S. No E .K S V* Tone Quid spoßt n The pri( < n? !i thi- local ■aitfl da> was LONDON I No. 1 H v S B Bnase 1 ci
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  • 15 2 1 tcrda 1 I ing in R" r A ship. ■J
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  • 7 2 Wo wan's Bo Found In La 1
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  • 422 2 Wedding Photos Showed Same Groon With Different Brides— Court Tol TWO attractive Singapore housewives gave Poi.r ding photographs in which the same man appeared as v S it was alleged in the Fifth Magistrate's Court yesterday S Inspector Michael Chong said that in the course ol alleged bigamy case, the
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  • 136 2 MEI POH CUTS OUT STRIPPING TO KEEP WITHIN LAW PENANG, Thurs.—Stripteaser Mci Poh (the eiri who advertised for a husband) oner the big draw at the Great World Park here, it, fast losing popularity REASON: She is no more shedding her clothes And a string of disappointed admirers is wondering
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  • 202 3 The Big Varsity Riddle GRADUATES of the University of Molayo, puzzled by conflicting reports about a Varsity staff crisis, want to know what all the fuss is about. The graduates, who have been blamed for initiating the so-called crisis, cannot understand how they nave become involved. Vs a result, several
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  • 425 3 it was a general belief among the graduates that they did not stand for the Malayanization of the University just •'for the sake of Malayanization." "They believe that different considerations apply- The .Malayanization of the pubiic service is a
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  • 342 3 'Pity Me, She Cried To Knife Attacker SI'NGEI PAT AM. Thurs— 22-year-old Thai woman knelt by the bank of a swollen river, raised both her nan Is and implored a man standing over her with a parang not to kill her. This episode was described m the Magistrates Court here
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  • 125 3 45-Minute Battle With Reds iron. Thurs A sevenman area security unit patrol fought a 45-minute battle with a force of 15 terrorists in the A;- or Kuoing area of Tapah. on Tuesday morning, it was learned. The security patrol suffered one seiiOU! casualty"" Special Constable Omar bin Mat. who was
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  • 184 3 iron. Thurs.— Malay voters town of Kuala g ar, a hich will hold its Town Council elections •he end of this year or next year. are in the mint The electoral roll for this new Town Council area, disS that there are 864 register. Chier
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  • 145 3 New Unit Opened In Hospital SINGAPORE S Minister for Health, Mr A. J. Braga, yesterday opened the new Ear, Nose and Throat Unit of the General Hospital. In doing so, he remarked that this section of the hospital was "indeed overdue." He praised the E.N.T. specialist. Dr. Au Kee Hock,
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  • 219 3 FED. STUDENTS CAN REGISTER FOR NEW CLASSES Bui Sponsors Must Be Supplied Within Two Weeks SINGAPORE'S Minister for Education. Mr. Chew Swee Kee, yesterday said that Singapore Chinese Middle School students from the Federation and other places may register for temporary classes in Government schools and supply sponsorship within a
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  • 253 3 Sold Obscene Books— Fined $50 DPOH, Thurs, A 35-year-old book-seller, Yaw Wee San was today fined $50 by MagisStrate Che Abdul Kadir bin Yus< f. when he picadcd guilty to a charge ol displaying tor sale three copies of an obscene entitled "The Story of Mada n Tong Fu." written
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  • 172 3 ANGRY WIFE IN DOCK YELLS: 'GO HOME' TO TEARFUL SPOUSE A PRETTY 16-year-old housewife. Ong 3iew Eng. accused o/ theft in a Sinpore Court yesterday, told her husband to go home and look after the children Ong was accused of stealing five gold bangles and a ladies wrist-watch, worth S6OO.
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  • 57 3 THE Singapore State United Malays National Organization has collected more than $5,000 to erect an UMNO building which is expected to cost around SlOO.OOO. UMNO's general secretary Sved Ahmad Jamalullil. told The Standard yesterday that subscriptions had come mainly from the 13.000 members of UMNO. while
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  • 237 3 MALACCA. Thurs. The Malacca Chamber of Commerce, at an emergency meeting yesterday, appointed a committee to investigate inadequate lighterage and port facilities here. The Chairman and the fourman committee are Messrs. D F. Eccles, A. A. Tarry, S. E Neilsen. J. M. Gomes and Goh Keng
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  • 223 3 Manager Of Shipping Firm Is Fined $500: No Export Notice For Oil MOHAMED Samin bin Bendahara Besar, manager of the Riau Archipelago Shipping Company, was yesterday lined $500 in a Singapore Court, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of loading 300 four-gallon tins of kerosene on board the m.v.
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  • 299 4 More Pay: More Leave: More Allowances THE 2,800-member Singapore Traction Company Employees' Union submitted a 24-point claim foi better conditions of service and higher wages for certain categories of workers to the management yesterday. Acting General Manager of the Company. Mr. GG, Wilson,
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  • 35 4 MAJOR General L. H. o. Push. Chief of Staff. FARELF, left Singapore* yesterday to visit Gurkha Kecimrnts in India and Nepal at Barrackpore and Katmandu. He will return on Nov. 13.
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  • 302 4 TWO shoe firms and a i department store were tricked into delivering poods valued at $1,529. a Singapore Court was told yesterday Phua Kee Juay; proprietor of Jon Tat Import and Export Company. in Telok Aver Street, WRfi charged in the Singapore Third District Court on
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  • 552 4 THIS MAGICIAN CAN STOP A BULLET A MAN who TWICE escaped .the fate that befell the \vcr ld-famous magician. Chung Ling Soo. killed in a bulletcatching trick in 1 91 8 has arrived to perform in Singapoic. Chung Ling S^o (W. E. Robinson) was shot before thousands of people while
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  • 335 5 How Malayan Railway Will Grow i_ 1 Streamlining Of Track Between S f pore And Kuala Lumpur Will Cost $3 Million X I ALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Twelve steaming diesel— electric locomotives will haul expresses on the Kuala Lumpur— Singapore run next year—
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  • 356 5 POUT SWETTENHAM, Lat< st American I techniques in piling are to used in the construction Of 1 c ;>oO.OOOi'"tU new port in N th Klang Straits, Che Si indard learn: today. This folio* the visit of the M i lyan
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  • 83 5 Bentong, A Sinless Town— MIC ben ton G. Thurs.— Visiting Malayan Indian Congress leader. Mr K. Ramanathan. paif tributi to Bentong by rig It a nl town. Addressing a mass gathering y >re the weekend, Ramanathan said that nked Rt nl Dg becßUse it r> ...<, :ui and toddy was
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  • 73 5 [POH, Thurs.— The National A tciation o! Perak has askeJ the Reid Commission to adhere Strictly to terms of reference issued to them in connection \vt h the drafting of a constitution for an independent Malaya In a note to the Commission, the N'A P. QUated
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  • 36 5 PARIT BUNTAR. Thurs.— Talping Circuit Magistrate. Inche Haror- bin HajJ Idria. has left here for Klang on transfer. The West Pahang Sessions Judge. Inche Abdul Hamid bin Omar will take over Inche Haron's duties.
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  • 269 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Malayan Railway today published its "most ambitious ever" budget for 1957— involving 581,590,000 revenue, $66,134,000 operating expenditure and $35,419,048 in special. services and capital projects. These showed great progress over even the revised estimates for 1956 totalling an anticipated $74.940.. 000
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  • 60 5 MALACCA. Thurs.— Municipal Councillors agreed in principle that there should be an extra ward in the Municipal area for the new elected Municipal Council, next year. The recommendation by the Select Committee on this subject was unanimously passed for further discussion by the Council. At present
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  • 64 5 MALACCA. Thurs. Elected Councillor Ha j i Mohameri Yusof bin Haji Sulong told the Municipal Council today that there was too much Dork bein^ sold in the open to tie public. "This is very bad for the Muslims. It is also unhygienic. I propose that
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  • 58 5 THE Seletar Theatre Club whose new building is now being com ructed, will hold a danre at the Adelphi Hotel on Saturday, Oct. 20. at 8 p.m to help raise building funds. Tickets for the dance, which will also include a floor show, may be obtained at the
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  • 64 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Well-known sportsman Mr Lim Thye Hee was among officials elected at the Kuala Lumpur Psychology Clubs eighth annual meeting held here over the weekend. Mr. R.N. Hilton was elected president. Other elections were: vicepresidents—Mr. Lim Thye Hee and Dr. J.K. Lucas, general secretary— Mr.
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  • 88 5 KUALA TRENGGANU, Thurs.— The Sultan of Trengganu was among the VlP's who attended the funeral of Dato Setia Di-Raja. a member of the State Royal Council of Ministers today. Dato Setia, (Inche Mohamed Hashim bin Dato Dewangsa) 69, died yesterday In his home after a
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  • 282 5 A $4 Mil. Station In Place Of Prai Ferry Pier KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Malayan Railway may soon abolish its Prai terminal serving Penang and build a new station at Butterworth flanking the Ferry Pier. This will enable the Railway to abandon its own ferry service to the mainland and
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  • 62 5 MALACCA. Thurs.— A request that the police should pay more attention to enforce the speed limit at Ttanquerah Road, was. made by Mr. G Mariappan today He told the Municipal Council that the police in the past had paid no attention whatsoever to motorists speeding along this
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    • 490 6 gLIXDNESS is no longer regarded as a handicap to people SO afflicted. Throughout the world. Vast Strides have been made in the care and training blind persons to make them useful citizens capable of u^ing their intelligence and take industry and society confident of play their part f>r
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    • 431 6 r V.umni Association. Singapore, has made an attempt to clear the air of untruths and halftruth C o.ccrning the causes, prcv.. and treat- of certain diseases. II shou'cj do this more often because the publi: of this country have strange and ridiculous ideas about sickness. The curl
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  • 710 6 EUROPE LOOKS TO BRITAIN By STRASBOURG. VT 7 ILL Britain ever accept, in the name of greater European unity, control of her atomic arms production in common with other West European States? It is a possibility for which Britain has so far shown nothing but distaste, but in essence it
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  • 977 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME WITH a suddenness which causes one to rub his eyes in wonderment, a lot of people zwrc beginning to show affection for journalism. They have been inquiring from THE STANDARD and some of its staff how they could qualify to join the profession, and.
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  • 175 6 We the PEOPLE INTRODUCE THE GCE EXAM Sir; Through your popular newspaper, I wish to draw the attention of the Ministry of Education to the inadequate facilities that are available for students who wish to take higher external examinations in languages like Mala y, Chinese, and Tamil which have become
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  • 126 6 Sir; I enjoyed reading Aster Gunasekera's column of October 16. Like him. I. too. had a good laugh to myself, when I read of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew's description of the Government's action as an example of "slowly losing its sense of shame." Mr. Kuan
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  • 666 6  -  Francis Ofner By TEL AVIV 'J'HE Biblical story of the rich man who spared his own herd but instead entertained a traveller by killing: and dressing the poor man's lamb is cited by Israelis in answer to renewed suggestions for solving the Palestine problem by
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  • 88 6 Shorts from the Talk Tot Rtefiij is big i i at hire specta aboil be a pi j the spend all I Inj fRUII .n a w«| genius an will si l, damaged 1 1 i c s battered I waves dv waters hav< changt d L.A.G S'mnt about I
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  • 173 6 Sir; According to an item in The Standard of October 13th (Mr. Chew has got it wrong), Mr. Tan Lark Sye, the Singapore multi-millionaire, said that a certain Chinese letter which had been handed over to Mr. Chew on a previous occasion was
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  • 303 7 IF NASSER SHOULD BLOCK SUEZ WATERWAY Shoot Their Way Through Or Sail Via Cape: Alphand WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (UP)— French Ambassador Herve Alphand told the National Press Club yesterday that the possibility of France and Britain shooting their way through the Suex Canal was not
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  • 45 7 HALF A MILLION marchers trudged through pouring rain at Peking, in a four-hour celebration of Communist Chinas National Day. AP .photo shows stiltwalker wearing fancy dress during the parade. Leading: them is a uroup of stilt-men with drums and gon^s.
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  • 42 7 Margaret Watches A Witch- Doctor's Dance photo. PRINCESS Morgoret congratulates an African dancer who performed a blood curdling "witch doctor's" dance of exorcism, never before witnessed by o white person, during a masque at Dar Es Salaam, Tanganyika, on Oct. 12. A.P.
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  • 211 7  -  QUEEN'S CHAPLAIN I By B.GIAN WARTIME HEROINE IN. Oct 18 Canon Charles Earle Raven, ear-old Chaplain to the Queen, spoke ol the woman he is to marry. WATLY ISLES aim Goes > M.i lame Relei i Jeanl m irti heroine Belgian Re sista movement. be at
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  • 32 7 \TIONS, 8 (AP) Tomas ho claims to re. Natl i Borneo r reef i by i Ch Franre I tl)4 v.. DR] I i I'm then 1 -ion is r
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  • 18 7 Zebras Appeal To Margaret nyika). Oct. natives Mar-jaret a elepha hes nything she in Idenl poplin ite, pi
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  • 19 7 THE Mexico Hotel Associa- c I yesterday that te s will conti- i a rcepl Negro guests.
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  • 105 7 Camel Had Family Trouble ATLANTA, Oct 18 (AP)— A I camel at Grant Park Zoo, up- set by "a little family trouble" grabbed a 45-year- Id -van by arm on Wednesd ty and i slung around in the air sei ci al times. T le animal, named Greeley. finally lei
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  • 37 7 JAKARTA, Oct 18 CAP) Rebels raided the house r»f a religioul teacher, Kiai Sjanwani, near Jakarta, killing his -n. who had just returned from Mecca, and wounding a visitor, local authorities reported on Wednesday.
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  • 30 7 MISS Anne Crawford. the 35-year-old British actress, died in a London nursing home yesterday where she had been since the beginning of this month suffering from anaemia. Renter
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  • 134 7 NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 18 (AP)— A 12-year-old £trl clutching a Commando-type knife, attempted to holdup drug store during her school lunch hour yesterday but fled when the proprietor resisted. Police captured her n short time later as she hid in a friend's bedroom several
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  • 96 7 GAUHATI, Assam, Oct. 18 (Reuter) Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru. Prime Minister of India, said yesterday that although world tension over Suez had eased, the danger of war had not yet disappeared completely. He told a public meeting here that the world had been on the
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  • 70 7 MONTREAL. Oct. 18 (UP) Diamond millionaire John T. Williamson is suffering from a mysterious ailment that has baffled doctors, it was reported yesterday. Williamson, who became wealthy overnight when he discovered a fabulously rich diamond vein in Tanganyika. 16 years ago. has been living here .since the
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  • 177 7 Limit Births, Stop Crowding TheEartlY LONDON. Oct. 13 (Reuter) —Sir Gerald Kelly, outspoken pa.>t-president of the Royal Academy Britain's premier art body said here last night there were far too many people in the world. They ate too much, he added, took up too much room and a person could
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  • 29 7 ACTRESS Julie Adams gave birth to an eight-pound son shortly en Tuesday at St Joseph's Hospital in nearby Burbank, Hollywood. her studio announced on Wodnes- photo.
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  • 59 7 MEXICO CITY. Oct. 18 (UP)— Mrs. Maria Luisalgodoy, 23. said today she tried to kill herself because her husband didn't 'ike her rooking She took poison after an argument with her husband. Antonio, 26, when he refused to eat a meal she had cooked. Doctors said she
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  • 303 7 LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuter)— Viscount Hailsham, First Lord of the Admiralty, said yesterday that one of the great problems of modern times was to devise an international system which would prevent "small and unscrupulous powers from exploiting the reluctance of big
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  • 69 7 ISLE OF PONZA, Italy Ot. in (AP) Scientist Jacques Piccard took has box-shaped bathysphere 12.467 feet down into the sea near ben i n Wediay to beat the mark he and bil father set three years ago. Piccard*s dive, howe^ er, was short of the record
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  • 296 8 3 Share Nobel Prize For 1956 STOCKHOLM, Oct. 18 (UP)— A German doctor, who discovered a new method of diagnosing heart and pulmonary ailments, and two American physicians, who brought the method to a high state of perfection, were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for medicine today. Prof. Dickson
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  • 40 8 Back To Remand Jail CAIRO, Oct. 18, (UP)— Four alleged British spies made their first appearance in court today at Cairo's heavily guarded Criminal Court. Egypt's prosecutor General Hafez Sabek asked the court that they be held in further custody.
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  • 71 8 HONGKONG. Oct. 18 (UP) —Two seriously injured victims of last week's bloody riots in Kowloon died in hospitals on Wednesday night, it was announced today. Deaths resulting from the riots have now increaed to 53. including one European woman (Mrs. Fritz Ernst. wile of Swiss vice
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  • 173 8 LONDON, Oct. 18 (Reuter)— The Council of the 15-nation Suez Canal Users' Association began a private session here today to take four decisions which will quickly put the organization into operation. These decisions will, according to diplomatic sources here, be on: 1. permanent finance arrangements
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  • 188 8 U.S. Campaign Warms Up Adlai Sings A Sad Song' WASHINGTON n, I (AP)-President jhower called ha jcratic critics a i swarm of partisan j last night white] Stevenson heaped J on those lie called^ three ol the u \i X 2 Pr< sidi w spee< h
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  • 72 8 photo. ARMED police sit in foreground, and hundreds of inhabitants line the balconies of flag bedecked buildings during the riot s which originated at the Li Cheng Uk Resettlement area. This was the scene in the Li Cheng Uk area during the outbreak, when 47 people were
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  • 146 8 'The Andrea Doria Was Going Just Under Top Speed' NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (AP)— Captain Piero Calamai of the sunken Italian liner Andrea Doria denied today that he was travelling at almost top speed through fog on the night of the Andrea Doria-Stockholm collision in order to keep a schedule.
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  • 105 8 AMMAN, Jordan Oct. 18. (UP). The vanguard of top operational jet fighters arrived in Jordan today to bolster British Royal Air Force planes committed to defend Jordan against Israeli "aggression." British officials said two RAF Hawker Hunter jets ianded this morning. It was the first
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  • 111 8 Margaret Talks With A Townsend ARUSHA, Tanganyika. Oct. 18 (AP; Princess Margaret talked intimately and animatedly to Group Captain Peter Townsend's younger brother Francis during a reception here on Wednesday night. Asked afterwards what they talked about, Townsend replied: "No comment." The Princess at first appeared to avoid Townsend, who
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  • 81 8 ROME. Oct 18 (Reuter) Leaders of Italy's Communist Party today announced their intention to re'ax their grip on the Party and to promote "democratic action st aO levels." In a policy declaration, written for a Party congress to be held in December, they said that
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  • 198 8 BLACKPOOL, Oct. 18, (AP) —A church organ which gives out weather reports in a strong British accent was placed under expert observation Thursday. Harry Wynne, organist at St. John Vianney Church, called for technicians after trying in vain to keep the instrument from talking
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  • 160 8 I'd Do It AgainSays R.S.M. LONDON, Thurs. The Kegimenta] Sergeant-Major v. no reported a private ior be OR improperly dressed while on leave from Germany iftej he saw a newspaper pn graph of the private said last night: "i'u do tne sa.;.e thing again." The R.S.M. Albert Foden. 40. added:
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  • 200 8 WASHINGTON. Oct. 13 (AP)— An "atomic fishing boat" that would use the atom's energy to lure, capture, sterilize, and refrigerate or can the fish is envisioned by a University of Wisconsin scientist. Dr. Arthur D. Hasler says the atomic luring" would THE CATCH COULD! PUMPED ABOARD
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  • 51 8 Photo. PORFIRIO RUBIROSA tenderly holds the hand of his new fiancee, 19--year-old French actress ODILE RODIN, as they receive members of the press in the Central American diplomat's Paris home Rubirosa, 47, is the former husband of Flore de Oro Trujillo, Danielle Darjeux. Doris Duke, and Barbara Hutton
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  • 20 8 LGS N j (AP)— Th« Hi ton has B sellers "Mrs x* bye, Mr Cb i
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  • 128 9 GUESS WHO'S THE GAL IN THE RODEO OUTFIT LI li-hwa. foremost star of Mandarin films, visited friends in a small united States town recently, before beginning work on her first American film. After a hectic series of public appearances. Press conferences and other events in Hollywood, Chicago, Wash" mgton and
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  • 144 9 the Singapore y.m.ca Orchard Roacf, la presenting to the public two free performances of Gilbert and SulU\ an' Trial by Jury," at B. nn p -p. on Wednesday and Thurs lay, Oct 24 and' 25. The Shows, which will be preceded by a comedy curtainraiser,
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  • 67 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The Alliance Government ha s selected three local education experts to attend a forthcoming conference of the U.N.E.S.C.O. in New Delhi. They are the Assistant Minister for Education Mr. Too Joon H'tig. the Assistant Director of Malay Schools, Tuan Syed Nasir and Mr. K.
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  • 32 9 THE Inter-School Art Exhibition which was to have taken place at the British Council gallery, Stamford Road, Singapore on Nov. 2 will now be held on Nov. 3 at 5,30 p.m.
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  • 397 9 [Annie Danker On Hunger Strike j m^ m^^~ t^ mm ANNIE DANKER, 29, charged with the attempted murder of her husband, Cyril Ignatius Danker, was too weak and giddy to attend her trial, the Singapore Chief Justice, Mr. John Whyatt was told yesterday.
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  • 229 9 POLICE CHIEF REQUESTS COUNCIL KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— At its forthcoming meeting, the Municipal Council here will consider a police request that all sports stadiums be licensed as "places of public resort." The General Purpose Committee of the Council has recommended that the request be
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  • 51 9 A TEN-MAN delegation from the Singapore Union of Journalists met the Chief Minister Mr. Lim Yew Hock yesterday, to protest against the arrest of a Singapore journalist Mr. Seah Yong under the Colony's Banishment Ordinance. The delegation is seen discussing the question with Mr. Lim (left).
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  • 439 9 THEY PLEADED A CASE -BUT IT WAS ONLY HALF A PLEA... SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday gave an assurance to a 10-man delegation from the Singapore Union of Journalists that the Labou- Front Coalition Government will not curtail freedom of the Press. The delegation led oy the
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  • 73 9 Keep Plans Until Merdeka' KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Plan s to change the name of the Kuala Lumpur Lake Gardens should be shelved until after Merdeka Day, it was suggested to the Municipal Council. This proposal is to be considered by the Council at its forthcoming monthly meeting. Controversy over changing
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  • 111 9 Squatters Form Co-op Society KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Thousands of squatters facing eviction here in the near future. are working on a co-operative society to secure alternative accommodation for themselves. A meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Squatters' Association yesterday, decided that the answer to problems of squatters in general was a
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  • 41 9 PRIVATE candidates in Singapore who wish to sit for the London Chamber of Commerce (Spring) 1957 examinations should submit their entries between Nov. 1 and 30. Entry forms are available at the Ministry of Education, P.O. Box 746, Singapore.
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  • 108 9 MARSHALL MAY GO TO BOMBAY CONFERENCE SINGAPORE Labour Front may send its Chairman, Mr. David Marshall, to represent the Front at the Asian Socia I Conference in Bombay from Nov 1 to 10. a spokesman of the Front told The Standard yesterday. He said preliminary arrangements have already been made
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  • 186 9 THE 'BIG EAT' ON TODAY 400 Students And Nurses To Be Entertained MORE than 400 Singapore students and nurses wi.) sit down tonight to a home-cooked dinner provided by the women of the Wesley Methodist Church. Fort Canning Road. the Chairman of the Churches Student Work Committee, Dr. Khoo Oon
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  • 45 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— After four years of work, a new draft of building byLaws for the Municipality here is ready. The Housing and Building Commit of the Council will set up an ad hoc body to study the drafts in detail.
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  • 157 9 SINGAPORE'S "Old Vie" in Empress Place will be completed in the middle of next year. It will then be the most modern theatre in South-East Asia. Mr. H. Hawson, the City Architect and Building Surveyor, told The Standard yesterday work on the
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    • 388 9 iju'iviiMN f^^^^^PVtßPVWß^PlEf* d aeffiSßßßgaa«Bß«Bl s& Igjjjßßjtffflße j Z Jpr^lMl 'I MPp^^wmJ^WpllK. jg c e n is. con *^S **^wJJß^^llll^at I) &««rrr^rrrrrrrr«rrrrrrrr«Bs&»^ s| m N 0 A i ir.R\- Sepl B to 0.: 22 mi —Ma thro.:- I ela<:mony, c afterLater: eooaanra e.ne.gy. Ed 94 ORPIO Oct -3 to NOV, ti
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  • 453 10 Finance And Commerce I Keen Rivalry From Overseas MALAYAN pineapple packers in the U.K. feel a price drop big enough to be reflected in the retail price per tin would be instrumental in stimulating sales and moving accumulated stocks. This statement was made in
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  • 78 10 SINGAPORE rubber prices yesterday dropped hall a cent to 92 5 8 cents per lb. for first grade November shipment. The market opened about the same as on the previous day. Fair demand lor the lower -race was reported in the morning. At noon the market
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  • 46 10 Buyers Sellers Spot (norn 923 93] Nov. R.S.S. Xo. 1 9 93 Deo. R.S.S. Xo. 1 92| 921 N R.S.S Xo. 2 91} 91 Nov. R.S.S. Xo. 3 90 901 R M.A. on reg. tender. November 92j 92| Dot er 922 92| Tone: Quiet.
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  • 31 10 AN intensive two-year research programme into the Maiic" preservation of food is being undertaken by the low Temperature Research s- ition of Britain's Departnl of Scientific and Indus- Research.
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  • 221 10 MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business dene: Gammons 52.07J to 2 2 F N ords $2 06 to ?2.04; H.corner $3.175; H. Waugh $L 62»; Hoaakor.j Bank SotiQ.oo: M. Cement 51. 75; McAlister $1.08; Sime Darby $2.02 xd; Cold Storage $1.60: Straits Steamship 515.50; Straits Times
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  • 187 10 THE Malayan share market was firm in both the tins and industrials sections yesterday with busines s passing within quotations. Rubber shares were strong, according to the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday. Price changes announced by the Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers F N Olds. 203 2.06
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  • 44 10 MALAYA imported 1.74 million yards of Indian textiles during August this year, according to the Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (India). Malayan imports from India during the month show a decline of 600.000 yards when compared with the previous month.
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  • 26 10 BRITISH Petroleum is to make a conditional offer worth almost £9.6 million for the whole of the ordinary capital of Trinidad Petroleum Developments.
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  • 154 10 Passenger Service To F.E. P!an THE Ceylon Shipping Lines have plans to establish a passenger service to the Far East in the near future, its technical manager. Mr. T. I Virkki, told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Virkki arrived in Singapore on the 1,722-ton cargovessel, Chilaw, the only ship which the
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  • 63 10 FOREIGN" imports of tlr concentrate? into Ma 3 during September amounted to 1.268 tons < 1.215 toi August), according to official statistics. The total quantity Imp rted during the first nin« i of the year amounted to 10.215 tons 1 11.230 tons for the same period ot
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  • 177 10 BURMA is in the Singapore market looking for about 6,000 tons of sugar lor nearby shipment, accord ing to a spokesman of the Singapore Sugar Traders' Association yesterday. The spokesman indicated that about 2.000 tons were to be shipped to Rangoon h-y the end
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  • 60 10 GOODYEAR'S retreading plant in Manila is one of the few in the East retreading earthmoving t y r e s, a spokesman of the firm pointed cut in Singapore yesterday. The Tyresoles Company of Malaya Ltd. however, has a factory in Penang which is capable of retreading all
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  • 70 10 Johnson Johnson Chief Due MR. J. F. Brooke, managing director of Johnson Johnson (Great Britain) Ltd.. will be arriving in Singapore on Oct. 31 on a short visit. Johnson Johnson Ltd. are manufacturers of baby products, including the wellknown Johnson's Baby Powder. During the past few years there has been
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  • 130 10 SHIPS IN PORT OUTER ROADS Asphalion, i Maru. Ham Negobla. Pekoj, Pamix, Reginald I Shaturstro Galab Pride, Sanana. Malika Borneo uerardmen. Tai Peo Hong. Eastmen. INNER ROADS Bag Siong Yong Ann. Pi Barumun Aniwa. Lam Ann. Rimau, Sfc Deli Kah Soor Leonf Perinti s ichir. Merlimau Senggarung, A\ Hua L
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  • 49 10 OCEAN shipments of prepared latex irom Malaya during September amounted to 7,014 tons bringing the tot a in the first nine months of this year to 67.835 tons. The nine-month figure shows a drop against that of last year's corresponding period which was 82.562 tons.
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  • 40 10 SIX hundred holiday-makers watched television shows as they travelled in two excursion trains from Glasgow to Oban in Scotland recently. This is believed to be the first time that television has ever been installed on a train.
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  • 40 10 A HUGE dam. to be built by the U.S. Government to conserve water, develop power, aid irrigation and aid in flood control on the Columbia River, has been dedicated and placed in use near Bridgeport in Washington State.
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  • 38 10 NEW YORK. Oct. 17 (UP) Dow Jones closing averages: STOCKS: 30 Industrials 484 fifi 20 Rails 160.14 15 Utilities 66.15 85 Stocks 171.63 The Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index < 1924-26 average equals 100) closed at 161.33.
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  • 183 10 More Japanes Cement Come Into Malaya INCREASING bunding octivih. laya is reflected in the rise of cement from one of our mom supplier* L i!l In the firsi i ight months of I pc ing cen xcl tiding cement amounted to 110. 049 tons, worth 109,958 ions worth 57.912.177 in
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  • 80 10 U.K.Firm 250 Year Link Wirt Far East Tin last v versa, world uJJ merrh linked i!a j i-ar i The Tv been foi Tw.n T:a T« It v. as ni enl i tea in 12 tea car; Tv. It v. tea in I which i to early ed 1 China
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  • 31 10 SINGAPORI duce Exchar.. prices per were: Copra, $2S£ sellers: $4<H s< (drum. white peppei Sara s S S Hon HOLIDAY I CO Of l»>i; 11 m.\ N MBEB 4 p.m.
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  • 103 10 MALAYAN exports Of ribbed smoked sheet nil during September amounted to 63.759 tons compan d with 52.044 tons lor the same period of the past .Mar. according to official statistics. In the first nine months ol this year the total exports amounted to 467.074 tons (462.514
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    • 699 10 NOTICES BOARD OF LICENSING JISTICES. SINGAPORE NOTICE OF QUARTERLY SESSION QUARTERLY session ol J the Board of Licensing Justices for Singapore will bt held In the Court of the District Judge and First Magistrate In the Criminal District and Magistrates C irts Building. South Bridge id, Singapore at 10 30
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    • 560 10 MLNICIPALITY OF MALACCA. SUPPLIES rOR 1957. rffIENDERS are invited for 1 the supply and delivery |ol the following materials and services: (A) FUEL. LUBRICANTS AND ANTI MALARIAL OIL (B> ASPHAI T A N D EMULSION (C) ROAD METAL AND SAND (D) BUILDING MATERIALS (E) TOOLS (F) SUNDRIES (G) FIREWOOD (H)
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    • 290 10 NOTICES NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES s.s. 'RIOI \Y" ABB 16-10-1956 Berthed; 17-10-1956 S.H.B G Klowns: 6 7. Genera] survey will be he'd on the 25-10-i9."vh No further survey will be held. NEDERLAND LINE ROYAL DITCH MAIL 41. Robinson Road, Tel: *****. The Bankruptcy Ordinaire (CHAPTER II) In the High Court of
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    • 74 10 EXPECTED TODAY KLM KLB24 JAK 9.00 a.m. M. Airways MLI2I KL/MAL 9.55 a.m. M. Airways MLIOI PG/KL 12.45 p.m. BOAC 8A704 LON/CAL 2.20 p.m. Garuda GA373 BKOK 4.00 p.m. M. Airways ML4OS JESS/KUCH 4.45 p.m. M. Airways MLII 3 KB/XL 6.35 nm. M Airways MLlli PG/B'W 6.55 p.m. M Airways
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    • 1130 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 Sh?"** 1 Hfcorporateo in Singapore) (12 llnct) 57 THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE Carrier* opr )0 r. re proceed via orhe. po.f» ro load end dicchatß* cargo SAILINCi to UVtRPOOI CLASCOW iONOON CONTINENT. ALL VIA SUEZ Singapore Airing... v Sai\t P. Sham Penans Aictnou*
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    972 12 THEY said I would never get to see film star Judy Garland at home. But those Hollywood gossips were wrong. They said that even if i did get to her, she would spare me only a couple of minutes. But they were wrong again. Judy chatted to me
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  • 158 12 ZANZABUKU On Safari in Africa 7ANZABUKU, or Dangerous Safari in more known language here, takes you to the wilds of Africa on a camera-hunting spree. Filmed in Trucolor, it records the third African Expedition of famous explorer "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Lewis Cotlow whose fine collection of wild animals has
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  • 435 12  - PROUD PROFANE Steve Neoh says PARA MOUNT'S PROUD AND PROFANE, coming to Cathay, is a frank and daring story of physical passion which grows under waf conditions to a love that defies convention and overrides prudence. Both in uniform, bemoustached, scowling Bill Holden and sensitive, demure Deborah Kerr fight out
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  • 36 12 Guess rinht? Of course it's non f < v Holden. That brush moustache an,: hairy to make him look formidable as ts \)i\tn cal Marine Colonel Colin Black wh when not fighting Japan< i
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  • 334 12  - The 'Iceberg' thaw, in a jungle Christine Diemer by Ekberg and the most terrifying electric storm above the clouds ever seen in the films are featured in BACK FROM ETERNITY. RKO s newest offering to Singapore. The storm. in natural beauty and menacing action, wins hands down. A real thriller.
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  • 64 13 Britain's 4 cave For Melbourne Stampfl N IS. c\P»Ohmp.c remote methods p.ired to i'",. ne foi fir>tthe man help them medals. I etres), Chris ins Hops t coach b who he ped the te S nei I voir. J iwlive at rntil the ned. or and fitness for p j.
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  • 11 13 R I Idie ne to the V II ALner
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  • 291 13 CEYLONESE GIVE WEAK AIRMEN A BIG BEATING CEYLON Sports Club chalked up another biff score against the Royal Air Force Changi, when they beat the airmen by seven goals to three in the SHA i)tv. 1 league match on the CSC ground yesterday. This was the Ceylonese fifth consecutive victory
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  • 105 13 Karachi. Oct. 18, (Reuter) —Both captains agreed tha* pace bowler Fazal Mann, played a decisive part In Pakistan's Te t vie ory over Australia m AH. Kardar. who led Pakistan, said the way Fazal bowled during the match gave no chance to the batsman While praising
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  • 63 13 MELBOURNE. Oct 18, UP) The (occei and field hockey fields at the Olym- here may not be tne for the Olympic because of bad her. s r William Bridgeford. Execu ive officer of the Olyi pics organizing commitdd last night that the weather had caused setbacks
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    64 13 THE Regimental Army Pay Office team which retained the Nee Soon Soccer Cup jor the 6t)i time in succession. In the final, on Oct. 11. the RPO beat the Malayan Basic Training Centre 6-0. The team is (front row left to right): Corthine, J. Dot cling, Mugford, Scobie
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  • 84 13 London And Rome Draw In Boxing LONDON. Oct 17 (Reuter) London and Home drew the amateur inter-city International boxing match al the Royal Albert hall last night each winning fiv e bouts. Three of Britain's nominated Olympic Games boxers were the London team. Charlie Spinks was outpointed by salvatore Manca
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  • 53 13 SAN JOSE. California. Oct. IT. (API Gabriel (Flash) Elorde iv Manila knocked out Luke Sandoval of Los Angeles in the second roilnd ot a scheduled 10--i inde Tuesday night after a bad cut over Elorde's eye forced Fil pino to step up his pace Elorde weighed
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  • 53 13 LONDON. Oct. 17 (Reuter) Garfield Owen the Newport and Welsh Rugby Union fullback tonight signed as a professional with the Halifax Rugby League club fcr a reported fee of between £4.000 and £5,000. First capped against Ireland in 1955 Owen played in all four matches for
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  • 437 13 PRETTY PAMELA IS U.S. ANSWER TO BIG NINA SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17 (UP)— The good right arm of a pretty San Francisco high school student has won her a ticket to Melbourne, Australia, as a competitor in the discus event of the 1956 Olympic Games. But even if you look
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  • 246 13 Schools Swim Meet Finals Today HEATS of the Singapore Secondary Schools' Bth Annual Swimming Championships held at the Chinese Swimming Club yesterday resulted as follows: Boys Qualifying 100 Metres Free Styles Gordon King iS.A.S.). Thomas Lee (R I.\ Ong Thiam Chye 'S.J I.). Koh Scow Chuan (ACS.). Fong Hoe Beng
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  • 377 13 Weather Reports Worry Russians Hungarians MELBOURNE, Oct. 18 (Reuter)— Russian and Hugarian Olympic officials are perturbed about the way in which Melbourne's weather can change suddenly. They fear thLs unreliability of the climate might affect their athletes' chances at the Games. Soviet Olympic Attache. Mr. Peter Soboley. said here that
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  • 84 13 BOMEAY; Oct. 13. (Reuter) —Australia's cricketers, who tcurccl England and were beaten this morning in their one test with Pakistan, arrived here last night, by air from Karachi. They will leave for Madras tomorrow morning to prepare for the first of three tests against India, starting here
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  • 87 13 LIVERPOOL. England. Oct. 18 <AP> Jack Southworth. rated Britain's greatest soccer centre forward of his day. died yesterday within a month of his ootl-f birthday. He played three times for England. was a member of Blackburn Rovers' Cun winnine teams of 1890 and 1891 and
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  • 180 13 YOUNG Edwin Tessensohn, spearhead of the Singapore Recieation Club, scored an hattrick and helped his club beat the SHB Police by four goals to nil in yesterday's SHA senior division match on the padang. M. Wright netted the othergoal. For the Policemen this is their
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    • 43 13 MADAM CHIEW POH CHENG. aged 71. on 15 1056 leaving behind beloved husband Tan Soon Yam. 2 sons Tan Piak Cuan, Tan Wan Meng. 2 daughters-in-law. 5 daughters. 4 pons-in-law and 35 grandchildren to mourn her loss Funeral en 27.10.56, 10 am
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    • 535 13 SITUATION VACANT APPLICATIONS are invite* -A for appointment of Assistant Veterinary Officer in the Settlement of Penang Salary Scale Division II 5506xA24 626 674x24-770, 788 x 24-812 2. Selected applicant will be appointed on probation tor a period of three vrars In addition to basic salary. cost of living and
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • 51 14 MARY'S THE BEST BET FOR 100 m SEMI-FINAL SINGAPOWS U year-old Mary Klaus has 204 id prospects of qualifying for the semi-finals in the women's 100 metres at Melbourne next month. This Ls the candid opinion of her manager, Jocelyn de Sou /a. j-.^r' Jesuda
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  • 610 14  - THE UNHAPPY CASE OF JASBIR SINGH JEFFERY JAMES looLatej I^HS WHEN the S report AAA tint refused to recommend Sti pore's fastest sprinter, Kesavan Soon, jor the Gomel tc I I mWteial wh%% years more of athletics rod of hint, There's no hurr% :o send him to the 0 he
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  • 182 14 Perak Pick Nine To Meet S'pore OH Thursday Perak v.... meet Singapore in the inter-zone fina' of the Foong Seong C ip ba iminton competi tion no re on Nov 3 and 4. Perak qualified for the fina! by boating Keoah 7-2 while Singapore trounced Jonore 8-1 The winner of
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    668 14  -  BILL FUNK by who will cover the 1956 Games for the Standard They'll Rise to the Occasion He said: "Mary's one of those girls who can be counted on. She's got the temperament. I expect her to do 12 sees, in the 100 metres. It von't surprise me
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  • 1009 14  -  Windsor Lad By DAYBROOK, a bright Gold Cup prospect from the van Breukelens' stables, showed unbeatable form at Bukit Timah yesterday when horses were given their winding up gallops. With improving Roulette for company, the four-yeai-old was merely cantering when he covered
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  • 490 14 THREE RINGS 15 STILL MOVING LIKE A WINNER Rodders Gold Cup candidates. THREE RINGS (Maniam) and CYPRESS POINT were associated In a testing: three furlong spin which they did in 40 1/35 sec. Three Rings finished best and is retaining his Penang Gold Cup Form. WEST POINT /Jones) was very
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  • 139 14 M.C.C. Tourists Arrive In Cape Town CAPETOWN. Oct. 13 (Reuter)— The M.C.C. team received a cheery welcome today on their arrival here in the Edinburgh Castle to begin a five-month tour ol South Africa and Rhodesia. A large group of South African and Western Province cricket and civic officials were
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  • 22 14 BRISTOL. Oct 17 (Reuter) England and France fought a goalless draw to their under--23 soccer international under floodlights here tonight
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  • 443 14 Hongkong Riots Hit M.Cr a THE Malayan Chinese Football Association not only lost the Ho Ho Cup to the Hongkong Chinese but also incurred a financial loss in the trip, according to the Manager, Mr Chan Lai Hong, who flew back into Singapore last
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  • 54 14  -  Aussies By MELBOURNE. Oct. 16, (AP) -The Australian Olympic Federation has banned Australian competitors from taking part In the international competitions here before the Games. "We won't be party to sn\ games previews.' 1 th« Federation told amateur sports official? An international athle'ics meeting is planned In Olympic
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  • 24 14 Today Sport SOCCE! S\ i era. p.//. hoc/:/ r C9r^ S.H.B. p I at V.MX I RCGBV; BAC I vs. S J nun? r
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  • 48 14 JOHOR EDGE PENANG JOHOR] njJ es J ban::..:.- q| 1 Bahru last The results v* play< Single* E i Omar Mai Sena 15-5. 15-6. Doabfa F Abba CV. ng and Vie: 15-4. 15-6. Par: and Ahamad t to idi Chong LI Womo v Yap l( 5l 1 ;>•; 4-11.
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  • 31 14 LON" >< >N < 18 (H Ron I linquishcrl r I hospital here 1 go an cc i Bar* on v by doub i expects to be in hosp&l*! \«.cck«
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
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