Singapore Standard, 19 August 1957

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  • 27 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD POLICE ***** (5 lines) 2400 FIRE BRIGADE 2811 GENERAL HOSPITAL 2414 \„l. IN. No. 48 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1957 12 PAGE* 15 ENTS
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  • 213 1 'Don't Amble Into Office' X ALA LUMPUR, Sun. —Government officials have begun to "amble into offices when they like a pre-Mei\: of discipline Acting Commerce Minister Inche MoKhir Jchan, charged last night. Add r.ees of tr.e Rural sd Deveit a reunl n dinner he said: "This will no:, be tolerated
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  • 51 1 MACAO. Aug 13 Rev r> mmunist gunboat arrest- two Chinese youths trying flee from Communist na to this Portuguese colony on Friday, it was reported here toe: The youths attempted to cross the nan trip of Chinese territor waters separating Macao from Comr.. .n. L
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  • 54 1 photo. NIKITA S. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (right), embraces Otto Grotewohl. Prime Minister of East Germany (back to camera) at East Berlin's railway station as the Russian leaders leave for the Soviet Union. At left, half hidden by Grotewohl. is Andrei Gromyko_^ajyet
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  • 243 1 RECOGNITION OF NEW MALAYA KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The United States will be the iirst country to accord formal diplomatic recognition to the independent Federation on Aug. 31, the I Standard learnt today. The United States la reported to have asked the Federation government tor
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  • 76 1 BELFAST. N m Ir land. Aug. 18 (Renter! A police sergeant was killed and .oid a soldier zplosion when lit to search a disused house near Coalisland, tnty Tyrone, last night The dead man. Serjeant rl Uf Oven-, is the third policeman t lose his
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  • 87 1 NEW YORK, Aug. 13 CAP) Malays may become another '"showcase of Democrat."' In Asia, like the Philippines, tiie New York Times said today. The newspaper thought Malaya's main economic problem was to broaden its economy and free itself from heavy dependence on two raw mate
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  • 228 1 Death Of Another Footballer IPOH. Sun. Twenty-six-ycar-old Chan Peng Lum, Perak's Malaya Cup fullback. died at the Taiping hospital today, two week.s after that tragic car crash In which three others had already lost th< tr lives. Chan never fully regained ci nsciousne.-> since admission after the accident on the
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  • 38 1 JAPANESE coast guard cutters last night moved out into strategic positions as typhoon Agnes approached Okinawa island at a speed of 12 knots. Her maximum wind force aTSs m excess of 163 miles an hour. Reuter.
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  • 22 1 DR. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rah:r.u:i, ".Ma ayan ambassadordesignste to Washington, left London by air yesterday for Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 279 1 Only Minor Reshuffle In Merdeka Cabinet Expected KUALA LUMPUR, SUN.— EDUCATION MINISTER DATO ABDUL RAZAK WILL TAKE OVER THE DEFENCE PORTFOLIO FROM CHIEF MINISTER TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN "WITHIN A FORTNIGHT" AS THE FIRST STEP IN THE MERDEKA CABINET RESHUFFLE. THE STANDARD WAS TOLD TODAY THAT DATO RAZAK
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  • 211 1 AMMAN, Jordan. Aug. 17 Unconfirmed reports reaching here today said Kurdish tribesmen are on the verge of an uprising against the pro-Con. munist army clique that has seized control m Syria. The unconfirmed reports from Damascus said Syria's President Snukri El Kuwatly has resigned m
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  • 34 1 A POLISH climber wa? reported killed and another injured when an avalanche swept over a search party on the snowy heights of the Mont Blanc range m the Swiss Alps early yesterday.
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  • 156 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 (Reuter) A United Airlines plane which had been reported to be flying: here from New York minus a landing wheel tyre and tube landed safely last night It carrying passen-BJ gers a I The doubleßJ wheels on gearßJ A gather-BJ to
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  • 68 1 BRITANNA FORCED BACK TO COLONY A LONDON BOUND BOAC Britannia plane was forced back to Singapore yesterday with engine trouble two hours after it left the Colony with 48 passengers aboard. The Britannia has been held up indefinitely. Passengers were put up at the Ocean Park for the night. Of
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  • 222 1 PATRICIA WON HIM, MONOCLE AND ALL, IN A CONTEST PARIS Aug. 17 (UP)— Dark haired Patricia Mills, a 20--v. .ir-old English shop girl. sported her prize ex-army major around Paris today. She took him. or rather he took her. strolling along the Seine, shopping
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  • 104 1 The Singapore UMNO leadu In( le Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat. yestei defended the Federation Government's plan to impose travel restrictions at the Johore Causeway after Merdeka. Inche Hamid. m a speech at the annual meeting of the UMNO Jurong Brand day said: "Do nor
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  • 48 1 COLD BAY. Alaska, Aur (AP)— Two men m an phibious jeep left yesterd for Homer, Alaska, on ano" her let rour r.d trip. Ben Carlin, 45. Australian adventurer, and American Soyde Demente hoped to complete the 500-mile over trip .11 about a week.
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  • 580 2  -  LEARY MOYER By An American from Brooklyn describes his trip across Russia aboard the romantic Trans-Siberian express LEARY MOVER of Brooklyn, New York, one o* the i-nerican students who elected to :~avel from Moscow to Peking afu A d Youth Festfcvsl. is now en route to the Chinese
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  • 188 2 Im. 18 (Reuh f A study of 301 cases of out-of-work men "often shows that at the onset of sue. unemployment a man terest In aex. social worker rer Writing m the X Officer. a magazine tor government and municipal medical personnel. Mr. Eugene Heimler,
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  • 288 2 MEN-ARE-WONDERFUL SEMINAR la BANGKOK, Aug. 18 (Beater) Women delegates from 15 countries, including Japan, at the Asian Women Seminar here complained of political apathy among their own sex, and suggested tradition was partly to blame. It was due m some cases to the subordinate
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  • 83 2 Two Australia i Labour MPs arrive by air TWO Labour members of the Australian parliament arrived m Singapore yesterday by BOAC Britannia en route to London to attend the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference. Mr. R. T. Pollard, deputy leader of the delegation four of whom have already gone by sea and
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  • 261 2 AGREEMENT IS IN SIGHT THE 44-day-old strike by 1.000 employees of the Singapore Telephone Board may end today. After a three-hour meeting between officials of the Board and representatives of the Telephone Board Employees Union at the Labour Ministry yesterday, a spokesman of the Ministry
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  • 32 2 THE body of an Indonesian memter of the United Nations Emergency Force killed m a ".shooting accident" m the Gaza Strip iast week, was llown into Singapore early yesterday.
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  • 103 2 M. Gaillard versus Mr. Rising Price PARIS, Aug. 18 (Reuter' The French I i nance Minister, M. Felix Gaillard, is expected to launch a vigorous campaign this wfd^^^^^^^^^__ the attempt I to ior<_r. I nd I on usually A ti.t ex- the by 20 cent for payments!! for im-B The
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  • 53 2 Murse who could not miss M-Day FLYING into Sineani yesterday frnm Australia to attend the Merdeka < > brationV m Kua'.a I un i> th.s month < ame p Miss lee Chun Hun IYnanti. Miss I.e. took thre< we.] off from her nursinc »tud at Gibbolang Hospital rrasnl, Victoria spec'all?
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  • 93 2 Sydney. Aug. 18 (Rentes Estate agents m Sydney are using aircraft to h< Lp them sell suburban properInspection time of the sprawling suburbs is cut by more than one-sixth and some agents predict they s I be operating their own helicopters m a few yea:
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  • 26 2 A TWO- WEEK Carib: Festival of Arts is to be held to coincide with th< pent: of the Federal Parliament by next yearM Reuter
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  • 65 2 WELLINGTON. Aug. 18 (Reuter Srirntistg are «j rking on a th d to tone d rwn the bright yellow colour ot New Zealand butter to meet the preference of < seas customers for a lighter colour. They have reported a new method of toning down the colour
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  • 35 3 PRETTY GIRLS In Singapore Offices 'THERESA LOBO. 24. is a telephone operator at Master's Ltd. Theresa hopes to travel overseas someday. When sh off the switchboard. Theresa goes to the pictures or for a swim.
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  • 402 3 Criticism, Was Unfair, Too Tells MCA Critic IPOH, Sun. Se:r I general of the Malayan Chinese Association, Mr. 1 3 Joon H refuted allegations I the committee of the new Kinta branch of flu MCA "did not represent the popular vote." Speaking at the first meeting of the Kinta committee.
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  • 93 3 Special Rights: Abolish Them Urges Aziz k; Bun. The Federation's Agriculture Minister, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak last night advr -cd early abolition of all cial privileges for the M i under the new const o Said the "Stormy Peti I of the Alliance Ca Because of them, th Mil
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  • 111 3 MR. Rex Koh Kirn Chu.in and Miss lam Wai l.eng. were married at the I- airfield Methodist i Singapore Mr. Koh is the only •i Madame Ku>.> Neo. and the the third I lUi-iiter of Madame W.uFoh. Below left, the couple cut the wedding cake at .1 reception
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  • 147 3 POST-MERDEKA PLANS WORRY SPORE STAFF A DELEGATION of the Singapore Broadcasting Employees Union will this weekend meet Chief Ministers of the Federation and Singapore Tunku Abdul Rahman and Mr. Lim Yew Hock to seek assurances on their future after the Federation
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  • 225 3 JAP METHODS PAY BIG DIVIDENDS JAPANESE fishing techniques using "bull trawders," itsrted as a n experiment by three Singapore companies early this year, have increased the local catch considerably. Revealing this yesterday, Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, said the price of certain types of deep-sea fish
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  • 168 3 SUNGEI BAKAP, Sun— At a mass anti-Commu-nlst rally here today, the Federation's Assistant Minister for Education. Mr. Too Joon Hing, told a gathering of about 10.000 people that the ending of the Emergency would mean a saving of some $2 million a year —a
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  • 44 3 IPOIT. Sun.— Four terrorists last night murdered a woman. Choo Kcw Mooi. m Bali New Vil BgS near Batu Gajah m Perak. They dragged the 50-year old woman to the back of her house and then beat her to death,
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  • 32 3 ARISSIM BIN ABDULLAH, 20, fell from B coconut tree at the 10th mile Changi Road, Singapore, yesterday morning. He died after admission to the General Hospital from his injuries.
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  • 44 3 CORPORAL Gordon Swain and his bride Miss Elizabeth Judi^e after their wedding yesterday at the Church of St. Michaels. Royal Air Force, Tengah. The bride, who arrived m Singapore a week ago, comes from Manchester and the bridegroom from London.
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  • 188 3 CONFIDENCE tricksters are mulcting Singapore housewives maidservants, dance hostesses and even clerks of thousands of dollars each month m fraudulent tontines. In a tontine, a number of people contribute to a common pool which goes to the highest I bidder, paying an agreed sum
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  • 55 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Federation's Central Electricity Board has embarked on a. million dollar expansion programme aiming to provide "electricity to every hamlet" m Selangor by 1959. Thi- extension is being facilitated by the CEB's expanding network of generating plants m Selangor and adjoining States,
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  • 416 4 She Portrays The Malayan People KUANTAN. Sun. One year ago. Mrs. M. Gjertsen. wife of the Pahang State Engineer, thought she would like to bring home with her to England something more than just mere intangible memories' of her stay :n :.L;lu/a. Planning
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  • 48 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. The following officers have passed the Johore Civil Service examination held recent,; Inche Abdul Rahman bin Haji Yusof, Inche Suke bin Abdul Kadir m Part I and Inche Abubakar bin Ahmad and Inche Ahmad bin Abdul Rahim mi n Part 2.
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  • 214 4 Secretarial: No Major Change MALACCA, Sun.— The house of the Resident Commissioner, situated opposite the secretariat, will be the future home and office of Malacca's first Governor, Mr. Leong Yew Koh, the Standard learnt today. I The practice of having an if lice m a private
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  • 57 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Mr. Bachee Saw, oilUer-m--irge of the Chinese section of the National Union of P entation Workers, flew to Lur.don today for a ten-week training course m labour administration. Mr. Saw is the first Malayan to be cfTered an Eng'i^h scholarship under the
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  • 43 4 MR. Loo Hun Soon, former a taiat an t Inspector of Chinese Schools. Pahang has returned from Britain after one-year teacher training course at BrindiOTd Lodge. He has resumed duty at Bent o n g as Organiser of Chinese schools, Pahang,
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  • 33 4 THE Education Ministry ol the Federation is sponsoring a UNESCO science exhibition featuring "F.- ergj and its Transformation at St. John's institution In Kuala Lumpur from Aug. 13 to Aug, M.
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  • 225 4 Trengganu 's Merdeka Mace Craftsmen Work All-out To Meet Deadline KUALA TRENGGANU, Sun. When the Yang di Pert v. v.: Agong is installed on Merdeka day, he will be preceded by his ilia rignii ring his spiritual leadership and temporal power U Malaya's Constitutional afl aarcai th I of his
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  • 44 4 A MERDEKA tableaux competition and an all-com-munity variety concert will highlight the two-day independence celebrations m the Cameron Highlands. The celebrations will begin with a parade Of Police and Home Guards on the Tana Rata padang on Sept. 7.
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  • 61 4 PENANG, Sun. A fcruic: SingaporS convent student. who left Malays >ix yean ago to study medi^ hie at Dublin tl Ireland, has returned as a doctor. She is Dr. (Mias) Theresa Koh. who arrived here :y the Canton yesterday She graduated at the National
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  • 191 4 Labour Man Taken Up An UMNO Dar Q PENANG, Sun. The Labour Party of Malaya hinted today that, if given the opportunity, it would help m the matter of the surrender of Communist Chin Peng. Speaking at the opening of the Jelutong Branch of
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  • 330 4 IPOH. Sun. Mala; "weekend soldiers"' men of Federation of Mala- V :unteer Forceshould be at par with any regular army itfil g:v the time to m ise. .as the opinion of a British Army Officer who annua, tr; About 500 members of the tion
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  • 63 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. The wedding took D.ace on Friday, ol Miss Sarjeet Kaur daughter o! Mr. GurdiaJ Singh, acting Headmaster English College, here and Inspector Jernail Singh, of the Singapore Police Force. The religious rites were performed at the S i Ibrahim GKrls' School which
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  • 33 4 SALLEHA bir.ti Lisnt, 7. WW I tally injured on Saturday m a collision with a car at the Mile, Mentakab Road, v, c walking from her house towards a neighbouring kampong.
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  • 26 4 MR R A. Mugslih, the ti nesian Consu. m Penang, ga\e a reception, celebrating the 12th anniversary of the Republic of Indonesia on Saturday.
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  • 153 4 IPOH. Sun —Two schoolgirls from the Ipoh AngloChinese Girls School were among those who were successful m the Royal Life Saving Society's Examinations at the Kinta Swimming Club yesterday. Mr. Teoh Teik Lee was the examiner anci the two girls. Misses Ho Sock Ching
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 679 4 E JJBS Standard Mn.) 3.04 :n. (7fl In. I n i?m ks °6 Fr) INFORMATION AT A GLANCE Penang 5.21 a^n. (6ft. 6in )5 48 rM^„ WMin^ v G:fV r H IPOH IOMORROW: Singapow 526 am n ■Ift 7:- 5m.) CATHAY: Golden Lotu- KULIM Port Dickson 1.10 p.m. (6ft Sin.)
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  • 282 5 MONDAY'S fete-a-tm '"> -for our women readers-^ Theresa Woo meets two young career girls... VIISS Nancy Lee. who y ob:amed a diploma m dress designing from Maria Academy, lip the commercial course which she had been attending for a year, to make a career of her
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  • 223 5 pERAK BORN Mrs. Honey Doral. the Malay announcer of Rediffusion since last September, and whose husband is also a radio announcer m Radio Malaya m Singapore, finally got a radio for their home last week. But she still cannot have a Reditiusion set m her house m
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  • 418 5 DIE to the unfortunate example set by a certain celebrated blonde, women are taking less interest than ever they did m foundation garments. Time was when every woman coveted a sleek, trim hipline with flat-?s-a-board tummy and seat an outline which could he achieved only
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  • 476 5 DUM DUM SWISS SILK SHOP TALK: COME pretty and wellmade adults' and children's frocks, created by "Lois' are being sold m some Singapore shops. Most of them have fine embroidery work and attractive flowery lace to adorn the front. One particular style made of English cambric lawn material, which is
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  • 281 5 '"THOSE of you ladies who would like to do something different this Friday evening, other than staying home. by all means attend the programme of documentary films from India, Australia. Canada, New Zealand and Britain at the British Council Hall, at 8.30 p.m. Admission is )ree. T
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 462 6 IVJRIXQ he years of the Emergency the railway has been most l :able to attacks and acts of sabotage by the communisl terrorists. Stations ■aal down, tracks removed or d>rafted, and ed Small lonely stations ritual I m bad areas are still at the mercy of the
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    • 422 6 THE i Nations Organi; n keeps m ttl vices experts and specialists who are engaged to collect and sort out information and statistics on various subjects. Little is heard about the -work these men do, the time it takes them. and the care and patience which is
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  • Article, Illustration
    1172 6 WOTE to Customers: The folloicing article is based on: (I) Cony c rsations ivith American women note visiting London. (2) My own recent observations of the formidable darlings m Mew York, Chicago, San Francisco and all points West to Honolulu. (3) The opinions of Hesd a m c
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  • 495 6  - THE NEWS STRIKES ME Aster Gunasekera By VV ELL. that's that. Great Britain is not going to quit from Singapore. To Britain. Singapore is a main base and will remain so and is already as strong as Britain can make it. This is what British Defence Minister. Duncan Sandys, says
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  • 1438 6 William Clark reports from Srinagar TVT ANY Indians are slightly apologetic about conditions m Kashmir, where the previous Prime Minister, Sheik Abdullah, has been m gaol without trial for the past four years; they say that conditions m Kashmir under the prcse n t Premier, Bakshi Ghulam
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  • 211 7 Why Strike? You Won't Be Paid More. SaysGomulka LONDON, Aucr. 18— Wladyslaw Gomulka, Poland's -riniunbi Party chief, warned Polish workers yesterit wis no use soing on strike— they would not get more pay. -I am saying this," he said, "to warn the workers against activity of trouble-makers and demagogues. which
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  • 217 7 U.S. Envoy's Daughter Named A Soviet Spy WASHINGTON. Aug. 18 (Reuter) A Hollywood producer, Mr. Boris Monro, who posed as a Soviet spy for the United States Secret Service, has named Miss Martha Dodd, daughter of a former U.S. Ambassador to Germany. as a Soviet spy, it was announced here
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  • 71 7 HANOVER. Germa* 18 (AP —F r the first time m history, a woman will be triad by a British court-martial here next week, for the sla of her four-year-old daughter Trial of Mrs. J. Bird, wife of s sergeant m the 23rd Rife Artillery Regiment, starts
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  • 79 7 WASHINGTON*. Au g. 13. The United States had an adult prison population of 188.730 last Dec. 31 the highes: year end figure on record the U.S. prison bureau said on Saturday. A spokesman sa i d the figure was 3.661, or 2 per cent, higher than
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  • 328 7 SAUDI ARABIA CUTS OFF OIL FOR EGYPT CAIRO. Aug. 18 (AP)— Saudi Arabia is reported annoyed at Egypt's Nasser regime and is cutting off oil shipments to Egypt. Ba informants said Saudi Arabia, which rallied to Egypt's support m last EsD'fl crisis over Suez, has suspended oil shipments effective from
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  • 51 7 TOKYO. Aug. 18, <UP) Police said yes erday they have uncovered the biggest postwar wrist watch smuggling ring from Hongkong. They arrested four Japanese suspects on Friday and were searching for two Others allegedly involved m smuggling 60.000 wrist watches from Hongkong since August last
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  • 285 7 Secrets Will Be Bared If Oman Is Discussed In U.N. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, (UP) British Ambossodor Sir Harold Caccio warned the State Department yesterday Britain will name the nation that has committed aggression against the Sultan of Muscat end Oman if this matter is
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  • 99 7 TOP MEN IN DESERT CAMPAIGN BRIGADIER J. A. R. Robertson deft), who is m command of operations against the Oman rebels, and Colonel Steward Carter, commandant of the Trucial Oman Scouts, shown after hearing the news that I-irq. Oman had fallen to loyal forces last week. Following the collapse of
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  • 141 7 SAIXT GAUDEXS. France Aug. 18 (AP)— Eight cave explorers who had been trapped underground for about 15 hours by rising subterranean waters regained the surface on Saturday night. Three of the men had been cut off at a depth of about 500 metres
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  • 207 7 HULL. England. Aug. 13 (UP) Forty youthful prisoners battled guards and police reinforcements for three hou r s at Hull Reformatory yesterday m a riot caused by suspension of privileges. The riot started at breakfast and was quelled on'y after offli tl used fire hoses to
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  • 69 7 31 Die In ArabNomad Clash FORT LAMY. French Equatorial Africa. Aug. 18. iUP Thirty-one persons died and 41 were wounded m three days of fighting between Arabs and nomads 90 miles north of here this week, it was learned yesterday. The nomads were heading north, driving their flocks, as they
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  • 257 7 LONDON, Aug 18 (IP). Scotland Yard searched yesterday for s drawer-full ut files stolen from the office of Confidential magazine's London correspondent which even Confidential found "too hot to pr'nt." Police said 28 individual file, were stolen from the office of Machael MordauntSmith. blue-blooded in\estigator who
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  • 164 7 'Close Down The House Of Lords' LONDON, Aug. 18 (UP).— Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express yesterday called tor the abolition of the House of Lords. The mass-circulation newspaper said recen. attacks on the Queen by young peers of the realm made it clear that "the aristocracy is now a liability to
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  • 29 7 THE 39-year-old Maharajah of Morvi State. Yuvrs Shrl Mahendrashinji. died at hi^ home last night m Baekhaist Park. Ascot. Berkshire, after an illm s.- several months. Reuter.
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  • 201 7 Sultan 's Troops Take Command IZKI, Oman, Aug. (AP)— British forces proceeded today to withdraw from Oman after helping the Sultan to quell the "independence" movement of the Imam of Oman, Chaleb bin Ali. Brig. J. A. R. Robertson. commanding land forces the operation suppoctasf the Sultan against tl. yesterday
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  • 178 7 ATTACKSON QUEEN IS PUTTING STRAIN ON THE DUKE LONDON. Aug. 13, (Re;:' A front-page report today m the People, a popular Sunday newspaper, claimed that those close to the I Queen's husband, Prince Phi- j lip. the Duke of Edinburgh, say that he is suffering from undue strain and that
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    • 645 8 EAST ASIATIC LINES OUTWARDS Soilings for Bangkok ond or For Eost vio Sun Penang P S'hom Son "MEONIA" In Port 23 24 Aug 25 27 a,, Bangkok only. "SARGODHA" 25 26 Aug 27 28 Aug 29 30 Au, "SIENA" ;!Aug2',. HOMEWARDS Sailings tor Aden. Port Soid Gcnoo Antwerp Rotterdam, Hamburg,
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  • 46 9 \;-\inder Kvvang (fourth from left) and Shun Y«n (fifth irnm left) tin' leaders of the Hongkong Petaling Jaya, are pictrade delegation taking tured here on their arPI r t in th M| r- rival at the fair site deka Irade Fair at recently
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  • 366 9 By A Market Correspondent THE volume of trading: m the Singapore market m the past week showed IB mcre.iM'. with Industrial, and Rubber shares quietly steady. Tin shares were firm and provided the main potttoa of the total business. the close t the :r.-( terest
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  • 539 9 BUSINESS DONE IN WEEK BUSINESS done m sharei from Aug. 10 to 16. Industri.il>: Consolidated Tin Smelters 34/- to 34/6 to 34/3. Federal Dispensary $2.25, Fraser Neave Ord... $2.87*. to $2.92*. Gammons $2 65 to Hammer Co. $2.37* $2.4 Hume Industries Ord. A.6/3. Hume Industries Pref. A \>2A5, an Breweries
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  • 363 9 Halt In Buffer Stock Purchases Affects Tin below 13 606 tons m the same period of 1956. But this fall is not unexpected and has m fact been allowed for m the Tin Council's global estimates." It is on the side Of consumption, however, stresses the review, where most doubts
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  • 151 9 Tapah Rubber Estates Ltd: Completion of sale of estate has been deferred to buyer Sept. 30. buyer having deposited $550,000, half of price. Lower Perak Tin Dredging Ltd: Profit for year ended April 30, 1957 was £482.816 or 2/11 per .■-are from which 2 9 has been distributed.
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  • 29 9 MRS. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian High Commissioner m London, has taken delivery of a Vickers Viscount T :r' prop airliner on behalf of the Indian Airlines Corporation.
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  • 26 9 AP CANADA'S wheat exports dipped to 240.100.000 bushels m the first 11 months of the last crop year from 28M0OO00 m the year previous.B
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    120 9 DIRECTORS of Kian Giran (M) Ltd. lield a cocktail party recently to mark the opening of their Grundiq thOwrOOM at Ngee Ann Building, Orchard Road. Singapore. The eontcmporarii dct on of the ihOWTOOn for tlie display of the aide range of Grundig radios, radiograms and taperecorders, is by
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  • 301 9 A REPORT from Colombo suggests that there is a possibility of the export of Ceylon copra to India being either banned or restricted, according to the weekly review of the produce market by Lewis ft Peat (Spore) Ltd.. rubber and produce brokers. It appears that
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  • 64 9 H».'«—^w^^— m THE Malayan Exchange Banks A ssodatioc mad c the following changes m its rates io merchants BO Saturday Canada: buying. TT. Ml, O.D. 90|, 90 days airmail 31 3 16 credit b Da 31 J trade bills. Selline T.T. o r CD. ready were: Canada 30
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    • 307 9 BARBER- FERN-VILLE LINES ton, New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore. Mobile, New Orleans, Houston (via Sue i S scr» P S ham Penan? New York FERNSEA In Port S nil 21 Aug 22 Aug 26 28 Aug 30 Sept FERNMOOR iJAug > Sept I S^pt 13 MScpt 14 Oct r-.- s York,
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    • 522 9 PERAK MEDICAL DEPT. TENDERS INVITED SUPPLY OF RICE TENDERS are invited for the supply of WHITE RICE to Hospitals m Perak for THREE MONTHS commencing from Ist October. 1957 and ending on Slat December, 195.. both dates inclusive. With each tender a receipt from any Government Treasuiy m the State
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    • 869 9 NOTICES MUNICIPALITY OF MALACCA TENDER NOTICE TENDERS are invited 1 r 1 CONSTRUCTION OF A FOOTBRIDGE ACROSS THE MALACCA RIVER AT THE NEW MARKET. The Tender Form may tx obtained on payment deposit of $200.00 and this Tender Deposit will only be refund) d upon receipt i I bona fide
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    • 247 9 n v oi v n or 1. GAS DEPARTMF" Supply ol 4" to 12" Spun Iror. Pipe and 4" to 12" Cast Iron Specials .)c posit $200. Close 4 p.m.— 2o/9/57. 2. WATER DEPARTMF' Supply of 3.000 tons of Granu- Sulphate of Alumina. Tender Deposit $200. Close 4 pm.— l/10/57
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  • 284 10 A Malayan and 16 records are broken PENANG. Sun.— Penang emerged champions m the first inter-state triangular athletics, beating Kedah and the Perak Swifts at the City Stadium yesterday. Penang had eight wins, 13 seconds and seven thirds: Perak, six wins, seven seconds and two thirds,
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  • 18 10 HOW they finished last Saturday, concluding day of Selangor Turf Club's August Meet.
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  • 431 10  -  WINDSOR LAD B y KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Four trainers vied for honours at the recently concluded Selangor Turf Club's August Meeting, each sending out three winners. But Jack Spencer, with five seconds and a third, finished on top. Rur.r.er-up was Keith Daniels who. apart
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  • 74 10 THE following will represent North Malaya against the President's XI from Ceylon at Ipoh on Aug. 26 and 27. H Hollingworth Capt (Pk); X. aleoerasinghe (Pg); SAC Ganesan (Pg); Teoh Chve Teik (Pg); D. Loretto (Kei); R.H. Wharton (Pah); M. Do- raisamy (Ked); A. Wanless (Pk); D
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  • 689 10 MEN 100 Yards: 1. Ozair Darus 10 2s (Ki. 2. A. Lourdes iPk) 3. C. Rozells tPg). i Pole Vault: 1. Teoh Kow Mm 10 ft. 8 m. (Pi), 2. Ong Earn Seng (PgJ. 3. W. Dieleuberg (X). 120 Yards Hurdles: 1. Yeap Lian Tarn 16s. Record
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  • 208 10 Schools For 'Tri' Against RAF Swifts THE following athlete? have been chosen to represen* the Singapore Combined Schoc.s m a triangular athletics match against R.A F. Singapore and Swifts on Wednesday on the RAF ground. Competitors and reserve? are asked to meet at Raffles Institution at 2 p.m. for tiarport.
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  • 353 11 Beaton. Scores Hattrick For Morton ASGOW, Aug. 18 (Reuter) Cloudburst m Dundee today partly .1 a football pitch and forced the to abandon the Scottish League i teh between Dundee and Hearts time. The 22 players and most of t.-.e 16,000 crowd got a
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  • 117 11 Kinta's Hockey teams IPOH. Sun. Kinta peet the winners of the Batang Padan9 va Federal Combined Services gam e at Ipoh on Satureay. Aug. 24 m the semi-final of the Perak In ter -District V e*eka knock-out hockey competition. On the following day. the replay m the quarter-final tie between
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  • 328 11 SURREY THE HISTORY MAKERS County Cricket Review LONDON. Aug. 18 (Renter) Surrey made cricket history on Friday by winning the county cricket championship for the sixth successive year. In the stiff competition of modern cricket, their remarkable record b ur.hkclv to be equalled. Surrey clinched thi ti'.le '.vl.e:; they brought
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  • 354 11 KIM ENG IS FIRST SCS CHAMP W. TAN Kirn Eng of Borneo' Wharf, Aral m the mile, an I second m the 440 and 880 j yards, became Singapore Cold Storage's Brat athletic champion at their meet hel 1 en the Fraser Neave gIOUBd ycstciday. Footballers Ali SanMjan of Cold
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  • 212 11 «tf Positions mi n the county cricket championships after the matches ending today were: headings:— Played, won. lost. drawn, no decision, first innings lead m match lost, first innings lead m match drawn, bonus points, points. l Surrey 23 it 2 3 l 2 ■> j« X irtl
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  • 122 11 Leading batting averages :;r^ (-r.der heading; :—ir.r.:r.gs, not out, run.?, highest score, average.) P May Surrey 9 I 2004 285 Not Out 69.10 F. Worrell, West Indict m 1 UM l« Not Out 61.55 T. Gravonev, Gloucestershire 40 4 1971 253 M. Cowdrey, Kent M 5 145S 169
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  • 104 11 Loading bowling averages (under headings:— overs, maidens, r^VYJ^'-'- I 932.S 366 1835 lfl 11.25 K TRanSdhin Wed Indiei 781 315 1313 97 13.53 P j Ser Surrey 732.3 182 1698 114 14.89 LTJodaton Derbyshire W3.2 215 2007 127 15.80 TE Sev S 617.2 187 1405 88 5.96 TP
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  • 237 11 Indonesia Israel Told: Play Or Quit STOCKHOLM, Aug. 18 (Reuter) Israel and Indonesia are to he told to play their World Soccer Cup qualifying matches by the end of September or withdraw from the competition. Sir Stanley Rous, Secretary of the English F.A., said here tonight. Sir Stanley |g Britain's
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    • 107 11 FOR SALE SALE Men's Ladies' P mas Hoar I I 1 c Boys Girls' $2.50. Tablecovers with 4 Napkins $3.50 Cat! 38 39. Bras Basah Ro3d. TO LET UNFURNISHED two-room f .v with servants' room m Tangtin area. Rent $500 per month For immediate occupation. Please acplv Box No. T.31C9
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    • 667 11 'SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC See adverusemer* under Public Nonces" j O] .APORI CITY COUNCIL Requ:: i foi CITY \RCIIITICI A Rill DINCi SIRVIU RS DEPARTMENT; E ILDING INSPECRS a v Scale > nation Bar/ X.A2O-615 plus Variable Allowance Institute of Architects of Malays'! Intermediate 'A' (Building Inspectorate) Cert.ticate. be able to speak
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    • 365 11 Li 1 Abner B Y Al Ca PP V'l*-- ,(D( *\^V^£Cc^_^^i PSO WE V/ILL :'r+— <i -'V I I NQ.V- N^ I'M THROUGH.*'/ j] I EtuE VOJ'RE OUST [V/ X i^* >Dl£& i Xg&&& P9 llpen^OOß ',J HAVE AU. YTRESSr.DUPTOSHAMC TOO CHfLAPf.'j-jX ///A EVENING S PEANUT.?'- YOU INTO TAX \G
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  • 55 12 I Cpvlnr openers. nald Keid A 1 Rning <iv; 2.50 p.m. Singapore's batsmen, John .Martens and Allen Grindroci openin? at 11 am team up the match for a two-minute silence m memory of the late Lt. Col. S. Saravanamuttu. At right
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  • 271 12 Singapore Ist Innings 85 A Gr.ndrod c Yatawara b Alwis 3 J Martens b Yatawara 1 J. Woodhouse b Yatawara 28 C E. N Arkell b Ya taw art 0 R d i Silva h P I Peris 2 L. Kin;: c Yatawara b P I Pen> 0
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  • 388 12 Eight Countries Confirm Merdeka Soccer Entries t 1 games will be or: from today. They can be obi ed from Mr.. Alfred Honorary assistant Treasurer, FAM at the TPCA. gate charges are $5. I i and officials of the nations taking part at the soccer tour; 11 be feted at
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  • 243 12 Ghani Saves Malaya Cup Champions From Defeat KUALA Ll'MPl'R, Sun.— Abdul Ghani's 46th minute |9atl helped Selangor. defending champions, to edge Malacca 2—l m a HMS Malaya Cuptie on the Princes Road Stadium ground here todav^^^^^^^^^^^^^ hit I B several there! their B teamM ml deserve
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  • 973 12  -  VAZIR MARKAR by AFTER dismissing Singapore for 85 runs m 141 minutes, Ceylon ended the full day's opening play on the padang yesterday with a comfortable lead of 76 runs with five first innings wickets m hand. With hardly more than five or six hours sleep
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  • 248 12 PARKS IN, SMITH OUT, FOR THE FINAL TEST LONDON, Aug. 18 (Reuter) The England team for the fifth test match against the West Indies at the Oval on Thursday will be chosen from the following 12 players: P. B. May (Captain) (Surrey), T E Bailey (Essex), M. C Cowdrey (Kent),
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  • 56 12 HONGKONG. Aug. 18, (Reuter). An eleven-member Chinese basketball team from Hongkong left here today by air for Saigon on their way to Kuala Lumpur to take part m the Merdeka International basketball tournament. The team, led by captain Ycung Pei Fuk, is due to arrive
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  • 76 12 PERTH, Aug. 18. (Renter).— The touring Chinese soccer club Eastern Athletic of Hong Kong defeated Western Australia 6-2 here m a match played m wet weather on a slipper pitch. The Chinese players swept into a 3-0 lead within 15 minutes of the start. They never relinquished
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  • 27 12 CRICKET Singapore vs Ceylon (final day) at SCC padang 11 a.m. SWIMMING Singapore Amateur Swimming Association Senior Championships at Chinese Swimming Club at 5.30 p.m.
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  • 160 12 THE Singapore water-polo score for the SSC and ga\ c team for the Merdeka Games them a one-nil lead at the inproved their worth when they C j£ |g Bock equalised, and beat the current Singapore within five minutes, he put the league and cup
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  • 300 12 AS both teams strode out from tl.. >; < pavilion to line-up on the field to obsem minute -bin, memory of the late Lt.-Col Sarai mamuttu. pn the Ceylon Cricket Board of Control who wa^ i lead the tourists, but died m Colon. ki la-t month hush assembled
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  • 411 12 PIRUZ SURJIT RAJ FOR SELANGOR TITLE An Unknown Ousts Über Cupper KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Abdullah Piruz and Sur.iit Raj qualified for th*) singles final of the Selangor Badminton Association open championships v > reached its penultimate stage at the SBA hall here today. While Piruz found it plain sailing against
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