Singapore Standard, 4 September 1957

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  • 31 1 STANDARD POLICI J£B /<T fti\ £L ***** (5 !inet) 2400 f\j I FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL XX^ ||L >o M SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1957 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 455 1 X \i ll mmtl k, i lus. THE FEDERATION BNMENT TODAY GUARANTEED FREEDOM Ik m PROSECUTION FOR ALL OFFENCES COM>lilTn I NDER COMMUNIST DIRECTION BE--I() KMFKDFKADAY,I\ANEW AND FINAL \MNP-IV OFFER MENTIONED BY THE YANG BUI Kll AN AGONG IN HIS STATE OPENING OF im !f 1)1
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  • 136 1 THREE TO PROBE JUNE BY-ELECTION GRAFT CHARGES THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, yes--1 iv appointed a three man Commission to probe into nations of corruption and malpractices in the Legisative b> -elections in June this year. The Commission will also consider the election law and recommend how it
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  • 40 1 I Sept. 3. f T T).— The v tor: a .v today an embai^y at I Soru the F n Sgu Office an embassy vould I ided I" Sept. 5 in the capital Malayan Federation.
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  • 20 1 I the Soviet art in exer- n -a itera ud to i unmunis, the Soviet I in Reuter
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  • 146 1 PREMIER AND HIS CABINET.. RESPLENDENT in violet-and-gold Malay costume. headgear and golden kris. and with the gem-studded Chain of Office, bearing the heraldic emblems, around his neck, the Yam Toan Agong inspects the Guard of Honour before the State opening yesterday of the Federal Legislature (far right). Behind the Paramount
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  • 237 1 WOMEN SCREAM AS 'FIGHTING BULL VAULTS A FOUR-FOOT FENCE Defeat Was Too Much For Buah Tak Patah' CUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Women screamed and the ntn faced tense moments, as "Buah Tak Patah," jumpec over a four-toot fence ater being beaten by the ciampion "Buah Tak Anak Bnah" at the Merdeka
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  • 75 1 JAKARTA, Sept. 3 (UP)— Prime Minister Djuanda today placed an official government ban on one of Indonesia's most popular songs because the tune is the same as that of Malaya's new national anthem. The action was taken out of deference to Malayan national
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  • 54 1 AMMAN, Sept. 3 (Reuter)— An explosive charge went off early today outside a garden wall of the Turkish Embassy in Amman. It caused' no damage or casualties. There was a similar explosion yesterday between the United States Information Centre and National Press Building in Amman.
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  • 25 1 THE United Nations Security Council w'U meet tomorrow to consider the application of Malaya for U.N. membership, it was announced today. Reuter
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  • 486 2 Heavy Rain Washes Out Royal Tour Of Petak IPOH, Tues. Two terrorists were killed in the area through which thr and Duchess of Gloucester were to have motored from Taiping to Ipoh this mom The two terrorists fell to a patrol of
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  • 241 2 6 Naval Base Men Get Years Jail Each Man Died In Mob Attack SIX NAVAL BASE workers were each sentenced to a year's jail at the Singapore Assizes yesterday for causing hurt. A seventh man was acquitted. All of them were originally jointly charged with murder. The jury sat for
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  • 144 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (rents per Ibi in Singapore yesterday were:— Buyers Seller* Spot 875 88J Int. Sept R.S.S. No. 1 875 88 k R.S.S. No. 2 87 V 88 R.S.S. No. 3 87 87} Tone: Quiet and slightly easier. The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was *****
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  • 85 2 DR. LEONG KOK WAH seen here with his 4-year-old son, Wai Mun and Mrs Leong prior to sailing for Britain aboard the Canton yesterday. Dr. Leong was going to Britain to do a sixmonth course in Internal Medicine in the Royal Infirmary at Edinburgh University. Dr.
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  • 197 2 THE identity card system has come to stay in Singapore said the assistant minister to the Chief Secretary, Mr. M.P.D. .Nair, yesterday. card, far lrom being a nuisance to the holder, has proved a great boon to the individual on many
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  • 223 2 More Power To Road Inspectors SINGAPORE'S pirate taxi racket is expected to die a "natural death" after Sept. 12. Reason: From that date the new amendment to the Road Traffic Ordinance, which empowers Registrar of Vehicles inspectors to act as police officers and
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  • 96 2 Chopper Used In Suicide Bid, Court Told A WOMAN tried to end her 'ife with a chopper because her husband left her with two children and no money, the Singapore Sixth Magistrate** Court was told yesterday. Ong Pch Geok, 30, pleaded guilty to attempted suicide. Inspector J Deli.kan, prosecuting, told
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  • 22 2 THE Singapore Malaysian Ship Officers Union will hold its annual general meeting on Sept. 7 at No. 10 Malacca Street
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  • 192 2 A FIFTY YEAR OLD woman, Kadol Bibi, miraculously escaped death when two trees a coconut tree and a 75-ft. flame of the forest crashed down on the roof of her attap hut in Onan Road, Singapore, yesterday. Kadol was pinned down by one of
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  • 24 2 HONGKONG, Special Stand) m Closing prices konc Exchange i!\ Steriinc Sfi $1,835 to Ma ato one In !< Gold $260. 12 j tfl
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  • 140 2 GOH Meng Yam 33. postai el< rk attached to the Post Ofl ngapore, wa» yesterday sentences! to i months' jail District Court, for criraflßi breach of trust of $4,100 May 29 last v< Goh appealed conviction He told tht That he had been
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  • 100 2 THE first calypso da*' competition in th< conjunction with a soc*| dance in eelebrat. Chinese Moon Cak will be held at tl drew School hu on Sa da For the night ment, ther< will singing, a calyps< v hibition b 5 a Trii residing in Sin cha.
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  • 427 3 The War On Jungle Terror Gangs Will Hot Up, Warns Agong KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Federation government will make the fullest use of its own resources and the assistance of Commonwealth forces to fight the Communist terrorists with increased vigour if the new surrender terms are unacceptable to them, declared
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  • 286 3 THE independent Federation of Malaya stands for peace, freedom and the well-being of every country in the world, said the Yam Tuan Agong. The Federation will not forge immediately any "startling foreign policy as government intends to concentrate on home affairs and does
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  • 72 3 FEDERAL Legislative Councillors yesterday heard simultaneous Malay translations of the Agong's speech in English. This was possible by the installation of earphones for every member. With the exception of the Agong's speech, the rest of the proceedings could not be heard on the system. The system
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  • 127 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Singapore leaders headed by Chief Minister Mr. Lim Yew Hock today heard with lov the assurances of the Yam Tuan Agong that the independent Federation will view with "sympathy and understanding" the special problems and difficulties of the Colony government. Mr Lim
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  • 188 4 Now Mr. Rajah Bows Out Of The PAP I've Been Advised To Rest, He Says THE secretary-general of the People's Action Party, Mr. T. T. Rajah yesterday announced his intention to relinquish the Party's secretaryship. Mr. Rajah told the Standard he had been advised by Professor E. S. Monteiro "to
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  • 143 4 Sea Snake Bite Kills Swimmer PENANG, Tues.— Mr. C. F. Rogers, 32, senior works assistant of the Straits Trading Co., Ltd., Butterworth, died this morning from a sea snake bite. Mr. Rogers had Rone for a swim at Batu Ferrin«hi yesterday evening, when he was bitten on the leg. He
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  • 104 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A lone terrorist was killed by a patrol of the 2/2 Gurkha Rifles in the Kota Tinggi district of Johore on Aug. 26. it was disclosed today. The dead terrorist Yok Kwong had a rifle and some ammunition with him Men of
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  • 62 4 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Tues. Sentence was deferred on Choncr Kong Sin, 41, by Inche Hassan bin Hussain in the Magistrate's Court here today, when he pleaded' guilty to a charge of theft of nine sheets of asbestos worth $18 belonging to Lam Seng Huat at Market Road on
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  • 59 4 MR. Abdul Rahim bin Mohamed Aki, a former schoolboy of the Malay College, Kuala Kangsar, left by the Canton yesterday for a four -year stay in Britain. He will sit for a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. Abdul Rahim was the recipient of a Selangor State
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  • 92 4 Survey Will Determine Development MALACCA, Tues. Future development of Kelantan's and Trengganu's vast jungle territories will depend much on a recent geological survey carried out by two scientists. Samples of materials gathered are now being examined. and' a report being awaited. The two geologists will later make a full study
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  • 165 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong today publicly acknowledged the country's debt to the "legacy of the British Colonial Administration" in providing a good machinery of government even at the start of Merdeka. "It is our intention that iich machinery shall not
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  • 112 4 PENANG. Tues.— A Johore rubber tapper, Osman bin Yacob, told the Magistrate's Court today that he boarded the State of Madras at Port Swettenham pier to look for a job, but instead found himself in Penang. Osman, who was detained as a stowaway on
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  • 176 4 BENTONG. Tues. More than $14,000 will be spent on a three-day Merdeka celebration in the district beginning on Sept. 14. Of this sum $9,000 is collected from public donations and $5,020 from State and Federal Government allocations. Following is the programme of events: SEPTEMBER 14 New
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  • 128 4 He Tried To Pick The Wrong Pocket A YOUTH was caught trying to pick a policeman's pocket in a bus, the Singapore Fifth Magistrate's Court was told yesterday. The youth, Tan Kirn Hock, 16, was charged with attempted theft of SI from the constable, Osman bin Ibrahim, on June I.
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  • 85 4 LUDVIK Gasperik the Czech who sneaked into Singapore at the beginning of this year, has been released from Outram Prison, where he had been detained for the pas:, five months. Gasperik, 25, stowed away from Basra to Singapore, but gave himself up to the Immigration authorities on
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    • 940 4 cJtlmanac Information at a Glance HMCAPORC— ENTERTAINMENT ip OH SSSiSSr ffTII tl IBM II f I «<»««*»»» CATHAY: Revenge Of Pontianak 8.8.C. WOiSSEniS KUALA LUMPUR B &T K %^fX 9l U m i U.6U, t.sv, e.ju ana yio p.m. Timeless Temiar 12.45. 3, 645 and Science Review-The British Asci n
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  • 146 5 New Govt. Names Junior Minister "MPUR, Tues. Khalid Din I Osrr.an, Federal )r representing I m constitu- -tood to have today as the at Minister of G vernment revS\ become de--1 .v Minister for inmerce I Industry. Mr. He is expected I I a th:s week. Too Joon Hing, Assister
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  • 36 5 I THE SINGAPORE V Association will I i Lift rary meeting en 5 the pteUmb a tfajaya I sionary Society, I Edam, Mr P I will j; New The meeting is open
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  • 151 5 I "mpur, Tuea m Vans: dl-Per-■tuan Ag mg, Sir Hlshamud- Shah, will use 'he i .i Muda" at Maxoad as his "Istana while discharging re both on State a:. I Federal lei Selangor State Secretary, bin Abdul La- s an dard today that Government had
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  • 95 5 THIS advance party of 50 Australian soldiers for independent Malaya a r rived in Singapore by air yesterday. They form part of the main body of 1,100 troops and 200 women and children for the Federation. Twenty-eight women and children accompanied yesterday's party. The rest of the
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  • 387 5 The World Wishes The New Malaya Happiness KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Chinese premier Chou En-lai today formally conveyed by cable the Communist regime's recognition of the independent Federation. He told Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman "May the Malayan people n new achievements in :mg their country and a happy life. Ma
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  • 105 5 First Red To Give Up After Merdeka THE first Communist terrorist to surrender in answer to the Prime Minister's appeal to end the Emergency is 29--year-old Siew Fong, who gave himself up to a conductor on Nova Scotia Estate, Lower Perak, on Aug. 31. There are now only four terrorists
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  • 72 5 Federation, Egypt To Be Friends KLANG, Tues.— The independent Federation will soon forge diplomatic relations with Egypt, Prime Minister Tunku Abcui Rahman, disclosed tonight. He was speaking at the convocation of the Muslim College which was attended by Merdeka delegates from more than ten Muslim countries. The Tunku regretted that
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  • 113 5 Carcosa To See Two Presentations KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. "Carcosa," former residence of British Chief Secretaries, will be the scene of two presentations to be made to the Duke of Gloucester tomorrow. At 7.15 a.m., the Malayan Association of Youth Clubs will hand to the Duke a gift for the National
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  • 71 5 PENANG, Tues.— Magistrate Mr. Au Ah Wah, told a trisharider, Low Kah Lip, in court here today, that if he must fight, he should fight fairly and squarely and not use a knife. Mr. Au sentenced Low to six months' imprisonment when he pleaded' guilty
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  • 30 5 THE Singapore Lodge Theosophical Society will hold a public meeting at 6.30 p.m. tomorrow at 8, Cairnhill Road. The Yen. Narada Maha Thera will answer questions on Buddhism.
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  • 18 5 A NEW postal agency was opened at Jeram, Perak yesterday, the Post-Master General has announced.
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  • 129 5 SECURITY SCREEN TO STAY ON A WEEK KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Selangor's Deputy Chief Police Officer Mr. F. W. M. Sharman declared today that the Merdeka security arrangements would continue to operate till next week. Mr. Sharman said that although it had been very quiet during the past five days. Police
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  • 261 5 Power Rates For Home Users Stay Unchanged ELECTRICITY charges for domestic purposes are to go up by 2\ cents (for lights and fans) in Singapore next year. There is to be no increase in domestic power rates. The new rates, decided
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  • 265 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman today appealed to Malayans "not to eat the Merdeka sapling but wait for it to grow and bear fruit so that it can be shared by all forever." In the first interview since taking office as
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    • 529 6 the state opening of Parliament yesterday, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong offered a final amnesty to the communist terrorists in the jungles. This offer holds good until December 31. Under the terms of this amnesty, the Federation Government guarantees freedom from prosecution for all offences committed under communist
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    • 399 6 A NEW threat to the safety of citizens is growing in Singapore. Delinquent youth is on the march in bigger and well-organized gangs and in association with secret societies and hardened criminals, bent on assault, robbery and intimidation. They have extended their operations from Katong and Geylang
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  • 1079 6 ANCIENT AND DISTINGUISHED OFFICE By A Special Correspondent THE visit of the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain to Malaya and Singapore affords an opportunity to Malayans to read something about this ancient and very distinguished office. The Lord Chancellor is the chief and first judge in
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  • 573 6  -  Aster Gunasekera By 'THE glamour, the excitement and the thrill of Merdeka Day is over. The people reluctantly have returned to their daily duties with a pride they have never experienced before the pride of belonging to an independent country, the pride of knowing
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  • 1112 6  - SOVIET SURVEY Three Red Ghosts Edward Crankshaw By \^HEN Khru s h c hey made his secret speech denouncing the crimes of Stalin he had a good deal to say about the great purge of the Red Army which began in the summer of 1937, and which involved the liquidation
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  • 41 7 RED China's non-Commu-nist Minister of the Timber Industry, Lo Lung-chi, has confessed to forming a secret organization of intellectuals dissatisfied with the ruling Communist Party with aim of setting up a rival group, Peking Radio reported yester- aay. A.P.
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  • 525 7 THE HOLIDAY JAUNT THAT ENDED IN DISASTER DOCTORS BATTLE FOR THE CRITICALLY HURT MANDEVILLE, Jamaica, Sept. 3, (Reuter)— The death toll in Sunday night's Jamaica rail disaster rose to 205 today while doctors and nurses weary after 30 hours without sleep— fought
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  • 144 7 Bowler hats for 9,000 by middle of next year LONDON, Sept. 3 (Reuter) About 4,000 officers and 5.000 other ranks will be discharged from the British army under the cuts in the forces caused by the new reliance on atomic weapons. Announcing: this, the War Office said the first big:
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  • 482 7 WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 President Eisenhower said today that Russia must make the next move if the London disarmament talks are to be kept from collapsing. At a news conference, the President said he did not see any particularly constructive step the United States could
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  • 122 7 TOKYO. Sept. 3 (Reiiter) Thousand.s of motor vehicles will soon be using an undersea highway linking Japan's mainland and the southernmost island, Kyushu. The highway is thought to be the first oi its kind in the world. The double-deck "kammon highway tunnel," burrowing for 3.460 metres
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  • 200 7 Britain's reserves drop to danger level LONDON, Sept. 3 (AP) Britain's gold and dollar reserves fell by 225 million dollars during August, the Treasury reported today. The slump was the biggest since November when the aftermath of the Suez invasion slashed the nation's reserves by 267 million dollars. Officials regarded
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  • 80 7 OK, THESE ABSENTMINDED LITERARY CHAPS... TOKYO. Sept. 3, (Reuter). A Polish delegate to the 29th international P.E.N. (poets, essayists, novelists) conference here walked through a six by seven foot plate glass window of the conference building. The delegate. M. Michal Rusinek, was taken to hospital in an ambulance. After regaining
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  • 141 7 LONDON, Sept. 3 (Reuter) The Royal Air Force which already possesses the long-range "Bloodhound* guided missile is now to be supplied with the high altitude English Electric Thunderbird. the Supply Minister announced here today. Air experts said that with these two ground-to-air weapons
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  • 391 7 JAKARTA, Sept. 3 (AP) Indonesian Army Chief of Staff Major-Gen. Abdul Harts Nasution today banned the proposed meeting of rebel leaders from outlying provinces scheduled to open tomorrow at Palembang, South Sumatra. Gen. Nasution. in his capacity as chief military administrator during the
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  • 174 7 JAKARTA. Sept. 3, (AP).— Lieut. Col. Rudy Pirngadie, official Indonesian Army spokesman, said today an investigation of an alleged embezzlement of nine million rupiahs (about M 5540.000 at the present open conversion rate) of Army funds showed one high ranking army officer and "several
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  • 153 7 WINCHESTER, Massachusetts Sept. 3. (UP). Mrs. Tomike Hubbard. 26, a Japanese war bride, delivered her own baby at her home last night. A relative said she was "just as calm as could be." Mrs. Hubbard. whose soldier husband James is on duty at Fort Dix. New
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  • 38 7 DELEGATES from nine Arab slates yesterday decided to instruct the Arab League to approach the Ghana Government on its relations with Israel, with whom Ghana has been having talks foreshadowing close trade and economic contacts. Reuter
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  • 50 9 Rubber Down 5/8C. Despite Rumours liquidation Singa- t down by Vt I C nr:\dv t Bhlpgrei on poor "~to "n on I v.l due tO r i r t-s of a of the J 7 -ices -r I jVOO.V PRICES RE Chamber of .tien i Si Mm 881 881 I
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  • Article, Illustration
    52 9 SOME of the first Japanese motor vehicles to be Imported into postwar Malaya three Toyota land cruisers have arrived in Singapore and one of them is currently being displayed at the Merdeka Trade Fair. six-seaier land cruiser can climb hills up to 46 degrees sraciient and go thr<mgh three feet
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  • 34 9 L r! Hfe 'ea hull it ■1 1 cenl II c of It For 1 P .r.ore 3 per If han that of i .11 Of a cd. It has
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  • 44 9 Toyota Land Cruisers For Malaya Asia Motor Co. Ltd., the agenti claim. rt data: 30.1 h.p.; 105 p fuel consumption 26 mp.g.; price $7,995. Iff PctCT Ckang, one of the Sti rm*t salesmen, II teen above at the wheel i r ti Ml cruiser.
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  • 134 9 THE undertone In the inLa] and tin sections of the Malayan share market \si-r--' steady yesterday. Rubbers were featureless. Price changes announced Malayan Sharebrokers' tion yesterdaf were: j INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers I Pf« ive 2 85 2 90 mer 2 45 2 50 cd Industries
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  • 35 9 A TRAVELLING alarm <..-. inecl with a barometer and thermometer is being produced by a leading British clock inufacturer, Smiths Clocks Watches Ltd.. Lon- don. In a pigskin case, it costs :.:>-:it £12.
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  • 199 9 MALAYAN" sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: F N ords $2.85 ready. $2.87£ ready ar.d delayed $2.86: Gammon- |2.50 overnight and yesterday; Goodwood Park Hotel $1.32;, Hammers $2.45, $2.47* Hume prefs A24/H cd; Cements $1.73|; M. Colls $1.03. overnight, $1.04; McAlister $2 05 to $2,024; Metal
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  • 67 9 RAILWAY engineers and authorities from all over Svyitzerland watchec* a British firm demonstrate on the Swiss railways what is believed to be the first battery-operated industrial television system. The equipment developed by the British firm is completely portable and is expected to find many new
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  • 243 9 Sarawak 'Pioneer Industries' Bill Is Now Law \Finance And Commerce BUT OFFICIAL WARNS ON 'RELIEF' ABUSES THE Council Negri of Sarawak has passed the Pioneer Industries (Encouragement) Bill designed to encourage the establishment and development of new industries. Acting Development Secretary, Mr. F. B. K. Drake, said that the setting
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  • 106 9 Tg. Mani Port Expansion To Be Studied PLANS for providing all facilities at Tanjong Mani in the Third Division of Sarawak, as a deep water port would be investigated "from all angles." The acting Development Secretary. Mr. F.B.K. Drake told this to the Council Negri in reply to a question.
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  • 113 9 Navigator Chains For India INDIA has ordered two British Decca Navigator chains one to be centred on Bombay and the other on Calcutta. The first such navigational aids installed in the East, the two chains will help shipping using India's busiest ports. They will be operated by personnel of the
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  • 104 9 MEN'S gold watch bands which expand and contract automatically with variations in temperature and the Ilexing of the arm are being made by a firwi, John Goode and Sons (Birmingham) Ltd. Birmingham, England. This means that no thumbnail lifting is required to open the bands,
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  • 159 9 BRITISH CHALLENGE IN SCOOTER MARKET THE rapidly widening highly competitive field of motor scooter manufacture saw the launching In London recently of a new allBritish luxury scooter which is expected to make an early and impressive debut overseas. It is the D.K.R. "Dove" make by D.K.R. Scooters Ltd at Wolverhampton
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  • 390 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The coconut oil industry has expanded steadily and exports have increased to 103,000 tons valued at $73,318,000 last year, the Federation annual report stated. Production came to 108,000 tons. Of the estimated 530,000 acres of coconut estates 80 per cent are smallholdings
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  • 39 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday: Selling. T.T. or O.D. ready: Swiss Francs 1402: Belgian Francs 1615£; Holland Gldrs. 123|; Italian Lire *****. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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  • 116 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Pro duoe Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copra, Aug. Sept. $251 buyers, $26J sellers; coconut oil in bulk $41f sellers, in drums S4si sellers. Muntok white pepper $114 sellers, Sarawak white $113 sellers, special Sarawak black $74. COPRA HOLIDAY. CUTLER. BATH CO. LTD AUGUST
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  • 275 9 PLANS for extensions costing between £3,000,000 and £4,000,000 to their Doncaster, Yorkshire, plant have been announced' by British Nylon Spinners, one of Europe's biggest producers of nylon yarns. Designed to meet an increasing demand for nylon yarns, this new expansion scheme, involving a new building, is
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  • 44 9 PLACED end to end the number of postage stamps issued to offices throughout the United Kingdom by the Post Office durina 1956 would stretch about 124,000 miles. They were issued in rolls, sheets and books and comprised nearly 8,000 million stamps.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 255 9 I £95fSiSE3HHHF regular service J^ m^^MMJ^^NmW SINGAPCRE phnompenh #WfiL§£ PHNOMPENH SINGAPORE W friffimfTflfT Q P ARRIVES SAILS \l "TATSUOH MARU" V.22 Sept 2 Oct rsuOH MARU" V. 6 Oct 8 Oct I Mi}] STEAMSHIP CORPORATION S/A I AGENTS V Collycr Quay Singapore Tel: *****. W barber. ferN'VILLE lines Philadelphia, Baltimore,
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    • 41 9 NOTICE ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD m.s. "WONOGIRI" arrived 2.9.57. "TJAMAGED packages may be 1J tendered for survey at godowns 6/7 on 12.9.57 as from 8.30 am No further survey will be held. ROTTERDAM TRADING CO. (M) LTD., Shipping Department Tel. ***** Agents.
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    • 827 9 NOTICES TENDERS FOR JOHORE GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS. ARE INVITED for x the supply MEDIUM GRADE SIAMESE RICE AND SUGAR to all Government Hospitals in Johore for period Ist October to 31s:, December, 1957. Each tender must be accompanied with a Treasury Receipt of $100/- in resDect of rice and $50/- in
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 88 9 OUTER ROADS BOREVILLE. Batoela. Glaucus. Borneo. State of Travancore. Daviken Hamburg, Glenartn.ey. Soudan, Cellina, Fernmoor, Mascot. INNER ROADS t Mm Huang, Lonsindhu. Petalmg. Gian Seng. Sri Trengannu, Phuang Ngern, Pangkor. Rajah Brooke. Hin Cheong. Resang, Tai Choc. Tai Cheong, Heather Senai, Larat Perils. SHB WHARVES Asama Maru 1. Salmara 6.
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  • Article, Illustration
    175 10 —Vital Term for the Boys A Girls IT was "Black Monday" this week for thousands of Singapore schoolchildren who had to return to their desks for another term of studies. Thousands got up very early on Monday morning, jammed the bus stands and later the corridors of the
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  • 146 10 Freddy Oei, a Senior Middle 111 student of the Chinese Catholic High School, Singapore writes about his experience at a "Cheap Sale." 1 "T thought my holiday J was going to be very J disappointing as I had no J specific plans but some- how or rather
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  • 307 10 passed remarks about our Job and did not care the least for us. The younger swimmers strutted like proud peacocks Into the water and made a dash for the deeo waters. In sDite of our warnings they kept going far but luckily nothing happened. On
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    174 10 r— SCHOOL WRSfINAMW CORNER Budding Athlete Has One A budding athlete with an ambition in life is 17-year-old Miss Pho o n Mun Siong, Form IV student of Tanjong Katong Girls School, Singapore. She is beginning to gain recognition in the field of sport in a small way. Her
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  • 47 10 ONE of Singapore's English Schools, which reopened on Monday jor the third term, had a very busy day getting into full swing with the school's business. Here students are seen rushing to their respective classrooms after the bell has gone, for the day's studies.
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  • 388 10 B. JASWANT SINGH, 16, Form IV student of the Sultan Yussuf School, Bal who is the State representative for the Malayan Student magazine and a School's reporter to the Junior Mail, writes abou^ his first visit to Pan:- AMONG the many beauti- ful beaches in Malaya, the
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 271 10 TODAY'S QUOTATION: "When a wife lias a good husband it is easily seen in her face." Goethe. WEDNESDAY FOR EVERYONE: This is a constructive day for making progress and for creative ideas, favourable contacts. Keep busy; get things accomplished but grant time and opportunity for relaxation, pleasure too YOl'R BIRTHDATK
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    • 31 10 1 .Cut the metal end from a FROZEN FOOD CONTAINER. 2. GLUE a small round BUTTON or BEAD to each corner of the bottom for legs. CASEIN tf®Z JS iGLUE V^^^
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    • 23 10 3. USE IT gj^vl AS A TRAY 1^ FOR PINS... ORBEADS...^^ OR COINS... f^ OR STAMPS...^S OR AN ASH TRAY TOR DADJ^) f"
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  • 236 11 HI ALA LUMPUR, Tues. Pahang created a major upset when they scored v vi ,tory over Penang in the Merdeka hockey competition at the > MerS tuiiuni today. k who entered the nvourites were f teir opponents ent of the I' M^hamed Rajab player
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  • 49 11 E Badminton Asso- :r. 7 iX) —-club: Jacques Strike BP •ft Fook I iraSi Wtt Blue) BP v im vmj Boyee id BP. i Umra X k ler G ing Nathai e( Eng L*e V! Chue Kwai S I I res m c 'a X c
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  • 25 11 LONDON. Sept. 3 (AP) Terry Spinks. Britain's Olympic flyweight boxing champion, will make his debut as a jockey in Manchester on Friday.
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  • 149 11 THE two-day cricket match between the President's XI of Ceylon and the Pan-Malayan Ceylonese scheduled to be' Played on the Malaya Com-' mand ground at Kuala Lum- 1 pur was abandoned yesterday' the second day when heavy' rain made play impossible. Thus it was that only
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  • 90 11 LONDON. Sept. 3. (Reuter^ Closing quotations at tonight's second Victoria Club callover on the St. Leger to be run over one mile .six furlongs in Doncaster Sept. 11 were: 5 to 1 Ballymoss. Brioche and Sertorius; 8 to 1 Court Harwell; 10 to 1 Tenterhooks. Supreme Courage.
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  • 39 11 PENANG, Tues. The Cycling Carnival will be held at the City Stadium at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 29, and not at the Chinese Recreation Club ground as previously announced. Entries close on Sept. 20. *-*f
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  • 121 11 KUTS RUNS FASTEST 10,000 m THIS SEASON MOSCOW, Sept. 3 (Reuter) Vladimir Kuts, Soviet holder of the world 10.000 metres record, retained his national 5,000 metres title in the U.S.S.R. athletics championships at Lenin stadium here yesterday. He clocked 13 mins. 48.6 sees. the world's fastest time this season though
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  • 111 11 LONDON Sept. 3, (Reuter) Results in yesterday's English and Scottish football matches were: LEAGUE TWO Sheffield U. 0 Charlton Athletic 3. West Ham U. 1 Blackburn Rovers 1 LEAGUE 111 SOUTHERN Colchester U. 2 Queen's Park Rangers 1. Coventry City 1 New-port County 2. Millwall 3 Crystal
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  • 184 11 4 Horses Promoted To Cl. 1 FOUR Class 2 horses. Fair Nipper, Powhatan, Copacabana and Prince of Lalita have been promoted to Class 1. according to the latest SRA amendment list. Other transfers are: TRANSFERS From Class 1 to Class 2: Maori Chief; Flower Queen; Enjoyment II; Copper Khan; Barakat.
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  • 329 11 Merdeka Cup Amateur Race Meet KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Fourteen deleted race' horses have been handicapped for the Merdeka Cup run over seven furlongs which will feature the Selangor Turf Club's Amateur Meet on Saturday THE MERDEKA CUP Class 1 Div. 1: 7 Furs. Entertainment 13.07 Jackpot II 13.06 Ambassador 13.04
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  • 68 11 Footballers Die After Heading Ball MUENSTER. West Germany, Sep.. j. (Reuter) Two doctors writing in a German Medical Journal, said (hat three footballers had recently been killed and others seriously injured by heading the ball. The doctors, H. Diehl and G. Wilke, said that a football weighing 700 grammes (about
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  • 391 11 A Shock For Aussie Star In U.S. Tennis FOREST HILLS, New York, Sept. 3 (UP) Clifton Mayne of Berkeley, California, 23-year-old army lieutenant stationed at Fort Mon mouth, N.J., scored a resounding upset in the U.S. tennis championships yesterday by whipping southpaw Neale Fraser of Australia, 6-3, 9-7, 6-4. Fraser,
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 838 11 CLASSIFIED ADS SITUATIONS VACANT I^WO qualified teachers requir- Ed 10th September. 1957, for general subjects including English at Secondary School, Royal Air Force. Seletar. Applicants must be U.K. -trained. Salary is on local scale closely approximating to Burnham scale plus 25 percent temporary addition. Applications to Senior Education Officer, Royal
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 198 11 Li 1 Abner By A/ Coop W'^-Mfii M SICK OF THIS.r-SIC-N SERGE^NT.^ I 1/ ARE >OU GOING II BUT HE'S GOTH AP* /P^ii- pSfeVifcW WAN DOWM DEEP INSIDe.f OBVOUSLV ITO PERMIT THAT T r>_, C AN r-A ZT! -U ,tc owwurat PQOOUCETHW n J THAT UTTLE i RUFFIAN TO r
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  • 33 12 Shapely Winners SINGAPORE'S first and second in the 100 metres freestyle in the Merdeka Swimming meet on Monday at Kuala Lumpur are Yap Kan Ec, left, who won the event, and Elsie Lim.
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  • 260 12 Gladys on the way to title VIETNAM'S Nguyen Van Tich and Hongkong's K. H. Ip were the first to enter the semi-finals of the men's singles in yesterday's session of the Selangor Tennis Championships on the Selangor Golf Club courts. Van Tich coasted to an
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  • Article, Illustration
    24 12 -Standardpics by COMING in to win the 200 metres breast stroke for women at the Merdeka meet is Leongr Lye Meng.- Yong Poh Fah
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  • 1116 12  -  PETER KUM Seth Survives A Shock From Eng Huak Indonesia Rules In The Women's Tourneys By EDDY CHOONG, Malaya's unofficial champion of the world, disposed of the' challenger from India, Nandu Natekar, in 21 minutes at 15-4 15-7 to enter the final of the Merdeka badminton
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  • 286 12 (Thai) w.0.: Major B. G. N. Evelegh and Major R.N. Griggs beat. Leong Hoe Yeng and San Kwok Keon? 6-2 5-7 6-2; Quarter-final: Van Thanh and Van Bay beat Mitchell and Wilford 6-0 6-0- I. A. Alsagoff and H. Khamis beat P.H. Hopkins and M
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  • 247 12 Merdeka Games JKUHTR Quarter-final results in the morning session are Men's singles: T. N. Seth (India) beat Khoo Eng Huah (Pg) 15-8 17-14; Nandu Natekar (India) beat Lai Fook Ying (Sel) 15-6 7-15 15-4. Men's doubles: On* Poh Lim and Ooi Teik Hock (Spore/ Pg) beat Foo Vong Khean and
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  • 123 12 Thomas Cuppers Ong Poh Lim and Ooi Teik Hock beat a scratch pair formed by Perak's Foo Vong Khean and Singapore's Omar Ibrahim. 15-2, 15-8. As expected, it was an easy win but it showed' pretty clearly that Poh Lim was no more his mercurial
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  • 134 12 Selangor's Gerry Toft will lead the Malayan Hockey Federation against Singapore in their match to be played at the Merdeka Stadium today. The MHF line-up will be: P. Van Huizen (NS); M. Shanmuganathan (SeD- Chua Eng Cheng (Sel); Philip (Pk): M. Shepherdson (Sel): G Toft (Sel);
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  • 272 12 Perak, with five Olympic players, were given a fright by Malacca, and just managed to win by two goals to one in the second match of the Merdeka Hockey tournament at Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. Malacca gave an extremely good account of themselves, and held
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  • 33 12 RUGBY Polce S.A ;.C. I at Pcl i ce T I Newcomert t>t Rest SOCCi Singapore h League and <"?</> Wearne Brotfu n W>nrnc Brothers E lan Besar Stad urn I A
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  • 543 12 Vietnam Blast Malaya's Hopes For His Cup The Prime Minister Watches... By ALEX SOARS VIETNAM blasted Malaya's hopes for the Prime Minister's Cup with a 4—l victory at the Merdeka Stadium last night. Malayan hopes were high when the Vietnamese were held I—l at half time, but then came that
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  • 332 12 Singapore 6 Thailand 0 AFTER holding Singapore to a one-nil lead at half time, Thailand faded out to eventually go down 6—o in the subsidiary tourney for minor placings in the Football festival in the Merdeka Stadium last night. Singapore's first goal came
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 104 12 TODAY'S 1 EVENTS BADMINI if-J In* itai on Inter finals and finals, 1Q 8 TENNIS: SLTA ta national quarter-finals Lakt SOCCER: Pr, Cup lf< i< Mr; Honokc-nq B B-- 'ft* i*- c .;orc. 7 7ci. p.?\ Hoi gkong CI Kotc m hoc :nHo4 Fedenr on "A" 3.40 p.m Ifalo pore.
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