Singapore Standard, 6 September 1957

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  • 214 1 THOSE MINISTERIAL PLUMES WILL COME IN FOR ATTACK AT UMNO MEET 1 K.IIRU. Thurs. CM NO youth liscuss the new i»f Federation i representa- it Batu Pahat 13. iih leade r Tuan ewikli Anuer said yesthe new unihelmet and .hoek-d the if; X of CMNO. 1( _ach a uni...tally unex-
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  • 311 1 The Duke Leaves For Home I We are most grateful) IK UMFUR, i. The Qut reI" .native to the Merdecelebrations, the Duke Gloucester, left here by for London with the .chess .Uiam At the airport to see him 0 were the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. the Prime Minister members of the
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  • 65 1 I [POOL, En t> :pr nting v. :..< r>, tright the .11 lor wage .oud shout of '"aye" ap| i uriiag the i d to hich would living standards t the workers. The motion harged the C nserrative Merr.T.ent with hirking Its stimulate i o and
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  • 31 1 pic. A FINAL salute to the crowd that turned up to see him off, before the Duke of Gloucester enters the plane that will return him to London. Standard
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  • 283 1 DR. ISMAIL IS ON HIS WAY TO THE U.S. KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Federation of Malaya will be represented by a five-man delegation headed by Minister Plenipotentiary, Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 17,
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  • 56 1 JAKARTA, Sept. 5 (Reuter)— The AttorneyGeneral, Mr. Suprapto announced today that he had stopped circulation of the August 26 issue of the American magazine, Newsweek, and confiscated all copies not yet sold. He said an article on President Soekarno in the magazine had insulted
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  • 150 1 WELLINGTON, Sept. 5 (Reuter) Britain has made plans to airlift considerable reiniorcemen.s of men and arms to South-east Asia should the need arise, a joint Anglo-New Zealand communique said today. The communique which was issued by the British Defence Minister, Mr.
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  • 78 1 HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 5 (UP) The 250-man Cuban naval garrison in Cienfuegos, Las Villas Prov.nce, was reported today to have rebelled against the Government and seized the town in heavy fighting. The naval mutineers far outnumbered the small army and police garrison which was reporied to
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  • 73 1 AMMAN, Jordan, Sept. 5. (UP)— The first shipment of American military aid to Jordan is due to arrive here next Monday, an official announcement said today. The shipment will be officially received at Amman airport. It will form part of a M 530 ,000,00. military
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  • 175 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The three-day Merdeka bull fight at the Selangor Turf Club ground here has been a complete failure because the bulls were not trained sufficiently to take the ring before such big audiences. A spokesman of the Dull fighting team
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  • 387 1  -  JAMES DAVID By Ex- Accountant Claims This Sum Is Wasted Each Year THE University of Malaya has every year wasted nearly $1,000,000 of its funds because of laxity in financial control, the Standard was told yesterday. This "state of affairs" was revealed by
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  • 200 1 HONGKONG, Sept. 5 (Reuter) Sir Donald MacGillivray, until recently Malaya's High Commissioner, said on arrival here today from Singapore that he hoped the Communist terrorists in the Malayan jungle would accept the new terms for surrender and end their "senseless struggle." The
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  • 113 1 SINGAPORE Police scored their biggest single seizure of arms since the wa; when they recovered six automatic pistols from a man in the Orchard Road area, yesterday. Acting on information, a Police party on Wednesday night stopped a man and found on him a parcel
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  • 125 2 Britain's Trade Prospects LONDON. Sept. 5. (Reuter). The Board of Trade Journal, discussing British trade prospects in the independent Federation of Malaya, said today that Britain could expect increasing competition from Japan, the United States and West Germany. An article by Mr. L. Bevan. British Trade Commissioner at Kuala Lumpur,
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  • 69 2 39 Arrests: Ministers To Decide THE Council of Ministers of the Singapore Government will meet today to discuss the recent arrests of leftist trade unionists and Peoples Action Party members. Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock said the council will consider all the arrested persons cases individually before issuing detention
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  • 192 2 IPOH, Thurs. The Constitution of the Federation of Malaya "with its defects and its flaws, possibly," provides a sound working basis upon which the Government can get on its feet and from which it can proceed to make advances in social welfare and all aspects of
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  • 145 2 CLOSING rubber prices (rents per lb) in Singapore yesterday were:— Buyers Seller* Spot 861 87* Int. Sept R.S.S. No. 1 865 87J R.S.S. No. 2 85sf 861 R.S.S. No. 3 85* 85| Tone: Slightly easier. The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was $365 i (Up 12* cts).
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  • 338 2 3,000 Phones From New Exchanges THEIR YEAR-OLD WAIT ENDS ON SUNDAY THREE thousand people in Singapore who have waited for- over a year will get their telephones on Sunday. This will be possible because two more new automatic exchanges, costing $5,500,000 will be put into operation on that day. This
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  • 106 2 Party Ra'ayo To Merge With Labour MALACCA ThtUS, -ft Ra'ayat and the L_ Party he. merge form a branch i tht Peg Socialist Party on Sept secretary oi Party Ra. branch, Inch- Ahm, Hassan told th. Standard daj II time I the leftwh g pari form da c aJll m
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  • 23 2 PORT COM MION THE first formal the Singapore si will be I c d ment of Informal a.m today open to the p
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  • 276 2 No Change Is Necessary —Lord Kilmuir THE assessor system of trials adopted by the Federation of Malaya needed no change, now since it had been proved to work very well, said the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, Viscount Kilmuir, in Singapore yesterday. Viscount
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  • 85 2 Fashion Parade For Men THE Singapore Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold a "Dance of the Moon Festival" at the Sea View Hotel tomorrow night, from I 9 p.m. to 2 am. The dance is in aid of the Jaycee Project Fund. There will be floor shows and. for the
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  • 35 2 P. ADAIKALAM. 23, and M. Rajappan, 20. were yesterday committed to stand trial at the next Assizes on a charge of murdering Ng Miang Tiak at Hindoo Road. Singapore, on June 30.
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  • 63 2 HENRY Leonard Cull was yesterday charged in the Singapore Eighth Magistrate's Court with possession of a revolver without a licence. He was alleged to have in his possession a .38 Colt automatic at Victoria Street. No plea was recorded and Cull was allowed bail of
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  • 37 2 HONGKONG Sept. 5 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were $15.62 to HI Sterling $5.9625 to US$l; $1,832 to Malayan $1; $0 113 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $261.50 to a tael.
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  • 74 2 THE Singapore Labour Office will send officers to shops and other establishments next month to answer on the spot queries from the workers. Mr. Kok Ah Loy, Acting Commissioner for Labour, in announcing this yesterday, said that since the introduction of the Shop Assistant.- Employment Ordinance.
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  • 61 3 A SPECIAL sitting of the Supreme Court at Kuala Lumpur was held on Wednesday for Britain's Lord Chancellor, Viscount Kilmuir. Lord Kilmuir is seen in front row third from left, with the Federation's Chief Justice, Mr. J. B. Thomson (front row fourth from left),
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  • 285 3 Aussies Will Stay On Till Reds Are Finished Casey AUSTRALIA'S fighting men would continue to help "free and independent Malaya" rid itself of the scourge of Communist terrorism, said the Australian Minister for External Affairs, Mr. R. G. Casey, in Singapore yesterday. Mr. Casey, who was en route to London
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  • 47 3 PENANG, Thurs. Two men fought a sampan duel with their oars, Inspector Jagat Singh told the Magistrate's Court here today. Lee Ah Choo and Menna Pillai, the two combatants were each fined $10 on a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner.
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  • 161 3 JAPAN'S representative to the Merdeka celebrations in Kuala Lumpur, Mr. Banboku Ohno, said in Singapore yesterday that his country would be willing to help Malaya industrialize. Mr. Ohno, vice-president of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, added that an ambassador would soon
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  • 55 3 FOUR thousand mooncakes, donated by the manager of the Southern Hotel. Mr. Loh Kam Yin, will be distributed to handicapped and under-privileged children at the Red Cross Office, Asia Insurance Building, Singapore, on Sunday at 11 a.m. Mr. Loh has been donating moon cakes lo the Colony's
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  • 145 3 CHINA WIVES 200 on the Hoi Hong THE vessel Hoi Wong, which arrived yesterday from Red China, unloaded a "big bundle of joy" in the shape of 200 wives, who have come to join their husbands in Singapore and the Federation. From very early in the morning several Chinese husbands
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  • 137 3 OPEN VERDICT IN BUS DEATH PROBE A SINGAPORE Coroner. Inche Ahmad Hussein, yesterday returned an oDen verdict at the end of an inquest into the death of a housewife. Tan Juat Wah. 27, who died from injuries sustained when she jumped off a moving bus. Yap Bok Yeng, a bus
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  • 50 3 CHUA HER YAM was yesterday charged in the Singapore Fifth Magistrate's Court with being a member of an unlawful assembly which caused the death of an 18--year-old youth Chan Chew Hong at Pagoda Street on the night of Sept. 2. He was remanded in custody for 48 hours.
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  • 304 4 Law Is A Science, Says Lord Kilmuir INAUGURATING the Law Faculty of the University of Malaya yesterday, Britain's Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir, said he had "no doubt that the University is embarking on a task which is very well worth doing." In his address on "The Importance of the Study
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  • 248 4 Proof Is Needed —Counsel A COLONY lawyer, Mr. R. E. Redrup yesterday submitted in the Singapore Sixth Magistrate's Court that "to charge a person with assaulting a public servant, the prosecution has to prove that the public servant was assaulted while discharging his duty as imposed upon him by the
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  • 325 4 SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday said he was greatly interested in the political progress of Brunei. Mr. Lim said this after he had talks with the president cf the Party Ra'ayat of Brunei Inche A. Z.
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  • 124 4 Pageant Ot Old Johore For M-Fun JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— The three-day Merdeka celebrations here, which begin on Saturday, will be highlighted by a historical pageant dealing with an important episode in Johore history the part played by the Bugis in the old Johore kingdom. In this pageant, old Bugis and
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  • 44 4 MR. U. PALANI, a Tamil lecturer from the Annamalai University in South India, who will be in charge of the Kuala Lumpur Section of the University of Malaya's Department of Indian Studies, is arriving in Singapore from Madras by the Sirdhana today.
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  • 76 4 A ROYAL Military Policeman was yesterday charged before a Singapore District Court Martial with "maliciously" wounding a colleague. Corporal Hameed Marican bin Moydin of 200 Provost Company, RMP, was alleged to have broken a bottle and struck Lance Corporal Mohamed Razaliy bin Ibrahim, of the same unit,
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  • 80 4 SEREMBAN", Thurs. The Regent, Tengku Menawir, will meet for the first time members of the State Executive Council when its plenary Merdeka session opens on Sept. 11. Tengku Menawir was elected Head of State during his father's five-year absence in Kuala Lumpur as the
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  • 52 4 AN unidentified boy, aged five to six years, was killed in a car accident at Havelock Road, near the Social Welfare Department, yesterday at 7.30 p.m. The parents of the child and eye-witnesses of the accident are asked to contact Inspector Ong Eng Say (Tel.
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  • 289 4 We Would Rather Have A Strike, Probe Court Told SINGAPORE Pilot Association would rather have another strike, than reemploy the vice-president of the Malayasian Mariners Union, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Mohamed SaUeh, a Court of Inquiry was told yesterday. The one-man Court, presided by Mr. D.C. D'Cotta, was set up
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  • 59 4 MRS. CHRISTINA LOKE, wife of Singapore cinema magnate, Mr. Loke Wan Tho is seen shaking hands with the Duke of Gloucester at the garden party given by the Prime Minister of Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, Tunku Abdul Rahman. Looking on is Mr. Loke and on his left is the
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  • 248 5 Report Of Fed. Support For Indonesia's New Guinea Claim Annoys The Tunku Xl ma LUMPUR, rhl .r S Prime Minister Lnku Abdul Rahman in Opacity as Foreign Pj\. r >uid tonight independent, n „n would "go v j n foreign attitudes vmic.s, as the lu-\ of Malaya time in the
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  • 61 5 MALAYA'S Minister Plenipotentiary Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman (garlanded), left Kuala Lumpur by air yesterday for Washington to take up his post as first ambassador. Among officials to see him off were the Federation Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman (extreme left) and Minister for
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  • 155 5 PENANG, Hunts, A total of 43 deck passengers, m. Monty oi v hum are on a one-way ticket to Red 1 It .t in the SA Blissful today, bound for Canto \ia Singapore. The Blissful was the first boat to leave
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  • 116 5 t: :ks its.— Ic. i. s. ■overe Malay Regiment ed in 1933 ass I not a bit H :hat the ex: m any of 150 men m. I ago has now X •he backbone of B Army. I repot here General P vetera:. ■fun
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  • 60 5 Wipe Out Reds, Ur ges Governor 1a) Thurs Qg Yew t public .-p. the people OI tins to win- out the reterrorists m the ike to see Jasin area soon, he told I was speaking 4.0U0 people at -^•g after taking the a Merdeka Parade Police. Home unteer Reserves Wo
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  • 63 5 Penang Reds Ignore Offer I Thurs.— Penang •--m. lining 40 ComI rrrorists, including I !1 -n. gave no mdica- l opting the amnesty I the Federation -aid a Police I day. ns Committees i in the kamges in the i in due course b eg" t, D dy Wlil be
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  • 73 5 Sultan At M -Dinner KUALA KANGSAR. Thurs. Sultan Sir Yusuf Izzuddin Shah and consort, the Raja Perempuan. were among 400 guests who attended the Merdeka dinner held in the Malay College dining hall here last nightAfter the dinner, Sir Yusuf gave away silver cups awarded to the following best decorated
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  • 188 5 AGONG ATTENDS COMMAND' SHOW AT LAKE GARDENS KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Thousands of Malayans wildly cheered the "Royal Command" performance of "Pusparagam Merdeka" the All-Communities Variety Show sponsored by the Information Services here tonight. The Yam Tuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong were among the distinguished guests who watched the
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  • 135 5 HE OFFERED A MARRIED WOMAN $300 AS AN 'ENTICEMENT,' COURT TOLD PENANG, Thurs.— A tindal offered a married woman $300 if she would enter her bedroom with him, the Sessions Court was told today. The tindal. A. Arumugam. 39. was charged with trespassing into the house of R. Kandimadi with
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  • 56 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Abdul Kadir bin Rasek was today acauitted by Sessions Judge Inche Harun Idris on a charge of perjury. Abdul Kadir was alleged to have given false information to Detective Sergeant Nazir Ahmad on Oct. 3. last year when he was investigating a case
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  • 24 5 TOTAL rubber exports of various grades to all countries from Singapore and the Federation of Malaya during August amounted to 81.298 tons.
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  • 128 5 PENANG, Thurs. A carpenter, Ong Beng Teik, 22, was today sentenced to one year's imprisonment by Sessions Judge, Mr. David Anthony, on being convicted of a charge of extorting $108 from a pintable operator. "A man's business of running pin-tables has been ruined by your disturbance,"
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  • 113 5 2 Ministers Will Open New Station KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Transport Ministers Inche Abdul Rahman bin Talib and General Banyat Bhebhafbin of the Federation and Thailand will jointly open the new railway station at Padang Besar on Sept. 13. it was announced today. Padang Besar is an International station the whole
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  • 97 5 First Prize For M .C.A.' s Merdeka Arch PENANG, Thurs— The arch erected by the Malayan Chinese Association at Penang Road was adjudged the best decorated arch by the Penang Merdeka Day Celebrations Committee. The following are the other results of the competition for the best decorated private buildings in
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  • 100 5 PENANG Thurs.— Members of the Executive Council of the State of Penang were sworn in before the Governor, Raja Sn Uda, at the Residency this morning. They were the Chief Minister. Mr. Wong Pow Nee, the State Secretary, Mr. H. R. Ellis, the Legal Adviser Mr.
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  • 36 5 THE annual general meeting of the Taiping branch of the Malayan Chinese Association will be held at the Rubber Dealers' Association tomorrow, at 7 p.m when officials for the new term will be elected.
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  • 26 5 POLICE yesterday stopped villagers from staging a bull fight in Kedai Lalat about six miles from Kota Bharu. Bullfighting is against the State law.
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    • 558 6 The Law The People THE responsibilities of the judiciary in independent Malaya were well and clearly defined by the Federation Attorney General, Mr. T. V. A. Brodie, in his address at the opening sessions of the Supreme Court in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. The address was a reaffirmation of the
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    • 355 6 'THOUGH the Prai-Bangkok rail service was inaugurated about thirty years ago, it had not proved to be the intimate link between the two countries as it could have been. Different national policies and immigration barriers had made the service so foreign to Malayans. Now this state of
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  • 1054 6 FOR over a century it has seemed natural to talk to India's leaders, even the most antiBritish, in English; and today the bond of language remains the most meaningful part of India's membership of the Commonwealth. Yet by her Constitution India is bound to abandon English and
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  • 943 6  -  MARTIN HARRISON By PARIS THE mounting evidence of the widespread use of torture and arbitrary violence in quelling the Algerian rebellion is opening a new and bitter debate in France. Repeated official denials that torture exists have just been flatly challenged by M. Louis Martin Chauffier, secretary
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  • 549 6  - The NEWS as it strikes me! ASTER GUNASEKERA By 'THE first speech from the Throne of Yam Tuan Agong should inspire the people of the country to shake off their characteristic lethargy and seriously knuckle down to greater national effort in making Persekutuan Tanah Melayu worthy of its independence. The
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  • 285 6 SEOUL, S. KOREA! f\N the twelfth anniversary oi Korean American officials m Seoul computed that S.Korea had thus 4 ar absorbed 1,000 million ri>.,:' American aid and uas likely to absorb a similar a again before the job ol reconstruction was dotu well over 100 U.S. dollars
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  • 690 7 pttle Or No Progress In Mid-East, Although The Will For Peace Exists 'Scrap UN You Give Up Hope For Future PITTED NATIONS. SeciCiJtfJ GenHa miliars kjo kd today that a I to peace" ng the parties iter Palestine dispute ns few. if any,
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  • 101 7 THREE followers of the Neo-Fascist party lean over to kiss the coffin containing the body of late Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, as others stand behind waiting their turn for the extreme homage to their "Duce" at Predappio, Italy last week. A
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  • 585 7 Now Faubus hides behind a cordon of troops LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Sept. 5 (UP) State troops today ringed the mansion of Gov. Orval E. Faubus, who fears arrest by federal authorities for placing similar guards around Central High School to prevent integration. Faubus wired President Eisenhower last night asking him
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  • 204 7 BRITISH TVIEWERS SEE FRENCH PROGRAMMES PLANES LOSE ALL CONTACT WITH GROUND AMERICA GETS CUT OFF FROM EUROPE LONDON. Sept. 5, (UP) Trans-Atlantic Airlines heard nothing from their planes in flight, British television viewers saw French programmes instead of BBC and Europe and America were virtually cut off from
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  • 183 7 MCGUIRE AIR BASE, New Jersey, Sept. 5, (AP)— A streamlined Russian jet airliner streaked onto the rainswept runways of this vast military base last night to complete an historic 5,570--mile flight from Moscow. It marked the first landing of any
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  • 119 7 'US Freighters Were NOT Time-Bombed' TAIPEH, Formosa. Sept. 5, (Reuter) The harbour authorities at Keelung, yesterday strongly denied reports from Japan that time-bombs had been planted' on two United States Lines freighters while they were anchored at KeelungMr. Hsu Jen Shou. chief of the Keelung Harbour Administration, described the charge,
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  • 47 7 LONDON. Sept. 5. (Reuter) —The Sultan of Brunei arrived in London by air today from Singapore to begin a 10--week visit to Britain and Europe. He is spending four weeks in Britain and tomorrow will visit the Colonial Office here for private talks.
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  • 257 7 'Ceylon Will Not Give Bases To Russia' CANBERRA. Sept. 5 (Router) Suggestions that Ceylon would become a Russian base to threaten Australia were absurd. Ceylon's Finance Minister, Mr. Stanley de Zoysa, said at a Press conference today. If Ceylon did not allow her great friend. Britain have bases in Ceylon.
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  • 30 7 KING Phumiphol of Thaihas donated 10 baht ($15,000) to help suffer- g farmers in the nn stricken north-east provinces of Thailand, it Wl < ffi ia announced yesterday; Reuter
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  • 196 7 The More You Spend, The More You Pay NEW DELHI, Sept. 5 (Reuter) India's Lower House of Parliament yesterday passed a bill first of its kind in the world to tax the country's richest people according to the amount they spend. People with a
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    • 1303 8 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lines. (inco»pci»tec m bmgapcte) H* «n«i) 'J*",'" THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE Z? SAILINCS te LIVIRPOOL, CLASCOW. LONDON fr CONTINSNTAL PORTS Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo (Via Suez with liberty to proceed via Panama or Capo
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    • 902 8 MITSUI |gj LINE S n jk. P. S'hom Penoar FOR MPAN Meiko Moru for Yokohomo. Moii Kobe Osoko vio Hongkong 17 Sept 1 5 Sept 13Sept Nosusan Maru tor Yokohama Moii Kobe, Osaka 17 Sept Hagurosan Moru via Manilo for Yokohomo, Nogoyo, Kobe 21 Sept FOR USA. For New York,
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    • 721 8 EAST ASIATIC LINES 1 OUTWARDS Sailings tot Bongkok ond/oi Foi lost -*H\ Penonq P Shorn "LALANDIA" 16/18 Sept 19 20Scpt 2' I Bangkok only. :^l "SELANDIA" 2/3 Oct 4 5 Or t J^Tl Bangkok Only. •<H HOMEWARDS Soilings toi Aden. Port Soid Genoa a.. M I Rotterdom. Homburg, Copenhagen Gothenburg
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 208 9 SINGAPORE'S brick output is being stepped up to about eight million pieces monthly to cope with the rate of building activity ii. the Colony. A spokesman of one of Malaya's largest brick works told The Standard yesterday that production of bricks was being maintained
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    • 107 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Pro. dure Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copra, Aug./ Sept. $25i buyers, $26i sellers; coconut oil in bulk $41$ sellers, in drums S4SJ sellers. Muntok white pepper $114 sellers, Sarawak white $113 sellers, special Sarawak black $74. COFRA HOLIDAY. CUTLER, BATH CO. LTD AUGUST
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    • 194 9 Merdeka May Boost Asian Trade JAPANESE MISSION FLIES IN B HOPE that the at- tainmcnt of Merdeka jn fhe Federation of Malaya would lead to jtKTtOsed trade betv::n Asian countries was by Mr. Murakami, leader I j g six-man Trade inspection Mission f^a Japan, which g into Singapore fCrdaV which
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    • 258 9 S3 1.3 MILLION ADVERSE TRADE BALANCE IN JULY MALAYA'S total foreign trade during July showed an adverse balance of $31,330,000, imports amounting to $388,018,000 and exports $356,688,000, according to official statistics. Total value of the trade for the first seven months of this year was imports $2,612,866,000 ($2,427,002,--000 for the
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    • 142 9 U.S. USAGE OF NEW RUBBER DROPS U.S. consumption of new rubber dropped from 111,528 Long tons in June to 109,660 tons in July, the Commerce Department reported in Washingt< The July. 1956. figure {3 tons. During the first seven 9 of this year the U.S. t tuned 861,595 long tons.
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    • 26 9 IvfALAYAN Exchange Banks' Association selling rates (T.T./ 0.D.): Belgian francs 1615, Holland guilders 123 i and Italian lire *****. Other exchange rates remained unaltered.
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    • 189 9 Rubber Up Cent On Trade Buying SINGAPORE rubber prices yesterday rose by cent to 86J cents per lb. for International first grade rubber for September shipment on a slightly steadier market. Prices opened slightly higher in the morning cesoite lower London overnight quotations. The market remained quiet and featureless throughout
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    • 191 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: F. N. ords $2.87J (overnight), $2.88*. $2.90; Hume prefs A 24/-; Breweries $3.90; Malayan Cement $1.76; McAlister $2; Metal Box $2.05 xd; Robinson ords $2.17* (overnight); Spore Cold Storage $1.10 overnight and yesterday, $1.11- Straits Traders $2.42*; Straits Times
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    • 105 9 Industrials, Rubbers Dull INDUSTRIALS and rubbers in the local share market were dull yesterday, while tins were steady, according to the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Fraser Neave Ords. 2.88 2.93 Henry Waugh 1.85 1.90 Metal Box 2.03 2.08 Robinson
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    • 31 9 DART prop- jets have registered more than 1,000,000 hours powering Vickers Viscounts in North America, it was announced recently in Derby by the manufacturers. Rolls Royce Ltd.
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    • 23 9 RENONG tin outputs for August announced are: Rasa Mine 644 piculs; Jinjang Mine (in association with Straits Tinfields Ltd.) 641 piculs.
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    • 48 9 QANTAS Empire Airways Ltd. net profit for 1956 was £A 484,000 (1955— £A401,000), according to a cable received by the firm's Singapore office from Sydney. Total revenue was £A 19-,-834,000 (1955— £A15,975,000); expenditure £A 18,927,000 (£A15,328,000); income tax £A 422,000 (£A245,000); passengers carried 161,000 (135,000).
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    • 190 9 UK Scientists To Advise On Technical Co-operation TWO scientific technical advisers have been appointed by the Commonwealth Relations Office to advise the United Kingdom Government on requests for technical aid received from countries in South-east Asia under the Colombo Plan Technical Co-operation Scheme. They are Mr. D. C. Man- deville
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    • 267 9 JEPM— _T REGULAR IB_Wlt_^_^^^E*W SINGAPORE PHNOMPENH E4, !_____________r PHNOMPENH SINGAPORE W ARRIVES SAILS <3 "TATS. Cm MARU" 25 Sept 27 Sept 'TATSUOH MARU" 10 Oct 12 Oct EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORPORATION S/A C AGENTS V 11 C \ct Quay Singapore Tel: *****. w barber- fern-ville lines Yoik. Philadelphia. Baltimore- Mobile- New
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    • 307 9 NOTICES S.S. GOVERNMENT 3% 1940 WAR LOAN (1952-1959) "MOTICE is hereby given 11 that the Transfer Register of the above Loan will be closed from 16th to 30th September 1957 both dates inclusive, for the preparation of Interest Warrants. By Order The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Singapore P.W.D. TENDER
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    • 498 9 NOTICES NATURALISATION TVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following persons whose names and addresses are given below are applying to the Governor for naturalisation and that any person who knOWS any reason why natur- alisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to
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    • 503 9 TENDERS FOR JOHORE GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS. TENDERS ARE INVITED for the supply MEDIUM GRADE SIAMESE RICE AND SUGAR to all Government Hospitals in Johore for period Ist October to 3 1st December, 1957. Each tender must be accompanied with a Treasury Receipt of $100/- ln resDect of rice and $50/- in
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 111 9 I ______L^*^__ Ik^B OUTER ROADS Boreville, Song Be, Hongkong Trader, Anking. Cabinda. Clytoneus, Mascot. Benvenue, City of Poona. Lawandra, Flying Eagle, Cellina. Dolius. Duglas, Japara. Ravenstein. Diomed. Batoela. Fernmoor, Santa Dolores, Inchislay. Glory. INNER ROADS Mm Huang. Longsindhu, Tg. Pinang, Tai Cheong, Senggarang, Perlis. Lai wai. Champada, Nangkachindr, Pernitis, Katong,
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  • Behind-the-Scenes with the new films
    • 431 10 Cowboy with Bow Arrow For New Type Lucky Fan Gladys A HAPPY fan of the week is seen here receiving a long-playing record of singing star Pat Boone from Mr. S. Padbidri. Singapore manager of Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox. Miss Gladys Gunn won the first prize of the recent PAT BOONE CONTEST
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    • 390 10 r ET'S pretend you're a fish just arrived at the joint, possibly feeling you were rousted. You would never have been sneezed if some wrong guy hadn't shot you down. Man, you'd suil be on the bricks, your skyrocket full of bread, making like a hoosier.
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    • 637 10 THE HOLLYWOOD LOWDOWN WACKIEST SHIP IN THE NAVY "T^HE Wackiest Ship in the Navy" the true story of the wackiest ship that ever served in the U.S. Navy has been purchased by Columbia Pictures as starring subject for Jack Lemmon, with Fred Kohlmar assigned as producer. "The Wackiest Ship in
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    • 284 10 ODEON j^ 2nd MIDNIGHT TOMORROW _M_*/jk IT'S A CROSS-COUNTRY 2, .1 RACE- -a /^P> TO ANITA EKBERG'S jf v, PS 3 ll^Bs^ "*__k. _S _k_ 5^ __r _r _3 l_3f__fP_ 5^ J( J S _M__PV_^__H V^__iß_" r T*WP'j ___r 4 IP'-:' J¥Ts\m __r -K_____W_i X I fl war imm __E
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  • 437 11 Ip Bows Out To Vietnamese KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Malayan singles champion, K.H. Ip of Hongkong, surprisingly went out to Vietnam's No. 2 Vo Van Bay in a semi-final match oi the Selangor Open tennis championships played at the Golf Club courts today. Ip lost 6-1, 7-5. While Ip made his
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  • 231 11 FOREST HILLS, New York, Sept. 5 (AP) Malcolm Anderson, one of Australia's rapidly improving junior crop, crushed second seeded American Dick Savitt, 6-4, 6-3, 6-1, to enter the quarter final round of the U.S. tennis championships. But where Anderson brought joy to the hearts
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  • 92 11 IPOH, Thurs. The third! Malayan Sikhs badminton championship will be held here on the Perak Turf Ciub court on Oct. 5, 6 and 7. Events to be catered for are the men's singles and doubles, veterans' doubles (for those over 40 years), schoolboys singles, women's doubles and
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  • 26 11 WEST JORDAN. Utah, Sept. 5 (AP) Former middleweight champion Gene Fullmer of West Jordan last night took a unanimous 10-round decision over Chico Vejar.
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  • 245 11 LONDON, Sept. 4 (Reuter.— Results in tonight's football matches were: European Cvp First roundFirst leg: Rangers 3 St. Etienne (Fr.) 1. LEAGUE I Birmingham C. 0, Not. Forest 2. Bolton Wan. 1, Wolves 1. Everton 3. Manchester U. 3. Leeds United 4. Aston Villa 0. Luton Town
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  • 178 11 RAFFLES WIN OPENING MATCH RAFFLES Institution opened their rugby season with a narrow victory over the Blacks on the school ground yesterday. The Rafflesians won by six points (two tries) to five. The schoolboys showed fine combination and on the run of play should have won by a wider margin.
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  • 152 11 SINGAPORE Badminton Association's Schoolboys doubles championship ties at the Badminton Stadium tomorrow from 7.30 p.m are: Lee Ser Tat and Chan Kheng Guan (VS) vs Tan Cheng Eng and Danny Lee (PBS/Tun Ling); Henry Tay and Lionel Walters (SPS) vs Oon Jit Sin and Danny Quek (Bartley/St. Thomas);
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 1012 11 CLASSIFIED ADS ACKNOWLEDGMENT THE family of the Late Mr Narain Singh ISM., retired Mines Overseer, who died at Taiping on 30 8 57. thank everyone who sent messages or condolences wreaths and rendered assistance during the funeral on 31.8.57. S.TUAIIONS VACANT" CHINESE Affairs Otticers. Salary scale: (Division 11) Cadets: $280-Al5-310
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • 415 12 THE Prime Minister of Malaya, Tunku Abdul Rahman, declaring open the Merdeka athletic meet, yesterday, expressed the hope that the 1962 Asian Games, or perhaps the 1968 Olympics, be held at the $2.5 million Merdeka Stadium. He would recommend, he sai_. that all sporting bodies in the
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  • 398 12 Vietnam Weary Stale Indonesia 3 Vietnam 1 INDONESIA put themselves back in the fight for the Prime Minister's Cup with a fine 3—l win against Vietnam in the soccer competition at the Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, last night. The Indons deserved their
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  • 125 12 Cambodia Hold Singapore CAMBODIA earned their first point last night when they held Singapore to a one-all draw in the subsidiary match. After a goalless first half. Singapore came into the picture in the last ten minutes but Duch prevented Corthine's header from entering the net. Cambodia had adopted Indonesia's
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  • 212 12  - 'Pool' Idea Go To MCA On Sunday V. A. MARKAR By KUALA LUMPUR. Thursday. The Malayan Cricket Association will discuss the proposal to run a "pool" to boost its depleted funds on Sunday. The originator of the idea. Mr. A. Pye. treasurer of the MCA, told me in an exclusive
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  • 149 12 BURMA had to fight hard before they could beat Thailand 5-2 in the subsidiary tournament match last night. The Thais were the first to score in the tenth minute when Suntan dribbled past the backs and lobbed over Hung Tin. Burma netted the equaliser through Samuel, who
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  • 153 12 Taiwan Kill Colony's Hope For Cagers' Title TAIWAN won the Merdeka basketball tournament with a 82-64 victory over Singapore in the eight-day championships which ended at the Chin Woo, Kuala Lumpur, last night. Singapore, favourites to win the title, were forced into the runners-up position by the unbeaten Taiwan cagers,
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  • 380 12 A GREAT second half rally by Selangor's second stringers helped them to rout Penang 8-1 in the last of the Merdeka Hockey Games at the Gurney Road ground, Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Penang were outclassed and outplayed, and if it had not been for the good display
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  • 741 12 w fnkcn her place by the side of other nations in world affairs, I recommend for consideration ot all national sport- K_| "jfiv. Sat ever^endeavou, should be made to hold a major international meeting in this country at some not too distant dot* •ng bodies
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  • 643 12 FIRST DAY'S ttlJSl I A Top: Lee Kheng Fang of Singapore winning his century sprint heat. Below: K. Laxman, captain of the Selangor team, takes the oath on behalf of the athletes at yesterday's opening ceremony, at the Merdeka Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. MEN 100 yards:
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  • 296 12 Negri, With Three Olympians, Whip Malacca STRENGTHENED by three Olympic hockey players, Negri Sembilan handed Malacca a 7—2 trouncing in a Merdeka hockey competition match on the Malaya Command ground, Kuaia Lumpur, yesterday. Negri lost their first match to Perak but yesterday they were an improved team, taking a 3-0
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