Singapore Standard, 10 September 1957

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  • 30 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD POLICI ***** (5 lin«) 2400 #r it m i. FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 2811 2414 ■^Tllf. No. <0 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1957 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 142 1 First To Accept Merdeka Amnesty I YANG, Monday— The I accept rdeka surrender DS up to 2 Kuala r Road on Saturrces 91 I ol the ler terms cv Ab- a radio a: near n ßed to District aber Yap K. beard ii. :lded r o the r ISGBS: v
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  • 458 1 lke__Rushes Arms To Jordan And Sets Off MACMILLAN CALLS IN SERVICE CHIEFS AND SELWYN LLOYD AMMAN, JORDAN, SEPT. 9— UNITED STATES TRANSPORT PLANES TODAY DELIVERED THE FIRST CONSIGNMENT OF MILITARY AID TO JORDAN UNDER THE AMERICAN PROGRAMME TO COUNTER SOVIET ARMS DELIVERIES TO NEIGHBOURING SYRIA.
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  • 18 1 8 pt, 9 (Reuter) rmann Kast- East German Minister, itical asylum in last October, a?rd 70
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  • 784 1 Don't Let The Hard-Core Through, Warns Bow 'The very fact that the Emergency is continuing has rendered subversion by the MCP very difficult as the people who would obviously direct it are now shut up in the jungle* KUALA LUMPUR, Mon —Retiring: Director of Operates, Lieut.-Gen. Si r Koger Bower
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  • 285 1 COLONY ARMS CASE: A SINGAPORE journalist and three people have been arrested by Special Branch Police in the past 24 hours for alleged gun-running:. "The arrests of all four are in connection with the recent recovery of six pistols and 46 rounds of ammunition," Police Secretary
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  • 52 1 TOKYO, Sept. 9 (Reuter)— The Central Meteorological Board here said a new typhoon had been located at 2120 degrees North latitude and 128.5 degrees East Longtitude, 400 miles south-east of Formosa at 1500 hours local (0600 GMT) today. The typhoon, Number 11 this season, has been
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  • 192 1 THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Robe-* Black, will decide soon r, nether a senior specialist in the Colony Medical Service should be: Charged under Criminal law 9 Dealt with under departmental disciplinary procedure The specialist, is accused of irregularities in the discharge of his
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  • 202 1 FOR two minutes yesterday, a 17-year-old Singapore schoolgirl took the place of the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, as head of the Colony Government. But no red tape was cut. no plans brought out of their musty pigeon-holes, and no
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  • 63 1 Tunku Invites Mr, Kishi TAIPEI, Sept. 9 (Reuter)— Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaya's Prime Minister, has invited the Japanese Premier, Mr. Nobosuke Kishi, to visit Malaya when he makes his second tour of South-east Asia next month. This was announced by the Vice-President of Japan's ruling Liberal Democrat Party, Mr. Banboku
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  • 161 1 BALING, Mon. Four schoolchildren and the driver of the car in which they were riding lost their lives when the vehicle was involved in a head-on collision with a lorry at the 28imilestone, Jalan Baling, yesterday. A sixth occuDant of the car, also a
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  • 65 2 PENANG, Mon. No alcoholic drinks will be served at the Merdeka State banquet to be held at the E. and O. Hotel on Saturday. There will be two toasts at the banquet. The Governor, Raja Sir Uda, will give the loyal toast to the Yang diPertuan
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  • 831 2 UNIONS ARE IRRESPONSIBLE AND NEGLIGENT Findings By Harbour Court Of Inquiry Joint ConsultativJ Body Proposed THE Court of Inquiry which heard evidence of the labour unrest in the Singapore Harbour Board wharves finds there is a great deal of administrative negligence in the harbour workers unions. It recommends the Registrar
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  • Article, Illustration
    58 2 mil. ana Mrs. ttooert fhua seen after their marriage in Singapore recently. Mr. Phua, a school teacher, is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs Phua Ec Ming. The bride is the former Miss Poh Heem Hoon and the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Poh Cher Tian.
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  • 144 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib) in Singapore yesterday were:— Buyers Seller* Spot 8?| 88| Int. Sept R.S.S No. 1 871 88^ K.S.S No. 2 862 87i R.S.S. No. 3 86i 861 Tone: Quiet The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was $365g (Up 37£ cts.). LONbUN KLBBtK
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  • 33 2 SWORN -IN INCHE Aziz Ibrahim, a member of the Penang State Council, was sworn in as a member of the Penang Executive Council before the Governor, Raja Sir Uda, at the Residency yesterday.
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  • 252 2 'Movement Is Threatened' THERE is "grave fear among the trade unionists in Singapore that the development of democratic trade unions might be hampered, unless it was clearly established that the activities" of those trade unionists arrested under the Public Security Ordinance, were of a
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  • 59 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Thirty-two pairs of twins were among the 6,100 babies born at the Chinese Maternity Hospital here during the past year. There were 17 pairs of boys, 11 girls and four were mixed. The Chinese Maternity Association will hold its annual general meeting
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  • 83 2 THE Slagapffl ment has ur^-d |o( rv j facturers to atfh y u i gapore Product every artitli factun* in order to their iftiei The si tampdesign in a omp< ganized by year ago, tan n< j\7s from the Depart^ I formation Serving press Plan" a
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  • 22 2 DR S Vice-President s rived in Pnomp' v .-j dia by air yes! of an Inc. making a g Router.
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  • 28 2 SUNGEI RAMBAI, Malacca, Men. The Chief Minister, Inche Osman bin Talib, today attended a Merdeka tea party by the Sungei Rambai Merdeka Celebrations Committee.
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  • 325 3 ...WHILE JAGA TALKS BUSINESS WITH BOTTLE OF BRANDY Court Is Told In Bank Robbery Case THREE office boys lured away the watchman of a bank while the strongroom was being ransacked of cash and jewellery worth $80,000, it was stated in the Singapore Assizes yesterday. For
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  • 40 3 COLONY'S SECURITY ORDINANCE TO STAY pesS1 ird that Public Security continue to on criticisms ni eaden of the laid, "We > 1 the framed in the B people 04 Sinthere was a ie Kcmltjr c public amended as mtinued from he
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  • 29 3 He's Too Busy To Report was a, yes- the C bI to the poll o he had no s he E jail to be ::her stx ;on. convj ted
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  • 27 3 .v.Mr. t I earing fan pa: I Ret; se uting t i tclntyre, i stigai l handed V T> 'k I hurt to
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  • 66 3 MR. RWAH KHENG SWEE yesterday returned to Singapore from Australia by BOAC with his wife and son after spending more than a year at Queensland University doing a course in surveying. He studied under a Singapore government scholarship and is attached to the Survey Department in the
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  • 145 3 An Open Verdict On 2 Deaths CORONER Inche Ahmad Hussein yesterday returned an open verdict at an inquest into the death of Sergeant James H .:.t of the R.A.0.C., and a sewife, Ung Ah Nun, who following a motor acciPrivate J, w. Bobbett, R A 0 C. to.d the coroner
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  • 19 3 FAME V .nances from na last month totalled 1,194. Of this sum, from Singapore, the remainder tram on.
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  • 54 3 PENANG, Mon. Chief Minister Mr. Wong Pow Nee today urged students here to "work harder and help build the nation." Mr. Wong was speaking at the re-opening of the Penang Methodist Girls' School after the Merdeka holidays. He also asked them to take a active part
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  • 50 3 STICKS, bottles and chairs were used following a heated argument between two men in a bar in Tyrwhitt Road. Singapore on Sunday night. Between 20 and 30 people were involved in the brawl. A man, Sarnap bin Mohd. Bak, was injured and admitted to hospital.
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  • 417 3 Ragging Is On Ifs Way Out AFTER more than three months of relative silence the University of Malaya buildings at Bukit Timah began to buzz with life once again yesterday, the opening day of the new academic year. Unlike the first day of previous
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  • 998 3 I POH, Mon Following ft" 1 the list of successful candidates in Perak in the First and Second Year Normal examinations: First year: Lionel Fernandez. Miss Ong Saw Yang, Miss Elizabeth Simon, Miss Cheah Lean See. Ahmad Suffian bin Haji Arshad. Miss Voo Kirn Choo. Miss
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  • 90 3 A WATCHMAN stole nails, scrap wire and iron which it was his job to look after,^ a Singapore Court was told yesterday. Shuku Pandir bin Kunhubenla Pandy pleaded guilty to stealing 15 pounds of nails, scrap wire and iron belonging to Lian Hup Construction Ltd. Inspector
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  • 320 4 Lee Will Attack White Paper On Arrests In The Assembly SINGAPORE Government will come under fire at the Legislative Assembly meeting tomorrow when the Member for Tanjong Pagar Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, directs his attacks on the White Paper dealing with the recent arre*st of 37 people under the Public
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  • 114 4 JAG WANTS LIM TO AMEND TRADE UNION ORDINANCE MR. S. Jaganathan, President of the Singapore Trade Union Congress, yesterday urged that the Colony's Trade Union Ordinance should be amended to prevent subversion of the labour movement and its exploitation for purposes other than the accepted objectives of trade unionists. Mr.
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  • 172 4  - Train For Self -Govern ment Through Co-op Methods CREECH-JONES PEOPLE should be trained in the task of selfgovernment through democratic co-operative movement, Mr. Arthur Creech-Jones, a former Secretary of State for the Colonies, said in Singapore yesterday. Mr. Creech-Jones was ad- dressing the Singapore Cooperative Union at a tea party
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  • 292 4 RAINSTORM STARTS A DAY OF MISHAPS FOR MPs YESTERDAY was a day of mishaps for the visiting British Parliamentarian and former Colonial Secretary Mr. Arthur Creech-Jones. At present on a two-day visit to Singapore with a colleague Mr. Langford Holt, Mr. Creech-Jones with his companion represented the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
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  • 302 4 Cash, Jewels Worth $2,000 Stolen From Teacher's Flat A GANG of burglars on Sunday night broke into the house of a Singapore school teacher in Chapel Close and stole cash and jewellery worth more than $2,000. This gang is believed to be responsible for a series of burglaries within a
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  • 55 4 A YOUTH, Chiam Kah Seng, was stabbed by three thugs in Boio Street. Singapore, yesterday. Chiam collapsed after running 30 yards. He was lying in a pool of blood in Park Road when Police arrived. He was admitted to hospital with five stab wounds, and his
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  • 60 4 SINGAPORE Traffic Police are appealing for eye-witnes-ses in connection with a motor accident in which a four-year-old Indian boy, Thanabalam Naidu, was fatally injured in Pasir Panjang Road on Sunday at about 12.10 p.m. Informants are asked to get in touch with Inspector Ong Eng
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  • 33 4 A CYCLIST, Seah Choo Mock. 27, was killed after colliding with a bus at Kampong Bahru, Singapore yesterday. The Traffic Police are appealing for eye-witnesses. Telephone 2400. ext. 381.
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  • 187 4 VUCA (Raffles Quay): Malay class 10.15 a.m. Chinese cooking class 10.30 a.m. Cake baking class 2.30 pm. Ballroom dancing for beginners 5 p.m. for advanced 6 p m. Blue Triangle Club: Meeting at YWCA Raffles Quay, for fabric painting. 5 ;> m. Shell Theatrette (Collyer Quay): Free film
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  • 198 4 Fitter Tells Court Of Assault KANAN KUNJAMBU, a fitter, told the Singapore Third District Court yesterday, that he spent 33 days in hospital as a result of an assault with iron rods by two brothers The two brothers, Venkatachalam Appasamy Thevar and Rasu Appasamy Thevar, were charged with causing grievous
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  • 60 4 AN amah, Goh Hua Kirn, 19. was yesterday bound over for six months in the sum of $500 in one surety by Singapore Magistrate, Mr. K. C. Chan. She was found guilty of dishonestly retaining stolen property a petticoat, nylon night dress, a dress and
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  • 31 4 A WOMAN, Too Gek Beow, 69, was seriously injured when she was knocked down by a car in Alexander Road, last night. She was admitted to the General Hospital.
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  • 297 4 TOP MALAY RED ROAMS THAI BORDER KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Musa Ahmad, the Federation's No. 1 Malayan Communist terrorist elected chairman of the MCP central committee on the eve of the Baling talks in 1955, is now roaming the Kelantan-Thai border. This was disclosed today by the retiring Director of Operations,
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 340 5 Malaya Keeps Up Goodwill Relations With Foreign Powers TORY AND NAI SUNTHORN PRESENT CREDENTIALS' KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Yang di Pertuan Agong today reiterated the independent Federation's foreign policy of "friendship and goodwill with all nations" when he received the credentials of Britain's and Thailand's
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  • 136 5 GIRLS GIVE MURDER EVIDENCE ourt Told Of Fatal Attack t\\\(. Moil Two ten and five, i evidence in 4 Court today r bribing before Mr. Rigby, how they ih a woman, of them, in 35. to a chai I r: I iri thai dto ■wood me iler p orsaid that
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  • 19 5 I Mon. More I worth cf wal I a shoo in Ne',vI :::-h! 'stig ting.
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  • 103 5 R Chow Sweo Kee, Education M President Lab 111 Fr r:t, was tad a patron of the SingaEttng ol the International Br therhood f Magicians at its annual general meeting Last week. Other patrons elected were: Mr. Y. Kock Thye, Dr. WiiHenj and Mr. Eric
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  • 136 5 PENANG, Mon. Chief Minister, Mr. Wong Pow Nee, said here today that his government would do its best to make Penang a "white area" soon, and hoped that the people would co-operate. Mr. Wong said that people living here did not feel any
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  • 26 5 A SINGAPORE student, Ho Beng Chuan, has been awarded graduate assistantship for the coming year at Kent State University, United States.
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  • 266 5 SHORTAGE of trained nurses and attendants is holding up the opening of three new blocks at Singapore's Woodbridge Hospital. This was revealed to the Standard yesterday by the re- tiring "Medical Superintendent. Dr. J. Browne, who is leaving the Colony shortly under the
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  • 80 5 AN ALLEGED theft which was said to have taken place six years ago had a sequel in the Singapore Eighth Magistrate's Court yesterday. Yong Choh Kong alias Yong Choong Kong was charged befGre Magistrate Mr. Philip Lav for stealing a pen valued at $35 from
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  • 138 5 THE biggest post-war influx of American tourists to Singapore is expected when the three world cruise liners. Statendam, Kungsholm and Caronia call here early next year. The first to disembark the globe trotters here will be the Holland America Line's Statendam which is
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  • 104 5 A MECHANIC, Chong Kirn, 44, was caught red-handed by a detective when slashing a bus seat during the recent Tay Koh Vat bus strike, a Singapore Court was told yesterday. Chong was convicted of a charge of mischief by damaging the bus seat
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  • 156 5 PERLIS Mon. The Raja of Perils, Syed Putra ibnl Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, who celebrated his 39th birthday today, appealed to government officers at Arau to co-operate by suppressing gangsterism. He said that he appreciated the desire of those officers that the
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  • 132 5 The Blind Will Pick 'Miss Golden Voice' KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Five blind people will judge this year's finals of the allMalaya "Golden Voice" competition here on Thursday night. A spokesman for the organizers said today that the panel of blind would make better judges as they would not be prejudiced
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 475 6 TYITH the failure of the disarmament talks, the free world's defence plans and commitments take on a new significance. Britain, America and France have not lost any ground as a result of the Soviets rejection of all efforts to reach agreement for a mutual reduction of armaments. They
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    • 454 6 H'HE time will soon come when the Federation Government will have to reconsider the future of the naif a million people living in resettlement areas ca'led new villages. These people are mainly smallholders, squatters, farmers, tappers, mine workers and shopkeepers. They were corralled into new villages in
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  • 986 6 By Alan Day, Reader in Economics at London University LONDON. gINCE the death of Stalin, the rulers of the Soviet Union have taken a large leaf out of the Western book, by steadily increasing the economic assistance they are giving to the underdeveloped countries. Ever since it
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  • 570 6 A Special Correspondent rpHE acknowledged discontent of the Chinese people with the deficiencies in "public welfare (eatables and consumer goods), public construction and public utility operations" has led to searching investigation by the State Planning Board. The revelations made by tha Board shore why the problem of
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  • 610 6  - 4-Min. Warning to group one Air Force Robert Duffy OTTAWA. THE announcement that, in the event of war, United States and Canadian air defence forces will instantly be combined under U.S. command has been accepted as inevitable in Canada, but not without misgiyings. Logic has prevailed; the facts are recognized.
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 196 6 Sir I would like to extend to of Malaya my warm and good wishes fe, future and achievement of independence would like, if I may, enclose this potm 4 I hope you will print, so that the people of friendly nation will know that *t cf
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    • 142 6 Sir An inquiry into the formation of the Workers' Party proposed by the President of ACSU, Mr. N.S.N. Nair brought curt replies from Union representatives. They say it is not a I' matter. This political party, it appears, will be confined to trade union members only. ACSU officials
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    • 87 6 Sir— lt will interest :he readers of your newspaper to know that Singapore Scouts this year raised approximately $18,000 during their recent Job Week. I have been instructed by my Executive Committee to thank all members of the public for their splendid generosity and sympathetic co-operation in helping
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  • 160 7 Ike Steps Into Racial Crisis NEWPORT, Rhode Island, Sept. 9 (UP) President Eisenhower today signed the Civil Rights Bill and then awaited developments in Little Rock, Arkansas, where the school integration issue reached a new boiling point. Shortly before the President signed the bill in his small summer White House
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  • 41 7 pnoio. HAWKER Sea-Hawk jet fighters of the Royal Navy perform a loop in their acrobatic performance at the flying display and exhibition of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, Hampshire, recently. A.P.
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  • 419 7 NEW DELHI, Sept. 9 (Reuter) India's Prime Minister Mr. Nehru indicated in a Council of States Foreign Affairs debate that India would not join any move to oust the representatives of the present Hungarian Government from the United Nations. Opening the one-day debate tcday, Mr. Nehru
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  • 51 7 LONDON, Sept. 9 (UP) Denis Hamilton, estranged husband of movie star Diana Dors, was reported today to be planning marriage with a shapely American singer, as scon as his divorce becomes final. The Daily Mirror said that he plans an early wedding to 21-year-old Irene
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  • 21 7 A BRITISH ballet troupe led by Marie Lambert, "pioneer in the British ballet." arrived In Peking on Sunday. U.P.
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  • 306 7 Pressure On Arab States Must Be Countered: Nasser LONDON, Sept 9, (Reuter)— President Nasser said in a statement broadcast by Cairo Radio today that Egypt will ''unreservedly and unconditionally' 1 support Syria "in her struggle against American policy/ President Nasser said: "Although Egypt's policy is clear
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  • 24 7 AN Indian film, Aparajito (Indomitable) on Sunday night won the Gold Lion, top award of the Venice Annual International Film Festival.— A.P.
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  • 53 7 TAIPEI, Sept. 9 (UP) The two-storey American Embassy building, target of the May 24 violent antiAmerican riot, re-opened today amid champagne toasts of friendship between U.S. and Chinese officials. A new American flag was hoisted over the same grounds where Chinese mobs had ripped the Stars and
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  • 110 7 Crucial Talks On RI Crisis JAKARTA. Sept. 9 (UP) The Government today made final preparations for the opening of a crucial "national conference" aimed at settling Indonesia's drawn-out internal crisis. Military and civil delegates from Indonesia's defiant outlying regions streamed into the capital for the three-day series of talks which
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  • 83 7 TOKYO, Sept. 9 (AP) Japan is planning to drop leaflets on Lubang Island in the Philippines once a month starting in November in a renewed effort to persuade two Japanese World War II diehards to come out of the jungle and return home. A spokesman
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  • 31 7 THE Thai National Assembly approved yesterday a bill to build a giant hydroelectric project at Yarnhee in north-east Thailand by 112 votes to four following an opposition walk-out. Reuter
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  • 32 7 GENERAL Thanom Kittlkachorn, one of the five men who resigned from the Thai cabinet las:, month, has been aopointed Commander-in-Chief of the Thai army, the Government Radio announced. Reuter
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  • 191 7 I NITED NATIONS, N.Y. Sept. 9 (AP)— Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said yesterday he is confident of enough votes for United Nations approval of another U.S. resolution condemning the Soviet Union for crushing the Hungarian revolt. Lodge said he had "talked to everybody" and has
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  • 66 7 HONGKONG. Sept. 9, (AP) Three "counter revolutionaries" who led student riots last June in Hanyang in Central China were sentenced to death on Sept. 6 and executed on the spot before a crowd of 10,000, the Communist New China News Agency reported on Sunday. Four others "who
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  • 63 7 WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (AP) Russia set off another atomic weapon test explosion in the last two days, the Atomic Energy Commission announced today. AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss in a statement announcing detection of the blast said the shot was of moderate intensity. He said
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  • 117 7 NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (Reuter) Political influrnce is more potent than social prestige in getting an .nvitation to the luncheon in honour of Queen Elizabeth when she visits New York Ci.y in October, the New York Daily News reported today. The newspaper's society columnist, Miss
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  • 64 7 NEW YORK. Sept. P (UP)— The British West Indian Airways office here announce I last night thai its KTVftotfl w; halt at midnight tomorrow because of a strike of its piiots. The rompany said That the piiots are demanding pay increases of almost 1 0 J
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  • 26 7 THE Japanese Foreign Ministry said yesterday the United States had permitted release on parole of three Japanese war prisoners from Tokyo's Sugamo Prison. Reuter
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  • 23 9 has B I P. r Par! Shell -i potted he n\: Manager. he has also l :ok and >r: I'xuwtK
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  • 14 9 prr hi v. M SI i of one el kwrt c annual
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  • 57 9 welding I the inter- ama in ter pipe tacor- luipment weldbig head in be used I for pipes up to 28 ft. In length, and consists of a tubular steel boom, fitted to a fabri- cated steel support structure. The boom has 6 inches vertical adjustment
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  • 382 9 onPnL i« I G centre, unique in Malaya, will be dard Vacuum Ua nil LL UmPUrr mPUr n Sept 14 b the Stan Sl6OOOO Company, at a cost of about installation 5 D^lopment Centra, the new retaliation is Stanvacs realization of its plan to assi.t
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  • 120 9 BOOK ISSUED TO MARK CENTENARY A HANDSOME volume of interest to Singapore historians, beautifully illustrated with old prints and phutograyfis, teas issued yesterday to honour the ceritenary of the founding of Behn, Meyer and Co. Ltd., of Hamburg and S:ngapore. Messrs. Arnold Otto Meyer, the parent company, icas founded in
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  • 97 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday: New York: buying, T.T. 32 OD. 32t 90 days airmail. 32 15, H3 credit bills. 33 trade bills. Canada: buying. T.T. 31, O.D. 3U, 90 days airmail. 31 credit bills. 31 9, 16
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  • 91 9 bLNGAPORE Chinese Pra duce Exchange noon closing prices per pirul yesterday were: copra, Sept. Oct. 5251 buyers, $26} sellers: coconut oil in bulk $41} sellers, in drums $45 sellers. Muntok white pepper $114 sellers, Sarawak white $113 sellers, special Sarawak black $74. Holiday, Cutler, Bath 6c Co. Ltd closing
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  • 120 9 OUTER ROADS Boreveillc Prominent, Thorstranri. Camphuys. Golden Nitto, AaLsdyk. Sidaloe, Marietta. Hong Kong Trader. GijaYat, Macsot, Peter Maersk, Nino Bixio, Garoet, Obra. Chengtu, Lily. INNER ROADS Mm Huang, Longsindhu, Southern Trader. Rajah Brooke, Vong Ann Lawu. Flying Lark, Katong, Landak, Phuang Ngern. Benvef, Resang, Playaran, Kah Poh,
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  • 183 9 SUGAR from Java is being imported into Singapore at regular intervals for the first time in more than a year, a spokesman of the Singapore Sugar Trade Association told the Standard yesterday. Small quantities have been arriving frequently since August and about 500 tons
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  • 29 9 THE Burntisland Shipbuilding Company has launched the cargo motor ship Capetan Chiotis (13.550 tons deadweight) 'tp the order of Sarac Compania Naviera S. A' of Panama.
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  • 123 9 Industrials And Rubbers Mainly Steady ON a dull market, industrials and rubbers were mainly steady, according to the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday. Tins were hesitant. Price changes announced by the Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Alex Bricks Pref. 1.55 1.60 cd Ords. 2.00 2.10 cd Fed. Dispensary 2.15 2.25 Fraser
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  • 232 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reDorted the following business done: F. N. ords. $2,921, $2.95; $2.90 overnight; Gammons $2.55; M. Breweries $3.925; Cements $1.76; M. Colls $1.05: McAlister $2; Malaya Publishing $1.17; Metal Box $2.07 overnight, $2.10: Robinson ords. $2.07 i, $2.10 overnight and yesterday; Sime Darby $1.975: Cold Storage
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  • 109 9 RUBBER, TIN STILL HAVE BIG MART IN AMERICA MALAYA'S primary industries continue to receive strong buying support from America. This is revealed in official statistics showing detailed import and export figures. In the first half of this year exports from Malaya to the United States amounted $285,110,298 of which $136.--742,346
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  • 98 9 BRITAIN'S gramophone record boom goes on. although at a slower rate than earlier in the year. According to returns published by the Board ot Trade, a total of 4.6 million discs was produced in June, bringing the total for the first half of 1957 up to
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  • 341 9 'Malaya Should Save To Help Strengthen Economy' \Finanve And Commerce] MORE incentives to encourage the saving habit in Malaya can lead to a further strengthening of the country's economy, in the view of Mr. H. F. Morford, Chief General Manager of the Chartered Bank, London. He said this before he
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  • 59 9 THE growing Japanese car industry will make its first bid to comrjete in France next month with the appearance at the Paris Motor Show of the Prince Skyline, a four-door, six-seater saloon made by Fuji-Precision Industries of Tokyo. It has a four-cylinder 1.484 c.c. engine
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  • 73 9 PRELIMINARY xrork on fittiriQ Denny-Brown stabilizers to the Cunard liner Queen Mary was. begun during the winter and the antiroll stabilizers will be jitted next season The cost of fitting them will be in the region oj £250,000 and they will he sI m ilar to those
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  • 459 10 UOLLYWOOD has been called a lot of things but certainly film star Charlton Heston is the first to refer to it as "the land of milk and honey" for an actor, that is. And while admittedly his choice of
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  • 549 10 DEBRA Pagct, as demure as a daisy where her motion picture roles are concerned, becomes thorny-edged when folks liken her to a real-life "girl next door." "I've got my thoughts centred on glamour," the sweet-faced star frowned. "Glamour is a most valuable commodity for a Hollywood
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  • 16 10 THE CURSt. STFIN, B* he lobby i j cd Into grueso'ne head j
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  • 429 10 JJI. folks, this is Jerry Lewis. I'd like to say a few words on behalf of a new motion picture, Paramount's The Delicate Delinquent/ It is a comedy (we hope) and stars beautiful Martha Hyer, handsome Darren McGavin and Newark's answer to Cantinflas. We previewed the picture
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  • 62 10 \NOTHER prominent landmark will make its tfebul in Katong ,n when the new Roxy Theatre opens again for butinttt. Here tl ttfl of the renovated hall, which will have new upholstered ciisHioi with complete up-to-date furnishings and air-conditioned throughout. Th< have new equipment and screen to
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  • 263 11 I profit Hills thea is the 'first' again nv voRK. Sept 9, (Renter)— Malcolm Ander»ld unseeded Asutralian, won the men's id Miss Althea Gibson (U.S.) the won in the American_Lawn Tennis championesterday. ben* btaf Cooper. •■and nunv 7 -5, fi-4 He had earlier E SoVher
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  • 61 11 I 3£ Bad" nton AssoI I I t the B rihaav H v i Srhoolflrls' 1 Linn r Chee I J 10 Seansj ft isNOf C J P S P rac A r lienz i le s! rumor In-ter- Strike ie\ C 'rT v- I Garuia B?
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    • 244 11 CLASSIFIED ADS MARRIAGE MR. CHOW LIN POH, second son of Mr. Chow Kow, and Miss Ong Beng Leng, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Ong Kong Kuan, were married at Ipoh on September 8- 1957. SITUATION VACANT WELL known Company requires the services of Chinese Radio Mechanic for interesting work
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    • 576 11 The Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 11) In the High Court of the Colony of Singapore Island of Singapore TN BANKRUPTCY No. 12 1 of 1954. Re: TAN KWONG SWEE of 34, Chin Chew Street, Singapore, 1. (Noodles Sellers NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a First and Final dividend Is intended to
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    • 621 11 NOTICES The Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 11) In the High Court of the Colony of Singapore Island of Singapore TN BANKRUPTCY No. 233 1 of 1957. Re: ISMAIL bin ABU BAKAR of No. 2, Meranti Road, Singapore, 15. Receiving Order made 17th May, 1957. Date of Order for Summary Administration 29th
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    • 444 11 P.W.D., NOTICE THE roadway from Tanjong x Rambutan to Central Mental Hospital will be closed for repairs to the level crossing at TP. 104/1 on 17th September, 1957 between the hours of 7.30 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. the same day. 2. Road vehicles will be permitted to pass at half
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    • 301 11 VACANCIES FOR HEALTH INSPECTORS IN THE STATE OF PERAK. APPLICATIONS are invited for posts of Probationary Health Inspectors in tJie salary scale or $137.50 x A7.50--152.50/Examination (Certificate of the Royal Society for Promotion of Health) $238 X Al4-308/338X Al4-450/ 468 X A2O-528. 2. Candidates must:— (a) have attained their 18th
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 670 11 n?l ES AY FOR EVERY- ONE; Tak« care of minor Ujlcs; steer clear of extra- 5 vagance; be satisfied to hold J your own until after evenj ing, when you should make progress. Benefit through tha J resources of others then. S J YOl R BIRTIIDATE AND BIRTH SICN J
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  • 640 12  - EASTERN LUCKY TO EDGE PERAK T. S. DEVAN By BPOH, Mon. The Eastern A.A. soccer team, with five players who played for Hongkong in the final Merdeka festival match against Vietnam, were lucky to score a 2 l victory over Perak on the Chinese Assembly Hall ground today before a
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  • 106 12 Floodlit Rugby On Sept. 21 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Rugby fans in the Federation will be able to witness the first Rugby football match under floodlights when two cf the best fifteens meet at the Mercieka Stadium on SeDt. 21 Penang's M. B. Pestana will captain one team, and lan Chandler
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  • 49 12 SOLINGEN. West Germany. Sept 9 ißeuter* Herbert Sc'nade (West Germany) beat fellow Olympic runner Emil Zatopek in th c 10,000 metres at an International Athletics meetine here yesterday. Schade. ninth in the Olympic event at Melbourne, clocked 29 mm. 37 sec and Zatopek 30 mm. 6.4 sec
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    69 12 Krian Chinese Recreation C >, inter-team badminton champions u'ho won the Merdeka Cup ichen then beat the Bintang Bahru B.P. of Simpana Ampat 3-2 in the final. Seated (Left to right) him Hock Chuan; Tai Teik Soo (Capt.) and Tan Ban Chuan. Standing: Neoh Ah Yoke, Can- Yoke Kuan, Ooi
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  • 54 12 Long Jumping Bornean Miss Meets Malaya's Prime Minister A proud moment for little Miss Chen Li Na from British Borneo long jump winner at the Merdeka athletics receives her trophy from Malaya's Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, at the Merdeka Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. She won with a jump of
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  • 215 12 SINGAPORE, first in the losers' league in the Prime Minister's Cup soccer competition, showed a standard equal to the other countries which competed, President of the Singapore Amateur Football Association, Mr. Son Ghee Soon, said at yesterday's council meeting. "We were
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  • 171 12 IPOH, Mon. Perak Amateur Athletic Association, founded in 1926, ha s been asked by th e Registrar of Societies to show cause why its certificate of registration should not be cancelled. The association has been given up to Sept. 24 to give its reason. Copies of
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  • 47 12 SINGAPORE CRICKET Singapore Civilians vs. Ceylon at the SRC padang, 11 a.m. SOCCER S'ngapore vs. Burma at Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30 p.m. SAFA junior cuplie: R.A.F. (Tengah) vs. Mount Emily at J. 8., 6.15 p.m. JPOH BADMINTON: Merdeka exhibition at the PTC courts 7.30 p.m.
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  • 94 12 Kuan tan M-Shieid Replay KUANTAX. Mon. The Kuantan Merdeka Shield knockout soccer final will be replayed between Abdullah School and St. Thomas School tomorrow. Earlier Mr. V. Devandran. master in charge of Abdullah School team said that team will boycott the replay since it was decided at last Merdeka soccer
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  • 64 12 BRISBANE. Sept. 9 (Reuter) Ron Archer, the Test allrounder, has dropped out cf the Australian cricket team to tour South Africa this winter because of a knee injury. Archer told the Australian Board of Cricket Control today that he was not satisfied with the condition of
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  • 157 12 Oh.. What A Mess At The Stadium KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The hectic Merdeka week of sports have left the new green of the new giant Merdeka Stadium in a bad mess and it needs a long rest. The lovely grass in several places have been uprooted as a result of
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  • 51 12 SINGAPORE'S team to meet Burma in a friendly soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium at 7.30 p.m. tonight is: Yew Chiang: Matmoon, Ali Samijan: Hee Jong. Vass, Kirn Beng; Ibrahim Hassan, Corthine Hatch, Arthur Koh, Ibrahim Mansoor Reserves: I. Albar, Yong Kong. Osman Rahmat, Tahir Abu and Ismail
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  • 33 12 LONDON, Aug. 9 (Reuter)— Super Snipe will not run in Wednesday's St. Leger at Doncaster because of a setback in training. The colt had been an outside for the race.
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  • 382 12 SHA Return To 30-min. League Games This Year THE Singapore Hockey Association will re-intro-duce 30-minute each way league matches this year when the colony hockey season begins in the third week of this month. The SHA enforced a full time of To minutes to league matches last year to accustom
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  • 303 12 SYDNEY. Mon.— A Malayan student was the star of the Australian inter-university hockey carnival played in Sydney from Aug. 26 to 31 He is Narinder Singh of Perak, now a sixth and final year medical student at Adelaide University. Narinder's inspired captaincy and brilliant
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  • 639 12 Centre-forward Sahar Scores A Hattrick SINGAPORE Selection weathered a stormy second hall raUy h, *J to win by a 6 3 margin in a soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium ast ni^" Though beaten the Thais won admiration for their piu never gave up
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  • 97 12 KUALA ment annua Ceylon .-.> iongkj made last night Manager < I I lonese t< Mr. Isma fl improv( JH fostei a tournament I suggest-; that the r-J should be held 1 ent cent) Mr. Ismail eta school b ment Km I the tones, and said crirket as>oc;.-.* BE
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  • 74 12 PARIS, Sept. 9 (Reuter) Manfred Germar. of Germany, achieved a notable sprint "double" against topclass opposition today when he won the 200 metres at the University Games, which ended here. Having won the 100 metres or. Friday. Germar, European re-cord-holder, yesterday romped home an ea>y winner in the
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